May 29, 2023 • 47 mins
Ben Maller previews the upcoming Game Seven between the Heat and the Celtics with who will win and go to the Finals. Ben chimes in on where he thinks DeAndre Hopkins will end up and forecasts the Cardinals possibly tanking. Plus, we here more about the Jimmy G injury and what it means with a injury waiver in his contract
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So our lead to begin the festivities here comes from
pro bouncy ball over the weekend, the story that everyone's
talking about. We don't want to be on the outside here.
We want to be part of the cool kids. So
the Celtics and the Heat. You assume you watched game
number six the Eastern Conferences. There will be a game
seven tonight. This is our Monday show. We kick off
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the week here, so Monday night Game seven in Boston.
But it's all about Game six. And if you did
not watch because you had something going on on Saturday
in the nighttime hours, you could not watch whatever. You
probably know what happened by now, but if not, former
San Antonio spur Derek White, who Derek White kind of
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a generic name, but he made a buzzer beater put
back shot with a millisecond literally a millisecond before the
light went on in the background of the backboard as
the clock expired, and Boston extending the Eastern Conference Finals
as it will go to the final elimination game, which
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is wonderful, wonderful for all involved. And so let us
discuss the question are the Celtics now dare Rod Tait
to win Game seven at home. They are a sizable
favorite on the parque. And now I say no, despite
the bell I say no. All right, I'll shake my head. No.
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I've got Wikipedia, Southwest Airlines, and Outpatient, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a nice cream pie, a Boston Creek pie,
which is what the loser of Game seven will get
right to the schnaz right there, right to the schnaz.
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So a nothing is guaranteed. I remember in the playoffs
last year, the Dallas Mavericks were playing the Phoenix Suns
in a Game seven in Arizona. I was like, well,
Sons are at home, They're gonna win that game. It
was early in the Western Conference. Plauffs, how did that
turn out? Well? If I remember correctly, the Suns lost
that game by seven gazillion points. I might be off
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by a few, but it was a completely lopsided game
and favor of the road team Dallas. You know what
happens when you assume, do not assume the position that
the Celtics are just gonna sasha their way into Game
seven and walk out with a victory. I don't believe
that's the case. Now as far as game six, We'll
get to more on game seven, but as far as
game six, the Celtics won the game that they were
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supposed to lose in game six. That's the story here, right,
And we had mentioned this validates the take. We had
mentioned that the Celtics were incapable of playing four consecutive
perfect games, and we were right. But they won the
game they were supposed to lose. That's the story here.
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It was not a masterpiece in game six. The Celtics
got the fluke win, so that sets them up to
now win game seven, which is not a guarantee, but
game six does count as a fluke. The Celtics live
and die by the three point shot. They attempted thirty
five to three point shots in Game six and missed
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eighteen of them. They missed from here, there, and everywhere.
They shot twenty percent seven of thirty five from three
point range. In Game six, Jason Tatum sucked at a
time you cannot suck. In the second half of that game,
an elimination game for Boston if they lose, Tatum took
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nine shots in the second half. He missed eight of
the nine in the second half. Zero of eight from
behind the arc in the game and Boston still wins.
That was a classic vanishing act by the star player,
the kind of a performance, the kind of stench that
would have stuck to Jason Tatum had the outcome been
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different in that game. But that's a bailout, that's a
federal bailout for the Celtics, the bailout that Derek White bailout.
Playing all of that gets pushed to the side there
because Derek White tip the ball in to win it
at the end, and so that becomes for many in
the media, they've already tagged it a all time iconic
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moment in NBA history for the Celtics. But for that
to become an all time iconic moment, the Celtics have
to win Monday night tonight. They have to win Game seven,
and they have to win the championship. So even if
they win Game seven and eliminate Miami and get to
the finals, and then the joker laughs at the Celtics
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and Denver ends up winning the championship and that Derek
White shots not nearly as cool, right, anything less, The
standard is you've got to win the championship. Anything less
than that, and that is a footnote on Derek White's
Wikipedia page, and that's it. That's the only place you'll
find that will be on the Wikipedia page of Derek White.
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And there'll be no need to bring it up. You
won't need to make a documentary about it twenty years
from now or ten years from now, and there's no
need to print t shirts. And it just moves to
the side, right moves to the side. That's how that works.
But here's the thing. The Celtics shouldn't win this. We
picked the Celtics before the series started based on the
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fact that they have a huge talent gap and there
is a great imbalance. There was a reason Boston was
an overwhelming favorite coming into this particular series. The disparity
is on their side, and yet they find themselves having
the scratch and claw in a game seven situation just
to advance. But the odds, and I had a buddy
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of mine mentioned this to me, the odds were actually
worse that Miami would win three games in a row
against Boston than Boston winning four games in a row
against Miami. Think about that. I mean the fact that
the Heat won three games in a row and we're
playing like with silly putty, the Celtics playing the role
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of the silly putty in that game. Now, meanwhile, you
look at the situation here, big favorite Game seven at home,
but from the Miami side, Page two. Here from the
Miami side, what has gone wrong for the Heat? So
the stars have gone in the darkness in the witness
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protection program. So you've got a little bit of that
going on. A minimalist effort by the two big guns
for the Miami Heat of late. And I don't think
it's because of any great adjustment by the Celtics. I
have not noticed any amazing coaching move by let him
play Joel Mizzoula in this series. But listen, Miami's attack
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has been stripped down bare bones, and you've got the
micro and the macro, as we like to say, so
the micro and the macro. Now we'll start with the micro. Saturday,
Miami did not play a complete game. Jimmy Butler made
the clutch shots, but he and Bam out of Bio,
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we're both guilty of truancy and it's been that way
for the last several games. Butler in that game on
Saturday five of twenty one, which is less than twenty
four percent from the four for Jimmy Buckets, bam out
of Baio who takes almost all of his shots right
near the basket, and he took sixteen shots, he missed
twelve of them. It's twenty five percent. And those were
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not contested shots, most of them were not Most of
them were just old fashioned brick house type moments there
where the shots were just missed point blank range. Jimmy
Butler from under the basket, where the league average is
sixty six point six percent. The sign of the devil
that you make sixty six point six percent, Butler shot
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twenty percent right, twenty percent. Three of fifteen Jimmy Butler
shot from the painted area, and you know, I'm masculating,
and bam out of BYO three of thirteen in that
game set in the paned Aica. And so that's more
what has become the norm recently. Still Miami is in
position in game six, they're right there. As we mentioned,
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Boston does not make the outside shot, and Jimmy Buckets
makes a bunch three clutch foul shots and one after
another to put Miami ahead. So what was the turning
point what allowed Boston to win the game? Derek White
with the put back. Well, nobody's talking about this will
be the only ones to talk about it. If you
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watch the replay Max Struce for the Miami Heat, outside
specialist Max Strus lost track of the inbounder and he
did not keep himself in front of the person he
was supposed to keep himself in front of, and he
was trying to keep the ball out of Jason Tatum's hands,
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but he in the heat of the moment, the way
it looked, Struce lost Derek White. He lost Derek White. Butler,
Jimmy but overall has gone into Siberia land here. Over
the last three games. He's shooting thirty six percent from
the floor, thirty percent from three point right, so he's
been bad and he's taken fifty two shots, he's missed
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thirty three of them. While Jimmy Butler's been on the court,
the Heat have been outscored by forty four points by
the Celtics, and Bam out of Bio has been a
minus thirty on the plus minus. So both those guys
have had Southwest Airlines type marketing, want to get away,
want to get away fares for both of them wowsers,
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But all of that much like we talked about with
the Celtics, and if they were to lose Game seven, well,
for Miami, all of that gets forgotten if the Heat
are victorious Memorial Day here in Boston in advance to
the NBA Finals. Now the last word here, how can
Miami win a Game seven on the row? We mentioned
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It's not a garntee, it's not a foe gone conclusion.
