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Welcome to the show. Welcome into season four, episode 29 of the Justin Time Sports Podcast.
I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson, and we are going to cover the NBA today. We are going to
have the NFL. We are going to touch on those main two sports today. Of course, Major League Baseball
Playoffs also happening as well. So a lot of big things happening in the sports world. The WNBA
has their finals going on as well. Congratulations to the Los Angeles Aces for taking game one.
Game two being when the podcast comes out. It'll be Wednesday morning. So game two being tonight
with the Vegas looking to take a commanding 2-0 lead over the Liberty. And of course, the NBA
preseason has ramped up. We'll discuss that a little later. But in this topic, we're going to
discuss NFL Week 5, which just wrapped up a couple of days ago. We learn a lot of different things
in NFL Week 5. Obviously, we're not going to touch on every game, but we'll jump into some of the
things. The first thing I want to discuss is the San Francisco 49ers. They are separated from
the rest of the league. I don't just mean the rest of the division. I don't mean the rest of the
conference. I know Philly is also undefeated in the NFC as well. I mean the rest of the league.
The San Francisco 49ers are a different animal. Now, I'm going to take this in multiple parts.
Two main parts specifically. Part one on your left hand side is going to be the Rock Pretty Angle.
Part two on your right hand side is going to be the Niners as an organization. Let's start off with
the Niners as an organization. Kyle Shanahan, head coach Kyle Shanahan, GM John Lynch, the York
family, I believe is an ownership group. They have separated themselves as an organization.
Not only just as a head coach, because I don't think Kyle Shanahan is the best head coach. I
don't think John Lynch is the best GM. I don't even think the York family is the best ownership group.
But as a trio, no one can boast anything better. Kyle Shanahan is undeniably a top four head coach,
five head coach. John Lynch at this point is an undeniable top five GM. I think York's top five
ownership group. He don't get better than top five everything. And so they have separated themselves
from an organization from the standpoint. They have nailed on many draft picks. Obviously the big
glaring one is Trey Lance. If Brock Purdy isn't as good as he is, Trey Lance may tank the organization
for years to come. But to make up for it with Brock Purdy, which we'll get to about in a second.
Look at how well this team was not only drafted, but kept their infrastructure in place for the
most part. Yes, they lose Robert Sala eventually to be the head coach of the New York Jets. Yes,
they lose D'Amico Ryan to be head coach of the Houston Texans. I believe they lose off as
coordinator at some point as well. Does that make McDaniel? Yes, McDaniel ends up leaving
to be the head coach of the Dolphins. Okay, so they lose coordinator infrastructure.
But I'm thinking about their players. They have the highest paid left tackle Trent Williams.
They have the highest paid linebacker. Inside linebacker Fred Warner. They have the highest
paid running back Christian McCaffrey. They have the highest paid fullback in use check.
They have one of the higher paid receiver units in the league as well.
But here's the thing about that. Christian McCaffrey was a trade. Trent Williams was a trade.
Fred Warner's draft pick. That defensive line Nick Bost is the highest paid defensive end.
That's a draft pick. Most of that defensive line is draft picks. Most of the secondary is draft
picks. Fred Warner is a draft pick. You look at a lot of these different talent levels on that team.
They're draft picks. As I said, Christian McCaffrey is not a draft pick. He's a trade.
So is Trent Williams. But most of the other talent on that team, especially the elite talent,
you think of when you think of the Hufungas, when you think of the Bosa's, when you think of the
Fred Warner's, when you think of the Brock Purdy's, when you think of that defensive line,
when you think of those corners, you think of homegrown talent that was drafted by Shanahan
and Lynch with the backing of York, of course. And so that is an amazing job of roster assembling
from top to bottom. But they're helped out. And this is kind of the perfect storm of opportunity
for the 49ers. They have a starting quarterback. And right now I can't necessarily deny that Brock
Purdy is a top 10 quarterback. Or he's playing like one right now. They helped out by the fact
that he makes 800 grand. Brock Purdy still shares an apartment with someone. He's a
camera, I believe. It was a whole story about it. I know he shares an apartment for sure,
but I think he drives a camera. Brock Purdy's salary is 800 grand a year. Now, I haven't exactly
done the taxes. I haven't done his take home. But I'm going to guess it's less than 400. He lives
in California. He has jock taxes and all the other stuff. I'm going to assume that he's going to
make less than $400,000. I'm going to assume he takes home less than $400,000. Now, you're probably
excusing me for the sniffle. You have it in your head. Man, I'd kill to make $400,000. But you guys
know that he's in San Francisco. He's in a different area of existence. He's in Silicon Valley
adjacent. Brock Purdy is making $800,000. He's still sharing an apartment with a roommate.
I think he drives a camera, et cetera. It's a dual edged sword. Brock Purdy at Iowa State,
first of all, did not look like this Brock Purdy. I said it a lot last year. I'm waiting on Brock
Purdy to turn back into Brock Purdy because people are pulling up his Iowa State low lights. That's
not the same quarterback. I think he's going under a really good development under Kyle Shanahan.
