Kansas City Chiefs make dominance look easy, Philadelphia Eagles run to SB, Jayden Daniels best rookie QB ever, De'Aaron Fox trade market

Brendan Abban discusses the continued dominance of the Kansas City Chiefs as they continue their playoff win streak over the Buffalo Bills and make it to a third straight Super Bowl. He then discusses the Philadelphia Eagles running all over their division rivals in the Washington Commanders. Despite the loss, he gives props to the talent and ability of Jayden Daniels. Then sees where he stacks up among other NFL rookie quarterbacks all time. Then he discusses the Sacramento Kings opening trade talks for De'Aaron Fox. Hope you enjoy!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody, What is going on? Is the KBR Sports
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(00:20):
is enjoyable. Obviously I got a good rundown of topics
to talk about today, and funny enough, one thing that
is as sure, at least I hope I can ensure
as good a podcast experience for you as much as
I can ensure the King City Chiefs going to the
super Bowl, because my goodness, it's kind of ridiculous at
this point. Really, no matter who they play, it feels

(00:42):
like regardless rain, sleet, snow, cold weather, warm weather, it
doesn't matter outside of playing Tom Brady and Joe Burrow,
it just feels as though the Kin City Chiefs will
find a way to get to the super Bowl, and
just it is honestly an amazing feet when you think
about it, the fact that Tom Brady has Tom Brady

(01:02):
and the New England Patriots were able to beat them
one time, and then Tom Brady on his own with
the Bay Buccaneers able to be them another time in
the Super Bowls. So when you think about it from
that perspective, it really is actually jaw dropping just how
good the Chiefs are and the level of talent, Like
you're talking about, you're talking about literally the greatest quarterback.

(01:25):
It's taking the greatest quarterback of all time to stop
the Chiefs essentially, and two of the other instances where
they could have won a Super Bowl or at least
gotten there in one instance. And then Joe Burrow, who
is arguably one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL
right now, who had literally the best offensive season four
quarterback outside of maybe just Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen

(01:48):
depending on how you see. Honestly, Joe Burrow so lights
out this year and it took him and the Bengals
that one year to be able to get Patrick Mahomes
and the Chiefs out of there. So when you think
about how good this Chiefs team has been, now you
go and you see them beat the Bills again, and
it feels as though I just put out recently. If
you're not following my social media's I put out on

(02:10):
their whether it's the KBR sports pages or my Brendan
Avin pages on TikTok and Instagram as such, I put
out there about a video talking about the Bills might
be haunted by the Kansas City Chiefs at this point
because it's honestly miraculous to me, the fact that they
played each other four times in the playoffs and the

(02:30):
fact that each game the deficit has or at least
the margin for victory has only been at most six points.
You had losses by three points in multiple scenarios, and
then you had an overtime win by six points, which
is that overtime game is what directly led to overtime
rules being changed because the Chiefs went down in the

(02:50):
field and scored first, and then the Bills never got
the ball back. So those are different types of scenarios
and moments where you feel as though, regardless of how
good Josh Allen's been, and he's been really good in
these games, it's not like he's been turnover prone in
these playoff games against the Chiefs or anything like that,
which normally Josh Allen he does have an issue with
turnovers sometimes during the regular season. In the postseason against

(03:13):
the Chiefs, he's been really good about limiting his turnovers.
But it hasn't mattered. It hasn't mattered. It feels like
even the smallest errors has always been a thing that
has been able to stop the Bills from being able
to conquer the nemesis known as the Chiefs. And when
I even say the small area doesn't have to be

(03:34):
a turnover, I noted in the video that I felt
as though the Bills really had to play a perfect game,
truth be told, settling for even for one field goal,
which they had to do in the first quarter when
they're making a drive because Josh Allen on a snap,
if the snap got messed up, it was fumbled, and
then they lost four yards in the recovery. And I

(03:54):
felt as though, before going into the game, I said,
if they get into the red zone, they have to
score a down every time to go into the red zue.
You can't leave points on the board against the Kansas
City Chiefs. There's just no way. And them even having
to have that drive stifle due to that fumble and
having to settle for a field goal, I feel as
though it was a moment where I'm like, man, that
was a drive that was going well, and then that

(04:15):
fumble all of a sudden, it takes you out of
it pushes your back behind the sticks, and now you
settle for that field goal and instead of going down
there and possibly scoring a touchdown, if you score a
touchdown there, that's six points. You assume you make the
field goal. Honestly, in today's day and age, you never
assume that an extra point is going to be good.
But you assume you make the extra point and you
tie that game, right, and you look at this point

(04:37):
differential at the end of the game. The Chiefs won
thirty two to twenty nine. Those are points that you
left on the board right there, you know what I mean.
And it's just insane to think about. And I think
about all the different moments throughout the game, and yes,
there are controversial moments throughout the game. Now, I personally
feel as though I forget when it happened throughout the
course of the game. But there was a moment where

(04:59):
Dalton kin k does catch the ball and the cheat
the Bills are driving up the field and I felt
as though Dalton K and K definitely had it. You
can make the case that he did convert that third
and one or that third and that third down he
caught the ball lunch for they ruled him short. Right
then on fourth down when they try and do a

(05:19):
QB sneak up the middle, and it was it was
twenty two to twenty one. It was about thirteen minutes
left in the fourth quarter when this happened, and the
Bills tried to use the push push to get jos
Josh Allen over for the first down, and on that
initial surge it looked like he might have gotten it.
But then you see like the kind of pushback from

(05:40):
the Chiefs defensive line and Josh Allen comes getting third backwards,
and so it was hard to tell. I think he
might have had it, but the thing is, it's not conclusive.
I was was I couldn't tell where the ball was
with the initial surge. With the initial push, it did
look like the center, the center got that like at
least a yard or two yards on the fourth and one,

(06:01):
So I thought that they would have gotten it. I
thought even the Dalton kin k when he was falling forward.
If anything, I think it might have been fourth and
inches instead of fourth and one. When Dalton Kinkaid got
up there and on that third down he caught the
ball and he lunged forward before his knee or anything
touched the ground. When he hits the ball where it's
supposed to be spotted, it looks like it's supposed to

(06:23):
be fourth and inches at least at worst, right, And
then for them not to get it even after that
initial push looks like they got him over or Josh
Allen over. That's just one of the moments that I
think about that when it doesn't go your way, that's
just a gut wrenching moment because those are the plays
that it feels like against the King's City Chiefs, you

