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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Monday, May 1st. And Hank, we should probably just start with you, Hank, the floor is yours, Hank.
PFT's not saying anything.
I want to say that the brewing season was not a failure. I was trying to say that, Hank, first of all, I'm sorry for your loss. I had the floor, I did not invite you to dance with me, Hank. We should usually introduce what we're talking about.
You always remind people to do that, so I'm just trying to be helpful. The Bruins lost in heartbreaking fashion after being the President's Cup Trophy winner. They had the most wins in NHL history this year.
And I think we said before this series started, it would be a colossal failure. Anything less than the Stanley Cup. This was a lot less than the Stanley Cup you lost in the first round to Jake's Florida Panthers.
Diehard Jake.
Jake hit you with a very polite celebration, almost too polite, when he won. So Hank, the floor is yours. How do you feel about your Boston Bruins being the biggest chokers in the history of the NHL? Yeah, I want to use the Giannis quote and say that it's not a failure.
It's just steps to success. But I don't know how he could say that that was a complete abject failure. It just hurt a lot, especially at the end of the game. Bergeron was going through the teammate handshake line and hugging everyone.
It seemed like that might be his last, it could be it for him. They've had an unbelievable run for the last, I don't even know, over 10 years, since 2011..
And they had their best team of all time this year. They made it to Game 7 in the Stanley Cup a couple years ago and lost that. This felt like it was going to be a great end-of-the-era championship run. Most points of all time, most wins of all time.
It would have been the best team of all time. Presidents Cup, they got the Goalie Cup, whatever the fuck that was, pasta, got the Scoring Cup, whatever the fuck that's called.
It's the downside of sports fandom because you sit there and you grind with them all year long. And you watch all these wins and you think it's a magical ride. And then it gets cut short and it's unfinished business.
And obviously, I am a Bruins diehard. Although it's been seven games, I didn't see this team as the best team of all time.
Hank was saying, As far as I could tell, this team's not that good for what I've watched this year.
This was not the team that people watched in the regular season.
Yeah, it's true. Alright, so I got spin zone for you, Hank, that did suck. Game Seven playoff hockey. There's nothing like it in sports. Game seven playoff hockey, overtime. It is the cruelest thing in all of sports.
It is the feeling you get when you lose a game seven. I was saying to Feidelberg in between periods, I was like, Dude, even the Blackhawks runs, I still can visualize the Kings in 2014 beating the Blackhawks in overtime in Game seven, the Western Conference final. The puck bouncing in and being like, Wait, it's over, there's nothing like it, you just sit there and be like, How is it over? Keep this game going.
This is not fair. There's nothing like it in sports, but Hank, I have something to cheer you up. One is President's Cup trophy. This happens.
This happens a lot, okay, and you could just word for word, which I think you should do right now. Live while we're taping, just copy and paste the Tampa Bay Lightning tweet. From 2019, when they had the best record in the NHL and they got swept by the Blue Jackets in the first round. For people who don't remember it.
The Tampa Bay Lightning main account tweeted this right after. We don't have any words and we know you don't want to hear them. We understand your anger, your frustration, your sadness, everything you're feeling. We get it. This isn't the ending we imagined, and certainly not the one we wanted.
Thank you for being there the entire way. You got to just tweet that, let everyone know you're there for them.
I'm not there for them.
You're out of the Celtics, you got way bigger business to go.
Honestly, and this is where it's, you know, Boston. People might get mad at me because obviously I am a diehard Bruins fan, but I am more of a diehard Celtics fan. This is bad for the Celtics. This is like, as a city as a whole. You're both, you know, top seeds. You got to put the pressure on in the early rounds. And the fact that the Bruins lost it almost kind of like, sets the tone of like.
Anything can happen, and that's not where you want to be. You want to be the city of champions, you want to be, you know, the powerhouse. Everyone's going to stay in the Cup finals, everyone's going to the N.B.A. championship.
They had a lead that looked like, you know, they had a chance to empty net. Pasta fucking got that goal, he had, he scored the overtime goal, it got so lucky he hit the goal.
He's like, stick when he wasn't even trying to block it.
Oh, that's a save.
But it wasn't okay, it was an accidental save. Yeah, by mistake. He was just in really good position. And you could say that it's the curse of Bobrovsky, too.
Sergei Bobrovsky, the goaltender for this Florida Panthers team, is also the goaltender for the Columbus Blue Jackets when they beat the Tampa Bay Lightnings. Whose statement Hank is about to crib right now, word for word, Now we should address Hank, the NHL rigged conversation. Yeah, because it seems like there was a script that needed to be followed at the end of this game with a minute left.
Actually, just over a minute left, I'd say about a minute five left. The graphic flashed on the screen. The score bug updated, it said. Goal Florida Panthers tie ball game, 3-3..
Yeah, right, at the end.
Before the actual goal was scored, it was more than that.
It was like 20 seconds we were on the live stream. I was like, why did a goal just flash? And everyone's like, Wait, I didn't see that.
It was like 20 seconds. You can watch it back clear as day. They updated the score before the puck went in. So, hmm, really makes you think on that. And now, if you are a Leafs fan out there and before this game, Hank, I told you, I tweeted this out just for the record that I wanted the Bruins to win because you want to beat the best.
If you want to be the best, you know no easy ways out. I didn't want the Panthers, I wanted Hank, I wanted the Bruins.
I think all of Toronto would back me up on that. They were saying we want Florida, but I think what they were really saying, they were trying to reverse, jinx themselves into saying that we want the Bruins.
That also just to defend Toronto for a second. There was also a clip where they said, We want Boston. They were just chanting, shit covering your bases. Yeah, yeah right, they were chanting both.
And then the one obviously saying we want Florida got put out there.
I wanted Hank to win and I wanted to go through Hank to get to the Stanley Cup finals.
Yeah.
I just want to say, what's worse, regular season success and then losing it all in the Super Bowl with the 18-1 Patriots season, or this Bruins collapse? Good question, Good question, I mean, because a first round upset is almost worse than getting all the way to the end.
It's definitely the Super Bowl. Are you thinking right now?
No, it's obviously the Super Bowl, I don't know. I mean, this was the greatest regular season of all time. No, but that was an upset. This is a collapse.
This happens in hockey. This is not like, I'm not just trying to make Hank feel better. This is not on the same level as a Milwaukee Bucs, this is not on the same level as a one-seat losing a 16..
This happens every few years. I mean, the Tampa Bay Lightning were the best team in hockey, they got swept in the first round. I think the AVS did it a couple years ago.
I don't think Hank was thinking about the answer to that. Hank was thinking about how he wanted to kill Billy, like what method he was going to use to kill him in that moment. But I disagree with the Big Cat. I think this is worse than the Bucs just because the Bruins were the best hockey team of all time.
All time. But that also was a record that is hard, like the Red Wings in the 90s had a better record if they had ties back then.
It's like the Golden State Warriors when they had the best record in the NBA. If they were to lose in the first round, that would be worse than the Bucs losing in the first round.
I just think it happens a lot in hockey, it does.
It does happen more often.
It just happens a lot in hockey.
There's precedent for it. It seems like every couple years they showed the graphic. The last time a team had the best record and won the Stanley Cup is all the way back to 2013. So it tells you the volatility of the NHL playoffs.
I think it's back to 2007.
I think there have only been one, maybe two Stanley Cup champions that also won the President's Cup trophy, which I love that. We just go back and forth all the time, and now we're just saying President's Cup trophy.
I don't know if it's the President's Cup or the President's trophy, we just say both on this show because it's the Cup.
It's because it's the cup.
Because it's the cup.
And don't forget the Goalie Cup.
Big cat watching that, I know what you're saying. You flash back to the moments when you've watched playoff hockey, when your team has been involved in these overtime games. And in the moment, it doesn't feel fun at all, it just feels like you're on the edge of your seat, but I do miss that sensation when you're watching playoff hockey.
