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happened last night because we can talk MAVs in a second. They got a
big win. You know, it was too mass first that Troy Aiateman Audio,
Troy Aateman was pissed on the broadcast last night for Monday Night Football for
a number of reasons. And I got that for you in a second.
How about the Derek Lively line? Do you like that? Dude? I
was thinking about it. When's the last time like a Mavericks player has done
something like that, Like a MAVs big man has done something like that,
Like a week ago, didn't he have like it was twelve and fourteen,
Well he follows that up this week sixteen sixteen and two, eight for nine
from the field. I mean at the half he was close to sixteen and
sixteen. Yeah, when I checked, it was late third quarter and Luca
already had like twenty nine points. But yeah, Derek Lively had already was
in double digits and points and rebounds by the half, I believe. Yeah,
And there's something also speaking of Luca, who was just playing. I
don't know. I feel like it did when Dirk was in his prime,
that every every game, you'd come in here and talk about something that you
shouldn't be getting used to. Yeah, you know, we're gonna take this
kid for granted, and we shouldn't because he's playing at such an elevated level.
Since he added the headband, he's become even more trolling. He did
you see him do a step back on the defensive Player of the Year and
when the and when Homie hit the ground right before Luca took the shot,
he just kind of glanced down at him and went, he's gotten super he's
swagger. Yeah, he's right, he's got It's like, yeah, that's
that's the word for it. But he's different than like in the middle of
a play. Yeah, it's different than like even when he's a rookie in
a second year, like I'm really good and uh, I act like I'm
good. It's way different than that. Now it's like purposefully like he getting
mean yeah, which you know I like because that doesn't need to be taken
out of the refs all the time where we have suspensions because we have too
many technicals right it's now like I'm not taking s from anyone. And on
nightside last night, it's tough to win in Memphis sometimes. But they're not
a very good team right now, and won't mean to get John Rant back
to have Tim Hardaway out and learning of that ten minutes before the game starts.
They might have known, but we didn't know. Kyrie get stepped on
the other night. He heard his foot. It doesn't seem serious, so
he'll be back soon. Grant Williams has been out for a while. He's
been out for a while. Josh Green's been out for a while. So
it's like, okay, well who's how you get points tonight? It needs
to be Luca and then maybe someone else because usually that's gonna fold to Tim
Hardaway Junior if Kyrie's out and then Tim can't go, so Luca goes and
the Mavericks have a just a killer first half and put the game away.
I get close at the end because and the Mavericks are letting laws and play
a lot. When Morris gets into a game, you're like, aah,
man, that's good. That means the Mavericks are destroying someone or maybe they're
getting destroyed. Rookie Omax prospers starting to get playing tim but you're rookie Derek
Lively. To me, that's the story last night. Outside of Luca just
being traditional Luca with thirty five points, I mean to have someone who can
go do what he's doing every night. He's a double double candidate. And
finally, you know, and Black Powell was actually okay as a room runner
until he tore his achilles. Yeah, and it's like that that explosion is
not there, but we just throw it up there. And Derek Clively's got
you, and he's got good hands. And it's really those comparisons to Tyson
Chandler. I always kind of I saw those and I was like, I
don't know, I don't like that, Like oh, hearing that's cool,
but like Phil Early and you watch it and go, he's doing the things
that Tyson Chandler did a little bit different level, different body type, and
not as you know, at that level yet playing good defense, like wrote
in an average are not a good defensive team. They're near the back of
the league in defense, but it ain't nothing like having a Christian Wood on
the floor over everything is thrown off because you have one guy not doing his
job, but Derek Clively is doing his job. Yeah, I don't love.
I love. I was seeing on that line of sixteen sixteen just a
shocking big number. I was like, you have to go back years probably
to find a big man who's done that for them for that and maybe DeAndre
Jordan did that a couple of times as a big rebounder, yeah, but
not consistently, but I don't know the last Maverick like big man to go
get sixteen and sixteen ridiculous. So big win last night, and good that
you could let some other guys play because it was also a travel day,
Danning. We gotta travel, we gotta get home. We got an early
start tonight National TV. And you can hear it, of course here on
the Freak. It is the Lakers in town and what is one of,
if not the biggest ticket of the year, right, I mean this is
especially now he's getting older, go see Lebron. Yeah those last few years
of Jordan. Oh yeah, it was like, am I gonna go get
tickets for this thing? Now? I was a kid. Did you ever
see Jordan play. No. I didn't either, No, and I regret
it. Man, I never did. As many times as he rolled through
here, What wasn't a tone? You know? Yeah? Never got to,
never got to. And I was a big fan. Loved him,
absolutely loved him. Lakers are pretty good, you know. They obviously just
went to to the end season turney, you know, but uh, you
know the Mavericks are I mean, oh yeah, Mavers fourteen and eighth.
