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I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson.
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Welcome into the show.
Welcome into season six, episode six of the Justin Time Sports Podcast.
I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson.
Trying out some new equipment here, starting to upgrade the podcast game a little bit,
get some new stuff.
So apologies ahead of time if it's a little weird.
This will be a late evening Insta release show, not something I'm typically known to
do.
However, in this particular scenario, I feel like it is necessary because I wanted to make
sure as many bombs had gone off as humanly possible in the NBA and the WNBA.
Now we're going to touch on the W just really quickly.
I know you guys are here for the NBA, some of you, but for those who enjoy the W, really
quickly we've had some bombs in the W as well.
I'll start off with Alyssa Thomas being moved to the Phoenix Mercury.
She was a court player.
So in the WNBA for my NBA and NFL folks, think of it more like a franchise tag or like a
player option or like a team option.
Do it at the franchise tag in the NFL or a team option in the NBA where that team still
has your rights and they can agree to trade you.
Now a lot of times in the WNBA, a court player, if a court player wants to move, they are
moved.
Similar to its player on a franchise tag or NBA player in the last year of his contract,
if he wants to move, he's able to be moved.
But the court restriction means only the team can move you.
Brittany Griner in free agency went to the Atlanta Dream.
So one of the biggest free agent signings in league history, especially pure free agency
as Brittany Griner, an absolute no brainer, Hall of Famer goes to the Atlanta Dream to
partner with their young crew, specifically Ryan Howard.
So that's going to be a very good ball club.
Satu Sabale was traded.
She was another court player, but she made it very clear she had no interest in returning
to the Dallas wings.
So the Dallas wings made a trade with the Phoenix Mercury and the Indiana Fever.
The Mercury ended up with Satu Sabale, Kalani Brown, and Fiji Uzen.
The Indiana Fever ended up with Sophie Cunningham with the 19th overall pick.
And the Dallas wings acquired Ty Harris, Nellisa Smith, the eighth overall pick, and the rights
to Kiki Herbert-Harrigan, who has announced that she won't play in the WNBA again this
season.
But that was the bombs for the most part in the WNBA.
There were some others.
Oh, Dejanae Carrington was traded to the Dallas wings.
So her and her longtime companion, Nellisa Smith, are on the same basketball team again.
The Indiana Fever continued to impress as they also picked up D'Wanna Bonner.
So a move that many people thought was going to be connected in terms of D'Wanna Bonner
was going to go wherever her wife, Alyssa Thomas, goes.
They ended up in separate cities again.
They were both on Connecticut last season, many people thought, especially when Alyssa
Thomas ended up in Phoenix because originally D'Wanna Bonner was a Mercury, that she was
going to find her way into Phoenix and retire there.
Alas, that was not the case.
But that was my WNBA minute.
Couldn't help myself there.
I'm a huge WNBA fan, so I couldn't allow it to just go untalked about at all on the
show.
Of course, the Jewelry trade really got it started, but that happened a while before.
But like I said, of course, I couldn't just let it ride with no discussion at all on the
show.
It wouldn't be me.
I'm a huge fan of the WNBA and the WNBA podcast, as we are huge supporters of the WNBA on this
show.
But let's get into the NBA.
Let's get into a lot of the drama.
Let's get into a lot of the stuff that is happening on the show.
So as you guys know, about a week ago, six days ago, a bomb goes off.
In the middle of the night, it's the Luke and Anthony Davis trade, and we've had a lot
of maneuvering and movement since then.
But just to give you guys a reminder, the Lakers ended up receiving Luka Doncic, Mark
Keith Morris, and Maxie Klieba.
The Dallas Mavericks ended up with Anthony Davis, Max Christie, and a 20-29 first round
pick, courtesy of the Lakers.
And the Utah Jazz ended up receiving Jalen Mahoosh Shafino, a Clippers second round pick,
and a Mavericks second round pick.
Now what makes this interesting is, one of the things that came out was that Danny Ainge
had no idea, which tells you the level of secrecy involved in this trade.
Because Danny Ainge is always involved in the trade because he always knows everything.
And the fact that he only found out 30 minutes ahead of time tells you the level of secrecy
that Nico Harrison and Rob Poenke exercised in this scenario.
Now it has been well received throughout Lakerland as a huge W of a trade.
The national media is still poo-pooing it.
We got guys like Charles Barkley saying, oh yeah, the Mavericks can win the title and
the Lakers didn't do anything.
And it's like, the Lakers acquired a top three player in the world.
You're telling me that somehow the Mavericks who lost said top three player in the world
are in a better position than the team that got them?
And they're like, all right, we get it Charles, you're anti-LeBron.
We understand it.
We get it Shaq, you're pro big man.
But let's use common sense here.
Getting a top three player in the world by just definition can't be worse than losing
the very same player.
So let's use our common sense here.
But that bomb goes off, right?
And so most people will say, okay, all right, let's breathe.
But I was hearing smoke about De'Aaron Fox and I kept hearing it and I kept hearing it
and I kept hearing it.
A day later, the bomb explodes.
And the three team deal involving the Sacramento Kings along with the Chicago Bulls and the
Spurs.
De'Aaron Fox finds his stuff on the Spurs.
The full details.
