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into the show one of my favorite style shows we've been getting a lot of these lately the insta
release shows i definitely enjoy them because again it gives me it gives you guys an opportunity
here fairly up to the minute or up to the hour nonetheless information my reaction to it stuff
is breaking literally right before we started the show uh Justin Herbert has been um diagnosed with
a high ankle sprain um and so i guess we're going to start with the chargers uh welcome into the
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for justin times for social media at J time sports but now that we got all the business out of the
way i guess we're gonna start with the chargers they were supposed to be my my second team new
world is supposed to be on my first team but there's breaking news uh fresh into the show
about the lawsuits of the chargers so i guess in this case excuse me two becomes one one becomes
two um again jim harbaugh has reported has told reporters that justin herbert has suffered a high
ankle sprain he suffered it sunday and that he described the pain is not great now herbert has
not been ruled out he's actually been officially deemed as questionable um harbaugh's charges are
210 excuse me sorry but dealing with the sickness guys my apologies so my voice sounds a little weird
from what you used to hear and that's why um but this chargers team looks like a harbaugh team
and it's sorry i just sound like doc rivers there for a second but this chargers team looks and
feels like a jim harbaugh team they run the ball or harbaugh team in general they run the ball
they're physical on defense they protect their quarterback and even though jim harbaugh has a
superstar level quarterback in justin herbert he's not asking him to throw the ball 35 times
he's not asking him to make 12 yard throws 15 yard throws on repeat he's asking him to run the
offense he's asking him to make smart throws at the right time at the right moments um that's what
he's asking him to do and so absolutely looks a lot different than last year's team under
brandon staley which is always something that i always thought was confusing to me whenever we
looked into um the chargers last season it's like the talent's there like i won't sit here and be
like oh they're not talented they're there brandon staley was so bad he had people um like people
around like that liked the sport wondering what did the chargers players like all of a sudden hit a
wall that's how bad brandon said he would question kaleel mac if he still had it bolsa yeah like man
this chargers team maybe not that good no brandon staley was that bad like he's awful and so i am
glad he's no longer coaching the scene because now we get to see them flourish now is this the kind
of system i think they're gonna win a soup bowl with ultimately i don't think so um i don't think
jim harbaugh wins a soup bowl with the chargers do i think that people are a lot more scared of the
chargers now with jim harbaugh absolutely you're gonna be prepared you're gonna be ready to go
and you're gonna be amped up to go now what happens after that i don't know
but i can assure you that you're gonna be ready to go when you get to the field and he's you know
he's put his imprint on those two games those games look the same 22 to 27 points you know the
other team scores between 9 and 14 and then they weigh down weigh down weigh down and right about
three minutes that they hit you for the game for the for the nail the coffin touchdown usually on
the ground and it's just and those you know those two games look the same and you know are
you doing swap the jerseys out and it's just like that's what a jim harbaugh team is going to look
like but with his injury newest justin herbert you know i wonder how much of that comes into play
because if herbert plays with a high ankle spring he's not uh nearly as mobile and not a threat
as much from the mobility standpoint so if he's going to be out there with a high ankle spring
so if he's going to be out there with a high ankle spring he's not nearly the threat mobilely as he
would be normally if it's a charges backup then that could be a different story entirely
because now you're thinking less okay he's not he can't kill us through the air as well we can
come further down and try and fill up his run lanes well i think people are going to do anyway
because a high ankle spring on a quarterback especially if it's his plant foot he may not
have the driving power that he would normally but that is something definitely to keep our eye on
in los angeles but again this team looks like a jim harbaugh team they're physical they're dominant
like i said physically there's a physicality about the charges that was not there the past few years
but to the team i planned on leading the show with the new orleans saints the home state saints
um they look like world beaters it's it's it's funny but it's not funny so a stat came out today
from ws from wdsu in new orleans i said there's been there hasn't been a murder in new orleans in
18 days and um it's actually a record it's streak for like it hasn't happened in like quite a long
