November 16, 2023 • 39 mins
Brendan Abban dives into the current situation surrounding James Harden and the Los Angeles Clippers. Doing a deep dive on the issues the team has been facing. He then dives in the firing of Buffalo Bills coordinator Ken Dorsey and what role Josh Allen's play had in the firing. He then touches on the Boston Celtics strong start and how well they have excelled this early in the season.
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so go ahead and do that,guys. Of course, I want to
give some updates on some content that'scoming up that I'm working on that's coming
up. I actually have a busyweek. I'm doing a lot of traveling.
I think by the time this comesout, this will be their November
sixteenth. So by the time thiscomes out, the very next day,
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I'll be driving. I'll be goingon like a twelve hour drive essentially just
for the holidays. And it's kindof got my whole schedule messed up.
I intended to have a video donethis week that you guys would receive this
week, but my weekend was sobusy. I ran a five K this
past weekend, and then afterwards,me and my girlfriend just ended up doing
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a whole bunch of stuff we hadto get done in terms of chores and
stuff preparing to leave for our tripbecause and then also I did I had
to do a lot of cooking toprepare meal prep for the week on Sunday,
and then Sunday I did a lotof watching the NFL and trying to
make content from the games that Isaw in the NFL. So it's kind
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of tough sometimes when it comes tothe long form written video content. Not
tough because I have like three scripts. I kid, you not have three
scripts written out right now, andI just need to record and then edit
those videos. But obvious, soyou can't edit more than one video at
a time because I'm only one person, so it kind of makes it more
difficult the videos. It ends upcreating a backlog and things keep getting pushed
back each each time I add anotherscript or whatever to well, I guess
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doesn't get pushed back more. Soit's just that if I'm working on one,
then the other ones are sitting therewaiting to be done, right,
So I would say I think that'smore of the biggest thing as of right
now is that the video that didnot come out this week was delayed just
because of the Like I noted allthose different events that happened before the weekend
before, but I am I shouldbe recording that video, or I should
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be recording two videos by the timeyou guys hear this, So for me
to edit and work on once,I you know, once I get where
I'm going to and then I canhelpfully have at least one of those videos
out next week during the holiday week. So that's what I'll be working on
next week. So hopefully you guyswill see one of those videos come out
next Tuesday. But it's going tobe a busy weekend, I'm pretty sure
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for me as well, just witha lot of travel and so on,
and a lot of the work Ihave to get done not only for here,
but for my core my actually youknow, full time job. So
that's something that I gotta make sureI'm nailing down. You know, you
got to pay the bills across theboard. So but I am excited to
get get to you know, geta lot of it because one thing,
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one of the funny things is thatI think early on when I started this
whole entire podcast or you know,or when I first had the idea of
doing this, podcasting was probably myfavorite thing to do, right It was
my I mean, it was reallythe main thing I did. And then
I didn't start doing written long formvideos until until maybe years later, right,
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And I would say, I enjoydoing the written scripts, the long
form content. But the only problemis that that stuff just takes so much
more effort to edit when it comesto when you're doing sports content, especially
because you have to also retrieve yourvideo clips if you're talking about a particular
subject matter like imagine me talking aboutand some creators do this, I guess
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it's more of a creative vision,like, right, like that's more of
a decision on the creative and thatis something that for me, I like
to make sure that if I'm talkingabout a player or I'm talking about a
circumstance of the game, you allcan see what I'm referencing and you kind
of get that visual reference right.And so because some creators they just sit
down and record and talk and it'smuch less busy work on the back end,
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right because you don't then have toretrieve video clips. You don't have
to then try and make sure you'resourcing the clip where you got it from
and so on, and trying tomake sure that your clip is edited to
the perfect amount so you don't gethit for copyright violation from either the NBA,
NFL or YouTube itself. You knowthat those are things that are so
annoying and you have to a lotof times adjust for that while you're editing
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your stuff, especially if something hasmusic in it, right. So it's
one of those things that you arealways fighting a battle. And I think
with writing, with the process ofme creating a long form video, you
have the process of initially coming upwith the idea of what you want to
talk about, right, you wantto especially for me, a lot of
times when I'm making a long formvideo, I'm like, what can exist
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beyond the perfect or this time offrame of which I'm writing it, Because
they take sometimes they take so longthat they are I'm like, what will
what will exist or what will berelevant even if people were to watch it
two months from now right, whichis what my last video I felt like
the reason why, or my videoabout skip baylists and Shannon Sharp on the
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channel, that was the reason whyI chose to do that because I felt
like it was a video that anybodycould it was relevant whether you were doing
watching it now, watching it then, and the point of time when it
came out. It was actually perfecttiming because I had been working on that
video for a while and I waseven sitting here debating it with my girlfriend.
I was like, damn, dude, this has taking me a minute
to like just find I get everysingle bit of you know, every voice,
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know every anecdote that these guys havesaid, and make sure that it
all lines up with the message I'mtrying to convey or what I'm everything.
I'm trying because I wanted to befair for both parties, so I want
to make sure I'm finding instances ofboth guys maybe acting A four or whatever
the case I could find. SoI'm watching multiple undisputed videos, I'm watching
all their I'm trying to get throughall their stuff so i can just see,
you know, because both parties hadhad levels of blame and what they
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what they did that led to thatbreakup. But in terms of doing something
like that, it's like, becauseyou I always make my stuff with the
view of if the person, ifthe two people or whomever the subject matter
is about in the video watched it, would they think it's fair to them
or would you would they feel asthough I'm doing a deserved disservice to them
or misconstruing things in a certain wayto fit a narrative. I don't want
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that to be the perspective. Soyou do extra groundwork to be able to
try and get all the get allthe information you can. So that and
that's that's just journalism as a whole, right, I think that. I
think that's one of those things thatit just has A good journalist if somebody,
if you're trying to write something aboutsomebody, or you're covering a subject
matter with somebody, yeah, youmight not get every waking detail especially if
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you don't speak to the person oryou're not directly sourcing from their family members
or something like that. But evensometimes when you source it from people,
so people are gonna try it ifespecially if it's a negative story about them,
they're gonna obviously try and then conswaythe perspectus of whatever it is you're
writing about. Like I think Irecently just saw that James Harden that that
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one clip of that announcer that isgoing viral. I think it's one of
the Mavericks, the Bali Sports announceror the Mavericks announcer, one of the
guys. He goes on this rantabout James Harden, right, and he
talks about how he pretty much talksabout the perception that James Harden has from
going from team to team, thewhole nine and whatever. James Harden fires
back essentially saying that you know,dude doesn't really know what's going on.
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Right. He pretty much says,you know, if he doesn't have the
full story and dude is just takingit's unfair for the guy to be taking
shots at him. I'm going toread you to quote because this is reason
sometimes on Twitter, I just liketweets so I can have them as a
frame of reference for later on.But he says he doesn't know me or
the situation. That would be fedup if I went at him and started
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me disrespectful to him. But Ican't. They don't know anything. They
just go off what they see onsocial media or hearsay. And this is
part of my problem because my issuewith that perspective from James Harden is that,
well, people only can go offof information that's available to them,
right. I can't just say,oh, well, people are just going
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off of hearsay, whatever the casemight be, because if a lot of
people can only go on what they'reseeing taken place and form an opinion on
what they're taking place. I sawI heard a developer, a game developer
he made the God of Wars seriesnamed David Jaffy, and he was talking
about on a podcast. He wastalking about how I believe it was with
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Colin Moriarty and last stand. Youknow, credit to those guys, but
he was essentially saying that, youknow, in regards they were talking about
the current states aus A PlayStation inSony and as a whole, and he
was saying that if you don't comeout and speak and give your side of
what's going on. You're leaving peopleto speculate. And that's what people are
going to do. They're not goingto just sit here and not speculate about
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what's going on. People are goingto speculate and create theories and stuff like
that on what they think it mightbe the situation of what's occurring at that
particular place, right, And sothat similar thing here James Harden. James
Harden can just say yeah, hecan say he doesn't know what's going on
or whatever. But we all doknow you've been to X amount of teams
in the last few years, right. We all do see how you got
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out of Houston. We all seehow the Philly thing went down. We
all see when you left Brooklyn,right, And whether obviously in hindsight some
of those departures were justified or not. Still, it's the fact that you've
been on X amount of teams inthe last few years. It's like,
how do things keep going wrong?We might not know everything, but then
tell us how is it all goingwrong? People, because people aren't are
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just gonna be left to speculate ateach destination, right, And I think
That's a perfect example of where youeven if you try and go to the
source, sometimes they're not gonna giveyou everything you need. They're just gonna
say something like that. That statementfrom James Harden is so vague, Like
what am I supposed to do withthat? I still don't know any My
knowledge before James Harden made that statementdidn't all unpact my thoughts about what that
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sports broadcaster had said. Going aboutJames Harden's latest few years of his career
changed nothing. It didn't change theperspective at all, because James Harden gave
us no information. So I feelas though as a not to you when
you're in one of these whether you'rea content creator, influencer, whatever,
journalists, whatever the case might be, it's only right to try and be
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fair to both parties. And maybeif if you're saying, if James is
saying that, I wish he wouldhave talked to me and got more information
about the situation first. But I'mjust it's one of those things. Man.
