August 19, 2023 • 40 mins
TJ Houshmandzadeh and Plaxico Burress talk about Anthony Richardson and Sam Howell winning their respective QB battles, the NBA opening an investigation into what’s happened between James Harden and the 76ers, Bryce Young’s preseason so far, and more!
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wherever you get your podcasts. Plex We're getting we're getting
some clarity in the NFL. Your teams pre season is
winding down training campus Indean team to start to name
their quarterbacks the starting quarterbacks. You had the coach's name,
(02:12):
Anthony Richardson as the starter, which he seemed surprised, which
I was shocked that he seemed surprised. And also the
Washington commanders, which we knew Sam Howe was going to
be the quarterback, but they named him the starter. What
are your thoughts on Wait, before we get in that,
Before we get in that. Plex last week was your birthday.
You enjoy yourself. What you do, you have fun.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Oh man, you know I was able to get my
told wet. You know, a little bit of sand, a
little bit of water. So it's always good to, you know,
wake up in the and to hear the waves hitting
the sand. But I was once told that whenever you
hit the ocean, you're on vacation, and it is a
very pleasant thing just to be able to get and relax.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah okay, okay, yeah, yeah yeah. Now let's let's get
back to the National Football League. When Anthony Richardson seemed surprised,
like you were drafted top five, you knew you were
going to be the starter. It was a matter of when,
not if. And Gardner Minshew, I don't he seems surprised,
(03:14):
But what are your thoughts on the coach naming Anthony
Richardson as starter? And we all assumed as well that
Sam how would be named the starter of the Washington Commanders,
and he was named the starter as well. Well.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I mean, like I said, you said, man, when you
drive the fifth overall and you look at the quarterbacks
that are on this rockster with Gardner Minshew basically being
the backup and sam Eller going to be in the
third quarterback and you're just saying to yourself that, you know,
I mean, Anthony Richardson is most likely going to be
the start. I don't know why he was so surprised.
(03:47):
I think I think he was just you know, putting
that out there for the people to hear. But I
don't believe that he thought that inside that he wasn't
going to be named starting quarterback. And listen, I've came
out and said on countless occasions that I think he
is going to be the best quarterback uh NFL ready
this season. I just think he just has all the
intangibles to be a quarterback that that the Colts can
(04:12):
begin to build around him because I think, you know,
he's he's going to be a very good quarterback going
forward in the future, and he's going to be the
franchise quarterback for this organization. And also I think that
you know, they have some nice weapons. He has Michael
Pittman Junior six ' four and also this kid, I
like Alec Piers. He's a six to three guy. So
(04:32):
there you have two wide receivers over six feet uh
that can you know, that can play And obviously you know,
Jonathan Taylor makes everybody's job, you know a little bit easier.
But I just think that, uh, these guys are going
to be good.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
You know, we didn't really have the opportunity to really
see him play on a big stage or that national
stage weekend and week out like the Alabama's and the
you know, the USC's and the LSU. So I just
think that, you know, this kid has a big arm.
He can make any throw on the football field. Now,
I just think moving forward as far as this rookie class,
(05:09):
you made it, disagree, but I think he's going to
have the best NFL career out of all the rookie
quarterbacks that were drafted this year.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Wow. That that's a bold statement considering many We know
the upside, but with a high upside comes a floor
that you can crash down to as well. Now, now,
the reason I think Anthony Richardson will play well is
the system that he is in. If you look at
(05:41):
what Shane Stiken wants to run, he comes his offensive coordinator.
Last year, the Philadelphia Eagles had Jaalen Hurts throw some
RPOs in there, some quarterback runs. It's emphasized the run,
but you brought up Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor is unhappy.
He's excused for a personal reason. Oh he's going to
get his ankle checked. Hell, he's excused for that. There's
(06:02):
a lot going on in that locker room with Jonathan Taylor,
and they're saying it right. Oh, personal, he don't He
don't want to play with the coach unless they gonna
pay him. So your best offensive weapon is unhappy. But
like you said earlier, they do have big receivers in
Pittman and Alex Pearson. I believe he ran four three
at six three about two ten, so he can really run.
(06:26):
But it's gonna take It's gonna take some time. But
I believe the offense that they're gonna run will suit him.
I mean, Richardson ran what mid four for at the
combine jump forty inches, so you know, the athletic ability
is there, the arm strength is there. He's gonna make
mistakes like all rookies will, but I'm optimistic that he
(06:48):
will play well. Now I'm gonna I'm not gonna go
out and say, oh, he's gonna have the best career.
I just I don't believe that's gonna be the case
of the rookie quarterbacks, but the system that he is
going to be in couldn't be better for his skill set.
If you look at what Jalen Hurts was able to
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do and that skill set, Jalen Hurts isn't the athlete.
But we don't know if Anthony Richardson also has the
acumen that Jalen Hurts has up top, because we know
you could be the best physically, but if mentally you
don't process and understand things as quickly as the next guy,
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it really doesn't matter how good you are physically. And
so if he has that, obviously the sky's the limit.
But I wouldn't go out and say he's going to
have a better career than Bryce or CJ. It's just
so early the success that those guys had at the
college level. It would be hard for me to say that.
But the fact that you are going out on the limb,
(07:53):
yes I am.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I just think this guy, he just has all the
intensibles that you look for and in a quarterback because
he's he's athletic, and he's kind of raw, and I
just think that his ceiling of all the other guys
that were drafted, c J. Strild and Bright shung. I
(08:15):
just think that, you know, he can take that jump
where it's gonna make him even more better, especially like
you said, playing that offense, playing the Dome, having those
wide receivers. You spoke of Jonathan Taylor being unhappy, but
it's just because he's just because he's unhappy, doesn't mean
he's going to be in the backfield on opening day.
I think he's going to play on opening the opening day,
(08:37):
even the fact that he's unhappy. But you know, like
the whole Saquan thing, you know, you get out there
and you play and you continue to add value.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
You know, Jonathan Taylor ain't even practice sa Quan at
least he practicing. Johnny Taylor ain't practice.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I think he'll be in the backfield week one because
I don't think that the Colts are really going to
move off of his situations and pay him to play,
you know, moving forward, especially with Jim Mersey, he's already.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Said that they're not going to pay him. So what
is he going to do?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Continue to miss the rest of the season, Jim Mercey,
don't get damn bro. He's already said that he's so
he got his hands tied.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, and I agree with you about the Anthony Richardson,
his ceiling is extremely high. And I must say this
to the viewers listening. TJ is slightly biased, and I
can admit that I have a personal relationship with Bryce
and CJ. So I'm slightly biased towards those two guys.
(09:40):
But me having a personal relationship, I will never let
that cloud my judgment and what I'm saying what I believe.
