Oh my God, do we have problems here?
Wow, Do we have problem with the pathetic, pitiful soft mix?
What's going on, everybody? How are you BT Unleashed?
Of course, guys, there's two choices at this point.
There's really, there's really not much else to say, although
I, I do have a lot to say, but really I'm not going to bury the
lead. You are to change the coach or
you change the players period. Like there's there's no longer
evaluation. Well, are they going to figure
it out? Well, the Knicks are having a
little bit of a rough patch. Knicks are broken right now.
There's no doubt about it. The New York Knicks is currently
constituted or going absolutely nowhere.
And I got to tell you, you know by now, I'm not a Carl Anthony
Towns. I don't know if I want to use
the word fan believer, like ultimate believer.
Like I'm a fan of some of his skill for sure.
But I've been all over him because I do think he's lazy and
sloppy and all the things that I've said.
But I think a lot of the energy that is going toward Coral
Anthony Towns right now, it's really kind of a curveball to
other stuff that's problematic for this team.
But I really think it's an oversimplification when so many
of you just say it's all Cat's fault.
It's all Cat's fault. It's that that is that is not
actually true. Now he's probably at this point
more of an issue that a solution.
And and Leon Rose got to wake up.
I mean, since Leon Rose, you know, some of the things that
he's done recently, whether it's the bench, you can now argue
about Mike Brown being the right hire.
I mean, everything's in play at this point.
You got February 5th to fix this.
You've got until February 5 to find out what you going to do to
pivot. And it can't be a little tweak
the 8th man or the 7th man. Like to me, it's bulldozer time.
You've got to you got to take a Wrecking Ball to this Knicks
team. Obviously you're not giving up
Jalen Brunson, anybody else that you want.
And I like OG, but if it's going to take OG sacrifice to get rid
of something else, to entice somebody to make a trade, to
make something happen, you got to do it.
I mean, the window was like this, this for Jaylen Brunson's
prime and Jaylen Brunson's very favorable contract.
So, you know, if I'm James Dalton, who was on the Fan a
week or so ago telling everybody, y'all, we're going to
win the championship, it's my expectation to get to the NBA
Finals and win. Well, if he's truly thinking
that, and I believe that he is, I believe that he was forthright
when he said that, well, then there is no way he's going to be
accepting of this. So things need to change.
I'm obviously going to outline what I believe that they could
do, what they should do. Let me first start kind of in
sequential order, because I think the there there's two and
depends upon how you view cat and Tibs, but you're either in
the school of you know, it it it Tom Femino should still be
coaching this team, which I don't agree with.
I don't respectfully, I don't agree with that.
Now, you can also make the case that Mike Brown shouldn't be
coaching this team. That seems much more sensible to
me. But understand this guys, if
you're going to jump on the train of, oh, look what the
Knicks are without Tom Thibodeau.
Oh, look at the Knicks aversion to defense, which by the way,
statistically is very provable. If you're going to do all this
stuff, you also have to calculate the fact that not
once, not twice, 3 * 3 straight years, the New York Knicks under
Tom Thibodeau's watch with homecourt advantage, lost in the
playoffs with homecourt advantage.
So I think two things could be true.
Like the Knicks might be a a little bit worse off without Tom
Fibito in terms of the principles, in terms of the the
connectivity, but that doesn't mean that they made the wrong
move. Now the third aspect in terms of
getting rid of them, the third aspect is all right.
Maybe they hired the wrong guy. Maybe it's a little bit too
soft. It's a little bit too, you know,
it's it's lacking connectivity. Like the Knicks are a
disjointed, fumbling, bumbling circus right now.
You fall behind 30 points to the Dallas Mavericks or Martin
Luther King Day, which was always a day, no matter how
shitty the Knicks were, the Knicks always played.
I'm not saying they won every single MLK day, but that's a if
you were a Knick fan before the rest of the NBA really, you
know, made Martin Luther King Day a central theme in terms of
the schedule. He really, you know, really
owned the day, which is great. Like the Knicks were always
playing there and the Knicks were always doing things with,
you know, with pride. Even lesser teams.
I mean, there were a lot of great moments on MLK Day
yesterday. They're down by 3030 to the
Dallas Mavericks. They get booed off the court,
which they deserve. Course Ben Stiller's out here.
Tweet and everything's going to be fine.
I am really Ben. I mean, listen.
And then he dropped another tweet where I think he just, you
wrote the letter F and didn't want to, you know, throw out the
other 3 letters, which is fine. And it was like F dash, dash,
dash, dash, dash, dash. Well, if Ben Stiller is alarmed,
Mr. Positivity, no matter what's going on with the Knicks, it's
never bad like Ben Stiller is. To me, he's just too optimistic.
Like it's delusionally optimistic.
So if you got Ben Stiller now digging in saying that the
Knicks have problems, we got problems, which by the way, I've
told you for a while now, I told you a couple of shows ago that
the Knicks are broken, that they got to do something.
All right. So again, the pecking order of
issues right now, it's either Mike Brown, then Cat then or Cat
then Mike Brown. And obviously you tie into the
absence of Tom Pivotal. But as I just said, like the the
Knicks with Tom Thibodeau, we're never getting to that next
level. I can't prove it because he's
not coaching this team anymore. But I believe in my eyes and I
trust my basketball sensibilities enough that that
I'm always right, obviously. But enough, especially with
basketball and especially with that team that they hit the
ceiling are Tom Thibodeau is not a two or three time NBA
champion. He's in his, you know, early to
mid 60s, whatever he is, he's a coaching lifer.
He's a hell of a coach, but he's got no championship.
So to say that that this team would be champion more more
championship viable with Tom Thibodeau, I just think is wrong
because there's really no evidence that that Tom that Tom
that that Tom Pibido was going to morph into that that kind of
a coach at this point stuck in his ways and all the things we
dissected a million ways forward.
It's not to re litigate the Tom Pibito era.
It's to cross the bridge and get to what is really staring at us
right now. And right now, KC, the biggest
issue, all right, And we knew the defense would be problematic
coming into the season because you got a turnstile, the point
guard and you got a slow plotting fire hydrant at the
five. So you got 2 guys out there who
are not average or slightly below average.
They are wretched, absolutely wretched, just horrendously
deficient NBA defensive players. And Oh yeah, by the way, they
just, I know that the wings are really important, but they're
also A2 very, very important. Like if your power forward is a
little whatever, you can kind of hide him unless you're playing
against the four who's stepping out and, you know, taking you
off the bounce and hitting threes, whatever.
But if your point guard, the 1st, the first like line of
defense is awful, well, now you're in the paint.
And what happens when you're in the paint?
Guys got to collapse when guys got to collect, when guys
collapse, boom, you get open shots everywhere.
Why do you think the Knicks can't defend the three-point
shot? It's not because OG and Bridges
aren't good, although I did, I think, and I'm going to get the
bridges in a minute. Bridges.
I'm going to crush bridges today.
I'm sick of bridges really avoiding any sort of heat.
But I'll get to him after all, right, So when your your point
guard is deficient defensively, you're in the paint.
You pass it all over. Guys are white guys are
scurrying around like try to recover, try to help out.
And then you get open looks. And if you have a good passing
team that you're playing against, even if you if you
recovered to the first shooter, it's one pass around the
perimeter. That guy's open.
So that so that's a massive problem that no, even if it if
it's Tom Thibodeau, Red Holtzman, Phil Jackson, Pat
Riley, Gregg Popovich, if they were to come back as one coach,
like reincarnated as one, right? There is nothing from a
principal perspective or obviously from whatever he lacks
out like athletically, none of those guys combined are going to
save Jalen Brunson from getting roasted defensively on a
consistent basis. So that's the first problem.
And then obviously you start getting around the rim and when
Mitch is in there, it's great. When Cats in there, he's slow,
he's a plotter, he's lazy, he's with these ridiculous fouls on
the offensive end like. So there are things that are
going to obviously, you know, take away from the Knicks
ability to win at a very, very high level.
And that's a big problem. I mean, that's a big, big
problem. By the way, I appreciate that
end the Fed. Thank you, buddy.
Keeping up the great work BT rooting for your success.
Thank you, I appreciate that. I'm all sorts of fired up.
So I'm not even looking at the text change if you got something
to say. Obviously, my guy Jared's going
to pump some stuff in. If it's a super chat, it's going
to jump out more. I am just locked into the shot I
got. I got no time to waste.
All right, although I will I will read stuff that comes on
the screen. Then I'm getting right back to
this. So Thibodeau's gone, Brown's
Brown drowning cats a disaster. Brunson's a problem with what I
just outlined and the biggest issue, and I didn't see this one
coming. Like again, I saw the defensive
deficiencies because we saw them last year the one and the year
before. The one thing, even without Cat,
the one thing that I really did not envision with this team, the
Nova Nets, even though Divincenzo, who is a bowler and
my guy and I missed Dante Divincenzo when he had some
sack, that he had some balls, some stones that this team could
sorely use and is sorely, sorely lacking, right?
But the Nova Knicks were tight, and there was this great
chemistry in this great unity. This Knicks team, they don't
even like each other. Like you.
It is so obvious. It's one thing to lose.
You win the Cup. Big damn deal.
The Cup, right? So you win the Cup, and maybe
it's a little hangover. That's the holidays, You know,
whatever. All right, they'll figure it
out. They're there.
They've got championship pedigree.
No. They've lost three straight
years despite having homecourt advantages.
I've said so when I hear my I love Deuce.
Deuce is I, I have nothing to say negatively about Deuce.
I know we had a rough game yesterday, but Deuce plays hard.
Deuce is a score. Deuce can defend.
Deuce is a baller. He's got a heartbeat and he's
got pride. Deuce is the man.
I love him all right. But when Deuce McBride comes out
and says that that paraphrase along the lines of, you know,
well, you know, maybe we we became a little bit too
confident and, you know, maybe winning the cup was a false
sense of security. Winning the cup was a are you
out of your mind, a false sense of security.
Let me get this straight now. I'm not saying I'm not saying
this right. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy
like is the cup progressed. I jumped in a little bit.
I leaned in. I enjoyed watching it with my
son. Nick's won it.
You had a couple of good high level games.
I thought it would really, you know, kind of sharpen them as
you get deeper into the season. I thought it would be a good
unifying thing for the next team.
So with that being said, I understand the way the NBA goes.
You play 82 times. Even if you're a team that's
dialed in. You got 10-12 nights where you
don't have it. And it looks like a combination
of incredible inefficiency and a lack of interest, right?
That happens to anybody. But it can't happen for three
weeks straight, and it can't happen when shitty teams come in
your house and mop the floor with you and do whatever they
want. The Dallas Mavericks who are
injured and going nowhere, put up 7 25 on you when it should be
the highest sense of urgency for the Knicks. 75.
Okay. And Oh yeah, by the way, in this
stretch where the Knicks have lost nine of 11, their defense
is bottom five in the NBA. Now, if you have a great
offense, and even that's taking a little turn in the world
direction when you have a great offense, I don't need you to be
a top 10 defense. Now if you are, well, now you're
a team that can obviously really, truly mess around and
think of yourself as a true, viable, justifiably speaking
title contender, right? If you are a top five offense in
your life, even 13 or 14 on defense, you could work around
that enough and and you could probably still mess around.
