WEBVTT 00:00:05.039 --> 00:00:22.460 JTS. Yeah. Just in time sports. Look, this is 00:00:22.460 --> 00:00:24.460 just a town sports. Come and get your weekly 00:00:24.460 --> 00:00:26.899 takes. His opinion from the heart. He can never 00:00:26.899 --> 00:00:29.100 show you fake. If you winning or you losing. 00:00:29.550 --> 00:00:46.509 We'll be right back. Until I die is where I'm 00:00:46.509 --> 00:00:48.609 from, I can't replace it. Some people minds are 00:00:48.609 --> 00:00:51.189 obtuse, but I like to be adjacent. Giving my 00:00:51.189 --> 00:00:53.649 opinion like I'm Nick Wright or I'm Jason. ESPN 00:00:53.649 --> 00:00:55.890 better watch out because I'm coming for the spaceship. 00:00:56.070 --> 00:00:58.189 We even tweeting on Twitter, you can meet us 00:00:58.189 --> 00:01:00.390 in the spaces. Highlight clips of sports news, 00:01:00.469 --> 00:01:02.750 yeah, you got to embrace it. We never had it 00:01:02.750 --> 00:01:05.030 easy, we just came from the pavement. 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His opinion from the heart, he 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:16.719 can never show you fake He can never show you 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:19.180 fake, he can never show you fake If you winning 00:01:19.180 --> 00:01:21.239 or you losing, he gon' tell it to you straight 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:23.439 He gon' tell it to you, he gon' tell it to you, 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:25.420 he gon' tell it to you This is Just In Time Sports, 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:28.260 come and get your whoopie takes Come and get 00:01:28.260 --> 00:01:30.439 it, he gon' tell it to you straight, to you straight 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:38.959 Welcome into the show welcome in to the newest 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:42.640 edition of the justin timesports podcast i am 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:45.480 your owner and host justin jackson i am excited 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:49.579 to be with you guys today in one of my favorite 00:01:49.579 --> 00:01:53.540 shows an insta release show so as soon as i finish 00:01:53.540 --> 00:01:55.780 recording this it will be put out to you guys 00:01:55.780 --> 00:01:59.040 as soon as production can get it turned around 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:01.459 which should be only a few minutes we're recording 00:02:01.459 --> 00:02:04.680 this just before 4 p .m central standard time 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.359 like i said on saturday Some of you guys may 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:09.080 hear this on Sunday, but the information will 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:13.919 be good as of that moment. And of course, if 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:16.699 anything breaks in the next 45 minutes to an 00:02:16.699 --> 00:02:19.680 hour of this show runtime, we will definitely 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:24.689 update you on it. Also, super, super excited. 00:02:24.889 --> 00:02:27.030 Before I go too far, don't forget to subscribe 00:02:27.030 --> 00:02:29.569 to the channel, which is kind of where I wanted 00:02:29.569 --> 00:02:32.469 to go first. Anyway, super, super excited. So 00:02:32.469 --> 00:02:35.650 a few days ago on Facebook, I definitely teased, 00:02:35.650 --> 00:02:37.969 I believe Instagram as well, stories, but definitely 00:02:37.969 --> 00:02:44.689 on Facebook, I teased the release, or correction, 00:02:44.789 --> 00:02:50.189 I teased big, big news coming to the show. Even 00:02:50.189 --> 00:02:53.629 tagging Mad Dog Entertainment. Or sorry, Mad 00:02:53.629 --> 00:02:56.930 Game Entertainment. My apologies. 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You guys are not necessarily 00:04:20.660 --> 00:04:24.000 here for that. Of course, we start off our season 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:27.279 seven shows with the JTS Quick Touch, which again, 00:04:27.420 --> 00:04:29.060 probably the last time I go through this, but 00:04:29.060 --> 00:04:31.800 it is what we are not going to talk in depth 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:34.680 about. I'm not going to go into a ton of information. 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:37.319 I'm not going to go into a ton of even commentary, 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.100 really kind of just quick hitters, maybe 45 seconds 00:04:40.100 --> 00:04:44.100 to a minute, if that. topic and then we'll get 00:04:44.100 --> 00:04:46.980 right through it but we're going to start off 00:04:46.980 --> 00:04:52.300 the JTS quick touch with the world baseball classic 00:04:52.300 --> 00:04:56.000 now for a variety of reasons I won't delve too 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.240 far into the world baseball classic for a variety 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:01.939 like I said for a variety of reasons primarily 00:05:01.939 --> 00:05:05.699 because I am not the world's best baseball fan 00:05:05.699 --> 00:05:10.170 and if there's anything I have learned over my 00:05:10.170 --> 00:05:14.069 time in this business is that what you don't 00:05:14.069 --> 00:05:16.970 do is pretend to be an expert on everything you 00:05:16.970 --> 00:05:20.509 do not pretend to be the world's authority on 00:05:20.509 --> 00:05:24.170 anything that is happening oh sorry you do not 00:05:24.170 --> 00:05:26.790 pretend to be the world authority on everything 00:05:26.790 --> 00:05:30.490 that is happening because whenever you are the 00:05:30.490 --> 00:05:34.449 authority on what is happening then it's a lot 00:05:34.449 --> 00:05:36.850 less believable because okay well you just told 00:05:36.850 --> 00:05:42.029 me that You were an expert in golf and you were 00:05:42.029 --> 00:05:47.769 an expert in NASCAR and you were an expert in 00:05:47.769 --> 00:05:50.990 the WNBA. So when you do that, right, it kind 00:05:50.990 --> 00:05:55.110 of waters down your ability, in my opinion, to 00:05:55.110 --> 00:05:57.930 truly be seen as an expert in the stuff that 00:05:57.930 --> 00:05:59.829 you may actually be very knowledgeable about. 00:06:00.170 --> 00:06:02.430 But the World Baseball Classic, the United States 00:06:02.430 --> 00:06:05.139 is playing Puerto Rico tomorrow night. Sorry, 00:06:05.180 --> 00:06:06.540 Dominican Republic. See, I'm already messing 00:06:06.540 --> 00:06:08.540 this up. The United States are playing the Dominican 00:06:08.540 --> 00:06:13.459 Republic tomorrow night in a spectacular contest. 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.699 Paul Skeens is on the mound for the U .S. The 00:06:16.699 --> 00:06:18.439 U .S. managers of the United States are going 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:21.660 to pitch about 75 to 80 pitches. When that runs 00:06:21.660 --> 00:06:24.680 out, he'll come out of the game. Dominican Republic 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:28.079 has been... Bombs away and enjoying the World 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:30.899 Baseball Classic. Several of their players, who 00:06:30.899 --> 00:06:34.379 are not known as the hardest workers in the room, 00:06:34.459 --> 00:06:36.819 are running full speed around the base paths, 00:06:37.100 --> 00:06:41.100 trying to get extra bases. It truly means a lot 00:06:41.100 --> 00:06:46.000 to the Dominican Republic to win this tournament. 00:06:46.100 --> 00:06:48.600 They're clearly going after the victory in this 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:51.339 tournament, and the Americans are as well. So, 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:55.120 absolutely great showcase. of international baseball 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:59.839 and international competition in general based 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:05.680 on this World Baseball Classic. College Athletics 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:10.939 recently, about a week ago, give or take, sometime 00:07:10.939 --> 00:07:14.069 earlier this week though, had a... round table 00:07:14.069 --> 00:07:16.649 with president trump no it was last week actually 00:07:16.649 --> 00:07:20.649 about that about this time um had a round table 00:07:20.649 --> 00:07:22.509 and i talked about it briefly last show as well 00:07:22.509 --> 00:07:26.930 but had a brief round table discussion and it 00:07:26.930 --> 00:07:30.829 was you know a lot of big name faces a lot of 00:07:30.829 --> 00:07:35.230 people who wouldn't matter in the room however 00:07:35.230 --> 00:07:43.040 um not everyone spoke during the meeting Not 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:46.779 everyone, you know, gave their master opinions. 00:07:47.620 --> 00:07:49.639 Donald Trump said some things that kind of scared 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:53.060 me as a college athletics person. But all in 00:07:53.060 --> 00:07:55.439 all, it was a meeting that typically happens 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:58.560 when it comes down to collegiate athletics and 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.959 trying to, quote unquote, fix what's wrong. A 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:04.160 lot of talking, a lot of big names, a lot of 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.860 private jets, a lot of fancy suits, a lot of 00:08:06.860 --> 00:08:10.120 things not done. And you pretty much leave the 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:12.680 meeting feeling exactly how you entered the meeting. 