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Winners, I'm a winner now, we are winners. Everything about me is different right now. The old me, the loser, me off a cliff with that guy.

We have quarterbacks, we have quarterbacks. It's rare to have a moment in time that you can point to and be like, Bam, that's where my whole life changed, that's where everything changed for the better. And PFt.

Bowl You got to be more than just a QB, you got to be a complete team. The Patriots, despite getting a great quarterback, are still, you know, four and a half as they're over under.

Win total. Is he a great quarterback? Do you think he is a great quarterback? Because you did your?

List of quarterbacks last week He's a top five quarterback on my list. I like Drake May. I don't know why you're so down on him, I'm not down on him.

But you got to be excited. This is, I know, you're still too new at being a loser to understand what?

You just did tonight. I haven't accepted being a loser. Oh, you're a loser, I know, but like, I don't, you guys, I don't want to, I'm serious.

Night I'm going to spend all night, all day, all weekend, yoga ball, oh so negative all weekend. I like, I'm going to be watching Jaden Daniels all weekend long.

Work on Twitter right now, retweeting me, saying I like Drake May. I do like Drake May. Also it's called a smoke screen. I never, I never said Drake May was bad.

I laughed at a meme. It was a picture of the 2003 N.B.A. draft with LeBron Darko and then Carmelo Anthony. Oh, hey Williams, Jane Daniels, Drake May, I laughed. And then PFT was sitting next to.

Me and I was like, Oh, look, PFT. Remind me who won, who won the NBA championship, the very next?

Season the Pistons. Interesting, interesting. So Jacoby Rousset might maybe taking the Patriots.

This to the promised land. No, no, the Darko was me. Oh, you were Darko too. Oh, I was Darko.

It was one, two, three, so you're, you're in on Drake May then. Yeah, no, it was just a funny.

Meme I'm in on Drake, May I just again? yeah?

Nasty all night? Yeah, Listen, he's trying to drag us down with him, you can't do that, I mean.

Let's be honest, I think you can look at the draft right now. If you're reading the grades, which we definitely are read all the grades. I just act, that's a lie.

Dude DJ Moore, Keenan Allen, Roma Dunes, A. Cole, Commit, DeAndre Swift. It's insane, I don't even know. It's going to be the most foreign experience in my life watching the bears being like they have dudes everywhere that can beat you.

And then I see Hank just dragging me down. I'm excited, I'm excited for Drink man, I'm excited for Chicago, I always say it.

You were talking about Drake Make, cause you gave him the most beautiful nickname I've ever heard.

For a quarterback, the mayflower, mayflower. We were, we were doing some t-shirt uh brainstorming. We will have to figure out. It might have to be a number that we have to get like on Spotify subscribers to release one of the t-shirts that we had mocked up. It's worse than the Harambe shirt.

Than Harambe lying dead with bloody bullet holes and Sean McPhee standing next to him.

No, Nick Trig is the artist that he does all the cover art. He's the best Boston guy, he was the best he. He. I've never felt more betrayed, uh, than what he did to me. It's a wonderful design.

Maybe just everyone go hit the subscribe on Spotify, cause they do have those numbers now, so just keep boosters up. And if we get to a certain point, um, we might have to release this shirt, we might have to put it on sale.

Shirt for Hank that we might have to just do a charity with a shirt where it's like, all the all the proceeds go to Hank for his therapy bills.

Drake May up when September ends. Okay, that's one, definitely a boomer Drake. May I kill myself?

Because I don't believe in my quarterback Henry Lockwood, No, I believe in him, I.

I believe in him. Yeah, yeah, sure, you sound, you sound.

After is like, Yes, he was probably giving his honest opinion, but you have to believe there's.

Edelman's was way worse. Edelman's was way worse. Okay, way, way, way worse. I'll read it.

This was so excited because I agree with you, it was like, if everything's perfect around this guy.

If you build the right ecosystem around this kid, he's got a chance, lots of room to grow as a player. I think he's still, he's still a Belichick. If he has a perfect line and a great receivers, he's got a chance. And he's terrible now, but he's got room to be okay.

Listen, the good. Not exactly a ringing in doors. The good news is, there were so many quarterbacks taken at the top of the first round that there's a lot of potential busts out there. You just have to not be in last place in that group, you just have to beat Michael Penis, you have to be J.J. McCarthy and you have to beat Bo Nix.

You could do that, yeah. So, uh, we should talk about the rest of the draft, I mean.

I'm just I give. I'm so excited. I'd like to say I give the bears an A plus, I give the.