He's accurate. He's athletic enough. He's a leader, appears to be a winner in the NFL.
Kyle Shanahan, he definitely was a plus for Iowa State. Iowa State, I think wins one up four or
five. He was an eight win quarterback, nine win quarterback a year at Iowa State. I know that
they won six games since he left. If they have, it's been very under the radar. He's obviously a
plus player. But my thing is he went in the seventh round for a reason. Brady's the end of the sixth
round. I got you. But we're going to discuss Tom Brady a little later. But Purdy went in the
seventh round for a reason. As much quarterback looking and developing and people who just,
their whole job is to find who's the next best quarterback. The fact that everybody would let
him go and the 49ers grabbed him as Mr. Irrelevant, the last pick of the draft.
And now he's the starting quarterback. He's never lost a start in the NFL. I think he's
10 and 0 or something like that. The Niners have won 13 straight regular season games.
In a game, Purdy has started and finished. He's never lost it.
It helps to have all those things I just talked about. The best left tackle, the highest paid
left tackle, the highest paid defensive end, the highest paid runner back, the highest paid receiver
rule, one of the highest paid tight ends, the highest paid fullback, the highest paid linebacker,
one of the most expensive DBS because he's only making 800 grand a year. So in a sport,
let's say the salary cap is 200, there's $199.2 million to spend on everybody else because the
most important position on the field is making 800 grand. Absolutely humongous bargain. And I
think the 49ers have to win before he gets a contract extension because if Purdy keeps on
this pace, let's say he wins 10 or 11 games a year. Let's say he's a 12-win quarterback for the
next three years. I don't see them. Let's say he rips off an initial title run, whatever.
But let's say he doesn't win the big one. It's hard to win that Super Bowl. Let's say he just
doesn't close and win the big one. He goes to the table. He goes, look, I'm 13 wins a year. I've
been in two in each title games. I've been in the Super Bowl. Unfortunately, we lost it.
You know, I think I deserve to be one of the highest paid quarterbacks. And he goes for,
at that point, maybe six years, 320. Because he's never been paid. So he's going to go all for the
big dollars fast. Six years, 320, 240 guarantees. Something, you know, a big contract. You can no
longer have the highest paid left tackle running back inside linebacker D-line in the league. Now
Purdy's going to have to make up for gaps because at the moment he doesn't make up for anything.
Anything he could possibly be deficient at, we haven't seen it because it's been covered up by
so much league talent. I mean, there's a play floating around with Fred Warner where he does
four different jobs in one play. You know, it's just like, when you've got that buzzing around
at all times, you know, that's hard to do. It's hard to, it's hard to start to mess that up with
if you've got any kind of level of talent. He's in the best situation of quarterbacks. He's
the best situation quarterback to be in. He's not expected anything because he's a seven pound pick.
He's got all the talent surrounding him in the world and he can actually play a little bit.
I just don't think he's as good as what his numbers or his tape right now is showing.
But on the flip side of that, you guys know I've, I've talked to you guys about it before.
I'm a Patriots fan. I said that that's probably going to be the one team. Bias goes out the window
in terms of just, it is what it is. I'm biased, you know.
I thought you guys, bias goes completely out of the window. It is what it is. I'm biased and I'm
going to paint my picture of the Patriots through a fan's perspective because I'm biased, right, for the most part.
The New England Patriots objectively are a disaster.
And I wanted to try and figure out what exactly the plan was. They're bad and I wanted to juxtapose
the Niners to the Patriots in this way to kind of, you know, be like, hey, I just spoke about how
the best or the highest paid left tackle, the highest paid running back, one of the high paid
receiver rooms, the highest paid or one of the highest paid tight end rooms, the highest paid D-line room,
one of the high paid DB rooms, all exists with elite talent because I can say, I can make a case
Christian McCaffrey is the best running back in the league right now. I do believe Fred Warner is the
best inside linebacker for ball right now. I believe Trenton DeWilliams is the best tackle in football right now.
I can tell you that that 49er receiver group right up there with the Bengals and Bengals, Bills,
Eagles, one of the best team rooms in football. That's the best D-line in football in San Fran.
They're elite paid, highly paid with elite talent. The New England Patriots has the exact opposite
problem. They're highly paid with no talent. Mack Jones is a bust. The Patriots are the best.
I didn't like Mack Jones going into that draft. If you guys go back and listen to my podcast when I
did a breakdown, a deep-depth breakdown of that draft class, I did the quarterbacks. I didn't like
Mack Jones then. I kind of got it fooled a little bit as Rekia, kind of fell for him a little bit.
Matt Patricia did, I think, irreparable harm to the development of Mack Jones. So any hope he was
going to have, the Matt Patricia, Joe Judge thing killed it, in my opinion. So any hope that he might
have had to develop into a better player, into a legitimate NFL starter, I think was killed
by Matt Patricia and Joe Judge being his all-forsakenly quarterback coach. I just think
that was absolutely murder because now Mack Jones is throwing. He's fading away on all his throws.
