The Jason Smith Show with Mike HarmonJason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if Jalen Brunson has surpassed Patrick Ewing as the greatest New York Knick ever. The Brockalypse is here. And Celtics legend Paul Pierce calls out the Knicks!
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Hello, Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. So my favorite this is why, you know, certain reasons in certain days.
I love the internet.
And last year my favorite and I mean it's something that I just happened to find.
My favorite thing on the.
Internet last year was all the fan videos.
That Mets fans put up of them watching Pete Alonzo was home running the ninth inning against the Brewers. Right, the big, biggest, biggest play in baseball last year, Alonzo, it's the three run homer watching all the fans put up their own videos from Hey, I'm taking video of my dad watching this at bat. You know, my party on Matt watching this at bat. Like I'm just going through them going, let me see the next one. Let me see next, let me sit the next one. I can already tell the Knicks fans videos that are putting get put up.
On the internet.
After tonight's game and the second round win against the Celtics, this is gonna be my favorite group of videos for twenty twenty five.
I'll tell you that Alonso thing had a lot of run for you though. I mean there were several days where I'd come in. You'd be sitting having a little cup of coffee watching whatever was the game was on, but on your phone you'd be watching Alonzo videos. Oh yeah, that was how it seemed like a coping MECHANI or anything might do in the winter.
Yeah yeah, you got the got the bathtuball ready to go. No, in the winter, I would drive into work. When the drive was bad, I would just go to YouTube and find the how We rose called the Ninth Inning God.
I remember that.
That's twenty five minutes of me here on the top of the ninth the I List. I did that probably like fifteen times. But the videos that Knicks fans are putting out tonight are just hysterical. They're idea. Uh we got one from Barstool Frostburg can you play the uh play the one from barstool that you just showed me.
I don't know if we could play it, but but I will. All right, guy, I thank them.
J Dog, the cal Bridges dog, Josh Hart dog.
What's you know? This is every video it's eron. There's the one guy you put out a video going the only seeing Celtics and see you blanket later like this. It's amazing all these videos that are that are being put out. It's like I want to watch all of them. They didn't bother to grease the poles though these people were able to climb and yeah, they're bouncing, bounce around things are gonnad badly. I mean it's what only one o'clock. I mean, you're not even too two hours and forty minutes from last call. And those are for the ones that actually subscribe and and go through the regulations of shutting down at four. Yeah. See they're not shutting down at four tonight. Well no, no, no, but that's the you're in here maybe four nobody else. They don't just don't leave.
There were nights.
And from being someone who would go out when when I graduate siecause when I went to college and I went to Syracuse, right, the bars are closed too, Okay, you know, I fy your bars close it too, and everything else bars closed probably midnight on Sundays. Then I moved to Connecticut, and I'm like, whoa bars closing? Can't buy beer on Sunday, Connecticut.
They help Connecticut.
Yeah, And you can't buy beer in Connecticut on Sunday, right, like they closed up, you can't buy it. Right, But in New York, New York City and in Staten Island where I grew up, uh, the bars are open till four. And there were nights when I would go out with my when I graduated college and everything, and and I'm back out. I'm like, we're gonna be till four. This is awesome. Like I did eight hours at work today and I want to do eight hours at the bar. And generally what happened at four o'clock was they never really close the bar. And again this is this is I'm not saying. I'm not saying, you know, Jennyson Smith.
Go.
Can't just Elliott nest your way in like it's prohibition.
But generally at four o'clock, they just wouldn't let anybody that's right in, right, and then at six they would start me open again.
Yeah, breakfast, Oh you want a mimosa? Okay, after hours, any guys ready, we're gonna be the shuffle.
The cook will be here about twenty. Yeah.
I heard a discussion the other day. Someone was like, who's drinking at eight o'clock? Oh no, It was a big discussion because Santa Monica is doing a big vote here to bring the world closer here, right, global entity on the iHeartRadio app, Santa Monica famous. You see it on any broadcast of an LA team. Right, there's the board walk and everything. Well, they were doing a whole thing about whether they should extend not only the drinking hours, but also to have open carry passed unanimously. Yeah that pass. It's gonna be open carry out prom now, right, so they but they were looking at financials of it, but trying to figure it out like that. That's essentially it now, you know. Now it's the all right, who would stick around and then be there when a bar would reopen at eight like all the time? Southside Chicago, that's New York. Yeah, I'm here now that's everybody realizing, Wait, we've been leaving money on the table all.