time 18 straight days without a murder and somebody was like clint kubiak is single-handedly saving
the city of new orleans um and that was a joke but then like credible reporters were like no like
we we can't prove it but this is probably directly tied to the saints like the whole city is up the
whole city is vibrant because the saints look like champion let's ship level people we've known for
years dennis allen's on that staff head coach of dc they're gonna have a good defense the problem
was they had no offense p car michael just wasn't doing it offensively and we see him not doing it
in denver but we'll get to what's going on in denver a little later but we see him not doing
it in denver but clint kubiak who served under the shannon hands in san francisco for a while
brought that system into new orleans and they're averaging 44 and a half or 45 and a half points
a game right now they just curb stumped the dallas cowboys 44 19 in dallas um after they gave 47 to
carolina so when they put 47 on carolina oh it's 45 and a half yeah and they put 47 on carolina
everybody went it's carolina 47 to 10 is impressive but it's carolina you know like how
how impressive is that like it's carolina they ended it's dallas now dallas is dallas you know
you know the dallas of 1990s no but is dallas is still a very credible very real franchise
absolutely and they put 44 points on dallas kind of easy the same scored in their first i think
13 or 15 possessions of the season um i mean absolutely destruction ava kamara had four
touchdowns against dallas which again this system is set up to emphasize a really really good running
back see christian mccathran san francisco see raheem most of david h a and i know it on that
level but in miami see ava kamara now in new orleans you know that that team is real so that
defense now started playing on shorter fields or playing with from behind or playing with some
leads now they're getting big leads so now a defense that was already really good at getting
turnovers really good at defending the pass and stuff like that now they're getting basically i
know you gotta pass it because you're down you know 28 10 you know my offense scoring you gotta
score back you're gonna make mistakes in the passing game so now a really good defense now
has the energy from the offense to keep them going and to keep them rolling they say let's
get the ball back let's get the ball back to try and win that game so you know kudos to new orleans
for figuring this thing out for getting a grip on what's going on and smart by dennis allen man
hiring clint cubiak now i don't think he'll have clint cubiak for long i think he could be a dark
horse kva for the cincinnati job which would do wonders for joe burrow um but you can see he's
doing derrick car but he would do wonders for joe burrow and um i think that if zack taylor
ultimately is let go in cincinnati that clint cubiak has to be the primary target to take over for zack
taylor in order to continue to emphasize um the development of joe burrow
all right we've talked about the good you talked about the great let's talk about the ugly at least
for now actually now when i keep going with the good i'll get to that myth yet
Arizona is real i just i want everybody to know Arizona is legit they went at buffalo
and had a two touchdown lead on the bills before josh allen goes superman or they probably beat the
bills and to be honest they kind of had the bills dead to right and then just arizona did it up
you know one of those if this game they had that same lead week five they win you know but it's
being a week one josh allen came running through and they kind of when the momentum broke they
broke kind of thing week two they get the rams out but they put 28 on the bills week two they get the
rams at home 41 to 10 later they beat the rams and their schedule actually set up fairly decently
they have home lions that's gonna be tough one home of commanders they should win at nine it's
gonna be tough at packers is gonna be tough home chargers that's a home game i'll give it to them
at dolphins who knows it to a back home bears they should get that one home jets they should get that
one at seahawks division game vikings they can outscore them home seahawks they'll get it home
patrice looks like they'll get it um at panthers they're gonna win that one at the rams division
game nine is a division game so they're looking right now at about nine to ten wins with nine to
ten wins they will get in the playoffs i guarantee it um and so that is a big jump from what the
expectations were in arizona for this season because a lot of people did not anticipate arizona
being this good um i believe when i looked at their schedule originally i had them excuse me i had
them uh right around eight wins so to say they can look and to say they can legitimately get nine or
ten wins just from looking at how they're playing it would not shock me arizona got 11 and went 11
and six and you know hosted the first time not host the first time playoff game but because the
niners in their division but you know five seed go into a bad four seed going to everyone's the
