Steve Ceruti
Appearances
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Curry Survives, Trae Melts Down, and Ant’s Crazy Shooting with Kirk Goldsberry. Plus, WWE President Nick Khan Stops by
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Curry Survives, Trae Melts Down, and Ant’s Crazy Shooting with Kirk Goldsberry. Plus, WWE President Nick Khan Stops by
Yeah. And Drew.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Curry Survives, Trae Melts Down, and Ant’s Crazy Shooting with Kirk Goldsberry. Plus, WWE President Nick Khan Stops by
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Curry Survives, Trae Melts Down, and Ant’s Crazy Shooting with Kirk Goldsberry. Plus, WWE President Nick Khan Stops by
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Curry Survives, Trae Melts Down, and Ant’s Crazy Shooting with Kirk Goldsberry. Plus, WWE President Nick Khan Stops by
36, 37.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
I definitely was, and it was like... I saw Gladiator 2 on Friday, and I had really low expectations for it, and I really enjoyed it. I liked the movie. I don't know if it needed to be made. It was kind of the same as the first one, just with a new thing. I had really low expectations. I didn't know what to expect.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
I didn't know if we'd hit 90 points, because I'm just... I don't know where the scoring comes from. And then, yeah, that first quarter happens, and I'm like, I'm in. This team's going to win the game. And, like... You get the halftime, they kind of, you know, I think they're down one at halftime, but anything's on the table.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
It just sucked because that Suggs injury in the third quarter, they were, I think, down one at the time. He goes out for a couple minutes, and I think he comes back in, they're down eight, and they have to climb back the rest of the game to get there. But without that, at the end of the day, guys, when they're fully healthy, I think they're capable of beating anybody.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
They're capable of beating anybody. I'm not saying they'd be favored against any of these teams, but they are capable of beating anybody.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
Anthony Black is next if Suggs goes down. Yeah, I was nervous. You got to get some K-tape or whatever. Get his obliques taped up so he can't get... There's some oblique epidemic breaking out in Orlando. But yeah, when his thumb got hurt, I was like, you got to be kidding me. Because that's the thing about the NBA Cup. It's like, cool, this is fun and all.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
But if we're really going to lose Suggs for an extended period of time, pass on the NBA Cup.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
So it was kind of an uncharacteristic game from him. He's, he was weirdly bad defensively tonight. He, that he got lost like a couple of times, but he actually scored way more than you think he was had assist rebounds. And a lot of that was just like, you know, cause they just need an extra ball handler. I would say too, like, I'm not nervous.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
Like the panic meter is not going off, but like $22 million a year, like KCP seven points, kind of, kind of, kind of hoping for more than that. And in a situation where, you know, you kind of need a veteran to step up. And honestly, like all these young guys, like even just like a Tristan Silva, like he's,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
He started tonight, started a lot of games since Franz and Paolo have been out, and he's been fine. And I really like the two big lineup. Wendell playing the four, it can't really work when they're fully healthy. But in this version of the team without Isaac, he's actually really good at getting those spots, like kind of top of the key, throwing those lob passes, like being a facilitator.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
I think he had the best plus minus on the Magic tonight. He was awesome.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
But Paolo Suggs and Franz are all fine.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
No idea. I thought it was a leg injury. Part of your hip?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
I thought it was like an inner quad thing. I don't know.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
Slept on it. Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
I don't understand it. I guess Fran said he didn't even, he doesn't even know what he did it. He doesn't know at any point in the game.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
So maybe he doesn't even know where his oblique is either. He's like, what's hurt?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
Cleveland. And I guess I'm, I guess I'm buying the Milwaukee, the Milwaukee. Oh, please.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
You just kicked our ass the other night and scared the crap out of me because if we had lost that game by 37, we would have been out of the NBA Cup and that would have been one of the most embarrassing losses of my life. It was very much on the table in the third quarter. And against Tibbs, that's the one guy you don't want to be against. But I don't know.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
I'm still... I mean, the Cap Brunson thing is incredible offensively right now, but they're not the same team defensively. And I just... I'm a little... I'm a little worried about the playoff thing with the playoff cat defensively. How's that going to look? What's the Mitchell Robinson minutes? Like, I don't know. I'm just like, I'm with Bill to the bridges thing. Listen, we're picking hairs.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
They're, they're a good, they're a good team, obviously, but I, I don't know. There's something about this next team. I'm not ready to fully go all in on.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
It just sucks. The Franz injury sucks because it takes away the potential all-star, the potential most improved. All that stuff is kind of not there anymore.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
I guess.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
Speaking of contracts, I need to say this. To the people who this summer were criticizing the Jalen Suggs deal, what was it, five years, $150 million for a guy that scores 12 points a game.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
A lot of people. Yes. Yes. A lot of a lot of a lot of our friends border. Maybe some Raptors fans were still a little upset about how that how that draft. By the way, the 2021 draft is my favorite draft in recent history. It's incredible. I go down the list of just every like week. I feel like you change the order of what guys you want. Yeah. Obviously, Fran Suggs. What do we got?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
Cade Mobley, Shankoon, Jalen Green, Barnes, Jalen Johnson was in that draft. Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
Pay sucks. The man's worth the money. He's one of the best winners in the league. He does things that other guys... He is the ultimate winning player in whatever you need him to do. And you saw it tonight. He doesn't need to be a 30-point-a-game scorer, but he was tonight.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
Thanks, guys. Appreciate you, Saruti.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
Yeah, hopefully we see you in April, May.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
OKC’s Revenge, NBA Cup Nitpicks, and NFL Season Fun Grades with David Jacoby, Kirk Goldsberry, Kyle Brandt, and Craig Horlbeck
I do.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Rams fans...
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
huge winner this is such a likable team this was not supposed to be a team post aaron darnold that um you know they when they were one and four they were talking about could cup be i never believed those stories but there were trade rumors about cup and could stafford be potentially available um and all of a sudden now they're heading into the second round against a pretty pretty beatable eagles team hench made a good joke our buddy hench he said um
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
The crowd was so good because Glendale is a shorter ride for the Rams fans than SoFi Stadium. Really good insight.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Six hours to Glendale, five hours to SoFi. It's close. Losers, the Eagles. I, I, it went from, oh man, I don't want to see the Vikings too. Oh Jesus. This Rams team. They're just cagey. They're like one of those old boxers. They've lost a couple of times. They're like 37, but they might be 40 and they just kind of know what to do in the ring and you don't want to fight them.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Philadelphia. Probably not warm. Stafford in cold weather. There's some playoff manifesto stuff with this too. There's always the... Right. One of the best playoff manifesto rules that I have is the round two team that looked a little too good in round one. Everybody's a little too excited about them. The Rams definitely qualify for that. And conversely...
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
They'll be family. Ideally, they'll be the ones who also root for my teams. Plan a winning vacation. Make it a Vrbo. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. I don't have a new Rewatchables coming for you tonight at least. We're going to try to do a mailbag on Wednesday. Hopefully, the winds are not going to be bad on Tuesday and Wednesday here in Southern California.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
The Eagles not looking that great in round one. So there's, and I think that's going to be reflected in the, uh, but this opens up some nice.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Did you hear from any Eagles fans today who were like, you guys were a little too hard on us yesterday. We want to play a game. Oh, you did? Because I didn't at all. Oh, really? Yeah. The Eagles fans I heard from were like, yeah, you guys nailed it. I was fucking pissed after that game. I'm still mad.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Ridley Scott's return to ancient Rome in Gladiator 2 is nothing short of awesome. And now you can stream it at home on Paramount+. Years after the death of Maximus, Lucius is forced into the Colosseum after his home is conquered by tyrannical twin Roman emperors. with the future of the empire. At stake, he must find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Gladiator 2, now streaming on ParamountPlus.com, rated R. All right, guess the lines. You already beat me. The big question, the media was talking all day. Are you even going to play your starters here? You're in the Week 18 Kansas City Chiefs thing. Do you just sit everybody trying not to get hurt? Do you try to give me false hope?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Do you do the Buffalo Bills where you tank the game to make me feel better about where I am heading into next week? I'm going to be down one for the first time since 1892. Wow. That was a long time. I thought before that.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
So we ended up, I remember looking at the round one lines on like Wednesday, Thursday, whatever, like just looking to distract from any possible way of like, where are the lines at? And I remember thinking like, I know we're going to have three underdogs. I have no idea who the three underdogs are going to be that actually advance. And it ended up being Houston, Washington, and the Rams.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
We are keeping our fingers crossed that... all the bad stuff is behind us and we can start thinking about recovery and start moving forward instead of looking backwards and looking over our shoulders here. So keep us in your thoughts.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Two home teams, two home dogs, which used to be like a playoff. Always take a home dog. Don't even think twice. And then the Washington team in a game that was, I could see either of these teams winning these games. Why not take the points? So it all makes sense in retrospect. But on Wednesday, I was like, I could see all six favorites winning.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
I thought the Broncos with plus eight and a half, nine, whatever it was, had a chance to keep things around. And in the first quarter, it's in the way and then the Bills pulled away. The Packers were another one.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it turned out to be the three short odds, two home dogs, and we ended up three underdogs advancing round one.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Houston, Kansas City, Baltimore, Buffalo. Well, we talked yesterday. I was saying that that Baltimore game that's in the tic-tac zone. Right. I thought it was going to flip. It was yesterday. It was Buffalo minus one and a half. I predicted to you. I think it's going to flip. I think Baltimore is going to be one and a half. It already happened. Baltimore is one and a half.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
So since we did it yesterday, Baltimore is minus one and a half Buffalo. Philly is now minus five and a half on FanDuel. Uh, Detroit is minus eight and a half against Washington. And then Casey is still minus seven and a half and everybody and their brother is teasing them with Ohio state.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
I mentioned in the Sunday podcast that we did with Sal that we're going to try to figure out a good list of charities and things to donate for, for people who want to help out all the people who are affected out here. I'm going to have that by Thursday because I really wanted to get
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Ridiculous. I think it goes down to the Ravens had five losses and you could easily just examine all of them and be like, ah, they actually should have had one loss. Yeah. They were the number one team in DVOA. They look like they've gotten better as years gone along, especially on defense. Defense was the big hole with them the first 10 weeks it flipped. And I think it's the right line.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
And I'll be honest, I've already put money on Baltimore. I believe you. I grabbed it because I was worried it was going to get to like minus two and a half, something like that. I just think they're, I think Buffalo's defense is going to have a lot of trouble stopping them, but we'll see. I'm going to look at it more. There's going to be some narrative that nobody believes in us.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
If that starts drifting around Buffalo, I'm going to get nervous.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
It's like the Dirk Nowitzki 2007 MVP. That was the all timer.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
He was the best coach of the regular season. Now it's like Sam Darnold was so bad those last two weeks. Maybe that emboldens his case.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
I can't believe we fell for Sam Darnold.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
There was a number of times during the season when I felt myself being like, you know what? I'm starting to believe in this guy. And then it was that Arizona game week 13. He lit up Atlanta. He lit up Chicago. He had a really nice win at Seattle. And then that Green Bay game, they won nine straight games and he was getting better during the streak. And he really, I believed.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Maybe we should just do the podcast and just be like, Chiefs, Ravens, Bills, Eagles, Lions. We just should have never wavered from those five teams.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
the right list going and make sure that I trust everybody that I'm recommending because there's been some pretty crazy fraudulent stuff happening out here. So I want to make sure I have everything. In a trustworthy state before we pass that along. Thanks to everybody who listened yesterday. Thanks to everybody who's about to listen.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
I really like Sam Darnold. I really thought that video of how much his teammates loved him, I was in. I was like, man, this guy finally, it's like a rescue dog. He finally found a home. And now he might be your new New Orleans Saints quarterback. Poor Sam. Before we go. So your team fired or didn't fire. What was the word? What did they do to Mike McCarthy? Broke up?
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
What if they have some bugs I didn't realize?
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
I like the photo albums the old way.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
You're not doing that. You sound like Fantasy.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Fantasy's threatening to quit the Jets now. He quit the Knicks a couple years ago.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
I, so listen, I don't have a dog in this race other than I love talking Cowboys with you, especially on this podcast. I don't understand what he was doing the last 12 months, Jared Jones, where they brought McCarthy back after it just seemed like after the playoffs, he was out. It was so, it's such a humiliating loss or they know, bring it, let's bring them back. They bring them back.
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They do all the weird contract stuff. There's multiple points in the first half of the season where it seems like they're just going to fire him. They don't. They string it along. Even though the season's over, they've lost Dak. They string it along the whole year. They lose out on multiple guys who might've been interesting hires.
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And then they part ways with them. I don't get it. It's just, it's like, did he just not want to spend one more penny on a coach?
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
The top of the pod is just me and Sal reacting off Rams-Vikings doing Guest Alliance for Rams-Eagles. And then we're gonna talk about the Dallas Cowboys thing. So that's the first segment. And then, so Peter Schrager and I, we recorded on Tuesday and it was gonna be the second part of the Tuesday pod. And I was gonna do an NBA Power Poll right off of Nugget Celtics on last Tuesday night.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
But it's more like he missed out.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
That is terrible. That would be the funniest outcome is Jason Garrett or Billy Bob Thornton in Landman would be the two funniest outcomes. Dion, I think, would just be a disaster.
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I think it's already dicey enough to just grab a guy from college and make him an NFL head coach, not having been in the league at all against anybody, but to especially do it with somebody who's a pretty green college head coach. If you said, I also don't really believe that story. I, you know, I don't think it's hard to research like who broke the story. Do they have time?
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Are they maybe represented by the same marketing firm as the person who, you know, it's, Yeah. There's, there's some red flags in general. I don't, it seems like it's good for both sides to pretend they might hire Dion. I don't think they're going to hire Dion.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
What's crazier to you? Belichick turning his back on UNC or, after already going down the road, bringing people in, doing recruiting, and then being like, oh shit, the cowboy job is available. Good luck, everybody. Thanks for everything, North Carolina. Is that crazy or is it crazier just to hire Deion Sanders?
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Yeah, Lombardi, yeah. We're here for Lombardi if that happens.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Can I gently nudge back here? Sure. For content, the Cowboys hiring Deion is the fucking best. That's like the best. That would be the number one thing people talked about the entire offseason. Dion and Dallas, is this going to work? People like you would be like, here's why this isn't going to work. Other people are like, no, you're wrong. And we would just be off.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
It would be, if you're going to have an 8-8, 8-9, I guess 8-9 now because we have 17 games. You're an 8-9 team. You may as well have Dion as your coach and not you know, random coach acts.
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And then, you know, it happened in California, ended up postponing the pod. But I really liked a lot of the stuff that Schrager and I talked about. We were making a lot. It was all coaching ownership stuff. And we were making predictions for what we thought was going to happen with the coaching hires. But we were talking about the model of ownership and just...
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Well, Aaron Glenn, I think, is actually a really good coaching candidate. Right. But it seems like he has, there's some Jets buzz with him now.
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If you're the Jets, like you want to get somebody who's actually been a part of your franchise and is willing to reconsider going back to it versus what most normal people's reactions would be to that of, I never want to see you guys again. I can't believe I was on the Jets.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Maybe Jerry just wants to act after his Emmy award winning performance of Landman.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Maybe he's got the acting bug. When I mentioned it to you, you didn't believe me. You were right.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Well, It is like if Anthony Hopkins just coached the Niners one year or one game and had a really good quarter, just popped in and called some plays and was like, do this, do this, do this. I'm trying to think of any other candidates. I think Vrabel would have been great, but we took him. Pete Carroll?
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You've kind of moved sideways with McCarthy where you had this experienced veteran coach who's had success, who won a Super Bowl in the past, but is in his mid-70s.
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That's it. So your DNH do not hire list is the Clapper. That's it. Dave Campo. You wouldn't want Dave Campo back.
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He's like, I'm going to move on. Would you rather have Deion Sanders or Daniel Kellison as your head coach? Daniel would be fun.
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where things are going on that front, not just in football, but in professional sports. And I really liked what we talked about. So it's a week late. This is a short pod. I just thought we'd throw it at the end. Why not? So there it is. That's going to be the second part of the podcast, a week old conversation with Peter Schrager, but I swear it's good. Okay. That's the pod.
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Lemon shots for everyone. Our friend Daniel, our old executive producer. He would be really, he would definitely bring the 70s Cowboys back. Yes. Maybe in the 90s. Oh, man. So you're in the dumps with this Dallas situation.
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I'm here for Colorado for at least the next five minutes.
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all right all right let's wrap it up that was good we went 32 minutes that's good two more than scheduled so next time I see you will be Sunday night will be after the fourth playoff game yeah we go a little early right yeah Bill's Ravens we'll go a little early we'll go hopefully live on YouTube and try to get that going try to get it up as fast as we can all right so good job by you all right good job by you buddy
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Again, we taped this six days ago on Tuesday and ended up not running it because I ended up not doing that second and third podcast last week. So there's a lot of good stuff in there. Listen to it if you want. It's a little dated, but not really. And I really like some of the stuff we talked about. So here it is right now. All right, we're taping this part of the podcast late Tuesday afternoon.
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Peter Schrager is here. You know, normally we don't have you on Tuesdays, but so much weird coach shit's happening in the NFL. I can't keep track. It's like you blink and another coach is on his way out. Did you expect it to be this chaotic or usually this happens after Monday? Why is it happening so staggered like this?
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Let's bring in our friends from Pearl Jam. All right, we're taping this. 8.20 Pacific time, Monday night. This is a quickie Guess the Line segment coming off Rams-Vikings. The good news, the Rams, an emotional win for Los Angeles. I guess you could feel it coming in the hour before the game with the emotional performance of the National Anthem. The Rams played great.
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The Vrabel thing really started going about three weeks ago. That's when the buzz started building. That's, you know, I don't think it was coming from him. I just think that it was clear he was going to be the number one candidate and the Pats thing was going south. And we were talking about on this podcast every week, like sometimes you have the wrong coach. It happens.
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Sometimes a guy's not ready to be a head coach. It happens. There wasn't a single sign this season that that year two is going to be better with the staff, with the head coaching, with the game management, with the preparation, the team is going backwards in every way. So I, you know, everyone, I, it's really split in the people in my life.
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Cause some people are pro Ben Johnson and I just can't believe like if they have a chance to get Vrabel, I just can't believe a he's available. B he's has Patriots ties. C has a relationship with craft D Patriots. He's a really good coach. I went back and I deep dove some of his Tennessee stuff. First of all, makes the AFC title game with a 9-8 team. The next year goes 12-5 with Tannehill.
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Lost to the Ravens. Good team. Right. Tannehill, half a season at Derrick Henry. All of a sudden, Donta Foreman was a huge part of that team. A.J. Brown about to get pushed out and beat some really good teams along the way that season. And then... You know, House and I got killed in Million Dollar Picks, I remember, or in real life.
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In the playoff game, Tannehill just completely shit the bed in round one. They were like eight-point favorites. And from that point on, he never had a quarterback again. We had Tannehill washed up. Malik Willis was in there. Like they, you know, it was QB roulette. And then he eventually left because he didn't get along with the GM, who is no longer there. He got fired today.
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So this feels like a miracle that he's available.
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Um, I'm not, by the way, but kudos to the Titans though, because, you know, we have these incompetent male owners. I'm glad we threw in an incompetent female. I like having the diversity, the incompetent female owner. It's just good to have her in there.
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Old bridge white guys. We're getting boring. We needed a female.
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Just stop with Rex Ryan.
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After his Sterling run in Washington. Let's get him another job.
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Well, he's the hot candidate.
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Well, this Rooney rule, which was an important rule they created, and then they just speed rushed through it. It's basically a speed bump if you know that you're going to hire somebody. And the way that they rushed into interviews today to kind of get that part over the top
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They played out of their minds. And yet I leave this game wondering what the hell happened to the Minnesota Vikings. Where we were two weeks ago versus where we are now, it's one of the most stunning eight, nine-day collapses I can remember of a football team. These guys won me over. I really genuinely believed in them, and they fell apart.
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It's a rule that they can't really nail the rule. I think with the Crafts, I think they probably just looked at some spreadsheet. A friend of mine made this joke. I'm passing along. And whoever was the cheapest flight from wherever they live to Providence, those probably like were the two they brought in. It's like, Brian Letfoot, oh, Jacksonville to Providence. It's $289.
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Coach, let's get, let's get, so let's put him in. This is my fear if I'm a coach taking over the Pats. They don't spend money. They meddle. And they've been a fucking disaster for the entire 2020s. So, Vrabel, I think, can at least walk in there and go, I know this building. I know the crafts. I know what the Patriots mean. I understand the Patriots way, whatever the concept of that was.
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It's gone now with Belichick and Brady. They're both gone. But he at least understands it. He's a link to it. And all that could be appealing on top of Drake May. That's the best situation of all the open situations. You mentioned Ben Johnson. This is, I started saying this earlier and I tailed off. This is a very divisive text thread subject now with the Pats fans in my life.
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I don't like your tone, Peter Schrager.
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Well, let me throw this at you because this is one of the things I've been talking about with people in my life. How many times does the hot play caller actually become a good coach? We've seen this over and over again. It's, it's the Steichen, you know, Kingsbury, McDade. It seems like there's one or two every year. And it's like, this guy's a whiz kid. Bobby Slowick last year.
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Coming up that first Houston season, people are like, oh, Bobby. Now it's like, you know, I don't think he has a shot in hell.
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But how many times does this guy actually work versus my preference would be the culture guy, the Tomlin, the Harbaugh, the guy who's like, I'm not really a specialist at anything, but what I'm good at is building a football team, coaching different types of things, running a staff. being in charge of different units of a football team. That's my secret power. That's Rabel's secret power.
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That's what he's good at. I would rather have that versus the whiz kid offensive play caller because we already have a great quarterback. I'd actually rather have a really good defensive guy, a guy who could build an offensive line around him. We already have the talent in offense. It's a great philosophical question.
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Those people can fuck off. The podcast is free. Settle down.
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Nobody bats a hundred percent at this. I had Scoot Henderson as a mortar lock to become an all-star in the NBA. And he can't even play. We took a swing. I genuinely felt that way. You believed in the Jets. You discounted some red flags with the history of the franchise and an aging QB coming. Now we know. Don't back an aging QB coming off an Achilles injury. Going forward, I now know this.
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I had the Jets winning the AFC East. Never again. Never again.
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Well, it's coming up. There's Vegas rumors with him already with Deion.
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He got old in Seattle. I just think... If you're hiring Pete Carroll, it's almost like a PR energy move where you're just trying to change some sort of bad stink around your building. Like to me, Jacksonville... A team that's like been rock bottom the last couple of years and just needs some sort of jolt.
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And he comes in, he's playing basketball with the coaches and, you know, he's great with the media and maybe that'll work. But that it's not like for the Bears, that doesn't make sense. Yeah. And again, he's a culture guy.
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So you're more on my side now with the, you want the coach to be more of a CEO. I'm not saying Ben Johnson can't do it. But I think over and over again, it's hard to, you know, this is something, you know, Lombardi's talk about this on the podcast all the time, that being, running a unit versus running a team People don't realize what a jump that is.
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And you actually have to be really interested in, hey, what's going on with the special teams? Why aren't we good at this with the defense? Hey, I've noticed when we're in nickel, this, this, and this is wrong. You can't just like be holding your play sheet. This is why McVay, who I think was a hot shot play caller, but he's not an offensive guy. Like he's a, I coached the whole team guy.
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He's a big picture guy. He's, he's personnel. He's everything.
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So Hackett's your worst case scenario because that's a combo of play caller only, but also was working closely with Rogers and maybe wasn't as, and it was with an offensive head coach. And was with an offensive head coach. So that's like, so I'm looking back at some of the coaches that have been hired or that have just coached in the last. Dan Campbell is a CEO type.
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But had experience though. He had that Dolphins like interim coach. So at least like knew the lay of the world. I feel like when it goes wrong for these coaches, they don't have a specialty, but they also don't know how to build a culture, which was the Mayo issue. Mayo is like, he's a defensive guy. It's like, was he, he was never even the defensive coordinator, the outside on backers coach. Yep.
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And, and it's like, is he a culture guy? Is he? Cause our culture is going sideways as this goes. Um, it's a good problem to have, I guess Bill O'Brien is another example of like, Oh, offensive guru. But the culture thing in Houston never quite got there, right?
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That was like almost too much for him. Yeah. I think it's going to be Vrabel. If I'm putting my money down, I'm saying it's Vrabel as well. Let me ask you on a shock scale, if it is Vrabel. Josh McDaniel is OC.
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And he took a brief... He might still be living in that area.
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John Gruden. As what? OC. OC. I think, so that would shock you.
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He had a whole body of evidence for the whole season where it looked like for whatever reason he was this year's late bloomer. Star QB, and he had just come off that huge win over the Packers when he has one of the best games of his career. They have the awesome NFL films video in the locker room after, right? When they're all waiting, Darnold comes in and his teammates mob him. They pick him up.
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It's smart. Pat Riley invented it. Yeah, went to NBC, right? Left the Lakers, did studio on NBC for one year.
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Who was the studio host? It was him and Costas. It was actually really good. It was one of the first good... What was that, like 1990? Halftime things. Yeah. And then just... Seemed handsome and like he knew what the fuck he was talking about. And then it led to the Knicks just turning everything over to him.
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There's a bunch of bad ones. Stu Jackson? What do you think the best open job is?
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The downside is you have the crafts, the crafts, the front office, the lack of spending. But the salary cap money is there. There's $130 million. Will they spend it?
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I mean, also, I think what people realized after Belichick left was Belichick was, he was the guy, you know, who was the superintendent of the building, but could also show the units, but could also fix anything that happened and also lived in the building. And he basically was worth seven things. He was the super downstairs. Yeah. Yeah. He was Mr. Roper combined with like an electrician.
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But I think when he left, I don't think they realized how many like small stuff because he was so like hands on and so all over the place. So he leaves and they had this bare boned everything after that. And the crafts have been super cheap in every respect for the last 10 years. They, what did they get an F in that?
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Yeah. They, they sat on a bunch of stuff this year. I would be, if I was taking that job, I'd be nervous. I'm like, are you guys, how much is Jonathan going to metal? How much am I going to be able to spend? Are you guys going to start spending more on scouts?
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Am I going to be able to, like part of the reason they couldn't get offensive, defensive coaches, coordinators, Dan Pelt was like the 12th offensive coordinator. They weren't paying big bucks for it.
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It's like, do you want to be our offensive coordinator? Here's a shitty offer and our team sucks. It's like, oh, I can't believe we couldn't hire anyone.
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Jonu Smith was an awesome weapon. I don't know what happened to him in New England.
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He was going back, and I was like, all right, not bad.
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They show Kevin O'Connell almost like near tears watching it. Great speeches.
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It's like a strong safety. They have 53-man rosters.
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Yeah, I don't think he was making a shitload of money would be my only thing. But you made me think of something, though. Maybe they should pass a rule that if the fired coaches then have to do media for the NFL as part of their contract. Here you go. They just have to be on podcasts.
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It's like the coach franchise that Belichick started. Now it's like, now we have Gerard Mayo and Robert Sala. The worst job out of all the open jobs, in your opinion.
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It was two weeks ago. And it just seemed like, man, this is such a great story. The late bloomer Sam Darnold. And then he absolutely sucked in the Detroit game. But I was willing to chalk it out to, hey, it's a bad game. This team's 14-3. They have a great track record. Detroit was fired up. They were home. But they couldn't block the Rams.
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Pretty mediocre division. Yeah, winnable games. That would be the case for Jacksonville too. You take over Jacksonville and you just look around and you're like, ah, we could... I think the worst job is the Raiders because you got Mark Davis who just seems like he changes his mind every five seconds.
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And then today he's fired. It's like, all right, on we go. So you have the organization, complete, absolute clusterfuck. I'm also in the same division as the Chiefs, Chargers, and Broncos. Those coaches. I have Mahomes, Herbert, and even Bo Nix. And then I have those three coaches. And I'm just the black sheep of that division.
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I also have a pretty high pick in this draft, but not high enough to really do anything. I got Brock Bowers and Max Crosby, and that's about it. That's a brutal job. And my owner's already paying three other coaches before he started to pay me. And they whipped on so many drafts that even hitting the Bowers pick... Do you want the crazy irony of this whole thing?
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It's funny that every single job has some sort of yeah, but attached to it, right? Like the Jets actually have talent. That's the thing.
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But it's like, how do you take that job and know that you're dealing with the owners and all the dysfunction that's there? The Bears, you have a potential franchise quarterback. I use the word potential because I wouldn't say it was like the greatest Caleb year. You have some weapons. You're okay. You're in an absolutely brutal division.
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But that front office and that organization is a fucking hornet's nest. Like you're walking in a Game of Thrones the moment you get in there. Is there like a worse hornet's nest organization than the bears right now? Probably not.
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And the part that doesn't make sense to me, I was a little worried about their protection heading into the game just because of what it looked like against the Lions. But the Rams don't have a good defense. The Rams defense was 26th. on DVOA for defense. They were the seventh worst defense in the league. It's not like this was, you know, the 2000 Ravens. And they looked like the 2000 Ravens.
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Yeah, they made it seem like he left his husband at the altar or something. No doubt.
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I wouldn't take the Chicago job.
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I know it's going to come out. Oh, cool. I get to be in the same division as Detroit, Minnesota, and Green Bay? And I have no offensive line? He's not interviewing with the Jets.
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which we haven't seen for 40 years. The bear's job is like good fellas. It's like, no, no, it's over there. It's like walking down that night street.
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So it was just a complete collapse.
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What was the reaction to people in the league, to the Patriots actually winning that Week 18 game? Was that in your text? What were people just like, what just happened?
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They clearly knew based on how long that statement was that came out like an hour today. That takes like three hours to get that statement correct. So they obviously had that during the week. So what do you do in hindsight? Do you fire him on Saturday and say... I think if you know you're going to do it, you let him go midweek. You have somebody take over.
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I don't think you play any of the starting receivers, right? Even booty playing was crazy. It should have been Polk and Baker the entire game. They're playing Antonio Gibson. They're playing Milton the whole game. The Bills were like, wait, Trubisky's doing too well. They yanked him. Mike White's in. Yeah. You watch the Chiefs. They were like, whoa, wait, we want no part. Yeah.
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There's ways to do this. And the problem is they... Milton was really good against Buffalo's second string. And then Buffalo, once they realized they had a chance to screw the Pats, they were like, great, here's Mike White.
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I watched that game and I had money in the Colts. Drew Locke was great. The Colts were absolutely horrific. Neighbors was unguardable. Yeah. This Pats thing was different because... You at least have to have the OC involved. You tell the OC, you're coming back next year. Can you just call a lot of runs up the middle on third and eight? Or some bad screen passes? I don't know.
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But you said it to Sal on Sunday night.
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I was talking to a couple of people about it this week, how crazy it is, how expensive these franchises are. Each one of them is a business worth between five and $10 billion. And at least half of them are run horribly. Like they're, you know, the diner down the street where you're like, why did... why did they have to shut down the diner again? What happened?
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It's like, ah, this guy hit hepatitis B, the chef. So they had to fire him and the hell stepped in, but it's going to be back. You'll be able to get omelets in a couple of weeks. That's like how 10 NFL teams are run. It's, I just don't understand it. I don't understand how people, this is, I know some of the times they inherit it.
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It's been explained to me, like sometimes the people that own the teams, the personality of whatever got them into that job is basically how they operate the team. So if you're a hedge fund guy, you look at everything, it's like risk reward, this boom, boom, what are my two choices?
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If you're like somebody who builds and has a lot of different people reporting to you, maybe do that, maybe delegate more. If you inherited it because you were some rich kid, then it's the combo of, I want to prove that I'm not just the rich kid, but you also don't have... kind of the history or the street smarts to know how to operate this year to year.
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So it's pretty rare to just find good owners, you know? And we know who the good owners are.
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It's pretty crazy. And then you have somebody who finally figures it out, like the Chargers.
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They're like, you know what we should just do? Let's just bring Jim Harbaugh and let him figure it out. That's what you do if you're the owner. Just overspend on the guy who could run the whole thing for you.
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It's like a $250 million salary cap a year. No doubt. So it's like, oh no, I have to pay my coach $10 million? I think they give a shit. So the Jets thing is interesting.
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We talked about, yesterday we were talking about QBs you'd rather have than Herbert. And we were going down the list, and I said to you, what about Sam Darnold? And you paused, which was my reaction as well. And you were like, let's wait to see what happens tomorrow. And of course, what happened was the worst possible game for him.
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I'm dubious. I'll tell you one guy. So if... If I was buddies with an NFL owner and they called and just said, what should I do? And it was the list of the usual suspects, right? You know, this guy, this guy's bounced around. Hey, there's Pete Carroll. I really like the Notre Dame coach. And I barely know anything about college football.
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But are we sure that he just can't be overwhelmed with some, like, why can't he be the Bears coach? He's already in that part of the country anyway.
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Oh, you became a Notre Dame villain?
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I really like that guy. To me, he seems like a culture guy, which is what you should be looking for if you're the fucking Bears and you have no culture at all other than the Hornets' desk.
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I just don't think he's been a head coach for long enough and it seems too risky. I don't want to be risky with my $7 billion team. If you're New Orleans, I would think about it. I'm going nowhere for two years. Let him take his lumps. Let him learn on the job. But I just think going from college to the NFL in general, there's been so few success stories.
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We've seen some of the best college coaches ever weren't that good as an NFL coach, you know? So I just think it's a slightly different skill set. That's why the Marcus Freeman, I don't know, I did a deep dive on him and I was just intrigued by him because... He's awesome. And just like watching him on the sidelines, like just his... I don't know. There's something about him.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Cerruti, what do you think of Marcus Freeman as an NFL head coach?
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To me, I'd much rather do that than some retreat or roll the dice with some offensive coordinator who's not even that hot of an offensive coordinator. So Rudy, if you could take any college coach and make them an NFL coach, who would it be?
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I was looking, so some of the stats for the Rams heading into this game, They were 21st in the league in sacks. They were 28th in the league in QB hits, 26th in tackles for losses. And they were sixth in QB hurries, right? So that's the one thing where you're like, oh, I can kind of see it. The Vikings were 23rd in sacks given up, 20th QB hits, 24th QB hurries, 24th tackles for loss.
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Like that actually would succeed in your opinion. Cause you, you love college football.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
You love it. Is there a guy that you were like, man, I bet that guy would be a good NFL coach.
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Is Dan Lanning... That doesn't make sense? He's not a specialty guy?
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Are we sure Matt Rule couldn't be a good NFL coach? He might be. I don't know. Like I go back, like that famous picture that got floated around during this season, this year of Darnold and Mayfield together in the Carolina, that team he put together. And then I felt like he got fired a little prematurely.
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I know they weren't doing great, but then that team almost made the playoffs, the team that he, that he did. But he was like the hottest name of the past six years for college. Now he's just not a good coach anymore. Cause he went to go with David Tepper.
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I personally would much rather roll the dice with Freeman, Dan Lanning, Matt Rule again versus like... I love Pete Carroll, but I don't see it. I don't see how that should move when he's 75 years old or however old he is.
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I'm glad you brought him up. I was so impressed by him in that Minnesota game. Wasn't that a great commercial for him? Yeah, it really was.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
They're interviewing 12 people.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
So there were signs that their offensive line might not be that great. But nothing could have prepared anybody for what happened. He was just under attack. And he reverted back into old school seeing ghost Sam Darnold. It was like Jets, Pats, Sam Darnold. And now you mentioned the money thing. I don't know what you do if you're the Vikings.
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Yeah, if I was Arthur Smith in the interview with Cerruti, they'd be like, so what happened to Atlanta? I would just be like, can you go on Pro Football Reference and look at the fucking quarterbacks I had? That's what happened. What am I going to do? I had Marcus Mariota and the Riddler. What was I going to do?
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Because he's smart. Yeah. Sean Payton, I think, knew that. But it was like, wait, how much money? Yeah.
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That's this much money. Give it a year and you'll figure it out. Yeah. But that's why the Pats are in such a good spot with Drake, man.
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Because there's seven of those guys in the league. And he's one of them.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Trevor Lawrence would be... Saruti, do you admit defeat yet on Trevor Lawrence or no?
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Saruti never admitted defeat on Jonathan Isaac, so he's got a good track record.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
He held in. He was turning down every Jonathan Isaac trade offer.
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I... Look, on the one hand, I'm a big quarterback has to be in the right situation with the relatively right coach guy. On the other hand, I just don't see it from Lawrence. I don't see it. Like the way Sandarno played in that Lions game when he was sailing the ball and everything that Lawrence does that every game. And Darnold, at least you could make excuses for him.
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It was like the hostile environment. It was probably the biggest game of his career. You know, he got off to kind of a iffy start. Like I'm, I've watched him all year. I'm willing to excuse it. I just, how many times can Lawrence just suck?
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And the son's running a wrestling league. I'm so glad you brought this up because this is another friend because I was talking to a bunch of people this week. And this friend said the single most important thing a coach should look for is the medal scale with an owner. And it was like, Washington, they barely talk to... There's also 20 of them.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Josh Harris talks to them like 15 minutes twice a week and that's it. And they just, he basically delegates because he's got a million things going on. The cons are like that. The crafts are not like that. The crafts are in your life. You take that Pat's job. You've got to deal with them. Jonathan's going to call. Robert wants to go. He's just going to be around and wants to know shit.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Yeah, we'll see. With the Balky piece, Ben Johnson should just tell Shad Khan, you realize that When Harbaugh left, he hired Jim Tomsula. Same guy. By the way, your team's way worse now. Maybe there's something here with Balky. I wouldn't say the track record's great.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Yes, if my team sucks and I'm like the Raiders and I just want some sort of professional franchise again. If I'm trying to win the title, maybe not as excited. What about you, Cerruti?
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I love the Super Bowl props. You can also check out their Super Bowl squares. Pick your own numbers and Make your pick for a kick of Destiny 3 between the Manning brothers. I'm picking Peyton Manning every time because Eli Manning took two Super Bowls from me, so he can screw off. When you win, you'll get paid instantly.
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I think you're right. I think you're right. One of them, like at least that that's one of those where it's like, well, at least he won't drive the car into a tree. You know, like Dion, I have no idea if that guy would be, it'll be really fun. I hope he comes into the league. Just from a content standpoint, it'll be awesome.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Well, we have next-gen stats, and we also have Trey Aikman. who can tell no lies when he's watching a quarterback performance that he's not enjoying that much. And he just couldn't a few times. He's just like, Joey, he has a good pocket there. I don't know why that happened the way it did because the pocket, if he steps up, he's got plays. I don't know.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
I was surprised. The one appeal with the Jets is if they hired McCarthy, that's a final FU to Aaron Rodgers. There it is. Pack up your locker, buddy. That's it. This is a wrap. Does Rodgers play next year, by the way?
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I say no.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
I think he's going to want to try to latch on to a really good team where he could just steer the car. What do you think, Suriti?
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
With Tom Brady as the owner? That is, if you showed Aaron Rodgers like 10 minutes of Brock Bauer's tape, he might rejuvenate him. The guy's freaking an absolute animal.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
I actually think the worst job is the Giants job. Of all the jobs. But it's not open because Dayball took it back. No, I just, I thought that one was going to be open up and maybe they hired or brought Dayball back because it's like, who the fuck would want this job? It's like, we have no quarterback. We suck every year. Our cap space is kind of screwed. Do you want to be our coach? No, thanks.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
So they're better off just bringing them back.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
No.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Belichick was only worth one first round pick when Kraft, the only great thing Kraft ever did other than keep the Pats in New England when he traded a first rounder for Belichick. I think a coach is worth one first rounder. Okay. I don't know. You disagree, Cerruti? That's what Sean Payton went for. Yeah.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
The moment got too big for him, which is what happened last week, too, in the Detroit game. So now there's this whole domino effect now because... what the Lions did to Minnesota last week. And we're like, well, the Lions are back. Their defense is back. But then you watch the Vikings can't block again this week. Darnold stinks again this week.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Maybe they should schedule more interviews with people who have no chance of being an NFL coach, but really want to coach the Jets. Like, are there other people? Are there actors?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Apparently, he's overseas and hopefully we will get him later this week. If he doesn't come, I'm going to be super upset.
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All right. Thanks, Rudy. I got one more thing for Schrager.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
No, no, no. I thought you handled that great, dude. Thank you. Everyone in my life felt I handled it perfectly. Very impressed. Schrags, good to see you. Thanks. You're the man, dude. Thank you. All right, that's it for the pod. Thanks to Cousin Sal. Thanks to Saruti and Kyle and Gahal for producing as always. I'm going to be back probably with a two-parter on Thursday.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
At least a one-parter, hopefully a two-parter, assuming that everything goes well in Southern California on Tuesday and on Wednesday. I'm trying to be super optimistic. Next time you see me, Thursday. And then maybe rewatchables on Wednesday too, if we can do that mailbag podcast on Wednesday that we're hoping for.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
So let's hope for some good weather, some decent weather, some non-windy weather in the next two days. And hopefully when you hear my voice on Thursday, things are a little bit better and we're headed forward here in Southern California. Stay safe, everybody. See you later in the week.
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And now, so when you look forward to guess the Lions, we have this Rams game. I have no idea what to make of their performance that by like, is their defense for real? Is it not for real? What's going on there? And then the Lions who looks so awesome last week. And we're all like their defense, maybe it's back. They had a bye week. Now you see the Vikings can't block.
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And it's like, well, maybe it's not back. Maybe Washington will be able to move the ball against the trade. This just made me more confused about round two, Sal.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Well, they can franchise tag Darnold, though.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
I think if Darnold plays well against Detroit, They lose to Detroit by like three and then they play the Rams. The Rams squeak it out, but he's fine in that. He's looking at at least the Baker Mayfield money, which I think was like three for a hundred range. Now I had a whole losers winners thing I wanted to do. Um, he was, he was the biggest individual loser.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Suri says 41 million for the franchise thing or yikes. So he's the biggest loser because I don't know. what the free agent money is going to be for him.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
I did the anchor parlay with four games and I ended up just splitting them. So it's just like all that work for nothing. I lost on the Chargers, lost on the Vikings, won on the other team. But I was thinking Steeler fans, Raider fans, Saints fans. Sam Darnold is now in their life with rumors. Those are the three teams.
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I don't think the Giants, just because of the Jets pedigree, I think they would stay away. But Steelers, Raiders, Saints, I think are three possibilities.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Also, they could franchise them for a year and do the whole, hey, we're not sure. Is J.J. McCarthy even going to be ready for September? They showed Daniel Jones a couple times. He's an option. We've seen Daniel Jones. It can't be Daniel Jones.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Yeah, they obviously believed in him. They took him... Really high. He had bad luck with an injury, but before the injury, they were all excited about what he looked like in the preseason. So Darnold's the biggest loser, but the runner-up and maybe even the winner is the Vikings fans who just... I mentioned my buddy Jeff a couple of times. He's just... And I told you so, Moe.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
He's like, I told you. This is what we do. This is what... He's just... This is preordained. Not only that they're going to lose, but it was going to be a complete embarrassment. This was... This team won more games than any other Vikings team ever, except for the 98 team that went 15-1 and lost in the NFC title game. The 69 team went 12-2, lost the Super Bowl.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
The 73 team went 12-2, lost the Super Bowl. 75 team went 11-2-1, lost the Super Bowl. The 17 team... 13 and three, they lost that NFC title game in, uh, in, in, in, uh, Philly, whatever it was with Philly.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
Um, but this was one of the best Vikings teams, at least from a regular season standpoint of the last 60 years and just goes out ignominiously. Like they couldn't even score 10 points.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
It should be like a 30-yard penalty when you do that. If you're going down on a sack and you just whip the butt, it's like beyond an intentional grounding. I personally think it should be, I think that should be a fumble when you're just dumping the ball because you're going to take a sack, but you're not even dumping it anywhere near anybody.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
It was the key play of the game because it felt like the Vikings could have momentum. Their defense in general, though, the Rams played it perfectly. They came out in the first quarter. Stafford started out nine for nine. They could anticipate every single thing that was happening.
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
This was the people that were making the case for the Rams heading into this game was not only did they win earlier in the year, but Stafford was good against the Blitz. He's good at, he's such a smart QB. He's good at reading stuff and everything got borne out. I thought the Vikings were able to run the ball better, but in general, like the 26 DVOA defense should not be dominant.
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I know they had a couple of games when guys were missing, but for the most part, like that makes no sense to me. It's a team that got carved up multiple times this year, you know?
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The Vikings Get Rammed, Dallas’s Next Coach, and Bad NFL Owner Habits With Cousin Sal and Peter Schrager
So winners, J.J. McCarthy, Sean McVay, another great win. He's got eight playoff wins now, plus the Super Bowl. They made the playoffs in six of eight of his postseasons. He's only been a coach for eight years. And Just coach the pants off of Kevin O'Connell, who's going to win a really awkward coach of the year award in about, I don't know, whenever they have that NFL honors thing. Killed them.
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Not only killed them, but the Vikes were down 18 with 10 minutes left and were running the Donovan McNabb-Pats-Eagles Super Bowl offense. Just long huddles before every play and no urgency at all. It was like they really quit. It was borderline Roberto Duran, no mas, no mas.
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I agree with them.
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Rory’s Special Win, Beware of the Clips, NBA Playoff Gut Reactions, and the Luka Trade Part 93 With Ryen Russillo
I don't know.
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Rory’s Special Win, Beware of the Clips, NBA Playoff Gut Reactions, and the Luka Trade Part 93 With Ryen Russillo
Hmm.
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Round 1 NFL Reactions With Cousin Sal
Yeah, who cares if he's out of the pocket? Who cares?
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Round 1 NFL Reactions With Cousin Sal
Pennsylvania. So he might be another one. How long was this?
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flu game it poured too as we were like getting ready to run we were just standing there just getting poured on dude that's like two more excuses than i would need to bail on this and just go to disney world instead i can i'm just telling you if it was if i was sick two days before i'd be i wouldn't probably wouldn't even be like let's see how i feel on saturday on friday be like i'm calling it everyone would understand i just put so much time into like training for this thing that i had to at least finish yeah hey feel different dude good for you
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Right. So I don't know. It's all I don't have an app.
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Yeah.
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So Cape Cod has to happen. Cape Cod has to happen. Cape Cod has to happen.
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This is a real rivalry we got going on. Crosstown shooting out over here.
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Did you touch that airport lounge on the way home?
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Those guys are a little desensitized, I think. I don't know if they're regular animal people anymore. The, uh, the animal control.
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There's your run right there.
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If my wife's there, you know, with the Sruti situation, I think I'm looking for a tennis racket. But with my wife there, I think she might be like, you know, maybe like get a blanket or a trash. Like it might think she would complicate it a little more.
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Dude, I mean, I was telling Rudy before we started, we had to, with the Hollywood fire on Wednesday, we evacuated because they basically, they put an evacuation notice right up to Hollywood Boulevard and I'm on Sunset. So I'm like the next big street there. And we just saw everything that happened on Tuesday. So we're like, all right, let's just get out of here.
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We went down two miles south to my grandmother's house. But I'm like pulling, I'm like pulling up shit just in case, you know, the house is gone. So I'm just like, all right, passports, laptop for work. you know, some clothes I grabbed by Drake made Jersey. That was probably a little silly, but I was just like, it's just brand new. I don't want to lose it. It's brand new. It's brand new, dude.
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He's the most expensive one. Um, and the Mac Jones jersey did not get grabbed. Didn't make it. Uh, actually that would have been when I donated a bunch of clothes after, cause I knew people needed clothes. It's like, that's going in the bin in the closet. Um, But she spent the whole time getting these five rabbits.
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Hurt my back, by the way, because it went in this huge fucking massive dog cage, and I'm trying to keep it level. But she spent the whole time just wrangling rabbits. And I spent the whole time getting stuff. And we get to my grandmother's house that's two miles south. She doesn't have a toothbrush. She doesn't have clothes. She doesn't have anything. She doesn't have a phone charger.
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But she's got five rabbits. So that's the difference. It really opened my eyes that we view emergencies a little differently. And so if there's a bat in the house, I think we'd have different views on that too.
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Like, I think we have the pieces to build an aviary in here.
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That was the funny part to me. That was the funny part. We were like, listen, let's get under the covers while we figure this out. But honestly, if it's flying around and it's dark in there, I actually don't know how much... how, how many better options there are. So, but I just, it was funny the way you said like, all right, let's get, let's hunger down. Let's get into the covers.
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Let's talk about it. Yeah. I really liked it.
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All right.
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So I like my yard. So that's, is that what we're talking about here? Well, Woody Harrelson.
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Yeah, this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone here, but you know, a favor is not going to throw me off my game. I appreciate it. Quite a bit for me in my life. So, uh, you know, uh, never, never really did anything wrong by accepting a favor. I think as long as this guy isn't like, you know, controlling the itinerary to a point where you're like, right.
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I don't think Steve would like it if we went, you know, did this at two o'clock or, or book this dad's golf trip. Like as long as it's not that, and he hasn't mentioned anything, I didn't catch a whiff of that. I think, It sounds like everything's good intention here. He's not like, you know, if the only thing is like he booked this hotel, it's like, great.
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This is a way better hotel than I would book. Cool. And it sounds like that's where he's stopping the control of it all. So that's, I think, I think you're right. This is all, this is all good. And, um, you know, I'm a favor guy. So maybe learn to learn to accept favors and learn to give favors when it, when it actually works out.
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Maybe, maybe get him a really thoughtful Christmas gift that isn't so much money, but more, more thoughts like the Jim's teapot for Pam, like something that you really put some thought into. show your appreciation in another way.
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The memories you guys make.
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Like there's no gray area there. You're like, I see what's happening.
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That guy's like one of the three reasons for the sign. There was probably a couple of people that rose up and he was proud of that sign.
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Yeah, I've seen some polls where it's like, why are there four signs?
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Um, yeah, I think you're, you're spot on with like, you have to know there's no one in there. Like, you know, frolic room has two bathrooms, right? One of them is a general neutral bathroom. The other one's a women's bathroom. They're both one person bathrooms.
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Uh, I tell you what, it does bother me a little bit when, uh, there I'm waiting behind a gender neutral bathroom and I see a woman walk out and there's actually no women in the women's bathroom. What's the ratio like at Frog Room though? I mean, it can't be super high. Well, on theater days, it's a little different. It's connected to the Pantages Theater.
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So on theater days, uh, you know, it's a, it's a madhouse, uh, especially that intermission and, you know, that hour before the show, um, excited women and dejected men, uh, paired up. That's usually how it goes. But, um, basically if there's somebody in the gender neutral bathroom and it's, it's kind of time for me to go, right. And maybe I've been there an hour and I'm, Gonna go.
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And there's somebody in that bathroom. If there's no women in the bathroom, I'll look at the bartender and be like, yeah, what do you think? We good? I'll be 30 seconds. He's like, go ahead. But if there's one woman in that thing, even if she just got there and it's probably not, I'm not even taking the chance. So you have to know, like you said, there has to be no one else.
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There has to be no one else and then it's fine because no one's hurt. But if there's one person, that could just be the time when you're walking out and she's walking in. It's a big problem. Even if you don't agree with the rule, I think maybe there should be a men's bathroom in that bar, but whatever. The rule's the rule. The sign is the sign. I hope I landed that play. I think I agree.
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Yeah, how old is he? Can we read the top of that email and just figure out, like, is he a late 20s guy or a 30s? Um...
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Oh, I can't imagine.
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Wow. Not great. Wait, so you're a gas stove guy? Really, Mike? Gas stove. I'm just kidding. I'm a gas stove guy, too.
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Four days of gas, we're talking?
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God, you must have been freezing. Wow. Well, glad you're okay, man.
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Welcome back.
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A Full NFL Offseason Preview and the Chiefs’ Future With Mike Sando. Plus Tim Legler on the Luka-LeBron Combo, Celtics Worries, and More.
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You want details? Bye. I drive a Ferrari 355 Cabriolet. What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South Fork. I have every toy you can possibly imagine. And best of all, kids, I am liquid. So now you know what's possible.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's a little disappointing. Springline coffee hat. I'm a big rope hat guy. I mean, listen, I have some basic elements to me. It's fine. But no, my sister got this for me. I think maybe the SC was a part of it. But no, it is a coffee hat. Wow. You're not the first one to ask. To me, it's a Steve Cerutti hat. I feel like that's kind of douchey, but I like the hat. I don't know.
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What am I going to do?
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Just agreed. Throwing ideas out there for the future. Maybe YouTube stuff. Power ranking baseball hats. There you go.
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Of course it's been done, but not by us.
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Braves. Are you thinking of the Cardinals hat? Cardinals, Pittsburgh.
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It's like 2004 vibes, you know. A white fitted. White on white. White watch. White fitted. That was the prime of my, you know, high school. What about a white leather hat?
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Do better. There were so many people, I feel like, that were like a couple weeks ago and you got excited about Inauguration Day indirectly. People were like, I knew it. I knew it. We're back. Yeah.
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You shoot her a text with a link to Ozempic Breath and be like, oh, my bad, wrong person. Oh, the Larry David? That's... That's mean for Saru Diabolical. I don't know. Well, if you really want to make sure it gets across, that's certainly a way. Because I'm with you. The tab thing, who knows? That's a wow card.
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That does make it better, I think.
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this always gets back to like, I would want someone to tell me if I had bad. Yes. Especially your best friend in the world, right? Yeah. Like I just like, she's walking around, she's working friends and you're like the only person that can, that might just really be able to tell her and she doesn't know. So you have the most data. Yeah. Yeah. So that's just how I come, come at it.
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I, I'm not really in a house where like this gets shamed. Like, like Kyle's like, you know, my wife and I mostly kind of call each other. It's usually me, but you know, we mostly call each other out for stuff. I remember like I wear a retainer, like had braces and then did a Viz line. I got to wear a virgin. Yeah. I'm sorry. It is what it is.
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Or else my teeth literally move and I become a gap tooth bitch.
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Yeah. I guess gap teeth are kind of coming back now, but anyway, he makes it work. Yeah. I wear a retainer and it, Kind of makes my breath smell more. So, and she told me that and I'm aware of it. I'm glad she told me. So that's, that's how I come at it. I, everyone's different.
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Your wife might be more sensitive, but I, I just think most people would want to know so they can then prevent it from, you know, being a problem for other people. Cause otherwise if you just walk through a life, not knowing, That's that sucks. Like, that's such a bummer. Like, everyone's kind of talking behind your back about how bad your breath is. Like, I would just want to stamp the thing out.
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Yeah, I love you. And here's start with I love you. Yeah.
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Right. Your breath is kind of bad. We know why. I'm just I just want to let you know. Still love you. Nothing but like, you know, you want to fix it. I'm here for you. Cause I will say I dated a girl like, you know, years ago and she had bad breath. And like, I, you can't tell a girl like you're newly dating that she has bad breath.
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Cause that's just, you know, it's an instant kind of deal breaker, but it was a deal breaker for me. And we just kind of, it kind of wasn't going to go anywhere because of that. Yeah.
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You know what blows my mind is Margaret Qualley. Like she's famous actress. Her mom's famous too. Clearly obviously comes from money. And she just has a gap tooth. I'm like, I wonder what was the decision in her life to be like, no, I'm keeping the gap tooth thing. Like, this is my thing. Like, it's one thing for Strahan when it's become kind of like part of who you are. The gap? Yeah.
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The gap, yeah. Yeah.
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I've done it multiple times.
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Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. Going back to like high school. We did it with the high school girlfriend. Yeah. God. You slept on the couch in the vacation house? No. No, actually. It was a hotel room, two queen beds. Uh, I think we went to Newport. I forget where it was.
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Like, what are you going to do? Like we're three feet away from you. I'm not even going to sleep.
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Yeah.
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I'm not saying you're an idiot. You're acting like an idiot.
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Yeah, I guess this would be easier if you... were more I mean again you're 22 so it's hard but like if you were more convinced that like this could be the actual girl but I do think it's a good situation where you can like it's a good excuse to like reset the boundaries with your mom and you know I don't think you have to like be a dick about it but you know
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clearly show that you're mad clearly show that she went over the line that this is like not an acceptable form of behavior and you know I wouldn't like give her the you know the silent treatment or something like that but I think that like you need to do something to show her that like what she did is not acceptable and kind of reset the boundaries between you and her because clearly she doesn't
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I respect that. And yeah, I know some of some of that is like what you said, Ryan, that she just thinks you're probably younger than you really are. But like from everything you said, like this is a pretty troubling mom trait and needs to kind of be corrected. And, you know, I guess there's probably a reason that your girlfriend doesn't like her in the first place. So I don't know.
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She's the only one with fresh eyes. I don't know that.
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Yeah.
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I don't know how you fix that, though. That's going to be. That's the type of mom you have.
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Yeah. Yeah. But now now like the mom's going to blame the girlfriend for, you know, if you got if you guys become more distant, like you put that back in the bottle. Yeah, that's out there. It's kind of fucked on the relationship a little bit. So I don't know.
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You want to give us 30 seconds on Middleton Kuzma?
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The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
No. I noticed that too. I think some things got messed up with your phone situation. I won't go into any further than that. Okay. All right. We've definitely texted before. Yeah, I was going to say. The three of us.
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Some people say the book is better. So are you going to have a better experience reading second?
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I read it. Well said, Kyle. Thanks. I read all the Lord of the Rings books after I saw the movies and I actually thought it was a I personally I like the experience. Here we go. Here we go. Only because there was just like Tom Bombadil like this guy isn't even the freaking movie and he's like this incredible character in the books. He's like this mysterious guy in the woods.
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uh that they don't even talk about really so i don't i think it can go both ways depending on your personality oh i thought you were going to be like i thought the movies were way better no no i wouldn't no i'm not okay okay there'll be no lord of the rings i also have seen the movie the road and not read the book so i'm in the same camp as you kyle people hated the movie okay the movie did not i thought the movie was awesome but no i know i didn't read the book uh the kid is annoying in the movie
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I mean... Here's the, uh... What was it? Home Alone. Home Alone.
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Now, what's the zombie apocalypse? Why am I blanking on it? No. The show. The Walking Dead. Carl. Last of Us. Just terrible.
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I enjoy Reddit. You do. I'll peruse through there usually before I go to sleep. I mostly like, again, I like the explain it to me like I'm five. I feel like I'm learning something. So it's like explain like nuclear power reactors and somebody explains it like you're five and it's great. I like that stuff.
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But there are some real, there's some real weird dark shit on Reddit that I, and they try to feed you stuff and the algorithm to really, it's like the for you page, but like just in your normal feed. And it's like, wow, you're really just trying to mess with me right now. And occasionally I'll, you know, I'll see like the Rosillo or the bill one. And I'm like, man, I got to stay away from that.
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Cause there's nothing good in there. Get out of there. Run. And, and yeah, so I don't, this, this to me is like, this is like what, this is the stuff that we, you know, it's like, Hey, I can't believe somebody lied on the internet. And like, this is just, this is just life in 2025. Now we're like, all this shit is, I never know what to believe. I'm always confused.
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Everyone's always mad about something that doesn't really matter, but like is the biggest deal in the world. So yeah, I gotta be honest with you. This is a dark scene for your wife here. I'm kind of nervous for you and her.
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The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
Yeah.
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The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
You said something this morning that was like.
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We don't have a problem. Yeah.
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The Lack of Upsets and the State of College Hoops With P.J. Carlesimo, Plus, New Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman.
I think you could rationalize even if it hurts and it would hurt me. I would not handle it as well as this guy has about like your spouse kind of talk venting about you. I guess it's the nicest way to say it. Right. So I think that's normal, but he's more upset about the lies that she's making up the making shit up on random threads like that's like crazy person behaviors.
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That's conspiracy theories. You're going into a weird part of the internet that I'm... As you said, Kyle, it's like, do I even know who you are at this point? I don't even know who you are anymore. What are you saying? You're talking about this on this thread. That would bother me, I think, long-term more than the little, like, oh, my husband bothers me because of this and this and that. I would...
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Like, can you kind of come at it from an indirect way? You say you don't have Reddit. Can you maybe get one? Not that you want to like get yourself into that field. Be like, man, I dip my toe into the Reddit world. Like, what have you been like? It's crazy in there. What things do you look at?
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Maybe just kind of like put it in the back of her mind that like she should probably not be on there because it's insane.
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But if you say like, hey, that's there's a weird shit on there. Like what's just for sorry, I felt like it was appropriate. Like what's what is this how it normally is? Like what do you what places do you go on? And then if she kind of maybe just like dawns on her a little bit that like, hey, I shouldn't be on here as much as this kind of a dumb thing. And he's right.
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Like this is probably sending me into I'm wasting time on things that aren't making me feel better.
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I feel like that's not the concert to do that at. Most people take it pretty seriously.
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Yeah, that's not me, boy. It's like an intentional. You put your hand up in the air like that's me.
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What's their what's their nicknames? I forget.
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So I'm not a deadhead. Uh, although shout to, uh, Greg Horlbeck, who I think is like family or something or big grateful dead people. Cause I remember we were talking about it and he was like, you got to give him a chance. Give me a couple songs to listen to. And I'm like, actually, these guys are pretty good. Like I'll, I'll hand it to him. And obviously I'm a, I'm a John Mayer guy.
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Shout out to you too, Kyle. Um, There was a story once I saw where this girl, 20-something, thought she was buying tickets to a John Mayer concert. Ended up being a grateful... A Dead & Company concert. And she didn't know that until she got there. Yeah. Which is pretty great. But what I... So I'm not a deadhead. Do respect them. But what I do know about them is...
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It's kind of like a musical experience.
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Yeah. It's kind of like a musical experience, right? I mean, people take their music really seriously, and there's a lot of instrumental parts. I mean, the drum thing, I don't know what it is, but I assume it's like a big thing that people look forward to. It's when you go get beers. Okay. Cause it's 10 minutes. Fair enough.
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Maybe, maybe I'm wrong, but, but I, it's not like a concert where I think people are like singing along a ton. So like when it's a sing along concert, I feel like it's hard to talk to other people. You can do it, but it's going to be hard. Whereas I feel like at a, at a dead and company concert, you're kind of immersing along in this experience with everybody else. And this is camaraderie.
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And again, haven't been there, but what I, what my perception of it is that there's this camaraderie of being at the show together and experiencing what their music is. And if somebody's throwing the vibes off, I think that's, I think that's probably what happened here. It's like, everyone's like, dude, I'm sitting here trying to enjoy all Thea.
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And this guy's talking about his ex or his girlfriend in front of me. You like that? I know one song. Yeah.
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It is kind of like the Chipotle sauce thing, though. You said, like, if one person talking at the concert, like, everyone can't just do that or else the concert's going to be a disaster. So, like, these guys have decided to break the rules and, you know, kind of be douches and... I don't know. Um...
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This episode of the Ryan Russillo podcast is brought to you by AT&T. I want to talk about guarantees and the lack of when it comes to windows in the sports world. I love what the Cavs did this year. They know their windows right now, and there's no guarantee that extends beyond this year. We think it could, but many teams have done so in the past.
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With the cap going up and then that being reflected in how much of the cap is going to the quarterback. But you're right. The two tag years with Washington, and then it's $150 million, basically. I mean, it could be off a dollar a year with Minnesota over those years.
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And I think every dollar was guaranteed because of the three-year structure and then the two-year extension, and then they had to stay on it. And then it's going to be nuts. So he'll have made $90 million in one year with Atlanta when he made $150 million with Minnesota. Yeah.
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Seriously, I still think more of these guys could have more of the contracts guaranteed. And I know they always argue, oh, well, it's actually not guaranteed in the NBA. And I'm like, OK, got it. Let's talk. Is there anything here on Pittsburgh? Do we need to do anything?
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Okay, let's talk draft. I like what you did. You had our guys McShea and then Daniel Jeremiah just kind of going back and forth and talking about this draft, talking about its strengths, the depth, the D-line, the depth of D-tackle, the tight end class that I absolutely love. But if we start at the top, and I know you're there this week and you'll probably –
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feel better about the information two weeks from now, but is there a momentum thing? Is there something that's happening at the top where it feels like teams that you talk to, the consensus is going towards a certain direction, a player, or some kind of trade?
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Yeah, I look at all his creativity and his bailing on the pocket and the fact that they couldn't run the football for two years as positives because I felt like he... I understand what you're saying. Like, oh, you're not just going to be able to shuffle and avoid all this stuff and then reset yourself outside of the pocket the way he did.
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But that showed me just incredible instincts where he knew that they had serious limitations. I mean, the offensive line was obviously better in the second year than it was the first year. First year was a total disaster. They still couldn't run the football.
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So if I'm in the war room and I'm arguing the pros and cons, I'm like, this guy, he had a lot of really good receivers and everything, and fine. he just kind of, I mean, I hate to just use the cliche term of baller, but like, he just, he's a baller.
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Right. And it, it's very clear that cam has surpassed him. I also think there's people that kind of long-term consistently had been like, Hey, you know what? Teams do not think like Sanders is even a first rounder. Again, there's no, there's like almost no such thing as the second round quarterback. No, no.
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Yeah. So I, I don't know that it's, it's me arguing for Sanders. It's just, I think that's a positive. If there's one thing, if somebody say, Hey, what do you think it should, which you're asking me now is that over the course of those two years, that team was screwed on so many dropbacks and he found a way to turn a lot of negatives into positives.
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And I think that means something, but it was also one of the things that I liked the most about Caleb Williams in the second, you know, like, cause it's his first SC year. You're like, this guy's a baller. and then it's like it's dipping off a little bit. But maybe I'm making the same – if you don't think Caleb is going to be good, maybe you think both of those approaches are mistakes.
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But I'd rather see you fight through adversity as a top draft prospect as opposed to some of these dudes that drop back. They've got five all-SEC offensive linemen. There's first-rounders running around all over the place. Next thing you know, Mac Jones is going 15th.
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All right. Well, you know, I knew I had one of the numbers. Let's start, though, before we get to any of the draft stuff, because I just love talking about it. The Stafford situation. There's a timeline here that you lay out that makes it a lot more interesting that kind of goes back to like the first draft. contractual bandaid that even puts us in this situation.
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So if I gave you the over-under... But second-rounders don't exist, so... I mean, look, a quarterback will go, but I think with a team sitting there and they like a guy enough, and even if they have him 50th in their player rankings and a second-round graded quarterback, and then it's a need, we know what happens in this draft. It's so much more of a need-based draft than the NBA ever has been.
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I mean, I think once you get past...
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Is that the messaging that you're getting, not just from McShay and DJ and your thing, is that teams around the league are going, this is a starter's draft, not a starter draft.
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That's really interesting because I actually hate that stuff. I hate when it's like, hey, look at who the final four teams were in the NFL playoffs, so let's draft a running back because these teams just did it. Maybe running backs are having a moment. Maybe this is the time in history where people go back towards it.
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Cause part of me thought like, is this just mean the Rams want to move on timeline wise? He's 37 and you get a first form that you don't have to pay him. Like, okay. You know, maybe that's a nice little reset for a franchise that has done a really good job here in the Stafford years. Not only the super bowl, I think this past year was an incredible playoff run. Um,
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Maybe it's a countering to some of the defensive stuff that we saw at the beginning of the year, right?
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What about Omari, too, right?
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I misunderstood. Maybe. I'm all for it. Maybe. Maybe. Burt. The running back Zoom call a couple years ago. Worked. Maybe it worked. People were quick to judge. Yeah. Maybe the payoff has happened. That didn't happen as quick as everybody needed to, but maybe we're there.
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I'm telling you, man, I want the oral history on that thing. Jalen Walker, I'd expect him to be somebody that teams fall in love with more and more. I guess I'm surprised that it's Abdul. I mean, who didn't watch Abdul this year going, that guy's a freak, even when he was hurt. um, in the last game he played.
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And I just, I think maybe it's George's front where you lose track of which guy you're falling in love with. Um, you know, the three guys this year, um, But I felt like he jumped out the most to me. Maybe teams see it differently.
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There should be demand for him, but I think you do a better job and I want you to do it here of kind of explaining the reason we're here appears to be just a disconnect because I don't think Stafford actually wants to leave L.A.
