April 28, 2022 • 37 mins
Chris Broussard and Rob Parker break down why they believe the Bucks vs. Celtics series will decide who represents the East in the NBA Finals. Former NFL QB Shaun King joins the guys to preview the NFL Draft.
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What up, kid? What's happening? Chris on a TV theme? Still?
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Why still a TV themes on Thursday? And I've done
some of my best working under sixty minutes, so I
know we can have a great show. You messed that
joke up. I was gonna seconds. I'm still get an,
I said, right under. An hour's not bad, pretty good exactly,
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but no doubt about it. I am in Detroit, Chris Brussar,
I had no idea. Well, you sent me some photos,
but I didn't know you were there. Yes, I'm in
Detroit this show. Last night. After the show, I don't know.
I thought I told you guys I was coming out here.
I'm doing the show today and tomorrow. I'm redecorating the barbershop, Chris,
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and I sent you man, it is beautiful. We've owned
it for twenty years coming up in October, so we're
doing a total makeover. It looks great. I'll post some
pictures on social but all good, and I'm ready for
the hour show. In the NFL Draft, We're gonna get
out of the way for the experts. Chris coming up
at eight o'clock Eastern, five o'clock Pacific, But until then,
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there's plenty to talk about, plenty to do. Yeah, it
is all right. We got the Eye Couple crew in
full effect with us. We got DJ Alex ty Shirt
aka Alex da Vegan on the ones and the two.
We got Ryan Burschinger in for the super producer, Rob
Jow and on the updates, it's our man, Steve this Seger.
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All right, Rob, let's get right to it. First of all,
we got a huge game coming up tonight, several huge games.
It's a great slate in the NBA tonight robe, starting
off with the Philadelphia seventy Sixers in Toronto, up three two.
They've dropped the last two games, Rob. And if ever
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there was a must win that you know isn't an
elimination game or you know, like it do or die,
I think this is it, Rob, because if if the
Sixers win to night or lose tonight in Toronto, they
will have lost three straight games. They will have been
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one of only four teams ever who held a three
one lead and ended up going to i'm sorry, a
three o lead and ended up going to a game seven.
And none of those teams has ever lost the series.
And now it's ratcheted up because Doc Rivers has a
history that he's tried to push back on a history
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of losing three one leads. He's done it three times
as much as any other coach in NBA history, and
so the pressure is mounting. They gotta win the night. Look,
I may if they go seven, I may pick them
to squeak it out in Game seven. Yeah, but I
do think I don't have the confidence in them. Chris.
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I hear what you're hear you. I hear you, But
I don't know based on what, like like Doc, we
saw last year they should have beat the Hawks. They
couldn't get that done Game seven at home to the Hawks,
right on, a very good team at all, and look
where they wound up this year compared to you know
what was going on a year ago, and so there
was no stay in power really with how good they were.
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So I just when you start to look at the
Philly Chris, I think if they lose tonight in Toronto,
which I believe they will lose tonight in to you,
you got them losing the series there, I think they're
gonna choke this one down too, and it's gonna be
epic because unless James Harden plays better, Chris, because because
that that, that's what I'm looking at. What what else?
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Like he has to play better and maybe as a
game in him, But it certainly doesn't look like it.
Not so far. This series should be over already, absolutely absolutely,
And remember Matisse Thybel not there tonight because they're in
Toronto and he's not he's not vaccinated, so they're dead
down a piece. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. No, this
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is bad, this is bad. So we will keep you
posted on. This game is about to start any moment now.
A couple other big games as well. Phoenix in New Orleans. Uh,
Phoenix stop. They don't need to play around with New Orleans.
Rob get rid of them. We will return because if
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you rush him back and he's not right or something happens,
I just would It seems fast to me, you know, Yeah,
it just does. And I don't know, like again, he
knows his body, he's been through with the doctors, Chris
and all that, but my goodness, it just seemed real quick.
And if they rush him back and he hurts himself
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or something happens, I don't know if they'll And I
understand they don't want to go any further with this. Um,
but still I just hope he's good. I think they
can beat them without book even but I Rob, I
think they would air on the side of caution. And
I think they just feel like he's ready. Um, he's ready.
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You know what I've always said, if you're ready to play, play,
I'm not they if he's ready, he's ready. And the
doctors signed off on the Christen play players play. That's
what they do. Yeah, And you got Dallas and you
taught and not yet most of themas that's all tonight
and then Dallas trying to close them out there up
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three two a Rob, we got a big We had
a big win last night by Milwaukee. They closed out Chicago.
Do you feel like the next round it's Boston and Milwaukee?
And a lot of times, I want to preface this
by saying a lot of times, whether it was ROB
college basketball in the final four or the NBA, whether
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it's a conference final or a semifinal round, like we're
gonna be in in the second round. A lot of
times when you feel like that is the championship, you
know what I mean? Like these are the two best
teams and whoever wins that series or game is going
to move forward and win the whole thing. A lot
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of times when you feel that way, it doesn't pan
out that way, right, But I do look and I
know Miami Philly Miami Toronto, that's gonna be the the
other matchup. I do feel like these are the two
best teams in the Eastern Conference. Yeah, in Boston. So
I think this is the conference championship. It is. It
just feels like this should be the conference championship, but
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it doesn't work out that way because of the seating
and uh, you know Miami will have its say Chris
if they move on, right. Um, So yeah, it does
kind of feel like this this team will be the team.
The winner of this will probably come out of the East.
That's why we think of it as the conference final,
right yep, yep, So do you have I'm I'll give
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you my pick, Rob and I've I gotta be honest,
I'm I'm. This is a tough one. I don't feel
too confident either way. I feel like either team could
win this. I feel like, obviously Yannis is the best
player I think in the world, and so obviously the
best in this series. Um, but I'm gonna go with
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Boston in seven. And I think a big thing that
put me over the top was Chris Middleton. The reports
Robert that he's gonna be out the entire series, and
that is big. Yeah. And look, I know they looked
great against Chicago without him, Chicago's not wasn't a very
good defensive team. Chicago also was a bit banged up,
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and Grayson Allen stepped in and averaged twenty points a
game in the three games at Middleton miss. I don't
see him doing that against Boston. And so I'm going
with the Celtics in seven. But with hesitated, I mean,
this is this is really to me, this is almost
like a pick him. I'm gonna tell you why I'm
going against Boston. Even though they swept the Nuts. They
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won those four games by a total of seventeen. Right,
it wasn't like they blew anybody out and they played
the hell kd down and they and they you know
what I mean, Chris, Like it wasn't like they ran
them out the gym like oh my god, like like
they won those games, especially the first two or three
at the end, right where what they just made the
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plays and they won those games or whatever, and the
Nets Claxton, we talked about him, Chris, they he missed
twenty free throws or whatever it was. And I'm not
saying he was gonna make them all. That's his m all,
that's who he is, and that's a part of the game, right.