The Celtics gonna show up and going to win this game.
So the question is how can they win on the
road if you're Miami. Well, obviously it's easier said than done.
But the key to all of these things, all of
the noise and all the nonsense leading up to these games,
is to simply be better in the moment. This is
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not brain surgery. It's not that hard. When all is
said and done, more is said than done. But Jimmy
Buckets needs to be the outpatient surgeon at the clinic here,
works surgically and put the pressure. The key part to
me is to put the pressure on Boston because they
if the heat can hang around, you make it a
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couple of baskets either way for the first part of
the game. That puts the pressure mounting on the Celtics.
And the great thing about a Game seven is guys
are exposed. They're pants tight. Took his syndrome, I can't
wait right. Some guys can handle it, some guys can't,
and we will find out. We'll all be watching to
see who can handle the immense pressure and who crumbles
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under the spotlight, and oftentimes it's the star players. We
all assume Jimmy Butler's gonna play well because that's his
reputation and all that, but there's no guarantee. Jason Tatum,
He's vanished in a number of these games. He vanished
in the last game Boston won. Anyway, they got the
federal bailout plan from Derek White. But fans in Boston
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will start hissing and boeing if the Celtics fall behind
going to the fourth quarter, raising a ruckus, and then
that escalates the temperature for the Celtics even more, and
then you start the finger pointing and all that. But
ultimately all that matters who is better in the moment,
right in the moment, and Jimmy Butler can avoid the
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historical tank being on his playoff Jimmy resume all the
in terms of the overall pressure, right, people pressure this well,
I think that's all a lot of you know, mostly bs.
But in terms of answering the question, there's clearly pressure
on both teams. But the cool thing about this game,
which is very rare that we get watching these games,
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is either way, whatever the outcome is is a wild story. Right,
it's wild story because the majority to me is still
on Boston. They're at home. They've won the three games
to get to a game seven. They lose this game.
If I own the Celtics, I fired Joe Missoula, let
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him play Joe because it should have never come to
a game seven. So Missoula's job is on the line.
We'll start with that. Yes, he's out right. He'll go
be an assistant somewhere or coach at the YMCA, I
don't know, but Joe Mozula's coaching for his career. The
whole Miami heat culture thing gets blown to bits if
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Miami ends up losing this game. We are already annoyed
by that storyline, so that goes away the loss. As
we mentioned earlier in this diatribe, If the Celtics lose,
Derek White and his bailout shot are background noise. They're forgotten, right,
We forget about that and with a win, a lot
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of sins go away, a lot of sins for the Celtics,
lot of sins for the Miami Heat. So that's what's
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microphones of FSR, The Transaction wire burned up Burn, Baby Burn,
and a story that we talked about for several months
had become reality. A name that had been mentioned and
whispered and hushed tones as a player that was gonna
change teams. The first leg of that happened. If you
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didn't see and you don't have no idea what we're
talking about, what's the riddle? Get to the point place,
all right? So DeAndre Hopkins was fired from his job
in the NFL. Now, the NFL doesn't use the word
fired when it comes to players. They say you were released,
which is a nice way of saying you were fired.
But he was let go from his job with the
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Arizona Cardinals. It's a softer way to say you got
fired when you say you were released, but he was fired.
Hopkins spent three years in Arizona seventeen touchdown receptions on
his resume with the Birds. The Desert variety of the
Birds still had two years left on his contract for
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thirty four million dollars. Maybe we all have two years
left on our contract for thirty four million dollars like
de Andre Hopkins had. So now the question becomes who's
got next? Who's got next? So let us discuss the
way we'll frame it. We'll keep it simple. It's sports
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talk radio. But the way we're gonna frame this is
as follows. So where does de Andre Hopkins end up
now that he is free to roam around the NFL?
Cont read So, I've got Stevie ray Vaughn, Disco Tech,
and Irish Spring, and we will combine all of these
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things together, will squish them together, and we are going
to make a nice, big moving van, which is what
DeAndre is going to need as he moves all his
crap out of Arizona somewhere else on the NFL circuit.
So Number, why number? There is a limited market for
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DeAndre Hopkins. Believe it or not. I believe it. I'm
the one that just said it. I'll tell you why.
All right? He is promoting himself. He's propping himself up.
Maybe that's a better way of saying it as a
high end commodity, but the numbers recently don't back that up.
That's a problem. And the whispers around the NFL say
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that Hopkins only wants to play for a legitimate super
Bowl contender. Well what if those legitimate super Bowl contenders
do not want DeAndre Hopkins? Then what do you do.
That's a quagmire of a situation. Now we're not there yet,
but nobody else, nobody else apparently, will solve his unquenchable
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thirst to play for a winning team. Of course, I
think that's a lot of malarkey. And then ultimately, DeAndre
Hopkins will end up going where the money is, assuming
all things are equal. If there's a team that is
a contender that offers a similar contract, he will go
to that team that's better. But it's not like he's
going to totally eliminate the teams that are fringe contenders.
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But we'll talk about what his people have tossed out
into the echo chamber, the people who are on Team
Hopkins and whatnot. So there are three obvious super Bowl contenders.
If I gave you a list of three teams. Then
I said, you've got to come up with three teams
that I can guarantee you are going to be in
the conversation for the Super Bowl next time it's being
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played in Vegas. Those three teams on my big board,
not a list because we don't do list radio, but
my big board, I've got Kansas City that's obvious, Buffalo
here we go, Buffalo, and Cincinnati ben Gals. Those three teams.
So those would be the first three teams if this
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reporting is accurate. DeAndre Hopkins wants to play for a
Whitner and not some team in the outskirts of that.
So you go Kansas City, Buffalo, and Cincinnati as the
first three teams. But we eliminate the Bengals. They're eliminated
because they do not make moves like this. They don't,
so you're gonna race them off your big board. And
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then you're like, well wait a minute. Here it becomes
an old Stevie ray Vaughn song Love Struck Baby, and
you say, okay, in terms of contenders, they have a
clear need here the process of elimination, and it is
the Chiefs all day that should be where DeAndre Hopkins
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ends up if he wants to play for a winner,
a team that has a need there. Buffalo not as much.
But Patrick Mahomes is the measuring stick. Do we all
agree on that Mahomes is the measuring stick for quarterbacks
right now? In that business. He's the top guy of
his generation. And Andy Reid is a top three coach
in the NFL. So there is also a void there
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when you peruse the roster of the Chiefs and you're like,
wait a minute, where did all the receivers go? I
know they won last year without having a top notch receiver,
but the depth chart has Marquez Valdez Scantling as the
number one receiver, Kadarius Tony as the number two, and
Sky Moore as number three on the list. That's the
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top three receivers right there. Not exactly a murderer's row
of pass catchers. And you look acrossover at Buffalo, Well, yeah,
they got josh Adamon. He's pretty good. He's had some
hiccups now and again. And then you look at Stefan
Diggs and Gabe Davis. Both those guys are would be
number one receivers on Kansas City. And also the other
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problem you get not that the weather's great in Kansas
City late in the year, but in Buffalo you get
anywhere from two to four Lake Effect blizzard games where
the Bills become a running team, And therefore DeAndre Hopkins
would just be out there blocking and would not be
part of the offense there because you just don't throw
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the ball in those nasty cold the late season Bills
home games one of the reasons the Bills offensive players
have a huge hill to climb in order to win
a Most Valuable Player Now award. Now, the other team
that we're tossing out this is not a contender. They're
not going to win anything. But you toss them out
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for DeAndre Hopkins as we're playing the speculation game, and
that would be Cleveland and the Browns. Now, why the
Browns because of the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson. They played
together in Houston and so that would of course be
another mistake by the Lake. But DeAndre Hopkins could go
to Cleveland, he would be the number one receiver ahead
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of Amari Cooper and Donovan People's Jones and ex jet
Elijah Moore, who are hanging out there in northern Ohio.
