April 20, 2024 • 37 mins
Jason and Mike tell you why the Chicago Bulls are the latest team to officially be a "Sports Stonehenge". Dak Prescott says he has no fears about his NFL future, whether it’s in Dallas or somewhere else. And seven Duke players now into the transfer portal.
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Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well, Buddy, Final night, Playing night in the NBA. We
each picked this game last night. You picked your I
picked the Heat even though we're gonna without everybody. Even
Ronnie Cyclely was out tonight. And I told you there
was only one reason why I wasn't gonna pick the Bulls.
There was only one reason. Yeah, because they stink. And
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that's what happened, and that's why they lost a stink.
I would have picked them if they didn't stink, but
they stink and they lost tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Ten point game at halftime. Yeah, I mean, as I
put on Twitter at Swollen Dome for the for the
masses there in preparation for the show and watching the
game come to it.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Well, not so dramatic conclusion.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Really, no, I was you know what I was gonna do, though,
I mean, and I'm disappointed in you that we still
don't have True TV or not TV because they have
a bet cast they've been running alongside. That was more
interesting watching the live futures like it was a stock
market for prop bets down to stretch. Well, Tyler Harrow
get to the triple double, he didn't. But the fact
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of the matter that a burial at the hands of
the Philadelphia Phillies earlier in the day by the White
Sox the seventh time this year that they've been shut
out a seven nothing defeat, was going to be the
highlight of my sports day. I did not have that
on my Bingo card print. This hope sucks buddy.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
First of all, let me just say this because I
feel the need to say this. You're not projected like
you're on pace to win your tenth game of the
season for the White Sox in June.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
No, I know, like that's when I told you the
under sixty one and a half at the beginning of
the season was a gift. Your tenth game in June,
and I think you might set the record for fewest
runs scored in a season by a major league team.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
And we're starting to get shot out thirty five times.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, I mean, the the A's are like, hey, we're
not there. Well, at least we're not moving Okay, okay, fine,
but I mean wow, But I mean, if that was
gonna be the highlight of your day, I feel bad
about telling you the bull stink, but the bulls bull
do stink.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well, but like that that becomes the better part, all right.
I have no very little expectations on a day to
day basis with the White Sox right now. It's the
all right, at some point, you just by accident, you're
gonna win a game. What's the old adage, you forty
forty and then it's what you do with the other
half of the season that matters, or or you know,
whatever metric you want to do however you want to
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slice it up, but this is just a joke. And
then watching the Bulls they cut it to ten at halftimes,
like all right, let's let's see if there's anything interesting poppin. Nope,
here comes Duncan Robinson, there's Tyler Hero, there's Kevin Love
living at the free throw line.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And we talked about it last night.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Frostburg, in his way of giving me the Lemmy killmeister
double Bird, said it's gonna be the Kevin Love game.
Then that son of a gun comes off the bench.
Sixteen Kevin six from the field to three point shots
from the line.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Lovin Heimy Hawks, looking up generations of UCLA making it
getting it done against the ball.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Buddy, it was. It was plus nineteen and twelve minutes
off the bench. That's day. Listen, buddy, you know why
cause the Bulls stink. That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Look, it's you know, when we get to the play
in conference every playing term, every year, there are two
kinds of teams. There's a team that gets in the
play in and they have a really good record and
you know, they're ten games over five hundred, and they
beat another team that's maybe ten games over five hundred
and Okay, they're pretty good. There's not a lot of
difference between the teams seven and eight and the teams
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that are four and five, So yeah, hey, they're good
and they can move on. Then you get a team
with thirty nine wins that happens to blow out a
team with thirty six wins, and all that is is
too bad teams playing against each other, they both stink.
One team just thinks a little bit less than the other.
So now tonight, when you had a team that's ten
twelve games over five hundred against a team that's still
five games under five hundred, even though the team the
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games start playing, sorry, even though their team is missing
their best player or they couple of best players, they're
still gonna beat a team that stinks. I mean that's
how that's how it goes. But I mean, can't it
not All wins in the playing round are created equally.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
No, no, no, And look, it's become the master stroke
of the Miami Heat of we're gonna be just good
enough to get into the tournament because then, you know what,
we play with a chip on our shoulder, and Eric
Spolster just gets to show everybody with a genius head dude.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Heat culture, Man, how many times we're gonna do how
many times between now and the beginning of this Celtics series,
we're gonna hear you know, heat culture?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Heat culture? Yeah, but in the second culture, heat culture.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
All right, So thirty four seventeen after one and they're
beating the hell out of the Bulls. They immediately went
into the profile shots of Heini Hakis to tell you
about his veteran acumen as a rookie.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Here's what he did at UCLA.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Let's go through his entire resume to tell you how
he's not really a rookie on the floor here, No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's like, oh, really, were there already?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Then they mispronounced a bunch of celebrities names who were
in the crowd.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I mean, just all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Serious question for you guys, I mean like really serious question.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I've been watching the NBA for maybe thirty five years.
I've never seen this happen ever in my life. Why
were the Knicks wearing Bulls jerseys tonight?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
That's funny?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Team's jersey.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You're funny, You're funny. It's funny.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
How you keep talking about the Knicks like they're not
the number two team in the East and a fifty win.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Team Lakers in four.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
This is this is, this is not no. But I
will give you this. I'll speaking of the Lake.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I will give you this right now because the other
game in the NBA playoffs right now, the last playing
game for the eight.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Seed in the West.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
About two minutes to go in the first quarter, the
Kings have a seven point lead over the Pelicans. Fox
has nine, Sabonas has eight. Clearly, these are gonna be
the guys are gonna carry the Kings if they're gonna
win this game. The Pelicans, who of course playing without Zion.
If the Kings win this game, Kings win this game
and get the eight seed. I will officially pick all
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the low seeds to win the first round in the
Western Conference. I will pick seeds five, six, seven, and
eight to beat Seeds one, two, three, and four, voting
the Lakers to beat the Nuggets because if they're gonna
do it, now is the time to get them. This
is that you know they're coming in, they're healthy. They
gotta win one of the first two and gain momentum
because you see what happens suddenly when the Nuggets got
a little bit of a they get punch in the
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mouth a little bit, But all these other rounds I
don't really have a big problem with. The Kings are
a good team. They get out of this. Hey, suddenly
they used the playoffs last year. Yes, you're playing one
to eight, but you know what, it's brand new for
Oklahoma City coming into the Hey, we're the favorites with this.
Let's see how you do. Let's see how you do.
I like the I like the the Mavericks big time.
And and you're you're talking about the the Kings. I said,
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I like, Look, I like all of these teams. I
would do this in a second. I would pick I
don't know what the odds would be on taking seeds
five through eight, But there's not a round I feel.
I don't even feel the difficult about about the Sons
and the and the Timberwolves. The Sons are a playoff
ready team, like they're made for the playoffs. The one
that makes me the most difficult, honestly would be the Lakers.
(07:56):
But yeah, I'll go Mavericks, Suns, Lakers, and Kings easy
in this easy?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Can I ask the uncomfortable question about the the Denver Nuggets,
Los Angeles Lakers series.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Sure, go ahead. What's the mental state of Michael Porter
Junior right now? Do you know, dude? No, legit no.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And I asked that legitimately as she gets ready, Like
how compartmentalization?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
We know, guys have to do it.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
It's been a big talking point with Milwaukee and Damian
Lillard and with.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Other players through the years. Michael Porter Junior.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I mean you already had one brother get suspended for
the league for life, right and all of that, and
today another brothers going to jail for eight years.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, I mean that that is a week. Yeah, it is.
It's it's a difficult week.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
It is.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It is a very difficult week. And it's you know,
and look, we saw Michael Malone say the other day
I got chig with him. I gotta check in with him.
We have to talk, we have to figure things out
because it is you know, look, you forget sometimes about
personally what happens to a player affects them on the court.
You know what do I always say, show me an
MLB player going through a divorce, and I'll show you
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an MLB player having as worse here, Like, there's a
lot of things that are that that that are that
are there and look at that. No, that look, that's
a that's a great point to make. It's kind of soon,
I think, to suddenly, let me throw this out there.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
But it is a thing.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
But I mean, if we're gonna talk about pulling up
sets and getting teams at the right time, right, they're
healthy and physically he's fine right now. But you know
it's this all happened in a week's time. Yeah, so
you know, as one of their leaders of their squad,
I mean they're dependent upon him to have a big
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impact as well. Again, going back to the Lakers, I
was just looking at some of the Laker prop bets.
