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Speaker 4: The travel chief that's Austin Montgomery. He's alongside today as
Speaker 4: we get another week started. And I feel like we
Speaker 4: got we got lucky this weekend with I mean you
Speaker 4: were telling me right before the show started, you got well,
Speaker 4: I don't I wouldn't call it luck. You clearly knew
Speaker 4: what you were doing when you made those wagers. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know anytime home run bet that cashed. Did you
Speaker 4: get in on any NBA playoff stuff?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I uh went with the with the Warriors
Speaker 5: and who they played, the Rockets, right, Warriors and Rockets.
Speaker 4: Also I know is that the games continue to be
Speaker 4: complete blowouts that like, I don't know how anybody like,
Speaker 4: how do you even bet on that? I mean, there
Speaker 4: was one game yesterday, I don't know who it was,
Speaker 4: but they lost with fifty one points.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the Grizzlies and Thunder.
Speaker 4: I mean, the format of the NBA playoffs has absolutely
Speaker 4: made it to where if your job is to not
Speaker 4: worry about ratings or worry about, you know, anything other
Speaker 4: than your team winning a seven game series, it is
Speaker 4: wise for you to concede and just accept the fact
Speaker 4: that we're going to lose this. Let's get everybody out
Speaker 4: and hope that we can live to fight an other day.
Speaker 4: That's brutal, even if that means we lose by fifty points.
Speaker 4: I'm not exaggerating. Fifty one points was the margin of
Speaker 4: victory yesterday in one of the playoff games. So congrats
Speaker 4: to you. I'm more impressed than you would imagine, because
Speaker 4: I mean the NBA, like, I don't know how you.
Speaker 4: I guess more than anything, if there's like a decent
Speaker 4: spread and you feel like a team's gonna win, you
Speaker 4: would say, okay, well it's game two here, so you
Speaker 4: know they're probably gonna just accept Okay, we're gonna go
Speaker 4: down oh two before we go home and try to
Speaker 4: win some games. So right, you know, maybe you just
Speaker 4: feel like they'll cover even if it's a big number
Speaker 4: because of the blowouts.
Speaker 5: But it was one of those things like you know
Speaker 5: where you go in the sports book and they have
Speaker 5: like the automatic like here's the boost for tonight was
Speaker 5: at three point fifty, but we put some juice on
Speaker 5: it to plus four hundred, and usually that's a suckers bet,
Speaker 5: but I went on, had to did it. I think
Speaker 5: it was Jimmy Butler over.
Speaker 2: The Jilly suckers. Hey, who's a suckers now?
Speaker 5: Jimmy Butler over twenty five points and Steph Curry over
Speaker 5: three and a half points. And I also got in
Speaker 5: some action with the Cavs Heat game last night. But
Speaker 5: Tyler Tyler hero man, he just needed him. And Donovan
Speaker 5: Mitchell was the bet is at four to one odds
Speaker 5: for both of them over twenty five over twenty four points,
Speaker 5: and obviously Mitchell hit that. Tyler Herro was at seventeen
Speaker 5: at halftime, and when I was looking at it, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: we got this in the bag, finished with twenty one points.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I tell you what, man, that's not luck. You
Speaker 4: know what you're doing. I mean, obviously that you don't
Speaker 4: win them all, but like the other bets, like, I
Speaker 4: apologize for insinuating that when I said we got lucky
Speaker 4: this weekend that it had anything to do with your wagers,
Speaker 4: because it's not luck. You know what you're doing. You're
Speaker 4: cleaning out the sports books.
Speaker 2: And trying to good stuff.
Speaker 4: When I mentioned luck, I'm saying like weather because I
Speaker 4: I mean, it looked like it was gonna I mean,
Speaker 4: the forecast was calling for good chance of rain all
Speaker 4: day both Saturday and Sunday, and we avoided it on Saturday,
Speaker 4: and it really seemed like one of those moments. And
Speaker 4: again I'm not following it super closely. I just know that, hey,
Speaker 4: if I pull out my phone and look at the
Speaker 4: weather app. It tells me that there's, you know, a
Speaker 4: certain percentage chance of rain. So I thought, okay, we're lucky.
Speaker 4: Because my daughter's baseball game was at nine am. They
Speaker 4: have games all throughout the day up until I think
Speaker 4: like two o'clock, and I thought, okay, well, hey, I
Speaker 4: guess the benefit here is that we get it early
Speaker 4: and maybe we won't have to have our game canceled
Speaker 4: because of rain. Well, did end up raining all day,
Speaker 4: and because we didn't really have any plans and we're
Speaker 4: like waiting out the weather, we ended up, you know,
Speaker 4: we ended up going with some friends to a winery,
Speaker 4: hung out let the kids run around, and that's just
Speaker 4: one of those It was a it was a first
Speaker 4: of all, it was fun, but also when you don't
Speaker 4: know you're gonna be able to do something and there's
Speaker 4: kind of some spontaneousness to it, you end up somewhere like, hey,
Speaker 4: let's take advantage of the fact that it didn't rain,
Speaker 4: and we did that, had a good time. And then
Speaker 4: yesterday Easter Sunday, hopefully everybody had themselves a good Easter.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was it was very nice. I mean well,
Speaker 4: it wasn't sunny all the way through, but that's okay.
Speaker 2: It didn't rain.
Speaker 4: If you had the one thing you don't want if
Speaker 4: you got kids out there hunting easter eggs is rain,
Speaker 4: and we didn't have any of that, which was good.
Speaker 4: But man, it was muggy.
Speaker 2: It was it was. It was sticky out there.
Speaker 4: I feel like yesterday was the first day of twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five where I felt like, Okay, the humidity has
Speaker 4: at least arrived, then it'll be here. I mean, the
Speaker 4: humidity is, you know, is not great. It's blooming, yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean it's it's it's of all the different components
Speaker 4: to weather, cold, hot, whatever, humidity is the worst.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean I'd rather be breezing than be humid. I mean,
Speaker 4: maybe I would regret if I really got put in
Speaker 4: like the worst humidity ever and I was legitimately in
Speaker 4: temperatures so cold that I've never experienced it before, maybe
Speaker 4: I would side.
Speaker 2: With being, you know, being humid.
Speaker 4: But when it's just sticky, engross and you can't breathe,
Speaker 4: and we weren't quite there yesterday, but without the sun
Speaker 4: shining and it being as warm as it was, that's
Speaker 4: that's what really made me realize, Okay, sticky, yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean it. You so you grew up in Arizona. Is Arizona.
Speaker 4: I'm an idiot, so I just assume all Arizona is
Speaker 4: the same, and I know that's really not the case.
Speaker 4: But like Phoenix, outside of Phoenix, it's just desert. It's hot,
Speaker 4: it's hot, and you know there's that dry heat.
Speaker 5: Yes, exactly, everyone's always everyone always says that dry heat.
Speaker 5: And if you don't even mean it means exactly how
Speaker 5: it sounds like you. I mean, you just said it
Speaker 5: when it's like not when the sun's not even out
Speaker 5: and you kind of just.
Speaker 4: So wheel the moisture heat and moist heat is essentially humidity, right.
Speaker 5: Yes, exactly the heat where you where you're just standing
Speaker 5: outside and it's just like low key, like the sun's
Speaker 5: not out and you're not expecting it, but what do
Speaker 5: you know? You're sweating in places, right, And but like
Speaker 5: it's compared to like an oven when being in Arizona,
Speaker 5: like it's just there's hardly like any any clouds. It's
Speaker 5: just like wide open terrain. It's just dry. It's dry
Speaker 5: everywhere because there's really no like there's really no trees.
