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But enough of that business, let's get right into the Super Bowl.
We've got the Niners, the San Francisco 49ers of the NFC, the champs of the NFC,
the best team in the NFC all season, despite 17 of their better records.
I was there on the Niners train.
You know, they had a couple of weeks of injuries, but I've been on the Niners train pretty much the whole year.
They are 1.5 point favorites right this second, according to ESPN bet.
Actually, let me double check that number because I was working on ESPN bet a second ago.
Let me double check it.
Yeah, right this second, the Niners are holding at minus 1.5.
Last week we did the show, kind of a pre-show.
It was minus 2.
It's come down to minus 1.5, and it's not moved.
And they face, of course, the NFC reigning defending undisputed NFC champs of the Kansas City Chiefs.
And the reason why I added all that gusto and that flair is because they're reigning,
and then they went and defended it, and you know, they're still the NFC champion,
Kansas City Chiefs looking for their second Super Bowl in as many seasons as their third in four years,
which would be the first to do that since the Patriots of the early 2000s.
A lot on the line in this game, right?
You've got a lot of people talking about a lot of different stuff when it comes to this game, right?
You've got Chiefs fans trying to take an angle of the underdogs.
You've got Niners fans trying to paint themselves as the underdogs.
You've got history on both sides of both staffs.
Both quarterbacks are in a historic situation here.
Christian McCaffrey has the potential to make a whole lot of history.
Travis Kelsey sitting there. There's a Taylor Swift effect.
Roger Goodell could be ushering in his newest dynasty.
You've got two relatively small market teams on the Super Bowl.
There's their second meeting in four years on the Super Bowl,
so a lot of history here is on the line, right?
And so we're going to start off with the Chiefs, and they have a chance at a dynasty.
And we spoke about it just a few seconds ago.
They're looking to go back to back.
The first team since the 03, 04 Patriots, they're looking to, or I don't have the years wrong,
but the early Johnson's Patriots, also that same Patriots team won three and four years.
They're the only team to do that, right?
The Chiefs are looking to do that.
Before the Patriots, it's the Cowboys.
Before the Cowboys, I don't think it was anybody in the 80s.
I don't know if I can remember.
And then I know the 70s was the Steel Curtain, and there was a dynasty in the 80s,
and I can't figure it. It's on the tip of my tongue.
I know there was a dynasty in the 80s, because the Steel Curtain and the Cowboys were in the 70s.
The 80s, I cannot think. I know the 80s NBA was a mess, but the 80s, I cannot think.
The 70s NBA was a mess. I cannot think.
And I know the 90s was the Cowboys, the main dynasty, and then the Patriots at the turn of the century.
And now you're kind of standing in the middle of the Chiefs 20.
You're kind of watching in real time how a dynasty is formed.
It looks differently, right?
A dynasty in today's world of sports in general, it looks different.
When you were in the 70s, the rules stated pretty much everything was free agency.
Reggie White was really the first guy to do free agency.
And yes, you can go to multiple teams, but the team had your contract rights.
And if they decided that his was going to offer you, that's what you took.
There was no, oh, I think, you know, I'm on the Packers.
I think the Colts are giving me more money. I'm going to go to free agency and find out.
That is not how that worked, right?
Reggie White was really the first star to get to free agency.
Because before that, a not so good player would be led out of his contractual rights,
and then he had the right to go try to find a team to play on.
If you were a legit guy, if you were a star, the team gave you a contract.
Literally. You play for this, and you don't play.
And so, and that was kind of how teams were ever stayed together.
And you're wondering, like, man, how in the world did the Steelers of the 70s afford to pay all those people?
Because the owner told them when they were going to get, take it or leave it.
How did the Cowboys in the 90s stay together with Emmett and Michael and Troy and, you know, Deon came in and all these different people?
Like, free agency is existing, but the NFL contract really is set up a little different than the NBA.
So even, you know, NFL stars don't still don't really move.
Even with the modern advent of player mobility, NFL stars still don't really move just because of the way the contract is set up.
And so I say all that to say, you're able to watch the Chiefs develop a dynasty in the real time.
And it started off with the way everybody wants you to win now, which is you find your quarterback, you find your stud, your young stud.
You go win a ring on the rookie contract and then you just figure it out after that.
And they were able to do that. They got my homes by year two.
So, you know, people are talking about the seven years, seven years.
It's really year eight for my home because he sat the first year.
So he played week 18, but he sat pretty much red shirt the first year.
