Speaker 1: Good evening everybody, and welcome to another episode of Fire Up.
Speaker 1: Are we fired up? JD?
Speaker 2: Yes, we are absolutely fired up. I think we have
Speaker 2: got the friars fixed. Candy. Somebody tried to sabotage us
Speaker 2: this evening. Somebody tried to put water in the Dagon friars.
Speaker 2: So we've cleaned it up. And for all of you
Speaker 2: people who are allergic to peanuts, I got bad news
Speaker 2: because all we had was peanut oil. We've put it
Speaker 2: in the front and we're slammed ready to get Friday
Speaker 2: Up on Fire Up on a Thursday. Go, if only
Speaker 2: it was Friday, that'd be a really cool thing to say,
Speaker 2: wasn't it.
Speaker 1: That would be.
Speaker 2: Fire Up Friday on Fire Up on a Friday. Oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know. We might have to come up with
Speaker 2: a new show. Oh that sounds really good.
Speaker 1: Uh oh ooh oh my goodness. So speaking of Friday,
Speaker 1: we'll start that drama. The drama is over for the Steelers,
Speaker 1: or is it? Because Aaron Rodgers is reportedly going to
Speaker 1: report and sign a contract tomorrow on Friday ahead of
Speaker 1: their mini camps with the Steelers, is the drama over
Speaker 1: or not? Or is it just begins for the Steelers.
Speaker 1: What do you think, JD.
Speaker 2: I think the sun will come out tomorrow. Tomorrow, tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow Aaron Rodgers signs with
Speaker 2: the Steelers, and no, they'll still be losers. I couldn't
Speaker 2: think of anything to rhyme with Steelers, but they're still
Speaker 2: going to be losers. Why wait, we've heard what half
Speaker 2: of the teammates have to say about Aaron Rodgers taking
Speaker 2: so long, and then, quite honestly, I'm just mad because
Speaker 2: I'm wrong about another prediction. Aaron Rodgers man we had,
Speaker 2: we had turned in place. He was going to be
Speaker 2: the next co host of Southern Fried Sports. He backed out,
Speaker 2: went to the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Although I would say j I would say, JD, if
Speaker 1: you were going to pick an ex screen Bay Packer
Speaker 1: for Southern Fried Sports, you should pick Brett Fark because
Speaker 1: he's from the South.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, I mean, honestly, that would be I mean,
Speaker 2: that's picking two very difficult things. But I mean, we
Speaker 2: did always know Aaron Rodgers was gonna sign. You don't
Speaker 2: may tell you. You want to know why we knew?
Speaker 2: And this might be something different that no one's heard.
Speaker 2: The NFL literally scheduled the Jets Week one for the Steelers. Yep,
Speaker 2: they we we knew, they knew, everybody knew. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: just told somebody a couple of weeks ago that he's
Speaker 2: not going to the Vikings, but he will play in
Speaker 2: the Bears Stadium this year. Guess who plays at the
Speaker 2: Bears this year? The Steelers. My only problem here isn't
Speaker 2: with that he's signed with the Steelers or that Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers gets twenty million dollars for one year. That's none
Speaker 2: of my issue. My issue is what took you so long?
Speaker 2: Be just dirty sea words, Candy. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I've told you my dirty sea words before. Okay, so
Speaker 2: on Southern Front sports, dirty sea words, family, show people,
Speaker 2: eyes up here, chemistry, culture, competition, coaching, cash, The list
Speaker 2: has gone, camaraderie, mm hmm. The list goes on and on,
Speaker 2: and Aaron Rodgers displays none of those characteristics. Why why
Speaker 2: would I want him to sign after so long? Make
Speaker 2: it make sense, Candy.
Speaker 1: Well, you knew he was gonna sign because there's no
Speaker 1: way he wanted to end his career as badly as
Speaker 1: he did with the Jets. There's just no way. And yes,
Speaker 1: he's talked about would he or would he not sign
Speaker 1: or will the Packers even ask him to sign a
Speaker 1: one day contract so he can officially retire as a Packer.
Speaker 1: But he's not ready for that, Like he doesn't want
Speaker 1: his legacy to go down as as horrible as it
Speaker 1: ended with the Jets. Now, why didn't he sign earlier?
Speaker 1: He's saying he had a personal matter he was attending to.
Speaker 1: But does that I don't know. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know what kind of personal matter it was, and we
Speaker 1: all have our own personal matters.
Speaker 2: But well, I think the story did come out. He
Speaker 2: had like a friend who was also battling a dirty
Speaker 2: sea word, and I think he had a couple maybe
Speaker 2: another one had, Like there was some stuff that really
Speaker 2: came out. Okay, I don't know if it was true
Speaker 2: or not, just obviously rumors. But even then, Yeah, you
Speaker 2: still got to go to work. I gotta go work,
Speaker 2: and that Aaron Rodgers had that luxury though it being like,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't really have to go to work.
Speaker 1: No, he's made enough money.
Speaker 2: I mean he held the Steelers hostage. Yeah, the team,
Speaker 2: the fan base, I mean, think about it. Do you
Speaker 2: really think the Steelers draft the way they do. If
Speaker 2: they didn't already know that Aaron Rodgers was coming, I
Speaker 2: think he knew and if yeah, and if you know
Speaker 2: why this storyline? And as Kane he asked on the stream,
Speaker 2: did we really need him to sign asap? And for
Speaker 2: all my wrestling people out there, my answer was, it
Speaker 2: ain't wrestling. Don't delay your signing to create headlines. That's
Speaker 2: a good comparison for me. I think you're just trying
Speaker 2: to create a promo. Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Why well, And from my standpoint of view, you holding
Speaker 1: out as long as you did, that was invaluable time
Speaker 1: that you could have started a really to build a
Speaker 1: relationship with your receivers and your offensive line and really
Speaker 1: start communicating with them, not not practicing with them. I
Speaker 1: get it, you gotta wait for many mini camp and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, but even having conversations going out, you know,
Speaker 1: meeting them and work working out at the facility together
Speaker 1: or you know, just starting to gel because we've all
Speaker 1: talked about you need chemistry with the guys you're throwing
Speaker 1: to in order for you to succeed. But uh, yeah, Mark,
Speaker 1: I agree, this was just Aaron being Aaron and yep,
Speaker 1: a Ron mister drama Queen.
Speaker 2: He would have been a heck of a cohost. Now
Speaker 2: inside the front sports he is very.
Speaker 1: He is very intel. He would be very yeah, I
Speaker 1: could see. So do we think he improves the Steelers?
Speaker 1: And by how much?
Speaker 2: Well? I told a couple of Steelers fans earlier that
Speaker 2: at least now you don't have a reindeer for a
Speaker 2: quarterback in Mason Rudolph. The Steelers got some weapons this offseason.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. They just needed somebody to thrown the ball.
Speaker 2: And they upgraded I'm still putting them from the eight
Speaker 2: to ten Lin range. So he upgraded him. I mean,
Speaker 2: talking with Mason Rudolph, you're talking about Mike Tomlin streak
Speaker 2: being over that over five hundreds stuff. Make some Rudolph
Speaker 2: as your quarterback? That conversation is done, written in stone
Speaker 2: and shipped like not happening. But then with Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 2: maybe they go from a five win team to that
Speaker 2: eight to ten win range. But what has Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: done to I mean, he is not like he was
Speaker 2: a world beater for the Jets. Who knows. We can
Speaker 2: speculate it about it all we want, but who knows, Candy?
Speaker 2: Do you know? No?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, it creates the headline. It's the
Speaker 1: first time in NFL history that two quarterbacks play are
Speaker 1: playing against each other, and they played for the opposite
Speaker 1: teams in Week one. So the Steelers are playing the Jets,
Speaker 1: so it'll be justin Fields versus Aaron Rodgers, and I'm
Speaker 1: kind of surprised that that's the first time in NFL
Speaker 1: history that that's happened, but you know, it'll be interesting.
Speaker 1: The Steelers don't have the easiest schedule either because they're
Speaker 1: playing the NFC North, so they're hello, Samir, who we
Speaker 1: are talking about, mister drama queen going to the Steelers,
Speaker 1: mister Aaron Rodgers and talking about how the Steelers play
Speaker 1: the NFC North Division, so they play the Vikings, the Lions,
Speaker 1: the Packers, and the Bears. So that it should that
Speaker 1: also is an interesting storyline because he'll play against his
Speaker 1: own both old teams, the Jets.
