NBA Finals Review/KD Trade/Where will Jalen Ramsey Go?

We talk about the NBA Finals and the NBA's small market problem. We also talk about the KD trade to Houston Rockets. Was a good or bad trade for the Rockets? And where should Jalen Ramsey go?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Mic and Ant Show.
I'm my admissed. This is my co host, Inspected Aunt.
How you doing, my brother, I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good, doing great, doing great, doing good, just chilling after
the next NBA playoffs. Playoffs are over.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, well, let's dive right in. How you feeling about
the NBA Finals?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I think it is. I thought it was a great series. Unfortunately,
not too many people watched it, as it was the
lowest rated finals in history. But I think all that
called it yeah, but I think for the people who
decided not to watch it, they missed a great series.
As far as the agents are concern I know people

(01:02):
want to blame like too small market because it was
two small market teams, But to me, I think ESPN
was part of the problem too that they watching every
single game, but they never really made the finals this
year like feel special. Like a lot of the games
just felt like regular season games, but they didn't really.
I feel like ESPN did a bad job of like
hyping up the finals this year. I think that's part

(01:25):
of the reason why the ratings were so low. But overall,
that was a great series. It's kind of anti colmactic
I think, okay, see, it was gonna win as soon
as tallen Burger went down in the first quarter, and
that was sad to see. I hate you.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
I did say, okay, seeing seven called I hate to
see the injury, but I mean, don't I don't know
if he would have changed the results. Definitely would have
changed the score for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
He came out, he scored several of their first score
teen points before he got hurt. I think he like
three from four for three, so it looks like he's
gonna have one of those games, and it's unfortunately. I
hear you.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I still stick with Thunder would have took it, but
it definitely would have been a more interesting game.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Seven had a here you know.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, I guess we'll dive right into I think the
NBA money did a bad job in general this whole
year promoting themselves. Whether it was like bouncing around from
different networks, maybe they just didn't, you know, maybe put
them out right, or the same amount of money into
marketing this year, or they just you're right, is it not?

(02:39):
It didn't feel the same as it typically does. The
NBA Finals just usually feels bigger than it did this year.
I don't I don't blame the smaller market teams because
I feel like that's something we should be blaming the
NBA for. They can't blame for being small market teams.
It's y'all fault, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Voting and losto too. Like uh, the commissioner, Adam Silver,
he was trying to blame uh streaming. I thought that
was the mess excuse because like, no, strimer was around
nasty year and the ringers are high, so you can't
blame streaming before. I was a little this year, that's all,
Like striming just came out, you know, she just started
this year. No Sudn's been a thing up for the

(03:21):
last like five six, seven years, so I thought that
was the name excuse too. I think, well, I think
another one of the big things is.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
And I think this happens with a with a few
sports right now, and I'm sure behind scenes this is
something they they know about and they take this into account.
But I feel like a lot of people that look
at it for face value from the outside don't really
look at it. It's like before say the game was,

(03:54):
say it's on TNT, so you you know you got
to watch it on TN t That means every everybody
has to go to TNT to watch it. Right now,
you probably got five channels you could go to, so
the ratings could be down on one. Will probably never
know what the streaming ones were, you know, similar to
kind of like the aw situation.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I was gonna say, because the NBA, they're not like
the NFL. The NFL, they'll release those numbers of the
NFL tell you like, yeah, we have twenty five million
Mombas watching the sh on Netflix. Yeah. No, the NBA
they don't. They don't use this. It is probably not
as high as the NFL, for sure.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
But I think if they, you know, if they totalied
everything together, the ratings probably wouldn't be much slower. If
they're still lower versus you know, just kind of seeing
like the cable results or one network that drops them
and it's like, oh, they're in the mud. It's like
they're on five channels now, Bro, there's there's more ratings
the other where where they're looking at besides just the

(04:52):
one you're looking at. So, I mean, and as far
as small market teams that's on the league, I can't,
I can't. You can't y'all been y'all been ripping their
stars from these teams for years, not them two teams specifically,
but just in general.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, in general, every year, every year, you know, every
off season, we got to hear about how you know,
Joanni needs to leave Milwaukee wants to win another championship.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
That's you see what I'm saying. Yeah, that's that's what
I mean exactly. I mean, it's it's a little a
little ridiculous. So they need to they need to put
more emphasis. They should love what happened this year because
they need to put more emphasis on getting a lot
better teams than your typical like four to eight, you
know what I mean, Like these these small market teams

(05:37):
should be competing.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well, not just not just that, but also do a
better job like promoting the players. You know, the two
best players in the series was a Ship s g
ag okay see and then uh Haliberta for Indiana. But
like a hard basketball, I feel like most of them

(06:02):
know who those two people are. One of them. Yeah,
and now our team people know who he is. So
I mean that's the NBA's fall too, because I they
they're stuck in the whole, Like we got to promote
Lebron Stephen k D. I mean, yeah, they're still play
at a high level despite their older age. But at
the same time, but you gotta hype up the younger generation.

(06:24):
I started of like, maybe Anthony Edwards, I don't really
see the next generation.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
And you want me to tell you the funny part,
And like, the the whole funny part about this situation
too is and it goes back to what you know
what that what The NBA likes to get stars off
of teams, and sometimes they missed, like when they don't
look at SGA like a rising star and they give
him away with the house to bring in Paul George

(06:53):
and then SGA is the one that goes and wins
the championship. Sometimes the NBA gets it wrong. They didn't
for us to hear it.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yes, they that just wasn't a large market because he
played for the Clippers. You feel me. But but had they.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Had they thought he was gonna be m v P material,
they wouldn't have been part of that package.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Sometimes Clippers are thinking like, Okay, we're one player away
from winning the championship, so they make the trade, not
realizing you had you had Actually, yeah, it's funny too.
You mentioned because they said that both teams that made
the finals, they made the finals building their roster off
of trilling Paul George, both Indiana and Oklahoma, but they

(07:37):
used the draft picks from trigging Paul George to build
their roster. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Sometimes the same thing with Halla Burnt and the Kings
gave up on him.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean some of it's like, yeah, in the end,
they used the draft picks they got from the Paul
George trade to give the secondmental to get Halliburton.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, some of these some of these teams don't like
to develop young talent and they pay for them the
long run. And and some some of these teams, like
if you just look what both of these teams did
and making it to the final this year, I think
it has a lot of these teams like That's why
I was surprised that the Rockets made that move. We'll

