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Speaker 1: So awesome, awesome.
Speaker 3: Hey, Candy, can I ask Samara a quick question? So
Speaker 3: the two for zero one? Right?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Is is that significant at all to you? Uh?
Speaker 5: Well, yes, I mean yes.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, just curious if if it I didn't know
Speaker 3: if there was like a birthday tied indo there somewhere.
Speaker 5: Yeah, could be.
Speaker 3: I mean there's there's a lot of four digit codes
Speaker 3: out there. No, I wasn't asking for your pen number,
Speaker 3: but I didn't know if it was a story you
Speaker 3: could tell. So, I mean that's my I'm in the
Speaker 3: same boat, and that's why I ask. I can't sare
Speaker 3: why that number means something to me a little bit?
Speaker 3: I gotcha, So, Candy ma'am, it is all yours. Where
Speaker 3: are we gonna lead this thing off this evening?
Speaker 1: You know, I think we gotta start with something that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen that's gonna be the first that's gonna happen
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball, because I mean, I just got you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know I'm talking here with you gentlemen,
Speaker 1: but as a woman like this is really I think
Speaker 1: kind of cool because for the first time in MLB
Speaker 1: history in a regular season game, they're gonna have a
Speaker 1: female umpire and they're gonna on Saturdays. She is gonna work.
Speaker 1: Her name is Jen Powell. She has done some of
Speaker 1: I think spring training games, I think she started, but
Speaker 1: she's actually going to work the basis on Saturday.
Speaker 3: For play she got called up she does as well. Sorry, yes, she's.
Speaker 1: Going to do the plate on Sunday, which I just
Speaker 1: think is really cool. And I'm not actually kind of wondering,
Speaker 1: like why did it take so long? Like we're talking
Speaker 1: an umpire, We're not talking you know, anything else, like
Speaker 1: why did it take so long for it to be
Speaker 1: the first woman to umpire regular season MLB game? But
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of curious as to you guys, what
Speaker 1: your thoughts are about the first female ming an MLB?
Speaker 3: And yeah, Samara, you said you spoke first, U lead
Speaker 3: it perfect. That's exactly where I was going to ask
Speaker 3: you go go ahead.
Speaker 5: I mean, considering that you have female officials in other
Speaker 5: sports such as the NBA, you've seen quite a few NFL,
Speaker 5: I feel like that number is growing. I feel like
Speaker 5: it was only a matter at time before the MLB
Speaker 5: got one.
Speaker 1: So okay, Jeremy, you gotta take.
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be better than everybody thinks
Speaker 4: because low and behold, how many times over the years
Speaker 4: have we watched men fail to call a proper strike zone?
Speaker 4: Good lord, I mean, I swear that one guy, it
Speaker 4: cost Galarraga at first a perfect game, and it was
Speaker 4: clear that guy was out by over half a step.
Speaker 4: We're not talking where it was close. It wasn't bang bang.
Speaker 4: He was well over half a step away, and it
Speaker 4: was a blown perfect game.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: I love the fact that you just dropped the bang bang.
Speaker 3: It wasn't bang bang. You're right, Yeah, that was horrible
Speaker 3: with Galarraga. They miss that call. And y'all, I think
Speaker 3: we'll just tie this all in together because I want
Speaker 3: to read some comments. Candy just mentioned from Jen she'll
Speaker 3: be on the base pads the first couple of games
Speaker 3: and then she is gonna be behind home plate. We've
Speaker 3: seen egregious terrible calls. Jeremy just mentioned them, Samir, and
Speaker 3: we can all agree, like Jeremy just said, men most
Speaker 3: of the time, they get it right most of the time,
Speaker 3: but they're wrong too. Nobody is perfect. And honestly, the
Speaker 3: first thing that popped in my head is I've got
Speaker 3: a mother. You've all had a girlfriend or a wife. Candy,
Speaker 3: you're a woman. So thankful to have you to give
Speaker 3: your take on this. But we finally get an answer
Speaker 3: to life's world longest question. Are women always right?
Speaker 1: Listen?
Speaker 3: I want nothing more because male umpires have done it.
Speaker 3: They come out and they call a one game. It's
Speaker 3: rare on balls and strikes, I mean take them out. Well,
Speaker 3: we figure out that call, but the balls and the strikes?
Speaker 3: Can a woman always be right? And I'm so thankful
Speaker 3: that she'll be behind the home plate. But at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, Samir and Jeremy, Samir, you first.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, we just want it
Speaker 3: right right pretty much?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean pretty much. Can they call balls and
Speaker 5: strikes correctly?
Speaker 4: Can they.
Speaker 5: Know the difference between an outfield fly and an infield fly?
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Things like that, Like, oh, that's a good question. Will
Speaker 3: they know the infield flight rule? Some of the players
Speaker 3: don't even know that rule.
Speaker 5: Some of the players won't even know that.
Speaker 3: So we've seen that happen.
Speaker 5: Yep, we sure have.
Speaker 1: So I want to make I want to tie it
Speaker 1: back to what we were talking about earlier. MLB's move
Speaker 1: comes twenty eight years after the gender barrier for game
Speaker 1: officials was broken in the NBA, ten years after it
Speaker 1: ended the NFL, and three years after the Men's Soccer
Speaker 1: World Cup employed a female referee.
Speaker 3: Right, okay, and here let me take blame and then
Speaker 3: I'll pass it to Jeremy and the samar That was
Speaker 3: partially my fault. What did take so long for it
Speaker 3: to happen? I don't think we've had any comments, but
Speaker 3: we appreciate Pensman and Tiger Stripes and rx J for
Speaker 3: being here. Valutations to all you guys. But I asked
Speaker 3: them in the chat too, why did it take so long?
Speaker 3: It wasn't that it took so long, just the NFL
Speaker 3: and the NBA were ahead of the game.
Speaker 4: Amen, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: They and now the MLB obviously trying to come back
Speaker 3: and correct they say, you know what, we've never had
Speaker 3: a woman referee in the NFL. You know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 3: referee is the lead position. So I got a feeling
Speaker 3: if she's behind the plate, she will be the what
Speaker 3: is it the crew chief? I think they call it
Speaker 3: in the MLB. Not to be confused with NASCAR, which
Speaker 3: we all will talk on Southern right sports in South
Speaker 3: Florida Tribune. Don't forget about NASCAR. But yeah, it's not
Speaker 3: like it was all understood, and so Jeremy passed it
Speaker 3: back down to you and samir ral.
Speaker 4: Why did it take so long? Because the MLB is
Speaker 4: the original old boys club. That's what it all boils
Speaker 4: down to. And what is that misogynistic to say, not
Speaker 4: as a fan seeing it from the outside, but for
Speaker 4: any of those people that said they shouldn't the entire
Speaker 4: time that was within the MLB organization, they were wrong
Speaker 4: for doing so. Equal rights for people of both sexist
Speaker 4: to have a job has been out for how long now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? As wild and then samir again, can a woman
Speaker 3: always be right? And why did it take so long
Speaker 3: for the MLB.
Speaker 5: I think anybody can be right, anybody can be wrong.
Speaker 5: Why it took so long for Major League Baseball? I
Speaker 5: think Germany. I think Jeremy's right. Major League Baseball was
Speaker 5: the original boys club, per se. Like for example, major
Speaker 5: League Baseball started in eighteen seventy six, they didn't integrate
Speaker 5: until nineteen forty seven, so that's almost eighty years in.
Speaker 5: It took them that long to just integrate. So I
Speaker 5: would say it kind of has been behind the eight
Speaker 5: ball a little bit and compared to the NFL or
Speaker 5: the NBA in that regard. So I think Jeremy's right
Speaker 5: on that.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say, and I agree with Jeremy that
Speaker 1: I think it's the good old boys club. What I
Speaker 1: don't understand is girls play softball and we've played it
Speaker 1: for how many years? And that's so close to baseball,
Speaker 1: just like girls play girls basketball, like girls don't play
Speaker 1: football for the most part. So how we got into football,
Speaker 1: referee and as opposed to not into baseball before surprises me,
Speaker 1: Except the NFL is pretty good about like doing all
Speaker 1: these new things and expanding and going overseas first and
Speaker 1: now like MLB's going overseas and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But right, oh yeah, well, I was just gonna say exactly.
Speaker 3: So someone commented today on mine and we're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: women have done really well in coaching. Pat Summit comes
Speaker 3: to mind, Dawn Staley came to mind from a p
Speaker 3: Digits loyal listener, yep, and he commented that, and these
Speaker 3: ladies know, if they're going to get into any sport,
Speaker 3: baseball and basketball, they're universal.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: And have we even seen an MLB woman coach yet,
Speaker 3: like in the Major League I.
Speaker 5: Think San Francisco anywhere years ago.
Speaker 3: I think you're right, Candy, Mike can do that search
Speaker 3: for us real quick to find out if a woman
Speaker 3: has ever been a coach at the MLB level. I
Speaker 3: feel like you're right, though I know.
Speaker 1: There was one in the minor leagues because I think
Speaker 1: there was one over in uh not Sarasota, but down
Speaker 1: here and for spring training that I remember women right well.
Speaker 3: And and again while you're searching, it to universal sports,
Speaker 3: So Jeremy, hey, check this out, Samir, listen to this, NBA, MLB,
Speaker 3: they're universal sports, softball, baseball together. And so this is
Speaker 3: a conversation leading us down a rabbit hole. But the
Speaker 3: NFL is trying to pursue to be a universal sport
Speaker 3: going global with their games. They've had the women, they're
Speaker 3: obviously women's flag football. The MLB, though, what can they
Speaker 3: do to grow? What else do they need to do?
Speaker 4: Basically open it up at the lower levels to allow
Speaker 4: women to play as well as referee ahead of time.
Speaker 4: That way we can see if any of them have
Speaker 4: MLB talent. Because I know when I played Little league,
Speaker 4: and this was in nineteen seventy eight, I'm talking about
Speaker 4: in seventy nine, there was girls on my baseball team.
Speaker 3: So there were girls on the football team that played
Speaker 3: my son this year.
Speaker 4: Sorry, go ahead, I'm saying those are co ed leagues.
Speaker 4: But when it says it said sign up for boys
Speaker 4: summer and I see eight girls name on a twenty
Speaker 4: five person roster, that tells me that the interest is
Speaker 4: there for girls to play baseball. Why aren't they allowed
Speaker 4: in intramural sports with the schools?