Speaker 3: And the Packers this year is the game in a
Speaker 3: Green Bay.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I was trying to look up their
Speaker 1: schedule while we were talking, but I didn't get a
Speaker 1: chance to.
Speaker 2: See that. Let's see, Well, here, Kenny, while you look
Speaker 2: that up, all hit a couple of comments. They came
Speaker 2: in while you look it up. Okay, let's see. Kine asked,
Speaker 2: am I sure that the NFL isn't wrestling regarding promos
Speaker 2: and stuff? Hey fair? Question Mark says that was just
Speaker 2: Aaron being Aaron, and Kane said, or is it Aaron
Speaker 2: trying to hold out to get more money? No, no chance.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I mean, he knows he's not
Speaker 3: going to get that much money at this point in
Speaker 3: his career. But yeah, I mean, their quarterback playing proofs
Speaker 3: drastically even with forty one year older and Rogers compared
Speaker 3: to what they've had before. But I just don't know
Speaker 3: if it raises the bar or the ceiling for the
Speaker 3: team as a whole, given who they have in their
Speaker 3: division alone. If Cincinnati, if they can and put like
Speaker 3: if they can put in at least like a league
Speaker 3: even the league average defense even slightly both, if they
Speaker 3: can put that on the field, they can definitely be
Speaker 3: a playoff team if they're off clicking and all cylinders again.
Speaker 3: And then Baltimore's Baltimore. We know they're gonna be good
Speaker 3: year in and year out. But then I look at
Speaker 3: the rest of the AFC. You still got Buffalo, still
Speaker 3: got Kansas City. So you still got Buffalo, still got
Speaker 3: Kansas City. I think Houston is going to have a
Speaker 3: bounce back year. So it's three teams alone. You got Denver,
Speaker 3: so that's like five or six teams I've named right there.
Speaker 3: So like maybe they like maybe the ceiling is maybe
Speaker 3: they win a playoff game. But we'll see.
Speaker 1: Yes, Pensman Steelers, Packers are going to be in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: I was hoping to be in Green Bay.
Speaker 2: Well, hey, and Samir, I was gonna ask you, so
Speaker 2: I just put numbers on it right before you jumped on,
Speaker 2: and I said, Mason Rudolph would have been a five
Speaker 2: maybe six win Pittsburgh team. Aaron Rodgers and that eight
Speaker 2: I was eight to ten.
Speaker 3: Which is about where we've been the last four or
Speaker 3: five years.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, same, all, same all.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know the defense is a little older now,
Speaker 3: but I still think they're gonna be pretty good. It's
Speaker 3: just the offense. If they can get all those pieces together,
Speaker 3: who knows. But I still think overall it's a nine,
Speaker 3: ten win team. Maybe they win a playoff game.
Speaker 2: I get it, I get it.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, well, the bad news for us is
Speaker 3: that it all bo confirms that Kirk Cousins will be
Speaker 3: our backup quarterback this season. I was hoping we could
Speaker 3: get him off the roster maybe because during the offseason,
Speaker 3: you know, as Falcons fans, we were all just kind
Speaker 3: of looking at the whistle of okay, who needs a quarterback? Oh,
Speaker 3: they're drafting one, they signed one, they traded for Gino,
Speaker 3: Raiders did, and it's like, okay, the Steelers, what are
Speaker 3: they gonna do. They didn't take one until he took
Speaker 3: Will Howard, so it was like, okay, maybe we can
Speaker 3: get them Kirk Cousins, but that fell through.
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 3: So looks like he is going to be our backup.
Speaker 1: Don't sound too overly thrilled about that, mister Samir.
Speaker 2: I'm not, but there isn't much to be happy about
Speaker 2: being a Braves fan or Planta in general at the moment.
Speaker 2: We're all kind of sad down here, to.
Speaker 3: Be honest, today was rock bottom. Well well, I said
Speaker 3: that last night and then said that last week, and
Speaker 3: I said that after the Otani walk off in La.
Speaker 1: So, Samir, you could be a Marlins fan. And let's
Speaker 1: face it, the Colorado Rockies came in and swept them
Speaker 1: at home like how rock bottom do you get?
Speaker 3: I mean, this was frustrating because I feel like we
Speaker 3: have talent. I mean, I know we are not a
Speaker 3: World Series contender, but this should on paper. There is
Speaker 3: no reason for this team to be twenty seven and
Speaker 3: thirty four. There's no reason for them to struggle offensively
Speaker 3: in any high leverage moment. The second they get runners
Speaker 3: on the it's like they forget how to hit. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: The bullpens at dumpster fire and you've got a seventy
Speaker 3: year old manager who's probably retiring at the end of
Speaker 3: the year.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's just they are the least clutch team I've ever seen,
Speaker 3: and I'm not exist reading well, if they had any
Speaker 3: ounce of clutching them, they'd be a playoff team right.
Speaker 2: Now, right well. And I asked the question yesterday, I said,
Speaker 2: how many wins I think they were? This was three
Speaker 2: losses ago. Yeah, there were one hundred and four games left.
Speaker 2: And I asked, I said, what did the Braves need
Speaker 2: to do to be in the playoff hunt? Yes?
Speaker 3: So right now.
Speaker 2: Now it's at like seventy and thirty.
Speaker 3: Yes, so right now we're seven out. We're seven out.
Speaker 3: The Cardinals had that last spot at A thirty four
Speaker 3: and twenty seven. But ahead of us, you've got Giants
Speaker 3: thirty five, twenty eight, Brewers thirty four and twenty nine,
Speaker 3: Arizona thirty one and thirty one, Reds thirty and thirty three,
Speaker 3: the Nationals. The Nationals are ahead of us twenty nine
Speaker 3: thirty three.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say you could name the teams behind
Speaker 2: us and get it over with quicker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you got the Marlins twenty three and three.
Speaker 3: The Marlins are only four games or they're only three
Speaker 3: and a half games behind the Braves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's only three of them.
Speaker 3: Are only four and a half behind the Braves. And
Speaker 3: you got the Rockies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's the Braves were not built to be
Speaker 2: the fourth best record in the National Like you mean
Speaker 2: fourth worst, fourth best, four worst? Yes, correct, Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not a World Series team, Like they're not
Speaker 3: better than the Padres and the Dodgers, and, depending on
Speaker 3: who you ask, the Phillies and the Mets. But this
Speaker 3: should be a playoff team, Like this should be a
Speaker 3: ninety ninety one win team. That's about where I had
Speaker 3: them going into the season. Right.
Speaker 2: Well, hey, Candy, we went down this rabbit hole a
Speaker 2: little bit. Let me ask this question because Samir missed
Speaker 2: this earlier too. My dirty sea words, coaching, chemistry, culture, commitment, camaraderie, cash,
Speaker 2: all of these things. The Braves though obviously have a
Speaker 2: coaching issue, they don't have a talent and a culture issue,
Speaker 2: I honestly think, and I think you've said it, Brian
Speaker 2: Snicker is asleep at the will Yes, am I misquoting you?
Speaker 3: No, I've said that directly. And for me, it's like
Speaker 3: the housekeeping stuff like this twice this season, like you've
Speaker 3: had to have players come and sell you like, hey,
Speaker 3: I think this guy's hurt, you know, ag Smith Shaver
Speaker 3: and then recently daspon Herne. It is like like how
Speaker 3: is the coaching staff not seeing these things? And then
Speaker 3: you didn't see Jared kell mcpimpa single and get thrown
Speaker 3: out a second, Like it's just the housekeeping things and
Speaker 3: the lack of attention to detail.
Speaker 2: Your picture blowing out his elbow and you're not noticing right,
Speaker 2: how how did Spencer Strider have to be the one
Speaker 2: to come alert the coaching staff or or.
Speaker 3: Third basement highest paid player in Braves history making airs
Speaker 3: and you're throwing the ground screw under.
Speaker 2: The bus, like Marcelo Zuna has a hip.
Speaker 3: Has a hips here and they don't put him on
Speaker 3: the Iran.
Speaker 2: He wants to play through it. He wants through it.
Speaker 3: I know, but but you got to do it's best
Speaker 3: for the team. I said the same thing with the
Speaker 3: Raheem Morrison and Kirk Cousins in that debacle, Like you've
Speaker 3: got to do it's best for the team. You've got
Speaker 3: a twenty four year old rookie who's hitting the crap
Speaker 3: out of the ball. Have him dh it til Azuna
Speaker 3: gets back like it's just the lack of attention to detail. Alexanthopolis,
Speaker 3: This bullpen is a joke. I don't understand how you
Speaker 3: could again see aj minsterweave, Joe min Is out for
Speaker 3: the season and not decide to address to add to
Speaker 3: the bullpen.
