1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,080 Welcome into the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast. 2 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:23,840 I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson. 3 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:28,560 In this week's episode, we'll be discussing the Super Bowl, or at least a recap of the 4 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:31,920 Conference Championship games plus the Super Bowl preview. 5 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:38,320 We'll also touch on a little bit of the NBA and as always, that will include Jack's hot 6 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:39,320 take. 7 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:43,400 Now, you can follow us on at J Time Sports. 8 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,280 I repeat, at J Time Sports on all of your favorite social medias. 9 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:54,320 And also, you may follow us on this podcast itself on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you 10 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:55,680 get your podcasts. 11 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:25,040 Now, as always, don't forget to sit back and get ready to learn something. 12 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is a better source to have it on Just In Time Sports YouTube. 35 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:54,360 Just a little housekeeping business for those of you who care. 36 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:59,120 For those of you who don't, let's get right into the show. 37 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:03,000 The Super Bowl is set, for those of you who don't know it, is the Kansas City Chiefs for 38 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,760 the fourth time in six years up against the San Francisco 49ers, who's their second trip 39 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:08,760 in four years. 40 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:12,320 Ironically, they played the Chiefs the last time they were there. 41 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,920 Similar circumstances, honestly, from both teams. 42 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:23,640 But let's jump right into the AFC title game, which these title games went about as expected. 43 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:28,120 The AFC game was supposed to be a slugfest because it was too high-powered defense. 44 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,240 So it's not something you would think in a game where the quarterbacks are Patrick Mahomes 45 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:32,600 and Lamar Jackson. 46 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:37,920 You would think offensive explosions, but the Ravens won the defensive triple crown. 47 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:42,640 They had the fewest points per game, the most sacks, and the most takeaways. 48 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,040 The Chiefs defense, I think, was ranked third all year. 49 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,800 So you had two of the top three defenses, two of the top five defenses undisputed in 50 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:51,640 the league going up against each other. 51 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,880 Now again, there are two Hall of Fame quarterbacks in this game, too. 52 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,320 Patrick Mahomes is the no doubt first-ballot Hall of Famer. 53 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:02,280 Lamar Jackson on his route to his second MVP, potentially unanimous, definitely his second 54 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,080 MVP. 55 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,800 No player in the history of the sport that has been eligible for the Hall of Fame has 56 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,040 two MVPs and has not made it. 57 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,120 So Lamar Jackson is a sure fire Hall of Famer. 58 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:19,240 Patrick Mahomes is a sure first-ballot, no doubt Hall of Famer. 59 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,280 He's already in the smaller room in the back. 60 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:27,160 You know, there was a Hall of Fame, and then there's an elite group. 61 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,160 Pat's in that elite group already. 62 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:29,160 He's not even 30 yet. 63 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,480 Because if he wins a Super Bowl, that's three Super Bowls before he's 30. 64 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,440 He's got all the stats in the world. 65 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:37,440 He has the MVP. 66 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:43,160 He'll be in that little room in the back because his resume, besides counting numbers, would 67 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,360 be better than Peyton Manning's. 68 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,120 And so he's in there with Barry Sanders. 69 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,000 He's in there with Jim Brown. 70 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,000 He's in there with Tom Brady. 71 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,720 I mean, Tom Brady, I mean, he's in the only other room. 72 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,760 He'll be Jerry Rice and the Goats. 73 00:04:54,760 --> 00:05:00,720 But you know, he's in that room. 74 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:06,240 Breaking news into the show, actually, Joel Embiid is out again. 75 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,280 He'll miss the game against the Utah Jazz. 76 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:18,640 He's expected to get further evaluation on his left knee in the next 24 hours. 77 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:25,600 So Embiid is becoming dangerously close to being ineligible for postseason awards, which 78 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:33,320 would be a tragedy because he's playing so well and he's doing stuff we haven't seen 79 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,720 done in so long, right? 80 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:42,440 And to have him miss the awards for the injury would suck, but I like the rule, right? 81 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:47,240 And we're going to dive into a little more of about the rule in the NBA segment, but 82 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,080 back to the A's title game. 83 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,720 So again, that's two, in my opinion, first ballot, no doubt Hall of Famers are quarterback. 84 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,800 He had the defenses dominated today and it was final going to be 17 to 10. 85 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,920 To me, Baltimore could have very easily won the game 20 to 17, 24 to 17. 86 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,640 They left a lot on the field. 87 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,720 But a lot of what people are talking about today is over the past few days, I noticed 88 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,000 about Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes. 89 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,400 To me, the guy was Travis Kelsey. 90 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,720 Patrick Mahomes had a good game, right? 91 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:17,720 No doubt about that. 92 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:23,480 He made the plays when he had to make them and they were almost exclusively to 87. 