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Enjoy the combine, man. And you can also enjoy yourself some more, Albert Breer, if you check out the MMQB podcast. They go through the quarterback carousel as well. And I'm sure you guys will be all over the latest from Indianapolis. Thanks, man. All right. Thanks, Ryan. The New Look Warriors. So let's do some Warriors. Let's do some big NBA stuff, too, so it won't all be on Golden State.
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But he originally covered the Warriors and now covers the NBA as a national writer for The Athletic. It's Anthony Slater. All right. This Butler stuff's been good, man. Whether it's a vibes... Check with this team, the on-off stuff that I want you to get to with Butler. There's six on offense, there's six on defense.
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We get to some of the scheduling part of it, but there seems to be, whatever it is with this Butler acquisition, there's just some juice to this team that seemed to not be there for months after the great start.
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Okay, so was Dunleavy on an island here? I mean, granted, Lakeup has to sign off on this because that's the way ownership works for any sports franchise. And they have to sign off on doing an extension for somebody that I'd be scared to death of giving the extension. But I mean, I guess you're arguing, hey, you're really only giving him one extra year based on the existing player option.
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But I was reading your stuff and obviously asking around because... Butler shoots down the idea that he would even go there. The pursuit is basically directed towards getting the pieces together for Durant trade until the Durant thing falls through that. I want to spend a couple seconds on here, but is it, is it Dunleavy by himself convincing everyone around him?
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Okay. Let's talk basketball. The on-off stuff for Curry, I think is the really important number here. What has it meant for this team and the turnaround with these Butler non-Curry minutes? And then ultimately like, it's just, I don't want to get carried away after a couple of weeks, but it, I like this team. I watch them a lot.
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They get off to that great start, and it's like, man, they've got two lines of basketball players, and they're playing such hard defense. You're like, really? Is everybody going to just keep making this many shots? And then it just falls off a cliff. They've got some injury stuff as well. And then I felt like Curry was taking...
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I've already said this too many times, but I haven't talked to you yet. I'm like, you guys are going to bitch about Curry's shooting numbers. Like, look at what he is doing, how he cycles through these possessions. And then it's like, hey, please take the shot again and again and again.
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Like, I just didn't feel like... I think there's numbers that are inefficient for certain players that don't perfectly reflect their approach to the game. And, you know, Steph would be one of those guys. And now...
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Yeah, right. And sometimes if you're just buying yourself the window, then you don't really care about the cost because to your point, what were you blowing up? I mean, there was no window. So now you can start thinking like, all right, and this is what I want to ask you now. Although I was reading your piece and I was reading all the Butler quotes this morning and I was just laughing.
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I was just sitting in my kitchen reading every quote because every quote was perfect. And I'm not talking about like one or two. It was like five or six Butler quotes in a row. And you're like, he is absolutely nailing this, which I think sometimes is a little scary because you're like, you're so good at saying the right thing. But none of that matters. You know, 27 doesn't matter.
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26 doesn't matter. The playoffs and 25 matter. How good are they?
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So if we ran through it, though, you know, the nine right now. But I mean, it's so bottled up between six and kind of 11. Really, that's only four games of separation between the Clippers and the Suns. Would you pick the Warriors against Oklahoma City?
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Would you pick them against Denver?
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Yeah, I really I like their depth. I think there's guys on the team that don't get enough credit. And I think, you know, bringing along some of the guys that haven't played, they'll have minutes now with LaRavia being out.
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But that's asking a lot of like Gigi or Vince Williams to be like, they have huge moments for us in a playoff series against a team with dudes with attitudes like Draymond and Butler and then, you know, whatever you think of Steph. Yeah, I mean, Gigi's played 15 games. Vince has played only eight games coming back, but they've both been out there.
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I already kind of know, like, we're probably both saying, yeah, I think I'd pick him against Houston. I'd probably pick him against Memphis. I bet you're not going to pick him against the Lakers.
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And Bojemski has been better again. It feels like Do they get more frustrated with him than anybody right now? Has he replaced Kaminga on the frustration scale?
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And that's why watching it in person, it was like, man, they are like when Steve gets upset with him,
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Before I go into the OKC stuff, coming off of last night's collapse, which, again, is just they beat Minnesota two nights ago. They played them three times in 11 games. So I'm not going to look at last night's blown lead and collapse is like, hey, is there a bigger picture thing here with OKC? I just want to finish up on the Durant stuff. Like, I think I know you have more info than I do.
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But just I remember that day it was like, yeah, there was a deal in place. Doesn't want to come here.
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Let's talk Thunder. As I mentioned, up 25 last night. They lose in overtime to Minnesota. Rudy's not playing last night. Randall's been out. Devin Jensel's been out for a really long stretch. But the weirdest part about it is Ant had a calf thing, and then he came out late in the game, and they didn't even bring him back in until a minute or so into overtime. They were up 16 under four, so...
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Oklahoma City's the second team since 2003 to lose a game up 16 or more with 345 or less to go. It was a really like one. It was incredible what was happening with the bench guys, Dillingham, Shannon, Clark. And then they put them with non Jada McDaniels when ant was out. So they played small. I think Finch was just really good.
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game, like wide open threes. So like the shots you would want off of that trapping were there and they didn't make any of them. And you also can see a basketball team in the thunder being like, we just beat these guys. They don't think they're going to lose this game. I think they turned it off somewhat.
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And it's just a credit to like what Shannon did last night, 17 and 10, you know, Clark's a defensive matchup guy where I think Finch got pissed at him on a foul, but then brought him back in, didn't shut him down for the game. Cause he's I think with this injury situation they have, they can't start limiting minutes of guys that are in the rotation right now. Here's my point.
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My point is like twofold. Let's start with the Thunder. Windhorse had a really interesting quote just the other day, basically, and I'm paraphrasing, that... the people around the NBA don't really respect the Thunder or they're not afraid of them, which when you think about who they are defensively, like this is all-time stuff. The depth is there. They're getting Chet back.
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You want to talk third score that you rely on in a playoff game, I would allow it. I've talked about it before here. Do you think that's players being disrespectful? Because I have a hard time believing coaches watching the film of this not respecting what they see.
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And it's such a glaring, like by, by the time, like the second or, you know, you, I always love like the second or third game of a series where you go, okay, you have decided this guy does not matter. You know, now, and everybody's like in tune, like you can go in and night to night and go, Hey, this is somebody we're going to help off of, you know, this is something we're going to do.
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But like over the course of a regular season, like a lot of that stuff can get lost. That's why I still think that LA is preparation and execution of what they want to do defensively against Denver on Saturday night was so impressive because it was like a very like this is what we're doing for this matchup.
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But yeah, like to the giddy stuff, some of these games, it becomes alarming who the guys are that are being ignored offensively. And that's not, those minutes are just not going to happen now.
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Would you pick him to win the West right now?
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Yeah, I think that defense is serious. It's just there's certain nights that I watch those guys defensively, and there's no issue. There's nothing with that roster with the player personalities where I go, oh, what if this guy, like,
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you know, has, and I would just think that Jalen Williams is second times through a playoff that he's just going to be a better player because it happens all the time. It happened with SGA, which I point out all the time in that Houston OKC series when, um, when Chris Paul was still on the, well, when he came back to the thunder and they took it to seven, like SGA didn't look super comfortable.
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And now the guy might win MVP. Speaking of, um, you have an MVP vote. I have an MVP. Well, we believe we'll have one for this year. So we don't want to, we don't want to jinx it. Uh, where are you on this? Cause it is a two man race.
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right there with you so i don't want to mislead the audience here because i haven't looked it up and i don't have my cleaning the glass account open on this desktop as i do on my laptop in another room so i can't log into it really quickly here uh i'm surprised um a little bit i mean look we all have our different criteria with it but i think the the game standings
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I don't know that I would put as much into that. Like it'd be one thing if Denver was a playing team, maybe, you know, but if you're the two seed, I mean, granted, I can probably make the, Hey, Jamal. And then Gordon misses that time. And we already went into the team knowing that the roster wasn't all that good.
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Although some of the on off stuff with Jokic was so weighted one, because he's the best player, but also because of how bad the depth is. Like it looks even more egregious when, with the on off stuff for him.
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So it's a really good statistical argument in his favor, but one that you can kind of look to and go, well, it's, it's even worse because of who they were putting out there in those non-yokage minutes all the time. That start of fourth where you're like, is the lead eight? When can you bring them back in? And all the times where it felt like they would lose that in the past. Um,
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Yeah, I guess I hadn't really thought of it as like a games behind thing because I just feel like Oklahoma City is the better basketball team.
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Whenever a team says, go ahead and like, look for your value, you know, go somewhere else and look for it.
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No, it's a good point. Like if you're six out, but you're the sixth seed, isn't that actually better? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know that I would put as much into that. I'm still on the Jokic side of the argument as of right now.
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Last thing, is there anything, because this Minnesota thing, man, it's funny because the defensive numbers, what, like a week or two into the season, it's like, man, can you believe they're this bad defensively? If you go through it month by month, go last 15, their defense is not an issue. They're fine. I do think people attack Rudy now in a way that I don't know that I've ever seen before.
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I don't think it's the same amount of fear. That's there, but they still have all these perimeter dudes you can throw at us. So the defensive thing is not an issue. It's really been about the offense. You can even point to some of the offensive stuff last year. So now they are not healthy. And I don't know, do we feel better about them now than we felt?
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It's just such an odd team to evaluate because I never want to rule them out because of Ant. But then you think, OK, but if everybody's back, is that the best version of them? Because I'd say it's coming off of last year's momentum. It's been underwhelming.
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I mean, DiVincenzo fits into any situation, so that's fine. Anybody can use more and more shooting, and I'm not even so down on Rudy that I wouldn't want him in matchups, but it's pretty clear that it's going to be matchup-specific for them in the playoffs.
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Yeah. I mean, that's, that's definitely, I think it'd be a little bit easier. I don't know what would upset me more of like, who did you spend time with? Or wow, nobody actually does want to pay me what I think I'm worth. I think the second one would actually bother me more. So, um, There are teams, though, that are willing to meet his price. Is that right?
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Like, you could see Rudy getting limited in a way that you wouldn't see, certainly during last year's run or some of the prime Rudy defensive years.
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You want details? Bye.
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Life advice. The email address, lifeadvicerr at gmail.com. Got a little room here. Room to explore the space. So, a couple follow-ups. Saruti had something he wanted to bring to the group's attention.
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You know what I mean?
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Unprompted.
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Hey, quick question for the marathon. Is that a PED?
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Kind of. I don't know if you'd want to do that down at Disney. Just something to think about. Yeah. It's time to do it clean. Yeah. I too just had blood work done. And I had the awesome experience where I was in New Orleans and I got a phone call that I missed because I miss all my phone calls. And they were like, you need to call us back immediately. Yeah. And I went, great.
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And then of course you call him back. It was like, Hey, what's the deal? She's like, well, we can't tell you right now. Great. Sick. Awesome. So this is going to be a fun week. And, uh, that's why I went to the world war two museum. Cause I was like, I might die soon.
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So I spent, I think two and a half days down there without knowing. And then the doctor called and was like, no, everything's fine. He's like, what did they say? I was like, they made me like, I was like, just tell me, just tell me. She's like, I can't tell you. And he was like, I don't know why.
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He's like, I don't know why. It's the second time this has happened to me.
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it was like just tell me now and she was like i can't tell you and then he gets on he's like no everything's fine it's like i don't know why they left a voicemail like that i was like great the other one's a much longer story i don't know if i'll ever share but it was awful i got a call from the doctor at 3 55 on a friday before i had finished the show at espn So I missed the call.
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I head to the gym little Friday, West Hartford routine. And I call back and it was like, you need to call us immediately. They were closed and they were closed until Monday morning. So just you alone with your thoughts for the weekend. Right. Right. And everything worked out.
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Yeah. Just, I'm just, you know, for the doctors that listen to the show, Get a script or something for your people. Or don't call. The New Orleans one wasn't even close to as bad as the one years ago in Connecticut. Because I knew. I was like, great. I called immediately. I was in the car. I was leaving ESPN. And... You know, it's like the office is closed until Monday 9 a.m.
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I'm like, just sweet. Like, great. I called like three more times just hoping. So I just think there needs to be something at these med schools where you go, hey, when you call somebody about the results, if there's nothing wrong, leave that in the message. Right.
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Well, you're good. I think that's just good. I think it's for the neighbor.
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No way. No way you could do four shots.
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We know this. We know this. Even though there's some PED questions, we'll never be able to confirm that he's a steroid user. Unless it's oral.
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I passed out.
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He didn't knowingly take it, you know? Can we just... I've been thinking about this, by the way. Like, how unfair the PED outrage was towards baseball. Like, the second somebody hit too many home runs... And granted, they were doing it. But that league takes a beating...
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And then if anybody in any other sport is like outperforming and nobody even knows, like, how are you going to judge a guard who's outperforming in the NFL? Like that guy's had way more pancakes this year. What's wrong? You know, nobody, nobody even thinks about it in any of the other sports. And now I think we're so just desensitized to all of it.
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And I think, you know, moving forward, there'll be just kind of big stigmas that are gone because you'll say like, this might actually be good for you. Um, you know, as you age out or whatever, but I just, I just think there's things that happen in other sports that no one ever says anything about. And yet we just dumped thousands and thousands of hours talking about it.
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Baseball for like a two decade stretch, you know, and then, then we all just kind of stopped anyway.
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It's like nobody moved our job is done here.
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A lot of strikeouts, very few balls in play. Home runs are down. Thank you.
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But what have you done? All right. No, that's good. All right. Let's read a couple of emails here. We're obviously milking this a little bit just because we know we have the time. Although, Kyle, do you have an out today? Oh, no, I'm good. I'm good after you're you're done. So I'm good. The out is the out. Yeah.
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Is that that game? Yeah. Yes, we were there. Breaking up every time we talk about this. Uh, look, so we got another Josh Allen checking in 29 years old, five, eight, one 45 basketball comp TJ McConnell with only about 20% of his hustle, maybe 10% of his athleticism in Arizona. As an Arizona grad, I have to shout out my NBA Wildcats bear down. Uh, look, love TJ McConnell.
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I'm currently listening to the Friday pod, the life advice segment. Had to do a double take when I heard you start to read the Josh Allen email about being named Josh Allen. I've been thinking about emailing you guys the exact same email. For a split second, I thought I actually wrote that and somehow forgot I sent it in.
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I figured another Josh Allen brethren shared my hour experience, but it was quite hilarious to hear it.
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from another rosillo pod listener i'll share my experience and i'll try to keep it brief i echo all caps everything emailer josh allen stated my experience has been quite exactly the same which i guess isn't too much of a surprise i constantly get nice game you played sunday or you won me my fantasy week man during the season i received five texts from random at family and friends during the afc championship game all saying some version of rooting for you against mahomes
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Um, that's kind of funny.
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Blessings. strangers i'm introduced with always go with oh like the quarterback or shouldn't you be in buffalo when i was in maui i like that one you like that one i was gonna use it i wish i could just meet a josh allen one day and use that line when i was in maui with my wife on our honeymoon the hostess of the restaurant hit me with an ah i thought the reservation was for the josh allen yeah
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Honestly, it doesn't bother me that much, but it does blow my mind that everyone seems to think they're the first person who has made the joke to me as if I haven't heard it a hundred times before. Okay. See, this is where I would agree with you. And this kind of gets to whenever I see just the same video.
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on x that was posted like four days before and then somebody else and like some of these accounts just feel like unless they've shared the thing that everybody's already seen and they've really offered nothing to society and they have all sorts of followers so i guess it's monetized somehow um so i don't resent the monetization i
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I resent, you know, I don't even resent the joke that necessarily is. I'm not offended by the joke. I'm offended by that. You think you're actually contributing something here. And I think if anything, it just shows that a lot of people like to just be a part of the conversation. You know, the, if you say something positive about a woman and I've done it, you know, a few times. Yeah. Right.
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No, but like if it was a coworker, right. A coworker who's female or a woman.
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and um the guy that goes i hope she sees this dude she's not gonna fuck you you know and you're like you saw that 700 other times and you thought it was funny because you're like oh you know what some people do is they tweet this when a man says this about a woman and i'll be like oh oh reading this gave me a stroke oh you know so it's like the same stuff like the first time i heard i saw reading this gave me a stroke i laughed i chuckled i was like that's pretty funny
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And then it's not that anybody's coming up with it. They're just like, man, I'm just part of this whole thing. And that's generally like what I've learned about a lot of people is that they just kind of want to be a part of something. So this is what you're a victim of, both you and Josh Allen, the other guy that emailed. You're just victim of people that probably aren't that creative.
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And want to feel like they're having their little moment. And they always ignore the fact that this moment is happening so many different times. So, you know, there you go. I've yet to come up with a good response besides something lame like, I'm the original Josh Allen, muttered in a slightly disparaging tone. I've also given the blank stare. Yeah. Yeah. You're right, Kyle.
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I don't think it does hit the condescending. Haha. Yeah. I'm glad to hear at least one of the Josh Allen shares this conundrum. I can only wonder how many more are out there. There could be a series. It'd be a Netflix thing. They just get in a room. They all look at each other. And one guy goes, I thought you were supposed to be in Buffalo. One last funny story.
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I have the username that is basically Josh Allen on a popular social media payments app. I frequently get friend requests from Bills fans for requests for hundreds to thousands of dollars from losing sports gamblers. I'll attach a few. I started you in the playoffs and you let me down. This guy requests $100. John requests $6,000. Save a fan's ass. Congrats on your contract.
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So happy to have you with us. Let's go, Buffalo. What a super fan that guy was. Hey, can I get six grand? Good season.
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I told you about the friend who the guy picked out a Chevy Silverado and just sent him the link on an Instagram DM asking if he could buy it for him. It was like totally serious. He just mapped it all out. It was like, I know life has been good to you and I know you'd like to.
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Would anyone actually ever do that? Like if you just DM Vince Vaughn, be like, I've got it all picked out. It's a Jeep Cherokee, you know, good gas mileage. It's down the street, South Bay Jeep. Well, loved you in old school. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe somebody famous would do it to then say they did it to show that everybody did it.
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Look at how good I am.
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Just a new way. Just explore new stuff. Did you like Home Improvement as a kid, Kyle?
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yeah yeah i remember outrun my little brother was like the car just stays in the middle the whole time and the screen moves or something yeah and i he destroyed the game for me i was like he's right damn it you know the way the way little kids can just see stuff in a way that's not it's not contaminated and then he's like no the car's just staying there i'm thinking oh no way he's right
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uh so uh yeah amelia that was my home improvement video game that must have been the worst present ever that would be the uncle like a great uncle who likes that yeah it's like hell yeah i don't even know i don't even know if you like tim allen but he'd be like well you know they still had those in stock and you're sitting there and you're like what what's the concept of the game it looks like i am i'm i don't know what that like the overall like you know what the goal is but
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Did I say it wrong?
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I got it. Let's see here. You want to do some normal ones? Let's do it. Yeah. 20 minutes in. Why not? Take a flyer. Normal one. Please advise rude or boss bitch. All right. Uh, hello. I'm representing the portion of your audience known as the wives who listen to the car with their husbands. No gym stats. Just had a baby though. So congrats to me on the sex. Nice. All right.
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In conversation with my husband tonight, he just informed me that ending an email with please advise. It's considered rude, passive-aggressive, or too direct. Is this true? I went back through my sent emails and would say I use the phrase daily. I often pair it with direct questions and get the answers I need, but now I'm second-guessing that I need to ease up a bit.
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For context, I'm an interior designer who frequently works with construction trades and male-dominated fields, so do I really care if they think I'm rude? Not really, but I was shocked. When my husband told me this revelation, let me know what the crew think. As an aside, I actually love listening to your travel pods.
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I find your ongoing search for the perfect American steak in European countries hysterical. I think it's more about the salad dressing, France, personally. I haven't caught the Henry VIII pod yet. Well, we haven't done that. We did Henry VIII.
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um but she likes to listen to history pods please advise she says here's the question i would ask the questions you're asking in the email i know personally i don't think it's like that rude but do you feel like if you don't say please advise they're just going to ignore your questions right possibly
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Yeah, I've never liked please advise more. I mean, you read all of those. I get her point, though. It's she wants it to be. a little direct, right. Um, you know, if there's some of these other ones, there's like, let me know what you're thinking. Well, you know, let me know what you're thinking. I'm asking you for like, for specifics here, one of the materials is going to be ready.
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Like, when could you have this install done? Like, are you going to be good to go on to this stuff? So she doesn't want to be like open-ended. She doesn't want to be too passive with it, but I still think there's probably something a little bit better than police advise. If anything, when I read this email, I started realizing like, I don't know that anybody ever sends me rude emails. Um,
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So, Rudy, did you have a rude email experience at ESPN?
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I know there's been some concern, some news that we were going to become a Ty Jerome only podcast. Spotify has not agreed to that. So we will just be the Ryan Russillo podcast and we'll do it the normal way until I can make that change. We'd like to make it more about Ty Jerome. But today we are going to talk NFL Combine and Matthew Stafford with Albert Breer. So a lot of good stuff.
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A couple of years have passed. Why do you even check them anymore?
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People use life advice to subscribe to stuff all the time. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure.
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I guess you probably could try to answer a couple of these. All right. Huge potential move with a baby on the way. Did we read this one already? I don't think so. Comp is Wizards. Paul Pierce to 276 to 285 bench for 55 squat 405 deadlift game, though. Yeah. I love that. Love that game. All right. I try to keep it short.
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My wife and I live in a small college town outside of metropolitan area that boasts a Kermit voice prodigy that could become the goat. Hmm. What? I've lived here my entire life. It's talking about my homes. I've lived here my entire life. My parents live here, graduated from the university here, and my wife and I now work at the university.
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We do what I would call really meaningful work and have done so together for the last three years. We've also been married the same amount of time. My wife moved here to be with me a semester before I graduated from college. She's originally from the upper Midwest. A few weeks ago, I returned from a business trip. To my surprise, an announcement from my wife. She's pregnant.
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Incredible. Yeah. Incredible. He's a really great writer. You know, he just a very theatrical way of describing stuff. And, you know, it's not shocking the book did so well and that he was so great as a television host. No longer with us. On the surface, this move is a no brainer. We'd leave my family, but be very close to my wife's family.
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The position itself comes with a ton of upward mobility on top of it all. I love the city. We went for an interview a couple of weeks ago and ever since have gotten great feedback, whether from the people who interviewed us or from mutual connections. The job hasn't been offered to us, but there's still a couple more potential candidates. But all signs point to this being a real opportunity.
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Despite all the positives, there's still some obvious things for us to consider. We recognize this will be a huge move. Not only will we be learning to adjust to the work life transition that a newborn represents, But it'd also be in a new environment that neither of us have ever been in before. We'd also be leaving behind a situation that for all intents and purposes, we love.
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We love the work we've done. We love the people here. We've been really successful. Moving would mean that we were practically hitting the reset button on everything we built up to this point. Whatever happens, we'll be perfectly content. But at this stage of my life, I feel like if there's any time to make a move, it is now before we have kids, before we lay down solid roots, etc.
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I'm an ambitious guy and I love the idea of doing impactful, meaningful work. But what is more important to me is that it's the best decision for my family, both in the short and long term. With me being a consistent longtime listener and by proxy, my wife, I figured I'd write the fellows and see what they think. Appreciate you guys taking the time to read this.
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Look, I mean, my approach to this is always pretty standard. You love where you're at. You've got this awesome, you know, dynamic approach. You can always go back to it. It'll likely always be there for you. And even though you're about to start a family, the newborn part of it, you're not as worried about schools. Yes, you're not going to have the same amount of help.
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But if you'll allow me without sharing it on the email, I think I have an idea of what field you work in. I would imagine this field provides you a great sense of community. I'd imagine that your acceptance into What what field you're in, like provides just a lot of support.
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So you might have more support despite, you know, feeling like you're you're a stranger in a new area than just, you know, some of these other dudes emailing us and being like, hey, I'm in suburban Atlanta and I'm by myself playing video games. I'm 28 and no girls like me. So. Look, I am big on this. I'm just so big because you like the area.
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I mean, the other times it's, hey, the career part is this, but I don't want to leave home or I'd rather live here. It seems like you are up for the adventure. It seems like it also potentially raises what your ceiling is, which I think is always baked into this.
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um, internal debate that you'll have with yourself when you're facing these kinds of opportunities and look like, I mean, not to go too Zen on you, but you know, life is about these experiences. Life is about, um, having these experiences, like put,
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put the rest of it kind of in a better perspective, you know, and I, I always would tell my younger siblings whenever, you know, they love Martha's vineyard, they're kind of in tune with the whole deal with the place. But I was always very big on like, you need to leave so that you'll come back and appreciate this more.
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Oh, you'll know that you're not missing anything or you'll leave and go, I'm really glad I don't live there, you know? So, uh, I'm big on telling you to go for it because of the simple part of what the first, the first line of the answer is, is that you know, the whole cliche of you can always go home. I think in this case, you can certainly always go home.
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So, and it flies by like just inside. I've been in LA now seven years. That's seven years. So basically like my forties will, except for the first couple, like we'll buy primarily living in Los Angeles. And some days it feels like I just moved here. Um, and, but the point is, it's like, you're going to, if you move, you know, it's going to feel huge.
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It's going to feel, you know, those first few months when you're driving around being like, oh, I really live here. Like I actually got a new pizza spot. This is crazy. And then it just becomes normal. And then the years are just going to start flying by. And, you know, for me, I could never imagine, um, living anywhere else. Maybe I'll move again. I don't know, but, uh, I'm,
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I'm happy I did it, but I'm not trying to compare the same thing. I guess I'm just talking strictly in a timeline thing. I can't believe how fast this time has gone by since I moved from Connecticut. My guess is if you're moving to a place that you like, it's going to go by so fast that next thing you know, your kid's going to be five.
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You might have another kid, you know, and you're going to go, all right, maybe now we have to start making some of those other decisions, but I don't really see the downside to this experience.
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Oh, it's the beak dude. Just made it up. Yeah.
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Cerruti.
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Not if he had to fill out an email saying what he did this week. Yikes.
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Yeah, the pick price for him at 37 years old, as much as I love him, some of the stuff of who's out there, who's looking to make a quarter. I don't think anybody's trading you a first half of the first round pick for Stafford. Right?
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So Rudy the lobbyist? Like, I don't know, dude.
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All right. Last one here. Sydney Sweeney is hurting my marriage. Hey, is that true that engagement got delayed?
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You said you said what that she's what did you say? It's just that the engagement had been delayed. You know, the thing that sucks for celebrities is that it could have been like a venue issue. Maybe there was a flood at the venue and they're like, oh, the engagement. And basically everybody's going like this dude's expiration date. Right now. Oh, because he's because he's older.
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You know, that sucks. Us older guys, we resent that kind of stuff.
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That's what I'm doing. I'm not even talking about him specifically. I'm just saying, like, you know, you pissed at him because he has game?
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There was a kid we went to high school with that. We're like, here's dating the girl. I don't know if it was gossip girl or something, but he was dating like a legitimate star. And somebody was like, how did they meet? He's like, he was working at a shoe store.
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Sounds like an awesome dude. Yeah. A wonder. What's your licensing for that? Imagine you're just trying to follow in his footsteps. You move down to some place, become an alligator tour guide. And he's like, well, all right. When do the starlets show up? All right, so our guy's 5'7 and 3 quarters. Love it. 165, 185 times 8 reps on the bench.
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I was indulging in some recreational marijuana watching the first season of White Lotus with my amazing wife. The beautiful Sydney Sweeney was turning heads poolside in a bikini. The tropical locale and stunning temptress overwhelmed my lizard brain and I blurted it out. I would take a bullet for you, Sydney. This led to a big fight with my wife.
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And needless to say, we're not finishing, not finishing White Lotus season one. Obviously, I'm a moron. But what do I do to remedy the situation? Well, one... Is that true? Is this a true story?
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A little too far. A little salt burn for you. Yeah, I mean, that's really specific, man. I mean, you really, you didn't just say, oh, wow, you know, she's something else. You went overboard with it. I don't know why you said it that way either. So I can understand that she's going to be upset, but she's your wife, so there's probably something you liked about her.
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the history of the nfl trade you know like they're they're incredible players it's like oh here's a third and granted i know it's a little bit different with the quarterback but at 37 knowing that as soon as you bring them in the building it's north of 50 million yeah like that's what you're saying to the rams you're going okay we maybe we do a second or something like this yeah but i interrupted you there a little bit so i don't know if you had more no no no i i just think it's like
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So she probably, you know, you're going to laugh about this at some point. I just don't know why. So Rudy, or no, Kyle, you're still two years out, not laughing. You do see like the dynamic that some people are going to listen to this and go, She can compliment other women. You can't compliment other women.
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Like, is she sitting there watching Chris Pine and being like, you smashed me in the head with a baseball bat?
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I could. Yeah, I usually save it for life advice. Every time Idris comes up, you should be like, that fucking guy. I usually save it for life advice, yeah. Save some for the rest of us, buddy.
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Some people are saying it's going to be Carissa Thompson. People are saying that? That's what I heard. Wow. All right. Thanks to Kyle. Thanks to Wargon. Thanks to Cerruti. The Ryan Russillo Podcast on video form as well. Please subscribe. Ring or Spotify.
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Yeah, I don't know. All right. So if there's a vacancy with the L.A. Rams, the quarterback position. Aaron Rodgers?
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Some awesome nuggets from
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him as he's in Indianapolis and how about the Golden State Warriors the new look Warriors Jimmy Butler everybody is happy with the new Jimmy Butler and he's happy there too Anthony Slater who's covered the Warriors but also covers the NBA nationally from the athletic is going to jump on we'll talk some thunder we'll talk some Minnesota playoff matchups maybe a little MVP with SGA and Jokic and we got it extended just dudes hanging out prologue
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Okay. What's up with Kirk Cousins?
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Is anyone going to do like a Kirk Cousins deep dive on the contracts? Because I mean, I know everybody makes the Chase Daniel jokes, but Kirk is going to be, because I'm glad you pointed that out. Because when it was first reported and you looked at the four year 180 with Kirk in Atlanta, you're like, okay, well, where's the guaranteed money? What is in the first couple of years?
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And it's like, okay, this feels more like a two year, a hundred million dollar deal, which is in line with kind of the salary structure that we've talked about already and what Stafford was looking for. But the fact that the Pennix picked Looks like it's going to work. Cousins looks so diminished physically at the end of it.
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Do you want to keep him around to say, hey, we got him for two for 100 million when he's not going to be sweet about it, which is totally fine. Like, I understand.
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And then that extra. So it's basically going to be 90 million for the one year. So it'll be 90 million for that one year on top of like when Minnesota kept having to guarantee the future years. Remember, he was like the first guy because he was like the first real free agent because Washington decides we just don't want to pay you.
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And so he gets like a guarantee structure that is so different from the other quarterbacks because the other quarterbacks weren't necessarily like reaching true free agency. And then to deal with the cap stuff like this is like the third or fourth time with him. where he's cleaning up.
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Ohio State's your national chance for the 24th season as we finish up in 25. What does it mean for Ryan Day? What's up with that field goal? And everything else with David Pollock. We're going to play Could You Beat Up This Former Teammate as well. We've got a really good life advice for you today. Ohio State fans, you are national champions. It's got to be fun.
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scripted because, you know, I don't know how you're scripting in the fourth down keepers as well. So I'm sure there's probably more structure to what that first drive is because then for a really long time, Notre Dame looked completely lost.
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If you want to get creative with the math, if you take out the first drive and take the game from that point on, Ohio State's first possession, the possession preceding the 7-0 score for the Irish, Ohio State outgained Notre Dame 321 to 38 yards over the combined next nine possessions.
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And the thing that I would point out in the beginning that I'll share with you is you talk about an offense stretching the field and making you defend every inch of it. They're not throwing anything outside the numbers. Nothing was downfield. They had a crosser, I think, to one of the tight ends that Leonard completely airmailed.
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So I don't know what that was because obviously there was more structure in that first drive. But did you see defensive adjustments or once it was left to going play by play that for Leonard it was going to be a lot harder?
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When you're talking about the talent on how many guys for Notre Dame would start with Ohio State, it's a good exercise, right? It's a good exercise. And Jeremiah Love, a running back, I think you can make an argument. I'd rather have him healthy over either of the Ohio State running backs.
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he had four carries last night for three yards that's not why like notre dame wasn't going to solve last night by getting jeremiah love the football a lot more and we know he's been dealing with injury but it was 11 days off so you probably thought there was going to be something else there is that strictly a hey it's a bad matchup for us we're not even even if we he's such a talented player maybe you got to figure out a way to get the ball out to him um
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in the flat, but it's two catches for five yards there as well. I think if you're an Irish fan, you'd like to see a little bit more, but you're probably lying to yourself a little bit if you think that that would have turned the tide of last night's game because it wouldn't have.
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Ohio State was getting pressure with four, which is like if there's one thing you wish you could do as a football team, can we get pressure with four? Because if you can get pressure with four, you can do a lot of things. You're probably going to be a good football team as the Giants against the undefeated Pats.
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It's been a disaster all year long. All year long. Right. I'm with you. I think he's so bad at times that I would just be like, hey, do we make sure we throw it to him every series? Every resetting of the downs, let's get one throw in his direction. Go ahead. I jumped in.
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Well, look, I'm not an idiot. I understand down 16, you need the two scores, so it's fourth and nine. I thought the throw on second down, Leonard completely missed it, and he had one-on-one to the right side of the end zone. On third down, he throws it to Great House, but it's at the five-yard line, and it's incomplete, and he was going to get mauled if he even made the catch.
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And so then you're saying, okay, here's the math. You need the two scores. Like, why would you kick it and then be down two scores? I think Freeman looks at his quarterback. He looks at Ohio State's defense in that part of the field where they are just impossible to deal with. Leonard doesn't have, I think, the arm to get it in there. And he just saw two bad throws previously.
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And Riley Leonard does not really stretch the field, or at least that was not the plan. He does not throw deep shots. He does not throw it outside the numbers. He's a terrific story. He's not that guy. And you could see that when the game was kind of in the balance. It's like, well, there's just either not enough time to get those routes going or they're just never really even looking there.
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And he's thinking like, okay, as dumb as this is, the two score versus two score argument, at least if I kick the field goal, And I'm down 13. I don't need the two touchdowns are hard enough, but I need two touchdowns.
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So, you know, nine 25 left all the timeouts. They did get two more possessions on it. Um, I think that was a matter of a coach looking at his possibilities, going, if I get the three here, at least I don't have to do the two two-point conversions on top of what's going to be really hard to even get the other two touchdowns.
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So as dumb as everybody thought Freeman was, whenever that kind of stuff happens, I immediately try to think, okay, what could he have been thinking about? And I'm pretty sure that's what he was thinking about.
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Yeah, I understand. But I think too often we look at the math and the probabilities and we don't look at the matchup in football. And whether it's fourth and nine against Ohio State defense, And as much as, you know, I like Evans tight end. I love great house. I mean, great house had a great run in the playoffs. I mean, he was the only thing
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The only thing that – I don't know if it's scaring opposing defense, but you just got to account for him because on the other side, you're not even thinking about it. You said something, though, that I definitely want to follow up on here is the Ryan Day, almost Ryan Days. Because to start the game, it's a reminder of the toys. It's a reminder of how insane the Michigan game is.
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You can talk rivalry all you want, but how – how do you not outscore that offense with all of these guys? And was that game a reset of like, this is what we're capable of. The Jeremiah Smith touchdown route was just so beautiful. Like just to make you think he's going in motion or coming back or staying in a block. And it's like, All I had to do was go the wrong way, and now I'm wide open again.
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What do you think was going on there? Is that a day called the chip? Is that them? Because then they were trying to run clock, but then they're snapping the ball with too much time left, which is another pet peeve of mine where it's like, are you running clock or are you not running clock? Because if you're running clock, run clock.
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And then it's like they almost the offense gets impatient when they break the huddle and they'll be like, oh, we'll just snap it now because we're bored. So there's a lot that I threw at you there. So give us give us the big in-depth thing of your thoughts on that kind of momentum loss there.
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I'd imagine the secondary probably got bored during the stretch of the game for Ohio State. Will Howard started 13 to 13. Felt like He could do whatever he wanted. It felt like Ohio State could call any play in the playbook. Chip Kelly could just be like, let's try this. Oh, that worked again. Because they have Jeremiah Smith. Because they have Ibuka. They have Tate. They have Judkins.
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When you're watching, I've always been a big Chip fan. I think it's a New England thing, too, on top of everything else. And when I think about his Oregon run, You go through the entire schedule, there's really not a game on there that he ever lost that he wasn't supposed to lose. Bad pronunciation on that. You know, maybe the Arizona game, right?
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But there's a really, like, when you think about, yeah, there's not really, like, a bad loss the entire time. NFL thing doesn't work out. Looks like it works out, then it doesn't work out, and then UCLA doesn't. I don't know this, but I imagine he probably, like a lot of head coaches, got sick of all of the stuff that goes into being a head coach, and it becomes less and less about football.
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I do wonder, because of how much everything influences so many other elements of college football, do you watch this run from Ohio State? You're like, okay, well, chip. still is... I don't know if a step ahead is the right way, because it felt like they were showing people stuff that they hadn't seen before. But where is he as far as a play call? And it's really easy.
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Hey, they just won a national championship. He's one of the best. But you understand this stuff better than most of us. What is it about what he did this year? You see the entire package of what he's trying to do over the course of the game.
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They have Trayvon Henderson, who's just a nice redemption story. Because I remember the first time watching him as a freshman, you were like, oh, they've got another one. And then it felt like he lost momentum. My God, G. Scott, we needed one more catch to go back-to-back with Ohio State parlays. We did not get that second. Which I kind of knew. Like, they got him early. I was like, here we go.
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I don't think it works with Chip unless it's Ryan Day because they go all the way back where Chip's his coach in New Hampshire. If you don't have any relationship with Chip and he's supposedly your play caller reporting to you, Um, I, I think that could be tough, but it also depends on where chip is at.
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It also depends where any play caller is like, let me just do an aside here before we finished on the national championship game. Ben Johnson gets brought in, right. And he's going to be the head coach of the bears. And it feels like this is the move, whether it works or it doesn't.
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It's a lock. But I like G. Scott. Will Howard was 9 of 12 on third downs last night for the game. So, it was kind of playing out the way I think most of us felt like it would play out. And by the way, Ohio State was not facing a ton of pressure from Notre Dame. They actually...
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I will understand if, if it doesn't work out years from now, I'm not going to go, Hey, it was the wrong call because if you've invested a number one pick and Caleb Williams is you have to give him the best chance.
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And all these coordinators and the McVeigh tree and all these guys that were hired, more of them were successful than weren't, but it made sense because you're trying to figure out a way to maximize the most important position in sports here. But you don't know. It would make sense to me that
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Some guys who are just great at play calling and designing one side of the football are terrible at all the other stuff. It makes sense that there are dudes that are just really good at this one thing and then suck at the other one. But almost every single head coach is a coordinator at some point. How do you... How do you know?
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Like, I don't know if it's your playing days of like, this guy would be great. This guy would be terrible. But what are the things you look for in coordinators that make you think they have a better chance of being successful as the head guy?
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Where are you on Ryan Day?
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put up a graphic at one point of what Notre Dame does as far as their pressure rate throughout the season this year and at the time they put it up in the game they were at a zero percent pressure rate which is really low it's hard to do worse than that and the funny thing is when they put it up they actually got pressure for the first time on Will Howard and then he completed a pass to convert on third and seven for another third now how are some fight from the Irish
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Number three.
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Yeah, right. You could do 80 games and he's number two.
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I'll admit in the beginning, I was a little thrown off the way he carried himself. Cause I was like, this guy kind of stalks and walks around. Like he's got a couple of national championships in his back pocket. You know, like there's like, and I would just ask myself, like, do I not like him? Like, I don't, I didn't know him. So do I not like him?
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And then I thought like, hell, you're the head coach of that program. which prior to the Big Ten expansion is different because I think the expectation in Columbus is probably harder to maintain than any other place in the country. I mean, other than the Saban-Bama years where it's just expected because that's what he would deliver.
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But because of the way Ohio State would have an advantage over every team other than the good Michigan years, the standard there is actually like perhaps more impossible. So then when I think about kind of the way that day would carry himself, I go, well, what's he supposed to do? You know, like talking to myself a little bit here, like thinking about a monologue going, what's he supposed to do?
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Be embarrassed. He's the head coach, like act like a doofus, be deferential to everybody all the time. And then once everybody started turning on him and it reminded me so much of the Harbaugh turn where, um, he was in the mix. It was working out. He was losing the rivalry game and then people lose their minds and people lose their minds in Columbus. I think as much as any fan base in the country.
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Um, and then you could just see, I mean, herb street, to the verge of tears last night because of the stuff that Day had dealt with and what his family had dealt with, which, again, they had already sold us. And I don't mean sell it in a negative way, but they had shared. Maybe I should say it that way. And I talked to Herb Street about this. To me, it was very clear it's a Tennessee blowout.
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They've got time to fill. He's going to tell us this story about what it had been like for Day and Columbus with that fan base leading up to the Tennessee game after the Michigan loss and that it's just a lot. It's just a lot. And Here we are. He has the numbers. He has the real national championship. And yet you just know how that fan base is going to turn on him again.
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I'd rather do that than be someplace where I can't get a three-star.
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Makes sense. 10 plays, 75 yards, 31-15. The two-point conversion. Then Ibuka fumbles. Penalties. Great house. Gets you right back at the doorstep of a score. Notre Dame first and goal at the eight. I want to go over a couple throws here. First down, Riley Leonard running because that's probably the thing they felt best about. That didn't work. Lost a yard.
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I'm happy for him, as I said in the opening for this, because I think I became more defensive of him, knowing that, like, hey, look, I know you're losing that Michigan game every year now for straight years, but this is supposed to... I like the self-monologue you got back.
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All right, last thought here. The shift. Like, this was always the thing with the SEC for me, is I'm like, you know how many teams deep I can go to where it's like, Hey, if this team won a national championship, it wouldn't be met by laughter. Right? So it's, it's Bama, it's Georgia, it's LSU. You go back, it's Florida. You got cam season, which I love that you brought up.
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Cause I think it's the single best season from a college football player that I've seen in my lifetime of like carrying a team. Cause that was not some stacked Auburn team. They went international championship. Um, So the list of teams that you could see like, yeah, that makes sense. Like that team could win a national championship. And with the Big Ten, it was hard for me to get to five.
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And now we have back-to-back Big Ten winners. Ohio State, Michigan, makes sense. The expansion makes this exercise easier for the Big Ten to accomplish because Oregon's played in national championships. Washington played in one last year. They were in a playoff against Bama not that long ago. It's not ancient history. And Penn State's a game away.
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Who knows if Great House doesn't beat a defensive back that falls down, maybe Penn State's playing for it. So With the Big Ten expansion, it feels cheating like a little bit because it's not like, hey, we have to go to Michigan State and Iowa for winning a national championship.
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But do you feel like the shift that we have evidence that is happening is happening in a direction where the SEC is going to have down years?
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That's Caleb Downs, right?
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The second down throw to Mitchell Evans is a bad throw. Like, not even close. Then on third goal, again at the nine, Riley Leonard throws it to Greathouse. It's incomplete. He was going to get blasted if he even caught it. He was going to get blasted at the five-yard line. So that leads us to the field goal attempt that everybody hated last night, which I understand, right?
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Yeah, it may also just be a factor of, like, the 12 teams where... You're going to have like I hated seeing the seating numbers next to the team names last night for the national championship. I understand what it is. But when you think about what history and how history should be recorded, like 20 years from now, I don't think anybody else is really worried about this stuff.
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But seeing an 8-7 matchup for the national championship and then trying to explain why that's not really true and why it's also stupid. It's like, man, man, they had some underdogs back in 2025 battling it out.
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Okay. Your podcast, where can people find it? Your YouTube page? Because I know you're out there in the content game.
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But whenever something like this happens, it's like, hey, is there a chance PFT is smarter than Marcus Freeman? Well, PFT did kick field goals, so maybe... Maybe he is on this one. It's 925. They're down two scores. 31-18. You're down two scores, right? That's what I saw on social media all night last night. I decided to do this. But let's try to understand what Freeman was doing.
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So it's been really cool. We're doing this with the former athletes, okay? That music means it is time. We ask about a time in your history, right? And the game is, could you beat up this former teammate? So let's go back to 2005. Oh, boy. You're with Cincinnati. Uh, I have you listed at six, two, two 55 or two 65. Combine was two 65.
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Do you still order the Sports Illustrated stuff? The DVD? The book? The commemorative book? You guys look at those a lot? You have a Red Sox one from 2013? I think I do. Anyway. How about that first drive? That wasn't very much fun, Buckeyes. First drive, 945. Riley Leonard, nine carries. Converted a third, a fourth, a third, and another fourth down.
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You ran a four, seven, five. Um, do you know how many times you repped out two 25 of the combine? I do not. 25 times.
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I knew you were going to say that, but that's all right. You didn't have your old man strength yet. Um, All right, let's go here. All right, Robert Gathers.
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Chad Ochocinco.
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But he's been boxing. Was he boxing then, 20 years ago?
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Look, I just don't want to do all defensive linemen because we're going to end with Jefferson City, Justin Smith.
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What would his answer be?
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I'm looking at his pro football reference page right now. 6'2", 36". Played in 2005 with you. 16 games, 15 starts.
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Merriman won defensive player of the year that year.
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2005 he's got the five picks all these stats and then 2006 not in the league 2007 not in the league and then it's just over so like it actually is listed that there were there were issues there and he was not in the league I'm afraid of even talking about him right now based on what you're telling
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All right, noted if you're in the greater Atlanta area. All right, you're the best. Thank you so much. It was great catching up. And for those that don't know, David takes an interest in some of the stuff that I'm doing in a way that shocked me in the beginning. So we had a chance to even catch up.
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So the two touchdowns are going to be tough enough. Although, hey, are you going to get it back down within the 10-yard line against Ohio State? I mean, you don't feel likely about it. So it's like, okay, what are our chances? But what are the chances...
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And, you know, I know we're not like best friends or whatever, but when we do get the chance or when I hear from you and you reach out, it absolutely makes my day, dude. So good luck with everything, all right?
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Thanks, man.
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Life advice, the email address, you know it by now, lifeadvicerr at gmail.com. We are stacked. There's a lot to get through. We're not going to get through all of them today. Couple highlights though. Kyle in the wild. Thank you to our man from Australia who was hoping to see Kyle at the frolic room. He did not. He had his wife.
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I think a kid was with him, but then he just happened to either from a bus tour or across the street. It was, it was Kyle in the wild. Drake made Jersey on outside, just taking a break from the activities on the inside. It is the best picture of Kyle I've ever seen. You look good there. You do. It's like a white jersey, long sleeve. I'm like, damn.
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But the pure happiness on his face is what really sends me. You're so happy in this picture. It's not even really good resolution. I guess, yeah, you could see a little smirk. It's artsy. I love it. So if you could post that for your followers, your handle again is Tom shady 300.
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of getting two two-point conversions on top of the two touchdowns that you're going to get against Ohio State's defense that is just horrifying to deal with down there, on top of the two throws that you just saw from Riley Leonard that didn't make any sense whatsoever, and you're not running a keeper from nine yards out. I think Freeman saw those throws.
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however you guys want to do it.
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So no, that's what I'm saying. It's so good. It is so good. It has to be posted. And I just love, if you've ever wanted to see just joy with four limbs, this is your chance. The man in his element, you know,
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yeah so what do we got here we got a oh college planning follow-up good afternoon gentlemen i'm a certified financial planner and have some thoughts on the predicament you addressed the 529 is after-tax money that grows tax-free it is used for college kind of like a roth ira but for college some states offer a state income tax deduction for contributing that very state by state in theory putting some money in the college plan for each kid is a great idea
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But it sounded like the 10K wouldn't even cover all the credit card debt. Therefore, they really should pay down the debt with this cash. You can finance college at a much lower interest rate than credit card debt. If they insist on putting this into the college fund, then a 40-30-30 split seems fair. Yeah. He's the guy that does it for a living. So maybe you'll listen to him.
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But I think if you're paying 20 plus percent to carry credit card debt, you're basically paying a fee to carry debt on that number. So let's get that one now.
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Yeah. Yeah. Like, what kind of streaming services do you have? I get a couple and then I get this other credit card. I pay 200 bucks a month minimum payment just to keep the balance. It's awesome. I feel so seen.
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Do you want to give us a number, Kyle?
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Do you carry a balance or do you try to pay it full every month? Yeah, I already know the answer. I'm sorry. You know what? I don't want to do this.
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That guy's never seen a balance he's ever been scared of. You can give a shit. All right. Yeah. Yeah, all right. So let's get to a couple emails here. This one's pretty long. Well, all right. Yeah, we'll do this one. We'll do this one first. This one isn't long, and then I'll find a long one because I may not have flagged it. Hi, gang. 6'2", 190, no gym stats, but pickup comp is Brad Miller.
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I think Brad Miller threw a dip in once while he was on the bench. One of my day one A1 buddies is getting married in March. We were set to go to his bachelor party last weekend to Las Vegas, so they went. All right, golf, gambling, partying, the whole nine or 18. Nice. Golf jokes. We're all around 30 years old. About 15 of us are attending, flying in from different parts of the country.
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As we get to the San Diego airport, where about half of us are flying out of, The Bachelor announces to the group that he's gone sober and is attending AA. He said it's been a few weeks, and you can tell he wasn't totally stoked on this idea. But he tried to keep the vibes high for the trip. This is a drinking crew, so we all started with the airport beers, getting stoked for the Vegas trip.
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He kind of quietly announced his sobriety to everyone and just stood around while we all got started. For context, The Bachelor... God, this is getting a little too specific, man. All right. He has a job and he owns a place that he lives in with his fiance. He likes to enjoy beers, the fellas and a theme party here and there, but isn't boozing every day or losing life and limb from blacking out.
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I think he knew the chances of his talent separating in a short part of the field. He knew Ohio State's history. And then it's like, well, if I get the field goal, Even though that sucks and it's 31-18, I don't need two two-point conversions on top of the two touchdowns.
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The request definitely came from his fiance. I've known the guy for 10 plus years. I've been drinking with him and I can honestly say he doesn't have a severe drinking problem, all caps at all. If he has a drinking problem that requires AA, then everyone on the trip and half of America should also be in AA.
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The vibe of the rest of the guys on the trip was pretty perturbed, not entirely because of sobriety, but the fact he waited until we got to the airport to tell us about it. Some guys said they would not have come on the trip if they knew this because the trip became pretty expensive by the end.
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The fact that the leader of the trip was sober kind of put a weird tone on the whole trip and capped the amount of fun we could have. My question is, should I say something about why he shouldn't be in AA? Why couldn't he wait until after the bachelor party to start if it was that big of a deal anymore?
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Said they're all around 30. That makes sense. Is there something I should say to the fiance? Would say that most, if not all the group hasn't been very fond of his fiance since the beginning. They met and started dating about a month or two after his previous fiance died.
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We'll shut up and listen. Sorry for the long email. This one wasn't really that long. I think this one is about perspective and age, and I can certainly understand being in this mindset. As I'm older, I'm not going to... There's going to be some people that hate your email, man. Just a heads up. I think whenever it comes to something like this, are you sure? Do you know?
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Do you socially drink with him and you're like, hey, I don't see what the big deal is. And could you maybe not have all the information, right? Yeah.
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Yeah. Because a lot of these stories of somebody that feels like they need to make a change and then need help to make that change. you know, then when they open up to you, you're like, Jesus Christ, really dude? Like, you know, right. And feel terrible for the person. Right. So there's a chance you have no idea what you're talking about.
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So I think the first thing I would say is it's not your place to go to him to tell him what he needs or not to like, sure, sure. Possibly the fiance standard of what is bad or what isn't. Well, certainly it's below your standard. Uh, it's below your friend's standard, but Your buddy's marrying that person. You know, he's not marrying you.
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And I really don't like my chances on fourth and nine against an Ohio State defense where when Texas was lined up at the one-yard line, Texas looked hopeless. Texas is down 21-14. It's at the one-yard line, and you're like, yeah, I don't really like their chances. That seems insane. So... Look, I think sometimes it's not the math. It's knowing your team.
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So I would really emphasize sitting this one out unless you could talk to him in a way where it's like, hey, what? Just let him go. Let him take the lead. What led to this decision? Like what? You know, is there any other part of it? Like if you're that close with him here, hear how he feels about it instead of you.
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just going based on your information a lot of guessing yeah a lot of guessing or immediately blaming her being like hey what did she do what i knew i never liked her and this is a bridge too far yeah yeah right um i think the other part is that i think because you guys are so young you are being incredibly selfish And I know the deal of like, what, dude?
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You know, like there was a guy that went and got help that when we were younger, we were like, what the fuck? Like, you're not even like seventh worse. You know what I mean? It's about what that person can or cannot handle. It's not about the ranking of his dependency among your circle of friends. That's his own decision to make and how he feels about himself and the path that his life is on.
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It's not up to you. And the fact that it fucked up the vibes, man. I think your group, when you get a little bit older... you'll regret how selfish you guys were about this weekend. And I really like it's whatever you think about what he should or shouldn't be doing for him to have made the decision to commit to something like this and make this kind of life changing decision.
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Yeah, you're not exactly caught. You're not even thinking about all the anxiety that he has leading up to that moment. I have to tell you, like, I remember a good friend and I'd reach out and he would blow me off and I couldn't figure it out. I had no idea how bad his drinking was.
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And then years and years later, like he came up to me apologizing, being like, you know, I really love you and I love hanging out. But like at that time, I just couldn't be around anyone. And at this point, like, I would be in a sales call or sales trip, I should say. And he's like, and I would just drink a case of beer in my hotel room by myself. And he's like, and I would have a blast.
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But it was like, I couldn't wait to go on these sales trips. And then that was the thing I was doing. He's like, it's fucking really depressing. And then you tell, you know, somebody you care about tells you something like that. And you're like, Jesus. And again, you're making the assumption because you're thinking like, I had no idea that that's what level it was at with you.
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And I would never, ever feel bad. And again, that's about being a little bit older.
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So, you know, if I'm in my twenties and it's a close friend, like I understand your mindset, but I can only tell you as you age. And I think you just start to have a better appreciation for your friendships and you're probably more forgiving and you're, you know, the problems that you have when you're older are
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I think the cool thing about being older is that there's just less shit that you're like, well, I'm not worrying about that because I have real problems now. I've got to worry about who's taking care of my parents. I've got to worry. You know what I mean?
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There are really impactful life problems that can be heavier, but you're just not going to get caught up in a lot of the minutiae and the day-to-day bullshit that maybe you're caught up with when you're a lot younger. Look, I'm not beating up on the email or here. I'm just saying, like, I think you guys were pretty selfish to be pretty pissed off at this guy.
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Even if you think, you know, it's not really, by the way, I shouldn't even say it that way. It's not up to you to decide what he should or shouldn't be doing based on the help that he needs because of your friendship with him. Maybe you're right. Maybe this is a massive overreaction. Maybe the fiance is just hammering the guy. Maybe that's the conversation you have with this dude.
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Or for you guys to be sitting around being like, well, the trip kind of sucked for us. It's, it's really, it's selfish and you're not even thinking about that lead up as Kyle had hinted at of, of your buddy dreading, dreading that moment of telling you guys this on the way to Vegas. And, you know, if he told you earlier, half of you guys would have canceled. Well, that would have cheered him up.
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I mean, think about him for a second here.
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I mean, that was a long answer. Sorry.
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So they missed the field goal, which made it even better, right? But they score again. They get the two-point conversion. And it leads to Ohio State facing third and 11. And Notre Dame sends all sorts of pressure. Something they had struggled with all night long. Which leaves Jeremiah Smith one-on-one at the bottom of the screen against Gray. He's a terrific football player. But you saw it on TV.
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Yeah, nothing else to add to that one. All right. Next email. This one is the long one, I think. But we'll go with it. Sometimes you guys write in ones and they'll be like, sorry, this is long. I'm like, that's not long.
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Those are the ones that tend to be less self-aware ones that write these books. And they're just some that you'll read and you'll go, this is just too long. It's too long. All right. Anyway. Hey, Ryan, Kenneth Garai voice. Oh, there you go. What's up? 6'1", 215, former college athlete, NBA compass Tobias Harris. Going to get you 15 tonight. Nothing spectacular.
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Knows the role of feeding the better players as age increases, but the longevity to always be slightly above average and welcome on any team he ends up on. Are you also unbillable? Invisible? What's that word? Yeah. Watch that. I know. Whatever. Whatever. Early start today.
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You, like me, probably going, uh-oh. And Howard clearly sees it. And then it's a matter of, is there any way you can get pressure there quick enough before the route develops?
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I have been a regular listener and fan since the early SVP and Rosillo days, all the way back to Outer Rotation Shirt Day, Pulse of the Nation. No shirt for the guy who called in asking a question about Stephen Curry instead of Steph Curry. I've always seen a little of myself in you as far as life path, outlook on things, love of sports. Whoa.
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So you're extremely confident, but also self-deprecating. Really value the feedback you give during life advice segment and would truly appreciate some here. My story is as follows. I'm 36 years old, live and work in the same large city in Indiana that I was born and raised in. I'm single, never been married, don't have children.
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And 36, I've struggled with depression at times in my life, often feeling that I am accomplishing just the average amount of daily success and eking out the most average Midwest lifestyle that you were picturing in your head. In September of 23, I was going through a particularly unsettling time in my mental health. Went through a stroke of chance.
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I ended up reconnecting with a high school sweetheart who had ended up moving back in our hometown. Let's call her Laura. Laura is a legitimate knockout. Tall, blonde, just absolutely gorgeous on paper. I feel like she's out of my league. Typical SEC couple, as the kids say. Laura had a child in 2019 where she was living at the time with a man she was casually seeing.
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then try to turn that into a relationship, which ultimately failed, feeling alone, and the single mom life settling in. She moved back here because her family is ultimately in line to take over a family business. The father of the child let's call him Derek, also decided to move here knowing absolutely no one except Laura and his son that they share together.
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They do not live together, but he's around like a lot. Laura and I began texting regularly, progressing into the natural meetup for dinner and drinks. We began dating soon after. It was extremely intense. We fasted first. At that point, I was at in life with the clock ticking. I felt like I'd finally remet the person I was supposed to meet.
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I can admit now with more clarity that there were some incompatibilities from the get-go, such as family wealth dynamics, her disinterest in sports, her love of skiing and skydiving, while I mostly am happy with a bottle of bourbon pizza and an NFL red zone on my TV on a Sunday.
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To get 11 yards downfield past a six with Jeremiah Smith is not going to take a long time, especially when really all he has to do, you know how hard it is to cover even like a mid receiver one-on-one when he knows what he's doing and the quarterback knows what he's doing. I despise those like high school football camp clips of some receiver lighting up a corner and then staring him down.
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But the attraction and the way she made me feel loved and valued and that I was saving her as the person she had always wanted but didn't know she needed trumped all of the early red flags. How about that? That's like a Netflix special. The person I always wanted but didn't know I needed. Fast forward to February of 24. Here we go. Buckle up, boys.
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As I was ready to progress to the next step in our relationship as far as making sure we're on the same page, being exclusive to each other and each other only. Uh, wait, so if you guys started hanging out in September 23, oh yeah, it's only a few months there. Yeah. All right. We're good. We're good. Um,
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Because I would have thought I've been like, so you hung out for a year and then you're like, all right, what are we? Here's the deal. Right. No, but this makes sense, especially if you're going dinner, drinks, text, the whole thing. Like, it's probably a quick turnaround on this one in February 24 is like, what's the deal?
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This, of course, meant the boundaries would have to be put in place in a relationship with Derek and how freely he comes and goes from her house as he wishes, acts as if they are together when he feels like it. very possessive over her, including at one point forcing his way into her home in the middle of the night as her and I were falling asleep on the couch downstairs. That's a tough scene.
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From all accounts, he's a good dad, also treats her incredibly poorly, yet my gut tells me there's still something there between them. As any times I had concerns about his unchecked access to her, I was met with, quote, it's best for the child. Hard to push back on that, but there's 100% a difference between co-parenting and Derek trying to be with her at all costs.
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When it got to the point of me being clear and blunt about my expectations of not only her and I going forward, but also Derek, she began to withdraw from me almost immediately, going from being in touch all day, every day, and spending as much time as possible together to days to respond to a text. That's the first sign, boys and girls. Yeah.
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I mean, that's pretty much all the information that you need. If somebody's just not going to respond to you, that's kind of it. And foregoing plans to see each other, ultimately leading to completely ghosting me by March of 24 without much as an explanation. I pursued hard, not understanding what had happened, which led to a withdrawal even more to the point where I just gave up
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Completely left to my own thoughts on what happened and honestly heartbroken. Months later, she reached out a text. She claimed she was supposed to be sent to her mother and not me, in which she was telling her mother that she'd come home in a few hours after spending the night with a different ex in Chicago the night before. When I called her out on the text being rude, for the wrong guy.
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She immediately followed up with a text with a long apology to me about how she handled things at the end of the relationship and how I shouldn't have been so concerned about how things were being handled with Derek since, see, the door is closed since I was obviously at Drew's place, as if that was supposed to make me feel better.
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That is perhaps one of the shittiest ways you could ever explain that. Like, hey, I wasn't even with my ex-husband because I was with that dude in Chicago. Don't you get it? Oh, now I feel better. Back to the email. A line about you were the only man who's ever stuck with me and loved me when I didn't deserve it. Really struck a chord with me and made it 100 times harder to let go.
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It's like, oh, cool. You ran an in route. and beat the guy one-on-one, you're awesome. We'll see you at Middle Tennessee. No offense to Middle Tennessee. I just had to pick a non-Power 4 school. So, look, they score again at 31-23, the third and 11, right? He hits Jeremiah Smith 56 yards. The game is over.
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She's just completely mind fucking you, buddy. Yeah. So I know that's like a really good line and she should write for Succession season four, but she's just totally fucking with your head because she gets to without any recourse. We still got a few more lines here.
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I ignored her, however, on that particular instance, random little text between the votes that was followed with months of silence in between, ultimately leading nowhere. We haven't spoken in months when she reached out this past weekend. This is me, a picture of a game she was at since it was my team. I guess he played there to tell me you're so right about this place. It is awesome.
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Drew is also a graduate from the same school, and based on the seats they had, that's 100% who she was there with. I have not responded to her attempt, in my opinion, to get a reaction out of me. Nice.
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Like the text that was supposed to go to her mother, but has resurfaced the feelings I had for her, anger combined with some stupid reasons still wanting her after all of this above and writing it down. I know how obvious it is that I need to completely let her go, but the deepest part of my heart, for whatever reason, I still hope that the woman I met was there for the first few months.
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She's capable. of it the best way possible. Any concrete advice from you guys and the best way to proceed from here would be welcome. I know what she's caused me to feel, but I can't get rid of that last little bit of what if when it comes to Laura and I just don't know why. Thanks for everything. All right. You already know the answer, buddy.
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That's not what it is.
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Yeah, I know.
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Yeah. The hottest girl on your resume is a bit like the best vacation, you know, cause you just, you're thinking like, is this possible? Like, am I this guy? You know, you're walking around Santa pay being like, Could I do this? I know this isn't bocce, but this is my life. Can I get a set? And then you go on Zillow and you're like, that's, I think it's a one bedroom. What is that, a shed?
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What I loved about this, too, is that Smith ran just a really subtle, perfect route where you're freaked out if you're at the corner to begin with. It's the best receiver in college football. He's a beast. When he caught the ball, it looked like he may not even ever go down. I've never seen a freshman. I don't know that I've seen. Maybe. Maybe I have.
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And then you're like, I don't even know what customs would be. Could I ship my stuff here? Do I need to learn the language? And the ultimate answer is you probably can't just pack up and move to Saint-Tropez. It was a nice vacation. You really enjoyed yourself. It's an experience you're never going to forget. But it's probably not who you are. And I'm not saying this to the emailer.
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You're never going to get somebody above your pay grade again. But the hottest woman on your resume is always tough. I've got one friend that emails about this one for fucking years. He never stops bringing it up. And you're like, yeah, dude, she was really hot, man. Awesome story. Heard it 700 times. But it's because he probably still can't believe it deep down.
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So that's part of the dilemma with all of this. And again, you already know that because you explained it all. But what you are dealing with here is a massive narcissist. Somebody that is totally comfortable fucking with you. for whatever she needs in that moment.
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And when she came home with a disruption to her own life and disruption, again, in a way that makes sense, like, okay, I didn't have a kid. Now I have a kid. Now I have responsibilities that I've never had before. But because I'm going to co-parent here, the ex is going to be around. Who knows what was going on there? Who knows?
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Yeah, right. If you didn't feel bad enough already.
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She came home and you were safe and she picked it right up and you were unfortunately like she looked at you as like, okay, this is what I need. And now... this guy with the great seats with a little bit more coin is what she thinks she deserves now. So, um, I think what you probably need to do is a bit of a Johnny torch here and just go next time you reach out and be like, Hey, fuck off.
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I don't need this. Just, it is going to feel so good. It's going to feel so good. And I think it's exactly what you need. And it's a little harsh, but, um, I think based on the email that you sent us, it's probably deserving of that one. I mean, the fact that she'd be like, Hey,
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just because I sent you the wrong text as I was with this guy last night, but it's a different guy proves all of your concerns about my ex are wrong. Like that's some unbelievable wizardry going on right there. So yeah, I think you're going to feel really good. Even if you, you know, that's the crazy thing is dude is if you actually did that, she probably wants you back for a little while.
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But just at least last night, it's like, how does it look like it's physically unfair and he's the freshman? But he ran this subtle route where he just veers inside a little bit. which is going to give him more space to the sideline.
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So, you know, there you go. You can always go to Sandra pay twice. That'll do it for us. Saruti, Oregon, Kyle, thanks for listening to the podcast. A special edition on Tuesday. We'll be back on Friday, but we have a children's only edition on Wednesday. What does that mean? What are people saying? People are in the streets talking about it. Don't worry about it. It's only for kids.
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It's also going to give Howard more space to throw the football, a wider lane to throw the football, where if he just runs a straight go route down the sideline, again, no one should be dumb enough to do that, where he's using the out-of-bounds line against himself.
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But that was kind of the game, even though there was a nice little momentum shift there for Irish fans wondering, is the impossible going to happen? And is everyone in the state of Ohio going to hate Ryan Day forever? Well, that's not the case because it worked out for the Buckeyes. Leonard's a tough kid. Great story. He's not good enough to win this game straight up.
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You could say, hey, they opened it up. What took them so long? Well, you weren't down 24 points earlier. So it's a bit like the Carson Beck, Alabama rule applying here. Did you get better or did you get desperate? And I think when teams are down, quarterbacks can look better. They can start getting some yards. You can start saying, hey, where was this earlier?