Then at least maybe get to depending on on the matchups,
how favorable they are or or they are not and then get to the
championship, maybe mess around, maybe win something.
But when you are no longer the offense that was revered early
and was just explosive and unstoppable and suddenly, well,
not even suddenly because it's now basically over a month and
all year they've had an inability to defend the
three-point. So it's not just they're giving
up points now. They've been awful defending the
three-point shot for a minute 1. I don't know why, because you
got why I do because I just told you a little bit, But when you
have wings, you should be, you shouldn't be that bad.
You should at least be functional.
But when the offense takes a step back and the defense takes
9, it's a wrap, dude. So Dolan and Leon Rose have two
very simple, very, very simple options here.
Number one, you fire the coach #2 you trade somebody of
importance like Cat. That's it.
Like there's no waiting around anymore.
Maybe they'll figure out it's over.
It's a wrap. Nick's cooked.
They're emotionally. They're emotionally fried.
There is no longer any synergy with this team.
Again, you look at them in the timeouts.
They can't stand each other. And then like, you can get away
with that in baseball. You want to tell me go back to
like the Mets like 2 years ago? All right, Lindor and McNeil
weren't buddies, but yeah, they still won almost 90 games, made
a nice run. In baseball.
You could do that. It's more individually driven,
like a little different. If you're a double play combo, I
get that. But if Lindor and forget about
Lindor and McNeil, if you, if player X hates player Y and
player X bats first and the other guy bats 5th, what's the
correlation there? You get your 4 bats, I get my 4
bats. You do what you do, I do what I
do, and we'll see what happens. And if you're good players, and
you do, if you're paid to do, you will still win despite maybe
some tension or some breakdowns in relationships in the NBA.
Same with hockey. But I'm going to stick to the
NBA now. In the NBA, if there is no
connectivity and if there is a general lack of joy and distaste
for one another and working with each other, I'm not going to
help you on the weak side. I'm not going to set that extra
screen quite with the oomph that I should to free you up.
I'm going to get my shot. And once that happens one night,
then it's a little easier to do it again.
And then it's a little bit easier to do it again.
And then it becomes a habit. And once that becomes a habit
will now it's at this point of the season, I think it's
impossible to to disrupt that habit.
So it is a call. I I'm not trying to mince words.
I'm not trying to beat around the Bush.
You trade cat or you fire Mike Brown.
You figure it out mix. You figure it out.
Leon Rose. I mean, because everything
you've done so far coming into the season has not worked out.
I mean, Jordan Clarkson's had some good games.
OK, whatever. Yabaselli has been an absolute
disaster. The coach that you brought in is
not getting the job done. The star players don't have
chemistry and continuity. The, the, the wing, right?
The the two guard wing that you gave up 9000 first round picks
for and a ton of money is an absolute softy.
I am so tired of watching Mikhail Bridges.
Can somebody explain to me how he doesn't get criticized more
often? That's why I said, guys, really
to me, this, this whole evaluation of who the Knicks
are, where they are right now and more importantly and more
specifically where they're ultimately going to go.
It's an oversimplification just to say cat, he's soft and get
rid of cat. I'm OK with getting rid of cat.
But if you think that that's the only issue, it's it's not, which
is my point. How in the world in the modern
NBA can you be a small forward slash guard?
OK, And in the last five games, four of those games, I'm talking
about bridges, take not a single free throw.
Five games, 4 attempts. All four came in one game.
I mean, how do you not get to the strike unless you are just
inherently soft, which Mikhail Bridges is?
He's soft. They made the wrong move.
They took all the chips that they collected, which was such a
good thing and such a smart thing and such a a forward
thinking thing, right? Leon Rose, the concept was
right. Hey, we'll take some shots.
We know that we're not just going to win with Tom Thibodeau
and Julius Randle. I'm talking about when they
overachieved and made the playoffs during COVID.
That was fun. That was a culture that was
raising the floor, that was raising the ceiling, and we all
loved it. But Leon rose, rightfully so,
was smart enough to know that there was a real visible
expiration point on that. So you start making some moves,
and the move that you made for Mikhail Bridges is just an awful
move. That's it.
I've seen enough. I'm done with McHale Bridges.
If you can ship him out and get somebody with some tenacity in
here and keep Cat, I'd actually be OK with that.
And you guys know that I'm not a big Carl Anthony Towns fan.
Because what he's bad at kills you when it matters #1 and when
you're bad at something this long in your career, well, guess
what? You're always going to be bad at
it. If you're a high strikeout guy
and you're in your like Ryan McMahon, right?
The Yankees are saying Ryan McMahon's going to cut down the
strikeouts. We're going to unlock this.
OK? I'll believe it when I see it.
When you strike out 200 times a year and you're 30 years old,
you are what you are. You're a great fielder, got a
little pop and you're a whiff machine.
How is that going to change? He's going to suddenly hit 265
with 101 strikeouts instead of 212.
Doesn't work that way. It's not the way it goes.
Like this is the same concept, right, that I tell my kids,
whether it's school, whether it's sports, kids I coach, Hey,
if that kids better than you go do something about it.
Now, there are certain things inherently that you really can't
control. If somebody jumps higher than
you, if somebody's bigger, you know, strength, you can
obviously increase. But no matter how many times
Peter Brady hung on the monkey bars at on the Brady bunch,
you're not going to you're not going to lengthen yourself.
You're not going to get taller by hanging on.
Just try to stretch yourself. All right, So there's certain
things, there's certain things that just will not change.
And the things that will not change with this Knick team have
them doomed. It is over.
It is a wrap. I don't care what you say.
I don't care what you say and I don't care what you say.
It's over. Like, if you want to give this
team another seven days to figure it out, go knock yourself
out. I'm done.
I tapped out. It's over.
Mercy. Like you cannot have this happen
this long and think that you're an NBA contender for the
championship. What are we delusional here?
I mean, this is fanboy podcast, not this one.
I'm not doing that. You know, they have no pride.
That's the most disgraceful part about this.
They get no pride. They're always chirping at each
other. And and really, it was guys, the
signs have been so visible, which is why when I came on on,
oh, God, was that Friday? I didn't even know what day it
was. It was maybe it was Friday.
Yeah, I think it was. Maybe.
Yeah. After the Golden State game when
nobody came to Cats defense. And then, by the way, Draymond
again, punking him on the podcast.
Yet he loves his dad. But yet all he does is shit all
over Carl Anthony Towns. And nobody did a damn thing
about it, including the head coach who was hugging him for
the entire basketball community and free world to see.
Oh, my man, What's going on? What's up, brother?
I know you won together. It's an awful look for the guys
you're coaching now, especially the guy that you supposed to
have his back on. You know what I mean?
Like Draymond just did whatever he wanted.
Cat didn't resist it, nobody did, and the coach made it
worse. So every conceivable aspect of
this team sucks right now. And to me, it is terminal.
It is a terminal basketball affliction.
It's over, it's a wrap. They're done.
Make trades, make changes, break it down, do whatever you got to
do because this team is going nowhere.
And I even said the other day, and I feel more emboldened to
say it now, but I really believe this, that the Knicks are
closer. Think about what I'm about to
say here based on what we thought they would be coming
into the season and when they were 23 and 9 at one point
during the season right before losing 9 of 11.
I actually think right now, depending upon the matchup, all
right. And really, it might not even
matter as much with the matchup because what's hurting the
Knicks at this point? They can lose to anybody, as
evidenced by yesterday and other.
You lost to the Suns twice in five days, then you get you.
Face handed to you at the Garden on MLK Day with a full house.
You give up 75 in the first half and they get booed back to the
locker room and what do you do? Nothing.
All right, So anyway, I think I really believe that the Knicks
are closer to getting bounced in round one than they are getting
to forget about the NBA championship.
Then they are getting to the conference finals.
Joke like this is the year Browns hurt.
This guy's banged up, this guy got traded, this guy's out.
All set up. Not only all set up to just kind
of coast into the conference finals, right, but when you know
585960 games, you know have like a real memorable season.
Instead, it is just falling apart at the seam.
So cats not happy. There's no team unity.
Mike Brown's not fixing it, you know.
And reportedly they have had trade discussions with Memphis.
Report came out, I believe last night or maybe late in the day,
Memphis, Orlando and Charlotte. So they know they got a problem
and at least I'm going to give them a little bit of credit.
Now. They've got to make sure it
happens. Like just to make exploratory
calls or to take a call and have a very cursory conversation.
Yeah, we might trade that. Then you got to trade them.
You trade somebody. So the fact that they're in the
Middle East conversation tells me that they know that they're
broken. So at least that gives me an
ounce of solace here. But my God almighty, this is
just unacceptable for the New York Knicks.
Unacceptable. Wow.
Mikhail Bridges, you know, so listen to this stat.
So we know he doesn't get to the free throw online a lot.
Although again, I think two or three years ago he did what,
like 6.3 or something like that with Phoenix and now I know it's
also guys, I get this. It's also a a byproduct of the
offense and Brunson's getting up 20 shots a game and Cats getting
his. I get that OG's got to get he's
got to eat a little bit, but how in the world can you be a an
athletic, you know, bouncy 2 guard, slash small forward and
take 1.1 free throw attempts game?
I think that I average that more in CYO taking technical foul
shots when the other coach got teed up 1.1, not 2.9 or 2.4 or
3.1. That is good for 189th in the
NBA, Mikhail Bridges. So you guys can shit all over
Cat and he can dump all over Mike Brown.
Save some of that energy from Mr. Softy.
And Mikhail Bridges doesn't show an ounce of resistance, not an
ounce of toughness in him. Like, where is it?
How do you not know that before you make that trade and give up
everything that you collected wisely to give yourself one
massive swing to align somebody or, or or multiple people with
Jalen Brunson on a low team friendly contract in his
absolute prime? It's all withering away
eventually, you know, again, the ankles been a little bit of an
issue for Brunson. He's a horrid defender.
He's only going to get worse and then the contracts going to get
more. And I'm not, I'm not validating
for him to to move on from Brunson or for them to move on.
I love Jalen Brunson, but the other things around Jalen
Brunson got to be set up the right way and when you got a
softy hit the five spot and a softy in bridges, you got
problems here. And as I said before, they are
terminal. This Knicks team will win
nothing, nothing, nothing at all.
Now the the lack of resistance is what's bothering me the most.
It seems like every good Knick team has that that fight, that
spark, that grit, that tenacity, you know, that real love for
what they're doing, that lunch pail attitude.
Josh Hart's got it. Deuce has it.
OG's got the most nights. That's about it.
Kovacs get it, got it, but he
didn't even play anymore and except if it's garbage time.
So I wow, I just want to try to miss any statistically.
Anything statistically. Here, let me put the shades on
here. Yeah, the shades.
Let's see. Yeah.
I mean, you really, you could complain about Tibbs.
They weren't going to win with him.
You can complain about Cat. It's deeper than Cat.
So there are a real legitimate problems with this team.
Bottom 5 defensively during the span of losing 9 of 11.
Bottom freaking 5. And all anybody, all you hear is
all the Knicks have two tenacious, terrific wing
defenders. How the hell are you bottom 5?
