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a ride. He's faking the angst, faking the angers. He's just forgotten them again. I don't think that's the case. I think because I was so mad a few weeks ago, he then double checked made sure he had them. After taking them out of his bag, making sure he had them, he then left them in the uber. And I'm not upset about this at all. Demonse, on the other hand, is beside himself. He is so upset because he just bought them. And it's not even about not having them

for the show. It's about the fact that it's like lighting money on five. So in service to the quality of the show, I have something to showed him. Monsey this. There you go. So I've you I bought some new AirPods, be picking them up.

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two teams to win. You know what, So let me give you a better example on it. If you put one hundred bucks on the Jets to win the AFC East and you put four hundred bells bucks on the Dolphins to win the AFCs, that wouldn't.

you cover both your bases there. I'm not ready to go there. I am ready to say this. However, Vegas does not think Josh Allen's playing. This game was eight and a half nine points as we're doing this show right now, it's three and a half points the a eing. It's just moving down. Josh did not practice on Wednesday. The Bills, for all of their alleged seriousness about winning a championship, have not. They've scored twenty five touchdowns on offense this year. Twenty three of them have been by

Josh Allen. They do not have what you would call a well balanced attack. Now you might say, Nick, no team can deal with losing their quarterback. I don't know. The Chiefs lost Mahomes for two and a half weeks the year they won the Super Bowl, and their backup quarterback came in and beat the Vikings, played a tough game. I think it was against the Packers. They finished the game against the Broncos. They went two to one in the stretch without Mahomes. It helped them get a top

two seed, helped home field go through Kansas City. Case Keenum's a viable backup quarterback. Case, Keenums won playoff, has won a playoff game in this league, case Keenums played an NFC championship game. With all that said, the reason this is this makes the Jets loss even more devastating because you don't have a merging of error if you're Buffalo.

And what you can't have if you're the Buffalo Bills is for the second straight year, you go to Arrowhead in the regular season, you beat the Chiefs, you get a game up in the standings and get the tiebreaker, and then yet somehow when the playoffs roll around, you don't have home field. The Bills I believe to have any shot to beat the Chiefs in the postseason, need that game to be in Buffalo, because for as great as the Chiefs have been for the last five years,

they have not played a single road playoff game. That's a testament. Now, great they've been, but it also does mean while I don't question it, it is an unknown of how Mahomes and the Chiefs offense would function in a loud, road playoff environment. You add to the fact that while Kansas City weather in January ain't great, Buffalo weather in January is horrifying and a bad weather football game.

You would think, well would favor a team who's both teams quarterbacks can run, but the Chiefs quarterback, the Bills quarterback is so big and strong, you would think that favors him a bit right. Speaking of him running, However, this is where this really has a long tail on impacting the season. Let's say Josh just mits misses one week and I understand he did not hurt this elbow running the football. The Bills have not developed a run game. Their run game is Josh Allen if he's already banged

up on his throwing arm throwing elbow. Are the Bills going to feel comfortable calling those designed quarterback runs and those designed quarterback runs and going to the have to lean on a running game that does not really exist. That to me, is problematic for them. So there are a lot of red flags for the Bills. Who I again, they're a very good team, but I cautioned everyone they're being crowned a little too early. A Josh Allen injury obviously is the worst case scenario for them. It looks

like they're dealing with it right now. So all right, we can move on to Jeff Saturday.

home against Indy? And if you were in Saturday's position, which one of your media colleagues would you hire as your staff?

their offensive minded head coach and play caller. They're now having some thirty year old call plays and Jeff Saturday is the head coach. So I do love the Raiders this weekend. Maybe Saturday will be great, but he also as far as experience goes is none. Excuse me, and I'm going to go further. Dion Sanders, the great Dion Sanders, one of the greatest players ever. Two years ago, was hired to be the head coach at Jackson State, an FCS college with no coaching experience outside of high school.

And they criticize that move. How do you hire him? How do you skips all the steps? He's not gonna have the experience, he's not gonna know what it takes. That was one of the greatest players ever in small division college football. You're now taking a good player who hasn't coached at any level and putting him as the head coach of an NFL team. It is one of the most ridiculous and indefensible coaching hires in sports history. That is not in debate. Now that does that mean

he definitely will fail, No, but it is. It's insulting to obviously to minority candidates that can't get a look even if they've been coordinators and for fifteen years. It's insulting to guys of any race who have been trying to grind their way up in the coaching profession. And it's insulting to the players on the colts. Okay, now

to the more interesting part. Who would I hire? So, if I were the head coach of an NFL team, I would hire Bill Barnwell to run my analytics department, without any question at all, run my analytics and he would be on the front office side of things. And I guess I actually I don't know. If he would run my analytics department, Barnwell would run, he would be nobody. You couldn't make any trades or sign any contracts without running them by Barnwell. And the value that you have