The San Antonio Spurs received De'Aaron Fox and Jordan McLaughlin.
The Chicago Bulls picked up Zach Collins, Trey Jones, Kevin Herter, and they get their
20-25 first round pick back from San Antonio.
A very valuable asset as the Bulls can end up a top-10 team in a very good draft.
And then the Sacramento Kings pick up Zach Levine, Citi Kosoka, I don't know that guy
at all.
Three first round picks, which was 20-25 from Charlotte, 20-27 from San Antonio, and 20-31
from Minnesota.
And three second round picks.
Remember, the Dallas Mavericks got one pick total for Luka Doncic.
The San Antonio Spurs and the Sacramento Kings, I'm sorry, picked up six for De'Aaron Fox.
Is Anthony Davis worth four picks?
I mean, that's the only difference in the trades to me.
Is AD worth four picks plus to me as Zach Levine?
Because the Citi fella and Max Christie kind of cancel in the grand scheme of life.
So is Anthony Davis, or corrections, is Anthony Davis worth two first round picks, three second
round picks, and the talent gap of Zach Levine to Max Christie?
If the answer is no, then that means the Sacramento Kings got more for De'Aaron Fox than the
Dallas Mavericks did for Luka Doncic.
Yeah, Nico Harrison, it's a bad trade.
Now I do think people are going way too far.
There's Nico Harrison's hired full-time security, there's been death threats, security's
beat up in the building, there's a lot of craziness happening around Dallas.
All of that's ridiculous.
In the end of the day, people, it's basketball.
Yes, it's a sport we love.
Yes, it's what we talk about.
Yes, we live and breathe and die, and I'm not going to talk about my team.
Later, it was the Pelicans making how they're making moves at this point.
But at the end of the day, people, it's basketball.
A decision was made.
Dallas wins the title.
Everyone's going to praise Nico Harrison.
I mean, it's just that simple.
Those same people who are giving them death threats outside of maybe Slovenians are going
to praise Nico Harrison for an all-time move.
If he trades Luca Donches and they win a title, why, Anthony Davis is on the team.
We spoke about it with the Donches trade.
A lot of it is a bet against Luca.
If Luca ever wins a title, you lost.
Even if you win one and he wins one, you can call it at best a split, but most likely people
are going to say you lost.
So that's very interesting there.
But anyway, back to the De'Aaron Fox situation.
So that puts Fox and Wimby together, and Fox already had his first game with the Spurs.
It looked as spectacular as you would imagine it would look.
And then we had a couple NFL bombs.
We had a Caleb Martin trade to Dallas as they're trying to fill in their roster around Anthony
Davis.
But then we started hearing smoke.
Actually, no, I'm going to save that because whatever.
So we're going to save that for a little while.
But then another trade goes off.
Milwaukee Bucks and Washington Wizards agreed to a trade with the Wizards receiving Chris
Middleton, AJ Johnson, and the right to a pick swap.
And the Milwaukee Bucks receiving Kyle Kuzma, Patrick Baldwin, and second round picks, multiple
second round picks.
I believe it was two or three.
Multiple second round selections.
So Chris Middleton and Kyle Kuzma ended up being swapped.
What's the situation here?
What, why do you move a Chris Middleton?
Why do you pick up a Kyle Kuzma?
You move a Chris Middleton because it was time.
The past couple of seasons, we've gone into those seasons and say, okay, you got Giannis.
You have Dame.
You pick up Dame in the middle of last season, but you have Dame entering this season if
only, if only, if only when it comes to Chris Middleton.
If only he can revitalize some of that prowess that he had before.
If only he could stay healthy.
You find yourself playing the if only game with Chris Middleton and it's a situation
where the Bucks couldn't do anymore.
Instead you go because he lost his defensive ability.
And a lot of times I've noticed with two way players, with NBA players in general, they
lose defensive ability because a lot of times defense involves athleticism and want to.
If I already know I have to conserve energy, I'm much more valuable trying to score the
ball than trying to stop him from scoring.
So a lot of times players will lose that defensive intensity because now they're just trying
to basically match their matchup in points.
So if I'm playing a great score and instead of me taking away 10 or 12 of his points,
I've got to add 8 or 9 of mine, you know, to try and cancel out his production.
But now you're bringing in Kyle Kuzma who's never been anybody's defender, but he's a
champion.
He's been in championship locker rooms.
He's been around the greatest player of all time in my opinion.
He's been around one of the best big men of all time.
So he's been in those scenarios, he's been in those locker rooms and he's done in LA.
So the pressure in Milwaukee is a little different.
It's a little bit nicer than some of the pressure he's felt within LA.
I think it's a good move for Kyle Kuzma.
I really do.
The Sacramento Kings were not done.
They ended up bouncing newly acquired city, Secoco, I just, Seco, I can't pronounce it,
I'm sorry.
To the Washington Wizards who were just involved, obviously with Chris Middleton and the Kings
pick up Jonas Valanchunas and two second round picks.
So the Wizards trade Val, big Val, to the Kings for the city fella and two second round
picks.
The Kings were not done.
And then a bomb, a big bomb, not as big as the Luca bomb, but the Jimmy Butler bomb finally
goes off.
