This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.

This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.

What is up Straight Fire, FA It's me Jason McIntire, Straight Fire for Monday, March seventeenth. Oh man, it was a glorious weekend. March Madness is officially here. If you could can't really tell, my voice is kind of sort of fading. I got a little I don't know. I usually avoid getting sick because I, you know, pride myself on being an ox and I don't get sick. Not quite a man cold, but just like a throat thing where I'm losing my voice now it could be could be the guys. I spent the weekend coaching H one two I think four basketball games, youth basketball game, so you know, I'm getting after it and before we get to the brackets, and obviously the huge news for the Cincinnati Bengals that they fans are getting about, which it's great news, but you know, I don't think you should be that giddy. You know, you look at coaching youth sports, and I've talked about this for a while. I think one of the most rewarding fun things I've done is coach my kids. Memories that I'll have forever, and I'm very competitive. You guys couldn't tell I play in multiple men's leagues. It just so happens that my teams are always kind of in the mix. Well that's because I love this stuff, you know, and I'm a competitive and I make sure kids who have a practice, and you know, I get on the parents. I make sure I draft kids who I know the parents or I know the parents are going to get the kids to practice. And I'll be honest, totally upfront, I thought this was the weakest team my son has had in years. It was a combined seventh and eighth grade, and I don't know, a ton of seventh graders and a lot of the best I would say, like the top ten, maybe the top eight kids in the grade didn't play because they're prepping for freshman ball. So it was a lot of like Newish guys. And I'll be honest, I did think our team was great. We lost one game season, and going into the playoffs, I'm like, listen, it's not gonna be I didn't even know when the championship game was, and of course I start to get into it. We catch a bit of a break when the number one overall pick decided to skip a playoff game so that he could play in a club game. And I'll never really understand that, but I'll tell you more in a sec. And then we play in the second round against my buddy, and it just so happens we only had five guys, so no bench, no subs or anything, which you think is a major drawback. However, my buddy's team had all eight of his players and they were a really good team. They were favored air quotes, and I was extremely nervous because I thought we were gonna get blown out. They had their two best players. And then of course, the morning of the tournament, there was a club tournament and boom, my buddy's son, who's a very good player, turns his ankle and he couldn't really play or do much. So we caught a bit of a break there, and our role players just caught fire. We get the win. I'm shocked, and I'm like scrambling. Oh wait a minute. I got to coach the championship at three o'clock Sunday and the brackets come out at three o'clock and I'm like, oh man. And then my daughter's game, we had a stacked team. We were very good. We kind of cruise to the title. That game was right after that, so like I'm yelling all weekend getting after it. Anyways, my son's team, you guys all love this. Just humor me for a sec. We're going up against a team that the only team that beat us. Now I wasn't there, but still they beat us pretty soundly. They had four really good players, one of them is on that prep for the high school team. And we scrimmaged them three times and they smoked us every time. Now it was on a small court, we didn't have all our guys, but it was like, damn, this team passes. They know what they're doing, and we got destroyed, and our guys were nervous. And of course the morning of the championship game, the other coach is Jay Mac. Can we reschedule? My top three players all have club conflicts? And I'm like, Carlos, you're my guy, but bro, tell these parents. You know there's a club tournament every other weekend. You couldn't tell me what happened in your club tournament three months ago or six or nine. Nobody remembers. I was like, oh, yeah, I think we did. Okay, we had two and one. The local basketball league. There's one season, one tournament, and that's it. That's it. You'll remember this five years from now ten you won't remember the club. So he's like, all right, I'll work on him. Turns out two of the guys showed up, and my buddy, who I play in the men's league with, he's really good. He's the one who lives around the corner from Klay Thompson and his son is the seventh grader. And I'm just telling you, guys, if he gets a little taller and once he hits puberty and gets stronger, he's going to be a lights out player. He is unbelievable. I had thirty two points, carried us to the victory, and so I get home from two titles one, I'm on cloud nine. I'm going through the video because he has like a nerd. I watched the video afterward and pull clips and put them online and just like set him to the parents like I'm committed. I'm in. And then I sit down and look at the brackets. Last night, I'm like, shit, I missed the selection show. You know, this was like the first time in twenty years. I live for March Madness, gambled on it all weekend. Saturday was a monster Day was very good. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday not great, not great, but we rally and here we are And now my inbox has just slammed with are you entering this bracket challenge? GBS? Yahoo, Local work. There's so many guys texting me do you want to know my bracket challenge? Twenty bucks? And who can say no to this stuff? It's like, I love the brackets, and I've long compared brackets to going out to bars and meeting girls in your in your early twenties. It's a numbers game. If you just sit back and hang with the dudes and maybe go up to one girl and kick game or whatever, and you get the stiff arm or hey, good talking to you. I'm out. That's it. You're over one done. If you are that guy who's super friendly and you're trying to make moves and you're hey, how are you? And you what's going on?

What is up Straight Fire, FA It's me Jason McIntire, Straight Fire for Monday, March seventeenth. Oh man, it was a glorious weekend. March Madness is officially here. If you could can't really tell, my voice is kind of sort of fading. I got a little I don't know. I usually avoid getting sick because I, you know, pride myself on being an ox and I don't get sick. Not quite a man cold, but just like a throat thing where I'm losing my voice now it could be could be the guys. I spent the weekend coaching H one two I think four basketball games, youth basketball game, so you know, I'm getting after it and before we get to the brackets, and obviously the huge news for the Cincinnati Bengals that they fans are getting about, which it's great news, but you know, I don't think you should be that giddy. You know, you look at coaching youth sports, and I've talked about this for a while. I think one of the most rewarding fun things I've done is coach my kids. Memories that I'll have forever, and I'm very competitive. You guys couldn't tell I play in multiple men's leagues. It just so happens that my teams are always kind of in the mix. Well that's because I love this stuff, you know, and I'm a competitive and I make sure kids who have a practice, and you know, I get on the parents. I make sure I draft kids who I know the parents or I know the parents are going to get the kids to practice. And I'll be honest, totally upfront, I thought this was the weakest team my son has had in years. It was a combined seventh and eighth grade, and I don't know, a ton of seventh graders and a lot of the best I would say, like the top ten, maybe the top eight kids in the grade didn't play because they're prepping for freshman ball. So it was a lot of like Newish guys. And I'll be honest, I did think our team was great. We lost one game season, and going into the playoffs, I'm like, listen, it's not gonna be I didn't even know when the championship game was, and of course I start to get into it. We catch a bit of a break when the number one overall pick decided to skip a playoff game so that he could play in a club game. And I'll never really understand that, but I'll tell you more in a sec. And then we play in the second round against my buddy, and it just so happens we only had five guys, so no bench, no subs or anything, which you think is a major drawback. However, my buddy's team had all eight of his players and they were a really good team. They were favored air quotes, and I was extremely nervous because I thought we were gonna get blown out. They had their two best players. And then of course, the morning of the tournament, there was a club tournament and boom, my buddy's son, who's a very good player, turns his ankle and he couldn't really play or do much. So we caught a bit of a break there, and our role players just caught fire. We get the win. I'm shocked, and I'm like scrambling. Oh wait a minute. I got to coach the championship at three o'clock Sunday and the brackets come out at three o'clock and I'm like, oh man. And then my daughter's game, we had a stacked team. We were very good. We kind of cruise to the title. That game was right after that, so like I'm yelling all weekend getting after it. Anyways, my son's team, you guys all love this. Just humor me for a sec. We're going up against a team that the only team that beat us. Now I wasn't there, but still they beat us pretty soundly. They had four really good players, one of them is on that prep for the high school team. And we scrimmaged them three times and they smoked us every time. Now it was on a small court, we didn't have all our guys, but it was like, damn, this team passes. They know what they're doing, and we got destroyed, and our guys were nervous. And of course the morning of the championship game, the other coach is Jay Mac. Can we reschedule? My top three players all have club conflicts? And I'm like, Carlos, you're my guy, but bro, tell these parents. You know there's a club tournament every other weekend. You couldn't tell me what happened in your club tournament three months ago or six or nine. Nobody remembers. I was like, oh, yeah, I think we did. Okay, we had two and one. The local basketball league. There's one season, one tournament, and that's it. That's it. You'll remember this five years from now ten you won't remember the club. So he's like, all right, I'll work on him. Turns out two of the guys showed up, and my buddy, who I play in the men's league with, he's really good. He's the one who lives around the corner from Klay Thompson and his son is the seventh grader. And I'm just telling you, guys, if he gets a little taller and once he hits puberty and gets stronger, he's going to be a lights out player. He is unbelievable. I had thirty two points, carried us to the victory, and so I get home from two titles one, I'm on cloud nine. I'm going through the video because he has like a nerd. I watched the video afterward and pull clips and put them online and just like set him to the parents like I'm committed. I'm in. And then I sit down and look at the brackets. Last night, I'm like, shit, I missed the selection show. You know, this was like the first time in twenty years. I live for March Madness, gambled on it all weekend. Saturday was a monster Day was very good. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday not great, not great, but we rally and here we are And now my inbox has just slammed with are you entering this bracket challenge? GBS? Yahoo, Local work. There's so many guys texting me do you want to know my bracket challenge? Twenty bucks? And who can say no to this stuff? It's like, I love the brackets, and I've long compared brackets to going out to bars and meeting girls in your in your early twenties. It's a numbers game. If you just sit back and hang with the dudes and maybe go up to one girl and kick game or whatever, and you get the stiff arm or hey, good talking to you. I'm out. That's it. You're over one done. If you are that guy who's super friendly and you're trying to make moves and you're hey, how are you? And you what's going on?

