Culturally Inappropriate with A.C. Lee
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Culturally Inappropriate with A.C. Lee is where sharp wit meets grown-man perspective. A mature rebrand of Big Baby’s Podcast, this show dives headfirst into the intersections of sports, politics, hip-hop, and culture—without watering down the truth.
From the barbershop to the boardroom, A.C. Lee blends humor, intellect, and raw honesty to tackle the conversations others avoid. Each episode brings bold takes, cultural critique, and unapologetic storytelling shaped by Southern roots, Cartersville pride, and Atlanta energy.
If you’re tired of safe conversations and cookie-cutter commentary, you’ve found your spot. This isn’t about being politically correct—it’s about being culturally inappropriate.
Culturally Inappropriate with A.C. Lee
Washed and Winning: The Dead Horse Theory
Outkast set the tone, and not just with nostalgia. We open on why Bombs Over Baghdad, Ms. Jackson, and So Fresh, So Clean still hit, then hold that same standard of craft and respect up to today’s sports world. A wobbly tribute reminds us that homage without homework falls flat—much like a football team that preaches “find a way” while repeating the same endgame mistakes.
From there, we dig into the Falcons’ cycle: prevent defense at the wrong time, mismatched coverage on money downs, and overtime play-calling that shrinks under pressure. We talk situational football in plain language—when to heat up the passer, how to weaponize substitutions against the clock, and when a forced field goal is the smarter bet. The throughline is accountability. If the message never changes and the outcomes don’t either, it’s time to examine leadership and give fans permission to use the only leverage that truly matters: their wallets.
We zoom out to the Giants cutting ties with Brian Daboll and ask the hard question: how far can “culture” take you without results? Then we lay out a Super Bowl Six built on identity and repeatable strengths: Seattle’s defense-first equilibrium, Detroit’s aggressive clarity, Baltimore’s healthy depth, and Kansas City’s uneasy inevitability. On the college side, we grapple with playoff contradictions—conference titles that count until they don’t—and argue for a cleaner selection that rewards the best without contortions.
The NBA segment pulls back the curtain on optics. Nico Harrison’s firing looks like ownership politics after a star trade—because no GM moves a franchise player without sign-off. We close by calling for a simpler, more competitive All-Star concept and by delivering our College Six Pack and NFL Six with clear logic you can challenge or ride with.
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Yeah, the ground the ground when I stop the ground like a millionaire back away the tank back train. We stand out beat there, but when I leak there, let's be a house. Try not to sweat. But this week again, that we won't forget one nine.
SPEAKER_02:What's up, Parlay Powerin' AC Lee? Ah man, not too bad, not too bad. Just wanted to get the uh energy up a little bit to start the show, man.
SPEAKER_03:Hey, music will do that to you. It will do that to you. And I think bombs over Baghdad is uh perfect way to kick off a lot of different things. I think that they kicked off the album with that. That was the intro, right? Am I tripping?
SPEAKER_02:Uh Stankonia.
SPEAKER_03:I believe so.
SPEAKER_02:Uh no, there's an intro, Gasoline Dreams.
SPEAKER_03:Um I mean that's this is a good opening. Well, and and and you know what it is is what it is, is it was the it was the lead single. It was the first single on that album. So yeah. That could could could we argue? I know that um uh speakerboxing love below maybe would actually take the cake in terms of most commercially successful, but I would argue when I think of this album, the these three singles are like the epitome of like outcast in that early 2000s low-key. Like, because sorry, Miss Jackson was all over the fucking radio. Bombs over Baghdad was all over it, so fresh and so clean. Like these were these were staples in on V103, I mean Hot 1079 and 955 the beat.
SPEAKER_02:And they're and they're still staples uh for like the old. If you're gonna do the 2000s Atlanta set, you're gonna play those songs. Uh they're gonna get played at a game. You know, they're they're like they're like pump it up. You know what I mean? Like they're the classic songs that have stayed around that it may not be the artist's best work or your favorite song by the artist, but it's the ones that lasted.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, they've aged well because you can still listen to that's how we can get hype before a show or at the beginning of a show, because they've still aged so well. Like you can play these songs, they're timeless, literally. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I was listening to some outcasts the other day. I was listening to uh AT Aliens and I was just on the couch playing a game, and I just turned it on and just said, you know what? This is good music. Yeah. You know, they took their time in that dungeon with this stuff right here. This this is what you want from an artist.
SPEAKER_03:It's not even really a dungeon, it's a it's a kitchen. I mean, that's the way because they were just serving out hot plates, you know. Hot plates, hot plates. You know, I hate I hate that it ended the way it did. We never got a true farewell album from them. No, and we never will. I hope that I hope one day somebody is able to collaborate and get Andre to get inspired to rap again. I want it to be an Atlanta artist that can get an outcast feature, like a future or Jid. Yeah, and and um Jid held his own in the uh performance. Hell, at this point, we might as well just kick off with outcast.
SPEAKER_02:Um I thought that was the plan. I thought that was the plan.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, no, I didn't yeah, well, we might as well. Yeah, I I watched the the uh obviously I didn't see it a lot, but like I watched the performance. Uh he did hell of a rendition of Dre. Um it was it was great. I like Ty the Creator's energy on bombs over Baghdad coming out because you could tell he knew all the lyrics. I don't know what the fuck that was with Doji Cat. Uh no, seriously, that was so bad, and they could have found somebody. And as much as I'm not a fan of Doji, I would have gotten Dochi to just do it because I'm sure that she knew the lyrics and she just would have fit more of what that was. I was not a fan of Janelle Monet's heyah performance, but she at least tried. Like she was trying. Um, and I don't know why. They always get her to do a lot of these whenever it's like a medley of uh of people doing other people's songs. Uh, I wasn't, I didn't enjoy it. I just didn't think she sounded good, but I appreciated the effort at least. Doja Cat brought neither. She didn't know any lyrics, she didn't have the energy, and she just was an odd choice, honestly, for outcasts in general. I mean, they could have booked C. You know what I mean? Get get get somebody else from Atlanta that maybe would want to do it.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, Doja Cat's one of the biggest stars in music, you know, so maybe that's fuck it, I guess.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, but I just think that, and maybe nobody else was open. But I feel like for an occasion like this, there are plenty of people like ourselves, because these people are all around our age, right? Like Todd creators like your age. Yeah, like these people are around our so they grew up listening to it too. I mean, we all did.
SPEAKER_02:It doesn't matter what age you are, but I'm just saying as a kid, outcast was an important part and a big part of the music landscape, certainly in Georgia and in Atlanta, but across the United States, like I mean, maybe Doja was busy and she just didn't have time to, you know, practice her lyrics. Uh, you know. Maybe they got her last minute.
SPEAKER_03:Uh that shit was an abomination to the legacy of Outcast because that is not how you honor somebody by not knowing the lyrics. That is not how you honor anybody. You know what I mean? That would be like somebody honoring Dr. King, like a Morehouse nigga, right? We get somebody from Morehouse and King's Chapel and they get up there and they can't recite at least a few lines from the I Have a Dream speech outside of I Have a Dream. Like they can't, you know what I mean? There. That wouldn't be acceptable. It wouldn't be acceptable.
SPEAKER_02:You came here to to like say this part of the speech and you don't and you don't know it.
SPEAKER_03:Like and maybe she maybe she froze up or something, but because I have to imagine they did a sound check and they did rehearse. So yeah, whoever put this together had to have known, damn, she don't know the fucking lyrics. What are we gonna do? I I would have I would have gotten man, I would have said, killer Mike, you mind? I know that you're gonna do your vote uh your verse on whole world, but do you mind actually doing this song too? And just saying fuck it, like because I know you know the lyrics.
SPEAKER_02:Shout out to Killer Mike, Morehouse nigga.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um Doug High School, I'm right down the street from Doug, so I see it like so crazy that that shit's right there.
SPEAKER_02:But I mean, you should go, you should maybe link up with Killer Mike and go mentor over there. I think you'd be a great role model for the young man at Doug.
SPEAKER_03:Honestly, if if I were to get in a connection with him and like absolutely, I wouldn't mind doing it. We did it, uh, you know, they made us do this at Morehouse, the business department for LPD. We did we mentored kids. I forgot the name of the middle school, but it was in uh Vine City. We mentored kids over there every week, two days out of the week for like two months. We were like going up there and we mentored some kids in an after-school program.
SPEAKER_02:Did you like keep up with the kids after the fact, you know?
SPEAKER_03:Uh I didn't, but that's because I just, you know, it's not that I was too busy, but I did it because I was required to do it. And I think maybe now I look at it a little differently and I possibly would have done it just to see, man, well, what became of these um middle school, elementary school, and some high school students that we um had the fortunate pleasure of giving advice to and you know, just motivating them to let them know that like this is a small portion of life. Don't, you know, don't you need to take advantage of this, but this isn't the end all be all. Right here in Atlanta and Vine City, there's so much more world out there that you need to experience and you need to get acclimated with because it gets real, like shit's gonna get real.
SPEAKER_02:You know the sad reality of it. What's that? Those young guys are probably walking around with hair that looks like mine, a shisty mask, some joggers, some crocs, and a stick. Long pole. I was gonna say extended. Oh, yeah, yeah, long pole.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, it's got a dick on it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, and they probably got like one of those little satchels that go across the chest.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I hope not. I hope that that's not what they be what became of them, but uh me neither, but you know, just given the demographics, the location. There are certainly a few in there. There's no doubt about it. And those are the kids obviously we kind of paid even closer attention to. I mean, the good kids, of course, them doing good and letting them know, man, look, you're on the right path. You know, just you need to sprint through that line. Um, you should do that. And and and the thing is, is that Outcast didn't personally uh influence me in a sense of, oh man, I want to just be better or anything. But their music is a soundtrack in that that process of of growing up and seeing that, man, this is so cool that the speakerbox and the love below that there's these rappers from Atlanta that can win album of the year. It shows like, and they always they never forget where they're from. Like these those niggas didn't move to LA. You know what I mean? They stayed here, and so they are just such a a testament to the city, and and they built obviously. Andre saying the South got something to say, being kind of the precursor to what we have today and the dominance that Atlanta has um, you know, had for for all this this this this time. And so it's it's amazing that they were able to get their flowers and um, you know, I just wish the Doji Cat wasn't a part of the tribute, but like either way, it was just awesome in general. And to see them and him giving a shout out, this nigga said Ben Hill Blue Team. I mean, he shout out Redan, Miller Grove, Stone Mountain. It it's amazing, like to see that. It's so cool. Because he lives out, you know, look at that, he lives in Stone Mountain. Known color. Uh yeah. Yeah, 3000. He lives out there. So yeah, that was uh huh. You ever see him at Costco? No. I don't I don't have a Costco membership. Sure you don't. I don't. I kind of could have one because my niece could just give it to me, but like um I I don't I've only been to Costco once in my entire life. We were all in Sam's Club people.
SPEAKER_02:So we were taking your advice on Costco booze, and you don't even go to Costco.
SPEAKER_03:Because I know it's cheaper there, I just don't have a membership. And we did and fabulous job, by the way, of the booze that we got because the round out number, it made so much more sense to go there to get and the tequila tasted no different, honestly, than any good tequila I've ever had.
SPEAKER_02:So, like, yeah, no, I if if I were to still have a Costco member, if I still had a Costco membership, uh I'd get I'd drink Kirkland tequila.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, we went crazy. I mean, think about we ran through almost well, we I know we ran through two bottles for sure. Uh I think we I think we we tapped into a third one while we were here.
SPEAKER_02:I I don't keep up with these things, you know. I I barely had a drink that weekend.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, okay. That you remember at least, but you know.
SPEAKER_02:Hey, uh speaking of which, uh, what are you doing this weekend?
SPEAKER_03:Saturday, I've got a dinner. Friday, like night? Yeah. I don't know about Friday night yet. I know during the day, at least at least the early part of the day, Friday, me and Donna, we're gonna be doing some people's TVs. Um, like, you know, hang them up and stuff.
SPEAKER_02:And then obviously Sunday's for football, so you know, but uh I gotta work Sunday, but uh I turned 34 on Tuesday and I have to work Tuesday and Wednesday, so uh I may do something this weekend to celebrate you know my Charles Barclay year.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, well let me know if you want to do it this weekend. Uh sucks that you're gonna work on your actual birthday.
SPEAKER_02:No.
