25W: Someone's Priorities are Questioned + Adam Schefter Weighs in on Contract Talks in Dallas

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Speaker 2 (01:23):
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Speaker 3 (01:36):
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Speaker 1 (01:38):
Guys, twenty five Whistles. Make sure out a Draftking sportsbook.
So flag football is gonna be featured in the Olympics
of twenty twenty eight, but the flag football players that
are currently playing are all disrespected because people are like,
the NFL are going to play, and they're all like,
why do you think they'd play? We're good?

Speaker 4 (01:56):
No, no, I remember seeing the lists to people we
didn't even know It's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Guys, you're playing fla footba because you couldn't play fotball, correct,
Like if you could play at a high level like
the NFL, you would be doing that paid.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
But it is a little different, right, Like you don't
have to be two hundred and fifty pounds.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
No, But I think the players though that are fast
skill players. Sure yeah, will be the ones that should
play flag football if they won't have tryouts. Okay, but
I'll read you the story from the Athletic flag football
twenty twenty Olympics. Darryl hush to Seti's a current US
flag football quarterback, says it's disrespectful to automatically assume NFL

(02:33):
players will automatically just join the US Olympics because that's
who they are. He says they didn't help grow the
game to get to the Olympics and suggest people quote,
give the guys who help get this game to where
it is at their respect. As far as the NFL ers,
he says, the nfler he says, they're gonna have to
go out there and compete whatever. So here's the thing
about flag football, Well, I don't know what level it is.
I never heard of any professional flag football league. I

(02:54):
don't They must not have done a good job of
getting to a level because I don't know who these
people are, but any flag football level that has gotten
anywhere because the NFL is so popular. Yeah, and then
flag football is secondary. Yeah. So this guy's hilarious. I
like that he's speaking out. I like that.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, but bro, look, we want we want the NFL
players to play what.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Would be like the college players back before the dream
team the Georgetown head basketball coach for a long time. Yeah, no,
old old coach too. Yes, so uh he was the
head coach of like the eighties, Yes, John Thompson, thank you.
He was like the eighty that coach of the eighty
eight Olympic college team, right, and they didn't win, And

(03:40):
so ninety two went in as a dream team and
they won. But it would be like those college hs
going like, no, we got us here, Jordan Byrd, come magic.
You guys have to earn this. Yeah, now, bro, we
want my homes. There's a reason that they're so.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
I thought this guy was like Lamar, I mean imagine Tyreek.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, Kerry, just run, Dominatet.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Just run. That's all you need to do.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Just as a quarterback, even Tyreek. Yeah, just take the
ball and run. Yeah, yes, it's gonna be a whole
different game because the read if those guys, any of
those flaggers could play in the NFL, they would be
playing in the NFL. Yeah, they're not making a statement
by playing in flag to make flag a better game.
They're only playing a flag because they enjoy football and
wish they could have made it at a higher level.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
You know what, respect though?

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Is there no MVP odds for twenty twenty four from
DraftKings Patrick Mahomes at four to seventy five plus four
seventy five at number one. That's a good bet. MVP
is tough. Last year at a buddy that said, for sure,
bet a thousand bucks on Dak Prescott to be the MVP,
and he was. Yeah, he was the leader. He was

(04:42):
a leader. I've had a thousand bucks and then he
was not. He did not win MVP. He's pretty terrible,
very terrible. Who else he thinks in the top five?
Eddie Lamar Lamar is not in the top five. Interest
he's at number nine to plus eighteen hundred. It's going
to be tough now, No, just because it's gonna be
tough for a wide receiver to win MVP because it's

(05:03):
such a quarterback award. I don't. I bet you there's
nobody on this list. If I go top fifteen at
number eighteen, is Christian McCaffrey at plus four thousand. That's
the number one. Okay, So Burrow's on there. Yeah, Burrow's
number four. Where Patrick Patrick is it? Yeah? Is Rogers
on there? Aaron Rodgers? Okay? And we got Josh Allen. Okay,

(05:27):
here we go. Patrick Mahomes have won. Josh Allen at two? Yeah,
Joe Burrow at four? What are you missing at three?
At three? We are missing? Oh wow, they have Dak
Prescott at three. Oh my gosh, No they don't. It's okay,
I guess yeah, yeah. Justin Herbert, No, no, Herbert is

(05:48):
a number fifteen. It's gonna be tough for Herbert in
an offense that they run the ball a lot more.
That's what's gonna happen, mostly with the hardball being the
head coach there U C. J. Stroud Rookie the Year
last year, he's number three a plus a fifty. So
you got Mahomes, Alan Stroud, Burrough, Jordan Love at five.
Boy there, I know they're paying him, they're hopping him up,

(06:08):
they're happening a lot. Well, he had a great second
half of the year, second half of the years. Sure,
it's amazing, but yeah, that's hot him and Jalen Hurts.
I don't think he deserves to be where Jalen Hurts is. No, no,
it does not. But the public sets the betting market.
I guess it's set by the makers. But then the
public didn't kind of reset the movie.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
You think Lamar so low because back to back is
just tough. Probably it kind of hurts the right.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Angela and Joel lead, which meant back in the day,
which was like hottest woman every year, they wouldn't give
it to her anymore some reason. Bill Belichick winting a
Coach of the Year. Yeah, and they'd be like, we're
not give it to Belichick again, Lebron MVP. Why don't
get every CMA. That's exactly why. That's what it is. Yeah.
So it's like they also have a rule where you
can't get up it every other year. Yeah, yeah, they do.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
That's a real thing.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
That is the real thing. So dac a date Lamar
and nine brock perty at ten. This is Brock's money
or two brought pretty like this is the year he's
gonna have to make his money. Yep, and he's not
looking good so far. Dude. He played with the second
and third straight. I don't watch any pre season. I
went back when Eddie was talking about how bad brock
Party looked. I went back to see why he did
not play with any starters. He played with all junk players.

(07:15):
People aren't even gonna make the fifty three man roster.
Throws weren't even catchable. Dude, care Yeah, so uh to
finish it out Jared Goff at eleven, two, at twelve,
Anthony Richardson at thirteen, Trevor Lawrence at fourteen. In the
tie for fifteen is Stafford and Herbert like low key?
That Stafford at fifteen plus three thousand? You like that one? Sure?
I mean for the odds, he's been there before. For
the odds. Where's Will Levis Man? I don't know. Let's

(07:44):
go over and talk with ESPN insider Adam Schefter from
our time in New York. Adam is one of the best,
one of the most famous. He had multiple phones. It
was a whole thing. Adam Schefter, You can follow him
on Twitter to keep up here. He is Adam Schefter
here with that who is the nicest guy in the
whole world, because we watched him talk to every single
person for like ten minutes. Yes, I paintain eye contact

(08:04):
and like, see, you're like the nicest dude ever.

Speaker 6 (08:07):
You missed thirty minutes of it on the way here,
I know we didn't.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
We walked. We were like, that's the kindest guy. So
thank you for the time, my pleasure to be here. Okay,
I want to start with and let's just get right
to it. JJ McCarthy's hurt. He's out for a year.
Did they think initially when that happened it was going
to be so severe? The meniscus there?

Speaker 6 (08:25):
You know, I'll say this to you. It was on
Monday night.

Speaker 7 (08:28):
You hear that he's not practicing, that he's got some
discomfort in the knee, and I thought that's not a
good sign. And then on Tuesday morning, it was very odd.
I started getting a flood of messages from a flood
of different people on Instagram.