(08:16):
get into it a little bit later, but that's why
I was surprised because I think after watching how these
teams was constructed both around young players and picks and
winning ultimately winning or making a championship, I would think
that it would have kind of stirred teams away from
giving that up for another agent player, but the Rockets

(08:37):
jumped right out the window.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
The next day.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
So but before before we get to that, because I
don't I don't want to leave Halliburton. We know that
he has hopefully he was up pick. I believe it
was an Achilles injury, right, yeah, towards Achilles, which it's it's we.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Talked about this last week because you heard his calf
was a cap. It's typically a st I ain't Yeah, yeah,
Kellyes is in danger and we were talking about last
week how KD had the same injury in the twenty
nineteen finals and uh, that ship just gave out on
him Inainst. Toronto. Yeah, and uh, but it's just suk
for Halliburts, Like it's Game sevening and probably the biggest

(09:17):
game of his career and him to co out like that,
and it's like it's like Patrick Mahomes or somebody like
tearing the culls in the first quarter of the Super
Bowl and he just you took the air out of
the whole the whole game. It was that happened with Odell.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, yeah, not in the Achilles, but Ode was looking
like you could be the MVP. He still helped us
get that ring though, even though he said he'd give
it back to get one in New York. You no
longer ran my brother spull that out there, but not
just Halliburton with the Achilles. And I'm just joking about

(09:57):
Odell all jokes, you know, that's that's that's how brother.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
But as a giant, yeah he does. Or maybe he
was just lying for the views. Who knows.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
He might have called and apologized the McVeigh right after, like, bro,
you know.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
I just have to say that it is what it is.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
But Tatum also I believe ripped his Achilles towards Achilles. Yeah,
and I'm not off the top of what about Lily?
Was that an Achilles as well?

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Was chi to Dave Lillard? But all right, so with
that being said, we have an ironically all three places
where the number zero. I know it's bad, yeah for
the number zero.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
But with that being said, I say that to say this,
there's a lot of people online saying that the NBA
should shortened, maybe short in the season or at least
short in the playoffs. I do want to hate your
thoughts on that aspect of it. And if you think
that's contributing to the injuries.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, so I heard that too. I disagree with shortened
the season BECAU. They're gonna play eighty two games, going
all the way back to the nineteen forties and uh
so to me, like the players back then could play
all eighty two games and so and I get hurt.
I don't see why players that today can't. But I

(11:13):
do agree though with them shortening the playoffs because you know,
back when we were growing up, the first round was
the best at of five. I think the NBA maybe
the best out of seven. I want to say, in
four or five someone run there. Yeah, and I don't
know why they did that, but money, money, more money.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, but maybe if they if they go back so
you know, the first round being best at the five
and you know, the a few games because like you know,
maybe those extra one or two games that they have
to play in the first round, especially as you get
deeper in the playoffs, that could help.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Them and maybe won't see so many injuries. But I
think another thing that people are not talking about those
maybe especially this young generation in the first generation really
to come up with the AA come up in AAU circuit.
So know, from the time they're like, you know, seven,
eight years old, they're playing in all these different tournaments.

(12:11):
Then they've got high school basketball, college. So maybe just know,
the AAU circuit is too much wear and tell on
the bodies, and that's why you've seen you know, people
in there, you know, early twenties, you know, tearing their chimneys.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, I mean it does feel like there's been a
lot more injuries as of late. I don't think those
a couple of games shouldn't matter as much as they are, right,
it probably should be five games all throughout the whole
playoffs until you get to the finals, just to make
them all you know, more exciting. But the problem would
be with then, you know, there would be complaints that

(12:48):
the series ain't long enough. It's like one of those
shame if you do, shame if you don't type of things.
I guess one of the things that maybe they should
even probably look into more. And I know a lot
of like there's probably a lot of logistics and things
you would have to look into this starting with other
you know, other leagues and things starting of that nature.

(13:09):
But they might just need more time in between games.
They might need less practices. There's like I feel like
there's there's other ways you should be able to do it,
you know, like space, the games out a little bit
shortened practices maybe you know less these are these are professionals.
I know they got to know systems and schemes and stuff,

(13:29):
but I mean maybe they're getting a little overwork that
practice too.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
And then then also I think that.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
With with all the like new performing stuff and new
you know, workouts and new every as the world turns,
I think some of them is just pushing their body
to the limit and some of times it just hits
that brink it snaps, you know. So I don't know
if back in the days and not saying they wasn't
working out because you know, there's people like Jordan that

(13:59):
you heard his story, But I mean as far as
like actual training, like some of these kids are doing
crazy stuff right now, you know, so that that could be.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
A factor into it as well.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
But they definitely need to do something because I'd say
injuries definitely are just more in abundance right now, and
they're more severe injuries.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well yeah, and it's not just NBA too, every sport
you know, yeah, Baseball, you're seeing more and more people
get hurt football too. Now, football it's the opposite of
what you've said, is that they feel like the fact
that they have shortened practices is the reason why players
are getting hurt. For baseball, I heard they're blaming the

(14:46):
whole aau thing too for baseball. But you have these
kids at eight nine years old throwing one hundred miles
per hour and then by the time they hit twenty
five that the arm just gives out.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, I think I think football that that's that's a
good point with the kids with baseball and you know,
kind of making sure you don't overwork that. With the football,
I do believe practice is more important because it's the
it's your body just getting used to being hit more.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
You know.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Like so if, for example, when I was playing football,
if you know, you practice all throughout the week, you
have a game on Sunday, it doesn't feel the same
as if you just skip practice all week and then
you get licked that first time in the game.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
It's like, damn, that wasn't easy.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, So football, just because it's contact, I would agree
with it. Basketball, I feel like there's like stretches and
calisthetics that you could do that's kind of keep your
eye as long as you're not doing anything crazy because
it's not as physical of a sport.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
You know, that's more for cardio sport. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
I mean unless you're down low and you're and you
was going to get shock or something.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
But there's not really nobody. Yeah yeah, because like Hungry
would have dominated last night and sheds the league. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Well, I mean if you if you if you're going
against Draymond, you might you might still need to need
to do figure.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
A few things out.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
So I guess there's there's a few of those players,
but nobody's dominating, like shocking them. I guess my vote
would be short in at least one of the playoffs series.
But but I honestly don't believe that would do that much.
Like I don't think that that's the problem is. I
think it's like just a collection of things.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, I agree, I agree with you. I agree with
your point. I think people are just wanted to shorten
the first round, is what they're saying, because, like I said,
back in the day, the first round was the best
at of five. Then about twenty years ago they made
everything best at a seven, and so people are saying,
maybe short in the first round, go back to the
best at a five. But I agree with you too,

