The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Jason Fitz talk NBA Playoffs, NFL Draft, & So Much More!

In a new episode of The Fellas with Anthony Gargano and Jason Fitz, the Fellas open the show talking NBA Playoffs, breaking down the path for each eastern and western conference team! Additionally, The Fellas break down the upcoming NFL Draft, letting us know how the first five picks could be QBs! Next, the guy's debate if Bill Belichick still has a place in the NFL as a head coach! Finally, the Big Brain Brad joins us to talk his best bets, catch all that and so much more on The Fellas! 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
A buddy, happy happy idy Abby.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Fox Sports Saturday NBA Playoff Edition. We are all set
after all the play ins, and I enjoyed the players.
But we got a big weekend. Four games today, four
games tomorrow. Some great matchup Lakers and Nuggets, Sons and Timberwolves,

(00:40):
Sixers and Knicks. Orlando Cleveland should be good. That's all Today,
Tomorrow Heat and Boston. No Jimmy, the one of the
best series is gonna be watch to watch Clippers and Dallas.
So Dallas and the Clippers will be fun. Indian anam Milwaukee.
I think that could be an up obviously with the

(01:02):
Yearlin situation, but just what Indiana does in pace that
should be interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
OKAYC and New Orleans. Like Figgi just told you where.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
The fellas he is Jason Fitz, I'm Anthony Gargana.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
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Speaker 1 (01:48):
Man. I love hearing all that excitement in your voice.
I love hearing all that excitement in your voice for
everything that's happening. I love the chaos that we're about
to get for the NBA playoffs, Like realistically, I mean
you mentioned the funny thing is that Milwaukee's right for
an upset. Well, according to the books right now, Milwaukee's
actually the underdog right now. So that's just wow, how
crazy everything is. And then on top of all of that,

(02:09):
like if I'm just gonna sprinkle one more just piece
of good good A week from today, we'll be through
the first couple of days in the NFL Draft. Like
it just feels like it's about to be a really
good week, man, Like I got the joy joy joy
joy down in my heart where down in my heart?

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Man, draft coming up. I can't wait for that. That's
gonna be incredible, the draft on thirst day. Man, I
can't wait to go through all the stuff with you too.
We got a lot of draft stuff to geek out with.
But like you said, the playoffs and it's bizarre because
New York and Milwaukee are both underdogs.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Isn't that crazy? It's completely nuts.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
You said, isn't that bizarre? And then I lost everything
you said after that in it shut out, so all
I heard was, isn't that bizarre?

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
No, it's crazy, like the it's bizarre New York and
Maya and Milwaukee because I'm like, listen, you know what.
We're gearing up in my neck of the woods for a.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Run, a real run.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
And uh, you know it's interesting because in New York
they're like, what do you mean?

Speaker 3 (03:24):
You know this?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
With the Sixers are the favorite or the two seed?
And see these are out the window. This entire playoffs.
I think we got.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I think the Gremlins are in, uh are in Fitzies Unit.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
I think they might be as early.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, Gremlins. Hey, by the way, hello, Say is back.
So for our audience. Say is our producer who left
us to do bigger things in Fox Sports Radio and
we love him and he's with us.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Lemonad so good. Great to have you back, buddy.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
It's good to be back.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
I mean, it's it seems like the gremlins are giving
me a warm welcome. It's good to have them back.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, we got the tech issues earlier.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
But it's okay. It's okay. We fight on as we
always do on the Fellas. But now, as you were saying, yeah,
you guys are you guys are fixing to make make
a run here?

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh yeah, figy nose, good morning figure.

Speaker 6 (04:26):
Oh that was a little hairy the other night against
Jimmy Butler. That's that's what I was.

Speaker 7 (04:32):
That's I mentioned it last week that I was like,
I don't know, if the Heat played Philadelphia in that
playing game, it could get a little hairy, and it
might might have been a little bit different if Jimmy
Butler wasn't hobble playing on one leg the entire match. Well,
I'm just saying, I'm just keeping it real.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
I had Heat in the finals before that happened.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
I think a lot of people did.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
I had a Bubble rematch before that happened.

Speaker 7 (04:54):
I understand, I understand, but I don't know if the
Philly New York series is as easy to handicap as
people might think. There couse, they might think, you know what,
damn Joel embiid back in the lineup. Maxie has balled
out this season, had a breakout year, But you do
wonder about this, the rest of the supporting cast around
him and the way that the Knicks can play defense.
I can see that being a six or maybe even
seven game series.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
I can see it happening.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Let me definitely, I definitely think of you.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Let me ask one one question, what am I supposed
to do with what we saw from Philly the other day?
Because if we're just I love the idea of Philly
more than I like what I actually saw from Philly,
Like and you look like you knows as expected, he's
gonna take a minute to get his legs under him.
Now we get a seven game you know, possibly series
against you know, a team that's we know playoff basketball
is physical, Like we know all of these things. What

(05:41):
am I? How am I supposed to couch?

Speaker 2 (05:44):
I try to make sense of Miami before you guys
can tell me if you if you buy it, if
I told you, like I've lived this thing right like
inside inside that squad for this is the seventh playoff
post Pop process playoff run. All right, they have not
gotten out of the second round since. So the first

(06:06):
six tries have not yielded anything other than a second
round defeat or a bubble sweep to Boston. So obviously
when he goes down, it's like, well, this is the
wasted year because going through the off season there's only
two players on the contract, Maxi and embiid Be comes back,

(06:29):
everybody looks good. You know, you're feeling good. They won,
they're on a streak to end the season. Playing game
comes and then the first two and a half quarters happen,
and this is what you're referencing.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
So one.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Bed looked a little lethargic, certainly, and then you had
the Maxie issue. The heat basically the heat zone complete
defaced that game, right like they hate, like they play
the game ugly, they make the game ill right gross,

(07:11):
all right, because of the way they play their matchup zone.
It's brilliant stuff. It just it really is. But I
was disappointed because it was to be expected. Now they
switched up a little bit. As soon as the Sixers
got that Maxie got past mid court, they blitzed him,
and they blitzed him really really well. Right, You saw

(07:34):
it early where they had to start their their offense
thirty three feet from the basket.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
They were pushed to.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Out and Beads struggled to find to get to a spot.
Maxie struggled on his entry passes. They looked horrible bad shots, right,
they had no rhythm offensively, They're down eleven and halftime,
I mean they're it looked it's looking pretty grim, right,
and I'm thinking, oh my god, not again.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
And then I'm I was.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Watching the game with my cousin, and I kept thinking
we thought it would be different, Like why would we
think it would be different? And there are multitude reasons,
like without Simmons or Harden and that whole sag.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
And then the chicken happened.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
So when an opponent misses two free throws, you get
six free chicken nuggets from Chick fil A.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
And they brick. It's bricking for chicken.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Caleb Martin bricks two free throws and then the crowd,
which was silent, all of a sudden comes to life.
And then the Sixers go on to run to get
in the game, and it was it was speaking of bizarre.
It was like it like the Chicken wield the Sixers.

(08:53):
So they go on this They're going to run. Obviously,
Betoom shoots them. Out of shoots them back in the game.
I mean, he had an incredible, incredible game, and then
Maxi they started to figure out the zone. They started
to drive the ball, they started to be able to
get past that zone and the issues and Maxie started

(09:15):
to figure it out. Now, I was disappointed that it
took them two and a half quarters to figure out
the freaking zone, which you know Miami is going to
play now. The only difference is they said is they
extended it. So they were blitzing Maxi as soon as
he got over mid court, which really hurt the offense,
pushed them out. I thought, you know, it's kind of basic,
it's Miami. But and b was able to go through it,

(09:38):
and then he dominated the last four minutes.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
He looked incredible last four minutes.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Now, to Figure's point, you know, obviously you know with
Jimmy Lippin, it completely affected the game with certainly, uh,
I just think the Knicks when I look at this series,
the Sixers, this team needs to get on in a run,
in a rhythm. The only way they do that is
if beads playing on a regular schedule. He had missed

(10:04):
Sunday's game. He was out for six days, and when
he doesn't play for six days, he gets his weird
and you saw him early grabb An his shorts. He's
out of rhythm. He's wind is affected and he just
doesn't look right. He needs to play. They need to
get into a rhythm. The Knicks don't play his zone.
They played more of a gritty style man that in

(10:27):
all these teams that will fall into somewhat of his own,
but they don't perfect it like Spolstra and the matchup.
So I expect Maxi to be better because remember this
is his first first playoff run with the ball in
his hands, and so he's got immense quickness. And I
love Jalen Brenton to death, and and he's gonna be
on him. He can't stay in front of Maxi. So

(10:50):
I expect Maxi to play much better in this series
and free him up to be more explosive. And then
you know, to figure, you know you're supporting cast Will
just somebody's just got to step up, right in Miami
was Betune, You got ol bray right, you got Buddy Healed,

(11:11):
and you got to play defense. And Tobias Harris, who
I don't want to talk about. What do you think
of that.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Look, it's a really smart breakdown. And so now that
you've been very smart, let me be very dumb for
a second. If Embiid comes into this series and it
is just it looks like man good, he's got to
see legs under him, I feel really good about Philly.
If Embid comes into this series and he's still grasping
that of shorts, which I think is natural. I'm not
saying that in any way to be a down play,

(11:39):
Like we all know it takes a minute sure get
back into basketball shape. If it takes him two or
three games to really get into basketball shape, the question
is can they stay in this series long enough to
let him get his basketball legs on him? Because I look,
if in Bed plays, well, yeah, they can beat New York.
If Embiid is the version he was in that playing game,
new York's gonna win this in six hams. To me, like,
so that's just sort of the like I said, that's

(12:00):
part of why I look, at a very basic level,
I like the concept, like if we were playing the
video game version of this, if we were just looking
at it on paper, I like the concept of Philly
more than I like what I actually saw from Philly.
But that is a very smart breakdown from you of
where the issues came in that playing game.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, like you hit it with, Like, here's the thing.
I don't think the Knicks are as good as people
think either. I think if Julius Randall's there, getting o
g helps. I love Brunson, but they're a team that plays,
and God bless them. They play really hard in the
regular season, and what we know in the regular seedon

(12:39):
is teams take off and they don't play. They don't
match the Knicks intensity. And there were another team that
I will try to muck it up, but they don't
play that the effective zone like Miami does. Miamis the
ultimate vampire. And so I look at the Knicks and
if they had Randall, I think they will be a
little bit more dangerous. I don't you know again, listen,

(13:04):
if you're right, if embiid Is is not himself get
then they lose. I mean, the whole thing only works
if emb plays like he does in the last four
minutes of that game.

Speaker 7 (13:18):
I don't even think defense, to be honest with you,
is going to be the issue for the Knicks. I
think there's probably going to be a series of really
low scoring games. I think defense and Tims they can
figure out a way and schematics to be able to
frustrate Maxie especially, might be more difficult to do that
to Joel Embiid, although you know Hardenstein will try his
best no double and triple team and do a bunch

(13:38):
of different things.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
The issue for me for New York is offense, and
that's where they miss Randall.

Speaker 7 (13:43):
Because basically outside of Jalen brunts and they don't have
anybody else that can create. And you're putting basically all
of the burden to score every single time score or
assist on him, and you don't have another person that
can create a shot for themselves or other people. I
think the Knicks can actually hold their own fairly decently
defensively within this series, but I think the realm is

(14:03):
not being able to basically what I just said.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
I agree with you, like you.

Speaker 7 (14:06):
Talking about the zone with Miami and not being able
to stop Maxie. I don't think that's going to be
an issue for them.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Oh yeah, I do. They don't play these own like mine.

Speaker 7 (14:13):
I don't think they have to, and I think they can.
I think that versatile lot to be able to play
whatever they need to.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
They they'll try to muck it up and they'll try
to they'll try to double and triple em bead and
running and bead and all.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
And that's all. That's all well and good.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Maxie with the ball is a is the engine that
goes on the offense, and that's the and what really
hurt them, hurt the Sixers was truthfully the zone.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
They couldn't get them through their offense.

Speaker 7 (14:44):
But it's not as if the Knicks can't do that
and don't know that. And you have one of the
best defensive coaches the league has seen the last fifteen
twenty years. I'm pretty sure he recognizes that.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Now.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Whether they'll be as effective, well.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
That's my point.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
It's one thing to know something, it's the other thing
to have perfected it, to have to have it in
your arsenal at all times. The Knicks don't play that
zone A play that.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
That's something. Working with Danny Green at the in tournament,
he and I talked a lot about and he said,
especially when you get into the NBA, you can have
really great coaches. And he mentioned a couple of times
that Pop looked at him and it was like I
want you to do this, and I want you to
do this, And they would go into a game with
a great game plan and he's like, hey, we don't
usually do this. Be I'm not capable of doing that.
It's amazing how much you not only your coach gonna

(15:27):
have the plan, but you still gotta have horses to
execute it, you know. So I think I still have
to be.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
A team that runs it.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Well, it's all about your It's it's like anything else
when you play football, do you what scheme do you run?

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (15:43):
I mean and even with that, I mean, look as
great as Max he is off the dribble, not the
best off the dribble in the mid range. Run him
off of the three point line. Make sure he doesn't
get into the paint. I'm not saying Look, I'm not
some sort of you know, NBA, you know expert or anything.
This is just things that I that I see, and
I know they have a bunch of guys on the
perimeter can throw at him.

Speaker 6 (16:00):
They don't even have to put Brunton on him.

Speaker 7 (16:02):
They can put hard, they can put the Vincenzo, they
can bring McBride, who's probably their best guide.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Dude, Hey go try to go get put d Vicenzo
or McBride throwing a bunch of.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Able to just school those two. You can't. You gotta
put on them.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
I don't know if you have to do.

Speaker 7 (16:21):
I think you can mix up your coverages and and
make a difficult for him.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
I don't. I don't think the other Matt Heart is different.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
He's long, but I don't know that he's got the
lateral quickness to stay with him.

Speaker 7 (16:31):
I don't know if is gonna lock him up one
on one, to be honest with you, but they're I
think they're gonna be.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Whether you're gonna have to collapse inmbead.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
So you're gonna have to figure out and and pick
because you can't play and beat straight up. You play
beat straight up, he'll just eat you alive. Mike and
I were talking about it yesterday. The one thing about
if you're going to try to play and beat straight up,
he's gonna embarrass you. So you're there, They're gonna need
to collapse on embid. I mean, that's what has to happen,

(17:04):
and then everything goes from there.

Speaker 7 (17:06):
So so with that, because we started off and I
said that, I think I can see this as going seven.

Speaker 6 (17:10):
By the way, I think the Sixers do win in
six or seven?

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yes, breaking my bulls three seconds into the show.

Speaker 6 (17:15):
Yeah, if you agree, maybe we do more to you too.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Fee.

Speaker 6 (17:20):
What do the Knicks have in their favor?

Speaker 7 (17:22):
Because if the way that you're talking, Philadelphia should win
this thing in five, I'm.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Not talking like that. They're not gonna be.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Why I think the Sixers will win the series.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
I'm about to telling you I think the Sixers will
win it six all right, and you I wrote it
in the New York Posts yesterday, so I that's kind
of how I see it. And I started the whole
breakdown by saying, if Julius Randall's there, it's a different story.
Like you know, I think Randall is a huge and

(17:54):
I agree with you because I don't know that they
have the scoring without Randall to be able to win
the series. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (18:04):
I have less issues with them defensively against them, I
have issues with them being able to score points.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
What about my point about the defense and the zone
is Miami was so effective because Miami runs that thing
that it completely took them out of rhythm. The Sixers
can score points, so you're going to have to really
shut them down to be able to beat them four times.

(18:29):
I agree, yes, leave that.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
We agreed.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Twenty Mommy and daddy don't fighting. Our mommy and daddy
don't fighting. We can we take our commercial. We're gonna
get yelled up by Shay. We haven't gone to break yet.
Like we're off the rails. We're nineteen minutes in this.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Man, it's fun, like it's good geek out debate. Because
this is the playoffs, mean Fitzy, the game excuse me,
changes during the playoffs like you see it now, like
as it's so entertaining, it's so heightened. It's when the

(19:07):
sport shines.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
There's no doubt. I mean, like I said earlier, there
is an element of this that the most interesting part
to me is the physicality of it and the chess
match of it. Like every one of these coaches is
going to go back and adjust and readjust and readjust,
and I get tired of the it's not a series
until somebody loses one at home. I think the better
concept on all of that is it takes three or

(19:30):
four games for a series to really settle down into
what it is. So like the part of this for
me again, I'll go back to the embiid portion of it.
If Embad settles into this series quickly, then I do
think Philadelphia could run through New York. I have no
problem with that concept. If it takes a long time
for that to happen by the time he gets those legs,
and then they might be in a hole they can't
take their way out of. So I think the first
couple of games are particularly interesting. But you're right, this

(19:52):
is why we absolutely geek out like that. The NBA
playoffs are like basketball porn. You just can't get enough
of it.

Speaker 7 (19:59):
Yeah, one more tactical thing, which that's a great line,
Yes on this. They probably can't do it for the
entire game, but you picked your spots and put O
g Andob on him too. And that's someone who's long
and athletic that can stick with him and maybe just
dare to buy his hairs to be the guy to
beat me.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
I would do that.

Speaker 6 (20:16):
That might be that might be part of the recipe
for them.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
I don't know these stage with Maxie, but.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
You know, I think he's long and athletic enough to Again,
he's not gonna shut down Jackrabbit quick.

Speaker 7 (20:27):
Yeah he's but he's the probably the best defender versustile defender.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
That they have.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, probably Gard. I mean, you know, I and I
agree with with putting the game into Bias's hands. I mean,
he would have told about it a shape because he's
actually a good ballplayer. But he's streaking Violet in the
in the playoffs. Man, it's it's it is what it is.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
All right, Well, we'll get into all the stuff. You noticed.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
He had to take one more shot before we get
to break. He knows, he knows what he's doing. The
NFL Draft is coming up on Thursday. Cannot wait.

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Speaker 3 (22:39):
All right, let me ask you this.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
So we all know, Antonio Pierce, of your beloved Raiders
to both you and Figgy's beloved Raiders recruited Jadien Daniels.
We know that the Raiders don't really have the ammo
to get up there, but if somehow they could put
together the package, would you be in favor of pushing

(23:08):
it all in to get Jayden Daniels? Sure?

