1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:22,160 Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Tompkins Sports Podcast. I am your host, Justin 2 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:27,160 Jackson. In this week's episode, we'll be discussing the NBA's growing issue. We'll 3 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:31,600 be talking about the NFL as training camps begin to open and rookies begin to show up 4 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:36,880 for camp and we'll have our best for last. Now as always, don't forget to like, rate, 5 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:41,720 and subscribe to the Justin Tompkins Sports Podcast and don't forget to turn on your 6 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:46,680 post notifications on all social media so that you may stay up to date on breaking news 7 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:51,400 and know things before your friends know them. Now as always, sit back and get ready to learn 8 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:58,400 something. 9 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:38,040 Welcome in to the show and now we are back for a season four episode of 19 of the Justin 10 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:45,000 Tompkins Sports Podcast. As always, I am your host and owner, Justin Jackson, and I am excited 11 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,640 to be back with you. Like I said last week, guys, I spoke about this last week rather. 12 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:54,520 Last week was the first time we've been together in about a month. I missed you guys a lot. 13 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,920 So it was cool getting you guys interaction on some things. I was doing some more things 14 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:03,720 out on social over the past week throwing together some of this BS with the NBA and 15 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:10,800 what's happening there and how everything is going back and forth in the NBA and now 16 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:16,080 it's kind of on a freeze because the NBA goes into kind of a freeze post-summer league. 17 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,280 The GMs are usually all in one place in summer league so if a big deal doesn't get done during 18 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:25,200 the summer league, that's when all the GMs and the execs and scouts and stuff take a 19 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:31,920 collective deep breath because it's the first time they've been able to relax. And so you 20 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:35,880 know you come out of the NBA season, if you're a team that, if you're a bad team, you're 21 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:41,320 looking pretty much probably from Christmas, definitely the All-Star break, you're already 22 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,880 saying, okay, we got to grind through summer league because you're assembling the rest 23 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:48,840 of your roster for the rest of the year, you're getting together probably dumping off trade 24 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,720 assets, picking up people in order to get extra draft capital, you're looking at your 25 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,800 summer league roster, who you want to pick in the draft, lottery odds, all that stuff. 26 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,720 If you're a great team, you're mentally trying to sprint through June and then as a staff, 27 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:05,680 as a player group, but then you're exactly trying to tinker with the roster last minute 28 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:10,160 to give yourselves the best chance to win the championship and you're also trying to 29 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:15,120 look at your summer league roster. So pretty much once the summer league happens and finishes, 30 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:21,200 congratulations to Imani Bates and the Cleveland Cavaliers on winning the summer league championships, 31 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:27,520 getting the second ever summer league rings. So kudos to those guys. Which by the way, 32 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:35,520 I think it's dope that they do summer league rings. A lot of these guys won't win NBA championships. 33 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:41,040 A lot of them won't play in the NBA ever. So it's pretty cool that these guys can always 34 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:45,480 say I was in the NBA, even if it's summer league, the NBA champion, I have a ring, a 35 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:50,160 championship ring that says NBA on it. So I thought that was pretty cool by the NBA 36 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:54,520 to do that. But congratulations to the Cavs again for winning summer league. But now the 37 00:03:54,520 --> 00:04:00,080 entire league kind of takes a collective break because again, all the top executives, all 38 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:05,960 the GMs, most of the scouts, a lot of the coaching staffs and a lot of the star players 39 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:11,880 descend on Vegas at least for the first few days of summer, that first weekend or so, 40 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:16,480 everybody's there star wise because that's when you get a Victor when Viyama is going 41 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,640 to play. Brandon Miller is going to play. Jabari Smith Jr. is going to play. Like these 42 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:24,200 guys with some star power and these young rookies, Scoot Henderson is going to play. 43 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,800 They're going to play those first couple of games in the first weekend. If they play well, 44 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,900 they're shutting it down and they're not going to play going into pool, basically pull further 45 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:36,280 into pool play and then into the playoffs. They're not going to play in that. They're 46 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:43,160 just not going to. So you get as many kinds of things out. Stars leave. Scouts begin to 47 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:48,480 move on to the rest of their summer. Even executives for the most part have to move 48 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:53,160 on. Coaches and staffs may stick around, but people really start taking collective, like 49 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:59,520 I said, deep breath, a big hoo-sah in order to relax after the summer league. So that 50 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:05,720 leaves the NBA, however, with a two fold problem. And I spoke about it on Twitter when I did 51 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:11,840 a massive mock trade for the four of them. I did two over the past week. The two issues 52 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:17,840 are Portland Trailblazers guard Damian Lillard, Philadelphia 76ers guard James Harden. Why 53 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:24,240 are they issues? Well, for one, both of them have put in either a de facto trade requests 54 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:32,840 or a effective or a literal trade request between the two of them. So James Harden opted 55 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:39,240 into his $36.9 million player option for the upcoming season with a de facto trade request 56 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:43,360 that I'm doing this in order to get traded. So when I get to my next team, I'll extend 57 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:50,440 off this option. And then Damian Lillard finally, after years of people telling him to get out, 58 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:56,880 finally put in a trade request officially to the Portland Trailblazers organization. 59 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:02,000 That's not an issue in the grand scheme of life. Being traded on the last year of your 60 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:09,440 deals, pretty common for superstars. Anthony Davis comes to mind. Kawhi Leonard comes to 61 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:17,680 mind. You know that those are two guys that were traded as stars to their next destination 62 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,360 with the last year of their deal. Now it worked out for Anthony Davis and Lakers. They netted 63 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:25,920 a title and Anthony Davis resigned. It worked out for Toronto Raptors and Kawhi Leonard. 