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Welcome into the newest edition of the Justin Thomas Sports Podcast.

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I am your host, Justin Jackson.

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In this week's episode, we'll be discussing the NBA as it is ramping up, including our

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first night of end season tournament.

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We will have NFL week 8 and week 9, covering the trade deadline, and we will have Jets

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Hot Take.

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As always, don't forget to like, grade, and subscribe to the Justin Thomas Sports Podcast

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I repeat, at J-Times Sports for all of your breaking news, coverage, and updates.

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And as always, sit back and get ready to learn something.

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Welcome into the show on a good Saturday afternoon.

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This will be one of the few shows I do all year, where it will be recorded and instant

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release.

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I know a lot of you guys were looking for this show on Wednesday morning.

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You guys have been used to that on Wednesday morning.

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However, I'm in the process of moving on a personal note, so this guy's been a little

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wonky this week.

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It'll probably be a little weird next week as well, because again, I know you guys used

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to hear me on Wednesday, but I'm moving next week.

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And so, you probably won't get a show on Wednesday.

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And I mean, it's a 50-50 chance.

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I'll definitely keep you guys updated.

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My apologies for not updating you guys this week, with the show going to be late.

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Anyway, we are here for Justin Time Sports season four, episode 32 on a Saturday afternoon.

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I'm actually watching Texas A&M and Ole Miss right now.

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But topics as you guys heard in the opening, the NBA, the NFL, of course, Jack's hot take.

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So the big news, to start off in the NBA, the big, huge news is James Harden got traded.

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Oh, wow.

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That's bad.

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We have an injury in the A&M, Ole Miss game.

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It looks like his knee, I think it's Moss.

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He's refusing to get up.

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That's wow.

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Guy went low, hit him in the knee, lay down.

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Moss, who's just come back, he's from Walker, Louisiana.

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So he's Louisiana kid.

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Hit him in the knee, and he immediately, he's trying to help him up.

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He waved him off.

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He's writhing in pain.

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That's tough to look at.

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Wow.

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But the big news coming out of the NBA, excuse me, sorry, over the past week was James Harden

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got traded.

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So he got his deal to move on from the Philadelphia 76ers to the point where Brian Onehorse hilariously

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stated on TV that Harden, probably half jokingly, Harden should open a consulting firm and teach

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other NBA players how to get out of those situations and get what they want because

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Harden got moved to Houston semi against his will.

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Houston to Brooklyn was because he wanted to go to.

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Brooklyn to Philly was because he wanted to go there.

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And now Philly to the Clippers is where he wanted to go there.

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It was so mathematically unfeasible for him to go to the Clippers.

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Remember I was like working the deal, I was trying to move Dane to Miami and Harden to

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the Clippers.

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And even if he did Harden straight up, there was no way the pieces would work.

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I mean, people were saying like, oh, there's no way they'd take that for Harden.

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I mean, that was the common thing.

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There's no way they'll take that for Harden.

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They're not taking that for Harden.

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They're not taking that for Harden.

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There's not enough picks.

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Like it was so much stuff.

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And then he found the Clippers weren't really negotiating.

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There was so much stuff against this trade.

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It was almost like, excuse me, it felt like there's no way it's going to happen.

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But it happened.

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James Harden ultimately gets traded to the Los Angeles Clippers for a package of Marcus

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Morris, Nicholas Batoom, Robert Covington, KJ Martin, two first round picks, one V.O.

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almost here in 2026, one completely unprotected from the Los Angeles Clippers in 2028, a pick

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swap, I think it might be two pick swaps, and two second round picks.

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And James Harden is an official Los Angeles Clipper.

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He had his introductory press conference in which he stated that he had some difficulties

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in Philly and they were trying to box him in and he wanted to play and that he's not

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a system player.

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He is the system, which led Joe LMB to respond with, we gave Harden the ball pretty much

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every play.

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So I don't know what lack of freedom he was talking about, but he got the ball pretty

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much every play and could do whatever he wanted to him, he has the ball in his hand.

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A couple of fans that I know personally reached out and was like, what do you mean?

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It was one of those statements where a guy like James Harden, who's a world class blame

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deflector, blame deflected.

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It wasn't me, they didn't let me play how I wanted to play.

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They got in the way of this.

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They got in the way of that.

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They did things that they made me play a way I didn't want to play and all of this stuff,

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he kept pushing it on Philly, kept pushing it on Philly and ultimately he lands with

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the Clippers.

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Now, let's look at this one a couple of ways.

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With the Los Angeles Clippers perspective, I think it ruins their chance of winning a

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title.

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I do, I think it ruins their chance of winning a national title.

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What's that?

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Why do you say that?

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And I keep saying national title, I mean the NBA championship.

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Okay, so let's just paint a picture.

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Let's just paint this picture.

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Down one, up one, close game, one point, two point, three point game.

