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NFL Draft With Coach Jon Gruden, NBA Playoffs With Carmelo Anthony, Playoffs And Fyre Fest Of The Week

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NFL Draft and we recap the first round, with some stunners early and Ty Simpson going the Rams (00:00:00-00:17:27). We talk NBA/NHL playoffs plus the story that wont die with Diana Russini and Mike Vrabel (00:17:27-00:46:44). Coach Jon Gruden joins us in studio to talk NFL Draft, who he liked in the first round, Ty Simpson tape, Giants big draft and more (00:46:44-01:04:47). Carmelo Anthony then joins us to talk NBA playoffs, how Lebron is still going at 41, SGA, Zac with some incredible questions and more (01:04:47-01:40:54). We finish with Fyre Fest of the week and a special sweepstakes for the AWL's to be included in our bookYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Netflix. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take

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Welcome to part of my tape presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Friday, April 24, and it's the NFL draft, boy. Boys.

The NFL draft. Fernando Mendoza went number one, which was a shocker to absolutely no one. And then we were off and running with some actual shockers. It was Marvel Reese falling all the way to five with.

With the. The Cardinals taking Jeremiah Love. Anytime you have a million holes and you can add a running back, you got to do it. Yeah.

It's been a tough day to mock Love. Yeah. And then Carnell taking four was kind of. Kind of throw a wrench of the whole thing.

I actually thought this to the second overall pick. That was the. That was the original smokes. Yes, that was.

It means I just gotta say take my hat off to the New York Jets. As much as we clown on them a little bit, it sounds like they actually ran a good, like, psyop to fool everybody. It's like, we're not gonna meet with Bailey. We're out on Bailey.

Boom. Bailey back in. They did do that. Bailey also got the Darren Muji's name wrong.

Yeah. Because he's called him Monty for the Cardinals. Right. But I don't know if he's part of that.

I'm thinking this was an entire operation. I'm thinking that the jets are, like, so put together right now that they're okay. We need you to mess up the GM's name. We'll leak that.

No one's gonna take you. So it sounds like the main jets insider hasn't been reporting any news. Which one sounds like. It sounds like everything's locked up in was Florin Park.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it was kind of crazy to be. I was. I was shocked.

Not shocked because Jeremiah Love could, like, he's an unbelievable football player, but the Cardinals do have a ton of holes. I just didn't think he was gonna be a third. Right. And then Carnel Take going fourth was like, oh, okay.

And I mean, the Giants, I know that, you know, grading the draft while it's still going on and immediately after the first round is fool's goal. We do it every year. The year that the Seahawks drafted, like, every single hall of Famer, The Legion, boom. And Russell Wilson and Bleacher Port gave it an F.

So you don't know. But on paper, I love what the Giants did because the Giants now, they could probably trade Thibodeau, they might do that, but they have Burns, Abdul Carter, and Arvell Reese. And then they got an offensive lineman to hopefully protect. The name just escaped Jackson Yard.

Thank you very much. So, yeah, I like what the Giants did. I like what The Giants did. And if we could just pretend this part of.

Part of my take never existed and wipe it from everybody's brains after I'm done saying I like what the Cowboys did. Yeah. Kale downs falling to 11. Kilo Downs was my favorite player in this draft.

I have to, like, as of the end of this day, I have to move on and pretend that I've always hated kill downs, but I thought he was the best player in the draft and having him fall to 11 and they. Yeah. Good job for the Cowboys. Jerry Joneser Clinton was in their war room at some point, so good job.

Bill Clinton smoked that victory cigar. Good job getting downs. That's what, that's what our good friend said. Jerry Jones has downs.

He's downs with sickness. Yeah, he's downs with sickness now. Yeah. Mon Lane, good pick by.

By trading up. They traded up for that. And then I replaced, you know, McDuffie and that was good pick by them. And then I love, I love Sonny Styles.

I love that pick for commander. Did you get any tweets off about him wearing a pin that said ss? So, no, I actually kept that in the dms. I saw it.

I was just like, pft. No. Like if there's ever a perfect marriage. So a guy wearing an SS pin.