And then you go and you have the big year, the year two, you're running to Brady.
Year three, you start winning the Super Bowl.
And so that being said, and you're ready to get in the Super Bowl, it's a lot.
But that being said, you went on the rookie contract.
Then you signed the 10 year half a billion dollar deal.
Right. So now your money counts like a top quarterback and you lose Tyree Hill.
Right. And you can't keep Frank Clark and Chris Jones.
And time man, he's the same.
And you saw him tearing pieces off of the original team.
And you saw you got a whole bunch of Rashid Rice's.
And you got Mark Riggs, Valdez Cantlin's.
And you find this six pound running back named Isaiah Pacheco.
And you're kind of overdraft off the hype, but he's still contributing.
Clyde Edward Jalair.
And you got, you paid Joe Tooney, good for you, but your right tackle is Joann Taylor now.
It's not Orlando Brown.
And it's kind of like you keep going step by step to this team.
And this is the time of the contractual lifespan.
You're not supposed to win.
Right. You're supposed to win early.
I like Russell Wilson. I like Joe Burrow getting there.
I like Jared Goff getting there.
Try this with the guys who won really, really young.
Man, brain cramp right now.
You're supposed to win on that first deal, the first five years.
And then it's supposed to be a low while you go money changing.
Where's it at?
It could be like a six or seven year just, I'm all about to back after the team.
And then on the back end of your career, you look up and say, man, I only got one.
Well, I don't have any.
Okay, let me take two thirds of what I'm worth.
So I'm worth 40. Let me take 25.
So you can use that $15 million to give me another corner, give me another safety, whatever, to help the team out.
Then you're supposed to win again.
You're supposed to win during the bag chase era.
And so Mahomes is in the middle of his bag chase era and he is proposition to win.
And if they do so, they're a dynasty, right?
Three and four years back to back.
Mahomes would have three MVPs.
And a lot of people look at that point of where does Mahomes fall all the time?
Seriously.
Because if you take his resume, he has three Super Bowl MVPs, presumably.
Three Super Bowl trophies, two to three MVP trophies, a 5050 season.
He's been all pro every year he started.
I strongly believe first or second team.
If he's not all pro every year, he's all pro damn near every year.
I believe he's been named to the Pro Bowl every year.
Right?
So that resume alone, seven Pro Bowls, six All Pros, three rings, three MVPs, it's better than Peyton Manning.
Right?
Brady's the exception.
It's better than Manning.
It's right around Joe Montana.
Like he'd be in the realm of Joe Montana overnight.
It's better than Marino.
It's better than Favre.
It's better than Tarkington.
It's better than Peyton.
It's better than Eli.
Like he would arrive, better than Steve Young.
He would arrive overnight in the land of Joe Montana.
In which case he's in the top three quarterbacks of all time.
He's one ring away.
The problem is for him, the gap between three to one is the freaking Grand Canyon.
It doesn't help the fact that Brady beat him twice in the playoffs and one time in the Super Bowl.
So now that gap, Brady's got like five league MVPs.
He's got seven trophies.
He's done it with the legendary coach and with Bruce Arons.
He's beaten you twice in the Super Bowl.
The gap between three to one is the Grand Canyon.
It's not like in the NBA.
The NBA, Michael Jordan, Kermit the Ripper, LeBron James are all sitting around the same round table,
figuring out who's who.
You know what I'm saying?
They're right there with each other at pretty much every step.
Now, LeBron's going to get the counting numbers way past anybody in history due to longevity and ability.
But they're sitting around the same lunch table.
I'm not going to say Siri wanted to jump in, but they're sitting around the same round table
or triangular table, equidistant from each other, figuring out who's going to be where.
And so when you've got that going on, that's a different discussion than what the NFL has with quarterback.
To me, receiver is that round table.
He's probably at the top of that round table, but T.O. and Randy Moss are not too far behind.
At quarterback, it's a gap.
Brady's so far out.
Brady got all the counting numbers and all the wins, rings, and all the MVBs and all the All-Pros.
He's got everything.
He's got the whole argument.
And so that's what makes it interesting for Mahomes.
But Mahomes is battling for a seat to go in the inner room.
And I always talk about people that are in the Hall of Famers.
I feel like this should be a second one.
I feel like this should be in the inner room.
And people kind of mentally know who's in the inner room.
By the inner room, I mean, yes, we're Hall of Famers, but I'm way better than you.
For instance, tight end.
Shannon Sharp, Gronk, and Tony Gonzalez are in the inner room.