00:08:12.899 --> 00:08:15.779 You know, maybe one or two lines were said that 00:08:15.779 --> 00:08:19.620 caught your eye or caught your ear. But primarily, 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:23.139 you are what you are as far as when these meetings 00:08:23.139 --> 00:08:27.420 are concerned. And so once again, we leave a 00:08:27.420 --> 00:08:31.819 major college athletic meeting without much being 00:08:31.819 --> 00:08:36.700 solved, if anything is solved. The NCAA tournament 00:08:36.700 --> 00:08:41.480 is right around the corner. Seating is being 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:45.080 finalized as men's. Seating is being finalized 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:46.779 through the conference tournament. The women 00:08:46.779 --> 00:08:50.559 are being finalized really as of today and tomorrow 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:55.139 because LSU was recently just posted that they 00:08:55.139 --> 00:08:57.820 are hosting again the first two rounds in Baton 00:08:57.820 --> 00:08:59.860 Rouge. I would definitely try to make one of 00:08:59.860 --> 00:09:05.370 those games. You know, that was announced today. 00:09:05.629 --> 00:09:09.090 So big, big college. If you're into college basketball, 00:09:09.250 --> 00:09:11.029 if you're into March Madness, you're about to 00:09:11.029 --> 00:09:14.490 enjoy yourself. We're going to have crazy shots 00:09:14.490 --> 00:09:16.830 and amazing comebacks and big upsets. It's like 00:09:16.830 --> 00:09:22.870 there is every March. In the way, the only way 00:09:22.870 --> 00:09:27.549 that people between ages 18 and 24 in a single 00:09:27.549 --> 00:09:30.129 elimination tournament in strange locations. 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:33.460 Can have if you're on the men's side. If you're 00:09:33.460 --> 00:09:35.480 on the women's side, same thing. You're just 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:38.100 not in strange locations until you leave the 00:09:38.100 --> 00:09:43.500 first two rounds. But absolutely a great time 00:09:43.500 --> 00:09:46.980 of year. Always a game on. It feels like always 00:09:46.980 --> 00:09:50.539 high -level competition. Cannot wait. And our 00:09:50.539 --> 00:09:56.519 NFL mock draft show will be soon. Expect that 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:00.509 sometime this week. finalizing the mock draft 00:10:00.509 --> 00:10:03.509 and putting the mock draft show out. I've said 00:10:03.509 --> 00:10:07.090 it before and I'll say it again. This is going 00:10:07.090 --> 00:10:10.610 to be. The craziest draft for skilled players 00:10:10.610 --> 00:10:13.750 we've seen in a while due to the variety of change 00:10:13.750 --> 00:10:17.509 that can happen at either of the levels, you 00:10:17.509 --> 00:10:19.830 know, defensively, offensively, whether you need 00:10:19.830 --> 00:10:21.789 a receiver, a tight end, a running back. If you 00:10:21.789 --> 00:10:24.110 are an offensive, you are a defense, whether 00:10:24.110 --> 00:10:26.350 you need that corner or that safety, there's 00:10:26.350 --> 00:10:29.350 a lot, or that linebacker, there's a lot of flux. 00:10:30.269 --> 00:10:32.909 with you know where people are placed on people's 00:10:32.909 --> 00:10:35.950 boards so it's going to be very interesting getting 00:10:35.950 --> 00:10:38.850 closer to the draft you know what starts to leak 00:10:38.850 --> 00:10:41.070 out who's looking at who what kind of attributes 00:10:41.070 --> 00:10:45.269 are being discussed this year as the traits for 00:10:45.269 --> 00:10:47.590 whatever position you know all these things tend 00:10:47.590 --> 00:10:50.370 to come out closer to the draft so i like doing 00:10:50.370 --> 00:10:53.210 mock drafts a little closer to it so i can i 00:10:53.210 --> 00:10:56.309 can kind of get a better idea especially in a 00:10:56.309 --> 00:11:00.100 year like this year where It feels like almost 00:11:00.100 --> 00:11:03.220 what you're looking for is going to decide whether 00:11:03.220 --> 00:11:05.779 a person's picked. Juxtaposed to there's some 00:11:05.779 --> 00:11:08.620 years where it's just these are the best three 00:11:08.620 --> 00:11:10.440 or four players. They're going to go top three 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:15.519 or four. It doesn't matter who's there. But enough 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:19.559 of the shallow stuff. Let's get into our deep 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:26.240 analysis with the NFL free agency. There has 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:29.730 been stuff happening. All over the country. All 00:11:29.730 --> 00:11:34.110 over the league. Which to me is very much expected. 00:11:34.149 --> 00:11:37.090 Whenever you have 32 teams. And a lot of guys 00:11:37.090 --> 00:11:40.610 go into free agency. Every single year. And when 00:11:40.610 --> 00:11:46.490 you have that level of. Preemptive. Preemptive 00:11:46.490 --> 00:11:48.970 decision making. Every single year. From so many 00:11:48.970 --> 00:11:51.570 different guys. There's going to be wild stuff. 00:11:51.649 --> 00:11:53.889 That happens every year in the NFL. However. 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:58.419 The big news that everyone's discussed is Baltimore 00:11:58.419 --> 00:12:03.659 Ravens. So the Baltimore Ravens had agreed to 00:12:03.659 --> 00:12:05.460 a trade. And this is a couple days old now, so 00:12:05.460 --> 00:12:07.100 I'm going to spin through it really quickly. 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:10.919 But the Baltimore Ravens agreed to a trade for 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:15.440 Max Crosby with the Las Vegas Raiders. It involved 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.840 sending a first -round pick in 2026. and sending 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:21.980 the first round pick in 2027 along with of course 00:12:21.980 --> 00:12:25.899 acquiring max crosby's very large contract about 00:12:25.899 --> 00:12:29.320 30 something million a year but the trade was 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:33.299 agreed to the trade was done um the only reason 00:12:33.299 --> 00:12:36.259 why match crosby wasn't wearing purple and black 00:12:36.259 --> 00:12:38.440 and in their building was because the trade happened 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:41.399 before the league year started which means the 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:44.620 trade could not be fully processed until the 00:12:44.620 --> 00:12:49.100 league year started you'll notice that when players 00:12:49.100 --> 00:12:54.059 sign to a team, they never say, oh, such and 00:12:54.059 --> 00:12:56.519 such, and myself included. We don't use the word, 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:01.480 you know, he's in this, but let's just say, you 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.700 know, we don't use the word that Travis A. Chains 00:13:03.700 --> 00:13:08.399 deal with New Orleans was signed at three years, 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:10.700 52 million. Like, we never use the word signed 00:13:10.700 --> 00:13:14.600 on four years, 52 million. We always say agree 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:17.980 to. Or we say plan to sign. Something like that. 00:13:18.019 --> 00:13:20.399 Because again, until the league year starts, 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:23.740 you cannot sign a contract. That is why you cannot 00:13:23.740 --> 00:13:28.460 officially sign it. That is why at 3 o 'clock 00:13:28.460 --> 00:13:31.519 when the league year started, teen social media 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:35.320 started blowing up. With welcome to New Orleans, 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:37.500 this person. Welcome to New England, that person. 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:40.240 So on and so forth. Because once they're able 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:43.179 to sign it, those players... Probably have already 00:13:43.179 --> 00:13:45.759 signed it, but officially signed their contract, 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:48.259 and then they were a member of the new team. 00:13:48.419 --> 00:13:53.480 Well, similar with trades. I can agree to a trade. 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:57.620 However, if I don't, the league hasn't started 00:13:57.620 --> 00:13:59.559 yet, and we don't officially file it with the 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:02.120 league office, it's technically a verbal agreement. 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:05.580 It's a very public verbal agreement. Well, that's 00:14:05.580 --> 00:14:07.980 what the situation with Baltimore and Vegas found 00:14:07.980 --> 00:14:13.139 themselves in. Baltimore, Apparently, up and 00:14:13.139 --> 00:14:15.559 backs out of the Max Crosby trade. Now, they 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:19.980 do it off the strength of a failed physical. 00:14:20.139 --> 00:14:22.980 Now, Max Crosby is recovering from an injury. 00:14:23.100 --> 00:14:26.600 However, that's not a very, not very, that's 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:29.960 not well kept at all. That's not even a situation 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:32.740 where people didn't know that Max Crosby was 00:14:32.740 --> 00:14:34.820 injured. Hell, right before the trade was announced, 00:14:34.899 --> 00:14:39.779 he was playing basketball in his home. trying 00:14:39.779 --> 00:14:44.019 to prove he wasn't injured or that he was recovering 00:14:44.019 --> 00:14:47.559 or whatever. But the injury and the surgery was 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:52.220 well known. So Baltimore backs out. Vegas drops 00:14:52.220 --> 00:14:55.159 the statement that Baltimore backed out. Probably 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:57.899 before Baltimore came prepared to make that kind 00:14:57.899 --> 00:15:02.799 of statement saying that they had backed out. 