Harrison Faigen on the Lakers, Ham, Trades + NFL Super Wild Card Weekend Preview

The FnA Podcast with Kevin Figgers and Adam Auslund + Brie Brie. The Guys talk about the upcoming NFL Weekend and coaching changes and with Harrison Faigen about the Lakers trade possibilities and what happens with Ham.

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some hoops. Chorus is FNNBA fool. Harrison Fagan will join us from SB
Nation covers the Lakers who lost lastnight to Bree Breez's sons and pretty humiliating
fashion. What I'm gonna say anythingabout that? Let him know you're in
the room. I'm here. Yes, it's all It's nice that the three
superstars are a actually able to playtogether for once and be actually able to

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play well together at once. Sothat was nice. It's always a good
day when Austin Reeves is humiliated onnational TV. It's just lovely. I
slept so well. What did AustinReeves doing to you? He's just so
cute and I can't date him.That's very depressing. There's some real stock
there. Why can't you date him? Is he buried and I can't date

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him? So therefore I want himto lose. That's what it is.
Yeah, if you're not happy,if I'm not happy, you can't be
happy either. So he didn't justtake an L to the Suns. He
took an L in relationship status.What could have been with Breebury here?
Oh no, he can do waybetter than me. I'm just saying.
Well, they said he was dittinga date Taylor Swift, but apparently that

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was just a joke because they wereboth a hot ticket at the time and
now she's got Travis Kelce. Butyeah, it was good to see you
guys bounce back after getting beat bytwenty seven by the Clippers too. I
don't care it's a regular season,was last night regular season or but it
was a turning point for us.This is a training point four turning points

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for the Sons already this year.So anyways, that's all stuff, right,
Yeah, we'll get to the NFLstuff in a little bit. Here.
We do have voicemails to get toor a voicemail to get to off
the front of the show here atnine seven eight eleven ninety seven. If
you guys want to leave a voicemail, you can do that again seven eight
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and Facebook. What we got here, Kevin? All right, we got
one voicemail to get to. Let'ssee f and a Peter from North Dakota
here. The National Championship Game hasnot started. A pack twelve commissioner George
Klaiofkov is there. I've been listeningto some interviews about it, and it

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seems like Kalayofkoff has no shame inhis role in destroying the Pack twelve conference,
which he has a role. It'snot nothing. He could have kept
it alive. He rejected the dealto get everybody thirty mail. Everybody knows
this, but he also he istaking credit. He might legitimately believe that
when he took over two and ahalf years ago and he said, hey,

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guys, why don't you focus onbeing better at football? Like he
invented the fucking wheel, and allthese Tax twelve schools were like, holy
shit, what if we invest infootball? What if we become football schools?
And that was when Washington suddenly realizedwe should play football better. I
don't know either way, fuck him. If you guys were in his position,

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would you be so delirious and justlike, yeah, I'm gonna take
all the credit for it, orwould you disappear because he hasn't appeared publicly
until now and until the last game. So I just wonder which way you
would go, if you would gointo hiding happening, so you're not wrong
about any of that. Peter,I will say he was there when Washington
beat Oregon in the Pactweld Championship game, very briefly. He was there for

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the trophy presentation, handed it overto Washington, and then quickly and swiftly
got off of the stage with sayingthe word which typically Adam, you know
how these things go. The commissioneralways says something. Yeah, got nothing
to say, not a lot tosay when the demise of the PAC twelve
is laying at his feet, butmore so on Larry Scott. Still it's
on both. I mean, look, Georgia Klef Coffee, they could have
had a TV deal done now Iwould have been for a less than they

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wanted, but the conference would stillbe together. SAMs SE and UCLA hath
they signed the deal the ESPN hadgiven them, which I think would have
netted every team around by thirty twomillion million dollars a year. And then
some Stanford professor who had nothing todo, is not worked in media negotiations
or anything that you guys can getfifty million a year, which nobody until
now. The Big Ten is nowover sixty for all their schools, but

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at that time no conference was gettingthat, even the good ones, and
some Stanford professor he allowed him toget into his ear and tell him,
this is how much you guys shouldbe getting. He's like okay, and
ESPN basically laughed at him and saidnot happening. So then Apple pops up.
They don't want to take the Appledeal. And then by then Washington
Oregon had already started talking to theBig ten, so the conference would still
be together again sans se and UCLAhad they taken the deal that ESPN give

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had offered them, and they chosenot to do that. So as much
as it falls on Larry Scott fromday one, yes, George Klaoffkov kind
of had the final death nail,though he kept it going. And if
you want more on this, wehad petrospapat Ak. It's on countless times
this past year talking about the deathspiral of the PAC twelve fight a real

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show. Now look at the conferenceas a whole one more. Yeah,
at the Colorado sensation happened five yearsago, and maybe they'd ridden a wave
of momentum things have been better.I think you would have gotten yourself more
TV offers and more money, andyou would have been able to stick together.
But even had one program Washington,Washington won the national championship last year,
but we're still dealing with all thisTV fallout and all this other stuff.

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I don't know if winning the nationalchampionship would have made much of a
difference in a Malcolm and they lostand get their asshole pay was Yeah,
so it didn't. It didn't alsoend up meaning anything. Wasn't even that
close. But it is sad.For some reason, I keep thinking of
the end of the movie Virgin Suicidesby Sophia Coppola, her first with James
Woods, one of my favorites,uh, and just them driving away in

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the station wagon at the end,and the boys being left there after all
the girls killed themselves. And Idon't know why I go that dark with
it when it comes to the Pactwelve, but for some reason, it
just it feels eerie. It feelsstrange, this dark cloud over West Coast
football. It feels like the oldgot smaller, even though technically this heat
the teams are still around. We'relosing out a little bit here on the

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West Side to a certain degree.Yes, I mean, look all the
all the principal figures are still gonnabe around, They're just not gonna be
around in the same conference as wecurrently know them. So out on wat's
as nostalgic. I just I knowthat things move forward and things are constantly
changing. The way things are noware gonna be different. Five years from
now, the twelve team playoff mightbe a fourteen or sixteen team playoffs for

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six years. I take sALS inthat. So I mean, I just,
I just I can't allow myself toget so wrapped up in all this
stuff because it's ever changing, andwe know the almighty dollar drives everything and
that's why all of these are beingdone. So I totally understand it.
The only constant in life my manis changed. I'll look. The sad
thing for the PAC twelve is thelast major championship that they actually won,