64 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:31,440 They netted a title and then Kawhi Leonard goes to the Clippers. But I'm just looking 65 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:38,280 at it from a perspective of trade requests are not uncommon by stars. It's perfectly 66 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:43,600 normal. It's the business that the NBA has set up. It's a perfectly normal situation. 67 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:48,440 The issue is not the fact that Damian Lillard, after years of being a poor, like staying 68 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:53,520 10 toes down, loyal to the soil, all that stuff he spewed, finally decided that, you 69 00:06:53,520 --> 00:07:00,840 know, I locked in my last big contract. I kind of want to go in now. And so he decides 70 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:05,160 he wants out. Again, hardening the last year of your deal player option. Feeling like you're 71 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,520 not looking to pay me the contract I want. I know for team trades for me, they're going 72 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,360 to know what I want. They're going to know what I want before they make the deal. Once 73 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:16,400 the deal is traded, I'm going to immediately sign some new contract. Again, not abnormal 74 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:24,560 at all. The issue comes in the naming of the place. Now, Anthony Davis did it, right? Cool. 75 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:31,640 Anthony Davis was an expiring contract, right? He was also going to the Lakers that had LeBron 76 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:36,440 in a bunch of young pieces. The trade was a match made in basketball heaven. We had a 77 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:39,360 bunch of young guys on the Lakers looking for an opportunity to spread their wings and 78 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:44,040 fly, which wasn't going to have a chance to as long as LeBron was there. Plus he didn't 79 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:48,560 have the time for them to because he was trying to win a championship right then. And he had 80 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:53,080 a team in New Orleans that was going to have a high pick. It ended up being the number 81 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:59,080 one pick. If the Lakers get the number one pick, and the Davis is a Laker anyway, they 82 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,120 knew they had a superstar coming out in the draft in Zion Williamson. No one knew how 83 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:05,320 good Ja Morant was going to be, but you knew you had a superstar coming out in the draft 84 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:12,080 in Zion Williamson. Scouts were really high on Ja Morant. Again, no one saw this coming, 85 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:19,120 but Scouts were really high on Ja Morant. There was potential, there was rumors that, 86 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:23,720 oh, the Pelicans were trying to move four additional assets to come up with two and 87 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:30,400 have Zion in Ja Morant. It's like, okay, whatever. But anyway, you knew that was coming, right? 88 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:35,680 It was a match made in basketball heaven. And you're probably thinking to yourself, 89 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:40,560 well, James Harden is asking the same thing. He's asking him on the last year of my deal, 90 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:47,200 trade me, right? Rumor has it and it hasn't been denied. He wants to go to the Clippers. 91 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:52,440 Trade me to the Clippers. You know, you can have a bunch of picks, some pick swaps, a 92 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,640 couple of young guys, make the money work. Send me to the Clippers. The problem is the 93 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:01,960 Clippers are jammed up against the cap. Severely jammed up against the cap. They're wondering 94 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,760 how you know that? Because the rest of Westbrook signed for $3 million a year. That's how 95 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:11,760 jammed up against the cap they are. Paul George is a max player. Kawhi Leonard is a max player. 96 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:16,640 Their plan of Marcus Morris is a decent chunk of change. Evita Zubach is not cheap. Luke 97 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:24,440 Canard's got a bag. They have a lot of guys on their roster that's making a pretty penny. 98 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:29,360 And then you go to Dame's situation. He wants to go to Miami. Same thing. They're jammed 99 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:36,080 against the cap. So you're going to financially strap Miami down to where they have to just 100 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:42,960 peel and peel and peel in terms of assets. Strip pretty much everything all the way down 101 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:49,800 just to have a half decent shot at getting Dame or you're expecting Damian Lillard to 102 00:09:49,800 --> 00:10:00,840 go to Miami for basically nothing, which doesn't feel likely in the slightest. Because of that, 103 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:10,120 I decided that I am going to do a mock trade. And this trade was designed in order to pretty 104 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:23,680 much show how unlikely this match would be. Right. And so it ended up being a 1, 2, 3, 105 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:35,040 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 player trade. Obviously the 15 player trade is highly 106 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:41,560 unlikely. That would easily break the most players traded in a single trade. Easily. 107 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:46,960 Not even close. But in order to begin to get decent acquisitions for the Portland Trail 108 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:51,480 Blazers along with getting something back for Philly where they can try to still compete 109 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:59,800 with our Harden, plus working with these teams cap in mind. So for Miami and Philly or for 110 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,760 Miami and Clippers in theory, they're trying to fit the person in. They don't really have 111 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:08,480 a long term plan. Get them in, get them on the cap table. We can figure it out from there. 112 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,760 If you're Portland, I think you're trying to free up money. So you don't want to take 113 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:16,960 back multi. You don't want Tyler Hero $27,000 a year. You'd have to redirect Tyler Hero 114 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:22,880 basically overnight. Kyle Lowry is an asset they could pick up, but you're already trying 115 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:26,960 to train young guards. Kyle Lowry probably wants to win in this age his career. I don't 116 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:31,520 even think he would accept the trade to Portland. I think he'd probably just walk away. And 117 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:36,080 so with all that stuff being said, you try to get things where it makes sense for Portland 118 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:42,960 to get them along with financially they're not tied down to whoever is a three or four 119 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:49,440 year contract. So and it's posted on all my social medias, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, 120 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:55,840 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. I believe it's on threads. I'm not 1000% sure, but I think 121 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:03,040 it's on threads as well. But the trade ends up with Miami Heat getting Damien Liller and 122 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:09,880 Jaden Springer. Springer is a young guy from the 76ers. The Trail Blazers end up with Marcus 123 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:14,000 Morris on an expiring contract, Robert Covington on an expiring contract, Kayla Martin on two 124 