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Well, you were afraid to do it earlier when it felt like the score was even. So now let's talk Ryan Day because I'm happy for Ryan Day. I'm happy for LeBron James. I'm happy for Indiana fans somehow still tweeting like the Cook Islands during the UN Summit last night. Days now 70 and 10. 70 and 10. When you package it that way, He's got his national championship.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
Seven zip, 18 plays, which meant 18 commercials in the second quarter. And you're just like, man, is this actually going to happen? Because, look, I have been talking about sports for a long time, over two years. And even when you're like, hey, look, this doesn't feel like a game. Nothing on paper tells me that this would be a game.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
His teams have been ranked at number two in the country at some point in all six of his full seasons. His 875 winning percentage is the second best all-time in the history of the sport, minimum 80 games behind only Walter Camp. All-time stuff on Day's resume. And completing a redemption arc that Hollywood wouldn't believe. Can we stop saying that? All of us.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
The studio, they tell you to hit the bricks, kid. That script's not real. I just hate it. I'm saying it because I hate it. All right, so let's just stop saying it. But it is the best recovery we've ever seen in season, from a season low to the season high. The Michigan lost to where they're at now.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
And we've never seen, we could in the future, but we've never seen anything like that because we've never had a team have the opportunity because we have a 12-team playoff. You already understand it. We already talked about it just 24 hours ago. If you look at their talent, we knew it in August. We knew that the fundraisers were out. They were cranking it up.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
What's going to get more people to invest in the NIL in Columbus? Keep losing to that team in Ann Arbor. And it worked. Although now you're like, well, wait, they lost to them again. Does that mean that more people are going to win? I don't know. I don't know. It doesn't matter. They just won a championship last night.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
But I think there's a talent element to it where you go, okay, if we talked about this team in August and this roster they put together and how pissed they are, this makes sense. From a talent standpoint, the right team won the national championship last year. Think about what they just did. They beat Tennessee. They beat Oregon. They beat Texas. They beat Notre Dame. Four straight games.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
the number one, the number five, the number seven, and the number nine teams in the country for a combined score, one 45 to 75. That is all time stuff. It's also all time stuff because nobody else has had to play that many games with the seating worked out the way the bracket worked out. It was so stupid that they were all on that side and they were tested.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
They were tested in a way, even with the two losses tested in a way historically, we just, again, no one's ever had the chance to be tested this way, but they were tested. Um, So if you feel like the right team won and you like the expansion and, you know, look, it made sense in a weird year for them to get another shot at this as ridiculous as the Michigan loss is.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
If you're making the talent argument, you're kind of making the Saban Alabama talent argument, but you're just doing it with a different team in a different part of the country. Last thought on talent. Because we've talked about the portal a lot and what it means and maybe a flattening and more parity. But for last night, that's not what it was. It was Caleb Downs going from Alabama.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
He didn't go to Minnesota, man. He went to Ohio State. And throughout the entire season, there's an argument he made he's the best defensive player on the field every single game. He suited up. Maybe he'll go Abdukhard. That's fine. Let's talk Big Ten. Big Ten champs, back-to-back, different schools, first time since 1942. Minnesota. Minnesota used to hang some banners, speaking of the Gophers.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
Minnesota and Ohio State, I asked my dad about it this morning, and he was like, I was not alive a long time ago. Six teams won national championships or claimed national championships over that two-year period. So is that what happened? We don't do that anymore, unless you're UCF. Six teams, Stanford, Tennessee, Bama, a fraudulent 9-2 year. Good enough for them to claim a title.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
Nothing with the talent disparity and the momentum of what Ohio State has been doing against really good football teams. There's nothing that tells me. But is it that night? Is it going to be one of those special nights that brings us back all the time?
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
They've got a handful of fake ones. Texas. Texas football. But if we go by the AP, what matters historically, or I would say scholars, reference the most, not gemologists. Minnesota and Ohio State won back-to-back AP, so the shift may be happening. We have two teams. We have a list of five teams in the Big Ten that could probably win a national championship. I'll ask David Pollak about this.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
But for a night, even in this year with an entirely new setup, the right team won a national championship. He is a piece of history, as we said in the tease. He's the last person I ever interviewed on my show at ESPN.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
Yeah. No, man. He's the man. Full intensity all the time. David Pollock joins us now. We're going to talk national championship with Ohio State's win. What's up, man? It's good to see you. It's been a minute.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
Can't be legendary without leg day. It was the best advice you ever gave me.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
I think it was a shoulder or chest day. And you were like, what are you doing? And I was like, I got some shoulders. I was like, I'll probably make the most of it today because I'm not going to be here tomorrow. And you were like,
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
doing some kind of step up thing on the bench weighted step ups you're like can't be legendary without leg day i was like shit he's not wrong i was like but today's chest so there's nothing i can do about it uh but yeah a huge leg day yesterday we were in the the rhino belt was going we were doing lunges all sorts of stuff so i'll be feeling it probably more tomorrow how are you doing with everything
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
And for whatever, with that 30-minute drive and how long it took to start this football game, you're sitting there and you're going, could tonight be one of those special nights? Nope. Then it was 31-7. 31 straight points for your Buckeyes.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
I'm serious. I mean, I don't know that I deserve to pick up basketball or Muay Thai to have a cryo chamber in my house. But, you know, if I go in another year, maybe without any dependents, it may it may happen. I'd be like, you know, at least I don't have to send the cryo chamber to college. So there you go. All right.
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Ohio State Is the Champ: The Buckeyes' Unprecedented Run and Ryan Day’s Redemption. Plus, Ben Johnson to the Bears With David Pollack.
Let's get into last night's game, because I've already spent a good chunk of the opening part of the podcast giving my thoughts on it, going in, looking at how Ohio State had played, and I don't think it was disrespectful to Notre Dame.
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I don't know how anybody could have looked at the two teams and thought, hey, Notre Dame has a chance, unless a bunch of weird things happen, which we know can happen in football games. But your thoughts, your expectations versus how it played out.
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Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
We get you ready for the brackets and everything you're trying to figure out before the NCAA tournament with our guy Stanford Steve. He is all over this stuff all season long. So we'll talk about Florida being maybe everybody's favorite. Obviously, a lot of chalk in the bracket stuff, which actually makes a lot of sense when you look at the power of the top four, maybe even five teams.
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And that was an A&M game that A&M had to have. You know what Buzz does with his teams, getting them all riled up. And then Tennessee out-muscles them in a 40-minute game. So plenty of like... My issue is, you know, the other guys. The freshman is really, really talented, but his shot selection is brutal. And Baker Mazzaro is a guy that's gotten better every year. I find him tough to root for.
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I can't trust him. He got thrown out of the Alabama game for just a cheap shot.
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Yeah, that was ridiculous.
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Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
I go back to the Duke game earlier this year. He keeps rolling around with guys in jump ball situations, just asking for it. And I get it. All the NBA great players we talk to always say, you got to have those guys on your team. I get it. But there's a line where like, hey, man, we need you. You can't get kicked out of the biggest game of the year. I mean, that's their senior day.
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They're going to celebrate the SEC championship, and they lose to their arch rival after going to Alabama and winning. So I trust Bruce Pearl. I really, I think he, I think he's awesome. I love the, the office that they, he runs a bunch of old school flex stuff. That's really, really cool. And broom has really gotten himself better, man.
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Like I go back, I remember him at Moorhead and, and I'm like, he could, he's a transfer guy for sure. And then he, The way he passes out of double teams is really, really good. You see it with other guys like Dickinson just gets out-muscled at Kansas, but Broome really holds his ground, and he's added the three-pointer to his game. So they're as dangerous. I actually really like their draw.
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People make a big deal because they've got to play the winner of Louisville-Crayton, and the game's going to be in Lexington. but Auburn's got, they're deeper. They're more versatile than those teams. I really like them on the sweet 16. And then I don't know who the, like the bottom of that thing with UC San Diego and Michigan and A&M and Yale, like I have no idea who's coming out of that.
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So I actually really like Auburn's path to the lead eight, not knowing who they're going to face on the bottom.
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Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
Broome hasn't even shot it as well this year as he did last year. And still, I mean, he just doesn't make his free throws. And we're still talking about the National Player of the Year at 19 a game. But, yeah, I don't know.
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Bracket Preview, Upsets, and Final Four Picks with Stanford Steve
Now everybody loves Florida. Everybody's picking Florida. I'm picking Florida, too. Why Florida? Let's start there.
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I mean, it just feels like when you lose... No one's going to be excited to be like, hey, I love this team that I've loved all year that's now lost this many times in the last couple weeks of close. Let's stay in that bracket, though.
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Just because... Michigan, with their run through the Big Ten, they get UC San Diego, who has actually won 15 straight. You could go schedule if you want to a little bit on that. No doubt. Michigan's offense, people are kind of turning it, too, because if you watch those games, it was such an incredible grind.
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They get the game winner against Maryland, which you knew as soon as that ball was inbounded, you were like, uh-oh, this is going to be a problem. You weren't with Van Pelt for that, correct?
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I was not. I did get the story because his wife's obviously a huge Florida fan. Florida was playing at the same time as Maryland. He was on vacation and said he sequestered himself in a room by himself. And I'm like, everybody doesn't realize the benefit they got out of that one with not having to be with him for that game. So, yeah, he's all right, though. He's in good spirits.
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The depth, the wow factor, the multiple guys that can make tough shots and big shots, an absolute game changer at the point guard's position, which I feel you have to have now. When you look at the different styles, Ryan, you're playing. Houston comes to the Big 12, which I think is one of the toughest, if not was the toughest league in the country. And Kelvin goes like 34-2 in two years.
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He's in good spirits. All right. That was a tough one. Anyway, so here's what I think is interesting about this is that you have Michigan on the Auburn side of it, but I don't know. Again, people kind of look at it as like specific as if some of these other grinds aren't as tough, but then it's like, okay, but locationally they're going out to Denver. I don't know.
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College kids, I would think with a few days off here, they're going to be able to.
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to turn it on um but you have michigan state on the other side which is really everybody's kind of favorite big 10 team where a lot of people have them going to the final four so give us a michigan state breakdown where we know it's very iso-ish they don't shoot it great they defend like crazy they've got one top 20 high school prospect and booker who doesn't even really play that much the big kid um but they seem to be a very i don't want to call it chalky i guess you could as a two seed but if somebody's going in another direction i've seen a lot of michigan state in brackets
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Yeah, for sure. And I think it's to what we just talked about, people falling off Auburn because, you know, everybody picks up their viewing once we get to these weeks of the year, and Auburn hasn't looked impressive. I get it. And you're saying, how are they the number one overall seed? You got to watch the whole season. And they were the most impressive team.
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Yeah, this one, I think this is the toughest region because the ultimate – Wild card is Iowa State. They lose Gilbert. Now, I will say they played plenty of ball without Gilbert. And they played BYU in two games this year. They were my two favorite games of the year because the way the ball went in the hoop, the runs that were made. BYU blows a 21-point lead in Ames.
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Iowa State comes all the way back. BYU... wins in overtime. Talk to Dave Fleming, who called the game. He's like, I've never seen two teams more tired at the end of a game. And these days they play up and down. But Iowa state is a team where there there's a path because Ole Miss is the six. You got the Carolina factor with them playing San Diego state.
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San Diego state is 11 seated on the mountain West mountain West teams that are seated 10 or lower in in the tournament are 1-29 in their last 30 games. So I kind of like Carolina to move on. But Iowa State, their good is really, really good. But Michigan State, the problem is, and I'm all for this, in picking in your brackets, and I mentioned the Duke number and Florida's love.
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I'm not picking those teams in my brackets. I want to be different, and hopefully you get lucky. So you look at a team like Michigan State, who's at the bottom of a one-seed Auburn, The issue is you know what you're getting, and it's not going to be pretty. And Marquette, this was flipped two years ago. Michigan State was the seven. Marquette was the two. And Michigan State beat them.
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And now it's flipped. Marquette's the seven this year. They play a different brand. I actually like their style for March because it's so chaotic. They don't have size, though. This is those – most together team. The guards know their roles. Jace has created a really big spark because when they started them, I think they've lost one game since then.
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And they had a brutal stretch where they played the four toughest teams and won them all at the end of the Big Ten schedule. So From a trust factor, the history, Izzo, the whole deal, I get it. I don't have any problems with Michigan State. But Iowa State's good is better than Michigan State's. I will say that. It's just a matter of them getting there. And I believe in Otzelberger.
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He's rumored for every job now. Supposedly there's a buyout deal. But Iowa State is a team no one is talking about that could come out of that whole bracket and go to the Final Four. And then the bottom of the top with Michigan – Scott did a thing last night where they got screwed out of seed because they won the Big Ten.
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They beat Wisconsin, Maryland, and Purdue, and they're seated behind all those teams. And it's like, what are we doing with the committee? You're just closing up shop on Friday night, Saturday? Why are we playing these games? And now you factor going in, playing in Denver. You're the team that played the latest game Sunday, and they're playing, I believe, Thursday evening.
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In elevation, Denver, people could take with that. I think it's real, especially at this time of year. I remember Seton Hall had to go out there a couple years ago when they won a Big East title and lost in the first round. A&M, they teetered with being on the list earlier in the year. They can't shoot. And Yale's really, really good defensively.
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Everyone's going to love Yale because they beat Auburn last year. Give me the under in that game because A&M is just a rebounding machine, but Yale doesn't let you get offensive rebounds. Again, to your Michigan point, the way they're constructed, I love Dusty May. To see that situation with five seconds left, no timeout, all right, guys, hey, here's a call. He makes the free throw.
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And they bring their own brand and they're able to play it. But with Florida, I just – everyone's on the same page, but it's constant different flow of bodies. And, you know, in the Alabama game, it really showed up. Like, they had their way. Alabama had senior night a couple weeks ago. Florida just went in there and ran them. And Scott and I, you know, we watch as much as anybody.
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This is what we're doing. If you go back and watch that spacing of the play and the little twerk that the guard gives before he goes, it gets to a hundred miles an hour. And then where the spacing that confused their queen, where the hell he was. I just thought that's good stuff.
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I mean, that's a, that's a pressure situation game on the line and your team ready is ready to go and executes better than they did all night. So yeah, I look at Michigan. I think they go and play. I think they get to Auburn. But I don't love it because of the difference of teams they're going to play. UC San Diego shoots it, but Michigan's better athletically.
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And those two bigs, man, Wolf is awesome. No one else is like him. He's a true .4. And, you know, Michigan doesn't turn the ball over. They're fine because of the size, and they've made enough outside shots. But, yeah, Iowa State's the sleeper on the bottom. Michigan, I see playing Auburn.
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Yeah, and then remember Golden of Florida Atlantic, where you're like, oh, that guy looks familiar. Wolf is a first-round pick. And the funny thing on that game winner— I don't know. I haven't done the work. Okay. Trey Donaldson on that layup. When I watched what Maryland— Hey, look, they're kids. They're freaking out. There's no mental reset.
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But the way the game is played, I think everybody expects, whether it's tied, whether you're down one, down two, certainly down three, you understand it. But it's like everybody just settles for some three. So I think kids scramble.
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I mean, NBA guys do it on certain plays because nobody ever thinks like, oh, this guy's going to go coast to coast with it anymore because just, I don't know, everybody's just working.
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I say go to the rim all the time, man.
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I mean, unless you're down three like Pascal Siakam a couple weeks ago. All right. Houston, 40% from three. They're healthy. Okay. Yep. The LJ Cryer part of this, him winning with Baylor in 21 is pretty crazy. I think we're kind of phasing out of some of these dudes. We're like, this guy's still around?
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So – Um, you know, in sharp 21, a game in the big 12 tournament here. So it feels like if you're projecting ahead, Houston, Tennessee, if you're going all chalk, cause it, I don't blame people for kind of going chalky on this. Cause it's just the way it feels. And you know, if you, I love creativity with a bracket, but if you're trying to win your pool, um,
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You can be out of this thing real quick if you start getting weird.
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Yeah. So go ahead. A couple things. Being in the picks business, I totally get why people go chalk. Because as soon as you pick an upset, you hate that school that you picked the upset against. Like, that's just the world.
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You didn't hate them before the pick. Once the pick is out, then you hate everybody associated with that program.
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And you probably picked them in three straight games before that, but no, and you won and no one mentions when you win. So yeah, that's a really fun part. So, but I'm watching game day Sunday and it's, it's Greenberg, Billis and Jay Williams. It's all ones and twos in the elite eight. Like I just thought it was hilarious. But anyway, I get what they're coming from.
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And so that's the way I want to deal with it. I'm totally fine. And it's probably a hell of a lot easier.
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Well, yeah, but it's like, fine. All right. So fine. Pick Purdue then. All right. Pick Purdue, Kentucky and your elite eight matchup in the Midwest with Kentucky's injuries. Like feel free to, I respect the hell out of you for doing it, but it certainly doesn't feel good when you're attaching a $20 bill to that and handing it into the office pool.
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Correct. Good job. Vandal's working. I hear you.
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All right, but I guess looking at the Houston part of this and Tennessee on the other side, because I think ultimately I'll just kind of get the Elite Eight picks and see if we get anybody that's outside of the one and twos here. I love the way Tennessee plays. You know, classic Rick Barnes team, motherfuckers, wings big everywhere.
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We got eight screens at TV. We got – at work, I'd say probably five are on college and three are on the NBA, you know, on a nightly basis. So we're pretty locked in. But Florida – You know, probably the beginning of February, you know, Auburn had was accumulating all these quad one wins.
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Again, they were in it with Florida until all of a sudden, you know, looked like they were going to get stomped and then they come back at it. And then you're looking up at the foul trouble. You're like, OK, all of these dudes are going to foul out for them. I don't know if it's enough offense to keep up with Houston. I actually really hope of all the elite eight matchups.
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I mean, granted, Florida and St. John's, we're going to get to the Johnny's here shortly. But but on from what I've seen, if Houston, Tennessee ends up chalking out, we get that. Like, I can't wait for that game. I just wonder if they'll have enough offense.
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Yeah, totally with you. And these are two teams, Tennessee and Houston. All I wanted was them to have a road to the final four. I really did. I love what Sampson brings in to the table. We follow so many big 12 games. And then we have, you know, Tennessee earlier in the night. But, you know, I love what Rick Barnes has done, too. Like, you go back to all the schools. I mean, you're my age.
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You know, going to Clemson and his road and the whole deal, the pros that he's got. And everyone points to the Final Four. I'm like, yeah, okay. But there's plenty of sweet 16 in elite eights. And this is why I feel Tennessee's different. They go to elite eight last year. Connect plays out of his mind. They don't have Ziegler. Ziegler's their most important guy.
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There's probably not five more important point guards in the country than Zakai Ziegler. He's healthy. That's your point. He's a fucker, man. He is in your shit nonstop. He's jumping on jump balls with Florida centers in that title game. Like, I don't care. We're going to do this. They have five guys that average double digits. Ganey played great, great against Florida. My Shaq can guard anybody.
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Lanier's been a great addition. The difference to me is they are better offensively. And I know they had Dalton connect, but there's more, there's more roundedness. And you talk about the, the specimens they got Phillips, the, the big, I mean, he, he didn't back down at all. He's only playing 15 minutes, but he gives you something. So Dalton,
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Again, Houston, I love Roberts has gotten better and better. He's going to be healthy. He set out the big 12 tournament and they want it without him. Um, the crier factor, they're better offensively sharp when he's on. I could just say, I mean, he and Samson's battles in game. Like it just feels like year after year. Uh, And game after game. But man, his good is really good.
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And it's exactly what they need. They need a guy to make shots late in the shot clock because they run stuff and they muck it up a lot. But yeah, that's the matchup I see. When you look at the bracket, Gonzaga, I get it. I love Fuey. But he constantly has talked about When he plays St. Mary's, he plays St. Mary's for 25 years and Randy Bennett, he can't speed him up. He can't ever speed up St.
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But Florida just went there and beat their brains in like at Florida's gym, which has turned into the new toughest place to play in the country. But I just love how they go about things. There was a great interview that Jeff Goodman did with the trio of guards in the ice tub after the semifinals. And there's no ego there.
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Mary's and they got to dictate to their tempo. So if he can't speed up, St. Mary's, I don't think you can speed up Houston, where Gonzaga's dangerous, for sure. But I think that's a good, I think all the ones really are better off to get tested in that second round. But all the teams in the middle, it feels like that's where everybody's picking upsets. But I don't see it.
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Everyone's picking High Point against Purdue. High Point hasn't played a quad one game in two years. Purdue, Painter's a great coach. McNeese, I watch him. Will Wade, I get it. I think they were better last year. Clemson has men. They lost Dylan Hunter. That's a huge injury as far as another ball handler, which you want against McNeese. But I still think Clemson has enough. Illinois, you can have.
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But they'll probably make a run because I said that. But they have zero. Zero interest in playing defense. Zero.
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I would say, like, just... Jumping in late to the scene as far as the momentum or lack thereof, it's like everybody just kind of hates Illinois right now. Well, it's crazy.
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Their point differential in wins, Ryan, is 15. Their point differential in losses is 15. Like, there you go right there. You never know what you're going to get. But there is a path for them because Texas and Xavier aren't great. Trey is really, really good. Yeah. I don't know if he's, yeah, he's probably the best player in that game when they play. And then Kentucky, I absolutely love.
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They're one of my favorite teams to watch what Pope has done offensively and piecing together a roster, a bunch of kids from all over. But if they don't have Butler, they're in trouble, point guard position. Because, again, he is the ultimate guy that stops the ball for them because they're not good defensively. And they beat Tennessee twice, which makes no sense.
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And then, you know, going at UCLA, Utah State, I don't love. So... Knowing what I'm going to get with Tennessee, and I believe it's different and it's better offensively, I like Tennessee's spot and I like their draw. And I'm also rooting for Rick Barnes because I really – I mean, the road he's done and paved I think is great. And I love the way Tennessee plays.
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I mean, their strength coach too, whoever that is, that guy deserves raises because they have chiseled guys nonstop year after year. It's crazy to see.
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All right, let's talk Johnny's here. I hate that they're on the Florida side of things. You and I have been texting about them a lot, and it's been a team that I've enjoyed for the first time in a really long time, at least having expectations for this team. It was funny because it still felt like the voters were late on it. They weren't really sure. We know how bad they are shooting the three.
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They're almost a little Michigan State-y, but maybe more fun to watch if you look at some of the profile stuff. They're 343rd in the country out of 364 teams from three. But every single guy that comes in and gets minutes for them serves whatever role it is.
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And whether it's Lewis one night, Echefor the other night, Qadari, there's just different moments where those three guys in particular can all kind of find a way to get it going. And they are going to work you. They're not going to lose because they –
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You could tell they brought up, like, everyone talks about the, you know, Auburn and the top teams all season because they had better starts to the year, where I think Florida was still figuring things out. But, I mean, they got, I mean, transfers. I mean, Condon's a guy, you watch their bigs run the floor. He's from Australia. The kid Hawk was huge against Tennessee with rebounds late.
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you know, maybe they run into something where maybe it's Florida where they just can't keep up with the shooting part of it, but they're going to make your night. You're going to feel them. It's like the fighter who you may have won the decision, but you're never going to forget the guy that you went up against.
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And I would expect with Patino and this group and watching them now this closely, that part will always travel. So I think that's the, I almost feel like you like their final four chances better than I do. And I think it's probably related strictly to just seeing Flora on the one side.
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Yeah, because I don't ever look at who's on the other side. I always look at the path to the Elite Eight. Because a lot of times, man, you don't know. Somebody could get beat. So when you look at St. John's, and I've stared at this, Brad, because they're another team. All I wanted was them for a path to the Final Four, and everyone points to Florida. But I look at to get the Elite Eight.
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And when you look at that side, I sound crazy. and everyone points to the outside shooting. But they have gotten better with the shooting. But, Ryan, I honestly believe they could be, when you start that bottom of the bracket, Missouri, Drake, Texas Tech, UNCW, Kansas, Arkansas – they could beat those teams without making five threes. They really can't because they, you saw it, they wear on you.
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And I heard coach Kareem talking about Patino and when he has it right. And even what he said, you know, what he meant was when he has the depth and he has guys contributing and he's not afraid to go to the bench, which he has this year, they've shown that every game, the last eight minutes, you're, you're, you're just done.
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And then I saw there's a quote out there from Mike White, the Georgia coach, from early in the year. And it was, it was along the lines of, I've never been in a game for 40 minutes where I had to worry about getting the ball over half court so much. And it's true. I mean, you watch what, I mean, Creighton was up against it, obviously with their lack of depth.
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But that eight-minute, I mean, it's just a swoon that comes in. You factor in the garden and whatever. But to your point and what you said, it's going to travel. And they just get up in you. They rebound like complete animals. It doesn't matter who the size is. They're all about it. And... I think Rick's a guy that if they're going to play great defense, the offense will figure itself out.
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And they're not they're not going to play one of these bombing teams that shoots the three until they they get to that elite eight spot. So I really like their draw. They're in Providence the first two games and then they got to go west, which I get it. But they played in an NBA arena for home games. So I still believe him. Scott and I have gone back and forth on him all year.
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He wants more offense. I get it. But I watch games and I watch teams deteriorate every single game. I mean, I keep going back to that UConn game in the garden earlier this year. I mean, that was, they absolutely manhandled that. I hadn't seen that in years with the UConn team. And that was over in the first, they were up 20 in the first half. So they're not going to be afraid of anything.
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They bring the edge to you and that stuff travels. So I'm in on St. John's.
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Coming up next. No, I was trying to think of a better tease for it. But I have a bunch of numbers to look at where the SEC is at historically here. We'll do our final four picks and our upset pick that we both have to get on the record. That's next. The beauty of the tourney, it's the underdogs, the chaos, the stories that make you believe it's why we love college basketball.
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We've talked about Clayton. Elijah's a transfer from FAU. He has Final Four experience. So they just have everything. There's really – it's really – and that's tough to do in college basketball because the way its rosters are constructed, you could tell – Coaches make mistakes and I keep like basketball.
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So since the field expanded in 1985, 55 upsets by the 12 seeds over the number five seeded team in their region. We had Graham Canyon. We had James Madison last season. We did not have one in 23. So it's not automatic, but it's usually what we look for. But. I'm going with a little 11-6 action. VCU, BYU. VCU, depending on where you see it, plus 2.5. I've seen it at plus 3.5. It may have changed.
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If we go based on the model and some of the projection stuff that, again, other people are using, VCU, we know they force turnovers on 20% of their opponents' possessions. We also know they hold their opponents to the lowest effective field goal percentage in the nation.
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And VCU, even if you want to go shooting variance here, they are still steady enough, which is what you're looking for from three-point, from team's to pull off the upset. But this wouldn't be necessarily a massive upset based on the Ken Palm stuff because he has BYU 24th and VCU 30th. So that is the play, even though some people getting a little tasty there with Akron as well. So here's the deal.
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Give me math.
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Well, it's not tricky. This is pretty standard math. So we're the 40th anniversary of the greatest Final Four in the history of the tournament. Big East Feast, the cover of Sports Illustrated. We had the Johnnies. Fortunately, they had to play Georgetown again. So I enjoyed this Final Four. It's my favorite Final Four until it actually started happening. Yeah.
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And then you had Memphis before it was – It was Memphis State back then. And then Villanova-Georgetown for one of the great upsets in the history of American sports. So it was a Big East. It's something that you could look back to. And I remember arguing, I think, depending on where you were at, depending on what year, the Big East felt like the NBA league.
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No doubt.
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I wouldn't argue with anybody, to be honest with you, but I'm going to be biased because I grew up with it and I loved it. And it's funny, too, because when we started talking about the SEC stuff that Cannell used to always lose his mind about, he was like, no one ever used to root for conferences. And I was like, you're 100% wrong. You're sitting next to somebody who...
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As much as I despise Georgetown or Syracuse, I wanted them to beat the ACC schools once the tournament happened because I felt like this is cool. Like the best brand of basketball is in the Northeast. And look, a lot of this stuff is cyclical. But at that time, like that's something Big East fans will still remember because it felt ridiculous how much better those teams were for a stretch.
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It's even shown up even more of what coach Saban said from week one, this past year, college football, you paid a wrong guy, you're out of luck. And Florida definitely got their guys the right way. So yeah, them they're the wow factor and what they just did in this tournament.
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I'm so glad you brought it up because this was a stretch when we were younger. UConn wasn't a factor there. I mean, they were, they play in the field house or dirt on the floor. Like they weren't a factor. Yeah. And in Connecticut, you either rooted for Syracuse, Georgetown or St. John's. That was it. That was it. And I was more towards the New York side. I sided with Georgetown. Money.
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My cousins were St. John's guys, but like we were going through Scott and I were going through the old St. John's rosters. And then, uh, This weekend, you see Walter Berry in the garden. And then you read, I don't know if you read the story by Quinn on The Athletic where Walter Berry goes up to Lewis in the locker room after the game.
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It's like you talk about full circle stuff and bringing back memories and just like, you know, Molly and those guys, like those teams, they just went at each other. Then you bring up that Final Four and Villanova comes out of nowhere and wins the national title. I remember being heartbroken that night where Georgetown just couldn't get it done against Villanova. But that was it, man.
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That was all big Monday. I mean, then you had like team like Charles Smith was from. Bridgeport, and he played at Pitt. There was all these connections where Connecticut had guys. He had guys from here where I am now in the DMV, all over rosters, and obviously the New York City thing. There's nothing like it. The Rakim, the Big East, the Doc, I thought was great.
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UConn people hate it because it was during those days when UConn was a doormat. But yeah, that's what's really, really cool about the old Johnny stuff, and sorry to get in the way of your rant, but No, no, it's so good.
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But I do think that there are some parallels because you still understood like you weren't going to get it every single year. And, you know, there's a bit of a carryover, especially when we look at the Big Ten winning back to back national championships in football here. where even if I'm well-documented, I'm always arguing for the SEC because of visually what I see and then the draft part of it.
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But look, maybe we are in this transition. These things should be cyclical. And the funny thing is the SEC, for all of the resources and all of the athletes that you think are just down the street, basketball-wise, it's been a really disappointing conference for years. I mean, there were some really lean years. You're like, how is it even this bad? And I'm with you. There were certain big 12 years.
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I'm like, this is the best conference ever. in all of college basketball. I don't, you know, I don't even think that's debatable for some of those years, but ultimately it's going to come down to, um, where these teams end up. Because if you go the last three years, the SEC said 22 total bids. If you go expected wins, it was 30. They were a 22 total wins in those three years.
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I think that's what the number was. And it was actually the lowest based on expected wins of any of the power conferences. Well, they roll in this year with 14 bids, which breaks the big East record of 11 back in 2011. Um, The Big East didn't actually have a great tournament at all that year, but UConn ends up winning the whole thing, so that kind of can get lost.
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Like you just went through all the net numbers and the quad one, like all that sec, they won every game by double digits, right? Like, it was nuts. So, yeah, it's impressive a team, as I've seen coming into the tournament in a while. I mean, UConn, obviously, last year. But you still had that if factor because of Big East. I think they only got three or four in last year.
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If you look at the non-conference winning percentage for the SEC this year, it's 88.9. I've seen it written that that's the best ever, but I think the ACC in 83-84 technically was higher, where I read somewhere else. None of that really matters, but in 83-84, that's lost in the Big East 84-85 season because UVA was only the Final Four team, and that was the Georgetown-Houston title game. So look,
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The last champ for the SEC is Kentucky in 2012. I've talked about the expected win part of this. It is clearly a loaded conference. I don't have an issue with in-conference records being below 500 when the shifting of where these conferences is going is so ridiculous that you're like, with this expansion, maybe you'd like to punish the teams for being below 500 in the non-conference.
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We'll talk about the SEC bids and what this means for them. We'll get to the Johnnies, of course. So he's got a wild Final Four. We even try to find some upsets for you. So a lot of fun. One hour with Stanford Steve on the tournament. And a bonus extended life advice. The brackets are out, and we are fired up to talk to Stanford Steve of ESPN, former road partner. He loves the tournament.
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Or excuse me, in-conference. I've got to stop saying non-conference. Where do you see... We know what the bid part of this is, but it'll be interesting in a one-and-done scenario if they end up becoming way below expectations here, whether it's maybe Bama not playing defense to their standard, Kentucky's guards not being healthy enough.
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We already know what's going to happen because I think there is a carryover in the conversation of how just annoyed so many parts of the country are about the football conversation that's dominated for like 15 years. Yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, when you throw those numbers, it's not even close what's more verified, right? But I always, you know, We talk about coaches all the time. I hate to go back to Rick Barnes, but the criticism he gets, I don't judge a guy on that. The tournament is the ultimate crapshoot a lot of times. The ball goes in the hoop. It doesn't. The ball bounces the wrong way.
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The reviews with these balls off the hand, whatever. And you already know the army of non-SEC people is waiting to throw – They're going to set the record for the most losses in the tournament, knowing that only one team in the whole tournament is going to end up with a win. So I get it.
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But when you watch them in a team like Alabama, right, they lead the country in scoring in this conference, 91.1 points per game. And all I've said all year was I thought Alabama needed to get out of the SEC more than anyone to show what they can do. They've given up 90-plus points, I think, three of the last six games. And you could just tell. I still don't know what their best five is.
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I really don't when I watch them.
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You know what it's not? It's not Phylon, high ball screen, let me do whatever I want. That guy drives me crazy. I understand he's talented at a big-time group, but the ball needs to be back with Sears in some of these tournament possessions where it really matters.
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Yep, and I totally could see, you know, Bill Self getting things together for one game against a flawed Arkansas team. Another thing that I don't understand, Cal brought up that Boogie Flan's coming back for the tournament. They're 0-5 with Boogie Flan in SEC games when he played. They got better when he didn't play.
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So there was that, can they, you know, when they get tested, how are they going to react? They did fine. But, yeah, Florida doing what they did. I kind of think they got screwed with the bracket because they have the toughest region for sure.
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Yeah, I did think that was interesting because I remember I was like, oh, he's back. Okay.
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I get it. You want another ball handler? Okay, you're going to need that against St. John's if you get there. But if Kansas beats Arkansas, they're going to get piled on. And that's everybody's favorite thing. But when you watch it, as I do night after night, I just think it's tremendous. The athleticism and the size. And then you got a team like A&M that just... Doesn't care. They're fearless.
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They know they're not good shooters, but you better block them out because they're going to get the offensive rebound. Last I checked, they were in the 300s at three-point shooting, in the 300s at free throw shooting, first in offensive rebounding. And it's like, holy cow, they're a four seed. How many games did they win? They won 22 games in that conference.
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There's different methods to the madness. So their good is better than anyone else's good. I firmly believe that. I did say in February that I believed multiple Big Ten teams would be in the Elite Eight. But when you start looking at the SEC teams, I mean... They all got the high numbers. And then it just magnifies things like, all right, there's their road. There's their road.
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But there's always going to be a team that could come from nowhere, obviously. But the way these teams are built, I feel like it's going to be really hard to knock them off. And I believe they deserve 14 teams. And they got it. And people got to deal with them now.
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I really like the point about Alabama getting out of conference play there. Okay. All right. So last thing we're going to do here, 12 fives. We have it all the time. It's everybody's favorite upset. Do you have an upset that's a 12 five or do you have a dog that you like that's tasty and it's not even in the 12 five category?
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I do. I'm not sure what the FanDuel odds are. Other books. BYU, another team that I put in the category of Alabama. I just want to see them outside of their conference. I don't know how much you've watched them, but Young's done a great job. Their concepts offensively, they spread you. Shooters, a couple crazy athletic guys. They're the six in the East.
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Yeah, if you look at the adjusted ratings here for teams, the West region has more of the top 12. They have St. John's on the other side. Again, we're going to spend time with that. Texas Tech. And then, of course, my favorite nickname, the Crab Five in Maryland with this. Yeah. Look, when I watched them go through Missouri, Alabama, Tennessee, I think the Clayton Jr.
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It was around plus 600 to go to the lead eight. I grabbed that. I really like the issue I have with them is their first game. VCU is a really good defensive team. VCU has only played two tournament teams though, but the game's in Denver and we know how BYU travels. And then if they win, they get Wisconsin. I would think they're in Denver and Wisconsin just played till Sunday afternoon.
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So I just look at the path for BYU and a team that I really, really like. But as far as a double digit seed, You know, Liberty feels pretty popular right now. It should. Yeah. You know who I actually like is North Carolina because they get the draw. I mentioned a number about Mountain West teams. One in 29 seeded 10 or lower in the last 30 games. And then they get the six Ole Miss.
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Ole Miss doesn't have any bigs. And Carolina doesn't have good bigs. So I kind of like Carolina's draw and then they get there. But, you know, that's probably a good hefty price, probably in the three, four hundreds, but Carolina, I mean, one of these teams always makes a run and I sneaky like Xavier on, in the other play game playing game. Cause they play defense.
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And that, that, that usually wins this time of year. When you look at teams like Texas and Illinois who are in their path that don't seem as interested. But, Yeah, that's the 12 fives. I mean, Colorado State's favored over Memphis. They're the 12th. So I do like the Terps to go to the Sweet 16. What's cool out there, too, you could parlay, pass.
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There was a parlay that was over plus 150 of Maryland and St. John's going to the Sweet 16. I liked a lot. Double-digit Cs. I look at those playing teams. I think when you look at their path, they have enough to win a couple games for sure.
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Yeah, St. John's to reach the Sweet 16, minus 175. And as of this morning, VCU's getting two points against BYU. Two and a half, I believe. I'd have to double-check that. So it's two, two and a half against BYU. That's a really popular one that I gave out a little bit earlier based on some of my models. you know, ran it a thousand times over here. Um, but yeah, I understand what you're saying.
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Kind of like BYU the next, if they get through that. Yeah. Um, just because of how, how good they've been. Um, you know, you want to look at the Iowa state games that you pointed to to close out the season. Uh, and you know, whatever.
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game against Alabama was the one thing where you're like, this guy's just smart about everything. His pace is really good. He's just very in control. Everything seems to be right with him. And it's funny because Patina was talking about trying to keep him with him at St. John's because he had him at Iona. And I think he had said on game day, he's like, we offered him $1,100. $1,100 bucks.
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So you went because that's what your official one is going to be or you just freelance right here on the show?
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No, I've been piecing together, and I just realized I don't have one one seed. So we'll go with that.
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Okay. All right. I've got Michigan State, Florida, Duke, Tennessee, Florida over Duke. Okay. International championship, which I hope you get to see that game. You are the best. You can check out.
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Can I have one NBA question?
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Yeah, of course. The floor is yours.
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We followed Warriors Nuggets last night. Yeah. Explain. Doc Rivers. Doc Rivers Theory. I knew you were going to go there. Good Lord. We can't catch a break.
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I know. That was a little frustrating because I was really looking forward to that one. I was so into Philly and Houston that I... Yeah, we were locked in that.
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And then Minnesota and Indiana was nuts.
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Minnesota was crazy. Obi Toppin just...
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Unbelievable. Four threes in overtime.
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That was another Doc Rivers game. I mean, that was three Doc Rivers series games in a row. Yeah, depending on who you want to watch there.
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Do the Warriors ever wear their white jerseys at home? They're real white jerseys. They never wear them at home.
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You would know better than I would. Never. Because you pay attention to that stuff. You'll be sitting there watching a game with Steve, and you'll go, oh, what? Thaddeus Young changed his shoes in the third quarter. And you're like, what are you looking at?
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And then I have one entertainment question.
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I watched the pilot on a flight. But I think I was just too immersed in the Yellowstone universe. It was kind of like another Marvel movie where I was like, I need a break from this. Not that I don't respect it, think it's good. I wasn't ready.
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I think Yellowstone's all the way down at the bottom of all his shows. Ranked last? Yes.
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I didn't expect this. A Taylor Sheridan and Stanford Steve ranking.
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Linus won 1923, too.
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What about Landman?
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Better than Yellowstone.
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Early Yellowstone or late Yellowstone?
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The late overshadowed the early. That's the problem. I mean, they have one season. Nothing happened. Not one thing happened.
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I think it was three, three or four. So it's kind of like a bad non-conference loss.
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Yeah. But 1923 and Spencer's journey from Africa to Bozeman, Montana, it's still going. And it's just, I mean, you're the history guy, but the track, like being at Grand Central and the wife telling the guy where he asked you, he asked, where are you going? She's like, Bozeman. He's like, oh, Montana. Yeah. And it's like, good luck, honey. You got like six weeks to get there.
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And then they start in Africa. It's just amazing. I think it's so well done. But the history thing, I find fascinating. People trying to travel back then. It's nuts.
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He's like, yeah, that might not work if he has an option to go to Florida. But you're right. Condon, not that he shoots as well as the other guys do, but it's like six of the top seven guys are all a threat from the outside. They kind of remind me a bit of an NBA team of the design of what you would want. You want a big who can run the floor. Hawk is just...
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A lot of faith. A lot of faith on a destination. Just be like, what are you doing? You're like, oh, we have a contact. My great uncle is in Yellowknife. Another shout out to Yellowknife. Speaking of being repetitive, I was going to share this. This feels like more of a Friday feedback. We've had some aggressive tones lately in some of the life advice emails, Steve. So we'll just do this one.
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It's titled SVP, 41, white male, 500 meter row, personal best, 127.7, 6'1", 235 thick. So we're dealing with a specimen here.
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flatty divots and nick van exel combo that's insane scott doesn't like going out and partying on the road so i hear he prefers to stay in and text to stay up late uh stay up to date on who all is where and what's happening but he never really wants to be in the mix in person just kind of wants to know who is there and keep an eye out on the scene you know why i know that because you've told that story in the podcast about six times good luck on your writing career
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Wow. That was mean. That feels like more like Friday feedback than it does. I don't think there's a question in there.
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Feels like this, guys. I hate listening, too. Like, if you got a problem with it, you don't like the content, stop listening.
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Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I have good news on the writing career. I just can't share it. That's all. I'll let this guy know immediately.
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Yeah. Send them back. Reply all.
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You're the best SVP pod once a week. And these guys will be gearing up and your home for all of the tournament recap stuff. It's lots of fun. You know, look, it's going to be I can't wait for this thing to start. And I love catching up with you guys on TV after it's all done. So I'll talk to you soon. You got it, my man. This episode is brought to you by Uber Eats.
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Let me tell you what's required. Email address, lifeadvicerr at gmail.com. So, Rudy, Wargon, and Kyle. Kyle, this is your season. This is your time to shine. What's your schedule like?
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he's so like versatile for a big guy, six, nine, you think he's going to hold onto the basketball. He turns and then just drives on everybody. Um, so I, I was so impressed. Granted, Tennessee ran into foul trouble in the final, but the way they ran away from Alabama in the second half, uh,
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I wonder if there's just a higher level of balance amongst people from the Valley. I don't know if it's ever been studied. Yeah. Like, oh, that guy's from Poughkeepsie. He has incredible balance. That kind of makes sense.
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Maybe it skips a generation. You just don't know. Yeah, have you tried? Do you know that you, in fact, do not have great balance?
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Shout out to pickup basketball. Speaking of, We've got a basketball query from Australia. People a little upset with Saruti, but what else is new?
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Okay. What is Pick Up Basketball? This may be more of a Friday feedback one, but as we said, we're getting a lot of complaints sent to Life Advice lately. Actually, I don't know what's going on with me, but I've been dropping votes in the polls the last few weeks. That's all right. We always finish the season strong. All right, 5'11", 180, 31-year-old female from Melbourne, Australia.
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Oh, 250 bench. I was trying to short this guy. Squat, 275, deadlift, 350, player comp, Terry Rozier. Not so long ago, I was considered a decent player. In recent years, though, it feels like one of the Monstars has taken my abilities. Unlike Scary Terry, though, I'm actually still trying to be good. I'm just not anymore. Terry Rozier, not a great pickup for the Heat.
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That one did not quite work out. Heat culture, by the way.
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Yeah, but he doesn't fit in. That's the thing is maybe he's not accepting of heat culture.
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But Davion Mitchell seems to accept heat culture. So look, we don't make you can do whatever you want. I mean, everybody's voice is important here, but I. I said after that 23 run that I just don't know that I can make fun of heat culture anymore. But I do think that like in a vacuum, even Miami people would be like they put culture on the jersey. Yeah. But again, I'm going to refrain.
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Yeah. It's an Aussie. The concept of pickup basketball is foreign to me. I don't think we have it down under. The closest equivalent here would probably be various local leagues we have in the suburbs. of Melbourne. These are organized competitions, however, with refs, uniforms, game fees, game schedules, stats recorded, etc.
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I've played basketball for over 20 years, and I think I have a superficial understanding of pickup. Please help your international audience understand it a bit better. San Sebastian, they just play pickup, so I don't know. Maybe it's where you are.
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I know you were probably hoping, because maybe it was the Georgia loss, maybe it was the absurd game against Tennessee where they couldn't score, where they shot at, I think, like 25% from the floor overall. So when you saw that loss, you're like, well, how the hell am I supposed to get that excited about this team?
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That's how pickup works, right? I've seen that. Martha's Vineyard had that. Like they take the rims out. Yeah. It was never that cold. They put a cap over it. Yeah. Yeah. That's just dirty or COVID when they put the bars across it. Yeah. You were really fired up about that.
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Well, because I think in California, you just lasted even longer, you know? Yeah. And then I actually went and got shots up one night. I was just desperate. Pfizer? Desperate. I'm just kidding. No. No, there were no rims. So it was just all simulated. Is that a loser move? I'd allow it. All right. So here are the questions.
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It sounds like a bunch of guys just rock up to a local court whenever they like and full court scrimmage with anyone and everyone there. But surely there's more to it. I have many questions. Feel free to skim. So let's just try to go through as quick as we possibly can. Are there organized game times? Usually it's the same kind of group. Hey, we play here on Sundays at 10.
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We play here in the afternoon at 3. We fight with high school kids over who has it because they just vape and then Ride scooters. That's a very local thing. Who sets the date and time for the games? It's just the same time every week. See above. Are there refs? No. Who brings the ball? Someone. Can you go by yourself or do you need a full team? If you're by yourself, how do you form a team?
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Yes, you can go by yourself. If teams are already playing and people are waiting around, you ask who has next. Ask if you have five. If they do not have five, you join their now five. If there's more than ten guys, how do subs work? Well, five plays against five. Winners stay on. If there's a new five, they replace the losing five. If there are only eight, then the losers would shoot for two.
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Do you have to pay to play? No. Is it first to 21 wins or something? Do you just play until everyone gets tired? No. You play to 11. I never really understood ones and twos, but it seems to be pretty accepted at most places, especially if people are waiting. Playing to 21, twos and threes would probably make more sense, but I just never really saw it all that much.
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I'm not really playing that much pickup anymore anyway. But, yeah, everyone plays basically until they get tired. There's usually one last game, and then that's where somebody tears their ACL. Are there timeouts? No. How are disputes resolved? They're not. Good. A lot of yelling. That was a great FAQ. Yeah. Usually the most aggressive guy wins the dispute part of it.
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I know you probably wanted them to lose here in the SEC tournament just for the betting odds. They're second behind Duke on FanDuel, but everyone is on them after just, I don't know how you couldn't watch that week and not be impressed with them.
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Like whoever's the worst ends up getting the call. You know, just stand at the other end, hold the basketball, wait. You know, Van Pelt used to always scream, respect my call. You know, it's funny with Van Pelt, if you go on a road trip with him. Such a good line. Okay, so we have a parking one here. It's a bit, it's more like narking, what we should call it. All right. Nice. Yeah.
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I'm addicted to calling the cops, essentially, on unlimited parking. This is from a while ago. All right. 28, 63, 220 pounds. Bench 255. Hack squat, four plates. Haven't deadlifted in years. Player comp, Anthony Bennett, because I'm Canadian and complete garbage at basketball. Wow. Wow, Anthony Bennett catching strays from an international email.
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Looking for some tough love or vindication for my actions here. Useless fun fact, I live in a mid-sized Ontario city that neighbors Jamal Murray's hometown, Kitchener. I'm addicted to calling bylaw on people that illegally park. So bylaw, I assume, is just, I guess you're calling the cops. important to provide the backstory to this addiction. So here I go. I'm a rule follower.
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I live for dumb things like those mentioned in the efficient grocery lane email you had a few months ago. That guy and I would get along so well. I moved to a new house this past summer. I think that makes sense, even though I murdered that sentence. My previous house was a corner lot in a student neighborhood. Said corner was on a steep hill with a one-way stop sign.
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Exactly. And it happens every year, right? I mean, we see it all the time. And then, you know, we'll get into it with these teams that come in. And historically, these teams like, you know, the Michigan and Wisconsin deal playing on Sunday with Big Ten title teams playing in that game. Their success in the tournament hasn't been great. You go back, you know, and look at the SEC.
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I've attached a Street View photo of the corner for reference. I'll say people in general, but more likely students, constantly parked between the stop sign and my driveway. All right, so just think of a suburban neighborhood road coming out, stop sign, and then if you take a right turn, There's maybe 20 feet of curb. It's not straight. And then that goes directly into where his driveway is.
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Right. So everybody kind of following along here. So I already know what this guy's thinking. If he's pulling out, is the car in the way? All right. So. I'll say people in general. All right. So we talked about students where I live. It's illegal to park within 15 meters of a stop sign.
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It's especially dangerous here as the park cars in the corner block the view of oncoming traffic coming up the hill while simultaneously forcing turning cars into the oncoming traffic lane. The space available at this corner barely fits a car anyway. So a lot of time the people a lot of time the front of the cars would be blocking a couple of feet in my driveway pissed me right off.
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I worked from home and had my office set up facing the window out to the street. I would spend eight hours a day watching cars park at this corner and causing near collisions. I eventually discovered my city-offered program where you can file a bylaw complaint online. I decided I'd give it a try.
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I wanted to see if cars parking at the corner would actually get tickets for parking there, and they sure did. I started filing a complaint every time I saw a car park there and probably netted my city close to $1,000 in parking ticket revenue. I fucking loved it.
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Yeah. This guy's a real earner. I cannot express the gratification I felt when these cars would get ticketed. The odd time I'd even be lucky enough to witness these idiots find the parking ticket on their windshield by licking my chops from my office. I noticed a heavy decline in the number of cars parking at the corner and blocking my driveway over time as well. Fast forward to now.
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I've been in a new house since June where there is no longer a corner to call bylaw on for parking criminals. This may be where you think the story ends, but alas, there's more. I have a dog. I walked the guy after work every day and noticed cars parking in similar fashion at a corner in my neighborhood. It was like Batman moving to Chicago and seeing a new bat signal, call him to duty.
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I told my girlfriend about this new corner and that I have the urge to call bylaw again whenever I see cars there. She basically told me to stop being such a hard-o, turn a blind eye, and let people park in peace. I did not follow her advice. I've been calling bylaw on any dog walk where I see
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cars park at this new corner they work fast a lot of time i see a ticket on the dash of these cars when i'm on my way back at the end of my walk i think i'm self-aware enough to know i'm being a fucking loser and going way overboard on this but i feel such vindication when justice is served and i cannot help myself please talk some sense into me here should i stop my bylaw calls should i set a limit to how many i do is this totally fine do i need rehab
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Auburn wins it last year. They lose to Yale first round. So there's different things. You know, Golden, if you really want to dig in, hasn't won a tournament game. But I don't think that'll be a problem in their first game. But, like, we didn't even mention Chiniello, too. Like, that kid, I mean, he's a freak. There was a sequence against Tennessee.
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You know, we talked about this driveway.
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You need to stop. And we're all on your side when you're thinking about it being your driveway and it happening incessantly. We would be wrong to tell you that you're the asshole here because none of us are dealing with your driveway situation, right? So I still don't love that you're on the side of parking. I'm not behind big parking. As anybody that's lost a lot of parking battles –
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How many are actually my fault? Probably more than I'd like to admit. But the few that are, I mean, it's a lot like criticism versus praise. Like, I'm not going to remember the times where I deserve the ticket. I'm not going to remember the times where I deserve the boot. It's really, you deserve, like, they don't just put boots on cars and be like, hey, let's screw this guy over.
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But you see that yellow thing, you're about to run some errands and you're like, my day has just completely been rattled here. Um, and we don't have any money. You end up getting the boot, you know, it's like one of those episodes of Atlanta where Donald Glover's trying to flip a phone at a pawn shop.
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And Darius is like, Hey, I can use the money that you got from the pawn shop and I can like triple that. And they go through these series of quests throughout the day. And then Darius gives money to this dog breeder. And then he goes to Glover and he's like, hey, man, he goes, when he has a pit bull in a few months, you'll be good to go.
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And Glover's character is like, hey, when you're broke, you're not thinking about, like your whole point of every day is to avoid being broke. So a lot of it is my fault, but there's just a few in there. There's a few in there where you're just like, I'm getting towed or what's going on. So I can never run on a platform of being
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pro parking even if you're arguing the revenue part of this but that was something that was happening very specific to you your girlfriend is 100 right that was a phase in your life you need to move past this you do not now want to become a guy that's just calling the cops and by the way like is there a bigger issue here that the city can respond to your ticket requests this quickly and
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He blocks a shot, runs the floor, gets down, like, muffles the catch. But then, like... just underneath the hoop dunks and it turns into the Vince Carter arm in the rim. It's like, where did this guy come from? And he's a wazoo transfer. Golden was on him. He's from Nigeria. But yeah, I mean, they just keep coming. They got hand glotton back. He broke his leg last year.
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that's kind of weird is that even efficient is there some math that we could do where revenue coming in is actually not as great as you think because resources are being used for this kind of uber version of giving out parking tickets that you can't stop doing um i we understand your origin story here but you need to evolve you gotta stop doing this is it i wonder if it's past the point of like solving the problem and it's more about screwing over the other guy
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Like, what's, what do you think this is? Right. Like he's at the army Navy and he finds some kind of jacket. What is that? Is that jacket? Is that jacket say Cleveland? What, what is that? Yeah. I mean, there was a guy that used to give out tickets in Burlington when I was up there. I mean, again, we just touched on this. It was just mercenaries.
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Like it was like Boba Fett and a tow truck and like seven of his cronies just driving around being like Connecticut plates, mass plates, Jersey plates. Fuck them kids. Jordan style. You know, like where was the sign? Like, I don't need one. Yeah. Spillane's. Yeah. There was a place called hook her up. Yeah.
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There was a place called Spillane's where they towed so many cars that nobody like people just purposely would be like, I will not get their gas. I think they had to like rebrand everything and then put the tow lot somewhere else. Maybe they sold it. I don't even know. But like people would just drive by that gas station and be like, I despise you.
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I remember one time one of my friends got his car towed and he showed up and he was like, I don't have the money for the car. He's like, but my clubs are in the back. I was like, what are you asking? He's like, you can keep the car for a week. I don't give a shit. He's like, I need my golf clubs. I think somebody had to get a 10 spot out of that.
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But yeah, yeah, I think you I think you already know. I think, you know, I love that your girlfriend is on you about this. It was a phase in your life and it was a justified phase. But time to move on. All right. This is a simple one, but maybe it isn't. My roommate is broken. 6'1", 185. Dream on green, but not mentally ill. Ooh. Ooh. Hey, man. You don't like that? Not a good start.
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Not a great week for Draymond in the cat series of things. Fair. Yeah. I mean, I didn't love it. All right. Context. 27-year-old with four other roommates. One of them is unemployed and watches 8 to 10 hours of TV per day in the living room. 8 to 10. What do you think your peak TV hours a day were in your life? Kyle, you're going to win this one. Peak?
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I really liked them last year too, but they just couldn't get it going. I had a tough matchup against Colorado had some pros. So yeah, they got all the goods. It's for sure.
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No, no. Peak. Give me 8 to 10. You in that 8 to 10 range? Be like, I can put together an 8 to 10 range. A day? Man.
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But every day, putting in that work, punching that time card, 8 to 10 hours. Like think about it. If he's 27 and he's unemployed, he's not waking up at 8 a.m. He's not doing the early shift. So let's say – let's give him 10 a.m. But there's probably still some yogurt and cereal involved and maybe checking an email pretending he's being productive. So if you go 10 a.m., that's 10 a.m., 6 p.m. ?
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Yeah. And his dad, Ben, NBA vet, German. All right. Duke flag. It sounds like he's ready to go. I mean, as bad as it looks when I guess you're that young and your ankle goes in that direction, you just recover. So people had said he could have come back if they were in the tournament. We know about the three freshmen and we know about the guards. I know you're super locked into Duke.
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Think if this guy's doing 10.
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We didn't have enough good TV in college to put in that kind of work.
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Yeah. You know, streaming now, I kind of can understand. I still think it's a little weird when somebody's like, oh, I watched eight episodes of this today. I did, but probably also not. Yeah. They're not trying to figure out.
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Yeah, that's fair. All right.
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First thing he does when he wakes up is turn on a two and a half hour movie. Last of the Mohicans.
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See you guys. He's a good friend, but he's also very stubborn. And one of his favorite things to do is to get angry. This is great. When he is watching something dumb, I like to stir the pot and tell him to change it to something good. This actually happened tonight. He was watching a YouTube video of some amateur skiers.
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Dude, I know the TV is his and the remote at this point is probably sealed to his palm, but you can't be in charge of something that important, right? Five guys in their late 20s throwing on YouTube ski videos of just regular dudes, too. That's absurd. This isn't some Warren Miller deal.
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had a buddy named bob where the quote that blew my mind when he first uh because i think he was in between jobs here for a little while like what's this guy up to like he finished the internet last week uh anyway um i tell him to change it to anything else and he snaps and says my taste for content is awful i don't know you guys are putting in the grind maybe a few you're hitting the gym you're still trying to map out the weekend you're watching
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Family trips on YouTube of other people skiing? I think your roommate's wrong here. This doesn't bother me or the roommates much unless there's a big game on. He only relents if he has a 12-leg parlay in the game. He surprisingly hit one of them, but he blacked out and passed out before the last leg hit, so he didn't see it live.
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Anyways, just curious how you guys would handle a creature like this. Look, I would say, top line, he is not ready. He is not ready. There are a lot of people at 27 that are not ready. I don't know that I was I was making moves to make it look like I was ready, but I was still in the way society is constructed. Not ready. He is definitely not ready.
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So the fact that you guys are working and doing all of these things and looking at him being like. This is a stage in life where you can start to see some real gaps between dudes with the exact same background, know each other since school, the exact same age, the whole deal, same different upbringing dynamic.
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And there can be this massive gap between mentally where people are despite having the same profile and being the same age. So... Um, that's the first thing is that this is his comfort zone and he's probably mentally thought this is some kind of reward. You know, I need a break from everything and this is what I get to do and I'll be working again soon.
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It's not going to be a surprise if they win this whole thing. But how do you see their bracket right now?
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The problem is you start doing this too long. Um, it's a bit like being like 40 and then taking a class in college and you're like notes, an essay, a point in conclusion, you know, like there's just a lot of us, I think walking around right now, listening to this past a certain age, the idea of having a paper due.
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would just like forget it yeah you can keep the check i'm dropping out i'm not going to get my masters i just realized so that's kind of the first like you could sit there and you can talk to him the fact that he loves to get angry makes it seem like even a bigger waste of time but i would say internally like this is where he's at right now and you're all right to think that he's wrong but um
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I do a thing, Ryan, where I try and make a list starting on Valentine's Day every year of teams that can win the national title. And this year I had a lot. Like I started with like 14. And this region has the most of any region. I got five. Wisconsin's teeter. And I think Wisconsin got a brutal draw. We could get to that.
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He's not going to change likely anytime soon. He's going to have to get exhausted of himself before he would listen to anybody else. And as a male, 27 on top of everything else, he's probably not super receptive to any kind of advice that you guys are providing because then he would point to you and say, oh, you did this two weekends ago and be like, yeah, but I also have a job.
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I also have a job and don't watch TV.
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And yeah, right. You know, because there's some part of him that's smart enough to have any self-awareness.
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But Duke, Arizona, BYU, Wisconsin, Alabama, I believe all can win a national title. So when it comes down to Duke, I'm a Duke fan. This has been as fun a Duke team as I can remember, probably going back to Shire's team because they knew it was their last chance, and that was a group that played for a while. They weren't perfect, but they played together, and Shire was great as the quarterback.
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Yeah. And then, you know, look, we're dissecting an email here, so we don't know totally where his head is at. Um, but,
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I just always think it's worth pointing out when somebody is really, really bummed out with their day to day, they can become, um, really narcissist isn't the right word here, but you can become even more difficult because you think everybody's kind of supposed to give into your deal. And that's where you're like, all right, it's one thing to be upset.
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It's one thing, you know, due to the point where you actually feel like you're suffering from depression, but Now everybody's just supposed to acquiesce to all of your demands, your whims because of what's going on with you. I think if you have a group, there's probably one dude out of the five to get away with anything, get away with any kind of joke.
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Like maybe he can go at him more than other people could do it. I was never that guy in my group. But there's certain guys that I think of like, well, he if he says it, he can get away with it. Like this dude can always get it. I think you could maybe have that person have some real fun with this and be like, look, here we are.
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Because I mean, granted, you guys are fighting over the TV because it's five dudes that are all in an apartment together. There's going to be conflict. So if you were to say, hey, just kind of house meeting, think about mapping this out. Five dudes, let's say five-hour TV shifts. We're going to map out a schedule. Doug, you are going to have your five-hour shifts stack up.
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So they're going to be back-to-back. So you're going to go – So you're in control of the TV. We can do at 9 a.m. We can start your shift. We could do eight, eight to one. And then you're one to six. And then from six on, it's going to be Steve and Barry and Kyle. And then it's going to come back around.
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And so like our Monday through Friday, you get two double shifts because you're not working right now. So we're we're deferring to you. If you have eight to 10 hours a day in control of the TV, when everybody comes home from work, you have now you have to give up control. It's not yours. And he's he's essentially dating the television.
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And he thinks that none of you guys, it's not an open relationship. I was thinking about a swear jar for us because I went back to listen to an episode, which I've not done in a really long time. And I was listening to something and I decided I'm just going to put it in the car and listen to the full episode. And you turned it off. No, I listen to the whole thing.
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I think in the beginning, anybody that's starting off on air, you just listen to yourself and go, oh, my God. It is funny, though, when I listen to myself at times, I'm like, yeah, I can see how some people don't like me. But the swearing part, if we get on a roll, I actually had a moment as a non-parent where I went, that was a lot of swearing.
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Do you think we could even try to see if we can get through a life advice without swearing? I'd like to give it a go. Then there's some kind of punishment.
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But the problem is, it depends on the topics for you. F-bomb just really works sometimes.
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But you get spoiled because of all the pros. And every K team you watched, you just wanted more. You go to the Zion team. He gets hurt. You wanted more out of R.J. Barrett. They lose a brutal game. They don't even get to a Final Four. The Tatum team got absolutely screwed going to have to play South Carolina in Greenville. I just went there. I brought my daughter to the SEC Women's Tournament.
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I don't want to become a non-swearing podcast, but I would say this one particular episode that I listened to, I went, yeah, I could see a parent not loving this two or three minute stretch. So I think Sir Rudy would be fine. Wargon, if you could dial up the camera here. I was thinking about this. Wargon, have you ever sworn on the pod?
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All right, buddy. See you Thursday. We should try to come up with a punisher for it. But to Saruti's point, again, what if I'm reading all the emails and there's plenty of guys that are swearing the emails, so then maybe am I... it has to be a non cause I don't want to be sitting here editing the emails on the fly and then deciding we're not going to read any swears.
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Cause I just think that would be kind of stupid. Um, but maybe there's something in here. Maybe there's some sort of exercise. Loser does what?
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So I always like when people do bets, but like loser has to, has to work out for a month. Hey, for dinner.
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Yeah, I don't think that really works. Yeah, the dinner one. When are you guys scheduled to come out here again? I don't know. Kyle's like, I live here. Asshole. See? Good use of swearing. I did FaceTime Kyle twice, though.
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I get it. OK. All right. Open ended. I don't think we have a resolution for this right now. We're not asking for anyone to offer up any bets because I don't even think even with the alliance stuff and who's coming last and who's won the whole thing. I think there was a dinner online. Didn't happen. So, yeah, I blame myself as the leader of this group.
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He's all over this stuff, so we're just going to run through all of it. What's up, man? Good morning. Good to see you.
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Yeah, so there you go. All right, so fridayfeedbackrr at gmail.com if you have a couple ideas there. I'm not going to the Waffle House for 16 hours or whatever.
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The Berenstain Bears, a history. Yeah. You just go back and read. Although it wouldn't be too hard to read all those books. All right. Yeah, we'll work on that. Anyway, thanks for listening to the podcast. And we are taping some kind of YouTube thing. I think. I don't know. We swear. Yeah. I mean, there will be a taping. Will it be within the parameters of when we said we were going to do it?
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Not likely. So thanks to Wargon. Thanks to Kyle. Thanks to Saruti. Thanks to Jonathan Prius for making sure we have a video product to go along with the audio when you click on the Spotify tab. So subscribe to the page and the podcast. Ryan Rosillo podcast. Ring our spot. Must be 21 and older.
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That South Carolina thing in Greenville is an absolute army of fans. But Tatum's one of my favorite guys. Obviously, you see what he's done. But they got a brutal draw. You go back, Okafor wins it when Jones and Justice get it done. So there's been plenty of teams. And then the Bancaro team, I thought overachieved. Because you wanted more all year.
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You saw at the beginning of the year they beat Gonzaga in Vegas. He's obviously something that they haven't had with his ball control and shot-making ability. And they get to the Final Four and they get their hearts ripped out by Carolina. But this team, watching them every single game... It's as fun a team as I can remember because of the construction.
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Good morning. Good afternoon. I don't know where anybody is. First time seeing Wargon. Pleasure to meet you, bud. It's Rudy. I see the scarves. Oh, nice. So, yeah, that place looks familiar. Wish I could get out there more, my man.
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I thought Shire did a great job of getting pieces in the portal. James is just a man at the point guard position. And they tried to get Caleb Foster to be the point guard. He was one of the biggest recruits. He can't do it. Can't put the ball in the basket. He's timid around the rim. So James just comes in. He's built like a rock. guards anybody.
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Gillis is a kid who I thought was the mainstay Saturday night because they couldn't get a rebound. That was the biggest difference. They were maxed out against Carolina, and Malawak is awesome to watch. He plays so hard. He's amazing in his size, jumping ability, covering space, switching, but they couldn't get a rebound because they were blocking him out.
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So Gillis starts the second half and basically plays the whole second half, and they really control the boards, and that showed the depth. I did say in February they were not going to win a national title without Malik Brown because he's even a better version of Gillis because he's more long on the perimeter and those switches guards can't get the shot up off or over him.
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So I think everybody's going to say it's a cakewalk. because no one thinks Baylor and Mississippi State are good. I just think they're super dangerous. Mississippi State plays a weird ball. Hubbard shoots from anywhere. And Baylor, I can't wait to talk to you about Edgecombe. But that dude, he's got – I mean, you want flashes? We got plenty of these freshmen. They got it.
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But Arizona's a team that's scary to me, and everyone's picking them to lose in the first round. I don't see it. But Arizona played Duke earlier this year in Tucson, and Duke beat them. Low-scoring game, weird. And it was right after Duke lost to Kentucky. So I think Arizona benefits from having seen the length, having seen flag in person.
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So Arizona's a team that's sneaky there, and that'll be a monster matchup if we get in the Sweet 16. But Duke's best is as good as anyone's. I just think it's kind of a tricky road. And the other thing that drives me nuts – is Scott and I got off the air last night and there was already 9 million brackets, 40% at Duke winning it.
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Like I don't want any, like if I'm not touching Duke to bet or anything because of those numbers and I've seen those numbers go by the wayside when something gets so popular and something as random as the bracket.
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Yeah, Malawach, the fact that he's been playing basketball apparently for four years, and the first time I watched him, I went, okay, but that has to be like a lie. Was there a hoop in the town? Right? I mean, it was the first time he touched a basketball four years ago. And then you'd heard from scouts like that had gone to practices going, this is insane.
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Hey, man. Invitation's always here. I know. I've got some historical stuff here. You're all over it. I'm not going to pretend I'm a fraud here and say I've been locked in all season. But I did watch a lot of the conference tournament stuff. I was really into it. And then we were texting a bunch about a bunch of different things and obviously kind of locked into the Johnnies as well. All right.
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And then I posted that clip the other night where you get caught in a guard and a switch.
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and he moved his feet and you know he blocks the shot and you just go okay well this is why this guy's a lottery pick despite all the attention which is deserved with flag here because you kept bringing up vj edgecone for baylor and being like you have to watch me have to watch him i watched a bunch of clips last night and i get why you would assume that i would like him so much because i'm kind of an athlete movement snob when you look at the draft prospect stuff
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His body control, it's a bit like, look, I'm not saying he plays like Jaden Ivey, but Jaden Ivey had moments with the ball in his hands where you went, okay, well, that looks different than almost everybody else. And I'll work with that. And he doesn't, even on the drives, like there's some guys, and maybe it's just because I was watching Neil Creighton so much where I was like, I get it.
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that you're supposed to be like this athletic wing who just can kind of get his own. I was like, man, it is, it is, uh, let's just slow down a little bit. Edge comb on the other side of things, his body control. And when he's deciding to drive, it's, it's just so decisive. There's even some plays where it's like, I can't believe he didn't score on that. So you're right. You're right.
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Just going through a hundred clips of them last night and synergy. I was like, this makes sense that Steve would be telling me all year long that I'm going to love this guy.
