Nick Wright on Jim Harbaugh to NFL, Belichick to Eagles, Chiefs-Cowboys Super Bowl | Colin Cowherd

Colin Cowherd is joined by Nick Wright and the two discuss the best landing spot for Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh, if Philadelphia Eagles coach Nick Sirianni is on the hot seat with a loss to the Tampa Bay Bucs and whether Dan Campbell is a good head coach. Which teams do Colin & Nick think will win the Wild Card games and which teams would make for the most fun matchups in the Divisional Round. How far does Nick think Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs will go and should the Dallas Cowboys be on upset alert vs. the Green Bay Packers? What is the best job for Bill Belichick and why is Aaron Rodgers the only star in New York City? The two discuss Jayson Tatum and why he won’t be a historically great player and why the best players in the NBA are not from the United States.

Timeline:
00:00:00 – Intro
00:02:42 – Best NFL fit for Jim Harbaugh
00:15:20 – Eagles fire Sirianni for Belichick?
00:29:10 – Why is Aaron Rodgers only star in NYC?
00:43:30 – Dolphins & Chiefs prediction
00:51:09 – NFL Wild Card Round thoughts
01:03:11 – USA vs. Europe NBA Talent
01:10:49 – Why Jayson Tatum won’t be an NBA legend

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Welcome to the official YouTube channel for the Colin coward podcast go on hit the Subscribe button there you go right down there if you want to be among the first to hear my weekly takes NFL college football more right there well the extended Nick Wright

Session I do Nick about once a month and we go for about an hour and we talk about a variety of stuff uh yesterday somebody came up to me and said uh somebody I work with in my little beer company hey hey it’s uh dry January

Would you be willing to have a beer with these advertisers and I’m like dry what I’ve never heard of it yeah our little our talks are pretty soon going to be called cocktails with Colin I just you and I just have a drink from afar now the difference

Is I we don’t have to say what time we’re recording but I’m on the East Coast you’re three hours earlier it’s barely drinking appropriate time where you are right now you’re kind of Getting By based on on it being an East Coast based media environment If This Were

Pure West Coast we would maybe be like Colin maybe you should consider dry January for your health but otherwise I think we’re in good shape I already worked out today I did a show I’m home free baby home free oh I got a buddy of

Mine bullied me into put me in a group chat with a bunch of other people and it’s just it’s just like seven guys te that have to do a 100 push-ups each every single day so I just get texts from people I don’t no that’s like 20

Down 25 down 40 down and I’ll be honest the Peer Pressure Works find myself in the morning I was like I’m not doing anything I’m just I I’m just a mess I might as well knock out 10 push-ups here sitting getting ready to go to work do something so yeah something good you’re

Not a workout guy but you’re thin yeah the I think the medical terminology is skinny fat I’m skinny but have the insides of a really really unhealthy person and so I just try to do a little better I I go on kicks of the on the pelaton where for like six months I’ll

Be super competitive and really good at the pelaton but then after that I won’t and I don’t like going to the gym I don’t like working out in front of people because I’m not that strong so yeah so I just do stuff in my own house

Whatever yeah I work I lift weights for 50 minutes every day one five or five Zer five Z all but Friday I try to lift four to four to six days a week wow that’s how you look as good as you do at your I like lift I like lifting weights

Whatever reason why I like lifting weights so whatever good for you buddy yeah well listen I I’ll get there one day this thus far I haven’t needed to one of the things um I wrote this I think in my first book two things make smart men stupid beautiful women and

Sports and I always think um so I grew up in the Pacific Northwest where I was a husky fan as a kid but we didn’t have teams that won a lot of championships and ever since I was a kid I’ve always wanted to be a sports caster

So I was never a fan a true fan as a kid you know people know I like the huskys or USC but I’m not really a true fan I love creating content and anybody that knows me you know me uh Jamie horo Charlie Dixon I love to create content

That’s that’s my love of my life uh beyond my kids and family I love to create seven minute rants eight minute Rants and I love the audience to rip them enjoy them whatever yep and this this Jim Harbaugh stuff is why I as a moderately bright guy have a

Great career is that Jim Harbaugh has literally won everywhere he got to a Super Bowl with Kaepernick he won at academically rigid Stanford like 12 games he won 10 games at Michigan the first year with Brady hulks players in the Big 10 and for years people people

Just kept pushing back he’s not good and I I tell people it’s called Google it’s a search engine you you can look at his brother’s brilliant his dad won a championship his brother’s brilliant he’s won everywhere and it was the reluctance for people because Jim makes people he’s a

Disruptor uncomfortable he’s he’s Uber to taxi he just pisses people off he’s new we’ve done it this way he does it that way the Jim Schwarz Pat in the back he’s hard he pissed Pete Carol off and the idea that Jim harbot needed the Natty to be

Viewed as a great coach and I’m like Sabin bombed in the NFL Spurrier bombed like there’s five four or five guys ever Jimmy Johnson Pete Carroll Jim Harbaugh that won with both it’s really hard I mean bellich he wouldn’t deal with donors he wouldn’t recruit he shown

No ability to understand offense that in our business but if we allow the fans to be the jury and then you know somebody can be the da somebody can be the prosecuting attorney and you and I are just the judge and you remove a motion from most of the arguments it is

Rather bizarre well yeah sure how often greatness is obvious and people because their agendas or their connections to other school schs just won’t subscribe to yeah Jim Harbaugh won everywhere immed I shocked by all the people that are like yeah that needed this to prove it they needed it to prove

It now listen I will admit like you know it’s not like we don’t all have our own whips I just mentioned the yic thing so like it’s not like anybody bats a thousand on this stuff but no no no I’m not saying that yish by the way was an

Ascending player who’s a second rounder and it and it just there was no precent for it which is part of what makes him so special be when you’re unprecedented but and also to add to your point and I might be totally misremembering but like a decade ago

Didn’t you have a really weird yes like thing with Harbaugh yeah like I don’t I don’t know if that was it right but and but you no but like there was an interview or whatever where it seemed like he was giving you the hard time I don’t remember the details of it yeah

Okay so I did an interview it was terribly clunky I could have easily turned on him that’s what okay so that’s what I was that’s why I was going to bring it up was I thought somewhere in my brain I thought that existed but I couldn’t quite remember it you it

Nothing would have been easier than to be like everybody thinks this guy’s a dope he kind of was a dick to me when I talked to him and it’s always the safer bet to say someone sucks because it’s hard to win because you’re gonna get to

Be right so much more often than you’re going to get than you’re going to ever be wrong because there’s only one winner at the end of the day and if you be like well can’t win the big game I mean what do you want me to tell you like I told

You the guys just sucks um and I I watch 10% as much college football as you but I watch the biggest games the biggest programs and I obviously am very aware of what’s going on and it was like six years ago I’m like wasn’t Harbaugh’s team with

Way less Talent like a bad spot away from beating Ohio State like wasn’t it wasn’t hasn’t so much of this Narrative of oh can’t beat the best teams like aren’t we basing that partially on a spot we all agree was the wrong spot in a gear he would have either been

