November 24, 2025 • 15 mins
Brandon Kravitz from 96.9 The Game stops by to talk sports, including Shedeur Sanders and the Browns' win over the Raiders, the LA Rams being the best team in the NFL right now, before moving on to the Orlando Magic falling to the Celtics, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Colbert Crew.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Colbert Crew, love blessings, I know, yeah, man, That's why
I'm big up everybody first and foremost. Just remember Jamaica
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or whatever you know. But anyhow, Debra, Jim and I'm familia.
Please let them know there is no such thing as
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a ten dollars pound. Teach him how currency works, please
ten pound note.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
You know what I'm talking about. Why do you waste
your time? Jesus, you know what I'm saying. You just
know how bad I am at it? All right, Welcome back?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
What does it do?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Cobert Crew? You don't know who. I just came back
from Public's got thirty six eggs and I got a.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Jim Cobert double egg recipe, ready.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
To blow minds. Load them.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Don't forget the butter dogs. That's the magic, all right,
Welcome back. I'm Jim.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
There's dead Hello, Jack Sauce yea every single Monday, which
we forgot about right before we teased Ross's uh bit,
because Ross is usually not here on Mondays, here on Tuesdays?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You know, I.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That's not Ross. Hold up?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
What Brandon Kravitz here with sports guys? Yeah, what's up, guys.
My visit presented by wing House. Great food beautifully served
Monday is always vibe. Go and give you burger beer
side of Winghouse charm.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah that's nice. I love wings Man. I have that
Winghouse wings in a minute, They're good.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Listen, We're about to load up on some bird on Thursday.
So's a nice little primer. Yeah, I start priming the bird.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I was.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I've been off the air the last thirty minutes because
we we had some technical issues. Oh, we did have
technical issues. Is just a scheduling conflict. Yeah. We do
a lot of play by play broadcasting on ninety six
nine in the game. So I've been patiently waiting for
thirty minutes. Now. Had I known that you forgot about
my visit, I'd be halfway down I four right now.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
But you would not because it's blocked.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, you're right. The traffic it really is. It is
not advantageous to get out early. Is somebody that every
once in a while our show is off at five
point thirty and not six, and it's getting home. It's
no different. Yeah, it is no different.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, it's like the Truman Show and somebody's like, uh,
at this, at this point, there's like everybody is on
the road, and five minutes later nobody is on the road.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
He's leaving now everyone. Yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Exactly what a big NFL weekend.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Yeah, big time. We're gonna start with Shador Sanders.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You want to end with no, let's gohead and start
with him.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I mean, it's so I do find it interesting that,
you know, he had a bad week when his debut,
he had a much better week this week, and then
he's like flexing already. I'm like, dude, you're two games in,
chill out, like you had a pretty good game against
the Raiders. Maybe you should relax a little bit and
let's see something else, because you still looked.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
A little It wasn't still all that great. They're still okay.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
He was decent against the Raiders, though, Dude, I get it.
It's the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
It's still his first NFL start, and it's a defensive team.
If the Raiders were to be any type of team, j.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
About, all that he had to do was manage the
game and play within himself, and he did that.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You're right. I mean the Browns defense is really.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Good, well exactly, and that's where I think a lot
of people that are and I follow this stuff from
multiple angles, one of which is the sports betting angle,
and the betting public, the general sports fan was was
on Shador. They wanted to see him succeed, right, Yeah,
the folks that consider themselves sad, the NFL fans kind
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of like stick their nose up at Shador, like this guy,
he's all hype, no substance. And there was a lot
of money on the Raiders because of the Chador Sanders factor.