Speaker 5: There's not a whole bunch of shade. It is just
Speaker 5: like it's not like a sand desert like not like
Speaker 5: you know, but it is just flat lands. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of there's cacti and other succulents.
Speaker 4: But everybody has their own, you know, preference, and some
Speaker 4: people are more so bothered by heat than others. But
Speaker 4: I've been to Vegas and I've been to Phoenix, and
Speaker 4: Vegas is essentially the same.
Speaker 2: I don't like.
Speaker 4: Again, I'm sure if Vegas was the same temperature and
Speaker 4: Phoenix was the same temperature that that that it was
Speaker 4: when I was there, and you added humidity to it,
Speaker 4: it would be even worse. But I'm just here to
Speaker 4: tell you that, like wet heat, dry heat, whatever, the
Speaker 4: heat when I was in Arizona and when I was
Speaker 4: in Vegas that hot as hell. Like yeah, however you
Speaker 4: want to classify this type of heat, I'm out on it.
Speaker 5: Like it's so many times nick where there was just
Speaker 5: it was like one hundred and ten degrees outside with
Speaker 5: like no humidity.
Speaker 2: It's just strictly from the sun.
Speaker 4: That's dangerous.
Speaker 2: It's the heat strictly from it.
Speaker 5: It was literally when people would say, yeah, you can
Speaker 5: be able to go out and fry like an egg
Speaker 5: on the sidewalk. Somewhere it got pretty bad. I don't
Speaker 5: know if it's ever got like that.
Speaker 2: Here. It does get sticky and humidity.
Speaker 5: But like when you know, like how you could look
Speaker 5: outside and like see like the mirage it looks like, oh,
Speaker 5: like it's waving like it look you know.
Speaker 2: That's That's how it was constantly in Arizona.
Speaker 4: I'll tell this. I've told this story before. I flew
Speaker 4: to Phoenix. This is probably about ten years ago, and
Speaker 4: I was there for about five days. It was a
Speaker 4: work trip and I landed. I flew out of Louisville
Speaker 4: and I ended up landing in It fled a little
Speaker 4: early in the morning and I landed in Phoenix. It
Speaker 4: was I was a southwest flight. It was probably probably
Speaker 4: got there at nine am Louisville time, so it was
Speaker 4: like six am there, so it was really early. And
Speaker 4: I went to get the rental car and I'd never
Speaker 4: been to that part of the country before, and I
Speaker 4: remember being asked, do you want somebody?
Speaker 2: I guess they could.
Speaker 4: They could get be on like a it wasn't really
Speaker 4: a shuttle, but they had some type of like I
Speaker 4: don't know if it was a big golf.
Speaker 2: Cart or what.
Speaker 4: Where they would drive you closer to where you could
Speaker 4: get to your rental car and you didn't have to
Speaker 4: walk away by yourself. And I was like, you know,
Speaker 4: it's fine, no big deal. I mean, I didn't I'm
Speaker 4: fine with walking and I didn't want to wait on
Speaker 4: you know, I just let me just tell me where
Speaker 4: it is and I'll walk there. If it's not like
Speaker 4: two miles away, I'll be good. So I ended up.
Speaker 4: I was wearing you know, business casual clothes. I had
Speaker 4: on a polo shirt and you know, some slacks, and
Speaker 4: I made the walk and it was probably I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe I don't know, maybe eighty yards or something from
Speaker 4: from from the desk to where I ended up getting
Speaker 4: in the vehicle. And keep in mind, it's insanely early
Speaker 4: there at this time, and I didn't feel like that
Speaker 4: that that, you know, because when you open when it's
Speaker 4: when when the Ohio all area just gets real soupy
Speaker 4: and it's just disgusting, like as soon as you walk outside,
Speaker 4: like it's just it's it's thick, it's heavy, it's gross.
Speaker 4: You could feel it on you. It didn't do that
Speaker 4: at all, but I realized it was very hot, and
Speaker 4: I thought, okay, pretty hot here for six am. Anyways,
Speaker 4: I ended up making it to the vehicle and I
Speaker 4: popped the trunk, put my bag in there, and as
Speaker 4: I'm walking to the front to get in, I realized, like,
Speaker 4: underneath my shirt and my pants, you would have thought
Speaker 4: I just got out of the pool and threw clothes on.
Speaker 2: Oh w.
Speaker 4: And I remember thinking like, okay, you know what, I
Speaker 4: didn't feel that humidity. It didn't hit me in the face.
Speaker 4: It was kind of deceiving, but sure enough, an eighty
Speaker 4: yard walk, it's six am with the heat they got out.
Speaker 2: Here, like it's it's it's still hot as hell. That's
Speaker 2: a dry heat. Yeah, it's it's better than the humidity.
Speaker 4: But still, like, I don't you know, if I could
Speaker 4: get somewhere where the humidity's low and we would be
Speaker 4: looking at you know, seventies year round, that's that's the
Speaker 4: sweet spot. But of course, you know, there's not many
Speaker 4: places like that, and the places that do have that
Speaker 4: kind of weather, that's you know, where people go to retire.
Speaker 4: So anyway, we got lucky this weekend and hopefully everybody
Speaker 4: had themselves a good Easter. I was hiding Easter eggs
Speaker 4: for the kids and see Easter Bunny good to the kid.
Speaker 4: Oh Easter Bunny, I mean came through. Yeah, the Easter Bunny.
Speaker 4: You know, she she she did great this year. But
Speaker 4: she she signed me up for you know, it's not
Speaker 4: like it's not like it's it's not a chore necessarily,
Speaker 4: and I could be doing worse things. But she ended
Speaker 4: up getting the The Easter Bunny got Moose a second controller
Speaker 4: for his PlayStation.
Speaker 2: He only had one.
Speaker 4: And what I didn't, you know, realize, is that now
Speaker 4: he won't play any game unless I play with him.
Speaker 4: That's right, and you know, sometimes it's fun, but also
Speaker 4: you know, like I got stuff to do. I can't
Speaker 4: just sit around and play video games all day. But
Speaker 4: I will say this, if you ever, what was the
Speaker 4: first video game you got into as a kid like that,
Speaker 4: you were just like all in on. And I guess
Speaker 4: a lot of people are going to say, like Madden
Speaker 4: or the NAA football game, take take sports away from it,
Speaker 4: because I didn't play many games at all that weren't sports.
Speaker 5: I don't know about you, the I mean, I was
Speaker 5: a huge sports gamer growing up. I guess like when
Speaker 5: I first got the PlayStation, it was either like tomb
Speaker 5: Raider or WWE in your House.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I forgot about the wrestling games.
Speaker 5: But I would say the most video game hours I've
Speaker 5: ever logged on to this day probably has to come
Speaker 5: between two, either Mario Kart or Grand Theft Auto Vice
Speaker 5: City that has probably so many hours my legendary games.
Speaker 5: Oh dude, well, Grand the Thought of Five comes out
Speaker 5: this year, it's going to be crazy. You thought the
Speaker 5: college football hype with last year was wild. Whenever Grand
Speaker 5: Theft Thought of Five comes out this year, it's gonna
Speaker 5: be It's going to dominate the internet.