Commanders an a plus Wow, Hank, what do you give the Patriots a plus? Oh man?

Neighbors is awesome, really, really awesome. In fact, I, I was thinking about just coming out with a take that, uh, Malik, neighbors. And um, and shit. Who's the other wide receiver from LSU drafted? Top 10? Um, Brian Thomas, Brian Thomas, not top not, but but but close to it.

Try it on. And then we had a Joe Alt at five. To the Chargers. People were saying, Oh, the Chargers need a wide receiver, cause they've traded Keenan Allen cut Mike Williams.

He likes big bodies, he likes big, big dudes to wrestle with, he likes physical people.

Shout out Joe Alt in that that picture of him in his living room, he's just massive.

Joe Alt looks like the world's biggest eight-year-old. Yeah, just massive. A perfect offensive lineman. I'm sure that that Harbaugh will be creative with how he uses them.

So then we had Malik neighbors go to, uh, the Giants, uh, which Daniel Jones throwing tool, yep, okay, uh. J.C. Latham going to the Titans. They're beefing up their offensive line back to back years.

The first pick ever made by a head coach's dad. Yeah, true, where, uh, Callahan was like.

You give me this guy, yeah, I want this guy. And then everything went crazy because the Atlanta Falcons, who, if you remember, signed Kirk Cousins to $180 million deal. Uh, what? Like, a month and a half ago, selected Michael Pennix Jr. with the eighth pick.

He's going to be Brandon Wheaton and then quarterback. Rookie deals, first round deals are four years, there's a fifth year option on there. Kirk Cousins. His deal is currently four years. Yeah.

Have probably got him in the second round. It was so baffling for them to do that and well.

They had an all time spin zone, so our friend Diana Rossini contacted the Falcons and their spin zone was Kirk. Cousins is such a good quarterback that they're not going to be in a position to draft a quarterback over the next four years. That's smart. So since he's Kirk, Cousins is almost too good at playing quarterback. Because he's so good that he's going to ruin your team forever. So you had to get your QB to now.

Quarterbacks, yeah, and they did draft quarterbacks, they didn't drop them with the eighth pick, they.

Didn't draft them with the eighth pick. And the was Mac Jones. It's, it's very funny, Mac Jones.

No, well, that was after Tom Brady, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm saying, like, the the. The Patriots did draft Jimmy Garoppolo as a heir apparent, but it wasn't with the eighth pick.

It's over a hundred mil guaranteed. The full contract is 180, so I don't feel bad for him.

Because he still got that money. But that does suck to sign with somewhere and then have them draft someone with the eighth pick. And I just don't understand what the Falcons are thinking. They have gone the last four years. They went Drake London, they went Kyle Pits, they went Bijon, and they went a backup quarterback with their all all in the top 10. That's crazy.

It's nuts. And and every Falcons fan out there was like, What the fuck are we doing right now? This makes it makes no sense to do. But if he ends up being a good quarterback, then no one's going to care and there'll be like, great job by the Falcons. I still think.

You could have probably traded down, probably could have traded down a lot for him, probably probably could have waited a little bit. But it was a crazy run on quarterbacks because then we.

Had I think it was, I think it got started, though, because of the Falcon. Yeah, I don't, I don't. Yeah, I don't know that. He would have been off the board if you had traded back until.

The mid teens, early twenties, I agree. And then, you know, Roma Dunes A to the Bears, which I couldn't be more excited about. They're already like best friends, which is awesome. Uh, and and J.J. McCarthy then goes to the Vikings, traded like 10 times.

Maybe they were worried that the Raiders were going to get them, but also since it's Bo Nix, maybe you kind of want the Raiders to have them. Well, here's, here's a, here's a good sign of.

Uh, is a team maybe reaching on their draft pick? Diana Rossini did some good reporting about the spin zone for the Falcons. Adam Schefter went into full, full spin zone for the Broncos. Yep, he fired off some tweets.

It's wild that so many teams were going to draft Patrick Mahomes. There's like six different head coaches that are saying, You know, I had his name written down on the card. We're ready to go with Mahomes. But apparently Sean Payton was actually going to do it, and Schefter made sure to include.

That little nugget. He felt as strongly about Bo Nix as he did Patrick Mahomes. Uh, and then we had this one, so that was just the first one to set it up. Like, Hey, listen, guys, Bo Nix and Patrick Mahomes are actually in the same sentence here.

Did you hear about the fact that they brought Bo Nix in for a workout? They gave him some plays.

