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Welcome into the show season 5 episode 21
One of my favorite shows as you guys can tell
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But anyway let's start off with our A Block
Our A Block starts off with the NFL
We're going to start off the field first
And then we're going to come on the field
We're going to start off with the NFL
It's never a league that truly ever stops off the field
It's one of those situations where
You have a lot of guys
It's one of the bigger leagues in American sports
It's actually I think the biggest player league in majors in professional sports
Now if you count the minor leagues as baseball
But think about basketball
Basketball has 15 people on the roster
That's 30 teams
It's 450 guys I think is the number every year
It's 12 by 12, 144
The NHL I think it's in the 20s
There's only 30 teams though
Basketball the NFL has 53 men on the roster
32 teams plus the practice squad
So you're looking at thousands of players at a time in the NFL
So just percentage wise you're looking at a higher chance
And you look at what these men are usually made of
These men are usually made of
They're bigger, they're stronger, they're more aggressive
They literally hit people for a living
So there's a tendency at times to have incidents occur
Whenever you're dealing with NFL players
It's just the way it's been set up over the past few years
Like I said we look at the number of professional
Excuse me
We look at the number of professional sports
They have probably about a quarter total professional athletes in this country
In terms of our major sports
Hockey, basketball, think about it
Two basketball rosters put together is half of a football roster
That's not even counted in the practice squad
So if you're looking at just the tendency
It's more than likely going to be an NFL player in an incident
It's just the way the numbers have broken out
It's the way it comes to part, the way it comes together
And so we have our latest incident with an NFL player
This one involving police
We see body cam footage of Tyra Kill
So I'm sure you guys have heard every single opinion on it
Every single viewpoint on it
The way media is set up now
You pretty much hear what you want to hear
And the reason why I say that is you can choose to listen to Fox
Fox News is going to give you one perspective
Just as opposed to CNN
Just as opposed to what you see on Twitter
As opposed to what you see on
I can't even think of that social media app that Donald Trump uses
But you get all these different social medias
And all these different opinions
And you can cater what you see based on what you want to see
Personally, I do my best to keep any reporting 50-50
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So I want that to be pointed out before we move on
Anyway, back to the Tyreek Hill thing
So this was a situation
And one of the angles of the body cam footage is shown on my social media platforms
Tyreek Hill gets pulled over by the Miami police
Now it was reportedly at first over a traffic violation
Now that has since gotten convoluted and misconstrued into what it possibly could have been
But it was reportedly a traffic violation at first
Now this ultimately revolves in Tyreek Hill getting thrown on the ground
Four police officers surrounding him
You see a different area where he goes, oh no, that's one of the star players for the Dolphins
This isn't a regular black guy
This could be one of the star players for the Dolphins
It reminded a lot of people of Scottie Schaeffler outside of the Masters
At like 4 or 5 in the morning
He was heading into the Masters and gets arrested
Again, a traffic violation
He was heard yelling back and forth and there was an incident
There was an incident in this case
Tyreek Hill is calling for the firing of the police officers involved
One of the police officers was placed on administrative leave or duty
The changes depend on where you look
He was placed, you basically hear a woo from the streets following this incident
And it kind of feels like it's another incident
As a black man in this country, it felt like another incident
Now, thank the Lord, this one wasn't deadly
Tyreek Hill wasn't even seriously harmed
He played that day, had a great game
He even did a handcuff celebration after scoring the touchdown
But it wasn't just Tyreek Hill, Kaleas Campbell was involved
They ended up putting cuffs on Kaleas Campbell
They ultimately called a third teammate he was involved
And it was a situation where it could have been de-escalated on both sides
I will say that, I won't say Tyreek Hill was a peaceful citizen
Quiet as a church mouse and got roughed up
I'm not going to say that
But at the same time, I'm not going to hold a football player
In this case, a civilian to the same standard as a professional
Whose job primarily is de-escalation
Who failed at that job
It's no different than if you're a teacher
That kid isn't going to be held to the same standard as the adult
That's a little bit of a heart, not the best linear example
Because I was Tyreek Hill's grown man
But this is no different than when an intern messes up
Versus one of somebody who's been seasoned
I'm not going to hold you to the same standard
You don't have the training, you're not held under that same code
If you as a person are held under a code to what you're thinking about you
You as a police officer should not be thinking in that same manner
You should think about the good of the situation
De-escalation is number one
Number one priority, that was failed
So, like I said, this was one of our, I don't want to say warning shot incidents
In terms of it was not deadly
There was no injuries, Tyreek Hill
There was no back-alleged situation
There was no, you know what I'm saying
It was one of our better ones
