Welcome back to More to It, to show that takes your deep dive into the biggest stories in sports, entertainment and culture. Start with headline news and then journey to deeper conversations, always finding those life lessons that are presented in every single story. I'm your host, Marcel Swally, that dude. Yes, that energy is out there right now right y'all know this show is sponsored by bet Us. Look, I got some swag now, you know I'm over here making three dollars. Three dollars, yes, bet Us. Go to wiliwins dot com, wileywins dot com. I see y'all in there already, y'all trying to get get like me. Hunh, y'all trying to get some money going over here, t and lee or something like that. Let's do it. If you go to waliwins dot com right now and sign up, I'll give you one hundred and twenty five percent. That's more than you deserve. One hundred and twenty five percent signed up bonus so we can compete for a little change, a little coin out there. I am loading up some prop bets right now. It's gonna be crazy, like, uh, who's gonna have a Jerry Curl next in the league. Like we're putting the restop. We're gonna have some crazy ones though. We're gonna play war. Gotta play war, gotta play black jack, colose my favorite games and just compete against each other and have some fun. So go to Wiley Wins a bet us. You see it at the corner right there at the bottom. Yes, go to BetUS, but wileywins dot Com. All right, y'all, y' know how we start off every show with what's up with that dude? Well, yesterday had a pickleball social. The kids weren't in school. It was Indigenous people holiday for some kids and not other kids. I'm like with y'all segregating the kids. I tell you one thing. If it's a private school, if you're paying money for that kid to go to school, that kid is not going to any holiday, whether it's an official government holiday or just the homies just saying, hey man, I don't know about today. They do not go to school because we're paying for it. That's why it is like that. They ain't got their money there, ain't got the money in the bank. They're like, all right, we got Indigenous people today. Now, I was asking my friends, love, where your kids at all the school? I was like, anyway, that's how that went. Yesterday had a pick aball social that was fun. I'm playing a lot better right now. My body's feeling good. My neck is on fire, and it's weird. You know, former player, and you're like, damn, I got some injuries. You always say how you feel like, I'm good, I'm good, and then you neck just burning right now. So if y'all see me looking a little stiffer than normal, it ain't for no other reason but taking on that lead block practice Oklahoma drill or something like that. So other than that, we had basketball practice yesterday, very physical, yester ity biddies. We were trying to show them picking rolls and how to set screens, and I think we showed them the right way and they took it the wrong way because Chis was just running. To you God, I was like, you can't keep running once you get there. You gotta get big and just square up. Why. I mean, they were on the floor, and I always tell kids stay off the ground because the ground is undefeated. The ground has never lost the battle with any athlete ever. Right, So I'm just looking at kids, just bowling, pining and just falling like Domino's trying to set moving screens which gonna be illegal, which we can't do anyway. But hey, they were just trying to do what we said and what we were doing a little bit harder. So love to the eddy biddies. They had a good practice yesterday. We're still undefeated. We'll see how we play this Friday. Other than that, I am an amazing mood despite my neck being on fire. Because we just got a mega multi million. I can't say too much. We got a mega multi in donation to Project Transition. Who just got off the phone. No, lie, y'all about to cry? About to cry? Why? Because we're about to have impact, all right, and in this relationship, this partnership, this is gonna be strategic. You guys, go to our website. Please go to Project Transition dot org. Project Transition dot org never gonna forget. Everybody has to be a part of this team right in time, Talent Treasure, we need you to just go there and leave a recurring donation weekly, monthly, we don't care the dollar amount. Or you also can go there and just leave a donation or your email. Just be a part of the team in the Alps, and I'll send this book to everybody who leaves recurring donations. Yes I do, but more than that, just to explain our high fives. We got high fives, five S, family, intelligence, value, know who you are, right, experiences and sportsmanship. Y'all know what it is. So we have three in focus with this relationship and this new donation we just got, which is intelligence. With our educational Empowerment series, what is that? That's when we go out to the schools, We go out to the foster homes, juvenile detention centers, wherever the underserved are, and we meet with those kids in assembly form and then we get all the information, we address their needs, we talk through their needs, and then we come back and have monthly check ins right like that, Yes we do, and those reinforcements bring them into our ecosystem. Guess what We go from there through our mentorship, resources and scholarship, we give them incentive to continue to grow the higher education. That's real. So we're going out there to grab the kids to bring them back here and make sure we reinforce these values. We stay in support of them. They're always in contact with us. Hopefully to one day they win a scholarship through Project Transition. Y'all got to be a part of this. Man the experiences. We have one program called Leaving your Locale basically, leave your borders wherever you're from, from East LA. You got to get out of there. We got to take you on the experience. We go, take you on the field trip, go to a game, country club, five star experience, leave the city, leave the state, et cetera. And we always have our Sportsmanship as well, our last one where it's a program called Everyone's Coach. So I'm using my network pro athletes, former pro athletes, collegiate athletes, right, and they go to the underserved communities and they give them specialized training. They give them individual coaching and group coaching. Why because y'all know how the game is going. They're taking the athletes from there, right, and then they're shipping them out, busting them out, and leaving all those other kids there to dry just to sit there and find for themselves, and then not getting the same support resources. They don't have the money, they don't have the means to have those specialized coaches. But we do. My network does, and Project Transition does so support this so we can go back to the community where I grew up, where I wouldn't be forgotten. Because right now the MJ my Son is out here, he's all right, But what about me a generation ago when I was over there, would I'd be all right? So that's what we're doing with our Everyone's Coach program. Please support us. Go to Project Transition dot org. Leave any amount and if you leave a recurrent donation, this is yours all right, y'all know what it is. It's time for us to get into this show. So let's talk about things. Man, my man, Mario Crystal ball Man. He made the wrong call, the wrong decision in not kneeling down at the end of that Miami Hurricanes game. We saw him losing Georgia Tech. We all saw it went down. Don't want to bore you with those details. Want to take you behind the veil of how it feels to be betrayed by your damn head coach, because I know we've all been there on some level. If we play sports, you know that call that came in and you're sitting there like but you don't have the authoritie to say anything, and you run that call to futility and it doesn't work out, and you look to the side better than I did because my neck hurt. But you look to the side and you're like this, mother, what just happened here? Okay? So let's recap final moments of the game. Miami opted to run the ball thirty three seconds remaining. They could have just kneeled down. Game over. Guess that wasn't fun enough, so then they up twenty seventeen Don Cheney junior fumble. Georgia Tech would coover win seventy four yards twenty five seconds twenty three to twenty come from behind, Yellowjackets went forty four yard touchdown pass from Haines King Kristin Leary. Let's go to war. Okay, now, coach, it's one thing to gamble. See, this is not even gambling, because gambling is you're spending your money in the hopes of winning more money, but in the reality of probably losing some money. But it's yours. I don't even call what he did as a head coach gambling. We gotta make up a new term, because damn it, I ain't you money. You wouldn't earn everything I have, yet you have to earn my respect. You have to earn my trust, but you force it and it's in force just because of your title, just because of your status. So I can't bark because I can't bite. What's the use of barking? Bark back of the coach? See what happened to you?