nfc south okay no one else looks pretty real but when is the nfc east and beats them you know like
arizona is real that's a real team calamari looks like the quarterback i always believed it could be
uh if you guys remember a couple years ago i did the uh qb elite thing where i was like there's
only six quarterbacks how i would define an elite quarterback is if i'm only i would only ever trade
that person straight up for one of the other six um and it's before a star came in the league but
it was like lamar erin rogers kyler um josh allen joe burrow and i think i had hurting at the time
that list is still holding fairly secure i would just take hurts out and put cj strout um and again
and i'll take rogers out at this point as well but alan lamar kyler burrow um stroud
herbert is to me the elite six and i can if i'm missing somebody i apologize for somebody i'll be
oh my homes jesus my homes yeah those are the seven i those are the elite seven i wouldn't trade
anybody i wouldn't trade them one for one for anybody outside of that group if money didn't
matter salaries didn't matter whatever just straight up would you rather gain no nobody
outside of that seven is being traded for anybody in that seven rationally um and the kind i say
that with kyler murray people push back kyler murray immediately and i was like you gotta understand
he was the greatest high school quarterback ever period he was 43 and 0 as a starter in texas 6a
football with three straight titles three straight mr footballs he goes to college he wins the heisman
don't realize he never wins that championship because his team was so overmatched by those
prime bama teams it is what it is right then he goes to the nfl and he's playing a style of
football that no one else is playing he's playing the air raid it was a mess he had he had cliff
kingsbury but when it worked you saw my god he's amazing get him some time get him some weapons
and watch what he does and he ripped the ramps to shreds with marvin harrison jr my goodness he was
tearing the bills up marvin harrison jr like one catch and could have had the game win if kyler had
like another second of time he hits marvin harrison over the middle for the game winner anyway
like arizona is a real football team i'm excited for the state of arizona
i'm not a huge fan of that stadium because the page could lose in soup bowls in there
but i'm excited for the state of arizona i'm excited for the state uh excited for kyler murray and that
crew is like backing up my kyler murray uh stuff and then the last of the positivity kirk cousins
man pulled off a magic drive he gets his first game win in drive as the quarterback of the
atlanta falcons kudos to captain kirk um he did great there i mean minute 46 it was textbook
minute 46 no timeouts we needed touchdown boom boom boom boom touchdown and it was just like
that's why you paid him that's why that's why you don't drive for another quarterback in the first
round but that's why you pay kirk cousins for those moments boom boom boom boom touchdown like
we need it we have to have it you were on the road you know we've been you know david slowing
us down all night our defense has played great we feel like we can win this game good weather
you know road win kind of situation and he comes through and so um captain kirk um with another
kerco chains uh with a game-winning drive kudos to him kudos to that falcons organization for
pulling the trigger on kirk um great job he looks like he looked on that drive like vintage kirk
cousins um so good for him but i promised it uh we're gonna get to the negative of week two if
we move to week three um what's going on in baltimore like we have fans calling for harbaugh's job
which feels a bit extreme if if jim if john harbaugh gets fired he's hired within the next 30s i mean
there's a lot of teams that would fire their coach just to hire john harbaugh like a lot of them um
would fire their coach today to hire john to drive john harbaugh like john harbaugh came as available
new york would fire dable cleveland cleveland may not fire stafensi but new york would fire dable
new york would fire rabat salla um
um nd would get rid of their guys taking stike ends up there like i don't go through all the names
because that's how you end up getting in spots but there's a lot of coaches that would get real
real nervous whose agents would start making calls if john harbaugh became available
so i don't go into this um stuff about harbaugh's job security however something's wrong losing to
the chiefs on the road thursday night open at 27 20 it's not it's not a bad loss it's not a bad loss it's not
losing to the raiders and i come from behind victory and i come from behind lost at home as
what 9.3 with it that's the only thing i took in jack's pack that lost spoiler on that um
um with 10 days to prepare you're at home you got a bad taste in your mouth from the chiefs game
and you lose to the raiders 26 23 and they come back they came back on you and beat you in your
building jesson tucker can't make kickoff 50 this year there's only been two missed 50 yard attempts