There's some fun ones for players for the playoff run
that we can get into as the night goes on.
But yeah, you're five six, seven eight. I mean it's
it's great in theory. And for the NBA, they're sitting
there going please no, plea, please no, we need some
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of this team.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Really be unhappy because you're talking about the seeds that
were moving on would be Luca and Kyrie k D
and Devin Booker the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And is there real difference between the Kings and the Thunder.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I mean, look, I mean Alexander is a phenomenal player,
but nobody did the average NBA probably.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Right, But the Kings light the beam at the end,
and that's a fun thing.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
People thunder and they've got chet, They've got lou Dort,
they do have chet, they do have chet.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
But but I don't know, people, you're just gonna ignore
lou Dort and is eleven points per game? Dude?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Can't you can't you keep bringing up loud Dort like
he's a superstar. You should be president of the lou
Dort Radio Network because like you're the only guy that's
ever sent his name on the radio. Ever, I don't
even think in Oklahoma City they talk about loud Dort.
I don't think his name comes.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Up when he scores eleven a game. They just ignore it.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I did you see that guy he's eating? Hey, look
what's more fun? You have an m VP candidate in
shy Gildess, Alexander a Field, good story in Oklahoma City
or Sacramento Kings and they light a big light after
they win games, Like I think that's what I think,
that's what people would want to say.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
But you gotta slit there for two and a half hours.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You get two hours of showtime and you'll just Alexander
and that squad versus waiting for deciding which of these
guys is gonna light a beam after a win. Down
with that, people aren't sitting there for two and a
half hours to wait to see a guy make some
offering to a basketball god.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
No what he is.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Those games aren't even gonna be televised. What the hell
is wrong with you there?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Man?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Come on in Oklahoma City and Sacramento. Nut, that's not
on anywhere are you. They're just only gonna go to
that gay. We'll go to this game live. If the
Kings win and they get to light the beam, that's it.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
That's on Comedy Central.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
That's all you need. That's the only time you're gonna
see that. There's no TV on that series whatsoever, doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I truly appreciate everybody at Swollen Dome. Bring your best
roast jokes of my bulls tonight, and you know, I'll
take the beating out of Friday.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
That's what I tell you. It's too bad, you know,
the bulls. The bulls, they just they just stink, and
that's that's kind of.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
What it is. And the bulls have stunk for a while.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You know, here's the thing about the Bulls, buddy, is
that you've had talent.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You've had some really good but it's not like you've
been Bret. There some guys that have popped through.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You've had some talent, and you've stunk for a long time, man,
Like you went Jordan into Derek Rose and then DeRozan
and Zach Levine and you've had some talent and you
still stink, like, I mean, how do you stink for
this lo? How do the Bulls stink for this long?
The Bulls, The Bulls are are like a sports stonehenge now,
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like a relic of a bye Like I always say,
these teams like Indiana Basketball, all these you know, all
the relics of a bygone era like Syracuse basketball is
kind of getting there too. But the Bulls basketball is
like a sport It's a relic of a bye.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I remember when the Bulls were good and they would
sell out and they had Jordan and things are great
now the Bulls are the Bulls are the latest sports
stonehenge right now.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Fundy, we had that one year with Derreck Rose. Otherwise,
there have been some guys that have passed through. You know, hey,
Jimmy Buckets. It was fun to watch and it was
sad to see him go. I like watching Kobe White
play only thirteen points tonight, held in check five or
sixteen from the field.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, what did he have last game? Like sixty? Right? Boy?
He only had that to ask. He was a wizard.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
He tried to tried to go zion, but tonight, you know,
the heat defense held him in check. Kudos to Spolstering company.
They get it done. But but what but what if
we talked about my Chicago teams, all the ones I watch, right,
the Blackhawks, we watched him yesterday, there's Connor Bandar.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Wooo. They won twenty three games.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
It's gonna be a long road back and a wasted
career for the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Two thousand and five. Yay.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I got aj Perzinski, who's basically been told not to
come around the team and got fired from his analyst
role for echoing everything I've been saying about the farm
system and how they run the squad way to go
aj my guy Bulls nineteen ninety eight and one year
in between, and the Bears as much. Just folks keep
telling me, hey, wait six days. Man, I tried to
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have hope for tonight. It's been beaten out of me.
It's a final.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
You're getting JJ McCarthy at one.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Mike, come on, you are Darry He's gonna go to
the Chargers. You what a relic you are?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Hey, let's go through the Let's go through the bones
outside the United Center.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Oh look there's Bill cart right.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh, look at it, Hey, I think that skeleton Scottie Pippin.
Oh look at that boy. They were so great once
upon a time.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Oh yeah, and there's Phil Jackson with another elbow in
the low post. You can beat it right there, relic
of ull.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
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Speaker 3 (14:35):
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Sacramento and New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Early in the second quarter of the Pelicans hanging tough.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So far twenty four to twenty two, as the winner
will move on to the eighth seed. So more NBA
in the way, but coming up next, we got big
stuff out of the NFL.
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Mike cable just went out for a split second. What
did DJ Stewart just do against Yamamoo?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I missed it?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I mean Yamamoto's been perfect three strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, I missed I missed it. What did DJ Stewart
just do because my cable went out?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Who's DJ Stewart.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
My cable went out and and now it came back
and he's in the dugout shaking hands with him.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Do you know who DJ Stewart is.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I don't understand. I don't understand what happened.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Like he was sort I've never heard of him.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I don't know. I don't know. Well, he's a guy
that Syracuse. He just took Yamamoto over the wall. Mago
won nothing, Mets over the dogs back. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Did the guy do a half ass hitting ball trick
like that guy last week?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Or Stafford's run.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
By a guy we've never heard of. They're not doing
that trick, no.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I mean he's spinning some righteous tunes. Is he like
a rookie at what? Thirty two thirty five?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
What is he?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
He came he came up last year. He was great
in August and it was Wow. This guy's really good
and he stuck with is the fourth outfielder with the Mets.
He homer's off of Yamamoto Maga a one nothing Mets lead,
when Yamamoto had struck out three of the first four
batters and he looked dominant.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
His breaking pitches are.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Moving, However, Francisco Alvarez, who just beat out a swinging bunt.
Looks like as he slid into second base, he might
have jammed his finger a little bit.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
And oh boy, he's had a great start to the
season for the Mets. Tough because you got Martinez.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, it looks like he did it rounding first base.
I think Otani tripped him.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
It looks like he was coming.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Around first base and he slipped and he put his
hand down and it looks like his his thumb bent
forward a little bit. So right now he's at second
while the Mets look at it, and hopefully he's okay,
because boy, he's one of the best catches in baseball already.
But looks like he's gonna stay in the game, so
hopefully that's okay.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Tough it out, rub some dirt on it. Yeah yeah,
But I mean they keep showing this nicest thumb. Why
they keep showing it?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Stop showing because he's on second base and he didn't leave,
so the injury's not that bad.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Let's go game on.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I'm gonna send you the gift man, No, no, no,
send me, send me the gift of of DJ Stewart's
home run. Again, Like I said, Mike Cable went out
Mike Cable, and I didn't see it.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I didn't see it.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I didn't even know who he was till tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I didn't see it.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
He came up last August. He was really good. The
guy at three hundred is like, where was this guy?
Then in September he wasn't that great.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
But I'm just saying then he played not but he
then in September he went in the tank.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
And but you know, the Mets gave him a chance here,
Hey win a spot as the fourth or fifth outfielder,
and he has and now he's going to play, and
he's going to d h a bit until J. D.
Martinez is ready, and then you know he's gonna get
all the at bats. So he's up now for a
little bit, and then when J. D. Martinez says okay,
then he'll be one. He'll wind okay.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yeah, just just not to confuse him with DJ Steward
with a D the main Celtics of the G League
who played his collegiate basketball at.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Duke, or Emmanuel Stewart, who was Evander Holyfield's trainer. Wait,
did you say Emmanuel Stewart? You mean Webster?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
No, no, no, No, that's that's steward with a D. No,
mister Stewart, like I'm being you're being a steward, My steward.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
A good steward if the money you earn and the.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Opportunities to grow. So the Mets lead the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, one nothing in the second inning, they have a
runner at second, one out and oh boy, there's.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Activity you're doing, Mets Dodgers. I'm not.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
I'm telling you what's happening at the Gary Cohen.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Okay, I'm telling you what's happening.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Meanwhile, in the NBA Kings and the Pelicans the final
playing game.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Pelicans playing well enough. So far.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I thought the Kings would run away with this early
and the Pelicans would turtle and say, you know what,
look we're done.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
There's no Zion. But so far, Uh, they were in the.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Hole early, had an eight point deficit, but they have
now clawed back to tie the game thirty one apiece.
