What's Wright - Reaction to Stephen A. FIRING BACK at LeBron James + Tiger Woods injury

seven second half points. Then they lose again, and then I see Demonse and he's wearing an SGA jersey that he got by the way, like the year SGA was traded to the Thunder. So what is up with this front running nonsense that I'm looking at.

Francesca to their family. After being so careful demanse about not saying what it was on the pod, I got a picture from Dan at two fifty four pm Eastern of my sister holding the baby. The baby had just been born, and I showed it to wilds It's two fifty four right before it went on the air. And Wild starts the show and says, welcome. The first things first, where we're congratulating Nick's sister Joanna on the new basis, And I just rolled with it and even said her name.

And I don't know if Dan's parents or my parents had found out. I don't know America to the world right, but America found out. But congrats to Joe and Dan. All right, here's what missed the cut today. The Bills signed Joey Bosa. I get it high upside, it's only a one year deal, but man, oh man, that guy can't stay healthy and so but you know, so that's the concern with him. His brother has been the far better,

far more productive player for quite some time. Russell Wilson is visiting Cleveland and the Giants, which to me is actually more of a Shadoor Sanders story than a Russell Wilson story, because I don't know where Shadoor Sanders is gonna get drafted. And here's what I mean when the whoops that I just tried to I'm trying to get the draft order up and I went to the twenty fifteen NFL draft, So it seems like the Titans are taking cam Ward one. Cleveland is evidently interested in Russell Wilson.

They you know, so they I don't think you try to sign Russell Wilson, you're trying to draft Cam or should or Sanders. And so even if they don't get Russell Wilson, to me, that signals they're not that interested in should Or. The Giants are desperately trying to get Aaron Rodgers or Russell Wilson. So I don't know if they're interested in Shoud or. You don't think the Patriots go ahead.

are at seven. They just signed Justin Fields. The Panthers are at eight, they have Bryce. The Saints are at nine. They just redid Derek Carr's deal. The Bears are at ten they have they have Caleb. The Niners are at eleven. They have Mac Jones now and brock party William's name.

at eighteen. They just signed Darnold Bucks nineteen. They have Baker Broncos twenty, they have Nicks Steelers twenty one. Maybe like you know, but they're in. They're but they're going after Aaron Rodgers harder than anybody. So, like I think the Shador Sanders drop is very, very real. I think he is more likely to go after pick fifteen than

he is to go in the top five. So that was not supposed to be something we were talking about, but we just talked about it and Aaron Rodgers getting exactly what he craves and thirsts and needs, which is our attention, and so shout out to him for everyone else can make this decision by now. He on the other hand, man, oh man, I just it's just so complicated. I think Aaron Rodgers knows where he's going. Reminder everybody

like rate, subscribe, review, check out the podcast. We've got to be the only podcast that spends a solid ten minutes on the things we're not talking about. To start the show, I don't, I promise. I wanted to be done talking about the stephen A. Lebron stuff, but his media tour will not end on it, and so we'll get to that in a moment. But first, some sad news for one of my favorite athletes ever. I do want to start there, and then we'll get to the other stuff.

in high school and he was in high school. Tiger goes back further. I remember my late grandfather, who was a huge golf fan when I was ten to eleven years old, and man, I wish you could have met him, Demonse. He died when I was in college, but he would have loved you, and you would have loved him. But he called me, and he wasn't a big phone call guy, but he called me and told me, he's like, you've

got to turn on the TV. There's this kid who's going to remake the golf world, remake it and he's trying to do something no one's ever done, which is when I think it's third straight Amateur and I turned it on. And that's exactly what he did in kind of a stirring comeback victory to win his third straight amateur title, and then shortly thereafter in the ninety seven Masters, he beat the world by one hundred strokes and remade

golf as we knew it. And I just think because of what the last fifteen years have been, people and young people in particular, don't quite understand what two thousand really From that ninety seven Masters until the car accident in his driveway the night before Thanksgiving in two thousand and nine, what and who Tiger Woods was, or I'm sorry, and what and who Tiger Woods was was the greatest

golf forever by such a wide margin. I'm sorry to the Jack Nicholas fans out there, but it can't be overstated what this man, how he changed a sport the likes of which no one's I don't think, ever changed another sport. So I'm just going to remind people of what he did. So nineties seven Masters he wins by a dozen strokes. The golf world is so terrified, they remake the Masters course, they say they're going to tiger

proof it. And then over the next couple years he doesn't win any majors, and in fact he only comes close only a couple top fives. And then from the ninety nine PGA Championship through the two thousand and two season he has what will go down in history as either the greatest or the second greatest stretch in the history of professional golf. Here's what he did at the majors,

at the tournaments that count. Ninety nine PGA first, two thousand, Masters fifth, two thousand, US Open first, two thousand, British Open first, two thousand, PGA first, two thousand and one Masters first. In a five major stretch, I'm sorry, a six major stretch, he won five, including four in a row, and the one he didn't win he came in fifth.

