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Welcome into the show.
Very excited to be with you guys late on a Thursday night, recording after the Bonfire,
the Bon burner of a game between South Carolina Lady Gamecocks and the LSU Lady Tigers.
We'll discuss all that.
I'll tell you that right now.
That's Jack's Hot Take.
It's my instant reaction to South Carolina and LSU.
To me, the two best teams in the country, I know people are going to mention UConn.
They don't have AZFUD.
People are going to mention Stanford.
That's cool.
I've watched them play.
LSU, I take the Colorado loss out.
First game of the year, it's weird.
They had all the pressure on Planet Earth to go and defeat it and they lost the first
game.
It's one of those things like, but we'll discuss that.
I don't want you to want to get into that right now.
We'll discuss that later when we talk about these two teams and what it could mean totally
and all those.
We'll discuss that, right?
I'm so excited to be with you guys because this is the first show since I began to partner
with IMS, introspective media solutions.
It's actually a very good friend of mine, Jai Borski, who you can see on the Hey Jai
podcast.
You can see on other the NIT pod, NIT pod TV, the Hey Jai podcast.
He's big into YouTube, into media, stuff like that.
He had a media company.
He hit me.
He's like, hey, Justin, he calls me Jackson, but hey, Jackson, I want to partner with you.
I have a young company.
You have a growing podcast.
We can help each other do this, right?
That was a no-brainer for me because I wanted to expand and admittedly, I don't have the
expertise for it.
I'm more of a talker than a doer if you catch my drift.
I didn't have the expertise for it.
He was down to help me with that.
I officially partnered with IMS.
If I say IMS, I'm referring to introspective media solutions.
If you want to follow them on Instagram, do me a big favor and follow him on Instagram.
Let me get the handle.
I just saw it.
It's at IMS Productions 2023.
I repeat at IMS Productions 2023 is who you would want to follow there.
So again, big shout out to him.
I've got more exciting news coming as well.
If you guys have been paying attention, you know that we've gone through a lot of things
on video.
So that is one of the big things I have with IMS is that we're going to go on YouTube
and I will definitely put the link to the first video into the podcast description.
So I'll put it probably at the bottom of the podcast description.
So if you want to go and watch the first video, see my face.
If you follow me on Facebook, you've seen my face already because it's my profile photo
on Justin Town Sports.
But if you want to see me hear my voice, hear me in a different setting than just that,
than just the audio show, then that's where you would go.
And I said, I'll definitely put the link to the first episode in the subscription to
the podcast.
All right.
So similarly, before we get off into the sports stuff, I'm going to be the goal is to do
two shows a week to do a video show with Jai and with IMS and to do an audio show purely
JTS or Justin Town Sports.
And so similar to for the popular guys, obviously like club, Shay Shay, not called play Shay,
Uncle Nocho, nightcap with Uncle Nocho, Uncle Gil, that is Shannon Shaw's show with he
does, he does undisputed.
He does first take, I'm sorry.
Skip Bayless has a Skip Bayless show.
He calls me undisputed and then he has undisputed.
Nick Wright has what's right with Nick right?
And then he has, he always has on the show, the TV show.
Oh my God, first things first.
And so Chris Broussard has him and Rob Parker show, the odd couple and first things first.
Right.
And so a lot of times in this business, Stephen A. Smith show and first take a lot of times
in this business, you have an audio show or a YouTube show or a side show.
If you're sure and then you have an audio show, you have a podcast and you have.
A TV show.
So that's kind of what the two things are going to be.
You're going to get the show with IMS, which would be video.
It'd be like the TV show.
And then it'll be the audio show that you're getting from me now, the audio podcast.
So in the future, you may hear me reference the audio show when I'm on YouTube or when
I'm on the audio show, you may hear me reference the YouTube show.
That's what I'm referencing.
It's sort of like, you know, and they Nick Wright and his podcast reference the TV show.
He's talking about first things first, right?
So I kind of want to get that business out of the way.
Definitely again, I will put the link to the show in the episode description, run that
up, follow, subscribe, like, share all that good stuff.
And definitely you can see some of my other stuff.
And I'm in a more of a different setting than you just hear my voice for 45 minutes to an
hour.
But now that we got the housekeeping out of the way, we have some big games this weekend,
people.
We have the conference championship game.
It's a dual edge sword.
If you're a football fan, right?
Because you're in your in conference championship week.
You're looking at the four best teams in the league.
You can argue with who you like.
I love about the NFL.
Everything's on the field.
There's not a single thing.
There's no polls.
There's no voting.
There's no what these two teams had the same record.
We really have no tie break system.
We like this team better than that one.
Or this team's undefeated.
But because of this circumstance, we're going to put this team in instead of that one.
And I, and I, and again, I agree with the floor to say decision, right?
But in the NFL, every single thing is side on the field.
Everything.
I mean, tie breakers can come from literally, okay, you have the same record.
That's cool.
Are you in the same division?
If the answer is no, have you played similar opponents?
If that is still tied, who scores the most?
If that is still tied, I believe it goes to point difference or after that.
Like there is going to be an on a day, going to be a direct on the field metric to why
you make the playoff as opposed to them.
Right.
Try to schedule like there is going to be a metric.
Why you why some of it over somebody else.
They have the exact same record.
There's going to be a reason.
There's going to be a metric that you can go definitively back to that metric to find
out, right?
But also if you're a football fan and a fellow fan, well, football fan, you're a little
sad, right?
