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Hey, what's going on, everybody? BT Unleashed in the house got a
big show for you. A lot of football, you know, I
love the juice coming out of the combine.
Got a little something on Joe Shane, Got a little something on
Mooji. Have a big topic today about the
quarterback carousel that is about once again to take over
the NFL. By the way, is there any more
depressing spot if you really think about all the predicaments
that we go through as fans, right?
Is there anything more deflating then being on the quarterback
carousel and like not having the first overall pick or having a
draft pick, but not having enough quarterbacks to actually
get, you know, to have access to that quarterback in the draft?
And then being talked about, you know, like the way The Jets are
and, and the Browns and, and the Cardinals and some other teams,
right, the Vikings. And you just hear the
regurgitation of names like the I'll throw them through the old,
you know, throw that just like get recycle, recycle
quarterbacks. This it's depressing, but I,
there's actually a couple of interesting ones here.
So I will get to that. Got to run through some, some
salary cap space and, and what I think these teams are going to
do big, big, big, big NFL show today and obviously Saint John's
and UConn tonight. And can somebody explain to me
why St. John's and UConn, and this is
not a shot at the network? They, I don't really watch it
very often. If you're a big soccer fan,
they've got some great content for you.
But why the hell was St. John's, UConn on Peacock
tonight? See, this is part of the problem
with the Big East. You know, it's one thing to be
down a little bit and the conference is absolutely down.
You know, you got UConn who's really good, you've got Saint
John's who's really good. You know Villanova is good and
going to eventually become really good again with Willard.
After that, there's really not not much.
It's probably as weak a conference as I've seen in a
long time and that you can't always control.
Sometimes it's cyclical, but what you can control this
getting your teams in your conference on better outlets
than Peacock when St. John's is playing UConn for the
biggies regular season championship.
What the hell we doing anyway got a big one for you today.
Hopefully everybody is good. Everything hurts today on your
boy and I meet everything. So I got AI had my physical
yesterday and without being you know, too gross.
I mean, obviously when you get a fiscal physical, they do
everything. God, that is, and you know what
I'm talking about, that is absolutely the worst feeling in
the world. Standing words, you know, you
bet, yes, standing in a doctor's office, you know, they, they
pulled up the little mic gown, the little medical dress that
they put you in. Oh my God, when is this over?
When is this going to end? You know, they got the gloves,
they got the gel. I'm like, yes, it was a rough
day. And then not only that, I got a
shot in my arm and I don't, I don't care about needles.
I got to go back today, get some blood work, all good.
Just basic natural stuff. Thank God, normal stuff that you
have to keep up on my freaking I cannot lift my arm.
I don't know if it's from shoveling over the weekend.
I don't know if it's from lifting weights and something
not feeling great but Oh my God, I really can't even lift my left
arm. J Rod.
Stay young bro. Stay young.
J Rod. That is my advice to you.
Stay young, J Rod. We must, we gotta cause yeah,
yeah, I'm not excited for that stuff.
No, You don't know anything about the prostate exam, do you?
No, absolutely not. You don't, you don't need to,
buddy. You don't need to know.
That is a need to know when you need to know.
Yeah, all right. And, and by the way, in, in, in,
in all seriousness, if you guys are, you know, late 40s, early
50, certainly if you're beyond that, you need to take care of
the stuff it it takes. Yeah, unfortunately, it took
more than one second. You know, it takes a few
seconds. It's not pleasant.
It's brutal. It's even embarrassing.
But you know what? That that moment of
embarrassment fades away immediately.
You get a good, you know, you get a good report, you feel
better about yourself. And God forbid if there is
something wrong, you know, you, you find that early and you can
get along with your life and have all these great doctors and
great medicinal advancements, you know, take over for that.
So. But it was a rough day.
I and you know, yeah, you, you know that.
And The funny thing is to get now I know my doctor for a
while. And like, again, I don't, I
don't want to be too crass here. Like I, I don't want to cross
the limits. But so I'll just leave it to the
imagination. Those of you who who know what
I'm talking about obviously know.
But then the other thing too is and the old Costanza skit, like
when you're coming out of the shower, you know, shrinkage.
I mean, that's that's a real thing.
I mean, it just is, you know, it's, it's shrinkage, you know,
that's, you know, that's, that's why, you know, when, when you're
dating or maybe when you're early on the, in the
relationship, you know, maybe you want to shake it around a
little bit, you know, when you're getting out of the ocean
or when you're getting out of the shack, whatever it might be.
So, but the worst thing is for me, I think even worse than the
prostate exam. That one just hurts.
And that one, just like it's I, I can't relax.
But the worst part is when they obviously have to check the, the
undercarriage there, you know, and the office is cold and the
doctor's hand is cold. And it's like it, you know, it's
it's basically as shriveled up as it could possibly be.
I'm like, God, just come on. Just Sir, check.
No lumps, please. No.
OK, let's go get your hands off me.
Let's keep it moving. So anyway, that was yesterday.
So also yesterday J Rod was a lot of news that was being made
at the combine. Now I'm going to watch the
combine. There's not a lot of there's
really only a couple of very interesting quarterback
prospect. I do want to see Simpson work
out few others, couple of receivers, great class.
It's, I think it's a very good offensive line class as well.
Not so much on the guard, more on the tackles.
But I mean, watching offensive lineman retreat with their hands
up is not exactly riveting combine TV.
But there are some things that I'm that I'm curious about.
Caleb Downs, I said, yes, I have no problem taking him #2 if I'm
The Jets, I think the Giants would absolutely run up to the
podium to take him to #5 But what I like more about the
combine is these interviews that you get before the combine,
right? And and let's get this up on the
screen because Joe, we're going to start with Joe Shane, start
with the Giants. Then I want to get something on
The Jets. Then I've got something about
the entire NFL with the quarterback carousel.
So let me read this for you. All right, This was via Paul
Schwartz, who does a really good job for the post.
But on the Giants beat for a long time, quote, Giants
ownership is not happy with the characterization outside the
building that changed responsibilities or diminished
or that he's been relegated to scouting and nothing else.
He's operated this offseason in the same manner he has in the
previous four with the Giants, other than initially being
immersed in the comprehensive head coach search that
identified Horribaugh as the number one target as soon as he
became available. And quote again, tribute that to
Paul Schwartz that came out of the combine.
Good job by Paul getting that reporting done.
All right, so the first line Giants ownership is not happy
with the carrot. Well, too bad.
I mean, first of all, who cares what Giants?
I would have to think the Giants ownership maybe has a little bit
more on their mind with Tish being mentioned in some emails
with with Epstein. Now, I'm not saying he did
anything. I don't know, I'm not saying
that. But that's what Giants ownership
should not be happy about. Not the fact that there's a
perception that maybe their general manager has had some
juice stripped away from him. And let's also call for what it
is. J Rod, you can get me back up on
the screen there, buddy. The other thing too, is that
when you look at what you know, and I think Paul's very good at
his job. So I absolutely believe that
report. All right, so giants ownership
is not happy again. I I don't really care about the
giants emotion. You know, I care about the
giants, you know, and I certainly cared past tense about
the by the way, you know by the way I'm waving for the kids
right it it snows one inch. Nope, school delayed a little
quick side here. You know how it is.
I mean, good God almighty, man, the softness in these suburbs is
absolutely pathetic. It's just pathetic, dude.
So I get it. I mean, Sunday we got smashed.
We knew Monday there would be no school.
Last night we got a text message is the way it operates.
How many of you know this last time we got a text message?
I am coaching my daughter's rec basketball game and we won very
low scoring affair. They've won three out of four.
You know, I mean, we're certainly not the best team in
the league, but we're it was scrapping to get a couple wins
here, playing some defense, you know, Anyway, so I'm coaching
her and my wife is at my son's playoff basketball game.
And then, you know, I and I let my wife handle all that stuff.
Like I get the alerts, but she handles all that stuff with
school and I get the alert, she gets the alert.
Delayed the late opening for school tomorrow for what?
Nothing's fucking happening. What do you mean there's there's
a delay? There's a delay for what?
What are we delaying here? You know, we're just delaying
the inevitable. Eventually they got to get back
to school. Cut the shit.
I, I just good God. I mean, it would have to snow
feet for us to have off back in the day.
And even then you didn't know you'd have to get up.
You'd have to listen to 10/10 wins or whatever other news news
outlet Channel 9. I think this is even before good
day New York. Channel 9 would have it so we'd
be in the and of course, I didn't want to go to school.
I get it. I, I understand why the kids are
pumped up when they give it, get this alert, but from a parenting
point of view, suck it up. It's one inch out there.
Everything else has been cleared the day before.
There's sand, there's salt, the roads are plowed.
Suck it up. God almighty man.
Anybody else have to deal with this?
It's a delayed opening. Why?
Nothing's going on now. Eventually it did, but that's
the difference. It's the pre emptive.
It's the proactive delayed opening.
Now they weren't wrong. There was a little precipitation
and the good news is today it's going to be about 47 to 48°.
So this shit will start melting and we can get on the baseball
field, which is all I care about, and eventually the golf
course and the softball field as well.
Not just for the boys, my daughter as well and the team
that I coached with her. But I mean, yo, I'm I'm looking
outside. It's like a dusting.
I mean, it looks like it looks like literally somebody
sprinkled some salt. And I don't mean salt from these
Mack trucks who were coming by cleaning up.
I'm talking about a salt shaker that you put on a potato or a
Mashed potato. What?
Come on.
Anyway, we had it cancelled again.
Again. Sauce 961 a life threatening 2
inches. Wow.
I mean two inches, 2 inches of God forbid.
Nope, can't push the envelope. Here, let me just if it's up to
get the fucking school, go to school, the amount of holidays
that they have the amount and I listen and I it doesn't sound
like it right now. I am a big proponent of school.
I'm a massive proponent of education and higher learning
and working hard and getting good grades.
And if you have a struggle, get a tutor, you know, get a tutor,
dig in, put yourself in the best situation to do well in life.
I mean, I'm obviously having fun here, but I mean, the amount of
parties, cupcakes this day, pajama day, pajama day were
wearing pajamas to school. I couldn't even wear like a NYX
hoodie to school. So I went to Catholic school.
I had to wear a boring powder blue tie with a Navy blue,
pardon me, powder blue like this actually, So I guess I'm still
trained. A powder blue dress shirt with a
Navy blue tie and Navy blue pants.
God forbid you wore sneakers and God forbid you wore socks like
when I was young and I would try to sneak and get away with it.
I don't know why. It just looked cool.
It was more comfortable to run around in the schoolyard.
But like if you God forbid if you wore white socks with the
dress Catholic school uniform, if it give you if you didn't
have a note. I mean, your ass was in trouble,
you know, like, oh, I have a foot infection.
Sure, you do you. You don't, but you think you're
cool and you want to wear white socks and you try to do whatever
you can to circumvent the rules. Anyway, tangent over.
But it really it's just it's amazing to me how like what what
schools become, I get they they wore pajamas yesterday, at least
my daughter the other day. My my daughter did what?
All right, so back to the New York Giants.
Can you get that graphic up there again, because I want to I
want to reference that was quick J Rod on point.
