May 14, 2024 • 51 mins
Jason and Mike debate if Bronny James is a real potential draft pick. Longtime NFL Insider Jason La Canfora drops in for all the latest news and schedule release leaks. And Jason addresses the BIG elephant in the room. Plus, Jason shares why the Ravens might be on his never again list!
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I'm sweating, dude, I'm sweating at ninth inning that Edwin
Diaz just gave up two runs hits a guy to
bring in the game tying run. I'm like, come on,
but the bigger thing was the ball four where the
guy clearly carries his bet to the zone. Across home plate.
Manager doesn't even bother to get himself ejected. I know
what kind of half ass effort was that. I know, Man,
(01:12):
if you're not out there spitting at the guy and
kicking dirt on him, are you even trying? I mean,
are you trying? I mean it would have been it
could have been a full count. Instead it's a walk
and the bases are loaded and Diaz with two strikes,
HiT's the next pattern to tie the game. I'm sweating, dude.
The only thing, the only thing, honestly is because look,
with this playoffs now, I'm I'm navigating a triangle of
(01:33):
difficulty almost every night with the Mets and the Hurricanes
and the next it's the three body problem, right, it's
I'm trying to figure out they're all colliding.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Just wait for the Jets.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
The Jet.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
These guys are long being vanquished and pasture before. But yeah,
but that's just one team. I can focus focusing on
one team one time is fine, But then every other
night and if they're gonna live up to the lofty
heights that you've tried to put them, man, I but playoffs,
I mean psychologically you're gonna be living and dying like weekends.
(02:06):
Every weekend, Every weekend is going to be a mess
Saturday and Sunday. Like here, I'm getting okay, well, yeah,
I've got I get the Knicks and the Hurricanes and
the Mets on the same night. Now it's like the
Knicks and the Hurricane. This is the Hurricanes and the Mets.
The Mets, so it's difficult. So it's like I'm trying
to like I said, it's only two, you know, it's
the worst, only for three more nights, Matt. That's the
(02:29):
other part of it. Yes, it is a short lived yeah,
kind of like when you get on a treadmill. So
it's a short filled, short, short lived pain. Tonight, I'm
dealing with the Mets and blowing this lead in the
ninth is his entrance. Oh my goodness. It was terrible,
But I guess okay, because the in and yang of
this is Hurricanes stay alive against the Rangers. Were down
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three zip. Now it's three two. Going back to Caroline,
I've never seen a guy stand at a television going, yeah,
you go home, your stupid mess, Jersey, like you get
out of here. I never said that, as far as
you know, I never walked pause and you started waving
(03:14):
we gotta go home, we gotta go home. This game's
over with Carolina, I don't get it. He the hell
outa and cause chaos. And then you sat down and
we were watching the Mets and your mood n that
ninth inning with DS Mike good. Okay, so that game's
going to the tenth. Ah. But obviously another big night
(03:35):
in the NBA playoffs. The Boston Celtics by into the
Eastern Conference Final continues, though the road for the Celtics
is a little bit more difficult than expected. As tonight
they beat the Cavaliers in Game four. They go up
three games to one, so this series won't be very
long before the Celtics move on. But it was a
lot tougher, especially with the fact that the Cavaliers played
(03:57):
without Donovan Mitchell maybe playing he may have played in
his final game as a Cleveland Lebron James was there
ready to take his spot. Yeah, yeah, I'm ready to
go out there like he did. Like as soon as
Dondvan Mitchell doesn't look like he's coming off with the sweats,
Lebron is taking off his denim jacket. I have my
old Calves jersey. I can just walk right out there
and let me finish this bottle of wine that I
brought in his seat, and then I could go in.
(04:17):
Now look now there, let's the Celtics first and then
Lebron Yeah, okay, okay, uh this we talked about how
easy a path this is going to wind up for
the Celtics into the NBA Finals, and this is how
it is in major in in the NBA. Now, if
you're not healthy, you don't win, right. I'm seeing it
with the Knicks right now, right if you're not healthy,
you're only going to go for so long you're healthy,
(04:38):
you're going to win. And then just like we saw
with the Nuggets last year and their run, you're seeing
it now with the Celtics. No Jimmy Butler in the
first round. Oh okay, great, this is gonna be. Now
a Cavaliers team without Donovan Mitchell and in the in
the biggest game they're playing. And then next round, either
they get the Knicks, who are going to be playing
with four at some point, or they get a Pacers
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team that is not great, that is that is healthy
and a little bit younger, but they're not ready for
the playoffs. But but they're not great. This is this
is this is like a buzz. This is why I
say if the Celtics don't win the title this year,
they're never gonna win it, right, because then you're gonna
get a Western Conference team that's full of all Kay,
we're playing deep series and it's very difficult. Well let's
(05:19):
just take the Nuggets for example, right, a very tough,
competitive five game series against the Lakers. Now fighting for
their lives against the Timberwolves one more round. Maybe it's
the the Mavericks, maybe it's maybe it's Minnesota's gotta fight
back here. But you're gonna get Western Conference teams. They're
gonna come out of this like I am just sweaty
and exhausted, and they're gonna full of dust and everything else.
(05:41):
And the Celtics walk out like they're walking out of
Starbucks with a cup of coffee, going, hey, ready for
the day, got polo shirts on, ready to go, and
I'm gonna have we gonna go get my car and drive.
And you're just like I just walked out of a
dust bowl, been working all day. That's the Western Conference. Man.
If they know the Celtics don't win this year, they're
never gonna win. No, it's DeAndre and the Giant Memorial
Battle Royal. The first person tagged in, and then you
(06:02):
can get beaten up for an hour, and then that
last guy, the last one announced, walk in. It is like,
all right, it's me versus you. Let's finish it off right,
nice and fresh as a daisy as you as you
walk into the ring. But you know I'm watching it
in this one. I mean, Darius Garland gave them everything.
Caris LeVert, if you if you bet the Cavaliers before
(06:22):
the Mitchell news, you were getting either eight or eight
and a half, and LeVert with two point eight seconds left, says,
I'm not running the clock out. Nope, here's my tear
drop jumper. I got you, Cavaliers backers, Good on you,
Caris LeVert. You feel good? Yeah, but they made him
work right. There was still stress down down in those
(06:43):
final minutes. And now I never got below five, but
it was still Hey, you were expecting a blow up.
By the way, Mitchell was only worth three or three
and a half. Yeah, weird, little weird for guy that's thirty.
There's a guy that's only that scores thirty. A game
that is only worth it We'll talk to firm about
that later on this week. But you know, for the Celtics, right,
it is if you can, it's the path of least resistance.
(07:07):
And we've seen that the last couple of years in
the NBA. This is now becoming an annual tradition on
which team is going to have the yellow brick road
open up for him? Right Denver had last year? Yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, yeah. The competitive sweep follow and then
they just started skipping. Or you can do ease on
down the road if you want to go the wiz.
We got two different alternative baths for you here, depending
(07:28):
on your musical stylings that you want. But the point is, yeah,
it's it's a war of attrition. It's a long three
months second season, and whoever's left standing, Yeah, it is
the prize fighter at the end of it all. Look,
and now here's Lebron, who knows what he's doing when
he comes to games, sitting courtside. Hey, just here, it
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gets a big ovation from the fans over the cloud speakers.
Hey I'm home and I'm hearing. Hey, if the Lakers
don't want to give me what I want, you know,
just a surprise. And on the day that Bronny decides
I'm staying in the draft. I'm staying in the draft,
not going back to school. I got I got a
great check up for him, and he's able. He's shot
(08:09):
really well. Yeah, everything was great for him, except that
he measured in at six to one and a half. Yeah,
but he's growing. It's fine, it's fine, he's growing. So
they already projected him at six four there in the
in the in the USC program. That'll be fine. Like
Drew Brees, I'll just you know, play with his head
up a little bit more and throw the football hold.
So this is that's trummy. Look, he knows what he's doing, right, Look,
(08:32):
lebron is trying to use the leverage that he has
into getting what he wants from the Lakers, right. I mean,
it's it's no, it's no surprise everywhere he goes, when
he appears someplace, when he doesn't, he knows what it's about.
And there's and there's no way you can look at
today and say, Okay, this wasn't something that was planned.
Here's a story about about Broun. I have other options. Meanwhile,
(08:53):
I was a Lakers, I would dare say, you want
to go go, you know, like we're doing go. I
would dare, But now the Lakers have decided to say, hey,
any you need to sign Lebron. So we've given him
power back and this is the way he uses his leverage.
If you don't want me, I can always go back home.
I can always It's my hometown team. I left twice,
but I can go back home. But the other thing
it does is it kills the narrative of him as
(09:16):
a coach killer, which has been the last seventy two hours,
right him and Durant aarb In terms of your program,
which guy you want to thrust out as the more
likely to end your coaching reign if you get hired
there this becomes all about Lebron the player. Well still
you know in year twenty one whatever. So it's not
about Bronni's height, it's not about any of that. It's
(09:39):
not about the coaching story and how the season ends. No, no,
it's in Lebron. Let's talk about him. Great calvs run,
no question about it. But you know, still one of
the top players going into year twenty two dot dot dot.
It's the Toby Keith. I want to talk about me
now and I'll tell you this on a day where
we saw this kind of drama Bronnie staying in the
(10:01):
draft and Lebron going to the game and clear waving
very reluctantly standing up. Oh yeah, I'll stand up and
wave to all of yeah. Yeah, Look, I'm I'm doubling
down on exactly what's gonna happen. Okay, in the NBA draft,
Bronni is not gonna get drafted. Okay, he's not good enough.
Yes he can, he can shout a little bit at
some of these skill weekends, but he's not gonna get
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drafted a because one, he's not good enough. He's not
even gonna have to be drafted in the second round
right now, even though you do draft on potential. But
there's a lot of players out there, and as a team,
really gonna say we're gonna draft Bronni knowing that there
could be a really weird situation hanging over our head
with Bronni playing and Lebron in the league, whether it's
Lebron questioning us from two thousand miles away, and you
(10:46):
know what, we're gonna stay away from it, right whether
or it could be kind of a gentleman's agreement where
you know, Rich Paul sends it sends an email out
to all the teams, do not draft Bronnie, right, do
not draft or you don't get to get any of
my players. So so what's gonna happen is this, he's
not say, blank him and I draft him. And in
the second round, where there's nothing guaranteed anything, they.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Called you bluff.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But no one's gonna draft and the Lakers aren't gonna
draft him because then it's gonna be seen as over
the top favoritism to Lebron, which is not something they're
gonna go for. Right, they want favoritism for Lebron, but
they don't want in your face embarrassed favoritism, which it
would be if we draft your kid. So they're not
gonna draft him. But as soon as the draft ends,
he will sign with with the Lakers. The Lakers even
(11:28):
talked about and there's even whispers you heard about Bronnie.
He knows he has to go to the G League.
He knows he has to get better, he's got to
get bigger, he's got to do all these things he's
got he's a developmental player. Everybody understands all of this,
and that's and that's how that's gonna go. What I
said a few weeks ago is how it's it's how
it's gonna shake down. Bronni will will go through the draft,
he won't get drafted, but the headline a minute after
the draft is gonna be Bronni signed to the Lakers,
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and there's already gonna be a picture ready to go.
