Welcome into the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast.
I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson.
In this week's episode, we'll be discussing the Super Bowl, or at least a recap of the
Conference Championship games plus the Super Bowl preview.
We'll also touch on a little bit of the NBA and as always, that will include Jack's hot
take.
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So excited to be with you guys.
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Just a little housekeeping business for those of you who care.
For those of you who don't, let's get right into the show.
The Super Bowl is set, for those of you who don't know it, is the Kansas City Chiefs for
the fourth time in six years up against the San Francisco 49ers, who's their second trip
in four years.
Ironically, they played the Chiefs the last time they were there.
Similar circumstances, honestly, from both teams.
But let's jump right into the AFC title game, which these title games went about as expected.
The AFC game was supposed to be a slugfest because it was too high-powered defense.
So it's not something you would think in a game where the quarterbacks are Patrick Mahomes
and Lamar Jackson.
You would think offensive explosions, but the Ravens won the defensive triple crown.
They had the fewest points per game, the most sacks, and the most takeaways.
The Chiefs defense, I think, was ranked third all year.
So you had two of the top three defenses, two of the top five defenses undisputed in
the league going up against each other.
Now again, there are two Hall of Fame quarterbacks in this game, too.
Patrick Mahomes is the no doubt first-ballot Hall of Famer.
Lamar Jackson on his route to his second MVP, potentially unanimous, definitely his second
MVP.
No player in the history of the sport that has been eligible for the Hall of Fame has
two MVPs and has not made it.
So Lamar Jackson is a sure fire Hall of Famer.
Patrick Mahomes is a sure first-ballot, no doubt Hall of Famer.
He's already in the smaller room in the back.
You know, there was a Hall of Fame, and then there's an elite group.
Pat's in that elite group already.
He's not even 30 yet.
Because if he wins a Super Bowl, that's three Super Bowls before he's 30.
He's got all the stats in the world.
He has the MVP.
He'll be in that little room in the back because his resume, besides counting numbers, would
be better than Peyton Manning's.
And so he's in there with Barry Sanders.
He's in there with Jim Brown.
He's in there with Tom Brady.
I mean, Tom Brady, I mean, he's in the only other room.
He'll be Jerry Rice and the Goats.
But you know, he's in that room.
Breaking news into the show, actually, Joel Embiid is out again.
He'll miss the game against the Utah Jazz.
He's expected to get further evaluation on his left knee in the next 24 hours.
So Embiid is becoming dangerously close to being ineligible for postseason awards, which
would be a tragedy because he's playing so well and he's doing stuff we haven't seen
done in so long, right?
And to have him miss the awards for the injury would suck, but I like the rule, right?
And we're going to dive into a little more of about the rule in the NBA segment, but
back to the A's title game.
So again, that's two, in my opinion, first ballot, no doubt Hall of Famers are quarterback.
He had the defenses dominated today and it was final going to be 17 to 10.
To me, Baltimore could have very easily won the game 20 to 17, 24 to 17.
They left a lot on the field.
But a lot of what people are talking about today is over the past few days, I noticed
about Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes.
To me, the guy was Travis Kelsey.
Patrick Mahomes had a good game, right?
No doubt about that.
He made the plays when he had to make them and they were almost exclusively to 87.
Travis Kelsey put on this game.
Wow, he's one of the best of all time.
He's in that very small room with tight ends.
I think it's him, Gronk, Tony Gonzalez, and then everybody else outside the room knocking.
He's just, he's unguardable, right?
And it kind of reminds you of when prime Gronk was unguardable and Gronk was unguardable
to the day he retired, but where it's third and eighth and everybody in the building knows
it's going to 87 and it doesn't matter, right?
And Patrick Mahomes had some amazing escape plays in this game.
The wizardry Lamar Jackson was doing was insane.
It should have been rewarded more by his teammates, but you know, Mahomes came out and started
the game 13 to 13 or 11 of 11, something like that.
Like 13 of his first 14 were completed passes.
And so whenever you get someone like that on a roll early, it kind of made the defense
change their game plans.
Now they still were able to fight through and only held, and they held the chiefs to
17 points on the game.
But when it came down to it, third and seven, it's 87.
Third and nine, it's 87.
Second and 10, it's 87.
And actually in Travis Kelsey finished with 11 catches for a bucks 16 in the touchdown.
I think Mahomes went and completed 20 passes or 20 something passes.