That's good. All right, Giants ownership not
had the character a characterization outside the
building that Joe Shane's responsibilities diminished
blah, blah, blah, or that he's been relegated to scouting and
nothing else. But by the way, he has been and
I'll tell you why in a minute. So they can be pissed off as
much as they want. Nobody cares and it doesn't
matter. He's operated this offseason in
the same manner he has in his previous four with the G Men,
other than initially being immersed at the comprehensive
head coach search that identified Harbaugh as the
number one target as soon as he became available.
OK, listen, we can split hairs. We can try to position this as
nice as we want. The bottom line is this.
Joe Shane's got no juice anymore because John Harbaugh's got it
all. Period.
Conversation over, nothing else to discuss.
Let's keep it moving. And again, if the Giants really
are unhappy, and again, it's the, I mean, it's their
prerogative to be unhappy, it's not going to change anything.
But if that report is accurate, and I believe Schwartz is a
terrific reporter, not a sensationalist, he is 1 based on
fact and he's got great connection.
So I buy that 100%. So if the Giants aren't happy
about that, all right, great. Well, let's put the emotion
aside for a moment and let's just deal with the immediacy
and, and eventually the, the practicality and the
distribution of power. So, so they what if they're
unhappy with that? What they're basically saying is
that no, it's the same as it used to be.
Well, let me tell you why it's not.
And let me tell you why what you just saw on the screen is a
colossal crock of shit. Because let's say in the war
room, right, John Harbaugh's first draft, it can even be
something before that. The retention of a current
player, the restructuring of a contract, the, you know, the,
the, the cutting of a player, the signing of a free agent if
there is a disagreement. And I promise you in the big boy
world of draft rooms and you know, all those skull sessions
late night, hey, these guys were available positions of need.
We've got X amount of money, the dollars to allocate free agency,
blah, blah blah, effective cap space, and John Horbaugh wants
this guy and Joe Shane wants that guy.
You tell me who's getting the guy that they want?
Come on, man. It's going to be John Horbaugh
1000 out of 1000 times. So the Giants can kick and
scream and protest and be unhappy with the way things are
being positioned. Again, I'm not trying to be
countless or, or, you know, overly insensitive, but who
really gives a rat's behind what the Giants think?
It doesn't matter. That's the reality of the
situation. John Horbaugh is now running the
show. Anybody in the building.
And I'm not talking about like the, you know, the, oh, well,
you know, maybe we could get this written in the contract.
Just use common sense, right? Let's say, let's say that there
is a split, a fundamental split, truly.
And I'm just going to take Caleb Downs.
And I'm going to take Caleb Downs because recently on the
Francesa podcast and somewhere else, I forget where the other
spot was definitely with Mike though, Horrible was on and he
said, hey, I love Caleb Downs. I love having a great safety,
blah, blah, blah. We talked about that and I love
Caleb Downs. I'd take him at #2 for The Jets
anyway, so I'd certainly take him at #5 for the G men.
And let's just say that John Horribaugh absolutely is so dug
in on Caleb Downs that there there's nothing to interpret
draft night. This is my guy stands up on the
podium, bangs the table with his first.
Whether it's literally or figuratively, everybody in the
Giants organization knows that that's the guy that he wants.
And Joe Shane, I'm just, I'm that, listen, Joe Shane might
want to as well. I'm just creating a situation to
show you where the Giants are at now and the reality of the
situation. Any juice Shane once had, he no
longer has, right? And let's say the Joe Shane
wants the, let's say the offensive tackle from Utah.
And I'm not averse to the Giants going offensive line.
I think his name is Fano. Fano at at Utah.
If they want to do that in #5 I'm cool with that.
But if Shane wants him and John wants Caleb Downs or a receiver,
Tate, whatever it might be, who do you think is going to win the
power struggle? So all the other stuff, I don't
want to be overly repetitive. I'm going to move on.
This is basic stuff, but just use common sense.
John Horbaugh, Super Bowl champion, as respected as
anybody in the NFL, $20 million a year, able to get rid of
coaches and overhaul some of the scouting and rearrange the
building and reassign people and get rid of these guys, bring
these people in. OC, this guy, that guy.
Do you really think at the end of the day that he's going to
have to acquiesce to Joe Shane, who's lucky to still have a job?
Come on. I mean, so it's kind of a non
story in some way, but I did want to at least get that on the
table. All right.
By the way, Jay, you can crank in those texts that they come in
before you do that. Oh, OK.
If they love Fano, they should take them.
They can find a safety later at James 555K.
Well, yeah, I mean, but then again, you're assuming that that
both figures will love him. They might.
I'm not saying that they won't. And by the way, guys, I'm not
trying to store trouble where there's not necessarily trouble.
But eventually there's going to be trouble.
Or at least there's eventually going to be a massive conflict
and disagreement specific to a big free agent or or player on
the existing roster or a draft slot or trade or whatever it
might be. All right.
And John Horrible's going to win out.
And then there will be a problem unless Shane accepts it.
So you know, when and and listen, I'm not saying it's an
easy spot for Joe to be in. It's really not like, you know,
he is still the general manager and it's a tough spot to be in
there at the combine. But he's up there.
And the last time we saw Joe when he was introducing John
Horribaugh, he looked like a nervous wreck.
I felt for the guy. You know, he just his voice was
trembling that that's it was probably as as as many people
for a New York press conference since geez, I mean, since I'm
I'm talking about all the sports, maybe since horrible
retired, maybe since like maybe Jeter's last Prem.
I mean it, that was a big room, all right.
And there was a lot of pressure and he knew that his power was
about to be subverted. So I get it.
I understand why he was in his own head there.
And it came out, it came across as, you know, not really in
control. And again, a little nervous.
So I felt badly for him. But that's the reality of it.
When you're the GM and you've had a couple of years to build a
team and really do a good job and you haven't really done
anything because the only Goodyear they had, it was
primarily with the roster that they inherited.
And you go back to that first year, the nine wins, the road
playoff win against the Vikings, the nine wins in total and the
road playoff win against the bikes before they got spoke by
the Eagles. Who do you attribute that more
to? Was that coaching or was that
the GM? It's an easy answer.
It's the coach. Because it was mostly the same
roster. He was the one who maximized
Daniel Jones. He was the one who cranked out
Saquon. He was the one that was able to
stable construct an offense, low turnover, ball control, defense.
We know how they won. I don't need to reset that.
That wasn't Joe Shane then as you got into year two and three
and four. And you know, now, like now, his
fingerprints are all over the roster and they're not good.
So, I mean, not exactly, you know, you got to get on soapbox
and say that guy deserves an extension.
No, again, with all due respect, that guy's lucky.
Still got a job at Shirley Charlie.
F6675 Charles, what's up? I would think the chain was told
before Harbaugh came over that Harbaugh will have the final say
when working together. Obviously these things are are
all mapped out. They're all smoothed over.
Unless you are a completely dysfunctional franchise like The
Jets, there's nothing nebulous to interpret here.
There's no like, let's try to interpret what's going on.
No, Harbaugh is the boss and Shane is not period.
All right, let's get to the next topic here, Jets.
So now this is largely about for this conversation.
There's a little bit more on The Jets and and other NFL teams
with the next topic, which I'll get to in a moment.
Well, by the way, so I got to have water today because I'm,
I've got to go get that blood work to finish up the physical.
No coffee, haven't eaten no coffee.
So your boys have her back some water, which I do anyway.
So the, the press conference for Darren Mooji, who I, I just, you
know, maybe I'm desperate, maybe I'm naive, maybe I'm an idiot,
maybe I'm equal parts everything.
I don't know. I don't know, but I I just Mooji
gives me faith. He what I like what he projects.
And I don't mean like winning the press conference with gusto.
He's pretty sedate. So it's not like this Rex Ryan
persona. I just believe in the guy's
football acumen. Former player was with the
Broncos. He's made some good moves so
far. I trust him.
I trust him about as much as you could trust any Jets decision
maker, put it that way. I was getting up on the screen,
Mooji talking about Breece Hall, which by the way, is something
that I talked about here on Unleashed, oh, I don't know, a
week or so ago and told you Breece Hall is going nowhere.
And I laid the whole thing out for you.
So listen, this is not by the way, we'll keep that up there.
This is not just well, let me just open up a laptop and just
start talking smack. The research and the contacts
are still there. Like don't think that I'm not
talking to people. So when I told you a week ago
that breeze hall staying put, you should understand that it
it's still the same guy who was doing shows on more conventional
platforms for years, not just throwing shit up against the
wall. All right, quote, the tags are
an option. Ideally, we'd find a way to get
a deal done and keep Reese around.
I think I've said that for the last year since I've got here.
Reese is a good player. Want to find a way to keep him
around. We've been going through the
process, still doing so. We've got a week to find out.
March 3rd, by the way, the official day.
You've got to let us know and let them know if we can't get an
agreement, which way we'll go with that tag.
Darren Moogie. Now, first of all, I appreciate
his transparency. I mean, it's pretty basic stuff,
but like what he told you is priest holes not leaving the
building, and that's the right move.
He's not an aging running back with 1,000,000 miles and the
odometer's about to bust. He's one of the few home run
hitters they have on the team. He's one of the few offensive
forces they got. They got a ton of money to
spend, which I'll get into more in a minute.
So to let him leave the building thing, I was just look at Jay
Rod. I was just going to literally
say just about to say, all right, Jay, get it down.
Good job, buddy synergy. Jay Rod learning, learning his
trade well. So there's no there's no reason
to let him leave. There's just not like if they
had, you know, this massive firepower everywhere you look on
offense and you're like, well, you know, we do have a lot of
holes on defense, which they do let's, you know, maybe take that
10 or $11 million and I'll get into the specifics in a moment
and let's apply that somewhere else.
Breece, you know, it didn't work out.
We drafted you second round pick.
You showed a lot of talent. You had a really good year last
year. First over 1000 yards with no
passing game and a backup who should never play again.
With all due respect ever to Brady Cook, I just can't watch
it. He's he's terrible.
Go play the UFL or the CFL or whatever FL that's not the NFL
is going on. He's bad.
So to get 1000 yards under those circumstances is pretty
impressive. Now I'm not saying he's Barry
Sanders, but there's value there.
Now from a financial point of view, it's very simple.
You are the franchise him or you transition him.
Franchise 14.7 that the transition tag is 11 point
change. So you get that $3,000,000 extra
spread. I've, I've already explained all
this. I want to make sure we're on the
same page for a running back. The tag transition is 11.1.
Now he's not going to get 4I. I don't think they're going to
franchise him. I wouldn't do that because
that's an exorbitant amount of money for a team that's not
ready to win yet and for a running back.
So I'm not doing that. What you doing is you're buying
yourself some time to have that, that exclusive negotiating
window. Now the problem is it's it's
it's not exclusive. If you franchise somebody, and
again, many of you know this, I want to make sure we're all on
the same page. If you franchise somebody, they
can't go anywhere. They can kick and scream and
complain and yell, but they're your property for whatever that
number is attributed to whatever position we're talking about.
And with the running back, it's 14 plus this year too, too high.
It's not worth it, right? I'm not even sure if he's worth
11 point change, which is the transition tag.
But if you slap the transition, yes, you saved the three mil,
but now other teams can negotiate and now you're
leaving, leaving the door slightly ajar for a good player.
And they've got a dearth of good players on both sides of the
ball to possibly leave the building.
And I'm not looking to have that happen.
And obviously is Muji because he's not a dummy.
