Get A Bucket Show
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In basketball the basic fundamental principle is to Get A Bucket! We study and admite the greatest bucket getters, but also those who assist, defend, rebound as all aspects lead to Getting A Bucket!! Remember, it's important that we listen and learn from one another, so make sure to tune in and let me know your honest opinions! Trying to help the world through sports conversation!!!
Get A Bucket Show
Surprising Playoff Contenders and NFL Wisdom
Can you believe the Panthers and Steelers are turning heads this season? Join Nick and your Host, Tré, as we chat about the unexpected twists and turns in the football world, where some teams are defying all odds and making a run for the playoffs. We break down how these performances, including the Colorado Buffaloes' surprising run, are shaking up expectations and keeping fans on the edge of their seats. Come along for a passionate discussion on the power of strategy, leadership, and the thrill of watching underdog teams rise to the challenge.
As we shift gears, we're taking a hard look at the trials young NFL quarterbacks face, from Anthony Richardson to Trey Lance. Injuries and high stakes make it tough, but we explore how some organizations are better at nurturing talent than others. By comparing the timelines and pressures in football versus other sports, we get into the nitty-gritty of scouting and developing top-notch players. Discover how the dynamics of team changes can drastically influence a quarterback's path and why a solid foundation like that of the Steelers or Packers can make all the difference.
Finally, we tackle the fascinating interactions between rookies and veterans, drawing on stories from teams like the Spurs and personalities like Julian Edelman. Balancing fresh talent with experienced mentors is key to building a winning team, and we’ve got plenty of insights to share. Wrapping up, we engage in a spirited debate on who might reach the Super Bowl, throwing some unexpected contenders into the mix. With some playful jabs and gaming culture references, we close with a call for community engagement and a promise of more exciting sports discussions to come.
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What's up everybody? It's your favorite show, favorite show, get a bucket. I'm your host, trey, and, as usual, I hope you're all having a wonderful, wonderful day. I might actually start rethinking about saying I might change that up, might change that up. But, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, before I change it up, we got to welcome my guy Nick. Nick, how's everything with you, bro?
Speaker 2:Everything's going good, brother, how you doing today.
Speaker 1:Pretty good, pretty good, can't complain, can't complain. You know, my Panthers are looking not as trash as I thought we were going to, so that's always nice, but we're still not looking the best though. So you know, we've always improved, but we have been improving, so everything's good with you.
Speaker 2:You said, though, man, everything's going good, can't complain, excited to be here today. I mean, obviously I'm in bliss, you know. You see my Steelers they was winning before they got a quarterback. So you know, things is looking up. Things is looking up, I can't complain.
Speaker 1:He might be smiling a little bit more than I will. On today's show. He'll be talking football primarily, so let's see what happens. Let's see what happens. We might try to sneak some hoops in there, because it is called get a bucket right. But uh, let's go ahead and get on into the show. You ready? Yes, sir, all right, that's a bet. That's a bet, let's go ahead and start it off.
Speaker 1:So, all right, ladies and gentlemen, we are back and I swear it is feeling a little weird. I don't have my basketball right here, just have right here, just chilling. But I got my pillows. I'm around with my painters. You know what I'm saying. Now, this quarter it's about expectations. Now, y'all know my expectations for my boys. I mean, I love them. You know what I'm saying. But I thought we was going to be trash. Yeah, I thought we was going to be trash because that's what everybody else was saying. And then you know, we was number one and we done some stupid stuff. That's my expectations, right, but they done heard that before. You're a Steelers fan that I am. And then you also said some interesting things about Colorado. So, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to use them as examples, along with, possibly, my painters. I might sneak in some basketball, but we'll see what happens. But with the Steelers, um, just remind us again what was your expectations for your Steelers at the beginning of the?
Speaker 2:season. I believe that this would be a rebuilding year, right, like coming into this new era of Omar Khan. You know the Steelers have so much more potential in terms of just writing a new script on the standard Steeler way of just going linebacker, heavy defensive, you know, defensive line, heavy, wide receiver, heavy, not really attacking free agency. Omar Khan came in and flipped that whole script upside down. These two years we've done more in an offseason than we did in the last 20 with Kevin Colbert. I think my expectation was more of a rebuild, maybe a first-round buy, maybe a first-round exit, but nothing to the extent that I've seen so far. Right, I've seen us have some pretty pivotal wins, a couple pretty embarrassing losses, but mostly wins. I thought our team was humming under Justin Fields, but those games were a little too close for comfort.