Welcome back to More to It, to show that takes your deep dive into the biggest stories in sports, entertainment and culture. Start with headline news and then journey to deeper conversations, always finding those life lessons that are presented in every single story. I'm your host, Marcel Swally, that dude. Yes, that energy is out there right now right y'all know this show is sponsored by bet Us. Look, I got some swag now, you know I'm over here making three dollars. Three dollars, yes, bet Us. Go to wiliwins dot com, wileywins dot com. I see y'all in there already, y'all trying to get get like me. Hunh, y'all trying to get some money going over here, t and lee or something like that. Let's do it. If you go to waliwins dot com right now and sign up, I'll give you one hundred and twenty five percent. That's more than you deserve. One hundred and twenty five percent signed up bonus so we can compete for a little change, a little coin out there. I am loading up some prop bets right now. It's gonna be crazy, like, uh, who's gonna have a Jerry Curl next in the league. Like we're putting the restop. We're gonna have some crazy ones though. We're gonna play war. Gotta play war, gotta play black jack, colose my favorite games and just compete against each other and have some fun. So go to Wiley Wins a bet us. You see it at the corner right there at the bottom. Yes, go to BetUS, but wileywins dot Com. All right, y'all, y' know how we start off every show with what's up with that dude? Well, yesterday had a pickleball social. The kids weren't in school. It was Indigenous people holiday for some kids and not other kids. I'm like with y'all segregating the kids. I tell you one thing. If it's a private school, if you're paying money for that kid to go to school, that kid is not going to any holiday, whether it's an official government holiday or just the homies just saying, hey man, I don't know about today. They do not go to school because we're paying for it. That's why it is like that. They ain't got their money there, ain't got the money in the bank. They're like, all right, we got Indigenous people today. Now, I was asking my friends, love, where your kids at all the school? I was like, anyway, that's how that went. Yesterday had a pick aball social that was fun. I'm playing a lot better right now. My body's feeling good. My neck is on fire, and it's weird. You know, former player, and you're like, damn, I got some injuries. You always say how you feel like, I'm good, I'm good, and then you neck just burning right now. So if y'all see me looking a little stiffer than normal, it ain't for no other reason but taking on that lead block practice Oklahoma drill or something like that. So other than that, we had basketball practice yesterday, very physical, yester ity biddies. We were trying to show them picking rolls and how to set screens, and I think we showed them the right way and they took it the wrong way because Chis was just running. To you God, I was like, you can't keep running once you get there. You gotta get big and just square up. Why. I mean, they were on the floor, and I always tell kids stay off the ground because the ground is undefeated. The ground has never lost the battle with any athlete ever. Right, So I'm just looking at kids, just bowling, pining and just falling like Domino's trying to set moving screens which gonna be illegal, which we can't do anyway. But hey, they were just trying to do what we said and what we were doing a little bit harder. So love to the eddy biddies. They had a good practice yesterday. We're still undefeated. We'll see how we play this Friday. Other than that, I am an amazing mood despite my neck being on fire. Because we just got a mega multi million. I can't say too much. We got a mega multi in donation to Project Transition. Who just got off the phone. No, lie, y'all about to cry? About to cry? Why? Because we're about to have impact, all right, and in this relationship, this partnership, this is gonna be strategic. You guys, go to our website. Please go to Project Transition dot org. Project Transition dot org never gonna forget. Everybody has to be a part of this team right in time, Talent Treasure, we need you to just go there and leave a recurring donation weekly, monthly, we don't care the dollar amount. Or you also can go there and just leave a donation or your email. Just be a part of the team in the Alps, and I'll send this book to everybody who leaves recurring donations. Yes I do, but more than that, just to explain our high fives. We got high fives, five S, family, intelligence, value, know who you are, right, experiences and sportsmanship. Y'all know what it is. So we have three in focus with this relationship and this new donation we just got, which is intelligence. With our educational Empowerment series, what is that? That's when we go out to the schools, We go out to the foster homes, juvenile detention centers, wherever the underserved are, and we meet with those kids in assembly form and then we get all the information, we address their needs, we talk through their needs, and then we come back and have monthly check ins right like that, Yes we do, and those reinforcements bring them into our ecosystem. Guess what We go from there through our mentorship, resources and scholarship, we give them incentive to continue to grow the higher education. That's real. So we're going out there to grab the kids to bring them back here and make sure we reinforce these values. We stay in support of them. They're always in contact with us. Hopefully to one day they win a scholarship through Project Transition. Y'all got to be a part of this. Man the experiences. We have one program called Leaving your Locale basically, leave your borders wherever you're from, from East LA. You got to get out of there. We got to take you on the experience. We go, take you on the field trip, go to a game, country club, five star experience, leave the city, leave the state, et cetera. And we always have our Sportsmanship as well, our last one where it's a program called Everyone's Coach. So I'm using my network pro athletes, former pro athletes, collegiate athletes, right, and they go to the underserved communities and they give them specialized training. They give them individual coaching and group coaching. Why because y'all know how the game is going. They're taking the athletes from there, right, and then they're shipping them out, busting them out, and leaving all those other kids there to dry just to sit there and find for themselves, and then not getting the same support resources. They don't have the money, they don't have the means to have those specialized coaches. But we do. My network does, and Project Transition does so support this so we can go back to the community where I grew up, where I wouldn't be forgotten. Because right now the MJ my Son is out here, he's all right, But what about me a generation ago when I was over there, would I'd be all right? So that's what we're doing with our Everyone's Coach program. Please support us. Go to Project Transition dot org. Leave any amount and if you leave a recurrent donation, this is yours all right, y'all know what it is. It's time for us to get into this show. So let's talk about things. Man, my man, Mario Crystal ball Man. He made the wrong call, the wrong decision in not kneeling down at the end of that Miami Hurricanes game. We saw him losing Georgia Tech. We all saw it went down. Don't want to bore you with those details. Want to take you behind the veil of how it feels to be betrayed by your damn head coach, because I know we've all been there on some level. If we play sports, you know that call that came in and you're sitting there like but you don't have the authoritie to say anything, and you run that call to futility and it doesn't work out, and you look to the side better than I did because my neck hurt. But you look to the side and you're like this, mother, what just happened here? Okay? So let's recap final moments of the game. Miami opted to run the ball thirty three seconds remaining. They could have just kneeled down. Game over. Guess that wasn't fun enough, so then they up twenty seventeen Don Cheney junior fumble. Georgia Tech would coover win seventy four yards twenty five seconds twenty three to twenty come from behind, Yellowjackets went forty four yard touchdown pass from Haines King Kristin Leary. Let's go to war. Okay, now, coach, it's one thing to gamble. See, this is not even gambling, because gambling is you're spending your money in the hopes of winning more money, but in the reality of probably losing some money. But it's yours. I don't even call what he did as a head coach gambling. We gotta make up a new term, because damn it, I ain't you money. You wouldn't earn everything I have, yet you have to earn my respect. You have to earn my trust, but you force it and it's in force just because of your title, just because of your status. So I can't bark because I can't bite. What's the use of barking? Bark back of the coach? See what happened to you?

Benched?

Benched?