Now page two here So why did the Cardinals just
get rid of DeAndre Hopkins to release him rather then
trade him, even if it was for a conditional late
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round draft pick, when you have been better off making
the trade. Of course, you don't have to be an
executive for an NFL team. The Cardinals would have absolutely
been better off if they had made a trade. The
short answer is the reason they didn't. There are a
bunch of ragamuffins, that's the short answer. There. Now to
expand on that. Rather than make a lopsided deal that
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would have been giving up a talent for a low
round draft pick, they made no trade at all. They
went to the discothech and they did the dance of
the clueless. Is what the Cardinals did here. Getting something,
even if it's not great, is better than nothing. And
the Cardinals are spinning this as a victory. Of course
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they are. Why wouldn't they. That's what all the teams do.
Oh everything's great, Oh we're good. No, not really, not
really right? I mean, what else did you expect them
to do? Say that we lost the transaction releasing releasing
the player. But the naked truth is, and you're not
going to get this. A lot of places but DeAndre
Hopkins at this point is a C level player who
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thinks he's an A level player. That's a problem, right,
that's a problem. Don't let a falling star fall on you.
And he's past the age of thirty. That's a problem
when you get to this wide receiver. Very rarely do
you get top notch production from a receiver past the
age of thirty, So declining value on that. And he's
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also got the stank of a PD cheat that doesn't
really work all that much in Football's more of a
baseball thing, but that's on his resume as well. So
you've got injuries, you've got the classical deva wide receiver tendencies,
and you do the arithmetic and ninety nine point nine
percent of receivers have a little Diva in them if
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they're any good. But spoiler, even with all that noise,
the Cardinals could have still gotten something and they got enough. Instead,
they're claiming victory because they saved eight million dollars in
salary cap space. But by the way, they're still going
to have a dead salary cap hit of twenty two
point six million. Now on this show, we are salary
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cap truthers. On this show. We know the manipulation of
the salary cap that you use it to explain anything.
It's the ultimate explanation the confessional. It's like, well, the
reason we got rid of those players because we couldn't
afford them anymore. Say blah blah blah. If you want
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to keep someone, if the Cardinals wanted to keep DeAndre Hopkins,
and we know what they're trying to do, they're trying
to suck. But if they wanted to keep them, they
could have worked it out. They could have kept them
on the roster, but they didn't. The salary cap is
a object that is manipulated easily. You can move the
numbers around, cook the books. It's like having a good accountant,
and these teams all have good accounts, all right, Last
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and final point, So we'll take a couple steps back
from DeAndre Hopkins. Does this movement by the Cardinals indicate
that Kyler Murray is on thin ice in Arizona? Yes,
yes to Infinity and beyond now he was on thin ice,
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whether DeAndre Hopkins stayed in Arizona or not. This is
furthers along the storyline thousand percent. There is a roadmap,
and if you follow the roadmap. The roadmap has Alligator
Arms Murray next out of town among the high profile
players in Arizona, with the last one left. Turn out
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the lights. The party's over there. And it makes a
lot of sense because when you follow the roadmap, Cardinals
get out the old Irish spring and scrub a Dub
dub right, get that, scrub a dub dub soap out
and reset the franchise. Murray is out already. He's gonna
miss part of the next season anyway, as he's coming
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off medical procedure there in ACL. I believe the injury there,
so he might miss the entire year. Colt McCoy is
the de facto starter, so you end up in full
tanky mctank mode if you're the Cardinals, Arizona is going
to win. Based on what I've read of their roster
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and this buffoon they hired as a coach, they'll win
anywhere from two to four games. So they'll win two
to four games, and that means that the Cardinals will
be in position to have the number one overall pick,
and they have a great chance even if they don't
get the number one pick, to trade up for it
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because the Cardinals also have the Houston Texans pick they're
gonna blow from a trade they made this year as Houston,
the Texans moved up in the draft, So it's conceivable
the Cardinals could have the top two picks in next
year's NFL Draft, and the draft Knicks already are hyping
up generational talents at quarterback in Caleb Williams, the Heisman
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winner from sc and Drake May from North Carolina. Those
two are the next wave of can't miss blue chip
NFL suspects or prospects. So Arizona with two shots to
get a top two pick in the draft and get
one of those quarterbacks, and that would mean they would
be open for business. Get read of alligator arms. Murray.
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Remember already the general manager that gave him the contract
was fired. How do we know that he was working
for us during the NFL Draft. Also, the head coach,
Cliff Kingsbury is now going to college football to coach
Caleb Williams, so those guys are gone and Kyler Murray's
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passion is video games. It was a terrible contract. The
Cardinals knew it was a terrible contract. That's why they
put a clause in there saying that you actually have
to study. He raised a hullabaloo. The Cardinals caved in.
They took the clause out of the contract, and so
it's setting up as he's the next to go, and
where does he go the usual suspects. You look at
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the teams that'll be back in the Quarterback Derby next year.
You're looking at the Tennessee Titans, the Atlanta Falcons, the
Las Vegas Raiders, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Those are the teams,
the commanders. We're all in play for Kyler Murray. It
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NBA tonight from Boston. We'll talk more about that in
a minute, but our lead this hour coming from football
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and Sin City. Some new information out recently about the
status of the Raiders quarterback a follow up to a
malmiologue we gave you at the end of last week.
New revelations regarding the situation. We learned last week that
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Jimmy Garoppolo had surgery on his injured left foot after
he agreed to a contract with the Raiders now Las Vegas.
We determined over the weekend that they they're not a
bunch of total rubs, the Raiders, that they actually put
something in writing to seemingly protect them little insurance. So
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what is that all about. Well, if you didn't hear,
and maybe you missed it, we are told the contract
Jimmy Garoppolo signed with the Raiders gives the football team,
the Las Vegas football team, protection against the damaged left
tutsie of Jimmy Garoppolo. The Raiders contract contains some legalese,
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a contract addendum that is a waiver. Say what Yeah,
that's a release clause adndum G. What up G not
danny G. That's a dendum G that is located at
the very end of the deal. Now, Pro Football Talk,
the purveyors of smut and those people of Mike Florio
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conspiracy theories tell us that the clause states the Garoppolo,
who broke his foot in a week thirteen game remember December,
while with the forty nine ers there would not pass
a physicals in writing, would not pass the physical required
to certify the contract. Therefore, because of the pre existing
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left foot injury a lot of legal easier, the club
would not enter into an NFL player contract with player.
The addendum, however, offers the Las Vegas Football team the
protection to terminate said contract without without having to pay
Garoppolo for any reason related to the waiver and release
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attached to addendum J What up? G Now? What does
that mean? Yeah? Wait, there's more. The addendum also clears
the Raiders of any liability related to future health, and
Garoppolo assumes all risks is what it means continuing to play,
including the chance of permanent disability related to that foot injury.