It's like when when when when someone really famous, who's
who's whose old dies all of a sudden, the oh
bit is is aired right away because they have it
righty had that obit ready right away. It's gonna be
like that for this sec boy. They had that picture
of Brownny with Lebron and Rob Polinka, Genie Buss.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
All ready to go.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
How did they have that? He's already shaking heads? How
do they have that so quickly? Now we've seen obituaries
get litut he's not dead. He's not dead. I still
think the Lakers end up drafting him because there's too
much pageantry and pomp and circumstance that they would not
get to go the other route. And in terms of embarrassing,
I don't care, but that's all. Yeah. Now I think
(12:33):
that they don't want it to make it look The
one thing they don't want to make it look like
is that Lebron is running the team. They'll give Lebron
hey the big say he has, but you're not publicly,
they're not gonna make You're not gonna get away with it,
even if you end up signing him after the draft.
But it's the same thing. He's you df No, But
but that's a little bit different. No, it's the same,
and it's a little bit different. Nobody if nobody thought
(12:55):
he was good enough to draft, and look, he'd be
good enough to get signed. And this is where we
get into the unfortunate discussion of having to talk about
a guy who played a truncated season, had a hard
issue all this other stuff because it's projected based on
his old man who has brought a lot of it
on himself by talking about his kid as if he
were the second company. He could get minutes over all
these guys in our rotation right now.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Dude, the Knicks could have used him yesterday.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, they can use any able bodied young man. It's
like the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine.
Listen tomorrow and I sign him up. Caitlyn Clark's playing
Connecticut toight, she could just head right up to MSG
for Game five. I mean, we need somebody to make
some shit say. That's a fair point on the charter jet.
You saw that. Look there's the little charter her up
to New York ready to know right up there'd be great.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
You think he has any idea? Who the hell Cayton
Klark is?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
He doesn't know the Knicks are in the playoffs exactly,
all right, So you know what, Frostburg, You're right about that,
You're right, But just what there's your outline for Brownie
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Promise me, promise me. I'm sure the Mets will lose.
I promise you.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I promise you They'll lose.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Not like it's a game against an important opponent or anything. Oh,
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Post one O five seven the fan Jay. What's happening?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
What's going on, gentlemen?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, buddy, I mean, I'm not having as great a
day as Jared Goff, but I'm all right so far.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Hey how about that trade huh, that's one of the
all timers there. I mean, the way it worked out
for both teams, it's pretty crazy, especially when I mean
quarterback trades and what looked like a salary dump and
even the first year there, Right, you're kind of just
watching him. It's like, dude, he's making a lot of money,
but he's just a pinata, right, He's like literally there
(16:29):
to take this abuse to get them through, you know,
a year or two of a tank and who knows,
Like those two teams could play each other in the
NFC Championship game this year for all we know. So
it's pretty wild. You know.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I'm looking at this deal, the two hundred and twelve
million dollar extension for golf, and it's just you know, look,
it's a great story because nobody knew the Lions would
be good. I think that's the whole thing. Oh, the
Lions are good. This is just kind of business as usual. Yes,
second highest paid quarterback in the game is the second best. No,
but this is just kind of how it goes. You know,
when he was coming up, I expected to be a
(17:03):
fifty million dollars a year contract because he's played well
in the Lions have won. It's pretty simple.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's kind of like, I mean,
you can go back through the games of leap Frog
that have been played and who at any given moment,
you know, was the highest paid quarterback on the planet
or in the history of the game. And I mean
there was a time it was Joe Flacco, right, and
Flacco won a Super Bowl and Jared golf didn't. But
(17:30):
let's be real, Jared Goff's not the reason that you know,
the Lions weren't playing for a Super Bowl, right, I mean,
they had a few drops. I mean we can relitigate,
you know, the party touchdown or you know whatever, sixty
yard bomb he didn't know anything about off of face mask.
And there's a lot of things that happened and the
(17:50):
Lion season, but you know, Jared Golf continued to prove
his worth and his metal through the playoffs and he's
been to a super Bowl right at the other place,
and almost took the Lions to a super Bowl. And
the timing is perfect, and that's how it works. It's
it's the right guy at the right place at the
right time, and so good for him, and it's the
(18:11):
cost of doing business. It's going to make things really
interesting though, Like he's basically almost a fifty five, right,
I mean he's almost right there with Burrow, Like if
you're Tua, you know, if you're Purty, if you're Jordan Love,
like you know, if you're Trevor Lawrence. And some of
those guys are already in the thick of it, like
(18:33):
like to On Lawrence and some of them still have
to wait another year. But it's going to be fascinating
and not all these are going to work out really well,
like they're you know, they're just not like some of
these are going to end up being unmitigated disasters. And
I don't know that all these teams are going to
pay the price, like I think Miami's going to, Like
(18:55):
I think they're going to give to him more than
they probably should. And that'll be that, and we'll see
if they win in the playoffs or not. I don't
think they're going to.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
This is.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
The cost of doing business when you've got a winning quarterback,
and the ramifications will will be something like I think
golf with Ben Johnson there right with the pieces they have,
playing on a fast track and a dome like, there's
you know a lot of things that will probably continue
to work pretty well for that offense. But and he's
(19:29):
been dealing with having to play under big money for
a while, I mean, right, I mean that's what kind
of suck them in LA was what happened after that
first contract extension. So I think they'll be fine, But
some of these other ones, at least one or two
will probably blow up in somebody's face.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
That's the fun part. Going through all the data, as
you suggested, you know, going between Stafford and Golf, and
how eerily similar their numbers have been during this period,
but all of those next when you talk about winning
versus performance, et cetera, I'm just letting forget about hard knocks.
Let's let's do the negotiations, further conversations with Dak Prescott
(20:05):
and then the Trevor Lawrence side of things. I think
that'd be far more entertaining.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Oh yeah, to have a hidden camera in there.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Absolutely all right, let's talk about Yes.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
That would be I would watch that like I would
watch that rather than you know, some dude do magic
tricks or whatever they started jets camp or whatever the
hell that was.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Hey, come on, the guy the mentalist, I was a mentalist.
He was really good.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Did any of that stuff prooved like, I mean, did
was any like did any of that prove to be anything?
You know?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay? Okayres On the other side, who was the guy
he called up in the beginning of camp to do
the whole thing? Super Bowl? Mkole Hardman? What did he say?
Who are you playing in the Super Bowl? Forty nine ers?
What's his final score? Twenty seven to twenty four? Did
Micole Harmon play in the Super Bowl? Did they beat
the forty nine ers?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
And I mean right, he was he was playing magician chess.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, we were all thinking, we were we were all
jet Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Andy Reid didn't even know he was five moves ahead
of Andy Reid.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Andy Reid was still doing commercials asking for Nuggies when
this was going on, Like, come on, man, wow, listen.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Maybe I will go back and rewatch it. Then who
knows what else I'm missing?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
We own the offseason. Hey, speaking of the season, we
now find out the opening night game. I'm sure there's
a big deal for you down in Baltimore today. Yeah,
Ravens and the Chiefs. And I don't know, how do
you feel, because if I'm the Ravens, I'm excited to
be playing open to night. But I'm like, great, the
Chiefs again, yeah the chip Really they be the Chiefs again.
They beat us all to the Chiefs again. Okay, great.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yeah. You know a lot of people here figured that
this was going to be how this thing unfolded. Now
look that you've also got you know, you've got the
chief forty nine ers, Like, so that's gonna have juice
whenever that one will I guess. Well, boy, we got
to hold our breath for forty eight more hours. Hope
I get there until I find out when that game
is gonna be played. You know, the first you know
(21:56):
hardball in that division and the first Chief Chargers game.
I have some more possessed to it. So there's some
other things they could have done. But a lot of
people kind of figured, hey, that's a big game, like
styles make fights Lamar versus Mahomes in a rematch after
that championship game, Like why wouldn't they lean into that?
(22:17):
And they obviously did. If I'm a Ravens fan, I'd
rather this game maybe be week seventeen, right, and who knows,
maybe by then there's nothing really so the Chiefs to
play for. Right, maybe they would have already secured a
a division title in the one seed, and you're catching
them with some backups. It's going to be quite a
(22:38):
test for their rookie defensive coordinator Zach Orr and for
all those new pieces on the defense. They lost, you know,
two of their top assistant coaches. They lost their defensive coordinator,
they lost a second team off pro linebacker. They lost
their best edge player by a country mound, Jadavion Clowney.
(22:58):
You know, they lost their second best corner and Ronald Darby.
They lost the kid you know a great in depth
safety in Gino Stone who was leading the league interceptions
most of the year. Like they there's there's a lot
that's not back on that side of the ball. So
that's going to be quite a test, you know, Andy
Reid having three months to prepare for you and you
(23:19):
having to go there and narrowhead opening night. Now, the
lines beat them, right, The lines beat them there last year,
so it certainly can be done. But it's hard for
me not to like the chief chances in a game
like that.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
We'll get to the rest of the two seventy two
just in forty eight hours. We'll throw you out dance cards,
all of those.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
What somebody should do power rankings and rank every game?
What kind of a thicker somebody I'll do it? Does it?
Wouldn't that be like one of my kids doesn't do
well on his exams. I'm going to be like, all right,
you know what you're gonna do now to make it
up to me. You're gonna rank all these games we've
been joking about. Any games for you?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
You learned to giants Bears? You have Giants Bears are
one fifty six? How do you not have them? That
should be at least in the one seventies do it again?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Eight one one? Make me one of a few.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Running joke on the show. You're like, Jayson has been that.
You know, I celebrate all to seventy two, right, they're
all still NFL games, And then Jason will be like,
that's a terrible game. How do you celebrate that. I'm like,
somebody's got to be last. Somebody's still got to be last.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Like, I think I might do this bit on my show, like,
what are the sixteen worst dame not good on the schedule? Right,
I'm into it. Now we're kind of running low on
NFL content. No, we're gonna be good. We're gonna be
good for a while.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Guy, Now this is it. I mean, you just break
it down clean by eight.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Thing, what really is the one hundred and sixty seventh
best case?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
All right, so we got the Jared golf coute right
running in parallel on the defensive side of things, win
Field four years eighty four MILLI year dollars. I mean,
that's the biggest smile I've seen on a guy's face
doing a photo in quite some time.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Yeah, yeah, I mean he was going to reset the market.
There was there was no two ways about that. It
was pretty well known throughout the industry before they you know,
tag them and this was going to be this is
going to be a massive contract. I think the pendulum
is swinging, man, I do I know that this has
been a depressed position for a while, but we're seeing
(25:30):
guys who find ways to affect that. It's sort of
like we've got these hybrid offensive players right the you
know Debo, like these guys who you know, even McCaffrey,
These guys who do a bunch of different things. You
can line them up all over the place. You know,
they really play three or four different positions. And there's
been people looking for that and some have missed, right.