Passive? Aggressive, forgotten? So you're sitting there like this, sucker. Everybody on the field gotta know kneel down. First of all, we're the ones out here. On a typical run play, it's always this, why why why? Everybody going to war? Right? What you're doing coach checking at the second button is still good on the polo. You call them all right, so game over, But we gotta go to have some more contact for fun, for sport, for what we already won the game. So I've been in this situation before, right where I'm looking to the sideline like I don't believe he called this, and it makes me respect the great coaches, and even great coaches make bonehead plays, bonehead calls. But at the same time, it's human chess. Play the game the right way because you are doing that to our services. This ain't gambling that money, ain't getting up and moving that money. Doesn't hurt, that money doesn't have pain, that money neck ain't on fire. It's a real human being doub and you want us to trust you. That's the crazy, all right. So let me give y'all some scenarios because it's just reminding me of how that Sunday criticism, because you're gonna be the one to blame. They gonna look at the team. The team now has a loss, The players have a loss, the players shot at making the college football playoffs. Slimmer, not gone, but slimmer. Right, All of that comes back on us, and that criticism is not the same as, Yo, my bad, they killing us, and then you're gonna say my bad. I remember it was like to me, it was Sunday criticism and Monday's my bad. I look at that coach, coach calling me a stunt. He said, all right, I want why, I want you to run that et and want right inside right there, make the play. Except I think they heard him because they ran to play outside and ran scored touch that everybody, Why get contain you? Sorry overplay boo. And I'm like, hey man, can you grab the mic? Can you go upstairs to the PA booth and tell everybody. You called that bs and I was just doing what you said and I shouldn't have crazy? Is that right? And this is not even Mario's first rodeo or first blunder in this situation, got a propensity to doing these type of things. Man, isn't it messed up? Because I know this happens to you. Got at work it god'sn't working as well? You're superior. Your boss asked you to do something and you sitting there like, man, you ain't in the field. You ain't, you ain't got your feet on the ground. That ain't gonna work. I hear a lot of times y'all say that at the water cooler, but you can't say it in his office, right, can't say it even that you're cubicle right. I hate that dynamic because I'm like dog, if you empowering me and employing me, listen to me, you know not fully it's a relationship. Though somebody on that field of one of y'all eleven didn't want to say, coach, why do you don't want to kneel it? That's how you're say in college and approached be like kneel the ball college? Why do you want to kneel. It ran that play and game over. Man, I don't see how you recover from this this season, because I don't think they're gonna get into it. Look, they got North Carolina. That's gonna be tough coming off of this. He's saying, how the kids responded in practice? Uh, he said, we expected a good response today and that's what we got. There's a lot of conviction in our preparation and processes. The guys are very eager to get back to work and prepare for this weekend's opportunity. What else he supposed to say and what else they supposed to do. But when somebody but betrays your trust like that, you know how close you are is just not trust to them at all, Like you just don't have the same spirit and same conviction and what they say now you can force me to do things. There's a huge difference between me going through the process emotions of doing something and me having the same level of conviction and intention when I do it. We'll see how they play. I'm just letting y'all know mark this moment. If Miami doesn't go out there with the same level of heart, it ain't they heart. It's what they thinking, and they thinking, right now, coach, you betrayed us? So what y'all think of this situation? Right here? Crazy? Right? Y'all think he did? Y'all think he did? Like? No, what was he thinking? Let's just go there. What give me the best explanation of justification for what he did? Right? Like? He really did that? I can't. I've been thinking through my football mind. There's no justification for that. Let me know what you guys think of that, and then think Miami recovers from this. I think they could make the playoffs. Still, let's hear that. Beat it up in the comments. Y'all know I always come in with a moment. You're ready for this? Here goes the neighborhood. Four or five homies in the mothership, better known as the deuce that we all want to mothers shit bet from the back house, got tip us let us all, but it's dollars since the foods can't hold us. How come iver tell you hear a hard song, you get hard. He in a recording booth, so he ain't hard. He reading it off his phone, hit off the boats probably even have a phone. When the next song came out. Huh, he was writing it down and better for the deuce follow I love that song, Shout out the ice Cube, I love it too much, and shout out to Project transition dot org. And you and your support go to Project Transition dot org, leave a recurring donation for one of our high fives, one of our pillars, and you will get that book tagged up, hooked up. That's what I do. All right, Let's get into the story right now, because this is a story of perception. Yes, a lot of people perceive Brock Purty as being a bad quarterback when he was drafted as minster irrelevant. Well things have changed, but not all things have changed because not everyone has given him his proper respect and proper dude. So Brock party another impressive performance, another one. Forty nine ers are perfect right now, five and oero, and it's starting to lead to a lot of conversation about not only just pro bo but potential MVP consideration. He getting a lot of love as he deserves it. Right now, they have not lost a game with the nine to zero that he started and finished. We know what happened in the NFC Championship game. He got knocked out. Their chances got knocked out. With it character come back at the end of man, he was done. They were done. So they go as brock Purty goes. Right. So you see an undefeated team with a quarterback playing at that level hasn't thrown an interception? Who ain't thinking he's one of the top quarterbacks. And this is interesting when you talk about rankings. How fluid are the rankings? How concrete should the rankings be? If you come into a season and you have someone ranked low and they've balling out of control, are you reluctant? Are you hesitant to move them up those rankings? That's the conversation we about to have right here, because Perdy's rise led to a public disagreement with NFL analyst Stephen Ruiz and his quarterback rankings at the Ringer calls in controversy. Now immediately when I read that, and this is no slight to Stephen Ruiz because he may not know who Marcel's while he is wherever that is. Do I just talk about myself in different oh man, But it just makes me think of what Colin Coward said, like you got to be interested, not always right, and to cause controversy. Controversy is interesting, Like I would have never ever heard of Stephen Ruiz until he incorrectly ranked Rock Party to get some attention. Did he do it on purpose or is he really believe in this? I don't see how you can believe it because your eyes aren't lying to you. The dude is undefeated in his career so far. The dude has not thrown an intercession, and his dude's team is undefeated as well. Okay, so Party was initially ranked number thirty two by Ruiz, but he's moved up like the Jeffersons, No, no, no, to twenty five. You know who he's behind, Mac Jones, Daniel Jones, Deshaun Watson, and Ryan Tannehill. Oh my god, Yeah, he did this on purpose. See this is what I'm talking about that I don't even know you do. But I know what you just did. What you just did is whack change it. Get attention by doing it the right way. As my coach, yall he said, don't get bored with success. You know what I mean, do it the right way and just keep doing it the right way. It will come. I understand you're doing it the tortoise way. Like me. I'm a tortoise in terms of like my media takes and I don't I got my I just had a flashback. My producers just say, what's the hot take? What do you feel about what you're hot on? To day Marcello's I'm like hot, I ain't hot on nothing. What do you mean hot? What's the what's the question, Homie? What you mean hot? I ain't coming in with no headline. Look, that's a tortoise approach. I'm not saying I was better than somebody who had a hot take, but I hated hot takes. So I used to come in with the tortoise approach. And it is a slow build to get your success versus I just go out there rock Purty sucks, what what bring it? They'd be like, okay, right, but hey, look out for that falling star, look out for those falling stars. So all the outlets in San Francisco, everybody, even Peter King naturally criticized Luis Rankins. But he's get and Peter King to talk about him. And the last time Peter King talked about Steph Ruiz, I don't know, I don't remember pointing out that he called Purty mediocre despite his rea success. So Peter King asked party about the skepticism. This is interesting, and he said, that's a good thing. He realizes no one in his building cares that the ringer think he's a below mediocre quarterback, and that's all that matters to him. A football player who doesn't listen to the outside noise. How refreshing. No Peter King said that about Brock Perdy and this skepticism, But that's not true. Rock Purty hears the outside noise. He listens to the outside noise. He doesn't internalize the outside noise. We all can we all stop lying? We all hear it all. Give you something different so you can understand what I'm saying. If you got a girlfriend or you got a boyfriend, you know where I'm going getting dressed, trying to go to the event. Were going to Project Transition Gala. Oh yeah, they're gonna raise two hundred billion a night. Yes, help these idy biddies around the world. All right, let's go, baby, how do I look? No? Why you're asking that? Because you want to know what they think before? What they think? What do you think before? I figured that out and bounce it out. But what they think? And remember when you go out and you get compliments, or you don't get compliments. It doesn't matter because most of the communication is nonverbal. Think about this. A woman walks up to me and I do and she's walking towards me and I'm just doing this. She may think she doesn't look good versus women walk up to me and I'm looking like this. That's what they do in la. This is the way you don't get in trouble for saying damn you fine. You remember it used to be like damn you what now you gotta go? But point being, oh yeah, I ain't saying nothing. I ain't say nothing, or just like this, you know you gotta play it off now verbal communication. Point being, we are always registering the pros and constant. We're always on the field, we're always on the court. We are always playing the game of life, which means there are cheers ooh you look good baby, go out, you're gonna hurt of the night or booze, what of those? What of the you know what I mean? That's how life goes. So party, here's it. He listens to it just doesn't internalize it. It doesn't stick, and it doesn't have to stick. Somebody say, damn, what kind of shoes of those you easily can fire back food these pro wings, he's fresh. You ain't gotta be like these are pro wings. I'm so sorry, I'm poor. Like, come on, man, So Peter King talked through this, and the Ringer and the ruiz Is, all of them are going back and forth on this one, and he won't move it. And why would he ever move his ranking now? Not based on performance, based on your response, I ain't saying nothing different. Look at all this attention. I'm getting crazy. We live in this world of attention courtesy to this level. Now, party's unfazed. But it's funny when the world doesn't give you your flowers, when the world doubts you, when the world wants to be hyper critical of you. You know what answers are if they're telling the truth or not, not only your results, but your confidence that leads to those results, your belief in yourself. There are two volumes in this world. One is internal, turn up the base, check out my melody and lightest cigar, and the other one is out there. And don't think that that voice gotta be louder than yours. It's a damn lie. You know why, because when I was growing up, I had it in my head I was gonna do things, and then I kept hearing in the background, sometimes the foreground, that's the opposite. You ain't doing that. I mean, my boys told me I wasn't gonna go pro o. Hurt my feelings. It did. They hurt my feelings. They motivated the hell out of me. Though I was gonna make them eat those words. But I was like, you know why hurt me? No other reason? Y'all my boys, even if y'all believe me, pump me up to try and go do it. As long as you don't leave me a straight pump me up. I will pump my friends come to me with anything if it ain't gonna hurt them, hurt somebody else, waste their time or whatever the hell, go get it. What do I need to do to help you? Like I hated, my friends would deflate me and then be the same friends that show up to mow you got some tickets, show up to your draft party, or I ooh, ain't nothing better when you're looking at them like mm, you know I got you under my thumb now because you ain't believe that's crazy? Right? Oh? I hated that all right, So what you think about this situation? Because I know Rock Party? Where's confidence? Is? Uh? Where do you rank Rock Party in the NFL? Right now? At quarterback? Is he top ten? Top ten? Sound easy? And then you'd be like, oh that name, I say top ten, I say top ten. I'll give him a like he's playing like eight. He's playing like eight. All right, the team is playing like ten, but he playing like eight. Let's see it, and I mean ten, like a ten out of ten. They're undefeated? And is this a simple career hiccup? Like remember Jimmy G. It was Jimmy G seven to o one got paid, Brock Party nine to zero? Where the money at? If he does this this year, it's a rap he getting paid? Or does this look like longevity hiccup? Like watch out? It might be a little more Jimmy G. Even though that's a winner, it's still not even though I love Jimmy G. Or is this long? Jeffety and now Brock parties? That dude, what do y'all think about that? Taking y'all back to Columbia one dollar dances at the plex, we used to go here, he come now here? He come this of that? Everybody squad. Come on, who's did every single person that heard that song do the same thing? Squad? And to do this telling truth, telling truth? I hated I got caught up in that. I was in that impression those impressiable years. I'll just do whatever I saw on MTV raps. Who's a bleach you? What's so blench you? And then you just bouncing from your boy? Oh? Oh you just bouncing shait Oh had to do it. It was so hype. I had to do it. Oh, I remember them days. A dollar party, next level man, go to Project Transition dot org. Leave a dollar at that party. Dammit. Leave something for the iddy biddies as we go out to the community. Make sure we amplify their inner power. Show the world how great they can be, greater than their greatest excuse you leave a recurring donation weekly, monthly. Guess what I seen U D's book. All right, now, let's talk about Rich Paul and WOA and Shams. Shout out to all the parties involved in this war in basketball. Yes, Rich Paul, we know he is super agent, believes that the ongoing competition between Wold and Shams is great for basketball, is good for everyone. Let's get to the bottom of why he thinks that. Now, y'all remember back in the days when wol looked like he was beefing with Lebron James and his camp, Right, he was really critical of Lebron James. Let's just say that maybe he doing his job but in a critical wait and that led to expectations that they wouldn't get along. They weren't cool. Friction between Wolves and Clutch Sports, which is Rich Paul's agency that represents Lebron and all the NBA, not eight percent of the NVA. It seems like goodness. Now, over time, Wolves build a relationship with Clutch Sports and Lebron's camp relationship were about to talk about that even assistant in creating leverage for Paul and his client Ben Simmons when Simmons wanted to leave Philadelphia. Who starting to get close to that line? Get close to that line? So Shams he represented by UTA previously now managed by the Montag Group, not directly by Rich Paul. All right, y'all know how this is about to go. So as comments are seeing in the context of his interests maintaining good relationships with two of the most influential NBA insiders, both woes and shams, right, because those guys get the information out to you guys, breaking news, et cetera. Now, a lot of y'all don't like it. A lot of y'all disagreeing with Rich Paul, Chris Paul, what's up, homie, feeling that the focus on inside of the news is taken away from the game itself and it's making it more dramatic and all this drama and all this crazy chaos by who is what and what they're feeling and leverage and trying to get in and out of situations instead of just talking about the damn game. And that's why there's a decline in the ratings for the NBA. That's what you fans are saying, and in general, right, here's a quote, the way that they do their jobs and the commodification of info nuggets has made NBA content less about the game and more about the drama. H with so much drama in the NBA, is tel that I got wrapped to reds oh Man so interested. Paul acknowledges the importance of attention and awareness in today's NBA, where marketing and branding play a significant role. Says he says attention awareness matter more than ever, but today's NBA news breaking may not actually be in the best interest of the league ors players long term. Yeah, that's what he says. Maybe maybe not because the decline in the ratings is not supporting that. Oh. I love the fact that we're always talking about off the court things, off the court issues. So where do you guys land on this one? Want to start there? Because where I land on it. I look at all of the info wars as condoms to the meat and potatoes meant potatoes is ball, mean potatoes is championships, mean potatoes is stars? Now what do the stars want? I love that, father, I love that. I mean, look, hot dogs are good, but hot dogs are relish. Oh even better chili cheese. Chili cheese relish mustard. Ooh you got that? French is not any kind of mustard. Don't great, papau me, French is on that thing next level right? And to me, that's what they do. They give you the storylines, they give you the intel, They give you the perceived thoughts or sometimes direct thoughts of what the player is actually going through and thinking of I like it. I remember I used to get agents calling me when I was on networks all the time for stories and I was like, oh okay, and they wanted me to talk good or just know about a situation. I won't call an you agents out because I don't think you called me in that spirit. And I never took the and everything they told me when in one year Illai, I was like, man, I ain't gonna take care of your boy. That's that's your client. I'm listening. I respect you, and I respect your relationship, and I ain't gonna ever go in unnecessarily and I'm not gonna take care of him unnecessarily. That ain't how I play. But I did play with people who play like that. I just be like, dog, we ain't gonna talk about that, Nah, I don't wanna talk about that. Why you know what? He couldn't say his boy was representing that dude, And I was like, well then, dogg we gotta talk about it.