Pelicans are playing well. Valentunis has ten and nine rebounds already.
Uh for the Pelicans doing everything that Zion will and
did the other night. So we have a game right
now which we go again. This is gonna pick This
is gonna really affect my my Western Conference pick because
(20:07):
I told you, if the Kings win, I'll take teams
five through eight. I'm not taking the Pelicans to win
if they don't have I mean, if they somehow win
this game, I'm not gonna take them to beat the thunder.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I can't can't do that. I can't do that, buddy.
It's too hard. You get better, that's hard.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
The payoff would be bigger, it would be I mean,
you know, look, hey, I'm not saying I can't be
convinced in that over the court of the night.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
That's not something w I'm like, hey, no, no, no, no, no,
that's something like No I could say, I could.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You could convince me you doing that eventually, But I'll
feel a lot better about it with the king of
this one.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Get in there and sell, sell, sell, you know, hitting
five through eight's like winning the power ball? Right?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
But how great would you?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I could, I could just I could just be the
unpaid advisor to David Sterns of the Mets, like John
paulmer Rosie made me the other night. That's all I
need you, really, you wanted to be unpaid? Well, if
I win the power ball, I wouldn't need to get paid.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I think, all right, wow, you know you can always
use a little more, maybe do some charitable works.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And so that's true.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Up upgrade the local McDonald's to have a better seating
area for when you want to dine in.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, but this is also a get right year for
the Mets salary wise, So maybe I would do unpaid
this year, but then ask for money next year when
they're out from Undershures or in Verlander.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
But you'd be able to afford sheets of that edible gold.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
So while you're sitting there eating your big mac and
everybody's looking at you, going, what.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
The hell's he got secret menu for rich gags edible gold.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
In that span of the last seventy five seconds, the
Pelicans have gone on a seven zero run.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
They now lead the Kings thirty eight, thirty one.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Oh oh, get a time out, Rick Edelman, Oh this
is not going well.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So Pelicans now on top of the Kings. They were
down eight, now they're upseven.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
People, are you stop updating that game?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Who? Who is?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
There's no TV on this game? Just I'm actually I'm
actually I'm actually getting it. I'm getting pictures drawn shown
to me like, hey, this is what's happening in the
game right now.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
You got a court reporter. It's all I'm getting right now.
There's someone next to me just typing stuff out. A
cnographer is I got someone drawing the highlights for me?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You just have them drawing them in AI as quickly
as you can type them.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Basically, hang man.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So meanwhile, in the NFL big story tonight, you know,
not often you get.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
The big Friday night. Hey, whoa, here's something.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
But the Dallas Cowboys and their situation with Dak Prescott
has been very public. We told you when Jerry Jones
said all in with the Cowboys, this means I'm not
doing anything this year. I'm all in on this year,
meaning I'm just paying attention to this year. I'm not
signing anybody to any contracts. We said, that means no
money for Dak Prescott, and boy, he's gonna wind up
(22:44):
hitting free agency sometime early next year. That's gonna be something.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Dak Prescott actually talked about that tonight. He was taking
part in the Children's Cancer Funds A Night to Remember gala,
which he's a co chair with Hall of Fame quarterback
Troy Aikman, and he was asked about, hey, you know,
all right, what's your situation here with with Jerry Jones.
Have you guys talked about a new contract?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
What's the latest? And here was Dak Prescott's response.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
I don't want to say I'm puzzled, obviously, I understand me.
I'm focused on the guys that we have. I know
we've got a lot of great guys, a lot of
a lot of good that that's returning in that that
locker room. And I say good, but great and young
guys that are good that are making that next step.
So obviously have faith in those guys always done well
(23:31):
in the draft and bringing some guys in so hopefully
that will make a big impact. And think, right now,
for me, it's about just focusing on the locker room
and pouring into those guys and and I don't control
that side and making those moves, so I'm not gonna
put too much thought and and and ankst into it.
I guess and what we're doing and how we're getting
that done, rather than just how can invest in the
guys and making sure that they're getting better and holding
(23:52):
myself accountable to do the.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Same Okay, two big things.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
One, how about the I don't want to say I'm puzzled,
but it an't time you say I don't want to
say something, it means that's what you're saying. Like I
don't want to say I'm puzzled. The translation is I'm
pretty puzzled at what's going on. Hey, look, I don't
want to say I'm mad at you, but that means
I'm kind of mad at you.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I just don't want to make it seem like I'm
overly and outwardly mad at you. I don't want to
say I'm puzzled, but I'm puzzled. Dak Prescott clearly expected
his career to go one way with the Cowboys. When
it was time for him to get paid, he would
get paid. That's how it was gonna go. Right, I'm
the quarterback of the Cowboys. I'm playing well. Jerry Jones
likes giving money to players he drafts, and especially guys
(24:32):
that he quote.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Findes like he found me. Yeah, I know how to
play this game.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Stars have always known how to play Jerry Jones, Right,
They've always known how to do it. I know exactly
what's going on here. I know how to play Jerry.
He loves me. I can squeeze him for money. Ezekiel
Elliott squeezed him for money, and he's thinking, I'm gonna
squeeze him for money too, Except now Jerry Jones has
taken a turn on it, and now it's I'm puzzled
because Jerry Jones hasn't bent over backwards to give him
(24:58):
sixty million dollars a year. And we've told you the
last two playoff losses by the Cowboys you can put
on Dak Prescott's shoulders, and they were so bad that
when you can look at one player and say, when
your best player plays awful, this is not going to
fill the owner with confidence that you're the guy long term.
The fact that he had an MVP caliber season this year,
(25:21):
and still Jerry Jones like, nope, we're focused on what's
going on there. He's okay letting Dak Prescott hit free
agency rather than sign him to a long term deal,
which tells you exactly the damage that Dak Prescott has
done to his image and reputation with the Cowboys from
the playoff games the last two years. So yeah, I'm puzzled. Yeah,
because he thought he was gonna play Jerry Jones and
(25:41):
he's not. And really it's pretty simple for Dak Prescott.
If Dak Prescott is great this year and the Cowboys
are really good and they win a couple of playoff games, hey,
Dak Prescott will get his money from Jerry Jones, and
Jerry Jones will stand up and say, I knew it.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Look at me. I was able to motivate Dak and
we won great. But if the.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Cowboys don't play well and Dak Prescott's not great, guess
who's not gonna be the quarterback of the Cowboys next year?
Dak Prescott, and he will go and get his money
someplace else. And so, while it seems like it's either
or you tell me, is Dak Prescott gonna be great?
When right now they don't have any running backs and
all they did was lose players in the offseason. They
are worse than they were a year ago and the
worse they were three months ago. So how is suddenly
(26:19):
this year gonna be great and Dak is gonna suddenly
put the team on his shoulders? One ex Dallas Cowboy
coming up and it's gonna be Dak Prescott in free
agency next year, who's gonna be looking for a new
team for a Kirk Cousins like three year deal where
all the money's guaranteed and it's like fifty five million
dollars and you get gets one hundred and fifty one
hundred and sixty million guaranteed. That's what's gonna happen, because
(26:42):
cow there's no way the Cowboys is gonna be better
next year and achieve This is what the reality is.
Dak Prescott is is just a few months away from
being an ex member the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Well, the saving grace is that they do play in
the NFC East. We can actually make those jokes again.
Remember for a couple of years we couldn't. I have
no idea what the Eagles are. Washington's bringing four guys in,
like all right, break the pool cues. Whoever's left standing.
You're the guy who're gonna draft it too. Yeah, and
the Giants are the Giants.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
So here you go JJ McCarthy most of the season.
But that's it.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
You know, you look at the roster right now, Rico
Dowdell and Deuce Vaughn are your top running backs. You
brought in the reclamation project that is Marktavis Bryant as
one of your receivers alongside Cede Lamb and Brandon Cooks. Okay,
those guys are good, and Ferguson had a nice rookie year.
I'd like to give you a couple of great quotes here.