93 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,240 Travis Kelsey put on this game. 94 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,760 Wow, he's one of the best of all time. 95 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,360 He's in that very small room with tight ends. 96 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:35,200 I think it's him, Gronk, Tony Gonzalez, and then everybody else outside the room knocking. 97 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,800 He's just, he's unguardable, right? 98 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:43,040 And it kind of reminds you of when prime Gronk was unguardable and Gronk was unguardable 99 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:49,200 to the day he retired, but where it's third and eighth and everybody in the building knows 100 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,240 it's going to 87 and it doesn't matter, right? 101 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,320 And Patrick Mahomes had some amazing escape plays in this game. 102 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,120 The wizardry Lamar Jackson was doing was insane. 103 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:03,800 It should have been rewarded more by his teammates, but you know, Mahomes came out and started 104 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,200 the game 13 to 13 or 11 of 11, something like that. 105 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:12,720 Like 13 of his first 14 were completed passes. 106 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:20,440 And so whenever you get someone like that on a roll early, it kind of made the defense 107 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:21,960 change their game plans. 108 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,960 Now they still were able to fight through and only held, and they held the chiefs to 109 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:27,880 17 points on the game. 110 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:32,600 But when it came down to it, third and seven, it's 87. 111 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,280 Third and nine, it's 87. 112 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,120 Second and 10, it's 87. 113 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:44,800 And actually in Travis Kelsey finished with 11 catches for a bucks 16 in the touchdown. 114 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,440 I think Mahomes went and completed 20 passes or 20 something passes. 115 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:56,160 So a majority of Mahomes' passes went to Travis Kelsey. 116 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,400 And so, you know, he hit Rashid right one. 117 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:04,680 Oh, MVS, Mark Rodriguez, Scanlon caught the dagger throw over the top in the middle, but 118 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:06,920 a majority of the stuff went to Travis Kelsey. 119 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,120 So we're getting a lot of credit to Mahomes, rightfully so. 120 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,640 He's in his fourth Super Bowl appearance and six years a starter. 121 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:17,520 He's in the Super Bowl almost as likely as he is to complete a pass. 122 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,840 That's an outrageous statistic. 123 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:25,680 Shaq has a lower dunk percentage than Patrick Mahomes has of being in the Super Bowl. 124 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:26,960 Again, outrageous numbers. 125 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:32,040 But we're not going to sit here and just pretend like that, you know, that core and that help 126 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:33,040 wasn't doing what it was doing. 127 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:34,840 Pacheco got the yard when he needed it. 128 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:36,280 Kelsey was unguardable. 129 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,600 The defense held the future MVP down to 10 points. 130 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,520 And Mahomes, they were able to neutralize, and Mahomes and Andy Reid and company were 131 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,120 able to neutralize to an extent the Ravens' pass rush. 132 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,120 The Ravens' pass rush overwhelmed the Texans. 133 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:55,880 They kept trying to do long field throws because the Ravens' secondary can be had if you have 134 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:57,280 the time to do it. 135 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:02,560 But they're able to protect their secondary because their pass rush is so relentless. 136 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:06,800 And they're able to do so with force, so they're able to keep seven back and really protect 137 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:07,800 themselves, right? 138 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:13,840 The Chiefs began to do a lot of quick throws, a lot of screens, a lot of drags, a lot of 139 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,400 stuff where it's not in the secondary's purview. 140 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,520 They still have to guard it. 141 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,200 But now you're dealing with that pass rush taking three fast steps trying to bend around 142 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,920 the edge and they're turning them around because the screen's gone. 143 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:30,440 Or their two good steps, drag out. 144 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,600 You know, three or four good steps, you know, slant route. 145 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,640 They were doing a lot of stuff where it was immediate reach for Mahomes. 146 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:38,640 There was no thinking. 147 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,120 It was just catch the ball, hit the slant. 148 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:42,600 Catch the ball, hit the screen. 149 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:43,600 Catch the ball, hit the drag. 150 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,600 Catch the ball, hit the slant. 151 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:46,600 Catch the ball, hit the out route. 152 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,120 Oh, give them a little shimmy, hit the in route. 153 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:50,120 You know what I'm saying? 154 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:56,360 Like it was just over and over and over again for Mahomes in order to pick apart that Ravens' 155 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,360 secondary because they were able to have them early. 156 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:02,720 Now the pass rush did get there at a certain point, but by that point you kind of looked 157 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:07,280 at the other side and realized they weren't doing anything. 158 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:13,920 And speaking about the other side not doing anything, Lamar Jackson, another playoff dud. 159 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:15,680 Just going to be honest. 160 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:18,680 And I'm not an anti-Lamar guy. 161 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:20,400 I'm not, right? 162 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:25,120 But it's another game in the playoffs where he can play completely out of his character. 