4.21: Lucky Easter Weekend - Hour 1

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Who's the kid here?

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Are you kidding me?

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(01:01):
I hope you knew that. If not, now you do.
The travel chief that's Austin Montgomery. He's alongside today as
we get another week started. And I feel like we
got we got lucky this weekend with I mean you
were telling me right before the show started, you got well,
I don't I wouldn't call it luck. You clearly knew
what you were doing when you made those wagers. Yeah,
you know anytime home run bet that cashed. Did you
get in on any NBA playoff stuff?

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Oh yeah, I uh went with the with the Warriors
and who they played, the Rockets, right, Warriors and Rockets.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Also I know is that the games continue to be
complete blowouts that like, I don't know how anybody like,
how do you even bet on that? I mean, there
was one game yesterday, I don't know who it was,
but they lost with fifty one points.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh yeah, the Grizzlies and Thunder.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
I mean, the format of the NBA playoffs has absolutely
made it to where if your job is to not
worry about ratings or worry about, you know, anything other
than your team winning a seven game series, it is
wise for you to concede and just accept the fact
that we're going to lose this. Let's get everybody out
and hope that we can live to fight an other day.
That's brutal, even if that means we lose by fifty points.

(02:02):
I'm not exaggerating. Fifty one points was the margin of
victory yesterday in one of the playoff games. So congrats
to you. I'm more impressed than you would imagine, because
I mean the NBA, like, I don't know how you.
I guess more than anything, if there's like a decent
spread and you feel like a team's gonna win, you
would say, okay, well it's game two here, so you
know they're probably gonna just accept Okay, we're gonna go

(02:22):
down oh two before we go home and try to
win some games. So right, you know, maybe you just
feel like they'll cover even if it's a big number
because of the blowouts.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
But it was one of those things like you know
where you go in the sports book and they have
like the automatic like here's the boost for tonight was
at three point fifty, but we put some juice on
it to plus four hundred, and usually that's a suckers bet,
but I went on, had to did it. I think
it was Jimmy Butler over.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
The Jilly suckers. Hey, who's a suckers now?

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Jimmy Butler over twenty five points and Steph Curry over
three and a half points. And I also got in
some action with the Cavs Heat game last night. But
Tyler Tyler hero man, he just needed him. And Donovan
Mitchell was the bet is at four to one odds
for both of them over twenty five over twenty four points,
and obviously Mitchell hit that. Tyler Herro was at seventeen

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at halftime, and when I was looking at it, I'm like, oh,
we got this in the bag, finished with twenty one points.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah, I tell you what, man, that's not luck. You
know what you're doing. I mean, obviously that you don't
win them all, but like the other bets, like, I
apologize for insinuating that when I said we got lucky
this weekend that it had anything to do with your wagers,
because it's not luck. You know what you're doing. You're
cleaning out the sports books.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
And trying to good stuff.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
When I mentioned luck, I'm saying like weather because I
I mean, it looked like it was gonna I mean,
the forecast was calling for good chance of rain all
day both Saturday and Sunday, and we avoided it on Saturday,
and it really seemed like one of those moments. And
again I'm not following it super closely. I just know that, hey,
if I pull out my phone and look at the
weather app. It tells me that there's, you know, a

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certain percentage chance of rain. So I thought, okay, we're lucky.
Because my daughter's baseball game was at nine am. They
have games all throughout the day up until I think
like two o'clock, and I thought, okay, well, hey, I
guess the benefit here is that we get it early
and maybe we won't have to have our game canceled
because of rain. Well, did end up raining all day,
and because we didn't really have any plans and we're
like waiting out the weather, we ended up, you know,
we ended up going with some friends to a winery,

(04:14):
hung out let the kids run around, and that's just
one of those It was a it was a first
of all, it was fun, but also when you don't
know you're gonna be able to do something and there's
kind of some spontaneousness to it, you end up somewhere like, hey,
let's take advantage of the fact that it didn't rain,
and we did that, had a good time. And then
yesterday Easter Sunday, hopefully everybody had themselves a good Easter.
I mean, it was it was very nice. I mean well,

(04:34):
it wasn't sunny all the way through, but that's okay.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
It didn't rain.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
If you had the one thing you don't want if
you got kids out there hunting easter eggs is rain,
and we didn't have any of that, which was good.
But man, it was muggy.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
It was it was. It was sticky out there.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
I feel like yesterday was the first day of twenty
twenty five where I felt like, Okay, the humidity has
at least arrived, then it'll be here. I mean, the
humidity is, you know, is not great. It's blooming, yeah,
I mean it's it's it's of all the different components
to weather, cold, hot, whatever, humidity is the worst.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
I mean I'd rather be breezing than be humid. I mean,
maybe I would regret if I really got put in
like the worst humidity ever and I was legitimately in
temperatures so cold that I've never experienced it before, maybe
I would side.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
With being, you know, being humid.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
But when it's just sticky, engross and you can't breathe,
and we weren't quite there yesterday, but without the sun
shining and it being as warm as it was, that's
that's what really made me realize, Okay, sticky, yeah, I
mean it. You so you grew up in Arizona. Is Arizona.
I'm an idiot, so I just assume all Arizona is
the same, and I know that's really not the case.