Undefeated or in the title game I don’t remember all the details but there is there’s just so much data I’ll give you the and a a different contemporary example it should not have taken Pat rck Mahomes for people to realize Andy Reid pretty smart yeah you know what

And by the way he would have probably never won a Super Bowl you know what I mean if it would have just been Alex Smith to the next guy because winning Super Bowls are hard but when every player every quarterback that you have has their best seasons under you yes and

It then it’s like oh like it’s so all the and I think by the way kind of a future take I can see some of the media turning on is too strong but starting to do this topic how good is Kyle Shanahan really if they don’t make

Because it’s like oh these great regular seasons but where’s the jewelry like if they don’t win the Super Bowl as opposed to being like well I don’t know he’s taking quarterbacks that the moment they leave him are backups or Ben or whatever and won 12 games 13 games one playoff

Games probably pretty good and so I do think there is there is a a level of folks that I I think won’t go with will only go with what they truly believe and see yeah up until it’s like ah this is not in the mainstream enough anymore more I’ll disagree with

Everybody else and so and I think that’s why not to bring up the Niners again I think that’s why people have gotten so frustrated with me on Brock pie yeah is it’s because so many of the other Skeptics laid down their swords and I don’t think they were convinced I just

Think they got sick of getting yelled at and what and what I think folks don’t know is in order to yell at me you better see me in person because I’m not seeing any of it I’m not reading any of it like the only people who get to yell

At me half like are brussard Wilds you and people I no so like I don’t really it doesn’t impact me um and so the Harbaugh thing is fascinating and I do wonder how much of it is they just didn’t like it they just thought the guy

Was weird and a jerk or whatever and I don’t want to describe that to him because I don’t know him but it seemed like a lot of it was like I don’t like this guy yeah I had four you know I I Rely a lot because I’m older so I know a

Lot of coaches and Executives I go to lunch with them I have dinner with them so I know four different coaches who have been on hardboss staff and they all said the same thing guy is different he’s the most football obsessed guy ever he’s just he’s just it’s insane so a lot

Of times I have access you do that fans don’t right they don’t they don’t have these I mean I go to dinner probably twice a year with man Genie we talk about that I’m not putting on the air Jed fish is a good friend of mine you know different guys I’ve dealt with

So I I do have some you know know I can call part of the job yeah of course this is what we do if you’re a mortgage broker listening to me you have access to stuff that I don’t have so right um but it it I just found the Harbaugh stuff it’s like

Guys guys four times including the NFL first year he took the Niners over they were excellent and it’s like if a lot of people get jobs and they don’t last but if you get four different jobs five different jobs you take crap and you make it good immediately and you’re

Successful in all of them I don’t need championships now and where was he before Sanford I don’t even remember I shouldn’t say he was at San Diego it was a small yeah succeeded there and he succeeded everywhere they had a quarterback who was good he made him

Really really good then he went to Stanford Stanford was the worst program in the country with high AC beat USC as a 4 dog in the colise yeah I mean I remember that vividly I mean I remember it and in my opinion set the table that

And this is the other thing that happens sometimes to guys are you Pals with Chris Peterson maybe I’m making oh yes yeah I like I have him on my phone yeah okay so I feel like sometimes guys become victims of their own success yeah where they make a play so relevant or

Good that it stays that after they leave and then to some folks it’s not as wildly impressive of what they did when they got there so Chris Peterson like turned Boise State into such a power that after he leaves it’s still relevant and it’s like no no no that was created

By Him similar thing happened with Harbaugh with Stanford like Harbaugh can leave they have Andrew Luck and David Shaw and they’re really good still and it’s like oh yeah Stanford’s always pretty good it’s like no it was not like that is I mean I understand there were

Times when it was and they were involved in famous games obviously but when he took it over it was terrible and made it great and the ners were in the wilderness and it instantly turned around in it instantly turned around for them which if you were advising him what

Job would you take if he had a pick of all the NFL openings what job would you tell him I would say Jim you recruited Drake may do you think he’s better than Justin Herbert and if the answer is yes you take the Washington job because Herbert for for

The next rest of his career is expensive expensive if you believe that Drake May is better than Justin Herbert you take the Washington job your brother coaches Baltimore you take Washington your mom and dad can move between the two of you um that’s cap space good roster Drake

May now if now if you don’t think it is then just go with the best quarterback I mean the answer in the NFL is almost always go where the best quarterback is or draft the best quarterback Chicago draft Caleb Williams it’ll just work out he’ll it’ll work out of course right so

The charger job unless and the the wherever Harbaugh goes what’s really an advantage is like Pete Carroll or Jimmy Johnson when they’re in college and they come to Pro you get about a three-year window where you know all the college players you recruited all of them oh

That’s a good point huge Edge so the rebuild will be much easier for you now the Chargers is not a rebuild they have cap space cap issues cap Washington’s not a total rebuild but a semi- rebuild with tons of cap space so harbot can walk in and go yeah I’m gonna like Jimmy

And Pete the rebuild is much easier for me I know all and by by the way we will trade off some players get draft picks I’ll probably take four of my Michigan guys who I know can play and I’ll avoid the ones that I know that can’t yeah so

I mean you go look at Pete Carroll’s first three or four drafts out of USC I mean it was just fifth round six round I mean he was nailing people Jimmy Johnson walks into the league he is just fishing a barrel I think very interesting No Cap issues marginal

Rebuild um you look around that Division and you’re like Jaylen Herz Dak Daniel Jones well so can we the I’m not trying to hijack your podcast but can we talk about Philly for a second the Eagles let’s let’s oh you’re not hijacking it Philadelphia I so much I love about them

But I have a feeling Nick serani is closer to the opening press conference than the Super Bowl okay so so here’s here’s the thing there so Wilds did an interesting thing on the TV show which was he made the point that if the Patriots fired Bill bellich and then

Surveyed the this is before grael got fired and surveyed the landscape they’re like okay who’s the best coach available they land on Bill bich the idea you know what I mean he said it was the same thing as the moment the Raiders cut Derek Carr they’re like okay we need a

Quarterback who should be signed that someone would come to and be like well here’s this guy and it’d be Derek carrr that the guy you’re getting rid as the best available so the opposite of that thought exercise is this it’s about to be what half a dozen job op jobs open if

Nick serri were fired would anyone hire him to be their head coach if the answer to that is no then you have to ask yourself should he be ours and I know that sounds harsh and I know that sounds too much but I would I I would remind

People in Philadelphia Andy Reid 14 years five Conference Championship Games a Super Bowl appearance uh nine playoff appearances eight double digit win seasons one bad year gone with b and c quarterbacks mostly one bad year gone replaced by Chip Kelly Chip Kelly 10- six 10- six the next year didn’t make it

To the end of year three after back-to-back 10- win Seasons Doug Peterson wins a Super Bowl with a backup quarterback the next year wins a playoff game with a backup quarterback the next year makes the playoffs the next year Bad season gone so this idea that serani

Is Untouchable Gary kubak I looked it up today was 46 and 18 with the Broncos went to the division round four times went to a Super Bowl and they fired it they were like you know what you’re out of here so if the the Eagles lose six of seven down the