Because that means there's three games left for the season and then it's over.
And then there's no football played fools.
There's no NFL and college football played until zero, which is in like late August.
Right.
And I don't count the preseason.
And then I can say until week zero and then we're back on this train again for four or
five months.
And of course, you know, we'll be supplemented.
We'll air I'm sure a lot of us going to watch the UFL and they're going to be highly supported.
The four best franchises in the USFL and the four best franchises in XFL came together.
They're in two different conferences.
They're going to battle it out.
The USFL has a conference.
They called the USFL conference.
And then the XFL conferences are the XFL teams.
They're going to battle it out.
Um, smartly, they kept the four teams that were supported the most Houston, St. Louis,
et cetera.
Those cities were high to Seattle.
Those cities highly supported their teams.
They kept their teams Arlington, Arlington, who's the other one?
I'm trying to think of an album Birmingham.
Like those teams were supported.
They kept their teams.
So now it's going to be like a whole thing.
It's going to be great.
But there's three games left in the NFL season.
Right.
To me, this is the most interesting conference.
The weekend we've had a long time.
A very long time.
You're you're battling a lot of storylines here.
Right.
I just thought of what the nine is in the lines.
This is a case of redemption versus verification.
What's that?
What do you mean by that?
It's just a story of redemption.
Jerry golf is to me and I'm in this camp.
He's looked at like the guy who got replaced for the title.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
Like Detroit's the land of the misfit toys.
And there's been that historically.
Like it's the home for misfit toys.
Them and the Jets.
Like you have a toy that doesn't fit.
You dump it on Detroit and two years it walks.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, oh, we're going to trade with Detroit.
Give away this 33 year old lineman who had a decent year.
Detroit's going to take them.
Time for a decent contract.
He'll play a year there and retire with most of the money.
Like that's the Jets.
The Lions.
Like it's these people that the land of the misfit toys.
People don't remember that was basically one for one trade.
It was basically golf and Stafford got swapped because the Rams looked out across the sea
and said he can win for us.
Conveniently, Stafford was wanting out of Detroit.
Oh, I know Eminem had the line in the preview for the Lions playoff game versus the Rams
where he was like, I guess we weren't patient enough.
We traded you.
That wasn't true.
Stafford wanted out.
Stafford at that point was over the organization.
He'd been there 13 years, 12 years, and they weren't doing anything.
He'd never won a playoff game in those 12 years.
He'd only been in the playoffs twice.
Maybe he'd only been in the playoffs twice.
And if people remember, Stafford is the first 5,000-year-old quarterback.
If people remember, Stafford is the first 5,000-year-old quarterback.
He was the first guy to do that.
And that was critical in order to develop 5,000 yards, kind of being normal for a while
there.
Peyton, Brady, Breeze, Stafford, like all those guys shot over 5,000.
My home's gone over at yards passing.
Stafford was the first guy to officially cross the 5,000 mark.
And so the arm tower was there.
His ability was always there.
The team wasn't, right?
And so that fell back, and then he won it out.
Conveniently, the Rams were looking to move off golf.
They basically swapped one for one.
I don't have all the trade details in front of me, but they basically swapped one for
one in terms of what both sides were looking for, because Detroit was looking for a guy
they could have.
Young?
Er?
And the Rams, OK, so, wow, it actually wasn't a one for one at all.
I just pulled up the details.
It was, the Rams got Stafford for Jared golf.
Two first-round picks and a third-round pick went to Jared golf.
Two first and a third went to Detroit.
Matt Stafford comes back to LA.
And it was a rumor that Stafford was vetoing people because he had to get expended not
too long after that.
So he kind of had to control.
New England was interested.
He vetoed.
And I think for multiple reasons.
One, we didn't have the weaponry.
Two, right after, that was going to be right after Brady.
Nobody wanted that.
You know what I'm saying?
That was going to be right after Brady.
Nobody was really interested in doing that.
So he vetoed New England.
The rumor he vetoed LA as well.
Chargers were, I think it was, were still in not Chargers.
Yeah, Chargers weren't, hadn't relocated yet.
No, Chargers were there because the Rams were there.
Yeah, so he had vetoed Chargers as well.
That was another other team that was interested.
He vetoed them.
He viewed it on the Rams.
The Rams made it happen.
Les needs famously F them picks.
And that's how we get Stafford to the Rams.
So this whole story of redemption in LA, it's a story of redemption in Detroit, right?
Jared Goff was traded.
His team won the Super Bowl.
Dan Campbell had the infamous bite kneecap speech that everybody caught up with joking
a meathead for.
Jamison Williams is bouncing back from his cancer diagnosis.
He's going through, or it might not be him.
It's another receiver though.
It's a young Bama receiver.
But Jamison Williams battling injuries.
The city of Detroit in general has parts of it where there's a ghost town, basically.
Like no one's there.
You've got just a football team that has just, they don't do this, right?
It's just an environment in Detroit that's all about redemption right now.
And he's getting spearheaded by golf.
I think it's all redemption.
Guy Dan Campbell won Super Laugh at his press conference.
Aidan Hutchinson, the Michigan Detroit boy himself.
Amon Ross St. Brown, highly on the radio receiver.
Jameer Gibbs, who people laugh at being the first round pick.
Like, oh, Detroit, we'll pick it right up back.
Right?
Like, Jameer Gibbs is the first round pick.
Sam LaPorta, who no one saw coming, right?