(16:59):
though I don't know if that really changed much because
if you look at like how word for example, in
the end of the beating the waking in the first
round in five games, Yeah, so I think maybe the
only difference is that based on the older rules of
the you know, back in the day, instead of you know,
having to play the extra game, they probably would have

(17:20):
won the series three games to one instead of four games.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, but I look at it like this, right in
this un fortunate to say, you know, they're gonna look
at bottom line.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
So this, this is what it comes down to, in.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
My opinion, how the NBA would look at it, right,
say two and not how the any of those first
series go seven games, but just say the potential of it, right,
so two for just say a couple of handfuls of games, right,

(17:55):
I guess the bottom line would come down to do
they see any definitive proof that these these first round
games are causing injuries versus how much money they're making,
because say, just figuratively speaking, they make five billion dollars
amongst ten games if it goes past you know, five

(18:17):
games or whatever, right, and they don't see any definitive
proof that these two games are changing anything.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
They're not getting rid of them.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's a bottom line thing because you got to remember
partners on TV. There's there's a lot of things that
factor into it that's not just them now. So if
they're shaving five billion dollars, where's it coming from?

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Now? See what I'm saying, and.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
That that's and that's probably not even counting. Like I'm
just thinking maybe like from networks and streaming and you
know a bunch of different things. We're probably not even
counting ticket sales or whatever, you selling those arenas and
like tourism stuff like that. So I would just say
that I doubt they'd be able to find something that

(19:08):
says those games is getting you know, getting people injured,
and they would they would probably lean more towards the
condition inside of it, you know, like figure it out
on that aspect. But I would probably shorten the first
first series and second just because they're so goddamn long.
It's like, yo, when I'm when I'm watching them, it's

(19:28):
like I'm tapped out by that game three or four.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
You know. Well the old argument about that though, is
like if you go back to like, you know, the
the nineties and two thousands when we were coming up,
like the first round five games, second round was seven games,
but they didn't. The second round never felt long with
we were excited to watch it. That goes back to
my earlier point, like this year's playoffs, like yeah, the.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Feelings gone broel the excitement and I'm like, oh, ship,
they got to watch his game.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
It's kind of like, okay, I'm just watching it basketball.
I like, I like you, but you don't feel like excitement.
I feel like the big game atmosphere.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, ten years ago, I would never fell astore even
you know, you go back twenty years ago or ten
years ago, I wouldn't have fell asleep during a basketball game.
Right now, it's like, yeah, somebody these games putting me
to sleep.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
But it was. It was.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
It was a good finals. I don't I don't want
to leave it on a bad note. It was a
good finals. I would say, figure out other ways, other
ways that maybe help these guys to stop getting injured,
because there's something going on. You know, I don't know
exactly what it is, could just be overworking themselves. The body.

(20:46):
The body can only do what the body could do man.
You're not superman.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
So yeah, that's I think. I think they need to
like look into the whole, you think, because I think
like these having these little little kids playing all these
tournaments and just like the all year round too, and
you shouldn't be playing basketball all year round.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
And they wonder why twenty five they're getting Tommy John
surgery or turn their accuses. Yeah, because they're looking at
them at eleven and twelve and now they're working them out.
Their parents are overworking them. That Achilles probably been asking
to snap for twelve years. He just didn't even know
it exactly. So that's that's why I just can't kind

(21:30):
of contribute it to a couple extra games, you know.
But outside of and I'm speaking of that, Halliburton, Tatum, Lillard, obviously,
we hope all these guys the best want to see
them back on the court as soon as possible.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Take it easy.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
We'll go from there before we completely leave, just leave
the finals. I want to know what you think about
Sga as the face of the league right now.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
He might be the m v P. He did something
that no other player has done since shot that his
win UH League MVP and Finals MVP in the same season.
But I don't I don't think he's the face right
now because nobody talks about him. He's not that popular,
He's not like, you know but c TV, like I

(22:23):
gotta turn on the TV to watch. I hate to
see it say it, but I think the face of
the league right now is still you know, Lebron James,
even at you know, he's about to be forty one,
But I think he's still the face of the league
right now. I don't think all these young up becoming players,
I don't think they're I mean, maybe the closest won't
be Anthony Edwards, but outside of outside of him, I

(22:47):
don't really don't see anybody that's like the face of
the league right now. I think that's gonna be a
problem for the NBA until Lebron probably banks him up.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
I'll be short and I agree with him most of
the stuff I would have said. I do think there's
a there's a few stars that that may be close
closer than him, which is awkward. Scene now, he just
won the m v P, won the finals, had the
best I believe that the best record throughout the year too, right,
So yeah, so he did a lot of good stuff

(23:18):
this year. If he repeats it next year, I think
it's his, you know. But if if Edwards or one
of them go get one next year, I think it'd
probably be closer than it is than it is his.
And I think Lebron still is king right now.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, because even though he won MVP, a lot of
these NBA analysts on TV who still said that Nicola
Jokich sill the best player in the world, so they
don't even get SGA really like you know, Cridits, it's
really like, you know, And I think if k is American,
I would say he'd get the face of the league,
but you know, him being from Serbia, obviously there's a

(23:55):
language barrier. And then he only he really lives in them.
He works at America. So we justn't live in America
because the soon as the best suits over, he goes
right back on the surface. You don't even see him
again until the season starts. So I think that that's
an issue too, that you're your best player doesn't live
in America.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
I definitely hate you on that. We'll see how it goes.
I have I have faith sj will come out banging
next year to try to solidify a spot, but I don't.
I don't think he has it yet, So I'm gonna
agree with everything you said.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
We have.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
We have two trades to break down, and I know
we're trying to cap it off, hopefully before thirty minutes,
so we'll see what we could do.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Try our best.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
But we got KD going to the Rockets for Dylan
Brooks Green. I believe five second rounders and a first
round pick or maybe a first round pick.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Swak.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
I'll be quick. I hate the trade for the Rockets.
I wouldn't have made this trade. I get it for
the Suns. They look like they're probably gonna blow it
up and go young if that was my guest. Maybe
they work it with Bill and they just adjust it somehow.
But what do you what do you think about the trade?