Look, we've been in this JamesHarden circuit of James being on teams,
things not working out, and obviouslyI think I have a video where
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I covered or I talked about theJames Harden situation. I think I either
have a video or I have ashort one of those two things where I
did talk about the James Harden situation. Or it might be a podcast episode.
I think it might. Yeah,it actually might be a podcast episode,
and I talked about it. Andyou know, James did a lot
for Philly to try and allow themto be able to formulate a championship team,
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including taking a pay cut when hedidn't need to. James has done
a lot of stuff right, andI'm pretty sure there were some assurances that
he had gotten that maybe got alittle bit shaky after his playoff performance in
last year's postseason. So I thinkthat obviously James does have a case in
some regard. But when you're notopenly speaking for that, and you're trying
to just let everybody else go outthere and argue for you without amo to
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do that, I don't know howlong how entrenched people can really be when
trying to make a case right.So yeah, that just goes without saying
essentially that was funny enough. Iwas able to talk about that as a
topic and use that to kind ofcurtail my point here, or to reinforce
my point about you know, justdoing the extra work if you're in one
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of these roles and you have aplatform of some sort and trying to make
sure you get all the facts fromboth sides or try to represent the facts
that you can the best way possible. But a lot of times when it
comes to trying to do like Icould just for example, not do as
much written, long written stuff andthen try and just get content out as
fast as possible and just sit hererecord do the most minimal editing I can
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do just to keep up with thealgorithm. Honestly, I probably would have
a bigger channel if I did thatright. And that's the thing is like
when you're in the content game forsomeone, you kind of see what works.
Granted the platforms changed all the time, but you get a sense for
what works, especially when you dowhen you are putting out consistent content,
you see what the algorithm likes andYouTube rewards you. If you are putting
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out, for example, content that'sabove at least eight minutes, right,
and you were putting that out atleast once once once a day, if
you were putting out if you're puttingout like once a day, eight minute
quality content. Dude, you wererunning an operation and some bloggers, I
mean they're able to do that.But if you're able to, you know,
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run it up like that, that'sfor when you're going to grow incredibly
fast. But it has to allbe quality content. And that's the thing
I pride myself. I'm not havingvideos that I think are like and granted
this this is subjective, right,It's not a one size fits all thing
like somebody, somebody can watch myvideos, but like these are trash,
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but at least to my standard,I think they're good videos. So I
hopefully hopefully people enjoy them, andnormally the comments from what I see,
people do enjoy them. So Ialways try to maintain that quality bar.
And then normally when it comes toa a like I want to give an
update on something that I'm seeing justin the week or whatever, that's when
you'll get a TikTok or short orcovering that subject because it's maybe something in
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between a minute to thirty seconds,just offering my opinion real quick on that
subject matter, and then I canget that out faster than anything else.
But think about it, that's stilltime that takes away from the editing of
a long form video, and that'sthose a lot of times, the content
that you need to maintain your othersocial media platforms. So when it comes
to like Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Facebook page, and you
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know, so you can see kindof how the beasts the machine works in
a way, and when you're especiallyone person running it all, it's a
lot. It's a lot. It'sa lot, man. So you know,
sometimes I wonder is it best tokind of take a step back on
some of the things so that youcan really focus on one thing, like
posting all the shorts, tiktoks andreels and stuff all the time. Is
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it better to just take a stepback and focus on the long form stuff
and prioritize that. But you guys, let me know, I always I
can, including y'all on on whatI decided to do here or this is
the opinions on the thoughts going throughmy head on what you guys like more.
And whenever you guys give your commentaryor do look into it, I
read it, and you know,you gotta if you're it's one of those
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things that if you are like astick in mud and you're not willing to
adapt or change or do anything likethat. Then it's like, dude,
the industries are going to pass youby, man, right, Like the
technical revolution is going to change,Like different things are going to come up.
I sometimes wish man it's funny becauseI'm a I'm a sports podcast.
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I'm really into tech. Funny enoughpeople might not know I'm into tech,
I'm into gaming, I'm into businessand stuff like that. And I find
I do find like the stuff aboutAI very interesting because I think AI has
a lot of interesting uses that inYouTube. Just implemented a feature where creators
or policy rather where creators have todisclose of content that they're making is utilizing
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AI, right, And so that'sone of those things. It's going to
be interesting to see how, youknow, things go moving forward in terms
of the battle against AI. Ijust watched a movie called This was probably
about a month or two ago thatI watched this movie, but it's a
movie called The Creator, and youkind of see the full I mean,
it's it's a story essentially about likehow I'm not gonna spoil, but you
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kind of see the how AI issupposed to try and live alongside humanity,
and you see the threat humanity perceivedAI to be and the lack of humanity
they assess to AI, despite youknow, advanced programming that onto itself makes
AI feel very human like. Andyou got a wonder man. As we
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keep advancing technologically, is it oneof those things that you just keep pushing
the technology technological envelope forward and forward, right? Or do you self stemy
your your yourself from a technology standpoint, just to mitigate any possible threats AI
could have to the work force orto our society as a whole, right,
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And those are interesting things because whenyou see some of the things that
AI can do, it is veryinteresting. But you also don't want to
displace your own species in some wayswhen it comes to work and different functions
that have been naturally fulfilled by humans. But naturally humans have always used technology
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to create conveniences for themselves in life. And if AI is one of those
things that you can create further conveniencein right, then I don't know,
man, if you're telling me oneof these tech companies is just gonna sit
there and say, nah, we'renot going to try and push the envelope
advance to envelope AI. I don'tknow, man, I don't know.
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You're to see Microsoft's doing it.You see Google trying to get into it
with incorporating it as well with theywere trying to corporate their own AI with
barred for Google. So but thisis not a tech podcast, guys.
But if you guys ever want tohave that conversation, I'm down. I'm
totally down, man, But uhlet me what I do want to say
One thing about the James Harden withthe Clippers thing. I think it's very
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interesting because this actually isn't one ofmy main topics, but this is something
I've just been following. But Ifind it very interesting that the team is
still winless since the James Harden trade. It's so weird because and I watch,
I watch a good amount. Itry to watch a lot of different
games as much as possible. Idon't try to watch like the only team
I watch back to back to backon on occasions the Lakers, right because
that's my favorite team. But otherthan that, I'm trying to watch a
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lot of different teams around the aroundthe NBA, even if it's a boring
ass game like if you even ifyou give me like the Pistons, and
the Magic. Right. Sometimes thosegames are dull as crap, but you
gotta watch those games to learn theleague, right. You gotta when people
when people always try to talk tome about basketball, and sometimes I find
it very entertaining. It's not likeI know more than you or or anybody
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else, but rather if you're notwilling to do the research, then how
deep can the conversation really go?Right? Because I don't. Obviously there's
a lot of people that know betterbasketball, way better than I do.
But I watch so much of itthat I have a level of understanding of
the game that I can talk aboutpretty much almost every team in a co
coherent manner, right, And Idon't think I think most people can talk
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about their team at a very indepth level. But when you start broadening
beyond their team, or even theteams within their division or their or even
the top teams in the NBA,then people get a little bit more hampered,
right. And I think that it'sone of those interesting conversations when you
want to talk about basketball and yousee how folks want to sometimes how you
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how you talk about in basketball?And it's funny because the NFL escapes this
to some degree, because most NFLconversations will always have somehow a narrow focus,
at least when it comes to thenational level, a narrow focus on
the Cowboys to some degree, andthen that's what you brought it out,
depending on what the news stories werefor that past week, right, And
so when you have it like that, the NFL has been able to incorporate
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all the smaller teams like you cantalk about to some degree, depend especially
if a team has a really goodquarterback, like for example, you'll see
the c J. Stroud's been gettinga lot more coverage recently, right,
because it's easier to cover c J. Stroud because a quarterback of playing at
a high level, especially when youhave something like fantasy football that's such a
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huge revolution towards towards sports media andnews coverage that you can cover the Houston
Texans and CJ. Stroud and soon and have it be a topic that
does X amount of thousands of viewsbecause he's he's relevant to multiple segments of
sports fandom, right, whether you'rejust a Texans fan, because there's levels
to it, right, The peoplethat are most interested in knowing about c
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J. Stroud are going to beTexans fans. Then at the broader level,
the next level of people are goingto be interested in c J.