Oh, this is the last tweet, this is Schefter. He literally just he spent, uh, like, a thousand characters on the Broncos. This one might be my favorite one, yeah.

So what happened was they gave him all the information and then he stayed up all night. Being like, all I have to do is make one team fall in love with me, correct? And then he just memorized that came in and they're like, Wow, I can't believe that this guy is able to absorb all this stuff. If you need all the best cram session ever, if you need that many tweets.

And that, many words to say. We took a quarterback at 12 that seems like a big reach. Bo Nix is, I know the lines don't really matter. Bo Nix is over. Under was 32 and a half to be drafted. Like it was a it was a real conversation.

Him 12.

I don't know, it was just weird, it felt like a reach. Uh, it just felt like teams are like, we need a quarterback. I mean, it happens every year.

Yeah, and it does make you feel excited. Oh, of course. Well, I don't know, I have.

One of my good friends, Oh yeah, Hank, you feel excited as a Broncos fan, and he's not excited.

Not happy about this, I would say not excited. Side-by-side pictures of Zach Wilson and Bo Nix are also very funny. Sean Payton has a type, Yes.

Which was crazy. So because of the flurry of quarterbacks. Brock Bowers, who is an incredible tight end and should be, uh, should have probably been a top 10 pick, goes 13 to the Raiders. Brock Bowers is going to have a great career, Brock Bowers has to figure out something with.

That hair got to figure out something with the hair. Also, he pulled a max. Did you see that? No.

I also, if we're talking about draft, uh, you know, room or? or living rooms, uh. Olufechanu's girlfriend getting boxed out was so funny. Yeah, she was reaching over, she got reached over, mom.

There's always one or two that that ended up going viral because they're trying to be too involved in the family. Or sometimes there's a screenshot that lives on. Russell Wilson. Um, you got to have rules for a girlfriend, a college girlfriend, unless, unless there's a ring on it. You need to have at least two people in between that person family members, close family members.

Yeah, it's, I mean, those, those living rooms are always so funny. I always just respect like there's always one guy in the back who just knows his role perfectly, just whooping it up.

A plus grade in my book. Toledo Toledo best corner in the draft. Um, I've only heard great things, I've great tape watching Max about. um, he's a great guy. I mean, uh, Nick Saban said it.

Best. He's like, I wanted to get that guy out of the transfer portal, but we couldn't get him to go into the transfer portal to get out of the transfer portal. It doesn't sound like tampering to me, pretty pretty much saying like, we. We told him to come to Alabama like we would take him. And he was like, Nah, I want to be, I want to be a Mac guy.

Saying you had a very, very high on your board, yeah, most people did, I think he, most people thought he was the best corner in the draft and that the report was. The Eagles were going to trade up to 12 with the Broncos because the Broncos thought that they could have got Bo Nix at the Eagle spot. But we didn't even have to.

2002 and the first round for the Eagles. Is that right? Sure, that makes sense to me. So how he's cooking?

Is, I mean, with him, him with my homes? Why'd you let them do that? Congratulations to the.

Chiefs on winning the Superbowl next year, They won another Superbowl. They did, they did, yeah.

And it's okay to say that, it's okay to admit it. They just want another Superbowl and he's probably going to be like, he's probably going to go for one 20 and a touchdown in the Superbowl. Maybe you're worthy, yeah.

Yeah, 60 yard bomb, yeah, they're down by three, yeah.

It's crazy. Um, also the, uh, I thought the Lions pick, cause they traded up to get Terrian, Uh, Arnold, and that. It's just very cool to have a guy drafted in front of the entire city he's going to play in, yeah, and they were hyped for that.

Excited about a quarterback since R.G. Three's rookie year? In the next three years? yes.

Will all five teams, including the Eagles and Jets, make the playoffs? Have made the playoffs.

Next three years, how many out of five? four out of five, I don't know which four.

I think I'm leaning, the jet's not making, I think the bears will.

The Bears are going to make the playoffs this year, I don't know if the Patriots will.

Don't quote me on that, Yeah, I don't know why you're saying patriots over jets.

I'm trying to boost up Hank, cause he's so he's such a I've had Hank himself would say. I've had one of the best days of my life. I'm going based off, and Hank is just he's just looking at him, she's just trying to drag me down.

I think Hank is being self-aware about the Patriots he walked in when Drake got drafted.

He walked in and he just had a frown and I was just like, What's up? Like, aren't you excited?