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if you're talking major being football orbasketball, was usc and that was two
thousand and five. And basketball,yeah, and that was taken away from
them. No Arizona Arizona ninety sevenor ninety eight with the BIBI and that
whole team. It's a little bitembarrassing conference of champions. They're living in
the past, like Walter subcheck.Well, I mean, look, they
have the championship now. The problemis they're like, we got water polo,

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and we got no disrespect to anyof those sports. The PAC twelve,
I think, even to this daystill even though it doesn't exist,
I guess the PAC two was stilla thing, still has more championships compared
to any other conference overall. Butas far as the revenue generating ones that
they call them are the ones thatthe mainstream people care about, which are
basketball and football, into a veryvery small degree baseball, the ones that

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actually would have saved the conference werenot winning. No, unless you dust
off the history books from forty yearsago. Yes, and so it was
a disappointing way for the PAC twelveto go out, especially to have the
Big Ten running down your throat inthe final game of the season. So
the Big Ten they'll be in nowand they'll have to experience more of that
where games are won in the trenches. Yeah, and I think iron sharpers

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iron to a certain degree. Ithink Washington the big boys, like if
USC. This is also and wetalked about this with Petro's two Lincoln Riley
and his philosophy. Talent wise,I think recruiting wise is not going to
be an issue. You just haveto make sure that you're recruiting the right
kind of players. You can getbig ten style offensive lineman us He's done
it before. USC went to Auburnand ran them off of their own field.

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You know, fifteen twenty years agoit came to be the team that
dominated. It can be, Itcan be done. So the idea that
these pack twelve West Coast schools can'tdo it is a misnomer. Washington,
Yes, they got worked over byMichigan, but you know they they recruit
a lot of guys up front.And as for as much as they got
run off of the fields, especiallyin that's in that fourth quarter. It
was twenty to thirteen for the majorityof the third quarter, I mean they

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were in that game. The offensejust couldn't get going. And credit to
the Michigan defense for holding them down. And they'll be drinking the Big ten's
milkshake and recruiting a lot of thoseheifers in the mid West now too.
So of course, yeah, allright, so that thank you, Peter.
That's the take as hotline nine fournine four seven eight eleven ninety seven.

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But yes, Cloff crosses to answeryour question. Sorry, he's delusional.
I don't know if he has designson the an assistant commissioner somewhere or
what is next future is gonna bemaybe he goes back to TV or something.
But for him to believe that,you know, I did everything I
could to make sure that we're stillaround it. What my fault is absolutely
delusion. It looks to me likehe's on his way to the fast track
to be the White House Press secretary. But whatever, we got first off,

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for you to start off this seasonhere with some NFL questions, it's
go time. That's wrong. We'renot gonna kick you off of the show
for political commentary, like what happenedto Aaron Rodgers earlier? What political commentary?
What? What did I say?All right, if we kick you
off, we'll come back the nextday. Anyways, what difference does to

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me? We've taken a lot ofheat for only doing one six pack this
season, man, that's fair.Just a new year. We're trying to
sober up, all right, Getoff our backs. We're trying to be
healthy. Yeah I went sober twentytwenty three. But we're gonna accommodate you
now because it is the playoffs andthere's been some other news out there.

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So I got some questions because I'veturned into a bit of an NFL casual
over this past season because one myPanthers were that bad. I at least
knew enough midway through the first gameto say the season's over, We're screwed.
The eras over, Bryce Young isshorter than Doug Flutie, everything's fucked.
But outside of that, my NFLknowledge has shrunk. When you actually

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gets a competent off as of coordinatorand actually starts playing better, I don't
want you to say like I knewthis all along. What y'all mean?
I told y'all, I know youguys know that's coming. No, I
will not jump back on do youwatch? That'll be a fluke. Okay,
So I'm calling this the super wildCard weekend Q and A with a
super wild Card NFL casual like myself. So I'm gonna lob some questions towards

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Kevin here, who does know everythingthat's going on in the National Football League
Pop quiz hot. First off,were we wrong in becoming Tom Bruthers and
taking Belichick's side? In the divorceor is he gonna end up on the
Chargers or somewhere where there's actual competentQB play and once again prove what a

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great coach he is. Well,I'll say this, and I think you
can agree with this. How manyNFL franchises have won championships without having a
not even great, just a reallygood quarterback? You'd probably count on one
hand, especially in the modern era. I mean modern as of like the
seventies. You know, I'm notgoing back to like the nineteen forties.
Back then, the Super Bowl didn'teven exist. It's very difficult to win,

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especially at a high level and consistentlywithout a good quarterback. Now you
can say the teams have struggled.I think his personnel, his staffing issues
more than anything. On the offensiveside of the ball have been much to
been desired the last couple of years. But defensively the last three seasons have
been as good as they've been.I mean, and talent wise, I'll
be honest with you, there's notnecessarily a lot of Hall of famers running

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around on this defense or some talentedguys. Matt Juwdn's a great pass rusher,
But outside of that he's getting themost out of what he can from
his side of the ball. Now, if you want to say he dropped
the ball because he trusted too manyof his friends, making Matt Patricia the
offensive coordinator, which, by theway, Matt Patric's offense last year was
better than Bill O'Brien's offense this year. So what does that tell you?

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So he's first washed. There wassome dissension within the building and the coaching
staff. I think Mike Reese dida giant right up about this this past
year. It was time to moveon, and I think Robert Craft said
it right. I can't justify takingpersonnel power away from a guy that's had
it for twenty four years or whatever. It would just be weird, It'd
be awkward. It's best for aclean break. I get the vibe that

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he still wants to coach, andI thought it was best that he moved
on and try to do it somewhereelse. And yes, the Chargers the
best job, by far of anyjob that's available, because you have Justin
Herbert locked in. Okay, Questionnumber two, which underdog has a better
chance at the six to three upsetthe Rams at Lions or the Dolphins at
the Chiefs Pop Quiz hot shot.Not easy, right. They both have

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great chances, but for different reasons. Like the only reason I wouldn't take
Miami is because they're banged up,especially defensively against a Kansas City team whose
offensive line has been terrible all seasonlong. And Andy Reid, who throughout
his career has refused to run theball and even still does. Now it's
gonna be like two degrees in KansasCity, and I'm only exaggerating by a
little bit. It's gonna be icecold, and we know how the Dolphins

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perform in frigid coal temperatures. Notwell. Now, they can run the
ball, but that's it for hemoster it is healthy, and he's questionable
and has been banged up the lastmonth of the season. Tyreek Hill,
who I love was they should havebeen the MVP of the league, has
been hurt with a bum ankle Ibelieve it's been for the last four weeks
and hasn't been the same player.So I'm probably gonna give a better shot
to the Rams, mainly because ofthe elements working against Even as bad as

