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A little bummed out I don't know. Super Bowl hangover sucks. Zach did ask you on Sunday if this loss would would be like a one day thing was it a one day thing? No, no, it's it's not it's not been one day yesterday was bad today.

It's not much better. Okay. It is. Yeah.

Don't be mad already. I haven't even said anything. Also, I'd like an apology for for the other show where you accused me of feeding Zach questions and Zach just came at you because you came at him. You told me he sounded like shit before he spoke and so Zach's like fucking I'm just gonna hit you with my hard question first.

I will not apologize for that. What you're gonna say? I was just wondering if you consumed any media. I don't know how Patriots fans are handling this.

I saw that that ball Paul was not listening to part of my take on Monday because you know, it's too fresh. The last two fresh. Have you been reading articles listening to any podcasts? I listen to Spencer.

That's about it. Interesting. Yeah, they came to your defense. Yeah, hands and Whitney for people who missed it came to Hank's defense and said that PFT and I were brutal to Hank and trolled him in a brutal way and we're so mean and the business did point out a nice fart and that was that was it.

So you think we're brutal to you? I never said that. I was asking me to answer for biz and wits comments which I had no control over. I did not talk to them beforehand.

I felt yeah, I felt encouraged by what they were saying. Okay. Sometimes you know, you feel like you're the only one thinking something and then you hear other people repeat that. You're like, all right.

At what point did I troll you? Every at what point every day since I've met you for years. Fair counterpoint. When biz and winner are coming to Hank or not so much business when business and the handler come to Hank's defense.

I just one more time. I just try again. When we're in the handler coming to Hank's defense, I just I tune out there just like there's so unfair to Hank to a darling little Henry. I can't believe they do the Hank has a fucking troll shirt that he wears whenever Max loses and sits next to him on the couch.

Hank deserves all the troll he doesn't. That was not a troll shirt. That was a coincidence. That's a cool shirt.

Happen where shirt and Max loses a lot and I happen to wear it. That was not intentional. I did I did text with in the end all and I said you guys are pathetic for being like boo hoo poor Hank. Hank has a I actually would estimate 0.00001% life.

I think there are I would say the majority the vast vast majority of Americans would trade lives with Hank. He has a great life. So he got trolled a little a little bit a little tiny trolling. The guy lives the perfect life.

It's okay. You took a loss. Yeah, listen, I don't want to get too sentimental but I obviously was you know, I spent all day a lot of it was you know a normal day of travel delays like it wasn't anything like egregious. It was just it took you know 12 hours for what was supposed to take seven hours.

But obviously we were in San Francisco and we're in the middle writing writing the book or it's almost done but everyone go pre-order now. So we've been I've been reading that and I've been going through pictures and working with editor on setting them pictures. I'm going through my photos going through the last 10 years. San Francisco Super Bowl was 10 years ago right before this podcast started.

So when the Super Bowl ended it was you know now this time of time of year, February the podcast started in March but we're obviously ramping up to start the podcast and just thinking about how different that Super Bowl was 10 years ago versus how awesome the Super Bowl week was this week. Like it was one of the most fun and surreal weeks of all time. It was literally too good to be true. And all you think everything was too good to be true for us to actually win the game because everything outside of the game was was beyond perfect.

Yeah you just had to be followed around by a little troll all week. Yeah which was which was fun. It was fun. It was fun.

It was it was it was fun you know being with PFT and bringing them to the rally and everything. I I have to like admit to feet like I'm exo I can't do it anymore. Like I feel like I've been just fighting fighting fighting defense defense defense for the last few years like the better part of a month plus like hardcore and there's just nothing I can really say or do now I don't I don't have anything else left to give PFT and the haters they won this round like there's there's there's there's it's over like the battle is over. PFT has won.

Well he lost. He lost. No he lost. He lost $1,000.

Not really. I lost $40,000. And listen I got to say like $40,000 is a lot of money. It is no matter how you slice it.

It's worth it for the Patriots to lose. If you if you would tell me that I would have to pay $40,000 for every Patriots Super Bowl loss I'd say that's a hell of a deal. I'd shake your hand. That is that is a fair price to pay to see the Patriots losing the Super Bowl.

You think this guy wasn't actually rooting for you? No I know. I know he wasn't. So I mean yeah I'm glad that Hank is in you know he's seeing things clearly right now he seems to be in a better mood a smiley mood he's getting ready to go on vacation I'm happy for him that way too.

It did bum me out to see you on Sunday night like I didn't take that much pleasure in having you like sad on the show because you did make me sad too. Well I thought you're really smiling in that now I could be happy that you said. I think that was also because the zoom came in a little blurry so it couldn't really see you. Yeah I also like I think the people that were like Max Max was saying like oh I would be so much if I the fact that I was not in person and I knew while we were recording like I just needed like I was just kind of like tuning out what you guys are saying.

You're just moving the chain. And I was just like once this points this conversation ends I can hang up his laptop and I'm away from them. Yeah that was a huge part of it. Yeah you did a good job.

You answered all the questions. Do you have any other remaining thoughts from the Super Bowl? I underplayed Matt I mean I underplayed the arm drag maze arm. Oh I like he obviously it was it was bad it was a lot worse than I thought and hoped so that sucked to read those reports where I could see it get his arm shut up.

It clearly was not it didn't look good and he was he was feeling it. Was his arm messed up for the whole playoffs or just a Super Bowl? It was a please that was a play that happened in the Denver game. Oh okay.

I thought it'd be better for the chest but the Super Bowl. It doesn't matter. How do you feel going forward? Because like that part of it is you know there was a whole storyline to the schedule and how you got there was like hey this is not repeatable.

I'm excited to go forward like I have never been you know I'm bought into this patron scene. I'm excited for the future. I loved being you know in San Francisco and seeing all the Patriots fans and being reminded that there are all these outside trolls and haters and like they hate on the Patriots unjustly like it's just pure hate and anger and but knowing that there is the community of Patriots fans where it's like an obviously it's a little corny now like that we all we got we all we need but it's like it's nice to know that there is this huge you know group of fans and going forward we're ready to fight we're ready to keep fighting. Do you think why I think it's unjust yeah what do you use that word?

Because I just think people are hate the fact that they won for so long and then we're back like there was a lot of just like unbiased negative feelings towards the Patriots where generally they're just like I don't like the Patriots I hope they lose. Do you think okay so the problem with this one was that because it had been so long that like they couldn't be open about their secret reasons why they hate the Patriots. Well before it was Braden's back and there was a deflaket and there was like things where they're like oh well this this and that is why I don't the Patriots Mike Vrebel and Drake may are extremely likeable and this team was extremely like people who are still like fuck the Patriots. Yeah no I actually think Hank is right on the money and I haven't heard anybody say when you said unjustly I thought that you were saying that like there's no reason why anybody would ever hate on the Patriots as a franchise and I was going to disagree with that but I think Hank is right there were a lot of people that were rooting against the Patriots that were not admitting that they were rooting against the Patriots right a lot that's a tough that's a tough for enemy to fight it's hard to beat an enemy like that yeah right it's a good point where they are it's a good point are they in the room with you right now no they're not they're homesick ah hey do you think Mike McDonald's a good coach yep never sure he like it do you think he outcoats Josh McDonald's yeah I mean how could you say otherwise yeah I think healthy drink mates and who knows but you can't really you can't play that game no you can't do you think maybe the Patriots what what Max we don't want Max the shig is that no you can't play that game so you we should even mention it yeah don't play that game yeah we shouldn't mention it if you want to mention that we should play that game it was it was a war it was the difference I'm not saying that I'm not saying that yeah I'm not saying that or she just shopping ass but I'm playing that game no I said you can't right it was a play in the age of james a game but like can't whether or the other ones yeah bomb jones yeah no bonic didn't play it drink may actually like fought through yeah right the Chargers and Texans game that was probably also the shoulder to those one of those games are three touchdowns and like what are we talking about well you didn't have a great playoff run now I didn't turn the ball over at all I got blind resume can we do a blind resume yeah listen you're like 45 minutes from vacation just keep saying it yourself quarterback one this is three playoff games okay 822 pass yard 65.8% completion percentage six total touchdowns one turnover 84.2 qbr those are because they're one of the two quarterback to quarterback to I'm not you don't believe in weather luck you laugh you scoffed at me when I brought up weather luck true quarterback to it's a tough playoff for anti weather Hank yeah that's for overs can I get to the shitty quarterback okay quarterback to well not by it's a bias ball you already read 887% completion percent 887% completion percentage six total touchdowns eight turnovers 50.7 qbr I so I could be one I would want yeah I would want to be one who's QB one keep me once Jayden Daniels also to take take Hank side like Hank would never make fun of a quarterback that got hurt so I think we should kind of back off Drake made a little bit and the fact of the matter is they just ran out of time because Drake may set a Super Bowl record for most passing yards in a quarter of the Super Bowl in the fourth quarter mm-hmm pretty good that's that goes to Canada that's a record that stays pretty good yeah do you have any apologies for same Donald same Donald I'm happy to listen to the show on on Sunday I know but you've had time to think about it I said I said it on Sunday okay okay I was just asking again and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills I literally started the thing on Sunday I'd be like all doing it same Donald I thought he was gonna turn to a pumpkin he did not he played well he was avoiding pressure like it's good to say again to Sam Darnell I'll say exactly what I said it's on day again did you see hey we're 45 minutes from vacation dude we're good or two I assume you guys playing this vacation I just hop on the bandwagon we yeah we do take a vacation after Super Bowl right so you're 45 minutes from vacation I know I am as well I'm excited he left early he left early he have to he's mine but mine is 24 hours from vacation I'm I'm homesick right now I left last night at seven not 24 hours what was the original flight it doesn't matter I left at seven p.m.

