Best Of - Nico Harrison FIRED, AJ Brown has a point, NFL Week 11 Game Picks | Nick Wright

with this can be assumed. So the impacts and implications of this are far reaching. Most notable is the following and this This might sound shocking, this might sound drastic, but I believe this to be true. Teams around the league should immediately call Dallas and ask about Anthony Davis's availability. Certainly teams around the league that would be interested, and this probably is going to have to be something far later once you see him if he returns pre trade deadline,

should ask about Kyrie Irving. And that is because the Dallas Mavericks are now in total build around Cooper Flag try to rebuild our draft capital to keep in mind, they do not either have they either don't have well, they either don't have a pick or don't have their

own pick. In the next four drafts, they had gone all in around historically great superstar Lukadancic, and then, because of ego and hubris, Lukadancich was traded in the middle of the night in the type of move that if there were ever cause for a fan base to file a class action lawsuit against management, this would be it. You had one of the greatest players ever at the

very beginning of the prime of his career. And I said it at the time and I will say it again, and because of nothing more than power and ego, you lit the franchise on fire, power and ego. Everyone was searching for why Nico would have done this, and the only logical and it's not logical, but the only reasonable explanation was he didn't like the fact that someone within the organization had more power than him, and that someone

was Luca, So we got him out of there. And it will go down in the annals of sports history as one of the single greatest gaffes in a front office has ever made. That is not an overreaction that is not an overstatement. That is simply what it was the moment it happened, and now is being exacerbated night in, night out as Luca instead of coming off an injury

as he was last year, reminds everyone. Yes, I am the guy who dragged a Dallas Mavericks team to the conference finals when I was twenty two, and to the NBA Finals when I was twenty four, And now I'm twenty six, and I have more first team All NBAS under my belt than Steph Curry does, and you got rid of me, and I don't. I also don't think this is an overstatement. Nico Harrison will never work in an NBA front office again. He's gonna have to work

for Nike or an agency or something. But this is you cannot recover from something like this, and the arrogance that less than you know. We are a dozen games into this season and Nico, after they spun a one point eight percent lottery ball chance into Cooper Flag, the fact that he said, do you see the vision now was one of the most tone deaf, ludicrous statements. And I'm not a MAVs fan. Hell, I'm an adopted I

guess Laker fan. Because that's who Bron plays for. So the Lakers getting Luca, who's my second favorite player, was and he and Bron playing together was a true dream. And I'm still mad about this trade on behalf of Mad fans. I can't imagine what this is. This was a sports felony inflicted upon a fan base. And yes, now the villain has been captured and is facing justice, but it doesn't change the havoc he reeked and the

long term impact on your fandom. So I I want to just revisit before we get to last night's game, before we get to football, what I set off the top and credit to Tim Bond, TIMPs. He's been talking about this for a while, but now it is to me a more because it was never gonna happen with Nico in charge. But the Dallas Mavericks have to consider a fire sale. So let me let me. I want to give everyone the actual draft picks situation for Dallas.

In twenty twenty six, they have their pick, so my apologies, I said that wrong. Twenty twenty six, they have their pick. This year, they have their pick, and maybe that's good because right now they're terrible. In twenty twenty seven, their pick basically totally unprotected, protected only for spots one or two, so unprotected goes to Charlotte. In twenty twenty eight, Jesus, the rich get richer, the Thunder can swap with them.

In twenty twenty nine, their pick goes somewhere in a swap and they do have the Lakers pick, And in twenty thirty, my god, the Spurs can swap with them. So first of all, in twenty twenty eight and twenty thirty, the Mavericks first round pick is gonna go to the Thunder and then the Spurs. Holy shit. In twenty twenty nine, their pick goes somewhere. I can't figure it out. It says two most favorable of Dallas Houston, Phoenix to Houston and then other to Brooklyn via Dallas, and Phoenix to