this season both have been from tucker like he's going for like his last like nine so justin tucker
can't shoot anymore um i mean can't kick anymore i'm sorry the mark the ravens offense looks the
same even with the addition of derek henry i and then i saw people this i said it's gonna
it's gonna be one of the more pointless big name um one of the more pointless big name acquisitions
in a long time the ravens when they acquired before they acquired derek henry had the best
first attack in the league office line i was going to be inexperienced a passing game you can't trust
in big moments after turning derek henry they had the best first attack in the league an office
line you can't trust an offense they can't pass in big moments it did nothing it accomplished
nothing and i really wish they had done something um because even if henry makes the rushing game
better you're not going to improve enough to where it makes up the gap for other stuff um and so
that's the issue with what the baltimore ravens did but they've got some problems i don't know if
it's systemic i do know i think i do think it's it's roster base but i don't think it's systemic
but they do have to figure out something in baltimore where they get another receiver in there
fix that online do something merge the system they're used to running outside zone they're
trying to run a lot of insides on and dive some of you emerge some of the mesh points in the system
that kind of make it work but they have got to figure out something in baltimore
all right we're gonna take a quick little break we're gonna transition into week three
all right after this quick break
welcome back into the show uh kind of a long-winded week two there so we took a little break there
we're gonna get right into week three um and we started off Thursday Night Football last night
with the Patriots on the road at the Jets if you guys watch the video show once again we will link
i will link into that this episode description um you guys know i picked the patch patch plus six
um in order and i said the path went out right but definitely hit the plus six
and they didn't do any of that i would have needed i would have needed plus 21 to hit
because the Jets dominate the pats 24 to 3 it was anna rogers first home first for real home game
he had his debut game when he got hurt with the Jets it was on 9 11 they brought the flag out
it was a whole big moment three plays into the career the just Jets career he blows his Achilles
um and so took the win out of the sales Zach Wilson comes in and we know how the rest of
season goes right um but in his first real Jets home game he beats the Patriots 24 to 3
Rogers goes 27 to 35 for 281 two touchdowns no one exceptions including one of the tightest window
touchdowns you'll ever see Christian Gonzalez was all over Gary Wilson and it was i mean two inches
down Chris Gonzalez probably picked six is it um and he said it's perfectly to Gary Wilson um and
it was actually Rogers first passing touchdown to a first round receiver in his career so that was
an insane stat he thrown 580 some odd touchdowns and Gary Wilson got his first touchdown um
Eric Gary Wilson began the first first rounder to catch the touchdown pass from Aaron so that
was pretty that was pretty impressive um and then the Patriots looked in my squad man um i
often saw i was bad real bad and they were okay we're good against the Bengals they were solid
enough against the Seahawks the Jets wrecked it i mean jacquery brissette was on you know felt like
he was on the ICU watch um you know jacquery brissette felt like he was on the ICU watch
um Drake May came in he got body slammed like it was just that align man was torturously bad and
if the Pats are gonna go anywhere if we're gonna go anywhere we have got to fix it off us alive
i don't know separation wise the weapons are getting open but they can't get the ball because
the quarterback's on their back um so that's something that we're gonna have to fix exponentially
uh and expeditiously if the Patriots hope to go anywhere um in the even in the regular season
if they hope to get more than four or five wins then they're gonna have to fix that online
uh whether it's technique whether it's personnel something they're gonna have to figure something
out with it off us online because that simply cannot happen
not happen all right and so now we're gonna look at the rookies in week three we're not gonna go
into specific games in week three because of course we'll have these games in jack's pack so
we're not gonna deep dive into all the games in week three but we're gonna look at some rookies
and you know will these rookies well throw a touchdown pass you have caleb williams
versus the indianapolis colts i think caleb gets his first one uh this week um get your
chance against a not so great colts defense especially in that back end um and so i think
caleb gets his chance he dances around flings one and he gets his opportunity at his first career
touchdown um against the indianapolis colts bow nix versus the tamper bay buccaneers i also believe
he gets on the board with his first career touchdown against tamper bay and i may come late