So a majority of Mahomes' passes went to Travis Kelsey.
And so, you know, he hit Rashid right one.
Oh, MVS, Mark Rodriguez, Scanlon caught the dagger throw over the top in the middle, but
a majority of the stuff went to Travis Kelsey.
So we're getting a lot of credit to Mahomes, rightfully so.
He's in his fourth Super Bowl appearance and six years a starter.
He's in the Super Bowl almost as likely as he is to complete a pass.
That's an outrageous statistic.
Shaq has a lower dunk percentage than Patrick Mahomes has of being in the Super Bowl.
Again, outrageous numbers.
But we're not going to sit here and just pretend like that, you know, that core and that help
wasn't doing what it was doing.
Pacheco got the yard when he needed it.
Kelsey was unguardable.
The defense held the future MVP down to 10 points.
And Mahomes, they were able to neutralize, and Mahomes and Andy Reid and company were
able to neutralize to an extent the Ravens' pass rush.
The Ravens' pass rush overwhelmed the Texans.
They kept trying to do long field throws because the Ravens' secondary can be had if you have
the time to do it.
But they're able to protect their secondary because their pass rush is so relentless.
And they're able to do so with force, so they're able to keep seven back and really protect
themselves, right?
The Chiefs began to do a lot of quick throws, a lot of screens, a lot of drags, a lot of
stuff where it's not in the secondary's purview.
They still have to guard it.
But now you're dealing with that pass rush taking three fast steps trying to bend around
the edge and they're turning them around because the screen's gone.
Or their two good steps, drag out.
You know, three or four good steps, you know, slant route.
They were doing a lot of stuff where it was immediate reach for Mahomes.
There was no thinking.
It was just catch the ball, hit the slant.
Catch the ball, hit the screen.
Catch the ball, hit the drag.
Catch the ball, hit the slant.
Catch the ball, hit the out route.
Oh, give them a little shimmy, hit the in route.
You know what I'm saying?
Like it was just over and over and over again for Mahomes in order to pick apart that Ravens'
secondary because they were able to have them early.
Now the pass rush did get there at a certain point, but by that point you kind of looked
at the other side and realized they weren't doing anything.
And speaking about the other side not doing anything, Lamar Jackson, another playoff dud.
Just going to be honest.
And I'm not an anti-Lamar guy.
I'm not, right?
But it's another game in the playoffs where he can play completely out of his character.
Lamar Jackson is the most single dangerous person with the football in his hands in the
NFL.
I'm more than Patrick, more than Burrow, more than Josh, more than, who do you want to name
him?
Derry Henry, right?
He's the single most dangerous person in the league with the football in his hands.
Why?
Because he's the most electric runner in the NFL.
And he's a top six or seven passer.
He's led the league of passing yards.
I'm not going to call him a running back.
He's led the league of passing before his career.
But he's the single most dangerous person with the ball in his hands, especially before
the route breaks down.
Because now the receivers are running their routes.
So you have to respect him as a passer.
And at any given moment you lose contain, he can hit you for 60.
And so that level of dangerousness to a defensive coordinator is very, very key.
But it wasn't enough for eight.
He finished the game 20 of 37, 272, one touchdown, one interception.
Sounds a lot like his other playoff games.
Right around 50% of the please and percentage.
Even touchdown to pick ratio if he's not in the negative, 250-ish yards.
I mean, it's pretty much Lamar Jackson's playoff career in a nutshell.
He had an outlier against Houston, right?
I mean, I'm old enough to remember Lamar Jackson having less touchdown pass in the playoff game
than Derek Henry.
I'm old enough to remember against the Chargers when he got booed in the fans saying that
we want Flacco.
Like I said, I'm old enough to remember duds.
I mean, just absolute duds of playoff performances.
He's still under 500 in the playoffs.
He's an incredible talent, right?
I don't want people to think I'm disparaging his talent.
I'm not.
He is a very, very, very talented player.
His ability on the field is unique in the sense of there is no one on this planet that
can do what he can do.
There is anyone.
I mean, there may be guys with stronger arms.
There may be faster guys.
There may be shifter guys.
None of them can do what he does as a total football player.
It's not possible, right?
And so when you have that level of ability, we expect a lot of you, especially in the
big moment.
It doesn't get much bigger than the NFL in the playoffs.
And that was another game where Lamar Jackson was a dud in the playoffs, right?
An absolute dud.