It's so fun to watch, but you really wish you were involved somehow, to feel the emotions. It's like porn in that way.
Absolutely, and it really is. It is like the overtime in a game 7. There's just no feeling like it because you just sit there.
If you lose in a game 7 overtime, you sit there just staring at the TV, like, how is it over right now? how is this finished? They have to play more. This is not fair and you go through all the emotions that it's hard to replicate in any other sport.
Other than maybe Joe Carter's walk-off in the World Series, there's not a lot that can replicate that feeling.
But it's so different in hockey too, because the game is so fluid that anything can happen at any given time. Whereas if you're watching baseball, you know, okay, this next pitch could be a home run. When your team's not up to bat, you're like, Okay, now's the time where I have to prepare myself. In hockey. It's just like 30-second swings, 15-second swings, back and forth, back and forth. I'm curious to know, Jake, you are a very gracious winner.
You've got a history of being a gracious winner on this show. Is there anything that you'd like to say after this resounding victory? He was just causing a scene.
It was a crazy series. I'm happy for the diehard Panther fans that I know at home. I'm obviously not one of them, but they don't get this feeling often, so it's crazy.
Can I make a suggestion in the spirit of NHL playoffs? And this is the one thing that we love the most about the sport. Is the handshake line. After every series, I think we should do a part of my take handshake line. Oh, right now, Hank and Jake, yeah.
Hank and Jake Yeah, please.
To honor the boys and blades.
Please, let's have a handshake.
Handshake line guys.
Come on.
Get up there, do it, hank.
Give a handshake. Hank's getting up, He's not so happy about this. Jake is already up, ready to go. Hank took off his hat and then Jake went in for the hug.
That was beautiful.
Hank shunned the hug, the handshake line. Jake Well, sometimes they hug.
Sometimes they hug. Going back to your guys debate who were the two teams that sparked it this playoff season?
What?
The Panthers Yeah, that's true. Florida runs the world.
South Florida Giant Killers.
Yeah, they are, they are officially giant killers.
And Fau Yep and Miami, final four.
Eight seeds, all right, so any last words? Hank?
PATRICE BERGERON Honestly, it's sticking with me. It's super sad. If that's his last game, been on the burns 20 years, feels like he should have won more than one cup. He's just been so good for so long, and the fact that he's going to retire is super, super, super sad.
Yeah, yeah, one little footnote on this game. The Leafs have the Bruins first rounder, so that's kind of crazy that the Bruins lost and the Leafs kind of got a double win. Just if you're like a hockey, if you're a real puck boy.
If you're just looking at the draft as well, you got one eye on the draft, one eye on the playoffs.
Always, yeah, people think it's easy being a Boston fan. It's like, it's just not shut the fuck up, man.
That's, I mean, that was a devastating loss.
Yeah, PFT it was. I mean, I agree, I agree.
It is devastating. I've been there, I watched them lose game seven at home too.
But you do have a team that's playing tomorrow night that has, or tonight, as we're taping this tonight that has. That's the favorite to win the N.B.A. title, but that's pressure.
That's what I was saying the whole time.
I know, but it is a nice, there's some nice solace in that, that you can go right to the next thing.
I know, but the Sixers, man, they're, oh man, all right, well, we'll get to that. You have some wiggle room, I understand that.
It's like, okay, you already lost all your margin for error. Now, if any, if one team loses, you're done with all the playoffs. I get, I get that stuff, but I will. I will stand in and say, shut the fuck up, hank, anytime you say how tough it is to be a Boston Sports fan.
It's since this show has existed. I've watched Patriots lose the Super Bowl, I've watched the Celtics lose NBA Championship at home, and I've watched Bruins lose Game Seven. And I just watched the best team hockey team of all time. Yeah, but I'm just saying it's not easy.
Yeah, I think I've watched as many teams lose championships as you have. It's been here for six months.
Wait, hank.
So I get it also. Hank, you've watched the Patriots win two Super Bowls, three over the Rams and 28 to three.
The biggest Super Bowl comeback of all time? Yeah, we. I was talking about the bad stuff, I didn't, I was just saying, all right.
So everyone you know, if you're listening to this right now, please say a prayer for for Hank Lockwood.
Thank you, he's going through it.
He's trending on Twitter right now, which is very funny. I didn't look into it, but it was 10,000 tweets then, it's just said Twitter trend hank.
I'm sure it's not Henrik Lundqvist.
It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, don't worry about it, like I said, it doesn't. Sometimes I'll trend on a random day, and it's because Tiger Woods, like, hit a random golf shot in his house in Florida. It doesn't matter.
Hank was trending. Okay, let's talk some other sports, let's talk some other game sevens.
Steph Curry put on maybe the best playoff performance he's ever had 50 points game seven against the Kings, never been done in a game seven in the N.B.A. playoffs, which is nuts.
Incredible, incredible series, incredible game from Steph. The Warriors are marching on. I mean, that was, we're so lucky to get to watch Steph. I was thinking about it, right? Like we, we had the Uh, a few years ago where we had a nitpick, Steph Curry, and we came up with that.
He chooses mouth guard. Weird, that was the only thing we could find that really, really like didn't like about him.
I don't know.
Like, he is an incredible, uh, player, obviously. I mean, people are saying top 10 all time now. I wouldn't disagree with that, but I and I know I might be in the minority here. Because I think there's a lot of Warriors fatigue, especially if one of your teams has played them in a finals or on the way to a finals. I still love watching the Warriors play basketball, and I still love watching Steph Curry like, I don't. I have no hate for him whatsoever.
And I was watching that game today, being like, we're so lucky to get to watch a guy like this play basketball.
Cause you can't, you can't say anything about him, you can't say that the refs give him calls. You can't say that he plays a cheap style of basketball, you can say that he ruined basketball. Because now every kid wants to be Steph Curry. And they're hooking threes from the logo, and that's how the game's played right now.
But you can't say that Steph Curry isn't one of the all time greats to watch. There's really nothing about his game that you can pick apart and be like, Oh, actually, he's not that good. You put them on this team and he'd suck. No, you put Steph Curry on any team and there would be an instant contender. And 50 points in game seven cements it.
We've got the return.
Well, he already cemented it, he already had cemented it, but yeah.
Well, in my opinion, Big cat. What we've got coming up right now is a legacy series. We've got LeBron versus Steph and that's going to be awesome to watch. But we also saw the return of the third quarter Warriors, and it feels like the third quarter Warriors haven't been a thing in the last couple of years. So I looked up the stats on them, so the Warriors have been. They've been known since about 2014 as being just a team that will slit your throat at the start of the third quarter.
And that's how they, that's how they differentiate themselves from any other team in the N.BA. They were in terms of plus minus, they were the best team in the N.B.A. from 2014 until 2019. And that's every single I'm not talking about. Like, on aggregate, in the 2014 15 season, they were first place 2015 16, they were first place all the way through 2018 2019 season.
They were first place in third quarter plus minus every single year and then they dropped down because they had that injury year where clay and stuff were both hurt. Then they bounced back a little bit and then they got back to being a number one again in 2021, 2022. Then this year, they sucked again for the vast majority of the year.
They were, they were like a a slightly below average team in third quarter and then tonight they come out. They outscored them by 12 in the third quarter. I think that what we've seen is the return officially of the third quarter warriors, and I wouldn't be surprised if this continues throughout the rest of the playoffs.
Well, it was the. The other crazy thing from this game is that the second, third and fourth leading scorers on the Warriors team, UH, were combined 12 of 44.
So that's Wiggins, Clay, Thompson and Jordan Pool 12 of 44. If you want to just do starters, Wiggins and Clay were nine of 35. Imagine having your two, your second and third options scoring options. Go nine for 35 in a game, seven on the road. And then be like, Yeah, you actually comfortably won this game.