it may come in garbage time but he'll get it um denver's a bad offense right now um many people
are wondering for time to have the sean payton conversation as far as you know just how good is
he or was drew breeze really it's amazing um because he is not he told us his russle wilson
and so then he gets his guy in that all the reports were saying they were locked in bow nix
from jump and he and bow nix albeit the same age just seem to not be clicking um so far it's just
something's off with them uh they are not playing well in the slightest and so that is something
that i would definitely monitor if i am a denver bronco supporter a denver bronco management team
whatever i would try to figure out some way some feasible way to get um bow nix to be
average i'm not asking him to be spectacular i'm asking him to be average for instance you lose to
the seahawks 26 20 on the road again not a bad loss but who's at home to the stealer score 13 points
like you're supposed to win that game you gave up 13 points you're supposed to win that game
comfortably even the nfl and they were unable to do that so they're gonna need someone to step up
for the broncos and get a victory um this weekend's hampton and then lastly but certainly not least
jayden daniels of the washington commanders he battles joe burrow from his nanny bingles it
will be all lsu qb monday night football game there's two monday night games this week but
this one features all lsu quarterbacks um actually the ones right back the other the two lsu heisman
winners um it tells you all it gives you all lsu all the time uh in this game and so i think
daniels wants to show out in this game i think he does i think he gets a couple of touchdowns here
and he makes his game close especially coming after a game where he did not the team did not
score a touchdown the other team made all field the other team scored three touchdowns jayden
daniels team did not score a singular touchdown and jayden daniels team ultimately wins it's insane
but it got done because they recently signed kicker nails seven out of seven field goals
and the washington commanders get the dub in that game and so
you know since now he's gonna have to deal with jayden daniels feet i think that's why he's gonna
really uh put the pressure on tennessee and then hit him up from the pocket
all right so let's just transition a little bit the miami dolphins begin life after tua
uh versus the seattle seahawks now tua again has gone on injury reserve for concussions um
ultimately this is i think i think it's tuas fourth concussion because i'm the fourth concussion
i'm 99 sure he was concussed in the game before the infamous uh game where he fingers locked up
the first time and people were really scared for his life like i believe he was concussed before
that but obviously uh he passed concussion protocol and was able to get back on the field the next
week again i don't think that's correct because how he played before the hit that i believe gave him
after he played was night and day and so i'm gonna say there's no way he wasn't concussed um
whenever he played uh that next game that led to the really really bad one uh the following game
however uh the dolphins did place him on injury reserve and now they began life without him
uh for at least four games skyler thompson is expected to get the start however the team did
sign former pro bowl quarterback uh tyler snoop huntley from the baltimore ravens practice squad
um and so that is someone that i think could push skyler thompson if skyler comes on has a rough
game i think it would be interesting to see uh the team play the game and see what happens
i think it would be interesting to see um if snoop huntley can get them some excitement especially
using his legs in the run game and the carolina panthers began life after brice young who was
benched uh the number one overall pick just last season 2023 number one overall pick specifically
was benched in favor of andy dalton uh due to poor performance many people around the league
we about talked to discuss how it was unfair how they didn't like how it was done how
the team is pretty bad so you can't blame just brice young but also this gm and this head coach
has no lore to the brice young neither were there when he was drafted frank reich was the head
coach when brice young was drafted and uh i can't think of the gm's name but neither coach nor gm
was there when brice young was drafted you're in a draft where quinn newers is coming out chanel
or sanders is coming out where you can sit in the draft and get your franchise quarterback who's not
five foot eight and marginally athletic and doesn't have a big arm and best thing is being
jubilee 2.0 and jubilee's was a one-of-one you know like there there's just so many advantages
to getting your own guy if you are um the gm and the head coach of the carolina panthers there's
so so many advantages to getting your guy and so they move on from brice young and then so they sit
the 2023 number one overall pick he becomes qb2 and d'alvin becomes qb1 and so we'll see how the
panthers look behind andy d'alvin but up next we're going to transition to to our nfl betting