He then the rest of two thousand and one, twelve, twenty fifth, twenty ninth in the majors, and then in two thousand and two won the Masters, won the US Open, second in the PGA, and in that moment, right there, he became the second greatest golfer in the history of the world. He had eight majors. He was in his early twenties. He had won the Masters by twelve strokes, the US Open at Pebble by fifteen strokes, the British

Opened by eight strokes. He had completed the Career Grand Slam and was one more British Open championship away from completing the career Grand Slam twice and then three to oh four remade his swing. So think about that demonse. He had just had up to that point the greatest stretch in the history of professional golf. And he was like,

you know what, I think I can be better. And in two thousand and three and two thousand and four he didn't win any majors, only had one top five and one other top ten, and people were like, oh, did he make a mistake. Should he not have done that? Like he was on such a roll. And then from the Masters in two thousand and five until the US Opened in two thousand and eight, there were fourteen majors.

Here is what he did in those fourteen majors in order, first, second, first, fourth, third, missed the cut first, first, second and second, twelfth first second, first, fourteen majors, six wins, four seconds, a third, a fourth, a twelfth and one bad tournament, and in that US Open in two thousand and eight, he broke his leg in the final round, played on that hairline fracture, made one of the most iconic putts in golf history on that broken leg on the seventy second hole, just to

force a playoff and have to come back the next day on the broken leg and play eighteen more and won it. And then he had the personal trouble, and he went away and from two thousand and nine to twenty eighteen, zero firsts, just one second, almost ten times, he missed the cut, twelve times, he didn't even play because he was dealing with injuries, he was dealing with

the embarrassment, he was dealing with all of it. And then that glorious early start because of weather Sunday afternoon in April twenty nineteen, when he put it all together one more time for one final great moment as all great athletes try to have, and he won the twenty nineteen Masters with Deanna at how old would Deanna have been?

Five years old? Sitting on my lap watching all five hours of it, and and I just I feel, I know, this sounds like really really sappy and oddly emotional, but I love sports, I love him, and I feel so incredibly blessed to have watched what I believe in my bones is going to go down as the greatest decade run of any player in the history of that sport by a mile. And we every few years we hear about somebody who's going to who's gonna you know, Oh, could he be the next Tiger? What you know, could

he challenge the records? And the answer is no, no one can, no one will. And I understand. Jack Nicholas won more, Jack one eighteen, Tiger won fifteen. I don't care. Golf was so much harder, with so much deeper fields, and Tiger's run of dominance was so compact and great. But it's the other guys who we hear about that are oh, like, I've had to listen to people tell me look out for Scotty Scheffler. And nothing against Scotty Scheffler,

but here's Scotty Scheffler's glorious run. First, missed the cut, second, twenty, first, tenth, second, third, twenty, third, first, eighth, forty, first, seventh. That's great, man, it's really cool. You are a Hall of Fame golfer. You got two of them. I I thought, uh, you know, what, what's brooks Keepka gonna do? Because Kepka's run was special, but it was still first, sixth thirteenth, skip the tournament, first, thirty ninth, first, second, first, second, fourth.

Uh oh, Since then, that was five years ago. He's won one. Rory was gonna take the golf world by storm. Rory when he blew up. This is what it looked like. First, then a year and a half of nothing, another first, then a year or nothing, then first first. That was in twenty fourteen. He is not one again. No one's gonna do it. And part of that is because Tiger made the sport so popular and so much bigger. The competition got so much harder. And now people's windows, their

great windows are two years. And listen, I give Jack credit for having a legitimate twenty year run. If Tiger had twenty healthy years, he'd add twenty five majors. And I'm really bummed that he's not going to get. I mean, even without the Achilles, we probably knew it was over. It was over, but I still held on to hope. But five Masters, three US Opens, three British for PGA, the most intimidating player in the history of the sport and potential Mount Rushmore figure of sports of the last

fifty years. Tiger woods Man, and he was doing it all while kind of living a double life. And I don't know if that, you know, I'm not sure that makes it more impressive or not. Why are you giving me that look, Demanse.

me for a moment. That's all psychology, and it's all I'm not like, I'm not going to let the moment get to me. And I think Tiger felt invincible and he was like, man, the world thinks, I'm like, you know, the ultimate family man. I have this impeccable image meanwhile, I'm out here, you know, popping drugs and sleeping with the Tippings waitress and I, you know, flying on my plane and texting her and doing this and nobody knows.