He's not stepping into anything. Everything's coming out like pop flies. It looks predetermined.
I mean, it's just not good football right now from Mack Jones. At the same time, he has a receiving
corps that has the least separation in the league. Ramondre Stevenson, like a shell of himself,
because Zeke, who also looks like a shell of himself, is playing better than Ramondre Stevenson.
The offensive line, which already wasn't that good, has had suffered injuries all across it,
it feels like. Bad personal decisions, haunting up the, hitting up Tavelochek.
Judith Smith-Streusdell was an absolute waste of a signing, especially when she signed Jacobi
Myers, especially when Jacobi Myers went to Vegas for basically the same contract.
It's just, there was poor decisions all the way around. I think it was a cluster bomb of poor
decisions all the way around. I think it was a cluster bomb of poor decisions. Now, positives.
New England does have a hundred million dollars of cash space going into next off season. That's a
positive. That's a major positive. Like, that's a big enough positive where you can almost justify
having such a bad roster because you can turn it over in a couple of months. Pay big for a couple
of talents. Trade for big salaries. You could turn your roster over in a couple of months.
So maybe that's ultimately the plan. I don't know. But it seems like I always speak about the saints
not doing this, which would just be bad for you. It'd just be awful. Reset your cap table, be bad
for a year. Reset your cap table, get a high drive pick, start your franchise on a high drive pick,
and then buy talent everywhere else. You have the opportunity to do it. And so I think Belatec
ultimately could be doing that. Just be a bad for a year. Get a high drive pick, get a J.J. McCarthy,
a J.D. or a Shador, a Sanders, or a Drake May. And then just completely reset your cap table
with the use of void years and et cetera. Just reset your cap table and go into off season with
a hundred thirty, a hundred forty million dollars. Buy the best players you can in pregnancy. Trade
for big silers. Build around your young stud, whether that be a young stud at lineback, a young
stud at quarterback, whatever. Build around your young stud. And so I think Belatec's doing that
because his roster is just not talented. I mean, it's just not good enough. No matter what you can
paint it, it's just honestly not good enough. But I want to talk about a narrative. And to me,
it's a lazy narrative surrounding the Patriots. And of course, with Belatec struggling, Tom Brady
retired and having one of the Suba without him, people are asking the questions. I think first
take at this is Belatec just another coach without Brady. And you hear just another coach. What does
that mean? Like in the average coach, like a Jag, just a guy, like, you know, nothing special about
him. He didn't have Brady. And I want to debunk some of those things. Yeah, like Shannon Sharpe
saying, Oh, man, I apologize to Brady. He was the biggest erasure in sports. He took those untalented
rosters that, um, to those untalented rosters that Belatec put around him. He won. He won anyway. He
raised this and he was able to turn this person to this and this person to that. Whatever Belatec
gave him, he took and made it better. He was like Belatec's wife, you know what I'm talking about.
If you give something to your wife, she'll flip it, multiply it and give it back to you. Um,
but there's a couple of things that I want to talk about in this new English situation.
It's Brady versus Belatec war. First thing, um, where I spoke about the lack of talent,
the AFC East has gotten a lot better. People also can remember that Tom Brady played bad
towards the end of his Patriots career. The defensive ability amount a lot and he ends up
jumping ship and joining a super team in Tampa. And the minute that team was no longer a super team,
they went to the tank as well. But people don't forget that in 2008, Brady tears his ACL and
creates the Brady rule. Just plays it goes low, hit him, don't play it, rather play it goes low,
hits him in the knee. He tears his ACL. Then that becomes the Brady rule. Can't have the
quarterback below the knee. Okay. Matt Castle starts 15 and a half games for the new England
Pages. In that year, again, without Tom Brady, they were first and first downs, first 10% of
the drive ending in a score, 14 points per drive, 15 yards per drive. Um, and they actually scored
more points in 08 than they did in 09. That because Belatec, who many people are trying to
discredit over the past 72 hours, built those rosters to be able to play with or without Brady.
The issue is that Belatec is having issue with roster construction these days. That is not
degrading or demeaning or reducing the amount of credit he rightfully deserves in the dynasty.
Because guess what? He picked Brady. He trusted Brady in that Super Bowl. He didn't go back to
Brady even with blood so it was healthy. Um, he didn't take a knee when John Mann was saying to
do so and Brady's for a Super Bowl win. Um, he also protected Brady with top five defenses.
Most days Koreans, they weren't top five, they were top 10. So we're not going to pretend
like 75% of the credit, 80% of the credit goes to Brady. Cause if we do it without you, um,
comparison, Brady without Belatec has one Super Bowl. Belatec without Brady has at least two
SDC of the Giants. Um, so good in fact that his game plan is in the Hall of Fame. Um, and so
I'm tired of the lazy narrative or the lazy comparison of Brady versus Belatec.
