On today's episode, Jason reacts to Luka Doncic's incredible 45-point performance in his return to Dallas. Jason breaks down how Luka and LeBron's harmony is affirming the Lakers as a team to beat in the Western Conference playoffs. Jason discusses the rumors surrounding TJ Watt after a vague social media post, and looks at what a trade for the star may look like when compared to other edge rushers changing teams over the last couple years. Plus, it's yet another off-field incident for Tyreek Hill.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What is up straight fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre.
Street Fire for Thursday, April the tenth. It is a
glorious Thursday out here and Los Angeles, and not just
because the Lakers beat up on the MAVs thanks to
Luka Doncitz. Oh how spectacular was he forty five piece
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for the MAVs that has returned to Dallas. The Lakers
are now one went away from locking up the number
three seed in the West. Oh boy, I know you
guys are feeling it. This is gonna be a problem
for the West. And I don't think the market has
caught up with just how good the Lakers are. Folks.
I went to look because I'm trying to bet a
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buddy on OKC versus the Lakers. So this is according
to fan duel, Oklahoma City to win the West is
minus one forty five. So you bet one hundred and
forty five dollars, you win one hundred to win the West.
The Lakers are plus six fifty. What that's insanity. One
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hundred dollars bet on the Lakers wins you six to fifty. Wait,
the Warriors and Lakers are both plus six fifty. After
that it's the Nuggets and the paper Clips, then the Timberwolves.
I cannot believe how mispriced that is. Now again, I
think a lot of it has to do with stats,
and okay, see, and they put up ridiculous numbers there.
What are they? Twenty nine and one, I think against
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the East, and they've got fat and happy beaten like
I'm just talking curb stomping the Orlando Magics of the world.
You know, the the Toronto Raptors. They go beat those
guys by forty five and the point differentials inflated. The
numbers say, Oklahoma City is great, But I just keep
looking at this team and seeing like a Baltimore Raven's
regular season juggernaut that you get in the torture chamber. Yeah,
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I'm stealing torture chamber, Sorry, Lou Dort. You get in
that pressure cooker and it ain't the same as the
regular season, racing up and down, all your bench guys
are getting tons of minutes. I don't see it. We'll see.
I've been wrong before, it could be wrong again, But
I just don't see how the Lakers aren't goott into
the NBA Finals obviously. Now we're recording this late on
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Wednesday night, and I have to do that because I
got to get to bed early to wake up for
the herd Man. They meet me in there early for
the morning meeting. And there's actually some non NBA stuff
I'm gonna get to here shortly. I don't know if
you guys follow TJ. Watt on social media, but we'll
be talking about that shortly. But this Luca game, there's
so many layers to it. I don't want to go
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overboard and glaze Luca anymore that I need to glaze him.
But the bottom line is the Dallas Mavericks let Nico
Harrison make an awful decision. Truly one of the worst
trades in NBA history. Okay, for many years the Memphis
Grizzlies were just laughed at for handing pau Gasol to
the Lakers and Kobe instead of playing with you know,
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some much Parker and a bunch of bums Chris mim
and the like. He just pressed that upgrade button and
got pau Gasol and presto, Kobe's back into the finals.
You know, remember Kobe after Shack left, there were some
lean years there, you know, getting bounced in the first round.
Weak teammates, you know, and it was looking like it's
Kobe gonna win another one, you know, and he gets
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Pagasol and he's back on the winning track. The Dallas
Mavericks with Luka Doncic were set up, in my opinion,
to be hurtling towards I don't know, dynasty's probably too strong.
But once they had Kyrie and then you saw, oh,
Derek Lively, that guy's pretty good. And PJ. Washington clicked
with Luca, and you look at that roster and you're like, oh,
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we got some dudes. This this team's got something. And
I love their chances of in the finals last year.
I'm sure you guys remember it. They get to the finals,
I'm sure they couldn't get by Boston. But the message
was sent. Luca is freaking awesome, makes everyone around him better.
Kyrie is a great, great, great number two, and the
Mavericks are set up for the future. Their window with Luca,
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Kyrie and the supporting cast was like, okay, for the
next three years, they could they could be the team
to beat in the West. And Nico Harrison just calls
in audible and says I'm trading him now. I still
can't imagine what exactly was going through his head when
he's like, I'm just sick of this, Luca coming back
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every offseason out of shape. You know, he injures the
calf this year and he's slow to get back because
he's out of shape, he's fat. He's gonna be like
Anthony Bennett. Now, of course he's not gonna be like
Anthony Bennett, who was remember the number one pick and
then ate his way out of the league. We saw
this with Zion goes to New Orleans, can't put down
the tray of Beignet's. He's just just force fading himself.
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And these guys keep getting hurt because they're overweight. Now,
I hope I'm not chasing Luca, but he is looking
spry and healthy with the Lakers, and on him back
to back. Okay, they played in Okac last night. He
was ejected, still played thirty one minutes travels to Dallas,
obviously the emotional burden. He did say he got to
sleep in his bed, which was great. I'm happy he's home.
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Thirty eight minutes, sixteen of twenty eight, shooting seven of
ten on threes. That is ridiculous. He had forty five points,
eight boards, six assists. How about the four steals? How
about four steals for Luca donsons he's playing defense at
home and he was a plus twenty six. Kind of
robust there for Luca. Now, the interesting part is Dallas
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had actually taken the lead in the third quarter with
Luke on the bench. It was like Lebron Reeves. Awstim
Reves did not have a great game. He I mean
that guy went hard in Oka. See, Reeves was not
great last night. Lakers didn't shoot the three great Ruey
Ruey basically carried after Luca and the Lakers had lost
the lead, and I'm texting my buddies, Oh man, this
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would be a bad loss. You know, they got to
win this game because essentially the Lakers in the final
three games, they need to go two and one to
lock up the three seed. And then Luca comes in
instantly seven to nothing run, makes a circus reverse layup,
makes all the right passes. Dallas is dispirited and it's over,
and you know, Luca gave a press conference. I'm not
going to get into the crying during the tribute video
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that was pretty powerful imagery you know, I think we
could take away a couple of things. Number One, Luca
loved playing for the Mavericks. He loved it. He had
zero interest in leaving, And like that is crazy because
usually the stars want out now they have a star,
and they just shipped him without even asking him or
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even thinking how much he loved the city. He had
been in Dallas, I think six and a half seasons.