I don't need you to be, you know, Ewing, Oak, Maze, Harper,
Starks laid it out defensively. Bottom 5 with two wings who've
got some length that can move what, 75 points in the first
half to Dallas. I, I, I'll tell you, man, I, I
can't, I, I don't, I don't know what to tell you here.
I really, I don't know, all right, This one just caught my
eye at Robert McGuire 1068. I really enjoy the show, but I
listen with my kids. I can't continue when there's
cursing. It also comes as unprofessional
at times. I wanted to share the feedback
because I value the content. I appreciate that I've got kids
as well. This is this is this is, you
know what, it's what it's appropriate.
It's it's going to fly. And I don't mean that to sound
callous. I don't mean to sound that to
sound dismissive there. It's a big boy podcast here and
and things are going to be said that need to be said.
Now, I'm not just going to gratuitously drop F bombs.
I'm never going to turn into that person.
But when I'm revved up and when the moment matches and I'm
feeling it, it's going to happen.
I don't even plan for it to happen.
It's just going to happen. So those are things I couldn't
do on radio. Those are things I could do
here. I am aware of it and I am very,
I am sensitive to it to an extent.
But yeah, I've got, I've got to put out the best show and, and I
believe, you know, the best shows, especially for me being
in a raw emotional person, I believe that me again, as long
as it's not unfounded or just slide it in there to, to, to
sound tough or cool, which I'm not trying to do.
It's obviously just, you know, part of my exchange when I'm,
when I'm riled up and, and I, I believe it meets the moment I'd
be, I don't believe I've said anything so far today that is
out of bounds. So I'm, I'm not going to
apologize for it. I'm not, I'm not going to
necessarily change there. I'm not.
But I, I do understand what you're saying, Robert.
I, I get it. It's not going to be a constant
stream. Don't worry.
By the way, kids should be in school right now.
It's 10:00. I mean, well, that's just the
way it's going to be. That's the way it's got to be.
There's a reason why it's called unleashed.
You know, it's, it's, it's, it's no barriers, it's no filters,
it's no limits, It's no, it's really no rules except me
remaining true to who I am. And that, that means, you know,
being up to speed with what's what's going on, being as
passionate as anybody and let it RIP.
You know, I mean, there were times I, I was cursed on the
fan, you know, and, and, and you can't, you know, but it, it's a
little bit of a different platform here.
I get that. And but I, I, I, again, I'm not
dismissive there, Robert. I, I really understand it and
but that's, that's my answer there.
All right, so oh, by the way, when you guys send in the
message, I told you this the other day, right when you send
in the messages and you don't want to get something off your
chest, let me know where you coming from.
I want to know where you are. Listen, I know we're obviously
tri-state heavy, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, but more
and more, sometimes I'll go back after it on YouTube and I will
look at the, you can actually see the entire panel, like the
entire message board for the duration of the show.
And I'll do that for research purposes.
If I missed anything, try to connect some dots.
That's just me doing my homework.
And I noticed a lot, a lot of you were checking in from
Florida or the Carolinas or out West or even Australia or other
grease. So it's it's it's pretty cool to
see that because I don't I don't look at this is just like a
territorial, even though most of the content, at least in terms
of the and I'll get to the national champions game in a
bit, something that's good for The Jets potentially.
And I'd like to know where you guys are at.
It just gives me better understanding and it just gives
me more complete feel of what's going on with the show.
Yeah. Oh, by the way, obviously like
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stuff. How's the new camera?
Hey, Jared. So by the way, Jared.
Jared awake. Is Jared here?
Is Jared good? How's it going, man?
Jared in the house. So if you're new to the show
today or if you missed yesterday's show, but you've
been here for the inception going back to December 22nd, not
even one month yet. Jared officially on board
contract sign. He is in the trenches.
He is on. I wouldn't quite say the ground
floor. When I was putting together
these low resolution thumbs in my at that .10 year old son was
producing and doing a great job. But he is now my official
producer and I told him, listen, this is the kind of show it's
going to be. I told him this off the air.
I'm going to say it on the air. If I say something that he
disagrees with, come at me. Like there's no hey, no, no, you
don't. You don't speak.
I mean, obviously if I'm in the middle of something, then, you
know, let me finish my thought. But when Jared wants to jump in,
push back or even join in with what I'm saying, he's got the
free, the free reign and the juice to do it.
So everybody, world, meet Jared. What's happening, brother?
Hello. Hello.
Doing good today. I mean crazy games last night.
I was honestly mainly watching like that Knicks game last night
and then as soon as I saw like, no, what was it?
Was it like 100 to 70 at some? They were down by 30.
I was. Just like all right, time to
turn it off. My roommate, he ended up him and
his girlfriend, they were like, oh, it's the MLK game, let's
just go. It's going to be a great game.
And then he was just he sent me pictures and he's just like,
this is the worst time of my life.
It's. Horrible.
And listen, I wouldn't go nuts if it was a one off here.
Like if the Knicks were playing good ball and you got your face
kicked in by a team that you're supposed to be.
I don't even know what the spread was, if I had a guess.
I mean, I've been so much more into the NFL and the college
spreads and, and wow, Indiana did not cover, but I would have
to say Knicks were favored by, I don't know, seven and a half,
eight points, something like that, you know, something like
that. Dallas is not good.
And now the Knicks are not playing well.
So that number may be a little bit lower than it would have
been a month or so ago, but they are an absolute yes.
They they, they really are. And it bothers me.
And I don't know how it's going to change unless you get rid of
the coach, which I don't think at this point is very plausible.
Like mid season. Not that it's the easiest thing
to change a player or two that's really a focal point of the
rotation. But what are you going to bring
back Tom Thibodau? I mean, if I'm Thibodau and you
made your bed, I did what I did and now you finish off the job.
I'm not even if they offered me the job, I'm not coming back.
So there's no coach out there that's going to come and save
the Knicks. It's going to have to be a
trade. What is this at Clr 8810?
What's up there? If anything, you haven't cursed
enough when it comes to the Knicks.
Love the show BT Cape May NJ in the house.
I love Cape May. I love Cape May.
I was one of the first weekend getaways that I had with my.
At that point we were just dating and then eventually
engaged. Cape May is great.
Haven't been there in a while, but Cape May is awesome.
Just shout out down there. Yeah, I get it.
I mean, I I could rifle off a 32nd tirade with not a single
non curse in it and it will be entertaining and it will go
probably go viral. Like I'm not here just to follow
up that other gentleman Roberts text about about the cursing.
I'm not here just to turn this into like an expletive filled,
low intelligent show, low intelligent show.
Like I take pride in in in obviously presenting things in a
compelling way, in a thought provoking way.
And you know, that's one of the things that I think I do best
and and and like to elicit in a reaction.
And you know, but also you gotta keep it real as the kid.
You gotta keep. Cursing is honesty that, you
know, that's something I saw, saw, you know, I think I saw
that the other day. Cursing, you know it's a bad
thing, but you start doing it when you're 6 and it's an
honest, it's an honest showing of yourself, an honest feeling
of your six or seven, I'd say. I don't know, I feel like.
You were cursing that young. Like, I, I don't know, if I was
cursing out of like, actual anger, I think someone would
just say something on like, the playground and then you kind of
repeat it. Your parents freak out at you.
And yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's true.
That's for sure. Now, my dad dropped the bunch
when he would get angry or whatever and even like jovial,
like just kind of sitting around telling a joke.
Like it's just part of the vernacular and like, you get
used to it. So I mean really, and think
about it like what? And I don't mean a word that's
like incredibly meaning and derisive to like a, you know, a
segment of population or religion, an ethnicity, a a
proclivity for sexuality. I don't mean that stuff.
That's all face. So you're never going to hear me
say that ever. But like, to me, what is it?
It's just a word. It's and most of them are one
syllables. Who we hurting here?
Come on, we're not hurting anybody.
We're letting it RIP. As I said, we got to keep it a
buck. Let's see here.
Yeah, No, that's true. They did cash there.
They cash smooth, BU they cashed out there.
I did not think they were going to.
That game was awful. The first half.
That game was tremendous in the second-half and it was really,
really good. The finish was phenomenal.
I'll get more into some of the details, how it impacts The Jets
there. My man Robert, who wears his
check in and up in the Bronx, up in the Bronx for the people, the
fresh the Southside Bronx, the South Bronx, the Southside
Bronx. All right, Robert likes to to
get a gun. I I don't there was a song.
Maybe you could look this up. See if you can find this Jared
not to play the song but the lyrics right.
Sure. I believe, Oh God, who the hell
was the artist? I just remember, like in the 4th
grade, me and my buddy Chad, we played on the boom box.
We'd listen to it and it was like something up in the Bronx
where the people, the fresh day was one DJ who could pass the
test. I'm down below when I'm ready to
play. Let's see.
My name is Ernest Blow. AJ Scratch.
It was Curtis, but that's right y'all, My name was AJ.
That's I'm checking that out because all I know is like his
like song basketball, not everybody.
That's a classic. That's funny stuff, right?
Let me get back to a couple of these here.
What do we got? How about John Pistado 22?
What up, John? People actually thought this
Knicks team could get to the Finals this year.
We even thought and, and, and, and we are even sure they make
are, are we even sure they make the playoffs if this continues?
I mean, if the Knicks don't make the playoffs, it's the, it's the
most colossal implosion of the history of New York sports
period. I mean, of course the Knicks are
going to make the playoffs. Not even worried about that.
I mean, there was a point where I thought, all right, they'll
get their act together, get their asses in gear and catch
the Pistons. That ain't going to happen.
So they're not going to be the one seed at this point. 9 two
seed. I mean, listen again, as much as
we are emotional and and sometimes reactive to certain
things, although I don't think that I'm unfairly reactive to
this because if you follow me and you do, obviously because
you're a fan of the show, which means you're probably follow me
on social media. This has been consistent.
I didn't like I didn't like Coral Anthony towns move right
away now. I was open to it once they did
it because he could shoot and you know, he was different than
Randall or whatever. Willing to give it a shot.
Good free throw shoot shooter. Great, great 3 point shooter
size. All right, could rebound a
little bit. But then you see him play every
night and the complaints of what they were levying out in
Minnesota. Now you're like, Oh yeah, I, I,
I see what they mean. Because when you're watching
Coral, Anthony Towns maybe once on a, you know, TNT back in the
day with Barkley and the crew playing the Warriors or playing
a good with the Denver Nuggets, with Yokich, you know, you might
see that one game, right? Or a playoff game.
But when you watch him every single night, the deficiencies
are illuminated. And you know, I'm not even
saying that this part is, is right.
It is fair, but the, the assets are largely marginalized, right?
Like what you do incredibly well.
When things go awry, we kind of tend to brush that off to the
side and now focus on the stuff that drives us nuts.
And those arms like a baby giraffe who kicked somebody in
the nuts last night, who I mean, his knees going every through
his arms flailing. I, I just, I really, I can't
watch him much anymore, but I really can't.
I've said that for a while. However, if you're just tuning
in again, it's an oversimplification to say that
it's all cat. It's not.
It is not all Karl Anthony Towns, because I think that
there are certain people who are divisive and certain people who
are just not good team players. I, I don't think that that's the
case. I just don't think that they're
connecting the way maybe they were a year ago or maybe even
earlier in the year, or maybe we hope that they would.
