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What a wild night last night. Knicks have, Knicks have.
Knicks have a lot of problems here, guys.
Knicks have a lot of issues. Things we worried about all year
outside of maybe some of you delusional Knick fans who told
me all year you're being too hard on the Knicks.
Knicks already. Knicks very well might lose this
series. I mean, if the Knicks lose in
the first round to the Hawks, who are running circles around
them, whether it's Quinn Snyder against Mike Brown, whether it's
their interior players doing what they want, you know,
whether it's McCollum doing what he wants at the end of games.
Last night was an absolute, unmitigated disaster for the
Knicks here because, guys, think about this like, all right,
yeah, I don't, I don't need a sweep here, right?
Pistons lost the first game to the Magic.
Celtics lost the game to the Sixers, so I don't need a sweep.
But when you lose a game in the playoffs, right?
I'm I'm kind of interested to see what you do the next game.
Like early in the game, what did you learn?
You know, what are the adjustments here?
What do the Knicks do? What do they adjust to?
What do they let they learn? Nothing.
They adjusted to nothing. Knicks for losing by almost 20
in the first half. Really just an awful game at
another painful reminder that everything that we, at least
most of us rooted in the reality of what these Knicks truly have
been all year because they've showed us these inconsistent
signs all year. You know, So those of us who
have been worried about this stuff last night, just another
painful reminder that, you know, even if they do find a way to
scrape this together and get by the Hawks in round one mixer win
it a dance thing. Obviously the NFL draft will get
to that. Yankees pitching has been
phenomenal. All right, two in a row for the
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McHale Bridges is a dog. I mean, there's just all the way
to put this. He's just, he's just weak, man.
He's just like, I can't watch this guy play much anymore.
You look at the last couple of quarters of basketball from
Mikhail Bridges, he's literally been a complete 0.
No points last night, no points. You know, he had a plus minus of
-26 not in 38 minutes or 40 -, 21 pardon me -26 in 21 minutes.
Josh Hart was not good. We love Josh, but it wasn't
good. Mr. Key 3 as well, one for 9.
Knicks were really sloppy with the ball.
Inability to get a look at the final possession there and they
just and didn't get stops when they needed it.
And like what, where is this thing going?
Like, I really, I want somebody to tell me whether it's a call,
whether it's a chat and, and you better bring a very compelling
case because I I just don't see any evidence that that the
Knicks are going to suddenly, you know, fix and tweak.
And I'm not saying they won't win another game.
I'm not saying that at all. And I'm not even saying that
they won't win the first round. I'm definitely nervous.
Like, you know, if you were a Knick fan waking up today
saying, well, all right, they're down.
Had a couple of games, but you know, they'll come back, they'll
win Saturday, you know, handle business at the Garden and
you're just rolling on this confidence, which to me is not
really rooted in the reality of what they are as a basketball
team. You are going to be sorely
disappointed very soon because to me, like the one thing I've
always said about this team, right?
And we know what they do well and and we know what they don't
do well. But my greatest concern about
the Knicks was and if this is all under the the the scope of
of winning a championship, that's it.
That's the evaluation when you make the moves that they made
when you've been together as long as they've now been
together as a core. Brunts has been here a couple of
years. It's not year one for Cat.
It's not year one for Bridges. Hart's been here for a couple of
years. Mitch has been part of the
Knicks organization for a while. I know they brought in some
bench pieces, but you know, a lot of these teams kind of, you
know, even championship teams kind of, you know, flip a few
spots in the offseason, bringing the shooter, you know, bringing
it back up big, bringing the three and D guy.
Like the the lack of continuity for the Knicks is incredibly
alarming. And and like the lack of of
cohesion with one another at this point is just utterly
unacceptable and no other way to put it.
I mean, you look at their final possessions, nobody knows what
the hell to do. The other night they got Mike
Brown yelling, Hey, Cat come set the screen.
Cats in the corner and Cat played well.
I got no problem with cat really, except that they should
have gotten more shots. But the other night cats pinched
in the corner and you see Brown, you know, imploring him.
Go set the screen. Go set the screen.
Like, shouldn't we know went to set the screen at this point and
then that final possession, again, he goes to set a screen.
The screens not there, they don't get a shot.
They turn it over, 15 turnovers. It's just he's not going to get
it done. And we listen.
We can talk about the nuances of the game.
We could certainly do that. But to me, it just remains big
picture about these New York Knicks.
And there's just like the the on court connectivity is simply not
where it needs to be to win a championship.
I mean, let alone, you know, breeze past the first round,
rest up and get ready for what's going to be a tough round.
Like you, you know, we always talk about the 90s next, right,
90s next pad Oak, Ewing, Mason, rightly, all the Starks, of
course, right. And the one thing about those
teams, even though they fell short obviously in 94 and of
course later on in 99, which was which was a different team spree
and Alan Houston. And that's what Larry Johnson,
right? But those Knick teams, they
handle business in the first round.
You know, you go back to like the early, early 90s and then
obviously into 94, you know, they would sweep the cabs or
they would sweep the Nets or they would smack the Hornets or
like they would just handle business.
Like, that was a team that even though they fell short because
they just didn't have the horses, nobody was, you know,
nobody was good enough really to just play second fiddle as the
second star to Patrick Ewing. That's why Pat never won.
Not that Pat was perfect, but Pat never had that second star
like some of the other champions across the NBA universe.
But those teams were ready to go.
They didn't mess around. They didn't lose games that they
weren't supposed to lose. And here we are.
Even going back to last year, like that Piston series was
unnecessarily arduous. Like it should not have been
that tough, even though the Pistons are a good team and they
were tough match up for the Knicks.
Like how can we take you seriously when you stumble and
you have to scratch and claw early?
That was last year. This year feels even worse
because it's clear. It's clear that you know Mike
Brown, just he just doesn't know what he's doing at this level.
These substitution patterns are atrocious.
You know what? The Knicks or or like the the
the he's still trying to figure this out.
Dude, you've had the same team. The Knicks didn't make a big mid
season move. They didn't bring in some star
who is, you know, ball dominant and all of a sudden it's a
massive curveball in the middle of the season.
And like Brunson's like, oh man, I'm used to having the rock.
I got to figure this out. I've got to find a way to be
compatible with this guy. You know, it's like it brought
in James Harden, you know, or, or Kevin Durant, who's obviously
one of the best of all time. Durant and and needs 202223
shots a night. It's the same team that you had
in training camp, but yet it's the same problems that you've
had all year long. So the thing that I've said and
I it pains me to really say, and, and I won't say it with
that, that, that final ounce of finality because they didn't
lose the series yet. And I still do think that they
scrape it together and they piece it together and they win
this series. I think I don't know if I bet on
it at this point. You know, initially think about
this guys, I said Nixon 5 early last week.
And then I'm like that, you know what?
And then they're they're a tough defensive team.
I didn't think the Hawks will be able to score and really execute
late the way they have been. So that surprised me.
But I knew they were a good rebounding team.
I know they had length. I know they were good, you know,
a good defensive team and I know that they're well coached with
Quinn Snyder, who's very good in Utah as well.
So I didn't think it would be easy.
And I actually amended that. I said that Nixon six.
Well, now, now they got to win a bunch straight just to have that
happen. I mean, if there's like if Jalen
Brunson has one bad, like a horrendous game the rest of the
way or cat, you know, slides back into invisible mode, or I
mean, if OG Ananova didn't play the way he played last night,
Knicks lose by 20. Like the Knicks get absolutely
obliterated last night. Utterly unacceptable, absolutely
terrifying. And guys, think about this,
right? This has been my main fear, my
main criticism of the Knicks to win a championship.
And and I know I'm repeating myself here, but it's it's worth
repeating. To win a championship, you can't
have lols, you can't have peaks and valley.
I'm not saying you can't lose a game, but you can't still be
looking for your identity in late April.
What is the Knicks identity? Somebody want to tell me like,
what is it? You know, they're they're a good
offensive team, but they're still not not fully connected.
They're a good defensive team. And the number spit that back at
you, you know, but when you got to get stops like last night
when you got a box out and stop some action at the rim, which
they couldn't do it all, they didn't do it.
You know, a team that's going to win a championship needs to have
a coach that has a clue how to use his players, like the
allocation of roles To me, that there's that Mike Brown is still
trying to figure this thing out. It's laughable.
It gives you no confidence. And to win that championship,
you've got to have two months. I've said this all year, two
months of a buttoned up, consistent, high level
performance. But yet here we are every other
game, you know, evaluating different problems like bridges
seems to be a consistent theme. But like one night you know,
Brunson's playing hero bowl one night outside of 1/4 cats
invisible one night Josh Hart. Josh Hart can't hit the broad
side of a barn. One night O GS phenomenal.
Then he takes a big step back. One night the Knicks bench is
really good. Then it's kind of invisible.
One night, you know, deuce is taking a million shots and then
the next night he's taking none. Like what is this?
I don't, I don't know what this is, but but, but I do know that
it's nowhere near championship worthy.
So we'll play the game, we'll play the dance, we'll watch the
Knicks, we'll react to the Knicks every single night until
there's nothing else to react to really from a basketball point
of view this year. And then what we'll do is
whether it's in a week or whether it's in a month, but
it's going to be short of a championship and it's going to
be short of getting to the NBA Finals.
What we will then have to unpack is who's coaching the Knicks and
where are you trading Cat or I got to be honest with you, and I
almost don't even want to say this now.
I love the guy and he's terrific and he's already been a great
Nick. And if he stays here a couple of
more years, which he probably will, his Jersey's going to hang
from the Garden. We all love Jalen Brunson, but
I, I don't know about you guys, but I'm like, I'm starting to
get to the point now where it's becoming a little bit more and
more apparent that you're not going to win a championship if
Jalen Brunson's your best player.
You know, the deficiencies are just too problematic and the,
the penchant for just shooting and pounding the ball and
monopolizing the ball, it's just not congruent with a team that
is going to go far and win a championship.
So that's where we are. Last night was a basketball
atrocity. You know, you lose, it's one
thing like I this would be much more understandable, really.
All right, so let's Knicks win the first game like they did
Knicks come back, they win the second game, which they didn't,
right. But if they're up to zip you
going to Atlanta, you get and the crowd was good last night.
It's funny, my son during the game said, man, these Hawks fans
are really good. They're really loud.
And I'm like, yeah, they're usually not like that, but
they're feeling this group, right?
And obviously the Knicks bring a lot of energy and all that stuff
and they really like this team. And by winning Game 2, obviously
they're a little bit more emboldened and and they're
feeling themselves, which is great.
It was really good homecourt advantage last night.
But I'm like now they're they're usually not like this in
Atlanta, whether it's the Braves or the Falcons or really
anything. I mean no disrespect to Atlanta,
but you know, the Atlanta Hawks fans are not exactly known to
be. You don't like Thunder fans or
even Knicks fans at the Garden or Celtic fans.
They don't have that reputation. They just don't.
But I was a little bit surprised at that.
But like, if the Knicks would have won the second game and
then you've got this desperate team, you're on the road and the
Hawks jump on you by 20 and then you you wake up, you call a time
out, guys, let's get this together.
What are we doing? And you know, you start to
figure things out even if you lose a close game, right?
It's a little bit more understandable.
But when you lose Game 2, like to me, this is emblematic of a
team that's going absolutely nowhere.
When you lose Game 2 and then you come out and you
sleepwalking in the first half when you're down by 18 points,
like how are we supposed to have conviction in you?
Why would we have conviction in you?
You're not showing us any visible, tangible evidence that
you've got that championship mindset, let alone the
championship roster. So if the rosters not good
enough and the the the effort or the the focus and the execution
is not good enough and the coach is not good enough, we're just
like we're spinning wheels, you know?
So again, we'll do the dance. The Knicks are going nowhere
this year. And I have told you that all
season. I've told you this guys, many of
you didn't want to believe it. And that's fine because you're
fans. I get it.
So am I. But the warning signs have been
here literally all season long. So not good, not good.
What was good was the draft, which I'll get to in a minute.
The draft was awesome. I mean, last night was a great
night. You know, Yankee pitching, still
phenomenal, Mets trying their best, giving up a granny.
I mean, there was about a minute sequence where it's like boom,
boom, boom, trades, Grand Slam. This, that last night was a fun
sports night, but you got to leave with the Knicks.
It's the playoffs and the Knicks are like a little eight seed
that are. This is not even though they
weren't an 8 seed back in 2020. This is not the 2020 Knicks
where TomTom Thibodeau comes here and, you know, they pieced
together a roster and it's COVID and everybody's kind of all over
the map emotionally. And because you have Tom
Thibodeau, who is buttoned up and locked in and is going to
force you to play defense. Otherwise you're not playing.
Your ass is on the bench. Like the Knicks took advantage
of that because the NBA was very, it was a very odd NBA
season. It was very odd world really
with COVID. And the Knicks, to their credit,
took advantage of it. But we knew that team was going
nowhere. But it was still fun because
they overachieved that the Knicks we're back a little bit.
And like for the young Nick fans that never got to experience
what New York City is like, what the Garden sounds like once they
let the fans back in with some of the COVID regulations or
restrictions when they were lifted, you're like, oh, the
younger Nick fans like, oh, this is what I heard my dad talk
about. Oh, this is what my my Big
Brother saw. This what my uncle saw.
Yeah, this is what we're kind of used to.
But you know, in in the playoffs with the Knicks, but
unfortunately with this team, we are also getting used to this
madding level of inconsistency. It is a problem and it's not
going to resolve itself. The next big thing that we will
talk about is how do you get Giannis?
And I'm not going to even do that now, but that's coming.
There will be a day, and it might be very soon on Unleashed
where we will talk about, all right, you know, who, who's
getting shipped out? Like who's gone?
What's Mike Brown going to do? Who's coaching?
Is it Billy Donovan? I'm like, I don't know what this
team is going to do. And I have had the thought and I
just said this before and I hate saying it, but I've got to be
true to what my eyes are telling me.
And I love the guy. He's one of my all time
favorites already. But you have to, on some level
at least begin to imagine. Imagine possibly what a world
for the Knicks would be like without Jaylen Brunson.
I'm sorry. So J Rod, just I know you got
your hands full with the Sixers here.
We'll see what I would imagine you guys have bounced back, but
you never know. Just that really an incredibly
alarming performance by a team that had championship
aspirations, expectations, payroll.