(06:43):
always need to go your way, right, Those are the
plays that you can't miss out on because it feels
as though those are the pivotal moments that while they
might not immediately reflect in terms of points or it's
just a momentum thing, right because then now instead of
because at the point at that point in time, the
Bills were leading twenty two to twenty one, and they

(07:05):
can be in control of the game way more so
with thirteen minutes left in the fourth quarter if they
get that four from one and you're able to continue
driving up the field and go and score. You put
the game further out of the Chiefs reach, and you
make it, you possibly make it twenty nine to twenty one,
in which the Chiefs have to now come back and
score and have to also convert a two point conversion
if they want to tie the game. So that's a

(07:28):
situation that I don't know how, but it always feels
like those things go the way of the Chiefs. And
I'm not one of these people that it buys into
the rhetoric of like the refs calls always favor the Chiefs.
I'm just not because I think it was some I
think it was Dove Climbing on x that or Twitter
that tweeted out the calls per team and how the

(07:51):
calls have breaken down broken down rather for each team
again for opponents the penalties called, and in that post
that he made, it looked like the chief the Chiefs,
weren't this this team that's leading everybody for penalties called
it on the opponents. So based on that research and
that evidence, I'm like, well, I how can you surmise

(08:12):
everything that happens in a game just to be up
to the referees, right. I just don't think that's even
fair to the Chiefs or their opponents in terms of
how we credit greatness essentially, right, because even it felt
like even during times and I've seen people saying that, oh, well,
the Patriots dynasty wasn't it wasn't like it wasn't this
relying on the rest and stuff. I'm like, yes, it was.

(08:34):
People kept saying this. Even during the Patriots time frame.
People were complaining about the Patriots all the time. Tom
Brady's always complaining to the refs that Tom Tom was
was a cry baby, all these things. So that's why
it's it was it always feels like the team that
has the success is always going to be the team
that people are branding as. Oh, well, you guys are

(08:56):
always going to get the calls. They're always crying about
the calls and stuff like that, and I'm like, look,
we're respect to you. I respect that. People get frustrated
about the fact that it feels like these dynasties are
upheld because of referee interference. But when you really look
at it, it just there's too many plays in a
football game for you to really hone down and say, oh, well,

(09:16):
this is entirely contingent on referee decision making or whatever. Yes,
there might be swing plays that you might hate, you
might get annoyed about, and we can debate about whether
that was a fourth down or whatever the case might be,
or if they held them, if that was a turnover
on downs, all those type of things. But I think
that when it comes down to it, when the plays

(09:36):
can be made, like when those kinds of plays don't
go your way, there's still other plays in a game
that can be made. For example, a play that obviously
mirrors what happened in the Bills and Ravens game when
Mark Andrews dropped the catch, even though that catch was
way more easier than what Dalton Kink try to pull off.
When Josh Allen gets blissed on the co by when
the Chiefs decided to corner blitz Josh Allen and the

(09:59):
two the corners come off the edge, the corner in
the safety come off the edge practically unblocked, and Josh
Allen has to pretty much launch the ball while falling backwards.
It was an insane throat to even get the ball
there while essentially hurling himself while getting a hurled backwards
because the defenders was about to hit him, and the
fact that he gets that ball there, and it is

(10:22):
tough because Daltin kingk is trying to come back to
the ball. He's trying to come back to the ball
and make a lunging catch, which isn't an easy catch
by any means. Right, This isn't this isn't apples to
apples with the Mark Andrews play. And I think a
lot of people, I think a lot of people have
been trying to make those type of parallels just naturally,
because there were two plays where you see, like in
slow mode, you're like, yeah, wow that how was that

(10:43):
catch not made? But in reality that he's jumping, he's
leaping backwards to come back and get the ball, and honestly,
you could you could easily just misjudge it. You could
you could easily misjudge it as you're jumping back to
try and catch that ball and it just slips through.
And that was that was unfortunately part of the circumstance
that happened with Dalton kin Kate on that play. But

(11:04):
those are the type of plays that, honestly, when you're
trying to be a team, like the Chiefs. You gotta
be able to make those plays. Those are the plays
that we talk about, right, Those are the plays that
are momentum shifting plays. And there are always those type
of plays that end up being what defines your team afterwards.
And it's just so funny to me because when I
talk about I talked about in the video the margin

(11:24):
of error that every other team has versus the Chiefs,
and the margin of error is so tight because the
Chiefs are their players just naturally make those plays to
go and win games, right, And the Chiefs margin of
error feels so much bigger because even when they make mistakes,
they're then gonna make the plays to make up, to

(11:45):
make ground and make up for those mistakes later on
in the game or whatever the case might be. It's
rare that you'll see them make those type of mistakes
in pivotal moments. Right the turnover the Chiefs had in
the game, the one turnover came in the fumble at
the end of the first quarter, which did lead to
Bills Buffalo Bill's points. But then throughout the rest of
the game, the Chiefs are now making up for those

(12:06):
that mistake. By now their defense is coming out and
showing out and is able to hold the Buffalo Bills,
forcing the punt, holding them on four and one, big
momentum plays and able to get the ball back in
possession for the Chiefs where they now can go and
use momentum to swing the game in their favor. They
also held Buffalo on a two point conversion. They stopped

(12:27):
them on one when the score was twenty one to
sixteen in favor of the Chiefs. That would have made
it twenty one to eighteen for the Bills. And so
those are just other moments, right, And you think about it,
it's so crazy how much stuff and people are gonna
talk about. I can recall so many different plays that happened.
There was another controversial call earlier in the game. The

(12:48):
score was fourteen to ten, and it's an xavier worthy
contested catch that happens, and I believe it was fourteen
ten Chiefs, and yes it was fourteen ten Chiefs and
an xavier where the catch happens and it looks like
him and the defender are both jostling for the ball
and when they come down, there's one shot that makes

(13:09):
it look like the ball hits the ground. And I
saw a lot of people in a fuss about that,
and it was really complete with about three minutes left
in the second quarter on a third and five, and
it was about like a twenty yard player or something
like that. It was a big play that got them
down into the red zone. But the thing that I
was that was hard to see on the play because
the ball doesn't the ball when the catch is being made.