Everybody else is out there.
Yeah, them three.
And Travis Kelsey wins the ring.
He joins the inner room.
Think about all those guys.
Tony Gonzalez is the only one.
He was such a dominant player.
I don't think you ever want a ring.
He didn't have to.
Shannon has three rings.
Gronk has three rings.
Gronk has four rings, actually.
Travis Kelsey is going for ring number three.
And they've got all the stats and all the ability and all the talent.
Travis Kelsey wins.
He's in that inner room.
He joins that room.
Look at the quarterback room.
That's Montana.
That's Brady.
That's Peyton.
Bang it on the door is Patrick Mahomes.
Just to kind of put it.
I think the Hall of Famers have an inner room.
I think Mahomes gets in the inner room.
I think they open the door and invite him in the inner room if he wins on Sunday.
So there's a lot at stake for the Chiefs just with their dynasty.
Mahomes is go case.
Where do you put Andy Reid?
You know, with a win.
He died, what, three rings?
He's been in his sixth Super Bowl.
This is his fifth one with the Chiefs.
Because this will be, Mahomes has lost one to Brady.
Yeah, this will be his fourth with the Chiefs.
He lost one to the Patriots.
This is his fifth Super Bowl appearance.
He's been in, oh God, they've been in the eighth championship game
every time Mahomes started.
So six eighth championship games.
And he went to five with Philly.
And only made it out once.
I think he's been in 11 eighth.
He's been to 11 conference championship games.
He's been to five Super Bowls.
He's going for his third ring.
He, Bill Walsh, you know what I'm saying?
He's in there with, he goes in the inner room.
The inner room of coaching is Shula, got the most wins.
Bill Belichick got the most wins in Zubo.
Bill Walsh, and I'm sure I'm going to forget somebody.
To me, Bill Conway's not in the inner room.
He's not.
Jimmy Johnson just didn't do it long enough.
He's not in the inner room.
So it's just like, you know, some of these great coaches,
Sean Pagan's not in that room.
Sean Pagan's a Hall of Famer, but he's not in the inner room.
Mike Thomas is a Hall of Famer.
He's not in the inner room.
He's not in that goat case.
To me, the inner room is the goat case.
And so if you're not in the goat case argument,
you're not in the room.
And so that's what Andy Reid has.
Andy Reid wins.
He's in the room.
You have the raw counting numbers of wins.
You would have three Super Bowl rings, five appearances,
and 11 trips to the conference finals.
He's in the inner room.
He's in the goat case of coaches.
Is he the goat of coaches?
No, it's Bill Belichick.
But he has the ability to be in the discussion at the roundtable.
He pulls the seat up with his burgers at the roundtable,
the discussion.
So that's what Andy Reid has on the line.
Shifting gears, the San Francisco 49ers,
they have validation on the line.
Validation.
What's on the line for San Fran is validation.
It's I told you.
It's I warned you.
It's everything about me is fact now.
From the head to the tail,
every single piece of that organization is battling validation.
I'll explain.
Let's start off with the GM, John Lynch.
John Lynch has nailed every single position on this team.
But one, he is home.
He is home runs at every single position on this team
in this team's history.
But one, quarterback until he hit the misplaced relevant Brock Purdy,
which many people attribute to Kyle Shanahan making the call like,
let's bring the kid in the camp.
No other reason.
Let's bring the kid in the camp.
I have to fight him with the money.
I have to fight him with the undrafted phrase.
Let's bring the kid in the camp.
All right?
Okay.
So now John Lynch hits.
He says, see, I can build a roster for a championship.
That's me.
I can do this.
He was a champion as a player.
All right.
He was a championship level player.
Let's go down, knock it out, one pig.
Kyle Shanahan.
Kyle Shanahan has been to two Super Bowls, 28 to 3, 20 to 10.
What those two things have in common,
the person with the small number wins,
and Kyle Shanahan is the offensive play caller for the team that loses both times.
He was the offensive coordinator with Dan Quinn when they were up 28 to 3
with two minutes and 12 seconds left in the third quarter,
and then Tom Brady happened.
And then he was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers
when they were up 20 to 10 against Patsy Mahomes in the third quarter.
Then Mahomes happened.
And both times, Kyle Shanahan could contribute to the fact that he had the worst quarterback.
He did.
Tom Brady is considerably better than Matt Ryan.
Patsy Mahomes is considerably better than Jim Megropolo.
Last year, this team hinged on, we were going to go win it, but Rock Purdy got hurt.