last night back for fiction I was at work all day yes fact fact fact ah thank you did you see Todd Bowles was prophetic with so there's a story out that after Sam Darnell was drafted his first game is a quarterback when he won they asked him do they have a guy and he said I don't know if we have a guy asked me again in like a hundred games the Super Bowl was a hundred and first game so we do confirm have a guy Todd Bowles that's awesome good for Todd good for Todd he knew it he knew it I also I have a take I don't know if you guys agree this the Disney World thing that they have to do is just punishment Sam Darnell the Kenneth Walker being in the teacups right after the game when it's like all you want to do is party with your boys that sucks yeah they probably get paid a lot of money for it though I was thinking about that too and they said Disneyland and said Disney World yeah California that didn't hit the same I don't think that Disney World or Disneyland is a great place for an adult to go as like a Super Bowl champion by themselves if they got family that might actually know that that would kind of suck to like wake up in the morning and take the kids to Disney World yep day after winning Super Bowl that's not that great but I think they probably get paid a bunch of money just to say that and then to spend like one day there but the more they get paid the more they have to pay in taxes did you see Boomer Seisen I don't know what it is with him I feel like every time I see a clip of Boomer Seisen these days he's just complaining about taxes he was just like yeah Sam Darnell actually he played the he lost money on the Super Bowl yeah big T was hot on that yesterday big T's been thinking about the attack that's why he will never want to super bowl he doesn't want to also he didn't lose money on the Super Bowl because didn't he have like I'm pretty sure he had a bunch of things in his contract that he got more money if he won the Super Bowl so he definitely didn't lose money on the Super Bowl anyway Super Bowl I think Sam Darnell's okay yeah he'll be okay it is a very funny take though to be like you know what I'm thinking about the real Super Bowl is the fact that the California government got more money off of Sam Darnell than he made playing in the Super Bowl he got having time knew some should have gone down onto the field and then took cash out of Sam Darnell's pocket before he got the touch of Lombardi Trophy yeah um I saw people actually being a little bit nicer to Will Campbell today he did play with a pretty severe injury um he can't he talked to the media was like I was in a bad place after the game that's why I didn't talk I think that's a totally fair answer but I have no problem with that the fact that like he got abused on Super Bowl Sunday and has to have a microphone in space he didn't want to talk we've come a long way in the last 10 years where at in San Francisco Cam Newton after the game did not talk to the media and it felt like they just they all the writers out there sent directly to hell after that they just wouldn't stop talking about how Cam Newton didn't talk about talk to them about the game and in turn actually gave them lots of stories after the game by not talking this year was just kind of like Will Campbell didn't talk to the press and then we just kind of moved on and uh and then the next day he was like yeah he's very injured he didn't have a good he had a bad game and the clips coming out of him are not good but knowing that he had an MCL and then I also like the frame will have his back said that we're not changing to guard he's gonna be tackled and the other thing that's playing Will Campbell's favor is that we are now in a media ecosystem where there are a lot of former offensive linemen who have good followings online I saw tons of dudes being like he's gonna be fine it's like a technique thing and has nothing to do with his short arms like Mitchell Schwartz did an entire breakdown Jeff Schwartz did an entire breakdown that's gonna feel nice that there's a bunch of guys who can actually speak up for the lineman now yeah the Schwartz brothers yeah they'll get you you gotta come back online yeah we we do need loud voices from the online community though because for a long time we've just been watching guys that we think get beat for one reason be like oh this guy sucks and uh we really didn't know what we're talking about until smarter people had to educate us yeah I mean we'll come we'll cable definitely did not have a good super you got a bad bad game yeah probably pretty embarrassed there were a lot of bad moments for him but I'm not like I'm not selling my Will Campbell stock no the uh which I own a lot by the way Sam Darnell made a million dollars uh as an incentive in his contract for winning the Super Bowl so I think he ended up okay the other story that came out of the Super Bowl is I'm obsessed with Mike McDonald now and I really want to get him on the show he is an absolute psycho I saw two things that were like holy fuck this guy's a psycho one everyone the Super Bowl he was lamenting that the season was over he's like I really I'm sad that we don't have practice tomorrow he just wants to keep playing and then two they were I think it was a radio interview someone asked what went through his head when uh even Warrie got his ankle you know sprains ankle on Wednesday in the walkthrough and he was like good good like adversity good he's quoted like jocko he's like this is a good thing we're gonna use this I want my guys to get make up yeah he's probably yeah I get comfortable being uncomfortable yeah finally we have some actual bulletin board material because it felt like they everybody was thinking the Seahawks were gonna win going into it so he wanted he wanted something to overcome good yeah yeah so it was uh I would really like to get him on the show because I think he'd be good interview you agree yeah do you think there's a chance um what was your last thing that you said to Dave on the way out anything this is an unloaded question I'm just asking not really we I was walking to the hotel with with Grinnell because we were going to record and they we just kind of got separated yeah I don't think we really had like a final goodbye the word on the bus from the solely was that Dave might have said that everyone was a jinx so I don't know if the suites gonna happen again if they go back he'll be okay a lot I don't yeah I mean like I I was you know prepared to get my own ticket in the first place the the sweet part was was like I said on Sunday truly truly surreal but yeah that I have had the feeling of like we you know who knows if we get back if we do get back there's no way it goes the way it did yeah if you lose that one where everyone and Dave was so gracious to bring like he brought like 20 people it's tough to to be like yeah we're gonna run it back exactly the same when it was like the worst game of all time yeah yeah yeah that's fair and Dave I mean Dave talk about going through it online right now I think I think it's very unfair how people are treating all he tried to do is spread I agree people are very nice to him online he was teaching a lesson you know what that's going to teach Dave a lesson and the lesson is going to be maybe don't be so nice in the future we might have seen like Dave might turn into a jerk yeah yeah this might be a villain origin story for Dave where it's like I was trying to be nice by wearing the six rings all around San Francisco telling Bill's fans telling Eddie telling KFC like hey I wish you were here I'm doing this for you rather than everyone's shitting on him he's gonna yeah he's gonna turn into the Joker I'm a little bit worried too because I feel like he spends a lot of time around coworkers and he might start to lash out at them first instead of lashing out to people that are being mean to them he might just take it on the people they just closest with and that I just feel bad for the guy yeah I hope he's okay yeah I had one other question for you Hank and then we can go on with the show before I do that Draft Kings the NBA's biggest stars deliver the biggest moments with Draft Kings Sportsbook and Division Sportsbook and the NBA you can cash in when they take over player props live betting every possession every shot every steal is your shot to win which Draft Kings Sportsbook and Draft Kings has your back with early exit if your player goes down anytime in the first half you still get paid in cash new customers bet just five dollars and if you bet wins you'll get $300 in bonus bets instantly download the Draft Kings Sportsbook app use code take that's code take to turn five bucks into $300 in bonus bets if your bet wins in partnership with Draft Kings the crown is yours gambling problem call 1-800-GAMBLER New York call 877-8-HOPEN-WIRED-TEX-HOPEN-Y Connecticut call 888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org on behalf of Boot Hill 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half-time performance I was trying to just not do sorrows so I was talking a lot about the halftime show just to delay things and it wasn't in English I don't care about that performance like it again who cares it's a half-time show I don't even remember who's done some of the half I know I remember Gaga that's again why I like I love the Gaga show and Houston don't even remember who did it in Minnesota or Atlanta so it's like who gets a half-time show but yeah then obviously like when you take that quote and put it out being like that that performance was so bad and maybe never I hope they never do international games without the context of like the season that we've had on the show talking about international games that was tough to see it was tough to see it for me it was but obviously he hates me he had this chance and he took it so it's like I had nothing I can say about that he took the shot you posted on your Instagram like it was it was what it was it was what it was it that's just part of losing you have to you know eat some shit it hurts when it's from your own guys but it's me so I have to respect this is true memes I guess I'll just take the fall from everyone well when you were making the clip it was the first clip you posted no no it wasn't it was tweeted from people it was to flip it and I was like oh boy it's out of the bottle might as well get views off it so then I post from the part of my take and I just did the same yeah again that's what it is what I don't I don't can I say the honest truth I I was laughing so hard because that is such a clear people who listen to our show understand exactly what you're saying and you're making a very funny joke about the international games so long storyline and then people who have never listened to our show who won't like our show anyway being like this is fucked up how could he say it and that makes me laugh because they're just wrong they don't know the inside jokes you were clear you're the least political guy I know and you were making a joke about us getting on you for the international game the other thing that was funny is that it obviously showed that you were just partying into Super Bowl all weekend and had no idea how big of a discourse that was online right like you thought that you were like you had no idea how divisive the bad bunny thing was online before you said that you were like oh I just didn't like and your team just lost well that was also it was also it could have been it could have been anyone performing could have been Billy Strings and half I'm sure I've been like yeah I am maybe not really like that I it had nothing to do with bad bunny or the performance I was just trying to not do soggy sorrows and spending as much time as I could but yeah seeing it I think I opened my phone I did the I did the Simpsons gift like I opened my phone in the morning felt like death my room looked like a bomb and I had to pack up and get to the airport open my phone like did one scroll and was like nope yeah yeah because I did I read some of the replies there was one very funny one that that photoshopped her face onto the the meme of all the guys sitting in the cars with the sunglasses that one made me laugh like there and there were people being like oh hey heck is a big we got Magalock with back I don't think Hank's not doing what is dead yeah it's a big week for lefty lockwood yeah the maga people then I get people being like fuck yeah yeah he was making a joke and his tea if the Patriots were up 21 to nothing at half time he probably been like that was an awesome original yeah yeah but that's why it's so funny because people and removed from context are like oh this guy just spouting off about bad bunny but in context it was such a funny clip the you saying that I'm done with all international games maybe laughs so hard that was the thing that turned you maybe we sprinkle in like uh latin week for you at some point this year I like bad but I listen probably more bad money than I own the show maybe Zach has a couple songs on his playlist Zach you bad bunny bad bony yeah but yeah the yeah and then that was like that what you guys were like who were these games for and that's what I was like who was this for and then it's like people were like you fucking racist it's like oh my god so that was great Scott be so bad it made Hank racist yeah was the takeaway for a lot of people uh but yeah Hank I love you Hank we understood what you're trying to say and uh yeah Zach can you give us a little bad bunny let's say it's a bad bunny? Bad Bunny? There's a good bad bunny song how does it go uh no that's the sisito uh you got this I don't remember I'm like it no this is good this is even it out what's though what this clip out look we got a guy who knows bad bunny I don't even I don't know I don't know any of the words you can just like kind of hum along when he's singing it because they're very catchy so like I he can I don't know what he's saying in the songs but when they come on you can kind of like you can flow it with the song if that makes sense yeah yeah really oh they got the one where it's like it's me yeah me yeah that's a good one yeah yeah that was good Hank what do you think it's great what um what do you think Russell Wilson said these days oh I walked past him on the way out he was the game and I was like this would have been so much better if we'd wanted I was walking past him he uh I mean the trade that when when John Schneider traded him the picks that ended up coming back in that were just all of the best players on the Seahawks basically they reloaded with Russell Wilson so I guess thank Seahawks man should thank him for demanding a trade yeah I think Russell Wilson won you guys another Super Bowl yeah the other one's uh he was very happy for the Seahawks or at least like publicly he was happy for the Seahawks it is kind of weird though because you know that like deep down in a guy like Russell Wilson he's like this kind of sucks it could have gone worse for him post Seahawks and it could have gone better for the Seahawks the other one was I didn't realize this but Tyler Lockett was drafted in uh 2015 and he got traded to the Raiders last year that's brutal that stuff he's he's a Seahawks and he was not there for any of the the Super Bowls the two Super Bowls would you rather be Lockett or Logan Mankins who played on Patriots forever never won a Super Bowl Lockett just because he went down enough that his body probably feels good he feels great yeah he's got to feel awesome right now he probably feels better than me he just bodies just like pain free all the time he feels great it's like he's on the drug yeah he I don't really have much else from the Super Bowl than Sam I'm I continue to be very happy for Sam Darnold it's an awesome story and just afterwards like he seems like the most humble guy I know we've had him on before but seems like most humble guy and just like very appreciative for the fact that he got a second chance because a lot of guys don't get a second chance uh after having a tough start to his career I have seen some discourse around who's next year's Seahawks yeah and uh that was on ESPN this morning and Stephen A. Smith said the Bears and as far as I can tell who's next year's Seahawks just means who do you think is going to win the Super Bowl yeah that's not there's not really much else that you can like say oh that looks like the Seahawks like get a new quarterback and win the Super Bowl yeah the Jets the Jets Kyler Murray Jets might be next year's Seahawks did you see the report that Kyler Murray when asked what the Cardinals are doing Kyler Murray there's a report that he really um he feels really comfortable in Arizona and loves his routine and it's like yeah that's probably why you got to trade him because he's just comfortable he's like great you know you're downplaying the routine big cat the routine that he has is pretty sweet it's like he doesn't play that much football yeah and he gets paid a lot of money and he lives in a warm city and he plays a lot of video games and he appreciates the routine so why would you want to change that yeah yeah he loves like Sam Darnold has to be in the top 10 quarterbacks right now we have to do that by law I also saw even one take one further you know we'll do our QB rankings over the summer but you have to whoever wins a Super Bowl you have to put it in top 10 right away right just half I go top five top five and the other one I love if you win a Super Bowl you have to go into next season being elite yeah the reasons I love the reasons he buys us right after Super the other one that was even more galaxy brain Matthew Stafford top 10 quarterback of all time I saw that to beat because I won an MVP well all right thinking how about this Matt Stafford he almost got more credit this this year yeah by scoring all those points against one of the best defenses of all time he almost got more credit for that than he did for winning the Super Bowl correct the Seahawks had a dominant playoff run and the only team that gave them any type of game pressure was the Rams and Matthew Stafford I think that should be that should go on page one of our Matt Stafford for the Hall of Fame pamphlet that we distributed yep it's not the Super Bowl it's he dominated the Seahawks defense and then bullet point number two also he won a Super Bowl yeah also I don't know if you guys talked about it on Sunday after I was off but the uh the start of the championship DVD has to be that that two point conversion yes double pickup big time sliding doors moment it's that or the loss the last time the Seahawks lost was to the Rams the four interception game from Sam Darnold in Los Angeles where they still had a 60 yard field goal to try to win the game that might have been the start of it too yeah but that two point conversion was miracle although I think they might have won the Super Bowl still two home game versus three games road is wild they only trailed for a minute and I think it was a minute and 43 seconds and it also is perfect that the entire Sam Darnold's entire career was you know he's gonna turn back into a pumpkin the turnovers turnovers the Seahawks we said on Sunday did not turn the ball over a single time they put in the playoff run yeah no they he was he was more mobile like he was there was like a probably three or four pressures by the Patriots where he just moved well got out of the way and got rid of the ball well the other thing that was kind of mean to you is that it felt like the Seahawks came out of the game to start the game being like we're gonna have to we don't know how this game is gonna go so we're gonna have to take some risks to try to win this game and then as soon as their defense started playing they immediately were like oh we actually don't have to take any risks we could probably just win this on defense you saw them like settling for field goals being fine with that running the ball more not not having essentially Mike Darnold realized somewhere in the first quarter that as long as we don't have two picks sixes we should win this game yeah yeah I mean compared to the other Super Bowl losses where we were in them and it was exciting like that was such a I can't I'm sure casual fans like that was the worst Super Bowl of all time yeah but you have to I mean you got you were way too early on the rebuild to be in that spot and the Seahawks were significantly better so in a weird way it's probably not that a Super Bowl loss is good but it's got to feel a little less singing where it's like you were a playaway and oh my god they could have won yeah no I guess I don't know being there it's like the it was just you're there it was a quarter's away yeah who do you think had a worst weekend will Campbell or Stefan Diggs?