Speaker 2:Right Needed a little extra veteran presence there we needed a little extra veteran presence, and who else other than Mr Danger himself comes in and provides just to me? You know, what we needed was somebody with an accurate deep ball who could get the ball to George Pickens down the field and also utilize the speed of Calvin Austin. Now look what happened. You know, what I'm saying. So we've looked dominant. I think we're going to continue to look dominant. So they're definitely exceeding my expectations, if you're thinking about that, trey.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, so I'm I'm glad you said that they, they, they exceeded your expectations. Um, cause I wanted to use them as that example of exceeding expectations, right? Uh, cause we've already used an example of, I guess, a team. I guess my team is underperforming still, I'm sorry, I got called space bait, like I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:Like we still trash. You know we show heart a little bit, but yeah, we still trash at the end of the day. But another team right that that has kind of exceeded expectations would be colorado. Um, you said, you said at the beginning of the season, brother, they won't go win about five games. Uh, that's tough. That's tough now. I's tough Now. I'll give you this. I can't definitively say that I was putting Colorado in the playoffs. I felt like they had a shot though, but, to be fair, I'm also an optimistic person.
Speaker 1:But you sir said not at all, only in five games, and it seems like they have exceeded expectations.
Speaker 2:All right, all right.
Speaker 1:Can they get to the playoffs now?
Speaker 2:So there's a big stretch between exceeding my five-game expectation and making the playoff. Okay. Now, mind you, coach Prime, I figured he'd be mad at me after the last time I was on here. I will admit when I'm wrong. You really trained them boys up and you made a lot of corrections this season Because that Nebraska game I was like see, I told you, you know what I'm saying. But since then they've actually gotten better and better each week in terms of playing a complete football game and I don't know what Warren Sapp's giving them kids on the D-line, but they look very different now than they did at the beginning of the year. So I would say that you know I'll eat my words there very much. Exceeding my expectations Okay. If the expectation is making the playoff, though getting into that bracket of the college football playoff, a bowl game, a pretty good bowl game, yes, I can see that happening now. Okay, but the college football playoff.
Speaker 2:That's a different breed. That's a different breed, okay. Okay, I think when they're playing competition, like on Oregon or you know, even in Texas, still, they're going to come across some, you know.
Speaker 1:Texas look good, so I get you.
Speaker 2:Some real stalls at that point.
Speaker 1:Okay, Okay, Okay. Now, in terms of expectations, we've had expectations of Deion coming to the college game. Yes, Doing pretty well. Like you know what I'm saying, it's prime time right, Like that's a nickname. You know what I'm saying. He's built for this. It seems like it's a knick-knack. You know what I'm saying? He's built for this. It seems like so. Has he exceeded your expectations as a coach?
Speaker 2:Yes, okay, okay. To me, deion Sanders, what he embodies is a community-driven effect. You know he's doing. You know, I don't know if you guys remember when you would play like Madden or NCAA and you could pick the type of coach you were going to be Okay of coach. You were going to be okay. You're either going to be like a draft heavy coach, a strategy coach or a player's coach deon sanders is a player's coach.
Speaker 2:You know that's a dude who played the game, has respected the kids, because he played the game at a high level and proves time and time again personality-wise that he he knows what he wants and he's willing. He's not going to hold his words back. You know he's going to say what he thinks and think what he says. You know what I'm saying. So he came in and he's like I'm going to turn this program around. And he's turned the program around in a way where, yes, on the field are they yielding an undefeated season? No, are they leaps and bounds better than they've been since? You know they had a Heisman winner in their backfield. Yes, they're getting there and they've revitalized the community around them. The state of Colorado itself's gross tax before tax net revenue of the state has increased. The property values around Boulder have gone up astronomically. I mean his impact on the community is vast. So he's definitely exceeded my expectations.