163 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:29,520 Lamar Jackson is the most single dangerous person with the football in his hands in the 164 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:30,520 NFL. 165 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:37,200 I'm more than Patrick, more than Burrow, more than Josh, more than, who do you want to name 166 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:38,200 him? 167 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:39,200 Derry Henry, right? 168 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,840 He's the single most dangerous person in the league with the football in his hands. 169 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:43,840 Why? 170 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,520 Because he's the most electric runner in the NFL. 171 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,440 And he's a top six or seven passer. 172 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:51,600 He's led the league of passing yards. 173 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,240 I'm not going to call him a running back. 174 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,920 He's led the league of passing before his career. 175 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:01,720 But he's the single most dangerous person with the ball in his hands, especially before 176 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:02,720 the route breaks down. 177 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:04,160 Because now the receivers are running their routes. 178 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,400 So you have to respect him as a passer. 179 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:10,560 And at any given moment you lose contain, he can hit you for 60. 180 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:18,160 And so that level of dangerousness to a defensive coordinator is very, very key. 181 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,360 But it wasn't enough for eight. 182 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:27,440 He finished the game 20 of 37, 272, one touchdown, one interception. 183 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,240 Sounds a lot like his other playoff games. 184 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:32,280 Right around 50% of the please and percentage. 185 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:36,720 Even touchdown to pick ratio if he's not in the negative, 250-ish yards. 186 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:40,480 I mean, it's pretty much Lamar Jackson's playoff career in a nutshell. 187 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:42,680 He had an outlier against Houston, right? 188 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:47,280 I mean, I'm old enough to remember Lamar Jackson having less touchdown pass in the playoff game 189 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:48,280 than Derek Henry. 190 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:52,240 I'm old enough to remember against the Chargers when he got booed in the fans saying that 191 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:53,240 we want Flacco. 192 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,640 Like I said, I'm old enough to remember duds. 193 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:01,440 I mean, just absolute duds of playoff performances. 194 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,140 He's still under 500 in the playoffs. 195 00:12:04,140 --> 00:12:06,080 He's an incredible talent, right? 196 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:10,400 I don't want people to think I'm disparaging his talent. 197 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:11,400 I'm not. 198 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:18,120 He is a very, very, very talented player. 199 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:25,880 His ability on the field is unique in the sense of there is no one on this planet that 200 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:29,880 can do what he can do. 201 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:30,880 There is anyone. 202 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,960 I mean, there may be guys with stronger arms. 203 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:35,960 There may be faster guys. 204 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:36,960 There may be shifter guys. 205 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:41,040 None of them can do what he does as a total football player. 206 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,000 It's not possible, right? 207 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,440 And so when you have that level of ability, we expect a lot of you, especially in the 208 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:47,440 big moment. 209 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,360 It doesn't get much bigger than the NFL in the playoffs. 210 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,400 And that was another game where Lamar Jackson was a dud in the playoffs, right? 211 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:56,960 An absolute dud. 212 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,440 He had magical moments, right? 213 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,240 He had moments when he escaped the pocket. 214 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:03,360 I posted a couple of them on Just In Time Sports. 215 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,480 He escapes the pocket, dances around people, ducks under tackles and finds a flowers. 216 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,980 He did another one where he didn't really go for a big completion, but it avoided a 217 00:13:10,980 --> 00:13:11,980 big sack. 218 00:13:11,980 --> 00:13:15,200 He's ducking and dodging people all around everywhere. 219 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:19,240 You know, I'm watching the game saying, oh, they got him. 220 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,680 Like he's just a DN screaming from his backside, oh, they got him. 221 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:23,680 He ducks. 222 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:25,320 The DN flies over his head. 223 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,200 And next thing you know, he's scramming outside the pocket and 12 yards later, first down. 224 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,880 And I'm sitting here like, how? 225 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:37,560 Like how are you possibly getting away from these clean butchers or these clean rushers? 226 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:41,000 But that's the kind of level of talent he has. 227 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,200 And it just wasn't enough in the passing game. 228 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,000 I think that they should have taken more advantage of his legs. 229 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,800 I think he should have taken more advantage of his legs. 230 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:50,280 There was a lot of parts of the game. 231 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:53,160 I'm yelling at him, get out of there, get out of there, get out of there. 232 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,600 Because you're patting the ball for four or five seconds, you're not putting any stress 233 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:02,720 on the defense because the defense isn't keeping an eye on you running and you never see you 234 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:03,720 breaking off the route. 235 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,480 I just watching the receiver break off the route because you're putting no pressure on 236 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:10,520 them at all in terms of you might run. 237 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:15,720 For Todd Monkin who's been lauded all season for his play calling, kind of reverted to 238 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:20,960 Lamar Saivas ball in the sense of he only ran the ball, I believe, six times with running 239 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:27,120 backs, which is abhorrently low considering they were often in the teens or the 20s. 240 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:31,960 In terms of running back carries, Lamar would get his. 241 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,180 Just a rough day at the office for Todd Monkin. 