Every move they made is for now. And right now feels maybe not
broken, but certainly nowhere near good enough to win this
week. Winning nothing.
Yeah, no, I mean, absolutely. I mean, dude, my like my
roommate, he comes into the apartment this morning and man,
this guy just looked defeated. Dude it and it's tough, you know
it. It's painful because in my heart
of hearts, I want to still believe, and not that this
matters at all, but I want to still believe that the Knicks
will win this series. But other than that, yeah, I
think the road stops here. And like, this isn't even some
Celtics vias. It's just like they look awful.
I mean, Mikhail Bridges stinks. He is.
I am so sick of Mikhail Bridges. I just I don't want to watch,
honestly. I mean, I know that Mike Brown's
not going to do this, but now he's got to start looking at
guys at the back of that, the rotation who aren't even playing
right now. Like it might be MO Diora Diora
time. It might be he can shoot D Like
it's it's it's getting, you know, you're going to need some
more minutes for Alvarado. It's time to start doing some
stuff. I don't know what he's waiting
for. His rotations are atrocious.
No, I saw something. It was like maybe slide bridges
into that Iguodala roll, just hope maybe he can play some
defense off the bench. And like for him, that is just
absolutely wild to be like to to be compared to like a 37 year
old small forward who's like so out of their prime.
It was ridiculous. And like, that's who people view
you as now is just, it's embarrassing.
It really is. It's a it's embarrassing, but
even more specifically, it's a massive problem here.
All right, let's start getting some reaction here.
We'll get the calls go and hopefully everybody's having a
Good Friday. No rules Friday.
Not that there's ever rules we got.
No what what rules do we have? We we don't need rules.
We do whatever we want, you know, here on the show, which
today includes absolutely tearing apart the Knicks because
they deserve it. Charlie 60s Charlie F 6675.
Thank you, Charlie. Knicks had an opportunity, we
all thought, to make the Finals. Partially because of the
weaknesses of the Eastern Conference.
True, Tatum heard earlier all the different circumstances.
Obviously Halliburton with the Pacers, Knicks took a step back
with Brown, and that is the difference in 2026.
Well, you know, I'm, I'm, yeah. I mean, Mike Brown was not my
first choice. I we, we know that, right?
You know, I was willing to give him a chance because I thought
and then it was time for the Knicks to move on from Tom
Thibodeau. Now, if the Knicks lose in the
first round, you know, what I said is completely without
justification, it will have been a bad take and anybody and there
was a lot of us who thought it was time to move on from Tom
Thibodeau. Nobody was clamoring for Mike
Brown. If you remember, the Knicks
coaching search was all over the map.
Staley, the, you know, going Staley and talking to everybody.
Malone, I'm like, are we going to hire him?
Like what's going on here? You just heard a lot of
different names and they settled on by Brown and it was a very
convoluted, very confusing, you know, search.
And to me, like, if there's one thing when you're doing due
diligence like that's good, you're turning over every rock.
To me, it was not that. It's not like the Knicks were,
in my opinion, it's not like the Knicks were so buttoned up and
they buttoned up and they had this great plan where they had
five or six people and they really wanted to thoroughly
investigate on who's best for this group of players because we
know that this coach is going to have the expectations of the
championship. And I think it maybe it seemed
like that to some of you because they were talking to everybody.
Oh, wow, Knicks are really the Knicks are casting a wide net.
What a broad scope. What a phenomenal job by the
Knicks. No, I thought it was very you're
disjointed and you talk to everybody.
You know, you didn't call Pitino, you didn't call Danny
Hurley. You may as well call them
because you spoke to everybody else.
So, man, I don't know what to tell you here except that, you
know, unfortunately I fear that I'm going to be right and I
don't want to be right about this.
And again, I I still I I mean, I keep saying I still think that
they win the series, but the matchups are not looking very
favorable and think about the possibility.
And I'm not going to even go back to this.
Well, if they because they needed other things to happen.
Remember they laid down against the Hornets that last game and
we talked about that a little bit.
I didn't go nuts because to me, you know, you do what you do.
And if you are good enough to win a championship or get deep
and make a run of the championship, then the matchups
that you have and the personnel that you have, you shouldn't be
so hell bent on what we play better against the Raptors.
And you know, we don't know if we love this Hawks mat, whatever
it might be like just go out there, play ball and force the
other teams to respond to you. But there is no denying because
I told you this, because we we watched the season that once the
Hawks made the trade with Trey Young did what they did.
You know, they the Knicks had a a much tougher time with the
Hawks then they did the Raptors. Like they smacked the Raptors
like they would have swept the Raptors here.
But I think that because it was a smaller sample, I know they
played them at the end of the year, brunted at a big fourth
quarter down there. But in the regular season, like
these matchups are are are just they are they are problematic
for the Knicks here. Like you can look at it two
ways, all right. And I choose to look at it the
way that's rooted in reality. Like I don't get wrapped up.
Maybe I do a little bit before the season, but once things
start, all I care about was what I'm looking at, right?
And you know, I think if you're sitting there saying, wow, the
Knicks are the higher seed and maybe he didn't watch the Knicks
every night like many of us do, or he didn't really check in on
the Hawks at all. And the Hawks, there were six
seed. Come on, Knicks is supposed to
get to a championship or the Finals again in the Eastern
Conference. They'll find a way to win this
thing. If you're leaning on that logic
or that thought process, you are going to be sorely disappointed
because you're missing things that are happening in front of
your eyes. All you have to do is watch the
the players that the Hawks roll out, and it's not favorable
matchups for the New York Knicks.
And the NBA is all about matchups.
So that's where we are right now.
That's where we are. Oh my God.
All right, Jay, do you want to start hammering some calls here,
buddy? Yes, Sir.
Let's get on Benji from Upper East.
Side, obviously starting with the Knicks here.
We'll get to the draft stuff, obviously.
OK, let's do it. Thank you there, J Rod, Benji's
on the Upper East Side on a Friday.
Knicks look awful. Benji, what's going on, buddy?
How are you? BTI feel like I got run over by
a by a completely, you know, massive truck, but I'm trying to
pick myself up and understand that we are one win.
We're just win the game tomorrow and all the energy and the
series shifts back to us and our positivity and we can take this.
We don't need to look beyond last night's game.
Anything beyond this series is irrelevant.
All the other stuff, offseason, whatever.
We obviously played a terrible Game 3, but especially to start
the game. No excuse to come in and look so
disjointed. I'm I'm very surprised that
Brunson did not come with more energy early in the game.
He, he, he just. Reverted back to the ISO ball.
The cat thing, I I paid close attention to it.
He's been the best player for us in the series.
I agree. Well, and and and OG was great
too, but no, you're not wrong. I mean, cat was.
I got no problem with cat. He's 16 for 16 from the line.
He's still getting 12 shots a game.
The first time he actually got a normal post up the lead was with
like 8. Just over 8 minutes to go in the
third. Quarter.
The second that Muhammad Gay checks into the game, you should
pass the ball to him every single time.
The same way when I'm in a game, I'm a string beam, String beam,
like physique. Somebody sees a big.
The second I'm in, I'm in the game and there's a big man, he's
attacking me. That's the way it needs to be.
We have to make this adjustment for Game 4.
I I look, I'm not I'm. Trying to be level headed here.
The bridges thing is a major major.
Issue, he's just horrendous. He's been a complete colossal
disappointment. I don't care what he does next
game. He could drop 30.
It was still a bad move by Leon Rose.
Leon Rose absolutely whipped on that trade period.
He whipped. And just like you said, and just
like you said with Deoara, he needs serious consideration.
At least with Clarkson, he's coming out there playing
aggressively, getting offensive rebounds.
He's making things happen in the paint.
We know with Alvarado, he's limited offensively, but he's
getting up in somebody's face. He's putting.
Pressure on defense. We need to respond tomorrow and
I'm going to take it a step further here because I believe
we're going to get this win. Here's.
What's going to happen? We're going to win the game
tomorrow. It's going to be two 2 heading
back home. You send me Adm, you join me in
the seats for Game 52 Stella cans.
Let's get it rocking. Well, you still bring with that
invite. Yeah.
I, I, you know, I that's, that's a that's very generous.
That's awesome. And I'm not saying no.
I've got two kids and I've got basically something every night.
So it's, it's just a little tricky to do that, but I'm not
saying no. And I really appreciate that.
Benji, thank you for the call. I do have the DM we got you can
you can hit me up as well. Thanks for the call.
Yeah, I mean, that's a that's a fairly level headed take there.
I mean, you know, it it I, I don't know how any Knick fan
right now can be, can be and any anything that resembles anything
remotely close to being brazen. Like if you are, you just like,
wow, we're better because we're the higher seed or we're better
because we're from New York or because we're supposed to win.
Like, the eye test right now has got to be telling you, if you
know basketball, that these are problematic matchups the rest of
this series. So, you know, do I think the
Knicks come up, you know, win the next game?
I do. I I kind of I I do.
But you talk about adjustments, right?
And that hasn't that really been much of the theme this year,
like the adjustments? Think back to training camp,
right? When Carl Anthony Towns at the
press conference to start off training camp, he said, hey, you
know, and, and it was it was fairly innocuous, but I was
like, I don't know if I love that.
And I commented on that. Didn't go nuts.
But he's like, yeah, I don't know what my role is yet.
Still trying to figure that out. All right, it's October.
Well, now, now it's April and we're still trying to figure
this out because there should never be unless Jalen Brunson,
it just comes out and drops like 18 in the first quarter and just
has that look where he's going for 40 or 50.
Then he could take 2530 shots and and that's fine because he
has done that before and he's had a lot of monster games in
the post season with 40 plus and he's a big time clutch scorer.
All right, and he's earned that right.
He's earned that that that latitude to to figure it out
when it's not going well. And I certainly he checked when
he's going well. I mean, beyond any I mean,
everybody at the NBA level has the green light when you're hot
to just put up one more to see. All right, this is going to be
an all time night, but especially Jaylen Brunson.
But the shot disparity, there should not be this discrepancy
in terms of shots taken. I don't know why Can you get
Carl? It's funny, I'm now I'm banging
the drum for Cat because he's earned it.
And I have peeled back my criticisms of Karl Anthony Towns
for about the last month or so, maybe month and a half.
Go back, check the channel. I was banging all over him early
like I was, I was all over him, you know, and even last night it
late, you know, fourth quarter, there were a couple of time like
he did try to aggressively get to the rim, had the ball
stripped. You know, you see the feet from
the legs flailing, the arms flailing like a baby giraffe on
skates. Like it's just, it's never like
tight with Karl Anthony Towns now he was, he was going, he was
trying to get downhill, whether it was baseline.
There was another one where he was like foul line extended and
he went down the paint both times it was knocked away.
But at least the energy in the motor was high.
Like the focus was there. The the willingness to initiate
aggressive offense was there. And I've called on him to do
that for a while. So I give him credit there.
But even in those moments where you're like, all right, I'd like
to see a little bit more Polish. You know, you're not 65 trying
to go in there with some big boys, 270 LB man who's got an
immense amount of skill from the outside, but it still looks
sloppy. You know, I but that's Karl
Anthony Towns. This is not the day to bang on
him. It's not the day to bag on him.
He's doing his job. And really for the last month
and a half, I think he's done his job what's being asked of
him at an incredibly high level. I talk a lot about adaptability,
right? You know, one of the things I
always reference here because I think it probably illuminates
the best and I'll stick with basketball is, is Pat Riley.
You know, Pat Riley with the Lakers.
One one way, score 125 points, run you out of the gym fast,
break up the up the wazoo and then you got a little skyhook
when it's time to to ice the game.
Boom. That's how we won with the
Lakers. And then he comes here and he's
got the complete antithesis. You know, Patrick, who is, you
know, still was still a really good athlete at that point, but
certainly not Kareem, not that kind of player.
Magic Johnson here, no James Worthy here, no Michael Cooper
or Byron Scott here. So he looked at his personnel
and instead of trying to win 127, you know, to 113, he's
like, all right, I got to grind it out.
We got to maximize possessions and we got to beat the shit out
of you and we got to foul you and we've got to we've got to
instill fear in you and we've got to win 87799186.
All those games we watched, which were great, like the
Knicks would hit a jump shot. I'm like, oh, here we go.
I mean like this, you know, in the second quarter, Derek Harper
or Hubert Davis or Greg Anthony, like I'm trying to think of some
of the guards. Somebody hits like a a 17 foot
open jump shot. I'm like, all right, the offense
is clicking like that represented a big moment, you
know, because the Knicks were so, you know, their style.
And then from there, so you had the Lakers version, the Knicks
version, and now you had when he went to the Miami, it was
definitely a lot like the Knicks.
But then it adapted and he further adapted as the NBA began
to change. And obviously Dwyane Wade and
LeBron helps that when he's the president.
But I see 0 adaptability with Mike Brown.
I see the same exact team. I mean, he wasn't, at least he
was adaptable to the bench playing more than Tom Thibodeau.
But you know, Modi Aura, who's looked pretty damn good to me.
I haven't seen him in the playoffs.
Why not? You know, not that I need to see
Tyler Kolek, but Tyler Kolek had some really good moments this
year and then he forgot about him.
I know that Alvarado's acquisition changed that.
I get that. But I want to see a little bit
more Alvarado as well. So I just see the same team
trying to play the same way and just a a frustration and an
inconsistency. There's the play by Cat again.
Yeah, he got an offensive rebound, baseline pump fake.
I'm watching the highlights again.
You know, OG stopped at the R.E.M. a got hit on the hand.
OG was great. But yeah, I mean, count.
I would have nothing negative to say about Cat if he would have
finished those two, those two drives that I that I was just
talking about. But really over the last month
and 1/2, he is at least embraced his role, you know, a little
more pick and roll with actually a lot more pick and roll with
Brunson hitting the window, you know, being more of a big man
facilitator and on and embracing and not complaining.
I mean, it's got to be killing him.
He's got to be sitting there saying, and you know, he should
say this to Mike Brown. I don't know if Mike Brown wants
to hear it. I don't know if Mike Brown would
change anything about it. But like, I'm at the point of
I'm Coral Anthony Towns. I'm knocking on his door.