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Three minutes left, it's game six of a playoff game, playoff series.

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Let's say that down three too.

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And Harden is on the floor with Westbrook, Kawhi, Paul, George and Zubach.

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The ball is in Westbrook's hand.

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If anybody in the Clippers team are excited right now, are any of them like, we can do

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this?

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Or are you thinking in the back of your mind, Russ is going to do something incredibly dumb?

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Just sit with that for a second.

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Okay, now let's say anybody besides Russell Westbrook has the ball in that scenario.

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Are you guarding him off the ball?

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Seriously, are you guarding Russell Westbrook off the ball?

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He's an awful shooter.

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God awful shooter.

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When the option is Paul George has the ball, Kawhi has the ball, Harden has the ball, are

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you guarding Russell Westbrook anything closer than 10 to 12 feet?

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I mean, remember the famous Draymond defense where Russ had the ball at the top of the

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key and Draymond stood in the paint?

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Because legally, if your man has the ball, you can stand in the paint.

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If you're off the ball defending, you can't stand in the paint.

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Remember that time where Russ has the ball and Draymond is literally standing in the

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paint?

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That's going to happen a lot, but people are going to sag as far off as they can sag.

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So if Russ is in the corner, people are going to stand on the block.

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So now that's an extra defender near the way of the passing angle.

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That's an extra defender near the way of a driving angle.

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That's a person who's going to immediately double onto Zubats on the block.

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Paul George starts to work aggressively.

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You know, that's just another body there.

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Also, how willing is Russ going to be to go stand in the corner and basically not get

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the ball when the offense on the floor?

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Is Russ going to close?

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Like, there's so many questions with this lineup.

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Now, yes, they do have a solid bench, but kind of saw the team minus James Harden against

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the Lakers.

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And the Lakers didn't play well, in my opinion, hardly at all.

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It took a virtue also from LeBron.

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Not a virtue also, but at least a pretty good thing from LeBron, pretty game from LeBron.

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And the Lakers came back and won against the Clippers.

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Pretty much going to be that.

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That's going to be the team, again, with James Harden.

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James Harden is a dependable person, body-wise.

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What about Kawhi and PG?

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Kawhi's infamously fragile, body-wise.

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Paul George is having issues as of late.

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So we're just going to keep our eye on that situation.

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I just don't think they're going to win the title.

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And the biggest winner is James Harden.

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He gets to the destination again.

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He gets to the spot he wants to again.

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He gets to continue to flex his power again.

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And he's pretty much got the Clippers over a barrel in terms of contractually, because

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he, Kawhi, Paul George, and Russ Westbrook, all in assumption form of action.

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Well, three of them are true free agents.

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Russ can get out of his deal.

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So they can all enter free agency next year and walk out of the Clippers' door for nothing.

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New arena in Inglewood be damned.

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They can all walk out for nothing.

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And you would have traded so much, and I do mean so much, in order to get them over the

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years maneuvering salaries back and forth and dumping out the bench and all kinds of

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stuff.

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So there's so much that the Clippers are attempting to do here.

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They're going to try and have to get those guys back.

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I mean, there's no way I make the hard injury without a handshake agreement or a wink-wink

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agreement regarding a long-term contract.

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The Clippers did it anyway.

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This could be the world's biggest gamble and biggest fail.

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And if those guys walk out of the door forever, that sets the organization back 10 to 15 years,

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especially in the new era of the way the CBA operates.

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But also, the end-season tournament started yesterday, met with mixed reactions.

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Basketball wise, it was great basketball.

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Dame hit a big shot late.

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Steph hit a big shot late.

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Yokojin Luka went at it.

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It was great basketball because in the end, it's a regular season game with added intrigue.

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Different uniforms.

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Different courts.

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It's a double standing game.

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It goes into the cup round of the group stage of the end-season tournament along with the

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regular season stats.

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It's all teams in your conference.

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So now, these games really matter because, again, it's all teams from your conference.

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So now these games directly affect your side of the standings because if you're eighth

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and other person's fifth, you beat them.

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You know for a fact they're down a game and you're up a game.

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So it's going to be huge.

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And pretty much the mixed reactions stem from people who don't like the courts.

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I mean it was a lot.

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I think what the NBA wanted to do here, they wanted to signify it with a totally different

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situation.

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Because the NBA has the Commissioner's Cup, which is effectively the end-season tournament.

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And all they did to differentiate a regular game versus a regular season plus Commissioner

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Cup game was put the Commissioner Cup symbol on the floor.

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The Commissioner Cup logo was on the floor.

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The NBA changed the entire floor.

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Gone are Bates-R woods.

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It's a painted floor.

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strip down the middle of the floor in a different color.

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It's cool to look at.

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It reminds me of Pro-Am courts.

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You know, people make Pro-Am courts in 2K.

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It reminds me of a park court, but mainly a Pro-Am court.