However, it was still something that was way too far in the direction that it went
And so, hopefully that is rectified in the not so distant future
Like I said, Tyreek Hill's calling for removal
I'm not sure I would go removal
In this case, now, internal investigation comes out with more details
Yes, obviously remove them
Do I think they should be out the streets for six months to a year? Yes
Do I think if they have any level above entry level
They should be faced with automatic demotion
Probably a couple of notches, yes
Because you have to make this punitive to officers to act this way
Automatic firing, I think whoever's slammed into the ground should be gone
The others, anybody else who was not directly involved
Or did not step in to remove those police officers should be bumped down a couple levels
All the way down to desk duty or something
And their page should reflect that
But that is something that is not for me to decide
That is something I would look for
I totally understand Tyreek Hill calling for the removal of those officers
If I was in his situation, I probably would too
But that is something that we're going to keep our eye on
Statements have been released all over the place, videos went out all over the place
So we're definitely going to keep our eye on it
This is not the last you will see and hear of this, I'm sure of it
So we're going to keep you guys very up to date on what happens in this case
Or future incident
And our next incident with an NFL player off the field
It feels like I've been saying this for like the 28th time
Deshaun Watson is being accused again
This time by Jane Doe, she has chosen to remain nameless
Although the attorneys know, Doe is involved
But she has publicly filed under the name Jane Doe
The details are interesting
I mean the details are disturbing
I'm just going to be honest with you, they're disturbing if true
And again, Deshaun allegedly, it's allegedly at this point
His lawyer Tony Busby has stated that there's a video that they're going to have
That's going to get this case, you know, that's going to take care of this case
But the allegations are disturbing
An interesting one was a poor word earlier
But they are disturbing
It's the typical Deshaun Watson stuff
It's inappropriate touching, it's forced upon, it's accusations of rape
Like it is standard Deshaun Watson stuff
It's anything that if it's anybody else, they're automatically on the exemplus
And for Deshaun, it feels like we've reached the point in his life story
In his career arc where it's, oh my God, expect it's a bad word
But it's not shocking anymore
It's not something that we look at and go, oh man, Deshaun Watson's wilding out
It's like Deshaun's Deshaun
Now this is an accusation from 2020, I believe
This is not recent
Well, it is recent, but I'm saying this is not, you know, since he's been a Brown
This is in the same era as the other accusations
You know, he's not going to be suspended by the team until the legal process plays out
He's not going to go into the exemplus
According to his owner, he's going to, I mean, according to his agent, lawyer rather
There's a video that's going to, I guess, exonerate him
But this has got to come to an end if you're Deshaun Watson
You're playing piss poorly for whatever reason
I think he took a year-long absence from the hardest position in professional sports
And you're seeing the result of said hard position and not doing it regularly
When Deshaun Watson left the field for the last time as a Houston Texan
He was inarguably a top five quarterback, a highly, a very widely considered top three quarterback
And an arguable best quarterback
The only quarterback you can say that definitively was better than him
Is Patrick Mahomes, who came back on him in the playoff game
Everybody else, Deshaun Watson, you can make a real case was better than at the time
Now he's a disaster
Forget the money, forget the trade assets
Quarterback, purely watching him play quarterback, he is awful
I mean, he is downright, like, bad
Like, it's not even a situation where it's funny to say or it's enjoyable or this, that, and the third
He is not good at the quarterback position right now
And the Cleveland Browns are suffering because of it
I mean, they, you know, and they can't even financially begin to contemplate to move on from him in front of the two seasons
Because right now, if they were to, let's say, cut him, they'll be paying more dead cap
Twice as much dead cap as Denver paid to remove Russell Wilson
Right, so you're not even in a position where you can get rid of him
In the event he continues to play poorly, you've got to ride this out
Now, could his poor play be a, a, a result of the fact that he probably feels, you know, fairly untouchable
I had all those accusations, I did all this different stuff
And he was able still to waltz right in and get the biggest contract in NFL history
The most guaranteed money in NFL history
And have his pick of the litter in terms of where he wanted to go
People forget, and you know, and people talk about now that, oh, it was the worst trade in NFL history, blah, blah, blah
People forgot that when Deshaun was, you know, able to come back from his accusations
He was able to go to multiple locations
He wanted Atlanta, Atlanta didn't come in with the right guarantee money
Although he was still going to go to Atlanta, I think for 180 of the 230
He was going to Atlanta
And then ultimately he decides, you know, Cleveland comes in with the full 230
Nobody's willing to match it
He heads to Cleveland, but he took a visit with the Saints
He was headed to Atlanta
He took a visit with the new Texans regime
You know, he had multiple locations he could have gone
And he ultimately chose Cleveland
Not only is that a financial decision, but he chooses Cleveland nonetheless
And so now you look at him now and it's like, what's going on?