Stretch and the losses are the ners by a million when that game I’m going to go through it because think about it that ners game the Niners had three losses the Eagles had won that would have locked up the one seed with six weeks to go you’d be four games up with five

Games left you you know what I mean the ners would have then had four losses and the tiebreaker would have been to you they get blown out okay that sucks the next week they could have locked up the NFC East against Dallas they would have swept Dallas Dallas would have five wers

They get blown out the next week Drew lock has the only relevant moment of his NFL career 92 yards to win the game you then you know Escape against Tommy DeVito then Kyler drives the field on you hanging 35 and then Tyrod Taylor is up 24 nothing at halftime on your

Starters if then you lose to Baker oh boy like it is it is rough and there are real real questions about what is this team right now aside from a play that is likely going to be banned next year what do you do well and

I don’t know the answer hey look at I can argue it’s become Brandon Staley at the end with Brandon Staley he argued hey hey we’re losing close games we’re not getting blown out his quote yeah then they got blown out and it’s like okay so serani is like hey these These

Are go either way games and then you fall behind 24 nothing to the Giants so not that it was a mutiny but with Staley and Nick by the way you know who the Eagles were gonna hire if not Nick serani they liked Staley oh so they

Were looking for a young voice and so when you start going from narrow narrow losses there’s two or three things that I always think about you go from narrow narrow losses okay to ugly losses and then you ask yourself with the Chargers at the end Herbert before the injury had

Regressed Jaylen Herz has regressed there is nothing the Chargers or the Eagles do well now there’s nothing well and so then the other problem is it’s like well let’s not forget the year he just got last year out of Jaylen Herz and then you ask yourself the really

Tough question of you watch Indie this year because Shane’s and you watch what Shane styken was able to Cobble together with Garder menu I understand the last play of the last game didn’t go well but they were a yard away from maybe being in the playoffs with that Indie roster

And there’s your big chess move was uh demoting your D coordinator and promoting Patricia and now your defense is worse than was your quarterback has regressed you’re not going to have more talent in the future the best offensive line seven first round draft picks on your defensive line two stud receivers

So I and now and folks you know I’ll Eight Mile myself here a bit folks think I don’t like serani because he told Chiefs fans to off after they won that game right that is not it but that is a noteworthy moment yeah because

Because that is it was the same way La I and I pointed out last year in the leadup to the postseason when they’re blowing the Giants out in the playoff game and that little sky cam gets him and he does that mean mug like shaking

His head yes and then in the Super Bowl when they’re going to get a challenge gone their way and he’s kind of histrionically showing F like pointing one way and Jaylen Herz has to stop him like hey man what are you doing he felt to me like a bit of a

Front Runner like a guy that is really good when things are going good and to in his defense it was like well we don’t know how he’s going to respond when things are going poorly because they’ve never gone poorly well now they are and it’s going

Disastrously so I think it’s at least a question if Philly loses draft King sports book an official sports betting partner of the NFL is bringing you yes an offer that will help you win money in the the NFL playoffs new customers bet five bucks that’s it five bucks that’s

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Other than I enjoy it but I can I can listen I could watch American Idol and say that’s a hack that’s a star H that’s an employable loung ciger and I know nothing about music that Dan Campbell has sort of a Blue Collar work ethos and a likeability

Where the average fan who’s bust on his ass for a living is going to love him he’s really a guy a fan would like to have a beer with Dan’s opening press conference was embarrassing like just like novice like uh eat your kneecaps yeah is

Bad and he was 419 and one to start and then you know things start working out he gets I’ve said this before the star of that franchise is not golfer Dan Campbell or Ben Johnson it’s the front office they’ve had like back to back to back incredible drafts like great drafts

And so then he gets a bunch of good players and they start winning a wonky division where Aaron Rogers leaves the Bears are a tire fire and Kurt Cousins is you know sort of okay and they win and they deserve credit for it but now you’re watching Dan Campbell and you’re

Going he’s a little over a skis he’s a bit of a meathead serani had the worst press conference I’ve ever seen could could not speak acknowledge that very turbulent like Dan Campbell early styen comes in elevates the offense he leaves they stink and in both instances I

Ripped both I said you know Dan came off as sort of a very limited Mead and we’ve seen examples that he’s sort of an O he’s the overly little to emotional emotional listen he’s emotional he’s a fan yeah and serani looks completely over his head is that first impressions do matter you ever

Watch Shawn mcvey’s first press conference Obama wasn’t that slick I mean it was like it was on a prompter I was like chest H face forward looking at the camera I mean I literally thought my God I’d run through who is this like 19 he was like 32 yeah I was just like

Young holy hell First Impressions matter mcvey’s first press conference knocks your sock off and that I think that if you go back to serani and Dan Campbell there are qualities about both that are endearing but man if you can’t get the opening pressure right I said said it’s

A real thing go it’s a nobody wants to say this but it does matter we elect people based on are they telegenic are they good at the Podium if you can’t get through 4 and a half to 8 minutes on a Podium by the way you’ve flown in you’ve

Thought about it you you know there’s going to be tough qu you’re preparing for well so that so that last part I think is the most interesting because I wonder if some of these guys would be better if they weren’t prep if they didn’t know it was that day if it was

Off the cuff like sani’s thing to me Campbell was a different story Campbell was was this guy’s a former player I think players are going to I I looked at that press conference and said I totally get why motivationally he’s going to be excellent why players might relate to

Him and that very moment I said and I listen I get it I’m a nerd I didn’t play I understand but in that moment I was like my guess is he’s not going to be great at the situational football stuff now what he actually has been shockingly good at

He does follow the quote analytics but it’s just really what he’s doing is he just wants to go for it every time and the analytic support going for it but like and so like I think it’s almost by accident that he’s following it because it’s like super aggressive go go go but

You saw the cartoonish end result of that when he went for that two-point conversion from the seven yard line which is one of the worst decision fan exactly he was an angry fan that was like this is I got screwed I’m going to show you so that’s different

Sani’s thing was he seemed nervous like I bet serani if he had not been told there was a press conference coming I think he was hurt by the fact he had thought about it all night but that’s a different type of concern that means when things get tight

Are you gonna get tight when that mean you know what I mean when the pressure gets up are you going to respond or not so that was a different level of concern so the reason I brought the whole syriani thing up was I have a different kind of Galaxy brain question for you

Which is this if they lose to Tampa and they fire him isn’t that the perfect spot for bellich you have all that Talent on defense the offensive skill position guys are there they’re already there and your weakness is drafting hoe roseman’s an expert at it exactly right and it’s

Like hey you’ve got what however limited Jaylen Herz might be even if last year was an aberration the best quarterback he will have had in a half decade he will look at Jaylen Herz like he is Patrick Mahomes 2.0 when he’s been deal with Matt Jones and bayy zappy and the

Last you know legs of Cam Newton the offense is in place the defense has all this blue chip Talent up front and belich ja’s been getting the most out of secondary players and linebackers for 20 years this Patriots defense doesn’t have stars on it and they’re awesome like the