One from Stephen Jones. He did an appearance on one
oh five to three The Fan evidently instead of his dead. Certainly,
(27:40):
Dak is a priority in terms of his contract. Certainly
we'll be taking a look at Trey. I know Trey
will look at his situation in terms of what his
options are, and I'm sure that'll lot depend on how
well everything works out with Dak, oh and Cooper. Cooper's
been a good backup, a strong backup for here as well,
So all of those things will just have to play out.
Dak Prescot as part of his appearance tonight with Troy Aikman.
(28:04):
One of the questions asked about, you know, do you
want to be the highest paid there, and he goes, well,
that's not the priority. Pause pause, not necessarily. So, yeah,
it's it's a bit messy, and the longer it goes on,
the stickier it gets, you know, the prove it, you know,
performance spur him on. The hard part is I think
(28:27):
it's prohibitively expensive for most other teams to bring him
bring him in at this point because it will have
been in a decade. And is he proven to be
the guy that's taken you over the top. Nope, not
when we're in the in vogue of Hey, we're gonna
go find the guy and you know, do the quote
reset the quarterback clot dec Ain't that guy? Yeah, but
eventually he's got to swallow his pride again. I got
(28:49):
two words for you, Kirk Cousins. All Kirk Cousins has
done is put up some kind of.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Just below upper tier level video game numbers for the
past few year and he keeps getting paid that Trustcott
puts up pretty good numbers, and he'll be somebody, Hey,
let's get him out of Dallas. Let's give him a
little bit less the spotlight. Maybe this is gonna work.
Just take you one sure, and someone's gonna give him
that kind of money, and that's the kind of deal
he'll get. He'll go next year, someone's gonna say, boy,
(29:16):
do we want to get in on DAK for the
next like seven years? No, but do we want to
do three years at fifty five million a year and
it's all guaranteed. Yeah, well two years, sure, that makes
that'll be something. And Jerry Jones will let trust me,
Jerry Jones will let him go. He does not want
the fact that he's okay with letting him hit free
agency because there's no handshake agreement. You think that Jerry's
(29:38):
gonna cut Well, we're just gonna do this next year. No,
you're allowing your guy to hit free agency where you
could lose him. You don't allow players to hit free
agency unless you are okay with the outcome that, hey,
we may not get you. So the fact that Jerry
Jones is okay with this tells me, yeah, he's ready
to wave goodbye to Dak Prescott. And Prescott's gonna be
the quarterback of the Vikings or somewhere else next year.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Who winds up signing him in free agency? Are saying
Sam donald aboy is gonna be good.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
You're saying Sam Darnold's not keeping that job, and and
and the Jerry Jones you know, has made his sion.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I say good.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I mean Dak's shown acumen as a regular season quarterback.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
I like him you know, if we're gonna go in
the rankings, he's probably at the what the back end
of the top ten right now.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
In the NFL, it's great.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Until you have the playoffs and then but then we
start talking about bad, right, But then we start talking
talking about like the defense was disastrous, but the offense
did nothing to keep them off the field, so they
just got worse and worse, and there was never an
opportunity to say, hey, for five minutes, we're gonna be
able to go over the film and see if we
can't pick something up.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Nope, get back out on the field.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
We're back at it again. So that was awful in
a million ways. Plus you still have to figure out
CD Lamb and Michael Parsons. Brown's quarterback Dak Prescott. Get
used to that that could be a Raiders quarterback Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Well, you say the Raiders don't get their guy right
this year yet? No, No, the Raiders are like the Jets.
Whoever they pick is going to be wrong, so it
doesn't matter. Oh, okay, whoever they pick is going to
be wrong. Yeah, yeah, he'll take over for bow Nicks
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Speaker 3 (32:07):
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of the Transfer Portal and Dion Sanders.
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Was really upset yesterday.
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Well, do we have another team that's getting just decimated
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All of more n NBA coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
The Pelicans at halftime no Zion lead the Kings by nine.
I think I Jinston when I talked about Hey, lighting
the beam, they're gonna be lighting. No, there's no beam
lighting right now.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Look at that.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
You've just I mean, they're be on your never again
list and you'll never be able to go to sack
Fromento again.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I mean, look, they've got twenty one points off the
bench right now. Nance has nine, Marshall's got nine. Uh,
Suddenly the hey a big deal. I thought the Pelicans
just roll over and die without without Zion, But it
looks like here they are actually open.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Mike, you know that's not really a threat, right, No,
I know, I it just.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
No, it does. It does. There's there's no question about
it for many reasons.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
But yes, elsewhere, and this is just another another piece
of evidence of how I don't want to say how
far this team is falling, because they're still really good,
but they're just not the same team. Sean Stewart today
became the seventh Duke player to enter the transfer ports
seven players transferring since the end of the season. Right,
(33:48):
this is a day after TJ Power decided to end
of the portal as well. They're losing their best couple
of players to the NBA. Philapowski's going to the NBA.
McCain are off to the NBA.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
They have two.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Players coming back from last season, two players now coming back. Yes,
they have a great recruiting class coming in, which is awesome, Right,
succeed and proceed, you know that's great, But you're looking
at Duke.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Where could you see this under.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Mike Krzyzewski Seven players, of course, not like you would
not see this, but Duke, this is just another bit
of evidence that they have just become another team. They're
no longer the great villains in college basketball. Nobody really
goes crazy. I want to see Duke play because I
want to see Duke lose. They're just another team. They've
lost their aura, they've lost their their their relevance as
(34:34):
far as what they used to be because Duke was
always the calling card in college basketball. It was the
calling card of the of the entire tournament. It was
always let's see how far they go? Can they win
it all? I hope they lose. And look, it's not
like they won every year. They would win a championship
every six or seven years. I've been to the Final
four a few years ago, and they're still really good, right,
(34:56):
It's not like they've they've fallen hard times. They're fifteen
and thirteen. No, they're still they're still a really good team.
But they're just it's just not the same. They're just
they're they're just another good team. They're like North Carolina
or Kansas. Whereas it was always Duke and the rest
of college basketball. Now it's okay, Duke is there as
one of the other really good teams, and if they're good,
that's great, and if they're not, that's fine. And if
(35:18):
Duke was in the Final four, it still wouldn't be
the same.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You wouldn't be the overall. Look, at Duke.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
This is a great throwback Final four and nobody, oh
Duke is in Okay, Yeah, Shire is a pretty good coach. Okay,
they've just lost that they they've lost that ara about
them and that's it's thanks for college basketball. But look again,
you're seeing it right now. Seven Duke players now in
the portal. They have two players coming back from last year.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, the curiosity is you know, I think this is
the the litmus test of the Shire era, Right is that? Okay,
you had some some solid players whatever. Now you're bringing
in Cooper Flag, Right, He's gonna take Jalen Brunson's slot
and keep him off the Olympic team, or at least
that's what some are hoping, that he has that Christian
Latner like effect without having done all the college work
(36:02):
before getting that job.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
And they've got a seven footer coming in right, seven
to one guy Malouk that you know chose them over powerhouses.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
But yeah, certainly for years with.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Duke, I mean, it was hate watching at its extreme
because you had coach k And let's face it, if
you weren't a Duke fan, what did you think of him?
He was a whiner? You and you and you're Beeheim
and Shryszewski. If you weren't one of those uh at
from one of those two schools, you always looked at
him and go, all right, I just I can't deal
with it because they're gonna do long soliloquies about these
(36:34):
guys and we're gonna watch him complain about every call
and that's what they do.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
But that's fine. But they were. He was a stalwart.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
He's there every year and back in the day, right
remember when they first started going to the one and Dune's,
it was Duke wasn't going down that road until they
were forced to. And now you know, you had guys
playing together three or four years, so there was the continuity,
which meant the opportunity for fans and casual viewers to
(37:00):
watch them and to get to know those names, something
we bemoan every year come the NCAA tournament. We don't
know any of these guys. Well, Duke, for better or
for worse, we always did. And now Shire's got to
figure out the new avenue, just like Caliperi and his
new digs, et cetera. Just strange new world.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, I mean, look, they're not the Evil Empire anymore, right,
Like they're they're just another good team in college hoops,
Like like that's what they are, and it's stunning that
it happens that fast, But that's what they're.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Just another good team Stonehenge. It's crazy. No, No, they're
still they're still winning. At least they're not the Bulls.
They're winning anything.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
The winning exit albouta Fresca exit Swallen Dome. We'll have
more basketball coming up. How about some NBA Playoff Bold
predictions coming up next, Mike and I got them for
you right here.