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Holy ex pat batman. Now. The addendum also states the
Garppolo waives his right to make any claims against the Raiders,
the NFL, or anyone else involved with any matter related
to the foot injury, meaning you have signed away any
lawsuit that if the doctor screws something up for the Raiders,
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your out of lock s O L s O L.
So the question why on God's green Earth would Jimmy
Garoppolo agree to such a waiver claim with the Raiders.
So I've got island life, A a RP, and tenderloin
and we will combine all of these things together, and
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we are going to make blackjack is what we're gonna make. Right. Absolutely,
when you go to Vegas you want to hit blackjack? No, no,
it's you're playing cards, there is it's a it's a
gambling it's a gambling term. So to kick off here,
Jimmy G my knee jerk reaction. When I saw this
story bouncing around, my first take was, you know what,
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he didn't have any elbow room. And the evidence is
right there that the proof is in the in the contract.
If he had something better, if the Texans or the
Colts or the Patriots had said, hey, Jimmy g we
like you, we would like to give you a country,
and we'll give you a better country, he would have
taken it. No ifsands or butts about it. He didn't
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have that. Garoppolo was entering free agency from a point
of weakness. You know it, I know it, Every man,
woman and child knows it to be true. His body
has been scratched, damage distorted, warped, and buckled in recent
years less than ideal. Now, regardless Jimmy's first destination. We
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had mentioned this during the football season. You don't actually
have to be an insider like Jay Glazer Adam Schefter
to know it made all the sense connecting the dots
pinning the tail on the donkey. It made all the
sense that Jimmy Garoppolo's preferred destination was always the island Life,
the friendly island of the Raiders. Now that island is
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an island filled with ex pats, the ex pats, the
snowbirds that left the Patriots crawling all over the place
in Vegas trying to recreate the echo system, the ecosystem
they had there in New England. So they cobbled together
the framework of the contract. Jimmy agreed to sign away
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all of his rights to get a seat on the
pirate ship and see if he can find that light
at the end of the dark tunnel in the waterway.
And so he was confident that the Raiders brass, they
know him, their friends. Josh McDaniels is a buddy from
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his earlier days in New England, and Dave Ziegler the
general manager as Patriot DNA. So Garoppolo trust them. He
trusts that they will not give him a version of
the Montreal screwjob from professional wrestling back in the day.
There's nothing covert that will be going on here. Now, Furthermore,
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what are the actual odds? What are the actual odds
that the Raiders will use the waiver to get out
of Jimmy GE's contract. So I'm gonna set the odds
on this at plus six thousand. Now, that implies a
less than two percent chance. Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler
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are not going to hit the inject button. They're not
gonna get rid of Garoppolo. Even if Garoppolo needs an
AAARB approved kin or walker, they will keep him around.
Even if that is the case, it would take ownership
to intervene that. Mark Davis would have to be that person.
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He's not that guy. Pal Mark Davis is not that guy.
Davis is very submissive, he's very agreeable, and he will
acquiesce to whatever Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler tell him.
He's the polar opposite of Al Davis, his father. The
spawn does fall far from the tree every once in
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a while. And Mark is not a guy will sport
any gaudy jewelry. You will not see him wearing a
white polyester tracksuit. You will not find him in front
of an old overhead projector none of that will happen.
All of that happened with Al Davis. The sequel is
not the equal. It's just not. And so the way
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I read the room here, as long as Josh McDaniels
can split some egg rolls some California rolls over there
at PF. Chang's, Everything's good, everything is golden, and nothing
to see here. Now, this story will have legs though
all year because the Raiders conceivably could release Jimmy Garoppolo
at any point without owing him any money because of
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that lingering foot injury, and Garoppolos signed a whiz right
to sue as we say, which means in week seven,
if the foot flares up, the Raiders could claim, well,
it's part of the pre existing injury. Sorry you done,
that's it. See you later. Hit the road, Jack, hit
the road, Jimmy. Now, if Garoppolo thirty one is on
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the raiders fifty three man roster two days after the
season ends, then the addendum waiver becomes Nolan void, which
means Garoppolo most likely will be one and done, most
likely one and done with the Raiders, and they will
get rid of him. Parting shot do the Raiders have
a backup plan. Now, we mentioned this in a previous
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episode of the show. We had mentioned this. They they
have no contingency plan. You know a lot of people financially,
I was reading a story about this a couple of
years ago, that you're supposed to have a rainy day fund,
you're supposed to have an emergency fund. Like most people
just go paycheck to paycheck. You don't have any of that. Right,
if you lose your job, you are screwed, right, that's
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how most people operate. Well, the Raiders at quarterback, they're
like that. They're just going paycheck to paycheck. They have
nothing nothing all. Have you seen the silver and black
depth chart. It is appalling at the quarterback position. And man,
oh man, oh man, we're talking Tenderloin district bad. We're
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talking rat hole. Whose house the crap house? That's whose
house the Raiders quarterback room is. And if you have
that sinking feeling, it's likely because you realize the Raiders
plan B is Brian Hoyer, another ex pat, the same
Brian Hoyer, who has been an abomination as a backup
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quarterback for over a decade. A decade and a half
looks great in practice, very coachable, says the right things
right out of central casting, looks like he should be good,
and then when the game starts, Brian Hoyer takes a
ride on the vomit comet and is an unwatchable piece
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of excrement as he plays quarterback. Turns thirty eight during
the NFL season, played for seven franchises, mostly the Patriots,
but also the Browns and a bunch of others. The
Texans go down the list. Has averaged less than seven
yards per past since twenty seventeen. As a backup for
multiple NFL teams, Brian Hoyer started nine games. His team
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has lost all nine of those games started by Brian Hoyer.
Let's go back further. I'm oout to the twenty sixteen
He started fourteen games, his team one in thirteen in
those fourteen games. Now behind Brian Hoyer, the Raiders have
somebody named Aiden O'Connell. We're not sure who that is.
He played at Purdue. He was a fourth round pick.
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And then they have the great Chase Garbers who he
was on the team last year undrafted at a col
and he played high school football in the OC Newport
Harbor High School in southern California for those that care
about that. So which means the Raiders Garoppolo does not
make it, they would have to have a open casting call. Producers,
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of Liberty sests, give me your poor, you're tired, you're
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six threes six ' nine. Now, we got a big
game tonight in the NBA. Where is the money at
you're asking, Well, maybe you're not asking, but I always
look to see where the early money is. Game seven,
the Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics. And this game
opened at eight and a half. It is down by
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a point and a half all the way down to seven.
Boston favored at home. They again opened up eight and
a half point favors. They're favored by seven. The money
slight lean to Miami and a majority of the tickets
betting on the Miami Heat on the road and a
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game seven. Now, my thinking on this is that the
gamblers and a lot of us, the casual gambers bet
the last minute, within a couple hours a tip off,
So usually the people that bet early are more savvy,
shall we say, And so they're predicting that this game
will come down to the fourth quarter. It'll be a
close game. It's not gonna be a blowout like so
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many people are anticipating the Celtics will win going away.
The people betting earlier anticipating this game will be a
fourth quarter game. It'll be a toss up game. So
the Celtics are favored by seven, but the vast majority
of the tickets and an edge on the cash, slight
edge on the cash in favor of Jimmy Butler and
the Miami Heat. Whatever that is worth, whatever that is worth.