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Kansas City has been this year,and they're not good they're Okay. Look,
they have what the best quarterback inthe NFL. They have a solid
defense, not as good as Ithink people are trying to make them out
to be. I think they haveenough to beat up a Miami team that's
limping into this game. So I'mgonna say the Rams have a better shot
of beating Detroit and the real riverboardgambler who is Dan Campbell that I would
give it to Miami being able towin in Kansas City. Okay, I'm

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going with that too. For whateverthat means. Are the Philadelphia Eagles for
sure done cooked, falling apart,meat off the bone? Is it over?
Or could they still make a run. They still can make a run,
but I don't think it's likely.I don't think they lose to Tampa
I'll put it this way. Theycan lose to Tampa Bay because they can
lose to anybody based on how theyplayed the last month and the half of

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the year. They're out of sinkon offense, by the way. Jalen
Hurts injured his finger in that lossto the Giants the end of the season
and hasn't thrown it and hasn't throwna ball since then. Hasn't practiced at
all. That could be a bitof an issue with a guy who you
know, they run the ball withhim. He takes a lot of deep
shots, but he's not necessarily pickingyou apart. Underneath. He needs to
be as healthy as he possibly can. And it's an opportunistic Bucks teams.
They will be at home. Idon't think the Bucks are gonna beat them,

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but it wouldn't surprise me if theydid so. If it's gonna if
I'm gonna say that, it wouldn'tsurprise me if Tampa Bay beat the Philadelphia
Eagles, who were so dominant lastyear that I think it's safe to say
that the Eagles can lose to anybodythey cooked. Is the Dallas Cowboys team
this year different or is the ceilingstill just getting killed by the forty nine
ers in the NFC Championship game.Yeah, the Ceiling is still getting the

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San Francisco I just don't see it. And you know them as well as
anyone. That's the reason why Ican say it. Playing against quality competition,
they just really struggle. Look,they played better, they went to
Miami, held them to a crapton of feld goals, but offensively they
just kind of hit a wall.I do think they miss Ezekiel Elliott,
who's turned into more of like ashort yardage power back. But they've seen
that Tony Pollitt is one of thoseguys who's better as a complimentary player,

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not as a lead guy. Sothey can score all the points in the
world. Yeah, and I thinkthey can. Actually they might actually I
don't think they will, but theymight lose to Green Bay because Jordan Love
has turned to corner the last monthand a half and has been amazing.
Only twenty eight touchdowns in like oneinterception or something in the last month or
so. It's been ridiculous. Whateverhis numbers are, they're on the come.

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I don't think they will. Ithink Dallas will beat them, and
it looked depending on who they matchup with, Dallas can absolutely win the
divisional round because they're going to beat home, but going on the road
to Santa Clara, I don't seeit happening that their ceiling is getting into
San Francisco to the NFC Championship game, which look first time since what ninety
five they've been able to do itif they make it that far, so
good on them for that. Iguess first time since my Carolina Panthers took

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him down in ninety six. Baby, we stopped the dynasty. We ended
it right there. What have theSaints ever done, Hallbrey, What have
they ever done outside of bounty Gate? We know that Super Bowl doesn't count.
I mean we're doing here is catchthat stravery right in the ribcage,
right in the gut shot. Imean, the Carolina Panthers did have a
bunch of guys on the defensive lineall roted up for their Super Bowl against

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the Patriots, and their punter wholike who debt lifted like nine thousand pounds
when half of them for deforation becauseit's well documented. Next thing you're gonna
say is our cheerleaders were going downon each other in the bathroom. Stall
mean, yeah, sorry, Idon't know about that with anything perform It
has to do with everything about it. Yet, I got Chris Jenkins all

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righted up on the defensive line.He was the big cat. He was
born that way. I'm sure hewas big boned. John Madden new I
never seen a fat skeleton. Goon, I'll take you to a place
where there's a fat skeleton, Kevin, where is that those big old women

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down a seven. They're all buriedunderneath the water burger. Who do you
think is the more dominant one seedwith an easier path to the Super Bowl
between the Niners and Ravens. Oh, the Niners easily because of Dallas.
No, the NFC is just aneasier role than the AFC. It is
just based on that. I mean, look at Cleveland with the old man,

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who's probably gonna win Comeback Player ofthe Year, which, by the
way, that's my next question.Okay, well, I'll leave it alone.
The depth of the a f Cfar supersedes the depth of the NFC.
So that's why they would have thethe the the tougher road would go
for Baltimore. Too easy of aquestion there, confirming my casual status as
an NFL fan right now. Sofinal question, pop quiz hot shot,

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is Joe Flacco elite? He's notelite, but he's still Look, he's
capable enough with a defense that goodto potentially have a deep run with Cleveland.
They gonna beat the Houston Texans.They probably should. And Houston's had
a great year and CJ. Stroud'sgoing to be the Rookie of the Year
and has played well, but thatCleveland defense is tough. I know they
played a few weeks ago, butCide Stroud didn't play. A couple of

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receivers were out, so that wasn'tthe real Houston Texans. But I still
think Cleveland ends up winning. AndI think Cleveland, you know, with
Joe Flacco, and we know playoffJoe. He turns it on what it
matters most in the postseason, soI can definitely see them up potentially making
a run, and I do thinkhe'll win. I don't know if he'll
wone Comeback Player of the Year nowthat I think of it, because it's
a fair argument even though he's onlyplayed in three games this year and has

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been a healthy scratch. De MarHamley came back from the dead, so
it's kind of hard to argue againstBree. Where are you going? I
got a question for you. Betterlooking of the twins, Joe Flacco or
Chris Taylor? The same guy?Right? Oh? Chris Taylor? Are
you sure a thousand percent? Whatis that? What do you mean?

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Why is that better? Eyes?Have you seeing his eyes? Chrisler has
like beautiful, like hazel green eyes. Someone's getting lost in them. Yeah,
I have Oh my god, Iwas obsessed with Chris Taylor like three
years ago. Now it's Austin Reeves. He has moved on, ship had
has had a kid, and nowI was like, well, threw you.

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He's lost. James Altman. Youknow, James Astman, is you
like to call? Yes, LikeI've moved. Who was on a date
with somebody? And she's just sneakingphotos of James Outman while he's up at
the plate. Yeah, how interestinghe was the guy she was dating.
Oh there, you take advantage ofthose seats and then kick that guy to

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the curve that took you out.All right, game, Well, there's
your NFL preview for the weekend.There you go. Yeah, a little
NFL fi to appease everyone. Wedo everything on this show. All right,
it's a new year. We canhandle multiple topics. Speaking of we
got something coming up next, Alan, Dragan dud thank you, Donny Well.