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Well, Buddy, Final night, Playing night in the NBA. We
each picked this game last night. You picked your I
picked the Heat even though we're gonna without everybody. Even
Ronnie Cyclely was out tonight. And I told you there
was only one reason why I wasn't gonna pick the Bulls.
There was only one reason. Yeah, because they stink. And
(01:13):
that's what happened, and that's why they lost a stink.
I would have picked them if they didn't stink, but
they stink and they lost tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Ten point game at halftime. Yeah, I mean, as I
put on Twitter at Swollen Dome for the for the
masses there in preparation for the show and watching the
game come to it.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Well, not so dramatic conclusion.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Really, no, I was you know what I was gonna do, though,
I mean, and I'm disappointed in you that we still
don't have True TV or not TV because they have
a bet cast they've been running alongside. That was more
interesting watching the live futures like it was a stock
market for prop bets down to stretch. Well, Tyler Harrow
get to the triple double, he didn't. But the fact
(01:56):
of the matter that a burial at the hands of
the Philadelphia Phillies earlier in the day by the White
Sox the seventh time this year that they've been shut
out a seven nothing defeat, was going to be the
highlight of my sports day. I did not have that
on my Bingo card print. This hope sucks buddy.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
First of all, let me just say this because I
feel the need to say this. You're not projected like
you're on pace to win your tenth game of the
season for the White Sox in June.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
No, I know, like that's when I told you the
under sixty one and a half at the beginning of
the season was a gift. Your tenth game in June,
and I think you might set the record for fewest
runs scored in a season by a major league team.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
And we're starting to get shot out thirty five times.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, I mean, the the A's are like, hey, we're
not there. Well, at least we're not moving Okay, okay, fine,
but I mean wow, But I mean, if that was
gonna be the highlight of your day, I feel bad
about telling you the bull stink, but the bulls bull
do stink.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well, but like that that becomes the better part, all right.
I have no very little expectations on a day to
day basis with the White Sox right now. It's the
all right, at some point, you just by accident, you're
gonna win a game. What's the old adage, you forty
forty and then it's what you do with the other
half of the season that matters, or or you know,
whatever metric you want to do however you want to
(03:15):
slice it up, but this is just a joke. And
then watching the Bulls they cut it to ten at halftimes,
like all right, let's let's see if there's anything interesting poppin. Nope,
here comes Duncan Robinson, there's Tyler Hero, there's Kevin Love
living at the free throw line.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And we talked about it last night.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Frostburg, in his way of giving me the Lemmy killmeister
double Bird, said it's gonna be the Kevin Love game.
Then that son of a gun comes off the bench.
Sixteen Kevin six from the field to three point shots
from the line.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Lovin Heimy Hawks, looking up generations of UCLA making it
getting it done against the ball.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Buddy, it was. It was plus nineteen and twelve minutes
off the bench. That's day. Listen, buddy, you know why
cause the Bulls stink. That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Look, it's you know, when we get to the play
in conference every playing term, every year, there are two
kinds of teams. There's a team that gets in the
play in and they have a really good record and
you know, they're ten games over five hundred, and they
beat another team that's maybe ten games over five hundred
and Okay, they're pretty good. There's not a lot of
difference between the teams seven and eight and the teams
(04:23):
that are four and five, So yeah, hey, they're good
and they can move on. Then you get a team
with thirty nine wins that happens to blow out a
team with thirty six wins, and all that is is
too bad teams playing against each other, they both stink.
One team just thinks a little bit less than the other.
So now tonight, when you had a team that's ten
twelve games over five hundred against a team that's still
five games under five hundred, even though the team the
(04:45):
games start playing, sorry, even though their team is missing
their best player or they couple of best players, they're
still gonna beat a team that stinks. I mean that's
how that's how it goes. But I mean, can't it
not All wins in the playing round are created equally.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
No, no, no, And look, it's become the master stroke
of the Miami Heat of we're gonna be just good
enough to get into the tournament because then, you know what,
we play with a chip on our shoulder, and Eric
Spolster just gets to show everybody with a genius head dude.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Heat culture, Man, how many times we're gonna do how
many times between now and the beginning of this Celtics series,
we're gonna hear you know, heat culture?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Heat culture? Yeah, but in the second culture, heat culture.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
All right, So thirty four seventeen after one and they're
beating the hell out of the Bulls. They immediately went
into the profile shots of Heini Hakis to tell you
about his veteran acumen as a rookie.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Here's what he did at UCLA.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Let's go through his entire resume to tell you how
he's not really a rookie on the floor here, No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's like, oh, really, were there already?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Then they mispronounced a bunch of celebrities names who were
in the crowd.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I mean, just all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Serious question for you guys, I mean like really serious question.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I've been watching the NBA for maybe thirty five years.
I've never seen this happen ever in my life. Why
were the Knicks wearing Bulls jerseys tonight?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
That's funny?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Team's jersey.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You're funny, You're funny. It's funny.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
How you keep talking about the Knicks like they're not
the number two team in the East and a fifty win.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Team Lakers in four.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
This is this is, this is not no. But I
will give you this. I'll speaking of the Lake.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I will give you this right now because the other
game in the NBA playoffs right now, the last playing
game for the eight.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Seed in the West.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
About two minutes to go in the first quarter, the
Kings have a seven point lead over the Pelicans. Fox
has nine, Sabonas has eight. Clearly, these are gonna be
the guys are gonna carry the Kings if they're gonna
win this game. The Pelicans, who of course playing without Zion.
If the Kings win this game, Kings win this game
and get the eight seed. I will officially pick all
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the low seeds to win the first round in the
Western Conference. I will pick seeds five, six, seven, and
eight to beat Seeds one, two, three, and four, voting
the Lakers to beat the Nuggets because if they're gonna
do it, now is the time to get them. This
is that you know they're coming in, they're healthy. They
gotta win one of the first two and gain momentum
because you see what happens suddenly when the Nuggets got
a little bit of a they get punch in the
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mouth a little bit, But all these other rounds I
don't really have a big problem with. The Kings are
a good team. They get out of this. Hey, suddenly
they used the playoffs last year. Yes, you're playing one
to eight, but you know what, it's brand new for
Oklahoma City coming into the Hey, we're the favorites with this.
Let's see how you do. Let's see how you do.
I like the I like the the Mavericks big time.
And and you're you're talking about the the Kings. I said,
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I like, Look, I like all of these teams. I
would do this in a second. I would pick I
don't know what the odds would be on taking seeds
five through eight, But there's not a round I feel.
I don't even feel the difficult about about the Sons
and the and the Timberwolves. The Sons are a playoff
ready team, like they're made for the playoffs. The one
that makes me the most difficult, honestly would be the Lakers.
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But yeah, I'll go Mavericks, Suns, Lakers, and Kings easy
in this easy?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Can I ask the uncomfortable question about the the Denver Nuggets,
Los Angeles Lakers series.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Sure, go ahead. What's the mental state of Michael Porter
Junior right now? Do you know, dude? No, legit no.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And I asked that legitimately as she gets ready, Like
how compartmentalization?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
We know, guys have to do it.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
It's been a big talking point with Milwaukee and Damian
Lillard and with.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Other players through the years. Michael Porter Junior.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I mean you already had one brother get suspended for
the league for life, right and all of that, and
today another brothers going to jail for eight years.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, I mean that that is a week. Yeah, it is.
It's it's a difficult week.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
It is.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It is a very difficult week. And it's you know,
and look, we saw Michael Malone say the other day
I got chig with him. I gotta check in with him.
We have to talk, we have to figure things out
because it is you know, look, you forget sometimes about
personally what happens to a player affects them on the court.
You know what do I always say, show me an
MLB player going through a divorce, and I'll show you
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an MLB player having as worse here, Like, there's a
lot of things that are that that that are that
are there and look at that. No, that look, that's
a that's a great point to make. It's kind of soon,
I think, to suddenly, let me throw this out there.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
But it is a thing.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
But I mean, if we're gonna talk about pulling up
sets and getting teams at the right time, right, they're
healthy and physically he's fine right now. But you know
it's this all happened in a week's time. Yeah, so
you know, as one of their leaders of their squad,
I mean they're dependent upon him to have a big
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impact as well. Again, going back to the Lakers, I
was just looking at some of the Laker prop bets.
There's some fun ones for players for the playoff run
that we can get into as the night goes on.
