Anthony Gargano & The Fellas Discuss March Madness, NFL & Much More

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Don't listening the Fox Sports radion. Well, a good good, good,
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where the fellas I'm at to be Gargano and we'll
be joined by Kevin Fickers in a moment and we'll

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last night, Wow, what an upset. That was funny because
I you know, I heard Bernie talking about it, and
every the whole world's talking about it, you know Fairly Dickinson,
which is located about an hour and forty five minutes
through the Way's app from where I'm sitting right now,
just outside Philadelphia and uh, South Jersey. And it's so

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interesting because you know, the Fairly Dicketson coachs in that
speech that went viral where you know, he basically said
this team's though good and everybody heard it, and you
know again, and he wasn't doing it in a antagonistic way.
It was more of that, hey man, look we could
play with this team. And yet last night that game

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illustrates how far college basketball. I don't want to say
it's fallen, but it's fallen into priorty and maybe that's
the better way. But that game last night, where they
were pretty much an even team, those were even teams.
Now Perdue plays that game ten times. Perdue probably wins eight,

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you know, you know, maybe seven, you know, if fairly
Dickinson the you know, it gets hot type of thing.
But the biggest difference, and you know, this has been
a thing on the show, We've talked about this, but
the biggest difference between you know, the college basketball and
it's heyday and let's take nineties, right, so it's twenty

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five years ago, right, Let's let's go that route. The
biggest differences those teams that were at the top, those
one seeds like today's per Due where you know yesterday's
Duke unlv uh, you know, Michigan and those teams. Those

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teams were like NBA teams. Those teams had players that
would come back, and sixteen seeds had no chance. Like
the difference now is you know, like we've seen, right,
you've seen Firman in Virginia. You've seen these teams. These

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later you know, double digit seeds win games, and you know,
you could see Princeton beat Arizona. You could see these
teams because you know why, the disparity isn't that great,
whereas twenty five years ago, it was twenty five years ago.
And you remember the sixteen seed didn't beat that had

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never beaten a one seed and never would have because
they were facing teams that we're NBA type of teams
where kids were playing, you know, three and four years together.
This is the best of the crop of talent. So
and I don't want to diminish Fairley Dickinson because the

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accomplishments still accomplishment, still the big ten and it's still
a one seed in no maw you look at it.
So it's a great story. And you know, I love
the fact that that Fairley Dickinson played their hearts out
and were undeterred and unafraid, and yeah, they slay the dragon.
My only point and this is something we're gonna get

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into when we talk about this NTUAA tournament. Is the
dragons not as fierce as it once was. The dragon,
the the the capacity to you know, spew fire, it's
not as great as it once was. And I think
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The way tire buying should be. Good morning, Figgy moren Anthony,
some some great points made by you there, and how
the gap has been closed. Yeah, likewise, likewise got to

(04:29):
be back in ball flat this week because of I
was in baseball having Oh yeah, I was in Clearwater,
Florida for spring trading for the Phillies. Oh sweet. So yeah,
we were on assignment last week, so I couldn't get
I couldn't get with my boy. I've missed yet. We
got lots to get to with NFL free agency and
baseball and NBA, and you know, I feel like it's

(04:52):
two weeks my boy been. It's been. It's been a while.
You okay, the girls okay, I mean and the missus.
Everybody's good and everybody's fine, getting ready for the sun
is out finally after the deluge that we that hit
southern California last weekend. So everybody's good, everybody's happy. All
of our brackets have been somewhat destroyed over the last
couple of days, but it's about all right. It happens

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routinely this time of year. Were used to it. Yeah,
but I love it. You know, we talked about this
a couple of weeks ago, the parody in college basketball
to a certain degree, I like, so it certainly doesn't
bother me. I did not have perdue going super far
in the tournament for the very reason and that we
discussed on this show a couple of weeks ago. Anthony too,
was like, they have a very young backcourt, and you

(05:34):
put pressure on them, those guys will clam up and
turn the ball over. And that's exactly what they did.
It's really difficult to win when you have two freshmen
guards and starting in your backcourt, even if you are
a one seat facing against an experienced team that might
not be as talented as you are. But it goes
to your point. You know, back then, you you cycle
guys in and out. You know, you'd have your your sophomores,

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your juniors and seniors, they'd cycle out, guys will come
in who red shirt behind them. You just don't have
that nowadays, even at the highest level. So that's why
you can have a senior laden team and experienced team
like an f DU go up against a team that's,
yes it plays in the Big Ten, like Purdue, but
doesn't have a whole lot of experience at the most
key positions, and these sorts of things will happen, and

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they're going to continue to happen because of how college
basketball is currently structured. Yeah, I you know, and I'll
be honest with you. I miss the really good teams.
I do. I miss it a little bit. I you know, listen,
the parody's fun and you know, I listen to tournament.

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So I love the tournament. But you know, we've done this,
you and I've done this for a long time. And
you know, I mean, I look, I'm we're geek at one,
geek at over, and I geek out all the time
over the tournament and love it's, you know, fantastic. It
was great two days. So I don't want to you know,
I don't want to diminish it at all, but I
have to, you know, keep it one haunted and tell

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you I do miss college basketball at its apic. Like
this version of college basketball it is just okay, like
as far as counts concerned, where you know, I go
back and you know, we think about these upsets and
all of a sudden your mind starts to wander and
you know, all these exciting games and then all the

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sighting teams, and you know, I mean there were teams that,
like you said it about cycling guys in. I mean,
can you imagine that you have three seniors that were
that are that are ready to step in and dominate
the NBA right right, and then you're then all of
a sudden, you're a freshman sophomore fighting for minutes. I mean,

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you only got forty minutes to go around. And you
could imagine the type of players for these blue bloods
and great teams, like these great teams, like you couldn't
crack a starting line, like you had to wait until
the matri the matriculation process happened right before you got
your shot. Now, I'm not saying, listen, we've talked. This

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is a separate argument. The kids deserve to get paid,
you know, all day long. So I'll never big rudge
kid money. But I just missed college basketball at its
eight packs. Yeah, and it's a it's a different dynamic
than college football, where like the issue is guys don't
want to sit and wait their turn. They just want
to enter the portal every five minutes. You know. A
college Yeah, a college basketball the dynamic is a little

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bit different because I mean, first of all, it's just
a bigger pie. There are a lot of different places
that you can go. And then all they have the
the G League two that is, which is the door
has been open for talented players to go there not
necessarily have to do the one and done. And I've
been saying it for years, Anthony I said, when the
NBA finally changes their one and done rule, and it's
on the horizon in this new CBA, at least I
feel that it is. I think we'll get at least

(08:44):
a little bit closer to going back to college basketball
the way that we loved it, the way that you
just described, because guys that go to college are guys
that want to go to college, not guys that feel
like they're forced to have to go to college. And look,
you're still gonna have guys that come in for a
year or two, but even like, look this point, well
gladly takes super sophomores. You mean you tell me a
guy's going to return that actually that I've actually heard

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of for once? Oh my god, let's take it. So yeah,
So what's the NBA and their rule has our college
basketball more than anything? Oh you're you're so spot on
and look, it's it's goes back to that point that
you know recognition. You said it, Oh, I can recognize
a name, and that's a big deal. Like you talk
about Purdue and you talk about the freshman backcourt, and

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you know, let's face it, these sports fans we got
so much bandwidth, right, Like, you know, there's whatever our
sport is, and you know we all love the brackets.
But if you ask the lions share of sports fans
across the country and you just break it up in
a pie, you know, football obviously gets the biggest lights

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of the pie, right as your number one where you
know players and where they're going and where they're at.
And then you got your NBA and your baseball, right
and then you know, down the line you got college football,
and then down the line you got you got college basketball.
So when the college basketball season begins, you know, if

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you're a normal American that has a life and whatever
you got going on, you're either out and young, building
a career, or maybe you got a family and you're
doing your things. You know, you turn around, it's it's
February as to the super Bowl, and you're going, I
didn't even know who these kids are who are playing
at you know, Duke in North Carolina and you know

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Perdue right like turn around, you go, oh, man, well
who's this? Unless you're you know, an a lum or,
unless you are you follow it that closely, it's hard
for you know, the average sports fan to really cleave
to it. Yeah, And it becomes much easier when you
have named players like Drew Timmy who's been at Gonziger

(10:55):
for fifteen years, you know, but it's like, oh all right,
just like, hey, I've heard of that guy, all right,
you know that? Or Zach Dy who's been at Produce
for three like you you you, But outside of those,
you gets like a handful of players, Anthony, that most
people can if even that if you look at today's
tournament or the this year's tournament and look at the
teams and say like, oh, yeah, I know a guy
from that team and a guy from that team, it's

(11:16):
few and far between. Oscar Sheeway Kentucky's a four year guy.
But they're just aren't guys that you can be familiar with.
And I think that more than anything, even more so
than the parody upsets are gonna happen now, you know,
they're the anomalies of you know, two upsets over the
last six years where one seeds have lost. It's certainly ridiculous,
but upsets are gonna happen regardless. But I think it

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lessens the sting a little bit when yet again we
talk about having familiarity with teams that are actually able
to build names and build momentum and be learned to
love be loved, they're learned to be hated, you know.
I think all of that is important to the narrative
and going towards the tournament. So it's funny good. So
my producer is twenty eight, all right, So I was

(12:01):
telling him that's less the stories of like the nineties
and n C Double A, right, yeah, and you know
and UNLV and Michigan the Fab five, right, and we're
talking about that the Late in your Duke, like the
show we were playing the all the all those great
moments you know from that stuff, and you know, Larry

(12:25):
Johnson and you know all this stuff, and we were
took Syrah Qughs and the Big East and these great
teams and it's funny because you could you're right, like
you knew, you know, the whole starting line up. Yeah. Yeah,
like the starting lineup of these teams, and they would
all go to the NBA. Oh yeah, almost every last

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one of them, all of them because they they had
chemistry that grew together, they had experience, and they fought
through growing pains. You know, that was the thing too.
So you felt like you saw, you know, the UNLV
team and all the deep runs of the undefeated season
and Duke knocking them off and like all of these
things like came to a head. But I mean now

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it's just like we wait until the tournament and we
all casually just kind of you know, keep an eye
on things. If you even do that, I'm sure there's
a large number of people who probably didn't watch a
second of college basketball this year, you know, And that
was just a sad part, because I still I think
it's a great game. I think it's a great with you, man,
I'm completely with you. Hey, Look, the beauty of March

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is you know, fairly Dickinson right, and and and also
just a great ball that we saw over the first
two days of the tournament, which are always the best days. Man.
You know, that Florida Atlantic Memphis game was incredible basketball. Man,
It wasn't it. It was? It really was. Now shoot
the ball that Florida. I liked it, man, Yeah, yes

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they can, they can. Penny was not was not too happy.
I love the water bottle halfway across the board. Yeah yeah, yeah,
I'm a big penny than too hardaway. Yeah, I mean
that goes back to my youth of course. Yeah, the
line too, that's right. Yeah, the old little Penny Chris
Rock commercials and the sweet sneakers that my mom wouldn't

(14:11):
buy from me because she said that too expensive. So
I had to set up for the Larry Johnson's. I
love Larry Johnson Grandmama, by the way, but still not
the same. Yeah, they were a bit of the bobo sneaker.
They were compared to the Pennies. Absolutely. But see so
now the issue we have with this, uh now, Anthony
is you know, we love upsets, and I think Colin
Cowherd has brought this up a couple of times. You

(14:32):
love upsets until you don't. Because now we fast forward
to Sunday and all of a sudden, are matchup to
get to the Sweet sixteen is now between Fairly Dickinson
and Florida Atlantic. So I wonder how many people. How
many people are gonna be like, hey, I'll skip that one. Yeah,
it's a great point, it really is. Well, let's do this,
let's let's come back. We'll go over the slate yesterday

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and then we'll set up today's games. And uh, we
got a lot to get to. We got to get
to the NFL. We gotta get to the NBA. You
and I got a lot of catching up to do.
Oh yeah, you know, we got a geek out like
we always do every Saturday mornings, the Fellas right here
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We got football on the horizon. But let's go through

(15:43):
the stories of yesterday and day two of the tournament
and Saint Patrick's day. How was your Saint Patrick's day? Figgy? Um,
it was just Friday from me, Anthony, to be honest
with you, went to work, went home, took my my
Friday nap, woke up, did a little grind and then
came into the office here. So I mean that's that

(16:03):
was That was my Saint Patty's day. How about here?
You know, it's funny, same thing. Like you know, we're
we did a lot, yes, Sehi was We had to
tourn him inside my show and we were alive from
a remote for the basketball and then we I had
you remember Jamir Nelson, I remember him well. So Jamir

(16:23):
is terrific, a great guy and a friend of Mite.
So we did an appearance together. Nice. What's he up
to now? So he's now working in the Sixers front office? Oh?
No way? Nice? Yeah, yeah, of course Jamir was one
of the heroes of March for Saint Josephs Saint Joseph's
He and Delonte West, who we are hoping, thinking and
praying about who's had to be issues recently. But uh,

(16:45):
those are great teams. And Jamir had had an excellent
pro career as well, so nice career. So he's doing
a working in the NBA front office was good for him. Yeah,
we were talking about what it's like and you know,
a lot of fun. So we were going into the
whole NBA front office stuff, and Jimmy's doing great. So
we were we were there for the tournament. So but

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next thing, you know, it's you know, six o'clock and
not you know, Saint Patty's Day. People are out old
day and it's funny, you know, a couple of people
came up and this one guy, I mean he was
slearing dead. You know, it's like, hey man, he's taking
big here. It's like sure, you know whatever. He was like, guy,

(17:30):
it wasn't belligerent. I think he was just it wasn't
like drunk. Yeah, the crazy party was it was nine
fifteen in the morning when he came up to you.
That's well, you know what it was literally it was
three o'clock. Yeah, you know, so like people were whacked. Yeah,
yeah by then for sure, Oh my god. And he
wasn't alone. It was you know, people were just pounded yesterday.

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Oh I get it, because it's the double wammy. Not
only is the Saint Patrick's Day triple wammy. Saint Patty's
Day Friday, second day of the NC Double A Tournament. Yeah,
I mean, I mean that's just that's a recipe for
either disaster or or or or amazement whatever. How do
you choose to look at it, you know, exactly hysterical.
I mean, you know people are funny. Oh, I can imagine. Hey,

(18:13):
you know when you know when you're not you know,
I'm in work mode, right, Yeah, there's no there's no drinking,
there's no party, and it's it's work mode. Yeah, you're
locked in, you know, and and you know when people
are like, you're like, oh man, you know it's funny. Um, hey,
real quick before we get to this, do you anything
about iPhones? What's that about iPhones? Do you know anything

(18:34):
about them? A little bit? Okay, So my phone, for
some reason, I guess it's the it's either I don't
know if it's the newest version. What's cool, maybe the
second newest version. Right, it doesn't turn on. Now. I
woke up in a panic. All right, because my I

(18:56):
on Saturday. On Saturdays, I like downstairs in my house
and account so I don't you know, I don't oversleep
because we get up earli East Coast time. We start
to show at five am. So I get up at
like four or fifteen, and we uh, I have my
phone plugged in. I thought it was plugged in. I

(19:18):
looked in and it was a red bar, so I
made sure it was plugged in, so my alarm was
set and I said a couple of alarms, and then
I woke up and in a panic, and the phone
was dead. I rushed to the It's funny I heard
you and Bernie talking about um daylight savings time right
because I rushed to the to the clock in the

(19:40):
kitchen and it's like quarter to four, and I'm like, oh,
thank god, I'm not late, because I you know, you
never know. You wake up, you go, what the hell
time it is? So then I connect to the studio.
So I'm listening to you guys talking about the daylight
savings and the whole thing. All it screws up. And
then but meanwhile my phone just is dead. You won't

(20:02):
turn on, and I think to plug the outlets work? Huh,
So was it? So there's it's not on at all.
Because initially you said like a red bar. I thought
at some point it was low in battery, so I
don't know if it might have just died on me
and whatever, but I thought I plugged it in, And
now I definitely plugged it in when I got up,

(20:25):
and there's still it's still nothing like I can't even
get you know, sometimes when you charge, you'll get the
red bar or whatever. You'll see the battery with like
a little sliver of a red Yeah, I got nothing.
I mean just just absolutely nothing's dead, so completely dead.
And you've tried the restart method. You hold the big
button on the right side with your thumb and you
press the bottom value button and you hold that down

(20:46):
for about twenty thirty seconds. Yeah, and it's still nothing,
nothing interesting. Yeah, I don't know if you can figure
that's about it's something out. Yeah, that's about the extent
of mine now, because typically that works for me. Okay,
you would you would put you hold the right not
the volume button the other side, the other side. Yeah,
you hold that in and then what do you do?