Stroud are fantasy football fans right becausethey're following to keep track on all the
quarterbacks to try and make sure theteam's the best it can be. Right.
And when you have a guy poppingoff like c J. Stroud does,
everybody in fantasy football's antennas go up, especially people who don't have an
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average or leaven the above average quarterback. Then the next level is gonna be
like the NFL the fan of theoverall NFL, and then beyond that is
like the casual. And sometimes youcan when you're when you're having a situation
like c J. Stroud did,where he was performing so well and now
you have the Texans and the chanceto make the playoffs. That broadcast signal
when you have your segment featured onan undisputed a first take, a sports
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Center or a get up or somethinglike that, and you have that conversation
about him, you start making hisawareness go beyond the Texan fan, fantasy
football fan, to the NFL fanto now the broader just casual who just
has Sports Center on and they'll seesomething about c J. Strop, Like,
oh, I heard about this guy. So that's man, i'd i'd
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be breaking down this is this mediagame for yours. Look, man,
you learn so many tricks of thetrade when you cover a team like I
for all the years I cover theRams, and then even for the limited
time that I cover like the Wizards, the Lakers and so on, It's
like you learn so much. Especiallyworking at a news organization, you see
how the rational the rationale is aboutwhat teams to what teams that you are
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going to utilize resources for in whatmanner are you going to utilize those resources
for? So it is uh isI say all that to say that when
it comes to the basketball comes toWashington Clippers, I do watch Clippers games
probably every other game. I've triedto watch the Clippers just to see how
the James Harden trade thing has beengoing. And it's so weird, man,
Like there's times when I'm watching themand I'm like, what was the
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point of the trade, you know, because there's times where you can see
how in late game offense they stillare just going to Kawhi and PG and
the ISO type of deal and theball movement and the shot creation that James
Harden was supposed to provide isn't comingto the forefront. And so that's of
those situations where I'm I'm sitting therelike, uh, I don't know,
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man. And even James, yousee, he's trying to get back into
that rockets bag. He's trying,man, and it just hasn't been hitting
in the way that he was withthe with the rockets, and so you
see he's trying to restore that thatformer level of honor that he had there.
I said honor, but you cansee trying to restore that former glory
that he had with the rockets.And he said that, you know,
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once they figure out, things aregonna get scary. I'm like, bro,
y'all have lost five or six straight, but with you, it's been
zero to five. Things are alreadyscary. Like I'm like, Bro,
I thought we were already on scaryhours. Bro, you would think that
you would have run one game bynow, just off of talent and some
of these losses. I'm like,damn, man. You watch it late
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game. You see PG trying tocook and he ends up trying to go
for a go ahead three and endsup a wedgie. Stuck in the stuck
in the hoop, and so it'sone of those things where I'm just like,
man, I don't know, Man, the Clippers are gonna be interesting
thing. I still think the Clippersare gonna are one of the I still
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think the Clippers are still one ofthe top teams when it comes to from
just from an overall talent perspective thatyou have to respect. You can't sit
there and not pay attention to theClippers, and just you know, you
have to. At the end ofthe day, the Clippers are always going
to be a team that it's gonnabe relevant in some shape, way or
form in terms of the conversation aroundthe Western Conference. But I think then
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when we expand beyond that, Ithink that there's a lot of viable teams
in the West. Granted this wasjust supposed to be a small segment,
so I'm not gonna I'm not gonnago to a full NBA deep dive here
on them, but I just thinkthat's something interesting to know. And I
think Tyler's still trying to figure outthe lineups here, Like a lot of
times he's benching Russell Westbrook. Comingtowards the end of the fourth quarter or
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different segments of the fourth quarter.One it's James, it will be James,
Harden Kawhi Leonard PG, Norman Powell. And then I think depending on
what they're playing, small or big, because that was one of the things
that was killing them against I believeit was the Nuggets they played the other
night. They were playing small andthe Nuggets were just torching them with their
size and they were trying to guardthem small and it wasn't working at all.
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And so I think it's going tobe It's interesting. I can't remember
who the fifth person is that theyrun out of that lineup. Oh,
Terrence Man, Terrence Man, andthey were I was just sending I'm like,
Damn, Jokich is like eating theseguys up. And you just started
you started seeing the disparity between thetwo teams grow wider and wider. Every
Granted, the Nuggets are until they'reknocked off. I think the Nuggets are
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just the best team in basketball.Even with Jamal Murray being sidelined temporarily,
They're still the best team in basketball, with the Celtics being a close second.
So that is what it is forme on my in terms of how
I reviewed those both those teams.But let's talk about some NFL guys.
We recently had a coaching firing,which I don't think too many people's surprise
happened because when you see the outlookof how well, I guess it wasn't
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really a coaching firering. It wasan offensive coordinator fightering firing, and that
when I refer to it, I'mtalking about Ken Dorsey, the Buffalo Bills
offensive coordinator. If y'all haven't seenobviously, the Buffalo Bills have been a
team that's left a lot to bedesired this past season, right, I
don't think that if you ask manypeople, I mean, granted, this
has been how it is. It'sfunny to me because I feel like this
is how it's been the last fewyears with the Buffalo Bills, where they
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didn't reach that mountaintop everybody always keepsprojecting them to get to. Right when
you have them lose to the KansasCity Chiefs multiple years and you're getting bounced
out, and whether it's the AFCChampionship Round, the Division round, or
whatever the case might be, they'rejust not reaching the heights that you anticipated
for this team after acquiring all thistalent, right and right now, when
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you're sitting at five and five ina division with the Miami Dolphins, the
New York Jets, and the NewEngland Patriots, right and the Dolphins lead
the division at six and three,and you have some bad losses like you
do on record with the New YorkJets, who they are about to be
playing again, and then I thinkthis lost most recent loss against the Broncos
was also a bad loss where theylost twenty four to twenty two, in
which I think in that game theyhad four turnovers. It's just an that's
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ugly football, right, That's justbad football. And I think at some
point many people were connecting that withthe performance of the offense with Josh Allen,
and even Josh Allen ended up reactingto the firing because he realized if
that team would have played better,you realize that probably this doesn't happen,
and in ways he was sentimental aboutit. And this is some of the
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write up I took from Elena Getzenbergfrom ESPN, where she says Dorsey's worked
with Allen since twenty nineteen, firstas the team's quarterbacks coach. In January
of twenty twenty after another playoff exitat the hands of the Kansasity Chiefs,
Allen successfully lobbied for Dorsey to getthe offensive coordinator job. Coach Sean McDermott
made the decision to fire Dorsy onTuesday after the team fell to five and
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five. With that loss to theBroncos, it's the team's worst winning percentage
through more than two games since finishingsix to ten in twenty eighteen. Buffalo
now sits outside of the playoff pictureheading into a Week eleven matchup against the
New York Jets, who defeated theBills in Week one. Like I noted
before, and this is exactly whatAlan had to say about it, without
a doubt, I take that verypersonally. It hurts a lot to see
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someone you care about go through asituation like that, and to know that
if I could have done more,if this offense could have done more,
we wouldn't have had to do somethinglike that. It's an unfortunate series of
events that have led up to it. But again, as much as you
can sit here and feel sorry foryourself and you can sulk on what's going
on, we got a game toprepare for and it's four days away,
so we can't pay too much attentionto it. And then here's some stats
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that Getzenburg also noted in the articlefor the season the Bills, and well,
I guess I noted this, andthis is I'm gonna tie us into
what she said in her article,because right now for the season, the
Bill's offense is eighth in points attwenty six point two per game, and
seventh and yards per game. Rightso I want to kind of outline that
because if you just looked at theBills offense as a whole, you're like,
well, they're not even performing badon offense. But I guess this
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is where the rubber hits the road, where she writes. Since Week five,
during that stretch, they have gonetoo and four and have averaged just
twenty point five points per game afteraveraging thirty four point eight over the first
four weeks. Turnovers per drive haveincreased from twelve percent to twenty one percent,
with Allen leading the league with fourteenturnovers. So you see how this
team has changed. You see wherethe you see where that rubber hisstor roal
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MoMA guess kind of happens. Andyou can see how they make that decision
to then move away from Ken Dorsey. And it sucks because, like Josh
Allen said, he directly had thepower to influence how this happened. And
I've been appalled at Josh Allen thispast season. I mean, granted,
he's leading the league in passing touchdowns, and from that standpoint, yeah,
I mean, I guess he's playingsolid. But when you're also coupling that
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with the amount of interceptions that he'sthrowing, You're you're sitting there like,
damn this dude. I mean,he doesn't he's not taking care of the
ball. He doesn't take care ofthe ball well. And it's interesting because
the amount of flak and I thinkI saw some people noting this that for
the amount of flact that Dak Prescottgets, it's weird that Josh Allen has
also has been able to skirt thatlevel of criticism despite the fact that he
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probably turns the ball over just asmuch, if not more than Dak Prescott
has over the cumulative years, right, And I think when Dak Prescott had
his turnover issues the last season,it was like every day people were on
that man's head about his performance,about his picks and having to turn down
the turnovers and get those down.But then when it comes to talking about
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Josh Allen, I don't know ifmaybe it's just the team, right,
if it's just the coverage around theteam, that people don't feel the need
to highlight that with the Buffalo Billsand Josh Allen as much because they're just
like, well, it's not asmuch of a pressing matter as it is
with the with the Dallas Cowboys.And because I feel as though, honestly,
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when you're evaluating both teams, youcan't just talk about this type of
thing when it comes to the theBills, right, You have to talk
about it from a perspective of youhave to talk about from perhaps a perspective
of the talent, right, BecauseI think that's been the biggest thing is
why people criticize the Cowboys, isbecause the people always felt like the Cowboys
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had the talent to make it tothe super Bowl, be able to win
on that big stage, and thatthey fortified both offensive resources and defensive resources
to try and make a run atthe super Bowl. When you see your
quarterback as the guy like he's pullingyou back from that situation, you have
to sit there and be like,well, what the heck is going on?