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look at that yeah that was yesterday but oh but no yesterday they said he was going to do it today he actually did it wow huge that's even bigger yeah that is your right max that's bigger that's bigger fine i was actually that's bullshit you just got mad at me i would give you a layup for you to get back on the track of like all right we're on to the next thing i have one but he was trying to be nice yes but that wasn't breaking moves that was news that was breaking news i didn't know about the other one just did a did a report i got it i got a notification from shams that i was talking about how how his five on five practice when Max has been nice that was just nice to you no no no no you don't care no you don't care yeah to obtain this back max has been nice to you yeah there's bullshit as he maybe not i don't know i could have i could be meaner max is always when i walked in this morning was so happy to see where it means so happy to see i feel happy nice don't twice and how are i feel we're also in a game where max memes and i are trolling you and being mean to you but we could just point to pft and we're like we're not that guy that's what we've been able to do for last week yeah but at least pft keeps it inside of the podcast walls what do you do we're just blasting you guys are just putting me on blast what are you talking about what are you talking about money if i posted the truth i'm not going to do anything i posted yeah i posted everywhere but you would be mad if i posted on my personal thing being like i posted myself got it i didn't post shit i also don't think the bad buddy thing was bad i thought it was funny you it's so clearly you're not being like the anyone who's mad at that is a fucking loser yeah it's just when it's the clip and i don't really it doesn't control my own instagram where i don't i i asked that and then what do i got approval no he we'll find out about that i've also only calculated canceling heck one time yes shall we have the calculation uh it was a Seahawks schedule does he not play anybody good on their schedule that one yeah yeah that one one you put that one out on purpose oh yeah can i post hand-calf time talk yeah all right you know what point you hey boy you that's my bad i will i honestly do not think twice about it because i thought it was just you again you saying i'm done with all international games maybe laugh so hard it's funny people don't fucking watch the show i thought i thought what i i was thinking about it you were i know he was new when he was posting it what the like he was he was like i'm i didn't post it first this conspiracy shit is all on it i did not post it first i had shain to make one quote quote card and max had don't post it what was the quote it was just like uh this is america what are we doing and i said i said do not post that show him so you still gotta see that i mean i that's the only thing i took over i was like we should not be posting those those out of context well i appreciate that actually that's a solid friendship move for not doing that sometimes sometimes a little behind the scenes thing this happened like maybe three times since we've had shain on board we'll ask we'll ask to make quotes of the worst things out of context that we say on the show just so we can look at them and just imagine what's else how bad it would be if we actually posted it just like for our own mental stimulation that's why that's good for you by not posting that my bad hank i want to pause i posted after me i posted it and he posted it first that's all good that's not true no one in this room posted it first are we sure 100 percent okay all right good so none of us posted first we followed we followed orders what was the breaking this is a p r one one this is like p r one one from the tigers who have signed just in verlander oh the school landers back yeah signed to a one-year deal but i feel like after it's like hey we didn't like the what was it the school they went to court arbitration arbitration bad arbitration arbitration aren't fans hate us let's bring back verlander yeah they got forever too though true i tried to explain arbitration one time on the show and then i had like seven people telling me i was nowhere close to really understanding what arbitration was so if somebody that's smarter than i can explain what happens during arbitration i would love to see that they just show up and argue about how much you should get paid i'll do some research yeah it's just see that guy scuba he didn't actually because i think he won the arbitration almost instantly like he says a number they say a number they go in front of someone and then they decide whether or not like what the number is he won but bores had him bring both his psi young trophies to arbitration in case they like got to arguing he was just gonna pull him out i think two months come did that back of the day too yeah awesome awesome move smart so verlander's back verlander's 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slices on new york style crust by the way just a reminder friday tim wood's dungeon dragons that were back monday in studio so we're taking a vacation all of us um hott's love yeah mmm step on digs and caribbean oh they break up they were engaged they broke up via being unfollowed they're unfollowing each other the rumors are that step on digs brought his baby mama and their kid to the game and had him front roc and caribbean was upset at that and and they broke up i don't know this is all alleged i'm not saying this is fact but they did unfollow each other on instagram which might as well just be sign seal delivered breakup yeah it's tough i thought they were gonna make it i did too they seem like a happy well adjusted couple and credits or cards though like for not being a distraction except for the robot right what was the robot thing she was gonna sue she was dancing with a robot she didn't she gonna fight too she's gonna fight with like a four year old but that's just instagram life stuff no i thought she got in another fight it's super weak i don't i didn't see that but either way if there was clearly there's probably this wasn't uh you know i'm guessing this didn't come out of nowhere but she waited till after the game to the kind of end things which respect yeah and then step on digs has court on the 13th so tough week for step on digs yeah cardie b reportedly clashing with fellow patriot wags ahead of super role that don't feel good yeah i'll see love caribbean's very sad oh yeah okay caribbean so spins on caribbean single yeah zach cariby oh yeah this was a caribbean falls to the ground while jokingly giving robot a lap tansa and a super wall party that's good vibes okay um i cool thrown his cubes yeah crazy story honestly uh the team that bought the mavericks from cuban bought it because they thought game was gonna get legalized in dallas they're gonna build a casino they had a whole big plan turns out they were dead wrong about the game like getting legalized in texas there will be no casino being built so that plan is no longer like happening so their investment was was pointless they now want to sell and there's a dallas group of investors that is trying to work with mark human to buy the mavericks back so i don't know how this works it's always sounds like dave and pen just like getting getting paid a shitload of money for your company and then just having it given back to you yeah i would assume that the price went up since cuban sold it i could be wrong maybe went down maybe the previous owners paid premium for it uh i'm gonna wait to hear what pobletory has to say because he's probably i would imagine this is a big time him story where he like knows all the ins and outs of it but it does seem like uh people bought a basketball team to get into the business not necessarily for basketball right so we should think about weeding those people out next time yes i would agree i would agree okay good job ponzi cool strong good job thanks uh if you have to thanks for Anthony Davis uh to the new maverick scholarship um my hot seat is actually hank kind of took one of my hot i'm gonna pivot my hot seat is uh the erzone wildcats because they're no longer undefeated uh they lost a Kansas last night at the fog which was an incredible game if you watch it we we have to go to the fog at some point agreed we got to go to fog out it's that has in the last like two years that has skyrocketed up my bucket list of places that i want to go watch sporting event and watching it last night was the atmosphere was unreal and that guy florida doonga just the human eraser in the paint was just bouncing all over the place the crowd was going nuts pill self said he's like the the fog won us this game and you can feel the fog's one of those steps why i love college basketball so much especially this time of year where every game feels so important and i know there's always the mba college basketball discourse mba will have its time in the playoffs but there's nothing like these college basketball games a midweek game where the crowd and you get true home court advantage and it feels like there's big big time stakes and it was it was going into the game peterson you know was out again so it was like oh shit Kansas rallied and it was awesome there's some weird stuff going on peterson uh here to feel self was not happy and uh yeah he's just missed so many games and then to have this sprung on the last second if things are weird and Kansas but the good news is they played an awesome game without their impeters and last night so they don't necessarily need them he'd be great to have but they're a really fucking good team without him and what was it that the bill self is never lost on monday at home he's on big monday's 39 no yeah pretty incredible and then my cool throne hand is actually love you put on the hot seat i'm gonna put it back on the cool throne did you guys see the norwegian skier guy after he won the bronze medal oh big cat you you have to watch this so this dude won a bronze medal and then in his post-ski or whatever uh press conference he starts talking about his girlfriend that he recently broke up with and he says that he met her six months ago the love of his life and then three months ago he made the biggest mistake of his life and cheated on her and now he's had the worst week of his life because last week he admitted to her that he cheated on her they broke up he's been miserable and then he goes out wins a bronze medal does this interviewing he says i hope that committing social suicide might show how much i love her i'm taking the consequences for what i've done i regret it with all my heart and that that was his acceptance speech for winning the bronze medal it was a bronze a bronze if there's one thing i know about women is that chicks love it when you use the biggest moment of your life to admit to cheating on them in front of the world the biggest one i think this could work the biggest moment of your life being a bronze medal yeah didn't even win the gold didn't win the gold i can't get into the winter limpix i'm sorry not even the guy that cheated on his girlfriend and trying to win her back by admitting to cheating on her to the world i'm gonna be very in on the hockey what about carly if it's a mixed doubles carly also not that impressed the mike treco flying from the soup bowl to to italy everyone going crazy for that he probably was sleeping on a on a bed on his private plane i'd love to do that yeah sounds awesome like the noise of a plane sleeping on the bed you got to watch this interview big cat okay the guy's hilarious i love it how he's like if you're a chick watching this at home and your ex-boyfriend is just telling the entire world that he fucked another chick when you were dating what's your reaction to that good yeah that's kind of crazy all right i definitely have to watch all right my hot seats is john shire and the duke blue devils because we are now three full days after john shire claimed that a duke staff forgot punched in the face and we still haven't found any video evidence of that happening so it's out there it was multiple i think wasn't there a streamer that said it i'm actually i have no i have zero research done on this topic so i'm not gonna yeah i think he was uh i think he's somebody who makes a lot of like jokes and in fucks around and there was no actual video evidence which it seems hard to believe kind of like when phil powski said that he got you know pushed and tripped and then was doing 360 dunks like two days later my understanding is that every every assistant coach and team manager on duke was physically assaulted and beaten to within an inch of their life and if true that's bad it's just so duke to have this happen where where there's a court storming and then like yeah one of our guys got punched in the face but i don't want to talk about that it has nothing to do with the fact we lost he some guy you would see was was uh demanding that if anybody has any video evidence please bring it forward so that i can immediately review it i want to say the guy might have been like an assistant athletic director like very clearly there's not any video evidence everybody had their phones out that yeah the game was broadcast on live tv i think it was probably just we lost i'm pissed so now i'm just gonna get mad at my opponents for you know you're gonna think a little bit more the update from john shire was uh talking about the staffer he's fine but after the game what happened was i came back in the locker room and i see he's got a bloody lip and he's the shovel and i didn't know what happened he got trampled on the floor so the guy fell so duke staffer fell and then it quickly became got punched in the face yeah became the scene from the lion king where we stuff it falls off the cliff it's just so duke every time they lose they do something like this you have to admit it's pretty great it sounds like victim blaming sounds like the guy could have got seriously hurt and i'm just happy that he's all right also the great guard quote was fake pfd yeah yeah yeah that's okay yeah we got that's okay hey listen it happens it happens to us and then my cool throw guy hand up it was a good quote it was a great quote it was a great quote it was a great i just thought that it was a college basketball coach when have you knocked you knock it got i don't get got a lot you get got often i got got with it with the step on digs proposal thing i got got on that one we go then the great guard thing yeah i got listen everybody gets got on the internet yeah you've never been got a relationship at right here hey hey you got the fear by a picture of a guy driving a forklift over a whale hosing it down fast i did not get got i just we posted it because it was a cool video like ai and the advancements of ai are you guys in a good spot i mean this is going to be a good vacation yeah very good vacation yeah i'm i am excited to be you know separate from you guys and in warm weather we be we be partaking in any group text conversations during the vacation if i'm addressed if i'm depending on how the address is made if it's trolling no if it's like a question about work possibly okay no what what about some a lot of times just vibes yes you guys hang out yeah i'm not yeah i'm not vibe you're always just doing daily fit check in the group check i'm not for fit check yeah shut up to roll back by the way i didn't order they they sent me a package and i came back and then today i just took the box of clothes and just put it in my suitcase love that didn't have to pack that's great to trust yeah i just i don't know i don't even really know what's in there love that you just trust yeah i actually think you can't get on where as good as we can be right now there's a video you can be yeah we're doing great you do not agree that you guys are as good as you can be i don't like that pft has defeated me and i was looking forward to taking 80 000 hours of cash from him and and all that and that obviously sucks so yeah like pft is good i don't have issue with him but i'm not like i'm down i'm down yeah i think i think people are going to like the video that we did though we shot a video when we were coughing up that feels like i'm on saturday oh years ago those those vibes are great vibes are great hank and i were like actually rooting for each other in that video and i i think it was maybe the most cooperative golf video that we've ever had we'll see if the views do go on it if it's good we might have to do more friendly golf videos we're working as a team if the views aren't as good then i i don't we might just have to go back to hating each other but i i feel like when hank gets back from this vacation he's gonna have battery recharged he's gonna be ready to turn the page it's gonna be seltics season i thought max brought up a great a great breaking moves with chasing tatum has practiced by one five i thought that was a nice thing no we're not supposed to talk about that no well it's breaking moves you've brought up a sort of you want so you lost out on a lot of money because you had a future on the pictures as well i think we should all i kept saying myself like during the game like people were talking about the bet and i'm like i was like i really don't even care about that i'm just excited for the game and then yesterday i was like ah damn yeah i probably should have hedged a little bit like it was there was a lot of money on the line a hundred grand if i won i could have hedged for ten i think we should all right now agree that um you should get the merch bonus for the hank dog toys okay how many results agree good deal yeah hell yeah okay thank you thank you memes yeah yeah memes made the call to put them up thanks memes so that was memes call what memes all right yeah congratulations yeah i was nice i didn't appreciate that yeah yeah you deserve it thank you you deserve it i was my an isle yeah it is it's true my cool throne is uh the chiefs the bears and the saints because since 20 this is a really dumb stat but we love dumb stats on the show so since 2020 the only super bowl winners have been the chiefs or nfc teams getting their second super bowl in franchise history so that leaves us the chiefs the bears are the saints for next year so i like that i like my chances there pretty cool stat yeah yeah the bucks one their second the eagles one their second c-ox one their second and then the chiefs and the rest i'm gonna be the Rams one their second as well 2020 yeah okay yeah let's keep it rolling yeah so there's yeah there's some good data there right shockster is gonna be a problem shockster is gonna be i saw the stat i was like oh fuck yes i was already we were looking at futures on draft gangs the shockster i think is a hundred to one the one mvp next year that's basically stealing joseph what they get jared my love that often it's gonna be dangerous yeah yeah uh or attack uh max yeah max is lyn dikerson and uh lyn johnson they were tired uh we're they're taking some time for themselves right now i didn't know that was a thing post football season is that a thing florio florio had a big thing on it florio let me tell you something about that comment on florio's big thing uh no they'll be back they'll be back i think they're in the moment they were i think they're i think they're upset that you know their guy is not gonna be back anymore uh they played they both played through injuries this year but you know a couple months away from the game and you know your body starts to heal up a little bit you start to get that itch they'll be back okay good comment zach hudsy quiltram my hot seat this week is gonna be the rest of the world's uh figure skating representation because the united states figure skating team has been on a recent absolute tear have you guys caught any of it are we kicking ass we are if not the thing these some of these men are able to do on skates maybe some of the most impressive like athletic feats i've received oh you're talking about the flip you know we're doing flips dips triple spins like what they're able to do on skates but it's unbelievable did you hear about the come back story no i can't i can't stress and take it into it i don't know what it is about the winner lip it's a couple of events like again hockey i'll be all in if i happen to walk by a tv and they're doing um ski jumping sure would you be open to maybe just like taking a glimpse at some of the figure skating clips later and just give me an honest opinion if you give it like a fair shot yeah yeah i can it's unbelievable man they got this uh like one of the skaters i guess like unprecedented in the sport i mean is a lissa lissa lisa lu she competed in the games in twenty twenty two at sixteen retired steps away from the sport comes back in the same year when's a world title and then gets gold on the team just now is she us us yes yes yes all right i'm in for that i think i need like 16 gold medals to win that bet that i made so let's go those medals yeah the better let's get those gold i mean i don't know outside even like the sport are the events are competing in like the feeling of what it must be like to like represent your the country's sake at like the biggest age has to be unreal yeah oh speed skating i'm into i like speed skating the speed skating is impressive as well i love the winter the summer lipics do you get into winter lipics at all no yeah you're anyone in the booth in the winter lipics i love it really yeah i like the little ski jump i mean now you can start paying attention i think it's also the time you have the time you know i don't know what time it's on that's all saying to max but every olympics is like that i know they need to make every olympics in america thank you i agree clip that put it out every olympics should take place in america so that we understand the time zones and no bad bunny and i'll post game interviews in english i'm gonna be pro bad bunny i'm gonna be on the pro bad bunny side hello a boy everybody all right you're cool thrower all right you're cool throwing this week it's just gonna be that uh we should probably just skip to the end of the enbases because the oklahoma city thunder they're asking the current king of the sport what he thinks paired up against them and he's saying it's pretty much over so i think the bran the brawn is the current king of the sports i would say king like as long as the bronzi in the league the bran is that not only the face of the league but definitely has a weighted opinion on basketball and what he could say as far as like uh outside of playing he's a king of the sport right now in so as active players go his nickname is the king a self-appointed that that is true there might be like a marketing team in the bran behind that but so he is just the king so i guess definitely a king of basketball do we do we think that that's what people said about the seltics it's hard it's hard it's hard it's hard to get back once the playoffs start even if we don't think he's well is the face of the league until he's no longer he has to be right what he's done what he's done is a ship look at there he's got a star in la facts 100 there's a staff LeBron LeBron is the face of the league until he's no longer in the body barns a future future face league do you see the pelicans king's game last night pft he keeps dropping out do you see the pelicans king's game last night the fight or no that's hornets yeah that was awesome but pelicans kings you guys don't see this i'm not gonna be the fight was insane stuart just coming out of nowhere there was a lot i mean there was a lot to dissect in that fight yeah um no i memes knows what i'm talking about i'm gonna be hip real quick i'm not 41 anymore for a second i guess the kings and pelicans both stink really bad and we're playing last night and it just became a trend on tick tock for people to make hype videos for that game like it was game seven it was very funny they're making hilarious hype videos like it was the most important game of all time and it was just a shitty shitty february two tanking teams NBA game game the game the kings are taking they just suck yes they're taking they don't realize it okay good job zach same user wait so he said oh okay see where we his quote was you want me to compare us to them that's a championship team right there we are not we can't sustain energy in effort for eight minutes and they can lose her that's why they won the championship that's loser talk but if it's loser talk from one of the greatest guys in sport right now if he observes him as like being far and away the best maybe there's some to it okay well we're gonna talk about it with Ryan or so let's do that Ryan or so is brought to you by a friend at chevy football season might be over but you 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really good content really good guests feel great about everything I put out um you know terrific interviews and it was uh it was good to bond with staff and everything and feel you know it's funny because um I think people can really get caught up with stuff that's simple whereas like when I left the SVM and I started podcasting and I'm like you're so different now and then when I left Spotify I came to varsity it's like oh your content is now you're just doing a varsity thing and I was like honestly it's just the same and to be honest with you now I think a lot of those people have a point so I have to just defer to them and go I guess you have me now I think you made two really strong points yeah that's what people are saying like we were able to do like the Steve Young's self was kind of a retrospective and then Julian Elam was like a bit more of a game breakdown thing so you always have to kind of balance it out yeah you're right about Jules I was piercing yeah I mean I already know what everyone of these is gonna be which teams need to take the rack more double-breasted suits being in for draft night I just I would like to just rip off the bed and say it was a fucking awesome rack yeah well um you know I would say like the best summary of the reaction of just being out about is like there's a combination of people think I'm the worst and then a bunch of dudes who think I'm the best yeah and I'm like both are wrong yeah it's good places though you're making people feel you know love or hate them well if you don't love that rack you're whatever I do love the idea of a guy that hated Risillo until that yeah he's like he's actually the best now yeah like we get it all the time uh when people will see us and be like fuck day Portnoy fuck Barstool fuck PMT but uh I love Mikey Betts or like something like that or like you know these guys are cool but everyone else sucks bar so it would be great if we got like a fuck PMT fuck one bite pizza but Risillo's tits are fucking awesome did the only real one they got yeah I mean big cat was helping me like the next day because I was like well something happened right like when I woke up to a thousand notifications of like text and calls I was kind of like a wheel war and I was totally like oh okay everybody's screen grabbing this thing and I was like all right well I'm like I'm hacked and I'm fine and whatever and I was able to get in and I'm like what the hell here and so I was really like it was like a weird combination of like all right well this is super explainable like this doesn't make any sense I would never do this and then even like this morning I'm getting ready you know I get a pretty early to take on Monday show after that Superbowl it wasn't like anybody was out celebrating after that uh well no Seahawks but look it was a slow Superbowl as we all understand and at 5 a.m. I get a notification it's like Instagram is updating your location all the time and I was like what is happening like what is going on so like it was all this stuff all over again I'm like god damn but I think look I think most people like understand it it's not something I would ever do you know I wouldn't ever like you know the number of years I've had a phone on social media to do like hey this will be funny right I would never ever have done that like I don't plan on doing it now even with the the change in management partnership yeah so um yeah I don't we talked about it a little bit today but it was a rough stack of life if I see nothing else I'll say that yeah I did consider when I saw it I thought about making that my story on Instagram so just in solidarity I posted my own brush just to try to muddy the waters a little bit yeah I got it too yeah 7,000 people follow me this weekend the 7,000 well then you know why they're here so I'm like you guys are about to be really bummed out you 7,000 dudes so well it was a very fun week hang with you came out with us on Monday with the whole partial staff and I will say that I consider you a very close friend and that is why I had no choice but to jerk off to your Instagram story on Friday morning so I appreciate that yeah look if anything I care about my coworkers all right that was our NBA preview thanks Ryan we'll talk to you later I mean I put an awful day to be scheduled from this like certainly was like it might be just the best day to be scheduled well we actually should take some blame because we were gonna have you on 8 a.m.

