Hour 2: Brady, LaVar & Jonas – TNF Flex Scheduling

The NFL looks into flexing games to Thursday Night Football, but could it do more harm than good? Robert Kraft addresses Bill Belichick approaching Don Shula's all-time winning record. Plus, the midweek awards on The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

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So there's been a lot of pushback from players and
people who cover the NFL just about Thursday games in
the NFL. Is it really good for the league? You know,
the health of the players, all of that involved, if

(01:45):
we care about concussions and the physical damage that football does.
And then yet Amazon Prime take over this past season,
and yet Al Michaels and Kirk curve Street openly complaining
about the quality of football that was there. Though there's
been a lot of discussion about how do you improve it,
And one of the things that's been thrown out there's
the possibility of flexing Thursday night football games later in

(02:08):
the season to where you can just all of a
sudden throw a team in on a Thursday night game. Now,
the idea was that you're going to give them about
fifteen days notice, so it's not going to be like
the week of or anything like that. They're going to
give them some time and that's when they would look
to go ahead and maybe make a switch. They've tabled that.
They did not vote on that yesterday. Apparently there was

(02:29):
a just a little bit of a vote that was
put together and they need twenty this. Yeah, well there's
there's twenty four votes you need to pass any of
these rules. And the numbers I saw were twenty two
owners voted for it. Then you had another eight owners
that were against it, and another two that were uncommitted.
They were they weren't really ready to go ahead and

(02:49):
make a decision either way. So that'll be discussed potentially
in May. They're going to have that discussion again at
the next meetings. But one of the things that was
announced yesterday that could be a small step towards that
direction is that the NFL is now allowing teams and
pointing out that teams can play not one Monday and
Thursday night game like has been over the past few years,

(03:12):
but now they can qualify to play for two Thursday nights,
so and that the Thanksgiving games those don't count as
a Thursday. So you've got teams that will be picked
to play twice on Thursday night. A lot of people
not happy about it. John Mara of the New York Giants,
the owner there, he spoke out against the Thursday flexing
and all that you had. Patrick Mahomes take to social

(03:34):
media showing his displeasure about Thursday night games and multiple
times having to play a Thursday night game. If you're
one of these better teams in the league, Jackson Mahomes, No, No,
Jackson Mahomes was on TikTok. I believe that with jud
you say he might have been on TikTok saying that
he was disgusted by them. No. But Roger Goodell, the
commissioner of the NFL, he did talk about the decision

(03:58):
to add a second third Thursday night, gained the slate
of several of these teams yesterday, and also the potential
of some flexing on Thursday night. And he was asked specifically,
is the NFL looking at Amazon's best interest over the
best interest of some of the player's health and other
f factors that are playing into this. Here was the commissioner.

(04:18):
I don't think we are putting Amazon over player's interests.
You know, we've always been looking at the data with
respect to injuries and the impact on players. That was
drove our decisions throughout the first twelve or so years
of Thursday night football and how it's evolved. And I
think we have data that's very clear. It doesn't show

(04:40):
higher injury rate, but we recognize shorter weeks. We went
through this in COVID too. It's you know, we had
to have a lot of flexibility in those areas. So
those are obviously different circumstances, but we work very closely
on that. I hear from a lot of players directly too.
The love the ten days afterwards infected, called him anybody,

(05:03):
and so there's some benefits on that side. So you
have different views. You want to consider all of them.
But players have different views, coaches have different views, and
we have to try to balance all of them. So
aware we got little al Michael's bitching and moaning last year,
and look how far we've come, God forbid love it.
Have you guys ever heard Roger Goodell raised his voice?

(05:28):
But I've also never been scolded by Roger, So I'm
just saying, have you ever heard him speak in the
public with like he has? This? It's it's there's a
lot there. There's like in you know, in churches, you
know you have you know people that speak that way.