Speaker 1: I agree. I'm going to quick say kudos to Samir
Speaker 1: because you definitely got it right. Alyssa, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm sounding her name right. Nakin n akk E
Speaker 1: n is the first woman to coach in a Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball geam, making her debut as first base coach
Speaker 1: for the San Francisco Giants back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: She was also the first woman to hold a full
Speaker 1: time coaching position in MLB, joining the Giants staff in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. More recently, she has transitioned to the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Guardians for a player development.
Speaker 4: Role.
Speaker 1: Good job, Samira, you nailed it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I remember from a few years ago they
Speaker 5: hired one. I just I just remembered because I think
Speaker 5: they were I remember watching one of their games and
Speaker 5: I think it was pointed out.
Speaker 3: So yeah, like I said, I thought I was right
Speaker 3: behind you. Hey, I was right, and I am right
Speaker 3: by association because I agree and I agree with everybody
Speaker 3: most of the time. Jeremy Samir appreciates you guys being here. Candy,
Speaker 3: where what's up? We're done with that conversation, I think so.
Speaker 4: But we do have all other We do have one
Speaker 4: other person that's been in the official value capacity in
Speaker 4: the MLB. That's a woman that has handled all of
Speaker 4: the scouting for the New York Yankees the last fifteen years.
Speaker 4: I can't remember her name, but she does the scouting
Speaker 4: for the Triple A, the Double A, and the Single
Speaker 4: A getting all of their undrafted players.
Speaker 1: I mean, Kim ng was for the Marlins and Yankees
Speaker 1: a high position too, so now she's doing now she's
Speaker 1: in charge of the new softball league. But yes, but
Speaker 1: I mean I don't think I don't know if we'll do.
Speaker 1: We think we'll ever see a female manager.
Speaker 4: I think eventually you will. I think eventually you will.
Speaker 4: I'm quite sure there is in one of those little
Speaker 4: low A or single high A affiliates that hardly anybody
Speaker 4: knows about. I'm quite sure there's probably a female assistant
Speaker 4: or a base coach already that is probably being groomed.
Speaker 4: I don't know the.
Speaker 5: Answer to that question. I don't know. I remember, not
Speaker 5: too a few years ago they were there was the
Speaker 5: belief that in the NBA, Greg Popovich's replacement was going
Speaker 5: to be a female. Than ultimately that didn't happen. So
Speaker 5: I really feel like that question is up in the air.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 3: I am right along with y'all. I mean, as you
Speaker 3: just mentioned, Becky Hammond m supposedly coaching waiting for the Spurs.
Speaker 3: Just so happened to get hired to the WNBA before
Speaker 3: that happened.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: I can't say what I really want to say as
Speaker 3: far as women getting chances to be managers, coaches and
Speaker 3: all that. I'll tie it all in together. I want
Speaker 3: to see it come. We've talked about Don Staley getting
Speaker 3: head calls for the head coaching job at the Knicks,
Speaker 3: like it's not far from the realm of pibility. But
Speaker 3: Asamir said, I don't know. Could it be five more years,
Speaker 3: could it be ten more years? I mean, what woman
Speaker 3: right now could we highlight to be that coach? You
Speaker 3: know what I mean? If you can't name her, If
Speaker 3: you don't know the top recruit, that means that the
Speaker 3: MLB and stuff, the NFL and they're not talking about
Speaker 3: it that much. If you don't know what their number
Speaker 3: one recruit is, if you're not hearing a peep and
Speaker 3: a chirp about these people's names, if you're not hearing
Speaker 3: a sizzle, so to speak.
Speaker 1: I mean, do we think Caiton Clerk will ever be
Speaker 1: a coach? I mean, she's playing right now, but let's
Speaker 1: face it, they only play for how many years? Do
Speaker 1: we think she you know, she's a big name popular.
Speaker 1: Could she be the first female.
Speaker 3: At seventy five thousand dollars a year? I think she's
Speaker 3: looking to play for fifty years if I'm her, shoot,
Speaker 3: y'all gonna have to drag me off this court. I've
Speaker 3: brought you all of this and you still lost money. WNBA.
Speaker 3: Don't even get me into the economics and the WNBA.
Speaker 3: I've already cooked that. Golly, I've already cooked the WNBA.
Speaker 3: So much about that. But yeah, I mean, who Caitlin Clark?
Speaker 3: When I said what I said, she was the first
Speaker 3: one that popped in my mind. Name me one softball
Speaker 3: player that played for the USA women's softball team. Name
Speaker 3: me one, and I'll say she could be a mob
Speaker 3: head coach. But you've never heard of whoever I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: That's the problem, right right?
Speaker 1: No, I agree?
Speaker 4: I agree?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Anyways, yeah, yes, topic, Yeah, anybody else? Anybody? Women? Umpire?
Speaker 3: Uh we got p digits over here in the stream,
Speaker 3: he said, he brings nothing to the table. You're a liar.
Speaker 3: P digits, You're a liar. You missed my earlier comment
Speaker 3: in the stream where it says I might be a
Speaker 3: little bit sassy. This evening. So kay, yes, by all means,
Speaker 3: what do we got coming up next?
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the topic that the title is. The
Speaker 1: preseason is here? Who's playing and who should be playing? Now, Samir,
Speaker 1: I know you just wrote an article about this. I
Speaker 1: don't know if any of you have been watching the
Speaker 1: game tonight, but there's also there's already an injury. Ravens
Speaker 1: rookie cornerback Ball Cone tore his ACL and mcl into
Speaker 1: night's game.
Speaker 4: Out and he was considered what their fourth cornerback or
Speaker 4: their third cornerback at best on the roster right now.
Speaker 4: This is just more proof why coaches like Dan Campbell
Speaker 4: and everybody says that he gets more out of the
Speaker 4: joint practices that they can control what happens versus putting
Speaker 4: him in a preseason game where it's full contact and
Speaker 4: less controlled.
Speaker 1: Well, and they haven't been practicing for that long to
Speaker 1: ramp it up to playing a game already. To me,
Speaker 1: I mean, they've only been practicing for what a week
Speaker 1: or two weeks?
Speaker 4: Some of them started three weeks ago. There's like four
Speaker 4: teams that started three weeks ago, two of them being
Speaker 4: the Chargers and Lions because they had the Hall of
Speaker 4: Fame game last week, right, so you know. But yeah,
Speaker 4: you're right, But this all stems back. If you think
Speaker 4: about it, all these soft tissue injuries. All you gotta
Speaker 4: do is go back to the death of Corey Stringer
Speaker 4: in twenty seventeen because all the rules change for offseason
Speaker 4: workouts the next year, no to a days, no extra OTAs,
Speaker 4: no no mandatory weight training. You couldn't make players do it.
Speaker 4: They had to want to do it themselves and all
Speaker 4: because he didn't hydrate himself and the coaches didn't catch
Speaker 4: it in time. And I understand it's a tragedy that
Speaker 4: he died. I'm not making fun of that at all.
Speaker 4: But you saw a thirty percent increase from twenty seventeen
Speaker 4: to twenty eighteen in soft isssue injuries, and it's gone
Speaker 4: up by three percent every year until it finally plant
Speaker 4: out at forty five percent.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like I understand both sides of it
Speaker 5: in regards to who should play in the preseason and
Speaker 5: who shouldn't. And I mentioned this in my article. You know,
Speaker 5: every year there is a debate within various NFL fan bases,
Speaker 5: especially ours here in Atlanta, on who should play in
Speaker 5: the preseason and who shouldn't. And I think a lot
Speaker 5: of that basis in favor of who should play your
Speaker 5: saying or people in favor of their team's starters, especially
Speaker 5: offensive starters playing is that you know if you get
Speaker 5: if you play your starters for a driver too for
Speaker 5: at least two of the games, you can knock that
Speaker 5: rust off and find the best way possible to avoid
Speaker 5: a slow start to Week one or a slow start
Speaker 5: to the season. On the flip side, you're risking injuries
Speaker 5: to a player on your roster that can potentially impact
Speaker 5: the outcome of your season. And my argument is that
Speaker 5: if I were a head coach in the NFL, I
Speaker 5: would play my starters, especially my offensive starters, no more
Speaker 5: than around one to two drives in two of the games.
Speaker 5: And I feel like with think about the Falcons is
Speaker 5: that we have lost six of our last seven Week
Speaker 5: one games. In those games are offensive averaged sixteen and
Speaker 5: a half points. Week two they usually play better in
Speaker 5: a lot of and a lot and I think most
Speaker 5: of those Week two games they've ended up winning. But
Speaker 5: I feel like it goes to show that in the NFL,
Speaker 5: you want to start fast. And the thing is, let's
Speaker 5: say you have a rookie quarterback or a second year
Speaker 5: quarterback who hasn't gotten a lot of NFL reps, I
Speaker 5: feel like that quarterback should play like as I mentioned,
Speaker 5: the series or two for two to three games because
Speaker 5: they haven't had enough exposure to the speed of an
Speaker 5: NFL game or the or what or the speed of
Speaker 5: an NFL defense as a quarterback like an established veteran
Speaker 5: would like. The ironic part in all of this is
Speaker 5: that Joe Burrow and Patrick Mahomes, who are who have
Speaker 5: been on playoff runs, who have played in Super Bowls.
Speaker 5: Mahomes has won three Super Bowls, multiple MVPs. Those guys
Speaker 5: have played in our playing games in the preseason. Meanwhile,
Speaker 5: Michael Pennix Junior, who has only three NFL starts under
Speaker 5: his belt, is not getting any snaps in tomorrow's preseason
Speaker 5: game against Detroit. The hope is that we will see
Speaker 5: him in some aspect of our first team offense next
Speaker 5: week in our preseason game against the Titans. And my
Speaker 5: issue with that is we had a new quarterback last
Speaker 5: season in Kirk Cousins, the first time play caller Zach Robinson.
Speaker 5: The starters got zero playing time in the preseason. They
Speaker 5: came out Week one against Pittsburgh and looked out a sink.
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh won that game without scoring an offensive touchdown, and
Speaker 5: as I mentioned in my article, the turning point of
Speaker 5: that game could have been avoided if the starters had
Speaker 5: gotten some playtime in the preseason. There was a miscommunication
Speaker 5: between Kirk and one of our Titans, Charlie Warner, resulted
Speaker 5: in a bad snap in a fumble, and we were
Speaker 5: leading at that time. We were driving into Steelar territory.