Oh, because you have Steph Curry, and he can. He basically is just a get out of jail free card. For anything that, like, could bad. That could happen to the Warriors, like, Oh, we still have Steph Curry. I also was thinking about it. I know that people don't like the Warriors for many reasons.
Obviously one of them being Kevin Durant Warriors, him going there if you don't like, you didn't like the Kevin Durant Warriors, which I'm not going to argue against. Because it was. It was almost unfair at times how good they were. I still loved watching him because I just love, like the way the Warriors play basketball is fun to watch from as a as a basketball fan. But if you were like, I hated them because of that. And taking out Hank, he's, he's got PTSD from the Warriors we were talking about earlier. But taking out that if the Warriors won the title this year, that would be objectively funny.
That Steph would have five, and Katie would have two, and Steph would have more without Katie than with him. And it's like, he's Katie's like almost a little barnacle on Steph, the Titanic that is Steph and his career. That would be awesome, that would be awesome.
It would be funny. And also if you beat LeBron on the way there. And then came back and won another one next season and had six.
I also that would, that would be funny.
I think, I think we could root for that.
I also should just say, Uh, I'm unbiased, but I do have a future on the Warriors. But I like, I've never really hated again I. We go back to when we were trying to find a way to hate Steph. And all we came up with was that he chews on his mouth guard. A lot like that was it?
Like, we like, it's just something about him, he is so much fun to watch. And this game today, you knew while you were watching it, uh, you were watching something special. Hank just disagrees with everything that's been said.
No, I'm not, I'm not, no Hank's grumpy, I'm not even listening.
Okay, yeah, he's grumpy, I. So I do put an asterisk on the series because Deli didn't play, and Deli is the. He's the Steph stopper, that's what he's got his reputation on.
I would have liked to see what the Kings had done with the beam if they had won at three 30 local time. They would have let you like the beam. Can you like the beam during the daytime?
They did it for the first time that the beam ever was lit was during the daytime.
They want to see it during during the day.
No, you can't, they want to. I think the first beam lit in history was, I think they won a road game in Charlotte. Uh, on like an afternoon, on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, they lit the beam. And no one, no one knew what was going on. So I'm happy, though. So the War The Kings had an incredible season.
They got a lot to build on. Uh, you do have to figure out what's going on with Sabonis, because there's nothing worse in basketball than watching a guy. It's the he got the Ben Simmons treatment. They were just like, basically giving him all the space in the world to shoot 16 foot jumpers, and he wouldn't do it. He did it a couple of times.
He made a couple, but he missed a few. Um, but they have, they have a bright, bright future. I'm very happy. I was afraid for a moment they were going to light the beam out of, like, being like, what a season.
We'll always remember this season. They didn't, cause I was gonna be like, that would've been the end of the beam. Uh, the only other two things I had from this game. I fucking love Kavon Looney so much that dude is.
Steve Kerr actually called him one of the best centers. I don't know if I'd go that far, but he had so after the Warriors went down. Oh, two, he had in his in the games 20 rebounds, 14 rebounds, 22 rebounds, 13 rebounds, 21 rebounds. He averaged 18 rebounds a game. In those five games, he had 10 offensive rebounds.
Today he is like every championship team, every team like this needs some of those guys that do the dirty work. And I just love watching him just get every board and hustle for every board. He doesn't even have, like, freak athleticism, but he's just he knows where he's got to be and he's always fighting.
And I just love watching it. And then the last thing, and we'll talk more about it with Dylan Brooks. But Malik Monk, I don't. I wouldn't say this was shit talk, but this was more like a quote that maybe you wish you had back. Uh, after the game six win, which was shocking because I think everyone thought the Kings weren't going to be able to win in uh, Golden in uh, San Francisco, uh. But, he said, we knew we could run them. With only one day off between games, it's an even quicker turnaround for Game seven.
I felt a little more on them. They're a little tired, tired. We're younger than they are going to try to do the same thing Sunday. Basically, being like, these guys are old, we can do this.
And, uh, you saw what a Championship team looks like, and a Championship player more than anything in Steph Curry.
Yeah, so the the Kings. I think it's safe to say the future is bright in Sacramento, Northern California in general, but especially in Sacramento. Because they're so young and they're fun, and they're one of the best offenses that we've seen in a very long time in the NBA. So they're fun to watch. They're going to be around for a while.
Uh, Looney is is absolutely a guy that you want on a team that's gonna make a deep run. Like a dog, he's a dog. And then you've got you mentioned Sabonis, so we know him originally as Arvita Sabonis son.
Correct, right? And you remember Arvita Sabonis, great center from back in the day. I read a story about Arvita Sabonis that talked about his whirlwind romance that he had with Miss. I think she was Miss Lithuania.
That might not even be the right country, but one of those eastern European countries. And, um, you know how? He asked her to marry him.
How he left? He left an engagement ring on the toilet. And then and then she found it. And she was like, Oh, are you asking me to marry me? and he was like, Yeah, I guess so he never even really like, asked her.
He just put it on the toilet and he's like, Oh, she'll find this eventually.
So it was, it was a blumpkin engagement.
It was a blump, a full on blumpkin engagement. Yeah, absolutely. uh, but yeah, credit to the Kings. Kings are awesome, I'm going to be rooting for them because they're fun.
Or maybe there's just like a one-time fling that I had, where I kind of fell in love with them for a short time. Because they're. They were cool for a couple of games and the beam was good vibes, but I don't regret it. I know Hank's thinking, cause he's grumpy right now. I told you guys about the Kings.
No, he was right.
I hate it when you guys say what? I'm thinking, No, you were right.
You were right, I'm not going to let him gaslight you.
I was wrong, I said they weren't going to win another game. Yeah, but you were right. You're gaslighting yourself by not gaslighting me.
No, you were right, you were right.
I was wrong.
Okay, you were wrong. Another one, Mark, another one for Hank.
He's a loser, hank. If you have any clutch gene in your life, you'll get the lottery ball today, even a little bit of clutch gene, he'll get it.
I got a better seat, so.
Even a little bit of clutch gene, he'll get it.
It'd be so funny if he got it today because he wouldn't even really be that happy. This would actually be the perfect day for him to get it.
No, no, no, no, no, he would be, he would. He's already forgot the Bruins. He would be the happiest guy in the world. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what?
It's I got an hour and 15 minutes left until Monday. Okay, all right.
And then the Celtics time, all right, so let's talk about who the Warriors are playing, the Lakers who demolished the Grizzlies on Friday night. Uh, it worked out so poetic that, uh, before the series, Dylan Brooks said I wouldn't mind playing LeBron in a seven game series.
The legacy is their first time back in the playoffs. Knock them out right away, that'll be a good first round matchup for us. Uh, got knocked out in seven or seven games or six games, and then also during that series. Says, I don't respect anyone until they give me 40. The Grizzlies lost by exactly 40 on Friday night.
Uh, we had afterwards LeBron with some all time, uh social media use he. So I don't really know how to describe this emoji. I think it's, I think it's just trying to swear, but bleeping out a swear. So he said, Unlike you, little swear word bleeped out, these are rap lyrics.
Okay, oh, these are I'm a grown man. Big shoes to fill, grown ass pants probably hustled with your pops. Go ask your parents. So he went Jay-z song on Twitter and then on Instagram posted Uh, if you ever. If you ever see me fighting in the forest with a grizzly bear, help the bear. Uh, which was awesome.
And then Shannon Sharp, who gets like, a just chill out man of the year. Maybe we'll put this for a Takey, uh, put this in the nominations, Jake. He commented on LeBron's Instagram, saying I'm pouring honey on you go.At illegal to kill a bear unless being attacked. So, uh, yeah, he's pouring honey on LeBron in this made up Lebron bear.