Hey?

Hey?

Hey? And you I don't know, shoot your shot with ten women? How many numbers do you think you're gonna get?

Hey? And you I don't know, shoot your shot with ten women? How many numbers do you think you're gonna get?

Three?

Three?

Four? Like, it's a numbers game, and with the brackets, that's how I treat them. So I am twenty bracket guy. Now, in the last three years, brackets have taken a backseat to this thing called a Calcutta where you bid on teams. You get a group and bid on teams and hopefully your team goes far and you win money. So the first year I did it, I thought this was amazing. We had a pretty famous actor. I'm not gonna say his name, but he's been in a lot of good movies. Super nice guy, lives locally and he's buddies with a couple guys that I know, and he staked most of it. And we had Kansas, and that was the tournament where Kansas made an amazing run and smashed North Carolina. I think they rallied to beat North Carolina in the title game. But it was awesome. We all had a nice little windfall and it was like, oh, just Calcutta stuff is easy, right. But then the next year we pivoted to a different Calcutta and oh no, no, no, we did the same one, but it went extremely poorly and we were like, all right, let's not do this.

Four? Like, it's a numbers game, and with the brackets, that's how I treat them. So I am twenty bracket guy. Now, in the last three years, brackets have taken a backseat to this thing called a Calcutta where you bid on teams. You get a group and bid on teams and hopefully your team goes far and you win money. So the first year I did it, I thought this was amazing. We had a pretty famous actor. I'm not gonna say his name, but he's been in a lot of good movies. Super nice guy, lives locally and he's buddies with a couple guys that I know, and he staked most of it. And we had Kansas, and that was the tournament where Kansas made an amazing run and smashed North Carolina. I think they rallied to beat North Carolina in the title game. But it was awesome. We all had a nice little windfall and it was like, oh, just Calcutta stuff is easy, right. But then the next year we pivoted to a different Calcutta and oh no, no, no, we did the same one, but it went extremely poorly and we were like, all right, let's not do this.

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Guy whoever off puts in the most money usually has the most say. So if you're putting in ten percent and so's your buddy. And then the big guy's putting in sixty percent. Well he's going to overrule you because he's putting, you know, mid five figures on the line, high five figures. And so that one did not go well. So we pivoted to a different one. And last year we were in a great spot and then it all fell apart in the Sweet sixteen. One night in one fell swoop we went. We had three teams left in the Sweet sixteen. All of them lost. They were all favored, and they all lost. One of them was Houston when they lost their their guard got injured early, and I was like, f life.

Guy whoever off puts in the most money usually has the most say. So if you're putting in ten percent and so's your buddy. And then the big guy's putting in sixty percent. Well he's going to overrule you because he's putting, you know, mid five figures on the line, high five figures. And so that one did not go well. So we pivoted to a different one. And last year we were in a great spot and then it all fell apart in the Sweet sixteen. One night in one fell swoop we went. We had three teams left in the Sweet sixteen. All of them lost. They were all favored, and they all lost. One of them was Houston when they lost their their guard got injured early, and I was like, f life.

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As you can tell, I put in a lot of effort and energy into brackets, and I will just I'm not gonna put picks on Twitter. I just put one on yesterday just because I've been talking about it and I wrote about it for Fox Sports. Just one that that's the only one that I'm gonna put on. That's the use. That's the Tritons of UC San Diego. I've been high these guys for a little bit. They are an awesome story there. There was a great read in the Athletic about what their coach has done. They went from D three to D two. He's doing. His whole roster is mostly D two and D three guys, and they just play their ass off. They play this no middle defense which I employed to my local teams here. Yes, at the youth level, where it's basically like we're not letting you get to the middle. No floaters, no layft, none of that. And they play amazingly. They hustle their butts off. This team is feisty and I'm When the brackets came out, I wasn't there. I saw some people got three and a half. I did not get that. I got two. I got three plus three for the Titans. It's down to two and a half. As I look at the lines right now, I'm just telling you this team is tough and gritty. Now. The drawback is they don't really have a lot of size. However, Michigan has some size. They got the big kid he transferred. He was on that. I think the FAU team that went to the final four and they have another big guy who solid who showed well in the Big Ten Tournament. So they're kind of sort of a problem for the Tritons. But I'm taking them. I made the bet, you know, not not the biggest wager in the world, but I do believe they will be a significant problem. I think Michigan is a mite overseated and they don't shoot the three well and the Tritons do. Just reminding people who are like, oh, Michigan won the Big Ten Tournament, so coming into the Big Ten Tournament, they got smacked at home by twenty by Illinois, lost at home to Maryland, and then got smashed at Michigan State. So they went into the Big Ten Tournament on a three game losing streak. That being said, Dusty May put everything into the Big Ten Tournament. They beat Purdue, survived Maryland, and then rallied late to beat Wisconsin, and there are there's a lot of Dusty May chatter. Is he gonna go to Indiana? What's going on?