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:08.100 Vegas also made it clear. that Baltimore was 00:15:08.100 --> 00:15:12.600 the party who backed out. Well, at this time, 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:14.919 I'm in a group chat with my friends, not on the 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:18.620 show. I think I even tweeted. I quoted my own 00:15:18.620 --> 00:15:21.100 tweet announcing the back out of the deal and 00:15:21.100 --> 00:15:24.159 said, Baltimore has to be a favorite for Trey 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:27.480 Hendrickson now. The reason why is, to me, you 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:30.460 don't back out of a trade. You don't even consider 00:15:30.460 --> 00:15:32.919 backing out of a trade to acquire Matt Crosby 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:35.340 unless you can get a slightly younger version. 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:38.139 for slightly cheaper and not trade your two first 00:15:38.139 --> 00:15:40.980 -round picks, which is exactly what the Baltimore 00:15:40.980 --> 00:15:43.519 Ravens were able to do. They were able to get 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:45.899 a younger player without trading two first -round 00:15:45.899 --> 00:15:49.899 picks on a lesser contract. It is great GMing 00:15:49.899 --> 00:15:51.980 as far as what you would have happened to give 00:15:51.980 --> 00:15:54.620 up versus what you gave up, your production you 00:15:54.620 --> 00:15:56.220 would have brought in versus the production you 00:15:56.220 --> 00:15:58.519 wouldn't have brought in, so on and so forth. 00:15:58.620 --> 00:16:04.080 However, it is incredibly shady. It's one of 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:07.450 those things. Where, you know, reports came out 00:16:07.450 --> 00:16:10.590 not too long after that, that big name agents 00:16:10.590 --> 00:16:13.669 and certain general managers were not going to 00:16:13.669 --> 00:16:15.549 deal with the Vikings due to how they handled 00:16:15.549 --> 00:16:18.370 the situation. Not the Vikings, the Ravens. We're 00:16:18.370 --> 00:16:20.370 not going to deal with the Ravens due to how 00:16:20.370 --> 00:16:25.009 they handled the situation. Yes, in this business, 00:16:25.149 --> 00:16:28.789 especially in the business of stuff gets publicly 00:16:28.789 --> 00:16:31.149 agreed to before you're able to make it official. 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:35.779 In a world where representation and connections 00:16:35.779 --> 00:16:41.700 matter, for you to burn reputations and connections 00:16:41.700 --> 00:16:44.500 just so you can find another player, I mean, 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:49.580 that makes a lot of people probably very hesitant. 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:52.759 So maybe not necessarily not deal with you, but 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:56.679 if you and another offer exists, it'll be very 00:16:56.679 --> 00:17:00.000 hard to me to see, just for a little while, to 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.779 see teams running to try and make a deal with 00:17:02.779 --> 00:17:07.000 Vegas. Or make a deal with Baltimore, rather. 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:14.220 But an absolute decision was made by the Ravens 00:17:14.220 --> 00:17:18.319 front office. Hopefully it does not. derail any 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.220 efforts they're trying to do but i will say it 00:17:22.220 --> 00:17:28.859 is incredibly uh a statement to do what they 00:17:28.859 --> 00:17:33.140 did um it's not their first time it is not their 00:17:33.140 --> 00:17:35.759 first time at all they've done this before um 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:37.579 so it's not the first time they're repeat offenders 00:17:37.579 --> 00:17:42.180 for lack of a better term um but it is something 00:17:42.180 --> 00:17:45.890 that put a lot of people in a bind Vegas, however, 00:17:46.109 --> 00:17:48.430 say, hey, we're going to honor all of our agreements 00:17:48.430 --> 00:17:50.369 to the players we've already put money into. 00:17:50.670 --> 00:17:53.369 And then Matt Crosby posted he's going to be 00:17:53.369 --> 00:17:55.730 a Raider. The team already said they're not interested 00:17:55.730 --> 00:17:58.549 in trading him anymore. I mean, absolutely. I 00:17:58.549 --> 00:17:59.930 mean, maybe it worked out for everybody. Maybe 00:17:59.930 --> 00:18:02.329 Henderson got his money, and he's on the contender, 00:18:02.410 --> 00:18:04.950 and Baltimore get a pass rush, and Vegas not 00:18:04.950 --> 00:18:07.549 have bad. Like, maybe it all hits at one time. 00:18:08.230 --> 00:18:14.160 Maybe it does. But let's move away from Mad Max 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:18.000 and Baltimore. Let's go to some quarterback news. 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:22.079 Four big name or four named quarterbacks have 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:26.140 made decisions on their future. We're going to 00:18:26.140 --> 00:18:28.500 start off with Daniel Jones. He makes the most 00:18:28.500 --> 00:18:30.079 money. He gets to go first in this scenario. 00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:34.339 He signs a two -year contract worth up to $100 00:18:34.339 --> 00:18:37.740 million with the Indianapolis Colts. Now, if 00:18:37.740 --> 00:18:41.809 you remember Daniel Jones. comes from the Giants, 00:18:41.809 --> 00:18:45.890 was playing very well early in the season, gets 00:18:45.890 --> 00:18:51.069 hurt, and then the team's season comes off the 00:18:51.069 --> 00:18:55.269 rails entirely. They reward his early play with 00:18:55.269 --> 00:18:59.430 a very, very large contract. I can say two years, 00:18:59.609 --> 00:19:05.369 just about, if not $100 million. I mean, what 00:19:05.369 --> 00:19:13.970 a moment. It has to be in the front office of 00:19:13.970 --> 00:19:19.730 the team that has to pick up some additional 00:19:19.730 --> 00:19:22.670 player salary or reject some additional player 00:19:22.670 --> 00:19:31.769 salary in order to make Daniel Jones work. Malik 00:19:31.769 --> 00:19:36.349 Willis now makes the second most money of the 00:19:36.349 --> 00:19:40.720 group. He signs with the Miami Dolphins. So Malik 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:44.319 Willis, who was often seen as somebody who, you 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:47.400 know, is afraid to start. He's a guy that if 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:49.680 you have Malik Willis as your starter, you're 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:51.940 looking to upgrade your quarterback. Now, you're 00:19:51.940 --> 00:19:55.440 not doing that first guy you see. But there is 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:59.799 no blind just allegiance to Malik Willis is what 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:04.319 I'm saying. Absolute great move to me on both 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:06.980 sides. Miami is looking for a stable quarterback 00:20:06.980 --> 00:20:09.779 situation. Just a young guy they can grow with. 00:20:10.019 --> 00:20:12.279 Malik Willis looking for a place to give him 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:14.859 a chance, and they happen to break him off on 00:20:14.859 --> 00:20:22.019 the way. Speaking of Miami, Tua Tagovailoa has 00:20:22.019 --> 00:20:26.490 signed a deal with the Atlanta. falcons as a 00:20:26.490 --> 00:20:29.549 one -year vet minimum deal the reason why is 00:20:29.549 --> 00:20:32.029 because the dolphins still owe him a crap ton 00:20:32.029 --> 00:20:35.049 of guarantee money all that money would be offset 00:20:35.049 --> 00:20:37.950 and the dolphins would have to maneuver it somewhere 00:20:37.950 --> 00:20:42.410 however they continue to have to do that but 00:20:42.410 --> 00:20:44.329 they're able to do it with malik willis the quarterback 00:20:44.329 --> 00:20:47.930 position i think that he will allow them to be 00:20:47.930 --> 00:20:53.470 very very decisive and very quick with his throws 00:20:53.470 --> 00:20:57.150 i think he can grow with them into the leader 00:20:57.150 --> 00:21:03.369 that they need. But huge kudos to Malik Willis 00:21:03.369 --> 00:21:06.210 for signing a Miami. And then lastly, the big 00:21:06.210 --> 00:21:08.690 one, Kyler Murray signed with the Minnesota Vikings 00:21:08.690 --> 00:21:12.069 on the same team as nine, on the same team as 00:21:12.069 --> 00:21:17.690 J .J. McCarthy, which tells me that the Minnesota 00:21:17.690 --> 00:21:23.769 front office is not. I repeat, is not convinced 00:21:23.769 --> 00:21:27.650 that J .J. McCarthy is the guy in Minnesota. 00:21:28.589 --> 00:21:31.109 Kyler's coming in expecting to compete and expecting 00:21:31.109 --> 00:21:34.450 to win the starting job in Minnesota, saying 00:21:34.450 --> 00:21:37.130 that he grew up a Vikings fan, that he cried 00:21:37.130 --> 00:21:39.170 when Brett Favre threw the pick against the Saints. 00:21:39.509 --> 00:21:42.369 I mean, he was regaling the local media with 00:21:42.369 --> 00:21:45.849 stories. He feels like a Vikings fan. So that 00:21:45.849 --> 00:21:48.690 would be very interesting to see Kyler Murray 00:21:48.690 --> 00:21:54.400 and Justin Jefferson. A couple of big signings 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:56.480 is that the Washington Commanders are absolutely 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:59.559 loading up defensively. Now, these are not all 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:02.319 their acquisitions, but they signed Kalevon Chason. 