SPEAKER_03:Because I was gonna say Well, you had already been there. I went I actually went there last night. Um you know, a little sushi. A lot of free drinks and stuff, you know. Uh the Orient.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yeah, that's that's what I was thinking.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Once you said free drinks, I'm like, nah, that's not uh shout out to Chris, by the way. Yeah, shout out to him. You know, he he pours a great drink.
SPEAKER_03:Very uh heavy-handed and uh not even gonna say what else I was gonna say, but very heavy-handed. You'd think that he had a 20-pound weight, you know, in his hand or something.
SPEAKER_02:You know, last time I saw Chris, I saw blue.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Which and actually it's funny because I hadn't I had only been once since we went to the Braves game, so I hadn't seen him in a minute. So it's good to catch up with him.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, that's always good, man. You know, it's great to just catch up with some of your favorite bartenders. Those are important relationships that you have to maintain and nurture.
SPEAKER_03:Uh they're they're essential.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, they are.
SPEAKER_03:They're essential. Because especially if I'm if I go in there and I tell them, Hey, look, here's your tip. I'm balling on a budget. Let's make let's make something work. I said, This is how much money I'm about to spend on food.
SPEAKER_02:You know, I I I just think it's important to check in with your bartenders, you know.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:You know, you're not going to be able to do it.
SPEAKER_03:Well, they take care of you, you gotta take care of them. And if we take care of each other, we gotta be thinking about each other and and and hoping that everything is well, you know.
SPEAKER_02:I'm look, bro, I'm telling you, I love my bartenders because I've gone to see my bartenders hung over and they and they just are like, Yeah, you you shouldn't drink today. Let's let's just sit here and talk. Yeah, get you a bite to eat. You're not yourself when you're hungover. Yeah. You know, I I was thinking this yesterday. Uh, the older I get, I get less drunk and just more hungover.
SPEAKER_03:I I think only on nights when I start early and I carry it on until late is when like when I go to sit down at a restaurant, I don't get like I probably I had probably had five um old-fashioned, Japanese old-fashions last night, and I felt great waking up this morning. But for instance, like Thursday night, I went out. Uh me and Erica, shout outs to Erica. We went out, and if you're drinking and you have dinner, and then from there you go to a bar and you continue on, and like it once once you once when you don't stop and you keep going through the night, that's when I had those like Halloween. We were pregaming, we were drinking there, we drank when we got back. I was hungover the next day.
SPEAKER_02:You drank when you got back. I went to sleep.
SPEAKER_03:Well, you fell asleep, right? But and that's why once we got here that morning, you know, we ate ate the breakfast sandwich, and then I was like, Yeah, man, I'm about to pass out. Like, I was like, I need to go to bed, like yeah, you know, yeah, bed's better than the floor, yeah, no doubt about it.
SPEAKER_02:Speaking of the floor, man, I've been back doing my yoga and stretching almost every day, and my body feels so much better. Yeah, yeah, but you know what? We we we've beat around the bush enough, you know. It's time to kick the horse. You mean the dead horse? Yeah, yeah, you know. Let's let's let's let's talk to the viewers about the dead horse theory.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. In this theory, if you look at well, do we want to start it off with our usual or do they even these niggas they don't even deserve that, do they? This is goddamn it, Lou.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, I got rid of it. No Kung Fu kidney! I got rid of it. I was looking for you're fired. Uh I got rid of that one. Right.
SPEAKER_03:Well, regardless, let's look at a dead horse, right? When people say the cliche, you're you're beating a dead horse. What does that mean? It means that there's it's ineffective to continue to beat it because it's already dead. That's what our Atlanta Falcons are. They're a dead horse. You're beating a dead horse. Every time we come on here and we continue to talk about the problems, it's a dead horse. We're not doing anything that's gonna change anything with what it is that we're seeing. The outcome of these games, uh, the style of play, uh, the management of the team. Everything about the team is what it is. It's a dead, it's a dead horse. It's been beaten. And at this point, it's really a dead elephant, if we're being honest, because it's an elephant in the room that everybody can see, but it's dead. And we continue to fucking hit it and act like something different is gonna happen when it's like, no, it's already dead. The party ended this weekend. Any glimmer of hope that they did have, because the schedule kind of set it, it did it did set itself up for us to potentially, okay, if Tamba keeps tailing off, like Tamba's got Buffalo this week. If Tamba tails off a little, maybe we have a reversal of the role roles from last year. Maybe they're the ones that fall, and then we come up and then we get them in the end, that's over with. Because we're not winning out, and we know that. We know we're not winning out. So my thought is this. I thought that Ulbricht called a really good game until literally the final two um plays of regulation on defense because you sit here, or maybe it wasn't the final two, but basically what should have ended the game? Third and 21, and they're on their own 40. And you send four. Why? Why don't you send an awesome? He's got to get rid of the ball. They don't have any timeouts. Why not? You've you've sacked him seven times already.
SPEAKER_02:He can't take a sack right there because there's no game is effectively over. Yeah. So at the least he's gonna he's gonna do a terrible throw away. He's gonna put the ball away.
SPEAKER_03:Terrible throw to where somebody would have to make a crazy play, even if they're able to catch it. And now it's fourth down, and it's fourth and 20, and they now they have to, it's it's it's the this is it's all or nothing on this one play, even though they're down three because they're not in field goal range. Which, by the way, the other aspect of it is their kickers already missed two kicks today. So let's think of that too in the back of our heads. But we don't, we send four, he dabbles around, he gets around the corner, gets 19 yards. Now we're looking at fourth and two. Okay. Cool. They still don't feel comfortable kicking a field goal from where they're at because they're it would be like a 58, 59 yard, and they don't feel comfortable doing it. So they go for it. Why is Billy Bowman on Tyler Warren? Why do we have our rookie slot corner guarding their 6'5, 6'6 tight end that's that's been, aside from Jonathan Taylor, has been basically the only, and I know Alec Pierce had the deep pass kind of early in the game. He was the only person doing anything in the passing game. So it's like, so what are we doing?
SPEAKER_02:But Billy Bowman was there. He should have made a play on the ball and he should have secured that tackle for first down. It should have been either a tip pass or a or a first down short, short uh three-yards.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, turnover on downs is what it should have been.
SPEAKER_02:Or, yeah, turnover on down or a first down, but not not the first down with the five to seven more yards Tyler Warren got.
SPEAKER_03:With him getting out of bounds as well. Exactly. So, but matchup, that's a it's a matchup nightmare in that scenario. You've got a smaller slot corner on a 6'6, 6'5 tight end who's been balling out of control all year. And he's gonna be able to get a bigger one.
SPEAKER_02:But he was he was in stronger. But but it wasn't bigger, it wasn't bigger that that caught him the ball. Billy Bowman just didn't make the he he just his arm didn't get through. And then with his arm not getting through, he was in poor position to make an immediate tackle. So you got to commit to one or the other. You got to commit to picking the ball off, going through with both hands, or hey, he's gonna catch this and I'm gonna immediately tackle him.
SPEAKER_03:It was disappointing nonetheless. They pick it up. Obviously, they have enough time, and then you get a tackle play. It's about 30, it's maybe 28, 27. I forgot how much time. But in this moment, Raheem had to have been going through his head and saying, okay, do I want them to have to rush their kicking unit out here to try and kick this field going setup, knowing that they're that they're going against time? And when they make a sub, we can kind of make subs at the last minute. They don't have any timeouts, so they can't call timeout. And we I we've seen week after week now that a lot of teams are doing that in college and in the NFL, the substitution rule to where you can kind of take your sweet time, you know, sub it in and out depending on how late. And of course, they were gonna be subbing in and out because they have to bring out a whole kicking unit. So if you're Raw, you ask yourself, okay, how confident am I that he's gonna make this kick? Because if I feel confident he's gonna make the kick, let me just call the timeout immediately because that gives us more time and we still have two timeouts. And as long as the ball sells into the end zone, we're gonna get the ball at the 30, anyways, or the 35. So what am I gonna do here? Do I trust that or do I do it? And instead, Ra did basically a combination of both. He waited a little bit longer, then he calls the timeout, leaving us with less time in case he does actually make the fucking field goal. Gives him a chance to set up, he nails it, we get the ball, and then we turn nothing, we we do nothing. And obviously, Darnell Mooney drops a big pass that would have pretty much set you up to get in field goal ring because you then at that point the playbook's open, you still have a timeout. There's still gonna be about 13 seconds. Like you could do a lot of different things in that time frame with one timeout. And the Falcons falconed. That's what they did. They falconed. And as soon as that game went into overtime, we knew there was no chance in hell we were gonna win.
SPEAKER_02:Nope, because now Zach and they knew it too.
SPEAKER_03:They knew it too on the sideline.
SPEAKER_02:Well, Zach Robinson is no longer in his four-minute offense that was looking pretty good. Yeah, he goes back to oh, we've got nothing but time. Pistol.
SPEAKER_03:Bijan.
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SPEAKER_03:Bichon again. Now we have to pick up on fucking third down. It's third and long. Hmm. What are they gonna do on their end? Lou Armorel, he's like, oh, I'm gonna dial it up. We're gonna do what they didn't do. We're gonna, we're gonna send pressure because we know that Michael Penix is a lefty, and if they try and do anything, he's gonna he's gonna be forced, he's gonna be uncomfortable making whatever fucking throw we got because of the pressure that we're gonna bring. Incomplete. Punt the ball. Now you know you're not getting it back. Then there's that weird aspect, too. They redid the coin toss because you know initially it was gonna be the Colts receiving first.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, because the Colts called it and they were the home team.
SPEAKER_03:Right. But it should have been us that called it, even though we were the road team. So then they reflipped, which wasn't even on camera. We didn't even get to see that because they did it, they went into commercial break, and then they're like, Yeah, they actually messed up. So actually the Falcons are getting the ball first because they were supposed to be calling it, and it's overtime, and it's just like, okay. It was a masterclass of how to lose games 101 Falcons edition. Can I play? Can I play a clip for you? Please.
SPEAKER_04:And as long as I don't break, as long as I don't print him out. And as long as I don't break it, I can say what I want. We sing the tired of that nigga.
SPEAKER_03:Was that you talking about Raheem?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Yeah. It's time for the hard armor to go.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it's just it's it's pathetic. Um it's pathetic. It's just it's pathetic. And again, when Ra got hired, we were not on board. We weren't on board with that hire because we said, well, you gave him 10 games three years prior.
SPEAKER_02:That was you. I I I I would that I I wasn't on that that argument.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, I was. We gave him 10 games three years prior, and he interviewed for the job after being the interim. He didn't get it then. So what changed in three years? Okay, he went to LA, they won a Super Bowl. And again, I'm not I'm not shitting on Raheem as a coordinator. He's a good coordinator. He deserved another chance. Did he deserve another chance with the Falcons? Fuck no. He didn't. And it's not because of the results that we're getting either. He just should not have been back here. If nobody else was gonna hire him, then Raheem's blackballed in the league, and then that's that's a him problem. That shouldn't be a Falcon problem. Why is it that we continuously like to do the same things over and over and over again? Hey. That sounds like a habit to me, Lee.
SPEAKER_02:Well, let's let's also add to another reason why he shouldn't have been the Falcons' head coach and we're gonna beat this dead horse too. Was uh who else interviewed for the job?