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So our lead to begin the festivities here comes from
pro bouncy ball over the weekend, the story that everyone's
talking about. We don't want to be on the outside here.
We want to be part of the cool kids. So
the Celtics and the Heat. You assume you watched game
number six the Eastern Conferences. There will be a game
seven tonight. This is our Monday show. We kick off
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the week here, so Monday night Game seven in Boston.
But it's all about Game six. And if you did
not watch because you had something going on on Saturday
in the nighttime hours, you could not watch whatever. You
probably know what happened by now, but if not, former
San Antonio spur Derek White, who Derek White kind of
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a generic name, but he made a buzzer beater put
back shot with a millisecond literally a millisecond before the
light went on in the background of the backboard as
the clock expired, and Boston extending the Eastern Conference Finals
as it will go to the final elimination game, which
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is wonderful, wonderful for all involved. And so let us
discuss the question are the Celtics now dare Rod Tait
to win Game seven at home. They are a sizable
favorite on the parque. And now I say no, despite
the bell I say no. All right, I'll shake my head. No.
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I've got Wikipedia, Southwest Airlines, and Outpatient, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a nice cream pie, a Boston Creek pie,
which is what the loser of Game seven will get
right to the schnaz right there, right to the schnaz.
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So a nothing is guaranteed. I remember in the playoffs
last year, the Dallas Mavericks were playing the Phoenix Suns
in a Game seven in Arizona. I was like, well,
Sons are at home, They're gonna win that game. It
was early in the Western Conference. Plauffs, how did that
turn out? Well? If I remember correctly, the Suns lost
that game by seven gazillion points. I might be off
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by a few, but it was a completely lopsided game
and favor of the road team Dallas. You know what
happens when you assume, do not assume the position that
the Celtics are just gonna sasha their way into Game
seven and walk out with a victory. I don't believe
that's the case. Now as far as game six, We'll
get to more on game seven, but as far as
game six, the Celtics won the game that they were
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supposed to lose in game six. That's the story here, right,
And we had mentioned this validates the take. We had
mentioned that the Celtics were incapable of playing four consecutive
perfect games, and we were right. But they won the
game they were supposed to lose. That's the story here.
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It was not a masterpiece in game six. The Celtics
got the fluke win, so that sets them up to
now win game seven, which is not a guarantee, but
game six does count as a fluke. The Celtics live
and die by the three point shot. They attempted thirty
five to three point shots in Game six and missed
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eighteen of them. They missed from here, there, and everywhere.
They shot twenty percent seven of thirty five from three
point range. In Game six, Jason Tatum sucked at a
time you cannot suck. In the second half of that game,
an elimination game for Boston if they lose, Tatum took
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nine shots in the second half. He missed eight of
the nine in the second half. Zero of eight from
behind the arc in the game and Boston still wins.
That was a classic vanishing act by the star player,
the kind of a performance, the kind of stench that
would have stuck to Jason Tatum had the outcome been
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different in that game. But that's a bailout, that's a
federal bailout for the Celtics, the bailout that Derek White bailout.
Playing all of that gets pushed to the side there
because Derek White tip the ball in to win it
at the end, and so that becomes for many in
the media, they've already tagged it a all time iconic
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moment in NBA history for the Celtics. But for that
to become an all time iconic moment, the Celtics have
to win Monday night tonight. They have to win Game seven,
and they have to win the championship. So even if
they win Game seven and eliminate Miami and get to
the finals, and then the joker laughs at the Celtics
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and Denver ends up winning the championship and that Derek
White shots not nearly as cool, right, anything less, The
standard is you've got to win the championship. Anything less
than that, and that is a footnote on Derek White's
Wikipedia page, and that's it. That's the only place you'll
find that will be on the Wikipedia page of Derek White.
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And there'll be no need to bring it up. You
won't need to make a documentary about it twenty years
from now or ten years from now, and there's no
need to print t shirts. And it just moves to
the side, right moves to the side. That's how that works.
But here's the thing. The Celtics shouldn't win this. We
picked the Celtics before the series started based on the
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fact that they have a huge talent gap and there
is a great imbalance. There was a reason Boston was
an overwhelming favorite coming into this particular series. The disparity
is on their side, and yet they find themselves having
the scratch and claw in a game seven situation just
to advance. But the odds, and I had a buddy
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of mine mentioned this to me, the odds were actually
worse that Miami would win three games in a row
against Boston than Boston winning four games in a row
against Miami. Think about that. I mean the fact that
the Heat won three games in a row and we're
playing like with silly putty, the Celtics playing the role
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of the silly putty in that game. Now, meanwhile, you
look at the situation here, big favorite Game seven at home,
but from the Miami side, Page two. Here from the
Miami side, what has gone wrong for the Heat? So
the stars have gone in the darkness in the witness
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protection program. So you've got a little bit of that
going on. A minimalist effort by the two big guns
for the Miami Heat of late. And I don't think
it's because of any great adjustment by the Celtics. I
have not noticed any amazing coaching move by let him
play Joel Mizzoula in this series. But listen, Miami's attack
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has been stripped down bare bones, and you've got the
micro and the macro, as we like to say, so
the micro and the macro. Now we'll start with the micro. Saturday,
Miami did not play a complete game. Jimmy Butler made
the clutch shots, but he and Bam out of Bio,
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we're both guilty of truancy and it's been that way
for the last several games. Butler in that game on
Saturday five of twenty one, which is less than twenty
four percent from the four for Jimmy Buckets, bam out
of Baio who takes almost all of his shots right
near the basket, and he took sixteen shots, he missed
twelve of them. It's twenty five percent. And those were
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not contested shots, most of them were not Most of
them were just old fashioned brick house type moments there
where the shots were just missed point blank range. Jimmy
Butler from under the basket, where the league average is
sixty six point six percent. The sign of the devil
that you make sixty six point six percent, Butler shot
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twenty percent right, twenty percent. Three of fifteen Jimmy Butler
shot from the painted area, and you know, I'm masculating,
and bam out of BYO three of thirteen in that
game set in the paned Aica. And so that's more
what has become the norm recently. Still Miami is in
position in game six, they're right there. As we mentioned,
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Boston does not make the outside shot, and Jimmy Buckets
makes a bunch three clutch foul shots and one after
another to put Miami ahead. So what was the turning
point what allowed Boston to win the game? Derek White
with the put back. Well, nobody's talking about this will
be the only ones to talk about it. If you
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watch the replay Max Struce for the Miami Heat, outside
specialist Max Strus lost track of the inbounder and he
did not keep himself in front of the person he
was supposed to keep himself in front of, and he
was trying to keep the ball out of Jason Tatum's hands,
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but he in the heat of the moment, the way
it looked, Struce lost Derek White. He lost Derek White. Butler,
Jimmy but overall has gone into Siberia land here. Over
the last three games. He's shooting thirty six percent from
the floor, thirty percent from three point right, so he's
been bad and he's taken fifty two shots, he's missed
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thirty three of them. While Jimmy Butler's been on the court,
the Heat have been outscored by forty four points by
the Celtics, and Bam out of Bio has been a
minus thirty on the plus minus. So both those guys
have had Southwest Airlines type marketing, want to get away,
want to get away fares for both of them wowsers,
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But all of that much like we talked about with
the Celtics, and if they were to lose Game seven, well,
for Miami, all of that gets forgotten if the Heat
are victorious Memorial Day here in Boston in advance to
the NBA Finals. Now the last word here, how can
Miami win a Game seven on the row? We mentioned
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It's not a garntee, it's not a foe gone conclusion.