Maybe more importantly, because think about this.
Karl Anthony Town projected confusion during training camp
about what his role was. And you could just tell by his
body language he's not happy. I mean, that's a given.
Like if Karl Anthony Towns gets traded to the Grizzlies or
Orlando, so I think he's going to put up 2324 and 11 or 12 at
night. Sure, of course I do.
His usage rate will be different.
The way he's used will be different, and he'll put up the
same numbers that he had a year ago.
By the way, his numbers this year.
Everything's down across the board.
All right, So you're talking about, you know, whether it's
minutes, whether it's points, whether it's plus minus, whether
it's other elements of efficiency.
Down, down, down, down. And that's really a problem
there. And I'm not saying that he can't
salvage something like that somewhere else.
But I don't want to be experimented with on our watch.
Like this is not a long, long runway where the Knicks just
drafted Jalen, didn't even ever draft them.
But like, say they just drafted him two years ago.
And right away he's blossomed into this killer and this
closer. And you can at least rationally
compartmentalize in your mind. All right, it's not perfect, but
you know, this kids, 2324 years old and he's going to be an
absolute superstore for the next 8-9, ten years.
It's not the case with Jaylen Brunson.
So there's got to be an urgency here.
Much like there should be an urgency with the Yankees for
Aaron Judge. There's got to be more of an
urgency for Jaylen Brunson and what remains of his favorable
contract and his prime. He's a great player, but he's
flawed. Carl and Anthony Towns, very
good player, flawed. I mean Mitchell Robinson, very
good player, very effective player in spots, very flawed in
certain areas, whether it's spacing, whether it's free
throws, you know, whether it's being able to play every night
back to backs or play big minutes or play on the floor
with Cat, you know, and coexist perfectly.
It's just problems. I mean that that's, that's all
there is to it problems, more money, more problems.
Yep, mixed out the second highest salary cap, second
highest cap number right now and I think there are two or three
next year. So the finances are what they
are. They're locked into who they are
unless they make a trade, they giving up almost all of their
top desirable draft capital. Where we going?
Where we going from here? Like the only other option I
gave you 2, Well, I guess the third is to roll it.
Roll just do nothing. Who wants that?
Fire the coach, get rid of the store player and or do nothing.
And I would be a little bit more willing to do nothing if the
signs weren't so ominous. And that's the problem.
Like, it's one thing to be to be in the in a rut and play bad
basketball. All right, now, this is a
lengthy run of sloppy, disconnected play that I believe
it's more who they are than who they're not.
I don't think it's a little lap. Well, the Knicks are going to
wake up in a week and win six straight and suddenly the
defense is acceptable and the offense is again the best in the
NBAI don't see that happening. I just don't.
And even if it does, I still don't trust it enough to last
for the duration of the season and then more importantly, for
two months of playoff basketball to be front and center.
She's not going to happen. They're not going to win
anything with this group. So you could get rid of the
coach, get rid of the player or do nothing.
And I just think that of the three options, you're not going
to fire Mike Brown 40 games and you're not, you're not going to
do nothing. You're not going to not do
anything, do nothing, not do it. Yeah.
And the only real thing you can do is because he's got some
value and his contract's up. Not next year or the year after
that. It's a player option, which will
probably probably might even decline because he's going to
get big money in this crazy world of the NBA.
So you might not even be on the hook for it.
You let him walk. So you got him the rest of this
year. You got him next year.
So it's going to be more financially palatable for a team
like Orlando or maybe even the Griz teams with, you know,
finances that aren't quite like the Knicks or some of the big
spenders in the NBA. So there's always a move to
make, but it's got to be the right move.
It's one thing to get rid of somebody.
Once that happens, and I do believe something's going to
happen, there is no way that we wake up and it's February 5 and
I think the deadline's 4 Eastern, I think, and it's four
O 2, not Nick, Stan, Pat, no changes.
Coaching staff, nobody fired, nobody let go, nobody dealt.
Nothing happened. No way.
Because. And if that's the case, then
James Dolan's a fraud because James Dolan last week got on
WFAN with Craig and and C Mac and said, yeah, I I view this
team as a team that's going to get to the finals and I expect
to win the championship. This team's winning nothing.
And, you know, you might not love Dolan, you might not, you
know, understand Dolan or whatever.
But man's not an idiot like he. And, and I do believe that he
has a threshold for what he's willing to tolerate and see.
Dolan's got himself in trouble when he's kind of jumped in and
exercised, you know, power when something good was happening,
like with Donnie Walsh, you know, when the Knicks were being
built the right way and the the cap was in order and that young,
purposeful and explosive players.
And, you know, they had some wood for Carmelo and they went
out and they gave up everything. And that was Dolan in in
intervening. And take Wilson, take Mozgov,
take pigs, take this, take that, take this, take that.
And what are the Knicks win with Carmelo?
Nothing. And by the way, now I know that
when I talk about Carmelo, Anthony comes across as
personal. Let me so this is really the
first time on this platform I'm talking about Carmelo.
And I know how these things make the rounds.
And it's not disrespect, It's not shade.
It's just being real, OK, and not misremembering what
happened. I think Carmelo's pretty good on
TVI think he looks good. I think he's got good thoughts,
right? I think he's he's got a cool
vibe to him. And I think in terms of like the
NBA pantheon of all time scores, just pure scores, he's up there.
That's not KD, but he's he's one of the best pure scorers I've
ever seen. But hearing Carmelo Anthony last
night with Tracy McGrady was good.
But hearing Carmelo talk about like internal tension and, you
know, we got to fix a lot. I don't, I don't don't really
care what he has to say about that because that's the same guy
who completely took the oxygen out of the Jeremy Lin run
because he was selfish, because somebody else was getting some
shine. Carmelo didn't like it.
And Carmelo, who is always, in my opinion and in the opinion of
many, was always more about the team.
Pardon me, He was always more about himself than the team.
And that manifested itself many different ways.
Now this was a lost season, so this might not bother you, but
it bothered me as they died in the wool all in Knick Fan.
So years ago game the All Star games at the garden Carmelo's
that's I think it was a 20 something when they may want 23
games at you. Whatever it was right And
Carmelo's knee was jacked up. I get it.
You know, he's a human. The body a lot of miles, a lot
of minutes understood our focal point of the offense heavy
burden. His body was breaking down.
But instead of maybe addressing it differently, he chose to play
in the All Star game and then shut it down.
And to me, that was such a mean move.
And I never forgot that. Like that was that was counter
to what you should do if you're a team leader.
You don't go out there. And I know why he did it to feel
the adulation of and I, we all love to be, if we all love to
feel that on some level, I think we all need that.
It's the human condition. But it but it can't supersede
the team. And I vote too many times during
Carmelo Anthony's run as the Knicks best player, he was
either too selfish, not in great shape, averse to defense, or
resistant to a new forming direction or philosophy within
the team that was not best for Carmelo Carmelo Anthony in terms
of stats and shots, but may have been best for the Knicks
overall. Again, I want to be fair.
I don't want to start saying things irresponsibly.
Carmelo just didn't have enough around him most years and that
was a broken, disgusting eyesore of an era in Knicks basketball.
But I think some of the things he did made it worse.
So I'm sitting there and I'm here in Carmelo last night and
and by the way that the first time he's done it, talking about
like all the chemistry and the locker room, like I can't.
It's not I don't know, it's it just doesn't hit me the same
way. It's like if Stephane Marbury.
And again, they're entitled to say what they want.
I don't, I don't mean it that way obviously, but if Stephane
Marbury is talking about chemistry and, and, and either
dysfunction or, you know, a lack of connectivity.
I mean, I was around those Knick teams every night because I was
doing the pre, the post and the half for MSG on TV and I was
doing the radio for 10:50 and I actually got a chance to call
some games, play by play. So I travelled with the Knicks.
I was around the Knicks every night, all right, And, and I saw
what it was. I was in that locker room, You
know, I'm talking about David Lee and Malik Rose and Jamal
Crawford. Love Jamal Lovely too, and
Lovely Rose and a lot of good guys.
They just and have a lot of talent and they had somebody in
Stephon Marbury who just kind of took the air out of the room.
And I don't know if Carmelo was quite like that.
I think, I think, I think the guys like Carmelo more than they
like Stephon Marbury, but it's not that dissimilar.
Like there's certain guy like if, if Derek Jeter wants to talk
about chemistry, hey, when we were winning 96 and 98 and 99
and 2000, it was kind of like this.
And now we're we're morphing into this.
Oh, I'm going to sit back and I'm going to listen every word
that you say. You know, Aaron Judge, I think
the way he comports himself, the way he produces, the way he
minimizes distractions and just plows through with with class
and diligence and massive production, he says something
like that. I'm all ears.
Carmelo. Stefan, I'm not interested.
I'm just not. If Jalen Brunson says something
like that, yeah, I'm listening. Josh Hart.
Yep, I'm all ears. So we have a complete, complete
shit show with the New York Knicks.
Let's see here. How about Allen 1953?
This goes back to the other night.
What's up, Al Allen Z, to be more specific.
Facts. Man, lost a lot of respect for
the Knicks when Draymond did that to Kat and nothing was
done. What the hell else do you need
to see? What else do you need to see?
There's nothing else to unpack there.
That was a moment where the Knicks could have been really
galvanized as a group. And it's either naturally in
there as a disposition, as an individual, like the whole
fight. And I'm not talking about some
massive brawl. I'm not even saying that,
although you wouldn't mind it and wake him up.
But those days are over in the NBI.
Get that. You're not going to have, you
know, Greg Anthony coming off the bench like he did in Phoenix
in a suit or some crazy Paisley shirt, you know, throwing
hammers when Kevin Johnson and Doc Rivers started throwing down
and all those years ago. Like, you know, come on, those
days are over, all right? But there could be a certain
tenacity and there needs to be a certain resistance to when
somebody's punking you. Like, I know that the
physicality and like the hard screens and protecting the pain,
like that's all changed and that's OK.
I, I, I don't love it. I say it's OK because there's
really nothing I could do to change it.
So I've got to accept it. I can do a whole podcast on why
the 80s and the 90s were better than this nonsense that we watch
every night when everybody scored 120 points and firing up
45 to 50 threes and nobody's near the rim and there's not
even really a center or two that could block a shot
conventionally unless he's coming for the weak side.
Trust me, I could go days for that.
Right. But I don't because it sounds
like the guy on the lawn, get off my lawn.
The guy who? Oh, back of the day, it was
better. Well, yeah, it was better.
I just don't shove it down your throat because I know the
younger generation doesn't care. But when it comes up, I'm going
to tell you what I think. And I think it was a lot better
back then than I do now. So I understand that there's not
going to be some wild foul. Like, will you come and do like
Kurt Rambis getting clothes lined, you know, in the Celtics
Lakers rivalry, the mid 80s going to the rim and just
literally getting clothes lined and dropped on his back, right?
Yeah. That that's not going to happen.
And I don't want that to happen because I don't want somebody to
get hurt. But there is a fine line between
playing dirty and having enforcers, which is pretty much
gone in the NBA, and standing up for your team and protecting
your image and and being there for the guy next to you.
And when nobody stood up for Cat and Cat didn't really stand up
for himself, that was that's the the next day I said, it's over.