Stars are hurt judon and Gonzalez and that is why if I were Philly and I lose to Tampa I wouldn’t fire serani to fire serani but I sure as would consider it if I got on good you know good Intel Bill bich he wants to stay in the

Northeast yeah he wants to go with the blue chip FR people were like ah maybe Atlanta like Bill bich doesn’t want to coach the Falcons being the set like he stay in a cold weather Northeastern city with a blue chip franchise chance to break schula’s record chance to get to

The Super Bowl that to me is a hand and glove fit that I would strongly consider if I were all parties so here’s something I live in uh beautiful Los Angeles in fact tonight I’m going to go out to dinner be by the water and amongst the glitterati and you

Will be in cold windy New York so we got into this discussion I think I’ve I’ve done this a couple times so New York’s the biggest city in America LA’s 2 Chicago three and if you look at New York right now with all the money with all the

Influence the biggest star in the city is Aaron judge second is 40-year-old increasingly weird Aaron roders and there is no third there is no Transcendent star the Clippers more star power than the city of New York the Clippers forget LeBron ad the Rams the coaches in La not even

Star coaches in New York there’s like nobody’s yeah McVey like him or not Lincoln Riley Harbaugh potentially uh we we’ve done this before Stafford um yeah Aon Donald Justin Herbert that forget California Los Angeles Otani mie Betts that if you look at Los Angeles and all

Their Pro franchises we got we count we get to about 24 um between like players coaches like like like star power a-listers a-listers New York has two two so and one has played Four snaps and I get to the point where I think to myself okay that’s not a coincidence I

Don’t believe in that Chicago similarly for the size of the Cities Zack LaVine they have no stars is an increasing I mean literally Chicago a no I was thinking I was like the reason I stopped was I was thinking I was like yeah the Bears yeah the Bears have no Stars

Hockey single star the the Cubs and White Socks yeah like there’s so oh yeah this is correct La has 25 yeah coaches are stars and I think what’s happening is something the rest of the country if you watch cable news nobody wants to live in LA rich people do it’s the land of

Opportunity and that when people increasingly have options professional athletes and coaches many of the agents live here the weather’s better entertainment production companies when LeBron chose the Lakers he did so because the the 13th richest people in Los Angeles all wanted to meet him and talk about production deals and that Los

Angeles has literally separated from the we always talked about stars in LA but if you’re watching what’s happening in New York and Chicago I don’t think it’s just bad GMS is that professional athletes and their agents this is something Canada has dealt with Canada can’t win the Stanley Cup and the

Athletic had a story a year ago about the various reasons and of the eight reasons like number seven was the right reason is that stars would rather live in the United States the weather’s better there’s more money we’re a capitalistic country that you’ll just get paid more you’ll

Have a cuter girlfriend you’ll be on the beach in Florida you’ll be in Phoenix you’ll be in Los Angeles your 27 year olds and your rich is that people can say they hate LA but increasing Harbaugh is gonna have all this Choice chances are he’s going to take Los Angeles so so

Here so I’ve I I have I’ve never really so any so this you do this to me sometimes which is you bring up something that I haven’t thought about before so then I am forced to come up with a theory that admittedly I’ve thought of for 12 seconds so I

Can’t this isn’t one of those like oh I’m glad you mentioned this I have a very well thought out opinion we can edit it you can take it another cont no that’s fine no no no I because as you were talking I as often happens and this

Is either a I think it’s a strength for me professionally and a weakness personally as you were talking I was 35% listening to what you were saying and 65% figuring out what I was going to say um so I have a slightly different theory that I just came up with but I think

Makes sense I think because I think in the past one of the massive draws of New York was the city will make you a star so you will deal with weather abrasive media I think tax rate stuff is a little overrated but still it’s something it’s something it’s not nothing that you know

The fact that some people really want a house with a yard and in order to get that here you have to live you know you deal with a real commute County right you’ve got to live a real commute away all that stuff but people were like if

You were a big-time athlete you’re like man but nobody knows me or I don’t you know my profile isn’t big enough if I go to New York it will be in modern Society it’s not that it doesn’t matter but it barely matters in modern society because of the way media has changed and

Because of the way getting your own message out has changed and because everyone can be their own megaphone you don’t have to live here to get it out so you know where people choose good weather you you know what I mean depending Relentless media exactly and

So it’s not when you brought up Rogers like Rogers is the guy judge was drafted here obviously yeah the Rogers opted you know chose the Jets a couple things one is the whole league wasn’t after him a handful of teams were but if you spent 15 years in the exact

Opposite of New York in a city with the worst weather of any American Sport City the weather’s not going to bother you and it might be a Cool Change of oh my god there was nothing but a bowling alley as far as nightlife where I was

Now I have all these options I’m going to go there but for when LeBron’s you don’t have to be LeBron if you are like a star quarterback in the NFL yes there is something to being the quarterback for the Giants I understand that but would Lamar Jackson be way more

Famous as a jet than a raven no no he wouldn’t could Patrick momes who lives in Kansas City Missouri is it possible for him to be that much more famous I don’t know his tight end is dating the most famous woman in the world and the

Re like and I’m sure they really love each other but the reason that he was you know in the same room as her was because of his proximity to the fame and his own Fame in Kansas City it’s just changed it’s changed to where you don’t

Have to be in you know one of these places and so then why does La do well la does well because it’s god dog beautiful it’s awesome to live there if you’re rich you can hide Manhattan’s an island right Los Angeles you do not see Matt Stafford in Los Angeles you never

See Jared gof people in Los Angeles for those who the uninitiated if you live in Manhattan Beach you don’t leave live if you live in Manhattan Beach you don’t leave if you live in Malibu you don’t leave I watch I watched Chiefs Packers at Lil Wayne’s house yeah I’m not going

To say the neighborhood he lives in he lives in a it was a 40 minute drive from the fox lot and a neighborhood that I I didn’t I hadn’t heard of I drove in there I’m like it must just all just it’s a place i’ never heard of within you know

Tossing distance of downtown LA and it’s nothing but bazillionaire houses and but it was like it’s like hidden it’s like you take a left turn like what the hell that that doesn’t so that is the other thing yes you’re right about La there’s all these different little enclaves you

Can hide in LA and you can live and so so there is but if that’s not your type of thing and you’re just like you know what I I am going to if you’re keev did Kevin Durant become less of a star when he went from New York City to Phoenix no

No but in the past he might have and so that so it just one of the biggest draws I think New York City had for athletes isn’t there anymore just not there anymore and I also think you point to something and you this was sort of an

Aside but it is impactful first what you’re saying is right but the smaller thing is to be in New York you had to deal with a bunch of to be a star and you don’t in Los Angeles the media is soft the weather is better we don’t

Have a city tax like New York um and the truth is it’s a spread out town where you can hide I mean I’m not joking when I say this is I live in an area of of town that that has a lot of pro athletes like I’ll see somebody tonight there’s

Pro athletes everywhere there’s not a lot of Hollywood people but I know somebody that lives in an area I used to live in Santa Monica and at my Pharmacy I would see like six stars nobody body cares it’s not sort of a Los Angeles the industry is stardom so the so the people