(05:49):
You know, in like psychology, you know people speak that way.
Counselors they speak that way. He has that voice where
he speaks in a dis arming tone, and it's pretty interesting.
I don't I can't recall ever hearing him raise his
voice like like I've never heard him say something like

(06:10):
sternly like like what do you mean we're not doing
this or we're looking into it, so just just calm
down or any He's never he's always very like I
don't want to say it's monotone, but I think it's
interesting because this is one of those conversations a Thursday

(06:30):
night schedule flex schedule. It to me, it doesn't make sense,
but that's my opinion. I just don't think it makes
sense at all. But regardless of what side you fall on,
Roger Goodell approaches and I guess this is why he
gets pays the big dollars to be a commissioner. He
just he's he's disarming in the way that he speaks

(06:52):
about things. It's like it's gonna be okay, you know,
let's let's let's just get up off of the ground.
Let's uh, let's clean up that scrape on your knee
and you know, we'll put put some you know, some
bandages on it and it's all gonna be okay. Like
is that like what it comes down to? Like really
like just being able to manage conversations because generally speaking,

(07:18):
how many times do we really hear solutions really like
like definitive solutions really being discussed, Like did he say
anything that was definitive and that that sound bite? Did
you take anything away from it that was definitive towards it?
He mean not really didn't. He pointed out the pros

(07:38):
of playing two Thursday and Night games now, which is
the mini buy on the back end, so the players
are more important than Amazon. Yeah, that was what I
took from it, Yes, which is interesting because I mean,
obviously Patrick Mahomes had a reaction to it. He wasn't
a fan. Um. I think you asked most players, and
they like to be in a routine, you know, they

(07:59):
like to be able to have the ability to have
that full week to recover. You know, You've heard people
like George kit Will talk about, Hey, when I go
out there and play, I'm getting into car Rex, like
tens of car recks every game, and so it takes me,
you know, in the mid end of the season, and
LaVar you know this as well as anyone like just
to be able to recover. And so I think the

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fact that you could be having and I would assume
these are gonna be the top teams in the league,
the fact that you could be having them play multiple
games on short weeks, even with the quote unquote mini buy,
that doesn't matter for players, Like a lot of those
guys aren't gonna be ready for it. Like, I think
that's where you fall into an instance where you want

(08:41):
to have the top talent out there playing well. If
they don't have sufficient time to be able to recover,
you might not get them out there. I mean that
includes quarterback, that includes all of them. We just talked
about a minute ago how the NBA is got an
issue with load management. You start playing a bunch of
games on short weeks, you're gonna have an issue in
the NFL with guys not soon. And that's where I've

(09:04):
said this forever. You had your experiment during COVID move
the schedule around the entire week, save Friday nights for
high school football. Save Saturdays until college football is over
with for high school because some high school teams play
on Saturdays, and college football take Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

(09:29):
Use them all, put them all in primetime. I promise you.
It will rate better than what is currently on in
those hours. Yes, and it's gonna be better for the
overall product. It will be better for the players and
rest because the schedule makers can bake in more rest
time for these players. And so instead of playing a
Sunday game and turning around and playing Thursday night, they

(09:51):
could sit there and say, Okay, they played on Monday
last week. This week, now they're going to play on
a Tuesday. The following week. We might have him playing
on Wednesday, and then they'll have their buy and then
after week coming back, they get back on track on
a Sunday. You can mess with all those You could
figure this out to be able to actually have the
best interest of the player's health in mind, and not

(10:14):
even at an additional bye week. I don't know why
the NFL is so hesitant to do this if I'm
a TV partner, and especially broadcast, as you look at
the streaming services and Obviously, people binge watch what they
want to watch when they want to watch it, so
there's not very much appointment television anyone anymore. Well, if
that's the case, and you're spending all this money on

(10:35):
rights for these leagues, move them around the week with
the exception of Friday and Saturday, and move them around
like to me, it makes all the sense in the world.
I don't know why they don't explore it. But players
can't be happy with this. And if you're the players union,
once again, you took another l you apparently didn't want
to put in the last CBA that you couldn't have
multiple teams playing Thursday night football games and guys playing

(10:58):
on short weeks, putting in harm's way. Yeah, because all
they did was tweaked the rule right and just say, yeah,
we're gonna go ahead and now allow you to add
that second one. This was exactly anything that was voted on.
They just tweaked a rule, that's it. And that's what
the owners do every time. And then the players unions
always like, oh yeah, but they're letthers smoke weed more. Yeah,