Passive? Aggressive, forgotten? So you're sitting there like this, sucker. Everybody on the field gotta know kneel down. First of all, we're the ones out here. On a typical run play, it's always this, why why why? Everybody going to war? Right? What you're doing coach checking at the second button is still good on the polo. You call them all right, so game over, But we gotta go to have some more contact for fun, for sport, for what we already won the game. So I've been in this situation before, right where I'm looking to the sideline like I don't believe he called this, and it makes me respect the great coaches, and even great coaches make bonehead plays, bonehead calls. But at the same time, it's human chess. Play the game the right way because you are doing that to our services. This ain't gambling that money, ain't getting up and moving that money. Doesn't hurt, that money doesn't have pain, that money neck ain't on fire. It's a real human being doub and you want us to trust you. That's the crazy, all right. So let me give y'all some scenarios because it's just reminding me of how that Sunday criticism, because you're gonna be the one to blame. They gonna look at the team. The team now has a loss, The players have a loss, the players shot at making the college football playoffs. Slimmer, not gone, but slimmer. Right, All of that comes back on us, and that criticism is not the same as, Yo, my bad, they killing us, and then you're gonna say my bad. I remember it was like to me, it was Sunday criticism and Monday's my bad. I look at that coach, coach calling me a stunt. He said, all right, I want why, I want you to run that et and want right inside right there, make the play. Except I think they heard him because they ran to play outside and ran scored touch that everybody, Why get contain you? Sorry overplay boo. And I'm like, hey man, can you grab the mic? Can you go upstairs to the PA booth and tell everybody. You called that bs and I was just doing what you said and I shouldn't have crazy? Is that right? And this is not even Mario's first rodeo or first blunder in this situation, got a propensity to doing these type of things. Man, isn't it messed up? Because I know this happens to you. Got at work it god'sn't working as well? You're superior. Your boss asked you to do something and you sitting there like, man, you ain't in the field. You ain't, you ain't got your feet on the ground. That ain't gonna work. I hear a lot of times y'all say that at the water cooler, but you can't say it in his office, right, can't say it even that you're cubicle right. I hate that dynamic because I'm like dog, if you empowering me and employing me, listen to me, you know not fully it's a relationship. Though somebody on that field of one of y'all eleven didn't want to say, coach, why do you don't want to kneel it? That's how you're say in college and approached be like kneel the ball college? Why do you want to kneel. It ran that play and game over. Man, I don't see how you recover from this this season, because I don't think they're gonna get into it. Look, they got North Carolina. That's gonna be tough coming off of this. He's saying, how the kids responded in practice? Uh, he said, we expected a good response today and that's what we got. There's a lot of conviction in our preparation and processes. The guys are very eager to get back to work and prepare for this weekend's opportunity. What else he supposed to say and what else they supposed to do. But when somebody but betrays your trust like that, you know how close you are is just not trust to them at all, Like you just don't have the same spirit and same conviction and what they say now you can force me to do things. There's a huge difference between me going through the process emotions of doing something and me having the same level of conviction and intention when I do it. We'll see how they play. I'm just letting y'all know mark this moment. If Miami doesn't go out there with the same level of heart, it ain't they heart. It's what they thinking, and they thinking, right now, coach, you betrayed us? So what y'all think of this situation? Right here? Crazy? Right? Y'all think he did? Y'all think he did? Like? No, what was he thinking? Let's just go there. What give me the best explanation of justification for what he did? Right? Like? He really did that? I can't. I've been thinking through my football mind. There's no justification for that. Let me know what you guys think of that, and then think Miami recovers from this. I think they could make the playoffs. Still, let's hear that. Beat it up in the comments. Y'all know I always come in with a moment. You're ready for this? Here goes the neighborhood. Four or five homies in the mothership, better known as the deuce that we all want to mothers shit bet from the back house, got tip us let us all, but it's dollars since the foods can't hold us. How come iver tell you hear a hard song, you get hard. He in a recording booth, so he ain't hard. He reading it off his phone, hit off the boats probably even have a phone. When the next song came out. Huh, he was writing it down and better for the deuce follow I love that song, Shout out the ice Cube, I love it too much, and shout out to Project transition dot org. And you and your support go to Project Transition dot org, leave a recurring donation for one of our high fives, one of our pillars, and you will get that book tagged up, hooked up. That's what I do. All right, Let's get into the story right now, because this is a story of perception. Yes, a lot of people perceive Brock Purty as being a bad quarterback when he was drafted as minster irrelevant. Well things have changed, but not all things have changed because not everyone has given him his proper respect and proper dude. So Brock party another impressive performance, another one. Forty nine ers are perfect right now, five and oero, and it's starting to lead to a lot of conversation about not only just pro bo but potential MVP consideration. He getting a lot of love as he deserves it. Right now, they have not lost a game with the nine to zero that he started and finished. We know what happened in the NFC Championship game. He got knocked out. Their chances got knocked out. With it character come back at the end of man, he was done. They were done. So they go as brock Purty goes. Right. So you see an undefeated team with a quarterback playing at that level hasn't thrown an interception? Who ain't thinking he's one of the top quarterbacks. And this is interesting when you talk about rankings. How fluid are the rankings? How concrete should the rankings be? If you come into a season and you have someone ranked low and they've balling out of control, are you reluctant? Are you hesitant to move them up those rankings? That's the conversation we about to have right here, because Perdy's rise led to a public disagreement with NFL analyst Stephen Ruiz and his quarterback rankings at the Ringer calls in controversy. Now immediately when I read that, and this is no slight to Stephen Ruiz because he may not know who Marcel's while he is wherever that is. Do I just talk about myself in different oh man, But it just makes me think of what Colin Coward said, like you got to be interested, not always right, and to cause controversy. Controversy is interesting, Like I would have never ever heard of Stephen Ruiz until he incorrectly ranked Rock Party to get some attention. Did he do it on purpose or is he really believe in this? I don't see how you can believe it because your eyes aren't lying to you. The dude is undefeated in his career so far. The dude has not thrown an intercession, and his dude's team is undefeated as well. Okay, so Party was initially ranked number thirty two by Ruiz, but he's moved up like the Jeffersons, No, no, no, to twenty five. You know who he's behind, Mac Jones, Daniel Jones, Deshaun Watson, and Ryan Tannehill. Oh my god, Yeah, he did this on purpose. See this is what I'm talking about that I don't even know you do. But I know what you just did. What you just did is whack change it. Get attention by doing it the right way. As my coach, yall he said, don't get bored with success. You know what I mean, do it the right way and just keep doing it the right way. It will come. I understand you're doing it the tortoise way. Like me. I'm a tortoise in terms of like my media takes and I don't I got my I just had a flashback. My producers just say, what's the hot take? What do you feel about what you're hot on? To day Marcello's I'm like hot, I ain't hot on nothing. What do you mean hot? What's the what's the question, Homie? What you mean hot? I ain't coming in with no headline. Look, that's a tortoise approach. I'm not saying I was better than somebody who had a hot take, but I hated hot takes. So I used to come in with the tortoise approach. And it is a slow build to get your success versus I just go out there rock Purty sucks, what what bring it? They'd be like, okay, right, but hey, look out for that falling star, look out for those falling stars. So all the outlets in San Francisco, everybody, even Peter King naturally criticized Luis Rankins. But he's get and Peter King to talk about him. And the last time Peter King talked about Steph Ruiz, I don't know, I don't remember pointing out that he called Purty mediocre despite his rea success. So Peter King asked party about the skepticism. This is interesting, and he said, that's a good thing. He realizes no one in his building cares that the ringer think he's a below mediocre quarterback, and that's all that matters to him. A football player who doesn't listen to the outside noise. How refreshing. No Peter King said that about Brock Perdy and this skepticism, But that's not true. Rock Purty hears the outside noise. He listens to the outside noise. He doesn't internalize the outside noise. We all can we all stop lying? We all hear it all. Give you something different so you can understand what I'm saying. If you got a girlfriend or you got a boyfriend, you know where I'm going getting dressed, trying to go to the event. Were going to Project Transition Gala. Oh yeah, they're gonna raise two hundred billion a night. Yes, help these idy biddies around the world. All right, let's go, baby, how do I look? No? Why you're asking that? Because you want to know what they think before? What they think? What do you think before? I figured that out and bounce it out. But what they think? And remember when you go out and you get compliments, or you don't get compliments. It doesn't matter because most of the communication is nonverbal. Think about this. A woman walks up to me and I do and she's walking towards me and I'm just doing this. She may think she doesn't look good versus women walk up to me and I'm looking like this. That's what they do in la. This is the way you don't get in trouble for saying damn you fine. You remember it used to be like damn you what now you gotta go? But point being, oh yeah, I ain't saying nothing. I ain't say nothing, or just like this, you know you gotta play it off now verbal communication. Point being, we are always registering the pros and constant. We're always on the field, we're always on the court. We are always playing the game of life, which means there are cheers ooh you look good baby, go out, you're gonna hurt of the night or booze, what of those? What of the you know what I mean? That's how life goes. So party, here's it. He listens to it just doesn't internalize it. It doesn't stick, and it doesn't have to stick. Somebody say, damn, what kind of shoes of those you easily can fire back food these pro wings, he's fresh. You ain't gotta be like these are pro wings. I'm so sorry, I'm poor. Like, come on, man, So Peter King talked through this, and the Ringer and the ruiz Is, all of them are going back and forth on this one, and he won't move it. And why would he ever move his ranking now? Not based on performance, based on your response, I ain't saying nothing different. Look at all this attention. I'm getting crazy. We live in this world of attention courtesy to this level. Now, party's unfazed. But it's funny when the world doesn't give you your flowers, when the world doubts you, when the world wants to be hyper critical of you. You know what answers are if they're telling the truth or not, not only your results, but your confidence that leads to those results, your belief in yourself. There are two volumes in this world. One is internal, turn up the base, check out my melody and lightest cigar, and the other one is out there. And don't think that that voice gotta be louder than yours. It's a damn lie. You know why, because when I was growing up, I had it in my head I was gonna do things, and then I kept hearing in the background, sometimes the foreground, that's the opposite. You ain't doing that. I mean, my boys told me I wasn't gonna go pro o. Hurt my feelings. It did. They hurt my feelings. They motivated the hell out of me. Though I was gonna make them eat those words. But I was like, you know why hurt me? No other reason? Y'all my boys, even if y'all believe me, pump me up to try and go do it. As long as you don't leave me a straight pump me up. I will pump my friends come to me with anything if it ain't gonna hurt them, hurt somebody else, waste their time or whatever the hell, go get it. What do I need to do to help you? Like I hated, my friends would deflate me and then be the same friends that show up to mow you got some tickets, show up to your draft party, or I ooh, ain't nothing better when you're looking at them like mm, you know I got you under my thumb now because you ain't believe that's crazy? Right? Oh? I hated that all right, So what you think about this situation? Because I know Rock Party? Where's confidence? Is? Uh? Where do you rank Rock Party in the NFL? Right now? At quarterback? Is he top ten? Top ten? Sound easy? And then you'd be like, oh that name, I say top ten, I say top ten. I'll give him a like he's playing like eight. He's playing like eight. All right, the team is playing like ten, but he playing like eight. Let's see it, and I mean ten, like a ten out of ten. They're undefeated? And is this a simple career hiccup? Like remember Jimmy G. It was Jimmy G seven to o one got paid, Brock Party nine to zero? Where the money at? If he does this this year, it's a rap he getting paid? Or does this look like longevity hiccup? Like watch out? It might be a little more Jimmy G. Even though that's a winner, it's still not even though I love Jimmy G. Or is this long? Jeffety and now Brock parties? That dude, what do y'all think about that? Taking y'all back to Columbia one dollar dances at the plex, we used to go here, he come now here? He come this of that? Everybody squad. Come on, who's did every single person that heard that song do the same thing? Squad? And to do this telling truth, telling truth? I hated I got caught up in that. I was in that impression those impressiable years. I'll just do whatever I saw on MTV raps. Who's a bleach you? What's so blench you? And then you just bouncing from your boy? Oh? Oh you just bouncing shait Oh had to do it. It was so hype. I had to do it. Oh, I remember them days. A dollar party, next level man, go to Project Transition dot org. Leave a dollar at that party. Dammit. Leave something for the iddy biddies as we go out to the community. Make sure we amplify their inner power. Show the world how great they can be, greater than their greatest excuse you leave a recurring donation weekly, monthly. Guess what I seen U D's book. All right, now, let's talk about Rich Paul and WOA and Shams. Shout out to all the parties involved in this war in basketball. Yes, Rich Paul, we know he is super agent, believes that the ongoing competition between Wold and Shams is great for basketball, is good for everyone. Let's get to the bottom of why he thinks that. Now, y'all remember back in the days when wol looked like he was beefing with Lebron James and his camp, Right, he was really critical of Lebron James. Let's just say that maybe he doing his job but in a critical wait and that led to expectations that they wouldn't get along. They weren't cool. Friction between Wolves and Clutch Sports, which is Rich Paul's agency that represents Lebron and all the NBA, not eight percent of the NVA. It seems like goodness. Now, over time, Wolves build a relationship with Clutch Sports and Lebron's camp relationship were about to talk about that even assistant in creating leverage for Paul and his client Ben Simmons when Simmons wanted to leave Philadelphia. Who starting to get close to that line? Get close to that line? So Shams he represented by UTA previously now managed by the Montag Group, not directly by Rich Paul. All right, y'all know how this is about to go. So as comments are seeing in the context of his interests maintaining good relationships with two of the most influential NBA insiders, both woes and shams, right, because those guys get the information out to you guys, breaking news, et cetera. Now, a lot of y'all don't like it. A lot of y'all disagreeing with Rich Paul, Chris Paul, what's up, homie, feeling that the focus on inside of the news is taken away from the game itself and it's making it more dramatic and all this drama and all this crazy chaos by who is what and what they're feeling and leverage and trying to get in and out of situations instead of just talking about the damn game. And that's why there's a decline in the ratings for the NBA. That's what you fans are saying, and in general, right, here's a quote, the way that they do their jobs and the commodification of info nuggets has made NBA content less about the game and more about the drama. H with so much drama in the NBA, is tel that I got wrapped to reds oh Man so interested. Paul acknowledges the importance of attention and awareness in today's NBA, where marketing and branding play a significant role. Says he says attention awareness matter more than ever, but today's NBA news breaking may not actually be in the best interest of the league ors players long term. Yeah, that's what he says. Maybe maybe not because the decline in the ratings is not supporting that. Oh. I love the fact that we're always talking about off the court things, off the court issues. So where do you guys land on this one? Want to start there? Because where I land on it. I look at all of the info wars as condoms to the meat and potatoes meant potatoes is ball, mean potatoes is championships, mean potatoes is stars? Now what do the stars want? I love that, father, I love that. I mean, look, hot dogs are good, but hot dogs are relish. Oh even better chili cheese. Chili cheese relish mustard. Ooh you got that? French is not any kind of mustard. Don't great, papau me, French is on that thing next level right? And to me, that's what they do. They give you the storylines, they give you the intel, They give you the perceived thoughts or sometimes direct thoughts of what the player is actually going through and thinking of I like it. I remember I used to get agents calling me when I was on networks all the time for stories and I was like, oh okay, and they wanted me to talk good or just know about a situation. I won't call an you agents out because I don't think you called me in that spirit. And I never took the and everything they told me when in one year Illai, I was like, man, I ain't gonna take care of your boy. That's that's your client. I'm listening. I respect you, and I respect your relationship, and I ain't gonna ever go in unnecessarily and I'm not gonna take care of him unnecessarily. That ain't how I play. But I did play with people who play like that. I just be like, dog, we ain't gonna talk about that, Nah, I don't wanna talk about that. Why you know what? He couldn't say his boy was representing that dude, And I was like, well then, dogg we gotta talk about it.