Speaker 2 (25:13):
I need to transfer both teams. Honestly, I understand why
Houston make the trade because they think that they're one
piece of way, even though I just agree. Oh but yeah,
but that's what they that's what they're thinking that maybe
it's those players they gave away. Maybe they're thinking, like,

(25:36):
we get KD can win the championship next year. They
spoiler they won't win the champions. They won't. They won't.
But so I mean and again two of them things
like KDS thirty seven. So it's like, how long he's
gonna keep playing at this level? We don't. We don't know,
as we all know, like all the time it hits,

(25:58):
you know, you don't even see it coming. Know what
one year I remember Peyton, man, like one year he
threw like uh like if a touchdown and fell off.
Next year, next year he got bench by just.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
So I mean you just you just know they come
back in and win the Super Bowl barey being every
shut out the VA.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
That last year Peyton couldn't throw ten yards Von Miller
won that Super Bowl. At you last year it wasn't
very good. Now, I know people want to forget about
it now, but like he wasn't that good as this.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Last don't don't bring up the goat man getting sensitive
around there.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Somebody might be listening. Somebody might be listening. So, I mean,
the time, man, it hits, so we don't know how
how much Katie has in the tank. So for Houston,
think that you know, there's thirty seven years gonna put
him over the top. We'll see. That's for Phoenix I
don't really understand what they're doing. They basically got three

(27:01):
players on their roster do the same thing. And Devin Booker,
Jalen Green, Greley Bill Booker asked for a trade. I
believe he did. And in the so they're not trading,
so I don't know what he's gonna sit out. They said, nah,
loyal going down. Yeah, And it was crazy to me.

(27:23):
It's like it's hard to believe that this team, uh,
three or four years ago was in the finals and
they blew their whole team up just to get KD
and Bredley Bill.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
That's what happens, bro, That is what I was telling
you about them about to chase that agent vet. The
Rockets just ate They just ate it, bro, same thing.
They've seen the agent vet and didn't even have they
didn't have stars to go with him. Instill did it.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
And it was crazy. It's like, you know, Houston's big
against themselves because like, no, Miami didn't want to, the
Knicks didn't want them. Santoyo's like Sentatoia, They're interesting, but
they feel with that number two pick, so say be good.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
They stopped that call. Yeah, exaid Bro. The people delusion though, second,
I don't even want to know the counter offense that
don't even Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Giving away the number two pick of the draft or
they kill during.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
No way in hell you could get if you want
to give that away, you could get just about anybody.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
You don't need to get k D. What did well?

Speaker 1 (28:28):
I guess the trade that I like that well, not
for both teams, but let them know about the Celtics
trade as well.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Well. Before I do that, I just want to say
one thing about KD. I think the one team, uh,
I thought he could make a difference all with the
Minnesota because their team that's really on the cuff. If
they can just get another score besides besides Anthony Edwards,
I think it would be good. Like I don't think
they're gonna win the championship with their second best player

(28:55):
being Woody go Be, so I think Minnesota would have
been the team. But the other trailer just happened not
too long ago was the Jew Holiday the Celtics chooting
trading Jew Holiday to the Portland trail Blazers for Anthony Simmons.
And I think it was two two sickon round picks.

(29:18):
What was it too? That's cool? Yeah, so they're trading
h to so Boston trade holiday to Portland for Anthony
Simmons and two sickon round picks. I love that trade
for the Celtics. I don't.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
I don't know why Portland. Well, well, I guess I don't.
Maybe they think same thing. Maybe they think holidays they're
missing peace. I don't get this trade for them. I
feel like the Celtics made out in this trade, like
probably severely. But how do you feel about the trade.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Well, I think for the Celtics it's a good trade.
We're talking about us there. The Celtics, they're they're they're thinking,
is that Taitlan's gonna miss all of twenty twenty six.
So I think this next season is gonna probably be
like a rebuild here for them, and then once Taman's back,

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they're you know, you know, be up and ready to
compete in twenty seven. And I think Anthony Simmons would
be a great young player player for them, makes a
longer at the point guard position, and I think it
would be a great trade. That's for Portland. I don't
see them keeping Drew Holliday. I think they're gonna make
another move and.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
I know that's what that's exactly why. I don't understand.
I see he has a lie out written all over him,
and you're giving up.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Me because like Portland's the team that's not going anywhere there,
they were clearly rebuilding. So I don't see them keeping
Drew Aliday, especially at his age. You don't want to
spend the last years against career, all though losing.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
To listen, I agree, I don't even see. I might
not even see him playing one game there.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yes, the quippest trader of Russell Westbrook to the Utah Jazz,
the Jazz Bottom Mount. He sung with them. Yeah, you
know certain things. It's just you.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
You see Baio written all over this. If he plays
for them, I'd be pretty surprised.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
The Celtics stuff.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
I think the Celtics made a good trade. They get
they get younger at the position. I don't I'm not
familiar with his stats last year, but I remember Simmons
early in his career, and we said love Field when
he was taken over for for Lily when he first left,
and then c J when he got traded. So I've

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seen him look good and I know he's young. I
don't know about the contract situation. There's probably something to
do with money involved here that I'm not seeing because
I don't know what either one of their contracts look like.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
But to get the.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Younger player has still got potential pretty good and two
picks to get to kind of move on from from
an agent veteran, when you don't fail, you have a
chance to compete. This year sounds like a win all
the way across the board to me for the Celtics.
And that's why I just feel like this is this
has to be like a money tape of thing. Maybe