(13:30):
It looks like the ball hits the ground, right, But
the ball can hit the ground if it's pinned to you.
For example, if I'm making if you're making a catch
and the tip of the ball hits the ground but
the ball is held up against your body, it's fine
for that ball to hit the ground because it's in
your possession. But it just so happens to hit the
ground whereas it hits the ground and it helps, and

(13:52):
that helps you make the catch. If that makes sense.
I'm hoping I'm articulating that well in terms of the
difference of the two scenarios, because you can't have the
ground help you make the catch. But if you're already
in position of the possession of the ball and it's
pinned against your arm or your body, and even though
the ball hits the ground, it doesn't hit the ground
in the way where the ball moves, and you see

(14:12):
you lose possession, or you see that the ball hitting
the ground helped you secure the ball to make the catch.
The catch was already made and the ball hitting the
ground was just a mere circumstance, if that's the correct
way of saying it. And so in that situation, was
Xavier Worthy. That's what the refs determined that that was
a mere circumstance. And now this and this is just

(14:33):
one of those another one of those plays that if
you're against the Chiefs, if you feel like the Chiefs
are being helped out by the refs, you're gonna say, well, no,
that ball hit the ground. That ball hit the ground,
and it helped him make the catch, and the ball
should have been awarded to the defender or whatever the
case might be, right, Whereas if you're and naturally the
reason why the defender also wasn't awarded with the ball

(14:54):
even though they started jostling, is because of the fact
that when you see that shot, the ball is in
Xavier Worthies possession and at that point he's going to
be down by contact despite the defender. Later on trying
to take the ball away from him as they're fighting
for it throughout the completion of the catch. So that
that's part of the reason why. But that you know,
those are the different angles to it, and depending on

(15:15):
whatever side of the eye you fall on, that's just
how you're gonna determine what you believe that play was.
And that's just how so many of these plays go down. Man,
and the Chiefs are just so hard to defeat, more
than anybody else in the NFL. It is I can
imagine for these other teams. Man, you it can just
reach a point where you just you just start losing it, right,

(15:38):
Like if you're if you're the Bills, you're sitting there.
You had no turnovers, right, you had no turnovers. Your
your quarterback plays a great game. You have you have
a great run game on the ground, running the football.
You when it comes to yardage, you had more yards
than the Chiefs. When it comes to overall time of possession,
you're almost even. I mean you had more time of

(15:59):
possession as well, just about even. You only had one
more penalty than the Chiefs. So yeah, you really got
to sit there, and you're sitting there as the Bills
and you're like, dang man, like what else? What else?
And honestly, the difference in the game ends up being
that one extra drive because the Chiefs had ten total

(16:21):
drives and the Bills had nine. And I felt as
though when the Bills had stopped the Chiefs or held
the Chiefs to a field goal in the fourth quarter,
I genuinely thought that the Chiefs were gonna respond, go
or sorry, the Bills are gonna respond go. I was like, Oh,
this is the Bills moment, this is their time. I
thought they were going to co op the field, go
score a touchdown and win the football game. That's what

(16:44):
I thought. I even tweeted it out that I thought
that's how that was gonna that end sequeens is gonna go.
But then it just doesn't play out that way. And
credit to the Chiefs coaching staff. Steve Steve Spagnola brought
a very timely blitz. I think they said on the
broadcast that was the first time he had brought a
corner blitz all night. And when he brought the blitz,
they came on blocked, and the ed rusher came on

(17:05):
blocks as well, and Josh Allen's just forced to get
rid of that ball. The rock can't even develop and
he has to get the ball out, And that was
just an incredible play by the chief's incredible play call,
because honestly, frequently throughout this whole football season, including college football,
I've seen so many times where people have sold out
on all out blitzes on third down situations or fourth

(17:29):
down situations when I feel as though if they just
straight up play straight up defense, their defense is playing
well enough that they can get away with doing that
and still get pressure on the quarterback or force a
tough throw into a window or something of that sort.
Because even the game that stands out the most of
me was Texas and Arizona State where Arizona State they

(17:49):
had just scored and they bring in all out blitz
against Texas literally a zero and gayge eight whatever you
want to call it, blitz and send the full house,
and in Texas is able just to hit the seam
route immediately and get a touchdown. And I was like, wow,
I don't know why Arizona did that, because their defense

(18:10):
is playing well enough without blitzing that I didn't feel
they had to do that, and they end up giving
a touchdown right on that play. So you know, it's
one of those situations where it worked out for the
Chiefs in this instance. And I even noted ahead of
this game that it was impressing to me all the
different the different nuances that I had seen with the
Chiefs defense, because I think the Chiefs defense naturally, they're

(18:31):
really aggressive as a defense. I believe they blitzed a
third of the of quarterback dropacks, so that thirty about
thirty one percent of the time they're gonna blitz you,
and they're not shy about it. They will bring the
blitz frequently and often to make sure that a quarterback
can't sit back there and dissect their defense get comfortable,

(18:51):
let alone. They have great edge, they have great linemen
like Chris Jones and so on that bring pressure onto
the quarterback. And so that that was just the Chief's mantra.
They lived up to it, and their defense has honestly
been their staple all year. It hasn't been their offense.
Their offense, to be honest, has been relatively to use
the word mid, it has been mid for a good

(19:12):
portion of the season. So when you look at how
this this chief defense steps up and they're able to yeah,
they blitz thirty one point six percent of the time.
My goodness, it's just a torture chamber if you think
about it, like, my gosh, you just man just sending
extra people every time. Wow, he're posing quarterback or running

(19:33):
back who has to block pick up that blitz. That's
just tough. But yeah, man, I don't know. I feel
for the Bills, man, I feel for them. And I
saw someone I put on my video that I post.
I saw people commenting that it even stings more because
they use the Bills pick to get my homes or
something along those lines. And I'm like, if that's that's true,
I didn't have time to even go down the rabbit

(19:55):
hole to explore all that, but if true, I mean,
that's just that's insane. That's just your own asset is
essentially been the bane of your demise for years now
in the playoffs, which is just Yeah, that's tough. That's tough.
That's so tough. But I'll talk more about what I

(20:16):
feel as over with the Chiefs and the Eagles matchup.
But with this being the week that this game had
just happened, I did want to get into talking about
that Chiefs and Bills matchup, and honestly, for Josh Allen Man,
I think I truthfully believe that he's had very oppressive
games against the Chiefs. I think that this game was
a good game on his behalf. I don't think you

(20:38):
walk away with as Josh Allen wondering like what play
could I have made? Or whatever the case. I mean,
there are a couple of plays that are unfortunate that happened,
like the fact that the fourth down bomb couldn't be converted,
the fact that the two point conversion couldn't be converted,
the fumble that happened. But when you don't turn the

(20:59):
ball over and stuff like that, and you still end
up losing the game. And this twenty twenty five playoffs,
this was an interesting stat that I noticed, but in
the twenty twenty five playoffs, no team that has lost
the turnover battle has won a game in these playoffs
except the Kansas City Chiefs. Like what, it just goes

(21:20):
to show man, they're just on a different level and
everybody is just trying to play catch up. Everybody's trying
to get from their piece of the pie to be
truth be told, and the Chiefs are just in their
own stratosphere when we're talking about these things, and then
when you even talk about from the fact of a
dynastic perspective, think about it this way. The Chiefs have
gotten the three straight Super Bowls and made it to

(21:42):
five of the last six Super Bowls. Right truly only
comparable to in the modern era the New England Patriots
of the late twenty tens. Where the Patriots they made
it to three straight Super Bowls and won two of
them and overall made it to four Super Bowls in
five years. The Patriots didn't have as high a winning
percentage as the Chiefs, but man, they also were pretty dominant.