The first time.
And this is how, this is how I am in so short a period of time where I was like out of college, I'm like, yeah, I could do it. Going out at eight o'clock. Yeah, I'm at a bar at eight o'clock, four o'clock in the morning. I'm still going strong. They closed the close the doors. It's sick, you know everything. I still remember the very first time I went to a bar. I went with my dad. I was okay, I was seventeen, and I went to This is the first time I just went. I went into a bar, okay. And it was a bar restaurant, so it wasn't like, you know, it was like you go in and you could sit and eat, but it was also a bar. So we go in and and we're we're at the bar and I'm like okay, and I you know, I'm drinking coke and diet coke and everything else. And we going at like one o'clock. And the thing is we're going to see a Syracuse Chiefs game. And the game started at six thirty, right, so six thirty at night, we're gonna walk down to the Chiefs game. Minor league baby a baseball. It's enough for that well, here's the thing. So I'm seventeen and this is me going up to visit Syracuse right to see if I want to go to college here, right, it's in the in the summer, and and so we go, we go, We go to the bar. Weber's was the bar which became my home bar at one o'clock. And you know, we go there at one o'clock and my dad see some of his friends gonna come to g This is my son, Jason.
Oh, how you doing okay?
Here? So we're here, and now it's like two o'clock and I've noticed, you know, my dad had a beer. And I'm sitting here drinking diet drinking diet coke. And I'm looking around and I'm going, so, uh, what are we doing? He goes, well, we're going to the game at six thirty.
I go, well, are we gonna? What are we gonna do until then? And he looks at me like I got nine heads.
He goes, We're just gonna stay here, And I said, just gonna sit here for four hours, just gonna sit here.
Then I realized very quickly, oh that's pretty easy to do. I can sit at a bar for four hours.
That enough people watching, but enough beers looking at the clock, and I'm going, what, We're just gonna sit here in a bar for four hours.
Like we're not gonna go home, We're gonna go to the movies or something.
Okay, So that you've been in Pandora's box, Yeah, what did you do for those four hours? And what was the most entertaining client that you can talk about without getting them arrested. I drank a lot of die of coke and I watched the Mets. I said, well, the Mets are on, so I got okay, the releast did that something you would have done anyway? Yeah, and you made Dad happy and he and his buddies have any secret handshakes or anything. No, they were all very.
Interesting to meet me because they had never met me before because my parents got divorced, and you know, my my I live with my mom's family in Staten Island and my dad in Syracuse, so I would go visit him. When I go visit him, he wouldn't take me when I'm younger, he wouldn't take me around the bars.
Like now I'm setting you.
Really missed out. Yeah. I was hung around a lot of the FW halls as a kid.
Yeah, this is Mike Michael Gradey went now fifth, Hey that's great.
Hey you had to be favorite, going, Hey go grab me that pack of cigarettes right there.
Yeah, but that's it, the horses, I'm running cigarettes. I was like spider in these places. Yeah, the dance that drink over to me.
Oh man, so oh boy?
So yeah, you know, I don't know, Okay, we're gonna sit at a bar until I remember telling my mom we did that, and I didn't think it was that big a deal because I'm still like, yeah, I don't know, because they they didn't spel it. They didn't have a great relationship, my mom and my dad. Once I got divorced, it was kind of like, oh boy, how do I explain this. It's it's like, you know those couples who they get divorced, but they understand they need to work together, they're co parenting. This was the exact opposite. Okay, okay, there's that. So when my mom said, so what you what'd you do? I said, well, here's what we did on Friday, you know, Thursday, and then Friday we did this, and what'd you do? Saturday was Saturday? Went to the went to the Chiefs game at night six thirty. I said, before that, we went to Weber's this you know, this bar that the dad goes. She was, oh, you took you.
To a bar? I said, yeah, yeah, we went there and I had lunch and stuff. Shes Oh how long were you there? I said, Oh god, Mom, was a long time? Was like five hours? She was, your dad brought you to bar for five hours? Yeah, yeah, in the middle of the day. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah huh.