SPEAKER_03:Ben Johnson, Bill Belichick, McDonald, uh McDonald, who who we found out is a Georgia boy, by the way, went to UGA is from the state of Georgia.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know Jim Harbaugh and Mike Brabell. These are the guys who who interviewed for the job. So uh if these are the people who are interested, in nowhere in no circle would we say that Rahim Morris is better than them. It would be different if he interviewed in this coaching cycle, you know. And Ben Johnson goes to Chicago and and Braves goes to uh goes to uh uh uh uh New England, McDonald's already in uh already in Seattle, Jim's already in uh at the Chargers, you know what I mean, and Bill's uh at UNC. It's like okay, well uh who who are the new head coaches this year? We got uh uh Lim Cohen. If we take Ra over Cohen, I'm not mad about it. You know what I mean? You know, I'm like ah I wish we would have taken an offensive guy for a quarterback, but Lim Cohen hadn't proved anything. So he he's not just head and shoulders better than than than Ra as a as a coaching prospect. Uh who else got a job this year? Uh Scotty down in Dallas. Nobody's uh complaining uh that Brian Steinheimer is more qualified than who they had, you know. Kellen Moore, again, he's a first time guy. I I I didn't believe in Kellen Moore as a head coach, and I I still don't know if I should believe in him as a head coach, you know. So if he beats out this crop of coaches for the I get it. Pete Carroll. Yeah, and Pete Carroll's old, so I can uh again be like, eh, we may not want to get an old guy. Uh the Terry Glenn. Uh, he's a first timer. Uh at least Raheem's a Super Bowl winning uh coordinator. Um Terry Glenn? Yeah. Aaron Glenn, sorry. All right.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, I see Terry Glenn former NFL player, too.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, sorry. Aaron Glenn, right? So I can understand picking Ra over Aaron Glenn. That would make sense in this year's coaching and hiring cycle, but in last year's, there were just better guys out there. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. I I don't understand it. Everybody else that you named on all accounts is thriving. Uh, including Liam Cohen, who was in this year's cycle. Um, hell, Bill Belichick's got more wins at UNC than the Falcons do right now. So I don't I don't subscribe to the bullshit that that that they want to sell to us. I don't know if you can actually pull it up. Because it is, it was a perfect clip, by the way. Um, if we can get what 680 the fan, the video that they made.
SPEAKER_02:Um yeah, just to send it to me.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. Yeah, you could play that for the good people here in case they they haven't heard it. Because it's actually a perfect microcosm of what it is every week. It's like we're on an episode of Black Mirror. It's like we're all sitting here and the same fucking shit keeps happening, and it's like we're supposed to be content with this, and everybody's acting like it's okay. It's like it's like Groundhog Day. I don't we're repeating the same thing almost as if it's the same. Like uh if it's a pleas!
SPEAKER_00:No, it's fine away, man. We gotta find a way to win those games. We gotta find a way to step out of it and really go because we gotta find a way to get better. You know, obviously you gotta find a way to win every single game. I'm gonna find a way to win this game. Gotta find a way to move the chains on third down. Uh, we gotta find a way to win those football games. When you go through it, we gotta find ways to get better. Uh, you gotta find a way to convert those third downs. And we gotta find a way to get out of this fuck and get it back going down the end of the stretch. We just gotta find a way to get better, you know. So, like for us, man, but we gotta find a way to get them to play better. We gotta go find a way to win this football game, whatever that takes. What you wanted to do is you want to find a way to make it better. Our mentality is to find a way to win the next game. That's just the mentality that we're gonna have. That's yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And and again, Raheem's the type of guy, I swear I've heard this a few times too. He's not just finding away a man, he's can't wait for the opportunity to respond, man, as well. He says it after every loss, and it's like, you said this for a month straight. You know that, right? You said this literally for a month straight. And we're supposed to like believe you because we continuously hear the same message, and it's not resonating, like it's not resonating with anyone, it's not resonating with the players, the fans, the front office. Nobody's getting the message. You want to know what you want to know who's getting the message? The other team. They're like, okay, these niggas, they're ready to drop, they're ready to grab ankles today, because that's the mentality. Earlier today, I read on Twitter Joe Patrick, he's somebody who works for 929 the game and is a reporter. He was at practice, and Jeff Albrick, which again, by all accounts, Albrick gets a B plus A minus grade, even though we're three and six. I don't think this has been his doing, honestly. But Albrich said that since he's come back to Atlanta, he said he thought that today they had their best walkthrough, their best practice, their best film study of the year. Now, ideally, the Falcons probably should blow the shit out of the Panthers. Not just because we're more talented, but they already embarrassed you. You need to embarrass them. And you need to avenge that fucking that funky ass loss we had last year to them, too, in this in this uh stadium. The playoffs are still on the line, too. Sure. Well, you're right. This game is much more meaningful for Carolina than it is us. For us, it's meaningful in a sense of the city. I'm talking about last year. I'm talking about last year, weekends. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But but even but still, even this year. For Carolina, this is an important game. They probably shouldn't drop two straight division games and conference games to teams that they have better records than. Yeah, they lost. So this is an important game for them. It's an important game for us because we got to stop the bleeding. We're about to bleed out completely. If they lose to the Panthers on Sunday, I guarantee it that we see firings. There has to be. There would have to be. Whether Arthur decides to just not let Rahim finish it, and then Britt gets a shot, or Raheem is still there, and even somebody like Rich is like, you gotta get Zach out of the building. Terry's like, you know, Terry's over there drinking from one of those bottles. He's looking drunk in his office because he knows it's over for him. And unfortunately, it shouldn't be over for Terry.
SPEAKER_05:No.
SPEAKER_03:I don't think now Terry has fumbled a little bit. But if Joe Shane's gonna keep his job, goddammit, Terry should keep his. It's it his approval rating is more is higher than his disapproval rating, right? That's how I would look at Terry. Terry's done some bad. Right now, depending on how people, I'm not I'm not hopping on this bandwagon of Penix isn't, he can't be the guy. He doesn't look like it, but I don't think that Michael Penix is the issue. I don't think that he's just the reason we're not winning football games. I think his coaching is. But if you look at it, I'm I I can't I can't hop on that bandwagon. What I can hop on for Terry, though, is this you did draft him and you gave Kirk Cousins all that money, and it doesn't look like it's panning out. You you it's been a debacle at kicker for really three years, if we're being honest. But certainly the last two years, kicking game has been bad. And we know in the NFL it's a game of inches. A lot of these games always come down to the end. That's how it works. And if we can't rely on a kicker, we're fucked. We're gonna lose a lot of games. We're gonna lose a lot of games. Those are points. Outside of this year with Jonathan Taylor, uh wait, outside of this year with Jonathan Taylor leading the NFL and scoring, every year kickers lead the NFL and scoring. So they score the most points in the NFL. If your kicking aim's not there, that means you're scoring less points. And so I don't know, man. I I I I feel like I've been long-winded here. You got the floor.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, there's really not much for me to say. Uh uh I I've said I'm just gonna be beating the dead horse, you know. Something's gotta change. If if it's a coordinator, uh the head coach needs to make that change, and if the head coach isn't gonna make that change, then he needs to be changed. If it's the head coach, uh uh the GM through his conversations with the president of the team and and the owner needs to discuss a way forward if we're just gonna let this play out for the end of the season with plans of letting uh Coach Ra go, uh but keeping that in-house, you know, if that's what we're gonna do. But heads have got to start rolling. Uh because uh if heads aren't rolling, then that that speaks to uh uh an issue uh with with with the direction of the organization. And uh we've questioned the means and methods, uh but we hadn't questioned the direction. You know we we we saw we always saw what the team was trying to do, uh whether we agreed with it or not, but if we just continue to allow this mediocrity to to last and we continue uh our longest playoff drought in uh franchise history, uh that means that the organization's okay with it, and as a fan, I don't support that. Like I I just can't support a franchise that's not trying to win. I don't need you to win a Super Bowl every year. You know, I'd be okay if we were doing what the Steelers are doing. You know, I might get tired of making a playoffs and not winning playoff games, but knowing that we're gonna be a 500 and up team every year, we're trying to get better uh each season, fixing holes and gaps and stuff like that, I'd be okay. Hell, if we were the Cowboys, I'd be okay with that. Jarrah tries to win. I don't give a fuck what nobody says. You may not like it, but you can tell every year Jarrah is trying to field the best team he believes can win for the Dallas Cowboys. But if they just keep this shit up, I why why should you get my support? If you don't care, why should I care? If you're gonna treat this like any other business, as long as you're printing money, we're good. Why should I give you my money?
SPEAKER_03:Why would you go to a restaurant, Lee, a steak restaurant, and you get a medium rare steak and every single time it's well done? Every single time, and you tell them, hey, this isn't what I fucking ordered. I didn't order a well done steak. Why is this overcooked? I said medium rare. What are we doing? I'm not saying that's medium rare, you're not, you're not, you're not gonna keep going to that restaurant because you're like, okay, they're hard of hearing back there. The cook doesn't know what he's doing. The bartender's drinks, they lack alcohol. If I wanted a fucking mocktail, I would have asked you for a mocktail. And then they're giving you attitude in the in the process. You wouldn't, you wouldn't, you wouldn't continue to go to that establishment. You wouldn't. If your phone bill kept being fucking high and the service kept cutting off, you couldn't talk on the phone anywhere, damn near. You'd probably switch providers. Yeah, it's no different with football and sports in general. You you give this support to them. You're it's brand loyalty, you're loyal to this brand, and they just keep taking a dump on us. Every week, every week it's something different, too. It's not it's like the same old saying, but like twisted. It's like it's like a sprite remix. You know what I mean? Like, it's still fucking sprite. They just telling us that, hey, there's like cherry in this one, there's tangerine in this one. But when you drink it, you're like, Sprite. You know, it's different packaging around it, but it's still sprite. That's what we're getting out of the Falcons every week, man. It's just it's it's it's tough to watch, and you get tired of it. This is why people, and if and if Falcons fans really want to stick up to them, don't renew your tickets. And I know that that's hard, especially for the people that got the PSLs. You've already invested so much into it, but man, fuck them. Like, pay your PSL off so that you can have it for events, like other events, like when Caleb Swift comes in so you can make your money back. Like, buy the PSL because you just have to, you're just too far in. Don't renew the tickets. Because once you buy the tickets, they're not gonna be worth anything, anyways, because you'll never, even to road teams, you're not gonna be able to sell them for face value. You're gonna lose money on it anyways. So don't renew your tickets. I mean, that would be to me the easiest way to look at this and say, we gotta do something different.
SPEAKER_02:They integrated those buses in uh Montgomery when the people stop riding them.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Change is made, especially when the pockets, when they feel it in their pockets. Arthur starts to realize, damn, these two dollar hot dogs not moving like hotcakes. They not, they're not moving like hotcakes no more. You know, I can't sell the$200 ticket. Yeah, to get them in to buy the$2 hot dog and the$5 beer. I can't get them in.
SPEAKER_02:I might as well just pay top dollar for my meal and watch the game at the bar. At least I get to watch multiple games.
SPEAKER_03:Well, he didn't build this this this this cathedral to to turn it into the grand old Opry or the Nokia Live or Radio City Music Hall. It ain't meant to just be an auxiliary for fucking music and conference and and and shit like that. It's meant for football games. It's meant for Final Fours, it's meant for the Super Bowl, it's meant for the SEC championship. Like that's what this is, that's what that was built for. It wasn't built so that Taylor Swift can only come three times a year. And then they're about to start having competition in that too, once they start building that shit in Forsyth County that they're trying to make out to be the next big thing. Because then country music artists and stuff, they're not even gonna fucking come down there. They're just gonna go there.
SPEAKER_02:Hey, hey, that's better for us. Less traffic.
SPEAKER_03:For for the niggers.
SPEAKER_02:Hey, let's talk about a team that actually, you know, decided to make some change.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Dayball. We'll get to the basketball change, but that's change.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. You see. That's that's just like getting a dollar and and and get turning into four quarters. Four quarters, yeah. Yeah, you got some change, but it ain't nothing changed. Yeah. But uh the Giants uh decided to get rid of Brian Dayball. Um he got him to the playoffs uh in his first season, coach of the year, uh, won a playoff game, and kind of uh it's been a shit show ever since. Uh Saquon hurt, Daniel Jones was his quarterback. Uh now Jackson Darts is quarterback, he's hurt. Uh Russell Wilson was his quarterback, he's not good. Uh lowest winning percentage of any Giants coach in the recent hit of history is he's like 20 and 60, something like that.
SPEAKER_03:He got he got more years though than Judge, McAdoo, all those guys. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, he got he got more years, but Pat Humor. Yeah, but he was he was he was not good uh outside of that first year. Uh some say lack talent, in your opinion.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, obviously when they asked.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hold on, let me finish painting a picture. Uh he had the uh public uh issues with uh Wink Martindale. Uh apparently Joe Shane came out this week, obviously, because everybody has to you know save their desk. Joe Shane didn't want uh Jackson Dart. That was a that was a Dayball decision. Uh Jackson Dart apparently leads the league in uh designed quarterback runs and has been in the uh concussion protocol four times. Uh so some believe that Dayball was running him into the dirt, but also they just said that he was um not the easiest personality to deal with. Uh had problems with players, coaches, uh front office, so on and so forth. So what I think it boiled down to was hey man, you're a dick and you're not winning. You gotta go. And you can't be a tyrant uh and lose because then you you you're gonna lose the locker room, you're not gonna have people buying in. If it's working, people will buy into the bullshit. But if it's not working, it people aren't buying in, and that's how you don't finish a season.