As you can tell, I put in a lot of effort and energy into brackets, and I will just I'm not gonna put picks on Twitter. I just put one on yesterday just because I've been talking about it and I wrote about it for Fox Sports. Just one that that's the only one that I'm gonna put on. That's the use. That's the Tritons of UC San Diego. I've been high these guys for a little bit. They are an awesome story there. There was a great read in the Athletic about what their coach has done. They went from D three to D two. He's doing. His whole roster is mostly D two and D three guys, and they just play their ass off. They play this no middle defense which I employed to my local teams here. Yes, at the youth level, where it's basically like we're not letting you get to the middle. No floaters, no layft, none of that. And they play amazingly. They hustle their butts off. This team is feisty and I'm When the brackets came out, I wasn't there. I saw some people got three and a half. I did not get that. I got two. I got three plus three for the Titans. It's down to two and a half. As I look at the lines right now, I'm just telling you this team is tough and gritty. Now. The drawback is they don't really have a lot of size. However, Michigan has some size. They got the big kid he transferred. He was on that. I think the FAU team that went to the final four and they have another big guy who solid who showed well in the Big Ten Tournament. So they're kind of sort of a problem for the Tritons. But I'm taking them. I made the bet, you know, not not the biggest wager in the world, but I do believe they will be a significant problem. I think Michigan is a mite overseated and they don't shoot the three well and the Tritons do. Just reminding people who are like, oh, Michigan won the Big Ten Tournament, so coming into the Big Ten Tournament, they got smacked at home by twenty by Illinois, lost at home to Maryland, and then got smashed at Michigan State. So they went into the Big Ten Tournament on a three game losing streak. That being said, Dusty May put everything into the Big Ten Tournament. They beat Purdue, survived Maryland, and then rallied late to beat Wisconsin, and there are there's a lot of Dusty May chatter. Is he gonna go to Indiana? What's going on?

Is he?

Is he?

You know? I don't know, man, I don't think this team shoots it good enough. I know they got the two bigs, Wolf and Golden is his name. I just I don't fear them as a shooting team. But you see, San Diego comes in with the longest win streak in the country fifteen in a row, and their tallest rotational player is six', eight so they don't have a lot of. Size but what they do is they shoot the. Three. Well they're an awesome offense and they get a lot of. STEALS i think they'll either pull the upset or or keep it close enough to. Cover but that was the first BET i. Made now regarding, brackets my first whack and AGAIN i will do. TWENTY i Have, Auburn Florida duke And. Tennessee not too imaginative, there But i'm gonna rattle off some stuff for you guys THAT i think could be helpful and HOW i kind of how will be looking at The Calcutta so, obviously if you don't have A Ken pom, subscription then you're not a serious college basketball, Gambler like that's the bare. Minimum you can go To Bart, porvik which is free and he has good. Numbers Ken palm is LIKE i think forty bucks for the. Year, guys break that. Down if you're gambling on THE ncaa tournament And Ken palm is forty dollars for the, year AS i caugh up a long, year forty dollars divided by twelve. Months let me do the elementary bat, there forty divided by Twelve that is three dollars a, month three dollars a, month three dollars and thirty three cents a month divided by thirty days in a, month you get eleven cents a. Day, okay that's a dime a day For Ken pomp. Subscription like just do, it you. Know and you look at his, numbers and this is why in the LAST i think it's twenty years is twenty, Five so it was in the last twenty four, years no team has won the title that wasn't in the top twenty five Of Ken palm's. Ranking, okay top twenty. Five so if you're not in the top twenty, five, forget you're just not winning the. Title that's how it has gone for the last twenty four. Years that would eliminate number twenty five is miss, again so twenty six is old, miss twenty SEVENS ucla twenty eight To, marquette twenty Nine's baylor there they're not gonna win to now in Three in all but three, cases every champion has been top six entering the, Tournament so you need to be top six in ken Pum who are the top Six Duke, Florida, Houston, Auburn tennessee And. Alabama though the title almost certainly will come from one of those six. Teams, now what are those three? Outliers will two thousand and Three syracuse With Carmelo, anthony they were not top. Six two they had a SUPERSTAR Nba hall Of famer twenty Eleven YUKON i think that Was Kemba walker and then two thoy Fourteen. YUKON i could look those, up But i'm pretty sure that was the team with the guard That lebron wanted badly in the in the. Draft let me look at their twenty Fourteen yukon Rass Oh Shabaz. Napier they Had Napier boat right in the back court and twenty Eleven yukon was, Yes, Cardiac Kemba walker And Shabaz. Napier so from that you can easily glean guard play matters. Significantly but out of those, six how can you drill down? Further, well offensive rating and defensive rating two more ken pound stats matter, Hugely AND i know this is nerdy and it's just a, Spreadsheet, jason games aren't played on a. Spreadsheet, okay, fine do it your, way, guys good. Luck this has worked for.

You know? I don't know, man, I don't think this team shoots it good enough. I know they got the two bigs, Wolf and Golden is his name. I just I don't fear them as a shooting team. But you see, San Diego comes in with the longest win streak in the country fifteen in a row, and their tallest rotational player is six', eight so they don't have a lot of. Size but what they do is they shoot the. Three. Well they're an awesome offense and they get a lot of. STEALS i think they'll either pull the upset or or keep it close enough to. Cover but that was the first BET i. Made now regarding, brackets my first whack and AGAIN i will do. TWENTY i Have, Auburn Florida duke And. Tennessee not too imaginative, there But i'm gonna rattle off some stuff for you guys THAT i think could be helpful and HOW i kind of how will be looking at The Calcutta so, obviously if you don't have A Ken pom, subscription then you're not a serious college basketball, Gambler like that's the bare. Minimum you can go To Bart, porvik which is free and he has good. Numbers Ken palm is LIKE i think forty bucks for the. Year, guys break that. Down if you're gambling on THE ncaa tournament And Ken palm is forty dollars for the, year AS i caugh up a long, year forty dollars divided by twelve. Months let me do the elementary bat, there forty divided by Twelve that is three dollars a, month three dollars a, month three dollars and thirty three cents a month divided by thirty days in a, month you get eleven cents a. Day, okay that's a dime a day For Ken pomp. Subscription like just do, it you. Know and you look at his, numbers and this is why in the LAST i think it's twenty years is twenty, Five so it was in the last twenty four, years no team has won the title that wasn't in the top twenty five Of Ken palm's. Ranking, okay top twenty. Five so if you're not in the top twenty, five, forget you're just not winning the. Title that's how it has gone for the last twenty four. Years that would eliminate number twenty five is miss, again so twenty six is old, miss twenty SEVENS ucla twenty eight To, marquette twenty Nine's baylor there they're not gonna win to now in Three in all but three, cases every champion has been top six entering the, Tournament so you need to be top six in ken Pum who are the top Six Duke, Florida, Houston, Auburn tennessee And. Alabama though the title almost certainly will come from one of those six. Teams, now what are those three? Outliers will two thousand and Three syracuse With Carmelo, anthony they were not top. Six two they had a SUPERSTAR Nba hall Of famer twenty Eleven YUKON i think that Was Kemba walker and then two thoy Fourteen. YUKON i could look those, up But i'm pretty sure that was the team with the guard That lebron wanted badly in the in the. Draft let me look at their twenty Fourteen yukon Rass Oh Shabaz. Napier they Had Napier boat right in the back court and twenty Eleven yukon was, Yes, Cardiac Kemba walker And Shabaz. Napier so from that you can easily glean guard play matters. Significantly but out of those, six how can you drill down? Further, well offensive rating and defensive rating two more ken pound stats matter, Hugely AND i know this is nerdy and it's just a, Spreadsheet, jason games aren't played on a. Spreadsheet, okay, fine do it your, way, guys good. Luck this has worked for.

ME i do this all.

ME i do this all.