(11:19):
they're let us smoke weed more and get away with
this and that It just I and also the thought
of playing games on all those other days that you've
talked about flexing Thursday night games I'm not crazy about.
But if you were to present an NFL product that
would have games on the Sunday all the way through
the Thursday, I don't know anybody that could find the

(11:43):
negative in that. I don't know what the con is
to that, because a network's not going to say no.
I mean, it's live programming, and it's it's you know,
if the NFL's King, Football's King, network's not going to
say no, if players have rest before or afterwards, they're
probably not going to push back on it. The only
pushback you might hear from some people as well, our
fans really gonna want to go crowd a stadium on

(12:06):
a Wednesday night? What are you talking about? They're doing
twelve thousand and some of these basketball venues. You don't
think people would want to come out and see an
NFL game and go out there and knowing we have
a limited number of these during the course of the week,
now we got something to do on a Wednesday. If
you've got crappy NBA teams bringing fans into arenas, the
idea that you wouldn't bring a stadium full of football

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fans in with all of the notoriety. The NFL gets
all the game, everything that comes along with it, there's
no con to it. The only con in all of
this is flexing Thursday night games. And now you're making
it to where players can play multiple Thursday night games.
And as I said before, a team like the Cowboys,

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all of a sudden, the Cowboys are going to have
to play three Thursday night games because they're not even
counting Thanksgiving as a Thursday night game that's already baked
into the schedule. So now the Cowboys are looking at it,
going okay, So now we got to worry about having
a short week multiple times a year, and on top
of it, a third week to go along with it.
Same with the Lions. I just the flexing, I don't get.
Everything else to me makes sense, But it's the flexing

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that you've got a lot of people pushing back on now,
which and there's a feeling that it is going to
be passed in May when they bought on it again.
I mean, that's all I was going to say. Though
it's been tabled for now, so it's not to me
really a discussion point, and just because it's tabled for
May doesn't mean it will necessarily come back around what
it'll work. I mean, I think it would make sense
to pair it up. If you're going to have teams

(13:33):
play multiple Thursay night games, it would make sense to
have the ability to flex teams into it. But it
calls into a question again, it's a nightmare for the
NFL to be able to try to make that work,
and especially when you take into account, and I think
one of the reasons why flexing some of these teams
into those windows or into Thursday night football specifically is
tough is because nothing's happened with Aaron Rodgers and you know,

(13:56):
the Jets and Packers. Nothing's happened with Lamar Jackson. So
you've got Baltimore in whatever their potential partner, that schedule
could look a lot different of Lamar's not playing for them.
Same same thing with the Jets until that's for sure,
which even though we think it's it's gonna be until
Aaron Rodgers in New York, Jet, you know, you don't know.
So I'm sure the schedule makers have a schedule right

(14:18):
now in mind with a Lamar goes back to Baltimore.
This is what it looks like. Aaron Rodgerson goes, you know,
it's finally on the Jets. This is what that schedule
looks like? Or is that right? Like I would be
putting together every possible scenario to prepare for what could
take place when this whole thing rolls out. That's crazy, man,

(14:39):
But hey, that's the NFL. We're gonna get more NFL.
There's nothing wrong with it, and we're gonna get good
NFL games and Al Michael is going to be happy,
which is the most important thing in all this about that. Yeah, positive.
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So that'll be yours again a little over twenty minutes
from now before we get into this topic. In this
discussion about you know, some interesting comments from the owner

(15:46):
of the New England Patriots, we do have some news.
The Atlanta Falcons have done it. They have brought in
a former Baltimore Raven. Everybody's asked, been asking me to
do it, and they have finally done it. Klais Campbell
has signed a one year deal with the Atlanta Falcons.
Are all right? Yes, everybody could stop complaining about that,
So no more complaints about Atlanta not going after a

(16:08):
Baltimore Raven. They finally did it and Klai's Campbell's been
brought in on a one year deal there, so congrats
everybody involved. By the way, he is a massive human being.
Jesus big guy. Yeah, it seems like a nice guy
though as well too. All Right, so the situation in
New England, we talked about Bill Belichick and his plan

(16:31):
moving forward, and what's the plan at quarterback and all
the other fun stuff now that Tom Brady is no
longer there. Well, the owner of the New England Patriots,
Robert Kraft, he spoke about their inability to make the
postseason last year, just sort of their struggles in recent
years and now it's been very, very disappointing. And then
the subject of Bill Belichick being as close as he

(16:54):
is to potentially breaking Don Shula's all time wins record
in the NFL, And here was the Patriots owner discussing
all of that at the owners meetings in Phoenix. I'd
like him to break down Shule's record, but I'm not
looking for any of our players to great get great stats.