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:19,840 years of variable manageable money, Forky and Corkmoss on a one year expiring contract, 125 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:24,360 Daniel House Jr. on a one year expiring contract, Josh Ridgerson on a two year variable manageable 126 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:30,520 deal and Nikola Jovic a young guy who they can build around also would include multiple 127 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:34,920 first round picks, picks, while sending packets of second round picks. The Los Angeles Clippers, 128 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:40,920 you end up with James Harden and then the Philadelphia 76ers in an attempt to try and 129 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:47,240 keep winning basketball games. They will pick up Tyler Hero, Duncan Robinson, KJ Martin, 130 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:55,120 Hayward Highsmith and Brandon Boston Jr. in a bevy of second round picks. Now again, I 131 00:12:55,120 --> 00:13:03,440 said in the post, by no means is this trade perfect. It is not perfect at any and all 132 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:10,360 ways. Most people say, oh, why would Miami trade six people just to get Dame and Pat 133 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:17,760 Riley would never do that? Oh, why would the Clippers give up all this young talent just 134 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:23,320 to get James Harden? Exactly. That's my point. Either the Portland Chubb ladies are going 135 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:28,160 to give Damian Lillip for basically nothing and set the franchise of Portland back five 136 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,400 to 10 to 12 years. Now they have some young good guards. They have Anthony Simons, they 137 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:36,520 kept Matisse Stiebel. Of course, they drafted Scoob Henderson. They gave Jeremy Grant a 138 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:44,840 big bag. They probably convert Nurgage into some other things, but that's my issue. The 139 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,360 issue does not lie in the fact that the trade can't be done. The issue is not in the fact 140 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:55,840 of what are you going to give Portland? Same thing with my with Philadelphia and the 76ers, 141 00:13:55,840 --> 00:14:01,480 Philadelphia and the Clippers rather. What are you going to give Philly to make it worth 142 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:05,800 James Harden? I gave Philly more than anybody else is giving Philly. And according to the 143 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:13,680 ESPN projection, they were still like minus like 16 wins. That's a situation where they 144 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:19,960 are losing to the times where Portland goes down, I think 10 wins losing game. But James 145 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:27,240 Harden is worth 16 wins apparently to the Philadelphia 76ers. That's hard to replace. 146 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:34,120 That's a situation where if you are going to have a 16 win drop off projection wise 147 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:39,200 and all these teams have analysis departments and departments that are designed to find 148 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:44,280 out what's the value of a 2030 umpire first time picked from Phoenix, you know, like all 149 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:48,720 these teams have these departments. If you're going to lose 16 wins for one player, do you 150 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:53,920 then trade Joel Embiid? Okay, Embiid goes to the highest bidder. Doesn't matter if it's 151 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,800 the same conference. Doesn't matter if it's the same division. Embiid to the highest bidder. 152 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:04,320 Um, because we're gonna I mean, there's not going to be an asset you get back unless he 153 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:09,920 goes to New York. Now I did the draft for New York a lot less is being moved because 154 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:14,640 you had certain people getting shipped in the trade that kind of made the money and 155 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:23,000 the value workout. So you didn't have to go so far with so many pieces being moved because 156 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:28,640 in the trade that centers around Philly. Oh, wait, no, that's another version of that trade. 157 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:35,040 Um, I did a version and multiple people fought back saying with Portland, Miami, Philly and 158 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:40,400 Clippers rather multiple people fought back saying, oh, it's not enough Portland and why 159 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,480 Portland take this deal and you got to give them more than just young guys nobody really 160 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:49,760 likes because I had them getting Brandon Boston, Hayward Highsmith, KJ Martin, Daniel Hobbs, 161 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:54,280 Robert Covington, Duncan Robinson and an attempt to not take back a whole bunch of money. Corkmize 162 00:15:54,280 --> 00:16:01,640 and Dame goes to Miami. Philly gets hero and Powell. Clippers get hardened. Um, people 163 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:05,200 fought back on that. So when I expanded it, people thought it was too much. Like there's 164 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:11,920 no sweet spot for this deal to be made in terms of people getting the value that they 165 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:17,240 believe deserves to go to Portland and I given them too much from the other teams because 166 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:25,160 that's just the nature of trying to maneuver with the salary cap, trying to move and get 167 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:31,040 adequate value for the teams losing the superstars, which has never happened in NBA history. Whoever 168 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:35,680 is a superstar went to trade. It doesn't particularly matter. Nobody knows what the signing trade 169 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:40,160 deal was for the Cleveland Cavaliers or LeBron. No one knows what the deal was for a killer 170 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:45,120 crime to a Jabar. Like these people just don't, you know, you just don't, they don't matter 171 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:50,760 if you're not the superstar in the trade. So the NBA has a problem and their problem 172 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:56,760 is stars not only requesting trades, but they're requesting trades of very specific teams hamstring 173 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:01,200 in their own organizations, hamstring in their current GMs and they even attempting 174 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:06,160 to getting back equal value or some semblance of equal value or having a bidding war. Like 175 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:11,080 if you have superstar like Dame's agent, who really was a good one, already good one, already 176 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:16,400 good one, one of the two, Archie Goodwin, Aaron Goodwin, sorry. If you have a guy like 177 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,760 Aaron Goodwin going out and saying Dame's not going to come to camp. If you trade for 178 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:25,240 him and it's not the Miami Heat, Dame's is not going to go. Well, why as a team would 179 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:30,120 I even offer Portland something? If I know without a shadow of a doubt, I'm going to 180 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:34,480 be trading for an angry superstar. I'm going to be trading for a guy who's coming in upset, 181 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:39,320 who's coming in not ready, who's coming in not wanting to be there. That is an absolute 182 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:47,080 waste of time if I am any other organization, because if Dame's going to come in upset, 183 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:51,560 disgruntled, frustrated, however you want to put it, or just not come at all, I send 184 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:55,360 assets out for a person who doesn't want to be there. And how long is it? Six to eight 185 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:58,760 months before he's asking God in my city and I'm going to get less back than when I traded 186 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:04,960 for him. So organizations have to make that choice. Dame doesn't have a no trade clause. 