And I think the next thing she did would say, okay, here, why don't you go get a sandwich, I gotta make.
A phone call.
Oh boy, that was well way right away, well.
At least the story and then with well dad gave me a bunch of singles and told me to go have fun.
Yeah, Dad, that would have gone overwhelmed.
Dad said who do you like? In the sixth that Santa Anita? Just just just go through who do you like?
See, now you're judging my entire up bring dude, yalk. But now it's we get off air right eleven o'clock Pacific time, and bars here generally last call is just after one o'clock, right, So drink a beer and shove luck. Normally, I leave here and I go, I don't have enough time to go to a bar, like why bother? Yeah, as opposed to your five hour what am I gonna do for five hours? Like I'm caught on the other gym? Like what am I gonna get it to go for an hour? Like what the hell's the point? Yeah? I mean how long can I say? Can I get there for? Left?
Well, that was the whole thing when we worked at ESPN, when we would do Sports Center, right, because Connecticut was a no no, no, no, No one ever drank it work as far as you know, uh, we always had the big like that's the see, that's a big part. But I'll pull the curtain back is that's the biggest.
Is that.
It was an early town and most of the time bars closed at one right, So bars closed Connecticut at one o'clock. There was a bar called Bleachers that was I want to say it was two miles from where ESPN was, And so we would do the eleven o'clock Sports Center and we would get done at midnight and all of us would hope that the show would go well and we wouldn't have to have a post meeting because you don't have a post meeting at midnight after the show if the show went bad, because the church would say, okay, why did this happen? Why did But if it was a clean show, he would say, great, good show, everybody, and we would all get to our cars and just I mean, and like that old joke.
Okay, yeah, okay, drive safe, you know, drive as fast as you can.
We would get there because the bar would close. They'd have last call like a quarter to one, so all of a sudden, it like between five and ten after twelve, like this bar bleachers would get overrun by a bunch of twenty five.
Year olds, like, hey, you want to come here and hang out for a half hour. But then it always turned into okay, whose turn is it? And so it'd say yeah, okay, let's go get a case of beer and come to mind.
And everybody lived close to each other. It was almost like college, Like.
There were all these these apartments and they were really close.
To each other.
You could walk back and forth say okay, I'll have people over. So almost every night someone would have people over there. And since you're working till midnight, you're at the bar till one, they would have people over till three four in the morning, go home, go to sleep, wake up the next day, do it again.
It was like an extension of Cols.
Everybody worked hard, but it was like, hey, I got unwind because you're just under the pressure cooker here for like eight nine hours. It was like almost every night people would you know, people would have something until like three four in the morning, and that's how it would work.
Yeah, Leacher's Bar ct dot net. Oh okay, But here's the question I would have for you. Which executive had an interest in that bar? Uh? Oh boy, I don't know that any I'm trying to think because the.
Christeve Levy bought coaches, which was the bar in Hartford we would all go to if you were going to a Whaler's game or something else or a Yukon game like he bought he bought uh uh coach coaches. I think okay that I think him and like Jim Calhoun and somebody else like it just went like that.
That was a bar that that Levy owned.
And Calhoun tell them about, you know, state employee. He said, get some facts and come back and see me. Get some facts and come back and see what was it take tonight. But no, I don't think any executives own play because the one thing we would say was, hey, can you keep it open open? You know your investigated mind. That would have been the question I was asking Kevin Ollie Dog, Danny Hurley, Dog, Bobby Hurley.
Right, Reggie Miller.
See if you can find any more Knicks videos that we can play on the show that we don't have to bleep out.
Okay, I just find So there you go.
The party in full swing right now, go get you go to New York. Coming up next, we'll tell you the biggest takeaway from Game six of the Eastern Conference Finals, and it's time to make room on Mount Rushmore for somebody.
Plus more on the Brock party story. We told you last hour he got paid because of where he got drafted. There's actually a bigger reason now he got all this money. We'll tell you why next Jason and Mike Fox.
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Any NBA team.
Could win the title, and the videos they would put out aren't close to what Knicks fans are putting out tonight not even close.