(32:18):
Simmons actually has a good contract or something and that
was what they wanted the Celtics to take on for
the picks. I'd have to look into that, but that's
the only thing I could see that would make sense.
Other than that, Celtics look like they landslided this trade.
And I know Holiday is a good player, but I'm
taking this trade any day of the week.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
And also trying is a perfect spot too for Simmons,
because you know, importantly he was, you know, the guy
in Boston. Have to be the guy he could be,
you know, the third option behind uh take him at Brown, Yeah,
and the neoxt season he will be just Brown By itself.
So yeah, I think he can help out be that
like you know, Brown, Robbie to Brown's batman, and just

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hold down the Ford until Tatum gets back. Without Tatum,
I mean, I think the team is so deep, and
I know people want to say that they were down
three to one anyway when Tatum got hurt, what he
believe it would have come back to won that series.
But I still think Boston has the talent. I just
think next year, I can see him being maybe being

(33:23):
like you know, the four or five scene, maybe getting
knocked out in the first and second round. But I
think they're just looking towards twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yeah, same same type of scenario I see. I don't
I see them making the playoffs next year and giving
it their best. I don't see them being able to
compete for a championship. Unless Tatum somehow makes it back
by the playoffs, then you know, that might change my opinion.
But even at that, coming off from the Achilles and

(33:54):
being inserted to the NBA playoffs, I don't know how
you know on a on a.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Media it took him like two years to fully get
back to being himself after Yeah, and that's what I mean,
just sound like the meta like if if you talking
about confidence, say he say they clear him even three
weeks before the playoffs start, right, so he gets the

(34:23):
confidence level isn't there?

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Like, you're not gonna see Tatum next year, regard this,
it's not gonna be the same one, and you're probably
gonna risk injuring and again bringing them back early. So
it's that that could get slippery if you're if you're
running that organization, I'd probably leave him out for the year.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
So I'd agree with you.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
They'll probably end up like a mid tier to a
lower seed, maybe first round exit, maybe even make it
to the second round, depending if they make a couple
more moves, and depending on who makes it and plays them.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
You know. But the trade, it's a good trade for them,
we got. I guess that's all I was gonna say. Too. Well, Howler,
Burke and Tatum booked out next year. There's there's really
no excuse right now for the New York Knicks not
to at least come out of the East. Like we're

(35:17):
standing in the word right now.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Yeah, not many teams, Like I know, there's gonna be
teams like the NBA is a start study league with
one team could just pull in three stars tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
You just you know how it goes. But I'm gonna
s a free agency and the draft comes out. That's
it right now. And I look at the Eastern Conference
as well. I say the Knicks go the Knicks.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
The Knicks realistically one player away from being able to
they probably would have won the finals this year. They're
about one player away. What I'm saying, there's one coach away,
but we don't know that coaches yet. Yeah, I think
like we went over that, but I don't believe there
was one coach away. But I mean, a good coach
is a good coach, so you can bring in another

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good coach just still gonna be one good player away.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, I mean, like there's no there's no Phil Jackson
out there, so I don't know who that coach is
going to be the most. Just come in right away
and just win a champions too.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Or they could go the route of what the NFL
is going, where they're just going younger, take take a shot,
like you gotta you gotta pick your poison, like you
gotta pick someone. Probably I say, like thirty five is
because you don't want to pick someone too young you
know what, maybe even like thirty seven, thirty eight, you know,
you don't want someone that's younger than all the players,

(36:37):
maybe one or two on the team on the super
super stacked bench, maybe his age, you feel me or Lebron,
But I just I would just I don't know, I
wouldn't have got rid of the coach, but it's I
get it, but just still one good player away.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Well after after they fired, reports now coming out that
a lot of players didn't get along with doing he
did the worst stick he wrote the owner of the
rock Woods, which never what to do?

Speaker 1 (37:08):
You remember we were saying that like sometimes it's just
like other things like like yes, stop, players don't want
to don't want to play with him, you know what
I'm saying. So it kind of is what it is.
Did we did you ever get an update on the
on the Denver situation.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Now that that issue still hasn't came out, But the
one thing we did talk about about them the situation
too is that not only did they fire the coach,
that's the fire them at the same time, so they
had no no coach. So like, I don't know what happened,
but something had to go on to fire both of
them one week before the playoffs started. Maybe they fist fighted.

(37:46):
It just sounds like both of y'all said.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Both of y'all said, there's no fighting in the middle.
That fell as lucky. It's your slips. Your car has
already been told. But speaking of fist fight, I guess
we'll get into the last the last session of the
day or the last segment of the day. So yesterday,

(38:12):
I don't I don't know the kids name. I know
it's one of the Island Boys. I don't even know
if they if they technically have names or they just
called the Island boys. But one of those, one of
those Island boys, fought none other than Charleston White's old
dad's right. I guess I wouldn't call it a slava knaka,
but it was setting they were They was out there throwing,

(38:35):
throwing arms and they was throwing. Eventually, I believe the
Island boy might have quit in like the second round.
I don't even know what he quit for. He might
have called for a timeout or saying it got a
little crazy. Halfway through that, I think he called the
timeout and then just there was like, you know, you
got to end the fight. No time out, so Charleston

(38:56):
White picks up the victory. I know you watched it
before we jumped on here. I need you to break
down this fight.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Tell me, well, we called it said it was a
slav doctor, and I think about it. That's always listening
was A Jr's commentary. Unfortunately unfortunately he's stiff though. But uh,
that was like the worst, the worst might have ever
seen like that. It was just like it was like
watching like some some uh somebody's dad fighting some fighting

(39:25):
a young in the middle of the shoot. You know
that they were just like the Island boy. He was
just like throwing punches, were just like swinging, like watching
the high school world just swinging. Yeah, connect he does
not know. And then Charleston White, but he wasn't that
much better. But I think personally, I don't think he

(39:46):
was taking it seriously because he was smiling the whole
time like a little He did have a little job
he did, But I don't think he took it seriously
because I think he took it seriously. He probably would have.
May I don't think they do a fight.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah might It might have just been set up for
some money, who knows, But it was definitely something.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Yeah. I was watching it, man, I was in tears. Bro.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
I don't even know if it's the same Island boy,
but he just fought somebody else, maybe like a couple
of weeks ago I seen too.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Yeah took brothers.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Yeah bro, Yeah, I won't even get into the weirdisms.
But but that box and ship is hilarious. But I
need but I need to see Charleston actually fight. And
I don't want to be getting there with somebody that's
gonna hurt him. But I need to at least get
in there with somebody that could throw a punch and
shortened a round because halfway through that last round, I

