April 3, 2023 • 41 mins
There are some similarities between Aaron Rodgers and Kyrie Irving but the Jets hope Rodgers doesn’t bring the same bad mojo Kyrie does to his teams. The most fascinating story heading into the draft is who trades up to No.3 for Anthony Richardson, while Will Levis drops “Like a Rock” on draft boards. Plus, a dumb in-season tournament agreed to in the new NBA CBA.
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Monday morning One pro and a no today. Jeff Schwartz, Right, No,
you like that works? Yeah, filling in for the guys.
What am I proing? And in sports? In sports and
losing money and yeah, yeah, I recognize faces. Didn't you
play for the Giants as we were told in Mississippi
one time? Yeah, I've never seen someone hustle her husband
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like quite like that in public before that. If that
lady's listening to our radio show right now, So, Brian,
I had dinner. We did a radio show all year
on Sunday mornings. We had dinner Mississippi. This year on
a remote location. It was a lot of fun. And
this lady just hustled her husband out of a bracelet
part pretending to know who I was. And it was
incredible in real time to see it happen. Yeah, the
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story was she got some intel. I think she overheard
our conversation. We were talking to like the owner of
the restaurant, and I think she overheard our conversation. And
then she bet her husband a bracelet that she knew
who you were. And she came over and it's like,
didn't she used to play for the Giants And You're like, yeah, yeah,
that was one of my stops. And she's like, you
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ought be a bracelet, honey. That it was a hustle job. Man,
it was a con job. Were convinced that was the
case because she had no idea, no, not the slights
idea who I was. I wasn't wearing a Giants T shirt.
I played there for two years, I mean Mississippi right
for dinner, Like does didn't know who it was. It
was incredibly I love that that she was like, I
recognize faces. I'm big on faces. I thought, awesome, Yeah, hey,
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should be okay. So remember Bob Seeger's song Like a Rock.
I just think of the truck commercial. I don't know
if there's ever been a song that's been as synonymous
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with a commercial as Bob Seegers Like a Rock, But Um,
that definitely describes the Dallas Mavericks right now, who are
just falling in the standings. They make a trade for
Kyrie Irving all this hope. They were fourth in the
West at the time, Jeff, they just lost again last
night to the Atlanta Hawks. They're four and eleven. When
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both Luca and Kyrie play, they're four and eleven. Now
they're eleventh in the West and they might not even
make the play in. This has been a disaster man. Um, Look,
you know Kyrie Irving has been a saboteur for a
couple of years on teams now right like his personality, Um,
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you know the way he conducts himself. I think that, Um,
you know his presence in locker rooms has not been
good for teams. He's a fantastic basketball player, like there's
no doubt about it, But sometimes it's more than that.
In sports, right, it's it's how do you get along
with your teammates? It said, it's how do you you know?
Is there a little bit of of teamwork? There's a
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little bit of just like, hey, how do we get
you know, how do we how do we get in here?
You know? How do we get along in the locker room? Right?
Like I mean, can you imagine like on a road trip,
like what do you talk to Kyrie about? Like how
does that? How does that work? Because part of people
talk about chemistry all the time in sports, right, and
it's very important. Right. The teams I played on that
are good. I was talking even yesterday. I was at
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my son's baseball practice, and my son's on his first
good team. He's eight and a half year all he's
you know, literal league team and he's play literal league
for you know, a couple of years down. It's he's
a good he's a good team. I was talking to
the coaches about it, just like, man, you know, we're
off to good start, Like we have a good team
and when when coach said, yeah, like the kids just
like each other, like it's a good good it's a
good group of kids. First, I'm like, you know what,
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it's a good point. I've been to every game. I
help out of practice when I can like, yeah, the
kids seem to all like each other. It's not like
a bad kid on the team. There's not a bad
ads to the team that'll just like me around each other.
And that's what chemistry is, right. It's not like it's
not typically on the court or on the field or
on the baseball field. It's off the it's off the field, right,
it's a it's you build that up on the locker room.
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You build that chemistry up on the plane, in the hotel,
you know, before practice, after practice, and just by getting
along by by by having sometimes shared interest. And you
don't have to you don't have to. You don't have
to like, uh, enjoy the same thing specifically, but most
often if you have sort of like the same the
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same sort of interest in life, the same sort of
goals in life, the same kind of things that fuel
you in life, do those things get kind of make
the chemistry work. Now at times you can have players
you play with it. You don't get along with all
the time, but are good, you know, good basketball yers.
But there's something about those players that make it work
right Kyrie. It doesn't work with Kyrie. It just doesn't right.
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And we've seen it now for a couple of years,
even go back to to the Cavs days, like Lebron
really made that work more anything else, right, he was
kind of the glue that made that team work obviously,
And I don't know, it just seems like Kyrie is
the problem right now. Yeah, And that's the thing that's
interesting because Kyrie's putting up numbers. He scored forty one points,
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had five rebounds, four assists last night. He doesn't play defense.
That's really the problem. And the pieces just fit better
when they had Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson is not as
good of an individual player's Kyrie or is, but he
fit better with Dallas because he actually defends. And also
in that Kyrie deal, they traded Dorian Finney Smith, who's
a versatile defender really good. And with Luca you gotta
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have someone play defense. That's just not Kyrie Irving, So
it doesn't fit the same way. But I think the
larger issue here is also with you talking about chemistry.
I can't help but think of Aaron Rodgers, don't. Aaron
Rodgers and Kyrie Irving have a lot in comments where
they're both incredibly talented. They're both very productive, but they're
not exactly the players that just unify. They're not like
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mister Chemistry in their respective sports. And I think when
you look at the tail of the tape, there are
a lot more similarities where they're just different guys. They're
difficult at times, they can be side shows. You've got
Kyrie saging the court, You've got whatever, Aaron Rodgers in
his darkness retreats. They both have one championship. Kyrie didn't
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get the shot. You've got Aaron Rodgers is leading using Yeah,
I've been immunized, like You've got all of those things.
And I just think that they create challenges instead of
alleviate challenges. And they're not team guys. They're much more
individual guys in team sports. I think there are a
lot of similarities between Kyrie and Aaron Rodgers. So it's
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a good point. I will say the one the one
thing I don't follow. Maybe the NBA's closely as the
NFL is that the players who play with Aaron Rodgers
don't really have bad things to say about him. Yeah,
like most talked to most of them. I mean, there's
the two in the media that most most often getting
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Jamichael Finley or Greg Jennings every now and then, Yeah,
Jennings and like James Jones. It feels like o're the two,
right and um, but like but even then, like, I'm
not sure that they really dislike Aaron Rodgers. They might say,
you know, he's not you know, things like that. But
for the most part, if you talk to like David
back Yard right, like they're left tackle or obviously Jordy
Nelson or or or Randall cob or or Mercedes Lewis,
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and these guys play with forever obviously, like Alan Lazard
must like playing with Rodgers. He signed with the Jets, right,
Like these guys they must they must like him. And
I've talked to players who play with Aaron Rodgers. They say, yeah, cool, dude,
I'm good with him. Yeah, is there I just search
like Kyrie Irving good teammates on the people. Not one
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story about that, Yeah, like who's the guy, where's Jason
Tatum or Jalen Brown like, oh no, it was solid. Yeah. No,
we don't anyone else saying, you know, we don't hear
a mass player coming out now being like, guys, look
behind the scenes, man, Kyrie is doing everything possible, like
we're trying to make this work. We're trying to do
this and that with Rogers, we at least hear that
from teammates, right like, hey man, like like we're working
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on this, it's gonna be okay, Rogers leading us. We
don't hear that with Kyrie. We don't hear teammates coming
to the defense of Kyrie and saying, hey man, he's
our guy, like he know we're working through and blah
blah blah blah and so um that that's we just
don't hear that about Kyrie. And I do think that that, Matt,
You're right, he again great basketball player. No one is
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debating how good of a basketball player he is. We
know he's an elite basketball player. He's a supremely talented
one of the best in the NBA right now. But
we keep putting him on these teams and those teams
keep failing, and there has to be something that's happening
with him. As the reason why. And I think it's
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just because there's a little bit of just just not
friendly like it. It's like, it's just it's hard to
play with someone that you're not friendly with. Manifests. It's
a manifests itself in many ways on the on the court,
on a football field, it's little small things. It's a
lack of trust. Sometimes it's just a lack of there's
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a bad energies and vibes. And Jude was just again
it's hard to put into like examples on the basketball
court of what that is. Just certain think you're point
about defense is obviously very true. They play defense there, um,
but um, it's just uh, Jason Kidd seems obviously very upset.
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Oh man, he's he's like pulling his he doesn't have
any here, but if he did, he'd be pulling it
out because they just do not defend. And look, man,
I thought that Kyrie going to Dallas. I'm like, oh wow, Like,
let's see what happens over here. I didn't have them
as title favorites because of that, but I certainly didn't
have them falling to eleventh in the West. That's insane.