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I, you know, it's really my new, I think to a lot of people, but when I watch him, the way these guys go by and not a lot of guys, you can't, I mean, you watch Florida. That's another thing. Like you guys can't even get the ball over their shoulders when they're under the hoop. Like, and it's just getting punched in their face.
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But when edge comb, he doesn't get like, when he can't get all the way by you, he's long enough to, to get that ball high enough on the glass and it's soft enough, whereas a lot of guys you see... I mean, it happened to Queen against Michigan. He gets to the hoop, he's out of control, and it doesn't even hit rim.
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It just hits backboard, and then the rebound's all messed up because everyone's thinking it's going to hit the rim. But Edgecombe around the rim, I thought, is really cool because he's strong enough to dunk it on you. But yeah, I just think... He's only getting a shot selection. They're trailing a bunch of games. It's a tough league. Another roster that's different.
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But Drew has won in this tournament. He's also lost early. But yeah, I think Edgecombe's a guy that's going to keep climbing. I can't wait to see him. Harper is another guy. I have like four games I have of him that I could just send you to. But yeah, it's a super interesting draft class. It really is when you look at it.
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And then plenty of these guys will be featured in the tournament, which is awesome.
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Let's go over to the South. Auburn's the one seed. Auburn had been the story all season long. Maybe it was really about Auburn or Duke for the number one overall. They lose three of four to close the season out. They also lost, if you look at the overall seeding, the number five team, the number 16, the number 13 team. There's an argument to be made that it's more about...
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their defense slipping since March 1st, which isn't a ton of games when Denver Jones got hurt, but he's obviously played in this stretch where they've lost some of these games. Again, that was the injury in the Kentucky game. Look, we know National Player of the Year. We know Pearl. We also know the early exits from all of this stuff. Are people too off of Auburn?
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I feel like they are. Now, I sent out a tweet after they lost Saturday, and I was like, has the number one overall seed ever lost three or four games going into the tournament? I was just asking a question, and then it gets turned – you know what it gets turned into. Oh, you know, why do you hate them? Look at all the quad one wins, this and that, resume, bill, blah, blah, blah.
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So if you look at the best number one seed field that we've seen historically in a really long time, you could even argue, I mean, depending on the tracking data of this, The combined net rating of these teams is off the charts. You have five teams with a plus 30 net rating. You know, look, and that's including Tennessee in the 4-1 seed. So why? Look, you were texting me about Florida.
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I'm like, I wanted to just ask a question. I figured somebody would know.
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Well, you went to the right place.
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It might be actually my new favorite thing just to stir people up, which is not hard to do on the old bird. But no, when they have everything, Denver's huge because you'll find him. I think Butler's the same way for the kid at Kentucky. Not great defensively, but at least he could stop the ball.
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And when you see so many of these teams and how good the point guard plays, and now with Florida, they have multiple guys. Aberdeen's a guy that comes in and it could start on any team's top 10 point guard in the country. He plays like 12 minutes a game. Auburn has seen the best You go through the losses. They go to A&M. They lose a game after they clinched the SEC. Zero effort.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
I just wonder if either it's the owners or the front man of those places. Are they all like that? I really don't have a really... I don't have a real frame of reference, but I was just like, I can't believe this is the guy who's taking care of us.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
I mean, good shape, old, little leathery. Maybe some THT going on there? Yeah, probably late 60s. Maybe he looks a little older than he is. He probably looked around 70. Real thick accent. But I mean, just like to a T, the look you'd expect. And I was just like, this is... It can't, this can't just be an outlier. Is this really how they are? So I don't know.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
She didn't tan. She did the spray thing and it's like this whole weird shower. And he's like, it was really scary just because he was like, listen, if you don't listen to, if you don't listen to me exactly, this is going to be terrible. I tell you, tell these people all the time, don't do this. When you put the lotion on, go down like towards your fingertips. I'm like, what?
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
This is so much to remember. Uh, And she got in this weird shower thing for like, you know, 90 seconds or something. And just, I don't know. It was like, it was very stressful the way he was explaining it. It's like, if you move an inch, This could all get fucked up. I see it all the time.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
I think it was like four days, maybe.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
I was like, is this necessary? That seems like a bit of a gamble.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
You just got so much more respect from Ryan.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Those guys said concrete in their hair.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
It's a happy hour move. He's going to be so happy that you, a veteran teacher that he probably likes, invited him out. It's 4.30 or something, and you're just like, hey, just want to say, you know, you're doing a great job. I just do think if you want to survive in this, this is something that maybe somebody's not going to tell you. I'm just here doing you a favor.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
You don't have to be like, it's affecting your teaching. And, you know, I, I feel like you could be so much, it's just like, Hey, I think there's, this could cause problems for you down the line. And you're, you're, you're, this is the relationship where you're the student teacher and I'm the teacher that I think you can really benefit from this. That's it. Just do it, do it outside of school.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Don't do that weird joke thing where he's going to be freaking out. I think you could just level with him. Cause he's high.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Stop all of this, man. Yeah, this is all of this.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
you know, this is why people don't just throw a party for no reason because it takes a lot of shit and, and there's, there's money to be spent. That's why it's like, you don't just have parties. It could be, you know, it's a, it's a large undertaking and I don't think it should be everyone else. Like you invited me to a party, you know, even, even at a wedding, like, It's up to you.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
You're kind of a fucking crazy person if you don't give a fucking guess. Thank you. But it's up to you to decide how much. It's not like we're sending out an evenly split bill across 150 people or whatever. This happened to me two years ago.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Um, it was, we, all the college guys used to come up from New York city up to my parents house in the crown jewel, have a little pool party, you know, play a little stump, maybe, maybe see if we want to go out to the bars or maybe those guys just go, go back home to the city. And it was really going strong, uh, two years ago. You know, my time is limited.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
I usually go back for two and a half, three weeks. Uh, and we all had this set up and, you know, day of, uh, I, the morning of, I went out, spent probably 250, 300 bucks on food, booze and stuff like that. And, you know, as guys do coming up with reasons, uh, that they can't make the trip. Oh, car, my car broke down.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
You know, just like stuff happened, uh, you know, to like four or five different people where it turned out only like three guys showed up and I was like, that sucks, but that's the risk you take when you throw a party. And I just bottle it up. And every time they asked me about throwing another party, I bring out the fact that these guys boned me the day of the party.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
And I'm not sending them Venmos. I'm just upset about it. That's it. That's what happens when you take the responsibility of throwing a party. So that's my point.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
You got like a vegan turkey for Thanksgiving and then you decided not to show up.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
You're going to get some terrible nickname that you don't even know about.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Yeah, I haven't been collecting my greens fees lately when I'm booking. I got to really stand up on that. Oh, wow. That's a different story.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
I'm saying just in the hypothetical, the royal we or whatever.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
I wonder if like her, the wife saying, well, if you're going to charge my friend, you have to charge your sick friend thinking like, well, that's insane. He was sick. And like, hopefully maybe he would just drop the whole idea. And he's just like, wait a second. You're right. You know, don't do this.
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‘Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King’ With Author Dan Jones
Don't do it.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
You want details? Bye. I drive a Ferrari 355 Cabriolet. What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South Fork. I have every toy you can possibly imagine. And best of all, kids, I am liquid. So now you know what's possible. Let me tell you what's required.
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Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
Yeah.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Hope everything's well. Hope the family's good. But no, that's not happening.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Yeah.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Yeah.
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NFL Free Agency Hits and Misses with Sheil Kapadia, Plus Chandler Parsons and How History Will View the SGA-Jokic MVP Race
Yeah.
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Part 2: Todd McShay on Shedeur and Cam's Landing Spots, WR and RB Debates, NFL Combine Takeaways, Plus Life Advice!
Sure.
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Part 2: Todd McShay on Shedeur and Cam's Landing Spots, WR and RB Debates, NFL Combine Takeaways, Plus Life Advice!
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Part 2: Todd McShay on Shedeur and Cam's Landing Spots, WR and RB Debates, NFL Combine Takeaways, Plus Life Advice!
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
Yeah.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
I did it the other day.
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Jay Bilas Talks Final Four, Flagg Vs. Zion, Early NBA Draft Thoughts, and the Future of College Hoops
They're doing gas?
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Normal stuff. Normal stuff. Just a guy without a team in the tournament. Are you a Duke fan, Cerruti, growing up?
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
My buddy invested a bunch of money and he was stressed and I text him every time I see one on the road. Wait, say that again? My buddy invested a bunch in Rivian, and I don't know. There was a time when it was not going well, but everyone thought it was going to go well. I don't know where it is now. He hasn't been complaining about it as much. Yeah, I guess I could ask him. Check the ticker.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
I don't know what he got in at, but I remember he was stressed it every day. And every time I see him, I'll be like, dude, don't even worry. I just saw one on the road. It was a joke that I don't think he loved. Well, that doesn't seem very nice.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
I do. That's what I thought of whenever I'd see those memes of that guy with a gun to his head and just the thing that jumps out is Duke. And it's like, ah, they must not love that.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Are you the same age, Kyle, as your wife? No, no. She is like almost three years younger than me. Same. Your wife's three years younger than you, sir?
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
What's the second marriage age gap? Just kidding.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
It's not the same age. I'll tell you that.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Take the lead on this? Sure. I mean, you've gone through this, and I think everybody learns this in college, but a lot of your stories are just like, you know, a light bulb goes off, and you're like, oh, people have just grown up totally different ways, and it's totally fine.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
And that's the, you know, the freshman guy in college who has a brand new Hummer and has, like, figured out a way to be able to drive it as a freshman. Like, it just happens. It doesn't make them a bad person. You know, I think this is...
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
this is someone who you've married who's just grown up a different way and the truth of it is is like your parents who would probably be like why is this guy always letting me pay even if they were doing that which you're saying that they you know they pinch pennies her parents genuinely like this this feels good to them it maybe even feels not necessarily bad to them that you're always trying to to pay but it's like this is this is what they want to use their money for clearly they've budgeted for enough and uh you know they want to use it for experiences with you guys and it feels good for them to be like oh they got a new house
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
that they gave your wife 10 grand for the down payment for. Also, we'd love for them to have a new grill. Like, this is all stuff that they are enjoying doing. And I would say, you know, who cares if it's not really an empty gesture when you reach for your wallet, although I know some people do it and they just do it a little slower than everyone else. That's not what you're doing. Oh, no, no, no.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Um, so I think, uh, I think keep doing that. And then with that knowledge, you might feel better about it.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
If you just spent the money that you are clearly budgeting in your head for all these things, you're like, all right, when the check comes, I'm prepared to lose $300 and you don't, maybe you just figure out a way to budget that money into something for the future and, uh, you know, build a little mother daughter for your next house because you're, you
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
clearly are going to be the ones taking care of them. I think just find the good in this. I get that you were raised a way that makes you feel bad about this, but your wife was raised a way where I guess this is expected. So I'd just say cut it down the middle and be apathetic or slightly happy about it. Don't feel bad about this.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
He had a long semester. And it doesn't really matter.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Yeah. I liked the good gesture thing too. Like, you know what, just like put in for those master's tickets and surprise them, you know, like get, get, get Carmel's dad, that Beretta, you know, get it, get, get him the, get him the present. He's going to be like, Holy crap.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Um, you know, with all the, with all the money that you haven't spent, uh, because of doing stuff with them, just think, just really spend more time thinking about when those gift or good gesture moments present themselves. Like, how can you really crush that?
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
I came up in the always study school. So they have like a similar story, but I don't, yeah, I'm not really familiar with how workaholics kicked off.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
That's exactly what your guy we had on the pod set is like, I can't tell you how many people are like my workplace would be the perfect show. And he's like, let me just stop you right there.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
And it looks so real.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Let him fail. Yeah, maybe you keep your mouth shut until the one year deadline of just maybe you should start moonlighting as a TV show writer that doesn't get paid for it.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Like maybe maybe at that certain point, you can you you know, if it's hard for you to see him on the couch every single day and not doing anything, which you know what, at a certain point, someone could say, mind your own business. you know, if, if you're, if the electricity and the rents get paid on time, I mean, mind your own business.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
But if you're saying as a good friend, I don't feel good about watching this guy do something that clearly on the outside, I think is doing the wrong way, but I don't really know anything about this business. Maybe you wait until he's done with his one year runway.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
And then you can be like, Hey man, have you thought about like, here's some, here's some writers that were waiting tables until they got their thing picked up. Maybe you should start doing something else as well. Um, Maybe that's a good way to break it in because it doesn't sound like, you know, you're like, and he's just sitting around all day and he's constantly late on the rent.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
It's just you're worried that he's like going to look up and be like, I haven't had any work experience for four years and I can't even get a regular job that's decent. And still nobody wants my pilot. So I don't know, maybe wait till your one year runway and still find a way to be supportive and just be like, You know, a lot of these dudes have another gig as well.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
Like you can't just keep tweaking the same script and eventually someone's gonna be like, that's the tweak. We want it now. All your dreams are coming true. So maybe you find a way near that one year runway end point where you can, you know, suggest to, you know, find something else to fill his days and, you know, sort of a backup plan.
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
But there's a world where he can be just as passionate about however long he's actually sitting in front of the laptop or the sketchpad. You know what I mean? Because it sounds like that trails off at some point and our guy gets home from the bars and, you know, he's asleep on the couch with a...
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Russell Wilson and NFL QB Desperation. Plus, a Big Picture Luka Chat With ‘The Wonder Boy’ Author Tim MacMahon.
open bottle of whiskey like there's a world where that guy can be as passionate about as he is about sitting around all day just between 7 and 9 p.m after you know he's decompressed from his job for an hour or two like there is a world where in his mind that's cool too like i'm i'm really grinding to make this and maybe he just hasn't tried that maybe maybe that that is the same amount of work he would have done anyway which you know i don't know yeah that
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
This episode of the Ryan Russillo podcast is brought to you by AT&T. I want to talk about guarantees and the lack of when it comes to windows in the sports world. I love what the Cavs did this year. They know their windows right now, and there's no guarantee that extends beyond this year. We think it could, but many teams have done so in the past.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Are you going to get back on defense consistently all night long? Conley doesn't really even shoot anymore. And the comeback against Oklahoma City, I think he was under 15 minutes in that game. And defensively, he's going to be a target all of the time. So with McDaniels and Ant and Alexander Walker and Shannon, and Clark.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
I think they're going to be going defensive numbers there only because you would think Conley is better offensively to balance out some of this stuff, but it's just not much of a threat and certainly a target on defense. And I feel like there have been games where Finch has decided they're better without Rudy out there. So that'll be a matchup specific thing.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
McDaniels, who I haven't always loved on offense, which I think is completely fair, just a complete breakout February here. He's been lighted up scoring-wise without actually shooting it that well from three, which is actually kind of more impressive. Ant's points per possession on ISO is too low, but I still love him. Golden State, offense 16, defense 8 last year.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Ninth on offense, 15th on defense. So this team has kind of flipped their profile here. This is AB, right? Everything is AB after Butler. Six and one since the trade. In the six wins, beating teams by an average of 18 points. Since the deadline, they're fifth on offense, second in defense. Steph is at 27 a game on 49 and 38% splits with Butler.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Pajemski's plus 19, a team best plus 19 net rating since Butler. So yeah, Small sample. And will they survive small? Because the top six minutes are all smaller players. And their most minutes per game for a big right now is Quentin Post at 15 minutes a game. So it actually feels a little Lakerish. Like, wow, this is awesome. But is there enough here? I need to see more.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
15 teams in 15 minutes. We may go over. Oklahoma City will go by seeding. Number 6 on offense this year, number 1 in defense. They're usually 3.5 to 4 points better than the number 2 team, Orlando. Last year, number 3 on offense, number 4 on defense, so the number's holding up. Okay, giddy playoff numbers against Dallas, plus-minus. He started at the beginning of the series, then was benched.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
But I'm hoping at least to see Steph have some kind of playoff appearance just because it's more fun with Steph. Dallas. This is a bummer. Eighth on offense, 14th on defense. Last year, they were eighth on offense and 18th on defense. But remember, after the trade deadline, they were a much better team. So some of their overall numbers are kind of just pointless. I like this group a lot.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
I thought they were better this year with Luka than what they were last year. The Grimes trade doesn't get talked about a lot, though. I would have put them on the Denver line. So if it's Oklahoma City with Cleveland and Boston and then that plus group, Denver, healthy Dallas with Luca, everybody coming back, the improvements off of last year, better spacing options.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Um, I would have put this team on the Denver line. I wouldn't have cared about the record at all, but this is a team that has to play small out of necessity, not preference healthy AD. I'd probably put them third behind Oklahoma city in Denver because Kyrie has been so good this year. Um, Klay's been really good.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
The Najee Marshall fluke three-point shooting season last year in New Orleans is probably a fluke. Hardy's out of the rotation. Christie is good, but I thought he got hunted a lot in the last Lakers game quite a bit, even though we'd look at him as a defensive guy before he's an offensive guy. Really, I think it was just maybe a body match.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Sometimes I wonder if teams don't hunt Kyrie because they're like, man, that guy just gets it. All right, so look. There's really not much to talk about with this team because there's not any statistical thing because Anthony Davis didn't even play the full game. But I still have some hope that they could cause some noise with AD back in it. But you'd have to have Klay still playing like this.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
You'd have to... You'd have to kind of figure out what your closing group and what you're willing to give up offensively or defensively and how much AD would hold up for a lot of that stuff. 19th toughest remaining straight schedule, so maybe some ground to make up there.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
But the AD thing, look, there's just not a lot that I'm going to have that's all that insightful that you don't already know on this. I would add this. If the Lakers now make some kind of run, a trade that we already know is historically inexplicable, it's going to be so much worse for UMass fans. Like, imagine Luka... in the Western Conference Finals. Okay, Sacramento. No. 7 on offense, No.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
19 on defense, 13 on offense, 14 on defense. So when they made their move into this season, I've always felt like, hey, they're replacing Harrison Barnes and DeMar DeRozan. DeRozan's just still impossible to stop. And some of his offensive pull-up stuff, they're going to raise their offensive ceiling, raise their offensive floor, and just hope they can outscore a bunch of teams.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
Look, they were stuck on the Fox thing so they're going to be worse. Levine's got his 23 game. Cool. Uh, it's nice to see Keegan put up two great months of shooting after kind of a rough start there.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
And looking at the rest of this, Sabonis' stuff, you know, the box scores, when you look at them, if you didn't watch the game, you look the next day and you look twice that they're so impressive, but there's usually going to be some kind of matchup that he's going to be exposed against. Um, there's usually just going to be something there. DeMar's had an awesome February.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
He was a minus seven. The only starter with a negative in game one. Game two, he was a minus 20. Game three, he was a minus one. Game four, he was a plus six in 12 minutes. Game five, a minus three in 12 minutes. Game six, plus two in 11 minutes. By the way, They also gave up 69 points in the second half to Dallas in Game 6 when they were eliminated.
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15 NBA West Teams in 15(ish) Minutes! Plus, Adnan Virk Talks Oscars and the State of Canada.
But I think the most telling thing for Sacramento, and it backs it up when you watch them play, if you go through the 10 teams in the play-in, and obviously for the playoffs, they're 10-18 against teams 500 or better, which is the worst of any of those 10 teams. That's kind of what I expect. Phoenix. It's bad. All right, overall numbers aren't as bad. Yeah, 11th on offense, 27th on defense.
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Last year, they were 10th on offense, 13th on defense, even with all the injuries. Their 27th on D number, well, they were last in the NBA in February. They've gone 2-9. So last in the NBA in February defensively. Last year we kept saying, if all three guys, if all three guys. I was guilty of it. The matchup in Minnesota, look how it played out in the regular season.
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What I don't think I realized at the time was that they were killed in that Minnesota series. And they've just been weakened at Bernie's deep. That's what this whole season's been. And I've been dumb enough at times this season to be one of the guys at the party thinking Bernie's still alive. I don't know how it all just turns around now with this team. I can't believe they're this bad.
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February, look at the rebounding numbers. They're 25th. They're 29th in offensive rebounding. Because they start to look at things like what are older scorers more likely to do, like get to the free throw line less, get to the rebound numbers that you'd want a little bit less. They're getting 78 points per game combined from the three guys in February.
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And that's kind of the point, is those guys get their buckets because there are nights where they were just elite shot makers and the ball's going to go in. But there's just a lot of that and then not as much rebounding that you need the rest from the rest of the game, not just the rest of the group.
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The full complement of the game that you need to be taken seriously in the West, and I don't do it anymore with them, and I cannot wait for Kevin Durant's offseason. Portland, one of my favorite teams late here. A little Portland push. Offense, number 24. Defense, number 23. Last year, offense, number 28. Defense, number 23. But Defensively, they were ninth in the NBA in January.
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They're eighth in February. That's been a big part of this turnaround. So they're a rebuilding team. But I think the most concerning thing is all the cracks that you get at it. Do you have a potential star on this team? It's certainly not DeAndre Ayton, who they've gone nine and ten without.
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think about their record that they're basically a 500 team with eight and out of it so even with his stats at the end of last year and his talent that we certainly know not a winning basketball player it's probably a build around sharp thing I think he's probably your best bet and he does have those moments I mean he had a dunk last night that was I think Denny's a nice player.
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The reason I bring that up is that this team will not have those minutes. Somebody that the other team can completely ignore, and they tried to solve that with some spacing, but the spacing wasn't good enough. Chet, six games back. Last night against Brooklyn, the best he has looked in his return, 22-17, the massive Brooklyn comeback in this one.
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Simons is a nice player. Kamara's a nice player as well. I would get Grant out of there. And Scoot is much better, I think, than he was last year, but certainly not where I'd hope he'd be at the end of year two.
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This is kind of my favorite Cooper flag team, but with this winning streak, not winning streak, but this team that's just been so good now defensively and some of the Chauncey minutes that, you know, who he's rewarding with minutes here. because of how hard they played on defense, they're 10th in the lottery odds.
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So maybe they're my second favorite Cooper flag thing because that's not even close to happening. San Antonio, offense number 17, defense number 17. San Antonio, you know what you're getting. So Wemby's the headline. They're minus 7.8 points, I believe. I don't have last night's numbers in there, but they're 7, 8 points worse with Wemby not in the lineup.
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But at least this year, they just look so much more organized, even with a diminished version of Chris Paul, right? I'm also comparing this year's level of organization to the lack of organization last year. I know people argued the Sohan point guard thing of giving him the opportunity to grow. You know what he also did?
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He wasted a million possessions having a guy who didn't know how to play point guard try to set up these other dudes. So I'll never understand that one. But... They tried it, didn't work. They were also tanking, sort of, not tanking, whatever. But there have been just times this year, at least with the Wembley lineups, where you're like, hey, this team actually looks way more organized.
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Here's the first action. Here's the second action. This is what we're going to do here. They don't shoot it well, right? There's just not enough shooters in these lineups.
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I think the best part is that Castle looks like a real win and that the Fox acquisition reminds me a lot of the market for Donovan Mitchell, where even as great as Mitchell had been statistically and his scoring ability and some of those massive playoff games were just huge, huge output. People around the league be like, you know, he's really good, but he's not this guy. And
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I think the Fox conversation could be a little similar. It's like, oh, do you want to pay that guy? Well, waiting around for perfect, sometimes you're going to be waiting forever. So I feel like both those acquisitions, and it's easy to say that after the fact now with Cleveland, what Mitchell's been able to do.
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But I think it's one of those deals where it's like, hey, we might not be able to do better than DeAndre Fox right now. So if he's available and you're not giving up a ton of assets, it's kind of a no-brainer. So they'll go back into the lottery with their pick. Right now it's ninth.
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Also, there's a bit of a Kendall Johnson thing where I was probably lying to myself for a little bit because he looked in better shape and maybe made some shots the first two months of the season. But that's fallen off. And then we know Vassell's going to take less shots now.
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But on the lottery part of this, don't forget, their pick, which sits ninth based on records, and Atlanta's unprotected pick for the DeJounte Murray trade. That pick is unprotected for 25. Two more teams. New Orleans, 26th on offense, 28th on defense. Last year, 11th on offense, number six on defense. These guys balled last year. Then Zion got hurt at the worst possible time.
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The at-the-rim defensive numbers, if you want to look at field goal and then the differential based on expected field goal, Chet arguably, with 250 minutes played as the qualifier here, arguably has the best stats in the entire NBA. So if you take it a step further, they're 47-11 now. Of the 11 losses, the worst loss of the season based on opponent is at San Antonio.
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All right, so here's what we already know. This team is fucking haunted. Zion's played, well, he's missed 37 games. Ingram played only in 18 before he was traded. DeJounte tore his Achilles right when they had gotten him back. Herb Jones has missed 38 games. People don't even remember. People forget Herb Jones missed 38 games. CJ's missed 14. Trey Murphy's missed 16.
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So I feel for this front office, I've said it numerous times, it feels like every year they do their job in the draft. They do it as well as anybody. Yves Missy, loving little Yves Missy. But, you know, their guys don't play. So there's two positives of the last month or so. And Trey Murphy's been more than a positive in just a month.
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But he's gone 40, 37, and 39% from three in the last three months. He's 23, 6, and 6 on 40% three-point shooting on eight attempts per game here in February. He's a top 25 scorer in the league. Trey Murphy is so good. I enjoy him so much. He is so good that I sit at home and I'll wonder sometimes, could he be a guy you run your offense through on a good team? Certainly a bad team.
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You could do it because bad teams have to have good players. Bad teams have to have a leading scorer as the role. Remember? Yeah, I'm talking about a good team. Not a champion. I allow myself some Trey Murphy fantasies phrasing. Zion. Since he's been back, he's been good. He looks great. He's played really hard. He looks like he's pissed off. The Dallas game. Yes, I know they lost.
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He was pissed off. He had a monster night, I think it was, against Sacramento. The best outcome here is that his market rekindles a bit because of recency bias from other teams watching this. I would not, if I were the Pelicans, go into next season with Zion. You just can't do it. Can't do it again.
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But it reminds me a bit of Anthony Davis, and that Anthony Davis, when it was bad and he was hurt all the time here in Los Angeles, people kind of speculated, like, man, do you flip him? Like, what could you get for him? Now, I don't think you can flip Zion for Luka anytime soon, but if there's some way to salvage the value and you feel like his –
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his market has been resuscitated somewhat this summer, then I would jump on that opportunity. Reset it around Trey and Herb Jones, whatever else you want to do. And then maybe New Orleans is my Cooper flag favorite. But probably if Zion stayed, though, they could talk Duke. I'm kidding. All right, Utah. They're not good, and they have a lot of guys that think they're better than they are.
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This is a collection of dudes that hate passing at certain times. Larry Marketing, unfortunately, now is on a bit of a stretch here where you're like, where's the real guy? Is it the guy that took forever? The guy that had these peak years? Is it because other guys don't want to get to him? Is it that we're never going to see that again?
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That's probably a big part of... He already got the contract and they did the contract a certain way where he's going to be traded anyway, but... You know, he's going to have to be better if he actually can be the lead guy for a not one of the best teams, but somewhat of a competitive team. Not only are they just atrocious on defense, they're 19th on offense, 30th on defense.
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Last year, they were 30th on defense. So that's a back to back run of this. But, you know, the points off turnovers that they forced their last, the opponent's points on turnovers that they give up their last, it sucks. can be a really reckless crew at times, but they have a great structure between ownership front office and my favorite NBA head coach, Will Hardy. So there's some pieces in place.
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They just need one of these players to kind of pop value wise. They have the assets. Unfortunately, they're not a destination. I'd rather live in salt Lake than a lot of NBA cities, but I'm also old. Um, There's not much to add to this other than playing hard cannot solve bad shot selection. 15 teams in just over 15 minutes.
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They've had two games that are... Like, hey, they got beat, which is funny enough that part of it would be the in-season tournament that doesn't technically count on any of this stuff. I mean, to think that you could be almost 60 games in the season and have one game that counts, be like, oh, that was a night we didn't really have it. That's ridiculous.
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People wanted him back, so Rudy wanted him back, maybe even more than I wanted him back. Adnan Virk joins us, the resume, MLB Network, NHL Network, host of Amazon Prime, Monday Night Hockey. I am so happy for you, man, having another outlet and host of NHL Unscripted with Virk and Damaris.
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So I can continue to talk about the third guy. Who's the third guy in the playoffs? What is Jalen Williams like in the playoffs? Maybe it's Chet. Maybe it's Dorton Caruso giving you spacing and incredible defense. Maybe it's Aaron Wiggins who's turned into one of my favorite role players in the league. He's on fire in February, 46% from three.
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I did go to Vancouver. No, I didn't. No, yes, I did. Oh, my God. I just forgot. Yeah, I finally made it to Vancouver. So you couldn't remember. Yeah, it's beautiful in the backdrop and the setting and then like second Vancouver behind it, which I don't think is technically what it says on the map. A lot of drugs, a seedy underbelly of Vancouver. I was good with it after a couple of days. Yes.
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All right. And then I just worked my way north. I went up to Squamish. Then I went up to Whistler. And then I went like another... few towns north of that. And I was kind of like, how far are you going to go, dude? And then I was like, you know, sick Whistler. I'm just going to go back to Whistler. And I loved it. I absolutely loved it.
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There are going to be some options, but we may not even know what they are like fully formed because Chet has just come back. And like I said, it may be years before we see the best version of what Chet is because of the physical part of it, but he was terrific last night. The shooting... The rim protection numbers, they're already there right now. Weird stat for them.
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I think the problem with it is that it's such an Instagram destination now that if you go July, August, who wants to go to Positano? You seriously want to go to Positano late July, early August now? The weather is everything. It's not the weather. It's just there are certain destinations. I've gone to plenty of the Instagram destinations over my lifetime.
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And you show up and like you're walking through Tulum going, there's a hundred fucking people waiting in line to get their picture taken in front of the stupid thing. And they're in Tulum. Like you're this close to getting hit by a car every five minutes. You're like, well, this, this looks like a good idea. Although I did do the, uh, outdoor gym. Shout out to those guys.
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Rebounding rate last year was an issue, 28th in the NBA, 21st this year, so still not great. But again, pre-Chet, who knows? Their clutch defense, despite having this defensive profile, they're 25th in clutch D. So the point is, what does that mean? In the clutch, they choke defensively.
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Sphere is unbelievable.
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It is worth just experiencing anything in there. I've been lucky enough to go a couple times now and... Like, even the first time I was there for U2, and granted, yeah, when I was a kid, I loved them. I was certainly indifferent to, do I want to go see U2 now? And I think I might have even said no. And the person that invited me was like, are you seriously turning down this U2 lineup?
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And I was already in Vegas. I mean, it couldn't not have been easier. And the guy's like, we have a suite in Sphere for U2. And you're saying no? And I went, you know what? That's a bad no. I go, I'm going to turn it around. And it just, it was so incredible. So look, again, anybody, if you have the chance and you're in Vegas to do any of those things.
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But I think it's kind of funny that your wife, like you tried to kind of use me as an influence on this whole thing for your family to spend that much money on this experience. But I know you well enough that it was just all, you were in an Aronofsky. He could have done a fucking cartoon. Right.
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I do think there's, I was at a fancy person dinner not that long ago. There was an Oscar award winner at the dinner. Another guy.
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Incredible run on HBO. One of the heartthrobs of American cinema of the last 20 years. So it was a big boy dinner. Okay. It wasn't McConaughey. And so somebody had said something at the table that I, to this day, I just love. And however they told the story, it's certainly better than what I'll do right now. But, you know, over the course of a few drinks, maybe some small plates.
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And the guy was like, yeah. So he goes, and then we're at the screening and on the screen pops up A24. And then he name drops, turns to me and goes, this is going to be good. Yeah.
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So like I love a 24. I'm as guilty as everybody else of when they come out with something. I'm like, all right, I'm going to give them a chance. But that joke is also the perfect joke. Of kind of where we're at right now with any A24 product. So my biggest thing with the whale was I don't think I'd been in the theater in a really long time. Right.
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It was the COVID stretch because of Aronofsky, because of the buildup. I also think the trailer was was really good at kind of getting you in. But without a trailer, I don't even like looking at trailers with Aronofsky and the whole thing. I would have done it. And my hopes for it were so high that I was a little frustrated. And I think endings are the hardest thing to do ever.
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I think sometimes those clutch numbers can be a little weird, especially when they've played a league-low 16 clutch games, which is 20 less than what Houston has played, most of the NBA 36. Number two seed Memphis, offense 5, defense 9. Last year, 30th on offense, defense 12th. Really, the headline for me on them is a bit like, okay, there's a lot you like.
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So there's so many great movies and great experiences throughout the movie and characters that I'll care about. But even if the ending, like it's just hard to have that ending where you go, holy shit, like that really delivered. I mean, think about it. Even all the movies that you love, there's, you know, there's just not a lot of Kaiser Sose moments.
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Maybe we don't want Kaiser Sose moments anymore. We definitely don't want Kevin Spacey specifically after his behavior. How about that guy trying to just tweet through it?
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You're not bemoaning the fact that it's a movie. I love... I think Fennessey is like one of the best voices at our company. I love Sean Fennessey. And when he drops the stop what you're doing this year...
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Yeah, I change up my phone setting. I'm missing every single phone call now. Everything is and everyone is sent to do not disturb. I'm not getting any calls. And so I think two of the three times I'm really upset. I missed the Blues Brothers like I had just missed it. And then I texted and said, hey, did you call the bill? He goes, yeah, we're doing the rewatchables like gag.
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And I went, oh, what movies like Blues Brothers? I was like, all right, I'm ready to go. He goes, it's done. We're done. So I was like, all right, fine. No problem.
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But I just feel like no one ever remembers anybody's phone number. So now I've memorized so many of them that in case of emergency, I have contacts worldwide.
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Do you take them serious as far as coming out of the West? The answer is probably not. I would put them below Denver, and we'll get to Denver here in a second. The start of the season for Memphis, and there's been some in-and-out rotational stuff that we've all been aware of, 8-7 to 38-20 overall record. So this is a team that's been playing at 30-13.
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I was, I was researching him this week, man. What a run. Well, I mean, what a, what a project. Go ahead. Keep going.
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So this is kind of like you rooting against Kyrie Irving's championship ring.
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I was confused at first because... It's happening in front of you, but it's kind of vague. And then you go, wait, this is taking a turn.
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The shooting numbers, well, they were 29th in the NBA in shooting last year as far as three-point shooting. They're 7th this year. And can we get some love for Santi Aldama? The advanced stuff, he's a completely different guy. And when you watch him, whether it's this offense, whether it's his confidence, all the little stuff that he does, I just think he's a really good player, man.
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I can't even say the final scene, the penultimate thing.
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Yeah. Uh, I thought it was a bit more of a metaphor. I understand what you're saying. Like of the artists, I thought it had to do more with like ultimately Adrian Broderick, uh, Adrian Brody's character. They were always going to be second-class citizens. They were always going to be taken advantage of the same way his art was taken advantage of. Um, I thought it was shot brilliantly, uh,
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I thought the score was great. I think the location and the build to this monument that Toth is building, all of that stuff was really cool. I don't know that I cared about the characters enough at the end to feel something that would match how dramatic all of it was at the end.
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Yeah, and I guess I felt guilty. And maybe, again, it was expectations of people talking about, like, this is one of the greatest films they'd ever seen. I didn't know if they were tricked by the overture, perhaps. Correct.
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The intermission of, like, hey, we got a little Gone with the Wind action here, you know?
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It is a really good movie, but there was just, at least for me personally, my experience at the end of it, I don't know that I cared enough about any one person to feel something the way that I think it was intended.
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Yeah, I mean, that was kind of a tough spot all along. I loved the beginning. I loved the guys coming over on the boat. I think it was really cool how they kind of planted the seed that, like, this guy's not afraid to party. Like, right into it.
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Yeah, who's then, like, it's almost like they have to address Adrian Brody's nose. She's like, you have an ugly face. He's like, yeah, all right. You know, what are we going to do? While we're here.
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But statistically, the profile tells you he's a completely different dude as well. We all know that I love Jaron Jackson. Ja, it's still not peak Ja. It's been three years since he's made over 31% of threes in a season. I still hold out hope that we can see some version of Pete Jock because that changes what you think their ceiling is as a team.
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Mikey Madison's portrayal of a stripper for that opening montage is is one of the most realistic and believable performances by any actor I've seen in a really long time. Like, I'm watching that going, she... Has this like, you know, look, so there's just so many great people out there performing these roles. But like, is it believable?
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And maybe it's because the audience isn't as familiar with her that makes that work. Like some of those battles that you'll have in casting where it's like, OK, no, I always kind of talk about like movies where people will say, you know, what's the first thing when you tell somebody they should see a movie? It's like, well, they'll say who's in it. And that's why casting is as powerful as it is.
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But a lot of writers and directors can sometimes be like, I don't want somebody that's almost too distracting from my words and the story that I'm trying to tell. So I feel like Sean Baker nails that. Nails that combination of the casting because she is so good at...
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You know, she does a really good job of desensitizing what her day at the job is, despite what she's doing, giving lap dances and basically trying to get guys to hand over their money. And from that point on, you're all in. You are 100% in. And even though it gets like crazy in the middle of it, I thought she was terrific.
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Okay, so this is something we were talking about before you came on. And I... don't know when it happened, but whatever was nominated for best picture, like whenever I would see the list, I go, okay, you know, I've seen every single one of these movies. Maybe there'd be the random one that was, that was out there. And then maybe I'd feel like I had to go ahead and check it out.
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I don't know when the time, maybe I just go back through each year's nominations and find like, Oh, that's when you started falling off. And that very well could be a me thing. So I'm not talking about it like as an industry thing, but I, I guess I feel, and I wonder how many people agree with me. when I look at the collection of pictures nominated for best picture, like I, what, what is that?
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I didn't, I didn't see that at all. Like, and I'll definitely never see that. Is that fair? Or is that just me being detached from it?
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And so I think it's just a point of pointing out what we're seeing now and the hope that it can come back at some point. They're also a team that may have to go small here. In the playoffs, there's a lot of teams that I kind of have on. They will they go small with their best unit look and how does that play out in the playoffs?
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Okay, this is a good exercise because I do have it in front of me right now. Although I still can't believe Picnic didn't win in 55. Um, I thought 12 billboards was a little slow. Three billboards.
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Because if you look at their minute dispersal here, 87 at 20 minutes a game and he's their only big that's at 20 minutes a game. So that's just something to think about. I like the depth, but the ED part and some of the victory lap of like, hey, they drafted him. And my thing was like, OK, it's not like he's bad, but you might just be drafting a role player in the lottery.
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You love rock. Three billboards. 12 years a slave. One in 2013. Not the same topic. Um, I love Birdman. I love that it was made. Remember that? I love spotlight.
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I can't do it. I was just thinking about if I could try to do it again because Ruffalo's incredible in it because he just plays this sort of like unassuming guy who's actually incredibly annoying. I'd have to be in character. I can't do it. I haven't seen the movie in a long time.
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Yeah, I don't know. I think Boston gets a bad rap on a lot of that stuff. I've been to a lot of cities. No, look, I've been to a lot of cities now. I've been around.
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Oh, thank you. All right. Yeah. Spotlight, Big Short, Mad Max, The Martian Revenant, Room, Bridge of Spies. What a loaded year 15 was. That's like the LeBron draft. Okay, let me see. That's 2015. So then Moonlight won in 16. That was your Manchester by the Sea should have won.
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Yeah, this might have been it. 2017 might have been it.
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Larry Bird was nominated.
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Actually, Lady Bird. I thought Lady Bird. I liked Lady Bird better than a lot of those movies. Dunkirk. I mean, Nolan. I'm just going to be way too biased. I love The Phantom Threat.
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And then 2018.
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Correct. Correct.
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Yeah, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood smokes the Irishman. No offense. But you still like the Irishman. Let's be honest. It's okay.
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Yeah, I think it's right around 17. But it also could be when I moved to California. I just had more shit going on.
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I watched it.
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Strange? It was strange, yeah. But I mean, you know, A24 is doing some amazing stuff.
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As long as it wasn't another one of those Baz Luhrmann fever dreams. Great Gatsby, we're a big fan of. No, because it was a different movie. I've told this story before. I woke up after like a three-day run in Vegas and then it was like the Sunday night back in my apartment in Boston and I left the TV on when I fell asleep and I woke up to a Baz Luhrmann movie and I thought I was
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hallucinating dying it was like all of these sensations at the same time i'm like what the hell is that and what is going on i'm like is that is this a dream is there someone in my room i was like scared and it was him so it's personal his movies can do that although i do like moulin rouge perhaps more than the average it was moulin rouge by the way that i woke up to
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And knowing that his ceiling is probably a little closer to the finished product because he's older, has played so much college basketball. It's like, OK, but he's big and he can do something. He's averaging one point six post steps per game. Nobody likes to post this league anymore anyway, but if you're drafting him and you're doing it one and a half times, the thing that he was better at
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And you're like, what the fuck is going on? That's exactly what it was. I'm like, this can't be a show, is it? I'm like, turn off the TV, grab an ice water, buddy. Reset. One more Baz Luhrmann thought for you.
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Yeah. Tom is at the list of accomplishments, kind of like Malkovich, where you just can't say anything. You can't say anything to Tom Hanks about his accent.
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Yeah, you're at a certain, I don't know how it works in Hollywood, but once you're at a certain level of accomplishment, no one can ever say like, hey, what are you doing with that accent?
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Stallone being like the underdog again all over, you know, 25 years later. I love Copland. Copland is a good rewatchable.
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than anybody else in college basketball, there are moments where I'm like, what was the point? Number three, Denver. Number two, offense. Number 16 on defense. Last year, number five on offense. Number 18 on defense. I do think it's Oklahoma City, Cleveland, and Boston as far as the first tier, and then a plus Denver. Because there's still some Denver stuff that I'm worried about.
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Yeah, no, no. Help promote his movie, then he starts motherfucking me. Cool, man. Let's see here. Let's end on this. Speaking of hostilities, where are we at with you and your country? I'm worried a little bit. I've had my issues at times. Maybe it's because I got lost in Parma court one night, but I didn't love some of the superiority stuff you guys would throw at us.
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I think a lot of you guys move here, though, to be honest with you. But I don't know what those numbers are. Maybe the total number is misleading, like sometimes share versus actual Nielsen rating. Or what does a Nielsen rating even mean anymore? All right. So between the tariffs and the four nations, I feel like you guys needed it more than we did. And I'm happy for you. And I'm happy for McJesus.
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It's one of our favorite topics.
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And maybe I fall guilty... Their fall prey to guilty of the Mahomes of like, I can't pick against him because of what Jokic is and is at this point my MVP. The Nuggets are fourth on the title odds for FanDuel. If you go to FanDuel Sportsbook as of today, Aaron Gordon, though, I think this is important.
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Okay, so if you look at Trudeau's approval disapproved numbers. Oh, he's in trouble. Hey, but December 24, it was at 74% disapproved.
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okay you want to update that post the four nations we're at 58 approval rating from 22 to 34 34 is this well 34 is still on the lower end for where he's been at since what 2014 for like nine years i mean if you go back yeah even longer so yeah look i just people loved him i think people in canada need this and between just some of the trump stuff like that's
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The four nations and Trump's the best thing that's ever happened to Trudeau because it has nothing to do with whether or not anyone likes him. It's just like, Hey, we beat those guys. Thank God. And you know, it's, it's been a bit of a deflection towards who are you really mad at? Because it's gotten a little hostile. I've looked, I've been along those borders. I know them well.
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We used to have property on the border of Canada in Holland, Vermont, which isn't even a town, I don't think. It sort of is, but it isn't. But it's part of something else. So the border of the town of the property that, again, this is like 40 years ago, but I still remember it. was Canada. So if you jumped over the fence, who knows what was going to happen to you?
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I know where that, but that's why I don't want anything to get too hostile because like, I know the weak points. Yeah. I know where that access is. I know, I know that that, that station has been manned in 38 years.
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I would watch in amazement to go. And I'm not even talking about him specifically, but I would watch the Canadian lineup of comedy shows and just go, what the fuck? But then SCTV was terrific. Yes.
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Great to see you, man. Where can we hear you?
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Other than that, thank you for leaving your Adnan rolling credits until the end. Because if you had started the pod like you did last time with seven, eight minutes straight of shout outs, we would have cut it out probably. You're the best, buddy. Good seeing you. Great seeing you too. You're the best.
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Because as Denver was kind of struggling standings-wise and Jokic was putting up these ridiculous numbers, Gordon has missed 23 of 58 games. And then he had games where he came back with a minutes restriction. So they went 14-9 without him. So they're at 24-11 with him. Murray's been really good for three months.
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The email address, as always, LifeAdviceRR at gmail.com. We've got Saruti, Kyle, Oregon on call. What's good, everybody? Nice Johnny's win. You wonder emotionally, Kyle, you wonder post another UConn victory if there'd be a little bit of a letdown against Butler.
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Feels real good. Okay, moving on. let's see here. Uh, we had a followup or two that I liked. We had a lot of lab lab people checking in.
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Um, what?
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We need some sound effect, but I don't have any buttons to push. Sports medicine physician here, so I feel uniquely qualified to provide feedback, solicited and unsolicited, regarding the life advice for the pod from February 25th. So Rudy, yes, some lab techs just suck at their job. The only way they get fired or reassigned is if enough people complain about terrible lab draws like what you had.
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It's what we call blowing a vein. In short, she went through your vein, not into it. If they emailed you asking to fill out patient surveys, I would definitely bring that experience up. You're not going to do that, though. I don't think that's serious.
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So after not looking great again at the beginning of the season, whatever that was, and the injury stuff, it'd be great to see some more free throws. But if you look at his shooting splits this month, 55-52, 88 splits. But it's three straight months of really good shooting from the outside. They're 8-1 in Murray games in February. The bench we knew would be an issue. They're 27th in points.
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You should punch your arm again the night before. Maybe two days before. Okay, moving on. Number two, Oregon. I'm sure I'm fucking up that spelling. Sorry, dude. Please don't get cortisone shots in your legs for shin splints if you decide to run full half marathons again. It calms the pain down but weakens your bone.
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Kevin Ware was getting cortisone shots for shin splints before disaster struck for him. Maybe a good thing your illness slowed you down.
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Doctors disagree. Doctors disagree, believe it or not.
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Two against one. Yeah. Okay. Number three, calling about lab results. First off, usually the only time we have to call lab results, the only time we have to call about lab results is at the end of the day when we're done seeing patients. So if you don't pick up, it'll inevitably get pushed to the next business day, as is the last thing we do before leaving the office. I don't know.
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Could you change that? Could that be an industry change?
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By the way, the second time it happened to me, it was very early, but I was on a plane. So, um, Anyway, we also can't say, hey, Ryan, this is Dr. So-and-so calling about your lab results and just leave a message with the results unless you give us permission to do so. Some offices will have you fill out forms or document this.
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This is the case because enough patients will accidentally mistype their phone number by a digit. And then you're sharing confidential patient info with somebody who isn't the patient. A big violation.
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You know? Like, will this freak this dude out if I say it this way? But then again, it's not even an age thing.
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There's dudes out there that don't care, right? Like, whatever. We going out tonight? Most people also don't have personalized voicemail greetings, so you can't be confident you're leaving a message with the right person. This is why most doctors, when calling you, will have you verify your date of birth before sharing any info. I handle this by just being as vague as possible. See?
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Maybe it's back to the vague thing. I don't know, man. Don't love that. Hey, just... Well, he gives an example. Hey, just call about your labs you had drawn this week. Everything looks great. See, if you'd said everything looks great. That's the golden ticket right there.
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If there's something concerning, I'll just recommend they call back the next day with times that work to talk and build that call into my schedule. Last point, most assistants are not allowed to give interpretations of lab results because they don't know what they mean or their significance.
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Doesn't matter. Maybe not in the playoffs. New York's last in points on the bench. But when you watch them, you're like, okay, that makes sense. You know who's fifth in points off the bench? The Wizards. So points off the bench aren't necessarily like some disqualifier whenever you're trying to figure out if a team can win a title.
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So out of an abundance of caution, most offices won't let them offer interpretations as they're wrong often enough to create massive headaches. Yeah, I understand. Makes sense to me.
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I think the 4 p.m. Friday call voicemail. Hey, you need to call us is a bad move. Yeah. Personal experience. All right. We'll leave it at that. Seems reasonable. How are those shin splints? We're gone. Dudes are banged up right now. We're blowing veins.
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We're going to have the biggest smile on his face ever. And I can't stop laughing while he's also talking about a tumor. So I don't know what to do right now. But I think I hate to admit, I think I'm aligned with Kyle in that as soon as we heard it was a shin tumor, Kyle and I looked at each other like, oh, all right. So, yeah, this is sorry, man.
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That was a lot for me.
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I'm so excited about the golf clubs. Maybe that... There you go. Yeah. Could have been the golf club transfer. And then we just kind of were like, what did Oregon say? I don't know. It was all timing for me. No, it's not serious at all. Yeah, all right. Good. All right. Okay. All right. A little bit more feedback. How about we go with it? Love the pod. Former baseball athlete. Link below. Okay.
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And because Westbrook has been really needed and important for them to just walk out onto the court and think there's no one that's his equal, I think it's actually like an important personality to have on this basketball team. And I also think it's the first time that I've seen Westbrook finally be like, OK, I know I'm not the guy.
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Body type. Currently a young big baby Davis with a pickup rebound game to rival Westbrook triple double season. I work in tech media platforms and please advise is 100% a fuck you. I don't know anyone who sent that without angrily typing their keyboard and sighing. Huh? God. So he offers up some substitutes. Good. Would love your thoughts. That's good.
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Do you have any builds, edits, changes, et cetera? Okay. But again, she probably can't say that every time. So I think one works. Need your two cents before we move forward. No. That's such a no. No.
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Keep me posted on feedback.
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Circle back next week. Hope the new year is treating you well.
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I like the would love your thoughts. You got to remember it needs to play. It needs to play multiple times. The two cents thing. If you ended every email with, I need your two cents. Yeah. You have a new nickname, right? People can't have that. We can't have that too. Like our, our female submission here. So, um, I like the first one. I like this guy had a lot of ideas.
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He was just throwing a lot of stuff out there, and I think the first one works. Okay. We have another one here, because trust me, I think we have another 15 minutes. We'll be all right. Josh Allens or Winers? Try being tall. 6'7", 220, no gym stats, but have gotten into distance running. Ran first marathon last fall, training for the next one earlier this summer.
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Basketball compass, poor man's Aaron Gordon. Jumper was broken, but I caught a few bodies in my day. Although Aaron Gordon's shooting numbers have been terrific this month, but I guess the email is probably like, oh, I wonder if Ursula is going to throw me Aaron Gordon's February splits.
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Yeah. Boy, can that team not shoot. I don't even want to talk about it. You guys suck at shooting. I think I looked at it. Let me double check this right now.
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And there are times where I think he's almost so in a hurry to get the ball back to Jokic, he actually screws it up. So there's another element of this that we saw with that L.A. game where they were brilliant against Denver defensively. where there's just certain things that other teams will probably ignore. So the playoff stuff for Westbrook, I'm going to look at differently.
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I don't know the last time a team shot 30% from three on a season. Usually it's like 32 is last. And I mean, I'm scrolling through it right now as we're like, I'm already 10 years back and I haven't found anybody with a number that bad when they suck on offense. The Orlando magic are unwatchable. Yep.
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Very good. I was doing some of my all offense. I think it's number two on defense, number 28 on offense. I don't know that there's another team that has that wide of a gap between those two categories. But it's been like that.
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It started as 30 teams in 30 minutes, but we're going to do 15 teams in about 15 minutes. The West, we run through all of the teams, just some thoughts and numbers, and enjoy.
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It's good that KCP, though, was brought in to provide some spacing. 30 mil a year.
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Next week.
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Yeah, right. We'll get to that. I'm using some of my E stuff already. I'm going to stop. Okay, so back to our tall guy who's like, what happened to my email? The recent writers complaining about being named Josh Allen can suck it. People at least have to find out their name before they can make the bad jokes.
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And once Josh Allen retires, although, dude, that's not going to be for a long time, and he's awesome, the comments will be fewer and fewer. I mean, you're telling the Josh Allens out there, just give it 12 to 15 years. Don't worry about it. Try being tall. Everyone has a comment or joke. and don't need my name to make it. You're tall. Oh, really? You should play basketball. I used to.
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Do you hit your head on the door frames? Not usually. The standard door frame is 6'8", so I just slide through. I love that we now know that the standard door frame height size is 6'8". If we do nothing today, we've done that. I'm only 6'7". I sympathize with others that are taller, as it only gets worse. No need for advice, except to advise Josh Allen to suck it up.
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He's not wrong about any of this stuff. People... people lose their fucking minds at, um, I would say like six, seven and higher, six, eight and higher is when people start to just, they think that you're solely there for their amusement. And you're right in a way, you don't even need the name to start it. Again, good friend Chenoweth, a monster, a beast. I've seen it happen all the time.
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People will come up to him like he's not even a real person and like grab the kids. They, hey, come look at this mutant, Toby.
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OK, but what about seven foot one?
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Would you be?
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The Aaron Gordon stuff, even though his shooting numbers are really good, it's clear that it's part of a strategy for the other team to just kind of ignore him. Um, I'm a little worried about where's the spacing? Where are those spacing lineups going to come from when you're running the two-man game of Murray and Jokic on one side?
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How about this? Dream height. Let's go around the horn. Wargon, you're first. 6'4"?
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A lot of that Euro shit that you try to pull off. 6'6", probably couldn't do it.
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I think I'd go 6'6". I think 6'6 means you're... It's not... Freaky tall, but you're like, whoa, that guy's tall. Yeah, and you probably, I think you do something. I think at some point, like in another life, I would have liked to play basketball professionally in like Switzerland or something. 6'6", I probably could trick some guy into giving me a contract.
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Yeah, I had lunch the other day and she was asking me if I missed it. Yeah. You're what, Bristol? It's like, you know, I haven't seen you around a lot lately with the guys. And I was like, oh, yeah. What's up? She's like, you miss it. And I was like, how much do you love that? It's a nice compliment. Yeah, it's a nice compliment.
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Are you just going to have guys on the other side of the paint ignoring everybody else? And if you look at points, percentage of points from three... Denver is last in the NBA on the percentage of their points from the three-point line. But when they won the title, they were 20th. Lakers, look out. Offense, 10th. Defense, 13th. Last year, 15th on offense, 17th on defense.
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I mean, that this one place I've tried to tell him so many different times that I didn't play hockey that I don't. I just gave up. All right. I love this last email.
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NBA comp Tristan Thompson, a lifelong undersized center who will win every one-on-one rebound battle. Need me to do anything else? You're screwed. I played an adult softball team for the last three years in San Diego, but moved to Portland earlier this year, so my time with the team is done. Side note, we went to the championship five seasons in a row and lost all five times. Brutal.
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I got into the softball scene by meeting a guy named... No, he gives his name here. Is it unique?
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Let's just call him Lester. Uncle Lester. Yeah. Nice. you can't make an omelet without cracking a few Greg's Tomlin.
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Yeah. All right. Uh, by meeting a guy named Lester who eventually invited me to play on his organized team through the years, players would leave the team because Lester was rough around the edges.
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He and I became pretty close friends and he actually opened up to me about his struggles with Asperger's and his inability to understand how to have interpersonal, uh, interpersonal skills with most others. Uh, Everything was fine between him and I until December when he called me asking if I would be willing to put $50,000 into an E-Trade so that he could use the money to short stocks.
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Lester comes from a Wall Street background and told me for years about an algorithm that he invented to do quite well in shorting. Here we go. However, at this time, Lester was being sued for said algorithm and was legally prohibited from using his own money to invest, but was told by his lawyer that he could still use the algorithm to invest other people's money.
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Several of our softball teammates, whom I also was becoming good friends with, had been speculating for months prior to this that Lester was having money problems. I knew his proposal was insane, but I wanted to initially give him some benefit of the doubt. So I asked him for the details of his plan, his answer.
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If I agreed, he would be taking 50% of the profits, leaving me with the other 50% of 50% management fee. That is high. I asked for elsewhere. Yeah. I asked for his trading history and what he sent over was a spreadsheet of four successful shorts he executed along with the profit percentage that he took home. That's it. Attached. I opened the attachment. This is so ballsy.
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Dude, it's a spreadsheet titled historical data.
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And then he just puts the profit off of the different symbols that he shorted. He even says he called the Silicon Valley bank bankruptcy, a hundred percent position.
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And then he does a service agreement that I read through. And it's like, I don't know. I just, whatever. The guy just wrote it up on Word and was like, here's the agreement. Seems official. It was a service agreement that literally nobody should ever agree to attached. So I felt like he was taking advantage of our friendship, needing more time to evaluate how I felt about his actions.
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I told him I wasn't in a position to do this. We need to wait until the new year before I even have the funds to commit. I realized this was a mistake because now it's February. This is a little bit like I love you, man. Right, Kyle? You like that movie?
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It's about the defense holding up because this team is on fire defensively. Their last 15 games, 12-3, number one defensive team in the NBA overall. which still seems like long-term, like is this who they're going to be? They're just going to be one of the best teams on defense. When they added Donchich to LeBron and to Reeves, those are your closing three perimeter guys. So how...
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Wow. I hate to one of the best.
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I like, I'm, I'm, I changed my mind, you know, that's like McConaughey type turnaround. Good for you, man. Okay. Um, long story short, I never agreed to do this and Lester kicked me off the softball team. Yeah.
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It seems like a good... When teammates asked me about it, when teammates asked about me, better said, he said I wasn't on the team because he couldn't get a hold of me and then started telling people that I asked him for a $50,000 loan for my company. And when he said no, I stopped talking to him coming around.
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I'm still close to some of our teammates and have a prideful reputation that I would like to uphold to everyone else on the team that I spent years of great quality time with. even though I've moved to Portland and will likely never see most of them again. Should I call out Lester out in front of everyone via a group text or just move on with my new life in Portland?
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He's full of shit and has impacted my reputation, but will addressing this really do more good than harm? Thanks, you guys are the best. Fuck him. He tried to steal your money, or he thought he was going to make you money, and then when he lost the money, he was going to say, sorry, dude, you saw the agreement. Sure, I think a lot of people would listen to this and say, who cares?
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You move to another city. As he states, he's likely never going to see most of these people ever again. If he is lying about you, now you could say, hey, this guy's super unhinged. Don't even get into the whole thing. That's why some of these people get away with this stuff because nobody ever says anything because it's like, oh, I'm just going to move on.
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So my advice to you very specifically would be like, yeah, I would look forward to sending that text. Are you kidding? I wouldn't be able to sleep at night the night before to be able to go back to the softball group text and be like, hey, Lester, did you actually tell these people that I asked you for a $50,000 loan? Are you serious? Do you want to do this?
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Do you want me to share your spreadsheet, your manifesto?
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How is that going to hold up defensively? I don't know. Maybe LeBron steps up enough, has stepped up. Maybe Luka plays a little bit more pissed off in the playoffs. Reeves at least is in good position. So they were so good in that Denver game. I just can't believe that it's good. I can't believe the profile is this good.
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Adnan Virk, we try to keep him in check a little bit more than last time on this one, but we're going to talk Oscars, Best Picture, Four Nations, other stuff, travel, and we've got life advice, a really long one again for you today.
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The best part about this question of what is possible for the Lakers this year is that the Luka trade felt like a franchise reset where you're kind of punting on 25. But if they keep up this defensive run that they're on, which again, it feels a little impossible. But I mean, you know, what's wrong with being the sixth best defense in the NBA since the trade deadline?
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The fact that we were talking about him as a dark horse title contender, I think, is a compliment in itself. There's also some other stuff worth looking at. 66 minutes per game in February of Finney Smith, Vincent Vando, and Jackson Hayes. Look who I'm just never going to like.
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Catch the lobs and his defensive plus minus stuff because he's just so active and he's a huge necessity based on their lack of depth. at the big positions for this team. But this went from, oh, Luka, well, kind of punting on 25 and see what happens. And I'm sure they didn't say internally, hey, we're punting on 25, but Now it feels even more real.
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And Luke is just going to get better and better because these last two games, he's starting to look like Luke again. Houston, offense 14th, defense 4th. Last year, 20th on offense, 10th on defense. The defense has been slipping a bit here. So if you go last 15 games, they're 13th on D. Van Vliet's only played one game in February. I love them. It's one of my favorite teams to watch.
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Everybody already knows that. But this is kind of a weird way when I watch them. Like one of the things I'll think about. We talk about the two timeline thing. We just had Anthony Slater point that out with Golden State. Other teams have tried to do in the past. I'm thinking about doing a two timeline deep dive on the rebuilding.
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Not to say that it works or completely write it off and say that it never works. But Houston's in a just interesting spot in that it's supposed to be kind of the Jalen Green, Alpy Shingun deal. But it might be about a man, Thompson, who's become a league pass favorite. How about the shooting splits for him?
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Granted, he's only taken one and a half threes per game, but he's 52 from the floor, 36 percent from three. Doesn't look good, but it's just so much better because he's more confident all the time. He's getting into this jump shot more and more. So they have a bunch of players that are kind of the same age, but it may be like they have to pick a few of them and go, OK, these are the guys.
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And Jalen Green is still going to be the closer for them. Offensively, at times, we know the clutch offensive numbers are not very good, but they have a really good clutch record. I wouldn't give up on Jabari. I think since he's come back, he's actually looked a little bit better with the basketball.
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There's some defensive rim stuff with them where I think it's not good, but then maybe it's because of the help and all of their athletes because those numbers are actually pretty good that aren't showing up in the overall defensive numbers.
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The one thing that I was looking at here was when it comes down to it in a playoff spot, is there something that you're imagining right now as you've watched all these Rockets games? You're like, this is what it's going to look like when they're closing out a tight playoff game that's only a couple points. Because there is a lot of ball stopping with this team.
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They're last in average seconds per touch in the NBA. And that actually makes sense, whether it's Jalen probing or Van Vliet trying to find that angle. But a man is going to be taking more and more of those possessions, even though Shingun leads the Rockets in fourth quarter scoring at five, just over five points per game, which is actually only 48th in the NBA.
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So is that a team that is actually better than Having somebody be a more defined go-to guy is the depth that we love so much actually hurt them a little bit into whose turn it is at the end of a close game and then ultimately a playoff game. All right, Clippers. This is a great story and another one that I kind of can't believe. Offense 21st, defense 3rd. It probably surprises some people.
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Last year, offense 4th, defense 16th. But they're getting torched here in February. Opponents are shooting 41% on threes in this month. The bigger story of the year, at least, is the preseason over-under. They were 35.5 wins. They're 32-26. They're on pace for about 45 wins. They've done a great job. Lawrence Frank and the front office and Ty Lue They do a really good job.
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They identified better needs defensively for some of their perimeter matchups, certainly to try to protect Harden there a little bit as well. Zu is one of the most underrated guys in the league. They've done this without Kawhi for 41 games. I think he's looked pretty good in the games where he's played 30-plus minutes.
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They're 4-6 in their last 10, but Norm hasn't played since February 13th, so I'm impressed with what they've done. They've exceeded my expectations. They continue to bring in all these players who I cannot stand. And if Ben Simmons had an aggressive and won the other night, congrats to him.
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But I'm just not going to pick them against anybody because I just think they're going to be a bad playoff bet because of Kawhi's health and Harden's track record. Something with Harden that I've noticed this year, too. Tight spots, fourth quarters, turnovers. It's a problem. If you look at the top 50 players in usage in the fourth quarter, only... Only jaw is worse on the turnover ratio.
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Jokic fans, don't look at his. Minneapolis, also known as Minnesota. All right. I wasn't trying to be clever there. I have it written down as Minnesota. All right, this is what we got. An offense that's 12th, a defense that's 6th. Last year, an offense that was 17th, a defense that was 1st. Whatever the defensive issues were very, very early in the season, they're just not an issue anymore.
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You could point to the second lowest contested three points per game, but Orlando's last, so that's two teams that we really like their defenses overall. Those defensive numbers are really good, so that number doesn't really show up as being that much of a detriment to the overall stuff. The biggest thing overall is what's Finch going to do with Randall Conley and Rudy in a playoff series?
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Rudy's still the best bet out of that group. Randall might become a 20 minute at night guy because he just I think everybody has to come to the realization of like whatever his numbers are and his skill and his shooting and his passing and some of the rebounding and all that kind of stuff. It's just he's sort of out there on his own. He's going to get his numbers. But what about the other stuff?
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It is. And I'll be honest, I don't think it's earned.
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What's new about Otani? He's pitching again. Like, we're going to get that version.
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Here we go. Can we do the Central right now?
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Okay. Not very good. That's about it.
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I don't know. Yeah, fucking calculus is hard.
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I... I like the Rangers.
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I'm sorry, Kyle.
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What do you do?
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I don't think you need.
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1515.
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I understand why they're making fun of you.
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Yeah. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you. I haven't talked to you since the New Year. Has it been that time?
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Well, I think there's a lot of question marks just around Fields as a whole. You know, I think when he landed in Pittsburgh, there was a lot of issues with his mechanics, his foot, you know, his feet, his footwork in the pocket, his accuracy, you know, he's an athlete. He does a damn good job with the ball in his hand when he's running.
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However, you know, he goes four and two when he's a starting quarterback. And then he's ultimately benched by Russell Wilson. And a lot of people are saying like, eh, you know, was that the necessarily necessarily right move? But then you see when Russell got into the offense, uh, He saw an upgrade, especially in the past game for the Steelers.
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Nevertheless, man, I don't know if he's a bad quarterback or a good quarterback. I just know he's an athlete. And I know Aaron Glenn and the Steelers seem to – excuse me, the Jets seem to have –
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some form of optimism to allow him to be QB1 for the Jets, which is weird because I thought Tyrod Taylor was going to be the guy to at least be the bridge until they possibly go into the draft or next year's draft and get a starting quarterback. So the fact that they gave Justin Fields all that money, they must be seeing something or know something that we simply don't know.
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I think a lot of people are just up in the air about it and don't necessarily know how to feel. They just know they got a young athletic quarterback who walked out of Pittsburgh with a winning record.
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I want to say myself. I feel like I had to work on myself. I feel like that was me in Pittsburgh, man, because I got hurt and You know, I was playing right tackle, and then they drafted Marcus Gilbert, and I was forced inside to play guard. And I think my situation was more due to injuries. But I don't think I've ever played with somebody who's like, hey, man, if it doesn't work here.
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You know, for offensive linemen, you know, it's funny. My career, I was a defensive tackle, moved to offensive line where I played right tackle, then forced inside. I didn't make a dare. There was nowhere else for me to play. You know, it was just like, bye-bye. You know, you're just not good enough. So there is a sense of anxiety and a heightened sense of, man, I got to make this work.
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And, you know, when I came off my second IR, I wasn't even forced to play right guard. I was moved to left guard, which was different for me because I had, you know, most of my career on the offensive line, I played the right side. So I really had to kind of change my mindset and my mechanics just to survive at left guard, which was tough, but I was able to do it.
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I do. I do. I thought the last couple of games for the Jets, he played well. I think once Olufashinu, their first round draft pick for the Jets, was able to crack the starting lineup and replace Tyron Smith, he seemed more comfortable in the pocket. And at the same time, he was a lot healthier. You know, last year he was dealing with a lot of knickknack injuries. He was dealing with the ankle.
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There was a hip issue. There was a hamstring. Every week you looked at the injury report, Aaron had something. And I think towards the later, the back end of the season, excuse me, he started to feel and look more mobile, right? He was able to kind of evade the rush and get outside and make some of those off-platform throws.
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And then you started to see the numbers and his production kind of pick up. So which led me to believe after watching him for a couple of games that, you know, there's still something in the tank. It was just weird that He just didn't have the chemistry that we thought he would have with Devontae Adams. Garrett Wilson and him seemed like they weren't on the same page.
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But overall, as far as him making every throw on the field, he could still do it.
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Well, to be honest, I'm going to go with Aaron Rodgers simply because I know Aaron right now can make every throw in the field. One of the biggest bugaboos with Russell last year was that he simply struggled with throwing the ball in the middle of the field. You know, everything was in moon balls. Yeah, he can make the layups, but he seemed boxed in at times.