Weird thing that happened after the game, but the Lakers are good, the Lakers are fucking good and they shut shut the Grizzlies up. And, uh, yeah, I mean, it's going to be an incredible, incredible series watching the Warriors versus Lakers.
The real question now is, would you? would you rather, uh, pay? would you rather have $500,000? Or have dinner with LeBron James? That's the question now. Uh, I think that LeBron is, his legacy is on the line. Why is that?
Why is that the question? Oh, that Jay-z, okay?
Yeah, it was a Jay-z lyric. But his legacy is on the line. I'm, I'm. I'm personally putting LeBron's legacy online. In this matchup against Steph Curry, so if Steph beats him, Steph goes up to number two all time.
It's going to be as far as I'm concerned, it's going to be fucking awesome. It's every other night, it's the only series is playing every other night.
Um.
The Lakers had five different leading scorers in the series against the Grizzlies, which is pretty crazy. Uh, on a team with LeBron and AD who? I think when they won the title in the Bubble year, it was just basically LeBron. AD. Leading scores, they went Hachimura, LeBron AD, Austin Reeves AD, and then D'Angelo. UH scored 31 on in game six. So I, yeah, I like, I'm. I officially have retracted my statement. To the Lakers, they are very much live to win the title, to go deep.
And now we get to see one of like, if, if. If you told Adam Silver you'd get LeBron and Steph in the second round, like, he would be like, How much do I pay? Like? This is going to be a must watch every single game NBA playoff series.
And that's why I'm a little bit upset about about how the whole Scott Foster thing worked out. Because we were deprived of a Scott Foster. N.B.A. Rig moment in, Uh, in the Warriors game. Because it wasn't, even there were no like close calls, there was nothing that Scott did to impact that game, it was purely stuff. I was hoping that we would get an N.BA wants LeBron against Steph moment, but we didn't get that.
I'm a little bit upset about it, but yeah, I'm I'm pumped. I'm super excited for the, Uh, the Lakers series against the Warriors, that's going to be awesome. My CTV.
Also, last thing on Dylan Brooks, he got a fine $25,000 for not doing media availability multiple times, which rules. No one had a worse, no one had a worse playoff performance start to finish than Dylan Brooks, like, could not have scripted worse. He is a complete joke. And, uh, like, oh, like, I actually. I think he'll have a career, but I wouldn't be shocked if his career is just over because of this. Like, mentally, I know that that's crazy to say, but it he he could not have had a worse playoffs.
Yeah, yeah, no, mentally, you're right, like, you can't come back from this.
The only way that you can come back from this is by putting 40 on LeBron, which he's not going to do right. So I, I'd say, and also I want to get ahead of this. I do not want to be old takes exposed on this because what I'm saying is correct right now. But this could end up very poorly for me. Anthony Davis looks super healthy, like the healthiest that I've seen him in a long time.
Yeah.
He's definitely hurt now, I mean, he gets hurt, he gets hurt.
He's so healthy, he's so healthy at this moment, Anthony Davis is so healthy.
He gets hurt every single game, we're going to say, Jake.
Two quick things. Going back to LeBron's tweet, I looked it up. I thought it was interesting that he tweeted during the playoffs. He hasn't done the zero Dark 30 23 since 2017..
Yeah, which he broke, cause he liked perfect booties. Oh, really, yeah.
No, I was. It was one of the best stories I've ever broke. Oh, really, yeah. He was liking Instagram pictures during the playoffs, and he liked an account. Perfect booties.
Yeah.
That was when Instagram still showed you what other people were like.
That might've been in, like, 2015.
Okay, yeah, I think it was when.
It used to be such a big deal when he was in the shutdown.
It was when the Cavs or the Heat were playing the Bulls in the playoffs, yeah.
And then a second, we have a little bit of seedagami here, we have one seed represented total, so we have the what number one nuggets.
Number two Celtics three, Sixers four, Suns five, Knicks six, Warriors seven, Lakers eight heat. For the first time since they went to 16 teams in the postseason, it's one team with each seed advancing.
That's very cool, it's wild, I take it back, it's wild, it's very wild.
And people are like, they should reseed. It's like opposite conferences, yeah.
Yeah, no, it's wild. When you tweeted that, I was like, That's, that's fucking cool.
That's that's very cool.
That's actually cool. It's also crazy to see the UM, the difference. Like, if I think it's like, if the Knicks play the Warriors in the finals, the Knicks would have home.
Yeah.
Well, is it by in the finals, is it by seed or overall record?
I think it's overall record. Um, and I, there was one other that was crazy. Oh, it was, uh, the. If the heat played the Lakers in the finals, the heat would have home court advantage.
Yeah, that'd be awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah, so it has been an awesome, I mean, we knew, we knew it going in, like, I don't, I know that. There'll probably be some people being like, the big takeaway from this. But we, we everyone who's watching the N.B.A. season knew that like this, these playoffs were going to be crazy. We didn't expect the Bucks to lose the heat. But in the west, we all thought that the, you know, the Suns, the Warriors and the Lakers were probably better than the seeds that they were playing in the first round. And that proved to be true.
This might be the best final four ever in the Western Conference. When you look at the four teams that are still left, that's fucking awesome. The West is so, so good.
So good and the ratings dream. Yes, and we should talk about the Suns and Nuggets, the Nuggets fucking put it on them. Jamal Murray because he was injured for what felt like forever.
Cause we last. Like the last time I think we saw him play in the playoffs was the bubble. Yeah, he's really fucking good, and I don't think the Suns, another old takes, exposed.
I don't know what the Suns are going to do with Jokic Jamal Murray pick and roll, like they were just doing whatever they wanted and we was a great. If you're a Suns hater, which I probably, yeah, I guess, I'd say I don't really hate the Suns as an organization. I just am not a fan of Chris Paul, Chris Paul doing his classic Chris Paul. Where he's down and losing and he tows that perfect line of, Is he dirty or is he just like trying to be an extra competitor?
I think he's usually dirty. We had that moment too, which is fun, where it's like, usually just Chris Paul defeated. I'm going to try to injure someone, but if you look at it, maybe I was trying to make a basketball play.
Yeah, he was diving at knees out there. It looked like when guys used to try to tackle Gronk back in the day. And they knew that they couldn't hit him anywhere above the waist. And so they just aim for his ACL and try to take him out. That's what Chris Paul was doing to Nuggets players.
So I stand my prediction, which is nugs and six, I think it's going to be nugs and six. And if they're big threes cooking, then we're in business. I got nothing to worry about.
Yeah, all, all starters on the Nuggets scored double digits like they're finally. This is finally the best version of the Nuggets through many years of having injuries and disappointing playoffs. I know that you don't want to overreact to one game, but I don't like they looked very, very good.
And it looked like the sons didn't have the answers for him.
Yep, yep, things are. Everything's coming up Denver right now. I'm happy where I sit, Rado.
All right, last game, Uh, Nick's heat. So the fleming curse is alive. Our colleague Frank The Tank is now a Knicks fan, and the Knicks went out and lost to the heat, blowing a. I think they were up double digits at one point early yet.
Jimmy Butler gets hurt, uh, and the big story was that Jimmy Butler gets hurt in, uh. Was it? Early fourth quarter and the Knicks spent the entire fourth quarter not going after Jimmy Butler, who was clearly hobbled. And standing in the corner, they put Josh hard on him and standing in the corner being being like a decoy. They were playing four and five and the heat outlast them. Kyle Lowry was awesome.
He is like the definition of a gamer, he culture couldn't be more alive, I couldn't be more wrong, and I hope Jimmy Butler is okay.
Yeah, uh, he had a pretty nasty sprain ankle, I think they went at him one time after he sprained his ankle. And then they just kind of forgot to keep attacking the guy that couldn't move, which was an interesting strategy by Tibbs. Yeah, um, the best part of the game was in the third quarter.