So let's, let's, let's, let's slow down saying that. The image came up on the screen and I ran up in gambling cave, took a picture of it with my phone, and I was like, you know what? I want to give this. I don't want to give Sonny a hard time on draft night.

But the one thing you can say is, like, it's a great teachable moment. Yeah. You don't want. As cool as your name is, just do it.

Just do your name. We don't need to be a commander wearing SS and lapel. Correct. And so I just kept that and Cal Long actually hit me up, and I was like, I wanted to tweet about it, but I can't.

Yeah, he's got an all time name. Just get a big piece of jewelry that says Sonny Style. I should think Sonny Styles is the best possible linebacker name. He has a great linebacker name and he's super productive, actually.

If you look at his athleticism, this is kind of crazy. If you compare it to Kyle Hamilton, safety, he's a half inch taller than Kyle hamilton. He weighs 24 pounds more than Kyle Hamilton, and he ran a 4, 4, 7, Hamilton ran a 4, 5, 9, and Sonny Styles had a 43 inch vert. Cal Hamilton had a 38 inch vert, so it's like he's got the athleticism of safety, but he can play every linebacker position.

There you go. So I'm, I'm very excited. We need to reload on the defense. All linebackers are old as.

I guess we got Chanel now, which is good, but the other guys are getting old, so. I really like the pick. Love. Yeah, Love the pick from the Commanders Order silencers.

He already ready to go. And then the draft, like, you know, King Proctor to Dolphins this morning. They're trying to rebuild, start with some stud offensive lineman. But Ty Simpson to The Rams at 13 was another shocker.

What a spot for Ty Simpson. I mean, you can't ask for a better spot for. For a rookie quarterback to go in. You have Sean McVay.

You have a very good team. You have Matthew Stafford that you can learn from. That's like, I'm now just drinking all the time. He's already drinking the Tyson Kool Aid.

I'm not drinking all of it. And he's gonna be a stud. Yeah, it's great because he has zero pressure right now too. And he's got the best quarterback coach in the league.

And he's just like, that's just perfect. And he's got. We're getting Ty CIP on the way. He's a stool.

Yeah, we were supposed to have him on before. Maybe he's actually good to get in. Come on. Because he's got.

You can't ask for a better. He went from possibly a late first rounder to maybe the Cardinals to getting drafted by The Rams, Sean McVay and a loaded team getting to throw to Puka Nakua and learn from Matthew Stafford. And apparently they told Matthew Stafford yesterday, which there's no way. Matthew, I think the Rams are in a spot where they could.

They could have Matthew Stafford save two more years and be like, hey, we still like that. That's perfect. It's an absolutely perfect spot for. In addition to like having the good play, it's Aaron Rogers, Aaron Rodgers, Jordan, Love.

Like, that's what the packers do. Sitting a guy and letting him learn and being like, we don't need it right now, but when we do, we'll be ready. Pressure on him. He can develop as he develops.

Like, even if Matt Stafford gets hurt or something like that, I think it's still a perfect spot for the quarterback coach and the offensive coordinator and just Sean McBay in general. Make everything as easy as possible for him. And yeah, I think. I think that's a great pick.

So they're kind of set up for the future there if they get their guy. You can also look at like the Rams kind of traded Michael Penix for Ty Simpson and so this was the Falcons pick, right? Yes. So I think, I think the Rams do not give a fuck about first round picks, I guess.

Unless they want a quarterback. Yeah. And good job. I think they know we'll see.

I mean anything could happen once you got to league. I just think that like, like we talk about all the time but like when you're, when you're talking about quarterbacks in the first round, the fit in the place they go matters so much to their future success. And you just can't have a better spot than where Ty Simpson is right now. Then we had, you know, your guy Reuben Bain, pft.

Go to the Bucks. Good pick. They need pass rushers and then memes. Wait real quick with Ruben Bane.

The funniest part of this pick was our draft analyst Stephen Che stinks. Has he had Reuben Bane, I think list as 40th overall player. Binks. Yeah.

Because he's got short arms. A big time traits guy. 40th overall and then he goes to the Bucks. And also I found right, right when he got drafted, the Bucks were selling T.