Speaker 5: That basically changed the momentum of the game, and we
Speaker 5: ended up losing that game without giving up a single
Speaker 5: without our defense giving up a single touchdown. So, for example,
Speaker 5: like the Bengals have traditionally not played Joe Burrow and
Speaker 5: their star skill players in the preseason, and it feels
Speaker 5: like every year they come out Week one and look flat.
Speaker 5: Like for example, that loss to the Patriots team that
Speaker 5: ultimately ended up winning four games last year could be
Speaker 5: attributed in large part to Russ because the very next week,
Speaker 5: if we don't remember, they went to Kansas City and
Speaker 5: took and almost beat the Chiefs and their offense looked
Speaker 5: a lot better. So me, it really depends on the circumstance.
Speaker 5: If you're an established veteran quarterback who is familiar with
Speaker 5: the speed of an NFL game and an NFL defense,
Speaker 5: and you have that continuity and chemistry with your teammates
Speaker 5: or coordinators or whomever, then no, you don't need to
Speaker 5: play in the preseason. But if you are a young
Speaker 5: quarterback who is still getting used to the speed of
Speaker 5: an NFL game, like a Michael Panix, like a cam
Speaker 5: Ward over in Tennessee, then I feel like those reps
Speaker 5: could be beneficial.
Speaker 1: Okay, Jeremy, your thoughts.
Speaker 4: Well, all we got to do is look at one
Speaker 4: team and the fact that they've been in the Super
Speaker 4: Bowl how many times in a row. Andy Reid and
Speaker 4: the Chiefs. Yep, that team plays starters in every preseason
Speaker 4: game every year, even in the last game. It's just
Speaker 4: like a little mini preview. Two drives in, they're out,
Speaker 4: or a quarter. That's a recipe for success. That's what
Speaker 4: it was. The entire NFL with the four game fourmat
Speaker 4: They would play a quarter, then they'd play a third,
Speaker 4: then they'd play an extended almost a half, and then
Speaker 4: they did play a half. Why not at least let
Speaker 4: them do one or two drives every game, get the
Speaker 4: rusted off to get him in games.
Speaker 5: Yet, Yeah, like I remember, for a lot of the
Speaker 5: years when Matt Ryan was our quarterback, he would play
Speaker 5: in the preseason all the time. He'd play about he'd
Speaker 5: play almost a full quarter in about a game or two,
Speaker 5: mainly one game, and they'd come out week one and
Speaker 5: a lot of times I think we won most of
Speaker 5: our games when he was here week one. So yeah,
Speaker 5: I feel like it does. People want to say that
Speaker 5: it doesn't make a difference. I think, in my opinion,
Speaker 5: it does. You know, and I've heard the argument that, well,
Speaker 5: the Eagles didn't play any other starters last year and
Speaker 5: look what they did well. Again, whether or not you
Speaker 5: play your starters in the preseason, there's no correlation between
Speaker 5: that and regular season success. And in case people forget
Speaker 5: the Eagles down a slow start last year, especially Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 5: like Jalen Hurts turned the ball over a lot in
Speaker 5: those first that first hand full of games, and again
Speaker 5: he didn't really take off, or that offense in general
Speaker 5: didn't really take off until about week six or week seven. Now,
Speaker 5: they did have some injuries. AJ Brown got injured in
Speaker 5: the game against the Packers. I think DeVante Smith had
Speaker 5: to miss a game or two, but still it took
Speaker 5: them time to get caught up in the speed of
Speaker 5: an NFL game. So yeah, I feel like it does
Speaker 5: make a difference. But me, it really it's really all
Speaker 5: circum depends on circumstance, right, and.
Speaker 1: Candy, I was, yep, go ahead, I was gonna say
Speaker 1: so in all the years that we had, even Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers obviously has been the head of the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks for how long and it took us to a
Speaker 1: super Bowl and everything. I think even him, because there's
Speaker 1: always going to be rookies on the team and there's
Speaker 1: always going to be new people that you're putting in
Speaker 1: or you're put changing positions. I think you have to
Speaker 1: put them in in the beginning because otherwise the Packers
Speaker 1: had looked I thought they looked flat the last couple
Speaker 1: of years coming out, especially when we even had Rogers
Speaker 1: because he wouldn't play in the games in preseason, and
Speaker 1: I think that was wrong because I think the timing
Speaker 1: you miss, your timing, you miss, especially rookies. Last year
Speaker 1: with Jordan Love, like, how well was he connecting with
Speaker 1: his rookies and and there's a difference between practicing against
Speaker 1: your own defense and being in games with a different
Speaker 1: defense and recognizing and not just for the quarterbacks, but
Speaker 1: even for the wide receivers. You know who is covering me?
Speaker 1: How quickly are they? How can I get open? How
Speaker 1: is it the D line you know, guarding me? And
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I think they should be playing at
Speaker 1: least a series or two, if not maybe the first quarter.
Speaker 1: And yet they run the risk of being injured. I
Speaker 1: get that. But they can be injured in practice. They
Speaker 1: can be injured the first game of the regular season
Speaker 1: if they don't start ampting up. I mean, it could
Speaker 1: happen anyway anytime, let's face it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I feel the exact same way. Like people
Speaker 5: are saying, well, we can't risk an injury to somebody
Speaker 5: on our roster. Well, I mean hypothetically, and you know,
Speaker 5: God forbid, Michael Pennix could fall down the steps at
Speaker 5: his home and hurt himself.
Speaker 3: So a skiing skiing hurt by it one way?
Speaker 5: Or j C. Horn with the Panthers just got into
Speaker 5: a car accident the other day.
Speaker 4: Let us he had some stitches. He'll be fine, but
Speaker 4: he has got he should be back by the first
Speaker 4: week of the season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, like like someone can get hurt the first
Speaker 5: play of week one, like And I think Candy, you
Speaker 5: were right, like referring like training camp, scrimmages or joint
Speaker 5: practices as getting assimilated to live game action. I just
Speaker 5: don't think it is a sufficient means of doing so,
Speaker 5: because you know, people aren't going one hundred percent. A
Speaker 5: lot of times you don't have pads on, but in
Speaker 5: a real game, they are going one hundred percent, and
Speaker 5: you have to be ready to remember what it feels
Speaker 5: like to get sacked or to have somebody coming at
Speaker 5: you full speed, things like that. So again, just my
Speaker 5: whole point. It does make a difference. I feel.
Speaker 3: She absolutely it does, all right, And y'all I might
Speaker 3: have to take a moment on this one. Yeah. I've
Speaker 3: been sitting here, I've been listening to everything you guys
Speaker 3: have to say, and it's helped me gather my thoughts.
Speaker 3: That's what I love to do. I don't necessarily like
Speaker 3: to copy or anything. So that's not what you're hearing.
Speaker 3: You're hearing a conversation here on Southern Fried Sports with
Speaker 3: the South Florida Tribune, where we have fired up the friars.
Speaker 3: Say that three times fast fire up the friar and
Speaker 3: it ain't that hard. Good deal. I like it. So
Speaker 3: that's what we're doing. And y'all did to me everything
Speaker 3: y'all have said. I was already thinking it, and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, man, Samir just led me there so greatly.
Speaker 3: And then Candy said the same thing, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 3: she led me there so greatly. And then Jeremy he
Speaker 3: said something, and I'm like, man, it's just all beautiful.
Speaker 3: So at the end of the day, the most difficult
Speaker 3: thing to do for an NFL coach is to balance
Speaker 3: the play between starters and potential roster cuts going into
Speaker 3: the season. I do not want that job. You've got
Speaker 3: so many great football players right in front of you,
Speaker 3: and you know, you know that some of those players
Speaker 3: can help your team get to the next level. You
Speaker 3: never know when there's a random fifth round quarterback, seventh
Speaker 3: round quarterback Rock Purdy, Tom Brady, you never know when
Speaker 3: there's a sneaky wide receiver trell O. I don't think
Speaker 3: it was drafted that high. Randy Moss, I don't think
Speaker 3: was drafted that high. Jerry Rice, none of them were
Speaker 3: drafted that high. And so to Sameir's point, practice and
Speaker 3: games are not the same. No, no, they're not. What
Speaker 3: you get from practice from a player does not translate
Speaker 3: into getting it on the game field. And so I
Speaker 3: hate it for colleges. Colleges they don't even get to
Speaker 3: play a preseason game. They I mean, they just get
Speaker 3: to go play against themselves. What do you learn about yourself?
Speaker 3: I mean, you learn a lot about your own team,
Speaker 3: but you're not learning anything about anybody else. And so
Speaker 3: it's a very difficult thing to balance though. All Right,
Speaker 3: so you got coaches, they're trying to get game film
Speaker 3: for the year, but they've also got this list of
Speaker 3: players that, let's be honest, some of the NFL coaches
Speaker 3: might not even know their head name, their first name.
Speaker 3: I mean, what, you're coming here to practice for a
Speaker 3: few weeks. You're an un drafted free agent. But that's
Speaker 3: why they've got to earn their spot and make their
Speaker 3: name be known. So where do we put the balance though?
Speaker 3: For you guys, Like I've heard everything y'all said, and
Speaker 3: that's where I land. Yes, your starters need to play,
Speaker 3: they need to get reps. You got to be on
Speaker 3: the field. I just said. Practice and games are different.
Speaker 3: But you've also got to find your diamond in the rough.
Speaker 3: You've got to find whatever it is you need to
Speaker 3: get to the next level. It's a tough job in
Speaker 3: my opinion.
Speaker 1: Agreed, Agreed, I mean, where do you Who is you
Speaker 1: going to be number two? Who's gonna be number three?
Speaker 1: Number four? I mean, let's face it, some of these
Speaker 1: some of these teams have how many different quarterbacks on
Speaker 1: their roster right now, and you know they're not gonna
Speaker 1: be able to keep them all. So who's going to
Speaker 1: be where? I would say, in a perfect world, I
Speaker 1: would say you would play the first couple of series,
Speaker 1: whether it be two three series, with your starters and
Speaker 1: maybe going up to the first the end of the
Speaker 1: first quarter, and then you start putting in more people.
Speaker 1: But part of it also depends on the other teams,
Speaker 1: because are then you playing yours second string against their
Speaker 1: first string or is it their third string against your
Speaker 1: second or your first string? Like that's where it gets interesting.
Speaker 3: And and two things to exactly what you just said.
Speaker 3: So the whole emotion and the nervousness and the feeling
Speaker 3: leading into a game. So say you've got this rookie,
Speaker 3: though I mean all of them rookie. They never played
Speaker 3: in an NFL game before. They have never once played
Speaker 3: in an ANFL game. Sorry, I felt like I said
Speaker 3: that really fast, so I wanted to repeat it. Some
Speaker 3: of these guys have never played in an NFL game,
Speaker 3: so I almost want to put them out there first
Speaker 3: to see if they can harness that nervousness, those emotions.