242 00:14:35,180 --> 00:14:39,160 He was the source of a lot of ire of a lot of Baltimore fans. 243 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:43,640 But the person who they should be mad at is Zay Flowers. 244 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:50,600 Zay Flowers cost his team that game. 245 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:55,600 He had a sportsman like penalty, he had some other issues happening. 246 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:59,300 He got talked out of the game by a couple of the Chiefs guys. 247 00:14:59,300 --> 00:15:05,520 He had the fumble and the one that literally tires the game. 248 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:10,680 This guy was kind of a wreck for a vast majority of the football game. 249 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:11,680 Zay Flowers is a good player. 250 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,320 He's a guy that Baltimore has done a lot this year. 251 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,640 I think the moment got too big for him. 252 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:18,600 I think the attention got too big for him. 253 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,360 I think the lights and the flash and the glitz and the glamour got a little too big for him. 254 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:23,360 And it got into his head. 255 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,960 They tried to make him do things that are fairly uncharacteristic of him as a football 256 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:27,960 player. 257 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,400 They don't know what he's like as a man, but as a football player that seems to be pretty 258 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:37,640 uncharacteristic of him to get repeatedly penalized or to make costly mistakes. 259 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,520 But Zay Flowers directly took seven off the board. 260 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:47,400 I think he's involved in another seven, but he again directly took seven points off the 261 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:48,400 board. 262 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,680 You can't have that happen in that spot. 263 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:55,840 You get a big catch and you're first and eight and now you're first and tenth from the 23 264 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,840 because he got a taunting penalty. 265 00:15:57,840 --> 00:15:58,840 It's tough. 266 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:00,960 And then on the same job, your fumble at the one. 267 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:06,760 It's just stuff like that that can't happen on a really, really good team. 268 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:12,040 And that's what Baltimore is even though they just also a defensive coordinator to the Washington 269 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:13,040 commanders. 270 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:14,040 I'm sorry. 271 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,040 Yes, the Washington commanders. 272 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,280 Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no. 273 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,920 Mike McDonald's going to the Seattle Seahawks. 274 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,880 The commanders are the only job available. 275 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:24,120 My apologies. 276 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,000 The commander's the only job left available, but their name was in my head. 277 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,480 But Mike McDonald is headed to the Seattle Seahawks. 278 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:33,480 Their new head coach. 279 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:34,480 He's from the. 280 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:35,480 Oh my goodness. 281 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:36,480 Baltimore Ravens is the defensive coordinator. 282 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:44,760 Leader of the Triple Crown winning defense. 283 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:50,520 And now we're going to shift to the NFC title and talk about that game, that barn burner, 284 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:55,280 that comeback, that moment, that tale of two Purdy's. 285 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:56,280 That show. 286 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,920 Man, legends were out like legends were out for Casey and Detroit. 287 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:01,880 I mean, M&M's there. 288 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,480 Barry Sanders shows up. 289 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:04,480 I mean, M&M's there. 290 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:05,480 Oh, this is something about the show. 291 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,480 I'm thinking about the Niners in Detroit. 292 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:09,480 Not a whole day. 293 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,040 I mean, a lot of former Ravens players came back. 294 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:12,680 Terrell Suggs and Ray Lewis. 295 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,080 Ironically, Terrell Suggs last game in the NFL. 296 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:18,080 He's winning the Super Bowl for the Chiefs. 297 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:19,920 So that was, you know, one of those moments. 298 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:21,320 Ray Lewis last game in the NFL. 299 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,040 He's winning the Super Bowl as a member of the Niners, as a member of the Ravens. 300 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,360 So that's, you know, that was cool moments for them. 301 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:31,760 But back to the San Fran in Detroit, the legends were out, man. 302 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:33,560 Like Barry Sanders is there. 303 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,080 M&M is there. 304 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:41,920 Joe Montaño, if you watch Waterboy, Joe Montana's there. 305 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:46,800 You know, the legends were out in full effect and it looked like Detroit was going to make 306 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:47,920 history early. 307 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,760 They were physically dominating this game. 308 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:56,720 They were making a coach like Dan Campbell really, really, really, really happy. 309 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,960 They were physically bullying the Niners early. 310 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,000 Drake Greenlaw throwing helmets all over the place. 311 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:09,840 They were physically assaulting the Lions early, right? 312 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,040 The Niners early, right? 313 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:16,880 First series of the game, they hit with a trick play. 314 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,480 Jamison Williams on a reverse touchdown. 