And I was already kind of thinking that they weren't
really good enough as the season went on and the losing streak
stretched out and became more and more worrisome and more
alarming and lengthier and deeper and more problematic.
But that's all I need to see. Like, there was a time like, OK,
Mike, I'll give you an example. Mike Lucina, great pitcher, you
know, should it be in the Hall of Fame?
And Andy Pettitte? No, I mean, that's another
podcast at some point. My first instinct is no.
I'll never forget the day. And I was on 10:50 at this point
and I absolutely crushed Mike Mussina, and rightfully so.
So game starts. Soriano banged on the hand taken
out of the game, goes to the hospital, gets X-rays.
Next batter. It was a day game in the Bronx
Yankee Stadium, right next batter #2 hold Derek Jeter boom
up and in. I believe the count was 1/2
right on the wrist, purpose pitch.
And Pedro even said Soriano wasn't my target, it was Jeter.
So he did that on purpose, right?
And maybe, maybe Soriano was just residual damage, but that
shouldn't really matter when I don't care if it's your 9 hitter
who's hitting 194 with an OPS of 612 who plays twice a week.
If, if, if people are taking liberties with your teammates
and you don't do anything about it, there's a problem there.
And that Yankee team did not win.
They did not win that year. And it went for a couple years.
And I'm not saying that they didn't win the World Series
because Mike and you see that didn't retaliate, but that was
kind of emblematic of of what was fading from the from those
Yankee teams. Those Yankee teams always stood
up for each other. You know, Tino and Benitez,
obviously, you know, everybody coming out of the bullpen, Daryl
throwing wild haymakers in the dugout.
You know, Paul O'Neill get into fights, his pitchers having his
back, you name it. David Wells throwing at people,
Kony throwing at people. It might be seen.
I'm not really wired that guy that way.
And even if you're not wired that way, and I know everybody's
not, and that's fine, you've got to find a way to be wired that
way for that moment, for that day, for your guy.
And even if these Knicks collectively are not wired that
way, then they had to flip a switch and do something about it
against Golden State, and they didn't.
And what's happened since? They lost the Suns twice in five
days and then they got their teeth shoved down their throat,
losing by 30 to The Mavericks, which tells me you no longer
care. You don't care.
Your pride is down the tubes. Your willingness to fight for
your teammates. I'm not even saying literally
just grind through and get through.
It's dissipated. It's over messaging, not being
received. The one or two from the coaches,
the one or two guys on the team that do try to project that like
heart, lesser extend deuce, it's not working.
And when you have all this evidence, get 2 choices.
You can ignore it or you can change it and you bet your ass
that they have to change it and I will.
I would bet that they will. They know this there's change is
coming. I mean, think about this.
Your kid comes home with a a 67. What are the options?
Do you let them continue to fiddle on the the iPad or even
sports, which is better than the iPad, but still, school's got to
be first most of the time, unless it's a big game, unless
it's a big game the night before.
I've said this a lot. I don't care what anybody
thinks. Hey, we got a big game the night
before. Not that The Jets played big
games, but they've had late games like the Rogers game
against the Bills, right? Monday night, or obviously
Yankee playoff games or big Knick games.
It's all right. My son or my daughter, not my
daughter usually falls asleep on the couch, but he's going to be
a little tired of school tomorrow.
Deal with the teachers. I'm sorry.
Because whatever he's going to learn in school and he goes to a
great school and he's a really good student, but whatever he's
going to learn in school that day, I'm going to guess he's
going to remember sitting up with Daddy watching that game
like I do with mine, just a little more than whatever lesson
was presented to him that day in school, right.
So that's just a little side turn.
But I always, I always believed that.
And my wife knows big game kids are staying up whatever.
Well, like if, if, if the kid routinely comes home, your child
with a with a less than whatever their relative window is.
If you're an A, if you're an A student, you get AB minus what
happened, Joe, what happened Susie?
Like that's that's out of character.
Did did did you not prepare? Did you not read the directions
like, well, what like what happened?
Did you run out of time? Did you not feel, well, if
they're AB student and now they come home with an F or AD like,
all right, that's, that's, that's just we that's
unacceptable. And if they continuously come
home with, you know, 60 sevens or 70 twos or 70 threes, then
now you've got to dig a little bit deeper as a parent and
determine, all right, I'm not trying to get too deep here, but
it's true. Is there a learning disorder?
Is there an an inability to focus?
Is there just a lack of putting the time in with school?
Do we need to get a tutor, whatever it might be?
And those are your choices. Like once you see enough
evidence, you've got to deduce what the problem is.
And sometimes you'd need professional help to help get to
that deduction. And if it's a tutor, great.
You know, if it's putting in more time, good, let's get in
the trenches. You know, you know what, You're
not watching this movie tonight. You're not playing Fortnite.
You're not playing NBA2K or Madden.
You're not calling your buddy on the phone or doing whatever
you're doing. You're studying.
And if you don't like it, you're not playing the game tomorrow
night. So there's got to be
repercussions and there's got to be a point where the results,
the results are so identifiable that if you don't do anything
about it, that is on you. Like there's nothing else to
interpret here with these Knicks.
It's over. It's a wrap.
Done. All right, let's see here.
What's this at TJF Russo. What up?
TJ Russo? I was hoping the Knicks would
get us into and through a miserable New York sports year,
but not so fast, I guess. Yeah, I mean, that was the hope
too, right? You think about this because
when the Giants season started, The Jets season started, all
right, You know, Eric Glenn year one.
All right, when's Jackson Dork in the play?
All right, then that and then obviously played well.
But in terms of the winds in that overall week to week,
legitimate emotional investment of like hope for something good
that season, it was gone and it was over for The Jets
immediately. Giants fooled you a little bit
by beating a couple teams, Chargers, whatever they went on
a little bit of run on on a little bit of a run.
We like, OK, all right, scoring some points here.
Maybe this is the new Giants here, but that was over
immediately. Yankees got bounce, Toronto
smacked them. Mets didn't make it.
So we all thought that the New York Knicks would be the bastion
and, you know, the leading force, the the light in the
darkness of the New York sports scene.
They're just adding to it. They're making it worse.
They're making it worse because we had when you have
expectations for something now you're going to get much more of
a visceral reaction. You wouldn't hear me.
I, I know I had days where I I bashed Isaiah and I bashed, you
know, Fizdale or Hortasek or Carmel or whatever.
But when when your team is a non entity in terms of being
relevant in the NBA, it's really hard to conjure up legitimate
consistent emotion when you just don't have the horses to win.
The energy comes like when we think you're going to be really
good and now it looks like you don't give a shit about the
results. That's the way it looks.
And that's most disconcerting. Unacceptable.
All right, National championship game last night, interesting
night. First half was awful,
second-half was great. Now I'm not going to spend a lot
of time on this because I know it's not going to happen.
I mean, Mendoza had a rough night.
Now he made great plays when he when he launched himself into
the end zone. First of all, the cut left to
right was you saw the athleticism and I'm not saying
he's going to be like Josh Allen quite, but you get him 789 more
pounds, which he will have a functional weight at the next
level now that it's his job. I mean, he's going to be a load
man. He's I thought they dropped a
few passes. They threw a couple that were a
little bit behind. Whatever.
Not as great as game for sure. The numbers, no touchdowns, no
picks, 14 for 25, you know, fairly nominal menial stats.
I got it. But when it was winning time,
didn't you think he was going to win?
I knew he was going to win. I don't know if he's going to
run one in, throw a touchdown with it, but I knew he was going
to win. And that Miami defense was
phenomenal. Give them a ton of credit, boy.
I mean, that was a big spread. 8 1/2 points when it was 10, zip
at the half. I'm like, all right, they're
going to run away with this thing.
But what Miami did and it worked and Herb St. pointed this out on
the broadcast, where to start the game, there was a lot of
soft coverage, right? So the corners were 5-6 yards
off Indiana's receivers, give them space.
So all Mendoza had to do was, you know, boom, boom, boom at a
shotgun, quick to two, three-step, drop back foot, let
it go wide open, 7-8 yards, move the sticks, you know, And
obviously Indiana's run game, which has been phenomenal all
year, it was good in Spurs, but it wasn't quite what it's been
all year. And I think when Miami came up
and did a little more press coverage now you started to see
Mendoza getting, I mean, he was popped.
He was even hit in the first half, but he got knocked around.
And that guy is just such a game or such a winner, such a such a
leader. I absolutely love him.
Now this is what I won't spend a lot of time on because it's not
going to happen, but I'll just throw it out there.
You never know if he would have gone for three O 9 and coming
into the game in the playoffs, he had more touchdowns than
incompletions. Think about that.
They had the stat on. I think it was 8 touchdowns at
one point and five incompletions during the playoffs.
What? And you remember all the clutch
throws Ohio State, Oregon earlier in the year, right?
So if it would have come out and continued this ungodly assault
on the record books and flawless play, Raiders would have had
nothing to think about. Now, there's still really
nothing to think about. They're going to take him first
overall. Well, you know, I don't even
know if this is a rumor. If it's not, it's not a report,
that's for sure. I would say, see to me there's
there's nonsense, there's a rumor, there's informed industry
speculation, and then there's a report.
This is way short of a report. I think it's.
I think it's past, you know, a couple of you on your WhatsApp
chain throwing this out there and then somebody tweeting
something with 9 followers and no disrespect on people with not
toward people with 9 followers, but it's not coming from a
viable source. But I, I think it's slightly
past that stage and way short of being in the report reporting
stage. You know, I mean, maybe Tom
Brady makes a push for Lamar Jackson.
Now. I wouldn't do that if I'm him.
I would start fresh and I would go with Mendoza and I believe
he's going to. But because he didn't play
great, even though he was there at winning time, you never know.
You met like door like a tick a jar, 3 percent, 8%, single digit
percent. But if he would have balled out
last night with with three touchdowns in the air, one on
the ground, 312 yards, 25 or 29, I don't care who like Burrow,
Lamar and that's it. Nope, we got Mendoza.
Thank you. No matter what they offer, we'll
take him. Mendoza.
You never know. You get one team that just gets
reckless and you've got to have the capital jets to do it.
Well, maybe there's a potential deal deal to be struck.
I'm not going to exhaust this because I don't think it's going
to happen. But last night was still a good
night for The Jets. Now right now going into the
game, Ruben Bayne was mocked pretty much top ten everywhere,
top five, top six most mocked, right, At least the reputable
ones that I that I lean on. He only reinforced how amazing
he is. I like, to me it looks like
Dwight Franey, like that's what I see 275 coming off the edge,
low leverage. I'm not going to throw all the
scouting terms at Oh, he's got swivel hips.
Oh, his, his, his hands are connected to his eyes.
That's the thing that drives me crazy about this draft process.
Some of the dumb regurgitated verbiage like, come on, man,
speak like a human. Don't don't come across as R2D2
or C3PO. Just speak like a human being,
you know? Oh my God, really, And you know
what I'm talking about. It really isn't it's it's the
constant regurgitation of the scouting phrases.
And as I don't want to be beholden to that, so I'm going
to move on. But I do see a little freeny,
right. So The Jets could take him at 2,
which right now, I know you got to go through the process here.