If Purdy don't get hurt, we blow y'all out and go to the Super Bowl.
But guess what?
Purdy's not hurt, they're in the bowl.
Speaking of Purdy, dude, you're Mr. Irrelevant.
Guys like me have been slandering you since the Niners gave you the job,
and you are four quarters away from making me, probably on this show,
a whole lot of humble pie.
I mean a whole lot of humble pie.
Just a whole lot of contrition, backtalk, backsliding.
I didn't really mean it.
Like, it's just going to be a lot going on from a guy like me.
I'm a stand-up. I'm a stand-up, in my opinion.
Hey, you know, I didn't think he was that good, to be honest, still don't.
But hey, he was able to frickin' win the Super Bowl.
It's 50-something champions in history.
A lot of organizations got multiple.
Pat Six, Bucks Two, Steelers Six, Cowboys Five.
Like, I just went through 17, count off, 8-19, quickly, right?
And so there's not a lot of champions in this league.
Giants twice.
There's not a lot of champions in this league.
So when you're a Super Bowl-winning quarterback, you validated everything.
And, you know, he's Mr. Irrelevant.
He wasn't even supposed to be here.
He wasn't supposed to make it through camp.
Now he's four quarters away from being Super Bowl champion.
So shout-out to Brock Purdy.
We're going to keep an eye on that.
Keep moving. Christian McCaffrey.
He was not the first running back off the board in that draft.
That was Leonard Fournette.
And a lot of people thought Christian McCaffrey,
inability to gain more weight would be the reason why people kept him on.
People didn't draft him as high as Leonard Fournette.
He's four wins away from having the big money, the big stats, and the big ring.
Now Lombardi Lenny got his ring Tom Brady's first year.
He never had the big contract extension.
He was never considered the best back in football.
He didn't win the Super Bowl, but the Bills cut him during his playoffs.
Because I don't know why.
He was just released.
Meanwhile, Christian McCaffrey is running the Niners literally into the Super Bowl.
Go out to guys like Trent Williams.
Trent Williams has never been in the Super Bowl.
Despite all his amazingness, I think he came to the Niners the year after.
He was in Washington forever.
Came to the Niners the year after they won the Super Bowl.
Or went to the Super Bowls.
He's never been in the Super Bowl as the best to me left tackle in football.
You've got on that defense, they play like dog crap in their opinion against the Lions.
They got a lot of validation of that.
Fred Warner wants to be the undisputed best Mike Linebacker in the league.
I think he is.
He wants title undisputed.
Dre Greenlaw saying don't forget about me over here.
At the other linebacker.
You've got all that talent up front.
You've got Nick Bosa.
You've got Chase Young who the organization has been kind of at odds with.
You have those five first round picks on the defensive line.
You've got so many guys trying to validate themselves.
And a team that told Philly to their face before they played them.
Y'all only beat us because we were hurt.
Rizzle!
Told them straight up.
Y'all only got us because Purdy got hurt.
And I believe Trey Lance is either inactive or also injured.
And I want to say he was inactive because they ended up changing the rule because of the Niners.
The Niners had no quarterbacks.
Christian McCaffrey ended up at quarterback.
You know because Lance, not Lance, Purdy was hurt.
Somebody else got hurt.
Because of the old rule they had to inactivate Trey Lance for the roster spot.
And Trey Lance would have been in the game but they couldn't do that because he was inactive.
Now you can list a third quarterback as inactive and then list him as the emergency quarterback.
So if both other quarterbacks are injured he can play and knock out a roster spot.
And that rule was instituted because of the Niners' playoffs.
And the Niners crushed the Eagles in the regular season.
And they've won their games, not totally convincingly, but they've won their games in the playoffs obviously of course to get here.
So that's the line between the two organizations.
A lot is happening.
One of the juiciest betting numbers however is over under 47.5.
So if you put the two scores together that's over under 23.25 or something like that.
It's math.
But 23.75 and then take a half point away.
Vegas predicting something like 22 to 25, 26, 23, 22.5, 26, 23 is kind of what the Vegas line is telling you.
Or 25, 22 is kind of what the Vegas line is telling you.
So close game, defensive game.
I don't think either team is under 20.
The Chiefs have a hell of a defense, Ashlimar Jackson.
Niners have one of the best defensive rosters in football, right?
So put you off to give Andy Reid and Kyle Shanahan two weeks.
Bob Praddy is playing incredibly confident.
I think that they go over comfortably.
I think both of them being upper 20s.