It was both of them. I think Belatec, Iverson Morgan, he picked Brady. Um, he allowed Brady to
stick around and, um, he did the negotiating with Brady on the contract and Belatec put the roster
together and all this stuff. Now there are people out there that are offering a pretty decent points
of saying that Belatec should be stripped of GM duties because his roster is completely negligent
and that, you know, Stephen Ape pose that Robert Kraft ought to go to him and say,
you're no longer the GM or firing you. That's a decision knocking back. But to say that Brady
gets most of the credit for a dynasty that Belatec helped not only draft, but develop,
including Brady himself, um, is a big wow and a bit blasphemous.
Um, and touch on some injury news. Uh, Elijah very Tucker is done for the season with an injury.
Uh, lady Van Ash is going to is suspected to miss four to six weeks. He's a candidate for IR
with the cowboys due to a neck injury. James Connor is going on IR for the Arizona Cardinals
due to a knee injury. Justin Jefferson also heading to injury reserve, uh, due to a hamstring
injury. He suffered just last week and David Devine, uh, a cane, uh, is an IR candidate for
the Miami dolphins because he has an injury as well. And he is going to see K second opinion on
it before deciding his best course of action. Oh, but now the last thing I want to talk about
for week five is that, uh, the Prince that was promised, uh, Trevor Lawrence defeated Josh Allen
and Josh Allen continues his roller coaster of play as bad as Dallas with Dak Prescott. Cause
boy, that was awful. Um, we'll discuss that a little later. Uh, but the Prince that was
promised defeated Josh Allen, um, in a game where both quarterbacks didn't necessarily play elite,
but Trevor Lawrence did what Trevor Lawrence tends to do. Just find a way to make it work.
Find a way to play well. Uh, probably play decent at least Josh Allen to me, uh, just didn't do
enough to win the game. Obviously he just didn't do enough to inspire his team. Him and Stefan
digs beef seem to be growing larger and larger and larger. Um, and so that's something that's
going to keep our eye on to see if digs finally asked out, uh, in the off season.
But up next, we're going to shift our NFL week six and talk about what's going down there.
Welcome back into the show. And now we're going to jump into NFL week six, but with, uh, of course,
it's some more injury news for what's going on. We'll touch on a couple of games, some kind of big
game this weekend, and we'll have a little bit of other news as well. We're going to start off with
a beef though. So as you know, the Niners dog walked the Dallas Cowboys cost me a fantasy game.
I was down six. So the only thing he had left was his defense. And he won by 10 because Dallas
decided to have four turnovers in that game and not do anything else. But anyway, so, um, George
Kittle wore a F Dallas t-shirt, uh, to the game under his pads. Michael Parsons responded saying
that if we play out again, we got something for y'all. Uh, Debo Samuels, Michael Parsons saying
y'all don't want to play us again. Um, in this beef, I'm on the Niners side. The Niners have
become the litmus test and they've been this way. Thanks to the organizational stability along with
their coaching staff and et cetera. They've been in this way about five years. Remember in Green Bay
a few years ago, Green Bay couldn't get past the Niners. That's the only team they couldn't be in
the playoffs. People was just saying, okay, that when they play the Niners, they're going to lose.
And they were getting smashed by the Niners. It wasn't like it was shootouts 27, 24, 34, 31,
you know, nine and victory. It would be like 40 to 10, 37 to six. I mean, it was just brutalizations
of what was at fatalities and Mortal Kombat land, like what was happening on the field. Um, and then
of course, and Roger's yields goes to New York. Right around the end of those epic battles, um,
Dallas swells up and our Dallas can't beat San Fran. I mean, they're punching on Dallas repeatedly.
Every time that the Cowboys play the Niners is actually, again, another one of those fatalities
like on Mortal Kombat. It is absolutely brutal. Uh, what the foot Niners do to the Cowboys,
every single time they play them. Um, and so when it comes to this, it comes to this beef,
I'm on the side of the people who've proven it, which is the 49ers as they have repeatedly,
um, beating the Cowboys down, worn them down, physically just dominated them, um, at any and
every turn. So if I'm Michael Parsons, I would do a little less chirping, a little more working,
um, and trying to figure out something to close the gap in, uh, between the Niners and the Cowboys.
Van Jefferson has been traded to the Atlanta Falcons, uh, full trade details on Los Angeles
Rams trade. I received a van Jefferson, a 20 to 25, seven round pick to the Atlanta Falcons for
a 20, 25, six round pick. Um, I have noticed that that has been a popular trade, um, style,
I guess would be the best way I can phrase it. Um, because the Randy Gregory trade from Denver to
San Fran was similar. It was Gregory in the 20, 25, seventh to San Fran for a 20, 25, sixth. Um,
and there was also another trade. I can't think of right now. That was done the same way player
plus future seventh, uh, for same year, sixth. Um, and so it's kind of a way, you know, there's
a populist trade style every year. So I guess that is a popular way. If you're basically skipping the
free agent market, um, you're going to give me 32 more ish picks in front of, um, jumping the line
up for the right to not have to battle this guy on waivers and or just flat out released. Um, and so
Van Jefferson tried to get a new start in Atlanta. Um, who's having their own issues, their own pass
catchers, cause I don't know what the B-fers with Kyle Pitts, but they just don't like him very much.