Brooklyn via Dallas, or Phoenix to Houston via Houston. Swap for Dallas or Phoenix. I don't get it, but whatever, the MAVs will not after this coming year's draft. They do not have control of their their first until twenty thirty one, until Cooper flag is in the midst of his second contract, so they need to recoup picks. They need to figure out, like Klay Thompson's contract is fully underwater. Kyrie's an interesting one, and I it's just and by the way, the three and eight, and I think, let

me check. I think they have literally the worst offense in the NBA. I know, so let's just check in real quick. Defense wins championships, because that's all we heard from this this guy. All we heard from him. Their offense is, oh, is it no longer dead last? The hold on, let me, I had it. I thought they were dead last. Maybe I'm wrong because that says they're fourteenth right now, So oh that's last year. I'm looking at last year. It's like, hold on a second, this

can't be correct. It can't be the Mavericks having the fifteenth offense. No chance, all right, here we go. Oh no, if fair is fair, they don't have the worst offense in the basketball. They have the second worst offensive basketball to the Pacers, whose best player Torrey's achilles in Game seven of the finals and second best or third best player left the team. Now, I mean, this is just perfect, just chef's kiss. Perfect defense wins championships. The Dallas Mavericks

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And I was listening to my one of my favorite podcasts, NFL Daily, I talk about a lot with Greg Rosenthal and company, and in previewing this game, his Cospatrick Claiban, you know, basically tongue in cheek, melted down about the media bothering Sirianni and hurts about AJ Brown and about how this team won a Super Bowl last year and about how this is much ado about nothing because the latest AJ Brown drama is him going on a Twitch stream and saying thing is things are not going well

and drop me on your fantasy team, and how he and I'm sure others think it's a non story. Here's why I vehemently disagree with that. AJ Brown being happy or not might not matter. But the Philadelphia Eagles with the most expensive offense in NFL history, with guys who are all Pro caliber all over the offensive line, multiple receivers, Saquon Jalen Hurts. That team being this pedestrian on offense

is a story. It flatly is, and it's inexplicable. Their inability out of a buye in a game they scored zero points in the first half to get AJ Brown involved is in a splicable. Them leading the league by a huge margin on three and out rate is indefensible. And so I give the Eagles credit because they do find a way to win, and they're champions, and the defense, particularly with the addition of Jalen Phillips, is rounding into form. All of that is great. But AJ Brown is not wrong.

He might be wrong in his delivery in the way it feels diva ish or selfish, all that's fine. But his concern that this offense is not functioning properly is totally correct, totally correct, and I don't have an answer for it. Seems like Petullo and Sirianni are wildly conservative with the play calls up until they are just lunatics on the fourth and down at the end of the game. They have the highest rate of running the ball on third and long of any team in twenty five years,

which are just give up plays. Now, some of that, a tiny bit of that might be push push related, but really their give up plays. And so it feels silly to concern troll the Eagles who have won like twenty two of their last twenty four and of the defending champs. But it also feels ridiculous to watch that team have zero points at halftime, to see AJ Brown with multiple games this year with three or fewer targets after he had one game like that the previous three

years and act like nothing is wrong. Also, it is to me, at this point a four gone conclusion that AJ Brown is going to be gone this offseason, and I would be I personally would be quite surprised, Like my money would be on AJ Brown is going to be a new England Patriot a year from now. But none of that matters for this season. I almost shouldn't have even brought it up because the trade deadline has passed. And that's the other part of this that is baffling

to me. You have a buye, you decide not to trade AJ Brown the market for receiver like Again, this is me just speculating, but if Buffalo was gonna give up A one and a three for Jail and Waddle, I would imagine they would have given up something similar for aj Brown. Philly didn't want to trade him, so then use him. And if you're not gonna use him, it's gotta be because the offense is humming without him,

but it's not Saquon the game before the buye. Notwithstanding, Saquan is having a brutal year, he is averaging three point nine yards per carry. Saquon's yards and yards per carry by game this season sixty three point three, eighty eight four point zero, forty six two point six on three two point three thirty five point zero, only got six carries and a loss to Denver fifty eight four point eight forty four two point four, the game against the Giants one fifty ten point seven and then sixty