He's like, well, whatever. Based on his analysis of Drake May, that's what I'm going off of. I'm trying to gas up, hank the draft. Nick. I'm not used to being a loser in these situations, I'm.

Not a draft person I'm, I trust the process, I trust the trust, the crafts. If it were me, if I was a GM. I'm taking the best player at a position, not the third best player to position.

Would you rather have JJ? No, he wanted Marvin Harrison. Yeah, no.

But it would rather have JJ than Drake. If they traded down and took JJ. I'd be cool with that.

Yeah, that's kind of the same thing to me. Drake May could be good. Yeah, he's got a fucking big arm.

Like, very, very bad, I'm not, I'm not. I don't want to sound like a Drake May hater. I'm not. I just you're just not excited. I'm not optimistic, you know, yeah.

Oh, I like that. What would that be? Cause the stadium won't be till like 2030, so it'd be what, like 2030..

Can you imagine we're going to be? You could be 55 and Caleb might be retiring?

Listen, I'm like, I'm hoping that it's just like my kids are like, this is, you know, Caleb Williams just? They grew up with Caleb Williams in our household, and it's just Caleb Williams all the time. And Roma Junsei and Keenan Allen.

And DJ Moore and Cole Clement. I'm super excited, I'm so excited we got RG4..

What numbers are your Qe's going to be? mine's going to be number five? Trestway.

My Trestway number five jersey will have to be retired, I'll have to get a new one, but that's fine. That's a price I'll pay as a fan for that, but he's gonna be number five.

Just like he was in college, yeah. Caleb Williams is going to be Kyle Orton's jersey number 18 because Keenan Allen is 13, he said. Actually on the red carpet, he was like, Keenan Allen's been in the league for a very long time. Respect.

Mcculkey, Mcculkey.

McCulkey Fuck, it was a unique name. She came up to us in Detroit. She's like, Can you guys talk more every now and then? some more girl stuff? And we're like, Yes, we will.

Do anything. It's because women use a lot of cocaine, so they have the long nails for that.

That is exactly what it is. But yeah, shout out McCulkey. That's why they're so skinny. Hopefully she's doing the Leo meme in the car right now, she's like, what the fuck?

Yeah, she's guys butchered my name so bad, it's Leo, except with extended nails.

Yeah, and it's like, but that's not actually my name. Yeah, all right, any other draft stuff.

Uh, max.

Okay, nice, that's the thing, though, that's the beauty. All you gotta do is find one grade.

Memes Just search for New York jets a grade, and then you'll be happy all night you'll get.

To read all that stuff. He's a massive human, he is big, he just adds to the offensive line.

Yeah, and you know what? Even if you're not happy with your draft, anybody out there that might be questioning who they took, who they could have taken. At least you're not the Falcons, yeah.

It really is.

In a long history of being the Falcons, this is, this is the tops.

And and and how? How do you think it feels right now to be, uh, Arthur, blank and just thinking? Like, Man, I wish I hadn't picked up that phone call from Robert Kraft. Yeah, like, if I had heard Bill Belichick, there's 0 chance he would have taken Michael Penix on the eighth pick.

So the Falcons, let me get this straight, they have an old, injury prone quarterback, which makes total sense that they would pair him with a guy like Kirk. Cousins. Yes, exactly, got it, got it.

Exactly, also, there were some funny memes going around, there was, I saw one, it was a dog just pissing all over, uh, the kitchen. And it was like the Falcons drafting a left-handed quarterback named Michael. All the dogs in Atlanta right now, that's that, that that was a funny meme.

I don't. We have no evidence that Michael Penix beats dogs and fights them. Recreation does not. I have not heard right now, does not on all the red flags, all the all the weaknesses that I've seen on the pre-draft scouting reports.

And this does this does suck for Michael Penix. Like I, I know that it's great because the money and he's the eighth pick. But you get when you become the the Falcons are the laughing stock of of round one and he gets lumped into it. I say this all the time, these guys don't get to decide where they're drafted, they don't get to decide which team picks them.

Yeah, it is funny, though, it's seeing everybody's so concerned about Kirk cousins, like, I hope Kirk's doing okay.

Oh, the NFL network, our guy, DJ, and, Uh, rapport were essentially like the like Kirk cousins. Life just shattered.

This is tragic for Kirk cousins. I think I think Kirk's going to be okay, I think he's going to be fine. Maybe they tried to call his agent, maybe maybe a diamond encrusted. Cell phones get bad reception because his agent is rich as fuck and probably doesn't even need to pick up the phone anymore.