So I'm just saying, as great as Boston looked in
those four games, and they did because they swept a
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team like the Nets with two great scorers on it,
I don't know I'm gonna say that Milwaukee will still
be able to beat them. And I think Middleton is
a big loss. I'm not pooh poohing him Chris at all,
but teams find a way sometimes. I remember, just remember
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last year when um, you know, yeah, a perfect example.
Everybody thought, remember he got hurt in the Utah series, Chris,
right in the second round. Oh they can't beat Utah.
What they beat Utah? Oh they can't, you know that?
And they got to the conference final, I mean, yeah,
to the Western Conference Finals. So all I'm saying is
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teams find a way sometimes you think somebody's out. Look
at what the Dallas Mavericks are. Well, Luca was out
the first couple of games, Chris, Oh, that's serious, is
it right? Right? Well, I look, and that's the one
thing that is giving me trepidation about picking Boston is
that in the past year Yannis has always risen to
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the occasion he has He's the last year. Boy, he
did last year. He did it in against Chicago. Um,
whatever was needed, he did it. And that is something
that makes me concerned. Yes, I just wonder without Middleton,
is are they gonna be able to get enough scoring? No,
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he's gonna get you know, he's gonna get his. But yeah,
where is the rest of the scoring coming from? Yeah?
Does Boston I mean you never just give up points, obviously,
but do they take have somewhat of a mentality of Look,
we're gonna guard Yannis kind of straight up, and if
he kills us, we're shutting everybody else down. You know
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what is their mentality? Uh, for defensively for this team.
So it's gonna be a great series. Um, yeah, I'm
gonna take Milwaukee in seven. Yeah, I'm not mad at that.
I'm not mad at then. And what else's interesting? Robbed?
You wonder what home court advantage be a big factor,
because remember Milwaukee could have gotten the second seed, but
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they right, they sat there. Guys, some people think they
didn't want to see. I think Brooklyn would have beaten him,
do you think so? Yeah? I mean, look, I could
be wrong. I thought Brooklyn was gonna be Boston, so
I readily admit I could be wrong, but I I
think Brooklyn would have beaten them. And I think a
lot of people are are poo poo in the nets
like they were guard yell. They never were that good anyway,
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but they beat Miami, Philly and Milwaukee. Saw at the
end of the season, right with Kyrie and KD. So
I mean people are like people are over the top now,
like like they don't fit together, they can win. We
saw it. You remember the push to the postseason and
that gave up against Philly. We were like, oh, how
could you not like what we just saw? Yep, we
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loved it. So um we are going to see but
we'll throw it out to you guys. Eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine, six
sixty three sixty nine. I've got the Celtics in seven,
Rob's got the Bucks in seven. Who you got eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox You're turned away in
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eight seven seven nine, you're not on Fox. You're turned
away in who you got Bucks or Celtics? All right, Chris,
let's kick it off with the ed in Vegas. You're
on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What up? Ed?
Hey guys, long time listener, first time caller, Thank you. Yeah,
it's one of the chime in. I'm really I'm the
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Celtics bandwagon right now. After the number they did on Brooklyn,
they had this why not us mentality. I think Milwaukee's
gonna have their hands full now. It's gonna be a
good one man there. I don't think anybody can. The
only thing that would surprise me is if this thing
is a wipeout one way or the other. Oh yeah,
I would be surprised too. I don't see that, Chris.
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I'm with you. Uh. Sean and Sacramento, you're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio? What up? Sean? Yeah,
Michael's from another mother. My brother's behind the board. Magael
top on Sporty Cups two point zero one. I'll see
you over there plushing everything out, getting it yes, make
sure you get it cut too, Rob. Oh yeah, I didn't.
I got one today? All right? And and Sean, I
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do want to say this. Sean Chris has uh joined
MLB bro dot com as our baseball gambling insider. Sean
bow His picks debut tomorrow on MLB congratulations dot com. Hey,
many like Pat rob Man, I just want to be
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his assistant mayor. Man, he just need a little bit
more health over there, maintaining the mayor and the resident
funds that we're gonna get it back, going my tech
real quick, man, there's surprise here. I am locked that
with mister Rob Parker. And I think the reason why
is even though the Celtics looked amazing against the Nets,
the Nets have no defenders on that team for these
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premier guys and Tatum and Brown. Now that these guys
gotta go get as Drew Holiday and the honest I mean,
it's gonna be a whole different ballgame. And who do
they have for you? Honest man, I know the time
I'm Mort's back and he's looking all right. But Yannis
is a whole different monster. The numbers he put up
in around one, I feel like the same thing is
coming around two bucks and six, mark my words, Fellers,
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all right, there you go, he got him in six.
This is our Buddy bien Soo in Palm Beach. You're
on the eye couple of Fox Sports Radio. What up?
What's going on? Crystal Rawl was going on? Man? Man,
how you been? I'm going all right, doing alright, just
walking the playoffs like everybody else. Okay, what you got
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on this? Milwaukee Boston? I want to hear this. Oh
you know, I got your Bucks and five. I'm doing
better from what are you watching? Five and five? Let
me let me tell you. Let me tell you something.
You guys are sleeping on the Milwaukee Bucks defense. That
Starning five that they're about to roll out with Bobby
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Starning at the small at small forward and work in
Yannis and then you have one Westley mask. You guys
are forgetting about Wesley Mastery. He is he's a hound on.
I forgot about him ten years ago. Look, they are
a good defensive team, but both is the best defensive teams,
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the best, But they Milwaukee's a good defensive team. And
they're big. They're huge. That's you know, that's one of
their advantages. But be sure to catch live editions of
The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker weekdays
at seven pm. Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the iHeart Radio app Our next guest is
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a former NFL quarterback himself now co host of The
Nightcap on Vicing Live. Our man, Sean King, Sean, how
are you hey? I just got to text from heart
enough for the first quarter. He said he heard Chris
call him old in his prime tonight. Hey, man, you
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ain't lying. He's come out of I saw I go
to the hole for a dunk and at the firsd
time he dunked in like three years. Hey, Sean, you know, hey,
you know, older guys, you might start out ferocious, but
you know, let's see if he can finish the job
your personal life. That's that's the ultimate. The ultimate criticism
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for a guy getting old is to call him old,
like because in his his mine like figuring out way.