00:22:02.539 --> 00:22:06.079 They got Leo Chanel, Nick Cross, Charles Amenehu, 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:10.799 and others to beef up that secondary. Dan Quinn 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:13.759 and Cliff Kingsbury mutually agreed to part ways, 00:22:13.819 --> 00:22:17.839 and Dan Quinn has been adding defensive talent 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:21.349 ever since. But they are absolutely loading up 00:22:21.349 --> 00:22:29.150 to reshape their defensive identity. I mentioned 00:22:29.150 --> 00:22:32.750 Travis A -Chain. Him and Kenneth Walker both 00:22:32.750 --> 00:22:35.910 signed, but we're not getting Jeremiah Love type 00:22:35.910 --> 00:22:40.329 contracts. Longer term, pretty good money, but 00:22:40.329 --> 00:22:44.910 they are securing both Travis A -Chain and... 00:22:46.700 --> 00:22:48.960 Kenneth Walker in three - to four -year contracts, 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:53.299 especially if they produce well. Mike Evans signed 00:22:53.299 --> 00:22:57.680 a big money deal with the San Francisco 49ers. 00:22:57.819 --> 00:23:00.059 There's been plenty of jokes about his hamstring 00:23:00.059 --> 00:23:04.259 near that power plant that the 49ers have. I 00:23:04.259 --> 00:23:06.519 hope Mike Evans stays healthy and finishes the 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:10.700 way Julio does, having your health intact and 00:23:10.700 --> 00:23:13.299 being able to enjoy, you know, the fruits of 00:23:13.299 --> 00:23:17.720 your hard work. But lastly, we're going to talk 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:21.420 about the Denver Broncos, the running back Broncos. 00:23:22.779 --> 00:23:27.000 Listen, guys, talk to me. Let's have a conversation. 00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:30.559 I don't believe you're a Bo Nix away from the 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.099 Super Bowl. And you've decided as an organization 00:23:34.099 --> 00:23:39.019 pretty much to run it back on offense. I think 00:23:39.019 --> 00:23:42.599 that's lazy. I think that's professional malpractice. 00:23:42.700 --> 00:23:45.000 It's not professional malfeasance, but it is. 00:23:45.420 --> 00:23:48.180 professional malpractice to just line up and 00:23:48.180 --> 00:23:51.079 run it back when that offense was not the reason 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:55.339 why you were anywhere in that position now maybe 00:23:55.339 --> 00:23:58.000 that could be the case maybe they are looking 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:01.099 at the fact that hey we're out you know by the 00:24:01.099 --> 00:24:06.579 first week of um playoffs we are already out 00:24:06.579 --> 00:24:11.480 maybe that's the case i don't know but i do know 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:15.619 for a fact They're running it back, Denver and 00:24:15.619 --> 00:24:19.400 Sean Payton. When you fire the OC who wasn't 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:23.160 calling plays to the higher OC to call plays, 00:24:23.420 --> 00:24:26.579 it's just a bunch of nonsense, very typical of 00:24:26.579 --> 00:24:30.319 a New Orleans franchise. And trust me, I'm a 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:34.160 fan of the Pelicans. But up next, we're going 00:24:34.160 --> 00:25:03.460 to have our NBA segment. Welcome back into the 00:25:03.460 --> 00:25:07.299 show. And of course, now we're going to jump 00:25:07.299 --> 00:25:13.779 into the NBA as history was made in the NBA by 00:25:13.779 --> 00:25:19.299 Bam Adebayo. He scored 83 points against the 00:25:19.299 --> 00:25:22.380 Washington Wizards, becoming only the third player 00:25:22.380 --> 00:25:28.279 in NBA history to ever score 80 or more points. 00:25:28.839 --> 00:25:32.039 Joining, of course, Wilt Chamberlain's 100 -point 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:38.740 game and surpassing Kobe Bryant's 81 -point game 00:25:38.740 --> 00:25:45.480 against the Toronto Raptors. But Bam Adebayo 00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:55.039 scores 83 points. He did so. He did so. while 00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:59.160 shooting 40 -something free throws, 43 free throws, 00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:05.599 which was an NBA record. Matching his 43 free 00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:10.900 throws, he also had 43 shot attempts, with 22 00:26:10.900 --> 00:26:13.940 of those being three -pointers, of which he only 00:26:13.940 --> 00:26:19.480 made seven. He had an amazing game. I'm not here 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:22.720 to slander the first three quarters. I'm really 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:25.619 not. He had 62 points in the first three quarters, 00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:29.240 which matches Kobe Bryant's historic 62 -point 00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:31.759 three -quarter game. He had, I believe, against 00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:39.900 Dallas just days before he went for 81. But Kobe 00:26:39.900 --> 00:26:42.740 Bryant got out, left the game, stating that, 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:44.640 you know, because at the time there was no number 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:46.980 to chase. Like, Kobe's 81 is famous now, right? 00:26:47.180 --> 00:26:49.299 But, like, people didn't really remember David 00:26:49.299 --> 00:26:53.220 Robinson. I think 71. was like the second highest 00:26:53.220 --> 00:26:55.019 scoring game. Nobody really remembered that. 00:26:55.579 --> 00:26:57.660 So when Kobe went for 62, it was like, okay, 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:01.140 well, you're not chasing 81 or some number. Like, 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:03.480 there's no famous number. Everybody knew Wilt's 00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:08.390 100. Nobody cared about second. And then when 00:27:08.390 --> 00:27:10.789 Kobe, just a few days later, after 62 and three 00:27:10.789 --> 00:27:13.369 quarters, goes for 81 against the Raptors, that 00:27:13.369 --> 00:27:17.210 became the modern barrier. So almost 100 stopped 00:27:17.210 --> 00:27:19.750 mattering because Kobe had 81. So now you kind 00:27:19.750 --> 00:27:23.849 of want to chase Kobe's 81. And so Bam and Abayo 00:27:23.849 --> 00:27:27.069 had 62 and three quarters. They were in control 00:27:27.069 --> 00:27:29.890 of the game, in my opinion. I thought that, you 00:27:29.890 --> 00:27:32.529 know, at that point, sitting him down would have 00:27:32.529 --> 00:27:37.369 been relatively on the menu. That is not the 00:27:37.369 --> 00:27:42.529 case. A lot of things happened in the game that 00:27:42.529 --> 00:27:45.829 made it to me a little tarnished. And I thought 00:27:45.829 --> 00:27:47.849 that when it happened. I thought that the night 00:27:47.849 --> 00:27:49.549 it happened. I thought that the next morning. 00:27:50.410 --> 00:27:53.829 My opinion was backed by several NBA players 00:27:53.829 --> 00:27:56.750 and coaches who kind of shrugged it off. Like, 00:27:56.750 --> 00:28:00.170 you know, JJ Reddick called it a different kind 00:28:00.170 --> 00:28:05.720 of basketball towards the end. You know, Eme 00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:10.039 Adoka disparaged it a little bit. Eric Spolstra 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:13.619 defended it. Of course, that's his guy. Basically 00:28:13.619 --> 00:28:15.460 saying that once we got closer and closer to 00:28:15.460 --> 00:28:20.960 the records, we said, why not go for it? Several 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:23.839 players were like, man, you basically broke Kobe's 00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:27.359 record that way. And, of course, people jumped 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:29.400 in and said, well, Kobe's record was done against 00:28:29.400 --> 00:28:31.200 the Raptors. The Raptors finished horrible that 00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:34.569 year. Most people's responses are, yeah, but 00:28:34.569 --> 00:28:37.250 in that game, Kobe shot 20 free throws, not 43. 00:28:37.849 --> 00:28:42.470 And on top of that, Kobe Bryant needed to score 00:28:42.470 --> 00:28:47.589 81 because they were down by double digits entering 00:28:47.589 --> 00:28:51.630 the fourth quarter. And his last, I think, 12 00:28:51.630 --> 00:28:56.569 to 14 points are all jumpers. Like, it's not, 00:28:56.630 --> 00:28:59.170 you know, hacks and all kind of stuff. I mean. 00:28:59.950 --> 00:29:04.450 There was insane stuff where Miami players were 00:29:04.450 --> 00:29:07.470 fouling Wizards players because the Wizards were 00:29:07.470 --> 00:29:09.529 in the bonus just to make the Wizards shoot free 00:29:09.529 --> 00:29:12.230 throws just to get Bam the ball back. I mean, 00:29:12.250 --> 00:29:19.529 he was shooting over triple teams. Now, reportedly, 00:29:19.789 --> 00:29:22.369 well, we don't know this, but when Wilt broke 00:29:22.369 --> 00:29:27.150 the record against the Knicks in 1962 in Hershey, 00:29:27.170 --> 00:29:30.309 Pennsylvania, In one of those barnstorming games 00:29:30.309 --> 00:29:32.130 the NBA used to do back then to build up interest. 