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How you gonna talk about it? Figure that out because we can't avoid this. But those politics happen all the time. Yes, your favorite TV guy is getting phone calls from some player, his representation, his agent to say this, and don't save That happens all the time, and I couldn't stand it. But I ain't care about it because I wasn't gonna listen to him or do what they wanted to say, So I didn't care at all. So what do you think of rich? Well? You think of his opinion? Right? Y'all think it's good that they the insiders, are having this war, having all this information out there. Is that good or bad for the NBA? And do you agree that the focus has shifted from on the court to break your news on your phone? I don't think it's shifted. I think they supplement each other obviously, the foundations the game on the court. Then you just pour some of these spice and these nuggets from those on the outside, right, the shams, the woges of the world, who'll go out there and kind of fill in the blanks as we watch that product. But tell me what you guys think, are they taking this focus away from the product? Are they adding to it? Eh? By y'all know what to do. I gotta get the Pro Football doc real fast. Is just go to Project Transition dot org. Leave a recurrent donation to support the kids. Yes, the tax at Denny's like that five dollars that y'all just got from that glam Slam tax right, give it to the kids, give it to the community, and support them at Project Transition dot org. All right, whatout wasting anymore time? Let's bring in my doctor David Chow, pro football doc who is now on the show every single week to take the deepest dive that we can take into sports injuries. So doctor Chow, oh Man, without further ado, let's speak about right now the Giants and Saquon. There's some more stuff going on even with Jones. What's happening over there? Brother?