Speaker 2: It's mind bockling, it is, And Candy, I'll let you
Speaker 2: steer this Titanic away from the iceberg after I say
Speaker 2: this one last thing. Okay, what in the world is
Speaker 2: Freddy Gonzale is gonna do for me? Like I knew
Speaker 2: this was a bad joke the minute they said, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: we're bringing back our failed manager This is like the
Speaker 2: Gangcocks hiring the failed head coach of the Clempson Tigers. Listen,
Speaker 2: I'm not a fan of leftovers. I'll eat the ones
Speaker 2: out of my own kitchen, right, but I especially don't
Speaker 2: like lift leftovers from other people's kitchen. But this freddigans
Speaker 2: I was saying, Man, it does nothing for me.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, it's not a good move or
Speaker 3: a bad move. It's a nothing move.
Speaker 2: It prevents a couple of people from getting thrown out.
Speaker 2: Going to home plate maybe right, or going back to
Speaker 2: second for no reason.
Speaker 3: Doesn't change to them. They can't hit in the clutch,
Speaker 3: both pen stinks. The manager again is asleep at the wheel.
Speaker 3: They're basement making airs of the grounds crew's fault. What else?
Speaker 3: And people keep saying, oh uh, liberty media ownership. They're
Speaker 3: handcuffing alex Anthopolis. Yeah, part of that's true, But you're
Speaker 3: telling me that you couldn't. They were handcuffing you from
Speaker 3: going out and finding a short stop that can hit.
Speaker 3: You're telling them you couldn't find another another fourth or
Speaker 3: fifth starter because you knew Strider. You knew his velocity
Speaker 3: wasn't gonna be what it was in twenty two and
Speaker 3: twenty three. We knew that, so you had to replace
Speaker 3: Max Freed in some velocity and you couldn't Like you're
Speaker 3: telling me you couldn't go out and get jose Kintana,
Speaker 3: or like why did we non tender Griffin Canning? Like
Speaker 3: it's just all the things that add up and this
Speaker 3: is what we've got. But as I said after that
Speaker 3: loss today, it's probably the worst loss I've seen in
Speaker 3: a long time, maybe like maybe since Game five of
Speaker 3: the NLDS in twenty nineteen. But something's got to change.
Speaker 3: It was bad. In case you didn't know, they were
Speaker 3: up ten four top of the nine.
Speaker 2: Seven runs and.
Speaker 3: Seven runs they lose eleven to ten. Home crowd booed
Speaker 3: at the end of the game. You normally don't see
Speaker 3: that in Atlanta. Like the only time I've really seen
Speaker 3: that was with the Falcons, but this is definitely the
Speaker 3: first time I've seen the Braves get booed at home. Right, Well,
Speaker 3: it was that bad.
Speaker 2: Well, Candy, I lied. I did have one more thing,
Speaker 2: since Samir just reminded me of that. We just thought
Speaker 2: about Brian Snicker just being oblivious and not knowing what's
Speaker 2: going on during the game. Sometimes, but somehow or another
Speaker 2: said he was too focused on the game to hear
Speaker 2: the booze man, stop lying.
Speaker 3: To me, bro right, Like you heard those you know
Speaker 3: you heard them.
Speaker 2: And you know you weren't paying attention to the game.
Speaker 2: Don't lie to me. Tell a lot of me Brian snicker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was terrible. I mean I like him,
Speaker 3: I mean, seems like a nice guy. He's basically given
Speaker 3: his entire life to the organization. But thank you, like
Speaker 3: you know, thank you for your decades of service. But
Speaker 3: you have to go tonight, like like he wouldn't even
Speaker 3: be on the plane to San Francisco if I had
Speaker 3: my way. It was that bad out because like and again,
Speaker 3: for me, it's just the like you look at the
Speaker 3: body language of the team, how they play in the clutch,
Speaker 3: Like it's just this mental thing where whatever the message
Speaker 3: is from the staff to the down in the in
Speaker 3: the club house, from the dugout, it's just not resonating.
Speaker 3: And you want to see signs of a poorly managed
Speaker 3: or a poorly coached team in any sport. This team
Speaker 3: is a game of whack them all on knights. They hit,
Speaker 3: they can't pitch, The pitching falls apart. On Knights, they
Speaker 3: pitched Chris Sale seven innings, one run ball, pitched a
Speaker 3: great game. They lost because they couldn't hit second and third. NOA.
Speaker 3: It's in the eighth. Eventually Old the bases can't get
Speaker 3: their run across. They load the bases again. In the
Speaker 3: ninth they strand him. And then when they hit them,
Speaker 3: like when they did today, when they score ten runs,
Speaker 3: the bullpen just falls apart. Right Sale of glacis, why
Speaker 3: is he still here? Dfate Scott Blewell like, why is
Speaker 3: right Sale glacis still closing? It's insane. And again it
Speaker 3: just starts at the top because again, while they're not
Speaker 3: a World Series team, they are a playoff team, and
Speaker 3: they have too much talent to be seven games under
Speaker 3: five hundred. And I keep saying it, I've been saying it.
Speaker 3: Something's got to change. Someone's either got to get fired,
Speaker 3: or someone's got or someone's got to get traded, or
Speaker 3: you got to get rid of somebody. And I think
Speaker 3: right now he's got like Brian Snick has to go,
Speaker 3: He's got to go. It's ridiculous. I would give him
Speaker 3: the option, you either resign with or we'll give you
Speaker 3: a chance to resign or you're gonna get fired, because
Speaker 3: this is where we're at right now.
Speaker 1: Sunday, Scott and night Well, Saturday and Sunday, Scott and
Speaker 1: I were down at Marlin's Park and I sat there
Speaker 1: and I looked at Now. I don't know if any
Speaker 1: of you have seen any of the pictures lately of
Speaker 1: Marlin's Park and the huge crowds that they're drawing, the
Speaker 1: five six thousand, seven thousand fans. Maybe, but like some,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll give them credit because they are trying,
Speaker 1: but to leave eleven men on base, like that's just
Speaker 1: like you gotta do better. You gotta do better and
Speaker 1: get in some of those I mean they lost the game,
Speaker 1: of course they're not. I mean, like I said, they
Speaker 1: let Colorado come in and sweep them. I mean Colorado
Speaker 1: didn't hasn't won a series. It was games what ten, eleven,
Speaker 1: and twelve Noladay won for the whole year.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: These these teams that are bad are bad, and like
Speaker 1: it's not just Atlanta, it's Marlins. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a couple of them out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, with all due respect, the Braves have
Speaker 3: a lot more talent than those teams.
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. I would agree with that, yes,
Speaker 1: but I think it goes to show you how there
Speaker 1: are some the more elite teams have that are having
Speaker 1: the success have talent as well, but they've got to
Speaker 1: have something else that the Braves are missing right.
Speaker 3: Well, for me, number one, and we've talked about it
Speaker 3: for two years, there's no leadership. There's no vocal leader.
Speaker 3: I feel like Austin Riley and Ozzy Aubrey's I feel
Speaker 3: like they're more kind of like quiet leaders, like they
Speaker 3: lead by their play on the field, but there's no
Speaker 3: Lady Freeman in the clubhouse like hey, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Like you know, hey, we were not doing this or that,
Speaker 3: and that's what's been missing. And it shows like they
Speaker 3: are just a mentally soft team. It's the least clutch
Speaker 3: team I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: They. I mean they do they seem like a bunch
Speaker 2: of individuals. Yeah, and I know one of my guys
Speaker 2: over here, Pe Digits, he always says, uh, baseball is
Speaker 2: a weird game. It's a funny game. We've seen it
Speaker 2: in the College World Series stuff. So far the tournament,
Speaker 2: the best team does not always win. I had that
Speaker 2: argument with somebody the other day. They said, well, if
Speaker 2: they win a seven game series, aren't they the better team?
Speaker 2: And I was like, well, we're the Cavaliers a better
Speaker 2: team than the War years in twenty sixteen. There's many
Speaker 2: more examples, so no, the best team doesn't always win.
Speaker 2: And the Braves, though, they have this roster on paper,
Speaker 2: like we've said. But yeah, and baseball is a weird game,
Speaker 2: college baseball. I know we've got some college softball talk
Speaker 2: coming up.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: Take us play all of that together.
