Welcome to the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast.
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We'll be discussing what's going on in the NFL Week 11 along with some news.
We'll be talking about the NBA and we'll have our Jax Hot Take and our Jax Pack.
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Welcome into the show.
Welcome into season four, episode 34 of the Justin Time Sports Podcast.
I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson.
In this week's episode, again, we'll be talking about the NFL, the NBA.
We got some Jax Hot Take.
We got some Jax Pack.
We have LSU freshman guard, Michaela Williams, scoring 42 points in only her fourth college
game.
We've got USC freshman guard, Juju Watkins, scoring 30 twice in two of her first four,
three or four games.
We have all kinds of stuff happening all over the place.
We have Wim B. B. Shett tonight.
We have all kinds of stuff happening all over the NFL landscape, all over the sports landscape,
rather, all over the country at all different levels.
High school football leagues are in their playoffs.
We have Louisiana here in the second round now.
So all kinds of stuff is happening all over the place.
Basketball is starting up a lot of places as well.
But let's jump right into NFL Week 10.
Let's start with the last game of Week 10.
Let's start with Monday Night Football.
The Bills are a mess.
Something in there, it's not even a mess.
It's kind of funny.
Something in there is wrong.
I don't think the Bills know how to fix it.
It's like when you got a bad house.
Oh, you got a bad car.
And you can smell some fumes coming in.
And you change a window.
And then you go, that might not be it.
There's how it's running bad.
And you change a rim.
And you're like, no, still running bad.
Still smell that terrible gas smell.
What could it be next?
And then you change a windshield.
And you never actually open the hood to find the columnist.
It's kind of like the Bills are doing.
Because you are trying to ball over four times against Denver.
And still, you should have won the game.
But hilariously, you play with 12 people on the Miss Field
goal attempt by Will Lutz.
He gets a re-kick and drills it.
And then you, today, Tuesday, fire Ken Dorsey, the offensive
coordinator.
You have a top 7D offense in most metrics,
which means you have 25% of the league.
You're in the top 25% of the league in most metrics.
Top three in a lot of them.
Top five in most of them.
And you fire the offensive coordinator.
Granted, there was fumbles all over the place.
There was a couple of horrible interceptions.
And yet, you fire the offensive coordinator.
Interesting.
Very interesting.
The Bills are absolutely hilarious.
And it's kind of painful in a way.
Because they're 13 seconds from glory.
Maybe there's that playoff game versus my homers.
They're 13 seconds away from beating them.
Then they have to go beat Burrow to get the soup bowl.
Maybe they go lose to Joe Burrow the very next week
in Cincinnati.
And they never make the soup bowl.
But more than likely, the hottest they were,
they go beat the Bengals.
They're in the soup bowl.
Who knows?
They may beat the Rams.
And we're looking at this whole operation in Buffalo different.
Instead, Patrick Mahomes gets the field goal in 13 seconds.
The Chiefs win.
The Bills never sniff the level of success again.
Brian Dabber ultimately joins the Giants, which he may
be a fail above this season.
Brian Dabber ultimately joins the Giants.
Josh Allen reverts back to his roller coaster interception
turnover ways.
And the Bills look like the Bills of the 90s again.
Incredibly talented.
But something's wrong.
And they never win the big one.
It's a little painful if you're a Bills fan.
I know a Bills fan that said that just today,
that the organization fired the wrong person.
They should have gotten rid of Josh Allen.
They're scrambling right now.
This was a year the Patriots are tanking.
The Jets had lost Henry Rogers the first series of the year.
He's trying to come back in mid-December or whatever.
And the Dolphins have holes.
Even with two of being healthy all year,
the Dolphins have issues.
This would be a great year for the Bills to run away and high
with the Division and get a home playoff game.
Instead, they're currently 10th in the AFC
and there's a lot of winning records left on that schedule.
They're looking at not making the playoffs.
You know, like Josh Allen just didn't get paid
a quarter billion dollars.
Disastrous would be the understatement.
It's the kind of thing that gets coaches fired and GMs removed.
It's the kind of thing that gets superstar siblings to say,
get my brother out of there.
Now, of course, and obviously, Trevon Diggs didn't just tweet
that out the top of his head.
You probably heard from Stefan that it's not very sweet in Buffalo.
He even tweeted out there, remember a buddy that started
going off till my brother got there?
I don't know.
I don't know what's going to happen in Buffalo.
I really don't.
They're a hilarious organization.
It's like everything they do is funny.
I've never seen that much hilariousness happen at one time
and they tend to do it on a regular basis.
It's kind of enjoyable.
Funny.
It makes Bills fans in my life very upset.
But it's rather enjoyable.
I think the Bills are going to figure out what they're going to do
and how they're going to do it.
And until they get through that point in life,
they're going to be in a bad spot because I don't think they know
what they want to do.
I don't think they know what they want to do in the slightest.
And that's going to make them struggle pretty much to do anything
successful in the NFL ultimately.
If you're a Bills fan, buckle up.
I don't see it getting better.
You fired a good offensive coordinator.
Now you got to hire Joe Brady, who failed us in the NFL, O.C.
Now you got to promote him up.
Can't even really run his offense because he's running
Ken Dorsey's stuff.
I don't get the plan in Buffalo, but we're going to find out
sooner rather than later.
But switching gears.
Mike Tomlin should be getting Coach of the Year consideration
if he's not.
They have literally no business being 6-3.