He was, I don't, was he T.E.1?
Like I'm not even sure he was T.E.1 off the board.
She's a baller.
DJ Garner Johnson, I'm going to be in that camp.
I last when he signed to Detroit.
I was like, oh, he went for the money, right?
Like, there's no way you go to Detroit.
He went for the money.
You were on Philly and probably to get an extra couple of million dollars, you went
to Detroit.
Don't, no harm, no foul.
Like it's one of those things where it's like, yeah, it's a couple of million dollars.
Like, after taxes, extra million dollars, he just made doing the exact same job.
He's an English title game and Philly fired their coordinators again or lost their coordinators
again.
Right?
And so, again, I laughed when Garner Johnson went there.
It's just, it's just a story of back to back, back to back of just what's going on in Detroit,
how amazing Detroit is right now and how Detroit's on the upswing, right?
And so that's the story of redemption.
And on the flip side, San Fran has the story of prove it.
And I don't know which is more dangerous, redemption or prove it.
I guess we're going to find out.
I don't believe in Brock Park.
And I'm not the only one.
There's several members of the national media that are openly like that dude ain't it.
And it's not the fact that we dislike him.
He's a good guy.
He looks like he's a fairly good guy.
He's still, that's the one that was apparent still like, no, that's Tommy DeVito.
But I've heard he still lives at his roommate, drives like an old school car, like they're
like an older vehicle.
Like, dude's a fairly good guy from all appearances, right?
He's seen me as never had a bad word to say about him.
He doesn't even insinuate anything bad about him.
All right?
All right.
He's holding true and get, I think he's the biggest backpack in the league.
I mean, my backpack is he's being carried.
Um, he played awful for most of that game against the Packers.
And because Christian McCaffrey is amazing, they won.
Jordan Love went full blown Brett Farr.
So it was a cross body picked to Drey Greenlaw.
And all of a sudden Brock Purdy's this amazing person about Niners fans.
And I asked something out of his fans and it's something that I've heard asked.
I'm going to ask my audience if they, uh, let's just hypothetically Jordan Love doesn't
throw that pick on Drey Greenlaw drop seed and the pack is pull off a win.
You want Brock Purdy to start a next year?
Based on everything we know, her cousins is available.
Russell listens available.
You have the personnel to trade and go get a high pick for a quarterback.
You got five first round pig D linemen.
You have the assets chase young your first round pick, probably a third and potentially
a future second flies you up from 20 something to probably 12.
If let's say direct make hits a slide or Michael Pennings hits a slide and it's 1213.
He's still there.
You can go get him.
Right?
You just pay her cousins.
Like the options are available to you.
Okay.
But, but a Europe packers fan, you do not pack a fan.
You're a nine and spending.
So, hey, Jordan Love did throw that pick.
Drey Greenlaw did catch it.
Brock Purdy did win.
Okay.
Cool.
This weekend, you're playing the Lions, the redeeming Lions and Brock Purdy plays an
awful lot like he did last week.
This week and you lose.
You want Brock Purdy's a quarterback next year or you say, Hey, Mr. Kurt Cousins, come
on down the most ready made offense in the league.
Hey, Mr. Russell Wilson, you want to bounce back?
We got something.
Because I watched the Rams and Niners game.
The game was went.
It was wins.
Um, Donald looked like he can play.
Now I'm a don't, I like Donald coming out of strike.
Greg, I love the Donald coming out of school.
It was never shown to me.
I felt he looked like he can play in that nine as offense.
It's plug and play.
Stay healthy.
Win the game.
The problem is his QBs never stayed healthy.
Jim and Gropelow for years and Brock Purdy last year with the elbow.
Now Purdy seems to be healthy.
So if you get you lose, it's a question mark.
You get your teeth kicked in.
It has to be a very important question in the building and very important conversation
in the building.
Brock Purdy said this year he was told by Shanahan if they get their hands on Brady,
Purdy's not the starter.
You know what I'm saying?
Like screw a competition.
Dude, you're not starting.
Like Tom would have to be a joke for him to not be the starter.
You know what I'm saying?
Like it wasn't a situation where Purdy can go beat him.
Tom would have to be a joke.
And so he's kind of accepted the fact he will have competition in his career.
I mean for no other reason, man, it's a highly, well Kirk Hudson is entirely hiding in terms
of anything.
He's been getting the guarantee of money for the past four or five, six seasons, right?
But Purdy's already been through an offseason where he was staring at the fact that he wouldn't
be the starter.
Why not do it again?
So Brock Purdy is the cheapest quarterback in the league based on Purr Thorleton.
Like he's making, I think less than a hundred grand or I'm sorry, less than a million.
He's starting in the championship game, right?
So if you go to Kirk Hudson and you say, hey, two years, $80 million, $70 million of a guarantee
will ask him for years, that's capital, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, would you be
cool with that?
And he says, yes, you can put him in your quarterback room because the other quarterback
isn't making anything.
So based on positional value, there's actually probably getting a deal at quarterback.
And so that is what's going on in San Fran.
Like Brock Purdy is fighting for his literal job and he's fighting for it to keep his position.
Like I said, it's a story of achievement and a story of respect.
If Purdy wins his game and he balls out, you got to kind of respect them.
I would have to respect them, right?
The issue that lies in the Lions is that how long, how far does redemption carry you?
Because the achievement level that Purdy is trying to reach, that's a different level
of achievement.
That's an achievement level that is historic, right?