Speaker 1: Take us there, jd Well.
Speaker 2: I told my listeners the other day, Samir, have you
Speaker 2: tuned in to the women's College World Series at all? Uh?
Speaker 3: Unfortunately I have it, but I've heard it's pretty it's
Speaker 3: pretty exciting.
Speaker 2: Though, dude, it's awesome. I love women's sports. I'm a
Speaker 2: huge fan of watching women's sports. These women college softball games, though,
Speaker 2: have been off the rails, the rules and stuff that
Speaker 2: some of these girls do not know. So I've got
Speaker 2: three quick stories and then we'll go to you guys
Speaker 2: for your reaction. All right, Play number one, Tennessee u
Speaker 2: c l A first and second, first inning, runners on
Speaker 2: first and second, one out, hitter hits a fly ball,
Speaker 2: that goes just beyond the infield. I'm sure you guys
Speaker 2: have heard of the rule before, the infield fly rule.
Speaker 2: M Samir, you've heard of that before.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, sounds familiar. Sounds pretty familiar.
Speaker 2: So if there's a runner at first and second and
Speaker 2: the batter hits a ball that can be deemed to
Speaker 2: be a fly ball inside the enfield, the batter is
Speaker 2: automatically out. Therefore, anything that happens on the base paths
Speaker 2: after that, it's not a force play. So this particular example,
Speaker 2: the hitter hit a fly ball, runners at first and second,
Speaker 2: the shortstop missed the ball, she picked it up, the
Speaker 2: batter was automatically out, so that was two outs. She
Speaker 2: picked up the ball and threw it to third and
Speaker 2: thought that she got a force out, and the runner
Speaker 2: thought that as well. The runner entered the dugout even
Speaker 2: though she had to be tagged. But the moment she
Speaker 2: entered the dugout, she was called out and Tennessee got
Speaker 2: away with a game changing play in the first inning.
Speaker 2: But these girls didn't know the infield fly rule. What
Speaker 2: do you I mean? Is is that a bad thing
Speaker 2: about women's sports?
Speaker 1: How do you get to the World Series and not
Speaker 1: know the fly rule, Like I could see that in
Speaker 1: the first game of the season maybe.
Speaker 2: Or but not. Wow, crazy, not on that stage right.
Speaker 1: Now. I mean I played softball before I know that rule,
Speaker 1: and I didn't play in college. I played in high school,
Speaker 1: but I didn't play in college.
Speaker 2: Yeah, crazy, that's wild. So okay, So play number two
Speaker 2: that I saw in the Women's College World Series. Guys,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, if you hit a home run, what
Speaker 2: is the job?
Speaker 1: Run the basis.
Speaker 2: To all the exactly. Have y'all seen the player from
Speaker 2: UCLA She hit a game tying home run against also
Speaker 2: this game Tennessee, the one I was just talking about
Speaker 2: in the first inning. Of course, it comes down to
Speaker 2: a game tying home run later, y'all. She ran the basis.
Speaker 2: And when I say she stumped, she was like trying
Speaker 2: to kill the devil. She stumped so hard, but not
Speaker 2: on home plate. She didn't. She stumped. I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: You ever seen those whot videos were like they crunch
Speaker 2: concrete and sand. I mean this girl, I mean she
Speaker 2: stumped her foot. She hit that home run, wa missed
Speaker 2: home plate. Her teammate had to tell her to touch homeplate.
Speaker 2: They reviewed the play. They acknowledged that she missed the plate,
Speaker 2: but said the fact that her teammate assisted her was
Speaker 2: not part of the review. Tennessee ultimately went on to
Speaker 2: win the game. But that home run just because you
Speaker 2: can't review that your teammate assisted you. There, Like I said,
Speaker 2: you got one job. You hit a home run, Samir Candy?
Speaker 2: What were they? Y'all? Tell me? What do you think
Speaker 2: about that? One?
Speaker 1: M that's crazy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what else to think of it.
Speaker 3: Besides that, how do you know why?
Speaker 2: All the basisn't even that she didn't know, you know, right?
Speaker 2: But in that I mean, you're in this huge moment
Speaker 2: and you come home, like if you're trying to kick somebody,
Speaker 2: if you're trying to throw a softball, you know where
Speaker 2: to throw it, you know what I mean? Like, you
Speaker 2: know where to hit, you know where to kick, you
Speaker 2: know where to do all this stuff, And how can
Speaker 2: you miss the one? Yeah, the one little diamond? My goodness,
Speaker 2: maybe that girl will never see a diamond. I don't know.
Speaker 2: That might be too harsh. I'm sorry, y'all. Ouch. And
Speaker 2: this number three? Have y'all ever seen an intentional walk
Speaker 2: turn into a hit?
Speaker 3: I think I have before years ago.
Speaker 2: There I think there were some in baseball for sure,
Speaker 2: and you know now they gotten rid of that rule.
Speaker 2: You can just say, hey, I want to walk that guy, right,
Speaker 2: just go to first. They don't have that in college softball.
Speaker 2: So last night in these series to win it all,
Speaker 2: Texas Tech and Texas are in their game one. This
Speaker 2: girl from Texas, she's hit a bunch of home runs
Speaker 2: and the Texas Tech picture is trying to walk her.
Speaker 2: So the catcher's standing up and I'm telling you, this
Speaker 2: girl she throws one like if I'm a spiteful umpire,
Speaker 2: I would have called it a strike, And she was
Speaker 2: trying to intentionally walk the girl and threw a straight
Speaker 2: umpire let it go. Next pitch, she threw it way outside.
Speaker 2: She was good. Third pitch of an intentional walk base
Speaker 2: hit between the third basement and the short stop scores
Speaker 2: two runs for Texas and they won two to one.
Speaker 2: You lost the game because you couldn't intentionally walk somebody.
Speaker 1: That is crazy.
Speaker 3: That is crazy.
Speaker 1: Oh not knowing how to do things? I mean, how
Speaker 1: do you not know how to intentionally walk somebody? Like again,
Speaker 1: you're in the World Series, so it's not like this
Speaker 1: is the first game of the season.
Speaker 2: Caine defends him. He says, it's an amateur score. True.
Speaker 2: We don't give college football that leeway though. No, we
Speaker 2: expect them all to be professionals, which I mean by
Speaker 2: at this point they pretty much are. But that's a
Speaker 2: different story for a different day. But women's Hey, I
Speaker 2: love women's sports, but it creates drama. It's been entertaining.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love seeing these rules come into play.
Speaker 2: M hm. I mean the Chargers in the NFL had
Speaker 2: that crazy rule this year where they got to kick
Speaker 2: that field goal. The Chargers. It was like kick catch interference.
Speaker 3: I think I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: On the last play before a half or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you get to kick like a sixty five yard
Speaker 2: or whatever yard field goal. Yeah. But yeah, you still
Speaker 2: got to know these rules. But listen, Like I said,
Speaker 2: love women's sports.
Speaker 1: Speaking of women's sports, there is a women's league that
Speaker 1: is going to start this weekend. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys know this or not, but Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: is partnering with Pro Women's League, backing the launch of
Speaker 1: the new Athletes Unite Unlimited Softball League. The deal includes funding,
Speaker 1: marketing support, and game broadcast on MLB Network and MLB
Speaker 1: dot Com, giving the league a major platform and signaling
Speaker 1: a milestone moment for women's sports. The AUSL season kicks
Speaker 1: off June fourth, with four teams playing twenty four games
Speaker 1: across ten cities. The top two teams will meet in
Speaker 1: Alabama for the best of three championship series at Rhodes Stadium.
Speaker 1: Founded in twenty twenty that the Athletes Unlimited has raised
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars plus in funding from investors including Kevin Durant,
Speaker 1: Rich Climb's thirty five, v Angela Riguerio, David Blitzer, and
Speaker 1: it has former Marlins GM as the league's first commissioner.
Speaker 1: So that starts this weekend. Your thoughts about a professional
Speaker 1: women's softball.
Speaker 3: League, I don't see why not. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 3: you've got professional women's basketball, and I'm pretty sure you
Speaker 3: have a women's football league too, or at least you
Speaker 3: used to. So I mean, I don't see why not.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like it'd be good for the game.
Speaker 3: It'd be good to have that kind of financial backing
Speaker 3: and support for high profile individuals just kimming as you
Speaker 3: mentioned who has been a part of who is a
Speaker 3: part of the MLB for several years. So I think
Speaker 3: it's a good thing.