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And that's the deal is It can't all just be
a coincidence. It can't be a coincidence that Boston got
way better once Kyrie Irving was gone, you know what
I mean. It can't be a coincidence that Kyrie joined
Dallas and they went from fourth to eleventh. Like, I
don't think that Kyrie is the only reason that's the case.
But to make it sound like, well, he's putting up
offensive numbers, it's not a Kyrie thing. It's too much
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of a coincidence for it not to be in some way,
shape or form a Kyrie thing. I guess I'm thinking about, like, Yo,
you get on the bus and the NBA team and
there's like and this could be you know, you mentioned
the Warriors, and I do wonder if there's a little
bit of this with like the Warriors where they just
not you know that the older players, younger players might
not be getting along as much anymore, and there's just
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not that kind of that jelly on the road. I mean,
that's only only that's only reason why I can't I
can explain they're losing on the road. It's like, maybe
you know, the young young players, older players just don't
see I I since that you know Draymond Green punch practice.
There's just like not the unity on the road. Yeah,
I don't know. You hop on the bus and you
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like you see Kyrie or you see Draymond, You're like, oh,
I don't want to see this this guy on the
bus right, you're just like, you know, like you just
like you sit away from that guy. Is there a
little bit with Rogers there too? Where think about last
year where he wasn't there for offseason workouts and then
he was calling out some of his wide receivers you
gotta run the right routes, you gotta catch the ball,
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And there were some of those quotes not on the record,
but that young wide receivers weren't feeling that. It's like, dude,
where were you in offseason workouts? They don't remember you
being There's a little bit that with Rogers, I know.
But the but the guys that are Rogers guys, Yeah,
speak highly of him now that you know what he
reminds me of Jeff. He reminds me of Bill Parcels,
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the old Giants head coach. Well we know him mostly
from being the Giants head coach with the other teams
to Patriots, Jets, YadA YadA. But it was like, I'll
play you some audio, you'll love this. As a former
Giants player, remember Carl Banks who was just as he's
radio analysts for them. Yeah. Yeah, So he was on
NFL Network. This was called America's Game. He was on
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one of those shows where they chronicle a Super Bowl
winning team season and he talked about Bill Parcels. Listen
to what he says about Bill Parcels and just think
of Aaron Rodgers and how it split with Some players
love this guy, other players not so much. Here's Carl Banks.
That is sort of the relationship Bill hand with his players.
He would do something or say something crazy to you.
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It affected players differently. I went through a long period
for Parcels and I we literally hated each other for
about an hour a day. I know some players to
this day that just don't like Bill Parcels, but they
played hard for him. It just it reminds me a
bit of Aaron Rodgers where it's split. You're right, like,
it's like Parcels. Parcels had his guys, you know, and
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so does Aaron Rodgers, but not everybody feels it the
same way. I just think that he's one of those
dudes where some are gonna like him, some are gonna
hate him. I think Rodgers a lot like Parcels that way.
And when you're in, you're in, and when you're out,
you're out. That's right, Yeah, And that I think is
why you we're seeing, you know, the disconnect. But but
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again we don't when are we seeing to the point
keep making like when are we seeing any of Kyrie's teammates, right,
that's true. Maybe it's a roster size thing. Maybe if
he had fifty two teammates, we'd we'd get a couple
of dudes who like, I don't know, right, but you
don't hear it. It's a good point. I look again,
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I'm not following NBA insiders. I'm not reading the athletic
articles on like on the long you know, the the
the breakdowns on like from behind. You know, there's always
like the debrief on every NFL team by the athletic.
You know, someone on the Athletic gets like twenty seven
anonymous sources to talk about in NFL teams. I don't
know if they have that in the NBA, and maybe
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they will for for the mask, but again we don't
have just like someone you know, some someone behind the
scenes to be like, you know what, he's a great teammate,
he's just you know, just it just didn't work this year.
He's misunderstood. We don't have any of that, another of that,
and so I think that's a big part of this.
It's just and you look, it's okay to be it's
okay to be different. So I'm gonna have different thoughts
and think differently. Um, but you have to get on
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with your teammates and you have to be able to
U make it essentially make it work. It's a simplest
way to put in and um, it doesn't seem to
be happening in Dallas. I really think the roster mismanagement,
um is uh it's kill. I saw a great tweet
this weekend where Mark Huban, I guess he had, said
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he pay for Twitter blue, and someone said, my man,
I could pay for Twitter blue, but we can't play
for you can't pay for Jalen Brunson. That was pretty fun.
That's good man. He should have in this chief to
pay for Jalen Brunson. But but but not cheap enough
to pay for uh for Twitter blue. So um, pretty
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pretty good. Someone I don't know who it was from.
If you've said that tweet out, I'll can give you credit.
I'll go find it. But great tweet, awesome tweet, good job, awesome,
no doubt. All right, Coming up next on Two Bros
and a Cup of Joe Live from the tirect dot
Com Studios. This guy is the wildest of the wild cards.
I'm Brian, though he's Jeff Schwartz. Keep it locked right
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the iHeart Radio. All Brian, No, he's Jeff Schwartz and
for Two Pros and a Cup of Joe right here
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on Fox Sports Radio. I'll tell you what, man, you
would have been one heck of a masher over there,
Jeff Schwartz, what's your frame again? Six six and you're
playing days over three hundred pounds. If you had a
mash bit, you could do some damage. Man. It's a
shame that you don't like metal. I know this isn't
quite metal with Nirvana, but grunge. Well, we'll give it.
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You could mash to it, you would have done some damage. Man.
I had a buddy, an offensive line buddy who is
my size, who was into mashing, and he taught me
how to do it. Who was it? I never ended
up doing it. Who name was Jack Hucko, But I
never end up doing it. But he taught me how
if I if I had to do it, how I
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would do it in a minute. So there's form, there's
like you know, like it's like past blocking or something. Yeah,
he told her like he taught me the one time.
We were at a party one time and he taught
me the proper way to like if I were to
do it, like with my elbows, like you just mostly
like to protect your face, Like how to do it
to protect your face different versions. He's like high elbows,
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keep your elbows up, elbows. Yeah, yeah, it's no I
would he I would probably be an excellent wash pitter.
But those days have long passed me. Now we're just
walking out to electric dance music and comfortable couches. Yeah
at raves, hey, man, whatever floats your boat over there.
It's kind of like it made me think it's anti
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like flagrant one or two fouls in the NBA, where
you get the elbows going, it's pretty much the opposite
in washing. I don't know why. I think they should
have like a referee there and issue flagrant two fouls
if you just like elbow some dude in the face.
But that's not the way it works. What's the worst
injury you've you've received in a mosh pit? It really
wasn't a mosh bit. You know what is probably even worse,
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depending on where you're at. It's those crowdsurfers. You know.
I have had it a few times where I'm close
because all those metal shows, their general admissions, everybody kind
of pushes toward the front and you're just watching the show.
Everything's great, and then boom, some two hundred pound guy
just lands right on your neck. Oh, by the way,
he's crowdsurfing and just started the CrowdSurf. You know what
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I mean. It's it's not the smoothest entry level point
to begin the crowdsurfing. So I've had that happened a
time or two. That's probably it. I would have moved.
I would CrowdSurf and I take a lot of people
to get me up there, But uh, I mean I
did it? Did you know? Everybody's got those mash stories
where you're in the pit and then you wake up
on a cement floor and you're like, WHOA, how did
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I how did that happen? So that was probably a
concussion that that would rank as well. Joe probably blocked
out because felt yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I think
did you after then cuss protocol? Was there a mosh pit? No?
Was there a neuroexpert? I know we needed the guy
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to be like, he's staggering, get him off the field. Yeah. No,
we didn't have that different Dolphins game. It was so old.
We didn't know about that. It was just like walk
it off, you got your bell, run goodness. It's it's
different now now we're smart now we know it's really
really bad for you, So different day and age. How
about this, Jeff, if we look at the upcoming NFL Draft,
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I love that we're in April now. It feels like
we're really engine closer to this thing about three weeks away.
Anthony Richardson to me, the Florida quarterback, depending on where
he's at the mock drafts, right, you typically see him
with the Colts now at fourth overall, I'm curious how
you think about him. I think he's the wildest of
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the wild cards. You could say this with Will Levis
also there's a boom bust factor. But I think with
Anthony Anthony Richardson, you've got the tools. We all know
about that at rocket launcher for an arm. He's doing
backflips at his broad day. His measurables are off the
freaking charts. But he hasn't had that many reps at
Florida under four hundred passing attempts last season. So I
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think he's the ultimate wild card in this draft. He
absolutely is, And he's a guy that really he makes
or breaks your career. Right, Um, if you draft him
and you're unsuccessful, you set back, you know, your your
team for years. Right. You think about when you miss
on a first round pick. Think about the recent teams
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that missed on a first round pick and what it
does to your team. Right, you look at we've been
just curly like, what are the Jets having to do
with Zach Wilson right now? Right, you go back to
how they they You know, they screwed up the Sam
Donald draft pick, Right, Sam Donald, Zach Wilson like, they're
just continuing to fight and claw back from those decisions. Right.