315 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,800 Then they get it right back, basically, and the Niners go three and out or something and 316 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,080 out, very short and out. 317 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:26,280 And boom, they power down the field. 318 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,000 Jameer Gibbs hits him, touchdown. 319 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,000 And it's like 14-0. 320 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:35,480 You can hear a pin drop in the new candlestick, aka Levi Stadium. 321 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:42,800 It's just, I mean, Detroit, the stadium itself looks like the game is being played there. 322 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,320 Fans are jumping up and down, cheering, going crazy. 323 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:47,560 The energy on the Detroit sidelines through the roof. 324 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,640 San Fran looks like it's a panic. 325 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:55,880 I mean, it's just, everything that could go wrong for San Fran felt like it went wrong. 326 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:01,240 I mean, besides an injury, that wasn't the only thing that could have made it worse, 327 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:02,240 right? 328 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:07,800 It's just, there was pure panic in Detroit. 329 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:14,120 I mean, it was pure panic in San Fran. 330 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:18,760 So the Niners come back, get their shit together. 331 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:22,680 Three minutes, four minutes later, five minutes later, sorry, I can't do math. 332 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:28,400 Five minutes later, they're in the end zone, Christian McCaffrey, touchdown. 333 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:32,440 Then the Lions put together a drive, and they go down, Jameer Gibbs hits them again. 334 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,040 So David Montgomery hits you the first time. 335 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,000 Jameer Gibbs does that. 336 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,200 He pulls on daytime sports as well. 337 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,080 He's going through, I feel like he's walking through the Niners defense. 338 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,400 I mean, he's just throwing guys off. 339 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,560 He gets a little cut angle, he walks in, touchdown. 340 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:52,360 Then the Niners, Kyle Shannon had a clock moment, but the Niners kind of pack it in. 341 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:53,360 No, that's the interception. 342 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:54,360 It's the interception when that happens. 343 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:55,360 What's his name? 344 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:56,360 Malcolm Rodriguez? 345 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:57,360 He's Rodrigo. 346 00:19:57,360 --> 00:20:07,600 If you remember the Lions hard knocks, they called him Rodrigo all through the building. 347 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:14,000 And Rodrigo, who wasn't supposed to even be playing, gets an interception off of Purdy. 348 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:19,120 And that is why they end up, he gets an interception off of Purdy. 349 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:20,120 Lions go down the field. 350 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:21,960 They had an opportunity at the end zone. 351 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:24,600 I didn't like some of the play call selections that they did. 352 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,440 They end up running it on third down. 353 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,080 It was odd, because it was an odd play call selection at the bottom. 354 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,120 Maybe if they get a touchdown, the Niners don't come back. 355 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:35,120 Butterfly effect, who knows? 356 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:38,760 But they know they get a field goal from the 47. 357 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:40,560 And again, the Lions are bouncing. 358 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:42,760 They have all the energy in the world. 359 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:48,760 The Niners historically were famously bad in the Kyle Shannon era coming back on people. 360 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,320 And it looked like one of those games, they're not going to come back. 361 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,360 They're getting physically dominated. 362 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:57,680 They look mentally just like, what is happening to us? 363 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,360 Again, Dre Greenline, Fred Warner are pissed. 364 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:03,600 You have the Lions going crazy. 365 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:06,400 Eminem is flipping people off in the crowd. 366 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,080 Barry Sannis is almost jumping up and down. 367 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:15,240 It was one of those moments where it's like, man, this is dangerously close to getting 368 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,880 out of hand. 369 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,440 But I never felt like it was over. 370 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:26,800 I never felt like at any point the Lions were going to just boom, boom, boom. 371 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,220 It's over. 372 00:21:28,220 --> 00:21:30,280 My mom texted me about the game. 373 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,520 Like I said, Niners are going to roll, she texted me about the game and how that's wrong 374 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,520 and you know, whatevs. 375 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:40,680 And it's just, you know, part of it was just to stay patient. 376 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:41,680 I've seen this. 377 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:42,680 I've seen this. 378 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:43,680 The Niners team is too good. 379 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,160 I've been talking about the Niners all season. 380 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,240 You can go back and look at the call logs. 381 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,640 You can go back and look at the episodes of the show. 382 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:50,880 I've been on the Niners all season. 383 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,760 If they're healthy, no one's beating them. 384 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:59,160 And the second half starts and it's still going to go Niners. 385 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,760 Okay, okay, something. 386 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,400 Then they get a fumble because they score right back. 387 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,800 No, then the Lions go three and out. 388 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,800 The Niners make a drive touchdown. 389 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,080 24-17. 390 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,000 Then they come right back, get a fumble. 