He looks unsure of himself, he looks unconfident
He looks like he doesn't know what he's doing out there
Which considering as a guy who is, you know, naturally confident, naturally swagging and in a position with confidence is everything
This is huge for Deshaun Watson to not be himself
I think these accusations have something to do with it
He's getting booed and protested at home
There's no real comfort zone for him right now
So I definitely think he should look a little bit better once he gets his confidence down
But switching gears to on the field, on the field
I'm going to start off with some individual players and I'm going to shift to some teams
Joe Burrow and his wrist injury has been the headline of the past few days
And one of those things is his wrist
It was a video of him appearing to struggle to pick up a water bottle
He was flexing the wrist constantly throughout the game this day and a third
He said he wasn't struggling to pick up a water bottle, he was just picking it up
And that he is fine physically
And so I think it's one of those things where when you come off an injury, you've got to test that thing
Whatever that thing is, you have to test that thing in a variety of ways
And I think that his testing of that thing is just him flexing, he's moving around
As a kid on my high school team, he broke his leg
And even when he was healthy, you could tell that he broke his leg in his 8th grade year
Set out his 9th grade year and just told me rather recently that he doesn't think about his leg anymore
And then we're thinking two years later and he had to have a real game, get hit and be like, I'm fine
In order for him to not think about his leg anymore
So you look at a guy like Joe Burrow who's constantly injured
A right wrist is the money maker, his right arm is how he makes his money
And so thinking about that constantly is something that I imagine is not enjoyable
Especially considering that you're looking at a team that struggled against a not so great Patriots team
I mean 10 offensive points, I get it, Jamar Chase missed pretty much all offseason
I understand, but you had to be able to produce and they couldn't do anything
Man, a Patriots defense is going to be real, they're going to do that to a lot of people
But they have to be able to muster 17 points
To be the Patriots team that at no point was offensively dominant, at no point were they rolling offensively
And putting a bunch of pressure on the Bengals
So that's got to get fixed up if you're in Cincinnati
CJ Stroud vs Anthony Richardson, what a show of physical quarterback prowess
Yes, CJ Stroud who took the league by storm last year
Who immediately shows up and he's top 7 in the league
He threw a couple of beautiful passes to Stephon Diggs for big first downs
A couple of balls over the middle, that was huge for first downs as well
A couple of big touchdowns to Diggs
CJ Stroud played a hell of a game and it definitely showed that he was one guy who was looking to take his game to the next level
And then Anthony Richardson, my god, he threw arguably one of the best passes we've ever seen in the NFL
68 yards in the air, not really having his feet set, getting hit, low key fading away on a line
It was a piss rocket, drops right into the bucket for the Terzamex
It's one of the best throws I've ever seen in my life
They're already up there for play, ain't that a throw of the year
It was insane how far and how talented Anthony Richardson was to not only make that throw, but to even dream that throw to be possible
And then the rookie quarterbacks struggled in their debuts
Bo Nix was bad, Caleb Williams was bad, and Bo Nix honestly couldn't have had enough of his teammates
He could have been a little bit better
Caleb Williams was awful, he adjusted to preseason speed well, he did not adjust to the NFL speed well, he was picked apart
And then Caleb Williams, not Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels just didn't do enough
He played against a pretty good offense going against him, so I'm sure that was pressure to continue to score the ball and make the most of every single opportunity
Which he definitely tried to do, it just wasn't enough, against a pretty good offensive team
It's rare that you get a rookie that'll show up and be dominant, but no, he was no different than anything else, he was not dominant at all
He had his moments, he had his flashes, it really wasn't anything special
Of course, you know, J.J. McCarthy is out for the season with the Minnesota Vikings
But we have two teams that I want to discuss, and I can kind of take them at the same time
The New York Jets and the Carolina Panthers
The Jets are bad, the Panthers are awful, let's start off with the Panthers
They lost 47-10 to the New Orleans Saints
You heard me correctly, 47-10 in an NFL game in week one
So you're not even thinking, I can't even say, oh, but they're practice ball guys
No, no, that was your team
In week one, you lost 47-10 to a Saints team that might win seven games all season
But the Panthers are bad, the Panthers are one of the worst rosters in the NFL
They have one of the worst quarterbacks in the NFL, they have one of the worst coaches in the NFL
The GM is not awful, although he is being awful right now, generally he's all right
I mean the Panthers are just bad like they're just like they're really bad
like um they are god-awful and then the Jets are bad I don't know how bad the
Jets are how good the Niners are because the Jets physically just were
destroyed by the Niners and the Niners play the bills tonight and we're gonna
talk about that in a couple of minutes my apologies the Dolphins play the bills
in a couple of minutes again we're gonna talk about that the Dolphins play the bills
tonight and we're gonna talk about that in a couple of minutes of course but when
you're looking at you know those two teams Panthers and the Jets you have the
Panthers who everybody thinks is gonna be bad and they're living up to it and
then the Jets who everybody thinks is gonna be really good cuz some AFC East predictions got
drugged by the Niners to open it up so I'm hoping both of those things were a
fluke I like competitive football games and having uncompetitive teams kind of
ruins it oh the Giants also bad that offense terrible if it isn't Malik
neighbors they don't know what they're gonna do with their life
Daniel Jones awful um he needs to definitely get on the call with