He's going to be 36 in August. Kirk Cousins, Yeah, signed a four year deal. I. It sucks that you were maybe not lied to, but told that you were. You know, there weren't going to draft someone in the first round at quarterback, but that also is the NFL.

I'm I'm looking forward to seeing the postmortem on how this all happened. Because you would think that in the in the free agent process, when they're talking to Kirk, they wouldn't have been like, So, all in on them. If they knew all along that their plan was to draft a quarterback with their top 10 pick, right? I think it's probably going to end up being something like, you know, we didn't. We didn't see this coming, but we just kind of fell in love.

We didn't. We don't know how. Michael Pennix fell all the way to eight.

Yeah, well, they, I think they're just going to say like, we truly fell in love with this person.

I honestly, if I were the Atlanta Falcons PR team, I would just come out with the most ridiculous story and just be like, believe it or don't. No one would believe it. But like, we got confused, we thought we were picking 18..

Yeah, even still, even if this was the 18th pick and they had taken Pennix, that would be a wild move.

It was crazy, it was a crazy draft first round.

RG3 is probably pretty psyched to see Kirk Cousins having a backup drafted on draft night right in front of his face.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, he's, he's seen it. I was, I was saying he might call Mike Glennon.

The funny thing is like, Kirk is probably the best equipped starting quarterback to handle something like this. Like, he's probably he's going to say very nice things, and he's going to say, I'm looking forward to working with this guy. The more good talent you can have in the quarterback room. He's going to say all the right things, he might even mean all the right things. But there's some deep, deep down inside part of them.

Yeah, it's kind of similar, I mean, Jalen Hurts was a second round pick, but it was.

The same thing in Philly. Yeah, it happens. This is what happens in the NFL, yeah.

Carson Wentz A shit ton of money got a backup quarterback, spent a lot of draft capital on him. I think Kirk Cousins is better than Carson Wentz, but I would agree, I mean, even Russ.

Russ going to Pittsburgh, Team friendly deal? Quote unquote. But then Justin Fields gets traded there, you know, a month later, he's going to that. That is going to be an option for them pretty quickly. Is there any chance that Wilson? Any chance that Wilson gets traded?

Could we hear the It's truly going to be an open competition line?

No, I doubt it. I feel like that there's no way they can do that.

They have to tell Kirk that it's his job. Yeah, they have to, they have to, but it's a first round pick, it's a top 10 pick. Yeah, at some point in the next couple of years, you're going.

To want to see what you have there, right? And it also. Now, Kirk Cousins has to deal with the fact that, like, if he gets injured or misses a game, that could be it. Yeah, every time.

Every single time. And Michael Pennix isn't getting younger. Yeah, no, he's not none of us.

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Trying to find a way to stop the Nuggets after the game 1 of the Bruins and the Celtics. I made a mistake and I'm here to admit, and moving forward, say that I will no longer be cocky. I've.

Given up being cocky? What? Wait, Max? It's the playoffs, it's the playoffs.

Weekend Really, I think it set you back. Actually, I, I, Yeah, I got way too ahead of myself. It's an absolute grind to make it, just to make it to the finals, just to make it to the next round of the playoffs.

Thinking about how to stop the nuggets? I No, but oh, you're not. Hank has an advanced scouts.

Department that he's.

Or bust was said many times leading into these playoffs, and that was old me, and now I'm no.

That was cocky me. Okay, that's all right, so guys can change and I'm no longer cocky.

Uh, what do we think about the Celtics? Just not guarding anyone, shooting three pointers?

Yeah, it was a weird defensive strategy, I mean, the heat were obviously they blacked out. They hit the most threes in franchise history, but they do that. That was the most threes they've ever hit. They don't do that every game.

But last year we the same thing happened in the in that series where you're like, they're not going to shoot this well again, and then they shot that well again. By the way, Max, you missed it, you, you missed it. Hank, hank has Hank has retired, cocky hank.

Forever. No, that's, that's who he is as a person, No. He claims that he's been momentarily humbled by the heat, momentarily by heat culture, and so he's, he's going back. Max, listen to this.

As much shit as we can. Maybe don't fucking miss the podcast, maybe pay attention and do your job, you wouldn't miss it. We're not doing like this isn't a show catered to Max.

Here, the first time you slept in six hours last week. Hank, I was checking an ad thing. here's the thing, Hank. No, wait, wait, wait. But Max, I wanted to just inform you of another-.

He's going to listen to it in 20 minutes.