segment jack's pack
so
welcome back into the show and we're gonna jump into our very successful nfl betting segment
jack's pack now we spoke about last episode we went three and two this week we went four and one
and we talked about how in order to be a professional gambler and to make money off this and really like
basically live being a gambler um you gotta hit 57 percent of your bets that's like the rule of
thumb to avoid juicing to avoid the juice and all that stuff you gotta hit 57 percent right now we're
on pace for 70 percent we've done 10 games we've hit three you hit seven sorry so right now we're
on pace for 70 percent um is what we've done great now i spoke about last episode when those early
lines come out vegas kind of all over the place um and so you gotta take advantage of those first
couple of weeks in order to in vegas starts the nailing lines and nailing lines you're kind of
looking to uh uh uh trying to avoid lines but there's been some absolute soft soft balls uh
thrown out over these past a couple of weeks this week however the lines hang down i didn't like
very many of them um but i got a five pack ready to go our first number and i which is our favorite
number it's green bay packers plus three at tennessee i don't know what quarterbacks
the tennessee titans have been playing or maybe the media has been watching
but joy and love and malik willis are significantly better than will levis will levis has
meaned a um turnover has mean the fumble i mean i mean it's mean the interception rather in two
consecutive games against the bears he falls to his knees and then last week he does like a pure
wet fall down throw um and so i just don't see the packers losing this game i don't care that
it's in tennessee malik willis malik willis knows the stadium well this is chance to get revenge um
i think laflore is is aware of that and so he will take his opportunities anywhere he can um
um in order to give malik willis an opportunity to shine in the place that traded him for saying
that he wasn't going to develop so you know that's going to be a very interesting ball game but again
green bay plus three over tennessee philadelphia at the saint saints minus two and a half hammer
the saints look the eagles defense is going to be solid we know that we know they can play defensively
but the new orleans offense is going to come at you directly um it can get smash mouth it can get
spray it can get direct snap it can get motion like bubbles whatever you um want to do um the
new orleans saints offense is down to do with you um and so i just think philadelphia doesn't
have enough defensive talent to make the difference um against new orleans so new orleans plus
two and a half uh minus two and a half rather hammer new orleans detroit at arizona arizona
plus three take arizona this is a double because this is a pick where if i didn't really have any
reason behind it i would just say oh well you know i say arizona's really good well they've got to
start beating some good teams but my logic behind it is i think arizona won this game straight up
specifically in arizona and the reason why i say that is i truly believe in the detroit lions i
like the detroit lions they're starting to get beat up and they're starting to get a rev hose
and they'll get ref hosed um by multiple officials so that being said arizona gets the win to me all
right but they definitely cover the plus three jacksonville at buffalo buffalo minus five and a
half take buffalo i think this is a 10 or 12 point game um i think buffalo hammers um david
cook's brother james cook away he just keeps going keeps going keeps going then josh allen gets one
and they're just gonna make jacksonville play in a phone booth we know you invested in corners
over there we know you got a good free safety you ain't fix this so there's a lot of um
um a whole lot of inside zone stuff from buffalo they're gonna run josh allen a lot they're gonna
run power some counter um and then the prince i was promised justin uh not justin trevor
lawrence has to then continue to be as dominant as um they can be so it's a very interesting game
but again take buffalo minus five now last game new york at cleveland cleveland minus six and a
half new york being the giants take cleveland here it's the giants the giants won't score more
than 14 so you're telling me the cleveland can't get to 21 that's highly unlikely um so i've got
the cleveland rounds covering nine and a half even without the shot watching stuff even with
a lack of nick chubb i think that defense is too good a lot more than 14 points against the jets
against the giants rather and i i'm confident any nfl offense get 21 um so i am uh picking cleveland
here minus six and a half so again let's run back through the bets green bay plus three
saints minus two and a half arizona plus three buffalo minus five and cleveland minus six and a half
but up next let's change it into the wnba talk about what's going down there
uh
welcome back into the show and now we are done and talk about the nba they have officially reached
the playoffs it's been a great season an amazing regular season now without its controversy now