On the street don’t bother Stars hey autograph it doesn’t happen here they just let them be it’s the best place in North America to be a star well to give him space and and there’s the last point I’ll make on it if you’re a sports fan if you’re an

Athlete there is probably something to be said to playing in a non diard City yes the people at the games are going to be die hards for you know what I mean like it’s not like oh well now no one’s showing up to our games you live in a

You play in a big city the stuff’s going to be sold out but people are not as obsessed and so yeah and so like there is you know the if you’re in a DieHard city which is typically a Northeastern City or a city like where I’m from Kansas

City you can’t Kansas City is a little different because we have no celebrities at all except for the athletes so typically people almost leave the athletes alone because it’s like we just want them to be happy you know what I mean like they’re and it’s such a small

It’s a mediumsized city but feels like small town so canity is a little different but if you in LA the other good thing about being an athlete in La is you might go to the store and people might just not give a like that’s not even the team I root for like you

Know what I mean like if you’re LeBron it’s one thing you know what I mean but I would I would imagine that let me think of a good example here I would imagine that Russell Westbrook can go to the store sometimes yeah and people don’t you know people for the most part

You know what I mean leave I don’t want to say leave them alone but don’t freak out the way they would in Philly Dam STM Maxi was somewhere yeah when he was in Portland he was from Portland and loved it he said I love Toronto he said they a

Hockey team a CFL team an NBA team a baseball team Damon said you know I’m not seven foot I pair pair glasses and a baseball cap on I could hide and in Los Angeles I’ve always said this there are rungs of famous there are the rock um right but there’s Denzel

And then there’s um LeBron and then there is um you know kind of B Stars soap opera Vin dies and then there’s you know like young music stars I mean I’m like the 37th rung of that’s what I was gonna say is and I’m listen I’m not you but you and I if

We’re in a similar tier of notoriety I would argue it’s kind of of the best level of Fame yes which is occasionally you get like it’s like a free meal you know what I mean they’re like it’s like really it’s like no like occasionally that you get the natural like ego boost

Of a couple times a day if you’re out and about yeah someone being like hey love your stuff you know what I mean that yeah but you can just be to live you’re never like bothered you know what I mean all and so it’s all the Works

None of the drawbacks the actual famous people the truly famous people who like have to strategize how they’re going to leave the house that sounds miserable to me yeah you know what I mean that that sounds like I would not enjoy that at all but like this and so to your point

La is one of the cities where you can be an actually famous athlete and not treated like one unless you want to be you know what I mean unless you’re like you you know what I mean you’re opting into it so yeah I think that’s probably super helpful and the weather the

Weather’s pretty it’s a damn snowstorm right now are you guys have a snowstorm well I don’t it’s like an ice storm something I don’t know it doesn’t really snow in New York anymore the last couple Winters but they think that tonight’s going to be bad I don’t know I got an

Email from my kids school saying we’re going to call we’re going to let you guys know at 500 a.m if school’s cancel tomorrow like okay great meanwhile you it’s 74 degrees in Sun want to see what the weather is um hold on yeah I’m that’s great it is um 64 degrees oh oh

Cold front for you and um few clouds I’m going to dinner by the beach it’s a good life oh speaking of speaking of weather and then we can do whatever you want to do before we’re done no matter what anyone believes in the Chiefs this year I understand I am

On the furthest possible end of optimism about the Chiefs I think every whether I’m right or wrong I think 90% of the world is going to join me by Monday because I think the Dolphins are going to look so bad in negative 15 wind chill I really believe that their whole

Pass rushing unit is out injured they they they are have to feel like we went from being the one seed to on the road in Arrowhead on a streaming service Saturday night short week in 0 degree weather neg5 wind chill and we have Isaiah PCO just running through us I

Think that the weather is going to honestly uh be enough to give the Chiefs a 10-point edge Saturday and even if they’re not as good as it looks I think Saturday Kansas City is going to look really good and the Dolphins are going to look really cold and I think that

That is going to be a huge factor in that footb well I had um a team that was you know before the internet that was very offensively ingenious was a Corel Dan foutz John Jefferson Kellen Winslow um there were these charger teams that were kind of ahead of their time never

Won titles but they were kind of like pre- Bill Walsh Joe monana Niners they were doing wild and zany Progressive offensive stuff and they went to Cincinnati and played a playoff game and it was four in San Diego I mean again it’s palm trees and F goes there and I

Remember watching the game as a kid did I’ve never seen human being they might as well been naked they looked so uncomfortable and there is something to be said I am now somebody who has lived for eight years in California and it is amazing it’s 52

Here it was the other night it was windy on my birthday party it was windy I told an I don’t know what’s happened that the climate change this is just not even she goes it’s like it’s 5 it’s 52 honey it’s a slight wind like it does affect South

Beach is the last place in America I mean it’s really the best place in America during the winter yeah I mean the idea pretty soon as go not exist unfortunately it’s gonna be underwater but yeah I mean it is no I think and I think that is a I think that the weather

Is and that’s one of my favorite things about the NFL is like there is this part of it that your most important games are played until the Super Bowl of course sometimes there are these teams where it’s like yeah I don’t know how really

Good we are but I know we can handle the Cal yes and so if you get us to then this obviously has not been the Chief story over the course of their you know this little this era but for other like for Cleveland or like these teams where

It’s like H we might just Pittsburgh we might just be okay but we also might get to the post post season and know how to deal with what you might not have know how to deal with and for it is such an odd thing to me about Buffalo that

Buffalo historically with J with this team has not played great in bad conditions and he’s from Wyoming right and they should be the team that you know what I mean knows how to play in these bad conditions the best but um you have these you know you have these teams

That play in domes and warm weather like I haven’t looked but I’m very curious if Houston were to win against Cleveland which I don’t know if I think they will what the weather’s going to be like in Baltimore that first weekend and is Houston just G to be like oh this

Like we are not we didn’t sign up for this and so I’m I’m very interested in how that affects all the the outdoor cold weather games is the playoffs the two I had a very good gambling year so I was 09 and one to start from that point

Forward 14 of 16 weeks I was 500 or better I was 64% 63 that’s a really good year so that’s unbelievable yeah that’s unbelievable I had a great great blazing fight I had a guy come up to me yesterday in the grocery store he’s like man you were cooking this year let me

Buy you blankety blank and I’m like I’m good this is my job don’t worry about it and he was like he goes Colin I’ve been following you for a lot of years he goes man he goes you had a year about 10 years ago like this which I remember and

I said well the year 10 years ago or whenever it was right before you came to Fox Sports that was a year you might have been on the record the best handicapper in the country that was a year where the blazing five would change lines a bit that was that was a historic

Run and then I didn’t know I you know what’s funny and this is now I’m gonna sound like a bitter man uh this is you know the modern media there was a lot of public you know publicity about your first two weeks not nearly as much about

The following 16 a lot cow hasn’t hit a bet in two weeks just getting roasted I meanwhile just went two and three every week I I had my worst year in forever just and it was just the same thing two and three three and two every

