Colin reacts to the Texans beating down the Cowboys 34-10 on Monday Night Football!He breaks down why the Texans will be fine despite some struggles and debates what the Cowboys should do in the draft in order to secure an impact player for the future seeing as they “aren’t close” (4:15).
He explains why fans shouldn’t freak out about pro athletes like USMNT star Christian Pulisic doing the “Trump Dance” despite their politics (12:30), and why ESPN adding the star-studded crew of “The NBA On TNT” to their programming slate was a savvy business move (21:45).
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All right, we saw the Texans thump the Dallas Cowboys
tonight and I got my draft Kings bet right. Houston
minus four and a half to cover in the first half.
First play of the game was actually a touchdown ineligible
man downfield. Screw that up, but they scored Joe Mixon
on a big run after that to take a lead.
Never look back. I mean. The first thing is c J.
(02:05):
Stroud has struggled for about five weeks, and you can
tell why he's got a bad offensive line and golf
they call it the yips. He lets go of the
ball too quickly. I don't worry that he's got, you know,
more interceptions now than he did all of last year,
because when he had Stefan Diggs and Nico Collins healthy,
he was four and one. He's still undefeated in division.
He's four and four after the win over Dallas tonight.
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In the rest of their games, I think the Houston
Texans are fine. They're the Green Bay Packers of the AFC.
They're a year away. They need another draft. They're a
little bit thin. The Packers are a little young. Texans
are a little thin. They both have good young coaches,
really good young quarterbacks. They're just not ready to beat
the Detroits or like the Buffalo's in Kansas City's. But
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it's a good team. And I don't take anything away
from c J. Stroud. His comp was Jared Goff. Well,
if you go back to Jared Goff's third year in
the NFL that wasvey, his passer rating dip to like
mid eighties, high eighties, and so you know CJ doesn't
trust his protection. PFF has their O line at like
twenty six twenty seventh. His top receiver, Stefon Diggs is out.
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Nico Collins came back tonight. He's been hurt. Nico Collins
is amazing. He went to Michigan. He was a southern
kid from I think Alabama went to Michigan. Productive, but
not a superstar in college, like mid thirties catches, and
they got him in the third round. And boy, he
is a hard guard. He is a hard guy to defend.
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It it you know, you can tell c J. Stroud and
his comp is golf, so he's not a playmaker. He's
a sit in up pocket and throw darts. When Goff's
offensive line is great, Jared's great. His rookie year, c J.
Stroud had a very good offensive line. He was outstanding.
Goff and Stroud, those were the comps by scouts, and
it was accurate. CJ moves a little better. But when
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they don't have great protection, they rush things, they throw
more interceptions. They're just not as on point. And I
think that's c J. Stroud just needs better protection. He'll
be fine. I think the Jared Goff comparison's always been true.
And they have great protection. They're really special. You know,
it's interesting though watching the Cowboys. So the Cowboys right now,
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if you go to the current NFL draft order, there's
five teams with two wins Jacksonville, Tennessee, Cleveland, Las Vegas Giants,
and then there's four teams with three wins, the Jets,
New England, Carolina, and Dallas. Dallas is now at three
and nine, and so the advantage for Dallas is, Listen,
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they have a chance to end up with just three
wins now with Cooper Rush. But they played Tommy DeVito
and the Giants on Thanksgiving, and if they win that game,
and I think they will, that'll be their fourth win.
It'll take Dallas out of any shot for a first, second,
or probably third pick in the draft. It's not a
particularly strong draft, and they wouldn't take Shador Sanders anyway.
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But what I was hold because if Dallas can get
into the top five, and they still have a shot
even if they beat the Giants, that would be four wins.
They also play Carolina. But if you're Dallas at this point,
this is why the New York Giants are not going
to go to Drew Locke. They're going to Tommy DeVito.
They'd rather not win games and the Giants have a
real shot because I think Jacksonville, Tennessee and Cleveland are
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two talented. They'll win another game. If the Giants get
beat by Dallas, there's a real possibility they don't win
another game and they have the number one pick, and
they will absolutely draft Shadoor Sanders. So Dallas, I would
draft Shaeddoor Sanders, but I wouldn't sign Dack to a
long term contract. But Dallas isn't going to draft him.