Rex like little bobblehead T. Rex with Bucks uniform on it. Unrelated to Ruben Bane. But I found that on the website within about 15 seconds of him being drafted.

It's sold out. I love that. Yeah, I love that. So yeah, Ruben Bane and then Memes Canyon sneak, which there was a moment in time that everything was happening for me.

We'll talk about the Knicks in a minute. But The Knicks were 15 seconds left in the game. Up one. The jets were on the clock and the Mets had bases loaded against them.

The Mets end up winning, the Knicks lost and you got Kane sneak. And he's really fucking good. Oh hey, there you go. Kill one move.

That's actually a really good pick. That's exactly what I wanted. Yeah, tell us about him. Tell us about his film.

He's offensive tackle. He played at Utah. He's great at defending the quarterback. Defending the quarterback.

Good hands. You mean? Okay, yeah, yeah. From defense.

Protecting the quarterback, protecting him. Great watch. I think he's married. Looks like he's married.

Oh, that matters. Massive. Big for the culture. Nice hairdo.

He looks like he was born. I was looking at the video, I saw a ring. Oh, he's a dance too. He looks like a very free, free spirit.

As a guy from Utah, he might have several wives. Literally. That was. You gotta be on high alert right now.

That was bad. Hank. I'm just gonna say the tape looks good. Yeah.

The picks of the tape look good. That's what we needed. All right, what else? Kai Lemon.

You like him? Yeah. So AJ Brown's gone. Yeah, AJ Brown's gone.

But now doesn't matter. We got a guy number. Number. Oh, my goodness.

Number one receiver in the draft. You think so? Yeah, I had a first overall. Like, if I had one, one I wouldn't want him.

Is. But Ky Lemon, a little bit of a head case. He's a weirdo. I know.

Which I love. I love A.J. brown out. Yeah.

And then I think how he likes. I think how he likes a little bit. We always say it. We always say it.

Receivers need to have a little bit. He's got, like, alpha. He's got Godfather, Don Lennon, something people. I mean, to be honest, I have watched zero Mai Lemon tape.

I've watched zero USC games. Unless they're playing Penn State. People. People are telling me he's good.

So I'm just gonna say. Well, ask Groot about it. Well, ask Groot about it. Grun said in the.

During the NFL NFL draft show, he said that he was a number one receiver. There we go. So that's big. Which I like.

Dennis Allen needs. Needs that hybrid safety. Dylan Thinman. Thinman, right?

Yeah. Thinman Square. Yeah, we'll use that. Now we have.

I mean, we, I, I. We still need defensive line. We still need some offensive line, but with him and Kobe Bryant, like, we have elite back into the defense. I'm in on that.

I also think the Browns did a good job. Yeah, Concepcion is a fucking perk. Concepcion. And they got Fino.

Yep. Looks good to me. Yeah, looks great. You know what I'm looking at this draft pick, everyone crushed it, I think.

I think everybody had a go through it. You tell me. You tell me who's a boss? Meme just looked us in the face back here and said, there better not be a trade up over there.

If the jets draft Carson back, I will light this entire booth on fire with you in it. Okay. All right. So we're on.

Carson back. Would be a real shame. Would be a real shame, but also really fun to watch. We think about Proctor.

I guess we'll talk to Gruner about that because Proctor was one pick. That Groon did not seem. Kane Proctor for the Dolphins. Yeah, he did not seem fired up about that.

And then Frank was like, I challenge him to go and walk with Me, we can lose weight together relationship, I think. Yeah. No, it's not the most loaded draft, but feels like a lot of teams besides the beginning of the draft and then ty Simpson pick a 13, there weren't like it felt like everything else was teams getting good, good fit for what they need and throughout the entire draft. So Ravens getting a guard is what they need.

You know, I mean, I do like the Kenyan sneak pick means they did go against your wishes of all defense this year, all offense next year. I forgot about Kennedy. He's like best player draft dude. Just really, really, really remember we just talking spamming to him.

Yeah. He ran fast forward to Bijn Robson anchoring effort. He's stunned. He dominated the first half against Jamie.