Speaker 4: I played the maybe it was the original mini many
Speaker 4: years ago. I don't think I owned it, but I
Speaker 4: played it with a friend and clearly because the only
Speaker 4: games I ever really consistently played outside of the sports
Speaker 4: games was tomb Raider, which you mentioned, which I really liked. Yeah,
Speaker 4: really could, but I forgot about this game. And I
Speaker 4: this is before he even opened up his Easter basket
Speaker 4: and got his controller. But on Friday night he wanted
Speaker 4: to play, and he said, you know, can we get
Speaker 4: some new games? So I downed him a couple of
Speaker 4: new games, and one of them was a grass cutting game,
Speaker 4: which which is.
Speaker 2: Kind of a grass cutting simulator.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's in a way, it's I mean, does
Speaker 4: look fun.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4: I'd like to think that if I, you know, if
Speaker 4: I played it, I wouldn't just you know, end up
Speaker 4: sitting there for four hours. But like I can see
Speaker 4: how somebody would because it's what you do is you
Speaker 4: end up like you're in a garage. It starts you
Speaker 4: in a garage and you have you have an iPad,
Speaker 4: and you walk up to your iPad like hit hit
Speaker 4: a button and it pulls up like where you're bidding
Speaker 4: on jobs to go cut grass, and you pick a
Speaker 4: job and you get paid per yard, and you get
Speaker 4: paid a bonus if you get the yard cut in
Speaker 4: a certain amount of time. We've got we've got to
Speaker 4: push them over now. But once we start mowing more lawns,
Speaker 4: we're gonna be able to get us a bigger ritting
Speaker 4: mo over there.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: It's it's kind of fun. Well, he got bored with that.
Speaker 4: So the other game I downloaded, I forgot about and
Speaker 4: I you know, talk about nostalgia crash bandicoot oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: do you know what crash band it is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that's probably that's probably it.
Speaker 4: So we downloaded it.
Speaker 2: We played. I mean, it's like insane. It was a wee.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I'm sure everybody has, like if you're a parent, I'm
Speaker 4: sure you've had like a moment where your kid starts
Speaker 4: getting interested and asking questions about not just things that
Speaker 4: you know, dad and mom like because that's what kids do.
Speaker 4: That's one of the beautiful things about being a parent
Speaker 4: that a lot of times. Man, if you're if you
Speaker 4: like it, then your kids just they're gonna want to
Speaker 4: love it just like you. That's you know, That's that's
Speaker 4: how it is with my my son with U of
Speaker 4: L and whatnot. Like he's all in on the cards
Speaker 4: now and that's really fun. He doesn't he didn't know it,
Speaker 4: but he was born into It's gonna be his religion.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just happened anyways.
Speaker 4: But he's asking me about crash Bandicoot and I'm like, huh,
Speaker 4: glad you asked, son, because I played this game a
Speaker 4: lot when I was a kid. And uh, Maya and
Speaker 4: her mama went to bed about ten o'clock and sure enough,
Speaker 4: Moose and I were playing crash Bandicoot on Friday, and
Speaker 4: I felt I felt a little bit like an irresponsible
Speaker 4: father because don't all all next thing, you know, I
Speaker 4: look down on my phone, it's one forty five in
Speaker 4: the morning.
Speaker 2: I mean, we were just getting started.
Speaker 4: So we went we went to bed after that, and
Speaker 4: he's been he's been wanting to play.
Speaker 5: Crash Out at all, like trying to complete the levels
Speaker 5: or did you do you remember it being that hard?
Speaker 2: Because it is a tough game.
Speaker 4: Yes, but there's also like, I mean, you know, you
Speaker 4: gotta there's like there's these flowers that you have to
Speaker 4: like jump over or they'll.
Speaker 2: Eat you up right, Yeah, a little fly trap.
Speaker 4: And I don't think there's real consistency on how you
Speaker 4: how you get past those, and that was frustrating for me.
Speaker 4: And then I had to realize, Okay, don't lose your
Speaker 4: mind on a video game, because then that's what your
Speaker 4: kid's gonna do, and you know that's not a good thing.
Speaker 5: So I about two months ago, went on a crash Bandicoot.
Speaker 5: I got the Insane Trilogy series, and I start I
Speaker 5: got obsessed with it. I was starting to hear the
Speaker 5: Ooh book and all the weird things in like my sleep.
Speaker 5: So like I I, I think that's where my obsessive
Speaker 5: like need for completion came from, because I want to
Speaker 5: get to the part where you complete all the time trials
Speaker 5: and then you catch every single crystal. So I spent
Speaker 5: weeks and weeks hundred percent in the first game.
Speaker 2: Man, you you just hit on.
Speaker 4: What made that nostalgia pop for me is the like
Speaker 4: I had heard that and probably twenty something years and
Speaker 4: if you'd ask me music, if you'd asked me something
Speaker 4: that I remembered about crash, it wouldn't have been that bit.
Speaker 4: As soon as I heard it, I was excited. So yeah,
Speaker 4: this was a good you know it, It's always the plan.
Speaker 4: But I had a good, good family weekend. We did
Speaker 4: a lot of family and stuff, had a good time,
Speaker 4: had a good Easter. So hopefully all of you out
Speaker 4: there enjoyed your Easter Sunday Easter weekend as well. And
Speaker 4: now what I'm going to do here is set the
Speaker 4: table because we've got a lot to get into. Obviously,
Speaker 4: the NFL Draft is this week, and I still think
Speaker 4: Tyler Shuck has a really good chance of being either
Speaker 4: the third or fourth quarterback taken but here's where we
Speaker 4: have to I guess, just guess and speculate. We'll find
Speaker 4: out soon enough. But now you've got Chefty out there
Speaker 4: claiming that he's talking to people who maybe aren't in
Speaker 4: the market for a quarterback that say, it's not even
Speaker 4: a close, it's not even a question. Tyler Schuck is
Speaker 4: the best quarterback in this draft. And that's what is
Speaker 4: you get closer to the actual draft, that's when you
Speaker 4: start to think, Okay, I know he's been getting gassed up,
Speaker 4: and clearly we know there's a lot to like, but like,
Speaker 4: is this like could he be taken earlier than we anticipate,
Speaker 4: Like would he be a top fifteen pick? I mean,
Speaker 4: I guess he could. I just you know, I've not
Speaker 4: really been this eager about a Louis of a Cardinal
Speaker 4: on draft night in a long time, because, I guess
Speaker 4: with Lamar, I just refused to believe that he was
Speaker 4: going to you know, I was in denial that Lamar
Speaker 4: really would fall the way he did to the last
Speaker 4: pick in the first round. But sure enough it happened.
Speaker 4: So the lead up was he's going to be taken
Speaker 4: in like the top ten, and he's going to prove
Speaker 4: everybody wrong and then clearly it didn't play out that way.
Speaker 4: But obviously with Tyler Shuck, I mean, who knows, maybe
Speaker 4: he's a Day two guy, which could still and then
Speaker 4: that would probably be most I mean I would say
Speaker 4: that would be my guess right now. But with the
Speaker 4: quarterback position, if Shuck was generating this kind of buzz
Speaker 4: and he had, you know, this same sort of story,
Speaker 4: but it wasn't a quarterback, it was a different position,
Speaker 4: I mean, one of one, it wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Be talked about quite as much.