SEASON i do it as often AS i. CAN i mean DURING. Nfl it's. Tough but and you look at offensive rating and defensive rating and guess what of those six they are four of them are for the top offensive teams in the. Country defensively is another, question Because alabama's defense has been. Leaky they've fallen out of the top twenty five. Defensively, PERSONALLY i don't Think alabama will win the? Title can? They sure anybody, can BUT i. Don't alabama is leaking oil right. Now they've really been. Struggling SO i don't put a ton of faith in. Them, obviously being in the side the top thirty matters, defensively and you look at defense and the number one defensive team Is Saint. John's why don't PEOPLE i don't Love Saint. John's, well they're offensively. Challenged they're sixty fifth in. Offense, folks there are hold, on let me tell you real, quick And i'm sorry to nerd out we'll get to actual sports in a. Second so there's three hundred and sixty four college basketball. Teams, okay three hundred and sixty. Four Saint john's ranks three hundred and thirty. Eight then three point shooting three thirty eight out of three sixty. Four in free throw shoot they're two hundred ninety. FIFTH i have historically struggled to bet on and back teams that cannot shoot free throws or, threes especially In. March it's a tougher, game a lower Scoring sometimes you get in these Mostly sweet, sixteen you get in these larger arenas that they're not used, to and they Strugg now there's also the question of the. Whistle you, know, listen referees might call it tighter than you used to in The Big, east you, know and all of a, sudden it's, like, wait, wait, wait what we got our guys in foul? Trouble what's going on? Here and, Again Saint john's is a very good. Team they are one of the most more experienced teams in the. Country this is all stuff you can get off ken com and they don't have a. Bench so if all of a, sudden you KNOW. R. J lewis who has been. Awesome they transfer From. UMass he's been really. Good last year he was like THE i think The Big East player of The Year Conference TOURNAMENT MVP R J. Luis he's just been. Phenomenal but like if he gets in foul trouble or, anyone it's, like oh, geez we have no. Depth they don't have depth and they can't. Shoot So i'm not as bullish On Saint john's now they are boom. Bust remember they got hot one game AND i think hit like eleven or twelve, Threes so anything's. Possible but you, know if you're putting real, money it's, SAKE i can't totally Buy Saint. John's let's see what one other, stack BECAUSE i got to save some stuff for our guests that are coming up this, week some college basketball gambling heavyweight. Guys let's see here something that jumps. OUT a double digit seed has advanced to the sweet sixteen in each of the last sixteen tournaments and thirty seven of thirty nine. Overall like that's a significant sample. Size some double digit seed is gonna break through to the sweet. SIXTEEN a couple THAT i, HAVE i Have texas Or xavier and, again that's just in one. Bracket Texas. SAVIOR i HAVE. Vcu keep an eye on them. There plucky play a lot of good, defense and AS i alluded to on social media this, Weekend wisconsin's one of those teams where it's, like sh, yeah they just work their butt off four games in four, days, right get to the, championship. Lose they're a good, team but they're not, great and now they have to Play thursday on the first, day and it's at. Altitude so like if you're talking about fatigue setting, IT i think they'll get By, montana BUT i would guy would look to Back montana if. Anything in THAT i Think wisconsin, wins but that next game is gonna be DIFFICULT byu OR. VCU i HAVE vcu in the first. BRACKET i did obviously double digit. Seed you See San. DIEGO i also Have yale OVER a AND. M fun Stat i'm sure you'll see this. Elsewhere yale ninth in the country in, threes Ninth TEXAS a AND m three hundred and. Seventeenth, NOW i do like THE a AND m. COACH i just think in some, BRACKETS i Think yale will be a sexy pick and certainly a pick of. Mine So i've got some of these teams doing some. Damage one of those two double digit seeds will make The sweet sixteen much much more on the tournament. OBVIOUSLY i Think Cooper flag's injury is, significant but it sounds like they could probably hold him out from the first round and be totally. Fine I'LL i think they'll need. Him Baylor Mississippi state are. Interesting Missisippi state is going to be a dangerous. Team you'll Need Cooper flag for. That but, overall The duke bracket is Fairly i'm not terrified Of bama. YET i do like, them BUT i JUST i don't like What i've seen lately from. Them if you're looking for a potential number one seed to go, down this is kind of messed. Up AND i just want to double check the location of.

SEASON i do it as often AS i. CAN i mean DURING. Nfl it's. Tough but and you look at offensive rating and defensive rating and guess what of those six they are four of them are for the top offensive teams in the. Country defensively is another, question Because alabama's defense has been. Leaky they've fallen out of the top twenty five. Defensively, PERSONALLY i don't Think alabama will win the? Title can? They sure anybody, can BUT i. Don't alabama is leaking oil right. Now they've really been. Struggling SO i don't put a ton of faith in. Them, obviously being in the side the top thirty matters, defensively and you look at defense and the number one defensive team Is Saint. John's why don't PEOPLE i don't Love Saint. John's, well they're offensively. Challenged they're sixty fifth in. Offense, folks there are hold, on let me tell you real, quick And i'm sorry to nerd out we'll get to actual sports in a. Second so there's three hundred and sixty four college basketball. Teams, okay three hundred and sixty. Four Saint john's ranks three hundred and thirty. Eight then three point shooting three thirty eight out of three sixty. Four in free throw shoot they're two hundred ninety. FIFTH i have historically struggled to bet on and back teams that cannot shoot free throws or, threes especially In. March it's a tougher, game a lower Scoring sometimes you get in these Mostly sweet, sixteen you get in these larger arenas that they're not used, to and they Strugg now there's also the question of the. Whistle you, know, listen referees might call it tighter than you used to in The Big, east you, know and all of a, sudden it's, like, wait, wait, wait what we got our guys in foul? Trouble what's going on? Here and, Again Saint john's is a very good. Team they are one of the most more experienced teams in the. Country this is all stuff you can get off ken com and they don't have a. Bench so if all of a, sudden you KNOW. R. J lewis who has been. Awesome they transfer From. UMass he's been really. Good last year he was like THE i think The Big East player of The Year Conference TOURNAMENT MVP R J. Luis he's just been. Phenomenal but like if he gets in foul trouble or, anyone it's, like oh, geez we have no. Depth they don't have depth and they can't. Shoot So i'm not as bullish On Saint john's now they are boom. Bust remember they got hot one game AND i think hit like eleven or twelve, Threes so anything's. Possible but you, know if you're putting real, money it's, SAKE i can't totally Buy Saint. John's let's see what one other, stack BECAUSE i got to save some stuff for our guests that are coming up this, week some college basketball gambling heavyweight. Guys let's see here something that jumps. OUT a double digit seed has advanced to the sweet sixteen in each of the last sixteen tournaments and thirty seven of thirty nine. Overall like that's a significant sample. Size some double digit seed is gonna break through to the sweet. SIXTEEN a couple THAT i, HAVE i Have texas Or xavier and, again that's just in one. Bracket Texas. SAVIOR i HAVE. Vcu keep an eye on them. There plucky play a lot of good, defense and AS i alluded to on social media this, Weekend wisconsin's one of those teams where it's, like sh, yeah they just work their butt off four games in four, days, right get to the, championship. Lose they're a good, team but they're not, great and now they have to Play thursday on the first, day and it's at. Altitude so like if you're talking about fatigue setting, IT i think they'll get By, montana BUT i would guy would look to Back montana if. Anything in THAT i Think wisconsin, wins but that next game is gonna be DIFFICULT byu OR. VCU i HAVE vcu in the first. BRACKET i did obviously double digit. Seed you See San. DIEGO i also Have yale OVER a AND. M fun Stat i'm sure you'll see this. Elsewhere yale ninth in the country in, threes Ninth TEXAS a AND m three hundred and. Seventeenth, NOW i do like THE a AND m. COACH i just think in some, BRACKETS i Think yale will be a sexy pick and certainly a pick of. Mine So i've got some of these teams doing some. Damage one of those two double digit seeds will make The sweet sixteen much much more on the tournament. OBVIOUSLY i Think Cooper flag's injury is, significant but it sounds like they could probably hold him out from the first round and be totally. Fine I'LL i think they'll need. Him Baylor Mississippi state are. Interesting Missisippi state is going to be a dangerous. Team you'll Need Cooper flag for. That but, overall The duke bracket is Fairly i'm not terrified Of bama. YET i do like, them BUT i JUST i don't like What i've seen lately from. Them if you're looking for a potential number one seed to go, down this is kind of messed. Up AND i just want to double check the location of.