Yet he somehow has a pitch-break seal at 6-3.
Everyone in the world wants to offer to coordinator fired.
He's in the toughest division in football.
And yet somehow, someway, he stands at 6-3.
I don't get it.
Mike Tomlin, to me, is Belichick, Reid, and who's that third coach?
It's Tomlin.
He's never had a losing record.
Ever.
He's had Mason Rudolph as a quarterback for a substantial amount of the season.
He found a way to end win eight games.
Now, even with the 17-game schedule, he finds a way to win nine.
I mean, I kind of laugh.
I said he would figure out how to go 8-8-1 every year.
But he's just chugging on alone.
He's at 6-3.
Going into a game this week, it's the Browns, which we'll discuss later.
And he's just chugging on alone.
I mean, Mike Tomlin finds a way.
He establishes a strong culture.
He establishes essential leadership.
He knows how he wants to play football.
He builds his defense correctly.
And he's still trying to figure out his offense.
But he's a hell of a coach.
And he has figured out a way to have his team prepared every single week.
And so they are coming in there at 6-3.
I don't know how.
I really don't.
I couldn't explain it if you paid me.
But besides, we're a coach and great culture.
I mean, other than that, they have no real possibility of being 6-3.
But they have done it.
So right now, to me, Mike Tomlin is my Coach of the Year.
He's doing a miracle job in Pittsburgh.
All right.
I know you guys have been waiting.
So I'm going to address it.
Brock Bradley looked damn good last week.
Man, I know.
Right on the heels of my rant.
He looked damn good last week.
He did.
Can't even admit that.
I have Boyd and Honor fans slandering me and asking me
if I even watched the games because they put up some statistics about Birdie
through his first 17 games, his record, his yards for attempt,
and all the other advanced analytics.
Whatever.
Literally, my integrity is in question right now.
Whatever.
Oh, Sunday was not a good look for me.
He needed it over Trevor Lawrence.
It was not a great look for me.
I had a whole thing pinned on the fact that Lawrence is more talented than Birdie.
And it was a whole thing.
It wasn't a good look.
But my point remains.
I made two major points in that rant, if people remember.
My point remains.
Number one, Kyle Shanahan after a bye is a damn good coach.
Most good coaches are.
You don't want to play them after a bye.
Shanahan after a bye had every offensive button pushed, ready to go.
People just running wide open.
It's pretty much all game.
He had the Niners prepared, especially offensively,
to come into that game prepared to kick the Jaguars' butts.
He had them ready to go.
I can't have one singular qualm about how he had them ready to go in that game.
Kudos to him.
However, Devo Samuel showed back up.
And Brock Purdy, Madsway got a lot better.
I'm happy for the kid.
Truly, I am.
I mean, I know I had a whole rant about him, slandering him,
calling him Mr. Relevant, which he is.
Pretty much talking about how he's a product of the system, which he is.
And how he's a product-based environment, which he is.
But he had a great game.
And honestly, wasn't even that great of a game.
The team did so well, he kind of just steered the ship,
which is all they asked him to do.
But my issue lies in a couple of things in Mr. Purdy.
For one, when he came back to a semi-simple reality, which, by the way,
Niners fans are telling me that he has the worst online legal thought,
Trent Williams, like the Patriots line doesn't exist.
But whatever.
Jacksonville line is a great line.
Have you seen Tennessee's?
Giants, maybe?
But actually, they're Jets.
But again, they have to defend their position.
They have to defend Brock Purdy, so do what they must.
But he came back into reality.
The offensive line is not great.
You don't have every great weapon.
Your running back, he used to have that great running back,
but you don't have every great weapon.
And your line is not perfect.
And he bottomed out.
And then he gets some of that stuff back.
And he's amazing.
Or good, rather.
Not necessarily amazing, but good.
It's almost as if I was right all along.
Which is, he's in the reality that has been created in San Francisco
with the best this, the best that, the most highest paid this,
the highest paid that, the top this.
He looks like an elite level quarterback.
You take a little bit of that away, he looks like Mr. Irrelevant.
Not his friend, I'm not hating on Brock Purdy.
That would kill us.
He's going to disappoint you.
It's not his fault. It's not as far as your fault.
You're putting him in a position he cannot be successful in.
At no time will Mr. Purdy be successful in that position.
He can't.
He's less talented than Jimmy Garoppolo.
Even when Jimmy G was healthy.
So it always came up just a little short.
Even if Brock Purdy's on his A game, it's going to come up just a little short.
It's not personal.
It's the way it goes.
There's a big dog.
And then there's everyone else.
Purdy's a strong everyone else.
But it's okay.
Nines fans, blow it away.
Enjoy yourself, really.
I hope you have the time of your life enjoying the victory that you have so earned.
The victory that you have so merited behind Brock Purdy.
That you have desired behind Brock Purdy.
I hope they give you all the satisfaction you need.
In the end, it doesn't change my opinion.
In the end, it actually ups my opinion.
You see, when the days of the Patriots and Tom Brady were carving somebody, I didn't
party.
I didn't celebrate.
I said, on to next week, do it again.
See, the issue about Purdy is that you want us to stop and celebrate.
Smell the roses.
I don't know.
CJ Strauss is better, considerably.
He's just a rookie.
You want us to stop and smell the roses.
It doesn't work that way.
You got to do something.
Right now, Purdy has my day even, especially in that jersey.
To prove that he's a rookie.
He's a rookie.