Now, I got to figure out how to monetize this shower curtain, leather, Burkin Nixon, fie. I mean, it's really it's a part.
If if I you said to me, you could wave a magic wand and say, Jason, I could take you to any sporting event of the last ten years, I would want to go to tonight's next game, not even the whole game, from the middle of the second quarter to the end, because it would feel like I was in the ocean riding waves. Because it was just a party in Madison Square Garden. The Knicks kept hitting big shots. They led to Celtics by thirty thirty five, forty points. It would have been, it would have been.
It's not.
It wasn't just a game. It was the event it will be.
I was there Game six Celtics in twenty twenty five when it was bedlam and it was a celebration and everything went right.
To get out of the second round, I know it would do. You know what they always say, to be the man, you gotta beat the man.
But that's the thing is, like tonight, it was more than just a game, Like it was more than just Hey, here's what they.
Just a game, a game, just a game.
It was it was it was an event.
It was an event to be at where you felt like you were being like I'd be hand passed through.
The crowd, seaman was crowd serving.
Yeah, I would feel like I was high watching this. Really, I well, I think you kind were sitting here. I might have been without the you know, the extra stuff.
I might have been. Man, I might have been you. You were right, you were ride high. And then the fact that you know your energy is not dissipated fully yet it was pretty good.
I tell you, it's gonna oh yeah, this is party, gonna go to Wednesday. And that's no, no, he's gonna go to Wednesday till the Pacers go boot to stop. You are with me for another thirty five minutes. Because we knocked out the Celtics. Then you can say, is going to kick your ass?
You can do that. The Celtics lost, you said, I ain't.
Not only did the Celtics lose go to New York lost their souls all right.
Now, we talked about this, or we'll get to brock Perty coming up in a couple of minutes. But we talked about this earlier in the show. If you asked anybody who the greatest Nick is of all time, I mean, I can only go back to when I started watching basketball, so I go back to the unfortunately the late seventies.
This is after the next Heyday. Right. Well, you might have had you know, Bill Brand at the game. Yeah, maybe you men mentioned Clyde Frazier. Yeah, because he's been a staple all these years, so you still remember his career. Yeah, a little, right, because he's there, had great beard commercials for him.
With a look so natural.
But uh, but you go back, and I would say, okay, like going back now fifty years, go back?
Uh some Elik Rose, uh Ken the Animal Banister. Uh, you go back? Okay.
Generally the consensus is that Patrick Ewing is the greatest Nick.
Right.
He's a Hall of Fame player. He led the Knicks to a couple of NBA finals. They probably would have won the second one if he didn't get hurt because he tore his achilles at the end of the Eastern Finals against the Pacers and ninety nine, so that had to play the Spurs without him.
It was a huge deal. Like that was the end of you like Ewing's prime, like that was the end of it. But Ewing had some playoff failures and as great as he was, right, as great as he was, he was someone who took the Knicks form obscurity because they were terrible for the late seventies early eighties. They drafted Youing in eighty five, and suddenly the fortunes turned around, and for most of the nineties they were in the Eastern Conference finals just about every year. You ever said, David Stern that thank you? Uh no, well, I didn't think it was I didn't think it was that big. I didn't think frozen envelope stuff was that big a deal until a few years later.
Like, of course the Knicks are getting Patrick Ewing.
We need him, all right, great, I said our offseason goals, Dad, I said it at the lunch table. We needed a center.
But I'll but I'll tell you what is that their games And there's times when Ewing failed the next right, I talked about the big the big leape, miss using the series to the Pacers in ninety five, getting hurt like Ewing. Ewing's era is is kind of defined by he was a great player. The Knicks got to a couple of finals, but he wasn't good enough to lead them to a championship.
That he gets a hall pass to some degree because everybody just says, well, you had Jordan.