This but.

This but.

Why Would louisville be playing a first round game In, Lexington kentucky Against. Creton creyton's essentially gonna be playing a road game Against louisville in the opening. Round that does that seem right to? You so then it's, Like, oh What louisville playing In? Lexington? Huh what's the crowd difference going to? Be, louisville especially if they Beat crayton in the, opener and that's not a, lock but home court advantage. SIGNIFICANT i would say crowd will be seventy to Thirty, louisville and If louisville Faces, auburn don't be surprised if that's like eighty Twenty louisville. Crowd and we saw this a few years. Ago do you had to Play South carolina IN i think it WAS i don't know if it Was, columbia but in one of The. Carolinas, no it was in definitely In South, carolina Duh and it was like a home game For South carolina And duke got. Wrecked like some of the that that ad is a bad job at the. Committee keeping louisgo is like basically a home, Game so just keep an eye out For auburn there as the first number one seat to go. Down i've seen some love For gonzaga Against. HOUSTON i don't know That i'm totally feeling, that But houston kind of sort of scares me because they can just offensively just go into some droughts or it's like what are you guys? Doing just crazy. Stuff but, anyways we'll do much more on the tournament all.

Why Would louisville be playing a first round game In, Lexington kentucky Against. Creton creyton's essentially gonna be playing a road game Against louisville in the opening. Round that does that seem right to? You so then it's, Like, oh What louisville playing In? Lexington? Huh what's the crowd difference going to? Be, louisville especially if they Beat crayton in the, opener and that's not a, lock but home court advantage. SIGNIFICANT i would say crowd will be seventy to Thirty, louisville and If louisville Faces, auburn don't be surprised if that's like eighty Twenty louisville. Crowd and we saw this a few years. Ago do you had to Play South carolina IN i think it WAS i don't know if it Was, columbia but in one of The. Carolinas, no it was in definitely In South, carolina Duh and it was like a home game For South carolina And duke got. Wrecked like some of the that that ad is a bad job at the. Committee keeping louisgo is like basically a home, Game so just keep an eye out For auburn there as the first number one seat to go. Down i've seen some love For gonzaga Against. HOUSTON i don't know That i'm totally feeling, that But houston kind of sort of scares me because they can just offensively just go into some droughts or it's like what are you guys? Doing just crazy. Stuff but, anyways we'll do much more on the tournament all.

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G BECAUSE i want to talk about The bengals and their explosive, move a bold, experiment if you. Will they have gone out and, decided you know, What we're pushing all our chips in the middle to OFFENSE fa. Defense Trey, hendrickson thank you for your. Service but they have agreed to terms With Jamar chase and T higgins both got new. Contracts chase four, years one hundred and sixty ONE mili one twelve million guaranteed for a wide, Receiver higgins four and one point fifteen and guaranteed for the first two. Years so it's not quite a one plus, one but it's much better than the franchise tag. Obviously but essentially what happened to The bengals is that they made a, decision all, right we could break up this wide receiver, duo which may, pay which may piss off our. Quarterback who's our franchise. Guy we could do, that or we can just, say, hey you know, what offensive league defense don't win. Anything we got. It we're just going all In, Burrow Chase higgins bring us home in the next two. Years let's see how this. Rolls and that's what they've. Decided. NOW i don't, Know, rob if this Means Trey hendrickson gets a franchise tag or they just, decide you know, what we're just gonna we can't afford. Him but they have decided we're going all in our. Offense they Got Chase brown. BACK i like. HIM i think they brought G seki back offensive. Line. Eh but those three together work. Magic now the problem is keeping them. Together chase has been banged, Up higgins has been banged, up And, burrow we, know has missed a ton of. GAMES i don't love, It, ROB i do like the. Experiment we're gonna try something. Different right when The chiefs Had Tyreek Hill Kelsey, mahomes they were, like we can't afford. It we can't build a, team we can't round out a, team so we gotta Let Tyreek hill. Go they let him go and they had a balanced. Team, listen they keep going to Super. Bowls they went to The Super bowl, again but you can start to see cracks in the facade of the. Dynasty Travis kelcey's looking. Washed where they gonna find a new superstar skill position. Guy defense is getting a little. CREAKY i, mean the egos kind of had their way with. THEM i still maintained they got to beat The, bills So, ROB i don't. KNOW i don't think this is gonna reap massive benefits for The bengals in terms of getting to The Super. Bowl but they're gonna be fun as, hell, obviously and keeping your quarterback happy obviously is. Important but it kind of sort of reminds. Me do you remember The Dan Marino dolphins when they had The marx. Brothers why you were probably too, Young Mark duper And Mark. Clayton they had a dynamic. Offense they went to The Super bowl In marino's second. Year they never got back to the Super. Bowl they had a loaded offense and never had a defense that could stop a. Nosebleed and The bengals were pretty much in that same. BOAT i think they had five or six games when the opponents scored forty or more. Points but this is gonna, be you, know a turnstile on defense and you're Facing Lamar jackson in the. Division and if The steelers ever figure out a quarterback or The browns Get Shujorge sanders like they're gonna be behind the eight. Ball it's just gonna be tough to win without a well balanced. Roster but they will be exciting and fantasy owners will love.

G BECAUSE i want to talk about The bengals and their explosive, move a bold, experiment if you. Will they have gone out and, decided you know, What we're pushing all our chips in the middle to OFFENSE fa. Defense Trey, hendrickson thank you for your. Service but they have agreed to terms With Jamar chase and T higgins both got new. Contracts chase four, years one hundred and sixty ONE mili one twelve million guaranteed for a wide, Receiver higgins four and one point fifteen and guaranteed for the first two. Years so it's not quite a one plus, one but it's much better than the franchise tag. Obviously but essentially what happened to The bengals is that they made a, decision all, right we could break up this wide receiver, duo which may, pay which may piss off our. Quarterback who's our franchise. Guy we could do, that or we can just, say, hey you know, what offensive league defense don't win. Anything we got. It we're just going all In, Burrow Chase higgins bring us home in the next two. Years let's see how this. Rolls and that's what they've. Decided. NOW i don't, Know, rob if this Means Trey hendrickson gets a franchise tag or they just, decide you know, what we're just gonna we can't afford. Him but they have decided we're going all in our. Offense they Got Chase brown. BACK i like. HIM i think they brought G seki back offensive. Line. Eh but those three together work. Magic now the problem is keeping them. Together chase has been banged, Up higgins has been banged, up And, burrow we, know has missed a ton of. GAMES i don't love, It, ROB i do like the. Experiment we're gonna try something. Different right when The chiefs Had Tyreek Hill Kelsey, mahomes they were, like we can't afford. It we can't build a, team we can't round out a, team so we gotta Let Tyreek hill. Go they let him go and they had a balanced. Team, listen they keep going to Super. Bowls they went to The Super bowl, again but you can start to see cracks in the facade of the. Dynasty Travis kelcey's looking. Washed where they gonna find a new superstar skill position. Guy defense is getting a little. CREAKY i, mean the egos kind of had their way with. THEM i still maintained they got to beat The, bills So, ROB i don't. KNOW i don't think this is gonna reap massive benefits for The bengals in terms of getting to The Super. Bowl but they're gonna be fun as, hell, obviously and keeping your quarterback happy obviously is. Important but it kind of sort of reminds. Me do you remember The Dan Marino dolphins when they had The marx. Brothers why you were probably too, Young Mark duper And Mark. Clayton they had a dynamic. Offense they went to The Super bowl In marino's second. Year they never got back to the Super. Bowl they had a loaded offense and never had a defense that could stop a. Nosebleed and The bengals were pretty much in that same. BOAT i think they had five or six games when the opponents scored forty or more. Points but this is gonna, be you, know a turnstile on defense and you're Facing Lamar jackson in the. Division and if The steelers ever figure out a quarterback or The browns Get Shujorge sanders like they're gonna be behind the eight. Ball it's just gonna be tough to win without a well balanced. Roster but they will be exciting and fantasy owners will love.