But yeah, you're five six, seven eight. I mean it's
it's great in theory. And for the NBA, they're sitting
there going please no, plea, please no, we need some
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of this team.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Really be unhappy because you're talking about the seeds that
were moving on would be Luca and Kyrie k D
and Devin Booker the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And is there real difference between the Kings and the Thunder.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I mean, look, I mean Alexander is a phenomenal player,
but nobody did the average NBA probably.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Right, But the Kings light the beam at the end,
and that's a fun thing.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
People thunder and they've got chet, They've got lou Dort,
they do have chet, they do have chet.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
But but I don't know, people, you're just gonna ignore
lou Dort and is eleven points per game? Dude?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Can't you can't you keep bringing up loud Dort like
he's a superstar. You should be president of the lou
Dort Radio Network because like you're the only guy that's
ever sent his name on the radio. Ever, I don't
even think in Oklahoma City they talk about loud Dort.
I don't think his name comes.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Up when he scores eleven a game. They just ignore it.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I did you see that guy he's eating? Hey, look
what's more fun? You have an m VP candidate in
shy Gildess, Alexander a Field, good story in Oklahoma City
or Sacramento Kings and they light a big light after
they win games, Like I think that's what I think,
that's what people would want to say.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
But you gotta slit there for two and a half hours.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You get two hours of showtime and you'll just Alexander
and that squad versus waiting for deciding which of these
guys is gonna light a beam after a win. Down
with that, people aren't sitting there for two and a
half hours to wait to see a guy make some
offering to a basketball god.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
No what he is.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Those games aren't even gonna be televised. What the hell
is wrong with you there?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Man?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Come on in Oklahoma City and Sacramento. Nut, that's not
on anywhere are you. They're just only gonna go to
that gay. We'll go to this game live. If the
Kings win and they get to light the beam, that's it.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
That's on Comedy Central.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
That's all you need. That's the only time you're gonna
see that. There's no TV on that series whatsoever, doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I truly appreciate everybody at Swollen Dome. Bring your best
roast jokes of my bulls tonight, and you know, I'll
take the beating out of Friday.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
That's what I tell you. It's too bad, you know,
the bulls. The bulls, they just they just stink, and
that's that's kind of.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
What it is. And the bulls have stunk for a while.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You know, here's the thing about the Bulls, buddy, is
that you've had talent.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You've had some really good but it's not like you've
been Bret. There some guys that have popped through.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You've had some talent, and you've stunk for a long time, man,
Like you went Jordan into Derek Rose and then DeRozan
and Zach Levine and you've had some talent and you
still stink, like, I mean, how do you stink for
this lo? How do the Bulls stink for this long?
The Bulls, The Bulls are are like a sports stonehenge now,
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like a relic of a bye Like I always say,
these teams like Indiana Basketball, all these you know, all
the relics of a bygone era like Syracuse basketball is
kind of getting there too. But the Bulls basketball is
like a sport It's a relic of a bye.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I remember when the Bulls were good and they would
sell out and they had Jordan and things are great
now the Bulls are the Bulls are the latest sports
stonehenge right now.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Fundy, we had that one year with Derreck Rose. Otherwise,
there have been some guys that have passed through. You know, hey,
Jimmy Buckets. It was fun to watch and it was
sad to see him go. I like watching Kobe White
play only thirteen points tonight, held in check five or
sixteen from the field.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, what did he have last game? Like sixty? Right? Boy?
He only had that to ask. He was a wizard.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
He tried to tried to go zion, but tonight, you know,
the heat defense held him in check. Kudos to Spolstering company.
They get it done. But but what but what if
we talked about my Chicago teams, all the ones I watch, right,
the Blackhawks, we watched him yesterday, there's Connor Bandar.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Wooo. They won twenty three games.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
It's gonna be a long road back and a wasted
career for the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Two thousand and five. Yay.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I got aj Perzinski, who's basically been told not to
come around the team and got fired from his analyst
role for echoing everything I've been saying about the farm
system and how they run the squad way to go
aj my guy Bulls nineteen ninety eight and one year
in between, and the Bears as much. Just folks keep
telling me, hey, wait six days. Man, I tried to
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have hope for tonight. It's been beaten out of me.
It's a final.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
You're getting JJ McCarthy at one.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Mike, come on, you are Darry He's gonna go to
the Chargers. You what a relic you are?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Hey, let's go through the Let's go through the bones
outside the United Center.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Oh look there's Bill cart right.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh, look at it, Hey, I think that skeleton Scottie Pippin.
Oh look at that boy. They were so great once
upon a time.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Oh yeah, and there's Phil Jackson with another elbow in
the low post. You can beat it right there, relic
of ull.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Let's read yourself out. Smith.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
The Jason Smith Show is my best friend.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Mike Harmon live from the Tirack DoD Cob Studios. So yeah,
we'll keep you updated throughout the night, of course on
Sacramento and New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Early in the second quarter of the Pelicans hanging tough.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So far twenty four to twenty two, as the winner
will move on to the eighth seed. So more NBA
in the way, but coming up next, we got big
stuff out of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
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Speaker 1 (14:57):
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tire Rack dot Com Studios. Hey, justin Frostburg.
Mike cable just went out for a split second. What
did DJ Stewart just do against Yamamoo?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I missed it?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I mean Yamamoto's been perfect three strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, I missed I missed it. What did DJ Stewart
just do because my cable went out?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Who's DJ Stewart.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
My cable went out and and now it came back
and he's in the dugout shaking hands with him.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Do you know who DJ Stewart is.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I don't understand. I don't understand what happened.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Like he was sort I've never heard of him.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I don't know. I don't know. Well, he's a guy
that Syracuse. He just took Yamamoto over the wall. Mago
won nothing, Mets over the dogs back. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Did the guy do a half ass hitting ball trick
like that guy last week?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Or Stafford's run.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
By a guy we've never heard of. They're not doing
that trick, no.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I mean he's spinning some righteous tunes. Is he like
a rookie at what? Thirty two thirty five?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
What is he?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
He came he came up last year. He was great
in August and it was Wow. This guy's really good
and he stuck with is the fourth outfielder with the Mets.
He homer's off of Yamamoto Maga a one nothing Mets lead,
when Yamamoto had struck out three of the first four
batters and he looked dominant.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
His breaking pitches are.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Moving, However, Francisco Alvarez, who just beat out a swinging bunt.
Looks like as he slid into second base, he might
have jammed his finger a little bit.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
And oh boy, he's had a great start to the
season for the Mets. Tough because you got Martinez.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, it looks like he did it rounding first base.
I think Otani tripped him.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
It looks like he was coming.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Around first base and he slipped and he put his
hand down and it looks like his his thumb bent
forward a little bit. So right now he's at second
while the Mets look at it, and hopefully he's okay,
because boy, he's one of the best catches in baseball already.
But looks like he's gonna stay in the game, so
hopefully that's okay.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Tough it out, rub some dirt on it. Yeah yeah,
But I mean they keep showing this nicest thumb. Why
they keep showing it?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Stop showing because he's on second base and he didn't leave,
so the injury's not that bad.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Let's go game on.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I'm gonna send you the gift man, No, no, no,
send me, send me the gift of of DJ Stewart's
home run. Again, Like I said, Mike Cable went out
Mike Cable, and I didn't see it.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I didn't see it.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I didn't even know who he was till tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I didn't see it.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
He came up last August. He was really good. The
guy at three hundred is like, where was this guy?
Then in September he wasn't that great.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
But I'm just saying then he played not but he
then in September he went in the tank.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
And but you know, the Mets gave him a chance here,
Hey win a spot as the fourth or fifth outfielder,
and he has and now he's going to play, and
he's going to d h a bit until J. D.
Martinez is ready, and then you know he's gonna get
all the at bats. So he's up now for a
little bit, and then when J. D. Martinez says okay,
then he'll be one. He'll wind okay.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yeah, just just not to confuse him with DJ Steward
with a D the main Celtics of the G League
who played his collegiate basketball at.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Duke, or Emmanuel Stewart, who was Evander Holyfield's trainer. Wait,
did you say Emmanuel Stewart? You mean Webster?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
No, no, no, No, that's that's steward with a D. No,
mister Stewart, like I'm being you're being a steward, My steward.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
A good steward if the money you earn and the.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Opportunities to grow. So the Mets lead the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, one nothing in the second inning, they have a
runner at second, one out and oh boy, there's.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Activity you're doing, Mets Dodgers. I'm not.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
I'm telling you what's happening at the Gary Cohen.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Okay, I'm telling you what's happening.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Meanwhile, in the NBA Kings and the Pelicans the final
playing game.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Pelicans playing well enough. So far.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I thought the Kings would run away with this early
and the Pelicans would turtle and say, you know what,
look we're done.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
There's no Zion. But so far, Uh, they were in the.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Hole early, had an eight point deficit, but they have
now clawed back to tie the game thirty one apiece.