00:29:34.130 --> 00:29:37.109 Reportedly, his teammates were fouling towards 00:29:37.109 --> 00:29:40.869 the end to get the ball back for Wilt to try 00:29:40.869 --> 00:29:42.690 and get 100. But again, that's because the magical 00:29:42.690 --> 00:29:46.089 number was 100. He had scored 50 and 60 plenty 00:29:46.089 --> 00:29:48.609 of times. The magical number that he was getting 00:29:48.609 --> 00:29:53.230 close to was 100. And there's players who were 00:29:53.230 --> 00:29:55.349 in the game saying, man, they had three people 00:29:55.349 --> 00:29:59.420 around Wilt. We're trying to keep him away from 00:29:59.420 --> 00:30:01.160 the rim, and he just took all three of them to 00:30:01.160 --> 00:30:07.200 the goal and dunked it. It didn't matter. I mean, 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:12.900 all kind of stuff, right? To try and keep Wilt 00:30:12.900 --> 00:30:17.720 going, the Miami Heat did it as well. At a certain 00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:19.559 point, they were putting three and four people 00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:22.420 on Bam to try and make him not get the record, 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:25.390 and he was shooting over them anyway. And then, 00:30:25.410 --> 00:30:26.549 of course, because there was nobody to get the 00:30:26.549 --> 00:30:28.710 rebound, he would get the rebound, throw it back 00:30:28.710 --> 00:30:32.450 to Bam, and he'd get fouled or something. It 00:30:32.450 --> 00:30:37.509 was insane. Bam was fouled 26 times the most 00:30:37.509 --> 00:30:39.349 anybody's been fouled in the last 20 seasons. 00:30:40.609 --> 00:30:46.329 He'd only been fouled before that 14 times as 00:30:46.329 --> 00:30:52.269 a record. He had 31 in the first, 12 in the second, 00:30:52.309 --> 00:30:59.109 and 19 in the third. absolutely rolling as far 00:30:59.109 --> 00:31:03.250 as in the first three quarters. To me, earning 00:31:03.250 --> 00:31:09.589 those first three quarters and then it was, to 00:31:09.589 --> 00:31:12.890 me, that's when it became a joke. That's when 00:31:12.890 --> 00:31:15.309 it became tarnished. You're up 20 -something 00:31:15.309 --> 00:31:17.089 points and you're filing to get the ball back. 00:31:17.269 --> 00:31:21.359 Bam, shooting over triple teams. Taking horrible 00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:23.660 shots, just trying to break the record. I mean, 00:31:23.660 --> 00:31:27.359 in the minute he broke .81 on free throws, he 00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:31.539 checks out, you know, and it's just like, was 00:31:31.539 --> 00:31:36.539 it worth it to me? Kobe's .81, although it wasn't 00:31:36.539 --> 00:31:38.980 the record, felt like the record to the modern 00:31:38.980 --> 00:31:42.900 person. When he blew by LeBron's .61, because 00:31:42.900 --> 00:31:46.380 LeBron had the heat record at .61, he blew past 00:31:46.380 --> 00:31:48.359 that in the first three quarters. All right, 00:31:48.420 --> 00:31:55.619 cool. I'm not saying he shouldn't have broken 00:31:55.619 --> 00:31:57.660 the record. I'm saying that if he would have 00:31:57.660 --> 00:32:00.279 come how Kobe's did, which was, hell, I need 00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:04.240 this. I'm down starters. We're down points. I'm 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:09.339 just going to shoot the ball. Great. Up 20, 25 00:32:09.339 --> 00:32:14.279 points and still, you know, like I said, shooting 00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:18.500 over triples and fouling intentionally. so on 00:32:18.500 --> 00:32:21.119 and so forth just to get more shots up to have 00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:23.940 a chance in the record felt hollow felt like 00:32:23.940 --> 00:32:26.519 it took something from it felt like to me we're 00:32:26.519 --> 00:32:29.539 gonna go back to looking at wilts 100 like wilts 00:32:29.539 --> 00:32:34.579 100 had lost luster because people say a there's 00:32:34.579 --> 00:32:39.539 a joke a he never did it b kobe's 81 we all seen 00:32:39.539 --> 00:32:43.559 it and we all took we all saw what it took so 00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:48.390 therefore That became the standard barrier, the 00:32:48.390 --> 00:32:52.150 81. Well, now, because of what Bam did to break 00:32:52.150 --> 00:32:56.390 the 81, the standard, to me, has gone back to 00:32:56.390 --> 00:33:00.549 Wilt's 100. Because now that's become the mythical 00:33:00.549 --> 00:33:03.390 number. It's going to be LeBron's total points, 00:33:03.470 --> 00:33:07.470 Wilt's 100. That's going to be the scoring breakdown, 00:33:08.309 --> 00:33:11.289 kind of like how we've always done it. You know, 00:33:11.309 --> 00:33:13.650 I make a joke now. I made it so much. Even my 00:33:13.650 --> 00:33:16.230 wife like tells and she laughs at it, which is 00:33:16.230 --> 00:33:21.130 a rarity for my jokes. When you're discussing 00:33:21.130 --> 00:33:25.569 scoring, you take Wilt out and then you have 00:33:25.569 --> 00:33:29.849 the conversation. So you remove Wilt Chamberlain 00:33:29.849 --> 00:33:32.490 completely out of the copy. You don't bring him 00:33:32.490 --> 00:33:35.930 up because if you do, nobody's a great scorer. 00:33:38.339 --> 00:33:43.019 Like, Michael Jordan is reverently regarded as 00:33:43.019 --> 00:33:46.680 one of the best scorers ever. His 37 .1 points 00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:48.940 per game, I think his third year in the league 00:33:48.940 --> 00:33:53.119 or whatever, is the high watermark for scoring. 00:33:54.759 --> 00:33:58.779 Wilt averaged for multiple seasons 40, 50, and 00:33:58.779 --> 00:34:02.359 60 points. So in order for Michael to be regarded 00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:04.579 in that level, to be this high watermark, to 00:34:04.579 --> 00:34:07.670 be this scoring machine, you have to take the 00:34:07.670 --> 00:34:11.750 guy out who averaged 50 and 60. For Kobe's 81 00:34:11.750 --> 00:34:16.889 to really be a legendary thing, you have to remove 00:34:16.889 --> 00:34:20.829 the guy with the 100. For instance, I guess no 00:34:20.829 --> 00:34:24.010 other sport is that relevant. Baseball is a little 00:34:24.010 --> 00:34:25.849 different because baseball is the historical 00:34:25.849 --> 00:34:29.030 record book sport, which is why steroids hitting 00:34:29.030 --> 00:34:32.329 their sport the way it did, what did they say? 00:34:32.469 --> 00:34:34.369 It wasn't about the fans, you messed with the 00:34:34.369 --> 00:34:38.639 record book. By doing this. Because Babe Bruce 00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:44.340 714. And you know Hank Aaron 756. And you know. 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:48.280 What was it? 60 something homers in a season. 00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:51.579 Like the thing was. You messed with the record 00:34:51.579 --> 00:34:54.519 book. It's not the fact that you robbed the fans. 00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:57.940 Because the fans love big giant people. You know 00:34:57.940 --> 00:35:00.000 with these crazy strikeouts. And crazy homers. 00:35:00.219 --> 00:35:02.980 It was the fact that you messed with the record 00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:05.380 book, right? Because baseball holds their record 00:35:05.380 --> 00:35:13.199 book as pristine or as close to itself. It defies 00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:17.119 itself off record books because their response 00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:20.519 is, and they're generally right, our game has 00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:24.659 changed the least. For most of human history, 00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:28.000 when it comes down to baseball, the base paths 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:32.010 are 90 feet apart. ballpark doesn't change ever 00:35:32.010 --> 00:35:35.170 since we came to a live ball era yeah the tech 00:35:35.170 --> 00:35:38.110 on the ball the bat or whatever has changed and 00:35:38.110 --> 00:35:42.170 grown sure but for the most part this sport is 00:35:42.170 --> 00:35:45.210 pretty much the same and looks a lot of the same 00:35:45.210 --> 00:35:48.150 as it did a hundred years ago so that's why baseball 00:35:48.150 --> 00:35:51.909 leans on the records because of the history of 00:35:51.909 --> 00:35:55.150 the sport it leans on the fact that for at least 00:35:55.150 --> 00:36:00.670 50 or 60 years the sport looks very similar strategies 00:36:00.670 --> 00:36:04.590 have changed tech has upgraded a little bit but 00:36:04.590 --> 00:36:07.690 for the most part the game looks and feels like 00:36:07.690 --> 00:36:11.230 a game 50 or 60 years ago so the steroid era 00:36:11.230 --> 00:36:14.130 rocking their record book really affected them 00:36:14.130 --> 00:36:17.369 to the point of people wanted to take a those 00:36:17.369 --> 00:36:20.510 years out of the records and then have like a 00:36:20.510 --> 00:36:24.190 non steroid era book and a steroid era book like 00:36:24.190 --> 00:36:25.909 that is how important the records were to them 00:36:25.909 --> 00:36:31.570 so They're the only sport like that. Football, 00:36:31.889 --> 00:36:35.110 no one cares who's in second place of anything. 00:36:35.650 --> 00:36:38.269 Like, Drew Brees has the all -time completion 00:36:38.269 --> 00:36:40.469 percentage record. No one knows who's second. 00:36:41.530 --> 00:36:47.809 I honestly have no idea who is second. I remember 00:36:47.809 --> 00:36:50.449 before Bailey Zappi broke it, but when Joe Burrow 00:36:50.449 --> 00:36:52.809 had the most touchdown passes in a season, I 00:36:52.809 --> 00:36:54.929 could not tell you who was second. I think it 00:36:54.929 --> 00:36:56.949 might have been Colt Brennan. I'm just going 00:36:56.949 --> 00:36:58.889 to guess one of those air raid quarterbacks had 00:36:58.889 --> 00:37:01.010 it, but I could not tell you who was second. 