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And he took a couple of bad sacks, which we knew that was his thing. But when he was decisive and deliberate with the ball, he was money good. I like Aaron. I like Aaron when healthy. And if he's able to stay healthy, which is the number one question, I think he'd be super productive, especially now that you have DK Metcalf and now you got George Pickens.
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And so they continue to put weapons around him. I think he can still make it go.
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No, you're right. I think I was just exhausted about everything. The fact that this team went into the second year and with Aaron healthy in this offense, especially with a revamped offensive line, I just expected this team to perform better. And they didn't with him in the starting lineup. And then you start to see him age week by week on top of,
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Their parents is on McAfee and everybody chasing the headlines after every interview he did on top of all the headlines that were coming out of that locker room. And it became exhausting. So, yeah, I was really bitter and somewhat exhausted from this, from the from the fact that I thought he was going to be the savior for the New York Jets. And he simply wasn't.
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And sure, his first year, he tears his Achilles. Achilles, nobody expects that. And everybody kind of gave him a pass. But overall, going into the next year, I just thought things were going to be a lot better than they were. And to your point, they gave him everything he asked for. So I was just more exhausted and disappointed that the Jets weren't in a better position.
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For that team to finish 5-12 with the roster they had felt like a huge letdown. And, you know, Aaron, you know, we know there's a lot that comes with him. You know, he's just a different dog and a different breed. Overall, I'm okay with the personality if you're winning. The Jets weren't winning. So it just wasn't adding up to me in my head.
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Which, listen, I don't, first of all, I think you do make a good point. NBA, baseball is different because those guys are on the road for an extended period of time. You get to know a guy a little more intimately, especially when you're sitting around and he's on the phone with his wife and talking to the kids, you get to see the human being. However, when it comes to football,
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I think in particular, specifically about Aaron Rodgers, I thought he did a great job of, you know, immersing himself into that locker room. You know, when you see him and Sauce Garner at games, when you see him at different events with his teammates and Aaron being 41 years old, there was a sense that he's going to be this cranky old dog in the locker room. That simply wasn't the case.
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A lot of those guys really took to Aaron Rodgers and got to know him. And I think he kind of opened himself up. I think everything we learned about him from a personality standpoint in New York was that he really wanted to be in New York. You know, he brought the house. He was he was hitting the Knicks games. He was eating out.
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He was he was really kind of buying into the New York market and what it entails. And watching him talk to the media, you know, yeah, he would get kind of snarky and kind of get agitated with some of the questions. But I watched every pressure he did at the end of games. He handled it the best way he could.
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Obviously, everybody talks about that Mike Williams situation where he kind of dumped Mike Williams over a hotbed of coals and kind of cooked him up. But overall, guys loved him and guys responded to him.
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And it seemed like on Twitter, if you're a diehard Jets fan, there wasn't a lot of that core, meaning Quentin Williams and Sauce Gardner and then on and on, really had anything bad to say about Aaron Rodgers. If anything, they were advocates of his. and really wanted him to stay in the building.
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I remember towards the end of the season, I think Quentin Williams has a quote pretty much saying that he loved Aaron Rodgers, loved his leadership, and really wanted him to continue to be the Jets quarterback.
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And I think a lot of that happened was because Aaron opened himself outside the locker room by spending extra time with these guys and not just saying, hey, man, I'm here to win games, and I'm too old to be talking to you young kids. That wasn't it at all.
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Yeah, I think number two for me, the fact that you let a guy go who, you know, very few people know, um, And he got paid on top of that. But I also think that's indicative to how Roseman empowers to be in that building, feeling like they're able to let a guy like that go and kind of reload.
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There's no question the impact that defensive line had in the Super Bowl and was able to kind of turn it up in the playoffs. It's just interesting. All these guys are getting paid. You look like I look at me a couple. Yeah. Give me a couple of you were like, well, Javon Kinlaw. Let's keep it a buck, man. Like, I watched – let's keep it buck. I watched that guy.
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I watched him all season with the Jets. And the fact that he got paid – to go to the commanders and man, I was like, man, I started, you know, it was crazy. Every guy, every guy I played with or know in the league, we were somehow, I was, you know, texting each other and we were kind of like, man, can you believe this guy get this money and all this other stuff.
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But I instantly started rubbing my knees. Like, man, I know you've got one game in you somewhere, daddy, you know, you got something in you just because it's insane. Like I, you never want to, you, you always want to stay out of God's pocket, which I think I tried to, especially when I've been on the field since 2016.
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So there's, there's a part of me, this part of this dog that I'm like, man, I can still, I can whip something up. I can turn on the engine one more time, but to see some of these deals, man, I'm like, damn, I got to have something to show off. So I get some of that money, man. Cause some of these guys, man, I, they getting paid, but I listen. Yeah.
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It's the market, you know, God bless their pockets and bless them and their families. Uh, give me a signing. You like, I mean, I like Darius Slate to the Steelers. I like that. Uh, Do you like Metcalf in the trade? I like Metcalf.
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I just don't know how those, between him and George Pickens, I don't know how those, you know, those two personalities on the field and hostile situations, I don't know how that's going to happen. This is where Mike Thomas' magic really is going to be on display. You know, because I've seen DK Metcalf kind of, Lose it, if you will. And I've seen George Pickens lose it.
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Both because they felt like they weren't getting the ball enough or they were getting slided or some type of way. But yeah, those are, I mean, Slay I like. I like Hargraves too, the Vikings. And on and on and on. So those are things that kind of pop out right now. Do you think the Steelers ownership hates Mike Tomlin? No, I don't think they hate him, but I think they're ready to turn the page.
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You know, I think, you know, you heard Shannon Sharpe say the other day that the standard of the standard just doesn't mean anything. It means mediocrity. And I think that's starting to be the running consensus around a lot of people who support Steelers or are fans of it. It's funny.
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I was a Super Bowl man and I ran into a lot of my old teammates because everybody was kind of whoring themselves around media row and kind of, you know, kind of, you know, trying to shake hands, kiss babies type thing and find a door so they can walk through with their media career. But on and on, you know, we were talking about the culture of the Steelers. At one point, it meant something.
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And now it feels like it's just something that you just say. And it doesn't have as much weight as it once did. And some of the stories I was hearing coming out of the locker room was interesting, man. So I'm going to leave it at that.
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No, but it was just, I got the feeling that the old way and what I was brought into doesn't exist anymore. And that was disheartening. Okay.
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Were they going to the Bears?
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I thought he was solid. I think he was what they needed at the time. I think he's obviously a better guard. made a lot of hay there. I think he's, what, 30, 31 years old, so he's still serviceable. He's still battling. He's all pro. And, you know, the Bears desperately need talent on the offensive line. I think Ryan Poles did a horrible job signing that one guard.
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I think it was Nate Davis to give him $30 million, and he's an absolute dumpster fire. And I think after watching Ryan, excuse me, Caleb Williams last year, they needed to protect the young man. He was going to be chucking and ducking this year, and they couldn't have that. So, And they got Jonah Williams, too, which I'm really happy about.
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So, yeah, I think the Bears did a great job thus far of filling some holes in the offensive line so the young fella can hum.
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I think the question is why was he available? I think that's what I think about it. A guy who's 26 years old with that amount of experience underneath his belt felt like he would have been locked up right away, and he wasn't. So that's the first question that comes to my mind.
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Yeah, but he was healthy for the most part, right? And I think that was pretty much it. I think it's hard right now to find a quality offensive lineman who don't have that red flag next to the name, meaning injuries, right? I think about Morgan Moses going to the Patriots. Morgan Moses is a warrior. I mean, he's dealt with a knee fracture, dealt with enough injuries, but had to play through them.
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But he just, I think he got like 11 million or 8 million to go to the Pats. And some people are saying like, that necessarily doesn't help us because if he's only able to play five games, that doesn't lock up our offensive line. So I think if you're a healthy offensive lineman right now who has enough starts underneath your belt, you're going to get paid. And we saw that across the league.
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Where did Kappa go? I think how much Kappa got paid, too. I think he's a solid guard. Alex capital from out of the Bengals. I forgot where he went, but he's a guy who I thought was good, but he was, you know, Raiders.
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Well, I think right now, listen, I think from the neck up, a lot of these guys aren't being taught the fundamental, I guess, I guess the foundation of what it takes to be an office alignment. Like I was, I was extremely fortunate to have off some line coach at Damon Rebluski, who not only taught me the mechanics of being an office alignment, but also was able to sit me down and teach me football.
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Right. And then once I was able to get into the league, You know, I was fortunate enough to sit in the room with Alan Faneke and Jeff Hardings and understand how they looked at defenses through their lens, understanding shells and rotations and all that stuff. I think, Dave, I think through this time, a lot of these offensive line coaches have kind of pretty much dumbed down the offense.
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And listen, this is what you do. This is all you need to know instead of seeing the big picture. So I think by the time these guys get to the league, And compared to especially where they come from, I think once they get in there, man, a lot of these guys are pretty much starting over from the neck up as far as learning the game and how to play the game from an office alarm perspective.
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And I think that that hurts guys. And I think, yeah, you can be big, fast and strong, but there's still a lot to the game. You have to understand. So you, for you to be effective, especially depending on the scheme, you just, you know, you get drafted into. And, you know, a lot of guys, It's just a different game. A lot of these guys are playing more in the two-point stands.
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You don't see a lot of guys getting into three-point stands anymore. I think leverage, handwork, being able to be eye-disciplined where you put your hands and how to see things on the field, all those things matter. So how you're taught in college and how you transition into the league
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And I think that's why you see good office line men like Tristan Walsh and a lot of those guys, you can tell they were taught right, not just from a mechanical standpoint, but from the neck up, they were taught the game the right way. That's why they're able to succeed.
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He makes it sexy. You know, if I'm a fat, chunky kid who wants to be a running back, put on a soul tape and you got a hybrid there. The fact that they hand that man the ball, the fact that he is allowed to run the route and still, you know, get a rep and a tight end, if you will, and then go back to the office line and play tackle, I think
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Yeah, I'm a fan of him because he seems like a hybrid offensive lineman. I love him. I think he's made the position way more sexier than I think I've ever imagined. And, you know, if I have my son, my son, if my son grows up to be offensive lineman, I'm like, there's there's a chance you get the ball in the game, son. So stay ready, which is which was never said during my time.
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ever the only time an office lineman got the damn ball if you were like on your way out the door in retirement and they just wanted to give one to the gipper like you know hey man you're about to retire next year let's do something fun with you that's no longer an option you're actually a threat within the offense and we're seeing it with penea sewell so i i love watching him and he kicks a lot of ass so i i love i love everything about his game did they ever do that for you
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No. No. I think the closest I ever got to the ball was against the Giants my Super Bowl year, man. Ben got, I think it was a sack fumble. The ball rolled in front of me, and I picked it up. And I'm actually picking up the ball, and I see green pasture in my head, Ryan. I'm about to go 60 with this thing. I'm about to take this thing to the crib. And I have it in my hand and I'm running.
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I actually see my right guard, Darnell Stapleton, throw a block. He actually gets the guy. And it opens up even wider. Wider. And, man, some dude, I don't know who he was, I got shoestring tackled to the point where my leg gets kicked up in the air and I probably averaged a yard, a half a yard. It was embarrassing.
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But in my head at that time, me having the ball in my hand, I was going 60 and there was nobody going to catch me. And I got shoestring tackled right there on the spot. Embarrassing. Didn't feel good at the moment. I got teased relentlessly about it.
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When did that become a thing, by the way?
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No, hell no. When I went back was for the 10th anniversary of our Super Bowl. And I was lined up with the rest of my teammates and they kind of call your name, step forward, you give a wave to the crowd and kind of step back. I personally didn't get one. I think my only tributes I get at times is,
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Me either, you know, getting in a fight on the field where somebody's like, hey, I remember that game in Baltimore. Or, you know, our playoff runs at, you know, different games, especially our game against San Diego. I think we did well as an offensive line. But, yeah, I personally did not get a tribute video. Okay.
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No.
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So we can't say that it's... I love you for the thought, but I'm pretty sure they ain't looking for me. I thank you. It warms my heart that you think of me in that light. I'm pretty sure the Steelers would have not, they wouldn't even acknowledge my presence. So I don't even think the Steelers do that, honestly.
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Yeah, because I remember when I was on the Steelers, I remember when we played against Chris Hope, and he was at the time with the Titans, and he was a part of that 2005 Super Bowl team. He got nothing. Lawrence Timmons, when he was with the Dolphins, got nothing. Joey Porter, when he transitioned to the Dolphins, got nothing. So...
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Those were all significant pieces of part of our team, and they had nothing. So I doubt Willie Colon was ever on the list of getting anything. Did you ever pull when you were playing tackle? Yeah, I pulled all the time. I forgot the name. I was on the right side, so he was like 35 chief. And that's when I pulled. It was a tackle pull. Yeah. So, all right. So there's something for your son.
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But I didn't have the ball in my hand. I was going to find work. It's different when you get the ball in the hand. Like, I always pulled. I always had plays where I was able to pull. But there was nothing where Panay Sewell, when he's coming around the bend, he's handing him the ball to go get yards. Like, that's... That's a dream. I would have loved, especially the genesis of my career.
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I played in a triple option. I was a fullback, right? I was a 250 pound, 250, excuse me, 250 pound fullback as a freshman in high school. And I was averaging like four yards a clip. And all I do, all I was doing was running dives. I loved it.
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I was pulling at every position I was throwing at. I was pulling at tackle. I was pulling at guard. I was a guy, especially on trap plays and counters and all that stuff. Yeah, I was coming around to it. I was coming in there.
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I used to think he was a beast. He was a dog, man. Especially young Lawrence Timmons was viciously good. How fast he was. Well, he was a receiver in high school. And then he converted to a linebacker when he got to Florida State. And then he was a prick, too, which was wild. Me and LT were getting into fights in training camp all the time. And I loved him. But he was just one of those...
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I don't know. You ever play with somebody who's like really athletic, but just a numbskull, right? You just can't explain it. Like he just, he's really good, but just has like this prick mentality. He was like that. Cause he would, he would like blitz and he would try to like, Earhole you. But like in practice. You know what I mean? Like LT, why are you trying to earhole me in practice?
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Like we're on the same team. And I get it. Like I would do dirty things to my teammates at times. But this is like Thursday, right? I'm trying to get ready for Sunday. I don't need a concussion before Sunday. And, you know, we got the Titans or the Ravens. But he was that type of guy, man. And then if he ever got you, he would kind of look back at you and laugh.
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Like this little sneaky little third grade giggle he would give you. And I'm like, I'm about to fight you. Like, because now it's, you pissed me off. And I know you know better. You've been here long enough to know not, you shouldn't ear hole your teammates. But he was, he was good, man. I remember our game against the Chargers. They, and this is when Damien was there. Uh,
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No, Damien, I think it was the Jets. Whoever it was. I think it could have been the Chargers. Anyway, Damien was out in the flat, man. And Damien was wide open. And LT's on the other side of the ball, on the other side of the field. And he, I mean, he shot out his shoes and made a tackle one-on-one with LT, with Damien Thompson. And I was like, damn, this guy's damn good.
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Like, he was just a damn good linebacker, man. He was tough. And he played his ass off. So I was always a fan of his.
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Brian, Mike Tomlin would, before, I think it was either before we started training camp, would kind of go through this... like this montage of guys who were putting in the work during the offseason.
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And I remember this one picture of LT with those, you know, those macho man Randy Savage glasses, like the reflectors, and no shirt off, and like these tights, and these tights on, in sand doing pharma carries. And he looks like shredded. And he goes, if you're not putting in this type of work, then this is a picture of success.
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If you're not putting in this type of work, we don't want you in the building. And I remember saying to myself, I know I was putting in work, and I still can't look like that guy. Like, yeah, I know I was doing my job. I was doing my part. I mean, he looked like a Greek god. It was intense.
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So his initials is Lott?
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I wish I knew that when I was in the locker room with him.
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Yeah, I mean, I thought he was good.
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Well, I think a lot of reports that trade demand is ridiculous. I think the Bengals have really done a bad job of really realizing that, one, he wants to get paid. Two, he's been trying to get paid for some time. This isn't the first time he's kind of knocked on the door. And three, he's all they have. Like, I don't know... I mean, Jermaine Hubbard's retired. Jermaine Pratt is gone.
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I think Vaughn Bell's gone. Like, they don't have a defense. Like, he is the defense. I don't understand how you don't make it work with him, especially because I think they were three and eight in one score games, right? Like, they need help defensively, and he's the only bright spot. I understand wanting to pay Jamar Chase and Tee Higgins, but right now you don't have a defense.
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You need something. You can score all the points in the world, but if you can't stop anybody, you're pretty much going to repeat what happened to you this year. I understand Joe Burrow's a damn good quarterback. I understand what Jamar Chase can do. But I also understand that Jamar Chase was extremely efficient because they had a damn good number two in T. Higgins.
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So I understand what you want to do offensively, but you got to figure it out defensively and let it go. Hendricks, I don't know how you make sense of that. You need him on your defense. And to your point, he hasn't slowed down. I remember Hendricks when he was with the Saints. He was a dog dead, and he's only continued to be a dog. So it's definitely a head-scratcher.
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Ty Jerome on the Cavs' Breakout Season. Plus, National Champion Will Howard on Ohio State's Title Run, NFL Combine Stories, and His Pro Future.
I'll just keep it moving.
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I feel like all the guys that are six, three and above think six, six is the height and everyone who's like under six feet. It's like, it's six, one, six, two. I think it's in that range. Six, six feels uncomfortable. You know, like if you're in college, your, your feet are hanging off the edge of the bed. Um, you know, are you, are you shopping at the men's big and tall at that point?
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Maybe, you know, six, six is kind of really pushing it. Uh, so I actually, I totally disagree with that. Six, four, six, three is probably the tops for me.
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I don't know. Two dudes were sharing.
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Ty Jerome on the Cavs' Breakout Season. Plus, National Champion Will Howard on Ohio State's Title Run, NFL Combine Stories, and His Pro Future.
Yeah.
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Ty Jerome on the Cavs' Breakout Season. Plus, National Champion Will Howard on Ohio State's Title Run, NFL Combine Stories, and His Pro Future.
Yeah.
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Ty Jerome on the Cavs' Breakout Season. Plus, National Champion Will Howard on Ohio State's Title Run, NFL Combine Stories, and His Pro Future.
That feels like one of those things where – Or you only get away with that if your dad's like donating money to the school or something. You know, it's like, all right, we'll just throw him a bone. I couldn't even have a George. I got my George Foreman grill taken during spring break because I wasn't even allowed to have that. Meanwhile, this girl's got a queen bed in her room. Yeah.
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All that shit on the wall there.
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Ty Jerome on the Cavs' Breakout Season. Plus, National Champion Will Howard on Ohio State's Title Run, NFL Combine Stories, and His Pro Future.
So...
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Ty Jerome on the Cavs' Breakout Season. Plus, National Champion Will Howard on Ohio State's Title Run, NFL Combine Stories, and His Pro Future.
Yeah. But that's like kind of, sometimes guys make that, I mean, listen, technically I'm a short person here. I'm the shortest one on the pod, but 5'10", still not that short. What's up? But like, I feel like guys that are 6'5", they make that their entire personality too. It's like, cool, I'm the tall guy. It's like, all right, well. Wow, such a short guy thing to say. I don't like it.
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We have a buddy who's 5'8", and he's definitely the shortest in the group, and he gets the Gimli jokes, and he's like, I'm average. It's a national average. Yeah, he's got stats for that reason, right?
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God, I haven't heard that in 10 years. Cool. Is he tall? Was he taller than you? Who, the coach? Yeah.
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I was going to say, because maybe he was just rubbing your face or something.
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Ty Jerome on the Cavs' Breakout Season. Plus, National Champion Will Howard on Ohio State's Title Run, NFL Combine Stories, and His Pro Future.
Yeah, it's been a while.
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Ty Jerome on the Cavs' Breakout Season. Plus, National Champion Will Howard on Ohio State's Title Run, NFL Combine Stories, and His Pro Future.
This has been totally misconstrued, quotes taken out of context. You would think that I insulted someone's mom or close family member. Baltimore, stand up, dude. I never said that The Wire sucked. I never said that it wasn't a good show. I just said that I tried to watch it 10 years ago. The aspect ratio threw me off and I have never gone back to it. And people are losing their minds.
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Like I like people are genuinely angry at me. And I'm like, guys, like, you know, you could you could type on Reddit all you want about different things. But like, I didn't say the show sucked. I just haven't seen it. And I was put off when I was 25 because of the aspect ratio. And I haven't had time to pick it up. And I feel like I missed it. So maybe I just missed it.
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I probably won't now.
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Oh, I like, well, the third one obviously is not awesome, but I'm a Godfather guy. How did you make it through it? With that SD? I watched it when I was, I mean, I guess it was probably because I watched it when I was, you know, in my like early teens. So like it wasn't that big of a deal back in the early 2000s. I don't know.
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I didn't know that.
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That's useful. That's actually a very useful email. There we go. Was The Sopranos first season... Uh, four by three. Yeah, it was. Okay. Well, I guess I got over that one. I don't know. I've seen Sopranos. I don't know. Good for you. Battling through that. Some people call me a hero, you know?
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Yeah. Oh, actually I do quick aside. Yeah. Probably two years. Yeah. Two years ago or so. Yeah.
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Great.
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I don't know that they're bigger and it's not really the baby thing. It's really when she's like a toddler and, you know, she wants to be held in the morning and she's picky about things. I don't know that there's any girth there.
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Like, I don't know that we've gotten like a, like a little bit bigger there on the, on the left bicep, but it certainly feels stronger because I do hold her in my left arm, not my right arm. And I've noticed the left side getting a little bit stronger. So I pooh-poohed it at first and now I don't, maybe I'm wrong. I'm with you on it.
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I think it's just, I read the job description. I actually have seen this and it was, it was a lot of things. It was, you know, organizational. It was like partially social media stuff. Um, you know, getting, I think it was like getting him up to date on the topics of the day, the social media trends. So he could take part because we know big cat loves a good social media trend.
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Um, so it was, it was an all encompassing Harlem shake.
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For sure. You know, updated coffee memes, things like that.
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I do like Big Cat. That's true.
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Fast track, dude. Yeah. Yeah. I think you think life is too easy, and you're like, should I take a, what, 70% pay cut? No, dude. You kind of hit the jackpot here if that's your salary. I mean, unless you just hate your job. I mean, I don't know what it would be. He doesn't, though. Yeah.
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Yeah, and the next thing you know, you're going to be on some live stream that they're doing and you're going to have to make 14 free throws in a row and you're being berated by someone. Yeah.
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That's right. That's right, he says. I didn't like your tone on that.
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Yeah, I didn't... That felt... No, I forgot. That's right. I literally forgot. Then you said it. Because we did this already, didn't we? We did, yeah. It did surprise... We all were surprised that he was 5'6". He's just...
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We'll check in later.
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So. I think it is a state-by-state thing, but I will say our last house, the previous owner definitely died in the house, and we were not told that. But they were old. How did you feel? Oh, I don't care.
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We would joke around that it was like maybe kind of haunted because like our dog would always kind of look in the corner and be like, oh, it's just like the ghost kind of talking or something or doing its thing. But it didn't bother me at all. It's a fun game. Yeah, it didn't. It really didn't bother me at all.
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We kind of knew that because like one part, one room in the house was zoned for a different like heating situation. Clearly, it was like an elderly thing and we were buying it from their siblings. So like I think you put two and two together, you kind of figure out what happened. Didn't bother me at all, but they did not have to disclose that in Connecticut.
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Yeah.
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Ty Jerome on the Cavs' Breakout Season. Plus, National Champion Will Howard on Ohio State's Title Run, NFL Combine Stories, and His Pro Future.
Just Google a house in the other draft. Exactly. Isn't Bill's house haunted? Any murders here? Yeah. Yeah. I think Bill thinks his house is haunted. I can see that though.
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Yeah.
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I'm not willing to write it off. I think it's kind of unlikely. You know, you see a couple of orbs in a picture and you're like, yeah, that's kind of interesting coincidence there. I'm not really afraid of ghosts. You know, if I was, I mean, I watched, what was it? Last night. So I'm like kind of like a little bit on edge. Like last night going to sleep was a little bit. Yeah, I didn't.
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I think I just saw the regular one, but it was good. But yeah, I was like, you know, if I was like really afraid of those things, like it would probably bother me. And it sounds like that's what our guy, he's like a little bit sensitive to the paranormal activity thing.
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my thought would be it's kind of cool if you own the haunted house on the block though isn't it like especially you know i guess if it's actually haunted and it's causing your you know if it's like a legit you know paranormal activity situation probably not gonna end super well but like when's the last time you actually heard of someone that you knew that had that situation go down so i think it's kind of cool to live in the haunted house the perceived haunted house on the neighborhood and if you're getting a sick deal and it's everything you wanted and i just i
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what's the worst that happens? You just sell it in six months. If it's like really a disaster. I mean, you take a little bit of a loss, I guess, but somebody is going to buy the house. Seems like a nice house. So I think the worst that could happen. I'm what you get possessed. All right.
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Probably unlikely, but you know,
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We've never seen these levels before.
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I can't do it. I think it'd be more like Wizards Pistons are on. I cannot miss this for the third day in a row.
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And if it, if it is haunted though, you know, get out. There's one, there's one element of this that I, that doesn't make any sense though. He's saying that the, it's been on the market for three months. long, you know, whatever, way longer than anything else in that neighborhood. The price may be potentially going down, but people don't.
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He's the one that found out about the ghost and nobody else knows about that. Wouldn't that suggest that there's some other problem with the house?
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That the current owner doesn't want to be made public.
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Yeah. So other people don't know that. So that wouldn't be the reason the house is sitting there for three months.
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Yeah, I'm a shirt on runner. I don't know if I have the physique yet. Give me a couple months.
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No, I guess I'm not ruling it out. Right.
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I thought about just ripping it off and just unmuting the camera. Turning the camera on for a second? Yeah.
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More of a distance guy, you know?
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Oh boy. Three, two, one. Hey, guys. God.
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I'll be the one editing it in, yeah.
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Then I got lost. That's what I think happened. You had like a three-minute weave going on for a while there. Communication wasn't great then.
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Hey, guys.
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Rudy’s Diabolical Game 5, LAC-DEN Preview, and Whether or Not to Call Dad After a Playoff Loss With Austin Rivers
100%.
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I played in high school, but I haven't played in like probably 10 years since I graduated college with.
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Yeah, played in a high school team. Wow.
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Me, Kyle, and Cerruti are like the same dude. We all worked at like a sporting goods store in high school. Me and Cerruti were on the golf team. Just a lot of through lines. Did you guys get thrown out of college too? Let me think. No. No, I'm just kidding. No. I'm just kidding.
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I did Dixon Sports Authority. Kyle, where were you? I was just Models the whole time.
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Yeah. When I was at Sports Authority, I did like the shipping. For some reason, if you order at Sports Authority, they shipped it from the store, not from like a warehouse. Yeah, I'm sure that changed now. I was there when they went under, which was which was fun. Oh, yeah?
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I was throwing stuff up in the ceiling. Come the last day, go up there, take it out. 99% off.
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Got that in Melbourne. Yeah. We went for food news like a year ago. That's right. Great gig, that food news. Great gig. Oh, yeah. Crazy. What are we talking about? They send us to Spain two years ago and Australia last year. We go, we eat the food, and we come back.
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I feel like what my friend group does is like, here are the activities. Everything's like a la carte. If you want to come, here's the cost. If not, we'll figure it out. But I went to a bachelor party. Sounds very efficient. Like December. Yeah. In Tampa. And we rented two boats. Not a good time. Not a good time. It was super cold out. We were just drinking on the boats.
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It's way colder on the boat than it is on land. I know I'm not breaking news here, but we were just sitting there drinking beers. And at one point, my one friend goes, is anybody having a good time right now? Not fun.
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We would have had way more fun just sitting in the dock on the boat drinking. Didn't need to take them out. Probably a different price. Yeah. Don't got to refill them at that point.
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It's just the most obvious answer. Like, what are we doing? Like, just have a simple conversation with this guy. Like, hey, I'll write you this if you want, but don't just take this guy's chances.
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Unless you're going to hang up a sign outside the bathroom like, hey, I haven't pooped in here yet. Please hold off. I don't know what they're, how are they supposed to know?
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Staples, 89 cents a page.
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They were going to name me Michael Jordan. My dad was like, I don't think you can live up to it. So they named me Michael Jared.
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As you watch the film, what do you recall about your thought process in the moment, sticking with the five you stuck with in the fourth quarter the other day? And is there an assistant or someone maybe that you'll lean on tonight maybe to try to get some other guys involved if that opportunity presents itself?
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No, I just think there's a lot of coaches lean on their assistants in those situations.
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Thank you, Coach.
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Right. You're also, yeah, you're also doing something while football's on too, replying to me about who I should be watching football.
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I love how that was a factor. He's still dateable, so I really don't know how much.
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I just love that that's a factor. He's like, you know, I mean, he's not really going to carry this for a while. Like, does he really need the full 10? If he was maimed, I guess. I don't know.
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No. My mom would finally get to go to Aruba. Yeah. I just wouldn't know.
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I just wouldn't know.
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I mean, it's sort of like a bar tab. You're like, dude, I'll get you back. Like, it'll all work itself out. Like, that's exactly what it works.
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Yes, it will. What do you mean? It's like, if you don't get this 10 grand, I'm like,
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Think about how much money you're going to be spending on this kid anyway. It's all on you anyway. You pay all the money. So that's why it's just like, it's a wash, you know?
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So yeah, that's what I was bad at baseball practice. How about that? Now it's even just do something nice in the other, in another way.
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on the kids term probably the like the six to seven year old range like the the mecca disney you know pilgrimage that's probably i don't know maybe there's some more a lot of adults like it yeah i know but we're gone you know he's yeah i don't know you got a you got a group of five including the two adults and you're just shelling out every single night and you know the the
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Mickey's buffet sucked actually. And it's, I don't know. I could, I could see a lot of parents be like, we just, you know, they're all the right age. We waited until everyone will remember this trip and we just have to do it. I think there's a lot of adults like that out there, but you're right. There's way too many Disney adults for, uh, how many kids there are still. So I don't know. Yeah.
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I think a lot of adults bring their kids to Disney because they actually want to go to Disney. Perhaps my dad wasn't one of them. I can tell you that.
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I think we know that's why it wasn't on his profile, because I think you get less matches when you do that. Come on. I think you know that, man.
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What a read from you. What a great read from you.
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Good point.
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I was thinking back to when this was me and this was strictly, this was high school. This was my year off. This was college. This was my year between college. Just a lot of didn't have the guts.
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didn't have the guts to tell these girls, like, I see where you're going. Uh, I see, I see the road you think this is going down and it's just not, but I don't want to make you feel bad by telling you it's not. So I'll just eventually disappoint you massively. Um, and then I'll just, I'll move on. And yeah, uh, it sounds like that's, what's going to happen to you.
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And you're asking, am I the asshole in the situation? The answer is going to be yes. It's just a lot easier than to say, Hey, listen, with that rent comment that you were made or with that, you know, lease comment that you're making, like that's, I just don't think that's what I'm looking for. I would have just been like, I don't know. I think I'm month to month.
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Like I would have just said that the thing that makes this kick the can down the road a little bit while you're not disappointed in me, I don't have to have a hard conversation. Uh, it's so much easier to go through life that way. Disappointing, like not showing up for things or, or, you know, just saying, I'm not sure about that plan. Just, it's, it's not, it's, it's not constructive.
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It's, it doesn't, it's just easy. It's the easy way. Um, like, like you said, you wanted to hook up, but you didn't want to, I don't think you wanted to put that on your hinge profile because it wouldn't be as easy to get matches and go on dates and have fun right now. So, uh, it sounds like you're doing all this stuff that's like having fun right now. And I totally get it. It feels right.
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It's so easy. Um, but you're a little older than I was, uh, when I was doing that.
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Think about how much money we could save if just one of us kept our cars.
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I totally got what he wanted from you, though. He was just like, dude, just tell me, man. Let's get out of the office. Just tell me what you really think.
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Have every option to do that.
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because of your age. Because of the one thing that he didn't say, one thing I'm positive, I don't know what was and wasn't said to these women. The one thing I'm positive he didn't say was like, hey, I just want to kind of keep this casual because it doesn't feel good to say it. It doesn't feel good to watch her face say it. It doesn't feel good to like work up the energy to say it.
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And the thing he likes probably is when he's around his buddies, he'll be like, dude, Jenna and Mary, they're both driving me nuts. It's cool to be the guy that's wanted. It feels good in my asshole 22-year-old brain. It felt cool to be that guy that has this problem.
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It feels good to tell your buddies about it. It's a real problem you have. It feels cool to be wanted. uh, it's just, you know, but you're right.
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Yeah. To have that as the game plan. Yeah.
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We've got McShay, part of our live broadcast on YouTube, but it's the same segment here for the podcast. The college football brackets are out, and we'll sift through it and also take a look at the other formats of postseason football, and if those would have actually made more sense. Doesn't mean I'm not going to enjoy the playoffs. I feel like I have to say that a lot. NFL Week 14.
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And I'll get to why that reason makes, the reasoning behind it is really the way I should say it. Minnesota, this isn't even, I know there were some questions about Darnold and was it wearing off a little? I don't even know why you would mess with it. Just pay the guy. Like, look around. And Darnold has been really, really clean after kind of a disastrous game against Jacksonville.
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The Colts, I don't see it. I don't think they see it. I know some people think it's been better. I think there's a real tell with how teams feel about their quarterbacks, what they let them do in the red zone.
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And now some of it can be a little misleading because if you look at Jalen Hurts' pass attempts in the red zone, well, the number's just going to be lower because they're so good at running the football and they can just convert it to goal line every single time.
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So that can be, you know, look, Richardson's somebody they'd like to run a little bit more, but I don't know that they trust him to throw inside the 20 at all. But he's played 13 games, so you probably have to run it back. So the Colts might not be a definitive QB change team here. Pittsburgh depends on what the options are. Carolina, like I said, I think it's turned into a no.
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New Orleans with Carr, it's a bit like the Kirk Cousins conversation that we had where his number was restructured. which means that there's just some math on this where it would be a dead cap hit of $50 million in 2025. But remember, the cap right now is $255 million. It's up $47 million since 2022. So say the cap is like $275 million.
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Some of these dead cap numbers that we think are impossible to manage, and the Saints have all sorts of other problems with their cap, but There's going to be bigger pills that can be swallowed here. I'll never forget the Antonio Brown thing at the time of the Steelers. Everybody was like, no, they can't. It's just too big. It's too much. And they're like, nope, we're done. We've had it.
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So we could, because Buffalo's a Super Bowl contender, obviously, we could sit here on a Monday and ask some questions about the Bills' defense. They are 17th in opposing yards. per play allowed. So I think that's just a really important stat. Kind of cuts through it like each play, what does the other team do? That's the lowest of any of the Super Bowl contenders.
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By the way, another little factoid for you. Did you know that Derek Carr is actually younger than Taysom Hill, who is now on the IR? All right, so if we go through and say, okay, give me the definitive yeses, as we've talked about everybody here. It's the Jets. It's Tennessee. It's Vegas. It's the Giants. Let's say there's two more, say there's six.
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But the problem is, as I finish here, in 24, we all know there were six quarterbacks drafted in the top 12. Go and take a look at the mocks. Now it's December, so the mocks will certainly be different. in the next few months, but it's pretty consensus as of right now, it's either Shador Sanders or cam work. I've seen cam going one. I've seen Shador going one.
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I've seen generally most of them projected to be like top six picks after that. Good luck. Yours is disappointing. Beck, I think is a disaster. Um, I like Aller both better than both of them. Then you start getting to the Nussmeyer group about, of all of this, uh,
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There's not the depth in this draft, at least the way we see it today, for there to be enough quarterbacks for all these teams to be this aggressive to make that kind of change. So say there are six teams, where are the quarterbacks coming from? That's why when I talk about Atlanta, it's like they'll probably just keep Cousins and then figure it out.
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unless one of them becomes super desirable in the trade market. It's why Pittsburgh probably just kind of runs it back. Like I saw a mock draft where Beck, I've seen mocks where no other quarterback, there's no third quarterback in the first round. I've seen Beck go and be the third quarterback. I've seen Milrow be the third quarterback to Pittsburgh, which makes zero sense whatsoever.
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He might as well just keep fields. And I don't know how anybody is excited about Beck. After this season. So say it's six yeses. Where are the quarterbacks coming from? Because even if there's a lot of teams that want to get aggressive and make change, and maybe the list should be longer, and there's always a couple surprises, I don't think the supply is going to be there this offseason.
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Steph Curry didn't even play in that game. Golden State shot it okay. Houston shot it terribly. Is it a defensive matchup thing? Well, look, they're laying two and a half tonight. I think Golden State just in general is leaking. That's kind of why I was looking at that game last week. You say Houston isn't at the same pace to start the season.
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You also have to worry about the injury reports with all of this stuff, especially in the NBA with everything else going on. But I like looking at the schedule here a little where Houston has played games Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, and Golden State has played games Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday. Maybe that's the play here a little bit. So I like the Rockets minus two and a half.
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It's actually slightly behind Baltimore, but it's 5.4 versus 5.5 for Buffalo. So some of the margins become really thin here. Maybe you don't think Baltimore is a Super Bowl contender with that pass defense that we've talked about and all the penalties and the issues with Tucker as a kicker. I still think they are. There you go. Look, Detroit's 14th in opposing yards per play allowed.
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The teams, the bracket announced yesterday, and there's a few things that I want to get into. We're going to go through the bracket and kind of sift through this. Obviously, there's always drama when it's college football. A little bit later, I actually want to look at what the other systems would have given us and see if people like that better.
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But I think the headline for me, Todd, and we were lucky enough to kind of recap all the conference championship games on Saturday. Enjoyed joining you and Mensch on the McShay Show. But my headline is that I'm not really mad about anything.
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Maybe it was in preparation for what this would look like, but the selection of the teams, I, as far as the 12 teams that are in there's, there's nothing where I'm like outraged about any of this.
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So if you look at the Bills' defense, you could say, okay, what's good out of this group? Well, they're ninth against the pass, which I think is important because when you play the Bills, you have to keep up with Josh Allen, so you have to throw the football.
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Sure, but that shouldn't be the reason.
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Yeah, they did a bad job where they really prioritized this much as standings, but that was something I was used to throughout the entire year. Like you started to see it happen in the way they had treated Indiana, but all right, there's a lot there. The conference championship part of it. Do I think SMU is better than those teams?
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Yeah, but I mean, look, here's the problem is every year you're comparing different groups. Okay. And I understand like they pin themselves in this spot where they had said, we're not going to penalize teams for losing in their conference championship games, which by the way, like, I think, At its core, that's a good thing.
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As I was looking through it, I'm going, you know, it really sucks if these teams play in their conference championship game, lose, and then they get bounced out of it. So I understand what he's saying. But each year there could be different scenarios. Actually, there will be different scenarios.
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So I think this is one of the times, the rare times, where some of the non-adjusted stats are pretty telling because you can just look at the old school, hey, how many passing yards do you give up? And knowing that all these other teams are trying to keep up with you, the fact that the Bills are top 10 still is a good sign.
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And by the way, like the whole idea now that the committee has married themselves to this, it's a different committee every year. So new people are going to see things differently just because they're replacing the people that came up with this in the past.
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So I kind of like having this rule, but you can't have any like hard and fast rules with this because the pool of teams that you're arguing about every year simply changes in the past. We have defaulted to, and we'll use Alabama as that example, because it works here again. When people would sit around and be like, do you really think there's four teams better than Alabama?
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Usually the answer is always no. And so when they got in, I had no issue with it. I argued against it in the TCU year, the year where Ohio state had the two losses and Fox was selling you on this idea that Bama was irrelevant as a team being added in. I was on ESPN going like, this is a joke. I
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So there's a lot of times that kind of Bama, like, do you think anybody's... I'm okay with thinking there's 12 teams better than Alabama this year. I was over it, completely over it after the Oklahoma game, after I started kind of propping them back up a little bit. I'm more aligned with you, with South Carolina. and Ole Miss.
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But it's kind of that one loss versus zero loss thing where I think it's wrong to just assume the zero loss team is always better than the one loss. But when that team got to two losses, it was harder for me to justify it. In this case, we're talking about one loss versus three.
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And SMU, if they'd gotten blasted with the committee had just gone, you know what, they got destroyed by Clemson and we're going to put in that other SEC team. Maybe, but I don't, I don't really like, I'm not sitting here really mad about it.
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Even if I think you're right, because we've talked about it enough this season, clearly they did not want to put that much time into, let's really look at who these teams have played inside of their conference. Like, and there's, there's a good example of this. Like if it's about wins and losses, right. Why isn't Indiana higher? Because they know. You know what I mean?
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I guess I kind of... If you go through the rankings, though... You're like, all right, you guys are keeping Indiana in there because they're 11-1. Totally get it. And after the SEC had that disastrous Saturday night where Ole Miss, A&M, and Bama all lose, like a scenario we thought seven hours prior, like how does Indiana get into this with their only big game being a blowout at the shoe?
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Well, they were back in by the end of the night, but... they weren't going to put them ahead of these other one loss teams. Cause they kind of know. So like the Indian is like a really interesting team in that. I think they know the deal. but they're not going to penalize them that much. They're not actually going to apply some of the stuff to them that you clearly would like to have.
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If you look at some of the other traditional stuff with this, you want to know who's the number one team defensively against pass, just passing yards? It's Tennessee. Why? Because you don't have to pass against them. They have the third worst point differential in the NFL. And
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Would you have been okay having a three-loss SEC team in over Indiana?
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Or is it the SMU thing? You would have.
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Look, I'm with you on the South Carolina thing. The head-to-head with Ole Miss is going to cause a whole other string of arguments there. I just don't understand why Bama is being argued in this spot. I'd rather have South Carolina in there than Indiana. I think I'd rather have SMU in there than Indiana. But we knew Indiana was going to be in there because they...
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Because of what happened that Saturday with all those other teams losing the Florida State thing triggered me a little bit because I live through Florida State Twitter doing a show every day and ESPN like 10 years ago. All right.
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So anybody anybody that's ever faced that and when Jimbo just poured kerosene all over the anger on top of everything else by basically saying that the SEC and ESPN were complicit. And I remember asking about it and he was just like, good to know. And he just shut me down. It was actually brilliant by Jimbo. He got me.
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Even though they give a bunch of points and yards to Stafford, and Stafford hit 10 pass plays for 15 or more yards, I just don't care because the Bills are eighth in scoring. And they're there with all the other big boy teams. All the real football teams are basically within that top 10 in opponent scoring. So I don't care about a loss. That would be the tier.
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I do want to tell Florida state fans though, the difference between say like Carson Beck getting hurt in the Georgia game or little Norris thing is that 12 is three times more as many as four. It's pretty simple math. So last year when there were four teams that get invited to the playoff, and I don't like what happened in Florida State last year, but I understood it.
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I didn't like it, but I understood it. This year, it's a little different. It's a little different because there's 12 effing teams. I agree. And whoever fires off that Florida State joke, thinking that it's relevant,
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it it's so stupid and yet people keep doing it thinking it's like somehow this got you insightful thing when you have these 12 teams all right um maybe i'm numb to the the outrage part of it because i was preparing myself for this and because i was warning everybody before we even had this system in place that some of these things were going to happen now the four automatic bids and the buys
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I have to imagine that everybody was so mad after the BCS of multiple conferences being left out and the group of five essentially having no chance other than Cincinnati, that there had to be like a more inclusive agreement to finally get this thing done. And with that, you have the group of five scenario with Boise, right? And you see the brackets in front of you and you immediately think, Wow.
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Now that it's like the visual part of it, and almost sometimes in society, you have to have mistakes play out. Even if you could see that they would happen, you have to actually have a case study for it to be the force behind change. Some of these paths, I think this is what has people more upset than whether or not South Carolina Bama or Indiana SMU are seated in this thing.
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Now that you see it, like when you actually dial up the physical bracket in front of you. All right. So let's, let's go through the scenarios. Let's just start with the one and two pass. So Oregon goes undefeated, wins a great big 10 championship game. And they're waiting on the winner of Tennessee, Ohio state.
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Yeah, they kept SMU. It's important to point that out. They kept them at the 11 overall seed here, and Clemson's at the 12. I would rather play SMU. And Penn State's going to play SMU and then Boise, and then they're on the Georgia side of things, depending on what you think of Oregon and Georgia. But
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If you're looking at what potential scenarios there are for Oregon, you're thinking, okay, so I have to play the winner of Tennessee, Ohio State, and then likely if Texas gets through Clemson and Arizona State, I mean, you know, making a lot of assumptions here, that seems to be far more daunting than what Georgia would be facing, where it's the winner of Indiana, Notre Dame, and then the winner of Boise State versus the winner of SMU, Penn State.
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Or maybe the tier would be, let's not do this on a Monday TV show tier. Because... If anything, I think it's me being more impressed with Josh Allen getting Buffalo back into this game because after the block punt at 17-7, nothing seems to be going Buffalo's way.
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So this is the part of it where... You just have to figure this out next year and go, you know what, we can't have a group of five be a five seed. Or a three seed, excuse me, a four, one of the four with one of the buys. Is there anything to be said, though, of like, are we being a little dismissive of actually having to play the extra game? Like, would you actually rather be Texas than Oregon?
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They get down 31-14 in the second half, and he brings them back, even though the Rams did a really good job of kind of closing things out, controlling things at the end, and you hope Buffalo could get a stop. They couldn't get it. There's really not much about this loss that concerns me, and I would put Buffalo in that tier of,
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Would you have been happier if it were just Oregon, Georgia, Texas, Penn State with buys and then seeded out with the automatic bids? Yes. I think everyone would be. Are you not? Would you not be? I just think you have to reward the best teams.
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You know, my whole thing when this was first talked about with the expansion was, you know, we sit here and freak out about like, oh, are they on the bubble as like the 69th, 70th best basketball team? And it's just some of these horrible arguments. Granted, we're not...
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quite there yet with 60 football teams but i just knew that the arguments at the back end were like i i've been very very simple about this from the beginning i mean going all the way back to i think the bcs and then the expanded to four is that the chance to play for a national championship should be a massive reward it should be a just like you shouldn't be able to back your way in to being invited to this thing
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And it's certainly different now, but it meant every year you were going to be inviting in a couple teams, maybe two or three teams. You're like, I don't know that I'm that impressed with what that team did. And yet they're still alive to win a national championship. And people always come back to me and say, well, it's the same thing with the NFL. I apply the same thing.
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I wish there were less teams that made the playoffs in the NFL. I wish there were less teams that made the playoffs in the NBA and in hockey. I don't think these teams that go through all of these games, it's like, I don't even think you're that good. Cool. Now you're now you're a sixth seed in your conference. And, you know, with football, it's just so delicate because of the turnover.
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And then you end up having this team like, how did they pull that off? And that's maybe why people love the sport so much, because even the gap between teams, just something goes wrong. Next thing you know, three hours later, you have this great football game that's closing out at the end. So I've just had this fundamental opposition to all of it.
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Now that I have to accept it, it's going to be here and I'm going to enjoy all the extra games. The fact that like December 20th, we're going to have like a Friday night game. Like it's going to be awesome. And I'm going to be a huge fan. Right. But,
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I think there, there feels like some really nasty, like commuter lane into a semi-final for a couple of teams where after three months, three plus months, Todd, I'm like, I don't know. Yeah. That's that's the HOV. Well, the way it's set up now is I was looking and go, that team is like,
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Let's not do this on a Monday TV show after a loss segment with Buffalo, as we just mentioned, Detroit, Philadelphia. Is Minnesota in it? I think it's a fair question because Minnesota is a funny storyline team if you think of the development of how their 24 has gone. They get off to this incredible start, the Darnold reclamation project, but they're actually doing it a lot with defense.
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a couple turnover game away from being in the final four for a national championship and i know you know the ad from bama caught a bunch of heat because he was like we're going to look at scheduling and again he got community noted immediately and it's like all of your losses were in conference it's like okay once again everyone, you missed the point.
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The point is that if I'm an AD, and I remember Kuyper with you years ago, Kuyper had this rant years ago and he was right. It's like, what's the point of scheduling anybody out of conference? You hope you get that easy path. You start stockpiling all the wins. The next thing you know, you're competing for a national championship. I just think it's wrong. I think it's wrong.
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And I'm always going to have a problem with it. Even if my headline of once these were released is that I'm conditioned to now being over it because I knew it was all going to happen.
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Okay, I want to just for the exercise part of this, look at the previous systems and ask like, okay, would you have liked this? So if it were the BCS, well, hell, if it was the 40s, we would just, everything would be over and we'd have like six different national champions. If we had the BCS, it would be Oregon, Georgia. Would you be okay with that? Would you rather that today than this?
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And then you see what they did yesterday with their weapons at wide receiver and how clean Darnold has been. They win all those games that started. They lose back-to-back in October, a two-point loss to Detroit, another loss to L.A., who, again, we've now defined as a good football team. And they've won six straight since those two losses.
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Wait, were you were you saying you think Signetti potentially causes some problems for Notre Dame? Right.
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All right, the Bills lose. Does it mean anything? Let's take a look at the other. I don't want to worry about this team tier. Also, Kansas City, another win, a one-score win. We've been there before. Dominant. throughout history now for about a decade in that division and also pivot that into a Bryce Young Sunday that I enjoyed once again.
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I'd rather just Oregon, Georgia play for a national championship.
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I'm not speaking to the entertainment value because you're right. I have no counter to that. But as far as if you just cut it right there and said, okay, make the argument. You're insane.
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Texas lost to Georgia twice. You're emphasizing Georgia's strength of schedule. You're rewarding Oregon for winning the conference being 13-0. Texas doesn't have an argument. Penn State doesn't have an argument. They lost the conference championship game. Notre Dame's got the loss to Northern Illinois. Ohio State has the two losses.
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This would actually, in a BCS system, you'd go, those are the two right teams. No argument.
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So Minnesota feels somewhat off the radar or under the radar or whatever you want to say. Darnold has been interception-free for a month. But with Minnesota, and it's a bit of the college football thing that some people didn't understand when I try to explain it, is that I think we all have carryover equity with all of these teams.
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No, not at all. What's wrong with you? Well, I think you know. We've known each other 20 years. But Ohio State-Michigan, in most years, everything is on the line. And even in that Ohio State-Michigan game during the broadcast, they're like, everything is on the line. And I'm just the guy on the couch going, actually... Everything is not on the line.
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Like Ohio State loses their second game and they're still in the playoff. And this isn't even about Ohio State necessarily.
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You and everyone else wins the argument against me because Georgia, Georgia Tech mattered. on a Friday night in a way that you wouldn't have thought it would have mattered. However, if they had still made the sec title game beat Texas a second time, I think the one, two and the BCS, like there wouldn't have been any argument against it.
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All right, let's go to the four team system, Oregon, Georgia, Texas, Penn state. Now the funny thing is, is to your point in the beginning, uh,
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Okay. If you look at the AP, they bumped Notre Dame up three in front of Texas-Penn State and in line with what you were talking about with SMU-Clemson, which I think is just funny to remind the audience. SMU loses the SEC title game. Not only were they not going to bounce SMU out for, say, South Carolina, Ole Miss, Bama, or Miami...
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They didn't even move them behind Clemson in the playoff rankings because Clemson has three losses, which again, they played Georgia. They played South Carolina. SMU didn't, the committee did not care. I don't understand how there's a room of people talking to college football. They can't filter through that stuff. They lose the head to head.
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They keep SMU 10 in their rankings, the 11 seed Clemson was at 16. They kept Clemson. Georgia, excuse me. They, they kept Texas and Penn state in front of Notre Dame because like to your, they were not going to penalize anybody for losing any of those games. Although I think it's interesting. Well, Iowa state, they, they, they bumped them down two spots. All right.
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So Oregon, Georgia, Texas, Penn state. Does that make sense?
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Why do you think certain teams will be good in August in any sport? Well, in basketball, you still have some time to pick it up. Baseball is in season. But you get the point. Why do any of us think anything about any of these teams? Why is there more buy-in for Buffalo or Kansas City or maybe Philadelphia? then there would be Minnesota, because with Minnesota, it's still really new.
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All right. So how about this proposal? The 16 where it's four automatic bids, plus the fifth automatic bid to a group of five team, and then one at large. And the first two teams get the buy.
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It's horrible. What are you doing? Let's run it. I'm just trying to give the people the other options. They seem to really like a lot of options here. So Oregon's your Big Ten. Yep. Georgia's your SEC. Yep. All right. So we'll go Big 12. Arizona State's Big 12. Right. Arizona State. But they would have Boise.
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All right. And the rankings would be Boise would be a three seed. Arizona State's a four. Clemson's your five. And then your at-large is Texas. It's your show. So I'm just going to play along. So your first round games would be Boise against Texas and then Arizona state against Clemson and they face Oregon and Georgia.
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A lot of people like that system because it guaranteed everybody and you have to factor it all in. I mean, unless the TV networks are saying we actually don't like, that's probably the worst out of all of them because then that opens up all sorts of other arguments. Yeah. Who's a lot of people when you say a lot of people like that, who's a lot of people.
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There was a real egalitarian approach to this. And I think it just speaks to your fan passion, not you specifically, but nobody wants to sign up for a system where you're potentially going to be screwed unless you were the conference commissioners who said yes to the 14 playoff. Like that's the craziest thing ever.
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The only way they kept telling us for years, they weren't going to expand from the BCS and the two teams. Right. And you and I have sat in those, those conferences, uh, too many times. And I'll never forget, you know, how often, um, Bill Hancock would be like, we can't, we can't have more games because of exams.
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remember that one and i'm doing this like you're banging my head against right like we can't have the kids travel because it's just you read too many games guys and the exams and like and steadfast on that right because i remember herb street one year like was messing with them in it because i was hosting it that year sort of there was a panel that i got up there for that didn't go very well and and
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Well, whatever it is in 24, it's worked out for them, and Darnold has been terrific. Who else should be on that list? Minnesota feels like a yes, but again, we know there'll be resistance. Green Bay, maybe not yet. Jordan Love's been dealing, though. He is now leading the NFL in yards per pass attempt the last month. It leaves Pittsburgh, who we haven't mentioned yet. Maybe
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you were kind of the company black sheep at times it was fun yeah that was that was a rough look when one of like the directors comes over and starts holding your hand giving you a hard time during the panel discussion that you're not doing a good job interviewing enough people not even on television just like a group no just just a group of like 200 your co-workers you're like you put 13 people on the panel man it's not my fault all right so
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Herb Street looks at him and goes, you know, how come, you know, 11 games was the most and then 12 was the most and then you couldn't do this. He's like, how come you keep doing that? He's like, oh, Kirk, it's a good question. And he was always great at that. And then he'd just be like, look, we all know why this is happening. We all know why it's all expanding. But
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when they went from two to four, it was because the reporting at the time was like, everybody involved, all the power players in college football were just sick of all of us being like this two team thing is so stupid, the computer element of it. And then you had that other poll that was factored into all of this. I would sit next to Brad Edwards for all those years.
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And he understood all the math and he'd be like, well, this will mean this. And if Oklahoma state gets this win on the road, then that means this team's computer rankings, and you just be like, no one understands this, everybody's mad, okay, let's expand it, but we don't wanna expand it too much. And they went to four, and as soon as they went to four, everybody's mad, it's because they just knew.
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No one likes a system where they know there's a chance that they're going to be screwed, even if they don't deserve the chance. So now, no matter what you do, no matter who is constructing something like this in power, these, these gray areas of debate, people are, there's never going to be a version of this where on Monday, everybody's like, you know what? Great job. Cool. No notes.
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It doesn't exist. But this is, this is apparently I would say the most inviting, right? Because you have this many teams. You have something where there shouldn't be any part of the country that can look at this feeling like they're left out. Like everyone is represented whether they deserve it or not.
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I'm not there yet, though, where if the Steelers won the Super Bowl, that would be surprising. That's the question you have to ask yourself, and I do that exercise a lot. Like, okay, here are the teams that they won the Super Bowl. Okay, that makes sense. If the Pittsburgh Steelers win the Super Bowl and we're sitting there in New Orleans going, how did that happen?
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Yeah, and then I think like a 13th that oversees it.
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Who would be the best of the people we work? If I was called upon. Yeah, if called to serve. Called to serve. Because if Connell were ever on the committee, I would stop watching college football that season.
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You know what? It was a really good sell. And whenever we get into arguments, well, you and I don't get into the arguments, but we hear it's like, oh, it's not that much better. It's not that much better. And it's like, in what world would you ever say the conference with the best players isn't the best version of football?
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But for this, I mean, there's plenty of teams, and you know this, there's plenty of teams that are loaded with NFL talent that just...
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I still feel like it would be a surprise despite the defense, despite Wilson's improvement and where they are with all these other teams and a couple of really nice resume wins. So that leaves Kansas City that's certainly on the list. 14 straight wins. One score games, not 14 overall, but 14 straight wins in one score games. And they did it again last night.
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Well, Nagy posted that and I saw it and immediately he just got destroyed by college football writers being like, oh, okay, well, we'll just make this all about the draft part of it. I understand.
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Like, I think whenever we debate, hey, this team or that team in these hypotheticals and the talent and all that stuff, but at the end of the year, having it be a tiebreaker, I just, I think this first point that we even touched on here today is the best one that they couldn't get past the 11 and two, 10 and three record with SMU and Clemson.
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Like they, they couldn't go, Hey, do you think it might've been harder to play Georgia and then South Carolina? And then they won the head to head. And it was like, we said we weren't going to change it with the conference championship game. They didn't.
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Right. But knowing that the committee is supposed to check a lot of boxes geographically and knowing how these conversations play out geographically, there's just no sympathy. There's no there's I mean, we have people like I've worked with people where I was like, you actually think some of these other conferences are better when.
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this league has twice as many players drafted, but when it comes to the committee and the seating, I do think there's a line of like that voice in the room is respected and people, but it's not going to be any kind of tiebreaker. Nobody's going to want to hear that. I mean, even hearing this part of it, like you're going to get ripped for being like, Oh yeah. Okay.
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We'll just put in all the draft prospect teams and whatever. I know that's not what you're saying, but that's where that conversation ends up going. Um, as we look at the bracket here, who are you picking?
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They clinched their ninth straight AFC West, which is the second longest streak in NFL history behind all the Patriots who won the AFC East 11 straight. The last time the Chiefs didn't win the AFC West was when Peyton Manning won a Super Bowl with Denver in 2015. This was a great game last night. There was just all these different things that were happening.
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Yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense. I picked Oregon this summer. I'm going to stay with the Ducks. I also want to remind... I don't have a problem with it. I really don't, obviously. By the way, talking about gaps, we did this on Saturday. When I watch Iowa State, Arizona State, it's like, okay, there's a difference here.
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When I watched Penn State against Oregon after watching the SEC title game, I didn't feel like there was this massive difference.
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Best I felt about a Penn State team in years. So totally agree. Before we say goodbye to McShay, just want to remind everybody, FanDuel is the only place that you can parlay college football teams to make the semis or the final. So you can future it out by taking a look at the bracket right now and seeing what you like. Again, FanDuel Sportsbook, the only game in town for that.
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Again, the McShay show will be out tomorrow. They're doing a quarterback confidence draft. So make sure you subscribe and check out that podcast. podcasts with McShay and Mensch. And we thank him for his time today, man. Fired up.
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I'm totally excited. I can't wait. I was looking at the schedule. I go, this is how are we getting that Friday night game? It's going to be Austin. I can be excited. And also critical. It's the same as the play-in game. There might be a 37-win team in the Eastern Conference in the NBA that's going to get one more chance to be in the playoffs. I think that's stupid.
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It doesn't mean when the play-in games are going on that I'm not home excited about it. It's the exact same principle. All right, Todd, we'll talk to you next week. Again, McShay Show, make sure you check that one out.
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I think Kansas City's tackling in the first half, limiting the Chargers offensively. I love their linebackers. We all love Chris Jones at D-line and how they use him and line him up all over the place. I love Kansas City's linebackers, how hard they tackle, how intense they are, their pursuit. It's just a lot of fun to watch.
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Okay. A little live advice for you. Life advice on YouTube. The email address is always lifeadvicerr at gmail.com. Fresh for you on a Monday morning here on the East Coast afternoon on, or on the West Coast Monday morning deal. We got Kyle, we got Saruti Wargon dangling in the back here. We don't have his video up, which is fine. That was sort of predetermined.
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If we feel like we need to go to him for something, we will.
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Yeah. I mean, he brought it. It was incredible. And guys were so happy about him and how good he was. And he had the little mustache going. Because I just think every time there's somebody who clearly just memorizes one or two lines on college game, maybe the celebrity picker, nobody really cares what they have to say. And then
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You know, the guy would be like, you know, I just think this Tennessee secondary has something to it. And then all the guys be like, whoa, whoa, look at this guy. He's a Tennessee secondary. Chalamet sitting out there picking upsets like the Bob. I mean, it's just unbelievable the stuff he was pulling off and the mustache in line with Bob Dylan.
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And then we find out that he's a huge ringer guy or he's actually a Grantland guy. So Simmons, Zach Lowe, he follows, follows Woj. So still locked into the Bonneys. Our thoughts with Woj right now as well.
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Well, then the other thing that popped out is they found some picture of him when he was a teenager. And I'm talking like 13, 14, waiting outside of the garden for Amari Stoudemire with a jersey waiting for Amari to sign it. So, I mean, sure, we'd like to book him because of you. But if he follows Simmons, they're going to get Allison on that. That's a no brainer. Promote the Bob Dylan movie.
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Is he singing? It sounds like he's singing in the trailer, too.
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And so Mahomes, who's getting beat up again, we'll get you some of those numbers. He was hit 13 times last night. He's been knocked down 46 times this season, which is the third highest total of any quarterback in the NFL, behind only Stafford at 52 and Burrow at 50. So I get worried. Their new left tackle, he leaves the game.
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What would you be like if you met him? I mean, is that the number one guy you'd want to meet more than any single other person walking the planet right now?
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And he was already seeing him, though. You've already seen him. So, well, he is the guy.
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Cause you know how you have no shot with her. We're shouting. You're like, he loves basketball. Like maybe, you know, this guy could be DN me. Like New York's not that far from Connecticut. Good one. Nick's magic game. Like, is Anthony Black really this good, Saruti? Yeah. Hey, man, tell me about the Dune 3 script. All right.
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So speaking of dudes interacting with guys, before we get to a couple of questions here, the Kyle Shuffle High Team had a magnificent time at the live show in Denver. Ended up at the same bar as all of you post-show. Shout out to the Velvet Banjo. Yeah. I got a little toasty via the 5 p.m. happy hour. Said, what's up to Kyle?
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And he gave me the best good to see a pat on the back and kept it moving I've ever seen. Not rude, not engaging, just incredible work. Denver has a lot to learn from the frolic room. It appears as a guy who wouldn't have wanted to shoot the shit with me. I was truly impressed. You guys are the best. Thanks for coming to Ryan's second choice city to live in. Wow. You remember that Kyle?
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I think this is at the velvet banjo. Oh, I thought I was there.
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There was one banjo guy who I felt like just had an extended ticket to the show and he just kind of sat there and watched us the whole time. And so that was becoming a little alarming where you're like, is this guy, you know, cause I hadn't seen some of my friends and a couple of those guys I hadn't seen in years.
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And then there's the other core guys that I usually see once or twice a year, but I was like, all right, fired up. Thanks for coming out. Do you want to hang out with my buds now? All right, let's, uh, let's get to a couple of these. Okay. This is a good one. for our married guys here. 41, no gym stats to speak of, but I once closed my move ring four days in a row. N to the D. Some backstory.
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Juwan Taylor, right tackle, who I feel like the refs have just given up calling false starts on him because he keeps doing it. It's like, he's not going to learn. All right, whatever. The tough love hasn't worked with the penalties. But. As much as you worry about Mahomes, there's dudes going down all over the field. The Chargers are missing receivers. The Chiefs are missing defensive backs.
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My wife and I separated earlier this year. We're now going through all the exciting aspects of blowing up your life that comes with getting divorced. We've been together five years and married for three years. There should be some sort of divorce menu.
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Like I know that there's prenups, but there should be some deal where if you're about to get married and then we just pass legislation for like a divorce menu where you go... Like escalator clauses, you know, if you make the all-star team or something. No, just like, if you don't make it to here, then separate corners, whatever stuff is yours is yours and that's it.
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There's no money exchanging hands. Five years in, maybe this, but no kid, And I know that like in theory, this is kind of how it works, but it should be just something that you pick up from that you've agreed to. You have your divorce menu and there's all these different options with clauses. And then whatever, wherever you land in the divorce, that's just what it is.
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And it's not a ton of lawyers. It doesn't get dragged out forever. And all these meetings and mediations and paperwork, because all of them start with like, Hey, we want to do it the right way. Not all of them, but a lot of them do start with the, Yeah. We just want to be civil about it. I want to be fine. Like nine months later, I'd be like, how's it going?
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I'd be like, Oh my God, I'm going for everything. Now you should see some of the stuff that's happening. So if it was just predetermined menu with no substitutions, Might be more efficient.
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Prenup needs new marketing. Divorce menu.
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Well, there's also something that happens with just words and phrases where over time, there's such a negative stigmatization to that. It's just like no one hears prenup and goes, oh, that's fun. That should be a good time. Tell me more. The divorce lawyers listening right now are probably not loving it. Not a ton of sympathy. So, all right.
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You know, pool is going to be the new Scottsdale. Like I'll take, I'll take Doug. Like the kid went third. Yeah. The dog. Then there's a third kid. He's like, I'm still on the board. Uh, I think the kid, I got to tell you, divorce draft just sold itself. Genius dude. That's one of the best ideas I've ever heard. Do you imagine Kyle leaving the house and divorce draft is on? Yeah.
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no dude no it'd be right in my time slot too it would definitely be in the three o'clock 3 30 late lunch the best would be the tv analyst you'd be like i can't this car is actually totally overvalued but we know that he loves it he he's accident 2015 no one's even talking about it she got a big board on the side of all the stuff of like some analyst that ranks all their stuff
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And it's this back-and-forth game where Herbert's responding. And I hope this year again, I know I've touched on it a few times, like, I really hope that we're not trying to reassess who Herbert is or isn't if they don't win a playoff game. They're projected to be in the playoffs right now. They seem like a really good football team.
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This is unbelievable. Awesome, man.
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That's right. Worst day ever to do it live. All right. So this guy's like, hey, guys, remember me? I'm getting divorced. I wrote an email. All right. So though we essentially lived as roommates for the last year, it ended because I didn't treat her the way she deserved emotionally. And by the time I realized that the damage had been done, she couldn't forgive me. So she left. Sorry, dude.
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That reasoning is relevant because I recently started dating another woman. It's nothing serious at this point, but I do enjoy her company and we seem to be a better match than my ex and I. However, she recently asked over text why my marriage ended. I told her it was a valid question, but one that would be tough to answer via text.
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How many teams are definitively going to be changing quarterbacks this offseason? And if that list gets long, where are the quarterbacks coming from? And we've got a great live advice where both Kyle was great and Cerruti may have invented the best TV show that we've never seen. Okay, week 14, I want to start with Buffalo losing in Los Angeles.
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We're set to hang out next weekend, and I'm not exactly sure how to proceed. Do I tell her the truth and risk scaring her away, or do I color a little outside the lines and be vague about the reasoning without actually lying? Thanks, Love the Pod. By the way, this email was before the weekend, so this likely already happened. Sorry we didn't get back to you sooner. A lot of emails.
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So we got spammed with all sorts of nonsense here. You know, I'm not going to be specific, but we don't appreciate it. I would be pretty... I'd be pretty liberal with the... I just don't think you want to come right out, certainly over text. So that was the smart read of just being like, I was emotionally abusive. I don't think you want to say that phrase.
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I think you want to maybe build to that conclusion, which I think would show a side of you that you are mature, right? But I think just... You're going to need some like mental appetizers for you to share that. I think it's cool that you're aware of it. You understood your mistake.