(05:41):
But like Phoenix, outside of Phoenix, it's just desert. It's hot,
it's hot, and you know there's that dry heat.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
Yes, exactly, everyone's always everyone always says that dry heat.
And if you don't even mean it means exactly how
it sounds like you. I mean, you just said it
when it's like not when the sun's not even out
and you kind of just.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
So wheel the moisture heat and moist heat is essentially humidity, right.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
Yes, exactly the heat where you where you're just standing
outside and it's just like low key, like the sun's
not out and you're not expecting it, but what do
you know? You're sweating in places, right, And but like
it's compared to like an oven when being in Arizona,
like it's just there's hardly like any any clouds. It's
just like wide open terrain. It's just dry. It's dry

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everywhere because there's really no like there's really no trees.
There's not a whole bunch of shade. It is just
like it's not like a sand desert like not like
you know, but it is just flat lands. There's a
lot of there's cacti and other succulents.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
But everybody has their own, you know, preference, and some
people are more so bothered by heat than others. But
I've been to Vegas and I've been to Phoenix, and
Vegas is essentially the same.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
I don't like.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Again, I'm sure if Vegas was the same temperature and
Phoenix was the same temperature that that that it was
when I was there, and you added humidity to it,
it would be even worse. But I'm just here to
tell you that, like wet heat, dry heat, whatever, the
heat when I was in Arizona and when I was
in Vegas that hot as hell. Like yeah, however you
want to classify this type of heat, I'm out on it.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
Like it's so many times nick where there was just
it was like one hundred and ten degrees outside with
like no humidity.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
It's just strictly from the sun.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
That's dangerous.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's the heat strictly from it.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
It was literally when people would say, yeah, you can
be able to go out and fry like an egg
on the sidewalk. Somewhere it got pretty bad. I don't
know if it's ever got like that.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Here. It does get sticky and humidity.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
But like when you know, like how you could look
outside and like see like the mirage it looks like, oh,
like it's waving like it look you know.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's That's how it was constantly in Arizona.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
I'll tell this. I've told this story before. I flew
to Phoenix. This is probably about ten years ago, and
I was there for about five days. It was a
work trip and I landed. I flew out of Louisville
and I ended up landing in It fled a little
early in the morning and I landed in Phoenix. It
was I was a southwest flight. It was probably probably
got there at nine am Louisville time, so it was

(08:07):
like six am there, so it was really early. And
I went to get the rental car and I'd never
been to that part of the country before, and I
remember being asked, do you want somebody?

Speaker 2 (08:16):
I guess they could.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
They could get be on like a it wasn't really
a shuttle, but they had some type of like I
don't know if it was a big golf.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Cart or what.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Where they would drive you closer to where you could
get to your rental car and you didn't have to
walk away by yourself. And I was like, you know,
it's fine, no big deal. I mean, I didn't I'm
fine with walking and I didn't want to wait on
you know, I just let me just tell me where
it is and I'll walk there. If it's not like
two miles away, I'll be good. So I ended up.
I was wearing you know, business casual clothes. I had
on a polo shirt and you know, some slacks, and

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I made the walk and it was probably I don't know,
maybe I don't know, maybe eighty yards or something from
from from the desk to where I ended up getting
in the vehicle. And keep in mind, it's insanely early
there at this time, and I didn't feel like that
that that, you know, because when you open when it's
when when the Ohio all area just gets real soupy
and it's just disgusting, like as soon as you walk outside,

(09:05):
like it's just it's it's thick, it's heavy, it's gross.
You could feel it on you. It didn't do that
at all, but I realized it was very hot, and
I thought, okay, pretty hot here for six am. Anyways,
I ended up making it to the vehicle and I
popped the trunk, put my bag in there, and as
I'm walking to the front to get in, I realized, like,
underneath my shirt and my pants, you would have thought

(09:27):
I just got out of the pool and threw clothes on.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh w.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
And I remember thinking like, okay, you know what, I
didn't feel that humidity. It didn't hit me in the face.
It was kind of deceiving, but sure enough, an eighty
yard walk, it's six am with the heat they got out.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Here, like it's it's it's still hot as hell. That's
a dry heat. Yeah, it's it's better than the humidity.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
But still, like, I don't you know, if I could
get somewhere where the humidity's low and we would be
looking at you know, seventies year round, that's that's the
sweet spot. But of course, you know, there's not many
places like that, and the places that do have that
kind of weather, that's you know, where people go to retire.
So anyway, we got lucky this weekend and hopefully everybody
had themselves a good Easter. I was hiding Easter eggs
for the kids and see Easter Bunny good to the kid.

(10:07):
Oh Easter Bunny, I mean came through. Yeah, the Easter Bunny.
You know, she she she did great this year. But
she she signed me up for you know, it's not
like it's not like it's it's not a chore necessarily,
and I could be doing worse things. But she ended
up getting the The Easter Bunny got Moose a second controller
for his PlayStation.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
He only had one.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
And what I didn't, you know, realize, is that now
he won't play any game unless I play with him.
That's right, and you know, sometimes it's fun, but also
you know, like I got stuff to do. I can't
just sit around and play video games all day. But
I will say this, if you ever, what was the
first video game you got into as a kid like that,
you were just like all in on. And I guess
a lot of people are going to say, like Madden

(10:48):
or the NAA football game, take take sports away from it,
because I didn't play many games at all that weren't sports.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
I don't know about you, the I mean, I was
a huge sports gamer growing up. I guess like when
I first got the PlayStation, it was either like tomb
Raider or WWE in your House.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Oh yeah, I forgot about the wrestling games.

