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We'll see you in the next one. 73 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,920 But they're a playoff team. 74 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,920 Because they could be the Cavs. 75 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,920 Either the Nets or they're the Kings. 76 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:37,920 The Nets are nowhere near contention. 77 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,920 However, the Kings are seventh in the West right now. 78 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:43,920 And gonna be firmly in the playoff. 79 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:47,920 I don't see the Spurs on my standings list. 80 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,920 SGA is much more valuable to his team. 81 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:54,920 Much more valuable to his team. 82 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,920 Than the OKC's. 83 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:04,920 Because the average age of the OKC starters and the average age of the University of Carolina starters are basically the same. 84 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:10,920 Except one's playing in college basketball and the other one's playing in the National Basketball Association. 85 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:17,920 SGA is leading the NBA version to currently one half game behind the other guy. 86 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:20,920 With an experienced team. With a championship level team. 87 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:22,920 With a team that we know is already gonna win a championship. 88 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:30,920 With a team that we've seen him with with Gordon and Braun and Murray and KCP. 89 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,920 And the rest of those guys, the rest of that crew, we've seen them go win a championship. 90 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:40,920 Right? And so having OKC up in the standings the way they are, their team is so young. 91 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:46,920 And SGA being a cattle, you say 30, what is it? What did I say the number? 37 and 6? 92 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:53,920 36 and 6. 36 and 6. On a bus 50% shooting for a guard. 93 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:58,920 You have to reward that to me if you're the NBA voting. 94 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:04,920 You have to reward the fact that that guy's doing with such a young team. 95 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,920 So many young guys. They don't have the championship pedigree built in. 96 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,920 They're really two years ahead of schedule. At least. 97 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:16,920 The Caledon-Lando team. OKC's not supposed to win right now. They're not. 98 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:20,920 SGA's the only one making real money. No, and DOR. DOR's making real money. 99 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:24,920 Nobody else on that team is making real money. They're not supposed to be winning now. 100 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:29,920 They're supposed to be... Honestly, where Phoenix is. 101 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:35,920 Right along that borderline playing, Sacramento, right along that borderline playing barely. 102 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:40,920 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. 103 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:48,920 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. 104 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,920 It's very similar to Orlando. Orlando's way ahead of schedule. 105 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:55,920 I think Eagles might be making the most money per year on that team. 106 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:05,920 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. 107 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:10,920 Not, you know what I'm saying, not like, oh, if they won their play-in game, made the playoffs. No, no, no. 108 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:15,920 If they qualified for the play-in, people were going to deem it as a successful season. 109 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:20,920 The Orlando Magic are currently one full game out of third. 110 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:26,920 Again, a very legitimate chance that they could be the third seed. 111 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:32,920 Despite all of what they are going through. Again, youth. 112 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:37,920 They don't even have anything about it. They're at the stage where they're deciding fun maxes. 113 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:47,920 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. 114 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:52,920 No, no, no, no, no. They're at the stage where they're deciding fun maxes. 115 00:20:52,920 --> 00:21:00,920 And yet again, they are one singular game away from being the three seed in these. 116 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:08,920 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. 117 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:15,920 He is my MVP this year, barring a late dramatic kick from YoKids, which I just don't see. 118 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:20,920 SGA is my MVP for the season. 119 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,920 All right, jumping down to the bottom of the table. We were talking about the top. Let's jump down to the bottom. 120 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:30,920 The Houston Rockets, who I did not name on my list of teams in the seating. 121 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:35,920 The Houston Rockets have been charging. 122 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:42,920 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. 123 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,920 You weren't at the stage for this yet. 124 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:50,920 You paid $180 million. 125 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:54,920 Take it a leap, give a take to guys who can't shoot. 126 00:21:54,920 --> 00:22:11,920 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. 127 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:18,920 And the Rockets gave both of them very large contracts with a lot of player control. 128 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:24,920 And that was what they did in the offseason. So I questioned it. I said, again, I think you guys aren't ready yet. 129 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:29,920 Jalen Green wasn't ready to have two guys with him, roll with him. 130 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:36,920 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. 131 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,920 Dylan Brooks really can't shoot. 132 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,920 So your four best players were guards. 133 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:50,920 You had Jalen Green, three of your best players were guards and none of them over the 6'5 mark. 134 00:22:50,920 --> 00:23:00,920 You had Jalen Green, Fred Van Vliet and Dylan Brooks, like I said, none of them over 6'5. 135 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:06,920 Jabari Smith Jr., like he's not ready yet. 136 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:13,920 You look at Tarheesan, he's not ready yet. Now, Afro-Shangoon was a major surprise. 