There's some good players in this draft. The number two
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pick I think will be Kelvin Banks. He's an offensive
tackle from Texas. Travis Hunter, a very explosive player from Colorado,
will go second or third. Mason Graham, the defensive tackle Michigan,
Will Johnson, the corner from Michigan. Will Campbell, the offensive
tackle from LSU. T Mac the wide receiver Arizona, really
big target, Southern California kid. He's really good player. Cam
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Ward is going to go somewhere in the top ten,
although I, you know, a little backyard football for me,
I wouldn't draft him that high. But it's not a
great draft. There's a lot of Mikhale Williams the defensive
the edge for Georgia. There's a lot of Georgia and
Michigan guys in the top twelve, top fifteen. Not a
great draft. And listen, if I was Dallas and I
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got a top five pick, I would move down because
I don't think they're close to Detroit, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Kansas City.
I don't think their rosters close. I don't think one
player is going to solve it. But if I don't
think this is a good enough draft where people are
going to want to move up unless you have a
top five pick and maybe a top yeah, a top
five pick, and somebody wants cam Ward, who I think
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is an okay prospect. I think shud Or Sanders is
a strong prospect, kind of in the Jade and Daniels class.
You know, electric moving arm, very accurate. You know, he's
a winner. He was a winner first year in college.
He's a winner at Colorado. I mean, they're a really
good football team now that could win the Big twelve.
So you know, Dallas there is This is what happens
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for the Giants who reached the Daniel Jones the Cowboys,
who have overpaid Dak had some injuries. I would strongly
consider the one thing about this draft. It's week at quarterback,
it's strong at wide receiver, and it's strong in the
first round on edge rusher. I would consider moving Micah Parsons.
You know, somebody's going to give you a first round
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pick and have to pay him. But you know, there's
a lot of teams in this league that are close,
but they could use an elite edge rusher and mic
O unhealthy is that and you could go draft another
edge rusher and restart the clock on that position. And
there's several. Abdul Carter the edge rusher from Penn State,
it's a top ten pick again, Williams from Georgia, top ten,
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twelve pick. But I think I think Dallas, you know,
they they have to have like a come to Jesus moment.
They're just not very good. I mean, you watch tonight.
You know Ceedee Lamb's an explosive player, but they know
their past protection is just okay. They have the weakest
running back root in the league. They have nothing after
Ceedee Lamb. Of note, they need a lot of help.
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Their corners are okay, not special in my opinion. So
I think that's that's where Dallas is. It's not a
year in the NFL draft to want a quarterback, there's one,
and I think you know, listen, Vegas and the New
York Giants both need one. I think Sam Darnold will
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probably have a market, a decent market, because I think
Minnesota is gonna I think they've got a chance to
sneak into the playoffs. They're just good enough. But Dallas
has a long way to go. Houston's gonna be fine.
They're gonna be fine. They're gonna get better next year.
I like their coach, their quarterback, their front office, they
got some players. Their old lines just kind of a mess.
A lot of penalties, don't pass protect particularly well. You
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saw it tonight. They don't pick up blitzes, they just
they just it's a bad unit. But but Dallas has
to really think long and hard. The downside a mediocre
draft like this year is the Cowboys would love to
trade down. This is why I believe they have to
have a top five pick because the people the only
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players that people will trade up for is a Shadoor
Sanders or maybe a cam Ward. There's like there's like
one or two great tackles. There's four or five. I
think Mason Graham the defensive tackle for Michigan's really really special.
He's been unblockable by a single offensive lineman in college football.
You kind of have to double team him, so you know,
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just it's it's interesting to see all these teams at
the top of the draft. Jacksonville, Tennessee, Cleveland, Vegas. You know,
you're kind of used to them, Jets, Carolina. Then all
of a sudden you go, oh yeah, Dallas, Wow, Dallas.
But you watched the night there's nothing there, So you're
you're seeing something all through college and pro sports, and
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it was very noticeable this weekend. You know, the Trump
dance by young NFL players, African American players, white players,
veteran players, Brock Bauers, the young tight end for Las Vegas.