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With the Lakers back under five hundredafter getting sunned by Phoenix last night,
it's time to find out how muchthey were able to heat up that
seat under Darvin Ham, who rarelysits because he knows how to man up,
just can't inspire his team to rightnow, as they always seem to
be a man down due to alack of health or ability on one end
of the court. So next alost in Utah, a trade. A

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new voice in the locker room toanswer all these questions is a man who
covers the Lakers as well as theiropponents do with that twenty third ranked defense.
It's Harrison Fagan from SB Nation backon the FNA podcast. Follow him
at h M Fagan on X.Harrison, thanks for doing this here.
You know, i'd say thanks forhaving me, but I really am beginning
to detect that you guys only bringme on when things are going terribly for

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the Lakers, and I don't appreciateit. I would like you guys to
have me on, you know,during like a Western Conference finals run or
something like that. This is unbelievable. Yeah, you know, Harrison.
I tried to suggest to bring youon after the Lakers won the in season
tournament, and I was like,no, we ain't got time for that.
We got to talk about the NFLor something else. Oh no,
no, no, we could focuson the Lakers now, though it's a

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little bit more interesting, Harrison.Do you see just a ton of problems
and maybe Darvin Ham being the biggestof them. Is that unfair because of
what he's done with lineups and rotationsor are there too many variables to really
identify what it is with this Lakersteam that has gone wrong. Yeah,
it's a good question. I wouldhesitate calling him the biggest problem, but

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he is one of I think someof his lineups and some of his even
really less so the lineups, andmore so some of the schematic decisions I
think have been confusing and have heldthis team back and are part of why.
You know, according to all thesereports that he's sort of and you
know, you can watching the gamesand watching the results, you can maybe
see hints of this, like thesereports that he sort of lost some of

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the locker room, all of theyou know, some degree of the locker
room and the confidence of certain players, you know, just the ideas of
sort of going from like the sortof more four out principles that got you
to the Western Conference finals last yearto completely switching the offense after that when
everyone preached continuity, sort of changingup the starters almost immediately. I get

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that Jared Vanderbilt was out with youknow, a with a heel injury to
start the year, but then justsort of never going to that lineup to
when he got back and sort oftrying to make what was working last year
work. I think was something thataccording to reports, like the players were
excited about, and you know,it just it feels like there have been
a lot of confusing decisions, alot of guys roles getting yanked around,

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you know, the first move beingto bench Austin Reeves for Cam Reddish.
You know, I think there's justbeen a lot of up where he just
has pulled the wrong lever with admittedlya flawed roster. Yeah, and they've
had some injury issues as well.It certainly doesn't hurt. I guess the
question, Harrison is if you wereto pull the trigger. And this might
be the reason why Chris Haynes wouldreport that he's received a vote of confidence

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and others have reported this the lastcouple of weeks as well, that he's
not going anywhere, at least notanytime soon. I believe sam amik at
that as well, is because whoare you going to actually get to replace
him? At this point, theydon't have anybody on their bench with any
head coaching experience. Doc Rivers hashad his shaff short falls as a head
coach, and his name pops upall the time because now he's that back
at the announcing booth. I guessis the question is, really, if
you're going to fire a dire DarvinHam, is there's somebody out there who's

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actually going to be better than aguy that took a team that started two
to ten last year and took himto the Western Conference Finals. Yeah,
that's sort of That's sort of oneangle that I'm coming at this with is
that, you know, if you'regoing to elevate someone right now, their
lead assistant is Chris Jient, whois the sort of the ostensibly the offensive
coordinator of this team of an offensethat has been terrible and so like,
is that a guy that you thatthey changed over from last year when it

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was relatively successful? Like, isthat a guy whose ideas you're like,
no, we need to give thisguy more power? They also, you
know, my guess is that itwould actually be feel Handy who would end
up getting sort of rains there.But at the same time, you know,
even if you fire Darvin, likeyou're losing someone with a lot of
NBA experience, whatever you think ofhis decisions this year, and someone with
a lot of experience and insight andbrain power sort of in that room and

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you're not going to be able toreplace that at mid season. So is
sort of having like a mid seasonbrain drain, you know, to elevate
someone with also no experience. Isthat worthwhile? Like, I don't know
the answer. Maybe it is ifyou sort of get the dead cat bounce
a little bit, where it's justlike people are sick of Darvin and they
want a new voice, and maybethat sort of rallies the troops, similar
to the trade deadline moves when theygot rid of another much maligned personality and

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everybody sort of bounced back. ButI, you know, I'm not sure
that there's enough of a benefit thereor that it's enough of a sure thing
that they're going to go to it, And I certainly can't see them doing
it, just simply for the factthat, you know, Genie gave approximate
at least seven thousand interviews this offseasonabout how the you know, talking about,
Oh, Darvin has come in andchanged the culture and we found the

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right head coach, and that wassort of the main thing that we needed
with the right voice in the lockerroom, and this and that, and
I mean they gave him a fiveyear deal. This is year two of
a five year deal. I don'tthink that they're going to pay him,
you know, three and a halfyear salary while hiring someone else. I
just I don't foresee it with thisteam in the way that they've spent brain
drain dead cat Mounce. Harrison Faganis our guest here on the F and

(26:29):
A podcast, and I like someof the phrases and words being thrown around
here. Harrison, how did youfeel this off season with the Lakers moves
and up to the point of thein season tournament, did you feel like,
hey, everything's kind of coming togetherlike they said it would. They
got some continuity because going out oflast year we heard, you know,
we got swept by a team thathad been together for a while. We're

(26:52):
going to try to stick together,build up more continuity. We'll improve internally
that way. But were they alwaysjust missing something? Because to me,
it looks like a roster that istwo one dimensional, where you have guys
that are flawed on one end ofthe court and they can help you on
the other, but they get pickeddown on the other end. How did
you see it? Yeah, Imean they sort of they have a roster

(27:14):
of a lot of guys where ifyou could sort of Frankenstein's Monster combine them,
they would be like one of thebest players in the NBA, you
know, like if you could,like if you could combine Jared Vanderbilt and
Ruey Hachamura, like that's a maxplayer all of a sudden. But like,
they just have a lot of theseguys where it's like almost offense defense
substitutions, and they're they're really reallygood or you know, really really at
least useful, you know in acertain context on one end, and you