Speaker 6 (08:45):
And believe me, that's not how I usually get my information.

Speaker 7 (08:48):
But all of a sudden, all these people were sending
me these messages that JJ McCarthy was out for the year,
and I'm like out for the year, and I started
making calls. Now their information was partially correct because they
said he a torn mcl out for the year. There
are multiple messages I got. When I started making calls,
I could tell something was wrong, and it turned out

(09:08):
that he had meniscus injury and the doctor surgery was
going to determine whether it was going to be a trim,
which would have been weeks, or repair, which would have
been months. But I will say going in, my suspicion
was it was going to be a repair because I
had so many messages and I think that they had
some hope that they would be able to trim it.

(09:30):
But once they went in there, they figured that the
best course of action for a young player like that
with a great future is to repair it. And that's
what they did. And he's out for the year. Once
you put him on IR, he's done for the season.

Speaker 6 (09:41):
He shut down. So that's it, Adam.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
When you get the info, what's the process before you
go public with it? You're like, Oh, I got the info,
do you go immediately or we got to start?

Speaker 7 (09:49):
Well, you got to make sure that everything's accurate. You
have to confirm it all and make sure that it's right.
I'm not going to just put out information when these
fans are indiscriminately bombing me with this information that JJ's
out for the year, because ultimately that turned out to
be the case. But there were steps to get through
before you could actually say he's out for the year again.

(10:09):
First it's he's got the need discomfort. Then he's having
the MRI on Monday night. Then they're gonna have knee
surgery for Wednesday morning. Then they have to figure out
what they have to do. Then they sees out for
the year. So there's a lot of steps. It's not
just as simple as a black and white situation.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
With the Dallas Cowboys, they've got three contracts. All three
of those contracts will be massive contracts. Will they be
able to afford anybody else?

Speaker 6 (10:32):
Will they play three man football? You know you could
do that.

Speaker 7 (10:36):
I would say this that if Dak deal gets done,
and we'll see whether it does or a dozen, that's
gonna be the one that cuts into their ability to
spend on other players because that deal is going to
be so massive.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
But would that be before that ceedee Lamb or the
Mica deal, though I'd be surprised.

Speaker 7 (10:52):
I know Dak struck a tone on Friday where he
was saying talks were going, well, he's in a great spot.
Dak's in a great spot period, whether he there's the
deal in Dallas now, before the season, during the season,
after the season, or with another team.

Speaker 6 (11:05):
Like Dak is going to be when that deal.

Speaker 7 (11:08):
Gets done, whether it's Dallas or anybody else, he's going
to become the highest paid player in NFL history.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
So he's in a great spot.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
But they're gonna have to do some origami to figure
out how to pay all those guys.

Speaker 7 (11:20):
Right, they knew, they knew the CD Lamb deal is coming,
and you're talking about arguing over a million or two
dollars like that. That deal is getting done, and they
knew what it was going to be. They know that
Dak deals coming if they can get it done. The
Micah Parsons deal, Jerry's been talking about for over a
year now. So it's not like these deals are blind

(11:41):
siding them.

Speaker 6 (11:42):
It's just going to restrict breaking news. It's just going
to restrict their ability.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Breaking news a pot roast.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
It's from home and trash back. Yes, hey, out of
the phones. I've always been interested in the phones you have?
How any phones on you at all times?

Speaker 8 (12:01):
Too?

Speaker 7 (12:02):
I bring two phones right now, I have this phone
and my daughter is actually manning the other phone right there.
She's taking pictures to post Instagram stories.

Speaker 6 (12:10):
So that's not the way.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yeah, so one, I mean, what's the how do you
give someone?

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Which number do you give them first? Is it the Yeah,
this is.

Speaker 7 (12:19):
My primary phone, my secondary phone. I'm not even sure
of the number, be honest with you. And and and
like you know what, like the JJ McCarthy when he
was having any surgery, I had everything, it was on
this phone and I went to go file it. I
was in the airport in Boston on Wednesday, and nothing
was going through. And I'm pressing send for ten minutes,

(12:39):
like and it's just a line like it won't post.

Speaker 6 (12:43):
I'm like, go post post man. It wasn't posting.

Speaker 7 (12:46):
So I had to retype everything on my other phone
and then send it on the other phone.

Speaker 6 (12:50):
That's that's why my problem is.

Speaker 7 (12:52):
That's why I'm a second phone, because you know, this
one is I don't even know the providers.

Speaker 6 (12:57):
One of them is Veris and one.

Speaker 7 (12:58):
Of them is att and and you have different phone carriers,
different issues like that, and that's how you do it.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Anyone with the typical text him now to one now
we don't know you number, So I wouldn't that be
fine to get remember like an eight hundred hot line number.
Let's talk about Joe Burrow for a second. Not a
typical quarterback injury the last one. He's been hurt every year?
Do they consider him injury prone or very unlucky? And
let's say he gets hurt again, then do they go, well,

(13:24):
what's up? Do they go and look for another quarterback
young to draft it young?

Speaker 6 (13:28):
I don't think so.

Speaker 7 (13:30):
First of all, I think Jake Brown is a pretty
good quarterback, his backup, and they committed so much money
to Joe Borrow.

Speaker 6 (13:35):
He's your guy, and you're not moving off Joe.

Speaker 7 (13:37):
Burrow even if he gets hurt again, unless it was
some catastrophic injury that would hinder his ability to come
back and be the quarterback lanch like, he's the guy
and you're going to ride him until he can't play anymore.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Or if the horse doesn't have any legs.

Speaker 6 (13:50):
Well he's got legs, he's got legs. No, hand, no arms,
he's got arms.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, he's got.

Speaker 6 (13:55):
All those things. They're working Like you could say that
for any player.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
John I love Joe Burrow, and it's you can say
that for some but Joe's hurt. It's like freak stuff consistently,
even at training camp last year, when he pulls up
and the debate is what did he do? Did he
lose his leg, did he sprain his ankle? And then
the injury that took him out at the end of
the day, like those aren't typical get hit on a
play or pull a hamstring injuries. So Joe Burrow, they

(14:23):
still have the same faith that he can stay healthy
and be the guy.

Speaker 7 (14:25):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean and again you have to build
around him anyway. It's like the Jets with Aaron Rodgers.
I mean, you may be he may be worried that
he's forty years old. What are you gonna do? Like,
that's your guy. You committed the money, you committed the resources,
you committed the time. He's your guy. And but again,
I think you could say that for every.

Speaker 6 (14:45):
Quarterback in the NFL. We come up with it. Whatevers.
If this guy gets hurt, what havepens? If that guy
can't play this year. Barrow has been hurt in every
five minutes.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
I got it.

Speaker 7 (14:53):
But you know, Aaron Rodgers last year is coming up
a torn achilles.

Speaker 6 (14:56):
He's forty.

Speaker 7 (14:56):
Dak Prescotts came up a fractured ankle that time, Like
we could say that for a lot of people. Mahomes
has had ankle injuries in CAF and dislocated kneecaps.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
Like it's a violent sport. Guys who can get hurt.
That I agree with. But it's just Burrow just got
hurt again.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
I heard. Nope, don't mind. I just thought so used
to hearing it, right. Final three questions, Adam, go ahead, yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Adam, say you were talking about Aaron Rodgers. How much
fun is it to cover Aaron Rodgers? And how weird he.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Is from other weird people, we mean weird career, We're
all interesting.

Speaker 6 (15:27):
I don't view it like that.