But thank you guys for having me. Man excited absolutely,
and you texted robbing me. I think it was early
this morning, yes, um saying that Sam how the quarterback
out of North Carolina, It's going to be the best
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quarterback in this draft. How now to us? I know
he's got a strong arm. He did well on the
Wonderlick too, so tell us why you think he's gonna
be the one to emerge in this draft and how
good do you think it gonna be? Well, I think
it's gonna be really good. And uh, I wanted to
make sure that I got on here and said it
publicly before you know, everybody two years from now it's like, oh, yeah,
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I had Sam Howe he rated number one, So you know,
he's the known commodity in this group, you know, some
kind of way because North Carolina didn't live up to
preseason expectations and they're not the kind of program that
can put four skilled players in the NFL, which is
what they did after last year and bounced back. They're
not Georgia, they're not Alabama, so of course the supporting
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cast wasn't what it was. But Sam Hollis stowed for
three thousand yards in three years straight, two for thirty
plus touchdowns in both of those first two years. A
lot of people thought coming into this season he would
be the number one pick. And so what really really
makes me high on him? As in an era where
Kyler Murray Baker Mayfield won't do the intangible leadership things
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to get the entire organization behind him, this is a
kid that could have opted out. He could have said,
you know, Michael Carter's in New York with the jetson
Javante Williams, you know, with the Broncos and I lost
Dommy Brown. I'm just gonna sit out and protect my
draft status. He showed up every game, even when they
were out of the a SEC Championship race. Kid was
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under the rest room on the plus yards and somebody
would have said, Sam, how I round for eight hundred
yards and said you to laugh, like stopped it. Really
good athlete. He even showed up. He even showed up
guys in the Duke's Mayo Bone like you talk about
a kid that's committed to finishing the race, getting to
the end of his journey, like these are the things
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that a lot of these young quarterbacks that we give
all this adolation and platform too before they earn it.
He's that hard one. I won't leaving my team. So
let me ask you this shan, Who's who's drafting them? See,
that's where it gets tricky, because I just gonna plust
those guys and make those decisions off. I'm asking because
I'm trying to figure out where he fits and what
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team is so so it's that's a crapshoot? Is it?
A first round? Is the second round? Where if I
was a gym of the Panther, I would be trying
to trade out of six to select Sam Howe either
into the first or early in the second, that we
acquire a second round pick as well, because they do
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need to enhance an offensive line. Who do you think
is the first quarterback to go? A lot of talk
that Pittsburgh. I mean, I've seen talk to Pittsburgh to
take Malik Willis or Kenny Pickett. Do you think they
go with a quarterback? In which one? Who do you
think they go with? You know, it's interesting because everything
that I've heard is that, you know, Mike Tomlin and
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the organization love Desmond Ritter, the quarterback from Cincinnati. So
quarterback hasn't been going off the board at twenty. I mean,
I don't know, I really don't. I mean, I think
Pickett is gonna be a good player. It took him
three years in Mark Whipple's system, like when you peeled
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back to the layers a little bit. He threw forty
two touchdowns, but that was year five. If not for COVID,
he wouldn't have gotten year five. The four years he
played before that, he threw thirty six total touchdowns. Wow,
so we're talking about one year of elite activity. Malik Willis.
You know Malik Willis. I mean, he's supposed to be
this great athlete and he tests like one. When he
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was sacked fifty one times, that's like second most in
all of college football. So what he doesn't he's not
athletic enough to avoid the hold the ball too long,
I would imagine, I think hogging on the ball too long,
you know, being slow to make decisions. And so when
I'm talking first round picked, that needs to be a
guy can play year one and he can play at
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a relatively close to winning level and definitely in too,
be like a starting quarterback that we have no doubts
about because otherwise everybody that's in the organization when he
was drafted their fire. We go ahead, Chris with Kenney picking.
Let's go back to him. The big knock on him,
I mean, you brought up one of nat he really
only has one year production. But also the hands, um
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he would have the smallest hands in the league. I
don't know, is that a big deal. What do you
think about that. So to pick content context on that,
if he had a fumbling problem at Pittsburgh, I would
think that would be a huge red flag. But when
you watch this time in Pittsburgh, he wasn't a guy
that put the ball on the ground a lot. So
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that leads me to believe, like his hands may not
measure big, but they obviously have a lot of strength.
They're able to grip you ever, Like I have family
in the South, So you got got that uncle who
just country strong. You don't have big hand. He knocked
all to win out like somebody ball hand right right now?
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I know. Yeah, So Sean Jacksonville, I mean I'm figuring
they got more holes in the golf course. What what
do they do at the first overall pick? Well, if
I'm running Jacksonville, I go Trayvon Walker because he's the
home run hitter. You know what I think. I think
Hutchinson is a good player, but I think he's a
doubles guy. Like he's gonna be solid, He's never gonna
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be spectacular like Trayvon Walker is. I mean, when you
if you could draw it up, that's what they look like.
And people are gonna point to his lack of production.
So the difference is the leading tackler that Georgia has
seventy three tackles, that was the safety who would side everybody.
Can we agree Georgia had the best defense in college football?
Oh yeah, yeah, they're leading. They're leading tackler would have
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ranked two hundred and twenty first in the NC Double
A and tackles like Trayvon Walker had six sacks, that
was second on the team. The number one guy had
six and a half. So they were so good, so talented,
all the s attentions. This got spread out right right,
that makes sense. Um, you know, just a just a
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period on Hutchinson. You know, everybody out here on TV
talking about this production. He had fourteen sacks this past season.
In the three years before that he had four and
a half total. But we're still talking about an outlier
as far as being like an elite pass rusher. There's
you know, there's always at least talk about trades at
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the draft and a lot of time there are some trades.
Deebo Samuel wants out. You know, John Lynch said he's
not trading him. But the most people that think he's
going to be traded are talking about the Jets. And look,
the Jets have had some good years here or there anywhere. Yeah,
I look, we saw Levian Belle go there and absolutely disappear.
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If I'm Deebo Samuel, I mean, I gotta think twice
about do I really want to go to the New
York Jets because his career may never be the same.