I'm saying, yo, let's go get me the ball, get me the basketball,
get me the ball early. Let me eat early.
I, I, I can't just have 1/4 where I get fed.
I go off and then you guys forget about me again.
Like you got to change this. That's the only reason why I
bring up the Pat Riley adaptability.
So, you know, Mike Brown is just not doing it.
He's not doing it. He's not done a good job this
year. I know they won more games than
Tom Pibbido last year, but style it did last year.
But stylistically, you know, if you don't have an identity, how
are you going to win a championship, right?
And I'll get to the Yankees a little bit later.
It's not a big baseball day, but the Yankees started pitching has
been aces again. I mean, six straight starts,
phenomenal, right? And the Yankees sweep the Red
Sox. You got to love seeing that.
But like one of the reasons why I think the Yankees haven't won
a World Series, first of all, they're built incorrectly as we
know with Cashman. But I don't know what the
Yankees identity has been. It's been I judge go go hit 55
home runs and let us win 90 something games and make the
playoffs. And hopefully we mess around to
get lucky. And they have not they have not
won anything right. But if you go back to the Yankee
championship teams, obviously 969899 and then 2000 and then
2009, like there was a much more clearer identity.
Like you knew how they who they were high on base, a lot of
power, you know, obviously a lockdown bullpen, MO.
But even before MO identity was clear.
They caught the ball. They had a couple of guys who
can run. Nobody was banging 50 bombs, but
everybody was hitting at least 20.
You know, and they made you work.
I mean, you look at some of the OP s s I know it was the steroid
era and, and who knows who was doing what, but you look at some
of the OP s s for those Yankee teams, like everybody had, you
know, 838-4870 couple of guys in the nines.
You know, So I, I, I, I at least with this Yankee team, I believe
their identity is going to be clearly starting pitching,
especially when you get Gary Cold and Rodon back.
What is the Knicks identity? Let's hope Brunson scores 40 and
let's hope they don't ignore cat.
What? What is their identity?
How could you be a champion without an identity?
I don't know. You know when the Ravens won
those championships? Their identity, Phenomenal
defense, right? The Giants with Parcells, what
was their identity? Linebackers and a tough
quarterback who made the right play in Phil, and then hostetler
or more athletic quarterback who made plays.
Eli's championships, what was their identity?
Get to Tom Brady, make him uncomfortable, sack him, hit
him, push him around and then put the ball in the hands of Eli
by and let him make some clutch plays.
It worked. That was their identity.
Great coaching and I'll be you know, obviously Tiki never won,
but at least with Tiki the identity was Fitique, who was
one of the best players in the NFLI.
Don't know what the Knicks identity is.
So problem, big problem. Big time.
God, like, I want to get to the NFL draft, but I don't think I'm
done hearing out the Knicks. They really pissed me off last
night. That is just egregious.
That is pathetic to be down by 18 points early when you lose
the previous game. Like that should happen when
you're up 3 zip and you know nothing.
I don't think the Knick, this Knicks team is wired this way.
So I'm just saying this for effect.
But you're up 3 nothing. You're playing a team that you
know can never come back and win four straight.
So you go to a city, maybe you go out, especially if you're in
Atlanta, go to, you know, Magic City, whatever you're going to
do. But Knicks players don't do
that. I don't think, I don't think the
NBA players even really roll the way that they used to roll
because the cameras, right? But like, if you know the old
days, you're up threes and whatever would just take the
night off here. We'll go out, we'll have a fun
night. And then, you know, we'll suck
it up. We'll lose, we'll come back and
then we'll just smoke them and we'll put them out of their
misery by halftime. You lose Game 2, and it's a
complete opposite. No urgency, no focus, no
production, no defense, sloppy rotations.
Just a mess. Just a mess.
All right. How was the chat today, Jay?
It's popping dude. People got to be pissed, right?
Yeah, I mean, they're just going in.
Seems like there's just an air of of defeat.
An air of defeat in the air with the Knicks.
All right, let's get back to the polls.
Who we have there, Jay, we've got.
Brandon from Cleveland called. The Knicks.
All right, The great city of Cleveland.
There you go. Ohio in the house.
Brandon, what's happening, buddy?
How you doing? BT brother, you got me.
Yes, Sir, I got you. What up, man?
I just feel like we are seeing all of the issues that we kind
of whistled past the graveyard with the Knicks over the last
year, just collapsed in front of our face.
All the time out, 22nd time out on the floor.
All due respect, don't say we. I was not.
OK, Fair, fair, fair. Just to be clear here, man, I
got enough LS on the resume. You know what I'm going to tell
you. All right, go ahead.
Go ahead. It starts with the with the
coaching, it starts with the search.
We fired Tibbs. We had no real plan.
Yep. We just basically went out and
said, hey, who wants to be the coach of the Knicks?
We made it to the Eastern Conference finals, so who wants
to sign up? And we end with Brown and being
from Cleveland. He couldn't even win with the
second best player in NBA history.
I don't know if they had the roster to win a championship at
that point, but I, I, I got you. And by the way, he's a two time
coach of the year. He's not a scrub.
He's just not a championship coach, obviously.
It always starts out hot for him.
It just, we didn't even have the runway that he had in
Sacramento. You know, we kind of like, oh,
maybe this maybe this team is maybe this team is good when we
won the NBA Cup. Maybe Brown is the coach.
All he's given, he's given the bench a longer runway.
The starters are getting more time off their the minutes are
down. OK, well, it's the playoffs now.
These guys shouldn't be averaging 3435 minutes in the
playoffs. Now is the time that you play in
40 minutes. Yeah, now is when that.
Yeah, now that's you kind of you just run them into the ground
now. Yeah, I I yeah, I, I, I can't
say that the distribution of minutes is the main issue though
here. Brandon.
That's not what I'm not saying that it's perfect and his
rotations stink. So, I mean, they're it it's it's
embarrassingly bad. Some of the combinations that
he's put out there. I remember after game one was
no, I guess it was, it was Game 2.
Pardon me. Where?
Hold on. I just want to make sure I have
this right. I wrote this down.
It was Game 2 and they had. They had five guys out there and
it was only for a couple of minutes, but they lost the game,
Right. And they had never had those
five guys out there play together in in a game during the
regular season. So Mike Brown, in his inherent
genius, decides that's a good time to trot it out during where
the hell is it during the NBA playoffs?
Here it is. I got it.
Good God, these notes are popping up, man.
Yeah. So it was it was three.
It was like 3 1/2 minutes. They had Alvarado Clarkson,
excuse me, Bridges OG and Mitch Robinson never did that once
during the entire regular season.
And Mike Brown unveils that lineup, you know, for a couple
of minute sequence in the playoffs.
And how stupid is that? I mean, who who in the hell is
scoring in that lineup? Who is scoring?
Who is going to be the primary scorer there?
His lineups, his lineups are just insane.
But I just felt that it it just felt like everything was
collapsed. And when like in the middle of
the second quarter, Bridges gets the ball at the top of the key,
he looks so scared. He didn't even dribble.
He threw a little floater to Mitch.
It got tipped fast, break the other way, dunk.
It goes from like 10 to to 12 crowds going crazy.
And then they basically that was most of the minutes that Bridge
has seen for the rest of the night.
But. His ass was yeah, yeah, yeah.
His ass was where it should have been just pinned to the bench.
And and thank you for the call. I appreciate that.
There you go. Yeah, Look at that, Ohio.
I think that's the first call from Cleveland right there, Jay.
Yes, Sir. Yeah, No, we've had Florida.
We've, you know, we've had Carolina, Jordan, UK.
Yeah, Australia in. Ohio.
Yep. Yeah, All right, there you go.
Global. Let me.
Yeah, no doubt. Let me at least start dropping
some some coverage here for the draft, some reaction.
Obviously Nick's the theme. Get the calls rolling.
J Rod, it's in the J Actually, you know what?
Maybe we won't. We won't do this forever.
But if you could pop on, I know that there's more people who are
new to the show. Just give them a quick
explanation buddy how they could actually call the show.
Unleash fam, I got you here's how you call into the show.
So here I'll just I'll send the link into it just so I can kind
of show you it. So right there you can see see
in the chat, just drop the link. It says streamyard.com VQC da da
da da. Click that link.
You'll meet me in a backstage room very similar to what BT and
I are speaking into right now. I'll ask you for your name, your
question, and then where you're calling from.
I'll send a link to this studio and then throw you up here.
So 2 clicks, 2 links and you're calling with BT.
Clickity click, clickity clack, and you're on the show.
All right, Good job there, Jay Rod.
Appreciate it. All right, so listen, let's get
to the draft here. Now.
I wanted The Jets to trade out of two.
I knew they weren't going to. I mean, listen, everybody's got
an opinion on Bailey. Some people think he's going to
be phenomenal. Some people like, well, the
ceilings a little low. All right, I don't love the
pick. I'm not going to lie about that,
but I understand the pick. You needed some edge presents.
Obviously, hopefully it's transfers and hopefully he
really is the real deal. I absolutely love what The Jets
did the rest of the night and and I'm not here to, you know,
dump on the Bailey pick. I would have gone Reese or trade
out myself, but Bailey should be at at the at the bare minimum.
Good right. Kenyan Siddiq at 16 is a name
that you've heard me saying for a while.
Matter of fact, I had him going to the giants in our mock on The
Jets collected the other night, myself and and Rich Samini and
and Jake Aspen to get Kenyan Siddiq there because at that
point I'm less concerned about all right.
And, and many of you said this and, and most people said this,
just got to get a wide receiver. I get that.
But I'd rather get a guy who I know still vertical.
I mean, whether he's a wide receiver or a tight end, does it
really matter? I don't think.
And now you get Cooper with the trade, which I'll get to in a
minute, which I love as well. I mean, The Jets offense now
obviously gonna have to find your quarterback, obviously, but
you are now looking at a Jets offense.
Gino will be much better than anything they've ever had, at
least for a while. Freeze Hall, Braylon Allen, all
right, Really good running backroom.
We know that Garrett Wilson. And by the way, Jon Gruden last
night said Garrett Wilson's not a #1 receiver.
John, what are you talking about, dude?
It may not be Jerry Rice. He might not be Megatron.
Think about the the the like the junk that he's played with as as
quarterbacks since he got here and think about the production.
I mean, last year he was heard different, but come on, John.
And I don't think that John says stuff for effect, so he must
really believe that. But I couldn't disagree more.
Garrett Wilson's terrific. So you got to get a study.
Garrett Wilson. Now you got AD Mitchell.
All right, I'm not going to go nuts, but I do like him.
We'll see. He got 2 tight ends.
Mason Taylor's good and reliable and going to get open.
Now you got Kenyan Sadiq and Oh yeah, by the way, now in the
slot, you put a more Cooper. What a trade.
I mean, so Gino Brees, Garrett Wilson AD Mitchell Cooper in the
slot, Taylor and then obviously Siddique at the tight end spot
when they run 2 out there, which they will.
And then Rucker's a good blocker and and Siddiq's a pretty decent
blocker as well. Better blocker than Mason
Taylor. And Oh yeah, by the way, you've
got 2 bookend tackles on the left side in old Lou fashion
new. And then, you know, membut I got
so many names on my Jesus, I'm the day.
The nicknames is ridiculous. All these names in my head right
now. Obviously the right, but why
can't I remember his name or membut on the right side?
Thank you. From Missouri.
And so The Jets have a good old line.
And now The Jets. So yeah, it's about presenting
much more of a aesthetically pleasing product this year.
You know, defense. You're gonna have to get some
defense today. Couple of good corners out
there. Jets have to go corner or
linebacker. That's what they'll do today.
Obviously in round four, maybe some interior guard play.
But like this is all about when they get their next quarterback
and you'd have to think it's going to be next year.
And by the way, you know, Gino's going to throw 20 something
touchdowns, you know, 3738 hundred yards like The Jets
offense. It's it's not saying much.
I understand this, but it's the best Jets offense that that they
have had probably since Fitzpatrick, you know, and I
think that this Jets online is better and they've got more
tight end options. Yeah.
So I'd probably say what was that, 20 or 2015 when they won
10 games, right, and lost up in Buffalo with Decker and Marshall
and those guys and Fitzpatrick had a big year.
So I love what The Jets did. Like, if Bailey is again, I know
he's going to be good. If Bailey's like the real deal
and some people love him, some people are salivating over him,
I'm not, but I'm obviously intrigued.
And if I didn't like it, I would tell you like, again, I would
have traded out. But you need somebody to trade
with. But if Bailey really is that
guy, Bailey, Deke, Cooper, Jets had a good night.
Jets. I think The Jets had a really
good night and I think that the Giants had a phenomenal night.
There was not one person just based on what we were expecting
one through 4, who had the Giants being in a position
unless they moved up to get Reese from Ohio State.
So you go have to get our bell Reese at #5 and you get now we
know as an as an offensive lineman at #10 And I was telling
you and I was certainly open to this.
I'm like, I think that there's a chance, not a 5 because I
thought the Giants could go Caleb Downs, maybe Sony Styles
and I knew that receiver would be in play at the OR at least I
thought it would be. But I told you over the last
week or two, maybe even more than that.
Well, no, it I'm sorry. Within the last week with, with,
with Dexter, with the Dexter Lawrence trade at 10.
I'm like, hey, once you do that and once you once you get that
defender that you're going to get at #5 I do think it opens up
a lane to go online at #10 and that's exactly what I did.
I know he's had a little bit of a back issue, but you've got it
at least, you know, until proven otherwise, you've got to trust
the Giants medicals. You got to trust John Horrible,
who obviously was all behind this pic.
So I mean, you get Reese who just jumps off the film and if
he becomes what most people think he's going to become with
some age and maturity and all that stuff, and you got to
utilize him properly, obviously. Home run and now the Giants
offensive line with Maui Nova with, with Andrew Thomas, John
Runyon, you know, Illuminor and and even John Michael Schmidt to
a lesser extent. You throw him in there.
All right, now we're cooking a little bit here, cooking a
little bit now. Neighbors is not going to be
neighbors Week 1. We'll see where Cam Scataboo is.
They've got a couple of the tight ends already.
They picked up likely and I thought that was a good move.
And, you know, I mean, if the jet, if the Giants can snag a
receiver soon, I mean, you know, it's it's all about building
this really, at least with a young quarterback from the
inside out. That is how good Giant, good
Giant teams have always had outstanding old lines.