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Most people hate the painted courts, but people have painted courts in 2K.

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And so that's what it reminded me of instantly.

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But great basketball.

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And what the NBA had to do, what the NBA had to get to be sold was the significance of

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the games.

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Because ultimately they are built into the regular season.

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Which, as we all know, the NBA stars in the regular season don't have the world's best

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relationship.

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And so the NBA being able to signify the importance of these games, obviously they're pushing

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it to their stars because Steph K. Mein said, it didn't feel like a regular season game.

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It felt almost like a playoff game.

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Dane said, although we don't really know what's going on, you can tell it's a different game.

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You can tell something about this game is different from a regular season game.

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Outside of just the court, outside of just the uniforms, something about this, it just

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feels different.

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You know, none of us know what's really going on just yet, but it feels different.

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Oh, the, like I said, Steph hits the big shot and it feels like a playoff game.

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And just looking at the interactions in the crowd, it looks different.

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It looks like, outside of just the court, it feels different.

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It looks different.

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The game is played not quite with finals intensity, but it's definitely feel like a playoff game.

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So for a lot of these younger guys, I think this could be huge for their development because

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these games stand out.

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It's not just a national TV game.

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It's not just a game that's a good team or a division opponent or conference rival.

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It feels like a playoff game.

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So some of these guys, these younger guys can have the experience of playing an almost

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like mock playoff games before they even have to ever enter the playoffs.

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What's cause stop though?

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What's cause slow down and learning curve with the playoffs?

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Because a lot of times guys have rough playoff series early.

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You're just not used to it.

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You play the same team, you know, seven times in two weeks.

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They know your plays back and forth.

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You know their plays back and forth.

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Everybody that is an amazing catch.

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Everybody knows your plays back and forth.

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You know, it's just the matchups are changing.

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It's just a different vibe from the regular season as opposed to the, you know, the regular

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season where it may be four different cities in a week and you're not really guarding

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plays.

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You may run into a guy like LeBron who knows everything, but for the most part people just

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playing basketball.

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And so these mock playoff games in the Eastern tournament could be huge to the development

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of a lot of the young guys in the league.

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All right, so let's hit some semi-quick hitters.

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LeBron is ridiculous.

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What he's doing is a two-fold level of ridiculous.

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First of all, at 38 years old, pick a time that's 39 or 37, maybe 39, something like

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that.

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At the playoff in his 21st year, what he's doing is impossible.

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I'm just being honest.

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It's impossible.

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It shouldn't be done.

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I believe the highest points total for a player in year 21, I think, I know the average is

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like nine points something, like Vince Carter eight points something, nine points something

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was Vince Carter's average and LeBron's average is like 27, 30 points a game.

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He turned it on against the Clippers and just was like, we're not losing.

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What he's doing is that it should be impossible.

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Before he did it, it was previously thought to be impossible, but so was his year 20 and

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so was his year 19, 17 and 18.

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I think his years 17 and 16 are comparable to certain people, but from years 17, 18,

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19 and 20, those were impossible years and now he's doing it in year 21.

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He played the Kings and had a great game 20 years to the day of his NBA debut, including

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hitting the same exact dunk.

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When you're doing what he's doing at the age he's doing, he's like 38.

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He's so good at 38.

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No one is even remarking how amazing Kevin Durant is playing at 35.

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35 year olds were used to be bench players or out of the league.

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No one's remarking how great Steph is at 34.

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He used to be some of the best players in the world and they're in their mid 30s.

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It's just the fact that LeBron's in his upper 30s and so it's negating basically the

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amazingness that these other guys are doing in their mid 30s.

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I mean mid 30s, you're supposed to be out of there.

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It was so rough that the NBA had a ruling.

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You couldn't even get a certain amount of money to certain people at a certain age.

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We're not going to allow you to ruin your franchise or the president.

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We know we're not going to be good.

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That's just making LeBron's situation all the more insane.

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Although I think we'll see certain guys play as long, a little bit longer, be better longer.

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I still don't think it's a popular thing to do just from the time commitment and the fact

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that if you're playing 21 years, you probably, you probably were a superstar at one point.

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You probably have a couple of hundred million dollars in the bank and if practice is in

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22 and a half hours in order to spend your time when you're not in practice.

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I just don't think it'll happen, but kudos to LeBron James for his absolutely amazing

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care of his body and for care for the game.

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The Pelicans are rolling right now.

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Kudos to them.

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They're maintaining health early.

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I mean, Brandon, you're going to have a bruised knee.

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You guys know I'm a Pelicans fan.

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They're maintaining health early.

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Jordan Hawkins looks like a great pick.

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Zion Williamson is looking dominant as ever.

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Jonah Gallant.

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Jonah's just throwing smaller people out the way, kind of like what he did to Team USA in

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the World Cup.

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Matt Ryan is an absolute flamethrower.