Pelicans are playing well. Valentunis has ten and nine rebounds already.
Uh for the Pelicans doing everything that Zion will and
did the other night. So we have a game right
now which we go again. This is gonna pick This
is gonna really affect my my Western Conference pick because
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I told you, if the Kings win, I'll take teams
five through eight. I'm not taking the Pelicans to win
if they don't have I mean, if they somehow win
this game, I'm not gonna take them to beat the thunder.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I can't can't do that. I can't do that, buddy.
It's too hard. You get better, that's hard.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
The payoff would be bigger, it would be I mean,
you know, look, hey, I'm not saying I can't be
convinced in that over the court of the night.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
That's not something w I'm like, hey, no, no, no, no, no,
that's something like No I could say, I could.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
You could convince me you doing that eventually, But I'll
feel a lot better about it with the king of
this one.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Get in there and sell, sell, sell, you know, hitting
five through eight's like winning the power ball? Right?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
But how great would you?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I could, I could just I could just be the
unpaid advisor to David Sterns of the Mets, like John
paulmer Rosie made me the other night. That's all I
need you, really, you wanted to be unpaid? Well, if
I win the power ball, I wouldn't need to get paid.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I think, all right, wow, you know you can always
use a little more, maybe do some charitable works.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
And so that's true.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Up upgrade the local McDonald's to have a better seating
area for when you want to dine in.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, but this is also a get right year for
the Mets salary wise, So maybe I would do unpaid
this year, but then ask for money next year when
they're out from Undershures or in Verlander.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
But you'd be able to afford sheets of that edible gold.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
So while you're sitting there eating your big mac and
everybody's looking at you, going, what.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
The hell's he got secret menu for rich gags edible gold.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
In that span of the last seventy five seconds, the
Pelicans have gone on a seven zero run.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
They now lead the Kings thirty eight, thirty one.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Oh oh, get a time out, Rick Edelman, Oh this
is not going well.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So Pelicans now on top of the Kings. They were
down eight, now they're upseven.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
People, are you stop updating that game?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Who? Who is?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
There's no TV on this game? Just I'm actually I'm
actually I'm actually getting it. I'm getting pictures drawn shown
to me like, hey, this is what's happening in the
game right now.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
You got a court reporter. It's all I'm getting right now.
There's someone next to me just typing stuff out. A
cnographer is I got someone drawing the highlights for me?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
You just have them drawing them in AI as quickly
as you can type them.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Basically, hang man.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So meanwhile, in the NFL big story tonight, you know,
not often you get.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
The big Friday night. Hey, whoa, here's something.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
But the Dallas Cowboys and their situation with Dak Prescott
has been very public. We told you when Jerry Jones
said all in with the Cowboys, this means I'm not
doing anything this year. I'm all in on this year,
meaning I'm just paying attention to this year. I'm not
signing anybody to any contracts. We said, that means no
money for Dak Prescott, and boy, he's gonna wind up
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hitting free agency sometime early next year. That's gonna be something.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Dak Prescott actually talked about that tonight. He was taking
part in the Children's Cancer Funds A Night to Remember gala,
which he's a co chair with Hall of Fame quarterback
Troy Aikman, and he was asked about, hey, you know,
all right, what's your situation here with with Jerry Jones.
Have you guys talked about a new contract?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
What's the latest? And here was Dak Prescott's response.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
I don't want to say I'm puzzled, obviously, I understand me.
I'm focused on the guys that we have. I know
we've got a lot of great guys, a lot of
a lot of good that that's returning in that that
locker room. And I say good, but great and young
guys that are good that are making that next step.
So obviously have faith in those guys always done well
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in the draft and bringing some guys in so hopefully
that will make a big impact. And think, right now,
for me, it's about just focusing on the locker room
and pouring into those guys and and I don't control
that side and making those moves, so I'm not gonna
put too much thought and and and ankst into it.
I guess and what we're doing and how we're getting
that done, rather than just how can invest in the
guys and making sure that they're getting better and holding
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myself accountable to do the.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Same Okay, two big things.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
One, how about the I don't want to say I'm puzzled,
but it an't time you say I don't want to
say something, it means that's what you're saying. Like I
don't want to say I'm puzzled. The translation is I'm
pretty puzzled at what's going on. Hey, look, I don't
want to say I'm mad at you, but that means
I'm kind of mad at you.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I just don't.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I just don't want to make it seem like I'm
overly and outwardly mad at you. I don't want to
say I'm puzzled, but I'm puzzled. Dak Prescott clearly expected
his career to go one way with the Cowboys. When
it was time for him to get paid, he would
get paid. That's how it was gonna go. Right, I'm
the quarterback of the Cowboys. I'm playing well. Jerry Jones
likes giving money to players he drafts, and especially guys
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that he quote.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Findes like he found me. Yeah, I know how to
play this game.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Stars have always known how to play Jerry Jones, Right,
They've always known how to do it. I know exactly
what's going on here. I know how to play Jerry.
He loves me. I can squeeze him for money. Ezekiel
Elliott squeezed him for money, and he's thinking, I'm gonna
squeeze him for money too, Except now Jerry Jones has
taken a turn on it, and now it's I'm puzzled
because Jerry Jones hasn't bent over backwards to give him
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sixty million dollars a year. And we've told you the
last two playoff losses by the Cowboys you can put
on Dak Prescott's shoulders, and they were so bad that
when you can look at one player and say, when
your best player plays awful, this is not going to
fill the owner with confidence that you're the guy long term.
The fact that he had an MVP caliber season this year,
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and still Jerry Jones like, nope, we're focused on what's
going on there. He's okay letting Dak Prescott hit free
agency rather than sign him to a long term deal,
which tells you exactly the damage that Dak Prescott has
done to his image and reputation with the Cowboys from
the playoff games the last two years. So yeah, I'm puzzled. Yeah,
because he thought he was gonna play Jerry Jones and
(25:41):
he's not. And really it's pretty simple for Dak Prescott.
If Dak Prescott is great this year and the Cowboys
are really good and they win a couple of playoff games, hey,
Dak Prescott will get his money from Jerry Jones, and
Jerry Jones will stand up and say, I knew it.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Look at me. I was able to motivate Dak and
we won great. But if the.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Cowboys don't play well and Dak Prescott's not great, guess
who's not gonna be the quarterback of the Cowboys next year?
Dak Prescott, and he will go and get his money
someplace else. And so, while it seems like it's either
or you tell me, is Dak Prescott gonna be great?
When right now they don't have any running backs and
all they did was lose players in the offseason. They
are worse than they were a year ago and the
worse they were three months ago. So how is suddenly
(26:19):
this year gonna be great and Dak is gonna suddenly
put the team on his shoulders? One ex Dallas Cowboy
coming up and it's gonna be Dak Prescott in free
agency next year, who's gonna be looking for a new
team for a Kirk Cousins like three year deal where
all the money's guaranteed and it's like fifty five million
dollars and you get gets one hundred and fifty one
hundred and sixty million guaranteed. That's what's gonna happen, because
(26:42):
cow there's no way the Cowboys is gonna be better
next year and achieve This is what the reality is.
Dak Prescott is is just a few months away from
being an ex member the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Well, the saving grace is that they do play in
the NFC East. We can actually make those jokes again.
Remember for a couple of years we couldn't. I have
no idea what the Eagles are. Washington's bringing four guys in,
like all right, break the pool cues. Whoever's left standing.
You're the guy who're gonna draft it too. Yeah, and
the Giants are the Giants.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
So here you go JJ McCarthy most of the season.
But that's it.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
You know, you look at the roster right now, Rico
Dowdell and Deuce Vaughn are your top running backs. You
brought in the reclamation project that is Marktavis Bryant as
one of your receivers alongside Cede Lamb and Brandon Cooks. Okay,
those guys are good, and Ferguson had a nice rookie year.
I'd like to give you a couple of great quotes here.