The Lakers are fourteen and nine. Is there any chance Kyrie placed tonight or
no? I don't. I don't think so. I haven't seen that from
a MAVs reporter type, but I do not think so. I don't think.
I don't think it. I think we're talking like maybe next week.
I think that if he were able to play tonight, he would, so
if he's not on the in the lineup, then it's I think it's a
maybe not a serious energy, but one where he obviously can't go on.
And I think I think they gave I think they gave Tim Hardaway Junior the
night off because because they're gonna need him, need him tonight, you know,
against the Lakers, more than you'd need him last night against the Grizzlies.
What I don't is Luca getting a technical late in the game, one
seconds left, absolutely pointless. Now you got the one. I guess that
happened a number of days ago. He got that one rescinded. Did you
see that? Yes? What you should have when he got poked on the
nose by Chris Dunn. Uh Luca when he got a technical, here's what
he said. He's Vince Williams Junior, was the guy for the Grizzlies who
he was getting into it with. He said he was just talking s the
whole time. I look back and I told him I wish they'd let me
play h one on one. And that's when I got to tack. The
rest have got to let us just talk. It's part of the game.
I love it. I think he's a great defender. But the refs the
last game, I didn't do nothing. We both got text this game,
we both talked, and I got into a tech only or I got a
tech only. The rest have just got a chill on that part. He's
right, he is right. They trash talk needs to happen unless the unless
it's getting unless it's escalating to a point where you're you're trying to stop an
actual confrontation or you know, chest to chest kind of kind of thing.
If they're just jawn at one another and it's not like super profane or personal
or hateful, leave them alone. Man. It is part of the game,
especially in the modern NBA, and I love it. I want that
from Luca. But this is also his reputation. Now, like the refs
do view Luca in a certain way. They know he's great, but like
you know, he ain't getting any benefit of the doubt. If there's anything,
If a ref's even thinking about should I teck this give this guy a
technical, they're being Yeah, I guess I have to give this guy technical
just because the reputation's following. It's unfortunate, but it's what it is.
So big win Lakers tonight here on the Freak. How about that six thirty
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We had a Money at Football double header last night. We did you
do the are you YouTube TV? Man YouTube TV if you watch them both
where they give you that option this season to watch two games at once.
I watched, you know, for me as a Packers fan. I had
Packers on my big one. I've got a little tiny TV and I threw
up the Titans and Giants on that, and I had HAVES on my phone,
so a lot going on, but the matter up so much that had
it fuck. I had to follow them too closely because they were at by
twenty do ole game Titans Dolphins, Titans Dolphin. Sorry. Yeah, So
how did your dang Packers get beat by New York? Well, the Packers
aren't very good and there's you know, Joe and Trolly were like, this
is a shocking performance by the Packers, Like you guys haven't seen him play.
Like September and October, the Packers were really bad. They were trading
players for draft picks and then in November. They won pretty much all their
games, including being the Lions on Thanksgiving Day and then beating the Chiefs last
Sunday night. So you win two games and get some big teams and everyone
thinks you're good. All of a sudden, Packer's not a good team.
They're young, youngest team in the league. Building they're horrible. Boy,
there was some Tommy DeVito magic last night. I can't believe it. He
was awesome, he was really good. I don't know. I just I
don't do that game should not have been close. The Packers got smoked and
they lose twenty four to twenty two. But they got outplayed the entire higher
game. Are you about to tell me that Tommy DeVito reminds you of a
young Romo? Dude, there's a little bit there. I think he's worse,
but he's worse for sure, But there's that, I mean little bit.