But I was really you know, athletes have a sense
of humor. You know, it's a sport. It's a business,
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but it's a sport, and you know, after you score,
you celebrate. I don't care what players do, I really don't,
but I did think it was interesting that in soccer,
United States men's national team star Christian Poolisic did the
Trump dance. And the reason I think it's surprising is
that soccer tends to have a very young left leaning audience,
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and when he did it, I thought, oh boy, there's
going to be a meltdown. And regardless of where I've
always viewed myself really as a moderate independent. But you
can drive yourself crazy all you want. But the reason
the athletes are doing this is because it's really a quirky, weird,
odd dance. And every time Trump did it, it just
looks so outdated. And I think Trump sort of leans
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into it now and knows people get a kick out
of it, and it's okay to take a deep breath.
And regardless of what you think of a politician, it
is a three second, four second dance. They're pro athletes.
Take a deep breath, or you can go into therapy
for the next four years. And because you're side lost
and be miserable, you know. Sometimes I think in politics
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the greatest advantage conservatives have is people watching the other
side melt down and look crazy and out of their mind.
It's just a dance, it's no big deal. It's three seconds.
Athletes have a sense of humor. We're all going to
be okay on that. But it was noticeable to me
that when Poolisic did it, I thought, Oh, that's that's surprising.
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You know, soccer players in the soccer community have always
felt a little European, kind of left leaning, young stylish.
That's what it's always felt like to me, you know,
the hipsters. I love. I love soccer. You know. I've
told the story before. My mom was British and when
I was a kid, really really young, I was probably
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six years old, seven years old, my mom took me
to England and England was the Netherlands with Johann Crouve
a great soccer star, and England were the dominant kind
of teams in the world, and England had won a
World Cup back then. And my mom bought me a
little soccer set and I can remember playing with it
in the window ledge in England, Lancashire, in the middle
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of England, where my mom was from. And so I
I remember those I had these strong It's one of
the first memories of my life is playing with this
soccer game. And Netherlands wore orange, that's their country's color,
and it was on television. It must have been around,
you know, the World Cup, because that's all my mom
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and her twin brother, my late mother and her twin
brother Peter. That's all they you know, that was like
a big topic of conversation, and they went and got
me that soccer game. So I've always been and then
I moved to the Pacific Northwest, you know, I was
from there, the Seattle Sounders, the Portland Timbers, and then
I went there in my career. So I've always liked soccer,
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especially the United States men's national team. But I didn't
look at the reactions of their fans when Polistic did that.
But I thought there's gonna be some melt founds over that.
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the course of I think it was late last week,
it was announced in the negotiation between the NBA and TNT,
Adam Silver didn't want TNT involved in it. Long story,
(15:08):
mostly boring. The top executive for Warner Brothers just pissed
off Adam Silver and he no longer wanted him associated
with the league. And so basically they struck a deal
and ESPN is going to get the show, The Barkley
Shack Show. I actually think it is significant because in
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the regular season, that show is often more entertaining than
the games in a long NBA regular season, And I'm
a huge fan of Mike Breen. I never understood breaking
up Jeff Van Gundy, Mark Jackson and Mike Breen. I
thought at the time it was easily their strongest broadcast unit.