Where are you at on debo in different systems and
particularly with the Jets? Well, I'll say this, if if
if Deebo Samuel Devin, do we lose him? He break? Yeah?
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I think see if you can get him back? Oh,
I hate like it's a cliffhanger. We need to hear
it right right exactly where are you at on that? Right?
I just I mean I bashed the Jets because, like
we we've talked about it before. They've had decent years
here and there. It's been eleven years since they were
in the playoffs, right, But I don't know, man, You
just gotta be careful, No, you do. You gotta be
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careful and and um, you know they're trying to get
it together and and uh we building. They got a
young quarterback and they're in a division Chris with Buffalo.
Where you going Buffalo and Miami's improved. Miami's improved, and
you know, the Patriots are still in the way, like there,
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you know, and I'm not saying they should be afraid
and think they can't beat anybody, but I don't know
where they're going. They're far and away the worst team
in that division. Yeah, clear, clear worst team, right, Look
to finish your there, we want to hear it so
soon chasing the bag like just seefore, a guy that's
been injured and has seen like a glimpse at the end.
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You know, when you're an athlete and you're going through it,
you don't think about when it's over journey until you
can't really do the same things anymore. So he was injured,
he meant some time, and okay, I think there's a
realization I gotta get paid now. And so if you're
San Francisco, all they got to decide is all we
willing to pay him what he's asking And if you are,
then you keep him because I think you're a super
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Bowl caliber team at every position but quarterback. If you
sign him. If you decide no, we were not wanting
to pay him that, then go and get assets and return.
Do you think does he excel? We had Flaxico burrs On,
who is kind of question Rob correct me if I'm wrong,
like he wasn't a certain debo would excel in all
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types of systems, right that Sometimes the system and where
you're playing works on, you know, enhances your and Shannon
hands creative and they feel like he got him in
good positions there. Do you feel that way, Sean, or
if you're talented and you're good, you can just do it? Well?
I feel that way, but I feel like that needs
to be and minus that we placed on the coordinator
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not hinderance to the player. If the player has talent
and the coach can't figure out how to put the
player in position to maximize that talent, that's a coach
problem like that. That's kind of where That's kind of
where I differ with Plexico a little bit. Let's not
blame the player. The talent is there, what is the
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coach doing? Well? That's why I brought up the Jets
so you'll see all right, before I will tell all
the Jets players this. Robert Sola was picked because his
defensive expertise. Right. New York Jets was thirty second in
total defense last year, No way possible. They don't go
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defensive for no, you're wrong. You got you have to
get that defense right. Thanks great a bro, Thank you
man Hey, And we're gonna hold you to that, Sam
how because you were saying that with Walters in your voice.
All right, don't be don't don't be not answering the
phone two years from now when we call you on
Sam how Hey, same number five, nineteen nine and nine,
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we're gonna say, you know what, when he doesn't get
drafted in the first two rounds, I'm gonna say, no, way, no,
Sam how all right, Sean Peace, that's our man, Sean King.
You gotta check him out or he's the co host
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All right, last night I'm going one. I got both
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NBA games and I got hurt by. I had a
baseball game the over under. I had the over Twins
and Tigers. It was five nothing Minnesota, so they didn't
go over the seven and a half, Chris, So I
didn't didn't win the uh the part lay, but I
did get the two basketball games right last night? All right, tonight,
(33:20):
all basketball, no baseball on the Czecho City. I have
the Raptors plus one and a half. And Chris, that
Philadelphia lead has disappeared already. Yeah yeah, I mean Toronto
is back in the front. Last time. I wonder the day.
It's tied now at forty six, way through the second quarter.
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But look, you gotta wonder. Philly came out and hit
him in the mouth. But you remember fourteen points from
mb you got ten from Harden, but they shot sixty
five percent too early. Remember, you know that's gonna come down, right,
because Toronto wasn't hitting shots right and they were still
within five. So yeah, it looks like Philly's in for
(34:04):
a tough night. Yeah, I picked to Ronald plus the
one and a half. I have the Pelicans plus one
and a half to Chris at home. U they might
close them out the songs, Yeah, I think the Pelicans
started being at home. Chris, this is your last game, possibly, right,
you know what I mean. You might give your roll,
(34:24):
you might lose, But I like the point and a
half at home. So I took the Pelicans and then
I took the Utah Jazz plus one. I don't know,
I just um, again, they're at home, Dallas leads this thing.
Maybe they push you to a game seven. So I
got all underdogs all getting points tonight. Remember I'm not
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telling you who to bet on. I'm just telling you
who I be. Hey, man, what'd you think of that
bra An email being St. Louis? Yeah? Man, Um, why
does baseball get away with it? I don't know. Well,
you know, hockey got away with it for a long
time because you remember they to swing sticks and stuff
(35:05):
at people and it was viewed as a part of
the game. And hockey, no, no, but they stopped it.
They pulled it back because it was bad. But they'll
let them fight. They'll stay in there and let them
get into it a little. Yeah, but it's not as
bad as it used to. Remember the blood and everything
on the ice, it was bad. Um And baseball, I know,
it's a ball and it's a and and and a bat,
(35:28):
and I don't know, it's still kind of barbaric when
you see that kind of stuff. I don't mean it
didn't get you know, everybody was out there, but it
wasn't like a ton of fighting going, thankfully, but it
just hadn't even. Yeah, you shouldn't even because God forbid.
I mean, you got what fifty dudes out there and
(35:48):
he could turn into something and he could get somebody injured, right,
cost a guy or and the team its seasons. So yeah,
they need to they need to really, you know, cut that. Like, Look,
the NBA had an issue and they took care of it,
and I think baseball, you get don't. What you do
it is you gotta make people Chris when you start
(36:09):
taking money away from people, right, That's that's really what
it comes down to. Yep, just pensions things like that, right,
are you losing salary. You're like, I don't think I'm
going out there right right? So all right, Rob, well
you're in Detroit. How long are you there? I'll be
back in LA Yeah until Sunday. So I'm just taking
care of some stuff, seeing some friends and stuff. So
(36:30):
that's it. Quick trip to Detroit and last night, Chris,
that's the fight to Detroit. Three hours and forty five minutes.
Oh it was great. Would you fly Spirit? Spirit? You
know I did all that money you got, you got
Louis Vatton's whatever, Siga sneakers, Gucci slippers, and you fly Spirit?
(36:53):
Come on, man, ridiculous. All right, it's the eye. But
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What up, kid? What's happening? Chris on a TV theme? Still?