Friday morning super week and after a long week Thursday afternoon we're like you know what let's just fucking can it we'll just do zoom next week if we if we kept that we probably would have you probably would have gone home with me at midnight and I would have just shown you my tits yeah look I don't even think what time I went home had anything to do with it it was more of I think there's a tech issue yeah there's a tech issue we got to buy the tech man no one's look you know hand up you know whatever yeah or we like gives you lemons you make lemonade that's not a bad Friday recurring segment it's not Friday boobs Friday yeah it's like hey what do they have what what lane is open over there yeah oh man if I don't want to be that guy right now it's now it's too late it'll never go away you know I'll say something about the hornets and it's just gonna be so having having that beer thing like hey dude likes tits I'm yeah I'm in there all right just like the guy who's instagram had tits on it people will forget we're very we're very we better shit no we should do we should do like the Rudy locker room where we just all put our best tits that we can find on the on the coaches on Dave's desk being like hey we stand with for so I'm telling you we got a couple guys here I'm sure would line up for the idea to be the the gatekeeper of the Friday tits account they can have it man okay all right let's talk to me before you know who won the trade deadline let's start there and then we want to talk about what's going on in the season but who won the trade deadline and why well that's actually a little tougher answer you know because if you look at the Pacers you know like you add a top five center in zoo and it's such a crazy year because you get this massive reset you get a team that makes the NBA finals but it's still kind of breaking the mode of NBA teams that are super successful where generally it's like okay who is your top 10 guy it used to be like who are your two top 10 guys but there is a little bit more parody now and then maybe even if you were willing at the peak of the Halliburton run to say like maybe he's 10 but for me it's like okay is he always been 10 or are we just doing this now the last couple weeks so say he's even 10 11 12 whatever you clean up some of your cap stuff you bring in a top center who's gonna make you a little different based on his strengths and mild sternous strengths but no one in the world would want mild stern over zoo and then you have a chance at the top four pick here and depending what's going on with Darren Peterson's life like if you went up with the number one pick and Darren Peterson Kansas you're like okay so we were a final team and then we get to add somebody like this or one of the other top four I'm surprised they even had this 26 in play this 26 pick and play because it could technically go to the Clippers here five through nine and then it's protected again 10 through 30 this has happened a few other times NBA history we get little creative with the protection language on this kind of stuff so I like what they did because they were doing something long term while also making sure that they're tanking and you know as an aside we can do more of the trade stuff here but there's gonna be like 10 or 11 teams that are gonna be in an absolute tank off that's disgusting and even Utah the other night yeah like a really nice game and they sat everybody in the fourth quarter and people can get mad about it other teams get mad at each other but it's like you know when you're doing this I'm not looking for like I'm not gonna apologize for it my pick is top eight protected if I'm Utah I'm losing these fucking games yeah and Washington's not gonna play their guys you know clearly Indiana wants nothing to do with anything that lands from five to nine I'm moving go through a bunch of these different teams I didn't even think Milwaukee would want Janice to come back and play and even though Janice was sort of threatening but then of course he was celebrating even sticking around which is his own story they should want to do whatever they came with this pick because they don't have many of them and Janice probably shouldn't even want to play and risk health and risk this contract extension that he could get before next fall so the tanking is gonna get egregious um look I kind of like what the Clippers did despite being stuck because I don't think Darius Garland is this bad he's a two-time all-star he's 26 years old he has the other toe of the turf this year there's some net rating numbers with him that he's one of the most disastrous like high-minute guys but when he was right he was terrific and harden after the terrible start they're one of the hottest teams in the NBA it's like oh I'm not gonna get an extension I'm out of here you know like okay cool fourth trade request in six years so the Clippers very quickly on the fly from well I guess we just hope that hardened and coir healthy and with zoo like it shows that we've had these stretches last year's we can be a really good basketball team it's not a safe bet it's a bet that hasn't worked out they had a pivot within hours not even days so I I think there's gonna be a time where you'll look at the Garland thing and go man they were able to land a player like that for harden on top of what could be a really lucky landing spot for the pick and 26 and then another first because again their pick is unprotected and going to okay see this year and then of course okay sees just like hey they have contract situations coming up what could they do well it's straight for maybe last year's rookie of the year if you qualified enough games they give up a first that they don't even need it's gonna be a late first and now they have financial control over him the next couple years so you know okay see just winning in the margins all the time yeah yeah so with that trade Max's initial reaction was that he so he's obviously an Eagles fan sixers fan but when how he trades with somebody yeah when how he trades with somebody for the Eagles he's just like you don't want to pick up the phone how he calls you because how he's going to get you and then he got pressed because he looks at pressy the same way other guys look at how he is that a fair analysis to say that like if Sam Preston is on the phone he's going to get the better and that deal yeah I you know I think most times but look Darrell's good at this okay I have a lot of respect for Darrell and what he is able to do on the fly and how many times he's like some people blame the terrible pricing of trades solely on Darrell because Darrell's had a couple that have gone I mean the whole hardened trade for him was ridiculous and he turns it into this guy that's you know one of the best offensive players the game has ever seen and anchors a team that was like the only team that was competing with the Warriors so if it were I would never put Darrell in the hasn't you know Darrell's thinking about every single angle it makes me wonder if like the medicals were something where Darrell's like I'm actually okay with this so I understand Max's point pressy's in that do I want to be on the other side of the pressy deal but I it's not like any of these GM's ever have any like look pressy drafted Poku Bob Myers drafted James Wiseman the Seahawks drafted Jalen Milro all right so there there are the great ones always have one thing they're like what the hell was he thinking there so you could point to a couple Darrell miscues but I have too much respect for Darrell to blike I've gotten worked on a deal because I think they were a bit of their own roster crunch and it does make me wonder like how are they able to give up on him as quickly unless they just think like his medicals aren't good I think the McCain thing too has a lot to do with lay let's take a flyer on what we saw from last year because they're gonna have so many financial decisions to make it okay see because they have too many good players poor jail and ill row yeah that's a good news super bowl champion j-l-a-miller alright our team stuff you know you're right damn he was an excellent Drake may for the scout team yeah like perfect Drake may I know you guys already did like your whole pod but what was your I haven't listened to it yet because I was taking my stuff this morning my take was uh or the Seahawks the best team that we've ever seen you'd be good on TV and is same darnold elite now is he in that top group I think you got put him there he just wants to roll best QB in the game last two seasons 14 wins yeah I mean my take was that the what we kind of had an inkling but you want to hope for a good game that the NFC championship game was a super bowl those are the two best teams in football this year and they played two awesome games down the stretch and yeah the Seahawks were just better in every facet and it wasn't even I know you hate saying it it wasn't even close I think if they play that game a hundred times it goes like that a lot of times because even the way the Seahawks went about that game it felt like part of the boringness of it was Mike McDonald's saying hey the only way we can lose this is a catastrophic fuck up of like two pick sixes so when we get into the red zone we're fine taking field goals knowing the Patriots will never score on us in any consistent basis I don't mind the use of and it's not particularly close right there because that was a good use of it yeah because you know leading up to it you're going all right it was more talented roster Seattle but then it gets boring like just constantly you know because you'd be wrong doing that all the time too it's like one game and the whole thing but it felt a lot like you know it's something I brought up for the week when the Colts and Pats had that AFC title game where the Colts came back at home and it's like hey we could no offense but we get to play the Bears yeah like this is that we just lost or whoever lost this game lost a chance at a ring and it was the same darnell part where people still couldn't believe in San darnell so they're like oh we'll talk ourselves into San darnell being San darnell we saw with the Jets it's like if you watch him in the NFC championship he didn't have he didn't light it on fire in the Super Bowl but that team was just a complete team they were so good they had so many dudes I didn't think the coin toss was very funny when they when I know it's the captain so it's not the full team but the Seahawks looked twice as big when they came out for the coin toss they're the must be going yeah it's like holy shit these two teams are not there like that's not special teams guys yeah just signed like Derek Henry could have a career till he's 50 just by being the coin toss guy right just go out there and look jacked up yeah Ted Washington yeah hey like we just signed him to the practice squad yeah I think you're right but they're not even close ones if other me is when somebody goes like hey we think concanples were the year and it's not even close and you're like actually it's close is it close it's close who's who else I think Super Flag has been ridiculous oh so it's close that way yeah although I don't know how this happened like the shift towards winning being the difference everything yeah all star if it's a tie and you know like his team seated here and this guy's here okay fine MVP voting like if it's close on everything else and then you want to go standings okay but rookie the year you know maybe the I don't know how look every voter is different whatever the fifth tiebreaker is for all this stuff but uh yeah I don't I don't I don't um Cooper flags very good yeah like what he is doing right now um is you want to talk about being ahead of schedule like watching him and his disastrous like think about how special he is considering the one year that they just have they trade 80 to one team don't tell anyone else which again is the biggest law like whatever you think about if you're the most anti-luka guy ever you're like okay fine but it should be an open market it should be everybody trying to outbid each other for this instead you're like let me do this closed non-listing deal here with a relative you're like what what is this and then here later you're like hey let's get off of AD for collection of kind of nothing significant and because Cooper is so special this soon you know like when he came out there wasn't any part of us that was like oh no one was saying well I don't think he's gonna be that good but it was kind of like offensively is he gonna be at how soon how soon can he get to that level of like hey get out of my way I'm gonna take over this possession and it took a couple months yeah and now he's putting together these performances that not only are terrific on the court but it's helping a fan base get over which is what like took 365 plus days to get through the worst transaction of the history of the sport I'm kind of hoping that they turn into two of the best players of this entire generation like like this generation's bird and bird Luca and Max Christie uh yeah no uh Knippel and flag um because it sounds a little racist yeah it'd be very funny to look back and be like how this team lose yeah in college February you're saying this yeah how this team lose yeah in February I'm saying yeah listen I watched I watched the Kid Rock halftime show I'm allowed to say it Cooper flag by the way I told the story last night I've never felt so stupid in my life but I was I bet him for 0.3 pounds assist the other night and he had like 22 in the first half and he just was stuck at 22 for another half for another quarter and I went and I went on Twitter and I searched Cooper flag and the first result was you're degenerate and you're searching Cooper flags name because you have a bet on him go find something else to do and I was like god damn it the guy had just written that tweet and just got me perfectly yeah that stinks yes things hard hard I just kind of looked at it was like all right that's enough for tonight I'm gonna go to bed right I have a question with your permission I'd like to talk about the wizards for the first time in the history of you being on the spot gas just for about 30 seconds we can do I love the wizards let's go I do too I'm a new I'm a newfound fan I'm a born again so Anthony Davis there was some some chatter out there that he wasn't super happy about going to Washington is that all buried now he's he's going to attempt to play for the Washington wizards at some point yeah it's I mean it's pretty clear with these two transactions they were like hey do you want to join the team and then also never play so we can we can do this and Anthony Davis is like hey say no more you know or I guess the kids would say say less I got the sense that the tray thing was it was understood like hey whatever whatever's gonna happen here you can opt out we'll pay you less we'll give you guaranteed money it's gonna be your team and there's something to be said too about like young guys coming in and just losing all of the time and then you start taking on some bad habits and not that like you know the tray winning thing can be a little overstated where I think there's certain players that have conference finals runs that it's like is that who you're gonna be a little fluke yeah talking about all the times the teams like is that a neighborhood you expect to be in or was it like sort of odd that you were there and there's cases for both sides of it so when Trey has that epic next series where you know he looks like the most comfortable or I would say the least scared player on the floor like there's something to that I just don't know that long term there's enough evidence to say hey this is winning basketball so I think Trey would have to kind of take a bit of a step back and find a way to incorporate guys a little bit more I know people always look at assists but it's like yeah but there's more to getting your offense involved than just you deciding shot or assist opportunity here and that's where a lot of players can put together huge assist numbers and it's like yeah but I don't know that that that's guy is like really running an offense and having everybody feel like they're involved so Trey I would hope and the wizards have to hope that there's a bit of a reset of like hey the market was the stale on you that you went for C.J. McCollum and Corey Kisper my guess would be Trey's not gonna look at it that way so that's its own thing the AD part of it if there's no extension which is why you would heard that his side of things are a little upset because there was other places that maybe were willing to give him an extension I think the wizards can look at it and say hey you need to get healthy and we'll give you all the time to recover the entire offseason I still don't really mean you know what that means as far as long term health but he's under contract next year for 58 and a half million and then there's a player option in 2728 for 63 million so if your Mike winger and a group that I have a ton of respect for with the wizards if you're looking at it going all right we bought on him low too and he can want whatever extension he wants but you're probably one you're under our control and you're probably not gonna want to opt out of the 63 player option a couple years from now even if you could say hey I'll opt out and I'd like to do an extension of a lower number but more guaranteed money there's probably not a number there at least as a today that makes sense of them so they may look at it is just you can you can say or feel however you want to feel but the most important thing for you to get one more contract is to come back and play and we'll bet that you opt in so we're getting you for two years we really give up anything and we have two players that again I'm painting the best case scenario picture here two players that immediately raise our floor and then we figure out the young players that we like around them and SARS been so much better this year I love Kishan George, Trey Johnson you know it's been a nice rookie year and a stacked rookie class we probably talking about him a little bit more you know sure there's there's more that he needs it was game but as far as the shooting and some of the just athleticism from him it's been really good and then you've got Bob and Boulow and figuring out how the rest of these guys are so when they made the trade thing I was kind of like why would you want Trey taking possessions and shots away from all these guys you're trying to figure out who the two or three guys actually are but I would also allow and I'm open to the argument of what we're supposed to do just come back and get our asses kicked all over again on top of the pick that we're taking this year which again they're another team that needs to take look there's one and I'll finish here there's one thing you can never forget when transactions are happening especially with NBA General Manager it's so hard to get any player that's really special that you will look at like the asset management part and go okay if this is what the price is it's not perfect there could be a downside but I can't ignore this price it's like buying a jacket in the summer that you don't need and you're like I forgot I even bought it but you just couldn't believe that it was priced that way yeah maybe not perfect but that's kind of the way that it always there's always a deal where I'm like why would they do that it's like oh it's because it was the price yeah if you can stay healthy it could be a good team if you can stay healthy well you know I've heard some people say like top four in the east if everything bounces right that feels a little aggressive with whatever version of Detroit New York Boston if Cleveland can ever figure their shit out I still can't believe Orlando is this disappointing maybe sniffing you know but for a team that's been this bad being in the play in yeah is improvement and there may have been a push from ownership a little bit here to go and all right guys like we've had a few drafts and we're still not sure like who that real difference maker is we've got all this cap space let's just do this and then figure out who survives around it I think that's a really good point that which is that if you've stocked up on some young guys and they're coming up into the league they should at some point start to play good basketball on a good team or else their ceiling is going to diminish greatly the rebuilding fascination that every player has to be like between 18 and 20 and if you have like a 25 year old that's good you're like oh my god it doesn't fit our timeline like that should try to make crazy yeah if it's 32 and in three lottery picks okay I'll agree with you now but in a world that is all about competing and learning the right habits I'm guilty of it sometimes too I try to like assess each situation different differently but we can get really caught up in like everybody's gonna be a year or two how everybody's gonna be a new first rounder in your stock island cap space which is pointless now and you know the lottery is just luck and it's mostly one excited team and nine disappointed teams and that you can't you can't ever have anybody that's that's like older on the team and it's just it's hard to push back against the position when it's kind of pitched to you like we need to start playing important games at some point so these guys feel like something matters every night as opposed to deep down we're really trying to lose all these and they'll keep losing this year but at least it'll feel different going into camp for the first time for a bunch of players are gonna experience something that they haven't since they've entered the league yep now the flip side is uh the bulls and what they did was you know they basically did that in 2021-22 season being like hey let's put some decent players together and uh competing and we'll be first in the east for two months and we'll talk about that for the next five years and now we're seeing the other side of it where they just traded everyone for a second round pick should I be mad I should be happy here's my real take you tell me if this is right or wrong I'm happy that they finally said hey enough with this play in bullshit but I'm also mad that it took them so long and they missed times basically every asset they had and when they traded them they didn't trade any of them at peak value yeah that's the biggest thing with the bulls is like you're making it even harder on yourself you're trading for vouch who you know I had a team explain to me that's like a really simple rule like if we're bringing this player in like okay who are we right now can we win a first round playoff series can we win a second round playoff series okay well no one knows it's like if we add vouch because this mean we're winning a first round or second round series it was somebody in the front office and it's honestly like so good it's such a good rule when you're sitting there on the cusp of like hey we make this trade like whoever we are to be bringing vouch for a couple firsts right it could be really nice and like our we a different team doesn't mean it has to happen doesn't mean we have to be in these recover titles but does this mean we're an entirely new tier of team and the answer was no and they did it anyway and then it comes back and it looks even worse and from that time it's almost like they're I don't know what kind of market they're looking at with players like when anybody's popping in good for them yeah then it's like well we can't get rid of anyone like Patrick Williams like do you see that dunk two months ago he's the only one who survived yeah no it's crazy you go Levine vouch Caruso Kobe White IO like every single guy they basically waited till they peaked in value and they're like you know what let's sit on this for another six months so we can make it sure it's a second round or not a first rounder yeah the Kobe White's a disaster because you know people could go well you know it wasn't everybody's favorite this year and you're like look some of these guys are too young to be as bad as their prices on the market and that's like a collective like understanding of this market in general is that it was slow slow and guys are going well this is all it's gonna cost me like if you're