(21:08):
So you hold that, I would try to hold that
in for twenty thirty seconds. If that does nothing, try
holding that and the down valume button on the opposite
side of the phone. Hold them both down together for
about twenty seconds and see if that does anything. Because
that's supposed to be a bit of a side of
factory reset, but sort of a reset for the phone,
at least in my experience. Yeah, yeah, I don't know

(21:29):
who knows and beyond that, just maybe given a couple
of whacks like the old the old TV back in
the day. Oh that's great, all right, Why here was
some trending brother, And then we'll get into yesterday's action
and what we can find the head in with the weekend.
All right? Well, talking about yesterday's action for the second
time in six years, second time ever as a matter

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of fact, sixteen seed upsetting a number one seed in
the NCAA tournament fairly Dickinson's stunning perdue sixty three to
fifty eight. Zachidi did have twenty one points in fifteen
boards for the boiler Makers, but as a team, they
shot under thirty seven percent from the field. They committed
sixteen turnovers which fairly digets, and scored fifteen points off
of fairly digats. It will take on ninth seat at

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Florida Atlantic. They hit a late lay up to upset
Memphis sixty six to sixty five. A good one between
Arizona State and TCU horn Frogs pulling away with a
seventy two to seventy victory on a late lay up there,
Indiana beating Kent State seventy one to sixty Miami had
comeback victory over Drake Gonzaga Yukonie Kansas State with victories
as well if the NBA Dallas improved to a game

(22:33):
over five hundred with a one point victory over the Lakers,
Maxi Clebag hitting a three pointer as time expired, thirty
four points for Jason Tatum for Boston and a victory
over Portland, thirty eight points for Joel and b leading
Philadelphia over Charlotte. The Hawks beat the Warriors one twenty
seven to one. Nineteen. Golden State have lost ten consecutive
road games over time victories for Memphis and Chicago. Back

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to the Fellas, we are the Fellas my main and
the fig because would come be alive from the tire
rack dot Com studios. So yesterday, let's just go through
some of the games. Marquette looks real good now they
blow out Vermont. But Marquette, I think Figgy were that

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point guard. I love that kid man, that point guard.
They look like they got a chances to seed in
the East. Oh yeah, They've been great all season long
in the Big East. So to no surprise of a
very few that they were able to handle Vermont as
handily as they did, so no surprise is there for me, Marquette.

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I didn't keep a super close eye on this one
because it kind of played out the weather that I
thought it would. But yeah, they're definitely a dangerous team
that's gonna make a deep run Gonzaga. You mentioned Timmy
and Gonzaga. Who you know. It's funny because we all said, God,
a little bit of down here for Gonzaga. Meanwhile, twenty
nine to five, they blew out Saint Mary's in its

(24:00):
conference championship game and it's just playing really good basketball. Yeah,
although um, I do think I might have them losing
in this uh this very next game, I will say, no,
will get to it. Curious, Yeah, Uh, Yukon all over
Iona and Rick Pettino. Yukon, by the way, is a

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darling from the from the analytics people. Like the analytics
people that runs sim that look at the matchups deep
into the numbers really are bullish on Yukon and Yukon
roles by twenty four yesterday. Yeah, I guess that probably
Rick Patino swan song at Iona is considering how a

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loose if he was talking about his future. But yeah,
Uka's a dangerous team. They were kind of a if
there's a sexy pick that's not a one or a
two seed throughout the entire tournament. Uh, the Yukon definitely
has picked up a lot of a lot of that momentum.
I think it's probably because of the side of the
bracket they're on two. To a certain degree, they have
Saint Mary's coming up or certainly won't be easy, but

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I think many of us expect them to pick up
that victory. Then they have the winner of Kansas. Arkansas,
and Kansas, as good as they've been this year, have
not been world beaters either. I don't think most people
will be surprised if Yukon could find a way to
heat t Ket to really get at them in the
Sweet sixteen. So I certainly understand why people will love
Yukon not only because of the year they've had, but
because of the bracket. They're into Beller Baylor and you

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see Santa Barbara Baylor all over them. Seventy four fifty
six Baylor courts to three Seaton one in the excuse me,
three seeds in the South region, and you know again
that big twelve is just nasty. You see a lot
of terrific ball out of there, and Baylor looks to

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be a team again you gotta watch out for. Yeah,
they have this uh, this young freshman. Again, we're talking
about young players. They're not going to be around long.
Kant Ageorge I don't think have the greatest game against UCSB,
which by the way, UCSB have to have to lead
at halftime by a point or two. I believe before
nine to twenty, Baylor outscored you see Santa Barbara and

(26:13):
in the second half, Yeah, well you have talented guards
like Flaggler and George. I mean, Baylor can make a
deep run too, So they're they're a team to watch
out for. Xavier, uh survives Kennisault State many Kennsault State
with that's tow that. Then they were up by seven.
They pushed the lead to double digits and everybody was like, oh,

(26:36):
look it is before x storms back and at last
ten minutes they just had a lid on the basket,
which is which was tough to see, which was tough
to see for them. Xavier is another one of those
teams out of the Big East that's been really tough
and high expectations this year, or I should say in
the tournament. So I don't necessarily have them making a
deep run. I don't believe. We'll have to double check,

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but I think I have them losing their next game.
But uh certainly wouldn't surprise me if they were to
make it to the next weekend for sure, because they
are talented. Uh kse State over Montannis State has expected
Miami with a good second half. They beat Drake because

(27:18):
they were. They were on the ropes a little bit.
They were. I actually had Drake winning this game, so
oh man, that's a good pick. So I was looking
little good for a while. Man, Yeah, it really were.
But again, you know, a similar situation like we're talking
about with Kinnessall State. It was a little bit deeper
in the game at this point for Miami, but I'd
say the last three or four minutes they really clamped
down and Drake just started making mistakes. And sometimes, guy,

(27:39):
you know, the moment gets really big for guys. Uh,
And that'll happen at the end the college game. So
that's why no lead is ever safe. You say a
team is up by fifteen points with seven minutes left,
that means nothing because a lot of times these guys
will melt down. Yeah. Not in this sport man, you're
spot on. Uh Saint Mary's VCU Saint Mary's when this one,

(28:01):
it was tight for much of the U It was
like the all first half and into the second half,
and then then Sat Mary's pulls away. Indiana never a
sweat against Kent State. I thought Kent was live as
a thirteen seed, but Indiana controlled it from the tip.
I love Indiana. Indiana is a team that I think
a lot of people are sleeping on. And like Zach Eat,

(28:21):
he's probably gonna win Player of the Year, but the
guy like who should be right behind him as Tracey
Jackson Davis, who's excellent for Indiana. Like, so I have
them making it to the Final four, believe it or not.
So guess what, that's not crazy? Twenty four eleven boards,
five blocks, and he does it routinely and did it
all season long, and he just kind of flew under

(28:43):
the radar. He's not the you know, not the flashiest athlete.
He doesn't jump out to make a bunch of you know,
highlight reels. But you just look at the box score
every single night and he fills it up. He's a
he's a spectacular player, and they can shoot you know
when they when they're on. I don't think they shot
the ball particularly well against Kent State, but generally speaking,
they're good defensively and they can make the outside shot.

(29:03):
If you can do that, that means you can win
a lot of games. We mentioned a penny hardaway Memphis
going down. It was a thrilling game. It really was
Florida Atlantic, good team FAU, and it was it just
was wild man, yeah, a wild finish. Yeah. It was
competitive throughout, and we haven't had a whole lot of
those games so far through the first couple of days

(29:25):
of the tournament, so this was kind of a wire
to wire two teams that were pretty evenly matched, even
though I think Memphis was I don't know if I'll
say they were heavily favored, but they were definitely favored.
It's definitely an upset that FAU was able to win it.
But I'm just glad that we had a couple of
competitive games because a lot of these were blowouts. Yeah,
and that was a good one. Michigan State survived, Michigan

(29:46):
stayed up early, USC made a great run, a couple
of tie the game in halftime. Again, Michigan State pumps
out and USC makes another second hand from like you
said before already and Izzo runaway with it. Yeah, two
teams that really didn't have a lot of faith in
So I thought, I thought Michigan State would be USC.

(30:08):
But Michigan State this is probably one of the least
talented rosters that Tom Mizzo's ever had. They have some
grit and they grind and that's how they win, which is,
you know, give them credit for it. And USC has
some talent, but one of the best players, Rue Peterson's
been battling a back injury and it's affected him the
last two and a half weeks. So just based on
that and knew what was going to be a struggle
for them. Creton could play lad It's good man, you know,

(30:30):
although I had NC stayed upsetting them, So again there
goes my bracket. So not that I didn't dislike Creton,
but look, you know, and by the way, upsets are
going to happen somewhere too, So you kind of look
over and say, all right, where do I think I
could find a potential upset here? So I thought that
NC State the way they can shoot the ball at times,
but they merges. I believe two or fourteen from three

(30:51):
point range. So they were caught in the struggle to
say the least. So but kudos to Creton h K.
Chucky sixty one to fifty three over Providence. Again, they
were down at I mean there was a they were
up at half right, and then all of a sudden,
Providence makes it run and they kept that game a

(31:14):
little a little tight. Kentucky. Uh you know, I mean, listen,
that's a team that can make a run. Man. You
know they're well coached, they're there, and they have an
easy road. Like Kentucky and Duke, those blue bloods. It
looks like one of them has a chance to make
that run. Yeah, I think Duke more than Kentucky. I
have issues with Kentucky offensively sometimes. I know on defense

(31:37):
they can ball out and Oscar Shiboy is a monster.
He he only had eight points, but he had twenty
five rebounds. I think eleven of them are on the
offensive end. Like so when you can control the glass
and play tough defensively, yeah, you can be in every
single game. I mean, twenty five board that's ridiculous, right, Yeah?
Is that amazing? Like he is a classic like throwback.
He he would have played for John Thompson at Georgetown.

(32:00):
He's one of those guys you know, deadband, and so
he's he's one of my favorite players, absolutely, but something
offensively for me is missing with Kentucky at times, and
so that's why I wouldn't quite put them in Duke's class.
Duke is great defensively, and now they're turning to the
corner offensively with some of their guys who are heating
up some of their young players who've kind of found

(32:20):
their stride a little bit. Uh Miles and TCU on
the ropes. They look like they're going down. Furious come
back and they steal it against Arizona State. So another
back twelve team goes down. Hyeah, buddy, sorry, Oh it's fine.
I saw it coming. I mean I pretty much figured

(32:41):
that it was going to be UCLA having playing that time.
I mean, they had the game they did, they had
it locked down, which, by the way, I didn't pick
them out. Had TCU, I have TCU beating Gonzaga, so
he see you making it having a couple of upsets,
So that would have burned me pretty pretty heavily. Had
TCU and I found a way to beat Arizona State
on Friday night. But uh, a great run by ASU,

(33:01):
by the way, just to make it into the tournament.
They at the half the half court buzzer beater against Arizona,
the big win against USC and the PAC twelve tournament,
the play in game, so they so I guess kudos
to them from battling back from pretty much being dead
a month ago to even making it into the tournament.
So I'll give them that at least. Uh rolls, man,

(33:23):
I mean, Iowa State, what was it like, nineteen to
four or and maybe not an art off it was
something ridiculous, Yeah, it was. It was ugly twenty two. Yeah,
it was like twenty was twenty two to four something
like that. Well you saw, And so initially, I guess
the officials there was an issue with the rim that
Iowa State was shooting at that they started shooting at

(33:46):
in the first half, so they had to adjust it,
and they're like, wow, how is Iowa State this bad
on offense? There has to be an issue with the rim.
Then they came out in the second half on the
other side and shot just as poorly, sort of like well, yeah,
maybe Iowa State just can't make a basket. That's just
maybe they just can't. Oh man, that was brutal. Forty
one points and Division one college battle and this is

(34:06):
a big twelve team, I know, unbelievable. I mean that
was just bad man bad scored eighteen points in the
second half. Yeah, yeah, wow, no good, no good. All right,
We're gonna take a quick TiO. We'll come back and
you know, I want to go through, you know, the

(34:27):
rest of the slate. We got that coming on. We
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(34:51):
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on Fox back from the entire IRAQ dot com studios.
The Fellas think. I was just talking to E our producer,
So he asked me what was new with the kids

(35:13):
and all. So remember I was coaching, yes, right, so
my uh my fourth grade my mons post team that
we were in a tournament. We lost in the semifinals
and this is basketball, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, so all
the kids, so they go to Saint Margaret's, right, So
all the capitolic schools in my part of Jersey are

(35:35):
all in this tournament. So we lost in the semifinals. Kid,
it's a shot with three seconds left, and it just
you know, God bless the kid. It's a shot. Even
the coach goes, this kid wouldn't hit the shot, you know,
ten out of ten times. So the kid, it's a shot.

(35:56):
So it's funny. I called time out and the kids
come and to start balling, crying away. It's not over.
It's not over. But I was telling E because we
were talking about Virginia and the Virginia game, right, and
I'm like, I got my own press break, Like I
would have been furious at my fourth graders. We're making

(36:19):
that play, right, I mean, I was funny, I was
telling I was telling E. So my point guard is
my son Masumo, right, so I had I run him
off a back pick. Right. So if I'm inbounded underneath
my basket and they're they're gonna press me because you
know they at that age a press all the time, right,

(36:41):
So you press me. So I run Mosmo off a
back pick. I have the inbounder sprint to just above
the three point circle. I got my secondary ball handler
along the right sideline, right right, so then Masumo has
the ball if he's double, which then they try to
double him. He's got two passing options. He's supposed to

(37:04):
go to the secondary bowl handler or to his right
along the sideline, or he has the inbound there to
his left, so two easier passes in front of him
to break it. And then I have my baseball option
all the way down to the other foul line. And
it worked every time, like we worked every time. You know,

(37:29):
come on, bro, you gotta break the press. Yeah, I mean,
but again, will you practice it? You now, you guys
have executed this in games before. I'm assuming too, but
it's one of those things if you haven't and you
once you're under pressure in a playoff game, everything changes.
Now when I go to the Kim from Virginia Clark,

(37:51):
Now he was on that he was a freshman on
the team that lost in the first round, has a
number one seed, but he was also on that team
that came back and won the national championship. Yeah, I mean,
this guy's been there for five years. Now, so he's like,
he's like the last player on the roster you would
think would come up come into play like that with
the time out in your pocket. Nonetheless, right, you have
to call the time you feel for him because now

(38:17):
that's the last play of his college basketball career. Yeah,
that's terrible. That's Fred Brown. It is Fred Brown. Yeah,
the old throwing up to James Worthy. That's right, Yeah, Georgetown. Yeah,
that's exactly what that is. That's all terrible. It is terrible.
It's terrible. You like my my press break, Yes, I do.
That's great. The hell of a job there, coach. So

(38:41):
so that's what how I hurt my achilles tendon. Well,
not the press break, but I was I put in
a matchup zone, right, So I was coaching Antony Mike
seventh grade, the seventh eighth graders, so I was helping
them out while I was coaching the young ones, and
we put in a matchup zone, the John Cheney matchup zone.