Speaker 1: I agree JD.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts, well, I just went down a rabbit hole
Speaker 2: in my mind about it. Women's saw I mean, all
Speaker 2: of these women's sports, Please give it to me and
Speaker 2: I'll shoot them up like I love it. I'm all
Speaker 2: for sports, especially give them to me when football is
Speaker 2: happening or any one of the other sports that I like.
Speaker 2: I mean, as long as it's not my team's NFL
Speaker 2: game or my college team's football game, I'm really not
Speaker 2: locked in. My attention is there for the grabbing and
Speaker 2: women's softball does it for me? Women's college basketball? But
Speaker 2: what I was thinking, though, is Samir mentioned women's football,
Speaker 2: But now we're talking about flag football in the Olympic
Speaker 2: And so my fault was is that I just fixed
Speaker 2: NFL's globalization that they want. I just fixed it in
Speaker 2: my brain just off of what you said, Samir. We
Speaker 2: don't need an Olympic football flag team. What we need
Speaker 2: is a women's flag football team. And then guess what
Speaker 2: you get those women from other countries interested in this
Speaker 2: flag football that ultimately stemmed from the NFL. But if
Speaker 2: you get the women, guess what else you get.
Speaker 1: The men?
Speaker 2: The men, we all want to support women's sports. That
Speaker 2: I mean, we are all for it. Like a lot
Speaker 2: of people try to make it all well about men
Speaker 2: shouldn't be talking about women's sports, and that's not And
Speaker 2: the third no, you want us talking about it. And
Speaker 2: if the NFL can somehow garner praise from women from
Speaker 2: other countries with flag football, I think that's the far
Speaker 2: better route than trying to use NFL players in a
Speaker 2: flag football league in the Olympics or whatever. And that
Speaker 2: was the rabbit hole I went down real quick. All
Speaker 2: of that happened real quick. My bad.
Speaker 1: Y'all all good, it's all good.
Speaker 2: Smear.
Speaker 1: You want to talk a little bit about your Falcons
Speaker 1: because I know you wrote a story for the Salt
Speaker 1: Flourd to Tribune about them.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, uh five is a big year for the Falcons.
Speaker 3: A lot of jobs are on the line this year
Speaker 3: and the coaching staff and in the front office. Terry
Speaker 3: font Note especially is in year is entering year five
Speaker 3: as general manager. He has yet to post a winning
Speaker 3: season the first two years. To his credit, he did
Speaker 3: inherit a team that was deep into cap Hill. They
Speaker 3: had an aging roster and he really couldn't make that
Speaker 3: many moves his first two years. They had in the process,
Speaker 3: they were in the process of offloading Matt Ryan, Julio Jones,
Speaker 3: and a few other people. But they were competitive. They
Speaker 3: were somewhat competitive. They did go. They went seven and
Speaker 3: ten back to back years when they were predicted to
Speaker 3: win about four or five games. Twenty twenty three, they
Speaker 3: made some improvements to the roster, added guys like Jesse Bates,
Speaker 3: David an Yamada, Caden Ellis. To help your defense, they
Speaker 3: added Mike Hughes as well, Bud Dupree, Kaleis Campbell, and
Speaker 3: defense improved, especially under Ryan Nielsen stowing seven and ten
Speaker 3: because yeah, bad quarterback play ed. Arthur Smith was eventually fired.
Speaker 3: But here we are twenty twenty four, and look, this
Speaker 3: is really what and here's why Terry Fontinau was on
Speaker 3: the hot seat twenty twenty one draft. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 3: Fourth overall, just start a rebuild. So Southern Fria, tell me,
Speaker 3: if you are an NFLGN and you are starting a rebuild,
Speaker 3: what positions are you drafting? If you have a pick,
Speaker 3: especially an early pick, especially in the top five.
Speaker 1: You muted JD.
Speaker 2: My bad. It depends on what Saich twice on then
Speaker 2: honestly so I hear you though, but just generically, I'm
Speaker 2: not going court, I'm going linebacker. Yeah, for me.
Speaker 3: It also depends on the situation. But if I am
Speaker 3: starting a rebuild, I'm doing quarterback, offensive line, defensive line.
Speaker 3: Maybe depending on the situation, if there's a like a
Speaker 3: can't miss player at that position, wide receiver or corner.
Speaker 3: Would you draft a tight end in the top five
Speaker 3: when you have needs on your offensive line? Your pass
Speaker 3: rush has been abysmal for several years, and outside of
Speaker 3: a J. Terrell at that time you had, your secondary
Speaker 3: wasn't very good.
Speaker 2: No, I absolutely not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's exactly what they did. They took Kyle
Speaker 3: Pitts fourth overall highest drafted Titan in NFL history. They
Speaker 3: took him over Pnase Sewell, Jamar Chase, Michael Parsons, Patrick Sartan,
Speaker 3: just a few guys to name, guys who probably could
Speaker 3: have helped our team could have had that's in a
Speaker 3: better position. But with that being said, I did write
Speaker 3: an article about the five Falcons that were I would say,
Speaker 3: have the that had the most to prove in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five. They were Troy Anderson, Ruker Row Row Row,
Speaker 3: Ryan Newzill, Michael Pennix, and number one Kyle Pitts. I
Speaker 3: mentioned Troy Anderson because he's a linebacker. We drafted him
Speaker 3: in the second round. I believe it was so we
Speaker 3: draft Troy Anderson in the second round fifty eighth overall,
Speaker 3: Okay were draped him fifty eighth overall out of Montana State.
Speaker 3: We took Troy Anderson over the fault oh and Arnold.
Speaker 3: We took Troy Anderson mainly if we wanted to go linebacker.
Speaker 3: NA Kobe Dean was on the board and right in
Speaker 3: our backyard. Two. For the record, we could add to
Speaker 3: Kobe Dean if we wanted to go linebacker, but I
Speaker 3: understand why they didn't because of his injury history. So,
Speaker 3: but ironically, Troy Anderson has missed twenty five games the
Speaker 3: last two years. He's shown flashes at the time at times,
Speaker 3: including a pick six against the Saints, sixteen tackles last year,
Speaker 3: one Defensive Player of the Week, but he just hadn't
Speaker 3: been able to stay on the field. So we have
Speaker 3: Kaden Ellis. We've got Divine Diablo signed and Jim Walker's versatile.
Speaker 3: He can play at edge, he can also play off ball.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's a big year for him. It's his
Speaker 3: last chance to live up to that second round billing
Speaker 3: of being a top sixty pick. Rucer Row Row Grady
Speaker 3: Jared's not here anymore, and we're gonna play some talented
Speaker 3: linebackers this year, including Seminar Division. So we need Rooke
Speaker 3: to not only stay healthy, but we need him to
Speaker 3: We need him to step up and step up right away.
Speaker 3: Ryan Newzill kind of similar situation. You lose Drew Dalmen,
Speaker 3: who was a Pro Bowl alternate. He helped facilitate our
Speaker 3: run game the last few years. One of the better
Speaker 3: run blocking centers in the league. He's in Chicago now.
Speaker 3: Ryan Noozel's run blocking grade was about six was about
Speaker 3: sixty according to PFF. He only started eight games and
Speaker 3: was the most penalized center in the league. Again, we're
Speaker 3: gonna need more consistent play from him and cut down
Speaker 3: the penalties. Michael Penix obviously, when probably the most bizarre
Speaker 3: draft pick in recent memory. Looking back at it, it's
Speaker 3: a good thing we did it because we'd be going
Speaker 3: because there would be Vert like, I don't know if
Speaker 3: we didn't draft Michael Pennox, I don't know where we'd
Speaker 3: be right now. But he showed a lot of flashes.
Speaker 3: He's shown that, he's shown poise, he's got the arm,
Speaker 3: he can read the field, and he can make the
Speaker 3: throws when you need to make the throws. We saw
Speaker 3: that on fourth and goal against the Commanders with the
Speaker 3: season on the line. We saw that three hundred yard
Speaker 3: game against Carolina Week eighteen. The defense let him down.
Speaker 3: Even though it's a small sample size, it's promising, but
Speaker 3: we need to see a full eighteen game set from him.
Speaker 3: And then the obvious one is Kyle pits Again, as
Speaker 3: I was talking about, highest drafted tight end in NFL history,
Speaker 3: had a great rookie year, second rookie tight end never
Speaker 3: to reach a thousand yards. Pennix is a dude. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I feel good about him being our quarterback. He can
Speaker 3: spin it. But anyways, Kyle Pitts, Kyle Pitts is on
Speaker 3: track to be one of the biggest busts in Falcon's history.