(22:06):
And then, obviously, if you go think about NBA terms,
you have the Golden State Warriors that made it to
five straight NBA Finals and then won three of those.
Weren't able to complete the three peat, but they did
win three of those five trips. Now, if the Chiefs
can win the three pt they really be the first
team and I think, dating back in professional sports, dating
all the way back to the Los Angeles Lakers in

(22:28):
the early two thousands, to do a three peat. If
my memory's wrong, somebody please correct me. If there's a
professional sport out there where somebody's three peated since the Lakers, right,
But I'm to my knowledge that's the last professional team
to do a three pat with Kobe and Shack, And
so that just goes to show how hard it is
to three p in any sport. Like, think about that.

(22:50):
The Warriors had Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green, Klay
Thompson and Andre Gudala and multiple talented pieces and still couldn't. Now,
mind you, part of the reason they couldn't three peace
because Vin Durrant got hurt, right, and also they blew
a three to one lead. But those both those scenarios,

(23:13):
that's just tough, right, Like, it's just tough if they didn't,
because if they don't blow the three one lead, they
win that year. Who knows that they get Kevin Durant
the following year. Though, if if that happens, but they
blow the three one lead, they go and get Kevin Durant,
they win two rings in a row. Then the Toronto year,
Kevin Durant gets hurt, Klay Thompson gets hurt during the finals,
and so it's kind of goofed at that point for

(23:35):
Golden State in terms of their chances of trying to
go on a three p and so that dead's that
mission and then the Patriots they just weren't able to
pull it off. I mean they end up running into
Nick Foles and so on and losing super Bowls in
that fashion, and so that that really that messed up
the Patriots timeline of trying to win super Bowls and
so on. I mean, it's so funny because Tom Brady

(23:56):
still has that super Bowl in his crawl because he
brought it up about. I think it was on the
Fox broadcast when Nick Foles was at the Commanders an
Eagles game, and Tom Brady talks about I don't hate you, Nick,
I'm just jealous of you because you caught it talking
about the Philly special play, and when the Patriots ran
a similar play, Tom didn't catch it. So it's just

(24:17):
a funny thing to think about. But let's talk about
the Eagles. Man. The Eagles also handle business, and I
mean they definitely handle business. Right. They got the Commanders
up out of here. When you're talking about the score
of that game, that game was an entire shellacking fifty
five to twenty three, right, And this was a game
where I could only it was only so much that

(24:38):
Jayden Daniels could do at some point, because I think
I saw I saw a hilarious tweet. I think it
was something like I forgot what it said. I wish
I could remember what it said. I think it says
something along the lines of when Jayden last touched the
ball or something. Oh it was the score was twelve

(24:59):
fourteen Jading last touch the ball, Yeah, fourteen twelve, and
then the next time he gets the ball, the score
is twenty seven to fifteen, Like, what the hell? And
it's true because there's a fumble that happens on a
kick on a kickoff return and the Eagles recover, and
then the Eagles go and score. The Eagles scored after

(25:21):
Washington made the score twelve to fourteen, Philadelphia goes down
and scores, making it twenty to twelve. The kickoff return
is fumbled, so then Philly recovers it and it makes
they make it twenty seven to twelve. So that man,
Jayden Daniels, he got it within a two point game,
comes back and now he's in a fifteen point hole.

(25:45):
That's tough, man, that's tough. That's tough. But I mean,
this was technically the Commander's worst matchup that you could
have you could have imagined because all year the Commanders
are not a good team. When it came to stopping
the run. They were thirtieth and rushing yards allowed, and
coming into the game, I had said that's one of
the keys for them to be able to win that

(26:05):
game would be to stop the run now. And it's
funny because their defensive coordinator try to kind of put
the warning signs out there that hey man, we're gonna
lay a hat on Jalen if he tries to run
the football. You know we're hearing that he's hurt, so
don't go running that football. And the ego said, yeah, okay.

(26:30):
Truly they were like, yeah, all right, stop us. And
the Eagles ran all over them. And it was very
reminiscent of the two games that they've played in the
regular season, where in both games the Eagles went for
over two hundred and twenty rushing yards, and in this
game is similar thing. He went over two hundred yards.
Saquon Barkley goes crazy and in the first touchdown he

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breaks like a forty yard run and I'm just like,
oh my gosh, I see how this is gonna go.
I knew from the jump. I was like, oh, well,
how this is gonna go. The minute he broke that run,
I was like, wow, okay, dark, but like, what do
you what do you do at that point when you
see him just go crazy and he braced that huge run.
I mean, that's just that's just that's sad man. And

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I felt for them because I was like, man, I
I don't know, man, when somebody braced it wasn't even
it was a what was that? It was a it
was a sixty yard run. Wow, sixty yard touchdown run.
So much of stopping run because the problem is if
you can't stop the run, you're pretty much your offense

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is just off the field the whole time, and your
defense is just being expected to be out there and
just hold weight. And honestly, though, the time of possession
was thirty thirty minutes in favor of the Eagles to
twenty nine and a half minutes to the Commanders, but
in true and true fashion, that really was only because
the Eagles were scoring in so few plays at times,

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especially in the in the second half, that they didn't
need to run time of possession too long because they
were just able to score touchdowns like it was nothing like.
Here are their drives in the second after In the
second half, their first drive was a punt, took two
minutes twenty one seconds. Next drive was a touchdown a
minute and forty nine seconds. Next drive was a punt
three minutes twenty seven seconds, touchdown two minutes fifty eight seconds,