The Celtics gonna show up and going to win this game.
So the question is how can they win on the
road if you're Miami. Well, obviously it's easier said than done.
But the key to all of these things, all of
the noise and all the nonsense leading up to these games,
is to simply be better in the moment. This is
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not brain surgery. It's not that hard. When all is
said and done, more is said than done. But Jimmy
Buckets needs to be the outpatient surgeon at the clinic here,
works surgically and put the pressure. The key part to
me is to put the pressure on Boston because they
if the heat can hang around, you make it a
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couple of baskets either way for the first part of
the game. That puts the pressure mounting on the Celtics.
And the great thing about a Game seven is guys
are exposed. They're pants tight. Took his syndrome, I can't
wait right. Some guys can handle it, some guys can't,
and we will find out. We'll all be watching to
see who can handle the immense pressure and who crumbles
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under the spotlight, and oftentimes it's the star players. We
all assume Jimmy Butler's gonna play well because that's his
reputation and all that, but there's no guarantee. Jason Tatum,
He's vanished in a number of these games. He vanished
in the last game Boston won. Anyway, they got the
federal bailout plan from Derek White. But fans in Boston
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will start hissing and boeing if the Celtics fall behind
going to the fourth quarter, raising a ruckus, and then
that escalates the temperature for the Celtics even more, and
then you start the finger pointing and all that. But
ultimately all that matters who is better in the moment,
right in the moment, and Jimmy Butler can avoid the
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historical tank being on his playoff Jimmy resume all the
in terms of the overall pressure, right, people pressure this well,
I think that's all a lot of you know, mostly bs.
But in terms of answering the question, there's clearly pressure
on both teams. But the cool thing about this game,
which is very rare that we get watching these games,
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is either way, whatever the outcome is is a wild story. Right,
it's wild story because the majority to me is still
on Boston. They're at home. They've won the three games
to get to a game seven. They lose this game.
If I own the Celtics, I fired Joe Missoula, let
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him play Joe because it should have never come to
a game seven. So Missoula's job is on the line.
We'll start with that. Yes, he's out right. He'll go
be an assistant somewhere or coach at the YMCA, I
don't know, but Joe Mozula's coaching for his career. The
whole Miami heat culture thing gets blown to bits if
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Miami ends up losing this game. We are already annoyed
by that storyline, so that goes away the loss. As
we mentioned earlier in this diatribe, If the Celtics lose,
Derek White and his bailout shot are background noise. They're forgotten, right,
We forget about that and with a win, a lot
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of sins go away, a lot of sins for the Celtics,
lot of sins for the Miami Heat. So that's what's
on the line tonight. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
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microphones of FSR, The Transaction wire burned up Burn, Baby Burn,
and a story that we talked about for several months
had become reality. A name that had been mentioned and
whispered and hushed tones as a player that was gonna
change teams. The first leg of that happened. If you
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didn't see and you don't have no idea what we're
talking about, what's the riddle? Get to the point place,
all right? So DeAndre Hopkins was fired from his job
in the NFL. Now, the NFL doesn't use the word
fired when it comes to players. They say you were released,
which is a nice way of saying you were fired.
But he was let go from his job with the
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Arizona Cardinals. It's a softer way to say you got
fired when you say you were released, but he was fired.
Hopkins spent three years in Arizona seventeen touchdown receptions on
his resume with the Birds. The Desert variety of the
Birds still had two years left on his contract for
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thirty four million dollars. Maybe we all have two years
left on our contract for thirty four million dollars like
de Andre Hopkins had. So now the question becomes who's
got next? Who's got next? So let us discuss the
way we'll frame it. We'll keep it simple. It's sports
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talk radio. But the way we're gonna frame this is
as follows. So where does de Andre Hopkins end up
now that he is free to roam around the NFL?
Cont read So, I've got Stevie ray Vaughn, Disco Tech,
and Irish Spring, and we will combine all of these
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things together, will squish them together, and we are going
to make a nice, big moving van, which is what
DeAndre is going to need as he moves all his
crap out of Arizona somewhere else on the NFL circuit.
So Number, why number? There is a limited market for
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DeAndre Hopkins. Believe it or not. I believe it. I'm
the one that just said it. I'll tell you why.
All right? He is promoting himself. He's propping himself up.
Maybe that's a better way of saying it as a
high end commodity, but the numbers recently don't back that up.
That's a problem. And the whispers around the NFL say
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that Hopkins only wants to play for a legitimate super
Bowl contender. Well what if those legitimate super Bowl contenders
do not want DeAndre Hopkins? Then what do you do.
That's a quagmire of a situation. Now we're not there yet,
but nobody else, nobody else apparently, will solve his unquenchable
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thirst to play for a winning team. Of course, I
think that's a lot of malarkey. And then ultimately, DeAndre
Hopkins will end up going where the money is, assuming
all things are equal. If there's a team that is
a contender that offers a similar contract, he will go
to that team that's better. But it's not like he's
going to totally eliminate the teams that are fringe contenders.
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But we'll talk about what his people have tossed out
into the echo chamber, the people who are on Team
Hopkins and whatnot. So there are three obvious super Bowl contenders.
If I gave you a list of three teams. Then
I said, you've got to come up with three teams
that I can guarantee you are going to be in
the conversation for the Super Bowl next time it's being
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played in Vegas. Those three teams on my big board,
not a list because we don't do list radio, but
my big board, I've got Kansas City that's obvious, Buffalo
here we go, Buffalo, and Cincinnati ben Gals. Those three teams.
So those would be the first three teams if this
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reporting is accurate. DeAndre Hopkins wants to play for a
Whitner and not some team in the outskirts of that.
So you go Kansas City, Buffalo, and Cincinnati as the
first three teams. But we eliminate the Bengals. They're eliminated
because they do not make moves like this. They don't,
so you're gonna race them off your big board. And
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then you're like, well wait a minute. Here it becomes
an old Stevie ray Vaughn song Love Struck Baby, and
you say, okay, in terms of contenders, they have a
clear need here the process of elimination, and it is
the Chiefs all day that should be where DeAndre Hopkins
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ends up if he wants to play for a winner,
a team that has a need there. Buffalo not as much.
But Patrick Mahomes is the measuring stick. Do we all
agree on that Mahomes is the measuring stick for quarterbacks
right now? In that business. He's the top guy of
his generation. And Andy Reid is a top three coach
in the NFL. So there is also a void there
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when you peruse the roster of the Chiefs and you're like,
wait a minute, where did all the receivers go? I
know they won last year without having a top notch receiver,
but the depth chart has Marquez Valdez Scantling as the
number one receiver, Kadarius Tony as the number two, and
Sky Moore as number three on the list. That's the
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top three receivers right there. Not exactly a murderer's row
of pass catchers. And you look acrossover at Buffalo, Well, yeah,
they got josh Adamon. He's pretty good. He's had some
hiccups now and again. And then you look at Stefan
Diggs and Gabe Davis. Both those guys are would be
number one receivers on Kansas City. And also the other
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problem you get not that the weather's great in Kansas
City late in the year, but in Buffalo you get
anywhere from two to four Lake Effect blizzard games where
the Bills become a running team, And therefore DeAndre Hopkins
would just be out there blocking and would not be
part of the offense there because you just don't throw
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the ball in those nasty cold the late season Bills
home games one of the reasons the Bills offensive players
have a huge hill to climb in order to win
a Most Valuable Player Now award. Now, the other team
that we're tossing out this is not a contender. They're
not going to win anything. But you toss them out
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for DeAndre Hopkins as we're playing the speculation game, and
that would be Cleveland and the Browns. Now, why the
Browns because of the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson. They played
together in Houston and so that would of course be
another mistake by the Lake. But DeAndre Hopkins could go
to Cleveland, he would be the number one receiver ahead
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of Amari Cooper and Donovan People's Jones and ex jet
Elijah Moore, who are hanging out there in northern Ohio.