I sat the game out because I kind of I
understand that mentality, and I was a Shadoor guy coming
into the draft, but clearly the draft process told us
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the reality of Shador Sanders, that he's not that highly
thought of, So I respect that process.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Could you imagine that guy playing against Texas's pass rush.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I mean it would be gross. I mean, he would
not most like.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, but that's sort of so that sounds like every
other rookie quarterback.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah, I mean right now, Shador Sanders and Cam mood
who was the number one overall pick of the same
amount of wins.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It's one about that one, okay, good.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
But the factor in the game that I think a
lot of people forgot about because this was so much
focus on Shador Sanders from everybody was that the Raiders
offensive line is really bad and the Browns defense line
is really good. And that is what this game really
came down to from a football perspective, was that the
Browns defensive line just got whatever they wanted. They got
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to wherever they wanted against the Raiders O line and
on Gino Smith, and the Raiders only scored ten points.
So it wasn't a tall ask to have Shador Sanders
go in there. Hey, all he had to do was
put up eleven and they were gonna win this football shot. Yeah,
but the fact that he did that is still impressive.
I'm not going to I am not going to toot
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his horn today and say, oh my god, everybody that
said that he was going to be a good quarterback,
including myself. By the way, this is not this is
not a time to victory lap now for Shador Sanders.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
But he's going to anyway because blood, this.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Is his brand. This is the way that he operates.
This is like asking, now, we all think Baker Mayfield
is cool now, so it's okay when he does it.
But when Baker Mayfield was braggadocious and in everybody's face
as a rookie. We're like, get out of here. This
guy hasn't earned any of that. That's just who he is.
And I think Shador Sanders said, you know, dropping bars
(06:08):
in the post game. Yeah, that's who he is. He's
to give him if you allow that man to win,
he's gonna tell you about.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yea yea, yeah, for sure. It's in his blood, like
you said, I mean, that's how Dion was. It's how
Dion is to this day.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And interesting the way that Cleveland is handling this because
their head coach, Kevin Stefanski at all along from the
moment he got drafted, he kind of rolled his eyes
and it's felt like he has wanted no part of this.
Dylan Gabriel had been the starting quarterback for the last
several weeks. Dylan Gabriel has been cleared medically to play
and they are still rolling with Shador Sanders this week.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
They should, I mean, for one thing, just to get
the you know, the attention. They gotta see what he's
gonna do. I mean, who knows, they know Dylan Gabriel's
not the guy forever, so I mean you might well Muswell.
Let that guy rip an interesting season though. Can we
all obviously and officially say that the La Rams are
the best team in football right now?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yes, yeah, they are there.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
They are the best team in football.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And if I had to put any money on one
team winning at all, it would be right now the
La Rams. They completely Now Tampa has issues obviously, you
know they have injury issues, but they dominated so much
it was not even close. I mean, they just they
did what they want at will, like I don't even think.
I don't even think Stafford's sweat.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
There's winning and then there's winning like that.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah they And they've got some impressive
ones on the schedule throughout the season. The Ravens, the
you know, they've got to win against the Texans. They
smashed the Jaguars. They've now done this to both teams
they've played inside the state of Florida, by the way,
thirty five to seven against Jacksonville, thirty four to seven
against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's the marriage of offense
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and defense that does it for me. Matt Stafford has
thrown I think it's now twenty five touchdown passes without
an interception. Yeah, it's incredible. So he is the odds
on MVP right now. He should be. Their defense is
top one or two in the NFL. Right, so when
you start to put all of that together, in their
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head coach healthy, they're healthy, they have a great head
coach and Sean McVay. There's nothing that will slow them
down other than themselves. At this point, I agree. I
think they're the best team, not just in the NFC,
I think they're the best team in the NFL. Right.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, they're completely dominant against Tampa, even though Tampa is
you know, they do have her issues. They're always very feisty,
they're always very strappy, and man, they couldn't do anything
to stop this team. They couldn't score against them. They
couldn't stop They could not do anything to stop them
from scoring. They were scoring.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
It will.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Didn't Baker get hurt as well?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, you get a shoulder injury.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, didn't end up playing in the second half. Teddy
Bridgewater is not a good quarterback. Terrible, just absolutely terrible.