187 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:10,280 When Bradley Bill got moved to Phoenix, Bradley had a no trade clause. So he controlled his 188 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:16,960 own destiny, but you had an opportunity to go to him as an organization. If you were 189 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:20,240 one like, if you were one to trade for him and go to him and say, Hey, Bradley, this 190 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,280 is what we see for you. This is how we see us winning. This is what we see happening 191 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:27,560 over the next few years. Boom, boom, boom, boom. This is what the projected trade would 192 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:31,240 be. This is how your teammates would be. This is how we felt the roster. You had the opportunity 193 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:36,880 to meet with him and go step by step before he waived his no trade laws for you. Dame 194 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:42,800 and Lilla doesn't have that. So he's using the media to strong arm people away from even 195 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:47,200 attempting to offer because they think, Oh man, Dame's not going to come. Dame's not 196 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:53,680 going to show up if we offer. What's the point of even offering? Dame's not coming. And that 197 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:58,200 is ridiculous. But that's a problem. He has four years left on his contract. Three years 198 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:03,280 plus a team option. If he doesn't show up, he either hits fine, leaves on the contract 199 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:09,280 and his contract tolls. He can't go to agency anytime soon. If the NBA owners and I'm always 200 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:14,800 for the players, but this is insane. I think owners in GMs, he's called his bluff. Either 201 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:19,520 Portland keeps them, which Portland GM has already said this could take months to get 202 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:24,480 done. Either Portland keeps them or they trade them to the highest bidder. However the highest 203 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:31,400 bidder may be if it's Miami, then by all means Miami. But if it's New Orleans, if it's New 204 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:39,040 York, if it's trying to get some other teams that might make the deal, the Clippers, like 205 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:43,760 if it's another organization that gives the highest bid, I say make the deal and dare 206 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:51,280 Dame not to show up and risk losing $200 million. Like that's the bet I would make against Dame. 207 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:56,200 I would call his bluff here. Harden is a little bit different situation. He's potentially 208 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,640 hamstringing and feeling from getting value back if I say he wants to be a Clipper or 209 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:03,080 by having it come out that he wants to be a Clipper. But it's a little bit of a different 210 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:08,520 situation than Damian Lillard considering Harden has about eight months left or these 211 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:17,600 are about 12 months left, 11 months left in Philly. Dame has at least three years left 212 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:24,400 in Portland under contract. So if I'm in Portland, like I said, I fight my best to get equal 213 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:32,200 value for him and I don't let him strong arm us into sending him to Miami for scraps and 214 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:37,200 pieces. So that will be my approach to the Dame Lillard situation. And for the rest of 215 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:41,240 the NBA, I call his bluff too by offering packages, making a trade and daring him not 216 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:48,560 to show up pretty much. But that is all I have for the NBA. Up next, we're going to 217 00:20:48,560 --> 00:21:12,440 shift to the NFL and talk about going down with the Shield. 218 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:33,400 Welcome back into the show. And now we're going to jump to the NFL where there is a 219 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:42,320 new ownership group in the NFL. Josh Harris, his group led by Josh Harris, who owns the 220 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:47,880 Philly Leppie 76ers and the New Jersey Devils, along with Maddie Johnson, of course, NBA 221 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:54,640 Hall of Famer, Laker legend, world class entrepreneur and businessman, along with the rest of their 222 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:59,880 group has officially bought the Washington Commanders or officially been approved to 223 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:08,600 buy the Washington Commanders from much maligned owner Dan Schneider. Dan Schneider bought 224 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,360 the team in 1999, eight years after they won the Super Bowl, seven years after they won 225 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:17,560 the Super Bowl with Doug Williams. He bought the team in 1999. He's owned the team since 226 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:23,120 24 years. He bought the team for 800 million. The Harris Johnson, I'm going to call the 227 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:31,240 Harris Johnson group, the Harris Magic group bought the team for 6.05 billion. So about 228 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:43,040 a 700% increase. So pretty, pretty solid financial gain. If I do say so myself, we will see that 229 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:47,080 like Michael Jordan bought the Hornets for a couple hundred million and sold it for over 230 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:56,880 $2 billion. So again, congratulations to the Harris Johnson group. Matt Johnson has been 231 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:02,800 very emotional about what this means for him. He's owned the Sparks. He's been involved 232 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:09,060 in Los Angeles Dodgers franchise as well. But he said Josh Harris called him to make 233 00:23:09,060 --> 00:23:17,040 him a one of the major partners in the Commanders, or at least as they're known now, the Commanders. 234 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:22,160 Magic made it no secret that they're going to be looking into a potential rebrand of 235 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:29,440 the Washington team. The fan favorite was not the Commanders. It's grown on me. I mean, 236 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:34,520 the Washington football team grew on me after a while. But the Washington Commanders kind 237 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:40,440 of started to grow on me, but they're looking at another complete rebrand according to Magic. 238 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:48,800 They may get rebranded before next season starts. Now, that's a tight window. So I think 239 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:56,080 they'd probably rebrand for the 2024 season. Because again, getting in for 2023 is a very 240 00:23:56,080 --> 00:24:02,320 tight window. Now, they've also been planning this purchase for months. So could they have 241 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:07,920 already been discussing a rebrand and kind of have colors, logos, names, whatever in 242 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:14,520 place? Very possible. Could there have been a deal with the NFL? Like if we buy the team, 243 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:20,480 what's the deadline to re-change everything? What if they want to change their logo this 244 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,420 season? You know what I'm saying? I mean, they keep the W. I don't know. But they're 245 00:24:23,420 --> 00:24:29,120 definitely saying that they want to go with a rebranding, which I figured new owner, it's 246 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:35,120 not a traditional name. I'm going to say it. It's not the Washington Redskins where your 247 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:38,240 tied to something. Because even though the ownership groups and some of these teams have 248 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,840 changed, they've kept the name because the name is iconic. Well, the Redskins horrific 249 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:48,920 name is gone. So no one's married to the Washington football team or the commanders. 