391 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,720 I mean, I've got my drives, my Lions drives mixed up. 392 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:21,520 Then they come down and get a fumble, touchdown Niners. 393 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,600 It's 24-24 entering the fourth quarter. 394 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:29,880 And so the Lions hit this big 17-point lead and they're 30 minutes from the Super Bowl 395 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,520 and the whole city's excited and everybody's jumping up and down. 396 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,840 And four field is nuts and M&M's flipping people off and Barry Sanders is almost jumping 397 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:39,440 on that bad hip of his. 398 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:41,880 And Calvin Johnson's going to be in Vegas with the team. 399 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:52,880 And it's just in 15, actually, in 12 minutes and 11 minutes and 58 seconds of game time. 400 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,920 It's all gone. 401 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,840 Every single drop of it. 402 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:03,960 All the bluster, all the happiness, all the jumping up and down, all the confidence from 403 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:10,800 everybody outside the building is gone in 11 minutes and 58 seconds. 404 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,960 The best team in the league showed up, the Niners. 405 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,960 I mean, they said, well, the halftime speed was, play like we know how to play. 406 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:18,960 Play like we know how to play. 407 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,800 You know how good a team has to be for that to be the halftime speed down 24-7? 408 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,120 Yeah, we're playing like dog crap. 409 00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:29,120 Play like we know how to play. 410 00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:32,960 And 11 minutes and 58 seconds, they were tied. 411 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,800 So you go into the fourth quarter, still many times. 412 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:40,560 The Lions begin to bow their backs a little bit on defense, but the Niners defense at 413 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,520 this point is as locked in as locked in can be. 414 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:49,120 Still go Niners with about 9.52 left. 415 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:51,320 Lions again don't do much of anything. 416 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:55,680 There's some questionable fourth down go fours in here, sprinkling in here. 417 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,520 I don't have that right in front of me. 418 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:02,880 And then the Niners score again, the effective dagger with Eliza Mitchell at 302 left. 419 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,400 And then Jamie said Williams catches a touchdown pass on a beautiful route combination. 420 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:11,360 On a beautiful route, rather, he catches a touchdown pass with about 58 seconds left. 421 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:15,280 The onside kick was unsuccessful, Niners for Super Bowl. 422 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:19,880 And so that was the box score run down pretty much, but there was a lot of stuff to peel 423 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:20,880 back. 424 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:22,760 But for me, it was the tale of two parties. 425 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:27,160 In the first half, I posted on the Facebook group, a man has anyone seen Bart Purdy. 426 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:28,160 He looked awful. 427 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:29,960 He looked like Mr. Irrelevant. 428 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:37,480 He looked like a guy I was going to have so much fun with on the audio show and the video 429 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,720 and the visual show and the TV show, YouTube show. 430 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,280 Oh, slandering, basically. 431 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,920 And telling you, I told you. 432 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,600 And questioning whether he's going to be the starter and all the, I mean, I was prepared, 433 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:49,600 right? 434 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:54,000 I was starting, it was going to be a rough day for Niners fans. 435 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,520 And then he turned it around in the second half. 436 00:24:55,520 --> 00:25:03,320 And then the guy in the second half looked like, he looked like a guy that is ready to 437 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,520 go. 438 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:15,880 He looked like a guy that was a guy who could lead his team to the Super Bowl. 439 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,000 A guy that could be the Super Bowl in the P. A guy that many had as their dark horse 440 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,280 in MVP most of the season. 441 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,760 He looked like that guy, right? 442 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,440 And he played that way. 443 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,120 Great second half by him. 444 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:30,960 I wish his numbers were divided more at places. 445 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,040 And in terms of that second half, he played a great second half. 446 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:34,320 He had some huge runs. 447 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:35,520 He took some shots. 448 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:36,520 He got up celebrating. 449 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:41,440 It was a big moment in the career of Bart Purdy, securing himself as the guy in San 450 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:42,440 Francisco. 451 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:46,560 But humongous second half from Purdy. 452 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:47,560 I got to get credit for credit. 453 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,840 I was ready to slam him for his first half. 454 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,480 Got to give credit for his second half. 455 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,200 A great job by Purdy. 456 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:57,840 But then we talked about those Dan Campbell questionable decisions. 457 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:03,840 So Dan Campbell very easily, two times in field goal range, passed up on threes. 458 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,840 And he went for touchdowns. 459 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,600 He went for two. 460 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:08,600 So should be with that. 461 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:09,600 Oh, man, that's a 14 point swing. 462 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:10,600 It's not. 463 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:11,600 It's a six point swing. 464 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,600 Because you took, yeah, it's a six point swing. 465 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,000 Because you pretty much had the field goals. 466 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,480 One was a chip shot, you know, chip shots. 