Speaker 5 (11:06):
But I would say the most video game hours I've
ever logged on to this day probably has to come
between two, either Mario Kart or Grand Theft Auto Vice
City that has probably so many hours my legendary games.
Oh dude, well, Grand the Thought of Five comes out
this year, it's going to be crazy. You thought the
college football hype with last year was wild. Whenever Grand

(11:29):
Theft Thought of Five comes out this year, it's gonna
be It's going to dominate the internet.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
I played the maybe it was the original mini many
years ago. I don't think I owned it, but I
played it with a friend and clearly because the only
games I ever really consistently played outside of the sports
games was tomb Raider, which you mentioned, which I really liked. Yeah,
really could, but I forgot about this game. And I
this is before he even opened up his Easter basket

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and got his controller. But on Friday night he wanted
to play, and he said, you know, can we get
some new games? So I downed him a couple of
new games, and one of them was a grass cutting game,
which which is.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Kind of a grass cutting simulator.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yeah, it's it's in a way, it's I mean, does
look fun.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
I'd like to think that if I, you know, if
I played it, I wouldn't just you know, end up
sitting there for four hours. But like I can see
how somebody would because it's what you do is you
end up like you're in a garage. It starts you
in a garage and you have you have an iPad,
and you walk up to your iPad like hit hit
a button and it pulls up like where you're bidding
on jobs to go cut grass, and you pick a
job and you get paid per yard, and you get

(12:33):
paid a bonus if you get the yard cut in
a certain amount of time. We've got we've got to
push them over now. But once we start mowing more lawns,
we're gonna be able to get us a bigger ritting
mo over there.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
You know.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
It's it's kind of fun. Well, he got bored with that.
So the other game I downloaded, I forgot about and
I you know, talk about nostalgia crash bandicoot oh, yeah,
do you know what crash band it is?

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, that that's probably that's probably it.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
So we downloaded it.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
We played. I mean, it's like insane. It was a wee.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
You know.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
I'm sure everybody has, like if you're a parent, I'm
sure you've had like a moment where your kid starts
getting interested and asking questions about not just things that
you know, dad and mom like because that's what kids do.
That's one of the beautiful things about being a parent
that a lot of times. Man, if you're if you
like it, then your kids just they're gonna want to
love it just like you. That's you know, That's that's
how it is with my my son with U of

(13:22):
L and whatnot. Like he's all in on the cards
now and that's really fun. He doesn't he didn't know it,
but he was born into It's gonna be his religion.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
I mean, it's just happened anyways.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
But he's asking me about crash Bandicoot and I'm like, huh,
glad you asked, son, because I played this game a
lot when I was a kid. And uh, Maya and
her mama went to bed about ten o'clock and sure enough,
Moose and I were playing crash Bandicoot on Friday, and
I felt I felt a little bit like an irresponsible
father because don't all all next thing, you know, I
look down on my phone, it's one forty five in

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the morning.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
I mean, we were just getting started.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
So we went we went to bed after that, and
he's been he's been wanting to play.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
Crash Out at all, like trying to complete the levels
or did you do you remember it being that hard?

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Because it is a tough game.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yes, but there's also like, I mean, you know, you
gotta there's like there's these flowers that you have to
like jump over or they'll.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Eat you up right, Yeah, a little fly trap.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
And I don't think there's real consistency on how you
how you get past those, and that was frustrating for me.
And then I had to realize, Okay, don't lose your
mind on a video game, because then that's what your
kid's gonna do, and you know that's not a good thing.

Speaker 5 (14:25):
So I about two months ago, went on a crash Bandicoot.
I got the Insane Trilogy series, and I start I
got obsessed with it. I was starting to hear the
Ooh book and all the weird things in like my sleep.
So like I I, I think that's where my obsessive
like need for completion came from, because I want to
get to the part where you complete all the time trials

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and then you catch every single crystal. So I spent
weeks and weeks hundred percent in the first game.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Man, you you just hit on.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
What made that nostalgia pop for me is the like
I had heard that and probably twenty something years and
if you'd ask me music, if you'd asked me something
that I remembered about crash, it wouldn't have been that bit.
As soon as I heard it, I was excited. So yeah,
this was a good you know it, It's always the plan.
But I had a good, good family weekend. We did

(15:14):
a lot of family and stuff, had a good time,
had a good Easter. So hopefully all of you out
there enjoyed your Easter Sunday Easter weekend as well. And
now what I'm going to do here is set the
table because we've got a lot to get into. Obviously,
the NFL Draft is this week, and I still think
Tyler Shuck has a really good chance of being either
the third or fourth quarterback taken but here's where we
have to I guess, just guess and speculate. We'll find

(15:36):
out soon enough. But now you've got Chefty out there
claiming that he's talking to people who maybe aren't in
the market for a quarterback that say, it's not even
a close, it's not even a question. Tyler Schuck is
the best quarterback in this draft. And that's what is
you get closer to the actual draft, that's when you
start to think, Okay, I know he's been getting gassed up,
and clearly we know there's a lot to like, but like,

(15:57):
is this like could he be taken earlier than we anticipate,
Like would he be a top fifteen pick? I mean,
I guess he could. I just you know, I've not
really been this eager about a Louis of a Cardinal
on draft night in a long time, because, I guess
with Lamar, I just refused to believe that he was
going to you know, I was in denial that Lamar
really would fall the way he did to the last

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pick in the first round. But sure enough it happened.
So the lead up was he's going to be taken
in like the top ten, and he's going to prove
everybody wrong and then clearly it didn't play out that way.
But obviously with Tyler Shuck, I mean, who knows, maybe
he's a Day two guy, which could still and then
that would probably be most I mean I would say
that would be my guess right now. But with the
quarterback position, if Shuck was generating this kind of buzz

(16:39):
and he had, you know, this same sort of story,
but it wasn't a quarterback, it was a different position,
I mean, one of one, it wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Be talked about quite as much.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
Also, you know, it'd probably be Okay, Yeah, this guy's
really positioned himself well to where he could be a
third round pick. Can anybody be shocked anymore this day
and age if a team just gets you know, there's
everybody in the NFL is so desperate to find their
next franchise player, their next quarterback, and Shuck's got a
lot to like. So I say all that to say that,
like we could be in for maybe a bigger surprise

(17:09):
than we anticipate, because it's not just maybe like that
he's going to be taken rather early, but like who
takes them? That could be a big surprise, Like maybe
somebody's sitting back not doing a whole lot of yapping
because they know that, like, hey, we don't need a
quarterback right now, but if this guy's going to be there,
sitting and available as we as we have our pick,
we're getting him so really excited about the NFL Draft
coming up here in a few weeks. Also, Louislle Football
landed a new addition at receiver, which of course was needed.