We see this year after year where teams, you know,
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the Bears with miss Rubisky, right oop, see that that
didn't work out. Okay, let's all right, well we gotta
figure out what we got fields, but our rosters are
so depleted. Okay, we have built a rob it takes
years and years like the Browns. Oops, Baker Mayfield, all right, well,
let's let's go. Uh, let's go trade for Deshaun. You
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can't fail at these It costs people jobs. And Anthony Richardson,
you know, if you draft him, and I think to
your point, the upside is totally there. Right. He has
the athletic build, the frame. He makes some throws and
are like, oh my god, wow, look at that throw.
Other throws you're like, oh boy, that's not really good,
and it just it's fair. Right, He hasn't he hasn't
had a lot of it, just hasn't done a lot
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of it so far. Um. So the question is obviously,
if you draft him, you probably can't play him early,
but then you're wasting time on a rookie contract. So
you gotta get up to speed. Fast. To me, the
question is does a team move to three for him? Right?
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So if we presume that one into a some version
of c J. Strout and Bryce Young, Okay, let's just
assume one in two is that. And I was told
yesterday by a friend um in the in the industry
who's a an NFL draft expert who does mock drafts,
who told me, by the way, the Travada Walker last
year was going number one overall, like eight weeks before
it actually happened. Like he's very plugged in. He said,
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this is a draft and pulled the zat quote right now,
but one into our Bryceon and c J Strout That
number three now is Arizona Cardinals and they're not drafting
a quarterback. I think they would love to draft a quarterback. However,
the problem is, um, you know that, uh that have
you know the the contract um makes it very difficult
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to really do that. He said, this draft is hard. Quote.
This draft is hard because there are a lot of
guys who are going to go inside the top twelve
who would not be going into the top twelve and
many other drafts just a weird year, so there's not
as much kind of like game changing talent at the
top as we've seen the past three. Okay, Brian, what
happens at three? Who trades up to three for Anthony Richardson?
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Is it the Colts from four to three? Is it
a team that we don't have? You know? Is it
a chief situation where a team has a veteran quarterback
that we think is solid and they're set, but they're not.
They go to three and get Richardson and they let
you let them sit for a year. Um, That to
me is the most fascinating part of the draft. It's
not one in two and some version of young Strouds
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going one and two. It's three. What happens at three?
Who takes the swing for Anthony Richardson at three? Because
then it changes whatever? Because the Colts at four, if
they're not going to get Richardson at four, then there
are then my opinion, they become the leader for Lamar Jackson. Well,
that becomes real interesting too, because what do they do.
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Do they make a power play for Lamar? Do they
think the roster is good enough to be Super Bowl contenders?
Because that's the thing you have to do if you're
paying Lamar a boatload of money and trading two first
round picks, you better be Super Bowl contenders immediately. And
I don't know that that's the case with the rest
of that roster when you're talking about the Chiefs, the Bills,
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the Bengals, I don't know. So that'd be really interesting
if somebody leap frogs Indie for that third pick. What
does Indie do? Did they go Will Levis or like
you're saying, did they think about Lamar Jackson. Well, so,
Chris Baller, their general manager, is not a guy that
has kind of overreached at times. Right, He's not a
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guy who's going to overreach for players. So I don't
think Will Levis will be will be the guy he
overreaches for. But to your point, and this is one
thing about the Lamar Jackson, and we could talk more
about this, you know, throughout the show. But if you're
trading for Lamar Jackson, you're giving up an awful lot
plus playing him a lot of money, and you have
to be pretty close to winning to make that deal
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make sense for you, right, And I understand he's one
of the better quarterbacks in the league, But again, if
you're making this trade, you're you're giving up presumably near
a two hundred million dollars in guaranteed money. So you're
you're loading your cap up with a Jackson contract and
you're getting rid of first round picks and probably more
than the first round picks right to actually get rid
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of to make that trade. And that's that's hard to
do if you're not close to winning. And how many
teams are that close the culture one of them? The Colts,
I think, are a team that is not that far
off from being good if Lamar Jackson is in the building.
But that becomes the question about, you know, is Lamar
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are they willing to do that? Chris Ballard has not
seemed as willing to do that over the years to
make that decision at quarterback. He's gone with the one
year right, the Philip Rivers and Jacobe Burs set like
guys with you know, just for one year, Matt Ryan
for one year? Is he does he pull the trigger
on Lamar Jackson and make this happen? I do find
it last day is on the Colts. Do you find
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it interesting how often we praise the Colts roster building
without any actual tangible playoff success like it posed in
my mind, like Tennessee has had more playoffs success than
the Colts have had, and yet we always like the Titans,
like whatever Titans, it's like, but they actually win playoff games.
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The Colts win nothing. They win no playoff games, and
yet their roster building is looked at as like this,
like the standard that every team should should, should should uphold.
Chris Ballard has been there since twenty seventeen. I don't
think they've won a playoff game in his time. He's
been there. You hear so much about Chris Ballard also
(26:40):
compared to John Robinson or whoever the gms have been
with the Titans, and you're right, Tennessee has had more success. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure they've won zero playoff games right in
that time. In that time, and I understand and I
understand that Andrew Luck left them. I totally get it, man, Right, um,
we got to turn the page on that whole thing,
(27:02):
you know, right like it was a long time ago,
and they still don't found it. This is what I
find interesting. We'll get into this the perception of whatever
move the Colts make, because I think that's pretty interesting
how the dominoes might fall. First, though, let's get to
Eddie Garcia with a another award winning update over here.
(27:23):
There's no doubt about that. Eddie. By the way, did
you partake in WrestleMania, Eddie Garcia? No, um, that's not
that's not for me, not for you, Okay, nope, nope,
I think it was. It was it so Fi Stadium, though,
wasn't it? Yeah, it was. I saw one of the
guys who worked here, Michael Mayer. He uh, he had
a detailed um one on his Facebook stories. I feel
(27:44):
like I watched WrestleMania just from Michael Mayer's seats. Yeah.
Michael Mayor of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish like, yeah,
you work with Michael Mayor, don't you? Back twelve Yeah,
I used to work here, used to work here. I
don't know. Okay, here we go, Mike Marry, Yeah I
don't like pretty well yeah yeah, okay any moonlights with
(28:06):
being an outstanding tight end and spared both of those. Yes, yeah,
Jeff Canal cannot talk to him about Rrestlemania when he
when he sees right tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, let's check it out.
Some NBA games and no, we had the Bucks beating
the seventy six ers one seventeen to one oh four
battle of MVP candidates, and this one Jannis Attenta Cooper
getting the better of it. Not only his team winning,
(28:27):
but he had thirty three points and fourteen rebounds, while
Joel and Beat of Philadelphia twenty nine points and nine
boards in a losing effort. The Nuggets beat the Warriors
one twelve to one ten without their MVP candidate NICOLEA. Yokich.
It helped that Steph Curry and Clay Thompson missed to
combine thirty nine shots in this game. Suns over the
thunder one twenty eight to one eighteen. Kevin Durant thirty
five points for Phoenix. They're now six and ozo with
(28:49):
him in the lineup. Raptors over the Hornets one twenty
eight to one O eight Toronto, clinching a spot in
the play in tournament With that win. Trail Blazers were
nineteen and a half point underdogs in their game in Minnesota.
It's a two bowls and they win it one oh
seven to one oh five. Over time for the Hawks
to beat the Mavericks one thirty two to one thirty.
Lakers get forty points from Anthony Davis beat the Rockets
one thirty four one oh nine, Nets squeaked five the
(29:10):
Jazz one eleven to one. Ten. In baseball games of note,
we have the Rangers, Twins, and Rays all wrapping up
series opening sweeps. The Rangers beat the Phillies two one,
the Twins down the Royal seven three, and the Rays
beat the Tigers five to one. Mets up with the
Marlins five one. New York's three and one to start
the year. Angels shut out the a six out thing
and Mike Trout and Showyotani hitting back to back homers
(29:32):
to provide some of the offense. Speaking of offense, the
Red Sox beat the Orioles nine to five, the third
straight game Boston's putting nine runs on the board twenty
seven runs in their first three games of the season.
In the NHL, the Bruins beat the Blues four to
three and a shootout. That's sixty wins now in the
season for Boston. They need three more in their final
five games, set a new record for most wins in
a single season in NHL history. Kings over the Canucks
(29:54):
four to one, LA clinching a playoff spot. Penguins beat
the Flyers for two. Pittsburgh is back into the final
wild card spot in the one point up on Florida
and the Jets meet the Devil six one, while the
Flames get by the Ducks five force to Winnipeg, still
a two point lead on Calgary for that last wildcard
spot in the West. And finally, in the women's college
basketball national title game, it was LSU over Iowa one
o two to eighty five. Iowa start Caitlin Clark had
(30:16):
thirty points in eight assists in a losing effort. Now
back to Brian No, Jeff Schwartz and the tire rack
dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios. Thank you, Eddie, appreciate that.