Speaker 7 (15:28):
I view it like last year he goes out there,
everybody in New York is all excited to see what
he's going to do. Jet fans, you actually thought that
there's a chance for the first time in fifty some
odd years that this team's going to get back to
the Super Bowl, and they didn't. I think honestly, people
wanted to see him play and want to see what
he could do for that team, that organization, this city,

(15:51):
and they want to see him be out there. I
want to see him play, Like I'm forget about covering him.
You know, there's a lot of quarterbacks to cover. He's
an interesting guys, He's got some interesting things to say,
but you want to see him out there. Ultimately, we're
interested in him because he's a great quarterback and we
didn't get to see him play quarterback last year. That's
the problem. We want to see him play. He could

(16:13):
say whatever he wants, we could debate the merits of it.
It's all about his play. He's one of the great
old time quarterbacks. That's what you want to see.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Final two questions, what's a fair ceiling for Caleb Williams
and the Bears?

Speaker 7 (16:28):
Fairly high? Like, I don't know that they're going to
win a lot this year. I don't want to get
ahead of it. But Number one, I think CJ. Stroud
kind of raised the bar for rookie quarterbacks. But this
guy is incredibly gifted. Now let's see how fast he
can respond. Last year with CJ. Stroud was an abnormality.
Rookie quarterbacks do not usually do that type of thing.

(16:53):
But Caleb Williams got a ton of talent and we'll
see how it's harvested in his first year.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
If Caleb Williams did not exist, would Jaden be like
the dude we talked about?

Speaker 7 (17:04):
Like and he we still might be talking about it
even with Caleb Williams because there's been enough chatter about
Jaden Daniels and what he Kennon can't do, and there's
enough hope and promise for him that I mean, I'm
not going to be shocked if we come.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
Out of this being like, Wow, Jaden Daniels is incredible.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Bonus question speaking of Jade Daniels with guts go to
the Giants, elite neighbors, played LSU together. Yeah, like they
were awesome together. As he's a dude, because that's the reports.

Speaker 6 (17:30):
Like even with Daniel Jones, let's say he's just okay, Hey,
let me tell you something. I remember being at the Combine.

Speaker 7 (17:35):
The Combine, I'm sitting at dinner with the general manager
and and he goes, let me take a couple of
things right now.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
I don't care what other people say elite.

Speaker 7 (17:43):
Neighbors is the number one wide receiver in this draft,
ahead of Marvin Harrison Junior. And when I heard him say,
I'm like really, and then I heard it again and
again and again, and there were people that obviously stood
behind Marvin Harrison Junior or Marvin Harrison Junior.

Speaker 6 (17:57):
Is gonna have a great NFL career.

Speaker 7 (17:59):
This is not a not against Marvin Harrison Junior in
any way, shape or form.

Speaker 6 (18:03):
Love the guy.

Speaker 7 (18:04):
I'm just saying there were people out there who felt
like Neighbors was the top receiver. There were people out
there who thought Harrison was the top receiver. But it
was not a unanimous situation. And that tells you that
both guys are in line to have great NFL seasons
and careers.

Speaker 6 (18:19):
And we really appreciate it, big fans. Thank you, Thank you,
guys my pleasure.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
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co slash ft ball. So read, I think Eddie and

(19:50):
I need to talk to you about something.

Speaker 8 (19:51):
Oh gosh, Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Well, I think Reid's priorities are a little out of whack.
So Reid has dedicated his life to working out with
us and getting in shape. We go, I just don't
understand it. Well, So and read when he started like goofy,
baby deer. Yeah, like a giraffe out of the womb, wobbly,

(20:16):
and everybody starts when you start back a little goofy. Again.
We definitely have a specific way we work out, and
it wouldn't matter if my wife takes me to do
some sort of plates class. I'm goofy because I don't
really know what I'm doing in there, and those movements
are all weird. So Reid starts to work out with
us and he just has an exercise at all in years,
which is fine. So it's not even changing workouts, he's

(20:36):
just getting back to it, and read at times can
be somewhat athletic. He's got a good jump shot, and
he can throw a baseball.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
In a golf swing.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Oh yeah, good point other times is that baby deer. Yes,
So he starts working out and we love read dearly
and so we're working and read read starting to slow
to get stronger. We can see it in him, and
he like shows up earlier. He's fired up. He doesn't
cry as much. He used to come in every day
and be like Sam had undercook salmon, I don't feel good.

(21:07):
I don't know. He called his stomach his tummy to
have the off to the side conversation of if you
have something that's going to keep you from working out,
don't work out. But if you're going to work out,
you can't complain about what's happening to you as you
work out my tummy, right, But if you literally can't
work out on undercook Salmon. So that's not even where

(21:29):
people read about because he's past that, because because read
is it's like watching our guy. He's like in puberty.
He's like fourteen years old. Now he's strong man from
the womb. We were with him, and so all of
a sudden he's like, it can't work out today, like cool.
There are many reasons that all of us can't work out.
He's like, I won't be able to work out all
this week? Fair enough? This week you having surgery? Like,

(21:53):
what's up? Well, my fiance and a mom were come
into town and we're like, okay, why because it they'll
kill me? Whoa that was his answer? Tell himut his fancy,
He says, she'll kill me. So first I'd like to
ask why you can't work out with us at a
normal time of three o'clock, which is you're not in
the way of dinner or lunch? Did we work out

(22:14):
for ten hours bones one hour and only twice the
whole week while this week we used to go three times.
Only twice this week because I'm not able to go
one of the days, But go ahead. Read.

Speaker 9 (22:26):
So, yesterday we had a dinner date planned and then
we went to.

Speaker 8 (22:30):
Go see a movie that's great.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
What time was dinner?

Speaker 8 (22:32):
Dinner? We got there at five point thirty?

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Okay, perfect?

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Cool?

Speaker 1 (22:35):
What times to work out?

Speaker 8 (22:36):
Three?

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah? So and he's like, she'll kill me. But the
thing is, read, why are you trying to get in shape?
I'm trying to look good for my wedding now, always
tells us. And I don't even think she was killed.
I'm gonna be honest. I don't Eve think it's her thing,
No way. I think it's a hymn thing. And he's
like getting out of it. You can just say I'm
a whiss. Guys, you can just say this undercook salmon

(23:02):
and we'll know the code word.

Speaker 8 (23:04):
Hey tonight.

Speaker 9 (23:06):
I actually can't though, because of our engagement photos.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, now see we would have
accepted that one what time your photos?

Speaker 8 (23:14):
The photos are at four thirty.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
I get it can't be fair enough. It's hard to
get un sweats sweaty as Red is God Dag, He's
the sweat sweatest human I've ever seen life.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
So Bones has to tell Reid every time, like Reid
gets up from the bench, like, dude, wipe your sweat please,
because it's a pool of sweat.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Dude. Yeah, it doesn't matter if we're ten minutes ent
or fifty. When Reid gets up, it looks like you've
taken a washcloth and wrung it out over wherever he is.
And at first I'm just like, hey, man, just remember
because I have towels for everybody in there, a stack
stacks of towels. So since I have the towels. Hey,
be sure to wipe your sweat before when you get
off the bench press or off the floor. Yeah, it's
like the floor, yeah yeah yeah, And he doesn't. He

(23:52):
just gets up and leaves it all there. But again
we're like, Read's.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
New, so let's take it out Connecticut.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, hey, Read, don't forget read. You forgot to get Read.
And it used to be like this with waters, like
he would just come and drink all my water. Like
he would just show up and be like, I guess
all the waters are free is and it's sure you
can have a water too, forget the water, have a water.
But like he would show up and think, no, this
is why, that's where I go to get my waters.