Speaker 3: To me, it would be a mental test, and then
Speaker 3: I would bring my starters in. The starters. If they've
Speaker 3: started an NFL game, they've already gotten over those emotions
Speaker 3: and that nervousness. So to me, if there's I don't
Speaker 3: know what the NFL rosters, I know they got to
Speaker 3: trim down to fifty three. I don't know how many
Speaker 3: they have currently, But if there's twenty players that I'm observing,
Speaker 3: coaches are pulling out those tricks to test their mental capability.
Speaker 3: And if you think I'm lying, you don't know ball.
Speaker 3: That's all I can tell you.
Speaker 1: So JD, I can tell you that during the NFL
Speaker 1: preseason each team, each team can have up to ninety
Speaker 1: players on their roster. This allows teams to evaluate a
Speaker 1: large number of players, including rookies, free agents, and veterans
Speaker 1: before making final cuts to reach the regular season limit
Speaker 1: of fifty three players. The final cutdown day is typically
Speaker 1: in late AUGUSTA.
Speaker 3: I was right about the fifty three. I did say that.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I don't know how many on the
Speaker 4: thirteen on the practice squad I believe it is. And
Speaker 4: every week there has to be what is it? Is
Speaker 4: it six or seven practice squad players activated each week
Speaker 4: for being dressed because there's something like that. There's a
Speaker 4: rotation that they allow and that allows you to rest
Speaker 4: your your depth on your roster.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's somewhere around that.
Speaker 4: What I what I'm worried about is, let's say that
Speaker 4: they pushed this eighteen game season in. How are they
Speaker 4: going to mitigate the extra game? Going one less preseason game,
Speaker 4: which means more soft tissue injuries will happen in the
Speaker 4: regular season, Less starters will see the field than we
Speaker 4: already see because you only got two games to evaluate
Speaker 4: your lesser talent to fill your roster. Are they going
Speaker 4: to expand rosters that way they can handle the extra
Speaker 4: low because I think they should expand it at least
Speaker 4: to a sixty man roster and maybe go to a
Speaker 4: twenty man practice squad.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I think you can definitely evaluate that in
Speaker 5: two ways. You can evaluate or you can address the
Speaker 5: roster evaluation gap that would be present by expanding rosters.
Speaker 5: Maybe you expanded to hypothetically sixty players instead of fifty three. Maybe,
Speaker 5: as you mentioned, Jeremy, the practice, you increase the size
Speaker 5: of the practice squad from thirteen and maybe twenty twenty
Speaker 5: five players, and you address the injury soft tissue gap
Speaker 5: by adding a second bye week and going back to
Speaker 5: sixteen games.
Speaker 4: Oh, they won't know, they're gonna push it forward to
Speaker 4: eighteen games. But the second bye week I completely agree with.
Speaker 4: And I think the one should still be a rotating
Speaker 4: by week, and when you travel overseas, it should be
Speaker 4: like what the Vikings and another team is doing, where
Speaker 4: they actually spend two weeks overseas rather than one week,
Speaker 4: come back and then go back, and then when they
Speaker 4: come back after that two weeks because a jet lag, automatically,
Speaker 4: those teams that come back after their two weeks overseas
Speaker 4: gets their rotating bye week right after that. The other
Speaker 4: bye week should be right there at week nine the
Speaker 4: trade deadline. That way, the new players come in, they
Speaker 4: have a whole week to learn the roster and the
Speaker 4: playbook and everything get acclimated for their team, which actually
Speaker 4: gives them two weeks to acclimate.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, I just feel like I just feel like
Speaker 5: the right way to go about that would be to
Speaker 5: have two bye weeks. You have every team gets a
Speaker 5: bye week early on in the season. Then everyone gets
Speaker 5: a bye week later on in the season, hypothetically sometime
Speaker 5: after Thanksgiving, because you've you've got teams right now with
Speaker 5: bye weeks in week five, week six, and you've got
Speaker 5: some teams with bye weeks in like week ten, week eleven.
Speaker 5: So the kind of bounce I think you need to
Speaker 5: and that's the soft tissue, the different injuries that could
Speaker 5: come with expanding to an extra game hypothetically.
Speaker 1: I just want to quick say, the practice squad is
Speaker 1: sixteen players, just.
Speaker 4: So okay, all right, yeah, so you add four more
Speaker 4: to that and add seven to the regular roster, be
Speaker 4: a total of an eighty man roster in a regular season, right.
Speaker 3: Okay, And so y'all have all led me right to
Speaker 3: this question. That's what happens. Good question comes from y'all's conversation.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Candy, shut the NFL, eliminate the preseason altogether.
Speaker 3: I mean, my goodness, I just mentioned how important it
Speaker 3: is to learn about these thirty seven players you have
Speaker 3: to cut. Technically, you still get to keep what was it, sixteen,
Speaker 3: Jared Okay, so technically you've only got to cut twenty one,
Speaker 3: but you've got to split a field of thirty seven players. Basically,
Speaker 3: fitty fitty Okay. Everybody knows how math works. It's a
Speaker 3: hard but if you're not getting to see these guys
Speaker 3: play a game, I mean, just get rid of the preseason.
Speaker 3: Just do it like college preseason or no preseason.
Speaker 4: I say, you have to have a preseason because we
Speaker 4: just said how the practice that they do, the joint
Speaker 4: practices are, is it the same as games that it
Speaker 4: doesn't get them ready? And we see these teams come
Speaker 4: out flat and have two weeks of awful football nine
Speaker 4: times out of ten at least. I mean, your bad
Speaker 4: teams look bad for up the four or five weeks.
Speaker 4: Look at the opposite end of the spectrum. There was
Speaker 4: a team that played a lot of starters last year
Speaker 4: in the preseason other than the Chiefs, and that was
Speaker 4: Chicago with under Matt Eberflus and they came out like Gangbusters,
Speaker 4: went four and two in that big fluke where treeque
Speaker 4: Stevenson runs across the field pops a hail Mary up
Speaker 4: in the air, so Noah Brown catches it and the
Speaker 4: Commanders win, and the rest of the season was new
Speaker 4: and interesting. Ways to lose to a week eighteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. Those guys need to how to
Speaker 3: see people in games exactly. And you got to see
Speaker 3: your starters again. Back to my another point I had
Speaker 3: just mintygo it's a difficult job. How do you balance
Speaker 3: not getting someone hurt?
Speaker 4: So if you eliminate the preseason, how do you cut
Speaker 4: trim the fat from game situation out of those extra
Speaker 4: players that you were just talking about?
Speaker 3: College football? Does it?
Speaker 4: I mean the division one day you can have up
Speaker 4: to one hundred and ten players on your roster, though
Speaker 4: seventy of them are are scholarship in some way or another,
Speaker 4: the other forty or walktimes. So there's a big difference
Speaker 4: between an NFL one with a structured salary cap, which
Speaker 4: they don't have in college either.
Speaker 3: M Right, Well, it sounds like we're disagreeing, but we're
Speaker 3: not because what I'll say is either have a preseason
Speaker 3: or don't. Don't don't trim it down. So, like, like
Speaker 3: I said, I want all these players to have a
Speaker 3: chance to play in a game, to show the team
Speaker 3: that they can do something when those emotions and nerves
Speaker 3: are happening. So two games isn't enough. So I'm saying,
Speaker 3: if you're gonna trim it, the two, just go to none.
Speaker 3: But I prefer them to have four, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 4: Qu Kane Sisk has a great point there about Dabo
Speaker 4: Sweeney that he's been pushing for a preseason in college
Speaker 4: just for the reasons. I say, Yeah, like.
Speaker 3: I said, that's what I'm saying. Either be like college
Speaker 3: and don't have any, or keep four.
Speaker 4: Well, de yeah, I mean you're talking about a college
Speaker 4: guy asking for a preseason, is what I'm saying. He's
Speaker 4: a college coach, That's what I was getting at. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's asking for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I understood that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay, And and technically he could say that those three
Speaker 4: out of conference versus cupcake teams like we see every year,
Speaker 4: that that's their preseason.
Speaker 3: But they don't get them all at the beginning of
Speaker 3: the year. That's not how it works in college anymore.
Speaker 3: LSU and Clemson open up against.
Speaker 4: Each other, that's great a line of.
Speaker 3: Plays Virginia Tech and and you don't get a preseason
Speaker 3: before that. That's what I'm saying. Either keep the preseason
Speaker 3: for the NFL, though, or don't and go full college
Speaker 3: because two games that's not enough. So, like, I would
Speaker 3: just prefer you to either stay at four or hey,
Speaker 3: let's be really fun and just go to zero.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I don't know about zero. I don't think
Speaker 5: you could do zero. I would say.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying do it. I'm just saying that's the choices.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I definitely I would prefer zero over too.
Speaker 5: Though well, yeah, I feel like two wouldn't make sense.
Speaker 5: But yeah, if you're gonna do two, you might as
Speaker 5: well do zero because two games, I don't feel like
Speaker 5: is enough time to really evaluate the guys that you
Speaker 5: need to evaluate, like the fringe roster guys, maybe the
Speaker 5: who's gonna be your third running back, who's gonna be
Speaker 5: your wide receiver, six things like that. So if you're
Speaker 5: gonna do two, you might as well do zero, But
Speaker 5: which I don't see them doing.
Speaker 3: Oh and hey to up he digs. He just said
Speaker 3: spring game revit like read if they've gotten rid of.
Speaker 4: Those, there's teams that don't even do the spring game anymore.
Speaker 4: And that's kind of stupid too, you know. Uh, And
Speaker 4: believe it or not, it's a lot of the SEC
Speaker 4: teams that don't do the spring game anymore. The the SEC,
Speaker 4: the Big Twelve, all of the Big Ten still has
Speaker 4: their spring game because they make it, uh, freshman and
Speaker 4: sophomore versus junior and senior like a basically like a
Speaker 4: during the homecoming week with the powder puff Girls game
Speaker 4: between the underclassmen and everything.
Speaker 3: Right well and then okay, so over here to Cane's
Speaker 3: point I was about to take I was about to
Speaker 3: type back and say this, but I'll just say it
Speaker 3: on the air. To his point, like these two preseason
Speaker 3: games in college, you could literally just make everybody schedule
Speaker 3: the same way. So for the first two weeks, uh,
Speaker 3: an SEC team like South Carolina plays Presbyterian College the
Speaker 3: way that it used to be, Like Jeremy mentioned, where
Speaker 3: you get those three cupcakes right out the right out
Speaker 3: the gate.