Them Rob, Absolutely that's not number one in this whole. Situation if you are a fantasy football lover LIKE i, am this Is god's gift to your ears because now every game is guaranteed to be thirty plus on either. Side so that's number. One number, two before we get to the actual football, part shout Out Joe burrow And Jamar chase for making sure that their GUY T higgins got the. Bag Joe burrow first and, foremost he is the franchise. Quarterback he went on a media blitz basically since the season, ended, saying we are not letting star players out of this. Building we do what we have to do to keep our. GUYS i will restructure IF i have. TO i am Keeping, CHASE i am Keeping. Higgins that is a non starter about losing those two. Guys you knew all. Along Jamar, chase at some point was gonna get, paid whether it was gonna be the highest paid or the second highest paid or Justin jefferson. Money in this, case now it's the highest paid non quarterback in our. History you knew that he was gonna. Stay but What Jamar chase AND T higgins did very quietly back In, december T higgins fires his, agent Hires Jamar chase's, agent and it essentially becomes a package. Deal Jamar chase, SAYS i am not gonna sign a contract with, you no matter how high it, is unless you also take care of my GUY T.

Them Rob, Absolutely that's not number one in this whole. Situation if you are a fantasy football lover LIKE i, am this Is god's gift to your ears because now every game is guaranteed to be thirty plus on either. Side so that's number. One number, two before we get to the actual football, part shout Out Joe burrow And Jamar chase for making sure that their GUY T higgins got the. Bag Joe burrow first and, foremost he is the franchise. Quarterback he went on a media blitz basically since the season, ended, saying we are not letting star players out of this. Building we do what we have to do to keep our. GUYS i will restructure IF i have. TO i am Keeping, CHASE i am Keeping. Higgins that is a non starter about losing those two. Guys you knew all. Along Jamar, chase at some point was gonna get, paid whether it was gonna be the highest paid or the second highest paid or Justin jefferson. Money in this, case now it's the highest paid non quarterback in our. History you knew that he was gonna. Stay but What Jamar chase AND T higgins did very quietly back In, december T higgins fires his, agent Hires Jamar chase's, agent and it essentially becomes a package. Deal Jamar chase, SAYS i am not gonna sign a contract with, you no matter how high it, is unless you also take care of my GUY T.

Higgins we are in this.

Higgins we are in this.

TOGETHER i WISH i had friends like those you, guys let me tell, you because THEN i would not be doing this podcast in my kids playing right. Now i've been doing it in a nice. Office. Please that's number. Two but and the third one, is to your, point with this, offense it should be, historic Right Joe burrow last season saw you saw that he is as prolific a pastor as we have in THE nfl right. NOW i, mean he's this side Of Drew brees when it comes to just slinging the football to your, point AND i always gonna. Win but he's gonna put up. Firework he's gonna put up. Points since twenty twenty, One Chasing higgins as teammates lead THE nfl as from a duo, perspective both in receiving yards nine and twelve and receiving touchdowns with seventy. Four when you have the big three, together The Burrow Higgins chase, triumvirate they win sixty seven percent of their. Games that would be sixth in THE, nfl behind The, chiefs The, eagles The, bills The, lions The. Ravens sounds to me like that is the upper upper crust of THE. Nfl so those three, guys at least, offensively are. Money and if you're A bengals, fan you're excited about. That you have these three guys locked up for the foreseeable. Future the only problem with that, is and again there's always a downside of the, situation that defense is, terrible as you alluded, To, okay last, season during a five game stretch in the middle of the, year the defense allowed an average of thirty five points per. Game cincinnati went one to. Four lest we, forget in those two shootouts with The Baltimore, Ravens Joe row threw nine touchdown passes and ended up zero to. Two, okay last, year The bengals defense tied for the most losses in the season this century when their offense scores at least twenty five points a. Game in those, games they went five and. Six, historically THE nfl winning percentage when your team scoress at least twenty five points is eighty one. Percent that's how bad their defense. Is and if you want to get into the real minutia of the real nuts and bolts of, defense they were bottom seven last year in points per game and yards per, game bottom six and sack. Percentage and you Mentioned henderson might not be out there or we don't know about, that bottom ten and third down, defense bottom ten and penalty, thirty eighth in red zone. Defense all of that with them being top seven in. Turnovers and you know this better than, anybody J, matt because you know ball turnovers are not something that you can predict on a year to year. Basis there's some kind of Balance, historically one year you might be top, ten one year you might Be autumn, ten but over a five year span you're probably gonna be somewhere in the. Middle just look at These bengals last. Year they were top seven before that fifteen, eleven. Seventeen so you tell me that you have that kind of turnover look and your defense.

TOGETHER i WISH i had friends like those you, guys let me tell, you because THEN i would not be doing this podcast in my kids playing right. Now i've been doing it in a nice. Office. Please that's number. Two but and the third one, is to your, point with this, offense it should be, historic Right Joe burrow last season saw you saw that he is as prolific a pastor as we have in THE nfl right. NOW i, mean he's this side Of Drew brees when it comes to just slinging the football to your, point AND i always gonna. Win but he's gonna put up. Firework he's gonna put up. Points since twenty twenty, One Chasing higgins as teammates lead THE nfl as from a duo, perspective both in receiving yards nine and twelve and receiving touchdowns with seventy. Four when you have the big three, together The Burrow Higgins chase, triumvirate they win sixty seven percent of their. Games that would be sixth in THE, nfl behind The, chiefs The, eagles The, bills The, lions The. Ravens sounds to me like that is the upper upper crust of THE. Nfl so those three, guys at least, offensively are. Money and if you're A bengals, fan you're excited about. That you have these three guys locked up for the foreseeable. Future the only problem with that, is and again there's always a downside of the, situation that defense is, terrible as you alluded, To, okay last, season during a five game stretch in the middle of the, year the defense allowed an average of thirty five points per. Game cincinnati went one to. Four lest we, forget in those two shootouts with The Baltimore, Ravens Joe row threw nine touchdown passes and ended up zero to. Two, okay last, year The bengals defense tied for the most losses in the season this century when their offense scores at least twenty five points a. Game in those, games they went five and. Six, historically THE nfl winning percentage when your team scoress at least twenty five points is eighty one. Percent that's how bad their defense. Is and if you want to get into the real minutia of the real nuts and bolts of, defense they were bottom seven last year in points per game and yards per, game bottom six and sack. Percentage and you Mentioned henderson might not be out there or we don't know about, that bottom ten and third down, defense bottom ten and penalty, thirty eighth in red zone. Defense all of that with them being top seven in. Turnovers and you know this better than, anybody J, matt because you know ball turnovers are not something that you can predict on a year to year. Basis there's some kind of Balance, historically one year you might be top, ten one year you might Be autumn, ten but over a five year span you're probably gonna be somewhere in the. Middle just look at These bengals last. Year they were top seven before that fifteen, eleven. Seventeen so you tell me that you have that kind of turnover look and your defense.

Was still that bad.

Was still that bad.

Look the trio Of, Burrow chase And higgins might put up twenty, eight twenty nine points a game and they still might not even make the. Postseason that's how bad this defense.