David Deal and those boys, right.
And then obviously, you know, you look around the NFL and you
know, teams that just you can have a great quarterback if your
old line is Swiss cheese or if your defense is awful like the
Bengals, it subverts so much what your quarterback could do.
So I love it. I love what the Giants did.
I am loving what The Jets said. Darren Mooji, he is he he is
what I thought he is, you know, because and he's ultimately
going to get graded on whether or not he gets the quarterback
and what moves he makes next year.
And I didn't think he that nobody did that he would tap
into the 27 draft capital to do something this year.
But by moving up a couple of the slots this year from the first
pick of round two, a couple from 33 up to 30 to get Cooper, I
mean this this guy is a slot machine.
I mean the praise #1 he's on a team that we all watched.
All right, So that always makes you feel pretty good.
I think that that's that is I think too often the fuel for the
reaction of a lot of these picks, like when your team draft
somebody that you don't know, you just associated with being a
bad pick. He didn't go to Ohio State.
I didn't go to Michigan, didn't go to USC, didn't go to, you
know, whatever for LSU, whatever football factory it might be.
But that means nothing. I mean, really and based, by the
way, all these opinions that I have right now mean nothing.
You know, when they actually get on the field and, and do what
they do and become who they're going to become.
But last night was a great night for New York football.
And the crazy thing, too, the only reason the Giants had
access to this is because the Tennessee Titans.
I'm not going to crush him for this, but like the Tennessee
Titans really flipped the board. So let let let's let's get a
little national flavor here. Let me at least read this here.
What do we got? Major under score, League 99,
Major League 99. Why does every Commission get
booted every draft? And for no rules Friday, who is
your least favorite Sopranos character?
That's what I mean by no rules. Again, we have no rules.
We say whatever we want. We do whatever we want whenever
we want to do it in the manner in which we need to do it.
But yeah, I think maybe a no rules Friday.
That's a good example. We could just ask me something
completely out of the ordinary and I'll give you an answer.
Let me just jot that down so I don't forget.
Least favorite, least favorite Sopranos character?
And why does the commissioner to get booed?
Honestly, at this point, to me, it's like a wrestling bit.
You know, it's like where the crowd just kind of jumps in, I
don't know, like when they were first booing Goodell, you know,
whether it was maybe some of the Kaepernick stuff or some of the
other stuff, I really thought I'm like, man, they, they don't,
they can't stand this guy. You know, they're just bowing
him. Meanwhile, if he's one of the
best commissioners out there, I'm not saying he's perfect, but
and I don't love a lot of the things he's done that compromise
our viewing habits and forced us to spend more money streaming,
etcetera. But he has been great for the
sport in terms of monetizing the brand, right?
And you know, off the field issues been dialed down.
It's pretty good product here. It's pretty competitive outside
of some of the bad teams, you don't really know who's going to
win the Super. Look at Seattle, look at Sam
Darnold. So I think there's a good amount
of parity. Fiscally, the league is as
healthy as it's ever been. Salary cap keeps going up,
253035 million bucks a year. Good Commission, right?
But they do it because it gives them, you know, it's you become
part of the show. Do I think that they actually
detest Rodger Goodell? No, you just Boo the
commissioner like David Stearns would get booed when he would
come out, you know, for the NBA. That is what it is.
Manfred doesn't get booed because ML BS draft situation is
so different, but the yeah, it's not a big deal.
My least favorite Sopranos character.
I got to be honest, I was getting tired of the veto veto
storyline, you know, I mean veto up at a bed and breakfast, you
know, hiding, you know, it's you know, and not not because he of
not because of what was going on with the sexuality.
I don't mean that. I I just mean I think that
dragged on like enough of Vito, like I never Vito was to Vito
was to me. Vito was corny.
I just I never felt this character even, you know, before
the flip and everything that came out.
Vito was not a favorite character my and if it didn't go
on as long as it did, I don't think it would bother me.
I mean, like Chris Maltesanti's the best.
Tony's phenomenal, Carmela's great, the kids were awesome.
Walnuts the man. I love Johnny Sack.
I love Phil. I thought Phil was a good foil.
Junior. I I I I didn't love Bobby
Baccala early, but then he definitely, especially when he
knocked out Tony. I mean the star episode,
whatever the episode 7 year 7 or 8.
That was great. My least favorite.
Vito's going to get a vote. And I got to be honest with you,
I didn't love Janice. Yeah, that's that's.
Good bar Janice 1000% I got a hot take and it's not that I
don't like this character because it's like you like this
character, but the guy who just like I hate it like you watch
it, you go I hate this guy was Ralph dude.
Oh, Ralphie was great. I thought he was an awesome.
Character, He was like an awesome character, but he really
made me like hate him. Like he was the dude on the show
who I was like he is the definition of evil.
He well, yes, oh, you know, he was twisted man, no doubt about
that. But what was the guy with the
with the opponent there was that Florio.
What's that name? Right, think I'm saying that.
Robbie Oh, you got it. It's L If it's it's FL, it's FL.
He was good. He he had a great purpose there.
I mean, that's why The Sopranos is The Sopranos.
And that's why it's as rated as highly as it is and one of the
treasures of TV of all time, because there were very few bad
characters. But I would say Vito and then I
would probably say Janice, but but Janice really did have a
great purpose, like the back and forth with Tony, even the
relationship with Carmela, you know, always try to the hustle
and you know, do wrong by her mom to get the money.
You know, I I would probably say Vito.
That's my vote at the end of the day, I'm going to go Vito.
That's a good example of Noble's Friday.
Get that stuff coming in. All right, so rest of the draft
here. We got a couple of surprises.
I mean right away, right, Jeremiah, Love to the Cardinals.
Listen, I get it. You want to become a really good
team, go out and get really good players.
But you know, and I know they were trying to trade out there
and I don't blame them. I thought they were going to
take Reese. I wasn't stunned when they took
Love because he is different. I get it, But could have got all
line there. But that that's why I think they
would try to trade out like if they would have dropped down a
couple of spots and gotten see Spencer Fano or even what the
giants did. OK, I think that's that's that's
a better look for them. Maybe doesn't excite their fans,
but certainly, you know, builds the the guts of the team in a
way that needs to be built. But he's going to be a blast to
watch. So I'm not going to go nuts
criticizing that. But really, the first curveball,
it was Robert Salva's first draft with the Titans.
And I thought for sure once, once Love went three, I'm like,
there's no doubt they got to go defense here with Reese, right?
They have to go defense now. I think if The Jets would have
taken Reese, then I'm almost positive that that Salah and the
Titans would have gone for Bailey, all right, And have
Jermaine Johnson and Bailey kind of bookend edges.
See where that goes. But they didn't and and I like
Cornell Tate. I don't love the pick, but he's
obviously a very good player. I thought these are just things
I'm kind of cherry picking stuff that jumped out.
I thought the chiefs trading up for the best corner.
We talked a lot about Mansour Delane phenomenal player, very
aggressive, very bold, very good move.
I thought the Saints were going to go defense.
That's that surprised me every time the Saints came up at 8:00
I whether it was Sonny styles dropping to them who went to the
commanders. Phenomenal job by the
commanders. I mean, that's a home run.
No. Oh, wow, Sony Styles, here's the
placard. Here you go.
That's what we're taking like there's nothing to think about
unless somebody calls you and gives you something wacky in
terms of a trade proposal. But I every time the Saints came
up, whether it was myself and rich and Jake on The Jets
collective, obviously here on unleashed tweets, whatever.
I mean, I've been, you know, I don't really put out a mock
draft. That's not my thing.
But you know, I'm, I'm following mock drafts and I'm talking
about the possibilities about the draft for months.
I ought to just start doing it a week before the draft.
You guys know that. And every time I talk about the
Saints, it was defense, defense, defense, defense that surprised
me. But I do like it.
It still surprised me. Jordan Tyson, I thought, I mean,
listen, Dallas with that trade moving up the spot from 12:00 to
11:00, get an absolute stud. I thought Caleb Downs would go 5
to the Giants, even though I love what the Giants did, based
on the way the board went, that is a massive, massive win for
the Dallas Cowboys. Phenomenal.
And then I mean, let's face it, the biggest surprise of the
night, Ty Simpson going 13 to the Rams.
And there was a lot made of Sean Mcveigh's post wrath reaction
with less need. I, I got to be honest, I, I
thought everybody was really missing the mark with that.
Everybody's like, oh, look at look at Mcveigh's body language.
Oh, look at the way he's describing his quarterback.
He looks very disenchanted with the move.
I didn't get that at all. I really didn't.
I think it's very now, I thought for sure they were going wide
receiver. That's what I absolutely thought
they were going to do. So, And even if they didn't go
receiver, I didn't think there was any chance they were taking
Ty Simpson. None.
Now, I told you, there's no doubt Ty Simpson's going in the
first round and I even had him going inside the top 20.
I knew The Jets wouldn't take him.
But what's bold? And listen, The funny thing is,
right, right. So the Rams take him to 13 and
not that the like, say if Patrick Mahomes would say 35,
all right, and we're 36 and the she's moved up and they took
Simpson there. Good stable, winning
organizations. And this is just the way it
goes. It's it's it's not right or
wrong. It is what it is.
Those good winning, stable organizations that you know,
time and time again show that draft acumen, right?
If they would have moved up to say Mahomes is 36 and they would
have taken Ty Simpson. Wow, look at those chiefs doing
it again. He'll sit for a year or two.
But just like Mahomes sat behind Alex Smith, much like the Rams,
who are a stable, winning organization, very forward
thinking now that they take Ty Simpson the 13, nobody's
crushing it. But I promise you, if The Jets
would have taken him at 16, they would have been railroaded
because they're The Jets and they haven't earned the benefit
of the doubt. Or like if the Cleveland Browns,
who made a move off a six, if the Browns would have taken Ty
Simpson at six or, you know, scooted down and taking, Oh my
God, the Browns, what are we doing?
It is what it is. If you're a winner, you get the
benefit of the doubt. If you're a loser, you get
crushed. I think that outside of, I mean,
there's really so many things that that I thought went well
for a lot of teams last night, all right.
But if I had a zero win on two or three things that I think
were the best, I would say the Giants recent five, I would say
Dallas moving up a slot, getting Caleb Downs at 11 and now they
got a little lucky here. It was a no brainer.
But just being in the right spot, sometimes that's the way
it goes. I mean, the Buccaneers getting
Reuben Bain at 15 is a massive win, massive win.
So, you know, I, I think at last night was fun.
You know, I love the Sadiq pick for The Jets there.
I, I, I, you know what the Browns are going to do A.J.
Brown is going to be dead. Pardon me, the Browns what the
Eagles will do A.J. Brown will get dealt.
I know Schefter had that again today.
And now you got somebody's going to, you know, slide right in
there. Macon Lemon at #20 good fit for
Philly. They too get the benefit of the
doubt and I love Omar Omar Cooper for The Jets.
I just I just do in that slot, you know, 200 lbs shifty can
separate. You could put think of like just
back to this, think about where like think about what The Jets
can do concept wise. You could come out.
I don't know how you're going to stop this.
I'm I'm not going to go on some ridiculous unhinged, you know,
take on The Jets having some prolific offense, but at the
very least it's intriguing and and at the very least it's going
to be hard to scheme against, right.
So you got Garrett wide, you've got Mitchell wide, you got
Cooper in the slot. You got Sadiq wherever you want
a lot, put him in motion, whatever you want to do with
him. And then, you know, when you
want to run the double tied ends, you got Mason Taylor who
can catch it. And then all you by the way, you
know, because you're going to have to have all these.
You're going to have to have some nickel and dime coverage
because all these Jets players can run.
Well, yeah, let's audible out of let's audible out of the pass.
Here's Breece Hall off tackle with his offensive line that's
going to maul some smaller guys because they got to be able to
run with all the weapons The Jets are putting out there up
there's Braylon Allen bang off tackle 13 yards.
And then when they adjust to that and they come in and they
they bring the big boys back in, well, now you go vertical.
I mean, if the jet, like honestly, if The Jets had and
Gino is a real quarterback, I almost said if they had a real
quarterback, he's a real quarterback, he's fine.
He's going to be much better than anything they've had since.
I mean, Rodgers had some moments as well, but before Rodgers,
well over a decade, he's competent.
He throws a good deep ball. He's accurate.
He's going to move the sticks. He's not going to whiff on wide
open passes. You know, he's going to get you
out of bad plays. He's going to be a pretty decent
leader. And with The Jets online, I
think it's going to be very stable up front.
But like, imagine if The Jets had like a really good
quarterback, like really good with these guys.
Wow. So that's where it starts to
turn and and that's the advantage.
And you could you could thank Joe Douglas for this.
Although last year, obviously you pick membered on the right
side for The Jets from Missouri, because all it was the previous
year that the fact that The Jets entered this draft with a good
offensive line and not having and I sent this for a while and
bit when you have that, now you can start getting the tight end.
Like you can't justify taking a tight end if you can't block,
you know what I mean? So now that you have a good, you
know, a good old line, now you could do this, but we got a good
old line. Now we could go out there and
trade a few slots in and get a get a slot guy that we really
know can run through, you know, some arm tackles and a shifty
and we can use a variety of ways.
So it's going to be interesting. It's going to be fun with the
with Frank Reich and and how they deploy some of these
weapons here. So fun night.
Good draft recum at Bryan, NY Bryan, NY, New York 20 NY
222220. Appreciate that.
What do we got here? A little something on The Jets,
I believe. No.
Yeah. So easy to bash The Jets.
Meanwhile, the Mets, the Knicks have just as bad a history.
The GM of the Knicks never talks and the owner only goes on the
fan to answer softball questions.
Listen, I don't need to hear from.
I don't really care what James Dolan has to say.
I don't myself. Notorious, right?
I would like to hear a little bit more from Leon Rose.
And and I get that like the Knicks media policy.
You can get that down, Jay. The the, the Knicks media
policy, it's kind of offensive. Like you have these exorbitant
ticket prices and everything financially and emotionally and
time wise that the Knicks fan devotes to the Knick.