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think it was only two rounds. Halfway through that second round,
that boy Charleston was struggling.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
Boy, I think he's on age.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
I don't know, man, you might get hurt. You might
really get hurt, no matter who it is.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Mike Tyson who no way, hell, Bro, no way, hell.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
But I do appreciate at least for like that whole
first round, they was both throwing. Nobody was hitting a
goddamn thing that was doing that.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
It was going for it.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Yeah, for sure, I guess we're gonna we're gonna stay
tuned for the next one. I want to see what
Charlston jumps in the ring with next Yeah, me too.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
But other than that, other than that hysterical ship, you
have anything else you want to chop it up with
before we jump it on, before we jump off.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
No, I mean it's it's been uh use me. Unfortunately
basketball season is over, so this fort going on right
now is just baseball us pick up. So at the
end of the the the next month to the beginning
of August, when the trendy camp and preaching, especially the NFL.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
And get a little bit of boxing coming up, a
little bit of UFC.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Who's coming back? Yep, come back to boxing? Shout out
to Max.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
That's the guy Max, Max old dude, Man, I missed
Max on TV.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
He was too real for Steven they fired him.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Yep, yep, it's got me right on the street. Is
he's he's blacker.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Than stephen A. I mean Teo said it not. I
mean sometimes sometimes that Brooklyn shouldn't come at a Max. Yeah, Max, dog,
you could you could see it.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
I like Max, though, man, I hope he does well,
and it's that he definitely does his thing when it
comes to the boxing.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
And we did.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
We didn't get to go over it, but I guess
what I mean, shout out to Uzman for the victory.
I believe it was probably about a week ago now.
But we we will be dropping more UFC in boxing
go forward.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yeah, I guess I think that one thing. I haven't
even dropped it yet, so I'm gonna cut it out
because the day after we recorded, he ended up signing
that's a Jared Alexander. But what do you think about
him signing with Baltimore because he didn't go to another
the teams that he even talked about.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Yeah, because I I mean, I've seen people saying Ravens
when when he was better. I just looked at it
like that's an embarrassment of riches.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
They just don't need him.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
So I mean, maybe there's a there's a corner like
an odd man out, or maybe they just want three corners,
or maybe they're pushing somebody to safety or down in
the box. I have no idea, but I didn't I
see the fit. I just didn't see it making sense.
But but hey, great signing for them.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
Why I could see Marvin Huffrey moved in the safety.
But I will say though, never under estimate, you know,
college teammates because like that's uh so that with a
bunch of Adams. The only reason why he signed with
the Raiders is because he wanted to look back up
with his college teammates Derek Carr, Yeah, and Jared Zender

(44:20):
pretty much of the same thing. Why you think Baltimore
over all the other teams because him Lamar Jackson went
to college together. He just wanted to leave back up
with his homeboy. So, I mean, I think know that
that plays the factor with Jamar chanksa are the same thing.
You never wanted to get Cincinnati because you gotta got
his boy Joe brother to college to give this. But

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sometimes that the college nectually went deep.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Yeah, for sure, I could see it. I mean it's
also a comfortable factor, you know. Yeah, So I ain't
mad at him. I think there's there's a lot of
other teams are probably gonna regret not signing him or
not even making an attempt to sign him, because we
really didn't had nothing. He instantly went to the Ravens,
I know, even for example as a Rams fan, to

(45:05):
not even be interested in them. I mean, I get it. Yeah,
you know, Matt. I mean, Lafloyd probably told them, you
know what, everything he wanted to tell him to not
sign him, right, But my thing in this type of situation,
and I know that they're close friends, but let's look
at this, right, the package don't want you to be

(45:29):
better than that.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Well, so I was just thinking the same thing too,
because not only did the Rams pass on them, but
the Niners pass on them too. And like I said before,
Big and Shanahan, all three of them are tight because
from their days with Washington. So it made me think, like,
lafore tell both of them something about, you know, not
signing them, like you said, all three all three coaches

(45:53):
in the NFC. So of course, you know before might
be just throwing ship out there just so that they
won't get better.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Because he also also because he has a situation with him,
doesn't mean that you have a situation with him. We've
seen this before with Odell. We've seen this before with
a few other players that came to LA and didn't
have a problem. So that's the first part of it.
The second part of it, DeVonta Adams told you that

(46:20):
he's a great player and a great person, so it's
his word, not good. Now you see what I'm saying.
So my thing is not to not be interested. Just
sounds like you didn't do enough due diligence to me
because you should have definitely been interested. You should not

(46:40):
have been able to answer that first day and basically
said that's not a route you're going because you already
had a predetermined You see what I'm saying, it's predetermined
you're not interested.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Yeah. Like I said, I think McBain and should in
the hand of both tight with flu and I think
they just took his word over anything else. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
And I think if one of these teams running to
the Ravens in the Super Bowl, they gonna be mad
as hell that they listened in.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Yeah, that's probably what's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
But and not saying the Ravens are gonna make it,
but ship like that has a as a weird way
to come back and bite you in the ass.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
So we'll we'll see how it goes. But if you believe,
if you believe in the Super Bowl a little conspiracy,
it's gonna be a Ravens and Lions this year. We'll see.
I wouldn't I would have been mad at it.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
I believe the Rams are being the Super Bowl this year,
and I do believe that once Ramsey's released, he'll end
up on the Rams, even though I believe Ian or Rappaport,
one of them is saying that they still believe Ramsey
will be traded.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
I just don't feel I think I think that's why
they have but.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
I don't think is put it like this. Alexander was younger.
Probably I don't believe he's the Terrors Ramsey, but some
people believe when he was healthy, he's the top five corner. Right,
so younger than Ramsey. Potential top five corner. Contract isn't