Speaker 1:I love that you said he impacted the community. Because I'm asking about Deion, because there's expectations that this man about to leave and go to the NFL and try to coach his son if possible. So it sounds like you might be on board with that man doing that. Then, like soon, is that fair? Because I think it's fair to say that the brother going to leave, like Dion, we're expecting you to leave, dog, I ain't got no stake in Colorado. I'm going to call the spade a spade Bye. So, like you know what I'm saying, like hey, hey, hey, goodbye. It's crazy, hey, hey, hey, goodbye. But you think it's fair to say Deion would leave in the next two seasons.
Speaker 2:I would say, as an NFL owner, knowing the business that the NFL is, there's a lot of upside to bringing in someone like Deion Sanders. There is, as well as the fact that now he's got, you know, some of the best minds in the history of football on his staff, you know. I mean he's going to bring them with him wherever he goes. I think that there's definitely some merit to that. I don't think he's ready yet, you know. I'm sorry, deion, I just apologize and now I'm coming right back to making it sound like I'm dogging you, but I do think I'd like to see you succeed more at the college level before you made that jump right. Just the accolades, wise right like do what you did to Jackson State for Colorado, take him through a perfect season win. A bowl win may help win it all. You know I'm rooting for you, man, but once you do that then you can make that jump. So I give him more, like four or five years. I think that's fair I think that's fair.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think I think a lot of times we expect whether it's coaches, uh, players, whatever we expect them to do x, y and z, and we don't give them time. I think, a lot of time, even even with teams, we expect teams to do X, y&z, but they don't, and we, we're impatient as a society. So I would like to see him get a little bit more time because, you know, maybe we could be rushing Deion to the NFL. There's no Necessary need to have prime time premature. You know I'm saying so, but, ladies and gentlemen, prime time Premature, you know what I'm saying. But, ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately the buzzer did go off. Y'all know how this goes. We got to pay bills, right, but when we come back, though, we do got some more sports to talk about. Yeah, we got some more sports to talk about, so we'll be back after a moment from our sponsors, hair.
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Speaker 1:Whatever, we're just going to start it off, just like that, whatever, and obviously so we are on a live show. You know what I'm saying. This is live recorded. You know there are people in the background. That's right. We got an audience. So if you accidentally see somebody getting up and plugging their phone in, that's our bad, but we are back. We are back right Now. Y'all again, I'm a Panthers fan, north Carolina Center. Right, this is Panthers, in case y'all was wondering, and I bring all that up, I understand we trash, but I made a video saying that we should have picked someone like anthony richardson.
Speaker 1:Yes, you were gung-ho about him, yeah yeah, and I'm starting to get a little concerned about his trajectory, right? Um, so that kind of made me think about can I consider him like a physical freak of nature athlete? Yes, so that makes me think. When do you start actually having concerns for the future of those physical freak of nature athletes, thinking even in basketball terms? Right, we can think of wimby. We can think of zion. There are concerns of health we talked about. People were saying how Zion needs to shed weight because you can't have that type of weight moving that fast and changing pace and all this other stuff.
Speaker 3:Wimby what if he gets injured? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:When do you start actually believing the concerns of the physical freak of nature, athletes?
Speaker 2:So I wouldn't even say it because, wimby, he kind of made it through and he's killing it right now. Right, right. So what about Greg Odom? Let's bring him into it. You want to talk about players who had potential freakness, the kind of skill where you're like this man, ben Simmons, where you're like this man has a drive to him to where, if I can somehow get him to get the potential out, even though he hasn't shown it yet, what I envision would be something no one has ever seen. Right Now, what concerned me was the tap out. That was a red flag for me when Anthony Richardson, in the last game, called the tap out on a third down play because he was tired. His excuse, I'm tired when Zion Williamson, you know, sits on the bench and next thing you know he's coming in march looking like a ham hock, right when greg odom was greg's was injured.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know, that was still just, just just but I the the checkout.
Speaker 2:That's the thing that gets me. It's. It's. It's a player who has this potential, who starts to themselves not see it anymore.
Speaker 1:Okay so so they check out. Okay, okay. That's the red flag for me Now. Typically, when do you think that happens, though? Because, like we're talking about Anthony Richardson, for example, we're talking about year two now. Yeah, Greg Oden, it was injuries, and, granted, anthony Richardson had concussion last year. He got concussed this year too, right?