The guy's wearing a cowboy hat around town. It's just
he still stunning now obviously on not on the QT,
but Luca is looking at real estate out here. And
I happen to live kind of near the Lakers facility,
probably like an eight minute drive ten minutes, and Luca
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is looking in my little town area. It would be
awesome if he moved here. I would love to see
the main man, Luka Doncic. I mean he cuts a
large figure. What is he six eight two thirty, I
mean six seven Even if he's sixty seven two thirty,
that's still the size of like bigger than any height wise,
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bigger than any NFL player. And at two thirty five
two forty, maybe he's ballooned up to two vitia whatever
you want to say. The weight is that's like the
size of a a heavy in the box safety or
a or a linebacker. That's what you're looking at. I mean,
these basketball players are built different.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Man.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I think I've told you guys, I've got to know
Timo fay Mosgov a little bit. And uh, you know,
I saw him at the gym the other day and
he could you know, we're talking. Our kids actually go
to the same middle school. I didn't know that. And
he tells me, hey, you know he's got the thick
rushing exit. In fifteen minutes, let's go have a shooting contest.
We will shoot and rebound for each other. I was like,
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of course, I wanted to videotape it, but that felt
kind of nerdy, and I figured, well, this will happen
again because I see him frequently. He works out in
like the middle of the day. I mean he's there,
He's feel like he's at the gym all the time.
He's like a man about town because everybody knows him.
And then in like the middle of the contest, he
had struggled out of the gate, which was strange, and
it was mid range, which I suck at mid range
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and I haven't again since suffering that injury in the
basketball game. I haven't played any hoops. I've barely shot
a basketball, and so he was struggling. So he's like,
I got to take off my shirt. So he's there
shirtless playing basketball and I'm struggling. Then I finally start
to almost catch him. And then I had to go,
you know, pick up my kids from school, which is
what I do at any rate. A guy like Timova Muscow,
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you can't miss him. Okay, you can't miss him around town,
and he's a seven footer. You're not gonna miss Lukadanci.
If I'm an Air one and there's an air one
coming near me soon, I'm so excited. I've never been
to an air one. It's like one of these overpriced
grocery stores are like twenty dollars smoothies. If I see
Luca in there, I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to go
up and be like Luca. There's like three guys in
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the league that I would say, hey, man, I need
to pick bro It's Steph curriy Lebron, Luca. That's pretty
much it. I mean, no, just I love Jalen Brunson,
but I'm not like Jylen Brun said, you know, I
gotta get a photo, bro, That's just not my style.
I'm just a huge Luca fan. You guys know this.
I think I told this story. Preston Johnson just such
a good guy, really nice dude. He in like year
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two of Luca started to like look at the numbers,
and he was the one gassing him up to me, like, listen,
if he keeps this up, You're gonna be a top
ten player all time. And I'm like, bro, slow down.
He's like, I'm not even kidding. So then Luca gets
to the playoffs and like I think he went toe
to toe with Kawhi and Paul George and he had
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like the Clippers shook on the ropes by himself. This
was like super young Luca and that's why I started
to believe. And I just I've always been a huge fan,
and now that he's with the Lakers, of course, I'm
just like totally excited. And it's weird because I've never
seen a Lebron wingman or like one of his you know,
his number two, whether it's Wade, Kevin Love, Anthony Davis.
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Didn't he have another super team somewhere? Oh, Kyrie Irving. Yeah,
any of those guys I've I don't think I've ever
seen Lebron take like a legitimate backseat. And that's the
case with Luca because when he is cooking with the
step backs and the passes, he's I mean, he is
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the alpha and the Omega out there for the Lakers,
and Lebron is there as well, and Austin Reeves is
there as well. Austin Reeves, by the way, had a
phenomenal dunkback against the Maps. I'm sure you've seen the
highlight on IG. But just watching these two together and
I know it's the Mavericks and Jay, come on, can
you settle down? Naji Marshall and Caleb Martin are not
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stopping Luca. I get that, okay, fair enough, But the
idea that there's six fifty and the Oka see thunder
or plus money is just I find that downright comical.
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And I am a firm believer that a the Dallas
Mavericks will probably have to let go Nico Harrison. After
another year, I read a story saying that the Luca
trade is going to cost Dallas over like the next
several years nine figures. Apparently, the crowds are already shrinking,
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merchandise sales are cratering. Sponsors have bailed, like that's a
holy yikes. And you know this Board of Governor Guy Dumont,
who apparently Nico Harrison just called him, was like, yeah,
let's do this trade. They signed off on it, Like
I can you can you run a Board of Governor
Guy out of there? I don't know how that works,
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but folks, they showed on one of the local telecasts
because I saw this online. It was either the local
Dallas or the local Lakers telecast, but they the Lakers wisely.
So they're up by like ten and they call time out,
and it was pretty clear JJ Reddick had said, guys,
here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go back out
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there quick foul, and then we're gonna sub out Lucas
so we can get a standing ovation. I'm sure that's
how the huddle went. Lakers go back out Dallas and
bounds it instant foul. They sub out Luca audience is
standing ovation. Luca comes to the bench and Lebron and
all those guys are leading the cheers Luca, Luca and
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the stadium just call it crazy for Luca as he
checks out, and then came the fire Nico fire Nik
the whole arena. It wasn't just a handful of people.