So you by yourself until March 3rd and you come up with a long
term deal. Just find the number and I'll
give you a guess in a minute. You find the number with the
guaranteed money that makes sense for Breeze where he
secures his future where you could spread things out a little
bit more and get all creative. And I don't even know how they
do the signing bonus workout struggling.
I mean, it's just contracts in the NFLI can't stand them
because you can do as much research, as much homework as
you want to to do. And like, there's still a lack
of full clarity on how this nonsense nonsense works.
But I mean, I've got about as much Intel as as I feel that I
need that, you know, so we're good.
But man, you can, your head can spin if you dive into it for too
long. So I think at the end of the
day, I think they're going to slap A tag on them and I think
they're going to work out an extension.
And I think if you could get in the neighborhood, let's say
three years, I mean, I would be even do a fourth year if you
want to get into voidables, whatever, where it's not overly
punitive on the back end. Again, the the minutiae of this
nonsense. We don't care about Breeze Hall
four years down the road. We care about it this year and
next year and maybe the year after that, right?
So I would think 3 or I'm going to stick with the three years. 4
seems a bit excessive, but it could be an option.
Three years, you know, I would have to think that if you get to
10, I mean that's obviously 30 million, maybe it'd take more
than 1010, you know, 105103102A shade below the transition,
which is 11 change. I would have to think that that
would be palatable for somebody like Breece Hall who never got
that first round money and because there's some good
running backs. I mean, Devante, what did he
just sign for? I think he just he took less
than I thought, right? He just signed a deal yesterday
or two days ago. So with a couple of running
backs who are available, it's not like there's one and you
know, everybody's going to be bidding for him.
I think it's going to be a fairly suppressed running back.
Market advantage, Jets disadvantage Breece.
But because of that, I think the breeze will ultimately be
amenable and I think ultimately happy, not just like, all right,
I got no other options. All right.
I think that he'll get to a place where he feels kind of
good about the contract and that The Jets will be able to spread
it over X amount of years and really make this make sense as
they build it out. So I listen, I never once
thought that now I was going to say I never once thought the
Breeze was going to leave. To be fair, I wasn't sure what I
wanted to do during the season. Matter of fact, I was on the
record like, hey, if you get a good deal during the season,
like they traded Q, like they traded sauce, I'm all for it.
But with Kansas City offering a fourth round pick, that wasn't
good enough. You know, you can't try to
fleece a bad team just because you see him making some changes.
That's another reason why I like Mooji had the foresight.
He could have got wrapped up and you know what?
Complete house cleaning. All right, got rid of Q got rid
of sauce, got a bunch of first round picks.
Let's keep it going. Take a take Breeze Hall while
you're at it and just keep adding to the bag of of draft
capital and draft equity. He didn't do that.
He realized it will be a much lower number.
He looked ahead. There was foresight, there was
calculation, and I believe that Mooji is playing this to
perfection. So there you go.
Look 10 steps forward. I'm not sure what that means.
Anybody know what that means? I mean, maybe it has something
to do with kind of like, you know, you're lying about the
foresight or something like that, Like always be ahead of
the curve, something like. Yeah.
I mean, I, Jimmy J Rod, I don't want to start getting on you
like Sal getting on bottle booms here.
But I mean, I would have to say that generally when you put up a
text there, have the, you know, let me be able to, to to make
some sort of, you know, Yeah. Well, to I was going to say some
sort of deduction. Same thing to, to understand
what it means without asking you what it means.
Yeah. No.
Probably a good show. Agreed.
There J Rod in the house. Oh yeah, listening.
Can you hear me? All right, let me get to this
here. So a little giant stuff, a
little jet stuff. I got a little something on the
Knicks later. I got a little something.
Obviously we've got the Johnnies report sponsored by my friends
at Sullivan, but pain will do will do a little bit later.
So the quarterback, I was doing a lot of research here last
night. I really think you guys I'm not
looking for, you know, pity points.
That's my job. But I do think that I set this
up in a way that you guys will obviously understand, really
appreciate and really react to. So I was going through what I
perceive to be murky quarterback situations.
Now again, I, I and I, I would, I would even say this on WFN,
like I don't want to just bombard you guys with numbers.
It's a little different now that there's this visual component.
You know, I get it when you're in your car, although in the car
on Spotify and all the other outlets to listen to the show
after we go live, I guess it's kind of the same thing.
But the point is to sit there on the radio back in the day and
hammer you with, you know, 9 or 10 like numerical points of
reference from Baseball Savant. It's a little heavy.
I mean, not everybody wants to hear it and it's just too much.
So I'm, I'm, I really, I just dumped it down.
I condensed it. I do want to explain, though,
because I don't take for granted that all of you know this, all
right? You're hearing a lot of cap
space. Jets have this, Jets have that,
Jets have this, Raiders have this.
All this team's $30 million under the cap.
All right, it's funny, all the teams who run through the cap
eventually find a way to get over the cap.
Stunning, absolutely stunning how that happens every How do
they do it? How do they find a way to go
from negative $17 million to a surplus of $19 million?
It's because all the numbers are fungible and it's idiotic math.
Which is why I really hate the salary cap, at least the way it
is set up in the NFL. Think the NBA is better, Birds,
rides, all that stuff. The NFL is just confusing.
So with that being said, you're going to hear a lot of terms, 2
terms specific to money. You're going to hear salary cap
room and you're going to hear effective cap space.
J Rod, not to put you on the spot here, buddy, but you are a
sports fan. You are a football fan.
I don't assume that everybody knows this.
Do you know the difference J Rod between cap space and effective
cap space? Listen no.
Listen, Kitty, hear me. Frank, let me be completely
Frank. No.
That's what I want. I want frankness.
I want things to be blunt when it's time to be blunt.
This, this show, this station, this brand is about bluntness.
Many other things as well, but good don't beat around the I'm.
Not gonna don't educate me and give me that effective cap
space. Breakdown, and I'm going to give
it to you bluntly and short as well, so I don't need to expand
on this too much. Effective cap space is always
going to be less than the actual salary cap space.
So I'll just take The Jets for a second.
When you hear all The Jets have and they have a lot of they have
a lot of cap space, you know, $70 million or 74 someplace had
80 million. It's a lot of projections as
well. But between that 72 and 80 is
the high point window threshold available cap space for The
Jets. All right, Effective cap space
is a reduction in that when you take the amount of money that
you will have to apply to the roster to have the roster come
complete. Now that includes your own free
agents that you have get to sign.
That includes free agents. And again, there's all the
projection that you might sign and this obviously includes the
amount of draft picks that you were going to have to add to
your to your roster that you will.
So think about this, The Jets have the 2nd and the 16th
overall pick. They're going to have more or
what what they're going to have to designate to to their first
round salary cap designation is going to be a lot less than the
Giants who only have one first round pick pick and 5th overall.
By the way, quick quick sidestep.
Not much though. Not a story, but I meant to say
this before. Not like some story time with BT
specific to what we're talking about.
The other reason why I really do like the retention, I meant to
say this, my bad of Breece Hall from a Jets point of view is
it's another reason why I think The Jets could go defense at #2
and #16 not that you'd necessarily listen.
I mean, if Jeremiah Love was there at 16, maybe you mess
around, you do that. I don't think he will be the
stud running back from Notre Dame.
But but if you, if you imagine if Bruce is gone, I mean, all
right, you got Garrett Wilson, you got Mason Taylor, who I
think is a, is a young interesting player, but you
don't have a whole lot like you've got whatever quarterback
it is. And I'll get into the
quarterbacks more here. You've got to at least, you
know, give him a, a safety blanket.
We can hand it off 20 times, do some screen passes and he's got
a chance to make some people miss.
So that's the additional benefit #1 Breece is a good player for
the offense, as we know, but also gives, I believe The Jets
the wiggle room and the freedom to go defense, defense in round
one, which which is something I've been espousing for a while.
OK, now, so back to the cap space.
So and the effective cap space, The Jets have about $55 million
of effective cap space because they will have to, you know,
they've got the two first round picks, a bunch of other picks,
the anticipation of a really being aggressive and free
agency. So just to understand that.
So when I say, cuz I'm going to get through some of these
numbers with these murky quarterback situations without
paralyzing you with numbers, understand when you hear the
effective cap space, it's going to be much less than whatever
number you have knocking around your head pertaining to your
team and salary cap space. You know what I mean?
Free agent, the ability to do stuff in free agency, there's a
difference. And I just told you what it is
now. By the way, J Rod, you get it
now. Good.
Yeah. No, I, I that was a very
effective breakdown of it. I was kind of just looking into
it as well. So it's basically like it's
almost like your gross pay versus your actual take home.
It's a great way to look at it. So it's like, you know, you've
got your gross, but then the actual amount once you take
everything out, it's a little less.
Yes, yes, I the very, very well said.
I like the example there. There you go.
All right, so now as you look around the NFL and this is just
a shitty place to be. Now it's different for the
Raiders because they've got the first pick and they're going to
take Mendoza. But is there anything more
depressing? And really in all the sports, I
really don't think that there is.
Is there anything more deflating than being on the list of murky
quarterback situations and not having either enough
quarterbacks coming out of college or a high enough draft
choice or both to actually get one in the draft?
But which, by the way, obviously impacts The Jets here and other
teams. So by my count, the Cardinals,
the Browns, The Jets, the Raiders, but I'm going to just
kind of gloss over them because of Mendoza, Miami, the Vikings,
they really miscalculated that, huh, With Arnold and the Colts,
who I do think will retain Daniel Jones.
Now, doesn't mean there aren't one or two others that you can
get in there like the Steelers, but I think Rodgers will go back
there. Like if Rodgers plays, I think
Rodgers will be back. So I'm not going to go nuts
here. Now, the Cardinals, their cap
space, all right, is $19 million.
They don't have a whole lot of room.
They've got about, ironically about a $19 million decision on
Kyler Murray where if they retain Kyler Murray by a certain
date coming up fairly soon, they owe him 19 change guaranteed for
this coming up year. Do I think Kyler Murray's on the
Cardinals next year? I don't.
So I think Kyler Murray's available for other teams as we
run down the list here, right? How about the Cleveland Browns?
Are they right now? They are negative $36 million
now their big issue and they got one more year of this.
Deshaun Watson has a year to go on the five year deal at $230
million guaranteed. I mean, that is the worst deal
you want to think about. Not Rhodon, not Carlos Rhodon
Rendon for the the Angels when they gave him all that money
from the cat, from the Nationals.
I mean, to me that was the worst deal in the history of sports.
This one has taken the cake. I mean, wow, all it went in the
in NFL when guaranteed money is so punitive and this guy gets
and I understand why they did it to an extent.
I mean, Deshaun Watson was really, really good for a
minute, $230 million guaranteed. That obviously limits what the
Browns can do moving forward. Now you got your door Sanders on
the roster. I they're not going to take a
quarterback. I I don't think unless maybe
they trade out to take Ty Simpson somewhere or they reach
for somebody like Ty Simpson. I guess anybody could reach for
Ty Simpson. So I don't need to put that
disclaimer in for everybody. All right, so that's the the
Brown situation. I'll get back to The Jets in a
moment again there. This is now, this is their
effective cap space and the Cardinals effective cap space is
plus 19 mil. The Browns is -36 The Jets
effective cap space before they get all the picks and all the
free agents is between 55 and $60 million.