They have no weapons. Say, at one point in the fourth quarter,
Sakuon Barkley had fifteen carries for thirty yards. They broke a fifty yard
run later got the yards to that and fumbled on that play. But like
he ended up with his eighty six yard line. But like they don't have
anyone and somehow they go get the win. But there's a moment at the
end of the first half. No, the refs are a big part of
the NFL discourse right now, have been for a few weeks, even more
so with the Chiefs thing and Patrick Mahomes crying about Cadarius Toney being off sides.
So there's thirteen seconds left in the first half. The game has already
been at an excruciating pace because this by now famous referee crew Land Clark is
the guy's name. We've had him. We've had to deal with him in
a couple of Cowboys games this year where it's like, put the flag back
in your pants. I don't understand this crew call. Throws so many flags
and they're slow, and there's just question marks on everything every call. The
refs have to get together and discuss it's they're bad. They're just not a
good crew. So it's thirteen seconds left and a half, and you can
imagine if you're Joe and Troy, you have an eleven minute halftime. You
might get some food to re energize real quick, and the next break,
I'm gonna take a bite of this protein bar. We all do it.
So I think that Troy and Joe at thirteen seconds left, the Packers are
gonna kick off and the Giants are gonna take a knee, and I think
they're probably had some food sat down for him, right, Maybe some meatballs,
Maybe some meatballs that's something warm, you know, warm on a cold
night in New York. Yeah, maybe a nice plate of sliced John's ham
Man, maybe fresh hot ham from Klein Swines. The kickoff goes off a
Giants player's leg and goes out of bounds, but the ref those the flag
like it's a legal procedure, so they're trying to see if the Giant's gonna
get the ball at the forty and the refs get together to talk about it.
This should not take this long. And this is Troy Aikman on Monday
Night football, and he is pissed. I'm not plugged in. Sorry,
here we go. Here it is on the free all, you know.
I mean, there's thirteen seconds in the half. They're gonna get, you
know, just make a decision. And this is what stops all these games.
And the officials, I know they've been they've been talked about every week,
but this is ridiculous that we're watching right now. I mean, we
see something, it takes five seconds, it takes them five minutes to discussion.
Now stick around here. The ref's gonna explain. It doesn't matter listening
to Joe Bucks. Come about the food. The ball hit the receiving team
player and went out abound. The ball will be placed at that spot first
out. So they pick up the flag. And I'd like to know how
you really feel about them. Tell me at halftime, will you o man
over a cold meatball? There you go. The Grinches could just call timeout.
That says it all. The mask is up now the Grinch looks like
that person. I mean they're just calling out their camera shots. Uh huh,
they're calling out the crew. They don't want to be there. They
do not they don't want to be on a Monday night game. Packers and
Giants two ding dong teams. When they're used to the premiere game of the
week on box and there's a what was a hot, steaming pile of meatballs
just right next to them in their booth, They're like, dude, there's
thirteen seconds until halftime. We've been sitting here for five minutes. That's why
Joe said cold meat balls because he knew that's what this was. They were
hungry. They were hungry and they're just tired. And even in the first
quarter, they were already making comments about the game not being good. They
made a comment, Joe Bucks, It's like, what do you think Tom
Brady thinks about this? Because Tom Brady's made comments about the NFL being mediocre
by the way, like eight starting quarterbacks are hurt not playing too which that's
the fastest start your league, sock. You've started more rookie quarterbacks this season
than any time in history, So, like, you know, that doesn't
help. I still think it's a pretty good product, right. I think
they're having that stark realization of we used to get the best game in the
NFC each week, and now we are at the hands of whatever the schedule
is at the beginning of the year. We're not getting to choose. Watch
this change. Well, they're already getting some like late seasons, some good
games, but watch this change to where Monday nights are consistently maybe not as
premiere as Sunday night football. But this ain't gonna fly with Troy and that
dude wields a ton of power. It already did so last year. Before
year one, it was like a thing. Hey, the NFL is making
a conscious effort to spice up Monday Night. They have, and I'm just
saying, watch that trend continue. I think maybe it's just different than when
I was a kid, when I loved Monday Night football. As an adult,
I'm like, it's on, man, But I've watched so much of
this yesterday. I love it, dude, I love it. It's a
tick above Thursday night football now in a lot of instances. Yeah, a
tick above thirty. Yeah, which is and Thursday Night's bad. It's garbage.