Man? Like, right, whatis especially if your offense isn't performing
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up to snuff for multiple weeks onend? Everybody has a bad week,
right, that's a thing in NFL. Everybody has a bad week. But
when you have multiple bad weeks onend. And this is a tweet from
Nick Right where he says the leagueleader in interceptions from twenty eighteen, twenty
nineteen, twenty twenty twenty one,twenty twenty twenty three has been Josh Allen
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each and every time. That's atweet from Nick Wright. Now, whether
that's correct or not, I'm Ithink that's correct. I mean, he's
somebody even that's a guy. He'sa big stat guy, So I'm sourcing
him on that information. But ifthat's true, I mean that's nuts if
Josh Allen hasn't been able to getthose turnovers down right, And so I
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think that it's one of those situationswhere you have to look at it and
you're you're realizing that if because I'mtrying to think of whenever, like,
because you realize with success, youdon't get rid of people when they're successful
either, people leave to go getnew jobs. Allah Josh McDaniels when he
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was with the Patriots of Tom Bradyand Bill Belichick, or even now you
see with when it comes to PatrickMahomes, Andy Reid and Eric b Enemy,
right, Eric Benemy going to takethe job in Washington, because I
understand bne Mey's perspective. He's ina situation where, even though he's assisting
on the offensive, play calls andso on, a lot of that credits
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being afforded to Andy Reid. Sofor Eric of the Enemy, you understand
his decision making and wanting to getup out of Kansas City and go to
Washington where he has more of afront facing facing position when it comes to
how that offense goes, and yousee it's paying off with him with Sam
Howell and how Sam Howe's lived.Sam How's one of the leading passing one
of the leading passing touchdown leaders inthe NFL. Right now, I said
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that sentence so wrong. That wasgrammatically just terrible. But so when you're
looking at the Buffalo Bills of allthe time, they have guys like Stefan
Diggs and you have Dalton Kincaid,you have a lot of different weapons that
you can utilize, and you seethat in ways that they're faltering, and
Josh Allen is not improving in themanner that you would think that he would
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be at when people were essentially readyto anoint this guy as being the next
person alongside Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomesand Justin Herbert to be along that run.
Great. I mean, he's throwingthe touchdowns like it, right he's
scoring in touchdowns like it. He'sleading the NFL and touchdowns from what I
in terms of I think he's tiedin passing touchdowns right now. That's not
including rushing touchdowns. But when youtake into account all the turnovers and stuff
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like that, you're like, okay, man, we can't have a high
volatility rate though, Like we haveto be able to decouple the touchdown performance
from the interceptions and the turnovers.So I think when you're looking at that,
that's where you end up getting thisresult. And their current quarterbacks coach
ends up is gonna end up becomingthe interim offensive coordinator and I don't know,
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man, this Buffalo Bill's team.Now you're starting to see the stuff
coming out about Stefon Diggs wanting toget out, possibly or his brother Trayvon
Digs tweeting about the situation, sayingthat his brother needs to essentially get up
out of there and that his brotheris the one that kind of made Josh
Allen what he is and so on, and so when you're seeing all those
types of things going down, yourealize, Man, this Buffalo Bill's train
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is a bit. Bill's Mafia ain'tlooking to mafish. That was terrible.
That was a terrible savement. Butyou get it. What I'm trying to
say, Man, the mafia isn'tright. And I get used to essentially
the fan base is always gonna ridehard. But that team, I don't
know, man, that team's upin the air. I got a lot
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of questions to answer, but letme let me touch on one more topic
that I want to get to realquick, and that's talking about the Boston
Celtics, because the Celtics are essentiallythe other team I was noting about how
great they are this season. They'rethe first team. They're first in the
NBA in terms of win win loss. They're nine to two point differential,
they're number one at thirteen. They'rewinning by an average of thirteen point four
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points per game their opponents. Theiroffensive their offensive efficiency is only is third
at one hundred and twenty points oryeah, one hundred and twenty, and
their three point field goal percentage orthree point field goals per game is sixteen
point three, which is second inthe NBA. And you look at it.
I saw another set earlier in theweek, or sorry, I saw
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another set. Yes, rather aboutJason Tatum, how he's leading the NBA
and plus minus right now as well. So when you're seeing those things and
you're realizing that this team as awhole is performing at such a high level,
I'm telling you keep your eye onthe Boston Celtics. Granted, I
don't know if I had to tellpeople to keep an eye on them.
I think that the Milwaukee Bucks wereheated when the Buffalo or sorry, I'm
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thinking about football, but when thePortland Trail Blazers when they traded for Damian
Lillard. I'm pretty sure the Trailthe Bucks in no way, shape or
form, wanted Drew Holliday coming backinto the Eastern Conference, let alone into
the team that's been the representative inthe Eastern Conference finals every single almost actively
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every year the last few years,right, So you essentially made one of
the biggest rivals to the Bucks andone of the biggest competitors and possibly one
of the most talented teams in theNBA much better by making that trade.
In terms of Portland trading, drewHoliday to the Celtics, And so now
when the Celtics are in this situation, I don't really take it as a
suprise. I think when the tradehappened, I think I did record a
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podcast or something of that sort talkingabout it, and I noted how the
Bucks could not have been happy aboutthat because the Bucks are still trying to
find their stride. Granted, they'reonly about what three games back right now.
Of the of the Celtics, whoare at nine to two right now,
the Bucks are seven and four,so you're seeing them still trying to
find their way. Damian Lillard justhad an amazing game last night where he
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had about what he had thirty sevenpoints. I believe he took like he
was like eighteen to nineteen free throwsdoing crazy. So you'll see the Bucks
still trying to find their stride.That's one of the things that I was
always worried about with the Bucks oncethey made the trade was their defensive prowess,
and their defense has definitely tooken astep back because that wing defense that
Drew Holliday provided was just so goodfor that Bucks team. But I think
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that their vision is that they're goingto create an offensive system where it's a
handed trade off, right, becausethey needed somebody that they could depend on
to close and that was a differencemaker on the offensive end. And I
guess they're gauging that. Look,even though we might be giving up some
stuff on terms of wing defense,we are so good on the inside and
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when it comes to when it comesto just having good health defense and being
able to make things tougher for guys, especially when it comes to the painted
area, we have that on lock. So we'll try and we'll try and
navigate that the best we can withhaving Jamian Lillard be a subpar defender and
trying to now incorporate his obviously superstarlevel offense and to what we do offensively,
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and hopefully we can win late gameseven if we're not stopping everybody,
we'll be in the best position towin those games. And I think that's
the rationale the Bucks have had sofar this season, and I mean they're
still figuring things out. I mightrewatch that game and take some place from
that game just to break down somejust as an interesting talking point. But
guys, I think that's it forme. Man, that's gonna do it.
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so go ahead and do that,guys. Of course, I want to
give some updates on some content that'scoming up that I'm working on that's coming
up. I actually have a busyweek. I'm doing a lot of traveling.
I think by the time this comesout, this will be their November
sixteenth. So by the time thiscomes out, the very next day,
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I'll be driving. I'll be goingon like a twelve hour drive essentially just
for the holidays. And it's kindof got my whole schedule messed up.