137 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,920 He actually gets a lot of credit, Afro-Shangoon, for what they've got going on. 138 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:26,920 Now, the crazy part is Sangoon's out, which actually begs the question because Houston's a game behind Golden State. 139 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:31,920 There was a few games back, Golden State, specifically Jermon, was asked about Houston. 140 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:37,920 Houston was at that point a sick game winning streak, gaining on the Warriors, gaining a half, two games. 141 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,920 You start looking at the schedule, you're like, Mathematica, they can catch Golden State. 142 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,920 And Jermon made a comment about how he's not worried about Houston, right? 143 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,920 And so now, Houston's only a game behind. 144 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,920 Houston's only a game behind from taking the Warriors out of the play-in, 145 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:57,920 which would be dastardly for the Warriors to have wasted another stuff season when he's, 146 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:02,920 let's be honest, probably this year and next year, his last two of his legitimate prime. 147 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:10,920 That's painful if Houston catches Golden State and knocks them out of the play-in tournament, 148 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:11,920 because he's on an eight game win streak. 149 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,920 And they are absolutely rolling. They're young, they're feisty. 150 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:21,920 Imae Adoka figured something out with that team, which is not surprising, it's Imae Adoka. 151 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:27,920 But he may have figured something out with that team. 152 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:36,920 Okay, so our next topic is about John T. Porter of the Toronto Rappers. 153 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:38,920 He's been removed from the lineup. 154 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,920 And the reason why it's kind of an awkward change is because more news, 155 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,920 Wolves is breaking more news right now. He's tweeting about it rather. 156 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,920 So a couple hours ago, Wolves and a couple other guys, myself included, 157 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:57,920 were breaking news of the NBA had removed, or rather, the Toronto Rappers had removed 158 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:05,920 center John T. Porter from their lineup due to betting irregularities around Porter. 159 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:14,920 And the two main situations were a game on January 26 and a game on March 20. 160 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:19,920 So Wolves is tweeted out, it's like 7.50 a.m. 161 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,920 Wolves is tweeted out, more reporting for ASP and David Perdom, 162 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,920 sorry if I mispronounced that. 163 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:29,920 At least one other U.S. sportsbook detected unusual betting interest on Porter props and games in question. 164 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:35,920 A sportsbook industry source told ASP that multiple betting accounts attempted to bet large amounts, 165 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:41,920 upwards of 10K and 20K on Porter unders in the January game against the Clippers. 166 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,920 The betting limit on NBA player props varied by sportsbook and customer, 167 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,920 but it's typically around 1,200. 168 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:53,920 People were trying to do whatever they could to bet John T. Porter props against the Clippers. 169 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,920 So it's saying, and then just a few days ago, the same thing. 170 00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:00,920 We had a bunch of people trying to bet the under for more. 171 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,920 Okay. 172 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:16,920 So I was reading about this story and what happened was there was two games in question. 173 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,920 John T. Porter is more famously the brother of Michael Porter Jr., right? 174 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,920 They played in Missouri together, whatever. 175 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,920 The situation arose when John T., there were several people betting his unders. 176 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:34,920 Usually people getting overs, nobody really paid attention. 177 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:42,920 Like if the guy is supposed to get 9.5, 5.5, 3.5, and hit a 3, he just smashed all his overs, 178 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,920 no one's really going to pay attention. 179 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:50,920 Low number unders catch people's eyes, especially if it's a large amount of money. 180 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:58,920 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. 181 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:03,920 And people were obliterating his unders, right? 182 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,920 Trying to bet an insane amount of money on the unders. 183 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:19,920 So in one of those games in question, Porter subs himself out due to an eyeball like pain or whatever. 184 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:25,920 And everything about his under, of course, hit. 185 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:32,920 Consequently, that ended up being the biggest winner of anybody's day at the Sportsbook. 186 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,920 Like the Sportsbook published which player hit the hardest. 187 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,920 Like basically who won the most money on the land pop, it was probably Porter's unders. 188 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:47,920 And then like another game he does something similar, a lot of money gets put on his unders randomly and he hits it again. 189 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,920 He hits all his unders. 190 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:59,920 So he's been removed. What makes the eyeball game more interesting was like a day later or two days later, he goes over. 191 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:03,920 He has like a pretty good game, like 12 and 7 with like two blocks and a 3. 192 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,920 He plays really, really well. 193 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:10,920 And it's like dude, this eyeball injury kept you from doing even something. 194 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,920 And that's to me what caught the eye of the authorities. 195 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,920 Now a lot of people are going to say, oh, I told you guys, sports was rigged. 196 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,920 OK, John T. Porter isn't changing the landscape. 197 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,920 He plays for the Raptors. 198 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,920 I don't recall naming a Raptor. 