Yeah. Judges won best player in the draft at the time. Yeah. I actually have my grades ready for this draft.

Oh, shit. Did you see this? Real quick? The Eagles traded up for Makai Lemon while he was on the phone with the Steelers.

That's pretty crazy. That's nuts. So he was good. So that's a great pick.

Oh, no. Oh, no. What happened? What happened means was there a trade?

Was there a trade? Oh, my God. Please say there's a trade. Is there a trade?

This is. This is incredible. There's a trade. Zach and I have to run out of this.

Oh, my God. Trade up to the San Francisco 49 spot at trade 30. Oh, that's going to. That's going to be Carson back.

What if it's Cole Payton? Oh, Memes. I can't believe you just said that. Memes.

What if it's Cole Payton? What if it's. Who else could it be? What if it's Nussy?

He. Dude, Nussy had an assist on his spine. Yeah, he got assist removed. Can't be Carson back.

He's sisless. What were your grades? I. I'm giving every team an A except for the Rams.

I give them an A plus. And then the Dolphins, I give them a B plus. Okay, so that's my tire first run. And what about if they, Jeff, take Carson back?

Well, that's kind of a exercise of futility to grade that because I think we'll all be dead. I don't think we're breaking it. No, he just said the booth. I think we might all die.

We're just gonna watch the booth burn. It's just a booth. I'm happy I let you guys know what Memes said. Yeah, I.

I'm gonna stand by on that one. All right. So in line with what happened in real Life when everything was happening for memes. I'm gonna do a quick ad, and then we'll.

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They. They came out super flat in Cambridge. Is 20, 21 minutes, 0 points. So where.

So I had. I had the great pleasure of watching the game with memes. And he was talking crazy. He was talking crazy.

Pft. Do you know what he was saying? This is. This is.

This is three days after he said the series is no problem. Don't even have to watch it. Nixon, four memes at one point said, good, I hope they lose. They'll just trade everyone we have for Giannis.

He's ready to just hit the Giannis button. That's how. That's how crazy he was talking. Yeah, just like the swing of the lost desensitism.

No, it wasn't lost yet. It was a halftime. There's also that, like, minute span where you had the grand slam the Mets game, right? Yeah.

You had Sadiq getting drafted and then you had the Hawks taking the lead. And oh, by the way, the other thing was happening during that time is Hank said maybe 15 total words and memes just kept on going. That dude just won't stop talking. That's true.

In Hank's defense, like, he barely said anything. He just killed it. That dude, he knew what he was doing. Not even.

I'm memes. Boss and I might have talked to each other about being a hostile work environment. I'm scared of memes on a daily basis. Memes.

He's such a dish. So where do we go from here? It's must win Saturday. Must win.

You lose series, might as well be able. Do you put any blame on Max and Villanova? Oh, good question. Hey, great question.

Yes, I'm shut. Power Friendship? No, Max, my guy. Mikhail's also his guy.

And Mikhail is the reason they lost today. Yeah, that's fair. I'm willing to take some blame. Let's see who the jets pick right now.

All right, the pick is in. The New York jets have selected Omar Cooper. Let's go. Let's go.

Yeah. Oh, nice. If they had taken Carson, that would have been crazy. Pick names.

Well, there was a story today that there might be one team that picks him in the first round and one team would trade in to do it, and then that exact scenario should play out. Yeah. Mark Cooper's a student. Oh, hey.

Jets A. Yeah, Jets A. Who's your quarterback? That's right.

Yeah. I mean, that's actually like a really nice offense you have now with Breeze, Hall, Garrett, Wilson, Sadiq and Omar Cooper. That's a good offense. Last time.

Yeah. The last time the Mets lost Taylor was 2002, and that's when the guts won. The There we go. Patriots are falling apart.

Bills have a new coach. It's funny, that's like the last time the Mets made my life this miserable. The jets actually did something good. Doesn't remember that.

That's how long ago it was when the jets will never see. Is that Frank, right? I think it might be, yeah. Look at that jets room.

It's looking good. All right. Good job means. Yeah.