(17:33):
And I'm not only going to tell you about this
young man and you know where he transferred in from me.
He's started at Clemson, played at nc State last year.
But the coverage of this commitment there was something that
really irritated me that I that I don't know, we
don't think we've talked about it on the show before,
and I certainly want to Also, Kentucky, not only have
they landed another guard in the portal that a lot
of people seem to think they overpaid for, they essentially

(17:56):
have their roster set right now and their fans are
really really excited about the roster. And you know, I
wouldn't expect anything else, because you know that's what fans do.
But I just think if you go like piece by
piece and there's no way to know, right, it would
just be guessing, it would just be speculation. But if
you compare Kentucky in Pope's debut season personnel to what
now they have in the mix with this latest edition

(18:17):
via the Portal, I mean, again, you never know. But
like I don't think it's even a question. I don't
know how you can say that they'd be better that
next year than this past year. Now, again, it's totally
different as far as like the type of pieces they have,
So again, none of us know. I've said many times
it's not like an anti UK thing. I think Pope
will make it work with whatever, because I think he's
that good of a coach and they have good players.

(18:38):
It's not like I'm saying, Hey, their fans are excited
about their team and they're lousy. It's not that, it's just,
you know, some of the guys that they've added.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
I feel like.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
You'd have to be you know, you have to hope
that they would make a big jump from whatever they've
done in their career until you know, to next year
to be better than some of the guys that they
just you know, they just had. Hey, look if they're
the same type of team were a little bit below
were what they were just.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
This past year.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
That's not the end of the world, because clearly Kentucky
was pretty good this year. They were Sweet sixteen team
got a top three seed. But like Kentucky doesn't usually
strive for that. They they strive for the you know,
the championships and whatnot. So again we'll get into it. Also,
the portal actually closes tomorrow, and I don't believe there's
been a whole lot of late editions since last Friday

(19:27):
that have been like big names like uh oh, look out,
like this is crazy.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Who would have ever thought this guy was available? So
I kind of.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
Feel like anybody who was going to go is gone.
But we shall see. Again, I believe it's tomorrow at midnight,
is whenever it officially closes, and you've you know, you
got to you got until then. So the good news
is that Cason Pryor has not entered the portal and
he's not even declared for the draft. Therefore, you know,
maybe he's not going to give us any kind of
you know, graphic or video. He's actually he's actually playing

(19:54):
into it a little bit on his social media, which
I think is fine and fun because you know that's
what you should do, right, Like it's a human it's
a human nature kind of thing, like you want to
be appreciated. You want people to say we need you,
we love you. And clearly Louisville fans know that next
year they're going to be a good team. And when
you look at preseason rankings that have him in like
the top five, top ten, clearly Casin is a component

(20:16):
in that. So it's not to say that if he
did leave, they would wouldn't be any good at all.
But obviously if you could end up, you know, and
I think they know he's back, or they wouldn't be
operating the way they are. But we'll get into all
that also. I mean, I don't really know what we
can add to this, but there's a great breakdown from
I believe Gary Parrish of CBS Sports that tells you

(20:38):
all of the guys that have entered the portal that
don't actually have eligibility, And I'm I'm kind of sad
for these guys now because like this is some of
these dudes have a legit. I'm not going to say
that they have a legitimate gripe and they should be eligible,
but you would at least you at least know what
they're positioning their waiver to be four right, like they've

(20:58):
got an argument. Some of these guys are just hitting
the portal hoping nobody realizes they've been playing college sports
for six years.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
And that's where it gets kind of sad.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
That screams you're twenty about to be twenty one and
you're showing up to the football games in high school
with the letterman jacket, and again, like it's kind of sad. Now,
clearly if you do that as a twenty year old
at high school like that, that's actually really sad. This is,
I guess, just a chance for these guys to see
if they could get away with playing a little longer
to make money in money, you know. So in a way,

(21:29):
I don't blame him, who wouldn't try to keep doing
this as long as you can to make money. But
I mean, come on, Like if you're in the portal
and you have no eligibility left and a coach calls
you seeing you're available, and they ask you, hey, like
there's something we don't know, Like what are you gonna say? Like,
that's where it gets kind of sad. Also, Cooper flag
not coming back to college, which I guess was always

(21:51):
what was going to happen, but I was curious to
see if if he really would, you know, leave the
option open right like, Hey, he's going to go through
the draft process and you know he's going to be
the number one pick. So now just comes down to
like what who that team is going to be. But
clearly he now knows that regardless of who has that pick,
that's where he's gonna be, and he's content with it.