somebody and try and bring in another quarterback because Daniel Jones is
disrespectfully bad but up next we're gonna chat about Thursday Night Football
so you got the bills at the Jets I believe right now the Jets are three
point favorites I'll double check that but I believe I saw earlier the Jets
with three point favorites and it's not the Jets bills at the Dolphins my
apologies but so I believe that yeah though Miami's minus two and a half right
now I've got the bills to win this game straight up I think they're gonna win it
on the money line it's a good game it's a game we're being in Miami this time of
year it's gonna be isn't a big help to the Dolphins because everybody's warm
it's not a situation where it's like October and our November and Buffalo's
now you know 20 degrees and Miami's still 85 like that's when it gets to a
biological advantage but you know Miami's 90 Buffalo's 80 I guess not a
big enough deal to where the weather should come into a factor but this is
gonna be a good game like I said I've got the bills winning this game over
your money line it's not my Jax pack obviously because it is a Thursday night
game but I've got the bills winning this game straight up now up next I'm gonna
shift to an NFL betting segment Jax pack
welcome back into the show as we down jump into our NFL betting segment Jax
pack where we got a positive start last week we started off three into a couple
of heartbreakers I'm not gonna lie to you that um that Arizona Buffalo game that
hurts like we got it at plus five and a half and you're multiple one playaways
from nailing that bet I mean first of all Arizona was up like 17 or 20 points
then even in the comeback just keep it within six fellas like and then you have
the last drive where Marvin Harris Jr. runs wide open but Kyle is already
running for his life otherwise Kyle makes an easy flip to Marvin Harris
Jr. and not only does the plus six five and a half hits the money line hits
because as you guys know if you weren't here for the last episodes no it doesn't
affect our season long bets at all however the Arizona over under
was over was a juicy number I think it was seven and a half so that was a
number that I was looking at a lot of different places adding into the bets
one of my outside bets one of my stay away because I'm gonna hit too perfectly
but winning at Buffalo was not one of the wins I thought they would get and they
were a second away you know if he breaks open a little bit faster Kyla flips it
out of his hand and even if he gets hit a drops in the Harrison Jr. they win the
game you know like it's just so much what's happening there we were really
close to you know but in short we were really close to being four and one but
three and two week one it's not bad usually the first few weeks of the
seasons where everybody kind of off and you either get off to a really hot start
at the beginning and kind of balance your way out once Vegas kind of catches
on or you start off really bad and then when the numbers kind of settle out you
kind of even your way out again as we said a lot last season here before that
57% is the number you want to hit to be considered a professional gambler so if
you hit 57% of your bets you can be a professional gambler and make a profit
because you'll lose and the reason why it's not 50 51 is because of juice and
you may hit a bet with less juice and lose a bet with bigger juice and you
know you end up losing your money in a different way and this at a third but if
you get 57% that'll cover all your juice you'll be a profitable gambler you can
be a professional gambler and making living off of gambling so right now
we're at 60% so we are definitely above that threshold although it is just week
one but anyway let's get into our numbers for this week I actually love our
numbers for this week this is a week again I don't think that Vegas has
figured it out just quite yet so we're gonna take advantage of Vegas while
they are still trying to get their life together our number one bet our primo bet
our lock is Ravens minus 9 at Raiders I'm sorry home against the Raiders they
ain't even got to travel look if I've learned anything about this I learned
anything about the Baltimore team for anything about hardball for anything
about Lamar they lose especially they lose and they feel they were the better
team as Isaiah likely stated just at a third they come out the next week and
they punish whoever they whoever is in the way Las Vegas Raiders are a good
team Las Vegas Raiders are a good culture they're trying to build a good
team they're starting quarterback is Garnamenshu they're starting running
back is Zemir White they have one player anybody would care about and that's
Devante Adams the Ravens are gonna roll here this number could have been 12 and
a half and I would still bet Ravens think about it the Raiders lost by more
than this to the Chargers and the Chargers were trying to figure their
life out figure their scheme out and the Raiders lost by more than that to them
now you're gonna go into Baltimore for the Baltimore debut they've had over a
week to prepare they've had a week to rest they've had over a week to just sit
and stew and you happen to be the opponent that shows up this is bad for
you I've got Raidens minus nine take the Ravens our second game our second
number is Chargers minus six at the Panthers take the Chargers speaking of
those Chargers that we just discussed and how they beat the Raiders by double
digits the Panthers are awful we discussed in my last topic the Panthers
are the worst team in professional football I don't think it's relatively
close and if I'm the Chargers I actually hit this line is disrespectful because
the Raiders are better than the Panthers and you beat the Raiders by 12 if I'm
the if I'm the Chargers I take this line is disrespectful and I want to punish
the Panthers look now it's week one no one's ever as good as they look in week
one at the Saints the Saints are not 37 points better than anybody and no one's
as bad as they looked in week one again the Panthers are not 37 points worse
than anybody however less than a touchdown like I get it's a east I get
it's a West Coast East Coast travel for the Chargers I understand that but the
Chargers have for the better quarterback they have the better coach they have the
better offensive line they have the better defense they have the better