SPEAKER_03:Absolutely, and I think that one of the biggest issues with them was this. They never did have kind of that quarterback. Now, obviously, it looks even worse on his end, too, because of what Daniel Jones is doing, right? Because then they're like, Well, well, what was the issue here? You know, that those are the first questions I'm asking. I'm like, Brian, what's what's you know, you you remember uh uh Wayne Brady on Chappelle show, he was like when he went up to the strippers, he's like, he's like, more power to me. And then he's like, Raquel, he he he was like wiggling dog. He's like, What what is this? And he's like, she's like, sorry, daddy. And then that's when he does the famous line.
SPEAKER_02:But hey, hey, you you know what Dayball says to to Joe Shane when he says, uh, what's going on, Daniel Jones?
SPEAKER_05:What is this?
SPEAKER_02:He goes, see that running back he has? You know, we had one.
SPEAKER_03:And we made the playoffs when we had him.
SPEAKER_02:And you didn't re sign him. That that's what happened. I got the Bills backup running back as my as my bell cow. Oh, yeah. You know what? I finally got scatterbo. And we were in games. Oh, yeah, they blew leads in four games that they had a lead in the fourth quarter into, by the way.
SPEAKER_03:Um double-digit leads in those games. Yeah, yeah, not just the lead, but double digit.
SPEAKER_02:So yeah, yeah, that that's that's what it was, uh Joe Shane. You you got rid of my fucking bell cow.
SPEAKER_03:And then our star wide receiver gets hurt in the third game of the year, fucks up people's fantasy teams, a lot of stuff.
SPEAKER_02:And um did you did you have blue neighbors on your team?
SPEAKER_03:I sure did. And so, him and Terry McLaurin. Which is why, again, me at my record, we'll get to fantasy after we get to this, but regardless, I think that's all. Well, it's true, and so regardless, the Giants issue was always gonna be a lack of talent, and that's just the reality. Now, great defensive line, right? They drafted, signed all these guys. I would say they've underperformed, but they're in a division with arguably the best ran team in the NFL. The Cowboys before last season, who were a 12-win team consistently. The Commanders made it to the NFC Championship last year. The writing was just on the wall for him. He was he was never gonna be able to compete with those teams because he didn't have good ingredients. And so you can't make a good meal without good ingredients, right, Lee?
SPEAKER_02:No, it's hard.
SPEAKER_03:Has anybody ever tried to to to eat one of those frozen Walmart great value pizzas? Not very good. It's not good ingredients.
SPEAKER_02:Well, you know, those people in jail, they they make that stuff and they say it's good, and they sometimes eat it when they get out, too, you know.
SPEAKER_03:Well, and I'm not surprised at that. You know, they're they're conditioned to think that it's good because that's what they're confined to. It's either that or a bologna sandwich, you know, with that one mayo packet wrapped up in the, you know, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:With the 2% milk.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, and I'm sure if I took a shit on a plate and put some salt and pepper on it, they might have thought that was good too. But I digress. My point here is this the writing was on the wall, and then there was that weird rumor that came out like last week or two weeks ago when somebody on a podcast had said that he had intel that they were ready to fire him after the Broncos game. Like they were gonna fire him on the tarmac and everything. But Cooler had he was fired. Yeah, so he was already dead. He was he was DeMar Hamm. He was already there, anyways. But the idea was well, gosh, Jackson Dart looks good. How much of this does he have to do with it considering his background working with quarterbacks? Does he have anything to do with his development? Which is why we spoke about this, you know, uh in our messages. Uh, that was my line of thinking was well, you kind of just let him finish it out because maybe he is a part of the reason for the development. But obviously, Shane and uh the Mara family thought otherwise. They said, no, no, no, no, no, he's just a raw motherfucker. Like we drafted him, he fell. Let's give Lane more credit for that. I don't think David has anything to do with that. He just caught and calls the plays, and he's making a lot of them with his legs, anyways, and those weren't drawing up leg plays.
SPEAKER_02:Like, so why is Joe Shane safe? Because I even saw a report that Joe Shane is safe and he's gonna get to select the next head coach, which is kind of stupid, though.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I I I would I would send Joe Shane packing. Yeah, well, it's just stupid because what coach is gonna want to go to this situation unless they really want to coach um you know Jackson Dark? Who's gonna want to go to that situation with the GM that they know if they don't compete that they're they're gonna be fired? And then the potential of another GM coming in and saying, Well, I'm not taking the job unless he's gone and he's a one and done because that's not my guy. So the thought would be that they they should just kind of hit the kill switch on that too. Same with the Falcons, like, and that's kind of why Terry's gonna get fired.
SPEAKER_02:Well, here's the thing: you only keep the GM if you're gonna give him an extension, and there's assurances made that, hey, the GM is gonna pick the head coach and they're gonna be in lockstep. Which I I would love for the Falcons to do that. I think the Falcons should do that, honestly.
SPEAKER_03:They almost have to do it.
SPEAKER_02:Uh, because I I I I just think it's counterproductive to fire Terry at this point. He's a first-time GM. He got us out of catpale. Yes, he's made some mistakes, but um he's got shit figured out, and no, we don't have a first-round draft pick next year. We wouldn't move on from Penix anyways, and there's not a quarterback coming out of college that you would take that risk on after year three of Penix. Uh or after two years of Penix, excuse me. But if uh Penix isn't the guy, uh you know, you get another season of him. If the roster's still good, we have a first-round pick. We'll have a first round pick, and who knows what moves we can make. You can cut bait with Penix after three years and then put in another quarterback. I think that if you're if if you got a good coach, the roster's moving in the right direct in the roster's moving in the right direction. Hell, that could be a gift in disguise if you pick the right person because you're gonna have to pay Bijan, you're gonna have to pay uh Drake London, and you're gonna want to still have good parts there on the roster. And Kirk Cousins' money is pretty much gone.
SPEAKER_03:So exactly, and that's another part of this, too, though. So much turnover could also lead to players being like, Man, fuck this place. You know what I mean? Like, how can you build a roster? Right, and eventually there's gonna be a team out there that is an elite team where a Drake London can say, you know, I want to go back to California. Devontae Adams is about to retire. Or he's he's about to get cut because he's gonna be a cap casualty because he's 35, 34, and then Drake's like, golden opportunity. I'll put hell yeah, I'll play with Puka Nakua. You know, depending on what they end up doing with Stafford, once he's I don't know how they're gonna place him. I mean, maybe Steph's gonna be there to sling it. I don't know. Yeah, but but you get what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_02:I think they're gonna use that top 10 pick from the Falcons.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah, well, right, because they could develop that guy for the way Matt Saddam's playing, he looks like he can play at least two more years of like high quality football before you move on from him. But um, yeah, it just it's one of those things that that has to be thought about too. Arthur's not getting any younger. When does he step back? Does he sell the team? Does he have his son take over? Then that might be something. Like, so that we're in flux at this point, and it's and it's such a bad position to be in um from the standpoint of what we've constantly been doing. Yeah, it's been the same thing.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you need some continuity to some degree to show your stability, but you also need to get Rich McKay out of here. Hey, but uh uh quick thing back to the Giants. Do you think the like what's the difference between the Giants and the Jets? Is it just their PR at this point?
SPEAKER_03:The Jets are football hell. That's the difference. The difference is that with the Giants, again, they made the playoffs, right? Like recently. The Jets are the Jets are a black hole. You go there, it's the same as going to Cleveland, damn near, which even though Cleveland's made the playoffs, like recently. It's it's it's it it it's it's it's it's football hill. So that to me is the difference. I don't think the Giants are nearly as bad of an organization as the Jets. The Jets don't even really hit on players. Like, I mean, I get it, they Quintinen and Sauce. They hit on them from an individual accolade standpoint, but did they actually even really hit on them because they haven't made a difference in the team? Like they're still not winning, and so and they're not getting close to winning either. It's not like the Jets are going nine and eight, you know what I'm saying, and just not making the playoffs. No, no, no, no. They're winning four games every year, still, and so that to me is the difference. I think, and then the the idea of uh Woody being the owner also is something that makes a difference. He's very vocal about his feelings on things dealing with the team. He called out Justin Fields, Justin Fields won the game. Good for him. But he basically calls him out and says he's not a quarterback. Like anybody with this nigga is their quarterback is what he means.
SPEAKER_02:Have you seen his his stats? Have you seen his team? I mean, Woody's not lying.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah. I mean, he he wasn't lying, but I don't know if you come out as the owner and say that. I mean, you can, it's your just your team. You can do it, it's your fucking business. You can do what you want. But like at the same time, these are the things, you know, reports of guys selecting players because of their Madden score. Like, you know what I mean? They're ranking them Madden. I obviously that could have been just a rumor, but it sounded like it was true that his son is doing that. So there's just a difference between the Jets and Giants just from that standpoint. To me, it's just organizationally, and then the city of New York, I feel like there are more people that are just Giants fans in general than Jets fans. Same thing with like the Rams and Chargers. If they were gonna choose between the two, it seems like everybody's more of a Rams fan.
SPEAKER_02:No, it's different, though. The the Chargers are San Diego, they're not a staple to LA. They just moved up there for a stadium. Yeah. I'm trying to see who's won the most game. In the last five seasons, the Giants have won 29 games, the Jets have won 27. So, I mean, it's it's kind of the same thing.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, but again, the Giants have a playoff berth in there and a playoff win to go with it. Like, so it just it's a the Jets are a dumpster fire. Like, they they are, I mean, the Giants are too, but again, what Jets player outside of the guys I just named, can you name that they've hit on tremendously? Like Saquon Barkley was a hit, right? Yeah, like they've hit on guys, Daniel Jones looks like a fucking hit in Indianapolis.
SPEAKER_02:Well, he's not he wasn't a hit there.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I know. Well, but he's still again, he's still he won a playoff game himself. So it's like Yeah, but come on. Yeah, they beat Kirk Cousins. I get it. But like, yeah, but the Jets have hit on the game. I'm just saying there, there's just more allure to the Giants as opposed to.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's that's why I just said with better PR.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Uh they're saying they uh McAfee's saying Dayball to Penn State.
SPEAKER_03:I saw that because he they caught him out, he was wearing it. I think his kids go there or something, and which obviously is coincidental that they have a head coaching job. And of course, he's worked in college. You know what I mean? Obviously, being Nick's uh OC at Bama for that year. And who knows? I mean, I feel like Dayball will he's not gonna get a head coaching opportunity this year in the NFL. He would be a coordinator for sure, but he'll be high on everybody's coordinator list. It'd be a matter of would he want to coach in college. I mean, it would be just the real question, but I don't think that I don't think that that would be a bad move for Penn State, honestly.
SPEAKER_02:No, me neither. But let's get to some more stuff around the league. Uh, you watch more football than me on Sunday. Where do you want to drive this puppy?
SPEAKER_03:One second, I'm pulling that stuff up. So um, well, we can start with our next opponent, uh the Carolina Panthers and the New Orleans Saints, and I'll leave it brief just because I'm really kind of filling air here while pulling up the scores. Uh, they suck. Uh Bryce Young sucks. Uh Falcons better beat the shit out of them. Um they scored seven points against the Saints. Uh how many yards did he have? He had Bryce Young threw for under 120 yards for the second consecutive week with no touchdowns and an interception. Uh, he's fucking garbage. Uh the Bills starting to get looking real pretender-ish to me. Um, you know, getting your doors blown against the Dolphins, and I get it.
SPEAKER_02:Devin A. Chain had a day, man.
SPEAKER_03:Well, he got some garbage time touchdowns that proved to be huge in their win, no doubt about that.
SPEAKER_02:But I mean um they couldn't have put on that type of performance without that, without that clutch end of the game, game ice.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, just icing it, icing it two times in the last six minutes, right? Yeah, you know, uh really, really just extended that lead and blew that thing away.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, um Josh Jacobs could never are are the Bills pretenders?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. I know we're gonna get to our number six.
SPEAKER_02:No, we beat him.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, we did. That's our last win. So it feels like such a long time ago, and it wasn't close.