Week but go ahead well by the way harble I had a losing record in Co I had a covid Year my takeaway was folks Sunday morning they’d be like oh yeah these eight starters don’t play it’s like that doesn’t count you gota but you know what’s funny when the media and I don’t

Care cuz I I literally am not on my phone like just not I once Elon Musk took it over I gave him about two months it’s a mess I’m just not on it I use it for promotion for my podcast for the volume I’m not on it but it is interesting that the

Blogosphere which claims shows like our or clickbait went over the moon on my 09 And1 start nothing in 16 weeks of red hot nothing yeah no though but go ahead sorry I well of course but I mean that’s you want to hear you want to hear my

Theory this year yeah so what I did every weekend um and it didn’t ‘s work like this weekend I said Justin Fields is not as good as Jordan love but Justin Fields with that atrocious Green Bay defense will look better than love against the good defense didn’t Happ that’s what I

Thought too yep yeah but what I really started to do by week three I said you’re overthinking the room when you can get the best quarterback in value just bet him and I started just betting four to my five picks I bet a lot of Kyler Murray it’s like I bet some Tyrod

Taylor I’m like Tyrod Taylor against Philadelphia’s defense he’s going to move the ball he’s averaging 360 yards against better defenses and I already started coming down to almost like I picked divisions who will be the better quarterbacks in these games and it’s amazing how simple like for instance

Texans Colts this weekend Wise Guys love the Colts and I’m like folks it’s a win you’re in game CJ strout’s better I would take CJ strad I talk my myself out of it because jmck and milman are like no but in the end I watched it and I

Went first play of the game last drive it was won by CJ Stout yeah 100% um all right last last thing I don’t know what the and I might have said this to you on TV today I don’t remember I get I so I apologize if I’m in reruns I

Said it to someone today um I don’t know who’s going what the division no I didn’t say this to you what the division matchups are going to be I know what the best ones would be the the ideal outcomes are the Rams beating the Lions because then you get the Rams

Playing the ners and that’s a real scare for the ners that is a real legitimate scare Y and I love CJ Stout I love that story if we assume the Bills and Chiefs are going to win which I think they both will and that is a great round two

Chiefs having to go to Buffalo for the first time everyone I am as America’s most noteworthy you know Buffalo antagonist I’m rooting for the bills I want to see Chiefs bills in Buffalo let’s get Mahomes Allen so let’s assume that’s it as much as I like CJ strad I’m

Rooting for the Browns because Browns Ravens is another one that is a shitty first game for Baltimore it’s like wait a minute we got to play the only quarterback in the conference with deep playoff experience other than momes in a first game in a divisional matchup with

That defense and their hot coming off a win and then I don’t really care who wins Eagles bucks because I think either team’s drawing dead but it’s probably better if the Eagles win you get Cowboys Eagles but ners Rams Chiefs bills Browns Ravens would be an unbelievable divisional round weekend as

Far as where you could make a credible case for any of those six teams in those matchups and you could make a credible case for any of those teams making the Super Bowl like I think the Rams can make the Super Bowl I’m not picking them

To make the Super Bowl but I think it is they’ve won seven of eight and the one loss is to Baltimore in overtime I mean that’s with with Shawn McVey and Matt Stafford like that’s a real thing and Baltimore’s defense I mean sorry Cleveland’s defense Baltimore I don’t

Know I’m super excited so that’s what I’m hoping happens I don’t know if it’s what will happen that’s what I’m hoping it so um it’s interesting I mentioned you at the end of the show today I said Nick Wright two weeks in a row has said

You’re gonna bet the Rams over the Lions and I’m like no Contra mon for that’s not gonna happen and today I got my notepad out coach quarterback defense leaport is out and I’m like oh yeah I gotta take the ram you’re got to take the ram certainly plus the

Points certainly with the points time out Dan camel McVey that’s a two and a half to three-point Advantage Rams stff Stafford go two and a half to three points you have to take the points with the Rams you have to take the points you have to take the points with the Rams I

I think that have to do is points with the Rams I think that when the chiefs were did you see what the Chiefs line opened at it was one and a half and it was available for 90 seconds you know what I mean now four is a different story

Because you know what I mean while I think the the Dolphins might fold in the cold the Chiefs haven’t blowing anybody out in forever you know what I mean like I that’s that’s not an obvious one I think the next best bet is Tampa getting points at home

Against an Eagles team that’s falling apart I don’t think it’s I think the Kansas City listen you’re going to play poker when you’re retired I’m going to do a podcast a week with a volume and bet football and so when you bet football professionally I wouldn’t be on the air

I would wait for the lines to come out and pounce on them I would live in a state where I can gamble and I would just pounce so you know like there there are the best lines of the week are always Sunday night Monday those are the

Best lines always and the sharps jump on them and I’ve always said if I hit 63% from weeks you know three to the end of the year I’d hit 64 to 65% if I could bet him if I did Blazing five on Monday I would get it wouldn’t be uh drama Ally

Different but you would get like six to seven games a year where you just get a team you like because I lost several games I pushed on like four games that the line just was and I would say I say on the air Friday this is not the best

Of the line but I still like them yeah but I I will say is that these games are tough bets I I don’t love any of them I tend to think Philadelphia I mean I watched Baker last week they were they were bad I mean that’s true and he’s

Hurt I mean they scored nine points go look at this run they got two wins over Carolina like that that that’s true awful that’s true so my so then if you take that out the the next one that I think is I think Kansas City hosting a

Warm weather team that is depleted is a I would go up to four and a half I think Kanas City 23 Kansas City healthy which they are Kansas City rested like it’s it’s one thing for this Chiefs team to not be the team that it was projected to be before the season

Which is the Super Bowl favorite it’s another thing for them to fully healthy lose a home wildc card game you know what I mean like the the reason the line concerns me is e if I’m even if I’m right that can City controls the game once you lay four you’re susceptible to

Being up 10 and that shitty back door cover at the you know what I mean at the end that just gut you um I think the Cowboys are going to score 35 points on Green Bay I do too I just the question is can Green Bay score 30 that game

Feels like 33 34 to 26 that’s what it feels like right right that the line is exactly right that’s the thing of listen the NFL in general lines are never wrong NFL playoffs it’s never like oh my God look at this bet like no I mean that

Never is there the only one is I think the Rams are better than than Detroit I just flatly believe the Rams are better than Detroit well they certainly have components without leaport it’s it that’s leaport is the rare tight end I mean Travis Kelce has 16 touchdowns and 14 playoff games it

Matters he he’s better in the playoffs he also Colin is the NFL’s alltime leader in playoff yards per game not amongst tight ends amongst everyone amongst receivers with at least 10 games he is the alltime leader in playoff yards per game so yeah I mean and Kelce

Listen Kelce hasn’t been right all year but I also think if you look at his snap count if you look at things the Chiefs have been despite the fact that they’ve needed these games they’ve blown some games they have been to my eye a team that has

Been holding certain thing they have not broken the glass they have they clearly have not yet felt we are in full emergency cuz Kelsey hadn’t played 90% of the snaps in any games you are you’ve only seen momes run a lot and you saw it for the first time in the uh Bengals