Speaker 4: And every now and then a cupcake could win. Who
Speaker 4: remembers Appalachian State versus Michigan.
Speaker 3: Hey, listen, Citadel has beaten South Carolina game Cocks that
Speaker 3: once but twice.
Speaker 5: Who was it that Notre Dame loss to like Northern Illinois?
Speaker 5: Was it Northern Illinois?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you never know, but yeah, just like
Speaker 3: just schedule it. But I was saying you could get
Speaker 3: away with the disrespect of calling it a preseason game,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like, it could be a
Speaker 3: preseason game without you having to like call it that
Speaker 3: because we're talking about extra games played for the players
Speaker 3: and stuff as well. So, but yeah, two games is
Speaker 3: not enough to check your starters and evaluate talent four
Speaker 3: or zero, no in between, Candy.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna reel it back in. Let let's get
Speaker 1: into our previews of the Let's start with the AFC
Speaker 1: West preview Broncos, Chiefs, Raiders, Chargers. What do we think
Speaker 1: is gonna who do we think is gonna take it?
Speaker 1: What do we think you know going forward? Samir? Why
Speaker 1: don't you start?
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely so AFC West. My pick to win it
Speaker 5: once again will be the Chiefs. However, it's not gonna
Speaker 5: be like the past few years were. Basically, by the
Speaker 5: time Thanksgiving is over, and we're in early December, they
Speaker 5: just about have the division all but wrapped up. I
Speaker 5: think it is going to take them a lot longer,
Speaker 5: maybe more towards the end of the season, like maybe
Speaker 5: week sixteen or week seventeen is when they could have
Speaker 5: this division wrapped up. And I think that's in large
Speaker 5: part due to the fact that look at the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 5: Now you've got we know about bow Knicks, we know
Speaker 5: about the offensive line that, in my opinion, is extremely underrated,
Speaker 5: that wide receiver room. I like Marvin Mims, I like Theayley.
Speaker 5: They just locked up Courtland Sutton for the near future.
Speaker 5: And then and I think any offense led by Sean Payton.
Speaker 5: I'm not necessarily a fan of Sean Payton, but any
Speaker 5: offense led by him is going to be in good hands.
Speaker 5: And that's where they're at now. But really, when you
Speaker 5: think about the Denver Broncos, it's about their defense. You know,
Speaker 5: we know how good that front seven is. They've got
Speaker 5: Zach Allen and Nick Benito up there. They add Greenlaw
Speaker 5: from the forty nine ers, they get Whufonga, They've got
Speaker 5: PS two who, in my opinion, who is the best
Speaker 5: corner in the NFL. They are one of the best
Speaker 5: defenses in all of football. And what is it that
Speaker 5: they drafted out of Texas in the first round, Jeremy.
Speaker 4: The Texans, Oh Baron.
Speaker 5: They got Jaday Barron, who was great value for them
Speaker 5: for the twentieth overall pick, and I think him and
Speaker 5: PS two are going to be a really good duo
Speaker 5: back there for the foreseeable future. So I still have
Speaker 5: the Chiefs winning that division. I have Denver taking that
Speaker 5: next step is to where I feel like if they
Speaker 5: go ten and seven again, I feel like it's a
Speaker 5: letdown for them. I have them at around eleven wins.
Speaker 5: And with the Chargers, they were one of these surprise
Speaker 5: teams last offseason. Jim Harball, Joe Horst. They did a
Speaker 5: great job doing what they could do with that roster,
Speaker 5: getting into the playoffs in year one. Fortunately Justin Herbert
Speaker 5: fell apart in that playoff game through four interceptions against Texans.
Speaker 5: I do like the Quinn the Normally I don't like
Speaker 5: drafting running backs early, especially in the first round, but
Speaker 5: the Quinn Shawn Judkins pick will I feel like it
Speaker 5: is a good pick for them. You had Lad McConkie
Speaker 5: who had a great year and is looking to take
Speaker 5: that next step. You've got Keenan Allen back in the fold.
Speaker 5: While he is older, while he's not the wide receiver
Speaker 5: that he once was, he still is a reliable piece.
Speaker 5: And and the crazy part of it is this, they
Speaker 5: traded Keenan Allen for I think like a fourth round pick.
Speaker 5: They used that fourth round pick to move up. I
Speaker 5: just saw this today. They used that fourth round pick
Speaker 5: to move up and get lad mcconkeye in the second
Speaker 5: round last year, and now you bring him back. So
Speaker 5: it really fell in favor for them. That was That's
Speaker 5: a good job on their part. The question for them
Speaker 5: really is more about their defensive line. In their front seven,
Speaker 5: they lose Nick Bosa. They still got Khalil Mack there,
Speaker 5: but who else. It's gonna be Khalil Mack and who else.
Speaker 5: And you've got some nice pieces in your secondary. You've
Speaker 5: got Tarheeb Steell, who was a young defensive back underrated.
Speaker 5: Derwin James, if he can stay healthy, is one of
Speaker 5: the better safeties in the NFL. So but they did.
Speaker 5: Their offense of line took a blow today. Rashaun Slater.
Speaker 5: They signed him to a big contract this offseason. Had
Speaker 5: a Tormaniscus and he's out for the season, so that
Speaker 5: is a big blow for them. And outside of Joe
Speaker 5: all their offensive line looks shaky on paper. So they
Speaker 5: have the talent on the outside, they have talent in
Speaker 5: the secondary. They have the coaching, especially with Harbaugh's er
Speaker 5: head coach Jesse Minter is their defensive coordinator, where I
Speaker 5: think is gonna be a head coach real soon. It's
Speaker 5: just how is their offensive line gonna hold up? And
Speaker 5: how is their front seven gonna hold up? And the Raiders,
Speaker 5: I think they should be entertaining, especially offensively with the
Speaker 5: pieces they have, but I still think it's gonna be
Speaker 5: another rebuild year for them.
Speaker 1: Okay, Jeremy, your thoughts.
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna come down to the Chiefs and
Speaker 4: Broncos as well. I don't know who's taking first because
Speaker 4: the Broncos have taken a step forward, and I feel
Speaker 4: like with some of the losses on the O line
Speaker 4: and on the defense, that the Chiefs may regress just
Speaker 4: a little bit. So I think it's gonna come down
Speaker 4: to them too, and the Chargers and Raiders are gonna
Speaker 4: be fighting for last place because I think that's one
Speaker 4: of the most competitive divisions in football. You got the
Speaker 4: AFC West, the AFC North, and the NFC North. Those
Speaker 4: are the three most competitive divisions there are. You might
Speaker 4: as well splash in the NFC East because they are
Speaker 4: very competitive with the three teams that could contend for
Speaker 4: the top. And I say three because I don't think
Speaker 4: the Giants can.
Speaker 1: Okay, JD your thoughts on the AFC West, man, I'm
Speaker 1: coming in for a splash landing into this grease because
Speaker 1: I've told.
Speaker 3: Y'all one told you already again tonight. The AFC West
Speaker 3: is by far the best division in the NFL. Okay,
Speaker 3: period period. I think the young ones say because the
Speaker 3: one girl on a viral video one time, but the
Speaker 3: AFC West. Okay, let's just start out the top. The
Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs. They won a lot of one possession
Speaker 3: games last year. I was literally about to try to
Speaker 3: search it real quick to see what the record was
Speaker 3: for teams this season. After winning a lot of one
Speaker 3: possession games and a gout of feeling, the fans this
Speaker 3: year are not gonna be as happy. You just can't
Speaker 3: have I mean, luck is not a thing, but you
Speaker 3: just can't have that good of luck. Two seasons in
Speaker 3: a row. Some might call it being good, some might
Speaker 3: call it being great. I don't know. But the Chiefs
Speaker 3: last year, I mean they almost lost to my Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 5: I mean have lost to us.
Speaker 3: They almost lost to the even worse Falcons. Hey, I
Speaker 3: was just kidding me. No, you spoke up, so I
Speaker 3: had to throw that in there. Listen, Hey, the Falcons, man,
Speaker 3: y'all did exactly what I wanted to do in the draft. Anyways,
Speaker 3: the Chiefs, though they're man, I don't know if they
Speaker 3: can repeat, like I listen, They're still gonna be in
Speaker 3: the playoffs, obviously, still gonna be very good. Obviously, no
Speaker 3: doubts in my mind about that. And everybody wants to
Speaker 3: keep saying Broncos Chiefs, Broncos Chiefs. Well, may I present
Speaker 3: to you who's got it better than us? Nobody? And
Speaker 3: we can even throw the Keith Sweat song in there. Nobody, Nobody,
Speaker 3: baby baby, whatever he says in that song. Nobody's got
Speaker 3: it better than the Chargers. Okay, Broncos Chiefs, Chargers, bro
Speaker 3: every one of them's gonna have at least nine wins.
Speaker 3: Whoever in between wins their three games against one another
Speaker 3: or there's six games against one another, bro, that'll settle
Speaker 3: the West, and it's gonna be Those are gonna be
Speaker 3: fantastic games. And then also, can I give you Pete
Speaker 3: Carroll Sorry SMN, I'll throw it right to you. Hold on,
Speaker 3: let me finish this one. And so Pete Carroll, hey,
Speaker 3: I trust the dude to win six or seven games.
Speaker 3: And they've got some talent for the Raiders. They brought
Speaker 3: Geno Smith. He's played well as a build him up
Speaker 3: quarterback the last few years. So to my main point,
Speaker 3: the AFC West best conference in football and Samir take
Speaker 3: it away.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what I was gonna say is again, I do
Speaker 5: think the Chiefs are gonna win. I meant I forgot
Speaker 5: to mention this earlier. Big question for them is, well,
Speaker 5: the question mark for them is their wide receiver room.
Speaker 5: They did bring back Hollywood Brown, and it's not really
Speaker 5: about the because they've got some good pieces in that
Speaker 5: wide receiver room. It's really about a Ken Xavier Worthy
Speaker 5: who showed flashes in year one. Can he take that
Speaker 5: next step in year two? B How long will Rashi
Speaker 5: Rice be suspended? In case you forgot so, he is
Speaker 5: coming off a season ending injury. Number one number two,
Speaker 5: there is a good chance and it seems like all
Speaker 5: signs are pointing towards it that he is going to
Speaker 5: be suspended for multiple games. I think it was summer
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four he had the him and Mike I
Speaker 5: think four or five of their cars got into they
Speaker 5: were racing, got into a big car crash on the highway.