We got some vintage Kevin Love outlet passes. They were like three in a row. I don't think that there's a sweeter playing basketball than Kevin Love throwing like a 60 foot outlet pass right on the money. There were three of them that that just put them in a spot that only his own player could get and let immediately to dunk our layup. It was so sick to watch.
He's the best in the league at that, by far.
I had that as a note. I was like, I just love watching Kevin. Love throw outlet passes because we make it. It was no, it was just perfect, it was. They were just like perfectly timed, easy layups, full court passes, and that was back to his UCLA days.
It was like, this guy can outlet pass better than anyone, and you saw it like he, it was rejuvenized. KeVin Love. It is so sweet watching when he does it because it looks like it's actually like almost a cheat code. Because there's not many guys who can do what he can do when it comes to the the catch, the rebound, turnaround, perfect pass in in stride for an easy layup.
If Patrick Mahomes does this, the media won't shut up about it for a week. Jake, Can we actually make a a highlight clip, just like a compilation of all of Kevin Love's best outlet passes? I would watch the fuck out of that.
I'm on it.
I'll bet you it's on a Monday, but yeah.
Yeah, definitely.
We got to add to it, we got it, we get to update it.
I'm on it.
Yeah, yeah.
Kevin Love, quarterback in the building that day.
That's right, yeah. So I thought I thought you were going to say the Aaron Rogers curse. His bucks got bounced well.
He was at the Rangers game and they won. Yeah, he wasn't the Rangers game on Saturday night.
I don't count that.
Yeah, he, he looks happy, I get so happy.
They.
I got to see it twice, Rangers and Knicks, where they showed him on the Jumbotron, showed him on the telecast and put Jets quarterback underneath. And I was like, Yeah, this is awesome, this is real, he's going to love it.
I also loved all the clips that they showed of of the old fights between the the Knicks and the heat from back in the day. Including the one where Jeff Van Gundy just wraps his entire body around Alonzo Morning's leg, like like an ankle probation monitor. Yeah, just like strapped up trying to hold him back. That. That might be the funniest sports clip of all time when when Jeff Van Gundy sprints onto the court to try to break up a fight. And he ends up just grabbing Alonzo Morning shin and holding on, like, like Winnie the Pooh, trying to climb up to to like a a honey hive.
Yeah, getting just ragdolled everywhere and especially with his hair and just everything, it was just so perfect.
Everything about it, yeah, so funny.
So good, all right. So yeah, that I okay, I don't want to off Knicks fan cause.
I do like watching them get excited, but it would be funny if they got bounced and it was like, yet again, they got so excited about one one series.
But I'll enjoy the ride. You guys won a series, that's good.
Enjoy the baby steps here, Enjoy the ride, enjoy the ride.
Well, I'm going to poke my head out of the whole Knicks fan.
What?
That's disgusting, yeah.
Well, Hank would never do that, he wouldn't.
But it was kind of like, Ah, shit.
He was saying that because he just did that with the Bruins.
Oh, no, I didn't.
No, yeah, it's fun, it's like the Knicks, the Knicks fans, it is fun.
And it. But it is also like, I think it's fair when people are like, Oh, too bad. The Knicks fans can't hold a A like parade outside of Madison Square Garden, cause they didn't win game one, cause they do hold a parade after every win. But it is fun, I mean, it's an electric environment.
So enjoy the rise.
It is. And then the reason why I was busted on on New York sports fans in general is just because they have such a big prediction tradition of winning. That when they celebrate tiny little things like this, it's hilarious. It's very funny to see the entire city going nuts after like one home game with, but the Knicks guys get excited.
The Knicks don't really have a history of winning.
But they act like they do, yeah.
We were, I went on Chris Long's podcast and he was asking, Who are the Knicks of of of football? And unfortunately, it is the Bears. Because it's like there's some history there and then when you look into it, it's like, Well, they haven't really won a lot at all ever, but they won once, so that's cool. I think the Knicks have won twice, but yeah, it's a they don't have a really a history of strong winning in in New York.
I would say the vast majority of the people who are listening to this podcast right now do not remember a time when the Knicks were good at basketball. You know what it is, though.
It's New York is a basketball city. like, like New York, New Yorkers love basketball. So I think that's where it comes through and I do appreciate that and love watching that. That part is awesome to watch where everyone rallies around the Knicks. It's just you gotta win this series because there has been a lot of hype and you have a home court. And Jimmy Butler's ankle might be busted.
So now you kind of have no excuses like, you gotta win this series.
You got a window, you got a window to win right now. So Jimmy, the story is going to be Jimmy Butler's ankle. And tomorrow morning, it's probably going to wake up and be like the size of a grapefruit, and that's going to be tough to play through.
But and then he's going to put like 40 on on them and on Tuesday night.
Yeah, as long as Jimmy Butler just doesn't continue to act like Jimmy Butler. He's one of those guys where if he's hurt, I'm like, he's not, he's not that hurt.
Yeah, yeah.
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Uh, we are. It's. It's the day we've been. We've been looking forward to this moment for months and we're here. We're finally here. Sixers Celtics game one Monday night and Beat Max is going through it.
So bad PfD. He just keeps saying like, he's got to play, he's got to play, he's got to play to no one.
Like, I just walk into a room and Max is mumbling, he's got to play, and Beads got to play, Um, so he's.
Max is Max is so down bad he's misreading tweets that gets sent to the group chat. There was one that said his knee injury is worse than a grade one sprain that they thought it was, and Max was like, That's fine.
He's fine, he'll be fine. That's just a grade one sprain that's not that serious, not understanding that they're saying, no, no, it's it's worse than a grade one sprain.
They're leaking that news out there to set expectation that he's not going to play for probably at least two games.
So Max, Um, it's fine, it's fine it. It could just be, you know, wanting to catch Celtics off guard.
You know?
He was practicing today, taking some jumpers. I don't know if he, if he doesn't play, it's not, it's not fair.
How much? How much time did you spend this weekend thinking about your face being completely shaven?
The sweep clause is such fucking bullshit. Just win one game.
You agreed to it.
I know I agreed to it, cause I have to agree to everything.
That's not true.
Yes, it is.
They try to get me, they try to get me to do cat pets. Like every day, I always just say no.
Two months of a soul patch.
Put your foot down, I put my foot down with Ray Allen.
Yeah.
That said a lot.
Max This is, this is on the city of Philadelphia. You guys got to win one home game, that's it, that's. You can't blame Joel and Bead for getting swept.
You guys have to pull together and and win one game at home. I have a question for Max. Would you rather have had Joel and Bead go off, go off in that game at the end of the season versus Celtics, basically winning him the MVP? Or would you rather have him? When the when the three seat was already, they already locked into the three seat. It didn't matter if they won or lost that game. Or would you have preferred he rests. And then he could have played even if it was just one more game against the Celtics in playoffs.
I don't give a fuck about the MVP, I've, I've said that.
So be.
But but you? But like that, like that doesn't mean anything like him, like him, playing in a regular season game. What am I supposed to be like? Oh yeah, one plus one equals two.
If he doesn't play in that regular season game, that's how it works. That's not how it fucking works. That's how it works. No, it's not, yeah.
That was where would you rather? Yeah, yeah.
There is no. Would you rather factor fish?
No experience fatigue in playoffs before fact. So don't you think it would be smart when you're already locked into the three seats?
It's a coincidence, it's a it is a bad coincidence. I feel like the coincidence happens every year. I know it happens every year.
It's like the it's like how Trump thought that the he thinks the human body is like a battery. And so every, every like time you run or sweat, that's just energy that you'll never get back. Yeah, that's what Hank's saying for this Joel Embiid thing, where it's like, Oh well, if he hadn't played in that game, then he would have at least gotten one game. You guys fucking suck.
You did go off, though. That was a sick game. It's science.
You might suck if you get swept.