Look the trio Of, Burrow chase And higgins might put up twenty, eight twenty nine points a game and they still might not even make the. Postseason that's how bad this defense.

Is not good at. ALL i also want to Add rob that we're looking at a major uphill climb in terms of paying your non quarterbacks most IN nfl history for a non. Quarterback by the, WAY i hate that. Tag this is one of those like ego things that agents want to get out their highest paid non quarterback IN nfl. HISTORY i, mean like three weeks ago it, was or, no like a week ago Is Max. Crosby that Was Miles. Garrett now With Stabar, chase like you're the highest paid non quarterback for like eight. Minutes who gives a. Shit here are the top five Current Jamar Chase's number one did not make the playoffs last, Year Miles. Garrett number. Two do you think they made the? Playoffs? Nope number Three Max. CROSBY i can already tell you he did not make the Playoffs number four is Justin. Jefferson he did make the playoffs number, five As Nick mosa and The niners obviously did. Not so what teams are starting to find out, is damn we got to keep up with The. Joneses pay these. GUYS i don't, Know, rob are? You are we getting to the point, where hey, Man Jamar chase is, Nice but CAN i get two really solid quarterbacks at say twenty mili per that that make me just as? Good CAN i get those two to combine and give Me Jamar chase? Numbers AND i think that's probably the next, experiment because, again this is a a copycat league and right now everybody's just copying eight my. SUPERSTAR i gotta pay. HIM i can't lose to.

Is not good at. ALL i also want to Add rob that we're looking at a major uphill climb in terms of paying your non quarterbacks most IN nfl history for a non. Quarterback by the, WAY i hate that. Tag this is one of those like ego things that agents want to get out their highest paid non quarterback IN nfl. HISTORY i, mean like three weeks ago it, was or, no like a week ago Is Max. Crosby that Was Miles. Garrett now With Stabar, chase like you're the highest paid non quarterback for like eight. Minutes who gives a. Shit here are the top five Current Jamar Chase's number one did not make the playoffs last, Year Miles. Garrett number. Two do you think they made the? Playoffs? Nope number Three Max. CROSBY i can already tell you he did not make the Playoffs number four is Justin. Jefferson he did make the playoffs number, five As Nick mosa and The niners obviously did. Not so what teams are starting to find out, is damn we got to keep up with The. Joneses pay these. GUYS i don't, Know, rob are? You are we getting to the point, where hey, Man Jamar chase is, Nice but CAN i get two really solid quarterbacks at say twenty mili per that that make me just as? Good CAN i get those two to combine and give Me Jamar chase? Numbers AND i think that's probably the next, experiment because, again this is a a copycat league and right now everybody's just copying eight my. SUPERSTAR i gotta pay. HIM i can't lose to.

It, yeah you're spot on with, That and this goes back to something that you had actually spoken. About this might have been last summer when all the wide receivers getting. Paid and this is really insightful. Soliloquy and if you p one listeners of the, podcast we know What i'm talking. About when you were discussing the wide receiver market in football and how we're getting to a point now where there are so many really really good receivers that we might see somebody pivot and, Say i'm not gonna pay you, Know terry McLaurin whatever it is top five receiver. Money i'm just gonna draft somebody Because Malik nighbors is gonna give you that same. Product production Of puknaku was gonna give you the same kind of. Production like there's a new wave of guys over and over and. Over And Sam monson pointed this out Late sunday in the overnight, hours friend of the, show may we'll get him on here pretty. Soon and he noted while the cap went up nine percent this, year which everyone was excited about because y'll you to pay more guys and get more star players under, contracts so to, speak with these two deals now the top of the wide receiver market went up seventeen. Percent specifically because it's so to your, point J, mac what's the. STOP i don't know who's going to the Next Eliitue neighbors Or Brian, thomas whoever the next guy is it's gonna get. Paid what's the stop one of these teams to, say you know, what we see Justin jefferson and we see What Jamar chase And Max crosby And Miles garrett are not winning a whole like of a. Lot with these guys paying all these, dudes why wouldn't we spin the wheel somewhere else and pay a tight end or pay to your point two. Cornerbacks it's a fascinating.

It, yeah you're spot on with, That and this goes back to something that you had actually spoken. About this might have been last summer when all the wide receivers getting. Paid and this is really insightful. Soliloquy and if you p one listeners of the, podcast we know What i'm talking. About when you were discussing the wide receiver market in football and how we're getting to a point now where there are so many really really good receivers that we might see somebody pivot and, Say i'm not gonna pay you, Know terry McLaurin whatever it is top five receiver. Money i'm just gonna draft somebody Because Malik nighbors is gonna give you that same. Product production Of puknaku was gonna give you the same kind of. Production like there's a new wave of guys over and over and. Over And Sam monson pointed this out Late sunday in the overnight, hours friend of the, show may we'll get him on here pretty. Soon and he noted while the cap went up nine percent this, year which everyone was excited about because y'll you to pay more guys and get more star players under, contracts so to, speak with these two deals now the top of the wide receiver market went up seventeen. Percent specifically because it's so to your, point J, mac what's the. STOP i don't know who's going to the Next Eliitue neighbors Or Brian, thomas whoever the next guy is it's gonna get. Paid what's the stop one of these teams to, say you know, what we see Justin jefferson and we see What Jamar chase And Max crosby And Miles garrett are not winning a whole like of a. Lot with these guys paying all these, dudes why wouldn't we spin the wheel somewhere else and pay a tight end or pay to your point two. Cornerbacks it's a fascinating.

Conversation Like Drake london And Garrett wilson just finished year so they played twenty, two twenty, three twenty year. Three, OKAY i Think Garrett olson is the top ten quarterback rud wide receiver in the. LEAGUE i Think Drake london's probably top, Fifteen Chris olve is probably top. Fifteen Jamison williams really really. Good but all those you can't pay them commensurate With Jamar chasen And justin J you. Can't so but what do they? Get because do you want to lose? Them AND i would, counter we're. Approaching when you're approaching a bubble like, this you sell AND i know that's not gonna be. Popular oh, YEAH i Love Garret. Wilson he's probably the top jersey, seller either him Or Breeze. HALL i would honestly, CONSIDER i DON'T i Love Garrett. WILSON i think he's got a huge, upside but at this kind of, Mark, like do you Think Garrett wilson's a thirty million dollar a year? Receiver The jets haven't done anything with him as a great receiver or a rookie, Deal so, LIKE i don't. Know man, again And i'm probably being too, harsh but in twenty twenty, one these were the first round, Receivers Chase, Wattle Davonta. Smith all have been to The Super. Bowl, No i'm, Sorry Joel. Jaye wattle has, Not Devanta smith. Has Canario's tony Bust Rashad bateman hasn't totally panned. Out and you know you get another enough bites at The. Apple look at the twenty twenty. Draft Henry, RUGGS i think he's in prison for. Life Jerry, judy second Team Ceedee lamb really really, good BUT i don't know it hasn't won A Super. BOWL i don't think he's winning anyth anytime. Soon as what's his? Name the New seahawks, guy is? It Dexter? Lawrence uh, yeah yeah?