Speaker 3: And I'm not exaggerating, Like usually when you talk about
Speaker 3: the biggest bust in Falcon's history, you think of Andre
Speaker 3: Bruce defensive end out of Auburn. We drafted him first
Speaker 3: overall in the eighties. You think of Jamal Anderson, not
Speaker 3: the running back, not the derry bird. You think of
Speaker 3: Jamal Anderson, the defensive end. Drafted him in eighth overall, No. Seven,
Speaker 3: And then you think of Attack McKinley as one for me,
Speaker 3: another defensive end. We took him over t. J. Watt.
Speaker 3: So right now, Kyle Pitts is on track to be
Speaker 3: arguably one of the biggest busts in Falcons history. Thousand
Speaker 3: yard season, second year, got injured, third and fourth year. Nothing.
Speaker 3: And you see all these Falcons fans on Twitter saying, oh,
Speaker 3: but he don't have a quarterback. Look at his quarterback, Oh,
Speaker 3: Arthur Smith, Zach Robinson. Can somebody tell me the set
Speaker 3: of quarterbacks that brock Bowers played with. Brock Bowers had
Speaker 3: a quarterback room of Aidan O'Connell, Gardner, Minshew Desmond, Ridder
Speaker 3: and still put up around eleven hundred yards and had
Speaker 3: over I think he had over one hundred catches. Oh,
Speaker 3: keep in mind Kyle's teammate Drake London. Drake London had
Speaker 3: a breakout year playing with the same set of quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Drake London his first two years in the league had
Speaker 3: more catches than Julio Jones did his first two years
Speaker 3: in the league, and Julio Jones had Matt Ryan. And
Speaker 3: the thing that bothers me, it's just the fact that,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, like he just doesn't care. He's got
Speaker 3: the talent, he's got the potential, he doesn't care.
Speaker 1: Like.
Speaker 3: There are clips of him during games visibly loafing. One
Speaker 3: that comes to mind the Chargers game this past season,
Speaker 3: loafing during a route incomplete pass. Bucks game, his second touchdown,
Speaker 3: He's walking to the end zone. Antoine you may have
Speaker 3: seen it, Antoine Winfield is coming from behind him, knocks
Speaker 3: the ball out. Luckily got just got over the goal
Speaker 3: line before the ball came out, costs us a touchdown. Again,
Speaker 3: there's clips over the years of him just like not
Speaker 3: finishing his route that's not really given a hundred percent.
Speaker 3: He's made comments during press conferences, you know, like along
Speaker 3: the lines of, oh, I'm just here, I just work here,
Speaker 3: like he is checked out. And that's why I was
Speaker 3: saying the Falcons needed to trade him this offseason, because
Speaker 3: even if even if let's say Pennix on locks and
Speaker 3: like some Falcons fans think they are, and he has
Speaker 3: this great year. There there's a pretty long line of
Speaker 3: guys that I would pay on the Falcons before Michael Pennocks.
Speaker 3: Jesse Bates is one year left on this deal. After
Speaker 3: this year, Drake London and John Robinson. If they both
Speaker 3: have good years again, they're gonna get paid. If Pennick
Speaker 3: says about two more good years, we're gonna have to
Speaker 3: pay him. So I just don't see how you can
Speaker 3: pay Kyle Pitts. And people are like, oh, if he
Speaker 3: goes to another team and goes off them, all right,
Speaker 3: good for him, Good for him. You can find productive
Speaker 3: tight ends in any round. It's one of those positions
Speaker 3: where you don't have to where you can find that
Speaker 3: production in any round. Antonio Gates was on drafted. It's
Speaker 3: one of the best tight ends to ever played the game.
Speaker 3: Algie Crumpler and Austin Hooper both were multi time Pro
Speaker 3: bowlers for the Falcons. They were drafted in the second
Speaker 3: and third round, respectively. So can we just stop as
Speaker 3: Falcons fans making or coming up with every excuse in
Speaker 3: the book for a fourth overall pick like seriously, like
Speaker 3: this is it for him? That's all I gotta say.
Speaker 2: Was a dude coming out of college. I mean a
Speaker 2: lot of teams get a lot of NFL teams get
Speaker 2: full picking up a dude has a lot of hype.
Speaker 2: I mean, Panthers trade it up for a tagular gat
Speaker 2: great wide receiver. But he only had one great year
Speaker 2: and I mean it wasn't even good. I mean it
Speaker 2: was it was average, like eighty catches thousand yards. I mean,
Speaker 2: it wasn't anything crazy, But you got the Panthers trading
Speaker 2: up to draft him in the first round. Team Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was what I think.
Speaker 3: Richardson was one I saw coming from a mile away.
Speaker 3: I thought he should have stayed another year of Florida.
Speaker 2: He had less than like a fifty completion rating. I mean,
Speaker 2: these teams though, they just I don't know, maybe they're
Speaker 2: drafting based on Twitter followers. No, we all want all
Speaker 2: of you to do follow us all on X or Twitter.
Speaker 3: The thing is like, I feel like a lot of
Speaker 3: these gms they get enamored by these numbers at the
Speaker 3: combine or or buy these these tangibles that a certain
Speaker 3: player has, and they end up overdrafting them. Well, the
Speaker 3: thing is, if they're in the NFL, they have tangibles,
Speaker 3: they have something they do really well, Like Troy Anderson.
Speaker 3: Troy Anderson was overdrafted from the start. And I said
Speaker 3: it then, like he was a great athlete in college,
Speaker 3: played several positions. I think he played both sides, he
Speaker 3: played on both ends two occasionally and in Montana State.
Speaker 3: But again being like, again, if you're in the NFL,
Speaker 3: you're a great athlete, But does that doesn't mean you
Speaker 3: necessarily that you're going to be a good player in
Speaker 3: the NFL. And back to the Kyle Pitts thing. Look,
Speaker 3: Kyle Pitts, this is a per tracking data. He ranks
Speaker 3: forty first out of forty three tight ends at getting open,
Speaker 3: posted a career low one point three yards per route run,
Speaker 3: and was seventy fifth in run blocking. Those aren't numbers
Speaker 3: you want out of the highest drafted Titan in NFL history.
Speaker 3: But look, I mean, I'll admit he was a dog
Speaker 3: at Florida. Like I remember in that SEC Championship against Alabama,
Speaker 3: he was arguably the best player on Florida's offense. It
Speaker 3: seems that a lot of players drafted high become bus
Speaker 3: I attributed to bad team management. Came, I agree that
Speaker 3: is the case sometimes, Like look at the Browns and
Speaker 3: the Jets and how they handle quarterbacks, Like that is
Speaker 3: bad team management. When you strike out time and time again,
Speaker 3: like that's a sign. But there are cases where like
Speaker 3: you could have a case where injuries stop player for
Speaker 3: meeting their potential, or just someone like Kyle Pitts who's
Speaker 3: just not.
Speaker 1: All in, but isn't not all Isn't that not all in?
Speaker 1: Kind of going back to management and you're coaching and
Speaker 1: not getting everybody on board on the same page as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's part of it. Like towards the end
Speaker 3: of the season, he was out snapped by Charlie Warner,
Speaker 3: Like he was getting out snapped by Charlie Warner, So
Speaker 3: he was kind of like partially benched, if you wanted
Speaker 3: to call it that. But I don't know. It's just
Speaker 3: like I get it. But I just wish Falcons fans
Speaker 3: would stop finding every excuse in the book for this guy.
Speaker 3: He's a bad pick. He was a bust. He's not
Speaker 3: the only bust, and there's gonna be more. Let's admit
Speaker 3: it and let's move on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you hear that? Falcons fans, it's just fried
Speaker 2: y'all up on fire up, get off of his back
Speaker 2: and get off of Kyle Pitts. But he sucks. He's
Speaker 2: a bust.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, he doesn't suck, he just hasn't panned out.
Speaker 2: You said he sucked. Basically, that's what we cooked it
Speaker 2: up to.
Speaker 1: Let's face it, there's a lot there's a lot of
Speaker 1: draft picks out there that probably we expected better from them.
Speaker 1: And part of it is and you have to agree,
Speaker 1: I would think you would agree with this. Part of
Speaker 1: it is the organization that you get drafted into and
Speaker 1: what kind of support do you have. Let's face it,
Speaker 1: most of us would agree that Trevor Lawrence going to
Speaker 1: Jacksonville might and the coaches that he's had. Let's face it,
Speaker 1: his first year he had Urban Meyer. We all know
Speaker 1: how that ended. Like they let him go after one year.