for two point seven. So aside from the Giants game, Sekuan this year has run the ball won one hundred and thirty five times for four hundred and twenty nine yards. So what is that one thirty five for four to twenty nine one thirty five times three is four oh five so that is three point two yards per carry. I'm now gonna check. I'm now gonna do that math real quick and see if I got it. I think it's three point two yards per carry. So we said

it was four twenty nine divided by one thirty five. Yeah, three point one point eight yards per carry. Aside from the Giants game, So feed the bald aj Brown. It's just baffling, and I don't think it's We can say him being upset is nothing, but the offense not working is not nothing. By the way, if you're thinking about upgrading to the all new iPhone seventeen Pro, designed to be the most powerful iPhone ever, but you're also thinking about the traffic on your way to the store or

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purchased at boostmobile dot Com. Terms of course, do apply. The Colton Saints are on a buy and that leaves us these five picks. I liked Miami minus two and a half against Washington when I briefly thought the game was in Washington. I love it when it's on a neutral site in Madrid. I think Washington is just flatly two injured quarterback out, a half dozen defensive players out. That Washington is so banged up Miami all of a sudden,

sneaky good vibes. I know Tua has not done well in his international starts, but one of those was against the Chiefs. I'll throw that one out. Uh. I think Washington is just right now, one of the softer spots in the league until Jaden gets back, and I'm laying less than a field goal. So I'll take Miami minus two and a half from Madrid. Chicago getting three at Minnesota. I didn't know this, but this is crazy. The Vikings are zero to six against the spread after facing the

Lions under Kevin O'Connell. That one, I mean, that's that's It's not nothing. It the that that applied the last week's game against the Ravens, so maybe I wish I knew it then. I I thought Minnesota had a lot of opportunities against Baltimore. I didn't think Baltimore played that one well and they just couldn't make the most of them. I think Chicago likely wins this game outright, and I'm getting three points. Also, I like getting that all of

a sudden, very explosive Chicago offense in a dome. So Chicago getting a full three at Minnesota. When I think Chicago can win outright, I'll roll with them. Tampa getting five and a half at Buffalo, I just don't know that right now. Buffalo deserves to be laying more than three and a half against any really good team, and I think Tampa's a really good team. They're also, this will be the first game maybe all year, where Tampa is the healthier team. They might have Bucky Irving back,

they might have Chris Godwin back. At Buffalo meanwhile, is super banged up. I don't need Tampa a win out right, even though I think they could. I just need them to keep it, you know, manageable, and they're healthier, and Buffalo I think has some soul searching to do. Tampa plus five and a half probably my I'm not gonna call it my favorite, but I like this a lot, even though all the trends are against me because Shanahan has not covered against the Cardinals and Arizona is pretty

good as a covering team coming off a loss. But San Francisco minus two and a half at Arizona, I think Arizona is a bit of a mess. We just saw them get absolutely demolished this past weekend. San Francisco reckon should have Purdy back. Now. I don't think there's a big difference between Purdy and mac Jones this point, but they should have Purty back, and they are. They understand that it's gonna be between them and Chicago for that final playoff spot. This is a game you've got

to take care of business. I love that I don't have to lay three and a half. Just feels like San Francisco can control this game and win by three points and I'm only laying the two and a half. So I'll take San Francisco minus the two and a half, and last but not least, the Chiefs laying three and a half at Denver. I be if you got this right, when it opened at three. Good for you. I may have gotten it right when it opened at three, but

I will still lay the three and a half. I just do not think bo Nicks can get this Broncos deep offense to more than seventeen points. So then the question is do I think the Chiefs can score twenty one even against that Denver defense? I think they can. My real analysis of this game and everything about it you can hear on yesterday's pod, you know, around the ten minute mark. We get into it if you want

to hear more there. So our five picks this week are Miami minus two and a half in Madrid against Washington, Chicago plus three at Minnesota, Tampa plus five and a half at Buffalo, San Francisco minus two and a half at Arizona, and Kansas City minus three and a half at Denver