Speaker 8 (24:18):
I brought, I brought my jug, I started bringing my Yes.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
You learned there. And if you ever forget a water,
as many waters as you need and want, thank you.
But his assumption was I just go to Bobby's get
my waters. Gotcha. And then wherever he sweats, everybody else
just wants to lay in it or clean it up themselves.
So we've been working with him on this. Did you
yell at him the other day? What happened?

Speaker 6 (24:38):
Did though?

Speaker 1 (24:38):
He was like read clean your sweat up. It's like
my kids like they always say, like, Dad, why are
you yelling at me? Oh? You want to know why
I'm yelling.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
At you because you didn't hear me the first twenty
times I asked him to do this.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
And I don't even know that Reid knows he sweats
so much, or now he does because we've did you know,
you such just water?

Speaker 8 (24:54):
Oh I knew it.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah, okay, but then why would you not?

Speaker 9 (24:59):
I'd you just I was trying to get through the
workout and it just did not cross my mind.

Speaker 8 (25:03):
I'm just like on to the next thing.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
And now now you do, though, And you know what,
as a person, you're not a selfis person. You're actually
really good person. But sometimes, yeah, you blame your fiance. Yeah,
he loves to say she'll kill me. Yeah, I love
to say that.

Speaker 8 (25:18):
We haven't seen each other in a month and a half.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Okay, but are you getting ready for your wedding? And
it's one hour, that's fair, And it's when I.

Speaker 9 (25:25):
Drove thirty minutes there and then we work out for
an hour thirty minutes back and then.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
I got a shower. You can still do it. You
just don't want to do it.

Speaker 8 (25:32):
I mean yeah, yeah, it was a good excuse too,
for sure.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
Do you ever get your own in, like run around
your neighborhood anything like that? Like sometimes I can't workout
and I'm like, you know what, I'll go for even
like a two mile run.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
That's great, that's it.

Speaker 8 (25:45):
Since we started working out, No, I haven't.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Wait, but that's that isn't that? Also since you started
working out again? Yeah, So the answer has always been yeah, yeah,
that's a funny way to afraid since because we started
no no, no, no, what about before? I'll also know? No,
So our while we were laughing when you weren't around,
is because you're like, I have to get in shape
for my wedding. But then the person comes that you're

(26:08):
getting married to, and then you use her as an
excuse to not work out. It just felt a little hypocritical.
So then we determined it wasn't her fault at all.
It was just yours. That's right, that's right. So you
admit it.

Speaker 8 (26:19):
I admit it.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, And so it was, and everything's going for everything's
going pretty good. But you guys, other than that, yeah,
it's her mom staying in your house.

Speaker 8 (26:27):
Yep, she is. We cleaned up the house.

Speaker 9 (26:30):
Yeah, dude, he's so, me and Mattie are going to
Jeff Rubies tonight and he's gonna take her mom out.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah what what? Yeah some Zach Wilson stuff.

Speaker 5 (26:42):
Where they go?

Speaker 8 (26:43):
What are they actually?

Speaker 9 (26:44):
He said he's going to ask her and we talked
to him to her mom, and so I'm not sure
what they'll.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Do, but they're gonna hang out something. Yeah, just hang out.
Though they're not like going on a date.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
No, not go on a date.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
They just hang out. It is her mom married still, yeah, okay,
got it, got it, got it? Her mom younger.

Speaker 8 (27:02):
Yeah, she's the late forties.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Okay, Dawes, but no she's still. Okay. Yeah, what are
we going to do here? What do we learned from this?

Speaker 9 (27:12):
I'm gonna not take any excuses and well, excuses and
reasons are different.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, for sure. If you have reasons, there are reasons
you can't do a lot of things like reality real
life happens sometimes, or reasons you can't do a lot
of things in life, that's true. Excuses are different. Excuses
for example, are.

Speaker 9 (27:33):
Unexcusable cook salmon my tummy, that's true.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Or she'll kill me, yeah, when in reality you're only
doing it for her the Big Three.

Speaker 8 (27:43):
Yeah for sure.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Okay, So that's what we learned here. There are difference
and differences and reasons and excuses, reasons, you can have excuses.
We're eliminating.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
I'm also learning that there's no validity to she's gonna
kill me, because he kind of uses that as always
just an excuse.

Speaker 9 (27:58):
Yeah, I mean she will, she would be a you know, upset,
Like if she's upset, that's a bad thing because then
it's like, okay, lot codependency here, Yeah, do.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
You know what codependency is?

Speaker 8 (28:10):
No?

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Okay, Okay, thank you. Now we're gonna get over and
talk with ESPN's NFL senior writer and fantasy football expert
Mike Clay. Mike's on such shows a Sports Center, Fantasy Football, Now,
NFL Ive, and a whole bunch more. He has great
fantasy inside his great stuff online at Mike Clay NFL.
To keep up Hereios Mike Clay, Hey, Mike, how's it going.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Hey, I'm doing well.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
How are you? Hey? Good? Appreciate the time. Mike has
a bunch of content available on ESPN Plus It's Mike
Clay's Ultimate Draft Board Sleeper watch the one ninety two
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the money. I get the message an email every single
time that someone has logged into my Disney account, which
is what it says every time I log into my
ESPN Plus. So thanks for coming on a lot of
fantasy questions for us. It's draft time, so your demand

(28:58):
has never been any heavier with us. You have two
running backs in your top three. Now. Back in the day,
we should drift running backs like crazy, it's like limited.
But then it's become so wide receiver frenzied with the
top guys with I think Byjon and Breese are in
your top maybe three out of three is your top
three McCaffrey, Breese and Bjon. Is that right? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (29:17):
It sure is. And look it's positional scarcity at this point.
There are just so many good wide receivers. The depth
at quarterback and tight end is so good right now
that I just look at the running back spot and
I say, if I'm picking early in the first round,
I can get one of the big three. The three
you just laid out SMC, Bjon and breis Hall and

(29:37):
just feel so good about that position. I'm just set.
I have one of the very few. So I mean,
CMC's on his own level. I know he's twenty eight now,
not fully healthy at this particular moment, but he's on
his own level. And then the other two are so young,
they're up and coming guys that could they they're the
two best candidates to outscore CMC this year. So if
I get one of those guys right out of the gate,
you feel great about that.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
I feel like what's old is new as old as
new again because this used to be what we would
do seven, eight, nine years ago. Where was there only
a certain amount of army ones and let's grab them
all because eventually we're gonna be fighting for scrum and
there are plenty of wide receivers. But now it's that
wide receivers. There are so many good ones, not even
that there are just so many, there are so many
good ones. You ceedee Lamb with his holdout, do you

(30:21):
feel like that will affect him week one, week two
of the season if they do sign him, Like, will
he be ready to go or will there be a
warm up process?

Speaker 3 (30:29):
He might come out a little slow, but here's the thing.
It doesn't matter, and we saw evidence of that last season.
The first six weeks of the season, he was not
doing very good from a fantasy perspective. Then Dallas had
their Week seven by when they came back, the light
went on for Dak Prescott and ceedde lamp. From that
point forward, Ceedee Lamb had three hundred and fourteen Fantasy points.