His best days are far behind him. And this guy
was coaching high school not that long ag Yeah yeah, yeah,
And they wind up getting fined or suspended because he was,
and he was driving players to practice and back home
and all that other things that you should not get
fined for any way.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, it's so funny. When he first came in the league,
I thought he was actually going to be a pretty
good player. Then he had that horrible knee act and
knee injury, right.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Yeah, and then he came back and he was still
a serviceable backup, but he was a decent starter. He
was never great, but he was a decent starting quarterback,
which a lot of people never even get to that
point in their lives, and he was that. And then
he had that horrific knee injury and he was never
the same. Again, Let's get some magic basketball. They're on
one a little bit right and they're playing really well
right now. They are. Last night they lost to the Celtics.
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They were down by twenty six before mounting a pretty
big comeback with all of their backups, but they they
were without most of their starting lineup. Palo's been out
for the last five games now. Jalen Suggs is not
playing on back to backs. But when you look at
the wins that they've banked recently, last night was just
sort of called that a schedule loss, second night of
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a back to back, half your rosters out. They just
sort of punted the game on.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It's on the road.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
They played Saturday night at home, and they're in Boston
on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But Suggs was a beast on Sunday night.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
So Golden State now a win over them. Two wins
over the New York Knicks. Have blown out the New
York Knicks twice on their home floor. The only team
to beat the Knicks at MSG this year is the
Orlando Magic Wow. So they're starting to stack some really
impressive wins now six and two over the last eight,
nine and four over the last thirteen. They're starting to
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look like the team that we thought they were going
to look like coming into the season. And they're doing
all of this without Palo bank Caro now because they've
looked so good and the turnaround has come with Palo,
their best player out of the lineup. Of course, the
conversation now turns to is this team actually better when
they're not running through Palo? Yeah? So I put a
lot of thought into this and I want to share
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my response and feel free to take this to your
friends out there.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
When you were.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Talking Magic basketball. Okay, the team is not better without
Palo ban Caro. That's a ridiculous thing to say. The
team is better when they are not running their offense
through Palo bank Caro. I think what we are seeing
now is that when this team is sharing the ball
and there's not one singular focus, they're a lot tougher
to stop. And when Palo's on the floor, because he
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is the most talented offensive player, the ball tends to
stick with him, and this team is not good enough
to And I don't think that Palo's great enough yet
to be the guy that's just give the ball. He's
not Luca or Nikola Jokic, Right, yeah, get me the ball.
I'll figure it. I'll figure it out. He has days
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like that, which is why I think the team and
he gets tricked into this thought of like I'm a
thirty five to forty point yeah per night kind of guy.
He's not that. I think the offense needs to run
more fluidly, and when he's on the floor, things get
bogged down a little bit because the guys that are
around Palo look to him and go, get us a bucket,
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And that's just not the right way to operate. So
the team is not better without him, they're better when
they don't run through him. I think that's the answer
that I've come up with.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Overall record right now, ten and eight eight, Okay, good, yeah,
all right, well I mean look at all right.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah, I mean, there's eighty two games in the season,
and I've got this in season tournament that the NBA
started up a couple of years ago. They're two to
zero in group play. They have the other two games
that they play within that this week, Philadelphia and the
Detroit Pistons. This is not going to matter to anybody
until they advance. But if they win the next two
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games this week, the only two games this week, if
they win those, they'll advance to the knockout round and
then eventually that's the quarterfinals. If you then win your
next game, it's a single elimination, you advance to Las Vegas,
where you can play in what is basically it is
an early It's the way of the NBA promoting themselves
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before Christmas. Get to Vegas and you play in like
a mini playoff series against some of the best teams
in the NBA, and it's it does it matter, not really,
But the Lakers hung a banner for this, so I
guess it's important. Yeah, and it's a very soccer esque
kind of thing a little bit. It absolutely is.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
They are swaggerjacking that from European football.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Adam Silver is obsessed with everything European. That's what people
have figured out. So anything of European basketball or European soccer,
he'll steal ideas and make them NBA A Well.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Maybe he can steal an idea from European sports by
not having anybody sports broadcasting having to use the term
scheduled loss. That's heartbreaking, Like, I love sports and the
fact and he's right, it's just weird how load management
only has to come from the players, but when load
management happens from the league, no one bats an eye.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
It's the biggest problem that the NBA face.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
There's just too many games, man, and I get it,
like there's always been too many games. You blink and
all of a sudden, the record is a losing season.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah. I could do an hour on that. I mean,
that is just it's such a loaded topic. It's such
an issue for the league. You had. I'll give you
the best example recently of this going south for fans.