Speaker 1 (23:11):
I mean, I mean, I don't oversimplify here for a second.
But you got to have a quarterback to win. We
all know that. And in the modern climate, I think
the way what we forget sometimes, and I'm the first
to forget this is there was a concept five six, seven,
eight years ago that if you drafted a quarterback and
you were wrong in the first round, it was going
to cost your entire franchise three four five years. That's

(23:34):
not real anymore because the change in the salary cap
and the way they changed the rookie draft.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Cons was actually genius one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Like now we're churning Burnham quarterbacks right Like, look, I
looked it up yesterday, and if Bryce Young were to
be cut today, there's a thirty one million dollar dead
cap hit for that. That's that's a third basically of
what Russell Wilson's is. So like, we're in a spot
now where anytime you have a shot at a quarterback,
you take a quarterback. Can you just keep doing it
over and over and over again until you find somebody

(24:03):
that you think can compete with the Burroughs and Allen's
and Mahomes and Hurts, and you know, like whatever that
top shelf is, if you don't have a top shelf, guy,
you keep going for it. So this is where I think,
you know the Bill's GM was right when he said
a couple of months ago, if you trade a king's
ransom to get a quarterback, and you're right, nobody will care.
If you trade a king's quarterback or ransom for a

(24:23):
quarterback and you're wrong, you're gonna get fired anyway. So like,
if they're willing to go all in and risk their
job on any of these guys, then I wildly sport.
I was told at the Super Bowl that the Raiders
were prepared to offer three first round picks to move
up if it could get them the guy they wanted.
I just I still, as we sit here today, do
not believe that Washington or New England is going to
trade out. So for me, I think the Raiders are

(24:46):
gonna end up stuck and not get a quarterback unless
they they're able to get one later in the first
round by trading back in or in the second round.
But that being said, if they trade up for one,
I really don't care which one it is. If they
trade up for a quarterback, then I'm going to look
at the tom to LESCo and say, Okay, you got
your guy. Now go cook that. That's all you can do.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
Let me ask you guys a question. This is fascinating.
All right.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
So if you're Washington and the Raiders offered you three
first round picks, now we know that Washington, right, we
know Josh Josh Harris new owner.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Uh, we know he's trying to get new stadium.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
He's trying to you know, he's going to rebuild the
Commander franchise.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
If you're Washington and you've.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Already and you're Josh Harrison, you already went through the process.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
I brought it up earlier. He owns the Sixers.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
That is such like three first round picks, and I'm
sure you get a couple like later sweeteners Like that's
enough to say, you know what, let me stave off
the rebuild one more year and then go get my quarterback,
you know, in the next year.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah. The only problem with that is that I don't
think right now today when yeah, when you look at
next year's and this could all change. But today, when
scouts are looking at next year's quarterback class, there's a
belief that the number one quarterback in next year's class
would be the number five quarterback in this year's So
can you really afford to take that risk when you
don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Or you can even say, you know what, what the
hell would it even if the quarterback doesn't materialize. And
it's so hard to look at a year out because
of its you know, how things play out and who's
throse kids mature and a year is a big deal.
But let's say that it holds true. Well, nobody says
you got to get your quarterback next year, right like

(26:42):
at some point and the next you know, two to
three years.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
The quarterback will materialize that you like.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
And meanwhile, you were sitting there with a draft, you know,
with your call forers filled and you've already done that
once in another sport.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
I wonder, though you're not wrong. I wonder, though, how
much there is a concept of man new ownership, big splash,
got to have the guy you put on the billboard.
You know, it's for me, New England trading down because
I believe that the Patriots have a real shot next
year being the worst team in the NFL. New England
trading down makes a little more sense because you're going

(27:22):
up against Josh Allen, so.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
I know the stadium thing.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, Like, maybe, man, that would take if you're the
new owner of a Washington franchise that has spent the
better part of the last twenty years hating their owner,
and you pass on one of these quarterbacks, and what
people are trying to convince everybody's going to be a legendary,
iconic quarterback class. Right, That's just I wonder if you

(27:48):
you that would take a lot of you know what,
that's take a lot of hootspuer do that.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, and listen, you're right on and I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
And the chalk thing is to just sit there and
take Jane Daniels, not Jane j McCarthy, Jane Daniels, and
you sit there and take Jane Daniels, and you know,
let's go.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Let's let's start our franchise.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
But it is something interesting because you could pack away
real assets to finally build it. Like my message to
the fan base is, listen, I know everybody wants the quarterback.
I want the quarterback, but this is going to help
us build and sustain excellence, all right. This will help
us build it the right way once and for all.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
So we go to our new stadium in Northern Virginia
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
It is, we're going to be able to build it
and be a contender over the long run. And that's
my that would be my speech to the fan base
if I'm Josh Harris and I elect to try to,
you know, hold up the Raiders for three first round picks, Figgie,
would you do it? And if you're the Raiders, and

(28:56):
would you do it if you're Washington.

Speaker 7 (28:58):
If I'm the Raiders, yes, for for every that fits
gave earlier. You know, if it ends up working out,
no one's going to care if Look if it ended
up working out and Ricky Williams was the second company
of Barry Sanders, nobody would have questioned them trading their
entire draft the Saints forgetting them, you know.

Speaker 6 (29:12):
So it's one of those. But the fact, the fact that.

Speaker 7 (29:14):
It didn't it's now a punchline and it's a reference
point in conversations like this.

Speaker 6 (29:18):
So if you're the Raiders, you absolutely do it.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
Because the quarterback is the most important position on the field,
and if you fix that, it becomes easier to try
to fix everything else around him. If you're Washington, I
think it's a more nuanced conversation because I don't want
to hedge here, but I understand both points. Ultimately, I'd
probably end up saying I end up going with the quarterback.
But look, the odds say as great of a quarterback
class as this is, the odds say somebody these guys

(29:42):
are going to end up being starters.

Speaker 6 (29:44):
One of those guys might end up being great.

Speaker 7 (29:46):
Chances are two of these top five or seven guys
already are just gonna be good players and the rest
are going to be flops. Now, how thoroughly convinced are
you that the guy that you're going to be keyed
in on, not named Caleb Williams because you have your
pick of the board at that point in time, is
going to be franchise changing guy. Or if you have
any reservations and you think there's more value, and if
you're trading with the Raiders and you get to number thirteen,

(30:07):
if you don't think that there's that significant of a
drop off between say Jayden Daniels and Michael Pennis, and
you think Panis might be there at thirteen, why do
I take a chance to see if I can get
Panics at thirteen and somebody else in the end the
first round and a couple of more first round picks,
the next couple of years. So I certainly can understand
that thinking.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
I tell you, guys, I don't get because figure brought
up Pennis. I don't get the penis hate. All of
a sudden, there's a story about how Horrible's mechanics are.
Oh my god, I do get it, because it's all
gamesmanship and teams are trying to soil him so that
they can go out and get him because he's the

(30:47):
he's the wild card quarterback in the draft, right, I
mean you look at him and he's one of the
he's one of the wild card kind of where's.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
He going to go?

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Where might right up for him?

Speaker 7 (31:00):
After the big three go in the top three or four,
as we all assume that like him.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
And Bob Nicks are the two like where where?

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Like what's going to happen?

Speaker 2 (31:08):
It's it's it's like you know fifty you talk about
all the time, the silly line season, silly season. It's
it's fun. It's all get out. I was talking to
get to our friend fitz J. Kevin Kevin the Gandhi
and Uh, Kevin is on his way to Detroit, and
we were talking about he had an interesting point. He

(31:30):
was saying, Uh, he thinks the Vikings, Broncos and Raiders
are the teams that make the draft because one of
them is going to trade up to either three or four.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
I just threw in Washington.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, the fan base is that don't. Don't are going
to go apoplectic like that's the the And that's where
I think, you know, just a little bit of common
sense here for Raiders fans, is your organization signed Gardner
Minshew for a reason and brings somebody in to compete
with Aidan O'Connell quarterback room a little bit better, and
it prevents you from having to reach If you look
at Tom Telesco, the new GM who was with the

(32:06):
Chargers before that, what did the Chargers do? They just
sort of sit in the draft and they go best
player available, and that has worked for them repeatedly. The
number of times we sit there after the draft and say, well,
the Chargers got a good one, right, And you know,
there was a lot of conversation even back in twenty
twenty one Justin Herbert was drafted. You know, let's remember
that there were plenty of questions about Justin Herbert coming

(32:27):
out of Oregon too, Like people weren't sure if Justin
Herbert was the right guy. Turns out that was a
good draft class for them. So I think the Raiders
everybody has to remember, and Broncos fans, Viking fans may
have to remember the same thing that you can have
all of these things you want to offer, you can
try really hard not get a quarterback. So then what
do you do if you don't get a quarterback? Well,
you got to get the best player available, and at eleven, twelve, thirteen, respectively,

(32:50):
in this year's draft, there are going to be really
good players available. So this whole conversation of do you
just trade down and get a quarterback later, well, for
all three of the teams, if you love a quarterback
that's still sitting there, are you really willing to roll
the dice on that? Are you going to are you
really going to double down on the if come that
somebody else won't move back up ahead of you, that
the Seahawks won't shock the world and take a quarterback

(33:12):
like we don't know, you know? And then on top
of that, are you willing to pass on somebody that
can start right now? Bad football teams need better players.
And when you're picking an eleven, twelve, and thirteen, you
were a bad football team most of the time, and
you need better players most of the time, So go
get a better player. So yeah, I'm as quarterback obsessed
as everybody, but I think we all have to remember,

(33:33):
like sometimes it's like calm yourself down a little bit,
be a grown man in the room, and realize that
at some point you can only impact what you can impact.
And if you're picking at thirteen and you're sitting there saying, well,
do I want to just trade down and try and
get a quarterback later, or do I take this person
that right now can be my starting tackle or right
now can be my starting corner, I think you just
in this year's draft, you got to take the bird

(33:55):
in the hand versus two in the bush.

Speaker 7 (33:57):
And if you're a team, by the way, like Denver,
like the like Minnesota, it's not like you're a quarterback
away from competing for championships. You want these get as
much frontline talent as you possibly can get. So to
your point, if a player of that caliber is available
and it's not a quarterback, if your board is saying,
you know, Jared Verse, we have him, you know, the
highest ranked player on our board, but we also need

(34:18):
a quarterback. But the quarterback is ranked five spots behind
him on the vertical but on the horizontal board, you're
not going to reach for the quarterback. You take Jared
Verse like, that's that's what a team in that position
should do.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Okay, yes, should do, And I'm not saying that's what
they will do. Yes, yes, yes, yes, all right, we
got to take a quick time out. This is going
to be a world where I could see.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
It right now.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
I can't believe we're already at our final segment of
this hour as we motored through it. Stay with us
all morning. We got draft and NBA coverage all day.
Where the fellas he's chasing fits. Kevin figures, I'm Anthony Gargano.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Shape mighty back with.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
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Speaker 2 (35:14):
Fellas on a fantastic voyage Jason Fitz. Kevin figures, I'm
Anthony Gargado and yes, we come you live from the
tire Rack dot com studios. Uh let me ask you Lakers,

(35:34):
fag I'll go to you first for the Lakers, because
you're a Lakerman and uh, how.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
You feeling.

Speaker 7 (35:45):
Not overly confident, to be honest with you. You know,
Denver still the defending champs. They have their number. They've
beaten them, what eight straight times. The Lakers down the
stretch of the season, in the last three weeks to
a month or so, have been playing much better, and
I think they found something with this new starting lineup,
but they still don't have anybody that can stick with Joker.
I like gay Vinson, but I don't think he's some
sort of lockdown defender that's all of a sudden going

(36:06):
to be the elixir to stop Jamal Murray, which was really,
you know, more so than Yoki. He was really a
big thorn on their side in that Western Conference final
last year.

Speaker 6 (36:15):
And the role players for the most part of the
same on.

Speaker 7 (36:17):
Both sides, although not having Bruce Brown hurts a little
bit for Denver, but Christian Brown has stepped up his
game and played better this year. So I just don't
see the advantages for the Lakers. I see a lot
of the same. So maybe they don't get swept at best.
I think the Lakers probably losing six games.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
It's Denver five. It's Denver five. Wow, I'm giving them
La given the Lakers an extra game just out of
a pure pity. Look the Nuggets. There are certain teams
that you watch during the regular season, and you said
it earlier, like playoff basketball is. It's just it hits different, right.
There are certain teams that you watch during the regular

(36:56):
season and you realize that they are not in it
at all, and the Nuggets were that they were on
cruise control for the majority of the year when it
comes to the intensity, when it comes to just the
way they brought it to night in a night out.
Like I know, the Nuggets are in general sort of
a boring team to watch, but the number of times
that I watched them, I was like, yeah, they're out there,
but they're not like out there, and they still had

(37:17):
a shot at the number one seed in the West.
Like I think we are just as a basketball community,
we are just sleeping on how good the Nuggets are
right now. They're absolutely dominant. Now that being said, I
do think that last year we sort of take.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
For oh, it's zots the Redlins.

Speaker 7 (37:40):
I think Lebron may have cut fits his line. I
didn't like, what was coming out of there?

Speaker 3 (37:47):
He said, what, let me tell you something.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
There, I got all the powers. Yeah, you're out. Oh
that's classic. Hey fig. Last night we had a baseball
tournament and for some reason this I don't know what,
what the hell? The weather is so crazy. It was

(38:10):
freezing last night. It was like in the forties. Yeah,
oh my god, I was freezing my stones off last night.

Speaker 6 (38:22):
And the kids played through it.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Huh yeah, double nadder. It was miserable too, sheese. It
was horrible, horrible, I can imagine. Yeah, and Mansie was
not good. Did any kid have a good game at
that point?

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Once?

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Yea, we played this team that was ridiculous. They hit
three home runs. Yeah, no, I don't.

Speaker 6 (38:42):
The team of the team of sixteen year old who
were shaven and everything.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
There monsters.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
They're called the assassins, of course.

Speaker 6 (38:49):
They are the monstars, basically exactly.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
She was this one kid I noticed, kid'll be in
the bigs.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
This kid and this kid gaping me great dynam my kid, Lefty.
He's the biggest eleven year old I've ever seen, really,
but like he looks like a.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Man like.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
And he looks like a man the kid right, like
he he's like long and lean.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
He's like, it looks like Jim. He looks like Jim Tomey.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Right at eleven. I was like, what the kid swings like?
I mean usually like there's a bit of immaturity in
the game, right like this kid. I swear to god,
if you just watch the kid, there's no his movements.

(39:39):
His movements are like a big leaguer. It's unbelievable. He
hits a ball, Oh my god, this thing was like
a rocket into the night and I'm still thinking how
far it almost went two fields. Was like, oh my god.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Then you show them the concept of being eleven and
being that like just that dominant because we see this
all the time of football too. But where you got
the one kid that is just so much bigger than
the rest. It's it's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Oh that's what you would tell him.

Speaker 7 (40:13):
I don't care how old you are, you're not playing
against this level of competition.

Speaker 6 (40:16):
We got to bump you up. This is unfair.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Yeah, he's like, there's funny, Like you look at him,
you go, this kid will be in the big leagues.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
Like I would sign him right now.

Speaker 6 (40:29):
I was funny, you offer him a scholarship at the
age of seven.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
And that's why I was I'm telling you I would
I would bet on this kid. All right where the fountains.
Back to Draft NBA next right here. Fox Sports Radio. Well,
good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning.
A body happy happy Fox Sports Saturday. It's a great week.

(40:56):
This is what the sports equinox. This is what we love,
the spring and fall equinox for sports.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
We're hitting it.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
So you got baseball on their way, you got the
NBA and NHL playoffs that begin, and then of course
the NFL Draft. So this is the spring equinox where
we get all four sports and some sort of action.
It's like the October one. It's the greatest. I mean

(41:26):
I April and October are the best sports months.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
We're in it.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Now as we get ready for the draft. How about
a fifteen Like this is this is stuff that we love, right, Like,
you know, we got all that Like it's like an
explosion on the Census.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
You know what I'm feeling. I'm feeling like it's back.
The Jews from the cus is back right Like see,
for anybody that's been listening to this show for a minute,
you know that at the end of football season. It
was like hul Cogan and the sleeper hole. The arm
went down to the mat for count one, right, and
then we got the armor was lifted back up and
there was a realization that nothing was right where it

(42:02):
needed to be. The arm bam hits the mat for
number two. Well, they lived to the arm for number three,
and just before it got to the mat. Ooh, we
had opening Day, right, we had the NCAA tournament. Boom.
Now we get the equinox i feel of the joy
Joy jeige Oian, You're hard to cousin there right there,
like now the arenas pumped. Everybody said, look, I make

(42:23):
no I don't hide this at all. I think that
my favorite event of the entire sports calendar is the
NFL Draft, and it is officially Draft week, so let's go.
I'm all in. This is going to be a great week.
And when you couple it with the fact that it
has been a truly chaotic year in the NBA, like
the fact that we went into the final day of
the season with eleven and fifteen games having playoff seeding

(42:45):
implication and we still don't really know the difference between
the two seed and the four seed and Bold Conference. Like,
I just feel like this is a wildly interesting opening
round of the playoffs. I feel like this week is
just one of those you sit down, you pop the
popcorn up on the couch, and you know, no matter
what you turn on, you know that your no knows
are gonna say yes, yes.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Yeah, I hear you. Brother, I am so with you.
I'm completely with you.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Do you have a team, like you know we're playing
the Figgies A Laker man, I'm a sixer man. Who's
your nbah quite obviously the Golden Knights, you're an NHL man?

Speaker 3 (43:24):
What about the the NBA?