(39:02):
So I'm showing them about you know, how you recover, right.
I do all the drills with them, right and went by,
so you know, you collapse, so you have a double
right when the ball goes say the point guard, you
come above mid court. We're the three tyrodactyls. We we
the two. The two collapse on the double, and then

(39:25):
wherever he goes left or right, that that other guard
has to circle back and recover to the basketball to
double all on the wing right, and you know, and
then we rotate right. Everybody rotates, and that's like the
soul of the matchup. And then you're you're attacking passing
lanes and you're attack and you're and you're trying to

(39:47):
double the basketball to get turnovers and runouts. So we're
all doing that and I wind up there was like
a lump the side of the strawbarry in the back
of my achilles, and I get the alright, so it's
it's Parsley torn. So you had already This was not
something that just came out of nowhere. You had an
okay because I thought this might be like a Kevin

(40:09):
Durant situation where you're just like, all right, you show
a little drill and you do a little layup. That
was nowhere how my left when I did it? Like that?
Did you? And that's fella, somebody shot me in the
bend the back. Yeah, it was that's tough. All right,
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(41:33):
free agency is U been a wild week in the NFL?
I mean just incredible. The Dolphins pair amazing two corners
with their amazing U receivers, adding Jalen Ramsey, and they

(41:54):
just look nasty. I mean, Jalen Ramsey. Truth they are.
They look pretty good man. I'll tell you the Dolphins.
Let me ask you a question. Do you buy all
the Brady rumors circulating around Miami? Zero? Okay? I buy
nothing into it, none at all. So you're for sure

(42:17):
you believe that he's staying retire. Yeah, I think he's done.
I don't think he's gonna do that. I will say
if he were to come out of retirement, Miami would
but literally be the only place that he would go.
It would have to be somewhere in Florida where his
kids are. But even with that, I think I think
he's hanging them up. Yeah, it looks um. I'll tell
you one thing, man, they look pretty good. Xavier Howard

(42:40):
and Jalen Ramsey not bad. Not a bad tandem. So
a lot of capital you're putting into a took two
cornerbacks though, I'll say that. So the Jets and Lazard
are finalizing a four year, forty four million dollar deal.
According to Mike Garrell, Folo and Uh part of Aaron

(43:03):
Rodgers wish list for the Jets. As Rogers prepares to
go to New York. I mean, did you have to
give him a four year deal? Like, I don't know,
not as art as a decent player, but is this
is what happens when you have to you start turning
over your roster to these players. And it's like if

(43:24):
it was Aaron Rodgers and he was twenty eight and
not thirty eight, thirty nine, maybe, but I mean, you
have no guarantee the guy's gonna be there for longer
than a year, you know, and so you're going to
invest into this guy who I just don't think it's
the smartest business decision for the Jets as a whole,
and unfortunately for Jet fans. This is just kind of
how your franchise operates and has operated for years. I

(43:47):
gotta tell you I felt the same thing. Are I mean,
you're kidding me. It's not like the Jets don't have
greatly like you know, Wilson's ridiculous. Yeah, you know what
I mean, they got weapons. They need to protect them.
That's that's what I say about the problem is you know,
you get in bed with someone like Aaron Rodgers, you
know it's I think I made this analogy last week
that Aaron Rodgers is like Lebron James. When he comes

(44:08):
into your your program, it turns into his program. He
wants to bring in his guys, and you know, his presence,
his talent, whatever words you want to use, is so undeniable.
And if you're desperate enough, like the Lakers were when
they brought in Lebron and they had to make the
playoffs in forever, like the Jets are, and they haven't
been a legitimate, you know, playoff contender for years, you know,

(44:29):
you end up conceding and giving these guys whatever they want,
even if it means giving forty million dollars to who's
probably a ten million dollar receiver. Dude, I'm with you.
I go I don't. I just don't see that. And
even with all that anthony, Like, just even if he's there,
let's say they complete the trade, whatever the hang up

(44:49):
is gets worked out, he goes there. Do we really
think the Jets are a super Bowl contender going into
next year? I mean, they're a solid team. I think
they can compete for a playoff spot. But we look
at that division. Are they are they better? Yeah? Yeah?
The Bills? Are they even better than Miami. Maybe they're
maybe they're on par with Miami. Maybe that's about as
far as I'm willing to go on that. Yeah, I

(45:11):
don't think it makes that big of a difference one
way or the other. Of Aaron Rodgers is there, And
if he doesn't make that big of a difference, why
would you give up assets to bring him in to
begin with? Yeah, I see, I'm with you, man, I
feel the same way. I just go really yeah, yeah.
And there's there's a couple of teams that it's like,
if Aaron Rodgers is there, all right, he puts them

(45:32):
over the top of their championship contenders, Like I think
San Francisco's one, and you can argue San Francisco has
one without them, So they don't even need them to
begin with, if you want to look at it that way.
But a lot of the other teams that were at
least rumored to be in the sweepstakes for him, like
the Raiders, they'd have they need too much. They weren't
going to do that, you know, So I just don't.
And the problem for the Jets is they're negotiating against

(45:53):
themselves now, and by Aaron Rodgers publicly saying on Pat
McAfee showed that, Yeah, I'm going to the Jets. This
is where I want to go. It has to be
worked out compensation wise. Well, that doesn't help the Jets,
you know, no, not at all, because look, the Packers
are going to be on the hook for his money,
you know, regardless, you know, there's part of his bonus.
Even when they trade him they redo his deal that
they know, there's gonna be a lot of dead money

(46:14):
tied to him. So people are like, oh, what if
he know, Aaron Rodgers decides to show up at training camp,
or what if he doesn't retire and he's like, all right,
where are they retires or not? They're on the hook
for his money, So it doesn't matter from that standpoint.
So when people say like, oh, the you know, the
the initial thought where oh the Jets are not in
the power seat, the Packers are, and it's just like, well,
I don't necessarily know if that's you know, you know

(46:37):
that the truth of that entire matter, but oh my god,
so it's it's bad your Raiders, Jimmy g Jacoby Myers. Yeah,
the Jacoby Myers thing was interesting because as soon as
he they signed him, I said to myself. This means
that either Hunter Renfro or Darren Waller are gone, because

(46:59):
that they were. There was no way they were going
to commit that much salary to the same position. Darren
Waller might as well be a receiver, so they were
not going to pay Waller, Renfro, Adams, Andrew Kobe Myers
that kind of money. I am a little surprised that
it was Waller and not Renfro, but Waller has not
been necessarily durable, and I guess he and McDaniels didn't
really click. So you see a wife I did. But

(47:21):
the wedding, Yes, the whole story of the wedding with
Kelsey Plum, and it wasn't supposed to be made public,
and hey, Josh McDaniels made in public. Yeah, and his
wife everybody got mad and he wasn't in white to
the wedding and that his wife tweeted that their instagram said,
you know, that's the reason why he's out. I don't
think that's the reason why he's out, because these rumors

(47:42):
were going around last year. If you remember Anthony, there
are rumors that I forget exactly who the team was.
It wasn't the Giants, but that there was a team
that was in on Darren Waller and that there was
there were talks of having a trade and it just
didn't come through. So this is something that's kind of
been brewing for a little bit. Um So I just
think that Darren Waller is just just didn't mesh with
what Josh McDaniels and his program is. And again, he's

(48:04):
only played I think he's played fourteen games in two years.
So as great as he is, he's not durable. So
I certainly understand people are arguing, like, well, you only
got a third round pick for this guy. Ye, all right,
the Rams only got a third round pick for Jayala Ramsey.
I got a third round pick in a backup tight end.
So that that's just unfortunately, maybe the market for for
certain guys right now, the potending for depending on their

(48:26):
salaries and where they are in their careers. I mean,
I think Waller is thirty one, Ramsey I think is
thirty or turning thirty, So you're talking about guys that
are kind of on the back ends of their primes
at this point. Ramsey has been durable at the very least,
but yeah, Waller just can't stay on the field. So
I'm not necessarily happy, but I certainly understand the move. Yeah,

(48:47):
I I you know, I guess you know. You look
at it so in the eat in the NFC, and
this is wild, right because the NFC's depleted of a
lot of talent, right like with with Aaron Rodgers down
going to go to the Jets. Look at this thing.

(49:09):
This is pretty nuts. So I actually like what the
Cowboys did. They got Stefan Gilmore. I thought that was
a really good pick for a fifth round pick. I mean,
if even if he's not what he was two years ago,
he's dum means still, my god, I thought that was good.
I'm not a Daniel Jones guy, but you know, yeah,

(49:31):
I no butts for me. I thought that was a
terrible investment. I know, they went to the playoffs last
year and he had to win against the Vikings, who
were fugazzy, as you would say. So I feel like
you could have there there was any number of quarterbacks
that could have done what Daniel Jones did last year. Yeah,
like you you can invest in a hundred and you
gave me one hundred and sixty million dollars deal. I mean,

(49:52):
I mean, I I rather a go Jimmy Gah, did
Daniel Jones? I mean, I just don't say it. I
know he Daniel Dales can move a little bit, but
he ain't Lamar. No. I'd rather try to draft a
young guy, and I would have brought in like a
Gardner Minshew, who's in with the Colts now, Somebody like that,
A guy that I know can play a little bit,
you know, make a little Blaze's not perfect, He's not

(50:13):
an ideal starter, but he can get me by. I'd
rather have a get by guy, you know, making you know,
fourteen fifteen million dollars a year than pay this guy
forty million dollars. I mean, are we serious. I just
don't see it. I don't get it. I'm with you, man,
I just I don't see it either. I don't I
don't see it. Eagles do a good job in getting

(50:37):
resigning their own guys because it looked like one of
them they would lose one of their two top corners,
James Bradberry Darius Slay. And they told Bradberry to look,
you know, hey, we love you. Go check out the
market and they come back, give us a chance to

(50:57):
match or whatever, and they went upside of the year
thirty eight million dollars deal. Then slays upset because he
can't get a deal and he's looking for a some
sort of long term deal. He's thirty two years old.
He doesn't get it. The Eagles come back and they
sign him to a three year, forty two million dollar deal.

(51:19):
So they bring back both their Storty corners and they
maybe bringing back C. J. Gardner Johnson, who they love
at safety at the safety market has dried up for money. Yeah,
the safety market is not you know, bearing their fruits
that many people thought. I think Jesse Bates got a
decent sized deal and then after that it was kind
of kind of fell off of the table. So, yeah,

(51:41):
the Eagles have done a solid job in retaining some
of their guys in the back end. Losing Hardgrave is
not the easiest to set off that defensive line, but
they're so deep up front. I guess they can weather
it a little bit. But that's certainly has to you know,
he was their top pick last year. So Jordan Davis

(52:01):
out of Georgia has to come in and he's got
to be the guy like that's you know, that's why
you draft these guys because you can't recite, especially when
your team goes to the Super Bowl. Yeah, you can't
keep everybody. No, No, I do think Lucky to keep
their corners. They were mine. By the way, I thought
hard Rave was a great pickup for for for the
forty nine ers. That's the that's the old Al Davis

(52:22):
strength on strength. If we're strong in one place, let's
make it even stronger. So they go in a strengthen
their defensive line with another quality stud up front. So
I thought that was a great signing for them. I agree,
I thought without a doubt. Now it just comes down
to the quarterback. Can they can they? Yeah? You know,
you know, can they survive? With? What's there that that

(52:44):
remains me saying? Then? I mean, do you have two
guys who are coming off of injury. If you wanted
to even suggest that there will be some sort of
camp battle between Brock Party and Trey Lance, I mean,
how are either of those guys gonna look by the
time August rolls around? Do we even know? I don't
think you party with and be ready until closer to
the end of camp or opening day. So, and there

(53:05):
are questions about Lands before he got injured, So that
that's that's a tough situation that they're in. But you know,
if any team, any organization, can weather it, it is
them because of how they're all, because their offensive so
quarterback friendly, because their defense has the potential to be
so dominant and even better than it was this past season,
if that's even possible. Uh, you know, they they have

(53:26):
the where with all the talent to be able to say,
we can have decent drop off or not the greatest
production at quarterback can still be a championship contender, which
goes back to how the segment initially started, Anthony, with
you talking about the NFC being devoid of talent? Do
you even need a great quarterback to make a deep
run in the end of the sea because outside of
Jalen Hurts, I mean, what the hell else am I

(53:47):
looking at? They know what's knots too. It's all the
backup quarterback sign right, like yeah, true Locke with Seattle,
Cooper Rushiman back to Dallas. Thought Mariotic to the Eagles
was a good sign. That's a great fit to good
signs with San Fran Yeah, you know all the but
you're right, I mean, you look at these teams. I

(54:09):
don't know, I mean, Derek Carter is Saints kind of
makes sense. Well yeah, it's also I mean they're the
best of the worst. It's a terrible division. So I mean,
just by default, Derek Carr going to a team that
already has a good running game, has a good defense,
they should be. As of now, we haven't at the
draft of free agency isn't over yet, the clear cut
favorites to win the NFC South. So yeah, that makes

(54:31):
all the and he goes to a familiar territory with
Dennis Allen, so yeah, that made all the sense in
the world. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, the NFC is is
pretty uh, it's pretty sad. Yeah, it sack you know,
but you know what that means. That means hope. That
means hope for people that generally wouldn't have it, whether
that's Washington, you know, maybe Justin Fields turns a corner

(54:54):
and learns how to throw the foard pass. You know,
who knows you ever know? You know, got Baker Mayfield
in Tampa. Yeah, yeah, you know, I mean, as guys,
oh my god, look at this, Sandy Talton and Carolina
you know, oh man, so these young quarterbacks better be

(55:16):
able to come in and play nay better. Yeah, you know,
it's hope for the Lions. I tell you that. How
about they got David Montgomery that was in It was
a super underrated, great signing for an offense that's our
radio dynamic with a dynamic player in the backfield. That's
that's here. I like Detroit. And by the way, talking
about Carolina, I like Miles Sanders. I thought that was
a great signing for them. Not that that's another guy

(55:37):
the Eagles lose, but I thought that was a quality
signing for for Carolina. And which Washington doing, Oh my god,
Kobe Brussette. Truth, I don't know, I don't. I don't
know what their other options were. I don't know if
they were in the Jimmy g sweepstakes or not. But uh,
if I'm a Washington fan, that doesn't really do a
whole lot for me, to be honest, not nothing against

(55:59):
Kobe said. It was a good backup. He's a bridge guy,
but a bridge to what. So they're gonna have him bridges. Yeah,
they're gonna have him compete with Ricky sam How Yeah,
cool house? You know, I mean, can I be nice
and say diminutive to say the least yes, yeah, all right,

(56:21):
lots you get to let's get back to the tournament.
We'll go back to the NFL a little bit, but
we gotta get your set for today's games and tomorrow's games.
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Uh fig. Let's take a look at today's action. The
tournament continues today twelve ten pm this afternoon, nine ten
Pacific as Furman and we know we saw Furman knockoff
for Genia against the five seeds San Diego State. Talk

(57:09):
about the bracketbuster. The thirteen five takes place today on
the set on the first Saturday in the tournament. Yeah,
hell of a game to kick off the schedule, right,
Oh my god, Furman San Diego State. That's what Colin
was saying about your like upsets until you got to
see that game. Yeah, because that's a that's a standalone.

(57:29):
I mean, that's the first game that tips off. The
next one is one that I'm sure a lot of
people will look forward to, but that's not until what
two forty in Eastern times? Yeah, yeah, So I mean
that's that's tough sledding. I mean, yeah, kudos to Furman,
kudos to San Diego State by all means great, good
for them, but it's just not it's not one of
those matchups that it's it's very easily you turn it

(57:50):
all and say, oh, all right, well what else is
on kind of thing for the free especially for your
CASU you're a more casual Yeah, yeah, I mean it
looks Firman, like you said's a great story. So it is. Yeah,
I don't want to demand for the firming people who
score pumped up, No, I get it, but you know,
being royalistic overall, you know, yeah, your points spot on,
and you know, now Duke Tennessee's is a is an

(58:12):
interesting game. Duke the five seed versus Tennessee the four seed,
and Duke is a three to a half point favorite.
I think that warrants it. Oh, absolutely, the way that
Duke's been playing recently, yeah, I and Tennessee has been
someone consistent all year long. Cost injuries, yeah, yeah for sure.
But I mean they they talk about having a little

(58:33):
in the basket at times offensively. I mean, there was
a game they played against Auburn a few weeks ago,
or weren't like, my god, I think the final score
is like forty three to forty two or something. It was.
It was pretty bad. So we know that Duke can
play great defense now that Philippowski's you know, found found
his range offensively the Star freshman, because we talked about
how they struggled early in the season. But again, it's
one of these young teams that had to grow throughout

(58:54):
the year. They're implementing a lot of young guys and
uh and they're coming alive. So I certainly understand the
Duke hype coming into the weekend. Are coming into the
tournament as one of the favorites who are not a
one seed to win at all. So yeah, I fully
expect Duke, he said three and a half. Yeah, yeah,
I think I think they'll cover that. Yeah, I do too.