This is because this is who gets screwed as the consumer,
Miami Heat hosting the Golden State Warriors. When you're an
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Eastern Conference team hosting a Western Conference team's the only
time that season that team is coming to your building. Hey,
we understand, it's sports. Sometimes guys get hurt. The Warriors
were in Orlando the night before. It was the second
night of a back to back. Steve Kerr, the head
coach of the Warriors, had just complained about how grueling
their particular schedule was to start the season, and I'm
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convinced that to make a point, he benched every single
player in the starting lineup. So, if you're a Miami
Heat fan that bought tickets to go to watch the
Golden State Warriors, one of the best buys that you
can purchase as an NBA fan, you saw no Steph Curry,
you saw no Jimmy Butler used to play for the Heat,
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So that's its own storyline. No Draymond Green yea. And yeah,
you got stuck with a bad ticket, And that's something
the NBA has to figure out. It's okay if it happens.
Injuries happen sometime. Patrick Mahomes won't be playing quarterbacks for
the Chase because he's injured. But when you do it
on purpose, it really puts up the middle finger to
the fans and they've got to figure out a way
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around that. But again, that's a much longer conversation for
another day.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Have a good thanks even, Buddy.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Thank you you guys too. I am thankful for my
visits every single week on this show.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
You're the best, budd Appreciate it all right.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
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Colbert Crew.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Colbert Crew, love blessings, I know, yeah, man, That's why
I'm big up everybody first and foremost. Just remember Jamaica
of whatever can do fit to help out with chanzar
or whatever you know. But anyhow, Debra, Jim and I'm familia.
Please let them know there is no such thing as
(00:27):
a ten dollars pound. Teach him how currency works, please
ten pound note.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
You know what I'm talking about. Why do you waste
your time? Jesus, you know what I'm saying. You just
know how bad I am at it? All right, Welcome back?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
What does it do?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Cobert Crew? You don't know who. I just came back
from Public's got thirty six eggs and I got a.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Jim Cobert double egg recipe, ready.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
To blow minds. Load them.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Don't forget the butter dogs. That's the magic, all right,
Welcome back. I'm Jim.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
There's dead Hello, Jack Sauce yea every single Monday, which
we forgot about right before we teased Ross's uh bit,
because Ross is usually not here on Mondays, here on Tuesdays?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
You know, I.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That's not Ross. Hold up?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
What Brandon Kravitz here with sports guys? Yeah, what's up, guys.
My visit presented by wing House. Great food beautifully served
Monday is always vibe. Go and give you burger beer
side of Winghouse charm.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah that's nice. I love wings Man. I have that
Winghouse wings in a minute, They're good.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Listen, We're about to load up on some bird on Thursday.