SPEAKER_02:Like if Drake London scores that touchdown at
SPEAKER_03:To have it's it's a blowout back when we thought we were legitimate. Um not gonna talk about the poo-poo bowl that was the Browns and Jets. Uh Pat's Bucks are the Patriots for real. Yeah. Do you but do you have confidence in them come postseason? Like, would you say that they can win a couple of playoff games? Or are they only good enough in your eyes to maybe win one? Because they're flirting with the one seed. If you've seen their schedule, that might have been the most difficult game remaining on their schedule. I mean, they gotta play the Bills again. But the Bills, and we'll see this week because the Bucs play the Bills. I don't know if the Bills are better than the Bucs. So uh Bucs aren't healthy right now. That's the only difference with them.
SPEAKER_02:If uh media selected MVP candidate Drake May keeps this up, then yeah, I'm gonna believe in it.
SPEAKER_03:Media selected, huh? The numbers are there though. The analytics are game.
SPEAKER_02:I I I got you. I watched I've watched John Taylor and I watched what he did to the Falcons. Uh, despite a terrible Daniel Jones game, uh like I come on, dog. Look, look, I get it's a quarterback, quote unquote, quarterback award now. Drake May is playing great, but they also have a really good defense. Uh they get production in the run game. I know he doesn't have like household names as receivers uh outside of uh older Stefan Diggs, but they have guys who do everything so that he can utilize the entire field. And I mean, we knew what kind of athlete he was. Uh coming going into his final season at North Carolina, it was is it gonna be Drake May or Caleb Williams, the number one overall pick? He had a down year in his final season. So it I'm not shocked, and he hasn't given me a reason to believe that he can't do it in the playoffs. So I'm I'm gonna lean on, hey, you can do it um uh until you show me that you can't. And honestly, if I like you and I think you're good, I'm still gonna believe that you will eventually do it, which is gonna bear out in my uh super six. That's a little bit more.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that. And we'll get ready to segue into it, but there's two more games that we absolutely must at least hit here. Um Jaguars, Texans. Although that game had no bearing on anything, what a fucking comeback. I mean, they outscored them by 26, 26-0 in the fourth quarter. I guess the Jaguars were kind of on cruise control, and they were like, Davis Mills, long neck ass, ain't about to draw and make no comeback. And he's like, he's like, hold my beer, bitch. Comes out, Woody Marks, they get the and then this is the crazy part about it. They didn't abandon, because I was watching it on red zone. Shoutouts to Josh Holsey. I was watching it on red zone. They weren't really abandoning like the game plan. They ran the ball still, like they didn't stop running. It wasn't like they just threw the ball the rest of the way, and maybe that's kind of what opens it up. Even if you choose a little bit of clock, because everybody's expecting you to pass, it opens up these 10, 11, 12-yard gashes every other play. Then you're having to pay a little bit more attention as long as he can spin it and get it to Nico or Dalton Schultz or something like that. You know, you're gonna score. And then the defense just has to be the defense, which the Jaguars got out to a 10-0 start in that game because of a Davis Mills interception to start, and then like a fumble. They basically gave them their first 10 points.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:So it wasn't like the defense, you know, was getting gash that game. They did, they didn't. But uh big time comeback and probably saved the Texas season to give them, they're not winning the division, but like to have a chance potentially at a wild card spot. Um, Seattle beat the hell out of the Cardinals, shocker shocker, possibly the best team in the NFL. We'll get to that.
SPEAKER_02:You think hold on, do you think Kyler um is hurt or benched?
SPEAKER_03:Oh, he's benched. They they are they are that's a that's a we don't want to have to pay the injury guarantee on this contract because they literally it is set up to where they can cut him after this year. They went through the cap numbers on that. He's gotten a lot of his guaranteed money. They could cut him, they could trade him, but I think that they sat down and they had a meeting of the minds and they said, we're gonna move on from you. We're gonna obviously continue to pay you, but we're not gonna put you out there and like make your injury any worse, nor maybe tank your value as a player, even though to me he doesn't even have that much value.
SPEAKER_02:I read today that uh he doesn't have much trade value because of the contract numbers.
SPEAKER_03:But that's just it. They could cut him, like one and I think I don't think anyone, I don't know what only a team that doesn't think they have a chance to sign him would trade for him, right?
SPEAKER_02:So like Carolina Panthers.
SPEAKER_03:Correct. A team that they know he's not gonna go to would be the only one that would trade for him. And then from there, once they get him in their system, maybe he would stay anyways because well, we can offer you a bajillion dollars to fucking stay in Carolina, especially if you can lead us to an 8-9-10 season. We'll take that here in Carolina. That's we're we're good. We're good with that. That that's good enough to win the division sometimes. So um, yeah, I I I think that that that they're sitting him. But Seattle, class of their own, honestly. And I we'll get again, I'll get to that here shortly. Uh and then the other game, the two primetime games that we had, all three of the primetime games were defensive fucking slut fest. From the Broncos Raiders game to the Eagles-Packers, they were all nasty. Two of the those scores were the same: 10-7 in those. But let's talk about Arthur Smith and Aaron Rodgers. Old man Rodgers is what he kind of looked like. Uh, the Steelers defense showed some signs of life. They were in it, you know, in the first half overall. That offense is putrid. I couldn't put money on the Steelers again if I wanted to. Like, I can't, I can't do it. Like, and me and Mr. Turner were on the phone on Sunday night, and I didn't like the Steelers to win. I thought they'd cover the four and a half, though. I really did. I expected them to cover, and they didn't, uh, because the offense can't move the ball. Uh maybe underrated the Chargers defense a little bit. Um, but yeah, it just it was just nasty for them. And then I'd say the same thing with the Packers. They didn't look like they could move the ball. And um, I guess this will be a perfect way to segue in. You know, they can't hold on to the ball. And because they can't hold on to the ball, it goes from a Lee congratulating me on beating him in fantasy to me losing in fantasy and dropping to seven and three when I should have won that game.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, guys, we were on the phone and I called him to give him a congratulatory fuck you. Uh because I have YouTube TV, so I can't watch Monday Night Football at home. And I was watching it at my mom's, and I'm like, I don't care about this game. Uh it's boring and I've lost in fantasy. Like the one person who I didn't need to score a touchdown scores a damn touchdown. And I'm down by one, and I'm like, there's no path to like Philly's not moving the ball for me to get uh for me to get a uh a a field goal. I don't need a fucking touchdown. Well no, Philly had Philly was up and they and they and then they they stalled out, so it's like, well, they can't kick a field goal from here. I don't need a touchdown because I don't want an extra point. That's not enough. I'm down by one and some change.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:And then we're just on the phone, and Mr. Turner yells out, oh, this nigga fumbled.
SPEAKER_03:And then there's a flag, and I'm like, oh, okay, it sounds like you know, maybe false start, something like that. And no, it's it's a dead ball foul, and it's on the Packers, and the fumble stands, and the Eagles get the ball. And at that point, you know, it wasn't over yet, but it was pretty much fucking over because it was like, well, maybe Josh Jacobs can get a screen pass once if they get the ball back, which they did. Uh terrible call, by the way, by Sirianni to go for it on fourth down. Um he's not smart. But I guess I get not kicking the field goal either to a degree in a sense of well, he could miss and it give them even better field position. Or you could also just end the game, but and if we punt it, it's gonna go into the end zone, and you know, they'll lose about 10 yards, but you know, but it was still a terrible call. I don't know why he did that.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, just take the three, that gives us three more points. Parlay Pete feels better about his loss because it's like, okay, he went and got some legit points, you know.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, the fumble doesn't, you know, cause this or Devin Ach ain't getting some garbage time. Big time, not just touchdowns. We're talking monster run touchdowns earlier uh in the day on Sunday.
SPEAKER_02:But they were running the clock out. You sometimes those holes are just big and you gotta run through them.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you like that too, don't you? You like that. But that's okay. If Lee drops another game and I win another game, as long as we're tied, you're not gonna outscore me. I've got you by about 100 points. I'm not gonna have a bad week because I haven't had one yet. So I've had one week where I didn't score a hundred points, and that was week one.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I had a week where I scored 55.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:That's the problem here.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Yeah. I've got too many uh bulls for that to happen. But uh let's get on to our next topic here, which will be our Super Bowl six. Okay with this Super Bowl six, we're gonna break down the six teams that we believe are the true contenders to actually win the Super Bowl.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:On my end, I believe that there's only what? Let me pull up the standings real quick.
SPEAKER_02:Well, he's pulling up the standings. There uh, you know, there are a lot of teams that that could make this, and I I'm gonna be honest with you. My uh I'm leaning NFC. I don't love anybody in the AFC. And I guess I'm supposed to love what the Chiefs are doing because they've turned it around, but I don't believe in it yet. And maybe it's because I don't want to.
SPEAKER_03:So it's crazy. I've got it split four, two, and really one of the four in the NFC is a maybe because it just depends on health. But when I look at this, my Super Bowl six are this. I like Detroit. Okay, I think Detroit's legitimate. I would have had Green Bay in there if they had beaten Philly. I don't think that I don't think Green Bay can win the Super Bowl. Um, but I like Detroit. I like Campbell if they get healthy. I like Seattle and LA. And see I don't know what this is. Um Seattle, to me, I think is the best team in the NFL. I really, really do. I think that they're the best team. I think they got the best defense, high key. I mean, they're number one in fantasy, but like I think that not the fantasy football is the same, but like I think that they've got a great defense. I think Sam Darnold does just enough, and that's what makes it tricky. It's like, God, do you really think Sam Darnold can win the Super Bowl? And it's like, I need to see him perform in the playoffs, of course, but the idea of teams having to go to Seattle, play against that defense, nice little one-two punch in Kenneth and Charbonnet. JSN again, like I said a couple weeks ago, having he's on pace. And this is the this is the even worse part about our fantasy matchup, too, by the way, Lee. JSN caught all of his passes in the first quarter because it was such a blowout. Sam Darnold threw the ball 13 times in that game. So I think he got three quarters off of what JSN should have done.
SPEAKER_02:Uh, but he gave you a game's worth in a quarter.
SPEAKER_03:He did, but at the same time, that's bullshit, and you know it. They didn't throw the ball, they basically didn't throw the ball the rest of the game. That's bullshit.
SPEAKER_02:And so they win with class.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, fuck that. And so um, those are my four in the NFC, and then in the AFC. Nobody wants to hear this, but I'm sticking with what I know, baby. I think Kansas City can win the Super Bowl, and I think Baltimore can win the Super Bowl. I don't think New England can win. I don't think Buffalo can win. I don't think Pittsburgh can win, and I don't think Indianapolis or Denver can win, or the Chargers. And I like the Chargers too, but like they've got too many problems on that O-line. Um, a lot of balls were getting batted for Justin Herbert in that game. And again, Steelers have a they certainly have a high-paid uh defensive line. Um, but I don't know if I believe that they can do it. I don't think I believe that they can do it. So I like Kansas City, and I think that Baltimore, because they're getting healthy on defense at the right time, Lamar is now healthy. I I like the way that that that can look out because they they're gonna probably come back and win the division. They win the division, you get a home game, then they have to go to probably Indianapolis or uh New England, and those are games that they can win. So I like those two coming out of the AFC, but that will be my Super Bowl six.
SPEAKER_02:All right, so I'm gonna go with my AFC teams first, and I I'm actually gonna get to three teams. Uh I'm gonna go with the Patriots. I believe in Mike Vrabel. I believe in their defense, and their quarterback is playing high-level football, and they're a cold weather team with a strong-armed quarterback, so that travels. And the they might be the one seed. That's the big thing. They might be the one seed. And even even if they're not the one seed, they have a home field advantage over Kansas City if they play. Right. So I like I don't like them versus Kansas City in a playoff game, but they don't have a chance if they go to Arrowhead.
SPEAKER_03:That's true.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Uh Baltimore, because I believe in Baltimore, I'll always believe in Baltimore. Uh as long as they're uh constructed as as as is. They have Lamar Jackson, they have John Harbaugh. I'm gonna believe in it because it it works. And eventually it should work in the playoffs. Uh yeah, and then the Chiefs because I have to. But I don't feel great about it. Yeah now over to the NFC. It's easy. We got the Seahawks and the Rams coming out of the AFC. I mean, out of excuse me, out of the West. They're really good. Honestly, if the 49ers could get get Jared Purdy or Brock Purdy back, they're close. Because they're they're just so talented, man. And and and Kyle coaches them, coaches them up, and Big Bob Sala is he's working with the scraps that he has.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Yeah. The defense is uh crazy enough, the defense is more depleted.