(22:12):
Also something else we can get into if we need to.
But Nata Mint ends up picking not Louisville, not Duke,
and not Kentucky, not Arkansas, but Tennessee. And I can't
help but wonder how that happened. Obviously money is the
factor here, but.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
It just seems like a head scratcher for Tennessee to
be the one like the Tennessee If Tennessee truly paid
more money for Nata Mint that anybody else was willing to.
I mean, maybe this is just you know, me being bitter,
which it's not. I've said it for weeks. Now, they
get him, great, I'm not going to lose a wink
of sleep if they don't. And it could be Native Man,

(22:52):
it could be Nate whatever. I just think when it
comes to young freshmen, anything they give you as far
as being a regular contribut to your team is just
a blessing because now you got grown men that play
this sport up until they're twenty three, twenty four. So
I'm twenty five, so you know I'm not. It's not
like I'm soh you know, we didn't want him anyway,
but I just feel like the more he showed his

(23:14):
lack of physicality, when that's mattered more now than it
hasn't a long time in college basketball. I think if
you're a duke of Kentucky, Louisville, or even a you
know in Arkansas, you know you'll take him. But if
it comes to where he's going to be one of
the most expensive pieces on your team or the most
expensive piece, I mean it didn't worth it. But then again,
like Tennessee, like are they willing to pay that? Like,
clearly they've got money, they got a big fan base.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
But I don't know.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
I more than anything, I'm just surprised that of all
places ended up being Tennessee that landed this guy. So
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Speaker 1 (24:02):
Now back to Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
Sports Talk seven nine day, three.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Point thirty Here on a Monday afternoon, Coffee and Company
rolling along fresh off of Easter weekend. Hopefully you guys
had a good Easter weekend and a good Easter Sunday.
So we are just a few days away from the
NFL Draft, and you know, any time I've seen anything
out there about Tyler Shuck, the only thing I've seen
that like wasn't positive is that is that clip of

(24:30):
him at the combine where I have no explanation as
to what occurred or how it happened, but it was
almost as if like he had the yips or there
was a miscommunication because I mean it was almost like
he was attempting to throw one of the worst passes ever.
Really wasn't even like a pass. But anyways, other than that,
it's just been nothing but praise, and I assume all
that's you know, it's good stuff, but you really never

(24:50):
know if what's been put out there from agents, even
if it's from legitimate people within these franchises. Right if
they're talking to the shifters of the world, what benefit
do they get out of giving information to anybody? Nothing?
So these guys that you know, make a lot of

(25:12):
money to be talking heads telling you what they are
hearing is happening with the NFL. And I don't act
like it's not a legitimate gig. It is, but I
just feel like nobody's ever said it out loud. Why
in the world would anybody that has any influence within
any NFL franchise give any information to anybody only if
it was gonna help them, Right, well, what would help
them telling them what they're gonna do. No, it's almost like, Hey,

(25:35):
we want somebody to think we're gonna do this, so
I'm gonna tell Adam Schefter or Ian rappaport, and you
know it'll be a smoke screen. I mean, to me,
that's really obvious. It's not like it's not like I'm
throwing out some crazy conspiracy thing. I mean, it just
it makes no sense to tip your cat, you know,
to show your hand in any way. So who knows

(25:55):
just how.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Legit it is.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
But Schefter earlier today, one of his ride ups says
that some teams have Louisville's Tyler Schuck as their highest
rated quarterback in the entire draft, and I don't know.
I mean, again, cam Ward's the guy that is is
going to be the first quarterback taken. And I mean, Austin,
you know, NFL, you know ball?

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Are you a believer of cam Ward in the NFL?
Not really.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
I just think there's a better chance of him being
somebody who is, you know, average at best than there
is of him being like, Wow, can you believe nobody
saw this guy? I mean it's not that nobody. Clearly
people know he's coming.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
Now.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
He's going to be the number one quarterback taken by
all accounts. But you know, he started his career at
what like was it incarnate word or something like that.
But we're going to like so that'll be a wild story.
So again I'm not saying I think he's gonna be
like a big bust, but like I just I don't know.
To me, he'll have a solid career at best. But
you know, there's a lot of guys who I thought
would be great stunk and then vice versa.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
I think Tennessee's a dump right now too, So like
I don't love their roster, I'm still like out on
their head coach not necessarily is their guy now?

Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's h is it? Bill Callahan?

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Right, you could have said any name and I would
have believed you. I think, look the Titans, I'd be wrong.
I'm sure they feel like it'd run its course with
Rabel right, like he'd been there a while and there
was never really like a huge breakthrough.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Brian Callahan, Yeah, but.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
I don't, like, do you feel like you have a
better coach now than the one that you had? Like,
and I know you've got to, you know, you gotta
have some you've got to have change of pace, you
got to have some new life in there and and whatnot.
And coaches are very expendable now, right if you've got
a bunch of money tied up into one big player,
then you know coaches are going to be clearly not
a priority like your franchise player. But like Derek, Henry
moved on, right, we all know that, Yeah, and they

(27:45):
didn't want to pay him.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
I just feel like the Titans, And I'm not that
mad about it, because I you know, I don't like
the Titans their arrival of my Colts, and I just
feel like they they were going to restart, which they
clearly are. They let Henry walk and they gave will
As an opportunity to be their start of this past year.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
I just feel like, if you're.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Doing all that, you don't need a coaching change. But
maybe they knew there was going to be some resistance
and that Rabel didn't want to do that. He wasn't
willing to just completely rebuild. But now he's gone, he's
in New England and here the Titans are once again
kind of starting all over.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Right.

Speaker 5 (28:14):
They went a little bit younger because he was the
offensive coordinator for the Bengals back when they went to
the Super Bowl, and they had a lot of success
under Joe Burrow. But obviously they don't have that Joe
Burrows amazing. There's only one of him, so like them
going and really, I mean, I'm not getting the best
draw with getting Will Levis because I never believed in
him anyways. But people, like I said this before, like

(28:35):
when we're talking about the season, it seems like all
a Tennessee has been so let down ever since Derrick
Henry left. Like I feel like that was their identity
and Vrabel's play style and that whole team was their
identity for the longest time of that whole city. And
now they're trying to go like switch over to the
up and he passing young head coach sort of route,
and I don't know, it's just not hitting under Brian Callahan.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
He's kind of a maniac.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah, I don't even really know what they're like, Like
what do they want to be?