(17:15):
That isn't We're about winning and doing whatever we can
to win. That's what our focus is now. And I
it's very important to me that we uh make the playoffs,
and that's what I hope happens next year. To how

(17:36):
about that playoffs over Don Shula's all time record, You know,
that's that's the team first attitude that the New England
Patriots have always been striving for these past twenty plus years.
That's what we need out of Robert Kraft there. Yeah, okay,
so what is it thirty wins he needs? Well, it
depends if you include playoffs, you know, I mean, if
you think it's a regular season, is the record? Okay?

(17:56):
So there was a little I believe there was a
little misget to with that, but by some of the
old odd if you include playoff way, if you include see,
because now I'm going by your rules because what rules
pointed out in our notes. Okay that you threw out
a number, what do you say, like sixteen or something?
I know he's about nineteen. I believe nineteen wins away

(18:19):
could be eight thirty. But you've always said that Tom
Brady's records should always include playoffs, and so I was
going by your logic. You said that years ago, and
I said, all right, if that, if we're going to
play that logic, I agree with you. Let's go ahead
and include Bill Belichick's playoff wins. And he's only like
eighteen or nineteen away from Don Shula, that's all you know.

(18:41):
Some seasons? Well, well, well yeah, that team's constructed. Probably
it depends on if you think they're getting the playoffs.
I mean, if they're an eight nineteen the next two years,
that's it's not cutting. I don't think it's the numbers
thirty by the way, just so people aren't confused because
Jonahs said that's a much larger number. Yeah, it changes
a narrative, and I believe it's it is really only

(19:02):
for regular season wins, if I'm not mistaken. So, um,
if that's the case, Yeah, it's hard to think that
given Bill Belichick's age. I mean, how much long is
he gonna coach too? You know, beyond that? And that's
the other thing is part of the interview that you
didn't hear is they talked about his successor and Jared
Mayo being on that staff and being a very likely

(19:22):
candidate for that. And so I feel like, when you've
got the writing on the wall where you've got the
guy to replace him in house, and you've got a
guy in Bill Belichick who is a legend, he's the
greatest to ever do it, I don't think that's even debatable.
But maybe it's turned time where you need to need
to change or need to turn things over. It's a

(19:44):
tough conversation to have, but I think this is a
big year as far as perception, and when that clock
ultimately starts, maybe it's already started. Did ya hearing Flex
on his interview where where the guy asked him past
twenty Yeah, I've been I've been doing this longer than
you've been alive. My guy and I have that credibility.

(20:06):
But it kind of goes back to our Lamar Jackson
conversation too, in terms of you can only leverage your
accolades so far and so much because you're in an
industry that is a what have you done for me lately? Industry?
And while you will celebrate the accomplishments and the achievements

(20:28):
of something that's happened in the past, ultimately you don't
have eyes in the back of your head for a reason,
because it's meant for you to look forward. So nobody
is going to continue to say, all right, well we'll
give him another pass this year. Oh well we'll give
him another pass this year. Yeah, maybe it'll be this
next upcoming season. I think you can hear in Robert

(20:50):
Craft's voice that he wants to get back to winning
and and I almost hear the results. You could almost
say that the resolve in his voice is we're gonna
give Bill Belichick every bit of support and every bit
of whatever it is he needs in order to get

(21:11):
back to winning. But if that's not what happens, it
almost sounds like he's okay with moving on from Bill
Belichick at this point. And again, I've always asked the question,
I've raised the question, when does Bill Belichick's seat warm up?
When does a heat up? Well, I almost feel like

(21:32):
we could say that seat is probably starting to warm
up a little bit in New England for Bill Belichick.
I think Belichick's given some sort of indication that the
end is near, and I think that's part of the
reason why, you know, Jared Gerard Mayo has been the
guy that's pointed to that he could be the eventual
replacement now, but Robert Kraft said that, you know, yeah,
he's definitely in consideration because they can't come out and

(21:54):
say yeah, he's going to get the job because they
got to go through all the process. But I felt
like it was going to be Josh McDaniels. I think
that was part of the reason why he decided to
come back after you know he could have probably had
the Indianapolis Colts job, and it was kind of them
to go ahead and announce that he had already accepted
the job, even though he hadn't already signed the contract.
But I felt like that was going to be Josh McDaniels.