Speaker 5: I think a woman in that guy injured taken to
Speaker 5: the hospital. So he was charged with speeding or racing
Speaker 5: on a highway and causing bodily injury. And based off
Speaker 5: of what the NFL has found in how this thing
Speaker 5: is going, it seems like he is going to be suspended. Well.
Speaker 5: I think it was also the fact that him and
Speaker 5: like five other people fled the scene. So how long
Speaker 5: is he going to be suspended? Can Xavier Worthy take
Speaker 5: that next step? And let's face it, Travis Kelsey's lost
Speaker 5: a step. He's not the side end he was a
Speaker 5: few years ago. There were rumors that last season was
Speaker 5: going to be his last year. Ended up coming back.
Speaker 5: But I do think in the next year or so
Speaker 5: he is going to hang him up based off of
Speaker 5: how this thing is going. Yeah, because like everyone talks
Speaker 5: about Mahomes and whatnot, But the driving force for them
Speaker 5: the past couple of years has been their defense. Again,
Speaker 5: like Denver, it's one of the better defenses in the NFL,
Speaker 5: especially their front seven. They have Carl Aaftis, Chris Jones,
Speaker 5: Nick Bolton. They did pay Bolton and Carlaftis this past offseason.
Speaker 5: They've got Trent McDuffie in their secondary, so I think
Speaker 5: their defense is going to be good and ready to go.
Speaker 5: They did get a Norman lot From in the draft
Speaker 5: out of Tennessee, so I feel like their defense, as
Speaker 5: long as Spags is there, is going to be in
Speaker 5: good shape. It's just can they put it together offensively?
Speaker 5: Not that they haven't been together, but can they get
Speaker 5: back to a resemblance of what they were early on
Speaker 5: up until twenty three to twenty four.
Speaker 3: All right, hey, and while you were talking Samara, we
Speaker 3: got this great question. Throw it back to Samari real quick.
Speaker 3: Let's get him. Let's get his live reaction to this question.
Speaker 3: Dude in AFC West has the best offensive line?
Speaker 5: You, sir, go, I still got to go with the Chiefs. Yes,
Speaker 5: they did lose Joe Tuny in that trade with the Bears,
Speaker 5: but they've got uh, let's see, but they do have
Speaker 5: Preed Humphrey, who is with the best center in football.
Speaker 5: They've got Trey Smith, They've got Juwan Taylor, and they
Speaker 5: drafted Josh Simmons out of Ohio State, who apparently is
Speaker 5: off to a great start in training. Can't take that
Speaker 5: with the grain of salt if you want to. But
Speaker 5: still the only question is that left guard and who's
Speaker 5: going to place Joe Tuny. So on paper, I still
Speaker 5: have to go with the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Okay, you go on paper, I'll go on results. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, yeah, Hey that's what. Yeah, So yeah, you
Speaker 3: you take the results and on paper, and I'll take
Speaker 3: a coat. I'll take hardball. I know that he loves
Speaker 3: the on the ball. I know he's got some running
Speaker 3: backs out there for the Chargers, and I know he's
Speaker 3: built up their offensive line, so I would have to go.
Speaker 3: I mean, and the Broncos too, I mean Cole Leek. Really,
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, between in the AFC West,
Speaker 3: which this is what all of this has spurned from,
Speaker 3: is the AFC West Talk says people like to think
Speaker 3: we get off topic. Sometimes that's how conversation works. There's
Speaker 3: ends and flows to it chat, so AFC West, though,
Speaker 3: I gotta go Chargers with the best offensive line, Jeremy,
Speaker 3: Who's got the best offensive line in the as.
Speaker 4: Right now, it's the Broncos. Especially if the Chargers just
Speaker 4: lost for Sean Slater for any length of time in
Speaker 4: the season, you have to say the Broncos because the
Speaker 4: loss of Joe Toney, You'd have to say that it
Speaker 4: that the Chiefs have lost part of the interior. And
Speaker 4: your tackles only play as good as your guard. When
Speaker 4: you lose an all pro guard, that's a downgrade. I
Speaker 4: don't care what you say.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, I'm not. I'm not denying that because again,
Speaker 5: as you mentioned, your tackles are as good as your interior.
Speaker 5: Now with your interior, you still have the best center
Speaker 5: in football. Yeah, you have the best center in football
Speaker 5: in Creed Humphrey. And you've still got Tray Smith, who
Speaker 5: is an above average starter as a guard.
Speaker 3: Right Okay, And I just tweeted it or posted it
Speaker 3: to the chat. Here's what I'll say. I have bad
Speaker 3: luck as a fan. If I pick my team to win,
Speaker 3: they lose. If I pick one offensive line to be
Speaker 3: the best in the division, I'm normally always wrong and
Speaker 3: so none of us pick the Chiefs. So guess what,
Speaker 3: the Chiefs will have the best offensive line in the
Speaker 3: AFC West. And Candy, you've just been back there observing
Speaker 3: all of this. Yeah, I didn't wait to hear your thoughts.
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, taking it all in, guys. It's
Speaker 1: just trying to figure out. I really I think Broncos
Speaker 1: are gonna take it. I think they're Thanks George, thanks
Speaker 1: for tuning in. We appreciate it. But I really think
Speaker 1: that they've taken a step forward, and I think they're hungry.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that the Chiefs can't. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: are going to be up there. It is going to
Speaker 1: be a tough division. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: It's like I said, I was just gonna.
Speaker 1: Say, I'm not sure I'm ready to go there yet.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the best there. I mean,
Speaker 1: some of these divisions are very tough. I've always thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, the NFC North I think is
Speaker 1: really tough.
Speaker 3: That's a good choice as well. I can't argue against it. Jeremy,
Speaker 3: what do you think hardest division in the NFL?
Speaker 4: I think it's the NFC North, Right, now top to bottom.
Speaker 4: I think it's the most complete division. I think the
Speaker 4: bottom of the division is going to be nine wins
Speaker 4: and the top of the division is going to be
Speaker 4: twelve or thirteen wins, and it all depends on how
Speaker 4: well they do outside of the division. I think every
Speaker 4: team has the chance to split in the division and
Speaker 4: still get to those numbers.
Speaker 3: Well and see, I listen, like, I agree. The AFC
Speaker 3: West I think is equally as like right there, Like
Speaker 3: I literally just said that thirteen wins and nine wins
Speaker 3: between those top three teams, but I said it comes
Speaker 3: down to how the team's play in the division. You're
Speaker 3: absolutely more correct, I think in that regard. When you
Speaker 3: say it's more about the out of the division, I
Speaker 3: wasn't mathing math right there.
Speaker 1: I agree. Okay, so are we kind of done with
Speaker 1: the AFC West. I think it's time. I think it's
Speaker 1: time let's go to the NFC West. And Samir, since
Speaker 1: you started the last one, I'm gonna say, Jeremy, why
Speaker 1: don't you start with the NFC West.
Speaker 4: Well, the NFC West, it's pretty simple. I think it's
Speaker 4: the rams division to lose. I think Arizona and Seattle
Speaker 4: both took a step forward, and I think with the
Speaker 4: injuries and all the losses everywhere on the roster, I
Speaker 4: think the last place team in that division is going
Speaker 4: to end up the forty nine ers again.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, same your thoughts.
Speaker 5: Oh, I agree, this is the Rams division to lose.
Speaker 5: Not only are they might pick to win the division,
Speaker 5: they are also my pick to come out of the NFC.
Speaker 5: I know Stafford's a little banged up, seems like he'll
Speaker 5: be ready to go week one. Kyron Williams did get paid,
Speaker 5: and while it does seem as if his touches are
Speaker 5: gonna go down given that they've got a Blake KRM
Speaker 5: in their backfield, they just drafted another running back in
Speaker 5: the fourth round this past year. I believe as well.
Speaker 5: It does seem like he is going to be the
Speaker 5: RB one. I don't know if he'll be a workhorse
Speaker 5: back like he has been the last couple of years.
Speaker 5: Offense is still loaded. Pukainakua missed six games, still came
Speaker 5: just ten yards short of another one thousand yard season.
Speaker 5: You add DeVante Adams, who's an upgrade from Cooper Cup
Speaker 5: and then of course you've got Sean McVay. One of
Speaker 5: the best offensive minds, if not the best offensive mind
Speaker 5: in the NFL. Really, there just aren't really a one
Speaker 5: of question marks for them offensively. Now with their defense,
Speaker 5: they do have one of the best defensive lines in
Speaker 5: the NFL Byron Young, Braden Fist, Kobe Turner, the Raindy
Speaker 5: defensive rookie of the Year, Jared Verse. He had four and
Speaker 5: a half sacks last year. I definitely think that number
Speaker 5: will go up in year two. Usually you don't see
Speaker 5: an edge guy breakthrough until about year two or year three.
Speaker 5: I think this is gonna be his breakthrough year where
Speaker 5: you're gonna see him get eight and a half, nine,
Speaker 5: maybe ten sacks. So I do think he's going to
Speaker 5: take that next step.
Speaker 1: Right on, JD, what's your thoughts?
Speaker 3: Okay, So who, Jeremy, who did you pick to win
Speaker 3: the NFC wes the Ram, Ram and Samir.
Speaker 1: They said they both said Rams it was the Rams
Speaker 1: division to lose.
Speaker 3: Well, you say, Candy that curiosity, No, I say the
Speaker 3: same thing.
Speaker 1: I think the Rams are hands down the best team
Speaker 1: out of that division. The forty nine ers have you
Speaker 1: know they've deep digressed lately. Cardinal Seahawks, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: those are two interesting ones. But yeah, I think the
Speaker 1: Rams for sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I have no argument to what all of
Speaker 3: a said. Here's what's crazy to me. I think one
Speaker 3: of the biggest questions in the NFC West is was
Speaker 3: it Sam Darnell or was it Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was Kevin O'Connell. We've already seen it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've seen it.
Speaker 4: And made him into a star. Then he takes Sam
Speaker 4: Darnold first year after looking like a bum and made
Speaker 4: him into a star again.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and I'll tell you what if he does
Speaker 3: it again with JJ McCarthy this year. I'm right, I'm
Speaker 3: right there with you. So, but that's that's the question
Speaker 3: though for the NFC West, was it was it O'Connell
Speaker 3: or was it Donald? Because the Seahawks they can make
Speaker 3: things really interesting. The forty nine ers, I don't like
Speaker 3: everything they've lost. Well, just Son brought Bertie to a
Speaker 3: big contract and then you get rid of everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 3: ain't got rid of Yeah, not sure about him. No,
Speaker 3: But I feel like this is the type year where
Speaker 3: in Arizona or a Seattle can sneak up.