(01:33):
Why still a TV themes on Thursday? And I've done
some of my best working under sixty minutes, so I
know we can have a great show. You messed that
joke up. I was gonna seconds. I'm still get an,
I said, right under. An hour's not bad, pretty good exactly,
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but no doubt about it. I am in Detroit, Chris Brussar,
I had no idea. Well, you sent me some photos,
but I didn't know you were there. Yes, I'm in
Detroit this show. Last night. After the show, I don't know.
I thought I told you guys I was coming out here.
I'm doing the show today and tomorrow. I'm redecorating the barbershop, Chris,
(02:17):
and I sent you man, it is beautiful. We've owned
it for twenty years coming up in October, so we're
doing a total makeover. It looks great. I'll post some
pictures on social but all good, and I'm ready for
the hour show. In the NFL Draft, We're gonna get
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at eight o'clock Eastern, five o'clock Pacific, But until then,
(02:40):
there's plenty to talk about, plenty to do. Yeah, it
is all right. We got the Eye Couple crew in
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All right, Rob, let's get right to it. First of all,
we got a huge game coming up tonight, several huge games.
It's a great slate in the NBA tonight robe, starting
off with the Philadelphia seventy Sixers in Toronto, up three two.
They've dropped the last two games, Rob. And if ever
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there was a must win that you know isn't an
elimination game or you know, like it do or die,
I think this is it, Rob, because if if the
Sixers win to night or lose tonight in Toronto, they
will have lost three straight games. They will have been
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one of only four teams ever who held a three
one lead and ended up going to i'm sorry, a
three o lead and ended up going to a game seven.
And none of those teams has ever lost the series.
And now it's ratcheted up because Doc Rivers has a
history that he's tried to push back on a history
(04:11):
of losing three one leads. He's done it three times
as much as any other coach in NBA history, and
so the pressure is mounting. They gotta win the night. Look,
I may if they go seven, I may pick them
to squeak it out in Game seven. Yeah, but I
do think I don't have the confidence in them. Chris.
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I hear what you're hear you. I hear you, But
I don't know based on what, like like Doc, we
saw last year they should have beat the Hawks. They
couldn't get that done Game seven at home to the Hawks,
right on, a very good team at all, and look
where they wound up this year compared to you know
what was going on a year ago, and so there
was no stay in power really with how good they were.
(04:55):
So I just when you start to look at the
Philly Chris, I think if they lose tonight in Toronto,
which I believe they will lose tonight in to you,
you got them losing the series there, I think they're
gonna choke this one down too, and it's gonna be
epic because unless James Harden plays better, Chris, because because
that that, that's what I'm looking at. What what else?
(05:17):
Like he has to play better and maybe as a
game in him, But it certainly doesn't look like it.
Not so far. This series should be over already, absolutely absolutely,
And remember Matisse Thybel not there tonight because they're in
Toronto and he's not he's not vaccinated, so they're dead
down a piece. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. No, this
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is bad, this is bad. So we will keep you
posted on. This game is about to start any moment now.
A couple other big games as well. Phoenix in New Orleans. Uh,
Phoenix stop. They don't need to play around with New Orleans.
Rob get rid of them. We will return because if
(06:00):
you rush him back and he's not right or something happens,
I just would It seems fast to me, you know, Yeah,
it just does. And I don't know, like again, he
knows his body, he's been through with the doctors, Chris
and all that, but my goodness, it just seemed real quick.
And if they rush him back and he hurts himself
(06:23):
or something happens, I don't know if they'll And I
understand they don't want to go any further with this. Um,
but still I just hope he's good. I think they
can beat them without book even but I Rob, I
think they would air on the side of caution. And
I think they just feel like he's ready. Um, he's ready.
(06:44):
You know what I've always said, if you're ready to play, play,
I'm not they if he's ready, he's ready. And the
doctors signed off on the Christen play players play. That's
what they do. Yeah, And you got Dallas and you
taught and not yet most of themas that's all tonight
and then Dallas trying to close them out there up
(07:05):
three two a Rob, we got a big We had
a big win last night by Milwaukee. They closed out Chicago.
Do you feel like the next round it's Boston and Milwaukee?
And a lot of times, I want to preface this
by saying a lot of times, whether it was ROB
college basketball in the final four or the NBA, whether
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it's a conference final or a semifinal round, like we're
gonna be in in the second round. A lot of
times when you feel like that is the championship, you
know what I mean? Like these are the two best
teams and whoever wins that series or game is going
to move forward and win the whole thing. A lot
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of times when you feel that way, it doesn't pan
out that way, right, But I do look and I
know Miami Philly Miami Toronto, that's gonna be the the
other matchup. I do feel like these are the two
best teams in the Eastern Conference. Yeah, in Boston. So
I think this is the conference championship. It is. It
just feels like this should be the conference championship, but
(08:12):
it doesn't work out that way because of the seating
and uh, you know Miami will have its say Chris
if they move on, right. Um, So yeah, it does
kind of feel like this this team will be the team.
The winner of this will probably come out of the East.
That's why we think of it as the conference final,
right yep, yep, So do you have I'm I'll give
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you my pick, Rob and I've I gotta be honest,
I'm I'm. This is a tough one. I don't feel
too confident either way. I feel like either team could
win this. I feel like, obviously Yannis is the best
player I think in the world, and so obviously the
best in this series. Um, but I'm gonna go with
(08:58):
Boston in seven. And I think a big thing that
put me over the top was Chris Middleton. The reports
Robert that he's gonna be out the entire series, and
that is big. Yeah. And look, I know they looked
great against Chicago without him, Chicago's not wasn't a very
good defensive team. Chicago also was a bit banged up,
(09:21):
and Grayson Allen stepped in and averaged twenty points a
game in the three games at Middleton miss. I don't
see him doing that against Boston. And so I'm going
with the Celtics in seven. But with hesitated, I mean,
this is this is really to me, this is almost
like a pick him. I'm gonna tell you why I'm
going against Boston. Even though they swept the Nuts. They
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won those four games by a total of seventeen. Right,
it wasn't like they blew anybody out and they played
the hell kd down and they and they you know
what I mean, Chris, Like it wasn't like they ran
them out the gym like oh my god, like like
they won those games, especially the first two or three
at the end, right where what they just made the
(10:06):
plays and they won those games or whatever, and the
Nets Claxton, we talked about him, Chris, they he missed
twenty free throws or whatever it was. And I'm not
saying he was gonna make them all. That's his m all,
that's who he is, and that's a part of the game, right.