250 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:55,080 No one's married to either one. I think this is huge for the NFL. One, you get Dan Snyder 251 00:24:55,080 --> 00:25:02,320 out. Dan Snyder on his way out is going out with a sexual harassment case along with a 252 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:06,320 workplace violation. He withheld millions of dollars from other teams in the league as 253 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:12,280 far as the revenue sharing pot. Like horrible owner. They only went to six playoffs in 24 254 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:19,840 years, two total wins, no NFL championship game appearance, no football appearance obviously, 255 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:30,200 11 different head coaches, countless starting quarterbacks. Jay Gruden who, okay, Jay Gruden 256 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:36,320 is an interesting source. The reason being is Jay Gruden was fired by Dan Snyder. Also 257 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,840 Jay Gruden, Dan Snyder got his father fired because the emails between John Gruden and 258 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:46,280 Jay Gruden is the reason why John Gruden is not still the head coach of Vegas. So he's 259 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:50,800 an interesting source, but he came out and said, Oh, Dan Snyder would just pick a player, 260 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:55,960 either one a guy in a free agency or draft a player in a draft and just be like, I'm 261 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,440 the owner. I'm a draft. He's like, you didn't put any of the work in and all these months 262 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:05,840 even begin to make this decision. He likes to play. He drafts him. Now, Jay Gruden was 263 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:11,000 the head coach when the draft happened, when RG three went to and Kurt Cousins went in 264 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:17,240 the fourth round and everybody went, why did you draft a quarterback in the same draft? 265 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:21,920 You supposedly draft your franchise quarterback, especially with the fourth round. If you draft 266 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:27,400 a seventh round pick quarterback, okay. Especially a guy that's like Lamar. Like, I mean, that's 267 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:35,640 like RG three, like the Ravens did with Lamar. Like they have Tyler Huntley and they have 268 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,440 another quarter. I can't think of the name right now, but they have two lesser versions 269 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:44,440 of Lamar's backups. Kurt Cousins could not be more opposite of RG three. The only nation 270 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:48,960 together is their faith. That's about it. They don't play the same. They don't look 271 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,400 the same. They don't act the same. They don't talk the same. They don't walk the same. Like 272 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:59,680 it felt like Dan Snyder's pick was RG three and Jay Gruden having no faith in RG three 273 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:05,160 pick Kurt Cousins. Now, so that's some of the things I won't dive off into that. That 274 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,320 gets discussed in quarterback. I won't dive off into that cause even Kurt Cousins was 275 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,080 like, why are you like this? I don't want to go here. I'm not going to play cause RG 276 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:18,160 three is here. Um, but Dan Snyder still on the team. So huge day for the NFL. Huge day, 277 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:23,360 like I said, for the Josh Harris, Magic Johnson group. Um, you know, Magic spoke about it. 278 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:26,960 He said when Harris called him about it, he was like, why are you doing this? And he was 279 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:31,440 like, cause I want to win. And then he was okay. I'm in. Um, because Magic said he doesn't 280 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:37,760 buy teams just to have a team. Um, yeah. Oh, I own the Dodgers. I own the commanders, whatever. 281 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:42,400 Just to say he does it at a dinner party with his friends. Like he wants to win championships. 282 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:47,760 Um, and so when he heard that Josh Harris was committed to doing that, he went in with 283 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:53,840 the group. Um, I wonder, I do wonder one thing about this stuff before I move on from it. 284 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:59,760 Um, Oh, Oh, backing up the dance nighter real quick. He has to pay $60 million to the NFL 285 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:05,280 as a result for the fines he's getting from the Mary Jo, um, white, I think it's her last 286 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:10,400 name, um, investigation along with other things he owes and fines and back, whatever to the 287 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:14,480 NFL. He has to pay that on the way out. So Josh Harris money goes into his account and 288 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:24,800 $60 million automatically draws straight to, um, the NFL. But what I was about to say was, um, 289 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:31,440 I wonder how much control Magic has in the commanders. His wide savings, his emotional, 290 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,880 and it's just everything he talks about it. He was emotional on Twitter. He was on GMA. 291 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:41,120 He was emotional. He was at the, he was at the official press thing. After it was approved, 292 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:47,200 he was emotional and it was more emotional than somebody saying it's full circle. I'm a black 293 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:52,000 owner. I'm showing her the black where they can do this. I'm sitting in the standard. So on and so 294 00:28:52,000 --> 00:29:01,120 forth. It felt like literally he's going to own the commanders and it's not like Josh Harris bought 295 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:06,720 it. Josh Harris has the 50s on the percent or the 60s of the percent, whatever. Josh Harris has it. 296 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:13,840 Right. But Josh here also has the 76s and he also has the New Jersey Devils along with 297 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:20,080 his other businesses. I wonder how much day to day magic Johnson's and because magic announced 298 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:26,160 the rebrand, not Josh Harris, magic has been giving our interviews, not Josh Harris. So I wonder how 299 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:36,240 much of the day to day, um, day to day operations magic is going to be involved in or the overview 300 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:42,240 of the franchise and the shape and the structure and the scope and the alteration and the rebuilding 301 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,360 and the building of a new stadium. And there are the other things that the commanders franchise 302 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:51,040 desperately needs. I wonder how much in that will magic Johnson have due to the fact of 303 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:56,000 he's been so openly emotional, openly communicative. And when we get news about the 304 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:02,960 commanders, it's from magic. Um, and so I'm just wondering how big is he going to be in the every 305 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:08,320 day, um, operations of the team considering that again, we're getting all our news from him. 306 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:12,480 We've seen the emotional reaction from him. Um, not obvious. He's the biggest sports star than 307 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,800 Josh Harris. So that could be just media coverage, but from everything I'm seeing about it, I'm 308 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:22,080 getting my info from magic. Um, so that is definitely something to keep our eye on there. 