defensive personnel they have the better GM the better owner and the better fan
base look the Chargers just flat-out better here I think they're gonna win
comfortably by two touchdowns or more and then they get away and hide from the
Panthers early the chart the the Panthers were already in trouble and
either losing like Derek Browns out for the year like the neither trying to get
injured and so I think the Chargers went here comfortably take Chargers minus six
Seahawks at Patriots Patriots plus three and a half take the Patriots here look
this could be a hard overhead pick I think the Patriots come in this game
alright now I'm not betting the money on this situation I'm betting the plus
three and a half however I would consider depending on my juice I give
it's a plus 180 or plus 190 situation to take in the Patriots money line out
right okay I think they can do it look that defense is great the culture there
is definitely changed you see an upbeatness you see a vibrance in the
building that you haven't seen in a few years in the Belichickian era in the
Belichick era you had a team that was not upbeat they were disciplined they
were tight they were together but there was not it was a general lack of
excitement in the building when you went into New England they had the same
monsters for 20 years they were doing the same thing and when Brady wasn't there
there was no go-between and the mood generally went down however in the
dry mail era that team was up they're upbeat there's multiple videos now of
people yelling take them to the hill at the end of the game that's a phrase
where dry mail had the team run up and down a hill or run up a hill at the end
of practice as their conditioning test as their conditioning and they were
yelling take them to the hill he's reinstated he's installed the
selection of the play of yelling certain phrases after the game like draw mail
was a patriot at the peak of being a patriot so if anybody knows what is the
culture of New England supposed to be to win it would be Gerard Mayo that's also
added to the fact that Jacoba sets a veteran quarterback and you're looking
at a very inexperienced head coach on the other side as well for the Seattle
Seahawks again they have to go west to east three hour time difference I think
it's early kick it's gonna feel like a 9 a.m. kick to those Seattle guys body
wise the Patriots have an advantage here I don't think they win this game all
right but I think it's a field goal because the numbers plus three and a
half give me the Patriots Saints plus six at the Cowboys give me the Saints
and I love this number it might be my second favorite number of no it's my
third favorite number of the week my next number is not the second number of
the week my third favorite number of the week I have got a lot of confidence in
this number again the Saints are not 37 points better than anybody let's just
get that out of the way however neither Cowboys on the aren't that great either
um you know you got a lot of guys getting paid that Prescott's got his
money CD Lam's got his money Ezekiel it's back home and place he
honestly should have never left which is so weird for Ezekiel Elliott because
he's playing on a second Cowboys contract while getting paid from the
first Cowboys contract still that salaries on there so Ezekiel Elliott
actually showing up on the Cowboys salary table twice but the Cowboys played
against the Cleveland Browns team that honestly like I said you talk about
Deshaun Watson he's just not good anymore right and so that defense at a
certain point was getting short fields and all the other stuff they're gonna do
that now the Saints defense offense is with Clint Kulbiak as the offensive
coordinator that looked like a different offense that we'd seen in New Orleans
for years I mean that looked like Pete Sean Payton where it was innovative with
people popping wide open where everybody's having fun and smiling it was
like it was one of those games where that team got to show off that offense
and you could definitely understand the excitement that you got from the New
Orleans personnel when they spoke about the offense and what they wanted to
accomplish Saints plus six here is a great number that means that's going by
a touchdown if I had to bet this game if I had to see this game I think six may
be too spot-on of a number we may end up tying here because my brain is saying
30 to 24 Cowboys victory which would nail the plus six perfectly you know you
still have a Cowboys defense that is acceptable to the passing game that
offense is gonna look really good it's in Dallas but it's gonna feel kind of a
50-50 split a lot of Saints fans are going to that game that's a game that
if you're from the Louisiana if you're from Louisiana you understand the
Cowboys fans are deep in Louisiana and so Saints fans usually stand up to go
against them so a lot of Saints fans are going to that game in Dallas so it may
not be 50-50 but they could very well be 65-35 even a 70-30 situation and
because of which that is something that I think could help New Orleans there
it's a short trip it's a what two-hour flight so it's not a lot of travel there
I think the Saints did I don't think they pick up the win but I think they
make it very very close so Saints plus six here take the Saints and then the
fifth number my favorite my second favorite number Colts at Packers Packers
plus three take the Packers money line here I think the Packers win this game
all right and that's even without Jordan love at the quarterback position I think
they win this game out right it's just something about something about Indy I'm
not liking what Indy's got going on there I just I truly don't love it what
Indianapolis has going on inside the organization I mean they had the Texans
dead to rights and they just let them go and actually since I got this number
um it's actually been bent down to two and a half so I think the Packers are
gonna play ball control defense got ball control offense I think it's going to be
a ton and I do mean a ton of Josh Jacobs they're gonna run that ball make the
game short I think Anthony Richardson throws a pick he shouldn't throw I mean
his stats last week with nine for 19 to 12 to says I'm gonna pick if he does
that I think the Packers win this game straight up and I absolutely love this
number from Green Bay plus two and a half again I think they're gonna win the
game all right so whatever number you get it as long as plus I will take that