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know, sort of a guy thatyou can either completely play off of on
offense or a guy that you cancompletely pick on on defense, like you
said, And you know, Ithink the you know, again going back
to sort of the the continuity partthat you brought up and that I sort
of brought up earlier. You know, there haven't been continuity in terms of
the way that they're doing things.You know, last year they were not
switching everything on defense, so tomake it so easy to pick on Austin

(27:59):
Reeves you know, where he's someonethat again like I like him. I
think he's a good player, buthe is a guy that is a little
slight and needs to probably put ona little bit more muscle, and is
a guy that teams are going totarget on defense. And he has not
really held up all that well.And I don't think that the Lakers have
done a great job of getting himall that much help. And they're really
small sort of in like in thebackcourt area, you know, three through

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one, and so I think alot of those issues are you know,
there's maybe more flaws than we've realized. And I also think that maybe,
you know, everyone was talking aboutwith the n Season Tournament this year,
like, oh, you know,it's five hundred k really going to be
enough to motivate NBA players. I'mhere to tell you as someone who watched
the Lakers in the n Season Tournamentgames versus every other game this season five
hundred k. You know, ifthe if the league offered players an extra

(28:45):
five hundred k like every eight gamesor whatever, I think that we would
go back to, you know,like the viewership heights of the nineties and
you know, like early two thousands, like it was just unbelievable how much
the switch flipped for guys that aremaking millions of dollars to get that little
bit of you knows. D'angela Russellcalled it, you know, maybe two
expra vacations. Harrison look at theLakers and the bigger issue with their struggles

(29:07):
are One of the big issues withtheir struggles is the fact that they've had
Lebron James and Ad available. Ithink they've played what there's been thirty nine
games I think the Lakers have playedthis season. I think Lebron's played in
thirty five and Eighty's played like inthirty seven or thirty six, something like
that, and you're still performing thispoorly. I think that's kind of the
glaring issue because you're you're waiting andI don't We're obviously not willingness to happen,
but we just know the history.Lebron James's spectacular as he's been this

(29:30):
year, likely going to get bangedup at some point in time. And
Anthony Davis has actually played through injuriesa couple of times this year and has
played at a supremely high level.It has to be even more disappointing that
those guys can play as well asthey're playing, and the team still sits
at a game under five hundred rightnow. I think that's a big part
of the reason why I think thevibe is down is those guys are,
like Ad is playing at some ofthe best basketball of his career. I

(29:52):
don't know if I'm willing to saythat it was better than the twenty twenty
title year or whatever, Like Ithought that he was, you know,
just you equally effective and underrated sortof in a way during that year.
But like he's been up there,especially with his offensive production this season,
and Lebron has looked mostly great,you know, like there are some nights
where he's he doesn't really have itdefensively and stuff like that, as you'd

(30:14):
expect for a guy at his age, but you know, he is still
putting up unbelievably of efficient offensive production. And the fact that they are having
these guys sort of like you said, like they can't point to the excuse
of, oh, you know,once we get like sort of one of
our starts, yeah, you know, yeah, we're we're you know,
our record is this, but like, hey, you know, once we
have Lebron for more than half ourgames, We're going to be fine and
stuff like that. It's like youhave that you've had a D for more

(30:37):
games than I think you reasonably couldhave expected based on history to this point
in his career. And you know, again, like you said, like
maybe this is the outlier year ofall outlier years, and these two guys,
you know, based on their recenthistory, they just avoid Nixon Knax
throughout the entire year. But thatseems unlikely to me. It does seem
that, you know, at thevery least, again not willing something to
happen. Knock on some wood,you know, if you're listening to this

(30:57):
and you're a Laker fan, Butlike, at some point one of these
guys, even if it's a minorinjury, is going to miss a week
or two. Like that's just whatthe sort of historical trends tell us.
And this team, especially if AD, I think they could survive a Lebron
absence a little bit more than theycould in a D one. A D
just is the only reason that theirdefense is anywhere near effective on any night.

(31:18):
And you know, the downgrade fromyou know, like uh, from
like going from like Ad to JacksonHayes, is you know I was trying
to think of an analogy here,but you know, I really don't have.
It would be like it would belike if I did Stephen A.
Smith's podcast or something, you knowfor a day, like how confused the
audience would be. That's about bitch, I don't get it. Yeah,

(31:45):
I think you know, like Icould not get away with that stuff as
well. I would not be astalented at it. And that's sort of
you know, the ad to JacksonHayes, you know, downgrade talking about
the Jackson Hayes thing. Sorry,and I don't mean to cut you all,
Harrison, but it's something we talkedabout Edam and I did in the
off seas and and how roster construction, and we talked about Christian Wood and
before before he got hurt last nightor at the Migraine and didn't play even

(32:06):
playing well offensively. But if theywere going to go back to this twenty
twenty model of how they were ableto win and really dominate teams on the
glass and defensively, why they didn'treally go after someone like a JaVale McGee
or a Bismack Byambo, who Iguess now was available again if they wanted
them to someone like that, youknow, who can actually be kind of
a bruiser in the middle next toAnthony Davis. Yeah, Anthony Davis can

(32:27):
play center when necessary and then theclutchist of moments. But if you're going
to struggle this way offensively, themost important thing for you is possessions.
And they're getting out rebounded almost everysingle night, and they just don't have
enough quality size next to Ad,And you wonder why they didn't go after
another, you know, physical typeof center, a bigger center, rather
than trying to go small and haveAd play the five. Yeah, with
Ad at the five, you know, especially with this team and how small

(32:49):
they are in the back court,Like, he can plug a lot of
holes. He can make up alot of ground and sort of close some
gaps or whatever, but it doesn'tmake He's like a Looney Tunes character that's
trying to like close up all theholes on a sinking shit with all their
fingers or whatever, and just newleaks keep sprouting. It's just like that
is sort of what he can't.He can't make up for everything. You
can't put the entire defense on him. And one of the things that playing
him at sort of you know,pseudo the four allows you to do as

(33:13):
you saw during their playoff run lastyear when they had Rue guard a lot
of centers, they had Lebron doplay some center defense and just sort of
hold up physically and keep those guysfrom the basket. Is it unleashes a
d as a week side shot blocker, as a rebounder, and it sort
of makes your defense as good asit can be. And so I mean
my question, then you know,if they really wanted to go back to
that model and they saw that thatcan be effective, is why they signed

(33:35):
a guy, you know in JacksonHayes, who really isn't all that good
at being tall and you know,just like terrible, terrible rebounder for a
big guy, has some of Ithink like the lowest basketball IQ I've ever
seen from a center prospect with thismuch athleticism. I just you know,
he committed I think like four thousand, four minutes last night on National TV,
which is about the Jackson Hayes experiences, Like Lebron's booth feeds him a