Speaker 1: So and then you get Doug Peterson. And don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, Doug Peterson is really good, but you don't
Speaker 1: you don't have the supporting cast around him either. So
Speaker 1: some of these, especially these high draft picks, let's face it,
Speaker 1: they're going to bad teams because that's the reason why
Speaker 1: they're picking so high, and so do they have the
Speaker 1: talent to help them succeed and do they have the
Speaker 1: right coaching staff and coach like just because someone you
Speaker 1: you pick, Let's face it, for college, you really pick
Speaker 1: where you're gonna go. You especially that college coaches are
Speaker 1: now coming out, they're recruiting you more. And it's not
Speaker 1: so much the same in pros because you're getting all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're getting drafted by a team, and
Speaker 1: the question is is that are you going to get
Speaker 1: along with the whole team? And you could be drafted
Speaker 1: by the team, but let's face it, could have been
Speaker 1: drafted by the Lions. But there are two offensive their
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator and their defensive coordinator are not the same
Speaker 1: as it was last year, and you might not gel
Speaker 1: with the new one, but you might have shelled with
Speaker 1: the old. So I I think it is very different
Speaker 1: in NFL than it is and you're you're an adult now,
Speaker 1: so I think sometimes you have a different outlook, whereas
Speaker 1: in college you're kind of still oh I'm young, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to develop. But now once you get drafted to
Speaker 1: the NFL, you have a different mindset.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, some of them. Yeah, yeah, I made it.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yeah, I don't have anything more to work for, right,
Speaker 2: I wanted to get to the NFL and made it there.
Speaker 2: The ones who are great though, No, no, this isn't
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, but I mean it's an excellent point. All
Speaker 2: of the worst teams always draft the best players from college.
Speaker 2: But that goes back to what we said earlier too.
Speaker 2: Does the best team always win?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Best players also don't always turn out to be the
Speaker 2: best players.
Speaker 1: I think, Mark, we're gonna switch to your what you
Speaker 1: just brought up? Four point game? Well it's a little
Speaker 1: bit more than a four point game right now.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Indiana's made a run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, see they've made a run.
Speaker 1: So what are we thinking of the NBA Finals? Who
Speaker 1: do we think is gonna take it? How many games?
Speaker 1: What are we thinking?
Speaker 3: I think Indiana had a great run, but I think, okay, see,
Speaker 3: it's just that much better. I think they'll take it
Speaker 3: in five. Indiana will get one at home.
Speaker 2: But okay, seeing five, I saw somebody say okay, see
Speaker 2: in five earlier, and okay, see, if they do win,
Speaker 2: I think it'll be in six, not five. But if
Speaker 2: Indiana were to win, I think it would be in seven.
Speaker 2: But as far as my prediction, and I hate, hate,
Speaker 2: hate predictions, hate them because I'm never right, so.
Speaker 1: I should always be the opposite of what you say, JD.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're telling me?
Speaker 2: I mean, if anybody wants to make money, yeah, because
Speaker 2: I promise you there's no way I'm getting inside information
Speaker 2: because I am always wrong, like literally always, So I say,
Speaker 2: okay see in six, but I want Indiana to win.
Speaker 1: That is exactly my take. I want Indiana to win.
Speaker 1: I don't think they have although they have put up.
Speaker 1: There's a scrappy team that keeps fighting and keeps calling back.
Speaker 1: So I I see, okay see, I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be six, but I prefer Indie to take it.
Speaker 2: So and I'll say this, it won't be five because
Speaker 2: that's bad business for the NBA. It'll it'll at least
Speaker 2: be six games.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll see. But I just think it's only because
Speaker 3: okay see is just that much better.
Speaker 2: And NBA wouldn't let it happen, though, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I mean, it'll there, there will be a game six.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean NBA won't let it happen. I could
Speaker 3: see that argument if they were playing like a big
Speaker 3: market team in the East, like Boston or New York
Speaker 3: or hypothetically Miami had made it Miami. But I mean,
Speaker 3: I mean, this isn't a knock on Indiana, but it's
Speaker 3: just not the same.
Speaker 2: Right, it wasn't. My other argument, though, too, would be
Speaker 2: okay see, it's the home team, so game five is
Speaker 2: in Indiana.
Speaker 3: Game five would be an okay see.
Speaker 2: Two two one one, yeah, so yeah, yeah it'll go
Speaker 2: to six at least I.
Speaker 3: Could see it if Indiana steals a game on the road,
Speaker 3: which I don't know if they will, well it could,
Speaker 3: I think. Okay See, Indiana, hands down are the two
Speaker 3: that have had the two best home court advantages. Right,
Speaker 3: It's like you see these other games. Half the people
Speaker 3: they have don't have shirts, Like everyone's got their shirts on.
Speaker 2: Okay see, is getting foult a lot right now too?
Speaker 2: Of course, ninety nine two fifty to go.
Speaker 1: See and I have a different score, So yeah, you're
Speaker 1: probably a bit ahead of me, just a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did either of you, and I don't know how big
Speaker 1: of hockey fans you guys are, did either of you
Speaker 1: watch the Stanley Cup Finals the first game last night?
Speaker 2: I did not watch.
Speaker 3: I did not watch. I just saw the highlight. I
Speaker 3: just know Edmund two one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really intrigued by a Canadian team winning.
Speaker 1: What I will say because I watched part of it.
Speaker 1: It was a very intense, very hard fought game. I
Speaker 1: see this series being hard fought as opposed to being
Speaker 1: real one. Sometimes you get more one sided. I think
Speaker 1: Edmonton is obviously they're hungry because they I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a rematch of last year and they lost to Florida
Speaker 1: last year. They were home last night, so they started.
Speaker 1: They play again tomorrow night at home, and then Florida
Speaker 1: takes it back to home down here to Florida. That is,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good series. And I don't normally
Speaker 1: say that I don't watch a lot of hockey. I
Speaker 1: do watch some. But the one thing I will say
Speaker 1: that is interesting is this is the first time since
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight then at NHL and it's a
Speaker 1: a HL affiliate are both vying for their respective cups.
Speaker 1: So the Florida Panthers are, you know, vying for the
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup, and their AHL affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers, reached
Speaker 1: the Calder Cup finals, so that's kind of cool and
Speaker 1: kind of something different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Yeah. So I was down in Charleston.
Speaker 2: The minor league team there was really good. And then
Speaker 2: we've got the Swamp Rabbits here in Greenville where I'm from. Okay,
Speaker 2: minor league hockey. Yeah, I wish I could see the puck,
Speaker 2: but I can't.
Speaker 1: So there's actually it's.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, Candy, do you want to do
Speaker 4: a station break and we'll watch. Yeah, the rest of
Speaker 4: this game live sounds good. It's getting closed, it's getting
Speaker 4: down to it.
Speaker 2: It's a minute left, so yeah, one, one, o seven, right, yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's do that.
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Speaker 1: they went to a station break. It is very close though,
Speaker 1: and has really been beating them most of the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one ten to one on nine, right, mm hmm,
Speaker 2: all right, And so this play they called it out
Speaker 2: on Indiana, but it looked like a foul a little
Speaker 2: bit to me. This game's gotten wild though.
Speaker 1: This is crazy because Haliburton has only twelve points. Indiana
Speaker 1: has twenty five turnovers, but they're only down by one.
Speaker 2: And we all know Indiana's had those comebacks. Hm, They've
Speaker 2: literally done it against every team they've played so far.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm uh. They're on a ten to two run
Speaker 2: right now. It was one o eight to ninety nine
Speaker 2: and they're down one ten to one O nine. My goodness.
Speaker 2: I actually I watched the the Halliburton shot against the Knicks.
Speaker 2: I watched that one live. I thought Halliburton was about
Speaker 2: to do it again for me a minute ago with
Speaker 2: that three, but he missed it. Yeah, they're showing this
Speaker 2: play again on my screen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're reviewing it. They're back to reviewing it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's definitely out on the Indiana guy. But
Speaker 2: you can't call a foul, right, No, you can't come
Speaker 2: back and call a foul. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think so either.
Speaker 2: I don't get what they're looking at.
Speaker 1: After further review. They're doing something. I should have had
Speaker 1: my clothes caption on so I could read what the oh, I.