bet let's go through it again you've got Ravens minus nine over the Raiders
Chargers minus six over the Panthers Pats plus three and a half over the
Seahawks Saints plus six over the Cowboys Packers plus three over the
Colts but up next we're going to shift to the WNBA and talk about what's going
down there they are barreling towards their playoffs
Welcome back to the show and now we're gonna jump into our WNBA segment that is
always we're gonna start off with the standings and of course Worcester W
enters their playoffs we'll be giving playoff round updates and series updates
but we're gonna start off with the standings number one we have the New
York Liberty leading as they have they have most of the season links Minnesota
links three behind them Connecticut Sun four from first fourth place we have the
Las Vegas Aces they're seven back fifth place to Seattle Storm they're eight
back sixth place we have the Indiana Fever they're eleven and a half back
seventh place we have the Phoenix Mercury that thirteen back eighth place we have
the eighth place are holding down the last playoff spot currently is the
Chicago Sky they're 17 back and then ninth place is the Atlanta Dream that
one place back there one game back from eighth the worst mystics are also one
game back from eighth they're ten the Dallas Wings have been eliminated
mathematically third 11th and then the Los Angeles Sparks also eliminated
mathematically are in 12th as you know this league only has 12 teams of 12
players the best 144 female players in the world with a couple of exceptions
due to some WNBA CBA rules but there were a couple of exceptions these are
the best 144 players in the world I still think Lilies can't bathe in one of
the best part at 144 but we'll never see her bathing WNBA unfortunately due to her
non basketball activities but anyway into the news so Asia Wilson
congratulations to our future league MVP Asia Wilson has broken the single season
scoring record for the WNBA she broke a record that was just set last year by
Jackie Young and now Asia Wilson has her eyes set on the first 1000 point season
in the history of the W it is in range it is mathematically very in range for
her to be the first thousand point score and WNBA history she should be the
unanimous MVP no one else should get a vote would I think that be a weird
Caitlin Clark voter possibly do you think that'd be a strange I don't even know who
else would get a vote I just saw the person I've seen get legitimate discourse
besides Asia Wilson has been Caitlin Clark and that's been weird to me
Caitlin Clark's gonna run away with the WNBA Rookie of the Year
however I don't know how she gets a vote in the WNBA MVP race but Asia Wilson
you know we go through her numbers all the time we'll talk about on the YouTube
show she's like first in scoring secondary bounce per game first in
blocks she's top five or so in steals she's high up on the field goal percentage
like she's the best player in the WNBA I don't even know who's second and
whoever is second they are so far behind there might as well not be a second I
mean this is like LeBron circa 2008 to 2015 you know before you start really
getting that Kevin Durant discourse and stuff like that like there was no second
we're we're talking Michael Jordan you know 1988 to 89 to 96 except for the two
years he sat out there was no second we're talking you know like these gaps
we're talking Wayne Gretzky and his prime like whoever second is so far back
that the gap from second to tenth is probably closer than the first to second
she's that much better than everybody remember in the preseason poll they did
the the voting of who's the best this and who's the best that she won MVP
favorite best offensive player and best defensive player the team won best
offensive best defense because of her like you know the Aces had all the
awards anyway and they struggled through the regular season Chester Gray was hurt
they never really got back on their grind and then I really a regular season
team anyway I think they're gonna look differently in the playoffs but she was
the straight-head to this organization she was a driving force to the whole
situation and and said that's just like I said I expect her to be the first
thousand-point score in WNBA history as she continues to be absolutely I think
she's unanimous as Bam Edibayo put it earlier she should be unanimous for
Asia to be WNBA MVP and she broke against Kailyn Clark which you know all
eyes were in the building the part the broadcast poorly didn't mention it
disrespectfully didn't mention it when she broke the record if it was in it
was in Vegas I'm sure the game would have been stopped but you know in
Indiana they try to keep not killing Clark news out of the airwaves and
especially on national TV they're killing Clark's their darling still so
they try to keep all their stuff out of the airwaves but again I don't care who
it is that should have been a wreck that should have any game-stopping moment you
just set the record for the most points in the season like it should have been
stopped like 2k style soon the shot goes in you know like confetti falls and like
horns start going off and everybody's cheering it goes across the jumbotron
like that should have been what happened and instead it was barely given it wasn't
even given a mention on the broadcast as it happened so disrespectful there but
that will of course has been rectified all over social media Angel Reese the
other candidate for Ricky of the Year truly I think she'll come in second she
undergone right left wrist surgery for a fractured wrist she's suffered the
injury she said on social media is falling back on her hand after an one
and so she said she had two options either don't get the surgery face
arthritis or is not really healing properly and being super sensitive or
get the surgery shut it down the rest of the NBA season and be ready for the
unrivaled league which her team still made the playoffs so I wonder if the
sky make the playoffs does she consider trying to ramp up her rehab to get back
on the floor to experience the playoffs in the WNBA because again she's
scheduled to play in the unrivaled league which is the new women's
basketball league that is basically owned by players like Paige Becker has a
piece Brianna Stewart and if he's a call your those ladies are making a hundred
grand a year to play in the unrivaled league so now they don't have to go