How you gonna talk about it? Figure that out because we can't avoid this. But those politics happen all the time. Yes, your favorite TV guy is getting phone calls from some player, his representation, his agent to say this, and don't save That happens all the time, and I couldn't stand it. But I ain't care about it because I wasn't gonna listen to him or do what they wanted to say, So I didn't care at all. So what do you think of rich? Well? You think of his opinion? Right? Y'all think it's good that they the insiders, are having this war, having all this information out there. Is that good or bad for the NBA? And do you agree that the focus has shifted from on the court to break your news on your phone? I don't think it's shifted. I think they supplement each other obviously, the foundations the game on the court. Then you just pour some of these spice and these nuggets from those on the outside, right, the shams, the woges of the world, who'll go out there and kind of fill in the blanks as we watch that product. But tell me what you guys think, are they taking this focus away from the product? Are they adding to it? Eh? By y'all know what to do. I gotta get the Pro Football doc real fast. Is just go to Project Transition dot org. Leave a recurrent donation to support the kids. Yes, the tax at Denny's like that five dollars that y'all just got from that glam Slam tax right, give it to the kids, give it to the community, and support them at Project Transition dot org. All right, whatout wasting anymore time? Let's bring in my doctor David Chow, pro football doc who is now on the show every single week to take the deepest dive that we can take into sports injuries. So doctor Chow, oh Man, without further ado, let's speak about right now the Giants and Saquon. There's some more stuff going on even with Jones. What's happening over there? Brother?