But I also believe those guys are going to be
hell of quarterbacks. They're going to be really good. They're
gonna be two quarterbacks that do hell of a job
in their career. But I also met Anthony Richardson at
the mind plaques and I was impressed when he manages
(10:03):
my discussions. When him, I'll never forget. We had an
orientation at the combine with the players and guys was
leaving the room with a ton of guys in there,
and I stayed back to talk to some guys and
then guys had moved some chairs around, and so me
and him. He stayed back and talked to me, and
(10:24):
we were moving the chairs back where they were at
from where the guys moved them, and I was like, Wow,
everybody left and hear me and him just having a
conversation moving chairs back, and I just thought that was
cool because a lot of guy there just got up
out of there. And so that aspect of it, the
way he seems to treat people and just not put
(10:45):
himself on the pedestal, I really liked that. I saw
that at the combine. So I think that's going to
go a long way. Now, let's go to the Washington
Commanders with Sam Howe. We already we knew who was
he competing with for the store and quarterbacks by Jacoby Brisset,
like we knew what's going to happen. Ga. Gooby Presette
(11:09):
has been He started with Indy at some point. He
started last year with the Cleveland Browns. He started the
whole entire season the year when Andrew Luck just when
he retired. Now did Jacoby Brissette show us that he
could be a starter in the National Football League? I
(11:31):
think he's shown us he's a high level backup, one
of the top backups in the league. But if he
is your starter, you you don't really have a chance
to get to the playoffs, which everybody that that's what
we're striving to do.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, but He's a high level back up when you
have an elite quarterback. We're looking at the situation with
the Washington command, is that like, who in the hell
is Sam Howe? And I think that's the question that
everybody and that's that's why they want to find out
And with the experience that Jacobin has, I think Ron
Rivera is basically looking at this situation where listen, if
(12:05):
this thing doesn't work out with Sam Howe, then I
know I have a backup quarterback that I can put
in the game and be able to manage this offense
and manage the game and just make good decisions. Because
that decision, I just think it's a safe decision where
you know what, at least I got a guy who
has been in this NFL nine ten years now as
(12:27):
an experienced back.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
You know what it is, It's a yeah, I do
have a don Raa Kobe Brett. I must start Sam
hel because if it don't work with Sam hal new ownership,
I'm probably looking for a job. This is the last
year for.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Ron Rivera coaching this organization regardless, because they are going
to be the worst team in it in the NFC East.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
There's no doubt about that. So if they win, they
go nine and eight, you think they get rid of them.
I don't think they win six games. I really don't.
And that's where it's going to be interesting with Sam Howe.
Sam Howe, he's a good college quarterback in North Carolina.
He was good. Now can that translate to the NFL.
(13:13):
How many games has he started in the NFL? We
know it's not very many. We know that.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And I just think Ronod Vera is kind of taking
this stance to kind of protect itself because if they
don't get off to a good start with Jacoby Brissett
and they have to bitch him or you know, put
Sam at Sam Howland as the starting quarterback, that's when
they really gonna be in trouble if that doesn't work out.
(13:40):
So I think he's taking a safe approach to say,
you know what, I believe that Jacoby Brissett and Sam
Howe are pretty much equal, uh as far.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
As being a quarterback in his league.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And I haven't even seen this young man play yet,
but I'm just gonna take the experience and the veteran
to say that, you know what, if everything doesn't work
out with my thought and quarterback, I got some guys.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I got a guy that can win. If it don't
work out with your starter, Uh, just put your house
up so right, because it's over. If Sam Howe is
not getting it done, that means the season is going away.
You don't want it to go, You didn't expect it
to go. It doesn't matter. If Jacobe Brissett comes in
and wins four or five games, they're probably gonna let
(14:24):
you go. And so he I guess he's going with
upside that he may see Sam Howe. But it's gonna
be interesting. You got a new system, You got guys complaining.
Ending me is so hard on me, man, Like, I.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Just think this is gonna be a mass overhaul after
this season is over with with this coaching staff. Hopefully
not you know, bening me. He goes to a place
and he you know, loses his job after his first year.
And you know, if they don't play well, I just think,
you know, a lot of these players aren't going to
be on this roster next year.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
They basically playing this season to keep a job. Because
I believe that's the state that this team is in
right now, because they just don't have what it takes
to when you look.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
At their roster, though, plex is that It's not like
they don't have players. You got McLaurin, Dodson, you got
McLaurin and Dolphin Dotson as you're wide out, you got
Robinson as you running back. You got a solid offensive line,
you have a hell of a pass rush, you you
(15:29):
have you have a team that can compete. But after
what I saw last night with Daniel Jones and them Giants,
I'm like, hey, Dabel, Brian Dable, man, man, man, that
dude is all hell of a coach. Look at all
(15:50):
the weapons we've ad. Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, let's wait.
Tell you something.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I went to a training camp practice about two weeks
ago and I had the opportunity to watch this kid
high end.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Let me tell you something. He has an.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Opportunity to be special. I'm talking about flat out run,
go get the football.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Uh. He's raw.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Obviously he's a rookie coming into this league. But I
just think, man, he is going to be hell to
cover in one on one situations because there is simply
nobody on the football field that game, bros Man, and
he is six foot three.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Listen, man. The way Daniel Jones came out last night,
just throw. He didn't. He did a run the ball,
throw past, past, past, Darren Waller out there, big point, man,
you got it.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
When you got a six seven tight end and Waller
two fifty five and sixty and he can run, you
put him out there in the isolation situations on the
edge in three by one, and from a defensive standpoint,
you have to make a decision. Who are you going
to guard this man with. It ain't gonna be your
five to ten corner. Either you're gonna have to double
(17:01):
this guy or match him up with a highbrid safety
or whatever the case may be. Because he's gonna win
a lot of these one on one matchups and man
and man situations, and I just don't see how teams
are gonna deal with him on the edge. Just listen,
just watching him in practice and last night when he's
in these one on one situations, he's just dominating these things.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
He surprised me. Viewers again, listeners were sorry.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
And I've said this and nobody's been listening. I said
that when he was a part of the Oakland Raiders.
When this guy is healthy, he's one of the top
three tight ends and all the football everybody forgot that
because he was injured and he caught a hundred boss
two three years ago. He was injured, some hamstring issues,
(17:48):
some foot issues. But when this young man is healthy,
he's one of the top three tight ends in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
This wasn't on a discussion like last week. Man, We'll
just take tangents because it took us there. Uh, but
we're gonna have to. We're gonna figure out a way
to get this giants on the discussion because what I
it's preseason. I like what I saw. We must take
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The way tire buying should be plex The NBA said,
you know what, James Harden, you don't went to China
and said Daryl moriy is a liar, and I repeat,
I will never play for an organization he's involved with,
and then he repeated it again. Man, The NBA say,
(20:44):
you know what, mister Harden, what got you so mad?