So I'm just saying, as great as Boston looked in
those four games, and they did because they swept a
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team like the Nets with two great scorers on it,
I don't know I'm gonna say that Milwaukee will still
be able to beat them. And I think Middleton is
a big loss. I'm not pooh poohing him Chris at all,
but teams find a way sometimes. I remember, just remember
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last year when um, you know, yeah, a perfect example.
Everybody thought, remember he got hurt in the Utah series, Chris,
right in the second round. Oh they can't beat Utah.
What they beat Utah? Oh they can't, you know that?
And they got to the conference final, I mean, yeah,
to the Western Conference Finals. So all I'm saying is
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teams find a way sometimes you think somebody's out. Look
at what the Dallas Mavericks are. Well, Luca was out
the first couple of games, Chris, Oh, that's serious, is
it right? Right? Well, I look, and that's the one
thing that is giving me trepidation about picking Boston is
that in the past year Yannis has always risen to
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the occasion he has He's the last year. Boy, he
did last year. He did it in against Chicago. Um,
whatever was needed, he did it. And that is something
that makes me concerned. Yes, I just wonder without Middleton,
is are they gonna be able to get enough scoring? No,
(11:59):
he's gonna get you know, he's gonna get his. But yeah,
where is the rest of the scoring coming from? Yeah?
Does Boston I mean you never just give up points, obviously,
but do they take have somewhat of a mentality of Look,
we're gonna guard Yannis kind of straight up, and if
he kills us, we're shutting everybody else down. You know
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what is their mentality? Uh, for defensively for this team.
So it's gonna be a great series. Um, yeah, I'm
gonna take Milwaukee in seven. Yeah, I'm not mad at that.
I'm not mad at then. And what else's interesting? Robbed?
You wonder what home court advantage be a big factor,
because remember Milwaukee could have gotten the second seed, but
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they right, they sat there. Guys, some people think they
didn't want to see. I think Brooklyn would have beaten him,
do you think so? Yeah? I mean, look, I could
be wrong. I thought Brooklyn was gonna be Boston, so
I readily admit I could be wrong, but I I
think Brooklyn would have beaten them. And I think a
lot of people are are poo poo in the nets
like they were guard yell. They never were that good anyway,
(13:07):
but they beat Miami, Philly and Milwaukee. Saw at the
end of the season, right with Kyrie and KD. So
I mean people are like people are over the top now,
like like they don't fit together, they can win. We
saw it. You remember the push to the postseason and
that gave up against Philly. We were like, oh, how
could you not like what we just saw? Yep, we
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loved it. So um we are going to see but
we'll throw it out to you guys. Eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine, six
sixty three sixty nine. I've got the Celtics in seven,
Rob's got the Bucks in seven. Who you got eight
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eight seven seven nine, you're not on Fox. You're turned
away in who you got Bucks or Celtics? All right, Chris,
let's kick it off with the ed in Vegas. You're
on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What up? Ed?
Hey guys, long time listener, first time caller, Thank you. Yeah,
it's one of the chime in. I'm really I'm the
(15:21):
Celtics bandwagon right now. After the number they did on Brooklyn,
they had this why not us mentality. I think Milwaukee's
gonna have their hands full now. It's gonna be a
good one man there. I don't think anybody can. The
only thing that would surprise me is if this thing
is a wipeout one way or the other. Oh yeah,
I would be surprised too. I don't see that, Chris.
(15:41):
I'm with you. Uh. Sean and Sacramento, you're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio? What up? Sean? Yeah,
Michael's from another mother. My brother's behind the board. Magael
top on Sporty Cups two point zero one. I'll see
you over there plushing everything out, getting it yes, make
sure you get it cut too, Rob. Oh yeah, I didn't.
I got one today? All right? And and Sean, I
(16:04):
do want to say this. Sean Chris has uh joined
MLB bro dot com as our baseball gambling insider. Sean
bow His picks debut tomorrow on MLB congratulations dot com. Hey,
many like Pat rob Man, I just want to be
(16:28):
his assistant mayor. Man, he just need a little bit
more health over there, maintaining the mayor and the resident
funds that we're gonna get it back, going my tech
real quick, man, there's surprise here. I am locked that
with mister Rob Parker. And I think the reason why
is even though the Celtics looked amazing against the Nets,
the Nets have no defenders on that team for these
(16:49):
premier guys and Tatum and Brown. Now that these guys
gotta go get as Drew Holiday and the honest I mean,
it's gonna be a whole different ballgame. And who do
they have for you? Honest man, I know the time
I'm Mort's back and he's looking all right. But Yannis
is a whole different monster. The numbers he put up
in around one, I feel like the same thing is
coming around two bucks and six, mark my words, Fellers,
(17:10):
all right, there you go, he got him in six.
This is our Buddy bien Soo in Palm Beach. You're
on the eye couple of Fox Sports Radio. What up?
What's going on? Crystal Rawl was going on? Man? Man,
how you been? I'm going all right, doing alright, just
walking the playoffs like everybody else. Okay, what you got
(17:32):
on this? Milwaukee Boston? I want to hear this. Oh
you know, I got your Bucks and five. I'm doing
better from what are you watching? Five and five? Let
me let me tell you. Let me tell you something.
You guys are sleeping on the Milwaukee Bucks defense. That
Starning five that they're about to roll out with Bobby
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Starning at the small at small forward and work in
Yannis and then you have one Westley mask. You guys
are forgetting about Wesley Mastery. He is he's a hound on.
I forgot about him ten years ago. Look, they are
a good defensive team, but both is the best defensive teams,
(18:16):
the best, But they Milwaukee's a good defensive team. And
they're big. They're huge. That's you know, that's one of
their advantages. But be sure to catch live editions of
The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker weekdays
at seven pm. Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the iHeart Radio app Our next guest is
(18:37):
a former NFL quarterback himself now co host of The
Nightcap on Vicing Live. Our man, Sean King, Sean, how
are you hey? I just got to text from heart
enough for the first quarter. He said he heard Chris
call him old in his prime tonight. Hey, man, you
(18:58):
ain't lying. He's come out of I saw I go
to the hole for a dunk and at the firsd
time he dunked in like three years. Hey, Sean, you know, hey,
you know, older guys, you might start out ferocious, but
you know, let's see if he can finish the job
your personal life. That's that's the ultimate. The ultimate criticism
(19:20):
for a guy getting old is to call him old,
like because in his his mine like figuring out way.