And I got all this and the moment that man and untouchable and that and that parlayed into I'm untouchable and untouchable everywhere. And then when that balloon popped, but not only popped, but he had to hold a press conference in front of his with his mother in the front row and the whole world watching, and him saying, I'm a sex addict and I'm you know, I feel terribly and really got got taken to the wood shed

by his wife, which is they had a prenup. She said, I'm leaving you, but all consider staying if you do X, Y and Z. One of the one of those things was we rip up the prenup, go to the counsel and go to this, go to whatever. He said, yes, and then she left anyway, which again I don't blame

her for that's her prerogative. But he really he he went from a guy who won everywhere to public humiliation, losing everywhere, and I think that invincibility went away and was never gonna come back, and so it was all that, plus all the injuries and so just a bummer, but doesn't change the fact that there's not three athletes that I, as a sports fan, have gotten more enjoyment from watching than I have with Tiger Woods. And so shout out

to him. Hope the recovery goes well, and I hope that he can really enjoy watching Charlie try to chase his son up right, Yeah, and so you know, so rooting for Charlie, I think that would be really really cool. Okay, well, in that weird way, speaking of a different goat whose son is trying to follow somewhat in his footsteps, but in you know, much more controversial manners. Uh Lebron Bronni And now the third character in this movie, my buddy Stephen A.

And we in the media also have to recognize and acknowledge that no matter how big or prominent, or wealthy or successful any of us ever get, we will never be from a fame or credibility to the audience standpoint, on par with the biggest athletes that we cover. It'll never Howard Cosell was not equal to Muhammad Ali. He was telling Ali's story. The audience was there for Ali. Bob Costas was not equal to Michael Jordan. He's He's telling Michael Jordan's story go ahead.

because we talk about them. And so there is there will never be a White House courus or White House correspondent that is more important to the political discourse than the president. There will there, and there will there will never be a Stephen a Is and he has earned it, earned it. He he is the most prominent sports media member, which does make him bigger than some athletes, but he will never be bigger than the biggest athletes. Like here's a good kind of you know, back in the Napkin Math,

do you remember demanse Uh, when I went after Patrick Beverly. Yeah, that is I think two people on kind of equal footing. But think about why that is. You have me. I'm just saying we're about on equal footing. Me someone who's probably near the bottom of the top ten in my field and someone like him who's near the top of the bottom ten in his field. And that's where we meet.

So you've got it, like so the and there was another jab at Patrick Beverley fit in there, but uh so it is so No, I don't think it's unfair for Lebron to respond. We all like the And here is the other thing. You gotta be prepared in the moment with how you're going to respond if they if you get checked. And this idea like I got, I told the story you know, confronted is too strong, but questioned by Jalen Hurt's mom night before the super Bowl,

and she was totally within her rights. I've told the story for nothing but good thing to say about her. Uh And one of the only there are not many bright sides for me that came out of that Super Bowl. But I respected her in that interaction so much that I was part of me, the little part of me that wasn't heartbroken about the results of the game, was happy for her because she was so adamant or someone was gonna win and that he was gonna play great

and all that happened. But in that moment, I had a choice to make do I snapfold my hand, or do I say, okay, we can actually talk about it. What I don't think is typically cool is to in the moment snapfold your hand and then after the fact talk and talk and talk and talk and talk about it. And here's the other pieces of it that I just I'm gonna go ahead and say I have a hard time fully buying. On Gilbert's show, stephen A said, essentially, my producers made me address it. I didn't want to.