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Who's a lifelong, die hard Lakers fan? As a kid,
I was a massive Lakers fan. And really it's like,
I mean that was that makes sense? Yeah, the Lakers
were life and I I was the biggest Kobe fan
you could ever meet. And then, as we all remember,

(43:48):
the Colorado incident happened, and for me, that was like
one of the few athletes I ever put him up
on a pedestal in my life. And that was really
hard for me to figure out how to root forward
through all of that and what to do with all
of that, And it just sort of some of my
NBA fandom for one particular team, So I find myself like,
the funny thing is I'm tough on the Lakers a lot,
and people on Twitter over the years, especially ESPN always

(44:10):
came up with me he was like just another Lakers hater,
and I was like, if you had any idea how
much of a fan I was. But now I'm I'm
fairly NBA neutral. I love good stories in the NBA
more than everything, So I'm NBA neutral.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
NBA neutral, Listen, you could be. That's one thing that's
that's interesting is the neutrality, especially when you're a in
our business right like forever, Like if I'm writing a journalist,
I always neutral because that's you have to let the
story you get. The story dictates your angle, your slant,

(44:44):
the whole thing. But you know, when you're just sitting
back and you're just you know, fan, because we are
all inside fans, like we love this stuff. That's the
reason why when when FITZI says, I hear it in
your voice, that's true, man.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Like I love it, like I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
To watch these games today and tomorrow, and you know,
talk about the draft and get into it because it's
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(45:28):
All right, So let's get into how we kind of
see the series and then we'll take the big fat
segment coming up to get back to draft. We're gonna
go back and forth all day today. So one of
the series that I'm like, can't wait to watch is
Suns and Timberwolves. The Suns are favorite. I'm trying to

(45:51):
figure that out. Figure I'll start with you do you
when you're looking at that series? I think Minnesota wins it.

Speaker 7 (45:59):
The reason I can think that the Suns might be
favored is because they're probably just a bad matchup from
Minnesota standpoint. Minnesota is a team that likes to guard
around the perimeter, funnel everything into the paint towards their
bigs and Phoenix basically are mid range assassins, and that's
kind of a place where Minnesota doesn't really defend, and
most teams in the NBA don't really live there, but

(46:19):
that's where Kevin Durant and Devin Booker and Bradley Beal
do the majority of their damage. And I believe during
the regular season the Phoenix had the upper hand against
Minnesota for that reason, So that would make the most
sense to me as the wife. I didn't realize that
Phoenix was favored. That was actually a little bit surprising,
But I would understand why people would think that Phoenix
would have an advantage or at least have the ability

(46:40):
to win that series is because what they do well
is what Minnesota doesn't.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Yeah, and by the way, the Sun swept the season
series three nothing, won all three of the games by
double digits, And I thought it was interesting back in November,
Durant and Booker combined for sixty two points at one
point five points per possession, which is the most efficient
offensive performance of the entire season in a huge win. So, like,
I think you're right. I love the concept of how

(47:06):
huge Minnesota feels like they play right, Like, I love
all of that, But there is just a part of
me that looks at it and says, man, in these moments,
a little bit of brand bias to the stars and
the playoffs anyway, But just how are they going to
figure out Duranton Booker. Now, they don't got to shut
him down, but they got to figure out a way
to at least limit their efficiency. And I don't know,
matchup wise, if that's great for them. So I would

(47:28):
love to see Minnesota win this. And by the way,
I think that's it's important for a team like Minnesota
to get over this hump and beat a team like Phoenix,
just we spend a little bit more time, you know,
paying attention to them. But yeah, I think the matchup
part of this is really difficult. This is this there
is gonna be great, I think so too.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Let me give you the series the lines, all right,
Just so we all as already knows, Phoenix's minus one
fifty five, right, So Minnesota brings back one thirty.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
So that's a pretty prohibitive favorite.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
The Nicks, And this is DraftKings and Knicks or minus
one fifteen, the Sixers or minus one oh five. It's
basically a pick them six Ers. At one point I
thought I think was minus twenty one twenty. It's now
Nicks minus one fifteen. Cleveland is minus one eighty five,

(48:19):
bring back one fifty five. To four Orlando.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Go back like that one's real quick. I would just
say that one's only interesting to me because there's actually, like,
if you're a dabbler in the gambling world, most of
these series don't have a lot of opportunity for you.
But man, that is if you believe it all in Orlando,
there's profit to be made in that one. Like, I
thought that was a staggeringly disrespectful number to Orlando.

Speaker 7 (48:46):
Especially considering not knowing what they expect from Donovan Mitchell.
If he's healthy, I I'll think completely differently about it.
But because that I know that he's not going to
be one hundred percent, that's interesting for me.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Yeah, I agree, I'm with you. Let me continue. Denver
is a huge favorite. As you guys can imagine, as
we talked about Denver's minus three to ten. If three
to one, Lakers bring back to fifty, Celtics heats basically
off the board, they're minus thirty to one. Clippers Dallas

(49:20):
is going to be an awesome, awesome series.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
I'll ask you, Fitzie, what do you think that series
line is?

Speaker 1 (49:29):
Oh, I don't know, slight edge to the Clippers.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
So Dallas one thirty minus one thirty Clippers.

Speaker 7 (49:37):
With Dallas is probably Dallas's only favorite because we don't
know the status of Kawhi Leonard. If Kawhi Leonard were
healthy and he wasn't listed as questionable and we knew
that he was going to play without a shadow of
a doubt and be unhindered, I'm not saying they'd be
an overwhelming favorite, but the Clippers would be favorite, and
the only reason they are not is because of Kawhi.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Can I just say, like my trust issues run deep
with the Clippers, like I just don't at some point,
I can only be Charlie Brown running up to the
football so many times before I'm just done. And we've
all seen it. James Harden forgets out of basketball right
and we know that it's just a key times it's
like what's this thing and how does it go in there?
Like it's just it's alarming when you see the mental

(50:15):
block that Harden has faced at big moments. That scares me.
Kawhi's health scares me. Everything about the Clippers just scares me.
Plus at some point, like I'm not that guy. As
you guys know the company, well they've never done it before,
but like every year this group just finds a new
way to just muck it up. I have trust issues
with the Clippers.

Speaker 7 (50:33):
Yeah, And the hope was you'd had Kawhi and Paul George,
who were for the most part, for their standards, healthy
the majority of the season. Kawhi just unfortunately got hurt
at the wrong time that they'd be able to take
a little bit of the burden off of James Harden
and he can be that third guy. And when they
were rolling earlier in the year and there's a little
bit less pressure on him, he didn't have to. I mean,
there are a lot of games he was going ten
to eleven, twelve points, but he was getting fifteen assists

(50:55):
and he was kind of dominating that way, and there
was less pressure on him to score the ball. Now,
Kawhi Leonard definitely gonna be hampered. Whether he plays or not,
we still don't know. But even if he does, he's
not going to be one hundred percent. James Harden's gonna
have to be a focal point for them, and as
you mentioned in the postseason, as you know, well know, Anthony,
that can be a scary, scary proposition.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Yeah, dude, Well I even asked Danny about it, Danny Green,
I asked him. I said, hey, like, ky Green, you
know this, Danny Green, Like I asked Danny Green. I
was like, James Harden, is it real? Is it not real?
Like if you were playing against him? Is it just
bad luck and bad moments? And he literally laughed and
looked at me and he's like, no, like everybody knows.
It's just it's in his head. So you just got

(51:34):
to let him get in his head. Like if the
league knows that, I know that, you know that Harden
knows that, Why the hell would I trust him in
a playoff series?

Speaker 7 (51:43):
You can't, dude, especially against a team like Dallas, who
was Dubben the hottest team in the NBA in the
last two months. Yeah, we're actually playing some defense despite
having two net negative guys out there in Luca and
Kyrie Irving, they're as dangerous as anybody.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Actually, it's the perfect I like the make up, like
if you're going to have those two. They surrounded him,
They surrounded them with a with a great supporting game.

Speaker 7 (52:07):
O brilliantly and like the moves they made at the deadline.
PJ Washington like it was it was spectacular.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
It reminds me of when the Sixers made they running
Oh one and had I were sending a bunch of
role players who play defense and Larry Brown, who was
a defensive coach.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
It kind of it's it's similar. It's there are players
that complement.

Speaker 6 (52:26):
Do you just have a bunch of dirty work guys
and let Luca and Gary just do their thing?

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Yeah, it's it's It is just funny, and I knew,
I do mean it's funny. I'm not making any deep
dives taking here about marcute.

Speaker 7 (52:39):
I believe that shark Mark Cuban has now a cut
the line for fits so we have we have.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Now Fitzi has now been caught. His lines have been
caught by Lebron.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
And should we say that uh Antonio Pierce doesn't want
him to give out any draft secrets. That's possible. You
know earlier he now, like you said, Mark Cuban is
shark because you know he's tack so he can easily.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Tap into Fitzi's union and.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Look at Mark look for for half everything. Mark embans
he can tap into my unit anytime.

Speaker 6 (53:28):
I was we're talking about tax bill by the way
last week.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Yeah, yeah, but I love that he tweeted that out.
Good good, good, good human. Yeah, I'm just saying, like Mark,
when Mark's there, they don't they tried, they didn't get
the right things around and then all of a sudden, Mark,
you know, Mark leaves and they do get the right
pieces around it. It's just timing. It's just you know,
they took a lot of stabs out and I get it,
but like, it just made me laugh a little bit
that they finally figured it out when Mark Cuban is

(53:56):
not part of the organization.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
Yes, yeah, you're right, you're right.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
All right, let's continue as we go through some of
the series, and then we take a look at the
NBA from a from a series standpoint. Obviously, Okac is
a huge favorite, as is Boston. Now you don't see
any there's no weird anything weird happens there, right guys.

Speaker 7 (54:26):
Well, you know who's wiping the sweat off their brow
and had taken a giant breath.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Is the Boston Celtics.

Speaker 7 (54:32):
Celtics that Jimmy Butler is not going to play in
the series, because if he was, I don't know if
Miami would be favored or not. But based on what
happened last year, and in previous seasons, at the very least,
it will be a tight line. Despite the fact that
the Boston had the best record in the NBA this year,
we just know what the Heat do historically.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
It's a better Celtic. Like, so, I hear you, but
I was talking to Buddy Mine yesterday, that's a huge
Celtics fan, and I'm like, I get y'all are hurt,
but like, this is a this is just a better
Celtics team. I agree with everything you're saying in principle,
but also it is better Celtics team. Like the Celtics
are gonna run through the East. I don't think anybody
in the East is even going to challenge them. I
think they're about to make it look gross. They're about

(55:12):
to make it look easy, and then they're just gonna
sit on their perch and they're gonna wait for the
Nuggets to get there and then find out they're a
bad matchup for the Nuggets because they don't rebound well
and they can't score laton games. So like all of
a sudden, they're gonna get beat in the finals by
the Nuggets and it's going to be very predictable. But
through the East. They're gonna run rough shot through it.

Speaker 7 (55:29):
I don't necessarily deny that as far as the remainder
of the Eastern Conference the best team. There's a mental
hurdle too, when it comes to playing Miami, not now,
not without Jimmy Butler. It's very comfortable at this point
in time to be able to say that knowing that
Jimmy's not playing. I'm just telling you right now, and
heaven forbid, if Miami would have found a way to
win a game or two in Boston to start that series,
you don't think that those guys will be start playing

(55:49):
tight at that point, saying here we go again, knowing
that they've knocked on the precipice a couple of times
and haven't broken through.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
Here. I listen.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Not that they would beat Boston, but I think that
they would make and I said the same thing that
they would give Boston, you know, Fits, they would give
Boston all kinds of Jason fitz.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Man, they would mess them up.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
They would now Boston wins. And I think you're right,
FITSI I think the Celtics are easily the best team
in the in the Eastern Conference. I'm just curious about
like their depth, like if somehow Miami pushed them, Like
who knows, I don't know. I mean, but right now,
you're right, I don't. I don't see anybody beat beating
them unless.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
That's the Beast.

Speaker 6 (56:40):
Oh please, I'm sorry, My Michael still don't want to
said that.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
You know, I think though.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Show wants seventy six ers Lakers for the final. That's
what this show wants. This shows that to happen. Yes,
just so the two of you can argue the whole
time and I'll just sit there and say fiery things
about both teams, like this is what the what the
sports part known as the Fella's needs.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
That's rights eighties.

Speaker 7 (57:08):
Let's go the Magic and Doctor j. We can play
the montage now. I'm all, oh my god, we need Lakers.
We need seventy six ers. We need to then go
as a show and then we need to you know,
I just need nachos along the way.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
That's all I need.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
That would be the best.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
What do you guys think about the the Milwaukee Indiana series.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Favorite?

Speaker 2 (57:33):
Like you said by one, so the patries are are
one twenty, but bucks are even money.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Milwaukee's had a pathetic season and their effort on the
defensive side of the ball has been pathetic, And I'm
just going to keep saying pathetic in every possible way
because they were supposed to be like, we were supposed
to be sitting on the cusp of a decade of
dominance in Milwaukee, and instead we got one championship and
ever since then, it's like they're throwing spaghetti against the
wall to see what sticks. The name hasn't really worked

(58:01):
out the way they wanted to, but the effort on
the defensive side of the ball has been laughable. No
matter who the coach has been, has been gross through
all of it. And now if they do end up
getting beat by the Pacers, you got to, like, I
have never been the one that says this every single time.
I've said, calm down when it comes to Giannis. He's
not going anywhere. Man. I don't know. I just they're
in a pickle with this roster. Nothing looks like it's

(58:23):
gonna be easy moving forward. Like I think Milwaukee needs
to have a little bit of a move here just
to keep gi honest happy. I don't think that's gonna
happen because they're not playing well and all of a
sudden we're gonna be talking about where Jannis wants to
play next.

Speaker 7 (58:35):
I mean, and I do remember saying this too when
they trade it for Damian Lillar, They're probably gonna take
a half step back defensively because he's just a turnstile,
but they'd be so much better offensively. Was not the
case this year at all. And now you're talking about
entering into a series without Yann. It's against one of
the best offensive teams in the league. Now, granted what
Indiana has working against them, Tyre's Halliburton has not been
the same ever since he got injured. I think just

(58:58):
around Christmas is when it happened. He hasn't been the
same sense then because he was playing at a just
an incredible averaging a double double, you know pace with
a with a high efficiency, and that's gone down considerably.
Uh So, even if Milwaukee finds the way you get
out of this series, I highly doubt they find the
way you get out of the second round, regardless of
who they're playing. And Janni's just signed that extension. But
you know, he's still one of the best players in

(59:18):
the entire NBA, regardless of the fact that he's owed
you know, two hundred million dollars whatever it is over
the next five seasons. If he does do demand of trade,
there's gonna be plenty of teams who are willing to
pick up the phone and call oh.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Yeah, oh yeah, big time. I don't understand what they
did with the coaching situation.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
I still haven't figured that out.

Speaker 6 (59:37):
Well, it certainly didn't help. So what difference did it
end up making? Really none?

Speaker 2 (59:42):
And Griffin I didn't quickly and I'll then we'll take
a quick time out and we'll move on the draft.
But like, if you're the box, why in the hell
would you go Doc Rivers route?

Speaker 1 (59:59):
No wing?

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Like the whole point of the Bucks is like, all right,
now we have to get pasted, and we need to
go deep into the playoffs and make the run. Get
over the top. Doc is the over the top guy.

Speaker 7 (01:00:11):
Yeah fight, So Bayes, you fire coach Budenholzer two years ago,
so you can end up hiring Doc Rivers, is what
you're telling me.

Speaker 6 (01:00:19):
You've been better off just keeping coach Bud at that
point of course, But.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
Through all of it, at every single step, Janice's future
has been part of the conversation they've had behind the scenes.
With the Bucks. That's they have been. Everything has been
let's keep you honest happy, much like everything the Lakers
do is let's keep Lebron happy. Thing of it is
like it just hasn't worked, right, So I don't understand
the doc move. But I'm even bigger than that, Like,

(01:00:45):
you know, they had to talk to to you honest
about it, but they also had Giannis help pick the
last coach right, like, so it's just all of it
sort of there's it feels like every misstep because they're
they're not thinking about what's best for the future of
their organization. They're desperately figuring out how to trying to
figure out how to keep their girlfriend happy, and like
that just doesn't work at some point.

Speaker 7 (01:01:04):
Yeah, but if there's a superstar, you know, superstars like that,
especially those who are willing to play and commit themselves
to a city like that, are hard to come by.
So when you find yourself in that situation, you do Cleveland.
Cleveland did the same thing with Lebron the first time
around before he ended up leaving. Even the second time around,
given contracts to guys who probably didn't deserve it, just
to do whatever they could to make sure that he stayed.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
If you're Milwaukee, you almost.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
You have to do that.

Speaker 6 (01:01:29):
You have to give Giannis whatever he asked.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
For you do you're absolutely pinched in until it doesn't work.
And then when it doesn't work, now you're looking around saying, well,
now we don't have a coach and we're probably gonna
lose lose Janis.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
Anyway, all right, let's say quick time out and we'll
get back to some draft pa. Let's what are we
here in with the quarterbacks. Let's get our latest version
of the quarterback drama Fitsie, you blew me away last week.

(01:02:00):
Let's see if you're hearing the same things. JJ over
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Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
That's how we do it, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
So the storyline, certainly, we've touched on it, and we've
talked about it for months about this draft begins and
with the quarterbacks, and it's how it's all going to
shape the draft. And it's always a quarterback driven draft
every year, and this year it's a banner year for them,

(01:03:09):
so of course it's going to drive this draft. We
know Caleb won to Chicago, all right, and now we're
looking at what happens at two. Last week, FITZI, you said,
suddenly Washington might have eyes on JJ McCarthy with the

(01:03:30):
second pick, not Jadeen Daniels, as the entire free world thought.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
And I still hear that from people that are connected
to the organization, Like I'm not an insider, y'all. I
don't pretend to be an insider. I talked to insiders,
talk to people I know, and I just try and
get the best sense. And I had one guy last
week say, look, the people that are not full of
you know what, are telling me that JJ's the number
one on some of the boards in Washington. They believe
in JJ that much. So I'm still hearing that they

(01:04:00):
love JJ. Now maybe it's all of smoke screen because
they want to create some sort of interest. I just
don't understand. And this in general right now, I don't
understand where the benefit is for Washington to create a
smoke screen And their GM came out and said not
going to trade the pick. So if you're not if
you're not going to trade down, then why get cute
with all of this other than you just want to
be in the news and want to be in the conversation.

