 Guys, what's up? We're here on Sportsman like conduct another week of sports to talk to you guys and I will say we miss you a lot last week and it's been. Yeah. It's been a week. Sure has a week. It sure has. Yeah, it feels a little weird to be talking about sports right now but. Yeah, it's been a week guys. What you got to do I guess. And where shall we start. I know they missed us talking about crying all week so. I know. Right. Just a mess, just a collective mess to say the least, cried more times and have a beer. But we get to hang out with you guys so. Hi everybody. Should we just go right into the fact that the Warriors most likely are going to sweep tonight. Should we just get that right off. We'll just start off with the Warriors dynasty. Yeah, it's here. It's here to stay for a while it looks like I thought it was long gone but guess what they fooled us. If you thought they fell off. Man you were, you were wrong it seems like it. We're back to like 2016 type. Well back to 2016 that might be good for you. Hey, well that's why that's why I said that right like it might be good for you so. That's why I said that. But yeah, I mean, a hand up I totally thought that the maps could have made this a series and potentially want it. Very well. Did we not all think that. I guess, maybe this is a sign for, you know, Mark Cuban and the rest of the maps organization top to bottom to realize that what they've got is great. Not enough specifically in Luca but it's not enough and they need to get him help but at the same time. The things that I've seen like Jason kids say that, you know, nobody thought we would be here so this is just like a really amazing accomplishment for us. No, shut up. Western Conference finals. Like that's where you gotta settle into reality with that you know what I mean like you can you can say that throughout the regular season I guess I get it like you didn't think you were supposed to be here but guess what you are. Like either go with it, or go home. It looks like you're going home. Yeah, well yeah that's the reality of the situation is they, if they push this to seven games if they are able to do the impossible make this go seven games like, I'll gladly, I'll gladly take back everything I just said but that's not going to happen. Yeah, the Warriors are going to the finals Warriors are going to the finals for the millionth time. And I hate that. Well, on the opposite end. Well, on the opposite end of that. We have maybe the worst series in sports history I've ever watched. What the hell is going on in this series. I don't know. I hated every minute of this. And the main reason why is because the Celtics very easily could have swept. I won that series last night to so easily. You look at game one, they come out firing at all cylinders. That second half of that game. It's like you put a men's league basketball team out there playing against the heat. It was sickening game to the blow them out. If not the most embarrassing loss, home loss in Miami heat history. Game three, everybody's playing like shit. Yes somehow cut the deficit to one. And you just choke it away again. You don't even get it. And then yesterday, yesterday they blew him out again. The starting five for the Miami heat had 18 points collectively 18 points. I almost did so they didn't make a field goal until what like three minutes left in the first. Yeah, I was what 18 one point 18 one was like five minutes left in the first. I didn't even think they were going to get to 10. Like, I didn't even think they were going to get to 10 in the first. This whole series is just so, so it makes so much sense that this is happening though because this is kind of like the deaf this series is like the definition of this like the Celtic season as a whole. The beginning of the year, obviously couldn't figure their shit out we've talked about this. Right. Or at such how, like, for whatever reason, and then not just this year but last year before that the third quarter for the Celtics is like, I don't understand why they have so many problems but it's, it's, it's confusing it's frustrating I have never, not never but I can't remember the last time I've been this like hot and cold when it comes to my attitude watching a game, a basketball game I should say football we obviously know how I am during that. And it's just now Marcus smart is her and we don't know if he's going to be available tomorrow or at the rest of the series. That's another issue with that series though because you don't know who's going to play you don't know who's going to get hurt. Someone could literally trip over their own feet running down the court and they could be out for the series at this point I would say yeah that makes sense. It's just like Jason Tatum had a stinger shoulder like his arm is going to fall off. Like, Jimmy Butler I didn't know where just didn't come back for the second half like I don't know what screaming he was screaming on the floor I thought he was done. I'm like, I'm going to cut the cameras cut the cameras get that man off the floor right now I don't want to see that I don't want to see the replay. He plays the rest of the game. Thought it was Gordon hammered all over again that's what it looked like because if you watch the replay his ankle is. I couldn't watch a degree angle. I can't watch any injury close my eyes I was like, I saw the replay and I'm like, oh shit, like he's done. He's done. He had to get carried to the locker room. And then he came back out. Okay. They must have like shot him with some kind of pain medication. But then seeing everybody saying like, oh, he faked it he pulled up all Pierce blah, blah, blah, blah, like, please, his ankle was facing the opposite direction. Paul Pierce had to. Oh my God, I don't want to hear any, any comparison right like a Lamar Jackson Paul Pierce number. Yeah, exactly. Having to go to the bathroom and having your ankle facing the other way is not even comparable. So please. Okay, so if the Celtics win. Let's just put this in a hypothetical the Celtics win. Go on to play the Warriors what's your finals prediction. Celtics and seven. Celtics and seven. I, I like. Now, please, for the love of God get through the Miami Heat first. Right. But for the sake of hypotheticals, I really like how the Celtics play the Warriors. The last few times that they've played they've actually beat them and that included like a year coming off of a championship and whatever when they still were supposed to be, you know, the Warriors. This team defensively is obviously really good. We know that Marcus smart one defensive player the year he is like first team all defense Robert Williams second team all defense like Al Horford last night decided to put on a clinic defensively Jason Tatum has really started to emerge as a defensive player we obviously know what he can do offensively whether he wants to do that night and night out remains to be seen but I, like I said before, I think we said this probably like a month ago at this point. The Warriors still scare me as a basketball team and we know 100% yeah maybe 10 minutes ago like it seems like they're back into like their regular form. But I like this Celtics team a lot as strictly looking at it from like a basketball perspective and not like oh I'm a fan of this team. If they play the way they played yesterday in the first half game to as a whole like they can beat anybody, anybody I don't care who's on the team. They can have a million stuff curries and I would, I would still think that the Celtics had a conceivable chance of winning so like I said get through the heat first, which I do think is going to happen I still am riding Celtics if it ends up going seven and obviously going to take Celtics and seven but But you're going Celtics. I think the Celtics won this series too. I, yeah, I think so too. I mean I think the Miami Heat are running out of everything that they can possibly do their players are all injured. None of them are healthy. Tyler Hero being out is like sneaky massive too. He plays the Celtics better than anybody. It's incredibly frustrating, but the fact that you know he was out yesterday I think made a really big difference because he's obviously lethal from three. He's six man a year and whatnot. And yeah, and I'm never going to be one to like celebrate injuries obviously but like it's a real big help. It's beneficial to your team. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And like, like this comment says as long as the Celtics don't beat themselves they should be able to beat the heat. If they 24 turnovers in one game like that was bad. Come on. You cut that in half and you win that game in half. I mean 12 is still a lot but I don't know. Let me put this and let me put this question out here for you. So let's say the Celtics don't make it on the Celtics don't go to the finals. Do what do they do who leaves who's gone. So the good thing about that hypothetical is pretty much everybody on this team is back for next year. Right. That's the point where I don't think you need to make any changes. Yeah. Because you look like you look at the first half of the season and they were crap nobody thought that they were going to be in the playoffs let alone the drama he had everything. Yeah, they were losing games that they should have won they were getting blown out by teams they shouldn't have been like pissing leads away like all of the above. Tatum secured for I think two more years. I feel like he just rides out his career as. Yeah, like I remember the Celtics I just don't see that they could ever like I just want that you could ever move off of Jason Tatum. No, it would be it would be really dumb it would be in terms of I feel like that's a moveable piece. See, I don't like the idea of breaking up Jalen and Jason and that was a really really hot topic around Christmas time. Yeah, I don't like it at all I think they compliment each other really well I think when one is off the other is on and that helps the team as a whole like the other night Tatum scored 10 points Jalen went off for 40. I know you know Jalen was pretty much the main factor and why the turnovers were as high as they were but like he put a 40 points scoring points and no one else is providing that. Yeah, like he was a major reason that that lead got cut to one point. And if Tatum just an ounce of him was on that game they could have won. So I think they balance each other out really well. You know when one's lacking one can pick up the slack. The only thing I think that they potentially would change and I think it would be stupid is Al Horford just because of his age just like he's getting a little old and I wouldn't be surprised either. He's not showing it. I mean, these obviously playing like a freak. But you don't know how sustainable that is. Exactly this could be like a one off thing. I feel like a James Harden and I don't know. I don't want Al to leave again. I love Al Horford I want him to retire with this team, but I could see that being an option this off season if they fall short if. Right. Best comment of the night so far. Jason is going to be a Celtic till Deuce joins the team. Let's hope so. Like how long do you think they let Deuce just run around and do whatever. So I'm shocked that they let him do it now. Right like he just runs on the court and does whatever he wants. I mean that's cool like that's awesome that he gets to do that. But at what point are they like Deuce you got to like get in a real seat. He's what he's four. I know he's a little guy he's really tiny. He's like three or four tiny but tall. Yeah oh my God he's. Well his dad's like almost seven feet tall so. Yeah because he grew a couple. But yeah it's some at some point they're going to have to be like yeah he can't be on like hanging on your leg during the National Anthem and stuff like he has to be like every other kid and sit on the sidelines because I love Deuce I love the fact that he's like the unofficial mascot of this team and everything really is. Sometimes it gets a little weird like people take it a little too far and it gets a little weird. But he's freaking adorable his dad is obviously the face of this basketball team and. He's going to be the most kid in his class. Oh God yeah. I do have pictures like that. He has a picture with everybody. Jason posted. It was a couple of weeks ago on his Instagram story and I remember I watched it and I was laughing hysterically. He was at like literally baseball practice or something and he was the tallest kid out there everybody else like came up to his hip. He was the biggest kid there. Funny. But yeah he's going to have to start to act like everybody else every other player's kid and just maybe. Unless maybe unless they kind of just. Just let him do whatever he wants. Like sweeps the like sweat off the floor just so he can stay courtside. His. His. In game antics though are hysterical he gets he gets so into it and like he's yelling at other teams and other players and stuff. I think I can't remember who it was I think it was. Jalen who dunked on somebody and he's like sitting courtside with his grandma and he did like the on his head thing like he's he's electric. Or would he like punch Marcus smart in the leg. I smacked Marcus in the ass. To that's too good. Continuing some Mavs Warriors talk. There was a question posted. And it said would you rather would you rather your team be sweat. Or lose game seven. I know what my answer is and my answer is I would rather get swept because I know what it's like to lose a game seven when you're up like three one and that is devastating like crushed me. It was one of the worst days of my life. Yeah. Game seven two thousand nineteen Stanley Cup playoffs. Yep. See a cup final actually to make it even worse. I cried for probably a week straight because of that and I still can't. I hold all the animosity in the world towards the St. Louis Blues even more so right now just because of the things that are going on but we'll get to that. Right. I would rather get swept. I would. I'd rather. No. Take the fact that like you stink so much that you got swept or like you just weren't completely off and you got swept then have that hope of actually winning just yanked away from you. Yeah. I'm getting swept. I'm getting swept because I lived through the Guardians. Game seven. That was awful. Imagine like your team loses in game seven of the World Series right after you won a three one lead and then you blow a three one lead and then two years later you lose your superstar shortstop and your pitcher who's recovering from cancer. And then they all say oh yeah we took a nap during the game and we didn't care. Yeah. So you can swap. I'm getting swept every time. Break out the brooms. I want nothing to do with a game