199 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,920 I don't recall naming a Toronto Raptors in my standards. 200 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:35,920 Right. So the Toronto Raptors are not about to change the landscape of the NBA betting unders or not. 201 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:36,920 Right. But it does. 202 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:47,920 If somebody is going to be honest, insignificant as John T. Porter is falsifying numbers and rigging numbers for his unders and et cetera. 203 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:53,920 It does put into question bigger games, bigger events, more miraculous comebacks and stuff of that nature. 204 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,920 Who is tied into the gambling aspect? 205 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:04,920 Who is tied into the financial game, upward financial gain if certain events were to occur? 206 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:16,920 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. 207 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:21,920 The integrity of the game is the unfortunate part. 208 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:50,920 So next we're going to shift to the NCAA tournament and talk about what's going down there. 209 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:56,920 Welcome back into the show. 210 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:57,920 I mean, that was a great block. 211 00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:58,920 I don't know about you guys. 212 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,920 That thing had multiple layers. 213 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:01,920 We did FIBA. 214 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:02,920 We had a FIBA segment. 215 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:04,920 We had the NBA. 216 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:05,920 We had national team stuff. 217 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:10,920 We had prospective bumps in play. 218 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:11,920 I mean, we had recollections. 219 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:12,920 It was great. 220 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:14,920 I mean, that was a great block. 221 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:21,920 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. 222 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,920 You learned a lot there. 223 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:24,920 Covered a lot. 224 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:29,920 But jumping into the B block is the NCAA tournament. 225 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:34,920 I will not malign you with every analogy of every game because I didn't watch every game. 226 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,920 I mean, I'm a fan of the men's and the women's side and watch every game. 227 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,920 I won't malign you with it. 228 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:41,920 I did watch a lot of LSU. 229 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:43,920 I'm a LSU fan. 230 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:44,920 I did watch North Carolina. 231 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:46,920 I'm a North Carolina fan. 232 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,920 I saw the end of Creighton, Oregon. 233 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:50,920 Spectacular ending. 234 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:55,920 I'm watching currently Katelyn Clark's last home game at Iowa. 235 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,920 But I won't sit here and malign you with how the tournament looks. 236 00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:01,920 South Carolina is dominant. 237 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:02,920 Who's LSU? 238 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:03,920 I mean, who's what's shocking about that? 239 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:04,920 The women's side, right? 240 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,920 So I will, however, go into how my bracket's looking. 241 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,920 Everybody talks about their bracket. 242 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:18,920 I was out last week so I didn't get to share with you guys my bracket, my Final Four, and et cetera. 243 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:24,920 So on the men's side, my bracket currently ranks 1.1 million in the world. 244 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,920 And the ESPN tournament challenge, that's not great, right? 245 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:34,920 But I'm at 95.6% accuracy entering tonight's contest. 246 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:44,920 I don't have any men's games on tonight, but entering the contest tonight. 247 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:52,920 And my bracket's going to fall because one of my Final Four picks is already out, which is Kentucky. 248 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,920 I was talking about watching a lot of the men's game. 249 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,920 I didn't watch a lot of the men's game this year. 250 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:00,920 I just didn't. 251 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,920 And I kind of picked guys I kind of knew, players I knew. 252 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:07,920 Like I knew Rob Dillingham, right? 253 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:13,920 And I spoke about it on the video show with Jai from the Hey Jai podcast and IMS Productions. 254 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,920 And who I knew was Rob Dillingham. 255 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,920 And I knew him from a couple of times they played LSU. 256 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,920 You know, it was a name I saw. 257 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:30,920 I was watching the, or looking at, not watching, but looking at the mock drafts. 258 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:32,920 And I was like, who are these people? 259 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:33,920 It was like the top ten. 260 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,920 I think I knew one person, Rob Dillingham. 261 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,920 I think I heard the number one overall pick or projected the number one overall pick. 262 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,920 I think it's a French kid. 263 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,920 But like, you know, that was it. 264 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:50,920 It wasn't like in years past where it's just these dogs everywhere. 265 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,920 Like next year, I'm going to watch a lot of men's college basketball next year. 266 00:32:54,920 --> 00:33:00,920 The Booza Boys, Cooper Flag, Bronies probably going to be back for year two. 267 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,920 I'm going to watch a lot of the men's game next year because of the star power. 268 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,920 There's no star power in today's game. 269 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,920 There just isn't. 270 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,920 And so, my final four for the men's side. 271 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,920 I'm going to jump back into the bracket. 272 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,920 I had North Carolina over Connecticut and then Kentucky over Purdue. 