467 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:19,480 And the other one was very makeable. 468 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,680 You got to make them both. 469 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:23,680 It's 37, 34. 470 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:24,680 Nothing else changes. 471 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:25,680 Right. 472 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,400 And even if you're butterfly affected in that last drive, they're playing a little harder. 473 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,760 So now, you know, instead of being down 10, you're down seven. 474 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,600 Maybe you don't get Jameson Williams at the sideline like you did. 475 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,640 Maybe you don't get Jameson Williams across the middle like you did. 476 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:39,920 They say a butterfly effect. 477 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,840 But if nothing else changes, you win the game 37, 34. 478 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,600 But one thing I will not do. 479 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:47,600 I am a coach. 480 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,840 So maybe I'm leaning into protection mode. 481 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,160 One thing I would not do is slander a coach for playing the way he played all season in 482 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,160 playoffs. 483 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:57,160 I'm not going to do that. 484 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:58,920 That was one of my big complaints to Brandon Staley. 485 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,520 As awful as he was on a day to day basis. 486 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:08,760 What made him so good as a Chargers head coach is the balls he had. 487 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,840 Fourth down and five or shorter, you might as well be second down. 488 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:14,840 Staley's going. 489 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:19,000 And that, you know, he had a family day in Campbell. 490 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,680 He had a rough game doing it. 491 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,680 They were like, oh, for something on fourth down. 492 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,200 You know, it was a rough game doing it. 493 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,200 I think it scarred him. 494 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:34,880 I think he was like, I'm not going to do that again as a head guy. 495 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:39,520 You know, Campbell was able to attempt to put touchdowns on the board. 496 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,280 If one of those field goals becomes a touchdown, we're not having this conversation right 497 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:44,280 now. 498 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:50,160 And you know, so it's a conversation to be had because of the failure of the execution. 499 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:55,080 However, again, I would never disparage a coach from coaching the way he did all regular 500 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:56,080 season. 501 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,960 If you're a conservative guy, don't stop pulling our trick plays and double passes 502 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:05,760 and trying to, you know, trick us and play a different brand. 503 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:10,160 But if you're a guy who's a smash mouth guy, you're going to come downhill, you don't 504 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,280 really care about the glitz and glamour, you just want to punch people in the face, play 505 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:14,280 that way. 506 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:15,920 You know, if you're a gambler, play that way. 507 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,400 Don't get into the playoffs and alter your character because it makes it hard for your 508 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:24,520 team to respond and it makes it hard for you to respond as well because you're just literally 509 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:28,000 not used to playing that way. 510 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,880 If you're going to treat third down like second down or fourth down like third down all year, 511 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,920 you've got to treat it that way in the regular, in the playoffs as well. 512 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:40,160 So I'll never disparage a coach from playing the way he has played all regular season, 513 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:44,920 especially with a guy like, oh man, can I get a guy's name, especially with a guy like 514 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,760 Detroit Lions head coach, because, oh Dan Campbell, I'm sorry, especially with a guy 515 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:56,560 like Dan Campbell, you have to be ready to go at all times. 516 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:01,840 So I mean, I appreciate Dan Campbell's thing to where he was naturally aggressive as he 517 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,400 was all season. 518 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,800 So kudos to Dan Campbell. 519 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,080 The good news is if you're a Lions fan, your window's wide open. 520 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:12,720 I think the Ravens window is shut. 521 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:20,280 The personnel department got robbed, the DC is gone, the OC wet the bed in a big moment. 522 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:21,840 I think Boston Ravens might be shut. 523 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:23,640 If it ain't shut, it's barely cracked open. 524 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,240 I think Detroit's wide open. 525 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,640 A lot of guys on contracts are already under scene control. 526 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,000 They have some key guys to get back but they haven't been able to do so. 527 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,960 So I think they have a pretty wide open window. 528 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:40,880 But we're going to have a quick recap, I mean a quick preview, quick quick quick quick, 529 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,200 preview about the Super Bowl. 530 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,800 Right now the line is at San Fran minus two. 531 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,560 We'll probably have a video show either this week or next week before the Super Bowl so 532 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:54,200 that you guys can see or hear my full thoughts on the game. 533 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:58,840 But right now San Fran minus two versus KC. 534 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,720 KC's in the red jersey, San Fran's in the white. 535 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,720 Super Bowl prop teams in the last 19 Super Bowls to wear white 16 and 3. 536 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,200 And I want to keep that trend going like it's 17 and 3. 537 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,000 The Niners win 27 to 24. 