Knick fans, great. We know this place is always
sold out, always loud. They know the game, they're
totally into it. And the general manager never
ever speaks and never provides rationale as to why he did what
he did. Well, if the Knicks get bumped
this series, and they might whenever they get bumped short
of a championship, which they will, I mean, eventually Leon
Rose going to have to going to have to say something because
Leon Rose is going to have to hire a new coach.
And at the press conference, even though I'm sure it'll be in
house and they'll be able to manipulate that like they always
do, you know, hopefully gets asked a hard question.
Hey, you know the move that you made for Mikhail Bridges?
You gave up five first round picks.
He's a stiff, he's soft, he's inconsistent.
He's not the guy he played last night in 21 minutes.
See, I'm getting wrapped up by the Knicks again.
They moved on from them. But 21 minutes, it is hard.
If you tried to have a -26 in 21 minutes, that is not easy.
If you play 35, it's still hard, but at least it's more
justifiable. That happens somewhat
commonplace in the NBA -26 point, you know, plus minus in
21 minutes, no points, Dude, you're a starter on a team
that's supposed to get to a championship.
So yeah, I mean, I whatever, it is what it is.
I know that Leon never speaks and it does bother me, but I
stopped. I stopped banging the drum on
that because, like, it's wasted energy, you know, and up until
now. And or, you know, when they
lose, if they lose, I'll keep the door slightly drawn.
It would be totally negative. But like, if and when they get
knocked out of the playoffs here, that will be the time
where he will need to say something of substance and give
us his clear direction. And you know who the new coach
will be and why the process of hiring Mike Brown was what it
was and all the other stuff. I mean, eventually it's going to
come to roost, right? All right, Who do we have up on
the phones there? J Rod, what do we got there,
pal? We.
Got our friend John from Fort Hood, TX 1st.
What up, John? John is on the show.
What's going on, John? Hey, what's going on BT?
How you doing today? I'm good, brother.
What's cooking? Not much.
Hey, I see you getting yourself hyped up on The Jets already.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. This time it's a little
justified though. They actually have some real
weapons here. Yeah, they picked up some
pieces. We'll see how they do.
Yeah. Hey, but.
So in in terms of the draft, you know, going in, I really felt
like the Giants were in a low no lose situation with the 5th and
the 10th pick. I was expecting them to pick up
either styles or or downs at 5:00 because that's what we had
been hearing for months, right? Yep, Definitely not mad at the
at the Reese pick. I just hope that he works out.
You know, downs was the the sexier pick, but you know, if if
Reese and and Mawooga like workout definitely beats up the
line and it protects start and improves the running game.
Yep. My only issue is my issue with
last night is I don't understand why neighbors doesn't have the
awareness to keep his thoughts to himself.
Well, no. And he and he and he feels the
need to go online and verbalize how he's not happy with the
pics. And he, you know, he feels like
they should have replaced Dexter with with somebody else.
And it's just like, yeah, bro, you're 22 years old.
Nobody cares about your opinion. You need to be worried about
getting healthy for Week 1 and helping this team win football
games. Now coaches and players are
going to have to answer questions because you have no
awareness. Bad look, it's now, by the way,
just for those two may don't maybe don't know what what
happened and and to be fair to believe neighbors you can
certainly be rehabbing. It's not like just because he
went and he gave a little draft analysis doesn't mean he's not
locked in and try to get healthy.
So both things could be true, but it's a bad look.
You've been around one year, you know, you're you're you're a
young player who had last year cut short.
So obviously two years, but you know what I mean, one full year.
And and I think that it's it, it's not that he just popped
online and said, yo, like, oh, flipped over his phone, his
phone around said, what the hell are we doing?
What are we doing? This is awful.
What are we? He was part of a show and you
know, he was being honest, but that is not what you want to
hear from somebody who hasn't won anything in the NFL and is
just getting off the ground. Keep those thoughts to yourself.
You want to chime in and a lot of guys do this.
Hey, with Garrett Wilson, I think did it last night.
Welcome to New York. You want to load the pic and
welcome guys to your team. That's I mean, a lot of guys do
that. That's great stuff.
That's you know, that's social media in 2026 from elite
neighbors to be that definitive and Aaron Aaron gripe that that
publicly like there was nothing to interpret.
He just dumped on the pic. Good luck man.
I can promise you Harbaugh is going to talk to him about that.
It's bad luck. Yeah, I agree.
Harbaugh needs to get in his ear and just let him know, man.
Cuz I mean, this goes back to even his his rookie year when he
was criticizing Dabel with when they were losing and he was
saying, hey, you know, it's not the quarterback, it's not DJ.
He was basically criticizing the offense in his rookie year.
Yep. So he's definitely a verbal
player, but it's like somebody's got to get, you know, talk to
him like, hey, man, like you got to read the room and understand
when you got to keep your mouth shut.
I'm with you. That's a good point there, John.
Have a great weekend, man. Shout out, salute to everybody.
Fort Hood, obviously, thank you very much, guys and men and
women out there supporting us and and protecting us.
I appreciate he's but he's part of the Army out there as as John
was telling us, he's in now, a consistent caller.
You know, listen, I think when you have a losing situation, I
think players kind of feel as if they can kind of say whatever
they want without a lot of repercussions.
I mean, think about like sauce was popping off a little bit and
you know, Garrett Wilson has had some tweets over nothing like
incredibly inflammatory. But you know, the winning
franchises, that's generally at a minimum.
You just don't see it as much. You don't hear it as much.
And you know, John Harbaugh is obviously the head coach of the
Giants, but you know, his day-to-day impact has not really
fully influenced the building yet because they're just
starting to get together now for offseason workouts.
And that message will be communicated.
And I've got great faith, I think I think Malik Neighbors is
a hell of a player. And I think he's a good young
man who wants to win. I think his thoughts are a
little misguided. He's certainly entitled to his
entitled to his opinion. But when you, you know, express
that opinion, you're now kind of coloring outside the lines.
And and what is your jurisdiction as a player?
It's not your job to criticize a move that the organization just
did, particularly when is the new guy in charge And they're
trying to revoke, reverse this, this losing culture.
So bad luck, not the end of the world.
But there is a little history where neighbors does feel as if
he's got the freedom to kind of say whatever he wants to say.
And I promise you that's going to go away or he's going to go
away before it's all said and done.
Who's up next there, J Rod. We have got our friend Blind
Beard from the financial district.
All right, checking in. How's the market today, by the
way? I've not checked on the market.
Is the market popping? What do we got down on Wall
Street? Blind beard, What do we got?
Anything good? Hello.
I have no idea, I don't work in that sector.
Oh OK. I don't work in that sector bro.
I got you. All right.
Yummy. Yeah, I got you.
OK, cool. Yeah, I don't work in that
sector, man. I, I'm, I work in a, in a call
center. So I, I deal with a lot of, you
know, crazy calls. That's pretty much what I deal
with, yeah. I I deal with crazy calls too.
Yeah, yeah. Especially for me.
No, that's all good. What's going on?
No, I'm, you know, I, I'm like, as I said, as I said last call
Monday or whatever, I called I'm a big meth fan and I was, I went
to the game on Tuesday, Tuesday night when when I got crushed
and you know, you know, it was final Tuesday.
So we were, we were hitting it pretty good.
And man, it was crazy because we got on the train with a bunch of
the Twins, a bunch of Twins fans, Yeah.
And then they were like, man, we're sorry for your loss and
your thing. And I'm like, I was like, so
pissed off when I saw that. Crazy posted.
They made about the dozen, dozen losses and then and then I was
just like, and then, oh man, me and a couple other Mets fans, we
just, we just shitting on the Mets the whole, the whole ride
back into the city. You know, it was, it was, it was
a tough thing. And then Wednesday I went to
work wearing, wearing my, wearing a White Sox hat because
I was like, oh man, I got, I got, I got to try something
different wearing the White Sox hat finally.
White Sox. Why?
What? What are you in Snooping Dre's
old video they used to rock. Yeah, I got the Chrome to the
side of my White Sox cap. No, no, I, I went to, I went, I
went to Chicago from, for my brother's bachelor party and,
and I, I, you know, and then we, I just got a White Sox out
there. I got you, baby.
That's a cool lid. I like it, yeah.
And I also saw, I guess it was a fight at Citi Field.
It's a Mets and Twins fans. And thank you for the call.
There it was. It was the security was kicking
someone out who's booing the who's booing the Mets and and
yelling, you know, F David Stearns and shit like.
That yeah, they can't be doing that.
I mean, if you yelling that. Thanks for the call, but I
appreciate it. Yeah, you got to go, but Twins
fans on the train, Twins fans getting kicked out.
How many Twins fans while they're at the Mets game and
make it Twins. I mean, yeah.
That was a vicious, ruthless tweet.
J Rod, do you still have that somewhere in the deck?
I know we put it up the other day.
If you can find a popping up the Twins.
Oh, look at this man. And this one.
They won the first game. Give the Mets credit.
They came back. They won the next two things you
could get in a dozen a dozen eggs, a dozen roses, a dozen Met
losses. My God, that is ruthless here.
Yikes. Well, you got to look come up
in. So you lost your next two here.
And how about, I mean, even when the Mets win, it's not like it's
not comfortable. I mean, the Grand Slam and Devin
Williams, who's pitching Brazebon, Devin Williams.
I mean, it's but a win is a win. The real issue here is Lindor's
going to be out for a long time and Mets were pretty transparent
about this. I guess I give him credit there.
Like Mendoza said right away, and I know they're going to have
some other doctors look at the imaging, but the initial look is
not favorable. Like they knew right away when
they looked at Juan Soto's calf injury.
It's basically best case scenario.
And Mendoza basically said it's the exact opposite.
So when he said he's going to be gone for a while, all right,
Mauricio is going to get a look here, Burchett's going to, you
know, obviously I decided to play a little short here and
there, whatever. But that is not good.
And you'd have to think if Soto missed 15 games and what Mendoza
said the other night is accurate.
I mean, is, is Francisco Lindor going to miss two months?
I mean, because if it's anything longer and it's going to be then
Soto, well, now you're going to need a rehab.
You know, it seems like he if if you tell me right now over under
on games, Lindor's going to miss.
Just based on what the Mets are saying, I would say I think I'm
going to have to double Soto. I'm probably going neighborhood
of 30. I mean, that's that's a lot to
ask of a team that's already dug a pretty deep hole.
Now they've won a couple of games without Lindor.
I get that. Or at least there's I know
Lindor played half the the game the other night, but they're two
and on with Soto back. But that's that's rough.
You know, they have a bad record and they got a lot of ground to
make up. Phillies are wrecked too.
So, you know, you don't have to worry about them right now
either. But and it's pretty jumbled
National League, as is the American League for the most
part. That's rough.
I mean, it's it's been a rough start for the Mets.
All right, let me give you this here.
Get back to the phones in a minute.
So the and I I just keep adding to this and it's not even my
plan, but every time a Yankee starter takes the baseball, it
just gets better and better. So right now Yankees have the
best director in the American League.
All right, the Yankees last six starts.
By the way, how nice is it? I know the Red Sox are going
nowhere. They've got thirteen home runs
on the year dead last in baseball.
It's crazy how little power they have.
My God. But the Yankees last six starts,
just the pitchers. Schlittler is going back to six
games ago. 6 innings, no runs, six hits, Apt 6 KS, two walks.
Stud Will Warren. 7 innings, two runs, 11 KS, No walks.
The best performance so far. Weathers equally good.
Seven in the third, no runs, eight KS, a walk, phenomenal.
Louise Hill, Game one in Boston, really good, not a lot of
strikeouts, but he put it in play.
Got into the 7th inning, 6 in the third, no earned runs.
Max Freed, Game two of the series, 8 innings, no runs,
phenomenal. 9 KS, two walks and Schlittler last night and a lot
of energy. You know, him going back to
Boston, all the nonsense last year, the the death threats,
social media nonsense. Schlittler, 8 innings, one run,
one earned, 6K, no walks. And right now, not just the
American League, right now, the Yankees have the number 1 ERA in
baseball. They're fifth in quality starts
without Colin Rodon. They're fourth in opposing
batting average, and they're second and WHIP.
And oh, yeah, by the way, you want another dose of good news
here? Garrett Cola, the second rehab
start last night, threw 52 pitches, went four to third, no
walks, 4 strikeouts, and is beginning to ramp it up.
So, I mean, there's not much to complain about with the Yankees
right now. The pitching has been
phenomenal, the OP and nice. I like the approach by belly,
you know, going the other way, a little soft contact.
You know that you love to see that you put the ball in play.
Good things happen and you know, see what happens with Volpe.
Yankee still need another stick, which I think they'll trade for
Dominguez is ripping it up down on the binders.
I mean, she's Lombard continues to shred minor league pitching
again, I know Yankee fans are kind of wired to be pissed off
these last X amount of years at Cashman.
But right now, you know, right, even Jazz hit a home run last
night. Right now things are pretty
good, although you know, Jazz, you finally go deep.
It's the first one of the year. You know, you do that when you
hitting third base And I I I'm actually one who defends his
swag, his style. I think individuality is great.
But would you know the room? It's kind of like Lindor a
couple of games ago, putting on the construction.
The best in the hat. Yeah.
You hit a home run to an 1112 game losing streak.
At that point, just read the room.
Just react to the situation a little bit.
Just an ounce of humility. Jazz, You got to do a whole
thing in the dugout when you're hitting third base.
But he finally went yard, so he's only got 49 more to go as
he goes for 5050. All right, who's up next, Jay?
We have got our friend St. from London, UK.
What up St. How you doing?
What's up BT? Can you hear me?
Yes, Sir, I got you. Well, I got A2 pronged question
First, we'll go past the draft. I mean, look, I'm a believer
having watched The Jets for a very, very long time that the
first round is for show and the latter rounds of the DOE.
So Muji needs. That's right, Sir.
That's. Why Muji needs to earn his
money? So I guess my first open-ended
question to you is what do you feel the position that The Jets
need requires the most attention for death?
And by the way, Yep, Glenn as the head coach in news calling
the defense is a quarterback. He's secondary.
We had no picks last year. He should know better.
So whilst we have pressure coming on the quarterback, we
need a blanket secondary to do. I don't want to I don't want to
load that question. It's all you and then I'll go
with my second one. I got you.
I think The Jets are drafted a quarterback today.
They're they're, you know, Mccoy's couple of guys who are
very promising prospects. There's a there's a there's a
safety or two that that I thought may have gone late first
round that did not that they'll have access to.
