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But they're a playoff team.
Because they could be the Cavs.
Either the Nets or they're the Kings.
The Nets are nowhere near contention.
However, the Kings are seventh in the West right now.
And gonna be firmly in the playoff.
I don't see the Spurs on my standings list.
SGA is much more valuable to his team.
Much more valuable to his team.
Than the OKC's.
Because the average age of the OKC starters and the average age of the University of Carolina starters are basically the same.
Except one's playing in college basketball and the other one's playing in the National Basketball Association.
SGA is leading the NBA version to currently one half game behind the other guy.
With an experienced team. With a championship level team.
With a team that we know is already gonna win a championship.
With a team that we've seen him with with Gordon and Braun and Murray and KCP.
And the rest of those guys, the rest of that crew, we've seen them go win a championship.
Right? And so having OKC up in the standings the way they are, their team is so young.
And SGA being a cattle, you say 30, what is it? What did I say the number? 37 and 6?
36 and 6. 36 and 6. On a bus 50% shooting for a guard.
You have to reward that to me if you're the NBA voting.
You have to reward the fact that that guy's doing with such a young team.
So many young guys. They don't have the championship pedigree built in.
They're really two years ahead of schedule. At least.
The Caledon-Lando team. OKC's not supposed to win right now. They're not.
SGA's the only one making real money. No, and DOR. DOR's making real money.
Nobody else on that team is making real money. They're not supposed to be winning now.
They're supposed to be... Honestly, where Phoenix is.
Right along that borderline playing, Sacramento, right along that borderline playing barely.
If they're in the playoffs, it's barely. It wouldn't be shocking if they went into playing in lots of both games and got bounced.
You know, they should be at that point. And the fact that there's a very, very legitimate chance they're the one seed in the West is insane.
It's very similar to Orlando. Orlando's way ahead of schedule.
I think Eagles might be making the most money per year on that team.
They're way ahead of schedule. I mean, people were talking about them being like the team that if they made the play-in, people are going to say successful season.
Not, you know what I'm saying, not like, oh, if they won their play-in game, made the playoffs. No, no, no.
If they qualified for the play-in, people were going to deem it as a successful season.
The Orlando Magic are currently one full game out of third.
Again, a very legitimate chance that they could be the third seed.
Despite all of what they are going through. Again, youth.
They don't even have anything about it. They're at the stage where they're deciding fun maxes.
You know what I'm saying? Like they're not even at the stage where they're deciding like, oh, we're going to be, you know, we have all these guys and we're going to have to figure it out.
No, no, no, no, no. They're at the stage where they're deciding fun maxes.
And yet again, they are one singular game away from being the three seed in these.
So you look at it, you look at the Thunder, you look at the Magic, you know, you got guys in SGA, again, 36 and 6, over 50% shooting.
He is my MVP this year, barring a late dramatic kick from YoKids, which I just don't see.
SGA is my MVP for the season.
All right, jumping down to the bottom of the table. We were talking about the top. Let's jump down to the bottom.
The Houston Rockets, who I did not name on my list of teams in the seating.
The Houston Rockets have been charging.
We spoke about that Houston team when they put that team together in the offseason. I spoke about it with you guys and I said, I didn't get it.
You weren't at the stage for this yet.
You paid $180 million.
Take it a leap, give a take to guys who can't shoot.
Literally the two worst, the only two people in the NBA in the 2022-2023 season to shoot below 40% and be decently high volume were Fred Van Vliet and Dylan Brooks.
And the Rockets gave both of them very large contracts with a lot of player control.
And that was what they did in the offseason. So I questioned it. I said, again, I think you guys aren't ready yet.
Jalen Green wasn't ready to have two guys with him, roll with him.
What are we going to do with Jalen Green considering that Fred Van Vliet, you know, to be effective and he has the ball in his hand because we discussed he can't shoot.
Dylan Brooks really can't shoot.
So your four best players were guards.
You had Jalen Green, three of your best players were guards and none of them over the 6'5 mark.
You had Jalen Green, Fred Van Vliet and Dylan Brooks, like I said, none of them over 6'5.
Jabari Smith Jr., like he's not ready yet.
You look at Tarheesan, he's not ready yet. Now, Afro-Shangoon was a major surprise.