(22:14):
He ended up taking this gig. I wonder if after
they talked with drag Mayo and said, look, I know
you've got opportunities to interview elsewhere. We plan on getting
something done with you, and here's the timeline we're looking at.
It feels like, what have we got two years? Like
if you were to set an over under it two
and a half years for Belichick in New England. I'm
taking the under. I think he's got two years, and

(22:36):
I think Mayo is going to take over the team.
And then he walks away, and he walks away in
his terms. I don't I don't think. I don't think
he gets fired, don't. I don't think his seat is
necessarily hot. I think they're going to give him the
ability to walk away when he's ready to walk away. Well,
you don't think that's a hot seat. No, I think
he's he's making the call. I think he's talked to
Robert Kraft and said, I got a couple of years
and that's it. I mean, do you think that factors

(23:00):
into it? I mean, I know it didn't with Dale Lindsay.
He's eighty and he obviously, you know, the great Dale Lindsay, personable,
great coach, positive attitude. I think that's a way of
looking at it as being a hot seat. If you
ask me, if if you feel the pressure of walking
away so you're not fired, that's that's still a hot seat.

(23:24):
I mean, I think he's he is beginning to feel,
if he hasn't already been feeling the pressure, he's beginning
to feel the pressure of not putting out a product
that people have gotten so used to seeing him in Boston.
I mean, I just think that that's what it is.
And at some point you got to ask yourself the question,

(23:44):
as we just mentioned during the course of this fine segment,
did the well run dry? Did the magic? Is the
magic gone and and it has time passed him by?
Is it time to move on? These are all questions
that are beginning to circulate. They're beginning to be discussed.

(24:04):
The unforeseeable, the improbable was to think that Bill Belichick
would ever be in a situation like the one he
finds himself in now. But I think we all figure
out in this business, if you are not having success,
your ass is on that chopping block. And it doesn't
matter who you are. Are you referring to Tom Brady?

(24:30):
Is that? Who? Is that? Who you're referring to? Some
could say that the magic left when Tom Brady left,
like the last little bit? You know, you remember the movie? Now,
this is black cinema, so y'all might not be up
on it. But man, I'm just saying it's black cinema.
You might not be up on. His dad's name is Tyrone.
My brother's name is Tyrone. What are you trying to get? True?
That is true? Y'all? Y'all remember the Last Dragon with

(24:53):
Bruce Lee Roy. Yeah, I can tell about the way
you said, Yeah you don't, But I'm not gonna put
I'm not gonna pull your card on it. I'm gonna
just explain what wise? What are you talking about? I
remember it? What do you mean he's this this is
the movie when he's trying to find like the level
of martial art. There you go, yes, where it's just

(25:15):
uncutt it's the glow ye, right. So so they had
the glow, right, and that was the show gun of Harlem.
And and but at the end of the movie, you know,
he starts fighting and and and he's fighting Bruce Lee
Roy and then they realize that Bruce Lee Roy is
the one. And and then now he has the glow

(25:37):
and then you're looking at at show enough the show
gunna Harlem, and his glow was flickering. It's like, I
still got some glow left, but it's flickering. And and
he ended up losing that fight, ended up getting his
ass kicked by the way, And and I just I
just wonder if if Bill Belichick's glow it's flickering right now.