(25:52):
I think the Arizona Cardinals might have missed three different
times in the first round on this guy, this type
of guy themselves alone. But we're starting to see what
that looks like when it you know, when it when
it actually happens. Like I remember Jeremy Chin was kind
of maybe going to be this guy with the Panthers, right,
but like Winfield is it, and like Cayle Hamilton is it,
(26:13):
And you know there might be a kid the Iowa
corner who might play a lot of safety, like he
might end up being something like that, maybe in that
same vicinity with the Eagles, Like I think you're going
to see an upswing like Kyle Hamilton's gonna trump this
big time a year from now if he does anything
(26:33):
close to what he did last year. So the days
of people bemoaning safety salaries, I think are are dwindling.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
All right, Jay, I'm going to help you out with
this exercise. You ready, Yeah, I'm going to hit you
with a couple of games that we know we're getting,
and you tell me if you think these are bottom
ten games? Okay, okay, okay? Ready?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Are they all Jets games?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Stop Rogers? If Rodgers is healthy, all the games are good? Broncos, Raiders, Broncos,
you know what I mean them.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I kind of feel like those divisional games and they
could be sneaky good just because they know each other. Like,
I don't know, it's hard for me in a vacuum
to think one of those two or the worst. I
haven't done the work, like I haven't done my kids
and I have in front of us, Like I'm not
just going to go off half cocked about something as
(27:25):
important as this, like I need to, you know, give
with me. Next week. I might have a better idea
of some of these, Like I got to find some
real out of like conference just just games that make
you want to throw up on your shoes, just in
a vacuum.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Okay, all right, but.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
I don't have it in front of me, you know
what I mean, Like I'm not sure, Like okay, you know,
does Washington.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Play the Giants? Like that's going to be a bottom
ten game.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yeah, but that's another divisional ones. I'm trying to, you
know what I mean, I'm trying to not be obvious,
Like wait to see where were they then play Carolina?
You know what I mean. Like that's that's what I'm
aspiring to. I don't know if they meet this year,
you know what I mean, Like I'm not sure Garret
Carr versus the Raiders like that, you know what I mean,
there's some perversion, some perversion in that, Like you know,
(28:18):
like I want to see Gardner Minshew go down to
that dome and beat their car.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Okay instead instead of that, Okay, instead of that. But
here's what I want. I want to record, whether it's
GoPro a on your phone when you gather your family
round and say, hey, I know we had plans this
summer we're gonna go to the shore. We're gonna go here. Instead,
we're spending the entire summer ranking all two hundred and
seventy two games.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
We're not going any revelall tournament, no no vacation.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
No, no nothing.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
We're gonna have the definitive list of these games in
reverse order. Yeah, oh yeah, it'd be great.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Got some markers, some poster board, and the way we go.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
We would have thought of this sooner. I could have
been prepared and like, had it next year. I'm gonna
have mind ready to come out as soon as they
released the schedule. Let's go right X year. I'm just
gonna subvert the whole thing, all right, whip it right
on tier.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
He's on Twitter at Jason Lock and for at Jason
Lock and for honesty Washington Post one five to seven.
The fan of Baltimore. Jay is always buddy appreciated.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Have a good one, gentleman.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
See Jason taking phone calls on that was this is
Packers Bears at one fifty rank too low? How good
is this game? Right now? I like that continuum, let's go.
It is actually third middle.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Third script on the bottom seventeen you do. It's every
Jets game.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
You know?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Okay? If if Aaron Rodgers is hurt again, yes, yes, yes,
What do you mean if he may not be saying
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We got two big NFL stories coming up at about
fifteen minutes. Huge, but listen, it's time to talk about
the Knicks and the Pacers, Okay, because after this weekend
(31:13):
there are things I'm okay with, things I'm mad about,
things I'm really mad about, Okay, really mad? Yes, yeah,
you couldn't come up with a better term in the
five minutes that you were wandering the hots because you
were really really Now you dropped one of the release well,
I figure too many and the word loses its meaning.
I don't want that. I want you know, really, what
(31:35):
I'm okay with, what I'm mad about, what I'm really
mad at, what I'm volcanic about. Uh, okay, what I'm
okay with. Look, I told you it was going to
be to T coming back to push SG the whole time.
There's still the miracle shot by Denmark. I still can't
believe you still hate him. Look, it's it's the end
of the tunnel. I can see the light at the
(31:56):
end of the tunnel for the Knicks, and it's an
oncoming train. I can see the I can see the
end of their run coming because they're slowly running out
of gas a little bit. You saw the players finally admit, Hey,
maybe it caught up to us a little bit. Okay,
told you they're missing free throws in game three, that's
gonna help them win that game. And that was the end.
So I know, I told you from the beginning. It's
a magic carpet ride. They're playing six guys. Basically, maybe
(32:20):
it's enough to get through the Pacers. Maybe I'm hoping
it's enough to get through the Pacers, but maybe it's not.
So I'm okay with that. I'm okay with best baby,
let's go. Now. What I'm met about is that the
Pacers just whined and complained and cried and cried the
first two games. They cried about small market teams, and
they cried about the officiat and they cried, and now
(32:41):
it's two two and it's well, yeah, we know New
York is a dangerous team, and now they're all haughty
after it's two to two. It's like a little kid
who cries and cries and cries you take his favorite
toy away. Then you say, fine, here take the toy.
The kid stops crying. Oh, I'm ready for dinner now,
Mommy and daddy Like, that's what the Pacers are. They
cried and they cried and they cried, and now suddenly
it's oh, yeah, well now things are okay. Oh yeah, no,
(33:02):
I'm okay, I'm okay. Now that's the Pacers. And that's
what makes me mad. And that's makes me mad. Now
what makes me really mad? Really mad? Madder than that,
really mad, and madder than that. Every bleeping night in
the NBA Playoffs, a team loses by twenty Every single
stinking night, we got bad games. Why don't we spend
so much time about the Knicks and the Pacers, Because
the Knicks and the Pacers are playing at least competitive, right, Yeah,
(33:24):
But every boat the Celtics win by twenty. Then they
lose by twenty. They win by twenty, they lose by twenty.
The Nuggets get blown out at home by ten and
by twenty.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Then they go on.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
They win on the road. Every team loses by twenty
a bunch of times in the playoffs, and we blow
it off and well they'll come back and play better
next game, and ah, okay, that'll be better. They'll be better,
he'll be Yeah, it was a bad they gave this
game and lose by twenty. The Knicks lose one game
by twenty, one game by twenty points. Inside of them,
it's over.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
They're done. We knew it.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Bruntson's done. Hard is done to Evencenzo stinks. They can't
get enough guys out. They're gonna lose it. Lose four
in a row. They lose one game by twenty, that's oh,
it's over. Everybody else's well, they lose a game by twelve.
They'll get it back next up. You learn a lot
when you lose by twenty, but the next it's no, no, oh,
they're done. No, they're done.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
They're done. That's what makes me really really mad. Although
you could take the other bit with the Pacers and
kind of flip it a little bit because I'm pissed
at that too. This up so we're not getting any calls.
Hey it's two two. Oh well, I'm okay now right
now almost top. Let me address the Pacers part of it,
the complaints again. We're always looking for the next call.
Whether you're yelling at a youth referee, you're looking for
(34:35):
the next call. You missed this one. Now, might you
mean over the top a little bit? Seventy eight times?
You missed all seventy eight of these calls? Oh, I
mean you don't enumerate them quite the same way, but yeah,
I mean that's what they did. Devin decided, if we're
in for a penny, we're in for a pounds, it
should be no founds on my team, and everybody else
file out on that team. They didn't say that, They
just picked seventy eight instances where things should have gone
(34:56):
their way over two games. Yes, cause that's how you go.
And if you do that, that means zero fouls on
the Pacers, and everybody on the Knicks fouls out because
it's either bad calls it went against you, or calls
it should have been called against the Knicks. So let's
say they break down all so you know, you should
have called something on the Knicks. So that means every
Knick should have fell all. They should have been down
(35:18):
to playing Quentin Grimes and Hartenstein off the bench, right,
that's what they should have been down to at the end,
and the pacers everywhere. We don't give it a foul
at all. But as we always talk about here, right,
and not one play stands alone, right, it all influences.
You get a call there. Well, now the guy's playing
with two fouls, maybe he's playing defense a little differently,
(35:39):
and it changes the projection and the trajectory of the game.
So that's it. They got what they wanted. It's officiating
to get home whatever. And then as for the well,
why do people overreact in your estimation when the Knicks
finally lose by twenty because we've been watching them as
a punch drunk fighter for games upon it. Wow, I
(36:02):
can't believe the heart of this team. They got nothing left,
they've got no betch, yet they win this game. Look
at the heart of a champion. Game two eh, maybe
a call should have gone the other. It doesn't matter.
Heart of a champion. Look at Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson,
the six ' one fire plug of a man. Look
(36:23):
at him make these shots down the stretch. And Tom
Thibodeau doesn't have a lot of strings to pull, but
he's willing them to the end. What greatness? Game three? Hey,
og Ananoby's not coming back to that door.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
You lose okat fine to one and then you go
get bludgeted. The question with the Knicks is not all right?
Can they recover? Do they have enough able bodied men
to recover? Is this the thing that teetered, you know,
over the edge with the number of minutes and heavy
minutes that they've had to play. That's why it's different.
It's not Ah, they stopped in the third quarter because
(36:59):
they were get bludgeon like every one of these other
teams where they just stop playing basketball. Let's go down
to the impractical Jokers because this game pull away from
mixed pacers. Betcast to go to a practical joke, you
a more u competitive prank. Not enough if you are
alive betting the Knicks down by thirty, So we're gonna
(37:19):
go to a new show. That's right, Not enough interest
even hold the gamblers among you that one's put one
wager down on the Knicks. I'm giving Baggerty. They look
at him. That would be a great job of like
a mad money Jim Kramer kind of guy going, you
want to put moneys, I'll give you thirty right now.
When you call me and put that money on the
next thirty is not good enough, I'll give you thirty
(37:40):
three in game betting right now. Hey, man, if you
give him the phone number, they may call in and
have a hot take for you while you're at it. Toude.
But but that's it, buddy. That's the reason is because
people have been waiting like a weebel for them to
finally go over the top instead of that slow return
to normal. What I'm okay with, what I'm mad about,
what I'm really mad about? Coming up now? Two big quarterbacks,
(38:01):
two big NFL stories, keep it right here? Oh eight
oh six left in the third. Oh, you'll get at
least four more all right? So yeah, four more of
Mark Cuban, I think, uh and again and more of
But you will get more shots of Luca grimacing if
the if the Mavericks lead evaporates, Okay, you will get
more Luca Grimacing. Then you will get cutaways of Mark Cuban. Now,
(38:24):
if we can get someone dressed as Grimace in there,
that'd be even better.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
He's the Ben Roethlisberger of the NBA on the court,
on the court.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Tell you man, nobody's health varies more between trips up
and down the floor than Luka doncich Man. Oh, he's
got to come out of the game. Oh no, it's
pretty good. I was just about eight. That was nice. Noo,
No eighty always goes it's full, full the whole damn season.