So's a nice little primer. Yeah, I start priming the bird.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I was.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I've been off the air the last thirty minutes because
we we had some technical issues. Oh, we did have
technical issues. Is just a scheduling conflict. Yeah. We do
a lot of play by play broadcasting on ninety six
nine in the game. So I've been patiently waiting for
thirty minutes. Now. Had I known that you forgot about
my visit, I'd be halfway down I four right now.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
But you would not because it's blocked.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, you're right. The traffic it really is. It is
not advantageous to get out early. Is somebody that every
once in a while our show is off at five
point thirty and not six, and it's getting home. It's
no different. Yeah, it is no different.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, it's like the Truman Show and somebody's like, uh,
at this, at this point, there's like everybody is on
the road, and five minutes later nobody is on the road.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
He's leaving now everyone. Yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Exactly what a big NFL weekend.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Yeah, big time. We're gonna start with Shador Sanders.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You want to end with no, let's gohead and start
with him.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I mean, it's so I do find it interesting that,
you know, he had a bad week when his debut,
he had a much better week this week, and then
he's like flexing already. I'm like, dude, you're two games in,
chill out, like you had a pretty good game against
the Raiders. Maybe you should relax a little bit and
let's see something else, because you still looked.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
A little It wasn't still all that great. They're still okay.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
He was decent against the Raiders, though, Dude, I get it.
It's the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
It's still his first NFL start, and it's a defensive team.
If the Raiders were to be any type of team, j.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
About, all that he had to do was manage the
game and play within himself, and he did that.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You're right. I mean the Browns defense is really.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Good, well exactly, and that's where I think a lot
of people that are and I follow this stuff from
multiple angles, one of which is the sports betting angle,
and the betting public, the general sports fan was was
on Shador. They wanted to see him succeed, right, Yeah,
the folks that consider themselves sad, the NFL fans kind
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of like stick their nose up at Shador, like this guy,
he's all hype, no substance. And there was a lot
of money on the Raiders because of the Chador Sanders factor.
I sat the game out because I kind of I
understand that mentality, and I was a Shadoor guy coming
into the draft, but clearly the draft process told us
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the reality of Shador Sanders, that he's not that highly
thought of, So I respect that process.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Could you imagine that guy playing against Texas's pass rush.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I mean it would be gross. I mean, he would
not most like.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, but that's sort of so that sounds like every
other rookie quarterback.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah, I mean right now, Shador Sanders and Cam mood
who was the number one overall pick of the same
amount of wins.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
It's one about that one, okay, good.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
But the factor in the game that I think a
lot of people forgot about because this was so much
focus on Shador Sanders from everybody was that the Raiders
offensive line is really bad and the Browns defense line
is really good. And that is what this game really
came down to from a football perspective, was that the
Browns defensive line just got whatever they wanted. They got
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to wherever they wanted against the Raiders O line and
on Gino Smith, and the Raiders only scored ten points.
So it wasn't a tall ask to have Shador Sanders
go in there. Hey, all he had to do was
put up eleven and they were gonna win this football shot. Yeah,
but the fact that he did that is still impressive.
I'm not going to I am not going to toot
(05:30):
his horn today and say, oh my god, everybody that
said that he was going to be a good quarterback,
including myself. By the way, this is not this is
not a time to victory lap now for Shador Sanders.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
But he's going to anyway because blood, this.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Is his brand. This is the way that he operates.
This is like asking, now, we all think Baker Mayfield
is cool now, so it's okay when he does it.
But when Baker Mayfield was braggadocious and in everybody's face
as a rookie. We're like, get out of here. This
guy hasn't earned any of that. That's just who he is.
And I think Shador Sanders said, you know, dropping bars
(06:08):
in the post game. Yeah, that's who he is. He's
to give him if you allow that man to win,
he's gonna tell you about.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yea yea, yeah, for sure. It's in his blood, like
you said, I mean, that's how Dion was. It's how
Dion is to this day.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And interesting the way that Cleveland is handling this because
their head coach, Kevin Stefanski at all along from the
moment he got drafted, he kind of rolled his eyes
and it's felt like he has wanted no part of this.
Dylan Gabriel had been the starting quarterback for the last
several weeks. Dylan Gabriel has been cleared medically to play
and they are still rolling with Shador Sanders this week.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
They should, I mean, for one thing, just to get
the you know, the attention. They gotta see what he's
gonna do. I mean, who knows, they know Dylan Gabriel's
not the guy forever, so I mean you might well Muswell.