Because you've demanded trades but you ain't You've ever went
off like this. So now they are investigating those comments
because if the seventy six ers quote on quote wink
in a handshake agreement with hardened from last year, you
because Harden was supposed to make forty seven million last year,
(21:07):
he made thirty three. So if my math is correct,
that's a fourteen million dollar haircut to bring in PJ. Tucker. Hey,
we'll get you a max contract next year. And so
if that wink in that handshake agreement was supposedly made,
then that's against the rules. The seventy six ers are
going to be punished. But if it's just oh, we
(21:28):
said we would trade him, that's why he's saying, we're liars.
That's okay, what do you take what? Because Harden really
can say no, nah, this is what the forty forty,
the seventy six ers and James Harden better get together
and figure out what they gonna say. If the seventy
six ers do not want to get punished.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Well apparently that's not going to happen, because you know,
James Harden has went off on a tangent a couple
of times now saying that, you know, call the more
of you liar and say, you know, play for the
organization again, which leads me to believe that he will
not be suiting up for the seventy six ers this season.
But I would just to say, uh, you know, take
(22:12):
a guess of the wives called him liar because you know,
James Harden wanted to be traded to the Los Angeles Clippers.
That was his preferred destination, and in the trade that
Maury wanted some draft picks that the Clippers were unwilling
to do, and Terrence Mann was going to return back
(22:35):
to the seventy six ers, and Darryl Mory doesn't want
Terrence Man back. So I think that's one of the
reasons why the whole deal fell through is because of
Terrence Mann returning to Philadelphia. But if Darryl Moore gave
James Harden his word of you know, they would bring
him back, or they would trade him, or whatever the
(22:57):
case may be, we don't know the facts of it.
If that was the case, if they agreed to trade him,
then why would the Philadelphia seventy six Ers pick up
his option? That doesn't make sense to me. So I
would say when James is coming out and saying that
Darryl Moore is a liar, he requested the trade. Normally
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those things happened in the NBA. When they request the trade,
they want to go to a certain place. Those things
tend to happen. And they picked up his option, and
he didn't want to remain in Philadelphia if he didn't
go to the Los Ages Clippers. He wanted to return
back to Houston.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
What relationship he still has in Houston, or has that
relationship soured since he left. But I just believe James
that he's not going to play for the seventy six ers.
And if he doesn't play, which is basically a kiss
the rules of the league CBA. I just don't know
(24:02):
how the seventy six is and Darryl More are going
to fix it if they don't trade James Harden, because
I believe that he will set up.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Dude, Listen, it's like this. James Harden is not mad
about Oh, you guys didn't trade me to the Clippers.
James Harden is not calling you a liar because you
said you would trade him and now you're not. James
Harden is calling you a liar because you told him
take less money last year, which was this year at
(24:34):
the time of the conversation, and we'll give you a
max contract next year, which is now. And his play
didn't warrant that he didn't play well. Yeah, he had
two good games in the playoffs, so I think he
went for forty five and forty two, but ultimately he
didn't play well in the playoffs, and they're looking saying, man,
(24:57):
you think I'm about to get James Harden two hundred million.
He is on his way down the stairs and he
ain't on his way up. We can't do that. But
they promised him that last year. It's not over no trade,
this is over the contract. So for me, the seventy
six ers better trade him because he gonna spill the
(25:18):
beans and they gonna be punished.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Listen, I understand if Daryl Morey made him a promise
that you know, he would take a pay cut so
they could sign PJ. Tucker and then give him a
max contract the next year. But you cannot play the
game that he played in that first game of that series,
go for forty five without no Joel Embiid. You go
into the garden and you win again, and nobody thinks
(25:42):
you're gonna win. Next game, you have twelve points, and
when Joel and Bed get back, you basically disappear and
you have a chance to win the series on your
own foot Game six and you'll blow it.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Brouh.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I think that's that's that's enough to make any general
manager go against what he told any player, especially James Harden,
and not issue him or not give him that max
contract after that playoffs, And just like you said, he
did not play up to a two hundred million dollars level. Now,
(26:20):
if they had won that series, I believe he would
have got a max contract, but the way that they blew.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
It, he didn't. He didn't, he didn't play up to
what we You know what, let's finish this conversation. Let's
get the I low with the updates, because we may go.
We may go and go and go. I love what
you got for us, man.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
That was good morning to you, Good day to you.
I am much better than the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
And we begin with their plight because on Friday night,
they turned their first triple play in twenty six years
in a game against the Tampa bay Rays. Show Hey
Tawny hit a Grand Slam home run, his forty third
(27:03):
home run of the season. And despite all that, you
guessed it, the Angels lost in ten innings at home
to the Tampa bay Rays, nine to six. The Miami
Marlins hit five home runs and an eleven three went
over the Los Angeles Dodgers to break the Dodgers eleven
game winning streak. In San Diego, the Padres shut out
the Arizona Diamondbacks four nothing. San Diego scored four in
(27:25):
the bottom of the eighth in again clearly a two
run home run by Fernando Tazis Junior, his twentieth of
the season. NFL preseason on Friday Night, Bengals and Falcons
played to a thirteen to thirteen tie. Giants over the
Panthers twenty one to nineteen. Carolina Rookie quarterback Bryce Young
completed three of six for thirty five yards. Giants quarterback
Daniel Jones completed eight of nine for sixty nine yards
(27:47):
and a touchdown. Kicking off at the top of the
hour from Ford Field in Detroit, it'll be the Lions
hosting the Jacksonville Jaguars, and finally fellas a somewhat bizarre story.
K x A A and Television out of Austin, Texas
reports that attorneys for Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield
and I read that they filed a court petition requesting
(28:10):
information about the potential misappropriation of how twelve million dollars
of their money was invested by an Austin investment firm.
The petition reading, in part quote, petitioners simply do not
know if their money has been properly and competently invested
(28:31):
has been stolen or otherwise misappropriated or something in between
unquote twelve million dollars. That's a lot of insurance commercials back.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
To you, Yeah, man, I just read that earlier this
morning when I got up, and it's so sad man
that we as players put your trust in people twelve
million dollars and they says that investment firm me as
family members involved in that. So if you can't trust
your family, who can you trust in? It's like, I
(29:01):
pray nobody does this to me because if they do,
y'all gonna see something else on the news. Like it's
sad man that Baker mayfid. I believe he signed for
a little over thirty million. And when you're talking twelve
million in cash, what is that before attacks? It's probably
twenty twenty one? Like sad, sad, sad that people do
(29:24):
this to people. Man, money comes and goes, man Like,
do treat people the right way? Man Like, it's just
sad that people do these types of things. Man, unbelievable.
But back to the James Harden Philadelphia seventy six ers. Listen,
they gonna resolve this trade situation because now if the
NBA is investigating, we all know they promised Hima max
(29:48):
contract James Harden. Now I don't know if James Harden
and his agent want to go down that slope of yeah,
we will promised this because moving forward his agent it
may some relationships with other teams, and are you gonna
do that for James. I don't know how this is
going to work itself out. But if the seventy six
(30:09):
Ers want this to go away, they got to trade
James Harden to the Clippers, because that's where he wants
to go. And if you want to be punished by
the NBA, don't trade them. And everything is gonna come
out that you promised him that you didn't give them.