I intended to have a video donethis week that you guys would receive this
week, but my weekend was sobusy. I ran a five K this
past weekend, and then afterwards,me and my girlfriend just ended up doing
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a whole bunch of stuff we hadto get done in terms of chores and
stuff preparing to leave for our tripbecause and then also I did I had
to do a lot of cooking toprepare meal prep for the week on Sunday,
and then Sunday I did a lotof watching the NFL and trying to
make content from the games that Isaw in the NFL. So it's kind
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of tough sometimes when it comes tothe long form written video content. Not
tough because I have like three scripts. I kid, you not have three
scripts written out right now, andI just need to record and then edit
those videos. But obvious, soyou can't edit more than one video at
a time because I'm only one person, so it kind of makes it more
difficult the videos. It ends upcreating a backlog and things keep getting pushed
back each each time I add anotherscript or whatever to well, I guess
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doesn't get pushed back more. Soit's just that if I'm working on one,
then the other ones are sitting therewaiting to be done, right,
So I would say I think that'smore of the biggest thing as of right
now is that the video that didnot come out this week was delayed just
because of the Like I noted allthose different events that happened before the weekend
before, but I am I shouldbe recording that video, or I should
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be recording two videos by the timeyou guys hear this, So for me
to edit and work on once,I you know, once I get where
I'm going to and then I canhelpfully have at least one of those videos
out next week during the holiday week. So that's what I'll be working on
next week. So hopefully you guyswill see one of those videos come out
next Tuesday. But it's going tobe a busy weekend, I'm pretty sure
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for me as well, just witha lot of travel and so on,
and a lot of the work Ihave to get done not only for here,
but for my core my actually youknow, full time job. So
that's something that I gotta make sureI'm nailing down. You know, you
got to pay the bills across theboard. So but I am excited to
get get to you know, geta lot of it because one thing,
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one of the funny things is thatI think early on when I started this
whole entire podcast or you know,or when I first had the idea of
doing this, podcasting was probably myfavorite thing to do, right It was
my I mean, it was reallythe main thing I did. And then
I didn't start doing written long formvideos until until maybe years later, right,
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And I would say, I enjoydoing the written scripts, the long
form content. But the only problemis that that stuff just takes so much
more effort to edit when it comesto when you're doing sports content, especially
because you have to also retrieve yourvideo clips if you're talking about a particular
subject matter like imagine me talking aboutand some creators do this, I guess
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it's more of a creative vision,like, right, like that's more of
a decision on the creative and thatis something that for me, I like
to make sure that if I'm talkingabout a player or I'm talking about a
circumstance of the game, you allcan see what I'm referencing and you kind
of get that visual reference right.And so because some creators they just sit
down and record and talk and it'smuch less busy work on the back end,
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right because you don't then have toretrieve video clips. You don't have
to then try and make sure you'resourcing the clip where you got it from
and so on, and trying tomake sure that your clip is edited to
the perfect amount so you don't gethit for copyright violation from either the NBA,
NFL or YouTube itself. You knowthat those are things that are so
annoying and you have to a lotof times adjust for that while you're editing
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your stuff, especially if something hasmusic in it, right. So it's
one of those things that you arealways fighting a battle. And I think
with writing, with the process ofme creating a long form video, you
have the process of initially coming upwith the idea of what you want to
talk about, right, you wantto especially for me, a lot of
times when I'm making a long formvideo, I'm like, what can exist
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beyond the perfect or this time offrame of which I'm writing it, Because
they take sometimes they take so longthat they are I'm like, what will
what will exist or what will berelevant even if people were to watch it
two months from now right, whichis what my last video I felt like
the reason why, or my videoabout skip baylists and Shannon Sharp on the
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channel, that was the reason whyI chose to do that because I felt
like it was a video that anybodycould it was relevant whether you were doing
watching it now, watching it then, and the point of time when it
came out. It was actually perfecttiming because I had been working on that
video for a while and I waseven sitting here debating it with my girlfriend.
I was like, damn, dude, this has taking me a minute
to like just find I get everysingle bit of you know, every voice,
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know every anecdote that these guys havesaid, and make sure that it
all lines up with the message I'mtrying to convey or what I'm everything.
I'm trying because I wanted to befair for both parties, so I want
to make sure I'm finding instances ofboth guys maybe acting A four or whatever
the case I could find. SoI'm watching multiple undisputed videos, I'm watching
all their I'm trying to get throughall their stuff so i can just see,
you know, because both parties hadhad levels of blame and what they
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what they did that led to thatbreakup. But in terms of doing something
like that, it's like, becauseyou I always make my stuff with the
view of if the person, ifthe two people or whomever the subject matter
is about in the video watched it, would they think it's fair to them
or would you would they feel asthough I'm doing a deserved disservice to them
or misconstruing things in a certain wayto fit a narrative. I don't want
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that to be the perspective. Soyou do extra groundwork to be able to
try and get all the get allthe information you can. So that and
that's that's just journalism as a whole, right, I think that. I
think that's one of those things thatit just has A good journalist if somebody,
if you're trying to write something aboutsomebody, or you're covering a subject
matter with somebody, yeah, youmight not get every waking detail especially if
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you don't speak to the person oryou're not directly sourcing from their family members
or something like that. But evensometimes when you source it from people,
so people are gonna try it ifespecially if it's a negative story about them,
they're gonna obviously try and then conswaythe perspectus of whatever it is you're
writing about. Like I think Irecently just saw that James Harden that that
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one clip of that announcer that isgoing viral. I think it's one of
the Mavericks, the Bali Sports announceror the Mavericks announcer, one of the
guys. He goes on this rantabout James Harden, right, and he
talks about how he pretty much talksabout the perception that James Harden has from
going from team to team, thewhole nine and whatever. James Harden fires
back essentially saying that you know,dude doesn't really know what's going on.
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Right. He pretty much says,you know, if he doesn't have the
full story and dude is just takingit's unfair for the guy to be taking
shots at him. I'm going toread you to quote because this is reason
sometimes on Twitter, I just liketweets so I can have them as a
frame of reference for later on.But he says he doesn't know me or
the situation. That would be fedup if I went at him and started
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me disrespectful to him. But Ican't. They don't know anything. They
just go off what they see onsocial media or hearsay. And this is
part of my problem because my issuewith that perspective from James Harden is that,
well, people only can go offof information that's available to them,
right. I can't just say,oh, well, people are just going
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off of hearsay, whatever the casemight be, because if a lot of
people can only go on what they'reseeing taken place and form an opinion on
what they're taking place. I sawI heard a developer, a game developer
he made the God of Wars seriesnamed David Jaffy, and he was talking
about on a podcast. He wastalking about how I believe it was with
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Colin Moriarty and last stand. Youknow, credit to those guys, but
he was essentially saying that, youknow, in regards they were talking about
the current states aus A PlayStation inSony and as a whole, and he
was saying that if you don't comeout and speak and give your side of
what's going on. You're leaving peopleto speculate. And that's what people are
going to do. They're not goingto just sit here and not speculate about
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what's going on. People are goingto speculate and create theories and stuff like
that on what they think it mightbe the situation of what's occurring at that
particular place, right, And sothat similar thing here James Harden. James
Harden can just say yeah, hecan say he doesn't know what's going on
or whatever. But we all doknow you've been to X amount of teams
in the last few years, right. We all do see how you got
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out of Houston. We all seehow the Philly thing went down. We
all see when you left Brooklyn,right, And whether obviously in hindsight some
of those departures were justified or not. Still, it's the fact that you've
been on X amount of teams inthe last few years. It's like,
how do things keep going wrong?We might not know everything, but then
tell us how is it all goingwrong? People, because people aren't are
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just gonna be left to speculate ateach destination, right, And I think
That's a perfect example of where youeven if you try and go to the
source, sometimes they're not gonna giveyou everything you need. They're just gonna
say something like that. That statementfrom James Harden is so vague, Like
what am I supposed to do withthat? I still don't know any My
knowledge before James Harden made that statementdidn't all unpact my thoughts about what that
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sports broadcaster had said. Going aboutJames Harden's latest few years of his career
changed nothing. It didn't change theperspective at all, because James Harden gave
us no information. So I feelas though as a not to you when
you're in one of these whether you'rea content creator, influencer, whatever,
journalists, whatever the case might be, it's only right to try and be
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fair to both parties. And maybeif if you're saying, if James is
saying that, I wish he wouldhave talked to me and got more information
about the situation first. But I'mjust it's one of those things. Man.
Look, we've been in this JamesHarden circuit of James being on teams,
things not working out, and obviouslyI think I have a video where
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I covered or I talked about theJames Harden situation. I think I either
have a video or I have ashort one of those two things where I
did talk about the James Harden situation. Or it might be a podcast episode.