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CJ McCullum is on a bender.

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He's just on a tear right now knocking on everything that everything he puts up it feels

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like and so that is helping the New Orleans Pelicans absolutely on their roll.

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And also Victor Wiminyama is an alien.

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He's not from this planet.

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I don't know where he's from, but it isn't from here.

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He's seven foot four and doing guard warm-ups to two basketballs per game.

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He's so tall, he make Kevin Durant look like a legitimate shooting guard.

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He's blocking shots and dunking the ball in spaces previously unthought to be possible.

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It's just it's ridiculous.

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It's like he's stopping and popping on threes.

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He's running the break, catching lobs.

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He's dunking the ball backwards.

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He's blocking shots left and right.

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He's warming up with guard drills.

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He's knocking down threes.

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It's to the point where I believe right, okay, he said Victor's going to break our game.

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Well, because he's going to be able to do so much at his size, you're going to have

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to almost like break the rules of the game just for his build.

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It's just ridiculous, man.

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Like watching him play and doing the stuff that he's doing when he's doing it is just

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amazing.

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He looks like an alien.

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He's so long, he's so tall and he just looks like an alien and he's playing like an alien.

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He's playing like he's not from this planet.

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He's ridiculous.

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He's easily the rookie of the year.

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I don't want to hear about Chet Holmes or anybody else.

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And he may drag that bad Spurs roster into the playoffs.

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I mean, that's how good he's playing right now.

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That Spurs roster is awful and he may actually drag it into the playoffs.

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They've beaten Phoenix, they've beaten a couple of good teams.

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He's played really, really well.

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He's getting help from a couple of different places, but he's played incredibly well.

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And so I was saying that he may drag that poor San Antonio roster into the playoffs.

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But up next, we're going to jump into NFL week eight and talk about what's going on

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in the NFL.

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Welcome back into the show.

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Welcome into NFL week eight.

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The NFL talked the NBA segment went a little longer than anticipated.

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Excuse me.

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But the NFL is segment is on.

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It is popping and let's get started.

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I'm gonna get my fan out of the way.

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You know me and Patriots fan.

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Go ahead and get my fan out of the way.

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The Patriots season is officially over.

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They gave me a little hope.

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And I'm out of my they gave me a little hope.

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After they beat the Bills.

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I came on the show said, Oh, the Patriots gonna make it three out of three, you know,

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only three wins of the season me and division.

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And then of course, that did not happen.

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The Dolphins handled the Patriots for the most part pretty well.

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And I think the Patriots now should shift into next season mode where you're looking

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at okay, evaluate Mac Jones for the future.

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Evaluate the young guys get K.

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Shambu.

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Take it to Mario Douglas.

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Get these young guys on the field.

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Traded lines pass.

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I was a dumb veterans, but they didn't trade their line is passed.

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Look at younger veterans see which ones might want to bring back guys on inspiring contracts

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might want to pull those guys out.

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You know, it's just different things like that.

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But their season is officially over.

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So there's there's that.

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So get that out of the way.

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All right, the Jacksonville Jaguars, however, are like the hottest team in football.

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Not kidding.

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So they won like 12 or 13 of their last 17 football games in those 17 games, which now

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is one full season.

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Trevor Lawrence looks like what we thought he would.

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Doug Peterson's effect is obvious and clear on the football team.

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Calvin Riddle is such a huge help.

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Travis Etienne is a top five running back this year.

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And fantasy I believe he's number two in terms of raw production.

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This is exactly what we thought jazz it will look like.

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And now they're making moves as well to help them defensively to try and show up their

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defense enough to a Trevor Lawrence doesn't have to one man or him and Charlie Etienne

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doesn't have to one man.

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They're not the one man football games and not one man victories or two man victories,

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I should say, because the office has to produce 35 points to win a game like Justin Herbert

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is living in oven with the charges.

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Things are huge thing for the Jags to be able to continue to produce and continue to win

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games like they won 12 or 13 of their last 17, which 13 and four is the number one seed

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in the conference.

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I mean, they're playing really, really good football right now.

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So major kudos to the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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The Kansas City Chiefs snap back to reality.

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A little bit day in turn lost the Broncos in which the chief scored nine points.

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It was the first game in like 20 something games.

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Patrick Holmes didn't have a touchdown, but this is often the never says now the Denver

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Broncos defense, which of course got railed by the Miami Dolphins for 70.

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It could have been 80 or 90.

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The Dolphins just pulled off.

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And then they got some act apart.

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I can't think of a city play, but early in the season, everybody punched on them.

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It got to the point where you just took the quarterback playing the Dolphins defense because

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playing the Broncos defense, because that's how it went.

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It's at 70 giving out to the Dolphins.

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It could easily have been 80 or 90.

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They just pulled off and was nice about it.

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Didn't want to break the record with 72 on them.