Okay, fine, yeah. Listen to it later and then tell me what you think of what Hank's saying about this entire turning of a new leaf. Because you've been a guy, Max, that we've said. Is this a must-win game?

You can't do that, he cannot do that.

We're not in the championship, we're in a series, no, but you said, championship or bust before the playoffs started multiple times. When we get to the IF, if we are lucky enough,-.

Cocky Hank came out for a second.

Less enough to make it to the Championship series. That series will also be a series or bust.

Okay, now-.

But right now it's just series or bust, and then the next series, if we are lucky enough to advance past this round, will be series or bust.

I have a question for you, Hank.

Yeah, yes.

Yes, okay, so you did say just now the heat can't shoot that well again, correct? I have a stat for you.

Yeah, maybe it is. The heat are a good team and we just gotta come out and play good defense. Hopefully coach Mazzullo is gonna make some adjustments. Poor Zingas played horrible, he played like dog shit.

It's gonna be so funny if they win the series, the Celtics-.

We just can't be in a spot where we're fighting the heat again. If I was cocky and I was thinking about the finals, you gotta just get through the heat. With no Rozier and no Butler, it's just gotta be a 3-1-4-0..

They can't keep shooting 50 from three.

They can't, they can't hit a franchise record for threes every game, it's not gonna happen.

They've done it four times in the last-.

But only once this year.

Right, but last year, if we went back-.

They had Jimmy Butler last year.

It would have been like the Jimmy Butler known three-point sniper.

If you guys win four games to one, you're gonna get back to cocky hank mode so fast.

Hank, What do you think about this? I think you still should be cocky. Hank, Yeah, what do you-?

It is kind of lame that Hank abandoned this at the very first sign of the heat. it's the fucking first sign.

He lost one game. You're gonna win this game four, you're gonna win the series four-to-one.

You guys lost-.

You guys lost in a historic shooting performance by the heat.

Well, n.o.-.

Something-.

Hold on.

It'll never happen again.

They set a franchise record. Bickett, You're not under any. I was talking about a fucking franchise record, not the 50 little stat.

But Hank, they keep shooting great from three against you.

Hank, I need you to stand up for yourself a little bit more, Hank, stand up for yourself. You spent six months saying it was championship or bust. And at the very first sign where you're slightly uncomfortable, you're like, Oh, I have to reevaluate. My whole line of thinking. Is that line of thinking what got you this far?

No, it's just you realize it's all. You know. This is the regular season, the regular, the postseason is the start of the season and now we gotta focus, we gotta lock in. You can't, just, you know, you can't assume a putt's going in.

What was the franchise record? The amount of threes they hit? Yeah, 24 threes, 23 threes.

They did shoot really well, but they they shot really well, that's all I'm saying.

Four times, 50 or more.

They made 23 threes, and the Celtics shot 20 less threes than they did the first game.

They you gotta shoot more threes.

They got out, you know? Spolster Spolster outcoached Missoula in game two.

Yeah, heat culture.

I don't know why you're worried. Yeah, you gotta, because it's the heat, it's it's I have PTSD.

Get back to Cocky hang.

I don't, I don't, I-.

They don't have their two best players.

But last year was the same thing, Big Cat's right. Last year, I said every single game, I was like, that's not gonna happen again.

They're not gonna shoot that well again.

And then that's not gonna happen again. Then they were down 3-0 and then we lost.

Are you worried that you're 11 and 13 at home since the 2022 playoffs?

Yeah, I didn't know that that's bad.

It is a beautiful moment, though, because because Max is gassing hank up, he'd be like, Come on, come on.

Come on, Hank, you guys are really good, you got this hank.

No, I don't know.

It's just this, this is crazy.

It's it like the Sixers had no problem with the heat.

You played one game, I mean, Celtics had no problem with them in one game.

That's what I'm saying, I'm on your side here. Like, the heat aren't good. They had one good game and all the like, the Celtics are the best team of all time.

Who?

Everyone, everyone in the NBA, it's like this is the most deep NBA team of all time.

Super bust for these guys.

Yeah, you lose one game to the heat without without fucking Jimmy Butler or Terry Rozier, and all of a sudden it's like, we just gotta take it one game, it's the fucking heat.

You're gonna win by 20 on Friday night.

You're gonna win this series at 5.

I honestly, it's pissing me off.

Yeah, you're being a bitch.

Yeah, you know what this is, this is, this is again, Hank being a product of of having such a winning childhood and youth. Where it's like he can't separate his teams. When one team does bad, then he takes it out. He goes home to the Patriots and takes it out on his family.