My producers made me address it. Bro, That's not how that works. We all we all know that, Like, that's it's not how that works on first things. First, I can't imagine that's how that works. On first take, I cannot imagine. And I do not think that anybody really believes like there is anything on that show that stephen A's like, I do not want to do this, and they're like, sorry, you have to come on, man, that's

not like, that's not that's not a thing. Like maybe the day after a finals game if Steve, if someone was like, I don't want to talk about the basketball game, they might be like, well you have to and if not, we're gonna pay, like the but I, that's not a thing. And the other thing was this because on Gilbert Show, stephen A said, Oh, I I thought in the moment

this was about Bronni. It wasn't until I saw what Lebron's conversation mouth somewhat covered mouth not with Richard Jefferson that I knew this was actually about what I had said about him as a father. Man. I knew it the next day. I was on here the next day and I told everyone that's what it was about. It was obvious that's what it was about. The everyone who's in these circles knows that's what it was about. When Lebron's people called you and you made fun of them,

it was months ago. It was about that. It was about the I'm begging you as a father, So it's okay to say has caught off guard, has caught off guard, didn't really know, and then the other part of it, like again, and I say this every time, and I'll say it again, and it's so funny that I texted with stephen A the day this, the morning before this all happened, so like I think this happen a week ago today, I actually text with steven A that morning,

so before it all happened. Obviously I have and I'm still using current present tense. I hope a good relationship with him. But I have to be I have to be fair here because I'm not hesitant ever on this platform or on the TV show really to criticize colleagues if I think they're dead wrong. I can't just have the guys that I really like or my friends or whatever be like a sacred cows here, especially when this this is the story that continues to be the story.

The implication with Gilbert and company that listen, maybe I'd have handled that differently, but I worked for Walt Disney.

it was very clear that's what it was about. So that is you Now I talked to Vimani about that, Butmani says, we need to normalize judging other people's parenting, which is an interesting take, and like it's also you know, Butmoni's you know, glass house there, not glass house there. Bamoni ain't got no kids, so he doesn't know how hard you guys can be sometimes. But but the that is, that's what triggered Lebron. Okay, that's what it was now

is the criticism of Bronni. Fair it. Let me, I'm gonna tweak how I word that.

Lebron pumped the brakes on it. Right, Like the that that tweet was it put a bigger target on Bronnie's back, and so that was that was a mistake that that's totally fair, and that's that would be criticizing Lebron. You know that a decision he made, Like, that's totally fair. But that's not what this was about, right, So the so but I but to get back to your other question is is Bronnie James a fair target for criticism? The answer to that is yes, he's an NBA player,

He's a grown man NBA player. Is it also fair to say, if this is going to be the one and only second round pick in the entire draft in the last two drafts three drafts that we are going to occasionally criticize on national television, that if you have been one of the more vocal critics, whether it was his summer League performance or his opening few G League

games or those awful minutes against the Sixers. Then if you really want to be fair, you've got to mix in the context and maybe include, oh, he's actually played really well since that moment. Now, I think it's probably like, does that make sense that if I'm that anybody that you are is you don't have to talk about, but you choose to talk about either super glowingly or super negatively, or it's you know that you insert in. It's probably fair to balance the scale to a degree you don't

have to do. That's why I keep doing the you know, where he ranks amongst rookies, and he is somewhere between forty eighth and fifty eighth in every single minutes games, points, assists, steals, which is what you would hope for from the fifty to fifth pick. So that's the other piece of this

that I think is a little bit of bullshit. If you were and this is not, I'm not talking about Stephen ah here, Okay, if you are to agree, I'm kind of talking about one of my dearest friends in the world, among others, but among other not among my other dearest friends, but Manni is one of my dearest friends in the world. He's one of many people who

were very loud and skeptical about Bronni being drafted. I do think what's fair is if you were one of those people saying this is a farce of a pick to at some point mention he's acquitting himself pretty well in the G League, that he's averaging the exact same as the Lakers first round pick last year in the G League, that he, you know what, like that, because I think it's pretty clear that the people who said this is a farce of a pick, if Bronni in

the G League was four points, couldn't you know? It is terrible to be like see, And so I just I do think though that stuff is well again, I just it's also not all that day to day relevant. I just what I don't. I just have a really hard time with the sequence of I didn't want to talk about this. I've now talked about it almost every single day on four different platforms since then. I didn't know what he was mad about when I got a call five weeks ago from his agent about the exact

thing he's mad about. And anyone with kind of deductive reasoning knew that's what he's mad about, having been on the record for twenty years about how many games you go to and about how everyone you talk about is welcome to come up and talk to you about anything they say, and when that happens, to say it was weak and it was bullshit. And this is why I started with the we're not on equal playing field with these guys. Sometimes you don't get to respond like you

can respond. That's let me don't that's I said that wrong. That's not what I meant. What I'm trying to say is in that moment, I think what he's saying is I wanted a phone call so I could give give my side of the story, and Lebron was saying, I don't give a shit about your side of the story. I didn't like what you said, and I wanted you to stop it and if we never speak again, no skin off my back. And that is a power and balance because like Lebron's like, I don't care about this relationship.

