Lane Mother Fn Kiffin, Picks, Standings and more!!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Welcome in. This is the sideline Shuffle with your boy Kping.
We've been on a little bit of a hiatus, the
metaphorical we I'm talking about me and myself and I
we've been on a hiatus the last couple of weeks.
I haven't been able to put any shows out, talk sports,

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get feedback. But it's been good. You know, life kickchen
ass sometimes and you've got to take a moment and
just get your house right. So that's what I've been
working on. That's what I've been doing the last few weeks.
But it's sports. We're back. We get to talk about
it right. Like I said before, this is love, this

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is this is passion, this is this is to get
away from life. Right when life's got you down, what
do you do? You want to watch a game, right,
You want to go to a game. You want to
turn on the TV and watch your favorite team win.
You write all those things. You want to go out
with the guys, get some drinks, or the girls, or
your partner or your family or whoever you spend that
sports time with, and you want to get away by

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enjoying sports. That's one of the beauties of the game.
From the spectator side. In fact, it's probably the best
part of the game from the spectator side, not the tribalism. Right,
we've seen tribalism taken too far with all these fights
going on in our stadiums. No, as a spectators, it's

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different and I enjoy that. All Right, there's my opening
moment of what the hell is he talking about? But
let's get to a hot topic this week, lane, Mother Kiffin.
Demand doesn't have have the best reputation. I get it,

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he can coach. I also get that everywhere he has
coached has burned and he is not left in good standing.
And you had an opportunity with a group of young
men that you took the responsibility of coaching, of mentoring,
of bringing into adulthood on the verge of doing something great,

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of something special, and you turned on them. I get it.
You had an offer. There was nothing keeping you from
taking an offer that gave you more money. And who
knows what other bells, whistles and perks are involved based
on the governor of the damn state getting involved in
the whole thing. But you threw all those young men away,

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And I get you're gonna try and recruit some of them.
You're gonna try and get some of them in the
transfer portal. You're gonna try and bring some of your coaches.
What you're gonna do if Old Miss goes ahead and
offers that offensive coordinator your old position, right because you
try to get them and they're like, no, no, no, no,
go ahead, come back and coach these final games for us.
We'll let you come back. We don't want him coming

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back now while he's over there in the Old misbuilding.
If they do have interest, who's got more access to him.
The dollars at Old Miss that he can get to
possibly be a head coach, or the dollars at LSU
where they threw everything at the head coach and he'd

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still be an assistant. There's not a whole lot of
coaches that don't at least want to dip their toe
in the head coaching water at some point. And then
if I'm one of these players and coach comes in
and tells me, hey, I'm taking a dollar, I'm getting
that bag, Do I go the way and say, oh,

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hell yeah, coach, go get that money. Do I go,
what the you bailing? We this close and you're leaving.
And then if I'm one of those players, and I
get to see the coach just go ahead and walk away.
Why am I gonna play? Maybe I think I'm getting drafted.

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Maybe I'm a Day one pick. Do I want to
risk my bag? Like maybe to make a stance one
of these teams who gets one of these coaches that
goes into these high profile jobs and just bails on them.
Maybe one of those teams needs to go ahead and
just forfeit a game. Maybe the scholarship players are those
those top prospect guys need to just go I'm not playing,

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coach left, but why am I going to play? Oh,
the team, the whole team should take that stance. We're
worth more than whatever you got paid, coach. Maybe the
system needs to be addressed. Maybe when commitments and scouting
ta place needs to be adjusted so these players are

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not being taken advantage of. These coaches literally will go
into their home and make promises and then leave for
more money. That's not an example. That's abuse. That is

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mental abuse. I'm gonna wind you and dine you, and
I'm gonna tell you all these things and how great
you are, and all the things i'm gonna do to
help turn you into a young man and how I'm
gonna be tough on you, but I'm gonna be fair. Right,
It's just a sell job. It's a con job, that's

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what it is. And he's good at it, and he
gets another chance with a whole lot of more money.
Lane Kiffin does to go do that with another crop
of young men who, honestly, I'm looking at LSU going, Okay,
it's been on Fire Sports, it's been on ESPN, it's
been on you know, the SEC network, It's been on

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my local talk radio, and I'm like, wait a second.
He bailed here, he bailed there, They kicked him out here,
he bailed there. Why am I letting him recruit me? Nah,
I'm gonna go to LSU. I'm gonna go to Alabama.
I'm gonna go to Georgia. I don't want to get

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involved in that because I know whatever you're feeding me.
If somebody says, hey, Lane, got you twenty million dollars
a year, you come coach for us, I know you're
just gonna leave because you, yourself and I is more
important than the wei. And that's something I think. He
continues to prove, Yes he knows football, Yes he can coach.