I didn't know how this was gonna go, I did not expect this.

No, I did not expect this.

This is the craziest turn of events.

This is why you don't like Drake Mays, because Hank doesn't like the Drake May pick because the Celtics lost last night.

I sounded more cocky about the Sixers when we were down 0-2 to the Knicks.

Get I don't care about you, Max?

Get fucking up off the mat, hank.

I'm off the mat, focus on the next game and then I'll be focused on the next game and the next game. And then if we win those games, I'll be focused on the next series and then that will be a series or bust. And statistically, that's how you win championships, just game at a time, focused.

And, statistically speaking, they're only gonna shoot 50 from three, three more times in this series.

You're talking about focus and taking-.

We just have to shoot more threes.

Hank, What are you personally gonna do differently?

I'm not gonna get ahead of myself, I'm not gonna worry about the nuggets, I'm just gonna-.

What happens if you win by 40 on Friday Saturday?

Then we're gonna have to win by 40 again on Monday.

Oh, come on.

But, Hank, you already admitted that you're, you're paying close attention to the nuggets.

Old me.

No, but you said you did that tonight.

Yeah, but that that series is already over.

It doesn't matter, the Nuggets played tonight. AFT the day after you lost that game, so when did you make this change?

It was last night, it was last night.

I think it was Bill Belichick talking badly about. -.

Yeah.

Drake Mays What made you turn into a loser?

No, it was the heat, it was, it was I was having flat, honestly, it was. Jalen Brown missed two free throws in the first quarter, then Jason Tatum missed two free throws in the fourth quarter. And I just got flashbacks to the Warriors series, I got flashbacks to the Heat series from last year.

Okay, so we mentioned the nuggets there. I mean, this is the funniest thing ever. Now it's just every single game. The Lakers came out and were up 10 after the first quarter.

Doesn't matter.

Jokic almost had a triple-double.

It doesn't matter.

I think he had like 24, 15 and 9.

Yes.

It's so funny and people are gonna still be like, the Lakers are a really tough team. The Nuggets ran into, They played a really competitive sweep.

They had four guys with over 20 points.

It's so fucking funny, how many, I don't understand. Like, will anyone? Anyone who picked the Lakers stand up and be like, Hey, maybe the nuggets are really good?

Yeah, they're so good. Aaron Gordon had 29 tonight.

He was all over the place.

So, yeah, that series, yeah, you know what? I kind of hope the Lakers win one game.

Yeah, and-.

Just so we can be like, Look, they're making progress. In 10 years from now, they'll get to a game 7..

They even had a good game from the role player that we said they needed to step up was Austin Reeves. Yeah.

Well, d'Angelo-.

D'Angelo Russell had zero points, dude he was, he didn't have a point.

He looked like he something was actually wrong with him because he missed his first two shots. They were as close to an air ball as you could get.

Yeah, they're bad. He looked like he had Bell's palsy.

Yeah, who? Joe Embiid? So we gotta talk about the Knicks.

Actually, he looked, no, he looked like he definitely didn't have Bell's palsy because that might be a ped. Yeah, that's true.

So the Knicks Sixers, Sixers win Game 3.

50.

50.

Yeah, we watched Draymond Green.

Okay, well, Joe Embiid basically did Draymond Green's like, you know?-.

Finishing move.

Yeah, career highlights. In one game, he did the play on Mitchell Robinson when he tried to grab him by the legs. That was that should have been an ejection. And then he kicked Mitchell Robinson in the nuts, he kicked, he knee'd Isaiah Hardenstein in the nuts.

The Hardenstein One people that wasn't-.

Dude, he elevated his knee into his nuts.

He was trying to get around him, to get to the that one was a basketball play, the other two were not okay. That that I would.-.

What did you say?

I mean, look, you won the game, you can't. You don't have to apologize for winning a game, you don't have to apologize for scoring 50..

If you were Adam Silver, what would you do?

They're not going to do anything.

You don't think so.

That was a really dirty play.

The grabbing of the leg was pretty bad.

He said His I don't know if you saw his explanation for it, it wasn't great, his explanation, what was it? He said that the way he was positioned was that he was take. He was going to take out Mitchell Robinson's leg and he was going to fall. And that if he didn't push him away from his body, he was going to fall on his. Mitchell Robinson was going to fall on his knee.