It wasn't pockets, this was the whole arena, basically saying
this GM is a bumbling clown. And the local TV
station it was either Dallas or La. I'm not sure
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cut they found Nico. He was like standing in the tunnel,
looking like he was on the Green Mile, like it
was over. I mean he just standing stoneface, nobody talking
to him. I mean, you would want to feel bad,
but he brought this on himself trading Luka doncis Now
there may be a fleeting moment next year, I don't know,
after the All Star break when Kyrie and Ad are
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cooking and the MAVs win like nine of ten. Oh
my gosh, this is what the maps could have been, folks.
I just want to remind you Kyrie's always hurt. Eighties,
always hurt. Always. They have played together since the trade
for a total of twenty five minutes and again Kyrie
was great playing off Luca. Kyrie's now going to be
the guy working with Ad. I'm sure there will be
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flashes of greatness and some moments of awesomeness, but I
would say the Lakers have a better chance to get
to the finals than the Mavericks can even get to
Round two next year when everybody's healthy. That's how much
faith I have in Luca and Lebron, and I just
I don't know how you can't get excited. I did
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say on the Herd Wednesday, and a lot of people
got upset with me that the Lakers are the villains
of the NBA now that everybody's rooting against Luca, everybody's
rooting against Lebron. They're whiny. They could play in the
yell at revs and wait, why the hell would the
Lakers get gifted Luca doncis. That's not fair. Everybody already
doesn't like the Lakers to begin with. Like, let's be
realng nobody hates the Celtics. They don't really have an identity.
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They won the championship, but like Jason Tatum, like okay,
Jalen Brown, But these guys aren't like Luca and Lebron
where they're larger than life figures like global. Like I
love Tatum. I mean he barely played in the Olympics.
He's not a global basketball figure. Luca is Lebron is
I mean you could go to I don't know Bulgaria,
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and I'm sure there are people know who know who
Luka Doncic is there You think they know Jason Tatum?
I would guess no, not a chance. So anyways, Lakers role.
They now need one win in their final two games
against Houston and against Portland. Now this is why I
mentioned Houston. They decided we're gonna power down our stars
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and this is their starting lineup for a game Wednesday
night against the paper Clips. Tari Easton. I'm telling you
I like Easton a lot. Cam Whitmore, rookie out of
Villanova or second year guy at of Villanova. Jack Landale
played at Saint Mary's Jalen Green. Maybe that was just
so he can hopefully qualify for some award.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
And then read Shepherd, the rookie from Kentucky who looked okay,
but again they just got they had no chance against
the Clippers, who are trying now Kawhi, James Harden, you
know most of their core guys, Zubak, who's just on
an absolute tear. So it's very clear that the Rockets
are not in rest everybody mode, and maybe they play
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a couple guys for a few minutes against the Lakers,
but there's also a role where there's just like, you know,
we our guys need some rest, and they don't really
play everybody else. Shongoon, Fred van Vliet, Dylan Brooks did
no risk for an injury, no risk for technicals, whatever.
So the Lakers could if they beat the Rockets, wrap
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it up. They don't need to play anybody against Portland.
They've got the three. Where it gets interesting is who
are they gonna play? And as I look at the
standings now, they would play six and that's either gonna
be the paper Clips, the Nuggets, the Warriors, maybe the Grizzlies,
maybe the Timberwolves, and we're not going to know until
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probably the final game of the season. Now, I probably
should let you guys know I am taking a little hiatus.
Coward was out this week, I'm out next week, so
I won't be able to drop any NBA podcast leading
into the playoffs. Don't. Maybe I'll have to make my
predictions tomorrow, but that how can you do that without
knowing the brackets kind of sort of stinks. Anyways, shout
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out to Luca. I'm really happy for him. I just quick.
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Really wanted to touch on this these two NFL stories.
Number one is I don't know if you guys follow
TJ Watt on the gram, but I guess he's in
the middle of some ugly contract situation and TJ Watt
decided to post just a picture of him flashing the
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deuces running off the field. That's it. No context. Now,
I did some digging into this. He's entering the final
year of a one hundred and twelve million dollar extension
that he signed in twenty one. Obviously, you don't want
to enter the final year without an extension because if
you get injured, you're screwed. TJ Watt's thirty turns thirty
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one in October wants a new deal. My read is
that this is him playing the game that Kyler Murray
did that, Matt Stafford, all these guys. Basically, I'm gonna
try to use social media to leverage my fans to
then go at Pittsburgh and be like, we gotta sign TJ.
What we gotta keep him? His base salary for next
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year is only twenty one million dollars. Now, obviously that's
a massive amount of money. However, for TJ. Watt, one
of the best ad rushers in the league, that's nothing.
I mean, it's tough to find exact numbers of what
they're making because a lot of it is like, for instance,
Miles Garrett sal next season, Okay, bay salary one point
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twenty five million. You're like, wait a second, how Wat's
at twenty one Well, Miles Garrett converted twenty one million
of it, twenty one to five million of it to
a signing bonus, which helps the salary cap. Then he
has a workout bonus that's tossed in, right, And if
you look at Max Crosby, Miles Garrett, Bosa sorry, Nick Bosa,
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Brian Burns, they're all higher paid than TJ Watt. TJ
Watt is making, yes, he's gonna be making just to
actually he's making like fifty thousand more than Montes Sweat
of the Bears. Like that's comical. TJ. Watt is elite.