Eighty doesn't go up the floor looking great and the
doubt the flo. No, he the minute he recognizes something
(38:52):
could be wrong, he runs off the floor. I'm not
saying he didn't even respond and playing a high number
of games.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Within each of those games.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Frostby again, I'm still in the playoffs. I can't hear.
It's too too Your best player is back in the game.
Your best players in a calvs game tonight.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Literally pressing down on your chest.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Keep those compressions in rhythm. Let's go. We'll have more
on the NBA coming up in a few minutes. Yeah,
just wait, just wait. But look, two big NFL stories
today the first one involving We now know what the
opening night game in the NFL is gonna be. There's
a night game Ravens and the Chiefs, rematch of the
AFC Championship game. Last year. We had a great game
(39:38):
Chiefs lines. I told you the Lions are gonna win.
They won, told you the lines going to the super Bowl,
and they were a couple of bad Dan Campbell decisions
away from going to the super Bowl. But when I
heard this game today, right, a little bit different. When
I heard this game today, Opening Night Ravens Chiefs, I
went ah, okay, because honestly, I'm sort of over Baltimore
(40:00):
as being exciting and really moving the needle. I'm kind
of over the Ravens because look, Lamar Jackson's terrific and
he's exciting, but nothing else about Baltimore is ooh, I
gotta watch this, you know, So Baltimore, Baltimore, I think
the idea of them sounds better than the actual idea
of watching the Ravens. Right, I'm talking about from a
(40:21):
national perspective, I'm kind of over the Ravens. And other
part is because every year, no matter what level of
talent they have, they underachieve. So I know how it's
gonna end for them. Last year ASC championship game at home,
everything we want. What happens? Ten points? They score ten points,
Lamar puts up ten points, and that's it and you
wind up losing, and and you go home saying, oh
(40:41):
man again again. I'm just kind of over. I held
up a sign in that game that said run the ball.
I'm really I'm just I'm over the Ravens because it's
been a lot of years of almost especially seeing the
best of Lamar Jackson's career, and you know, it's not there,
and really it's just it's not as exciting. They're not
as exciting a watch think there, which would be crazy
(41:01):
considering how good Lamar Jackson isn't and how frustrated he
is to play against and the stuff he's been able
to accomplish. I mean, it's really been some kind of
I mean, it's had some kind of career, but just
the Ravens overall, I'm like, eh, okay, like I got
gonna go with a lot of other teams there that
I'd have been a little bit more excited about that.
Oh we're gonna get the Baltimore and Okay, yeah, we
got Lamar. I just, I just I'm at that point
(41:22):
now with the Ravens where I go, yeah, okay, that's great.
I mean you have the full run of opponents obviously
in division, and then you've got Houston. Right, that was
another popular potential option for you there or the forty
nine ers you wanted to go and get another would
be Super Bowl contending team. I go the complete other
(41:44):
way though. I'm tired of the tradition of the champion
having the game. I don't need you to sell me
some giant ass game in Week one. Gimme trash all right,
New England doesn't play Carolina, but gimme New England against Carolina,
honor of the team the Super Bowl getting to open
up at home and getting one. Hey, these are the
(42:06):
defending Super Bowl champs. They get to open up at home.
We know, no matter what I'm not saying great interest,
there's gonna be great interesting. It's gonna get a great
interest in me versus you at the center at midfields
running thing. Though you can start gaming seventy two, but
being watch if you do that right. The NFL doesn't
(42:27):
want the optic of less people watching, so That's why
every Super Bowl needs to be some sort of Hey,
when we count all the streaming numbers, this is the
most watched Super whatever, Right, you don't want that to
have games. So when you're looking at the opening night,
you want to make sure we're putting the league in
the best position where people are going to watch. And
(42:47):
we know people are going to watch the Chiefs at home, right,
Like if we know that, I argue they're going to
watch Paint Dry if it has an NFL logo. But
let's just say you're looking at Hey, if the Chiefs play,
we know we can get fifteen million views. The Taylor
Swifts run, and she got a new album and she's
probably gonna re record the songs on this album by
(43:09):
the time the fall comes. But if you say, if
you say your other game as well, okay, we can
put Houston and Pittsburgh. Let's say, okay, that's that's free.
But are you guaranteed you're gonna get the same viewership
you get for the Chiefs and Mahomes and Kelsey and
Taylor Swift. You're not. So I get why they do it,
and I get what I get. The honor of them
(43:29):
opening up and home I just feel like the Ravens
it's just not it's just not as exciting. It just
doesn't grab me as as it did two time new
offensive coordinator. Maybe a little more splash should get people
to dead, but that's not the fact that down field.
Maybe it's as opposed to all right, the runs not working,
(43:50):
Lamar figure something out. I mean, look, the biggest thing
for me for the Ravens with it is I have
the summer to decide whether or not the Ravens go
on my never again list. That could be because they could.
They're right to go on my never again list. They
really are again. They're right there. No no, once you're that's
my rule. Once you go on it, you don't come
off it, you don't come off it. I went against it.
(44:10):
I would have won the bleeping bracketology pool that we did.
But I'm stupid because I picked the Arizona even though
they were on my never again list. Should know a
Yukon like everybody else, and I would have won.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
About the Sixers, the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Sixers have stayed on and never took the Sixers office.
I never took the Sixers off it. The only team
that never came off it. Was Arizona. To be honest, though,
Justin He's gone to the list whenever anybody has wronged
him so often for the last time. I have no
idea how long it is for the last time. For
thirty seventeen, It's almost as long as that line he
(44:41):
was on. That's true. I wasn't online. I just drove
by uh No, but he perpetrated a fraud. The Never
Again list is teams that I'm never gonna pick to
win anything again because they have disappointed me and others
so often in the recent past. With this, I'm not
gonna pick them anymore. How did they do it against
the spread? Did they? Did they cover for their backers?
(45:03):
There's the more important question. This that I had my
kids and all kinds of great Christmas presents. They all
had new Kindles and iPads, all thanks to the fact
that they backed me. No, you go on the never
again list if if you've had a chance for a
long time, then people picked you for stuff and you
just never broke through. And the Ravens are really close.
I got the I have the summer to decide if
I want to put them on my never again lost Okay, yeah, no,
(45:23):
Like I'm in full agreement when it goes back to
the to the idea of the ratings. I understand the
business of it all, okay, but from a straight football perspective, again,
they can be running seven on seven's it's got the
NFL logo. People are gonna watch. I mean, look at
what what kind of numbers you're gonna get for the
schedule release on Wednesday. It's gonna have higher numbers than
(45:44):
any of these NBA playoff games.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Oh yeah, if you if you.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Have a schedule release, Yeah, but the skew, especially not
one yesterday. Yeah, but the schedules kind of come out,
you get you get a leak now a little bit more,
but there's still a common circumstance of a full schedule,
like here's a little teaser, right, here's this game, and
we know who's gonna go play abroad. But beyond that,
(46:11):
there's still a lot of intrigue. And I would say,
if we go through the ratings of what an NBA
games have done over these first couple of weeks, I
think the schedule released rivals or tops in with with
some cushion. Yeah, it's tough for me because there is
that leakage. Ye leakage, a lot of leakage. Well, what
(46:34):
we're still forty hours away. Usually the leakage comes, there's
a look out. There's a lot of leakage the day
of that du that's what you got. Oh hey, I
found out here's the first games. I start to get it. Yeah,
here's this, this gets out. The national schedule gets out
early in the days. I mean, still an NFL product
as opposed to you know, but the thunder in the mass. No,
(46:55):
that is true. No, no, you're you're right about that.
And and look, look the NBA making a great decision
tomorrow night to put the Knicks and the Nuggets on
as gonna watch those games like these games. I'm with
you on that against Well are you gonna watch Caitlyn
Clark though? Instead? You know, hey, you know, if you're
the w NBA, you know you what you need to
do because this is great. Is great. This gets into
this because I mean that would look Caitlin Clark's debut
(47:17):
would top the ratings for this listen listen. Yeah, all right,
all right, so Ravens, I'm not feeling anymore. Okay, got
it now? So this I gotta go speak for you.
On Thursday, when I visit with Loking Forest Station, what
are you doing to me? If you're the w NBA, right,
you need really flexible scheduling, like you need you need
(47:38):
to like really figure out. Okay, we want to make
sure the most people are watching them. One preseason game,
half the teams were flying commercially, were flying a commercial.
Half the teams are flying Charter. There's video out today,
look out great at this some of them are flying Charter.
Then Brianna Stewart saying, we're taking a bus to our
first and figure that out. Yet they're working it out.
They're working it out. But do you want to put
(47:58):
Caitlyn clark on opposite the Knicks and the Pacers and
then the Nuggets and and the Timberwolves, or do you
want to put Caitlin clark On up against Oklahoma City
Dallas and the Celtics and the But you're still now
talking about shrouds between thirteen and eighteen thousand people that
are going the game, coming to the game, no matter what, no,
but all of a sudden game, if we're gonna start saying,
you know what, hey, we don't really feel like laying
(48:20):
you say, look, you got Wednesday Nicks Nicks is a
big deal. Nuggets is a big deal. We're gonna play
we running and hiding. You have to if you're the
w NBA, you're in a new world. No, but you've
got to say, you know what we're taking the mentality
of the NFL. Do you want to go against Do
you still want to get it out there as many
people as possible in the middle of that game, when
it becomes a twenty point game, they're gonna start going
(48:42):
to Caitland Clark highlights. Well, look, I want to talk
about Caitland Clark tomorrow night. But Nicks. I mean, come on,
it's gonna be hard, but I'm gonna be able to
take it away from your painting. So we're already gonna lose. Right,
you're there to throw the Knicks under the back. I
know you think they're gonna lose Frost, but you're just
so jealous that your team is Johnson playoffs. Yes you are.
You're doing too much.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
I'm good, I'm living.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Your team has been out of the playoffs for way
too long. My team is in the playoffs. We are
driving the playoff bus.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
My whole life has been filled with great basketball.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
If the NBA playoffs was a bus. Okay, the Knicks
would be driving it because they're the number one most
popular team in the playoffs. The Lakers. You're like the
first kid that the bus driver talk that lives you're
talking about You're the kid that lives around the corner
from the school. But somehow his parents still wanted to
take a ride to school on the bus, even though
(49:33):
he could walk and be there quicker. And that's how
quickly that the Knicks dropped you off, dropped the Lakers
off out of.
Speaker 3 (49:39):
The playf sorry, because the Knicks went from up first.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
First stop, First stop, Lakers to get out. This is
your stop, Lakers. Yes, it was a very competitive bus ride, Yes,
very competitive two minute bus ride. Yes, get out? Okay, great,
see you next year. Close the door. Nicks are still driving.
Lakers have been home drinking chocolate milk and eating cookies
and playing video.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
Love chocol milk?
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Yeah, I love chocolate. Look at his I mean to
be fair, the number of national media bodyguards from lebron
spent more time talking about him and o bleak commentary
that may or may not have been about him than
the actual games. So you got that going for you.