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The Denver Broncos defense, however, they play Kansas City two weeks ago, three weeks ago

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now and they showed us how the life for the game before that they will look better.

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Then they play Kansas City.

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They were a lot better than their next game.

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They played well and then against here, the Krim to the Krim, they were able to lock in

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and lock down the Kansas City Chiefs for the most part all night, pretty well on that.

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I said nine points for that offense is like near blast up for Andy Reed and Patrick Holmes.

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And so they were able to control the Chiefs and what they wanted to do pretty much all

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night and the Chiefs struggled majorly and mightily to even attempt to do anything offensively.

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The Broncos were that locked in on defense.

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But that brings me to my two talking points in the NFL.

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I kind of did my quick hitters first and then I'm going to do my trade a lot of quick hitters

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and then we're going to go over there.

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Like Brock Purdy, oh, Mr. Irrelevant Brock Purdy, Mr. Pick, 254 or something along those

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lines.

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Mr. He's the reason Trillands got traded.

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Mr. Futureface of the franchise, all that good stuff.

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Brock Purdy, Mr. Still Shares an apartment because he only makes probably 300 grand out

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of taxes, 400 grand out of taxes.

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He still shares an apartment, excuse me, and has an older vehicle.

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That Brock Purdy.

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The Brock Purdy that everybody wanted to anoint.

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And I don't know what I said.

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I said, you know, he was Mr. Irrelevant for a reason.

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He was the last pick in the fourth round, last pick in this graph for a reason.

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I said, no, everybody, I know everybody points to Tom Brady.

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He said, look what could happen with the late round pick quarterback.

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My response is always show me another one.

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Quarterbacks happen one through four.

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After that, you were literally crapping in your hand hoping it turns to gold.

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For Tom Brady in the Patriots, it turned into titanium, platinum.

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For most of the world, it just stays poop.

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And Brock Purdy had the advantage of the best left tackle, the most proficient scoring running

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back, two of the best playmaker receivers, one of the best playmaker receiver cores.

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The rest of the office line is pretty good as well.

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Fred Warner is a better inside linebacker.

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The DBs are highly paid.

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The D line is ridiculous.

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Even before the disinformation, the D line is ridiculous.

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That's the life that Brock Purdy was living.

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I always say it's a very unrealistic thing and they had to win while he was still making

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no money and they were living his life because if they did it after he got paid, you wouldn't

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be able to work because he would immediately start losing players.

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Well, the Niners began to experience what life with a highly paid Purdy would be like.

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The reason why is you still had CMC's.

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They had most of the people, but you were short two people.

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You were short D.B. Samuel and you were short your left tackle whose name escapes me right

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now and I call Trent Williams.

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You were a down Trent Williams.

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And Brock Purdy looked awful.

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Now he had a rough start.

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He had a great start, but then down the stretch he looked awful like a seventh round pick quarterback.

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Like no one should have been surprised with a pick six because when they put the ball

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in his hand and say, Hey Brock, you have to beat us.

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That just like didn't happen.

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That just like didn't happen at all.

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And it has not happened for three weeks.

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That has not happened for three weeks in the slightest.

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They're 0-3.

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He has twice as many interceptions as touchdowns.

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His passer rating is under a hundred.

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I believe it's 80 ish.

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Ish is not.

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He's looking like an average NFL quarterback.

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He doesn't have his team full of superstars.

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He has most of his superstars and he looks bad.

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But also if you listen to Justin Tyler sports, like my people and my friends in Southeast

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Asia do, you would have known that rock purdy being in was incredibly, was incredibly possible.

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Being incredibly in was possible.

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Being a put out bum was on the table.

473
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,960
Like I don't know where the shock is coming from.

474
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,920
People are legitimately shocked that he's playing bad.

475
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:06,200
All I can say is why are you shocked?

476
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,800
This should be expected.

477
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:15,280
He was the last pick in the damn draft as a quarterback.

478
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:22,440
That's like not how it happens.

479
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,720
You don't, if you can play a quarterback, you're a fourth round pick of the latest

480
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:27,720
C-Dag press guy.

481
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,960
Jalen Hurst was a second round pick.

482
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:35,360
You don't have to be a top 10 pick, but you're not the last pick in the freaking draft.

483
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,840
The broad end basically is a camp body and it turns out you can play a little bit and

484
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,920
then injuries and opportunities and here you are.

485
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:49,440
But there is no way rock purdy was a superstar.

486
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,520
There was no way he was ever going to be MVP.

487
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,320
There was no way he was ever going to be one of the faces of the league.

488
00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:04,600
He himself is Mr. Irrelevant and if he doesn't fix this incredibly quickly, he's going to

489
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:10,760
become irrelevant because they're going to, 49er fans are smart and they're shrewd.

490
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:15,680
They'll look up and go, man, we had Trey Lance.

491
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:20,480
So worse come to worse, rock purdy is absolutely terrible.