the horn it's going we can have some version of Kobe White closing with all of our other offensive weapons one of the best offenses in the NBA and it's like let's just double down and be going more hardcore in the offense because we know these minutes are better than the six minutes and then you're the bojour like cool we got a couple second rounders all right fine the IO stuff and there's some numbers you could argue well you know he was better at the counting stuff and some of the other stuff wasn't better but if you're in Minnesota you're like now we don't have to do the Conley Rob Dillinghand minutes right like we replace him with IO minutes like I don't care what his net rating is like let's go this is at least somebody we know if we stick him with the ball with the second unit or in some other version of this he's playing off the ball or we're letting in off the ball because IO has it maybe that's asking IO a little too much but it'd be hard to you know I don't know what kind of runs you guys about with the stock market I've had day trading runs I'm so glad I don't do it anymore but you feel absolutely cursed when you're like the second I sell it takes off in the second I buy it like you can't go any lower I'll just who somebody's gonna buy the dips the disc are gonna buy themselves and then you're just in this but like which guy is in the fucking machine right now that is just haunting me going he just bought again but he just sold that's what it feels like with the bulls the worst day trading experience they really are they really aren't all right let's talk about teams that actually matter in the east uh give me your one two three how you see you know who get to the NBA finals uh well Cleveland is a 64 win team that I thought was gonna be good again and maybe they you know sometimes it's like my age shows a little bit where you go it's not like they've been through that any playoff failures and it's like in today's world get bounced three times the Knicks the injuries the Celtics last year the Pacers but it's like hey we had injuries we had injuries you know it's like all right well you know you're the only unhealthy team I really thought that Cleveland would get over the hump considering the Tatum injury right the Knicks is much fun as they are and I think they're a really fun team on the right imperfections with them we get into some of the cat stuff here as well and then I thought Orlando had like a really good chance and they're even more disappointing than Cleveland is because that team is so frustrating depending on the week that you watch them so the choice clearly better than everybody else sure they could shoot it better and that's why they're giving in Kev Kevin her but I don't know how they're gonna balance those minutes because it's like you have Duncan Robinson and Kevin Herr out there at the same time they're gonna want to close the defense they're a defensive identity team they are absolute dogs if you watch them off the ball I can't believe what they get away with it's not just the OKC Thunder but they're good for them like go for it go up and watch other teams try to rebound against Detroit and it's just chaos and there seems to be something in the league right now where it's like the on the ball stuff literally everything is called and then off the ball they're making up for it by like going you can do literally whatever you want and Detroit knows that these matchups and I love their default the cage with his size like even with more defensive intensity so I don't love their offense but they're only a game behind OKC right now yeah I think about OKC start and where Detroit has been and how good they are defensively I know they had the weird wizards loss this whole thing maybe there won't be enough shooting but I can't really think of who in the east with their flaws I would go with because the cat things become a real issue he's now sixth and minutes in the fourth quarter for the Knicks since January 1st so you're seeing his minutes decline you know the other thing with cat is he's always been a 52 like 40 split guy shooting and this year he's like 42 36 so when cat isn't like hitting it from a historic rate from the floor from three and on top of his defense and the fact that you're one through five not one through five but at one at five is Brunson and cat like you see that get exposed defensively Mitchell Robbins Mitchell Robbins is so good like he's even better than I thought I finally started coming around on them last year because we all had to he was that good in these games how it was with the offensive rebounds I wonder what that team looks like fully formed and what kind of decisions my ground makes with them where he could just he'd like nail on cat in specific match because he's already starting to do it in the regular season a little bit here yeah I can't believe Boston is this good but go ahead you know your third team so it sounds like Pistons next but it's a problem but would you say something it's a team gonna come back no I have an answer to that you know I wonder if all of these great athletes part of their rehab is lying to themselves about what their timeline is so instead of hitting rehab being like whatever I'll see you guys in 26 27 that it's just better to plant the seed when there's photo availability at a practice you go out there you start taking shots and everybody freaks out talks about him Ben Simmons it's done for like five years so he was he was like a pioneer with the hey is the media out there let me dunk and then not play in the playoff game I really do it like having Fred Warner on every week and we were kind of not every week but like staggered post his injury and then it was like is he gonna come back in the playoffs he's gonna be able to have had one more week but they've been played and then when it was kind of like all said done it's like yeah he wasn't gonna play this year and we talked about it so I don't know if Brad Stevens like would he go if he wasn't a hundred percent certain and everybody was like if they felt like we've got a massaging back and he's on a minutes restriction you're and you're not like just coming back and playing a regular season game you're gonna do a minutes restriction in the playoffs with that kind of intensity and that's the first thing you're jumping into right where it's like almost like a pitcher where you can go hey I could throw any pitches in a regular season game but 80 pitches in a playoff game maybe a completely different level of stress even if the number is the same I don't know but I feel like it was more accepted that hey be ready for him to come back where I would think Brad Stevens would never ever want to risk anything with his guys just for the sake of having more firepower for play upfront I can't believe they're this good by the way I cannot believe they're this good in the three season east I would agree with that I think that Brad Stevens is too smart of a guy to risk it on that I also think that that Tatum probably wants Missoula to think that he wants to come back so that Missoula will be like that's my guy he's a dog he's gonna come back even against the best wishes of Brad Stevens but then Brad Stevens will say no we're shutting this down we're not gonna do it I think Tatum's kind of caught in between he's not gonna play but he wants his coach to think that he's trying to play well that's some jiu-jitsu shit right there that you just explained yeah which would which would align with a guy mental gymnastics yeah wait Missoula sorry go ahead no I don't really have anything more than other than yeah if it's super confusing like you just made it and it's Missoula I agree yeah about that does six or seven chance I want to get Max's juices flowing again you're to sit here and say like Detroit is in its own tier okay and depending on the week like we've got teams separated two through six by three and a half games Toronto can put together some nice stretches I still don't know that Toronto will have the best player in any playoff series depending on who the matchup is I mean Cleveland despite this disastrous year in comparison to a 64 win team and then trading out multiple pieces including what was supposed to be back over to the future for James Harden who all right he's gonna put up regular season stats you're gonna play really slow it's gonna be sort of annoying once he doesn't have the ball in his hands he's done with the possession he just taps out and then his playoff resume is dog shit so good luck I don't know that any of these teams like Philadelphia I still haven't given up on Orlando just because when I watch them certain I'm like how can these five guys not be the second or third best team in the East here but Philly has every reason I think that they're in this as well because of how great Max he is how special Vijay already seems to be get see him in person last week was a treat in a game that other guys are missing and you know and Pete's gonna put up the counting stats he's he's shown signs of just being healthier which is terrific I think people get a little too carried away with his counting stats because he's just if you get it to him open in rhythm from the free throw line it's a layup for him and all he has to do is make a few of those he's gonna get his free throws he's gonna get some put back so he's it's an easy path for somebody that talented with the way he's fouled they get to his 30 points but it's gonna be about some of the other little things and I still see some of the little things with him that always are gonna be concerning so I think have to be better and I don't know that's gonna happen to the right like I think I still think that those concerns are gonna be there a little bit his movement is lack of movement on defense you know he's just a different cap with that stuff versus his peak athleticism he just doesn't he doesn't move that way anymore I don't know if that gets exposed or people put him in pick and roll is close some of those playoff games so if that looked a little bit better beyond just accounting stats and being like a big part of the rotation now and feeling like you can count on a little bit more even it's not every night and even the Paul George thing like he just wasn't really a huge it was a nice piece to have as a fourth option but that's all he's been and when he comes back from the suspension like it's it's nice that that's your fourth best player in theory but he's not necessarily anybody that I've counted on because of just how many times maxi or vj have felt like the brutal matchups to close some of these games yeah okay quick break from Ryan Russell talked about better help this episode is sponsored by a better help sometimes you can feel like everyone else has it all together in their love lives whether Mary dating or single the truth 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Ryan can you explain something to us like we're five years old rpi relative percent index the Pythagorean wind stuff can you walk me through that like I have a complete moron yeah just based on point differential right so like if you're that spending points ahead of the opponents then you should have a projected record um I mean they've been doing this for a long time like baseball because I remember like going oh that's stupid run differential like the Thagorean theorem and then it would just go like here's how many wins you should have based on this differential or losses if you're a negative on the season and then you can kind of like there used to be some advanced guys and be like well our pythag said that we'd be like a 92 win season and we had 81 so we were incredibly unlucky but our front office is fucking awesome yeah so I don't know are you looking at our PI for like one of the NBA rating indexes because the pythag thing is simply just projecting how many wins you should have based on the differential of your points versus how many you actually have and it's a pretty good indicator of like were you unlucky or lucky this season right right so I was looking at that I was doing in college basketball too and just throwing the word rpi for that I think is different yeah I think that's a different thing altogether throwing pythag out there just it makes it seem like it's some super complicated thing that you need to read and math yeah I don't like I thought the same thing but I remember I think it was guy from the A's who used to come on the local radio show I did 20 plus years ago when I was like what's this and then I remember like fighting it a little bit like any new thing yeah so what happens if you have like a 20 to 2 baseball game and the run differential was like thrown off by 18 plus runs or minus runs in one game I'm like doesn't that make the whole thing stupid and he was just like yeah except for the part where everybody's playing 162 and that's all kind of factored in yeah when I think somebody go ahead go ahead you look at like certain teams and you're like what about strength and schedule oh yeah they thought about that too I'm not the only one that some teams play harder schedule than others yeah I think the other thing with the rpi didn't they stop using it in the tournament too but that used to be like a default rpi and then everybody would just have rpi printed out yeah they'd be like oh the steam got hosed yeah yeah it would just give good ammunition for people that were pissed off that their team didn't make it in the west if you're looking at the west it feels like we've been talking about this since last year that last year's Oklahoma City Thunder team was the worst team that they're going to have in their dynasty moving forward so you might as well try to beat them last year because they're only going to get better they seem to be dominant they got McCain if there was one team to take him out in the west who Denver has a chance and San Antonio's matched up really well with them in the regular season they did get them well the last matchup Oklahoma City I think had 10 players that were listed that weren't going to play so it felt like an old pop of itch like hey you guys want thurs in a basketball TNT because we're gonna do not do that yeah that's where you're kind of like hey can you be a little bit better on some of the prime times in your part I'm not saying that's what Oklahoma City did but you can't look at that game in fact or in but some of the other earlier match ups like god this is like the first time a team has made it look hard for OKC and we probably haven't had like enough of a full run from San Antonio even though they have the third best record in the NBA where the cells miss time when bees miss time and also been on minutes restrictions but they're they're so good already it's it's really impressive to see what castle is like as good as when he is and how much you can change game I'm not even scoring all that much and it depends on how you want to defend him like a lot of teams now just put that dog right it was ribs and hips and go this way at least we can cut off your drives and try to keep you further away on your catches because the beginning of your center is we're trying to guard him and when he's like going between his legs and going right past these guys like that game he played against Dallas I still think it's like one of the best regular season games I've ever seen from basketball player but castle's improvement man like he's the guy and tarrant Fox plays off of castle and it's the right thing and so whether it's keloland johnson spacing it the cell spacing it I mean almost every team is kind of like baseball for the trade deadline you're like we could just have one more bullpen arm you can see teams just be like is there any way like there's never enough shooting is there any way we can add more shooting to this and if the shooters can also play defense that's something else and look I picked Denver to win the whole thing I was trying to be a little different than picking okay C and back-to-back years but Denver and okay C are like in a miss time off right now and Denver is is a disaster like I was looking at the numbers this morning yolk is miss 26 games he's back but it was a pretty tough part of the schedule Gordon's miss 30 games now um Christian Browns miss 36 games cam johnson's miss 24 games but okay see it's you always look at it's like you get the 40 wins before you get to 20 losses because I think every champion of the last is it the last five years maybe every champion of the last five years gets the 40 wins before 20 losses okay C's done that again but they also got off to this ridiculous start you can make an argument that you know for a little while here they've been kind of an oddly above average team um but I don't know that I really believe that because jaylen Williams has missed a ton of time part and she dies miss time gurus was missed a lot of time jaylen Williams gets back tonight against the Lakers with this hamstring thing which is cost him it feels like half the season so even with okay see start him missing time you're like god they're gonna get that guy back who you're thinking off of last year's run like I see a top 15 is even top 17 player in the league some people say hey top 10 with the way that you can play both ways so even if you want to beat up on okay see a little bit here during the stretch like they haven't had all their they haven't had their second best player for half the years right what are you supposed to do with that so I picked Denver only to try to do something different uh after I just don't want to pick okay see every single year and you know even with some of their their challenges uh they it's not like they've had some people again again on their case a little bit here but they're always gonna be great defensively but when you look at them and go okay they haven't played as well after historic start but are they still the best defense in the NBA and you're like yeah they are so they can always default to we're gonna lock you up with all the different combinations we can throw at you right now are they better this year than they were last year probably not because it's just I think they will be just with the seasoning that playoff season like as great as they were last year they still didn't shoot very well in the playoffs which speaks to just how special they were defensively but they can turn on this defensive switch that really only think Detroit can match them with they can also go hey we can play two bigs we can play no bigs we can put chat here where your defensive five now has to go out and chase him on the round the three point line so we'll close with him to have more openings for everybody else or we'll go back to the two bigs to cut off all your drives I mean the way they locked up Ant in that series Ant didn't have a good series he had that one game where he was incredibly frustrated he wanted to shoot but there also wasn't a lot there for him so it was a bit of one of those deals it's like okay you want to get on his case and say he's not up to the moment he's also staring at three guys standing right in front of him so you want him to just drive into three guys and take horrible shots and say hey at least I took my 20 shots they're all dog shit just to force the issue so nobody gets mad at you on TV but they went to game seven with Denver and they went to game seven against the Pacers team that for one game prior to Halliburton turn that Achilles you're going how are we at game seven with OKC against the Indiana roster so winning a title special defensively optionality younger players and all that seasoning I'd expect fully formed their better basketball team this year than last year what at what point in the season are we going to do the thing where it's like hey watch out for the Lakers the Lakers are going to make some noise and hey watch out watch out like you know who could win the West the Lakers and then they and then they lose in five to someone and everyone says well they almost won like four of those games so that was a team that people should watch out for yeah I can't wait because it definitely happened last year I mean it was it was outrageous and then that Minnesota series yeah I get myself a little credit here because I'm playing wrong but you're like looking and it's just all like you go to anywhere it was like every single person Lakers had all that momentum they beat Denver in that regular season game where it's like hey they don't love we may not love the defensive personnel but they're just really good and I do think they're really good at game planning I think it is a really good staff and then you watch that Minnesota series you go hey you know it'd be awesome if somebody big yeah like they're just going hey ruin you're gonna play center and then we're gonna play flat like we're not even gonna play anyone off the bench that's like overnight you're just going why everybody pick this team here again so I don't know if that'll happen they're not good defensively getting rees back is huge because you know somebody seems just double down on who they are and you know what we need to be is horrifying offensively just like scare the shit out everybody and it could be a good enough offensively you can make up for some of our defensive deficiencies here because they're 23rd in defense right now and it's kind of where they've been living for a long time and Lucas you know good prime Lucas is good enough to do something scary here but if you look at the standings like let's just do the exercise like who would you pick them against in the first round in the West based on 50 plus games even you know having said hey there's no Reeves but if you want to do the injury game there's four of the five top seeds in the West you're like hey it hasn't actually you know been a picnic for them health wise either the Suns yeah I mean if it ends up what of four five they have to be a three six that have to be like a two seven so they're not getting there I just don't know that the Suns are gonna line up with them what about the Rockets? Rockets is a good one I'm gonna tell you right now they're fourth in offense or fifth this morning and when you watch them close games that are tight it's awful they're 21st in clutch offense and if you want to talk about like some of these numbers can be misleading or whatever that is the most like truthful number of a team when I watch them play because they get stuck they don't know who they want to be the amend thing as talented as he is he doesn't provide you a ton of separation and then you're playing with Shungoon Tariis and shooting numbers have been terrific I don't know the people who are defending him in a respectful enough way that's gonna open up other stuff and ends up with Durant in some impossible spots where he's left to solve the possession all by himself and as great as he is that is asking a lot of any player and it feels like whatever identity they have for those first 30 plus minutes of a game when they get in a crunch time it is a fucking grind for them and I don't know that they know what it's supposed to be right now like defensively I'm not gonna worry about it but that is you watch it and then you go well what does the numbers say and you're like well the numbers is exactly what I'm seeing and if you think about playoff possessions there which are ants like going why aren't you here what's going on over there like you can see it with the rent I'm not even like getting on his case with it but you can see times where he's like really frustrated in the possession where like puts his arms up being like that wasn't what we were supposed to do you didn't cut here you weren't gonna do that because they like we're this far into it and they're a good team but it feels like a fatal flaw for them you mentioned your uh your top 15 top 17 players that you have the NBA right now who are your who are your top five top 15 players in the NFL or in the NBA like here were the top five guys that could be the 15th best player in the NBA all right well that sounds super complicated so I appreciate that I follow my simple stuff Ryan uh yeah so I think the clear four are yokage sga jonas luka um you know the wendy part of it is impact alone and clearly it reflects in the standings that it's beyond just you know how many scores every night because I still think there's some nights where