Speaker 2:He got concussed. He got concussed this year too right, he got concussed. He was a shoulder injury.
Speaker 1:He had a hip injury or something like that. He's been banged up. He's been banged up. Does that lead into, like does that factor into, maybe him checking out mentally, because maybe he's still dealing with those injuries and trying to get over that?
Speaker 2:hump. Well, I mean, why did Andrew Luck retire? Right? The history of injuries. Eventually, eventually, it doesn't become fun anymore. Yeah, just be sitting there, hurt time and time and time again. And everybody's clock is different. Nobody's the same. You know how many people have retired early due to injury concerns? How many people have played their whole careers and then, 30 years down the line, lost their mind? Yeah, you know football is a scary sport. You know it's gladiators out there. I think at a certain point they take their own mental and physical health into account when making those important decisions. So, anthony Richardson is at a crossroads that a lot of players find themselves in, where you had all these expectations and you're just not meeting them. You know, let's be simple about it now is it is.
Speaker 1:It is two years, a fair, a fair, a fair time length to assess that player. Because I'm asking from a I'm sorry, I got something on my.
Speaker 3:I got something on my, because I told you, because I could, I could, I told, because I told you we're doing three years I said three, and bryce ain't a physical freak in nature like to me.
Speaker 1:When I look at Anthony Richardson, I'm thinking we got to scheme him to get to where I want him to be. Okay, in basketball, for example, I'm comfortable giving a physical freak of nature four to five seasons to show me okay, you got it. Now you realize you're head and shoulders above everybody else so we can dominate this way, because once you get that, we can build around you comfortably. Yes, in theory.
Speaker 1:It's a lot easier in basketball, but that's why I was going to ask because it's different in football than it is basketball. So is two years a comfortable time left for you personally?
Speaker 2:For a quarterback? No, okay, but we're living in an era where no team has patience, not unless you have a foundation.
Speaker 2:So a team like the Steelers, a team like you know, the Ravens, right. I keep bringing up AFC North, but we're just talking about teams that have been consistently superior, right. A team like you know, like the Packers, right, and what they're able to do in terms of just being able to sit there and allow a quarterback to develop and then taking that quarterback, installing them in a plan and it working. That's been a system that's been tried and true and the franchises that can pull it off great, you have that system in place, you haven't had to fix it. The franchises that haven't figured that out, they don't have that time, the luxury of that time, right so as much as I want to say yes, anthony richardson, I should.
Speaker 2:We should give him three, four years to figure it out. Year two he's barely played and he looks to have regressed in the passing game. It's a little concerning. I can't imagine being a Colts fan right now. That's tough. I think that if I'm going to compare him to anybody, I would say in terms of just experience, lack of exposure. Promise Trey Lance, another one right. That's a kid who John Lynch was all gung-ho about. Let me trade away all of this draft capital, basically our team's future right for this kid, because he is the future Only to then find out that he was injury prone and underdeveloped. And how quickly did they give up on that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pretty quickly.
Speaker 2:Two seasons, less than two seasons. So this is the crosshair we're at now. Why, dave Canales, bench your quarterback.
Speaker 1:I thought that was a confidence thing, because he's not a physical freak of nature athlete, he's just an average cat.
Speaker 2:I understand, because he's not a physical freak in nature athlete he's just an average cat, I understand, but in terms of his ability to lead a team, he was drafted over all these physical freaks because he was a freak here. Supposedly yeah, so the minute that that was in question. It was like we got to keep this trade moving because you're coming from a point where you don't have that foundation. Yeah, so really it starts at the level of how we go about scouting quarterbacks, scouting these important positions, that's so tough it's tough.
Speaker 1:It's not easy.
Speaker 2:That's why they make millions of dollars doing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because again I told y'all I'm giving Bryce three seasons because you got to show progression, because again I know what we have. Yeah, not much like we got some good offensive weapons right now. Defense is I, but we don't have. We haven't been able to put it all together yet. So and we got to get the cohesion once we do so, it's like and you traded away the only consistent receiver he's had so far this year yeah, now we we've done a good job at trying to replace dj.