Now page two here So why did the Cardinals just
get rid of DeAndre Hopkins to release him rather then
trade him, even if it was for a conditional late
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round draft pick, when you have been better off making
the trade. Of course, you don't have to be an
executive for an NFL team. The Cardinals would have absolutely
been better off if they had made a trade. The
short answer is the reason they didn't. There are a
bunch of ragamuffins, that's the short answer. There. Now to
expand on that. Rather than make a lopsided deal that
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would have been giving up a talent for a low
round draft pick, they made no trade at all. They
went to the discothech and they did the dance of
the clueless. Is what the Cardinals did here. Getting something,
even if it's not great, is better than nothing. And
the Cardinals are spinning this as a victory. Of course
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they are. Why wouldn't they. That's what all the teams do.
Oh everything's great, Oh we're good. No, not really, not
really right? I mean, what else did you expect them
to do? Say that we lost the transaction releasing releasing
the player. But the naked truth is, and you're not
going to get this. A lot of places but DeAndre
Hopkins at this point is a C level player who
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thinks he's an A level player. That's a problem, right,
that's a problem. Don't let a falling star fall on you.
And he's past the age of thirty. That's a problem
when you get to this wide receiver. Very rarely do
you get top notch production from a receiver past the
age of thirty, So declining value on that. And he's
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also got the stank of a PD cheat that doesn't
really work all that much in Football's more of a
baseball thing, but that's on his resume as well. So
you've got injuries, you've got the classical deva wide receiver tendencies,
and you do the arithmetic and ninety nine point nine
percent of receivers have a little Diva in them if
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they're any good. But spoiler, even with all that noise,
the Cardinals could have still gotten something and they got enough. Instead,
they're claiming victory because they saved eight million dollars in
salary cap space. But by the way, they're still going
to have a dead salary cap hit of twenty two
point six million. Now on this show, we are salary
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cap truthers. On this show. We know the manipulation of
the salary cap that you use it to explain anything.
It's the ultimate explanation the confessional. It's like, well, the
reason we got rid of those players because we couldn't
afford them anymore. Say blah blah blah. If you want
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to keep someone, if the Cardinals wanted to keep DeAndre Hopkins,
and we know what they're trying to do, they're trying
to suck. But if they wanted to keep them, they
could have worked it out. They could have kept them
on the roster, but they didn't. The salary cap is
a object that is manipulated easily. You can move the
numbers around, cook the books. It's like having a good accountant,
and these teams all have good accounts, all right, Last
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and final point, So we'll take a couple steps back
from DeAndre Hopkins. Does this movement by the Cardinals indicate
that Kyler Murray is on thin ice in Arizona? Yes,
yes to Infinity and beyond now he was on thin ice,
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whether DeAndre Hopkins stayed in Arizona or not. This is
furthers along the storyline thousand percent. There is a roadmap,
and if you follow the roadmap. The roadmap has Alligator
Arms Murray next out of town among the high profile
players in Arizona, with the last one left. Turn out
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the lights. The party's over there. And it makes a
lot of sense because when you follow the roadmap, Cardinals
get out the old Irish spring and scrub a Dub
dub right, get that, scrub a dub dub soap out
and reset the franchise. Murray is out already. He's gonna
miss part of the next season anyway, as he's coming
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off medical procedure there in ACL. I believe the injury there,
so he might miss the entire year. Colt McCoy is
the de facto starter, so you end up in full
tanky mctank mode if you're the Cardinals, Arizona is going
to win. Based on what I've read of their roster
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and this buffoon they hired as a coach, they'll win
anywhere from two to four games. So they'll win two
to four games, and that means that the Cardinals will
be in position to have the number one overall pick,
and they have a great chance even if they don't
get the number one pick, to trade up for it
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because the Cardinals also have the Houston Texans pick they're
gonna blow from a trade they made this year as Houston,
the Texans moved up in the draft, So it's conceivable
the Cardinals could have the top two picks in next
year's NFL Draft, and the draft Knicks already are hyping
up generational talents at quarterback in Caleb Williams, the Heisman
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winner from sc and Drake May from North Carolina. Those
two are the next wave of can't miss blue chip
NFL suspects or prospects. So Arizona with two shots to
get a top two pick in the draft and get
one of those quarterbacks, and that would mean they would
be open for business. Get read of alligator arms. Murray.
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Remember already the general manager that gave him the contract
was fired. How do we know that he was working
for us during the NFL Draft. Also, the head coach,
Cliff Kingsbury is now going to college football to coach
Caleb Williams, so those guys are gone and Kyler Murray's
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passion is video games. It was a terrible contract. The
Cardinals knew it was a terrible contract. That's why they
put a clause in there saying that you actually have
to study. He raised a hullabaloo. The Cardinals caved in.
They took the clause out of the contract, and so
it's setting up as he's the next to go, and
where does he go the usual suspects. You look at
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the teams that'll be back in the Quarterback Derby next year.
You're looking at the Tennessee Titans, the Atlanta Falcons, the
Las Vegas Raiders, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Those are the teams,
the commanders. We're all in play for Kyler Murray. It
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NBA tonight from Boston. We'll talk more about that in
a minute, but our lead this hour coming from football
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and Sin City. Some new information out recently about the
status of the Raiders quarterback a follow up to a
malmiologue we gave you at the end of last week.
New revelations regarding the situation. We learned last week that
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Jimmy Garoppolo had surgery on his injured left foot after
he agreed to a contract with the Raiders now Las Vegas.
We determined over the weekend that they they're not a
bunch of total rubs, the Raiders, that they actually put
something in writing to seemingly protect them little insurance. So
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what is that all about. Well, if you didn't hear,
and maybe you missed it, we are told the contract
Jimmy Garoppolo signed with the Raiders gives the football team,
the Las Vegas football team, protection against the damaged left
tutsie of Jimmy Garoppolo. The Raiders contract contains some legalese,
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a contract addendum that is a waiver. Say what Yeah,
that's a release clause adndum G. What up G not
danny G. That's a dendum G that is located at
the very end of the deal. Now, Pro Football Talk,
the purveyors of smut and those people of Mike Florio
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conspiracy theories tell us that the clause states the Garoppolo,
who broke his foot in a week thirteen game remember December,
while with the forty nine ers there would not pass
a physicals in writing, would not pass the physical required
to certify the contract. Therefore, because of the pre existing
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left foot injury a lot of legal easier, the club
would not enter into an NFL player contract with player.
The addendum, however, offers the Las Vegas Football team the
protection to terminate said contract without without having to pay
Garoppolo for any reason related to the waiver and release
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attached to addendum J What up? G Now? What does
that mean? Yeah? Wait, there's more. The addendum also clears
the Raiders of any liability related to future health, and
Garoppolo assumes all risks is what it means continuing to play,
including the chance of permanent disability related to that foot injury.
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Holy ex pat batman. Now. The addendum also states the
Garppolo waives his right to make any claims against the Raiders,
the NFL, or anyone else involved with any matter related
to the foot injury, meaning you have signed away any
lawsuit that if the doctor screws something up for the Raiders,
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your out of lock s O L s O L.