Speaker 4: I got to the Bolsa Brothers, the one that played
Speaker 4: for the Chargers. Isn't he now a bill and help
Speaker 4: for the season because he got hurt already in OTAs,
Speaker 4: he's no longer a Charger because the other Bosa still
Speaker 4: plays in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: Ill they had joined forces.
Speaker 4: I know, I know he's out for a significant amount
Speaker 4: of time.
Speaker 3: So we are Joey or Nick.
Speaker 5: Nick is with the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3: So Nick's with the forty nine.
Speaker 4: Ers, So we need to Joey Joe if I remember right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as his last listed team. Yeah, seven twenty thousand
Speaker 3: dollars salary.
Speaker 4: I love it means he goes, but he's not clutch
Speaker 4: when it matters. Perfect fit for the Vikings that coaches.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, Samir. Sorry real quick, but here's what
Speaker 3: I know. I know if I type my name in
Speaker 3: to a search engine that you I won't find out
Speaker 3: that I'm six foot five. I am one point nine
Speaker 3: five six meters two hundred and eighty pounds or one
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty seven kilograms. I play defensive end and
Speaker 3: right defensive end. I was born on July eleventh, nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety five, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I make seven hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty thousand dollars a year, and my one parent
Speaker 3: is John Bosa, and I went to Saint Thomas Aquinas
Speaker 3: High School in Florida. So I mean, at least you
Speaker 3: can look up Joey Bosa and you can find out
Speaker 3: all that out about him. Not that bad of a gig, right, Jeremy,
Speaker 3: that's right?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: Anyways, to me, go ahead, what were you about to say?
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, I'm gonna do some on the forty nine ers.
Speaker 5: I feel like.
Speaker 3: You're all out on the forty nine ers.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not all out. It's actually the opposite. So
Speaker 5: they did lose Green Mall. They did louse Hufanga both
Speaker 5: to Denver, as we mentioned, but I did like what
Speaker 5: they did in the draft. They got Mike hil Williams
Speaker 5: Alfred Collins to get some youth up front in their
Speaker 5: defensive line. Deebo Samuel is gone to Washington. Brandon ni
Speaker 5: Yuk is rehabbing and coming off from a tourney. Acl
Speaker 5: Based off of what John Lynch mentioned earlier, it is
Speaker 5: likely he is going to be inactive for Week one.
Speaker 5: George Kittle is getting older now. Ricky Piersall second year
Speaker 5: wide receiver. In case you guys don't remember he was
Speaker 5: the one who was shot unfortunately before his rookie year
Speaker 5: in San Francisco last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Piers All, Now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the question is can and he developed? Can he
Speaker 5: take that next step? And how is Brandon? Are you
Speaker 5: gonna look rehabbing that torn acl Christian McCaffrey, this is
Speaker 5: his third career season ending injury, and he's got a
Speaker 5: lot of mileage on him. He's had multiple lower body
Speaker 5: injury injuries as well that has caused him to miss
Speaker 5: a significant amount of time. It's pardon reason why the
Speaker 5: Carolina Panthers ended up letting him go a few years ago.
Speaker 5: How is he gonna look at twenty nine? Going into
Speaker 5: year nine with a lot of mileage? Brock Purdy got
Speaker 5: fifty million. That offensive line is is older now. With
Speaker 5: that being said, even with all of that, I just
Speaker 5: don't think you can count out a Kyle Shanahan led
Speaker 5: team because they're because they're gonna be coached well in
Speaker 5: every game. Now, Seattle, I don't know. I'm just not
Speaker 5: as high on Seattle as some people are. You make
Speaker 5: the move from DK Metcalf, you're bringing Cooper Cup so
Speaker 5: Jackson Smith and jigba is clearly the wide receiver one there.
Speaker 5: But I just don't see how Cooper Cup is an
Speaker 5: upgrade from DK Metcalf right now in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: It's not that he's an upgrade from DK Metcalf, which
Speaker 4: DK Metcalf was more of a head case than a
Speaker 4: consistent player. He'd have five games where he'd have well
Speaker 4: over one hundred and fifty yards, but he'd have seven
Speaker 4: games where he'd disappear because he's a head case. That
Speaker 4: is Cooper Cup. Cooper Cup, he's consistent, He's gonna do
Speaker 4: what he has to do as long as he's on
Speaker 4: the field to get the ball and run after the catch.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Now my question for them is up front their
Speaker 5: offensive line. It seems like it's been an issue for years,
Speaker 5: and I think it that, along with maybe Ryan grow
Speaker 5: not being the best NFL level offensive coordinator, led to
Speaker 5: some of their offensive struggles last year. So they did
Speaker 5: draft an offensive lineman early. Let's see how that pans out.
Speaker 5: But I'm just not as high on Seattle as I
Speaker 5: am on the other teams in that division. And also,
Speaker 5: as you mentioned, Southern Friday Sam Donald. They paid him
Speaker 5: a boatload of money. Was it him or was it
Speaker 5: Kevin O'Connell, and I think we're gonna find out.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah, we're gonna find out. That's the beautiful
Speaker 3: thing about it. We won't find out in the preseason though,
Speaker 3: to tie it back to our earlier conversation, we won't
Speaker 3: know Sam Donald is back to being a great quarterback
Speaker 3: until the regular season. And so, Candy NFC West, did
Speaker 3: you have more to say about it?
Speaker 1: No? No, I I was pretty good with it. I
Speaker 1: you know, charge, I agreed with the panel that I
Speaker 1: think the Chargers are gonna take it. Ah. San Francisco
Speaker 1: is on the bottom, and it'll just be.
Speaker 3: Hol up Lake time out rewant you said chargers, Candy,
Speaker 3: I know there's two l A teams, But.
Speaker 1: Oh did I say chargers?
Speaker 3: Did I say that? You did? Just say the Chargers
Speaker 3: are gonna take it?
Speaker 1: Oh, I did not mean the Chargers are gonna take it.
Speaker 1: The Chargers aren't taking anything.
Speaker 3: And I'm sorry it's so awkward to correct people sometimes,
Speaker 3: But yeah, she did say that, right, Samir, Yes.
Speaker 1: I meant I meant the Rams.
Speaker 3: And we knew because we knew right. But people be
Speaker 3: trying to twist it yet.
Speaker 1: No, well, I'd rather be corrected and be correct than
Speaker 1: have it out there wrong. So the rams are gonna
Speaker 1: take it. Forty nine is are on the bottom. The
Speaker 1: only question will be is who is which one end
Speaker 1: ZIP two and which one ends up three. That'll be
Speaker 1: the interesting JD. You get your takes on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yep, we're good. Okay, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Quick take a station break because I haven't done this yet.
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Speaker 1: Nice. Nice, Nice. I know JD's trying to get some
Speaker 1: things ready, Are you ready, JD?
Speaker 3: Or No? Yeah, I'm working on it for some reason. No,
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna have to uh copy this clip broke.
Speaker 3: You keep ready?
Speaker 1: But yeah, you keep working on it. Then why don't
Speaker 1: we do our other segment, which is my town? So, Samir,
Speaker 1: what's happening in your town?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so two minutes or less? Yeah? Sorry, so the
Speaker 5: bra So the Braves did walk off? The Marlins eighty
Speaker 5: six wasn't looking good for a second they were down
Speaker 5: six to two. Drake Baldwin on two home runs, another
Speaker 5: great game for him. What else the Hawks? Seems like
Speaker 5: Trey Young and the Hawks are all in yet on
Speaker 5: an extension. Could be a numbers thing, could be a
Speaker 5: way out seat three and see how the season plays
Speaker 5: out before giving him that max deal. And with the
Speaker 5: Atlanta Falcons, they are in the still in the thick
Speaker 5: of training camp. James Pearce Junior is still standing out.
Speaker 5: Jalen Walker nursing that hamstring injury. He's gonna play tomorrow.
Speaker 5: James Pearce Junior seems like he'll play tomorrow. Xavier Watts,
Speaker 5: it seems like that young defensive nucleus is going to
Speaker 5: see a lot of playing time tomorrow. Who won't be
Speaker 5: playing tomorrow? Raheem Morris announced Wednesday Michael Pendix Junior will
Speaker 5: not play and neither will Kirk Cousins. We will see
Speaker 5: what happens next week. I've suggested that the starters do play,
Speaker 5: get some reps in the preseason, get some feet under
Speaker 5: them so they don't come out rusty week one in
Speaker 5: their division game against the Bucks. And that is my town.
Speaker 1: Okay, you heard me we're doing my town. You want
Speaker 1: to talk about your town.
Speaker 4: I know that everybody is freaking out in Detroit with
Speaker 4: the injuries we have, But we had Taylor Decker, Amik Robertson,
Speaker 4: and Kirby Joseph all returned to practice this week as
Speaker 4: well as I own see Vaki, second year running back.
Speaker 4: We also had a big injury, but it was a
Speaker 4: depth player because he hadn't broken the starting roster yet.
Speaker 4: In Nis Reichstraw, he underwent shoulder surgery yesterday and has
Speaker 4: been placed on the season ending I are the Tigers,
Speaker 4: on the other hand, are floundering, and we know this,
Speaker 4: but slumps happen. That's the game of the game when
Speaker 4: you got one hundred and sixty two games to play, That's.
Speaker 1: Correct, JD.
Speaker 3: That So in my town, ladies and gentlemen, the let
Speaker 3: me see if I can pause this video real quick.
Speaker 3: That's not playing for you all yet. On on one second,
Speaker 3: let me get this under control, all right. So in
Speaker 3: my town, I feel like my camera just froze. Can
Speaker 3: you still see me?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 3: Well, either way, So in my town, a Little League
Speaker 3: World Series team finally made the playoffs to the Little
Speaker 3: League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Nice, I say, finally,
Speaker 3: it's happened before, but it's far and few between. These
Speaker 3: guys beat the defending champions in comeback fashion in this
Speaker 3: Southeast Division just to make it to williams Sport. But
Speaker 3: what I wanted to show you, guys is were you
Speaker 3: aware that there is sign stealing and cheating according to
Speaker 3: the rules going on in the Little League World Series?