You want to win that jersey to prove that he belongs in a certain category, talks again
in that jersey.
Let's not lose our minds here.
Purdy's solid.
He totally is.
He's solid.
Middle 15.
Let's see what happens with him in the future.
I told you guys, they better win before he gets paid $5 many times.
And you start losing that IE.
You start losing the trampoline.
You start losing the various awards of the world.
You start losing these guys because you cannot afford to pay them.
Then what?
And all the other pros are gone.
And so is Purdy's talent.
Switching gears to a feel-good story, Josh Dobbs is actually amazing.
I'm not going to lie to you at this point.
He had to have the security guard point him towards the locker room for the team.
And then he goes and blows the Saints out.
After the week after learning the cadence on the sideline and blowing the Falcons out.
This guy's ridiculous.
It's like he's a creative player.
You know, you just get traded to a new team and magically start balling.
Where real life takes you a little bit to get acclimated and give you some calls and etc.
He's just going in from Shum Street ready to go.
Absolutely balling.
He's leading the team.
He's guiding the team.
They've won back-to-back games with him as the primary quarterback.
He's all over the field making great plays.
And you just continue to add stuff to him.
He may get Justin Jefferson back soon.
And then he may end up making a little run purely because of Josh Dobbs.
And his ability to play, to maintain, to be a grown-up.
Absolutely huge from Mr. Dobbs.
It's pretty amazing what he has going on right now.
Justin Herbert.
He needs some help.
It's ridiculous at this point.
Every time he wants to be successful, put him 38 points in a game and lost.
Why?
He's definitely over 41.
If they give him 28 or less, he's like 22 and 6.
And yet his career win percentage is below 500 because they give up a lot of points off them.
You've got people, not very smart people, but people slandering him about his winning games and not winning enough.
He would have had to have the greatest offense in history to do what he's done.
Oh, he does.
He's literally the greatest passer to start a career in NFL history. Ever.
And yet, somehow, he's to blame for the worst defense to start an NFL career.
Also, ever.
Look, I'm a Patriots fan.
I love the Bella check.
I'd trade it to the Charger right now for two firsts.
I think it's a win-win.
And the new Pages can hit a restart button, specifically because Chip Kelly's going to be fired.
I'd take him for any of you.
But the Pages hit the restart button, which would draw Mayo, Chip Kelly, and someone else.
Bella check gets an opportunity to get a quarterback that's already developed.
He doesn't have to worry about grooming him.
He keeps Kella Moore on as offensive coordinator.
He has an offense.
He can coach the defense with Derwin James and Khalil Mack and Kenneth Murray and all these other guys.
And they can win the game.
Herbert finally has a team he can trust defensively.
It's a win-win for everybody, especially because the Pages will be competing with the Chargers for a while there anyway.
So I think that's a win-win situation for everybody involved.
A win-win-win.
Gives Herbert a defense he can trust.
He's got what he gains.
Gives Bella check a young, great quarterback.
Gives the Patriots additional draft picks for the cachet.
And also allows Joe and Mayo to move up into the head coach role with Chip Kelly prayerfully being interviewed.
CJ Stroud is ridiculous.
Like I had CJ Stroud being amazing.
This is insane.
He's getting MVP consideration.
I think he's one of the highest voting odds.
Dan Arlowski said he should be the MVP front runner right now.
It's ridiculous.
His creditors offered a coordinator for taking him and putting him in a situation he could just de-wheel and deal.
But that was even some situations where he would put your big boy pants on while you were going driving.
And he did against Tampa Bay.
Was ridiculous.
He made Candace Parker get rookie of the year and even be in the same season.
Obviously it's not been done.
I don't think at all an email sport.
But I definitely know that it has not happened in the NFL.
And that is what CJ Stroud is attempting to do.
Putting his faith into the Lord and he's just going from there.
Absolutely tremendous how well he's been playing.
No situations seen that out-feeze him.
He's only had one down game and that was against Carolina.
I think a lot of pressure with being 1 v 2 was on.
Those games usually don't go well.
So CJ Stroud is just playing out of his mind right now.
Congratulations to him.
And then a big welcome back to Kyle O'Meary.
For not only did he come back and look like himself.
Got a great over the head shot.
Dancing around defenders and scrambling over the first down.
He got the victory.
Which potentially saved his job.
He's in real time playing for his job.
That's pretty insane.
If they don't make the playoffs so worse get the number one pick.
He's out of there.
So the fact that he is literally playing for his job is extra motivation.
And so that is something that has to be watched out for.
But kudos to Kyle O'Meary for just running around making plays.
Getting to the first down marker.
And keeping the team moving.
Ultimately winning his comeback game.
And moving Carolina further away from the possibility of a number one pick.
But up next we're going to shift into NFL week 11.
Welcome back into the show.
Great opening segment.
Great eight block.
Discussing last week.
Now we're going to jump into this week.
Including a Thursday night preview between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Baltimore Ravens.
Now this whole division is topsy turvy.
This whole division is a war.
Currently I believe everybody would still be in the playoffs if the playoffs started today.
Cincinnati, Baltimore of course are playing.
And the Steelers and the Browns are playing.
So the whole AFC North is going at it.
It starts on Thursday night.
Now the Bengals took an L to the Houston Texans and everyone's favorite dark horse MVP candidate CJ Stroud.
They went in without T Higgins.
They went in without Jamar Chase.
They pretty much only had Tyler Boyd.