You know, I think it's funny. Jeff, brian No, and
Jeff Schwartz with you here, two pros and a cup
of Joe on Fox Sports Radio. Half of Eddie's update,
I'm thinking about gambling, hey, Like when he's talking about
the Red Sox scoring twenty seven runs, I'm like, good Lord,
(30:36):
I should be betting the Red Sox team total over.
You know what am I doing here? I'm just wasting
is hum. I start every year trying to do it
um and it's a beast. It is. It's about June
and then my whole boy, let me just wait till
footfalls here. Let me just wait a little bit over here. Yeah,
(30:59):
I hear you. I think this too. Getting back to
the NFL draft, I think the perception is going to
be really interesting with Indie where I'll give you two scenarios.
Let's say a team, like you said, leap frogs for
that third pick and they take Anthony Richardson. If the
Colts take Will Levis at four, in that scenario, a
lot of people will look at it and say, oh,
(31:19):
you reached. You know, you settled for the last guy
remaining at least in the top five. But if, like,
let's say it goes another way. Let's say Arizona they
pick a non quarterback at three, They keep the pick,
and the Colts, with the choice of either Will Levis
or Anthony Richardson, they take Levis. It would be perceived
(31:39):
completely differently. Some people might question it, but it wouldn't
look like the reach pick that it might. If somebody
leap Frogs are met three, I think that's interesting how
it might fall. Well, that's the way the draft should
always goes, right, I mean, it depends on obviously who
you're drafting. At that time, who is available at that time,
(32:00):
and then obviously those how those careers play out, right,
I mean, to me, Will Levis just I can't I
get why he might go in the top ten, but
I can't take him over Andy Richardson. I just can't
to the upside of Richardson. I think it's just much
higher than Will than Will Levis. And they, to me,
they had kind of the same production, give or take
(32:22):
a you know, a little a little bit here and there. Um,
We'll love Us, just doesn't We'll love Us looks to
me like most of the quarterbacks that kind of fail
in the NFL level. Just like that's a great statement.
You're just like You're just like, yeah, well, I hope,
I hope it just turns out well. And to be fair,
the Richardson is the same boat, right like you like, I, Well,
I hope it turns out well. Um, I hope he
(32:45):
turned into Josh Allen, which is the outlier for the
last twenty five years. I hope that happens. Um. So
there's a lot of hope in this draft. I hope CJ.
Stroud is the Georgia c J. Stroud, not the rest
of the c J. Stroud. I hope Bryce Young just
des all the indications that he's gonna get hit by
someone very large at some point and getting hurt. I
(33:06):
hope it doesn't happen. I hope he's defies all the
odds you've seen of all the quarterbacks ever that of
his size. You really don't want to be in that
situation when you're drafting a quarterback where it's like, well,
I hope this doesn't the thing that happens to all
of the quarterbacks of the same sort of caliber doesn't
happen to my quarterback. You know, next year we won't
(33:27):
be talking about this with I think Caleb william and
Drake May. But the problem is all of these teams
can't wait for next year, right. You can't wait for
next year if you're if you're the Panthers, obviously you
trade it for That's why I think the Panthers can
are just not drafting Bryce Young. Yeah, I just think
it comes down to for me, when you mentioned the
question marks with the top four prospects, I'm not as
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much banging the table in support of one of those
four guys. I'm banging the table like to defend one
of those four guys, which is Will Levice. It has
become so trend to just talk all sorts of smack
about Will Levis as if he's destined to be a failure.
I know what you're saying, Jeff is he seems to
(34:09):
play the part right now or he might eventually be
that guy. But you're not saying it's a certain team.
There are a lot of people that make Will Levis
out to be a certain failure. I just think the
negativity goes way too far. He didn't have an all
sec offensive teammate make first or second team like nobody
on offense around who you're surrounded by matters. And I
(34:31):
think that if you play this game of hey, put
Will Levis in Alabama's system, put put Bryce Young in
Kentucky system. I think both of their numbers are different.
I think Levis's are better. I think Bryce Young's are worse.
So I just think the anti Levis thing goes too far.
We're seeing him now in the mock drafts. He's fallen
like a lock a rock Bob Seeger yet again, where
(34:54):
he might be nineteenth overall or something there is good job. Yeah,
I would just defend Will Levis more than banging the
table in support of any of these guys. But well,
we got more time to chop that up, Jeff. We'll
get to that coming up next here on Two Pros
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and save at Progressive dot com. So we've got a
new CBA agreement in the NBA for seven years over here,
and there are a couple of interesting bullet points here, Jeff.
One of them is there's gonna be the one and
done rule. Continuing, there's a lot of talk about lowering
the minimum age requirement where you've got kids that could
(36:45):
go straight from high school to the NBA, and it's like, nop,
just forget about that. We're not gonna do it. There
was on the ownership and executive side, they're not thrilled
with maybe going back to high school gyms and evaluating players.
On the players side, the NBPA, their stances soften because
of an il name, image and likeness. These college kids
(37:06):
can make a buck off of their name, image and likeness,
and so they weren't as aggressive saying let's lower this
thing so these kids can be draft eligible. But as
I find it interesting, there was so much talk about
that being the case, and then it was just like, oh, no,
one and Dunn's continuing. So there's that. Yeah. I think
that the players obviously would rather competition remain, you know,
(37:30):
away from the league for their year, right, I mean, yeah,
it's just self preservation, right, I mean there's a real
good reason. I think it's just a matter of Okay,
well let's just keep kind of the talent and you know,
out of the NBA for one more year. Yeah, and
that I can totally understand that side. I get where
they do it. Yeah, yeah, how about this an in
(37:50):
season tournament? Jeff, you know who's all over this, our
technical producer, Roberto Flores. He cannot wait for the NBA
in season. That's not true. We're stupid, It's so yeah, yeah,
sounds there's no way. We're Berta. We agree with you that. Yeah. No,
it's the opposite. He is the what is the plaint
of this? Like who's who needs this? Like what is this?
(38:11):
What's the purpose of this? It's basically, it's let's just
do something than just play eighty two games one just
try it is something a little different. Yeah, Okay, so
so they're gonna play eighty two games and then have
in season tournament. Well, the way I had I had
read it being written like a long time ago, was
depending on how far you advanced, like everybody plays I
(38:33):
think seventy eight games something like that, and then it
depends on how far you advanced. You might get to
eighty two games. It just depends on how far you
go in the in season tournament. I don't know all
the ins and outs of it, but it's basically to
just not do eighty two games. Do something a little different.
So then do players get paid less if they only
play seventy nine games instead of eighty two games? Is
(38:55):
a team? I don't know. It's a great question. I
know you get incentivized for winning the in season tournament
where you get about, you know, half a mill per player,
But like you're saying, Jeff, if I make forty two
million dollars and I've maken a little bit less, that
doesn't work out. So yeah, I'm not sure how that.
We're just trying to do the soccer thing, and I
(39:18):
think it's gonna be largely a joke. For the first hand,
what is the soccer thing they do? An in season
tournament and it works great. Not everything can be replicated
in other sports. Now you're European soccer, like the Champions League,
so it's like it's like a tournament with all the
top leagues in Europe. But the difference there is that
there's no playoffs there within their own league. So where's
(39:40):
on top at the end of the season is a
is a champion of their league. So this is a
way of them having like a tournament with but they
also but they also played, so you said, so like
the English Premier League plays another league in another country. Yeah, yeah,
they played, they played, they played the Italian league. Yeah, okay,
so right, but this country priying that, right, it's yeah, yeah, yeah,
exactly exactly. That's why it makes no sense. It makes
(40:01):
no sense. Yeah a Lakers fan, why do I care
if they win a mid season Exactly, it makes no sense.
It makes no sense I care if they win the championship, Like,
oh yeah, are they gonna raise like a half banner
Staple Center with an Exactly That's why thin it's gonna
be more of a joke. Initially, team they haven't won
the finals or haven't had great success. Let's say the
(40:22):
Clippers when the in season tournament that, Yeah, they can't
win a championship, but they won the season tournament. Let's
I get. I get if you do a WBC thing
where like you split into countries like that, I think
would make sense. But not not that. Not just the
NBA teams plucking each other. Hey, by the way, no
(40:42):
weed testing, huh okay, well call the married jay you want.
We're not testing for so congratulations. The same things will continue.
And also the the load management provision, if you will,
you got to play at least sixty five regular season
games to be eligible for postseason awards. Kind of interesting
right there. Sure, Yeah, it doesn't change anyone's opinion on
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Monday morning One pro and a no today. Jeff Schwartz, Right, No,
you like that works? Yeah, filling in for the guys.