(33:57):
couple of dunks, but then heslaps someone on the end to give them,
you know, uh, to givethem like free points. You know,
and give it all back up,and it's just, yeah, he's
you know, they should have signedsomeone who is actually good at basketball instead
of sort of like a you know, another attempt at like a young player
that was drafted, high reclamation project. Yeah, good athlete, not a

(34:20):
great basketball player. So he hasan incredible athlete and like you see some
of his utility when Lebron is sortof you know, Reggie Miller was highlighting
it last night, spoon feeding himbaskets. But that's about all he can
do. It's like he's a prettygood lob threat and that's about it.
I mean, if Reggie Miller canfigure out how to use him, you
guys got to figure something out ofit. Reggie Miller's looking good. We

(34:40):
found the new head coach, ReggieMiller. There you go. So,
what's the most realistic trade for thisLakers team? Because Dejonte Murray's name has
been thrown out there. Chris Hayestalked about him in his article does that
cure? What ails them? Isthat the guy that's going to turn this
season around? You know, Iknow, Frankly, at this point,
I don't know that any trade completelyturns the season around. I do think

(35:05):
that that would probably make them betterdepending on what they were giving up.
You know, it sounds like itwould likely be like Austin Reeves would have
to be involved there, and thenyou sort of, you know, from
there, you're building out the contractsand sort of trying to make that work.
You know, maybe you know,we're talking about centers. Whatever,
if you can get you know,de Jonte Murray and you can get Clint
Capella in that deal, a guywho the Hawks have tried to move but
doesn't have a lot of trade valuebecause a lot of teams are committed to

(35:27):
centers. Maybe you know, aClint Capella sort of allows Ad to play
his more natural role, even thoughhe'd be maybe a little overpaid for that
sort of bit role, you know, if the Lakers were to put him
in it. But you know,maybe something like that helps. I still
think that, you know, ifthey're going to make like a big blockbuster
move, to me, the onethat still seems the most likely is zach
Lavine, just because it basically seemslike you could like have him for free,
and so you know, the sortof whatever is going to cost the

(35:51):
Leaf to upgrade the roster because Idon't think that they want to send out
a bunch of picks, you know, I think it's the one they're most
likely to go with, even withthe salary commitment injury history that he has
for the next couple of years.Do you think that's a risk the Lakers
will be willing to take, evenif they don't have to get like you
have to give up something because hejust makes so much money, there's gonna
be assets going out. Yeah,they might not be draft picks, but
you're taking you on a calculator riskby bringing someone like that in knowing he

(36:14):
has two full years committed or atleast one guarantee year and another one where
I know he has a player offfand he's likely going to pick up.
Yeah. I'm I'm not even thatbig of a fan of zach Lavine,
but for me, it's like,you know, if the cost is like,
like, I don't know what thepicks would be, I don't The
Lakers are certainly not attaching twenty twentynine to that, But from my understanding,
I think you could make the mathwork with just Delo and Ruey Hachimura,

(36:34):
who, like Ruy, has barelyplayed this year. You know,
and d LOO is you know,the upgrade from you know, again,
I'm I'm probably a bigger fan ofDLO than most of the basketball Internet or
whatever. But the upgrade from DLOto Zack Lavine is huge, you know,
in terms of your offense. Andmaybe he doesn't bring all of the
sort of the playmaking and passing thatDLO does, but certainly gives them a
much much better, you know,supplementary scorer than anyone that they've had.

(36:57):
And you know, I've sort ofagain as someone who's not even that big
on Zach Lavine, and I thinkthe contract is bad, like I for
me, it's just you'd be givingup sort of so little that I'm sort
of talking myself into it that youknow, hey, if you're going to
go all in, I think theonly reason not to do it is that
if you can just wait out thisseason, then you can have like two
to three picks available on draft nightto maybe trade for someone better. And

(37:20):
I think that that is maybe morelikely what they're going to do, you
know, and try to sort ofmaintain you know, salary Dallas and you
know, positioning for something like that, and then one more before we let
you run here because you brought upto Jontay Murray, so we know that
a sticky point for the Lakers andall these trade sogs has been Austin Reeves.
As you mentioned, if in someworld they're able to potentially acquire both
Clint Coppella, which would fill aneed, and to Jontay Murray, who's

(37:44):
a certain degree, would fill theneed as well, but it would take
them trading Austin Reeves. One isthat something that you would do? And
two do you think that's something thatthey would consider doing? Oh? Man,
now you're putting me on the hotspeed. I will answer to the
second one. First, I thinkI think they would do it. I'm
not sure, but I think,you know, if it was that you
know, I think and think continueto go like this, I think they

(38:06):
would heavily consider it at the veryleast. But again, like, I
don't think that they're in a rushto move on from Austin, but I
do think that like the idea thathe's untouchable, to me, like it
just doesn't hold water. And youknow, again, he's had like sort
of you know, a down year, and I think that he's better than
he's shown, but he has alsoI think shown some blows, and I
think that teams have sort of figuredsome things out with him, And I

(38:29):
think the Blakers have made it easierthis year to pick on him in ways
that they weren't able to previously.And so you know, I mean,
I in my heart, my heartis saying no. But like you know,
part of me is like, Imean, that does sort of make
some sense, but I really wouldnot want to do that, and it
frankly makes me sick. Maybe youneed a heart drain, forget the brain
drain. He's too cute. Youcan't send out Austin Reeves. You can't

(38:52):
lose it. Yeah, but youlovable. I'm sorry I can't. Like,
I know he's he's like, he'sgood at basketball. He's a homegrown
success story. Like I think thereis a version between like sort of the
only offense sort of player that hewas last year and sort of the do
it all every man whatever. LikeI think that he's going to find sort
of the right balance in his gameif given the right amount of time.
But yeah, I mean that mightjust be me believing based on history of

(39:15):
seeing him adapt to sort of somany different lineups and things like that before
he's him. He's just shooting thirtythree percent from three now. Harrison Fagan
has been our guest from SB Nationagain. Follow him on x at H
M. Fagan f A I GE N. Harrison, thanks for doing
this once again on the F andA podcast. And sorry about the Lakers

(39:36):
and all the strife they're causing.He's sorry, Harrison. I'm just saying,
if they go on like an eightgame win streak after this, I
better be invited back on because thisis unbelievable that I just keep getting brought
on when it's like, oh,Lakers dysfunction. We're going to Harrison Fagan.
Let's see, they're in Utah,they're playing well. Then they got
the OKC thunder than the Dallas Mavericks. I don't know if that h unlikely.