They were trying to figure it out from there.
And it just did not work.
D'Amico Ryerson not letting it happen.
Burrow heated up late but by the time he figured it out it was too little too late.
And now you go play Baltimore.
One of the hottest teams in the NFL.
You still don't have Chase.
Or no, take Chase played.
You still don't have Higgins.
Chase is a game time decision.
He should be a little healthier for this game.
But you go into one of the hottest teams in the NFL.
That building has tortured people.
Ask the Lions.
They scored nine.
Or six.
Ask.
Who went in after that?
Oh I can't think of one.
Baltimore is just utterly destroyed.
Detroit.
Oh Seattle.
Seattle went in that building and got three.
I mean Lamar is not even accounting for big touchdowns yet.
Which has raised some concern from some of the national media.
I personally don't get it.
If you're winning, your quarterback is efficient.
He's not turning the ball over when you're winning football games.
Victory.
Especially when the league player make it like Lamar.
You know he's not going to continue to just put him on down the lane.
And put him on down the season and not score touchdowns.
He's going to eventually heat up.
So when he does that, you keep playing like the rest of the team is playing.
You've got a pretty unstoppable force.
But that is Cincinnati versus Baltimore.
I do not believe it is in my Jax pack.
So I am going to pick it if it's not in my Jax pack.
And so I think the Baltimore Evers are going to win this game pretty comfortably.
They're not going to run away and hide with it.
I just don't see how Cincinnati is going to be able to keep up.
Especially considering that they're going to be down.
T Higgins still.
Jamar still making an injury.
Trey Hendrickson is down for the Bengals as well with a hyper extended knee.
He said he's going to try to play.
I don't see it happening on a short week.
And so I think Baltimore is just going to be too healthy, too fast, too explosive, and too dominant.
They win the game easily 35 to 17.
I just think they're going to show the Bengals in this one, especially in Baltimore.
Up next, the other half of the AFC North, the Steelers and Browns.
Again, it is in my Jax pack, so I won't pick it just yet.
But this is a game with a lot of intrigue.
Deshaun Watson has moments.
He looks like a football demigod.
And he has moments where he looks like he never picked up a football day in his life.
And so the Browns defense anchored by Miles Garrett is doing everything that they can to keep up with the Browns offense.
Not keep up with them, but to hold teams down until the Browns offense kicks in.
Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it doesn't.
But the Browns defense is doing a hell of a job trying to hold people down until the Browns offense kicks in.
The Steelers on the other side are doing the same thing, but they know the offense is not going to kick in.
Matt Canada, the offensive coordinator, pretty much dooms your offense from jump street.
And so because they know Canada is not going to speed it up and they know Kenny Pickett's only but so talented,
they have been fighting the good fight all year as a defense.
So it should be a very defensive game.
Again, I'm not going to pick the winner or even the score because it is in Jax pack.
We will talk about that in a few minutes.
Raiders at Dolphins, another intriguing game.
This game is not in my Jax pack, so we will pick it.
The Raiders are an interesting football team because Antonio Pierce has been playing hard.
They believe in each other right now.
They were 2-0 in the Antonio Pierce era.
They not only believe in each other, they believe in their head coach, which admittedly should worry you about Josh Mcdames.
But that aside, they believe in themselves and they believe in their head coach.
Nothing changed.
Nothing changed in the organization besides the fact that Antonio Pierce was there.
I mean nothing changed in the organization besides the fact that they now believe in themselves,
believe in Antonio Pierce, believe in his message, that following him.
Three weeks ago, if that game against Jets happened three weeks ago, the Raiders would have tucked tail.
When the Jets kept coming, the Raiders would have tucked tail, end fighting would have started, whatever.
Devontae had one catch, three catches.
It was a very small amount of catches and there was no anger after the game from Devontae.
He was running and jumping and smiling and in the locker room he was excited.
That is what was missing from the Raiders organization with Josh Mcdames.
They would win games that were angered.
I don't know if that was a certain aura he carried.
I don't know if that was a certain demeanor, whether they didn't like him.
But they would win games and he would look upset.
And they would look upset and they would just kind of like,
what are you doing it for? Even when you're successful you're angry.
But Antonio Pierce had been carrying that in.
They're excited after the wins and even with poor statistical games, they're excited.
This game is hard, like Dan Campbell said, don't.
The ugly win, pretty win, whatever, winning in this league is hard.
And so regardless of how it looks, get the win.
And kudos to the Raiders, they've done so 2-0 in the Antonio Pierce era.
The Dolphins on the other hand, kind of floundering a little bit.
They had a poor first half against the Chiefs.
Then ended it with some bad tool decisions in the second half.
They're just kind of floundering a little bit.
All the offensive mojo they had early, the league has kind of figured it out a little bit.
So they're starting to struggle.
And the similar way the Chiefs did, the league kind of slowed their offense down.
They had to reinvent on the fly.
And I think the Dolphins are going to have to do that as well.
Because the league is starting to figure out what they want to do with Tyreke and Waddle.
No divine AK and it's really allowed them to not overflow on the running looks.
Because the guy behind him is not as fast.
So I don't have to overcome it on the run.
Leaving Rican Waddle one on one.
It's just, there's so many different ways they can hurt you when they're healthy.
Even in general.
But I think people are starting to figure out some of the scheme, some of the tendencies.
And so now they're starting to make plays and to impact the Miami Dolphins offense.