One from Stephen Jones. He did an appearance on one
oh five to three The Fan evidently instead of his dead. Certainly,
(27:40):
Dak is a priority in terms of his contract. Certainly
we'll be taking a look at Trey. I know Trey
will look at his situation in terms of what his
options are, and I'm sure that'll lot depend on how
well everything works out with Dak, oh and Cooper. Cooper's
been a good backup, a strong backup for here as well,
So all of those things will just have to play out.
Dak Prescot as part of his appearance tonight with Troy Aikman.
(28:04):
One of the questions asked about, you know, do you
want to be the highest paid there, and he goes, well,
that's not the priority. Pause pause, not necessarily. So, yeah,
it's it's a bit messy, and the longer it goes on,
the stickier it gets, you know, the prove it, you know,
performance spur him on. The hard part is I think
(28:27):
it's prohibitively expensive for most other teams to bring him
bring him in at this point because it will have
been in a decade. And is he proven to be
the guy that's taken you over the top. Nope, not
when we're in the in vogue of Hey, we're gonna
go find the guy and you know, do the quote
reset the quarterback clot dec Ain't that guy? Yeah, but
eventually he's got to swallow his pride again. I got
(28:49):
two words for you, Kirk Cousins. All Kirk Cousins has
done is put up some kind of.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Just below upper tier level video game numbers for the
past few year and he keeps getting paid that Trustcott
puts up pretty good numbers, and he'll be somebody, Hey,
let's get him out of Dallas. Let's give him a
little bit less the spotlight. Maybe this is gonna work.
Just take you one sure, and someone's gonna give him
that kind of money, and that's the kind of deal
he'll get. He'll go next year, someone's gonna say, boy,
(29:16):
do we want to get in on DAK for the
next like seven years? No, but do we want to
do three years at fifty five million a year and
it's all guaranteed. Yeah, well two years, sure, that makes
that'll be something. And Jerry Jones will let trust me,
Jerry Jones will let him go. He does not want
the fact that he's okay with letting him hit free
agency because there's no handshake agreement. You think that Jerry's
(29:38):
gonna cut Well, we're just gonna do this next year. No,
you're allowing your guy to hit free agency where you
could lose him. You don't allow players to hit free
agency unless you are okay with the outcome that, hey,
we may not get you. So the fact that Jerry
Jones is okay with this tells me, yeah, he's ready
to wave goodbye to Dak Prescott. And Prescott's gonna be
the quarterback of the Vikings or somewhere else next year.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Who winds up signing him in free agency? Are saying
Sam donald aboy is gonna be good.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
You're saying Sam Darnold's not keeping that job, and and
and the Jerry Jones you know, has made his sion.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I say good.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I mean Dak's shown acumen as a regular season quarterback.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
I like him you know, if we're gonna go in
the rankings, he's probably at the what the back end
of the top ten right now.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
In the NFL, it's great.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Until you have the playoffs and then but then we
start talking about bad, right, But then we start talking
talking about like the defense was disastrous, but the offense
did nothing to keep them off the field, so they
just got worse and worse, and there was never an
opportunity to say, hey, for five minutes, we're gonna be
able to go over the film and see if we
can't pick something up.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Nope, get back out on the field.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
We're back at it again. So that was awful in
a million ways. Plus you still have to figure out
CD Lamb and Michael Parsons. Brown's quarterback Dak Prescott. Get
used to that that could be a Raiders quarterback Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Well, you say the Raiders don't get their guy right
this year yet? No, No, the Raiders are like the Jets.
Whoever they pick is going to be wrong, so it
doesn't matter. Oh, okay, whoever they pick is going to
be wrong. Yeah, yeah, he'll take over for bow Nicks
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of the Transfer Portal and Dion Sanders.
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Was really upset yesterday.
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Speaker 3 (32:42):
All of more n NBA coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
The Pelicans at halftime no Zion lead the Kings by nine.
I think I Jinston when I talked about Hey, lighting
the beam, they're gonna be lighting. No, there's no beam
lighting right now.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Look at that.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
You've just I mean, they're be on your never again
list and you'll never be able to go to sack
Fromento again.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
I mean, look, they've got twenty one points off the
bench right now. Nance has nine, Marshall's got nine. Uh,
Suddenly the hey a big deal. I thought the Pelicans
just roll over and die without without Zion, But it
looks like here they are actually open.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Mike, you know that's not really a threat, right, No,
I know, I it just.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
No, it does. It does. There's there's no question about
it for many reasons.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
But yes, elsewhere, and this is just another another piece
of evidence of how I don't want to say how
far this team is falling, because they're still really good,
but they're just not the same team. Sean Stewart today
became the seventh Duke player to enter the transfer ports
seven players transferring since the end of the season. Right,
(33:48):
this is a day after TJ Power decided to end
of the portal as well. They're losing their best couple
of players to the NBA. Philapowski's going to the NBA.
McCain are off to the NBA.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
They have two.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Players coming back from last season, two players now coming back. Yes,
they have a great recruiting class coming in, which is awesome, Right,
succeed and proceed, you know that's great, But you're looking
at Duke.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Where could you see this under.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Mike Krzyzewski Seven players, of course, not like you would
not see this, but Duke, this is just another bit
of evidence that they have just become another team. They're
no longer the great villains in college basketball. Nobody really
goes crazy. I want to see Duke play because I
want to see Duke lose. They're just another team. They've
lost their aura, they've lost their their their relevance as
(34:34):
far as what they used to be because Duke was
always the calling card in college basketball. It was the
calling card of the of the entire tournament. It was
always let's see how far they go? Can they win
it all? I hope they lose. And look, it's not
like they won every year. They would win a championship
every six or seven years. I've been to the Final
four a few years ago, and they're still really good, right,
(34:56):
It's not like they've they've fallen hard times. They're fifteen
and thirteen. No, they're still they're still a really good team.
But they're just it's just not the same. They're just
they're they're just another good team. They're like North Carolina
or Kansas. Whereas it was always Duke and the rest
of college basketball. Now it's okay, Duke is there as
one of the other really good teams, and if they're good,
that's great, and if they're not, that's fine. And if
(35:18):
Duke was in the Final four, it still wouldn't be
the same.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You wouldn't be the overall. Look, at Duke.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
This is a great throwback Final four and nobody, oh
Duke is in Okay, Yeah, Shire is a pretty good coach. Okay,
they've just lost that they they've lost that ara about
them and that's it's thanks for college basketball. But look again,
you're seeing it right now. Seven Duke players now in
the portal. They have two players coming back from last year.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, the curiosity is you know, I think this is
the the litmus test of the Shire era, Right is that? Okay,
you had some some solid players whatever. Now you're bringing
in Cooper Flag, Right, He's gonna take Jalen Brunson's slot
and keep him off the Olympic team, or at least
that's what some are hoping, that he has that Christian
Latner like effect without having done all the college work
(36:02):
before getting that job.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
And they've got a seven footer coming in right, seven
to one guy Malouk that you know chose them over powerhouses.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
But yeah, certainly for years with.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Duke, I mean, it was hate watching at its extreme
because you had coach k And let's face it, if
you weren't a Duke fan, what did you think of him?
He was a whiner? You and you and you're Beeheim
and Shryszewski. If you weren't one of those uh at
from one of those two schools, you always looked at
him and go, all right, I just I can't deal
with it because they're gonna do long soliloquies about these
(36:34):
guys and we're gonna watch him complain about every call
and that's what they do.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
But that's fine. But they were. He was a stalwart.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
He's there every year and back in the day, right
remember when they first started going to the one and Dune's,
it was Duke wasn't going down that road until they
were forced to. And now you know, you had guys
playing together three or four years, so there was the continuity,
which meant the opportunity for fans and casual viewers to
(37:00):
watch them and to get to know those names, something
we bemoan every year come the NCAA tournament. We don't
know any of these guys. Well, Duke, for better or
for worse, we always did. And now Shire's got to
figure out the new avenue, just like Caliperi and his
new digs, et cetera. Just strange new world.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah, I mean, look, they're not the Evil Empire anymore, right,
Like they're they're just another good team in college hoops,
Like like that's what they are, and it's stunning that
it happens that fast, But that's what they're.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Just another good team Stonehenge. It's crazy. No, No, they're
still they're still winning. At least they're not the Bulls.
They're winning anything.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
The winning exit albouta Fresca exit Swallen Dome. We'll have
more basketball coming up. How about some NBA Playoff Bold
predictions coming up next, Mike and I got them for
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