What am I proing? And in sports? In sports and
losing money and yeah, yeah, I recognize faces. Didn't you
play for the Giants as we were told in Mississippi
one time? Yeah, I've never seen someone hustle her husband
(01:03):
like quite like that in public before that. If that
lady's listening to our radio show right now, So, Brian,
I had dinner. We did a radio show all year
on Sunday mornings. We had dinner Mississippi. This year on
a remote location. It was a lot of fun. And
this lady just hustled her husband out of a bracelet
part pretending to know who I was. And it was
incredible in real time to see it happen. Yeah, the
(01:24):
story was she got some intel. I think she overheard
our conversation. We were talking to like the owner of
the restaurant, and I think she overheard our conversation. And
then she bet her husband a bracelet that she knew
who you were. And she came over and it's like,
didn't she used to play for the Giants And You're like, yeah, yeah,
that was one of my stops. And she's like, you
(01:44):
ought be a bracelet, honey. That it was a hustle job. Man,
it was a con job. Were convinced that was the
case because she had no idea, no, not the slights
idea who I was. I wasn't wearing a Giants T shirt.
I played there for two years, I mean Mississippi right
for dinner, Like does didn't know who it was. It
was incredibly I love that that she was like, I
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I just think of the truck commercial. I don't know
if there's ever been a song that's been as synonymous
(02:29):
with a commercial as Bob Seegers Like a Rock, But Um,
that definitely describes the Dallas Mavericks right now, who are
just falling in the standings. They make a trade for
Kyrie Irving all this hope. They were fourth in the
West at the time, Jeff, they just lost again last
night to the Atlanta Hawks. They're four and eleven. When
(02:51):
both Luca and Kyrie play, they're four and eleven. Now
they're eleventh in the West and they might not even
make the play in. This has been a disaster man. Um, Look,
you know Kyrie Irving has been a saboteur for a
couple of years on teams now right like his personality, Um,
(03:12):
you know the way he conducts himself. I think that, Um,
you know his presence in locker rooms has not been
good for teams. He's a fantastic basketball player, like there's
no doubt about it, But sometimes it's more than that.
In sports, right, it's it's how do you get along
with your teammates? It said, it's how do you you know?
Is there a little bit of of teamwork? There's a
(03:33):
little bit of just like, hey, how do we get
you know, how do we how do we get in here?
You know? How do we get along in the locker room? Right?
Like I mean, can you imagine like on a road trip,
like what do you talk to Kyrie about? Like how
does that? How does that work? Because part of people
talk about chemistry all the time in sports, right, and
it's very important. Right. The teams I played on that
are good. I was talking even yesterday. I was at
(03:55):
my son's baseball practice, and my son's on his first
good team. He's eight and a half year all he's
you know, literal league team and he's play literal league
for you know, a couple of years down. It's he's
a good he's a good team. I was talking to
the coaches about it, just like, man, you know, we're
off to good start, Like we have a good team
and when when coach said, yeah, like the kids just
like each other, like it's a good good it's a
good group of kids. First, I'm like, you know what,
(04:18):
it's a good point. I've been to every game. I
help out of practice when I can like, yeah, the
kids seem to all like each other. It's not like
a bad kid on the team. There's not a bad
ads to the team that'll just like me around each other.
And that's what chemistry is, right. It's not like it's
not typically on the court or on the field or
on the baseball field. It's off the it's off the field, right,
it's a it's you build that up on the locker room.
(04:40):
You build that chemistry up on the plane, in the hotel,
you know, before practice, after practice, and just by getting
along by by by having sometimes shared interest. And you
don't have to you don't have to. You don't have
to like, uh, enjoy the same thing specifically, but most
often if you have sort of like the same the
(05:00):
same sort of interest in life, the same sort of
goals in life, the same kind of things that fuel
you in life, do those things get kind of make
the chemistry work. Now at times you can have players
you play with it. You don't get along with all
the time, but are good, you know, good basketball yers.
But there's something about those players that make it work
right Kyrie. It doesn't work with Kyrie. It just doesn't right.
(05:24):
And we've seen it now for a couple of years,
even go back to to the Cavs days, like Lebron
really made that work more anything else, right, he was
kind of the glue that made that team work obviously,
And I don't know, it just seems like Kyrie is
the problem right now. Yeah, And that's the thing that's
interesting because Kyrie's putting up numbers. He scored forty one points,
(05:47):
had five rebounds, four assists last night. He doesn't play defense.
That's really the problem. And the pieces just fit better
when they had Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson is not as
good of an individual player's Kyrie or is, but he
fit better with Dallas because he actually defends. And also
in that Kyrie deal, they traded Dorian Finney Smith, who's
a versatile defender really good. And with Luca you gotta
(06:11):
have someone play defense. That's just not Kyrie Irving, So
it doesn't fit the same way. But I think the
larger issue here is also with you talking about chemistry.
I can't help but think of Aaron Rodgers, don't. Aaron
Rodgers and Kyrie Irving have a lot in comments where
they're both incredibly talented. They're both very productive, but they're
not exactly the players that just unify. They're not like
(06:35):
mister Chemistry in their respective sports. And I think when
you look at the tail of the tape, there are
a lot more similarities where they're just different guys. They're
difficult at times, they can be side shows. You've got
Kyrie saging the court, You've got whatever, Aaron Rodgers in
his darkness retreats. They both have one championship. Kyrie didn't
(06:57):
get the shot. You've got Aaron Rodgers is leading using Yeah,
I've been immunized, like You've got all of those things.
And I just think that they create challenges instead of
alleviate challenges. And they're not team guys. They're much more
individual guys in team sports. I think there are a
lot of similarities between Kyrie and Aaron Rodgers. So it's
(07:19):
a good point. I will say the one the one
thing I don't follow. Maybe the NBA's closely as the
NFL is that the players who play with Aaron Rodgers
don't really have bad things to say about him. Yeah,
like most talked to most of them. I mean, there's
the two in the media that most most often getting
(07:40):
Jamichael Finley or Greg Jennings every now and then, Yeah,
Jennings and like James Jones. It feels like o're the two,
right and um, but like but even then, like, I'm
not sure that they really dislike Aaron Rodgers. They might say,
you know, he's not you know, things like that. But
for the most part, if you talk to like David
back Yard right, like they're left tackle or obviously Jordy
Nelson or or or Randall cob or or Mercedes Lewis,
(08:01):
and these guys play with forever obviously, like Alan Lazard
must like playing with Rodgers. He signed with the Jets, right,
Like these guys they must they must like him. And
I've talked to players who play with Aaron Rodgers. They say, yeah, cool, dude,
I'm good with him. Yeah, is there I just search
like Kyrie Irving good teammates on the people. Not one
(08:24):
story about that, Yeah, like who's the guy, where's Jason
Tatum or Jalen Brown like, oh no, it was solid. Yeah. No,
we don't anyone else saying, you know, we don't hear
a mass player coming out now being like, guys, look
behind the scenes, man, Kyrie is doing everything possible, like
we're trying to make this work. We're trying to do
this and that with Rogers, we at least hear that
from teammates, right like, hey man, like like we're working
(08:46):
on this, it's gonna be okay, Rogers leading us. We
don't hear that with Kyrie. We don't hear teammates coming
to the defense of Kyrie and saying, hey man, he's
our guy, like he know we're working through and blah
blah blah blah and so um that that's we just
don't hear that about Kyrie. And I do think that that, Matt,
You're right, he again great basketball player. No one is
(09:07):
debating how good of a basketball player he is. We
know he's an elite basketball player. He's a supremely talented
one of the best in the NBA right now. But
we keep putting him on these teams and those teams
keep failing, and there has to be something that's happening
with him. As the reason why. And I think it's
(09:28):
just because there's a little bit of just just not
friendly like it. It's like, it's just it's hard to
play with someone that you're not friendly with. Manifests. It's
a manifests itself in many ways on the on the court,
on a football field, it's little small things. It's a
lack of trust. Sometimes it's just a lack of there's
(09:48):
a bad energies and vibes. And Jude was just again
it's hard to put into like examples on the basketball
court of what that is. Just certain think you're point
about defense is obviously very true. They play defense there, um,
but um, it's just uh, Jason Kidd seems obviously very upset.
(10:09):
Oh man, he's he's like pulling his he doesn't have
any here, but if he did, he'd be pulling it
out because they just do not defend. And look, man,
I thought that Kyrie going to Dallas. I'm like, oh wow, Like,
let's see what happens over here. I didn't have them
as title favorites because of that, but I certainly didn't
have them falling to eleventh in the West. That's insane.
(10:30):
And that's the deal is It can't all just be
a coincidence. It can't be a coincidence that Boston got
way better once Kyrie Irving was gone, you know what
I mean. It can't be a coincidence that Kyrie joined
Dallas and they went from fourth to eleventh. Like, I
don't think that Kyrie is the only reason that's the case.