And I get it if I'm a seventy six Ers
you didn't play to the level of a max player,
(30:30):
and yeah, we promised you this, but we thought you
would play better. But this is what James Harden does
in the playoffs, right, have some really really really good
games and then some really really bad games. He's done
this his entire career. It's not as if this year
was an anomaly and he just didn't play. He's done
(30:51):
miss his entire career. And so if you promised me
two hundred million and now you're telling me no, I'm
pissed off too. Well, that's exactly what they tell him.
It's gonna be interested.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Pick picked up picked up his option, so, uh, there's
no way around him receiving that max contract now.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
And that's another thing. Plex he no, James Harden picked
up his option. He could have opted out, but he
saw it was no dice out there though, but he
wanted to ur Freema max contract, so he picked it up.
It'll be interesting to see, uh how this plays out,
what the NBA comes up with in their investigation. Well,
(31:31):
let's go to something else that ILove touched on in
his updates. Hey, Frank Wright said, Bryce Young looked sharp
and poised in his second start, and I'm like, I
watched the game. I watched it. I sat there and
watched the game. Didn't throw the ball much. I believe
he was like three for six. Uh, his first third down,
(31:52):
he got pressure. He scrambled to his left, threw a
ball to Mingo. It was incomplete and I said, wait,
wait wait, I stopped, you know, grab the remote, hit rewind.
Actually the balls should have been complete. Mingo kind of
stopped a tad bit and then tried to reaccelerate Bryce
through it in a hole like he was gonna keep
(32:14):
running incomplete pass. Those things come with time. You got
a rooky receiver, you got a rookie quarterback. Those completions
come with time. Because I think the receiver slowed just
a slight bit. Bryce led him like he was gonna
keep running incomplete. We punt the ball. Now, frank Wright
knows what they wanted to do. To say, with sharpened poison,
(32:38):
you go three for six. I mean, I don't know
how you come up with those two agitives to describe it.
But I don't know if you watched the game, but
I will. He played into the second quarter three for
six for like twenty five yards. How was that sharpened poised? Yeah?
From what I saw, man, it was, uh was anything
(33:00):
but that.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I mean, he did had an opportunity to, you know,
have to drive run seventeen plays. He threw the ball
six times out of those seventeen plays and completed three.
He did have one great one good pass to to
to Mingo to Jonathan Mingo. But other than that, I
think the most the most glaring thing about the Carolina
(33:23):
Panthers offenses, the offensive line. If you want the vice
young to be any where where you expect him to
be or to get as a starting quarterback in this league,
you have to be able to protect the quarterback. I
don't care how good your quarterback, here is where it
comes from, how big is how small he is. If
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you don't protect him from an offensive line standpoint, and
you just allow the defensive ends and tackles to go
straight up the middle and run around the right tackle
like thea a wet paper tower, then you gonna have
some issues. And I think that's gonna be the biggest
thing for the Carolina Panthers this year for Bryce Shong
to be able to get comfortable and to go through
(34:07):
his reason to you know, deliver the ball accurately and
to make good decisions is that you want your quarterback
to have a comfort and a peace of mind knowing
that he's going to be protected. And right now, this
offensive line just doesn't look like they are ready to
step on the field in two weeks. And you know
(34:27):
what all this is going to be bringing on Bryce Shaw.
It's just what the position comes with, especially if you
you know when you're the first overall pick. We have
seen how these situations can go. But listen, you have
to protect him or get some offensive alignment in there
that can make him seem comfortable so he can be
(34:50):
the Bryce young that you drafted him to be. Because
right now, in a couple of weeks with this offensive line,
they have some things that they need to get fixed
in quickly.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Well they can't. They number one offensive linemen that can
really protect the quarterback aren't walking around on the street.
So they better figure out what they can do with
what they have, because there's nobody walking into that building
and into that locker room that's gonna fit the description
of somebody that can protect the quarterback. Those guys need
(35:22):
to be in the locker room. They got to figure
out why are they giving up so much pressure so
early up the middle on the outside. Dude, if you
think it was one with Thibodeau, he didn't even get blocked.
That's what I'm saying. They didn't even the left tackle.
(35:42):
The left tackle set in is looking inside and I
had to rewind that one. You're looking inside and they
not even showing a double a gap blitz. Nobody's in
your inside gap. Nobody's really over the guard like, bru,
what are you doing? What are you doing? And so
(36:04):
that's a more of a communication thing and understanding if
their protections are a little too complex. As coaches, you
got to dial it back so that everybody can understand it,
because what may seem like two plus two to you
is geometry to somebody else. If that's the case, you
need to dial that back so that everybody's on the
(36:25):
same page and there is an understanding. But that pressure
that he's faced these first two games, it's a bit much, man.
And this is the preseason, and we know every we
don't gain plan in a preseason. Everybody slightly gained plans,
but it's a vanilla game plan. I mean, you get
to the if you're making these mistakes, now, what's going
to happen in the regular season when it really gets
(36:47):
complex and they're giving you different looks and they really
are challenging and attacking your protections, And so it's concerning.
I don't care how how poise he looked, I don't
care how sharp he looked. If this protection does not
get better, it's not going well. It's not going well.
(37:08):
And so they got to figure that out before anything.
They did run the ball pretty effectively. But I just
have a hard time. Man when you say somebody is
poised and sharp and they threw the ball six times,
I mean you threw for thirty yards. That to me
(37:28):
maybe he got him out of the huddle fast and
his d I don't know. I just I want to
see a little bit more, especially when when you're a rookie,
you're the starter, you're the number one pick, extremely accurate,
but everybody has questions about your size and can you
(37:49):
take a hit, and you are under an enormous amount
of pressure in these first two preseason games. They need
to figure that out, and we need to figure out,
uh what we're gonna do when we keep going over
these breaks. We just kind of getting discussions and just go, go,
(38:10):
go go. But that's what we do. Up on game
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You know, spent a couple of years in Cleveland. Uh,
you know, let me stay in that division and go
ahead and sign with Ravens. You like it? Does it
help them? What you think? Man?
Speaker 3 (39:14):
I think it already makes already Baltimore defense even better.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I really do. Man.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
I love to pick up and the Baltimore Baltimore Ravens
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that we don't want done anymore. So let's make him
a part of his team and a part of this defense.
You know Ray Kwan Smith, you know obviously the Baltimore
Ravens just signed him. You have Marlon Humphrey out there
(39:40):
to free say at the strong safety, one of the
best in the league. And I just think it just
amps up this defense to be even better than already projected,
especially in this division, because I really believe that this
division is up for grabs. I think it's gonna be
that competitive wow weekend and we got out. Nah, No,
Assistinnati is your team and they're number one the team
(40:03):
in this division. But you just never know which way
this division is going to go, especially with you know
the re emergence of you know, Deshaun Watson getting back
to himself, best officer line, Nick Chubb and that defense.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
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wherever you get your podcasts. Plex We're getting we're getting
some clarity in the NFL. Your teams pre season is
winding down training campus Indean team to start to name
their quarterbacks the starting quarterbacks. You had the coach's name,
(02:12):
Anthony Richardson as the starter, which he seemed surprised, which
I was shocked that he seemed surprised. And also the
Washington commanders, which we knew Sam Howe was going to
be the quarterback, but they named him the starter. What
are your thoughts on Wait, before we get in that,
Before we get in that. Plex last week was your birthday.