seven loss just like the Mabs. Yeah. At this point like at least we'll have more time to enjoy himself even though people already ridicule him for that. Yeah. Also that picture was old. So why is everybody free. And even if he wanted a beer before the game. Who cares. He probably does anyways. He's the best player on that team. I don't think one beer is going to mess anything up. If you wanted three. Sure. I don't care. Do whatever you want. As long as you're playing well. You're not harming anybody. Do what you need to do. He's their best player. He knows it. They know it. Everybody knows it. Who cares. He can try the beer. He can try the boys before the game. What kind of player does Luca need to help them get to the finals. Interesting. I say they go for Dame. Really. Yeah I think that'd be cool. He needs to get the hell out of Portland. He needs to get the hell out of there. Like I don't know what he's still doing there. He's not playing. He's not doing anything. He's just chilling around making tiktoks with his wife. Not the wrong that the tiktoks are really good. But maybe make them in Texas. Well but that's like the similar situation. Bradley Beal. There's a rumor out there right now that he's about to sign a lot of money. A max deal with the wizards like. Wizards fans are kind of like upset about it. I'd be upset about it too. Cause he's just going to waste their time. Those are two people that need to get the hell out of there. Out of their current situations. I don't think they ever will at this point. I mean if they have it now why the hell would they. Yeah. Dame has to go. Like he could have had a ring by now somewhere if he would just left. Yeah. And like everyone prides him on this whole thing of oh he sticks to his team. He's so loyal. My body has to learn to be loyal in sports. These teams will screw you over the chance. They can't fucking left. Like tell me there's loyalty and sports and. There's a little loyalty like that. The front office is going to screw them over at some point. So you might as well go get money somewhere else. So this comment. This is Andrew. The wing defender to cover his laps is on the Lugans to get better on defense. and get better. Oh, stop it. He does. He does. He's slow out there when it comes to defense, but that comment, when you said the Jalen Brown thing, Jalen Brown would fit in perfectly in that situation. He is the wing that can stretch the offense, that can be the number two, take the pressure off of Luca, if the shots just aren't falling or whatever. And defensively, he can pick up the slack. Now, like I said, do not want Jalen and Jason split up. I want them both to be Celtics for the entirety of their careers. For whatever reason, that does not happen. Jalen Brown to the Mavericks would be pretty good, in my opinion. I think it would work out. You know what would be an unreal combo? Like it's instant championship, 100%. They're getting a ring. Luca Yannis. I love it. I love it. I'm still on the anti Yannis. What? The anti Yannis. No, Yannis is the best player in the NBA. He is. He is. 100% is. That's totally right. But I just need- Does that always make me start crying again? Because there's nobody? Guys, I'm sorry. I just need the off-season to happen so I can reset on who I like in the league and who I don't like. I mean, I don't think so. I think when LeBron left, my hatred towards everybody kind of diminished a little bit. Because when LeBron's there, obviously it elevates every aspect of the game for me. And I'm just chilling with my team full of 20-year-olds who love everybody. So. I don't know. I don't know. But I don't know. I don't know what else there is in the NBA except for- I got one more. I have one more NBA. What? We have a contest. Oh, yeah. Hey. We have a daily fantasy contest for the game tomorrow night. It's free. Everybody play. Tell your friends it's free. You can play anywhere in the States on the Fandall app, not Fandall Sportsbook. Fandall. Fandall fantasy. Yeah. And you guys can play against us. We'll make our lineups. And yeah, last game I had Grant in my lineup. He had one rebound to turnovers. Yeah. Last time we did this, I sat in first for the entirety of the Celtics game. And then once the Warriors game started and Otto Porter Jr. did absolutely nothing and then got hurt, I plummeted to like 27, I think. But with that being said, because there is only one game tomorrow night, there's only five roster spots. Instead of, I believe it was the 10 last time we did this. You can play like the first ones for like double the points. Cover your pick first, like double the points second, one and a half, and then 1.2 times their points. Who are you going to put as your number one? So, first tomorrow's game, Miami, right? I go back to Miami. I believe I am going to take Jason Tatum just because I don't envision a scenario in which he repeats his game three. And I think it's gotten to the point where Yume Udoka has looked at this locker room and said to them, please win two games back to back, because this losing a game and then winning a game, losing a game, winning a game, it's exhausting. And I'm tired of it. The last game they won back to back was game six and game seven of the Buc series, obviously. And like, yeah, that's great that they did that. But please, I would love if it was less dramatic than that, maybe. Maybe just win game five and game six, so we don't have to worry about a game seven. So that being said, I see Jason Tatum going off tomorrow night and the Celtics winning. So I am going to make sure I take him first. And then the rest will follow. I had Yume Butler two days ago when, not two days ago, two games ago, when it was a really good game for him. Yeah. Did it the other night? Never will do that again. Oh, that one. Done. Cut off. Absolutely done. No more. I really just can't believe last night, the starting five, 18 points. They only had one. A professional starting five. They get paid millions of dollars. So if I played, so if you played, let's say you played a whole NBA game, do you think you could put up any stat beside a turnover or a foul? I could, when I played basketball, I played pretty much my entire life through high school in the, or yeah, throughout high school and everything. Free throws were probably my best. Like I was money from the line. If nothing else, like obviously I'm going to turn the ball over a million times. Obviously I'm going to foul because I'm going to get pissed off and lazy and just start hacking people. But I think I could make at least one free throw in a professional game. I'm not putting, I played high school basketball, but at my size of five, three, I'm not putting up a single set. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm five, eight, and I don't even think I could do anything besides that stuff. So I think the shortest player, who's the shortest player in the league right now? It's not Trey, is it? He's got one of them at least. I feel like he's like not very short. I mean, it's kind of not, he's not that short. He's what, like six, two? Yeah, I'd say six, one. All right. So yeah, even still he's got one. I don't know. I think Darius Garland is on me. I think Darius Garland is like six foot. Okay. So that's four inches right there. He could still block my shot. No, like no problem. So yeah, I maybe a free throw. What about Isaiah Thomas? Is he still playing? Yeah, because yeah, he's not on a roster though. He was with the Hornets. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Okay. IT, he's my height, held a lot faster than I am, so he could pick my pocket. No problem. There's so many. Listen, I had my first knee surgery when I was 10 years old. Okay. I am slow as shit. A free throw, that's all. That's all I'm giving myself credit for is one. Yeah, I'm putting up nothing. So that's, I know I'm not, and I was to be honest with myself, and I know most of us would put up a fat zero. Anyways, that's MBA. That's MBA talk. What else? What else? Now we go to NFL. Yeah. Let me start off with my Baker Mayfield recap of the week. Here we go. All right. Yeah, what's going on? What have I missed? Baker Mayfield recap of the week. Baker Mayfield was spotted in Seattle, Washington with his wife at a brewery outside of the city. Interesting. Interesting to know. Maybe that's a sign that he will soon be going to the Seahawks because they need a quarterback because Drew Locke is not an NFL quarterback. Baking news, Andrew. Baking news. Baking news. Yeah, that's it. Our Baking News of the Week is Baker Mayfield going to the Seahawks soon for Twitter because they are on it. Yeah, that is, that's incredibly interesting because he's very random. Not your normal like vacay spot. Right, like what's the man from Texas doing in Washington? She doesn't seem, doesn't seem like the right box. Oh, speaking of Baker Mayfield and Texas, boyfriend went on a bachelor party trip this past weekend. I saw he was in his boat. He rented a boat and the guy that like was driving the boat went to high school and played football with Baker Mayfield. Yeah, that makes sense. Everybody knows everybody there. Small world. You should tell him that he stinks. You should. Yeah, you should have. That got ignored. But yeah, Seattle's incredibly random if nothing was going on. Like if they just went just to go. That seems very random. The second part of this update is that there are Browns fans still thinking that Baker Mayfield will take snaps in Cleveland, Ohio at some point in time. The only time Baker Mayfield is taking a snap in Cleveland, Ohio is if they get a USFL team, which is never. So it's done. Get a grip. Give it a rest, dude. It's done. So that's what you can do, guys. I don't know why are people, are people thinking that in the sense that yes, Watson's going to be suspended and that Baker is going to play those games or. Yes, that's what they think. No, why? I mean, you Kobe percent, which is bad. Baker obviously doesn't want to be a backup because there's plenty of situations where he could have gone anywhere to be a backup and he. I'm sure he's vetoed enough of that. And yeah, I mean. I, there's no way, even if Watson gets suspended, like that's Baker is not going to do that. I think Baker is so far done with this organization that like he wouldn't, he wouldn't do that. He would basically tell him. Yes. Right. I think that you're going to pay out like the majority of there of pay out the majority of his contract and we'll see what happens with that. I mean, it would be an improvement for Seattle because again, being okay with Drew Locke as you're starting quarterback, I don't care if the plan is to draft high next year because obviously the quarterbacks next year are a lot better than this year or whatever. Like I still can't imagine Pete Carroll's excited that Drew Locke is there. I mean, I don't know. He seems like he's pretty content with it. So I can't, I can't imagine that unless they're going to go just trying to go like tank mode. So I don't know. There was also on Twitter, who is the worst starting QB in the NFL? And I would extend that question over and say Drew Locke. I'm a big Drew Locke hater. I'm sorry. Sam Darnold, I think is still worse. See, they're both very bad. Like I would put them both at the very, very, very bottom, but I'm putting very last Drew Locke. I've seen what I needed to see and I don't want to see any more. Speaking for both. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that applies to both. Who else? I mean, Davis Mills, too. He's not as bad as they are. I mean, at least he's not as bad, but man, some of the some of the things he did last year. I mean, that team was a nightmare mess. So I'm not obviously he played like Dan Marino against the Patriots though. Sure. Why wouldn't he? Yeah. Did I ever tell you about the fake email that I got from him? Sure did. In case you guys weren't aware, someone made a fake Gmail account with his name and photo with the long neck photo. It's not a whole email and they were like, you're such a fraud, blah, blah, blah. I hate you ratio. That was the email, but I can't confirm that it was not actually Davis Mills. So awkward. So I don't know. All right. The Browns also went to the Bahamas. Yeah. That's interesting because isn't what I thought Watson was meeting with the league. Well, I guess, yeah, never mind. I was going to say, I guess I probably did that via Zoom or whatever. No, I think he was in Texas doing stuff. I don't know. He met with them and then after it was done, got on their plane and they went to the Bahamas. So interesting. Has there been any, any chatter about how that went? The Bahamas? There's just a photo of all them working out and that was it. I mean, I would love a free Bahamas trip. I was going to say we should pitch a Bahamas trip to build team chemistry. Right. Like maybe it works out good for them. So, oh, you know, who's the quarterback I forgot to mention this comment just really helped me out here. The Steelers collectively. Yeah. Who's the starter there? Is it going to be Trevisky? Right now, Kenny Pickett is third on their depth chart. Yeah. That's like standard though, just because he's a rookie. Right. But maybe like, I don't know. Mason Rudolph, he's not, he's not going to see the field. There was a reporter that asked him today. They were like, at one point you were number one on the depth chart. Like what do you think about that? He was like, well, we clearly had no other quarter wrecks. Oh, he's self aware. Yeah. I'm glad you have the awareness to know that. Yeah. I mean, it's really not even a knock on him either because I would love to be a backup quarterback in the NFL, make money. It seems like such a great job to just maybe play one game a year, maybe, and you're still making at least a million dollars. Like, yeah. Sounds like a great job. Listen, I've got a highlight tape of me throwing a football. If any team out there needs backup or even, yeah, I'll take even 500k. Like that's, that's fine. That's like, you can play me the practice squad paycheck for the 16 weeks I'll make. I think they get like $160,000 probably throughout that. I'm taking that. That's a nice little works great for me. I'll do that any day. Chargers or Rams, you're watching this for whatever reason. Hit my line. I'm local nearby. I can make it happen. I can backup. Herbert, are you kidding me? However, if you're the Browns, please don't call me. I do not want to be in Metro. I don't want to deal with it. We've got alone. She wants no part of this. Ask someone else. You already have enough going on. I don't want to do you imagine. No, because I don't want to be in those jokes. Oh my God. What else? What else is going on in NSL? Anything? Pro Bowl. Oh, yeah. There's talks of changing the Pro Bowl. One of the