to give up, I think he's brilliant at that. My analytics department I obviously would run, but I would bring in I would consider trying to bring in Ben Baldwin, who is on Twitter at on at computer Cowboy. He is some good I like his fourth down bot he built. I like that he would do my guy up in the booth. It's a bot. He built a computer program that automatically says kick punt, go for it, and does it for every game, and I trust his methodology. I

would hire Manginie to run my defense. I think man Genie is gotten a short shrift on what he did in the NFL, and I think he's actually pretty I am he's still really locked in and tied in any other media colleagues. I wouldn't hire Orlovsky, not because I don't respect him, but I don't think Orlovsky likes me. Orlofsky's on the list of guys that I think doesn't respect me. I don't have any evidence of that. It's just my gut respec. Yeah. Well, it's hard to you

can like someone and not respect them. No, you can respect someone and not like them. It's very hard to like someone if you don't respect them, right, you know what I mean? Uh, And I don't know why I just uh Now. I also, who did I think that about? Oh? I did a podcast with Ethan Strauss and I told him I didn't think he liked or respected me. He told me I was wrong. So maybe it's my own self consciousness.

be a better head coach than Jeff Saturday? Take that?

unbelievable story. What I find so fascinating is this team seemingly, to a man, really really disliked Russ. Pete Carroll had no reason to take this shot at Russ. It was no one was asking about Russ, no one was asking about the past. They were just praising Gino, and he couldn't help himself but to throw it in. So here's my theory, So we know why the defensive players didn't like Russ. Set the corniness aside. They felt he got

too much credit for their greatness. That the team was built on the legion to boom and a great defense, and Russ got the glory, and they felt that that all manifested itself ultimately at the worst moment possible, when instead of running the ball and having marsh Sean Lynch who was not defensive player but was more in that click if you will, with Sherman and Thomas and those guys, they called a pass play for Russ so he could be Super Bowl MVP, and they end up losing the

Super Bowl. Russ throws a pick, so we know where that came from, and we know where it all. You know, he came to a head right where I think Pete Carroll, who clearly has a sour taste in his mouth about Russ, despite the fact that Pete Carroll was a losing coach in the NFL and then got Russ, went to Russ, they won a Super Bowl, they had massive success. Where I think Pete's bitterness comes from is I think Pete feels like I chose you over the defensive guys. We

paid you. We traded those guys away. You wanted me to hire Shane Waldron. I hired Shane Waldron. We put the team in your hands. We did all of those things I cost myself, these other relations and chips, and then you demand it out. I did all of these things in service to you, and then you demanded out.

And I get that. I get that. Not it's not a marriage, but to use a messy metaphor, if no matter how much great history you have with somebody, if all of a sudden they're like, I don't like your friends, I don't like who you're hanging out with, I don't like what your you know, your hobbies, and you cut all those things off in service of your significant other, and then your significant other is still like I'm out anyway, you'd be extra upset. It's like I made all these

sacrifices for you, for us, and then you bounced. So I think that's where it comes from with Pete Carroll and I understand it all right, quickly asked the net question.

percentage in NBA history. Okay, it's Sidney Low, Tim Floyd, Kurt Rambas, Jacques bawling for guys who got at least two hundred games. However, with the Nets, he's been good now. He's been there for six years. He was the interim after Katie and Gyrie pushed out. Kenny Atkinson did well with them in the bubble. They get to the playoffs, but they decided not to hire they go with the Katie and Kyrie want Nash, so they go with Nash instead. Right now he's there, they do look better and they're

going with him. The concerns are he knows and everyone knows he wasn't the first choice. That's not you know what I mean. He said it. He said it in his press conference. He's like, listen, I don't know what was my wife's first choice. Been together twenty years. I mean, he said it. What's most notable to me is it's hard to separate the Nets seemingly turning in a corner. They played the best game last night they played in

two years. I understand they're playing the Knicks, but that's how the Nets were allowing one hundred and sixteen points per game under Vaughan. They're allowing ninety. Okay, they but it is hard to separate. Is this a Jacques Bond thing or is this a Kyrie not there without Kyrie either three and one. Steven's been excellent. KD played his best game of the season last night, had an easy twenty nine point triple double. And I do not believe

Kyrie contributes to winning basketball. I do not believe he makes them better. And I do not believe that when he finally, you know, if he gets unsuspended, they are

better with him than without him. Also, at the game last night, and you've got there is the foot Let me put it like this giant group of guys all over the entrances to the stadium with megaphones, passing out literature who seemed to like that movie that Kyrie promoted even more than a hell of a lot more than Kyrie did that I posted it on Twitter.