When you're internally motivated, like the Lions are, your internal motivation has to
be the top, tippity top top.
Because otherwise you'll get comfortable where you are.
So that's the issue with the Lions is that I question how hungry they are coming out
of the two biggest wins in city history.
And then our other game, our heavyweight fight, our slug or fest, our boxing match, our brutality,
like this game is going to be a slug fest between the Ravens and the Chiefs.
Kilamar Jackson versus Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reed versus John Harbaugh.
This is going to be one of the more entertaining games you may ever see.
And it's intriguing for a lot of ways.
One, the battle with the quarterbacks, right?
You got two Hall of Fame quarterbacks.
I'm not being hyperbolic when I say they're both Hall of Fame quarterbacks.
Everybody kind of accepted Patrick Mahomes' two Reigns, two Super Bowl MVPs, two MVPs
in general.
He could walk right now, he's an MVP and everybody's kind of accepted that.
But the interesting part is Lamar Jackson is an MVP.
There's only one person in the history of the league with two league MVP's in the Hall
of Fame, the person who can't go into the Hall of Fame because he's an active player,
Patrick Mahomes, right?
Everybody else to win two MVPs is in the Hall of Fame.
Just like two MVPs, Lamar Jackson is probably a weaker soul from being on NFA Honor stage
except he's an MVP, which would be his second.
And so that would be tremendous.
This is going to be a tremendous contest at the quarterback position because of what
guys like Lamar Jackson can do, Patrick Mahomes can do.
And their play callers, Todd Monk and Andy Reed have been in their bags this season.
So Kudos to these two quarterbacks for the show they're going to put up, right?
But defensively, defensively is where it gets interesting.
Because defensively, you don't really know who has the edge.
Now, statistically, it's Baltimore.
They're like number one in sex, yards allowed and points or something like that for the
first time.
The defense done that for the first time, I believe ever, but definitely in Raven's
history is the first time they've accomplished such a feat.
And so that in and of itself is astonishing because that's usually pressure with four.
Like I watched them play Houston.
They just they rarely sent a fifth man or if they sent a fifth man, he lined up like
he was coming to make the blocks go one view one.
And then he decided to ultimately be a lot of it.
And to it was a four V five.
But then by that point, air blocks one on one and there's no helping the tech start
to get whipped.
So having said all that, right?
Having that level of pressure with four people could be a problem because the only times
Patrick Holmes has been blown out is when he's had horrendous offensive line play.
See the soup bowl against Tampa like the tackles were a joke and Tampa kept coming all night.
And so that is the situation that she's have to avoid.
They have to getting into a pissing contest with the Ravens D line.
Very interesting to see how they protect our real corn Smith interact on the field.
I'm very interested to see also if the chiefs can keep the Ravens at bay, how big of shots
is my home's willing to take in order to accomplish getting the ball down the field?
Because at a certain point CJ Stryer felt like almost like he was saying goes to quote
Sam Donald.
Almost like he was saying goes like he would see he would feel pressure and get out of
the town and there's nobody there.
Or he's scrambling and he's still scrambling, he's still scrambling to the side and there's
no pressure.
Right.
So I kind of want to see how he is able Patrick Holmes able to react to that and who's he
taking the shots to?
I feel like Kaderis Tony misses the game.
That's a bonus for the chiefs.
You know, there's MVS joke.
Rashid Rice is good and Travis Kelsen is a Hall of Famer.
First ballot.
I'll give you the greatest hand of all time.
Who's Patrick Holmes has been in the play for?
To throw it to who?
Right.
And so that is definitely something to look at there.
I'm going to go ahead and talk about the Ravens offense versus the Chiefs defense.
The Chiefs I think are going to deploy similar strategy to what they did to Josh Allen, which
was if he runs the ball, if the bills run the ball, great.
They throw it short, great.
Josh Allen will not run.
You will not throw a deep.
I think that the Ravens are going to be faced with a similar defense.
I think that the Chiefs are going to give that same look.
We're not going to get beat deep.
We're not going to get beat on the quarterback run game.
If you pick us apart in the mid-range and the short throws, go for it.
We might get.
And then we're going to cause the Ravens and Todd Monk in to be incredibly patient.
You're going to have to be going to teams openly saying you're not going to get the
big stuff.
If you want the little stuff, go for it, but you're not going to get the big stuff.
And they're putting in strategy to do so.
Todd Monk in and Lamar Jackson is going to have to be incredibly patient in order to
do it.
And that's the benefit of having such an electric playmaker at the quarterback position
because at 80 points anytime on the field, the most dangerous person is the person with
the ball.
And so that is always going to make it an interesting contest between the Chiefs and
the Ravens.
But let's go ahead and pick these games.
I'm going to pick it up straight up and I'm going to pick it against the spread in case
they are different.
So 49ers versus the Lions, Niners hosting Lions plus seven, take the Niners.
Yeah, I know.
I'm both Moneyline and the spread.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
See, I know I'm a Brock Parity detractor, but part of me wants him to get to the Super
Bowl throwing like, I don't know, I will have more A passes and he gets carried and
everybody's like, Oh, he's not the guy we thought we were.
We're not the guy we thought he was.
When better for me on the table is if Brock birdie play Brock.
pussy plays awful.
The pumpkin of goes away and rides off and there's no happy ending because Brad really
turns back into the over tuna de over elegant underachiever by seventh round pick, mischievous
pick Mr. Relevant, the battling all kind of stick there,
touching stigmas around that and he makes it.