But you got Minka back there. He gave him a couple of bucks
guaranteed. I think The Jets, I'd be stunned
if they don't go corner today and I believe in round four.
I think they're going to go interior offensive lineman.
Now, if they make a trade and maybe there's also a couple of
good, really good interior offensive lineman, maybe they
mess around and do that today and maybe make some other trade
and then go corner if they read that board and the board falls
properly to them. But there's no doubt the point
of of emphasis right now needs to be a corner, a linebacker
that can run and interior guard play on the old line.
That's my opinion. Oh, yeah, and I'm feeling that
opinion. Thanks a lot.
I guess the second and I don't I'm not promoting degeneracy,
but look, the people have the never asked me why I drink.
It's because of the New York Knicks, you know, So I I mean,
haven't watched that. I mean, we should be pummeling
the Hawks. I know they had an amazing run
the past two months of the season.
They were playing very well, real quick there.
I don't mean, yeah, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
This is not like an anomaly. It's not like the Hawks were
just kind of petering to the finish line.
They made the trade and they went seven and eight to finish
the season, or even 9:00 and 8:00 or 11:00 and 10:00.
Like the Hawks were playing really well.
This is just an extension of who they've been the last month of
the season, to be fair. They found that identity, that's
for sure. And they're beating us by 1.
I think it's not more or less. That they're just absolutely.
Crushing us when they were in the first half, obviously, but I
just think we we can't get out of our own way.
So I guess my second question to you is, can you give me a single
scintilla of hope that the New York Knicks progress?
And I don't have to turn up a bottle this weekend or the week
after, By the way, just the way you say it.
I mean, a single scintilla. Can you say that single
scintilla? Say that again.
Could you give me a single scintilla of hope that we the
New York Knicks progress? Can you please provide a modicum
of enthusiasm? I love the way you say it, babe.
And by the way, I'm guessing you're going to bang back a few
pints anyway out there. It's a Friday in in London, so
I'm sure you have a little bit, but maybe maybe the Knicks could
keep you away from the hard stuff.
Yeah. Thank you for the call.
Good luck over there. And I love, I mean, we're
getting calls from London. How amazing is this?
God bless you, St. Awesome.
As the brand continues to grow. I think that I mean the
scintilla of hope would be that they've got a lot of good
players. I mean, I I don't think I need
to really overthink this. I could get into like all the
schematics and do this and you don't do the pick and roll more,
which, by the way, they actually should and well, make this
defensive adjustment here and, you know, have the rotation
change a little bit, which I also believe, like there are
basketball things that I could give you.
But I think the bottom line St. is that Knicks have a lot of
good players. I mean, Jalen Brunson is one of
the better players in the NBA. Cats, one of the better bigs in
the NBA, you know and OG as a 3rd you know, option, especially
when I love ogi. Mean if you had two ogs instead
of OG and bridges, we wouldn't have these problems here.
So my answer to you short and sweet is Knicks have a lot of
talent now. I don't think they've got enough
talent to win the championship. I don't think they've got the
coach to win the championship and I'm not even sure they've
got the star player, even though we'd love Jalen to win the
championship with Brunson being your number one.
But at least to get past this round and rally and win three
games. I mean, that's my answer. 3 of
the next four games. They got a lot of talent.
What do you got next? Jay, who's up?
We've got our friend Frank from Monroe, NJ.
All right. What's going on there, Frank?
How are you? Hey, Brandon, how are you?
Can you hear me? I got you, brother.
Yep. What's cooking?
Yeah. Night.
Last night. I'm glad you're happy about the
There we go, but you touched on something before that I want to
talk about and it's the young kids not knowing what it's like
when their teams win around here last year.
I have a daughter that's 24 years old.
She's a die hard Yankee. Fan and when and when Soto came
back to the stadium, she said that we got to get tickets we
went to that game the. Point of this story is on the
way back we are on the D chain. We got off on 42nd St.
Walk down the street and we were at the Garden when the Knicks.
Beat the Celtics? Well, the.
Scene outside the Oh my God. And I'm, I'm so glad that my
daughter got to see that because people need, you know, the young
fans need to see that. I lived in Vegas for 10 years.
Where'd you live? What?
What part? I lived in Green Valley.
Oh, I love green. I lived in Henderson.
Oh yeah? Well, Henderson is Green Valley.
My daughter went. My daughter went to Green Valley
High School. A matter of fact hold on Green
Valley I believe that that was my I believe Green Valley Rd.
was my exit at the at the apartment I.
Had Yep, Yep, well, 2:15. 2:15 And Legacy Golf Course is right
there, right? Right down the street.
Yep, Yep, Yep. Yeah.
So all they had out there was was the running rebels, and they
stunk. Yes, they did, right.
So so like like we're lucky we have 9 pro sports teams around
here and when any one of them is doing well, the city is popping.
Yeah, but hold on now, Frank, Hold on.
Yes and no. I mean when the Islanders, and
this is no disrespect, we, I know we have 9 teams, but like
when the Islanders are doing well, the city's not popping
well, the Devils, the city's not popping.
The city pops hardest when the Knicks are legitimate and the
Yankees and the Mets have teams that think could win the World
Series. Agreed, Agreed.
But but still, like, even when the Devils and the Islands are
winning, if the other teams aren't doing good, then
everybody's excited, you know what I'm saying?
We're lucky to have. We're lucky to have.
All of that, all right. And and I just wanted to share
that story with you because the scene outside the garden last
and and BTI go back to 73 with Clyde.
Yeah, I didn't see it. You know Earl the Pearl and
Clyde. The pusher, Bradley, Yeah.
And then? Coming up.
What? What?
You were talking about Riley
before? I remember when the Knicks gave
up 75 points. We were pissed off, right with
Riley. You know what I mean?
Oh. Yeah, you're with Patrick.
The defense was so good. You know, we had Oakley.
If you came down the middle, you were in trouble.
Oakley was going to take you up. We we, we don't play basketball
like that anymore, you know what I mean?
No, nobody does to be there. Yeah.
It's not just a mix. The rules don't let you play it
that way, Frank. Well, well, BT.
Back in the old days, the seven footers played with their back
to the back. No, no, I I get that, Frank.
What I'm saying is the league. And then thank you for the call,
Frank. I appreciate it, Frank.
Yeah, good job, buddy. Have a great weekend.
Yeah, man, the league doesn't let you play that way.
And what you started to say about the seven footers, I mean
that that's the European influence here.
Who the heck was like, I was talking about this at one of my
one of my Children's Games recently about the difference
between European, European basketball players and American
basketball players, Right. And the big difference, many of
you know this and this is not to impure the integrity of of of
all the AAU teams, because I think that that's patently
offensive and inaccurate and unfair.
There are a lot of AAU teams that are well principled and
well coached and their structure.
But I think, you know, loosely translated, I think a lot of
people kind of look at the AAU circuit and you know, the money
grabs or just running up and down the court and, you know, no
real structure. Everybody jacking up threes,
fast breaks. Defense is optional.
You play 6 games on a Saturday, you play 5 games on a Sunday.
You don't practice in Europe. And that that's kind of true.
If you're good and you keep winning in Europe, it's the
exact opposite. In Europe, you practice all week
and you play basically once. Like that's your reward all the
time. And all the sweat equity that
you put in the jab steps and just, you know, work in the pick
and roll, going under the screen, going over the screen,
coming off a pick and, you know, catching the ball and being
ready to shoot. You know, dribble penetration,
kick and drive. Like the little things that so
many of these European players are so well versed in.
That is through repetition. That's it.
That's one of the reasons why I've got such great respect for
Jaylen Brunson because he's almost got a European game.
Because Jaylen Brunson is not coming down the lane and
cranking one on anybody. Jaylen Brunson is not coming
down with a 67 Johnson defender on him and just shooting over
him because he can't. He'll have it shoved down his
throat because he's 4 inches shorter.
Jaylen Brunson's game, Kelan Brunson's brilliance is
predicated on the manipulation of angles and spatial awareness
and intelligence and obviously great shock mate shot making and
body control like those fall the ways and 1 footers and floaters,
you know, so he actually looks like a European.
But you know, I, I listen, I get it.
You get all these bigs who come into professional basketball and
they're just much more comfortable with, you know,
facing up. I mean, was the last time you
saw somebody just dump the ball into the post?
Like Patrick would get it or Hakeem would get it or any of
these other bigs from back in the dates?
Doesn't happen. You know, it's over.
So, I mean, we can, we can wax poetic about what it used to be,
but it doesn't change anything, you know, or who's up next
there, Jay, what do we got? We've got Anthony from Long
Island. All right, let's go out east.
What up, aunt? What part of Long Island are you
at? Or or I'm.
I'm on, I'm in West Islip, West Coast BT.
All right, there's a there's a Boomers, Yeah.
He's he's, he's. We always beat them anyway.
So you didn't beat Boomer though There's no way you.
Guys, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm a little I.
Don't think you guys beat Boomer in anything because I know
Boomer. Great pitcher, he was great
hitter and a great basketball player too.
So yeah, when Boomer was there, you guys took the LS, so.
Real quick, so BT one thing been a fan of you for a long time.
I I just remember listening to you when in 2000, 4, the day
before game seven of the ALCS, I remember you saying to yourself,
man, you know, I think the Yanks are going to be able to pull
this out. But Kevin Brown, I don't know if
he's going to do it. And I remember thinking, oh,
God, he might be right. This is think.
Yeah. And by the way, hold on and and,
and Javi Vasquez later on that night, you want, you want to let
not laugh, but you want to really cry.
You reference that night. So obviously for those who I
mean, I know you know, but for those who don't know, Yanks are
up 3 zip kicking the shit out of the Red Sox.
They come back the most epic collapse of all time in
baseball. And that night, so that was the
night before that you're referencing when I was doing the
show. So the next night when they're
actually playing the game. Now, what I would do is I would
go on after the game and go for like 3-4 hours.
Matter of fact, that night my program director called me up
during the commercial, said, hey, if you want to go till 6:00
AM and literally hand it off to Mike and Mike in the morning,
you could do it. I said I'm in.
I said I actually said Mike and Mike and I'll stay on all day,
but he wasn't having that anyway.
So I would go in. I had two choices.
I could sit in my apartment. I lived in Manhattan on the
Upper West Side, sit in my apartment and jot and do my
notes like I like I would do for football Sundays or go into the
studio get something to eat, put it on the screen and do my notes
there. Now I would go into the studio
because if I did it from home, invariably I would be on the one
train at some point and I might miss something so I couldn't be
having that Long story short, I actually where is it?
It's in my man cave. I otherwise I would pull it off
the wall now to show you I had a picture is when I'm single right
had a picture of Babe Ruth that'll long time friend of mine
who I met in Detroit, who I would call my Jewish my Jewish
grandfather great guy anyway really his wife took care of me
made super just rest in peace love Bob great guy Bobby and he
gave me this black and white Babe Ruth picture that I've
always treasured. It's in my man cave now and I
had it hanging in my apartment and as I'm walking out of my
apartment to go to get the one train to get down to 2 Penn
Station where my station where my radio station was.
I'm like, I just I don't feel good about this game, even
though I said I felt good the day before.
I take it off the wall. I bring it on the one train with
me. I'm holding this Babe Ruth.
I was out of my mouth 20 whatever that thirty.
I was out of my freaking mind, especially then, and I'm
carrying this on the one train and I affixed it to the top of
the TV in in the studio at 10:50 ESPN Radio and we got the living
shit drained out of us, man. But I tried, I tried, I tried
everything that I can do. But yes.
So you've been with me for a minute.
Thank you. Buddy, Yeah.
And I listen and I listen to that, that, that next, that
after game seven, that was yeah. So I was out.
I was I was locked in. But I actually have a Knicks
question, So let me ask you something.
So the whole season the Knicks are saying, hey, we're going to
play it. We're going to play cool.
Mitch Robinson, we're going to give him days off when he's not
going to play back to backs. We're going to start him off the
season missing the first seven games and then in a pivotal game
three, he plays 9 minutes and on the last play of the game where
we need a defensive stop, he's got Deuce McBride and the
shortest line if you've ever seen and Mitch Robertson nailed
to the bench. Can you make that make sense?
To me, I think that Mike Brown was awful again last night with
no adjustments and a ridiculously dumb rotation, much
like he's done this series and a too many points during the
season. Like he's just, he's just a mess
and he's been a mess, man. I mean, really, I, I know that
Anthony, how many times have you heard people say, oh, I could
win with this team, right? You know how a lot of I could
win 50I I mean, I actually I kind of believed that I could
have won at least 45 with this Knicks team, don't you?
I mean what that go get 30 Hey Cat, go get 20 Bridges and and
OG play defense and hit some threes.
Hey Deuce when you're healthy, come off the bench and take ten
shots and go get 13 points. Mitch play 20 minutes, get 12
rebounds, 6 offensive, 3 thunks and when they come to foul you
get rid of the ball. What the Hell's so hard about
it? And the East stinks too, so they
were. These were easy wins to.
Get. I don't think, no, no, I don't
think it stinks. I think what Nick fans expected
the East to be. They thought it might stink
because of the Tatum injury and Halliburton going down and maybe
the Cavs not ready for prime time and the Magic a little
young and the Hawks not really in consideration at that point.
The Heat a mess. The East doesn't stink.
I mean, I believe whomever comes out of the Eastern Conference is
going to have a chance to win the championship.
I'm not going to say Thunder in four or Denver in four.
I, I, I don't feel I could be wrong.
I think the East is better than you think, and I think it's
better than a lot of people think.
But ultimately, we'll find out, right?
Fair enough. Yeah, man, I good talking to you
and one one more quick thing on the next I'll make I'll make it
quick. You good man?
Yeah, yeah. And so another Mike Brown
situation have for me is that when I knew, and I want to ask
you what you think about this. I knew when he came in and he
said, hey, in my offensive system, the five has to
sacrifice the most. Don't you think that that was an
issue from day one, when our highest paid player and arguably
our best or second best player is the guy who has to sacrifice
the most in? Offense, it's absolutely
idiotic. I mean it.
Yes, I do. That's the short answer.
I agree. That's where you've got to make
some concessions and that's where you we got to coach around
what you view like you. You can't be that rigid.