You then add to the fact I don't think he helps them on the court, and I think Jacques Vaughan is about to deal with at and Sean marks a very difficult situation because all of a sudden, the Nets look like a real basketball team and they can play real defense, and that's without Ben Simmons doing anything, and Durant looks happy, and it is a very tricky situation for Jacques Vaughn, who's now finally getting his second chance

as an NBA head coach. So there's that. With all that said, the Nets are in far better shape than the Lakers, who are an unmitigated disaster. We discuss them and play a game next, What's Right.

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issue is up and just go finish. He never missed time with injuries despite playing super high minutes a super physical style. Then, in year seventeen against the Warriors on Christmas, his first year with the Lakers, he tore his growing you're wait, was that hold on? Is this his fifth year? Hold on? This year twenty? Oh, so I guess it was. I'm sorry, you're sixteen. He tore is growing. You're seventeen. They won the title. He was healthy, you're eighteen. Solomon

Hill somersaulted into his ankle. He was injured all year. Last year, he was mostly healthy until the end of the year. There's year nineteen, Now it's your twenty. He was dealing with a foot injury, now dealing with the leg injury. This is what happens. He's played the most minutes of any player in the history of the sport playoffs and regular season combined, where he's second to Kareem On that he's in year twenty. He's the third oldest guy in the whole league, and he's playing these types

of minutes. The only guy's older than him are Iguidala and Haslam who Haslim doesn't play at all, and I right, and Ida barely plays. So it's sad, but this is inevitable. That is not the biggest problem with the Lakers. So a couple. So they're playing the Clippers last night, right, the Clippers did not have Kawhi Leonard Yet the Clippers, somehow, despite not having Kawhi Leonard all year long, are a competent organization. They didn't have Kawhi Leonard all last year,

won forty two games. There's still a legitimate NBA team without Kawhi Leonard. You know why this is because Lawrence Frank has built out a real NBA roster. You have the Stars. They did what the Lakers did, traded all their assets for Paul George, like the Lakers did with Lebron. Now, they didn't win a title, and I'm not the the Lakers won that title. Lebron was unbelievable. Anthony Davis was

great in the ball. That's fine. But what Rob Blink is done with this Lakers roster post winning the title, It honestly would have been better to spin a Goddog wheel. It was if you were intentionally trying to build the worst basketball teams possible. But you have to have Lebron, James, Anthony Davis on the team. You could not do worse than Blink has done the last.

NBA roster. They have built a real team, and it is unfathomable to me.

Healed comes around for us and those picks. And I said on this show and on the TV show, better be careful because with that opening schedule, you could be two and eight after ten games and the season's basically over. Now it's eleven games, they're two and nine. In NBA history, teams to start two and nine only I saw this yesterday.

I wish I marked it. Less than ten percent have finished above five hundred above five hundred, only four have made the playoffs, and only one has won a playoff series. NBA history teams starting two and nine, so they're totally ruined. They might end up trading Anthony Davis. And now I'm gonna give you the one bright side.

You also don't have picks. We will give you Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook's expiring contract plus our two picks in twenty seven and twenty nine four Tyrie nod for KD and Ben, and then Kyrie walks in the offseason. Russ's contract expires. You have Anthony Davis, You have built back up some of your draft capital, and all of a sudden you're in New York City with Anthony Davis and max salary cap space. And that's how you're going

to rebuild eighties twenty nine. It's five years younger than KD. You're not winning anything this year. I would I don't think they would do AD and two picks for Kevin Durant. I don't think the Nets would do that, Okay, I think if you However, if you gave them a way to get out of Ben Simmons deal, which is like, oh, why would they want Russ? Well, Russ actually coming off the bench, playing a little bit better, But that doesn't matter. What you would want is the fact that contract expires.

Kyrie's contract is expiring after this year. You would just have Anthony Davis and Joe Harris is on a bad deal. But that's the only bad contract you'd have. And you have max cap space CAP's gonna go up soon you're in New York City, you're more like that. That's their path forward. That's the Lakers only save, and it wouldn't even save this year. By the time that happens, this year is already going to be done. So that's the one silver lining. But I don't trust Rob Blinka to

do that. Rob blink is and and Lakers ownership for continuing to empower Polinka because he was Kobe's agent and they have such loyalty there is insane to me.

Did the Cowboys have a lot of similarities there? Would it make a lot of sense? Would he work? If he's My concern with Odell is he's had too many injuries, and when he comes back, he's not gonna be the guy who was last year for the Rams, who was sensational in the playoffs. If he is that guy, the guy who was in the playoffs last year, then I think this is a no brainer for Dallas and green Bay's off the board now because they stink. The Rams to me, are off the board now because they stink.