I think they go over comfortably.
That's my favorite prop bet of this game.
Of course in the coin flip is always heads.
So my favorite prop bet during this game is the over under 47.5.
But in some...Oh, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Almost moved on.
My official pick.
Sticking with it like I had last week.
I had the Niners all year winning this football.
Healthy.
They're healthy.
Here we go.
Niners.
Take the Niners and the points.
Minus one and a half.
You want to, if you feel comfortable teasing it up to about two and a half, tease it up.
And that way you can get plus money.
I think it'll be about a field goal game.
So tease it up to two and a half.
That way you can get plus money on your investment.
But Niners take the points and the outright Niners win the Super Bowl.
And some quick hitter news.
Cliff Kingsbury is the officially named the Washington Commander's offensive coordinator.
Eric Bieneme, who was offensive coordinator for the team last season.
That was the OC for Kansas City throughout the Patrick Mahomes era.
Will not return to the organization.
So it'll be very interesting to see where he lands up.
You know, quarterback coach in Washington or somewhere else.
I think he's trying to hang at the college level.
Just for like a year or two.
Similar to Joe Brady.
And then come back up when a great opportunity arises.
The Los Angeles Chargers have locked in both their coordinators.
The DC for the Michigan Wolverines.
I can't think of his name right now.
He's becoming the defensive coordinator for the Chargers.
And Greg Roman, who was the OC for Jim Harbaugh in the Niners days with Kaepernick.
Is now the offensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Chargers.
After previously being the offensive coordinator for his brother John Harbaugh before a little stint.
Oh no, I was just warning that. Never mind.
But being the offensive coordinator for John Harbaugh.
And now he's back with Jim Harbaugh with the Chargers.
And then the Dallas Cowboys of course have it in the offensive coordinator opening.
With Dan Quinn heading to Washington to be the head coach.
They're slow playing.
They're interviewing a bunch of candidates.
Kind of reminds me of what the Patriots are doing with their OC.
They're interviewing a bunch of candidates.
Including Rex Ryan.
It's going to be very interesting there.
Michael Parsons' stand up edge will be intriguing.
But they are slow playing the defensive coordinator higher at the moment.
Got to see what Jerry Jones and Mike McCarthy is going to do there.
But up next we're going to shift to the NBA and discuss a snoozefest of a trade dealer.
Welcome back to the show.
And I just made more noise than the entire NBA trade deadline.
What? A snoozefest.
Actually the trade deadline ended about an hour ago.
Again, what a snoozefest.
I...snoozefest...honestly might be kind.
That was so boring.
And I kind of wondered why.
You know, I kind of wondered why.
What was going to happen, right?
The new CBA starts next year.
We'll go into more detail about it.
The new CBA starts next year.
A lot of guys are in holding patterns.
And people you don't think are going to be good, are.
Like no one thought OKC was coming this year, right?
Clippers pulled that move off of James Harden.
Denver is kind of just holding firm.
Which we pretty much have to do with a champion.
Trying to hold as much of it together as you could, as you can.
The Warriors are nowhere near contention. Neither really are the Lakers.
The Pelicans were hot and may have made a move for like a Tyus Jones.
Except they're falling off the pace a little bit.
You go to the East, the Sixers aren't stuck because their beads hurt.
And so you may have wanted to add one more shooter.
Add one more reserve big. Add another pointing guard maybe.
And you can't because your star is hurt and who knows he plays the rest of the season.
Boston is tapped out.
Trying to think of other people. Man, who's out top?
The Knicks, they're in the superstar hunt.
If they're not going to get a superstar, they can kind of hold their team as they are.
Same with the Cavs. The Cavs are trying to hold their own star in down in the Metro.
So when you go through all these different scenarios, but then breakdowns, it was really boring.
I think what strapped people really was the new CBA.
So a couple of the guys people mentioned, Poison Pill.
What is the Poison Pill? The Poison Pill is basically, and I'm actually Google it to make sure I get the right terminology.
But basically it prevents, it makes, it doesn't prevent.
It makes trading for a rookie extended player very, very cost punitive.
Because in short, it makes the new, it makes the traded contract look like the extension.
So what it does is in short, hold on.
I'm trying to read on it really, really quickly.
Okay. All right. All right.
So I was right when I was talking about earlier, but I wanted to be sure.
So the Poison Pill is this. Let's just say you have, and then the name of the user is Larry Nance.
Larry Nance. So let's say, so Larry Nance signed a four year, I'm going to use that literal example.