Speaker 3: You've got it up. Yep. This is a long video,
Speaker 3: so y'all have to bear with me. I am going
Speaker 3: to try to fast forward it a little bit. But
Speaker 3: here we are. We've got Oklahoma and Texas West runners
Speaker 3: at first and second. The runner at second base is
Speaker 3: the key. Y'all pay attention and watch the video swinging
Speaker 3: a miss, caught a ball. Like I said, we're gonna
Speaker 3: fast forward through some of this in a minute, but
Speaker 3: we've got drama. Second base umpire has got problems. What
Speaker 3: are y'all think is going on right now? You tell me.
Speaker 1: He must be telling he must have seen something.
Speaker 3: At second base is tipping. Here we go, he's sicking
Speaker 3: the batter the pitch and so now here's the coach
Speaker 3: and there you go. That was the move you saw him,
Speaker 3: and the coach is like, man, he's just scratching himself.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? We're teaching little league players had
Speaker 3: to cheat.
Speaker 4: Houston Astros all over again?
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, And the rule was implemented in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: just after the Astros scandal. So now look at the kid.
Speaker 3: He's got his arms behind his back like, oh, I
Speaker 3: ain't doing nothing, I ain't doing nothing. Doesn't end up
Speaker 3: mattering here, strikes him out. Anyways, All right, let's fast
Speaker 3: forward just a bit. We got a walk. It's a
Speaker 3: runner at first. Oh, we're gonna have a hit batsman.
Speaker 3: Guess what runner at second base? Here we go again,
Speaker 3: all right, walk the loaded still runner at second base?
Speaker 3: Wait till what this kid does? Y'all watch this? And then,
Speaker 3: of course this is courtesy of John Boy Media. Great
Speaker 3: videos he does. But here we go, drama. Wait till
Speaker 3: y'all see what this kid does. Have you ever been
Speaker 3: a picture before? Yep? He does the warm up signal
Speaker 3: for a fastball. And here's my question. Are they seeing
Speaker 3: the catchers signals or are they seeing the picture's hand?
Speaker 3: And oh, here we go, hands behind his back. Look,
Speaker 3: but you can see him.
Speaker 5: Right there, right yeah.
Speaker 3: He literally says it, so could he see the catcher
Speaker 3: or could he see the picture? But at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, don't teach your kids to cheat, but
Speaker 3: also don't teach, like teach the picture to not tip
Speaker 3: his pitches. And so that is where I'm at right now, y'all.
Speaker 3: With the Little League World Series and Candy, we can
Speaker 3: remove that. I'll pass it everybody else, But that's me, y'all.
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Speaker 1: Oh mine? Oh my goodness. So where do I go
Speaker 1: with that one? Yeah, you definitely shouldn't be teaching you.
Speaker 3: Oh and oh I'm sorry, Candy, hold up time out.
Speaker 3: I didn't let the video play long enough. But they
Speaker 3: started chanting in the stadium. To Caine's comment, here, when
Speaker 3: did the parents storm the field? If you go look
Speaker 3: up the video, it's on my ex Listen, go look
Speaker 3: it up. But after they threw out the coach, they
Speaker 3: started chanting something about we're not cheaters or something, and
Speaker 3: then the PA announcer came on. It was like, we
Speaker 3: will not do that, And then the other team like cheered,
Speaker 3: and so yeah, it was a whole org deal about
Speaker 3: this whole thing with the Little League World Series.
Speaker 4: What was it that they used to say? Who was
Speaker 4: it that said it? If you ain't cheating, you're trying,
Speaker 4: you ain't trying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying.
Speaker 4: Everybody's trying to get an edge, and they thought they
Speaker 4: figured it out but got caught. So it wasn't an
Speaker 4: edge all right.
Speaker 3: Well, in the fact that they had two different signals
Speaker 3: for it, apparently because the one kid got in trouble
Speaker 3: for scratching his leg and the other kid got in
Speaker 3: trouble for literally doing the picture's motion. But nonetheless, I mean,
Speaker 3: the coach got ejected. The coach got ejected. I don't
Speaker 3: know who ended up winning the team winning the game,
Speaker 3: but I know South Carolina IRMO South Carolina down near Mcgamecocks,
Speaker 3: they are represented, baby. So listen, somebody tried to tell
Speaker 3: me today that they didn't care about the Little League
Speaker 3: World Series. And they told me they didn't care about
Speaker 3: a woman being an umpire in Major League Baseball. And
Speaker 3: you know what, I bet you guys don't care about
Speaker 3: the NFL either. But we just made a whole show
Speaker 3: about it. So you know what, kick rocks or hit
Speaker 3: subscribe and be here next time.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna swing it back. Since most of you
Speaker 1: did my town, I didn't do my town. I have
Speaker 1: to brag because I don't get this opportunity to do
Speaker 1: it very often. But the Milwaukee Brewers, sorry Samir, we
Speaker 1: kind of swept you guys. Yeah, but we've got the
Speaker 1: best record in baseball and that is not something that
Speaker 1: you normally here. With the Milwaukee Brewers. It's great, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. They're playing really good ball. I hope
Speaker 1: they continue to play really ball, great ball because it's
Speaker 1: not about being hot now, it's about being hot at
Speaker 1: the right time, which is near the playoffs. Hopefully they
Speaker 1: can keep this momentum going. They just look like they're
Speaker 1: having fun, and that's one of the things that a
Speaker 1: lot of them have been interviewed and they were talked about,
Speaker 1: and they're just having fun and they're just a you know,
Speaker 1: a great group of guys. But that's really what's happening.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously there hasn't been much. There's still the
Speaker 1: whole where's Jiannie is? Joanna's gonna stay in Milwaukee. Is
Speaker 1: he not gonna stay? Obviously, the Packers have started their
Speaker 1: training camp. They play this weekend too. They're saying they're
Speaker 1: gonna start their starters because we are playing the New
Speaker 1: York Jets, and Aaron Glenn said he's gonna start his starters,
Speaker 1: so it'll be interesting. I don't know how long they'll
Speaker 1: stay in. I mean, preseason is what we've We've discussed
Speaker 1: this to great lengths. How long will they keep them in?
Speaker 1: I don't know that means to be seen, but we
Speaker 1: have some new players that I'm interested to see and
Speaker 1: how it goes. So anything else, JD, did you get
Speaker 1: your what's happening in your town?
Speaker 5: Um?
Speaker 3: He's here?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I muted, sorry, but yeah. I tied it in
Speaker 3: with the Little League World Series, Okay. And then the
Speaker 3: other thing I'll say is good luck to Shedor Sanders.
Speaker 3: And when I say that, I mean it sincerely, because
Speaker 3: he'll be going against the Carolina Panthers. Number one defense
Speaker 3: Dave Canalis has said the starters are playing the first
Speaker 3: half of the preseason game against the Browns. So Sardoor Sanders,
Speaker 3: if you're gonna come out and perform against a terrible terrible, terrible, terrible,
Speaker 3: potentially Carolina Panthers defense. You might have a shot at
Speaker 3: being on the roster for the Cleveland Browns, but as
Speaker 3: of now, they don't have anybody else that's gonna play.
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco, no, Kenny Pickett hurt, Dylan Gabriel hurt, and
Speaker 3: then they just signed Tyler Huntley. So obviously Door Sanders
Speaker 3: is starting. So good luck to him against my home
Speaker 3: town Carolina Panthers, and good luck to my hometown Hermo
Speaker 3: Little League World Seria scene. They're not really my town,
Speaker 3: but by golly, they're my state, and that's what matters.
Speaker 1: There. You go any other topics anybody wants to cover. No,
Speaker 1: I think we did a pretty good job. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go around the horn. Everybody can. One last time, tell
Speaker 1: everybody how they can find you. We're gonna start with.
Speaker 5: Samir again. You can find me on x at atl
Speaker 5: Underscore Samir twenty four oh one. You can find me
Speaker 5: here every Thursday night at nine thirty pm on Fire Up.
Speaker 5: Thank you guys for tuning in. I enjoy being on here.
Speaker 5: I enjoy interacting with you guys, whether it be on
Speaker 5: here on social media. Peace out until next time.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna quick before before I'm gonna pass it off,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say uh. Samir has also been writing for
Speaker 1: the Self Florida Tribune, so he does have his own
Speaker 1: drop down on the South Florida Tribune website, so you
Speaker 1: can check out. He just wrote an article talks about
Speaker 1: what we some of what we talked about tonight, so
Speaker 1: we definitely go check out his writing there is well,
Speaker 1: great job, Samir, Thank you, You're welcome. Jeremy. How can
Speaker 1: people find you?
Speaker 4: Nikat Biden with the Motorcia Lions is the YouTube channel
Speaker 4: also Huddle Sports Network. You can also find the Huddle
Speaker 4: Sports app on Amazon, Firestick and Roku. You can find
Speaker 4: me right here every Thursday night with Candy somewhere between
Speaker 4: eight thirty and nine thirty pm talking sports with JD.
Speaker 4: Samir and whoever else we put on the show here
Speaker 4: on fire Up, which I also put into my channel,
Speaker 4: and you can also find me on the South Florida
Speaker 4: Tribune dot com.
Speaker 1: Yes, writes too. Although it's been a little a little while,
Speaker 1: but now that NFL is coming back in, I'm assuming
Speaker 1: we are gonna see a little bit more of his writing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm still working on that. Off season article because
Speaker 4: I'm trying to put all the edition, subtraction injury stuff
Speaker 4: and just get us up to date.
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Speaker 1: So definitely go check those out. JD. How can people
Speaker 1: find you?
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Speaker 3: We've got Kine he's looking forward to Lions and the Falcons,
Speaker 3: and we've got like I said, the Seahawks. The Raiders. Oh,
Speaker 3: they're so close to a first down in this preseason game,
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Speaker 3: appreciate Samir and Jeremy appreciates Jeremy for being here. Thanks
Speaker 3: for letting me on your show. Saying goes to Candy
Speaker 3: and everybody else in between. Samir, you're the man, and
Speaker 3: I'm done with the Braves and with that, I'm done
Speaker 3: with this show and good night.
Speaker 1: So I just want to say thank you to everybody
Speaker 1: that's been comments, comments coming in. You guys all for
Speaker 1: being on the show with us. Hey, let's just let's
Speaker 1: just start to enjoy the season. Jeremy, you used to
Speaker 1: end our show, how.
Speaker 4: Jeremy, try every day to be a better person than
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Speaker 1: Sounds good. With that being said, we'll see you guys
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