You might, I don't, and that just kind of is that that that's why I used the Coseel Ali thing. Now, cosel actually was incredibly helpful to Ali because Ali had the US government working against him and a lot of things. So it's not a perfect example at all, but as helpful as Howard Cosel was to Muhammad Ali, Howard go Sel needed Muhammad Ali in that relationship more than Ali ever needed would need him. And no matter how wealthy or famous any of us get, we're not the actual stars.

And then we also have to have the humility to at times just take an l. I don't know why that is so difficult for certain folks like and that's and I'm not just pointing out stephen A there at all. That is that is a lot of people again, well particularly people that in our business people and are there is. It's also why there's kind of this unspoken rule almost like oh, you know, I'm in the media, I'm not going to criticize other media that I obviously don't subscribe to. You.

I just think that is somewhat hypocritical almost like we can't we we can't do what we do to these athletes and then act so wounded if somebody he does it to us.

more political comment, which is a whole nother discussion. But whatever, all right, I guess while we're here to Monsey with you know, Nick Wright Media Corner, I mean, forty five minutes of the podcast, I've talked golf and you know, made people I really like and care about in my profession probably angry with me. Let's go ahead and finish it off.

the reason you will scratch somebody's back. Oh you you know you assistant general manager tipped me off about a trade. Well at the end of the year, when I'm on TV talking about potential hot general manager candidates might drop your name. Oh you agent gave me this contract detail, so I had it first, I, you know, will make you know I might share some info that I have with you. That is journalism very often is transactional in

that way. I understand that I am not naive to that. However, what the journalist is supposed to get is accurate information to give to the public. Here kind of is the flow. The team front office and the agent do a deal. The journalist has a relationship with someone involved to where they are trusted to get the deal info. They give that deal info to the fans who really want to know the actual info. That's the where it's supposed to go.

What it has kind of turned into is team and agent make a deal that the whole world is gonna find out about when the team announces it in a half hour. Journalist wants to be first by minutes, very often seconds on Twitter. Agent then says, I'll give it to you if you report it under these exact terms and this exact language. And then the consumer, who in theory is the person trying like that the journalist supposed to be servicing, gets fucking tricked. It's like, wait, we

gave him, how much? What's the guarantee? How long is the contract? Is it the most in team history? Is he the highest paid? We don't know? And then we gotta wait days for like Florio to post the actual contract. The whole thing's been polluted, and there wasn't What set me off about it was And I'm not trying to protect anyone here, but I just don't. I don't want to get this wrong. And so I'm not gonna say the names because I don't actually remember which two reporters

it was. But there was a pretty just nothing burger signing that from a couple days ago, that two reporters who worked for two different entities, not colleagues, not like Rapport and Pelasaro, who called themselves the insiders, like their partner or whatever. And very often sharin Fo posted word

for word the exact same tweet simultaneously. And I'm like, so the agent is just writing the tweet for you to send, and you just copy pastings, putting it out there like that's that's not what this is and it's why so, and and you might say, what does it really matter? Well, there there is like here, I'll give you an older one, but a real impact of one of these DeVante Adams traded to the law to the Las Vegas Raiders. This is years ago, and the contract

shatters the wide receiver record for salary. It's thirty million dollars per year. That is reported. Okay, tyreek Kill sees that tells the chiefs, I want thirty million a year, and the chiefs end up having to trade. DeVante adams deal was not thirty million a year because the final two years, which were thirty six and thirty eight million seventy four million of the deal were totally fake and that's why he just got cut. So but to the world,

oh no, Devonte Adams reset the market. He didn't. That was not real info, or at least it was info with totally devoid of context. Now that's not me crying as chiefs and the Tyreek Kill trade end up being one of the greatest transactions the team's made. I don't think they win the next two Super Bowls if they don't do it. But it's just the job is to not be first, credit the agent and mislead the audience. None of that's the job.

if you're giving the money. But it's not the real money and it's not fully accurate. So just team player, team player, team player. Try to be first. And if you're not going to be first with at like the agents aren't going to feed you the info unless you agree to include the you know, the most optimistic version of the money and credit the agent, well then then then maybe you need to find another way to get the info. It's hard job. I don't deny it, but

we're really misleading the audience. I don't think that's great demand. Say I'm gonna have no friends left. Everybody's just gonna be mad at me. Thank god the super Bowl didn't come around for another eleven months.