(01:04:22):
But I don't understand it. Personally, I would take Jade
and Daniels too, but I still hear that, and also
like not for nothing, but the demise of Drake May
in the eyes of so many people is really confusing
to me, Like I don't know what people have decided
since the end of the season. That Drake May went
from being a one, A and a two to now

(01:04:42):
suddenly well he could fall down draft boards like that.
That's that's wild to me, that Drake May's done nothing
and all of a sudden he's falling, while J. J.
McCarthy's done nothing and he's rising.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
Well, and the other thing too, is Drake may lost
you know, two of his weapons from a year ago.
Like you know, let's face it, I mean that offense
two years ago was ridiculous, and you lose some and
it's not like you're Ohio State right where you know,

(01:05:12):
after Guy Wilson you go to Marvin.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
I mean, you know, you're North Carolina. The difference.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
The interesting part on all of this is that when
we look at these quarterbacks, they're all so different that
I keep saying everybody's got their favorite flavor of ice cream.
But I do think we have to also acknowledge that
not every one of these teams is a good fit
for every one of these quarterbacks. Right Like, if you
believe that that Drake, you know, if you believe Drake's

(01:05:43):
going to need a little bit of time to clean
up some things, which I've seen some smart breakdowns on,
I think that probably makes sense most rookie quarterbacks do. Okay,
is he going to clean those things up in New England?
God only knows, right Like, is he going to clean
those things up in Minnesota?

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
Heck?

Speaker 10 (01:05:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
Like if you want to talk about what people think
you have to have in place and Daniel Jeremiah said
this week on a draft call that you know, if
you secretly asked every single quarterback agent where they wanted
their client to end up, the answer would be Minnesota
because you have a quarterback conscious play caller, you have

(01:06:19):
a pass catcher there, like, you have all of the
systems that you need to make a quarterback successful. The
Patriots don't have that, right Like, it is interesting to
me when we think the Broncos. The Broncos may have
a great coach, but their roster is in a terrible spot.
So you know, I'm not sure that the Raiders have
a great offensive coordinator, so you start looking at where

(01:06:40):
they can be successful. If you're a young quarterback, god,
you're hoping that Minnesota trades up and takes you somehow.
But I think what's interesting is we're going to call
some of these quarterbacks busts when really, realistically, some of
these teams deserve to be labeled the bust after this
draft is done to completely.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
I think you're you know about all with that. It's
funny somebody talking me about about JJ McCarthy's like, dude,
he goes, do you because I was asking him, like
my god, you know, I get they won the national championship,
but it's not like he was the main catalyst for that.

(01:07:19):
And I know it's all about a projection and there
are things that I like, I'm not telling you JJ
McCarthy shuldn't be drafted early in the draft, but like
the thought of him over Jayden Daniels to me is
mind boggling. And he said to me, well, there's three
things at play here, and it's like, one, you can't
discount the national title thing, and then he's like two

(01:07:44):
the interviews, like he kills the interviews, like everybody looked
the minute he opens his mouth, teams are going to
go gata over him. And three he's a good athlete,
like his athleticism shows. So he's like those three factors

(01:08:06):
you know are and I'm going to take the the
fact that he is the he makes everybody swoon as
the biggest reason why he's the pass Jane Daniels, because
I mean, what does Jaydon Daniels like, I get like
when you break his film down, he his eyes are
down sometimes like he's at the rush thing working. But

(01:08:30):
when you watch his tape, which I have exact there
with Bald, he watched it and watched it and over
and over again, and I go, like, projection, what am
I missing?

Speaker 8 (01:08:42):
He?

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
Okay, his legs are frail, all right, like his arm
ate right, he can move all get out.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
He's got a beautiful arm. He might throw the best ball.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
I mean him and Caleber right there, Like what am
I missing with with Jane Daniels tell me the.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
Only thing that people the only fear that I keep
hearing with Jayden is that if you look at his
eyes when the pocket starts to collapse, he doesn't do
the best job of keeping his eyes up, and then
when he runs look to throw. But I think, like
her exactly. I mean to me, that's one of those

(01:09:22):
things where like, all right, we'll coach the kid, help
him get better at that, right. So I think what
you need in today's NFL is when everybody's like, do
you want a mobile quarterback? You want an immobile card
like a pocket quarterback, I would say this, you need
a quarterback that can run your offense the way a
coach wants our offense run absolutely, and then you need
a quarterback that five to ten times a game can

(01:09:44):
save you when the plays just not happen in the
way it needs to happen. Jayden can save you all
day every day. We know that, Like with his legs,
he can save you. And I hear that he doesn't
protect his body as much as Lamar. Again, coach that
figure that outcurately. Time to work all these things out.
Like with JJ, he can't throw to the left side
of the field, just the entire left side of the
field is out for him, Like so far that's been

(01:10:05):
an issue. So like, I would rather have somebody that
can save me on some places than somebody they can't
throw to an entire side of the field, Like what
do we do with like? And you know, frankly, even
with Michael Pennick Junior, like you mentioned how great JJ interviews,
it stood out to me no, And I may have
said this to you after the National Championship weekend when
I was at that game, I spent probably fifteen minutes

(01:10:27):
talking to JJ at one point, and when I walked
away from it, I thought, man, old team owners are
going to fall in love with this dude, like you
can tell it. And I spent fifteen minutes later in
the day with Pennix and I walked away from that
thinking he's not going to interview as well, like he
doesn't as a personality, he's a little quieter, he's a
little like he's a little harder to understand when he talks,

(01:10:49):
Like he mumbles a little bit, you know, like he's
not that like around in those interview settings. He just
wasn't quite as comfortable, you know, and you can feel that,
And I thought, man, that's going to hurt him ways
that are stupid, And I think that's part of what's happening,
like part of this discourse from Michael Pennock Junior, where
it's like, well the injury history, Okay, let me remind
everybody he had a clean bill of health at the

(01:11:10):
scouting combine, a completely clean bill of health. So whatever
his history was with the knees, like, it's been cleaned up.
So if he's got a clean bill of health, and
then it's well he's not athletic. Look at how we
ran at his pro day. He's plenty of athletic.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
I don't care what are we doing either.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
Like, I just think it's all at this point. It's
all so people are finding a reason to justify a
guy they simply like for no reason, or a guy
they simply don't like for no reason, and it's it's
causing all of this movement in ways that I think
is asinine.

Speaker 3 (01:11:41):
Yeah, fake way in here. Please.

Speaker 7 (01:11:45):
The interesting thing that I'm listening to on just the
whole conversation talking about quarterbacks and you know, well, who
should they be taken or where should they be taken?

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
In different fits?

Speaker 7 (01:11:54):
And you guys brought up the New England Patriots, and
you know why a quarterback will be a better fit in,
say in Washington or a different place where they have
more weapons. Remember the conversation we had last year going
into the draft when we talk where the discussion was
Bryce Young versus c J.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
Stroud, And when CJ.

Speaker 7 (01:12:08):
Stroud was taken out the Houston Texans people are like, man,
this guy's gonna take his lumps. We are offensive line
doesn't have a lot of weapons to throw to and
this guy is out here breaking rookie records. It just
tells you about the inexact science and what you just
don't know about the intangibles that a certain player brings,
the coaching situation, the players around them. I mean, who
the hell knows if they end up drafting you know,

(01:12:29):
Daniels or Nicks or whoever it is, and he plops
into New England with no talent so as we believe,
and all of a sudden he lights the world on fire.
It just tells you the inexact science of all of
this and the circumstances surrounding it, and nobody really knows.
We obviously have some educated guesses based on what we've seen,
but you really just can't predict it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
I will say this though, I look, there were real
question marks about Bryce Young and his size, and I
think those are fair question marks. And also if you
talk to people around Alabama, they told you coming out
last year that he struggled with offensive line communication and
blitz pick up, and that was something that carried over
to Carolina. I think that those were real. Going back
to a year ago right now, A year ago right now, well,

(01:13:10):
I am not going to stand here and tell anybody
that I predicted what CJ. Stroud did. I think that's
be asked, and I for anyone to say that a
year ago right now, I was pounding the table saying
there aren't question marks to c J. Stroud in my mind,
c J. Stroud any question marks that were about his athleticism,
he answered in his press conferences, and he answered in
that Georgia playoff game, and I was there covered it

(01:13:31):
right now, And the whole time we were looking at
each other saying, Man, this kid just made himself a
ton of money. To me, CJ was about as clean
a prospect as you could get. When we look at
this year's draft class, I do think it's fair to
say like there are at least some As much as
we are making this year's draft class a bunch of Jesuses,
there are a There are fair and reasonable questions that

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are that are okay to answer to ask about Jayden,
to ask about Drake, to ask about JJ, to ask
about both, to ask about Pandis. I don't think there
are questions about Caleb Williams. Everybody else there are questions.
So like when there are questions, I can justify a struggle.

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
It's a great point man, great stuff spot on all
right Sits like Fellas continuing the moment Fox Sports Radio
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That's a great song. But mightey Mark has a good

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back of the day groove.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
He does like there's a funk thing happening to do yeah,
I love I feel like Mighty Mark today's wearing a
pimp pat and he's just like he's just sitting back
a little bit, got a little cane. He's just letting,
he's letting the groove hit.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
And that's a little Philly sound right there. Mm hmmm,
my favor.

Speaker 10 (01:14:51):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
Dude. Let me ask you a question because the thing
happened this week that I hate the most of the
sports and that is a franchise moving. You know, like
I get like some towns don't support and you have
the arena and stadium issues.

Speaker 3 (01:15:12):
I get all that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
These teams are public trusts. When they come into a city,
there should be an ironclad clause that keeps them there.
I mean, barring something that is completely you know, like
a travisty, like barring something crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
You got to work it out with your city in town.
I think, I just think you do.

Speaker 1 (01:15:41):
Man. There has to be more I think mindset into
where teams are going into cities too, because like if
the Arizona thing failed, and look according to everything I
know right like most reports, they were willing to fund
their own but they wanted it. Part is an entertainment
complex and that always gets complicated, blah blah blah. But

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what do we see now as they moved to Salt
Lake City with the coyotes, Like there is a moment
to me where it's like, how much due diligence did
you do on Salt Lake City? How much time did
you spend talking to Salt Lake City to make sure
that Salt Lake City's not gonna have the same result
for you in fifteen twenty years?

Speaker 10 (01:16:19):
Right? Like you got.

Speaker 1 (01:16:21):
I just think that sometimes this has done so rashly.
And look, I'm living part of it as a guy
that loves Vegas so much that's watching the a's, you know,
possibly move to Las Vegas. And I understand why it's
cheaper for teams to simply acquire or cities, I should say,
to acquire teams than it is to acquire an expansion team.
But man, you just got you better know because otherwise,

(01:16:43):
all of a sudden, you're just your a revolving door
that goes through. So you're right, it is the worst,
absolute worst. Let me ask you a question, though, like
I want to, I'm going to spend a negative to
a positive. Okay, because I saw that the possible name,
possible name hear me out, they applied for the twe mark.
Finally they added it to it, the Utah Yetti's tell

(01:17:03):
me that's not the best hockey name, like Utah yet,
like the Kraken was a great name. And you know,
I was in Nashville. I went to the first ever
Preds game. The Predators. It's a weird name, right, like
makes me think of Dateline a little bit, but I
get it and the logo, you know, I'm just just
you know, like, but the National Predators like got a
lot of love for the pretz. I'm gonna be honest.

(01:17:24):
And for anyone that doesn't know, the saber tooth tiger
that is the logo was because when they were building
the arena, before they even knew if they were gonna
be able to get a hockey team, they unearthed the
bones of a saber tiger. There'd never been one found.
It was a big deal, right. So, But I was
sitting on air for the flagship station for the Nashville
Predators in Nashville the day that Vegas announced their their

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nickname for the hockey team, and I was so excited
being a guy from Vegas and like, my city's getting
their first professional franchise at the time. My god, this
is gonna be great. And it was the Golden Knights,
like on air, that was the biggest, just kicking the
you know what's like Nevada is the Silver State and
it's not even the Silver Knights. It's a Golden Night.
And everybody will hit me with the reasons. I don't

(01:18:07):
care about the reasons why. He had a million different
choices and he picked the Golden Nights like it made
absolutely no sense and it sucked. And then the seattle
cracking come out and I say that as I'm sitting
here in a Golden Nights hoodie. So like miss me
with all of the Twitter conversation on this, but I
saw the Utah Yetties. Dude, I would go out and
buy that. Like a big old abominable snowman. Oh that's

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gotta be so good.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
Yeah, I agree, I'm with you. The abollable Snowman's awesome.
The two great creatures, let me let me throw these
fits at you, all right, the snowman, that's a great creature.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
And the sea monster.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
I just read where they found the bones of a
giant sea mons. They're a sea dragon. They like like
twice the size what they say, it was twice the
size of whow Bluega whaw whatever. It was like, can

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you imagine, right, this mother bother was a monster limited
the sea. It was a gods Zilla piece right like
the Bottomblesnomain is a cool creature and I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
I love it. A sea creature, man, what do you think?
Give me?

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
Look, the sea creatures are great, that's great. I just
want an NHL matchup that is the Kraken versus the Yetti.
Oh yeah, it's strong, strong, That feels good. But you're right,
like sea monster Like that's that's a scary. That's that's
that's far better than you know, spending all the time
in Connecticut. And I know Hartford still loves the Whalers

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so much, and I wish that Hartford had a way
to get a hockey team. Dude.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
The whale well, yeah, that brings me back to when
I was a kid. The wow yeah at the Hartford Yeah,
did you ever go to that ball the ball the mall?

Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
Well? No, did you ever go to the Heart for
Whaler game?

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
Oh? Never been I no, I never went to Whalers
Get where.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
They so they they played at a mall? Yeah, it
was wild ohwar Fellas, we got to take a break
right here. Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:20:32):
Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning,
good morning.

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rack dot Com the way tire buying should be. Fella
is our number three, and I want to get into
heavy draft. The draft is Thursday, and we're very excited
about the prospects of this draft and where it happens.

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The it's the quarterback draft, as we've been talking about.
But let's go into a little bit of a mock
and have some fun with kind of how we think
it'll go. Firstly, boys, let's talk trade. This has the
makings to be one of the all time trade drafts,
don't you think so, FITZI.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
Yeah, I mean you start looking at by the time
you get to pick four, particularly by the way, shameless
plug before I forget, there's a really cool draft feature
that's going to be in the Yaho Sports app this
year where while you're watching the draft, every single fan
can at every pick, tap it emoji for how they
feel about the pick. Like, so you've got the fire,
the cringe or the you know, you've got different options,

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and then you love that fans of that team have reacted,
and then you can see how the experts from Yahoo
are reacting, so like immediately, immediately.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
Like you'll have you'll put the fire or you'll put
that ringe.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
Yeah, Like we're doing a couple of live streams that
will be available on YouTube and in the app also,
so like we're going to be live streaming the entire
first couple of the days of the draft. But while
it's going, me and a handful of the other NFL
people will be reacting to literally every pick. But then
it's cool because when you react, it's like how all
fans have reacted, how Raiders fans have reacted. For example,

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if you've told the Yahoo app that Raiders are your team,
it'll show you that and then how the experts are reacting,
and you can just scroll through an immediate reaction to picks,
So it's kind of a cool. It's a new and
innovative approach that Yahoo Sports has taken to making things
more interaction.

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
For the draft.

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
You know why it's smart, I tell you that's really
really smart because the draft is such a perfect spot
for that, you know, and it'd be funny, like you
can just say all the fires, which percentage of it,
and then people cringeing like that's how that's how we
did it in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (01:23:13):
Well, and to your point with the trades, I think, look,
pig number one is going to be Kayleb Williams. Pick
number two, I believe very strongly is going to be
a quarterback to Washington. I think it should be Jaden Daniels.
Then he gets interesting because as much as I continue
to say I don't think there's anything the Patriots will
take to move out of three, that really does depend

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on who's taking it too. Like if they're, for example,
only in love with Jaden Daniels and he goes to two,
are they open for business at three? They should be
if they don't absolutely love the quarterback, or do they
shock the world and take Marvin Harrison Junior at three?
Like I mean, that he's, according to many, the best
player in this year's draft. They go out and get
themselves their next Randy Moss. I mean that's where things

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start to get interesting. And then at four, all all
of a sudden, if you're the Giants and you want
a quarterback, you might want to move to four. It's
going to cost you a little bit to move up too.
You know, if you're the Vikings, you're going to offer
those first two picks plus an extra first rounder. I
think it's going to take at least three first to
move up to number four, so you know, you start
looking at that. I think picks three, four, five are

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all just going to be open to the biggest bidder.
And then it's interesting because so many teams are desperate
for a quarterback. If the one they love is sitting there,
it doesn't matter if it's to some of us the
fourth best on the big board. If it's best on
their board, they're going to go up and get them.
So I think we could add absolute utter chaos for
the first two hours of the draft.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
Chaos. Wow, could you imagine? That could be wild?

Speaker 1 (01:24:45):
Because just think about this. Let's say let's say the
Vikings move up we'll play this imaginary scenario. Caleb Williams
goes one, somehow JJ McCarthy goes to can't believe it.
Jaden Daniels is sitting there at three. All right, Let's
say the Raiders offer a king's ransom. Somehow they get
up to three. I'm doing naked cartwheels for the rest
of my show. But they get up to three, Veiga,

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Jaden and yeah, I mean tear away pants. They come
right off. So then as much as you think, okay,
well now it's done, well no, because that means Drake
May and JJ are still there. So even if there's
a trade at three, there could still be another mega
trade to get to four, and then another mega trade
to get to five. Like we don't know when the
run on quarterbacks is going to end. We don't know

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how much teams are gonna pay depending on who's there, Like,
we could see mega trade after mega trade, and in
that situation again, Marvin Harrison Junior, arguably the best player
in this draft could be seeing they're available at five
or six. And that doesn't make any sense, but it
could actually happen.

Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
Well, it could in the way in the scenario that
you lay out and you think about it, right, you
start to panic and go, man, I gotta get my quarterback,
right like, you got three teams that could easily kind
of move up.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
I could, I could.