He was the defensive player of that led the league
in sacks two years ago. Rashawn Gary of the Packers,
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I know he's a little below at like sixteen Danelle
Hunter of the Texans nineteen million, Like should he really
be on the tail of TJ. Watt? Josh Allen, sorry,
Josh Hines Allen of the Jags, good ed Rusher solid
thirty two million, five hundred next year. I'm just I'm
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certain that Watt looked at that and it was like,
screw it. That doesn't sound right. I'm not down with that.
I don't know how they rectify this. And one of
my favorite lines is cause if you guys remember at
last summer, I said, when I was hosting the Herd
for Cowherd that the Steelers should trade TJ. Watt, get
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a haul and start the rebuild. Okay, And of course
Pittsburgh comes out of the gates hot fields as solid.
Then Russell Wilson plays good, and all I get all
the time is, look at this idiot. He said they
should trade TJ. Watt. We're dominating, and I'm like, just wait,
just chill. And of course they fell apart as usual
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and lose in the playoffs. And now they've done Russell
Wilson and they don't have Justin Fields and they're waiting
on Aaron Rodgers. And I wasn't wrong on the idea
of trading TJ. Watt. I was just early right. I
wasn't wrong. I was just early because now here we
are a year later and they can't come to an
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agreement with Watt. I'm sure they ultimately will, but they
can't right now. Watt's probably asking for the sun, moon
and stars because it's going to be his last big contract,
and the Steelers are like, no, we're not winning anything
with you now. Another line that's a favorite of mine
is you know when the best time to rebuild is
last year? It's like, do you know when the best
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time was to invest in the market a year ago?
You know what the best time was to plant that
tree a year ago? And I just feel like holding
onto Watt does nothing for them. I know he's a
icon in the city and everybody has his jerseys, but
this ain't trading Luka Doncics guys, Okay, this is an
edge rusher who is on the other side of thirty
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and the defense is starting to show leaks. They still
don't have a quarterback. I would if I mean again,
it's not gonna happen, but I would certainly consider moving
off What and trying to get one of those top
five picks and get a quarterback if I was Pittsburgh. Now,
that's not gonna happen. It just won't. Plus they waited
too long trading What. Now whoever deals for him has
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to sign him, pay him, and give up a pick.
No way, not gonna happen, So it's worth monitoring. I'm
sure it will get sorted out. The NBA is vastly
different than the NFL when it comes to this. Usually
the players end up just sticking around. But I think
ultimately somebody's gonna have to somewhere be like yo, I
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think we got to move off of him now. It's
not gonna be popular, and the Chargers probably waited a
little long to move off their Bosa, but that's really
what the smart teams will do. It's a tough decision,
but make the move sooner than later. You know, if
you're Pittsburgh. I think they waited too long. There was
one other NFL topic I wanted to talk about. Oh oh,
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this Tyreek Kill thing. I'm sure you guys saw this.
So we all know Tyreek Hill's kind of sort of
a crazy person. So police were called to the home
of Tyreek Hill and his wife. No chargers were filed.
But that's like a horrible situation because now all the
details come out. So it turns out the guy's wife
had his mother or had her mother. I'm sorry Tyreek
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Kill's wife, Tyree Kills. The mother in law called the
police and said, I'm afraid for my daughter. So the
police show up. Apparently they were doing couple's therapy. It
wasn't working, and she was filing for divorce. So according
to TMZ, Hill was served divorce papers. And it sounds
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like this is just another disaster for Tyreek Hill. This
is a gentleman with I've lost track of how many
kids he has, but I believe it's something like six
eight kids with six women or some insane number. And listen,
there's nothing wrong with that. You know, a lot of
people want to do that. Elon Musk likes to do that.
That's fine. But if I'm an NFL team and i'm
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and I'm paying Tyreek Kill a ton of money. And
he has numerous off field incidents since he's been with
the Dolphins, and this article outlines all of them, and
it's like, my gosh, it's one thing after another. The
guy can't get his life in order off the field.
That makes it tough for him to get his act
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together on the field because he's going to be distracted.
I'll just read off a couple of the incidents humor me.
In twenty three, Tyreek Kill was investigated after assaulting an
employee at a marine center. He paid the guy off,
so it was like no jail time or anything. He
is the defendant in a civil lawsuit from an influencer
named Sophie Hall, who alleged Hill broke her leg when
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she visited his house. I guess she playing Tyreek Hill
was frustrated by her holding her own during football drills
and Tyree Hill's backyard and caused the fracture with a
physical play. Tyreek Keil says, she tripped over the dog.
This is your wide receiver. There was, of course, the
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incident before the season opener against the Jags, where the
police detained him. You know, again, I ain't defending those cops.
I don't know them. But if you watch a video,
Tyreek Hill is not totally without fault there. Okay, he
was a big time jerk when the police rolled up,
and it's like listen, man, I know you're in front
the arena and you're in your sick car, but like
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he wouldn't roll down the window like I mean, I
don't know. Again, Tyreek Hill is just a lot to handle.
He was not very good last season. He pulled himself
out of their season finale in January. He said he
wanted to play elsewhere. The guy's just a lot to handle.
If you're two and Mike McDaniel, I don't know why
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you don't want to move off of them. You kind
of just move on. I mean, you're gonna be down
a superstar receiver, But do you need that headache? What's
it worth? I mean, you know, on my men's rec
league teams, I don't want to deal with headaches. I
don't even want anybody who's like a jerk. If you're
not a nice guy, I don't care how good you are,
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I don't want you on our team. It's not fun,
and so I don't understand why the Dolphins keep putting
up with this stuff, but Tyreek Hill, TJ Watt, Luka,
Doncis that's a damn good podcast. Back tomorrow
This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What is up straight fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre.