Yeah, well, you know he makes a lot of money because he spends a lot of its true, but like just one championship, right, but generally you look back at you and go, yeah, he was great, never won a title. Even though Jalen Brunson has not gotten there, he has come through in just about every clutch moment and he has brought the Knicks back from doldrums that were even lower than when Ewing did. Because when Ewing brought the Knicks back in the in the early eighties, it was boy, okay, we never expect the Nicks to do anything. Right, they had they never had any you know, they won the title, you know in sixty nine, they went back in seventy three, and then okay, yeah, then it was the era of the Sixers and the Celtics and the Lakers. Knicks were really off the map, and so all of a sudden it was like, oh hey, it's found money. But then after they go to the finals in ninety nine, when they never break through because of Jordan and the Bulls. The desire to see them get back was so great, and there were so many failures, from Isaiah Thomas to Carmelo Anthony, to Steve Novak, Oh, Steve Novak Gannis from all of these and now here's Brun's and who in just a couple of years gets us to incredible relevancy last year and now to the East Finals. This is ue where they're the favorites to get to the NBA Finals. Yeah, I get why Knicks fans are saying he's the greatest nick of all time, and it's you know, obviously I'm going back to the mid late seventies when I started watching. But yeah, I mean, I know I'm kind of prisoner of the moment, but I think Jalen Brunson is is a consensus he's the greatest Nick ever. He's in the middle of his career. Yes, it is sad because he's twenty seven and all these times more like for your franchise, it's got well, yeah, that's what I mean.
It's sad.
I mean it's I mean, I'm happy because we're in the East Finals, but it's a little said that that this is what you need to do. But there's just such a there's such a movement surrounding Brunson, where there was never that much of a movement surrounding Patrick Ewing. Patrick Uing was never someone who had a lot of conversation about him, whereas now a big time conversation the NBA is about Jalen Brunson and about the Knicks. Like he has done more. He has done more of a job of relevancy of raising the Knicks and has more respect for that. And granted, I think we're forgetting a little bit of Ewing's tenure.
Hey, when you're in the.
East Finals almost every year, Pacers or Bulls, it's a pretty big accomplishment. Just look at where the Knicks are now. But yeah, I mean I look at Jalen brunts like, oh yeah, he's the greatest Nick. Of course he is.
Look where we are.
Well, I think from nowhere goes to the conversation we were having a little bit related to brock Purty, who will get back to in a minute, is that you had massive expectations out of what Ewing was going to be. Right, He's a well decorated, long standing fixture on our basketball loving selves at that point, right, because he was on every Saturday. Here's Georgetown front and center. Here's the big guys from Georgetown. There's John Thompson all the time. There's the guy that wears the T shirt under his jersey. There's Patrick Ewing and then he's the number one pick and he goes to New York and he's a center and centers. It's a different animal, right, because we do our best. Stuves right, whenever you actually go down this top five all time, how convenient or the goat conversations usually it's say, yeah, Wilt and Kareem, they're over there, and I think when you start thinking best of your franchise, it oftentimes the centers kind of get pushed to the side as well.
Yeah, because relatability to a degree, unless you're shocked, because Shack was so beloved and there were.
All shock But he's a different but it's also a different time, a guy that embraced media. Patrick Ewing did not know again the only quote that anybody remembers for his playing days was the workstop and Joe, we make a lot of money, we spend a lot of money, so you need to have some sympathy for us in our battle to change the structure of the CBA. But for Jalen Brunson, he was a guy that was the cast off from Dallas. Did they want him, Sure, they wanted him to stay, but not at top notch money. He went to New York and at the time, I remember the conversation we were having, It's like, for a point guard that's going to come in and be your guy, he's underpaid, right. It's like we talk about quarterbacks, we're talking about purty, we talk about guys at elite positions. You're going to get paid and if you go and you win, you become the stuff of legend. Hen't won anything yet, but there are these indelibly etched moments for him that have New York fans believing again as opposed to add the Knicks are a fun, fun off season thing until we get to concert season and whatever else and we're back out, you know, on the on the island and we're hanging out and going to the beach and whatever else. So it's the for Brunson, he's a guy that doesn't look the part. And I'm not casting as ursions. I'm a short squad man myself, but he's a guy that defies that we always talking. He's not fast, but he's quick, but he can get his shot off. He's tenacious, all of these things creating space. He'll ask you out of the way, like, so he's a full hero plus at this point and now that it's coming with Wind's tail to it, Yeah, he takes plus ad, social media, plus, he loves doing interviews like all of those things, check every box. He embraced New York City on a whole other level. Hell, how many times do we see that in Villanova commercial tonight fifteen Gizo the Villanova dog. But but all of that to say, right, he's a guy you embraced because he wasn't the number one pick. He wasn't the guy that was supposed to come in and set the world on fire. And when he came to the next it became all right, what's he gonna do? How far can they go? And last year they went pretty far and they got hurt. Yeah, excuses reasons whatever. Who did they play when they went out last year?