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
I see a war world in a world to get
to do how muche to you where quarterbacks go one, two,
three four, I mean maybe even five, right like imagine that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:16):
Imagine people go, ha, I gotta get my quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:26:19):
And then and then the draft starts, right like then
people go are and I got my quarterback.

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
I mean, it's imagine. That's why because I do think
quarterbacks right now, I got to bet my house on
one weird outcome out of the draft. I think quarterbacks
are going to go one two, three four. I believe
Cardinals are going to trade down, but try and stay
in proximity to get one of the top two wide receivers.
If that happens one two, three four, that means the Chargers,

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by doing nothing, and for all of the campaigning for
JJ that Harbaugh's done, it now looks brilliant. Right, the
Chargers have done nothing to deserve this, and they will
simply be sitting at five and they will have their
option of the best play are on the board at
whatever position they want, Like.

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
Yeah, and if I'm then, I mean, come on, you
got to go Marvin right, like you lost your both receivers.

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
I mean, man, come on.

Speaker 1 (01:27:16):
You got it. The only thing is that like like
Joe allt is just so stinking good, and like.

Speaker 2 (01:27:25):
I means, let me build that offensive line.

Speaker 1 (01:27:31):
But are we really gonna sit here and believe that
there again.

Speaker 3 (01:27:34):
This Marvin is gonna go six.

Speaker 1 (01:27:37):
If you're the Giants and Marvin Harrison sitting there for
you at six, Dable's gonna have a heart attack. He's
just gonna, like I worry about him, Like my dude's
gonna have to put down all the sodium. He's gonna
have to get up to the podium for it, Like
I just.

Speaker 3 (01:27:53):
To the podium.

Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
Great, Just like there is a a concept of this
that doesn't make any sense in my mind at all.
And by the way, if you buy what everybody right
now is trying to tell you that, you know, Molik
Neighbors is a every bit the wide receiver that Harrison
is to NFL teams, You're telling me that Molik Neighbors
could be available at ten, eleven, twelve, Like that just

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doesn't make any damn sense. But it can play that
way because of the obsession with the quarterbacks.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
Fig if you're if you're sitting there in your harball
and it goes one through three, four quarterback, where you going?

Speaker 7 (01:28:35):
That's difficult because Marvin Harrison, by all measures, as you mentioned,
is thought of to be a generation type of generational
type of receiver. And as good as Joe Alt is
as a prospect, I haven't heard necessarily comparisons to Orlando Pace,
you know what I mean. Not only does he fit
in need, he being Marvin Harrison junior, he's one of
the players at the top of his position. He replaces

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a position you know, of weakness that you have at
this moment in time, one of the best quarterbacks in
the league with now potentially one of the best young
receivers in the league.

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
Look, you're still going to be able to run the ball.

Speaker 7 (01:29:06):
Usually from an offensive line standpoint, you can kind of
find a way, you know, through free agency even through
later rounds, to find an offensive lineman that you kind
of stick in there and get it to fit and
be able to fit that offense that they're running. I'm
not saying that they shouldn't take Joe alt but it
will land perfectly for them to be able to fill
the need with the best player at that position at
number five, unless I want to knock their socks off

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with the trade.

Speaker 6 (01:29:28):
Marvin Harrison Junior would be the pick for me. Well,
so I'm going to push him.

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
Back though, I'm going to push back on that because, uh,
you know the three, the three like I've got like
this holy trinity of former fat guys that I talked
to and you know, fat Guy's fat. Yeah, it's like,
so my, my, my fat, my fat guy committee. All
three of them told me the same thing with all
plug and play ten year tackle, you're done. You put

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him in ten years, you got your guy. If I'm
getting that from former fat guys, that tells me there
is something with all and in this particular draft, I
do think you have to consider the fact that I mean,
I think the Vegas number right now is six wide
receivers in the first round, like there's going to be
there are so many wide receivers. For me, it's wins
above replacement. You can't get a plug and play tackle

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in the second round for the next ten years, you
can get a wide receiver. So I hear you that
Marvin Harrison is not just a wide receiver. If he's
Randy Moss, you go get you Randy Moss. But man,
I think even if Joealt isn't necessarily Orlando Pace, if
he's not necessarily a Hall of Famer, in today's world
where there just aren't thirty two great tackles on either

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side of the line for so sixty four great tackles
in the league, man, I would feel personally drawn to
take Joalt because I think there is a patience to
great footballs built inside out. So if my offensive line sucks,
it doesn't matter if Justin Herbert's good or not. I
got to keep Justin Herbert upright. So for me, I
would go all over Marvin Harrison if they were both

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on the board.

Speaker 6 (01:31:00):
It's a compelling argument I don't have, and I don't
have that sort of intel.

Speaker 7 (01:31:03):
So obviously, yeah, that that definitely makes a difference if
you're talking to people that have played the position at
a high level and they have them that highly ranked
just no one from a public standpoint, and look, publicly,
none of us know.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
We don't know what these.

Speaker 7 (01:31:14):
Draft experts, offensive experts are being told left and right
from and what's a smoke screen and what's real and
what's not. He is a top prospect, but nobody anywhere
has him ranked ahead of Marvin Harrison Junior on their
overall board. So I'm just putting two and two together
and saying that this is it's a position of need
for them, and it's potentially a generational talent. I hadn't
heard anybody publicly say anything about Joel being a generational

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talent at the offensive line offfensive tackle position, but if
you have intel from guys who have played the position,
certainly I will I will defer on that.

Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
No, it's a great it's it's a great argument. And
I'll tell you I heard all is they love them
like they love them?

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
Yeah, I heard plug and play starter as well. Yeah, right,
like plug and play is. But you're right about this,
Like plug and play, it doesn't feel the same as
what we're saying about Marmon Harrison, right Like, So that's
like what we're saying about Marvin Harrison is.

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
And you lost your receivers is why you know?

Speaker 2 (01:32:13):
I can't don't think in the end, you're you're listen,
you're smart in that O line man inside out you're
right on man inside out. That's how you build it.
But she's look, I got Herbert, who I absolutely still adore.
I love the kid's arm. I love the kid. I

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think the kid could play. And I don't have any
receivers like and I got Marvin just here. I just
I don't think I can pass that up.

Speaker 7 (01:32:42):
But there's also the risk of ceilings versus floras as well.
Like I'm not saying, look, anybody has bus potential, but
I think I would say Marvin Harrison probably has a
bigger bus potential just based on the because there was
the position that he plays over a guy like a
Joe Alt. If Joelt is a starter for ten years,
Marvin Harrison could end up being a solid receiver for
a decade. Joe Walt has a solid offensive tackle. You'd

(01:33:04):
rather have someone who's solid and sturdy as a ten
year start offensive line, yeah, versus solid as a starter
at receiver. So from that standpoint, from a risk for
you know, risk reward standpoint, oh, Joe All will probably
be a safer pick.

Speaker 1 (01:33:17):
Figgi, if somebody sent me a mock last night late
last night that had Molik Neighbors falling to thirteen to
the Raiders, So like, that's how weird. And look if
Milite Neighbors is sitting there at thirty, Like, look, best
player available when you're sitting there, and if it's Molik
Neighbors you're gonna take. There's no chance Malik Neighbors falls
to thirteen. But it shows you how chaotic this this

(01:33:39):
draft could get that Melik Neighbors in a mock. And
I don't know whose mock it was, but in a
mock came out that far down.

Speaker 7 (01:33:47):
That's unreal to me. There's that I don't know. I
can't help no, in what situation that would happen, I
can't envision it. One thing I will say, too, my god. Yeah,
earlier in the show was that, so let's go historically,
we'll take the best player available, regardless of position, which
I do think is probably the best way to build
a roster.

Speaker 1 (01:34:07):
Take it, by the way, not for nothing, Like if
we get through all of this, like we said earlier
that if we have this imaginary scenario that gets Marvin
Harrison all the way down to six, like if you're
the Titans picking at seven, you're also going to be
in a situation where you got just a whole bunch
of great players available to you. Oh my god, right,

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the top ten, the top twelve in this year's draft,
just because of the way the quarterbacks are gonna fall
in this I feel like, if you're picking in the
top half of the first round, you've got a real
shot this year at getting a Day one lifelong die
hard that's gonna be with your team for a long time.
I don't think we always say that, like picking nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,

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this year, you're still going to have a shot at
somebody that's like, yep, we got our guy. Like the
top corner might not even come off the board until fourteen,
and that's wild to me.

Speaker 3 (01:34:59):
Also, let me ask you guys a question.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
If you're the Giants, don't you have to trade up
to get a quarterback? I think here's here's my argument.
You're not going to beat this high again. Don't you
take advantage of being this high and just go get

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a steaky quarterback.

Speaker 1 (01:35:27):
That's why I think the trade to four makes so
much sense. Pop yourself up to four, it's only two
slots in the draft. Give up a little bit of
extra juice, get your future quarterback. Because you know again,
if you're and if you're dable, you can pick exactly
the guy. Like, if you're a dable that knows quarterbacks,
you should be in this situation where right now you're

(01:35:48):
sitting there with Joe Shane and saying, hey, I know
exactly what we're looking for. If this guy is still
there at three or four, get getting the third overall
or fourth overall team to fall down to six. To
the point of this whole conversation, at six, you're still
going to have a shot at either the best offensive
lineman or one of the two best wide receivers in
this league or in this draft. So if I'm the Giants,

(01:36:11):
it makes sense. And if I'm the Patriots or the Cardinals,
that's the move down that actually makes the most sense.

Speaker 7 (01:36:16):
I will answer your question first and say yes, I
will take a quarterback unequivocally one hundred percent.

Speaker 6 (01:36:22):
Number two, Are we sure they're not going to be
here again next year?

Speaker 7 (01:36:26):
Because I don't know if they're not the worst team
in that division, especially if Washington ends up taking I'd
hit that quarterback, you know, at number two.

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
Think I think the bones of the Giants are better
than the bones of Washington.

Speaker 7 (01:36:39):
I agree, But we saw how while one player can
make a difference. Look at what you look at what
Houston did with CJ.

Speaker 2 (01:36:45):
Stroud.

Speaker 7 (01:36:45):
Yes, yes, yeah, And we've talked about the smoking mirrors
a couple of years ago with the Giants, and yeah,
they're solid defensively up front. Sure, but if everybody in
that division, you know, gets bumped up a little bit,
they get knocked down. I mean, I don't think it's
out of the Roman possibility. They're floating between five and
six wins again next year, and it puts them right
back in the top five, top six, top seven.

Speaker 1 (01:37:05):
Yeah, I hear you.

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
I look at it and I just go But to
your point.

Speaker 7 (01:37:10):
Yeah, if you have a chance, a realistic chance to
get a franchise changing quarterback, you do it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
I would sit at six. Yeah, And this is the
quarterback draft, right, So it's like I got to strike now.
If I'm New York, I got a strike now. I
gotta get myself out of this. Daniel Jones, you know,
Merry go round every year like it's over enough. If

(01:37:37):
I'm the I think Dable's a good coach, and they're
already talking about getting blown out.

Speaker 7 (01:37:43):
So the question is like, and I don't know how
the you know, the old Jimmy Johnson point chart works.
But you're the giants. Do you jump from six to four?
What are you having to give up to flip flop
with Arizona in that situation? You know what's the price
tag on that?

Speaker 1 (01:38:00):
Is that A two?

Speaker 6 (01:38:01):
I don't think you give up another one to move
up two spots?

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
Do you?

Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
No, you're not giving up a one, but you're you
might give up a two?

Speaker 7 (01:38:07):
Yeah, three, Yeah, because you're you're almost gonna have to
make a move like that, because somebody's going to make
that move that jumped to number four.

Speaker 2 (01:38:16):
Yeah, you got You've got a box. Now here's the issue.
So are you getting at four?

Speaker 3 (01:38:24):
Who you get? May?

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
Right, it's either May McCarthy or Daniels. I can't believe
would be Jade Daniels would go to four.

Speaker 1 (01:38:33):
Jams Daniels can't make it to four. If Daniels makes
it to four, I'm gonna be losing a damn mind exact.

Speaker 3 (01:38:38):
The Raiders would jump up to three, do whatever they
can they get.

Speaker 7 (01:38:41):
Hell, I feel for me if Jane Daniels was there
at four. If I'm Arizona, I'm taking them. I'll say,
forget Kyler Murray. Yeah I would too, I know, No,
I I agree, there's no way he goes to four.
So you're looking at Mayor May McCarthy. Correct, you know,
if you're the giant Drake May, i'd be three old.

Speaker 6 (01:39:01):
Look you still got Daniel Jones. You don't have to
throw them in there immediately.

Speaker 3 (01:39:04):
Yeah, I think that would. Do you think that would
mess him up? Not that it matters.

Speaker 7 (01:39:09):
I'll put him in as a starter from day one. Well, look,
if you listen to all the pun and it's most
of them are saying he does. He has all the
physical skills, but he needs to sit for a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:39:17):
So and it'd be a good situation, that's for sure.

Speaker 6 (01:39:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:39:21):
Yeah, if you're in a situation where you don't you know,
you can sit them and let him learn for a
little bit. I think that the idea that I know,
it's a different league nowadays, and everything's opened up and
things are quarterback friendly, and because we see some rookies
come in and have success immediately, we think everybody can
do it.

Speaker 6 (01:39:36):
That's not always the case. So for for every CJ.

Speaker 7 (01:39:38):
Stroud, there's dozens of other guys who are flopped and
we're never the same because they got sacked. Look at
David Carr and a number of others who just never recovered.

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
No, he goes forever. Yeah, all right, Well take a
quick time out. Coming up, we're going to go into
our own little mock. But I also have to throw
the Belichick stuff at you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:40:01):
After the Jereby.

Speaker 2 (01:40:02):
Fowler piece on Belichick's future, we'll discuss what's those three
teams and just how real it is. Where the fellas
hanging out right here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:40:19):
Well, the fellas hanging out.

Speaker 2 (01:40:26):
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I gotta get your takes on this, because this is

(01:41:31):
completely fascinating. All Right, Belichick. Jeremy Faller does the Belichick piece.
Belichick says, basically, there are three franchises that he would
have interest in, the New York Giants, the Philadelphia Eagles,
and the Dallas Cowboys, and flautomatically, you start to think

(01:41:57):
you don't want if you're in really any of those,
especially Dallas in Philadelphia because there's so much the expectations
for those two teams are so high. How do you
you're Macarthur're Sirianni? You got Belichick's hot breath on your neck?

(01:42:19):
Because I think both would be very real next year
if either failed.

Speaker 3 (01:42:24):
What do you guys think, Fitz? You'll start with you.

Speaker 1 (01:42:27):
The hard part about it is, look, you've already got
everybody breathing down your neck if you're in both of
those cities. I get that, But so much of that article, really,
which was really well written and well researched by ESPN
was pointing to what Robert Kraft had to say about
working with Belichick, and you know what he said to
Arthur Blank and how people even inside the falcons in

(01:42:50):
the building just didn't believe Bill when he would come
out and say that you know, he was open to
anything and willing to do things differently, right, Like, none
of that was really believed by the people in the building.
So I don't know what changes that. So I hear
you that if your Bill, you want to go somewhere
and win right away, because you're trying to set the
win record. So Philly and Dallas are places that make sense.

(01:43:14):
I just don't know, Like, as has been pointed out
a bunch of times. For example, in Dallas, they've got
a Doctor Pepper viewing tower that lets you watch practice
if you're a corporate sponsor. Bill would freak out over that,
Like you can walk through practices for different tours. Bill
would freak out for that. Like I think culturally we're
forgetting that the Cowboys and Bill wouldn't be a good

(01:43:36):
fit behind the scenes even if they wanted to be.
And if you tried to change all that, it would
be wildly difficult. So I don't know. I read that
article and walked away from it saying, I don't think
Bill Belichick's going to be back on the sideline in
the NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:43:49):
Okay, So I'll tell you this, if Sirianne and Philly
is a disaster, and this was or not even can disaster,
he just fails and after falling off the cliff last year,
I wouldn't put Belichick. I wouldn't cross that off the

(01:44:11):
list here because, first of all, Howie Roseman the Eagles
GM likes him. Jeffrey Lourie has always been enamored with
New England. He's from New England. He and Craft are close.
He's always been had that kind of eye for the Patriots.

(01:44:32):
There's always been a little Patriot envy going on. I
could and knowing that he wants to win now, I
could totally see him bringing Belichick in here if Syrianne
flames out.

Speaker 1 (01:44:44):
But what about the part where you just said he
and Craft are close, and Craft is close with Arthur
Blank and goes into that room and says, or get.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
Me, what are you gonna tell me? He's a pain
And he asked, and Glorie goes, yeah, I get it.
But like I want to win.

Speaker 3 (01:44:59):
And you know, now.

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
What Fowler said in the piece is right, like the reservations,
I think they looked at him this year. I think
I know that that Howie and Jeffrey kick this is
around and it's it's highly disruptive if you bring him in,
because he's gonna say I want the training facility to
be this way, right, I want this thing to be
that way, and then in two to three years you're

(01:45:25):
gonna have to come up with a coach anyway. So
if you're the Eagles, there was no you weren't. You
were not in a rush to fire Syrianne because, by
the way, the flip side is Sirianni wins. He's got
you know, he didn't have any coordinators last year. You
got Kellam Moore and you got Vic Fangio. I mean,

(01:45:46):
that's a good coaching staff. So their and their offense
is ridiculous. So they could easily win and you're good
and you don't need Belichick. I'm saying if if he
flames out, I think there is a pressure on I
think there is a like a feeling that bell.

Speaker 3 (01:46:07):
That Laurie says, yeah, well we're gonna go win. Now,
let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:46:11):
We've got to try to win now, and let's bring
in Belichick because because everybody agrees, he still has his
fanst ball.