(39:57):
Okay, thunder only one sixte Ithunder only one by sixty last night.
All right, the Lakers, theygot them right where they want him.
Thank you, Harrison, appreciate it. Man, you're over confident,
all right, I have a goodone guy. Alright, go ahead before
we sign off here, what Iknow what you want to do. I
want to gloat about the Clippers,So go on. I mean, I
already mentioned them beating the Suns bytwenty seven. Hey, they've lost to

(40:17):
the Lakers twice. That's their achillesheel now. But the freeze is the
reason why they lost them the lasttime though, right, Well, don't
get me started to my East CoastNorth team in the Toronto Raptors, your
East Coast North team, I'm I'ma Toronto Raptors supporter. Now to them
in the fourth quarter, Darko issupposed to be. I was getting two

(40:42):
thousand and two Sacramento Kings flashbacks.I watched that fourth quarter. I was
texting the buddy, they're getting jobbedright now. What is happening to the
Toronto Raptors is ridiculous. If onlyTwitter had been around when the Lakers got
twenty seven free throws in Game sixof the two thousand to Western Conference Finals
to extend that series. You guysdon't even know. I mean, that

(41:04):
was just a regular season game againsta bad, well least record wise,
Toronto Raptors team. It was almostmeaningless. But no one talks about Shack
shooting one free throw in Game fivein Sacramento. But I digress. Yeah,
well found out like like you shouldhave for once in the fourth quarter.
You played the entire game and Shawone free throw. I'm okay with
that now, of course he's okaywith that. He's want to be at

(41:24):
the free throw line. All right, it's not the point. Revision is
history to Harrison. Bring you gotsomething that's a thing that was on your
chest. You want to get offyour chest before we check out? Yeah,
you want to praise my clippers thatthey have one twenty one up twenty
seven. You want to talk aboutthe great Saints playoff run coming up?
Oh, that's harsh. That isso hard. Come up a Raider fan.

(41:45):
I don't even know what the Ican't spell playoffs. So you have
a super Bowl, You've won asuper Bowl in your lifetime. I didn't
say that harsh. Actually, Ido kind of want your It's a super
quick input on something. So theLions are playing the Rams this weekend,
right, So my initial kind ofresponse here is fuck the Rams. Right,
it's pretty strong, But sorry,why what the Rams do the same?

(42:09):
I don't care they were still involvedanyways. No, No, I
mean a lot of Raider fans doat the Patriots for the tuck. They
had nothing to do with the Inever did, to be honest with you,
I just thought they were annoying becausethey won all the time. No,
okay, so this is my issue. So Jared Goff is on the
Lions. Jared Goff was the quarterbackon the You know the rail your accurate,

(42:30):
This is an accurate statement. MatthewStafford on the lines. Matthew Stafford,
Matthew Stafford and CLAYT. Kirshall playbaseball together. By the way,
Adam, I wasn't sure if thisis crazy. So this is kind of
my issue. Like I'm kind ofstuck. I don't know what to do,
Like I don't know who I'm kindof rooting for because I kind of
hate both of them. You hateStafford and you hate no No. I

(42:50):
hate the Rams as a team,as an organization, and as everything that
they stand for. Motherfucking crew.Yeah, you hit him up there and
everything that they stand for as anorganization and stand for two pack and stand
Krock. You might not be themost charismatic guy. And I've done a
lot of things in the Inglewood communityand built the principle of the matter that

(43:12):
I will never move on from thatkind of like the Vikings, like fuck
the Vikings. So it's how aboutthe Panthers? Though, Yeah, fuck
the Panthers. You guys couldn't beatthe Bucks on Sunday. I needed one
thing. She literally threw up amiddle finger in Adam's face, which she
said, fuck the Panthers. Thatwas pretty good. I was the most
aggressive I've ever seen bre I likeit. That's all right, those aren't
my panthers. How any more ofthat, you know? And he bugged

(43:34):
me for the first like six weeksof the season. Would ever bug you?
I know? And I was like, you're some fucking casual, but
you're paying attention to the Saints andthe Panthers. You I'm an expert on
the Saints. Anyways. So,like I said, I'm struggling here because
I hate Jared Goff. Like hedid have a commercial where he said Brianna.
The word Brianna, he said itcorrectly, So I don't know,

(43:55):
I'm kind of loving him right now. He doesn't know it's Brianna, just
kidding. So so anyway, so, like I said, so, I
don't know what but I'm doing here. I think I have Jared Goff from
twenty nineteen. I do because ofwhat he said that they had a chance.
That's what that was his quote.They had a chance. The Saints
had a chance because of the missedpass. Fear its blatantly misscall that screwed

(44:17):
over the Saints in the NFC.Change your weekend now. It was not
inaccurate to say that the Saints hada chance. They did get the ball
first in overtime. You can arguewhether we should have gotten to that point,
and obviously you should not have.So Joff was not necessarily wrong in
his assessment that the Saints had theball first and still could have scored,
and they did not. I believethey went three and out. Did you

(44:37):
just voice to text, have agood weekend on the show? Us like
meeting. You're in a fucking meetingright now. I was in a meeting.
It's a meeting of the minds aboutyour Saints. Like I said,
you guys, I'm struggling here.So they that is what I want to
boll to lose. Well, Iknow that's not very realistic, but it's

(45:00):
there are no ties, it's notvery realistic. So what I'm kind of
thinking is, unfortunately I will haveto be rooting for the Lions, and
that it's just something I've never haveseen myself do in my life. Why
not root for Rodney Pete's old team, and why would you ever root against
the Lions? And Lions are likeAmerica's team. They suck. They sucked
our entire lives. They don't wanta playoff game since ninety one. Yes,

(45:22):
Eric Kramer, Rodney's former teammate.Rodney story story like very very exciting,
like Cinderella all that crap. Butit's just the principle of the matter
that I just want the Rams tolose in the worst way possible. I
want karma to continue on for therest of their lives. So you want
a bad pass interfearite play to notbe called or for them to have to

(45:42):
wear it, or you want adefensive back to so poorly misplay a ball
that a receiver cadjutator and runs itin for a touchdown to win the game
and go to the NFC Championship game, like Marcus Williams against us Stefon Diggs
back in the day. Just incase you forgot, I've just thought to
point out the specifics of the play. You know, that's all Ristaphon Diggs
crying afterwards. It was a veryemotional scene. It was a miracle.