273 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:31,920 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. 274 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:32,920 So my champions are alive. 275 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,920 My final four pick of UK is already out. 276 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:41,920 And I'll share with you guys my second chance bracket next week whenever that comes out. 277 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:53,920 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. 278 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:58,920 Although that is going to go up the further we get into the tournament. 279 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:10,920 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. 280 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,920 I can admit, that's a little bit of a bias. 281 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,920 I'm totally going to admit that. 282 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,920 I'm willing to admit that. 283 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:21,920 Because I'm admitting that because I am an LSU, not only fan, I'm an alumni. 284 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:22,920 Right? 285 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:30,920 And so, I kind of picked my final four for the advantage of what would happen for the LSU. 286 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,920 I can admit that, right? 287 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:37,920 And what's better for LSU is that South Carolina's not in the title game. 288 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,920 I'm going to be 100% honest. 289 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,920 That is a horrible matchup for LSU. 290 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,920 We have not beat them in about eight years. 291 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:45,920 We just have it. 292 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:51,920 And no matter what the race is now, LSU pre-Kimokki is a little bit different, right? 293 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:56,920 Because Dawn was in her absolute bag in terms of recruiting and the style of power she had. 294 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:04,920 I mean, Aja Wilson, you know, you have Aliyah Boston, you know, to be, you know, just some of the names. 295 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:09,920 I mean, these are two number one overall picks. These are high level Olympic level players. 296 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,920 She had them on her roster at South Carolina, right? 297 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,920 And there's just a couple of the superstars she's had at South Carolina, right? 298 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,920 LSU at the time was going through the Niki Farkas era. 299 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:20,920 Wasn't all that great. 300 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,920 Kimokki showed up three years ago. 301 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:29,920 Year one was a lot of Niki Farkas players and a lot of just trying to clean the program up 302 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,920 and make it a high level program the way it needs to be. 303 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:33,920 Year two, you win the title. 304 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,920 You still don't beat South Carolina, but you win the title. 305 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,920 Year three, you're the three seed again. 306 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:40,920 You still don't beat South Carolina, right? 307 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:42,920 It's just a bad matchup. 308 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:47,920 What South Carolina has in depth and experience and just know how, LSU doesn't have. 309 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:49,920 Now they're trying to fix, of course. 310 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,920 I think, I mean, personally, Angel Reese is back next year. 311 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:59,920 I think her not announcing is kind of seeing where her draft stock is after the tournament. 312 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:03,920 I don't think it's going to be any higher than seven. 313 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:05,920 I think she comes back next year, right? 314 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,920 Haley Van Lyth is still projected top five. 315 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:14,920 I think she deuces up LSU as she moves on. 316 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,920 But it would not shock me if she returns next year. 317 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,920 There's already a six foot five transfer coming in from Arkansas. 318 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:27,920 So she was looking to be more South Carolina like in terms of just, South Carolina has size everywhere. 319 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,920 Literally, they're a really, really big team. 320 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,920 They're in size everywhere at South Carolina, right? 321 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,920 And so that is kind of what the Roberts choice is. 322 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:45,920 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. 323 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:55,920 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. 324 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,920 You know, I didn't do that, right? 325 00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:59,920 But in that final four, I think LSU is going to be UCLan. 326 00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:00,920 I just do. 327 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:01,920 There's too much. 328 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:02,920 I think LSU is a better team. 329 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:04,920 Although they didn't play like it early. 330 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:11,920 I told my dad when I went to see him this weekend, like, hey, welcome LSU's girls team to the tournament. 331 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:15,920 They told them to come six quarters because they didn't play like themselves for six quarters in that tournament. 332 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,920 They just had to be better than the other team they played. 333 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:33,920 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. 334 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:44,920 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. 335 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:53,920 So that is kind of what I'm thinking there that I have LSU over Stanford, like I said, winning it all. 336 00:37:53,920 --> 00:38:01,920 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. 337 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,920 But I think I lost a little bit in the back and forth. 338 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,920 My point. 339 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:09,920 My point was on the show. 340 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:16,920 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. 341 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:18,920 Name five players from the men's game right now. 342 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:25,920 Right now. Like boom. Like he five seconds. 