(59:15):
I think you know, I'm with you. It's funny. I
had Duke going into the sweet sixteen because I thought
that the draw was you know, that East was pretty flensy. Man. Yeah,
it's not the strongest. It's not the strongest bracket. Now
all of a sudden, you look at Duke. I mean,
if you beat Tennessee, you're facing Florida Atlantic or fdu
you know, so potentially your road is even easier. I mean,

(59:38):
not to again, not to disrespect Florida Atlantic or Fairleigh Dickinson,
but yeah, I mean, but you're right, it's it's a
pretty pretty it's say, an open highway. Yeah. And even
the bottom half of the bracket. Now, I will say,
I believe I have Kansas State beating them, uh in
the in the Elite eight, But the bottom side of
that bracket is not necessarily tough either. You get the

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it's Kentucky can the State, and then the Michigan State
and Marquette. And as much as I like Marquette, I
think I would like from a matchup standpoint Duke against
them on a neutral court, so that the East Region
does point shake out in Duke's favor to a degree.
Though I do like Marquette coming out of the final four.
But ok, I mean, but your your points, right, they

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certainly match up and in a neutral court, you probably Duke.
I think Duke, to your point, will be the favorite
in that game. Yeah. You talk about teams that are
playing the best at the right time, and I think
that that that's Duke. Duke kind of find their stride
late in the year Arkansas and Kansas. Speaking of lines,
this line is pretty pretty short. Yeah, Kansas three and

(01:00:43):
a half against Arkansas makes sense to me. Arkansas is
a couple of potential lottery picks, um not probably not potential.
I mean, those two guys are definitely gonna go Smith
and Black against an inconsistent Kansas team. I know Kansas
is what twenty eight and seven, but they had some
head scratching losses and some some very just odd um

(01:01:05):
just just some some odd tendencies at times this year.
So as good as they are, uh, they're not necessarily dominant.
So I certainly can see a path where Arkansas beats them.
I don't I don't see. I don't I didn't predict
it to happen, but I certainly can see it. Well,
the weird thing to it, and I agree they fat
these spells where they it's kind of mystifying how bad

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they look during these spells. Well, yeah, especially against like
certain teams like to look as bad. I remember the
game they played against Iowa State for them to look
as bad as they did, because remember, like Jalen Wilson
has been phenomenal all the year long, but there was
a stretch of time. I don't know if they lost
three in a row or four in a row. It
may have been in January where he was balling out
and they were losing like every game. Yeah, and it

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was just they couldn't stop anybody defensively. Uh So, they
just they just have these these dry spells, um or
I should say offensively, they're usually fine. Defensively is where
they have these spells where they just they just aren't consistent.
Uh So, I certainly can see a team, especially with
the raw talent of a team like Arkansas, if those
guys get going, you know, it could it could be
tough sledding. So I can see Arkansas definitely pulling the upset.

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So I'm not necessarily surprised that this is three and
a half. It's probably right about where I thought it'd be,
where I think it should be. Uh And then of
course you get the Battle of the Tigers a little
later on today six ten Eastern, three ten Pacific, Missouri
and Princeton, the old seven fifteen matchup. Man coming off

(01:02:34):
at six o'clock tonight, I saw that coming. We're right,
Missouri Princeton, but we gotta gotta pull for Princeton now, right,
no disrespect to Missouri, but I mean, I gotta go Princeton.
They take off, you'll take off the pocket protectors, put
on the basketball jersey, and then to cross you over

(01:02:55):
a little bit. I like it. So so Princeton. So
it Princeton is h off of exit like nine to
the turnpike of the New Jersey Turnpike, for instance. So
I'm off of exit three, just offside, just over the
bridge from Philadelphia, and so it's about, you know, an

(01:03:18):
hour fifteen minutes away from here. The campus, you know,
obviously it's Princeton. It's you know, your ivy, the whole thing.
So my son aunt is a football player and he
wants to be a paleontologist. So for some reason I
have ever since, I mean for last few years, I

(01:03:40):
tell him he's going to go to school of Princeton
because I looked up and the best, one of the
best paleontology and science school is Princeton, right, so I
U So I keep telling him, Dad, you're gonna play
football for Princeton. Hey, why not? You'd never know I can,
so they wont Yeah, I looked at Princeton, Daddy, that's

(01:04:03):
gonna be your school. I don't like. I don't know
how I would it pay for it, but hey, well
you're out a way. But I hop on one of
those scholarships academic at that because they don't have athletic one.
So I know, I'm like you, Well, he played football
and he's smart, so maybe there's a shot. Who knows. Well, anyway,
you can always dream, right, that's absolutely absolutely as you

(01:04:26):
should aim high. That's spartacular, you know. Uh, but yeah,
we'll be rooting Princeton against Missouri. I think the line
right now, Missouri six and a half. That's probably about right. Okay, yeah,
I can see that. How about Houston and albern Now
Houston got one seed. Well, the problem is Marc Assassor

(01:04:50):
not knowing what his status is, and you can they
and Sampson got ripped for playing them the other day
because they figured they figured Houston should have been able
to win that game without him with a lineup, and
he put him in there and he doesn't play after
halftime because his injury flared up. Yeah, so that's the
that's the issue. What is going to be his status,

(01:05:10):
uh for forth to today for today's game, because if
he's healthy, sure they can make a yeah, they can
make a deep run and go to you know, win
the championship and all that. They're not going very deep
as good as they are. And look, I think they
can potentially even beat Auburn if he's not in there
or if he's not agree with you. But I don't
think you can get passed next week. Now. You're not
getting much further than that, So that that's just the

(01:05:31):
risk you take. And it wasn't it wasn't arm chair quarterbacking,
or I should say Monday morning quarterbacking. People will said beforehand,
don't play him, don't play him, don't play him, and
they put him in any way. So yeah, I was
surprised at that. I really was, um, why you hit
us with some trending and then we'll go over this leg.

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All right, Well we know the big story from Friday,
the second full day of the NC Double A Tournament
was fairly Dickinson out of the Northeastern Conference, becoming just
the second sixteen seeds to advance to the round of
thirty two. They upset per Due sixty three to fifty eight.
Some other late game action across the NC Double A Tournament,
TCU and Floor Atlantic each getting layups in the final

(01:06:13):
seconds of their matchups. They beat Arizona State in Memphis, respectively,
Indiana twenty four points, eleven rebounds, five block shots from
Trace Jackson Davis as they defeated kent State Kansas State
with the victory over Montana State. Wins for Gonzaka, Kentucky
and Yukon Miami, a comeback victory over Drake sixty three
to fifty six in the NBA Mexic CLEBA hit a

(01:06:34):
three point where at the buzzer to lead Dallas over
the Lakers one eleven to one. Ten. Kyrie Irving had
thirty eight points in that one. Thirty eight points and
thirteen rebounds for Joel and Bad as Philadelphia dominated Charlotte Bowls,
a double overtime win over Minnesota, forty nine points for
Damar DeRozan and thirty nine points for Zach Levine. Memphis
with an overtime victory over San Antonio, UA. Wins for Boston, Cleveland,

(01:06:57):
and Atlanta, who handed Golden State their ten consecutive road loss.
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over the schedule for today in a tournament. Uh, you
know this is this is what the NCAA Tournament has become.
A tournament of parody, of kind of meaningless seeds. You know,

(01:07:44):
never before have you seen figgy the seeds and the
Vegas lines be so kind of off for sure, where
the lower seed has been the favorite more often than not. Yeah,
and it goes back to just the the overall parody
of college basketball as a whole. You know that the

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idea that you can win a conference or you know,
earn a certain seed, but even if you earn that seat,
there are others who know, like, well, this other team
may have not performed as well, but from a talent
standpoint and from a matchup standpoint, we think they're actually better.
So it's it's just it's a it's an odd setup,
but there's a small part of me that enjoys it.
But you know, to your point, the deeper and deeper

(01:08:26):
we get into the tournament, it will be nice to see,
you know, Yukon and u c LA and Gonzaga and Duke,
you know, teams that you've actually at least they've at
least you've heard of the programs. If you've not heard
of the plays, you know, yeah, yeah, uh, let's let's
keep going on this one. So we just gave you

(01:08:47):
old burning Houston, and this one was pretty wild. Penn
State I did not see. I don't know about you, fig,
but Penn State roles A and N, and I thought
A and M had a shot. I thought they and M.
Now I like Texas. I think Texas legit. I think Texas.
I picked them to win it in one of my pools.

(01:09:09):
But as that I yeah, yeah, I like Texas a ton,
but I foll Texas am. I was a little worried
as a Texas backer that A and M could give
them a game and they just got rolled by Penn State. Yeah.
I did pick Penn State to beat A and M,
but I certainly didn't. I certainly didn't think they'd run
them off the floor as badly as they did. I

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mean Penn State's a team that ended the season really well.
They they played, had a really a phenomenal year and
really beat some heavy hitters, like they beat Indiana, I know,
towards the end of the regular season, a big win
over Maryland at one point. So I certainly wasn't surprised
that they won. But my god, I was surprised how
they won. That was that was ridiculous. It was he

(01:09:51):
really was. Now Again, I looked at it and I
was like, you know, I just I saw Penn State
and you know, getting knowing them well, you know, and
you're right, they played well. Maybe it was me kind
of look at the big I didn't like the big
tenel at all a little bit, and so I kind
of thought, you know, they have not they were flimsy

(01:10:13):
performed well in the tournament the last few years. But
I also will say, like Texas saying him like they're
heavy hitters just didn't show up. So yeah, you know,
like the Taylor struggled a lot, I think he uh,
I think it was like two of twelve from the
field or something like that. Like there's just the big
time guys that have stepped up for them when they
have one game just didn't do it. Radford had had
an average game and that's what you need, like in

(01:10:35):
the tournament, like you need your stars to play like it,
and that just didn't happen for them. Now, Texas laying
five and a half against ben State tonight seven forty
five Eastern, forty five Pacific. I mean, I'm a holcome arm.
It's a way. I mean, I don't know about you.
I'm with you. You feel the same way, right, I
kind of feel the same way about them as I

(01:10:55):
felt about Duke, about a team that kind of turned
it on late in the season. Probably not as much
like superstar power, but they just have a really good
lineup of really good players, and I do think they're
kind of, you know, rallying around. You know, obviously you
had the Beard situation that happened early in the season,
and almost as soon as he left, they kind of
just turns it on, just turned on the gears and

(01:11:16):
and if they have not looked back, I mean from
the minute you're right, like the day he left. Oh
my god, it's uncanny, completely uncanny. Yeah, Ucla in the
West Region against Northwestern and I mean this game should
be an easy win for the Bruins. Yeah, you would

(01:11:40):
think now they potentially we know they don't have Jaalen Clark,
the Pac twelve Player of the Year, but they haven't
had him for two weeks now and hasn't really affected
him all that much. So and now they're one of
their quality big guys. Adam Bona is an injured didn't
play on their first game on Thursday. We'll see if
he gets back in there against Northwestern, who's a little
bit bigger than UNC Asheville. But they have such an

(01:12:02):
advantage of athletes, well the athletes and experience. I mean,
it's rare that you have a guy who's as good
as himI Hawcast who comes back for his fourth year.
So that that's kind of the one thing that UCLA
has working in their favor. They're good, they're talented, and
they're experienced. They're one of the more experienced teams in

(01:12:22):
the entire tournament. Yeah. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
I'm looking at him going. Um, even with even banged
up as they are, I still, you know, I just
think they they're good. How deep do you have them going?
I have them going all the way to the final four,
I believe, Yeah, which makes perfect sense. Yeah, Alabama the

(01:12:44):
one seed in the South against Maryland. And again, I
don't think Alabama will have any trouble with Maryland. Well,
I hope not. I mean, Brandon Miller would have to
play better than he played the other day for them
to win. I would say that, you know, Maryland is
not a pushover. They're not phenomenal, but they're certainly not
a pushover. And Brandon Miller, who's likely going to be

(01:13:06):
you know, one of the top you know three picks
in the NBA draft, has been really inconsistent, especially lately,
So that'd be one thing that will be a cause
for concern for me for Alabama. You're not gonna get
by with him struggling and not scoring like it the
other day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Except I just look at this,
I just do think this is a mismatch. So and

(01:13:28):
maybe again it's I look at that big ten and
I just still oh yeah, I understand. I'm still a
little leary with that. With that conference, we'll do this,
We'll take a quick t o all right, and then uh,
we'll go over Sunday slate next hour. But I do
want to get some NBA in here, and I'm curious
because the league, as we are in the teeth of

(01:13:51):
March with the playoffs beginning next month, is even a
lot of upheaval. Man, there's there's speaking of uh, you
know the way the NC Double A is with anybody
can win it. It kind of feels that way in
the NBA too. So we'll look at the NBA Little
Elite round ball and the association coming up next, including

(01:14:15):
the new leader for MVP when it comes to the odds.
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to the tire dot Com studios of Fellas hanging out
oh many, producing Mark our sound engineer of course, figuring
huh hanging out with you guys. So figure, let's take
a look at the NBA, shall we, Because the NBA

(01:15:24):
is wide open right now. Man. It's just it's pretty
wild because there's there's nobody that you go, well, there
are a lot to win it. I mean, you know,
goodn't believe me though, how Durant going to fit with
Phoenix because he's not coming back to the playoffs. Yeah,
there's especially in the Western Conference. I think in the East,

(01:15:44):
you kind of know exactly what you're dealing with. Every team.
You got Milwaukee, you got Boston, and maybe Philadelphia is
kind of in there if you want to say, they're
on that same that same tier. Yes, they all he
gave out of Boston. Broavy he is his six, sir,
I did see that. Yeahbody he has edged. You know,

(01:16:06):
Kola Yoki has the favorite for MVP, which I certainly
don't begrudge and I would not be upset of Joel
mb won the MVP award, that is for sure. But
as far as being wide wide open, I think it's
absolutely the Western Conference. It's absolutely insane because there's any
number of what probably four teams that you can legitimately
say like, yeah, I can see that team going to
the NBA Finals and how often are you are you

(01:16:28):
really able to say that? Usually it's it's about a
two hor two and a half horse race. Yeah, it's
it's wild. I mean it really is. Because you could
look at Denver. Now Deever has not been playing you know,
great basketball recently. No, right, the Kings have backdown that
is playing really good ball and they're a lot of fun.

(01:16:52):
You know, Memphis is a shame with joh Now, I'll
be back at some point, but who knows. Yeah, I
think he's eligible to come back Monday to the already
served his eight game suspension, so he's already served six,
so he's gonna miss the next two, and one of
them was last night and they won. So I think
we're sitting in tie with Sack at forty two and
twenty seven, right at two at two and three, and

(01:17:15):
then Phoenix comes in and year right that Kevin Durant,
which is unfortunate. He just got there and has the
unfortunate injury during pregame warmups. But it's something we talked
about when they traded for him, is like the margin
for error is thin for them because you have guys
who are injury prone Kevin Durant, as great as he is,
has been injury prone over the last five years. Chris
Paul has always been injury prone, especially around this time

(01:17:37):
of the year. So if even one of those guys
is not you know, effective or what they're supposed to be,
you know, they just don't have the depth to be
able to cover up for it. They don't. I like
DeAndre Ayden, but I don't know if he's good enough
to pick up the slack for any of those any
of those other guys missings, and if it's significant time
in the postseason. The Clippers and we've been talking about

(01:18:00):
he both liked the Clippers, but they haven't really hid
his stride well of like really good dominant basketball. They
just they're still trying to figure out what their rotations
are and that's been the issue the problem with them,
And they've dealt with so many injuries, especially early in
the season. You know, when one guy was at end,
you know another guy was out. You know. Then they
finally get Kawhi Leonard, who's playing as well as he's

(01:18:22):
played in a couple of years. As a matter of fact,
Kwhi Leonards looks spectacular, especially the last two weeks. But
then Norman Powell, who was a big pickup for them,
all of a sudden he's heard and they don't know
what his status is going to be moving forward. So
even as good and talented as they are, you know,
this anthony like, you can't just win on talent alone.
If there's no continuity on your roster. You know, that's
that's a big deal. And they just they just have

(01:18:44):
not been able to find a lot of continuity and
run the same lineups out there consistently, so that that's
kind of been their issue. But if they can and
you have, you know, a couple of weeks to be
able to figure it out, you know, they have as
good of a shot as any they'd be one of
the favorites to come out of the Western Conference, despite
the fact that they're you know, sitting in the five
hole right now. You know, I Dallas, you love those

(01:19:06):
two and they're a lot of fun. But I mean,
they just can't win. They can't win the title. I
don't think they're good enough defensively, you know. Yeah, that's
that's that's the big that's the big issue for them.
They can they can you know, score points with anybody
and they're fun. Yeah, Yeah, they're entertaining to watch, but
they just don't have they don't have the horses on
defense to be able to hold up, especially against when

(01:19:28):
the when the game slows down in the postseason. Against
some of the teams they can, you know, lock you down,
like Denver especially, I'd say recently over the last few
weeks they've struggled, but I mean before that they had
really locked down defensively. The Clippers we know can defend
extremely well. I just don't know if they're they're able
to hold up. So I don't have confidence in Dallas
they can win a series, but I think that's probably it.