He actually gets a lot of credit, Afro-Shangoon, for what they've got going on.
Now, the crazy part is Sangoon's out, which actually begs the question because Houston's a game behind Golden State.
There was a few games back, Golden State, specifically Jermon, was asked about Houston.
Houston was at that point a sick game winning streak, gaining on the Warriors, gaining a half, two games.
You start looking at the schedule, you're like, Mathematica, they can catch Golden State.
And Jermon made a comment about how he's not worried about Houston, right?
And so now, Houston's only a game behind.
Houston's only a game behind from taking the Warriors out of the play-in,
which would be dastardly for the Warriors to have wasted another stuff season when he's,
let's be honest, probably this year and next year, his last two of his legitimate prime.
That's painful if Houston catches Golden State and knocks them out of the play-in tournament,
because he's on an eight game win streak.
And they are absolutely rolling. They're young, they're feisty.
Imae Adoka figured something out with that team, which is not surprising, it's Imae Adoka.
But he may have figured something out with that team.
Okay, so our next topic is about John T. Porter of the Toronto Rappers.
He's been removed from the lineup.
And the reason why it's kind of an awkward change is because more news,
Wolves is breaking more news right now. He's tweeting about it rather.
So a couple hours ago, Wolves and a couple other guys, myself included,
were breaking news of the NBA had removed, or rather, the Toronto Rappers had removed
center John T. Porter from their lineup due to betting irregularities around Porter.
And the two main situations were a game on January 26 and a game on March 20.
So Wolves is tweeted out, it's like 7.50 a.m.
Wolves is tweeted out, more reporting for ASP and David Perdom,
sorry if I mispronounced that.
At least one other U.S. sportsbook detected unusual betting interest on Porter props and games in question.
A sportsbook industry source told ASP that multiple betting accounts attempted to bet large amounts,
upwards of 10K and 20K on Porter unders in the January game against the Clippers.
The betting limit on NBA player props varied by sportsbook and customer,
but it's typically around 1,200.
People were trying to do whatever they could to bet John T. Porter props against the Clippers.
So it's saying, and then just a few days ago, the same thing.
We had a bunch of people trying to bet the under for more.
Okay.
So I was reading about this story and what happened was there was two games in question.
John T. Porter is more famously the brother of Michael Porter Jr., right?
They played in Missouri together, whatever.
The situation arose when John T., there were several people betting his unders.
Usually people getting overs, nobody really paid attention.
Like if the guy is supposed to get 9.5, 5.5, 3.5, and hit a 3, he just smashed all his overs,
no one's really going to pay attention.
Low number unders catch people's eyes, especially if it's a large amount of money.
So I think one of his stat lines for betting a lot of money on the under was like 9.5, 5.5, 1.5, and then 1.3.
And people were obliterating his unders, right?
Trying to bet an insane amount of money on the unders.
So in one of those games in question, Porter subs himself out due to an eyeball like pain or whatever.
And everything about his under, of course, hit.
Consequently, that ended up being the biggest winner of anybody's day at the Sportsbook.
Like the Sportsbook published which player hit the hardest.
Like basically who won the most money on the land pop, it was probably Porter's unders.
And then like another game he does something similar, a lot of money gets put on his unders randomly and he hits it again.
He hits all his unders.
So he's been removed. What makes the eyeball game more interesting was like a day later or two days later, he goes over.
He has like a pretty good game, like 12 and 7 with like two blocks and a 3.
He plays really, really well.
And it's like dude, this eyeball injury kept you from doing even something.
And that's to me what caught the eye of the authorities.
Now a lot of people are going to say, oh, I told you guys, sports was rigged.
OK, John T. Porter isn't changing the landscape.
He plays for the Raptors.
I don't recall naming a Raptor.
I don't recall naming a Toronto Raptors in my standards.
Right. So the Toronto Raptors are not about to change the landscape of the NBA betting unders or not.
Right. But it does.
If somebody is going to be honest, insignificant as John T. Porter is falsifying numbers and rigging numbers for his unders and et cetera.
It does put into question bigger games, bigger events, more miraculous comebacks and stuff of that nature.
Who is tied into the gambling aspect?