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touchdown two minutes twenty one seconds, touchdown one minute and
forty eight seconds. So really, in that second half, the
Eagles were just able to score and what felt like
very little time in the first even in the first half,
Oh my gosh, this is this is nuts. In the
first half they score a touchdown in fifty seven on
a drive that took fifty seven seconds. The bulk of

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their time of possession came, I mean, they got more.
It seems like they have more possessions in the second
but their longest drive came on their missfield goal when
they it took five minutes and fifty three seconds. Outside
of that, they were just moving up and down the
field quick on the Commanders because they were just able
to run and get however many yards they wanted, which
really should come as no surprise because the Eagles were
the second best rushing team in the NFL. They let

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their second in rushing touchdowns. Saquon Barkley rushed for over
two thousand and five yards during the regular season. He
led the league in rushing yards I think he was
top ten and rushing touchdowns. And then when you even
go to the playoffs, I mean, it's not even close.
Saquon is leading the playoffs and rushing yards, touchdowns and
and get this, the statistics crazy. He's averaging one hundred

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and forty seven rushing yards per game in the playoffs.
That's just that's nuts. Okay, one hundred and forty seven
rushing yards my gosh, man, and that's gonna be exciting.
We'll do the preview for Chiefs and Eagles next week,

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but man, imagining those two that rush heavy offense against
the Chiefs great defense, that's gonna be exciting to watch.
I will say, that's gonna be so fun to watch.
But honestly, and I felt as though coming into the game,

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so obviously I don't know, well for yas who don't know,
I'm originally from the dmv DC metropolitan area, Northern Virginia area,
and naturally I did want to see the Commanders win
because a lot of my family is Commanders fans and
so on, so I wanted to see the Commanders win.
But I was telling my friends and every chat that

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I had with people, I was like, dude, look when
I looked when I broke down to both of the
games from that they played in the regular season, truth
be told, I felt as though a large part of
the reason why the Commanders won the second matchup they had,
even though it was a close game and the Commanders
pulled it out, they didn't stop the run, right, They
weren't able to stifle the Eagles running game. But really

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the difference was that Kenny Pickett was in that quarterback
due to Jalen Hurts having an injury, and so I
was like, well, you know, when you consider that being
the case, I was, Jalen Hurts playing in this game,
and you still can't stop to run regardless of who's
in at quarterback. What does Jalen Hurts do as well
as still the football? What does he do he runs

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the football? So I felt like I saw that and
I was like, oh my, this is They're gonna look
at these guys like barbecue chicken, shout out shock. I
saw that coming from a mile away, because I was
just like, there's just if you can't stop to run.
If you can't and that's such a huge part of
their offense, then what are you gonna do because you

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pretty much can't stop them, and they've already shown they
can stop your quarterback. Because that's pretty much what the
Commanders were leading with in this season. They led with
their offense, and their offense is what got them to
this point because their defense wasn't a great defense. I
mean their defense in terms of points allowed was eighteenth,

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and then I already talked about their rushing, their rushing,
how their defense was. Rushing wise, they were thirty if
in rushing yards allowed. So when you look at that,
and the Commanders they could have ben run the football,
their offense got strapped up. When you look at it,
I mean they could have run the football. They had
ninety nine rut they could even cross one hundred rushing yards,
and they had four turnovers one of those. It was

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an ugly game. It felt like in every instance that
the Commanders could goof away a moment to catch a momentum.
They were doing so, whether it was a penalty, whether
it was a fumble or whatever the case might be.
They were just turning the ball over. They're just pretty
much telling the Egles take it, just take it. Jaden
Daniels has an interception he throws in the end zone.
Laid in the game, but at that point, I think

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we all kind of knew where the game was decided
by the time that happened. But yeah, it was an
ugly game and I was surprised to see that version
of the Commanders. They just looked like they weren't ready
for prime time. The ball was getting punched out when
dudes were fighting for extra yards. I remember one time
Austin Eckler is getting up off the ground and then
the guy comes in to tackle him and the ball

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just gets punched out of the east. There's so many
times that dudes are just fumbling and giving away moments
to try and answer back to the the Eagles. The
Eagles just storming up and down the field, and it
sucks because Jeremy Nichol, Jerey McNichols, Diami Brown, Austin Echo,

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these are all these guys have all been good contributors
for the Commanders throughout the season, and then it comes
up in this game. They all just for some reason
just couldn't get it together. It was just sloppy football,
very sloppy football. But it does not take away from
the great season that the Commanders had. And I think
that truth be told. They got they got a star

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and Jaden McDaniels or Jayden Daniels. Sorry, sometimes I think
about Jaden McDaniels from the Minnesota Timberwolves, so the names
always mixed me up. But Jaden Daniels when you talk
about his season, he had one of the best seasons.
And well, before I go to the command I just
want to say this one more thing about the Eagles.
Eagles get a chance to get their look back against

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the Chiefs because last time they lost the Super Bowl.
When they were in the Super Bowl a few years ago,
they lost to the Chiefs. So now you finally get
the chance to get your link back against the team
that took it away from your last time. Right, Guys,
Jalen hurts that feeling. You gotta remember now you got
Saquon on your back to help you out. You got
aj Brown, right, And this is the whole this egos
team is revamped to try and get to the Super Bowl,

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to try and win this Super Bowl and now that
the Eagles when they withheld Saquon Barkley in the last
game of the season from getting the rushing record, everybody
was saying, you gotta go get the Super Bowl, and
they're here now right now. The job's not done. That's
one of the biggest things. Kobe Bryant was an Eagles fan.
He always said, job's not done. I personally don't have
any preference to who I want to win, but that's

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just an anecdote for the egos that this is the
time to get the lick back. And it's tunny because
I think there's two egos, Saquon Barkley and there's another
Eagles player who has a birthday on the day of
the Super Bowl, and I saw someone post a tweet saying, damn,
they really got to watch or maybe it was Antonio
Brown's Twitter account, but it said something along the lines
of damn, they really got to watch a three pet

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on their birthday. And I was just like, come on,
essentially assuming that they're gonna lose. I was like, damn, bro,
come on now. It was funny, man. But back to
what I was saying about the Commanders, because I do
want to give them their flowers, and Jayden Daniels especially

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his flowers, because as a rookie quarterback, he put on
one of the greatest rookie campaigns. I think, honestly, probably
the best rookie campaign we've ever seen. And here's a
lot of statistics and things that back that up, because
according to USA Today, which does cite Pro Football Reference,
JAD and Daniels had the highest approximate value of any
rookie quarterback in the NFL history. Now, for context, approximate