Let that guy rip an interesting season though. Can we
all obviously and officially say that the La Rams are
the best team in football right now?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yes, yeah, they are there.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
They are the best team in football.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
And if I had to put any money on one
team winning at all, it would be right now the
La Rams. They completely Now Tampa has issues obviously, you
know they have injury issues, but they dominated so much
it was not even close. I mean, they just they
did what they want at will, like I don't even think.
I don't even think Stafford's sweat.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
There's winning and then there's winning like that.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah they And they've got some impressive
ones on the schedule throughout the season. The Ravens, the
you know, they've got to win against the Texans. They
smashed the Jaguars. They've now done this to both teams
they've played inside the state of Florida, by the way,
thirty five to seven against Jacksonville, thirty four to seven
against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's the marriage of offense
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and defense that does it for me. Matt Stafford has
thrown I think it's now twenty five touchdown passes without
an interception. Yeah, it's incredible. So he is the odds
on MVP right now. He should be. Their defense is
top one or two in the NFL. Right, so when
you start to put all of that together, in their
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head coach healthy, they're healthy, they have a great head
coach and Sean McVay. There's nothing that will slow them
down other than themselves. At this point, I agree. I
think they're the best team, not just in the NFC,
I think they're the best team in the NFL. Right.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, they're completely dominant against Tampa, even though Tampa is
you know, they do have her issues. They're always very feisty,
they're always very strappy, and man, they couldn't do anything
to stop this team. They couldn't score against them. They
couldn't stop They could not do anything to stop them
from scoring. They were scoring.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
It will.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Didn't Baker get hurt as well?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, you get a shoulder injury.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, didn't end up playing in the second half. Teddy
Bridgewater is not a good quarterback. Terrible, just absolutely terrible.
His best days are far behind him. And this guy
was coaching high school not that long ag Yeah yeah, yeah,
And they wind up getting fined or suspended because he was,
and he was driving players to practice and back home
and all that other things that you should not get
fined for any way.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, it's so funny. When he first came in the league,
I thought he was actually going to be a pretty
good player. Then he had that horrible knee act and
knee injury, right.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Yeah, and then he came back and he was still
a serviceable backup, but he was a decent starter. He
was never great, but he was a decent starting quarterback,
which a lot of people never even get to that
point in their lives, and he was that. And then
he had that horrific knee injury and he was never
the same. Again, Let's get some magic basketball. They're on
one a little bit right and they're playing really well
right now. They are. Last night they lost to the Celtics.
(09:18):
They were down by twenty six before mounting a pretty
big comeback with all of their backups, but they they
were without most of their starting lineup. Palo's been out
for the last five games now. Jalen Suggs is not
playing on back to backs. But when you look at
the wins that they've banked recently, last night was just
sort of called that a schedule loss, second night of
(09:38):
a back to back, half your rosters out. They just
sort of punted the game on.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It's on the road.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
They played Saturday night at home, and they're in Boston
on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But Suggs was a beast on Sunday night.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
So Golden State now a win over them. Two wins
over the New York Knicks. Have blown out the New
York Knicks twice on their home floor. The only team
to beat the Knicks at MSG this year is the
Orlando Magic Wow. So they're starting to stack some really
impressive wins now six and two over the last eight,
nine and four over the last thirteen. They're starting to
(10:14):
look like the team that we thought they were going
to look like coming into the season. And they're doing
all of this without Palo bank Caro now because they've
looked so good and the turnaround has come with Palo,
their best player out of the lineup. Of course, the
conversation now turns to is this team actually better when
they're not running through Palo? Yeah? So I put a
lot of thought into this and I want to share
(10:37):
my response and feel free to take this to your
friends out there.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
When you were.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Talking Magic basketball. Okay, the team is not better without
Palo ban Caro. That's a ridiculous thing to say. The
team is better when they are not running their offense
through Palo bank Caro. I think what we are seeing
now is that when this team is sharing the ball
and there's not one singular focus, they're a lot tougher
to stop. And when Palo's on the floor, because he
(11:02):
is the most talented offensive player, the ball tends to
stick with him, and this team is not good enough
to And I don't think that Palo's great enough yet
to be the guy that's just give the ball. He's
not Luca or Nikola Jokic, Right, yeah, get me the ball.