Who is tied into the financial game, upward financial gain if certain events were to occur?
And so that is that's the issue with what John T. Porter is doing, not necessarily the act itself, but the impending unfortunate implications on the integrity of the game.
The integrity of the game is the unfortunate part.
So next we're going to shift to the NCAA tournament and talk about what's going down there.
Welcome back into the show.
I mean, that was a great block.
I don't know about you guys.
That thing had multiple layers.
We did FIBA.
We had a FIBA segment.
We had the NBA.
We had national team stuff.
We had prospective bumps in play.
I mean, we had recollections.
It was great.
I mean, that was a great block.
If you're not really if you skipped on to the B block because you want to hear about the NCAA tournament, go listen to that A block.
You learned a lot there.
Covered a lot.
But jumping into the B block is the NCAA tournament.
I will not malign you with every analogy of every game because I didn't watch every game.
I mean, I'm a fan of the men's and the women's side and watch every game.
I won't malign you with it.
I did watch a lot of LSU.
I'm a LSU fan.
I did watch North Carolina.
I'm a North Carolina fan.
I saw the end of Creighton, Oregon.
Spectacular ending.
I'm watching currently Katelyn Clark's last home game at Iowa.
But I won't sit here and malign you with how the tournament looks.
South Carolina is dominant.
Who's LSU?
I mean, who's what's shocking about that?
The women's side, right?
So I will, however, go into how my bracket's looking.
Everybody talks about their bracket.
I was out last week so I didn't get to share with you guys my bracket, my Final Four, and et cetera.
So on the men's side, my bracket currently ranks 1.1 million in the world.
And the ESPN tournament challenge, that's not great, right?
But I'm at 95.6% accuracy entering tonight's contest.
I don't have any men's games on tonight, but entering the contest tonight.
And my bracket's going to fall because one of my Final Four picks is already out, which is Kentucky.
I was talking about watching a lot of the men's game.
I didn't watch a lot of the men's game this year.
I just didn't.
And I kind of picked guys I kind of knew, players I knew.
Like I knew Rob Dillingham, right?
And I spoke about it on the video show with Jai from the Hey Jai podcast and IMS Productions.
And who I knew was Rob Dillingham.
And I knew him from a couple of times they played LSU.
You know, it was a name I saw.
I was watching the, or looking at, not watching, but looking at the mock drafts.
And I was like, who are these people?
It was like the top ten.
I think I knew one person, Rob Dillingham.
I think I heard the number one overall pick or projected the number one overall pick.
I think it's a French kid.
But like, you know, that was it.
It wasn't like in years past where it's just these dogs everywhere.
Like next year, I'm going to watch a lot of men's college basketball next year.
The Booza Boys, Cooper Flag, Bronies probably going to be back for year two.
I'm going to watch a lot of the men's game next year because of the star power.
There's no star power in today's game.
There just isn't.
And so, my final four for the men's side.
I'm going to jump back into the bracket.
I had North Carolina over Connecticut and then Kentucky over Purdue.
And I had Connecticut at UConn and, not UConn, I had North Carolina and UK meeting in the championship game with North Carolina winning it all.
So my champions are alive.
My final four pick of UK is already out.
And I'll share with you guys my second chance bracket next week whenever that comes out.
On the women's side, however, the much more interesting side, I'm ranked 1.5 million out of everybody in the world with a 57.3% accuracy.
Although that is going to go up the further we get into the tournament.
And so, my final four for the women's side was South Carolina, Stanford, LSU, and Connecticut with Stanford over South Carolina, LSU over Connecticut, and LSU winning it all.
I can admit, that's a little bit of a bias.
I'm totally going to admit that.
I'm willing to admit that.
Because I'm admitting that because I am an LSU, not only fan, I'm an alumni.
Right?
And so, I kind of picked my final four for the advantage of what would happen for the LSU.
I can admit that, right?
And what's better for LSU is that South Carolina's not in the title game.
I'm going to be 100% honest.
That is a horrible matchup for LSU.
We have not beat them in about eight years.
We just have it.
And no matter what the race is now, LSU pre-Kimokki is a little bit different, right?
Because Dawn was in her absolute bag in terms of recruiting and the style of power she had.