Although he came back a little bit last week. Um, but Van Jefferson was out of the rotation in Los
Angeles, um, Pooka Nakua is the hundred times better than anybody thought he'd be. Cooper Cupp is back
and of course Tutu Atwell played well in Cooper Cupp's absence. And so they kind of love Van
Jefferson, the out man out. Uh, he played well for them a couple of years ago, catched about 60 passes,
800 and somebody yards. Um, but it was time for him to move on. And so he is traded, uh, to the
Atlanta Falcons who's looking to add another receiver for Desmond Ritter. And then before we
get into the games, uh, the rookie quarterback update, CJ Stroud is setting records again. Uh,
he has the most past attempts without an interception to start a career in NFL history.
He passes that Prescott, um, Bryce Young, not playing bad, not playing great. Uh, he's still
looking for his first NFL win. Anthony Richardson, we'll discuss him a little later, but he is looking
well like Anthony Richardson. Um, so those are the big three of the quarterbacks who came out this
year. We're going to keep our eyes on them, but to go into the games of week five, six, I'm sorry,
again, same rules as always there in Jack's pack. We are not going to pick them. So, um,
three of these games, two of these games, the first game we're going to talk about her in Jack's pack.
So we're not going to pick them. However, we will pick the last two. So Broncos at Chiefs to start
off NFL week six, Thursday night game. This is a very interesting game and it's interesting for a
few reasons. Number one, if you haven't noticed Wilson Wilson and Patrick Mahomes have basically
the same stats. As far as raw production, they basically been the same quarterback this year.
Now the Chiefs defense is the most literally better than the Broncos defense. So I think Patrick,
well, I won't, I won't say that, but I think the Chiefs defense, the most better than the Broncos
defense. However, it's not like it's been a massive different quarterback play. Like Russell Wilson's
team has been getting obliterated so much. No one's noticing how well Russell's been playing,
but if you think Patrick Mahomes is playing really well, you got to give Russell Wilson the same
credence. They've been basically the same quarterback. Oh, so this would be a very
interesting game in terms of seeing Russell was that could continue his mojo and kind of show
people like, yo, it ain't me. It's the rest of this team. I think the Chiefs have an opportunity
to end the Broncos season. I think the Broncos made the playoffs, if they were all right, no,
but the locker room was beginning to splinter. There is a, from reported a division between guys
who know they're safe and guys who could be moved. I mean, when you're operating in a situation like
that, it's hard to get anything done. And then you got a real source in the middle of everything,
constantly in some sort of drama, beef, headline, et cetera. And so when you got that going on,
you're going against a Chiefs team that has not been playing well, been looking for a get right
game. You roll into town. It can be very interesting contest because either a lot of guys fighting for
their jobs and are trying to keep the team together or who's going to roll over on their back.
So very interesting contests. And about the AFC South, the Indianapolis Coastals are going to
Jacksonville without Anthony Richardson, as he has a grade three AC joint injury, which will sideline
him for at least a month and probably place him on injury reserve. Not good at all for Anthony
Richardson. This is his second injury where he'll miss games in the first half of his rookie year,
because he's set off for a concussion already. Now he's probably out about a month with a sprained
AC joint and it is due to the run style that they have. It is due to the physicality aspect
of the offense that the Colts office coordinator has put in due to the limited ability of just
like being a pocket passer of Anthony Richardson. However, Jacksonville has not been smelling all
like roses lately. They came out of a win with Buffalo, but that's basically their second home
in England. How Buffalo had to travel there, trying to get used to him to fly. It's a true
road game now as the England fans have seen the Jaguars so much that they all start cheering for
the Jaguars, or for the most part cheering for the Jaguars. And so this is going to be a very
interesting game because you get the Colts who played well with Anthony Richardson the first time.
Going up against a Jacksonville team that's kind of in a roller coaster up and down this season,
but that's going to be a very interesting contest. Patriots at Raiders, the battle of two teams, both
probably should be tanking, but just the interconnection of this game because Josh
Mead Daniels took a lot of important infrastructure people with him to go to Vegas.
And so you kind of see that lack of infrastructure in New England.
It looks like an unorganized mess and it could be because again, Josh Mead Daniels took a lot of
those people with him to Vegas. And also you've got New England scrambling, trying to figure out
what is the best way to put a good product on the field. You've got Vegas, who's trying to figure out
you know, all these guys being highly paid and they can't score. I mean, the Packers score 13
and Josh Mead Daniels still making inexcusable clock management decisions. Like when you try
to hit the field goal, they end up being a 52 yarder hit the upright. Carlson should have made the kick, I agree.