(26:01):
I just wonder if Bill Belichick's ability to put together
a roster and that roster be able to have sustained
success during the duration of what time he has left,
if that's doable, if it's even possible at this point
for Belichick to be able to do it. Eight Lee

(26:22):
de Lap, who's our movie expert. Can we get an
update from Rotten Tamalies or whatever it's called, what the
score is on Last Dragon to see if it's applicable
to the New England Patriots, it is at I mean,
I feel like the Patriots. I don't think it's not fresh. Yeah,
according to the Rotten Tomato Tomato meter is either rotten

(26:44):
or fresh. What is rotten? What is considered fresh? Is
it seventy? You know? I think it might be sixties,
So I think it's just under fresh. Okay. I don't
think anybody in my community cares. That's a cult classic.
And the Rotten Eggs or whatever, Tamali's whatever they are,
they can kiss my ass if they don't like. Wow, Yeah, Wow,

(27:09):
the Last Dragon, when you got that glow? Your bod't
know when you got that glow. By the way, it
was nominated for three awards. Look at that Barry Gordy
wasn't wasn't Barry Gordy the the executive producer or something
to that effect. I know the music that that they

(27:31):
did Best Original Song Diane Warren Rhythm of the Night
you would eld the bars. And then they were also
nominated for a Razzie, which is uh, that's that's an insult,
right Lee. The Razzies are the opposite of the Oscars.
Not a good thing. Okay, that's unfortunate. I think that
that's ridiculous. But you know what, I'm not gonna go there.

(27:54):
So who who in this Patriots dynamic? Is Bruce Leroy?
Oh be dra Mayo? It could be you know what's crazy?
It could be someone we don't even know. Why can't
it be Matt Patricia or Joe Judge. It could be
someone we don't even know. It could be one of
those guys. I mean, did you think that Bill Belichick

(28:15):
was heading towards the type of run he had the
first of all, Let's and and and to that point,
since I brought that up, I hope people don't expect
that someone that successes Bill Belichick in their lifetime will
accomplish what Bill Belichick was able to accomplish. Let's let's

(28:35):
just start right there. The expectations have got to be
in a realm of real realness, realistic realm. Let's start there.
And and sometimes your success can be your biggest undoing,
because Bill Belichick is always going to be judged based
off of what his success and his resume calls for,

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which in some regards you say, okay, that makes sense,
that's how it should be. But in other regards, it's
kind of like man, how many people have been able
to do what he's been able to do? None? None, none, him,
He's the only one. Yeah. I mean so one of
the low key, most like incredible accomplishments to me is
just winning his division so consistently. I mean, how many

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years in the road did they win it? Oh? God,
I mean for a while, it felt like they were
a shoe in every single year, and a shoe in
for at least a bye week in the playoffs. Yeah.
I think you had to expect that they were going
and you had to expect that they might make a
run for the super Bowl. Throughout the course of that time,

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you had to assume, oh, they missed it this year, Well,
they're probably going to come back and win it or
at least play for it the next year. It was
just a very dominant run for a really long time.
And I'm talking so you guys could look it up.
I don't know who's looking up. I'm looking it up.
I figured were they sally From twenty nineteen to two
thousand and nine, they won it every single year? They

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didn't win in two thousand and eight. That was the
turnaround year with Chad Pennington when the Dolphins won it
at eleven and five, but then they won it every
year from seven to three, with the exception of O
two where the Jets won it at nine and seven,
and then they won it again in two thousand and one.
So basically from one to two thousand and nineteen there

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was only two years they didn't win. The AFC's good
god man, double digit wins sixteen years in a row.
You're just not going to see that again. You're never
going to see that. Look for Bill Belichick to recreate
it and do it again. He could take as much
time as he wants. He wants to a coach until
he's ninety six. Do what you gotta do after that,
After that Roue though, where Peewee League? Where's who? You

(30:56):
know they'll be an expansion t by then. You know
that that league they're going to set up in Europe.
You know, maybe I'll coach over there. Two pros and
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downright ugly things. It's time four good, bad and all right,
lead to lap. What do we got this week? Well,
as we do each and every Wednesday, we start with
good and you know it's a good week when Brady
has the good. Yeah, yeah, I mentioned it earlier, dude,

(33:33):
Caitlin Clark is a baller. She's so much fun to watch.
Forty one points, she had a triple double. I think
it was a tenth of her career or something like that.
Forty one points, ten rebounds, twelve assists, three steals. She's
a baller. She's a ton of fun to watch. UM
plays obviously for Iowa, they take on. It was a
South Carolina I think of South Carolina's one undefeated team. Yes,