I mean, Aja Wilson, you know, you have Aliyah Boston, you know, to be, you know, just some of the names.
I mean, these are two number one overall picks. These are high level Olympic level players.
She had them on her roster at South Carolina, right?
And there's just a couple of the superstars she's had at South Carolina, right?
LSU at the time was going through the Niki Farkas era.
Wasn't all that great.
Kimokki showed up three years ago.
Year one was a lot of Niki Farkas players and a lot of just trying to clean the program up
and make it a high level program the way it needs to be.
Year two, you win the title.
You still don't beat South Carolina, but you win the title.
Year three, you're the three seed again.
You still don't beat South Carolina, right?
It's just a bad matchup.
What South Carolina has in depth and experience and just know how, LSU doesn't have.
Now they're trying to fix, of course.
I think, I mean, personally, Angel Reese is back next year.
I think her not announcing is kind of seeing where her draft stock is after the tournament.
I don't think it's going to be any higher than seven.
I think she comes back next year, right?
Haley Van Lyth is still projected top five.
I think she deuces up LSU as she moves on.
But it would not shock me if she returns next year.
There's already a six foot five transfer coming in from Arkansas.
So she was looking to be more South Carolina like in terms of just, South Carolina has size everywhere.
Literally, they're a really, really big team.
They're in size everywhere at South Carolina, right?
And so that is kind of what the Roberts choice is.
But again, back to my bracket, I kind of picked the bracket, at least the final four, off of what I want to see happen for LSU.
Now, I didn't do dumb stuff like have 11 seeds, make it and all this other stuff for the purpose of LSU being the game for LSU.
You know, I didn't do that, right?
But in that final four, I think LSU is going to be UCLan.
I just do.
There's too much.
I think LSU is a better team.
Although they didn't play like it early.
I told my dad when I went to see him this weekend, like, hey, welcome LSU's girls team to the tournament.
They told them to come six quarters because they didn't play like themselves for six quarters in that tournament.
They just had to be better than the other team they played.
The Sanford over South Carolina was kind of hard overhead, but at the same time, if Cameron brings on one and she pulls Camila Cadoza out the paint, that's a lot of driving opportunities for that Stanford team.
And they could really make a big difference if Camila Cadoza is pulled out of the paint due to Cameron Brink, if she's able to make some outside shots.
So that is kind of what I'm thinking there that I have LSU over Stanford, like I said, winning it all.
But let's jump into kind of I spoke about it in the video, so I won't go too in depth about it because there was a back and forth about it.
But I think I lost a little bit in the back and forth.
My point.
My point was on the show.
I posed the question to Jai and he answered it. He pretty much gave me the answer I expected, which was I told him name five players and I'll do it to you too.
Name five players from the men's game right now.
Right now. Like boom. Like he five seconds.
Okay, now we've all been watching men's March Madness. We've all had our eyes on it.
I got Rob Dylan Cammy's that evening.
Update entering this turn. Oh, and then the kid. I can't think of his name, but the guy smoke line that made the 10 threes him to.
But update. I would have gone into the tournament with two of those three days.
I still would have known that evening about billing hammer and that's it.
Okay, now I'll do the same exact exercise.
You got five seconds to name me five women players right now. Go.
Okay, I can almost guarantee you had three and you were trying to snap your way into a couple of more.
You were saying the girl from right.
That's a lot better than doing them inside.
I can almost guarantee.
I'm serious.
I can almost wow. Katelyn Clark just let off a couple of exeblips.
But wow.
Anyway, I can almost guarantee you did a lot better on the women's side.
You had Katelyn Clark injuries, Floddy Johnson, Haley Van Lyft. I'm an LSU fan, so I'm a little partial.
But Cameron Brink, Aaliyah Edwards, Paige Becker's.
And etc. I can almost guarantee that was some names that you ratted off fairly quickly.
Juju Watkins.
You see, I can even pause and think of some more names.
That's not happening on the men's side.
You're not pausing and thinking of even more names.
I figured somebody out. This person.
No, no, I can give you all day on the men's side. You're never going to think of anybody else.
And on the women's side, the longer you sit there and think, the more you figure out.
Wait, this person, that person, this person.