Speaker 1:I will say that because I do think I'm not trying to like belittle well, like our, our top wide receiver at one point, but like why receivers are replaceable, like ste Stephon Diggs was replaceable, like even Travis Kelsey is replaceable, so like we can replace people, and I think that's what we've been doing. Now it's going to be tough to replace someone like Travis Kelsey, but I'm saying you can eventually find people who can do what they can do Exactly. So I think for that again, knowing what we gave Bryce Young, I thought three seasons is fair to assess him. But it's been two seasons long and we're not even finished with season two and I'm like damn, like Bradley did get benched kind of early. So I do hear you, it's a quick. Like I said, I like to be fair, you know, optimistic, but that's not the rest of the world. So you know it's unfortunate. It's also unfortunate, ladies and gentlemen, because the buzzer did just go off, but it's okay because y'all get to see the wonderful commercials that I put together. So we'll be right back after a moment from our sponsors that I put together. So we'll be right back after a moment for my sponsors.
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Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying, like we got roles I would prefer esteemed guest.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, okay, esteemed guest, We'll go with that. We'll go, esteemed guest. Well I, okay, esteemed guest. We'll go with that. Esteemed guest, right. So with rookies and vets, it's a tricky little balance. Let's use Wimby as an example. Wimby and Kaitlin Clark, right? I think these are two-star rookies. Wimby was last season, kaitlin this past season as well. Is it easy for a vet to play alongside that rookie, knowing that that rookie has the keys to the kingdom? Do you think it would be easy?
Speaker 2:Personally as a human being. No, can't imagine. I mean and I say that because you know we're human we have ego. It's natural. Now, in all realisticness, that was not a word.
Speaker 2:If you are somebody who owns a franchise, you want to surround this new ruler of yours with the right pieces. If you're playing chess, what are the right things you need to surround my king with now, with that in mind? If you're playing chess, what are the right things to surround my king with Now, with that in mind, you have to be very, very, very honest with the kind of vets you want on your team and the kind of egos that are going to be around that player. So, if you're the GM for the Fever and the Spurs, what you want are players who are perfectly comfortable being in those supporting roles, who are perfectly comfortable supporting a team and having a we're-trying-to-win frame, who are going to be excited that they have a kid that they can give the ball to and is going to be like put the team on their back. You know, in crunch time, put the team on their back.
Speaker 1:You know, in crunch time, do you sign a vet and just force them to try and get along, or do you go and select a person and tell them what's up? Initially, because I do think there is some benefit to having players kind of figure it out and maybe they gain respect amongst one another, right? Because, okay, this person might not like this person, but you can at least respect how they come across for their craft. Is that a fair stance to take or do you think it's better to just be on the up?
Speaker 2:and up. Well, let's see, for last year the Spurs really didn't show much promise as a franchise overall until about halfway through the season they started showing some breadth right, even with Wemby right. So who'd they go out and get Chris Paul Harrison Barnes, like they got a couple veterans who were from winning situations, who understand what it takes to win and who are perfectly fine not being the number one. So what they do is they come in and they guide a team towards that winning mindset because they're leaders, not necessarily statistically, because that's going to fall to that kid that they brought in and saying this is the stalwart. But see, do we?
Speaker 1:do? Do we rob the team of potential greatness? Because, let's say, I get someone who feels they should be at number one right and they're coming in and battling wimby. Now you got somebody pushing you. Is that is that? Is that fair to say? Because I, I I get the notion that chris paul is going to help out wimby and I I'm a fan of ch Paul being on the Spurs. By the way, I'm not trying to say it's a bad signing, no, what happens, though, if maybe I'm just throwing this out there, but like, let's say, they could have got Giannis instead. You know what I'm saying. Like, maybe Giannis can challenge Wimby for that number one spot and push Wimby to be a little bit better. Again, giannis wasn't available.
Speaker 2:No understood.
Speaker 1:But someone that can maybe challenge him Because, again, wimby's still young right now. So you can get the better of Wimby right now you can. Is that fair to do, or is it better just to find vets to compliment him?