All right, so the next. Zach, we'll talk to you real quick because I do love the yin and yang of memes. And Zach, because memes was just staring blankly at the TV over and over, just going, we didn't get a shot. We didn't get shot.

We didn't get shot. Which was crazy for the final position to not get a single shot off. That was disgusting. Zach immediately said, seven game series, boys.

It's a long series. Seven games. Seven games. Professional athletes, they know what's on the table.

They know they gotta do to win seven games. That's very well said. I thought we played the defense. We can score Right.

So we gotta fix that. I also just. Kat is the biggest guy in the series. Just let him just do it.

But that's also the enigma of Cat. Like when he was. I think he was started, what do you end up with? 21 points.

And I mean, there was a while there where you just missed one shot and he was. I just. It's frustrating to watch the times, like, dude, you're so much bigger than everyone and you're better than everyone. Just go be.

Go be bigger and better. But credit the Hawks. Just like, you can do this, Cat. Yeah.

He needs a teammate to gas him up. I don't know. Seven for 12 from the field. I don't know what the Knicks were doing at the end of the game.

What are they trying to accomplish on offense with some of these possession? I don't know. It's like Jalen Brunson going to get the ball. He's going to do like a few feigned crossovers.

He's going to go between his legs, try to jump back. That's not going to work. Like a little halfway pump fake, keep the dribble alive and he's going to dribble into traffic, pick up his dribble and then hope to find. That's pretty much like the recipe for these end game scenarios from Jalen Brunson.

I feel like he has been better than this in the past. He's been so much better. His close player of the year last year. Right.

I don't know if it's coaching, I don't know if it's. He feels like he has to do too much, but they're gonna be just fine. Okay, perfect. If it's not, then Giannis.

Yeah, yeah. We're just right back with the exact same team. Pistons guarantee came through. Yeah, double guarantee.

Double guarantee. Also, we hit our parlay credit Ella buzz by Harris, Duncan Robinson and the Pistons. That felt like a very good answer by the Pistons played great defense. And then I have.

I've kept my word. I've not watched the second of the Thunder sun series. Okay, well, you should watch like one second of it on replay. There's a very funny moment and Devin Booker flipped out of it.

Oh, I saw it. I saw it on replay. Replays are loud. Okay.

Replays are loud. So now this set the stage. Devin Booker, he's dribbling the ball down the left side of the court. He's a little bit of control going out of bounds.

He then tries to throw the ball off of. Whose face was it? It was. Was it Chet, I think.

Was it Chet? I think it was Chet's. It could have been Chet. So anyway, somebody on Thunder, he tries to throw the ball off of Thunder player.

So that hits them and then goes out of bounds. After a couple seconds, Caruso goes over to the ref and starts saying, hey, man, that's technical foul. And the ref just tease him up. Yeah.

And then after the game, Devin Book was getting like, pull rafs up a name, but I think his name was James. He's like, but James sucked to me as a ref. He's like, he let Alex Caruso call foul. And it's true.

Like, Alex Caruso did assistance rest on him. Yeah. He was like, sir, that's a technical foul. Please issue it to him.

But in every level of basketball, that's just a smart play. Yeah. And it's completely allowed. So they don't.

I'm saying all this. The Thunder don't need any extra. No, they don't. They don't.

And I mean, SGA was awesome. I did watch highlights. I will say that we also were playing softball during time, but Thunder just going to the next round. Like, let's just.

Let's just say it. They're going to the next round. But other than that, like, we have some. I mean, the Raptors finally beat the CAVS after losing 12 straight games in the playoffs to them.

The. The. The T Wolves. The T dubs are currently housing the Nuggets.

They're gonna say howling. They're howling. The Nuggets. I do like the throwback court they did with like the tiny logo in the middle.

Aaron Gordon's out for that game. Not good. Also, Kevin Durant might be. Not be playing on Friday, which is a must win for the Rockets.

But I gotta get tip by cap of the NBA. We got some series. Yeah, like. Like the Hawks very much a series.

Yeah. The Raptors Cavs very much series. The Sixer Celtics is 1:1 outside of. Yeah, outside of the Thunder Suns, we have some series.