(30:50):
If that was just his total for the entire season,
he would have finished wide receiver three. That's how dominant
he was from that point forward. It is unbelievable. Twenty
eight and a half fantasy points per game. Respective Tyreek
Hill during that span average about a little over twenty
points per game. He just crushed it. So we've already
seen seelamb got off to a slow start and crushed
it for fantasy. Even if that happens this year, it

(31:11):
doesn't affect me at all. He's fourths overall on my board.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
You can't predict injuries, and especially when you look at
the top players on any board, but especially yours, they
all have a bit of injury associated with them, right,
which makes it extremely difficult. I mean McCaffrey, until his
year with forty nine ers, he was hurt every year,
But I probably wouldn't come back to the Panthers either.
I'd have been like, my elbow hurts. You know. So
Breece Hall heard his rookie year like came out. Bijean

(31:36):
was hurt last year, Ceedee lamb Tyreek is small had
some time a mon ros Saint Brown had a rib injury, Like,
let's go to a mon Saint Brown. Apparently that injury
was way worse than we knew about. And he still
had a heck of a year last year. You feel
pretty good about him the year.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, I love him. He was outstanding last season. He
used to emerge as a guy that has a high
floor and a high ceiling. The high floor comes from
just massive volume in the shore to inner immediate rang
So you know they're going to get the ball in
his hands as often as they possibly can in the ceiling.
We've seen it. You know, he pushed here. He he
had double digit touchdowns last season. If he could do that,
you're the whole package in fantasy. So uh, you know,
things have gone kind of perfectly for Detroit the last

(32:14):
two seasons. They really haven't had it many injuries. Everybody's
for the most part. Everyone's been out there, you know,
relative to other teams have been very healthy. The old
Lions held out, Jared Dodds held up. So you know
that gives me the slightest pause, Like what happens if
something like that, You know, they start to drop like
other teams do. But at the end of the day,
like you said, to your point, you can apply that
to every team in the NFL. You know, every team

(32:37):
is going to have some level of injury concerns over
the long term. So as same Brown as my wide
receiver three, I expect another massive season from him.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Did Justin Jefferson fall in your top ten because of
the quarterback situation?

Speaker 9 (32:48):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Yeah, I mean relative to Kirk Cousins or yes, if
Kirk Cousins was back, I think he'd be giving Ceedee
Lamber run for his money for that top overall spot
at wide receiver. But there's more questions. You know, there's
there's question marks with with Sam Darnold. You know, there's
there's a hope, there's a range of outcome for him
that they can get him going. And if you think
but there's no way that's possible, well I give you

(33:10):
Baker Mayfield last year I give you Gino Smith two
years ago. With the right coaching and the raw talent,
Sometimes these quarterbacks can develop later in their current have
a good season, So there is hope that Sam Darnald
will be okay. I would feel better though, if jj
McCarthy was healthy, just because the ceiling's higher. You know,
you draft a guy in the first rund you expect
him to be a superstar. And McCarthy did look the
part in the offseason, so that gives me a little

(33:32):
pause from where we've had Jefferson in the past. But
he's still wide receiver five. On my part, He's going
to get a huge target share and he is maybe
the best talent at receiver in the NFL. So he's
still a fine first round pick.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
You have two Eagles in your top twelve. Saquon first
year running back. Are they gonna touch push anymore? Going
to get who's going to get those carries?

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yeah? They'll still do the brotherly show for sure. I
don't know if it'll be quite as dominant as it
was with Jason Kelsey up front. But remember, Jalen Hurts
is the guy that can squat what is it a
you know, a bazillion pounds. I don't know. I don't
even I can't count that high. So he'll he'll be awesome.
He'll still do that, He'll still get in the end zone.
But here's the thing. The last few years Eagles running

(34:14):
backs have scored enough rushing touchdowns. You know, I believe
Miles Sanders, I think it was eight two years ago
as their lead back. And this is another step up.
This is Saquon Barkley we're talking about.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Now.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
You don't pay him to bring him in to just
be a situational guy and not be involved near the
goal line. The guy is going to be good. I
think he'll score right round ten touchdowns. Much better offensive
line in Philadelphia relative to what he was dealing with
in New York. And look, Howie Roseman is not a
guy that pays non premium positions. We've seen linebackers walk away,
We've seen them not pay running backs. But this year

(34:46):
the salary cap went up, and he just watched his
Eagles get beat up by Christian McCaffrey and the forty
nine ers the last couple of years and thought, you know,
this is a copycat league. We had a premium A
plus running back on the market, this is the time
to pounds on one of these guys. He's doing that
with Saquon Barkley. I expect him to be a featured
player and have a huge season.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Who's going to go from didn't really matter last year
to holy crap, they matter a lot this year. And
just to give you a second to think about that, Like,
a guy like Garrett Wilson makes sense to me because
he just didn't have anybody to run ball to him,
and he's elite, so you can still pick him. I
just want to give you a second to think about
that answer. Who will go from man, if they just
had somebody to get them the ball, they'd be so
elite to this year they have that person.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Yeah, I think there's two guys that jump right off
the page. I'll agree with you on Garrett Wilson because
he was my guy last year. Okay. I took him
in the late first round of our marathon mock draft
on TV. I sniped Dan Grasiano. He was not happy.
I was happy. And then it took a few snaps
on Monday Night Football and that was that dream was dead.
So I'm back in on Garret Wilson. Look, the guy's
fourth among receiver and targets. Since he entered the NFL,

(35:47):
all the other guys up there in the top ten
and targets are averaging like sixteen seventeen eighteen fantasy points
per game, eight and a half touchdowns per season. He
has seven total touchdowns to average in about twelve and
a half fantasy points per game. Becase the league's worst
quarterback play that should be fixed this season. So it's
him and the other guy, obviously is Drake London, first
round or two years ago, same kind of thing. A

(36:08):
big target, Shaar. Since he's coming to the league, he's
the real deal. But the quarterback play has been bad.
It's been a low volume offense down there in Atlanta.
Now he is Zach Robinson in as the play caller.
Arthur Smith is out and headed to Pittsburgh, and of
course you have Kirk Cousins at quarterback, which is a massive,
massive upgrade. So I expect both of those guys that
big seasons, both of them I have in my top fifteen.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Speaking of Atlanta, Vijon obviously we mentioned him as being
one of your top three. I think he's number three
on your board. But what do you expect Vijon to
do now that he's not in that Arthur Smith offense.
What is he going to do now that he wasn't
able to do last year?

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Yeah, all systems go. I mean last year, I think
it would surprise people because to your point, like it
fell underwhelming, it felt disappointing. And still he was sixth
among running backs in yards last year. I believe he's
fifth in snaps, he was second in targets. So he
still had a very good season for a first year
player in the NFL, especially and again that low volume system.

