Nick Tries to Rationalize Tyreek Hill Leaving KC, Luka's Title Hopes, and How LeBron & KD Chose Wrong PGs

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my ears told me, put your phone down. We're changing up the show. There is breaking news as we are recording again. You guys will be able to hear and see this Thursday morning afternoon, but we are recording it Wednesday morning, and the producers told me we have breaking news, so I'm going to pivot this way. Demon's what is the breaking news that we are breaking the format for.

the first piece of good news. Jets and Dolphins series talks trade for Chiefs watchers to Tyre Kill. Chiefs are mulling what to do, but Hills time and Casey looks like it's coming to an end. Jets and Dolphins is two teams now buying for Tyreek Hill expects to a massive contract extensions. Chiefs are gonna give a massive contract decision. Okay, all right, got your verification. I got my verification. Okay. So I'm not gonna sit here and pretend this is good.

This obviously he's not good. However, I this is me my version of tweeting through it. Listen, Tyreek is one of the most unique, special, and talented receivers ever. He's on a Hall of Fame trajectory. I'm not gonna deny that. What I am gonna say is this. You know what positive spin on this threefold First one is if you trade with the Jets, you're getting a top five pick back the Dolphins. I'd be a little less excited, but still we could deal trade with the Jets. You get

top five pick. That would be a positive thing. And maybe multiple maybe the Jets give out multiple picks. Who knows. Let's see what this trade possibly could be. If there's any breaking news, again tell me. And by the way, by the time people hear this, the trade might already have happened. But I'm dealing with this in real time. Here's another positive. I'm looking around the rest of the AFC West. Those teams are minus picks. The Broncos they

don't have picks forever. Traded for mister limited Russell Wilson. That's true. Oh yeah, you're laughing at me. The Raiders, they're out of picks. They traded for Devonte Adams. So while all those teams are focused in the here and now, Chiefs have a long you know, one hundred yard of view in this thing setting up a dynastic run. Now, it's gonna be harder without Tyreek Hill. I understand that. But one other positive, you know what, two more positives.

One is, you don't want to We've probably gotten the best out of Tyreek Hill. Gonna need the new receiver market things. DeVonta Adams twenty eight million a year. I'm not thrilled about the idea of paying tyreek Hill twenty eight million a year. So there's a nother positive. And lastly, is this the only arrow people could throw at my guy? Mahomes was, well, see him do it without tyreek Hill. Okay, well, now we're gonna see him do it without tyreek Hill.

Mark was wuldas scantling. Let me see what his numbers were real quick. God, this is the worst of Ma's eight. All right, welcome in. It is the What's Right with Nick Right podcast and video show like rate subscribe, do all those things. I was ready to give you a full plea for those things. But here's the deal. We had a whole show planned and then the tyreek Kill news broke. We're gonna talk about it throughout the show.

You've already gotten my live kind of candid camera thoughts on that, but that is not what we plan to discuss today. Before demands joins us to talk about what we will be discussing today in addition to the Tyreek Kill news. As we start every show, we tell you what we won't be discussing. So here's what's not on

the show today. What's not on the show today is use of Nurkic tossing a fan's phone, which, by the way, forty thousand well spent, Mike Tyson fighting Jake Paul for reportedly one billion dollars that didn't make the show, and Jamal Crawford three times six Man of the Year. I once tweeted that Jamal Crawford was my son, who you're going to see in just a moment his favorite player. Jamal dm me and said, oh my gosh, that's so awesome. I'll send him some gear. I then told Jamal my

son was at the time twenty two years old. He no longer sent the gear. I think he thought you were a little kid, which is why you never got it. Demon say that you didn't even know about that. Yeah, same, you didn't know. That's a true story. Yeah, Jamal Crawford, Seattle legend. All right, what are we starting with today?