overseas they don't have to leave their country they just move to get whatever
market they're representing for the unrivaled league as how they're gonna
do it so Angel Reese is making 60 some odd K from the WNBA she's gonna make a
hundred K in the unrivaled league so you know protecting her money protecting
her finances it would be smarter of her financially to just sit make sure she's
a thousand percent ready to go for the unrivaled league considering that that
is her financial breadwinner at the moment outside of me night outside of
endorsement stuff which she'll be an endorsement darling for years um so if
you listen to those standings carefully you notice a team in 11th place those
the Dallas wings and they have a superstar potential superstar in a
rick a gumbo Wale on their team and you know that is something that not even
they didn't know about because we have so much new media new fans involved in
the sport you got people like you know the Angel Reese fans the Katelyn Clark
fans those came in supporting Rekia Jackson this draft class they're doing
what they did for college basketball when they came in as high school
players in order for you to break through that wave you got to do
something either historic Asia Wilson Brianna Stewart so on and so forth with
winning or individual accomplishments or you have to beat one of those stars in
their build like you have to show out on that stage a rick a gumbo Wale on the
stage everybody's watching a rick a gumbo Wale is coming our party to the
world was the WMB All-Star Game where she breaks the record I think for threes
in a game she knows she's got a lot of point records and this that and a third
for what you know and everybody was oh my god who's a rick a gumbo Wale and that
was like her moment to get noticed but she's been doing this for years she's
one of the best WBA scores for years she routinely averages anywhere from 19 to 22
points a game it's what she does she puts the ball in the hole she's one of
the best shooters one of the best scores in the league but she's on the
Dallas wings and nobody truly cares I think it's time for her to move on I
think it's time for her to do what Nneka Gumake did to the Sparks and just say
hey I don't want to come back so I mean you know the Sparks had the right to
effectively franchise tag Nneka and say you know we want you back and she would
have had to either suit up for the Sparks or she would have had to move on
like sit out of here whatever made it uncomfortable but she went to management
she was honest she said I want to move on and they let her move on you know
basically free of charge if I would have loved to see Nneka Gumake and Cameron
Brink and Rekia Jackson and that squad come together on the Sparks but hey
it is what it is right and so I think for Rekia she needs to go to Dallas and
say hey I would love to be traded this offseason now where she should be
traded to I wouldn't mind seeing her in Chicago that's the kind of bucket that
Chicago needs and she's a tough mighty player I know that the head coach over
there Teresa Witherspoon would love her because of her tough-mindedness and
again how she's always 100% she's always playing and she's an absolute bucket
she's like an upgraded version of Kennedy Carter with less off-the-court
problems so that would be a good spot for her I think honestly her on the Sparks
would be good you know her with Cameron Brink I think she needs to go somewhere
where she can come in and to be a bucket why say Chicago was something that
jumped out to me very early they have high draft pick assets they can you know
kind of fill the coffers of the Dallas wings with her assets but you've got to
do something a Rekia Guguala has got to do something to get on the national stage to get
people in front of her to get people noticing her and now great excuse me of
a basketball player she really is because right now she's just wasting away in
Dallas and our last topic for the NBA is Kathy Engelbert so she was asked a
question about the new fans under NBA about the kind of the commentary around
the league the discourse around the league namely with Angel Reese and
Kaitlyn Clark and she did not do a very she did not do a very good commissioner
job in answering the question she didn't do a very good commissioner job in kind
of quelling the storm really she didn't do a good job at any point of doing her
job you know and you're in a you're in a league that has a bunch of issues so
you know she was asked and I'll read part you know I'll read it
Engelbert was a commissioner she was on a podcast she was on a speaking on a
show podcast whatever called power lunch and they asked her about some of the
harassment and racially and otherwise of you know between players you know
that's been going through and especially when it comes to it
Kaitlyn Clark and Angel Reese spoke earlier this month about how some
Kaitlyn Clark fans have harassed her online give her death threats followed her
home created AI generated naked photos of her one fan called allegedly called
Kennedy Carter a ghetto b-word at the team hotel because of her incident with
Kaitlyn Clark Diamond Deshield was talking about how one fan hoped said her
hope they hoped her spinal tumor would come back due to Kaitlyn Clark and
basically Engelbert sidestep all of that she sidestepped everything and focused
on what the rivalry between Clark and Reese can do similar to magic and bird
and so she focused on that directly and she kind of just sized up excuse me like
I said all of the discourse and all of the stuff surrounding the actual
question and about the racism she just focused on the fact that how good it is
for the WNBA that these two stars are battling and everybody lost it all the
players lost to the WNBA the WPA WBPA whatever the WNBA Player
Association issued a statement of what they wish Kathy Engelbert would have
said like it was it was hot in the kitchen for her and it still is people
writing articles and skips put something out in a league where two years ago she
makes this statement and it's news for 24 hours and it goes away and actually
part of her statement is the reason why it's not gonna go away in her product
statement she said is there's no more apathy people care there's no more
die-hard WNBA fans only cares about the WNBA and it's gonna be WNBA focused the
entire time it is you know people outside the WNBA care now it is now a