Speaker 2 (29:02):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (29:02):
Yeah, Like they were trying to air it out a
lot last year. They did that a lot to the
other team.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah, they did.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
I mean I was in Nashville when the Bengals played
the Titans because I went with met some family. My
cousin Mark is a huge, huge Bengals fan and he
lives in Arkansas. So when he goes to watch the Bengals.
Oftentimes he'll go to watch them in places that aren't
Cincinnati because it's closer to where he lives. And my
I guess it would be my second cousin, his son.
You know. He he made an observation that I thought,

(29:30):
you know, I wouldn't have thought about it, but it's true.
He said, you know, this is the This is like
the most lifeless atmosphere I've ever been in an NFL game.
And I think it's because the Titans fans like they'll
tighten up, as they say, but like they don't know
who they are right now, like yeah, there's no identity
their coach they hired. You know, he may he may
work out, but like he's he's cutting his teeth too, right,
He's he's not somebody who you can look back at
previous stints he's had at other places. So uh yeah,

(29:51):
the Titans, I gain, I.

Speaker 5 (29:52):
Need some more weapons around him, sure, because the best
that they had was that Nick Westbrook at Keene last year,
who at one point had a stretch of like five
six straight games or scored a touchdown. It was like
an automatic any anytime TD bet. But they're gonna they're
gonna need some drafting a quarterback to come in and
just save your franchise immediately when you don't have the
resources that that's what kills quarterbacks. And I think organizations

(30:15):
fail quarterbacks more than quarterbacks fail organizations.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
I could not agree more. I feel like there are
some some quarterbacks that they are destined to fail based
off of just the situation that they ended up in.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
I mean, yeah, and it hasn't happened yet Johnny Manziel,
but Daniel jo.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
But it'll happen at some point where a guy can
make a lot of money to stay in college and
he will not go because he just realizes the three
teams that are you know that would take me, no thanks,
and you know used to be able to. I mean,
Eli Manning is the last that really forced the issue
where he went pro and was like, yeah, you all

(30:53):
can do what you want with your pick. I'm not
going there, and you know worked out for him. Well,
now you can go back to college and make a
lot of money, right, I mean, it's it's so you know,
it's not happening this year. But I think what you
just said is one thousand percent true, is that some
of these quarterbacks yeah, you know, they don't do they
don't handle their business the right way. They're not truly professionals.
But you have to be at that position in the NFL.

(31:15):
But then sometimes, like I don't know what they could
have done, you know what I mean. Like that's why
I've never once understood why it just became a thing
to where, yeah, we got a first round quarterback, let's
just throw them out to because you could completely ruin
a guy's career by you know, completely killing their confidence,
getting them hurt. I mean, like Tim Couch that's long

(31:35):
before your time as far as probably remembering watching him
like he was destined to fail in Cleveland and he
was really really good, you know. So anyways, back to
back to the Shock conversation, you mentioned Joe Burrow, who
clearly is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Well,
this is from is it Freeman? This isn't the athletic Yeah,
I'm sorry, Bruce Feldman. He's got to write up here

(31:57):
about the quarterbacks in this draft, and he's got some
quotes from different NFL offensive you know personnel. One's a
passing game coordinator. I think one is uh an oc.
Let me pull it up here just I can make
sure I can give a reference. But again, these are
like this is the kind of thing that I love

(32:18):
hearing that this stuff is being said about our man,
Tyler Shuck. Also, I just have a hard time thinking that,
Like what does I was reading for this is this
is from the Athletic dot Com. While there's been a
lot of talk about the old miss Jackson, about old
missus Jackson Dart being the next best prospect, the coaches
I spoke to didn't see it that way. Quote I

(32:40):
like Tyler Shuck better, said OC number two. I'm not
saying he's Joe Burrow, but he's got some Joe Burrow
to him. I think he has the best feat in
this quarterback class. I know he's had injuries, and if
he didn't, I think he'd be a first round quarterback
end quote Like I'm like, hell yeah, I agree. But also,
but in OC telling Bruce Feldman that leading up to
the draft, at what benefit is that?

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Like? What do you like?

Speaker 4 (33:03):
Now a good text that comes in, that's a great
you know, it's a great counter as far as like
why that could be said? People willing to yap about
you know, people will because again they don't say who
this is, but obviously Bruce Feldman knows who he's talking to,
so I would and this is you know, sometimes you
guys probably listen to me and realize you're a lot
smarter than me, because this would make sense that if

(33:24):
you're Bruce Feldman or Schefter or somebody like that Ian Rappaport,
and you're gonna want to go get legitimate, quote like
real information, real honest opinion feedback about the quarterbacks. You
know what you're gonna do. You're gonna go to a
team that you know is not drafting a quarterback because
when they got to lose, right, Like, they'll tell you
the straight truth because they don't care, like they have
no Like if you know that you're like, if you're
the Bengals, you know you're a good at quarterback, right

(33:44):
so you might be willing to give honest opinion and
that that you know, that could that that would make
it make a little more sense. Here's more from the article.
The sixty five two hudred and nineteen pounds Schuck ran
a four point sixty three forty at the NFL scouting
Combine does have a lengthy injury history. He began his
career at Oregon, where he spent three season four, transferring
to Texas Tech in twenty twenty one. He started three
years there, but each was derailed by a season inning injury.

(34:06):
His age has also become a talking point. He'll be
twenty six in September, making him older than Trevor Lawrence,
brock Purty and c J.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Stroud.