And of course the defense is what it is.
One of the better defense units in the league.
And they've been continuing to show that since they got Jalen Ramsey back specifically.
But in this game I think the Dolphins are going to win.
And kind of break that Antonio Pries momentum.
What we haven't seen yet was an Antonio Pries coach team.
They got blown out.
Went 17-0 in the first quarter.
And does a sideline splinter.
And does all the belief and the praise and the honor and everything else he was getting.
Does that start to fade?
Do you start thinking, okay, it's more of the same.
It's more of the similar stuff we were used to.
We just had to get into a pattern basically.
Played a good football team.
Who knows what that's going to be.
But you want to kind of see a coach in all the areas.
And so Antonio Pries going down 14-0 fast.
Bam, bam.
Tyreek for 60.
Then a long drive to get down 14-0.
And you kind of have to make out the gut check.
And see what Antonio Pries can respond.
And he battles through that sort of thing.
I've got the Dolphins winning here comfortably.
There's too much talent for the Dolphins.
35-20.
There's too much talent here for the Dolphins.
One reason why I'm not in the Jax pack is Antonio Pries seems to have the magic button.
And I'm not going to be the one attempting.
So by the way, the Dolphins win 35-20.
The Vikings at Broncos.
A game that's not in my Jax pack.
To be honest, I'm not even going to pick it.
It's just an interesting football game.
You've got the Vikings who seem to be on some kind of Josh Dobbs victory I'm going to win thing.
And then you have the Broncos who are finding ways to win games.
Which is exactly the opposite of how it used to be.
They need to find a way to lose games.
So this is incredibly interesting.
In terms of how they are kind of coming into this game.
Both of them are hot.
But for different reasons.
Like I said, you have the Vikings who are Josh Dobbs era 2-1-0.
And you have the Broncos who wins I believe three straight.
And so that's the kind of stuff that's happening right now.
Major victories are occurring all over the place in the NFL.
Specifically with these two teams.
As they are battling it out right now.
At every single turn.
And so now we're going to see these two organizations kind of come crash course.
Somebody is going to have a not so fun game.
Just to answer this.
Someone's reality is going to come crashing down.
And admittedly it is going to be painful.
But that's what has to happen.
In order for these two teams to battle each other.
They can't tie.
So now we're going to find out who's the better team.
I'm not even going to pick it.
I'm just interested in watching this game.
Because one of those games where you just don't see this everyday.
Like you just don't see that level of.
What's wrong with the word here?
You just don't see that level of opportunity.
With two teams that are going to go at each other.
In the way that they're going to go at each other.
You just don't see that often.
Because a lot of times organizations don't be in that spot.
Where they're kind of in the same spot overall.
Between the Vikings and the Broncos.
You've got two staffs that's a little.
Two quarterbacks that's a little.
Both for different reasons.
And so they are going to go at each other.
I can't wait to watch this game.
I'm not even going to pick this game with the watcher.
And then the Eagles and the Chiefs.
A game again.
I'm going to pick this game.
I've got the Chiefs close.
Very close.
It's an arrowhead.
Subo rematch.
I'm going to take the team that won their game.
I just choose that one.
Subo which was the Chiefs roster.
It's a little bit different. Not a whole lot though.
And I'm just going to take the Chiefs to win that game.
It's going to be a battle with the Eagles.
The Eagles know what they represent.
The Chiefs know what they represent.
Both sides are going to be ready to go.
Ready to bang.
Ready to battle.
I just think the Chiefs are going to win the game.
And the close ones.
It's going to be a shootout though.
30 to 27.
It's going to be an absolute battle between the two sides.
Jalen Hurts.
You know, Patrick Malm's.
Tush pushed.
Spread offense.
DeAndre Swift.
Isaiah Pacheco.
I mean, it is going to be one of those games where D-line is going to be critical.
Because he keeps both cornerbacks in the pocket.
And both secondaries better be on high alert.
A.J. Brown is on a war path.
And of course, Patrick Malm is Patrick Malm.
So, those two teams better be ready to go.
It's going to be an incredibly interesting showdown.
And then some quick hitting news.
The Minnesota Vikings have agreed on a deal to re-sign Anthony Barr with Jordan Hicks heading to injured reserve.
J.S.P.A. Paul has signed with the New Orleans Saints practice squad.
He's expected to be elevated to the active roster probably for next week.
That's a little fast to get him in now.
But he'll probably get in for next week.
The New England Patriots have waived Jack Jones.
And in the time I wrote this topic list.
In the time I recorded this podcast.
He has signed with the...he's reclaimed from waivers by the Las Vegas Raiders.
As his former high school coach, Antonio Pierce.
Former high school and college coach, Antonio Pierce picked up Jack Jones.
Matt Stafford is back.
The team did agree to a one year deal with veteran free agent quarterback Carson Wentz.
However, Matt Stafford is back and he is ready to play.
And lastly and certainly least.
Zay Jones has been arrested on suspicions of domestic battery.
Domestic violence rather.
We'll keep you updated on the situation as it occurs.
But like I said certainly last and least.
But up next we're going to shift to the NBA.
With the NCAA's NCAA Tournament Night part 2 or 3.
We're going to shift to the NBA and talk about what's going on down at the association.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to discuss the NBA's.
I'm watching the start of Wimby v. Chet.
Oklahoma City vs. The Spurs on TNT.
But the NBA are going to go through the standings as they enter tonight.
So obviously not counting tonight.