Street Fire for Thursday, April the tenth. It is a
glorious Thursday out here and Los Angeles, and not just
because the Lakers beat up on the MAVs thanks to
Luka Doncitz. Oh how spectacular was he forty five piece
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for the MAVs that has returned to Dallas. The Lakers
are now one went away from locking up the number
three seed in the West. Oh boy, I know you
guys are feeling it. This is gonna be a problem
for the West. And I don't think the market has
caught up with just how good the Lakers are. Folks.
I went to look because I'm trying to bet a
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buddy on OKC versus the Lakers. So this is according
to fan duel, Oklahoma City to win the West is
minus one forty five. So you bet one hundred and
forty five dollars, you win one hundred to win the West.
The Lakers are plus six fifty. What that's insanity. One
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hundred dollars bet on the Lakers wins you six to fifty. Wait,
the Warriors and Lakers are both plus six fifty. After
that it's the Nuggets and the paper Clips, then the Timberwolves.
I cannot believe how mispriced that is. Now again, I
think a lot of it has to do with stats,
and okay, see, and they put up ridiculous numbers there.
What are they? Twenty nine and one, I think against
(01:42):
the East, and they've got fat and happy beaten like
I'm just talking curb stomping the Orlando Magics of the world.
You know, the the Toronto Raptors. They go beat those
guys by forty five and the point differentials inflated. The
numbers say, Oklahoma City is great, But I just keep
looking at this team and seeing like a Baltimore Raven's
regular season juggernaut that you get in the torture chamber. Yeah,
(02:05):
I'm stealing torture chamber, Sorry, Lou Dort. You get in
that pressure cooker and it ain't the same as the
regular season, racing up and down, all your bench guys
are getting tons of minutes. I don't see it. We'll see.
I've been wrong before, it could be wrong again, But
I just don't see how the Lakers aren't goott into
the NBA Finals obviously. Now we're recording this late on
(02:27):
Wednesday night, and I have to do that because I
got to get to bed early to wake up for
the herd Man. They meet me in there early for
the morning meeting. And there's actually some non NBA stuff
I'm gonna get to here shortly. I don't know if
you guys follow TJ. Watt on social media, but we'll
be talking about that shortly. But this Luca game, there's
so many layers to it. I don't want to go
(02:48):
overboard and glaze Luca anymore that I need to glaze him.
But the bottom line is the Dallas Mavericks let Nico
Harrison make an awful decision. Truly one of the worst
trades in NBA history. Okay, for many years the Memphis
Grizzlies were just laughed at for handing pau Gasol to
the Lakers and Kobe instead of playing with you know,
(03:11):
some much Parker and a bunch of bums Chris mim
and the like. He just pressed that upgrade button and
got pau Gasol and presto, Kobe's back into the finals.
You know, remember Kobe after Shack left, there were some
lean years there, you know, getting bounced in the first round.
Weak teammates, you know, and it was looking like it's
Kobe gonna win another one, you know, and he gets
(03:33):
Pagasol and he's back on the winning track. The Dallas
Mavericks with Luka Doncic were set up, in my opinion,
to be hurtling towards I don't know, dynasty's probably too strong.
But once they had Kyrie and then you saw, oh,
Derek Lively, that guy's pretty good. And PJ. Washington clicked
with Luca, and you look at that roster and you're like, oh,
(03:54):
we got some dudes. This this team's got something. And
I love their chances of in the finals last year.
I'm sure you guys remember it. They get to the finals,
I'm sure they couldn't get by Boston. But the message
was sent. Luca is freaking awesome, makes everyone around him better.
Kyrie is a great, great, great number two, and the
Mavericks are set up for the future. Their window with Luca,
(04:17):
Kyrie and the supporting cast was like, okay, for the
next three years, they could they could be the team
to beat in the West. And Nico Harrison just calls
in audible and says I'm trading him now. I still
can't imagine what exactly was going through his head when
he's like, I'm just sick of this, Luca coming back
(04:40):
every offseason out of shape. You know, he injures the
calf this year and he's slow to get back because
he's out of shape, he's fat. He's gonna be like
Anthony Bennett. Now, of course he's not gonna be like
Anthony Bennett, who was remember the number one pick and
then ate his way out of the league. We saw
this with Zion goes to New Orleans, can't put down
the tray of Beignet's. He's just just force fading himself.
(05:01):
And these guys keep getting hurt because they're overweight. Now,
I hope I'm not chasing Luca, but he is looking
spry and healthy with the Lakers, and on him back
to back. Okay, they played in Okac last night. He
was ejected, still played thirty one minutes travels to Dallas,
obviously the emotional burden. He did say he got to
sleep in his bed, which was great. I'm happy he's home.
(05:24):
Thirty eight minutes, sixteen of twenty eight, shooting seven of
ten on threes. That is ridiculous. He had forty five points,
eight boards, six assists. How about the four steals? How
about four steals for Luca donsons he's playing defense at
home and he was a plus twenty six. Kind of
robust there for Luca. Now, the interesting part is Dallas
(05:46):
had actually taken the lead in the third quarter with
Luke on the bench. It was like Lebron Reeves. Awstim
Reves did not have a great game. He I mean
that guy went hard in Oka. See, Reeves was not
great last night. Lakers didn't shoot the three great Ruey
Ruey basically carried after Luca and the Lakers had lost
the lead, and I'm texting my buddies, Oh man, this
(06:09):
would be a bad loss. You know, they got to
win this game because essentially the Lakers in the final
three games, they need to go two and one to
lock up the three seed. And then Luca comes in
instantly seven to nothing run, makes a circus reverse layup,
makes all the right passes. Dallas is dispirited and it's over,
and you know, Luca gave a press conference. I'm not
going to get into the crying during the tribute video
(06:30):
that was pretty powerful imagery you know, I think we
could take away a couple of things. Number One, Luca
loved playing for the Mavericks. He loved it. He had
zero interest in leaving, And like that is crazy because
usually the stars want out now they have a star,
and they just shipped him without even asking him or
(06:51):
even thinking how much he loved the city. He had
been in Dallas, I think six and a half seasons.