Well, you know, I loved your previous segment about look the way media breaks news, right, there's no Woodward in Bernstein and Watergate, like literally it's the agent telling the reporter or the team telling the reporter. And that's great. We get news that way, but there's spin attached to it. And if you don't think that reporter needs to hold the party line, because look, I know football better than basketball obviously, but if one of the big boys doesn't spin it the right way, you know that agent, our team's going to the other big boy next, right, And so there's just some of that. There's nothing wrong with that, that's just the way it works. And what I luckily built our premise, a sports indry central on is our eyes and our insider knowledge, never insider information. Insider knowledge of what the game is as opposed to insider information in trading in that behold it and that's the fundamental difference. So with Top Giants, look, I don't hate on the Giants at all. I don't know coach Brian dabol but like weeks ago we said sa Quon's got a high ankle spraying period, end of discussion. It's not an ordinary ankle sprain. And then that initial Thursday game is like no chance. The next Monday night game, one extra day, I don't think. So this next week we said questionable at best. This week I think he is finally ready to try and play. And guess what, it's the same timeline as the twenty nineteen high ankle spraining. Three games missed and we're just try and decipher it. Daniel Jones, I like delivering good news. Daniel Jones left the game after getting beat up. The man took sixteen sacks. It's six quarters of play. Come on, I mean sixteen sacks and six quarters of play, and you saw and you know, Sports Injury Central, the whiplash type injury, and we said, thankfully, sure it hurts, but I don't think this is long term. And there was a lot of scare because he said it felt like twenty twenty one and twenty twenty one is a week twelve neck injury where he missed the final six games of the season. Never had surgery on the neck. He had some sort of thigh right or other procedure unrelated. But we looked at the video and go, it's not the same. It's not a disc it's not a compression. It was a hyper extension. So we're optimistic. Now the news coming out of the Giants is now they have some optimism. He's not for sure playing next week, but it's not season ending. We'll see. I think he still has a chance to play next week, although maybe you need that offensive line fixed before he comes back. There obviously helped take some presure offer, right, I mean, so that's what we do. We just go by our own thing. We don't I mean, whether it was Travis Kelcey in game, like Tony Roman was talking about high ankles and some other media reporters talking about hig ankles, like no that's a low ankle sprain. He's coming back into the game.

Well, you know, I loved your previous segment about look the way media breaks news, right, there's no Woodward in Bernstein and Watergate, like literally it's the agent telling the reporter or the team telling the reporter. And that's great. We get news that way, but there's spin attached to it. And if you don't think that reporter needs to hold the party line, because look, I know football better than basketball obviously, but if one of the big boys doesn't spin it the right way, you know that agent, our team's going to the other big boy next, right, And so there's just some of that. There's nothing wrong with that, that's just the way it works. And what I luckily built our premise, a sports indry central on is our eyes and our insider knowledge, never insider information. Insider knowledge of what the game is as opposed to insider information in trading in that behold it and that's the fundamental difference. So with Top Giants, look, I don't hate on the Giants at all. I don't know coach Brian dabol but like weeks ago we said sa Quon's got a high ankle spraying period, end of discussion. It's not an ordinary ankle sprain. And then that initial Thursday game is like no chance. The next Monday night game, one extra day, I don't think. So this next week we said questionable at best. This week I think he is finally ready to try and play. And guess what, it's the same timeline as the twenty nineteen high ankle spraining. Three games missed and we're just try and decipher it. Daniel Jones, I like delivering good news. Daniel Jones left the game after getting beat up. The man took sixteen sacks. It's six quarters of play. Come on, I mean sixteen sacks and six quarters of play, and you saw and you know, Sports Injury Central, the whiplash type injury, and we said, thankfully, sure it hurts, but I don't think this is long term. And there was a lot of scare because he said it felt like twenty twenty one and twenty twenty one is a week twelve neck injury where he missed the final six games of the season. Never had surgery on the neck. He had some sort of thigh right or other procedure unrelated. But we looked at the video and go, it's not the same. It's not a disc it's not a compression. It was a hyper extension. So we're optimistic. Now the news coming out of the Giants is now they have some optimism. He's not for sure playing next week, but it's not season ending. We'll see. I think he still has a chance to play next week, although maybe you need that offensive line fixed before he comes back. There obviously helped take some presure offer, right, I mean, so that's what we do. We just go by our own thing. We don't I mean, whether it was Travis Kelcey in game, like Tony Roman was talking about high ankles and some other media reporters talking about hig ankles, like no that's a low ankle sprain. He's coming back into the game.

Kind of why would we can not give you the same timeline, like give me that layer. I know this is two coincidental for it to just be like look or just like a coincidence.

Kind of why would we can not give you the same timeline, like give me that layer. I know this is two coincidental for it to just be like look or just like a coincidence.

Look, why show people just because of competitive advantage? That's how the league works and different things, Okay, and you know there's different spins and different ways to do this. Look, Marcellus confession, not even confession. People know, Okay, I was on the other side. So if you're an attorney, you're the DA and you're a prosecutor, and then when you just quit your government job, you go to the defense because you know how prosecutors work, right, and there's an advantage. So my advantage is I was on this side of the equation. I was on the team side of the equation. You know, I'll give you the inside skinny. I was involved on the charger side of spinning the news when Philip Revers had a torn ACL going into that AFC Championship game, and you know doing it. So you want the deep dive, here's the deep dive. Okay. If you look at my Twitter page, the background picture not the profile the header. I don't know, whatever you call it. If you look at the roof, you'll recognize it. It was the last game in the RCA Dome and I am walking off with Philip Rivers and we already knew we had a torn ACL. He was trying to get back in the game. I was like, Philip, you can't do it. On the plane ride, he already talked about the knee scope and whatever to take care of the meniscus and play with a brace with the ACL, we said, just relax, we know, think on it. He's like, I want to play. I want to play. I want to play. I said the next one, let's meet at seven am. Don't have anything to eat or drink. We'll see about the surgery and see we can get you going. So we met with the head coach, the head athletic trainer, myself and Philip North Turner. Coach Turner says, Philip, Billy Bullock has got this. Go take care of yourself. Philip says, no, I want to play. Let's go.

Look, why show people just because of competitive advantage? That's how the league works and different things, Okay, and you know there's different spins and different ways to do this. Look, Marcellus confession, not even confession. People know, Okay, I was on the other side. So if you're an attorney, you're the DA and you're a prosecutor, and then when you just quit your government job, you go to the defense because you know how prosecutors work, right, and there's an advantage. So my advantage is I was on this side of the equation. I was on the team side of the equation. You know, I'll give you the inside skinny. I was involved on the charger side of spinning the news when Philip Revers had a torn ACL going into that AFC Championship game, and you know doing it. So you want the deep dive, here's the deep dive. Okay. If you look at my Twitter page, the background picture not the profile the header. I don't know, whatever you call it. If you look at the roof, you'll recognize it. It was the last game in the RCA Dome and I am walking off with Philip Rivers and we already knew we had a torn ACL. He was trying to get back in the game. I was like, Philip, you can't do it. On the plane ride, he already talked about the knee scope and whatever to take care of the meniscus and play with a brace with the ACL, we said, just relax, we know, think on it. He's like, I want to play. I want to play. I want to play. I said the next one, let's meet at seven am. Don't have anything to eat or drink. We'll see about the surgery and see we can get you going. So we met with the head coach, the head athletic trainer, myself and Philip North Turner. Coach Turner says, Philip, Billy Bullock has got this. Go take care of yourself. Philip says, no, I want to play. Let's go.

Let's go.

Let's go.

So we still decide to go through and push through. And he did play in that AFC Championship game. By the way, he said it's a chance to play with the Super Bowl. I don't know what I'm going to get back there. And that was his only AFC Championship game, that one.

So we still decide to go through and push through. And he did play in that AFC Championship game. By the way, he said it's a chance to play with the Super Bowl. I don't know what I'm going to get back there. And that was his only AFC Championship game, that one.

And yeah, you said pushed through? What does push through mean? That was the part that I'm like, what is push through? Did you have a quick surgery? Like, how do you push through?

And yeah, you said pushed through? What does push through mean? That was the part that I'm like, what is push through? Did you have a quick surgery? Like, how do you push through?