without its issues um and a lot of the wnba's problems that i've been highlighting over the
past few years were brought to the forefront a lot of new fans of mine who are used to doing
with the nba or the nfl whatever their main sport is it was brought to or even not their main sport
their first time in the sport a lot of people in the wnba they came in to watch well this is their
first time um in a major sport at all so there was a whole bunch of issues they were just naturally
like oh i can watch every game oh no you can't uh about league path watch every game no you can't
oh there's this scheduling stuff no you can't like i said it was so much stuff that was um
that was an issue with the w this year that you know i think that kathy engelbert is going to be
fixing over the next you know a few um oh you know next year definitely going to um highlight that
um change for her and i hope she hold this up if you talk about inside the league office
but let's talk about it so the nba is in the playoffs uh first round is best of three
the second round and the nba finals are around are rounds of five so uh the number one seed liberty
get the atlanta dream that's going to be a quick 20 series liberty to me um our head and shoulders
you know it to me it's a big three and it's a big four there's a gap like if there's a top four and
then there's a gap um and so and really it's top three but i have to give the aces the two-time
defending champion benefits of the doubt and so as i said there you know there's a gap between um
the four and five returns of you know championship potential but record-wise top three liberties
number one seed they only had they only lost one game they probably really wanted to win
and that was the commissioner's cup to the minnesota links in a game that was moved into
brooklyn and they weren't that usual not brooklyn again i was moved into the statin island and it
was it was weird for the liberty felt like a road game even as a home game until the links got them
there but i think they take care of the dream quickly to go on to the second round the minnesota
links uh to me defeat the mercury in three games and i and that's respect for dahana terrasi that's
respect for britney grinder that's respect for sophie cutting so if we're cutting him and kalea
copper you know i just named three three olymp thought of four and if you i named three of them
were olympians so that's out of respect to them uh i think that they get a game i don't think
diana wants to go out on her own floor i think it's her last run but i don't think she wants
to go out on her own floor um and so she um you know has a thing she's dt games she gets
you know 27 30 points and staves off the links and then they take them out in game three
um the connecticut sun defeat the fever in three games again this is out of respect for caitlin
clark alia boston kelsey mitchell and the indiana home crowd uh connecticut is going to be packed
because of not only caitlin clark fans but because of the playoffs like the connecticut is going to
be packed they have a great basketball culture in the state of connecticut thanks to uconn
and so i think they're going to be ravenous um and going insane for this game however i just think
that you know indiana is going to get that same major boost at home and they're going to stave
off elimination but ultimately the connecticut gets it in three and the aces to me sweep the
storm i think this is what the aces were doing all season i think they you kind of see it over the
past few games they've started to ramp it up they've started to ramp it up they've started
getting to a point where it's okay playoffs around the corner let's do this um and so i think that
they are going to be um dominant i think they're going to be historic either they're going to run
over uh the the the seattle storm it's no disrespect to the storm it's just you have such a great team
effectively waiting on um the playoffs and so that is what they're going to do i think the
aces are going to win in four two and they're going to be led by the wmba should be unanimous mvp
asia wilson and i'm going to rattle off her season okay is what she did this year first in points per
game first in blocks per game first to the rebound first in stocks just still plus blocks first in
per first and win shares first on offensive rating second defensive rebounds per game second in double
doubles second 30 point performances fourth and steals 15 consecutive 20 point performances wmba
record eight 30 points in rebound games wmba record eight consecutive 2010 games wmba record
became the first player to score a thousand points in the season highest point per game average in
the wmba season only wmba players to average 20 points while shooting 50 percent of better
only wmba player average 25 plus only wmba player with multiple 40 point performances only wmba
player ranking first in multiple main system categories only wmba player ranking top five and
four major system categories only wmba player ranking top five in both steals and blocks one
of two players averaging 10 plus rebounds with angel reese one of two players averaging ranking