00:37:02.289 --> 00:37:04.730 I know who's second in the single season rushing 00:37:04.730 --> 00:37:09.150 yards because it was a big deal. But like Randy 00:37:09.150 --> 00:37:11.769 Moss caught 23 touchdowns as a New England Patriot 00:37:11.769 --> 00:37:14.590 in 2007. I cannot tell you who was number two 00:37:14.590 --> 00:37:17.789 all time. No idea. Right. So baseball is the 00:37:17.789 --> 00:37:20.530 only sport where second, third, fourth and fifth 00:37:20.530 --> 00:37:23.869 matter because of their record book. Basketball, 00:37:23.909 --> 00:37:27.000 when it came to scoring. by default did that 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.159 because we typically took wilt out of the conversation 00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:35.179 well now back to bam at a bio he has basically 00:37:35.179 --> 00:37:38.960 forced us to go back to wilt because no one's 00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:41.360 gonna say oh people trying to break bam's 83 00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:45.659 because the way we talked about people trying 00:37:45.659 --> 00:37:49.199 to break kobe's 81 because now wilt is back in 00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:52.900 the conversation with his hundred So it's like 00:37:52.900 --> 00:37:55.840 he's brought us all the way back. I mean, Kobe 00:37:55.840 --> 00:38:00.420 went for 81 over a decade ago at this point. 00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:03.139 Maybe a decade and a half ago at this point. 00:38:04.619 --> 00:38:07.719 And since that moment, Kobe's 81 has been the 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:10.159 new standard and the new benchmark. Well, now 00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:12.539 due to Bam and then the pushback that the basketball 00:38:12.539 --> 00:38:16.219 community gave back to it, it's gone back to 00:38:16.219 --> 00:38:18.599 Wilts 100. People are bringing up Wilts 100 more 00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:21.579 in the past. few days and they have in the past 00:38:21.579 --> 00:38:25.639 few years as the new standard or the new old 00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:28.800 standard of the big big point total because of 00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:33.519 what bam did to to pass kobe's 81 there's prominent 00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:35.860 people saying they're not even gonna count bam's 00:38:35.860 --> 00:38:38.900 81 or they're gonna go bam's 83 sorry they're 00:38:38.900 --> 00:38:42.400 gonna say it's still kobe's 81 like i mean that 00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:47.119 a little crazy but it's understandable all things 00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:51.630 considered Of what that record meant. How it 00:38:51.630 --> 00:38:55.110 was done. And who it was by. Those things matter. 00:38:56.969 --> 00:39:00.369 But speaking of things that matter. Officiating. 00:39:01.210 --> 00:39:04.070 Because I'm a New Orleans Pelicans fan. Y 'all 00:39:04.070 --> 00:39:06.769 should know this. I mentioned in the first episode 00:39:06.769 --> 00:39:10.329 of this season. My biases and my non -biases. 00:39:10.369 --> 00:39:13.289 I said I'm very biased to my Patriots. I'm very 00:39:13.289 --> 00:39:16.519 biased to pretty much anything LSU. However, 00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:20.800 I am a fan, but I am typically unbiased or very 00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:24.559 unbiased. Maybe not all the time, but majority 00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:27.739 unbiased towards the Pelicans, for instance. 00:39:27.820 --> 00:39:31.119 I love my Pelicans. We're not very good record 00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:35.659 -wise. We'll talk about them. I'm a LeBron fan. 00:39:35.820 --> 00:39:37.900 I'm very rational when it comes to him, especially 00:39:37.900 --> 00:39:42.599 in comparison to most other LeBron fans. I love 00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:45.239 the Yankees. Again, I'm not a baseball expert. 00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:48.559 But I'm incredibly rational with them because 00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:51.719 I'm not the expert, quote unquote, to get out 00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:56.679 of my box, so on and so forth. Right. What I 00:39:56.679 --> 00:40:01.099 watched at the end of the Rockets Pelicans basketball 00:40:01.099 --> 00:40:05.780 game was a travesty of officiating by the NBA. 00:40:05.900 --> 00:40:08.880 And it's the kind of stuff that people say, man, 00:40:08.980 --> 00:40:12.340 for the league is the NBA to me more than NFL 00:40:12.340 --> 00:40:16.019 has embraced gambling. They have casino owners 00:40:16.019 --> 00:40:19.679 as owners, like the Dumont family have built 00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:22.900 several casinos, you know, and they own a team 00:40:22.900 --> 00:40:29.980 now. So to me, they've embraced gambling and 00:40:29.980 --> 00:40:34.039 sports betting more than any other league that 00:40:34.039 --> 00:40:41.039 is out there. And. In a bigger -ish game, the 00:40:41.039 --> 00:40:43.300 Pelicans are trying to climb their way miraculously 00:40:43.300 --> 00:40:47.380 into the play -in. The Rockets trying to skill 00:40:47.380 --> 00:40:49.860 themselves in the play -offs. You know, you've 00:40:49.860 --> 00:40:52.719 got a Pelican team that's been pretty good as 00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:55.559 of late. You've got a Rockets team that has Kevin 00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:59.199 Durant and so on and so forth. And regardless, 00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:04.960 bigger game. Pelicans are in a position to win 00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:07.159 the game. Now, they've been down most of the 00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:10.679 game. They charge back. They get there. Under 00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:17.400 a minute left, the Houston Rockets are attempting 00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:21.860 to intentionally foul DeJounte Murray. I mean, 00:41:21.900 --> 00:41:24.739 like, besides wrapping him up and hugging him, 00:41:24.780 --> 00:41:28.320 I mean, both arms around, bumped him, made contact, 00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:32.969 then swiped again. from behind making contact 00:41:32.969 --> 00:41:37.050 neither of those things were called fouls and 00:41:37.050 --> 00:41:38.610 they actually end up calling DeJounte Murray 00:41:38.610 --> 00:41:42.429 for being out of bounds it changed the entire 00:41:42.429 --> 00:41:45.949 complexity of the game now everything comes down 00:41:45.949 --> 00:41:47.769 to a free throw battle but instead of you having 00:41:47.769 --> 00:41:51.269 the opportunity to either take the lead or so 00:41:51.269 --> 00:41:54.909 on and so forth right then you lost that ability 00:41:54.909 --> 00:42:02.849 and you move forward um with not having that 00:42:02.849 --> 00:42:06.710 call kevin durant makes free throws the entire 00:42:06.710 --> 00:42:09.030 game is flipped now i'm not excusing the pelicans 00:42:09.030 --> 00:42:12.610 they didn't play the best they turned dion threw 00:42:12.610 --> 00:42:16.650 the ball to jesus and on the on the inbound like 00:42:16.650 --> 00:42:21.230 i'm not excusing any of these things right but 00:42:21.230 --> 00:42:25.170 in that moment that's a too big of a spot for 00:42:25.170 --> 00:42:28.809 an intentional foul to be missed it's not like 00:42:29.579 --> 00:42:33.639 It was a swipe or a reach. He was trying to foul 00:42:33.639 --> 00:42:37.840 him, and it was not called. Absolutely disgusting. 00:42:38.539 --> 00:42:41.619 Not the first time we've had similar calls against 00:42:41.619 --> 00:42:44.159 the Pelicans. Definitely not the first time we've 00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:46.960 had it in the NBA. They've got to clean up the 00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:49.920 officiating. An intentional foul cannot be missed. 00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:54.679 Like, that's illogical. That would be like, no, 00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:56.639 we've seen that before in the NFL, and they still 00:42:56.639 --> 00:43:00.599 talked about the no call. The safety from the 00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:06.099 Rams intentionally smacks Brandon Cooks, smacks 00:43:06.099 --> 00:43:09.440 Brandon Cooks, purposely to get a pass interference 00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:13.099 call, and it was not called. The entire course 00:43:13.099 --> 00:43:16.940 of football changed on that call. Drew Brees 00:43:16.940 --> 00:43:19.920 goes back to the Super Bowl. The Patriots defense 00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:23.340 would not have held him to three. Our offense 00:43:23.340 --> 00:43:25.960 probably tries to do a little more, and we have 00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:29.920 a Drew Brees and Tom Brady Super Bowl. I mean, 00:43:29.940 --> 00:43:32.960 like Sean Payton v. Belichick, like the entire 00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:37.400 course of football changes on the last time, 00:43:37.420 --> 00:43:40.659 in my opinion, football had an intentional call. 00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:46.860 This, from the NBA, was an intentional foul that 00:43:46.860 --> 00:43:49.920 was not called. It cannot happen if you want 00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:52.960 to be a serious league or you want to take you 00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:57.440 seriously as a non -rigged sport. It just can't 00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:04.699 happen. But I have a thought on my Pelicans. 