I'm just saying, I'm just saying, nixt tomorrow night. Why
(50:21):
would you go up against the Knicks and the Nuggets,
And how do you talk about being in driving without
saying a child and child gets on the bus Exit
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I'm sweating, dude, I'm sweating at ninth inning that Edwin
Diaz just gave up two runs hits a guy to
bring in the game tying run. I'm like, come on,
but the bigger thing was the ball four where the
guy clearly carries his bet to the zone. Across home plate.
Manager doesn't even bother to get himself ejected. I know
what kind of half ass effort was that. I know, Man,
(01:12):
if you're not out there spitting at the guy and
kicking dirt on him, are you even trying? I mean,
are you trying? I mean it would have been it
could have been a full count. Instead it's a walk
and the bases are loaded and Diaz with two strikes,
HiT's the next pattern to tie the game. I'm sweating, dude.
The only thing, the only thing, honestly is because look,
with this playoffs now, I'm I'm navigating a triangle of
(01:33):
difficulty almost every night with the Mets and the Hurricanes
and the next it's the three body problem, right, it's
I'm trying to figure out they're all colliding.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Just wait for the Jets.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
The Jet.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
These guys are long being vanquished and pasture before. But yeah,
but that's just one team. I can focus focusing on
one team one time is fine, But then every other
night and if they're gonna live up to the lofty
heights that you've tried to put them, man, I but playoffs,
I mean psychologically you're gonna be living and dying like weekends.
(02:06):
Every weekend, Every weekend is going to be a mess
Saturday and Sunday. Like here, I'm getting okay, well, yeah,
I've got I get the Knicks and the Hurricanes and
the Mets on the same night. Now it's like the
Knicks and the Hurricane. This is the Hurricanes and the Mets.
The Mets, so it's difficult. So it's like I'm trying
to like I said, it's only two, you know, it's
the worst, only for three more nights, Matt. That's the
(02:29):
other part of it. Yes, it is a short lived yeah,
kind of like when you get on a treadmill. So
it's a short filled, short, short lived pain. Tonight, I'm
dealing with the Mets and blowing this lead in the
ninth is his entrance. Oh my goodness. It was terrible,
But I guess okay, because the in and yang of
this is Hurricanes stay alive against the Rangers. Were down
(02:51):
three zip. Now it's three two. Going back to Caroline,
I've never seen a guy stand at a television going, yeah,
you go home, your stupid mess, Jersey, like you get
out of here. I never said that, as far as
you know, I never walked pause and you started waving
(03:14):
we gotta go home, we gotta go home. This game's
over with Carolina, I don't get it. He the hell
outa and cause chaos. And then you sat down and
we were watching the Mets and your mood n that
ninth inning with DS Mike good. Okay, so that game's
going to the tenth. Ah. But obviously another big night
(03:35):
in the NBA playoffs. The Boston Celtics by into the
Eastern Conference Final continues, though the road for the Celtics
is a little bit more difficult than expected. As tonight
they beat the Cavaliers in Game four. They go up
three games to one, so this series won't be very
long before the Celtics move on. But it was a
lot tougher, especially with the fact that the Cavaliers played
(03:57):
without Donovan Mitchell maybe playing he may have played in
his final game as a Cleveland Lebron James was there
ready to take his spot. Yeah, yeah, I'm ready to
go out there like he did. Like as soon as
Dondvan Mitchell doesn't look like he's coming off with the sweats,
Lebron is taking off his denim jacket. I have my
old Calves jersey. I can just walk right out there
and let me finish this bottle of wine that I
brought in his seat, and then I could go in.
(04:17):
Now look now there, let's the Celtics first and then
Lebron Yeah, okay, okay, uh this we talked about how
easy a path this is going to wind up for
the Celtics into the NBA Finals, and this is how
it is in major in in the NBA. Now, if
you're not healthy, you don't win, right. I'm seeing it
with the Knicks right now, right if you're not healthy,
you're only going to go for so long you're healthy,
(04:38):
you're going to win. And then just like we saw
with the Nuggets last year and their run, you're seeing
it now with the Celtics. No Jimmy Butler in the
first round. Oh okay, great, this is gonna be. Now
a Cavaliers team without Donovan Mitchell and in the in
the biggest game they're playing. And then next round, either
they get the Knicks, who are going to be playing
with four at some point, or they get a Pacers
(04:58):
team that is not great, that is that is healthy
and a little bit younger, but they're not ready for
the playoffs. But but they're not great. This is this
is this is like a buzz. This is why I
say if the Celtics don't win the title this year,
they're never gonna win it, right, because then you're gonna
get a Western Conference team that's full of all Kay,
we're playing deep series and it's very difficult. Well let's
(05:19):
just take the Nuggets for example, right, a very tough,
competitive five game series against the Lakers. Now fighting for
their lives against the Timberwolves one more round. Maybe it's
the the Mavericks, maybe it's maybe it's Minnesota's gotta fight
back here. But you're gonna get Western Conference teams. They're
gonna come out of this like I am just sweaty
and exhausted, and they're gonna full of dust and everything else.
(05:41):
And the Celtics walk out like they're walking out of
Starbucks with a cup of coffee, going, hey, ready for
the day, got polo shirts on, ready to go, and
I'm gonna have we gonna go get my car and drive.
And you're just like I just walked out of a
dust bowl, been working all day. That's the Western Conference. Man.
If they know the Celtics don't win this year, they're
never gonna win. No, it's DeAndre and the Giant Memorial
Battle Royal. The first person tagged in, and then you
(06:02):
can get beaten up for an hour, and then that
last guy, the last one announced, walk in. It is like,
all right, it's me versus you. Let's finish it off right,
nice and fresh as a daisy as you as you
walk into the ring. But you know I'm watching it
in this one. I mean, Darius Garland gave them everything.
Caris LeVert, if you if you bet the Cavaliers before
(06:22):
the Mitchell news, you were getting either eight or eight
and a half, and LeVert with two point eight seconds left, says,
I'm not running the clock out. Nope, here's my tear
drop jumper. I got you, Cavaliers backers, Good on you,
Caris LeVert. You feel good? Yeah, but they made him
work right. There was still stress down down in those
(06:43):
final minutes. And now I never got below five, but
it was still Hey, you were expecting a blow up.
By the way, Mitchell was only worth three or three
and a half. Yeah, weird, little weird for guy that's thirty.
There's a guy that's only that scores thirty. A game
that is only worth it We'll talk to firm about
that later on this week. But you know, for the Celtics, right,
it is if you can, it's the path of least resistance.
(07:07):
And we've seen that the last couple of years in
the NBA. This is now becoming an annual tradition on
which team is going to have the yellow brick road
open up for him? Right Denver had last year? Yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, yeah. The competitive sweep follow and then
they just started skipping. Or you can do ease on
down the road if you want to go the wiz.
We got two different alternative baths for you here, depending
(07:28):
on your musical stylings that you want. But the point is, yeah,
it's it's a war of attrition. It's a long three
months second season, and whoever's left standing, Yeah, it is
the prize fighter at the end of it all. Look,
and now here's Lebron, who knows what he's doing when
he comes to games, sitting courtside. Hey, just here, it
(07:49):
gets a big ovation from the fans over the cloud speakers.
Hey I'm home and I'm hearing. Hey, if the Lakers
don't want to give me what I want, you know,
just a surprise. And on the day that Bronny decides
I'm staying in the draft. I'm staying in the draft,
not going back to school. I got I got a
great check up for him, and he's able. He's shot
(08:09):
really well. Yeah, everything was great for him, except that
he measured in at six to one and a half. Yeah,
but he's growing. It's fine, it's fine, he's growing. So
they already projected him at six four there in the
in the in the USC program. That'll be fine. Like
Drew Brees, I'll just you know, play with his head
up a little bit more and throw the football hold.
So this is that's trummy. Look, he knows what he's doing, right, Look,
(08:32):
lebron is trying to use the leverage that he has
into getting what he wants from the Lakers, right. I mean,
it's it's no, it's no surprise everywhere he goes, when
he appears someplace, when he doesn't, he knows what it's about.
And there's and there's no way you can look at
today and say, Okay, this wasn't something that was planned.
Here's a story about about Broun. I have other options. Meanwhile,
(08:53):
I was a Lakers, I would dare say, you want
to go go, you know, like we're doing go. I
would dare, But now the Lakers have decided to say, hey,
any you need to sign Lebron. So we've given him
power back and this is the way he uses his leverage.
If you don't want me, I can always go back home.
I can always It's my hometown team. I left twice,
but I can go back home. But the other thing
it does is it kills the narrative of him as
(09:16):
a coach killer, which has been the last seventy two hours,
right him and Durant aarb In terms of your program,
which guy you want to thrust out as the more
likely to end your coaching reign if you get hired
there this becomes all about Lebron the player. Well still
you know in year twenty one whatever. So it's not
about Bronni's height, it's not about any of that. It's
(09:39):
not about the coaching story and how the season ends. No, no,
it's in Lebron. Let's talk about him. Great calvs run,
no question about it. But you know, still one of
the top players going into year twenty two dot dot dot.
It's the Toby Keith. I want to talk about me
now and I'll tell you this on a day where
we saw this kind of drama Bronnie staying in the
(10:01):
draft and Lebron going to the game and clear waving
very reluctantly standing up. Oh yeah, I'll stand up and
wave to all of yeah. Yeah, Look, I'm I'm doubling
down on exactly what's gonna happen. Okay, in the NBA draft,
Bronni is not gonna get drafted. Okay, he's not good enough.
Yes he can, he can shout a little bit at
some of these skill weekends, but he's not gonna get
(10:23):
drafted a because one, he's not good enough. He's not
even gonna have to be drafted in the second round
right now, even though you do draft on potential. But
there's a lot of players out there, and as a team,
really gonna say we're gonna draft Bronni knowing that there
could be a really weird situation hanging over our head
with Bronni playing and Lebron in the league, whether it's
Lebron questioning us from two thousand miles away, and you
(10:46):
know what, we're gonna stay away from it, right whether
or it could be kind of a gentleman's agreement where
you know, Rich Paul sends it sends an email out
to all the teams, do not draft Bronnie, right, do
not draft or you don't get to get any of
my players. So so what's gonna happen is this, he's
not say, blank him and I draft him. And in
the second round, where there's nothing guaranteed anything, they.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Called you bluff.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But no one's gonna draft and the Lakers aren't gonna
draft him because then it's gonna be seen as over
the top favoritism to Lebron, which is not something they're
gonna go for. Right, they want favoritism for Lebron, but
they don't want in your face embarrassed favoritism, which it
would be if we draft your kid. So they're not
gonna draft him. But as soon as the draft ends,
he will sign with with the Lakers. The Lakers even
(11:28):
talked about and there's even whispers you heard about Bronnie.
He knows he has to go to the G League.
He knows he has to get better, he's got to
get bigger, he's got to do all these things he's
got he's a developmental player. Everybody understands all of this,
and that's and that's how that's gonna go. What I
said a few weeks ago is how it's it's how
it's gonna shake down. Bronni will will go through the draft,
he won't get drafted, but the headline a minute after
the draft is gonna be Bronni signed to the Lakers,
(11:50):
and there's already gonna be a picture ready to go.