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But he continues to prove the most important part of
the equation to him is not his team, not his players,
but him. And maybe that's just my opinion. Maybe I'm
so far off base, let me know, put it into comments,
but I don't respect that. I really truly wanted the

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news to come out that Langkiffin is going to decide
to stay at Old Miss and he wants to take
over to SEC and he wants to be the powerhouse
and bring championships to that school. LSU found his price.
The governor of Louisiana helped find his price. Those boosters

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helped find his price what he was willing to sell
that team out for. And I get it. I look,
it is not lost on me that you got to
take care of your family and it'd be stupid not
to take it. A better opportunity. Is it a better

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opportunity when you have to bail on a group of
young men who have trusted you, who have given their
all for you. Is that what's best in that situation?
Or should the system be looked at so that that's
not happening? Right? Recruiting season now gets moved I spring practice, great,

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that's only for current athletes. You want to be available
for spring practice, and you're from another university or a
high school who's trying to come out early. You're gonna
have to figure that out. I get that makes it difficult,

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but not as difficult as when your coach calls you
in early in the morning to deliver the news after
the biggest win of the season, that before you even
get to a conference championship game, before you get to
play that college football game, before you get the chance
to host a playoff game first time ever for the school,

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that he's leaving. The emotional high you're on in that moment,
biggest win, got the trophy against the rival.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Oh, let me check social, wet coaches leaving. Let me
let me check my other social Oh wait, nope, yeah,
he's making the damn he ain't even given the postgame
speech yet, and.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
This fool's gone. Hey, coach, I got a question. Just
a second, I got something to tell you guys. We'll
talk on Sunday. I need everybody at the facility early. Hey, coach,
is it true? Yep? I got that bag? Peace, Like

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I get. There was more words said. I get. He
tried to, you know, probably respect all of his players
and the words that he chose, and there's more perks
and things in the contract than we know about at
this point, and there's other variables that aren't gonna get
reported on. I still feel strongly that that's not how

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it should go down, like, honestly, is all that needs
to happen the next time LSU comes through Old miss
all Right, football last week, NFL. Let's get to it.

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Let's talk a little bit. You know, I'm a champion
for the Lions, almost thirty five years strong. Okay. I've
told the story on the show before when it was
real deal Sports Talk, and I went to a football

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camp in Denver, Colorado, David Tate football camp he played
for I think he was with the Colts at the time,
but he had also played for the Bears, and he
had several NFL athletes coming right. Steve Attwater was there,
Mark Jackson was there, Mickey Pruitt, Seawan Embry, Mike There's

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like four or five more guys. But Barry Sanders was
one of the coaches that was brought into this camp,
and he made such an impression on me that I
was a Lions fan from that camp forward stopped rooting.
I didn't stop rooting for the Broncos. I live in Colorado,
it's the team you get to see most often. And

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I love the sport of football, so I watched just
about anything. But I became a Lions fan. My dad's
die hard Broncos, right. He used to say, oh, I
bleed blue and orange, and he might I don't know,
cut the man open. But I became a Lions fan
moving forward, and I had done the kid thing prior

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to that, right, I root for the Broncos because my
dad does. Started rooting for the Cowboys the year before
I became a Lions fan because they were getting good
and that was the popular thing to do. I think
my dad even bought me a Cowboys hat at one point,
like ninety one or something. But Barry made such an

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impression on me. I championed for the Lions moving forward,
and I don't know that it's their year, And it's
not because we're getting screwed. It's not because of the
injury bug. It's just we're not making that play right.

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Last year, fifteen and two guys were going down whatever
whatever that play always happened, right, we didn't miss this
many fourth downs. A' monra didn't drop this many balls, right,
we didn't have this many offensive lineman, which damn it,
if Frank couldn't you have gotten a physical before you
got everybody's hopes up that you were going to come
solidify protection. Right, That's what Frank was able to do

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as the center. When Ragno was there, you knew everybody
was going to have the right protection. Now, whether or
not they made that protection whole nother story. He's not
responsible for that, but he made the calls at the
offensive line that I feel like is a big difference
this year that grade through spraying. Look, was he going
to change the season all of a sudden because we