Game which was to lock up the division and be able to rest in week 18 I still think Kansas City has a gear just like you saw Buffalo here this last few month off a sudden Josh Allen is running all the time and you know why because they

Have to win and it’s like that is all always their most dangerous play they don’t do it because it’s it’s dangerous for them they can get the guy Hurt No matter how big he is um I think K I’m always leery of teams that I think might

Have an extra gear I think canas City might have an extra gear and I do the the Kansas City stat that jumps out to me are two of them one is they are this this year they have one L loss when they either tie if they don’t lose the

Turnover battle and that one loss was the first game of the year and their turnover by the way was a pick six the other way off a bobbled pass everybody talks about all these issues they have the the sneaky problem for Kansas City is top five most turnovers bottom five

Fewest forc turnovers they have the third worst plus minus in football every other team in that bottom 10 is some team that is drafting early like you can’t overcome that typically the Chiefs have so maybe that kills them you know what I mean maybe in the playoffs

They keep turning the ball over that kills them but if they don’t they don’t lose and do I trust them a little bit more come the playoffs I do and so I think can City’s super dangerous and I think the Rams are super dangerous yeah

And if the Rams man if the I if if the Rams beat beat San Francisco that then means Dallas doesn’t have to leave home the whole playoffs yeah and so like they are sneaky I thought one of the most important moments of the weekend was San Francisco

Or the Rams beating San Francisco yeah because that made s the Rams the 60 instead of the seven because I think the Rams could have gone to Dallas and caused some real problems for the same reason they can go to Detroit and cause problems so I don’t know we’ll see I

Mean a very sneaky MVP is Matt Stafford not gonna win it he has been on fire for about nine weeks and I mean arm angles I mean he has been it’s amazing one of the reasons the NFL is so great a baseball draft or an NBA draft you have to be

Patient hukan AA changed the receiving core they got a left tackle who’s great two defensive linemen who have been excellent as rookies it’s like they got like four players who are impactful in the draft and Stafford’s healthy and it’s like yeah they their roster suddenly really interesting the Rams

Draft this year is the Chiefs draft last year it’s like oh you got four guys that are helping you right now yeah you know what I mean like four guys that are right now making a difference not like oh they’re going to be good it’s like no

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Colin 20 bucks off your first purchase terms apply download game time today last minute tickets lowest prices guarantee so I was uh thinking about you the other day that this is an interesting topic you know how we both I really I’m very much a windshield over a

Rear viiew just I just don’t care about the old days I just don’t care I was thinking about I love the NBA and this doesn’t bother me but I don’t think it’s great for their long-term viability or growth Zion and jaw were going to be domestic stars both due to immaturity

Have fizzled now jaw’s hurt Zion hurt and I do think uh you’ve done a little European travel and my mom was European and I’ve done a little bit I do think their academies create more mature players at the younger age higher skilled more mature they don’t have an a

Circuit like us they don’t gas their players up and I think it’s very difficult if I was 171 18 and being told how great I was I it would affect me and I watch The League now with um Giannis and jic and and Luca and I mean even to

Uh sgaa as Canadian yeah and I and I look at our domestic players and I’m not questioning their commitment or their Excellence but Steve cish said this repeatedly a basketball is not great for the Ascension of young people it’s it’s not collaborative it’s it’s just about

You and people gravy training you and I look at the NBA right now it doesn’t bother me because I love bigs that can shoot handle I love watching yic play I know it’s ugly but I I love it but your thoughts um in the crowded uh as we

Become more distracted on our phones and and Tik Tok and as as the as the college football’s growing soccer is bigger globally where is NBA are you concerned at all about the NBA and the European growth and the domestic players shrinking I don’t so to me these are

Almost SE so right now First Team all NBA yeah would be five International guys right it’d be Luca and Shay as the guards and Giannis joic and embiid is your bigs that would be that and right now that would be your first team all NBA that would be your top five probably

MVP ballot Tyrese halberton would probably be NE next up and right because of what’s happened with Jah I I don’t know who somebody this wasn’t my initial idea that I S I read a tweet or heard a podcast sometimes I I I get a little self-conscious sometimes like I don’t

Want to take someone’s idea but I also consume so much stuff like I don’t know where I first heard it like and so somebody posited the idea is Anthony Davis the best American player and the and I stopped and I was at first I’m like no and then I thought

About it and I’m like defensively yes well like is it and is it between he and Tatum yes and if that’s right and if that’s where we’re at that is a problem that’s not an indict I’m not those are those guys are great players but nobody

Thinks either one of them is in the discussion for best player in the league and so and if we were to talk talk about the if we were to make a list of the eight best international players and the eight best American players the other problem would be this three of the eight

Americans maybe four of the eight Americans now I think about it are old guys Steph LeBron KD and Jimmy Butler those are you know what I mean Jimmy’s the youngest of the group and so that is for it’s not like the the NBA is not going to have enough talent because it

Is such an international game and you’re getting more and more guys from overseas but like the you there is a I think oh and by the way when we’re talking about the best American player is the guy I left out who’s ascending there and would be the Hope because of his age is

Anthony Edwards yes like could Anthony Edwards get there where we’re talking about but from a pure strategic or popularity standpoint I don’t think it’s great for the league if all of the I think it’s really good for the league if some of the best players are international

Players I don’t think it’s great for the league if all of the best players yeah are international players and so and obviously people believe wimby is going to be on that track now he’s that’s to me less about like the international game and more about the fact the guy’s

75 you know what I mean and has and is skilled um and so I don’t know the answer as to why I think aaou too often gets used as a boogeyman you know my my son played high high level Amateur Basketball it had really good experiences with it the kid who I think

Is a really nice role player for the Knicks I’ve talked to you about this Quinton Grimes he was my son’s teammate One Summer those practices were good that was a good team they were good kids so I think sometimes Au basketball gets a bad name but there is something going

On where the there is a different stylistic you know approach to basketball from many of I mean shinon is clearly like an international style of player now he’s not a star but he might be an Allstar this year and so I don’t know the answer and it does also feel

Like Shay almost should count as an American like he’s not you know what I mean he’s from Canada it’s just kind of bad luck yeah exactly um but yeah so I don’t I don’t know what the solu I don’t know if there is a solution I don’t know

What the answer to it is but it’s undeniable that it’s trending in that direction and it happened fast yeah 20 years ago European player me soft and it was like Wow dir no question it was like Tony C coach 100% and it was and it was a basically okay aside from AE

Alaguan uh who by the way went to college in America you know what I mean the had an American Experience aside from him if you’re best player is an international guy you got no shot whatsoever and it h it switched really fast really really fast I mean 10 years

Ago it was just Dirk and AEM as far as the like no doubt alltime Legends and Dirk was considered kind of a soft offensive only player yep exactly right and so it changed fast on us and and I don’t I also there is I’m not sure that

Somebody should maybe somebody has and I just haven’t read it either written uh this is like a Daryl Mor Sloan conference type of paper or maybe a book because the other thing is this the international guys again aside from sheay who’s Canadian but the European Stars they’re all 68 or taller it’s big