And one of the bigger trades I've seen in a long, long time, like I said, one of the bigger trades that's happened in the NBA in a long time as far as the number of teams that was involved in this trade.
So here's the situation.
The Miami Heat ultimately traded Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors in what situation
for a package that involved Andrew Wiggins, Dennis Schroeder, Kyle Anderson, and a protective
first round pick.
The Golden State Warriors then almost immediately agree and in these situations they pretty
much pre-agree, agree to a two year contract extension worth $121 million.
The Miami Heat immediately rerouted Dennis Schroeder to the Utah Jazz with Josh Richardson
from the Pistons getting routed to the Warriors for Lindy Waters III.
And then PJ Tucker ultimately gets redirected to the Miami Heat with Kyle Anderson who was
supposed to get redirected to the Toronto Raptors, but that part of the deal ends up
falling apart and he is not rerouted to the Toronto Raptors after all.
So, that is what happens with Jimmy Butler.
Now what's interesting with the Jimmy Butler trade is there was previous reporting that
he had blocked a trade to the Warriors.
Now I think that had a case to do with the money and I think up until that point his
representation was probably telling him he could make his way to Phoenix, which was the
goal from Jump Street.
But I think that involved Kevin Durant being moved back to Golden State, which was something
that was deemed literally untenable.
Kevin Durant rejected that premise outright.
He rejected the thought of even going back to Golden State outright.
It was going to be a pretty interesting deal in which case Jimmy Butler would get to Phoenix,
a lot of assets would go to Miami including the Andrew Wiggins and then Kevin Durant would
find himself in Golden State.
Again, Kevin Durant rejected the theory of possibly even attempting to go back to Golden
State and ultimately that was the deciding factor in Jimmy Butler finding his way into
Golden State with Andrew Wiggins still finding his way into Miami.
A lot of stuff has been going on with Andrew Wiggins.
It was a somber feeling according to Ohm who works for ESPN.
It was a somber feeling according to him around the locker room when Steve Kerr went in and
talked to Andrew and tell him what was going on with the situation.
One of those things you don't think about when it comes down to player acquisition is
the player themselves.
I mean you got guys like Dennis Schroeder who compared it to modern slavery.
Let's not go that far.
In piggybacking off of that, Dennis Schroeder was traded every day of his week.
He was traded Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to four different places obviously.
So you really don't have any control of the situation most of the time especially if you're
not a star level player.
Quick kudos to Lonzo Ball.
He picks up a two year, $20 million contract extension.
Many people thought he was going to be moved at the deadline instead him in Chicago agreed
to an extension.
Now, that doesn't mean anything.
He could be traded by August 6th or 5th because of the six month signing trade restriction.
He could be moved in six months.
But he will at least through the summer remain at Chicago Bull and look to be their point
guard of the future.
Now, one of the deals and one of the situations that was always interesting was what New Orleans
would do.
I'm a big fan, so this is pretty interesting to me.
What would New Orleans do?
Because New Orleans was right above the luxury tax.
At the time, it was going to be an $18 million check that the Pelicans were basically about
to forfeit if and when they decide to stay over the luxury tax limit.
Myself, Bobby Marks, some other people were saying there's no way the Pelicans don't
make a trade to get under the tax.
The most obvious person is Brandon Ingram.
You send Brandon Ingram out, you send him to a team with cap space.
That way you can acquire less than what you sent out and you're under the tax.
Also, it keeps you under the tax for next season till you avoid the repeat attacks.
Again, that was the most obvious person.
But the Pelicans at some point move Daniel Tice.
So now Daniel Tice gets moved and the Pelicans come under the tax.
Okay, so now in my head, I'm like, okay, they might keep Ingram now because Tice was moved
and you're under the tax.
So what's really, so I guess outside of not being stuck to paying his extension, why move
him at this point?
If it's a tax reason, you can still get your $18 million check and it's a being an $11.2
million check.
But you can end up getting your $18 million check at the time without and keep Brandon
Ingram until the summer where you can use a sign and trade as a leverage.
That's because most teams that want to acquire him will need to move out like money.
But bomb goes off.
The New Orleans Pelicans trade Brandon Ingram to the Toronto Raptors for Bruce Brown, Kelly
Olenek, a first round pick in 2026 courtesy of Indiana and a second round pick.
Now you're probably wondering as a Pelican fan, how do I feel?
I feel really good about this trade.
At first I was like, okay, we didn't get anything back.
But I realized that could be the genius in the trade.
Bruce Brown is a human, real life trade exception.
He signed a big, mostly non-guaranteed deal in Denver and it was thought of around the
league as a real life breathing trade exception and that's kind of how it's been treated.
New Orleans is going to get off the contract after this season.
He made the money work for the Brandon Ingram situation.
Kelly Olenek is actually a really good rotational center and then I say we have an additional
first round pick in 2026 and then you pick up an additional second round pick as well.
They say I'm enjoying the move.
You basically traded a three year, $144 million contract.
I mean that's literally what happened.
We traded a massive contract for a guy that you know I think is worth it.
So kudos to David Griffin there and thanks to you, you still pick up your check.
But then the Lakers came back and made a second trade.
They trade Dalton Connect, Kam Reddish and their last tradable first round pick, the
one in 2031.