(01:19:53):
Why can't Golden State went on the road? That is
an amazing question. I don't know. Their defense slips recipitously
on the road, specifically defending the three point line. And
why that is I really, I really couldn't tell you.
It doesn't make a lot of sense, you know, Like Dad,
that kind of disparity. They're twenty nine is seven at

(01:20:15):
home and they're seven and twenty eight on the road. Yeah,
it's like one of the biggest disparities in the history
of the sport. I think it's like the seventh biggest
home road disparity that a team has ever had. But look,
look they've dealt with their issues. Like Andrew Wiggins, they
don't even know if he's coming back at all this year,
dealing with whatever issue he's dealing with, and the chemistry
just hasn't been there. I don't know if it's totally

(01:20:37):
to do with the whole Draymond Jordan Pool thing and
training camp that certainly didn't help, but there, whatever it is,
there's something missing. And I don't know exactly what it is,
but there's this team is not going to win a championship.
They're not repeating, it's not happening. I feel confident in
saying that. Yeah I do too. I just look at
him and go, man, they're such an enigma. Yeah, just

(01:21:01):
because look at I mean Clay. Clay's amazing, right, Like
you'll have these moments where he looks like, oh, the
old Clay dropping thirty eight and banging thirteen threes or
twelve threes and you know, the whole thing. And then
Steph Steff, I mean he's still just a great player. Yeah,
it's just still everything around them. They're just not as

(01:21:22):
good defense. I mean steps dropped fifty the other night
against the Clippers and they still lost. Yeah, so they're
just they've not been the dominant defensive team that they
have been in years past. And I do think not
having Andrew Wiggins in the lineup is a big part
of that. So I don't want to discount that because
that's a big one. Agreed. Agreed. It is weird because
with the twenty nine and it's just bizarre, right, like

(01:21:44):
the usually a home road split like that. It's like
for a young team like a sacrament WoT had that
sort of record, are like Thompson, Yeah, it will make
sense of Phil a Sacramento that had the right or
New Orleans. Yes, you know they're twenty two and thirteen
at home, eleven twenty four on the road. That makes sense. Yeah,
it makes total sense. But not not Golden State twenty

(01:22:06):
nine seven seven to twenty eight. That's just out right.
And it's not like, I know Steph missed some time,
but whether Steph was in there or not, they've been bad.
Can't use that as an excuse. It is h I mean,
that's just completely bizarre. And they asked Steve Kerr about
it after the loss last night and he he was like,
I don't have the answers. It's not that he's exact quote,
but I'm paraphrase he that's essentially what he said. Yeah, funny,

(01:22:29):
all right, Well coming up, I do want to get
into the MVP a little bit and how the MVP
has become almost a weird political argument as well the
fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio. In the late

(01:22:52):
slate of games on Friday's nc Double A Tournament schedule,
TCU got a floater from Jacobe Coles in the final
seconds to come back and beat Arizonas eight seventy two
to seventy. Indiana a seventy one to sixty victory over
Kent State. You're convincing wins for Kansas State and Gonzaga Florida.
Atlantic had to lay up with two seconds remaining to
beat Memphis. Of course, the biggest upset of the day

(01:23:12):
came in the East Region, where sixteenth seed Fairly Dickinson
beat number one seed in Big Ten Champion per Due
sixty three to fifty eight. It's just a second time
since the tournament expanded to sixty four teams, that is,
sixteen has defeated at one. In the NBA Cowrie Irving
scored thirty eight points to lead Dallas over the Lakers.
MAVs have won two straight while LA's lost three to four.

(01:23:33):
Thirty four points for Jason Tatum as you lay at
Boston over Portland, forty nine points for Damarta Rosen as
Chicago beat the Tea Wolves in overtime, a triple double
for Tias Jones, and a Memphis win over San Antonio.
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say the least. Yeah, no, here in the middle of

(01:24:15):
the night. Yep, might as well. Yeah the are you
a uh? I heard you guys talking about daylight savings time?
Do you have any opinion on it? I just want
it to be consistent. So whether it's daylight savings savings
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you know, So my impassioned opinion will be just a pick,
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I gotta ask you a question because the v the
NBA MVP Award is bizarre, all right. For some reason,
over the last few years, we have fixated on this award.
I don't know if it's because you can bet on it,
and people love to bet on the MVP Award and

(01:26:44):
the odds. I like, I'm on the East coach where
it's you know, it's alive, and so people are constantly
talking about the the MVP. And you know, obviously we
have Joel Embiid, who's my main man. I love the
embast and he's been balling out and he would be
the MVP. But it's become almost political in this way

(01:27:04):
analytics versus non analytics, and somehow Yokis is like this
analytic darling, and in Bead is this eye test darling.
Right Like I look at you know, Joe ellen Bead,
and I watched him every night. I'm marvel at the

(01:27:25):
beast that he could be that big and do things
like do you want a game? Last week? Last Friday night,
he looked like Kobe on the Game Winner. I mean,
the stuff that he can do. I used to call
him the Great art Forger because he can mimic movement,
like incredible movement of guys much smaller than him. He's

(01:27:46):
got such an incredible gift. And I think it's not
even I mean, I think Ebad should be the winner
no matter what, and he just overtook him this truth
like last week when it comes to the MVP thing. Yeah,
and I I certainly can understand both sides of this.
I don't think that it's some We've argued this over

(01:28:08):
the last two seasons. As you thought that Yokis shouldn't
have won last year or that I should have won. Um, well,
I would say even outside of this the analytic numbers,
if you just look at the standard stat line for
for Nicola yo kick, he's I mean, he's uh point
a point nine rebounds away from averaging or triple double,

(01:28:28):
which is pretty impressive, and shooting sixty three percent from
the field. So it's certainly nothing to sneeze at. Uh
Is he as good defensively as Ojoel embiad No, he
is not, But it's also not who's the best all
around players, like who's the most valuable player? Uh So,
whether or not he's good defensively, is he is? He
valuable to what the Denver Nuggets do? And I think
it's hard to argue against that he's the most valuable

(01:28:50):
player on their roster. But consequently you can say the
exact same thing about Joel Embiat so right, So that's
why I say, you know, whoever you decide to vote for,
you'll get no arguments for me. I think the big
reason why i embiid Is has overtaken Yo kich is
his play to one degree and then to another, this
idea that they don't want to give somebody the MVP

(01:29:11):
Award three consecutive seasons, And I do think there's something
to that. I mean, Lebron's not done it. You know,
Lebron's won three and four years. But I do think
there's just what, for whatever reason, they think it kind
of puts you in rarefied air to be able to
do that, and they just don't want to do that.
For if they weren't gonna do it for Lebron, I
don't think they're gonna do that for Yokich. And I
do think that's a factor too. So on top of

(01:29:32):
the analytics and all that stuff that works in Yokich's favor,
I think what works against him is the fact that
he's won to win a row. Yeah, I agree with that,
And I don't think he's a three time he's worthy
of a three time award winner. I don't. I mean,
it's an individual season thing for me. If he happens
to win it three years in a row, fine, but
I take it season by season perfect like like like

(01:29:55):
you could argue janis almost any year, couldn't you, right,
Like like you know, it's funny, like we're talking about
and beat your kids. Now, I'm an MBI guy all
the way, But I mean, were you kidding me? Like,
be honest, like one, you know, right last year? You know,
are you kidding me? Or you know? I mean, take
Luca off the Dallas. They're just complete harms. You know.

(01:30:19):
I do think you should reward a player for uh
being one a great team. Like if you are a
top three four seed and you know you're the best
player on that team and you take you know, if
that guy's out, they fall apart. I mean I think that,
you know, So I think record which takes Luca out

(01:30:41):
of the equation, I think that means something. And then
so to your point, yeah, I get your kids. But
you know, like I Flota was up in the here
the last two years. Two years ago. The only reason why, um,
you know they didn't want to give it to him
be was because of the games. Well missed a block
of games due to COVID. And nowadays, I was talking

(01:31:04):
to Legs and Tim Legler, who's a buddy of mine,
who's the NBA analyst for ESPN and ABC, and we're
talking about it, and you know, nowadays, the medium games played,
the mean games played, his sixty eight for the MVP.
So it's not like, you know, you got guys playing
eighty two games and then beats playing you know, you know, forty,

(01:31:26):
right right, Like they're all playing the same amount of games. Yeah,
I don't hope that against Joel Embiad at all, and
I don't hold anything against him. He's been I think
aspectacular this season as Yokis, just he doesn't have fill
up the stat line, I guess as impressively. But for
the you know what the eyeball test when you're writing
reading a stat sheet, or the player efficiency rating, which

(01:31:46):
is a popular stat that's an analytics stat that people use.
And I think Yokis is highest in the league, even
higher than embiid Uh and Jannis. But look, if we're
talking about guys who are spectacular players, where would the
team be without him? Great records? Why wouldn't you give it,
to be honest, for the third time, you know, for
it for the third time, and what five years? I
think it would be? Yeah, you know, and I wonder

(01:32:07):
if you know it's funny about your honest he wins
two in a row, right, sure, and then everybody goes ah,
but you know, he hes not winning. It's about the team, right,
He's a choker. They can't win. And then they don't
give him the MVP award and he goes and win
to the title. Yeah, he wins the finals MVP. Yeah,

(01:32:28):
you know, it's great. So it's really difficult when you
have players who are this dominant at the top of
a sport, uh to say, like, oh, who deserves to
be the MVP, because any of these guys in any
year could win it and it could be justified in saying, yeah,
he deserves to win. So it really just depends on
I guess, you know what, what direction the win is
blowing for particular riders on a particular day or in

(01:32:51):
a season. So let so let me bring up the
political thing because it's almost like the analytic versus the
basketball people are. It feels like the MVP award is
this now you look at it, you know, strictly down
the middle, right, So I give you, you know, I

(01:33:14):
credit you, but now take yourself out of the equation.
You see what I see. You see these people with
the advanced metric stats and all that stuff, which I mean,
I get, you know, it's a useful tool, but you
gotta be kidding me, Like, you can't tell me that
whatever stat that Yokis is a good defensive player, and

(01:33:38):
there are stats out there that say that Yokis is
a good defensive player when that's just foul false. I
don't disagree with that, but I will also say, in
voting for the MVP Award, it's not about who's the
best all around player though. Either so, whether or not
he's a good defender shouldn't necessarily factor in whether you
would think he's more valuable to his team than somebody
else is more valuable to theirs. Okay, So if I

(01:34:00):
told you I need to take him out offense defense
at the end of games, I mean that's that talks
about how valuable you are now or if people are
picking on him defensively, which they certainly do. You know
I don't have they're not taking him out, they certainly
pick on him. Boy, Like you know, that's where you
know one guy is a superior rim protect there and

(01:34:24):
the other guy's a liability. And I don't care what
stat you give me. He's a liability. He's not a
good defendi. He's not a good defender, But what kind
of difference does he make? On the offensive side of
the ball at both offensively, scoring for himself and creating
from people. A great without a doubt. The offense runs
through him, and he's a great, great player. But my
only point to you is, I think this argument and

(01:34:47):
it's weird because it's in bed and it's yo kinch
and that's the it's a weird way, like people are
lining it up taking sides that we love. We love
the like takes sides and like we almost have this
weird division. And listen, I'm guilty to I'll raise my
hands because I'm gonna bead, you know, apologist to me,

(01:35:10):
I'm that's my man, like you know. And I just
think he I men watch him night and night out.
I just don't think he gets the just do that
kids gets. I don't disagree, U Yokis gets a lot
and look, Yokis getting triple doubles routinely every single night
helps his cause when it comes to that. I also
think that he gets aided by the fact that he

(01:35:33):
is not as flashy. So it's almost like, you know,
when Steve Nash won his second MVP award, not his first,
and people thought that Kobe Bryant should have won, but
Steve Nashers put up these dominant numbers. But he's a
little guy that doesn't jump out of the gym, and
he's like, how is he doing all this? And he
is just this short five foot whatever and he can't
move that fast. So I almost feel like that certain

(01:35:55):
certain players, and I think yo kids to a certain
degree falls into that category, like Russ to Westbrook, this
phenomenal athlete who's you know, has the energy of the
Tasmanian devil, you know, Averaging a triple double and he
looks flashy while doing it is crazy, and that's why
they gave it to him. On the opposite end of
the spectrum, Nicola Yokich is this lumbering guy that you
can't you slide a sliver of paper under his feet

(01:36:16):
when he tries to jump, and nobody can stop him.
So it's almost like you're in all of the fact
that he can perform this well, this consistently while lacking
in a certain aspect of the game or a certain
athleticism that say a player like a Janis or an
Embid would have. And I do think to a certain degree,
even with the independent of the analytic numbers, though I
agree with your point, especially a lot of the younger voters,

(01:36:39):
the younger writers lean more towards that direction. I think
they give him credit for the fact that he's doing
what he's doing, and he's not necessarily the most aesthetically
pleasing to watch from a traditional standpoint. Yeah, and attention
to you if you watch the Bonus, you know, I love. Yeah,
he's every bit of what they do it Yokich. He's

(01:37:01):
he runs the same offense, but he's not as good
as he is. He's not. He's not as good as Yokich.
He's not. But I mean you start watch like you
you know, like I think it's I don't think it's
you know, as good as he's closing the gap, you know,
as good as Oh and he's a double double machine
and always has been. People just didn't see him. He

(01:37:23):
sees he's facilitating too. Yeah. Oh yeah, Actually they're actually
smartly they're running the offense through him, they do, and
letting the iron Fox create, you know, create his own
shop more. Yeah, they do. They do a lot more
a two man game. They will throw it into the
post into Sibonus, which has done wonders for them offensively
in the half court, So darn Fox doesn't have to

(01:37:44):
do everything on his own. So I'll give you that.
And I do love Sibonus and I think he's an
excellent player. He's not He's not Joel. He's not saying
he's yok He's not Yokish. No, you know, I you
know he's definitely not Joella beat anyway, Yes, this is true.
If I had to vote, I need to be on

(01:38:06):
my side. Listen, I talk about we draw insides, you know,
align in the sand, and I'm in myself. You know,
I have to. I have to argue my point man,
because it's it's I feel, you know, like inundated with
the Yoka crowd. Yeah, and it's almost like if you're
someone like him being what more do you want him
to do? Exactly? What more can you ask him to do? Well,

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your podcast. All right, welcome back, fellas from the tire
iraq dot com studios. You get any chance this weekend
just to veige and watch ball. Absolutely, the slate is

(01:39:42):
is fairly open this weekend, so and I did that intentionally.
It was like, well, I mean, and thankfully the wife
is into the NCAA tournament as well, has her bracket,
so o good. Yeah, So I know she's not as
deep into it as I am. She's probably not gonna
sit there and veg out for you know, sev seven
straight hours. Uh, she'll pop in and out here and there.