Speaker 2:I would say finding a vet. I would say there's. We talk about building a team. You need all those personalities. It's not just either. You need a veteran who's going to challenge, but you need veterans who are going to do both. You need a veteran who's going to teach him how to be a good leader. You need a veteran who's going to teach him how to challenge himself and compete into what he needs to do as a player himself to better himself, maybe not even so much in person, but by example.
Speaker 2:Julian edelman talks a lot about how wes welker wasn't very nice to him. Or randy moss. You know, when they first, when he first got in the league, they were kind of dicks because they were like, at the end of the day, you're fighting for my spot dog, like I'm not to sit here and make you better. I'm not going to teach you these things. Figure it out. You know what I'm saying. Randy would have him watch his jockstrap and Wes Walker was like you're coming from my patented Bill Belichick white boy over the middle spot and I'm not going to let you take that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:And he fought him every day in practice. So you need both of those types of people who are going to teach him, because at the same time he talks about how Tom was the leader, the one who did teach him how to survive in the league and kind of shepherded him once he saw the talent. So you need all of those roles. It's more so creating an environment where you allow all of those roles. It's not really a more it's. It's more so creating an environment where you allow all of those roles to thrive.
Speaker 2:So that falls more on a team than anything else okay, yeah, that's where the commanders are at a, at a, at a point right now right, really a penultimate point where their franchise can either turn a corner or fall right back into classic commander's route. And that's because they have the mike sandra stills, they have the jayden daniels, they have the can either turn a corner or fall right back into classic commander's route. And that's because they have the Mike Sanristills, they have the Jaden Daniels, they have the Newtons, they have these new rookies who are coming in and showing that they have potential to be focal points for their franchise. And how are Marcus Mariota responding to that versus? How is Terry McLaurin responding to that versus how are some of these players Benjamin St Just, who aren't maybe, are struggling and want to save their spot? How are you fostering an environment of competitiveness?
Speaker 1:but it's also team forward, okay, okay, no, I feel that I feel that I like my team to battle it out, because I know it kind of makes you a little bit closer, right. But I also think too, like you said, you got to manage things properly. You don't want to have too much chaos, because already on a team, everybody wants to be a star, like everybody grows up wanting to be the guy or whatever, and you got to have people comfortable accepting these sort of roles. Yeah, so, getting a vet who's you know been here before, they might accept, they might take this role, as I failed, right, and you want me to replace, you, want this guy to replace me, like we're, like that's the ego that people got to get over and again, like you said earlier, we're human too.
Speaker 1:So, um, I, I, it's always, it's always fun seeing the pairings between new, new, like new rookies and and I mean I'm sorry rookies and vets and like how they end up meshing together. I always, always enjoy those, uh, because it's all it's a new pairing every season and I want to see if people actually get it right. For example, paul George I think he's going to play with Brandon Miller later on, because that's who Brandon Miller looked up to. It's going to be a similar thing with, like, kevin Durant and Anthony Edwards. That's going to be, even though they're not rookies but they're the young stars, it still applies. The same thing applies to them, like you want to see those good pairings eventually, because they'll be able to help lead those new rookies, those young stars who are supposed to be carrying that franchise into, I guess, greatness.
Speaker 2:I'll be honest, watching the way that Anthony Davis has kind of gotten behind LeBron a little bit, edwards, edwards, no, no, no, I'm talking about Anthony Davis and LeBron James on the. Lakers and seeing how he's kind of followed behind him, he's kind of been hooping in a way that's more aligned with that game, because he's learned a little more finesse, having watched LeBron, something where he can see himself kind of stretching out that I don't know if LeBron was a finesse game but I mean, that's another discussion for another day.
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Speaker 1:All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are back. Listen. So we said some. Well, I said some interesting things apparently on the show, well, off the show, but I gotta say I'm now on the show. Well, off the show, but I got to say I'm now on the show, see what y'all think and get his reaction on camera. So I still think that the Jets have a shot at making it to the Super Bowl. And like, hear me out too, because the last time we saw Aaron Rodgers have top 10 defense, he did go to the Super Bowl and he does have two talented wide receivers and a competent running back. If everybody healthy like by my estimation, we are tied in the way from a dynasty, like a young tied in the way from a dynasty that's what I'm talking about Like, if they can get everybody to come back and shine and stay healthy, can the Jets pull it around. Can they turn it around? I?