One completely unprotected and a 20-30 pick swap to the Charlotte Hornets for Mark Williams
who is a rising star, a rising center for the Charlotte Hornets.
First of all he's 7'2", 9'9", standing reach.
For context, Victor Wimbenyama has a standing reach of 9'7".
So Mark Williams standing reach is actually two inches higher than Victor Wimbenyama.
When Mark Williams plays over 28 minutes, he's a 20-12 with a block and a half kind
of guy.
The problem is he's never played 50 games in a season.
So the Lakers are incredibly confident in their staff.
You know the work on his body, they have LeBron James, the ultimate body guy and they are
making the bet that they are able to keep him on the floor.
Which if that's the case, the Lakers go from one of the worst defensive teams to at least
middle of the pack with Mark Williams being behind them.
Then there were some other minor trades.
Reggie Jackson and Jerry Butler get swapped for the Toronto Raptors.
Also trade Davion Mitchell to the Miami Heat for PJ Tucker, another human trade exception.
A second round pick and some cash.
Yousef Nerkic who has been going through several things with the Phoenix Suns organization.
He gets traded to the Charlotte Hornets along with their first round pick for Cody Martin
and Vasili Misic.
My last big trade of the trade deadline was Deandre Hunter who is an incredibly underrated
player.
He was traded from the Hawks to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Keris LaVert, George Nhiang,
three second round picks and two pick swaps.
To me that is a very humongous trade.
That's a championship level trade.
Because odds are, I would start him at three.
So now one, two, three, four, five is all star-ish and minimum level players.
We know what J.D. Osmond is.
I would have Deandre Hunter starting.
So it would be Garland, Mitch, Deandre Hunter, Evan Mobley and Jared Allen and play basketball.
He's a very long-rangey defender.
He can also put the ball in the hole and score.
Marcus Smart is moved to the Washington Wizards pretty much as one of those draft capital
moments.
Then James Wiseman was traded to the Toronto Raptors.
What a trade deadline.
What a trade deadline that was.
To say it was a fun one would be an understatement.
We got a lot of use out of our new graphic.
But to say it was a fun one would be an understatement.
But some big news coming out after the deadline.
The thing that happened today was Ben Simmons and the Brooklyn Nets are negotiating a buyout.
What's weird about his buyout is they're not going to finalize it until he finds an
agreement with a new team.
So he's going to continue to get paid by the Nets as full salary.
Then once they figure out an agreement with a new team, then he will request a buyout.
It will be granted and the new team will almost immediately sign him.
So that was the most interesting thing as well.
Ben Simmons still has a lot of positive reputations around the league.
Long range defender can really pass the ball.
Can really cause havoc on the wing as far as with his length and versatility and athleticism
can cause absolute havoc on the wing.
And then Kevin Durant.
Kevin Durant in this situation to me was jobbed.
And I have little to no doubt he won't be on the Phoenix Suns next year.
He was not brought in to the consideration with his trades.
He was not told about trades.
He was not even told about his trade.
He was blindsided, despondent regarding to his apparent name being mentioned in trade
discussions.
His name being mentioned in conversations regarding a Jimmy Butler.
With his name being mentioned in going back to the Warriors.
No wonder he basically said screw you, I'm not going to help you after the way he feels
like he was treated.
Which you get no argument from me.
You are the best player on the Phoenix Suns.
If you're not the best player in the organization's eyes, you're no worse than second.
Similar to Golden State, Devin Booker was born and raised there in basketball since
you're an implant.
You're a mercenary.
Kevin Durant is the best mercenary in the history of basketball.
Now what I don't get is if I'm Phoenix, I'm trying to shed salary.
I'm not trying to add Jimmy Butler's 121 because at that point I might as well just keep Kevin
Durant.
But you know they're going to pay 152 million dollars in luxury taxes this year.
Insane right?
But you know you go through a battle every single day with a group of guys and you love
that place and whatever and then you hear your name in trade rumors for a guy who, let's
be honest, hadn't done what you can do.
So that makes it difficult in terms of interpersonal relationships with Kevin.
He's already not the most, let's call it social guy of all time.
So to put this level of scrutiny and jokeability and stuff on him makes it difficult.
Makes it very difficult.
But you know a lot is happening in the NBA.
Shea Gills Alexander keeps dropping 50.
But other than that, a lot is happening in the NBA.
So definitely keep you updated as we enter into the home stretch before the playoffs.
Now up next we're going to jump into the Super Bowl and talk about what's going down with
the shield.
Welcome
back into the show.
And now we're on to the Super Bowl as we have reached Super Bowl week.
Yes NFL fans we have finally made it.
We have made it all the way to the Super Bowl.
It has been a long arduous journey.
As you guys know we typically start the NFL coverage.
Oh my god.
I mean it might be, we might be out of the NFL for what three weeks to a month?
And then we're right back in it.
You know we're now we're basketball heavy at that point.
But we are out of the NFL coverage for about a month.
Super Bowl ends.
We take a couple of weeks off.
So it's probably the last show.
Well I'll probably do a Super Bowl reaction show.
Either right after the game or I'll do one on Monday.
You guys are here no later than Tuesday and then I probably take a couple of weeks off.
Then I get adjusted to being in basketball and then we come back.