I think it might. Yeah,it actually might be a podcast episode,
and I talked about it. Andyou know, James did a lot
for Philly to try and allow themto be able to formulate a championship team,
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including taking a pay cut when hedidn't need to. James has done
a lot of stuff right, andI'm pretty sure there were some assurances that
he had gotten that maybe got alittle bit shaky after his playoff performance in
last year's postseason. So I thinkthat obviously James does have a case in
some regard. But when you're notopenly speaking for that, and you're trying
to just let everybody else go outthere and argue for you without amo to
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do that, I don't know howlong how entrenched people can really be when
trying to make a case right.So yeah, that just goes without saying
essentially that was funny enough. Iwas able to talk about that as a
topic and use that to kind ofcurtail my point here, or to reinforce
my point about you know, justdoing the extra work if you're in one
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of these roles and you have aplatform of some sort and trying to make
sure you get all the facts fromboth sides or try to represent the facts
that you can the best way possible. But a lot of times when it
comes to trying to do like Icould just for example, not do as
much written, long written stuff andthen try and just get content out as
fast as possible and just sit hererecord do the most minimal editing I can
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do just to keep up with thealgorithm. Honestly, I probably would have
a bigger channel if I did thatright. And that's the thing is like
when you're in the content game forsomeone, you kind of see what works.
Granted the platforms changed all the time, but you get a sense for
what works, especially when you dowhen you are putting out consistent content,
you see what the algorithm likes andYouTube rewards you. If you are putting
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out, for example, content that'sabove at least eight minutes, right,
and you were putting that out atleast once once once a day, if
you were putting out if you're puttingout like once a day, eight minute
quality content. Dude, you wererunning an operation and some bloggers, I
mean they're able to do that.But if you're able to, you know,
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run it up like that, that'sfor when you're going to grow incredibly
fast. But it has to allbe quality content. And that's the thing
I pride myself. I'm not havingvideos that I think are like and granted
this this is subjective, right,It's not a one size fits all thing
like somebody, somebody can watch myvideos, but like these are trash,
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but at least to my standard,I think they're good videos. So I
hopefully hopefully people enjoy them, andnormally the comments from what I see,
people do enjoy them. So Ialways try to maintain that quality bar.
And then normally when it comes toa a like I want to give an
update on something that I'm seeing justin the week or whatever, that's when
you'll get a TikTok or short orcovering that subject because it's maybe something in
(14:01):
between a minute to thirty seconds,just offering my opinion real quick on that
subject matter, and then I canget that out faster than anything else.
But think about it, that's stilltime that takes away from the editing of
a long form video, and that'sthose a lot of times, the content
that you need to maintain your othersocial media platforms. So when it comes
to like Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Facebook page, and you
(14:24):
know, so you can see kindof how the beasts the machine works in
a way, and when you're especiallyone person running it all, it's a
lot. It's a lot. It'sa lot, man. So you know,
sometimes I wonder is it best tokind of take a step back on
some of the things so that youcan really focus on one thing, like
posting all the shorts, tiktoks andreels and stuff all the time. Is
(14:46):
it better to just take a stepback and focus on the long form stuff
and prioritize that. But you guys, let me know, I always I
can, including y'all on on whatI decided to do here or this is
the opinions on the thoughts going throughmy head on what you guys like more.
And whenever you guys give your commentaryor do look into it, I
read it, and you know,you gotta if you're it's one of those
(15:09):
things that if you are like astick in mud and you're not willing to
adapt or change or do anything likethat. Then it's like, dude,
the industries are going to pass youby, man, right, Like the
technical revolution is going to change,Like different things are going to come up.
I sometimes wish man it's funny becauseI'm a I'm a sports podcast.
(15:31):
I'm really into tech. Funny enoughpeople might not know I'm into tech,
I'm into gaming, I'm into businessand stuff like that. And I find
I do find like the stuff aboutAI very interesting because I think AI has
a lot of interesting uses that inYouTube. Just implemented a feature where creators
or policy rather where creators have todisclose of content that they're making is utilizing
(15:52):
AI, right, And so that'sone of those things. It's going to
be interesting to see how, youknow, things go moving forward in terms
of the battle against AI. Ijust watched a movie called This was probably
about a month or two ago thatI watched this movie, but it's a
movie called The Creator, and youkind of see the full I mean,
it's it's a story essentially about likehow I'm not gonna spoil, but you
(16:18):
kind of see the how AI issupposed to try and live alongside humanity,
and you see the threat humanity perceivedAI to be and the lack of humanity
they assess to AI, despite youknow, advanced programming that onto itself makes
AI feel very human like. Andyou got a wonder man. As we
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keep advancing technologically, is it oneof those things that you just keep pushing
the technology technological envelope forward and forward, right? Or do you self stemy
your your yourself from a technology standpoint, just to mitigate any possible threats AI
could have to the work force orto our society as a whole, right,
(17:04):
And those are interesting things because whenyou see some of the things that
AI can do, it is veryinteresting. But you also don't want to
displace your own species in some wayswhen it comes to work and different functions
that have been naturally fulfilled by humans. But naturally humans have always used technology
(17:25):
to create conveniences for themselves in life. And if AI is one of those
things that you can create further conveniencein right, then I don't know,
man, if you're telling me oneof these tech companies is just gonna sit
there and say, nah, we'renot going to try and push the envelope
advance to envelope AI. I don'tknow, man, I don't know.
(17:45):
You're to see Microsoft's doing it.You see Google trying to get into it
with incorporating it as well with theywere trying to corporate their own AI with
barred for Google. So but thisis not a tech podcast, guys.
But if you guys ever want tohave that conversation, I'm down. I'm
totally down, man, But uhlet me what I do want to say
One thing about the James Harden withthe Clippers thing. I think it's very
(18:07):
interesting because this actually isn't one ofmy main topics, but this is something
I've just been following. But Ifind it very interesting that the team is
still winless since the James Harden trade. It's so weird because and I watch,
I watch a good amount. Itry to watch a lot of different
games as much as possible. Idon't try to watch like the only team
I watch back to back to backon on occasions the Lakers, right because
that's my favorite team. But otherthan that, I'm trying to watch a
(18:30):
lot of different teams around the aroundthe NBA, even if it's a boring
ass game like if you even ifyou give me like the Pistons, and
the Magic. Right. Sometimes thosegames are dull as crap, but you
gotta watch those games to learn theleague, right. You gotta when people
when people always try to talk tome about basketball, and sometimes I find
it very entertaining. It's not likeI know more than you or or anybody
(18:52):
else, but rather if you're notwilling to do the research, then how
deep can the conversation really go?Right? Because I don't. Obviously there's
a lot of people that know betterbasketball, way better than I do.
But I watch so much of itthat I have a level of understanding of
the game that I can talk aboutpretty much almost every team in a co
coherent manner, right, And Idon't think I think most people can talk
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about their team at a very indepth level. But when you start broadening
beyond their team, or even theteams within their division or their or even
the top teams in the NBA,then people get a little bit more hampered,
right. And I think that it'sone of those interesting conversations when you
want to talk about basketball and yousee how folks want to sometimes how you
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how you talk about in basketball?And it's funny because the NFL escapes this
to some degree, because most NFLconversations will always have somehow a narrow focus,
at least when it comes to thenational level, a narrow focus on
the Cowboys to some degree, andthen that's what you brought it out,
depending on what the news stories werefor that past week, right, And
so when you have it like that, the NFL has been able to incorporate
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all the smaller teams like you cantalk about to some degree, depend especially
if a team has a really goodquarterback, like for example, you'll see
the c J. Stroud's been gettinga lot more coverage recently, right,
because it's easier to cover c J. Stroud because a quarterback of playing at
a high level, especially when youhave something like fantasy football that's such a
(20:22):
huge revolution towards towards sports media andnews coverage that you can cover the Houston
Texans and CJ. Stroud and soon and have it be a topic that
does X amount of thousands of viewsbecause he's he's relevant to multiple segments of
sports fandom, right, whether you'rejust a Texans fan, because there's levels
to it, right, The peoplethat are most interested in knowing about c
(20:45):
J. Stroud are going to beTexans fans. Then at the broader level,
the next level of people are goingto be interested in c J.
Stroud are fantasy football fans right becausethey're following to keep track on all the
quarterbacks to try and make sure theteam's the best it can be. Right.