343 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:30,920 Okay, now we've all been watching men's March Madness. We've all had our eyes on it. 344 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,920 I got Rob Dylan Cammy's that evening. 345 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:42,920 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. 346 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:48,920 But update. I would have gone into the tournament with two of those three days. 347 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:53,920 I still would have known that evening about billing hammer and that's it. 348 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,920 Okay, now I'll do the same exact exercise. 349 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:06,920 You got five seconds to name me five women players right now. Go. 350 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:12,920 Okay, I can almost guarantee you had three and you were trying to snap your way into a couple of more. 351 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,920 You were saying the girl from right. 352 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:17,920 That's a lot better than doing them inside. 353 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,920 I can almost guarantee. 354 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:21,920 I'm serious. 355 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:27,920 I can almost wow. Katelyn Clark just let off a couple of exeblips. 356 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,920 But wow. 357 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:36,920 Anyway, I can almost guarantee you did a lot better on the women's side. 358 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:42,920 You had Katelyn Clark injuries, Floddy Johnson, Haley Van Lyft. I'm an LSU fan, so I'm a little partial. 359 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:49,920 But Cameron Brink, Aaliyah Edwards, Paige Becker's. 360 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:56,920 And etc. I can almost guarantee that was some names that you ratted off fairly quickly. 361 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,920 Juju Watkins. 362 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,920 You see, I can even pause and think of some more names. 363 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:08,920 That's not happening on the men's side. 364 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,920 You're not pausing and thinking of even more names. 365 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,920 I figured somebody out. This person. 366 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:18,920 No, no, I can give you all day on the men's side. You're never going to think of anybody else. 367 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:24,920 And on the women's side, the longer you sit there and think, the more you figure out. 368 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,920 Wait, this person, that person, this person. 369 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,920 You know, you just start putting people back and forth, back and forth together. 370 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:40,920 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. 371 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:51,920 Right. And so the NCAA created a problem that the NBA also created and they created the same problem in two different variations. 372 00:40:51,920 --> 00:41:02,920 The NCAA and the NBA created a problem where their entire season boils down to six weeks. 373 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:10,920 The whole thing, the whole thing boils down to six weeks. 374 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:16,920 The entire season for the men, actually for the NCAA, it's about three weeks. 375 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:27,920 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. 376 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:34,920 Right. And it's four weeks in college basketball called March Madness. 377 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:40,920 No one cares about men's college basketball this season, especially this season, before March Madness. 378 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:47,920 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. 379 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,920 But no one cared about men's college basketball three weeks ago. 380 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,920 Unless you were ramping up for your bracket. 381 00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,920 And then if you go to the women's side, people were watching it. 382 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:06,920 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. 383 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,920 I've heard of her. I know who that is. I've heard of her. 384 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:16,920 They said at absolute worst, you did the I've heard of her or that name sounds familiar. 385 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,920 They start snapping. You start with like, man, who is the old? That's her. 386 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:30,920 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. 387 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,920 Like you've seen this kind of stuff. Right. 388 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:38,920 The NBA did the same thing. The NBA with ring culture. 389 00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:44,920 Put everything in their entire season. They put it in the six weeks. 390 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:51,920 So now it doesn't matter that LeBron James having the greatest by far 21 21st. 391 00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:57,920 It's not even close. If you put the next four PPGs together, it doesn't equal his number. 392 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:04,920 Like, and no one cares because no one's going to care if he bouts in the first round of playoffs. 393 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:12,920 Right. And no one's going to care if SGA is the MVP and he accepts it after losing in the second round. 394 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:25,920 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. 395 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,920 That's right. Who didn't be last year? 396 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,920 I just tested. Who was the NBA MVP last year? 397 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,920 Okay, it was okay because he won. 398 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:46,920 Okay, who was the NBA MVP in 2012? 399 00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:52,920 You have no idea. I do. It's LeBron. 400 00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:57,920 But no one remembers that. I'm trying to think of a year where the MVP and the champ didn't go together. 401 00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,920 But anyway, so a lot of time with ring culture, that's a problem. 402 00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:07,920 Like so much of the accomplishments are just erased. Charles Barkley is going to get screwed in history. 403 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:12,920 Charles Barkley is one of the 30 greatest players ever. He's one of the top five power forwards ever. 404 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:17,920 He's going to get abused in history. Why? He doesn't have a ring. 405 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:22,920 So people are going to discount him and just remove him. He doesn't have a championship. 406 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:29,920 So many of these guys, you know, that are great players are being discarded because of rings. 407 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,920 Because Joe Ellen Beade is still being discounted because he's never been to conference finals. 