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value puts a single number value on a player season.
It takes into account their per drive success of the
offense and the role they play in the success of
each drive. And then when you look at his past
rating as well, his passer rating is fourth all time
among rookies, right, it was behind C. J. Stroud RG
three and then Dak Prescott only behind those those three quarterbacks,

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with Dak having the highest rgbing second in Stroud third.
But none of them, all right, none had the kind
of postseason success that Jayden Daniels had, all right, So
that's a cap in the feather of Jayden. Even though
these guys might have had better, better graded passing seasons
in terms of actual success and in line with that passing,

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those passing numbers and that passing ability and performance. Jayden
still like I think he gets the crown there because
then when you also look at it, he's only the
sixth rookie quarterback to make it to a conference championship.
Here are the other Sean King in nineteen ninety nine
with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he lost his conference championship game.
Ben Roethlisberger two thousand and four with the Steelers lost
the conference championship game. Joe Flacco two thousand and eight

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with the Ravens lost the conference championship game. Mark Sanchez
in two thousand and nine with the New Jets lost
the conference championship game, and then Brock Purdy in twenty
twenty two with the San Francisco forty nine ers and
lost the conference championship game. Now and Daniels, of all
those quarterbacks was the only one to get to the
conference championship without a top three defense in points allowed. No,
Washington was eighteenth. Like I said earlier, they were eighteenth

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in points allowed. So Jayden heavily put this team on
his back and got them to the conference championship. He
didn't have the best defense by any means, by any stretch, right,
and yet still got here hit. Under his stewardship, they
had a top ten offense, which is insane, insane to
think about. I don't even think it should be a

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discussion that he's had the best rookie year of all time,
best rookie season easily, because when you combine all those
different factors and the fact that the Washington did make
some good pickups like Diami Brown, Terry McLaurin was ready there,
Brian Robinson was ready there. These are good talent to play.
Austin Eckler was a good signing, and so on. But

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it all comes together. Zach Ertz is great, was a
great pickup as well, but it all came together under
Jaden Daniels. There was a point there where Washington's offense
looked like people could not figure out their offense. And
the fact that Jayden played so well throughout the year
and was not a freaking turnover machine like he wasn't
a high touchdown, high turnover guy by any means. He

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had a season that you would expect of a veteran
quarterback that's been in the league for years. In the
lead the team this far without having And it's so
funny because the game that really took so many people
back and really gave people believe that this Commander scene
could get to the super Bowl was the Lions game.
Because that Lions game is so funny because there's a

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clip of Dan Campbell talking to Kevin O'Connor after the
Lions beat the Vikings for the number one seed in
the NFC, and there's a clip where you hear where
the two coaches are parting ways with each other and
Dan Campbell tells Kevin O'Connor like, we'll see you all
in two weeks. Excuse me. The rams said no, at

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least on the Viking side, right, But then the commanders
also said no. The commanders denied them easy and that
in that game. It's funny because they in that game,
they made the Commander's defense look amazing. They made the
Commander's defense look so good with all the turnovers they
forced from Jared Goff, and they won. They won decidedly.

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I mean it was forty five to thirty one Jared Goff,
those three interceptions. I mean, that game just looked like
the Commanders were just the Commanders had them dudesing the blender.
I'm not gonna lie to you. They had them in
a blender, don't. I don't even know how you how

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you really encapsulate all the bast stuff that happened in
that game. Jared Goff had it fumble as well. I
mean he had four turtle He counted for four turnovers
in that game. So that was just an overall rough, rough,
rough showing for the Lions in that game against the Commanders.
But that just goes to show, right, the top team
in the NFC got bested by a rookie quarterback led

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team and the Commanders in that game were able to
put up forty five points. That obviously wasn't all done
by the offense because the defense also scored in that game.
But it just goes to show, you, man, that this
Commander's team has talent, they have potential, and they have
a quarterbacks going forward for the future, which is something
that Commanders fans have not been able to say literally

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since RG three and twenty twelve, and even that lasted
for a year because after he got hurt, it was
never the same, It was never the same. That was
the last time you could probably say Commanders fans actually
felt great about the future. Outlook was when RG three.
Frazy thing is I was in college. I remember all
of it. I was in college. I think I was

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like in my freshman year of college. And I personally
remember this so well because I believe that I saw
Subway commercce. He was in every Subway five dollars foot
long commercial that you could imagine, and at the time
they actually were five dollars foot longs. What a time.
What a time, And since that time period, you really

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haven't had a quarterback. Kirk Cousins was the guy that
he could put up numbers, but he wasn't the guy
that you knew was gonna be able to lead a
team to become a Super Bowl contender. And now Jayden
Daniels thinking about funny enough, he was the second pick
in their draft with Caleb Williams going first. So you know,
you look at that and not that not to intimate
that or insinuate that they the Bears took wrong in

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Caleb Williams because you still haven't seen how that whole
situation is gonna shake out. Really, Caleb Williams just showed
talent there, but what Jayden's done with the Commanders so
early on Man hopefully, hopefully it continues, right because even CJ.
Stroud did hit a bit of a sophomore slump. Even
though he was able, he wasn't inevitably able to get
the Texans back into the playoffs, but they lost to
the Chiefs. So you know, you hope that you hope

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that the next season that they're able to keep it
going forward and continue the momentum and success and even
further improved. Especially on the defensive side of the ball.
The defense has to improve. Being eighteenth and points allowed
in thirtieth and rushing yards allowed, that's just not going
to cut it, not going to cut it at all,
because you're just asking to fight a war of time
of possession and you're entirely having to depend on either

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just totally outperforming them offensively with an air raid type offense,
which is what a lot of the Commanders were able
to do this year, or yeah, you just don't want that.
You want to kind of bring the two things together
and meet in the middle. Defense. A lot of people
say defense wins championships for the win for a reason.
Man and the Chiefs have ridden the back of their defense,
and the Eagles rolled the back of their defense to

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limit the Commanders and force it so many different turnovers,
and the Eagles are one of the better teams this
year forcing turnovers. So this is the result that we got.
But great game, man, But I do want to shift gear,
and let's talk about some NBA, man, some NBA because
some news at the time I recorded this did break.
I'm recorded pretty late that night, honestly, but at the

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time he broke earlier in the day where the Sacramento
Kings apparently are open to trade talks for Daron Fox. Now,
mind you, the Sacramento situation has been interesting because Sacramento
earlier in the season fired Mike Brown because the Kings
were not progressing in the way that many that felt
like they had taken steps back from previous seasons. Whether