(48:20):
expensive yet, you know what I'm saying at that point,
even though you're gonna have to pay him, you know,
or reap him or whatever.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Right the fact, Sorry to put you off Sports Illustrated.
It's saying that the Steelers and the Niners are the
two favorites to get Ramsey right now.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Yeah, I know, I've seen it, and I've seen that
he wants to be traded to either the Chargers, Niners
or Rams. He wants to go to the West coast.
He's not Pittsburgh. But this is yeah, this this burg.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Look look like this.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Sorry to cut you off, bro, look cheap contract, young player,
top five corner, old corner, and couldn't trade him. Couldn't
trade him right, thirty plus your old corner twenty million
a year. You're not trading him. That's why the Rams
are playing hogball with you right now. There's a bunch

(49:15):
of teams I'm guaranteed calling right. But here's the thing.
They're gonna find out the same thing why the Rams
stopped calling. We're not taking any of that contract. You
want to eat seventeen million of it? Cool, We'll give
you like a six round pick guarantee. That's where about
the off is at, right, and the Dolphins are playing highball,

(49:36):
like now, we're not doing that.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
But here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
You have to pay the money and he's only worth
a late round pick right now. So the situation becomes
to the Dolphins. You're gonna have to try to resolve
it with him and keep him because the Rams who
wanted him the most, no, you can't get that, fim,
And that's why they stopped answering.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Stop calling you. Now. I think Miami wants it. They
want a Pittsburgh Denver situation where Denver's like, okay, we'll
trade you Russell Wilson to Pittsburgh, but we're gonna pay
He's Salvath like Pittsburgh pretty much got on free last week.
That's what Miami wants. They want somebody to they don't

(50:17):
want to do sorry, Miami just want to do that.
They want somebody to tickle that tick on that contract.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
And nobody's gonna like that. That's the thing right now.
If the Dolphins bit the bullet and was like, we'll
pay the whole contract, Rams probably would even gave you
a fifth, a fourth would it Probably would have already
made the deal. But here's the thing with you asking
them to even eat five million dollars of that, that
offer then became a seventh round pick. I guarantee it.

(50:45):
So this is where the problem goes when he's like,
there's hurdles we can't get over because it can't be both.
Either you're eating the money and I overpay a little bit,
right because I like Ramsey or or I'll eat a
little bit of the money, and that pick becomes basically nothing,

(51:05):
you know what I'm saying. So I think that the
I'll put it like this. I think this goes one
or two ways because I don't believe. I believe maybe
five new teams called them probably came to the same
situation as the Rams, like, look, you pay the salary,
I'll give you a fifth, and the Dolphins won't budge

(51:26):
right or you will pay. Some of them might even
say we'll pay half the salary or close to it
if you take like a seventh for next year. You
see what I'm saying. It's like the stopped going right.
I think inevitably he gets cut because I don't think
they can resolve it right now, even though I've seen

(51:48):
Tyreek kosays asking them to just keep Ramsey. They're not
paying him. It's like twenty two million. I don't know
exactly how much they could save. I'm not going to
even get into that right now, but believe inevitably, once
they don't receive that asking price and they can't come
to an agreement on anything, they'll come to a mutual

(52:09):
agreement to cut him. Maybe even he'll give back a
couple of dollars or something to be cut. I think
that's the most likely outcome. And I think that when
Alexander got cut, I think that let every other team
in the NFL know you can't trade Ramsey, think you'll
let you know because it's a.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
What your thoughts on sports?

Speaker 3 (52:30):
It was sure to saying you might go to either
the Steelers or the Learners.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
I think those are just probably the lot late, the
new the two teams that are calling right now that
are going to come to that same conclusion. We just
talked about a fourth round pick if you're paying the money,
or he's basically not worth anything. If you want me
to pay the money that I give you a sixth
seventh next year. You see what I'm saying. So I

(52:58):
think it just comes to the same conclusion, right. And
I also don't believe Ramsey would go to the Steelers,
So I don't think that that trade would work forty
nine ers. Maybe you know what I'm saying. I think,
like I said, I think it goes one of two ways.
I think either they come to a mutual agreement, he
ends up maybe giving back a couple of dollars, or

(53:20):
maybe they already can save it all or save a
good amount of it by cutting them.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
I'll look into that, right. So it's either that or
they call back the Rams knowing the Rams, or give
them the most if they if they eat that money,
which means that they'll probably get a good, way better
pick from the La Rams if they decide at the
end of the day it's better to eat the money

(53:47):
and pay for a pick. Because say, say, for example,
numbers wise, you cut him, say you saved three million dollars,
but you still got to do seventeen to twenty million
dollars on a cap. It right, logically doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
See what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Now, say Ramsey willing to give back five million or
something and you cut him and he gets the rest
of it, maybe it works. I would say most likely
if it's in that type of scenario, they say fuck it.
If we got to take seventeen on the cap anyways, right,
let's just eat the seventeen with the RAMS and get
the pick that we want, or eat twenty with the

(54:26):
RAMS and get the pick that we want.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Because I think the.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
RAMS been letting them know all along they want him.
They haven't hit it, you know what I'm saying. So
I think those are the two situations. Now, well, the
forty nine is overpaid to make sure he don't go
to the RAMS, I think they will think they did
it with Christian McCaffrey.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
I think that.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
They Shanahan and McVeigh, damn their fight over players. You've
seen Shanahan slept one day, McVeigh stole staffing, you know,
they just it has been something they've been going back
and forth with for a while.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Now. Well yeah there and we there best friends, but
they have a little robbery.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
Going off, yeah exactly between them two. So if McVeigh
wants somebody, you know, even on piss all, look what
the Niners took right when they got a sniff that
McVeigh might like him, right, So I do believe there's
that aspect of it where maybe the Niners will be
my second place team, second team he ends up on.