He had magical moments, right?
He had moments when he escaped the pocket.
I posted a couple of them on Just In Time Sports.
He escapes the pocket, dances around people, ducks under tackles and finds a flowers.
He did another one where he didn't really go for a big completion, but it avoided a
big sack.
He's ducking and dodging people all around everywhere.
You know, I'm watching the game saying, oh, they got him.
Like he's just a DN screaming from his backside, oh, they got him.
He ducks.
The DN flies over his head.
And next thing you know, he's scramming outside the pocket and 12 yards later, first down.
And I'm sitting here like, how?
Like how are you possibly getting away from these clean butchers or these clean rushers?
But that's the kind of level of talent he has.
And it just wasn't enough in the passing game.
I think that they should have taken more advantage of his legs.
I think he should have taken more advantage of his legs.
There was a lot of parts of the game.
I'm yelling at him, get out of there, get out of there, get out of there.
Because you're patting the ball for four or five seconds, you're not putting any stress
on the defense because the defense isn't keeping an eye on you running and you never see you
breaking off the route.
I just watching the receiver break off the route because you're putting no pressure on
them at all in terms of you might run.
For Todd Monkin who's been lauded all season for his play calling, kind of reverted to
Lamar Saivas ball in the sense of he only ran the ball, I believe, six times with running
backs, which is abhorrently low considering they were often in the teens or the 20s.
In terms of running back carries, Lamar would get his.
Just a rough day at the office for Todd Monkin.
He was the source of a lot of ire of a lot of Baltimore fans.
But the person who they should be mad at is Zay Flowers.
Zay Flowers cost his team that game.
He had a sportsman like penalty, he had some other issues happening.
He got talked out of the game by a couple of the Chiefs guys.
He had the fumble and the one that literally tires the game.
This guy was kind of a wreck for a vast majority of the football game.
Zay Flowers is a good player.
He's a guy that Baltimore has done a lot this year.
I think the moment got too big for him.
I think the attention got too big for him.
I think the lights and the flash and the glitz and the glamour got a little too big for him.
And it got into his head.
They tried to make him do things that are fairly uncharacteristic of him as a football
player.
They don't know what he's like as a man, but as a football player that seems to be pretty
uncharacteristic of him to get repeatedly penalized or to make costly mistakes.
But Zay Flowers directly took seven off the board.
I think he's involved in another seven, but he again directly took seven points off the
board.
You can't have that happen in that spot.
You get a big catch and you're first and eight and now you're first and tenth from the 23
because he got a taunting penalty.
It's tough.
And then on the same job, your fumble at the one.
It's just stuff like that that can't happen on a really, really good team.
And that's what Baltimore is even though they just also a defensive coordinator to the Washington
commanders.
I'm sorry.
Yes, the Washington commanders.
Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Mike McDonald's going to the Seattle Seahawks.
The commanders are the only job available.
My apologies.
The commander's the only job left available, but their name was in my head.
But Mike McDonald is headed to the Seattle Seahawks.
Their new head coach.
He's from the.
Oh my goodness.
Baltimore Ravens is the defensive coordinator.
Leader of the Triple Crown winning defense.
And now we're going to shift to the NFC title and talk about that game, that barn burner,
that comeback, that moment, that tale of two Purdy's.
That show.
Man, legends were out like legends were out for Casey and Detroit.
I mean, M&M's there.
Barry Sanders shows up.
I mean, M&M's there.
Oh, this is something about the show.
I'm thinking about the Niners in Detroit.
Not a whole day.
I mean, a lot of former Ravens players came back.
Terrell Suggs and Ray Lewis.
Ironically, Terrell Suggs last game in the NFL.
He's winning the Super Bowl for the Chiefs.
So that was, you know, one of those moments.
Ray Lewis last game in the NFL.
He's winning the Super Bowl as a member of the Niners, as a member of the Ravens.
So that's, you know, that was cool moments for them.
But back to the San Fran in Detroit, the legends were out, man.
Like Barry Sanders is there.
M&M is there.
Joe Montaño, if you watch Waterboy, Joe Montana's there.
You know, the legends were out in full effect and it looked like Detroit was going to make
history early.
They were physically dominating this game.
They were making a coach like Dan Campbell really, really, really, really happy.
They were physically bullying the Niners early.
Drake Greenlaw throwing helmets all over the place.
They were physically assaulting the Lions early, right?
The Niners early, right?