I didn't get it. Probably political. Van Gundy had been
at times critical of the NBA, so it felt like
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Adam Silver stepped in and blew that up. And it's
happened before. I remember when David Stern was commissioner. I
had heard complaints that he wasn't happy with the I
forget the broadcaster one of the broadcasters on ABC ESPN
and David Stern had pressured ESPN to make changes. So
but I do think ESPN's NBA coverage for the last
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I mean, what do they had the rights twenty twenty
two years. I love Breen, but it's just been a
revolving door of personalities and they've never really stepped up
and spent big money and got landed a superstar. And
I think this will really cement. I mean, let's be honest,
for years and years, Monday Night Football was kind of
swimming in mediocrity. It's nothing against the broadcasters, but it
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never felt as good as like al Michaels or you know,
the bigger broadcast teams. Jim Nantz and so Buck and
Aikman have solidified Monday Night Football. They make it feel
big again. And for years, I just I felt like
it just it didn't feel as big as the Fox
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of the Week, or the CBS Jim nance Romo Game
of the Week. ESPN felt like Number four and buckan
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Akman have elevated it. And I think ESPN's pre and
postgame show has been really weak. And I mean I
mean the halftime shows like two minutes and commercials. I
mean they don't even care. They're just selling spots. So
I think this will make it more formidable like buckan
Akman do. It'll make it feel big. And I think,
if you're Adam Silver, NBC is going to have NBA,
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ESPN's going to have NBA, and Amazon's going to have NBA,
but the incumbent is ESPN, and I think it's a
strong play. I think, you know, I love the business
I'm in. I think Jimmy Bataro, who runs ESPN, has
taking big swings. I think Nick Saban, Pat McAfee, Bucan Aikman,
Shaq Barkley, Jason Kelsey, Bill Belichick, those are big swings.
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And I think is our business as the market's gotten
wider and wider and wider. It's harder to develop shows.
It's easier to go get widely recognized personalities. To put
a Nick Saban on a Game Day, and I think
he's been the perfect tonic on that show. Between all
their other casts, it just he just clicked with them,
(18:11):
and so I and the reason ESPN has done some
big game hunting, I mean they've really taken some big
swings is because for years and years they were swimming
in red with their streaming growth, you know, Disney Disney
Plus and it was losing you know, four five billion
a year. Well they just turned a profit. This year,
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they made a billion, and so this point forward, Disney's
going to be making four eight, twelve twenty billion dollars
a year in their streaming. So you know, underneath Disney
is ESPN. And even though cable television is probably got
six years left, seven years left from what I read,
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Disney's now humming. So they're taking big swings and they're
going buying big name people as the market has become
very very wide, and it's just it's when people there's
so many platforms, there's so many options. I mean, people
are sitting on TikTok all day. To get attention, you
got to go take big swings, and you know, I
think that's what Shack and Barkley and Kenny and Ernie are.
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halftime show. I think Fox's Football Show and that show
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All right, we saw the Texans thump the Dallas Cowboys
tonight and I got my draft Kings bet right. Houston
minus four and a half to cover in the first half.
First play of the game was actually a touchdown ineligible
man downfield. Screw that up, but they scored Joe Mixon
on a big run after that to take a lead.
Never look back. I mean. The first thing is c J.
(02:05):
Stroud has struggled for about five weeks, and you can
tell why he's got a bad offensive line and golf
they call it the yips. He lets go of the
ball too quickly. I don't worry that he's got, you know,
more interceptions now than he did all of last year,
because when he had Stefan Diggs and Nico Collins healthy,
he was four and one. He's still undefeated in division.
He's four and four after the win over Dallas tonight.
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In the rest of their games, I think the Houston
Texans are fine. They're the Green Bay Packers of the AFC.
They're a year away. They need another draft. They're a
little bit thin. The Packers are a little young. Texans
are a little thin. They both have good young coaches,
really good young quarterbacks. They're just not ready to beat
the Detroits or like the Buffalo's in Kansas City's. But
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it's a good team. And I don't take anything away
from c J. Stroud. His comp was Jared Goff. Well,
if you go back to Jared Goff's third year in
the NFL that wasvey, his passer rating dip to like
mid eighties, high eighties, and so you know CJ doesn't
trust his protection. PFF has their O line at like
twenty six twenty seventh. His top receiver, Stefon Diggs is out.
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Nico Collins came back tonight. He's been hurt. Nico Collins
is amazing. He went to Michigan. He was a southern
kid from I think Alabama went to Michigan. Productive, but
not a superstar in college, like mid thirties catches, and
they got him in the third round. And boy, he
is a hard guard. He is a hard guy to defend.
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It it you know, you can tell c J. Stroud and
his comp is golf, so he's not a playmaker. He's
a sit in up pocket and throw darts. When Goff's
offensive line is great, Jared's great. His rookie year, c J.
Stroud had a very good offensive line. He was outstanding.