309 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:28,000 Look, congratulations to the house Johnson to the Harris Johnson group on purchasing the commanders. 310 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:34,320 All right. The NFL's training camp window is open. Uh, pretty much teams are open. Now you see guys 311 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:39,280 filling in their rosters, uh, that the giants picked up cold Beasley, uh, today. They also 312 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:44,960 signed Melvin Gordon today. Um, so they are working on filling out their rosters, but two teams, 313 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,960 everyone's keeping their eye on and they're from the same division is the Patriots and the jets 314 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:55,440 for opposite reasons. Uh, the jets of course went green Bay East. They got in Rogers and his friends 315 00:30:55,440 --> 00:31:00,000 they got random cops. They got, I don't know, the sword, but they got certain talent to like a Gary 316 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:05,120 Wilson, like a SARS Gardner. They brought back Quinn and Williams. Um, they have an issue with 317 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,760 mccoy Bechtin, um, but they're going to be the hard knocks team. So everyone's interested in their 318 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:14,560 training camp because as you watch their training camp, HV is going to be there filming their 319 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:19,840 training camp. So you're ready to get to see that training camp as it moves. Um, now they're trying 320 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:26,240 to get to being weird. They're trying to fight back on some of the hard knocks traditions. They're 321 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:33,600 trying to get rid of the scenes where a player gets cut. And it's like, it's literally called 322 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:39,920 at first it was called NFL training camp, hard knocks or school of hard knocks or something. 323 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:46,240 It was basically like the purpose of the show is to show hard practices, hard hits, 324 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:52,080 hard introductions, hard release moment. It was about how hard it is to literally make a roster 325 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:58,080 in the NFL. The biggest rated parts are the parts where people get cut. Like I don't understand. I 326 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:02,400 mean, I get it. It's not the prettiest thing to look at. If you, if you don't like awkward or 327 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:07,840 sensitive, like it sucks to see a guy who worked his whole life, who's been playing football since 328 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:13,200 he was five, who got, who kept playing my six round pick or got an undrather for agency contract. 329 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:17,520 He makes a little noise in the preseason. So the camera stopped to follow him. And then when it 330 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:23,920 came down to the cut to 53, he's got to turn to his iPad and clean out his locker. Like that does 331 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:31,600 suck to see, right? Like it's not fun to watch, but that's what the show's about. Um, so I don't get 332 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:38,400 the gesture and do that. I think they, if they, I think that they think if they can get HBO or 333 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:43,920 the now max, they can get max in the NFL to agree to show that they can cut other stuff out too. 334 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:48,320 Cause Aaron's going to say state prodigy. We've never seen Robert Sala in front of a camera. 335 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:53,120 Nothing you hack it now. It's awful year in Denver. He's not going to be in the forefront. 336 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:58,880 This makes a match. Like what if they look awful in the preseason and hard knocks comes 337 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:05,040 and he looked awful in hard knocks. And then maybe they cut a couple of guys kind of harshly in hard 338 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:09,440 knocks. They ended up making plays for the teams. Like this is a situation where you're trying to 339 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,920 limit as much of the bad press as possible. I think it's what they're trying to do. And 340 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:18,720 it's potentially setting them up to look worse because now you're having a situation where people 341 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,960 are looking forward to certain moments. You're trying to get that away from them. I watched 342 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:28,000 pre-season. I watched training camp hard knocks for the releases, for the cuts who gets cut, 343 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:35,520 how late did they make it off a guy he got released trades, how, how people coach. I'm a coach. 344 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:41,440 So I want to know how other people coach because I want to know, okay, the NFL, maybe there's 345 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:47,360 something to do schematically on the board. I can take, give that to my kids. I take it from the NFL 346 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:52,080 level to the high school level, but taking it to my kids, different strategies, different things 347 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:57,040 they adjust to, how they could adjust to, you know, stuff like that. Like that's why people watch 348 00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:02,320 the preseason hard knocks for the cuts, the fights, the training camps, the stories, the cool, 349 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:07,040 the cool rookies, who gets practice squad, who gets picked up waiting on that phone. 350 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:12,880 That's why hard knocks exists in season hard knocks. You don't really have releases. You have 351 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:20,720 trades maybe, but in season hard knocks, you get practice, development, strength, pain, play, 352 00:34:20,720 --> 00:34:25,600 practice, development, strength, pain, play, practice, development, strength on repeat. 353 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:30,880 Like I said, unless there's a trade or something, or some big, like this is rarely a big release, 354 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,520 but if there's a big release, it's not an inhumane moment. It's probably people you knew he got 355 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:41,600 released. And that's another thing too. In season hard knocks happens that they only start showing 356 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:46,160 it till like we see it in week nine and they film it in week five because they want to give a big 357 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:50,080 enough gap where the film doesn't matter. And the inside information is like, no, that matters. 358 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:54,880 They, and then if somebody got released, you know, like Carson Wentz got benched. So when you see 359 00:34:54,880 --> 00:35:01,040 Carson Wentz get benched, it's not a Carson Wentz got benched. In the preseason hard knocks, you may 360 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:05,840 never heard of that guy. And it's happening like they'll, like let's say the first game is August 361 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:11,120 14th. I mean, I should say, right? They'll play it on August 14th. You'll see that hard knocks like 362 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:15,840 four days later. So if a guy released that Monday and it didn't just didn't trigger to your brain, 363 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,840 like you knew the name or you knew the guy, like I'll just cut some receiver. You're going to see 364 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:24,960 that receiver get cut four days later. You know what I'm saying? So that's something where the, 365 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,920 just trying to fight away from that. And I just disagree with the premise of we're going to edit 366 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:36,080 out one of the most popular moments of the show. That just feels bad to