But as they enter tonight.
The East in order.
I'm going to go to 11.
So 76ers.
Boston.
Indiana.
Miami.
Milwaukee.
Atlanta.
Orlando.
New York.
Brooklyn.
Toronto.
Then Cleveland.
And in the West we have the Nuggets.
The Mavericks.
The Timberwolves.
The Rockets shockingly.
The Thunder.
The Kings.
The Warriors.
The Lakers.
The Suns.
The Pelicans.
I'm sorry.
The Suns.
The Pelicans.
I miswrote my list apparently.
But that's pretty much the West as it goes there.
So there's some things that need to be discussed in the NBA.
And one of the things that needs to be discussed is this whole James Harden thing.
First of all there's some guy on Valley Sports.
Valley Sports Southwest.
Ripped into James Harden.
It was excellent.
People on social media even added the ether zone to it.
Made it better.
But he ripped into James Harden.
Basically the whole point of the speech was everybody can't be a problem.
Surrounding with Jay-Z line.
Because everyone's crazy.
Maybe you're the one that's insane.
Referring to Kanye.
But basically it's like every situation you're in can't be the problem.
You know you were in Oklahoma City you got moved to Houston.
Okay that's the one that I can be like hey you didn't have control over that.
In Houston Darryl Morton was your best friend.
He gave you literally that's ridiculous.
He gave you literally everything you wanted whenever you wanted it.
And then he said peace out Darryl Morton I'm going with my friends in Brooklyn.
And then you go to Brooklyn you don't like it.
And you run full speed back to your best friend in Philadelphia.
And then you say no screw him.
And I'm going to go to the Clippers.
And now the Sixers are the number one team in East currently.
They are undefeated since you left.
And the Clippers have not won a basketball game since you arrived.
Now everyone's slandering you James Harden.
Because you don't move off the ball.
You're not playing defense.
You look like you're holding the entire organization back.
You're messing with the rotation of minutes.
They're all in for it since they got you.
They're terrible in the clutch.
There's multiple highlights of you air balling the basketballs in the clutch.
It's even hilarious when you wipe your shoes first at a step back air ball.
That was entertaining.
And you look worse than you've ever looked.
I don't know if this is a point to get more money.
Because they haven't for what I know agreed to a contract with you.
So I don't understand that you're looking bad on accident.
Because if you're not trying to do this James Harden you might be cooked.
I'm not one of those people that's like, oh such and such is cooked after one bad game.
This is like four bad games.
He looks awful as a Clipper.
And he's throwing everybody else off.
Kawhi Leonard's getting frustrated.
Russ is getting frustrated because he's getting pulled off for James in big moments.
And James isn't doing anything.
Which I've noticed, I've noticed this a lot with Russ at Westbrook.
If you take him out that's one thing.
But the person you put in for him better do something.
And James isn't doing anything.
So it's just adding to the frustration of him not being in the game even more.
It's a disaster look.
I understand why you did the James Harden trade as the Clippers.
You didn't really give up a whole lot.
And you got a really talented player.
Legally.
But as far as chemistry wise, looks like a disaster.
Play wise, he's playing like it's a disaster.
It was a gamble.
Harden's free after this year.
Paul's free after this year.
Klein's free after this year.
Russ is free after this year.
Neither one of them.
And none of them have to come back to your organization at all.
And you traded a lot of drafts that you're still paying out the trades for.
For all 40's gentlemen to piece you out after this season.
It's a gamble.
It's a wonderful gamble.
But the Clippers are willing to do it.
He wants to go into that new arena in Inglewood with a banner.
Or at least a really, really talented team to put inside arena in Inglewood.
Steve Ballmer does the honor of the Clippers.
But right now that Harden move didn't work.
I said it wasn't going to work from the time that it happened.
Update, it's not working.
I don't think it's going to get any better than the time zone.
It's a disaster.
It's a disaster for the Clippers.
It's a very Clipper-like thing to do.
But moving on.
The end season tournament works?
It's embedded just like the commission's cup is for the WNBA.
Except they just had the WNBA.
I have two extra guys for the semi-finals and the finals.
They're going to be played in Vegas.
The players are buying into it.
LeBron said they're going after that $500,000.
You have Steph and Dane talking about it felt different.
The courts are different.
The jerseys are different.
Everything is centered around the fact that this is an end season tournament game.
The guys are getting up for it.
They're excited walking into the tournament game.
Like, guys are up for it now.
Could this be like the All-Star game where the Elam ending was really, really cool the first year?
It made the players play really, really hard.
To me, iconic shot of LeBron dribbling with the Yonathan defensive stands.
There's Spike Lee and Quavo in the background.
It's a really cool photo.
We were seeing Kobe.
We were seeing Gigi basically.
24 was the point total.
It was a really dope situation.
They pulled all the young guys off the floor and the vets went at it.
They were fouling people at the end trying to prevent shots.
It was great basketball.
Then by that third year, everybody kind of just faded off of it.
Everybody kind of just backed off of it.
All right.
So, yeah, that was fun basically.
It was kind of the vibe.
Now they're going back to the tradition of East-West.
I also think the balance of power has helped out tremendously.
That's helping as well.
I think the balance of power is shifting back to kind of a balanced situation.
That's helping as well, going back to the East-West traditional four-quarter format.
That's what Adam Silver's had to do.
I think the NCAA tournament could be something similar to that where year one everybody's buying it.