things would be like even potentially eliminating the game itself and just doing like great competitions and stuff. First and foremost, they should go back to Disney and do it there. Do the whole thing there. Seems a lot safer. Yeah. The Hawaii was cool too. I know just based on my random exposure to the Hawaiian side of TikTok on my 4U page that the locals are very much not happy with tourism and stuff. Maybe we'll keep that to the side and we'll just go back to Orlando. Disney World and their entire sports facility is there. Seems a lot better than Vegas. Yeah. Yeah, nothing good has happened in Vegas since the NFL has infiltrated. I mean, Devontae Adams is about it. Yeah. Well, that's about it. That's one good thing for now. Let's see how the season goes and see if Josh McDaniels as the head coach. They can get above last and then do that up in their division. Also, just speaking of that division, I just want to put this out there that I've seen a lot of people say that the Chargers are not going to win the AFC West. And to that, I say why? I don't know because everyone is specifically to you because that's how you say no. I mean, I think they're going to be good. I just don't think that they're going to win. Okay. But I think Patrick Mahomes is about to make Juju Smith Schuster into a Pro Bowl wide receiver. No way. Juju can't do it by himself. He can't. Yes, he can. He's about to be so good. I don't know. I feel like the Chiefs are going to be good. I don't think so. I think they're going to be okay. Not good enough. Not good enough, at least. You mean? I just, I love everything that the Chargers did. I like the Chargers, too. Yeah. I think beefing up that defense, they, you know, fucking Coleal Mack, man. What else? Who else? What else happened? Jaycee Jackson, Kyle Van Noy, like... What about like the Broncos? Everyone's like that it's either you're all in or you're all out. But I think I'm like sitting in the middle. Yeah. I'm sitting on the fence for them. I like on paper what they have going on and I like the possibility of what they could be. But I'd need to actually see it happening before I like put any stock into it, you know? I mean, yeah, they're definitely going to be a lot better than they were before. But I I would be pleasantly surprised if they won their division. Like, I think I would like that. That would be cool. But you don't think they have the chance. What do you think the standings are going to look like for that division specifically? First to last, what do you think it's going to look like? Chiefs, Chargers, Broncos, Raiders, and they're all going to be really good. Interesting. I think the craziest part is that everybody, including the sports books, have Vegas as like the least favorite to win the division and everything. And that's with the new head coach. That's with arguably the best wide receiver. That probably also has a lot to do with it too. Yeah, but it'd be different. I think at least like I know what Josh McDaniel's head coaching time in Denver looked like. And I know it wasn't all that great. But like he's still the guy that orchestrated the offense for the Super Bowl years. And I know he had Tom Brady, and that was a massive part of it. But like, he still was the brains behind the operation for points here and there. And he was, I mean, so was Fred Kitchens number two behind the offense. And then he went to head coach. And that was a clown show. Well, yeah. I mean, so maybe, yeah, maybe it is the McDaniel's effect. Maybe McDaniel's history as a head coach has a lot to do with it. But I think that they improved a lot too. I kind of like what they did in the draft. I mean, I think they're going to be good. But I think the other teams are going to be better. Yeah, I just think it's, I just think it's really shocking that they're projected last and like pretty much everything, but would you put them above the Broncos? Where are you putting the chiefs though? That's my question. Where are you putting the chiefs? Chiefs are number two. I'm going chargers, chiefs. And then yeah, I'm going to say Broncos, Raiders, because I, quarterback wise, obviously, I like, we all know how I feel about Derek Carr. I'm just not sold. I've never been. Yeah, I think that has a lot to do with it too. I'm, their quarterbacks go in order of how I think they're ranked. Yeah. I think, I think I like the Broncos to finish third more than I like the Raiders to finish third. But even as I sit here saying that, like if I flipped them, I think I'd be okay with that too. Like I could totally see it happening. But you cannot sell me on anything else besides the chargers are winning this division. I have, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if they did. That's going to be, I'm going to get my futures bet. So I have to go back in a couple of weeks to go to a wedding and sports betting is legal in Connecticut on our Fandal Sportsbook. So when I am at my mom and dads, I'm putting futures bet in for Herbert MVP chargers, AFC West champions. And then maybe like two bucks on the Pats winning AFC East just because it's not going to happen. So if I lose $2, like I don't care, but if for whatever reason it does happen, I think they're like, I don't know, plus 400 or 450 right now. So make a little bit of cash on that. I have a futures bet. It's not NFL related, but I just want to put it out there for everyone so they know. So you can come back to your MVP. No, I would say that one. That one is 100%. Yes. Okay. But this one is not that. Tristan Mackenzie, Cy Young next season. Book it now. Next year. Yeah. I mean, I don't think it's going to happen this year because he's had a late star. And now he's, he's definitely, we'll talk about that after NFL. We can talk about that in a minute. But yeah, he's, he's the ace. He's the guy. He's going to be the go-to. Interesting. Shane Bieber cooked. He's done. You want him? No. You want him? We'll trade you. I've got Nathan Nevaldi problems. I'm all set. I don't want. Another team. Another team that people are like hyping. Andrew, sorry. I can't believe this is actually his segment. I'm sorry for this, but people are hyping up the jets. And I have some friends on the jets. So close, close your ears. Close your eyes. Don't even watch. There was some statements put out that the jets are going to be the bangles. They're going to prove everybody wrong. They are going to go to the Super Bowl. They're going to be unstoppable. They're going to be phenomenal. That one was too far. I just made that one up. Oh my God. But I'm, realistically, people are saying they're going to be the bangles. So that means Super Bowl. Chris Collinsworth said this. Yes. He said that the jets are the bangles. Book the jets now. The jets are going to finish last in their division. They're going to finish last in their division. I know they got a lot of pieces, but they're not going to be there yet. Yeah. They got a lot of pieces. They drafted really well. They improved during the off season. It's the New York freaking jets. The epitome of just mediocrity and just not good. It's the jets. I don't care. I'm not sold on anything they're doing. Maybe Zach Wilson's going to improve this year. I think I actually predicted that he's going to be the most improved quarterback out of all of the ones drafted last year. That doesn't make a difference. He needs to cut with the two of BS too. It's the jets. They're the jets. That's not going to happen. Listen, this is what's going to happen. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Jets fans, but quite possibly you could start off 0-9. What's their schedule? Can we do that? Can we pull that up? Can we see what it looks like? I'll just start reading. Andrew again. Sorry, Jets fans. Sorry, but you might start off. I'm sorry. Can we just clip this part of us going through the first nine games because the Jets are going to start off 0-9. They're going to play the Ravens. They're going to lose. They're going to play the AFC North first. Ravens lose. Browns probably lose. Yep. Bengels. L. Steelers. That'll be a close game. Maybe still the Steelers though. That could be a win. That one might be a win. Who's to say yet? Dolphins. L. Packers. L. Broncos. Pats. Bills. Patriots. Then they play the Bears and then you're going to be Justin Fields. They absolutely could start 0-9 at best, 1-8 at best. I've seen, and this is another thing. I've seen a lot of Jets fans out there. They're getting too big for their britches and they're starting to talk a lot. This is obviously AFC East rivalry type stuff. Slow your roll on beating the Patriots because I was at that game last year where at the Meadowlands, at MetLife, it was not good. Damien Harris just ran all over you, up and down, dragged nine guys into the end zone with him. If you think this year's going to be any different, I'm so sorry, but I have... Like for Jets fans, that's a shitty schedule. Like to start your season off like that, I feel bad for you guys. That's unfair. That's like the Bengels' second half of their season. It's just not very... What did they do to deserve that? I don't know. I really don't know. That's mean. I don't know. Why do they play the whole AFC North to start off their first four games? That is really strange how they just get that out of the way. Yeah, mine is right away. The Ravens are going to put up like 50 points on them on the first game. Yeah. I agree to that as somebody who's not 100% sold on the Ravens this year. Yeah, I guess I would classify as a hater. A Ravens hater. I don't know what I would... It's going to keep it to myself. That's fair. Yeah. I'm going to keep it to myself. I think the Ravens are going to be pretty good, but for another day. Yeah, you can't say that, though, because God forbid that strange side of Brown's Twitter sees that clip. I think that they're over this phase. I think they're over that phase because that psychopath is almost gone and replaced with another psychopath. That's psychopath. You get what I'm saying. I know. I know exactly what you're saying. It's just funny. But yeah. Jets, I'm sorry. I feel bad for you. Yeah. Anyway, back to that. Jets are going to be lucky to win five games this year. Lucky. I would say five to six, maybe. I still, I think four at best, but that's... I would go five to six, and that's the decent. That's me being a hater again. Continue on some Ravens talk. There's this tweet, rank these four teams best to worst. Here's the teams. Ravens, Colts, Raiders, Eagles. Ooh. And it's tough, because they're pretty damn similar. All of those teams have improved, I think, significantly except for the Raiders. I think they improved, but not as much as everybody else. Okay. And everybody's answer is different. I'm scrolling through and everybody has a different opinion on it. Am I crazy to think that the Eagles are the best team out of those four? To be honest, most people have the Eagles at last, but I don't think it's crazy, because I think that they're all very close. I just think everything, like they drafted, I think really well. AJ Brown, like... Are you all in on Jalen Hertz? Jalen Hertz? No, I'm not all in, but I saw a lot that I liked last year. And I, again, this is going to be like on paper. I really like what's going on there, but I need to actually see it. So, okay. So for that, I'll put them number two. You're going to put my team as last. I know it. I'm going to go Colts, Eagles, Ravens, Raiders. Raiders. I'm going to go Ravens, Colts, Raiders. I'm putting Eagles last. It's Jalen Hertz. It's just Jalen Hertz, though. No, I totally get that. And I think he's going to be fine. But I don't know. I don't know. I just, there's something about this Raiders team, though, that like I could see it not going well at all. Like at all. And I don't feel that way about these other three. Like I think obviously Maddie Ice is such an incredible improvement for the Colts. They already had a really good situation around the quarterback. Carson Wentz was not the guy, clearly. More Carson. Like I said, I really like what the Eagles have done. The Ravens. I don't like them. I still don't know how I feel about Lamar, but I can say that he's a good quarterback. Like I just don't know if he's as good as a lot of people. Yeah. Like I don't think his like career trajectory is what a lot of people think it is. Well, I think his career trajectory is going to go to the NFC. I've been saying that really upset about that. Yeah. I don't feel like he's going to last in Baltimore very long. I feel like they could have already gotten that like locked up done with. And they're not afraid to move off of people. So I could see them saying, Hey, he's a decent trade piece. We can get a lot in return. That's yeah. And obviously it'd be beneficial if he went to the NFC too. That makes a ton of sense. Wow. Okay. Think about this. Think about if the 49ers get their shit figured out with Debo. They, that's the type of offense that I would like to see a more mobile quarterback, more mobile than Jimmy G, who I'd really enjoy that team a lot. He scrambles once and he gets hurt. Lamar on the 49ers. I think I really would like that. And I think that that might change my perspective on him and like the way I think of him as a quarterback, because I think maybe it's a hard boss thing too. Like I just don't like the hard boss and maybe it's that and I don't know, but I've never liked the Ravens even back when I was a kid. So I mean, like I shouldn't like the Ravens. They literally stole my damn team. So yeah, well, yeah, yeah, that's a valid point. The Ravens are the Browns. So any, when they have his mind, I don't know, but that your NFC point really got me thinking. I, yeah, I think I would like that a lot more than having Lamar on the Ravens. I think he would be well off in the NFC because they have like four quarterbacks that are and what would the Niners do with what would the Niners do with Lance? Kick him to the curb. He's obviously not the guy. He's done. He's very, no, he's not. If Jimmy G playing as crappy as he did at points last year was still not enough to bring in Trey Lance and still not enough for anybody in that offense to say, all right, well, maybe let's give this kid a shot. He's not the guy. It's like a Jordan lock situation. Your quarterback is your most important position on your team. If you don't think so, then you don't know football, which brings me to this tweet that I would love to read by my worst enemy, pro football talk. What the hell is going on with them lately? They are way too out of pocket for, I replied something. I replied something really mean to him. And this is my apology. I replied and I said, you are truly Cleveland's biggest hater. I would put you one beat in one A being Joe Kim Noah. Yeah, but like I'm all set