You enjoy yourself. What you do, you have fun.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Oh man, you know I was able to get my
told wet. You know, a little bit of sand, a
little bit of water. So it's always good to, you know,
wake up in the and to hear the waves hitting
the sand. But I was once told that whenever you
hit the ocean, you're on vacation, and it is a
very pleasant thing just to be able to get and relax.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah okay, okay, yeah, yeah yeah. Now let's let's get
back to the National Football League. When Anthony Richardson seemed surprised,
like you were drafted top five, you knew you were
going to be the starter. It was a matter of when,
not if. And Gardner Minshew, I don't he seems surprised,
(03:14):
But what are your thoughts on the coach naming Anthony
Richardson as starter? And we all assumed as well that
Sam how would be named the starter of the Washington Commanders,
and he was named the starter as well. Well.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I mean, like I said, you said, man, when you
drive the fifth overall and you look at the quarterbacks
that are on this rockster with Gardner Minshew basically being
the backup and sam Eller going to be in the
third quarterback and you're just saying to yourself that, you know,
I mean, Anthony Richardson is most likely going to be
the start. I don't know why he was so surprised.
(03:47):
I think I think he was just you know, putting
that out there for the people to hear. But I
don't believe that he thought that inside that he wasn't
going to be named starting quarterback. And listen, I've came
out and said on countless occasions that I think he
is going to be the best quarterback uh NFL ready
this season. I just think he just has all the
intangibles to be a quarterback that that the Colts can
(04:12):
begin to build around him because I think, you know,
he's he's going to be a very good quarterback going
forward in the future, and he's going to be the
franchise quarterback for this organization. And also I think that
you know, they have some nice weapons. He has Michael
Pittman Junior six ' four and also this kid, I
like Alec Piers. He's a six to three guy. So
(04:32):
there you have two wide receivers over six feet uh
that can you know, that can play And obviously you know,
Jonathan Taylor makes everybody's job, you know a little bit easier.
But I just think that, uh, these guys are going
to be good.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
You know, we didn't really have the opportunity to really
see him play on a big stage or that national
stage weekend and week out like the Alabama's and the
you know, the USC's and the LSU. So I just
think that, you know, this kid has a big arm.
He can make any throw on the football field. Now,
I just think moving forward as far as this rookie class,
(05:09):
you made it, disagree, but I think he's going to
have the best NFL career out of all the rookie
quarterbacks that were drafted this year.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Wow. That that's a bold statement considering many We know
the upside, but with a high upside comes a floor
that you can crash down to as well. Now, now,
the reason I think Anthony Richardson will play well is
the system that he is in. If you look at
(05:41):
what Shane Stiken wants to run, he comes his offensive coordinator.
Last year, the Philadelphia Eagles had Jaalen Hurts throw some
RPOs in there, some quarterback runs. It's emphasized the run,
but you brought up Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor is unhappy.
He's excused for a personal reason. Oh he's going to
get his ankle checked. Hell, he's excused for that. There's
(06:02):
a lot going on in that locker room with Jonathan Taylor,
and they're saying it right. Oh, personal, he don't He
don't want to play with the coach unless they gonna
pay him. So your best offensive weapon is unhappy. But
like you said earlier, they do have big receivers in
Pittman and Alex Pearson. I believe he ran four three
at six three about two ten, so he can really run.
(06:26):
But it's gonna take It's gonna take some time. But
I believe the offense that they're gonna run will suit him.
I mean, Richardson ran what mid four for at the
combine jump forty inches, so you know, the athletic ability
is there, the arm strength is there. He's gonna make
mistakes like all rookies will, but I'm optimistic that he
(06:48):
will play well. Now I'm gonna I'm not gonna go
out and say, oh, he's gonna have the best career.
I just I don't believe that's gonna be the case
of the rookie quarterbacks, but the system that he is
going to be in couldn't be better for his skill set.
If you look at what Jalen Hurts was able to
(07:09):
do and that skill set, Jalen Hurts isn't the athlete.
But we don't know if Anthony Richardson also has the
acumen that Jalen Hurts has up top, because we know
you could be the best physically, but if mentally you
don't process and understand things as quickly as the next guy,
(07:29):
it really doesn't matter how good you are physically. And
so if he has that, obviously the sky's the limit.
But I wouldn't go out and say he's going to
have a better career than Bryce or CJ. It's just
so early the success that those guys had at the
college level. It would be hard for me to say that.
But the fact that you are going out on the limb,
(07:53):
yes I am.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I just think this guy, he just has all the
intensibles that you look for and in a quarterback because
he's he's athletic, and he's kind of raw, and I
just think that his ceiling of all the other guys
that were drafted, c J. Strild and Bright shung. I
(08:15):
just think that, you know, he can take that jump
where it's gonna make him even more better, especially like
you said, playing that offense, playing the Dome, having those
wide receivers. You spoke of Jonathan Taylor being unhappy, but
it's just because he's just because he's unhappy, doesn't mean
he's going to be in the backfield on opening day.
I think he's going to play on opening the opening day,
(08:37):
even the fact that he's unhappy. But you know, like
the whole Saquan thing, you know, you get out there
and you play and you continue to add value.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
You know, Jonathan Taylor ain't even practice sa Quan at
least he practicing. Johnny Taylor ain't practice.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I think he'll be in the backfield week one because
I don't think that the Colts are really going to
move off of his situations and pay him to play,
you know, moving forward, especially with Jim Mersey, he's already.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Said that they're not going to pay him. So what
is he going to do?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Continue to miss the rest of the season, Jim Mercey,
don't get damn bro. He's already said that he's so
he got his hands tied.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, and I agree with you about the Anthony Richardson,
his ceiling is extremely high. And I must say this
to the viewers listening. TJ is slightly biased, and I
can admit that I have a personal relationship with Bryce
and CJ. So I'm slightly biased towards those two guys.
(09:40):
But me having a personal relationship, I will never let
that cloud my judgment and what I'm saying what I believe.