The guy's wearing a cowboy hat around town. It's just
he still stunning now obviously on not on the QT,
but Luca is looking at real estate out here. And
I happen to live kind of near the Lakers facility,
probably like an eight minute drive ten minutes, and Luca
(07:11):
is looking in my little town area. It would be
awesome if he moved here. I would love to see
the main man, Luka Doncic. I mean he cuts a
large figure. What is he six eight two thirty, I
mean six seven Even if he's sixty seven two thirty,
that's still the size of like bigger than any height wise,
(07:31):
bigger than any NFL player. And at two thirty five
two forty, maybe he's ballooned up to two vitia whatever
you want to say. The weight is that's like the
size of a a heavy in the box safety or
a or a linebacker. That's what you're looking at. I mean,
these basketball players are built different.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Man.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I think I've told you guys, I've got to know
Timo fay Mosgov a little bit. And uh, you know,
I saw him at the gym the other day and
he could you know, we're talking. Our kids actually go
to the same middle school. I didn't know that. And
he tells me, hey, you know he's got the thick
rushing exit. In fifteen minutes, let's go have a shooting contest.
We will shoot and rebound for each other. I was like,
(08:09):
of course, I wanted to videotape it, but that felt
kind of nerdy, and I figured, well, this will happen
again because I see him frequently. He works out in
like the middle of the day. I mean he's there,
He's feel like he's at the gym all the time.
He's like a man about town because everybody knows him.
And then in like the middle of the contest, he
had struggled out of the gate, which was strange, and
it was mid range, which I suck at mid range
(08:30):
and I haven't again since suffering that injury in the
basketball game. I haven't played any hoops. I've barely shot
a basketball, and so he was struggling. So he's like,
I got to take off my shirt. So he's there
shirtless playing basketball and I'm struggling. Then I finally start
to almost catch him. And then I had to go,
you know, pick up my kids from school, which is
what I do at any rate. A guy like Timova Muscow,
(08:52):
you can't miss him. Okay, you can't miss him around town,
and he's a seven footer. You're not gonna miss Lukadanci.
If I'm an Air one and there's an air one
coming near me soon, I'm so excited. I've never been
to an air one. It's like one of these overpriced
grocery stores are like twenty dollars smoothies. If I see
Luca in there, I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to go
up and be like Luca. There's like three guys in
(09:13):
the league that I would say, hey, man, I need
to pick bro It's Steph curriy Lebron, Luca. That's pretty
much it. I mean, no, just I love Jalen Brunson,
but I'm not like Jylen Brun said, you know, I
gotta get a photo, bro, That's just not my style.
I'm just a huge Luca fan. You guys know this.
I think I told this story. Preston Johnson just such
a good guy, really nice dude. He in like year
(09:37):
two of Luca started to like look at the numbers,
and he was the one gassing him up to me, like, listen,
if he keeps this up, You're gonna be a top
ten player all time. And I'm like, bro, slow down.
He's like, I'm not even kidding. So then Luca gets
to the playoffs and like I think he went toe
to toe with Kawhi and Paul George and he had
(10:00):
like the Clippers shook on the ropes by himself. This
was like super young Luca and that's why I started
to believe. And I just I've always been a huge fan,
and now that he's with the Lakers, of course, I'm
just like totally excited. And it's weird because I've never
seen a Lebron wingman or like one of his you know,
his number two, whether it's Wade, Kevin Love, Anthony Davis.
(10:24):
Didn't he have another super team somewhere? Oh, Kyrie Irving. Yeah,
any of those guys I've I don't think I've ever
seen Lebron take like a legitimate backseat. And that's the
case with Luca because when he is cooking with the
step backs and the passes, he's I mean, he is
(10:45):
the alpha and the Omega out there for the Lakers,
and Lebron is there as well, and Austin Reeves is
there as well. Austin Reeves, by the way, had a
phenomenal dunkback against the Maps. I'm sure you've seen the
highlight on IG. But just watching these two together and
I know it's the Mavericks and Jay, come on, can
you settle down? Naji Marshall and Caleb Martin are not
(11:06):
stopping Luca. I get that, okay, fair enough, But the
idea that there's six fifty and the Oka see thunder
or plus money is just I find that downright comical.
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And I am a firm believer that a the Dallas
Mavericks will probably have to let go Nico Harrison. After
another year, I read a story saying that the Luca
trade is going to cost Dallas over like the next
several years nine figures. Apparently, the crowds are already shrinking,
(11:53):
merchandise sales are cratering. Sponsors have bailed, like that's a
holy yikes. And you know this Board of Governor Guy Dumont,
who apparently Nico Harrison just called him, was like, yeah,
let's do this trade. They signed off on it, Like
I can you can you run a Board of Governor
Guy out of there? I don't know how that works,
(12:14):
but folks, they showed on one of the local telecasts
because I saw this online. It was either the local
Dallas or the local Lakers telecast, but they the Lakers wisely.
So they're up by like ten and they call time out,
and it was pretty clear JJ Reddick had said, guys,
here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go back out
(12:35):
there quick foul, and then we're gonna sub out Lucas
so we can get a standing ovation. I'm sure that's
how the huddle went. Lakers go back out Dallas and
bounds it instant foul. They sub out Luca audience is
standing ovation. Luca comes to the bench and Lebron and
all those guys are leading the cheers Luca, Luca and
(12:56):
the stadium just call it crazy for Luca as he
checks out, and then came the fire Nico fire Nik
the whole arena. It wasn't just a handful of people.