The Niners don't need him. They have too many other weapons. The Bucks aren't very good, and they wide receivers. The one spot. They got plenty of guys at don't I never thought Buffalo was a realistic spot for Odell, and they have plenty of receivers. The Chiefs just added their receiver, you know what. So to me, it's if Odell's gonna play this year, it is either with Dallas or with

the Giants. In a reunions. Seahawks have lock in a Metcalf and the Seahawks aren't really like a blue chip franchise like Mark Kee, like New Go back to New York or go to Dallas. That's what I see Odell doing next this.

might be in real, real trouble. Yeah, they're four and seven. Their last win step was against the Kings by three. Steph had to go forty seven to eight and eight and they had to get very lucky calls down the stretch. Shockingly, they so what is disappointing for the Warriors and they didn't see coming was that none of the young guys seemingly have improved and Wiseman's going in the other direction.

What should not surprise them at all is the vibes might be off after Draymond's slug Jordan Poole, All right, next.

with everybody. Okay, so like he's not available, But let's say the MAVs could get Dame. That's not really a perfect fit. Right there, there are the Now do I think Tatum would be a great fit. Of course, because Tatum is a two way player, doesn't have to have the ball in his hands the whole time. TAM's not available, right You've got to find the right type of star to pair with him.

Like the guy the MAVs should want, like be thinking about targeting five years from now. Is Evan Mobile Evan Mobley the center for the or power forwards, last center for the Cavs. He's like a Kevin Garnett clone type of guy. That's the If you could bring a guy from history to pair with Luca, my number one pick might be Garnett because Garnett doesn't need the ball, is an unbelievable a defensive player, one of the best ever,

and can the and can also score efficiently. So it is a tough one and I don't know how the Maps are gonna get the guy. But it's not like Lucas freezing out great players.

Not gonna have to worry about sea level There the did I eat. I love the politics. It's beautiful. You get all four seasons. You have an NBA team. Really sucks that Broncos and Nuggets fans hate me, so it really sucks. I think they they're in the process of potentially voting Bobert out. That's the one that I showed you the real close on sixty four votes. Yeah, three hundred thousand votes cast. It is as of this moment, a sixty four vote differential. So yeah, I mean, Colorado

is a great place. When the pandemic was when New York, when we were like locked in our house and it was just ambulance sirens and they had a you know, a makeshift Morgan Central Park, and I thought things were really really going to go left. Oh, at the beginning of the pandemic, you weren't here you were in Kansas City. Yeah, no, I mean there was must have been really sad out here, but it was it was hard shift more what do you mean? I mean they had to there were so

many dead bodies. They had to. They had to do a makeshift Morgan Central Park. They brought a Navy ship and put it off where by where Chelsea Piers is as a makeshift more and there's just too many New York In the very beginning, it was awful, awful, and I didn't know what was gonna happen with the world. I'm not a doomsday prepper, but was I looking at ranches in Colorado, like places that had their own water

and like little underground bunkers. I was, but a lot of a lot of people were a lot of people were because they were expensive.

There's just a few things here that I found really interesting. So the beginning of our section this week was really about the Roman Empire. Okay, so they talk about Julius Caesar and how much he you know, he essentially conquered the world. So do you know, have you ever heard the phrase demons at two brute? At two Brutus? Okay, So Julius Caesar was incredibly the most powerful man in the world, is kind of the ruler of the world,

head of the Roman Empire. And then his friends and colleagues got sick effect, he had so much power in the stab him and one of the people that sapped him was Brutus, who was his friend and famously historically he said at two brute, but he was being stabbed because he's like even you, Bruce, So like when a friend betrays you at to brute is like, that's what you would have said, Opey this week, sorry, should we demonte got an argument with a friend of his. I

was very proud by the way proud parenting moment. Uh demand sometimes gets like very loud and it's a little concerning. Yeah, I don't love. I'm not the best example of this, but I don't love how you control your anger at times. Sometimes you get to a twelve when maybe it should simmer at an eight. However, Demande was yelling, yelling at a friend of his. But it was because Demanse was trying to fight for righteousness.

still use. Named after Julius Caesar, he gets a month named after him, July for Julius and his adopted son who took over after him was Augustus, and that's where we get august from. How about that? Also, I don't have your mom has all these nicknames for everyone, what do you I don't have a nickname for you, I just call you pau What do you think of the nickname Augustus?

how brutal he was. What I didn't know was he had his own mother murdered, and his wife and tutor, along with a number a number of their other relations and friends because he lived in a constant fear of an assassination. So he was just like, ah, I don't love you, you scare me. Saw as have you killed? The book then talks about how that if in the Roman Empire, if you weren't a Christian or a Jew or a close relative of Narrow, if you just lived like out in the land whose life was pretty peaceful

and pleasant. And then you talk about the Jersey chapter. This is page one hundred where I'm reading from right there, and he talks about the Emperor Trajan who built what what?

with Harden. It is in play, In fact, is overwhelmingly likely that Lebron, Steph and Kadi that that that that era is done, that this is the yannest Jah Luca era that we are in the midst of, not that that's on its way, that that's where we are right now.

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