Speaker 1 (01:46:20):
I got a much better chance buying that for Philly
than I do for Dallas. I think that Philly might
be the only spot that it makes sense. The Giants
don't make any sense to me. No, I guess they're
going to be a disaster. So I'm just throwing the
Giants out of this quation. Like, if the Giants do well,
then Dable's not going anywhere. If the Giants don't do well,
their entire roster is going to need to be rebuilt,
and he doesn't want to get into that. So this

(01:46:41):
really becomes a Philly or Dallas conversation. And for the
reasons I laid out, I don't think Dallas is part
of this conversation at all. Maybe Philly is. It's just
this And by the way, I think the article as
a whole was a bad look for everybody involved. Yeah,
Kraft looks petty, Yes, Belichick looks like, you know, nobody
trusts him to do right. And then Arthur Branton blank

(01:47:05):
looks like he needs somebody to help him put his
big boy pants on. Because he can't make these decisions honestly, Like,
I just all it's a bad look for absolutely everybody. Now.
One thing too that I'll add to your Philly component
of it that I do think is the difference is
like the egos don't give a damn what anybody thinks, right,
that Philly's gonna do what Philly wants to do, how
Philly wants to do it, and we don't like as
a general group, they're not going to worry about what

(01:47:27):
anybody has to say, what anybody thinks. I don't think
that's Arthur Blank. Like Arthur Blank does care about what
the city of Atlanta thinks. Of a higher Arthur Blank
does care about what former Falcons think. He listens to
a lot of people when he makes decisions, right, So
I think that's a much different situation. So maybe Philly
is the one outlier, but man, how he is.

Speaker 2 (01:47:49):
The other piece of it is Bill want personnel control,
but he also knows that how he is going anywhere,
he's entrenched. This isn't chip Kelly. When Chip Kelly comes
here and he bullies Howie Roseman out the door. This
doesn't like that how we won a Super Bowl, how

(01:48:10):
he's established himself as one of the top champs in
the league. So how he says to Bill Listen, I
don't shine shoes no more. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 (01:48:18):
Yeah, No, there is a so we're not going to
stab respect. Yeah, like mutual respect would exist there, right,
Like I just you're right about that. Like it has
to be one or two things with Bill. It would
either have to be somebody so new that they're going
to be a yes sir, no, sir, whatever you say,
or it has to be somebody that walks in and says, hey,
I like your pedigree, but I like mine too. And

(01:48:39):
how he can certainly do that, So maybe that works
in that sense too.

Speaker 2 (01:48:44):
And how we got enough respect for Belichick that he
also does the you know, hey, let's make it collaborative.

Speaker 1 (01:48:55):
Yeah, I would you want? I mean, is this right now?
Best case for the Eagles? Does it include Bill Belichick
or does it not?

Speaker 2 (01:49:03):
Best case scenari for the Eagles is that Syrianni wins,
right like that, you're good because if they don't win either,
he's not a good coach. And I think everybody goes
they like his energy, they think he's bright, but like
they're still there. Everybody's still kind of looking at him
with a raised eyebrow because it got ugly pretty quick here.

Speaker 3 (01:49:26):
You know, when they when they fell off the table.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
And the issue is you didn't do anything, like you
didn't take over the play calling, you didn't do anything
to help stop the collapse.

Speaker 3 (01:49:40):
And that's a problem.

Speaker 1 (01:49:43):
That's you know, we talk about adjustments all the time
in games, and I think one thing that coaches have
to do, and it becomes more and more difficult the
more platform they get, Like coaches have to be willing
to adjust what they're doing to each individual season. And
that's something that if your bill, you're not going to do.
But if you're Sirianna, you have to do, right, Like
at some point, if you're Sirianna, you have to you

(01:50:04):
have to accept it. Not every locker room, not every season,
not ever you choose your own adventure goes the same way.
So sometimes you're gonna have to go in and be like,
all right, this time, I'm gonna turn left it the
hallway and that means I'm gonna turn to page sixty two.

Speaker 3 (01:50:16):
Like that's just there.

Speaker 1 (01:50:17):
There is some element of Sirianni that's gonna have to
prove that this year. If I'm Philly, look, I don't
care about pressure. Philly's never cared about pressure, And I
think part of what makes Philly Philly as a city
is it like if you can't handle it, then cool,
Like that's that's your problem. So I don't buy that
this puts more pressure on Syrianny, but it also puts

(01:50:40):
more pressure on Syrianna all at the same time, you
know what I'm saying, Like, I don't think that that
pressure has a tangible impact to what happens there. Nick
you got to look around and be like, oh, this
just got really real.

Speaker 2 (01:50:51):
Yeah, it's like you know, listening and he knows that
he's this is a one year show me deal, like this,
he gets it, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:50:59):
I think he have to show the show though, Like
what what is show think?

Speaker 2 (01:51:03):
I think the show me is they have to be
a They have to you know, to win the division.
They have to be a playoff team. So that's that's
the first hurdle. You got to make the playoffs. And
the second hurdle is you can't lose to Tampa the
way they did, Like you know, you're got to be

(01:51:24):
a team that's ascending, not falling off the table ten
and one was great and then they just fell off
the table. So I think it's an eye test, you know.
I don't think it's Super Bowl or bost you know.
I think it's more like, let's see how you do,
and let's make the playoffs and be a serious contender

(01:51:45):
and wherever that means. I think we all understand be
a serious contender.

Speaker 1 (01:51:50):
Yeah, I think that to that end. You know, a
lot of times I put a lot of weight in
the concept of ten wins, Like if you're a ten
win team, that feels like, man, you won ten games.
And also, by the way, your offense is clicking the
way everybody wants it to, considering the amount of money
that's invested. Your defense is playing better than it did
last year. It feels like they got the right coordinators

(01:52:10):
in there. Things are moving upward. Like the one thing
that proximity. I say it all the time, like playoffs
put you in proximity to win a championship. I don't
think it's championship or bust for basically any team, because
there's so many variables that go into championships. I do
think that proximity to a championship is an important thing, like,
are we in the range where things break right we

(01:52:31):
can win.

Speaker 10 (01:52:31):
It next year?

Speaker 2 (01:52:33):
Well, and that's what I mean about. You know that
they were ten in one, so that was great, but
you can't fall off the cliff like you did. Fig
if you're any of those teams, do you look at Belichick?

Speaker 7 (01:52:45):
I think if you were a team with a close
already mate roster like Philadelphia, you do while acknowledging the
reservations that was pointed out in the article, Like you
guys mentioned that this is going to be a short
term fix for the for the most part. Look, Bill
Belichick may want a coach until these eight for all
I know, I have no idea, but you can't. You
have to go in knowing this is going to be
a short term fix. The Giants wouldn't make sense because

(01:53:07):
they'd be a full on rebuild at that point, so
the Eagles would make the most sense. I will also say,
as far as the article for me and fits, I
know you said everybody ends up looking bad. Belichick is
characterized and villainized within the article as bad, but there's
no actual concrete examples as to why he will be
considered untrustworthy or a liar or honestly, it just seems

(01:53:27):
like Robert Krafft had an ax to grind.

Speaker 6 (01:53:29):
Yeah, it's kind of poison the well on him. Yah,
is the vibe that I got.

Speaker 7 (01:53:33):
There's no concrete examples as to how or why Bill
Belichick was bad or how he was a liar or
lost his trust.

Speaker 1 (01:53:40):
Do you think the Falcons just were like well, Kraft
says like, there is a part of what stood out
in the article again to me is like when you've
got people in the organization saying, well, sure, he said
he's willing to coexist. He said he's willing to do
these things.

Speaker 7 (01:53:53):
But we just don't believe them if they say that
because they believe it, or just to say face and
to say, well, we interviewed Bill Belichick and he wasn't
a good.

Speaker 3 (01:53:59):
Fit for us.

Speaker 6 (01:54:00):
We want with the guy we wanted the entire time
in Raheem Morris.

Speaker 1 (01:54:02):
I mean, I think in an article like that was
so many off the record sources, you have the opportunity
to be like, I don't know why we didn't go
with him right Like to me, it speaks for like
if if I walk into the room and I tell
you all, hey, this is what I believe and you
all don't believe me. That's a statement to our past.
That's a statement to where I've come into. That's a

(01:54:23):
statement of my reputation. That's a statement to how people
perceive me. It's a statement of all of these things.
And I would have to actively work to change that.
Is Bill Belichick at this point in his life going
to actively work to change anything in the way he's perceived.
I think the answer to that is no. So I
do think that that's reflective of him in some capacity.

Speaker 7 (01:54:39):
It's unlikely, but that's not necessarily like you can choose
to believe him or if you want to or not,
unless they strapped into a lie detector.

Speaker 6 (01:54:46):
I mean, no one really knows, I fact, but.

Speaker 1 (01:54:48):
If a whole organization chooses not to believe him, how
many organizations are like that?

Speaker 6 (01:54:53):
They could be on a unified front to have that
be the narrative too.

Speaker 1 (01:54:57):
Yeah, I mean, but again, it's an off that like it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
Felt like that hit pieces guy.

Speaker 6 (01:55:03):
I didn't. I didn't want to say that, but that's
kind of how and how I kind of took it.

Speaker 1 (01:55:06):
I didn't think it like I felt like it was
a thoroughly research like it didn't. I thought it made
everybody look bad. Not to me, isn't a hit piece
that's a wow? Like this is like I think plus
like Wickersham and and Don Vanatta and those guys like
they they've never.

Speaker 2 (01:55:22):
Been let me clarified. I didn't think it was like
you know that kind of you know, acting right from
the reporters.

Speaker 9 (01:55:33):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:55:35):
I think it was when I say a hit piece,
I met more of a This was craft.

Speaker 2 (01:55:41):
Feeding everything to the wolves, going here, look at this,
this is why Belichick's Belichick's a monster.

Speaker 1 (01:55:48):
Yeah, and that's very very possible. I think what what
sort of blew my mind was how many people and
the Falcons took that word over Bill's word.

Speaker 2 (01:55:58):
You got to take it everything. I'm sorry, guys, we
gotta take quick breaking the mighty marks and.

Speaker 3 (01:56:04):
Yeah, we gotta go. Fellas, hang it.

Speaker 2 (01:56:07):
Fox Sports Radio, all right, Welcome back, Fellas from the
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show question, boys, where do you stand with the NHL Playoffs?

Speaker 1 (01:56:32):
I stand concerned that the Golden Knights, as I see
here wearing my Stanley Cup Final, grabbed a bad matchup
against Dallas in the first round. That's not going to
be good, but you know would have been bad against
Edmonton also, and that means I got to put all
my eggs in the Preds basket to do the improbable.
I get. It feels like, look, there's this juggernaut for

(01:56:55):
me with the Oilers that I just I really want
to see the Oilers, even though I don't I'm not
an Oilers fan. I want to se him go on
a massive run because Connor McDavid's just such a special
player that I think if they're going a long run,
maybe it helps everybody pay attention to that. It feels
like this could be a very exciting playoff in some ways.
But man, I just I feel like right now, the
two biggest stars in my mind in the NHL don't

(01:57:17):
get near enough publicity because of where they play and
who they play for. So Connor McDavid needs to go
on a run. And if Austin Matthews could do the
same for Toronto, not only would the long heartbroken Maple
Leafs fans finally have something to root for, but somebody
that's just scoring goals at a historic clip will get
way more attention, which I think as a hockey fan

(01:57:37):
it would be good for the sport long term.

Speaker 7 (01:57:39):
I'm with you one thousand percent on Austin Matthews, phenomenal
to watch break your records, see spectacular. Can't get with
you on Edmonton, and that's my personal buias going in
because he's knocked the Kings out back to back seasons
and it's been tough. Seven games two years ago, six
last year. King's knocking on the door and haven't gotten
over the hop And now on the last day of
the regular season a couple of days ago, you know,

(01:58:01):
darn if we know, we circle back and they're facing
Edmonton again in the postseason, so you feel like they
won't be able to get over the hump until they
end up beating those guys. So it's good at McDavid
is in dry sidle and all those guys. I can't
get for I can't get behind Edmonton. I gotta get
my Kings, get my Kings to advance past the first round.

Speaker 1 (01:58:18):
And by the way, not for nothing. When I was
watching the Sports Center highlights, when I got up that
morning after the end of the regular season and I
saw the way it played out, I was like, oh God,
thank you so much Vegas avoided Edmonton. Yeah, and then
I was like, wait, that means Vegas has Dallas. Then
I want to see. Like it's funny, like I'm more
scared of Edmonton right now than I am in Dallas.

(01:58:39):
I'm more scared of Edmonton in the West than anybody.

Speaker 7 (01:58:41):
There was thought that Vegas kind of laid down a
little bit and they lost that game to the Ducks
because the Ducks are atrocious. So just some interesting gamesmanship
there that they happened to lose in a game that
they had something to play for, and just interestingly enough,
they lose to one of the worst teams in the league.
Funny how that works.

Speaker 1 (01:58:58):
I don't like the way you're saying interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:59:00):
I'm just like what you're playing, just asking questions fits,
That's all.

Speaker 1 (01:59:04):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:59:05):
So, so who do you guys like in the East?

Speaker 1 (01:59:12):
I mean, look, I think the East is pretty wide open,
way wide.

Speaker 2 (01:59:15):
Right, Like Caroline is dangerous.

Speaker 3 (01:59:20):
I don't know. I think the Rangers, I might even
I for some reason, I'm not buying them.

Speaker 1 (01:59:26):
No, I think Carolina could go on a long run
out of this thing. And Boston I think is actually
beating its built pretty well. This year too, But let's
be real like that. Never like Boston versus Toronto is
a series of heartbroken fans, like I just don't want
to give everybody hugg Let's just give them all hugged.

Speaker 3 (01:59:41):
No, I don'thug anybody from Boston.

Speaker 7 (01:59:42):
I was gonna say. I never have sympathy for anybody
from the city of Boston. If I ever did, it
would be for the Bruins. But even still, I can't
do it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:49):
No, I'm sorry. I listen. It's the great sports town,
all right, but it's our enemy.

Speaker 2 (01:59:55):
And that's something where Figgy and I Laker Figy six
or Anthony both hate Boston Celtics.

Speaker 1 (02:00:03):
Look, it was it was a fumble. There's no such
thing as to talk. So I'm all I'm all in
for ruling against Boston sports in general. So let's go
Toronto shows. Now, all in on the Maple leaves.

Speaker 3 (02:00:13):
Go leaves, right, I like it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:16):
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Speaker 1 (02:00:28):
Didn't expect that one.

Speaker 2 (02:00:29):
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Speaker 1 (02:00:59):
You just mean yeah, yeah yeah. It makes me think
of Flavor Flave. We all saw him in Vegas, right,
and everybody walks around he screams, flavor Flave. I got
this like just general opinion. If you have to tell
everybody who you are, you're doing things wrong. Like I
every single Jason Derulo song he has to sing his
name somewhere. Like if you have to put your name
in the song to make sure people know that it's

(02:01:20):
you singing it, you got a problem. Like every time
I hear we the best music, if you tell me
you're the best music in your track, you are not
the best music. Like it's just these are just basic
core tenants in life. I just Flavor Flave, we know
who you are at this point. Just walk through the room, dude,
Just walk through the room.

Speaker 3 (02:01:38):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (02:01:38):
That's a great You're right, he's become a walking violation.

Speaker 7 (02:01:45):
I'm gonna go ahead and scratch DJ Khalen off of
the list of potential future collaborators there for FITZI, we'll
just draw that music if you.

Speaker 1 (02:01:54):
Gotta tell him, Like, you know who never said we
the best music on the track, Stevie wonder why because
he's Stevie dan Under and he didn't have because he
knows it, Like Michael Jackson never had to stand there
in the beginning of a song, Michael, like you just
you knew.

Speaker 2 (02:02:09):
Yeah, you know what, I think You're spotted, dude, I
think you're you're spotted. You think because I think the
same thing, like yeah, yeah, you've got to market all
the time. You got to go in some senses.

Speaker 7 (02:02:24):
But I mean muhamm and at least said I'm the greatest,
and few people would argue against it.

Speaker 1 (02:02:29):
Yeah, okay, look, there are there's exceptions. There are rare exceptions.

Speaker 3 (02:02:34):
But let's be real.

Speaker 1 (02:02:35):
Like if we're watching if you and I are about
to get in a fist fight, right, We're outside of
this studio in la and you're mad at me, and
we're about to get in a fist fight, and then
all of a sudden we got our hands up. We're
about to throw hands and you're like, I'm figgy I'm fiky,
I'm figgy, I'm gonna kick your ass. Like if you're
the guy that's telling me your name the whole time,
you are not.

Speaker 6 (02:02:54):
That time, I'm just affirmations in front of you. Yeah,
that's probably not the.

Speaker 3 (02:02:57):
Best you might.

Speaker 2 (02:03:02):
Before it, so that would here's the thing to that point,
Awi said he was.

Speaker 3 (02:03:12):
The greatest after he was the greatest?

Speaker 2 (02:03:14):
Is correct? Yes, so he can the best. So the
minute you kick everybody's ass that you say I'm the
I'm the greatest.

Speaker 7 (02:03:25):
And he was brashing, out spoken even he was cash
as clay. I don't know if he ever said I'm
the greatest before. I've always said it after. I don't
think he said it before. I can't confirm that.

Speaker 1 (02:03:33):
But so a little bit of a difference. Like you know,
if you're a fighter, if after every time you play
in the face you re announce your name, you probably
got like, okay, I get it, like you are that guy.
Like if he if Muhammad Ali would choose to in
the ring punch and then say Muhammed punch Mohammed, Like
that's one thing. If after every single vocal lick that

(02:03:54):
Christina Aguilera sings, if she was like Christina. Christina like,
I don't that like, either you're making the best music
or you're not making the best music. And if your
music can't stand on its own, did just show it up?

Speaker 3 (02:04:07):
Your point is and let me throw this at you both.

Speaker 2 (02:04:10):
Fitzi's point is if if it's subjective, you can't tell
me you're the greatest.

Speaker 7 (02:04:17):
Like Ali, it was not subjective. He put everybody on
the rest. So it's also just understood. And that profession
as a boxer or that that's just kind of what
you do. So that's also a different scenario. The she
has something, person, the Sha has something?

Speaker 10 (02:04:36):
Do you have this?