492
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,280
We can at least slide in Trey Lance.

493
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:30,360
If you don't trust him in anything else, if nothing more, he can run the ball.

494
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:34,440
But it's agent Mool Trey Lance and that's Kyle Busch with effectively nothing.

495
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:41,640
And you hand the key over to rock purdy and now he's playing like Mr. Irrelevant should

496
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,880
and there's no one else to take the keys from him.

497
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:46,880
All right.

498
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,440
Oh, and then the Las Vegas Raiders fired everybody.

499
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:56,360
They fired the GM, they fired head coach Jasmin Daniels, they fired the offensive coordinator.

500
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:57,760
The Raiders cleared house.

501
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:06,160
Mark Davis, who's the owner of the Raiders and is the cash poorest owner, just won a title

502
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:13,080
with his WNBA team, the Las Vegas Aces and they're on the back to back champion shows.

503
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:19,120
And so with them going back to back, it kind of puts the pressure, not kind of, it definitely

504
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,320
puts the pressure on his other organizations.

505
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,840
And the Las Vegas Raiders is the one that stands out.

506
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,280
They are bad organizationally.

507
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,120
They were not great functionality wise.

508
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,840
They were bad.

509
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:39,760
And so even just because they were like nine and 18, I want to say it was not good at all

510
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,200
of a record.

511
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,640
And so this is something that the Raiders feel like they had to do.

512
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:50,840
The offense was not good at all.

513
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:55,920
Even with the offense being not good at all, Jasmin Daniels was the offensive coach, the

514
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,560
offensive coordinator.

515
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:05,360
They were, they're now sitting down being world's best couch coaches because of what

516
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:11,280
they were doing and now they have been relieved of their duties.

517
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:16,880
And so they'll be on the clock coaching away, I guess.

518
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:22,800
And they'll also probably like a TV job or something, but they'll be on the couch just

519
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:28,880
scouting away for the off chance that someone gives them a call back.

520
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,840
But that is how it works in the NFL.

521
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:36,560
Once you make friends, you tend to keep getting calls back.

522
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,200
And a couple of defensive ends have been moved from the Washington Commanders.

523
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:48,520
Chase Young was traded to the defensive 49ers for a bag of twisted pocket and lint, pretty

524
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:49,520
much.

525
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:57,880
And then Montez Swett was traded to the Chicago Bears for a second round pick and then immediately

526
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:58,880
extended.

527
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,360
That came in today.

528
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:07,520
Four years, $90 million with $72.865 million in guaranteed language.

529
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:15,080
And so he is going to become a cornerstone of the Bears franchise.

530
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:21,720
Up next, we are going to shift gears into NFL week nine and give you a little preview

531
00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:45,080
of some of the games happening in week nine.

532
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:53,040
Welcome back into the show, into NFL week nine.

533
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:58,560
What's going on in the NFL as we move into the rest of this week?

534
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,120
We had Thursday Night Football a couple of days ago.

535
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,280
Paisbury Steelers vs. Tennessee Titans.

536
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,440
Whole lot of bad offense.

537
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,160
The Titans had Will Levesque starting.

538
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:12,360
He looked like well what I thought Will Levesque looked like, which was, had some moments of

539
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,240
like, wow, there's some arm talent there.

540
00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:19,320
And had a couple of plays you were looking like, have you ever played this position before?

541
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,520
But he looked like how I thought Will Levesque would look.

542
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:27,880
But the main story here is the Steelers offense is still anemic.

543
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:33,120
It's so bad now that George Pickens has gone on social media to request or release from

544
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:34,800
the organization.

545
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,000
That's rough.

546
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,880
That's like really rough.

547
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,920
So like, that's bad.

548
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,880
He's requested a release from the organization.

549
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,880
And I name it the offense is.

550
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:52,760
The fans have been clamoring for the release of Matt Canada, or the firing of Matt Canada

551
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:53,760
rather.

552
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,120
It's pretty much like he took the offense and coordinated the job.

553
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,400
Katie Pickett does not like he's developing Harley at all.

554
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:03,480
So it's definitely time, in my opinion, to do something different on offense.

555
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:10,640
I think it would be better organizationally if Matt Canada is fired in the off season.

556
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,400
Because then they just puts a lot of pressure on a quarterback coach, etc.

557
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,520
But their offense is absolutely anemic.

558
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,200
It's rough.

559
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:24,040
So it's just, it's just absolutely rough.

560
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:33,040
The condition that their, that their offense is that bad.

561
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,160
It's just, it's awful.

562
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,400
Like unless somebody just makes a play, it's bad.

563
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:39,400
Like nothing looks easy.

564
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,840
Nothing like it's scheme to design it open.

565
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,960
It looks like a great player made a great play in a bad situation.

566
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,680
I mean, that's kind of how a lot of the plays look for Pittsburgh.

567
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:53,840
They're gonna have to get that rectified.