Now we should also address the clause in the in the sweep bet. Because we talked after I, that was the last show that we did, so it would be Thursday night, we talked after Thursday. I don't remember this at all. The Soul Patch bet has two clauses in it.
No.
But they're fair.
I think they're fair clauses and I think the AWS will appreciate these clauses. Big Cat is.
PFT and I aren't even involved in this series, yeah.
You're making clauses without me being in the room.
The sweep bet is a one-sided bet, it is a one-sided bet, and it is complete bullshit.
Sweeps are usually pretty one-sided.
The Sixers are 10 point dogs tomorrow. Would you? would you meet Max Halfway and count? A four? One sixers win is also in the sweep clause.
Yes.
There it is, deal, okay, so there you go. I just got an extra game.
So I'm going to make a graphic for everyone, for all the clauses and all the scenarios.
So that's a fair clause that we just added, No, it's fair clause. So are you a little bit of, you know? I guess that doesn't really do anything to make it. So the Sixers won't get swept, No.
It just makes it like you're slightly.
The giggle that you get during seeing these things is so sick. You're, you're. I mean, you said title town, I know, I said that, I know, I said that.
You can't get.
You can't get upset about a sweep clause. I immediately walked it back.
Floating around the office on a cloud for the for when Celtics Blue Game five and the Sixers had advanced. Like, Max was basically on vacation in Puerto Rico, just chilling with a drink in his hand, being like, Oh, NB.A. championship, we won because the Celtics have yet to advance and we have. They controlled their own destiny, yeah.
All right, so yeah, the clauses, so there.
Yeah.
We PFT and I aren't involved in this series, we are involved in the bet with you guys. But we did point out after you walked out of the room. Hank PFT has to go to his dad's memorial. So having a soul patch at that would probably be bad luck, so he can do the soul. If he has to do the soul patch, it's after that.
And I pointed out, I guess that I am.
Thank you.
I am going to have my third child at any moment now. And I said that I too would like to do the soul patch after the third child arrives. And we take the first picture as a full family, because I will get fucking murdered if I have a soul patch in that picture.
I guess fair as well.
Okay, so I will still do it if I don't get over 60. At which I'm rooting for him to play 60 and a half points for for for my guy. B-ball Paul, we can do that in one game. Also, there's an there's an embiid clause as well, there was, there wasn't embiid.
There was what was it, that if Embiid does it, he has to. He has to play two games or something for what, like if, if, if he doesn't play in two games, that it doesn't count. Wait.
How many players are on a basketball team?
When did this clause happen? We talked, Can someone back me up? Does someone else remember this? I swear there was an Embiid clause. I mean, if Embiid doesn't play the whole fucking series, it's bullshit.
It's bullshit. Tatum shouldn't, shouldn't get to play, all you got to do. Okay, will you agree on that?
No, make sure that Tatum doesn't play.
Tatum Tatum runs his sprints in the off season. he's ready for these runs. Hank, will you do everything in your power to make sure that Tatum doesn't play? Just in fairness, that's the clause, No.
It's just you got to win one game.
Yeah, it's really simple.
Win one game. Oh my God, I you, whatever. You had confidence that you were going to win the series. A month ago, a week ago. When the MVP is on the is on the fucking floor.
You don't care about MVPs.
I.
I'm just saying the best player in the league, not playing makes a difference, fact or fiction. I know you're doing the fucking giggle, I know you're doing it, okay.
You just, you made me laugh. you made me laugh. You're a funny guy, all right, so we're set.
What's the whatever?
Is there even someone to blame for the injury? Like, how did it happen exactly?
I think it's cause. Well, Max has this theory that he knows how to fall, but he always gets injured, so I don't think it makes sense. No, it's a good theory, I don't know, it's a good theory.
No, it's not a theory, it's just a fact. No, he Max is like, Oh, yeah. And Beat learned that he needs to fall more so that he won't get injured yet.
He always gets injured. He was so healthy.
Yeah, I was doing some, uh, some research today. I just typed in and beat online and was looking at videos. And it was like, Oh, here's MP to practice. I was like, Oh fuck, he's at practice.
He's probably playing, he was stationary, literally did not move his legs, just like shooting, like that's something.
He was jumping.
There was, there was, there was minimal air, but he those feet were getting off the ground. I'll say this.
Full body cast.
I think this is a fair. And because, if it'd be, does not play at all in this series. And you get, you can. You can do one month if he does not play a single game in this series.
That's fair, I agree to that, that's fair.
I think I think it was three. No, I just wait, actually. No, that's the same thing, yeah.
Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no.
One game. I'm going to go back and check the tapes, I'm going to go back and check the tape, you check the tapes. I think that we said that if he sits three, even if he sits three out of the four, I don't think so.
I'm going to check the tapes, I'm going to check the tape because I'm going to make it now. You're making it now, you're making it worse.
You're going to make an AI version of Pardon my two months of a soul patch, this is where.
The I will say this, though, again, like the. The tough part about being a Boston Sports fan is like, the Bruins tonight give me a little less confidence. Yeah, yeah, like I'm.
Not going to get ahead of myself like two months, like you'll, you'll get sick of my soul patch face after like, a week, two months so long. Yeah, there is a very real possibility.
That after, like, a week of seeing Max with Soul Patch, we're just like, No, no, no, we'll.
Decide, we'll decide. We'll all have to decide. How about me and Hank fight instead, okay?
One thing about you, all right. NFL draft will Levis finally got picked? He's going to the Tennessee Titans.
We also saw, I mean, it was, it was crazy that there was. It felt like there was a lot of second round big names that went. Oh, where did the Hinden Hooker go? I actually totally.
Speaker 3 11, Detroit The Lions.
Speaker 1 11.
The draft is all one day, cause, like on Saturday, you wake up and you're like, Oh yeah, the draft is still going on. This is still happening right now, um, but we remind everyone every year that draft grades mean absolutely nothing.
They're the funniest thing. You always want to go and look and find your team and be like, how does everyone think we're doing? They mean nothing. No one knows how these players are going to play. Uh, the the one we always go back to is the 2012 Seattle Seahawks.
Uh, when Bleacher reports, someone wrote After one of the worst picks in the first round I can ever remember. The Seattle Seahawks didn't draft any positions in need or draft for the future. Pete Carroll's proving why he didn't make the NFL the first time. Not only was Bruce Irvin a reach at number 15, the Seahawks proved they were oblivious to their madness by celebrating their selection as if the day wasn't bad enough. Seattle selecting Russell Wilson, a QB that doesn't fit their offense at all, was by far the worst move of the draft, with two with the two worst moves of the draft.
Seattle's the only team that received an F on draft day. Um, their picks that year were Bruce.
Irvin Bobby Wagner, Russell Wilson Yeah, so the Bobby Wagner thing sometimes gets lost because Bleacher Report doesn't mention that. And there's strong take. But Bobby Wagner, one of the best linebackers of maybe forever in the NFL. And then Russell Wilson, obviously like not fitting their system, the haunted Seattle Seahawks quarterback system prior to Russell Wilson.
I think their backup at the time was, um, oh, it was the dude from, Uh, from Green Bay. Yeah. Why is his name escaping LSU? Now? It's just going to kill me too, Matt.
That's going to kill me. Yeah, Matt Flynn, Matt Flynn, yeah.
Yeah, Matt Flynn after the game against the Lions. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So so, yeah, the the grades mean nothing, but I will say that on paper, Philadelphia is doing something very smart. And that's just drafting every single Georgia defensive player because they had the best defense, maybe of all time in college football. Maybe some of those Hurricanes defense from the early 2000s were better, but that Georgia defense was so sick, nasty. So they have Jalen Carter, Nolan Smith, then they have, uh, Kelly Ringo, Jacoby Dean and Jordan Davis. And they got the other swift, and they got the other swift too. So they're building, they're building the Georgia of the in Philadelphia, which is a smart move.