Speaker 2: Keep my clothes captioning on.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: People hate me for it, but I do it.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: And I'm watching it right now it's one point game.
Speaker 2: I just saw, mm hmm it is, and it's disturb you.
Speaker 1: Okay, seize ball. So one ten point eight seconds left.
Speaker 2: I don't understand why it took them so long to
Speaker 2: look at that. I don't know, well, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: unless you're gonna go back and call a foul like
Speaker 2: I said, which you can't. They just wait the time
Speaker 2: out of our day for no reason. Hey, we need
Speaker 2: another commercial, y'all.
Speaker 5: Just yeah, y'all review that point three seconds in Indiana
Speaker 5: just scored one eleven to one ten seconds brouh.
Speaker 3: Four three. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's why I told you we need to watch
Speaker 2: his live. Yep.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Dad, right there, I told y'all Halla listen, death taxes
Speaker 2: and Halla barton being clutch.
Speaker 3: I know, right before the playoffs they voted him like
Speaker 3: the most overrated player in the league. He responded, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he took that. He took that personally to personally,
Speaker 2: I took that personally. I'm so glad we decided to
Speaker 2: do that live. Yep. That was great.
Speaker 1: Is that crazy? What?
Speaker 2: Hey? You wanna change your prediction now? We just said, Hey,
Speaker 2: we just said about one at home.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm still going okay seeing five.
Speaker 2: Four straight. There ain't no way you can tell me
Speaker 2: they can be Indiana four straight. Yeah.
Speaker 3: See, Okay, maybe you might be right about six.
Speaker 2: Oh salute to that brother.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 2: So here you're right about a lot of things. To
Speaker 2: trust me.
Speaker 1: Well, there's still point three seconds left.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right here, I'm never right about anything. We might
Speaker 2: both be wrong. It might be game seven, bro.
Speaker 3: Crazy, Oh of course, hold on, I.
Speaker 2: Mean Indiana their defense Halliburton. I'm out, okay, I mean,
Speaker 2: I do think it's possible it goes seven up. I
Speaker 2: really wouldn't be surprised. I wouldn't be surprised with five,
Speaker 2: six or seven. I mean, I mean, I'm a sports fan.
Speaker 2: I think the NBA wants it to go at least
Speaker 2: six games. I mean, wouldn't I mean in the money
Speaker 2: making business.
Speaker 1: Correct, correct, it is a business, Like you said, yep.
Speaker 2: It's not like they're going to cancel the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: right Well? Oh yeah, man, we just can't make this
Speaker 2: billion dollars this year. We're just gonna cancel. Like obviously,
Speaker 2: the more games in the finals the better.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Is it pro wrestling? No, Kane, it's not pro wrestling,
Speaker 2: but it it wasn't surprised. There's storylines obviously, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: against the Jets week one. We've talked about it all
Speaker 2: here on the show tonight.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, Okay, back out on the court.
Speaker 3: Zero point three seconds.
Speaker 2: I mean, can this just be the Braves and we
Speaker 2: just go ahead and send them home for the season,
Speaker 2: but only send this game home for the night, Send
Speaker 2: the Braves home for the season. Let's just call it.
Speaker 2: Let's just call this the Pacers win and get it
Speaker 2: over with.
Speaker 1: So I agree with you, Mark. Everyone is overlooking Indiana
Speaker 1: and they're relentless and fast paced, so they can come
Speaker 1: back quick.
Speaker 2: They do.
Speaker 1: They have a wave, you know, being scrappy and somehow
Speaker 1: winning games, and they've beat some good teams.
Speaker 2: And they just beat.
Speaker 1: Yep, they took the first game.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: And you saw it here live on the South Florida Tribune.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, crazy crazy crazy my Okay, Well, my town.
Speaker 1: We haven't done my town, all right, JD. You want
Speaker 1: to do you want to start us.
Speaker 2: Up with my town? Yeah, in my town. I I
Speaker 2: ranted about the softball earlier already. My other rant is
Speaker 2: to my rival team and not for the reason. You
Speaker 2: would think normally, if you want to rant on your
Speaker 2: rival team, it's because of hatred. That's not the case.
Speaker 2: I'm actually disappointed Clinton Tigers. I picked you to make
Speaker 2: it to the College World Series this year and you
Speaker 2: fell dramatically short in epic fashion. So Clemson Tigers. Normally
Speaker 2: I would be happy that you lost, but today we
Speaker 2: get fried together. I was wrong with my prediction and
Speaker 2: y'all were not the baseball team I thought you were.
Speaker 2: Have a great off season, and that is it for jd'stown.
Speaker 2: Samear Oh, yeah, So.
Speaker 3: Falcons had some moroltas this week. It was revealed on
Speaker 3: the Legacy Locker Room podcast with Harry Douglas, Roddy White,
Speaker 3: and Julio Jones. They were all wide receivers and teammates
Speaker 3: for the Falcons back when they were really good. It's
Speaker 3: kind of a poorly kept secret that the Falcons and
Speaker 3: Julio Jones are currently not on good terms. The relationship
Speaker 3: hasn't been great since he left, and on that podcast
Speaker 3: he revealed that he played through a hamstring injury in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty. He wasn't happy with the fact that they
Speaker 3: decided to fire Dan Quint when they did even though
Speaker 3: it was something that needed to happen at the time,
Speaker 3: give them the state of the team. And when right
Speaker 3: after that happened, the owner, Arthur Blank, held a press
Speaker 3: conference and he was asked about what the plan was
Speaker 3: for Matt Ryan and Julio Jones, and he said that
Speaker 3: the new regime, the new coach and would evaluate that.
Speaker 3: And Julio wanted to meet with Arthur Blank personally, and
Speaker 3: according to him, he wasn't granted that meeting. And then
Speaker 3: you have Arthur Smith pedling this idea around, saying that, oh,
Speaker 3: Julio doesn't practice Somewhere along those lines, that's what took
Speaker 3: Julio off and that's what led to him wanting to leave.
Speaker 3: So some old news but revelation from that podcast. It's
Speaker 3: pretty good podcast over those who haven't listened to it.
Speaker 3: Hawks again quiet on that realm, nothing noteworthy, just some
Speaker 3: pre draft stuff. Still trying to find or make a
Speaker 3: decision on their next president of basketball operations. I've already
Speaker 3: ran it in large part about the Braves both now
Speaker 3: and earlier and on Twitter, just about the state of
Speaker 3: the team. Start at ten o'clock tomorrow, it's eleven twelve.
Speaker 3: You've got a little under twenty four hours to do it,
Speaker 3: break Brave, So you have a little under twenty four
Speaker 3: hours to do it, fire Brian Snigger. That's all I
Speaker 3: gotta say.
Speaker 1: And my town. I'm going to go back to Wisconsin
Speaker 1: and go back to my alma mater. Dominant In one
Speaker 1: of the most dominant performances in NC two A Division
Speaker 1: three championship history, the University of Wisconsin Whitewater baseball team
Speaker 1: secured the national title with a twenty one to five
Speaker 1: win over Messiah University. Looks scored seventy four runs over
Speaker 1: the course of their five games at the World Series.
Speaker 1: It was a Division three record to hoist the championship
Speaker 1: trophy for the third time in their program history. So
Speaker 1: kudos to University Wisconsin Whitewater Division III baseball team.
Speaker 2: I no candy, Hey they did.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's awesome, and that is my alma water,
Speaker 1: So kudos to them. Well, with that being said, I
Speaker 1: first want to thank everybody that's been in the chat room.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your all your comments and
Speaker 1: you're giving us ideas and interacting with us. We appreciate that.
Speaker 1: With that being said, Samir, tell everybody how they can
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Speaker 3: me on Instagram with You can find me on Instagram
Speaker 3: at Samir dot sideline Net. I'll try to post a
Speaker 3: lot of my content on there as well. And you
Speaker 3: can find me on Fired Up on a Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Awesome, okay, j D. How can people find you?
Speaker 2: You can find me tagging Samir who just disappeared himself
Speaker 2: there really quickly. They caught me off guard. Sorry, Samir, though,
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Speaker 2: a lovely time. I think we always have a great conversation.
Speaker 2: We just saw a great comeback.
Speaker 1: We did crazy right.
Speaker 2: Hum. And now, of course I'm sitting here and be like, oh,
Speaker 2: you should have predicted that, JD.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Caine, he We're ready for that candlelight vigil. We
Speaker 2: are officially we're putting an end to the rest of
Speaker 2: the Brave season. So Caine and then Candy if I may,
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