568
00:37:53,840 --> 00:38:02,840
The Tyreek Hill Bowl in Germany tomorrow morning is going to be a very interesting contest.

569
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,200
Maybe not in my Jax pack, so we will pick it.

570
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,760
It's Dolphins versus the Chiefs.

571
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,440
And the return for Tyreek Hill is the first time he's played them since he was moved to

572
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:14,440
Miami.

573
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:15,960
Kind of a wild story there.

574
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:22,920
But the first time he was moved to Miami, he was definitely wanting to be in Kansas

575
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:23,920
City.

576
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,840
Moved to Miami to make him the best of a bad situation.

577
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,560
The best of his, not the situation that he was going to.

578
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:33,040
Although he's having an absolutely spectacular year.

579
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:40,000
First receiver to have a thousand yards in eight games since like, you know, leather

580
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,000
helmets.

581
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:45,960
He's actually having an amazing year and the Chiefs offense looks like they definitely

582
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,920
need him out there.

583
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:55,880
But as far as the game itself, I'm gonna go, those foreign games are weird.

584
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,920
Usually the team with the best system wins the game.

585
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:04,200
I'm going to go with the Miami Dolphins by a score of 30 to 20.

586
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,800
The Chiefs bottom back offensively.

587
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,120
Good teams don't get embarrassed too.

588
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,120
It's a row.

589
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:12,880
But I just think that though that it being in Germany, the game is a little weird.

590
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,200
Usually the better system wins the foreign games.

591
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,800
But that and the Dolphins have the better players too.

592
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:25,880
And so I got the Dolphins winning by about seven points.

593
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,640
Kirk Cousins unfortunately went down.

594
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,920
He is out for the season with the Toronchilis.

595
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,040
I knew it almost immediately when I seen it.

596
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:37,040
That calf shuttered.

597
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:43,480
It reminded me a lot of Kevin Durant's injury when his pressure and his leg finally gave

598
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,600
out and you could see his calf jump and shutter.

599
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:53,080
So that is what happened to Kirk Cousins and he is out for the remainder of the season.

600
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:57,400
Desmond Ritter has been benched for the Atlanta Falcons.

601
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:04,400
He has been benched in favor of former Washington commander to start in quarterback Taylor Heineke.

602
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:09,320
I think the Ritter era could be over in Atlanta.

603
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,360
He's also not good at football.

604
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,720
I think Desmond Ritter era may be over in Atlanta, especially Brian Hoyer.

605
00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:15,720
Not Brian Hoyer.

606
00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:16,720
My apologies.

607
00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:21,000
Especially if Taylor Heineke comes out and plays really well.

608
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:29,200
I think that could sway the Atlanta Falcons into picking a new quarterback after the one

609
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,160
that they tried to bargain shot for.

610
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:36,840
Turns out it's not going to be much of a bargain.

611
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,800
The Eagles versus the Cowboys.

612
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:40,560
Again, not in my jack's back.

613
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:41,680
We will pick it.

614
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,440
This is a very important game for the NFC and the NFC East.

615
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:46,440
The Eagles have two losses.

616
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:47,440
The Eagles have one loss.

617
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:48,440
The Cowboys have two losses.

618
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:49,440
If the Eagles were to get this game, they'd be out of the game.

619
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,640
If the Eagles were to get this game, they'd be effectively three games up.

620
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:56,400
Because they'd be two games up to begin with, plus they at the moment would own the tiebreaker.

621
00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:01,320
So they'd be effectively three games up on the Dallas Cowboys a little over half of the

622
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:08,840
season in terms of getting the division and the potential to add a first round bye.

623
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:12,400
That is an absolutely huge game outside of the rivalry of the division.

624
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:17,920
Outside of the fact that those two franchises and fan bases strongly dislike each other.

625
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,040
I believe that it's going to be a great contest.

626
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:26,040
Both quarterbacks have up most of my respect for each other.

627
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:32,800
Both coaches have shown a lot of respect so far for each other and to each other.

628
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,200
So I see that it's going to be a great game.

629
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,920
Ultimately I have the Eagles winning 38-35.

630
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:43,880
It's going to be a classic ball game between those two.

631
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:47,720
And last but certainly not least, the Bears and the Bengals.

632
00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:50,640
Again, another game not Jack's pack so we will pick it.

633
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,680
I think the Bengals are going to run away and hide with this game.

634
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,160
The Bills have been dealing with a lot.

635
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,600
You know, Josh Allen's roller coaster and efficiency and the roller coaster up and down

636
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,320
is the roller coaster play.

637
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:06,920
He's also been struggling this year with having just people having a foot on his neck and

638
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,360
getting up or even putting your foot on someone else's neck and keeping them down.

639
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,480
He's had a real problem with his killer instinct this year.

640
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,440
So I hope that that changes for the Bills.