It could probably be two, three shows and the NFL free agency will be on and popping.
So that's kind of the schedule, the outlook over the next month or so.
Probably no later than after, no later than Mardi Gras.
Or rather right after Mardi Gras will we have a show.
Or we have an NFL you know heavy show game with free agency.
So on and so forth.
But the Super Bowl is here.
The NOLA Super Bowl is here.
It's the Kansas City Chiefs fresh off their back to back Super Bowl championships.
They're coming for another.
They're going to be the try to be the first team to win three in a row.
They're already the first team since the old 304 Patriots to go back to back.
Now they look to be the first team ever to win three Super Bowls in a row.
Now the NFL has had three Pete champions before hell.
They've had a five Pete I believe at one point.
But the Super Bowl champions have never been three in a row.
And then the Philadelphia Eagles, they're back right.
Last time they were here they faced the Kansas City Chiefs.
So this is a familiar opponent for them as far as hey we've been here before with them.
They've been here before with us.
So now you've got the Super Bowl champions back at it again with the Chiefs facing up
opponent.
So the reason why they have the Super Bowl that they have is the Philadelphia Eagles
as they were able to come back and defeat them in the Super Bowl.
Quick update on the Jax pack before we move on.
We are now 6 and 6 because we went 0 and 2 in Conference weekend and I changed my mind
last minute on the Chiefs.
That would have guaranteed me a winning playoff.
But I ended up going with the Bills.
Sadly had it.
Had it.
Not gonna lie.
I blew it right at the end.
That hurts.
Had it two and a half.
It's just a lot of pain there honestly.
But the Kansas City Chiefs end up beating the Bills by more than three.
And the Eagles again as we talked about in the last time at Super Bowl football absolutely
steamrolled the Washington commanders.
But we went 0 and we are 6 and 6.
This game is an even point spread.
So simply picking the winner correctly guarantees me a winning playoff.
Gains me a regular season and a winning playoff.
Something that hasn't happened in a few years actually.
Winning both.
Having the two winning seasons.
So let's get back to the game.
This game has a lot of history in it.
For Patrick Mahomes you would have the greatest start to a career which he arguably has anyway.
But the greatest start to a career that has ever happened.
You would have started seven seasons and you would have had four Super Bowls.
Seven seasons.
Four Super Bowls.
For context Tom Brady didn't win his four Super Bowls until year 12 or 13.
Because he won three out of his first four and then he went on a 10 year drought.
So it took year 14 for Tom Brady to get to ring number four.
Patrick Mahomes looking for a ring number four in year seven.
Absolutely insane start to his career.
The worst season he's ever had winning wise.
He lost in the conference championship game.
He's been in the five, this is his fifth Super Bowl appearance.
He's looking for a ring number four.
The only Super Bowl he's ever lost, he lost to the real goat Tom Brady.
But as far as start to a career, you can't get much more of an insane start.
Especially winning wise at the quarterback position.
Then your first seven years you're potentially walking away with four Super Bowls and five
appearances.
I mean absolutely again just ridiculous level of winning.
The Philadelphia Eagles on the other side man that team is no slouch.
You've heard all the coverage all week.
I'm not going to beat you to death with Super Bowl coverage.
You've heard it all week.
But the Philadelphia Eagles have one of, no correction I'm going to backtrack.
The Philadelphia Eagles have the best roster in pro football.
It ain't close.
The best player on the field I give you is Patrick Mahomes.
The second best player on the field Chris Jones or say Corbin Barkley.
Players three through 12 might all play for the Eagles with Joe Tooney being the one outlier
and because he's forced to play tackle he might not be it anymore either.
That's insane.
The best, I mean if you look at position groups in this game, the best position group in the
game is quarterback.
Which again has to go to the Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs by virtue of him
being in it.
The second best position group has to be the Philadelphia Eagles defensive line followed
by the Philadelphia Eagles running backs followed by the Philadelphia Eagles.
Okay, Kansas City Chiefs offensive line, then the Philadelphia Eagles receiving core, then
you start going to the Chiefs.
The Philadelphia Eagles have the most complete and best roster in the league.
It's not conjecture, it's not an opinion, that's a fact.
I've made it up a few times on this show, it's literally like Noah's Ark over there.
They've got two of everything.
They've got two good receivers, AJ Ron, Devontae Smith.
They've got two great nose tackles, Jordan, Jaylen Carter and the other big one, I can't
think of his name right now.
They've got two great defense tackles.
They've got two crashy linebackers in Zach Bond and the other guy.
They have a 2,000 yard rusher in Saecon Barkley.
It is ridiculous.
They have talent everywhere.
Even in the offensive line, losing Alain Johnson, losing a Jason Kelsey, another time Alain
Johnson, losing a Jason Kelsey.
They have just kept trucking along.
They are ridiculously talented.
Even Jaylen Hurts is a dual threat.
He's got two ways to beat you, throwing and running.
The Kansas City Chiefs are the Kansas City Chiefs.
I've spoken about it before and I don't think this can be reiterated.
They have made it to the Super Bowl five out of seven years, impacting my home's quarterback
tenure.
They have won the Super Bowl three out of those years.
If you don't count this trip, three out of four chances they've been in the Super Bowl,
they've won it with only one loss to Brady.