Yeah, we were up two zip against the Pacers then and then we.
Lost everybody and then nemhard got him the Pacers, right hard.
That three that's not happening this route we're sweeping the Pacers.
Just so you know, Rick Carlisle, I think he's gonna.
He's doing some sort of telethon right now about the officiating in the Eastern Conferences.
Yeah, can we go to Rick Carlile live talking about it? But nobody told me, yeah, I get ready.
Uh now you mentioned Brock Party, right, and I'm telling you Jalen Brunson greatest Nick. Yes, And and if he gets the Knicks to this finals, then it doesn't matter that then he's the greatest Nick. Then then then there's no debate on I'm telling you right now, how fast. But there's no debate on how fast does the statue go up? If they win a title? They start fast.
Putting out during the clinching game against the Pacers.
Let's get it going.
They get a good artist, that going to hell a hell of a statue.
Yeah, buddy, Now you mentioned Brock Party and and look the other big story of the day today. Uh, we'll make sure we get Yeah, we got dwayn Wade's get hey boy, it kind of looks like, hmm, maybe we want to do that again. Uh, going up until the next game tonight, right with the big breaking news early in the day.
The Broncolypse is here.
Right, brock Purdy gets paid five year, two hundred and sixty five million dollar extension with the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Right, we're waiting for the Brocalypse the last two and a half years. It's here.
It's weird that something we talk about on and off for so such a long time, all of a sudden.
Bang it's here. Okay, and the nixt win.
It's like, oh, page two, but the broncolypse happens, and he gets paid, and it's time to stop asking a question about why a quarterback is getting paid what he is and is he getting paid too much money? Because that is irrelevant now right where it used to be a thing, Oh can this guy? Is this guy really worth the money? Did you throw it away? Did you pay him too much? That used to be a legit conversation. Right When a guy like Daniel Jones gets four years, one hundred and sixty millions, what are you doing? The guy's not that good? Right, there's one thing about paying a guy who's not that good, and there's another thing to sit here and say, Okay, you know, how do you pay a guy who is, and you're just debating how good he is, right, Daniel Jones, Like the guy had really just a couple of good games at the end of one year, whereas brock Party has been pretty good to last three years. So now where do you go. Is brock Purty worth fifty five million dollars a year? That's no longer the question because once I explain this, you're gonna understand. Oh, this is just how it goes. Teams know how miserable it is in the NFL when you don't have a quarterback. You watch teams like the Jets, who for forty years been trying to find a quarterback, or the Raiders or anybody else that don't have a quarterback, and they go, wow, it is a miserable existence. And fighting a quarterback ain't easy.
You would think it'd be a little bit easier, especially for the Jets, like it'd be a little easier, Like it seems like every year, like six or seven teams find a quarterback and we can't be that team. But teams know how miserable it is, so when they find someone who doesn't doesn't mean you're one of the top five or six quarterbacks. You'd love to be able to find a Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson or Jalen Hurts. But general, when you find a brock Party who is a top fifteen quarterback in the NFL, you're gonna keep them because you know how miserable life is without it, and you don't want to risk that we could do a lot worse and who knows what could happen to the team if we're wrong in the next couple of quarterbacks. Look, brock perty was a guy they found, right, mister irrelevant, final pick in the draft.
So you can debate.
Where brock Purty, say, boy, can a guy who could rank thirteenth or fourteenth best quarterback in the NFL? Is he worth fifty five million dollars a year? Yeah, he kinda is, because it's a position you don't have to worry about. You can win with brock Purty, and you don't want to have to worry about. Okay, if I move on from brock Party, what's the chances I'm getting a better quarterback? Really, you don't have to replace him, so of course you want to keep that guy. So once you realize that, all the other stuff makes sense, like it makes sense, I understand the Jaguar saying, well, we're gonna give fifty five million a year to Trevor Lawrence because we could do a lot worse. Right, why does Geno Smith get that big extension with the Raiders Because you could do a lot, and the Raiders know about doing worse at quarterback, Hey, we could do. Geno Smith's a league average court a little bit better than legue average when he plays well. So when you have one of those guys, it's easy to say, yeah, I want to give him money. And so of course that money's gonna keep going up because there's sixteen fifteen, sixteen quarterbacks.