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And I think that there's a mature partner out there, maybe it's her, that would appreciate your evolution to coming to that point and not just sitting there and lighting up your ex. Because anybody that's ever dated in the divorce pool, a lot of the early stuff is how terrible the ex is. No one wants to hear that story either. Yeah.
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Yeah. And a lot of times too, the trauma of going through it too, it's such that person hasn't really even healed yet. And this is just part of their deal. They're going to share it the whole time. So I think what you need to do is you need to obviously in person, which your instincts were right here.
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They're not in that list of tier one, like Super Bowl contenders. But Mahomes just steps into his Mariano Rivera role and the game is over. It's just like, okay, what's going to happen here? He's going to make the right decision every time. And then they're going to walk off and kick a game-winning field goal. But there was still a play here that I thought was really important.
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I think you need to like, see if you get follow-ups and if you're not getting a ton of direct follow-ups, you're,
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don't follow up your own shit what else is going on you know what i mean like don't you actually probably don't need to in this spot offer up a ton more because the problem is as any of us that have ever been out there in the game what understand like you start sharing more because you feel like you're being honest or whatever it's just trying to lead to even more stuff
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So don't be ready to just dump the entire playbook out the next time you have to explain it. I think that's the safest way. And it's not, I don't think it's dishonest. I just think it's, if you're interested in this person too, like, I just don't know what kind of guy can survive out there going out on dates very early on post-divorce being like, emotionally, I'm just pretty damaging. Yeah.
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Pretty damaging. I'm a work in progress. Trying to get there one day. I hope you want to, you want to do this again next week.
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I also think there's a way that you could get there where that's what you're saying you did without saying that phrase. And I'm not saying you're even going to do that. But, like, say she had a hobby or she wanted to start a small business. You could say, you know, some things that we weren't aligned on. And, like, here is an example of that. She was pursuing this. I didn't really understand it.
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Probably thought it was a bit of a waste of time. Looking back, I could have been more supportive, even if I didn't love the likelihood of it being a success. And the lesson that I've learned is that you have to be there for your partner. You have to be supportive in times where you think that maybe they are making a mistake, even if they're actually pursuing the passion.
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Because then pursuing the passion and being supportive of that is what marriage is about. Not the, hey, this is a loss. Don't do it. How about that? Hope people had a pen. That was great from you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Should I get a tattoo? All right. What's up, 27 years old, 6'2", 205, ex-FCS defensive lineman, down 50 pounds since my playing days, 290 bench, 385 back squat, NBA comp is Brook Lopez.
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So the Chargers are out of timeouts. We're at the two-minute warning. The Chiefs are facing third and seven. I don't like when teams are criticized for passing in some of these moments. I mean, it depends on who your quarterback is, right? But there are third downs where, sure, you want to run some clock. But do you want to run clock so bad that you hand it off –
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So this guy was 205. or excuse me, 255, now 205. I'll get to it. I'm not really sure why, but a few months ago, I became really intrigued by the idea of getting a tattoo, not some small artsy tattoo, but potentially a half sleeve. The issue is that I'm not typical tattoo guy. I don't really know how to explain it, but I've never seemed like the guy who would get a tattoo.
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I'm about to graduate law school and start my career as attorney. I never had any interest in getting one during my playing days, even though a lot of the guys on the team had them. The idea started in my head kind of randomly as something I really want to do now. Figure I'll wait another month or two and see if the urge passes to make sure it's not a phase Assuming I still want to get one.
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Do you think I'd be making a mistake? I live in a pretty progressive area where a lot of people have them So I'm not too worried about it affecting job prospects or anything any advice What do the guys think about tattoos in general?
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to your running back to just run it up the middle for one yard to run clock, giving yourself no chance of converting the third down and running out even more clock. Teams are far more aggressive now, which I think is a good thing, but there still seems to be teams that will prioritize clock over just having a chance of converting third down.
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Uh, I, we've covered it, but I missed the tattoo window by a couple of years. There were a handful of guys in our fraternity that went and got tattoos. And, um, I can tell you now, none of them are showing them off being like, Hey, look how sweet this is. And I remember when the guys got together, they were like, are you in?
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And I was still kind of not in, but I probably would've, but I just didn't have the money on top of everything else. So like I had an easy out that I couldn't even come up with like, I was like, where are you doing them? And they were doing them in Vermont somewhere and everything. Like one guy got this lion and you know, the lion's supposed to be like fierce leader, king of the jungle.
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It came back, the lion looked like he was like a character in a Grateful Dead t-shirt. I mean, just out of his mind. However, the guy drew the lion, like just these googly eyes, like a big smile on his face. Googly eyes. It was horrible. It's like a stuffed animal. Yeah. And you know, and you want to be fired up. You just get this ink put on your body for the rest of your life.
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And guys are like, Ooh, yeah. What's going on with that? Like a cartoon lion talking Hannah Barbera here.
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Well, when you have Mahomes, you don't have to worry about any of that stuff because on this third and seven play, he drops back, flushes out to the right, avoids a tackler, and then hits Kelsey for nine yards first down. They're going to run clock, and they're going to win this game.
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It's like sleeves being Yeah.
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I agree. I love the old anchor. I need to bring the old anchors back.
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I guess scuttling the ships isn't as cool of a tattoo. That's true. We cleared that up with the Cortez guy. Yeah. I felt like there was a lot of sleeve guys. It shouldn't be sleeves. Like I've seen a couple of like Twitch streamers that are gamers and I'm just like, dude, it's not tough guys at all. You don't have, you're not remotely scary. And so that thing's been devalued.
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This guy played D line. I don't care that it was FCS. You're 205. Like, I'll just tell you right now, Chris Long's full sleeve looks cool. It also looks cool on Chris Long. Exactly. It looks like Thor and he put the money into it. And he also made the point to me, he was like, I was told if you do it, you make the tattoos bigger.
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you make them big so they look good i think it was also because they look good on tv and when he's sacking an nfl quarterback and he's flexing like i don't know who among us wouldn't think that would look cool 99.9 of us are not going to do it in this but based on what the email said i don't think it matters anymore and i think you're right professionally it doesn't really matter anymore i don't know that there are any rules with it i think the only pivot would be that it would start to
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be phased out like more and more people be like this thing is over and now i don't want to do it so i think you're a clear go but i love the idea of you waiting on this because you may be getting in on the downside of it all like will we ever be in a spot like i think some guys look really really cool with it i also think there's guys i look at i go you should not have a full sleeve you don't deserve one like what are your bench numbers this guy's bench numbers pass it
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Now, apparently, the conversation on the sideline, if you looked at some of the postgame stuff, was that Mahomes basically telling Reed, like, I got it. I can't imagine there's any debate. Like, are you ever going to be a head coach going, no, let's just run a little bit more clock here. I don't trust you in this spot.
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Yeah. I've looked, there was a guy I remember at my gym before anybody had the sleeve where he had these like,
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tentacles just going past where his wrist would be on a shirt sleeve right so there was nothing on his hand but it was like just poking out and he was a nine to five like white collar guy whatever i think he was kind of a badass though too but he had like the full sleeve before anybody and i remember asking i was like do you have it like that specifically he goes yeah it's just like a very little thing that you may see it just pass where the cuff of my dress shirt is
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And he's like, I did it that way purposely. So it's sort of there, but it's not like all the way over the top of my hand. And I was like, wow, you're the coolest. I would bet $500,000 that Wargon does not have a tattoo. I think we could agree. Wargon? I have two tattoos.
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I knew it. Wow, I owe you $500,000, I guess. Wow. Damn. Nobody took the bet.
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I would bet $500,000 on that. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, you know, had a bad year this year. Ever pierced your earbud?
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The other part of this that speaks to the chemistry between Kelsey and Mahomes that we're all aware of is that Kelsey was supposed to run some corner route and then realized the coverage was different than what they thought pre-snap or they just weren't, they weren't calling a play that was going to match whatever the defense was. So he just stopped his route, sat down, free spot.
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Mahomes avoids the pressure, flips it to him first down, and that's going to be it. And they're going to line up for a game winning field goal. One second left with, by the way, their third string kicker who hits it off the upright. And of course, because it's the chiefs, it goes in, uh,
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You would think in the NFL, because these are professional quarterbacks, the best in the world to do this, that there should be a longer list of quarterbacks a head coach can trust in that spot. But I don't know that the list is as long as it should be. And Mahomes is certainly at the top of that list.
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And I can't imagine being a fan of other teams in the AFC West because you don't get to appreciate how special this is because you hate it so much. And I understand why you hate it. But I did have this thought, which kind of brings it back full circle, the Pittsburgh question.
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is if you're a Steelers fan or whatever, I mean, if you're just thinking about the Steelers and what they're good at, and we know that this is a very diminished version offensively of what the Mahomes Chiefs have been, you're probably having a moment of being like, we can't beat those guys. We can't do that.
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We can't do what the Chargers did and maybe just hang in there one more possession, get a stop on third down when they're backed up and get the ball back. We can't do that. And I don't blame you for doing it. But for anybody else that's not passionately aligned with the Steelers, are you picking them?
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Are you going to pick that Steelers team on the road in Kansas City to pull that game off, knowing that the Chiefs just feel automatic in a league where it's not supposed to be automatic in one-score games? We've got a stat for you. Stats to impress people. Okay, thanks, Wargon. All right, so I don't know how many of you were locked into Bears-Niners. I watch it because of Caleb Williams.
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So the Rams put up all sorts of offense, 457 yards of it. They start 10 of 11 on third downs. They finish 11 of 15 on third downs with a fourth down conversion in there. Stafford has a 96.7 QBR out of 100 for the game. Historically, it's one of the best games he's ever had. And I think it's also important to point this out, though, with the Bills losing at LA. The Rams are kind of good.
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And this is about as bad as I can ever remember seeing it. So the Niners led 24-0 at halftime. Total yardage, are you ready for this? 319 for San Francisco. Four. Four total yards for Chicago. If you told the high school team, hey, you're playing an NFL team this week. The only thing you have to do is get more than four yards in the first half. I know that sounds really insulting.
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Could you tell a high school team all you have to do is not be out gained by 315 yards in the first half? That's probably less likely. But yeah, I think if you had a high school staff, you said all we need is five yards and we did it. Mission accomplished. It doesn't matter if it's 50-0 in the first half. We just need five yards. That's about as bad as it gets for a first half in this league.
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I want to talk Carolina. They got a screen. I was locked into Carolina, Philadelphia, because this Bryce Young resurgence is real, and it's been fun. It's three games now, all losses, all close losses, tough ones, where Bryce Young looks like a completely different QB. Sure, there's going to be a few decisions in there that you're not going to love.
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Facing third and three from his own 36, two minutes to go in the first half. He throws a terrible pick. They're up 10-7 in that spot. Backed up that deep third down. You can't turn the ball over. You've got to make them go the length of the field. He gives them a short field. Philadelphia scores a touchdown. That's a mistake. There was a turnover on downs prior to the last turnover on downs.
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Fourth and two throw. Didn't really love it. But there's a third and 11 escape from the end zone, which reminds you of why this guy was picked number one overall. He actually threw the potential game-winning touchdown to Leggett, who dropped it, was just not able to corral it. Probably should have pulled that one off, as much as I loved him at South Carolina. So there were always...
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We're not talking about perfect scores here with quarterbacks, so we want to nitpick and be like, oh, I don't love that, I don't love that. Just watching him, he looks different. He actually looks like he's having fun playing football, where he looked shot mentally the first half of the season.
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If you think of the storylines of the idea that he was never going to play for the Panthers again, which never made any sense to me at the time, which I said, but then to see him back to this gives you hope. And the reason I bring that up is because
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If you were to look through, and I think it's important to do this towards the end of a season, project which teams you think could be making a change at quarterback. Let's cast a wide net here and then try to whittle the list down because I don't think Carolina is on the list anymore based on what we've seen from Bryce, which is not what you would have thought when he was benched.
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So again, I'm doing this to be like, cover all the bases here, knowing, as I say it out loud, I don't actually believe that this quarterback or team is part of this list. So Tua, it's only a health thing, but he's been really good. He missed that month and a half. The Rams game wasn't great. Green Bay, he got beat up in that one, but only one pick.
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And, you know, the Tua knock is always the off-schedule stuff. Well, all of that stuff against the Jets in that comeback yesterday, that last drive, a lot of it was off-schedule, and he found a way. And the Jets also found a way to make all that stuff happen. So, look, he's not even on the list.
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On the other side of it, though, with that Rodgers loss and the Jets, I don't know how the Jets just run this back. You tried. You got hurt. Came back. You made every change you could possibly want. You got rid of the head coach. You fired the GM who did a good job. You brought in his receiver.
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One and four start, six and two on their last eight. And they've... Figured it out because the beginning of the year, whether it was the receiver injury, not knowing the defensive setup, and then the O-line shuffle and Stafford getting smashed all over the place. This is a remarkable job by Sean McVay in figuring this thing out in just another year where it's like, appreciate Stafford.
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Like, how are you running all of this back when if he were special still or just below special, I'd understand it. But he's not. He's not, and I don't know how you'd run it all back. Cleveland, we know what the deal is. It's all about money. The dead cap hit before June 1st is like 80 plus million. They could do it after June 1st and carry it for two years.
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I wouldn't rule out anything in Cleveland, even though we've been obsessing over what the dollar amount would mean for moving on from Deshaun Watson after a fully guaranteed contract. But that might not be a definitive yes. Yes is actually how it's pronounced. Jacksonville is a no. Tennessee is a yes. Will Levis had a throw. Man. Two routes to the left. The back of the end zone is covered.
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The front of the end zone is wide open. The original read was the right side, so you can understand him shifting over and going through the progressions and not seeing the underneath guy. The problem is that it's the same stuff we saw in college. It's the same thing you've seen from Will Levis. He just doesn't see it. And I think it's time to turn the page. Vegas is a yes.
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They were on Desmond Ritter yesterday. The Giants are a yes. Drew Locke, Tommy Cutlets here. Atlanta. Kirk is definitely struggling, but his deal was basically a two-year deal, $100 million guaranteed in those first two. And... The reason why I think even with Penix and the draft pick they spent on him, and as good as he looked in limited time, you probably bring him back financially.
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Yeah, I was just thinking, like, as a Magic fan, and, you know, we're going through our shit right now. It's a different story for a different day. But, like, you know, hypothetically, if they call the Magic, we're like, hey, if we offered you Paulo and...
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picks and players like would you say no we'll get to that in a second i kind of want to work our way down though so it's essentially like does the other team say no luca trades i'll start with wemby that's a no right like there's no way they're trading wemby the spurs are trading wemby for luca yeah that's enough no easy enough nuggets 29 year old yokich i still think it's a no i think it's a no sga okay see just straight up yeah yeah um
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I agree. I don't think they do that. Now, I saw some people being like, could you get Funky and say, what about Jalen Williams, Chet, throw in some other fillers, some good players, a bunch of draft picks? Would OKC say no to that? I actually think they'd still say no. I think they're perfect.
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I don't think they want to screw with what they have right now, even though obviously Luke is a better asset.
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I just want, yeah, I wish we would have known what those conversations were like. Because I honestly think you could have asked for four. And are you still saying no for Luka? Yeah. I think the Lakers still say yes. I think it's, you have to do the trade.
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I was trying to think of what the equivalent of this would be. Would you feel bad? Because they're apparently friends. They're buddies. Would you feel bad just fleecing your friend? I'd feel bad fleecing a friend in a fantasy trade, let alone...
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Yeah.
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I just think it's funny, like if because if say Palenka was the GM of like the Hornets, right? And he goes to Nico goes to him and goes, hey, I've got this deal. You know, it's Luca for 80. Like, what do you think? Polinka's like, you're an idiot. Absolutely not. Absolutely. And Nico had no friend, nobody. I mean, I don't, maybe he did and he still didn't care and was just stubborn about it.
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He had nobody in his life that was like, that he could run this by and be like, this is a horrible idea. I just, that's, that's another sad element.
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And the Nico thing, that may all be true, but he still has the Steph Curry Nike pitch, right, that everybody likes to throw in his face, too. Well, that made the rounds, too. Yeah.
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Bucks, straight up. I think the Bucks say no. Because I think you don't lose your guy unless you absolutely have to. And that's their guy, Giannis.
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So yeah, I think he's operating out of the assumption that that's a yes, like that he would be like, all right, I'll, I'll, I'll play here and sign a deal.
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Hmm. even if Giannis is like, yeah, I'm here for five years, too?
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The next one is the Celtics. Yeah, Tatum. I mean, because that was... I still think... I'll let you talk first, but would the Celtics go, yeah, we'll give you Tatum for Luka right now, straight up?
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I think you're probably right on Ainge. All right, this is where it gets interesting. They call up the T-Wolves and say, we'll give you Luka for Ant. I mean, you have to make the salaries work, so there have to be other things in there.
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I mean, again, Luke is 26. It's not like he's in his late 20s. You're still getting, ideally, however many years left. Gobert would probably be excited about that. So that's a yes. All right, so that's kind of the first, all right, there's the line in the sand.
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This is the one that kind of got me thinking as a Magic fan. Like, Paulo, you know, I'm sure the Magic would do Paulo for Luka straight up. But I was like, take it even a step further. Like, if the Mavs really wanted to, like, were getting other offers from teams, you really had to, like, make an offer for him to get him and beat everybody else out.
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Like, would you offer Paulo, Anthony Black, Jonathan Isaac, Picks? Like, would you do that? Like, is Luka that much better now and then whatever the next five years, whatever years, than what you think Paulo's ceiling is? And I think the answer actually is yes. Yeah.
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And then I get the Euro connection of Luka and Franz and make the other pieces work. I think I would do it.
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I don't think I'd do that. I don't think I'd do that. No. Because I just think... You're talking like two potential... Like one top 10 player and another top 25 player. Like I think... Suggs isn't... I think I would do it if it was Suggs and Paulo. I don't know if I'd do it if it was Franco.
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We heard you like defense. You want Jonathan Isaac. That's going to be the line because from here on out, it's all yeses. Yeah, because I wrote down like the Cavs for Mitchell. Yes, Knicks. You can get Brunson back, you know, reunite him. Like Cade, you're doing that. So that's it.
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I get why they do. And it's funny, I watched the Bing Bong video. The original long version one.
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No, I think that's it. Yeah, I think the line is basically Ant Pollard. So if you go down like Bill's trade rankings, trade value rankings, that's like right around seven, eight, nine.
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The what mood I'm in are the Celtics and Bucs. So it's like a maybe. And then the yeses are and Paula. I think that's right.
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Yeah.
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No, I mean, I listen to the pods. you were accurate and that you sent me kind of like a bigger picture show thing. And I was like, it's like a Wednesday. I'm sitting on the beach. I'm reading the second Dune book. Like I'll, I'll, I'll answer this when I get back. I don't really feel like diving into the work stuff. So I appreciate that. But I did miss, I did miss the show.
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I missed, uh, I didn't think I was going to miss a ton. And then I got back Saturday night. I was like, let me go to the magic lost. And I was like, God, I don't even want to do anything. So let me go early. This is Saturday night. Um, your squad's struggling, dude. Not good yet. Maybe something for a later date. But then I wake up at three in the morning to take a piss.
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And I'm like, why did Bill release a pod with Ryan? What's going on? And I saw the trade. I was like, oh, shit. All right. I guess I'm back. So it's good to be back.
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It's kind of the perfect scenario, actually. Yeah, because then you're like... Because that's the one thing they're all very insecure about.
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And now it's just out on Front Street. That's awesome. Like, if you call it... Somebody called me a virgin. Like, you know, there was a road rage incident or something. Like, shut up, virgin. I don't even know how I'd react to it.
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But, like, the 15s, 16s, like, all the way up to, like, maybe early college, that's about the most insulting thing you could say to somebody who actually feels like they're cool. Yeah.
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I get bad road rage. I don't know how I would react to that. I'm mostly calm except when I'm behind a wheel. Yeah, what is that?
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Stay in Connecticut, buddy.
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I don't know what that's about. I have the least amount of patients in the car than I do in any other place.
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Whoa.
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You mean a roast?
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Right. Or just be a friend. Yeah, you could be a friend and not have him work out. Maybe just make him feel like a little bit more part of the community at the gym. Maybe he's intimidated because he has nobody to talk to, so he doesn't want to use any of the equipment. Eat a butter shake after the run.
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yeah so i i it doesn't exactly it doesn't have to be like you giving him a workout regimen just like maybe not peanut butter based on the scouting report yeah i was just i thought that's what you would actually get probably jazzed up about rather than the uh the fat burner one or whatever you have grilled cheese protein nothing else well i would say too are we sure the parents don't fully know what's going on here
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Like, maybe they just are like, hey, we got to get him out of the house for like an hour. Like, which is... Tell you what.
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Yeah. So, you know, I don't know that he'd even be blowing up his spot. Like, I'm, you know, I don't know.
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I don't know. But again, you would notice, though, like you pick him up and he's got no sweat stains. His shoes aren't scuffed at all. Like there are signs. Yeah. Yeah, I guess. Maybe they're just like, you know, yeah, whatever. Like, get him. Maybe he could make a friend or socialize. You can maybe be that friend. But yeah, I don't know. You have to put him through a workout regimen.
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That's a good cat. Is it skateboarding or Oliver North? It was just, we got it. That was his name. We didn't change it. He's pretty chill. He just kind of hangs out. I don't, again, there are days where I just don't see him. As long as you feed him water, all that good, he's fine. Not a cat.
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Maybe one thing. Yeah, that's over there and feed them like to spend time and like play with them. That's what are we doing?
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He wants hot lunch.
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It's $25. Maybe he's interested. I don't know. Every day, just to do that. It depends on what the time is. I mean, the good thing for you is, yeah, I think what Kyle said is correct. That's an easy excuse. Just, hey, she's busy, man. She can't do this anymore. What's the guy going to do? And it's not like there aren't viable replacements.
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You mentioned there are multiple apps where you could just find somebody to do this. You never have to speak to anyone. Who actually want to do this. Yeah. So I don't think there's any issue in you just being like, hey, dude.
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this can't be a long-term thing even even no matter what the price is like i don't know what they're charging on like wag or rover or whatever for this maybe it's way more expensive and he doesn't want to do that yeah it is and maybe he thinks he's taking advantage of he probably is of the situation but hey man that's his thing to figure out i think you just say she's she's she's got friends she's got a life she's getting older like she can't just be your personal cat person yeah i'm looking it up here right now um yeah wag is wag is serious
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We'll do it in LA.
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On today's episode, little tales from the couch, Memphis, big win. We'll talk a little bit about my trailblazers and all-star snubs. One of my least favorite pieces of content out there. Senior Bowl, draft stuff. We've got football. McShay is back home, full of information. How the quarterback class is shaking out a bit. Did you just go Abdul Carter? A lot of good stuff from McShay.
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Top pull-up three-point field goal percentage in January, minimum 30 attempts. Scoot is number one in the NBA, hitting about 52% of those shots. That's an absurd number. He's not going to do that. the entire time. And yeah, it's a snapshot of one month there, but it's been consistently better for longer stretches, despite there's still plays where I'm like, what did he not see? Is he unsure?
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And I also think there were stretches last year and into this year where his confidence looked absolutely shot, which is the last thing that I saw from a guy that I was so excited for before the draft. So there's a little trailblazers for you. Okay. Last thing, all-star snubs. I do not like snub content. Because I would, and again, this is not going to be super popular with the audience.
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I would rather a little disappointment in society than absolute contentness. Sorry. When it comes to competitive things, when it comes to competitive things, it should be special. It should be like, man, I got, I got left out. Now it got really weird pretty quickly. Like Devin Booker, my guy was, was going off Trey young. Never accused of being my guy. Tweeted out, now it's just you got trade.
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Like, that's a little narcissistic. But point guards and quarterbacks can be. We know corners are. Look, winning seemed to be a deciding factor on this, or at least standings. I would say coaches care the most. Media cares the second most about winning. And fans care the least. The standings were rewarded in some of the arguments with Shingun over Sabonis.
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Numbers-wise, it's hard to make an argument for Shingun over Sabonis. That's clearly Houston being like, they're not going to have any all-stars. You've got to put somebody on them when they're the number two seed in the West. I think that's your story there. Harden over Sabonis. Norman Powell, the counting stats are still better for Harden. If you want to beat up on Harden, I've seen it before.
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The Lakers, then Minnesota and Dallas. Phoenix is just really tough for me. Even when they were winning, I didn't necessarily like what I was seeing. But then you have this Clippers team that's 27-20. What this group has done, what the front office has done, what Ty Lue has done and the coaching staff, They deserve more credit than they're getting.
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I'd be like, oh, he's below 40% shooting from the floor. Even I wouldn't do that. It's 399. We round up. in this game. So, you know, he's at four again, not an awesome number. The usage is up for him. There's some metric stuff. They'll tell you norms better. Uh, but norms play 39 games and Harden's play 44. Kyrie's played 38. Mark Cuban had an interesting tweet.
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We want to talk about like just being all in on it. Now I think he was ripping the all-star ratings potentially, uh, Because Kyrie and Luka aren't going to be there. Luka's played 22 games. I'd love for Luka to be there as a top five guy, but you can't really make that argument when you'd be leaving off some other guys that have played more games.
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So we have the Trae Young thing that we touched on. Yeah, what was Cuban's tweet here? Because it was pretty aggressive. Those TV ratings for the All-Star are going to be crazy. LOL. LOL. NBA gonna NBA just insane. Luca and Kai aren't going. I would hear a Kyrie argument for I would.
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And if you want to talk about standings, I mean, I think they were a game behind the Clippers in the Western standings when the announcements were made as a game and a half behind today. Is it really because Harden's played 44 games and Kyrie's played 38? Now people are like, what the hell's Rosillo going to do with a Kyrie Harden off here? I would give the nod to Kyrie.
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I don't think the standings are enough there. Luka, tougher. 22 games, crowded field. Probably not going to happen. Trey, Hero, whatever. I like probably Trey better than Hero. Not going to get super worked up about it. Here's what is not a snub. LaMelo ball. You're like, oh, he's just warming up. These are his warm-up. This is a bullpen session. LaMelo is not an all-star. The coaches agree.
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Your kids don't, but the coaches agree. He's also played, even though I know the counting stats are really impressive, he's played 31 games this year, and the team stinks. So it's not like he has all of his averages with a full slate of games. And a team that's in the play-in, they're not even in that. Here's a stat that you need to remember if you're a Lomelo guy over 14 years old.
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I looked at it because I was like, you know what? I want to see where this number's at right now. This is a massive stat. Lomelo takes over 34 field goal attempts per 100 possessions. All right? So if you go the per 100, which is like a good indicator if you're like looking at minutes, because every now and then I'll like look at Cam Whitmore's per 100. Like how many shots is this dude taking?
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Because he takes a lot. Cam Thomas last year, I had him fourth. Although Cam Thomas can make some shots. I'll give him that. I wouldn't be that stupid to deny the ability, but it's kind of like All right, that's a lot of shots. You know how many shots 34.3 is? I had to go all the way back to Kobe Bryant in 2006. The Kobe Bryant 2006 season where he took 35 shots per 100 possessions.
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So that's LaMelo has the highest.
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field goal attempts per 100 since kobe bryant in 2006 and it was fucking kobe bryant okay are you sensing a theme here with lamello's game and i know some of you don't want to hear me talk about him because i didn't think he was going to be even this good for the draft he's incredibly talented he's big his start stop start again is incredible his vision the passing but and he's kind of like
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And I know I already touched on it a bit on the last episode when I talked about them moving on from Paul George and not wanting to give him that fourth year, which I think about every time I watch Paul George. But Kawhi's back, nine games in, a career – well, not a career high – A career-high 29 minutes would be not that great of a number.
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You know, what do you think the coaches would actually tell you? Like, yeah, this is awesome. No, it's awesome. I love it. I love having this guy have the ball in his hands this much and shooting all the time. It's not even healthy right now. I'm not even going to, you know, I don't want to knock him there.
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But like, if you're, if you've gone through puberty and you're pissed that LaMelo was snubbed for the all-star team, I don't know. I don't know what to do. We've got Todd McShay. It's been a bit fresh off a Senior Bowl visit, so he's back in familiar territory. Let's get into it, man. It's good to see it.
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I'm good. So I was watching, again, the McShay show. He was with Steve Minch throughout the week, watching the video. And I was watching the quarterback episode, too, because you guys got multiple days with all these guys. It just feels like Jackson Dart is the headline of the entire experience.
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I'll give you credit too. Cause like the closer we got to it, you were, you were basically saying like, I don't know if there's really that much of a gap. If not, You like Jaden as much as I think you like Caleb.
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It's kind of like defaulting to, well, Caleb probably go number one. Everybody's been talking about him for a couple of years. But as that was building towards the draft, I remember you. And again, maybe our conversations off the air where you were like, it might be a toss up and I actually might like Jaden better. So there you go.
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But it is a season-high 29 minutes the other night when he had 27 at San Antonio in that win. He played in his first fourth quarter in the Phoenix game where they took him out and had they kept him in, maybe they get that game too.
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So it's not like they've been just pushing as hard as they possibly can here in the standings, but they've found a way, whether it's the high, hard usage again, but Norm Powell, We can get to some of the all-star stuff here at the end a little bit, but then also having just multiple wings that they like.
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Yeah, see, that's where I wanted to go with this, and it worked out perfectly. Because when I think about the class for this year, it's underwhelming. And then it's like, is Jackson the guy that's the best of all the other options? Is it that he's improved? And there's a lot that I like about him.
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All of us can point to a couple games, the Florida interceptions, his management at the end of the Kentucky games, a disaster. But I know he's tough as shit. And I never watched him thinking like, oh, there's some real limitations on what his throws can be. So I've liked him. I remember the first time I watched him at SC, I was like, this guy is like afraid of nothing.
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I'm afraid, you know, I was afraid he was going to get like both his legs broken at some point because I was like, this dude is like so aggressive. It's almost dangerous, but he's filled out. I think quite a bit. I think body type wise, not to go like baseball, hips and ass stuff, but like that stuff's really important. Jimmy touchdown.
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Never forget walking behind Jimmy touchdown at Santa Monica one time. And I was like,
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small hips small hips man uh anyway i love you as my measurables guy body types i've tried to get better i've tried to get better mark dominic loved that story so much he was like that's it never stop scouting never stop scouting right and i was like never i was like we were leaving we were both around and we didn't talk to each other but i just remember walking behind jimmy clausen going man
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Man, those are some thin hips. Anyway, maybe it doesn't mean anything. Maybe he just was born at the wrong time. So if you go through the guys, Beck, disappointment, right? Now he's somewhere else. We'll get to Milrow. You were staying, but in the mix, Wigman, A&M, now he's going to be gone. You had all the Nussmeier sides to stay.
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You had all of these guys potentially like who could be the first round group, and you're missing like 75% of them. Yeah. Yeah, because they were so disappointing. They're at another school and they were like, and I'm coming back. Nussmeyer to me is not in the disappointment group of all those guys.
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If you look at the defensive numbers, did you know that the number two defense behind OKC, they like Clippers. OKC's an insane 3.4 points better than the number two Clippers. The gap there is ridiculous. The last 10 games defensively, the Clippers...
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So like is Jackson, is he just better than everybody else or is he just better than all of these other projected options, which I think is a big part. As much as I like him with a limitation on that, I think that probably has as much to do with it as it does the evaluation, just the options alone.
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Okay. The other guys. I know Melro got off to a rough start. It sounds like you started to like him more towards the end of the week.
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are number one so maybe you don't want the glibbers especially if kawaii who you saw it look better than just the first games back when he was barely playing to see him go off for 27 not surprising based on what i saw in some of the phoenix minutes there so back to the memphis houston part of this memphis had lost three straight this season to houston guys missing all over the place if you go through those things like whenever i look at like the season series and i try to get ready for the playoffs looking at this stuff like just have to keep going back and back and back it's like
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No way he'll be a first-rounder.
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Is there any, and I know it's, you know, leans into gossip a little bit, but as the draft order settled and it's all these people like different, are there any theories that
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consensus things that you can share with us that it's like, you know, this is something that people think could be an option, whether it's the quarterback order or it's one of the quarterback needy teams going, we don't even like this group. Like we're not going to move or maneuver around for it. You know, I think everybody kind of looks at it like the Cleveland situation.
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And at this point, like it'd be one thing if it was just Watson's contract, but now it's health, but do they just go, you know, we don't care. We're, theoretically taking a knee on this position and drafting Abdul Carter.
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every fan base will just go, yeah, but we didn't have this guy. And we're like, yeah, I know. I'm right. It's like, it's just impossible to keep track of last night though. No job for Memphis for Houston notion. Goon. I did wonder as I was watching it, I was like, what's a bigger loss. Is it jaw? Not maybe this season of job, but,
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And by the way, this is at number one with Tennessee?
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He's a stud. I mean, with one arm, he was still wreaking havoc in that Notre Dame game. I don't know what the film's going to look like there because you can see how limited. Because there was one moment where he got turned in and you could see it kind of reset him or it hurt again.
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And you're like, this dude is that hurt. And the way they were trying to line him up, it was almost like, can you go out there and play with one arm? And he did. And I if Tennessee took him one, if I'm a Titans fan, like, you know, this is actually awesome because I, in theory, get somebody who can just wreak havoc off the edge here for a bunch of years, and I'm with you.
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Like, it just changes everything that you can do defensively when you have this absolute mismatch on the defensive line. But it's not exciting, right? No, I get it. And as other teams have told me, and I remember just the simplicity of it, I was like, what do you do? What do you do? And they go, you just keep drafting them. You just keep drafting them over and over again because, like,
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You know, the best version of jaw is probably the bigger loss because the way they run their stuff offensively, so much of it's through jaw where Houston's depth, you know, also Vince Williams is missing games. GG has been back, not afraid of letting it fly. We'll take it easy on him with some of the shot selection.
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What other option do you have? And if you have these higher picks, you just have to take those guys. And I was like, God, that's going to be so frustrating when you know that there's probably teams staring at Cam Ward or Shador going, you know what? We actually don't like our grade. We don't like where we have him ranked in this class. He might be the 28th best player ever. in this entire draft.
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And we're just going to do this because we need it. But then it kind of gets back to your other point is that should you, when you're a bad football team, go, let's build out the rest. So if we're taking what's kind of like a B graded quarterback this high, then we're putting them in a situation where we feel like it's even worse. And then we may even ruin our own resource that we've used.
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Yeah. See, I love this, by the way. I'm really enjoying the thought of this because if you're Like, you probably bring in the GM, like, the first time. You're like, hey, man, it's going to be your call. And you could even see, like, an owner deferring you in your first draft with your staff because he just wants to, like, set the tone that it is going to be your call. But then you're 8-9.
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You're not a quarterback. And I'm not even talking specifically about Tennessee. I'm just saying like this, this team, right? Whatever this make believe eight, nine team is quarterback was terrible. The salespeople are like, Hey, we're, we're actually starting to like not get as many renewals. Season ticket people are on your ass.
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And there's just all these different things where if you're the talent evaluator, you're like, Hey, you want me to make the right choice or the wrong choice? It's like, we want you to make the right choice, but we want you also thinking about all these other dynamics of the business. And that's where, like, a couple bad years, you don't have the quarterback.
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Maybe he just sees Aldama get those shots up and he's like, well, I might as well take a couple if he's going to keep shooting like this. One of the things I was looking at, and again, this is off some of the draft stuff with Zach Eadie.
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Then the owner's like, I know I told you it's your call and you're going to have autonomy and all this kind of stuff. But, like, we want a quarterback. We want a quarterback. Like, that's why I thought the Joe Shane access that we had in Hard Knocks with Giants ownership and them being like, hey, we really don't want to see Saquon in Philly. And Joe Shane's like, yeah, I get it.
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But the reason I liked what Joe did in the access that we had of that was, like, Sure, it'll be embarrassing. And by the way, Saquon was an absolute stud and might win a Super Bowl. And it was unbelievable this year. Like everything that you could have feared as a Giants member of ownership, personnel, all that stuff, like, oh man, we look. But Joe Shane was right. He's like, why do we need him?
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What are we doing with him? Why are we spending all that money at that position where we're probably not even going to be any good anyway? We're giving like Daniel Jones a gap year on all this stuff. Our offensive like, sure, fine. It'll all be embarrassing, but none of it actually fucking matters. None of it matters.
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And that's a really hard thing to be able to do, even though it's supposed to be your job to tell the person that owns the team, Hey, this is what we need to do. And that's why like at the top, I, you just see an owner being like, I don't care what your grade is. We need a quarterback. Yeah.
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But we had a lot of debates about Edie before the draft, and you find out, you hear, he's definitely going lottery, especially that year, 24, for a weird draft class. And then he starts putting up some numbers, and then it kind of turns back the other way. It's like, oh, all of you people that doubted him.
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Yeah, I'm leaning that way because it's just been, it feels like the default of well, they need a quarterback, they have to go ahead and take one. And maybe it'd be different if Carter wasn't so impressive to me all season long. Would you take Carter over Hunter in a vacuum?
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And my thing would be, okay, his floor is good, but is his ceiling anything more than a rotational big? Or do you envision him being a starting center in this league, playing 30 minutes, and because of his size and his shooting touch and all that stuff, it was never about is ZD good or bad. It's how do you use him in today's NBA. And against Houston, I don't like it. I think it's a problem.
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I'm going to stay on Hunter here because – You know, anybody that grew up playing baseball, you'd be asking your dad, like, hey, how come, you know, whatever. Like, everybody knew the best athlete on the team was the pitcher who then played shortstop, right? And he was the best hitter. And then, you know, in high school, it's still the same. I don't know what the college numbers would have been.
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But at that point, it starts becoming more and more specialized. And you're just convinced. You're like, nobody can do it. Like, nobody can do it. Like, I think Madison Bumgarner is somebody who I used to love watching hit as a pitcher. He hit 100. He hit 103. It's his career batting average. And then Otani comes along. and is MVP Cy Young caliber.
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And you'd think, okay, was this just everyone thinking the impossible was, or there's something that wasn't, that was actually possible because Otani proves it's possible that everybody just accepted that it was impossible. Is it something with American sports? Like, how is it that Otani was like, no, no, you're going to do both and you're going to be fine.
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And granted, he's not pitching now because he got hurt, but he is the thing.
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How many years in? I think he's six years into his career. Could be seven.
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Sure, but I know it's a different sport, right? So this was his seventh season. He did the thing we all had agreed on that can't be done.
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What is the argument? Is it just the snaps, the physicality of it? I mean, because like we know, like there are corners that never tackle anyway. So is it just a old school resistance to the idea that he can do what he just did in college? Or is there something more practical that I need to understand?
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And if they were ever to like face each other in the playoffs, like this is the kind of stuff I think about when I'm watching some of these games, because it was very clear that Houston was like, let's get him in the actions when he's out there. Um, in the 17 minutes that he played last night, I didn't like really any of them. He was a minus, uh, he was a minus two.
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Yeah. Fair. Good answer. All right. Last couple minutes here before we finish up. If I'm a fan and my team needs this position, I should be thrilled. And then on the other side, the units that you feel like are weak.
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Is it a Jameer Gibbs type different or even better?
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production, that Penn state game.
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When you do that tape. Cause I, for whatever reason, I watched that whole game. I think it was cause it was early with Penn state's offense. I wanted to see what it looked like. He was, it was ridiculous. It was like, Hey, we have one guy, right? Can you find a way to keep us in this game?
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Um, but that's not really what it was because I w I went through all of it and kind of looked at like game one, he was a minus 11, uh, 13 points, nine boards. Game two, he was a minus four, four points, three boards. Game three, he was a plus 11, 2.7 boards. Last night, he was the only minus of the starters.
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He's a total stud. I mean, I don't know why they got away. Maybe it's because all the receivers LSU had had over those years, but my God, like when he first came onto the scene, I'd be shocked if he's not a really productive long-term NFL player.
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Mechanicsville, shout out.
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We were all over it all year on him, so this is the least surprising thing ever.
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Okay. My man, the McShay show, check it out on ringer, Spotify, subscribe. They got some good video going, a lot of good recaps from all the senior bowl stuff. So I'm glad it was a great trip. Thanks for the time. I appreciate it, brother. Talk to you soon.
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So everybody else averaged a plus nine on plus minus, and he was a negative two, which isn't a huge number. And yeah... Plus minus can get a little weird throughout all of that. So there's not some egregious collective number on his plus minus against Houston in these matchups. But I can just tell you that it's not like Jenkins wanted to close with him.
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We've got Kyle, we've got Wargon, Cerruti still in Mexico. I sent him a text or he sent me a text this morning and asked me something. And then I was like, wait, I had a work question. I go, are you still in Tulum? And he said, yes. So you know what? Enjoy Tulum. No work questions for me. Our email address is lifeadvicerr at gmail.com. Today's Life Advice is brought to you by Amazon Business.
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We've had a lot of feedback on this. I had a good book recommendation, so I'd be interested to see what you've uncovered. Yeah. Well, there was... There was one, well, there was a lot of people that alerted me to something that I didn't know about certain children's books that they become like part of public domain. So you don't need the copyright part of it.
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Somebody was like, Hey, you fucking idiots do better. I'm like, how are you this mad about not knowing a copyright rule with children's books? But, you know, people can get really upset sometimes. It's weird.
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We had a lot of people saying you can read my children's books. I just don't know that it's that easy to go ahead and do that without something being signed. People pitching me their books that have nothing to do with children. Actually, one book pitch we are going to give because I've seen this one before. Michael Meyer wrote this Ben Franklin book called Ben Franklin's Last Bet.
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He said 6'2", 190, marathon runner, trading for Edinburgh, Scotland in May. Player comp Malik Sealy. That's why I read it. Shout out to Malik Seely. Ryan, you have my permission to read my book, Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet. Harper Collins introduced kids to Franklin's love of Boston and Philly and hatred of lawyers taking over the federal government.
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His last will and testament is still paying young people to learn trades today. I hope the copyright, oh, I hold the copyright and can help choose a section that will put even toddlers wearing worsted hose and a tri-corner to sleep. Yeah, that would be boring to a kid. Great pitch. But I'm excited about it. That's a great pitch. Sir. So I've seen that book in stores. I think it did really well.
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So let's figure we give him this. I mean, look, once he said Malik Sealy, he was in. Some guys sent us pictures of their wives. You guys are getting way too comfortable. But, you know, there's just not a lot we can do with that. We don't have video yet. And we would never do that if we ever get the pictures. All right. Speaking of pictures, let's just perfectly segue into this.
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What is the correct way to respond to a nude? Here we go. 6'3", 188. Between a bachelor party and a full week. of greedy eating after it doesn't feel right down to 185. Super specific. Thanks. Gym stats, 245. Bench, 345. Squat. God, I read that weird. Don't deadlift because frankly, I hate it and I don't want to.
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And I can tell you that also when you're asking Edie to get into the ball screen action and you're bringing him up, it's a lot to ask of him. And this is the part of the draft evaluation where where you go, okay, you're not going to get run in a pick and roll like on 90 possessions over the course of a game, but you can see that if Van Vliet's coming off the screen,
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NBA comp, Danilo Gallinari can beat you with a drive and pull up from mid-range, but ultimately not as good as you think I would be. Context, I'm 30. She's 32. This is the first nude she had sent me in our pretty short relationship and she wasn't incredibly upset. I actually told her today I was going to write you guys in and ask for your opinion. On to the story.
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Yeah. I mean, Yeah, I mean, at that point, 30, it's going to hurt. As you can imagine, after suffering through a two-day hangover workout and almost passing out in the sauna, I was running on fumes as I walked home. As I checked my phone, I see my girlfriend sent me a super sexy, if she's listening, nude photo while I was at the gym. The conversation is below. Her. Nude.
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I hope this makes you feel a little less dead inside. Me. Ha ha. That does very much help. Thank you. Oh, there's a kissy face emoji in there.
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I appreciate you wanting to help and successfully doing so, but enough about me. How are you? That was your response? What are you, the accountant? That's right. I appreciate you wanting to help. Yeah, that's just very formal, man. Yeah. I will add this relationship is very new, three months, which might weigh in on your advice.
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A couple texts later, she mentioned my lack of enthusiasm and she publicly wasn't going to. Oh, and that she will publicly would be a different. She said she probably wasn't going to do that again. I was pretty surprised at her reaction as I figured my responses were respectful and it showed appreciation. I thought back to two years ago when I was dating my buddy's girlfriend.
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Oh, buddy's girlfriend's friend. Jesus.
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I've had like three in here. I thought that Danilo's sentence was weird. I was dating my buddy's girlfriend's friend and he mentioned her being weirded out after I replied to a nude she had sent me with, you guessed it, thank you. I texted him about it and he was flabbergasted that I was wrong. Thank you once again.
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Granted, I guess I should learn from my mistakes, but now I'm wondering what is the correct response to a nude? Was I not
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horny enough uh is this obvious and am i just a moron would love to hear your thoughts on my response how if you would have responded differently love the pod been listening since southwest canceled everyone's flights back home in 2022 and my boys and i listen to life advice for six straight hours in a rental car i've attached the nude below in case that helps Damn it. He did not. He did not.
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Very funny way to end it. Sorry that I mangled your email a couple different times there, but we're getting fresh here. Fresh, long day. All right, Kyle, why don't you take the lead on this? What do you think the correct way to respond? Well, there's two avenues.
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There's going to be space to dribble up into a pull-up because Edie is trying to play too.
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And I still think the hardest thing we ask any NBA player to do in this game is the center that has to show on the high ball screen and potentially contest a three against a decent shooter, stay in position to try to stay in front of somebody quick with the ball in their hands, and then also be able to retreat and follow the rolling big that was their original defensive assignment.
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And we've got life advice from Kylan Wargon today. A little Tales from the Couch for you, but I'm not going to run around to everything that we saw the last couple nights. And don't worry, for those of you that love this podcast, we will hit it hard post-Super Bowl. So the main game that I was really into last night, although I did have a bit of a detour, was Memphis' comeback win against Houston.
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Well, no game isn't accurate. No game is not accurate. You're right. This is the second time that he's done the exact same thing. It's incredible that he's just trying to be really polite. He's trying to avoid... Being creepy when he's kind of getting the green light to be creepy.
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Right. Like, are you into cannibalism? You know, like, follow up? Like, whoa, dude. I just got out of the shower. Like, huh? I just... I just think it's really funny that he's trying to be like super polite and not cross any kind of line. And now he's talked himself into just being like the HR of nude recipients. And so that's tough. I don't. Yeah. I mean, look, you've done it twice.
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Adjust and tell her that. I think that's what you need to do is that you need to tell her like, I didn't know what I could do. I didn't know. like how you wanted me to go with this. But I think you have to be in that moment, like incredibly appreciative of the person that you're with opening up that door, right? You, you have to show the appreciation.
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And again, it's a generational thing where like it just becomes standard operating procedure when you're South of a certain age. Although I still think one of my favorite ever pandemic tweets was when the guy was like, uh, If you're asking for nudes during the pandemic, guys, seriously. And it was like the ultimate pandering tweet. I don't even know who did it.
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But it was just like of all the things that people were worried about, it was like this guy's like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to stand for decency. I mean, it's probably not as bad as this one writer that tried to tell millions of Americans to just bail on Thanksgiving. But I... I don't know, man. Don't let there be a third time. Okay. Next time, just text back eight out of ten.
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So as you saw all these possessions playing out, there's just a lot of room if you're coming off of that, keeping the ball and going at Edie because he's trying to backpedal. And as I said, as hard as it is, that's why prime Rudy Gobert was insane in this. I don't know that there was ever anybody that's played two as one as well as Rudy has.
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Right. Wow. Eight out of ten. That's the dumbest thing. I know. I know. Oh, you were kidding. All right. Very good. Very good joke. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. You just have to
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learn you've been invited to uh into a room man that you need to open the door to a little bit more yeah peruse the gifs in your in your iphone app and just see like just one that you'll have in your back pocket and be like perfect yeah maybe type in like i got a new photo see what comes up probably probably nothing um do you send her the one that says if you don't hawk to i don't talk to you
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Big cat turned 40 yesterday. So he sent me that one yesterday. Cause I was like, now that you're 40, you can send old memes, two week old means incredible. And so he sent me that one. Um, and I was like, you're just, you're, that might be even too new because it's the first thing I think that's, it's not your eyesight. It's, What should I send?
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And then what you think is sendable, just the threshold is lowered quite a bit on all that kind of stuff. So I think that's probably the best advice. Have like, again, I kind of hate the word, but like angling toward mild horniness, gift responses. Huh? Is that good? Yeah. Do we nail it? I think that's right. Let's move on. Okay. This one's so depressing and it's a Friday. I'm not reading it.
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Dating advice. No, I don't think we're reading this one. All right. I got to go. I got to search for it. I know where it is. We'll find it. Joy. Joy ride with sister and log on wrong. Love the pod. Six foot 240 player comp. Big baby Davis board man gets paid. and I am known to set some mean-ass screens. Big Baby had some footwork, though, too, man. Nasty footwork.
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I have a little bit of a dilemma on my hands. My fiance and I get invited to her brother's birthday party at their home over the weekend, her brother and his fiance. So I don't know if he changed the names or not, guys, but let's call her brother Gerard, and the fiance will be... um, mini. All right.
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Wow. This guy does not. This guy does not fuck around. And when I was approached by my soon-to-be brother-in-law's wife, the conversation was pretty normal until she suddenly said she was bored and wanted to show me her new car and suggested we go take a look at the vehicle.
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I work at a dealership selling cars, so I thought she was wanting to show me some specs and get my opinion on her new vehicle. We have always been cordial and friendly with one another, and I've always thought she is a nice girl and nothing else. After showing me the car, she suggested we go for a joyride, and I was pretty buzzed at the time.
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I thought nothing of it, so we both got in her vehicle and took it for about a 20-ish minute ride around the town. Nothing happened. We listened to some Jelly Roll, her favorite artist. Where are you guys at with Jelly Roll?
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So you're asking him to do something really hard already, and it's something he'll understand a little bit better positionally, I guess, as he gets more experienced. But the other side of this is that Steven Adams took nine shots last night because he knew roll hard because he's going to be slower to recover back to me. And when the guard knows that, they're going to pass it back to me.
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No problem. No problem. Just, just asking the crew, uh, told a few jokes, kept everything lighthearted. When we got back to her house, we were greeted by my fiance and Gerard, both of whom had concerned looks on their faces. Gerard looked visibly upset, but was trying to hide it by saying, Whoa, guys, where did you go? And a somewhat joking tone before I could respond.
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My fiance also chimed in and said, you guys were gone for a while in a very serious and concerned voice. Um, many laughed it off and said she was just showing off her new ride. And I responded by saying, what a great car she has and commenting. She got a great deal from that. This poor guy is just trying to have a Marlboro red and now everything he does looks guilty. Yeah. Yeah. Seriously.
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I'm trying to think what cigarette could even smoking where he would have gotten the benefit of the doubt. Not that one. Probably not cools parliaments out. From that point forward, the night was incredibly awkward. We all managed to keep tensions at bay.
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On the ride home, my fiancee informed me that she was pretty upset by the entire thing with Minnie and asked me several questions about why I went on a ride with her. I laughed it off jokingly and told her I was being nice. Didn't want to make things awkward by saying no. My fiancee proceeded to tell me how much of a whore Minnie is and that she has a history of being unfaithful to Gerard.
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Well, with a name like that.
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she then asked me flat out if we did anything i was disgusted by the suggestion and told her it's a ridiculous accusation she had nothing to worry about since that night things have been pretty awkward around my fiance and she keeps side eyeing my phone when i'm on it well you probably wouldn't be texting her immediately afterwards if you had done anything uh did i mess up by accepting this joyride any tips on how to manage the situation going forward would be greatly appreciated um
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You're just going to have to go full siege mentality here. You have to go on the offensive. You have to go, hey, we got to get this right. We get to get it over with right now. What's on your mind? Like lay it all out.
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And this is the last time we're going to talk about it because you're going to hold me because of somebody else's track record when I'm assuming giving you the benefit of the doubt as an emailer. a clean track record, nothing to ever suggest. Now you could just be dating somebody incredibly insecure. You know the answer to that already. And it doesn't mean it's the worst.
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It just means that things like this happen. There's just all this stuff and it can be in your own girlfriend's past because anybody that knows has been out there and in the wild, there's just some people that are so defeated by previous experiences that literally you're starting at such a deficit that everything that you're doing is kind of being questioned and it completely sucks.
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Now in this case, like, This is something this isn't somebody you're just dating. This isn't a three month nude. Right. This is your live in deal. Right. The whole thing. So is this new behavior? You know, that's actually kind of better if it is. Obviously, it is better than if it's new behavior, because then you can just go, what is going on with you?
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And just because of what her track record is and the stuff that's happened with your brother and all that, it has nothing to do with me. Do you think I would do that? Do you think I'm that stupid? And Ken, the problem is with women, really, I don't know, men or women, because I doubt women would just be smart enough to never say it.
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But if you were a man, you'd be like, hey, if I'm going to do it, you think I would do that? And then it's like, well, now you just admitted that you're going to do it. Now you have a whole different argument. So what's your plan, Todd?
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Adams had nine shot attempts last night. That's a season high. The dude averages... I think two shots a game on the season. So just something to think about and definitely something to think about if they were to face each other in the playoffs. Bain was great. Numbers are down because his shots are down. I think he's down like four or five shots per game. His career, 41 percent from three.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. So who is it? You just, you can't let it linger. You know, I know this sounds a little mean, but you almost have to make them feel guilty about ever thinking it. and be so determined to go, I'm not giving, because you didn't do anything, right? You didn't do anything. We're giving you the benefit of the doubt. You didn't do anything.
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And you have to be kind of forceful about it. And I know this sucks in the dynamic, but look, people get into arguments and all that kind of stuff. This is one of those deals where you're like, let's go. Let's go. Say it all. And I'm just going to let you know right now, my goal is probably going to be making you feel bad that you even thought it.
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Which I know it sounds shitty and mean, but it's probably the right way to go. End it. Nip this thing right now.
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That's his business. It's his industry.
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We don't, we don't have that.
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Or a lead on a trade-in. You know, I know your family, but I think that transmission was a little.
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Yeah, something wonky in there.
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Yeah. That's really good. Was that Lexus?
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I had a Lexus once. Traded in, left some stuff. Sales guy was like, hey, I think I left like a couple portable speakers. No, I didn't see it. It's like nothing against Lexus. It was the one guy that I had. Yeah. I think ultimately the goal should be in all of this kind of stuff. And like, this is, this drives me crazy. It's like the relationships are hard enough.
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Somebody else's history and the dynamic of their thing, whether it's your brother's insecurity or her track record, and then your influence of all of that, that somehow I'm the bad guy out of all the characters. That's what you need to avoid. You need to figure out a way to avoid that.
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So, you know, that's always there. But what I love from him last night is that when he knew they needed him, which Aaron Jackson is foul trouble. Because that would be the number one option with no jaw last night, of course, offensively. Bain just is smart. He's just smart about this stuff. I think Aldama got a little shot happy.
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I mean, he takes some really tough shots, even though he is a really skilled offensive player. And Aldama ends up playing center last night defensively in some of those small lineups for Memphis. But Bain, just with momentum, coming off some kind of handoff. They don't run a ton of ball screens. the takeoff on Bain's layups.
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I think he's in the dunk contest or the less impressive layup contest, which they have not installed into All-Star Week. Jaron Jackson, my guy, my All-Star starter, 31 minutes last night, got in a foul trouble, not a shock, is tied with Sabonis with 154 total fouls on the season.
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although it makes more sense that Sabonis would have more fouls because he's playing center and just getting destroyed over the course of the games, and he's played way more minutes. Like, I thought I had the number here, but, like, way more minutes than Jackson has played. So whatever. But Jackson hit the big floater. Brooks does a good job on not letting Jackson get depth.
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Brooks defensively was doing some really nice stuff. Like some possessions, he's got Sharon Jackson. Other possessions, he's got Bain coming off the screen. So you want to talk about versatility. But Jackson, in a huge, huge possession, got down, found a way. He even went at Eamon Thompson, who... A man didn't even look, I said his name twice, two different ways.
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He didn't even look like he wanted to drive on Jackson, which is pretty rare if you've been watching this Thompson experience the last couple weeks. But there was a huge bucket there. And then, of course, he hit the free throws after the ridiculous timeout that the ref gave to Memphis when they didn't ask for it, when it looked like Wells was breaking away for the game. But the go-ahead...
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layup which i shouldn't say the game winning because houston's going to get a possession again so we talked fouls there a little bit let's talk clutch offense for houston these clutch numbers for houston you know you're never going to see this i don't think they're number one in clutch wins they lose last night but they still have 17 wins that's the most in the nba despite having the 19th ranked clutch offense so are they doing with defense well a little bit
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Their point differential, they're 17 and 10 now in clutch games. Their net rating is a negative 1.2.
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think they're like 19th in net rating for clutch games except they have more wins than everybody else and so yes some of its defense or whatever i went through the van vliet stuff for it because you have a late turnover you've got the missed three the last play down one you know the rules tied down one down two you got to go for down three is when you go for two now i'm kidding but you understand the point that i'm trying to make here is nobody everybody hates two pointers when they're down one of the game is tied
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It was a fun game. And if you want to start doing the seeding stuff, which is way too early, but we can do it a little bit, looking at the number two seed, now Memphis a half game behind Houston after finally getting a win against the Rockets. You can get into, as I said, it's too early to do this, some of the two seed versus three seed stuff, being like, hey, is it better to be
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There's some Van Vliet stuff here in the clutch minutes that are about as bad as you would think. His shooting splits are 29% from the floor, 25% from three. Clutch shooting numbers just go down basically for kind of everybody because the shots are just harder. Like if you look at Jalen Green, it's not like he's lighting it up at 33 and 27 shooting splits there.
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But then when you think about Houston and where they're at offensively, Because it feels like there's a lot of these late Van Vliet things, and the numbers have been pretty bad with it. If you look at his offensive rating and the splits on some of the stuff that's happened, he's actually, even though he's undersized, you'd think he'd be attacked defensively.
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His defensive numbers shake out better than his offensive numbers. But are you going to run a play for Shingun at center? On the last second shot, because what they ran is they inbounded it to Amin, and then there was a handoff look, and then a fake handoff look, essentially, for Amin to drive. But Clark actually played him really good on his ball hand. So then Amin had to throw it back.
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to van vliet and then he gets a switch on to jaron jackson which you're thinking you really want that against defensive player of the year maybe it's because he had five fouls but he actually got some space in the step back three it's just still a very very tough shot i know we did the trade value stuff with bill i was like as much as we all love thompson right now is he going to be somebody just opening up the side for running ball screen last second whatever
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He kind of got me on, they just did it with Boston. I would argue it was four seconds left. It was an inbound and they just sort of like make something happen. Will Thompson be somebody that they're going to be doing that stuff for because they don't like the Van Fleet options? I don't know. That's asking a lot in his development one year in.
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for playoff games, although that pull-up mid-range jumper that looks a little clunky because he kicks out his legs, he's doing it more and more, and I love the fact that he's even taken that.
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But again, if you're running through these Houston options, you kind of understand why he keeps coming back to Van Vliet so much, unless you just think Jalen Green should run something on the high pick and roll, pick up, drive, try to get the free throw line. That's fine. As much as I love Jabari, you're not doing that with him.
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So some very weird clutch numbers, three possessions there at the end where it didn't work out for him. Now, full transparency, I got a little behind on Houston Memphis because of my trailblazers playing on one of the other televisions at my home. Taking on the magic. I'm not going to worry about the magic yet. Let's have everybody back and playing together for a little while.
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But God, their offense is terrible. But the Trailblazers on the positive side, they've won six to seven. By the way, Paolo's been back. Franz is back, too, for those that may be not paying a ton of attention here. And there's some nice wins in there in the six to seven, because sometimes I'll just look at stuff and be like, is that the schedule or what's going on? They beat Orlando twice.
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They've got Milwaukee. And everybody there was in that Bucs game recently, just the other night. Chicago, a Miami win. So it's not just that. If you look at this stretch, this could be the stretch where you're like, hey, that was the stretch that cost us Cooper Flagg, if you're a Trailblazers fan. Although, look, realistically, with their record, they're seven behind, seven behind.
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the three seed, then it would be the two seed. You're playing, again, this is, I've already said too early three times. Would you rather play, let's just, if you played it out, would you rather play one of the LA teams in a 3-6 matchup if that's where they were to land as opposed to Minnesota figuring some things out, a healthy Dallas, a healthy Phoenix? Like, I can see how I'd rather play
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I guess, wins ahead or losses behind the bottom four. So I don't know. I just think they're just probably too good to have had one of the top four chances at landing in there. The defense, by the way, because it's not the offense, they're 21st in offense the last 10 games. They're eighth on defense. And if you actually really want to dig into this seven-game stretch for the Trailblazers,
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During the seven, again, winning 6-7, they're the number two defense at the NBA. You want to know who number one is? You're never going to guess that. Your Toronto Raptors. But look, it's Abdia playing well. It's Sharp, who I think is their best player, is the best hope for what they could have.
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Again, we're talking about the number one option, so that's a very short list of players that I like having that role. Simons is a bucket. I'm not an Aiden guy. We already know that. And we can talk Scoop. We all know my history with Scoot, loving him before the draft and it looking just viciously ugly at times last year. This has been a really nice stretch for him.
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I don't know if he's going to be like a multiple time all-star the way I kind of when I first fell in love with him. the hope that he could be that, that would be his ceiling. And I understand like athletically, it's not just lightning off the dribble stuff. And I don't even like comparing people to Derek Rose with the ball in the beginning.
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Cause it's just, I mean, even that was absurd for NBA guys. Uh, nobody should be compared to like Westbrook's first step. I'd say Levine's first step, like prime Levine. So. you know, to ask like, Hey, is Scoot going to be in any of those things? Well, no. And, but he didn't shoot it well. And then you could just tell he was, he was just lost.
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And even in some games this year where I knew he had better moments and bigger box scores, there were just still possessions where I would watch. I'd go, it just doesn't feel like it's processing. And if that's not happening in combination with not loving the shooting numbers and that he's probably not going to be a rim finisher against size, like, you know, What am I working with here?
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Well, what we're working with here is a guy that's way more comfortable in his reads and some of the stuff that he's doing off the ball, which is, again, some of the stuff where I really liked him the first time through the G League. You were like, oh, that's really smart for a guy his age, or he's thinking about pushing the ball up the court, or he's trying to get rid of it here.
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He had a read to Aiton that was incredible. And then he also had some really nice drives in there too. But I think this is the most important thing on the growth and the hope that Scoot's going to be like a long-term starting point guard is that, you know, we'll see how this number shakes out the rest of the way. But Tom Haverstraw, part of the broadcast, always good with the numbers.
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Memphis was so hot at the start of this one. You can get out to this huge, huge lead, and sometimes it's like, this is almost too early for this kind of lead. I mean, I know that sounds stupid, but you get the point. I'm like, all right, there's plenty of time left in this one. And that's kind of OKC. After that Brooklyn game, remember I talked about that Brooklyn game in the regular season.
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Even Isola brought it up, too. And it just could get lost in the traffic of all the games throughout a regular season. But... Brooklyn had 76, that Nets team that was trying to tank had 76 against the Thunder in the first half. And you're like, all right, you know, they're probably just going to have one of those weird bad losses.
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Cause it's a team that really didn't have bad losses all regular season. Uh, you know, we, we went through the exercise. It's just incredible how consistent they were for the entire season. Um, So that's kind of my mindset. I was like, well, they probably could still come back in this one because it's them. And they were only down 15, though, to the Nets in that game.
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So to be down 77-51 at the half, I'm like, all right, maybe they're not going to come back in this one. And then they did. Important to mention the job part of this just sucks. He was great last night. I know I'm turning it and not necessarily being the biggest fan. And we can get to the resume of, oh, he's missing more playoff time. That's not really what I want to do right now.
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But it's 67-40, 315 left. When the play was live, I thought, oh my God, Dort's going to be out of here. Then you see the replay and Dort just slips, kind of loses control of his body, catches Morant low. Morant lands on the hip. It's a contusion. He's on the ground. Takes the free throws just to keep himself available to be sub-backed in, but then he was on crutches later on.
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It wasn't just his scoring. I thought his playmaking was terrific last night. I think that's the version of him that you'd love to see a little bit more balance, but We know what the good versions are. We know what the bad versions are. Having said all of that, at 67-40 when he goes down, they only lost one point off of their lead to close the last 315. And then the third quarter happened.
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You know, sometimes you get a touch as a center as they swing it and then you're not really in the play. So I think the number was like three real touches. Uh, because Thibodeau had said, no, we did a good job of them.
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And Chet Holmgren happened. A 36-18 quarter for the Thunder team. They shot at 15-18 from floor overall. Chet had 16 points in the third. The Edie stuff, you're asking a lot of this kid. You're asking him to chase Chet around. You're asking him to hold up against SGA in the switch when he's hunting Edie. He's playing drop. SGA doesn't care if you try to contest the three from SGA.
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He's just not going to get there in time. And even if there's just a bunch of commotion and stuff and Edie's ending up with different people, if Chet's going to start in the left corner and then work his way all the way around to the right break and take a three... And this is where the Clark injury really hurts them. You know, I don't really know.
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There's just a lot of minutes for Edie, and it's asking him to cover a lot of stuff against really good players. And Chet's third quarter is why I feel like the Thunder are almost overlooked. You know, it's funny because in the broadcast, they're like, OKC's going small, back to that theme. It's like, or they went 2024 OKC. Chet's a center. I mean, he may play differently, but...
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then I don't even know what a traditional center is anymore because it's pretty normal for some of these guys at these sites to be able to do incredible things. But his shot making, the block, the protection at the rim, the help protect, all of this stuff. And then, of course, like Edie came out on him to meet him at the three-point line, and he's just asking a ton to turn that –
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And it was like, I don't, you know, I don't know that I would agree with that, but sometimes catching the coaches right after not watching the film, they're just going to push back on any question or story building about the game and how things played out. So, uh, Tobias Harris, I would say, for the most part, through the first couple games, had done a good job against Cat.
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freighter around as Chet just blows right by him and finishes for the dunk the other part of this is that it's a little different when you're up 10 you're up 20 you're up almost 30 and you're making shots and you're pointing to the crowd and this isn't even like a Memphis thing it's just in general And then you're being tasked with making shots when OKC's cranking up the defensive pressure.
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Caruso's a madman out there. They're getting buckets left and right. And you're like, are we going to fucking blow this game? That's a different level of shot making. And clearly Memphis was not up for it. Pippen Jr. was really good. First half of this game, but you've got just dudes out there. Bane was just, there was one three he took from like 30 feet away and it was early in the shot clock.
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And there was just a ton of those shots they were taking from so deep because that's all that was left for them. Because if you try to multiple dribble straight line drive in traffic against the Thunder, it's just not going to work.
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Um, Jaron Jackson had one great turnaround bank shot, but for him to get a catch where his back has turned to the basket from like 25 feet out, that's just a ton of real estate that you're asking him to navigate. with a dribble against this defense. It's not going to work. And I thought OKC, you know, with SGA having five fouls, Memphis was trying to target him, trying to get him out of the game.
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I don't even know that it would have mattered. I don't know that it would have mattered because it was clear that Memphis was feeling it slip away and every shot just was not comfortable. A mess, just like that last sentence. Memphis didn't score for the last, did not score a point For the last 451 of the game. Not a point. Here's Chet after the big comeback.
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A great way to catch up after the first round of the NFL draft. We're going to break it all down with Albert Breer of SI.com, Monday Morning Quarterback, and part of Amazon's coverage of the NFL draft. All right, so Cam Ward goes one. Everybody kind of knew that that was coming.
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And that's not a matchup that you would expect to win if you were Detroit. So I also think the Knicks had as much to do with it as Harris did, as we talked about the lack of touches. Fred Katz, who covers the Knicks for The Athletic, had a really good point about how defensive assignments can dictate how Cat plays the game. And it speaks to...
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And then the first move on an otherwise quiet night, Cleveland trading out of the number two pick, Jacksonville moving up, taking Travis Hunter. Jacksonville in this deal, they send number five, so their first this year, a second rounder, number 36, a fourth rounder, and then a 26 first rounder. So quite a haul to move up, what, the three slots to go ahead and grab Travis Hunter.