It wasn't pockets, this was the whole arena, basically saying
this GM is a bumbling clown. And the local TV
station it was either Dallas or La. I'm not sure
(13:17):
cut they found Nico. He was like standing in the tunnel,
looking like he was on the Green Mile, like it
was over. I mean he just standing stoneface, nobody talking
to him. I mean, you would want to feel bad,
but he brought this on himself trading Luka doncis Now
there may be a fleeting moment next year, I don't know,
after the All Star break when Kyrie and Ad are
(13:39):
cooking and the MAVs win like nine of ten. Oh
my gosh, this is what the maps could have been, folks.
I just want to remind you Kyrie's always hurt. Eighties,
always hurt. Always. They have played together since the trade
for a total of twenty five minutes and again Kyrie
was great playing off Luca. Kyrie's now going to be
the guy working with Ad. I'm sure there will be
(14:03):
flashes of greatness and some moments of awesomeness, but I
would say the Lakers have a better chance to get
to the finals than the Mavericks can even get to
Round two next year when everybody's healthy. That's how much
faith I have in Luca and Lebron, and I just
I don't know how you can't get excited. I did
(14:24):
say on the Herd Wednesday, and a lot of people
got upset with me that the Lakers are the villains
of the NBA now that everybody's rooting against Luca, everybody's
rooting against Lebron. They're whiny. They could play in the
yell at revs and wait, why the hell would the
Lakers get gifted Luca doncis. That's not fair. Everybody already
doesn't like the Lakers to begin with. Like, let's be
realng nobody hates the Celtics. They don't really have an identity.
(14:47):
They won the championship, but like Jason Tatum, like okay,
Jalen Brown, But these guys aren't like Luca and Lebron
where they're larger than life figures like global. Like I
love Tatum. I mean he barely played in the Olympics.
He's not a global basketball figure. Luca is Lebron is
I mean you could go to I don't know Bulgaria,
(15:12):
and I'm sure there are people know who know who
Luka Doncic is there You think they know Jason Tatum?
I would guess no, not a chance. So anyways, Lakers role.
They now need one win in their final two games
against Houston and against Portland. Now this is why I
mentioned Houston. They decided we're gonna power down our stars
(15:34):
and this is their starting lineup for a game Wednesday
night against the paper Clips. Tari Easton. I'm telling you
I like Easton a lot. Cam Whitmore, rookie out of
Villanova or second year guy at of Villanova. Jack Landale
played at Saint Mary's Jalen Green. Maybe that was just
so he can hopefully qualify for some award.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
And then read Shepherd, the rookie from Kentucky who looked okay,
but again they just got they had no chance against
the Clippers, who are trying now Kawhi, James Harden, you
know most of their core guys, Zubak, who's just on
an absolute tear. So it's very clear that the Rockets
are not in rest everybody mode, and maybe they play
(16:14):
a couple guys for a few minutes against the Lakers,
but there's also a role where there's just like, you know,
we our guys need some rest, and they don't really
play everybody else. Shongoon, Fred van Vliet, Dylan Brooks did
no risk for an injury, no risk for technicals, whatever.
So the Lakers could if they beat the Rockets, wrap
(16:34):
it up. They don't need to play anybody against Portland.
They've got the three. Where it gets interesting is who
are they gonna play? And as I look at the
standings now, they would play six and that's either gonna
be the paper Clips, the Nuggets, the Warriors, maybe the Grizzlies,
maybe the Timberwolves, and we're not going to know until
(16:59):
probably the final game of the season. Now, I probably
should let you guys know I am taking a little hiatus.
Coward was out this week, I'm out next week, so
I won't be able to drop any NBA podcast leading
into the playoffs. Don't. Maybe I'll have to make my
predictions tomorrow, but that how can you do that without
knowing the brackets kind of sort of stinks. Anyways, shout
(17:21):
out to Luca. I'm really happy for him. I just quick.
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Really wanted to touch on this these two NFL stories.
Number one is I don't know if you guys follow
TJ Watt on the gram, but I guess he's in
the middle of some ugly contract situation and TJ Watt
decided to post just a picture of him flashing the
(17:56):
deuces running off the field. That's it. No context. Now,
I did some digging into this. He's entering the final
year of a one hundred and twelve million dollar extension
that he signed in twenty one. Obviously, you don't want
to enter the final year without an extension because if
you get injured, you're screwed. TJ Watt's thirty turns thirty
(18:17):
one in October wants a new deal. My read is
that this is him playing the game that Kyler Murray
did that, Matt Stafford, all these guys. Basically, I'm gonna
try to use social media to leverage my fans to
then go at Pittsburgh and be like, we gotta sign TJ.
What we gotta keep him? His base salary for next
(18:38):
year is only twenty one million dollars. Now, obviously that's
a massive amount of money. However, for TJ. Watt, one
of the best ad rushers in the league, that's nothing.
I mean, it's tough to find exact numbers of what
they're making because a lot of it is like, for instance,
Miles Garrett sal next season, Okay, bay salary one point
(19:02):
twenty five million. You're like, wait a second, how Wat's
at twenty one Well, Miles Garrett converted twenty one million
of it, twenty one to five million of it to
a signing bonus, which helps the salary cap. Then he
has a workout bonus that's tossed in, right, And if
you look at Max Crosby, Miles Garrett, Bosa sorry, Nick Bosa,
(19:26):
Brian Burns, they're all higher paid than TJ Watt. TJ
Watt is making, yes, he's gonna be making just to
actually he's making like fifty thousand more than Montes Sweat
of the Bears. Like that's comical. TJ. Watt is elite.