First series of the game, they hit with a trick play.
Jamison Williams on a reverse touchdown.
Then they get it right back, basically, and the Niners go three and out or something and
out, very short and out.
And boom, they power down the field.
Jameer Gibbs hits him, touchdown.
And it's like 14-0.
You can hear a pin drop in the new candlestick, aka Levi Stadium.
It's just, I mean, Detroit, the stadium itself looks like the game is being played there.
Fans are jumping up and down, cheering, going crazy.
The energy on the Detroit sidelines through the roof.
San Fran looks like it's a panic.
I mean, it's just, everything that could go wrong for San Fran felt like it went wrong.
I mean, besides an injury, that wasn't the only thing that could have made it worse,
right?
It's just, there was pure panic in Detroit.
I mean, it was pure panic in San Fran.
So the Niners come back, get their shit together.
Three minutes, four minutes later, five minutes later, sorry, I can't do math.
Five minutes later, they're in the end zone, Christian McCaffrey, touchdown.
Then the Lions put together a drive, and they go down, Jameer Gibbs hits them again.
So David Montgomery hits you the first time.
Jameer Gibbs does that.
He pulls on daytime sports as well.
He's going through, I feel like he's walking through the Niners defense.
I mean, he's just throwing guys off.
He gets a little cut angle, he walks in, touchdown.
Then the Niners, Kyle Shannon had a clock moment, but the Niners kind of pack it in.
No, that's the interception.
It's the interception when that happens.
What's his name?
Malcolm Rodriguez?
He's Rodrigo.
If you remember the Lions hard knocks, they called him Rodrigo all through the building.
And Rodrigo, who wasn't supposed to even be playing, gets an interception off of Purdy.
And that is why they end up, he gets an interception off of Purdy.
Lions go down the field.
They had an opportunity at the end zone.
I didn't like some of the play call selections that they did.
They end up running it on third down.
It was odd, because it was an odd play call selection at the bottom.
Maybe if they get a touchdown, the Niners don't come back.
Butterfly effect, who knows?
But they know they get a field goal from the 47.
And again, the Lions are bouncing.
They have all the energy in the world.
The Niners historically were famously bad in the Kyle Shannon era coming back on people.
And it looked like one of those games, they're not going to come back.
They're getting physically dominated.
They look mentally just like, what is happening to us?
Again, Dre Greenline, Fred Warner are pissed.
You have the Lions going crazy.
Eminem is flipping people off in the crowd.
Barry Sannis is almost jumping up and down.
It was one of those moments where it's like, man, this is dangerously close to getting
out of hand.
But I never felt like it was over.
I never felt like at any point the Lions were going to just boom, boom, boom.
It's over.
My mom texted me about the game.
Like I said, Niners are going to roll, she texted me about the game and how that's wrong
and you know, whatevs.
And it's just, you know, part of it was just to stay patient.
I've seen this.
The Niners team is too good.
I've been talking about the Niners all season.
You can go back and look at the call logs.
You can go back and look at the episodes of the show.
I've been on the Niners all season.
If they're healthy, no one's beating them.
And the second half starts and it's still going to go Niners.
Okay, okay, something.
Then they get a fumble because they score right back.
No, then the Lions go three and out.
The Niners make a drive touchdown.
24-17.
Then they come right back, get a fumble.
I mean, I've got my drives, my Lions drives mixed up.
Then they come down and get a fumble, touchdown Niners.
It's 24-24 entering the fourth quarter.
And so the Lions hit this big 17-point lead and they're 30 minutes from the Super Bowl
and the whole city's excited and everybody's jumping up and down.
And four field is nuts and M&M's flipping people off and Barry Sanders is almost jumping
on that bad hip of his.
And Calvin Johnson's going to be in Vegas with the team.
And it's just in 15, actually, in 12 minutes and 11 minutes and 58 seconds of game time.
It's all gone.
Every single drop of it.
All the bluster, all the happiness, all the jumping up and down, all the confidence from
everybody outside the building is gone in 11 minutes and 58 seconds.
The best team in the league showed up, the Niners.
I mean, they said, well, the halftime speed was, play like we know how to play.
Play like we know how to play.
You know how good a team has to be for that to be the halftime speed down 24-7?
Yeah, we're playing like dog crap.
Play like we know how to play.
And 11 minutes and 58 seconds, they were tied.
So you go into the fourth quarter, still many times.