Now you get to the Raiders. Their effective cap space, still
a really good. The Raiders, by the way, had the
most cap space. So it's not just the Mendoza.
They're going to be able to do a lot here.
But they're like, if you see their cap space, it's like in
the 80s or maybe even more. Their effective cap space is $67
million. Miami is a mess.
Their effective cap space is -37 you got the 2TT Vailoa situation
over there. The Vikings, their financial
mess, they're -53,000,000. And obviously, you got JJ
McCarthy. Kirk Cousins will be gone.
We heard that from the combine yesterday.
And the Colts, who are -24 effective cap space -24 and of
course, you're talking about Daniel Jones.
So I just gave you the quarterbacks with, with the
franchises, with murky, murky quarterback situations, meaning
they've got to do something. Put the Raiders aside, got the
Cards. You got the Browns, you got The
Jets, you got the Dolphins, you got the bikes, you got the
Colts. Now of those teams, I think
Daniel Jones stays with the Colts.
I think the bikes are obviously going to give McCarthy one more
shot. Now they'll bring you the
stabilizer behind them because it doesn't seem like they really
believe in McCarthy and I don't know why they would at this
point, but he will be back and then they'll bring in somebody,
you know, back up whatever, somebody just a veteran, like a
Tyrod Taylor type, somebody like that.
I think Miami's going to move on from 2.
I I know if they wait a year, it's it's less punitive, but I
just I think it's time. I think he's going to go.
I think they're going to be really all over Malik Willis.
So, you know, I don't know how they're going to do it.
They're going to get very creative monetarily.
But The Jets, I've got a couple of names for you in a minute.
The Browns, you know, I mean, do you run out there?
Shudor Sanders Week 1? You very well might.
I mean, Shudor Sanders in the Shudor Sanders in the Pro Bowl.
Give me a break, man. I mean, I'm going to get a waste
energy on that because I I'm rooting for the kid.
I think he's taking a lot of hits unfairly, unnecessarily,
but the fact that he's in the Pro Bowl is an absolute.
I mean, it's just disrespectful to those who played in the Pro
Bowl before, but it's not even the Pro Bowl anymore, so who
cares? But they could go with Sanders,
and I think they probably will, but they're going to have
somebody behind him that at least is viable.
And then the Cardinals, I don't know what the hell the Cardinals
will do, but those are the situations.
Now that I've given you the situations, let me give you the
the names that you obviously want to keep an eye on here.
All right, Malik, will this I I I love him.
I really do. I love him now I think he's
going to wind up in Miami. I think The Jets will try to sit
at the table as long as they can, try to be sneaky, try to
get something to happen. And the other thing too.
Let me let me take a little moment to talk about something I
think is very important. Now this applies to every team,
but specific to this conversation, I really mean The
Jets, right? So there was a story yesterday
like, well, if Darren Muji gets his wish, he'll go on the
cheaper route. Like the unproven thing Davis
Mills think Tatter McGee, which is an interesting name for the
Eagles, right? I was talking to one of my
buddies last night, big Eagles fan, a massive Eagles fans.
I was getting even more the scouting report on Tanner.
Yeah, so, but the, the, the the story was, and I don't
understand this. Like, to me, it's to me, it's
actually emblematic of where The Jets are that there should even
be a question. I mean, think about the
dynamics, the pecking order. You've got the owner who is a
clown. You've got the general manager
who I believe in and you've got the head coach who I'm rooting
for but doesn't have an ounce of juice right now or a leg to
stand on because that now I know he didn't have a good roster.
And I'm actually willing, I was willing to give Aaron a second
year. But Aaron Glenn, I mean, if they
start out one and five or O and four and it's ugly, Aaron
Glenn's out and that's just the way it's got to be and that's
the way it's going to be. But the three names there, you
tell me who should get his way. Like when I see a story, if
Darren Mooji gets his way, it will be somebody like a Tanner
McGee or Davis Mills. Well why wouldn't he get his
way? I mean the only way he doesn't
get his way is it the owner who is the worst owner in all the
sports and he just proves it every single year.
Nice guy, atrocious owner, train wreck owner, clown owner, right?
What a good guy. That's not personal.
I like Woody, he's good, but he's awful.
So why would Woody flex? So if Mooji doesn't get his way,
the only reason Darren Mooji is the general manager wouldn't get
his way is if the clown owner steps in.
And if that happens, there's just no hope for, I mean, if he
can't sit this one out, you just have to wonder, like, why do you
generate all these emotions for The Jets if the owner is just
not going to let the guys that he hires do a job?
You know what I'm saying? And I, I hope that he will.
I'm not going to say I've got a great conviction that he will,
but there's a part of me that believes at least early in the
Mooji era, he will. So I don't think that what he's
going to do that. But if he does, we got problems.
And then the other factor here, why would Aaron Glenn get his
way? I mean, of course Aaron Glenn
wants somebody who's a little bit tested because if Aaron went
if, if Aaron wins, if listen, if Aaron Glenn goes 2 and 15, even
if the defense is buttoned up and they hit on the couple draft
picks and they're 2 and 15 or 3 and 14 or even 4 and 13.
You know, like, how are you? How are you going to bring him
back? How?
I don't know how you justify that.
Now the optics, I know that that's a lazy word, but the
optics wouldn't matter. Are they a highly penalized
team? Did they lose a couple of tight
games where they're buttoned up and they play well and they're
underdogs, but they show some growth.
Like there, there could be. We could split the difference.
You could go four wins and actually be brought back and it
would be somewhat justifiable. But for the most part, any
script for a four win season, you're out.
So if I'm if I'm Aaron Glenn, what do you think that I'm
thinking? I mean, hey, go and spend every
penny of free agency. I don't worry.
Listen, the ramifications downstream with the roster ain't
my problem because if I don't start winning, I'm not going to
be around to deal with it. So I really don't care, you
know? So I want a veteran quarterback.
I want Malik Willis. Yeah, I want somebody like that.
I take Joe Flacco for a year, just be something.
I'm just throwing names out. Piece something together and let
me get a little reprieve here. I know what Glenn's thinking,
but that's the wrong thought. And if Muji does not get his
way, which I believe he will this time, that is just
hopeless. That it's it's just hopeless,
man. And there's nothing else to say
at J Bone 8993 J, what's going on?
BT I say we get Tanner McGee and then trade.
Well, I think you'd have to. You'd have to trade for Tanner.
I believe he's under contract. He is.
So you're not going to sign him. So you'd have to trade for
Tanner McGee And listen, they've got enough capital to do it and
then trade up for the second round and get Ty Simpson, use
our current two first on defense.
Yeah, outside of, you know, not getting the part right about
signing him versus a trade, I'm down with that.
Listen, The Jets, any not just The Jets, any team that has a
murky quarterback situation, to me, their strength in numbers.
Now, I also know that it's a lot easier and it sounds great.
Take a flyer on this game. Like The Jets did it with Kelen
Clemens. You know, they did it with
Hackenberg from Penn State and and it and it doesn't bear the
fruit. Like it sounds good.
All right, Hey, we got a project in round two.
He won a lot of games like Kellen Clemens in the PAC 12.
Hackenberg's a big boy with a rocket.
Hey, you know, intriguing prospect.
Those things usually don't work for bad teams.
If you have somebody like Patrick Mahomes or you have
somebody like Lamar and you have somebody like Josh who you want
to let you know this young second or third round, fourth
round project, sit and watch. I'm all for it, but if he's
going to be inserted there in the middle of the season with
bad coaching and no weapons and whatever other defects the team
has and The Jets have a million and so do other the other bad
teams, well, you know it. It's it's not going to get a
chance to root. It's not going to get a chance
to grow and it's going to be another ways to draft pick.
So it sounds good. And I do subscribe to that
philosophy. You know, throw as many darts at
the board as possible. Put it this way.
I would rather The Jets, I'm more with Muji, you know, rather
than bringing in a Flacco or, or even and they want they might
wind up with Brissett and Brissett's kind of in between.
He's not like 4957 years old like Flacco, who can still play,
by the way, I'm not taking a knock at Joe, but somebody like
Brissett who's who's not young and and and completely
intriguing like like Tana McGee, but he's not a dinosaur who's
got maybe a year left like like somebody like Flacco.
I could see The Jets kind of splitting the difference going
with percent. I wouldn't, I wouldn't go that
route. I would honestly, I would really
try to get McGee now, if they want a second round pick, I'm
not giving that up. There's no chance in hell I'm
doing that. It's got to make sense from a
draft perspective and I have full trust that Muji will
operate that well. I really, I really do.
I'm not worried about that. I'm not worried about him
getting fleeced in any deal because so far he's the one
doing the fleecing. Now, the difference here is that
the Colts are not the Eagles and you're not fleecing Howie
Roseman. I get it.
Let's try to equate the two there.
But I would much rather have somebody like that and then take
an take a flyer in, you know, maybe not in Round 2, but I
don't even think they have a third round pick this year in
round 4 or even 5 or trainer, whatever.
It's some sort of configuration, not in the first round or in the
2nd and have Tanner McGee, the player that I'm, you know, not
naming, but identifying. And then Tyrod Taylor, like I
think the more you do that, all right, maybe McGee works out.
Maybe the other kid works out. And if not, and if you suck
again, well, then what do you do?
You got three first round picks next year and you take somebody
that's got more of a more of a hit rate, somebody who's a
little bit more proven, who's played a lot more and you go
from there. So that so that's my plan.
All right. That's what I would like to see
happen for The Jets and really just as a philosophy for any
team that's constantly chasing the quarterback.
I think that's probably the most prudent way to go.
You don't create a a database of options without like I listen.
I also really think myself that Malik Willis is going to be
really good. I really like him wherever he
goes. If he goes to Miami, if he goes
to Pittsburgh, you know, he's going to get about thirty, $35
million a year. That's the projection.
And you know, is that something The Jets want to do with this
stage? Probably not.
If you're Malik Willis and you know you're not going to get
quite the commitment like somebody else, like a like a
superstar 'cause there's still some unknown with Malik Willis.
So don't you think it would behoove him to go somewhere with
two or three receivers and some innovative coaching where you go
and you rock right away and then you get another contract based
on how you do, you know, on whatever contract you get here,
Like for Malik Willis to go to The Jets or or the Browns or
somebody like that. Sure, he'd he'd make bank and
he'd be fine for the rest of his life, but it wouldn't
necessarily set him up to have a long term success.
So that's how he should process it versus how I process it for
the other teams. Let me see here.
Cody Nuso 1410. Cody, what's happening?
BT have you seen the report suggesting?
Yeah, I saw this. What are you telling Eric Glenn
to assume defensive play calling duties, which impacted the wink
hiring? Of course I saw it.
That's why I can't stand. Woody Johnson is the owner.
This is one of many things that I've seen, one of many.
Listen, there's nothing with The Jets that I don't see or hear.
There's nothing I mean out down to the smallest detail.
If it's a team that I follow and it's a team that I cover, and
that applies to every New York team, although we're doing more
and more national stuff on the show, I can promise you there's
nothing. I haven't seen nothing.
So I've seen it and I hate it, and I believe it because Woody
is horrendous and Woody doesn't know what to keep his his grubby
hands get his fingerprints all over the product.
Woody, just do us a favor, dude. All right?
Do us a favor. Take a page from James Dolan,
who was the most reviled New York sporting figure of my
lifetime. Because, you know, I I wasn't
watching sports when the Mets, I was 3 when the Mets traded Tom
Seaver in the middle of the night in 1977.