it's kind of a Steph kd issue. Not that Chris Paul and Devin Booker are equivalent to Stephen cad but there's a real question about who is the best player on that team. Now, they have been great since Chris Paul was hurt, but they are obviously great with Chris Paul. I would argue Chris Paul is the most important guy. But so one would say, okay, so they have two legit MVP at least fringe MVP candidates, they have an excellent coach, they have a deep roster. Why are you

not picking them to win a weekend Western Conference? Well, the real reason is I don't know that I trust Chris Paul to make it through four rounds or three rounds. Let's get to the finals healthy again. Now he did last year barely, Remember he almost got hurt in round one. And I think the back to back ninety plus game one hundred game seasons can wear on any team, particularly a team that doesn't have a ton of experience like Phoenix and the one guy with a lot of experiences

and injury risk. Right my preseason pick to win the West and to get out of the to get to the finals was the Lakers. That clearly is dead right now, I'm telling you I don't think Phoenix makes out of Round two because I think the team they play in round two is the team that's going to go to the finals. I think this is the Dallas Mavericks year, not to win the title, but to get to the finals.

I think Luca, who is the closest we have seen to Lebron in NBA history, or at least since Lebron, Luca is going to have his version of twenty two year old Lebron seven carrying a very weak Cavs team all the way to the NBA Finals, where they then got washed by the Spurs. I think Luca can carry the MAVs to the NBA Finals, where they then will get washed by the Bucks. So no disrespect to Phoenix, but I do not think they are winning the title this year. I just kind of alluded to Lebron there.

It looks like we are talking about Lebron here. What are we discussing here, Demansey.

Lebron played in the finals for the first time. They were the two best players in the league. Nobody disputed it. Five years later, Katie and Lebron played each other in the finals again. They were in my estimation, I think most people's believe, with respect Steph Curry, still the two best players in the league. Nobody disputes it five years later, So ten years after their first time meeting in the finals, Katie and Lebron the two best players in the league

still know because Giannis is the best. But you could make an argument that they are still top three guys. They are clearly still top five guys, and yet both of them are going to be in the play in that right now. They're the eight and the nine seed, respectively, and they both did choose this situation. So one could argue, yeah, you know it has a player empowerment has cost them.

I think that is too narrow of a view, because player empowerment is not only what got Lebron Lebron to the Lakers, but Anthony Davis to the Lakers, and they did win a title two seasons ago, so it worked out for him there. Player empowerment not only got KD to the nets, but got Kyrie there with him and Hardened there with him, and everyone except for me, thought that team was going to win a bunch of titles. What really killed Katie and Lebron is not player empowerment.

It's they chose the wrong point guard. Lebron chose Russell Westbrook, and that has submarine Lakers season, even though Russ has played better as of late, and Katie chose the least reliable star in sports, Kyrie irving if those guys had

just had better, you know, we're less worried about. In Katie's case, I think it was who his good friend was and instead looked at it and said, you know, looked at the Kyrie's history of health and lack of reliability and consistency, and if Lebron, I think had Lebron's never been great at evaluating who would play well with him. It's an odd thing, and I think Lebron's ego got the best of them, thinking all Russ's issues won't apply once he's with me, and obviously those issues have transcended

his teammates. So I don't blame that on player empowerment. I blame that on Katie and Lebron both having a big, strong hand in who they get to play with and just making the wrong choices. If you know, player empowerment could have gotten Demarta Rosen in Russell Westbrook spot instead of Ussell Westbrook, and then the Lakers, even with all the injuries, are huge favorites to win the West. And if Kyrie, you know, whether it's the vaccine or injury, whatever it is, if Kyrie were the player is but

just a more reliable person. If Katie had looked at the reliability part of it, I think Katie would be in a better spot. So No, I don't blame player empowerment. I just think they chose the wrong two point guards.

blew their chance to improve? Well, I don't think they. I don't think they blew it, but I don't think they maximized their chance to improve. I think that they needed to survey the landscape and realize if there's going to be a game of quarterback musical chairs, we need to make sure Jimmy G's got a seat early. Because now it's not only you know that Wentz got traded, so Washington's off the board, and Matt Ryan got traded, so Indie's off the board, and you know the russ

got traded, so the Broncos are off the board. But it's also that all of a sudden, Baker Mayfield's available, and so now there's another quarterback of similar caliber to Jimmy G that is going to be in the marketplace. So I don't think they blew their chance to improve, but I think the I think that had they timed this better, I mean, Carson Wentz went for two seconds essentially, Jimmy G. I don't like Jimmy G a ton, I'm skeptical of him, especially on a bad team, but he's

better than car Wentz. Are they gonna get more than two seconds for him? I don't think so. All Right, what's.