And I probably explain it with like an RJ Barrett.
So Larry Nance signed a four year, $44.8 million rookie scale extension with the Cavs in 2018.
However, he's only on the books for the 2018-2019 season for $2.27 million.
If the Cavaliers decided to up and trade him, even after he's been extended, the Poison Pill will then kick in for his contract.
So from the Cavs perspective, it looks like his outgoing value is what's on the books the current year of $2.27 million.
However, the new team getting him sees on their salary cap, $9.4 million because it's the average of the whole contract.
So whatever you signed for, whatever you're extending for, they take the total remainder of the contract, average it out.
And that's what the new team sees as far as salary match.
Okay. Why does that matter?
Let's say you take a player, his rookie deal is four years, $40 million.
Let's just say.
I do four years, $50 million.
12 and a half million.
Let's just say.
He rookies super max extension.
He rookies max extends for five years, $200 million.
So $40 million on the board.
Okay.
And let's say he did it though, but he wants to go to somewhere else.
He in his mind wants to play basketball elsewhere.
He makes it known.
I want out.
Extension was cool.
It was great.
I never played on it here.
I want out.
Cool.
They call his preferred destination.
You want to make a trade for this guy?
New team goes.
Sure.
Isn't his contract poison pilled because of the extension?
They go, yes.
Screws everything up.
Because now the new, the outgoing team only has to match $12 and a half million.
The incoming team has to match nearly 40.
So what scenario are you going to be able to make up $28 million with a difference and keep the value?
Also, the new team has to be able to absorb, the old team has to be able to absorb $28 million of extra money.
If they can't do that, now you got to find a third team to take, again, you still got to get rid of $40 million with the money.
Now you got to find the new team to take, let's say the difference.
This is a new ticket, it's like 15, but it's $25 million extra to take $25 million or maybe even a fourth team to dump pieces on.
And probably attach draft capital just to take the contracts to go in order to get the one player.
So you may end up trading five for one.
At that point it's not worth it.
So that's what's stopping people for one because a couple people I would mention in trades were poison pilled.
So that's stopping people for one.
For two, the new CBA with the luxury tax.
So a lot of times these bigger trades would push teams either firmly into tax 8.1, standard rules last year, standard normal stuff.
Or shoves them into tax 2 or pushes them to the tax so close to the second tax apron that you can't, there's no wiggle room.
It's even hard to expend drone guy because you'll go in it.
You know what I'm saying?
There's no wiggle room.
That second tax apron is so punitive, you can't use second round picks in a trade.
You can't go cash for player.
You got to go player for player and dollar for dollar in a trade.
Like it gets so hard to move.
You can't be in the buyout market.
As a, you can't be in the buyout market as a, whoa, okay, hold on, a little bit of breaking news.
Cincinnati Bengals safety coach Robert Livingston has officially become the defensive coordinator of Colorado.
A big move in the sports world is Deon who said he had a big guy coming.
Primetime lands his defensive coordinator out of the NFL ranks.
So congratulations to Colorado.
I know Chad Johnson at one point was lobbying on club Shea Shea with him to get a job at Colorado.
Apparently Chad Johnson announced he's going to be in as the Raiders, either in some sort of assistant receiver coach position or some sort of thing,
dealing with the building behavior part of the Raiders organization with Antonio Pierce.
So because Primetime anyway lands as defensive coordinator, Robert Livingston from the Bengals.
Anyway, back to what I was saying about the new CBA.
So teams are so worried about getting shoved into that very punitive second tax.
What did anything?
The biggest name move was Marcus Morris.
Yeah, Marcus Morris, not Marcus Morris.
Oh, what's his name?
He's the pointing guard.
I can't even, like that's how bad this deadline was.
I don't think I tweeted one move.
Like, Woz didn't hit the big red breaking on anything.
He was kind of just reporting news.
Shams didn't do any.
Shams didn't even report most of the moves.
Yeah, Shaq Melton got moved.
Troy Brown was Monta Morris.
Monta Morris was the biggest name move in this trade deadline.
But what happens is when people are instituting now, so people call pre-agency.
And the Lakers kind of coined it a few years ago, Rob Pelinka.
Pre-agency means, okay, instead of going after this guy in pre-agency and opening up the bids,
I'm going to get him here early.
And you see, it happens a lot.
It happened a lot about a decade.
NBA stars would request trades on the last year of their deals.
See Carmelo Anthony.
See Anthony Davis.
See James Harden a couple of times.
See Kyrie Irving.