it's absolutely beautiful and then I think there's other nights where and get clogged a little bit here um I have aunt in this conversation I think aunt right now is the best handle in the game that's with kyree watching bring senate period of time which I know a little curious like is inside the trade deadline which hasn't really been covered in time but like kyree comes back to like hey this is awesome yeah let's do this uh Steph for me is still in this group ky is actually played like this group this season I mean especially if you're gonna say top 15 no question um jaylin bronson's no worst in top 10 uh jaylin brown is played this way this year I've ordered him as a starter jaylin brown every single time I put a ceiling on who he can or can't be I'm like all right well he can't be any better than this and then he's that good again I mean his season finals gonna be painful yeah I think kades in this conversation I'm a huge Booker fan if we're saying top 15 I mean I get shit on for some of my booker stuff where I was like do you think the thunder wind the title last year with Booker said sga and it's like you heathen hmm hmm hmm hmm it's interesting something about yeah you know it's not like I'm not just sga here but maybe a little bit but yeah a little bit why can't it just be a compliment why can't it just be positive why's everything have to be negative the Canadian thing the Canadian thing bothers you uh no no I think um I think Chris Paul if he goes to toronto which I mean where is Chris Paul right now I think he's like 10 minutes down the street from he gets shots up I'm so tough to him I've been so tempted to be like do you need a rebounder but does that mean he's like that guy was cool until he was like do you need a rebounder like I have professional coaches nutritionists and then this asshole is gonna be like do you want to just run it to seven yeah what happens is Chris Paul is it he's deciding whether he wants to go to toronto or deciding whether they want him they are pretty deep you know toronto fans are gonna say like hey you completely gloss over is I really have been impressed with the way they played their transition stuff and all this stuff but again it gets back to like your brain and engrams your best player like how many players I look I like Scottie Barnes I think all of us is Scottie Barnes this week mhm yeah point um I don't want Chris Paul to go out this way so I think he probably has enough stature to probably have it on his own terms here a little bit so yeah but it feels like he doesn't you don't want him to go out as a Canadian is what you're saying yeah well I don't think it's a citizenship thing where where why isn't LeBron just like hey man come on the Lakers they always want to play together it would be convenient right yes here right might as well yeah he's just on the street it's LeBron we're gonna get back at the Clippers yeah it's LeBron retiring this year I feel like he is I don't think he is really like he's gonna have a really really hard time being away from the attention but basketball so he's never gonna retire never would be a long time it would but sounds but he's still incredibly productive offensively you know you're gonna make up for his defense of stuff which is you know this isn't exactly new when it's to be expected so I still think there's far more positive about him the player but it just depends like what are you looking for next year you're looking for a massive contract like do you want to go play a bad team I don't think he necessarily wants to do that I think there's a lot of people that still wonder if he would just go to Cleveland for the one-year deal have some kind of storybook ending and you could say like well maybe he doesn't want to go out that way if he's gonna have all this business in LA like why would you want to do that in jeopardize those relationships dude walking around this place it's it's just fascinating the number of guys are just Kobe guys are like yeah thanks for the title but whatever the general and difference to LeBron in the city yeah is is alarming to the point where I end up being like hey he came here you guys miss the last five straight years okay he comes here that means you also get AD and like you're gonna sit here kind of do like a whatever thanks dude you know like just ready to move on the rest of it you know like I get this fine you want to move on I get at the stage of screw the whole thing but there's there's an indifference with him day-to-day whenever he seems to come up not like it's every single day of my life that LeBron comes up a conversation but I I ain't a feeling like I turned like this massive LeBron defender to like the hardcore again I don't even call these Lakers fans I call them Kobe fans and they're just insanely protective about like to a point where they didn't want to give LeBron any credit so if he were to go to Cleveland and then it's like oh well he's holding him in LA is different like I don't know that I don't know that I would ever change anything right it's just a lot of people that I think to be granted do you think that he feels that I would see it's it'd be impossible for him to not notice it I would just think that he would have he's so insulated that he's got people around him that are like yeah the brand you're the man well yeah and that's the other like the human nature part of it is I doubt anybody's going up to him being like you know I also don't think he's going like everyone by himself to see what's on the buffet schedule but do you get air one I do what's that like to like changing is it really almonds are so expensive it's amazing to get the like $30 or whatever I did the hilly beaver smoothie a few times and it was so tasty but then I like to the ingredients and I'm like what are you doing like you can't you can't do this it was like soft serve ice cream on top of like strawberry syrup and some sort of coconut cream and I'm like this is like I wonder this thing tastes so good and it was really expensive they make an incredible meat sauce that you can grab jars of fat is a winner you get maybe two three uses out of it it it's nice because it's right next to the gym so I can just shoot over there and hit the buffet and say you know long term if I'm just getting this myself but um loading up like every week on produce you know little good over here but you never know I can imagine do is there what's the athleisure scene like an airline I would imagine it's pretty significant yeah I don't even think they let you in there unless you're coming from the gym yeah yeah and the hoodies like they've got their whole line of clothing right now and I've been so tempted to grab this new image cropped deal yeah I was like can I wear cropped yeah because I think that's that's like I don't have i4 abs on the right day you can do it you pull that off the more abs the lower abs never show up and if you're gonna be doing the crop thing maybe you cropped with a fanny pack that's a good look yeah maybe I'll do this maybe just an appreciation for super week I'll send you guys a couple air one oh oh my god we wear them I would crop it myself what's going on they're dope yeah what's going on with the boat she's great filled her up the other day um right before super week had to finish up some work so nothing forces you to do work more than just being anchor away from everything because you're like all right I'm on the boat I don't smoke weed and I don't drink what I'm on the boat or anything I know that sounds crazy but like I have enough anxiety talking to think of 46 feet by myself 47 feet 47 make sure you get that right depending on what kind of clearance you're talking about yeah yeah yeah but there was this Dutch vessel I think 170 feet that was in marina del Rey for months and they took up the entire outside slip of the fueling station so you kind of get to a point where you're really comfortable with certain moves with your boat by yourself but there's probably other moves where you go I don't know that I've ever tried that you know like I won't try 360 don't anymore right because I just go like yeah anymore yeah what if I over rotate it's anyway I just lay on the wrong way so I had like six percent of fuel left or no I had nine percent of fuel left that's right because it's six percent I don't think I would have done it and even at nine percent like I knew where I was going I knew I was anchoring I knew the distance I'm like I'm fine but it's not like a car where you go like oh whatever like whatever zero is I wish we were more like Europeans where it's like I want to know to the leader and then I'm bone-dried right you know I'd like to have that kind of precision but apparently we don't want that here and so this massive massive yachts there and I'm like god damn it like it's outside of the fuel pumps and the only ways I have to like go in and kind of battle traffic a little bit maybe on a busy day and then I have to go in and like spin the whole boat around to like an opposite side and then get the boat parallel and bring it across like almost like fish tailing a tank all the way around and I was like I'm not doing that today so I was like I came back in at like five or six percent fuel dock so then I went out the other day and the boat was still there I'm like dude you have to fill this up but you have to fill this thing up and you're gonna have to you're gonna have to just be here you have to do it hmm yeah another one rule just go slow and if you're freaked out go slower was there an audience watching you yeah yeah the guys the pump too you don't want those guys down no those guys do you hell especially with your arrow on shirt on yeah because they're like look at this loser do you have a captain's hat oh yeah I do I don't wear it though unless I'm like it smells like swell size like if the swells pick up yeah just feel safe just getting on board feel safe yeah that's what it's about yeah I went out once I might even check the charts when I was just like what and then I was like leaving the marina I go there's not another boat out not one nothing like usually there's even big sailboats if it's windy because then it'll cut right through it I was like there's not one other boat out and I had somebody with me and I'm like this is this might be a little hairy and then I open out into the marina and I see the swells like oh my god like this is bad and so then I had to like make sure I just never get sideways and I'm like I gotta go into it I gotta do I gotta do that out and then come back in and make sure I'm not near the rock wall on the way in because it doesn't really matter what side those waves are so powerful that they catch the whole boat like you're riding the wave you're not driving it every alarm goes off every single piece of cutlery any glassware like it just sounds like it's all shattering like movie scene alarms like losing it losing it because the levels of everything was like what's going on and I was like as long as I never get parallel with these breaks I'll be fine so right into him charge out hard turn in between sets then ride it back in away from the rock wall and cut it back once the swells died down and that was about a 15 minute trip and you had the captain's you put the captain's hat on that's the whole point so I just hold on yep I don't turn off the almond brothers where's the captain's cap yep put some sea shanties on there yeah dress for the job you want not the job you have have you be honest right have you thought about getting a bigger boat yes I mean you should fucking talk about do you know anything about boat ownership no not really yeah well that's the first thing you do is you buy the boat and then you go oh I can handle a 60 footer on my own as long as I get one of those slips to the outside but then I have to also be honest it's like you don't have the easiest schedule yeah people can talk about the amount of hours that we put in like actually on the air you're like okay yeah like if you count those up it doesn't seem like I'm doing much but there's a lot of other stuff that goes into it no one's crying for us not asking to cry for you but there's probably a level of boat that you should or shouldn't have depending on your access to it and I kind of want to do stuff that I was like I don't want to wait until like I'm retired I want to be a younger boat guy and then when I look at like other guys living rooms in their bigger boats I'm like that's the kind of boat you get behind but then I realize it's like there's like guys looking at your boat that'd be an that'd be enough boat for me yeah I think not to make this about life but it's just something to remember there's probably somebody looking at your boat going that's good enough for me that's just stop looking at the other boats that's great advice appreciate your own boat don't don't succumb to boat envy yeah yeah I don't think it's hard yeah it's hard not to I can't see you retiring you don't seem like a guy that's retired I won't do this forever oh is there a are we doing a farewell tour is like LeBron are you a patch a Chris Paul retirement or and you just get cut I don't know if that would happen yeah my numbers are a little bit better than Chris's forcing you go you're a better team player Chris Paul wouldn't have gone to the or Chris Paul would not have sat across from Rico Bosco at dinner that was fun huh you were unbelievable like it was the whole thing having that dinner was playing out exactly exactly how I expected because all that's happening is Rico saying something and he's trying to see if I'm gonna read something wrong and I'm trying to like read him and then there's not really it's like this isn't that complicated it's exactly what you would expect it would be and then every five minutes big cow would be like yeah but Rico didn't you think that like something like this it's like whenever that fire start to dim out a little just sort it back up it would just go oh flameth here's just a flush of oxygen into this fire pit you're like we're not done yet we did it again the next night we were just matches there for that one we did we just did a pick we did a pick up episode it was David and like six other people in Rico we just we did a two-hour pick up episode while eating prime rib it was a good time yeah I did the house of prime rib with pft that was fun I got the full day of experience and we had the groodex it was actually crudex is the number one guy if you want to go to a dinner and you're like hey we're going to dinner with clients and I don't really know how to carry a conversation you bring John groodin and you're set because his when he gets story going he has every guy at a dinner in the palm of his hand big time pft did you tell him the driving story no so so this is pretty incredible so we're driving over to dinner and the traffic in the city is just terrible because everyone's there for the game it's like the first Friday night so everybody's in town so the traffic is just not moving our security guy makes an amazing move and it's not a move I would ever do if I was ever driving a car but I guess he's a really good driver so he does he cuts into like the oncoming traffic lane because there's a bunch of red lights swerves around a bunch of cars ends up making a left turn pretty much saves us like a half hour in about 10 seconds with this move that he does and we all start just like rubbing their shoulders be like hey that was awesome great job I don't want to say his name but great job I was saying you did you did incredible day all Thursday night he's the best and it was awesome he's awesome he's awesome and it was like a culmination of all these moves that night and I can't I still can't believe he pulled that move and if I were the car in the front line at that red light stop and saw this as if you pull up and go what the fuck are you doing but I guess it was just you know if you're in law enforcement yeah I am on the job yeah I wanted like I was building up to this point of like this guy needs to be appreciated out loud yeah so so Ryan's like dude this is incredible thank you so much everyone's like great job was like this is awesome thank you and he's like yeah yeah yeah I got you and then about 10 seconds later he hits the gas in the right lane and almost runs into the back of the car that's in front of us slams the brakes Ryan ate shit like into the back of the seat in front of him eternal organs moved around a little bit like everyone jerks forward and then immediately Groven goes some guys can't handle success he told us a story about some right tackle he had a Tampa that was a horrible practice player but super talented and then he told him he had like this great practice and then he goes he came back the next day and he sucked again and then when the other assistants went to Groven's like don't ever feed him sugar only feed him shit that was that was the story that he told because like the story came back up again at dinner and then he's like reminds me you know the player's name and you're like where's this going and it was perfect and then he just he then he lays out he lays out for like 10 minutes and observes and then he jumps back in yeah and it's it's very tactical and it's smart because it's you know he could ego out if you wanted to everybody would just shut up he has incredible identity he's got the ability to talk about any like I don't know like second third string player from 2011 that you've never even heard of before and make it the most entertaining story you've ever heard in life just like you're eating out the palm of his hand he's the best yeah he's the best uh all right Ryan last question ro back question rho back.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase qzips polos hoodie's joggershortsroback.com promo code take who's gonna win the all-star game I know you're pumped man this time it feels personal doesn't yeah team world first team USA we can't let him win this game who do you think hanks written for teamwork well now he's been canceled yeah I don't know I don't know what Hank would do I had a friend who was a communist in college and I think he still is a communist but he was always the guy rooting for like the olympics of roll around he'd be like you're rooting for Germany like what the fuck going on he's for East Germany no no actually he would never root for Germany to be honest with you but um I'm just using the example of like what is this you know of course you know you like you like indie rock too like I got it like this bands to commercial in a roof for England um I hate the all-star game a lot I haven't watched it I don't even know the last time I watched it I've never in over 10 years been like all-star games on tonight I've got to make sure I am home in front of the couch I've missed every single minute of it certain nights it's just I don't get mad at it though like it's for kids it's kind of fun to celebrate these guys have the accolades the whole week and the whole thing and like look shout out to the players union shout out to chris ball getting everybody a week off from the games like I take the week off now yeah yeah you're you're that's the correct uh way to look at it it's not for you so who cares we're talking about it yeah right yeah right it's like when people get mad at all the bowl games like oh hey don't watch it yeah they still do really well rings wise they mean a ton of those fan bases and yeah like everything's chaotic right now at this point but like there's other things you can get mad about why would you get mad about I wish all-star game were competitive I wish it reminded me of the stuff that was cool when you watch like the close of a game and you're like hey how's this guy gonna look against this guy the greatest pickup game in the world I mean that's been so long that I don't even you know I actually think getting mad at the all-star game is boring as the game itself yeah okay Ryan you're the best enjoy vacation Portugal yeah we're headed out to those big waves love that the catch one is so sick um all right and you're the best everyone listen to Ryan Russell uh show and we'll we'll talk to you as soon as you know we you get back we get uh basketball just love love the end of the end of Chicago yeah i mean Chicago so i'll get together so thanks as always guys yeah you gotta you gotta we did we did our bet on your show uh college football and I think the payment we agreed is uh Russell's gonna stay at Mitzi's house one night oh I love that you guys are getting like so well yeah I can't wait looking forward to it and even though we didn't agree to what that seems like a totally fair and reasonable that he won't mind it was either that or go try to pick up chicks and Nicky smokes one night so you get to decide I don't know it might be better he's gonna he's gonna like get that quote and put it on his wall yeah just whatever you do don't don't play the episodes apart my take around him it's like a backlogs dog situation where things will start to happen with his body he'll start cranking it hard uh all right noted yeah no nor should you all right see man see you okay Ryan Russell is brought to you by our friends at Twisted T Twisted T is a refreshing hard iced tea made with real brood tea and 5% alcohol Twisted T is a perfect drink to keep the good times going all day and all season long whether you're hanging out at a friend's house catching a game at the stadium or at the bar or day drinking with friends 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then it is vacation time we're calling the ready yep Zach let's get right here sitting in that seat right now any thoughts about bad bunny the boney the boney the boney the boney good energy and halftime performance I thought the lineman representation I know we touched on this really was great to see linemen work you know hard job tough job good for you good for like really just like the environment in the United States to keep things going keep the power up yeah they do I'd love to see that we need to have some good lineman representation after will Campbell I think it's important for sure yeah very important okay hit us with some guys on shiksak hi guys me 23 female have a boyfriend 21 male just turn he just turned 21 and keeps downloading gambling apps on my phone buys me and my three roommates drinks and then tells me he's signing me up for promis promos promos promis I have upwards of 15 gambling apps longer than promos promis is a longer version of promos yeah but it's fun it's a fun way to say like yeah I'm actually giving your credit card information to a massive company okay just a prommy babe it's a silly way of silly promo yeah he's signing me up for these promis I have upwards of 15 gaming apps organizing a folder on my phone he calls promis my one roommate caught wind of this and told me he's ripping me off I did some googling and sees he's clearly getting the better end of the deal here yeah but he's depositing all of his own money and doing 100% of the work I brought it up last night during the Super Bowl and he got really defensive tell me he doesn't want to get me involved in gambling but he's a very calm guy and got really aggressive about this last night should I bring it up again or is it not a big deal if it makes you uncomfortable I'd say it's a big deal to bring it up but it also sounds like he's at least signing you up for the promis so he can get his promis yeah he's very organized with his promis sounds like by mitt yeah he's he's betting for free because you're giving him all the promis which is nice also probably shouldn't have brought up during the Super Bowl yeah a game where everyone's bets lost I would say like right after the masters would be a good time to bring up like hey do we need we need all these promis also it sounds like you're very trusting individual for just letting your boyfriend hold on to your phone for extended periods of time yeah that's actually a really healthy relationship yeah so sounds like he's got a good one yeah you guys really trust each other that does unhealthy if you trust your significant other with promis you're in for the long haul yeah we gotta stay together yeah that's exactly right don't prom me if you don't know me that's what I you got another one here it's uh next year in the first seven games the Patriots play Chiefs bills two times Chargers.