You could say are in the top half of the NFL. So when these guys keep coming up, they're gonna keep setting the bar higher. And then when the best guys come up, okay, they're gonna set the bar higher than anybody. So, yeah, the guys like Burrow are gonna do that, and Lamar and Mahomes are going to continue to do that, but these other guys are gonna do it too, because teams understand this is a guy we can win with. He's good enough, he's young enough. We know we were confident that he's not a flash in the pan that.
He's gonna be good.
So let's make sure we lock him in because in three years, are we gonna say and MBNA say, brock Perty's overpaid. No, you're talking about the guys at the bottom level of being franchise starting quarterbacks who're making fifty five million dollars.
But that's just it, right, he's seventh today or eighth today. In two years, he's guess what fifteenth or lower? Right, just the way this works and the cap keeps going up. But what do we always watch teams in roster construction trying to get better via the draft. So the better organization stockpiling picks and finding starters in the second third day of the draft, and then placing free agents as you need to, and then you're top heavy, right with three or four big contracts at the most critical positions your attacker, your thrower, and your protector, and then you wield out from there. So you're looking at brock Purdy institutional knowledge. You've got a lot of other changing parts you want to change your quarterback to. You just changed out a lot of talent, right your offensive line, Trent Williams Older, and you're looking at his health and availability. The rest of that offensive line just keep going on down the line. Mccaffery's coming back, How great is he going to be? Is he gonna be his old self? No, you need a quarterback who you know what his baseline is. And while last year wasn't you know, record smashing with all those guys getting hurt, you didn't bottom out, you didn't lose because of him, still the guy with one hundred and five career Q quarterback rating, touchdowns, interception ratio. All of that to say, it's now on his arm and his shoulders. But it becomes the question. You know you mentioned the Jets, You can mention the Bears and all these other teams that have been wandering in the desert for a quarterback for years. They have a bit of an organizational stability that is rare in our NFL. What do you got six to eight teams where you just say, okay, it's the same GM, same brain trust, and same coach, right, Otherwise it shuffles out time and time again. So yeah, all of that to say for Brock Purdy, you may not like it, And I know some folks are like, ah, he's game manager or whatever. It's like, yeah, it seemed to man them, okay, and now they hit this next phase in a retooled division and it's there for him to go and be the elite guy because he's gonna have to take over games perhaps a bit hurt in the past. Dog, We're gonna do this for the next three days. That's great.
I like this dog coming up next. Well, if you missed that audio, we'll play that back for you. But straight ahead, what's the biggest thing we have learned about the NBA season up until this point.
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Let me go tonight Friday Night.
I have the entire.
Knicks behind me. I could kick your ass.
Yeah. Trust me when I when I hit you, there will be two hits. Say that me hitting you and you hit the floor.
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Are we spinning out to a bar after this? Keep this party going? Oh, I'm drinking diet cherry coke all night. I'm having a party already.
Possibly the tweet of the night from Alice.
It's just Jason are talking about how the Knicks fans are celebrating.
They're celebrating like they beat Thanos.
It's fair point dog Thanos was a dog. Save the universe. Let's go get Shwarma now, you know.
So there, there you go, there's your tweet of the night. That's your house.
We've been talking about when you hear saying dog all the time, because nobody is having as much fun tonight as Knicks fans who are celebrating like they won.
The NBA tal Absolutely.
Here's our favorite, well, the one that we can play on the air because a lot of actual expert is, I mean, the Knicks party videos, Knicks fans party video tonight are just amazing. Here's our favorite because and it's one that we can play for you because there's no curse words in it.
Jalen Runson dog, Cal Bridges dog, Josh Hart dogg.
What's Reggie Noller.
You just wait. You know Reggie Miller is going to be front and center.