But I also believe those guys are going to be
hell of quarterbacks. They're going to be really good. They're
gonna be two quarterbacks that do hell of a job
in their career. But I also met Anthony Richardson at
the mind plaques and I was impressed when he manages
(10:03):
my discussions. When him, I'll never forget. We had an
orientation at the combine with the players and guys was
leaving the room with a ton of guys in there,
and I stayed back to talk to some guys and
then guys had moved some chairs around, and so me
and him. He stayed back and talked to me, and
(10:24):
we were moving the chairs back where they were at
from where the guys moved them, and I was like, Wow,
everybody left and hear me and him just having a
conversation moving chairs back, and I just thought that was
cool because a lot of guy there just got up
out of there. And so that aspect of it, the
way he seems to treat people and just not put
(10:45):
himself on the pedestal, I really liked that. I saw
that at the combine. So I think that's going to
go a long way. Now, let's go to the Washington
Commanders with Sam Howe. We already we knew who was
he competing with for the store and quarterbacks by Jacoby Brisset,
like we knew what's going to happen. Ga. Gooby Presette
(11:09):
has been He started with Indy at some point. He
started last year with the Cleveland Browns. He started the
whole entire season the year when Andrew Luck just when
he retired. Now did Jacoby Brissette show us that he
could be a starter in the National Football League? I
(11:31):
think he's shown us he's a high level backup, one
of the top backups in the league. But if he
is your starter, you you don't really have a chance
to get to the playoffs, which everybody that that's what
we're striving to do.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, but He's a high level back up when you
have an elite quarterback. We're looking at the situation with
the Washington command, is that like, who in the hell
is Sam Howe? And I think that's the question that
everybody and that's that's why they want to find out
And with the experience that Jacobin has, I think Ron
Rivera is basically looking at this situation where listen, if
(12:05):
this thing doesn't work out with Sam Howe, then I
know I have a backup quarterback that I can put
in the game and be able to manage this offense
and manage the game and just make good decisions. Because
that decision, I just think it's a safe decision where
you know what, at least I got a guy who
has been in this NFL nine ten years now as
(12:27):
an experienced back.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
You know what it is, It's a yeah, I do
have a don Raa Kobe Brett. I must start Sam
hel because if it don't work with Sam hal new ownership,
I'm probably looking for a job. This is the last
year for.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Ron Rivera coaching this organization regardless, because they are going
to be the worst team in it in the NFC East.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
There's no doubt about that. So if they win, they
go nine and eight, you think they get rid of them.
I don't think they win six games. I really don't.
And that's where it's going to be interesting with Sam Howe.
Sam Howe, he's a good college quarterback in North Carolina.
He was good. Now can that translate to the NFL.
(13:13):
How many games has he started in the NFL? We
know it's not very many. We know that.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And I just think Ronod Vera is kind of taking
this stance to kind of protect itself because if they
don't get off to a good start with Jacoby Brissett
and they have to bitch him or you know, put
Sam at Sam Howland as the starting quarterback, that's when
they really gonna be in trouble if that doesn't work out.
(13:40):
So I think he's taking a safe approach to say,
you know what, I believe that Jacoby Brissett and Sam
Howe are pretty much equal, uh as far.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
As being a quarterback in his league.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And I haven't even seen this young man play yet,
but I'm just gonna take the experience and the veteran
to say that, you know what, if everything doesn't work
out with my thought and quarterback, I got some guys.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I got a guy that can win. If it don't
work out with your starter, Uh, just put your house
up so right, because it's over. If Sam Howe is
not getting it done, that means the season is going away.
You don't want it to go, You didn't expect it
to go. It doesn't matter. If Jacobe Brissett comes in
and wins four or five games, they're probably gonna let
(14:24):
you go. And so he I guess he's going with
upside that he may see Sam Howe. But it's gonna
be interesting. You got a new system, You got guys complaining.
Ending me is so hard on me, man, Like, I.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Just think this is gonna be a mass overhaul after
this season is over with with this coaching staff. Hopefully
not you know, bening me. He goes to a place
and he you know, loses his job after his first year.
And you know, if they don't play well, I just think,
you know, a lot of these players aren't going to
be on this roster next year.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
They basically playing this season to keep a job. Because
I believe that's the state that this team is in
right now, because they just don't have what it takes
to when you look.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
At their roster, though, plex is that It's not like
they don't have players. You got McLaurin, Dodson, you got
McLaurin and Dolphin Dotson as you're wide out, you got
Robinson as you running back. You got a solid offensive line,
you have a hell of a pass rush, you you
(15:29):
have you have a team that can compete. But after
what I saw last night with Daniel Jones and them Giants,
I'm like, hey, Dabel, Brian Dable, man, man, man, that
dude is all hell of a coach. Look at all
(15:50):
the weapons we've ad. Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, let's wait.
Tell you something.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I went to a training camp practice about two weeks
ago and I had the opportunity to watch this kid
high end.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Let me tell you something. He has an.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Opportunity to be special. I'm talking about flat out run,
go get the football.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Uh. He's raw.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Obviously he's a rookie coming into this league. But I
just think, man, he is going to be hell to
cover in one on one situations because there is simply
nobody on the football field that game, bros Man, and
he is six foot three.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Listen, man. The way Daniel Jones came out last night,
just throw. He didn't. He did a run the ball,
throw past, past, past, Darren Waller out there, big point, man,
you got it.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
When you got a six seven tight end and Waller
two fifty five and sixty and he can run, you
put him out there in the isolation situations on the
edge in three by one, and from a defensive standpoint,
you have to make a decision. Who are you going
to guard this man with. It ain't gonna be your
five to ten corner. Either you're gonna have to double
(17:01):
this guy or match him up with a highbrid safety
or whatever the case may be. Because he's gonna win
a lot of these one on one matchups and man
and man situations, and I just don't see how teams
are gonna deal with him on the edge. Just listen,
just watching him in practice and last night when he's
in these one on one situations, he's just dominating these things.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
He surprised me. Viewers again, listeners were sorry.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
And I've said this and nobody's been listening. I said
that when he was a part of the Oakland Raiders.
When this guy is healthy, he's one of the top
three tight ends and all the football everybody forgot that
because he was injured and he caught a hundred boss
two three years ago. He was injured, some hamstring issues,
(17:48):
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The way tire buying should be plex The NBA said,
you know what, James Harden, you don't went to China
and said Daryl moriy is a liar, and I repeat,
I will never play for an organization he's involved with,
and then he repeated it again. Man, The NBA say,
(20:44):
you know what, mister Harden, what got you so mad?
Because you've demanded trades but you ain't You've ever went
off like this. So now they are investigating those comments
because if the seventy six ers quote on quote wink
in a handshake agreement with hardened from last year, you
because Harden was supposed to make forty seven million last year,
(21:07):
he made thirty three. So if my math is correct,
that's a fourteen million dollar haircut to bring in PJ. Tucker. Hey,
we'll get you a max contract next year. And so
if that wink in that handshake agreement was supposedly made,
then that's against the rules. The seventy six ers are
going to be punished. But if it's just oh, we
(21:28):
said we would trade him, that's why he's saying, we're liars.
That's okay, what do you take what? Because Harden really
can say no, nah, this is what the forty forty,
the seventy six ers and James Harden better get together
and figure out what they gonna say. If the seventy
six ers do not want to get punished.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Well apparently that's not going to happen, because you know,
James Harden has went off on a tangent a couple
of times now saying that, you know, call the more
of you liar and say, you know, play for the
organization again, which leads me to believe that he will
not be suiting up for the seventy six ers this season.