Speaker 5 (02:04:38):
So me and FITZI, we're not agreeing on a lot
of things as of late. Why I can't agree with you, Fitzi?
So you know what I think of It's a producer
tag is what I'd like to call it. But you
know what I think of when I hear something like this,
Like when I'm listening to a song and I hear
like DJ Kaled we the best, or like something like that.
You know how in the olden time he used to

(02:05:00):
walk into a room and they would announce you. That's
how I think of it. You know what I mean
like like third of his name, like fifth to the
King's like Phil, don't want to use an industry term.
It's like a slate almost exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:05:16):
That's what I think, all right.

Speaker 1 (02:05:20):
But you shouldn't you like, that's fine at the beginning
of a show, Like at the beginning of this show,
you're being announced. I understand that if every song you
have to re announce yourself at some point, could you imagine?
Could you imagine? We hear then Satisfaction starting, and then

(02:05:44):
Mick Jagger comes out. He's got he's wiggled around on
stage and he's like, we're the Rolling Stones on every song.
Shut up, I know who you are, Like the guitar
riff told me he are, shut up and sing the song.

Speaker 2 (02:05:55):
We announce ourselves because if someone stumbles upon one of
the stations that we're all all over the country, and
someone stumbles on it, like they want to go, well,
who are these guys, Like, oh no, no, if they're
not regular listeners, we now, we tell you we're coached
to do it exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:06:12):
Look, this is the way here. You guys are doing that.

Speaker 5 (02:06:16):
You mean you're telling me that if you guys are
announcing yourself every fifteen minutes. Like when we come back
from a segment, you go, this is the Fellas with
Anthony Gargano and Jason Fitz.

Speaker 3 (02:06:28):
Right.

Speaker 1 (02:06:28):
Look, if I had my way, Shay, I would never
Like we used to do coaching sessions at ESPN, and
the first thing they would do on radio is if
you didn't reset every five minutes the name of the
show and the name of the post, you would get
docked on the on the coaching session because the audience
just reset every five minutes. So studies show that you
have to do it. I'm just I'm executing the OFFI.

Speaker 2 (02:06:48):
You know your listeners to DJ Khaled, well, a DJ
klled reset because you know you know.

Speaker 1 (02:06:53):
You know you're going to DJ Kaled For a reason,
DJ Khaled isn't resetting. DJ Kaled is putting out a
song that sounds like every other damn song that's out
there in the universe, and because it sounds completely non distinct,
he has to have a hook that makes everybody realize
it is him. And that hook is to tell everybody
that we the best music I buy needing a hook
like I'll give you the pit Bull goes woy on

(02:07:15):
every song, it's a hook. I get it. It's kind
of cheesy, but at least he doesn't go, whoa, I'm
pit bull, Like that's what Like, that's it's once you
start giving me your name, Jason do.

Speaker 4 (02:07:26):
Wool, like I'm out of the hooks.

Speaker 2 (02:07:28):
I like, I'm a big fan of every song.

Speaker 5 (02:07:30):
Yeah, I just like it when like I don't know,
in the background, they're like smoking a cigarette or something.

Speaker 7 (02:07:34):
And I will say it's also something that's very popular
in the hip hop community just in general. That's something
like DJ Mustard's a popular West Coast a producer, and
Mustard on the beat is something that drops at the
beginning of every song that he produced.

Speaker 6 (02:07:46):
Yeah, so they kind of that. So maybe it's just
that it's a cultural difference as well.

Speaker 2 (02:07:51):
Then he doesn't have a biggie.

Speaker 1 (02:07:53):
That's also you make a good point. And part of
the DJ reason that they do it often is because
they're on tracks that may involve people that have nothing
to do with them singing. Right, So like if you
listen to the Chain Smokers or Calvin Harris or all
those guys z all those guys for years. Part of
the reason you have that hook is you want people
to understand that Hey, you're gonna hear a voice that's different,

(02:08:15):
And because you're hearing a voice that's different, I want
you to know that this is still one of my tracks.
So I'll buy some of that. I think at some
point the Darulo one, you can't even excuse that way
because it's his voice the minute he sings, Like, if
your voice isn't it isn't distinct enough that I know
who you are without you telling me your name, And
you're a singer, probably not a great singer, right, So yeah,

(02:08:39):
but I'm giving the calib one a little bit.

Speaker 7 (02:08:40):
But yeah, because he doesn't perform, but he probably could
be a little less obnoxious about it.

Speaker 2 (02:08:45):
I think we can all agree on that. I think
Fitzi's main point and this goes right to you, Shay
is check yourself. Yeah, don't be obnoxious.

Speaker 1 (02:08:57):
Look, I love Antonio Pierce, but my guy's gotta stop
talking about he does. Yeah, it's just like I saw
the video the other day and he's like a piece here,
eight piece, and he's stapping his chest while he's saying it.
It's like, did we know who you are?

Speaker 6 (02:09:10):
Like, my brother, you were a game under five hundred
last year.

Speaker 2 (02:09:14):
Let's calm that down, all right, let's let's I love
him man, like, I give him a past, like honestly, like,
I love the guy, but dude, you guys are right,
I would.

Speaker 3 (02:09:25):
Have give him.

Speaker 2 (02:09:25):
It's like I would. Yeah, you're given Sha a pass.

Speaker 3 (02:09:31):
I love Shay, but you know, I mean he's wrong
in this, but I give him a pass.

Speaker 5 (02:09:37):
Can we talk about that segue though? That was a
good segue with the going straight into sports.

Speaker 3 (02:09:42):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (02:09:44):
Good job, guys.

Speaker 11 (02:09:44):
I'm Ricky Henderson and Ricky Still's bases call me Ricky,
I still a basis. I'm Ricky, thank you.

Speaker 12 (02:09:54):
There was one instance Ricky was cool, man, Ricky is cool,
Ricky Stell's bases.

Speaker 11 (02:09:59):
Yeah, Ricky here on the first pitch, that's Ricky.

Speaker 1 (02:10:03):
There's an old recording and it's the first, the first
recording of Stevie Wonder ever. I don't remember the name
of the song, but it was a live recording and
he was eleven years old, and back then they called
him Little Stevie Wonder. That's how he got introduced. And
he was playing this harmonica solo and in the middle
of this recording, he just stops his harmonica solo and
he starts screaming can I play? Can I play? And

(02:10:26):
he's telling all the musicians around him to lay out
because he wants the moment. That's an eleven years old
See you do that once? That's badass. You do that
on every single song for the rest of your career.
After that, you are now a fraud and shouldn't be
allowed to make me.

Speaker 11 (02:10:39):
I'm going to take you to the bridge. Gonna take
it to the bridge. I'm gonna take it to the
bridge it.

Speaker 3 (02:10:47):
See, I got a question. This comes from Dominic.

Speaker 2 (02:10:52):
He says, I am I only like Chris Stapleton, as
does that make me not a country music fan? If
I'm only a do I like country music? Or do
I do not like country music? If I like only
Chris Stapleton.

Speaker 1 (02:11:11):
I think you're a Chris Stapleton fan. And by the way,
I respect the hell out of that Chris. Who isn't
a Chris Stapleton fan. I think Chris Stapleton is one
of the best artist non no matter the genre, that
just put out music in quite a long time. I
think Chris is so talented and so good, and that's
so different than what most country music is. Love it

(02:11:31):
or hated at this point, right, Like, so, I think
that makes you a Chris Stapleton fan, and you know, deservedly,
so on Chris, like that guy, I was. I was
doing a Grammy thing years ago for Lionel Richie and
Chris Stapleton came up to sing Lady, the old Kenny
Rodgers song because it was written by Lionel Richie. A
lot of people don't know that. And I was standing
in between Little Big Town Who's I love the phenomenal,

(02:11:54):
And on the other side of me was Dave Grohl
and we watch God and so we're watching Christapleton's soundcheck Lady,
and he finishes a song and Dave Grohl looks over
at me and didn't know and he didn't know my
name from Adam. I was just standing next to him.
But Dave girl looks at me and he says, man,
that guy's an f and rockstar. When Dave Grohl calls

(02:12:15):
you a rock star, she you are a rock star.
Like that's just a different level. And that's just because
every day Chris Stapleton could sing you the menu at
Taco Bell and you'd have a visceral experience from it,
Like it's just the dude has soul that I don't
know how any one person gets. So yeah, yeah, you're
Christapleton fan, but rightfully.

Speaker 3 (02:12:31):
So, well that's awse, that's awesome. I like that. All right,
it's good.

Speaker 2 (02:12:38):
You're good with these rulings. Any music rule, right, any
music ruling.

Speaker 3 (02:12:46):
We're going to go to you.

Speaker 1 (02:12:48):
Look, I appreciate that level of leverage, you know. Like
my favorite was when I first started in this business
and I would tweet anything about sports, people said stick
to music. And then last year, at one point I
tweeted something about a country record to come out, and
I remember what it was. Somebody tweeting me back and said,
stick to sports. I'm like, I've made it. I'm finally
a stick to a man.

Speaker 3 (02:13:09):
That's very cool.

Speaker 2 (02:13:11):
Hey, real quick, let's go over today's games in the
NBA playoffs, and I want to see what you guys
think Orlando and Cleveland. This is a fascinating series. Just
so you know, Cleveland is a four and a half
point favorite against the Magic.

Speaker 3 (02:13:30):
What kind of do we think Orlando was a chance here?

Speaker 1 (02:13:34):
I think Orlando can at least make it ugly, Like, look,
this seem's really good defensively, and I get there, young
and I get they have a lot of offensive issues,
but they're really good defensively, so why not at least
get into the concept that they can muck it up
and they can be a little bit problematic. So do
they win this series? I think that's asking a lot.
But in this game, can they make it a little

(02:13:56):
bit ugly? I think so?

Speaker 2 (02:13:57):
Yeah, I think they can push this to six.

Speaker 7 (02:13:59):
So yeah, very young, very talented, but outside of Bankerra,
they do really really don't have a lot to work with.
Wagner shows up, but he shows up once. You know,
every couple of weeks is the issue, and there's just
not a lot of consistency there, even with the injury
concerned for Donovan Mitchell. I think Cleveland is at least
more balanced in comparison to Orlando on both sides of
the floor. So probably gonna end up being Cleveland in five.

(02:14:22):
But I could see Orlando potentially pushing it to six.

Speaker 1 (02:14:25):
I could see this being like in five, but all
five games were close enough that Orlando fans are frustrated.

Speaker 7 (02:14:31):
Right, and they're ahead of schedule by the way, like this,
they can get swept, and I think this was a
successful season for them.

Speaker 2 (02:14:37):
I agree I think, I big, you're spot on subs
and tea Wolves, Minnesota laying a point and a half.

Speaker 3 (02:14:45):
I love Minnesota today.

Speaker 2 (02:14:47):
I think today, I think and I know what happened
the last you know, in three games which they played
this year.

Speaker 3 (02:14:53):
I love Minnesota today.

Speaker 1 (02:14:55):
I want to love Minnesota today because I think that
like that could change the way we see this whole series.
But man, I don't know. There's just part of me
that feels like we could watch Phoenix run out by
twenty and then we all feel like everything's just gone
to hell in a hand basket. It just feels like
a bad.

Speaker 2 (02:15:13):
It's on the raziest bad matchup.

Speaker 1 (02:15:16):
That's my thing.

Speaker 7 (02:15:16):
This is just a styles make fight sort of matchup,
and that that's that's the issue. I don't disagree that
Minnesota is good, and if they're playing four or five
other potential options in the postseason in the West right now,
it might be different. But I think them defending those
guys on the perimeter, it just doesn't feed into what
they do best.

Speaker 3 (02:15:32):
It doesn't. Mm hmm, Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 2 (02:15:36):
Uh, the Knicks or a three and a half point
favorite over the Sixers.

Speaker 1 (02:15:43):
Oh, I like the out right, outright.

Speaker 2 (02:15:51):
Reverse to a reverse six ers, late points, big odds.

Speaker 1 (02:15:58):
You're feeling froggy today on this one.

Speaker 3 (02:16:00):
I am.

Speaker 1 (02:16:02):
You know what, my I hope you're right. How's that?

Speaker 3 (02:16:07):
I think you're wrong, but.

Speaker 1 (02:16:08):
I hope look like like I genuinely if you'd asked
me a week ago, I just said, yeah, I really
like Philly. That that playing game just looked off like
so like I've got a little bit of fear.

Speaker 2 (02:16:21):
I'm so happy because the value is it's just driving
the value.

Speaker 1 (02:16:27):
That's fair. That's fair.

Speaker 7 (02:16:29):
You know what, as far as today goes, I'm taking
New York. But I do think Philly one's game two
when they end up winning the series. But I think
the Nicks end up a winning Game one today. Okay,
you're what you would lay three three and a half? Yes, yes,
let me know if.

Speaker 3 (02:16:44):
You want to lay it.

Speaker 2 (02:16:49):
I wrote, Ah, I wrote a column for the New
York Posts yesterday. Uh, basically because you know what I'm
amazing about, Like Philly, New York is separated by ninety miles.
It's it's about, you know, an eighty minute train ride

(02:17:10):
on Amtrak. You know you go from thirty Street station
in Philly to Penn station in New York, which is
Madison Square Garden.

Speaker 3 (02:17:19):
It's like, literally, you know, eighty minutes you're there.

Speaker 2 (02:17:22):
And the Sixers and Knicks have the last time they
met in the playoffs was nineteen eighty nine. It was
please and are seven years before they would play opposite
in Space Jam.

Speaker 3 (02:17:41):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (02:17:43):
That's kind of wild concept to think of, right, and
so like.

Speaker 3 (02:17:48):
They have these are two teams that have never been
good at the same time.

Speaker 7 (02:17:52):
That's a good point though, you know, you think of
the Knicks of the nineties, right, and the Sixers were
down at that point, and then you had the Sixers
with iverson, but the Knicks were down at that point.

Speaker 3 (02:18:02):
Yep, never been good at the same time. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:18:05):
Uh, it's a wild it really is. And that that
series was a five game series and Knicks wound up winning.

Speaker 3 (02:18:15):
In eighty nine. And it's so interesting because.

Speaker 2 (02:18:20):
When you would think, you know, Phillies and Metro arrival,
Eagles and Giants obviously, Flyers and Rangers, right, like, you know,
they're all rivals, and these are two.

Speaker 7 (02:18:31):
Like flagship franchises of the NBA. Yeah, the fact that
they haven't faced each other in that long is insane.

Speaker 3 (02:18:39):
The cover of the post was awesome. The backpage and had.

Speaker 2 (02:18:43):
Jalen versus Goliath nice and it had like embiid as
they may get bead like a monster on the picture,
like he's like taller than like Madison square guard.

Speaker 3 (02:18:54):
And there's Jalen, the little little Jalen and.

Speaker 7 (02:18:57):
Jalen has the basketball like it's like it's a rock
and its yeah, very clever.

Speaker 2 (02:19:02):
Yeah, yeah, I like it. Yeah, it's good stuff. All right,
we got to take a quick too. We'll come back.
I want to play a game and we're gonna have
our manded big Brain with us too to go through
uh the NBA and then everything. But I have draft
over unders, so I want to go you and I

(02:19:25):
want you. I want you guys and Brad to give
me the over or under. We'll play with draft over unders. Okay,
so we'll do that. Coming up next. Where the Fellas
hanging out right here on Fox Sports Radio. Fellas Jason
fitz Rick jameson say, I'm Rick James. Oh maybe he does.

Speaker 10 (02:19:50):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:19:51):
Other people say it too.

Speaker 3 (02:19:58):
We are the fell Is.

Speaker 2 (02:20:01):
It's also from the tyrack dot Com Studios. Jason fitz
Kevin figures of Anthony Gargano, Shaye uh Is with us back.
We love him and we'll talk to him. I heard
you guys are just they're bickering back and forth. My team,
my tea Mark. It was our producers and joining us

(02:20:24):
now to talk about sports from a betting standpoint. Our
Amanda Brain, Brad Feinberg, Big Brain, Brad. Good morning, Brad.
How are you, buddy?

Speaker 10 (02:20:36):
Friend?

Speaker 1 (02:20:37):
Good?

Speaker 3 (02:20:37):
Good? So I got something for all you guys.

Speaker 2 (02:20:40):
We'll get your picks and NBA stuff coming up, but
I want to play a little thing called NBA or
NFL Draft over under? Okay, So I have the opening
lines from CIRCA on the draft prospects. Will they go
before or after the number? So over or under the pick?

(02:21:03):
Under the pick obviously would be lesser, like, for instance,
Michael Pennox thirty two and a half. If I say under,
that's before thirty two. I say over, and it's after
thirty two. Okay, that's the rule. Sure makes sor right.
Let's roll with it. Let's go JJ McCarthy over under

(02:21:30):
five and a half and the juice under is only
minus one twenty. So I'll start with you, big brain.
Are you taking JJ.

Speaker 1 (02:21:41):
Under or over?

Speaker 10 (02:21:44):
You know what's interesting? If I probably watched I think
more or less every game of his career at Michigan
and Josh Allen overcame accuracy issues. And you know, it's
obviously had a brilliant career. But to me, when you
have accuracy issues and McCarthy has accurate issues, in my opinion,
I usually don't like that In terms of the quarterback,

(02:22:06):
I think that's like almost like a given that you
need to have success. And I personally, again I love
the kid. Is his anthony kind of like how you're
a Philly guy. Jalen Hurts had a lot of good
intangibles and whatnot. I think McCarthy's and tangibles are through
the roof. But will he be a great player Again,
I'm gonna use my own personal judge. I'm just that

(02:22:29):
say he doesn't go in the top five. But I
understand he's getting a lot of publicity that he's going
to I just don't think he deserves to.

Speaker 3 (02:22:36):
So all right, they know you say over figure, I'm
gonna say.

Speaker 7 (02:22:41):
Over, yeah, I as got for all the reasons that
that you mentioned and more, I gotta say over, I'll
believe it when I see it. Can you hear all
the stories and all the rumors flowing around about him
being a top five pick.

Speaker 6 (02:22:52):
I just can't.

Speaker 7 (02:22:53):
I've seen nothing to justify that happening. So until it happens,
I won't believe it. So I'm going over.

Speaker 3 (02:22:59):
Are you go over? Dow?

Speaker 2 (02:23:00):
I want to go to FITZI because FITZI he has
some insight. Yes, and so, uh, FITZI, do you go
over or under? And you read teams here?