538 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,480 Let's get into my quick right now. 539 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:18,080 I'm going to go into some deep dives and some deep discussions or deep thinking and I'll 540 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:22,000 get you guys an official JTS pick sometime next week. 541 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,880 Probably next Tuesday or Wednesday. 542 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,920 Once teams land and get their feet wet on the practice ground and things change. 543 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:33,120 So I will definitely keep you guys updated on that. 544 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,760 But that is all I have for the NBA, the NFL rather today. 545 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,480 Apparently my brain really wants to get to the NBA. 546 00:30:39,480 --> 00:31:05,320 So I'm going to shift to Jack's hot take which is going to be please shut up Jermon. 547 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:24,520 Welcome back into the show. 548 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:37,480 And now we are going to talk about the NBA's rule for 65 games and this rule was in place 549 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,960 because a lot of people especially in the higher ups were complaining about guys playing 550 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,400 55 out of 82 games and winning a bunch of awards. 551 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:50,360 I think the old mental like the unofficial cutoff was 50. 552 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:55,760 So guys would play 52 games, miss 30 games and be first team on the NBA. 553 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,040 Be in the MVP discussion. 554 00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,800 Potentially win the MVP. 555 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,080 Be all the NBA. 556 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:01,440 Be an all star. 557 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:06,480 Be whatever, whatever, whatever and not play a third of the season. 558 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:11,720 So when the rule was in place if you have to play at least 65 games in order to be eligible 559 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,280 for these awards I said okay I'm good with that. 560 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:19,200 Because most of the stars most of the time are playing 65 games anyway. 561 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,960 But the built in rest a couple of tweaks you probably play about 665 games anyway. 562 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:28,880 So maybe you can cancel a couple of those rest games, push through a tweak and get the 563 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,600 65 so you can be your award and you want your money. 564 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:32,600 Go for it right. 565 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,360 But you got guys 23 with no injury history load managing. 566 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,400 What in the hell is that? 567 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,920 You got guys who are 22 with a sprained ankle. 568 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,440 No back to backs for two months. 569 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,160 Like what is that right? 570 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:53,880 And so now these guys especially those guys trying to get these super max contracts you're 571 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:58,200 going to have to qualify for some all NBA teams you know and they win awards in order 572 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,920 to get the kickers on these contracts. 573 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:02,920 You're going to have to play these games right. 574 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:09,560 Now if you're an established vet you have your max and contingent on incentives or awards. 575 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:10,560 Who don't matter to you? 576 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,680 Oh well I can't be MVP. 577 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:13,680 Oh well. 578 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,800 You know like this is one of those situations. 579 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:23,120 So Draymond Green on his podcast Draymond Green Show was talking about the rule. 580 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:28,960 He was saying that it's bad rule essentially because you have faces of the league and stars 581 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:36,320 trying to play through injuries to play 65 games so they can be eligible for awards. 582 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,560 Yep that's the purpose of the rule. 583 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:44,880 It is designed so Joel Embiid can't win the MVP and play 55 games. 584 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:49,840 Because guess what that means 27 games he didn't play and his team was a two seed. 585 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,560 So how valuable is it? 586 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:56,080 This is to prevent guys like Ben Simmons. 587 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,560 I'm going to use some other example. 588 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,160 Play sparingly in the first half of the season. 589 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:05,760 Really get it hot in the second half of the season and slide in all defense teams. 590 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:12,600 Like no if you want to be in all something you're going to have to play in 65 of 82 of 591 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,160 the games. 592 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:20,160 You can literally miss every single back to back and still have games left over. 593 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:24,560 Everybody only has I think two or three back to backs now. 594 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:28,880 It used to be like 12 but you know what I'm saying they fixed the back to back schedule. 595 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:33,760 Asking you to play asking you to show up to work 80% of the time is not a problem. 596 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:38,800 If you're too injured to play then you don't deserve the postseason awards because those 597 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,640 awards are the guys who have been consistently on the court all year. 598 00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,200 I've never seen one MVP earn on the training table. 599 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:49,880 I've never seen one first team all NBA and at a snack bar. 600 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:55,520 I've never seen one single first team all anything. 601 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,000 All star all big whatever. 602 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,480 All rookie for my young guys. 603 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:06,120 I've never seen one of those given to a training table to a medical staffer or one of those 604 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,440 given to a guy who missed the season. 605 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:17,520 So the fact that we're looking into and have looked into a number that gets you 80% of 606 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:23,800 the games that you have to play that is a travesty for Draymond to try and fight back 607 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,600 on that scenario. 608 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,600 But that is all I have for today. 609 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:54,040 This is your host Justin Jackson signing out.