The Lions begin to bow their backs a little bit on defense, but the Niners defense at
this point is as locked in as locked in can be.
Still go Niners with about 9.52 left.
Lions again don't do much of anything.
There's some questionable fourth down go fours in here, sprinkling in here.
I don't have that right in front of me.
And then the Niners score again, the effective dagger with Eliza Mitchell at 302 left.
And then Jamie said Williams catches a touchdown pass on a beautiful route combination.
On a beautiful route, rather, he catches a touchdown pass with about 58 seconds left.
The onside kick was unsuccessful, Niners for Super Bowl.
And so that was the box score run down pretty much, but there was a lot of stuff to peel
back.
But for me, it was the tale of two parties.
In the first half, I posted on the Facebook group, a man has anyone seen Bart Purdy.
He looked awful.
He looked like Mr. Irrelevant.
He looked like a guy I was going to have so much fun with on the audio show and the video
and the visual show and the TV show, YouTube show.
Oh, slandering, basically.
And telling you, I told you.
And questioning whether he's going to be the starter and all the, I mean, I was prepared,
right?
I was starting, it was going to be a rough day for Niners fans.
And then he turned it around in the second half.
And then the guy in the second half looked like, he looked like a guy that is ready to
go.
He looked like a guy that was a guy who could lead his team to the Super Bowl.
A guy that could be the Super Bowl in the P. A guy that many had as their dark horse
in MVP most of the season.
He looked like that guy, right?
And he played that way.
Great second half by him.
I wish his numbers were divided more at places.
And in terms of that second half, he played a great second half.
He had some huge runs.
He took some shots.
He got up celebrating.
It was a big moment in the career of Bart Purdy, securing himself as the guy in San
Francisco.
But humongous second half from Purdy.
I got to get credit for credit.
I was ready to slam him for his first half.
Got to give credit for his second half.
A great job by Purdy.
But then we talked about those Dan Campbell questionable decisions.
So Dan Campbell very easily, two times in field goal range, passed up on threes.
And he went for touchdowns.
He went for two.
So should be with that.
Oh, man, that's a 14 point swing.
It's not.
It's a six point swing.
Because you took, yeah, it's a six point swing.
Because you pretty much had the field goals.
One was a chip shot, you know, chip shots.
And the other one was very makeable.
You got to make them both.
It's 37, 34.
Nothing else changes.
Right.
And even if you're butterfly affected in that last drive, they're playing a little harder.
So now, you know, instead of being down 10, you're down seven.
Maybe you don't get Jameson Williams at the sideline like you did.
Maybe you don't get Jameson Williams across the middle like you did.
They say a butterfly effect.
But if nothing else changes, you win the game 37, 34.
But one thing I will not do.
I am a coach.
So maybe I'm leaning into protection mode.
One thing I would not do is slander a coach for playing the way he played all season in
playoffs.
I'm not going to do that.
That was one of my big complaints to Brandon Staley.
As awful as he was on a day to day basis.
What made him so good as a Chargers head coach is the balls he had.
Fourth down and five or shorter, you might as well be second down.
Staley's going.
And that, you know, he had a family day in Campbell.
He had a rough game doing it.
They were like, oh, for something on fourth down.
You know, it was a rough game doing it.
I think it scarred him.
I think he was like, I'm not going to do that again as a head guy.
You know, Campbell was able to attempt to put touchdowns on the board.
If one of those field goals becomes a touchdown, we're not having this conversation right
now.
And you know, so it's a conversation to be had because of the failure of the execution.
However, again, I would never disparage a coach from coaching the way he did all regular
season.
If you're a conservative guy, don't stop pulling our trick plays and double passes
and trying to, you know, trick us and play a different brand.
But if you're a guy who's a smash mouth guy, you're going to come downhill, you don't
really care about the glitz and glamour, you just want to punch people in the face, play
that way.
You know, if you're a gambler, play that way.
Don't get into the playoffs and alter your character because it makes it hard for your
team to respond and it makes it hard for you to respond as well because you're just literally
not used to playing that way.
If you're going to treat third down like second down or fourth down like third down all year,
you've got to treat it that way in the regular, in the playoffs as well.
So I'll never disparage a coach from playing the way he has played all regular season,
especially with a guy like, oh man, can I get a guy's name, especially with a guy like
Detroit Lions head coach, because, oh Dan Campbell, I'm sorry, especially with a guy
like Dan Campbell, you have to be ready to go at all times.