Speaker 4: Also, you know, it'd probably be Okay, Yeah, this guy's
Speaker 4: really positioned himself well to where he could be a
Speaker 4: third round pick. Can anybody be shocked anymore this day
Speaker 4: and age if a team just gets you know, there's
Speaker 4: everybody in the NFL is so desperate to find their
Speaker 4: next franchise player, their next quarterback, and Shuck's got a
Speaker 4: lot to like. So I say all that to say that,
Speaker 4: like we could be in for maybe a bigger surprise
Speaker 4: than we anticipate, because it's not just maybe like that
Speaker 4: he's going to be taken rather early, but like who
Speaker 4: takes them? That could be a big surprise, Like maybe
Speaker 4: somebody's sitting back not doing a whole lot of yapping
Speaker 4: because they know that, like, hey, we don't need a
Speaker 4: quarterback right now, but if this guy's going to be there,
Speaker 4: sitting and available as we as we have our pick,
Speaker 4: we're getting him so really excited about the NFL Draft
Speaker 4: coming up here in a few weeks. Also, Louislle Football
Speaker 4: landed a new addition at receiver, which of course was needed.
Speaker 4: And I'm not only going to tell you about this
Speaker 4: young man and you know where he transferred in from me.
Speaker 4: He's started at Clemson, played at nc State last year.
Speaker 4: But the coverage of this commitment there was something that
Speaker 4: really irritated me that I that I don't know, we
Speaker 4: don't think we've talked about it on the show before,
Speaker 4: and I certainly want to Also, Kentucky, not only have
Speaker 4: they landed another guard in the portal that a lot
Speaker 4: of people seem to think they overpaid for, they essentially
Speaker 4: have their roster set right now and their fans are
Speaker 4: really really excited about the roster. And you know, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't expect anything else, because you know that's what fans do.
Speaker 4: But I just think if you go like piece by
Speaker 4: piece and there's no way to know, right, it would
Speaker 4: just be guessing, it would just be speculation. But if
Speaker 4: you compare Kentucky in Pope's debut season personnel to what
Speaker 4: now they have in the mix with this latest edition
Speaker 4: via the Portal, I mean, again, you never know. But
Speaker 4: like I don't think it's even a question. I don't
Speaker 4: know how you can say that they'd be better that
Speaker 4: next year than this past year. Now, again, it's totally
Speaker 4: different as far as like the type of pieces they have,
Speaker 4: So again, none of us know. I've said many times
Speaker 4: it's not like an anti UK thing. I think Pope
Speaker 4: will make it work with whatever, because I think he's
Speaker 4: that good of a coach and they have good players.
Speaker 4: It's not like I'm saying, Hey, their fans are excited
Speaker 4: about their team and they're lousy. It's not that, it's just,
Speaker 4: you know, some of the guys that they've added.
Speaker 2: I feel like.
Speaker 4: You'd have to be you know, you have to hope
Speaker 4: that they would make a big jump from whatever they've
Speaker 4: done in their career until you know, to next year
Speaker 4: to be better than some of the guys that they
Speaker 4: just you know, they just had. Hey, look if they're
Speaker 4: the same type of team were a little bit below
Speaker 4: were what they were just.
Speaker 2: This past year.
Speaker 4: That's not the end of the world, because clearly Kentucky
Speaker 4: was pretty good this year. They were Sweet sixteen team
Speaker 4: got a top three seed. But like Kentucky doesn't usually
Speaker 4: strive for that. They they strive for the you know,
Speaker 4: the championships and whatnot. So again we'll get into it. Also,
Speaker 4: the portal actually closes tomorrow, and I don't believe there's
Speaker 4: been a whole lot of late editions since last Friday
Speaker 4: that have been like big names like uh oh, look out,
Speaker 4: like this is crazy.
Speaker 2: Who would have ever thought this guy was available? So
Speaker 2: I kind of.
Speaker 4: Feel like anybody who was going to go is gone.
Speaker 4: But we shall see. Again, I believe it's tomorrow at midnight,
Speaker 4: is whenever it officially closes, and you've you know, you
Speaker 4: got to you got until then. So the good news
Speaker 4: is that Cason Pryor has not entered the portal and
Speaker 4: he's not even declared for the draft. Therefore, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe he's not going to give us any kind of
Speaker 4: you know, graphic or video. He's actually he's actually playing
Speaker 4: into it a little bit on his social media, which
Speaker 4: I think is fine and fun because you know that's
Speaker 4: what you should do, right, Like it's a human it's
Speaker 4: a human nature kind of thing, like you want to
Speaker 4: be appreciated. You want people to say we need you,
Speaker 4: we love you. And clearly Louisville fans know that next
Speaker 4: year they're going to be a good team. And when
Speaker 4: you look at preseason rankings that have him in like
Speaker 4: the top five, top ten, clearly Casin is a component
Speaker 4: in that. So it's not to say that if he
Speaker 4: did leave, they would wouldn't be any good at all.
Speaker 4: But obviously if you could end up, you know, and
Speaker 4: I think they know he's back, or they wouldn't be
Speaker 4: operating the way they are. But we'll get into all
Speaker 4: that also. I mean, I don't really know what we
Speaker 4: can add to this, but there's a great breakdown from
Speaker 4: I believe Gary Parrish of CBS Sports that tells you
Speaker 4: all of the guys that have entered the portal that
Speaker 4: don't actually have eligibility, And I'm I'm kind of sad
Speaker 4: for these guys now because like this is some of
Speaker 4: these dudes have a legit. I'm not going to say
Speaker 4: that they have a legitimate gripe and they should be eligible,
Speaker 4: but you would at least you at least know what
Speaker 4: they're positioning their waiver to be four right, like they've
Speaker 4: got an argument. Some of these guys are just hitting
Speaker 4: the portal hoping nobody realizes they've been playing college sports
Speaker 4: for six years.
Speaker 2: And that's where it gets kind of sad.
Speaker 4: That screams you're twenty about to be twenty one and
Speaker 4: you're showing up to the football games in high school
Speaker 4: with the letterman jacket, and again, like it's kind of sad. Now,
Speaker 4: clearly if you do that as a twenty year old
Speaker 4: at high school like that, that's actually really sad. This is,
Speaker 4: I guess, just a chance for these guys to see
Speaker 4: if they could get away with playing a little longer
Speaker 4: to make money in money, you know. So in a way,
Speaker 4: I don't blame him, who wouldn't try to keep doing
Speaker 4: this as long as you can to make money. But
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, Like if you're in the portal
Speaker 4: and you have no eligibility left and a coach calls
Speaker 4: you seeing you're available, and they ask you, hey, like
Speaker 4: there's something we don't know, Like what are you gonna say? Like,
Speaker 4: that's where it gets kind of sad. Also, Cooper flag
Speaker 4: not coming back to college, which I guess was always
Speaker 4: what was going to happen, but I was curious to
Speaker 4: see if if he really would, you know, leave the
Speaker 4: option open right like, Hey, he's going to go through
Speaker 4: the draft process and you know he's going to be
Speaker 4: the number one pick. So now just comes down to
Speaker 4: like what who that team is going to be. But
Speaker 4: clearly he now knows that regardless of who has that pick,
Speaker 4: that's where he's gonna be, and he's content with it.
Speaker 4: Also something else we can get into if we need to.
Speaker 4: But Nata Mint ends up picking not Louisville, not Duke,
Speaker 4: and not Kentucky, not Arkansas, but Tennessee. And I can't
Speaker 4: help but wonder how that happened. Obviously money is the
Speaker 4: factor here, but.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It just seems like a head scratcher for Tennessee to
Speaker 4: be the one like the Tennessee If Tennessee truly paid
Speaker 4: more money for Nata Mint that anybody else was willing to.