lot of issues of homosexuality in the WNBA and about race and about a lot of
things had none do a basketball but it is now infiltrators were into the WNBA
people care now you can't just do and say anything and so Kathy Engelbert
stepped right into it do I think this should cost her her job of course not do
I think that she should be you know made to publicly apologize video form not
like you know not just put out a statement I think she should have the
long form apologize on a video kind of screen yes so I think it's cost her a
job a commission or no do I think she's been doing a good job of commission or
lately yes you know this notwithstanding but she's had she's done good with
expansion she's taken her time she hadn't she didn't do what I do was pop
expand at like four teams at once she went once he's gonna go with one team a
year for four years to get the 16 I think the magic number for the league is
20 but she's gonna end up going to 16 teams over the next four years like
she's done a great job recently hasn't handled some of the growth the pop
growth well but I think the whole league infrastructure wasn't set up for that I
mean no company is in order to grow three times in size overnight I don't
think any company is sustained in that matter nothing is no system is designed
to handle something like that I think she could have done a better job in that
anyway but again I kind of gave her a little grace on that because overnight
she became one of the more popular leagues in the world and so again I don't
think there's a system on the planet designed to handle that necessarily but
I think she could have done a better job at it all in all I don't think it's
kind of measure cost her job I do think this was a step in it moment that she
should learn from and grow from but up next we're gonna shift to our Jack's hot
take which is about the Colorado Buffaloes football team welcome back into
the show and now we're going to talk about the Colorado Buffaloes football
team kind of in a free fall right now they took it on the chin against Nebraska
on Saturday that led to some icky postgame comments from Shadua Sanders in
which he had a point but he can't say it he spoke about you know the comment
that stuck out to everybody's mind was how often did the Raiola get touched
which directly throws his office line on the bus they didn't play well they
couldn't run the ball they couldn't pass blocking they when they needed to and
then on the other side Nebraska mauled Colorado the entire first half Colorado
baseball just was in the second half they end up winning the second half
actually 10 to 7 but they got mauled 21-0 in the first half and then by the
time you start to come back it's far too little far too late and you don't have
enough you know because again you can't run the ball so they're dialing up every
exotic coverage dialing up every exotic blitz they can think of because I know
you can't kill it with just a basic zone run like I know that I know that for a
fact so that makes life difficult to be kind and that makes it hard for the
Colorado Buffaloes to succeed going into this season I had them at 8 and 4 and
after the Nebraska game I don't want to seem overreacting but I do think they I
had them 8 and 4 9 3 and challenging for the big 12 after that Nebraska game I
got 6 and 6 and they better hope they get a pop-tarts bowl invite just because
of how they look they have no line and if it comes to a pop-tarts bowl I don't
think Chidor is playing I don't think Shiloh is playing Travis Hunter probably
doesn't play so on and so forth and you know I'm saying you're looking at Deon
or running out of the tunnel with you know no stars on an already bad team and
probably thrashing a bowl game so that could be a whole different issue
entirely but that's still Colorado is Colorado now 6 and 6 after 4 and 8 after
showing up improving three wins you're to improving two wins five win
improvement in two years is massive at any level however that with the vitriol
and the narrative and the and the lack of support and the lack of belief in the
Colorado program and with the let's be honest media has now turned on Deon
attitude that is coming out of the media he's gonna get slandered for this and
people just in the Nebraska game was like oh did he really build a good team
or did he just build a place where his kids can join like and then that's
pretty much what happened and you know people turned on him when he left
Jackson State now they're getting more and more they're throwing him into the
fire at Colorado and it's just you know they're coming after him so we'll see
how he stands up we'll see how he responds from a football perspective and
I think a historic perspective having I mean there's been no first round pick
quarterbacks from Colorado ever there's been no first round pick corners from
Colorado ever so he's still gonna make history but if he were to have stated
Jackson State with Travis and Shador and they leave and Shador is a number five
pick and Travis number two pick and you're looking at you know two top five
picks from the same HBCU first time ever and this down to third it may have
changed the narrative on HBCUs and who knows what would have happened right but
you know he said I make history at Colorado I just think that you know a
lot of the slanders coming to him is from the wrong perspective but this team
is this team they're gonna go 6-6 I mean last year they're 6-6 they beat
Stanford and hold on another game so 6-6 is not insane I think that they close
this I did they close a couple of games supposed to win you know they're 6-6
7-5 you're looking at the Music City Bowl or the Pop Tarts Bowl
someone's gonna give them a big bowl invite purely because of the fan base
on the media attention and then we'll see Dion in the bowl game so that's what's
happening there but you know my hopes of this team challenging for the big 12
have been dashed my hopes of this team you know potentially finishing the
season top 15 and making a playoff run has been dashed they are a very okay
team which is fine for Boulder Colorado not fine for the national media that's
gonna continue to slander Dion as long as it's in this space but that is all I
have for you today this has been a fun show like I'm finishing it now you'll
hear in probably 15 minutes or less so this is your host Justin Jackson signing
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