So I didn't process that in real time.
And Donald Grant, like they hate for the old Mets or even the
Wilpons, they got cheap based on what happened financially,
right? Like James Dolan was the guy we
all hated, hated him, couldn't stand them.
And the the perception of Dolan. Now, I really can't remember the
last time I heard somebody say anything bad about James Dolan.
I really can't. Why?
Because he finally got a higher Right now, Leon Rose is not
perfect. I'll get to the Knicks in a
little bit. Last night, another shit he
performed. Another reason why you just
can't really trust him. And by the way, I'm not going to
sing the same song of banging on Cat.
I'm banging on Mike Brown in a minute.
In a minute. Mike Brown deserves to get
banged around here. Enough for the nonsense, enough
of and I, you know where I stand on Cat.
I'm not taking that back. Don't trust him.
Soft, all that stuff. But he's playing pretty good
ball and I'm tired of him getting all the heat.
It's not right and it's not it's not accurate.
So I will. I will fix that in a moment.
Yeah. I saw the report, man.
Just, you know, Woody just can't help it.
You know, somebody like Woody Johnson is so dangerous because
he doesn't know what he doesn't know.
That's one of the most dangerous things in life.
We all know what we know, right? Very well.
My wife was asking me the other, this is actually a good
question. She was asked me this the other
night, may or may not have have had a seltzer.
And she asked me this and she says, I don't know how it even
came up. Maybe we're talking about public
speak. Yeah.
Some of the things that have going on with motivational
speaking and recapping. Yeah.
Recapping the last one, getting ready for the next one next
month at Verizon, which is going to be a huge room, well over 100
executives. I can't wait to get there.
Cross country mortgage was phenomenal.
And we were just recapping all that stuff.
But it's something I'm doing more and more and more.
And by the way, if you're interested, it's on the website.
All right, Just go to YouTube, get the bio.
There's a there's an e-mail opportunities already coming in.
I'm going to be very busy with that and it's a passion.
Anyway, she asked me, I don't know how would morph.
Then she said, would you rather know a little about everything
or or a lot a little of not me. Nobody knows about everything, a
little about a lot or basically everything or a lot about a
little. And I'm like, it's a tough
question here. It's a tough question because
I'm I'm thinking of a two ways. I'm thinking of it.
If I'm at dinner, like with my wife and friends, or I'm at a
conversation work function and having a glass of wine and
you're sitting around, you know, and you're just conversing,
well, anything that comes up based on the first part, knowing
a little about a lot you can contribute to the conversation.
Not you should really be talking about politics or religion at
that kind of setup, in that setup.
But people do whatever, know the limits, and I do.
Some don't. And that sucks, but, you know,
Hey, you want to talk a little politics?
Yeah, I can hang. So a little finance, stock
market, investing. Sure.
Obviously we want to talk sports, no doubt about it.
So about school. Yeah.
We want to talk about literature.
All right. I've read some stuff going back
to my my Jesuit high school forced reading program, which I
did kicking and screaming, but I'm thankful that I did.
That's all about writing. Yeah, that's all about writing.
Sure. It's all about cinematography.
Won't take a little. I don't know, photography, food,
wine, Scotch. Yeah, they could talk about.
And most of those things I could talk a lot more than just a
little. But think about this.
So being able to talk about a little about a lot is, I think
empowering because there's never going to be a real situation
where you feel as if you can't contribute a word to the
conversation. And that's a very uncomfortable,
unsettling feeling. Now the other part of my brain
thinking about the monetization of that and providing for my
family. Is it better to be great or
whatever words you want to use, but to know a lot about a little
and be able to dive into that and fixate on that and maybe be
a little limited in the other areas.
But really being able to, you know, as one central theme, 1
central work pursuit, really capitalize on that and and
maximize your earning potential, whatever it might be.
I actually see both sides. I I really don't know.
I think that at the end, if I had to choose, I think I would
go for knowing a little about a lot rather than knowing a lot
about very little. But that's a tough question.
And I just bring that up because, like Woody, you don't
know what you don't know. You think you know football, You
don't have a speck of a clue about football.
I could reach into my pocket, right?
And we're in sweatpants now. What are the great joys of
working from home? I can reach into my pocket and I
could try to scrounge up a little piece of lint and any
other speck of particle that is in my pocket and I could drop it
on the table. Whether it's visible or it's
not, you know, and that is how much you know about football.
Basically nothing, right? And if you knew that, if you
knew that this goes back to the premise of knowing what you
don't know, you wouldn't be as dangerous because you wouldn't
be as bad of an owner. I don't think it's malicious.
I don't think it's I I do think he I, I do think while it's not
malicious, I do think what is a good man, good person, little
eccentric, whatever. I've met him, you know, but but
but a good, good rooted person. I think his heart's in the right
spot. I do.
If you disagree with that, that's fine.
I do. I mean, we all agree he's a shit
owner. But the point is, is that if if
Woody was just not so wrapped up in in, in, in, I think that
there's a big part of him that wants to get the recognition
whenever The Jets become really good, whenever The Jets get to a
Super Bowl, like what do you want and win it.
The I think that that's very appealing to him.
And I think that pursuit of that, that glory, quite frankly,
because he's not half the money. He's got more money than
anybody. Like how much money do you need?
Every deals cut, you got the powder, you got the cosmetics,
you got The Jets, you got everything you need, dude.
I think people like that want to be, want to be thought of as
almost a savior and get credit for something that they really
have no business getting credit for.
And I think that that's where Woody and I think that Dolan was
there for a while too, to tie it all in before I move on to some
other stuff. So I, I don't know, I don't
know. I, I am worried.
I'm, I'm always worried until I get something counter like The
Jets have not earned the benefit of the doubt.
I will no longer say I'll be optimistic going into seasons.
I'll be optimistic going into drafts because I, I, I, I want
to skew optimistic. I don't want to live life
negatively, but they have not earned the benefit of the doubt
for me to say, yeah, I believe that Woody's going to lay out
during the draft, or I believe that Woody's going to lay out
there in free agency, or I believe that Woody's going to
lay out and let Aaron Glenn do what he thinks he's got to do.
That's right for the team. You know, in the vision that
Aaron believes, whether it's calling plays or not, delegating
or not, I don't believe that Woody has that capacity yet.
And I don't know that he'll ever have that capacity.
But if James Dolan found it, then there's a glimmer of hope
that Woody can find it. All right, now back to the other
names. Somebody like Malik Willis,
Jacoby Brissett, Marcus Mariota. I mean, these are the names,
guys, Joe Flacco, you want to trade for Mac Jones, if you can,
if you could have tie San Francisco, who else?
Daniel Jones, obviously, I think I mentioned him.
Davis Mills. Tanner Mcgate.
Now, let me give you a brief price point on all these men
here, some of the research I've done.
So it's going to take this is AAV forget about guarantee.
I don't know what to tell. It's just convoluted, but just
trusted on on face value, general consensus because I
found several and then I kind of got the the average of what
these players project to get on the open market.
Malik Willis is projected to get over $30 million a year.
So now The Jets can afford that. But how is that really the right
move for The Jets? It's it's not unless Malik
Willis turns out to be a superstar.
Chris Sims thinks he's going to be a superstar.
I'm not going to go that far. I trust Chris, I trust my eyes.
I like Malik Willis, I like him in college, man.
I don't like him with Tennessee cause Tennessee was a disaster.
Did he look a little bit better in Green Bay?
How did he look? The answer is yes.
Why? Because Green Bay is a
functional franchise and Tennessee during that span was a
doormat, like right after Mike Vrabel left.
So you got the will of stuff. I think that Mariota, the
projection between 4:00 and $10 million, he's fine.
All right, if you want to go that route, OK.
Flacco about 5 to 10, Daniel Jones between 30 and 40.
I know that seems exorbitant for, but for a starting
quarterback with? You know, a little bit of a
track record even with the injury, but with the salary cap
going up, it's it's not it's not a it's not a deal killer.
Who else do I have percent? I didn't really find the number
for percent. You'd have to think percent
would be maybe slightly higher than Mariota, slightly higher
than Flacco. So, you know, maybe a percent
would be one year 10 with some upside in terms of triggering
some incentives. But that's the money.
And then you'd have to obviously trade for Tana McGee if you can.
You know, I mean that that's where we're at guys, really.
So the Cardinals, the Browns, the The Jets, obviously the
Raiders, though, they'll address that first overall pick, Miami,
the Vikings, the Indianapolis Colts, probably retaining Daniel
Jones. Those are the quarterback
situations. That's where we're at now.
By the way, before we keep going, I want to get to some
Nick items. But first, are you kidding me
with this game tonight? Are you kidding me with this
game, J Rod, are you are you going to watch?
I don't even know if you have Peacocks.
I don't even know if you can. I think, I think I've got
Peacock. I've got a lock in.
I mean, shoot, if I don't, who am I?
I'm not the host of Unleash. Not the host of Unleash, not the
producer. I'm not the.
Producer of Unleash. Sorry, Freudian.
Well, hey, you try, you try to take this.
Can I, can I not trust you? Is that something that I have to
worry about that? So you just slipped.
It came out so seamlessly as the host of Unleashed that was and
you see how fast I, I don't miss anything.
I'm like, dude, I like like that.
So let's probe into this for a moment.
I mean, I, I know I think it was unintentional, but that came out
so effortlessly. Is there something that I need
to re evaluate in the work relationship and also a
blossoming friendship in terms of trust and our connection?
Is this something I have to re evaluate here Jim?
No Sir, no Sir, I've got no tricks up the sleeve.
Unless. Here you know I believe you know
why I believe you. This is a great compliment for
your parents. Think you were raised the right
way. I appreciate it.
I mean that I think so too. Jay, even my wife said that.
Even Jensen, he's a good kid. He was raised the right way.
Let's. Go well guess my parents have
been saying we've got it, we've got to get the meet up to go
down. So it'll happen eventually.
I mean they're definitely coming to BT and Sal live 100%.
Nice, nice. So I get to meet up.
I cannot wait. Yeah.
And listen, I'll hook them up with the old VIP, the backstage.
They won't be, you know, there's the VIP pack.
We'll take care of them, don't worry.
I, I, I'd like to give the date and I thought that I could.
It's locked in. Contract is actually signed and
the location is locked in. I, I was told yesterday, just
don't do it yet. I don't know why contract's
signed. So I'm, I'm not going to do it.
I'm going to let my guy touch who does that as well as anybody
in the business. I'm going to let him handle
that. Guest is not yet locked in
couple of options but the location and it is early April
that I could tell you and it is out east on Long Island that I
could tell you. The other stuff is coming.
So looking forward to meet your parents and you are going to
watch Saint John's tonight, right?
That's the big time we're in it. 8:00 PM. 7 It's a 7.
Early time, yeah, definitely. All right, man, with that being
said, it's a Wednesday here on BT on Least time now for the
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Johnny's UConn game of the night across the country.
It's the game of the month. Actually, now UConn.
I don't know why Uconn's not getting a little more penalize.
And so I feel like UConn loses, they drop 2 slots.
St. John's wins 13 games in a row,
they go up one slot. Like it what's going on?
And I know that Uconn's got a got a better net ranking there
and that matters. I get it.