with my Florida. Like I don't know what his deal is lately, but everything is being is just being mean. Well, he said, if you insist that every NFL team builds its offense completely around its quarterback, you're telling the world, you don't know shit about football without telling the world, you don't know shit about football. Every team bases their offense around their quarterback, unless your team is so shitty in your quarterback sucks so bad, you have no other choice. What would you like me to build my offense around? If the person is my office around Miles Garrett, if the person whose job it is is to get my talent and skill players, the football can't do that. There's nothing I can do around me around them to supplement that. Nothing. Look at the Browns with their offense. Do you had a quarterback that couldn't throw the damn ball? What did they do run the ball? The Colts last year is the perfect example as to why this tweet is bullshit. The quarterback situation was not it. Carson Wentz was not the guy. Everything around him was good enough that an average quarterback probably could have gotten the job done, but didn't. You need a good quarterback. Ryan Tannehill is shielded by Derek Henry without a false average. Mike Florio, please. Please. You've only been a hater. You're stressing me out. You've only been a hater. This is wrong. I can't believe that he actually said this. Mike Florio, whose job it is is to talk professional football, who seemingly knows a lot. All of that gets taken back because of this tweet. This tweet is terrible. Yeah, that one really set me over the edge. Last time I said you can't be serious right now. You can't defend Baker Mayfield this much. That's where the tweet came from, by the way. Here we go. Look at the Rams. When Gough was there, got to a Super Bowl and did what with it? Nothing. That's what they did. See ya. Everything on the outside, but the quarterback sucked three points. Now, granted, that Super Bowl was probably the definition of defense wins championships because both of those defenses were really good. But I feel like we're almost away from that point, too. That Patriots team that year was incredibly frustrating in terms of allowing teams to put up a lot more points than they probably should have. Eagles won with Foles and he wasn't a top-time quarterback. Please, please, can we not bring this up? He wasn't a top-time quarterback. It's like the situations are so... No, the situations are so different because Foles didn't play that entire season. He came in when he needed to and he was a flash in the pan and got everything he needed to do done and played well enough that all the talent that they had around them, it worked. Against a defense in the Super Bowl, that was just god-awful. But what happened the year after that when he got all that money and he was supposed to be a starting quarterback? Bad, bad, bad, bad. It's a QB-driven league. It's a QB-driven league. Either get in or get ran over and your team sucks. Get out. So, pick one. That's it. And everyone's going like, people are clearly this team behind me. They're willing to risk whatever, like emphasis on whatever in order to get a quarterback. That's how bad people need a quarterback on their team. The quarterback is the most important position in sports. And if you think otherwise, I don't know if there's any way we could help you. There's a reason why the other important positions in other sports get referred to as the quarterback of blah, blah, blah, the quarterback of the power play and hockey, the quarterback of the offense and basketball. There's a reason why that happened. So, figure it out. Our Eagles fan in the chat, what do you guys think of Jalen Hurds? Well, we just had a little thing about him and we think that he has potential. He's got potential. He's got a lot more potential. I think, well, let me rephrase that. I personally think he has a lot more potential than I thought he did at the beginning of last year and probably even the halfway point of last year. The end of the season for them, I think he picked it up. He figured it out a little bit. And I think this year, especially with the way that Howie has just made this team around the quarterback, see it all ties in. A.J. Brown, they traded for him because they think that the quarterback and him will do well together. You build around the quarterback. That being said, I think he's got a lot of potential. And I think this year, he's going to improve. We'll see. And that's it. We'll see. If you want to continue an angry rant. Sure. I'm always angry. Real quick. We'll fire this one off real quick. The Yankees are always going to Yankees. Now, if you're a Yankees fan, I'm sorry. I'm not trying to be a hater. I am. But you guys have been making me really mad this year. I'll be a hater. I am. You guys are making me really upset. I'll always take the fall for being a hater. Yeah. Yankees fans, Yankees organization, Yankees players. Also, we can sub out Yankees and put St. Louis Blues in that too because this conversation kind of encapsulates both of these situations that's going on right now. Y'all suck. Plain and simple. There's no reason to defend either of these situations. And if you are, you are part of the problem. It's that simple. Yeah. We already have enough things going on outside of sports that are traumatizing enough where people, very awful things are happening. And then to add it into that, into people's safe space where they want to watch things, it sucks. It's not very fun. I've seen people like make excuses for the Josh Donaldson, Tim Anderson thing. It's just not good. To which I say, if you are a white person, you should not get to sit here and say that something a person of color is experiencing isn't offensive or isn't hurtful because you don't know. You don't know. And coming from Josh Donaldson, I can go all day about this guy because he just, it was not an inside joke like I've seen people. They're not friends. Played off me. You have inside jokes with your friends. They are not friends. You and I are friends. We can have inside jokes. You can make inside jokes. Tim Anderson, Josh Donaldson, they do not have inside jokes. They are not friends. It was not said in a joking way. It was said as a jab to be a dick. That's it. That's it. And the funniest part about all of this is you have a former teammate of Josh Donaldson indirectly say that the team is having so much more fun. They're getting along so much better without him on the team. Now, Max Kepler didn't directly say, oh, yeah, well, Donaldson's gone. So we're having a lot more fun. We're getting along better. But the timing is very, I'm telling you, the timing is incredible. It can't be about anybody else. It's obviously not about Nelson Cruz. Everybody loves Nelson Cruz. He's the coolest guy in the league. Like he's great, super friendly. Him and I were joking around. I was at a Red Sox game once and him and I were joking around when he was in the dugout. Like he's a great guy. This is obviously not about Nelson Cruz. It can only be about Josh Donaldson. And it's not surprising. None of this is surprising. Which just is another issue to add to their list of things that have been going on so far. Which leads me to point number two about a similar situation. Hockey fans, we need to, as a whole, chill the hell out. Hockey scares me, Loki. I'm not gonna lie. It