Goff and Stroud, those were the comps by scouts, and
it was accurate. CJ moves a little better. But when
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they don't have great protection, they rush things, they throw
more interceptions. They're just not as on point. And I
think that's c J. Stroud just needs better protection. He'll
be fine. I think the Jared Goff comparison's always been true.
And they have great protection. They're really special. You know,
it's interesting though watching the Cowboys. So the Cowboys right now,
(04:15):
if you go to the current NFL draft order, there's
five teams with two wins Jacksonville, Tennessee, Cleveland, Las Vegas Giants,
and then there's four teams with three wins, the Jets,
New England, Carolina, and Dallas. Dallas is now at three
and nine, and so the advantage for Dallas is, Listen,
(04:37):
they have a chance to end up with just three
wins now with Cooper Rush. But they played Tommy DeVito
and the Giants on Thanksgiving, and if they win that game,
and I think they will, that'll be their fourth win.
It'll take Dallas out of any shot for a first, second,
or probably third pick in the draft. It's not a
particularly strong draft, and they wouldn't take Shador Sanders anyway.
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But what I was hold because if Dallas can get
into the top five, and they still have a shot
even if they beat the Giants, that would be four wins.
They also play Carolina. But if you're Dallas at this point,
this is why the New York Giants are not going
to go to Drew Locke. They're going to Tommy DeVito.
They'd rather not win games and the Giants have a
real shot because I think Jacksonville, Tennessee and Cleveland are
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two talented. They'll win another game. If the Giants get
beat by Dallas, there's a real possibility they don't win
another game and they have the number one pick, and
they will absolutely draft Shadoor Sanders. So Dallas, I would
draft Shaeddoor Sanders, but I wouldn't sign Dack to a
long term contract. But Dallas isn't going to draft him.
There's some good players in this draft. The number two
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pick I think will be Kelvin Banks. He's an offensive
tackle from Texas. Travis Hunter, a very explosive player from Colorado,
will go second or third. Mason Graham, the defensive tackle Michigan,
Will Johnson, the corner from Michigan. Will Campbell, the offensive
tackle from LSU. T Mac the wide receiver Arizona, really
big target, Southern California kid. He's really good player. Cam
(06:06):
Ward is going to go somewhere in the top ten,
although I, you know, a little backyard football for me,
I wouldn't draft him that high. But it's not a
great draft. There's a lot of Mikhale Williams the defensive
the edge for Georgia. There's a lot of Georgia and
Michigan guys in the top twelve, top fifteen. Not a
great draft. And listen, if I was Dallas and I
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got a top five pick, I would move down because
I don't think they're close to Detroit, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Kansas City.
I don't think their rosters close. I don't think one
player is going to solve it. But if I don't
think this is a good enough draft where people are
going to want to move up unless you have a
top five pick and maybe a top yeah, a top
five pick, and somebody wants cam Ward, who I think
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is an okay prospect. I think shud Or Sanders is
a strong prospect, kind of in the Jade and Daniels class.
You know, electric moving arm, very accurate. You know, he's
a winner. He was a winner first year in college.
He's a winner at Colorado. I mean, they're a really
good football team now that could win the Big twelve.
So you know, Dallas there is This is what happens
(07:16):
for the Giants who reached the Daniel Jones the Cowboys,
who have overpaid Dak had some injuries. I would strongly
consider the one thing about this draft. It's week at quarterback,
it's strong at wide receiver, and it's strong in the
first round on edge rusher. I would consider moving Micah Parsons.
You know, somebody's going to give you a first round
(07:38):
pick and have to pay him. But you know, there's
a lot of teams in this league that are close,
but they could use an elite edge rusher and mic
O unhealthy is that and you could go draft another
edge rusher and restart the clock on that position. And
there's several. Abdul Carter the edge rusher from Penn State,
it's a top ten pick again, Williams from Georgia, top ten,
(07:59):
twelve pick. But I think I think Dallas, you know,
they they have to have like a come to Jesus moment.
They're just not very good. I mean, you watch tonight.
You know Ceedee Lamb's an explosive player, but they know
their past protection is just okay. They have the weakest
running back root in the league. They have nothing after
Ceedee Lamb. Of note, they need a lot of help.