Speaker 4 (34:13):
Here's another quote. He's probably the most pro ready to
go in and run an offense and be able to operate.
That is a passing game coordinator who said this to
Bruce Feldman. The rest of the quote is of this quote.
Some people bring up his age. Nope, don't care. This
isn't baseball where you're drafting eighteen year olds. He's athletic,
he's a good interview, smart arm. Talent is good. So
I know that I just said this what last week

(34:34):
when we talked about Chuck, But this conversation gives me
reason to say it once more. Why is his Why
is his agent an issue? What would make you say
we shouldn't draft this guy? Because I feel like it's
a benefit, it's a bonus. He's a grown man that
you know is mature, like you know this isn't about age,

(34:54):
but like he seems to have a personality to where
like he'll he'll handle himself and carry himself for through
right way to where it would be. You know, it
certainly won't be an issue for your locker room. If anything,
he could be a benefit to your locker room because
he's you know, he's mature, So.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Get bow necks.

Speaker 5 (35:09):
Last year, I was a big doubter on him because
I mean, my god, he went everywhere around the sun
in college and stayed until he was this exact same age.
But he also fell into the right hands of Sean
Payton and fell into a pretty a decently ran organization
in the Broncos, and they gave him time and they
developed with them. And now like now you got to

(35:30):
look at these guys want reps, Like you said, it's
not like drafting a seventeen eighteen year old out of
high school. Like they want reps on the field, And
there's a lot like I mean, there's a lot with
my team JJ McCarthy and a lot of questions internally
about how many reps has he had going into this
season because he didn't have much last year and at
Michigan he didn't pass a lot, So teams are starting

(35:51):
to look at how much you're throwing the ball and
how much the game flow relies on the quarterback. And now,
when you've been doing it for as long as he
has and bo necks last year, it seemed to be
a benefit now a few years ago.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
I'll tell you what, I doubt he's aware of this,
and if so, he probably wouldn't, you know, put it
on his list of accomplishments. But bo Nick's earned a
lot of respect from me last year with not only
his ability to to get it done and show that
he could be a quarterback in the NFL. Obviously he's
he's got work to do, but he had an awful

(36:23):
start to the season. If you remember, yeah he did,
I mean he, I mean not only were they losing
and he was putting up like there was some hilarious
type of you know, goofs out there on the field, miscommunication,
terrible throws, threw for sixty yards and again.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
So so you know, he.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Bounced back, and I'm telling you, I'd be highly shocked.
There's no way to know for certain, but I'd be
highly shocked if he wasn't able to overcome that and
move on and still finish the season as a really
good rookie quarterback if he wasn't mature, right, if you've
got to mean, I just think that's a fact that
that's something that can help you bring a guy along
the you know, maybe he not maybe he won't play
untill he'st fifty. But there's a lot that I think

(37:01):
when it comes to experience and maturity, that's a factor
in why it takes some of these guys to eventually,
you know, find their footing in the NFL, and a
lot of them that never do. I just always wonder
had they had they had some time to kind of
sit back and not be thrown into the fire. I mean,
maybe it would have been different for him. So let's
get too a quick break. We'll come back on the
other side. What do I want to get to next?

(37:21):
Louisville landed a commitment from the Portal over the weekend.
A talented receiver joined the mix, which of course is
I think an area that they needed to focus on
in the spring.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Portal.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
Also, Kentucky, their roster seems to be set in basketball,
and I would say the latest commitment here for Mark Pope,
it was a real surprise to not maybe not Kentucky
fans as much, but you know, Florida's losing a guy
who is set to become the starter after being a
reserve for a national championship team. Well now he's going
to Kentucky to be a reserve again. It really is

(37:54):
a puzzling situation. But I imagine money is a big
factor there. But we'll get into a lot more. Stick
with us right here on Ward's Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Ninety Now back to coffee and Company, fueled by Thorntin's
on Sports Talk seven nine day.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
So we talked a little bit about the NBA playoffs
at the beginning of the show because our man Austin
the Travel Chief was able to cash in, which you know,
good for him. I would watch more if I was
betting on it, and I may do that, but I
also there's a level to the NBA for me, and
I've used this analogy before. Anytime I win when I

(38:36):
bet on sports, I always know, deep down like it's
just luck because if I was like really good at
it and great at it, then you know I would
be much more successful. So it's more fun when you can,
you know, get lost in the moment like yeah, you
know what, I really knew something that the books didn't know.
That's what makes it fun. That's the payoff. Obviously, if
you can make money, that's fun too, But it's really
entertainment more than it is anything else for most people.
So when I bet on sports that I don't know

(38:59):
a lot about, I win, I'm still happy, but it's
not as enjoyable because it's just luck, even though deep
down again I know all of it is really luck.
So when I go to play blackjack or roulette, like,
that's fun and you know, you got to make decisions,
but it's all luck, right, So but I enjoy that

(39:20):
more than if I just go yank a slot machine,
because to me, that's just what yanking the slot machine
a little tug, you know what I'm saying, little poll
and I I mean, again, you win, you win, it's fine.
But like with slot machines, it's directly in your face
that that's just that's just you know, it's basically like
you know, roll the dice like you just don't know,
and I get it. So that's sort of my mindset

(39:43):
as a gambler. I realize in every way, if I
win or lose, it's really just luck. But I will
enjoy it more when I can at least convince myself
that I was you know, my my strategy or my
decision played a bigger role in it. So with the NBA,
actually know, like I know the NBA enough to where