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had Frank Ragnow back we were gonna win the Super Bowl?
Probably not, that's but it was exciting to have somebody
that could play at the caliber he was able to
even with the injuries he had, that he could come
back and you know, on a playoff push mid late
December January, start really giving us something, right, because the

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man hasn't played football all year, But I don't know
that it's their year. I mean, you look at the
Green Bay game. It definitely shows just about every week
this season that Ben Johnson is missed as a play
caller that play sequencing. Joel Clatt does it, has a

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great speech on play sequencing. I would say go look
it up, but I'm not sure exactly where you should
do that. He did it on one O four three
the fan here in Colorado, So look that up. Look
through some of their old shows somewhere on there. Joel
Klatt talks about play sequencing and the importance of it,
and he's dead on right. Dan Campbell can call plays,
Morton can call plays. It's about sequencing the plays together

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in the right order and what you're doing in the
first quarter to impact what's going to happen in the
fourth quarter. Right. That is not there for this team.
The swagger's not there for this team. They're not making
that play. And everybody wants to go, oh, we need
more pass rush, more pass rush. Yeah, we got to
get home. We gotta win our one on ones. That's

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every team, right, that's low hanging fruit. The fact of
the matter is the Titans sitting at one and eleven
are not that far off from being the New England
Patriots at eleven and two. It comes down to maybe
a couple of players. It comes down to some coaching

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but it comes down to making that play in the
right moment, the one that keeps a drive going, the
one that scores points, the one that stops a drive
and gets you the ball back, that singular play that
just you know it when it happens, And those moments

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haven't been there for Detroit. Like, it's no wonder that
Dallas is the favorite tonight. I get it. Dallas is
by on paper, I test for everyone playing better football
than the Lions are. Right now, We've got Detroit's got
a bunch of guys coming in at the receiver position.
We'll see Cliff Raymond's out, a'mon Ra is questionable, Right

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Report is gone, Zilstra's gone, rock Right's gone. So we're
gonna be leaning on some other people. We got to
have offensive linemen than aren't gonna play tonight. So it's
just feeling like it's not their year, which is fine
because you look across some of these other teams that
have been there, right you look at the KCS, you
look at the Buffalos, you look at Minnesota from last year.

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It's kind of impacting all of those top teams from
last year. Yeah, Philly's playing well, but is it Philly
that we saw last year, that dominant running game, that
dominant defense. No, and we're seeing these teams creep up.
We're seeing the Indies, We're seeing Jacksonville all of a
sudden make a run. We're seeing New England and Denver. Right,

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we thought we'd see more of Washington this year based
on last year, but it hasn't come to fruition for them.
We're seeing Carolina make it push upset over the Rams,
who were playing the best football in the NFL, and
now Carolina is making a playoff push. Right, players make

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a couple of those plays right that fourth down it
turns into a touchdown. A couple of those plays here
and there make a big difference. Play sequencing makes a
big difference. Right, is Indianapolis starting to get figured out?
They're now dropping to eight and four. Jacksonville technically has

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the lead in the AFC South. So is indian trouble?
Are they gonna get back on track or are we
gonna start seeing that team just kind of fizzle out?
And it was a really great start to the season.
And when I say coaching matters, look no further than
San Francisco and Chicago. Chicago is not that good of
a team. No offense to the Bears fans. You guys

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are in first place. You have done the damn thing
and you've earned your record. But let's be real. You
have beaten teams that have more talent than you, and
the reason for that is coaching. San Francisco's injured across
their board. Team leaders down for weeks at a time,

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if not the whole season, and that team will not
go away. I've been talking about Seattle in that division.
San Francisco's one game back. Coaching matters. Sometimes, yes, players
matter too. Michael Parsons getting to the Packers right when

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Randy Moss went to the Patriots. Or when Joe Burrow
comes back and just gets a W. Joe Burrow started
the season as my number one quarterback in the NFL,
quickly got injured, came right back, gets a W. He
makes that team better. Mike Tomlin makes the Steelers better.