The previous six years before this year, they went to six conference championship games,
winning four of them.
They've lost one to Brady and they lost one to Borough, both on late game comebacks.
Brady and overtime, Borough at the end of the fourth quarter.
In the year Borough loses to the Rams, in the year Brady wins for Tampa.
I'm sorry, in the year that Brady goes and wins the last Super Bowl in New England.
Really ridiculous level of complete dominance as far as winning in situations, as far as
winning in just the draft they've hidden free agency.
They've obviously hit on the coaching staff.
Remember when we go into that Texas game and I said, man, every Chiefs game this year looks
the same.
Every single Chiefs game looks the same.
They come out, they go out and they put a hell of a first draft together.
You can tell Andy Reed and the crews are cooking that drive up and they go and they put a hell
of a first draft together.
They often slows down for the rest of the game, but the defense never gives up a lot.
They never go down really far.
Then that fourth quarter, they're going to win that fourth quarter by double digits.
They're going to win it 13-3.
They're going to win it 14-0.
They're going to win it 10-0.
They're going to win the fourth quarter 16-3.
They're just going to win the fourth quarter by double digits and they're going to escape
you by four to five points.
It happens almost every single time and you're going to feel like you outplayed them and
you're going to look at your number and say, we did.
You're going to say, oh man, there's three plays that we win this game by 18 plus and
we lost it by five.
You don't know how it happened to you because it has happened to everyone.
They continually find ways to win games.
It is remarkably frustrating.
It is stupendously annoying.
It is frustratingly cool.
It is mind-blowingly annoying as they find ways literally over and over and over and
over and over and over and over.
They find ways to win the game.
It's infuriating.
But kudos to them for still finding ways to win games and for finding ways in order to
continue to be on top.
But I've given you enough of the back and forth.
I've given you enough of the conjecture.
I've told you that the point spread is E, which means it's even.
No.5, no one, no nothing.
It's a dead spread even.
There's no point in betting the point spread.
You get equal money for both if your sports book is smart.
The over under simply is 48.5.
The money I think I've seen on several sites where even the money line with both teams
were negative.
This is about as dead heat of a Super Bowl as we have seen in a very long time.
The initial spread was chiefs minus two.
It's been bad all the way down to even money.
Insane, right?
That many people are on the side of the Philadelphia Eagles.
It swung two to two and a half points in many sports books.
That kind of swing doesn't happen.
It swung that far.
But now it's time to pick a winner.
And I've been battling with this since they came together.
One point I was chiefs 1000%.
You couldn't have told me anything but the chiefs are going to get a three-peat.
And then I said, man, it's hard to beat a team twice.
It's damn sure hard to beat a team twice on a Super Bowl.
So I went to the Philadelphia Eagles.
I said, man, Saquon Barker is going to control this game time possession.
They're going to have a couple of clever plays from Kellen Moore.
This is basically his, I'm going to get New Orleans, get ready to see this on a regular
basis because I'm going to be the head coach of the Saints.
So New Orleans, get ready to see this, get used to the locker room.
Ironically they will be in the home locker room.
You know, what's pretty funny about that.
They're going to be in the home locker room.
So Kellen Moore, you know, move your stuff into the head coach office and just leave
it there because that's going to be your office.
You know, I mean, the Super Bowl is Sunday.
They'll probably announce him as the, it'll probably leak.
He's the coach Sunday night, early Monday morning.
He'll probably get formally announced as the head coach.
No later than Tuesday or Wednesday.
He'll give a press conference on Thursday.
I mean, like literally, I hope he brought his stuff.
Like that's the level of, you know, he's going to be a head coach.
He's going to be the head coach of New Orleans.
I hope he brought his bags and his family and so on and so forth so they don't have
to like go back and get any of that stuff.
But he's going to be a head coach, right?
He's going to be the head coach of the New Orleans Saints.
And I think this is his chance to show off some of that talent.
If you're Nick Sirianni, you've got a correct thing that you gave up last time.
I think they got a little lax in coverage.
They went to stop the big play and the Chiefs have an amazing ability.
I give credit to Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes for this.
They have an amazing ability to hurry up, to get a lot of plays in a short amount of
time and score.
So like most people, man, a minute left, you got to go 80 yards.
They're looking for bombs, you know, 20 yard chunks, 15 yard chunks.
The Chiefs have an ability to go seven, six, 12, seven, eight, nine, five, three, 10, 12,
20 touchdown.
And you're like, they did that in a minute.
And you know what I'm saying?
They got nine to 10 plays off.
And they can, you know, they have an ability when needed to have a nine play, 80 yard
drive for a touchdown and a minute and some change.
And it's just a freakish ability and they can just do it, right?
It reminds me when the Patriots, if you left more than a minute and a half on the clock,
a minute and 10 on the clock, you know, heaven forbid Brady had a timeout, you were shaking
basically because he's coming and he's going to do it.
And that's what the Chiefs have the ability to do.
And I sit here and, you know, a little behind the scenes here.
I don't have a winner on the paper.
I literally have a winner question mark.
I mean, I agree with the sports books.
I agree with the lines.
I have no idea.
This is, I mean, this is one of the more even two balls in a long time.