(01:40:03):
But yeah, she's definitely definitely into it, which I'm which
I am grateful for. So that's awesome. Man. That's uh,
that's good because that'll be uh, now, will you do
a one of the great pleasures of life in the
tournament is like watching the NCUBAA tournament with the brackets

(01:40:24):
and all the basketball all day long and uh eating
jump food like the baking awe of uh you know
where it's the it's a great weekend just to indulge
in some comfort food and uh watch the games? Will
you get? Will you indulge? I will try my best
not to, to be honest with you. So I've been

(01:40:46):
on a pretty decent run trying to trying to eat
right a little bit. So I did. I went pretty
hard during football season. So now I'm trying to do
the h the year right for the summer, so not
so not so much, you know, Okay, yeah, maybe if
I do, maybe it'll be a day you know, maybe
maybe Sunday, but not Saturday or something, you know, right,
like you can't. Let's you can't do four days of

(01:41:08):
it right Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Some people, you know, listen,
it's great, you know what I mean? You know you
wanna you know, it's beer and all the comfort food
and basketball. I mean beard and deep fried just a
deep fried blank and that's and that's that's all it is.
That's all you need. So it's funny. I did a

(01:41:28):
I was messing around with and have us A found
my local show and I did the bracket of sports food.
Oh nice, I love all right, like football anti double
a you know, so just that. So the one seeds
is one's a pizza, one pizza two or one seed

(01:41:53):
is wings naturally. Uh we have hogies, which is like
a sub sandwich, right right, okay, and the cheese steak
because it's Philadelphia, are we made? Of course Philadelphia. The
cheese steak a one seed okay, So the one seeds
where pizza, hogies, cheese steaks, and wings. And then you

(01:42:15):
had stuff like the the mozzarella sticks, the all kinds
of goodies. Probably get some sort of chips in there
or somebody chips chips. Yeah, all buffalo dip, taco dip, right,

(01:42:35):
mini tacos, potatoes, skins, a little mini TACCOs are all right,
yeah right, many TACCOs are a sleeper, yes, yes, chili
and then all your french fry kind of items, right,
your cheese fries, your pizza fries, your crab you're having
a crab fry. I have not had a crab fry,

(01:42:57):
but I'm dude, you would love the cry. Yeah. Yeah,
So there's there's two kinds. There's one with that's made
with Old Bay type of saw like seasoning, and there's
another with which I think you would love with uh
the real crabny and the old Bay. Oh, you would

(01:43:21):
go crazy over about you know some good items over
there with so many different French five items, I mean
mac and cheese bites and in classics right like uh,
you know, potato chitch, pretzels, the soft pretzel, uh, the doritos.
The stromboli you're like a BOLLI I don't but it's

(01:43:42):
a stromboli. I've heard of it, but I don't know
if I know exactly. Okay, yeah, because it's funny. I
was curious some of these are so East coasts, right.
So the stromboli is basically a pizza that is like
in a pocket, but it's long. So imagine a long

(01:44:04):
like kind of skinny uh pizza which would be like
pepperoni and cheese wrapped in this dough pocket. Oh, I
just looked it up. You're right. It kind of looks
like a hot pocket, but but longer. Right yeah, right, okay,
I can get with that. Hey, I used a little
hot pockets when I was a kid, So let me

(01:44:25):
tell you would these things. So I make him at home,
do you like I make him? Yeah? Yeah, I'm at homemade.
My kids love I usually, do you know? Once a month,
I'll do homemade pizza and I make like the fresh
dough and do the whole thing. And then I make
a stromboli and I make h like I make one

(01:44:47):
with pepperoni and cheese. I make one with like the
like more of the like prejutto, and you know, I'll
do it. I'll do a spinach and broccoli. That's my
wife likes that, so like I'll do and you know,
and and some people do a cheese steak stroboli. We
put the steak, dude, the thing's unbelievable, right, So you're

(01:45:09):
making these this weekend? Right, Well, I'm probably not because
it was might with my foot. I'm kind of on
the d l okay because I was because my wife.
We can be out there in about five six hours,
so I will have you guys out here because listen,
I'll do some good stuff, but you would love it.
The cheese steak one is awesome, right because imagine you

(01:45:32):
get the steak, the onions and the melted cheese inside
the pocket. And they do a buffalo chicken one too.
No I don't. I've never made that, okay, but they
have the buffalo chicken. That's a popular item too. Now,
how deep into the bracket have you guys gotten, like, like,

(01:45:53):
who's who's advanced? Is it over yet? Or now? Did
all the seeds? So just seating for now? Okay, yeah,
we'll do the games next week. But I got all
the seeds going on, so you know, I mean I
have everything from the uh the garlic knots. I don't
like those. It depends who makes them for me. So

(01:46:16):
I like garlic knots. It just depends. Do you guys
have peanut butter pretzels? Yes, that's what because that's one
of my go to is the peanut but of pretzels
are good either, Yeah, those are good, yeah without it?
How about the uh? Do you have the hot dog pretzel?
I've half Yeah, those are good. Those are very pretzel
dogs a good item, you know, the dog and a pretzel. Yeah,

(01:46:40):
you know that's a that's in life item, you know.
And then of course, you know all you're kind of
like you mentioned the dips. I'm not the biggest dip guy.
Now my producer that uns is a dip man, is he? Yeah,
he loves the dip, loves it. I like, I'm a
buffalow dip that dips I love. I'll have dips. I'm

(01:47:00):
more of a guak guy. Quiet, you're a guaksman. Yeah,
So I actually I actually make guak. I've been told
that it's pretty good. Um always I like to think so.
But it's it's it's a hit. Anytime I'm make it,
we go to a party, it's it's one of the
first things that goes so ah, that's strong. What's your
what's your recipe for the guak? Oh, It's it's really simple.
I mean it's a you know, you you know, a

(01:47:21):
crap ton of avocados. Obviously, you chope up some onions
and some uh, some tomatoes. There's this seasoning it's called
camp mix um that we that we order and I
it's it's kind of like a mixture of of a
bunch of different seasonings all into one. And it's versatile.
You can put it on anything. You put it camp
mix on vegetables, you can put it on meat, you

(01:47:42):
can put it on potatoes. And it tastes excellent. But
I use that, I use a little bit of hot
sauce and I mix it together and it's it's a
pretty simple reciplaceous. It's a simple recipe, but uh, like
I said, it's it's a hit for people. So yeah,
listen to onion tomatoes the hot sauce. I mean it
sounds delicious, So yeah, I love it. I can. I
can eat that all day every day. Yeah. Yeah, Now

(01:48:04):
which chip are you? What's your go to chip? Oh? Well,
for that, you know, it's like it's just like you're
a standard uh you know, Tostitos, whatever you know, is
there is there a particular chip that you will prefer,
uh in general when it comes to potato chips. I'm
a Cheetos guy, okay, so that that will be like
just a standard if for talking chips, no dipped the

(01:48:26):
tortilla chip that you like, Oh no, for me chips,
there's no no for that standpoint you when it comes
tortia chips. No, but it acts like from a flavored chips.
I'm a Cheeto guy, You're okay, all right, And depending
on the mood I'm in, it could be a flaming
hot Cheetoh. Guy, all the flaming hot now you do?

(01:48:48):
Now for like, now, let me ask you a question. Sunday,
say what's your day? Say Sunday tomorrow is your day
to veg and watch ball? What's your lane? Like? What? Like?
What would the menu include? So it probably would include
probably some guak that I make with much or tia chips.

(01:49:09):
You probably get either a pizza or wings or maybe both,
depending on how I'm feeling that day, how much I
want to how much I want to take down. But
that's probably like that's probably like the ideal. The chips
and guaca is the appetizer. The wings and or pizza
are kind of the are the go tos. Those are
that's the main course. Wow, that sounds awesome. Now like

(01:49:32):
a good day. Absolutely, Now what is it for you?
Is it do Stromboli all Stromboli all day? So you
know what it seems could be thing the cheese steak
might be. It might be in like I will do
homemade cheese steaks, which like I made them for the
Super Bowl where the family? Yeah, which are you know?

(01:49:53):
And then another yeah, I don't know if you've ever
had the cheese steak egg roll. No, but I am
very much. Tree. I did not know that was a thing.
In fact, I gotta send you one because there's a yah,
it's excellent. There's a place near me that is they
shipped too. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta get in
touch with the guys gourmet egg rolls. It's called get

(01:50:17):
egg Rolls dot com. Right, wow, And these things are
just absurd. So you have an air fryer, I do, yes, right,
so you pop these cheese steak Now, I have pizza
rolls and all kinds of different buffalo chicken and then
you pop them into the air fryer and dude, like

(01:50:37):
they're a delicious item. The cheese steak ones are just delicious,
like in your egg roll size fat, right, So you
get the fat egg roll and it's a great It's
a nice item, dude. I'm looking at the website right now.
May may or may not place an order before the
show is over. Yeah. Yeah, it's a strong deal, buddy,

(01:51:04):
strong deal man. They are. They're fabulous. They're like really
really good. Nice. Now, but before we move on from
your your your bracket of uh, you know, sports foods.
So how exactly do does something advanced? Is that? Are
your listeners voting on it or it is. Yeah, so
Monday we'll start it and uh, well everybody, every one

(01:51:29):
of the callers gets a game, okay, and then uh
and then we'll do someone social media too nice and
we have one executive challenge around, like if someone took
fish sticks, so fish sticks are like a sixteen seed,

(01:51:50):
Now that makes sense that that's a play in for me, right,
Like somebody took fish sticks over pizza, I would executive challenge. Yeah,
there's that's not happening because like who's doing that. That
pizza must have like you know, been sitting on the
counter for like five weeks, and that cheese was bad
when they made it. You know, it's like one of
those that'd be like one of the biggest upsets ever

(01:52:11):
in the history of the planet exactly. So like you know,
you got the veggies, the celery sticks, right, the carriage
celery sticks in the broccoli with the ranch. You know,
I mean, I'm out. I'm not a big ranch guy anyway. Yeah,
I know We've talked about that. I like ranch. Yeah, yeah,
you know, I'm over a blue cheese guy, but I

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like ranch too. Yeah. So but you know, I mean,
is that a you know the stuff mushrooms? Is that
a is that? Like? I got that. It's a fifteen
I've never seen a stuff to mushroom at a you know,
party for a sporting you know bent But yeah, I
do like stuff mushrooms, but that not necessarily in that setting. Yeah,

(01:52:54):
not really really a fit exactly, you know what I mean? Well,
you know that sort of thing is well exactly, yeah,
you get my point. I don't want to I don't
want stuff mushrooms watching you know, the packers and bears
in the snow. That's why it's you know, that's why
it is what it is. Yeah, you know, that's why

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it is what it is. That's hell, have an idea.
I love that bracket. That's great. Yeah, it's it's a
good bracket. So we'll fill that out, right, we'll fill well, yeah,
we'll do that. Hey, you gotta give me some trending
my brother. Oh, of course. We have one of the
biggest upsets in college basketball history on Friday night, sixteen
seed a fairly Dickinson beating number one seed in the

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East Region the Perdue boiler Makers sixty three to fifty eight,
just nineteen percent of the three point attempts dip Purdue
make on Friday night. They also committed sixteen turnovers, just
the second time that a sixteen seed has beaten a
number one in the tournament. TCU avoided an upset as
well a two point victory over Arizona State Florida Atlantic
making a layup with about a second remaining. They pick

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up an upset victory over Memphis, twenty five rebounds for
Oscar Sheboay for Texas, they pick up a sixty one
to fifty three victory over Providence, had Miami overcome a
double digit deficit to beat Drake. Also victories for Gonzaga, Yukon,
Kansas State, and Marquette and the NBA. Jason Tatum score
thirty four points leading the Celtics over Portland, dallasted at

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three point where as time expired to defeat the Lakers
one eleven, two one ten, A double overtime victory for
Chicago over Minnesota, thirty eight points for Joel and beat
in a seventy six ers victory over Charlotte Cavaliers, getting
twenty four points and nine assists from Darius Garland in
a victory over Washington. Back to the Fellas, all Right,
that's us. We are the Fellas live from the Tirack

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dot Com studios. So question, my man, are you into
the World Baseball Classic? Where you have you enjoyed? Not
in the least bit. I have not watched a single
solitary second outside of a highlightly. I've seen highlights. I
know what's hap opening, I know who's advancing. I keep
up with it, but I am not watching it religiously. No,

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it does. It does very little fun. You know, it
doesn't do it for you or just too much going on.
And I think once we if we look, we get
to the semis, we get to the championship, I'll maybe
I'll watch. But even then it's not like, oh my god,
the win is the title game, I gotta make sure
I'm buy my TV for that one. It just doesn't

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matter as much to me. Unfortunately, that might sound bad
to say, but it's a yeah, like to me, it's
it's an early see it's an exhibition to a certain degree,
just between people. I realized there's pride involved for a
lot of these players, and for some of them it
means a lot. I think, especially for the young kids
who are like in double and triple A who will

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probably never get the call up to the majors and
they get a chance to represent their country. It's a
non Olympic situation, and some of these guys wouldn't plan
the Olympics anyway. So from that standpoint, I understand and
acknowledge that it's important and a big deal for them.
But for me personally, whether or not you know, Mike
Trout and Mookie Bets and these guys end up winning
the World Baseball Classic does not matter to me one bit.

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I know he would see me as say, one of
the last time or seconds the last time. I forget
exactly what it was. I don't even remember who was
on that roster. Couldn't tell you, no idea. It's funny
because i've kind of I've enjoyed it. I mean, the
last two days. It's tough because of the tournament stuff.
The basketball, you know, kind of takes precedence. I like him.

(01:56:28):
I mean, I almost wish it was mid season. So
the problem is, and it goes back to the models, right,
like the European model, the soccer model, which you know,
you got Champions League, like you have all these other
tournaments that come into play during the season. It's an

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odd concept for us. Yeah, where we for some reason
where it just doesn't it doesn't work here. Why do
you think that is? I'm not sure. Like you can't
say like, oh well, if the salary commitments are so high,
because those guys are making more money than guys are
making you know, domestics here, So it's not like, you know,

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it's more important. I'm not sure. It just wasn't. And look,
it's no different than relegation. It's just something that's ingrained
in the sport and how it was built. And that's
just not even though I think, I honestly think it
would be great for American sports if you had relegation.
It would hold a lot of these teams and owners accountable.
But just based on how structures are, salary structures, revenue shares,

(01:57:36):
you know, TV contracts, is just not feasible to do
it here. So I think baseball is the team to
do it. I think basketball will be the sport to
do it. Honestly, Yeah, I think both of them actually,
But actually, let's take quick deal. Let's let's cook down
that road real quick, because I think it's fun, all right, right,

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All right, my man, we're talking about relegation and you
we talked about the baseball and the NBA, and I
think you're spot on with both. Now here's the issue
with baseball. You might have it a little easier because

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you got to have independent triple A teams. Right, I
don't know what else you do, because you would have these,
you got to figure out what you would do a
triple A because Triple A is the closest thing you
have to the majors, right, and so you would need
these independent triple A teams, these franchises that can somehow,

(01:59:28):
you know, win enough to overtake and and join the bigs.
Like you would need to put them in what like
places like Charlotte, Las Vegas, Tennessee, Like you know, your
top top fifty media type markets. Yeah. Right, and then
so they play in a league, and I guess they

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have to be independent. And then you know, all you're
minorately like your minor league twny. You build your teams,
and you know, you try to you try to get
up the game to the majors. And then you know,
teams like the Pirates. It forces teams like them to
do right, Yeah, to actually try. That's that's the whole.

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That's the old the deal behind relegation, which is why
I love it, because too many of these teams nowadays.
You know, I just saw a story from WOJ on
Friday about the revenue sharing deal from last year and
the NBA and how the Pacers you know, raked in
what forty something million dollars. I'm not saying that the
Pacers aren't trying to win, but you know a lot
of teams they put making money above you know, actually

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putting a good product on the field, you know, being
financially prudent. That's all they care about. They don't they
don't care about actually, you know, putting on a show
for the fans who spend money in line their pockets.
So the best way to hit them is in the pockets.
So you know, if you're not gonna you know, invest
in the team and try to put a good product
on the field, you're not gonna be on national TV

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as part of this TV deal. You're not going to
get part of the revenue share bite if you're relegated
to another league. And I think that would give them
the kick in the pants to actually try. Yeah, I agree,
How would you work the NBA? I don't know, that's
a good question. Like I think, like if you look
at it now, so say you know Detroit has the
worst record in the NBA, if you could try to

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find some way to double whammy it, so not only
would you get relegated and you look, they have the
G League. The problem is you have a lot most
of the G League teams are tied in to actual
NBA rosters. Yea, they need to be independent. All you
have is the ignite and there might be one or
two other teams that are not you know, affiliated with teams.