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The fire Tomlin chant, Are you kidding me? Pittsburgh fan?
That's who you've become. I get it. You haven't had
a playoff win in like ten years, but every year
you have a shot. You haven't had a losing season,
although I did predict it before the season that this

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year might be the first under Tomlin, and you're chanting
fire Tomlin. Really, You've got Aaron Rodgers as your quarterback,
You've got the oldest or one of the oldest defenses
in the NFL, and just released Darius Slay. And it's

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Tomlin who's coaching has gotten you a winning record every year,
not one. Losing record. Might have been five hundred one
year in there. Ridiculous, just ridiculous. So, like I said,

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Joe Burrow, he started the season as my number one
quarterback all the way back preseason rankings. I've done these
just about every four weeks throughout the season. So we're
up to my week twelve rankings. I know we're going
into week fourteen, but that fourteen doesn't fit on the
rotation and week twelve feet into this show. So jumping

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to number one because I'm just gonna go through the
list again. Jumping to number one. Matthew Stafford of the
Los Angeles rams that man is slinging it right now,
playing some great quarterback moves. Up two spots. I got
the second best quarterback right now in the NFL. Is
Drake May up four spots from his previous Drake may

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is just leading the team. He's doing exactly what that
team needs and Josh McDaniel's offense to distribut the ball,
make plays and have the Patriots a winning team. I
got Josh Allen moving down a spot to the third spot.
I got Sam Darnold down three spots. I had him
at number one in week eight. He was facally, he

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was slinging it. And then I got Joe Burrow as
the fifth best quarterback. He shows up, walks on the field,
gets the w with the team that face it wasn't
that good. I get it. They beat Baltimore, not that
good of a team either, but he brought that confidence

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and he's still a good quarterback. Then Patrick Mahomes moved
down a spot to six. Jared Goff dropped four spots
to seven. Mayfield love hurts Herbert State pat I got
Prescott moving up three spots. Caleb Williams moved up seven spots.

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I got Bone Knicks moving down a spot. Not technically
because of the way he played, but other guy's just
been playing a little better in my opinion. I got
c J. Stroud coming back from the concussion, moving up
seven spots. Daniel Jones face it he's on a decline
right now. He moved down ten are eight spots in
my ranking to where were at sixteen seventeen. We got

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Bryce Young moving up a spot. Aaron Rodgers moved down
six spots. I get it the wrist is broken, but
you also haven't been playing that well. Jacoby Brissette, I
got moving down three spots, Lamar Jackson moving down three spots.
I got Lamar Jackson at twenty on my list. Trevor
Lawrence stays, pat Marcus Mariota, I got him moving up four. Look,

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they're not winning, but he's It's not because he's his
play Jackson Dart entering the conversation for the first time.
At twenty four, I got Shdor Sanders Brock Purty coming
back previously not ranked. I got him at twenty five,
and then finishing out the list, you got Tua Tyrod.

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Taylor was not ranked the last time I did this.
Geno Smith, cam wod Tyler was it, sugh So Kirk
Cousins and then Mac Brosmer of the Vikings bringing up
the rear. At thirty two, Joe Flacco fell out for
the Bengals. He was replaced by Joe Burrow Kirk Cousins
took over from Michael Pennix Junior in Atlanta. Rock Purty

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Purty obviously took over from Mac Jones. J. J. McCarthy.
That's when Mac Brossmer comes in. McCarthy, w'll probably be
back soon. Shador took over for Dylan Gabriel, so he
dropped out, and Tyrod took over for Justin Fields. So
I'll do this exercise, you know, one more time prior
to the playoffs. It'll be based on where my thoughts

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were after week sixteen, and that should come out probably
week seventeen or week eighteen when I add that into
the show. Probably doesn't match what you were thinking. Probably
doesn't match your list if you were to sit down
and do that. So share your thoughts, let me hear him.
As far as picks this week, look, it is what

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it is. I'm taking the Lions tonight. I don't pick
against them, but I get why Dallas is the favorite. Okay,
I'm going to take the Rams to beat Arizona in Arizona.
San Francisco gets the week off. I'll take Seattle to
go to Atlanta. And when that one, I think they
got a little too much on defense. For the Falcons

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right now, Carolina, nice by for them get rested up
after the big win over the Rams. You got New Orleans,
Tampa Bay, Seattle, Tampa Bay to finish the season, So
kind of a tough stretch with two games against Tampa
and Seattle to finish in the final three weeks of
the season for Carolina, So rest up this week. I

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do have the Buccaneers beating New Orleans this week. I
have Detroit, like I said, beat in Dallas. I'll take
Green Bay to beat Chicago and move into first place
in the NFC North. Then who else we got. We
got the Giants on a bye. Jackson Dart's gonna have
to get healthy and figure out how to slide. It

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was a nice hit. I mean he was in bounds.
I got Philly beating the Chargers. I'll take Washington to
upset Minnesota, because why not. Somebody's gotta win that game.
And if Bromar Brosmer plays, it's truly anybody's game. Nothing
against the kid, but he's an undrafted rookie and I

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just don't see it. I think Baltimore bounces back this
week and beats Pittsburgh to take the division lead. There
in AC North. I think Buffalo will beat Cincinnati and
Joe Burrow this week. I do think Miami will beat
the Jets. I'll take Denver to beat the Raiders this week.