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Their corners are okay, not special in my opinion. So
I think that's that's where Dallas is. It's not a
year in the NFL draft to want a quarterback, there's one,
and I think you know, listen, Vegas and the New
York Giants both need one. I think Sam Darnold will
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probably have a market, a decent market, because I think
Minnesota is gonna I think they've got a chance to
sneak into the playoffs. They're just good enough. But Dallas
has a long way to go. Houston's gonna be fine.
They're gonna be fine. They're gonna get better next year.
I like their coach, their quarterback, their front office, they
got some players. Their old lines just kind of a mess.
A lot of penalties, don't pass protect particularly well. You
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saw it tonight. They don't pick up blitzes, they just
they just it's a bad unit. But but Dallas has
to really think long and hard. The downside a mediocre
draft like this year is the Cowboys would love to
trade down. This is why I believe they have to
have a top five pick because the people the only
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players that people will trade up for is a Shadoor
Sanders or maybe a cam Ward. There's like there's like
one or two great tackles. There's four or five. I
think Mason Graham the defensive tackle for Michigan's really really special.
He's been unblockable by a single offensive lineman in college football.
You kind of have to double team him, so you know,
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just it's it's interesting to see all these teams at
the top of the draft. Jacksonville, Tennessee, Cleveland, Vegas. You know,
you're kind of used to them, Jets, Carolina. Then all
of a sudden you go, oh yeah, Dallas, Wow, Dallas.
But you watched the night there's nothing there, So you're
you're seeing something all through college and pro sports, and
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it was very noticeable this weekend. You know, the Trump
dance by young NFL players, African American players, white players,
veteran players, Brock Bauers, the young tight end for Las Vegas.
But I was really you know, athletes have a sense
of humor. You know, it's a sport. It's a business,
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but it's a sport, and you know, after you score,
you celebrate. I don't care what players do, I really don't,
but I did think it was interesting that in soccer,
United States men's national team star Christian Poolisic did the
Trump dance. And the reason I think it's surprising is
that soccer tends to have a very young left leaning audience,
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and when he did it, I thought, oh boy, there's
going to be a meltdown. And regardless of where I've
always viewed myself really as a moderate independent. But you
can drive yourself crazy all you want. But the reason
the athletes are doing this is because it's really a quirky, weird,
odd dance. And every time Trump did it, it just
looks so outdated. And I think Trump sort of leans
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into it now and knows people get a kick out
of it, and it's okay to take a deep breath.
And regardless of what you think of a politician, it
is a three second, four second dance. They're pro athletes.
Take a deep breath, or you can go into therapy
for the next four years. And because you're side lost
and be miserable, you know. Sometimes I think in politics
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the greatest advantage conservatives have is people watching the other
side melt down and look crazy and out of their mind.
It's just a dance, it's no big deal. It's three seconds.
Athletes have a sense of humor. We're all going to
be okay on that. But it was noticeable to me
that when Poolisic did it, I thought, Oh, that's that's surprising.
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You know, soccer players in the soccer community have always
felt a little European, kind of left leaning, young stylish.
That's what it's always felt like to me, you know,
the hipsters. I love. I love soccer. You know. I've
told the story before. My mom was British and when
I was a kid, really really young, I was probably
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six years old, seven years old, my mom took me
to England and England was the Netherlands with Johann Crouve
a great soccer star, and England were the dominant kind
of teams in the world, and England had won a
World Cup back then. And my mom bought me a
little soccer set and I can remember playing with it
in the window ledge in England, Lancashire, in the middle
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of England, where my mom was from. And so I
I remember those I had these strong It's one of
the first memories of my life is playing with this
soccer game. And Netherlands wore orange, that's their country's color,
and it was on television. It must have been around,
you know, the World Cup, because that's all my mom
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and her twin brother, my late mother and her twin
brother Peter. That's all they you know, that was like
a big topic of conversation, and they went and got
me that soccer game. So I've always been and then
I moved to the Pacific Northwest, you know, I was
from there, the Seattle Sounders, the Portland Timbers, and then
I went there in my career. So I've always liked soccer,
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especially the United States men's national team. But I didn't
look at the reactions of their fans when Polistic did that.