I'm all for the only thing is some people do say based on his
his height and his weight. And, you know, I'll let those
who really do this for a living in terms of the the the ratio,
height, weight, speed. I mean, I know what I'm looking
at, but I'm not a scout. Some people think his arms might
be a little bit short. Come on, you know, the
quarterbacks got small hands. Can you play dude?
So I'm going to let that process at least, you know, play itself
out. But there's a chance he doesn't
grade out as favorably. Like, I don't know what Muji's
personal preferences and I don't know.
But if I could right now, if The Jets take Ruben Baines at at at
two, I'm pumped. Now here's what else could
happen is why it was a good night for The Jets as good as he
was, right? Well, now that might incentivize
somebody who's got A and The Jets have a pressing need
everywhere. They need a linebacker, they
need a a defensive edge and like like him, they need a corner,
they need a safety. Then you know the wide receiver
as Jets need everything, absolutely everything, right?
So they've got an abundance of options and an abundance of
picks and they've got a chance to add to that.
Like if The Jets say if they really like Ruben Bane, like
almost love him, love him, right?
But somebody loves him just a little bit more and is willing
to say trade from 2:00 to 6:00 and give you a second or third
round. But whatever.
I don't know. Whatever the draft board equates
to what you got to give up to get what you got to get to move
up to two, whatever it is, right?
Though I know the points. They'll figure that out.
And you love Caleb Downs from Ohio State, who's a safety, and
you need 1. And that's a little more
justifiable taking him in that 6-7 spot or even 4, whatever it
might be, rather than maybe 2 as a safety.
All right. Or you want to take Reese, the
linebacker from Ohio State. I think you could take him at 2
or you could trade down. He could take him.
Or you got 2 receivers. You got Tyson, he got Tate, You
got the kid from Arizona, Arizona State, and you got the
kid from Ohio State. Ohio State's absolutely loaded.
How how is the Ohio State still not playing?
Wow. But last night was really good
because it's going to present The Jets with, I think either a
great player at #2 that just can really boom, accelerate their
development, right? Or it's going to open up some
real dialogue and some real tantalizing possibilities for
them to make trades with other teams.
And we already know Mooji's aggressive.
You traded Sauce, you traded Q. You know, you were active on the
waiver wire early in the year. You made some lower level moves.
You made some big moves here. So I mean, this man is a modern
general manager. He comes from the Peyton camp.
Sean Payton was in the building with Denver.
They think that way. He thinks that way.
He's already shown us he thinks that way.
He's already shown us that he thinks that way.
He's not afraid who act on that thought process.
So as much as The Jets season was just pure torment, what else
is new this offseason? I am absolutely.
That's always, always Sala. We Sala will always get around
all right. BT you going to regenerate?
I've already regenerated. I can't wait for the draft.
I cannot wait to see what the New York Jets do.
I love the draft in general, but when you've got the second pick
and you've got another pick in the teens, I mean, there's just
and then three next year. There are a boatload of
possibilities for a general manager who was at least early
on, showing a propensity to take a big swing, which which is
good, but more importantly, have the acumen and the instincts to
execute what I perceive to be the right big swing.
So, you know, again, they're going to have a lot of players
here that are going to look really, really tantalizing.
I mean, if you put me down for it right now, it's going to
either be a Bane, a Downs, a Reese.
I'm not taking a wide receiver at #2 there's just too many
other needs. But you know, I mean, listen, if
one of these kids grades out like Megatron, I, I guess I'll
leave the door a little bit of a little bit of jar here.
But yeah, it's it. Last night was a good night.
And last night, it is amazing that Indiana won the national
championship. I went to what, Ohio State game?
Matt's girlfriend went to Ohio State years ago and I went to
Columbus and I went to the Horseshoe.
So I speak on experience with some of these stadiums like I've
had a chance to, even though growing up in the Northeast,
I've had a chance to go to some pretty cool college football
venues. I've been to the Big House when
I worked in Detroit a bunch of times, went to the Horseshoe,
went to Michigan State, went to Callan Stanford when I lived out
West, went to Boston College when my sister was a student
there. That's a funny story.
I I got to, I was afraid. Here's the short version.
I was a freshman in high school and she was a sophomore or maybe
a freshman at BC and I went up for the weekend.
She told my parents he's never coming back and I didn't.
They can't really tell you what happened, but it was it was a
fun weekend, except for her anyway, I going to the
Horseshoe. That's why I always say Penn
State been to Penn State has been a happy valley during a
whiteout as well. 100 and 508,000 whatever it is, college
football venues, if you go to the right one, my God, it's and
many of you know this magical, but many of you that grew up in
the northeast, you know, you got Fordham, you got Stony Brook
further South in Jersey, you got Princeton like you got a couple
of games. You can Army is beautiful.
I love I love the Hudson Valley West Point Mikey stadiums, but
I've been there as well. But it's not a it's not a
college football town, but I've had a chance to go to some of
these and I'm when I went to the Horseshoe, they were playing
Indiana ironically, right? And I think that they won 56 to
360 to three. I mean, it was outside of
Antoine Randall L back in the day.
He was not on this team, You know, a few other players here
and there. I mean, Indiana, let me put it
in these terms, all right. Indiana was basically to the Big
10 football scene what the Paul is to the Big East basketball
scene. Like they're a doormat.
They're just they've been unwatchably horrid with, you
know, a fairly, I know they pumped some money into it last
couple of years, but a fairly before that dilapidated state
stadium, it was awful. No game day juice, you know, no
quarterback prospects, nobody You look at and say, wow, all
right, this team isn't good, but man, look at this 6 foot four,
210 LB horse. Who's going to go top three in
the draft? Like they just they had nothing
and and I owe money change that. But so did a great coach.
God, he is great. But if you've been around and
you follow college football, like last night, the coronation
of the Hoosiers was nothing short of spectacular.
I watched the entire post game show.
I watched Mendoza. I watched the coach, but he
looks he is 1 intense dude. My son says, man, that does he
ever smile? And he smiled last night with
Holly Row when he said I'm going to.
No, Holly was with Mendoza, I think.
And he was asked was it Molly? I think it was Molly.
He said or or he was asked, you know, what are you going to do
to celebrate? I'm going to have a beer.
Yeah, he damn right you're going to have a beer.
Have nine of them. Knock yourself out, brother.
What a job. And you know, I don't.
I don't know what makes him better than others.
But I mean, it's part partly concepts.
I'm sure it's attention to detail, NIL, you name it.
Anticipation, gut instinct to everything, right?
But his press conference and he was thought to be kind of a
pompous ass coming from James Madison shows up at this press
conference and they're like, you know what?
What makes you because he was, you know, espousing some, some
positivity like, no, we're going to we're going to be all right
here. And somebody I think straight up
asked him like what, why are you so confident you're going to win
in Indiana? He's like, because I'm here, so
I win and here he won the championship.
It's not like they're ranked. Like you get some of these cute
stories, right? Like couple of years ago,
Coastal Carolina had a really good year.
Zach Wilson played there. I think they scheduled, that was
during COVID and they scheduled it.
I think they scheduled it just to give Zach another look for
his draft prospects, right. And Zach couldn't even become
the backup in Miami. Good God.
And Coastal had a nice little run, but like they didn't win
the championship. You know, there are good stories
that develop even pre NIL and and that was where, you know, a
little tiny engine that could kind of eventually Peters out.
But boy, what a what an amazing, uplifting story.
They just do things that they nobody thought that they could
do. And Indiana took it all the way
to the bank. They won, they won the
championship. Absolutely amazing.
I was rooting for him All in all in when I had something else for
him. Want to make sure I didn't
forget about? Hey Jared.
I saw a couple of the tweets here today as Jared pops his
head back into the equation. There he is.
Anything on Bellinger? I know you're on the Bellinger
watch here. It seems like there were a
couple of tweets earlier about today or or very shortly.
Could be the day. I know it hasn't broken.
Yeah, I mean, what I was seeing on Bellinger, I was reading an
article saying that the Yankees might lose out on him.
That was like the most. That was the latest article I
was reading, but it's from some site called Yankees Go Yard.
I don't know. I don't know if that's a a
reliable source, but it said Yankees should be prepared to
lose Cody Bellinger after latest free agency updates.
That's the latest thing I've got.
Gotcha. I appreciate it.
Jared. I'm not really familiar with
that particular website. Doesn't mean it's not good,
doesn't mean it's not reputable. I just don't particularly know
that one. There's actually a lot of
smaller websites out there that really pump out really good
content that kind of get glossed over.
I'm not here to diss them for sure, but I I've seen that other
places too and and I've talked about that because it's very
apparent that the Yankees are not going to budget here.
They're not and they shouldn't. They they you know, there's five
years. The money's good.
It's pretty hefty signing bonus. They made the concessions with
the opt outs. Just because the Mets lost out
on Tucker and made a really good pivot to to Beau Bichette, and
just because you lost one Soto to the Mets a year ago doesn't
mean that you go from what you perceive to be a fair good deal
and a bottom line deal to a reckless, stupid deal.
Just because some, whether it's the Mets or Toronto's willing to
do it. I'm not giving them seventy.
I'm not giving them six. No, Cody, you want to stay here
or not, Here's the five years. Here's the total terms in terms
of the AAV you want to play with Aaron Judge or not.
And if you don't want to be here, go somewhere else.
See you goodbye. That's it.
Hey, one thing I'm learning Jared, as I get older, I got no
tolerance. Like, I'm done begging.
Like there was a point, like given the the complexion of this
Yankee offseason, where I would have been like, oh, but you need
them all. He could play left field and
center and for who gives a shit? You know what?
I mean, at a certain point, at a certain point, you're done.
You're done, yes. You know, there's no convincing.
There's no convincing. I'm saying.
The minds made-up. Yeah, man, I mean, how many
Times Now you're single, right, Jared?
Yeah, yeah. All right.
By the way, a a a good single scene or.
I mean, I'm fresh in New York, so we're figuring it out.
Figuring out while I'm here. Figuring it out with some when I
hear when I hear you say figuring it out, it seems like
you're still in the stage of trying to get it going.
Is that a fair assessment? Yeah, I'd say, I'd say I've had
a break from my time in college to now my time in New York and
now here, you know, trying to get it back going again.
OK, understood. I could not imagine dating now.
You couldn't pay me to be on the dating scene.
My God Almighty, I just couldn't do it with with the
expectations, not all of them of of some of these of some of
these young women, the nonsensical the text and the
ghost and the games and the get the hell.
How about you go up to somebody, you introduce yourself.
Hey, I buy you a drink and you start a conversation.
What's? Crazy is that's kind of how it's
turning again, like with people my age is like it seems like a
lot of people are kind of moving away from the apps and now
you're just kind of going up to someone in the bar.
Hey, can I get you a drink? You look good.
That's it. That's.
It goes really well, you get her a second.
Drink exactly like it. You know, I feel like there's
been kind of this pivot almost, you know, where where it's just
like people are kind of like I'm done like this is so this is
just too uncomfortable, like like doing the phone thing
because what you say something like skeevy, just like you meet
someone on the phone. Hey, let me come over like.
You seem like a you seem like a freak.
So it's like, I feel like in person you kind of now you're
getting, I mean, especially in New York too, you kind of get in
that interaction and you're actually able to kind of feel it
out. So I feel like people or kind of
pivot in a little. That makes me feel happy for the
next generation that that's good.