It just feels like a good dear story.
It felt like a great plot to a Disney movie.
It was irrelevant.
Becomes irrelevant.
It's a whole thing, right?
But if he plays awful, they lose.
Well, that hurts my super face.
If he plays great, that hurts my future.
Respect.
If he plays terribly and they still win, well, that helps.
Yeah, that's my case entirely.
So that's kind of what I'm rooting for right now,
is that the Niners serve and win.
A lot of people are concerned in the AS title game,
the AFC title game, the Super Bowl,
because they believe both teams beat the other two teams
easily.
So they're calling it the Super Bowl.
It's pretty wild.
But it kind of tracks.
You've already seen the Niners stomp out.
I believe both, yeah, they stomp out the Niners and the Lions.
You've seen the Ravens do that and then the Chiefs.
No one counts because the Chiefs, right?
And so I think the Ravens, I'm explaining it.
Don't mention the Lions and the Niners.
The Lions plus seven.
I've got Niners hit the Lions in the points.
I've got the Niners to win the games,
the Lions and the points.
I think they keep it close.
And they keep it really close.
They're battling two, three minutes left in the game.
And every play would matter, like timeouts and first downs
and icing or getting it back.
I think it's that kind of game.
I think it's like a Super Bowl.
They're going to bang it out in M&T Bay Stadium
in Baltimore, Maryland.
And then, of course, you have the interception game
between the Niners and the Ravens.
Oh, wow, just the M&T Bay Stadium four.
Let's realize that they're going to bang it out in Levi Stadium
in San Francisco.
In M&T Bay Stadium in Baltimore, that
is going to be the Baltimore Ravens against the Kansas City
Chiefs.
Chiefs plus four is going to be at a neutral side.
They'll be at one point in Baltimore advantage.
I think that Chiefs get the job done.
So take the points, or take the plus four.
And then, I run it with the Chiefs.
I get to get the job done.
I've learned my lesson.
Don't bet against pressure moms.
I've learned it, right?
And it's been painful to learn.
That's been a guy who's been opposed to him.
It's a painful lesson to learn.
Don't do it.
So I'm not going to do it.
I've got the Chiefs versus the Niners in the Super Bowl.
Probably in the line comes out.
It's probably Niners plus.
Niners minus two and a half in the line first comes out.
If and when that is, it's a win.
But all right, we have some personnel news in the NFL.
We have a few coaches being hired.
Raheem Morris is the latest coach to be hired.
He's hired by the Atlanta Falcons.
He's previously had head coaching expense.
He was previously the defensive coordinator
for the Los Angeles Chargers.
He was backed very vocally by Jalen Ramsey on Twitter.
Dave Canales is Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
offensive coordinator.
He has been hired as the Carolina Panthers head coach.
His work with quarterbacks with DeGeno Smith, Baker Mayfield
has allowed each of which to extend their careers.
So now he looks forward to doing that with Bryce Yon.
Brian Callahan, the Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator,
has been hired by the Tennessee Titans as their head coach.
I'm sorry, I had a brain cramp.
I'm so sorry.
As their new head coach.
So that is the situation and the hiring and the firings.
And also, Vick Van Gio, previously
part of the way with the Miami Dolphins
in order to focus on fixing the less than stellar defense
in Philadelphia.
All right, but all those names I've told you
being hired, none of them will be a bell check.
As far as anyone knows, the only interview he took or that
was he was given was Atlanta Falcons,
which he was D&D finalist for the job
as he was interviewed twice.
So does that mean that the 72-year-old takes a year off
and comes back?
Does that mean he tried to throw his hat into different jobs?
At 73 years old with a year off from the sport,
do you think he's hireable?
There's so many questions regarding the future of Bill
Belichick that I don't think many of us have answers to.
And so that is interesting.
That's something we're definitely going to watch
at Just In Times for what's his Bill Belichick discussing
his future or even figuring out his future.
And then Kaysha Boutet, formerly of LSU
and currently in the Patriot, has a humongous cheating
scandal.
It goes over multiple months, thousands of transactions.
He always got his money back by the end of the night.
I mean, it is incredibly insane to do betting gambling
with your real name as the user tag
and doing it in Just In Times while I was building.
Everything is tracked.
That was the case on Boutet's NFL career is probably over.
He was struggling with the base of the NFL game
after struggling so much his last year at college.
And so taking a year off potentially
due to the gambling situation, that might
be the end of the line for Boutet.
So hopefully not his great player, but if it is,
he'll have a college career, a very short pro.
But up next, we're going to shift to about a three minute
break and we'll come right back to you.
Welcome back into the show.
Great NFL segment.
In case you guys missed it, the highlights
are I've got nine chiefs in the soup bowl.
That's pretty much the highlight.
There's some other personal news.
Bill Belichick's stuff, if you want to go back and listen to it,
the case on Boutet gambling story, that's outrageous.
I mean, seriously, I know this is the NBA segment,
but the case on Boutet thing, apparently the Dubey,
like 8,900 bets over like a year and a half,
deposited over $132,000 into an account, $1556,000.
He used most of it to put money back into bets
and drew $50,000 out of it at one point.
So out of the college could get that much money.
NAL payment.
So that Kane's check and Gordon's checks
was going up to betting apps.
With user names like Kachan Boutet 1 and Kachan Boutet 7,
his numbers and he can't use his literal name.
While he was underage, he made six bets on LSU,
one bet on himself.