408 00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:39,920 Jason Tatum is being slandered a lot of the time because he's never been to a conference finals. 409 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:41,920 And that's the NBA's problem, right? 410 00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:52,920 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 411 00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:56,920 until a conference tournament and instead of like tournament time. So that's about six weeks. 412 00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,920 You have the tournaments a week, then there's about a few days and then you got a four week incidentally tournament day. 413 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:06,920 So about five, six weeks on both sides, you created a market, you created an idea, you created an identity. 414 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:11,920 Where the only thing that matters is the tournament. 415 00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:20,920 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? 416 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:27,920 Who's the reigning national player of the year? And there's people legitimately saying, who's the big guy out of Purdue? 417 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,920 Why is he only a second round pick? Like, da da da da da da. 418 00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:38,920 And I'm having to bring you back to the reality of he is a lumbering giant who can't shoot. 419 00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:46,920 The game, the game doesn't have that in it anymore. 420 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:52,920 Right. And I spoke about it before. He's going to go to Europe and be amazing. 421 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:57,920 I hope he doesn't force the NBA too long because he's going to go to Europe and be spectacular. 422 00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:03,920 He's seven foot four. He's big. He's lumbering. He's got post moves. He's got defense. 423 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:13,920 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. 424 00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:19,920 So I hope he doesn't try to force the NBA too long if it doesn't work out early. 425 00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:27,920 But just going back to the tournament, the women's game is so vastly improved in college. 426 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:32,920 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. 427 00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:39,920 One of the things I like, top four C host. Whoever is the top four C, you host your little mini bracket. 428 00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:44,920 So it's like, yes, there's regions. So in the women's game, unfortunately, has two regions. 429 00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:50,920 There's Portland, one Portland, two Albany, three and Albany for. 430 00:46:50,920 --> 00:47:02,920 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. 431 00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,920 The game that didn't involve Iowa was empty. 432 00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:10,920 Well, if you neutral sided all the games like LSU is going to fill up, pull up people up in the gym. 433 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:15,920 They don't matter. They don't care. Texas people up in the gym. 434 00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:18,920 There's certain brands, Iowa, certain brands will put people up in the gym. 435 00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:25,920 But for the most part, people are not going to go fill up gyms for the women's game. 436 00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:30,920 So the idea of the higher seed hosting, it becomes a home game. 437 00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:39,920 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. 438 00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:41,920 I probably have the best superstar. 439 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,920 I'm probably going to get the calls because they want that superstar to advance. 440 00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:46,920 I'm being honest. And I'm at home. 441 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,920 So I don't have to travel to me. It's home games. 442 00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,920 I have my home crowd. Everyone's against you. 443 00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:54,920 You had to travel. You had to stay here. 444 00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:59,920 You had to mentally prepare yourself to be here multiple days, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 445 00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:03,920 Like that is huge. It's big. 446 00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,920 And that's where I think a lot of times you don't see the upsets in the women's game. 447 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,920 Like the 14 seeds are 0 and 120. 448 00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:10,920 That's what I thought the women's tournament. 449 00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:12,920 Like you don't see the big upsets. Why? 450 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,920 Because that 14 had to play that three seed on a three seed home floor. 451 00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:20,920 It's not some random empty gym in Saskatchewan. 452 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:27,920 Not just a random empty gym in Des Moines where these either one or two teams are anywhere located to those cities. 453 00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:31,920 And there's 15,000 seed gyms with 6,000 people. 454 00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,920 And now there's no home court events, et cetera, et cetera. 455 00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:36,920 That row team gets hot. 456 00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:41,920 Like we saw LSU play Rice. That row team gets hot. 457 00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:43,920 And now that low seed gets hot. 458 00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,920 And now there's no crowd to amp you back up to pull you in. 459 00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:47,920 You kind of kind of pull your energy. 460 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:49,920 It adds a different element, right? 461 00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:58,920 And so I think on the men's game, I wonder what's the financial benefit of those neutral side games. 462 00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:00,920 Seriously. 463 00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,920 Or could they say, OK, how about this? 464 00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:08,920 Kentucky is the three seed, or the two seed. 465 00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,920 So they host their little mini-racket. 466 00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:15,920 Whoever they're scheduled to play in that next round, seeding wise, goes to them, whatever. 467 00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,920 And they play in a rough arena. 468 00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,920 It's still a neutral site for three of the teams. 469 00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:25,920 But you're guaranteed a sellout for the Kentucky game. 470 00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:27,920 Like, right? 471 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:32,920 So if and when they win it, that's another guaranteed sellout. 