I'll figure it. I'll figure it out. He has days
(11:22):
like that, which is why I think the team and
he gets tricked into this thought of like I'm a
thirty five to forty point yeah per night kind of guy.
He's not that. I think the offense needs to run
more fluidly, and when he's on the floor, things get
bogged down a little bit because the guys that are
around Palo look to him and go, get us a bucket,
(11:43):
And that's just not the right way to operate. So
the team is not better without him, they're better when
they don't run through him. I think that's the answer
that I've come up with.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Overall record right now, ten and eight eight, Okay, good, yeah,
all right, well I mean look at all right.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah, I mean, there's eighty two games in the season,
and I've got this in season tournament that the NBA
started up a couple of years ago. They're two to
zero in group play. They have the other two games
that they play within that this week, Philadelphia and the
Detroit Pistons. This is not going to matter to anybody
until they advance. But if they win the next two
(12:18):
games this week, the only two games this week, if
they win those, they'll advance to the knockout round and
then eventually that's the quarterfinals. If you then win your
next game, it's a single elimination, you advance to Las Vegas,
where you can play in what is basically it is
an early It's the way of the NBA promoting themselves
(12:38):
before Christmas. Get to Vegas and you play in like
a mini playoff series against some of the best teams
in the NBA, and it's it does it matter, not really,
But the Lakers hung a banner for this, so I
guess it's important. Yeah, and it's a very soccer esque
kind of thing a little bit. It absolutely is.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
They are swaggerjacking that from European football.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Adam Silver is obsessed with everything European. That's what people
have figured out. So anything of European basketball or European soccer,
he'll steal ideas and make them NBA A Well.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Maybe he can steal an idea from European sports by
not having anybody sports broadcasting having to use the term
scheduled loss. That's heartbreaking, Like, I love sports and the
fact and he's right, it's just weird how load management
only has to come from the players, but when load
management happens from the league, no one bats an eye.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
It's the biggest problem that the NBA face.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
There's just too many games, man, and I get it,
like there's always been too many games. You blink and
all of a sudden, the record is a losing season.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah. I could do an hour on that. I mean,
that is just it's such a loaded topic. It's such
an issue for the league. You had. I'll give you
the best example recently of this going south for fans.
This is because this is who gets screwed as the consumer,
Miami Heat hosting the Golden State Warriors. When you're an
(14:06):
Eastern Conference team hosting a Western Conference team's the only
time that season that team is coming to your building. Hey,
we understand, it's sports. Sometimes guys get hurt. The Warriors
were in Orlando the night before. It was the second
night of a back to back. Steve Kerr, the head
coach of the Warriors, had just complained about how grueling
their particular schedule was to start the season, and I'm
(14:26):
convinced that to make a point, he benched every single
player in the starting lineup. So, if you're a Miami
Heat fan that bought tickets to go to watch the
Golden State Warriors, one of the best buys that you
can purchase as an NBA fan, you saw no Steph Curry,
you saw no Jimmy Butler used to play for the Heat,
(14:47):
So that's its own storyline. No Draymond Green yea. And yeah,
you got stuck with a bad ticket, And that's something
the NBA has to figure out. It's okay if it happens.
Injuries happen sometime. Patrick Mahomes won't be playing quarterbacks for
the Chase because he's injured. But when you do it
on purpose, it really puts up the middle finger to
the fans and they've got to figure out a way
(15:08):
around that. But again, that's a much longer conversation for
another day.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Have a good thanks even, Buddy.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Thank you you guys too. I am thankful for my
visits every single week on this show.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
You're the best, budd Appreciate it all right.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
For our seven nine one six one o four one
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