Speaker 2:don't even want to go there. But okay, so you said young, tight away from the dynasty. I mean, so the irony of them pulling a Jets-type move and not taking Brock Bowers in the draft Pretty interesting, huh? Just saying, if you're going to go off history and try to do stuff, we could have stuck with the Super Bowl combo.
Speaker 1:If they missed out on somebody, they missed out on somebody. Things happen, things happen you can get a young tight in there to go to the squad. I'm sure Denver's going. If we missed out on Shannon Shaw, they missed out on somebody. Things happen, Things happen. You can get a young tight end to go to the squad.
Speaker 2:Because I'm sure Denver's going. We missed out on Shannon Shaw. It's all good, though.
Speaker 1:It's cool. Hey, hey, hey For five rounds. A lot of people were saying, hey, if we miss out on Tom Brady, we just miss out on Tom Brady. It happens, it's okay. It's okay. I guess Jets is a no-go for you. Then there's really no optimism at all. No, that's tough. Is it because of the situation? What is it? Why can't they turn it around? They just beat a good team not too long ago.
Speaker 2:Because to me the Jets' biggest problem is that they can't seem to get out of their own way. And until I see them figure that out and it starts at the front office level, starts with Woody, good old Woody. So until Woody figures himself out, I'm not going to go ahead and say that they can do anything.
Speaker 1:That's tough. That's tough because I'm not mad at you. Management usually do yeah, they're kind of important, but we have seen someone like Aaron Rodgers just say relax, right, when I look at them, I think they can compete against a team like the Chiefs, and the Chiefs have looked really good, like I think if they go up against a team like the Lions, they would. They would fare kind of nice in the Lions, look really good, I'm. It's surprising you don't feel that way about the Jets, that they at least could get to the Super Bowl Not be a favorite, but at least could. So then, who's your favorite outside of Kansas City getting to the Super Bowl? And I'm talking about both NFC and AFC, by the way.
Speaker 2:So NFC, I'll start there. I would say honestly right now I'm going to get some shocked value from this one, but I would say, for me it's either the Lions okay or just because of what I'm seeing in terms of the magic that's happening in real time. Give me the commanders. Now you got some shock on that one. Yeah, give me the Commanders.
Speaker 1:No, you got some shock on that one. Now, yeah, give me the Commanders you got some shock on that one, Wow.
Speaker 2:So I would say right now, those are the two teams that I think have the most promise Now in terms of like, because the NFC is so deadlocked right. The NFC North is so competitive right now and I think the Lions are at the top of that food chain, but I think that it's a very competitive division. So outside of that division there's not a lot to really hope for. I think the Eagles are at a point now where they're out thinking themselves. I think the Cowboys are doing Cowboy stuff, the Giants are doing Giant things, the Giants are doing giant things. And then, you know, in the NFC West, you know no team is really distinguishing themselves as having an impact, not even the 49ers. So if you're going to talk about the NFC right now, I mean the two teams that are not on that list when I think of teams that have glaring problems it's the Lions and the Commanders.
Speaker 1:Okay, I mean, I can't be mad at that, because I thought Eagles would make a lot of promise. Vikings have been cool, but I think ultimately they would lose to the Lions because their defense isn't as good. So I do hear you. Even the Packers have taken a little step back. Afc then AFC you know who? Packers have taken a little step back.
Speaker 2:Afc there, afc, you know I'm going to pick it.
Speaker 1:So your boys is really is really Super Bowl worthy over the Ravens black and yellow Over the Ravens, over the record.
Speaker 2:You mean the team that got stopped by James Winston the other day.
Speaker 1:I mean? I mean? I mean the team that got stomped by Jameis Winston the other day. I mean the team that got Derrick Henry and is arguably having the best offensive duo in the game. I understand, brother, your defense is stout, but I don't know, Some days the Ravens make me think that y'all might look like us. I'm talking about my Panthers, by the way.