No no no no no this is yeah we're trying to do actual journalism on the show but okay sorry go ahead that's where we could this about this entire comment well no let's just say that this is the schedule early predicked Chiefs bills two times Chargers Bears Lions they also play the Seahawks Jaguars Broncos and Packers what's their record how much will they miss the playoffs oh the Seahawks are the or the time of the Patriots we're talking about the Patriots Patriots Patriots scheduled okay they play the NFC North next year they play the first place schedule yeah do you think do you think the Patriots going into next year or like a top tier because the way I look at the AFC is like if you're going to sneak in and make it count this wasn't your do it mm-hmm no Patrick Mahomes no bogeyman turns out everyone who's like hey this is the year that Josh on us gets to Super Bowl kind of right yeah kind of right no Lamar no mohomes bo-nix will be back the AFC actually has a lot of good teams I don't know if they have any great teams it's all cyclical it's all year to year you never know I mean we do it every year where we predict the schedule and predict your team's record and then you look back and like well that was back back and quarterback you never know yeah first seven games though if I had to guess for the Patriots next year I think the Bears are gonna I think the Bears are gonna kick off the season with the Seahawks I think they're gonna make that Thursday night they could do the Bears thing they could do the Chiefs thing too does the Seahawks have the Chiefs yeah they do yeah but I think that's a toss up with my home if he yeah assuming my home is gonna be back ready to go week one that's a good point I just think that I'm fully preparing myself for the Bears to get is the maximum amount of prawn time it sucks it sucks but actually I kind of hope it happens I hope the week one that there's a night because that is check off one of the prawn time games it's not a because multiple Thursday night games does suck yeah at least that one would be you get a little extra rest after to answer the question I think the Patriots will be exact exact bubbling again he just continues to bubble I'm used to the button I'm used to the next year I'm gonna go um four and three pass for seven games next year so my homes uh towards ACL in December 14th I yeah I hit he'll be ready I think he'll play week one I don't think he'll be good I think he won't be good for you know a month listen Lindsey Vonn skied on her 20th and she was fine crash she crashed she she's fine though before that she was fine if she but she had both ACLs correct Lindsey Vonn she has no fear because like she she gets up there and there's like a 50% chance just anecdotally speaking from what I've fallen skiing there's a 50% chance she crashes every time I'm surprised her and Tiger didn't work it out yeah seems like they have a lot in common another one for you guys if you're ready okay how do I convince my boyfriend to take me out on Valentine's day dinner next year instead of watching Super Bowl oh yeah they all did it they really did it to us I do love the guys being like the the tweets being like you have one year to prepare here's your warning yeah Valentine's day in Super Bowl they coincide Valentine's day is a fake holiday anyway it's not like for the season of love you know what I mean well I think there's more like consumer holiday like go buy these gifts and chocolates I I think the Valentine's day is one of those holidays and when I say fake holiday I mean there are certain holidays that you can shift about like St. Patrick's day I love St. Patrick's day St. Patrick's day has a little bit of a fake holiday feel where you can if it's St.