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe this is just you know, me being bitter,
Speaker 4: which it's not. I've said it for weeks. Now, they
Speaker 4: get him, great, I'm not going to lose a wink
Speaker 4: of sleep if they don't. And it could be Native Man,
Speaker 4: it could be Nate whatever. I just think when it
Speaker 4: comes to young freshmen, anything they give you as far
Speaker 4: as being a regular contribut to your team is just
Speaker 4: a blessing because now you got grown men that play
Speaker 4: this sport up until they're twenty three, twenty four. So
Speaker 4: I'm twenty five, so you know I'm not. It's not
Speaker 4: like I'm soh you know, we didn't want him anyway,
Speaker 4: but I just feel like the more he showed his
Speaker 4: lack of physicality, when that's mattered more now than it
Speaker 4: hasn't a long time in college basketball. I think if
Speaker 4: you're a duke of Kentucky, Louisville, or even a you
Speaker 4: know in Arkansas, you know you'll take him. But if
Speaker 4: it comes to where he's going to be one of
Speaker 4: the most expensive pieces on your team or the most
Speaker 4: expensive piece, I mean it didn't worth it. But then again,
Speaker 4: like Tennessee, like are they willing to pay that? Like,
Speaker 4: clearly they've got money, they got a big fan base.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: I more than anything, I'm just surprised that of all
Speaker 4: places ended up being Tennessee that landed this guy. So
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Speaker 4: rolling along fresh off of Easter weekend. Hopefully you guys
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Speaker 4: So we are just a few days away from the
Speaker 4: NFL Draft, and you know, any time I've seen anything
Speaker 4: out there about Tyler Shuck, the only thing I've seen
Speaker 4: that like wasn't positive is that is that clip of
Speaker 4: him at the combine where I have no explanation as
Speaker 4: to what occurred or how it happened, but it was
Speaker 4: almost as if like he had the yips or there
Speaker 4: was a miscommunication because I mean it was almost like
Speaker 4: he was attempting to throw one of the worst passes ever.
Speaker 4: Really wasn't even like a pass. But anyways, other than that,
Speaker 4: it's just been nothing but praise, and I assume all
Speaker 4: that's you know, it's good stuff, but you really never
Speaker 4: know if what's been put out there from agents, even
Speaker 4: if it's from legitimate people within these franchises. Right if
Speaker 4: they're talking to the shifters of the world, what benefit
Speaker 4: do they get out of giving information to anybody? Nothing?
Speaker 4: So these guys that you know, make a lot of
Speaker 4: money to be talking heads telling you what they are
Speaker 4: hearing is happening with the NFL. And I don't act
Speaker 4: like it's not a legitimate gig. It is, but I
Speaker 4: just feel like nobody's ever said it out loud. Why
Speaker 4: in the world would anybody that has any influence within
Speaker 4: any NFL franchise give any information to anybody only if
Speaker 4: it was gonna help them, Right, well, what would help
Speaker 4: them telling them what they're gonna do. No, it's almost like, Hey,
Speaker 4: we want somebody to think we're gonna do this, so
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell Adam Schefter or Ian rappaport, and you
Speaker 4: know it'll be a smoke screen. I mean, to me,
Speaker 4: that's really obvious. It's not like it's not like I'm
Speaker 4: throwing out some crazy conspiracy thing. I mean, it just
Speaker 4: it makes no sense to tip your cat, you know,
Speaker 4: to show your hand in any way. So who knows
Speaker 4: just how.
Speaker 2: Legit it is.
Speaker 4: But Schefter earlier today, one of his ride ups says
Speaker 4: that some teams have Louisville's Tyler Schuck as their highest
Speaker 4: rated quarterback in the entire draft, and I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, again, cam Ward's the guy that is is
Speaker 4: going to be the first quarterback taken. And I mean, Austin,
Speaker 4: you know, NFL, you know ball?
Speaker 2: Are you a believer of cam Ward in the NFL?
Speaker 2: Not really.
Speaker 4: I just think there's a better chance of him being
Speaker 4: somebody who is, you know, average at best than there
Speaker 4: is of him being like, Wow, can you believe nobody
Speaker 4: saw this guy? I mean it's not that nobody. Clearly
Speaker 4: people know he's coming.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: He's going to be the number one quarterback taken by
Speaker 4: all accounts. But you know, he started his career at
Speaker 4: what like was it incarnate word or something like that.
Speaker 4: But we're going to like so that'll be a wild story.
Speaker 4: So again I'm not saying I think he's gonna be
Speaker 4: like a big bust, but like I just I don't know.
Speaker 4: To me, he'll have a solid career at best. But
Speaker 4: you know, there's a lot of guys who I thought
Speaker 4: would be great stunk and then vice versa.
Speaker 5: I think Tennessee's a dump right now too, So like
Speaker 5: I don't love their roster, I'm still like out on
Speaker 5: their head coach not necessarily is their guy now?
Speaker 2: It's h is it? Bill Callahan?
Speaker 4: Right, you could have said any name and I would
Speaker 4: have believed you. I think, look the Titans, I'd be wrong.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they feel like it'd run its course with
Speaker 4: Rabel right, like he'd been there a while and there
Speaker 4: was never really like a huge breakthrough.
Speaker 2: Brian Callahan, Yeah, but.
Speaker 4: I don't, like, do you feel like you have a
Speaker 4: better coach now than the one that you had? Like,
Speaker 4: and I know you've got to, you know, you gotta
Speaker 4: have some you've got to have change of pace, you
Speaker 4: got to have some new life in there and and whatnot.
Speaker 4: And coaches are very expendable now, right if you've got
Speaker 4: a bunch of money tied up into one big player,
Speaker 4: then you know coaches are going to be clearly not
Speaker 4: a priority like your franchise player. But like Derek, Henry
Speaker 4: moved on, right, we all know that, Yeah, and they
Speaker 4: didn't want to pay him.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just feel like the Titans, And I'm not that
Speaker 4: mad about it, because I you know, I don't like
Speaker 4: the Titans their arrival of my Colts, and I just
Speaker 4: feel like they they were going to restart, which they
Speaker 4: clearly are. They let Henry walk and they gave will
Speaker 4: As an opportunity to be their start of this past year.
Speaker 2: I just feel like, if you're.
Speaker 4: Doing all that, you don't need a coaching change. But
Speaker 4: maybe they knew there was going to be some resistance
Speaker 4: and that Rabel didn't want to do that. He wasn't
Speaker 4: willing to just completely rebuild. But now he's gone, he's
Speaker 4: in New England and here the Titans are once again
Speaker 4: kind of starting all over.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: They went a little bit younger because he was the
Speaker 5: offensive coordinator for the Bengals back when they went to
Speaker 5: the Super Bowl, and they had a lot of success
Speaker 5: under Joe Burrow. But obviously they don't have that Joe
Speaker 5: Burrows amazing. There's only one of him, so like them
Speaker 5: going and really, I mean, I'm not getting the best
Speaker 5: draw with getting Will Levis because I never believed in
Speaker 5: him anyways. But people, like I said this before, like
Speaker 5: when we're talking about the season, it seems like all
Speaker 5: a Tennessee has been so let down ever since Derrick
Speaker 5: Henry left. Like I feel like that was their identity
Speaker 5: and Vrabel's play style and that whole team was their
Speaker 5: identity for the longest time of that whole city. And
Speaker 5: now they're trying to go like switch over to the
Speaker 5: up and he passing young head coach sort of route,
Speaker 5: and I don't know, it's just not hitting under Brian Callahan.
Speaker 2: He's kind of a maniac.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't even really know what they're like, Like
Speaker 4: what do they want to be?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like they were trying to air it out a
Speaker 5: lot last year. They did that a lot to the
Speaker 5: other team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did.