So I mean, I appreciate Dan Campbell's thing to where he was naturally aggressive as he
was all season.
So kudos to Dan Campbell.
The good news is if you're a Lions fan, your window's wide open.
I think the Ravens window is shut.
The personnel department got robbed, the DC is gone, the OC wet the bed in a big moment.
I think Boston Ravens might be shut.
If it ain't shut, it's barely cracked open.
I think Detroit's wide open.
A lot of guys on contracts are already under scene control.
They have some key guys to get back but they haven't been able to do so.
So I think they have a pretty wide open window.
But we're going to have a quick recap, I mean a quick preview, quick quick quick quick,
preview about the Super Bowl.
Right now the line is at San Fran minus two.
We'll probably have a video show either this week or next week before the Super Bowl so
that you guys can see or hear my full thoughts on the game.
But right now San Fran minus two versus KC.
KC's in the red jersey, San Fran's in the white.
Super Bowl prop teams in the last 19 Super Bowls to wear white 16 and 3.
And I want to keep that trend going like it's 17 and 3.
The Niners win 27 to 24.
Let's get into my quick right now.
I'm going to go into some deep dives and some deep discussions or deep thinking and I'll
get you guys an official JTS pick sometime next week.
Probably next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Once teams land and get their feet wet on the practice ground and things change.
So I will definitely keep you guys updated on that.
But that is all I have for the NBA, the NFL rather today.
Apparently my brain really wants to get to the NBA.
So I'm going to shift to Jack's hot take which is going to be please shut up Jermon.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we are going to talk about the NBA's rule for 65 games and this rule was in place
because a lot of people especially in the higher ups were complaining about guys playing
55 out of 82 games and winning a bunch of awards.
I think the old mental like the unofficial cutoff was 50.
So guys would play 52 games, miss 30 games and be first team on the NBA.
Be in the MVP discussion.
Potentially win the MVP.
Be all the NBA.
Be an all star.
Be whatever, whatever, whatever and not play a third of the season.
So when the rule was in place if you have to play at least 65 games in order to be eligible
for these awards I said okay I'm good with that.
Because most of the stars most of the time are playing 65 games anyway.
But the built in rest a couple of tweaks you probably play about 665 games anyway.
So maybe you can cancel a couple of those rest games, push through a tweak and get the
65 so you can be your award and you want your money.
Go for it right.
But you got guys 23 with no injury history load managing.
What in the hell is that?
You got guys who are 22 with a sprained ankle.
No back to backs for two months.
Like what is that right?
And so now these guys especially those guys trying to get these super max contracts you're
going to have to qualify for some all NBA teams you know and they win awards in order
to get the kickers on these contracts.
You're going to have to play these games right.
Now if you're an established vet you have your max and contingent on incentives or awards.
Who don't matter to you?
Oh well I can't be MVP.
Oh well.
You know like this is one of those situations.
So Draymond Green on his podcast Draymond Green Show was talking about the rule.
He was saying that it's bad rule essentially because you have faces of the league and stars
trying to play through injuries to play 65 games so they can be eligible for awards.
Yep that's the purpose of the rule.
It is designed so Joel Embiid can't win the MVP and play 55 games.
Because guess what that means 27 games he didn't play and his team was a two seed.
So how valuable is it?
This is to prevent guys like Ben Simmons.
I'm going to use some other example.
Play sparingly in the first half of the season.
Really get it hot in the second half of the season and slide in all defense teams.
Like no if you want to be in all something you're going to have to play in 65 of 82 of
the games.
You can literally miss every single back to back and still have games left over.
Everybody only has I think two or three back to backs now.
It used to be like 12 but you know what I'm saying they fixed the back to back schedule.
Asking you to play asking you to show up to work 80% of the time is not a problem.
If you're too injured to play then you don't deserve the postseason awards because those
awards are the guys who have been consistently on the court all year.
I've never seen one MVP earn on the training table.
I've never seen one first team all NBA and at a snack bar.
I've never seen one single first team all anything.
All star all big whatever.
All rookie for my young guys.
I've never seen one of those given to a training table to a medical staffer or one of those
given to a guy who missed the season.
So the fact that we're looking into and have looked into a number that gets you 80% of
the games that you have to play that is a travesty for Draymond to try and fight back
on that scenario.
But that is all I have for today.
This is your host Justin Jackson signing out.