00:44:05.780 --> 00:44:07.699 I'm going to take a little bit of liberty here 00:44:07.699 --> 00:44:09.139 before I get into some other things in the NBA. 00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:13.360 I have a thought on my Pelicans. My thought on 00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:16.440 the Pelicans that they are this year's Charlotte 00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:19.579 Hornets from last year. Remember the Hornets 00:44:19.579 --> 00:44:21.780 finally got their team healthy at the end of 00:44:21.780 --> 00:44:25.219 the year, and they had a crazy good record towards 00:44:25.219 --> 00:44:27.300 the end. Their offensive rating was super high. 00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:30.500 Their defensive rating was super low. big rating 00:44:30.500 --> 00:44:33.139 differential they all of a sudden kind of figured 00:44:33.139 --> 00:44:35.880 it out and they won like you know 60 some percent 00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:37.900 of their games towards the end they just didn't 00:44:37.900 --> 00:44:41.199 have enough real estate and enough landing strip 00:44:41.199 --> 00:44:44.360 enough runway to make the play -in or the playoffs 00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:50.099 but i think looking looking at charlie now those 00:44:50.099 --> 00:44:53.340 seeds were planted to do what they are doing 00:44:53.340 --> 00:44:57.239 now When their lineup is together, I think there's 00:44:57.239 --> 00:45:01.260 something like 21 -4, something like that. Whenever 00:45:01.260 --> 00:45:07.260 their fully healthy starting five is there. Because 00:45:07.260 --> 00:45:09.199 Charlotte went from kind of floundering last 00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:13.579 year to now they're 34 -33. To me, they are comfortably 00:45:13.579 --> 00:45:16.099 in the play -in. I mean, they floundered at the 00:45:16.099 --> 00:45:19.039 beginning of this year. I mean, but to me, they're 00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:22.280 in the plan. But regardless of Charlotte, I think 00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:25.139 New Orleans is going to be next year's Charlotte, 00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:29.860 where they struggled most of the season. And 00:45:29.860 --> 00:45:32.880 then towards the end, figured it out. And this 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:37.360 lineup of Trey, DeJounte, Herb, Queen, and Zion 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:40.679 have figured it out. DeJounte and Mary in general 00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:45.119 has figured it out. And so I think they're going 00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:48.210 to have a... Big, big chance next year to be 00:45:48.210 --> 00:45:51.429 one of those teams that come out of nowhere and 00:45:51.429 --> 00:45:58.230 go 37 and 45 or something like that, or go 41 00:45:58.230 --> 00:46:01.670 and 41, like something where the improvement 00:46:01.670 --> 00:46:07.280 is up there at a very, very high level. The Pelicans, 00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:09.260 since, I mean, DeJounte hadn't even been back 00:46:09.260 --> 00:46:11.380 for all 10 games, but in their last 10, they're 00:46:11.380 --> 00:46:14.119 7 -3. Should have been 8 -2. And they're not 00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:16.179 playing cupcakes. They're not, you know, it's 00:46:16.179 --> 00:46:17.900 not a bunch of Washington Widgets on the schedule. 00:46:18.019 --> 00:46:21.679 They're beating legit teams. And I really do 00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:24.559 think, of course, health permitting, that this 00:46:24.559 --> 00:46:28.559 Pelicans team is last year's Hornets team. That 00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:31.719 Young figured it out at the end and then propelled 00:46:31.719 --> 00:46:37.159 into next season. And then a couple of more things 00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:40.780 quickly. The Warriors are physically collapsing 00:46:40.780 --> 00:46:43.659 between Draymond Green, Steph Curry, Al Horford. 00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:47.179 Seth Curry got injured last night. Chris Stapp's 00:46:47.179 --> 00:46:49.380 going through what he's going through. The Warriors 00:46:49.380 --> 00:46:51.820 are just physically maybe incapable of winning 00:46:51.820 --> 00:46:57.639 at a major level. And then Luka Doncic explodes 00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:01.440 for his Laker record 51 points. By Laker record, 00:47:01.500 --> 00:47:05.500 I mean his personal best as a Laker. For 51 points, 00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:10.260 nearly added that with a triple -double in an 00:47:10.260 --> 00:47:15.199 absolutely spectacular performance by him. But 00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:19.619 up next, we're going to shift to the WNBA and 00:47:19.619 --> 00:47:36.500 talk about what's going down there. Welcome back 00:47:36.500 --> 00:47:40.940 into the show. And now we're going to talk about 00:47:40.940 --> 00:47:46.119 the WNBA, a sport that is in a civil war. So 00:47:46.119 --> 00:47:48.840 we talked about it last week that they were battling 00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:54.260 WNBA versus WNBPA, which is the League versus 00:47:54.260 --> 00:47:56.039 the Players Association. They're negotiating 00:47:56.039 --> 00:48:02.340 a truly historic CBA. And I think both sides 00:48:02.340 --> 00:48:07.960 are aware. of the weight of this cba here's why 00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:11.579 there's a level here's why there's so much weight 00:48:11.579 --> 00:48:18.960 for the first time in our country's existence 00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:22.400 regarding women's sports women's sports are at 00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:26.679 a level of popularity that is up there with the 00:48:26.679 --> 00:48:32.030 men now by no means is the wmba as popular as 00:48:32.030 --> 00:48:34.190 the NBA. But there's never been more excitement 00:48:34.190 --> 00:48:36.409 around women's basketball than there is right 00:48:36.409 --> 00:48:40.230 now. I'll tell you why I know this. Ratings since 00:48:40.230 --> 00:48:43.510 Kaitlyn Clark and Angel Reese's kerfuffle in 00:48:43.510 --> 00:48:48.289 the college championship, ratings for women's 00:48:48.289 --> 00:48:50.090 college basketball has been through the roof 00:48:50.090 --> 00:48:53.969 since. Iowa became this machine behind Kaitlin 00:48:53.969 --> 00:48:56.510 Clark. Now, women's college basketball has always 00:48:56.510 --> 00:48:58.670 had a niche market. It's always been successful. 00:48:58.849 --> 00:49:01.150 Your Ucons, your LSUs when they're good, your 00:49:01.150 --> 00:49:03.630 South Carolinas, your Iowa when they have a star 00:49:03.630 --> 00:49:06.949 like Kaitlin Clark. USC, like certain teams, 00:49:06.969 --> 00:49:10.469 Tennessee, certain teams have a following, have 00:49:10.469 --> 00:49:13.750 a support. Texas has a support system. Oklahoma, 00:49:13.769 --> 00:49:20.800 UCLA has a support system and a... base and a 00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:23.280 financial backing that they're always going to 00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:27.820 be popular program right other programs typically 00:49:27.820 --> 00:49:31.539 have to have either really good years Iowa with 00:49:31.539 --> 00:49:36.079 Kayla Clark or the right star you know like Vanderbilt 00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:38.400 with Michaela Blake like that typically wasn't 00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:41.440 a powerhouse program now they're really good 00:49:41.440 --> 00:49:44.920 right so These things change and ebb and flow 00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:47.460 in the sport. Baylor, when they had Kamoki there 00:49:47.460 --> 00:49:50.679 with Brittany Griner, Isis Sims, like, you know, 00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:53.739 that team, again, was a different level, right? 00:49:53.780 --> 00:49:59.539 They were a different animal. Regardless of that, 00:49:59.639 --> 00:50:02.739 pretty much the popularity died when a player 00:50:02.739 --> 00:50:07.099 went to the WNBA. You know, you had Maya Moore, 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:12.159 who was, I mean, she was a legend at... Yukon, 00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:15.019 a walking statue. And then she goes to the Lynx 00:50:15.019 --> 00:50:16.880 and people kind of forget about her. I don't. 00:50:16.940 --> 00:50:19.300 I'm a women's basketball fan, but most people 00:50:19.300 --> 00:50:21.960 forgot about her. Breonna Stewart won four titles 00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:25.579 in four years at Yukon. She goes to the WNBA 00:50:25.579 --> 00:50:28.500 and for the life of me, I cannot think who her 00:50:28.500 --> 00:50:31.139 first team, Seattle. The Seattle Storm with Sue 00:50:31.139 --> 00:50:34.960 Bird, a literal walking statue. And people stop 00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:40.280 caring she exists. Like, and so... That was kind 00:50:40.280 --> 00:50:42.780 of the plight of women's sports. Then, of course, 00:50:42.780 --> 00:50:46.420 you had Angel v. Caitlyn. That got very racial 00:50:46.420 --> 00:50:49.420 really fast. It got the Magic Johnson -Larry 00:50:49.420 --> 00:50:54.659 Bird feel. Moves that. Those two. Caitlyn moves 00:50:54.659 --> 00:50:57.619 on. Angel, no. Caitlyn and Angel both come back 00:50:57.619 --> 00:51:01.739 the next year. So now all the eyes on women's 00:51:01.739 --> 00:51:05.500 college basketball. Then they, along with Camila 00:51:05.500 --> 00:51:11.900 Cadosa. And Cameron Brink entered the W. Bringing 00:51:11.900 --> 00:51:14.659 those new women's basketball fans into the W. 00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:19.199 Kayla Clark goes from really Caucasian Iowa to 00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:22.119 really, really Caucasian Indiana. So a lot of 00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:24.659 those same fans that may not have been the world's 00:51:24.659 --> 00:51:26.500 best actors, but even the ones who just love 00:51:26.500 --> 00:51:28.840 her game and love her play and love her, are 00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:32.239 now with Indiana. A lot of the black players 00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:34.079 have said they've heard things in Indiana the 00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:38.880 past couple years. things happen right it's one 00:51:38.880 --> 00:51:40.980 of those situations where it's unfortunate i 00:51:40.980 --> 00:51:44.159 wish it didn't however it's kind of expected 00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:49.780 considering the situation the angel goes to chicago 00:51:49.780 --> 00:51:52.420 right like that's about as perfect as it can 00:51:52.420 --> 00:51:55.579 go fit wise considering again kind of that racial 00:51:55.579 --> 00:51:58.860 tension of indiana so of course you got it with 00:51:58.860 --> 00:52:02.599 the reasons of chicago perfect right so all those 00:52:02.599 --> 00:52:06.050 new fans join in Well, women's college basketball 00:52:06.050 --> 00:52:10.750 didn't go down. Iowa did. Nobody else did. So 00:52:10.750 --> 00:52:13.010 now those new fans are like, wait, who's Juju 00:52:13.010 --> 00:52:16.690 Watkins? Wait, wait, wait. Who is Flage Johnson? 