SPEAKER_02:And then finally, I got Detroit. Uh Dan Campbell just putting his Johnson on the table and calling plays. Uh it's it's just great. You know what I mean? Like he's committed to winning. He's doing what we want to see our coaches do. If one of their assistants isn't meeting the mark, hey, okay, don't worry about it. I'm the head man. We're gonna make adjustments in order for our team to meet the mark. Now, obvious teams I left off, Philly and um and the Bucks. Tampa's just been too hurt, they just got a nasty injury buck going around that team. Uh so I I just don't like it. If they make it, I wouldn't be shocked. It's like you said, if they get healthy. And then with Philly, Philly's just dysfunctional. I mean, you got AJ Brown coming out telling fantasy owners not to play him. And I don't have an issue with that personally, like some of you smug guys did in the group. I'm like, he's committed to what the team's doing, and that doesn't necessarily involve him putting up big stats every week, you know? Yeah. He's a team guy.
SPEAKER_03:But um Who are those smug individuals, by the way?
SPEAKER_02:I I don't recall exactly who. Uh, but there were some guys in the locker room who who who weren't on board, and I don't want to just guess right now while I'm on air. So it's just gonna be some smug guys from the locker room. Okay. But they've just been dysfunctional this year. The the offense hasn't looked good, it hasn't been in sync, and nothing about Nick Siriani tells me that he is capable of fixing that offense himself. So I it's okay. You're gonna make the playoffs, you'll probably get put out in the first, maybe the second round. Uh coming off of the Super Bowl, you're Philly, you're fine. You're not supposed to repeat, man. Right.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I I think that that's a solid list. Uh obviously, again, Tampa, there was always the caveat of, well, when do they get healthy? Like, does Bucky Urban even come back? Because, you know, that turned into something that was supposed to, at least they said at first, like the week that he was ruled out, it was they were acting like he had a chance to play, anyways. They never put him on the um aisle. Yeah, yeah. And so Mike Evans has a chance to return, which will be great. I'm sure that with Godwin, they're kind of just hoping that Otten and Abuka can kind of hold it down and weather that storm, and it helps that they're in the NFC South. And Quest. And Carolina's not a legitimate contender, and Atlanta's bowed out of the competition. So what about New Orleans? I I didn't forget about them. They're the they're fucking irrelevant. You know, they get their rocks off for beating Carolina. Good for them. You know, I I had a Saints fan text me and say, you know, we went in there and did what you guys couldn't, and I said, congratulations on the second win of the season. And then they followed up and said, We're one behind you. And I said, you know, and then my butthole got a little tight. I'm not gonna lie, because I was like, you know what? That's true. And that just goes to show the brand of football that the Atlanta Falcons are playing.
SPEAKER_02:Tell that Saints fan to show up to work.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Well, you know this Saints fan, funny enough.
SPEAKER_02:But uh do I is it a she?
SPEAKER_03:It is a she, and you know, I only deal, I only I actually funny enough, she's probably the only Saints fan I know.
SPEAKER_02:Well, yeah, you should tell her to show up for fucking work. Yeah, we've been we we've been back on the air for like two months now.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, you know, and so uh yeah, we do, but you know what? That's coming up uh hopefully next week. Yeah, because we play the Saints, so hopefully next week uh we will be able to get this person to show up to work, but uh yeah, in terms of the Super Bowl six, to me, those are the teams that legitimately have a shot because technically now every team is over the halfway mark of the season, so we are at the midpoint kind of of the season. Um maybe a little over, and technically maybe last week would have been it. But um, yeah, yeah, I I feel really confident about uh those six. I would not be surprised, and we'll get to revisit this come um championship week to where we can look back and see um which one of us who were we on the mark about it? Like, you know what I mean? Do we have out of our six, maybe are we three for four? Are we four for four? Are we two for four? Are we oh for four? You know, does somebody emerge like the Colts and legitimately, you know, continue doing what they're doing this season, right?
SPEAKER_02:Bo Nicks and the Broncos, right? You know, Bo Necks and the Broncos.
SPEAKER_03:I don't I don't trust the offense enough.
SPEAKER_02:How do you not how do you not trust the Sean Payton offense?
SPEAKER_03:Because Bo Nicks hasn't looked good.
SPEAKER_02:All right, but hey, let's get to some of the teams that have been looking good in college football.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Um, what? We had a shuffling of the deck, Texas Tech blows doors on BYU, moves them down to number six on that list. Uh I think about Texas Tech.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03:Tex number six. They blew doors on BYU. College game day was there. Uh the top five remained the same in the same order. That was really the only big change. And then uh, who was it that fell out? BYU fell out completely. Miami came in, which because they believe Miami to be, I guess, the number 11 team. Uh, I was watching McAfee earlier. You know that there's a weird uh way to where the ACC Cambian doesn't make the playoffs. Good. So in that case, it would be if South Florida, for instance, and like Memphis or whoever.
SPEAKER_02:Hey, no, hey, hey, no, Miami's 15, uh, bro.
SPEAKER_03:No, no, no, no, they're number 11.
SPEAKER_02:In the c in the college football rankings?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, in the in the playoffs. Look at it. Look at the look at the the the they're number 15, but they're number 11 in the because they're placing them as if they did win the ACC.
SPEAKER_02:Gotcha.
SPEAKER_03:Because they would be the highest ranked ACC team. But the thing is that they well, and they have a long, basically, they're a long shot to win the ACC in reality. They have they have no good tiebreakers, and everybody else's schedule is sweet. So the only way that for the most part, it'd have to be some weird shit that happens. The only way Miami gets in is if they get in probably as an at-large bid. But the thing is, is that that would require whoever wins the ACC to be ranked lower than two of the non-power five or two of the non-power five conferences. So you could have it to where South Florida is ranked higher than the ACC champion, and so is Memphis, right? Yep. So they get in as the five conferences that are given the automatic bid, with the ACC champion being, let's just say it's Duke, because Duke's got four losses, but they have a chance to to win the ACC. Like they have a legitimate chance at winning it. They're not, and it, and that's gonna cause a big shitstorm if the ACC champion somehow doesn't get in.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, because then that gets into the conference championships matter. They there are the college football media's already like pushing. I bet if you ask some of these coaches behind closed doors, if uh they can know they're gonna get into the playoffs, do they really want to play in a conference championship game?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. And and everybody will say emphatically, no.
SPEAKER_02:I I I don't know. I I think winning the SEC means something in Georgia. I think it means something uh to Lane Kiffin. I I I think it means something to the Alabama program, even if if Calen DeBore doesn't understand as a non-SEC guy how important it is to win the SEC. But I do think for the SEC schools, especially with recruiting and and and showing the lure of the program, yeah, those conference championships matter because you're still gonna get the playoff berth that you get to put on your on your playoff appearances wall.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:But if you don't get a ring from the playoffs, at least you won your goddamn conference. Yeah. And if you're winning the SEC in the Big Ten, that matters. And as a coach, if you're having hard conversations with the AD because you haven't gotten over the hump. See, one of the problems with Mark Rick, not only was Mark Rick not winning national championships or getting to them, he also wasn't winning the conference. Everybody was having their turn during the Mark Rick years. You know, Florida had their run, Alabama had their run, LSU had their years. I mean, South Carolina had years that they were playing in the SEC Championship uh uh under Mark Rick's watch. Doesn't really happen like that with Kirby.
SPEAKER_03:You know, Missouri, one year Missouri went. Yeah, Missouri uh might be. I'm glad they were in the West and it had to have been in some weird down. No, no, no, they were in the east. They were in the east. Missouri was in the east. They were at that time when they first got in. But point being, yes, you got these weird ass years where a team like Missouri's fucking in.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so I I do think that conference champions championships matter. We just have to figure out the conferences, you know, maybe do some realignment. You know, like what was that three years ago, four years ago, we did like a big conference realignment segment? Yeah. Yeah, maybe we should whip that back out and like realign the conferences kind of the way that they were before the conferences changed.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:And just secure proper TV deals so that we respect, even if it's just a power four and not a power five, whichever the whatever conferences we go with, we respect those conferences and that uh that uh yeah, shout out to J E Money. Uh but yeah, you know, maybe we rearrange the conferences so that we actually respect the conferences and so that teams can play geographically close to one another and conference championships matter, and you still have this playoff that matters. Just a thing.
SPEAKER_03:Well, why not just have it to where we have the top 12 teams as it's currently constructed with 12 teams getting in? Let's just get the top 12 teams in.
SPEAKER_02:Let's get the top four teams in.
SPEAKER_03:Because then the conference championship matters, but at the end of the day, it is gonna come down to well, who are the top 12 teams, right? Because again, would you want a uh 8-4 Duke team getting ready to play? Let's just say a 10-2 Georgia Tech team and they beat Tech and Charlotte. Do we really want to see Duke in?
SPEAKER_02:No. Well, do we do we want to see USF in? No, but they're gonna get in if they win their conference.
SPEAKER_03:Well, yeah, if they're the highest ranked non-power five, right? But like at the same time, it's or now I guess it's four.
SPEAKER_02:Is it four or five? Yeah, doesn't exist, but yeah, let's so let's get rid of that bullshit.
SPEAKER_03:So that's why at that point, if it's about the best teams, then let's just make it the top 12 teams. Like now, South Florida, here's the thing with South Florida, and I know that they hold a near and dear place in your heart, um, considering you were almost uh going there. Yeah. Um, but Tampa, right? They're in Tampa, would have been a hell of a time. You would we wouldn't know each other more than like, but uh unless you somehow still met those guys and then we met and then we hit it off or whatever. But no, no.
SPEAKER_02:You know what? There's there is a route to where we could have because one of the people that Josh hung out with, he went to flight school with at South Florida. I mean, he went to flight school with, she went to South Florida.
SPEAKER_03:Really? Yeah, but you would have had to have been a pilot, low key.
SPEAKER_02:No, because she and I would have went been in RLTC together. Oh, and if I ended up in San Diego and she ended up there, we probably would have been cool, and then I would have linked with the niggas that she hung out with because well, Josh probably wouldn't have been my friend.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, he would have been like, he's like, Yeah, this chick, he's just hooking me up. He's like, I don't know this nigga. And he's loud, he's getting drunk. He um he's like me, but looks like a deer in headlights.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, he's like me, but he's loud.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, but nonetheless, with South Florida, I mean they've got some quality wins, right? Like, I mean, I know beating Florida now doesn't really mean anything, but they're the one that kicked off the let's get this nigga fire tour, right? When they beat Florida, because Florida was undefeated, had not lost yet, and was ranked in the top 14. So that was an impressive win. They beat Boise State to start the year, who was ranked at the time. Uh, and it's still like 7-2 right now. So it's uh, you know, not a great win, but it's still a good win to beat a 7-2 team. Um, yeah, uh it it it's kind of it complicates things because I think that if they did really do the 12 best teams, you start talking about 10 of them will be SEC and Big Ten, and then you have Texas Tech and maybe Georgia Tech, if you know their only other loss is gonna be to like Georgia.
SPEAKER_02:And that's why it'll never be that. Uh if the conferences are going to try to get as many uh guaranteed slots in there, or it's just not gonna happen, unfortunately. Uh you know, while we're here on uh well, we're talking about the playoff teams and you want to talk about the contenders and I I think yo they're gonna force Texas into this fucking playoff.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, because they're in it right now. But they've got a big showdown this week with Georgia, obviously.
SPEAKER_02:And um But they're they're gonna set because they're 10 if they win, they obviously are gonna jump into like the top five, which is bullshit.
SPEAKER_03:And Georgia doesn't fall out.
SPEAKER_02:Georgia's not gonna fall out. So they're setting it up to keep Georgia in no matter what. But also if they lose and it's not a blowout, they're gonna keep them close. Because they're gonna say, How can we punish you for a loss? Against a team that's better than you, and it's a top five team.