(37:05):
Now the carries can come. I think that's going to
be the big difference from last year to this year.
The carries will add up. You might see about one
hundred more carries. That's big, and perhaps more importantly, goal
line work. He had two carries inside the opponent's five
yard line. Last season. It wasn't even in the top
fifty among running backs. That is something they will correct
this season. By the way, he still at eight touchdown
last year, So at eight touchdowns and he had two

(37:27):
carries inside the five. So he's the real deal. He
has the raw talent, he is the pedigree. He's super young,
just twenty two years old, and again, forget everything about
last year's offense. You know, last year's at Lant offense.
It doesn't matter. It's now a new system, a new quarterback, everything,
he's ready to roll.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
In twenty fifteen, you introduced the wide receiver cornerback matchups,
which I always find interesting. I mean, back in the day,
anybody lined up against revs, you just if you had
a stud you had to start on bro. You knew
it just wasn't going to happen. For the most part.
How much who should we look out for if they're
up against who? We're like, Oh, man, if it's off,
we're already like borderline that we should not start.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Uh. Yeah, that's a great question. I mean lately it's
been like that. Every week I'm writing about the Jets secondary,
just how dominant they are in the perimeter, because you know,
everyone knows Sauce Gardner, but gj Read is fantastic as well.
Michael Carter's in the slot, So that's like an automatic
repeat every week. I know, whoever's playing the Jets is
a downgrade, you know. I look at Christian Gonzales in

(38:25):
New England is a very fascinating one. If you want
for a breakout player in the NFL this season. He
was shadowing right out of the gate early last season,
looked like he was a fine by the New England,
then got hurt mister the rest of this season. But
he's a guy I want to see if he comes
out strong in Week one and and just picks up
where he left off last season. Could be a little
bit of a change there with the new scheme in
New England. Bella checks out and is historically just shadowed

(38:47):
with number ones over the years, like you know, going
back to like a Malcolm Butler. I mean, the list
goes on and on and so many good ones. But
he's a he's a very interesting one. So we learned
a lot in Week one. You know, we see which
corners are going to show, which are not. Lagarious Need
was really interesting when last year in Kansas City. But
now he goes to tennessee will he be used the
same way? You know, he was a got shadowing number

(39:08):
ones all season last year for the Chiefs and what
was one of their best defensive seasons ever. So that's
always a fun experiment to do. I try to predict
it for Week one, see what the dynamics going to
be and then we learned so much about these new
schemes in that first series of games.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Who are you making your biggest reach on in accordance
with the with their ADP, Like, who do you feel
like is so much better value than what their average
draft position is?

Speaker 3 (39:34):
Oh, good question. I think there's there's a few. I
think a guy that I've really been trying to get
my hands on because he's not super expensive. And by
the way, like the first and second round receivers, always
looking for them later in the drafts, but also second
year receivers. You know, you tend to see a leap
of quarterbacks in that year, but also receivers sometimes, especially

(39:54):
guys not picked early in the first the later guys,
that's when they make a leap. So Jackson Smith and
Jigba in Seattle is a guy I'm looking at. Reports
in the offseason have been fantastic for him. Again, he
was a late first rounder last year. He came in
the league super young. He's only twenty two and don't
be surprisedly lead that team and targets this year. You
know Dk metcalf is going to open the seasons. They're
one they love to hit to him near the goal line,

(40:16):
get him his vertical targets, but not necessarily a dominant
target share. Smith and Jaba could could beat him out
in that department. Don't don't be shocked at all. I
know Tyler Lockett's there as well. It's a new scheme,
but Smith and Jigba appears to be the real deal.
So very excited to see what he can do. And
in ten team leagues you're and even twelve teams you
get him in the eighth, ninth round. You're not paying
too much for him.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Fantasy Focused Football podcast it's Monday through Friday, airing live
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to the zig, so I subscribe. I have the number

(40:58):
three pick in both playingwo leagues. I have the number
three thick of both in mine, and I feel pretty
good that I'm going to get one of those three
running backs just because well numerically i'm number three. So yeah,
So I like when someone smarter than me agrees with
what I was planning on doing. It really gives me
a boost of confidence there, so be sure to check
out Fantasy Focused Football podcast. I guess the last thing,

(41:18):
Alaska is do we feel like if DeVante Adams had
a quarterback he would be much better? Or is he
just getting old?

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Right?

Speaker 1 (41:26):
I think he's a little nineteen on your list. He's
such a stud. But if the stud can't get the ball,
he can't do stud things.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Yeah, a huge target chair last season, but the efficiency
was the worst we've seen from DeVante Adams. You know,
it's not Aaron Rodgers anymore. Thrown in the ball. The
good news is, you know, and I say this with
some pause. I don't want to get too carried away
on this, but Gardner Minshew did finish thirteenth in QBR
last season. He did, you know, I know this scheme
is good in Indianapolis. It was fast based. They set
him up for success. He did well. So yeah, I

(41:54):
think Minshew he's certainly I wouldn't saying above average starter,
but you know he's not horrific, you know. So if
he can just push the ball to Adams and give
him twenty eight to thirty percent of the targets, you know,
let's push for eight, nine, ten a game. I'm just
going to have another huge season and that's why he's
projected to still he's wide receiver ten on my board
at age thirty one, so I'm hopeful that it works out.

(42:16):
I think the connection with Minshew could work him. By
the way, if Aidan O'Connell eventually they say, you know what,
he's out playing him. He's the better guy. He beats
out Minshew, that's that's better for Adams. That means that
this young guy is an even better situation. So we'll
see how a plays out. But I think Adams probably
is maybe one more big season in him.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
You can follow Mike at Mike Clay NFL. Hey, Mike
appreciates time. Hope you have a great day and hope
you have a lot of really good drafts. Man. Thanks
for hanging out with us.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
Yeah, good luck this season.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
Thanks for having me on all right, thanks man. I
just a reminder we have picked our parlay for week
zero at eight. Week zero, but it is exciting. There's football.
I just hate it being called week zero. It's week one.
I either call it week one to call it mystery week.
That's cool because zero means nothing. So here we go.
Here's the parlay. We're starting off strong. We're going Hawaii
money Line over Delaware State. Delaware State.

Speaker 5 (43:03):
Did you see they got delayed?

Speaker 1 (43:04):
What do you mean?

Speaker 5 (43:05):
Delaware State got delayed in New York the flight are
they missed their flight or something like that. And then
they're suck at JFKVE like ten hours.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
They didn't fly that one private. No, Wow, that's tough.
That's tough. Yeah, that's a lot of equipment to get
over there too. Yeah, you mail all that crap, you
ship it. It's got to go on a overnight. Well, man,
all your pads because back when I play high school football,
you put your home between your shoulder pads. Just that.
They'll do that. But it's Delaware State there. They're flying

(43:33):
southwest down to Hawaii. Apparently, Hawaii money Line over Delaware
State SMU. It's minus twenty seven at Nevada, so we're
taking SMU and the points and then Montana State money
Line over New Mexico. I'll be honest with you, guys,
I don't know crap about any of these teams. So
let's see, except for SMU should be pretty good this year. Uh,

(43:54):
and then Hawaii is a long way to go right,
and Delaware State got delayed and they have to carry
their shoulder pads and how exact.

Speaker 8 (44:00):
Through the airport.

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(44:51):
The jersey that Babe Ruth wore when he called a shot. Yeah,
remember for the cancer kid or the order of the
sick kid. What do you mean cancer kid? That's why
he called a shot. He promised it to the kid
in the hospital.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Oh, I didn't know that part. I thought he was
just being babe, being like, I'm going to hit it
right over.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
There now, mamad, Babe, do that for no reason. I
need a bad a. You're true, that's true. Unless I'm
getting my stories mixed up. I believe it was a
Wrigley filled and I believe Babe called a shot because
he told the kid in the hospital that he was
going to hit him a home run. Dang, that's cool.
We got to go to our New York expert though. Okay,
see is that true?

Speaker 9 (45:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (45:21):
I believe that's true.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
And I think it was also the first All Star
game of sorts that that the shot happened at as well.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Okay, see, we're learning and how much this actually happened,
we don't know. We don't know.

Speaker 5 (45:32):
The World Series in nineteen twenty six. Okay, I'm not
a homer for you in the Wednesday game kids.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
So say, okay, do it again, Mike. What did you say?
So it was? What was it? Nineteen twenty six World Series.
Middle of the game. Okay, so it was a postseason
or like extra game. And then he did tell a
kid he'd hit a home run for him. Did you
say what the kid was suffering from?