They'd request trades on the last year of their deal. Why?
Because they know if they get traded to the new team, they can get the fifth year.
And also guys using aren't a-holes and want to leave their team with nothing.
Plus it's much easier to get to a new team during a trade.
Because once you trade it to the roster, you're on it.
You can go crazy on the contract because I'm on the roster, you're on the bird rights.
And so two teams did pre-agency this year fairly well.
The Pacers and the Clippers.
The Clippers did pre-agency for James Harden.
So James Harden is expected to get extended probably on a two or three year max.
This offseason from the Clippers.
They got him in pre-agency.
They got him via trade.
The Pacers are going to extend Max Galskiakum to a max contract.
Max years, max money.
They got him early, going to get him in there with Tyrese Halliburton a little early.
Get him used to playing with each other through pre-agency.
So the two big names that were moved that were respectively deadline-ish moves
were Tyrese Halliburton, I'm sorry, Galskiakum rather, and James Harden.
Zach Levine could have been a guy that got moved, but he hurt his foot out for the season.
Ultimately he doesn't get moved.
I said the Sixers end up holding Pat.
They were going to be making a move for somebody.
They end up staying still because Embiid gets hurt.
And nobody else really had needle moving moves.
The Lakers were in that DeJontae Murray thing.
Doesn't really move the needle, right?
New Orleans is cap strapped.
They would have to go near dollar for dollar playoff player.
They need another big, so unless Nick Claxton was coming out of Brooklyn,
I don't really see what the Pelicans were going to do.
The Clippers are rolling. They don't want to disrupt anything.
OKC has all the assets in the world, but they're also rolling.
They don't want to upset anything.
So you got a lot of these teams that were kind of purposely not moving.
And so it made a spore.
And I do mean a bore of a free agency, especially of a trade deadline rather.
Joellen B. We talked about him being hurt a couple of times.
He had a meniscus procedure.
They're not outright saying it's surgery, but they did call it a procedure.
It knocks him out for four weeks minimum.
He'll be reevaluated in four weeks with his meniscus procedure.
It was to deal with the flap.
So maybe they did a meniscus trim, not really a repair,
more like a trim, kind of cut off the excess.
And so he's out for four weeks minimum.
And then in the All-Star News, as they're placing for Julius Randall and Joellen Bede,
the Adam Silver has named Trey Young and Scottie Barnes to the All-Star team.
So Trey Young, to my opinion, should have been an All-Star before Julius Randall.
Anyway, and then Scottie Barnes is the Canadian representative.
Being that he's playing on the Raptors and playing pretty well,
he represents Spaniard on the East in the All-Star game.
Of course, we're going back to the traditional East-West format.
But up next, we're going to shift into Jack's hot take.
This is going to be a talk about the disrespect of Joe Burrow.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to discuss the disrespect of Joe Burrow and Jack's hot take.
Look, I don't know whose wife Joe Burrow may have attempted to talk to.
I don't know who's being paid.
I don't even know who the plant was.
It feels like an industry plant at this point.
I don't know who the plant was.
There's been just a massive wave of Joe Burrow disrespect.
It's been happening since he got injured.
But it was kind of calm.
Now it's just flying up everywhere.
There was a guy on TikTok who went viral on Twitter talking about how Joe Burrow was overrated
and how when Herbert left the Chargers, look how bad the Chargers looked
and the Bengals scored 26 a game and went 4-3.
Okay, the Bengals are never going to win.
His only shot to him was against the Rams and Jamar Chase.
You know, he's got all these great, amazing weapons,
and they're going to start leaving because of the money Burrow is making now and just slander.
And all the Joe Burrow haters just came out the woodwork slandering him.
And I find it interesting.
It's very much a persuasive kind of argument.
When you're trying to persuade someone, you're going to give them one side of facts to make the other side look bad.
It's like a political cartoon.
Man, that guy allowed three murderers to walk the street, but he convicted 100 percent.
That's not important to three out of eight.
You see what I'm saying?
Oh, that guy, man, he is raising taxes.
He's also opened three brand new schools, built four more, and fixed all the roads.
Doesn't matter taxes or rents.
You see what I'm saying?
They're going to paint one side of the argument.
Yes, Jake Browning and the Bengals went 4-3 with 26 points a game
while Jake Browning was filling in for Joe Burrow.
I mind you, when was the Bengals' playoff game this year?
I don't know where I'll wait.
Oh, you didn't see it either?
Interesting.