scares me. Everything that's going on right now in the Colorado, St. Louis series does not need to be happening. There is no reason why fans need to be taking to Instagram messaging the wife of Nasim Qadri. Messaging Nasim Qadri himself, saying incredibly Islamophobic, like anti-Arab stuff, just straight up racist. Very insensitive, yeah. Disgusting shit. There's no reason for this to be happening at all, first of all, at all. But there's no reason for this to be happening over sports. There's no reason for this to be happening in defense of a person in Jordan Bittington, who is not a good guy. He's got old tweets too that have pointed out that he is sexist and whatever you want, he's got them to the point where in yesterday's game, he sat out and deleted some of those tweets. Now, I'm a Boston Bruins fan. Qadri is a former Toronto Maple Leaf. When he played for the Maple Leafs, I did not like him. I still really don't even like him just because I think he's a dirty player. That does not. Yeah, it's not an invitation to say anything like that. That does not make it okay. If you read some of these screenshotted messages, oh my god. They're terrifying. They're horrible, horrible. No human deserves that. I don't give a shit if you don't like their team. I don't give a shit if you don't like them as a player, nothing. Nobody deserves that. For doing his job, you know, just for doing his job. For doing his job. I watched the replay of the hit that everybody's up in arms about, and it looks like more so the Blues player that he was tangled up with hit Bennington more than Qadri did. So maybe direct your attention elsewhere. But it's also really disheartening that the head coach of the Blues, who also has some questionable history himself, has not said a single word about this. And when asked about it in press conference, he literally just said no comment. Like, okay, screw you for that. At least like Aaron Judge was condemning what was said in the actions. Yeah, like that's just a little bit of accountability goes a long way. Just an ounce. Just even if it's a notes app message from the team's Twitter page itself, the St. Louis Blues condemned the actions directed towards Nasem Qadri, we do not support this, blah, blah, blah, blah. Even if it's like your most generic statement like that, that's better than anything the head coaches said. Players on the Blues have said. The team itself, like, at some point, we need to make the slogan that hockey is for everybody actually true. For everybody. Yeah. Because this stuff keeps happening. And it's just like, it's you want to grow the game and then you have stuff like this happening. Like it's people are going to be so people of color, especially are going to be so put off to hockey, which has obviously historically been a predominantly white sport. Why are they going to want to watch? Why are they going to want to do any of this if they see this happening? I have a hockey story. I have a hockey story I would like to share with everybody. It goes right along. It goes right along with it. Because this was my only hockey experience that I ever went. I went on a date with a man. It was like a setup situation. I went on a date with a man. We went to a Penguins game when I was living in Pittsburgh. And this was the first time when we met up for that. I've never met him before we go to the game. And they're playing the Columbus blue jackets and ease of making some very awful comments towards some of the players on the blue jackets. And it was embarrassing because I didn't know this man. And I told him, hey, I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'll be right back. I blocked him. I left. And I went and got margaritas by myself. And that was my only hockey experience. Good. Good. That's where I stand with hockey. So that's why I'm like, it scares me. Yeah. The craziest part about all of this is like we're having this conversation about sports. Right. About literally games. You're shooting a rubber puck with a stick into a net. Like it's not that deep. Nothing. And nothing is that deep to the point where you need to send. And you're sending it from your couch. Where you need to send messages like that. Also, I did a little bit of research because good on Kadri's wife to not putting the names out there. Any of the names. You're an absolute moron if you say stuff like this using your. Have your school's bio. Like in your bio. Your personal information out there. Oh my God. One of the kids, one of the people that sent one of these disgusting messages is 13 years old. Either the parents need to take away phone privileges or they'd need to be better. They probably, the parents probably also. That's, it's just, it's so, it's so insane to me that it's 2022 and we're still doing this stuff. And shit like this happens every single day and it's just exhausting. It's just. You know sports are supposed to be fun and enjoyable. Sometimes it's not when your team loses. But keep it together. It's not that deep. I just. They'll play another game eventually. It's, it's just, it's so society right now is so just like, I don't want to deal. Overwhelming. I don't want to deal. It's really, it's really overwhelming. A good topic to end on. My future's about Tristan Mackenzie. Four side. I'm telling you guys, he's going to be so good. He is going to be so good. He can't win this year. I don't think it's something that's possible, but he is now the ace in Cleveland. Shane Bieber's time has come and gone. Tristan Mackenzie at 24 years old is leading this team. I don't know what to wear, but every start he has, it's going to be good. So remember that next year when he has a phenomenal season. And he wins. The Red Sox just had a home run on first pitch of the game. So in other, in other better news than what we were just talking about. Were they playing the White Sox? Oh, that's big. That's big. I like that. You're welcome. Good. Yeah. We love to see that. Wow. We love to see that. And the Guardians beat that. Strauss last night, surprisingly. And we also love to see that. Love that. Love that. Love that for all involved. Um, what else? So we have anything else? Play our contest tomorrow night. Our fantasy contest tomorrow night. Free daily fantasy Celtics heat game. Yeah, top 15 placements when some some dollars money. It could be one. It could be, I think like 30, I think is the first prize. But it's free. So you come out with money without losing anything. So, right? Um, yeah. And other than that, like, I know today's been kind of a heavy day. So we appreciate you guys coming to hang out and chat chat. We understand the gravity of the situation going on in the outside world. And we're upset about it too. Clearly. So we a little bit of a distraction for an hour. I think was good. So thank you guys for joining us. Yes, we have a link for the Fandall DFS contest. It doesn't go live until 9 p.m. Eastern tonight because it has to wait until the tip off from the Mavs warriors. Yeah. So we will make sure to tweet that out on the show's Twitter account. I'll tweet it bright and early tomorrow. Yeah, as well as our own personal accounts. We'll promote it as much as possible. And yeah, we hope you guys play along. So. Great. And we'll see you guys all next Tuesday. Hopefully you guys win some money. Yeah, hopefully we win some money too. I could use some money. Right. Um, yeah, that's it. Bye, guys.