But to make it sound like, well, he's putting up
offensive numbers, it's not a Kyrie thing. It's too much
(10:52):
of a coincidence for it not to be in some way,
shape or form a Kyrie thing. I guess I'm thinking about, like, Yo,
you get on the bus and the NBA team and
there's like and this could be you know, you mentioned
the Warriors, and I do wonder if there's a little
bit of this with like the Warriors where they just
not you know that the older players, younger players might
not be getting along as much anymore, and there's just
(11:14):
not that kind of that jelly on the road. I mean,
that's only only that's only reason why I can't I
can explain they're losing on the road. It's like, maybe
you know, the young young players, older players just don't
see I I since that you know Draymond Green punch practice.
There's just like not the unity on the road. Yeah,
I don't know. You hop on the bus and you
(11:35):
like you see Kyrie or you see Draymond, You're like, oh,
I don't want to see this this guy on the
bus right, you're just like, you know, like you just
like you sit away from that guy. Is there a
little bit with Rogers there too? Where think about last
year where he wasn't there for offseason workouts and then
he was calling out some of his wide receivers you
gotta run the right routes, you gotta catch the ball,
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And there were some of those quotes not on the record,
but that young wide receivers weren't feeling that. It's like, dude,
where were you in offseason workouts? They don't remember you
being There's a little bit that with Rogers, I know.
But the but the guys that are Rogers guys, Yeah,
speak highly of him now that you know what he
reminds me of Jeff. He reminds me of Bill Parcels,
(12:17):
the old Giants head coach. Well we know him mostly
from being the Giants head coach with the other teams
to Patriots, Jets, YadA YadA. But it was like, I'll
play you some audio, you'll love this. As a former
Giants player, remember Carl Banks who was just as he's
radio analysts for them. Yeah. Yeah, So he was on
NFL Network. This was called America's Game. He was on
(12:39):
one of those shows where they chronicle a Super Bowl
winning team season and he talked about Bill Parcels. Listen
to what he says about Bill Parcels and just think
of Aaron Rodgers and how it split with Some players
love this guy, other players not so much. Here's Carl Banks.
That is sort of the relationship Bill hand with his players.
He would do something or say something crazy to you.
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It affected players differently. I went through a long period
for Parcels and I we literally hated each other for
about an hour a day. I know some players to
this day that just don't like Bill Parcels, but they
played hard for him. It just it reminds me a
bit of Aaron Rodgers where it's split. You're right, like,
it's like Parcels. Parcels had his guys, you know, and
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so does Aaron Rodgers, but not everybody feels it the
same way. I just think that he's one of those
dudes where some are gonna like him, some are gonna
hate him. I think Rodgers a lot like Parcels that way.
And when you're in, you're in, and when you're out,
you're out. That's right, Yeah, And that I think is
why you we're seeing, you know, the disconnect. But but
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again we don't when are we seeing to the point
keep making like when are we seeing any of Kyrie's teammates, right,
that's true. Maybe it's a roster size thing. Maybe if
he had fifty two teammates, we'd we'd get a couple
of dudes who like, I don't know, right, but you
don't hear it. It's a good point. I look again,
(14:12):
I'm not following NBA insiders. I'm not reading the athletic
articles on like on the long you know, the the
the breakdowns on like from behind. You know, there's always
like the debrief on every NFL team by the athletic.
You know, someone on the Athletic gets like twenty seven
anonymous sources to talk about in NFL teams. I don't
know if they have that in the NBA, and maybe
(14:32):
they will for for the mask, but again we don't
have just like someone you know, some someone behind the
scenes to be like, you know what, he's a great teammate,
he's just you know, just it just didn't work this year.
He's misunderstood. We don't have any of that, another of that,
and so I think that's a big part of this.
It's just and you look, it's okay to be it's
okay to be different. So I'm gonna have different thoughts
and think differently. Um, but you have to get on
(14:55):
with your teammates and you have to be able to
U make it essentially make it work. It's a simplest
way to put in and um, it doesn't seem to
be happening in Dallas. I really think the roster mismanagement,
um is uh it's kill. I saw a great tweet
this weekend where Mark Huban, I guess he had, said
(15:16):
he pay for Twitter blue, and someone said, my man,
I could pay for Twitter blue, but we can't play
for you can't pay for Jalen Brunson. That was pretty fun.
That's good man. He should have in this chief to
pay for Jalen Brunson. But but but not cheap enough
to pay for uh for Twitter blue. So um, pretty
(15:37):
pretty good. Someone I don't know who it was from.
If you've said that tweet out, I'll can give you credit.
I'll go find it. But great tweet, awesome tweet, good job, awesome,
no doubt. All right, Coming up next on Two Bros
and a Cup of Joe Live from the tirect dot
Com Studios. This guy is the wildest of the wild cards.
I'm Brian, though he's Jeff Schwartz. Keep it locked right
(15:57):
here on Fox Sports Radio. Be sure to catch live
editions of Two Pros and a Cup of Joe with
Brady Quinn, LeVar Errington, and Jonas Knox weekdays at six
am Eastern three am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and
the iHeart Radio. All Brian, No, he's Jeff Schwartz and
for Two Pros and a Cup of Joe right here
(16:18):
on Fox Sports Radio. I'll tell you what, man, you
would have been one heck of a masher over there,
Jeff Schwartz, what's your frame again? Six six and you're
playing days over three hundred pounds. If you had a
mash bit, you could do some damage. Man. It's a
shame that you don't like metal. I know this isn't
quite metal with Nirvana, but grunge. Well, we'll give it.
(16:38):
You could mash to it, you would have done some damage. Man.
I had a buddy, an offensive line buddy who is
my size, who was into mashing, and he taught me
how to do it. Who was it? I never ended
up doing it. Who name was Jack Hucko, But I
never end up doing it. But he taught me how
if I if I had to do it, how I
(16:58):
would do it in a minute. So there's form, there's
like you know, like it's like past blocking or something. Yeah,
he told her like he taught me the one time.
We were at a party one time and he taught
me the proper way to like if I were to
do it, like with my elbows, like you just mostly
like to protect your face, Like how to do it
to protect your face different versions. He's like high elbows,
(17:20):
keep your elbows up, elbows. Yeah, yeah, it's no I
would he I would probably be an excellent wash pitter.
But those days have long passed me. Now we're just
walking out to electric dance music and comfortable couches. Yeah
at raves, hey, man, whatever floats your boat over there.
It's kind of like it made me think it's anti
(17:42):
like flagrant one or two fouls in the NBA, where
you get the elbows going, it's pretty much the opposite
in washing. I don't know why. I think they should
have like a referee there and issue flagrant two fouls
if you just like elbow some dude in the face.
But that's not the way it works. What's the worst
injury you've you've received in a mosh pit? It really
wasn't a mosh bit. You know what is probably even worse,
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depending on where you're at. It's those crowdsurfers. You know.
I have had it a few times where I'm close
because all those metal shows, their general admissions, everybody kind
of pushes toward the front and you're just watching the show.
Everything's great, and then boom, some two hundred pound guy
just lands right on your neck. Oh, by the way,
he's crowdsurfing and just started the CrowdSurf. You know what
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I mean. It's it's not the smoothest entry level point
to begin the crowdsurfing. So I've had that happened a
time or two. That's probably it. I would have moved.
I would CrowdSurf and I take a lot of people
to get me up there, But uh, I mean I
did it? Did you know? Everybody's got those mash stories
where you're in the pit and then you wake up
on a cement floor and you're like, WHOA, how did
(18:48):
I how did that happen? So that was probably a
concussion that that would rank as well. Joe probably blocked
out because felt yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I think
did you after then cuss protocol? Was there a mosh pit? No?
Was there a neuroexpert? I know we needed the guy
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to be like, he's staggering, get him off the field. Yeah. No,
we didn't have that different Dolphins game. It was so old.
We didn't know about that. It was just like walk
it off, you got your bell, run goodness. It's it's
different now now we're smart now we know it's really
really bad for you, So different day and age. How
about this, Jeff, if we look at the upcoming NFL Draft,
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I love that we're in April now. It feels like
we're really engine closer to this thing about three weeks away.
Anthony Richardson to me, the Florida quarterback, depending on where
he's at the mock drafts, right, you typically see him
with the Colts now at fourth overall, I'm curious how
you think about him. I think he's the wildest of
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the wild cards. You could say this with Will Levis
also there's a boom bust factor. But I think with
Anthony Anthony Richardson, you've got the tools. We all know
about that at rocket launcher for an arm. He's doing
backflips at his broad day. His measurables are off the
freaking charts. But he hasn't had that many reps at
Florida under four hundred passing attempts last season. So I
(20:11):
think he's the ultimate wild card in this draft. He
absolutely is, And he's a guy that really he makes
or breaks your career. Right, Um, if you draft him
and you're unsuccessful, you set back, you know, your your
team for years. Right. You think about when you miss
on a first round pick. Think about the recent teams
(20:32):
that missed on a first round pick and what it
does to your team. Right, you look at we've been
just curly like, what are the Jets having to do
with Zach Wilson right now? Right, you go back to
how they they You know, they screwed up the Sam
Donald draft pick, Right, Sam Donald, Zach Wilson like, they're
just continuing to fight and claw back from those decisions. Right.