his numbers were unbelievable. I'm going I'm gonna say something. I hope it does not hurt your feelings because this is somewhat about you. I'm gonna use you as a comp Okay.

won't put on weight. How long of his basketball career do you think people have been like Buddy.

metabolism and I and I hear all these KD comps. Guys, Katie is a unicorn for a reason, and Katie's bigger than Chet, and so it is the only obvious flaw on his game is he is literally the skinniest player I've ever seen at a high level of basketball since Keith Class. Now Keith Class. That's a throwback, but somebody google him. He was once listed at seven one, one point eighty. That's a real listing he had, and Keith Class,

by the way, didn't have the talent Chet does. I just I feel like the Chet needs not a sandwich, but like thirty five sandwiches. And it concerns me that he hasn't just begrudgingly gone ahead and put on the weight. That's that's I wouldn't draft him number one. I think I'd be afraid to draft him in the top three. Maybe I'll be wrong about it, but that to me looks like a potential massive flaw. That's my deep Chet holmegrin analysis. He's too damn skinny. We'll be right back.

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the start of the show. But before we get to what's supposed to be a fun b block where we play games and do goofy stuff, I got a few more Tyreek Kill thoughts because I am now. Demanzi said, I'm going through the stages of grief, and I think I'm in the bargaining stage now. And the bargaining stage has drawn me to the twenty twenty two NFL Draft order. Because again, by the time you hear this, this trade maybe is already complete, but as I sit here on

Wednesday afternoon, it is not yet complete. And they're saying the Dolphins and the Jets are the two teams most heavily involved. Now, the Dolphins don't have a pick in the first round of the draft next year until the twenty ninth pick. The Jets, on the other hand, have the fourth pick, the tenth pick thanks to the Jamal Adams trade, they have the thirty fifth pick, the thirty eighth pick of this upcoming draft, so they have four top forty picks. So now if I am let me again,

obviously the Chiefs got worse for this coming year. While every team is putting everything on the credit card, the Chiefs recognized me with the best player in football. He's gonna be enough playing football for the next decade, if the not the next fifteen years. Let's try to have long term planning about this. Can't have the highest paid quarterback and or one of the highest pig quarterbacks and the highest paid receiver, especially with the highest paid receiver

maybe be on the other side of thirty. If we can get and I say we for the Kansta Chiefs honorary member, the tenth pick of the draft and next year's Jets first rounder, I'm I'm okay with it. I will be okay with it if we get the fourth in the tenth I actually think it's a good trade. Now, if you get the tenth pick and then just seconds, that's not enough for me. But you do have they can now vote get the defense better. The Mahome's gonna be great. No matter what. They need to find a

way to improve the defense. They were going to not only have pay Tyreek Hill more, but even if they hadn't maad him more, he's gonna be twenty million against the cap this year. I can deal now. If they end up trading him to Miami for the twenty ninth pick in Miami's next year's first round, or when Miami could be a you know, a fringe five hundred ish team again, I won't love that. So by the time you hear this, they've traded him to the Dolphins for

the twenty ninth pick and future picks. I'm not happy. Even if I go on television throughout the rest of the week and pretend I'm dealing with it. You'll know in real time as I'm processing it it's not landing right with me. But at some here here's the and I'm consistent on this. By the way, I don't always think the team that got the star wide receiver won the trade. I said I thought the Raiders gave up too much for Devonte Adams. So no hypocrisy here. Let's

just see what the trade is. We can all agree that if the Jets gave up ten first round picks and give gave Tyreek forty million a year, that's a bad trade for So that's the old adage. This is a again just there. Once we agree there is a possibility that you've overpaid, then we are just negotiating on what the line is to have it be overpaid. There's an old joke involving prostitution that goes down that same you've never heard that, none of your teacher's ever told

this to you, to try to logic class anything. I never heard this. Okay, I'm gonna tell you this is. By the way, it's taking a strange turn. Okay, Well, it's an old adage. I don't know who came up with it, And again, I'm not sure how twenty twenty two appropriate is. So I'm just going to say this was told to me in logic class when I was in college. Take up the complaints with the University of