It's like when when when when someone really famous, who's
who's whose old dies all of a sudden, the oh
bit is is aired right away because they have it
righty had that obit ready right away. It's gonna be
like that for this sec boy. They had that picture
of Brownny with Lebron and Rob Polinka, Genie Buss.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
All ready to go.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
How did they have that? He's already shaking heads? How
do they have that so quickly? Now we've seen obituaries
get litut he's not dead. He's not dead. I still
think the Lakers end up drafting him because there's too
much pageantry and pomp and circumstance that they would not
get to go the other route. And in terms of embarrassing,
I don't care, but that's all. Yeah. Now I think
(12:33):
that they don't want it to make it look The
one thing they don't want to make it look like
is that Lebron is running the team. They'll give Lebron
hey the big say he has, but you're not publicly,
they're not gonna make You're not gonna get away with it,
even if you end up signing him after the draft.
But it's the same thing. He's you df No, But
but that's a little bit different. No, it's the same,
and it's a little bit different. Nobody if nobody thought
(12:55):
he was good enough to draft, and look, he'd be
good enough to get signed. And this is where we
get into the unfortunate discussion of having to talk about
a guy who played a truncated season, had a hard
issue all this other stuff because it's projected based on
his old man who has brought a lot of it
on himself by talking about his kid as if he
were the second company. He could get minutes over all
these guys in our rotation right now.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Dude, the Knicks could have used him yesterday.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, they can use any able bodied young man. It's
like the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine.
Listen tomorrow and I sign him up. Caitlyn Clark's playing
Connecticut toight, she could just head right up to MSG
for Game five. I mean, we need somebody to make
some shit say. That's a fair point on the charter jet.
You saw that. Look there's the little charter her up
to New York ready to know right up there'd be great.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
You think he has any idea? Who the hell Cayton
Klark is?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
He doesn't know the Knicks are in the playoffs exactly,
all right, So you know what, Frostburg, You're right about that,
You're right, But just what there's your outline for Brownie
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I promise you They'll lose.
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Post one O five seven the fan Jay. What's happening?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
What's going on, gentlemen?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah, buddy, I mean, I'm not having as great a
day as Jared Goff, but I'm all right so far.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Hey how about that trade huh, that's one of the
all timers there. I mean, the way it worked out
for both teams, it's pretty crazy, especially when I mean
quarterback trades and what looked like a salary dump and
even the first year there, Right, you're kind of just
watching him. It's like, dude, he's making a lot of money,
but he's just a pinata, right, He's like literally there
(16:29):
to take this abuse to get them through, you know,
a year or two of a tank and who knows,
Like those two teams could play each other in the
NFC Championship game this year for all we know. So
it's pretty wild. You know.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I'm looking at this deal, the two hundred and twelve
million dollar extension for golf, and it's just you know, look,
it's a great story because nobody knew the Lions would
be good. I think that's the whole thing. Oh, the
Lions are good. This is just kind of business as usual. Yes,
second highest paid quarterback in the game is the second best. No,
but this is just kind of how it goes. You know,
when he was coming up, I expected to be a
(17:03):
fifty million dollars a year contract because he's played well
in the Lions have won. It's pretty simple.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's kind of like, I mean,
you can go back through the games of leap Frog
that have been played and who at any given moment,
you know, was the highest paid quarterback on the planet
or in the history of the game. And I mean
there was a time it was Joe Flacco, right, and
Flacco won a Super Bowl and Jared golf didn't. But
(17:30):
let's be real, Jared Goff's not the reason that you know,
the Lions weren't playing for a Super Bowl, right, I mean,
they had a few drops. I mean we can relitigate,
you know, the party touchdown or you know whatever, sixty
yard bomb he didn't know anything about off of face mask.
And there's a lot of things that happened and the
(17:50):
Lion season, but you know, Jared Golf continued to prove
his worth and his metal through the playoffs and he's
been to a super Bowl right at the other place,
and almost took the Lions to a super Bowl. And
the timing is perfect, and that's how it works. It's
it's the right guy at the right place at the
right time, and so good for him, and it's the
(18:11):
cost of doing business. It's going to make things really
interesting though, Like he's basically almost a fifty five, right,
I mean he's almost right there with Burrow, Like if
you're Tua, you know, if you're Purty, if you're Jordan Love,
like you know, if you're Trevor Lawrence. And some of
those guys are already in the thick of it, like
(18:33):
like to On Lawrence and some of them still have
to wait another year. But it's going to be fascinating
and not all these are going to work out really well,
like they're you know, they're just not like some of
these are going to end up being unmitigated disasters. And
I don't know that all these teams are going to
pay the price, like I think Miami's going to, Like
(18:55):
I think they're going to give to him more than
they probably should. And that'll be that, and we'll see
if they win in the playoffs or not. I don't
think they're going to.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
This is.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
The cost of doing business when you've got a winning quarterback,
and the ramifications will will be something like I think
golf with Ben Johnson there right with the pieces they have,
playing on a fast track and a dome like, there's
you know a lot of things that will probably continue
to work pretty well for that offense. But and he's
(19:29):
been dealing with having to play under big money for
a while, I mean, right, I mean that's what kind
of suck them in LA was what happened after that
first contract extension. So I think they'll be fine, But
some of these other ones, at least one or two
will probably blow up in somebody's face.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
That's the fun part. Going through all the data, as
you suggested, you know, going between Stafford and Golf, and
how eerily similar their numbers have been during this period,
but all of those next when you talk about winning
versus performance, et cetera, I'm just letting forget about hard knocks.
Let's let's do the negotiations, further conversations with Dak Prescott
(20:05):
and then the Trevor Lawrence side of things. I think
that'd be far more entertaining.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Oh yeah, to have a hidden camera in there.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Absolutely all right, let's talk about Yes.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
That would be I would watch that like I would
watch that rather than you know, some dude do magic
tricks or whatever they started jets camp or whatever the
hell that was.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Hey, come on, the guy the mentalist, I was a mentalist.
He was really good.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Did any of that stuff prooved like, I mean, did
was any like did any of that prove to be anything?
You know?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay? Okayres On the other side, who was the guy
he called up in the beginning of camp to do
the whole thing? Super Bowl? Mkole Hardman? What did he say?
Who are you playing in the Super Bowl? Forty nine ers?
What's his final score? Twenty seven to twenty four? Did
Micole Harmon play in the Super Bowl? Did they beat
the forty nine ers?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
And I mean right, he was he was playing magician chess.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, we were all thinking, we were we were all
jet Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Andy Reid didn't even know he was five moves ahead
of Andy Reid.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Andy Reid was still doing commercials asking for Nuggies when
this was going on, Like, come on, man, wow, listen.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Maybe I will go back and rewatch it. Then who
knows what else I'm missing?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
We own the offseason. Hey, speaking of the season, we
now find out the opening night game. I'm sure there's
a big deal for you down in Baltimore today. Yeah,
Ravens and the Chiefs. And I don't know, how do
you feel, because if I'm the Ravens, I'm excited to
be playing open to night. But I'm like, great, the
Chiefs again, yeah the chip Really they be the Chiefs again.
They beat us all to the Chiefs again. Okay, great.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yeah. You know a lot of people here figured that
this was going to be how this thing unfolded. Now
look that you've also got you know, you've got the
chief forty nine ers, Like, so that's gonna have juice
whenever that one will I guess. Well, boy, we got
to hold our breath for forty eight more hours. Hope
I get there until I find out when that game
is gonna be played. You know, the first you know
(21:56):
hardball in that division and the first Chief Chargers game.
I have some more possessed to it. So there's some
other things they could have done. But a lot of
people kind of figured, hey, that's a big game, like
styles make fights Lamar versus Mahomes in a rematch after
that championship game, Like why wouldn't they lean into that?
(22:17):
And they obviously did. If I'm a Ravens fan, I'd
rather this game maybe be week seventeen, right, and who knows,
maybe by then there's nothing really so the Chiefs to
play for. Right, maybe they would have already secured a
a division title in the one seed, and you're catching
them with some backups. It's going to be quite a
(22:38):
test for their rookie defensive coordinator Zach Orr and for
all those new pieces on the defense. They lost, you know,
two of their top assistant coaches. They lost their defensive coordinator,
they lost a second team off pro linebacker. They lost
their best edge player by a country mound, Jadavion Clowney.
(22:58):
You know, they lost their second best corner and Ronald Darby.
They lost the kid you know a great in depth
safety in Gino Stone who was leading the league interceptions
most of the year. Like they there's there's a lot
that's not back on that side of the ball. So
that's going to be quite a test, you know, Andy
Reid having three months to prepare for you and you
(23:19):
having to go there and narrowhead opening night. Now, the
lines beat them, right, The lines beat them there last year,
so it certainly can be done. But it's hard for
me not to like the chief chances in a game
like that.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
We'll get to the rest of the two seventy two
just in forty eight hours. We'll throw you out dance cards,
all of those.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
What somebody should do power rankings and rank every game?
What kind of a thicker somebody I'll do it? Does it?
Wouldn't that be like one of my kids doesn't do
well on his exams. I'm going to be like, all right,
you know what you're gonna do now to make it
up to me. You're gonna rank all these games we've
been joking about. Any games for you?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
You learned to giants Bears? You have Giants Bears are
one fifty six? How do you not have them? That
should be at least in the one seventies do it again?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Eight one one? Make me one of a few.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Running joke on the show. You're like, Jayson has been that.
You know, I celebrate all to seventy two, right, they're
all still NFL games, And then Jason will be like,
that's a terrible game. How do you celebrate that. I'm like,
somebody's got to be last. Somebody's still got to be last.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Like, I think I might do this bit on my show, like,
what are the sixteen worst dame not good on the schedule? Right,
I'm into it. Now we're kind of running low on
NFL content. No, we're gonna be good. We're gonna be
good for a while.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Guy, Now this is it. I mean, you just break
it down clean by eight.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Thing, what really is the one hundred and sixty seventh
best case?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
All right, so we got the Jared golf coute right
running in parallel on the defensive side of things, win
Field four years eighty four MILLI year dollars. I mean,
that's the biggest smile I've seen on a guy's face
doing a photo in quite some time.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Yeah, yeah, I mean he was going to reset the market.
There was there was no two ways about that. It
was pretty well known throughout the industry before they you know,
tag them and this was going to be this is
going to be a massive contract. I think the pendulum
is swinging, man, I do I know that this has
been a depressed position for a while, but we're seeing
(25:30):
guys who find ways to affect that. It's sort of
like we've got these hybrid offensive players right the you
know Debo, like these guys who you know, even McCaffrey,
These guys who do a bunch of different things. You
can line them up all over the place. You know,
they really play three or four different positions. And there's
been people looking for that and some have missed, right.