You know, you just start putting people back and forth, back and forth together.
You know, part of the person starts figuring out, you know, people that you want to, that you want to name and that you begin to name.
Right. And so the NCAA created a problem that the NBA also created and they created the same problem in two different variations.
The NCAA and the NBA created a problem where their entire season boils down to six weeks.
The whole thing, the whole thing boils down to six weeks.
The entire season for the men, actually for the NCAA, it's about three weeks.
But the entire thing boils down to about three weeks in the college basketball or four weeks in college basketball and the NBA six weeks.
Right. And it's four weeks in college basketball called March Madness.
No one cares about men's college basketball this season, especially this season, before March Madness.
And everybody's betting it like crazy and it's all the raves and all the local wing bars and everybody's watching March Madness.
But no one cared about men's college basketball three weeks ago.
Unless you were ramping up for your bracket.
And then if you go to the women's side, people were watching it.
There's more style problems. I rattled off the names of the names and everybody I said, you probably went, oh, I've heard of her at worst.
I've heard of her. I know who that is. I've heard of her.
They said at absolute worst, you did the I've heard of her or that name sounds familiar.
They start snapping. You start with like, man, who is the old? That's her.
Right. You see in the commercials, if you watch March Madness, you've seen the commercials of these ladies and then NIL deals and their branding.
Like you've seen this kind of stuff. Right.
The NBA did the same thing. The NBA with ring culture.
Put everything in their entire season. They put it in the six weeks.
So now it doesn't matter that LeBron James having the greatest by far 21 21st.
It's not even close. If you put the next four PPGs together, it doesn't equal his number.
Like, and no one cares because no one's going to care if he bouts in the first round of playoffs.
Right. And no one's going to care if SGA is the MVP and he accepts it after losing in the second round.
Like so much of the NBA's landscape has been altered and to me, drastically discredited by the ring culture aspect of, oh, you didn't win the title.
That's right. Who didn't be last year?
I just tested. Who was the NBA MVP last year?
Okay, it was okay because he won.
Okay, who was the NBA MVP in 2012?
You have no idea. I do. It's LeBron.
But no one remembers that. I'm trying to think of a year where the MVP and the champ didn't go together.
But anyway, so a lot of time with ring culture, that's a problem.
Like so much of the accomplishments are just erased. Charles Barkley is going to get screwed in history.
Charles Barkley is one of the 30 greatest players ever. He's one of the top five power forwards ever.
He's going to get abused in history. Why? He doesn't have a ring.
So people are going to discount him and just remove him. He doesn't have a championship.
So many of these guys, you know, that are great players are being discarded because of rings.
Because Joe Ellen Beade is still being discounted because he's never been to conference finals.
Jason Tatum is being slandered a lot of the time because he's never been to a conference finals.
And that's the NBA's problem, right?
So if you go to the men's basketball season, you get a situation, you get a society where no one cares about the regular season
until a conference tournament and instead of like tournament time. So that's about six weeks.
You have the tournaments a week, then there's about a few days and then you got a four week incidentally tournament day.
So about five, six weeks on both sides, you created a market, you created an idea, you created an identity.
Where the only thing that matters is the tournament.
So the men's game, that is exactly what people are discovering. They're like, man, I see people on Twitter like, man, who's the big guy out of Purdue?
Who's the reigning national player of the year? And there's people legitimately saying, who's the big guy out of Purdue?
Why is he only a second round pick? Like, da da da da da da.
And I'm having to bring you back to the reality of he is a lumbering giant who can't shoot.
The game, the game doesn't have that in it anymore.
Right. And I spoke about it before. He's going to go to Europe and be amazing.
I hope he doesn't force the NBA too long because he's going to go to Europe and be spectacular.
He's seven foot four. He's big. He's lumbering. He's got post moves. He's got defense.
Like I said, that feeble style of rough physicality, he'll go over there and make 40, 50 million dollars over the course of his career just from being a big body.
So I hope he doesn't try to force the NBA too long if it doesn't work out early.
But just going back to the tournament, the women's game is so vastly improved in college.
And there are certain aspects that I kind of like. And I spoke about it earlier. I said we're going to touch on it.
One of the things I like, top four C host. Whoever is the top four C, you host your little mini bracket.