Speaker 5 (45:51):
Hospitalized by getting kicked by a horse, not cancer?

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Okay, well, yeah, I know, I was awful little bit.
And he told him, I'm knock a home a homer
for you in Wednesday's game.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
But you see how we mess it up in a
matter of like two minutes. Can you imagine all these
years of people's stories mixing up and by the time
like it comes to us, we don't know anything.

Speaker 6 (46:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
I knew it was Wrigley Field, which meant it had
to be an All Star game or a World Series
because the Yankees and the Cubs a l n L.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
So.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
And then I knew it was a hospital because I've
seen the version of it on TV where it's like, oh,
hit one, y'all get But I thought it was just
generally cancer. It one for you, there, kid. So the
jersey he wore Boyle is going to set a new
memorabilia record. Well yeah, yeah, no, but you say, yeah, yeah,
but what do you mean, what do you mean it's
not easily the most valuable thing ever. The babe Ruth

(46:40):
everyone knows him calling the show. Yeah you didn't, You
didn't even know what it's from, dude.

Speaker 4 (46:46):
I've seen the pick. I've seen it all, like I've heard, dude.
Even when I play baseball sometimes I do it just
because the babe did it.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
You know, we all do know that. We're not saying
it's not amazing moment, but you're acting like, easily, that's
the most valuable piece of memorabilia in the history of
the world in your sports or Billia Eh, Michael Jordan what, Yeah,
exactly like I would say Michael Jordan's first championship shoes
that he signs. Yeah, this is the babe. You're just
saying that because you know it's already the answer. My

(47:13):
point is you were just kind of jumping along. But
anyway it's gonna go for They think around eighteen to
twenty million dollars, Wow, which is crazy. So and then
do you wear it or do you just leave it
on your leave it on the wall. You don't wear it.
You don't wear it. You don't wear twenty million dollars.
Did you bet one day I'm wearing that around the house.
I mean, that's why you would never get it. Yeah,

(47:34):
and that's why I don't have that kind of money.

Speaker 8 (47:36):
Yeah, reg League softball game.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Yeah I did it, Mark Drace, Yeah, he did so
if there's not another bid. Based on what's been bid
so far, the current top bid is fifteen point one
million dollars. It's five point five million more than the
Now this is a card, but the nineteen fifty two
tops Mickey Mantle card at a nine point five sold
for twelve point six million two years ago. Car The

(48:00):
previous all time auction record for a game more jersey
was ten point one million paid at Southeby's for Michael
Jordan's two thousand No. Nineteen ninety NBA Finals Game one
jersey sold in two thousand and two. But to pay
ten million dollars per jury, Man, that's.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
Crazy because you say the Jordan one, right, Like I say,
I'm assuming it's someone's living room they're having a cocktail party,
and then like, what is that got.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
To be in some sort of sports museum in somebody's house. Yeah,
like that has it? You don't just buy that and
hang that by itself next to the family. Yeah, Okay,
I just pure, and you also guard it. It's got
to be guarded. You're just talking about let's take the
jersey and the sports off of it. It's it's ten
million dollars. You would think of the ways people want

(48:46):
to steal anything in your house. If they see any
valuable in your carl On bus window, you have to protect.
If they know ten million dollars is anywhere, you've got
to do the security video electric Mond. Yeah, see, I
don't know about this.

Speaker 5 (49:01):
Doesn't it take the fun out of it?

Speaker 1 (49:02):
Though? No, because I'm sure it's bought as an investment.
I'm sure it's bought by a sports fan, but as
an investment because you're not going to spend ten million
bucks on something to whack off at interesting. You know
you're gonna buy it because you're into sports, but you're
also going to go, I'm buying this as an investment
because I'm not going to spend ten million bucks on something
it's just it's fun to me. Otherwise, you buy like

(49:24):
Michael Jordan's flu game jersey for a tenth of the
price and just have fun with it.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, you understand how rich people think. See,
we don't have I don't have any money, so I'm
thinking like, yeah, I'd buy that ten million dollars hanging
up in my wall, have people over and be like
you know what that is?

Speaker 1 (49:40):
And you know what they do? They'd be thinking like,
how do we break in and steal this later? Yeah,
they didn't even think about that. I know. It's crazy.
Heritage Execs still projective because this bid now again for
the Root Jersey. They think it could possibly. I don't
know when this ends, but it could want to. No, God, no,
you're that You're crazy. I want everybody listening. He was

(50:01):
a kidding. There's no no, there's that, there's that, and
then there's no bones. Would you bid for fun thirty
million dollars? Because I don't get tracked with it? Right,
I don't get tracked. You never know. You may not
get out bid. That's from c l LLCT dot com.
If you have that, you have to have the extra

(50:22):
million dollars in security, So you have to have other
money to protect the money that you just spent. Otherwise,
I've seen enough Oceans movies to know somebody's coming to
get it. Yeah right, Yeah, you just watched all those,
din't you. I did well. Parts of them. I'd seen
them already, but my wife had never seen them.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
Do I remember when Ocean's eleven come out is mind
blowing and I thought after that everything any kind of
robbery is possible, any.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Kind, But I think it still is right. I mean,
I wouldn't have thought of like the whole going down
the lasers, and you probably don't think about robberies. Yeah,
I mean those guys were good. Yeah, well there are
all a fictional I would say that if these are happening,
we're not knowing about them. Right. A lot of these
are just and then people are embarrassed they got it.

(51:09):
Then they're black market art is constantly and that's from robberies.
But do you see the story about Hank Aaron and
the bases. So, Hank Aaron, he is the home run
all time home run leader, Hamry Hank the home when
he hit the home run that set the all time record.

(51:31):
They pulled the bases and like somebody that worked for
the Braves at the time gave the basis to so
and so. Okay, so the bases are up in their
games over they took the bases off, so the bases
are now. The bases were listed by heritage auctions. We
have all the bases, but then there was a one

(51:52):
of the family was like, no, we have the third base.
It's something like that where they're even arguing which one
was real great, because again, hi, it's not like there's
a photo match. I mean photo match. It looks like
the base. If you see the story, Kevin, you.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
I'm reading, it looks like the Braves are the ones
that are challenging it.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
So they are, Yeah, because the Braves are challenging it.
But because they say that I think it was the
third base, somebody else has or claims they have the
real one, and it was the family. It's the family.
So but again you have this this auction group going
we have it. You can buy all of them one, two,

(52:34):
three and home, and then somebody going not so fast,
because the Braves put a stop to it. Gosh, how
do you prove that? How do you prove which one
was the real one? I think you set them both
down and you cut them in half. You go, we're
gonna cut this in half. And whoever goes no, no, no,
don't he can have it. That's who gets it because
they love it the most. The Bible. Solomon, Yeah, not sure, dude.
How cool.

Speaker 4 (52:52):
Remember that story went to at Saint Louis where they
had all the old They had bases there from a
bunch of games.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
They had jerseys from everyone. We're talking about the gift shop.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
Yeah, we went into the gift shop, but it was
all used stuff, even like office chairs that was like
part of an office and they're at the GM.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
It really was. It was like everything and it was
it was dirt from certain games. It was balls, thow
balls hit by certain players, never the big players. For
the most part. There's always secondary you know, but bat
are seven eight nine.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
I do remember seeing bases there, but they would all
have like plates on them, and I don't know if
they do that now, where like every game they have
a plate that says game four of the Mets, you know, Cardinal.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
I don't think they throw every base away every day now.
Oh really no, I don't think it's that.