(25:52):
I think the Arizona Cardinals might have missed three different
times in the first round on this guy, this type
of guy themselves alone. But we're starting to see what
that looks like when it you know, when it when
it actually happens. Like I remember Jeremy Chin was kind
of maybe going to be this guy with the Panthers, right,
but like Winfield is it, and like Cayle Hamilton is it,
(26:13):
And you know there might be a kid the Iowa
corner who might play a lot of safety, like he
might end up being something like that, maybe in that
same vicinity with the Eagles, Like I think you're going
to see an upswing like Kyle Hamilton's gonna trump this
big time a year from now if he does anything
(26:33):
close to what he did last year. So the days
of people bemoaning safety salaries, I think are are dwindling.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
All right, Jay, I'm going to help you out with
this exercise. You ready, Yeah, I'm going to hit you
with a couple of games that we know we're getting,
and you tell me if you think these are bottom
ten games? Okay, okay, okay? Ready?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Are they all Jets games?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Stop Rogers? If Rodgers is healthy, all the games are good? Broncos, Raiders, Broncos,
you know what I mean them.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I kind of feel like those divisional games and they
could be sneaky good just because they know each other. Like,
I don't know, it's hard for me in a vacuum
to think one of those two or the worst. I
haven't done the work, like I haven't done my kids
and I have in front of us, Like I'm not
just going to go off half cocked about something as
(27:25):
important as this, like I need to, you know, give
with me. Next week. I might have a better idea
of some of these, Like I got to find some
real out of like conference just just games that make
you want to throw up on your shoes, just in
a vacuum.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Okay, all right, but.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
I don't have it in front of me, you know
what I mean, Like I'm not sure, Like okay, you know,
does Washington.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Play the Giants? Like that's going to be a bottom
ten game.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yeah, but that's another divisional ones. I'm trying to, you
know what I mean, I'm trying to not be obvious,
Like wait to see where were they then play Carolina?
You know what I mean. Like that's that's what I'm
aspiring to. I don't know if they meet this year,
you know what I mean, Like I'm not sure Garret
Carr versus the Raiders like that, you know what I mean,
there's some perversion, some perversion in that, Like you know,
(28:18):
like I want to see Gardner Minshew go down to
that dome and beat their car.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Okay instead instead of that, Okay, instead of that. But
here's what I want. I want to record, whether it's
GoPro a on your phone when you gather your family
round and say, hey, I know we had plans this
summer we're gonna go to the shore. We're gonna go here. Instead,
we're spending the entire summer ranking all two hundred and
seventy two games.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
We're not going any revelall tournament, no no vacation.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
No, no nothing.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
We're gonna have the definitive list of these games in
reverse order. Yeah, oh yeah, it'd be great.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Got some markers, some poster board, and the way we go.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
We would have thought of this sooner. I could have
been prepared and like, had it next year. I'm gonna
have mind ready to come out as soon as they
released the schedule. Let's go right X year. I'm just
gonna subvert the whole thing, all right, whip it right
on tier.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
He's on Twitter at Jason Lock and for at Jason
Lock and for honesty Washington Post one five to seven.
The fan of Baltimore. Jay is always buddy appreciated.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Have a good one, gentleman.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
See Jason taking phone calls on that was this is
Packers Bears at one fifty rank too low? How good
is this game? Right now? I like that continuum, let's go.
It is actually third middle.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Third script on the bottom seventeen you do. It's every
Jets game.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
You know?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Okay? If if Aaron Rodgers is hurt again, yes, yes, yes,
What do you mean if he may not be saying
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We got two big NFL stories coming up at about
fifteen minutes. Huge, but listen, it's time to talk about
the Knicks and the Pacers, Okay, because after this weekend
(31:13):
there are things I'm okay with, things I'm mad about,
things I'm really mad about, Okay, really mad? Yes, yeah,
you couldn't come up with a better term in the
five minutes that you were wandering the hots because you
were really really Now you dropped one of the release well,
I figure too many and the word loses its meaning.
I don't want that. I want you know, really, what
(31:35):
I'm okay with, what I'm mad about, what I'm really
mad at, what I'm volcanic about. Uh, okay, what I'm
okay with. Look, I told you it was going to
be to T coming back to push SG the whole time.
There's still the miracle shot by Denmark. I still can't
believe you still hate him. Look, it's it's the end
of the tunnel. I can see the light at the
(31:56):
end of the tunnel for the Knicks, and it's an
oncoming train. I can see the I can see the
end of their run coming because they're slowly running out
of gas a little bit. You saw the players finally admit, Hey,
maybe it caught up to us a little bit. Okay,
told you they're missing free throws in game three, that's
gonna help them win that game. And that was the end.
So I know, I told you from the beginning. It's
a magic carpet ride. They're playing six guys. Basically, maybe
(32:20):
it's enough to get through the Pacers. Maybe I'm hoping
it's enough to get through the Pacers, but maybe it's not.
So I'm okay with that. I'm okay with best baby,
let's go. Now. What I'm met about is that the
Pacers just whined and complained and cried and cried the
first two games. They cried about small market teams, and
they cried about the officiat and they cried, and now
(32:41):
it's two two and it's well, yeah, we know New
York is a dangerous team, and now they're all haughty
after it's two to two. It's like a little kid
who cries and cries and cries you take his favorite
toy away. Then you say, fine, here take the toy.
The kid stops crying. Oh, I'm ready for dinner now,
Mommy and daddy Like, that's what the Pacers are. They
cried and they cried and they cried, and now suddenly
it's oh, yeah, well now things are okay. Oh yeah, no,
(33:02):
I'm okay, I'm okay. Now that's the Pacers. And that's
what makes me mad. And that's makes me mad. Now
what makes me really mad? Really mad? Madder than that,
really mad, and madder than that. Every bleeping night in
the NBA Playoffs, a team loses by twenty Every single
stinking night, we got bad games. Why don't we spend
so much time about the Knicks and the Pacers, Because
the Knicks and the Pacers are playing at least competitive, right, Yeah,
(33:24):
But every boat the Celtics win by twenty. Then they
lose by twenty. They win by twenty, they lose by twenty.
The Nuggets get blown out at home by ten and
by twenty.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Then they go on.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
They win on the road. Every team loses by twenty
a bunch of times in the playoffs, and we blow
it off and well they'll come back and play better
next game, and ah, okay, that'll be better. They'll be better,
he'll be Yeah, it was a bad they gave this
game and lose by twenty. The Knicks lose one game
by twenty, one game by twenty points. Inside of them,
it's over.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
They're done. We knew it.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Bruntson's done. Hard is done to Evencenzo stinks. They can't
get enough guys out. They're gonna lose it. Lose four
in a row. They lose one game by twenty, that's oh,
it's over. Everybody else's well, they lose a game by twelve.
They'll get it back next up. You learn a lot
when you lose by twenty, but the next it's no, no, oh,
they're done. No, they're done.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
They're done. That's what makes me really really mad. Although
you could take the other bit with the Pacers and
kind of flip it a little bit because I'm pissed
at that too. This up so we're not getting any calls.
Hey it's two two. Oh well, I'm okay now right
now almost top. Let me address the Pacers part of it,
the complaints again. We're always looking for the next call.
Whether you're yelling at a youth referee, you're looking for
(34:35):
the next call. You missed this one. Now, might you
mean over the top a little bit? Seventy eight times?
You missed all seventy eight of these calls? Oh, I
mean you don't enumerate them quite the same way, but yeah,
I mean that's what they did. Devin decided, if we're
in for a penny, we're in for a pounds, it
should be no founds on my team, and everybody else
file out on that team. They didn't say that, They
just picked seventy eight instances where things should have gone
(34:56):
their way over two games. Yes, cause that's how you go.
And if you do that, that means zero fouls on
the Pacers, and everybody on the Knicks fouls out because
it's either bad calls it went against you, or calls
it should have been called against the Knicks. So let's
say they break down all so you know, you should
have called something on the Knicks. So that means every
Knick should have fell all. They should have been down
(35:18):
to playing Quentin Grimes and Hartenstein off the bench, right,
that's what they should have been down to at the end,
and the pacers everywhere. We don't give it a foul
at all. But as we always talk about here, right,
and not one play stands alone, right, it all influences.
You get a call there. Well, now the guy's playing
with two fouls, maybe he's playing defense a little differently,
(35:39):
and it changes the projection and the trajectory of the game.
So that's it. They got what they wanted. It's officiating
to get home whatever. And then as for the well,
why do people overreact in your estimation when the Knicks
finally lose by twenty because we've been watching them as
a punch drunk fighter for games upon it. Wow, I
(36:02):
can't believe the heart of this team. They got nothing left,
they've got no betch, yet they win this game. Look
at the heart of a champion. Game two eh, maybe
a call should have gone the other. It doesn't matter.
Heart of a champion. Look at Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson,
the six ' one fire plug of a man. Look
(36:23):
at him make these shots down the stretch. And Tom
Thibodeau doesn't have a lot of strings to pull, but
he's willing them to the end. What greatness? Game three? Hey,
og Ananoby's not coming back to that door.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
You lose okat fine to one and then you go
get bludgeted. The question with the Knicks is not all right?
Can they recover? Do they have enough able bodied men
to recover? Is this the thing that teetered, you know,
over the edge with the number of minutes and heavy
minutes that they've had to play. That's why it's different.
It's not Ah, they stopped in the third quarter because
(36:59):
they were get bludgeon like every one of these other
teams where they just stop playing basketball. Let's go down
to the impractical Jokers because this game pull away from
mixed pacers. Betcast to go to a practical joke, you
a more u competitive prank. Not enough if you are
alive betting the Knicks down by thirty, So we're gonna
(37:19):
go to a new show. That's right, Not enough interest
even hold the gamblers among you that one's put one
wager down on the Knicks. I'm giving Baggerty. They look
at him. That would be a great job of like
a mad money Jim Kramer kind of guy going, you
want to put moneys, I'll give you thirty right now.
When you call me and put that money on the
next thirty is not good enough, I'll give you thirty
(37:40):
three in game betting right now. Hey, man, if you
give him the phone number, they may call in and
have a hot take for you while you're at it. Toude.
But but that's it, buddy. That's the reason is because
people have been waiting like a weebel for them to
finally go over the top instead of that slow return
to normal. What I'm okay with, what I'm mad about,
what I'm really mad about? Coming up now? Two big quarterbacks,
(38:01):
two big NFL stories, keep it right here? Oh eight
oh six left in the third. Oh, you'll get at
least four more all right? So yeah, four more of
Mark Cuban, I think, uh and again and more of
But you will get more shots of Luca grimacing if
the if the Mavericks lead evaporates, Okay, you will get
more Luca Grimacing. Then you will get cutaways of Mark Cuban. Now,
(38:24):
if we can get someone dressed as Grimace in there,
that'd be even better.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
He's the Ben Roethlisberger of the NBA on the court,
on the court.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Tell you man, nobody's health varies more between trips up
and down the floor than Luka doncich Man. Oh, he's
got to come out of the game. Oh no, it's
pretty good. I was just about eight. That was nice. Noo,
No eighty always goes it's full, full the whole damn season.
Eighty doesn't go up the floor looking great and the
doubt the flo. No, he the minute he recognizes something
(38:52):
could be wrong, he runs off the floor. I'm not
saying he didn't even respond and playing a high number
of games.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Within each of those games.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Frostby again, I'm still in the playoffs. I can't hear.