But it's fourth and one under two minutes on your 35 yard line, you're up four and you have one of
the best running backs in football and you decide to kick a pitch to our field goal. I mean, that's
it's one of those inexcusable moments. I mean, that's what like the Madden jokes come out.
Like, I believe Nick Wright said that, you know, to be an NFL head coach, you should, you know, have a drive
like I think up seven with like five minutes left in the game. You have to win the game.
If you lose the game, you can't be hired because that makes you do smart clock management and smart
clock negotiations. With your time, we do this with time-lapse and etc. Because again,
McDaniels got bailed out by honestly Jordan Love listening to his sideline and throwing a pass he
had no business throwing. I mean, it was ultimately picked off, but the Raiders struggled as well.
The pace we spoke about them, I'm not going to dive into them, but they've lost their last two games
73 ish to three. This has been 38 plus 34, was that 72? 72 ish to three. Just been an
absolute disaster in New England, which is something that I'm not used to saying as a fan of theirs.
But you know, that's going to be a very interesting game. I think the Patriots actually
win it. I just think the infrastructure that exists in New England, Belotec is going to
coach circles around Jasmin Daniels situationally. Neither team is special. Actually, no, I'm going
to go to the Raiders to win the better quarterbacks in Las Vegas, the better lines in Vegas, the better
receivers in Vegas, the better running backs in Vegas. I'm going to go to Las Vegas Raiders
probably to win comfortably over the New England Patriots and just continue New England's descent
into football destruction and demise. And then lastly, we're going to discuss the Dallas Cowboys
at the Los Angeles Chargers, two organizations. Again, another one of those connection games.
This is going to be a very connected game because the offensive coordinator of the Chargers
used to be is Kellen Moore. Last season, he was the offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys.
After the Dallas Cowboys failed in their ultimate mission, he, to me, got scapegoated by head coach
Mike McCarthy into being the reason. Mike McCarthy said they're going to be more balanced and he's
going to call them plays. And to me, he was scapegoated by Mike McCarthy. So now Dallas,
after being absolutely rammed by the 49ers, get an opportunity to go to the Chargers and try and get
some retribution. Khalil Max fresh off a six sack game, causing absolutely a lot of havoc
for different organizations, those Chargers. But on the flip side, Dallas has a staunch defense
too led by Michael Parsons, just to name one of them. Of course, when healthy, they have Trayvon
Diggs and the rest of the crew as well. But this is going to be a very interesting game. Again,
I'm going to go with the Chargers here. I just think, or not again, I'm going to go with the
Chargers here. Justin Herbert's better than, Justin Herbert's better than Dak Prescott.
Kellen Moore is better than Josh McDaniels at calling plays. I just think there's a,
not Josh McDaniels, Mike McCarthy calling plays. I think there's an underlying feel of beef because
the Jets and the Broncos last week is the fact that the Jets had to win that game from the Daniel
Hackett's career probably, and they got it done. I'm not saying it's that deep for Kellen Moore,
however, but if Dallas comes out, absolutely wipes away the offense. It could get dark for Mr. Moore
on the sideline of the game. But up next, we're going to shift into our NFL betting segment,
Jax Pack, which took a small hit last weekend.
Welcome into the show, or back in, I should say. Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to jump into NFL, our NFL betting segment, Jax Pack. A couple down weeks,
honestly, we were up at about 60%, which is above the professional betters level. We spoke
about it before, professional betters want to be at about 55%, 56%. If you can hit those numbers
consistently, you will be considered, or you can be a professional gambler. So for those gamblers
out there listening, if you're a 56, 57% guy or above, you can be considered a professional
gambler. You can work as a professional gambler. They make real money out of it.
However, we've had a couple of down weeks. We went two and three last week, two weeks ago,
one and four last week, which brings us under 500. We're hitting about 47% right now. But of course,
we can bring that number back up. Yeah, 48% right now. But of course, we can bring that number back
up with a good strong week. This week, our lock also lost last week. So with three and two in our
locks. So we're at 60% in our locks, but we're at 48% overall. We're trying to get those numbers
back up. I feel really good about the numbers this week. I didn't see any numbers that I picked that
I kind of was like, I guess I'll pick this. And immediately last week, I did feel that way. I
probably wouldn't have bet in a professional situation, probably wouldn't have bet only about
two of the numbers and I would have hit one of the two. This week, I felt good about all five.
Didn't hate any of the picks by any means. But let's jump right into it. First game up,
Eagles minus seven at the Jets. Take the Eagles here. I think the Eagles are going to dominate
this game. Not great for my fantasy scene because I have Breeze Hall starting. However, I just think
that the Eagles are going to dominate this game because the Jets, they can play, they can come
down and play man covers on the Jets receivers and they're going to clog up the middle of everything
revolving around their run game for the Jets. There's no way Zach Wilson and that offensive
would have moved the ball much of any. I don't think Zach Wilson as teams goes more than 13 points,
which means the Eagles have to score 21 to cover. I got the Eagles scoring at least 24, 27 points.