Speaker 4 (53:38):
But that's good to know, dude, because when we were
watching the Cardinals game, I was telling my kids, that's
the base that broke my foot on that one right there.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
It could have been though, because they don't pull them
every game and give them away. That's cool, But if
something happens, or if they pull the base and like
this base is now dead, they can assign something that
actually happened on the base, like whatever the best thing
that happened on that base. They can then go George
Brett hit his four hundredth double on this base. Shoot,
maybe I should call him and tell him that I
broke Yeah, Kevin, what do you see over there?

Speaker 5 (54:08):
I see that the Baseball Hall of Fame gave Hank
third base when he got inducted, and then he donated
it to the Hall of Fame. Okay, And that's where
they're upset. There's the Hall of Fame and the Braids
are saying, no, we have the base.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
So it's a it is third base they're fighting about.
So home play first and second, all good, but who's
got the real third base? And both are claiming it's
and both think it's the real third base, And how
do you really find out? No, do you just have
to take the loss? Do you do? You melt them
together and make one or two new ones and they

(54:43):
both have a little bit of the original and the
values down, but now you have two instead of one,
which is better than none.

Speaker 5 (54:50):
Dang, get into some legal stuff too.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Yeah, it was up for auction. Yeah, they were up
all that Eddie would put in his back yard and
have softball game, be like, hey, buddy, come over, have
dragon Hank Aaron basis, the Hank cair basis. I like
to conclude the show with a little talk. Had a
Rex softball game last night. I had on two weeks

(55:15):
ago as well, but the one two weeks ago. The
game started at nine pm. Who what adult in the
right mind could play at Rex softball game at nine pm?
Normal people? No, they don't even want to play. I
didn't play because I have to get up so early.
But even they were like, it's miserable because you played
nine until ten, You get home at ten thirty, ten,
forty five shower, by the time it's eleven, you don't
get to be until midnight twelve thirty. It's terrible. So

(55:36):
we had an eight o'clock game, which is about the
very edge of when I can play, and I slept
all week. I was like, man, I really don't want
to go, and I always want to go. I'll look
forward to it so much. But I went and we go.
We're playing. We're up third inning seventeen to one. Is brutal.
And so ah, we just started dicking around. We lost

(55:57):
twenty four to twenty three. What from that? Wow? Is
a crazy crazy comeback.

Speaker 4 (56:04):
When you say dick and around, Like, what are you
guys knowing? Like everybody playing banana?

Speaker 1 (56:08):
Yeah, Eyo's playing position.

Speaker 5 (56:09):
I don't normally play like we were all like, was
there like a bunch of errors or were they just
yap out of the wall.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
No?

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Both, but I'm telling you flight two innings, everybody's like,
what a position if you're not played forever? Oh no,
it's so stupid. We were so stupid, like let the
kids play.

Speaker 5 (56:22):
They never play.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
And it's like people are playing short stop. They never
played shortofp Like I just wanted to play shortstop bag
And we lost and we deserved it, and it hurt
a little bit, and they were getting malluded with the umpire.
But they sucked and we sucked because we made bad
We made bad strategic decisions. But we end up losing
the last inning twenty four to twenty three. That's tough. Yes,
I was so tired. I was so tired. I wasn't

(56:45):
eve competitive, like I never left my position. For the record,
I played first base the whole night.

Speaker 5 (56:49):
I was like, I'm not did anybody try to get it?

Speaker 1 (56:51):
No, because that's just where I play now, but we all,
I've never had it. It was seventeen to one and
then it'd being twenty four to three. Last inning, we
had a chance to come back. We were the home team,
and then I was up first and I got a
hit and then it was out out and then that
was it. It's hilarious. Did you try to steal at

(57:13):
the end? Nah's softball? Broh. There was a guy on
the other team who was dressed in full baseball uniform,
like what team? No, I don't know something. He looked
like he came out of the corn penstripes full uniform.
When he would get on bass, he would like hold
things with his hands like he was gonna slide head first.

Speaker 5 (57:33):
No he didn't.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
I submit to God, and I'm not making fun of him.
I'm jealous. I don't love anything in my life as
much as this guy loves playing Rex softball. That's cool.
I love playing Rex soft But I'm telling and he
was diving like It's like he waited every minute of
every day countdown clock to be able to play Rex
softball again. Full baseball, full uniform like pants, leggings.

Speaker 6 (57:58):
Was he good?

Speaker 1 (57:59):
No? Fine, mid at best? But he went hard and
I was jealous because there's nothing I love as much
as that guy loved that hour.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
Yeah, you got to respect that. Hey, are you guys
have uniforms? Are you guys just kind of like bad
news bears, We.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
Didn't have uniforms. We have a T shirt now that
they they bought the It has the guy from us
sand Loot, the Great Bambino. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's
on it. But it was just like, we might as
well get a shirt that matches. Yeah, And so we
won last week. I gotn't play that nine o'clock game,
and then last night we were at big time and
then everybody wants to play their new positions, and you

(58:36):
at the end of the game, everybody's kind of like
we made a mistake when they were coming back, when
they were marching back hard, everyone was like, I think
we made a mistake by goofing around for the last
two But they wanted they had to have balls. They
had some home runs at the end over the fence.
They won. Were they pumped, Yeah, but then they were
a little malthy, which good for them. They want to
be malthy. They came back and won. I honestly, I

(58:56):
was so tired I did not care. But I was
thinking to myself, did they not see us like all
playing different positions? But then even then maybe not. Maybe
they were just like, oh, they want to disrespect us,
so they deserved. They deserve to win in every way.
I've never had to come back like that before. On me.
It's hilarious, dude, And they smack some homers and people drinking.

(59:18):
Is it a Beer League kind?

Speaker 6 (59:21):
I guess.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
I don't know. Our team isn't unwritten rule. Maybe I
don't know. I don't our team wasn't our team wouldn't.
I really don't want to say who our team is. Yeah,
I got you. I got you not because they're famous,
but because I kind of I didn't know who I
was playing with. And when I signed up with them,
the guy was just like, hey, come and play. We
need a spot. Because I posted on social media and

(59:43):
I'm pretty good, would say I'm the best out there.
I'm probably top. If there's twenty people out there, I'm
probably top three or four. You can't say I'm pretty
good anymore like you. You were a MVP at the Yeah,
but I was really on during that game. But it
doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
That's an accolade where you're just like that, Sorry, man,
I'm really good now, it's just who I am.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
But I'm not. There are guys out there that were
like ball players that still are really good. So I'm
never like the first second best player out there, but
I'm always I'm pretty good. But no, it is is
a hilarious night. And then it's late my always the
only game my wife's ever come to too. Oh her
and her parents, Yeah, because they're in town. So they
all they were like, well, come to the game. My
wife did not want to go to the game to

(01:00:22):
begin with. She was like, I don't want to go,
and her parents like we'll come, and she's like fine.
So they sat on the bleachers and Caitlyn's like, are
they coming back? Are you letting that score in the game?

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
Kaitlyn, subject, she's in the game.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
She was talking to you during the game. I would
go sit with them. Oh, It's like it's then you
really weren't really care.

Speaker 5 (01:00:39):
Your head wasn't in the game, then mine was?

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
I played for I played all right? Yeah, yeah, if
you're going to the bleachers talking to your family during
the game. Bro, your head's not in the game. There's
no game for my head to be in. Uh So
that's it.

Speaker 6 (01:00:53):
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Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
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