Two of the bets came from inside of the football facility,
and the two bets he made on himself, he didn't hit.
Florida State, it was like over any time touchdown
and over 82 and a half yards if he missed on both.
And LSU's worst offensive game that year against Florida State.
Again, insane story.
It's wild, right?
But anyway, on to the NBA.
All-Star Indiana is close.
And so we have our All-Star starters for the All-Star game.
This year, reportedly, it's going back
to the East West Classic format.
And so in the West, and I'm starting with the West
because they have the highest vote getter, probably
for the 15th year on a row.
It's LeBron James, the Los Angeles Lakers.
He is the quote unquote captain for the West squad
with Kevin Durant of the Fiending Sons, Nikola
Yilkich of the Denver Nuggets, Shay Goods, Alexander
of the Oklahoma City Thunder, and Luca Donchich
of the Dallas Mavericks.
There's one name that's missing.
It's Steph Curry.
Steph Curry for the first time.
Oh, god.
I don't know how long.
I think Luca Dane did it one year, but it's rare.
That's Steph's not a starter.
And he's not an All-Star starter.
Again, it might be a second time ever as an All-Star.
Not being a starter.
It was one year.
He didn't get it.
I think Dane and Luca got it that year.
But regardless, it doesn't happen often.
It's kind of a new era in the NBA, the two young guards.
To me, probably Anthony Edwards might end up being
the third one, unless it kind of was a forward.
But it's a new dawn in the NBA.
And then, of course, you're on the East.
You have Giannis as their captain with the leading
bow giver in the East of the Milwaukee Bucks.
Giannis Hattus the Kumpo, Joellen B. to the Philadelphia
76ers, Tyrese Halliburton of the Indiana Pacers,
Damian Lillard of the Milwaukee Bucks, and Jason Tatum.
Excuse me.
No, the Boston Celts.
They sound like Doc Rivers there for a second.
Who we'll discuss obviously.
But again, what I was talking about the interest thing
in the West already is that fact that for the first time,
it's stuff's not an all-star starter.
There's no case for him to be one.
Like, it's not even like one of those debatable, like, oh,
stuff should have made it.
No.
To me, the SGA is in the top three for four of the MVP
discussion.
And Luca Donch is having one of the greatest years
in Maverick's history.
I think only probably surpassed by his own stuff.
He's ballin'.
I mean, if you were going to sub a guy, it could be Luca.
But again, I'd pick Luca.
The Warriors are floundering as an organization, as a team.
And Luca Donch is putting up a great year.
I'd have Luca there as well.
So there's no quarrels about the West starters.
The East, however, I have a problem.
I have a problem with each.
Yannis M.B. and Tyrese Halliburton
have been undeniable since.
Oh, God, probably a month ago.
Right?
Like, they ran.
Tatum, because Boston's record is so good,
it's one of those you have to have a representative
for a record that good.
And Tatum got it.
OK, great.
Why is Damian Lillard an all-star starter?
Over Tyrese Maxx and Donovan Mitchell.
Now, Donovan Mitchell has not played all the games.
He's only played 30 or 31 right around the 30th game
so far this season.
I believe he's averaging 28 points a game.
Donovan Mitchell is suffering the same syndrome.
He's suffering in Utah, the reason he left Utah.
He can ball out of his mind.
And he gets typecasted as though another team needs.
But the Knicks.
No one cares what Jalen Brunson does.
Like, Jalen Brunson, I reckon he's cool.
Jalen Brunson has more pub for Candace Parker,
misremembering his playoffs or not prepping for that segment
and misquoting his playoff production
than he has for actually doing the production.
Like, it's just no one cares anymore, right?
Like, outside of New York, no one cares.
And so in Utah, no one cares.
So when you get to Cleveland, there
was a couple years with Mark Price against the Bulls.
There's the LeBron Errors.
And then no one cares, right?
And no one cares about anything in between.
OK, Elo, no one cares about anything in between that.
Right?
Like, between 1992 and probably 2022,
unless it was LeBron related, no one cared about Cleveland,
all right?
And so Donovan Mitchell was going through that,
because he's having, to me, much better year
than Damian Lillard.
But I remember Dam's moment.
I remember Dam's game winners.
Because I remember Dam's big passes to Yon.
It's like, I remember the moments more.
So when you're sitting down with the fans,
the fans might vote Mitch, right?
A spider.
But when you get down with the players, the players like,
oh, I remember he hit that crazy three.
Or I remember he hit Yon that's on that pass.
Like, I remember these moments.
And it came down to these two.
I don't remember nothing of Mitchell.
I remember a lot about Dam.
I'm going to put Dam.
You know what I'm saying?
So that is something that probably Mitch has to reevaluate
again.
There's no way I'm still getting passed over for stuff.
Even to me, he clearly deserves recognition as an All-Star
starter.
He'll be an All-Star.
No doubt in my mind about it.
He'll be an All-Star.
But it's the fact that he's been an All-Star starter.
And he's not.
Should bother him.
And probably going to be a reason why he exits out of Cleveland.
But anyway, back to the news of the NBA.
We had some trades, some firings.
Pascal Siakam has been traded to the Indiana Pacers
for Bruce Brown, a couple of first-round picks,
and a future second, I believe.
The first-round picks are, no, three first-round picks.
Bruce Brown and the first-round picks
are headed to Toronto for Pascal Siakam, which
Wink Wink Pascal Siakam has probably agreed to, again,
Wink Wink, a contact extension of a very specific amount.