Oh right, he's the happiest guy in the world. Oh, I get to be relevant again. I thought last year was going to be it with me and the Knicks fans. Oh, I get to do it again?
All right? Great, good luck, Reggie will see it. Minus won sixty for the series, applying sixty two percent probability at the Knicks are your victor?
Okay?
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Oh oh, whoa too soon? Miss snap into a slim gym eat me.
If you only knew, if you only knew what you were saying sports wise, I knew.
You don't know you're like to do.
You're like a kid that learns a curse word and just says it because they WHOA don't say that?
Why I don't understand. Implemented means we'll see him in twenty twenty six. I get it.
Well, okay, brother, what now?
Hey? Speaking of things that shouldn't be said, Paul Pierce, Celtic's legend who already walked to work.
Because if the Celtics blow this lead, I'll walk to.
Work walked five one hundred miles. Uh Paul Pierce showing that he is still really bitter putting this video up on social media tonight and again, Friday nights may not always be the best time to put videos up on social media, but he's uh, you know, in this video holding a Red Solo Cup in his hand, and he wanted to make sure that even though Knicks fans were celebrating, uh, you know what, your time at the top is short lived.
You know, whatever y'all, y'all, y'all did, y'all New York is a pacer was gonna pop. Y'all though y'all know that, right, y'all know that the Pacers is gonna get y'all, so I don't even want to hear all that, Like, yeah, y'all feeling good, y'all beat the say, y'all beat it, y'all be an injured Celtics team. Y'all beat an injured Celtics team. Bro. We didn't have our our all NBA player first Team v P candidate, Yeah, who led us in all these categories the first four games off?
You know, a red Solo Cup?
Whatever? The shout out to y'all New York.
Paul Pierce, Yeah, no, you know you had Jason Tatum for the first We were up three to one with Jason Tatum, just so you know, you got hurt in the final couple of minutes when we had a twelve point lead. So yeah, we were up three to one when you had Jason Tatum.
Oh and Inja, he sounds so bitter and so jealous and so so and.
So dog he sounds.
I love that audio because all it just makes me do is just laugh because he's just so mad. He's so incredibly mad that the Celtics lost to the Knicks that he wants to sit here and have a ten year old argument of yeah, you guys are losing the next round, like that's what he wanted to do.
You know, a red solo cup is the perfect receptacle. You know, you think a guy who had to walk to work because he ran his mouth too much about the Knicks and the Celtics would understand, Okay, the Knicks one, I'm good.
No, no, no, I'll make sure his wheelchair wasn't available.
But that's the thing. It undercuts the punishment of what he did. He did not learn his lesson, so clearly he did not walk that in fifteen miles.
No no, maybe he should walk to work again.
I mean unless he experienced the pain, the callous yeah, the bliss. I would even say, if you want to get push in a wheelchair fifteen miles to work, that's fine too. Now he's gotta get a little motorized. Okay, you can't put that on somebody else that they got to push his ass for fifteen miles.
Well, we beat someone like a celebrity, like a different Boston. Celebrities like Dennis Leary would do it for a little while. Then Mark Wahlberg would do it for a little while. We've got a couple of Wallburgs work with.
Yeah, you go Wahlburg to Wallburg and they cant. They can put a thing for their Hamburger sandwich board on DJ. It's wall to Wallburg pushing get the rest of the new kids on the Boston. The only c I see, Hey, Boston, who's getting wild? And I Kronk could push him for a little while. Brady could push him for a little while. Sure, why not?
Yeah, all that he's got, he's just so Daniel Stern, Yeah, I love it. I let certain times when when I when I see people just get really argue without logic I understand how how mad they are, and it's just fun.
It's just so fun.
See this one is these is true feelings or I got it? You you get what I'm asking America and globally.
I mean, Paul, I'm sorry when you come in and do speak.
Next, you're gonna be talking about the Knicks, because you will have to talk about the Knicks because they're the most popular team left in the NBA playoffs. You think Knicks content, You're saying, wait, do you see what Knicks content looks like for the next four days because it's the Knicks, It's New York, Indiana, Minnesota, and then either Denver or Oklahoma City that's gonna be in the NBA Final Four. You see how much airtime the Knicks get on TV and the radio the next few days.
You just wait and see?
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