me. And then of course, 367 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:41,920 all eyes are on the Patriots as well as they get Bill O'Brien and Bill Belichick. Now as we're on 368 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:47,280 the Roman hot seat, he's 19 wins away from being the all time winning his coach. I believe Robert 369 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:52,000 Kraft will get from two seasons to do it this year and next. Average nine and a half wins. 370 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,720 He broke the record with 18 next year, losing the first time in the playoffs, retired, retires all 371 00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:01,920 time winning his coach. I don't think it's ever going to be broken. And so I just think, because 372 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,560 my home is not going to have Andy Reed his whole career. Eventually my home is going to have a 373 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:10,800 different coach. Andy Reed is not coaching. I mean, my home is only five years in. Andy Reed is not 374 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:18,240 coaching 15 more seasons. And I thought the heir apparent was being in me. But obviously not. So 375 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,720 I don't know what they're going to do, but I don't think that record is ever going to be broken. 376 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:28,320 I think Bob Kraft gets him two seasons Belichick to break the record. He needs nine and a half wins 377 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:32,400 to hear for the next two years. So he's the all time winning his coach ever. And I think that's 378 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,840 what he's going for. And then I think he might walk away at that point. He's the greatest coach 379 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:41,280 of all time. Most two balls at most wins. What else do you want? People looking at Mac Jones 380 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:48,560 development year three. I want people to treat this year how people treated Trevor Lawrence rookie 381 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:53,200 year, myself included. I did Trevor Lawrence rookie year the exact same way. Didn't exist. 382 00:36:54,560 --> 00:37:03,440 The Urban Meyer mess was such a tragedy as far as coaching this disaster and disorganization 383 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:08,320 and Tim Tebow was a tight end like Gerber Meyer getting caught in clubs instead of flying back 384 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:14,640 on the plane, cotton is local bar filling up a woman. Like it was a situ. It was just a disaster 385 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:20,640 of a situation. He was coaching a league he admitted before he doesn't even watch. He was 386 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:25,760 openly about I don't watch the NFL. And now you're coaching the number one overall pick, 387 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:30,800 which pretty much everybody said he only took the job because Trevor Lawrence was a number one 388 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:39,360 overall pick. Last year, Matt Patricia was the offensive coordinator. Matt Patricia grew up on 389 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,840 the defensive side of the body in FL with the defensive head coaches on line and they became 390 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:48,800 the play offensive play caller for Mac Jones. Interesting. And the quarterback coach was Joe 391 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:54,480 Judge, who was a special teams coordinator, a bad head coach to the Giants made multiple bonehead 392 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:59,200 decisions, especially offensively. And then he became the quarterback coach. So two of Belichick's 393 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:06,880 cronies end up being the voices of comfort and reason in Mac Jones's life. Neither one of them 394 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:12,800 could do offense. Interesting. So now that that's out of the building, Patricia started building 395 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:18,720 entirely. Joe Judge is only titles assistant head coach that might as well be like, you ever seen 396 00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:26,320 the office? The white shrew always has to say assistant regional manager. And Michael Scott 397 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:31,120 always has to say assistant to the regional manager. It's like the Belichick did it reverse. 398 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:35,280 It's like he gave him the title of assistant head coach, but it might as well be assistant to the 399 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:39,360 head coach. Like he's going to be doing Belichick's runs and errands. That's how I envision it. He has 400 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:44,320 no position title. He's not on offense, he's not on defense. It just says assistant head coach. 401 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:48,720 So I guess in the event Belichick gets sick and can't do immediate thing, Joe Judge does it. 402 00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:53,920 Other than that, he just waits on whatever Belichick needs him to do. Because again, 403 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:59,280 he has no other title but assistant head coach. So that would be, that's going to be very interesting 404 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:05,840 to watch. And then a couple of quick hitters. Justin Fields says he's going to throw 4,000 yards 405 00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:11,440 this year. I think he has to win seven games to keep his job. Why seven? That puts you out of the 406 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:16,560 range of Drake May and Caleb Williams. Caleb Williams is the number one overall pick. I think 407 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:21,840 Drake May is top five. Depending on what Jaden Daniel does at LSU, he may end up top 10. But I 408 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:28,400 think if it came down to Jaden Daniels or a 6-11, 3,800 yard passing Justin Fields, the Bears may 409 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:34,160 go with Justin Fields and just build around him. Use those assets to build around him. I think if 410 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:38,880 Justin Fields plays well and they just don't win that many games, he survives Drake May. If they're 411 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:43,840 2-15, he doesn't survive Caleb Williams. And then Caleb Williams, the number one overall pick, 412 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:52,240 Justin Fields gets shipped out to who cares at that point probably. And then the Bears start over. And 413 00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:59,360 so I think he has to do everything in his power to avoid Caleb Williams. And then lastly, Netflix's 414 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:04,800 quarterback has been picked up for a second season. Season one was amazing. If you haven't seen it, 415 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:12,480 it was spectacular. Definitely dope. Kirk Cousins has the perfect life for Kirk Cousins in terms of 416 00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:18,880 his home life, his family life. Patrick Mahomes' home is spectacular. Family's a little crazy, 417 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,800 but his home is spectacular. And then Marc Mareota, you got to see the different levels. 418 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:30,640 Marc Mareota got released. Then he quit on the team, basically changed teams. So you kind of 419 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:36,880 got to see those three different levels. I would love to see a rookie on it next year, personally. 420 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,920 I don't think that's good for the rookie, having cameras follow him around in the rookie year. 421 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:46,720 That's probably a bad idea. But I would love to see a Joe Burrow guy at the top, a guy at the middle, 422 00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:52,400 like a Derek Carr changing teams. And then maybe a rookie, maybe Anthony Richardson, a Desmond Ritter. 423 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:56,560 Even though you just saw Atlanta. It's probably going to go back to Desmond Atlanta. But Anthony 424 00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:03,200 Richardson, a Bryce Young, one of these guys, one of these rookies who has an opportunity to lead a 425 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:11,200 billion dollar business. Definitely see how their perspective is. But up next, we're going to shift 426 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:33,680 to our best for last and talk about what's going down with college football. 