And when you have a guy poppingoff like c J. Stroud does,
everybody in fantasy football's antennas go up, especially people who don't have an
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average or leaven the above average quarterback. Then the next level is gonna be
like the NFL the fan of theoverall NFL, and then beyond that is
like the casual. And sometimes youcan when you're when you're having a situation
like c J. Stroud did,where he was performing so well and now
you have the Texans and the chanceto make the playoffs. That broadcast signal
when you have your segment featured onan undisputed a first take, a sports
(21:30):
Center or a get up or somethinglike that, and you have that conversation
about him, you start making hisawareness go beyond the Texan fan, fantasy
football fan, to the NFL fanto now the broader just casual who just
has Sports Center on and they'll seesomething about c J. Strop, Like,
oh, I heard about this guy. So that's man, i'd i'd
(21:52):
be breaking down this is this mediagame for yours. Look, man,
you learn so many tricks of thetrade when you cover a team like I
for all the years I cover theRams, and then even for the limited
time that I cover like the Wizards, the Lakers and so on, It's
like you learn so much. Especiallyworking at a news organization, you see
how the rational the rationale is aboutwhat teams to what teams that you are
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going to utilize resources for in whatmanner are you going to utilize those resources
for? So it is uh isI say all that to say that when
it comes to the basketball comes toWashington Clippers, I do watch Clippers games
probably every other game. I've triedto watch the Clippers just to see how
the James Harden trade thing has beengoing. And it's so weird, man,
Like there's times when I'm watching themand I'm like, what was the
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point of the trade, you know, because there's times where you can see
how in late game offense they stillare just going to Kawhi and PG and
the ISO type of deal and theball movement and the shot creation that James
Harden was supposed to provide isn't comingto the forefront. And so that's of
those situations where I'm I'm sitting therelike, uh, I don't know,
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man. And even James, yousee, he's trying to get back into
that rockets bag. He's trying,man, and it just hasn't been hitting
in the way that he was withthe with the rockets, and so you
see he's trying to restore that thatformer level of honor that he had there.
I said honor, but you cansee trying to restore that former glory
that he had with the rockets.And he said that, you know,
(23:27):
once they figure out, things aregonna get scary. I'm like, bro,
y'all have lost five or six straight, but with you, it's been
zero to five. Things are alreadyscary. Like I'm like, Bro,
I thought we were already on scaryhours. Bro, you would think that
you would have run one game bynow, just off of talent and some
of these losses. I'm like,damn, man. You watch it late
(23:48):
game. You see PG trying tocook and he ends up trying to go
for a go ahead three and endsup a wedgie. Stuck in the stuck
in the hoop, and so it'sone of those things where I'm just like,
man, I don't know, Man, the Clippers are gonna be interesting
thing. I still think the Clippersare gonna are one of the I still
(24:12):
think the Clippers are still one ofthe top teams when it comes to from
just from an overall talent perspective thatyou have to respect. You can't sit
there and not pay attention to theClippers, and just you know, you
have to. At the end ofthe day, the Clippers are always going
to be a team that it's gonnabe relevant in some shape, way or
form in terms of the conversation aroundthe Western Conference. But I think then
(24:33):
when we expand beyond that, Ithink that there's a lot of viable teams
in the West. Granted this wasjust supposed to be a small segment,
so I'm not gonna I'm not gonnago to a full NBA deep dive here
on them, but I just thinkthat's something interesting to know. And I
think Tyler's still trying to figure outthe lineups here, Like a lot of
times he's benching Russell Westbrook. Comingtowards the end of the fourth quarter or
(24:55):
different segments of the fourth quarter.One it's James, it will be James,
Harden Kawhi Leonard PG, Norman Powell. And then I think depending on
what they're playing, small or big, because that was one of the things
that was killing them against I believeit was the Nuggets they played the other
night. They were playing small andthe Nuggets were just torching them with their
size and they were trying to guardthem small and it wasn't working at all.
(25:15):
And so I think it's going tobe It's interesting. I can't remember
who the fifth person is that theyrun out of that lineup. Oh,
Terrence Man, Terrence Man, andthey were I was just sending I'm like,
Damn, Jokich is like eating theseguys up. And you just started
you started seeing the disparity between thetwo teams grow wider and wider. Every
Granted, the Nuggets are until they'reknocked off. I think the Nuggets are
(25:37):
just the best team in basketball.Even with Jamal Murray being sidelined temporarily,
They're still the best team in basketball, with the Celtics being a close second.
So that is what it is forme on my in terms of how
I reviewed those both those teams.But let's talk about some NFL guys.
We recently had a coaching firing,which I don't think too many people's surprise
happened because when you see the outlookof how well, I guess it wasn't
(26:00):
really a coaching firering. It wasan offensive coordinator fightering firing, and that
when I refer to it, I'mtalking about Ken Dorsey, the Buffalo Bills
offensive coordinator. If y'all haven't seenobviously, the Buffalo Bills have been a
team that's left a lot to bedesired this past season, right, I
don't think that if you ask manypeople, I mean, granted, this
has been how it is. It'sfunny to me because I feel like this
is how it's been the last fewyears with the Buffalo Bills, where they
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didn't reach that mountaintop everybody always keepsprojecting them to get to. Right when
you have them lose to the KansasCity Chiefs multiple years and you're getting bounced
out, and whether it's the AFCChampionship Round, the Division round, or
whatever the case might be, they'rejust not reaching the heights that you anticipated
for this team after acquiring all thistalent, right and right now, when
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you're sitting at five and five ina division with the Miami Dolphins, the
New York Jets, and the NewEngland Patriots, right and the Dolphins lead
the division at six and three,and you have some bad losses like you
do on record with the New YorkJets, who they are about to be
playing again, and then I thinkthis lost most recent loss against the Broncos
was also a bad loss where theylost twenty four to twenty two, in
which I think in that game theyhad four turnovers. It's just an that's
(27:07):
ugly football, right, That's justbad football. And I think at some
point many people were connecting that withthe performance of the offense with Josh Allen,
and even Josh Allen ended up reactingto the firing because he realized if
that team would have played better,you realize that probably this doesn't happen,
and in ways he was sentimental aboutit. And this is some of the
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write up I took from Elena Getzenbergfrom ESPN, where she says Dorsey's worked
with Allen since twenty nineteen, firstas the team's quarterbacks coach. In January
of twenty twenty after another playoff exitat the hands of the Kansasity Chiefs,
Allen successfully lobbied for Dorsey to getthe offensive coordinator job. Coach Sean McDermott
made the decision to fire Dorsy onTuesday after the team fell to five and
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five. With that loss to theBroncos, it's the team's worst winning percentage
through more than two games since finishingsix to ten in twenty eighteen. Buffalo
now sits outside of the playoff pictureheading into a Week eleven matchup against the
New York Jets, who defeated theBills in Week one. Like I noted
before, and this is exactly whatAlan had to say about it, without
a doubt, I take that verypersonally. It hurts a lot to see
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someone you care about go through asituation like that, and to know that
if I could have done more,if this offense could have done more,
we wouldn't have had to do somethinglike that. It's an unfortunate series of
events that have led up to it. But again, as much as you
can sit here and feel sorry foryourself and you can sulk on what's going
on, we got a game toprepare for and it's four days away,
so we can't pay too much attentionto it. And then here's some stats
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that Getzenburg also noted in the articlefor the season the Bills, and well,
I guess I noted this, andthis is I'm gonna tie us into
what she said in her article,because right now for the season, the
Bill's offense is eighth in points attwenty six point two per game, and
seventh and yards per game. Rightso I want to kind of outline that
because if you just looked at theBills offense as a whole, you're like,
well, they're not even performing badon offense. But I guess this
(29:00):
is where the rubber hits the road, where she writes. Since Week five,
during that stretch, they have gonetoo and four and have averaged just
twenty point five points per game afteraveraging thirty four point eight over the first
four weeks. Turnovers per drive haveincreased from twelve percent to twenty one percent,
with Allen leading the league with fourteenturnovers. So you see how this
team has changed. You see wherethe you see where that rubber hisstor roal
(29:25):
MoMA guess kind of happens. Andyou can see how they make that decision
to then move away from Ken Dorsey. And it sucks because, like Josh
Allen said, he directly had thepower to influence how this happened. And
I've been appalled at Josh Allen thispast season. I mean, granted,
he's leading the league in passing touchdowns, and from that standpoint, yeah,
I mean, I guess he's playingsolid. But when you're also coupling that
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with the amount of interceptions that he'sthrowing, You're you're sitting there like,
damn this dude. I mean,he doesn't he's not taking care of the
ball. He doesn't take care ofthe ball well. And it's interesting because
the amount of flak and I thinkI saw some people noting this that for
the amount of flact that Dak Prescottgets, it's weird that Josh Allen has
also has been able to skirt thatlevel of criticism despite the fact that he
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probably turns the ball over just asmuch, if not more than Dak Prescott
has over the cumulative years, right, And I think when Dak Prescott had
his turnover issues the last season,it was like every day people were on
that man's head about his performance,about his picks and having to turn down
the turnovers and get those down.But then when it comes to talking about
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Josh Allen, I don't know ifmaybe it's just the team, right,
if it's just the coverage around theteam, that people don't feel the need
to highlight that with the Buffalo Billsand Josh Allen as much because they're just
like, well, it's not asmuch of a pressing matter as it is
with the with the Dallas Cowboys.And because I feel as though, honestly,
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when you're evaluating both teams, youcan't just talk about this type of
thing when it comes to the theBills, right, You have to talk
about it from a perspective of youhave to talk about from perhaps a perspective
of the talent, right, BecauseI think that's been the biggest thing is
why people criticize the Cowboys, isbecause the people always felt like the Cowboys
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had the talent to make it tothe super Bowl, be able to win
on that big stage, and thatthey fortified both offensive resources and defensive resources
to try and make a run atthe super Bowl. When you see your
quarterback as the guy like he's pullingyou back from that situation, you have
to sit there and be like,well, what the heck is going on?