But I would just to say, uh, you know, take
(22:12):
a guess of the wives called him liar because you know,
James Harden wanted to be traded to the Los Angeles Clippers.
That was his preferred destination, and in the trade that
Maury wanted some draft picks that the Clippers were unwilling
to do, and Terrence Mann was going to return back
(22:35):
to the seventy six ers, and Darryl Mory doesn't want
Terrence Man back. So I think that's one of the
reasons why the whole deal fell through is because of
Terrence Mann returning to Philadelphia. But if Darryl Moore gave
James Harden his word of you know, they would bring
him back, or they would trade him, or whatever the
(22:57):
case may be, we don't know the facts of it.
If that was the case, if they agreed to trade him,
then why would the Philadelphia seventy six Ers pick up
his option? That doesn't make sense to me. So I
would say when James is coming out and saying that
Darryl Moore is a liar, he requested the trade. Normally
(23:18):
those things happened in the NBA. When they request the trade,
they want to go to a certain place. Those things
tend to happen. And they picked up his option, and
he didn't want to remain in Philadelphia if he didn't
go to the Los Ages Clippers. He wanted to return
back to Houston.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
What relationship he still has in Houston, or has that
relationship soured since he left. But I just believe James
that he's not going to play for the seventy six ers.
And if he doesn't play, which is basically a kiss
the rules of the league CBA. I just don't know
(24:02):
how the seventy six is and Darryl More are going
to fix it if they don't trade James Harden, because
I believe that he will set up.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Dude, Listen, it's like this. James Harden is not mad
about Oh, you guys didn't trade me to the Clippers.
James Harden is not calling you a liar because you
said you would trade him and now you're not. James
Harden is calling you a liar because you told him
take less money last year, which was this year at
(24:34):
the time of the conversation, and we'll give you a
max contract next year, which is now. And his play
didn't warrant that he didn't play well. Yeah, he had
two good games in the playoffs, so I think he
went for forty five and forty two, but ultimately he
didn't play well in the playoffs, and they're looking saying, man,
(24:57):
you think I'm about to get James Harden two hundred million.
He is on his way down the stairs and he
ain't on his way up. We can't do that. But
they promised him that last year. It's not over no trade,
this is over the contract. So for me, the seventy
six ers better trade him because he gonna spill the
(25:18):
beans and they gonna be punished.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Listen, I understand if Daryl Morey made him a promise
that you know, he would take a pay cut so
they could sign PJ. Tucker and then give him a
max contract the next year. But you cannot play the
game that he played in that first game of that series,
go for forty five without no Joel Embiid. You go
into the garden and you win again, and nobody thinks
(25:42):
you're gonna win. Next game, you have twelve points, and
when Joel and Bed get back, you basically disappear and
you have a chance to win the series on your
own foot Game six and you'll blow it.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Brouh.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I think that's that's that's enough to make any general
manager go against what he told any player, especially James Harden,
and not issue him or not give him that max
contract after that playoffs, And just like you said, he
did not play up to a two hundred million dollars level. Now,
(26:20):
if they had won that series, I believe he would
have got a max contract, but the way that they blew.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
It, he didn't. He didn't, he didn't play up to
what we You know what, let's finish this conversation. Let's
get the I low with the updates, because we may go.
We may go and go and go. I love what
you got for us, man.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
That was good morning to you, Good day to you.
I am much better than the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
And we begin with their plight because on Friday night,
they turned their first triple play in twenty six years
in a game against the Tampa bay Rays. Show Hey
Tawny hit a Grand Slam home run, his forty third
(27:03):
home run of the season. And despite all that, you
guessed it, the Angels lost in ten innings at home
to the Tampa bay Rays, nine to six. The Miami
Marlins hit five home runs and an eleven three went
over the Los Angeles Dodgers to break the Dodgers eleven
game winning streak. In San Diego, the Padres shut out
the Arizona Diamondbacks four nothing. San Diego scored four in
(27:25):
the bottom of the eighth in again clearly a two
run home run by Fernando Tazis Junior, his twentieth of
the season. NFL preseason on Friday Night, Bengals and Falcons
played to a thirteen to thirteen tie. Giants over the
Panthers twenty one to nineteen. Carolina Rookie quarterback Bryce Young
completed three of six for thirty five yards. Giants quarterback
Daniel Jones completed eight of nine for sixty nine yards
(27:47):
and a touchdown. Kicking off at the top of the
hour from Ford Field in Detroit, it'll be the Lions
hosting the Jacksonville Jaguars, and finally fellas a somewhat bizarre story.
K x A A and Television out of Austin, Texas
reports that attorneys for Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield
and I read that they filed a court petition requesting
(28:10):
information about the potential misappropriation of how twelve million dollars
of their money was invested by an Austin investment firm.
The petition reading, in part quote, petitioners simply do not
know if their money has been properly and competently invested
(28:31):
has been stolen or otherwise misappropriated or something in between
unquote twelve million dollars. That's a lot of insurance commercials back.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
To you, Yeah, man, I just read that earlier this
morning when I got up, and it's so sad man
that we as players put your trust in people twelve
million dollars and they says that investment firm me as
family members involved in that. So if you can't trust
your family, who can you trust in? It's like, I
(29:01):
pray nobody does this to me because if they do,
y'all gonna see something else on the news. Like it's
sad man that Baker mayfid. I believe he signed for
a little over thirty million. And when you're talking twelve
million in cash, what is that before attacks? It's probably
twenty twenty one? Like sad, sad, sad that people do
(29:24):
this to people. Man, money comes and goes, man Like,
do treat people the right way? Man Like, it's just
sad that people do these types of things. Man, unbelievable.
But back to the James Harden Philadelphia seventy six ers. Listen,
they gonna resolve this trade situation because now if the
NBA is investigating, we all know they promised Hima max
(29:48):
contract James Harden. Now I don't know if James Harden
and his agent want to go down that slope of yeah,
we will promised this because moving forward his agent it
may some relationships with other teams, and are you gonna
do that for James. I don't know how this is
going to work itself out. But if the seventy six
(30:09):
Ers want this to go away, they got to trade
James Harden to the Clippers, because that's where he wants
to go. And if you want to be punished by
the NBA, don't trade them. And everything is gonna come
out that you promised him that you didn't give them.
And I get it if I'm a seventy six Ers
you didn't play to the level of a max player,
(30:30):
and yeah, we promised you this, but we thought you
would play better. But this is what James Harden does
in the playoffs, right, have some really really really good
games and then some really really bad games. He's done
this his entire career. It's not as if this year
was an anomaly and he just didn't play. He's done
(30:51):
miss his entire career. And so if you promised me
two hundred million and now you're telling me no, I'm
pissed off too. Well, that's exactly what they tell him.