Patrick's day is on a Wednesday we can just party on Saturday Halloween Halloween is a big one yeah right so it's like got the shifting nature I think Valentine's days 100% in that category it's not like a Christmas or 4th of July where you have to celebrate on that day you can just do Valentine's day on the Saturday before you know we're gonna see we're gonna see a lot of Valentine's day brunch yeah and it's just gonna be like the drunkest Sunday that you could ever have that actually sounds like not a bad Sunday you do you do a heavy brunch at like 11 30 noon you get through like four five moses yeah and then you just roll that into the pre-party for the Super Bowl it's it's gonna be Saturday Saturday night's gonna be Valentine's day every 30th is gonna be for Valentine's day there are certain holidays that you have you should have no problem no qualms was shifting you just have to hit the week you have to get in the general vicinity of it Halloween yes perfect example Halloween on a on a on a Wednesday in college guess what Friday we're doing Halloween doesn't matter and guess what if it's on a Wednesday at that Monday night football before Halloween that's when people are gonna wear the costumes yeah college is a bad example you college is to 10 Halloween yeah of course but but same but same past day is a good example of like a bad day when it's on a Tuesday no one getting like blackout truck out Tuesday they're doing it on the previous Saturday of the Saturday after so you can just shift so quick shift you get you got full Valentine's day and a full Super Bowl yeah everybody kind of get it at February 13 I do think that the brunch move is gonna a lot of people are gonna do the brunch move I don't sound fun but this is where those situations where people will talk about it for engagement I just can't imagine anyone going out to Valentine's day dinner during the Super Bowl also it's not gonna happen also not a real thing nobody really goes out for dinner on Sunday nights right also true yeah it was gonna be Saturday anyway I'm doing brunch I think I think the brunch move is the more I think about it that's just a great Sunday I know a lot of people will do Valentine's day early to try to get like a reservation somewhere else because the day of is pretty hard but now if everyone's trying to maybe move it day back might be dinner at home yeah do Friday or Saturday if you hit it anywhere in that facility you're good one more for you guys okay wait is next to the one one where the Monday is president said yeah which is also fake holiday I respect the office I respect president say to I'm just saying it's if you guys like yes when they're like oh it's a pain okay well what if you don't work in a bank everyone works on president's day is that true yeah nobody works yeah it's federal holidays we just we just work on the president's day it's a big holiday for us yeah for sure hey p.m. t boys my fiance and i're getting married this summer and our first valentine's day as a married couple is going to be on Super Bowl now there's highly it's highly unlikely that the chance that my saints will be playing that day no shock maybe shock however there's a better chance that my soon to be husband's team detroit lions could play how do I navigate this potential outcome and where he won't want to do anything romantic with me on valentine's day if his team does in fact win the NFC okay if the lions are the Super Bowl you can pretty much write off that entire month did you read did you read ahead that same thing we just said for this both by yeah yeah just take it i would say though if if the lines are really the saints too but if they're playing the Super Bowl like just don't make plans the week before the week after either because he'll be partying still or because he'll be very depressed the Super Bowl what are we even talking about the Super Bowl just crushes the valentine's it's not those aren't those aren't the same football transcends love good for the people who don't have any interest in watching the Super Bowl and are in a relationship with no one who watches the Super Bowl you will get an awesome reservation somewhere everyone else in America which is literally everyone else in America will be watching the Super Bowl and we're going to be enjoying the fuck out of it it's big what's more romantic than you know some Super Bowl squares of promis before into a couch eating way too much by the way coming to the office because we're taking this on Monday coming off today and realizing that apparently people just take home leftovers now we don't leave him here for everyone I was I was so pumped for jambalaya oh yeah I didn't have any of that yesterday I was so pumped and I came in and there was just no jambalaya and I it ruined my day I'll say it right now it ruined my day jambalaya's day yeah that's gonna it's gonna be a hell of a week for saints fans next year you got Mardi Gras on Tuesday the 9th and then if you're in the Super Bowl with Shuck Super Bowl and Valentine's Day and President's Day Zach while we're on guys on chicks what's going on with the chicks chicks uh haven't talked to a lot of chicks yeah it will be transparent can some can some of the chicks maybe reach out oh yeah I'm open to starting a interpersonal relationship conversations okay I'm not against that but down in graphic open Zach to interpersonal relationship conversations so you're can we open the transfer portal for you uh we I'm just not the best at conversation so they don't sometimes they don't uh so we need a strong alpha type female who's ready to take control of the relationship and just tell Zach what to do you saying I gotta get some you gotta get some you're gonna get pegged you're gonna get stepped on I think this is I think it listens fine what if we start somewhere else yeah what do we start with like uh how do you feel about hot wax what's your safe word I don't have safe word yeah let's get a safe word we how many syllables you think it's a four needs to whatever you want I think one I think one yeah I was risk because what if you just shout it like I'm only an excitement you know yeah it's like one syllable safe words you get misconstrued it's like you said something else but sounds like the one syllable yeah let's get you a safe word let's start with the safe word and then let's start and then we'll talk to some women we'll go from there okay but we need it obviously I don't want you to get pegged unless you want to get pegged I'm not gonna kick shame what I'm saying though is you do need we need a girl to reach out to Zach that is like hey Zach we're going on a date tonight hey Zach I made a reservation we're doing this because my boy is not gonna do any of that I'm really good at talking myself out of uh right occasion so at like the least notice the better problem right so we need someone who's like hey Zach you just sit back I'm gonna ride you you also said you would go on more dates after football season yeah it was a big season it was a big work season I thought you know locking with the guys we need a girl on top we need a girl to get on top and stay on top respectfully though of course of course nothing but the most up most respect for these queens take your octa dinner then ride the fuck out of you I don't think it is over but that was your excuse all footballs we're about to get into preseason you know like mock drafts come in like combines come in free agency what a time yeah how lucky are we there's just a single for life because like put football season and I hate that move yeah you got this act we should take a type a type uh not on discriminating just I would like I wear them I'm down with that okay so there's I come to say that as a tennis as a titties uh can I get gluttonous there and just be like both yeah that's awesome yeah because like both would be I mean both would be awesome yeah so said here's what's intimidating it's like oh whoa we're not hair color I mean whatever they feel you know what I feel most comfortable you know express yourself I love that whenever you whatever makes you feel beautiful yeah I mean to that but if you had a preference never thought too much into the end of the preference come on I don't know I don't think I have one on the hair color yeah because I think hair color changes seasons you know like what age range age range we're gonna we're gonna whittle this down so maybe like type a's reach out I don't know how old am I age range probably my age like answer that uh okay we'll do age range over how old are you okay I'm 28 yeah I'm 28 I thought for a second there you didn't know how no no I'm asking your yourself that question definitely my age definitely my age all right so 20 you're 28 I feel like 25 to 35 that feels like a super yeah yeah because I'm like oh dude I know his milf yeah a milf who maybe has a kid but you don't have to deal with the kids she's like don't worry I got it and I'll ride and I got a lot to learn yeah she could provide for a game are you open to being not I don't want to say step that but like you know hang out with kid from time time you I feel like you'd be a good guy if I do games step that you stepped in not that's I don't want to say step that yet but like you know the kids over you go over to pick her up go inside play with kid for a little bit say what's up this is also though this is this is another we're just adding another pitfall for Zach having to wake up infill imagine if he doesn't wait like hey no don't give him that excuse don't give him that excuse that excuse infill transparency use that excuse I think you might need the athletic type a fat ass fat titties indeterminate hair 40 year old that sounds like it could come with a lot of pain in the long game but could be a great learning experience in the short game but as far as a step that situation there's a woman out there for you there's a there's a woman out there for everybody who just wanted to take control piercings and tats cool with that yeah I'm cool with the body art do what you paint that game is a really good thing okay nice nice does she have to like video she has to understand video games uh just tolerate video games that's I like to tolerate you playing video she doesn't have to necessarily be into the game or be okay with the game tolerates probably she has to understand that when you date Zach Zach is married to the game you can't leave the game I can't leave the game now right I can't put down the game so like it's like sometimes a text response might be indifferent just because your game is live it's online right I can't hit pause right which is gonna be that's a downfall of my dating life but you know people are who we are something should start with the are that's also work you play video games you're just like I'm working now would you be open to like if you find a perfect woman and she's everything for you and she's like yeah you can video game all you want but maybe also she's find a little dick on the side oh like an open relationship well she opened one way for her I don't know how I feel about you love video games she loves dick on the side uh so I so it's open one way I've just I get access to games yes she gets access yes so like you're like I want to play video games for seven hours tonight she's like no problem I got a date yeah we're just in like a a super fun friendship I'm gonna have like some silly friendships yeah that would be perfect but you should put in like you're allowed to have a little side piece but you have to be married to him so she's married oh yeah but you're also dating her but occasionally she's allowed to sleep with her husband yeah they're probably playing video games yeah who might step in the way of vows you know they're fully committed I mean you get to be with her intimately too but she's allowed to cheat on you with her husband if you're playing video games does he play the game too I yeah I mean if you guys want to have a little friends yeah no that's what you go about that I wouldn't know how to go about that right in relation yeah you gotta be badge marking him a little bit but that's fine we'll start somewhere I know if we just start there we'll start maybe step okay all right so reach out if you're if you're a girl out there who's looking for everything check all those boxes but if you don't also it's completely understandable all right let's let's do numbers pmt bachelor pmt bachelor party at gbale.com you have fat yep that's that's that's where we're gonna look at all these are to you sounds like you even even a little yep reach out I will be looking at pmt bachelor party at gmail.com should do a dating show for Zach yeah all right numbers three twenty three eighty fifty six seventy seven machine starting there we go 28 they're cold you get it then 64 64 I don't think anyone's getting on this machine love you guys I think so we got two now thanks so happy birthday to from the program to ever see me oh great reporter that was me on a birthday well it's a birthday I think is the 11th which is close to today when this comes out love you guys