It's too too Your best player is back in the game.
Your best players in a calvs game tonight.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Literally pressing down on your chest.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Keep those compressions in rhythm. Let's go. We'll have more
on the NBA coming up in a few minutes. Yeah,
just wait, just wait. But look, two big NFL stories
today the first one involving We now know what the
opening night game in the NFL is gonna be. There's
a night game Ravens and the Chiefs, rematch of the
AFC Championship game. Last year. We had a great game
(39:38):
Chiefs lines. I told you the Lions are gonna win.
They won, told you the lines going to the super Bowl,
and they were a couple of bad Dan Campbell decisions
away from going to the super Bowl. But when I
heard this game today, right, a little bit different. When
I heard this game today, Opening Night Ravens Chiefs, I
went ah, okay, because honestly, I'm sort of over Baltimore
(40:00):
as being exciting and really moving the needle. I'm kind
of over the Ravens because look, Lamar Jackson's terrific and
he's exciting, but nothing else about Baltimore is ooh, I
gotta watch this, you know, So Baltimore, Baltimore, I think
the idea of them sounds better than the actual idea
of watching the Ravens. Right, I'm talking about from a
(40:21):
national perspective, I'm kind of over the Ravens. And other
part is because every year, no matter what level of
talent they have, they underachieve. So I know how it's
gonna end for them. Last year ASC championship game at home,
everything we want. What happens? Ten points? They score ten points,
Lamar puts up ten points, and that's it and you
wind up losing, and and you go home saying, oh
(40:41):
man again again. I'm just kind of over. I held
up a sign in that game that said run the ball.
I'm really I'm just I'm over the Ravens because it's
been a lot of years of almost especially seeing the
best of Lamar Jackson's career, and you know, it's not there,
and really it's just it's not as exciting. They're not
as exciting a watch think there, which would be crazy
(41:01):
considering how good Lamar Jackson isn't and how frustrated he
is to play against and the stuff he's been able
to accomplish. I mean, it's really been some kind of
I mean, it's had some kind of career, but just
the Ravens overall, I'm like, eh, okay, like I got
gonna go with a lot of other teams there that
I'd have been a little bit more excited about that.
Oh we're gonna get the Baltimore and Okay, yeah, we
got Lamar. I just, I just I'm at that point
(41:22):
now with the Ravens where I go, yeah, okay, that's great.
I mean you have the full run of opponents obviously
in division, and then you've got Houston. Right, that was
another popular potential option for you there or the forty
nine ers you wanted to go and get another would
be Super Bowl contending team. I go the complete other
(41:44):
way though. I'm tired of the tradition of the champion
having the game. I don't need you to sell me
some giant ass game in Week one. Gimme trash all right,
New England doesn't play Carolina, but gimme New England against Carolina,
honor of the team the Super Bowl getting to open
up at home and getting one. Hey, these are the
(42:06):
defending Super Bowl champs. They get to open up at home.
We know, no matter what I'm not saying great interest,
there's gonna be great interesting. It's gonna get a great
interest in me versus you at the center at midfields
running thing. Though you can start gaming seventy two, but
being watch if you do that right. The NFL doesn't
(42:27):
want the optic of less people watching, so That's why
every Super Bowl needs to be some sort of Hey,
when we count all the streaming numbers, this is the
most watched Super whatever, Right, you don't want that to
have games. So when you're looking at the opening night,
you want to make sure we're putting the league in
the best position where people are going to watch. And
(42:47):
we know people are going to watch the Chiefs at home, right,
Like if we know that, I argue they're going to
watch Paint Dry if it has an NFL logo. But
let's just say you're looking at Hey, if the Chiefs play,
we know we can get fifteen million views. The Taylor
Swifts run, and she got a new album and she's
probably gonna re record the songs on this album by
(43:09):
the time the fall comes. But if you say, if
you say your other game as well, okay, we can
put Houston and Pittsburgh. Let's say, okay, that's that's free.
But are you guaranteed you're gonna get the same viewership
you get for the Chiefs and Mahomes and Kelsey and
Taylor Swift. You're not. So I get why they do it,
and I get what I get. The honor of them
(43:29):
opening up and home I just feel like the Ravens
it's just not it's just not as exciting. It just
doesn't grab me as as it did two time new
offensive coordinator. Maybe a little more splash should get people
to dead, but that's not the fact that down field.
Maybe it's as opposed to all right, the runs not working,
(43:50):
Lamar figure something out. I mean, look, the biggest thing
for me for the Ravens with it is I have
the summer to decide whether or not the Ravens go
on my never again list. That could be because they could.
They're right to go on my never again list. They
really are again. They're right there. No no, once you're that's
my rule. Once you go on it, you don't come
off it, you don't come off it. I went against it.
(44:10):
I would have won the bleeping bracketology pool that we did.
But I'm stupid because I picked the Arizona even though
they were on my never again list. Should know a
Yukon like everybody else, and I would have won.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
About the Sixers, the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Sixers have stayed on and never took the Sixers office.
I never took the Sixers off it. The only team
that never came off it. Was Arizona. To be honest, though,
Justin He's gone to the list whenever anybody has wronged
him so often for the last time. I have no
idea how long it is for the last time. For
thirty seventeen, It's almost as long as that line he
(44:41):
was on. That's true. I wasn't online. I just drove
by uh No, but he perpetrated a fraud. The Never
Again list is teams that I'm never gonna pick to
win anything again because they have disappointed me and others
so often in the recent past. With this, I'm not
gonna pick them anymore. How did they do it against
the spread? Did they? Did they cover for their backers?
(45:03):
There's the more important question. This that I had my
kids and all kinds of great Christmas presents. They all
had new Kindles and iPads, all thanks to the fact
that they backed me. No, you go on the never
again list if if you've had a chance for a
long time, then people picked you for stuff and you
just never broke through. And the Ravens are really close.
I got the I have the summer to decide if
I want to put them on my never again lost Okay, yeah, no,
(45:23):
Like I'm in full agreement when it goes back to
the to the idea of the ratings. I understand the
business of it all, okay, but from a straight football perspective, again,
they can be running seven on seven's it's got the
NFL logo. People are gonna watch. I mean, look at
what what kind of numbers you're gonna get for the
schedule release on Wednesday. It's gonna have higher numbers than
(45:44):
any of these NBA playoff games.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Oh yeah, if you if you.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
Have a schedule release, Yeah, but the skew, especially not
one yesterday. Yeah, but the schedules kind of come out,
you get you get a leak now a little bit more,
but there's still a common circumstance of a full schedule,
like here's a little teaser, right, here's this game, and
we know who's gonna go play abroad. But beyond that,
(46:11):
there's still a lot of intrigue. And I would say,
if we go through the ratings of what an NBA
games have done over these first couple of weeks, I
think the schedule released rivals or tops in with with
some cushion. Yeah, it's tough for me because there is
that leakage. Ye leakage, a lot of leakage. Well, what
(46:34):
we're still forty hours away. Usually the leakage comes, there's
a look out. There's a lot of leakage the day
of that du that's what you got. Oh hey, I
found out here's the first games. I start to get it. Yeah,
here's this, this gets out. The national schedule gets out
early in the days. I mean, still an NFL product
as opposed to you know, but the thunder in the mass. No,
(46:55):
that is true. No, no, you're you're right about that.
And and look, look the NBA making a great decision
tomorrow night to put the Knicks and the Nuggets on
as gonna watch those games like these games. I'm with
you on that against Well are you gonna watch Caitlyn
Clark though? Instead? You know, hey, you know, if you're
the w NBA, you know you what you need to
do because this is great. Is great. This gets into
this because I mean that would look Caitlin Clark's debut
(47:17):
would top the ratings for this listen listen. Yeah, all right,
all right, so Ravens, I'm not feeling anymore. Okay, got
it now? So this I gotta go speak for you.
On Thursday, when I visit with Loking Forest Station, what
are you doing to me? If you're the w NBA, right,
you need really flexible scheduling, like you need you need
(47:38):
to like really figure out. Okay, we want to make
sure the most people are watching them. One preseason game,
half the teams were flying commercially, were flying a commercial.
Half the teams are flying Charter. There's video out today,
look out great at this some of them are flying Charter.
Then Brianna Stewart saying, we're taking a bus to our
first and figure that out. Yet they're working it out.
They're working it out. But do you want to put
(47:58):
Caitlyn clark on opposite the Knicks and the Pacers and
then the Nuggets and and the Timberwolves, or do you
want to put Caitlin clark On up against Oklahoma City
Dallas and the Celtics and the But you're still now
talking about shrouds between thirteen and eighteen thousand people that
are going the game, coming to the game, no matter what, no,
but all of a sudden game, if we're gonna start saying,
you know what, hey, we don't really feel like laying
(48:20):
you say, look, you got Wednesday Nicks Nicks is a
big deal. Nuggets is a big deal. We're gonna play
we running and hiding. You have to if you're the
w NBA, you're in a new world. No, but you've
got to say, you know what we're taking the mentality
of the NFL. Do you want to go against Do
you still want to get it out there as many
people as possible in the middle of that game, when
it becomes a twenty point game, they're gonna start going
(48:42):
to Caitland Clark highlights. Well, look, I want to talk
about Caitland Clark tomorrow night. But Nicks. I mean, come on,
it's gonna be hard, but I'm gonna be able to
take it away from your painting. So we're already gonna lose. Right,
you're there to throw the Knicks under the back. I
know you think they're gonna lose Frost, but you're just
so jealous that your team is Johnson playoffs. Yes you are.
You're doing too much.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
I'm good, I'm living.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Your team has been out of the playoffs for way
too long. My team is in the playoffs. We are
driving the playoff bus.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
My whole life has been filled with great basketball.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
If the NBA playoffs was a bus. Okay, the Knicks
would be driving it because they're the number one most
popular team in the playoffs. The Lakers. You're like the
first kid that the bus driver talk that lives you're
talking about You're the kid that lives around the corner
from the school. But somehow his parents still wanted to
take a ride to school on the bus, even though
(49:33):
he could walk and be there quicker. And that's how
quickly that the Knicks dropped you off, dropped the Lakers
off out of.
Speaker 3 (49:39):
The playf sorry, because the Knicks went from up first.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
First stop, First stop, Lakers to get out. This is
your stop, Lakers. Yes, it was a very competitive bus ride, Yes,
very competitive two minute bus ride. Yes, get out? Okay, great,
see you next year. Close the door. Nicks are still driving.
Lakers have been home drinking chocolate milk and eating cookies
and playing video.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
Love chocol milk?
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Yeah, I love chocolate. Look at his I mean to
be fair, the number of national media bodyguards from lebron
spent more time talking about him and o bleak commentary
that may or may not have been about him than
the actual games. So you got that going for you.
I'm just saying, I'm just saying, nixt tomorrow night. Why
(50:21):
would you go up against the Knicks and the Nuggets,
And how do you talk about being in driving without
saying a child and child gets on the bus Exit
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