And when free agency opens, he'll sign it in record time.
For somehow, they would have negotiated it and signed it
in a matter of seconds.
But so he was traded there to Indiana.
And he puts together one of the best fast-paced teams in the NBA.
They're going to be the best fast-braking team in basketball.
Pascal Siakam at his absolute best is an open floor
space runner and a finisher.
Tyrese Halliburton at his absolute best
is an open floor space passer.
Like, at their absolute best, they
can put a file on the floor that's designed to run and gun.
Halliburton, healed, Pascal, Miles Turner, Obi-Tah,
like any of them, it doesn't matter what the fifth person is.
They're going to run you off the floor.
Miles Turner's a very athletic big.
He's capable of finishing around the rim very strong.
Got Tyrese Halliburton.
I need to say no more.
All right, let's talk about Pascal Siakam's.
Pascal's actually leading the lead in fast break points.
He's finishing them.
And Taranto, wouldn't that get a Virginia get on them
in the fast break.
So Pascal's one of the elite fast break finishers in basketball.
And of course, Buddy Hill is an absolute sniper.
So when you've got that situation going on,
Indiana has firmly moved out of the playing contention,
in my opinion.
They'll be out of it.
They won't be dealing with that mess.
And that instead, they'll end up drawing a three seed
and have hell on earth to pay in the first round.
But if you're Indiana, you gotta do what you gotta do.
You can't raise Pascal Siakam going in fragency.
You gotta bring him in, wink, wink, agree with him
in order to keep him around and make sure that he pairs with
Halliburton and Hale and Turner.
And also, in some other news, some hiring, some firings,
Adrian Griffin was fired from the Milwaukee Bucks
after a 30 and 13 start.
You heard me correctly.
He was fired after going 30 and 13, very similar to David
Blatt in Cleveland in 2016.
Adrian Griffin, first time head coach in the NBA.
Blatt was a European coach for decades.
And he gets fired because of his championship
expectations, championship expectations,
that level of job, that importance of stress, whatever,
is not prepared for you to learn how to coach.
It's not.
It's not a spot for you to figure out how to coach.
Like, if you're a guy, Adrian Griffin
was figuring out his little kinks in his head coaching ability,
while coaching the team is supposed to win the title.
Defense wasn't supposed to be an issue at all.
But defense became a problem when the guy coaching the defense,
all of a sudden, the person brought in for the defense,
the main permanent person to me is gone in due holiday.
And you're replacing him with an absolute
bucky and dame willer.
But now, instead of very, very picking
a role base with Drew Leonis, you're almost reevaluating
and wanting to care about dame's special skills.
And dame's like, look, man, I'll shoot it.
That's what, like, you know what I'm saying?
You've got a guy in dame trying to adjust himself.
And it looks like dame and Leonis
are playing in two different orbits.
Like, yes, they're teammates.
And yes, they'll have actions.
But it feels like they're playing two different basketball
games.
Like, if Leonis has the ball, dame's kind of just there.
If dame has the ball, Leonis kind of just
floating around doing stuff.
And so they kind of sit out there in two separate orbits.
And to bring those two orbits together,
they have hired dock rivers.
And for the next three and a half seasons,
he'll be making a total of around $40 million.
So over $12, $13 million a year to land dock rivers,
get him out of the ESPN booth, and to bring him into Milwaukee.
Ultimately, I don't think this does what Milwaukee fans wanted
to do.
Nobody blows playoff leads in such a wonderful house
in dock rivers.
So if your goal is to achieve final success,
that's going to be hard to do based on history.
I mean, we've seen it at every stop dock has had.
Clippers, Celtics, Magic, Keds, if it's a lead, three ones
specifically.
Look out.
Come and crash him down, all right?
And so that's going to be interesting to watch.
I actually put bath agent Griffin here.
It felt like he got set up.
Where it's all?
It feels like dock wanted a few months off.
And the boats were the one to hire him.
So they said, hey, we're going to hire agent Griffin.
We're not going to pay him that much money.
We're going to hire him, though.
Give him his first headcoast job.
We're going to bring you in as a special advisor to him.
So that means you're around.
The players see you.
When you show up, you're not just old dock.
The ESPN guy, you're like an advisor for the team.
You know, like the players see you once a couple weeks.
You know, you may sit in on a meeting.
You may watch our practice.
You know what I'm saying?
You're involved with the team.
They know you.
And the agreement feels like whenever agent messes up,
it's your job.
Because as soon as agent Griffin got fired,
immediately it was Docker who was going to get the job.
It wasn't like, oh, they're going to have to interview.
Like when Atlanta fired, the guy, Quinn Snyder,
got it.
It wasn't Bootenhoser.
Oh, man.
Even when Bootenhoser got fired.
But I'm not thinking of a job that got fired midseason.
The coach got hired midseason.
But Atlanta, when they were going after Dan Snyder,
Quinn Snyder, wow.
When they were going after Quinn Snyder,
they, you know, that wasn't the coach got fired.
And then the very next, some people saying,
tweet, Docker was going to get the job.
I did it that way.
I got the information so fast back to back,
I just put it on the same tweet.
Griffin's fired.
Doc's going to get the job.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
No one was saying that for real.
When they first broke, and then two minutes later,
Doc's going to get the job.
Like, yeah, they set him up, right?
They went in kind of half expecting him to fail.
And they put in Docker at the safety net.
Agent started failing.