Skilled guys you know Luke is a guard but he’s big we’re not getting a bunch of like 62 Wizards with the basketball from Europe it’s all like Giannis is this point forward embid jokic is such a unique player so I don’t know what it is but it’s clearly

It’s clearly happening for good or for bad it’s happening yeah and let’s just acknowledge that 18 months from now wemi will be in that discussion so absolutely so it’s it’s not stopping so I was thinking about this um and I I want to continue on with the

NBA and I have said this is that people show you who they are very early um uh I you one of the things when I started the volume I said be careful about hire hiring people that could be difficult to fire meaning they they’re temperamental they they are uh Grudge holding they’re

Petty they’re on Twitter for the wrong try to burn you down way out the door so we’ve had three or four people that we have discussed hiring and I said what if you had to let that person go they didn’t drive Revenue they were difficult I said you know be be careful

About that so people show you who they are very early and very early in Jason Tatum’s career I like him a lot I don’t love him I like him a lot but very early in his career he showed you something that Michael never Illustrated Kobe didn’t LeBron didn’t dwade

Didn’t is that he lacked confidence in big spots you almost had to push him into taking shots is that in these big fourth quarter moments his second third fourth year we were all like oh love his body can put it on the floor good teammate plays real

Defense can kind of let Jaylen Brown Take Control sometimes marus let Marcus Smart defensive play turn into the pseudo Alpha yep and I and I watch the Celtics and I still don’t trust him years later he is at least 60 70% it’s his game but there are moments

Still with Jason Tatum this is never a Luca issue it’s not a Giannis issue no and it’s weird I mean this is spoton by the way and it’s a weird thing to say because he had 50 in a game seven we saw him have that amazing game six against J

Few years ago so it it’s in there we saw him as a rookie dunk on LeBron and seem fully confident Peak 20 18 LeBron we’ve seen all these things and Celtics fans will get very you know parochial and Territorial and defensive but I think deep down everybody knows that the the

Celtics it’s not they can’t win the title but they have to win the title like the 04 Pistons meaning it’s got to be a collective effort and that is the hardest title to win the reason we always go to the 04 Pistons is because every other champion from 1980 to now

Has had a top 20 alltime player so it’s not like an indictment to say Tatum’s not that because it’s only been like 16 guys in 40 years to be the best player on a champion the only other guy other than the 04 Pistons uh you would say is

Kawai’s championships but he was a guy who was trending towards that and injuries kind of under you know what I mean undercut the player he was going to be every other team literally had had a legend and I don’t think anyone looks at Jason Tatum and says he’s going to be a

Legend that’s right we say his ceiling is MVP candidate yeah all the other guys the ceiling was how many MVPs okay and that’s the difference okay so I threw this out last week it’s my favorite comp I think I’ve ever done in the last year wow Annie Murray tennis player Great

Britain so there’s feder is better than him and he’s like okay and then feder is getting old and then fed’s P his Prime and Andy Murray has this little window oh crap Here Comes The Joker and his window was about a year okay okay Tatum LeBron staff he just doesn’t have

That Savvy that game it’s like ah he’s so close and he gets a little window finals against the Warriors doesn’t win and here comes joic and Luca and Giannis he’s the Andy Marie of the NBA that his window was a sliver he was there at home

And the and and it’s that close and beat him in the final set and it’s just like that right and that might be it and that might and so that’s why I give the Celtics credit because they have built a team that if healthy is so well-rounded

And has so many top 50 players on it you of today’s game you know what I mean like they their their worst starter is still a really good player yes you have Derek white uh Drew holiday Tatum Brown and porzingis EXC it’s it’s a great starting five they

Are banking on that again that’s the 04 Pistons the 04 Pistons you have Rip Hamilton you have taan Prince you have Rasheed Wallace you have Ben Wallace you have chony bips yeah those are five excellent players but no nobody that is oh holy yeah and that’s where and I

Think Tatum’s probably right now better than any of those five guys that moment but that is that’s just the truth that’s why the NBA is so unique like when I when and I want to be make it clear to the audience when I say 1980 to now like

And I’ll just do the like my own personal like off the top of my head rankings I did that list the 50 best players last 50 years so Kareem toan now and if you go through the champions from 80 to now you have the Lakers who had

Kareem and Magic who are two and four you had the Sixers who had Dr Jay and Moses who were 12 and 13 you had the Celtics who had Larry Bird who’s seven or eight you had the Pistons who had Isaiah who’s right around 15 and then

You had the Bulls who had MJ the Rockets who had AEM and then the Spurs who have Tim Duncan the Lakers with Kobe and sha the 04 pistons and then you have the heat who have dwade who’s right on the fringes but sha who’s firmly in it the

Obviously then the Lakers again with just Kobe and then oh the other team you know what’s funny I left this out the other team they’re trying to be like is the 08 Celtics who again they had Garnett who is Garnett’s better than Tatum but he was you know so but it’s

The same type thing so I shouldn’t have left them out but Garnett’s on the fringes of it and then since then we know who it is it’s LeBron it’s Steph it’s Durk who’s right there uh it’s Giannis it’s joic it’s Duran it’s Kawai and it’s not an indict and this was why

I didn’t believe in the Nuggets because it was the same math I just underrated joic right the math was okay yic is really good he’s not a legend and I was wrong it’s like oh he’s pretty Legend he is pretty great um and so um I guess maybe it’s self-fulfilling in that

If the Celtics get there we’ll look at Tatum like that but I don’t think we will if the Celtics get there I think it’ll be like wow that was that was an awesome team they put together and so it is why it’s hard to it’s also why the

Heat haven’t gotten over the quite over the hump because the heat have tried the same thing they’ve got an awesome player in Jimmy an awesome starting five a much better coach them Boston has obviously but it’s so hard when you get in the finals for the heat when they’ve done it

You got in the finals you got your team all of it and LeBron is sitting there and even old ass LeBron was like after two weeks I can kick your ass then you get in the finals again and joic is like yeah I can kick your ass too it’s just

Hard when that guy’s on the other side and for the Celtics what’s going to be the tough thing is this and the NBA doesn’t always come down to this but man it’s hard to overcome in one series much less three in a row I would argue the Celtics to

Win a title are probably going to have to win three consecutive series the second round the Conference Finals and the finals were the best player on the courts on the other team yep that’s hard man you know what I mean like because embiid or embiid in the

Playoffs isn’t the same but still Giannis any of those guys Jimmy Butler has proven in the playoffs and then whoever you face off in the finals that you might have the better two three four five but the best player is going to be on the other team it’s going to be hards

An hour 20 was good listen you sit in the snow I got 62 degrees yeah exactly a shrimp salad shrimp salad oh my goodness uh tell your wonderful wife I say hello uh and I will I hope to see you in Los Angeles again soon I the if um I gotta

Find a way because I still believe the Chiefs are going to go to the Super Bowl I gotta find a way to go to the Super Bowl when the Chiefs are there going for backtack and if that happens maybe I can do my show from Los Angeles and I’ll get

To see you but it’s always great to talk to you I’ll talk to you soon I’d write that in pencil not pen okay all right I’ll talk to you later Bye