(40:03):
I you know, I know who's awful, and I know
who's good, and I know I have some I mean,
in fact, there's a lot of guys in the NBA
that I know who they are. I mean, in fact,
there's there's probably not that many in the NBA where
I couldn't tell, Oh, I don't know who that guy is,
but I probably would be like I didn't realize I
got played for that team. Now that guy still in
the league. Oh wow, I forgot about that guy, you know.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
So I just tyjer Erome. He went off Yester.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
He was so he actually had he was one of
the bigger He might end up winning Most Improved in
the NBA this year. He had a big breakout year,
which is cool to see a guy that had been
removed from college so long at this point kind of
break out.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Right, Yeah, we were just talking about him a few
weeks ago.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
So anyways, you know, sorry about that mistake got a Yeah,
well I tried to open up something on here that
was already open and it gave me that stupid prompt.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
So my bad.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
But anyways, with with the NBA, I think if I
made a bet and you know.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
It, it hit, I'd be happy.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
But if I made a bet and I ended up
losing and it was like, you know, a three leg
parlay and the one leg that would have got me
didn't come close, I think you're an idiot, Nick, Like,
why did you trust any logic with the NBA, Because again,
you know, these teams come in like if you're betting
on an underdog to cover, Like, don't you feel like
that seems really unlikely because the NBA is so top
heavy and the issue is that they're strata. Again, I've

(41:21):
talked about this before. If the NBA wanted to make
their product better, there's some simple things they could do,
but we know realistically they will never do. They need
to eliminate as many games, they need to eliminate the
amount of teams they have in the playoffs, and they
need to shorten the series that they have. They'll not
do any of those three things because all that would
do is make them less money, and that is unless

(41:44):
that check. That's not really what anybody in business is
looking to do. So society has evolved in a way
to where the NBA is just not as attractive to
a lot of folks when it comes to just really
consuming the overall product. It's not that competitive either, But
changes to that, I mean, I don't know if there's
a plan where there's something they could do to make
the league much more attractive and much more competitive that

(42:06):
doesn't include what I just mentioned. I think they would
have already done it, to be honest with you, now,
the biggest story in the NBA is still the Luca trade, right,
I mean it has to be, and the GM of
the Mavericks, Like I'm starting to think that that, you know, Nico,
I'm starting to feel sorry for Nico Harrison in a
way that like maybe this is is this a publicity stunt?

(42:30):
Like is this because you would think that like since
the trade happened, everything that can be done or anything
that can be said has gone terribly wrong to make
this even like this continues.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
To get worse.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
Right, Like last week they had the meeting where the
media could go and talk with him, but they couldn't
record any of it and couldn't have any video or audio.
Like that's just a terrible look. It looks like you're
trying to like butter them up or intimidate them, and
you don't want them to record it, like you know
it just it is a really bad look. And then
there's a part of me that says, Okay, I can
appreciate honesty, but then again, like who would do this?

(43:05):
I mean, here's a quote from Nico Harrison today. I
did know Luca was important to the fan base. I
didn't know how. I didn't know quite to this level,
Like I mean, your job is to know, as the
GM who is most important to your fans, and you
can't make every decision based upon that, but you have to.

(43:25):
I mean, in that role, you you would be foolish
to you know, and I don't know how you would
have these scenarios in front of you, but keeping your
fans happy or I guess maybe more than anything, it's
better to say avoiding them hating everything about you and
being you know, in the situation Maverick's fans are in
now you need like fans are customers, and you know

(43:48):
the momentum of your franchise a lot of times is
dependent upon the energy from your fans, right, And I
mean it's pr one O one. It's a business. So
to to not have a clue just how important and
Luca was to Dallas and you felt like you were
going to get better without him. First of all, that's
just silly to think about. But if you're the GM

(44:08):
of the Mavericks, you should have the ability to understand
we could make a move that might make us know
a little bit better, but if that move resulted in
us not having Luka Doncik, there's no way we should
ever consider it because you know, he's the franchise and
our fan base will be happier with Luca. Here, like
a ten game winning difference is not worth it. I

(44:32):
mean it's crazy to say, because you want to compete,
you wing to win, But like Luca is Dallas, and
this guy, I mean, he just keeps putting his foot
in his mouth. I mean, I don't know how he's
supposed to respond to this question. But here he is
doing a press conference today because now he had to
do another press conference because of such a bad PR
hit he got from having the closed door when nothing
could be recorded he was asked why he shouldn't be fired,
and this is what he had to say.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Why shouldn't you be fired?

Speaker 3 (44:56):
Well, one, I think I've done a really good job
here and I and I don't think I can be
judged by the injuries this year. You have to judge
from totality from beginning to end.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
And so so we get like, what's he supposed to
say there?

Speaker 4 (45:10):
Like, you know, I think the better pr would have said,
I understand the question. And I'm sure there's many that
want me to be fired, and I get it. Fans
have their job, and you know, my job is to
prove them wrong and get this thing turned around. And
obviously life of that Luka Doncik is going to be
a change of pace for us. But I'm of the
belief that this organization, we have the right people making
these decisions to where we will get back to where we.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Want to be. And I mean, I just that's off
the that's off the top of my head. Is that not?
Is that not great?

Speaker 4 (45:37):
Like I don't mean like that, but like you, when
you get put in certain situations, you're not gonna give
an answer that is going to change the whole situation.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
Oh yeah, he went into fight mon.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
Yeah, so so just so just you know, again, if
you if you say that and then you continue to
make dumb ass decisions to put the franchise and even
worse than a worse place, then that'll be you know that,
that's obviously you know, something that could happen. But like
to just say, I think I've done a really good
job and I shouldn't be judged this year based off injuries.
You traded your franchise player who was beloved like nobody

(46:10):
ever has been in Dallas outside of a guy named
Dirk Dewitzky for a star who quite literally when you
check the back of his basketball card, they're probably gonna
mention he has historically been injury prone. You dumb ass?
Should I be running the Mavericks?

Speaker 2 (46:24):
I think I should be a lot better that answer.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
Off the top of my head. I was pretty proud
of that. I mean, obviously I'm not a PR expert,
but like.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
That was I mean, it's your way around a microphones
and don't do that, you know what I mean? Like
two hours left, so stick with us.

Speaker 4 (46:37):
I can't even speak, but you know, I'm probably more
qualified to run the Dallas Mavericks than this clown