How's the family ole thing? Like, I do think it's I think it's on the board. I'm saying it's a favorite. I'm just saying it's on the board.

your favorite player will have. Go to the Draftings sports Book gap and make your pick. Guys, I'm killing you, I'm killing you. On Tuesday, I keyed in on Pelicans Clippers. I was like, Kawhi's being hot. You know, he's probably gonna come down to Earth. Zion I thought was gonna have a monster game. Zion did have a monster game, tripled Obel, but I had him over twenty three and a half points too many assists, not enough points, finished with twenty two. That's a loser. Kawhi under twenty three

and a half points. He damnedar at thirty, so that was an O for two. So again I'm being totally transparent with you guys. I farmed this one out, I said, Demonse Daniel, Producers, Blue Ducks, somebody help me out here. They're looking at Cam Thomas, who's never seen a shot he doesn't like, over twenty three and a half and Steph Curry over twenty six and a half. So we got it. We gotta turn this these player props around

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in Ontario. Bonus betts expire one hundred and sixty eight hours after issuance. For additional terms and responsible gaming resources, see DKNG dot co slash b ball. All right, demanse, let's go to Aaron Rodgers. Then I do want to talk a little bit about the basketball from last night, and then a really cool throwback clip that I found. We don't have a ton of time here, but we'll we'll get it together, all right, Go ahead, Demanse.

on him. I I don't understand the Vikings piece of it, Demonse.

And here's why it doesn't make sense to me that they were like Daniel Jones, we'd like to give you around ten million dollars to back up JJ McCarthy, and then Daniel Jones went to Indianapolis and they're like, Okay, Aaron Rodgers, we'd like to give you forty million dollars to start in front of JJ McCarthy, Like those you know that it doesn't seem like if you were if they had tried to retain Sam Darnold and lost him and then they pivoted Darren Rodgers to be like, okay,

that makes you know that's cogent thought, so to speak. This one doesn't make sense to me. And does you understand what I mean?

Aaron Rodgers at diappoint in his career is not better than Russell Wilson. I'm not saying he's worse. They're about the same. Like, and I know they added George Pickens, but man, that feels so combustible. Pickens and Metcalf and Rogers like, I don't, I don't. I don't love that at all. All right, let's do OKAC Boston.

wave of defender at you. And Shay has just been better and better and better ice and yesterday we still they did that without Jalen Williams. And so you have to be wildly impressed by what they did there.

a few, but Kobe wasn't one of them. Durants now, Durant, Durant probably close steph though, is not one of these guys who have unbelievable regular season numbers and their playoff numbers across the board get a little bit better. One of the reasons that's the case for Lebron is Lebron gets such a shitty whistle in the regular season, the playoff whistle doesn't impact him negatively. He's used to it, like and so the harden Embiid will see about Shay

guys who get this unbelievable regular season whistle. So listen, the Thunder deserve all the credit in the world, but it's allowed to be a little skeptical of them. Boston. I know everyone's going to be like, Boston shoots too many threes, and I don't love it. Stylistically, they're they're defending champs and they're the favorites to win the title. Like it, it does seem to be effective. Sixty three is,

you know, the most they've ever shot. So that's that's not even that's not standard even for them.

an all time second round man all the time. What are you shaking your head about going through those?

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we interviewed a few of the draft prospects. One of them was a potential first round pick out of Texas Tech named Patrick mahomes I. And here is one of the questions I asked him. Listen to his answer, Patrick, I've got a son who's around your age, just a little bit younger than you, and I did something with him that I want to do with you. Right now, you're not driving.

don't know do I go left right? But Patrick just said it's got a wife and kids, So I guess that means he's got to, you know, be hitting the dating scene in the off season a little bit, I guess. And he got a couple quarters and got a couple Super Bowl championship, still playing in the league. He already knows where he's going. He's got to figure out how to get there.

I mean, that is a really really cool thing. And then the also him. Yeah, right, so that was eight years ago. It was eight years ago, So that was, Uh, that was I had no recollection of that. Isn't that amazing?

that's a guy who shaved his head. Wasn't the greatest look.