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it was being playoff contenders to now being a team
that is struggling to buy for a play in spot,
whether you felt like that was fools gold, whether the
case might be is subjective, right, But the Kings just
didn't feel as though they were progressing in the manner
that they should be in comparison to where they were
a year ago. So they fired Mike Brown at the time,

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and there were rumblings that Mike Brown and de Aaron
Fox had issues, but you never really knew how those
things were going. And then Darren Fox had spoken out
against those things multiple times. There was rumors that Demarto
Rozen was going to be asked to come off the bench,
all different types of stuff. But then now you have
this trade situation come up where apparently they're opening to

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trading Deer and Foster because he wants to be traded
and his preferred landing spot is the San Antonio Spurs.
Now apparently they're running the Damian Lillard fix. I guess
the offense offense whatever, because, according to a Chris Haynes tweet,
teams interested interested teams likely would be discouraged from trading
for him being he's set to become a unred the

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free agent in twenty twenty six. Fox's unwillingness to sign
an extension has positioned the situation here, So that seems
like that's what really got the trade situation going in
this direction because of the fact that he doesn't want
to sign an extension with the Sacramento Kings, and they
obviously don't want to just lose him for nothing, and
he'll have more trade value if you trade him with
at least one year left on his deal rather than

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trading him within the middle of the last year of
his deal. Right, So when we talk about the teams,
it's said that his preferred landing spots at sat Antonio Spurs,
Which how can you blame him, right, because if you
can go and be playing with Victor wembin Yama right now,
that the lead for the defensive Player of the Year candidate,
also a big man like averaging over twenty four points,

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is leading the leading in blocks right now, so he
can cover your six even if people get by you
and the paint. All that dude's is sensational talent. And
then he gets to play with a young star and
Darren Fox, who is an explosive player, can get him
the ball in multiple I can only imagine what their
pick and roll situation will look like. Not that Daran
is a better playmaker than Chris Paul or anything, but

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Chris Paul is not. Chris Paul's closer to the end
of the career than the beginning, whereas D'aran's closer to
the beginning, or at least the middle than he is
to his end, right, So you pair Daran with Victor
wembin Yama. Oh, Mike, I said it in my group
chat with my friends. I said, dude, if you put
those two together, Victor is just so good that think

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about this, the San Antonio Spurs were a lottery team, right,
and then in one season, one season later, with Victor
wembin Yama, the San Antonio Spurs already have I've already
eclipsed their win total from a year ago, from a
year ago. Now, mind you, it's not like they're this
barn burning team that is all of a sudden like

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they're in the playoffs. They're in the playoff picture currently
as the things sit right, they're in the playoff pictures.
They can fight for a playing spots as it currently
sits with Wemby at the helm. But that's also considering
the fact that they're just a young team overall. Now,
you bring an older guy, not older I guess, the
guy that's closer to the prime, within the prime of
his career and Deerren Fox to come in there and
play with Wemby. You pair their skills together, and you

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still have young talent like Devin Vasso, Jeremy Socan, Keldon Johnson,
and so on. But even so, the trade becomes more
realistic because you do have those young pieces to move,
and then if you need to go and get another piece.
The Spurs have multiple, multiple first round picks they can move.
They have their own twenty twenty five first round pick
and Lanta's unprotected first, Chicago's protected first with the top

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ten protected, and Charlotte's protected first which is top fourteen protected.
Then in twenty twenty six they have their own first
rounder first round swap rice with Atlanta. In twenty twenty
seven they have their own first rounder Atlanta's unprotected first,
and in twenty twenty eight they have their own first
rounder first round swap rice with Boston and which is
protected for the number one pick, And then twenty twenty

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nine they have their own first rounder. Twenty thirty they
have their own first round pick and the most valuable
first round in between Minnesota and Dallas, and then in
twenty thirty one they have their own first rounder Minnesota's
unprotected first round pick, and then first round swap rice
with Sacramento. Insane. They have a word. It's so funny
because you hear so many people talk about the word
chest of picks that Oklahoma City has, and naturally Okahma

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City is just further along in terms of their success
story than San Antonio, so you hear more about their
story because they, I mean, their team is just blossom
with all the talent that they have from Sga, Jalen Williams,
chet Holmgrin and so on. But when you look at
San Antonio, they also have interesting pieces there that you
can go get a guy like Daron Fox and then
immediately go and turn around and make another deal and

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go get another player to pair with those guys form
your own victory or something of that sort. In San Antonio,
that becomes very interesting very quickly. Now, I will just
say that the Aaron Fox, in terms of where he
this is a deal that I think the Kings always
had a ceiling because the Kings, the Kings play like

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they need Daron Fox to be the best player in
order for them to win or get far and get
far places, right, Daron Foss and pair with the Montes Sabonis.
But in reality, with Darren Fox's skill set and his talent,
his talent is like all star caliber point guard, not
perennially all star caliber point guard or all star point guard.

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But he has that talent, that's his talent skill set.
He realistically has to play with a player that's great
enough and ideally which is where And I love why
I've seen that San Antonio is his preferred destination because
he sees it too, he knows it. The guy that
you need to play with is a big or a
wing that's good enough to be like we're talking top
ten player in NBA. Victor wen Beyama is good enough

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and is on the trajectory to be like top five
good enough great in the NBA. Right, And so with
that caliber of talent, you want to go and partner
with that talent because then it covers for so many
of the deficiencies in Darren Fox's game, whether you talk
about playmaking, where you talk about his need to his
scoring efficiency or his defense, whatever you want to talk

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about right now, adding Victor wen Binyama to the equation
or adding him to the equation with Victor wen Byama,
it helps on so many degrees, It helps them so
many levels. And now you have a true small big
tandem that can cause a ruckus in the NBA and
now the other teams that you have that are talking
about being interested or like the Houston Rockets and the
Brooklyn Nets, that have interest in him right and from

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the Rockets standpoint, apparently the report is that the Rockets
would likely keep their roster as is until the end
of the season, throughout this whole season because right now,
to truth be told, the Rockets are second in the
Western Conference, just behind Oklahoma City Okami City Thunder five
and a half games back thereby game and a half
ahead of the Memphis Grizzlies, who are in third. But

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I can understand Houston does don't to mess up the
functional of what they got going on right now, and
they feel as tho they're playing some high level basketball.
But if they see they reach a certain point in
the playoffs and they hit a wall, and they see
that to get over that hump or to mitigate that threshold,
d Aaron Fox could be the answer, they might make
a move. So I don't blame them for saying that,
we want to see what the end of the season