00:52:17.050 --> 00:52:20.110 Wait, wait, wait. Who's Lauren Betts? Who is 00:52:20.110 --> 00:52:25.250 Mikayla Blake? Who is AZ Fudd? Who is, because 00:52:25.250 --> 00:52:29.619 Paige Beckers ends up being the bridge. because 00:52:29.619 --> 00:52:31.320 she was supposed to be with angel and caitlin 00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:34.760 she's now the bridge to the next year she's in 00:52:34.760 --> 00:52:36.860 the w now we're now everybody's looking back 00:52:36.860 --> 00:52:38.659 and going well who are these great players in 00:52:38.659 --> 00:52:42.579 college but remember that wave has entered the 00:52:42.579 --> 00:52:46.800 w well at that point now your best players and 00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:49.079 your most popular you may not be your best your 00:52:49.079 --> 00:52:52.840 most popular players are now these younger players 00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:55.480 and they're looking like yo we're not we're not 00:52:55.480 --> 00:53:00.489 doing the whole hundred grand thing We're not 00:53:00.489 --> 00:53:03.050 doing the, if we want 200 grand, we're going 00:53:03.050 --> 00:53:06.030 to have to get this core restriction on us. No, 00:53:06.230 --> 00:53:08.750 no, no, no, no. We're not doing that. We are 00:53:08.750 --> 00:53:15.250 going to fight like hell right now to get our 00:53:15.250 --> 00:53:17.710 money secured. So that's how this whole CBA thing 00:53:17.710 --> 00:53:20.449 comes up. And your Kelsey Plums, your Asia Wilsons, 00:53:20.449 --> 00:53:23.449 your Brianna Stewart, your Nafisa Collier with 00:53:23.449 --> 00:53:27.869 Nafisa and Brianna Stewart builds Unrivaled. 00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:40.320 right and unrivaled is profitable after the first 00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:44.139 couple of years they're making hand over fist 00:53:44.139 --> 00:53:47.159 in unrivaled which proves that women basketball 00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:51.380 when when run correctly everybody can make a 00:53:51.380 --> 00:53:53.539 lot of money and their average salary is higher 00:53:53.539 --> 00:54:01.019 than wmba i believe that this will get done because 00:54:01.019 --> 00:54:04.500 they've been in these all night negotiations 00:54:04.500 --> 00:54:09.800 as of a couple of days ago they're having extended 00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:12.579 negotiations because kathy engelbert has said 00:54:12.579 --> 00:54:16.280 okay monday's the deadline if it isn't done by 00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:19.199 monday we're gonna have to it's gonna affect 00:54:19.199 --> 00:54:22.440 the schedule no one wants that no one wants less 00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:25.300 games No one wants a crazy training camp. No 00:54:25.300 --> 00:54:27.639 one wants, you know, like no one wants these 00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:33.619 things. But as of a couple of days ago, the WNBA 00:54:33.619 --> 00:54:37.539 upped their salary cap offer to $6 .2 million, 00:54:37.679 --> 00:54:42.019 which was higher than the $5 .7 of the last offer, 00:54:42.119 --> 00:54:46.019 last public offer. They've also, remember the 00:54:46.019 --> 00:54:49.420 cap in 2025 was just $1 .5 million. Well, that 00:54:49.420 --> 00:54:52.519 will basically be the max salary. in year one 00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:56.139 of the cba would be 1 .3 million and we'll buy 00:54:56.139 --> 00:55:02.420 year six of the cba growing to about 2 million 00:55:02.420 --> 00:55:11.900 so remember a lot of the things that we're going 00:55:11.900 --> 00:55:16.610 through a lot of the best players remember are 00:55:16.610 --> 00:55:18.710 the younger, more popular players. And a lot 00:55:18.710 --> 00:55:19.929 of the more popular players are the young ones. 00:55:20.130 --> 00:55:21.769 It's your Angel Reese, it's your Kayla Clark, 00:55:21.889 --> 00:55:24.610 your Paige Beckers. I just named them. Right? 00:55:24.889 --> 00:55:30.130 So they're going to come into a system that they 00:55:30.130 --> 00:55:33.550 want to take advantage of. And they're going 00:55:33.550 --> 00:55:36.150 to come into a system that they want to be able 00:55:36.150 --> 00:55:38.050 to work for them. They want to be able to make 00:55:38.050 --> 00:55:42.710 a million dollars a year. 1 .2, 1 .4, whatever 00:55:42.710 --> 00:55:47.250 million dollars a year. and not even consider 00:55:47.250 --> 00:55:50.250 doing another job besides basketball and you 00:55:50.250 --> 00:55:52.389 know a 12 -year career you're a max player seven 00:55:52.389 --> 00:55:55.210 of those you're gonna make 10 million dollars 00:55:55.210 --> 00:55:57.269 in your career that's more than enough and go 00:55:57.269 --> 00:55:59.650 on the tv and do what you got to do so on and 00:55:59.650 --> 00:56:02.349 so forth but that is the war they have to face 00:56:02.349 --> 00:56:05.250 and i think that they have a good chance of making 00:56:05.250 --> 00:56:08.849 this work i am rooting for the w in all these 00:56:08.849 --> 00:56:11.250 different areas because i want this deal done 00:56:11.250 --> 00:56:13.489 i don't want the season to be affected i look 00:56:13.489 --> 00:56:19.610 forward actually to the season going off the 00:56:19.610 --> 00:56:22.429 way it is scheduled i'm excited for the fact 00:56:22.429 --> 00:56:28.449 that this season is going to happen and i can't 00:56:28.449 --> 00:56:30.730 wait till this deal gets done i can't wait for 00:56:30.730 --> 00:56:33.269 these ladies to once the deal gets done to start 00:56:33.269 --> 00:56:36.130 negotiating it for agency because like 80 of 00:56:36.130 --> 00:56:38.269 the leagues in free agency unless you were tied 00:56:38.269 --> 00:56:41.179 into a rookie contract everybody got into free 00:56:41.179 --> 00:56:43.780 agency because everybody wanted to take advantage 00:56:43.780 --> 00:56:46.079 of the new money. For instance, that vet men 00:56:46.079 --> 00:56:49.420 is going to go from like 60 grand to basically 00:56:49.420 --> 00:56:53.039 what the max used to be. So even if I'm a veteran 00:56:53.039 --> 00:56:55.820 minimum player, I can make 200 grand next year 00:56:55.820 --> 00:57:00.000 as opposed to making 60. You know, that rookie, 00:57:00.059 --> 00:57:01.800 like the rookie scale is going to be jacked, 00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:05.000 but like Flage Johnson is going to come in the 00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:07.500 new rookie scale. Lauren Betts is going to come 00:57:07.500 --> 00:57:10.500 in the new rookie scale. It's going to look a 00:57:10.500 --> 00:57:11.980 little weird for a couple of years, but then 00:57:11.980 --> 00:57:14.159 it'll balance out once the rest of that crew 00:57:14.159 --> 00:57:17.980 gets in and gets paid. And, you know, we'll forget 00:57:17.980 --> 00:57:19.880 about this entirely. And Caitlyn goes, you know, 00:57:19.900 --> 00:57:22.659 five years, seven and a half million or something 00:57:22.659 --> 00:57:25.579 like that. And Angel matches it and Paige beats 00:57:25.579 --> 00:57:27.420 it because she'll be the next year and so on 00:57:27.420 --> 00:57:30.860 and so forth. But that is what, you know, the 00:57:30.860 --> 00:57:34.400 entire league is looking for is just to get this 00:57:34.400 --> 00:57:37.690 done. It's got to be close. They've had marathon 00:57:37.690 --> 00:57:40.670 negotiations. It has to be close. Unrivaled putting 00:57:40.670 --> 00:57:44.329 out its books because, again, it's led by Nafisa 00:57:44.329 --> 00:57:46.570 Kalyan and Brandon Stewart. Unrivaled putting 00:57:46.570 --> 00:57:48.550 out its books showing you can do this. You're 00:57:48.550 --> 00:57:51.110 lying, basically. You're telling me you can't 00:57:51.110 --> 00:57:53.309 function this way, and we're showing you you 00:57:53.309 --> 00:57:58.849 can because we're doing it. Definitely is something. 00:57:58.929 --> 00:58:01.389 Definitely was a power play move, and I can't 00:58:01.389 --> 00:58:04.619 wait until this gets done. I will definitely 00:58:04.619 --> 00:58:07.900 be all over coverage of it if and when it gets 00:58:07.900 --> 00:58:13.199 completed. But that is all I have for you guys 00:58:13.199 --> 00:58:17.000 today. I am overtly excited with this episode 00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:19.059 considering that it is the first episode since 00:58:19.059 --> 00:58:23.099 the commercial dropped. Shout out Mad Dog. I 00:58:23.099 --> 00:58:25.820 want to say Mad Dog. 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