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I think Houston beats KC strictly just on the way
that defense is playing. I mean, face to the offense
isn't that great, but that defense gives them opportunity after
opportunity after opportunity and is not giving up points. So
I'll take Houston to win for that reason. And I
think Indianapolis retakes the lead in the AFC South this

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week with a win over Jacksonville. That's why I see
the games breaking down. Some of it might be pie
in the sky. Some of it, you know, it's just
upset alerts. But that's what makes my picks fun. I
don't do it for gambling. I just here's here's why
I see winning the games. Let's finish on some NBA.
We haven't talked really any NBA right now, so we

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got to check in on the standings. We got to
talk about Chris Paul getting sent home because apparently he
is not okay with mediocrity and vocalized his opinions too much,
and that caused dissent or hurt feelings like you're gonna

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send Chris Paul home. Just get them to a team
that's got a chance at the championship. Get him to
the Lakers for the first time, right, Just get him
to the Lakers. Take pennies for him and get him
to the Lakers, all right, Looking at these standings. Detroit,

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they started off real nice, seven and three in the
last ten, so they're down to a seventeen and five record.
They were sitting there pushing the Oklahoma City Thunder for
a while, right, but the hundred Thunder twenty one and one.
They're winning them damn games. Lakers have moved into second
place in the Western Conference because the Nuggets have slipped back,

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losing four of their last ten. Jamal went for a
big fifty plus last night for the Nuggets, who are
now down into fifth place. But the West, I mean,
the Thunder is strong, the Lakers are playing well. Houston
is scary once they get it figured out, because I
don't think they've got it figured out down there. San

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Antonio is hanging around, even with Wimbayama being in and
out of the lineup. Minnesota's strong. I mean, their defense
normally is strong. They cause fits for some teams, and
after that, you know, most of those teams aren't going
to compete. They might win a playoff game or two
if they make it in. I'd like to see the

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Mavericks start putting some games and some wins together, because
I kind of like that lineup. You know, you put
Lively out there, you put a d out there, you
put flag out there, and then I'm blinking right now
and names to bring the roster up? Who am I

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thinking of at the guard position? It's no, not Christy
Kyrie Irving when he comes back, of course, that's my thing.
Oh yeah, Klay Thompson, D'Angelo Russell. Right, you got some

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guys that can shoot. You would think PJ. Washington's a
nice piece off the bench, Caleb Martin's a nice piece
off the bench. Like you would think the teams would
be playing a little better than their record shows. Eastern
Conference side. I mean, look, it's been the Eastern Conference

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this year. The Celtics, you can see they're hurting. Toronto's
playing pretty decent right now, eight and two in their
last ten. The next are going to be a nuisance
for every everybody and could find their way into the finals.
Cleveland hasn't been playing dominant like they did last year.
Philadelphia forget it, Milwaukee Giannis is down for what the

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next month. So if I'm Chris Paul, hell, let me
go join a hungry team, right, Let me join the Pistons,
Let me join the Raptors, let me go play for
the Heat. Send me back to Oklahoma City, another team
that I had played for. Really, if I'm the Clippers,

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the ultimate FU, in my opinion, is to send them
to the Lakers. Like we're so confident that we don't
want you. We're gonna send you to our crosstown rival,
our big brother, right, we used to live in their house.
I don't do that. But send them home. That's how
you're gonna handle it. You can put it out in

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the media and then let all the opinions and the
talking heads like myself put it on. It's pretty it's
pretty weak. Like I did not appreciate as a fan
seeing that Chris Paul was sent home from a road trip.
Get through the road trip and then go, hey, we're

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gonna trade you bench him on the road trip, just
have him sit there. But to send him home, why
does that prove a point or is it just a
power game because you had finally gotten sick of him?
What talk him back or something? Yeah, didn't appreciate that.

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Hopefully we got a good game tonight, Lions fans, and
we can pull this w out at home against Dallas.
Maybe Aiden can get off for a couple Maybe some
of these receivers Tesla, you know, maybe Jackson Meeks can
get a little couple of catches tonight. Tom Kennedy might
get a couple touches tonight. Maybe lovette might have an impact.
We'll have to see. Enjoy your games this week, Sports

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