(46:04):
I think Bree was crying as well. No way you slept after that.
I did. I felt I waslike, I can't, I can't do
this that one Viking fan after themissed field goal, I was in a
depression. I understand. I wasin a very deep depression after the Viking.
Yeah, that was Minneapolis miracle anyway. So does that sound right to
what I'm doing? What do youthink You're not doing anything? No,

(46:27):
you're just as far as we arerooting against this weekend. What I'm rooting
for and what I'm kind of rootingagain, we didn't get anywhere. You
couldn't figure out. I've decided I'mrooting for the stupid ass Lions, right
because stupid as lines, because theRams more. Yeah. So that's so
you hate the Rams more than youhate Jared Golf, is what you're saying.
Yeah, I think I have madethat decision. I've made. So

(46:51):
does that sound right? Yeah?I mean you got nothing else to root
for? Yeah, it seems somewhatjustifiable. I just root for good games
all week and long. That's allI care about, because yeah, he's
a good NFL like you. Myteam he's the best team to win exactly.
He's where the Rob Low NFL unlessthe best team, unless it's the
Kansas City Chiefs, anybody else.I'm all for Daniel. I also love

(47:12):
him, but he's not gonna Ilike him. Not a lot of confidence
in Mike I don't. I don'tis because he's like rapping while he's talking
to the players bither warming up.Did you guys see the in season hard
Knocks. I'm I've not seen anepisode the NFL Casual. I couldn't have
seen it. Yeah, no,it's just gonna be too saw the in
season Saints season? Oh my gosh. Well, yeah, he didn't see

(47:35):
the Panthers because apparently he tuned downafter the first half of the first quarter.
Yeah, I saved myself. Wesaw a lot of aggravation. I
figured it out. Game one seasonwas over, eras over. We're the
Lions. Now. Watch when Harbaughgoes because of Carolina and Bryce Young plays
like an All Pro. There's analternate universe where he should have went to
Carolina like seven years ago with AndrewLuck and we would have won a super

(47:57):
Bowl. But no, okay,they both had to stay at Stanford.
A little while longer pisses me off. Bro all right, all right,
Jeff Kent pisses me off Obama takinghalf of it anyways. Sorry, that's
an old Jeff Kent on Survivor clip, But you have that in there somewhere.
I think I took one of thefew of the nine hundred soundbites that,

(48:22):
for some reason I took out JeffKent being upset with the fact that
the million dollar winner on Survivor isonly gonna get like six hundred grand after
Obama gets just what you say,after you know you're gonna you're not gonna
win. He's like, you know, I don't want to win anyway.
You know what, after Obama getshis hands on it doesn't matter. I'm

(48:42):
a World Series Game seven loser.That was part of the quote from him
after he got kicked off the island. Jeff probes, it's a great player
though, sent his ass home theHall of Fame, asshole. Depending on
who you talk to too, Inever had any personal experienced who the Jews
said he's nice. I thought it'suniversal. Okay, I don't know.
You know, Joe McDonald always saidthat Barry Bonds was nice to him.

(49:05):
I was like, I was like, oh, Joe, you're the one.
Huh, all right, I'll takeyour word. I'll take your word
for it. The late Great's bignasty. Yeah, thank you guys for
listening to the show. It's beenfun. And Bree came in and gave
her thoughts and yelled at the ramsand lions and all that first show twenty
twenty four. Why because I gotsick again for the second time in a

(49:29):
month. Why is that? So? It's on white and weak? So
I was I wondered if you hadif it was the same illness. I
was like, there's no way someoneis sick for three straight weeks. It
was like an upper respiratory or whateveryou had working. I was like,
milk it like that. It's like, did he get sick? I wasn't
saying you were milking anything. Iwas like, were you legitimately sick for
basically a month straight? And Iwas like, he literally rode from one

(49:50):
virus or whatever to another. Idid. That's insane. I went from
what may have been COVID or somethingyeah, or the flu to just the
standard head cold for someone who hasas hell conscious as Adam is. No,
no, no disrespect to you.I don't know anybody who has a
worse immune system, Like six weekolds have stronger immune systems than Adam does.

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Like it's fair, It's insane,it really is. I'm gonna I'm
gonna catch the black plague that Ithink it does not exist. Yeah,
I'm gonna catch stuff that was supposedto be stamped out. I don't know
why I take on my vitamins.I inject myself with stuff now doesn't matter.
My immune system is a week.You need to get some IV hydration.

(50:37):
Maybe I should get tested for thehip or something. It's that weak,
Like well, I don't know.Yes, it couldn't hurt. Why
not? Better to be safe thansorry? I guess right. Geez well
man, No, thank you guysfor listening again to start to Troy Way
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show also a fine show on Instagramand Facebook. Thanks to Harrison Fagan for
joining us. Basically Peter for thevoicemail. Nine four nine four seven eight
eleven ninety seven is the phone numberfor the TACASS hotline. Thanks to k
fag for breaking down the NFL.Yeah, thanks to Breeve for whatever,

(51:20):
talking about Austin Peves whatever. Breakingdown who's the hottest guy in sports?
Actually felt like I was. Okay. So let's say Prime Austin Reeves and
Prime Kover Kyle Korver both though outof a boat and they can only have
two people you and one of themthat you can save. Austin Reeves is

(51:43):
at the bottom. Is it ofthe Pacific? Right now? Wow?
Look at you? And you knowwhat Chris Taylor in there too, pre
marriage, Chris Taylor, pre children, Chris Taylor. She puts cement shoes
on him and Austin Reeves before shelet Kyle Korver drown. I'm disgustingly loyal.
Unfortunately, Oh now, if it'sKyle Korver today, he looks like

(52:09):
which is why I stay at Primeby the way Eel and the sea that's
under the sea. I would haveto, unfortunately go Kyle Korver. But
Austin Reeves is a close second.If I could just kind of throw him
on a door like Titanic and justhave him kind of like do just have
him float there for me? Youknow, when I get bored to Kyle

(52:29):
Korver, and then I you,wow, well that loyal, that loyals
He last all about twelve seconds becausewhen I get bored with Kyle Korver and
now I'll just cycle through and bringin somebody else. And then I'll bring
in somebody else. That's how Isty guys. Unfortunately, Wow, Out
with the old, in with thenew. You're all replaceable, Yes,
so well. Happy Happy New Yearto YouTube Bree. Thanks guys, Happy

(52:52):
New Year. Hope everybody had alovely and safe holiday. Bree just lives
out Hot or Not dot com inreal life. Yes, yay, nay.
Thank you guys for listening again.We appreciate the support. You guys,
have a good weekend and we'll talkto you next week on another edition
of the f m A Podcast.Today night, I almost killed myself in

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Lexus now hollowed you. Hello,Holo, Hollo hollodo, Hello, Hello, Hello