SPEAKER_03:And and and here's the other part of it, too, because right now Oklahoma's that other team. They're the they're the first them and BYU are the first two out. And, you know, Oklahoma plays Alabama this week. So you got two basically mirroring matchups with Oklahoma going to Bama and Texas going to Georgia. The idea would be that Georgia and Bama both win, but this college football. Somebody could lose, right? And I could see a scenario where either of them lose. I don't think Georgia's gonna lose, but we'll get to the picks in a little bit on what I think is gonna happen. I just think they will, no matter what, neither of them drop more than three spots. Unless they get their just I mean, it has to be doors blown in one of these games for that to happen. And even then, they might drop six spots, and then there's gonna be more cannibalization that goes on within the conference because then who's gonna be our SEC championship? Is it gonna be Georgia Bama? Like, is that gonna be the SEC championship? It might be. I mean, that his history tells us that that's what normally happens. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So I I I think any team right now, there's there's not a team that's head and shoulders above everybody. Uh Cincinnati looks amazing, not Cincinnati. Uh Indiana looks amazing with Cygneti. Ohio. And they're in.
SPEAKER_03:They punched their ticket by beating Penn State.
SPEAKER_02:But also, we don't know how good the rest of the Big Ten ever is. So they may just be beating up bumps. Um, then I mean anybody in the top 10 can win it, honestly, and that's kind of where I stand with it. Uh, but we got about an hour and a half left left. Let's get to the association.
SPEAKER_03:Let's get to the league pass. Um All-Star four. Or no, let's start off with Nico. I think that that's a little bit more pressing than the NBA All-Star game.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, no one's watching the NBA All-Star game. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Um, but we'll get to why that is. Well, nobody was watching it anyways, but you definitely I'm I'm not intrigued by what's about to happen. But nonetheless, I am intrigued by Nico getting fired. Was he giving a fair shot?
SPEAKER_02:He's a patsy. He's a fall guy.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. He's he's exactly what Chris Carter was talking about. You need to have you one of these.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah. And he's a prime example of when you own something, you get to do whatever the fuck you want. So Nico Harrison was fired pretty much for trading Luca Donce. Like the team is struggling right now, but Kyrie's out, and uh Anthony Davis is out, and their best play, their leading scorer is a rookie. You don't expect that team to be good. I mean, Klay Thompson can't find himself, and D Lo is the starting point guard for them.
SPEAKER_03:So you Klay Thompson is barbecue. He's barbecue. I've never seen a guy fall off so hard.
SPEAKER_02:Have you seen a guy move to Texas and start eating turkey legs every night? You know, it gives you that itis.
SPEAKER_03:That's about what they're saying AD looks like.
SPEAKER_02:Well, but but back to Nico.
SPEAKER_03:They're saying he's wearing the fat suit now. Did you see that?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I saw that shit.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:You know, maybe he wants out. And apparently uh Nico, not Nico, uh AD and Clay are on the block. Uh but Nico Harrison gets fired for essentially trading Luka Doncic. If you know anything about sports and you know anything about sports media, you understand that Nico Harrison did not make this choice. It may have been an idea that he pushed. The the narrative that's being pushed out is that it was his idea, the head coach and the own and ownership was in line with it. I I that may be very well true, but we also don't understand the reasons why they'd be uh uh uh uh aligned with it. Uh maybe the owner didn't like uh Luca the way he carried himself. Uh Luca, I mean Nico, Luca, and J Jason Kidd were all there before this new owner uh bought the team. So we we don't know. There could have been a hey, the owner says we don't want to pay this guy uh a supermax uh because of what it would do to our cash flow, and it doesn't really prove that we're gonna make more money as an organization by paying this person top dollar, but he's gonna demand top dollar and we're gonna have to do it if he's on the roster. There's a lot of reasons why they could have been aligned with getting rid of Luca. That's not a that that isn't basketball related. It's not basketball related. And at the end of the day, you don't you cannot trade a superstar without the owner sign-off. And what Patrick Damont did, you know, he he let Nico take the bullets, then he came out and made the comments about, you know, wanting to have a player with championship habits like Michael Jordan's and your Kobe's and your Shaqs, you know, you know, he really threw Shaq in there to let you know somebody who's a really hard worker. Um so everything from the story has said it was the owner. But 95% of the coverage has been kill Nico after the trade, kill Nico during the offseason.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, people picketing outside of American Airlines arena.
SPEAKER_02:The fans are yelling fire Nico while Cooper Flag's at the fucking free throw line. So they had to fire Nico because you know, you're just bad for business. But the sad part about it is Nico is gonna be tied to this trade. It's gonna affect his ability to work as an NBA executive again. It's gonna affect how he's covered. And he didn't do it. Like, the man had just got an extension and everybody was praising him for making the PJ, the PJ trade, the Kyrie trade, and uh the Gaffer trade, right? Yeah. He was building a solid team around Luca that got him to the fucking finals. Correct. I don't think Nico Harrison just woke up one day after he got a new boss and said, you know what? Uh we got to move in a different direction. Maybe he didn't like Luca, maybe he didn't like some of his habits. But Nico's been around the game. He's a Nike guy. He was locked in with Kobe. He understands the business of basketball, and he understands that you just can't replace Luca. And and people say, oh, he didn't shop him. Yes, the fuck he did. They tried to get Giannis, they tried to get Wimby, they tried to get Ant-Man, and nigga said no.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, and and I just think that all in all, the saga that the the turn of events and how we get to this point at the beginning of the season is it's unbelievable, and it it is a sign of what the own what ownership is doing. And I obviously Mark Cuban sells a majority, he's been the face, kind of, I mean Dirk was the face, but Mark Cuban's like the face of NBA owners in a weird way. Sales the team, you look at him, and you and he's still in there because he didn't sell all of it, and he still is like, you know, a board member. So it makes, and even though I know he said he didn't have any control over the trade because he was another person, people are like, damn, Mark, like, did you know about this? And they're like, he's like, I didn't know about it, right? And we have to take his word for it. I mean well, I when I say we, I mean at large, the audience in general, anyone that follows basketball, we've got to, you can take it with a grain of salt, but you gotta take it one way or another. This trade happens, and we don't even get to see the fruits of his labor from the trade because Kyrie, we already knew after last season was not gonna be playing until all-star break at best, right? At the end, after all-star break. You get the layup from Adam Silver, because that's what that was. I uh they did not win no fucking ping pong balls. I anyone that wants to believe that, and I'm sure that you believe LeBron James that that they even though Cleveland had the worst rate, I'm sure you believe that LeBron that the Cavs just so happened to win, and that the Bulls just so happened to win too.
SPEAKER_02:Uh this came out 51 minutes ago. Uh, the Mavericks are expected to work with Anthony Davis's camp over the next two months to decide whether to pursue an in-season trade. He's gone.
SPEAKER_03:That is what that means. I what where would you think he could go? Who has the the pieces that they would want and that he would fit in with? Do you send them to Boston and set up for next year? And he basically he's a part of another uh because you could get Derek White in return, they would do it. They get off Derek White's contract, they could give him maybe Pritchard two, I don't know, or just a first, well, because their first is gonna be valuable this year, right? What about Phoenix? How long does it take to win? I mean, AD's 32, and he's got an injury history. He's got two, maybe three more good years of basketball left. So he's got to go somewhere that I don't know what Phoenix give up to, and like you know, I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:I'm just trying to think about players that he could fit with and next season.
SPEAKER_03:The Clippers would make a lot of sense in a sense of, but the trade doesn't, right? Like I think in terms of him playing with the Clippers makes sense, but the trade wouldn't make sense because you would want to keep Kawhi and Harden, obviously, right? But you then you're sending Zubek, who there's already Gaffer, PJ, and lively. So, like, doesn't it make any sense to go that can't be the the foundation piece of a trade with them? Um can't go back to LA. I don't I mean, well, if they're not trading Austin Reeves, though, right? Like, so they wouldn't do that. But that would be a that would be a superpower win now move by the Lakers if they did, because they would take that deal, I think.
SPEAKER_02:Trey LeBron.
SPEAKER_03:LeBron's not going to Dallas. I know, nigga. I'm just yeah. Uh Oklahoma City obviously would be really interesting because they could do it. Yeah, but they shouldn't. They could do it. They shouldn't. They would Hardenstein to eat up some money. Isaiah Joe.
SPEAKER_02:They got chat. They don't need I wouldn't do it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. I mean, I'm with you, but I'm just saying it would be interesting. You can't send them to Miami. Like, that would be counterproductive. Yeah, him and Bam are the same person, and I don't think even if you traded him for Bam, like it just it just is counterproductive. I don't think it makes it doesn't do anything. It doesn't move the needle. The Hawks would obviously be an interesting place. Um, with the assumption that you're keeping up.
SPEAKER_02:They would want that, they would want that New Orleans pick.
SPEAKER_03:They'd want the New Orleans pick, and they would probably want Jalen Johnson too. And I wouldn't give up Jalen Johnson and the New Orleans pick for A's.
SPEAKER_02:Especially if we don't know if Trey's gonna be here, because if Trey's not gonna be here, you can send you can send KP back to Dallas.
SPEAKER_03:You could keep Jalen Johnson. Send him the pick if you're gonna keep if you're gonna keep Jalen Johnson. Send him the pick and send him Risa Shea. Send my nigga to make it. And I think that that gets a deal done.
SPEAKER_02:Send my nigga to Minnesota. Uh, never mind. Rudy to Dallas doesn't miss.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that's what I'm saying. There it's hard to fit. The Bulls would probably be, he's from Chicago. The Bulls would be interested, and they're off to the start. Yeah. That would make sense, but what are you giving up? Because they're not giving up, Giddy. What so you're gonna trade with Kobe White and what else?
SPEAKER_02:I mean, maybe maybe try to go to Sacramento because Sacramento is so he can go, so he can, so he can dig his own grave there. I mean there's not many good options for him because you Boston would make sense. Yeah, you just because you don't see him going to a shitty market either or a terrible team.
SPEAKER_03:Boston makes sense because Derek White will be a piece that Dallas would want, and they'd have to add some more fluff with it, probably. I don't know how much more fluff, but you'd have to add some more pieces. You can make that work to where he goes to Boston, and then next year you're looking at a big three of Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum, and Anthony Davis. I think I think that that would that would be something. Or again, you could just send them to fucking hell. Just send him to basketball hell, send them to Sacramento, get some bonus, send him to uh the Hornets, and maybe you can who knows what they would give you, but a dummy in the comments said uh trade him back to the Lakers for Ayton and Dalton. They wouldn't take they they wouldn't take that. Austin Reeves would have to be a part of the deal. But the Lakers could do it if they are if they're literally trying to appease LeBron and win right now, they would they could do it. Like they could do it. I think that they would take it, but like it would be such a bizarre trade because basically you're saying we traded you Austin Reeves for Luka Donitch, is really what the trade would end up being. That's what that trade would be at that time. Austin Reeds putting up Luca numbers, but he ain't Luka. He putting up Luca numbers, but he ain't fucking Luca. Uh, you can't send him to Denver, you can't send him to Memphis wouldn't know you know would be a good team for next year. Who? Portland?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I and I I don't know why I knew you were gonna say that. Toronto could work too, because they kind of have the pieces that they could give you something.
SPEAKER_02:But is it something that is it what they want? Like what does it mean?
SPEAKER_03:Well, they would want Scotty, they would keep they would want Scotty Barnes, but they're keeping Scotty, they would try and base that shit around like RJ Baird and Emmanuel Quickly. That's what they would try and do.
SPEAKER_02:Like, hey, you're gonna give me BI or or or uh Scotty Barnes. Uh that RJ guy.
SPEAKER_03:Uh Joe Dumars would love to trade and bring him back to New Orleans and send Zion's ass to Dallas. Dallas, he already said Dallas was his favorite city to play in. Uh you can send AD back to hell uh with Joe Dumars. And look, everybody gets happy. He has a reunion, the fans forgive him. He got his ring, he's already in NBA 75. He could just spend the rest of his days there until they move the team to uh Vegas.
SPEAKER_02:Hey, look, we got 15 minutes left. Uh, quick question on Nico. Do you blame Nico or do you blame the owner?
SPEAKER_03:I blame the owner. Okay. Again, we we haven't got to see what Dallas is gonna be in his vision. Like, we haven't even got to see it yet. And they're and he's and they're obviously trying to tear it down to where we never know. We'll never know.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, because they want to bury they want to bury Nico. Correct. So we'll never know. Kyrie will be gone.
SPEAKER_03:Gone next year, I have to imagine. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So But you know, it it makes sense. New ownership. J J. Kidd's probably out the door at the end of the year. New ownership's gonna start brand new and and do their own thing. Do you want to talk about all-star format or do you want to push it to next week?