Speaker 4: I mean I was in Nashville when the Bengals played
Speaker 4: the Titans because I went with met some family. My
Speaker 4: cousin Mark is a huge, huge Bengals fan and he
Speaker 4: lives in Arkansas. So when he goes to watch the Bengals.
Speaker 4: Oftentimes he'll go to watch them in places that aren't
Speaker 4: Cincinnati because it's closer to where he lives. And my
Speaker 4: I guess it would be my second cousin, his son.
Speaker 4: You know. He he made an observation that I thought,
Speaker 4: you know, I wouldn't have thought about it, but it's true.
Speaker 4: He said, you know, this is the This is like
Speaker 4: the most lifeless atmosphere I've ever been in an NFL game.
Speaker 4: And I think it's because the Titans fans like they'll
Speaker 4: tighten up, as they say, but like they don't know
Speaker 4: who they are right now, like yeah, there's no identity
Speaker 4: their coach they hired. You know, he may he may
Speaker 4: work out, but like he's he's cutting his teeth too, right,
Speaker 4: He's he's not somebody who you can look back at
Speaker 4: previous stints he's had at other places. So uh yeah,
Speaker 4: the Titans, I gain, I.
Speaker 5: Need some more weapons around him, sure, because the best
Speaker 5: that they had was that Nick Westbrook at Keene last year,
Speaker 5: who at one point had a stretch of like five
Speaker 5: six straight games or scored a touchdown. It was like
Speaker 5: an automatic any anytime TD bet. But they're gonna they're
Speaker 5: gonna need some drafting a quarterback to come in and
Speaker 5: just save your franchise immediately when you don't have the
Speaker 5: resources that that's what kills quarterbacks. And I think organizations
Speaker 5: fail quarterbacks more than quarterbacks fail organizations.
Speaker 4: I could not agree more. I feel like there are
Speaker 4: some some quarterbacks that they are destined to fail based
Speaker 4: off of just the situation that they ended up in.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, and it hasn't happened yet Johnny Manziel,
Speaker 5: but Daniel jo.
Speaker 4: But it'll happen at some point where a guy can
Speaker 4: make a lot of money to stay in college and
Speaker 4: he will not go because he just realizes the three
Speaker 4: teams that are you know that would take me, no thanks,
Speaker 4: and you know used to be able to. I mean,
Speaker 4: Eli Manning is the last that really forced the issue
Speaker 4: where he went pro and was like, yeah, you all
Speaker 4: can do what you want with your pick. I'm not
Speaker 4: going there, and you know worked out for him. Well,
Speaker 4: now you can go back to college and make a
Speaker 4: lot of money, right, I mean, it's it's so you know,
Speaker 4: it's not happening this year. But I think what you
Speaker 4: just said is one thousand percent true, is that some
Speaker 4: of these quarterbacks yeah, you know, they don't do they
Speaker 4: don't handle their business the right way. They're not truly professionals.
Speaker 4: But you have to be at that position in the NFL.
Speaker 4: But then sometimes, like I don't know what they could
Speaker 4: have done, you know what I mean. Like that's why
Speaker 4: I've never once understood why it just became a thing
Speaker 4: to where, yeah, we got a first round quarterback, let's
Speaker 4: just throw them out to because you could completely ruin
Speaker 4: a guy's career by you know, completely killing their confidence,
Speaker 4: getting them hurt. I mean, like Tim Couch that's long
Speaker 4: before your time as far as probably remembering watching him
Speaker 4: like he was destined to fail in Cleveland and he
Speaker 4: was really really good, you know. So anyways, back to
Speaker 4: back to the Shock conversation, you mentioned Joe Burrow, who
Speaker 4: clearly is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Well,
Speaker 4: this is from is it Freeman? This isn't the athletic Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Bruce Feldman. He's got to write up here
Speaker 4: about the quarterbacks in this draft, and he's got some
Speaker 4: quotes from different NFL offensive you know personnel. One's a
Speaker 4: passing game coordinator. I think one is uh an oc.
Speaker 4: Let me pull it up here just I can make
Speaker 4: sure I can give a reference. But again, these are
Speaker 4: like this is the kind of thing that I love
Speaker 4: hearing that this stuff is being said about our man,
Speaker 4: Tyler Shuck. Also, I just have a hard time thinking that,
Speaker 4: Like what does I was reading for this is this
Speaker 4: is from the Athletic dot Com. While there's been a
Speaker 4: lot of talk about the old miss Jackson, about old
Speaker 4: missus Jackson Dart being the next best prospect, the coaches
Speaker 4: I spoke to didn't see it that way. Quote I
Speaker 4: like Tyler Shuck better, said OC number two. I'm not
Speaker 4: saying he's Joe Burrow, but he's got some Joe Burrow
Speaker 4: to him. I think he has the best feat in
Speaker 4: this quarterback class. I know he's had injuries, and if
Speaker 4: he didn't, I think he'd be a first round quarterback
Speaker 4: end quote Like I'm like, hell yeah, I agree. But also,
Speaker 4: but in OC telling Bruce Feldman that leading up to
Speaker 4: the draft, at what benefit is that?
Speaker 2: Like? What do you like?
Speaker 4: Now a good text that comes in, that's a great
Speaker 4: you know, it's a great counter as far as like
Speaker 4: why that could be said? People willing to yap about
Speaker 4: you know, people will because again they don't say who
Speaker 4: this is, but obviously Bruce Feldman knows who he's talking to,
Speaker 4: so I would and this is you know, sometimes you
Speaker 4: guys probably listen to me and realize you're a lot
Speaker 4: smarter than me, because this would make sense that if
Speaker 4: you're Bruce Feldman or Schefter or somebody like that Ian Rappaport,
Speaker 4: and you're gonna want to go get legitimate, quote like
Speaker 4: real information, real honest opinion feedback about the quarterbacks. You
Speaker 4: know what you're gonna do. You're gonna go to a
Speaker 4: team that you know is not drafting a quarterback because
Speaker 4: when they got to lose, right, Like, they'll tell you
Speaker 4: the straight truth because they don't care, like they have
Speaker 4: no Like if you know that you're like, if you're
Speaker 4: the Bengals, you know you're a good at quarterback, right
Speaker 4: so you might be willing to give honest opinion and
Speaker 4: that that you know, that could that that would make
Speaker 4: it make a little more sense. Here's more from the article.
Speaker 4: The sixty five two hudred and nineteen pounds Schuck ran
Speaker 4: a four point sixty three forty at the NFL scouting
Speaker 4: Combine does have a lengthy injury history. He began his
Speaker 4: career at Oregon, where he spent three season four, transferring
Speaker 4: to Texas Tech in twenty twenty one. He started three
Speaker 4: years there, but each was derailed by a season inning injury.
Speaker 4: His age has also become a talking point. He'll be
Speaker 4: twenty six in September, making him older than Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 4: brock Purty and c J.
Speaker 2: Stroud.
Speaker 4: Here's another quote. He's probably the most pro ready to
Speaker 4: go in and run an offense and be able to operate.
Speaker 4: That is a passing game coordinator who said this to
Speaker 4: Bruce Feldman. The rest of the quote is of this quote.