But thank you guys for having me. Man excited absolutely,
and you texted robbing me. I think it was early
this morning, yes, um saying that Sam how the quarterback
out of North Carolina, It's going to be the best
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quarterback in this draft. How now to us? I know
he's got a strong arm. He did well on the
Wonderlick too, so tell us why you think he's gonna
be the one to emerge in this draft and how
good do you think it gonna be? Well, I think
it's gonna be really good. And uh, I wanted to
make sure that I got on here and said it
publicly before you know, everybody two years from now it's like, oh, yeah,
(20:04):
I had Sam Howe he rated number one, So you know,
he's the known commodity in this group, you know, some
kind of way because North Carolina didn't live up to
preseason expectations and they're not the kind of program that
can put four skilled players in the NFL, which is
what they did after last year and bounced back. They're
not Georgia, they're not Alabama, so of course the supporting
(20:26):
cast wasn't what it was. But Sam Hollis stowed for
three thousand yards in three years straight, two for thirty
plus touchdowns in both of those first two years. A
lot of people thought coming into this season he would
be the number one pick. And so what really really
makes me high on him? As in an era where
Kyler Murray Baker Mayfield won't do the intangible leadership things
(20:47):
to get the entire organization behind him, this is a
kid that could have opted out. He could have said,
you know, Michael Carter's in New York with the jetson
Javante Williams, you know, with the Broncos and I lost
Dommy Brown. I'm just gonna sit out and protect my
draft status. He showed up every game, even when they
were out of the a SEC Championship race. Kid was
(21:07):
under the rest room on the plus yards and somebody
would have said, Sam, how I round for eight hundred
yards and said you to laugh, like stopped it. Really
good athlete. He even showed up. He even showed up
guys in the Duke's Mayo Bone like you talk about
a kid that's committed to finishing the race, getting to
the end of his journey, like these are the things
(21:28):
that a lot of these young quarterbacks that we give
all this adolation and platform too before they earn it.
He's that hard one. I won't leaving my team. So
let me ask you this shan, Who's who's drafting them? See,
that's where it gets tricky, because I just gonna plust
those guys and make those decisions off. I'm asking because
I'm trying to figure out where he fits and what
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team is so so it's that's a crapshoot? Is it?
A first round? Is the second round? Where if I
was a gym of the Panther, I would be trying
to trade out of six to select Sam Howe either
into the first or early in the second, that we
acquire a second round pick as well, because they do
(22:12):
need to enhance an offensive line. Who do you think
is the first quarterback to go? A lot of talk
that Pittsburgh. I mean, I've seen talk to Pittsburgh to
take Malik Willis or Kenny Pickett. Do you think they
go with a quarterback? In which one? Who do you
think they go with? You know, it's interesting because everything
that I've heard is that, you know, Mike Tomlin and
(22:33):
the organization love Desmond Ritter, the quarterback from Cincinnati. So
quarterback hasn't been going off the board at twenty. I mean,
I don't know, I really don't. I mean, I think
Pickett is gonna be a good player. It took him
three years in Mark Whipple's system, like when you peeled
(22:53):
back to the layers a little bit. He threw forty
two touchdowns, but that was year five. If not for COVID,
he wouldn't have gotten year five. The four years he
played before that, he threw thirty six total touchdowns. Wow,
so we're talking about one year of elite activity. Malik Willis.
You know Malik Willis. I mean, he's supposed to be
this great athlete and he tests like one. When he
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was sacked fifty one times, that's like second most in
all of college football. So what he doesn't he's not
athletic enough to avoid the hold the ball too long,
I would imagine, I think hogging on the ball too long,
you know, being slow to make decisions. And so when
I'm talking first round picked, that needs to be a
guy can play year one and he can play at
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a relatively close to winning level and definitely in too,
be like a starting quarterback that we have no doubts
about because otherwise everybody that's in the organization when he
was drafted their fire. We go ahead, Chris with Kenney picking.
Let's go back to him. The big knock on him,
I mean, you brought up one of nat he really
only has one year production. But also the hands, um
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he would have the smallest hands in the league. I
don't know, is that a big deal. What do you
think about that. So to pick content context on that,
if he had a fumbling problem at Pittsburgh, I would
think that would be a huge red flag. But when
you watch this time in Pittsburgh, he wasn't a guy
that put the ball on the ground a lot. So
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that leads me to believe, like his hands may not
measure big, but they obviously have a lot of strength.
They're able to grip you ever, Like I have family
in the South, So you got got that uncle who
just country strong. You don't have big hand. He knocked
all to win out like somebody ball hand right right now?
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I know. Yeah, So Sean Jacksonville, I mean I'm figuring
they got more holes in the golf course. What what
do they do at the first overall pick? Well, if
I'm running Jacksonville, I go Trayvon Walker because he's the
home run hitter. You know what I think. I think
Hutchinson is a good player, but I think he's a
doubles guy. Like he's gonna be solid, He's never gonna
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be spectacular like Trayvon Walker is. I mean, when you
if you could draw it up, that's what they look like.
And people are gonna point to his lack of production.
So the difference is the leading tackler that Georgia has
seventy three tackles, that was the safety who would side everybody.
Can we agree Georgia had the best defense in college football?
Oh yeah, yeah, they're leading. They're leading tackler would have
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ranked two hundred and twenty first in the NC Double
A and tackles like Trayvon Walker had six sacks, that
was second on the team. The number one guy had
six and a half. So they were so good, so talented,
all the s attentions. This got spread out right right,
that makes sense. Um, you know, just a just a
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period on Hutchinson. You know, everybody out here on TV
talking about this production. He had fourteen sacks this past season.
In the three years before that he had four and
a half total. But we're still talking about an outlier
as far as being like an elite pass rusher. There's
you know, there's always at least talk about trades at
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the draft and a lot of time there are some trades.
Deebo Samuel wants out. You know, John Lynch said he's
not trading him. But the most people that think he's
going to be traded are talking about the Jets. And look,
the Jets have had some good years here or there anywhere. Yeah,
I look, we saw Levian Belle go there and absolutely disappear.
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If I'm Deebo Samuel, I mean, I gotta think twice
about do I really want to go to the New
York Jets because his career may never be the same.
Where are you at on debo in different systems and
particularly with the Jets? Well, I'll say this, if if
if Deebo Samuel Devin, do we lose him? He break? Yeah?