See the one of the things that that your generation, certainly
those even older what they but younger than me, what they've
gotten away from and what they've been able they've been
able to operate. And actually this bothers me
because I had game. They were able to operate with
no game, no game like swipe, swipe, swipe, match.
Let's meet. We the hookup.
We don't, we have dinner, we don't, we have drinks, we don't
you come back, you don't. I swipe on to the next right?
There's no game required there. The game is having the
confidence as a man to walk up to somebody and really be
vulnerable, right? And now hopefully maybe you see
her looking at you from across the bar.
So the ice is a little broken. Maybe somebody knows her.
And now you're, you know, I'm not saying there aren't easier
ways to get involved. You know, there's a little
shortcut here and there, but well, you don't need any game
now. You need none.
But if it's going back to the way it used to be, that's good.
That makes me. Happy, got to get, got to
practice some game now because that's the thing.
I guess it's like maybe people my age, we were kind of we're
like out of practice for so long, but now that it's kind of
coming back, reverting the other way.
Yeah, got to get those reps in. Dude, I, I hear, I appreciate
it. Thanks for thanks for chopping
in there, dude, and good luck with the scene.
We're going to have daily Jared, Jared dating updates, by the
way. By the way, we're going to get a
little something going on here and we got to get a name.
You know what? We got to get a nickname for
Jared. We got my son, said J Rod J.
Rod. That's literally been my
nickname my entire life. Oh, that is J Rod so.
I mean, my dad, my dad's been calling me that probably since
birth. J Rod Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a good. Nickname.
And it's funny because he's a Boston guy too, so it wasn't
even like an A rod kind of thing.
It was just like. All right.
Well, there it is. That's settled.
J Rod. Yeah, I can't imagine.
I, I don't know, man. I'm not going to belabor this,
but I feel sorry for those who just don't have the ability to
have a conversation. I understand that it's really,
you put yourself out there. That's why I use the word
vulnerable before. But I mean, if you like
somebody, just just be nice. Just be normal.
Don't be a freak, don't be a weirdo.
Don't be over the top. You know, don't, don't, don't be
desperate, which I think many people come across as.
Don't keep fire in the text. You know, if she doesn't
respond, let her breathe. Or if she he doesn't respond,
let him breathe. Whatever it is, let him breathe.
Don't be up their ass. But like this, some of the stuff
that I've heard from, you know, some of my friends who are still
single now, like, and there are actually a few of them like
it's, it's almost it's it's kind of don't get me wrong.
I mean, it's actually really easy in certain regard, which,
you know, has its appeal, I guess.
But at this age, man, Oh God, you couldn't you couldn't pay me
to walk into a bar being single. No thanks.
I'm not saying I wouldn't do OK, but I just have no interest.
Oh, man, Oh, man. What do you do?
Who do you learn? What do you and any other
problem is this too, right? This is a big problem.
So I I didn't date a ton. Like I had it.
I had I had fun. Let me leave that at dinner,
right, But I had a steady girlfriend in college and not
like moving around during my radio is is when I was kind of
bouncing around a little bit, whatever, not not connected to
anybody seriously. But then when I moved, when I
came back to work at 10:50, I had a serious girlfriend for a
couple years, right? And and it was pretty much on.
It wasn't like on off on off on. It was pretty much on for about
two. And that's the one I went to
Ohio State with the to watch the game, Right?
But when we started going on dates like sushi, get a little
sushi, get a little sake, go to the movies, go, go get a glass
of wine and a wine bar, all those things in Manhattan.
You know how many times we've talked about politics?
Not once 0 Can you imagine? All right, so look, you're
swiping. Oh, wow, she's hot.
Oh, wow, she looks good. Oh, wow, she's a match.
And then you sit down and she is it's a it's a hit piece on
whatever you fundamentally believe in.
Can you imagine beats. And then you gotta get stuck
with the check. Goodbye.
Hey, peel off a couple of C notes.
Whatever it is. Cart goodbye.
I'm out. OK, what you look like I'm not
sitting here being subjected to this goodbye.
Good riddance. Have a good life.
But you just get bombarded with this stuff because it's such a
say. I get it as a lot of emotional
volatility and there are real things, both sides that are
problems. I get it.
I'm not saying like, you know, if like if I, if I was single
now, what would it come up to shore to an extent.
I, I wouldn't like Republican or Democrat, Yeesh, what's the
problem? Everybody's focused on stuff
that like, they're less concerned about the person
sitting in front of them and they're more concerned with
shoving their views down your throat, which means you can't
even really figure out about the person.
Even if they disagree slightly with what you subscribe to, you
probably won't let that let the good things resonate and
register because you already hate them because they they
disagree with you a little bit. Man, oh man.
And I never heard about politics growing up.
Never, ever, ever it's. Interesting.
No, I mean everything you're saying is just very interesting
with like just correlating to like people my age, I'd say.
Am I right or wrong? I mean, you're 100% right.
I feel like, I don't know, because and that's The thing is
like, I'm not like an overtly political guy either, I'd say,
but it has. A lot of in person interaction
with people our age has kind of turned into like, I describe it
as like an arm wrestling match in where you, like, try to like
jostle with the person and like, who takes the moral high ground
out of the two of us rather than like, Oh no, what actually makes
you, I don't know who you are as a person.
What kind of builds that up? I agree.
It's funny because I mentioned my I had a pretty steady
girlfriend in college and her parents, she lived on Long
Island. So I spent a lot of my a lot of
my summers out there was playing baseball out there, summer ball.
I would just stay there a lot. It was easier, was great.
Plus her house was bigger than mine and my dad was always up my
behind, always watching what I was doing.
I'm like, I'm getting out of here.
I'll stay there for the weekend. Anyway, they were largely a
Republican family, right? But they had a picture of, of
President Kennedy in the house. Like there was, there was a
reverential disposition to the presidency.
It really was, you know, and like, I know what my parents
gravitate towards now, but I didn't know then.
Like we didn't talk about that at the dinner table like in.
So for me, the, the 1st president, that where I
basically when I, when I was born, it was the end of the
Jimmy Carter term and the beginning of the Ronald Reagan
term. All right, so 1980 Reagan comes
in and it was like, I don't remember once hearing my parents
praise Carter or denigrate him or now the economy eventually
got going with Reagan. So I'm sure that they were happy
about that. But like they weren't pumping
out like pro Reagan propaganda. Like no, you just, it didn't
matter who the president was. You just respected the office
and that we're so far away from that is a real issue for our
world. I'm going to stop.
I'm not going to get too preachy.
A little sideswipe here. I definitely, I'm not here to
get preachy. I, I am.
I am. I like to think I'm open minded.
I'd like to think I'm fairly well rooted in sensibility.
I like to think that I am. I am fair to what I think is is
right for good people. You know, it doesn't mean I
don't go one way or the other with certain things.
Of course I do. We all do.
But you know, the the office was just, it was, it was revered.
Now it's like reviled, no matter who was in it, our current
president or, or the previous president.
So that is something that that I'm trying to change in my house
and that that hopefully, you know, as the dating scene
changes, you tell me there's a little bit of a recalibration
here, which gives us hope for the future.
Well, maybe there's a real an awakening within the way we we
view the office. We can only be so potentially so
lucky. You know what I mean?
All right, So what do we got? I'm about what time do we have
about to wrap it up And by the way, Johnny Seth Hall tonight.
So St. John's is on an absolute roll.
Don't mess around. I think too many to be fair, I
think too many St. John's fans are saying, ah, St.
John's, we're going to wax this team seat.
Hall is very tough now Seton Hall is coming off a very bad
loss at home to a team that they should beat in Butler was ugly.
And I, I, I do think Seton Hall is, was a little over not
overrated, but a little heightened.
Like when they made the top 25, I was like curious how long they
going to stay there and then and then they got bounced.
But I, it's going to be a street fight.
Like if St. John's fans think they're going
to roll into the garden tonight and it's going to be 9172 or
9168, I don't really see that happening.
I mean, they got some guards that can that could be a
problem. They've got a defense that could
be a front court couple of guys up there that could be an issue.
They've got a really good gritty coach in Shaheen Holloway who
I've got respect for. I know, I know Rick Pitino does
as well. So no matter what's happened the
last year or so, pardon me, I get the cleaning.
They've been banging the, the, the, the vacuum cleaner.
I can't even hear myself think, come on every every other
Tuesday I got to deal with this. Moving rugs, moving furniture,
try to work here. Oh God, man, the the run that
St. John's has been on has been
really uplifting and has really solidified them as a clear NCAA
team and a team would upside again.
And I wasn't sure what their ceiling was and I'm still not
fully there, but there's a lot of evidence they're starting to
get to that point where all right, things are moving in the
right direction. Whether it's Zubi playing like
Zubi again, whether it's like Sellers, you know, up top or Ian
Jackson now figuring things out or Dylan, Dylan Mitchell being
in the starting lineup and, and Rick going with that bigger
lineup. There's a lot of reasons that
St. John's has played much better.
But you can't undo. I don't care if you win by three
points, you have to smash Seton Hall, win the game.
This is a big game 'cause if you were to lose tonight, I don't
think they will. I'm just trying to warn
everybody. It's going to be a rock fight.
It's going to be a street fight. It always is with Seton Hall and
you know, when you win 3 quad one Rd. games in a row, which
they have, quad one Rd. wins and then he beat Marquette by 20
something. If you were to lose tonight, it
doesn't take all the steam out of it, but all the gains you've
made analytically, metrically for, you know, net ranking.
Ken Palm. You know, I thought they should
have been ranked this week, but whatever, maybe it's actually
good that they weren't. I'm almost starting to think
that this group and every group is different.
But you know, they came in preseason #531 wins last year,
you know, regular season champs in the conference, Big East
tournament season, regular tournament champs, you know, two
seed. I know they got knocked out
early, but whatever. And then you get you crush the
transfer portal, Saint John's highest grade portal, you got
Pitino. Like there was a lot of energy
and rightfully so, and optimism and rightfully so.
But a lot of the players that came in hadn't done a damn thing
with this team. So I never really thought that
that top five rating was justified.
It was not emblematic of who they were.
It was more emblematic of maybe what they could be.
And I think we're starting to get a better glimpse of what
they actually could be. So I, I, I think that that's
interesting. I, I, I hope that they play well
tonight. And if they do it, if they keep
this thing rocking St. John's, you know, I, I was
looking at some of these like, I, I think it's called bracket
matrix where they like kind of put all the numbers in there and
to get a sense of where they are with all the people who grayed
out the, the field of 68 right now.
St. John's is thought to be a six
seed at ascending. So they were in the 8-9 matchup
before they got hot on the road with the quad one wins.
They've got back up in that 6th territory.
I think there's a chance, you know, not after tonight, but you
keep handling business. And if you split with UConn, I
think there's a chance St. John's is, you know, going to be
knocking on 2526 wins with some really good numbers and a chance
to be maybe be, you know, a four seed or something like that,
maybe even a lower three seed. So there's still some room to
grow at subdivisions. What Justin looks like a young
Dottie baseball. Does he?
Justin looks like a young Don. Justin.