Simple surgery? And and he's wave TIPA. So this is why I can talk about it. Simple n scope surgery to take care of his meniscus. And then we're bracing up the ACL to play, okay, and and so he leaves the room to head the surgery and then we say, well, coach says, well, what I'm going to talk to the media next? What should I say? And he goes, he goes, I'm just going to say MRI pending. And I said okay, And I said, coach, what are you going to tell him tomorrow? Right? And he goes, what should I tell him? I said, well, he does have an MCL component. You would not be lying if you talked about the MCL. Right. So I'm not hating on the Giants. I was involved on the other side. Okay, this is just the way the game is played. That's all I'm trying to say, right, I mean, it's not. And I'll tell you the funny anecdote because like, one of the reason I love doing the segment is I love the deeper dives and honestly, we don't get to chattering now, so this to me is just storytelling and swopping. Right. So we're in New England and we're in Look, you know Buddy was on that team. Okay, yeah, yeah, And originally I'm texting with Buddy and like, oh, let's try and meet up. I got team meetings on you know whatever, and he sends me a text. I kid you not. He sends me a text saying, we all know seventeen has a torn acl and is not playing Sunday. You can tell me. We all know, but tell me yeah, but like you know, and at all now to this day, you know, rest in peace. I don't know whether he was fishing or actually knew something, right, but I just said l ol of them laughed, right, I mean, I just like whatever. So there is a lot of gamesmanship that goes on, and this is why it happens. And like I said, no no hate to the Giants or any team. Everybody does it to some.

Simple surgery? And and he's wave TIPA. So this is why I can talk about it. Simple n scope surgery to take care of his meniscus. And then we're bracing up the ACL to play, okay, and and so he leaves the room to head the surgery and then we say, well, coach says, well, what I'm going to talk to the media next? What should I say? And he goes, he goes, I'm just going to say MRI pending. And I said okay, And I said, coach, what are you going to tell him tomorrow? Right? And he goes, what should I tell him? I said, well, he does have an MCL component. You would not be lying if you talked about the MCL. Right. So I'm not hating on the Giants. I was involved on the other side. Okay, this is just the way the game is played. That's all I'm trying to say, right, I mean, it's not. And I'll tell you the funny anecdote because like, one of the reason I love doing the segment is I love the deeper dives and honestly, we don't get to chattering now, so this to me is just storytelling and swopping. Right. So we're in New England and we're in Look, you know Buddy was on that team. Okay, yeah, yeah, And originally I'm texting with Buddy and like, oh, let's try and meet up. I got team meetings on you know whatever, and he sends me a text. I kid you not. He sends me a text saying, we all know seventeen has a torn acl and is not playing Sunday. You can tell me. We all know, but tell me yeah, but like you know, and at all now to this day, you know, rest in peace. I don't know whether he was fishing or actually knew something, right, but I just said l ol of them laughed, right, I mean, I just like whatever. So there is a lot of gamesmanship that goes on, and this is why it happens. And like I said, no no hate to the Giants or any team. Everybody does it to some.

Extent, explain this gamesmanshit, because you're right. I mean, look, it's almost like a parallel to me being a former player and a broadcaster and now telling everyone, Hey, there's a veil there, there's a curtain there. Let me tell you behind that, what's really going on? Now? What's going on behind Jonathan Taylor's contract? Because we were just on this show and there was injury here and not tradable there, and then now you got a big deal. What happened?

Extent, explain this gamesmanshit, because you're right. I mean, look, it's almost like a parallel to me being a former player and a broadcaster and now telling everyone, Hey, there's a veil there, there's a curtain there. Let me tell you behind that, what's really going on? Now? What's going on behind Jonathan Taylor's contract? Because we were just on this show and there was injury here and not tradable there, and then now you got a big deal. What happened?

I said, from the beginning, my feeling was it was hiding behind health if you look go through it, both sides, hiding behind health. And congratulations to Jonathan Taylor and his agent for playing it out. Well. He wasn't getting the contract right. So originally the colt said, oh, we're not paying you, and he's like, oh, I don't like that. And then he said, well, I might not come to camp, right, And then the colt said, well, if you don't come to camp, there's this back issue and we're going to put you on NFI non football injury, which means you won't get paid and this that the other, and he says, well, I don't have a back issue, but I do have an ankle issue from last year still and we're like, hey, that ankle issue we always thought was going to be fine this year and we didn't see anything problem with it. And so he doesn't come to camp, he's rehabbing on his own, and then end up putting him on four weeks out for the start of season because the ankle. But wait a minute, and the preseason they were trying to trade him, they didn't get a trade partner. How do you trade a player that's injured, So how did you put him on? So it'll sort of move countermove And we said when this practice window opened that we don't think it's his ankle. I think he's gonna be okay. And well, at he gets a new deal, he's ready to go. There's no ramp up time. Now. Admittedly Zach Mass got the majority of the touches and the more yards. But here, here's the thing. If you're the Colts and you just paid Jonathan Taylor, you're gonna run him into the ground and risk a hamstring or something else in week one back or you're gonna say, getting flows split with Zach Moss, who's doing well and by game flow he was getting a lot of yards play him because you paid the other guy. He's not like you paid him and you don't like him. You paid him and you want to make sure he's okay. So to me, all of that dynamics sort of made sense on both sides, right, They were just playing the game, you know, in terms of the way that it is. So no hate to the Colts, no hate to Jonathan Taylor's agent, well played on both sides.

I said, from the beginning, my feeling was it was hiding behind health if you look go through it, both sides, hiding behind health. And congratulations to Jonathan Taylor and his agent for playing it out. Well. He wasn't getting the contract right. So originally the colt said, oh, we're not paying you, and he's like, oh, I don't like that. And then he said, well, I might not come to camp, right, And then the colt said, well, if you don't come to camp, there's this back issue and we're going to put you on NFI non football injury, which means you won't get paid and this that the other, and he says, well, I don't have a back issue, but I do have an ankle issue from last year still and we're like, hey, that ankle issue we always thought was going to be fine this year and we didn't see anything problem with it. And so he doesn't come to camp, he's rehabbing on his own, and then end up putting him on four weeks out for the start of season because the ankle. But wait a minute, and the preseason they were trying to trade him, they didn't get a trade partner. How do you trade a player that's injured, So how did you put him on? So it'll sort of move countermove And we said when this practice window opened that we don't think it's his ankle. I think he's gonna be okay. And well, at he gets a new deal, he's ready to go. There's no ramp up time. Now. Admittedly Zach Mass got the majority of the touches and the more yards. But here, here's the thing. If you're the Colts and you just paid Jonathan Taylor, you're gonna run him into the ground and risk a hamstring or something else in week one back or you're gonna say, getting flows split with Zach Moss, who's doing well and by game flow he was getting a lot of yards play him because you paid the other guy. He's not like you paid him and you don't like him. You paid him and you want to make sure he's okay. So to me, all of that dynamics sort of made sense on both sides, right, They were just playing the game, you know, in terms of the way that it is. So no hate to the Colts, no hate to Jonathan Taylor's agent, well played on both sides.

Well do we hate the state of Anthony Richardson right now? Because what three injuries in five weeks as a rookie? We hate net? Right?

Well do we hate the state of Anthony Richardson right now? Because what three injuries in five weeks as a rookie? We hate net? Right?

Well? You know, I if I'm accused of anything, it's I should be accused of defending players and ultimate respect for what players put their bodies through. And I think it is a complete insult when you hear Turns throwing around the kid's injury prone. He is not injury prone. He had a week one knee contusion that he played through, he got his bell rung concussion missed week three, and now he got driven down on his shoulder. What do we have in common there? Injury prone is someone else takes the same hit and is not injured, and you are injured? Right to me, anyone who takes that hit gets injured. What do we have in common? There three design run plays. There is more danger when you run and you extend plays out of the pocket. Now, if you want to tell me the way Anthony and Richardson plays makes him prone to injury, I'll buy that. If you drive like crazy, you're prone to get into an accident. Okay, doesn't make that. I think he can be proned. Look, our boy, Philip Rivers was not prone to injury. Well, he got a share of injuries in the pocket, but he didn't extend place right, didn't really run, and he had the all time streak. Now, there were injections of goll that he did a lot of things, but he didn't put himself at that risk because you know he's got you know, army boots on his feet as he runs, right. I mean, and but the bottom line is it's the style of play. Now, will this continual if he keeps doing that? I mean, you are at more risk, you know when.