Uh, I, I actually think that that's a good draft strategy to have. I know that Kirby smart his the way that he scouts players, he learned that from Bill Belichick, and Bill Belichick's method of scouting players is pick the guy with the biggest ass. Yeah, and so Kirby is recruiting guys with big asses now, how he's drafting guys that Kirby has already been staring at their asses for three seasons.
So the Eagles feel like that they made some good moves just by getting all those guys back to. It's going to be tougher. I guess Jalen hurts. He has a history with with Georgia too as well, but just getting his ass kicked by them for a half. Um, but I don't know if I, if I played for the Eagles and I wasn't a Georgia bulldog.
I'd feel a little bit left out by now. Yeah, I mean, it is. It does feel like the Eagles won the draft again. None of this matters. I. We were going to have, uh, our friend Old takes exposed on before the draft, but obviously our schedule got pretty crazy.
We, we. I think we should do a Mount Rushmore with him, uh, sometime this summer. But I was looking, he had a. He had a nice thread of post draft grades and everything. I'll just read a couple that are proved to everyone. Like, what I would say to anyone who's a diehard fan of their team, just go and find the best grade you can find and just go with that because it means nothing. And you have no idea how these guys are going to pan out. Obviously, some of these drafts sucked.
We won't know for a couple of years, but, uh, right now, in the moment, like, I know, everyone is trashing the Lions. Because, yeah, probably picking a A running back at 12 is a little weird. But you don't know how they're building their roster. Like, they could work out, and they could look like geniuses, just like picking Russell Wilson and and, uh, Bobby Wagner. Bruce Ervin worked out pretty well for the Seahawks. But here's a couple of funny ones. Um, so, in 2011, the Someone from UH, Houston newspaper wrote Texans will rue the night they took pizza boy J.J. Watt over Nick Fairley, Houston Lover. That's a pretty good one.
Um, there was one that was, uh, after the Cowboys took Emmitt Smith. Emmitt Smith should be a solid, productive player, but he's no game breaker, he's what Walker is slumped into. A plotting straight ahead type who won't outrun anyone. Turned out to have, uh, what, most yards in N.F.L. history? Yeah, of all time. uh, great, great offensive line, though.
Writer Greg Bedard wrote People are high on Arizona. Tight end Gronkowski. I don't see it at all. So there's, I mean, this one was from way, way back. Bruce Smith, Uh, after he was selected by the Bills, uh, Bruce Smith. Virginia Tech. Smith is a happy, go lucky guy who tends to be lazy. he also likes to eat. That guy's in canton now.
Um, so yeah, pretty much every everything that happens after, uh, the draft is bullshit. There was a. He also included a Fox Sports poll. Uh, that said, grade the pick Eagle select Jalen Hurts in the second round pick 53. It was 47, uh, voted in f. So any, any draft. instant reaction from the draft, uh, means nothing. So just tell yourself that you have high up.
Like the Bears draft. I basically was like, Yeah, they got a couple of guys who should be starters and they have a lot of upside guys. And they have guys that should fit. Eber Flus system. And that's all cliches, and that's cliches for a reason, because I have no fucking idea how it will go. The draft grades are so.
Funny, because they're just basically the guys that are in charge of their websites. Draft situation, right, grading teams on how smart they think they are themselves. So it's it's like, if you draft according to what I put on my big board, you're going to get a high grade, right?
And the people that are making these mock drafts are not NFL GM for a reason because they're not that good at it. And so they're giving out awards based on how stupidly they would perform at the draft. So it's a big circle trick, everyone's, they're just jacking themselves off. Yeah, I do.
That being said, I do have a baby gronk alert. Oh, I think that we, I think I've got my guy, that I'm going to be calling the next baby gronk. And it is another Georgia guy, it's Darnell Washington, I think that dude, he got drafted by the Steelers.
I think in three years we're going to be like, Wow. We were all huge morons for not taking that guy higher because I know he's hurt. Yeah, I know he's been banged up. And there was another great tight end that they had at Georgia that got caught on a shitload of touchdowns.
And he's probably going to go into first round next year. But Darnell Washington is an absolute freak. He's six, seven, I think, yeah, and like, two, 65..
And every time I saw him play in college, I was like, this dude should be in the NFL when he.
Was like, 14 years old, this guy's a freak. Yeah, he's, he's a monster. It really is just his knees put like gronk.
Gronk had the back injury and that's why he slipped. I agree. I mean, he's going to be the The and his blocking is insane, so even if he's not a great like, he's not catching touchdowns and stuff. You could be right just by the fact that it's. I love an offense that has a tight end like that, where it's like, Yeah, we just have an extra lineman out there at all.
Times Yeah, he's sick. Also in other Georgia news, Stetson Bennett got drafted by the Rams fourth round.
So congrats to Stetson. I believe his former teammate Matt Stafford is the current.
Quarterback Yes, yes, yes, he actually they they, uh, I think, shared a room freshman year.
Yeah, um, the other, the other funny thing that happened right before the second round. My guy Jim, or say, owner of the Colts, I still have to buy cold season tickets. I forgot about that when the the commanders officially sell, um, my guy Jim, or say, tweeted out. Just basically, what if we took? Will love us with our pick in the second round? After they drafted Anthony Richardson, you have to imagine that Richardson was probably not that not that psyched. But listen or say, he's going to go Gremlin mode, you have to understand.
The sooner you understand that, the better. If you're Anthony Richardson, you're in a very unique situation with the unique owner. And the weird thing about it was, I thought to myself, I would probably do that. I would probably take a quarterback with every pick, until I found one that worked every year. Just get it, get a new quarterback, because if you have a decent quarterback in the N.FL, you're going to be good.
And then you can, you can fill in the rest of the holes later and in a silver line to Will Love us. Might be good that he got drafted in the second round. We mentioned that you're going to, you're going to be free agent one year sooner. And he got drafted to a team with a better situation.
I think the Titans, they looked like shit towards the end of the year. They've lost some of their playmakers, they don't have a lot of help on the outside, but they've got Derek Henry. You're going to be asked to run a shitload of play action. Ryan Tannehill look good in that system.
If we'll, Love is just kind of fits into that mold and develops. He can develop a little bit slower than you would expect some other guys to, but we'll love us, can't it? Since he's a second round pick he'll have. He won't be expected to start necessarily in his first year unless Ryan Tannehill gets injured with. That's never happened, but it's a better situation. Plus, you have no state income tax in Tennessee.
Yeah, so.
Congrats to Will Love us. You made a lot of money. Yeah, and I think the Titans drafted a ton of offense this year, so yeah, they drafted, uh, they actually drafted only offense.
So there you go, running back, tight end, tat, two tackles, wide receiver. So they're, uh, they're trying to rebuild that side of the ball. So I, yeah, I mean, it sucked for him. It sucked that he was told to come to the draft and that he was going to be, you know, a high pick. And it sucked to watch that on Thursday night for him.
But at the end of the day, if he's good and he can prove that he's good, he will have the last laugh. And that's all that matters. Like, it's.
Or Say also said that he would have taken them at four because we're taking them at four if.
Anthony Richardson was off the board. Damn that that actually is mean to say, cause he's like, damn, how much money? Or say? Also did he not say, should we do it like a Montana Young situation, just just ignoring the fact that Montana was a Hall of Famer? And it won many?
Superbowls before Steve Young showed up. Yeah, that doesn't matter, that doesn't make big cat. All he's saying is just, you just have to take your mercy. Based on his vibes at the time, and and his vibe was in the right place.
Um, there was a I actually have a hypothetical for you, okay, it's kind of like a list of ranking. Because Bryce Young, obviously taken first by the Panthers, The Panthers tweeted out on Friday, Uh, we've got our guy, Bryce Young. Essentially, there's a picture of him and it said that he is one of them ones. And that's a new term.