Speaker 4: Some people bring up his age. Nope, don't care. This
Speaker 4: isn't baseball where you're drafting eighteen year olds. He's athletic,
Speaker 4: he's a good interview, smart arm. Talent is good. So
Speaker 4: I know that I just said this what last week
Speaker 4: when we talked about Chuck, But this conversation gives me
Speaker 4: reason to say it once more. Why is his Why
Speaker 4: is his agent an issue? What would make you say
Speaker 4: we shouldn't draft this guy? Because I feel like it's
Speaker 4: a benefit, it's a bonus. He's a grown man that
Speaker 4: you know is mature, like you know this isn't about age,
Speaker 4: but like he seems to have a personality to where
Speaker 4: like he'll he'll handle himself and carry himself for through
Speaker 4: right way to where it would be. You know, it
Speaker 4: certainly won't be an issue for your locker room. If anything,
Speaker 4: he could be a benefit to your locker room because
Speaker 4: he's you know, he's mature, So.
Speaker 2: Get bow necks.
Speaker 5: Last year, I was a big doubter on him because
Speaker 5: I mean, my god, he went everywhere around the sun
Speaker 5: in college and stayed until he was this exact same age.
Speaker 5: But he also fell into the right hands of Sean
Speaker 5: Payton and fell into a pretty a decently ran organization
Speaker 5: in the Broncos, and they gave him time and they
Speaker 5: developed with them. And now like now you got to
Speaker 5: look at these guys want reps, Like you said, it's
Speaker 5: not like drafting a seventeen eighteen year old out of
Speaker 5: high school. Like they want reps on the field, And
Speaker 5: there's a lot like I mean, there's a lot with
Speaker 5: my team JJ McCarthy and a lot of questions internally
Speaker 5: about how many reps has he had going into this
Speaker 5: season because he didn't have much last year and at
Speaker 5: Michigan he didn't pass a lot, So teams are starting
Speaker 5: to look at how much you're throwing the ball and
Speaker 5: how much the game flow relies on the quarterback. And now,
Speaker 5: when you've been doing it for as long as he
Speaker 5: has and bo necks last year, it seemed to be
Speaker 5: a benefit now a few years ago.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, I doubt he's aware of this,
Speaker 4: and if so, he probably wouldn't, you know, put it
Speaker 4: on his list of accomplishments. But bo Nick's earned a
Speaker 4: lot of respect from me last year with not only
Speaker 4: his ability to to get it done and show that
Speaker 4: he could be a quarterback in the NFL. Obviously he's
Speaker 4: he's got work to do, but he had an awful
Speaker 4: start to the season. If you remember, yeah he did,
Speaker 4: I mean he, I mean not only were they losing
Speaker 4: and he was putting up like there was some hilarious
Speaker 4: type of you know, goofs out there on the field, miscommunication,
Speaker 4: terrible throws, threw for sixty yards and again.
Speaker 2: So so you know, he.
Speaker 4: Bounced back, and I'm telling you, I'd be highly shocked.
Speaker 4: There's no way to know for certain, but I'd be
Speaker 4: highly shocked if he wasn't able to overcome that and
Speaker 4: move on and still finish the season as a really
Speaker 4: good rookie quarterback if he wasn't mature, right, if you've
Speaker 4: got to mean, I just think that's a fact that
Speaker 4: that's something that can help you bring a guy along
Speaker 4: the you know, maybe he not maybe he won't play
Speaker 4: untill he'st fifty. But there's a lot that I think
Speaker 4: when it comes to experience and maturity, that's a factor
Speaker 4: in why it takes some of these guys to eventually,
Speaker 4: you know, find their footing in the NFL, and a
Speaker 4: lot of them that never do. I just always wonder
Speaker 4: had they had they had some time to kind of
Speaker 4: sit back and not be thrown into the fire. I mean,
Speaker 4: maybe it would have been different for him. So let's
Speaker 4: get too a quick break. We'll come back on the
Speaker 4: other side. What do I want to get to next?
Speaker 4: Louisville landed a commitment from the Portal over the weekend.
Speaker 4: A talented receiver joined the mix, which of course is
Speaker 4: I think an area that they needed to focus on
Speaker 4: in the spring.
Speaker 2: Portal.
Speaker 4: Also, Kentucky, their roster seems to be set in basketball,
Speaker 4: and I would say the latest commitment here for Mark Pope,
Speaker 4: it was a real surprise to not maybe not Kentucky
Speaker 4: fans as much, but you know, Florida's losing a guy
Speaker 4: who is set to become the starter after being a
Speaker 4: reserve for a national championship team. Well now he's going
Speaker 4: to Kentucky to be a reserve again. It really is
Speaker 4: a puzzling situation. But I imagine money is a big
Speaker 4: factor there. But we'll get into a lot more. Stick
Speaker 4: with us right here on Ward's Talk seven.
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Speaker 4: So we talked a little bit about the NBA playoffs
Speaker 4: at the beginning of the show because our man Austin
Speaker 4: the Travel Chief was able to cash in, which you know,
Speaker 4: good for him. I would watch more if I was
Speaker 4: betting on it, and I may do that, but I
Speaker 4: also there's a level to the NBA for me, and
Speaker 4: I've used this analogy before. Anytime I win when I
Speaker 4: bet on sports, I always know, deep down like it's
Speaker 4: just luck because if I was like really good at
Speaker 4: it and great at it, then you know I would
Speaker 4: be much more successful. So it's more fun when you can,
Speaker 4: you know, get lost in the moment like yeah, you
Speaker 4: know what, I really knew something that the books didn't know.
Speaker 4: That's what makes it fun. That's the payoff. Obviously, if
Speaker 4: you can make money, that's fun too, But it's really
Speaker 4: entertainment more than it is anything else for most people.
Speaker 4: So when I bet on sports that I don't know
Speaker 4: a lot about, I win, I'm still happy, but it's
Speaker 4: not as enjoyable because it's just luck, even though deep
Speaker 4: down again I know all of it is really luck.
Speaker 4: So when I go to play blackjack or roulette, like,
Speaker 4: that's fun and you know, you got to make decisions,
Speaker 4: but it's all luck, right, So but I enjoy that
Speaker 4: more than if I just go yank a slot machine,
Speaker 4: because to me, that's just what yanking the slot machine
Speaker 4: a little tug, you know what I'm saying, little poll
Speaker 4: and I I mean, again, you win, you win, it's fine.
Speaker 4: But like with slot machines, it's directly in your face
Speaker 4: that that's just that's just you know, it's basically like
Speaker 4: you know, roll the dice like you just don't know,
Speaker 4: and I get it. So that's sort of my mindset
Speaker 4: as a gambler. I realize in every way, if I
Speaker 4: win or lose, it's really just luck. But I will
Speaker 4: enjoy it more when I can at least convince myself
Speaker 4: that I was you know, my my strategy or my
Speaker 4: decision played a bigger role in it. So with the NBA,
Speaker 4: actually know, like I know the NBA enough to where
Speaker 4: I you know, I know who's awful, and I know
Speaker 4: who's good, and I know I have some I mean,
Speaker 4: in fact, there's a lot of guys in the NBA
Speaker 4: that I know who they are. I mean, in fact,
Speaker 4: there's there's probably not that many in the NBA where
Speaker 4: I couldn't tell, Oh, I don't know who that guy is,
Speaker 4: but I probably would be like I didn't realize I
Speaker 4: got played for that team. Now that guy still in
Speaker 4: the league. Oh wow, I forgot about that guy, you know.
Speaker 2: So I just tyjer Erome. He went off Yester.
Speaker 4: He was so he actually had he was one of
Speaker 4: the bigger He might end up winning Most Improved in
Speaker 4: the NBA this year. He had a big breakout year,
Speaker 4: which is cool to see a guy that had been
Speaker 4: removed from college so long at this point kind of
Speaker 4: break out.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, we were just talking about him a few
Speaker 2: weeks ago.