Bulls are up 20 and a half. Yeah, they're killing them. Yeah, I'm gonna call that. I'm gonna call that one 6139.

That's. That's way more than 20, by the way. That's. That's a 35.

That's a 35 point. That's 29. Yeah, that's. That's not even close.

39 to 61. That's 29 points. Yeah, actually, Hank you the math expert, real quick. Come on, go.

What? 61. 39, 21. Damn, dude.

You're good, dude. Yeah. You're nice. That's exactly correct.

Let's actually. The ground end. It's not 22. Yeah, 22.

It's close up. Yeah. We're talking more NBA playoffs with mellow hockey. Hank, you're down 2:1 now.

Sabres going to Boston. Yeah. No. This is going to be a grind of series.

Buffaloes. Buffalo come to play. Swayman's getting hit after the whistle. Doesn't like it.

But that's playoff hockey. Can I tell a funny anecdote? Sure. Memes was very upset at Hank after the Knicks loss.

And so he just makes no sense. He just turned to Hank and He goes, Name 10 Bruins. And Hank just goes, no, shut that down immediately. No, no, I'm not doing it.

I'm gonna play a little game. 10 is so mad. 10 is so mad. You gotta be kind of a freak to name 10 hockey players.

That's the anger we've got floating around in our corner right now. Just a constant edge that's going on with playoffs. I thought Hanks, he sounded like he knew he was talking about swimming. Get hit after the whistle.

Yeah, we gotta step up. Yeah. Hank, who's gotta step up in game four? Pasa, Swayman.

Okay, first line. Nail it. Go into holmes. Flyers.

Flyers. 3 OB Dominate. Box of the year. Box of the year.

There was. There was a big fight. There was four guys in the box on each team at one point. Was great.

Box of the year. The Sidney Crosby flop was unreal. Yeah, and he'd do it, too. Look, he looked back.

He's like, yeah, that was. Yeah, looked at the game was perfect. Porter Martone, great game. Went to the locker room.

I mean, the Ducks. The Ducks evened up the series. Awesome late game. Also.

The Stars and Wild played forever. It was double overtime. It was just like I fell asleep in the first overtime. Sorry, my bad.

But yeah, there's some good hockey series going on. We'll have some hockey talk next week with one of our guys from Chiclets. I have a take about this time of year. Yeah, the Hurricanes are going to.

The Hurricanes are going to win. They're going to win this series and win the next series. They're going to lose in four in the Easter Cup. Sports.

Yeah, there's too much sports. It's a lot of sports. There's too much sports right now. Like the fact that as a sports podcast, yeah, it's the best week of the year.

That's what's so good about sometimes not having the playoffs going in both the NBA and the NHL is that there's so many games that you can't ignore. You want less sports? No, I'm saying it's hard to pay attention to all the sports. Watch the playoffs.

With the draft too. Like there's just too much sports to pay attention to at one time. I want to focus. I want to, I like to focus on like give me, give me six series.

I can sink. I will say the draft could be. If the draft was a week earlier, before the playoff started, that would actually be nice. I was about to do it one worse.

Which people get mad. Who cares about the draft? The draft is not like, go back to when it was during the day. Like the primetime draft shit is.

So. I completely agree with that though. The full one day draft was the best. Yes, absolute best.

We just wake up on Saturday, it's 11am, you're just drafting all day. That was great. Yeah, I agree with that. You knew it was gonna happen.

They just squeeze it out, you know. By the way, we shout out, Roger Galford's using human shield as always. He brought out a terrible towel. Some Steelers legends, usually he'll bring out like kids when he gets on stage for the first time.

Or he'll bring out like troops. Yeah. Our kids and troops. No Hamas.

Yeah, no Hamas. No Hamas. Okay. Before we get to Gruden, the story will never end.

Hank, I feel like this is time for you to maybe chime in. Mike Rabel, Diana Racini. More pictures have come out. I will say, let me say this at the start.

One, we still don't know. It could have been a girl strip at the bar. So we don't know that that absolutely could have played. And also girls trip at the breakfast and a girl's trip at the casino.

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