But I thought there's gonna be some melt founds over that.
And again, take a deep breath to four second dance.
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been some concern consternation on where is the Shaq Barkley,
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Ernie Kenny Johnson show going to go now that Warner
Brothers and TNT has lost the NBA and this was
going to be their last year with them. So over
the course of I think it was late last week,
it was announced in the negotiation between the NBA and TNT,
Adam Silver didn't want TNT involved in it. Long story,
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mostly boring. The top executive for Warner Brothers just pissed
off Adam Silver and he no longer wanted him associated
with the league. And so basically they struck a deal
and ESPN is going to get the show, The Barkley
Shack Show. I actually think it is significant because in
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the regular season, that show is often more entertaining than
the games in a long NBA regular season, And I'm
a huge fan of Mike Breen. I never understood breaking
up Jeff Van Gundy, Mark Jackson and Mike Breen. I
thought at the time it was easily their strongest broadcast unit.
I didn't get it. Probably political. Van Gundy had been
at times critical of the NBA, so it felt like
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Adam Silver stepped in and blew that up. And it's
happened before. I remember when David Stern was commissioner. I
had heard complaints that he wasn't happy with the I
forget the broadcaster one of the broadcasters on ABC ESPN
and David Stern had pressured ESPN to make changes. So
but I do think ESPN's NBA coverage for the last
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I mean, what do they had the rights twenty twenty
two years. I love Breen, but it's just been a
revolving door of personalities and they've never really stepped up
and spent big money and got landed a superstar. And
I think this will really cement. I mean, let's be honest,
for years and years, Monday Night Football was kind of
swimming in mediocrity. It's nothing against the broadcasters, but it
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never felt as good as like al Michaels or you know,
the bigger broadcast teams. Jim Nantz and so Buck and
Aikman have solidified Monday Night Football. They make it feel
big again. And for years, I just I felt like
it just it didn't feel as big as the Fox
Game of the Week or the Sunday Night Football Game
of the Week, or the CBS Jim nance Romo Game
of the Week. ESPN felt like Number four and buckan
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Akman have elevated it. And I think ESPN's pre and
postgame show has been really weak. And I mean I
mean the halftime shows like two minutes and commercials. I
mean they don't even care. They're just selling spots. So
I think this will make it more formidable like buckan
Akman do. It'll make it feel big. And I think,
if you're Adam Silver, NBC is going to have NBA,
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ESPN's going to have NBA, and Amazon's going to have NBA,
but the incumbent is ESPN, and I think it's a
strong play. I think, you know, I love the business
I'm in. I think Jimmy Bataro, who runs ESPN, has
taking big swings. I think Nick Saban, Pat McAfee, Bucan Aikman,
Shaq Barkley, Jason Kelsey, Bill Belichick, those are big swings.
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And I think is our business as the market's gotten
wider and wider and wider. It's harder to develop shows.
It's easier to go get widely recognized personalities. To put
a Nick Saban on a Game Day, and I think
he's been the perfect tonic on that show. Between all
their other casts, it just he just clicked with them,
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and so I and the reason ESPN has done some
big game hunting, I mean they've really taken some big
swings is because for years and years they were swimming
in red with their streaming growth, you know, Disney Disney
Plus and it was losing you know, four five billion
a year. Well they just turned a profit. This year,
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they made a billion, and so this point forward, Disney's
going to be making four eight, twelve twenty billion dollars
a year in their streaming. So you know, underneath Disney
is ESPN. And even though cable television is probably got
six years left, seven years left from what I read,
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Disney's now humming. So they're taking big swings and they're
going buying big name people as the market has become
very very wide, and it's just it's when people there's
so many platforms, there's so many options. I mean, people
are sitting on TikTok all day. To get attention, you
got to go take big swings, and you know, I
think that's what Shack and Barkley and Kenny and Ernie are.
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I think that's arguably as good as any pre postgame
halftime show. I think Fox's Football Show and that show
are the two that really stand out to me anyway.
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