472 00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:36,920 You do it NCAA style. You split the profit at the gate. 473 00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:38,920 And everybody goes unhappy. 474 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:46,920 You get a relationship where you establish having two sellout games. 475 00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,920 You don't get these weird empty-gem games. 476 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:55,920 No, you play like, imagine how sold out if Grambling went to Purdue. 477 00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:56,920 It's a sellout. 478 00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,920 Without a shadow of a doubt, it's a sellout of a game. 479 00:49:59,920 --> 00:50:05,920 Because Purdue, it's an opportunity for a home game. 480 00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:06,920 Right? 481 00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:09,920 You know, it's an opportunity for automatic sellout. 482 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:11,920 It's going to happen every time. 483 00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:13,920 So I think the men's game should look into that. 484 00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:14,920 That's really cool. 485 00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:18,920 And then for the Sweet 16 and the Elite 8, you go to neutral site. 486 00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:21,920 Like, to me, okay, now you're going to reside at that point. 487 00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:28,920 But for the round of 64 and 32, having the higher seed host or that little region host is pretty dope. 488 00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:55,920 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. 489 00:50:55,920 --> 00:51:00,920 Welcome back into the show. 490 00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,920 And now we're going to talk about the NFL. 491 00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,920 Because, of course, the NFL can't let anybody have anything on their own. 492 00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,920 I always talk about that a few episodes back. 493 00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:15,920 Might have been late season four or early in the episode season five. 494 00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:21,920 The NFL calendar is designed where they can't let anybody have anything, literally at all. 495 00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,920 They're trying to take the Christmas Day away from the NBA. 496 00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,920 They won't give them Thanksgiving. 497 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:36,920 They now in the middle of the NBA season have very much so amplified their trade deadline. 498 00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:43,920 NFL's free agency again comes right in the middle of the NBA season. 499 00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,920 And then they have their annual league meetings. 500 00:51:47,920 --> 00:52:06,920 They have their annual league meetings again right in the middle of the NBA's ramping up to the playoffs. 501 00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:08,920 What does the NFL do? 502 00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:13,920 Annual league meetings, coaches' photos, league rule changes. 503 00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:17,920 Don't pay attention to us over there, pay attention to us. 504 00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:22,920 Again, the NFL draft is weeks away at this point. 505 00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:26,920 It's like 30 days away, give or take, 26-ish. 506 00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:33,920 I mean, we're talking the NFL is going to be dominating the media all over again. 507 00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:38,920 And the big thing that came out of the NFL annual league meetings was the hip drop tackle. 508 00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:40,920 For those of you who do not know, 509 00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:46,920 the reason why a player, a player from behind or the side, from what the league showed, 510 00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:50,920 jumps in the air, kind of swings their weight and pulls a player back. 511 00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:56,920 It's very similar to the players usually fall in a very similar mansion of the horse collar. 512 00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:03,920 But what makes the hip drop tackle so brutal to the body is a lot of times the players are jumping 513 00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:07,920 and landing on the ankles and the knees of the player they're tackling. 514 00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,920 We had a lot of guys go out to high ankle sprains or worse, 515 00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,920 Mark Andrews and Tony Pollard being the main two. 516 00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:21,920 And I believe were the first two examples of the tackle being shown in the video of what's going to be flagged now. 517 00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:28,920 Players went up and on, it's flag football, let's take this, put flags on, the defense got no chance. 518 00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:34,920 But also the NFL decided that the replay official can review rough in the back circles. 519 00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:39,920 So that's going to help a lot of guys out because they believe there's no way it's rough in the passer. 520 00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:41,920 And then they get the flag anyway and it's game changing. 521 00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,920 Well, the replay official can go in and say, no, that's not rough in the passer. 522 00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:46,920 That could be huge. 523 00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,920 But the hip drop tackle is an unsafe tackle. I'm just going to be honest, it is. 524 00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:52,920 To me it's no different than a horse collar. 525 00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,920 But I'm a defensive coach, so I understand it. 526 00:53:55,920 --> 00:54:01,920 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. 527 00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:06,920 And he was saying, his big thing was, what do you teach the kids? 528 00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,920 Everything should be centered of what do you teach. 529 00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:15,920 Like the NFL sets the precedent for college, which sets the precedent for high school. 530 00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:20,920 So whenever that person gets to college or beyond, they know the basic of what you want to know. 531 00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:22,920 So what do you teach the kids is what he said. 532 00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:27,920 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. 533 00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:31,920 If you're coming in from behind, grab and turn. 534 00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:35,920 You know, or, but the NFL gave clarification. 