So it's like, yes, there's regions. So in the women's game, unfortunately, has two regions.
There's Portland, one Portland, two Albany, three and Albany for.
And that's kind of cut the cost and make a more centralized situation because you can see with these smaller teams that no one's traveling to Des Moines, Iowa, like, you know, not the one Iowa Iowa Iowa City, wherever the University of Iowa is.
The game that didn't involve Iowa was empty.
Well, if you neutral sided all the games like LSU is going to fill up, pull up people up in the gym.
They don't matter. They don't care. Texas people up in the gym.
There's certain brands, Iowa, certain brands will put people up in the gym.
But for the most part, people are not going to go fill up gyms for the women's game.
So the idea of the higher seed hosting, it becomes a home game.
LSU was packed for both LSU games and because of the women's game and the advantage of not only my higher seed, I'm typically a better team.
I probably have the best superstar.
I'm probably going to get the calls because they want that superstar to advance.
I'm being honest. And I'm at home.
So I don't have to travel to me. It's home games.
I have my home crowd. Everyone's against you.
You had to travel. You had to stay here.
You had to mentally prepare yourself to be here multiple days, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Like that is huge. It's big.
And that's where I think a lot of times you don't see the upsets in the women's game.
Like the 14 seeds are 0 and 120.
That's what I thought the women's tournament.
Like you don't see the big upsets. Why?
Because that 14 had to play that three seed on a three seed home floor.
It's not some random empty gym in Saskatchewan.
Not just a random empty gym in Des Moines where these either one or two teams are anywhere located to those cities.
And there's 15,000 seed gyms with 6,000 people.
And now there's no home court events, et cetera, et cetera.
That row team gets hot.
Like we saw LSU play Rice. That row team gets hot.
And now that low seed gets hot.
And now there's no crowd to amp you back up to pull you in.
You kind of kind of pull your energy.
It adds a different element, right?
And so I think on the men's game, I wonder what's the financial benefit of those neutral side games.
Seriously.
Or could they say, OK, how about this?
Kentucky is the three seed, or the two seed.
So they host their little mini-racket.
Whoever they're scheduled to play in that next round, seeding wise, goes to them, whatever.
And they play in a rough arena.
It's still a neutral site for three of the teams.
But you're guaranteed a sellout for the Kentucky game.
Like, right?
So if and when they win it, that's another guaranteed sellout.
You do it NCAA style. You split the profit at the gate.
And everybody goes unhappy.
You get a relationship where you establish having two sellout games.
You don't get these weird empty-gem games.
No, you play like, imagine how sold out if Grambling went to Purdue.
It's a sellout.
Without a shadow of a doubt, it's a sellout of a game.
Because Purdue, it's an opportunity for a home game.
Right?
You know, it's an opportunity for automatic sellout.
It's going to happen every time.
So I think the men's game should look into that.
That's really cool.
And then for the Sweet 16 and the Elite 8, you go to neutral site.
Like, to me, okay, now you're going to reside at that point.
But for the round of 64 and 32, having the higher seed host or that little region host is pretty dope.
But up next, we're going to shift to Jack's Hot Take, which is going to be about the hip drop being banned in the NFL.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to talk about the NFL.
Because, of course, the NFL can't let anybody have anything on their own.
I always talk about that a few episodes back.
Might have been late season four or early in the episode season five.
The NFL calendar is designed where they can't let anybody have anything, literally at all.
They're trying to take the Christmas Day away from the NBA.
They won't give them Thanksgiving.
They now in the middle of the NBA season have very much so amplified their trade deadline.
NFL's free agency again comes right in the middle of the NBA season.
And then they have their annual league meetings.
They have their annual league meetings again right in the middle of the NBA's ramping up to the playoffs.
What does the NFL do?
Annual league meetings, coaches' photos, league rule changes.
Don't pay attention to us over there, pay attention to us.
Again, the NFL draft is weeks away at this point.
It's like 30 days away, give or take, 26-ish.
I mean, we're talking the NFL is going to be dominating the media all over again.
And the big thing that came out of the NFL annual league meetings was the hip drop tackle.