It's new. It's fresh.
It did the goal of not adding games, which was the original goal.
It did that tremendously and did that well.
It gives cool court design, different jerseys for most of the teams,
especially if you host, you're using a different jersey.
It's pretty cool.
The stars, oh, God, SGA, you almost killed that man.
Like I said, the stars are buying into it for the most part, so that's what's making it fun.
But I hope they continue to do it.
I said the NBA loves the Commissioner Cup.
It's just like it's the end-season tournament for the NBA, so I hope they keep it going.
But I hope they either add more money to it, make a million dollars a person,
or they do like an automatic playoff bid, or you get to pick who you play.
Like add some real incentive.
Some of these veteran teams say, okay, we're not just going for a check or change.
We're also going for playoff seating, playoff positioning.
I just imagine if you're the Lakers or you're the Pelicans,
and you have a history of injuries, you know for a fact I'm in the playoffs.
I can go 20 and 62, I'm in.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm like, so the Cyan has a nick.
He's out for a month, make it two months.
It doesn't matter.
LeBron rolls an ankle, he's out for a week, make it three weeks.
80, he's out for two weeks, make it five.
You will do everything you can just to get to April healthy because you know you're in.
So I think that would be a very big incentive.
You can kind of even spread it out over the course of the season
so like you don't play it all in the first half of the year
because now somebody, you know, can rest stars.
You don't make the chemistry game until like the end of March.
But pretty much the playoff seating is mostly decided anyway.
So that would be something I think you can incentivize to try and get veteran teams,
older teams want to play in.
Draymond Green vs Anthony Edwards is hilarious.
I don't know if Draymond has time on it.
That's funny because these new guys see Draymond as just like a bully
who kind of went at people and never really done anything.
He's a big talker.
He gets thrown out of some games, but he's never really done anything.
So I think these new guys are going to continue to test Draymond
almost to be like how real is he?
So that's going to be very interesting.
And there was some curse words thrown back and forth,
very entertaining stuff and situations between the two of them.
I was going to talk about the Wizards, but then I realized I like myself.
So we're going to move right into the NFL Jax Pack,
which is our NFL betting segment after this quick break.
Welcome back to the show.
And now we're going to talk about our NFL betting segment, Jax Pack.
We did not do our goal.
Let's look at 5-0.
But we're coming back to you guys with a fresh pack of gambles and bets here.
Again, we're big on the point spread.
The money line is too easy.
Player props change daily.
But that point spread, oh, that point spread holds firm.
And so we're going to go right into it.
You know what I'm saying?
No, no, no waiting.
We're going to go right into it.
Our first game up is Chargers minus three versus the Packers.
Take the Chargers here.
I don't know why this line is so close.
The Packers are a mess, to be kind.
Kind of a disaster, to be frank.
I don't know why this line is so close.
I get it.
The Chargers organizationally, historically is a disaster and a mess,
but they aren't right now.
They're playing for something.
The Packers may be thinking about their next quarterback,
or at least their next weapons for the current quarterback they have.
And so therefore, I just don't understand why this line is so close.
Maybe an L.A. team going to Green Bay might be what's stopping people
or what's keeping this line down around three, which is where it is.
But I just don't see how nor why this game is a three-point game.
Other than the fact that an L.A. team is going across the country
into potentially colder weather.
That's about all I got.
I mean, this is a five-and-a-half-point line, maybe a six-point line.
That's like my lock of the week.
I haven't done a lock of the week in a while,
but my lock of the week is definitely this game Chargers minus three
over the Packers.
Take that, triple it.
I just don't understand it.
But Chargers easily minus three over the Packers.
Up next, Bears at Lions.
Lions minus 10.
Take the Lions.
I've done pretty well on the big spreads this year.
I hit the Cowboys last week.
I hit another big spread earlier in the year.
I've done pretty well on the big spreads this week,
so I'm going to keep it going.
Usually, if it's over 10, I don't know why I don't touch it.
But the Lions minus 10 over the Bears, again, so it's like an easy one.
I just don't see the Bears going more than 14 points,
which means you would have to, 17 points,
which means you have to tell me that Bears defense holds the Lions under 27.
That's not happening.
So Lions minus 10 over the Bears, who was minus 13 and a half, minus 14.
I'd probably back off of it.
Even minus 12, I'd probably back off of it.
But minus 10, I don't see the Bears scoring more than 17,
which means the Chargers have to score less than 27,
and that just doesn't seem plausible.
So I've got the Lions minus 10 over the Bears.
Jets plus six and a half at the Bills take the Jets.
Yes, you heard me.
Yes, I said take the Jets.
I know.
I know I'm one of the big opponents,
saying starting Zach Wilson is professional, Malphys is.
I get it.
Personally, I agree.
But right now, the Bills don't know what they want to do with themselves.
They have no idea what they want to do with life.
What the Jets have is a really good defense that forces turnovers.
What the Bills are starting to do right now is turn the ball over.
It's at home again.
They just had some heartbreak at a Denver.
They had it won and then had 12 men on the field, re-kicked it,
and then they lost it.
They're going through some things right now in Buffalo.
New York is kind of strong, hanging on there by a thread.
They're battling strong.
The defense line is really talented.
Their defense forces a lot of turnovers.
If anything is going to happen, if it's going to be a time for the Jets
to keep a game closer than they should, it'll be this week.
I think the Bills win the game, but plus 6 1 half,
I don't think the Jets give up more than 20 points here.