(33:55):
in women's basketball this year, one of the better defensive
teams going up against one of the better offense teams
could because of Caitlyn Clark. So that's the good. Caitlyn Clark.
If you haven't watched her, you gotta check her ound.
I'm telling you, she is a pointman. Intellivision, she's that good.
UM and uh, what was ESPN? I think it'll be
on Friday night. So yeah, check it out if you

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get a chance, because she is arguably the best women's
basketball player I've ever seen. That is good. I was
hoping for something a little different, but that's fine. You
got plenty from there. Hoping for Yeah, well, you know, Brady,
we missed out on him last week because he had
lots of good things to talk about. So number one,

(34:35):
your voice is back. That's so that's good. Yeah, that's good.
That's good. What would you have gone with if you
were Brady? Lee? You got a buddy now, Yeah. Member
of the problem is is that's not this week though.
That's that's the problem with the segment, Lee, is you
made it this week? Yeah? So sorry? Yeah, I think so.

(34:57):
I have the bat. Yes, LaVar, you do have the
big This is interesting because I mean mine is kind
of last week and the week before and the week
before that, and now it's here again this week. The
Lamar Jackson story, it's just bad. It's bad. It's bad
to continue talking about it. It's bad to cant. I mean,

(35:18):
I know we have to cover it. I know everybody's
got to talk about it because it's it's a story
and it's developing. But god, Lee, I just it's just
it's just don't I don't get a good feeling about it.
I don't get a good feeling talking about it. And
well that was my bad for this week. It's bad, Yeah,

(35:38):
bad all around. Jonas tell us what was all? I'll
tell you what's ugly. You know, it's not a good idea.
What stealing a HP Cruiser California highway patrol while it's moving?
You know what? You know what else? You know, it's
even worse than that when you decided fifty miles an
hour on a highway in southern California, did jump out

(35:58):
of the run out of the car? Yeah? Yeah, he
didn't make it. Uh so there's the videos he got
up in Rando. No he didn't. That was a cop
dragging him off the road. Yeah that that that that
driver and that thief did not make it. He decided
it was a good idea out here in southern California
to go ahead and steal a cop car then drive

(36:20):
away with it, and then at fifty miles an hour,
I'm just gonna go ahead and get out because I
think I'm gonna be able to land this correctly. I
don't know if he thought he was definitely did not
know his day's aver. I mean, man, that hit the
ground and it tried to keep up with the speed.
Yeah no he didn't. There's there's no more running in

(36:40):
his future. It's over. But yeah, that's that's the ugly.
I don't get why this is a California thing where
And maybe it's because we sensationalize it and we a
monitor and track these people that are stealing cars left
and right. But Jesus Burgundy, do you all right? I
blame it on morons out here in southern California who

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think it's a good idea to steal cop cars or
just speed away from cars. There was a guy three
weeks ago who was avoiding police and pulled over and
they didn't know whether or not they should get him
out of the car because he was doing something in
the car and he was like sucking on helium, like
he had a helium tank that he was sucking on
in the front seat. People are weird, they're strange, and

(37:25):
it gets ugly or every single care. Yeah, so there's that,
and it's raining again, so so that's always fun. Knee
uh sore, it's it's in between bad and ugly because
it's because you're not in California. Also, it would be
really bad right now. I don't know, man, my joint line.
It's just it's sore where I have the holes in

(37:47):
my cartilage, Like like what's going on in Baltimore right now?
Like where it's bone on bone, man, I'm just it's
just irritated man one Lamar and the Ravens. It's bone
on bone. By the way, do you think do you
think he's going to get anywhere close to one hundred
and thirty three million dollars that he got from Baltimore
already that he turned down. I hope he does somehow

(38:11):
come out with a way of making more than than
I think what thirty two million is what he's scheduled
to make of the non exclusive tag. I hope he does.
I really do. I would hate to see him, you know,
not get what I think he deserves. Um, that might
not be a fully guaranteed deal, but at least, you know,
getting paid something significant. I'd love to know how other

(38:33):
owners in the NFL treat Jimmy has one who walks
into a room now I squirrel Hill. Oh yeah, there's
the cloud Chase. Look at him. Yeah, loves it. He
loves it. There he is. There's a guy who ruined
it for everybody else. Way to go, buddy. Yeah. So
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