That's a new term. And I've thought that I had to update my big board in my power rankings on on which one of these terms is the best. So right now I've got him number one, I've got top two and not to number two, I've got one of them ones.
Number three goaded for like that five, one of one, six, different seven, and then that dude is eight. I think difference too low, so you think that should be a little higher, so maybe we can flip one different.
Yeah, built.
Different to like, that's, yeah, I think it's gotta be a little bit higher, especially because it's used a lot more, which makes it funnier. Because not everyone can be built different, although I guess everyone is built different technically, like, DNA wise.
We're all snowflakes, yeah.
Also, one of them ones could be taken literally. There were 31 ones this year.
Yeah, that's first round picks. A lot of people don't wear a number one. He's literally one of them ones.
One of them ones, Yeah, uh, last two, I want to just share for multi-exposed. I forgot these two, just Brown's edition, Uh, from Brendan Bowers. Uh, don't know where you guys would be in 20 years, but I'll be in Canton for Trent Richardson's Hall of Fame speech.
That one was great. And then Hugh Jackson on QB Cody Kessler in 2016. You have to just trust me on this one.
Isn't that the mean like, dude, source, dude, trust me. yeah, just trust me on this one, so yeah.
The draft is fun, we love the draft. Uh, there will be teams that we look back and we're like, Holy shit, they got all these guys, hopefully it's your team.
I'll say, right now, you listening, right now, it's your team, it's specifically your team, except for the Packers, it's not your team. Shout out, uh, Sean Clifford, who had a bunch of tweets being like, Go bears, which I love that. And he also had the worst setup of anyone ever.
They were projecting the draft on a yellow painted wall somewhere in State College for Sean Clifford's draft party. And, uh, he's on the Packers now, so.
I hate that stuff. Yeah, has there ever been a projection screen that actually delivers on what it promises to cause? I haven't seen it.
It's, yeah, it's, it's basically you have, like, a.
Movie theater, right? Like, you have to have like, perfect lighting and stuff, but I don't trust it.
I, That's one technology that I never will trust. it's never going to work. 3D technology in sports will never work. Uh, but definitely the projection screen that is every time I see one of those, I'm just like, give me a TV.
That's a quarter of that size in high definition. I'll watch that.
Every time that I can, I can turn up the brightness when I'm watching Game of Thrones, like, Give me.
That, yes, that's all I need. Uh, okay, one more nugget.
Yeah, wild meter, Joey Porter, Oh, yeah.
First pick Yeah, Joey Porter, on on the Steelers, we we called that, I think, on Thursday show.
Yeah, like they, they had to do it, that was always. He was always going to be steelers. If he was going to get drafted to another team, then the clock would just start on when he would.
Sign with the Steelers as a free agent. Yup, yup, he had to do it. Um, oh, and also, uh, I love whenever a wide receiver QB combo gets drafted to the same team.
So shout out the Chargers cause they got maxed out in in in Quentin Johnson. So that's kind of cool, cause it's the same way, it's the same way you do it. When you when you're drafting your fantasy team, you're like, I'm gonna draft the QB and the wide receiver from the same team.
That way, if they score, I get double the points. And just completely eliminating from your mind that when you get to the playoffs and they get shut out in like a snow game, you lose. But that doesn't.
Matter? It's fun, yeah, it worked for the Colts, and they got Andrew Luck and Kobe Fleener, yeah.
They're roommates they've got, they know, they know each other better than they know themselves.
Yeah, they're boys. Um, okay, before we do, who's back? Quick word from our friends at Hymns and hers who hates going to the doctor's office?
Boys, what is your least favorite part? Hank? Just going to solve it. Dentist Uh, I hate the waiting rooms with the gross magazines.
Who even reads magazines anymore? I don't, I don't read anything. I hate physically going there. The harsh lighting, the awkward conversation, go to the doctor sucks, let's just be honest.
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You if you have any clutch gene, just going to remind you again.
My who's back of the week, uh, is getting duped fake videos, although I I don't know if this is confirmed. Duped, but Travis Kelsey was at a concert, Billy got duped. A lot of people did hard.
He, he was at a concert, he was holding what appeared to be the Lombardi Trophy. I think anyone with a brain would have noticed it was fake, but he chugged a beer off it and then spiked it as hard as he could. And some people thought it was the real Lombardi Trophy, and so it was disrespectful.
I was shaking. If it was real, it would have been even the, you know, everyone was comparing. He wants to be gronk. Gronk was funny when he tried to, you know, bunt a baseball off it, but that was kind of incidental contact. He wasn't outwardly spiking the trophy, but it was pretty, obviously fake, very fake.
And Billy said, Yeah, I'm going to.
Be honest, this is disrespectful to the game. We also had the double the combo of a lot of people that got with the Mensa meeting. Will Compton and Billy football? Being like, this is fucked up.
No, no, no, no, no, okay. The thing is, it was probably his personal trophy, though he was given.
That still, like a real Lombardi, every player gets a replica. What do you mean? what do you mean? Probably that.
To me, it sounds like it wasn't. Every player gets a replica. Yeah, I'm pretty.
Sure, really, that's how I look. Look, I was reading up on it. It was definitely a team issued, like, like the teams usually give out a lombardi to each player on the team.
Okay.
I think there I think the team gets a replica that they get to keep.
No, the team gets the actual one, right. This wasn't the actual. I don't think we know I.
Don't think we know enough about the Lombardi Trophy? No, we know that was not the Lombardi Trophy, but do you know if it was a team issued trophy? Replica? What does that mean? No, no.
Like, they give out 60 like replica Lombardis of the one that they won, they do. That's what I saw.
From the thing I don't really, I'm pretty sure I could be wrong. This is like, I saw it. I was doing some research, some reply, guy, reply, guy research.
BILLY Pretty sure. They give the team the replica trophy, and each team gets to keep a replica trophy in their trophy case. When. Clark Hart Yeah, Max.
There's one Max Say what you find. It says No players do not all receive their.
Own Lombardi. However, they are given a mini replica of the trophy. Yeah, so, but I think.
That's where he was chugging it off.
But there's still still. If it's like, imagine, like, I don't know, just was like, I don't know. Are you like an exact size trophy? I think it's bigger, the one that Clark Hunt. The only reason I kind of in my head remember this was Saturday night in my head.
I I, we'd just seen Clark Hunt come out, it was 5 37 p.m. that you tweeted.
It was Saturday, it was Saturday after five, okay, okay, so, uh, we're coming to Clark Hunt.
Dropped off the third trophy that they had in this whole ceremony. And in my head, I thought it was at the draft and Travis Kelsey had the trophy that Clark Hunted just brought out. So in my defense. But still, I know you grew up one of like, when a Lombardi trophy that was like aggressive towards the trophy, like gronk, like, also Gronk's gronk, he like, runs hard.
Travis.
Kelsey, like, kind of avoids contact yards after the catch. Jules, you're, you're on part, you're.
On part of my take, right now, we've got a question for you, all right, let's hear it. Does every player get a replica Lombardi trophy issued by the team when you win the Super Bowl?
Have to buy it. Okay, you have to buy it, but you can buy it, you can buy an actual. Is it full size of the Tiffany's Trophy? Okay.
Cause you saw the Travis Kelsey spiking it. Billy, Billy was. He didn't sleep after he saw this video, he said. Football's basically ruined forever. So we we were explaining to him that wasn't the real trophy, but it could be a replica.
That he bought, it could be a replica that he bought. And then also does Billy know that? It's a new trophy every year? It's not like, like the Stanley Cup or anything, yeah.
Yeah, he, says he.
Knows that? I know there's 56, yeah, he knows there's 56. They're just replace it.
Have you?
Bought any of the replicas? I haven't? I didn't. I didn't buy a replica. Trophy, I guess I had the ring. That was plenty enough.
Yeah, do you guys buy the replicas? Some guys, I know some people.
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