Maybe 24.
It just means the Jets have to get to 18.
That's plausible for them.
I think that the Jets plus 6 1 half, the Bills win the game all right.
But just plus 6 1 half, take the Jets.
Steelers plus 3 1 half at the Browns, take the Steelers.
I thought this line would have been 6 points the other way.
I thought it would have been plus 3 1 half or plus 2 1 half,
I mean minus 2 1 half Steelers.
Even if it was minus 3 1 half to minus 2 1 half Steelers,
I would not have guessed Steelers plus money here.
That's saying even on the root of the site, the Browns are better.
Roster wise, yes.
Coaching wise, no.
Mike Thomas putting a Houdini out of his hat.
Now he gets him in battle, Deshaun Watson.
I'm going to go with the Steelers here to win the game all right.
Oh, 24 to 20.
I got the Steelers winning the game all right.
Like I said, it would have been minus 3 1 half for the Steelers.
I might have stayed away from it,
but plus 3 1 half for the Steelers, give me the Steelers.
And then Cowboys minus 2 1 half at Panthers.
Again, I don't know why this line is so close.
Give me the Cowboys minus 2 1 half here.
Did you guys not just start the digital Giants?
The Giants are on level, maybe a little worse than the Panthers.
The Cowboys are going to destroy the Panthers.
Like the Panthers are awful.
The Panthers have one fluky win against the Texans,
or they'd be 0-17 probably.
And yet they got a fluky win over the Texans,
a game that may haunt the Texans later in the season.
If they're a game out of the playoffs or something,
that game could ultimately haunt them.
It may keep CJ Stroud out of the MVP discussion.
I mean, that was a rough outing for them as an organization,
if you're Houston Texans.
But Carolina has been awful.
Dallas has been spectacular, especially against awful.
And you're telling me it's only 10 1 half?
So I think Dallas might score 35,
which means the Panthers in order to keep a 10 1 half have to score 25?
Yeah, that's not happening.
So I've got Dallas here pretty comfortably covering the 10 1 half pretty well.
So just run back through them one more time.
Chargers minus 3 over the Packers.
Lions minus 10 over the Bears.
Jets plus 6 1 half over the Bills.
Sailors plus 3 1 half over the Broncos.
Cowboys minus 10 1 half over the Panthers.
But up next, I'm going to talk about Jack's hot take,
which is going to be a Jayden Dam for Heisman campaign.
Welcome into the show.
Into our final segment.
This is going to be called Jack's, of course it's Jack's hot take,
but it's going to be about LSU quarterback, Jayden Daniels winning the Heisman.
Look, I may be obvious, but he did something last week to kind of cherry on top of a historic season.
He was the first player in FBS history to throw for 360 plus,
and to run for 200 plus in the same game.
He's one of the top passers and one of the top rushers in the FBS.
His numbers, his passing numbers are a little bit better than Joe Burrows at this time in the 2018 season.
And I didn't even account him for his legs.
And this is a year where there is no dominant Heisman winner.
You know, it's not like there's some running back at Bama with 1600 yards already,
or, you know, Michael Pennings doesn't have the statistical dominance.
You know, there's no, something like, Kayla Williams took some L's and his numbers are falling off.
There's no dominant Heisman winner.
I mean, you can make a case for Bo Nicks, kind of,
but you can also kind of make a case for Michael Pennings Jr. as well.
I mean, you got a guy as historic as Jayden Gaines is right now, I think you have to give it to him.
And the losses, people say, he's lost three games.
You're right, he lost to Florida State and the undefeated team.
They lost to Bama on one loss.
The Ole Miss lost to the Warriors one, but that is, you know, the Warriors loss.
Tantibo won his Heisman with three losses. RG3 won his Heisman with three losses.
Johnny Manziel, I think, ended that season with three losses.
Three loss precedent, it's out there, it exists.
To have three losses and win the Heisman Trophy,
usually those years you don't have dominant people.
This is a year where no one's dominant.
No one's individually the best put on the best team, and it's not even close.
In terms of like, you know, the ability and the statistical aspect of that person.
They're just not there this year.
I think Jayden Gaines is the best put on college football right now.
He's the most impactful put on college football right now.
I think he has to win the Heisman Trophy.
Otherwise, it would be a massive disservice to the award,
and we should just rename him to the best put on the best team.
Now, I would appreciate, I wouldn't lose my mind if it's Michael Pennings,
but that is probably the only person I will accept it being,
because he's the best put on the best team.
After that, in my opinion, he's the best put on the undefeated team.
The best put on the best team is probably...
Brock Bowers for Georgia, or Blake Corm for Michigan,
Marvin Hayes Jr. for Ohio State.
So there's some options out there for best put on the best team,
but I just think that the Heisman Trophy has to be Jayden Gaines.
What do you want, what would he want to do?
He's carrying an awful offense, I believe, dark, awful defense.
I believe LSU defense, they're ranked in the hundreds,
which is outlandish for a defense of that caliber.
He's got two games left.
He's got Texan, and he's already fired Jembo Fisher,
and he has FCS Georgia Southern.
He's going to put up tremendous numbers in those games,
and I just think that he, barring Pennings,
has a crazy couple of games in the end,
or Marvin Harris Jr. going ballistic.
I just think that Jayden Gaines is your Heisman Trophy
when an LSU picks up that third Heisman Trophy in the school history.
That is all I have for you guys today.
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