Syracuse University. It goes like this guy walks into a hotel lobby, sees a woman at the bar and says, I'm sorry to bother you, but would you come up to my room with me for one million dollars? And she looks at him and says, you know, I think I would, And he says, okay, would you come up to my room with me for one hundred dollars? She throws his drink in his face and says what type of woman do you think I am? And he says, well,

we've already established. Now we're just negotiating. So again, inappropriate. But that's the old that's what they were. The point in the logic class, I remember when the teacher told it. Now, maybe that teacher was inspired for telling inappropriate jokes, I'm not sure, But the point is, once we all agree that there is a line, then we're just agreeing on

where the line is. So now I think I'm still in the bargaining phase of the Tyreek Kill grief part of it, but everyone would agree there is a there is a level of draft compensation the Chiefs could get where it is a good deal for them. We're gonna wait and see what that is. Wait is they're breaking to know? There's not Tyreek Kill breaking news. There's Kevin Wilde's tweeting Mac Jones at the Pro Bowls saying, I like throwing to Tyree. This is so stupid. All right,

let's play a game. Let's move on this or that. What's first up? Todd for this or that?

disc is incredibly concerning. How did it happen? When did it happen? When are we going to see him play again? Like that? He was the core piece that you traded James Harden for. Right, you can't have him all of a sudden. You already know what his limitations as a player are. You also know what's positive as a player are. You can't have him all of a sudden have a back issue like that's to me, that's way more concerning. All right, what's next.

So the fact that you got potentially two second rounders for Carson Wentz, now you traded too much for him, trading a first round or plus to get him, but you got two second rounders back for Carson Wentz and you only had to give up a third rounder for Matt Ryan. I think the Colt should be the favorites in the NFS in the AFC South, So I think that's to me, that's not even a question. Matt Ryan's an upgrade over Carson Wentz. All right, what's next?

the stretch there. So if I have to choose either he's eliminated this week in Sweet sixteen Elite eight or they win the whole thing, I'm going to go He's eliminated this weekend. So with that, Coach K and Duke is done by the next time we're on the air. All right, what's last and we haven't seen a lot of Zion in a while.

pictures of him in sweatsuits earlier in the year. And he threw an off the backboard alleyup to himself that he caught between his legs and did it, you know, but basically off the backboard East Bay, which would have I believed easily won the dunk contest this year. That's what we just saw. So what's the question.

the Pacific Northwest rehaving that's positive. The negative is and the reason it would be discouraging is why he posted this right after they ruled him out for the year, and so there seems to have been a disconnect all along between the Pelicans and Zion and the fact that Zion had gone dark as far as any communication, any videos,

any anything. And then right after the Pelicans say he's not playing the rest of the season as he rehabs his foot, the fact that he then posts a video that makes it look like his foot is totally fine and puts to bed some of the concern about his weight, at least in my eyes. Now he's not slim, but he's the size he dominated the league at last year.

That's discouraging. Overall. I would say it's a net win for the Pelicans Pelicans fans because I do believe he's gonna sign the mass extent MAX extension this summer, and I do think they're gonna have more time, and the biggest concern should be how healthy is he? He looks incredibly healthy right there, which is more than I can say for myself as I've had to deal with this. Tyreek Hill, I got a little bonus question for you. We have a bonus question.

you and scrabble. There's no shame in losing to Toran Scrabble. I like, door is brilliant. Doora is like take your education seriously. And I lost to you and Scrabble. I do some soul searching, losing to door and scrabble I can deal with. I'm done with this show for the day and maybe forever. We'll see you next week. All right, I'm still processing the Tyreek Kill news, some of which there may be even more of by the time you

guys hear and see this. But do me a favor as I deal with my hometown team that should have won the last three Super Bowls, only winning one super Bowl and now trading away their second most important offensive player reportedly like rate, subscribe review to the show on all platforms. It's the only thing that will help me sleep at night as I deal with all of this. Talk to y'all next week.