We see this year after year where teams, you know,
(20:52):
the Bears with miss Rubisky, right oop, see that that
didn't work out. Okay, let's all right, well we gotta
figure out what we got fields, but our rosters are
so depleted. Okay, we have built a rob it takes
years and years like the Browns. Oops, Baker Mayfield, all right, well,
let's let's go. Uh, let's go trade for Deshaun. You
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can't fail at these It costs people jobs. And Anthony Richardson,
you know, if you draft him, and I think to
your point, the upside is totally there. Right. He has
the athletic build, the frame. He makes some throws and
are like, oh my god, wow, look at that throw.
Other throws you're like, oh boy, that's not really good,
and it just it's fair. Right, He hasn't he hasn't
had a lot of it, just hasn't done a lot
(21:37):
of it so far. Um. So the question is obviously,
if you draft him, you probably can't play him early,
but then you're wasting time on a rookie contract. So
you gotta get up to speed. Fast. To me, the
question is does a team move to three for him? Right?
(22:00):
So if we presume that one into a some version
of c J. Strout and Bryce Young, Okay, let's just
assume one in two is that. And I was told
yesterday by a friend um in the in the industry
who's a an NFL draft expert who does mock drafts,
who told me, by the way, the Travada Walker last
year was going number one overall, like eight weeks before
it actually happened. Like he's very plugged in. He said,
(22:21):
this is a draft and pulled the zat quote right now,
but one into our Bryceon and c J Strout That
number three now is Arizona Cardinals and they're not drafting
a quarterback. I think they would love to draft a quarterback. However,
the problem is, um, you know that, uh that have
you know the the contract um makes it very difficult
(22:42):
to really do that. He said, this draft is hard. Quote.
This draft is hard because there are a lot of
guys who are going to go inside the top twelve
who would not be going into the top twelve and
many other drafts just a weird year, so there's not
as much kind of like game changing talent at the
top as we've seen the past three. Okay, Brian, what
happens at three? Who trades up to three for Anthony Richardson?
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Is it the Colts from four to three? Is it
a team that we don't have? You know? Is it
a chief situation where a team has a veteran quarterback
that we think is solid and they're set, but they're not.
They go to three and get Richardson and they let
you let them sit for a year. Um, That to
me is the most fascinating part of the draft. It's
not one in two and some version of young Strouds
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going one and two. It's three. What happens at three?
Who takes the swing for Anthony Richardson at three? Because
then it changes whatever? Because the Colts at four, if
they're not going to get Richardson at four, then there
are then my opinion, they become the leader for Lamar Jackson. Well,
that becomes real interesting too, because what do they do.
(23:50):
Do they make a power play for Lamar? Do they
think the roster is good enough to be Super Bowl contenders?
Because that's the thing you have to do if you're
paying Lamar a boatload of money and trading two first
round picks, you better be Super Bowl contenders immediately. And
I don't know that that's the case with the rest
of that roster when you're talking about the Chiefs, the Bills,
(24:10):
the Bengals, I don't know. So that'd be really interesting
if somebody leap frogs Indie for that third pick. What
does Indie do? Did they go Will Levis or like
you're saying, did they think about Lamar Jackson. Well, so,
Chris Baller, their general manager, is not a guy that
has kind of overreached at times. Right, He's not a
(24:31):
guy who's going to overreach for players. So I don't
think Will Levis will be will be the guy he
overreaches for. But to your point, and this is one
thing about the Lamar Jackson, and we could talk more
about this, you know, throughout the show. But if you're
trading for Lamar Jackson, you're giving up an awful lot
plus playing him a lot of money, and you have
to be pretty close to winning to make that deal
(24:52):
make sense for you, right, And I understand he's one
of the better quarterbacks in the league, But again, if
you're making this trade, you're you're giving up presumably near
a two hundred million dollars in guaranteed money. So you're
you're loading your cap up with a Jackson contract and
you're getting rid of first round picks and probably more
than the first round picks right to actually get rid
(25:14):
of to make that trade. And that's that's hard to
do if you're not close to winning. And how many
teams are that close the culture one of them? The Colts,
I think, are a team that is not that far
off from being good if Lamar Jackson is in the building.
But that becomes the question about, you know, is Lamar
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are they willing to do that? Chris Ballard has not
seemed as willing to do that over the years to
make that decision at quarterback. He's gone with the one
year right, the Philip Rivers and Jacobe Burs set like
guys with you know, just for one year, Matt Ryan
for one year? Is he does he pull the trigger
on Lamar Jackson and make this happen? I do find
it last day is on the Colts. Do you find
(25:57):
it interesting how often we praise the Colts roster building
without any actual tangible playoff success like it posed in
my mind, like Tennessee has had more playoffs success than
the Colts have had, and yet we always like the Titans,
like whatever Titans, it's like, but they actually win playoff games.
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The Colts win nothing. They win no playoff games, and
yet their roster building is looked at as like this,
like the standard that every team should should, should should uphold.
Chris Ballard has been there since twenty seventeen. I don't
think they've won a playoff game in his time. He's
been there. You hear so much about Chris Ballard also
(26:40):
compared to John Robinson or whoever the gms have been
with the Titans, and you're right, Tennessee has had more success. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure they've won zero playoff games right in
that time. In that time, and I understand and I
understand that Andrew Luck left them. I totally get it, man, Right, um,
we got to turn the page on that whole thing,
(27:02):
you know, right like it was a long time ago,
and they still don't found it. This is what I
find interesting. We'll get into this the perception of whatever
move the Colts make, because I think that's pretty interesting
how the dominoes might fall. First, though, let's get to
Eddie Garcia with a another award winning update over here.
(27:23):
There's no doubt about that. Eddie. By the way, did
you partake in WrestleMania, Eddie Garcia? No, um, that's not
that's not for me, not for you, Okay, nope, nope,
I think it was. It was it so Fi Stadium, though,
wasn't it? Yeah, it was. I saw one of the
guys who worked here, Michael Mayer. He uh, he had
a detailed um one on his Facebook stories. I feel
(27:44):
like I watched WrestleMania just from Michael Mayer's seats. Yeah.
Michael Mayor of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish like, yeah,
you work with Michael Mayor, don't you? Back twelve Yeah,
I used to work here, used to work here. I
don't know. Okay, here we go, Mike Marry, Yeah I
don't like pretty well yeah yeah, okay any moonlights with
(28:06):
being an outstanding tight end and spared both of those. Yes, yeah,
Jeff Canal cannot talk to him about Rrestlemania when he
when he sees right tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, let's check it out.
Some NBA games and no, we had the Bucks beating
the seventy six ers one seventeen to one oh four
battle of MVP candidates, and this one Jannis Attenta Cooper
getting the better of it. Not only his team winning,
(28:27):
but he had thirty three points and fourteen rebounds, while
Joel and Beat of Philadelphia twenty nine points and nine
boards in a losing effort. The Nuggets beat the Warriors
one twelve to one ten without their MVP candidate NICOLEA. Yokich.
It helped that Steph Curry and Clay Thompson missed to
combine thirty nine shots in this game. Suns over the
thunder one twenty eight to one eighteen. Kevin Durant thirty
five points for Phoenix. They're now six and ozo with
(28:49):
him in the lineup. Raptors over the Hornets one twenty
eight to one O eight Toronto, clinching a spot in
the play in tournament With that win. Trail Blazers were
nineteen and a half point underdogs in their game in Minnesota.
It's a two bowls and they win it one oh
seven to one oh five. Over time for the Hawks
to beat the Mavericks one thirty two to one thirty.
Lakers get forty points from Anthony Davis beat the Rockets
one thirty four one oh nine, Nets squeaked five the
(29:10):
Jazz one eleven to one. Ten. In baseball games of note,
we have the Rangers, Twins, and Rays all wrapping up
series opening sweeps. The Rangers beat the Phillies two one,
the Twins down the Royal seven three, and the Rays
beat the Tigers five to one. Mets up with the
Marlins five one. New York's three and one to start
the year. Angels shut out the a six out thing
and Mike Trout and Showyotani hitting back to back homers
(29:32):
to provide some of the offense. Speaking of offense, the
Red Sox beat the Orioles nine to five, the third
straight game Boston's putting nine runs on the board twenty
seven runs in their first three games of the season.
In the NHL, the Bruins beat the Blues four to
three and a shootout. That's sixty wins now in the
season for Boston. They need three more in their final
five games, set a new record for most wins in
a single season in NHL history. Kings over the Canucks
(29:54):
four to one, LA clinching a playoff spot. Penguins beat
the Flyers for two. Pittsburgh is back into the final
wild card spot in the one point up on Florida
and the Jets meet the Devil six one, while the
Flames get by the Ducks five force to Winnipeg, still
a two point lead on Calgary for that last wildcard
spot in the West. And finally, in the women's college
basketball national title game, it was LSU over Iowa one
o two to eighty five. Iowa start Caitlin Clark had
(30:16):
thirty points in eight assists in a losing effort. Now
back to Brian No, Jeff Schwartz and the tire rack
dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios. Thank you, Eddie, appreciate that.