(55:31):
I don't see the Charges doing anything aggressive to bring
him in, and I think inevitably he gets cut or.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
The prudges, and prudges are known for being historically.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Yeah exactly, and and and that's that's why I think
that maybe two of these hurdles we just discussed, and
I think that if it comes down to they have
to release him, I think the Dolphins would just kick
those hurdles.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
To the floor and fall for the Rams offer.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
I think they're just taking on Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
I love he's originally some Tennessee, but he went to
college in Florida. He's played most of his professional career
in Florida, and then the time he wasn't playing in Florida,
he's playing in La. Yeah. So that's not a dude
that's gonna want to go to quote quote with the
city Man.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
And honestly, I'm not the biggest Aaron Rodgers hater. I'm
also not the biggest Aaron Rodgers truther. Like I don't
think he's this top five all time quarterback that everybody
else sears. He is like the best things in slice bread.
Like I just never thought that, you know, but I
think he is two Yeah exactly. And I told people

(56:41):
ten years ago, well listen, let's get another super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Let me see it. And for seven years you told
me it's like that.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
That's my problem with it, and I won't detoy, but
that's my problem with the Bills. Now stop telling me
they're gonna win the super Bowl and that their super
Bowl favorites. Because every year when you say that, I
laugh and say, no, they're not winning the super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
They're not going to go to it.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Now, every year you can't continue to say that shit.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
It's like there's no logic there that the Bills will
ever be in the super Bowl with Josh Allen, I'll
be honest. The reason being is my homes and Joe
Burrow are both there. You haven't been either of them,
not in the playoffs, right, So until you do that,
I'm not gonna say you will. It's like when someone says, Yo, yeah,

(57:25):
Mayweather's losing this fight. Yeh, sure my money's on Mayweather.
Mayweather's losing this fight. You'll make sure you put that
money on Mayweather. You know why. You don't predict the upset.
If you do, you chair for it, but you don't
bet on it, like lose lose with the most logical
bet here.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Don't bet with your hot fellas. You know what I'm saying.
So my thing is, if I'm.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Ramsey back to the topic, he don't want to play
with Aaron Rodgers, Bro, He's not gonna want to go
and be be in the cold with that drama and
dealing with podcasts and probably listen COVID theories and a
whole bunch of other shit, bro, Like Ramsey's trying to

(58:12):
go out and win another ring.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
You're not getting that in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
And if you another ring, he at least wants to
be warm and not feel him even.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
With Aaron Rodgers. Or think Pittsburgh's the third best team
in their division.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
Yeah, I think they got a chance to to surprise
us because it's the second year coming off the Achilles
And like I said, I'm not the biggest Aaron Rodgers
hater or truther. I do think he's he probably can
come out and show you he's still a top ten guy.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
I wouldn't doubt it.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
But still looking at their team, they're still the third
best team in that division.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Like doesn't matter, you know, Yeah, I mean I wasn't
talking about Cincinnati say that for another day. And they
them being cheating, uh, because I don't I don't know
what they're doing to Trey Hendrickson and the draft pick.
It's like the draft, Yeah, the first sound pick they're

(59:11):
trying to like, you know, fuck them over on the contract.
That's crazy, bro, while you're being so cheap like just
hey the man with all the other first Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
And then the crazy thing is if he goes back
to the draft and not saying I don't think he will,
I think they'll figure it out. But say he does,
right and Hendrickson leaves, bro y'all are gonna be oh
and five, that's got the season again.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
Yeah, it's gonna be back. But you can't you can't
just seek. You can't just think you're gonna outscore anybody.
You know, Like last year, you know, Joe Burrow put
up historical numbers and it still wasn't good enough because
at some point you gotta be able to stop somebody.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
Well, in the beginning, they thought that Joe Burrow was
good enough even with no old line, and then they
learned that the hideway right, and now they took themselves.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
We went to the super Bowl with the worst old line.
So you know, Joe Burrow, he was so.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then you listen so and then
they learned the highway. And now for the past two
years they're telling us they could win without defense. Bro y'all,
ain't the rims you don't got You didn't hit in
your drafts, bro.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Like you know, I will say this about I will
say about Joe Burrow. I like him because I like
them for the effect there, Like he wants he wants
his boys to get paid. He came down and look,
we need to we need to pay Trey Henchardson's willing
to give up Bundy so they can give it to Ty.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Joe Burrow is a smart dude, you know what.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
He did that for t Higgins and just doing enough.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
It's good to see him do that because most quarterbacks
won't do that. They won't tell you they won't, but
they definitely won't tell you they will. They'll just be
quiet and they'll let they'll let people get ran out
the door. So so I do I do appreciate that
with Joe Burrow, And also I think the Bengals as
a franchise needed to hear their quarterback. Do that think

(01:01:00):
it might have maybe been a little bit of a
wake up call for them because they've been cheap as
all have well yeah, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Know if you remember because it's been like ten years now,
but remembers did the Carson Palmer they're being cheap. Didn't
want to pay Carson Palmer when he wanted he was
worth man. He was like, look, I'm going to sit
off the whole season to y'all give me my money.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Yeah, and they ended up trading him. I think to
the Raiders to the Raiders. Yeah, they and they wouldn't
trade him at first too. They was He was like,
all right, well yeah, because they're.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
Trying to call they're calling this book because it's okay're
gonna sitt off the season, off the season, and he
wasn't Bush. He settled with the First State ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Yeah, he's a good Palm is a good dude too.
I've seen a few few things on him, but I'm
ready to jump off.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
I'm gonna call it at night. Yeah, it was like
almost one o'clock the time.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Yeah, and I'm gonna what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna click this video on too to make it thirty
and thirty and see if it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Were upload Yeah, you look to the YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
That's exactly what I'm gonna try. We got I think
we literally.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
We could do.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
We could kind of drop it like a season one
because it's kind of started when the play you know, NBA,
and it went to the end of the finals.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
Well that's that's the way I've been breaking it down
for Spotify. So like right now we're like on season one,
episode like five or six or whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
Word word because I might need to look at y'as
so I could get the episodes in the right order. Yeah,
but we're good. I'm gonna upload as much as I
can this week. Bro, I just need to get us
the fifty subscribe is that's the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
Yeah, where were at right now?

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
Because at like fifteen thirteen like that, I'm gonna push
it tomorrow. Got the day off. Let's see what I
could do tomorrow. If I have a good day, I
have it at fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
No, we don't get there. I think we'll get there. Well,
now's go. I'm gonna listen. We did tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
Let's put down there all speaking into existence exactly. But
you make sure you enjoy your night, my brother.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
Yeah, YouTube, have a good night.

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In the Real One, Real Ran. Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
But let them know what else to find us, my brother. Yeah,
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all just keep supporting us.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
And we keep doing right thing for sure, and it's
a pleasure. And once again signing out. Talk to you soon, bro,
All right, talk to you soon. Enjoy, yes, sir, yeah.

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