Man? Like, right, whatis especially if your offense isn't performing
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up to snuff for multiple weeks onend? Everybody has a bad week,
right, that's a thing in NFL. Everybody has a bad week. But
when you have multiple bad weeks onend. And this is a tweet from
Nick Right where he says the leagueleader in interceptions from twenty eighteen, twenty
nineteen, twenty twenty twenty one,twenty twenty twenty three has been Josh Allen
(32:01):
each and every time. That's atweet from Nick Wright. Now, whether
that's correct or not, I'm Ithink that's correct. I mean, he's
somebody even that's a guy. He'sa big stat guy, So I'm sourcing
him on that information. But ifthat's true, I mean that's nuts if
Josh Allen hasn't been able to getthose turnovers down right, And so I
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think that it's one of those situationswhere you have to look at it and
you're you're realizing that if because I'mtrying to think of whenever, like,
because you realize with success, youdon't get rid of people when they're successful
either, people leave to go getnew jobs. Allah Josh McDaniels when he
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was with the Patriots of Tom Bradyand Bill Belichick, or even now you
see with when it comes to PatrickMahomes, Andy Reid and Eric b Enemy,
right, Eric Benemy going to takethe job in Washington, because I
understand bne Mey's perspective. He's ina situation where, even though he's assisting
on the offensive, play calls andso on, a lot of that credits
(33:04):
being afforded to Andy Reid. Sofor Eric of the Enemy, you understand
his decision making and wanting to getup out of Kansas City and go to
Washington where he has more of afront facing facing position when it comes to
how that offense goes, and yousee it's paying off with him with Sam
Howell and how Sam Howe's lived.Sam How's one of the leading passing one
of the leading passing touchdown leaders inthe NFL. Right now, I said
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that sentence so wrong. That wasgrammatically just terrible. But so when you're
looking at the Buffalo Bills of allthe time, they have guys like Stefan
Diggs and you have Dalton Kincaid,you have a lot of different weapons that
you can utilize, and you seethat in ways that they're faltering, and
Josh Allen is not improving in themanner that you would think that he would
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be at when people were essentially readyto anoint this guy as being the next
person alongside Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomesand Justin Herbert to be along that run.
Great. I mean, he's throwingthe touchdowns like it, right he's
scoring in touchdowns like it. He'sleading the NFL and touchdowns from what I
in terms of I think he's tiedin passing touchdowns right now. That's not
including rushing touchdowns. But when youtake into account all the turnovers and stuff
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like that, you're like, okay, man, we can't have a high
volatility rate though, Like we haveto be able to decouple the touchdown performance
from the interceptions and the turnovers.So I think when you're looking at that,
that's where you end up getting thisresult. And their current quarterbacks coach
ends up is gonna end up becomingthe interim offensive coordinator and I don't know,
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man, this Buffalo Bill's team.Now you're starting to see the stuff
coming out about Stefon Diggs wanting toget out, possibly or his brother Trayvon
Digs tweeting about the situation, sayingthat his brother needs to essentially get up
out of there and that his brotheris the one that kind of made Josh
Allen what he is and so on, and so when you're seeing all those
types of things going down, yourealize, Man, this Buffalo Bill's train
(34:55):
is a bit. Bill's Mafia ain'tlooking to mafish. That was terrible.
That was a terrible savement. Butyou get it. What I'm trying to
say, Man, the mafia isn'tright. And I get used to essentially
the fan base is always gonna ridehard. But that team, I don't
know, man, that team's upin the air. I got a lot
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of questions to answer, but letme let me touch on one more topic
that I want to get to realquick, and that's talking about the Boston
Celtics, because the Celtics are essentiallythe other team I was noting about how
great they are this season. They'rethe first team. They're first in the
NBA in terms of win win loss. They're nine to two point differential,
they're number one at thirteen. They'rewinning by an average of thirteen point four
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points per game their opponents. Theiroffensive their offensive efficiency is only is third
at one hundred and twenty points oryeah, one hundred and twenty, and
their three point field goal percentage orthree point field goals per game is sixteen
point three, which is second inthe NBA. And you look at it.
I saw another set earlier in theweek, or sorry, I saw
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another set. Yes, rather aboutJason Tatum, how he's leading the NBA
and plus minus right now as well. So when you're seeing those things and
you're realizing that this team as awhole is performing at such a high level,
I'm telling you keep your eye onthe Boston Celtics. Granted, I
don't know if I had to tellpeople to keep an eye on them.
I think that the Milwaukee Bucks wereheated when the Buffalo or sorry, I'm
(36:19):
thinking about football, but when thePortland Trail Blazers when they traded for Damian
Lillard. I'm pretty sure the Trailthe Bucks in no way, shape or
form, wanted Drew Holliday coming backinto the Eastern Conference, let alone into
the team that's been the representative inthe Eastern Conference finals every single almost actively
(36:39):
every year the last few years,right, So you essentially made one of
the biggest rivals to the Bucks andone of the biggest competitors and possibly one
of the most talented teams in theNBA much better by making that trade.
In terms of Portland trading, drewHoliday to the Celtics, And so now
when the Celtics are in this situation, I don't really take it as a
suprise. I think when the tradehappened, I think I did record a
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podcast or something of that sort talkingabout it, and I noted how the
Bucks could not have been happy aboutthat because the Bucks are still trying to
find their stride. Granted, they'reonly about what three games back right now.
Of the of the Celtics, whoare at nine to two right now,
the Bucks are seven and four,so you're seeing them still trying to
find their way. Damian Lillard justhad an amazing game last night where he
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had about what he had thirty sevenpoints. I believe he took like he
was like eighteen to nineteen free throwsdoing crazy. So you'll see the Bucks
still trying to find their stride.That's one of the things that I was
always worried about with the Bucks oncethey made the trade was their defensive prowess,
and their defense has definitely tooken astep back because that wing defense that
Drew Holliday provided was just so goodfor that Bucks team. But I think
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that their vision is that they're goingto create an offensive system where it's a
handed trade off, right, becausethey needed somebody that they could depend on
to close and that was a differencemaker on the offensive end. And I
guess they're gauging that. Look,even though we might be giving up some
stuff on terms of wing defense,we are so good on the inside and
(38:07):
when it comes to when it comesto just having good health defense and being
able to make things tougher for guys, especially when it comes to the painted
area, we have that on lock. So we'll try and we'll try and
navigate that the best we can withhaving Jamian Lillard be a subpar defender and
trying to now incorporate his obviously superstarlevel offense and to what we do offensively,
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and hopefully we can win late gameseven if we're not stopping everybody,
we'll be in the best position towin those games. And I think that's
the rationale the Bucks have had sofar this season, and I mean they're
still figuring things out. I mightrewatch that game and take some place from
that game just to break down somejust as an interesting talking point. But
guys, I think that's it forme. Man, that's gonna do it.
Of Course, if you guys enjoyedthis podcast episode, go ahead and
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guys hit the subscribe button leave areview. I do always appreciate you guys
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recommended to other people. I checkedthe podcast charts a lot to see how
the podcast is doing. Obviously,I'm not one of the bigger podcasts,
but I hope you guys helped meto get there right, and I appreciate
you all tuning in. Obviously,every share, every recommendation helps to grow
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the podcast, So if you guyscould do that, it would be much
appreciated. Of course, guys,make sure you follow all the social media
pages, whether it's KBR Sports onInstagram and Twitter at KBR Underscore Sports,
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follow me at brendan Abin on eachof those platforms as well as TikTok so
I appreciate all the support y'all.Of course, if you guys have any
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podcasts or any video recommendations for meas well, just in terms of where
you would like to see things goin terms of a game plan, I
would appreciate that, guys. Andof course, until next time, I'm out
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!