For those of you who do not know,
the reason why a player, a player from behind or the side, from what the league showed,
jumps in the air, kind of swings their weight and pulls a player back.
It's very similar to the players usually fall in a very similar mansion of the horse collar.
But what makes the hip drop tackle so brutal to the body is a lot of times the players are jumping
and landing on the ankles and the knees of the player they're tackling.
We had a lot of guys go out to high ankle sprains or worse,
Mark Andrews and Tony Pollard being the main two.
And I believe were the first two examples of the tackle being shown in the video of what's going to be flagged now.
Players went up and on, it's flag football, let's take this, put flags on, the defense got no chance.
But also the NFL decided that the replay official can review rough in the back circles.
So that's going to help a lot of guys out because they believe there's no way it's rough in the passer.
And then they get the flag anyway and it's game changing.
Well, the replay official can go in and say, no, that's not rough in the passer.
That could be huge.
But the hip drop tackle is an unsafe tackle. I'm just going to be honest, it is.
To me it's no different than a horse collar.
But I'm a defensive coach, so I understand it.
And I was talking to my head coach about it, who I'm sure is going to be on the video show at some point.
And he was saying, his big thing was, what do you teach the kids?
Everything should be centered of what do you teach.
Like the NFL sets the precedent for college, which sets the precedent for high school.
So whenever that person gets to college or beyond, they know the basic of what you want to know.
So what do you teach the kids is what he said.
I'm like, since I'm going to do my defense, you're going to have to roll, you're going to have to gauge, you're going to have to hop tackle.
If you're coming in from behind, grab and turn.
You know, or, but the NFL gave clarification.
They don't mind when you grab a guy from behind and you kind of sit down.
That's fine.
What they were getting rid of, or what they were attempting to legislate out of the game, is the jump drop.
And when I told him that, he said, oh okay, no, that one I get. That's not that bad.
Because when you grab a guy at the waist and you jump on the back of his leg, like that's incredibly dangerous.
Right. And so a lot of times, a lot of fans were up in arms.
And of course, fans always complain about a game that they played no further than high school or rec league.
And you know, that's how I play the safety of grown men and it's just a whole other thing.
Guys feeding their families.
But what often isn't talked about, what often I will say,
is that NFL players almost to a letter would rather you hit them high.
And I know we're legislating concussions out of the game.
I know concussions cause irreparable damage to the brain, CTE, spinal injuries, et cetera.
I get it.
Ask most NFL players almost to a T where they would rather get hit.
To a man, they will almost always say high.
Because they say high, a lot of the times they don't get concussed.
You can kind of protect yourself with your shoulder.
And on top of that, you hit me low, you blow my knee out of my career is over.
You hit me high, I get a concussion, I'm going to miss a game or two, I'll be back though.
You know what I'm saying? And that's how a lot of guys see it.
They're looking at the fact that financially, they knew when they signed up to play this game,
they were going to be physical, rough, tough.
They were going to struggle to walk. They were going to do whatever.
You know, the situation was.
They signed up for a career to feed their families.
And they kind of look at it as, you know, if I finally get that big deal
that could really change my family's circumstance, and you blow my knee out of my career is over,
it was all for nothing.
And so they'd rather get hit high.
They have a little CTE, they're fine with it.
Guys like Warren Sapp who have openly talked about there's memory gaps and there's issues
and there's stuff like that.
Like he'll drive to somewhere and then he'll, not wake up,
but effectively he'll get to that location and be like, how do you get there?
You know, it's just stuff like that happening.
But if you told him, okay, I'll give you perfect memory, perfect brain function, whatever,
for 20 less million dollars in the bank and seven years out of your career,
he'll tell you, no, I'm good.
It's just stuff that these guys have not only accepted, but they've embraced.
They'd rather get hit up high than hit low.
And so that's a very interesting thing.
But the hip drop is officially out of the NFL.
It will be legislated.
I'm sure it will be a mess of a call the first few weeks.
It's going to be heavily flagged in the preseason.
They're going to want to over flag it.
And the preseason kind of regulated it out.
And then, of course, after half a year, it will be like it's always been there.
A lot of overreaction from fans today, but the NFL, of course,
stealing headlines from March Madness and from the NBA.
But that is all I have for you guys today.
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