I think the final score will be 24 to 10. And so if they were the Eagles,
it means they cover the seven. Take the Eagles. Coats plus four at the Jags. Take the Colts.
They actually play to me a better professional level offense when Anthony Richardson is not in
the game. So I think they're going to actually, they're not going to win the game all right. I
think it'll be a three. I think it'd be a three point game. But if the number was three,
I would stay away from it entirely. But it being four that leaves room for maneuvering,
I think it's going to be a 24, 21 kind of game, 27, 24 kind of game where the Colts lose ultimately,
but they cover the four. Trevor Lawrence and the crew doing their up and down roller coaster this
year. So I, you know, Calvin really looks like an absolute baller. I just think that the Jags do win
the game, but they went closer than Vegas thinks. 27, 24 Jags would take the Colts plus four.
Broncos at Chiefs. Chiefs minus 10 and a half. Take the Chiefs. The Denver Broncos have the worst
defense I've seen in quite a long time. 70 points to Miami. They gave a 50 piece or felt like a 50
piece the very next week. Their defense is absolutely horrible. Justin Fields got his
shake back on the Broncos. He had his best day as a professional. Most completions, most yards,
most touchdowns on the Broncos. And so that, and then you're going to get Patrick Mahomes in
Arrowhead. Short week to prepare for him. I think he just lost a very highly emotional game against
the Jets. I've got the Chiefs absolutely running away and hiding from the Denver Broncos. I've got
the Chiefs winning this game 38 to 20, which means they'll cover the minus 10 and a half that the
Chiefs need to cover. So take the Chiefs minus 10 and a half. Panthers at Dolphins. Lock of the week.
Dolphins minus 13 and a half. Take the Dolphins. This is going to get ugly quickly. The Panthers
just don't have enough team speed, which Devon Aitken, not being there, or Aitken not being there
is going to help. But that's still Tyree Canwadal. There's just too much team speed, too much overall
brain and athleticism combination that's going on in Miami. I think, again, another one of those
games, I think it's run away and hide. The Panthers have not won yet in the Bryce Young era. I don't
think it starts anywhere near starting this upcoming week. Again, just like the Chiefs game,
I think they run away and hide from the Broncos. I think the Dolphins run away and hide from the
Carolina Panthers. I think they win 34 to 16. I think they run away and hide, which again will
cover the 13 and a half. There's a little bit of a two touchdown to cover it. It's my lock of the
week. Dolphins minus 13 and a half over the Vikings. And then Vikings at Bears. Bears plus
two and a half. Take the Bears. I was actually surprised the Bears were the underdog here.
Minus Justin Jefferson, the Vikings offense, isn't that talented? So now Jordan Addison's
going to have to masquerade as your number one. You still really can't run the ball. Kurt Cousins
is either Justin Jefferson or the tight end throwing the ball. Now there's no Justin Jefferson.
You would assume the ball's going to spread out more. I think it ends up hitting Calvin,
or not Calvin really. Jordan Addison or their tight end in the hands a lot. And so going on the road
into the soldier field, Justin Jefferson has a lot of confidence right now. He has a ton of
confidence right now. They've removed Chase Claypool out of the locker room, which apparently is a
great thing to do. And so I was shocked to see the Bears being the underdogs here, especially at home.
So I've got Bears plus two and a half over the Vikings. Just to recap through it, Eagles minus
seven at the Jets, Colts plus four over the Jags, Chiefs minus 10 and a half over the Broncos,
Dolphins minus 13 and a half over the Panthers in our Lock of the Week, and Bears plus two and a
half over the Vikings. But up next, we're going to have our Jets, Jack's hot take, which is going
to be a take about Victor versus Chet.
Welcome back into the show. And now we're going to talk about Jack's hot take, which is going to be
based on the NBA, what we saw a couple of nights ago between Victor Wimbenyama, the number one
overall pick for the San Antonio Spurs in this past draft, and Chet Holmgren, the number two
overall pick a couple of years ago by the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now both of them are in their rookie
year, because you guys may remember Chet Holmgren was in that infamous Seattle program game that
started the Paolo Bencaro DeShante Mary beef out of nowhere. Chet Holmgren was in that game, or
NA Seattle program game, it was not that one, but NA Seattle program game. LeBron James pulls up.
LeBron hits Chet in the chest in the way to drive. Chet breaks his foot in the interaction,
misses his whole rookie year. And so he's still a rookie, his whole first year. So now he's
entering his rookie year. A pattern we see growing in the NBA. You saw Blake Griffin miss,
Joe Embiid miss, Ben Simmons miss, Justin McPhewe, Julius Randall, like what, three minutes in,
breaks something, he's out for the year. It's a growing trend with NBA players missing their
first year and getting a second rookie year. But anyway, so Chet Holmgren recovered. He was
fully healthy by like March, but they just held him out for his year, trained him, got him strong
or whatever. Victor Wimbenyama, of course you guys know the 7'4 Frenchman from France, who's coming
over to disperse for each other organization. And they went at it a couple nights ago, Monday night,
and that wasn't a preseason game today. To most of the veterans, to most people, they'll play,
they'll get their shots up. Not the world's hardest defense, not all-star level week by any means, but
not the world's hardest defense. They're not really fighting over screens, you know, et cetera.