Jared, did you say Justin? Wait, what am I saying to Jared?
Pop back up here, dude. A young a young Mattingly.
You ever get that? I don't get no all I get someone
said in the comments. I get Dustin from Stranger
Things. I could I get the I get the
occasional Timberlake and then I can see that a little bit of
like a very. Loose.
Like Ryan Philippe, I don't know if he's in like a 90s act.
Well, then you. Should be crushing it on the
date and seeing the most about. Figure that out man.
You should have figured New York out by now.
Just Timberlake. Ryan Philippe.
What the Hell's the problem bro? I don't know, man.
That's your problem, Donnie Mattingly, whoever that is.
As my what the? Old school, old school player.
Did you just say whoever that is?
I'm about to get taught. I'm about to get taught all
right. You got to get off the camera
right now. Then we got to get the penalty
box, get in the penalty box. I'm going to let that one go.
He's young, he's good, I like him.
If I don't let that last statement go, I'm going to have
to go and search for a new producer and it's too arduous of
a process. I don't have the time, I don't
have the bandwidth, I don't have the desire.
So we're going to strike that one from the record.
Wow. That was I, I actually, I
actually would prefer if Jared opened up and he said, dude,
your your YouTube show sucks. I don't know why I signed on to
be your producer. You've got no hope.
You don't have a modicum of talent.
You're a loser. I would almost prefer that than
hearing who's Don Mattingly, whoever the hell that is.
Look, I mean, look, look at me. All right, Jared, come back
tomorrow in a better state of mind, my friend.
Please, Please, please, please. What is this here?
James Hayes, IP-4 DV. Nobody talks Knicks better than
BTI. Love talking Knicks, man.
I love talking basketball. Appreciate that very much.
I thank you. I I think really, and I've heard
this from a lot of people when I, when I first got hired by
10:50. So that was 2003 and they were,
they were wretched. That was obviously, I mean, I'm
going through her Williams, I mean, Cheney was there fired,
obviously sent in a taxi. I mean, God, wow.
Obviously just a litany of horrendous players and season
after season that was lost there a lot of people that first heard
me and that was the first time they heard me because I was
young and I start I was starting at 10:50 and and I think it was
April of O3. The first draft may have been
Mike Sweeney from Georgetown. I think that was the first draft
I covered and I talked a lot about Knicks, the Knicks.
I remember some of my bosses at the station saying I don't know,
made you sure you want to talk so much, so, so much about the
Knicks. Yep, I want to talk about the
Knicks. One of my passions.
I'm talking about the Knicks. I never changed, you know, I
never changed and we were the home of the Knicks.
But the thought was, I mean, they're not really that good.
They're not really that interesting.
Maybe you talk about some other stuff.
Now I'm going to talk about what I want to talk about and I want
to talk about the Knicks. So so I did, I talked a lot
about the Knicks and then obviously I was around the
Knicks. So I think that that brought
some credibility. I'm going to say that Isaiah
Thomas story someday in AI was working out in a hotel in
Toronto when I was on a road trip with them.
And I'm going to tell you about the interaction.
I liked Isaiah that I had with Isaiah.
It came up to me about Stephane Marbury.
It's not like some take job diss of Stephane Marbury, but it was
just very, very, very revealing, very revealing.
What is this here at Armandi amazing or Armand is amazing.
See, that's where it's a little tricky NO-NO delineation there.
I could bear I I see it. I'm look, Armand is amazing.
That's one way to read it. But also, Armandi's amazing.
So BT make a list of former ball players before Jared was born
and see if he knows them. If not, he has to do research on
them. That is a fun game.
Hey, Jared, make a notation of that, OK?
Don't. Don't pop back up on the screen.
You're banned from the rest of the show.
Don't worry, the band will be alleviated tomorrow.
You're going to come back, I promise.
But make a little notation there.
Jot that down as my producer. We'll play a little game and I
think the name of the game is going to be, should Jared be
allowed to stick around? That's the name of the game.
And like, we'll come up with maybe 10.
Now, I'm not going to ask him all where'd he go to college?
I mean, that's that stuff that I was a geek with.
I don't expect everybody to know all that stuff or stats or
whatever, but there's going to be a consequence where like if
he doesn't get at least six or seven of 10, whatever I
designate as the passing grade, there's going to have to be a
little bit of a of a consequence there.
So I like that. All right, what else we got
here? Anything else?
Let me see if anything else jumps up.
It did throw me for a loop there.
I can't believe about Mattingly. My God almighty.
Got the Knicks stuff there. Got a little something on
Mattingly. Yep.
Let's see. All right, what does this say at
Michael Macias 925 on the marking, old man BT still trying
to school us on the marking game.
Hey, I am what I am. I'm pretty happy what I am.
I'm not young. I don't think I'm old.
Maybe to some of you, you think that I'm old.
That's fine. That's good.
I can promise you, old man BT did all right for himself.
Most importantly in the marriage department, which is what really
matters. But BT had game.
Unless they get it twisted, man Stephen A always says he had
game. I had game.
Anything else here? Yeah, Yeah.
Not letting. That's true.
I like this Amy leaving in 1529, not letting belly ruin my
Harbaugh High today. That's right.
That is absolutely true. I want to react to the press
conference tomorrow. Obviously, it's tough to react
to, you know, said anything. We reacted to the hiring.
It's it's just such a good feeling.
Like you see John Harbaugh walking through the building
yesterday and it's like it's just an extra level of
reassurance. All right.
We we're good. We're.
That doesn't mean, as I've chronicled many times, that he's
an A+ coach. Like it's not Pat Riley walking
through those holes. It's just it's just not.
But it's right below it. And it's going to be
accountability. It's going to be
professionalism. There's going to be engagement.
The messaging is going to be on point.
And they're going to be better immediately because he's a
really good coach. You want to you want to quibble
over as to how good? I don't even know that today's
the day to do that. I think the Giants did a really
smart thing, you know, And the other thing too is I, I will say
this, like I saw yesterday when McDermott was fired by the
Bills, that's the right move. You know, even though we won a
ton of games, I think it was 50 games over 500 with Buffalo, my
goodness. And they fired him.
But there's got to be a point where if you're not getting past
that, humble, I understand it. I think if you took him, if you
brought him back, I think most Bills fans would have been
bothered by that. I would have been OK with it
because I think he's a really good coach.
But I get it, right? But there were some of you who
are saying, oh, man, if John Horbaugh, he probably laments
taking that giant's job because now that the Bills job is open,
as much as Dart is really appealing and attractive, Jeez,
don't you think that you'd rather work with Josh Allen?
All right, first of all, don't you think that John Horbaugh
smart enough to know that there was a distinct possibility that
Sean McDermott was going to get fired?
Do you not think that that was the case?
Like, do you think that John Horbaugh, honestly, in all of
the thorough research that he's done with the several teams that
he did it with, was blindsided? Holy shit, they fired McDermott?
What? Wow.
No, because we've been talking about it for two years, that
he's in the coaches circle. There's no way he was surprised
by that. And to me, even if he can hit a
button and very quietly undo his commitment to the Giants and the
Bills came with the money and with the power and with Josh
Allen and their whole situation being what it is, I still
believe that John Horbaugh would be the coach of the Giants.
Because I think that there's a level of reverence that John
Horbaugh has for that franchise that he does not have for the
Bills. He respects the Bills, no
question. How could you not?
They win. They're a functional type group.
They've got a new stadium coming.
Ownership seems to do the right thing.
You can respect a run of a franchise.
But John Harbaugh is 62. Think about the age John
Harbaugh was when Lawrence Taylor was winning 2
championships and he was coaching when Eli was winning
his two and all the names going just the the roots of the Giants
organization like the Steelers and like a few others.
I think that that had incredible appeal.
Now if Jackson Dart was not there and let's say they still
had, I don't know, Tyron Taylor or Danny or Danny DeVito, Tommy
DeVito or it was just unknown, you know, and they didn't have
the 1st overall pick to draft Mendoza this year.
Do I think that he's running to take the job?
Maybe there will be a little bit of a different speed in his gate
to get there, but I think that that situation, it's kind of
perfect. Storm as well, kind of when the
Ravens were done with him, but probably on some level felt it
was time to move on. Getting a little stale out there
after almost 20 years, which happens.
I don't care what you do or where you're at, how successful
you are, things get stale. You want a new change, you want
a new voice, you want a new dynamic, right?
So I think that that was appealing to him.
And even without Dart, I think the Giants would have been the
destination. May be complicated a bit more
without Dart, maybe gives a little more credence to that
Bill's job. But Dart was there and he knew
that when he was interviewing and he was going through his
process. And he also knew, like we all
knew, that there was a high chance, a very high percentage
that McDermott would be fired if and when the Bills got bounced
this postseason, which they did. Not surprised.
Always wanted to coach the Giants.
So Giant fans, enjoy this day. It's going to be awesome.
He's going to crush it. He's going to say the sound
bites going to be rolling all over social media.
It's a big day. It's a step in the right
direction. I'm going to react to that more
tomorrow. But that's him to wrap it up.
Like subscribe and Jared's got a little homework to do here.
We got to figure this out. He's got a couple of tests to
pass before we, I guess, make that long term commitment to my
producer. Very disappointing, very
revealing, very disappointing. But we're going to have to work
through that and I'm going to have to be able to reconcile
that that inability to not only know Don Mattingly like, but to
to place him on the proper tier of respect.
This is something I'm going to carry around like a like a wait
all day. But that's a me thing.
That's not a you thing. We'll resolve that.
We'll get him back. He'll be ready to go tomorrow.
You guys will be ready to go tomorrow.
Good luck to the Johnnies tonight.
Looking forward to a good game, looking forward to reacting to
horrible tomorrow. Obviously the Bellinger watch, a
lot of people think that it's resolved today.
If it's the Yankees five years and he takes it, great, I'm
happy. I'm not going to change my tune
tomorrow. I'm not going to come on
Bellinger. 6 years, seven years Mets, six years, seven years,
eight years. Toronto though.
Oh, what are the Yankees doing? This is my opinion before
anything happens. If he does not want to be a
Yankee and he does not want to be here for five years, then
somebody else goes more and he bounces.
See ya. Good riddance.
I'm fine with it. And if it's the Mets, I'll talk
about the Mets and and what it means to them and then I'll talk
about what the next move should be and has to be for the
Yankees. But you will not see me just
putting on some theatrical show to yell and curse and scream
just to get some clicks here. My position is he's good.
My position is I like him back. My other position is I don't
need him back and my other real position is he's not great,
which is really why I don't need him back.
He's good and there's a difference.
So enjoy the rest of your day tomorrow.
A little recap on the Johnny's as well.
The horrible stuff, the baseball stuff, like it, subscribe it,
get the word out there, get in there with the comments.
The more you guys and by the way, I respond to a lot of the
comments. I know you guys see that.
So it's a very interactive site. I appreciate you guys hanging
with me today. I appreciate, appreciate you
guys. You know what?
Yeah. How's that, won't you?
How's how's that look there, Jared are already.
Can you see that? Why don't you get a picture of
that? All right, That's the guy that
is Mattingly right there. All right, So enjoy what remains
of your day, and I will catch you guys tomorrow at 10 right
here on BT Unleashed. Peace out, guys.
I'll see you.