Thanks for the call, man. I really appreciate.
Yeah. Thanks for being with me for
that long. My God, You're referencing stuff
in 0403. That's an OG right there. 04,
obviously the Red Sox series. Yeah.
What do you want me to tell you? I mean, the guy who's got to
make the adjustment is the 7th man.
I ain't playing that much because we're going to win a
championship and instead of playing 25 minutes on a shitty
team, you're going to play 9 minutes on a good team like
that. That's the adjustment.
That's the concession. I'll give you another example.
You look at all these Yankees starters, right?
I just ran through this before Schlittler, Warren Weathers,
heal, freed slither again last night.
That is sixth straight epic starts.
And the Yankees statistically, from a pitching perspective, are
just crushing it right now. Number one in the array and all
the other stats I mentioned. But somebody I listen, I don't
care if these guys do this for the next 20 games, somebody's
going to the bullpen when Garrett Cole comes back.
Like that's a concession that is worthy of the situation because
Garrett Cole's a future Hall of Famer, a Cy Young winner, and
he's making 30 something, 1030 something, $1,000,000 a year.
And it doesn't matter what happens.
You could have 7 no hitters in a row.
When Garrett Cole is deemed healthy, Garrett Cole will be in
the rotation. Lock promise guaranteed.
So whether it's weathers or heal or even Warren, whatever it
might be concession, you're going to the bullpen because we
got a horse coming in that we want and we need.
That's not that's not congruent to, you know, having your first
or with certain things and certainly your second best
offensive player standing at the, you know, in the corner or
just standing, you know, behind the three-point line, hoping he
gets involved, hoping somebody throws him a bone.
You know, it, it, it really is. It really is ridiculous, man.
Let's see here. Shame in the ear.
Shame in here. Check it in 7058.
Full disclosure, my brother-in-law.
What's up, bro? Wait, you can't, you can't, you
can't hit me with a super chat, you cheap bastard.
He's got to take the cheap way out.
Shame in the ear. All right, Yeah, He is from
Wichita Falls, which is where they are in Texas, about an hour
and a half outside of Dallas. Jets going to go get the Wichita
Falls linebacker Jacob Rodriguez, who, as we all know,
and Shane, I know, you know, this used to be a quarterback.
Yeah. I I mean, a lot of Jet fans are
pining for him. I love him.
His story's amazing. He's about as good as a young
man and very deeply rooted in faith.
Got married young, went from quarterback, so you know, he
knows the game hits like a Mack truck.
He's a gamer, but and and if The Jets get him, I'll be pumped.
And whoever gets him, I'm going to say good move, but I, Jets
need a corner. I, I believe more than a
linebacker. But maybe they can swing another
trade and maybe get 2 guys tonight.
I I don't know. But yeah, I love them.
Cheap bastard. Come on man, those super chat,
this guy at Avery Summit is G. That's the only one I'm going to
ask for super chat from you. Is Gino being stable?
Wait, is Gino being stable going to make it impossible for The
Jets to get the quarterback they want in 2027 or the three picks
they have will enable them to move up wherever they want at
Avery Summit? Avery, I always checks in
appreciate you buddy. I've said this for a while.
I don't need to expand on a too long I understand the dilemma
like if The Jets were I mean with this offense it's it's not
completely inconceivable. Now, I'm also bypassing things
that worry me, like many aspects of The Jets defense and Aaron
Galen is a head coach. But like, if The Jets went nine
and eight or 8-9 or even 7 and 10, you know, you're not in that
1234567 threshold. You're gonna have to move up.
But they are going to be able to take whatever they want with
those three first round picks. And you know, really I would say
get what? Do whatever they want.
I'm just trying to pop something up here.
That's why I was a little distracted.
Hang on, I'll say. Hey, Jay, if I just pop
something up here, you can still see me, right?
Yeah, wait, what are you popping up?
No, just something I want to get.
I want to I. Want to just Yeah, yeah, yeah.
OK. I didn't know if it was
interrupting. I didn't think it was, but I
just want to make sure all right, So I'm looking at it this
way, right. Let me let me look at maybe this
is a better way to do it. Let me look at the draft from
last night, all right, and let me look at all right.
So so obviously if you had that 7-8 win season, Avery's point is
on point. You're going to have to hurdle a
bunch of teams, but solution. You have the draft capital to do
it, obviously. But the other thing that ties in
you know who is even? At the top of this draft for
2020. Now, this is a massive
projection, but because nobody thought the Raiders would be
this bad with Pete Carroll, right, and Gino and Bowers,
etcetera, and a good running back.
So you never really know. But who do we anticipate being
bad and bad enough to be at the top of the draft next year that
needs a quarterback? Like there's two questions.
Do The Jets have enough capital to move up?
There's no doubt. Everybody knows that.
Now, let me project a little bit.
Let's say the Raiders think again.
Mendoza gets his head kicked in, even if he's going to be really
good. Let's say the Raiders think.
But then I'll take it, a quarterback.
Don't worry about the Raiders. All right?
The Jets have the second pick. Don't worry about them.
The Cardinals, all right? You got to worry about the
Cardinals. The Cardinals would absolutely
take a quarterback. The Titans would not.
I like Cam Ward. The Giants would not.
I love Jackson Dart. The Chiefs obviously moved up
for Mansoor. Delane.
Love him. Love Mahomes.
He's not taking him. Jaden Daniels, I know he's been
a bit banged up. Commanders at 7.
They're not taking a quarterback.
I know the Saints like Chuck and I do too, but that's a situation
I would say maybe certainly. I mean, if it if it, especially
if it's Arch Manning and whose dad played for the Saints,
that's going to be tough to pass up.
So they would not trade with you.
You got to circle them the Browns.
I mean, I'm I'm not a big shudor Sanders fan.
I'm not a big shudor Sanders believer, all right.
But who knows? I mean, he was a Pro Bowler this
year and and if he's you know, they'll they'll get they'll get
their final answer on him. You got to worry about the
Browns taking the quarterback. Giants have another pick.
Forget about them. Dallas would not take a
quarterback that high, not with Dak Miami just gave money.
So they're not doing that. The Rams have Stafford and have
and just wrapped the Ty Simpson, the Ravens have Lamar.
I mean, the Bucks love Mayfield and they'll be nowhere near and
they should. Like he's not going to win a
championship with Baker, but he's a stud, he's tough, he's a
leader, he's good. You know, great pick with Ruben
Bayne last night. They're not going to be in a
position to get a quarterback, nor would they take one if they
are. Same with the Lions.
They're not doing it. Vikings.
Vikings could. Yeah, Vikings could, even though
they just did it a couple years ago with McCarthy.
I think the Panthers are more and more satisfied with Bryce
Young and then they get to, I mean, the Steelers obviously
could if they had a bad year and they move up.
So I think that that's part of the calculus as well.
All right, I just want to throw that out there for you next call
Jay. What do you have here?
We need a couple more. Start wrapping things up.
Matt from Tampa, Maddie from Tampa.
Is he a fan of the Ruben Bayne pick?
I don't even know if he's a Bucks fan.
What's up, Matt? No, no, no, no.
How you doing guys? Thank you for taking my call.
Big fan. Been watching you since the
wheelhouse. Love all your.
Takes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. About the Weezy, you'll see that
little Emmy behind me. That's from SNY.
I was wondering where that was from.
I didn't know if it was from your radio station or like
that's no, no, the Emmys, fantastic.
The Emmys. The Emmys for TV?
No. What I what I got from my radio
station was a pink slip that's hanging on the other trophy
case. I wish you all the best.
I hope this takes off and I hope the next this time next year
you're on Spotify making some cash and enjoying life.
So we are. I appreciate that.
We are on Spotify, we are on Apple, not making a lot of cash
off it yet, but we are download away.
So if you can't watch the video version, obviously Spotify,
Apple downloadable, it's cranking out every day.
Go get it. What's going on, buddy?
How are you, Matt? I'm doing great.
So quick two questions one's for no rules Friday.
So I know we picked up on some great players and Glenn needs to
win and to keep his job. But how do you see us winning
enough games for him to keep a job, keeping the team going in
the right direction, but also like you were just taking on it,
really getting a good quarterback for next year
because, you know, I know we have assets, but you know, you
also need that play or that team to, you know, dance with you.
That's true. If that, if that, if that, if
that quarterback isn't there for us and we can't get it.
What do you see? What do you see?
The plan for getting maybe a trade or you know, are are we
pretty much screwed if that's the.
Case and then no, no, no, I don't mad.
I don't mean to interrupt you that I don't think The Jets are
screwed with anything because number one, at least on paper,
they're entering 2026 with a competent starting quarterback,
something they haven't had for a long time #1 so they're not
screwed there #2 next year's a great quarterback draft.
The Jets absolutely control the draft board.
Not screwed there. And even if Gino, let's say you
get more Raiders Gino than Seattle Gino, right?
Which I don't think you will, but you say if you do.
And let's say that The Jets or at a spot because Glenn wins
just enough to keep his job and they can't move up because the
Browns want a quarterback or the Vikings or the Cardinals, right?
They just, they won't make a trade with you #1 There's more
than one potentially great quarterback, number one.
But #2 or #3 now you've got to look around the rest of the NFL
and if things go the way I think they're going to go offensively
from a cohesion point of and a personnel point of view, well,
now you might be able to entice another veteran to say, Get Me
Out of a situation like Joe Burrow.
I mean, I, I know that that's easy radio or easy content trade
for Joe Burrow. But, you know, if he if they
lose again and the Jet shows some signs and some promise, Joe
Burrow seems to like the spotlight.
And Joe Burrow is no dummy. I mean, you look at this Jets
offensive personnel, it's pretty damn.
Now he's got good offensive personnel as well.
And since he it's the defense that stinks.
But I I think that there's a multitude of options and
opportunities for The Jets to get their quarterback
eventually. I don't think they're screwed at
all. OK, OK, cool.
And for my No Rules Friday, I think about this a lot as this
is my top what if in sports as a Yankee fan, I don't know if this
is yours. You could tell me what yours is.
But if you can answer this, when, how often 'cause I, I
don't know how, if you've ever taken this take on the radio,
how often do you think about the 94 Yankees, 70 and 43?
You know, Jimmy Key? Paul O'Neill.
Oh yeah. You know, yeah, yeah, His last
this was, that was his last really good chance at post
season and really doing something.
Oh no, no, that's not true. No, that's not true. 95 was
because he hit 417 against Seattle.
They just close three games straight.
But I, I got you. Now listen, I mean, come on.
I'm, I'm in my early 50s. I'm a husband, I'm a dad.
I'm busy. I'm not waking up thinking about
the 94 Yankee. I'd be lying to you if I said
that. But I I do whenever I talk about
the Yankees that it becomes a part of the conversation it it's
always triggered by the fact that the Yankees were undeniably
the best team in the American League and the Expos were a
great team in the NL and that that very well might have been
Don's best chance to get to the World Series.
You know, I think more about thanks for the call there,
Maddie. Appreciate you checking in for
you. You got it, man.
I think more about them looking at I'm looking at Maddie Lee's
jersey that I have framed that I've got to find the new spot
for. I'll probably bring it back to
the man cave. If you if you remember, if you
were here early for the shows, it was behind me.
I got to get back in the man cave, but the the Mattingly
thing, like what, what I when I think about my youth for sure,
you know, when I think about my early inspirations as a player,
you know how I wanted to comport myself as a player.
You know, he was no no frills, you know, no low maintenance.
I mean, I only wish I could have been as good as him, obviously,
but like those other characteristics that that I
could try to emulate being a hard worker.
You know, I, I, I picked a great childhood hero.
I mean, I, I absolutely love the guy and to this day I will still
every once in a while slap it on YouTube naughty baseball
highlights. I just can't get enough.
And I've seen every single one. You know, grand slams, upper
deck shots when Yankee Stadium was empty off the Red Sox or,
you know, catching pop ups down the right field line at old
Tiger Stadium where he's basically in right field.
We're making a similar play and stopping on a dime and throwing
A1 hopper to the plate, nailing somebody, tagging up.
I can still see him making plays in the left field and winning
the batting title in 84 with A5 hopper against the Tigers.
You know, or he went, we hit 343 and Dave Winfield for the
second. I mean, I love the guy.
I I the the listen, the best compliment that I could give any
athlete is that like, I of course I wanted to be Don
Mattingly on, you know, we all have those, those dreams when
we're kids. But like, I actually patterned
my like, even the way I would throw the ball sounds insane.
Even the way I would throw the ball around the infield as a
first baseman, he would throw it off like 1 foot, you know, kind
of like, you know, fire. It's a shortstop, you know, and
he would do something with his glove.
He would always kind of flip his glove after a play.
And I would do the same thing. I would always wear the eye
black, you know, I would do that little shoulder thing.
Not quite the same swing, but you know, I would give you a
little little shoulder flap. It's my idol, man.
I mean, Francesa had Mantle, you know, and that that was my guy.
So. But I don't think about my I
think more about probably 95 because of the way they lost and
how and I went to those games. I was at every playoff game at
home that year for Mattingly. There's no way I was going to
miss his playoffs. Matter of fact, I remember going
to my college coach and saying, Hey, you know, skip and it was
just it was during the fall season.
And I'm like, can we, you know, can we end either can we end
practice early or can we not have practice?
I forget what it was. You know, a couple of us have
Yankee tickets. We're going to watch Donnie's
like, hey, go ahead, go ahead. You know, we just got the car
and sit down and just put nuts and yeah, I mean, when he went
yard, it was absolutely punkers. Wow.
Yeah. I mean, I just.
I were here with a guy. He's everything that's right
about baseball, you know, humble.
And when he was healthy, he was Stan Mutual.
There's no other way to put it. He was my generation stand.
There's nobody that can convince me that Stan Mutual was better
than Mattingly in his prime. I just.
You could try. It's not having it.
J Rod, what do you have on the old agenda tonight there, buddy?
What do we got going? On tonight, what's up?
I think me and my boy are getting some drinks, so we'll
see what's up. Other than that though, nothing
much. I mean, yeah, get some drinks.
Have a good night. Just have a Good Friday.
Oh wait, what the hell am I saying?
What the hell am I saying? Hey, you got a basketball game
maybe to watch tonight? Yeah.
Yes. Come on, Jake.