So the question why on God's green Earth would Jimmy
Garoppolo agree to such a waiver claim with the Raiders.
So I've got island life, A a RP, and tenderloin
and we will combine all of these things together, and
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we are going to make blackjack is what we're gonna make. Right. Absolutely,
when you go to Vegas you want to hit blackjack? No, no,
it's you're playing cards, there is it's a it's a
gambling it's a gambling term. So to kick off here,
Jimmy G my knee jerk reaction. When I saw this
story bouncing around, my first take was, you know what,
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he didn't have any elbow room. And the evidence is
right there that the proof is in the in the contract.
If he had something better, if the Texans or the
Colts or the Patriots had said, hey, Jimmy g we
like you, we would like to give you a country,
and we'll give you a better country, he would have
taken it. No ifsands or butts about it. He didn't
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have that. Garoppolo was entering free agency from a point
of weakness. You know it, I know it, Every man,
woman and child knows it to be true. His body
has been scratched, damage distorted, warped, and buckled in recent
years less than ideal. Now, regardless Jimmy's first destination. We
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had mentioned this during the football season. You don't actually
have to be an insider like Jay Glazer Adam Schefter
to know it made all the sense connecting the dots
pinning the tail on the donkey. It made all the
sense that Jimmy Garoppolo's preferred destination was always the island Life,
the friendly island of the Raiders. Now that island is
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an island filled with ex pats, the ex pats, the
snowbirds that left the Patriots crawling all over the place
in Vegas trying to recreate the echo system, the ecosystem
they had there in New England. So they cobbled together
the framework of the contract. Jimmy agreed to sign away
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all of his rights to get a seat on the
pirate ship and see if he can find that light
at the end of the dark tunnel in the waterway.
And so he was confident that the Raiders brass, they
know him, their friends. Josh McDaniels is a buddy from
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his earlier days in New England, and Dave Ziegler the
general manager as Patriot DNA. So Garoppolo trust them. He
trusts that they will not give him a version of
the Montreal screwjob from professional wrestling back in the day.
There's nothing covert that will be going on here. Now, Furthermore,
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what are the actual odds? What are the actual odds
that the Raiders will use the waiver to get out
of Jimmy GE's contract. So I'm gonna set the odds
on this at plus six thousand. Now, that implies a
less than two percent chance. Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler
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are not going to hit the inject button. They're not
gonna get rid of Garoppolo. Even if Garoppolo needs an
AAARB approved kin or walker, they will keep him around.
Even if that is the case, it would take ownership
to intervene that. Mark Davis would have to be that person.
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He's not that guy. Pal Mark Davis is not that guy.
Davis is very submissive, he's very agreeable, and he will
acquiesce to whatever Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler tell him.
He's the polar opposite of Al Davis, his father. The
spawn does fall far from the tree every once in
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a while. And Mark is not a guy will sport
any gaudy jewelry. You will not see him wearing a
white polyester tracksuit. You will not find him in front
of an old overhead projector none of that will happen.
All of that happened with Al Davis. The sequel is
not the equal. It's just not. And so the way
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I read the room here, as long as Josh McDaniels
can split some egg rolls some California rolls over there
at PF. Chang's, Everything's good, everything is golden, and nothing
to see here. Now, this story will have legs though
all year because the Raiders conceivably could release Jimmy Garoppolo
at any point without owing him any money because of
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that lingering foot injury, and Garoppolos signed a whiz right
to sue as we say, which means in week seven,
if the foot flares up, the Raiders could claim, well,
it's part of the pre existing injury. Sorry you done,
that's it. See you later. Hit the road, Jack, hit
the road, Jimmy. Now, if Garoppolo thirty one is on
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the raiders fifty three man roster two days after the
season ends, then the addendum waiver becomes Nolan void, which
means Garoppolo most likely will be one and done, most
likely one and done with the Raiders, and they will
get rid of him. Parting shot do the Raiders have
a backup plan. Now, we mentioned this in a previous
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episode of the show. We had mentioned this. They they
have no contingency plan. You know a lot of people financially,
I was reading a story about this a couple of
years ago, that you're supposed to have a rainy day fund,
you're supposed to have an emergency fund. Like most people
just go paycheck to paycheck. You don't have any of that. Right,
if you lose your job, you are screwed, right, that's
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how most people operate. Well, the Raiders at quarterback, they're
like that. They're just going paycheck to paycheck. They have
nothing nothing all. Have you seen the silver and black
depth chart. It is appalling at the quarterback position. And man,
oh man, oh man, we're talking Tenderloin district bad. We're
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talking rat hole. Whose house the crap house? That's whose
house the Raiders quarterback room is. And if you have
that sinking feeling, it's likely because you realize the Raiders
plan B is Brian Hoyer, another ex pat, the same
Brian Hoyer, who has been an abomination as a backup
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quarterback for over a decade. A decade and a half
looks great in practice, very coachable, says the right things
right out of central casting, looks like he should be good,
and then when the game starts, Brian Hoyer takes a
ride on the vomit comet and is an unwatchable piece
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of excrement as he plays quarterback. Turns thirty eight during
the NFL season, played for seven franchises, mostly the Patriots,
but also the Browns and a bunch of others. The
Texans go down the list. Has averaged less than seven
yards per past since twenty seventeen. As a backup for
multiple NFL teams, Brian Hoyer started nine games. His team
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has lost all nine of those games started by Brian Hoyer.
Let's go back further. I'm oout to the twenty sixteen
He started fourteen games, his team one in thirteen in
those fourteen games. Now behind Brian Hoyer, the Raiders have
somebody named Aiden O'Connell. We're not sure who that is.
He played at Purdue. He was a fourth round pick.
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And then they have the great Chase Garbers who he
was on the team last year undrafted at a col
and he played high school football in the OC Newport
Harbor High School in southern California for those that care
about that. So which means the Raiders Garoppolo does not
make it, they would have to have a open casting call. Producers,
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directors are working there. Like the sign on the Statue
of Liberty sests, give me your poor, you're tired, you're
hungry quarterbacks, because we have an opening. It is the
Bay Mathers Show. If you would like to be part,
you can join us here at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine six
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six threes six ' nine. Now, we got a big
game tonight in the NBA. Where is the money at
you're asking, Well, maybe you're not asking, but I always
look to see where the early money is. Game seven,
the Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics. And this game
opened at eight and a half. It is down by
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a point and a half all the way down to seven.
Boston favored at home. They again opened up eight and
a half point favors. They're favored by seven. The money
slight lean to Miami and a majority of the tickets
betting on the Miami Heat on the road and a
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game seven. Now, my thinking on this is that the
gamblers and a lot of us, the casual gambers bet
the last minute, within a couple hours a tip off,
So usually the people that bet early are more savvy,
shall we say, And so they're predicting that this game
will come down to the fourth quarter. It'll be a
close game. It's not gonna be a blowout like so
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many people are anticipating the Celtics will win going away.
The people betting earlier anticipating this game will be a
fourth quarter game. It'll be a toss up game. So
the Celtics are favored by seven, but the vast majority
of the tickets and an edge on the cash, slight
edge on the cash in favor of Jimmy Butler and
the Miami Heat. Whatever that is worth, whatever that is worth.
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Eight gamblers, speaking of gambling, a gamblers paradise, and enjoy
the chanting. Enjoy the chanting. We'll get to that, and
we will do it next. And get asks on Facebook.
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