Speaker 4: So anyways, you know, sorry about that mistake got a Yeah,
Speaker 4: well I tried to open up something on here that
Speaker 4: was already open and it gave me that stupid prompt.
Speaker 2: So my bad.
Speaker 4: But anyways, with with the NBA, I think if I
Speaker 4: made a bet and you know.
Speaker 2: It, it hit, I'd be happy.
Speaker 4: But if I made a bet and I ended up
Speaker 4: losing and it was like, you know, a three leg
Speaker 4: parlay and the one leg that would have got me
Speaker 4: didn't come close, I think you're an idiot, Nick, Like,
Speaker 4: why did you trust any logic with the NBA, Because again,
Speaker 4: you know, these teams come in like if you're betting
Speaker 4: on an underdog to cover, Like, don't you feel like
Speaker 4: that seems really unlikely because the NBA is so top
Speaker 4: heavy and the issue is that they're strata. Again, I've
Speaker 4: talked about this before. If the NBA wanted to make
Speaker 4: their product better, there's some simple things they could do,
Speaker 4: but we know realistically they will never do. They need
Speaker 4: to eliminate as many games, they need to eliminate the
Speaker 4: amount of teams they have in the playoffs, and they
Speaker 4: need to shorten the series that they have. They'll not
Speaker 4: do any of those three things because all that would
Speaker 4: do is make them less money, and that is unless
Speaker 4: that check. That's not really what anybody in business is
Speaker 4: looking to do. So society has evolved in a way
Speaker 4: to where the NBA is just not as attractive to
Speaker 4: a lot of folks when it comes to just really
Speaker 4: consuming the overall product. It's not that competitive either, But
Speaker 4: changes to that, I mean, I don't know if there's
Speaker 4: a plan where there's something they could do to make
Speaker 4: the league much more attractive and much more competitive that
Speaker 4: doesn't include what I just mentioned. I think they would
Speaker 4: have already done it, to be honest with you, now,
Speaker 4: the biggest story in the NBA is still the Luca trade, right,
Speaker 4: I mean it has to be, and the GM of
Speaker 4: the Mavericks, Like I'm starting to think that that, you know, Nico,
Speaker 4: I'm starting to feel sorry for Nico Harrison in a
Speaker 4: way that like maybe this is is this a publicity stunt?
Speaker 4: Like is this because you would think that like since
Speaker 4: the trade happened, everything that can be done or anything
Speaker 4: that can be said has gone terribly wrong to make
Speaker 4: this even like this continues.
Speaker 2: To get worse.
Speaker 4: Right, Like last week they had the meeting where the
Speaker 4: media could go and talk with him, but they couldn't
Speaker 4: record any of it and couldn't have any video or audio.
Speaker 4: Like that's just a terrible look. It looks like you're
Speaker 4: trying to like butter them up or intimidate them, and
Speaker 4: you don't want them to record it, like you know
Speaker 4: it just it is a really bad look. And then
Speaker 4: there's a part of me that says, Okay, I can
Speaker 4: appreciate honesty, but then again, like who would do this?
Speaker 4: I mean, here's a quote from Nico Harrison today. I
Speaker 4: did know Luca was important to the fan base. I
Speaker 4: didn't know how. I didn't know quite to this level,
Speaker 4: Like I mean, your job is to know, as the
Speaker 4: GM who is most important to your fans, and you
Speaker 4: can't make every decision based upon that, but you have to.
Speaker 4: I mean, in that role, you you would be foolish
Speaker 4: to you know, and I don't know how you would
Speaker 4: have these scenarios in front of you, but keeping your
Speaker 4: fans happy or I guess maybe more than anything, it's
Speaker 4: better to say avoiding them hating everything about you and
Speaker 4: being you know, in the situation Maverick's fans are in
Speaker 4: now you need like fans are customers, and you know
Speaker 4: the momentum of your franchise a lot of times is
Speaker 4: dependent upon the energy from your fans, right, And I
Speaker 4: mean it's pr one O one. It's a business. So
Speaker 4: to to not have a clue just how important and
Speaker 4: Luca was to Dallas and you felt like you were
Speaker 4: going to get better without him. First of all, that's
Speaker 4: just silly to think about. But if you're the GM
Speaker 4: of the Mavericks, you should have the ability to understand
Speaker 4: we could make a move that might make us know
Speaker 4: a little bit better, but if that move resulted in
Speaker 4: us not having Luka Doncik, there's no way we should
Speaker 4: ever consider it because you know, he's the franchise and
Speaker 4: our fan base will be happier with Luca. Here, like
Speaker 4: a ten game winning difference is not worth it. I
Speaker 4: mean it's crazy to say, because you want to compete,
Speaker 4: you wing to win, But like Luca is Dallas, and
Speaker 4: this guy, I mean, he just keeps putting his foot
Speaker 4: in his mouth. I mean, I don't know how he's
Speaker 4: supposed to respond to this question. But here he is
Speaker 4: doing a press conference today because now he had to
Speaker 4: do another press conference because of such a bad PR
Speaker 4: hit he got from having the closed door when nothing
Speaker 4: could be recorded he was asked why he shouldn't be fired,
Speaker 4: and this is what he had to say.
Speaker 2: Why shouldn't you be fired?
Speaker 3: Well, one, I think I've done a really good job
Speaker 3: here and I and I don't think I can be
Speaker 3: judged by the injuries this year. You have to judge
Speaker 3: from totality from beginning to end.
Speaker 2: And so so we get like, what's he supposed to
Speaker 2: say there?
Speaker 4: Like, you know, I think the better pr would have said,
Speaker 4: I understand the question. And I'm sure there's many that
Speaker 4: want me to be fired, and I get it. Fans
Speaker 4: have their job, and you know, my job is to
Speaker 4: prove them wrong and get this thing turned around. And
Speaker 4: obviously life of that Luka Doncik is going to be
Speaker 4: a change of pace for us. But I'm of the
Speaker 4: belief that this organization, we have the right people making
Speaker 4: these decisions to where we will get back to where we.
Speaker 2: Want to be. And I mean, I just that's off
Speaker 2: the that's off the top of my head. Is that not?
Speaker 2: Is that not great?
Speaker 4: Like I don't mean like that, but like you, when
Speaker 4: you get put in certain situations, you're not gonna give
Speaker 4: an answer that is going to change the whole situation.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he went into fight mon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so so just so just you know, again, if
Speaker 4: you if you say that and then you continue to
Speaker 4: make dumb ass decisions to put the franchise and even
Speaker 4: worse than a worse place, then that'll be you know that,
Speaker 4: that's obviously you know, something that could happen. But like
Speaker 4: to just say, I think I've done a really good
Speaker 4: job and I shouldn't be judged this year based off injuries.
Speaker 4: You traded your franchise player who was beloved like nobody
Speaker 4: ever has been in Dallas outside of a guy named
Speaker 4: Dirk Dewitzky for a star who quite literally when you
Speaker 4: check the back of his basketball card, they're probably gonna
Speaker 4: mention he has historically been injury prone. You dumb ass?
Speaker 4: Should I be running the Mavericks?
Speaker 2: I think I should be a lot better that answer.
Speaker 4: Off the top of my head. I was pretty proud
Speaker 4: of that. I mean, obviously I'm not a PR expert,
Speaker 4: but like.
Speaker 2: That was I mean, it's your way around a microphones
Speaker 2: and don't do that, you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 2: two hours left, so stick with us.
Speaker 4: I can't even speak, but you know, I'm probably more
Speaker 4: qualified to run the Dallas Mavericks than this clown