Speaker 1 (02:23:11):
Yeah. Look, if it was me, I would go over
drastically because I think it's a massive crapshoot. I think
when we get to draft A I'd be stunned if
he makes it past four. So I will go under.
You know, like I've said before, the people I know
connected in Washington do believe that there are people in
Washington that have him as high as one on some
draft boards. There are teams that are just absolutely in

(02:23:33):
love with his intelligence. There are teams in love with
the way he processes information, which is the new big
trigger phrase for everybody. So the way he processes the field.
He does have a photographic memory, which teams are going
to fall in love with in the processing portion of
the interviews. So yeah, I hammer the under on this.
I think he's gone by four.

Speaker 2 (02:23:52):
Okay, quarterbacks, I'm gonna, I said, Panics thirty two and
a half. Bo Nicks is thirty two and a half.
So both Penix and bow Knicks of the previous Pac
twelve are thirty two and a half.

Speaker 3 (02:24:09):
We got Brad on both.

Speaker 10 (02:24:12):
Well, I might like Pennis. I'm unger like you. No again,
I have a maybe a little of a bias or tim.
I think he is very, very good. Again. He did
not play well against Michigan, obviously in the championship team.
That was probably his worst performance of the year. But
I was impressed with him all year.

Speaker 12 (02:24:30):
I was.

Speaker 10 (02:24:31):
I was addressed with bow Knicks too.

Speaker 1 (02:24:34):
You go both.

Speaker 10 (02:24:37):
I'm gonna say bo Nicks goes over Michael Pennix goes under.

Speaker 3 (02:24:40):
Okay, all right, Figgie, I'm gonna go under for both.

Speaker 7 (02:24:47):
K There's gonna be a round quarterbacks, and someone's gonna
want to take bow Knicks in the first round, So
I'm gonna go under on both.

Speaker 3 (02:24:53):
All right, Uh, all right, FITZI under on Penis for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:24:58):
I think Penix goes in the first round. Pose the
more interesting one, because a couple of weeks ago I
had a couple of different people tell me that there
was a good shot that Pennix was gone, or that,
I'm sorry, Poe Nix was gone before the Raiders even
picked so top twelve. But that has really gotten quiet
over the course of the last couple of weeks. Now
is it quiet because everybody's trying to avoid it or
is it quiet because it's just not there? I think

(02:25:20):
Penix belongs in the second round, But so I'll go
I'll go over on Penix and think that he falls
to day two. He's sort of the Will Levis in
this in this equation. But man, I don't know. I
think there is some element of me that if right now,
if I was just placing a fun pizza bet on
number of quarterbacks taken in the first round, that six
number does feel pretty pretty juicy.

Speaker 3 (02:25:42):
All right? How about this?

Speaker 2 (02:25:44):
Marvid Marvin Marvin Marvin Marvin Harrison Junior four and a half.
If you bet under, you lay four to one minus
four hundred, you bet over brings you back plus two
ninety five. Any Way, Marvin is drafted after.

Speaker 10 (02:26:05):
Four Well, I think so, I absolutely think so. Getting
those odds, and I'll tell you why. Legitimate good chance
of names that you would agree that you know Arizona quarterback.
Especially what you said, Fitz about JJ McCarthy. It's like
I would almost rather take taking McCarthy in the top five.
I'd almost rather bet him not to go h Harrison

(02:26:29):
not to go in the top four, getting like three
to one odds. I'd almost rather take that get triple
the odds. If McCarthy goes five, I guess I'll choke
on it. Obviously I get that. But to me, I
think arizonism is a very likely team to make a trade. Yes,
they need a wide receiver. I understand that, but they
could it's a deep wide receiver, because I think they
could trade down and maybe get a huge bounty. So yeah,

(02:26:51):
I kindly that's how it would happen. Obviously, a big number.

Speaker 2 (02:26:54):
Plus two, nine, five.

Speaker 3 (02:26:55):
So Brad's going to bite on it. How about you five.

Speaker 10 (02:27:00):
Least twas By the way, By the way, I'm gonna
say this right now. I think again, I rank conferred
on these receivers, and I don't think it's like the
eleventh Commandment that everyone ranks him number one. I really don't.
I think this has become like a narrative that people
just assuming.

Speaker 3 (02:27:19):
Yeah, we talk about neighbors, that way too. Yeah, we.

Speaker 10 (02:27:23):
Are both just as good, if not better. I I
don't I think he's getting Michigan guy talking.

Speaker 3 (02:27:29):
Now.

Speaker 10 (02:27:31):
You know.

Speaker 7 (02:27:34):
Some people in the community that's Harrison her neck and
neck and neighbors is kind of right there with him,
if not above him.

Speaker 3 (02:27:40):
I've heard I was just teaching, brother.

Speaker 7 (02:27:42):
But those odds, those odds, I gotta go over. I mean, yeah,
that's that's that's what they think.

Speaker 3 (02:27:48):
He's going to bite. Yeah, how about you?

Speaker 1 (02:27:51):
Yeah, no, I'm going over all free.

Speaker 2 (02:27:54):
Bite all right, all three of our guys bite. All right,
big brain, I'm going to give you.

Speaker 3 (02:28:03):
I need somebody good here.

Speaker 2 (02:28:05):
I'm going to give you brock Powers eleven and a
half Brockows Brain.

Speaker 10 (02:28:17):
You know this is to me, this guys comes from
the lot down to what the Jets are going to
do at ten, right, I mean a lot because I'm
gonna get I'm gonna say over. I'm gonna say over
just because I don't know how many fits that I
see for them in that top eleven. The Jets make
a lot of sense for sure. They also need offense alime,

(02:28:38):
and they also need a white receiver home depends what
receivers are there depends what offenseilimen are there for the Jets.
I think he's definitely in play there at ten. But
if it doesn't get there at ten, even though he's
a really good player, I'm just I'm just gonna go
I'm gonna I'm gonna go over. I think there's more
outs on the over than the under.

Speaker 3 (02:28:54):
Okay, how about you, Figgie?

Speaker 7 (02:28:56):
Yeah? Really, the Jets and maybe the Bears are the
ill these two teams. I think what might take a
flyer on him inside the top ten, And I don't
know if I like those odds, so I would go over.

Speaker 10 (02:29:07):
There is no way I don't think that. I just did.

Speaker 7 (02:29:10):
If they wanted to put another offensive weapon, he'd be
a guy, an inside guy that they can use. Yeah,
but I don't think they will. I'm just saying they'd
be the most likely off the teams in the top ten,
they and the Jets. So for that reason, I'm going.

Speaker 3 (02:29:21):
Over as well. All right, how about you, FITZI, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:29:24):
I'm gonna go over, just because of the way the
draft board I think plays out. If I believe four
quarterbacks are going to be taking and taking, Joe Alt's
going to be taken three wide receivers are going to
be taken in that top ten. It just gets in
then one defensive player, all of a sudden, it gets
really hard to find that spot. For brock Powers. I
think he should be to he's the top ten talent,

(02:29:46):
but there isn't necessarily a great whole for him. So
I'll go over.

Speaker 3 (02:29:49):
I'll give you one more Joe All seven and a half.

Speaker 1 (02:29:57):
Irish Ham or the Ham. I'm the under on that.

Speaker 10 (02:30:02):
Go ahead, Yeah, I agree because to me, Tennessee is
picking seven.

Speaker 1 (02:30:07):
I don't.

Speaker 10 (02:30:08):
I would just be I mean, you see a team
that needs offensive line hope. I think the Titans are
the worst most breath talented offensive linement in the NFL.
This is a chance for them to get that on
the right foot, so to speak. I would again plus
even at five.

Speaker 2 (02:30:24):
And you also got a leg. Remember I'm sorry, you
got to lay three to one minus three hundred.

Speaker 10 (02:30:29):
Oh okay, okay, you gotta lay minus three to one.
I would still lay the three to one if I
had to do it. Not that I'm anxious to make
it minus three hundred, but I do think it's at
least seventy five percent. So for me, I'm going to
say yes, under seven and a half fake.

Speaker 3 (02:30:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:30:42):
I feel like one of the worst KEP secrets is
that if Joe Alt is there at Tennessee at number seven,
they're taking them and there's a good chance And as
Fitzy has talked about the Chargers, there's a great chance
they take them at five.

Speaker 2 (02:30:52):
So I'm going under as well. All right, Uh, we
got a couple of minutes, big Brain, and you can
get big Brain at Brad's Best Bets dot com or
on Twitter at Brad's Best Bets.

Speaker 3 (02:31:07):
He's nobody's like him in the country. He rolls, Uh, NBA,
what do you got for us today.

Speaker 10 (02:31:13):
Buddy, Well, a couple of games? Anthony? I like, well, first,
I like again, I guess I liked the Sixers in
the series, the MB potential injury maybe enough to maybe
make it more just to a lean. I like Minnesota
to beat the Sons. I don't understand he's not hurt.
He's not hurt. No, are you saying this like because

(02:31:34):
you like no, or you're you're like saying it because
well he is.

Speaker 3 (02:31:38):
I mean, I don't you think this is a fresh injury?

Speaker 10 (02:31:42):
I mean again, and I know me and you just
respectfully disagree a little bit. I thought he looked compromised
would be the word I would use, and not anything
like what I saw the first thirty five games. Last game,
he's just it just seems like he's like, I don't know.
Every every second, you're like, is he gonna get hurt?
Is he gonna get her? Is he is he kidding?

Speaker 3 (02:32:01):
Part of it was part of its win thing too
with him. But go ahead, Well, I think.

Speaker 10 (02:32:05):
The Sixers are gonna win. So I did bet the Sixers.

Speaker 2 (02:32:08):
I do.

Speaker 10 (02:32:08):
Everyone listening, I do have a bet on the Sixers.
I took them initially minus one o five and then
back to the plus one fifteen when the line went
against me, because I just again I think they are
gonna win. Uh in Minnesota again, I think they're gonna win.
It took them plus a dollar seventeen. I think they
are the better team taking a price with home court advantage. Yeah,
I'm gonna do that all every day I can.

Speaker 3 (02:32:28):
I like Minnesota too. We were just talking about figure
brought up a good point though, Figure ahead.

Speaker 7 (02:32:33):
Oh, just it's not the big the greatest matchup for
for what Phoenix does the best where their mid range
assassins and Minnesota really does a good job of locking
down the paint, and in their regular season matchups, Phoenix
has wiped the floor at them.

Speaker 10 (02:32:44):
Every time they have they have them. That's stare. But again,
I'm just gonna just not just not dig on Phoenix
and I think that this team is just not as good.

Speaker 3 (02:32:54):
And and I like Minnesota too, I like, I agree
with you.

Speaker 6 (02:32:58):
I've been a fan of Phoenix either. I just think
the catch up favors them.

Speaker 10 (02:33:01):
Here, Ma, sure, I'll give you real quick. Yeah, I'm
gonna give you a prop. I'm gonna give you a
prop in the sixers game I like. And this to
me is like a double edge. Why I like it?

Speaker 2 (02:33:11):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (02:33:11):
Tyrese Maxie Anthony. They made his over runner, Okay, twenty
one and a half he's having in twenty six he's
fifty two and eighteen of the over Now, to me,
if Embiide is like her, then this thing is a key.
You're gonna win it. There's not even a question you're
gonna win it. But if embiid is like even if
em Beebe's just playing normally, I think this is at
least at least two have three beat twenty two points

(02:33:34):
Tyrese Maxey. Come on, that's too low. They're docting him
four and a half points because of a poor performance
against the EAT. I think that's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (02:33:40):
Yeah, I think it's.

Speaker 10 (02:33:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:33:44):
I love that. That's a great that's a great prop.
I didn't realize it's that low.

Speaker 10 (02:33:48):
It's ridiculous. It should it should not be that low. Again,
I made it. I made it twenty four and a
half and give me twenty one and a half. It's
just way too low. Donovan Mitchell, by the way, he's
real quick. Anthony Donovan mitchellis start over, says thirty of
this last thirty seven over four hampsis Anthony Davis. I'm
keep singing on the show. It keeps winning over two
and a half of Sisters fifty six. So those are

(02:34:10):
like some NBA things which I thought has some.

Speaker 2 (02:34:13):
That's fantastic, Big Brain, you're the best, buddy. We love you, man,
Thanks brother, appreciate you me next week here he is
the brain. We'll come back and uh we'll wrap it up. Man,
what a lot of fun. We're the fellas right here
on Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, fellas.

Speaker 3 (02:34:40):
As.

Speaker 2 (02:34:40):
We hang out on a Fox Sports Saturday, kick it off,
the playoffs in the NBA, the NHL, and of course
we're just counting down to the draft in Detroit. Cannot
cannot wait for that. All Right, we always do this
the the show. Let's talk about it. What are we watching?

(02:35:05):
What's gonna what do we fancy? All Right, so we're
gonna do that. We're gonna do the best and worst
of the week, so ahead, So let's go for it. Uh,
let's start off, and I'll start it off with Shay.
It's been great to have you back, you and Fitsie
Pickering throughout the show about the morning.

Speaker 3 (02:35:26):
It has been great.

Speaker 4 (02:35:28):
Yeah, I miss it. I miss it a lot.

Speaker 5 (02:35:30):
I mean I get to see you guys sometimes when
you guys fill in for other shows. But yeah, it's it's,
it's it's there's nothing like this show, to be honest, guys,
and I do love it. But enough with the getting sad.
Let's go to the Let's go to the games, because
I really do miss doing this. It's it's hockey season
and the the Gala Kings are taking on the Edmonton
Oilers and I hate the Oilers because we can never

(02:35:52):
seem to get past them.

Speaker 2 (02:35:53):
But this is the year.

Speaker 3 (02:35:55):
This is the year. This is the year McDavid goes down.

Speaker 4 (02:36:01):
I mean, I don't like to wish for anything, but
this is the year.

Speaker 1 (02:36:06):
I man, she leaves the show and all of a
sudden it becomes a mercenary.

Speaker 2 (02:36:19):
Oh that's great, all right, Uh mighty mighty Mark, what
are you watching this weekend?

Speaker 12 (02:36:26):
Maybe I'll try and find some hockey playoffs? Since the
Hawks are, you know, somewhere fishing, watch it. Watch it
the Kings and the black Hawks either, So thank you
very much, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (02:36:40):
So I'll just try to find some hockey to watch.
Look at you, baby, Chicago, through and through, baby, I
love it.

Speaker 3 (02:36:49):
I love it, Mighty Mark. All right, figgy, what are
we watching? Oh?

Speaker 7 (02:36:54):
Even though I have little faith, I got to pull
for the Lakers to beat Denver, right, you gotta get
over that, and look, if they find a way to
be in the first round, it's easy breezy to the
finals after that.

Speaker 3 (02:37:02):
Right oh yeah, right, oh yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:37:05):
And you never know, man, No, that was a very unsure.

Speaker 1 (02:37:10):
Right yeah, you know, zi, what do we watch it?
Magic Calves, I think is my favorite of the NBA
matchups for Game one, to see how the magic? Yeah,
I know it's a little off the beaten path, but yeah,
that series is gonna get It's either going to be

(02:37:33):
really interesting or really ugly really fast. So to me,
if the Magic can come in and play the way
I think a young team can, and if Poulo continues
to do what Polo's done this year, I just wonder
if they can make it interesting. So, like, whereas I
know throughout the course of the Sixers next series it's
going to be interesting, I know Sun's Wolves is likely
to be interesting. The Magic Cavs game is the most huh,

(02:37:55):
I wonder what we're gonna see here moment for me,
So I'll go with that on the hockey slate, uh, Sunday, Yeah,
Preds versus Canucks. Obviously the Nashville and NBA is going
to be very happy to see a little bit of
playoffs because the Golden Knights don't. They don't drop the
buck till Monday on their playoff series. So, but the
start of Stanley Couple, Like, I don't know that there's
a more intense experience in sports than the Stanley Cup playoffs.

(02:38:18):
Like it's just when you're sitting there and you feel
the energy knowing that one goal, every goal. Yes, yeah,
it's just so wild.

Speaker 2 (02:38:25):
And you know it's funny that it had the goals
happened with more frequency in hockey. It's like the perfect
amount of like the ability to score and it changes
like the feute.

Speaker 7 (02:38:38):
Like it's every rush means something, every misshot like your heart.

Speaker 1 (02:38:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:38:46):
The Kings game, the last Kings game was insane. They
scored six minutes now, six seconds into overtime. You're just
biting your nails the entire it's not even that was
a regular season it was a regular season game.

Speaker 4 (02:38:56):
Yeah, it was crazy.

Speaker 7 (02:38:57):
There's For any of our listeners who haven't bans the
NHL game a playoff game, please do. Even if you're
not a fan of hockey, just experience it. You'll become one,
trust me.

Speaker 3 (02:39:07):
Yeah, it's fabulous, it really is. It's great.

Speaker 2 (02:39:11):
All right, Quickly, Figgy, what happens. What's the biggest surprise
of Thursday of this week?

Speaker 7 (02:39:20):
Biggest surprise of Thursday of this week? Raiders trade up
into the top five. They get their guy, they get
Jayden Daniels.

Speaker 3 (02:39:27):
How about that? Ah, that would be amazing. Fits.

Speaker 1 (02:39:32):
Look, I'm just telling you. If the Raiders get Jayden
Dannys like, you know what. I think the biggest surprise
is gonna make cartwheeler.

Speaker 6 (02:39:40):
We'll have to doubts Fitzy with cold water.

Speaker 1 (02:39:43):
Look, I'm gonna be in l A doing some shows
for Yahoo for the draft, and uh so, I'm gonna
be in studio. I'll be on one in studio Saturday morning.
If the Raiders have Jayden Daniels biggest surprise, Drake Maygo's
number two. How do you like that? I think all
this Drake makest uff is false. Let's say Drake Mago's too.
Drake may have no reporting on this. I'm just throwing
that out there.

Speaker 3 (02:40:02):
Wow, I like it.

Speaker 2 (02:40:04):
Listen when you speak, when you speak about the draft,
my eyebrows go up. That's fantastic. All right, listen, that's
gonna do it for us. It's gonna be a great week,
all right. Enjoy it, fellas, love you. We'll see you
next Saturday.