Yes, the Targers are like one of the worst teams in the league without Justin Herbert.
They also had Brandon Staley.
So, you know, and then he fired that coach and had the interim.
So again, you know, maybe not the world's best environment.
They also lost Keon Allen to Andrew.
Austin Ecklund was beat up.
Joey Bosa was beat up.
You know, you're just going to just keep removing the details in this argument.
Also, Joe Burrows, they threw injury prone out.
Toys ACO running against Chase Young.
Bad idea.
He hit his hand on a helmet and broke it.
That's not injury prone.
That's literally bad luck.
It wasn't like anybody hit him.
It wasn't like he got smacked and cracked something.
Throwing, I think a completed pass, he hits his hand on a helmet and breaks it.
Joe Burrow, Herbert did the exact same thing.
He never looked the same.
Burrow just had the surgery and said, screw it.
So I don't get the injury prone thing.
Joe Burrow in the three years he's been healthy has been the two A's.
Let's take all four years.
Let's take the four years.
ToynACO, AFC Championship game, Super Bowl appearance, no, ToynACO, Super Bowl appearance, AFC Championship game, broken hand.
The only person in the AFC with more success as far as winning is Patrick freaking Mahal.
Does Joe Burrow have the arm of Josh Allen? No.
Does he have the feet of Lamar Jackson? No.
He wins on the playoffs.
He gets to big games.
He's never thrown out clunkers.
Yes, he looked a little rough this year.
He had a freaking ankle injury.
He probably shouldn't have played the first month.
Jamar Chase suggested it.
He shouldn't even have played the first month because of the ankle injury.
But he gutted it out for his team.
They started turning the corner.
He looked like, oh man, Joe Burrow is back.
Joe Burrow, Joe Scheiste.
He breaks his hand on a helmet.
It's not like he was just smacked and hurt himself.
And the guy also said something along the lines of, oh, but every time he plays bad,
they blame the O-line.
Joe Burrow went to the Super Bowl and is the single most sacked quarterback in playoff history.
You know where they got him?
An overpriced Orlando Brown, who was a freaking turnstile.
It's kind of how Joe Burrow broke his hand on the helmet.
The guard was getting shoved into his lap.
Like, it's not like we're sitting here saying Joe Burrow is the best quarterback in football.
That's obviously Patrick Mahal.
We're not saying he's the most dangerous or electric.
That's obviously Lamar Jackson.
We're not saying he has the most physical gifts.
That's obviously Josh Allen.
We're saying he's an undisputed top three quarterback in this league
when you encompass all things that matter to be in a quarterback.
Winning, leadership, all the field intangibles, the grind.
You know, he's constantly.
Now, he doesn't have the individual awards.
I think he was robbed out of a couple of Robles.
I think he was robbed out of an All-Pro.
But that's either here or no there.
Yes, his conscience is going to kick in.
But he's already said he's willing to renegotiate it,
pull that number down in order to keep a chase, to keep a Higgins,
to keep a Boyd, to keep that defense.
It's not hard.
Add a couple of more years, move some contract to bonus,
bring that number on down, and bam, you've got a football team around Joe Burrow.
He still gets his money.
So if you're going to have this argument here, at least try to do it for that don't know football.
Because a guy like me, I know ball.
And this hate against Joe Burrow is outlandish and it's ridiculous.
It kind of came out of nowhere.
I feel like it's in the defense of Herbert.
Well, I also love, I love Herbert.
I can't wait to see him with Jim Harbaugh.
But this slander of Joe Burrow has got to stop.
All right.
Yes, you can look at what Jake Browning did and not make the playoffs.
Congratulations. Kudos for you.
But this slander has to stop.
But that is all I have for you guys today.
Remember, take the 49ers to win the game, plus minus one and a half.
If you feel comfortable, which I would in this case, tease it up to two and a half.
You're trying to get to flip that money into plus money.
That way you can get plus money on that.
Over under being 47 and a half, take the under.
If you're into that as well, there's some prop bets.
If you can tease my homes down to about 250 and tease Purdy to about 230,
that'll probably be your target numbers for the passing yards.
Tease McCaffrey up to 155, 160 all purpose yards.
That'll be big as well.
But I hope you guys have a great Super Bowl week.
You should expect the YouTube show this week.
Plan is to record it tomorrow, so you should expect the TV show as well.
By the time you guys hear this today, because it'll be Thursday.
But you should expect that as well.
That's all I have for you guys today.
This has been your host, Justin Jackson, signing out.
See you next time.