641
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:23,000
However, I think it's a lot to be too late, way too little, far too late to do anything

642
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,880
against Cincinnati Bengals who sit in the half-hundred and stride both offensively and

643
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:31,760
defensively as they are playing really, really good football right now.

644
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:40,880
So I have the Bengals winning the game by a score of 34-23.

645
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:41,880
My apologies.

646
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:46,040
I think the Bengals are going to just own this game, play it really, really well and

647
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:50,360
they're going to dominate the Bills.

648
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,800
But up next, we're going to have our Jax Hot Take.

649
00:42:52,800 --> 00:43:12,960
There's going to be a chat about Jax Pack.

650
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:22,880
We're not going to discuss last week.

651
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:23,880
We're not going to discuss the overall record.

652
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:25,880
We're in a bit of a slump.

653
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,760
My hot take, I'm going to be honest, is the fact that we're going to go 5-0 this week.

654
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,640
So let's run through these games and then we'll get you guys out of here on this Saturday

655
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:34,640
afternoon.

656
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:35,640
Seahawks at Ravens.

657
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:36,640
Ravens minus six.

658
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:37,640
Take the Seahawks.

659
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:38,640
I think they're going to win by at least a touchdown.

660
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:47,280
Which will cover this point spread, but the Ravens are a really good football team.

661
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:51,640
The Seahawks are solid, but the Ravens are one of the best, if not the best team in football

662
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:52,640
right now.

663
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,600
And they are just absolutely physically dominating people.

664
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,880
Do you remember what they did to the Lions?

665
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:03,920
And again, it's in Baltimore where that team sends the feed off the city's energy.

666
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,920
And so therefore, the Ravens are going to win by at least six points.

667
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:08,200
So Ravens minus six.

668
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:12,080
Got the reason why they'll love our touchdown.

669
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:13,760
Bucks plus three at Texans.

670
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:14,760
Take the Bucks.

671
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:16,680
I think the Bucks wins this game flat out.

672
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,120
I think CJ Stroud is starting to hit a bit of a rookie wall.

673
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:24,040
I think the organization is starting to lose some of that year one flair, which they are

674
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:28,160
in no incentive to lose because they traded their first home pick this year, last year

675
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:29,160
for Will Anderson.

676
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,920
So they're in no incentive to lose.

677
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,360
However, I just think they're running into a wall now.

678
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,840
The Bucks seem to be playing a little bit better.

679
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:42,800
So Bucks plus three at Texans.

680
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,760
Rams plus three at the Packers.

681
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:46,760
Take the Rams.

682
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,520
Aaron Donaldson have a field day this game.

683
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,200
Packers' interior line is not the world's greatest.

684
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,400
Aaron Donaldson should have an absolute field day this game.

685
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,040
I think that the Corners have opportunity to make plays.

686
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:02,240
Yes, my staff is injured, but it's not like the Packers have an explosive offense.

687
00:45:02,240 --> 00:45:06,840
So the defense should be able to walk down, get into more lanes, fill in more gaps and

688
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:12,040
not have to deal with an elite quarterback, not everything with the elite passing game

689
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:13,040
in general.

690
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:21,520
I think the Rams win the game outright, which of course, coverages the plus three.

691
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:26,320
Colts minus two and a half at the Panthers.

692
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,080
The Panthers are going to get destroyed here.

693
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:33,400
They have classic, I do mean classic, first time I did anything syndrome.

694
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:39,760
And so I just think that the Colts are going to walk in and beat the Panthers by a couple

695
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:40,760
of field goals, actually.

696
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,160
I'm thinking about six points.

697
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:49,680
I'm thinking semi-low score, 24-18 with the Indianapolis Colts sitting on the porch and

698
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:57,680
enjoying a victory after a long, hard game in Carolina.

699
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:03,680
What up next, we're chatting about the Chargers minus three and a half at the Jets.

700
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:04,680
Take the Chargers.

701
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,680
I think the Chargers are going to run away and hide with this game.

702
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:11,360
I don't think the Jets, even with the improvement of Zach Wilson as the offensive explosiveness

703
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:17,760
to keep up with the Chargers offense.

704
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,640
And I think the Chargers might put up 27 or 30 on that Jets defense.

705
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:24,160
The one thing on the Jets defense is you can spread it out and attack the middle of the

706
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:25,160
field.

707
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:26,800
So I think the Chargers are going to look to do that repeatedly.

708
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,800
Also, that includes the weapon nobody can replicate pretty much.

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And so therefore, the Chargers minus three and a half is the side against the Jets.

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So just to run through them again, it is Ravens minus six over the Seahawks, Bucks plus three

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over the Texans, Rams plus three over the Packers, Colts minus two and a half over the

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Panthers, Chargers minus three over the Jets.

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But I hope you guys have a great rest of your weekend.

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Now this is your host, Justin Jackson.

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Signing out.

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