I'm saying that someone facetiously, but don't think I
didn't notice that. And I get a little more loves.
I think St. John's deserves in the polls,
even though the polls don't mean that much.
Net ranking going into tonight's game, Monster game up in stores.
UConn #10 St. John's #23 Johnny's ranked #15
that was the AP poll that came, came out on Monday.
UConn down to 10. They've looked a little wobbly
lately. Now, as I said, St.
John's 3313 straight wins, 22 and 515 and one of the big in
the Big East it. Now listen, I'm honest, as much
as I love St. John's, I didn't like the way
they look to start the season. If you told me that St.
John's would be 15 and one and they would have ripped off a 13
game win streak when they were losing that, like that Auburn
game and some of those early games, Kentucky, I didn't see
it. I mean, Rick Petiti, I mean,
he's Rick Pitino, so not exactly breaking news news, but just
kind of a stunning turn around. I knew they'd be good.
I knew they figured out a little bit to this degree.
I mean, they look terrific. Huskies 25 and three.
They are 15 and two in the biggie.
So if St. John's wins tonight, that's
going to be a wrap there in terms of for most practical
purposes, in terms of regular season biggie supremacy and
really only four games left. You got tonight up in stores,
all right, You got Saturday at the Garden, MSG, Villanova.
I'm going to do that game Tuesday a week from yesterday at
the Garden. I'm doing that game and then the
final regular season game at a conference Friday night a week
from this Friday at Seton Hall. I'll be doing those games, all
of them with Mink and let's go. And you go back to the last game
here and I see this is what I not worry about, but I am aware
about there was a massive free throw disparity favoring St.
John's previous game. St.
John's took 31 free throws. The Huskies took twelve.
Well, the reason St. John's took 31, number one,
that's what they do. And they're just stronger and
they're tougher. And I'm not going to say that
they're better, although I do think that they match up well.
I think UCONN's actually a better match.
Even then Rick was saying, like when I asked him on the Red
Storm report or when he talks about UConn and he gives them
respect that he should. I don't think that.
I don't think that I don't even think that Uconn's better.
I, I really don't. Doesn't mean they can't win
tonight. You cannot tell me that UConn is
discernibly better than Saint John.
I don't see it Like St. John's gets to the free throw
line. They've got the six most, most
attempts in the country and the reason they do it, it's because
they're frontcourt grown men. Last game against UConn, Zuby 21
points, 10 rebounds, Dylan Mitchell, 15.6 rebounds.
Bryce Hopkins, who's been playing much better.
Hopkins is really, he's rounding into four nicely.
He had 14 and 6, So St. John's frontcourt.
Now Uconn's got a couple of more shooters.
They've got a guard that they got to worry about.
They did not contain him in terms of dribble penetration.
But that 8172 went at the Garden February 7th, which I did with
Mink. That was 31 free throws for St.
John's, 12 for U Conn. So there it is.
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Shout out to my guy TJ McManus. The entire crew there.
I know they're ready for tonight.
I'm ready for tonight. I can get it down there.
J Ron, let's go. Nice graphic you built there.
I was very nice. I like that one.
Yeah, easy. Now I would like to get to a
point I'm going to put Jay Rod, can you hear me, Jay?
Yo, what's up? Put you on blast a little bit,
not really, but and I'm having fun.
All right, so put up the put up the Mooji quote board if you
can. All right, So who do you think?
Who do you think built that out? You.
Yep, Yep, put the put the Giants one up there if you can please.
The one from Joe Shane. Who do you think built that out?
BT Now part of this is this is the way my mind works.
And you can, you can get it down there, buddy.
Is that like when I, when I, I knew I had to go and coach my
daughter last night and, and I knew my wife had my son for his
playoff basketball game. So I knew I'd be, I'd be busy,
right? And I had the physical essay,
which took two hours. I was, you know, after the show,
I had a lot going on. I, when I get an idea, what I do
is I text myself just a word like a, you know, chain quote
board, Mooji quote board. So I just get an itch and I do
it like I'm very proactive, but I don't really want to have to
do this, you know, so, you know, I'm saying, so we're, you know,
we're going to move. I, I can fully trust you now you
build out a very good quote board.
You know what I'm looking for. And but you got to be careful
because a lot of it is still AI generated, right?
So. You gotta be careful for that
Marlins helmet, that Jazz Chisholm Marlins helmet.
Yeah, you know what? I I laughed.
True, you do need to be aware of that, but it's not even that big
of a deal. Whatever.
No, who cares? But I did.
I was building out the MUJI one last night and it said Darren
Mouget. Like MOUGMOUGET, like he was
French. French.
Darren Mouchet, the general manager of The Jets.
Mouchet, I'm like, thank God I double.
I literally go word for word, double check it, make sure
nothing gets messed up and and have a little fun with that.
What else? So I gave you the gave you The
Jets gave you the Giants gave you the quarterback stuff.
Oh, little something on the Knicks.
So I don't think there's a graphic for the Knicks.
It doesn't need to be all right. We don't need to like overdo it
with the graphics. We could just transition here.
Isn't last night a little bit of an example as to why?
If you're with with me, I think a lot of you are that you just
can't trust the Knicks. What the hell was that?
I mean, what was that? I know they had the game
Saturday night. I get it.
I know they had a quick turn around Sunday against the Bulls
and they won both of those games.
You know, the Bulls are awful, but they scrape through the
Rockets rough by whatever was my team spirited comeback.
I appreciate that. And that was a glimmer of hope.
And I love the way they won that game with Alvarado doing some
stuff and Cat leading some defensive charges, which was
nice to see. And Jalen Brunson, who was off
the entire game, taking four shots in the fourth quarter and
hitting all four. Like there was a lot of good
things that went down, but one thing that I don't think is fair
anymore, and I'm just getting tired of it because it's too
easy and it's really, quite frankly, too lazy.
I'm just looking for one stacks. I want to make sure I don't
miss. Where is that the the stat on?
Yeah, there it is on on OG and on Mikhail Bridges, Right.
Like the easiest thing in the world.
And I think if you don't watch games, it's easy to do this.
Like people who don't watch games, you'll kind of hear them
just, like regurgitate the same take.
This coach sucks. They got no depth.
The old line's not good. I'm not that those things can't
apply, but it's like buzzwords, like it make it try to convince
you that they're actually doing their job when a lot of people
are not watching the Knicks. I could promise you that, even
though they talk about it on a daily basis.
I'm not going to name names here, but trust me.
So when you watch the Knicks, you have to start leaving some
criticisms at the doorstep of Mr. Mouse.
That's his. That's his new nickname.
Mr. Mouse is Mikhail Bridges and Mr. Invisible which is now OG
Adanobi. Can somebody explain to me
what's going on with the two wings who were supposed to be
this terrific 3 and D tandem, which quite frankly, if neither
1 is on the team next summer when they make a trade
eventually probably for Giannis, I really won't give two shits
anymore. I just get like first of all,
Mikhail and Mikhail Bridges more than OG Adanobi.
Last night, OG Adanobi was 2 for eight and their defense has not
been good, and Mikhail Bridges was 6 for 17.
Now, 6 for 18 is 33 percent. 6 for 17 is slightly better, but
it still stinks. So I want to know a couple of
things here. Number one, why?
And then I'm going to have cats back here, all right?
Because I'm not going to be that guy that digs into something and
and you know, my reservations with Carl Anthony Towns well
chronicled. I'm not stepping away from that.
I still feel that way. And he's got to prove to me that
I was wrong. I'm not going to just change my
opinion, which I've carried now for since he became a Nick and
just change it because he's playing well and he is playing
well. But he's got to show me against
the Pistons, against the Cavs, against the Celtics in the
playoffs, round two, round three, hopefully beyond.
I don't think he will, but he is playing well now.
All right. But the other guys, they just
escaped any sort of criticism. Why?
What the Hell's going on? Last night, Karl Anthony Towns
took five shots and he hit all 5.
Now, I know he also had five turnovers.
So some of those could have could have equated to shots,
right? But in the business of being
fair, why is Mike Brown and the point guard not getting him the
basketball? Now I know that the onus is on
him more demand that I'm I'm on the record.
That's a criticism that too often he floats, you know, and
he's just very sloppy getting to the rim, like the gangly,
disjointed take against smolder guys.
It drives me nuts. But this is actually a pro cat
segment. All right?
Because I would love to be proven wrong.
And at least the recent evidence shows me that he's trying to do
things differently. Yo, Mike, you're supposed to be
some offensive innovative, like, genius innovator.
Can you figure out a way to get your big more than five shots
when he hasn't missed a shot all night?
And Oh yeah, by the way, your team is in route to a season low
season worst 11 points in the third quarter.
What the hell are you doing, Mike?
It's bad enough that you dapping up Draymond.
It's bad enough that you dapping up Bickerstaff.
Find him shots. Wake up Mike.
Wake up Mike Brown. You're the coach, dude.
Like you. You understand the rules, or you
should. And that stupid smile.
I won't see it anymore. And no Nick fan wants to see it
anymore. It's time to be a hard ass.
And if you don't have that in you, now I know that you got to
remain who you are. Like you can't completely
deviate from your character and your otherwise it's not going to
be authentic. But if you don't have behind
closed doors the ability to convey to that team yo stop
taking these bad shots, pass the ball, spread the ball.
Let's go and show film and say you see this guy, you see our
big Karl Anthony Towns have the little laser little point on him
when you doing film and say look at him wide open.
Mikhail, why are you taking that shot?
OG What kind of shot is that? Jalen 2 ball dominant.
Flip the ball around the perimeter.
Get the mismatch now. Now it's also incumbent upon the
coach because they were guarding cat with a with with a non
center. They were going smaller all
right. They they changed their looks
with the Knicks last night defensively.
And so you know it it really depends like you watch the
Rockets game right and I would do this the entire every time I
played the Knicks. Here's what I would do because
the Rockets did this very effectively and then the Knicks
found the way around that Alvarado etcetera.
They were running double S at Jalen Brunson the whole night.
He's too small and it it's going to stagnate the entire offense
and and I thought that was very effective for the Rockets.
Now you've got to be able to adapt and make changes on the
fly here. And Mike, when when you see some
of these mismatches last night, you don't tell you don't coerce,
you don't ask, you demand that things change.
Time out, time out. Sit down.
Time out. The fuck are we doing here?
What are we doing? Let's go, guys.
You got you got cat get cat the ball OG stop taking those bad
shots, Bridges. Stop falling away on a 15 foot
jump shot. Get to the rim or get a clean
look or swing it. Let's go.
Like I know. Yeah, I just went to coach mode.
It's OK. It's OK to light these guys up
once in a while. And I don't mean for show.
I don't mean you put on the theatrical show like all right,
look, hey, I'm going to put on the tough guy routine.
I'm going to I'm going to act like Tom Thibodeau or Pat Riley
for a minute. I don't mean that guys, you
know, but you've got to be able when things are that off, you've
got a time out. Sit, let's go look them in the
eye and get them to understand what we're doing ain't working.
And if we don't learn to change this now, in late February,
guess what? We're not going to see late May
because we're going to be home and I'm going to be gone and
two, two guys on this on this team's going to be gone.
Like I'm tired about hearing about the Villanova connection
and I've got, I've got mad respect for Villanova.