Conversation Like Drake london And Garrett wilson just finished year so they played twenty, two twenty, three twenty year. Three, OKAY i Think Garrett olson is the top ten quarterback rud wide receiver in the. LEAGUE i Think Drake london's probably top, Fifteen Chris olve is probably top. Fifteen Jamison williams really really. Good but all those you can't pay them commensurate With Jamar chasen And justin J you. Can't so but what do they? Get because do you want to lose? Them AND i would, counter we're. Approaching when you're approaching a bubble like, this you sell AND i know that's not gonna be. Popular oh, YEAH i Love Garret. Wilson he's probably the top jersey, seller either him Or Breeze. HALL i would honestly, CONSIDER i DON'T i Love Garrett. WILSON i think he's got a huge, upside but at this kind of, Mark, like do you Think Garrett wilson's a thirty million dollar a year? Receiver The jets haven't done anything with him as a great receiver or a rookie, Deal so, LIKE i don't. Know man, again And i'm probably being too, harsh but in twenty twenty, one these were the first round, Receivers Chase, Wattle Davonta. Smith all have been to The Super. Bowl, No i'm, Sorry Joel. Jaye wattle has, Not Devanta smith. Has Canario's tony Bust Rashad bateman hasn't totally panned. Out and you know you get another enough bites at The. Apple look at the twenty twenty. Draft Henry, RUGGS i think he's in prison for. Life Jerry, judy second Team Ceedee lamb really really, good BUT i don't know it hasn't won A Super. BOWL i don't think he's winning anyth anytime. Soon as what's his? Name the New seahawks, guy is? It Dexter? Lawrence uh, yeah yeah?

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Lawrence DeMarcus lawrence noted That cowboys aren't winning anything anytime. Soon Jalen, ragor who's kind of bounced around the, league and Then Justin, Jefferson brendan and Ak they got, paid but forty nine ers already have a buyer's remorse on A. Yuk, so LIKE i just, think AND i know it's tough because fans don't want to hear that cap is going. Up, Yes, rob but does that just automatically mean you've got to give more to the best receiver on the. Team AND i, know, LISTEN i get. It Jamar chase is. Unbelievable they didn't make the. Playoffs if he has to miss four, games they're probably going one and. Three luckily they Had. Higgins now what's the? Alternative? Jay you can't just shit on it and say no. Alternative, okay here we. GO i would have seen IF i could have got a boatload FOR T higgins from The Carolina, panthers somebody with a quarterback on a rookie. DEAL i would have seen WHAT i could get on the. Market and if that's, hey, man what's the appsking price FOR T? Higgins let me get Hey, carolina let me get the eighth overall pick and a, fourth And i'll give you a third and you gotta pay Te, higgins THEN i think we're. TALKING i don't know If carolina would entertain, that but some teams are desperate and have the quarterback on the rookie. Deal AND i don't. Know it almost feels like this is AN nba ish rob does. It it feels like there's, like, like didn't we talk About Jalen brown making like seventy million dollars a year in a couple of.

Lawrence DeMarcus lawrence noted That cowboys aren't winning anything anytime. Soon Jalen, ragor who's kind of bounced around the, league and Then Justin, Jefferson brendan and Ak they got, paid but forty nine ers already have a buyer's remorse on A. Yuk, so LIKE i just, think AND i know it's tough because fans don't want to hear that cap is going. Up, Yes, rob but does that just automatically mean you've got to give more to the best receiver on the. Team AND i, know, LISTEN i get. It Jamar chase is. Unbelievable they didn't make the. Playoffs if he has to miss four, games they're probably going one and. Three luckily they Had. Higgins now what's the? Alternative? Jay you can't just shit on it and say no. Alternative, okay here we. GO i would have seen IF i could have got a boatload FOR T higgins from The Carolina, panthers somebody with a quarterback on a rookie. DEAL i would have seen WHAT i could get on the. Market and if that's, hey, man what's the appsking price FOR T? Higgins let me get Hey, carolina let me get the eighth overall pick and a, fourth And i'll give you a third and you gotta pay Te, higgins THEN i think we're. TALKING i don't know If carolina would entertain, that but some teams are desperate and have the quarterback on the rookie. Deal AND i don't. Know it almost feels like this is AN nba ish rob does. It it feels like there's, like, like didn't we talk About Jalen brown making like seventy million dollars a year in a couple of.

Years, Yeah AND i think what it goes back To jason is SOMETHING i. Sai i'd say to my original point as soon As Joe burrow put it out, there like we are keeping my. Guys there's NO ifansi buts about. It if you want to keep me, happy you're gonna Resign, Chase you're going to Resign. Higgins we'll figre out the rest. Later in this weird kind of, Situation Joe burrow is acting in a way That Lebron james would. ACT i don't care about the first round, picks ye trade. UP i don't care about adults and connect he might be. Good we need a rim runner For, Luka doncic's trade. Them like that's What Joe burrow is. Doing something THAT i hope more quarterbacks would, do especially in THE, nfl even if this case might be a little bit tricky because you're boxing yourself so in to an offensive brand of football when the guys who have leverage don't use. It that's how you end up with situations, where, hey we really want to keep you, Whatever Josh, jacobs but you got to take a pay. Cut, well WHY i just ran for three hundred yards and they touch. Eouts WHY i got to take a pay? Cut, well otherwise we have to let you. Go and until these guys flex their muscle with these teams and ensure, hey IF i don't get WHAT i, Want i'm out of. Here i'm gonna be. Unhappy players are going to continue to get screwed over in these kind of. Negotiations it's interesting you use.

Years, Yeah AND i think what it goes back To jason is SOMETHING i. Sai i'd say to my original point as soon As Joe burrow put it out, there like we are keeping my. Guys there's NO ifansi buts about. It if you want to keep me, happy you're gonna Resign, Chase you're going to Resign. Higgins we'll figre out the rest. Later in this weird kind of, Situation Joe burrow is acting in a way That Lebron james would. ACT i don't care about the first round, picks ye trade. UP i don't care about adults and connect he might be. Good we need a rim runner For, Luka doncic's trade. Them like that's What Joe burrow is. Doing something THAT i hope more quarterbacks would, do especially in THE, nfl even if this case might be a little bit tricky because you're boxing yourself so in to an offensive brand of football when the guys who have leverage don't use. It that's how you end up with situations, where, hey we really want to keep you, Whatever Josh, jacobs but you got to take a pay. Cut, well WHY i just ran for three hundred yards and they touch. Eouts WHY i got to take a pay? Cut, well otherwise we have to let you. Go and until these guys flex their muscle with these teams and ensure, hey IF i don't get WHAT i, Want i'm out of. Here i'm gonna be. Unhappy players are going to continue to get screwed over in these kind of. Negotiations it's interesting you use.

That phrasing not gonna be, happy because you know the fan base is going to be outraged if you LOSE T higgins Or Jamar chase is. Pissed but you know what else THE fa base is angry. With when you don't win games to go to the, playoffs heads are gonna. Roll it's either gonna be THE gm or the. Coach AND i JUST i don't see a path to victory here for The. Bengals they're gonna be, good. Obviously we'll see if we get MORE. Nfl there's still nothing On Aaron. RODGERS i know nobody really. Cares i'm sure you want us to talk about The suns AND kd And. LUCA i don't really think it's. WORTHY i did watch the, Game AS i, said at the, OUTSIDE i was coaching by kids in. Sports we'll take the two. Titles and now it's on The March, mandaess all, right Good Monday. Pod we're back. Tomorrow talk to you. Then

That phrasing not gonna be, happy because you know the fan base is going to be outraged if you LOSE T higgins Or Jamar chase is. Pissed but you know what else THE fa base is angry. With when you don't win games to go to the, playoffs heads are gonna. Roll it's either gonna be THE gm or the. Coach AND i JUST i don't see a path to victory here for The. Bengals they're gonna be, good. Obviously we'll see if we get MORE. Nfl there's still nothing On Aaron. RODGERS i know nobody really. Cares i'm sure you want us to talk about The suns AND kd And. LUCA i don't really think it's. WORTHY i did watch the, Game AS i, said at the, OUTSIDE i was coaching by kids in. Sports we'll take the two. Titles and now it's on The March, mandaess all, right Good Monday. Pod we're back. Tomorrow talk to you. Then