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So reaction to that first.
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a record here that I was shocked because I knew what I was seeing. But then when I'd read this piece yesterday, I thought it was just pretty thorough and alarming at the same time. If it's a traditional big defending cat, the Knicks went 35 and 12. If it's a non-traditional big.
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Yeah, and I love that because it also proves how stupid the value chart is for the draft picks because it doesn't account for the actual depth of each of the drafts. All right, let's talk about your guy, James Gladstone, the GM of the Jags. He's 36, I think, so there's always going to be this ageism with him, which is just the way shit works.
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But I'll admit when I saw his first quote after making the trade, I then was like, oh, I want to dig into this a little bit more and watch more of this press conference. So the first line that stood out was he said, quote, for our fans, I'll tell you, don't be scared. This is something I'm uniquely positioned to navigate. we ended up bringing Travis Hunter to Jacksonville.
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And like I understand, like we got Travis Hunter here, right? But I thought the line like uniquely, I was like, that was kind of a weird phrasing. And that can always be one of those moments, too. It's like if it doesn't work out, it comes back to haunt you. So then I was like, I want to dig into a little bit more.
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He has one paragraph here that I'm being totally unfair, but it just reminds me of the guy that nails the interview and is just playing the character. And I know his background with the Rams, so I'm not saying this is even true. I'm saying right now I am being incredibly unfair, but I just can't handle the word choice on some of this stuff.
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It just feels like a pitch in succession or something where it's like Travis in the same lens.
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Here's this line in the same lens. You've heard us mention the idea of adding people who are intangibly rich and Travis, in fact, as a player is rare as a person. He's also rare beyond that. When we say that the idea of inviting people into our ecosystem is who by being nothing more than who they are, elevate the space, is the epitome of what Travis is.
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There's a massively great Travis compliment in there. I am just telling you, I had a hard time with it. Like he's opening the kimono? What do I... No, it just was... There were all of these words in that press conference where I'm like, all right, you know, all right. That was like... That was another one. That was another one. That was the other one. And it just, all right, help.
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Like, what am I supposed to do? Cause I know I'm being a dick.
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So I think, you know, you could just kind of use the catch all term small, although Tobias Harris, I wouldn't exactly call small, but I think we all understand what we're talking about here. The Knicks were 11 and 14.
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Loveland over Tyler Warren. Were you surprised?
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So this is something that was happening throughout the season where teams were putting a smaller player on cat, which led to less screens, that pick and roll, pick and pop action that was just devastating on a points per possession stuff, at least in the first half of the season for the Knicks.
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I do understand it even if I wouldn't want to do it, right? Just because I love Tyler Warren that much. And the age thing is significant. But Loveland, at least in today's NFL, the crispness, like the peak athleticism from him, and it's really more going back to last year when they had a quarterback who could complete a downfield pass.
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Um, there's just something when he would be facing that kind of alignment because of the versatility of the defender against cat, um, Um, where it's not the traditional big where against the big guys, there's 27 screens a game against the smaller players, 15.9.
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But there were moments with him where you at least understood it. You understood how something like this could happen. So I don't look at it as being egregious even if I were sitting there and I'm like, hey, I'm taking Tyler Warren because he was one of my favorite players in college football. And I guess I wouldn't put a lot else into the evaluation. Okay.
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Speaking of good first rounds, did you like what Atlanta did going with two sec guys on the edge?
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Uh, there's also probably just, it's worth doing 30 seconds on this double big fascination, which I've referenced, you know, I've said it with Houston. It's like, Oh, double big, uh, back in the day used to be called the center and a power forward. Um, where you would just, like, this guy's a little bit bigger than that guy, and that guy will play over there.
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I was shocked Walker was still there. I liked him better than Williams. I was not surprised Pierce was still there, and it wasn't just the background part of it, but I just don't know that he showed up on tape this year the way you would expect him to. I mean, he was somebody that was projected to be a top 10 guy, watch a bunch of those games.
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You're just like, I need to see a little bit more out of him, especially for somebody who's a little undersized on the edge part of it. I love having two guys that you're supposed to, at least on paper, prepare for at those positions. If you just have one, you can game plan somebody special out.
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Yeah, it's actually a positive of Jacksonville here is that, you know, when you look at their edge rotation, too, and that Trevon has come on quite a bit after, I think, the beginning of his career, like this is a number one pick, like what's going on out here? And there's there's just a lot of talent, at least at that position. I just love overloading it.
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I love that Atlanta's like this is clearly a weakness if they had the high grades on the guys. Then they jump back in, but the price is interesting. Staying on that, because I'm sure the price was something you were talking about with other NFL teams.
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Something a team did in the first round that we haven't touched on that other teams were in favor of, and then we'll go the other way with it as well.
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Give us something teams were confused by.
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And now with the spacing priority that I think every team should kind of have, like, hey, kids, is there a way we can figure out a roster where we have a lot of spacing and then figure out our deficiencies better? elsewhere as opposed to like, hey, how can we build this without any kind of spacing whatsoever?
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They can look at it as having a couple quarterbacks with the Russell Wilson part of it, where Jameis Winston's going like, what the hell's going on here? But at this point, those guys just have to battle it out. That's who they are at this point in their career.
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But some of these teams are just playing centers and power forwards, but now we're calling it double bigs all the time. I don't think anybody would ever imagine that Tobias Harris is a center, even though the small ball.
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Uh, the Wilson part will make it extra annoying, you know, because he's certainly going in there thinking, and then they decide to get back in and it's not your door. It's Jackson dart.
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And I think on the developmental side, I think it's a fair question to ask, like how much development is this guy going to be going through while you have two vets, one who thinks he's one of the premier players in the NFL, probably still. And then Jamis, who's probably thinking, uh, I should be a starter.
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If everything were clean and I could just go into week one, I'd be a starter in this league for 17 games. And maybe I'm being unfair about Wilson's perception of himself, but at least everything he even heard post-Pittsburgh, it's like this stuff is happening again behind the scenes and the manipulation part of it.
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So not ideal for a Jackson Dart that's going to need those reps unless this gets in the way of all of these teams that draft the first-round quarterback and say, we're going to give them time. We'd like them to sit the year. And then the coach is worried about getting fired. He's like, well, if I can get some wins here week 10 with the rookie, then I can say that that's partly me.
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And then we're in survival mode with all these coaches. It's just a lot is the point.
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shift that we had had for such a long time maybe that's just where we're at now or it's like we're calling it double pigs but it really isn't anything all that new it's just not teams wanting to play small unless you're the Lakers and you don't have a center that you want to play so as I'm gearing up for all of the the Tobias Harris stuff and looking for cat how they're going to play it Dern was the primary defender last night for Detroit so
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And I had to laugh too. And it was like, Jackson's like a culture tone setter. And you're just like, you don't know that. What are you talking about? I think I just becomes the point where the draft actually gets here. I'm so sick of reading about everything.
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And I would say that the hit rate on interesting quotes during some of the interviews and granted the players are young and all that kind of stuff. It just feels like a recycling of the same stuff over and over again for hours and hours. However, Unfortunately, the biggest headline out of all of this was just waiting on Shador. And I don't know if Mel having Shador is best available.
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Because when you saw that he had him as high as he did before the draft even started, and then he's number one for what felt like three hours, the optics of this make it look even worse. I'd say based on conversations, and again, I'm not a reporter, it was...
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it was surprising as the mock season was building up, how many people that I would talk to, just that I like talking football with them would go, you know, I don't know. I don't know why people have Shador in the top 10. I don't know. You know, it was just kind of a general, like, why is he in the top 10? Then we had Quincy Avery on who works with everybody. Um,
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Who essentially said if it wasn't Sanders as his last name, he'd be a sixth round pick, which, you know, again, seemed pretty harsh on that side of it. And so then Shador drops and he's waiting to see if his name is called tonight. Your thoughts on what became kind of the overriding storyline.
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Do you look at that and say Detroit got away from something that was worried? I don't think that's necessarily the case. You put Harris on Hart. I think the feeling is you can have Harris help off, but is he mobile enough to be a help defender? And the other problem is even if Hart isn't a shooter that you respect or the only non-shooter that you feel you can cheat off of because OG was terrific.
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No, I mean, look, some of these interviews are you and I discussing things. Some of them are straightforward questions, but I do want to stay on this and talk about it a little bit because I don't know when it shifted, but it just seems like people are very unrealistic about what this process is. Yeah. Yeah, they're kids. And as you get older, you have a better appreciation for that.
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I know that I'm not the same way when I talk about college athletes at my age now as I was in my 20s and my 30s. And maybe that's a nice thing. But we're talking about guys that are about to become professional athletes for millions of dollars. And part of the evaluation is You know, is this guy good enough? Is this guy the right fit? Is the personality the right thing?
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And then once it starts diving into the personality, it leads to a lot of conversations, accusations of race being involved in all this stuff. And I just feel like we've lost sight of what can be the simplest thing is maybe there's just a bunch of NFL teams that didn't think he was that good. And maybe there are a few teams that were on the fence about him.
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I really like some of the stuff that the Knicks did, getting OG going up against Cade. I think there's times to attack Cade there defensively. Bridges seems to have these nice stretches. It wasn't 27 shots from Brunson. So Hart is – you look at the other five and you go, who can we get away with cheating off of?
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And the tiebreaker was that he didn't kill it in the interview. And then it turns into all of these other things like these cryptic people at work trying to damage a kid's name. And it's like, maybe it's not that. Maybe it's not that nefarious. And so if he fucked up a couple interviews with teams that weren't 100% sure about his physical ability and didn't necessarily love the tape.
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then that's going to downgrade him. And you're absolutely right. It's the same thing as the Rogers draft. You knew when Rogers wasn't selected past a certain point that he was going to go into a free fall because unless somebody traded up to go grab him, there were a bunch of teams stacked up towards like, it doesn't really make sense for them to take teams generally don't need quarterbacks.
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yeah that's the other part of it so then once you realize you know if he doesn't go to the saints or nobody else moves in like you could be heading for a free fall here then you have the steelers part of it then you have the giants part of it and it feels like a lot of these themes get recycled over and over again which i feel like are applied in certain areas that make a lot of sense and have us question or evolve into how we're talking about certain things but i can't help but resist some of it when it cycles back to some of the sports things where it's like do you really actually think
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that all of these people are out to get Shador Sanders or did the NFL at times, which they're very good at doing collectively telling us what they think about a player, whether it's in free agency or the draft and Shador, unfortunately for him with all the hype is incredibly disappointed, which I don't know that anybody, you know, again, maybe there's a lot of assholes out there that were rooting for his disappointment.
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I don't know that I am, but I know that I'm also in a position where I feel like months and months of this leading up and then him having a bad night, uh, Leads to all of these massive accusations and then maybe a little victory lapping of like, how could you do this to a kid? Or how could you say this and have his name on your mouth and all this different stuff?
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And he's just like, you know, like, dude, it's the draft. It's just the draft. And some guys go later than you think. And sometimes there's a reason. And sometimes in this case, it could be as clear as just a lot of offensive coaches not loving the tape.
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The problem is when you do that with Hart, especially if he's off the ball or just on the non-ball side of the court, Uh, he's just so good at cutting and he's so good at cutting when you're not paying attention that you still have to almost treat him. You don't have to position yourself as if he's a shooter.
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The Nolan Narocki thing was insane because then it became the annual what did Nolan Narocki say about somebody's character in the draft guide, which would then focus on like one player or two players completely ignoring the fact of how many glowing character evaluations you would have of hundreds of other college football players.
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That was like one of the strangest things that started to happen like 10 years ago or so. And now it's an annual of – I hate the entire process because one person seems to be paying some sort of price. And I'm always thinking, okay, maybe everybody's wrong. And to your point, the anonymous thing, it's just kind of the way business is done.
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And to do the, well, I can't believe if you're going to say that, then put your name on it. Well, no one fucking does that. Then we wouldn't have any trade rumors. We wouldn't have any draft rumors. We'd have no rumors whatsoever. Because I really would ask fans, if you're mad about the anonymous part,
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Are you so mad about it that you don't want any of the leaks and all the stuff that we all enjoy on a day-to-day basis of trying to figure – I don't think you want that trade-off. I don't think that people understand what they're talking about with that.
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You can never leave, but you still have to be really aware because the guy's super, super active and that's how he gets so many rebounds on top of everything else. So look, we can talk about the defensive assignment here, stuff with cat and say the Detroit, uh,
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What I think is bullshit, and I'll just end it here, is that there are people in the media that would have you believe Sanders was going to go in the top five last night, and then because of a couple of anonymous quotes about meetings not going well, that somehow that overruled the tape. And then the next 25 teams were like, no, we don't want to take him. All right, so let's close on this.
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Got away from something else that was working because I went through the field goal attempts for Cat where it was 11 against Durin, only three against Harris, one against B-Ball Paul, and then I have three classified as others.
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Do you think he goes as the first pick to the Browns tonight in the second round?
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Buckle up! We're going for it. All right, tails to the couch, sort of. Just recapping the three games that we had last night. I was thinking about doing something with Apollo, but didn't have time. We'll wait maybe until the offseason. And the NFL draft, round one in the books with Albert Breer. We're going to get into all of it.
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Yeah, because you're right. Because if it's Browns going QB with one of their two picks, which are the top four picks.
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Sometimes the shot attempt versus the defender isn't always the greatest thing because then you're talking about the possessions where Cat decided not to shoot, so it's almost as if the defender isn't getting any credit. For that, that's why opponent's field goal percentage at times is really good and also at times really misleading. Here's the point.
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The Bears, the Niners, Dallas, the Colts. Look, maybe somebody moves in and says, okay, enough of this. And I think one of the things that I felt bad for with Sanders last night was he's got the setup, so then everybody's going to laugh at him for having the setup, which is the victory lap on however you feel about Colorado. And I felt horrible for the kid.
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I feel bad for him that the number is retired because clearly that's a Dion thing of like – All right. Well, Travis Hunter makes sense because he was the one's the Heisman. The Shador thing was a little weird. So there's a lot of ammunition there for people that are going to hate on Shador to go with. And I can't imagine like being that young and doing the whole setup and the whole thing.
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And then you don't even get picked that entire night. But the ESPN draft probability, which now has designed. perhaps an even more pointless stat than win probability. Because win probability added no depth of understanding. They still throw it up on all of the broadcasts every now and then. Not every single one, like constantly. But they like to throw it up. Don't get me going on this.
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Well, it's just not interesting. It's not interesting. I understand it. But this draft probability thing of like 91% chance that he would have been taken by the 24th. You can tell me you put a bunch of math in the old meat grinder.
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It just...
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This is even worse, I think, because it's just, well, there was a 6% chance that he would still be available. But then there was a 1% chance he would be available past this pick. So they keep throwing it up there. It's like, based on what? That's the thing. It's like, based on what? Well, I know whoever did it and I'm like, I knew some of those people and I really liked the work they do. Yeah.
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But that is being so extra. And it was like, you don't really need it because this is not, I mean, even wind probability, I understand what that's based on.
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Yeah, that or my contract's up. And so I'm going to create draft probability availability numbers. And then they're just going to keep putting it up there over and over and over again. And I know now this will get back to them. And I'm really sorry if you're super pissed off because there's a couple of people over there. It could be somebody over there who I really like and still talk to.
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The point is that Cat decided after game two in the fourth quarter of taking zero shots that the directive, whether it was the coaching staff, whether it was the film, whether it was his teammates, maybe it was all of those things. But Cat had to decide, I'm going to be more aggressive and I'm going to be quicker. And he took six shots in the first quarter.
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I don't know.
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Yeah, or that is the end of the relationship. Probability of us still being friends, 1%.
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Definitely going down as that as that discussion continue. When are you going to have like a big draft wrap up on this all Monday?
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Okay, sounds great, man. Albert Brewer, SI.com and Amazon. And we'll have you on again soon. And now it's time for today's winning bundle segment presented by State Farm. In basketball, it's all about that trusted coach-player connection. When a coach has a player's back, bold plays happen, just like when your team has every piece in place. State Farm isn't just an insurance company.
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I think Kerr, pretty happy, like, I get to coach this guy. That feels like a winning bundle. You could potentially look at, well, I don't know that Denver's in play anymore on that one, even though they have the history with it. What about patience and Steve Ballmer? Well, what does that mean? He's not the coach. Well, he's the guy in charge of everything.
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The patience, the Clippers could potentially be rewarded for in Ty Lue having the patience, just knowing, getting through the regular season games. If we are fully formed at the end of the season going into the playoffs and the patience with somebody like Kawhi Leonard who will test your patience.
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him being the face of your franchise, is that patience going to be paid off in a winning bundle style? I'd also throw in Joe Mazzulla is such a weirdo that it's a massive distraction from any other player's postgame commentary. So it's actually a massive win for everybody. And that's just a bigger bundle than just two people. That's Joe and then everybody else on the Celtics who has to talk.
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It doesn't matter what they're going to say. And then I think finally, Kenny Atkinson, the bundle of those four stars that he has maximized and led to a 3-0 series lead against the Miami Heat, where even when you thought that he could challenge them a bit from just being up 2-0, that 2-0 malaise, Kenny Atkinson would not let that happen on the road.
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And I think it just set a tone for him at least to be engaged because basketball is funny that way. If you don't get to touch the ball and you don't get to shoot early on, it can actually leak into how you just have those moments where you've got to wake up. You've got to wake up in this game. If you get off to a really slow start for scores, for shooters, they can almost... Not talk themselves.
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It is life advice, and we're light. Light crew right now. Kind of like a second-round NBA team. I hate when I watch these games, and I'm like, I wonder which two super good players are going to get hurt and then change. Yeah, because it just feels so normal.
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Yeah, look, I think the dirty plays in general, it's just weird how the broadcast, it just feels like whenever we're watching the replay, and I'm talking about some of my favorite announcers, there's just this disconnect of what we're all watching at home and then what the announcers are saying.
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I think sometimes I've only done play-by-play a few times, but I remember when I did a couple Celtics games how lost I was because I was trying to keep track of a million things. Now, granted, just being thrown into it and doing Celtics play-by-play after I had only done minor league baseball on radio. It wasn't like I had a big lead up where I'd been grinding for years and was ready.
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So I'm looking at all this stuff. I'm trying to figure out what's going on. So sometimes you could actually lose sight of the thing that you need to keep track of because, again, I just wasn't good at it. And there was no reason to expect that. I was just at least serviceable. And because I worked for their station, I was free. And that's what it was.
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I still think I was supposed to submit for a per diem that I never got. So... When I try to figure out why I'm watching the Jalen Green, Draymond Green elbow in that game. And yes, Jalen Green gets Draymond in the face, but it was almost like an elbow wash as opposed to just a hard elbow to his face.
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And the fact that Draymond goes with such a delayed like assassin delayed deal or it's just such an embellishment. And then Draymond's down. And then it feels like it takes the announcers more replays to at least get there. But since they started with, oh, that's bad, then maybe they don't want to correct themselves on the fly. And Bryan Anderson is the play-by-play guy. I understand he's trying.
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Stan has to, in that moment, be quicker on Draymond. There was contact. But, you know, and that was always my default thing with Mark Jackson's joke be crazy is like anytime we ever looked at a foul and he'd be like, oh, there's contact there. And you just be like, dude, but there's not there's there's elements to this.
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They kind of take themselves out of the game because they've set their own tone by not being very aggressive. So six shots in the first quarter. And again, I think that was a massive carryover from probably how Cat felt about how many touches he had, how... How just not part of the offense he was in that fourth quarter.
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So the Goga thing, it looks like he winds up a little, but I didn't I didn't think he thought I didn't think he knew Porzingis was there.
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Yeah, it was just tough for Mel because when it was best available, when you had it up there, you were like, man, he's going to ride this one out.
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He's just going to ride this out. I know a Jerry from Dorchester, so great pull. Nice. Good for him. Dorchester, part of Boston. Just historically, if you weren't with the pod, when it was sort of like what's thought of as Boston versus what is technically Boston, that was a fucking problem. I'm glad. I don't know if we've gotten through it, to be honest with you. Okay. I hate honey roasts.
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This is a new one. Six foot 235. I plug my strengths and weaknesses into a chat GPT and it says my pickup comp is Grayson Allen or Doug Christie with a strap but no defense.
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Simple question. Am I a jerk for hating honey roasts? If you don't know, honey roasts are just the opposite of roast. Everyone goes around and says something they love or appreciate about a particular person. Did you know about this? I have never heard of this before.
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You know what I love about you is how honest you are, Steve. Thanks. Thanks. See, I just honey roasted you.
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All right, context. My wife and I lead and host a weekly Bible study and a small contingent of our 12 members push hard for us to do honey roast at every person's birthday celebration before our discussion. We eat a meal and talk for about an hour before going and reading and discussion of the Bible for another hour. While this seems like a nice gesture, I hate it. Here's why.
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Really some good defensive stuff there, too, where New York cranked it up, met the ball right at half court. Some really good stuff from them forcing turnovers and getting out and handling a barrage of hardaway threes early on in this one. The Clippers take out Denver in game three. Denver is in some trouble here. That was an ass-kicking, okay?
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One, it monopolizes the conversation about one person. No one gets to talk about anything else during our meal prior to Bible discussion. The compliments feel fake and conjured up on the spot like they wouldn't have been said had it not been obligatory.
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It feels self-serving for someone to force other people to say nice things about them, especially when the focus of the evening is to have a community and learn about the Bible. It's not like we don't acknowledge the person's birthday. My wife and I are great cooks and buy or make the person a free meal of their choosing.
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My wife also makes them custom professional grade cake from her baking business that would normally run for close to a hundred bucks. I just don't like that it messes up the very intentional agenda we try to follow for the sake of something that feels self-serving. Am I the a-hole for hating honey roast? And if I'm not, then how would you go about nicely telling folks we aren't doing it anymore?
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Wow. Yeah. Uh, look, I think the guy makes some good points. I just would wonder like, where are you on this? It sounds like it's sort of your thing. So maybe you have a little bit more juice than just the regular guy in the room. It sounds like you're above replacement guy. Um, I mean, how long does it go?
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If it's 12 people and it's their birthday and everybody said, are we talking five minutes here? I mean, this doesn't sound like a Netflix special.
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So I would ask if the approval rating, if there's more yays than nays in the room on this, is it worth... Because if people are very into this and think it's great, they're going to think you're a lunatic, even though we agree with you and we're on your side.
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I think there's a lot of equity potentially at stake here for you to lose over something that seems pretty manageable if we're talking about... Although, I guess if it's weekly, 12 people in the group, 14, we're talking now like 20% of these things kicking off a little honey roast. Yeah, I could see how that could get annoying.
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Yeah. Could you go with compliments that are actually insults?
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Yeah. You don't smell that bad.
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Yeah, that's an interesting one. My guess is... Your jaundice is glowing. Yeah. My guess would be that... I think the group probably likes them. I mean, it'd be the ultimate epiphany if you just were like working behind the scenes, political locker room lawyer type. Be like, hey, we got another birthday coming up. Like Deb's thing. Like, where are you on the honey roasts? Are those kind of weird?
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You know? And then it's the worst thing ever. Like, I remember... There was a guy, and I've told a version of the story, but there was a guy like I immediately didn't like before everybody else did. And I shared that with somebody else. I was like, I think that guy might suck, man. And everybody loved him. And they were like, dude.
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Now you may say, well, you know, they were kind of flirting 10 and then 20 points. It was like 20 points forever until it wasn't. Just to put this into perspective, Denver started 8-9 from the floor in this game. They were up 26-19 in the first quarter. So at 3-15 of the first quarter when that's the score, you're like, all right, Denver's making shots and they're figuring this out a little bit.
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And then, you know, being early, it's my cross to bear on a lot of stuff.
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Yeah, but I was right. A year later, dudes were like, man, did you nail that? I know. I know. That's a great feeling. I try to tell you. Well, it wasn't great for the first couple months when dudes were like thinking about icing me out because they just thought I was a dick. I was like, no, I'm just telling you. This guy kind of sucks. So anyway, now we're not really even talking about Honey Rose.
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My mind is still sort of semi-blown that there's a term for this kind of thing. But is there really... Is your annoyance... Is it too high of a price to pay for people to probably feel good about themselves in this little thing? Or maybe it's about the prep. Maybe it's like, hey, if we're doing these honey roasts, we're doing them right.
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And you can't just fucking forget and then say you like somebody's blouse. Like it has to be earnest and it has to be real. And if they're not real enough, we're not doing it. Once the summer starts, we're done. we've done this.
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Yeah, I could see how it's annoying. We did have a lot of people asking for a follow-up on the chair guy. So if that guy could follow up and let us know how this all went down, that would be huge for the audience because people are...
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It was last Friday, wasn't it?
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That's right. He may or may not have gotten his ass kicked.
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It's almost lunchtime on the East Coast. Things could be going down. Guy could have an entire new career right now. Or he could be talking to a lawyer. He could be in jail. That's probably why he's not emailing. There's a lot going on in that guy's day. All right. Did I read this one about the girlfriend's parents? No.
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Fan of the show, I usually only tune into life advice segments since I just listen on the train. All right. Well, thanks for joining us. Names below are changed. I've been dating my girlfriend, Emily, for two years. We're moving in together this summer. We recently signed a lease and are both very excited to live together.
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Last night, she mentioned that each of her parents' divorce are looking forward to visiting and sleeping on our couch. I immediately said I was not okay with that and they should just get a hotel. I wanted to set a boundary early so that I could avoid a lifetime of them staying in my house and annoying me.
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An argument ensued, which ended up me saying that if we started down this road, it would lead me to resenting her parents forever. That's excessive, dude. Do I have to inevitably accept that they will stay at our place or is the right move staying strong in this so I can keep them out of my home for the foreseeable future? This guy's stern. He's running a tight ship over there. Uh,
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Look, not everybody's the same. It would blow my mind at this stage if I were, I guess I should probably say a parent. But yeah, I would not want to impose and sleep on somebody's couch at this stage of my life, even as a non-parent. Because nobody's in the queue to be getting married here that I'd be dealing with. The fact that they're also divorced...
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is sort of weird, but I guess they get along well enough to even suggest this as a possible option. I don't think you needed to lay the hammer down necessarily that way. I wouldn't want it either, all right? It would bum me out. Maybe at a certain age...
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maybe being a little bit younger, I wouldn't even realize that, Hey, this is something I probably don't necessarily want to get involved in here. But if they crash in your couch this time, I don't know that it means that you're signing up to a lifetime agreement of constant, you know, lodging disruptions. Okay.
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Um, from that point on with the final score, that means that LA outscored Denver to the end of the game, 98 to 57. Okay. That's balanced scoring from the Clippers, four players between 19 and 21 points. The bench for LA outscored Denver's bench 31 to six. I'm sure that's not shocking to many of you. Um,
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So I think you may have lost your mind a little bit on that last one of like, I'm going to resent them forever. You probably should have held that one in the holster. So you're going to have to work your way out of that one.
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Just so you know, if he sleeps on the couch, I'm going to hate your dad for 40 years. Whoa. Yeah, people – the reason I say that is like people are different. Like I would say some of my experiences with family members in particular, especially when things weren't exactly –
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crushing for me I almost felt like I was being tested to see how inconvenienced I could be which meant that I cared about my family so if I had said hey why don't you get a hotel first of all that conversation would have gone nowhere all right it's about the parents some some people in life look at It's just one huge tab.
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And if they don't get charged for a room at your inconvenience, that's such a massive win for them that they don't care. I mean, so obviously we have to touch on what their financial situation is here. If they can cover a hotel room and they want to do this to you, it feels a bit like a test. The divorce thing is really throwing me off here.
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It could also be that they're super, super attached to their little girl.
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um and so they want to wake up and be in the mix and they feel like if they're at a hotel then they're kind of like doing commutes to come visit you and it's not as much fun like i've been at family gatherings especially when i was younger where everybody did just stay in whoever like whatever the grandmother's house was and where the room was and then if there were other people that were local that were relatives everybody was just crashing everywhere so everybody was kind of get together the entire time as opposed to like
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Now I'm hotel guy. If I go home, home, I'm still a hotel guy because I usually have to do some kind of work. I have to figure out a way to get back to do what I'm doing. But like those moments where it's not necessarily the event, but you're just around almost like when you you're younger and you're. you're going to have some sort of buddies weekend.
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If you're really young, you probably shouldn't all be doing hotels. You should be finding some central base where it's just the basic fuck around of the sofa and the video games and the storytelling and all the nonsense and the zins, I guess now, um, a dad probably wouldn't be, you know, like you would think he doesn't care about any of that kind of stuff. So, uh, man, I don't know.
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So Rudy, like I really wouldn't want this, but I wouldn't either. I mean, have you ever had to deal with anything like this?
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Even with what looked like a bad Westbrook game to start, nine minutes, one of five, who knows with him? He could get hot, hit a couple threes. We know the uncontested numbers for him are really good over the course of the season because he's going to have a lot of uncontested looks and just being comfortable and adjusting to how he would play off Jokic. So maybe he would turn it around.
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It sucks. Two. We're also talking like, are we thinking of Christmas and a birthday here? Is it twice a year?
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I would have to know logistically how close they are, how often they plan on visiting. Can you not handle one or two visits a year? I mean, maybe this guy is a real regimented guy. I can't have disruption. And this is going to screw it up. How am I going to watch CNBC on the couch when I have a divorced couple fumbling through throw pillows?
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If they weren't divorced, would you feel differently about it? I think it adds a layer to confusion. Or maybe they're just the most chill people ever. And they're like, we made a kid. And if you sleep on that couch and I sleep on this couch... it's not that big of a deal and we're both saving money in a hotel room.
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I mean, the finance part of this is, is very real, but if they can handle a hotel room, depending on where they're able to visit you. And I imagine like, even at the lowest end of things like saving, like you usually can figure out some place to stay if you have to be somewhere for something. I don't know.
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What? We don't know that like we're talking about a rekindling of the vibe.
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Jacksonville's bold move at the top, tight end situations, trade-ins, surprises, things teams like, things teams didn't like. And we will close on the Shador Sanders storyline. And life advice. Enjoy. Three games last night. I think they're still going to play the playoff games tonight despite Shador Sanders not going in the first round. I think the NBA will just operate business as usual.
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You got to figure out the math. Is it worth this kind of fight? You shouldn't have said you're going to resent them forever. What kind of math are we talking? How many visits? It's the first time their little girl's moving in with the fiance, the guy she's going to marry. It's their first place with the other person.
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Maybe it was going to be the really bad Russ game. You didn't get either. You didn't even have the option because he left the game with a foot injury. And considering how thin they already are, that's actually a big loss for them. Michael Porter Jr. is 2-9, 1-6 from three. I think the shoulder injury is clearly significant enough. When we saw him go down earlier in the series, it looked pretty bad.
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Maybe they're excited about these different stages of life and they want to just kind of join in. Maybe they cannot afford it, which is totally understandable. And they're hoping that you can help them a little bit.
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Mr. Jones, are you going to type in Bonvoy 15? All right. That'll do it for us. And congrats, Rudy, on kid number two.
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Before we say goodbye to everybody to wish you a great weekend, how about we make it even better? How about a four-legger, Russillo? You got anything from FanDuel you've been baking up at home? Yeah, and when I even plugged it in, it's gone up since then. So this one's a little different. Lakers in Minnesota. Straightforward line on this one. Minnesota favored by three.
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Should have factored in the game one home loser and how often they win game two and how often they win game two by double digits. So plus five and a half felt like a nice number on this matchup, but. History tells us if game one home team loses, they come back with a vengeance game too. So let's see. This series may just shift around a bunch. So here's what we're doing.
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We're staying away from the number on this one. We're playing a little under. These games have gone under this year with these two teams matching up. So a little under, under 208 with three overs. Julius Randle, over one and a half made threes. Nas Reed, over one and a half made threes. Nas Reed. LeBron James. LeBron James, over one and a half made threes. So this baby is plus 1228 right now.
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They said, can you do something plus 425? I go, how about I triple that? How about I just absolutely go for it? So yeah, plus 1228. I think based on that payout, potential payout. That's some juicy action for you right there. You're rooting against and under while you're rooting for three players to hit two threes. So you're going to be conflicted all night. But America loves conflict.
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So there you go. Thanks to our guys for stepping up in the absence of others today on this podcast. As always, thanks to Saruti and thanks to Ronik and Gahal.
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They needed him to get up. And again, he's probably not going to have an inspirational podcast at any point, but When he went down with that shoulder injury and the play was still going on around him, it's like, okay, this guy must be really hurt.
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And there was one play in particular where, you know, maybe I didn't understand the severity of the shoulder injury until more of the information after last night's game saying, you know, he'd probably be out multiple weeks here, but they need his body. But there was a play where there was a shot to the right side. He's on the baseline. Harden's behind him. The rebound's carrying me off the rim.
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It was a high bounce. And then Harden just gets the offensive rebound behind him. And I'm like, man. Like, I get that it was a bounce, but you're 6'10". And then the fact that it's the shoulder and then, you know. So, we'll give him a pass on that one. Denver's D coming in here. One more note on the offense, by the way. Jokic and Murray, 46 points.
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The rest of the team, the rest of the Nuggets team combined for 37 points. Denver's defense was another issue here because as we talked about the balance scoring for the Clippers earlier,
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um depending on how much they even want to get zoo in there that's kind of four guys like we said the bench comes in seems to make shots for the most part um i wouldn't say this series is 3-0 if denver doesn't or excuse me the clippers don't have 20 turnovers in game one because i think if denver loses the first one then they're just probably a little bit motivated to close a little bit better in game two as i say all the stuff connected here so i'm not going to play the 3-0 game here minus the turnover problems that the clippers had because a lot of it was was pretty messy but denver's defense
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And it was just a lot of perimeter guys for them to figure out how they're going to match up against it. At the very start of the game, they came out with a zone with Aaron Gordon playing the ball at the top.
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And whenever teams do that, it's like they're just afraid to do it for too long because I wouldn't necessarily point to and say, hey, they got away from the zone that was working so well for them. I never necessarily felt that way. But Denver's defense after the All-Star break was 23rd in the NBA. It's the worst of any of the playoff teams.
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and I don't even know that that's their main issue because the scoring imbalance is a massive problem. I'll have moments where I'm watching Murray, and Chris Dunn is hounding the shit out of him, and I'll think, is Murray doing anything right now?
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And his overall numbers are probably a little bit better than you would expect them to be, or maybe we're so conditioned to think of Murray as this playoff guy because if you were watching the Clippers broadcast last night, you saw that number that jumped up. I didn't even know it that... He has the biggest jump of regular season average to playoff average in NBA history.
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So maybe you're expecting some of those Murray Lakers moments from a couple years ago. But against Dunn, it's just even I'd say this for him is that there are times where I am impressed with his ability to finish considering what he's facing defensively and knowing that especially when he tries to carry over those non-Jokic minutes, like forget it. They don't have to deal with anything.
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They're just totally happy crashing on Jokic all the time. And they have the Zubat's luxury of Zubat's being able to at least hold up one-on-one against Jokic and impede his progress towards the rim. Like now you start looking at how Jokic, his eyes light up when he has Gobert one-on-one close in the restricted area against Zu. It's like, I hope I just get a catch down there.
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There was another play where Westbrook was still in the game and Jokic was getting double teamed off the left elbow and he was being hugged by Zoo. And then Harden was hugging him on the other side. And I'm not complaining about a non-collar or anything like that. It's just physical basketball. And Westbrook, nobody cared about Westbrook.
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And Westbrook kind of didn't really know what to do because he didn't want to drive. And he does. You've seen it throughout the season. He gets kind of apprehensive or the most apprehensive we've ever seen of Westbrook as far as his basketball career. but he just kind of wanted to get it back to your kitchen. He like dropped it at his feet.
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It just was like, dude, I have two, I'm wearing like Clippers chaps right now. Okay. I, I don't, there's no pass to be made to me here as you try to like get it to my feet. So, um, I guess I just could go forever here.
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I'm not going to read all of this stuff because, you know, there's another play defensively where Harden just played it out perfectly, slowed things down, saw that Kawhi was going to end up with Jamal Murray one-on-one on the right side, even though he's extended almost to the three-point line. Kawhi's getting ready to work. Jokic comes over, not as a hard double, but just like a Luke Cornett.
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I'm standing over here, and I may double you. Like, I'm a potential double team here. So Jokic... I knew what he was doing. It was almost like playing a zone defense behind Murray. But the problem is, is all of a sudden Gordon starts watching what's happening. And then Derek Jones Jr. cuts baseline and Gordon completely loses him.
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And Gordon's like the one guy you're kind of hoping out there defensively will always be engaged. Granted, it's just one play, but it's a terrible play. It's a terrible play. You're ball watching while there's two guys already on Kawhi. Kawhi makes the great pass and they lose him on the baseline. Denver scored 13 points in the fourth quarter. I was like, man, they're not scoring a lot here.
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One shot made outside the paint. And, you know, I just don't know where the fix is here for Denver. I think there are some out there and the nastiness, the basketball conversation of my guy's better than your guy. And these just battles where I don't know that anybody gains any ground ever. But the preheat oven is probably warming up for Jokic a bit.
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So we'll get to that draft night. So a lot to keep track of last night. And we start in Detroit, New York up 2-1 after a victory on the road. Little Caesars going off. So a lot of the game two stuff that I talked about was cat or the lack of cat in the offense and his zero field goal attempts in the fourth quarter of game two. I was looking at it again. I think there was like three real touches.
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I don't know how you would watch these games and be like, yeah, it's that guy's fault. Although, look, turnovers are terrible in game two. He was, I think, atrocious defensively, especially in the first half of game one. I don't think that's – I think he's been at least serviceable, which is always sort of the baseline for him.
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And, you know, there's times even I would admit and be like, you might just have to like – It's weird. You know, we think about ones and the alphas and the best basketball players. We're almost happy if they're taking a million shots and it doesn't matter if they go in because we know that they want it. Right. Jokic just isn't going to do that. It's just not the way that he's wired.
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And it's worked out pretty well for him, I would say, throughout his career. But when they're getting their asses kicked and he's still like wondering if somebody is going to cut and wondering how the help is going to come. And, you know, Clippers doing just a masterful job on on his movement and
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Like not a hard double on Jokic, but if he makes a move, okay, now we can send one to him, help off of these perimeter guys. These perimeter guys are just not going to beat us. And the Clippers, like as the game plan develops and you're going up because it's the same opponent, you can just see how teams get more and more comfortable of like, oh, this is how you're going to play this.
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Like now I know I can go and do these things. Uh, I did want to mention if you did not have the Clippers feed like I did last night, the Ying Yang twins performed after the first quarter. They performed again a full set at halftime, 15 straight minutes. They do not lip sync. So if you're on the fence about seeing them, but worried if they were going to lip sync their way through it, not at all.
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Max effort, toweling each other down. tremendous stuff. I am, however, speaking of stamina, worried about the Clippers' dance team. I understand 15 minutes is a little bit more than just the three-minute timeout, but I thought they were struggling a bit towards the end of that 15 minutes. It's like, we're still out here. We're still dancing. These guys are still going.
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These guys are still shouting out Houston. All right, final game. Oklahoma City comes back from down 29 against Memphis 3-0 in the series. Wow. Memphis started game two 0 for 10. Not great. Game one was really ugly too. Great first half shooting-wise for Memphis. 11-22 from three. Oklahoma City only made four threes. 4-18. And... Memphis took care of the basketball in the first half.
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A lot of NFL for you today on the podcast, we're going to pick the AFC and NFC title games tendencies maybe with Shilka Padia and the latest on all the NFL coaching hires. How did all of these people land where they landed the best job and the worst job? with NFL insider Diana Rossini. I went to the Lakers Celtics last night. The Lakers looked really good. The Celtics did not.
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I have a Mahomes legacy question, but I don't know that I want to ask it because I don't want. I'm just not going to ask it because he very likely will win this game at home and the fact that they're healthier and that they've already seen them. And, you know, it's Buffalo. They can like the matchup and they beat him a few times here. But this is a whole different animal. All right.
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Not overrated, but maybe I'll save it for Monday. Maybe it'll be one of those things where I do it in a monologue where I ask the question, but I'm definitely saying the question as my definitive answer. Okay. But I just, I hate picking against that dude. I hate it. And here we go again. All right. NFC.
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Okay. Now, If you look at the thing that was... Did you pick Baltimore against Buffalo? No, I had the Bills. Okay, all right. It made a lot of sense on paper because of the mismatch of thinking about the front and Derrick Henry and the rushing attack, a lighter D-line.
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So I think seeing Jaden Daniels a third time here for Philadelphia, the more I've thought about this game, the more I've read about this game. This Washington story is incredible. He's incredible. I haven't liked what I've seen from Jalen Hurts, but I think for Fangio to see this dude a third time is a massive advantage.
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So I'm glad you brought that up because Daniels was at like just under 7% design runs in that week 11 matchup. But that was strictly because of the rib injury. Yeah. Like you can see it in the play calling from Kingsbury where it's like, okay, this guy's banged up. And I think the,
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The only thing that we worry about with Daniels at this point, it's not whether or not he's going to be comfortable because he's already answered that numerous times all season long. I don't think he's like some of the other younger quarterbacks who put up numbers. It's like, yeah, but it just seems like there's real limitations on where he can go with the football.
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That's not the case for him at all. I mean, he's carrying a team in a way a rookie quarterback has never carried a football team to bring them this far. And I brought it all up and Sando had the awesome numbers where it's like, look at
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Mark Sanchez, look at Roethlisberger, look at Flacco, look at what those teams are doing on defensive special teams and look at what Washington is not doing on defensive special teams. And here we go. They're a game away from playing in the Super Bowl. But the design runs have been cranked up here again.
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So I think it's a very different element of like getting ready for him where in, by the way, to like, what are you waiting for? You're not you're not going to be protecting him for the rest of the season. You're trying to get to the Super Bowl here. So I think that design run thing really had way more to do with his ribs and Cliff trying to protect him in that first matchup than it would be.
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I mean, I think it was repeated nonstop during the broadcast as well, but that was the Baltimore argument in picking them against Buffalo. Oh, which is the way I should say it. And honestly, it made a lot of sense. If you look at this Bill's rushing attack, They've been really good at it.
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And he, and he, cause they've just let him go. I mean, we're talking about him at like over 15% design runs now in the two playoff games.
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Yeah, with Cosme out, who's probably considered their best offensive lineman and going up against Carter, good luck with that. I have some other numbers that maybe I'll get to here, but I want to focus on Philly here because it hurts. We know that, I mean, look, he's 28-41, 259, no picks through two playoff games. He's got the two touchdowns. He's done it with his legs, the huge run against L.A.
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early to kind of set the tone there. Um, but it hasn't been great, but he has real legitimate excuses. Like pick any of the three that I think are totally justifiable of like, okay, sure. He hasn't looked good, but these mall might be reasons you've watched him his whole career. What do you see?
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Sometimes I think the best quarterbacks, maybe it's the offensive coordinator and Brady being there for a while, but it's just sometimes they can't help themselves with the toys. And it's pretty clear that Buffalo a couple games in, and the Denver game wasn't really close, but at times it felt conservative even against Baltimore.
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Yeah. I mean, we definitely seem like we're removed from after the Superbowl appearance against Kansas city game, they could have won where you went into the next year and you look at the quarterbacks, we all start ranking them and it was okay. Jalen Hurts is the best in the NFC who is second. And it was an accepted thing. And, um,
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you know, I wasn't like sitting there pounding the table being like, this is not true. Here are all these other examples and things change. Golf got better. Jane Daniels shows up. Baker has a resurgence.
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I think Stafford's probably always been better than him, but it's kind of weird how, how like the peak Stafford conversations happen and they seem to get destroyed by like the lows where I just appreciate the hell out of the guy. Um, like even post Superbowl, I start to like just
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appreciate how great this guy's career has been and what he provides this team like he really is on that short list of the difference makers he's not top five but he's somebody who's like okay what are our problems let me try to get us through those so this isn't the exercise or the way i'm presenting this isn't to be like hey remember how crazy that was but it it felt like
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I guess I'm of the mindset like I've got to see it a little bit longer before I'm ready to just go, okay, this guy is like a top five dude. But then I think about the concussion. I think about the snow. He clearly was banged up. I wonder if the tush push is even part of the arsenal now because they didn't want to go to it, maybe in game because he was banged up and because of all the conditions.
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But this is an awesome group of skilled guys. It's an awesome offensive line. He's got the rushing game to go with it. And watching it just be like – this is not somebody that should be managing. Not with these weapons. You could say, oh, they should manage because of the defense, because of all the things that I just listed. But maybe he'll just be healthier this week.
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But it seems like with this rushing approach, 362 yards combined, 4.8 yards per carry, that that is something that Buffalo feels like can travel.
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And against a Washington defense, it should provide a few more opportunities because I think this Rams defense has really come along. They've done a great job as well. Talk about turning over one side of the football. Maybe we'll see it. Maybe we'll see it with them. But I'm picking Philadelphia just because I think they'll be more comfortable. I don't know if they want to blitz.
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Jaden, the way Detroit did, Detroit, I don't think you can really compare any team because of the personnel issues that the Lions were going to have on that side of the football. They didn't blitz him a lot the first time they played him. They blitzed him a ton. I think the Week 16 game is just such a weird game.
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But I guess you could argue, hey, when he needed to move the football down the field to score a touchdown against the number one defense, with all the other things that were weird about it, Jaden was able to do that. I just think for a third time to do it on the road, that's asking a lot.
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the one for 12 later in the season, but in the loss, he had six for 47. So my thought here is they're going to like this matchup more than the cornerback matchups. Again, Quinion's health, we'll see what version of him we get here. He had a really great game against Terry McLaurin, I think, in the first matchup.
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So I think what has to happen, I had a busy day yesterday and I was like, what did Liam Cohen do? It was like, I couldn't figure out It's like, is everybody really, really mad? So why don't you help us understand the timeline? Because there's the Robert Sala piece of this that you were all over too. I mean, this story's kind of crazy.
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And then I'll maybe see where we are collectively with our thoughts.
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Which is what, $13 million a year? $13 million. Okay, because the Ben Johnson number, the stuff that's being reported is kind of weird because we're hearing about the first year's salary and then we don't know the rest of it. But it's $13, which puts him in the top seven.
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Okay, so I understand why people are upset, and I think if Liam is in a spot where Tampa's assuming that he's their OC with this huge raise for 48 hours, that's not ideal.
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But at the same time, it's not like he can tell them really, Hey, actually, um, I guess I just don't really blame the guy from all of a sudden, like he agreed to be the officer's coordinator when he didn't think that he was going to be the guy in charge of the Jags. And once Balky's out and now he's going to be making 13 million a year,
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Like maybe they thought they were going to achieve the first time around. Like, I think it's a very easy thing to be critical of and not like the way he handled it, or he should have done this and all the seven different things that people are upset about. But given the opportunity, if it were you, you would have like most everybody would have done it this way.
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Uh, even if there's a lot of parts of it that people don't like and criticize, and they're going to forget about all of them by the time September starts.
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That's fair. Yeah.
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And like, how did you, how did you tell him that bulky was still going to be there? And then you're like, wait, you turned us down. So now we're firing our GM and now you're in charge and what he's 39 years old. He was coaching Kentucky's offense two years ago.
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So, I mean, he's, he's been terrific, but that's, that's a lot to hand to a dude just because you were afraid everybody else was going to say, no, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, unless he's just that brilliant.
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That is or excuse me, I should say turnover number, because then you think about Allen with the interceptions, if there was the one flaw with him. And it would bother me.
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Okay, let's talk about some of the other jobs. You once said to me, I think it's one of the nicest compliments I've ever gotten, was that you thought that I was a lot like Mike Vrabel. I still can't believe Tennessee let this guy go. I think he's that bit of a coach. The quarterback situation was challenging. The roster wasn't all that great, and they were in it all the time.
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I mean, we can go over and make some knocks here or there, but that team was not as good as those other AFC teams. And you go back to the year, they were the one seed and all that kind of stuff. So I think the Patriots clearly were like, let's not screw around with this. I'd be surprised.
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Maybe it was the red zone stuff that was happening, but then there was the elbow injury excuse, but there would be times where I would just think, I think it was the Cincinnati game last trying to think, uh, that would have been a 23. I think there was like a deep, they were backed up and he threw a pick and you're just like, you don't, you don't need this throw here right now.
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I mean, granted, we'll see what happens with the rest of the roster because it's one of the worst rosters in the NFL. But I'd be surprised if it doesn't work because they're going to be obviously patient in a way they weren't with Mayo because of the relationship.
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Be nice to my friend Diana.
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Um, yeah, right. I just would, I, if I were running the jets, I would frame it differently. I want you to what you know what it's like.
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That's been great, right?
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And it was like a really, really risky throw. And now it feels like all of that is eliminated. And it reminds me a bit of like the basketball player. He gets drafted. You know he's going to be an all-star. He scores his 28, 30 points a game. But the team doesn't necessarily win all that much. And then he starts to realize, fine, I could score 35 if I wanted to every single night.
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Sounds like a lot of my radio meetings where they'd be like, you know who's really good is Cowherd and Greenberg.
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No, they are good, man. Gosh. All right, go ahead.
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And by the way, I misspoke a little bit when I talked about like the relationship with Vrabel because it goes back further, but certainly it wasn't like Mayo came out of nowhere because that whole thing had been kind of planned out for a while. It doesn't work.
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And I would think now because of the mistake of Gerard Mayo, I think the crafts would probably try to approach this a little bit differently, as you pointed to already with the power and what they would have to do to outfit everybody else.
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Okay, Aaron Glenn then with the Jets. We know his history, you know, decorated, same deal, kind of his Vrabel going back to the same franchise. So the thing is, like, even if we're going through the Vrabel history here with the Jets, I don't feel like anybody should look at Glenn's hiring as some kind of concession.
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Maybe it's not the headliner name that Vrabel is, but this guy's done an awesome job for a while here. So I can imagine, like, anybody feels like they're let down by this inside that building.
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But that doesn't make us better. And it feels like that's a lot like the Josh Allen story as a quarterback.
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I agree with you on that talent. I actually think he's done a really good job. But the whole thing's been kind of held hostage by the Aaron Rodgers thing last year. So there you go. Do they want him back? Do they want Rodgers back?
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No, it's great because I think when you started mapping it out with this draft and everything else, you're like, okay, there actually may be a team that's willing to take on Kirk Cousins. And I don't know financially how that'll work out for Atlanta because of the guaranteed money on the front end of the two years. Because it really was crafted as kind of a two-year deal, not a four-year deal.
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Mm-hmm. there's going to be a market for some of these guys that like teams already ready to move on from, because there's just not enough people. There's just not enough because of this draft class and because of the free agency stuff. All right. I want to stay on this though, because I think the lesson in this is the Raiders just announced that they hired Pete Carroll three years,
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fourth-year team option on that. So they're committed to a 73-year-old here. And anybody that's around Pete is like, look, he comes in the building and everything's different. So maybe this is what they wanted. I think there's a bunch of different things. So I'll just kind of let you go wherever. It's obvious that the Patriots having Drake May, as you mentioned, that helps Rabel.
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Ben Johnson gets to go to Chicago not only for all the money, but because Caleb Williams is there and the Raiders have nothing to offer at that position. So even though I've heard about this Tom Brady Zoom thing with Ben Johnson, where I imagine like that is a great recruiting pitch. Like I imagine Brady sitting down talking football with you and wanting to hire you is a positive.
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I don't know how it could be spun as a negative unless there's stuff going on in the Zoom that none of us, like we would hear about it eventually if it's like Brady. Brady doesn't have that kind of personality. I don't think he's off-putting.
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I don't think he'd be some, he's so about football that I think any other football person would be so into it and be like, this is awesome, but I'd rather go coach Caleb Williams. So thanks, Tom. Thanks for the interest. So take me through some of the Raiders stuff here.
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The Celtics are kind of weird right now. What's going on? I dig into some of the numbers, present some theories. I'm probably not convinced of any of it yet, but I'm going to share it with you anyway. And life advice. Well, let's do it. Our picks and breakdown. Sheil Kapadia, who joins us. You know him from the Ringer Philly special and the Ringer NFL show. It is my favorite slate of NFL football.
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Bud Grant was 58 when he was done. And when I was a kid and I watched those NFL films, I was like, man, is anybody older than Bud Grant?
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Do you see anything from week 11 that you think translates to this matchup?
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I mean, this is somebody- I think about that sometimes.
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Like, would Pat Riley-
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pat riley's like pissed off about jimmy butler and then i'll think about i can't believe you just brought this up because i do it too sometimes i'm like this guy's like the same age as my dad and he's answering but i think the difference would be my dad hasn't been doing it for 40 50 years so of course maybe yeah but when i call my dad at four o'clock on a tuesday to ask him something like to help me out with something and he's like i'm watching judge judy call me later it's like yeah you're not gonna ever be a head coach
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Okay. I still have a couple of quick things that I want to do. The Dallas timeline, it seems like it's going to be Schottenheimer. So what is there? What's interesting about this?
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Is that true? Or do people just like ripping on Jerry Jones?
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I'm with you. I'm with you. You've convinced me. I just think that sometimes no matter what they do, it's like, oh, these guys are,
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idiots and jerry's an idiot and like some of the stuff some of the criticisms are true but the mccarthy part of it you know you just they need to plan a little bit better at least on this transaction i'm fine he's he's fine sometimes everybody is right by the way you know it actually does even though you can sit there and be like i want to fade what everybody else is doing but sometimes everybody's right and maybe everybody's right about this i don't look like sloan
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I didn't say that. We're not even done. That would have been a great way to wrap it up.
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I'm not going to hit on you on the podcast. I know you're married. Is that a thing?
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We have more than that. That's not fair. That's not fair.
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Oh. One of, you know, I can be territorial. You like having the attention.
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I wonder if people are going to listen to this and be like, what just happened on this podcast?
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All right. New Orleans. We can't leave out my second hometown here. What's going on?
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Okay. Before we finish here, in all your talks leading up to the pre-coaching carousel moment, what was considered the best job by people in the NFL?
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That was picking up momentum when Cullen didn't go. You're right. I don't believe Trevor Lawrence is going to suck. I'm still kind of shocked that he's had this other second bad year where you're like, what the hell is going on with him? And then it's the people that hate him and be like, hey, this is all you need to know.
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And it's like, okay, well, what happens then when Cullen ends up taking the job? Does that mean Trevor Lawrence is... is better than he was 48 hours ago? And the answer is that all of that is irrelevant because he took the job because of other dynamics that have nothing to do with the quarterback. But it didn't scare him away from the whole thing.
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But I think that's a really interesting point that you're telling me consensus is that it was a better job than the way it was maybe playing out once a second guy had walked away, an offensive guy.
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but that's a talent thing. Is the Brady thing considered a positive?
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So I think in the end... I know it's bartender, but... Yeah, go ahead.
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Well, I respect your time. So thank you so much during this busy part of the season for you for doing this again, check out scoop city, her and chase Daniel out every week. And you can read all of her stuff, breaking news on the athletic, the great Diana Racine. Thank you.
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We'll talk some hoops here in the middle of all the football stuff. Your boy went to the Celtics Lakers last night and did a nice little drive up, did a little afternoon, a couple errands in LA. Don't do it very often. So it's just all over the place. Pico, San Vicente, Robertson, shout out Denver. So yeah, there was a lot of big LA day for this guy. Doesn't happen very often.
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So going into that game, like if you've been watching these two teams, and I'll start kind of on the Boston side and finish with the Lakers side, because the Lakers were terrific last night. They just smoked them from kind of the jump. First quarter, they were up like 10 points, and that was kind of the game. So there wasn't really this...
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momentum thing you're so used to seeing in nba games you're like all right well that team's down like 18 they'll get back into this thing and it just never happened which might be the most alarming thing beyond just the score and thinking the celtics after even though they had the overtime game the night before against the clippers there were people that weren't playing and you figure okay they're going to be really up for this one and this might be
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to kind of win if Boston gets it in LA. And look, it's just an awesome crowd in there. There's also a ton of Celtics fans inside of crypto, but the Lakers fans are awesome. And so there's a feeling, like there's a feeling.
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I've been in enough buildings where you can tell the difference and be like, all right, this is going to be interesting here because Boston's been struggling based on their standards. So if we look at Boston's season right now, and I don't really have a massive answer for you on what's going on. I have a couple of theories that I'll share with you.
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I also, if you've been listening to me long enough, There's not going to ever be a single game. Rarely is there a single game that happens where I'm like, okay, this game means all of these things, and now this is how I think the rest of the season is going to play out. But I think there's a lot of positives in here for the Lakers. Anyway, Boston starts 19-4 on the season.
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They're now 31-14, so they've been a 12-10 basketball team. If we look at their season numbers, they're the number three offense in the NBA still. They're the number five defense. Those things are really good. The last 15... At one point, it was, I think, an 8-7 record in there. Now it's 9-6. The offense during that time is 5th. The defense is 4th. The net rating is 3rd behind only OKC and Denver.
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Denver, by the way, 12-3 in their last 15, which they're tied with Cleveland and Oklahoma City. You've heard about them at 12-3 also. Denver's just on a really nice push here, and it's crazy. They have their guys, and they're healthy, and Jamal Murray's not playing terribly, and That's a pretty good basketball team, even if we still don't like the depth.
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And like anybody, I could still go through a list of like five or six things that I'm worried about with them. But Denver is starting to make that push because we had talked about the West depth so much before the season started. And as it started playing out, it's like, well, it's it's not really the depth. It's the unknown after Oklahoma City.
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Dallas is going to be really good when everybody's healthy. They're a mess right now, physically, and they're still competing in some of these games. Minnesota, on the other hand, it's probably the team I'm the most worried about because they've been way healthier than almost all these other teams, and yet It doesn't look very good. So I'll probably do another Minnesota deep dive.
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I have stuff that I've written down, but it's not going to fit here. Anyway, so back to Boston. So what's going on? If you're top five in offense and defense, the net rating is third, like what's happening? Well, some of the clutch offensive stuff that I look, I even complained about it last year and they won an NBA title. So it didn't end up being some fatal flaw for them.
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But they're 13th in shooting over that stretch. uh, there's another thing here. If you look at that stretch, they're 29th in pace. That makes them the second slowest team as far as, you know, the, the rate that they're playing at, uh, which is ahead of only Orlando. You want a little magic minute. Orlando is now last in offense in their last 15 games through a four and 11 stretch. Yes.
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They're just getting Paolo back. They are missing other people. Franz is coming back. Um, But that offensive number for Orlando in the last 15 is 100.8 points per possession. To put that in perspective, that's two and a half points worse than Brooklyn.
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So Orlando's offense is the worst, and they're two and a half points worse per 100 than the Brooklyn Nets who don't want to win and get rid of anybody that can help them win or plan on it with the rest of them.
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And to also look at that number, like if you look at the overall not last 15 games for the Magic, they're the second worst offense in the NBA ahead of only Washington, another team not trying to win a ton of games. But over the season, Orlando was like at 108 points per 100 possessions, which is 29th.
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They're like eight points off of that, seven or eight points off of that over these last 15 games. It's been abysmal for them. All right, so what does this mean on the pace thing for Boston? Well, what were they last year? Well, they were 19th. So, okay, they're playing slower. Does that mean anything? Again, I'm going to throw a bunch of things and then hit it with some observations.
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But it wasn't like they were the seven seconds or less Suns last year. What else? Well, they're 14th on the season now, three-point shooting. Okay. Last year, where were they? Well, they were second behind OKC at 38.8%. OKC was 38.9%. So we're talking about the team that's right there being one of the best three-point shooting teams in the entire league last year.
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If you look at the individual shooting, Tatum is down. Jalen Brown is down. Przingis at 20 games is the same. Derek White is down. Drew Holiday is way down for three-point shooting. Horford significantly down. Sam Houser's down a few spots.
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You're talking about six regulars and Przingis being the same that are collectively down, which is kind of weird that everybody would just be below what they were shooting before. Only Pritchard is up out of the guys that really play. But I think specific to last night and something that I've noticed is that what I do like about Boston is that
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You know, they're going to figure out the mismatch and they're going to put their finger on the hurt part and just keep attacking and offering up some pain. But they were so determined to get Przingis going last night that I think it threw them off where Przingis... On that deep catch where he ends up with a perimeter player on him, it's just so small.
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Seeing it in person, you're just like, this dude is below his armpits and he's reaching up. And Przingis kind of shows you the basketball to remind you how much taller he is than you, that he's going to get this shot off. But as everybody's waiting for Przingis to finish the execution of what the plan was, nobody's doing anything. No one's doing anything.
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They're just kind of waiting to see if Porzingis is going to score. And Porzingis had a really nice first quarter. But whenever it becomes an offense that's so determined to be like, okay, here's the thing that we're identifying, and then we're going to do this. And now, because that's the plan, Everybody else may just be kind of like waiting around to see if it works.
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I think all of that stuff becomes connected. And I'm not saying like this is their downfall because they worked the Przingis mismatches early in the game and this is what's been going on here for a month. But that I thought was very specific last night for that game where you're like, I get what you're doing and it may be working here, but it feels a lot like
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Do you think that Mahomes... decided to play this way or this is the way Mahomes has to play because of the offensive line issues, because of the lack of receivers, the fact that Kelsey, who, you know, it's not surprising he lit it up in a playoff game because he's been putting up monstrous numbers when you look at what he's done over the last, I don't know, six years in the playoffs.
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there's something identified, Boston goes to attack it. And because everybody knows that that's what the plan is, then nobody else is really doing anything. And they're too good. The spacing is too good. The shooters are too good. They're too good of a basketball team where this is just what they're going to be now. They're going to lose to somebody in the second round of the playoffs.
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I'm not even close to that yet. So the shooting thing I can't imagine is going to stay this bad. I don't know if the pace thing necessarily matters. I'm not against the idea of hunting mismatches, but can you hunt mismatches so much that you disrupt any kind of flow.
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Again, that's a working theory, and I'm sure somebody on the staff would tell me, actually, we meant to do this and all these different things. You know, whatever. I'm just a guy sitting there watching basketball. The third quarter, Boston came out with all sorts of energy. They got a great stop, throw it out of bounds the next play.
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And then they have a stretch where it looks like Tatum and Brown are going to get more aggressive, start attacking. You can see their aggression and their intensity pick up. Then they miss four straight free throws. There's a play in the third quarter where Tatum is like ISO'd with Anthony Davis, which I think happened way too much.
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And he had to hit a step back three on Davis as the shot clock was going down. He made it. And my thought beyond like what an incredible shot, it was a constant theme of last night of that's so hard. Like that's so hard if that's what you have to go to. And even though it went in and Tatum is ridiculous, like that, That's what it was.
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And I think it's a massive credit to how prepared the Lakers were last night. They played their asses off. Whether they got into bad switches, somebody who was physically at a disadvantage, the way they fought to just keep their ground. The grappling was a really physical game too.
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Whatever was happening, say off a miss, and that kind of like, not fast break, but that transition push where you're trying to figure out a cross match that's off or somebody's getting ahead of somebody else. The Lakers notoriously over the years just didn't get back on defense. So you'd think, okay, let's look for that. If you're the Celtics,
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But whenever that was happening and somebody was hoping to get like a deep catch or deep position, whoever it was, good defender, bad defender for the Lakers, they fought like crazy to keep their position. And it was really physical. I thought the Lakers were incredibly prepped. And when they got a bad mismatches, guys fought. And sometimes it's that simple.
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And then you could talk about the Lakers offense because everybody seemed to be able to fill it up last night. I thought that was a really impressive Lakers game. And I think the Lakers are a weird team in the sense that like I'm guilty of it, too. If they're not a title team, we're just like they stink because the standard is so high because it's the Lakers. It's the history. It's LeBron, right?
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It's all the things that were like, well, could they win a title? So when they can't, then I know I'm kind of like dismissive, like, well, they're not OKC. They're not Denver. I don't think they're Minnesota when they're right. I don't think they're Dallas. I'm not even sure if they're Phoenix.
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the clippers keep winning more games than i think most of us ever expected so what happens in the lakers analysis that we don't appreciate like the good things about them because we're just like convinced they can't win a title so what's the point of talking about lebron james and this team and that's fine because like for some teams it's incredibly unfair and you'd rather have it be that fair because that is your standard those are the expectations none of us had those expectations for this team i don't think they're winning a title
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with this group. I don't know what's going to happen at the trade deadline. I don't know if there's a piece there that fixes them and brings them to that next level, but I think for a night in watching this Lakers team, I was really, really impressed with this group.
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Like I went through, we were talking about it last week. But I still think that there's something with Kelsey where this is the diminished version of whatever it is from his prime. but it's still this great safety blanket. He's going to win one-on-one matchups is his understanding of like freelancing in the route. It's like those two guys are just completely on the same page.
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Offensively, they're 13th this year, 21st on defense, which is another thing to see them play defense and fight like that in some of those mismatches. Look, there were just a lot of times where we're like, oh, this might not go good, and then All of a sudden, you see somebody, Lakers, just fighting his ass off. Well, the Celtics missed a lot of layups. But They're not a defensive team.
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Last year, they were 17th on defense, 15th on offense. A lot of those numbers are the same. 24 and 18 now. They are the 5 seed this morning. They were 21 and 21 last year. I just like this team a little bit better. I love a lot of the stuff that they're doing when they are setting up their offense. Setting up their offense is a lot to ask of Austin Reeves at this point.
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I still think some of the LeBron point guard stuff is probably the best that they look on offense. and not having D'Angelo Russell just muck up all of their stuff, him just being gone. Even if Finney Smith is the diminished version of the best years of him in Dallas, I think that's just a win in general.
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And I know that Shams had the story yesterday that people around the league were saying that Anthony Davis, LeBron, get a little frustrated about wanting some help and wanting to have the Lakers front office go all in on this team, which, you know, again, makes sense when you look at their timeline with LeBron. And I think what happens is like if you hate LeBron, you're like, here we go again.
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If you don't like Anthony Davis, you'd be like, well, I learned it by watching you because AD learned from LeBron like this is what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to put pressure on ownership in the front office and all that stuff. But you just wonder the power of pressure as we get towards the deadline with LeBron.
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Because if they don't do anything, we're going to get this cryptic stuff, which I think is just really unfortunate for a guy that's going to be going down as probably one of the two best players to ever play this game. But whatever. It's the way he operates his entire career. It's not the whole picture, but it's a small slice of the whole thing. Blame pie here.
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But when you think about the way LeBron and the relationship is talked about with the Lakers, you could say, well, they brought J.J. in. They drafted his son. They kind of do whatever he wants. They did the Westbrook trade when it looked like they had the other trade with Buddy Heald that probably made more basketball sense. then the Westbrook deal, and then they get Westbrook out of there.
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But I'd say after Westbrook, I think there's an argument to be made that the Lakers have actually been really patient and patient in a way that makes more sense because once they had more control of their own draft picks going back to last year's draft, you're like, oh, they'll probably do something, and they didn't do anything.
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And if you look at the trade marketplace right now, there's a lot of names of guys that I've never been able, well, not able to stand is harsh, but there's just a lot of guys that are not Russillo guys. How about that? Like, oh, yeah, he's available? No way. And I don't even know financially how much the Lakers could put together that makes sense for them.
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They're going to do stuff that defense can't really even prepare for. But, When you look at the depth of target, like it was funny that shot the Hollywood Brown in the Houston game. I was like, oh yeah, that's right. That's what that used to look like. Like just seeing an incompletion, a deep shot down the sideline.
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And so you start talking about like, would they actually move like a couple of their good players outside of LeBron and AD to try to add that third piece? So financially, there's some restraints there, but it'll be interesting to see how this thing plays out because there's two dueling thoughts on what the Lakers will do with LeBron.
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Draft his kid, bring in JJ, gave him a $102 million contract for two years. That should show some kind of commitment to him. But it's been a little while now, and we'll see what happens that first week of February, but it's been a little while now where they haven't been as aggressive as he certainly wants them to be. And the idea that like, hey, let's just make a trade to make him happy.
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You don't have to. You gave him the $102 million and he's 40 years old. He's not 35. But I liked what I saw from the Lakers last night, even if I know that the end of the conversation is, well, how good do you think they are? And it's like, well, I don't think they're that good. But it was good for a night.