(27:01):
I think see if you can get him back? Oh,
I hate like it's a cliffhanger. We need to hear
it right right exactly where are you at on that? Right?
I just I mean I bashed the Jets because, like
we we've talked about it before. They've had decent years
here and there. It's been eleven years since they were
in the playoffs, right, But I don't know, man, You
just gotta be careful, No, you do. You gotta be
(27:21):
careful and and um, you know they're trying to get
it together and and uh we building. They got a
young quarterback and they're in a division Chris with Buffalo.
Where you going Buffalo and Miami's improved. Miami's improved, and
you know, the Patriots are still in the way, like there,
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you know, and I'm not saying they should be afraid
and think they can't beat anybody, but I don't know
where they're going. They're far and away the worst team
in that division. Yeah, clear, clear worst team, right, Look
to finish your there, we want to hear it so
soon chasing the bag like just seefore, a guy that's
been injured and has seen like a glimpse at the end.
(28:06):
You know, when you're an athlete and you're going through it,
you don't think about when it's over journey until you
can't really do the same things anymore. So he was injured,
he meant some time, and okay, I think there's a
realization I gotta get paid now. And so if you're
San Francisco, all they got to decide is all we
willing to pay him what he's asking And if you are,
then you keep him because I think you're a super
(28:28):
Bowl caliber team at every position but quarterback. If you
sign him. If you decide no, we were not wanting
to pay him that, then go and get assets and return.
Do you think does he excel? We had Flaxico burrs On,
who is kind of question Rob correct me if I'm wrong,
like he wasn't a certain debo would excel in all
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types of systems, right that Sometimes the system and where
you're playing works on, you know, enhances your and Shannon
hands creative and they feel like he got him in
good positions there. Do you feel that way, Sean, or
if you're talented and you're good, you can just do it? Well?
I feel that way, but I feel like that needs
to be and minus that we placed on the coordinator
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not hinderance to the player. If the player has talent
and the coach can't figure out how to put the
player in position to maximize that talent, that's a coach
problem like that. That's kind of where That's kind of
where I differ with Plexico a little bit. Let's not
blame the player. The talent is there, what is the
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coach doing? Well? That's why I brought up the Jets
so you'll see all right, before I will tell all
the Jets players this. Robert Sola was picked because his
defensive expertise. Right. New York Jets was thirty second in
total defense last year, No way possible. They don't go
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defensive for no, you're wrong. You got you have to
get that defense right. Thanks great a bro, Thank you
man Hey, And we're gonna hold you to that, Sam
how because you were saying that with Walters in your voice.
All right, don't be don't don't be not answering the
phone two years from now when we call you on
Sam how Hey, same number five, nineteen nine and nine,
(30:23):
we're gonna say, you know what, when he doesn't get
drafted in the first two rounds, I'm gonna say, no, way, no,
Sam how all right, Sean Peace, that's our man, Sean King.
You gotta check him out or he's the co host
of The Nightcap on vs Iron Live. It is the
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All right, last night I'm going one. I got both
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NBA games and I got hurt by. I had a
baseball game the over under. I had the over Twins
and Tigers. It was five nothing Minnesota, so they didn't
go over the seven and a half, Chris, So I
didn't didn't win the uh the part lay, but I
did get the two basketball games right last night? All right, tonight,
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all basketball, no baseball on the Czecho City. I have
the Raptors plus one and a half. And Chris, that
Philadelphia lead has disappeared already. Yeah yeah, I mean Toronto
is back in the front. Last time. I wonder the day.
It's tied now at forty six, way through the second quarter.
(33:40):
But look, you gotta wonder. Philly came out and hit
him in the mouth. But you remember fourteen points from
mb you got ten from Harden, but they shot sixty
five percent too early. Remember, you know that's gonna come down, right,
because Toronto wasn't hitting shots right and they were still
within five. So yeah, it looks like Philly's in for
(34:04):
a tough night. Yeah, I picked to Ronald plus the
one and a half. I have the Pelicans plus one
and a half to Chris at home. U they might
close them out the songs, Yeah, I think the Pelicans
started being at home. Chris, this is your last game, possibly, right,
you know what I mean. You might give your roll,
(34:24):
you might lose, But I like the point and a
half at home. So I took the Pelicans and then
I took the Utah Jazz plus one. I don't know,
I just um, again, they're at home, Dallas leads this thing.
Maybe they push you to a game seven. So I
got all underdogs all getting points tonight. Remember I'm not
(34:44):
telling you who to bet on. I'm just telling you
who I be. Hey, man, what'd you think of that
bra An email being St. Louis? Yeah? Man, Um, why
does baseball get away with it? I don't know. Well,
you know, hockey got away with it for a long
time because you remember they to swing sticks and stuff
(35:05):
at people and it was viewed as a part of
the game. And hockey, no, no, but they stopped it.
They pulled it back because it was bad. But they'll
let them fight. They'll stay in there and let them
get into it a little. Yeah, but it's not as
bad as it used to. Remember the blood and everything
on the ice, it was bad. Um And baseball, I know,
it's a ball and it's a and and and a bat,
(35:28):
and I don't know, it's still kind of barbaric when
you see that kind of stuff. I don't mean it
didn't get you know, everybody was out there, but it
wasn't like a ton of fighting going, thankfully, but it
just hadn't even. Yeah, you shouldn't even because God forbid.
I mean, you got what fifty dudes out there and
(35:48):
he could turn into something and he could get somebody injured, right,
cost a guy or and the team its seasons. So yeah,
they need to they need to really, you know, cut that. Like, Look,
the NBA had an issue and they took care of it,
and I think baseball, you get don't. What you do
it is you gotta make people Chris when you start
(36:09):
taking money away from people, right, That's that's really what
it comes down to. Yep, just pensions things like that, right,
are you losing salary. You're like, I don't think I'm
going out there right right? So all right, Rob, well
you're in Detroit. How long are you there? I'll be
back in LA Yeah until Sunday. So I'm just taking
care of some stuff, seeing some friends and stuff. So
(36:30):
that's it. Quick trip to Detroit and last night, Chris,
that's the fight to Detroit. Three hours and forty five minutes.
Oh it was great. Would you fly Spirit? Spirit? You
know I did all that money you got, you got
Louis Vatton's whatever, Siga sneakers, Gucci slippers, and you fly Spirit?
(36:53):
Come on, man, ridiculous. All right, it's the eye. But
we are signing off. Keep it locked right here. Our
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