427 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:48,800 Welcome into best for last. And now we're going to discuss college football as media days have 428 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,960 been roaring around the country, especially in the power five, the Pac-12s had theirs. 429 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:59,920 I think that was today. Deion Sanders was not there due to another foot surgery. So prayers to him. 430 00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:06,320 Hopefully he gets through this. OK, the doctor recommended it's about straightening his toes 431 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:12,800 to avoid pain and some something else. The SEC has had theirs. Georgia looks for a three-peat. 432 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:17,440 LSU looks to bounce back and get to another title in 2019, which would be Brian Kelly's first. 433 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:23,520 Alabama looks to shake back for the first time. There's no dominant quarterback in any wild in 434 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:30,160 the SEC. In terms of like Stetson Bennett was at Georgia the past two years and they won titles. 435 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:37,200 Bryce Young, two of Mac Jones, Jaylen Hurts for Alabama. LSU had Joe Burrow. Florida had Anthony 436 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:44,080 Richardson. Steven Sankalana had Spencer Rattler. There's no elite quarterback that's staring you 437 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:48,160 in the face. I think Jayden Daniels, the best quarterback in the conference. He's over at LSU. 438 00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:53,600 I think that's why they have an opportunity to win the conference because he's standing there. 439 00:42:55,200 --> 00:43:01,920 For them, I think LSU has probably the best 11-11 roster in the country. I just don't think they 440 00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:06,160 have the depth right now that they need to be dominating a couple bad injuries, a couple 441 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,440 injuries in the wrong spots and they're in trouble, especially a receiver and corner. 442 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:15,840 Inside linebacker as well, you've got the Pac-12s. Like I said, Kayla Williams. Colorado shows up as 443 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:21,440 basically the new kids on the block. Even though they've been there, obviously it's Colorado, 444 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:27,360 they're one of the new kids on the block because they bring in 70 new kids. This is nowhere near 445 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:32,480 the roster that won one or two games last season. Of course, they're led by Travis Hunter, Shador 446 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:40,000 Sanders, Deion Sanders, Shiloh Sanders, and the rest of that transfer crew. I would say they bring 447 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,000 in 70 some odd transfers. That's a completely different looking team in Boulder, Colorado 448 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:50,240 than their most last season. USC and UCLA are playing their final seasons in the Pac-12 before 449 00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:54,480 they shoot over to the Big Ten. Texas and Oklahoma are playing their last seasons in the Big 12 before 450 00:43:54,480 --> 00:44:00,480 they shoot over to the SEC. Brad Venables is on the high end of the pack. They're playing 451 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:06,480 their last season in the Pac-12. I mean, Brad Venables is on the hot seat in Oklahoma. I think 452 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:11,920 they missed with that hire. I just don't see Brad Venables as a head coach, big time head coach. 453 00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:16,560 Northwestern had their horrible scandal. They're trying to get their life together and get a head 454 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:22,720 coach there. They've named an interim, but Ed Hojran-Poyle has interest in a job. John Cruden, 455 00:44:22,720 --> 00:44:26,800 I think, may actually work there. I don't know if they'll do it just because they're coming off 456 00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:33,760 but I think he would actually work there at Northwestern. Clemson's looking to bounce back 457 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:38,800 and reclaim the ACC. Florida State may have their best team since Jameis Winston was there. 458 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:43,360 I mean, college football is in a great state. Lane Kiffin calls it a bad spot because of NIL. 459 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:47,520 Look, NIL is going to get fixed. There's senators and stuff with the support of the Power 5 460 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:53,280 conferences trying to make NIL regulation. So, NIL is going to get fixed. But I'd rather have 461 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:57,760 the kid get the money than the coach or the booster. That's just me. I'd rather the kid get 462 00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:04,160 the money than the president or the assistant coach or the uncle that never gives money to the 463 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:08,880 kid. You know what I'm saying? I'd rather the kid get it directly in his bank account as opposed to 464 00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:17,760 going through the booster pays the uncle who then convinces the kid to go to whatever school to make 465 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:22,160 sure the booster gives his uncle the other half the money and the kid never sees one dime and 466 00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:28,960 uncle's riding around in a new Ferrari. I'd rather the kid get the Ferrari deal or Angel 467 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:35,200 Reese with her plenty of deals including Zoey Energy. I'd rather those people get the deals as 468 00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:40,480 opposed to the CD uncle or I think on one point a pastor got the Cam Newton thing. A pastor got 469 00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:46,480 involved in the Cam Newton thing. Marcus Dupree famously had people around him getting offers like 470 00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:53,440 Reggie Bush. This kind of stuff happens for years. So, now that we can at least cloak it a little bit 471 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:59,760 in the words of NIL, this stuff's going to get fixed. So, I think that NIL is great for college 472 00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:04,160 sports. The transport portal is free agency. Literally, who has the highest NIL bid gets to 473 00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:11,920 top free agents almost every time. And then the kids hoping that they find a chair before the 474 00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:18,960 music stops. And I think it's greatly affecting and helping women's sports. Look at LSU's basketball 475 00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:24,160 team. I'm from Baton Rouge. I'm a LSU fan. I can point to them because I recognize them every day. 476 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:31,040 Angel Reese has, oh my gosh, she has endorsements out of the Wazoo, Fajr Johnson, Hailey Van Lyth, 477 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:39,520 Libby Doon, one of the two. These women have all these great NIL deals. I'm just thinking about 478 00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:43,600 this in totality. So, college football is in a great spot. I think they had to clean up NIL 479 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:47,120 and the collectives a little bit because Deion Sanders doesn't speak bad about NIL. He speaks 480 00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:53,360 bad about collectives. So, I think that once that gets cleaned up, we're going to see a much better 481 00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:59,120 state of college football. But that is all I have for you today. As always, don't forget to like, 482 00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:04,240 rate, and subscribe to the Justin Times Boys podcast on iTunes and Spotify. And as always, 483 00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:10,080 this is your host, Justin Jackson, signing out. 484 00:47:34,240 --> 00:47:36,080 Thank you.