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So you'd have to find a way to revamp the
entire system. But I would like for the team that
finishes with the worst record, you get not only do
you get relegated to the other league you don't have,
you can't get the first overall pick, so a disincentivizes
tanking too, as like all the teams or there's either

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that or the last four teams, So say, you know, Charlotte, Houston,
San Antonio, Detroit, or maybe it's the last six, they
have their own playoff at the end, and whoever wins
it gets the top overall pick and then everybody else
gets throw into a lottery for two through whatever. Actually
that I like that you have to earn the first

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round pick, not just by sitting guys at the end
of the year and just trying to you know, get
more ping pong balls, because that's never sat well with me.
You know what, I'd like that, I like a back
end tournament for the number one pick. And you know what,
that helps the league because you know, if nothing else,
the fan bases of those teams are gonna watch. It's
gonna be on nationally national TV, so there's more revenue there,

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and we know that's all the leagues care about. So
even more so than just not giving the team with
the worst record the number one pick, I think having
a you know, a playoff for the top pick might
be a good solution. I wonder if that's something that
they'll consider in the future. It hasn't been talked about
it. I I haven't seen anybody else discuss it. But also
that would be a good idea, not just because it's mine.

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Let me ask you a question. I like the idea too.
I think your ideas brilliant, and you know me, I
love this stuff, so I'm in on it now. If
you were the NBA team, would you rather be an
eighth seed or would you rather be in a playoff
tournament for the number one pick of the draft? I
feel like most years you'd probably want to be in
the playoff tournament, Like if I were to use this
year as a specific example, especially in the West, you

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look at a team like the Lakers, I think you
want to be the eight seed because you feel if
you can get in and you're healthy, you know, and
the West is so wide open. But it's rare that
a conference is going to be as open as it
is this year. So I feel like most of years
you'd probably rather be in that tournament to try to
get the top overall pick. And so you're saying that
people might try to tank to do that well, because
you're losing playoff revenue to a certain like the players

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would get bonuses. Sure, yeah, but it won't be as
big of a bonus for actually making the postseason. Maybe
you have to up that just to make sure, just
to protect it. A great idea, fellas on Fox. All right,
welcome back. It's eight am in the East, five am

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in the West on a lovely, lovely en scene double
a tournament weekend. We're now into the Saturday and Sunday,
the thirty two sixty four becomes thirty two and as
we aim for the Sweet sixteen. Lots of fun this

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first two days of the tournament. And I do want
to bring something back that we talked about early this morning.
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the way tire buying should be. And you know we
started this and look, it's been fun, right and Fairly
Dickinson is a great story. Fairly Dickinson, you know across
the in the Jersey or Jersey from Manhattan fairly Dickinson

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stuns number one Perdue and it's it's great and it's good.
It's what March is about. But we talked about this
to start to show, and I think it's worth repeating
the idea that this one sixteen and now it never
happened in the tournament. Now just in the span of

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a few years, it's happened twice. And of course fifteen
seeds are now live. Double digit seeds win almost on
the rag. You know when when comparatively speaking to the past,
and I keep going back to the same kind of

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reaction to this thing, which is, you know why, because
it's not that good, because the teams aren't that good.
If you go back into the nineties, one seeds never
lost a sixteen. They might have got pushed, they might
have got there might have been some drama, but they

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never won because those one seeds were like many NBA players.
You want to talk about relegation, and you know, some
of these college teams could have went up and played
in the NBA back in the day, UNLV Duke Michigan.
I mean, they were chock full of you know, lottery
picks and NBA players that had stayed Georgetown, Like these

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these teams were tremendous, just really really good teams. And
while I still love the tournament and I'll always love
the tournament, the one sixteen I just don't think means
as much. And that's all due respect to Fairley Dickinson
because it's a great story. But I think Fairley Dickinson,
if they play they Purdue ten times, would fare much

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better than a one seed playing the Grandmama Larry Johnson
UNLV running ReBs. Oh yeah, I'm saying, oh yeah, they
could run them over. But even to the point of,
like you know, if Fairly Dickinson played Perdue ten times,
Fairly Dickinson might win twice, would you have even set
that fifteen years ago? Like you probably would say you

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have pretty well won every single time. Like he wouldn't
even be bad an eye about over it, even if
it's a one and done like Game seven type situation
like the tournament is, because the gap isn't as wide
because you have teams where it is now, there are
a lot most of the one seeds, the blue blood
programs are getting a lot of the young one and
done or two and done players, and at these these

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fairly Dickinsons and Furman's. These guys are you know, by
the time they make it to the tournament as sixteen
seed fifteen seeds, they're all senior guys, juniors guys who
have been around the block a few times, and you
have experience trumping just raw talent and experiencing continuity, and
you just don't have that in college basketball and haven't

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had that for a long period of time now. And
so to your point, that's what even the playing field
because back in the day, not only did you have
great talent, you have great talent and great continuity. And
you know, basketball is a very difficult You can look
if you have just stupid, over the top transcendent talent
like coach like coach cal had his first year a
few years at Kentucky, and you can just run guys

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over than than sure, but the gap is closed even
since then. You just they just don't have that sort
of runaway anymore. Yeah, I you know, it's so different.
It's just so different because of that. And you know,
again it's still good. But you've put up a great
point this morning. Name recognition, like you could game starting five.

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It's just the nature of the beast. When you have,
you know, a constant just movement of players, Well, it
makes that's said fairly Dickinson, that has uh, you know,
four year players can go beat two freshman that Purdue.
Yeah in the backcourt, yeah, two freshman guards, by the way,
at the most important position that they always say, you know,

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coaching and guard player are the two most important things
in march. Uh. Coaching. I don't think that's an issue.
I like Matt Painter. He does a great job. Although
I think I think the status Purdue is lost to
a double digit seed five of the last ten years,
so that's not necessarily the greatest thing to have on
the resume. But yeah, it's it's very frustrating because, yes,

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as people that love the game of college basketball like
we do, it becomes very difficult to keep up, you know,
on a year to year basis, because you just don't
know who's good, who's not, who's this to new freshman,
who's it? Just you can it's a you can count
the number of players whose names you recognize in this
tournament probably on one hand, the great majority of people,

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And that's a that's a problem for the sport. It's
a huge problem. Imagine the NFL. Hell that's imagine the
NFL and you on a year to year basis, you know,
Aaron Rodgers playing for the Jets this year, and then
next year he's somewhere else, and the next year he's
somewhere else. How do you build continuity fan base, learn
to love, learn to hate when you don't know who's
going to be in a certain place, you know, on

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a on a year to year out basis that it's
just that that's bad for business, right, you know, I
mean I'm with you, hey, let me ask you this
all there, right, because it's so I was talking to
a friend of mine and this is college football, right.
So college football is awesome, right because you know you

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know the players, right, like you know in football is
such a different sport where you got to play to
year junior, right, so you get recognition of the great players,
you get to watch him for three years. Showing thing
has changed is the portal and now the portal is incredible,

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especially with nil money. Right. So I was talking to
a friend of mine who's in college football, and you know,
like the portal, who's available, how do you go to
pay them? What the structure is for the nil. I
mean it's another thing that is absolutely wild. And to movement.

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I mean you just told the movie a record number
of kids in the portal, and now all of a sudden,
you just got four kinds of kids, just quarterbacks moving.
Like if I'm a quarterback at Purdue and some other
kid meets me out, I want to go to you know,

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Texas Tech or whatever. Or if I'm a big shot
at Alabama but I lose my job, now I want
to go over to Washington and be the starter. Like
it's insane. Yeah, and it's obviously I don't think it's
good for the sport to a degree. Like I think
the portal in and of itself is great. The fact
that it's essentially unregulated as the problem. Like there needs

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to be like clear defined rules as to when you
can transfer, when you get into the portal, when the
portal actually closes, I mean, guys are entering the portal
and like mid October, you know, like he's like, oh,
I'm not playing all right, I'm out of here. It's
like they're just there has to be some sort of
like control regulation. But this is I mean, look, the
NC DOUBLEA was drug into this. You know, kicking and
screaming to begin with, whether it was for the portal,

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the portal that it's as it's currently constituted, or nil.
Especially so it's probably no surprise that they have no
regulations on it. But and look, I understand that coaches
can move freely and the rules seem to be different
for them, and why shouldn't the kids be able to
go where they want to go? But after a certain
point it becomes ridiculous. Like, I you know, Brew McCoy,
he was a receiver and he just transferred from SC

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to Texas, back to SC, back to Texas to Tennessee.
It's like, dude, like, really, that's are you even? I
know that these are athletes, students not necessarily student athletes,
and they it's the old Cardale Jones. We ain't come
here to play school. I understand it for the most
part when you're playing big time college football, but at
a certain point it is borders ridiculous. You can't have

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guys transferring six times in four years. No, I agree,
I think you should be You should only get one transfer.
There should be limits on it, Yes, there should be
some sort of limit on it, whether the amount of
times you can transfer, or you have to set out
a certain amount of time if you do transfer, whatever
it is. But I'm just not a fan of how

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it's currently constituted. Yeah, because you other think two is
you're going, you know, from school to school. It's like
everybody's a free agent, and you know, I mean I
think you got to make it somewhat of a commitment.
You know, Like what I would do is I would
allow them to have one transfer and then if there's

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a coaching gains, you get another transfer. Sure, I'm okay
about that. Isn't that seems fair? That's fair? Yeah, right,
This way you're protected because look, when a new coach
comes in, you know, he changes his mind, may want
his own guy or whatever. So you should have the
right to leave and that should be a free portal transfer.

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But you get one and then you get one another
if there's a coaching change. I think that's kind of
makes sense. It's just it just feels so crazy sometimes. Yeah.
I mean, look, even in the NFL, like these guys
are under contract, they can't just so like, oh, well,
you know, I'm a I'm Cooper Rush and I feel
like I should be a starting quarterback. So I'm gonna
go ahead and transfer to Washington Like. It doesn't. It

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doesn't work that way, So why should have worked that
way for the amateurs? Like I know, there's there's nil
tied to it, and then they can make certain amounts
of money. I certainly understand that. But you know it's
there's regulations at the professional level. Why can't there be
regulations in college? Exactly? I'm I'm so with you, so
with you? All right, let's do this. Let's take a
quick t o. All right down. The Big Brain is

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on a boat in Disney. He's on a Disney cruise.
Oh all right, so he's unavailable. I would say, Oh,
I thought we'd bring him on live from you know,
the spinning teacups on the cruise or something. He's running
from mister Toad or something. It's funny because the brig
the Big Brain, who is a sports better right for
a living, and you know he comes on. He doesn't

(02:15:29):
sell anything, He just not at all. We just talk
about games and the whole thing. So he doesn't. It's
not a business. His business is he he's a better professional,
So egoes, what's up with him? He's he's everywhere, you know,
he's in the Mountains, and he's in the Islands, and
then he's at a first row at the NBA game,

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and now he's on a Disney cruise. So well, the
Big Brain did speak to me about some of the
games he liked. But you know, I'm gonna sit there.
I think you and I should look at the weekend
today and tomorrow from a betting standpoint. So we'll go
through every game on the car today and tomorrow and
make our selections sound good. Let's do it. I like

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it all right, Yeah, he's figgy. I'm because where the
fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio. Oh, right, way
to go, way I go. Let's take a look at
the weekend from a betting standpoints. Yes, where the fellas, Figgy,

(02:16:34):
Because as we hang out on this uh beautiful NC
double a tournament weekend, and don't forget fellas, we are
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through the games. Uh today twelve ten New times start Eastern,
nine ten Pacific. San Diego State five and a half
against Furman. I kind of leave Furman, you know, I
did San Diego State deserve the lay five and a half. Yeah,
I don't necessarily think so. I don't know if San

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Diego State even what the twenty eight and six record
has been overly impressive this year, or the Mountain West
just in general, so I certainly would not be surprised
at Furman covered. So if I'm picking, I think I'm
taking them plus the five and a half. Yeah, I'm
thinking the same thing. I mean, I look at it,
I think it's gonna be tight game, and it's not
having a question that Furman can win it. In advance.

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Duke Tennessee Duke Lane three and a half through the
higher seed, the five seed versus the Valves the fourth seed.
I think you and I both are on Duke and
like Duke a lot and would make it a play. Yeah,
I agree. I would take Duke, Duke and the points
in this one, even though you're I mean, you're down
there in Orlando, so I guess you're a close to

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SEC territory. Maybe Tennessee will travel a little bit better
than Duke, but Duke is a national brand, so I'm
sure they'll have their supporters too, so that might cancel
itself out. But yeah, Duke is on fire right now.
Tennessee's been too inconsistent all season long, so I would
expect Duke to win by you know, maybe even ten. Yeah,
you know, I'm thinking. I'm thinking the same thing. I

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think it's a double digit piece. Now, Kansas the one
seed in the West against Arkansas laying three and a half.
Now we both think that Kansas is yeah, not a
flimsy one, but not certainly not an unbeatable one. No, well,
it certainly didn't end the season that great the way

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Texas handed it to him a couple of times. But
Texas is a good team too, obviously, So three and
a half is difficult. This is a really hard one
for me, I says, I have to make a pick.
I guess I will take Kansas with the Kansas and
the points, but I'm not super confident about it, to
be honest, right right, I kind of feel the same

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way where I go. I'm not in love with this
Arkansas team. But you know, the lines telling you Arkansas
at three and a half, that's a short line and
the line saying Arkansas. So if I had to play it,
I think I played Razorbacks. Yeah, well, okay, that makes sense,
that makes sense. MISSOI battle Tigers six and a half

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over Princeton. This is another game where would you be
surprised if Princeton makes that sweat Not at all. I
wouldn't be surprised if Princeton one out right, Yes, I'm
with you, then I'm completely with you all this on
that one. So that means Missouri win by thirty, but
all that always happens. Yeah, you know, you know I'm

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with you. I'm with you, Texas, excuse me. Houston and Auburn,
it's all about the health of Houston. Houston is a
five point favorite over the Tigers, and I don't know
if Sassa is a game time decision or what that
you know what that potentially means. I feel like if

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Sassar were one hundred percent, I think Houston probably be
up closer to eight or nine being favored in this game.
That's how big of a difference he makes. But even
with him out, I think I still, um, I think
I still like Houston in this one, even minus the
five Yeah, yeah, I kind of feel the same way.

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I kind of look at it in a kind of
similar fashion. I think Houston can score in Auburn at
times struggles to do so, even if Sassa is out,
you know, they still have guys who get off tempo one. Yeah,
and I think the tempo kind of I think it's
gonna be tough for Auburn to play at that tempo. Yeah,
and they look, they still have guys, you know, the
walker jamal Chev's been there for a while and he

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can pay us, you know, pick up his game a
little bit. So it's not like Sassa is not the
only guy that they have, even though he's their lead dog.
So I think they can. They can still win this
one even if he doesn't play. And then uh, Texas
Penn State. Texas is five and a half over Penn State.
I love Texas in this game, but now I don't

(02:21:12):
know if that's because I completely devalue Penn State and
Penn State after burying I mean, I mean, I can't
believe in burying Texas, A and M what you thought?
So I give you credit. I don't know if that's
my Listen, they they they they completely destroyed A and M.
Texas will destroy Penn State. Yeah, I don't know if

(02:21:34):
they'll destroy them. To be honest with I do think
they'll win, but um, honestly, if if I can tease
this up to a six instead of five and a half.
I take Penn State. I think, so you could buy
the a. Yeah, I'll allow you to buy the half
to point. Yeah, I think I think Penn State keeps
it tight. But I do think Texas win really, Yeah,
is not a pushover. You think they could score with them?