It's gonna be interested.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Pick picked up picked up his option, so, uh, there's
no way around him receiving that max contract now.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
And that's another thing. Plex he no, James Harden picked
up his option. He could have opted out, but he
saw it was no dice out there though, but he
wanted to ur Freema max contract, so he picked it up.
It'll be interesting to see, uh how this plays out,
what the NBA comes up with in their investigation. Well,
(31:31):
let's go to something else that ILove touched on in
his updates. Hey, Frank Wright said, Bryce Young looked sharp
and poised in his second start, and I'm like, I
watched the game. I watched it. I sat there and
watched the game. Didn't throw the ball much. I believe
he was like three for six. Uh, his first third down,
(31:52):
he got pressure. He scrambled to his left, threw a
ball to Mingo. It was incomplete and I said, wait,
wait wait, I stopped, you know, grab the remote, hit rewind.
Actually the balls should have been complete. Mingo kind of
stopped a tad bit and then tried to reaccelerate Bryce
through it in a hole like he was gonna keep
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running incomplete pass. Those things come with time. You got
a rooky receiver, you got a rookie quarterback. Those completions
come with time. Because I think the receiver slowed just
a slight bit. Bryce led him like he was gonna
keep running incomplete. We punt the ball. Now, frank Wright
knows what they wanted to do. To say, with sharpened poison,
(32:38):
you go three for six. I mean, I don't know
how you come up with those two agitives to describe it.
But I don't know if you watched the game, but
I will. He played into the second quarter three for
six for like twenty five yards. How was that sharpened poised? Yeah?
From what I saw, man, it was, uh was anything
(33:00):
but that.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I mean, he did had an opportunity to, you know,
have to drive run seventeen plays. He threw the ball
six times out of those seventeen plays and completed three.
He did have one great one good pass to to
to Mingo to Jonathan Mingo. But other than that, I
think the most the most glaring thing about the Carolina
(33:23):
Panthers offenses, the offensive line. If you want the vice
young to be any where where you expect him to
be or to get as a starting quarterback in this league,
you have to be able to protect the quarterback. I
don't care how good your quarterback, here is where it
comes from, how big is how small he is. If
(33:44):
you don't protect him from an offensive line standpoint, and
you just allow the defensive ends and tackles to go
straight up the middle and run around the right tackle
like thea a wet paper tower, then you gonna have
some issues. And I think that's gonna be the biggest
thing for the Carolina Panthers this year for Bryce Shong
to be able to get comfortable and to go through
(34:07):
his reason to you know, deliver the ball accurately and
to make good decisions is that you want your quarterback
to have a comfort and a peace of mind knowing
that he's going to be protected. And right now, this
offensive line just doesn't look like they are ready to
step on the field in two weeks. And you know
(34:27):
what all this is going to be bringing on Bryce Shaw.
It's just what the position comes with, especially if you
you know when you're the first overall pick. We have
seen how these situations can go. But listen, you have
to protect him or get some offensive alignment in there
that can make him seem comfortable so he can be
(34:50):
the Bryce young that you drafted him to be. Because
right now, in a couple of weeks with this offensive line,
they have some things that they need to get fixed
in quickly.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Well they can't. They number one offensive linemen that can
really protect the quarterback aren't walking around on the street.
So they better figure out what they can do with
what they have, because there's nobody walking into that building
and into that locker room that's gonna fit the description
of somebody that can protect the quarterback. Those guys need
(35:22):
to be in the locker room. They got to figure
out why are they giving up so much pressure so
early up the middle on the outside. Dude, if you
think it was one with Thibodeau, he didn't even get blocked.
That's what I'm saying. They didn't even the left tackle.
(35:42):
The left tackle set in is looking inside and I
had to rewind that one. You're looking inside and they
not even showing a double a gap blitz. Nobody's in
your inside gap. Nobody's really over the guard like, bru,
what are you doing? What are you doing? And so
(36:04):
that's a more of a communication thing and understanding if
their protections are a little too complex. As coaches, you
got to dial it back so that everybody can understand it,
because what may seem like two plus two to you
is geometry to somebody else. If that's the case, you
need to dial that back so that everybody's on the
(36:25):
same page and there is an understanding. But that pressure
that he's faced these first two games, it's a bit much, man.
And this is the preseason, and we know every we
don't gain plan in a preseason. Everybody slightly gained plans,
but it's a vanilla game plan. I mean, you get
to the if you're making these mistakes, now, what's going
to happen in the regular season when it really gets
(36:47):
complex and they're giving you different looks and they really
are challenging and attacking your protections, And so it's concerning.
I don't care how how poise he looked, I don't
care how sharp he looked. If this protection does not
get better, it's not going well. It's not going well.
(37:08):
And so they got to figure that out before anything.
They did run the ball pretty effectively. But I just
have a hard time. Man when you say somebody is
poised and sharp and they threw the ball six times,
I mean you threw for thirty yards. That to me
(37:28):
maybe he got him out of the huddle fast and
his d I don't know. I just I want to
see a little bit more, especially when when you're a rookie,
you're the starter, you're the number one pick, extremely accurate,
but everybody has questions about your size and can you
(37:49):
take a hit, and you are under an enormous amount
of pressure in these first two preseason games. They need
to figure that out, and we need to figure out,
uh what we're gonna do when we keep going over
these breaks. We just kind of getting discussions and just go, go,
(38:10):
go go. But that's what we do. Up on game
Fox Sports Radio, Plaxicore Burris, I'm TJ. Houshman's out of
stay locked in. We'll be right back. Hey, I have
no idea who that is. Who wants us? Hey, Sam,
(38:32):
we've been telling you this, man, you might need to
make a little extra money, man DJN on the side, Man,
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Burris TJ. Houshm's out of Live from the tire Wreck
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dot Com Studios. Jadaeveon Clowney signs a one year d
with the Baltimore Ravens. So he loved to add c North.
You know, spent a couple of years in Cleveland. Uh,
you know, let me stay in that division and go
ahead and sign with Ravens. You like it? Does it
help them? What you think? Man?
Speaker 3 (39:14):
I think it already makes already Baltimore defense even better.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I really do. Man.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
I love to pick up and the Baltimore Baltimore Ravens
are saying, listen, we've seen him do things against us
that we don't want done anymore. So let's make him
a part of his team and a part of this defense.
You know Ray Kwan Smith, you know obviously the Baltimore
Ravens just signed him. You have Marlon Humphrey out there
(39:40):
to free say at the strong safety, one of the
best in the league. And I just think it just
amps up this defense to be even better than already projected,
especially in this division, because I really believe that this
division is up for grabs. I think it's gonna be
that competitive wow weekend and we got out. Nah, No,
Assistinnati is your team and they're number one the team
(40:03):
in this division. But you just never know which way
this division is going to go, especially with you know
the re emergence of you know, Deshaun Watson getting back
to himself, best officer line, Nick Chubb and that defense.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
You just don't know how to know what's going to go. Man.
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