535 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,920 They don't mind when you grab a guy from behind and you kind of sit down. 536 00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:41,920 That's fine. 537 00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:46,920 What they were getting rid of, or what they were attempting to legislate out of the game, is the jump drop. 538 00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:51,920 And when I told him that, he said, oh okay, no, that one I get. That's not that bad. 539 00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:57,920 Because when you grab a guy at the waist and you jump on the back of his leg, like that's incredibly dangerous. 540 00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,920 Right. And so a lot of times, a lot of fans were up in arms. 541 00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:06,920 And of course, fans always complain about a game that they played no further than high school or rec league. 542 00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:10,920 And you know, that's how I play the safety of grown men and it's just a whole other thing. 543 00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,920 Guys feeding their families. 544 00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:17,920 But what often isn't talked about, what often I will say, 545 00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:24,920 is that NFL players almost to a letter would rather you hit them high. 546 00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:27,920 And I know we're legislating concussions out of the game. 547 00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:34,920 I know concussions cause irreparable damage to the brain, CTE, spinal injuries, et cetera. 548 00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,920 I get it. 549 00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:44,920 Ask most NFL players almost to a T where they would rather get hit. 550 00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:47,920 To a man, they will almost always say high. 551 00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:51,920 Because they say high, a lot of the times they don't get concussed. 552 00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,920 You can kind of protect yourself with your shoulder. 553 00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,920 And on top of that, you hit me low, you blow my knee out of my career is over. 554 00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:02,920 You hit me high, I get a concussion, I'm going to miss a game or two, I'll be back though. 555 00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,920 You know what I'm saying? And that's how a lot of guys see it. 556 00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:08,920 They're looking at the fact that financially, they knew when they signed up to play this game, 557 00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:10,920 they were going to be physical, rough, tough. 558 00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:13,920 They were going to struggle to walk. They were going to do whatever. 559 00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,920 You know, the situation was. 560 00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,920 They signed up for a career to feed their families. 561 00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,920 And they kind of look at it as, you know, if I finally get that big deal 562 00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:30,920 that could really change my family's circumstance, and you blow my knee out of my career is over, 563 00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,920 it was all for nothing. 564 00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:35,920 And so they'd rather get hit high. 565 00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:41,920 They have a little CTE, they're fine with it. 566 00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:45,920 Guys like Warren Sapp who have openly talked about there's memory gaps and there's issues 567 00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:46,920 and there's stuff like that. 568 00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:50,920 Like he'll drive to somewhere and then he'll, not wake up, 569 00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:54,920 but effectively he'll get to that location and be like, how do you get there? 570 00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:56,920 You know, it's just stuff like that happening. 571 00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:02,920 But if you told him, okay, I'll give you perfect memory, perfect brain function, whatever, 572 00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:07,920 for 20 less million dollars in the bank and seven years out of your career, 573 00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:09,920 he'll tell you, no, I'm good. 574 00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:16,920 It's just stuff that these guys have not only accepted, but they've embraced. 575 00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:18,920 They'd rather get hit up high than hit low. 576 00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:20,920 And so that's a very interesting thing. 577 00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:23,920 But the hip drop is officially out of the NFL. 578 00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:24,920 It will be legislated. 579 00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:29,920 I'm sure it will be a mess of a call the first few weeks. 580 00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:32,920 It's going to be heavily flagged in the preseason. 581 00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:34,920 They're going to want to over flag it. 582 00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:36,920 And the preseason kind of regulated it out. 583 00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:41,920 And then, of course, after half a year, it will be like it's always been there. 584 00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:44,920 A lot of overreaction from fans today, but the NFL, of course, 585 00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:52,920 stealing headlines from March Madness and from the NBA. 586 00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:55,920 But that is all I have for you guys today. 587 00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:58,920 Remember to follow on all social media platforms, 588 00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:00,920 the social media handle at JTimeSports. 589 00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:02,920 As always, don't forget to like, rate, subscribe, and share 590 00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:07,920 so that you can support podcasts on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. 591 00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:11,920 Look for the video show on YouTube today as well. 592 00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:14,920 That should be released today per my producer. 593 00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:16,920 I just talked to him actually while recording this. 594 00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:22,920 He told me that that will be on YouTube today. 595 00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:26,920 So by the time you guys hear this, it will be right around the same time released. 596 00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:30,920 So you have the audio show and you have the video show on the same day. 597 00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:32,920 We'll try to keep from doing that too often. 598 00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,920 In the perfect world, they're spaced out a little bit. 599 00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:39,920 And I may have to edit my audio show recordings in order for the video show to work, 600 00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:43,920 but we'll get to that scheduling situation later. 601 00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:45,920 But that is all I have for today. 602 00:58:45,920 --> 00:59:01,920 This is your host and owner, Justin Jackson. 603 00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:23,920 Thank you.