You have a Chiefs team that you just feel like they're going to do it again.
You have a Chiefs team that you're like, man, three in a row.
If anyone's going to do it, it's going to be them.
You have a Chiefs team that always wins the big game, that always figures it out, that
always somehow, someway has an ability to win the game.
And it just doesn't make sense.
You just don't get it.
But at the same time, this Eagle team is hungry.
They have a lot of guys who just want to battle, who just want to go to war with Patrick Mahomes,
who just want to go at it with the Kansas City Chiefs, especially because a lot of these
very guys feel like they got robbed and they blew an opportunity, a golden chance to have
jewelry on their finger already.
But in this game, I've faded the Chiefs a lot.
I have.
I've faded the Chiefs a lot this season.
Some of it has worked, especially in point spread.
Some of it has not.
I'm going to go with the Kansas City Chiefs to win their third soup bowl in a row.
So my official Just In Time Sports pick is the Kansas City Chiefs win their third soup
bowl in a row.
As a matter of fact, I'm going to mark it on the page right now.
Like I said, as of right this second, it was not on the page, but it is officially circled
on my notes that the Kansas City Chiefs will win their third soup bowl in a row.
And we will get endless conversation of Patrick Mahomes being the GOAT because he'd be the
first one to ever do it.
He would have four soup bowls before the age of 30.
He'd have, I believe, four soup bowl MVP's as well.
He'd have two to three regular season MVP's.
He would have the greatest start to a football career that has ever existed.
And admittedly, who am I to tell him that?
Who am I to say anything about anyone at that point?
Now, would it shock me if Philly gets to win?
No.
But as of right now, I've got the Kansas City Chiefs.
But let's move on to two immortals.
Immortals who have bussed in the Canton Pro Football Hall of Fame.
In the smallest class since 2005, there were only four inductees into the Pro Football
Hall of Fame.
Now, I didn't know you could go that small.
Like I know baseball has had years, they don't induct anybody.
Like because baseball, you have to have like 80% of the ballads, something like that.
And they've had years where they don't induct anyone.
And that's a really weird like concept.
You don't induct anybody.
But baseball, baseball classes are typically two to five people.
They don't have eight, nine, ten people classes.
They have them two to five, usually.
And then like I said, there's been a couple years recently they didn't induct anybody.
But this, I thought football, I thought you had to have five current years, five current
two class.
I thought like seven or six or seven was always the number.
But they end up going with four this season.
The Hall of Fame ended up being Antonio Gates, tight end of the Chargers, Eric Allen, who
was a cornerback, Jared Allen, a defensive end primarily.
I remember him from the Vikings and Sterling Sharp.
Sterling Sharp, before his injury, he had a neck injury that forced him to retire.
Sterling Sharp was on path to break a lot of Jerry Rice's records.
Now, would the longevity have held up till he physically just caught Jerry Rice in numbers?
Maybe not.
Sterling Sharp was one of those receivers.
He won, I think, two Triple Crowns or something like that.
Was absolutely an amazing receiver in the early days of Brett Favre and Green Bay.
Ends up clearing the way for your Donald drivers and et cetera and Green Bay later with Brett
Favre.
But Sterling Sharp was the guy.
I remember Shani Sharpe, his Hall of Fame production was like, I'm not even the best
football player in my own family.
Sterling Sharp should be in the Hall of Fame.
Terrell Davis opened the door.
So when Terrell Davis got in the Hall of Fame, Shani Sharpe's teammate in Denver, Terrell
Davis only played six years or six or seven years.
But in those six, seven years, Terrell Davis has two, 2000 yard seasons and he also has
a couple of football rings.
So while he doesn't have the counter, while he doesn't, I don't think he has 10,000 yards
rushing, he went for 2000 twice and he has two rings.
Terrell Davis ends up retiring due to concussions.
Sterling, I can tell you, retired because of a neck injury.
But in his short six or seven year career, he had a couple of triple crowns.
He didn't win a Super Bowl, but he was clearly either the best or second best receiver in
the league.
He has multiple first team All-Pros.
I mean, honestly, if he had his career and you added seven years of minimalness, he's
a no brainer.
But because of the amount of years he had in the league, people pushed back on it originally.
And he's in and one of the cooler and just wow moments is Shannon Sharp.
Sterling was staying over at Shannon's house and he kind of set this whole little thing
up and then Sterling comes down the stairs and Shannon says, welcome.
And Sterling was like, to your house?
Like, you know what I'm saying?
I've been here a thousand times, dude, like to your house.
And then Shannon in his gold jacket says, no, the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
And as you can see, Sterling is like, wow, why did he start to like hit him like he's
in and then Shannon starts breaking down and Sterling tells him like, yo, the proudest
professional moment I've ever had was when you got in.
And then Shannon was telling him like, no, this, you don't understand this feeling of
me being able to tell you you're in is, he's at his proudest moment.
It was the my older brothers and they both got to sit down and like Shannon has called
Sterling like his father, basically.
He was like, my example of how to do anything was Sterling Sharp.
And he said he had his grandfather, of course, but he was like, my example, especially in
adulthood of how to do anything in the league, how to carry yourself, whatever was Sterling.
And so, you know, absolutely amazing moment for the Sharp brothers, the Sharp family.