People are working their sets, like live practice basically. It was a little bit more intense,
not for Chet and Victor. They were coming at each other because if you're Victor, you're the number
one pick. You can't afford to show weakness because everyone is looking for you to have a flaw, for you
to be weak, to dominate you. If you're Chet Holmgren, everything they said about Victor Wimbenyama
was supposed to be yours. You were supposed to be the guy with the long 7'3 guy who's going to
change the game defensively, who's going to knock down the threes, who had a decent handle for his
side, who could finish the room. Like everything they're saying about Victor Wimbenyama that made
him this once in a lifetime basically can't miss prospect was supposed to be you. And so
it was a battle of, hey, I get it. You're who you are, but I who I am. And that kind of what Chet
Holmgren to me kind of took like, I get your Victor, I get you the number one pick, I get you're
supposed to be the special all-world, all-everything prospect, but I'm still Chet Holmgren. I could do
all those things too. For the most part, they did a lot of the same stuff. Both from blocking shots
left and right, both were recovering on defense really well. Both were knocking down threes,
both top three off the juggle and made them. There was three plays, two plays Victor did
Chet can't do, or hasn't shown he can do. One was Victor on Chet did a crossover,
crossed it back over on Chet, put his head down, knocks Chet to the ground, lays the ball up
and one, and then does the flex all on Chet. Cause again, it wasn't a preseason game to them.
And another play was Victor again juggles down the lane, Chet puts the hand up, Victor crosses
Chet's body and ends up in a scoop left hand layup around Chet off the glass in the bucket.
Two absolute, one was a bully ball play, one was a beautiful move that Chet hasn't shown he can do.
But besides breaking down the game, my high take is that that's the new Larry versus Magic.
That was the future of the NBA, ladies and gentlemen. The future of the NBA is seven foot three.
That's who's going to decide the NBA. You're going to have to go through either Paolo,
not Paolo, either Victor or Chet for the next 12 years barring injury.
I love what I'm seeing out of Zion Williams. He's healthy. He's going to start a season
healthy for the first time and maybe his career. I think year two, he technically was healthy
entering the season. You know, and people thought it was going to be him and Ja was going to have
the strength of a whole world man, and he ain't got to go through one of them. I think it's Victor
and Chet. I think in two years, you're going to have to go through one of them to get where you
want to go. Now, obviously that means one of them has to be in the finals because they're both in
the West. But I think for sure in the West, you're going to have to go through Victor, Chet or both
to get where you want to go. I think it's going to be a stretch in the not so distant future where
five, where the five year stretch will four years, either Chet or Victor's in the finals.
Like it is going to be, you're going to have to go through one of them to a title, especially in
the West. You're going to go through one of them to get into the NBA finals. And so I think that's
going to be very interesting to watch that happen. I think they're going to put a stranglehold on the
West to the point where one of them end up going East. And you know, sort of like Kobe and Duncan
where from 99 to 2014, you know, Kobe's in the finals seven of those years, Duncan's in the
finals seven of those years. So there's one year one of them is it or something, you know, it's an
Atlantic dark sneaks a couple of finals appearances in there, but from 99 to 2014, that's 15 years.
Kobe has five, Duncan has five, Kobe loses two finals, Duncan loses two finals. So that means
14 of the 16 seasons in the West. I mean, Oklahoma City sneaks a year in there.
I think it was gets sent there at the West.
Donald Dirk gets to in there, gets to appearances in there. OKC sneaks in the parents in there
is before Golden State starts. So, yeah, because three Pete, Kobe goes four years and then Duncan
starts winning. And then Dirk sneaks in the parents in there and then Duncan's in there a lot.
Kobe starts sprinkling back in. Oklahoma City gets one. Then Dirk and yeah, so out of 16, 17 years,
Duncan and Kobe is in is representing the West in the finals 14 of those years. I think it's going
to be it won't be as dominant as that, but Chet and Victor to me are going to it's going to be a 12
year stretch. One of them in the finals, nine years, you know, and they walk away with three
rings of pieces, something like that, you know, is they're going to dominate the Western Conference
because they're going to come up, they're going to rise when Yoko is going to come on the wrong
side of the hill and they're going to both rise up. And so it's just going to be a show to watch
those two. I'm hoping for their health because I want to see them healthy. Go at it for, like I said,
10, 12 years. Just go at it with no regards to anything. Just play basketball and go at each other
because that was a show on Monday night. But that is all I have for you today. I hope you guys enjoyed
it. I hope you guys had a great, I hope you had the rest of your week. I hope you guys enjoy your
hump day starting out with me. But this is your owner and host, Justin Jackson signing out.
Thank you.