I really do. I love Jay Wright, I love
watching Rolly. It's a great academic school,
$90,000 a year. By the way, I've heard Villanova
is $90,000 a year. My God, what if Francesa's
children goes to goes there? Grade school, phenomenal school,
phenomenal alumni base. Enough with the Villanova
connection. You know what I mean?
I mean, because where's it going to take you?
Like, listen, guys, I'm not saying Bridges isn't going to
have moments. He's going to just like you did
against the Celtics when he blocked a shot at the buzzer,
made a couple of good defensive plays.
I know. I'm not saying he's valueless,
but I can promise you, like Karl Anthony Towns Now I'll remain
married to my ultimate point about the Knicks, like Karl
Anthony Towns, like Mikhail Bridges, like Ogianobe, like
Jalen Brunson, like Mitchell Robinson.
Those are the main players. Those players just have
deficiencies now. Everybody's got deficiencies,
everybody, right? Everybody's got blind spots and
everybody's got weak points, OK? But the deficiencies with this
crew, I think they're going to prove fatal in terms of a
championship run. Because again, I'm, I'm going to
show the cat some respect here and push him aside.
You know what I'm critical on? I hope he proves me wrong.
If he does, I promise I will raise my hand, I will man up and
I will salute. I will literally salute him on
air, all right, and offered apology.
I don't expect it, but you know I will.
I promise. Hold me to that.
You won't have to, but I will. But Jalen Brunson, I love
Jalen's numbers going to be retired someday.
Ball dominant 2 small, horrendous defender Mikhail
Bridges, you know, guys still shooting mid range jump shots
like it's 1981. I mean his game, he hasn't
modified his game, but he's not nearly the defender that I
thought we were getting. You know, I knew that some of
his offensive stats in Phoenix with with the with the Nets as
well. Some of those were inflated just
based on usage rate and I knew that there was going to be a
decrease. I mean, unless you're an idiot,
you knew that you weren't getting a superstar, but I
definitely thought he was better defensively.
He's not and he still settles and he still doesn't attack the
rim and he still doesn't get the free throw line OG on Anobi.
One game he's phenomenal. One game, he's invisible.
Yeah, I'm not here to just start knocking players left and right,
but these are real deficiencies. Mitchell Robinson, love them.
I love them. I really do.
You want them on the court with 5 minutes to go with A2
possession game? Hack a Mitch.
Good luck at the free throw line spacing issues.
He's never going to be 5 feet away from the rim.
He's not going to be more than that.
So I think that there are fundamental problems which will
prevent the Knicks from being a champion.
Not with this group. I predict they will lose in
round two if it's a bad matchup. Matter of fact, I almost don't
think it really matters on the matchup because they're going to
either play. I mean, who would it be?
I think they lose to the Pistons in the seven game series.
I think there's a good chance they will lose to the Cavaliers
and that's just because of Harden, who I've never been a
fan of in the post season. But they present some issues,
right? And I think they lose probably
to the Celtics in a in a long series, especially if you get
Tatum back at that point, which you may or may not.
So I think right now, if you ask me, what are the Knicks?
What's their playoff fate? Competitive deep, but Round 2
exit. And once that happens, and
again, I hope I'm wrong, but once that happens, if that
happens, this roster will be blown up and you will see them
try to changing. Am I get rid of some of the
weaknesses here? Because it's just not fair, nor
is it accurate to sit there all the time and just whine about
Karl Anthony. Downs and complain about cat and
just absolve everybody else to blame.
That's not the way it goes. You got to stop taking these
shots or in in O GS case you get you got to start taking more or
in bridges. Can you start playing better
defense? Like there's nothing that
unfortunately, there's nothing that Brunson can do that will
make him a better defender. He just inherently limited in
terms of size and and bounce and all that stuff quickness.
But what he could do is and there were flashes against the
Rockets, but when you throw that second defender at him, he's got
to read it better and he's got to reroute the ball immediately.
If it's dribble, dribble, boom, second guy here now I'm kind of
trapped now the defense, pardon me, now the offense you got 24
seconds to shoot is all out of whack.
And it's if the flow is interrupted.
I do think that that's something he could get better at
recognizing the double and then getting rid of it quicker and
then having the offense flow. So I'm not going to say that
that's not salvageable. The other stuff not going to be
really salvageable here. Just not.
They all cried to the front office about Tibbs.
Who's this at Sleigh? under score kids?
What up Sleigh about Tibbs? And now the offense looks worse.
Get Bridges, OG and Cat out of here in the summer.
This group will never win a chip.
I agree. They're not going to win.
They're not going to win Now. The ability to move all three is
going to be basically impossible because the ability for the
Knicks to entice other teams to make trades is going to be
severely compromised because the Knicks don't have really any any
of substance and of quantity first round equity because of
the stupid British trade. So they took their championship
swing. And that's by the way, that's a
Leon Rose conversation for another day.
I'm not just going to morph into that now, but that is going to
be a conversation at some point soon when the Knicks failed to
get where we all want them to get, which I think is going to
happen, as I've said a lot. So there's a lot on the table
here. J Rod, probably your biggest
sport is is your best be best sport is the NBA, right?
Big Tom, big time. So you have heard and by the
way, I was doing this with Sal on the fan, I've been doing this
from day one before you and you and I sort of working together.
But it's safe to say I'm as critical towards CAT as anybody
in the business, correct? No.
I I mean, certainly, certainly you have been in my time, in my
short time with you. I'd say in terms of the Knicks
players, I mean, you know, you've definitely gotten, you've
gotten that McHale point pretty deep, but I'd say Cat has easily
gotten the most smoke. OK, yeah, they're true.
True. So I just wanted to make sure
that you're hearing what I think I'm saying and what everybody
else is hearing. So at that, That to me is an
accurate depiction of how I feel and what I say.
But I think it's really important, at least for today
and and at least moving forward, like people need to start
pointing the finger somewhere else.
Like it can't just be Carl Anthony Towns.
Like I'm defending the guy. He has played better, you know,
he he just needs more shots and I'd like to see him be a little
bit more assertive, but that's incumbent upon the coach to do
his job and others to do their job and get the big the ball
right. Yeah, no, I mean, big time.
I think for me, yeah. Like a lot of the points you
just brought up are kind of some of the more underrated problems
with the Knicks. Obviously Brunson's size, it was
kind of something that, you know, wasn't touched on for a
while. But now I think is really, you
know, obviously when you play the Pistons and they've got
oversized guards and they've got Cade kind of running the point,
you know, Brunson can't really handle that.
And then obviously Bridges is just he's cooked, he's toast.
Yeah, the other thing too, like the I, I think that I thought
that the Knicks were a little bit more athletic.
You know, yeah. Yeah, like you look at all these
wings and these two guards in the NBA and I'm not talking
about I left Josh. I love Josh.
I love the bad say about Josh. Josh, I will never say a bad
word about Josh Hart. You know, we know he's got a
great shooter. Everything else, love the guy,
right? He's the least of their issues.
But I I feel like even watching the Knicks and and Mike Brown
did say this. I watched the the presser post
game. He's like, yeah, we got to do a
better job playing, you know, tempo.
We got to play a better pace. Heard pace with him for a while
and there was much more pace early in the year.
But I think teams are figuring the Knicks out what they're
trying to do, they're counteracting that.
And then when you just look at sheer athleticism, you know, I
know OG gets a lot of dunks and I know the Bridges plays a lot
of minutes, but I don't think that those guys are Uber
athletes. You don't see them taking
anybody down off a dribble and hit by somebody.
And like Ogi Mean, his dunks are nice, but they're usually like a
two hand jam where he kind of takes it up like a standing
move. I mean.
I think you know, and not he's not the most athletic guy in
terms of he's hammering it down, but I feel like they're missing
Deuce McBride's like shiftiness, his quickness kind of I think
really helped with that's. A good point.
That's a good point. That's fair.
That's fair.
I'm just looking something up. No, that's absolutely fair.
I think that that's absolutely on point.
What are they here tonight? I just want to see the spread.
Wow. OK.
Surprises me. I because I was doing the UConn
Saint John's game tonight. I did not think that UConn would
be favored by this much. UConn Lane, 5 1/2 points.
Wow. Interesting, that's a little
healthy. I obviously I don't I don't do
any of that stuff with Saint John's because I do the games,
but just wanted to see generally what what Vegas was thinking.
Curious if it started more or if it's been bet down or where that
late money comes in from the sharps.
Either way, good show today. Strong.
Solid. Very solid show, great football
talk, very impassioned. Nick speak right there.
I think that's going to that's going to pop for sure.
That might that little Mike Brown.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotta love it, yeah.
Well if you do your job with the shorts in the post production
it'll pop. There we go, There we go.
Yeah, it's so crazy. Like, you know, I put stuff up
on Instagram, right? And it's just made and, and
obviously the shorts too, it's just crazy like that Yankee
lineup that I did the other day that got like, I think it's like
17,000 hits already and. On YouTube as well on.
That's I'm saying on YouTube, which is generally a lot slower
than Instagram algorithm. I mean, the goal here is to
mention to marry all these things, which is what I'm doing,
which is why I literally say, you know, Blick brick by brick
and click by click. But the Yankees have about 16 or
17 and then this on YouTube and the the A.J.
Brown, yes, that's about 17 or 18.
And then just reacting to the Bryce Hopkins, you know,
Providence, Saint John's fight a couple of weeks ago, obviously
up in Providence that got like 100 and it said 103,000 on
Instagram. And then some things, but then
some things that I thought were phenomenal, you know, it's like
1.9000, 2002 what I'm like. So I'm still trying to figure
this nonsense out. Let's go.
I think it is such a a dart, like a random dartboard almost
of like, you know, it's not I don't think so random, but I
think the things that pop depend on the station you're going.
You know, I think that take of the Duncan Powell and also like,
you know, you're kind of Super Bowl halftime thing.
I think that pops on Instagram because it's a more of an
opinionated thing. And then I think the things that
pop on YouTube are those more Evergreen longer forms videos
like the Yankees or like the could A.J.
Brown be traded because it's kind of more of like a news
cycle. I don't know.
These are kind of my theories that I'm building, you know?
Hey. Listen, I like theories.
Theories aren't always right, but it's sometimes a step of the
right direction. I want you to come up with
theories like yeah, that's good. I'm I'm a theory guy.
What else here, Let's see all right, let me just get this real
quick here all right blowing up the rosters a bad move.
Knicks have no picks to trade. They'll still be a top team in
the east Have to hope some things fall their way in the
playoffs, which is possible. Charlie F6675 Well, all right, I
mean, I I I know what you mean there.
I still disagree though, because listen, you're not going to blow
up the team now, obviously that you can't trade deadlines over
and they already had the buyouts and they got so hand and they've
got the Alvarado. So the Knicks roster is the
roster. I mean, maybe a you play Colic
Moore, maybe you play Alvarado Moore.
I mean, there's things you could do with the rotation, but this
roster is what it is for this year.
And then think about this, you know, when unfortunately the
Knicks fall, I think way short of a championship.
You going to take a Wrecking Ball to this team because if you
don't, the Celtics will be better next season.
The Cavaliers are only getting better and better because
they're younger and obviously somebody like Dante Cunningham
apartment Kate. Kate Cunningham is I to me and I
said this the other day and this got hijacked because people
didn't hear what I actually said to me.
Kate Cunningham is going to be the new Jordan.
Not in terms of style, you dopes who didn't hear what I said the
first time. Not in terms of being the GOAT.