What am I? I?
I forgot. I forgot where I was for a
second. I forgot.
It's all right. You were covered.
Let me get, let me and seen. Let me get into character here.
Come on now. Character, come on now.
No, I mean, I absolutely cannot wait for that Celtics Sixers
game. That's going to be so, so high.
So, yeah, very excited for that. It's a good weekend ahead.
I mean, tomorrow, you know, let's get lit, get Litty, go to
a, have some fun. There you go.
Yeah. It's going to rain all day
tomorrow, going to rain all day, all day and all night, which
means the entire baseball tournament will be wiped out.
Matter of fact, tomorrow we were scheduled to have our.
This is on the rec level, right? We do a nice parade and the kids
walk around and stuff. Yeah, the older the kids get,
the less interested they are in doing it.
But it's still a kick because I coach my daughter's softball
team. We won last night.
And, you know, everybody makes a sign and everybody makes a sign.
And you walk, you walk past the fire department.
It's cool. And they have music and they
have a DJ and they have, like, bagels and, you know, coffee and
Donuts. But they moved it up to tonight.
And because tomorrow's going to be it's going to literally rain
all day and all night. So tonight, and I'm I'm gonna
you know, he's got his team too. He's but he's I'm gonna walk
with her team. So I've got that tonight.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I'll do that. And then I was looking forward
to watching him and his boys play baseball tomorrow, but
we're getting no baseball. And then obviously we got some
action on Sunday. A lot of NBANFL draft tonight.
You know, you just never know what Muji like you can't check
out on The Jets at all. Like I, I got so involved in the
Knicks stuff really, to be totally honest with you guys, I
didn't find out about the Cooper pick until 15 minutes after it
because I was watching the Knicks.
The Knick post game on MSGI was I was breathing fire after that.
And I kind of checked out of the draft a little bit once the
obviously the, The Jets made their pick at 16.
And then I'm like, God, I'll go back and forth.
And then I forgot the toggle back because, you know,
obviously he was on Amazon. And then you have the different,
you know, different outlets to stream and then back to
conventional TV. Then I went upstairs.
I'm like, let me put on MSU and my guy Han and Wally and
everybody. And I watched that Mike Brown's
pathetic press conference. He was his press conference was
embarrassing last night. He's like, yeah, I told
everybody it's A7 game series. And that, you know, a lot of
champions have, you know, I'm not saying we'll win the
championship. He actually said he's like, I'm
not saying we're going to win the championship, dude.
How about you say nothing? How about you zip it?
How about you be quiet, Dude? I thought you just say, you know
what? We got to play better.
Like how last night would have
been a good night, but he just doesn't have this juice and it's
not his personality. The way they got their asses
handed to him in the first half and the way they melted from an
execution point of view late last night would have been the
part, especially coming off a loss in Game 2 at home.
Last night's the perfect night to to have this demeanor.
You know what, Jay? Why don't you?
I'm going to be Mike Brown here. All right, so you asked me a
question about. Yeah.
Your thoughts, Coach? On on on game three.
However you want to frame on Mike Brown postgame.
Knicks lose again. So, MM Brown, yeah, Joe, Joe
Smith from the Athletic here, you know, what are you, what are
your thoughts on the on the end of that game right there, Just,
you know, the game in total, the scope for the rest of the
series. Honestly, Joe, my thoughts are
we got to be a lot tougher. We got to be a lot tougher.
When you wear that Nick uniform with those colors and the
history of this franchise, it's always been rooted in toughness.
And I see a lot of guys right now going in different
directions. So I'll be honest, Joe, it
doesn't matter what my interpretation of the game was.
If we don't get our heads out of our asses, we're losing all
right? And understand this, this is all
about a championship. We're not trying to go through
the side door. We have built what I believe is
a championship team and I can only do so much.
Those guys in that room, they better wake up because there's
too many guys on that's in in that room right now who are OK
with the way that this series is going.
That's not how championships, that's how champions are built.
They better look themselves and I got to be better as well.
Be fair. I got to be better as well, and
I will be. But when we take the floor game
four, if we take the floor the same way, we will lose again
just because we won 50 whatever games.
There's no assurances here. The Knicks are entitled to
nothing. The Knicks really are entitled
to play at least two more games. That's all.
We're entitled given the schedule and given where we are.
So it's go time, if it's time to wake up and it is time to start
playing Nick basketball because what I watched tonight, I don't
know what the hell that was. Bang.
Then you walk away. You know what I mean?
Dude, I'm I'm fired up right now from that.
Let's. Go.
You got to ham it up a little bit for the cameras, J Rod, Let
everybody know you're serious, you know, maybe, maybe take a
stat sheet and kind of fling it. You know, got to do something,
Jay. Dude, that was no, that was,
that was he. That was a great clip right
there. Yeah.
Wait, we got Johnny? Quite not quite unkillable.
What do I have? What he?
He went on J Rod, you need a drop when BT starts reminiscing.
I I agree. I agree.
What do you, what do you think would be like a good song for
that? Something that you know, still
pay, you know still respectful of you and your time and of the
floor bite that. Yeah.
Comedic bite to. It yeah, yeah, I don't, I don't
even think that it's like a song.
I think it's just something like back in the day, like, I don't
know exactly what's everybody. And I think we have to have
something for a short story made long by BT Like, yeah, we got to
get this guys. Start throwing those drops in
there, buddy. Let's go.
That's on you. You're the creative genius
through the engine behind the show.
I'm just a talent on the air or the other stuff.
I I I don't do that. That's you.
Thanks for taking my call. One last one.
How much better is your son at baseball than you were at his
age? Matthew Fan of Doris.
Want to see that one? He gave a little super chat
there. Matthew Fan of Dor 3048.
How much? Yeah, You're welcome.
How much better is he than than than when I was at my age or
when, I'm sorry, when I was at his age?
How much better is he? He's without question better.
I think what he's got to learn is he's got to learn to deal
with failure better, you know, because baseball is going to
bring a lot of it. Incredibly intense athlete,
which I love. Incredibly smart athlete, which
I love, and talented, just better than me.
Also a different kind of player. I played shortstop up until I
was about 13. But you know, he he could be
there. He, he could be a shortstop his
entire baseball life. Like I just didn't have the
quickness. I didn't have that stuff right.
I think I had a slightly better arm at this age.
I was going to say I had more power, but he's he's starting to
put a couple of balls over the fence a little bit.
Definitely, definitely a superior athlete.
I mean, whether it's the basketball court or the football
field, he's just, he's just better.
Now the difference in my dad says the same thing.
I remember asked my dad like last year, my hey, how is where
was I? He's like, not even close.
But the whole world's changed because there's more
sophisticated training. So I think a lot, even though I
played Division 1 and I know for sure he is without a doubt
better than me. And I want him to be just like I
want my daughter to be better and more successful at
everything. That's what you want as a dad.
If you're a dad and you're hoping that you're better than
your son as an athlete of your daughter, you're a loser.
You think the exact opposite. I went, I want them and I love
Maris. Maris is a great school.
I want them to aspire for Ivy Leagues if that's in their
future. I played mid major Division One
baseball. Aspire to play in the SEC dream,
you know, but I it's, it's funny watching them play, man, it
really is. I'll give you an example right
The so the other night he's playing a game and we really the
last he asked me about 2-3 weeks ago, J Rod, he's like that.
I want to start getting up early in the morning now.
Now he's got like a hitting coach where he once a week and
and a pitching coach once a week.
And you know, he still doesn't happen with all these games.
But and he was he had like a strength training guy.
He was going to twice a week was great, Bobby, but we had to dial
that back because of the season. Anyway, he he's locked in,
right, But he took it to another level and I'm hey, you're old
enough, man. He just turned 11.
If you want to be great, you, you got to go get it yourself.
You know, I put the ball in your hands.
I thought you had to catch. I thought you had to do some
stuff. Now it's on you or I put you in
a good path and God gave you good talents.
Go do what you got to do. And the other night this, this,
I'll say where, where I say he's got to learn how to deal with
the failure stuff. And I think a lot of parents go
through this, right? So we're playing a game and his
first step bat, he as a righty hitter, he hits A1 hop off the
off the right field fence. Now it's right baseball, but
this is Rex, so I'm not making more of it than it is.
But it's things that we've worked on, which is the .1 hop
laser off the right field fence double.
Next step, bat line drive up the middle one, hop to the center
fielder right through the box. Next step bat, pulled his hands
in like a one or two really hard hit.
It was in the outfield. Third baseman had no chance.
Base it right, right field, center field, left field,
everything. When I talk about the Yankees
and I talk about batting averages and all these things K
rate like that, that it's it's it's an early extension of what
I'm talking about like the guys who hit for average or players.
I'm not even talking about him now that can use foul pole to
foul pole hit it where it's pitch right.
So he he did it. I was really proud of him and he
was pitched. I wanted to get a let him get a
little work on cuz he's got a he's got to get a feel for his
change up. It just doesn't have it yet.
So, and again, it's wreck. But the other team has a couple
of good hitters, one of whom is a couple of whom is his buddies
that he plays club ball with. And I called for a change up and
his buddy hit a rocket off him. And he was so fucking pissed at
me that I pulled the change up and he allowed that, you know,
to basically usurp all of the good that he did that night.
And I'm like, no, that that that's got to be a learning
moment. Like you even yesterday's like I
don't know why you called the change up.
I'm like, all right, did you figure it out then?
Because I've been calling pitches since you were seven and
it's worked out pretty well. You know, Zoe hit you change up
because you change up sucks because you put it right over
the heart of the plate. Really good hitter.
And he didn't have your A+ fastball that night.
So I didn't think you're going to throw it by him.
That's why they called it. No, it's like, but no, he's he's
more talented. But what does it mean?
I mean, you could be more talented than me, but I tell him
doesn't mean you're going to play D1.
You better figure you know that's on you.
You want it. If you want to do it, it's on
you. So tonight, this is the second
time this day this week that I got a knock on on our bedroom
door at 6:45. Let's go in the basement.
Now he wants now he wants to hit in the morning.
Little medicine bulwark. Some push ups, some some box
jumps. Dang, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I got to get all my stuff bro. Dude and I'm so tired.
I can't be getting outworked out here.
This is crazy. If it was to do anything else
like my wife's like, oh, you got to get up early and go to the
store. Be like, oh, God, I'm exhausted.
Or, you know, you got to get up and whatever it might be, you
know? But when that door knocked and
if my daughter did it as well, I'd be able to say, oh, you want
to go practice? Let's go.
Who the hell is blowing me up right now?
What's going on here? Jeez, my God almighty, who's
texting a lot of people? All right, I got like 9 texts.
Anything good? Let me see any anything good
here? All right.
OK, got a couple there. All right.
Yeah. What is this?
OK, yeah, a lot of things I got to react to couple things on the
baseball scene that ironically enough.
But hey, have an awesome weekend, everybody.
J Rod and Drew yourself, buddy. Great.
Great week this week. Really good job again juggling
the phones. He's got it down a lock.
So last Friday was the first time we took calls and I don't
know what do we take, 10 or 12 today?
So it is now officially a part of the show, which is
phenomenal. Nice cross section.
Not even old domestic calls calling from the UK.
What else? Here, one more I'll take care of
them. Let your catcher let your
catcher call the game. Well, yes and no, dude.
I mean they they don't get me going on this.
I mean, I I hear you, Brian, but when you know you're 11 years
old and the kid who was catching at that moment is is more of a
shortstop bit of Linfield are never really caught before and
doesn't even really know what pitches Cole throws.
I'm going to call pitches. But no, obviously you get I
mean, eventually dad is not going to be coaching much more.
Get to high school. You get to wherever you go club
ball. I don't call them in club.
You got coaches for that? But no, and I don't just call
him for him. I called him for the travel team
that I coach. I don't coach rec anymore.
Coach my daughter's rec. I call because I I could read
swings now. If you don't like the change up
that I called the other day, buddy, then read the swings
better and figure it out yourself.
I was going to just that's it. My, my wife's like don't sit
behind home plate anymore. I'm like, yeah, OK, When I sit
behind home plate that he strikes out the side, it's not a
problem. When I'm sitting behind home
plate and he throws a flat change up that gets rocked, it's
my fault. Hey, it's like I can't win.
It's crazy. Dude, I guess it's just a
universal experience, man. My mom and with my dad and my
brother were like the exact and you know, he's no shave, but
like he at that age, at 11, he probably wasn't like a superstar
hitting bombs or anything like that.
But my dad would be going at this dude the whole game because
my brother pitched as well. Oh yeah, He was just going hard
on this kid. And my mom would be like Bobby,
Bobby, just sit on the. Bleachers Yeah yeah, My mom
didn't say anything during the games man, I was just scared
shit of my dad like I you know and and he was he actually
stopped coaching me in baseball very young and then as you know
I'm not going to get into it now.
He coached me for basketball for a long time and and I was you
know he didn't mess He was great coach and and we were good and I
followed instruction outside the one time I fired the jersey at
the wall. I told you that story last week
and he almost ripped my head off, but he didn't really coach
me for He was my dad got to a point where in high school and
even and in college he because of where I played, like at
Marist, he would be able to drive from Brooklyn to like
Monmouth or down to Ryder or obviously like Wagner, Liu Saint
Francis when they had a team in Brooklyn, obviously like Iona,
like all the local, he'd go to every game and he would just sit
in his chair with his newspapers and he'd have a sandwich, you
know, in between a doubleheader bottle the Gatorade and and just
watch and not say anything, you know, but everybody's different.
All good. So hey, have an awesome weekend,
guys. J Rod again, good week here.
Like it, Subscribe and get it out there.
Let everybody know what's going down.
More calls obviously next week. A lot of baseball.
Let's see if the Mets could turn this little mini 2 game win
streak into something real. Yankees are rocking right now.
Yankees pitching looks phenomenal.
Maybe Jazz. Maybe that's a little foreshadow
of things to come. Be locked into the draft again
tonight. Maybe Mooji's going to cook up a
little something different. There's some some good corners
to be had by a lot of a lot of teams out there.
So it is an awesome sports weekend.
Unfortunately, it's going to be very wet in the in the
Northeast, but enjoy it and I am back on Monday.
Have a great weekend Unleashed fan.
We'll see. You know, I appreciate you guys.
Bye bye.