top 10 points and field goal percentage she has a 4.1 point increase from last season which is the
highest increase by wmba player averaging 20 points and 20 plus points in their last season
she also picked up an olympic gold medal and was the tournament MVP for the olympics
what a season she should be the runaway MVP there should need to be a question if anybody gets a
vote i'm screaming i don't know i don't know what i'm gonna scream because i don't know who the
vote's gonna get no one else should get a vote this was a mission all year because in her mind
and many others she should have won MVP last season it ended up being Brianna Stewart's but in her
mind and many others she ends up winning MVP last she does not win MVP and then she was on a rampage
to prove she should have won it this season and and are you gonna argue with the fact you should
have won it at this point she had a hell of a year uh congratulations to her her team i said i'm i'm
waiting on her unanimous MVP announcement can't wait for that to come out and expansion it's
got to be the wmba's favorite word as they expand again they're going to go to portland in 2026 so
it's going to be golden state next year and no yeah the golden state valkyrie next year toronto
and portland are going to be in 2026 together and then kathy engelberg is looking to add a 16th
franchise no later than 2028 and then they'll reevaluate after they want to get them once they
get to 16 um so kudos to them nba this is variability and they will come you've got charter flights
you've got attendance you've got money you've got nio you got all this nine nio endorsements
you've got a tv ratings big tv ratings contract they're going to get more money from
so kudos to the w for uh taking the time and putting the effort into producing a great product
but up next we're going to jump into jack's hot take we're going to talk about shohei otani
uh
welcome back into the show and now we're going to talk about in my opinion the greatest
batting season in the history of baseball yes shohei otani did not uh hit 73 home runs of the
season he didn't but what he didn't do is that he's the first player in history to ever have
50 home runs and 51 rbis or 50 home runs and 50 rbis and at this point he has 50 and 50 um
since rbi became an official stat in 1920 only one player has over the course of their entire career
gotten had a at a game with 10 rbis a game with six hits a game with five extra base hits a
game with three plus homers and a game with stolen bases again this is over their career like same
game or not just have these games on their stat line since 1920 shohei otani did it last did it
yesterday so in the game he goes he gets the 50 50 or the 50 151 he also does all the stuff i just
mentioned so what no one has done in a career he did it in one night shohei otani is ridiculous
he got told he couldn't pitch his year because injury and just decided to do the greatest side quests
in the history of major league baseball that is a level of athletic dominance that shouldn't be
possible it would be like if you're in football and they told lebron you can't like dunk for some
reason and he breaks like the three-point records and you're like what or tom brady it's like elbow
doesn't work right or shoulder doesn't work right and so he goes and plays safety and he's at the
best safety in the league you're like huh and they shouldn't be like what am i witnessing what
am i looking at what is happening and that's pretty much the mood for shohei otani it's what
are we looking at like what is out what is happening why like how is it happening and they asked the
manager of the team he played last night i can't remember who it is right now um would he consider
walking him because he was getting close to the records but he was having one of those nights
um and the manager said no i got too much respect for the guy
i know i'll clean his language up a little bit but i've got too much respect for him i'm not going to
walk him and i commend him for saying it um because any competitor would say similar
but i would have considered it like and i'm sure he thought about it but what shohei otani was
doing was so historic i think even he kind of wanted to see it a little bit um and plus his
team was down a lot it wasn't a competitive game and it's okay if i can uh skip around this guy
maybe i can get somebody else like they were down a lot so um kudos shohei otani man
absolutely ridiculous he should be the runaway MVP for the nl it shouldn't even be close um
congratulations to him to have him and paul skeens with their historic season
um both in baseball at the same time we're in a golden era right now of athletics and baseball
and with shohei otani leading the way and now there's a whole generation of japanese players
who gets to see shohei otani it's not just itchero it's not just you darvish um it's it's shohei otani
can be the lightning rod uh for japanese players to come over to america and what they can do and be
the MVP but that is all i have for you guys today i hope you have a great rest of your day as always
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