You dopes in terms of being that massive obstacle that is in the
Knicks way every year in the playoffs.
Because as long as Jaylin Brunson, who we all love, is our
point guard and our best player and Kate Cunningham is in
Detroit and he's not going anywhere.
He's got those 3 or 4 inches he sees right over him.
It's simple and it makes everything else easy.
And Oh yeah, by the way, they've got a bunch of guys in the front
court who are dogs who aren't afraid of anybody and not afraid
to mix it up, which is a pretty good component to have as well
if you have the superstar, which Kate Cunningham really is.
So I don't think that like the Pistons going to be a problem
for the next 4-5 years and. Pacers too.
I mean, you think about caliber and back next season with
Zubotch, that's gonna be a nice tandem I.
Forgot about them. That's even the magic.
Or about a weird season, but the magic.
A lot of entries in Atlanta. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, and I think this is what happens with the Eastern
Conference every year is like you go this like kind of
terrible team's gonna pick up and get better and then, you
know, some of them it happened, some of it it doesn't like the
heat I feel like are always a team.
You know, you could question maybe if the Wizards could come
out and be like an 8 seed next season, but obviously that's
inconsequential. True in the grand scheme.
Here's my boy Dylan. Good.
What up, Dylan? Dylan Fox.
Hey, you could have just given me those 2 bucks instead of
slotting it to BT Yeah. Where's all the Super chats?
We'll keep your boy up there. What up?
How do you know Dylan? He's my college roommate.
Your college roommate? Yeah.
Wow, do you have a good time
with now? Who is the bigger partier, you
or him? I'd say Even so, like I don't,
we've talked about this before, but like we ran, I guess he's
probably a bigger drinker than I am.
I'll say that. And you're more of a pothead
than he was or is probably. Not to expose myself here, I
got. You come on dude, it's illegal
basically everywhere you go. But yeah, college roommate, we
like ran a venue together so. We ran a venue.
We ran like a music venue together in college.
I don't know if we've talked about this on the show, but
yeah. We haven't let me hear.
A little bit about it. No.
So him and I, we ran with my other roommates as well.
We ran music venue in Syracuse, NY We like booked like local
acts, but also like acts from around kind of the country, New
York really sort of deal. Yeah.
Wow, a little promoting like
like early ditty back in the day.
Exactly. Nice dude.
See, that's the one I was never able to do that.
And like, but one of my best friend's brothers who went to
George Washington, great school, really good school, right?
Really good academic school, Beautiful, beautiful school,
right? He went there and like he was,
he was running a bunch of clubs. And I remember like during
baseball, like I get a little break before, after the fall
season and before like Thanksgiving.
So I'd go down to DC from from Marist and hang out my best
friend Rob and we go and hang out with his brother Paulie, who
had the whole town on lockdown. Whether was I think the Coliseum
was one of the places we went to.
I forget the name is a long time ago, but I'm I'm almost not that
I would want to change it, but I'm a little envious in the fact
like I never had a chance to get my college hustle on like
bartending or club. Like, you know, I don't know,
being about, not that I was necessarily big enough to be a
bouncer. Those are the football guys.
But to do something where I could make some cash and have.
Yeah, no, it was I was at practice.
I always had something to do. No, totally.
It was a it was a just a fun and like super unique experience.
I mean, just like or having a sort of a way to kind of, I
don't know, make money on the weekends, but also just like
have fun like now. Did you get any?
How was the residual group he seen?
Because I know that the the guys who were doing it this
absolutely. Decent.
Is doing all right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was pretty decent there. I mean, just, you know, it was
like we would do probably around like 203 hundred kids per night
would come through. It'd be in and out.
Not at one time in and out, but yeah, great, you know, great
times, great times. I.
Understand. I get you.
Hey, listen, you know, you can keep a little close.
I'm not trying to incriminate you.
You're a young buck. We all had fun in college.
I'm not trying to make you uncomfortable.
So it's all good, buddy. All right, so.
Too funny. Well, let me see a couple.
So that's your boy, huh? Now let me ask you a question I
don't even know. Do you have any brothers?
Yeah, younger brother Tyler, he goes to Syracuse as well.
He's wow, OK, he's. Probably watching right now.
So when you get married and long, I mean, you get, you got
to get on a second date before you actually get married.
But when you get married, will, what was your buddy's name?
J Rod Dylan. Dylan.
Dylan D Rod. Will Dylan be in your wedding
party? Oh my God, he has that.
He must. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So. He's that kind of boy.
He's like, he's like one of
those, you know, three guys from your lifetime, you know, because
I feel like you've got your buddies from high school growing
up from like middle school, high school, then you got your
college best friends. And then if you're a Jewish kid
like me, you've got your camp best friends so.
So you did go to camp? Yeah, a lot of people in our
town do that. You'd go away for the whole
summer, right? That was kind of my vibe.
Not cheap man, I know some of the prices.
Not cheap, dude. Not at all, dude.
Not cheap, I mean. Something like, I mean, almost
like a little tiny college experience at that.
Definitely. Like, I mean at least a portion
of a semester probably. And the mom, the moms and the
dads, what do they do? They party all summer.
Exactly. Just like go go.
See, my mom, number one, I'm not Jewish, so that wasn't a thing
for us. My mom, I would go to basketball
camp. OK, yeah, I had my summers doing
that as well. You did OK, Yeah, yeah.
I would go to like 2 and I would go to sleep away like 1.
I remember 1 I went to. It's called rising * up in I
believe it was up in Pennsylvania.
I went to another one called the Connecticut Connecticut school
the basketball, which was at Saint Thomas more at postgrad
school. I don't know if you heard that
because it's kind of up your. I did one at like Sacred Heart.
OK, OK, sleep away or no? No, not sleep away.
OK, then I also went to West Point my the year before I
became a freshman in high school.
So I went and I went to a few others, one in Garden City, I
forget the names of it. I never went to like 5 star.
I was never that kind of player. Like no, but I even my mom was
worried. Even then she's like, oh, he's
going away for a week. My dad's like he's fine, he's
fine, He's fine. But I couldn't like I could not.
And I know when you said it, so I have a lot of Jewish friends
in town. That's that's what they did is
very common. I could not, I could not send my
kids away. I wouldn't be worried
necessarily and I could afford it, but maybe not right now.
I, I, I would miss them too much.
I'm not judging anybody. I really would.
I, I'm not judging anybody. And the house will be quiet.
The house will be clean. Do whatever you want.
Play golf every day. I would miss them.
I would not be just from my mindset.
They're only that age, you know, my sons 11, my daughters 9.
He just turned 11. Like, you know, do I want to
really ship them out for 7-8 weeks and not see them though?
I don't want to do that. Maybe I'll ship my wife out for
a month. Adult sleep, like Cam on it.
I've talked to some people about that.
Oh man, it exists. There are like a few places you
could book. Yeah, you could book.
It's kind of corny. Like it's kind of corny.
It's like do. You go away as husband and wife?
Or do you go away as like a single scene?
It's so there's both. But a lot of it would be like a
couples kind of retreat. You'd go with you maybe 3 or 4
of your other, you know, couples friends.
I don't know, you stay in a eight person cabin.
You do. Did you have?
No. Did you ever see the movie
Couples Retreat? I don't think so.
No, it's not that. Funny with Vince Vaughn in.
Oh, OK. Who?
Else is it? Yeah.
I got a lot of a lot of good ones.
That was funny. Funny as hell.
That was good. Good movie.
Actually, it was pretty funny. All right, let me get rolling
here. Let me get bouncing.
What else? Yeah, but no, no, I did the
sleep away that for two months. No, I God, I I'd cry my eyes
out. Yeah, I'd miss him.
I was an older kid when I started so I was like 13 when I
started to go to sleep away camp, so it was a little
different. I got you.
It was. I got you.
But I don't know, maybe maybe our parents are just like, yeah,
get these kids out. Yeah, I listen.
Yeah. I'm not judging.
I know it's very much a traditional thing.
Yeah. Like it's, it's, you know, it's
passed on, like, yeah. I mean, I guess the only way
that you really don't do it if you're Jewish is if you can't
afford it. I mean, it's that common, right?
It's. It's it's incredibly and like I
didn't go to an old like Mike, you know, I'm not even full, my
dad's a Catholic guy, so I'm kind of mixed in that regard.
But like all, a lot of the kids at the camp I went to weren't
Jewish. But yeah, it is very much so a
point of passage. Yeah, I know.
Like. Yep.
And then and then Jay, a lot of them go back in their counselors
later and make bank. They make.
Did you do that? Make bank.
I don't know, but I might have made $0.17 an hour if you did
the real breakdown. Not if you get the, not if you
get the hustle on. You don't make 17.
Yeah, no, probably. I guess tips at the end.
You make a good amount of tips from the rent.
Exactly. But it was, I mean, so much fun,
you know, that's some ways in my life.
Now final thing though, because that was interesting.
One of my not, not one of my best friends.
I was just talking about whose brother, you know, GW, not that
another best friend of mine who went to Marist who I, I actually
roomed with too off campus, played ball with him.
Great guy. So he's very similar to you.
His dad is Jewish and it he passed away.
Love him. He was in our fantasy baseball
draft for 15 years. Just a really, really great guy.
Miss him Shelley, rest in peace and his mom's German.
So I feel like they're the the the Jewish side was like that
religious side was a little bit more pronounced for him growing
up. But did you?
Did you celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah like?
Big time. Yeah, Yeah.
You got hooked up. You got.
Exactly. I, you know, I definitely lived
a good childhood, celebrated a lot of a lot of holidays and
like, listen, I love Chris. I'm a Christmas guy.
I love Chris, who does? Oh.
Yeah, no, we know. I trust me.
We are a Christmas family. We we get them up earlier and
earlier each year. It is a little depressing.
I think it's kind of there's still a few people in town that
like have the Christmas lights up.
What are we doing like? It's I've seen that around here
too as well. I mean, I don't know.
It's just to me, it's not even like, yeah, dude, now like in
Brooklyn, I'm like, it's a tough look because to me it doesn't
show. It doesn't show like a person
trying to hold on to a Christmas spirit.
It just shows, man, you ain't, you're not in control of any.
Yes. It's just lazy and.
Disregard for the calendar. Yeah, like if you're that sloppy
with the lights, what's the rest of your life like?
I mean, I'm not trying to judge the light, the late, the late
light keepers here, but probably kind of seeps into their
personal. Yeah, probably.
All right, brother, let me go. I got to run to the doctor,
finish up. My arm is still an absolute
mess. I got to Hopefully they're
taking blood out of the other arm.
Finish up the physical. So far, everything good.
Just get to that age. Do it and I had to do the the
prostate thing yesterday without being graphic, without being
gross, even though it was brutal.
Go do it. You know, especially guys, I
think it's different now. You know, my generation, like my
dad's generate Dr. I'll go to the doctor.
Like when they were like my age, they just they didn't go and
they just sweep it under the rug.
Go I mean, just go take care of it.
You, you just never know. And if God forbid to do find
something early, you know you take care of it and you know,
you get your health and you get a gift there so.
It's brutal. Hey, good idea.
It's uncomfortable, it's embarrassing, but you got to do
it. So go take care of that.
Have an outstanding Wednesday. Johnny's and UConn tonight.
Cannot wait. Massive game for biggie
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