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looks like according to reports. But now the Brooklyn Nets
is interesting because the Nets are just this team that
are just in this interesting situation because they have assets,
but they're not a team that they're not a winning
team by any means or stretch, and not a team
that's in position to win. And I imagine deeron Fox
doesn't want to necessarily to swap one team that's in

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the plan for a team that's outside of the play
in struggling to get in there. But I think Brooklyn
would like to get the Aaron Fox so they can
try and build something with him and go and pursue
another star in line with him. And a lot of
the reports is that a lot of people are eyeing
twenty twenty six because that's the year that Luka Doncic
would become a free agent, and so a lot of
teams are kind of trying to pick position their cap

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space so they could all target Luca and hopefully, if
you're the Brooklyn Nets, you could get the Aaron re
sign him in that year or give him to sign
the extension or something of that sort, so that then
you have Luca being able to get the proposition of saying, hey,
we have the Aaron Fox here, you can come and
play with the Aaron Fox and Brooklyn whatever the case,
and whatever talent they can position around those guys, but

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there's gonna be a lot of suitors. I mean, Luca
hits the free agent market, that's pretty much akin almost
akin to Lebron James in the free agent market when
Lebron's in Cleveland. Right, So Lucas not as good as Lebron,
but you get what I'm saying, right, Like in terms
of offensive force, Lucas up there, he doesn't have the
defense like Lebron or all around defense, you know what

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I mean. But that's what it would be. It's gonna
be bomkers for people buying for Lucas services, right, And
so that's what those guys are gearing up for and
trying to prepare their cast face to do. I think
that if I'm the spurs Man and I can get
the Aaron Fox compare him with Wemby, I think you
make that deal because I think depending on what the
asking price is, you have so many assets and at

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some point, even if you need a retool, you have
the assets to retool if things don't work. But at
some point also assets have to become actual, like they
have to become value in terms of players and production, right,
And if you go and use those assets to go
get a player in production at the Aaron Fox that
can immediately speed up your timeline of being able to
get a return on the talent that is Victor wembin

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Yama and his youthful years with the Spurs, and he
sees that you're trying to make a commitment to win.
That also buys you more time with your current superstar, right,
And I think that a lot of times within talking
about the NBA with an NBA circles, that gets missed
because there's nothing there's I can guarantee you there's nothing more.

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There's nothing more fulfilling as a GM. And also while
there'd also be nothing more terrifying than having a generational
superstar on your team, but you're struggling to build a
winning contender around them because you know that you're on
a clock despite that player being very young, and you
have them on a restricted contract for years and that

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you can offer them the next super whatever next best
contract coming out of it, and why when they hit
restrictive agency, you know you're on a clock. And players
have so much power in the NBA nowadays they can
force the with themselves out of such a situations regardless
of what the CBA tries to put in line to
prevent these things from happening. Players have so much power.

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We're seeing it take place with Jimmy Butler right now.
I wanted. I don't. I don't even feel like talking
about the whole Jimmy Butler fiasco at this point, So
I just don't. I don't. I just don't have It's
like it's just another suspension right after he got benched
and then he all this stuff, right. I have my
own thought about that, but we're not gonna talk about that.
But you just see how easy this for guys to

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get out of their current teams. So as a GM
in that position, you're just trying to figure out ways,
like how can we how can we speed up the time,
how can we make it make it clear and obvious
that we're doing all we can to help this build
a contender. And for the to the Mavericks credit man
going and landing Kyrie Irving to pair with Luca and

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then then you're in their second season together, get to
the NBA Finals, lose to the Boston Celtics, but gives
a taste of what like shows Luca that this team
is committed to trying to make and build a winning
contender around him. Buys you more. It buys you like,
it gets you stock. That buys you stock, because then
that that player knows, Hey, I'm not just on a
team where I'm just failing or flailing to even reach.

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Like when Lebron got to the finals in two thousand
and seven with the Cavaliers, it was beyond clear and
evidence that team should not have been in the finals.
I don't feel as though that was the case with
the Mavericks in twenty twenty four. In the twenty twenty
four finals, even though I did feel as though the
Nuggets probably would have been a better matchup for the

(55:27):
Celtics match us make file. Styles make fights, and the
Nuggets ended up playing the Timberwolves right, and the Timberwolves
got them out the way. But then the Mavericks get
the Timberwolves out the way. So styles make fights. It
just it is what it is. I think that the Mavericks.
The West is just such a I mean, the West
is so competitive though, so if you make the finals
a team one year, you want to see that your

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team's still trying to do make Mooster improve and that's
something that that staff has always tried to do right
the Mavericks, you can always say that they've tried and
tried and tried with their stars. Nobody from locking DeAndre
Jordan in the house or whatever the case. Whatever, this
stuff happened and he got lots in the house. And
I think it might have been in LA. Actually the
Clippers did it. I don't know, but it was like
there's a lot of stuff that happened. But the Mavericks

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have always tried to get talent to build around their stars,
and that buys you stocking. The same can be applied
to guy like a guy like Victor Wenbiyama and so on,
just other stars. The Anthony Davis and Lebron James are
in LA right now, begging for a viable center to
pair alongside Anthony Davis because he doesn't want to play
the five. Right now, they're running lineups with Jackson Hayes.

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They're running lineups with Jackson and Hayes at the five,
and even in the game to this evening Lakers get
spanked by the Philadelphia seventy six ers and JJ Reddick
does get asked like why are you, Like, what is
the mindset behind the MI lineups with Jackson Hayes at
the five and Ad at the four, and he says
that you know, to get big to have size on rebounding,

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but also so Ad doesn't have to go up against
five because it's clear as they Anthony Davis has asked
this of the Lakers organization for years that he does
not want to play the five, please get a big
to play alongside him. And since their championship run, they
have not been able to really fulfill on that promise,
or even the year right after the championship, they have
not been able to really deliver on that. So this

(57:18):
is the state of things for the Lakers and stuff
like that. But it just goes to show that when
your stars are asking for players sometimes, man, it's like
some organizations can deliver. Some deliver to the to the
detriment of the team, and then some deliver to the
betterment of the team. And it'd be interesting to see
how this yearon Fox scenario plays out, especially with him
having some leverage due to the fact that his willingness

(57:41):
to sign an extension in a place is leveraged to
determine where he would go. And granted it's not full
proof because we saw the scenario what happened with Damian
Lillard and he ended up going to the Bucks instead
of the heat. So you just never know how these
things will turn out. But guys, that's gonna wrap it
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