(02:21:55):
I think they can score. I think they can hang.
They absolutely can't. All right, all right, I'm gonna go
without be the one game we different. I want to
take Texas. Uh, Ucla tonight eight forty five Pacific. UCLA
is laying seven and a half to Northwestern. Yeah. I

(02:22:18):
think I'm taking Ucla to cover the spread on this one. Yeah,
me too. They I know the Northwestern is pretty guard heavy,
and I don't know if they have anybody that can
really stay with the Hommyhocas and if a dem Bona there,
UCLA's big eye plays. I don't think they have anybody
that can match with him inside either. Yeah, man, I uh,

(02:22:42):
I look at I just think there's a distinct matchup advantage. Yeah,
especially on the inside for Ucla. For me, Yeah, I
don't see north Well, I mean Northwestern could try to
make it ugly, But I just I don't behind them
with you. I don't see you want to make a
game versus mc cronin ugly cool. I think, yeah, I

(02:23:03):
think he'll be fine, you know writing you know kind
of see it the same way I feel I kind
of do. I feel the same way. Maryland in Alabama
a Bama is a nine point favorite, and now I
would lay that. I know. I think you're probably looking
at it, my guess as you like the dog, you

(02:23:24):
like Maryland in this game, because I don't, only because
it's hard for me to imagine Brandon Miller being that
bad and back to yeah, and they look as bad
as he was, they still won by twenty, you know
what I mean? So I don't think that Alabama is
like that much head and shoulders like Maryland is a
solid team, a very solid team. But you have the potential,

(02:23:47):
you know, second third overall pick in the NBA draft,
scores zero points and still win by twenty. That's an
impressive run. He's not going to be that bad again,
so he'll step up. So it would not surprise me
if Alabama Alabama won this game by ten, ten more points. Yeah,
I'm I'm completely with you. On that. I just think
that's why I look at that dis parody. I think

(02:24:09):
Miller's gonna have a better game. I think They're gonna push,
and I think Alabama of the one seeds is probably
the most legitimate, especially with Houston's health. Yes, I would
say with even without even if Houston was one hundred
percent healthy, just because of their schedule, that just doesn't

(02:24:30):
lend itself to you know, a lot of a lot
of kudos from a lot of people. But yeah, I
would agree with you. I would. I would say that Alabama,
of all the one seeds, would be the one that
I'd be the most. It's the one I like the most.
The problem was saying the most confident. They're still very young,
and teams that are driven by youth, you just don't know,
you know, Ali Brandon Miller has had some real bad

(02:24:51):
games this year and some big spots. You know, the
one of the Auburn games, he was bad, you know,
So he's and I think in that game they one
as a matter of fact. So they've been able to
overcome some of his worst performances, which I guess is
a testament to them. But that's harder to do. The
deeper and deeper you get into the tournament. The deeper
and deeper you go, the better your play. Your best
players have to play. Yeah, And the other issue is

(02:25:14):
you can't you know, you can't afford to have those
kinds of games because you know the one and done.
You know, you know how that works. I mean, you
get it's easy to escape in the first round, but
you know, especially next weekend. Yes, like you got to
tighten it up next weekend or you're out. Yeah, you'll
be going home real quick. All right, I'll tell you

(02:25:36):
what why. It is some trending and we'll go look
at tomorrow's games. All right, we'll take a look at
the late slate of games from Friday's NC Double A
Tournament schedule. TCU getting a floater from Jacobe Coles and
the final seconds they come back and beat Arizona State
seventy two to seventy. You had Indiana notching a seventy
one to sixty victory over Kent State, convincing victories for
Gonzaga in Kansas State, Florida Atlantic kitting a layup with

(02:25:58):
two seconds remaining defeating Memphis. Biggest upset of the day
came in the East Region sixteenth seed fairly Dickinson defeating
number one seed in Big Ten champion per Due sixty
three to fifty eight. In the NBA, Cowrie Irving scored
thirty eight points, Mexikleiber hitting the game winning three pointer
for Dallas as they beat the Lakers in La one
eleven to one ten. Thirty four points for Jason Tatum

(02:26:20):
as Boston beat Portland one twenty six to one twelve
despite forty one points from Damian Lillard. Marko Rosen scored
forty nine points, leading Chicago to a double overtime victory
over Minnesota's at Leavina at thirty nine. Tias Jones a
triple double for Memphis as they won in San Antonio
in overtime. He also, he's played excellent, absolutely excellent for them.

(02:26:41):
Bain had a good game, Like I always knew he
was a good facilitator. Yeah, pretty's scoring. It might not
be this year, it might not have been next year.
But like Memphis is a team that's not going anywhere
or anytime soon because they have nothing but youth, nothing
but youth. So they're going to be dangerous moving forward.
Hawks with a victory over the Golden State Warrior one
twenty seven to one, nineteen ten straight role losses there

(02:27:03):
for Golden State. Oh. The Hawks also signed Bogdan Bogdanovitch
to a four year contract extension for sixty eight million
dollars and victories for the Cavaliers and Anthony Sixers, who
got thirty eight points from Joel Embiid the favorite the MVP,
then new MVP favorite, Joel embid one twenty one to
eighty two, seventy Sixers over Charlotte. All right, that's where

(02:27:25):
the fellas. He's Kevin Figgers, I'm Anthony Gargano and uh
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(02:28:09):
We'll start it off tomorrow at twelve ten Eastern noon
just an afternoontime Pittsburgh and Xavier. So, pitt how bad
a fig the play in Panthers role yesterday? And now
get to play Xavier. Xavier a five and a half

(02:28:29):
point favorite over pit pit point good basketball. They are
hes about riding some momentum. And look, we've seen it
happen a couple of times where I didn't VCU make
the make the final four as an eleventh seed UCLA
when they made the final four a couple of years ago, Yeah,
they were in eleven seed, had to had to play
through the play in tournament. So it certainly wouldn't be
unprecedented to set to see Pittsburgh right at the momentum

(02:28:52):
of these couple of wins and get a victory over
Xavier so five and a half. Yeah, I could see
Pittsburgh covering. Yeah, obviously I see them keeping it close. Yeah.
I And put it this way, it's the dog or
nobody for me, because you know I'm an official. Xavier
is good. I don't know, they're not great right as

(02:29:12):
the three I got out of a bloated three, and
I would not you know, I don't like, I would
never go against Pittsburgh right now as well as they're playing. Yeah,
because both teams can score points, that's the thing. So
and both teams we know can play some defense. Although
my I'm more confident in Xavier. But again, I still
think that Pittsburgh can keep the game close. So I

(02:29:34):
think Xavier wins, but I think Pittsburgh stays in it. Yep, yep,
I'm with you. Where we had here, we got you. Kentucky.
It's a two point three that Kentucky is, uh the
sixth seed and k State is the three seed. Yet,
like we've been talking about, Kentucky the favorite, the six

(02:29:57):
over the three is a rare favorite. I don't understand
it at all, to be honest with you, if you
watch either of these teams all year long, if you
talk about having senior leadership versus having youth, and look,
Kentucky has some older guys that are good for them,
she boy reeves. But I mean Kansas State is buoyed
by pretty much nothing but juniors and seniors, and they're

(02:30:19):
all playing extremely well. So I would I'm all over
Kansas State on this. I Kansas State wins this outright,
So oh, so you like Kage State to win this thing?
I do. I kind of like Kentucky. Okay, I kind
of like I ditake superior talent. Now you're right about
you know, you got a more of a steadier team

(02:30:41):
at kay State. So you know, you got a team
that you know is a little bit more get a
little more experienced those Kentucky teams. Man. I just maybe,
and maybe it's the brand that's in my brain. It
is because the same Kentucky team that lost to Saint
Peter's last year. No disrespect to Saint Peter's, but you

(02:31:02):
know what I mean with many of these same talented
players still you know, still on the roster. Yeah, and
some of the same inconstitutencies that plagued them last year
plagued them. The fair certainly fair? You know you're right
on Uh what about let's go Michigan State. Marquette is
a game I love. Actually, yeah, I love Marquette in

(02:31:26):
this game. Yeah. Do you know, do you want to
talk about the brand? And I'm a big you know,
Izo fan, and I like Sparty, but Marquette is a
much better team. Yeah, and I think much better guard play.
I think Marquette roles. Yeah, Marquet's on a different level. Well,
not that we mentioned earlier in the show. This is

(02:31:46):
not one of Izo's most talented UH teams, and Marquette
has been toward the top of the you know, at
the top of the food chain in the Big East
all season long. So um, I'm gonna take Marquette easily
in this one. Uh. Saint Mary's and Yukon Ukon three
and a half. Now, I told you, And it is

(02:32:08):
interesting because I was talking to some affect the big brain.
I was talking to a big brain about this because
he said that, uh, the metrics, that the analytic people
and the metrics, because that Yukon is a metrics darling,
and when you play it that they're the most underrated

(02:32:29):
team in the tournament. Hm. And you know, look, I
think they played. I mean they've rolled yesterday, right, I
like him. You want to lay three and a half.
I would lay three and a half with you with Yukon,
would too, I'd lay the three and a half. There.
The most underrated team in the again of the tournament?
Is that? So is that to say that they're seated

(02:32:50):
much more, much more lowly than they should be. Yeah? Well,
now again, this is all you know inside the metrics
that Yukon is the the most underrated team and has
a real chance to get to the Final four. Okay, yeah,
I can see it. The seven ten game Eastern four

(02:33:13):
ten Pacific Baylor and Creighton. Now this is a fascinating
game because Baylory Creighton. So Baylor is a one and
a half point favorite against Creighton. The line is screaming Creton.
It is, isn't it. You almost gotta do it, right, Yeah,

(02:33:38):
even though I don't feel confident in that. Actually, I'm
not gonna do it. I'm gonna take Baylor. Okay, No,
I'm not gonna do that. I like Baylor too much,
you know, I like him too. This line is freaking
me out. Yeah, It's an odd line to say the least.
It just feels cheap. Yeah it does. Yeah, because I'm

(02:33:58):
with you on Babla, like I like Bella, and I
saw this line, I was like, h that's screaming, crating
out right. It is. So I don't know, we'll see.
I'll leave it alone. To be honest with you, I yeah,
you know what, that's what I would do. He freaks
me out. I wouldn't touch it. Yeah, it freaks me out.
Florida Atlantic versus Fairly Dickinson Fau laying twelve and a half,

(02:34:26):
and I hate to say, but I think it's warranted
because Fau can shoot the three really well. They could
really shoot the ball, and you know, as good as
Fairly Dickenson was. I just think they took advantage of
Purdue horrible shooting. They lumped up, and if I had
to pick a side, I would be on Fau in

(02:34:48):
this game. Yeah, it's not like Fairly Dickenson lit the
world on fire offensively either, you know. I mean they
even talked about it after the game that they were
gonna put pressure on the Purdue guards because they knew
they struggled all season long, and they did and that's
how they got to him. So I don't know if
that's gonna the same it's gonna apply to Florida Atlantic.
So that that's a big number, twelve and a half,
almost thirteen points, But yeah, I think I take Florida

(02:35:09):
Atlantic to cover that too. Yeah. Yeah, we're on the state.
We're lock step here. Uh. The eight forty game TNT
Indiana and Miami a good game, four to five contest.
Indiana a one and a half point favored against Miami.

(02:35:30):
I kind of like Miami in this game, but I
think it's a close one. Um, I don't now that
I think of it even more deeper like Indiana. Yeah,
I like Indiana. I really like it's the Indiana team. Now,
I don't think Miami has the juice to hang with
Trace Jackson Davis. So I like that's a one and
a half point spread. I'm not saying Indiana's gonna run

(02:35:51):
them off the floor, but you know, I can see
a you know, seven eight point win. I certainly don't
see it. I just certainly don't see it coming down
to the final possession, at least, I'll put it that way.
That's how you got should you feel pretty good? You
got Indiana. I'm gonna go with Miami. Okay, zaga Miami.
You got the Who's now again, this could be my

(02:36:14):
bias Big ten, Like I'm just not feeling the Big
ten this year and some of that. You know, I
just look at the conference and I go, Now, I
agree that Miami's not a great it's not a Miami
team with the past, But I kicked there pretty good. Uh,
And we'll see you're ready about Trace Jackson. Yeah, I

(02:36:36):
thought they were gonna lose the Drake. So I'm surprised.
I'm surprised Miami's even here, right, and you know, and
for a while to look like that was going to
be the case. So yeah, So, and then the last
game of the night Tomorrow, Night ninety, the last game
to get to the Sweet sixteam is Gonzaga TCU. Gonzaga
four and a half point favorite against the Horned Frogs.

(02:37:00):
I love Gonzaga, I'm gonna say right now, I'm I
like Gonzaga. I think Gonzaga it's gonna get to the
Final four. Well, I can't play both sides of the aisle.
So since I took TCU to beat Gonzaga in my bracket,
I have to take them to to win this game
and cover that four and a half point spread here too. Yeah. Yeah,

(02:37:21):
And I can actually see it practically happening. It wasn't
just you know, you know shot, you know, fly by night.
Somebody has to be upset sort of situation. TCU has
had some big wins this year, so I certainly can
see them in. Gonzaga is not Look, I know they're
are twenty nine and five. I think we'd all agree
this is still not their greatest squad they've ever had,
and so they're they're right to be beaten. I think
TCU can can give it to them. Okay, so you're

(02:37:45):
I want to go Gonzaga. I'm curious because when you
go against the Western team that says something. Yeah, I mean,
well there and they're not in the Pac twelve. But look,
it's just that's true, right, never mind, it's that's that's mcgate.
That's uh mitigating because you're a back twelve. You know,
it's probably better for them than not in the back twelve.

(02:38:06):
I like this. I'm gonna tell you, I liked this team.
Dad's something missing for me. But what is it? Come?
Every time I watch them? I felt the same thing.
But every time I watch them, they just roll teams. Well,
I mean yeah, I mean you'll roll Pepperdine, sure, say
Mary's Yeah, you know San Diego, Yeah, you know, Hi,

(02:38:29):
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(02:39:50):
gotta go to fairly Dickenson. The inbound comes over shoots
everyone scooped up by Roberts. I don't do it. The
Knights have slain the dragon for the second time. He
didn't see AA tournament. History's sixteen has beat no one

(02:40:12):
has Knights are that's sixteen knocking off number one in
the east. Perdue sixty three took fifty eight was how
about any we I go? Do you gotta be fairly
Diketson now? Because you go, yeah, you're right, that's a violation,

(02:40:34):
not going fairly Dickinson. Yeah, I was gonna go Maxi
Kleiber game winner and he's a naa, no, don't do that,
nah nah, not as a game, a game over Tornam
game and not over something that's only happened twice, you know,
every you know. Now, that's that's pretty significant. The crazy

(02:40:56):
part about it is, and I'm sure that that's what's
what one. It sounds like Kevin Coogle, great job, he's amazing.
But I heard this Anthony Fairley Dickinson didn't even travel
their radio broadcast, so really there was no call from
Fairley Dickinson of the upset. They didn't even broadcast. They
didn't even broadcast the game why. I don't know, budget issues,

(02:41:18):
I'm not sure. I mean, it's in your neck of
the wheez. I don't know how big or small and
what the athletic department situation is, Like, I mean it
is small. I mean, but I mean, you know it's
the tournament. You're I mean, you're d one, you know, yeah,
Like if you're gonna be if you're gonna be d
one and playing an NC double A tournament, you gotta
bring your broadcast crep, or at least you gotta put

(02:41:40):
the guys in a you know, a booth, some a
studio with a TV feed and dan you know, pump
in fake crowd noise for people to listen to or something.
You know, Yeah, that's a shamed to the hometown. Guys
should at least be able to you know, have their
own call. So I thought that was that was this
should I agree with you? I think you're right about that.
We're where what do you know what? And now I'm thinking,

(02:42:04):
where was the where was the region? Uh there in
the east region? Yeah, where's that game? Where was the
gameplay venue? A lot have to double check on that.
So I think it was let me see here, it
was Columbus, Ohio. Okay, so how farmer trek are we talking?

(02:42:28):
You know, fairly udiculous into Columbus? I mean, you know,
eight hours, nine ten hours? Yeah, so you know that's
a drive you gotta drive if you're if you're the
broadcast is right in ten hour drive? Yeah, don't you
do it? Even if And again, like especially when COVID

(02:42:49):
hit so many people did so many things remotely, you
don't even have to drive at least do a broadcast. Noah,
but like you gotta drive, like yeah, like you gotta
be one like you want to be on site and
feel you do? You do, look as I think it's
for gazing when it when broadcases don't travel, well, you
got to feel the atmosphere. I don't disagree. If you're
able to travel, you should. But if you can't for

(02:43:12):
whatever reason, financial or otherwise, at least if you can
do it remotely, I mean you would, you really should?
You drive it, and you know you're industrious even if
you're gonna drive up and drive back, you know what
I mean? Yeah, but you know, I think you're gonna
lose what other obligations you know that the guys might
have too, you know, especially in smaller situations like that.
They could be the you know, play by play guy,

(02:43:34):
the PR guy, the lunch man who knows. Yeah, no,
it's that's true. That's true. All right. Well, you know
it's gonna be a fun weekend, sir, so enjoy it.
Get to guak out. Oh yeah, you know it. He's
a guaksman. We love you guys, Thanks for hanging See
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