They become the first set of brothers to ever be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame together.
I am sure Shannon is going to fight like hell to get Sterling's bus as close to, if not
next to him as possible.
So now when they, you know, Sterling was like, man, his proudest moment was being with Shannon
during that weekend.
So now Sterling gets his chance for Shannon to be in Sterling's light.
And, you know, Sterling be the bail of the ball, especially since it's a small class.
Sterling gets to be the bail of the ball while Shannon is riding the shotgun and that, you
know, it's dream worthy, right?
Like I can't even think of a pair of brothers in the NBA who made the basketball Hall of
Fame.
I'm sure baseball, I don't think, like a Pro Football Hall of Fame set of siblings, a Pro
Hall of Fame of siblings is massively impressive.
If they're not the only ones on the list, they're on a very short list.
So congratulations, but again, congrats to all the Hall of Famers, Antonio Gates, Eric
Allen, Jared Allen, and of course Sterling Sharp.
A couple of near misses, I would assume, I would have added these guys, no doubt about
it.
Adam Vinatieri is the best kicker of all time.
Period.
There wasn't a drop off.
Like Adam V might have had one half of a year when he was off and then he retired.
He is simply the best kicker of all time.
The best anything of all time needs to be in the Hall of Fame of that sport.
He was not in on first ballot.
Eli Manning did not get in.
Now Eli, I'm in the debate group of Eli.
You have the camp, especially the media, most of the media comes from New York.
That's like, oh my God, Eli Manning was robbed.
How was he not in?
Eli Manning was very average for most of his career.
He doesn't have the All Pros, he didn't have the MVPs, he didn't have the Pro Bowls or
whatever, but he didn't have the All Pros nor the MVPs.
He has multiple years of leading the league in picks.
He has multiple years of just being flat out bad.
And then he has the two Super Bowl runs against Brady.
Now if Eli Manning makes the Super Bowl, Tom Brady is the GOAT.
Because the only reason why Eli Manning is in the Super Bowl is because he beat Tom Brady
twice in Super Bowls.
That's it.
That's the only qualification he has to be in the Hall of Fame.
But a guy I would have in no doubt under the Terrell Davis Sterling Sharp argument is Luke
Keighley.
Luke Keighley easily was the best linebacker in football for multiple years.
He was all decade linebacker, multiple first time All Pro.
The only reason he had to retire was due to concussions.
So I think under the same law and guidelines that Terrell Davis Sterling Sharp is getting,
I believe Luke Keighley should be there as well.
But now I'm going to quickly run through the NFL awards.
We had the NFL awards show just last night.
Your MVP is Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen.
He becomes just the third player ever to not be first team All Pro, but instead to win
the league MVP.
So he's just the third player ever.
Not the first, but he is a very short list of players to have done this.
Offensive player of the year is Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Saquon Barkley.
I think if you're not going to give the MVP to Lamar here, Saquon should be MVP.
I was going to be honest with you because you can't...
Lamar Jackson had an absolutely historic year at the quarterback position.
Josh Allen played incredibly well.
But to me, Lamar Jackson had the best year at quarterback.
If you're not going to give it to Lamar Jackson, it has to be Saquon Barkley.
But instead Saquon gets the Everybody Else MVP award, which is offensive player of the
year, while Josh Allen gets the quarterback award, which is the MVP these days.
The defensive player of the year, a rarity, which is the cornerback position, Pat Sertane
the second, becomes the first cornerback, since Stephon Gilmour, to pick up the defensive
player of the year.
It is naturally designed for a edge rusher to pick it up, but Pat Sertane the second
picks it up.
Coach of the year, Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell.
A little bit of a shocker here.
To me, I remember saying on the show, the week 18 game between Kevin O'Connell and
Dan Campbell's Lions was going to decide who's going to get coach of the year.
To me, those were the easy to the top two.
I just figured that once Dan Campbell, especially completing the sweep over Kevin O'Connell
in that moment, had secured the votes, but apparently he did not.
I guess a lot of credit was given to Kevin O'Connell for the Sam Darnell resurgence.
The offensive rookie of the year, one vote shy of a unanimous was Jayden Daniels.
The vote did go to Brock Bowers.
I'm not mad at it.
Brock Bowers had an absolutely historic year at the tight end position, but Jayden Daniels
was the clear cut offensive rookie of the year.
To me, just as clear cut, Jared Vurce wins the defensive rookie of the year as the new
lynchpin in the Los Angeles Rams pass rush.
The comeback player of the year was Joe Burrow.
Many people thought it would be Sam Darnell, but also Joe Burrow wins the quarterback triple
crown or the quarterback passing crown and just had the worst defense in the history
of existence.
It feels like otherwise he'd be probably still, he'd be deep in the playoffs with the amount
of yards and turns he put up, but he missed a good chunk of last year with a hand injury.
Sam Darnell gets taken out of the race due to the quote unquote meaning or intent of
the award and so Joe Burrow picks up the comeback player of the year award.
But that is all I have for today.
Absolutely great show.
Thank you guys for rocking with me.
This is always a pleasure to do this with you guys.
Being able to talk a little NBA, being able to talk a little NFL.
I appreciate you guys so much.
This is your host, Justin Jackson signing out.