SPEAKER_03:Uh depends on how much time you think we're gonna get in on it. I I don't think that there's much to talk about. It's a dumbass fucking format. We've got three teams. We're selecting positionless top 24 players in a weird way. If there's not enough international players, then the then then Adam Silver is gonna select enough to fill in the board, and vice versa. If there's not enough American players, he's gonna select the next player or two. It's stupid. It's not gonna get me to watch. Um, just change it back to East versus West and have them wear their actual team jerseys, you know, home team white or whatever, and then away team, their color jersey. And just keep it simple.
SPEAKER_02:And bring the positions back to I I don't really like this positionless stuff because we're gonna we're gonna remember we're gonna like have visuals both the all-NBA teams and all-star lineups that are not basketball lineups. And yes, we play quote unquote positionless basketball, but the needs of each position are still filled. They're just filled differently, yeah, and concentrated in different areas. But dog, like you still have somebody who who brings the ball up and controls the offense. You still have shooters, you still have rebounders, you still have guys who can score at the basket. Like you you have all of these same elements, but like let's I mean, because the international team is gonna be point guards and big men.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, there's no really in-between.
SPEAKER_02:And most of the big men play like point guards.
SPEAKER_03:Well, and let's say that they fall short of eight international players. My nigga, are we selecting DeAndre A? Like, who are you who are you putting in? Like, is my question. What would be the non-deserving all-star that you add? It's VJ Edge. They weren't an all-star.
SPEAKER_02:So it's like is VJ Edgecombe gonna be an international player because he's from the Bahamas, but he he did high school and and uh he did college and shit here?
SPEAKER_03:Another great question. Are we gonna get a boost all-star appearance again? Bro, because the bulls have a winning record and and you guys need another player?
SPEAKER_02:And can we can we not make this like I I don't like this USA versus international, and then they say the world is catching the United States when it's yeah, when you take the whole fucking world and you put them on one team, and then you take everybody from one country and put them on another team, it's different. How about you do how about you do this hemisphere? Like America gets the islands and Canada. It's it's a different conversation because most of the Canadians come to America to go to high school and go to college. Canadian basketball and American basketball is damn near the same thing. It's not the same with the Caribbean, too.
SPEAKER_03:Same with the Caribbean guys, like like you said, an edge comb in Ayton, uh a Buddy Heeled, like niggas. Yeah. They went to college, they went to college in the United States.
SPEAKER_02:Most of them went to high school in the United States. Yeah, that's not the world. That they they came through the American AAU system. The fuck we talking about.
SPEAKER_03:They speak perfect fucking English, like they don't have accents.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, bro. Like, I get it though. Well, I'm not gonna get into that because I just think there's a certain image that the NBA is trying to get away from and another image they're going towards, and this international spotlight really does that for them. Uh, but I digress. Uh, let's get to the picks because I know I've got something to say at the end of the show, and I want to save some uh some room for that. And uh I want to make sure you have room for whatever it is that you have to say because we don't discuss this in pre-production.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, let's get it. I uh got it here, so I'm ready when you are.
SPEAKER_01:Alrighty, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for Parlay Peach College Football Six Pack.
SPEAKER_03:666. We've got a really weak college football slate. There's a couple of good games, obviously, and I tried to touch them both. Um I tried to touch them both. Um I actually had to stay away from one of them, but I'll quickly run through this. Uh starting off, we got North Texas at UAB. Uh, North Texas is going to cover against UAB. They're a carcass of a school. And North Texas actually has a chance of making the playoffs. So we're going to take North Texas minus 18 and a half at UAB. Next, we got TCU at BYU. Uh, this is set up for BYU to kind of have that uh get back game. Um after kind of getting embarrassed by Texas Tech. I like BYU on the money line here, and the the money line's really good value. Uh next, we got Notre Dame at Pittsburgh, kind of an underrated game. I believe College Game Day is gonna be there this week. Uh I like over 54 and a half. I feel like that's a little low. Notre Dame can score and so can Pittsburgh. So that just seems a little odd to me. We're gonna take over 54 and a half. Next, we got Iowa at USC, two ranked teams. They're not really gonna be college football playoff teams, but should be an interesting match considering the styles. I like USC on the money line at home, though. I don't think Iowa, once USC gets a lead, they're not gonna really relinquish it because Iowa can't score. Next, we've got Lee's alma mater at home getting one of these cupcake ass games that's in the middle of the season. So we got New Mexico State at Tennessee. We're gonna take the points. We're gonna lay the points, I'm sorry, here, with Tennessee at minus 39 and a half. These games, you don't typically get these this late in the season, but you take them when you get them. Uh, and then finally, of course, game of the week. We got Texas at Georgia. I expect this game to be a dogfight, pun intended. Um, but I'm gonna take Texas plus seven and a half, to be honest with you. I do think it's gonna be a one-score game, and I think that's a lot of points to be given to the preseason number one team.
SPEAKER_02:All righty. So we got North Texas minus 18 and a half, BYU on the money line, Notre Dame at Pitt over 54 and a half, USC on the money line, Tennessee minus 39 and a half, and Texas plus seven and a half.
SPEAKER_03:That is correct.
SPEAKER_01:Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for Parlay Pete NFL 6.
unknown:6, 6, 6.
SPEAKER_03:All right, we're gonna go through this. Juicy, juicy NFL slate, by the way. Um, but let's kick it off with what I believe to be the game of the week. We got the Seattle Seahawks at the Los Angeles Rams. I'm laying the points because I'm drinking the Kool-Aid that's out there in Seattle. Let me get Seattle plus three and a half here. LA can be taken over by Seattle fans. I'd like I like what Seattle's doing. Rams are hot, but give me Seattle plus three and a half. Next, we got the Kansas City Chiefs at the Denver Broncos. I know that I don't have Denver as one of these teams that's one of our Super Bowl six, but I'm gonna take Denver plus four and a half. This might be their biggest game, you know, since the last time they had a playoff game at home. Might be the biggest game at home that they've had. So that's gonna take them four and a half. We got the Tampa Bay Bucks at the Buffalo Bills. I like over 47 and a half. I think that um we're gonna see some points getting scored here because that's just the way Bucks games go. And Bills normally can't score, especially at home. Next, we got the Houston Texans at the Tennessee Titans. I like under 38. Enough said. There's not really much to talk about here. The Titans can't score, and Texas have a great defense. Then next, we got the uh Atlanta Falcons, well, hold on. Yep, we got the Atlanta, we got uh Carolina Panthers at the Atlanta Falcons. Hate touching the Falcons, but they're gonna get it done this week. They've got to get it done. So we're gonna take the Falcons minus three and a half, which is crazy, right? But they should cover. And then finally, we got the Monday night uh uh crescendo here with the Detroit Lions at the Philadelphia Eagles. I like the Lions on the money line. Give me the Lions, they're a better team.
SPEAKER_02:Alrighty. So we got Seattle plus three and a half, Denver plus four and a half, uh Bucks at Bills over 44 and a half, uh Texans and a half, excuse me, under 47 and a half, over 47 and a half. Yep. Then we got Texans uh Titans under 38.
SPEAKER_03:Yep.
SPEAKER_02:Uh Falcons minus three and a half and Lions on the money line.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, sir.
SPEAKER_02:You like it?
SPEAKER_03:I love it. And when you love it, that means it's time for Leeds three.
SPEAKER_02:All right, so for Leeds three this week, I'm gonna be a homer and take Tennessee minus 39 and a half. Uh, we're gonna double up and be a homer and be a dumb homer. Just take the Falcons minus three and a half, because why not just be a homer? Right. And uh give me Seattle plus three and a half, make it spicy.
SPEAKER_03:You like that, right?
SPEAKER_02:I do.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:All right, man. So uh Parlay Pete, you know, you've got something to say. And I'd love to hear it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, so AC Lee and Parlay Pete got something to say. What I have to say is this after further review, the ruling on the field stands. Views is a classic album. And let me tell you why. If you go top to bottom on this project by Drake, it was obviously his most hype coming into it, but also his high selling. I think at the time it got lukewarm reception because of its length. There's about 19 songs on there. Um, he had had that run of where he was kind of dropping a lot of Lucy's like your draft days and your zero to 100, all that kind of led the care package, that stuff kind of led up to this album. I don't see a skip on there. And I would love for somebody to comment and let me know, you know, if I'm missing the mark here, but I don't see a skip on here. I love this album. I think that this is it's a classic. It's one of his three best. It's it's it's in the same cloth as Take Care and Nothing Was the Same. And that's what Parley Pete's got to say.
SPEAKER_02:Hey, here's what I've just got to say on that. I'm gonna give that album a listen tonight before bed. Okay. Uh because I looked at the track list and it looks really good. And just being removed from the album and its release, I'd like to give it a fresh listen. Uh and we can come back to this next week because just looking at that track list, uh uh I I tend to agree with you.
SPEAKER_03:It's his life of Pablo, low-key.
SPEAKER_02:But I just haven't listened to the album cover to cover in in a few years, honestly. So it wouldn't be fair for me to uh do my normal Drake doesn't have a classic album, uh, because we're years removed from from that album, and I should give it another listen.
SPEAKER_03:Bars uh range.
SPEAKER_02:You've already yeah, you've said what you had to say now. I was I was gonna I was throwing you the olive branch here to say I'm not gonna shit on this because you know how I am when it comes to Drake and classic albums. I'm gonna give it a listen before.
SPEAKER_03:Very few features. Go ahead, Lee.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I've got something to say. And it's because Steve always has something to say. Oh man. And I I I just hate no, I don't hate to keep bringing up Steve. I think it's very important to keep to bring up Stephen A. Smith and what he's doing. And uh, yeah, it's kind of cloudy and it worked uh if you clip it up properly, which we honestly don't really do with our Stephen A stuff. Uh, but it I think it's also important to understand who he is and what he's doing, and not be someone who has uh anything against him personally, or is somebody who's looking to utilize him to advance in my career, uh, to have these conversations about Stephen A. Smith. Uh Stephen A. Smith is embroiled in a little beef with Michelle Beadle and Carrie Champion. And I I he just comes off as so disingenuous. Like, to act like you don't know who Michelle Beadle is. I barely spoke to this woman. Bro, she was one of the big dogs on on ESPN uh during your your rise to power. You knew who Michelle Beadle was.
SPEAKER_03:Probably hosted the second most popul, well, not including like part of the interruption, the second most popular non-those shows.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, like she was somebody who created a newer show or was involved in a newer show and was a name. Like Michelle Beatle is who she is, and by all accounts, the reason why she's not sitting at a great network job is because she's an asshole and she does things her way, and you know what, people no longer want to deal with you. It's part of it, and she accepts that and she said it. But Stephen A just constantly finding himself in media beef and then acting as if he's above it. I haven't spoken about this person in years. Okay, maybe you haven't spoken about that person, but you're always speaking about somebody else. And I I applaud Carrie Champion for calling him out and saying, hey, are you gonna have that same smoke for Michelle Beadle that you uh appear to have for black women on the on the internet? And I usually don't go down that race route, you know what I mean? Because his the stuff he said about Jasmine Crockett, I was honestly, I was cool with it because I wouldn't go that far, but sometimes she does carry herself in a way that I I just doesn't I don't think is is necessary, you know.
SPEAKER_03:And politics is mud wrestling and he wants to get in it.
SPEAKER_02:So and that and that leads to the next point. Steven is trying to pit himself, position himself to be in politics. He's constantly on an ABC network show and being asked if he's gonna be if he's gonna run for president. If you know anything about media, you know Stephen A is not getting any questions that he doesn't want, especially on ABC. He works for them. They're all working together, okay? It's not like he shows up to a podcast and they lie and then say, fuck it. We're gonna try to burn him on this question, you know. Stephen A. Smith doesn't have experience in politics. Stephen A. Smith has very little uh public experience leading a company, a brand. Yes, he has his own network, his own media company now. Yes, he's an executive producer uh at at ESPN. Yes, he builds a show. Cool, that's great. But that doesn't mean that you're a politician. And instead of leaning into policy arguments, uh he leans into the loud to get the people's attention, more of the Donald Trump type populism. In America, we need to wake up. We go to doctors to to get healing, we go to firefighters to put out a fire, so on and so forth. Let's get back to having politicians lead our country and not TV people. Hope you all have a great weekend.