I like that we have it, but it's bad. I didn't understand
why we had two Monday night games last night. I know the ESPN's experimenting
and all that stuff, but we have this get day every year Saturday in
college football, where it's the Heisman at night and it's the Army Navy game
in the afternoon. And I'm like, dude, put one of these NFL
games on Saturday night just to have it there. And instead of that,
we're we got a triple header next Saturday. Okay, so like they did
they do this, but the one day where there's nothing. There's Army Navy,
which is not a fun game ever. Okay, it's a traditional game,
but it's not a fun game. Maybe not since like the thirties and
the Heisman ceremony that no one cares about. Okay, you're just gonna watch
that on YouTube the next morning. You're not gonna watch it at all.
If you're me, you're not gonna care. Give me an NFL game.
I don't know. I just thought that's strange that we had two Monday night
games last night. But so well, the NFL have NFL meetings in Dallas.
I think this week they have their winter meetings. I think this week,
and topic A is referees. It's going to be discussed real quick.
No, you're getting behind it. Let me read this comment. So a
couple things out of the Chiefs offensive offsides, call that whole conundrum that got
old Patrick Mahomes his knickers in a twist, and Andy Reid kind of followed
suit with that. I guess I think they were just mad because it was
such a kick ass play that got called back, and it would have been
just such a defining play of the NFL season, and they're just bummed out
that that flashy, badass lateral play didn't result in them winning the game,
and their wide receivers are costing them again. Yeah, they just didn't manage
their disappointment in what should have been in disappointment in themselves and kind of used
the referees as Patsy's. Mahomes has come out and said that he regrets the
way he acted. He said, obviously you don't want to react that way.
I care, man, I love this game, I love my teammates.
I want to go out there and put everything on the line to win.
But obviously can't do that. Can't be that way toward officials or really
anybody in life. So yeah, I probably regret acting like that. More
than anything. I regretted the way I acted toward Josh after the game because
he had nothing to do with it. I was still hot and emotional,
But you can't do that, man. Not a great example for kids watching
the game. Patrick's just a fiery dude, though we saw him the quarterback
when he goes after Max Crosby well on that TV show The Quarterback that was
on Netflix. I said, the chiefs for a team that wins a lot,
still relatively likable because of Patrick. I think everyone kind of likes Andy
Ree. Dude, they're losing a lot because I'm sick of Taylor Swift headlines.
I'm sick of Travis Kelsey commercials. Yeah, and I just do not
accept the One of the things I hated the most, it's Dak Prescott's lowest
moment as a player is when after the forty nine Ers game two years ago,
Mike McCarthy and Dak Prescott walk into their postgame press conference in the playoffs
and blame the game on the refs when the Cowboys had like twelve penalties.
They both did it, and I was like, no, that is not
you guys didn't play good enough. The referees had a chance to respond to
all of the consternation about that call. They had a pool report with NFL
SVP. I don't know what that is. I like to say, NFL
Scott van Pelt, Okay, that's Walt Anderson and referee Carl Scheffer's or Cheffer's
and they said yes, ultimately talking about if receivers look to them for alignment
advice, Hey, are we cool or am I lined up properly? And
they asked for it, and they freely give it. He said, Yes,
we certainly are going to give it to them, but ultimately they are
responsible for wherever they line up, and certainly no warning is required from us,
especially if they are lined up so far off sides where they're actually blocking
our view of the ball. Yes, describing what Tony, Yeah, he
did, so we would give them some sort of warning if it was anywhere
close, like if his foot had just maybe been a little bit on the
ball to been like, hey, dude, I'm not gonna call this,
but you're getting you're getting into that no man's land, or you're in that
no man's land. You're going to commit a penalty if you get any closer.
They're like, dude, this is so egregious. I gotta throw the
flag. Yeah, And that's that's exactly. I mean, this is the
thing that is happening now. And had they not thrown that flag, I
think the outrage would have been tenfold from from Bill's nation and it would have
been absolutely justified. And the flag was thrown before Travis Kelcey ever threw the
lateral the other way, Yeah, exactly the beginning of the play, and
a lot of people could want to make the argument you know, well it
didn't even affect the play. Well you can say that, but the guy
that committed the penalty ultimately scored the damn touchdown. So shut up, Chiefs,
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