You know, I think it's funny. Jeff, brian No, and
Jeff Schwartz with you here, two pros and a cup
of Joe on Fox Sports Radio. Half of Eddie's update,
I'm thinking about gambling, hey, Like when he's talking about
the Red Sox scoring twenty seven runs, I'm like, good Lord,
(30:36):
I should be betting the Red Sox team total over.
You know what am I doing here? I'm just wasting
is hum. I start every year trying to do it
um and it's a beast. It is. It's about June
and then my whole boy, let me just wait till
footfalls here. Let me just wait a little bit over here. Yeah,
(30:59):
I hear you. I think this too. Getting back to
the NFL draft, I think the perception is going to
be really interesting with Indie where I'll give you two scenarios.
Let's say a team, like you said, leap frogs for
that third pick and they take Anthony Richardson. If the
Colts take Will Levis at four, in that scenario, a
lot of people will look at it and say, oh,
(31:19):
you reached. You know, you settled for the last guy
remaining at least in the top five. But if, like,
let's say it goes another way. Let's say Arizona they
pick a non quarterback at three, They keep the pick,
and the Colts, with the choice of either Will Levis
or Anthony Richardson, they take Levis. It would be perceived
(31:39):
completely differently. Some people might question it, but it wouldn't
look like the reach pick that it might. If somebody
leap Frogs are met three, I think that's interesting how
it might fall. Well, that's the way the draft should
always goes, right, I mean, it depends on obviously who
you're drafting. At that time, who is available at that time,
(32:00):
and then obviously those how those careers play out, right,
I mean, to me, Will Levis just I can't I
get why he might go in the top ten, but
I can't take him over Andy Richardson. I just can't
to the upside of Richardson. I think it's just much
higher than Will than Will Levis. And they, to me,
they had kind of the same production, give or take
(32:22):
a you know, a little a little bit here and there. Um,
We'll love Us, just doesn't We'll love Us looks to
me like most of the quarterbacks that kind of fail
in the NFL level. Just like that's a great statement.
You're just like You're just like, yeah, well, I hope,
I hope it just turns out well. And to be fair,
the Richardson is the same boat, right like you like, I, Well,
I hope it turns out well. Um, I hope he
(32:45):
turned into Josh Allen, which is the outlier for the
last twenty five years. I hope that happens. Um. So
there's a lot of hope in this draft. I hope CJ.
Stroud is the Georgia c J. Stroud, not the rest
of the c J. Stroud. I hope Bryce Young just
des all the indications that he's gonna get hit by
someone very large at some point and getting hurt. I
(33:06):
hope it doesn't happen. I hope he's defies all the
odds you've seen of all the quarterbacks ever that of
his size. You really don't want to be in that
situation when you're drafting a quarterback where it's like, well,
I hope this doesn't the thing that happens to all
of the quarterbacks of the same sort of caliber doesn't
happen to my quarterback. You know, next year we won't
(33:27):
be talking about this with I think Caleb william and
Drake May. But the problem is all of these teams
can't wait for next year, right. You can't wait for
next year if you're if you're the Panthers, obviously you
trade it for That's why I think the Panthers can
are just not drafting Bryce Young. Yeah, I just think
it comes down to for me, when you mentioned the
question marks with the top four prospects, I'm not as
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much banging the table in support of one of those
four guys. I'm banging the table like to defend one
of those four guys, which is Will Levice. It has
become so trend to just talk all sorts of smack
about Will Levis as if he's destined to be a failure.
I know what you're saying, Jeff is he seems to
(34:09):
play the part right now or he might eventually be
that guy. But you're not saying it's a certain team.
There are a lot of people that make Will Levis
out to be a certain failure. I just think the
negativity goes way too far. He didn't have an all
sec offensive teammate make first or second team like nobody
on offense around who you're surrounded by matters. And I
(34:31):
think that if you play this game of hey, put
Will Levis in Alabama's system, put put Bryce Young in
Kentucky system. I think both of their numbers are different.
I think Levis's are better. I think Bryce Young's are worse.
So I just think the anti Levis thing goes too far.
We're seeing him now in the mock drafts. He's fallen
like a lock a rock Bob Seeger yet again, where
(34:54):
he might be nineteenth overall or something there is good job. Yeah,
I would just defend Will Levis more than banging the
table in support of any of these guys. But well,
we got more time to chop that up, Jeff. We'll
get to that coming up next here on Two Pros
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(35:16):
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and save at Progressive dot com. So we've got a
new CBA agreement in the NBA for seven years over here,
and there are a couple of interesting bullet points here, Jeff.
One of them is there's gonna be the one and
done rule. Continuing, there's a lot of talk about lowering
the minimum age requirement where you've got kids that could
(36:45):
go straight from high school to the NBA, and it's like, nop,
just forget about that. We're not gonna do it. There
was on the ownership and executive side, they're not thrilled
with maybe going back to high school gyms and evaluating players.
On the players side, the NBPA, their stances soften because
of an il name, image and likeness. These college kids
(37:06):
can make a buck off of their name, image and likeness,
and so they weren't as aggressive saying let's lower this
thing so these kids can be draft eligible. But as
I find it interesting, there was so much talk about
that being the case, and then it was just like, oh, no,
one and Dunn's continuing. So there's that. Yeah. I think
that the players obviously would rather competition remain, you know,
(37:30):
away from the league for their year, right, I mean, yeah,
it's just self preservation, right, I mean there's a real
good reason. I think it's just a matter of Okay,
well let's just keep kind of the talent and you know,
out of the NBA for one more year. Yeah, and
that I can totally understand that side. I get where
they do it. Yeah, yeah, how about this an in
(37:50):
season tournament? Jeff, you know who's all over this, our
technical producer, Roberto Flores. He cannot wait for the NBA
in season. That's not true. We're stupid, It's so yeah, yeah,
sounds there's no way. We're Berta. We agree with you that. Yeah. No,
it's the opposite. He is the what is the plaint
of this? Like who's who needs this? Like what is this?
(38:11):
What's the purpose of this? It's basically, it's let's just
do something than just play eighty two games one just
try it is something a little different. Yeah, Okay, so
so they're gonna play eighty two games and then have
in season tournament. Well, the way I had I had
read it being written like a long time ago, was
depending on how far you advanced, like everybody plays I
(38:33):
think seventy eight games something like that, and then it
depends on how far you advanced. You might get to
eighty two games. It just depends on how far you
go in the in season tournament. I don't know all
the ins and outs of it, but it's basically to
just not do eighty two games. Do something a little different.
So then do players get paid less if they only
play seventy nine games instead of eighty two games? Is
(38:55):
a team? I don't know. It's a great question. I
know you get incentivized for winning the in season tournament
where you get about, you know, half a mill per player,
But like you're saying, Jeff, if I make forty two
million dollars and I've maken a little bit less, that
doesn't work out. So yeah, I'm not sure how that.
We're just trying to do the soccer thing, and I
(39:18):
think it's gonna be largely a joke. For the first hand,
what is the soccer thing they do? An in season
tournament and it works great. Not everything can be replicated
in other sports. Now you're European soccer, like the Champions League,
so it's like it's like a tournament with all the
top leagues in Europe. But the difference there is that
there's no playoffs there within their own league. So where's
(39:40):
on top at the end of the season is a
is a champion of their league. So this is a
way of them having like a tournament with but they
also but they also played, so you said, so like
the English Premier League plays another league in another country. Yeah, yeah,
they played, they played, they played the Italian league. Yeah, okay,
so right, but this country priying that, right, it's yeah, yeah, yeah,
exactly exactly. That's why it makes no sense. It makes
(40:01):
no sense. Yeah a Lakers fan, why do I care
if they win a mid season Exactly, it makes no sense.
It makes no sense I care if they win the championship, Like,
oh yeah, are they gonna raise like a half banner
Staple Center with an Exactly That's why thin it's gonna
be more of a joke. Initially, team they haven't won
the finals or haven't had great success. Let's say the
(40:22):
Clippers when the in season tournament that, Yeah, they can't
win a championship, but they won the season tournament. Let's
I get. I get if you do a WBC thing
where like you split into countries like that, I think
would make sense. But not not that. Not just the
NBA teams plucking each other. Hey, by the way, no
(40:42):
weed testing, huh okay, well call the married jay you want.
We're not testing for so congratulations. The same things will continue.
And also the the load management provision, if you will,
you got to play at least sixty five regular season
games to be eligible for postseason awards. Kind of interesting
right there. Sure, Yeah, it doesn't change anyone's opinion on
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