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What's up? We missed you guys. We've gone for a couple days with the different schedule. We've got Cerruti, we've got Kyle. Life advice, the email address, lifeadvicerr at gmail.com. What's up, everyone? Not much. Nice Friday. Nice little Friday. Feels like it. It's early. It's early for us right now. Pizza Friday? Huh? That'd be pretty good.
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That'd be weird. All right. Should we read? We've had a lot of people after the military guy was asking people to help pay for his flight. Still? Wow. Well, a lot of people actually chimed in to be like, that guy a hundred percent was scamming dudes. Yeah. Um, I've yet to see an email from anyone suggesting otherwise. Cause yeah, I think there's that 1% guilt of like, what if this is true? But,
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Um, a lot of people have chimed in with different stories, so I don't know. Do we want to hear one of those? Let's do it. All right. Six, four to 40, 36 years old, NBA comp, Lottie Devots with a slightly with slightly worse court vision situation arose a couple of weeks ago that made me think of your airport military guy story.
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I had a moment of watching and be like, oh, that's, he used to do that all of the time. And that was horrifying. So do you think, cause some people have presented this as if it's him maturing. And I'm like, you know what? I think he'd probably rather play like the way he used to because it was also a lot more fun.
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I'm born and raised in Buffalo, but I've lived in New Jersey for the better part of 20 years post Seton hall, big East. I've had Bill's season tickets for the last 10, 12 years and drive home for around half the games each season after the wild card game versus the Broncos. This guy's dedicated. Jersey to Buffalo. That's no joke. You would do that, though.
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So your brother lives there, has a house, family. Yeah. And people are mad at me. I won't go to the frolic room. All right. Well, it's that trip times eight, I guess.
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Also not related to you, dude. That's a good point.
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Hey, I'm not mad anymore.
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All right. So after the wild card game. I woke up bright and early Monday morning around 4.30 a.m. and hit the road back to New Jersey to get to the office. Yeah, this guy's into it. I stopped at the first rest stop on I-90 outside of Buffalo to fill up the gas tank. About halfway through my fill, I see a beat up black SUV. I think an old Chevy Blazer.
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with the front passenger window smashed out, replaced with a plastic bag. Immediately, red flags are up. So I'm paying close attention. Remember, it's around 5 a.m. Solo out there, freezing dark, et cetera. A disheveled 55-year-old woman, maybe five feet tall, emerges and makes an immediate brisk turn and walks in my direction. Oh, boy.
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She just starts talking, no niceties or greetings, and tells me her car was broken into in Buffalo and they stole her wallet. She then asked me to fill up her tank for her. Remembering your story, I kind of froze and just spit out, I can't afford that, I'm sorry. She shook her head in frustration and walked off without another word. Did I do the right thing?
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I felt kind of guilty afterwards, but something just seemed off about the whole situation. If you have no money, are you really going to get on the highway at the crack of dawn with no guarantee of getting gas? Seemed fishy to me. Either way, let me know.
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Tell you what, those Chevy Blazers when they first are on the scene.
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You had one of those. Big deal. I mean, it's some kid. Yeah. I mean, it's like, dude, that guy can do anything. He's got a Chevy Blazer. I mean, this podcast, I don't know that we want to pivot to this. Rosillo podcast, helping people not help people since 2024. I like your instincts on this one. Because whenever it happens to you, then you'll spend the next however many minutes.
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And for you, you had a long drive. So you probably spent more than a few minutes on the subject in your own. You're having a little podcast in your head. And you're thinking, okay, but this doesn't make any sense. And this doesn't make any sense. And you're right. I'm on E. Let me just get on the highway. See what happens at 5 a.m. If it's that bad for me, I'm probably sleeping in wherever I am.
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right? Yeah.
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So you're saying higher people flow areas, higher percentage of fuckery.
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Makes sense. Bus stations. Totally. What's the last time you've been on a bus, Kyle?
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Yeah.
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So proud of you from bus to a Mustang. Come on, dude. The globe is real. Who says America's headed in the wrong direction? Right. Okay. Uh, slide it on social media. I like this one. All right, let's go. Early forties, five, nine, one 65 compass. Chris, Chris Corchiani without a handle or a jump shot. Uh, I have a Chris Corchiani practice Jersey. That was actually his.
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Well, sort of weird how I ended up with it. So shout out to him. I still will wear, I might wear it to work out today. I love it. I look great in it. I'll get right to it. I've been dating my girlfriend 40. So our guy's early 40s, girlfriend 40 for a year and a half, pics included. He did send pics. They didn't load up. So sorry, dude. Can't add any more perspective. We'll just have to trust you.
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The relationship has largely been great. We spend time with each other's kids, spend a lot of time together, get along really well. I'm an okay looking guy, but my dating strengths are my job stability and being a nice guy. My girlfriend, on the other hand, is a 10. She's also smart with a great job. I'm not sure if her good looks will be a factor in your response.
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Well, they can't be, buddy, because we can't see them. But it could be relevant. Yeah, it's definitely relevant. I'm not on social media at all. I'll be on LinkedIn, but she's very active on Instagram. When she goes out with friends, she generally is taking tons of pictures and posting them.
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I don't even look at her social media, but I've gathered that based on comments she has made and things that she's shown me. She mentioned posting a picture of herself at a former male coworker, men's tennis. She went to dinner with, and I asked her if she'd ever posted a picture of me. She said she has not. I asked if she had ever mentioned even having a boyfriend generically, and she has not.
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I know she posts pics of meals, drinks from our date nights pretty much every time, but doesn't mention that she is with me by name or title. This really wasn't on my radar until she mentioned posting pictures after going to dinner with a former male coworker. But now it's really bothering me, even though I know she or even though I know he is just a friend.
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It's hard not to take this personal since I'm the one thing person in her life she doesn't post about. And it's hard not to speculate why after being together for as long as we have. I should mention, I did ask about it. The problem was I asked while we were arguing about another topic.
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Right. It's like in that argument tug of war where you're like, I'm losing it. I'm losing it. What can I come up with? You've never, you've never said hello to my dad.
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Yeah. We had a roommate that did it all the time. He'd be going sideways, and then he would bring up utilities to me or something. I'd be like, okay, you're right. I'm late on the electric. Do whatever you want.
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I know everybody likes division because you get the four games. I just think the magnitude of what matters. I think we remember these games a lot better than we remember the division games. So let's just start in the AFC. On Monday, I said I was picking Buffalo. I hate it. Because you're picking against Mahomes. But I'm there. Let's do this. Let's do it for the Bills down in Kansas City.
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But here's the thing. I love that this guy knew He's like, the problem was, you know, he knew. He knew exactly. He's in his 40s. He already knows the game. So he knew. And it was an argument I was losing. Of course, that's when you brought it up. That's exactly. All right. So we didn't get any depth on it. And she was clearly annoyed. I mentioned it in that moment.
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I felt like I had to drop it due to the other issue we were talking about, the fact we were on our way to a holiday dinner gathering. Your timing is incredible.
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I mean, this is just using that card so, like, Well, you already know you used it at the wrong time. You should have waited patiently. When can I best use this to win? The only explanation I got at the time was she likes to keep relation stuff personal, but nothing else. Am I being oversensitive by being bothered by this?
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I don't want to be in the pictures, but should she mention she has a boyfriend at this point? I have no sense of norms for this type of thing since I stay away from social media. Should I bring it up again during a neutral time since it continues to bother me? Do I let this go?
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We're going to New York for Valentine's Day, and she'll be posting stuff left and right, but never mention she is with me, and I know I'll be silently pissed the whole time. Sounds like a great trip, buddy.
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It's complicated is one of the most genius things in the history of tech. It's complicated. It's complicated is worse than, like, I don't like the guy I'm with. I'd rather that. Keeping my options open, but, you know. This isn't going anywhere. DMs are open. Okay.
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I totally get your point, and I think there's going to be a lot of people that are like 100% on your side on this one, especially as you gear up for Valentine's, and it's going to be some espresso martini is going to be in the picture, and the restaurant's going to be tagged. Just your collar will be invisible. Right, right. Cut off at the neck. Yeah, right.
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She starts airbrushing out like a finger that made its way into the dinner table. We're really worried. I would say this. As somebody that knows women that are in the content game, nothing derails their content momentum more than I have a boyfriend or a husband. And here he is. So, and you know, who knows to what level she's at right now. Chances are she probably aspires to a greater level.
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Like I see it all the time. I'm like, dude, this girl's married. Like I know her boyfriend. I'll be friends with a girl that's on TV who the boyfriend may as well be a make-believe friend when you're seven. He doesn't go to the school. Right. Right. I think it has a lot to do with how dudes are too, because the illusion of attainability is, is a really good marketing strategy.
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And you may be sitting here being like, dude, what are you talking about? She's got 1200 followers. Like it doesn't matter. She does real estate on the side. Like she's not aspiring. Okay. Maybe she isn't, but it sure seems like she likes posting stuff. And I think that's the other thing. And this is both male and female. Like I see it all the time. It's like, what are you doing now, man?
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You're like posting all this stuff or you're doing these videos where you're walking and like, you don't, you don't really work in this, but then they look at somebody else with a million followers who found a way to build a brand and make money off the whole thing.
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And because it's actually so unimpressive, okay, not to say that there aren't people that are great at doing it, but you understand the point. Like there's so many people that are doing it where you're like, that's all that person does. You know, girl's a little overweight, but wears a crop top and dudes are losing their minds. You know, I wish there was a male equivalent of that.
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Imagine like, I don't really like him, but God damn or his shoulders. Terrific. You know, just so anyway, I don't know where that was going, but the point is same. He's like, don't really understand. I think the point is, is that there's a reason she's doing this that is more likely to I shouldn't say a lie, but like the motivation behind it isn't because she doesn't like you.
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It isn't because she doesn't like isn't proud. She just kind of needs to keep it as not part of her deal to continue her pursuit of whatever it is on Instagram.
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I know what they think.
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Well, she's a 10. She's probably getting a few tugs.
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Because it's not like... No, you can't. Nobody goes to a movie... There's a part of this in podcasting, too, and I could just spend way too much time on this. But No one goes to a movie and watches DiCaprio and says, like, I could have done that. You know, I mean, sure, there's a few people if we want to play that game. But yeah, majority of people understand.
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Exactly. Right. Very good. Great example. Um. I might even have a nicer smile, you know, not me. I'm just talking about the person in general that, that looks at the stuff being like, I could just do this. Like your kid or your kids crying and you bought him a fucking hat at the mall post and do that. Right. So, Hey, look, she could be doing it for the bad reason. Yeah. Right. But,
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I do think it's worth trying to understand that because I think it's a very common thing that as soon as it's like, Oh, she's got a boyfriend or, Oh, she's married. Like it's completely different. And then all of a sudden it's just, Oh, well, all right. You know, like the guy liking the photos was in the mix before this news, which he wasn't. But there's something that happens to that guy.
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The funny thing is this offensive line shuffle. It looks like Joe Tooney is the best left tackle they're going to have.
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It was like, oh, well, I guess I'm not going to date her. Seeing somebody fucking loser.
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Yeah. Right. If you trust her, I think Serena. Yeah. Because the DMs are probably open.
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Are you saying look through her phone?
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Okay. All right. Next one. My dad is my roommate. Help. Long-time listener, first-time caller. No gym stats today. Pickup game. Ish Smith's best eight-game stretch in Detroit to end the 2016-17 season. Ish Smith, a lot of jerseys. I'm 33, and I live with my dad. My dad had some health issues. I had an extra bedroom, so I moved into my house. At the time, I was single, caught up in my own life.
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It wasn't a huge inconvenience. That was four years ago. My son is now 13 years old and busier than ever. My son's mom and I are not together but have a great relationship. She lives with her parents about 30 minutes away from where my son splits his living time.
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Over the last year, we have thrown the idea around of moving in together to help each other and would make things so much easier getting our son to and from school, basketball, friends, houses, etc. That's a big move. During the time living with my dad, he's turned my house into his own house, sleeping on the couch. Shout out to the guy with the soccer workout roommate.
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Eating the food I buy for my son. He's one of the messiest people on the planet. I moved my dad into the master bedroom. The room is absolutely disgusting. The living room is turned into his room. Every day living with him is the same routine of my coming home from whatever I have going on that day at any hour of the day and finding my dad sitting on the couch watching TV. I love my dad.
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I was happy to help him at the time. I'm 33 and want to live my own life with my family. My question to you, how do I go about addressing this conversation to my dad about moving out? I don't know that he can afford to be out on his own, but at the same time, I don't think that should be my problem, that he can't. I don't know what to do. Any suggestions are welcome. Love, Pod.
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Yeah, that's a tough one.
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Yeah, well, I mean, what you've done for your dad here is incredible. And I think this is one of those things like when you're getting yelled at when you're a little kid and your parents are like, family's all that matters. Family's the only thing that's going to be there for you. And you're like, shut up. I just want to go play basketball. Leave me alone. And they're right.
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You know, they're right. You hope to have a family, right? You hope to have a family that throughout the ups and downs can always kind of be there for you. You know, you think about so many.
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young people that move home or somebody that goes through something personally or divorce you know there's just a list of things where it's an amazing thing to know that if you have to and not everybody has this right but if you do have it that you have the option of well i can just go home and kind of reset and do everything but you eventually probably want to leave as most of us would if you ever have to go back home during some kind of situation like that um
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I had to go back home for like three or four months and it was great because I was like, I'm never doing this again. Um, but it was there. It was, it was an option. Um, and look, you know, there's different friends I could have stayed with or anything, but at that point it was just like, this would be the easiest thing and the cheapest in this case, man, it's a struggle for you.
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Uh, and it should be for anybody that cares about their apparent. And in this case, your dad, uh, But what I'm going to tell you is that it doesn't mean that this is just what the rest of your life is supposed to be. That would be completely unfair. And you would hope that your father would understand that. Now, you said you don't know what he can do financially.
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Is it worth it to you to sit down with him and say, look, I want to get my kid back in my life here with maybe the mom. This is about raising my kid. You know I'm here to do whatever I can to help you. But we need to come up with a plan. So you're not just coming home one day, really, because you're probably going to have a breaking point and it'd be way uglier.
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So I would try to get in front of that and say, I've done everything I could. And if he's a good dad, he should. He's a good person. He should appreciate this and be like, you know what? You're right. Right. And then you have that. You're like, did you think you were going to live here forever? Okay.
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Now there can be some dynamics too, where there ends up being this massive parent guilt trip thing where it's like, you know, I've done all of this for you and you have to do this for me. And this is, this is what matters. Stuff you hold never gets to the point where you pull that card out. But, you know, sometimes with the parents, in this case, let's say father-son dynamic,
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It's up to you to try to break out of that. It doesn't mean to break permanently, but it's up to you to kind of break out of that dynamic with just a straight up man to man conversation where it's like, yeah, we're father and son, but let's talk about what this is right now. Okay. Here's what's on my table. Here's what the deal has been. We knew there was an end date.
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I feel like there's going to be a lot of man coverage in this, and part of that would be because Kansas City, Amenahu being back, too, is another thing. I think they're getting back. There's a corner that wasn't playing in the regular season matchup. Is it Watson? Yeah. Who's back?
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What can we do to put you in the best position so that when you transition out of here to wherever you're moving next, Like this isn't abrupt. It's not after a blow up. You know, don't even bring up all the messy stuff. You know, just say, hey, straight up. I'm getting my son back in the mix. The mom may be back in the mix. I need to figure out a way to get you on your feet. Right.
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So it's not accusatory. It's not negative. It's not getting on his ass about all the things that are already making you mad, which should be more than justified of bringing up. So I think you need to figure out that conversation where it doesn't feel like it's happening next week. So he's all freaked out. And if he says to you like, hey, I'm sorry, I don't have any other choice.
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And like, this is kind of what you have to do. That's when you're probably going to have to push a little bit harder than you want to. And it's not going to be fun. And it's probably going to make you feel bad. You're going to feel guilt. But what you're signed up for right now is not really... it's not fair to you, man.
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It's not fair to whatever you're trying to do to strengthen your immediate family.
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Foxwood Suites, dad, 3.7. Right.
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What's your shed situation?
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Run an extension cord out here, dad. You watch all TV. Space heater.
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So there's some health stuff you could look at here with the Chiefs matchup, because I think Amenahu is an incredibly underrated dude. And maybe it's just because we talk about Jones and there's just so many different Karloftis making plays. There's just a lot of guys. They've done a really good job of stocking this this defense.
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Look, honestly, that move, he added very little depth on what would seem to be major. Like, he doesn't add if they're getting back together or maybe they're just so... He said it was out of convenience, right?
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That's a whole nother email. That's its own segment. We wouldn't even get to another email without one. Right. It's just like, yeah, we get sick of paying for gas. So you're living with your ex.
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Yeah. Crazy. Um, it's really about where your dad's head is at with it all. Cause he might be like, this has been awesome. I don't, I don't want to leave this deal, but then maybe it can help you deal with the guilt part of it. Realizing that he's been totally fine, taking advantage of the situation. And like, just Rudy's point, like we don't know finances of it.
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It sounds like he's on the other side of the health thing or whatever, but it's been four years, man. It's been four years. And I think the best way to handle it is to look at it as, Hey, what's next? Like, what's the plan? Ask him, did you think you were going to live here forever? And if he says yes, good luck, because I don't know what to say to that one. All right.
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And it's a big reason why they can play the way they played on offense and still win all of these football games. So it's it's pretty incredible, like long term of like reinventing themselves on one side of the football and just maintaining the standard here of competing for Super Bowls every single year. But when I think about some of the matchup stuff here, like Shakir has been great.
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They're creative with him. He's kind of the go-to guy for him, but it's still not what you'd expect for a number one. And if you think about the corners for Kansas City, and this is going to get into some of the NFC stuff too that we're going to talk about, it would feel like Kansas City likes their matchups on some of the one-on-one stuff.
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And that way, I guess playing man against Allen scares you because of the scrambling ability. playing man on third down, third and long against Mahomes always feels like, all right, he's just going to run it to the sideline and then you're kind of screwed.
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And then the other side of this, when the Bills played against Mahomes, it was one of the worst man EPA rates that Mahomes had had all season long. So, You can sit there and be clever and be like, let's not show them the same exact stuff that we've shown them in the past.
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But I think specific to how the secondary matches up with these receivers for Kansas City and Buffalo and the statistical success that Buffalo had in man versus zone when they played each other in week 11, maybe that means that there's more chances for some shots here that we haven't seen from Mahomes, it feels like, for way too long and then certainly Buffalo last week.
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Who are you picking?
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Yeah, and look, I'm not educated enough to be like, oh, this is how many snaps are playing this, and this is what they're going to do here and against both of these guys.
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You can't just go in and then never adjust throughout the game because any quarterback, any of the ones that we can list that are really good, if you're going to stay in the same defense the entire time, at some point I'm going to figure you out, and it's not going to matter.
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It also depends on, okay, at what point of the game do you figure the other team out, and at what point are we looking at the score here up? I think the last thing that I want to do on this
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I love the way that it's been described and kind of how Buffalo... Because when you're thinking about preparing for Lamar, and Buffalo's had the best two games defensively against Lamar, the runner, in his playoff career. They've held him under 40 yards in both games. And I thought the broadcast did a really good job of explaining the Buffalo pass rush will be almost deliberate.
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They're going to show you this is the side that we're coming from because we want to move you over to this side. So that way... we at least are containing you on one side of the field. And then it's up to the guy to make a play or for him, his presence. And in this case, it was Milano on some of the clips that they showed to deter you from thinking about doing it. Now, against Lamar, good luck.
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And it didn't matter. It didn't matter last week. And Mahomes isn't Lamar when we're talking about running. But there are some things that Buffalo does, especially with Milano just being back in the mix, where it's going to be, okay, you think you have this lane because we're overloaded on this side.
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with the pass rusher you're like okay this is really cool I'm just over here but I don't know if it's traditional it's just a spy maybe Milano has a different responsibility based on what he's seeing back there but it's a really nice way of I always used to look at these pass rushes against teams that I didn't think were super disciplined. You go all the way back to the Mike Vick stuff.
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It's like once you get past your tackles, you might as well just run to the sideline. Because now all the lanes are open. You're out of the play. You're behind him. You're never going to catch him. And he has so much less to avoid. And with Buffalo, it's not necessarily like, let's make sure we don't get too upfield. It just feels like if we have a plan of attack,
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It doesn't matter if they know which side the pass rush is coming from, because at least that way we're funneling Mahomes into an area that we feel like we can control.
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I'd rather be in space against Mahomes right now than Lamar Jackson, that's for sure.
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You want details? Bye. I drive a Ferrari, 355 Cabriolet. What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of all, kids, I am liquid. So, now you know what's possible. Let me tell you what's required.
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Yeah.
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The Hockey Was Fun! But Are the NBA Comps Fair? Plus, Wemby’s Future and the Perfect NBA Starting Five With Kirk Goldsberry.
Yeah.
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The Hockey Was Fun! But Are the NBA Comps Fair? Plus, Wemby’s Future and the Perfect NBA Starting Five With Kirk Goldsberry.
Dick Paul.
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The Hockey Was Fun! But Are the NBA Comps Fair? Plus, Wemby’s Future and the Perfect NBA Starting Five With Kirk Goldsberry.
Dick Paul.
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
On today's episode, we're going to talk NFL and college football in front of the divisional round. and the National Championship with Matt Liner on the coverage and then some bigger picture college football stuff with him and also what he thought about some of the stuff from Caleb Williams as well. So we actually get to a lot of different things there with him. Little tales from the couch.
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Basically, like whenever you look at the six or seven teams that feel like they'll have a different quarterback at the start of week one of 2025. I don't know if there's enough available ones. So there's probably still a Darnold market. Me in particular, I would say, is Kevin coming with him? He's not. Then we're not doing this.
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Even if it felt like, could he really be as bad as he was the last two weeks just facing more pressure? Because that Detroit game clearly exposed... him to something that Shula, the defensive coordinator for the Rams, like doesn't normally do. They decided to just dial it up against him.
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And I was saying this last week, but this is why I love Aikman so much on the call because as a quarterback, you can tell how pissed he's getting at Donald for not getting rid of the football. And it actually makes the Donald experience that much worse when the guy on Monday night I know. Get rid of the ball. Like, get rid of the ball.
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Anyway. It's all right. You know?
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Is there a third quarterback for you that you feel?
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
Okay. All right. Well, let's get into it. We went in reverse order here, but that's all right. Who are you picking for the national championship game? Buckeyes, man.
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Is there anything from the Texas matchup? Is there anything there that you can build on if you're Notre Dame?
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Yeah, it's still eight and a half.
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I haven't. No.
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
Well, the audience already knows this. I just had a hard time with the concept when it was first announced of You're going to start arguing for teams that I feel like shouldn't have a chance to win a national championship.
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You know, I'm kind of stubborn about this. I just think you should have to do something once in your 12 games to win a national championship, the chance to win a national championship, even though you're going through this gauntlet.
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And then once you realize, okay, that's how they're doing the seeding, but you understand the only reason they have to do the seeding this way is they had to get everybody to agree. So it's going to be like a very egalitarian approach to this whole thing But then once it plays out in Boise and the seeding of it all, and you're just like, well, this is kind of stupid.
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If Ohio State wins this thing, by the way, their path... to just stop Tennessee, 34-0 against Oregon, take out a Texas team that, you know, could never figure out the Georgia part of this, as opposed to the other side of the bracket. Like, this is going to be on top of everything else that they had to do.
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And granted, they had the second loss to Michigan, so, you know, hey, greatest team of all time, all that nonsense has always happened this time of year. This is... This is an all-time test. And I think the biggest thing to take from that Texas game is that after the touchdown drive, the next four series for Ohio State, they had like second and 20 or third and 27.
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They got so far behind the sticks, four straight possessions because of penalties. That probably had as much to do with them not scoring again until the Henderson screen as much as anything Texas did there. So I'm like anybody else who's watched all of these games. The level to do that to Oregon, man. To do that to them.
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Yeah, but Florida's good now. Florida's good now.
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
Is Lane kind of like that co-worker that we have? And I'm not even naming one in particular, but when you're just at home and you go... this fucking guy can't help himself. Like he's just going to keep tweeting. He's just going to keep going. He's going like this lane. He's excited about it because, you know, then Bielema got involved and I wanted to be like, Hey, Illinois, sorry.
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But then they beat my team in South Carolina, the team that I thought a committee could figure out a way. Like, let's, let's really look at what their season was. Let's look at how hose they got against LSU, all that kind of stuff. Like, I know lane, like the beginning of it, like I always think about coaches and this stuff and winning the luncheon and winning the booster stuff.
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And we sit in there, he's like, we're going to be singing Rocky top. He's almost like hyperventilating because he's so excited to, to win the luncheon and it's worked. And clearly the guy, there's so many of you dudes that have played on that side of the ball that were like, he's on believable. Okay. So there's just, I never will have a doubt about the football acumen.
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
But I guess I think as a competitive person like all these guys are, at some point you would just be like, do I really want to just sit here and tweet for the next two weeks about how I should have been in the playoffs?
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I know you could sit here and say SEC champ or whatever, but when you're on the backup, even if I didn't really like Beck and the way that game played out... I thought he would play a lot better.
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I felt like because Georgia won with him in relief of Beck, because again, Beck just was really disappointing this entire scene. There's too many games. There's too many games from him where you're like smart, smart to come back. I'm telling you smart to come back and get paid a hell of a lot of money. He's moving on.
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
OK, so let me ask you a bigger picture part of this, even though there are times I think Fox is more pro Big Ten than ESPN ever was pro SEC, which I know. you'll probably vomit in your mouth at that theory that I have.
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I mean, what do you want to talk about?
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
No, I have a theory that there's people at Fox that think the SEC ESPN thing is so nefarious that they are like, well, now I'm just going to do it on the other side. And by the way, momentum is on the Big Ten side, or at least SEC decline momentum, whatever it may be. We're looking at back-to-back title games without an SEC team.
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for the first time in 20 years, going back to when you guys played Texas. Uh, so what do you think is, you know, I just like talking to you guys that have the national perspective, but also you're part of it where your, your son's going through it right now. Uh, people get for, you know, portal, uh, NIL, all these different things I have said just to share with you the audience diagnosis.
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I need more data. I need like a five year runway to be like there is this actual like real shift where it's going to be more challenging for the SEC moving forward. I'm not there yet, despite evidence, at least for the last couple of years.
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
on the national championship part of it, certainly this year with the lack of quarterbacks in that conference that, Hey, maybe, maybe the thing that's supposed to happen in sports, the shifts, the cycles, these things are supposed to happen all the time. Like maybe the run will be over, but I'm not there yet. Your thoughts.
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Yeah. Okay. But there is something that you said in there that I think you even kind of corrected yourself in mid answers that, all right, the SEC was, was taking care of players. Like, There's no way these other top schools... You don't believe that, right? Guys in Austin before Texas went to the SEC were like, what are they doing over there?
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Yeah, Pete was quite the closer, man. And I know there's a lot of stuff that we're going to get to there. But why did it work? Like, why did it not feel phony with Pete the way it feels phony with other high energy guys? You know, like, I think that first impression thing is really easy to do. And it's like, oh, hey, we're energy and this and that. But with Pete, it just always felt genuine.
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Yeah.
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Must jump at a New Year's Six, but you're right.
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Enjoy your son's assembly. I don't want you to be late. Appreciate you, brother.
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All right. So say you're looking at we'll get to the other stuff a little bit later on. But as far as fading the public with this one, the Rams are the biggest public play so far. Percentage of bets and percentage of money. But it's not overwhelming. It's as of this morning, 64 percent of the bets, 67 percent of the money.
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So normally when we're fading the public, the number sways a little bit more. But there's just a lot of Ram stuff here. It opened at plus six. It's plus six and a half minus six and a half on FanDuel right now. So let's say you're fading that a little bit. You're going Eagles at home. You're thinking Hurts settled in, gets a game under his belt with all of that time off.
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It's almost like Pete's first impressions threw you off more until you realize, no, this is just the way he is the entire time. And it's sincere.
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And if you like the Eagles minus six and a half instead of it essentially being even money. embedding the money line, why not boost that up by saying if it's the Eagles, what about Jalen Hurts as a first touchdown score? A little dangerous. Don't always love those. If it's any time, we're still kind of even. So you could do this.
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Again, it's FanDuel this morning is minus six and a half. So we're going Eagles minus six and a half. The research play for this one is, you know, we have less to pick from here. So there's a lot of research on Philly as well, which is probably also fading the public there a little bit. Apparently a bigger split on Baltimore Buffalo. So maybe I'll leave that one for me.
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So let's go with a lean on Kansas city minus the eight and a half. So right now we're looking at two favorites. Don't want to do that all the time. That number for Washington and Detroit's massive. It opened at 10. It's still at nine and a half. Now I'm going to pick the bills plus one opened at minus one and a half. So I'll go bills and bills outright. I think the Eagles went at home.
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Chiefs went at home. I'm going to go with the Lions here. So I think I'm picking all the home teams, which doesn't make me feel great either. But the Bills-Ravens thing, there's a lot of stuff leading up, especially when we had 10-win on. And I'm like, yeah, this matchup feels very Ravens heavy against that Bills front. But maybe a turnover here, turnover there.
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Maybe it's the Lamar stuff continues. So we'll go Bills at home as the only one really worth talking about. And we'll break it all down on Monday. A Friday edition of NBA Tales from the Couch. Normally we do these Wednesdays as we get out of the football part of it, but whatever. I feel like I haven't done very much NBA open stuff. So let's get to a few things that I think are important.
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We have the rematch this time in Oklahoma City between the Cavaliers and the Thunder. We know that the Cavs won a close one at home just a week ago. This one was not close. Thunder up 40-14 one minute into the second quarter. Not a lot of suspense here. Not a lot of rotations. I don't have a ton to give you here. And then this guy subbed in.
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The Cleveland turnover situation, I think, tells the biggest story of this one. 13 turnovers in the first half for the Cavs. That led to 22 points for OKC. Oklahoma City actually leads the NBA in points off turnovers with 23 points per game. So that means OKC was basically at that number in the first half.
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I was a little surprised the Cavs were not more ready for what the Thunder do with this defense and their help and all these different things. Because you just can't go slow against OKC. And whether it's Mobley in a post catch and Doerr comes over and helps immediately, turnover. There was a Levert thing he was trying to do on the sideline where that just got wrecked on this handoff.
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Allen was stripped at the top. Garland drives on the right side. Wiggins causes the turnover. Levert even fell down at one point. Like, Levert is just... I love Garland, Mitchell, Allen, Mobley, collectively, individually, all this different stuff. If there was five oars on one side of a boat, Levert would be rowing it the opposite way.
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
So you just can't dick around with the basketball against this team. And you would have thought that they would have already known that, but it just didn't happen. Allen had another catch at the top of the key where he just waited, and then Kenrich stripped him. So there was even a jump ball. This wasn't even a turnover. There was a jump ball.
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
Mitchell ends up with it, and he's in this Caruso-Dort double-team hell. where Mitchell's on the baseline throwing the basketball over the backboard from behind and falling down flailing. So this was a rough, rough first half. SGA did whatever he wanted to do, whether it was hunting for Garland or the actual Dean Wade assignment, where Dean Wade was his assigned defender.
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Dean has the third-best defensive rating of any of the regulars on the Cavs. There's always these weird defensive rating numbers that sometimes, like, what does that one really mean? I remember for years they would have it listed individually on NBA.com. And like Rudy Gay would just be off the charts better than anybody else. Like, I don't think Rudy Gay is the best defensive player in the NBA.
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
A lot of size there. A lot of size for Dean Wade as well. Didn't matter. SGA did whatever he wanted. It wasn't because of free throws. Only five free throw attempts last night. He was actually one of five on threes, but he was 17 at 26. That's just how easy it was for him. So he gets his 40. His 40 now makes him the leading scorer in the NBA.
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
But I think more importantly, especially if we're looking at some of the MVP stuff, right now SGA's total points, he's at 1,264. He's basically 200 points ahead of Brunson, who's number two in total points. He's technically 199 points ahead of him. Granted, he's not worried about Brunson in the MVP race. He's worried about Jokic.
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And if you're doing Jokic total points, you got to do Jokic total other stuff as well. But Right now, again, SGA, just a reminder, basically 200 points total ahead of the number two overall score for total points in the league. So, look, if you didn't watch this game also, didn't include this part, we know Chet's not there, 18-mile. Artenstein also not playing in this game.
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So that means, of course, Brandon Carlson, undrafted rookie, 25 years old, from Utah.
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comes in and hits two threes immediately i mean it's just the number of things that are just working out for the thunder here um insane all right a late one that was a lot of fun sacramento has won eight of nine they went again last night at home against houston eight and two with doug christie as head coach sacramento schedule right sometimes i'll go hey this team's playing really good everybody's talking about him and you're like it's the schedule stupid um
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Matt Leinart’s Favorite NFL Playoff QB and Notre Dame-Ohio State Pick, Plus the SGA Show in Cavs-Thunder
This is not really a schedule thing. Let's look at Sacramento's schedule. You could say, all right, well, Dallas, both guys were out. Philadelphia, no Embiid, although Embiid playing, I don't think necessarily helps them. And I got to tell you, too, like some of this Paul George stuff that I was watching the other night, you know, they were down big in New York. They come back.
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Ends up being a close game. But he's going to do more. He has to do more. That guy, he's like expensive Tobias Harris, man. I'm telling you. He needs to be doing more for the Sixers team with Embiid out. All right. So I'm going to probably go on a few side tangents here. Some planned, not planned. They beat Memphis with no job. We're talking about Sacramento again here.
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But they beat the Warriors with Stefan Draymond there. They killed Boston in Boston by 17. By the way, the Celtics are 7-7 in their last 14, but their net rating in their last 15 is the third best in the NBA. They're not shooting the ball very well. I think there's some effort stuff you could point to as well. But Sacramento beat Boston for...
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That was without Fox, too, and they've had three wins in this stretch without De'Aaron Fox. They had him back last night. So if we look at the last 10 for this Doug Christie stretch, Sacramento's number five in offense, number 14 in defense. They were 16th in defense the date that Mike Brown was fired late December. A lot of zone last night against Houston.
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I don't really even know that it worked necessarily. It was probably a way to try to keep Sabonis out of foul trouble. He ended up fouling out. Sabonis is one of the more Maybe it's not confusing. Maybe it's very simple. But Sabonis is somebody statistically where the efficiency and everything is so off the charts. You start looking at all NBA teams.
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You start looking at all-star voting and all that kind of stuff. And yet, I know that even with his incredible skill as passing and what he's able to do, the rebounding numbers are ridiculous. I just kind of go, yeah, but shouldn't Houston just be able to get to the rim whenever they want to against him without ever any fear whatsoever? Same thing with Shingun.
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They would get him on a couple posts last night, and he would just go right to work on Sabonis. I wonder where Alpy Shingun would rank post-play right now in the NBA. I'm not talking points per post-possession, just straight up old school, foot in the ground, pivot foot, maybe another pivot foot,
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armpit hair right in the defender's forehead where is shangoon right now then you've got the amen thompson part of it where he looks like he's is he going to be a point guard man right like that's exciting then you had kind of the houston turnover part of it where it's the jalen green great play bad play stuff that was happening all night uh but i thought i think
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Amin Thompson is who I pronounce his name incorrectly sometimes. Whether it's him or Asar, that is why teams will draft just special athletes. It's why Perry Orr is going to go and drafts. Shout out to Taipei. It's why Danny Ainge talked about drafting Jaylen Brown out of Cal. Because if you watched, it wasn't really great, but it was just physically at the wing position.
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We'll talk about the surging Kings, the blowout in Oklahoma City, and a three from deep that I love. And life advice. And War Gone... The community has spoken. They seem to love this guy. People have his back. The marathon mic continues. Let's talk some college football. Maybe even sprinkle a little bit of NFL role play with our good friend and neighbor, Matt Leiner, here out in the South Bay.
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If this guy ever does figure it out, we seem to have a really hard time with getting better. Like, hey, what happened there? Why did people get that wrong? He got better. Why did that not work out? He didn't get better. The stuff that we're seeing with Amin Thompson is so incredibly impactful where it's not just, hey, he made a three or had a sick dunk.
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You can just feel his approach to the game kind of like dictating stuff that's going to happen with it. Now, the other side of this, Sacramento made a ton of threes. You had Keegan Murray with a really nice bounce back stretch here after shooting it so poorly the first couple months of the season. DeMar DeRosa was too much. Cam Whitmore is out there with minutes.
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I don't know if you can actually technically have a negative assist ratio number. His assist percentage jumped from 6.0 to 6.4 this year, so massive improvement there. When it's in the single digits, that's pretty bad. I just wonder, with his predictability on offense, he's probably a better second-unit guy. Could those numbers or those minutes be going to Reed Shepard with no Van Vliet last night?
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Or does Reed get destroyed on the perimeter against the Keegan Monk? Fox, and then certainly DeRozan with how good he was at closing this game out last night when he got crushed there. So I think there's some really good stuff with Keegan here lately. The rest of the guys, you just kind of know what they're getting. The DeRozan...
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The addition is just, would you rather have 35 minutes with DeMar DeRozan or with Harrison Barnes? And even though Harrison Barnes was awesome in the post against the Lakers a couple nights ago, putting in work against Finney Smith, Reeves, and Christie, you'd rather have DeRozan. And I don't think anybody would ever debate you on that one.
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Jalen Green's had a really nice stretch here, but God, I don't know if I can Pacino this guy again. I just don't know if I can continue. I can't imagine being a Rockets fan. Well, I kind of am a little bit, right? I can't imagine being a Rockets fan and being like, what? Is he awesome again now? Because I kind of thought maybe he wasn't after all this stuff.
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As an aside, we got mic'd up Doug Christie. If you're a certain age, there's probably a lot of you that There's some Doug Christie content out there like 20 years ago. We were like, what's this guy's deal? And look, he's a Sacramento King lifer. There's something to be said of that. Carries himself a certain way.
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But when he was miked up, he was talking to like Keon Ellis about like, let's not talk to the officials and let's be above this and all this. And all I could think about, like if I was an NBA player, my coach was miked up and he was telling me what I should or shouldn't say to an NBA ref. I'll be like, you can you can fuck off with that. However, that's not the way Doug Christie is going to be.
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And even the official was like, he's not getting on me. So unique mic'd up opportunity. On the other side, with the mic, I'm sensing a difference when Ime Udoka is interviewed by Jared Greenberg versus when he is interviewed by Taylor Rooks. I will continue to monitor the vibes. Last couple notes here. I love Jaron Jackson Jr. There's nothing on the counting stats to be like, now you like him?
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because it's kind of mirroring where he was at when he made the All-Star team a couple years ago, which was his fifth season, so now we're talking about his seventh season. I started looking into the metrics. I was like, I don't want to find anything. I don't want to look at anything.
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I don't want to convince you that because this Winshare 48 number is better than this one and the Vorp is heading in the right direction, that the box score plus minus, but if you look at the rotation, I don't have anything for you other than I fucking love this guy right now in a way that I've never loved Jaron Jackson before. When did it happen, Ry? I'll tell you.
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Look, it could be the game December 7th against Boston where he set down the entire toolbox. Took out the hammer, the screwdriver, the level, the awl, hand planer, nail set. Just the stuff he did against Boston in that game to close it out was just, he had everything you would want. And he gave it to you. He gave it all to you. It's all on sale. 38-12 against Phoenix.
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But most importantly, the Wednesday night win against San Antonio. Well, he was only 19-6-2. And he shot at, what was he, 9-24? Yep. Fine. But that's the hardest I've ever seen anyone go at Wemba Nyama since he's been in the NBA. He went right at that dude. Like, I don't give a shit. And he made Wemby feel him. There was a couple times where he slammed and Wemby finished against him.
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And Wemby was like backing up kind of under the basket and get ready to run back down on offense where he's like, that wasn't very much fun. I haven't seen anybody ever attack him like Jaron Jackson did. So I don't care about the shooting numbers. And you could even argue like, oh, I don't want to talk efficiency. Can we take a break from it for one fucking second? I love Jaron Jackson Jr.
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Although I did fall for it with Scoot going at Wemby in international play. But Scoot, arrow up. Last thing. Hey, Ryan, did Alex Saar take a ridiculous three-pointer last night? Yes, he did. The number two picks had a nice stretch. Really good December. Was Rookie of the Month in the East. Yves Misi, Rookie of the Year in the West. Love his game.
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Great job by that Pelicans front office that we'd like to give shout-outs here because I just think they're really good at this. Also, recognition of Trey Murphy's altered ceiling. But real ones know that he could put it on the deck and get to the hoop if you watched him at Virginia. DeJounte Murray was filthy closing out against Dallas the other night.
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But dare I say, was it so good that it was not involving Trey enough? Who knows? I mean, DeJounte was just, I think it was like 10 or 12 points to close that one out. So the Pelicans are on fire right now, three of four. Almost beat Boston, by the way, so it could have been four straight with this one. Yeah, I thought this was about Alex Saar in a three-pointer. Don't worry, we'll get there.
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So I watched last night as Phoenix was able to close out the Wizards, barely, in Washington. Phoenix, I just don't like right now. It's an easy stretch of the schedule. They've won, I think, five of seven. So you're like, what don't you like? I don't like the way it's looked winning five of these seven. And last night's a perfect example of it. They're up 117-100. That's 17 points with 518 to go.
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And four minutes later, it's 120-117. Durant came in with like 318. He didn't even take a shot. Um, you know, the wizards, young players don't know any better. So they're going to play pretty hard, whether it's bub or George or Kula Bali, even SAR, like got out and transition after a turnover, like Phoenix had some real turnover problems.
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Like I'm just telling you between Minnesota being healthy, which maybe is more concerning where a Phoenix is start. I'm like, okay, well, this makes sense. Like a Phoenix is healthy and they have these guys like their start should be like, That should be a good season because they've done a good job with all the role players and all the stuff in the offseason. And yet, I don't know, man.
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I watched the Atlanta game. I watched both Charlotte games. And. What is up with this team? And Beal didn't even play last night. He turned the ankle in the Atlanta game, which was really just bad for Phoenix. And he did come back and play in that game, so ended up not playing here.
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So Booker was having a tough run of it because he's in there for basically the entire fourth quarter, and Durant was out. They were up big enough, so you didn't even know if they were going to bring Durant back. Again, there's no Beal. So if you look at Booker's efficiency stuff on this season, you're going to go, well, this is actually kind of a down year for him.
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I think that's really missing the point of when he was playing, when the other guys weren't there, how ugly it was getting because it was just him asked to save them the entire time. And at this point, I think Booker's a better player than Duran is. I think he's better for Phoenix than Duran is. And Booker ended up hitting the three that kind of closed the game anyway.
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So back to Saar, because I know you've been waiting desperately. When is this going to be back to Alex Saar, man? I'm waiting. It is 123-117. There's 44 seconds left on the game plot. You've got a full shot clock on the inbounds on the wizard side. They throw it into Saar and Saar like dribbles in a hurry to get behind the three point line to then turn and take a three. I'm serious.
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There was 22 seconds left on the shot clock. So yeah, I know you got to go quick. Yeah, you're maybe looking for a three. You would have thought there was point zero, like an eighth of a second left. and they were down three or four. Sar was like, nope, need to get this one up.
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And I know he shot it really well from three after a disastrous start on this, so that's a shot that they're going to want to take. No one in the history of basketball has ever wanted anyone to take that shot the way he took it. Let's take a quick look at the West right now. Do you know where your veteran teams are in the standings? Because I do. Oklahoma City's class of themselves.
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I think the Houston-Memphis-Denver thing and a healthy Dallas are probably the ones that make the most sense. Then it's this Clippers story that just won't go away. They've won three in a row, and they've just been better than I thought they would be. Minnesota alarming because the health and the fact they're not better. Sacramento surging. The 10 seed is Phoenix.
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Same record as Golden State, who's now out of the play-in. 20-20 now on the season, although their win against Minnesota was really impressive the other night. That means they've gone 8-17 since the 12-3 start, and then San Antonio just below 500 with the loss to Memphis. So that's a crazy group right there. And look, scooting the Trailblazers, only seven games out from the 10th seed.
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Let me tell you what's required. Life advice, life advice, rr at gmail.com. St. John's Kyle.
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So I love it. I love that. You love the Johnny's. Um, So Rudy, I believe the floor is yours.
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Shouts out to them. Did she have to get the shot? Did your daughter have to get the shot?
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I had no idea. The tetanus one's fine.
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I had no idea. No wonder. I mean, this rabies fatality number that we got this week, now it's all starting to make sense. But I wonder if you can go out. Are you staying in? No way. I'm on top of the world. I'm hanging out with the boys tonight. Come on. Four shots in. Three to go. No problem. All right. We also had a Disney employee reaching out to War Gone.
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I will forward you the details, War Gone, but it appears the people at Disney appreciate your support. I don't know if it's the Lion King, Inc., or the fact that you got on a flight with a stomach flu and then still ran a half marathon in the rain as your wife lapped you.
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But if you want to pull up your audio and video here real quickly, I want to let you know the people down in Orlando are on your side.
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Oh, okay. Sorry. Sorry. I thought you said she just flew right past you. He did actually say that.
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I don't even know what the course was. So that's on me. That's on me not doing the research of what that would be. So I will forward you those details. Nice, dude. Yeah.
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Still the ESPN Corp email?
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All right. Sounds good. All right. So I sent out a video of the halftime entertainment at the Nuggets game from last week, I think. I forget which Nuggets game it was. They all kind of watch a lot of Nuggets. So... I have the feeds up like a lot of you do if you have League Pass. You don't get commercials during halftime. You just get the feed.
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Yeah.
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Although my father, after a couple of weeks with me once was like, I almost missed commercials because he was so annoyed at the in game entertainment hosts. Cause then we started like critiquing and be like, Oh, this guy thinks he's fucking really cool. Like he thinks he's three years away from starting on this.
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Like he thinks he's going to have a Netflix show where I was like, this person I think understands like kind of where they're at a little bit more and be like, who hired this dude and what's her deal. Right. So you just start going through all of them. I could probably do a podcast. I don't know. Maybe when I take some time off, like ranking all the in, arena entertainment hosts.
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I might be your guy. I might be your guy for it. But anyway, they have a lot of kids that play from local schools, local communities. You get to go play in an NBA court. It's an awesome thing to do. I got to do it for a men's league thing. So that was cool. Um, but yet there's kids just running around all over the place. And what happens is all the kids want to take NBA threes.
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And sometimes the age range is like, maybe Um, usually the age range is like, absolutely not. This is a disaster. The other night for a nuggets game, the kids took 13 NBA threes. They went over 13. Uh, Oh, there were eight air balls. Yeah. I tracked it.
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I went back cause I, the problem is, is when I have multiple TVs on and then the kids start playing, I watch the kids more than the adults because I'm fascinated by their approach to it. And then one kid started waving his arms, pointing like Babe Ruth to where he was going to pull up from. Logo three. I can't believe it hit the rim. This kid pulled up from 30 plus feet.
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And I don't think these guys were like above the fourth, fifth grade thing. So it wasn't dumping on kids. It was just an observation about the evolution of where the game is going. And then I tweeted like, hey. Is Steph to blame? Even though I love Steph probably as much as any current. I think Steph will be the last athlete I like this much, by the way, for the record.
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Don't know what that means, but there you go. Anyway, went to the Rosillo Denver live show and the Simmons live show. Oh, back to back. Saw your tweet about the kids going over 13 at the Nuggets game, halftime show. As a friend of the coach, I just wanted to write in to give you the behind the scenes.
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The coach was hanging out with the kids in the hallway that Jokic always runs down, and he hyped them up to make an NBA three-pointer. Not a good look for the state of the game at the youth level, but the coach probably has to split the blame with Curry. While I'm here, can you help settle some Nuggets group chat drama? That sounds awesome.
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Murray is 12th on the NBA player salary list in 26, 27. Is there a tougher contract to build around besides appeal for what you're getting? Yeah, there's worse contracts. Simmons is captain of the Murray ship right now. And I do not want to buy a ticket because I think Murray eventually, because he's had those high playoff moments. We're not talking about somebody who's a stiff.
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So I don't think that the Murray contract is like this absolute albatross because I don't think he's going to be this bad. Anyway. All right. Well, glad to know that that was part of it there. But look, it isn't just about these Denver kids. Do you guys want to do life advice emails instead of these? I wouldn't mind. Yeah.
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I'm looking at Kyle just going, all right, let's go back. Let's just... All right, let's go for just a heavy hitter then. Male, 44, third string university goalie in Canada. Never had a dress for games, so I know the closest bars to every rink we played on at the road. Basketball comp, Cedric Hunter. Matches my practice to game time ratio. Anyway, I run my own construction company.
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Skilled labor is in demand. I think these guys are like real Canadians, by the way. Skilled labor is in demand, hard to attract. I keep raising my wages, but it's still hard to retain or attract workers. Recently, I had one of my best employees find this note on his vehicle. Phone number is covered as he posts the note at a legendary dive bar.
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Have been busy raising a family, so this reminded me of the hijinks of university in Montreal anyway. On top of this, everything else, maybe the guy went to McGill. While drinking at this bar with friends, we got into an argument. Did a man or woman write this? Is it connected to you driving a Subaru as a construction worker? Is this solicitation or entrapment?
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Also, he found this a day after his honeymoon. Should I post this as a benefit that my company offers? Will this lead to dissection on the job site if others get the same note? And if you ever visit the Yukon, we can show you where to park your rental car. All right, so here's the note. I see you park here regularly. Earmuffs, kids, earmuffs.
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I see you park here regularly, and I'm thinking you are part of the construction crew working at the country inn. I live close by. Would you be into getting discreet, let's use the term steam occasionally, maybe on your lunch break or after work? That was cleaning it up. So that's the note, Kyle.
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Pretty privileged. Yeah, some guys are just like absolute knockouts. Right.
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I mean, yes, there's some hot dudes out there, folks. Just want to be friends with one of them. Yeah. Anyway, back to the note. The handwriting is sort of gender neutral, like a lot of the bathrooms in LA. So... I don't know if the old detective lens is helping me here. I'm looking at the font. I'm looking at the, you know, it's obviously nobody writes in cursive anymore.
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I don't know if this is a Canadian man's handwriting though. You know, I'm sort of thinking construction. I'm thinking the Yukon shout out, although the hockey part of it, McGill feels a little south for where I've assumed that maybe this construction site is. But if we allow ourselves to move up the lines of, The longitude lines here. I think... Are we talking bubble letters?
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Like, does it look like... No, no. Trust me. We're on the same page, Kyle. Like, I think I could figure it out. And this one feels... It's neat. So maybe it is female. But I think Steve's right. I think you're just setting yourself up here to be humiliated. Like, one of my roommates did this to me and left it on the monster truck. It was like, hey, I love this truck. It's so cool that whatever...
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and it was just like they and they part to see yeah right there was like a heart like dotted something but they did it and i don't know what the hell they were doing that day other than nothing but they did it in a way that they knew i would be coming out to my truck like within a couple hours and they just waited to see how i would react like that was their phone number
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Yeah, I think that's kind of where I wanted to go with it was just considering. I think it's important to remember all this stuff. Like when you looked at Jaden Daniels' situation and you looked at Caleb's going in, almost everybody thought Caleb was in a better situation in Chicago than Jaden was in Washington. Cliff Kingsbury. Yeah, maybe it should have been.
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Yeah, there was a phone number and that was their whole payoff to see like if I was going to kind of smile and read it and like be really feeling myself being like, see, I am right. This truck is fucking awesome.
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Although that was still would have been before Mike Jones. So that number would work. Anyway, I knew immediately it was it was one of the guys. So I luckily didn't do a an ego boost like face in the parking lot. I'm like, man. I am hot. Awesome.
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It's not normal. How'd you guys meet? Well, I've got pretty good handwriting. Um... All right, another shout-out to Oregon. Just wanted to give Oregon his proper flowers for running the Disney Marathon under the circumstances he described. I happened to be in Disney World with some friends Tuesday, Friday.
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The friends organized the trip because they were signed up to run the 5K Thursday morning after one full day in Magic Kingdom on Wednesday. They both bailed on the 5K. We all spent all day Thursday on roller coasters and getting drinks at Epcot. Great job sticking with it, Oregon.
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Oregon, what would you have done with that note?
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That doesn't feel like the same thing, but I think it works.
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All right, one more for the kids. 6'2", 180, player comp, Jokic. I trained for a marathon in 2016 for six months, followed a precise training regimen, devoted my life to proper hydration and nutrition in preparation for the race. One week before the race, I came down with an RSV, a respiratory illness that can cause a lot of cough and wheezing and trouble breathing.
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I threw everything I could at the illness the week before the race. Antibiotics, steroids, breathing treatments to try to run the race. Race day comes. And I knew on mile three that I didn't feel right, much like Morgan. I showed up and finished, but it was 40 minutes off my goal training time. It left a very sour taste in my mouth. All of that training down the drain.
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But look, I've defended Cliff because I felt like, hey, you brought somebody in to help. develop a quarterback. It depends on what you think of Kyler at this point, but there's probably more positive than negative on the development side of it. Arizona stunk forever. They started winning more games.
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Was it a full marathon?
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Like, is it, you know, uh, yeah, I don't think, I don't think that's going to be cool for the runners out there and they're not going to like that suggestion because I don't think it's the same thing. I stood with that for eight years until finally in 2024, I got up the courage to train for another marathon.
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This time I got COVID halfway through the training, but there was enough time to recover and have to say I was able to run in November and meet my goal. I had set eight years ago. All right. This makes a little bit more sense. It's the leap year marathon. Right.
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Oregon, I know exactly how you feel, so my advice to Oregon is just stew on this for a while, maybe not eight years, and do it again when you're mentally ready.
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You know you can just finish the training, make some small tweaks during the next training session, and things you've learned this time, you might consider running a race in April, May, early June, when it's not too hot yet, and at that time of year when viral illnesses are not circulating as bad. You obviously could not plan for a stomach flu two days before. The timing sucks.
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Get back out there, and when you finish the next time at the pace you trained for,
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you will be really glad you did good luck oregon appreciate the wonderful content and strong work from the entire group he wrote war he wrote oregon but we're going to stay with the oregon team today all right reverse life advice interesting all right last thing here um kyle how are you on time i'm okay are you sure i'm sure okay All right. I was a bully in high school.
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We just got this one fresh off the presses. Long time, first time, male, 36, married, two young kids, 6'3", 200 pounds, NBA comp, Blake Griffin without the vertical. I'll try to make it quick. I went to school in a small Midwest town, 50 people in my graduating class. In high school, I was a bully. To make matters worse, it was to one specific girl in my class. Let's call her April.
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I cannot remember a lot of specifics, but I know the way I treated April was 100% wrong and certainly classified as bullying to this day. I'm sure she remembers and despises me, which is more. She definitely remembers, dude. At our 10-year high school reunion, we locked eyes at the bar for a moment. She gave me a look I'll never forget. It was a look of disgust.
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She couldn't walk away quick enough. At that moment, I felt about two feet tall. Now having two young children of my own and reflecting years after the fact, I could see how shitty that behavior was. If I had to pinpoint, I'm sure it stemmed from my own insecurities at the time and being a shithead adolescent.
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April now appears to live a happily married life with a husband and two kids from what Facebook tells me. We're not Facebook friends. If it matters, her husband would destroy me in a fight. He looks to be about 6'4", 250 of solid muscle, and has an affinity for rugby, of all things. Uh-oh. My question is, 20-ish years after the fact, should I reach out and apologize?
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But, you know, he didn't run enough motion, so the NFL nerds thought he was the dumbest person on the sideline. And so now... With the Jaden part of it, that might be it beyond the receiving core that certainly favors Chicago. Offensive line favors Washington, all these different things. I guess when I look at Caleb, I liked him the most.
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I'm not sure how it would come across, but I'm sincerely sorry for the way I treat her. Do I reach out or continue living the life like this? Past transgression never happened. Thanks, Love the Pot. That sucks, because you're a bully, and you've got some size on you, and she apparently... Reformed bully. Yeah, met up with... Dolph Lundgren.
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So I think the fact that you care is not like a bully, you know, in the bully DNA. Now granted, like sometimes you're just younger, you're just a shithead. It's just what happens. I think there's part of it where like, I remember there was a guy that I really hated and I think I gave it probably a little too long. It was outside of the window. And we were at a party years later.
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And he was like, hey, brother, what's going on? I was like, you can go fuck yourself with that. And he was like, what? And I was like, you don't remember? He's like, dude, we were in high school. We were like sophomores. And I was like, I don't care. I was like, that was fucking terrible what you did. And he's like, dude, it's like 2002. And I was like, yep. And the thing is, is he's not wrong.
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Like, that's what I needed to do at that time. That was how I was going to handle it. I was kind of looking forward to it, to be honest with you. And that's how I felt I needed to get not past it because it wasn't like this haunting thing. But I was looking forward to that day, to telling that guy to go fuck himself. He, I don't think, was wrong necessarily in being like, are you serious?
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We're almost 30 now. Like you're going to be that mad about something that happened. We were like 15 and 16 years old. And it's like, yeah, I am. But I didn't think looking back from where his perspective was, if he was kind of like, all right, dude, like I got it. I don't necessarily think he was wrong either at the time. I didn't care.
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But now thinking about it, it's like, you know, he might have been right. Like, hey, there's got to be some some like understanding as people become adults that a lot of this stuff isn't really cool. It seems like April's not getting over any of it. And, you know, she isn't. And she remembers all of these things. Sure. You could reach out.
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You know, it might make you feel a little bit better, maybe closure on that. Maybe there's some closure for her, but in all likelihood, she probably just never, ever wants anything to do with you. And the fact that if you do apologize and she wants nothing to do with you, it sounds like this freak rugby guy is more than you can handle on top of everything else.
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I am not deterred at all, but I think it was a rough year, even if the stats say that it was better than the final product. How tough is that? Look, we've talked to you about it, how tough that first year is. Was there anything that was alarming about it to you, or is it kind of like what it probably should have been?
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Yeah. So, you know, by the way, if the husband's normal, he'll probably, although he's enormous, but like, I don't know how I would feel if my wife was like, I hate that guy. And then I'd be like, okay, what's the deal? Why do you hate him? It's like, he was mean to me in high school. I just be like, all right, well, that sucks.
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I don't like, I don't like him also, but I'm on your side, but yeah, exactly. It was 30 years ago. Do you want me to go to a parking lot right now with a baseball bat? Like I don't, I don't want to do that. I mean, can you, could you actually just DM the person on Facebook and say, that's what I was thinking. Yeah. Just a quick, Hey, get it out immediately. I was a dick to you in high school.
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I saw you at the reunion. You gave me the look. You made me feel terrible by myself.
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No, no, no. Actually, this is what I mean though, by giving her the win, by being like in that moment, you made me realize like, not you made me realize cause I already knew it ahead of time.
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So I'm not trying to like write your entire thing, but like if you give her a bit of a win in that and that your look made me feel this way and I deserve to feel that way because the way I treated you and I wanted to let you know and I will forever be sorry, whatever quick, efficient out there. But a little bit of that, like,
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sharing the moment with her when she looked at you so that it's all acknowledged that she'll she's not like did he see me did I not see all that different stuff yeah you saw me I saw you and it just reminded me of how terrible I was and I felt terrible about it and I know you'll never want to talk to me or whatever and I definitely don't want to stop by because your husband's a monster but who knows yeah small town I think that's fair divorce rate
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You know, seven years from now, guess who's bringing whose kids to soccer practice?
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How'd you guys meet? He bullied me. And then he sent me this super nice DM. I was going through some issues because he's from Australia anyway. So culturally, we weren't super aligned, even though it was so hot.
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I hadn't even thought about mine forever. And then I just saw him randomly. And I was like, just came flooding back, huh? Yeah. I let him have it too.
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And I didn't feel bad. I'll tell you that. I didn't, I was such a loser at the time. It was like, this is nice. A win. What's this like? As I was telling that story, he was just shaking his head in disbelief. No, because I'm just thinking about the people.
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Yeah, I think sometimes it's okay to have that in your life. You're like, hey, you need to move past that. Maybe I don't. I think about it once every two years. I'm fine. We've got plenty of other days to think about all the other stuff.
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If you could be any of the remaining quarterbacks in the playoffs, if you could like if I'm watching basketball and I'm being honest, like if I could be any NBA player, if I could have his game, it'd probably be Anthony Edwards. So I could humiliate people. Right. Like that's like his greatest step is in the vision of LeBron and all that stuff. It's like give me peak ant athleticism.
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I'm doing it to Cole. Next time I play against Cole, I'm Luka-ing him. I just have to, like, you know, I can't try to get past him anymore.
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Okay, so which NFL quarterback would Matt Leiner want to be?
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I mean, the physical part of Josh is pretty enticing because he, there are times where it looks like when he's about to go into the end zone, like defense, like, again, we're talking about NFL defensive players, linebackers stuff.
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You could see some of those guys are like, I'm good. That's just going to be the best feeling ever when you're a quarterback. You're always worried about how many hits am I going to take or I want to make sure I'm not doing this or whatever. They're actually not super interested because it's already a wrap anyway. He's getting in when he breaks one of those seven yards out.
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You can just see it happening in front of you. But there are times where you can watch a game and be like, that's crazy. Like normally somebody would be like, I don't even care if he's going to get in. I'm going to take a shot at him just to put my body on him. And then with Allen, it's like, I don't even want to deal with that guy.
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So, yeah, that's a good pick. It's a good pick. I guess I would be really funny if Mahomes is. is sitting there at the end of this all over again.
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I thought it was going to happen in that regular season finale against Minnesota. And then, and then here we are.
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geno smith type deal or baker mayfield type deal i'd be worried about paying it's kind of like there's a lot of players on denver that i wouldn't want to give money to if they're not playing next to yokich where sam away from o'connell would concern me and look if you go around it with this year's draft class And, you know, the Kirk Cousins part of it, I guess, is in there, too.
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But that's still a ton of money to eat to move off of him, I think, in a trade before the second year of the contract. But I mean, look, I think the pages are even turned to Penix. That makes a lot of sense. Right. I mean, so it's already going to be Penix's team. So they're going to have to figure some stuff out.
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Didn't see that film, but I remember you guys talking about it. You didn't see the movie? Well endowed. Yeah, the one about the rich kids, right? Like the Amazon one or whatever?
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I thought there was an equal number of people who were like, that was such a waste of time. It was.
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yeah no no one at a time we had we had a like a big like dog cage that they went in for transport but uh you know to get in the get them you gotta kind of do it one by one anyway that's when i realized our definition of emergency evacuation was a little different from her in mind but on her defense like you know living things i feel like are hey i hear you important yeah you know i hear you i hear it i hear it at the same time if i was to give a little feedback of my own no i'm just kidding um
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You don't like that one? I thought that one was good. Is that a pun? Is it like a pun of something I should know?
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Never a nef? That's sort of, that's a pun. Never a nef you like better? Never Enough? I don't know. If it's not some sort of play on something, I don't love it.
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That's great. That's good, too. Yeah. Probably need some major accomplishment before we need to worry about book titles.
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Yeah, it's not worth it for me. It's fine. I was basically just their driver for the Masters. And I got to go to the Wednesday practice, which was incredible. But for the most part, I was just driving them to stuff that there weren't tickets for me for. And I just picked them up. And the story happened in the car. That's all I'll say. Bill's dad was there as well.
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So you're not writing a book or telling this story? You got to save something if you want to...
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Would you? So stupid. I hate that Cerruti knows, too. That's so stupid.
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I think House told me. I forget how I even know. House was the one I was worried about getting it out. Bill's dad was just like in a coma laughing so hard.
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Van's comment was like, I love how you tagged me in it. It was part my idea, too, or something like that. I gotta look up House's Instagram.
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I joke about that. It makes her so mad, but it's something I still feel fine joking about with her. I give you my permission. Yeah, I hope you never stop joking about it there.
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No, I don't think so. Maybe if this all falls down and I can't get into a fire department somewhere, I'd consider it. But I think it would be a reach.
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Maybe you should stop trying to write stuff and just come up with titles for other people's stuff, right? That's really... That's something.
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I was just making a joke about how good your titles were. I'm sorry. Well, the title of the book has to be I Was Right Now, right?
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Dog Pants. A spinoff of Captain Underpants, which I was very into in my youth. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Scholastic Book Fair came to town. Best believe.
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You looking at a whiteboard or something? Do you have like a, I'm looking at my library.
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Anyone who has, is not watching this on YouTube. He has not looked at us for the last three minutes and he just, he went through this incredibly.
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It's very close to him. And, uh, the whole time he's just scanning for a book in his electric, really, you know, electric stuff.
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Makes you think there must be some sort of trademark that they couldn't, right?
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Pat Riley's just got it along with all the three-peat stuff.
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Well, the Brad Marshall thing never gets old for me. Just watching him raise his eyebrows and come up with that first question. I've never seen anything like it.
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I think it was. So you've been away from the team for, how's it been being away from the team? A little while. And you know what? That must happen to that guy so many times that the fact that you didn't just like stop and reset anything. You're just like, we're doing this interview. I think it probably made him feel good too. We're going to make it happen.
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Compliment me, I think is what the guy is saying. I thought your Markle explanation in front of a live thing went well. That could have went terrible. That shit was getting beamed out to everyone. And I think you nailed that.
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Well, this is pre-taped, but by the time you are listening to this, I will be home alone for a couple of days and I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to spend them. erring on the side of responsibility, but I don't know, it'd be a nice test case.
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Just the difference between a guy with less to lose and a guy with more to lose. That's really just went into a lot of the calculus of those decisions. I just didn't have much to lose back then.
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Yeah, you should have canceled your Mexico trip or wherever you were to make sure that you were there.
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Those few minutes that he was staring at the bookcase, those were like, that felt like five minutes because he was also talking the whole time. Because he was also talking. But yeah, other than that, really flew by.
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Just usually thinking about what kind of story I could tell anyway. So I don't really know what you guys say half the time.
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I will say though, uh, your, your, your thought was right, right. As a guy who used to produce this podcast, um, you know, like on the pro tool side, you can see the waveforms and, uh, yeah, you're right. Yours is way longer than mine and Steve's put together on life advice. Yeah.
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I got the PlayStation in the living room and the Xbox in my little office here. Um, Yeah. And she's really concerned about if I'm going to give proper care to the rabbits. And I'm like, is there something I am missing here? I think it's just food and water. I'm worried about it. She's just like, make sure you cringle the bag before you go in there so they get excited for their treats.
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Damn. I thought we were just really excited to get a new fact about Mike Morgon. I agree. And I think a lot of the laughing in Are You Serious was just like, didn't know you had a bucket for that. Like, I didn't know you had that in your game, dude. I think that's really what it was more than anything. And maybe it came off as snarky, but I don't know. I don't think we were laughing at him.
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I think we were more laughing in amazement as another little kernel that we just found. A little nugget of gold while we're panning the Oregon River.
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Because the guy's like Fort Knox. Like you have to specifically ask him something and then he actually has something that he's already doing that totally lines up with this. But because we didn't ask him to turn his camera and mic on, we just didn't know. And so I think it's just the asking you shall receive-ness of it all where it's like, oh fuck, he had something for this too.
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Look, there's a Simba tattoo. Holy shit, that's huge. It's like we had no idea. Wicked. Already saw it going back. Like it's just, fuck, it just lines up perfectly.
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I'm like, all right, I can remember that. But she's definitely concerned that they won't be receiving premium level care like they used to. But I think I can pull it off. They'll survive.
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Dude, when that fire thing happened, we had to evacuate. I learned just how hard it is to get five rabbits anywhere. She adopted the pillowcase method, where she just kind of, the last two, because it was taking a while, and the hill was on fire. So she just figured out how to get them up in a pillowcase, but that's not something I'm interested in. So they'll stay right with me.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Friday Feedback!
And it could not look like... I mean, we did this on air. I was like, dude... I mean, I hate to go back to the hairy chest talk, but I was just like, you look at his face, it looks like his five o'clock shadow comes in at 11 a.m. And I was just like, you know, he just doesn't, the voice doesn't really match the face. But I've heard that with Cerruti and myself as well, so.