He was the defensive player of that led the league
in sacks two years ago. Rashawn Gary of the Packers,
(19:48):
I know he's a little below at like sixteen Danelle
Hunter of the Texans nineteen million, Like should he really
be on the tail of TJ. Watt? Josh Allen, sorry,
Josh Hines Allen of the Jags, good ed Rusher solid
thirty two million, five hundred next year. I'm just I'm
(20:09):
certain that Watt looked at that and it was like,
screw it. That doesn't sound right. I'm not down with that.
I don't know how they rectify this. And one of
my favorite lines is cause if you guys remember at
last summer, I said, when I was hosting the Herd
for Cowherd that the Steelers should trade TJ. Watt, get
(20:33):
a haul and start the rebuild. Okay, And of course
Pittsburgh comes out of the gates hot fields as solid.
Then Russell Wilson plays good, and all I get all
the time is, look at this idiot. He said they
should trade TJ. Watt. We're dominating, and I'm like, just wait,
just chill. And of course they fell apart as usual
(20:53):
and lose in the playoffs. And now they've done Russell
Wilson and they don't have Justin Fields and they're waiting
on Aaron Rodgers. And I wasn't wrong on the idea
of trading TJ. Watt. I was just early right. I
wasn't wrong. I was just early because now here we
are a year later and they can't come to an
(21:13):
agreement with Watt. I'm sure they ultimately will, but they
can't right now. Watt's probably asking for the sun, moon
and stars because it's going to be his last big contract,
and the Steelers are like, no, we're not winning anything
with you now. Another line that's a favorite of mine
is you know when the best time to rebuild is
last year? It's like, do you know when the best
(21:33):
time was to invest in the market a year ago?
You know what the best time was to plant that
tree a year ago? And I just feel like holding
onto Watt does nothing for them. I know he's a
icon in the city and everybody has his jerseys, but
this ain't trading Luka Doncics guys, Okay, this is an
edge rusher who is on the other side of thirty
(21:56):
and the defense is starting to show leaks. They still
don't have a quarterback. I would if I mean again,
it's not gonna happen, but I would certainly consider moving
off What and trying to get one of those top
five picks and get a quarterback if I was Pittsburgh. Now,
that's not gonna happen. It just won't. Plus they waited
too long trading What. Now whoever deals for him has
(22:19):
to sign him, pay him, and give up a pick.
No way, not gonna happen, So it's worth monitoring. I'm
sure it will get sorted out. The NBA is vastly
different than the NFL when it comes to this. Usually
the players end up just sticking around. But I think
ultimately somebody's gonna have to somewhere be like yo, I
(22:40):
think we got to move off of him now. It's
not gonna be popular, and the Chargers probably waited a
little long to move off their Bosa, but that's really
what the smart teams will do. It's a tough decision,
but make the move sooner than later. You know, if
you're Pittsburgh. I think they waited too long. There was
one other NFL topic I wanted to talk about. Oh oh,
(23:02):
this Tyreek Kill thing. I'm sure you guys saw this.
So we all know Tyreek Hill's kind of sort of
a crazy person. So police were called to the home
of Tyreek Hill and his wife. No chargers were filed.
But that's like a horrible situation because now all the
details come out. So it turns out the guy's wife
had his mother or had her mother. I'm sorry Tyreek
(23:25):
Kill's wife, Tyree Kills. The mother in law called the
police and said, I'm afraid for my daughter. So the
police show up. Apparently they were doing couple's therapy. It
wasn't working, and she was filing for divorce. So according
to TMZ, Hill was served divorce papers. And it sounds
(23:46):
like this is just another disaster for Tyreek Hill. This
is a gentleman with I've lost track of how many
kids he has, but I believe it's something like six
eight kids with six women or some insane number. And listen,
there's nothing wrong with that. You know, a lot of
people want to do that. Elon Musk likes to do that.
That's fine. But if I'm an NFL team and i'm
(24:12):
and I'm paying Tyreek Kill a ton of money. And
he has numerous off field incidents since he's been with
the Dolphins, and this article outlines all of them, and
it's like, my gosh, it's one thing after another. The
guy can't get his life in order off the field.
That makes it tough for him to get his act
(24:32):
together on the field because he's going to be distracted.
I'll just read off a couple of the incidents humor me.
In twenty three, Tyreek Kill was investigated after assaulting an
employee at a marine center. He paid the guy off,
so it was like no jail time or anything. He
is the defendant in a civil lawsuit from an influencer
named Sophie Hall, who alleged Hill broke her leg when
(24:55):
she visited his house. I guess she playing Tyreek Hill
was frustrated by her holding her own during football drills
and Tyree Hill's backyard and caused the fracture with a
physical play. Tyreek Keil says, she tripped over the dog.
This is your wide receiver. There was, of course, the
(25:16):
incident before the season opener against the Jags, where the
police detained him. You know, again, I ain't defending those cops.
I don't know them. But if you watch a video,
Tyreek Hill is not totally without fault there. Okay, he
was a big time jerk when the police rolled up,
and it's like listen, man, I know you're in front
the arena and you're in your sick car, but like
(25:38):
he wouldn't roll down the window like I mean, I
don't know. Again, Tyreek Hill is just a lot to handle.
He was not very good last season. He pulled himself
out of their season finale in January. He said he
wanted to play elsewhere. The guy's just a lot to handle.
If you're two and Mike McDaniel, I don't know why
(25:58):
you don't want to move off of them. You kind
of just move on. I mean, you're gonna be down
a superstar receiver, But do you need that headache? What's
it worth? I mean, you know, on my men's rec
league teams, I don't want to deal with headaches. I
don't even want anybody who's like a jerk. If you're
not a nice guy, I don't care how good you are,
(26:19):
I don't want you on our team. It's not fun,
and so I don't understand why the Dolphins keep putting
up with this stuff, but Tyreek Hill, TJ Watt, Luka,
Doncis that's a damn good podcast. Back tomorrow
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