He said he was trying to make sure that Robinson doesn't land on me. Because obviously we know the history that I have with Kaminga landing on my knee. So I kind of had flashbacks when he came down to it. It was unfortunate. I didn't mean to hurt anybody, I just in those situations, I got to protect myself. Because I've been in way too many situations where I'm always the recipient of the bad end of it. So he wanted to make somebody else the bad end.

Yeah, he wanted to injure someone else.

He should, he should just blame everything on Bell's palsy. Yeah, and we'd be like, okay.

Correct.

So he just can't blink.

Is that one side of his face? Jesus Christ? That's when, remember when he went down, Yeah, it was like, what's going on with his eyeball?

Is that like when LeBron said that he saw three baskets and aimed for the one in the middle? Is that the opposite of that? He's got one eye, so it's like closing your eye to shoot something, He's like, better at shooting.

He's a sharpshooter, I like that take. I mean, today, his shooting was incredible.

Yeah, no, he had an incredible game. It sucks that he also added that part because we should be talking only about his 50-point game. But you can't just ignore him going like, WWe on the Knicks. And I love the one part I do love about this, this series. It had bad blood going in just because it's Philly and New York, but I love when a series gets to, like insane levels of bad blood this quickly. It's game three and everyone hates everyone so much.

There's this could be like an actual brawl situation. Yeah, because next game someone's going to go after him and beat his knee. And if he goes down with his. And if he goes out of the game and like, actually tears his ACL or re-injures his meniscus, it's going to be like actual war.

Who's your dog on the team that you need to step up and protect him?

I don't know, we don't have P..J. Tucker anymore, which is tough.

Yeah, Niang's not on the team, right?

Campaigne could get a little feisty.

Oh, campaigne, definitely. He could do a dance move on someone.

Campaigne could get feisty.

He could do like, a little like-.

Lowry will be like little dog.

He'll jump at someone's knees.

Big Bark.

You could get, yeah, like campaigne could do like a little West side story. Jets versus sharks.

Campaigne was also awesome tonight. that's a that's a campaign.e was a situation role. Players play better at home.

And I said, Campaigne is awesome.

He was campaign.e was awesome, like he was awesome today.

He just the key with Campaigne is you got to just like somehow memory flash him to be like, you were awesome because the next game he'll be like, I'm campaigne.

Yeah, b-ball Paul could get in the mud, but he's like a very nice guy.

The Knicks have some tough-ass dudes.

Oh yeah, I mean, that guy Hartenstein is incredible.

I also love Nick Nurse. After the game, when they asked him about the embiid play, he's like, I honestly haven't seen it, I don't know what you're talking about.

Yeah, no, I like that, too. That's kind of how I wish I could go about this.

Yeah, he's never going to watch that play. He should purposely avoid watching it so he can just keep saying, haven't seen it. I'm going to leave that up to the league. You know, they're the ones that watch it, I don't watch it.

Yeah.

Yeah, so Sunday must win.

Yeah, 100 nice.

I'm Are you cocky?

Uh, I think we win the series, but-.

I like that.

The garden is just, the garden is tough. It was just like watching the game in Philly, just so much more comfortable, because when the garden gets rocking, it's like, it's scary.

It's scary.

Yeah, do you have your defense ready against the Knicks fans? That will ask for you to apologize for Embiid's behavior?

Yeah, no, I'm sorry that that happened. I mean, Mitchell Robinson didn't get hurt on that play, he did get hurt later in the game.

A lot of Knicks fans are like, Well, he should have been out of the game, he should have had the opportunity to drop it.

I was kind of shocked. That's also pussy shit, because they're like, Oh, we would have won that game if Embiid got ejected. So are you saying you just you don't want to play a team at full strength?

Oh, I never do.

I think they're saying that-.

I never want to play a team at full strength.

If you had the choice to play against the guy that dropped 50 on you or not, they'd say, like, I'm going to take the knot.

They're like, Yeah, we're a better team if the best, if the top three player in the league is not playing. Yeah, yeah, sure.

And shout out-.

Top three, Yeah, top three.

He did win MVP last year. Shout out to Magic for scoring the basketball. They killed the Cavs, so it's good for them to get into the series. See where that goes. They scored 121 points.

Yeah, listen to me.

But again, it's role players at home.

I don't think the Magic are as bad as they looked in those first two games.

Yeah, no, they, I mean. Markel Foltz had 11 and Cole Anthony had 10. Like the role, you know, when you get home, get more comfortable, guys, step up. And then the other game, which was another shit-kicking on Wednesday night, the Thunder got just like-.

It was very fun.

They were incredible and that's like, Oh shit, we got those guys for like, forever.