Doc put in an emergency, pulled a shoot.
And they pulled their parachute into Doc Rivers.
The worst comes to worst for the Bucks.
He stabilized their defense, and he makes them buy in.
Everywhere Doc Rivers has been,
these stars play defense.
Like, Blake Griffin was not the world's best defender.
He slid his feet sometimes.
Deion G. Jordan was not the world's best shot blocker.
A rim protector, he jumped up,
tried to block shots, put his hands up, whatever.
Just trying to, you know, make people not just waltz.
Down the lane.
And, you know, if you look at his Celtics team,
they were physical.
That Magic team was physical.
That Brooklyn team, not Brooklyn.
But they were, they were physical.
You know, he's coaching them all to the stops.
They were all physical basketball teams.
And so, he's going to have a lot of position
on first utility in Milwaukee.
Hopefully they do great.
Doc Dame in Yannis.
And then another coaching decision was made.
West Unsell Jr. has moved into the front office,
giving up his role as head coach,
where he was 77 and 130 during his time
as the Washington Wizards head coach.
Oh, again, West Unsell Jr. is leaving the bench
and going up into the front office.
But that, oh, oh, oh, oh, sorry about that.
And then Ben Simmons is reportedly on his way back
as early as Monday.
He's been out with a nerve impingement in his back
since November 6th.
And he is reportedly on his way back on Monday.
But shifting gears to Jack's hot take,
the aforementioned, early early mentioned,
LSU of very South Carolina.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we are going to talk about
the biggest girls basketball game,
the biggest women's basketball game in college athletics
every single year.
And it's gonna be this way until they split.
And I said it when they came together.
It's gonna be the way till they split.
LSU of very South Carolina,
Kim Mokie versus Don Staley.
Like I said, that's gonna be the game every year.
And so either Don's no longer in South Carolina
or Kim's no longer at LSU.
That is going to be the game.
Every single year, it delivered again.
Great first half of my lady Tigers.
Had some sneaky foul trouble.
I picked up two fouls, Angel had two fouls as well.
It says sneaky, sneaky foul trouble.
But overall good half, bad last 40 seconds
by the LSU guards, specifically Haley Van Lith.
Leeds to, talking on a cutting 11 point lead to six.
They kind of exchanged buckets in the third,
go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
And then in the fourth quarter, like Kim Mokie said,
the LSU wasn't tough enough.
And I think that, they still go back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth.
And then late in the game, you get Angel Reese following out.
Trying to save her teammate and Haley Van Lith
through another bad pass.
I mean, pulled through a bad pass,
because it's being left.
And Angel tries to chase it down
and picks up her fifth foul, she's out.
And from that moment, the game changes.
I don't know what the official score was afterwards.
I had to guess 12 to four, 12 to five,
run by South Carolina in the game.
Haley Van Lith misses a critical three to tie.
McKayla Williams was off all night.
She stopped one for nine from three.
Angel was battling with Cadoso, Cadosa.
Okay, excuse me for not pronouncing your name correctly.
It was the large center for South Carolina.
She was battling with her all night,
giving up both height and weight, blocking her twice.
So great night for Angel Reese, defensively.
She also scored a few bucks, a great night in general.
But when you have, South Carolina has a pedigree.
I mean, that's just plain and simple.
And the LSU won the title last year,
but they were supposed to have Katariah Poole
and can't think of the other girl,
the other power, the power, the big,
she's not there either.
So, Alia De Rosario was not even really
supposed to get any minutes ever.
And she was guarding Cadosa for a vast majority of the game
because Anisa had, Anisa Moro had 2,000 angels
in foul trouble.
Oh, but I said the game turned
after Angel Reese fouled out.
But my high take is this,
these are the two best teams in the country.
Period.
They are the two best basketball teams in the country.
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news,
pins them in the final four.
They shouldn't be on the same side.
So, pins them in to the final four.
They're the best, two of the best teams in the land.
And I don't particularly think it's close.
Like I said, I know LSU had their three losses,
but they're all either KC, not KC, I'm sorry.
Either SC who was undefeated, weird loss to Auburn.
And then Colorado, first game of the year,
everybody's watching.
LSU has a pressure being undefeated
and they stumble, right?
And you know, the Know Scott and the Port, et cetera.
It's one of those games where you're not okay losing,
but if you're gonna lose, that one, right?
Like don't hang it out the way.
So congratulations to South Carolina, a hard-fought game.
Their stars made shots at the end.
And that's what Don Staley spoke about
when she was talking about this game.
She was saying like it's gonna come down to the players.
Kim Oka said it too.
I can't outcoast Don, she can't outcoast me.
It's gonna come down to our players.
And so the depth issue of LSU popped up
because Angel was banging so much with Cardosa,
she was tired, right?
And that's how Lio does.
Audio isn't a plan so many minutes.
And you know, those bigs were tired banging with South Carolina
because there was four or five bigs on the team.
You know, they're just banging over and over again
and not really worried about it.
And it's just, again,
if Katarri Pool is there and the other big is there,
we talk about different game, very, very possibly.
That's how I host the game with that.
I think LSU's the better basketball team.
South Carolina had the better stars
and the better arrangement.
So again, gradually in South Carolina,
they've got the SEC regular season title locked up.
So congratulations to them.
And we'll see that of course LSU
group basketballs next time out.
But up next, that is all I have for you today.
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Up next, you go about your business.
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This is your host, Justin Jackson, signing out.