Speaker 3:Shout out to my boys.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying. Gotta give y'all some love, gotta give y'all some love, but we terrible right now. So you really think your boys can beat the Steelers I mean the Ravens when it's all said and done, oh yeah, okay, okay, but you don't. Do you? So to be clear, because you said, you said, oh yeah, sure.
Speaker 2:Like do you give the Kool-Aid man? Oh yeah, to beating the Chiefs too, I give the. Do you remember those commercials where Terry Crews would do the Old Spice? Yeah, yeah, I give that level of hype. Okay, all right, that's making stuff interesting, because the Pittsburgh Steelers to me in the AFC, like the Lions right now in the NFCR, are doing the best all around Special teams, defense, offense, okay, all phases of the game they're playing well.
Speaker 1:Well, it is a team game.
Speaker 2:It's a team game and people forget about that. Third aspect We've blocked like four field goals and have a punt return touchdown already. That does help, that does help out. I'm just saying like we've been playing out and Chris Boswell is secretly having his best season as a kicker.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, I will say, brother, as a fantasy football player, steelers is helping me out greatly, so I greatly appreciate y'all. I do think y'all have that pedigree to win something. Super Bowl could be a little tough, but we'll see. Though, because it's a long season, y'all got some promise. Ravens do, too, as well.
Speaker 1:Those are teams that I'm looking at right now just because, again, offense and defense, bills, I want to say, but, like the defense, I have a couple question marks. And then, like the offense too, I'm still not completely sold. I still feel like Josh Allen is going to try to do too much. So I'm looking at teams like the Steelers, like the, like the Ravens um, I wanted to throw Cincy in there, but yeah, I don't know about them. Jets, though they are my dark horse. I can't. I'm sorry I, because again, it seems like Aaron Rodgers in a solid situation. Nfc yeah, I don't really have much to add on that. Like they, yeah, um, yeah, it's really kind of sad when you think about it. Nfc, look a little, look a little, looked a little tough this year.
Speaker 2:Well, the power of the free agency market can shift an entire conference into being either the more superior or the lesser. And the minute players like Daniil Hunter go to the Texans and players like Stephon Diggs go to the Texans.
Speaker 1:And getting injured.
Speaker 2:And all these different players that are maneuvering to different teams. The minute that happens, a conference can shift from being the one that's playing the best football and the one that's playing the not-so-best football. Right now, to me, the NFC looks sloppier than the AFC does.
Speaker 1:No, it does, it does. But hopefully that tide turns and hopefully my boys will come out stronger.
Speaker 1:You know, what I'm saying Get that Super Bowl and finally win that thing. They say third time's the top. You know what I mean, and I don't know if y'all know this, but three does mean Trey. Trey means three, so it sounds about right. Three could also mean strikeout. They do say that. They do say that. But yeah, we don't have to think like that. I guess you know what I mean. Let's be more optimistic, like I've tried to portray. No, yes.
Speaker 2:Let me know if the overarching theme of this episode is your optimism and my pessimism? Most definitely Most definitely.
Speaker 1:But, ladies and gentlemen, y'all heard the buzzer, so with that, unfortunately, we got to watch some more sports. At least I do. That's what I usually do after the episodes. I don't know if y'all know that or not. Nick, I don't know what you do. You don't got to go home. You don't have to get the hell up out of here. Actually, I don't know. That's where I'm going with that.
Speaker 2:I was like all right man.
Speaker 1:I greatly appreciate you coming on to the show, as usual, always more than welcome to come on. Did you have anything you wanted to say before we close up shop?
Speaker 2:Oh no, I mean, you know, sorry, dion, like I said before, you know, I don't want to get no hate mail from no Colorado people getting boxes of turds from Boulder. So I'll be all right, thank you.
Speaker 1:Maybe he'll send you some tickets to watch the game personally.
Speaker 2:Now, that would be fun.
Speaker 1:Optimism right there. Optimism right there.
Speaker 2:That's a good way to silence your critics. Dion, give me $10,000 in cash. All right, all right Cool.
Speaker 1:I guess, that's what we're doing. Ladies and gentlemen, I greatly appreciate y'all for taking the time to watch the show. And, gentlemen, I greatly appreciate y'all for taking the time to watch the show. I also appreciate our wonderful audience, who might not make it onto camera I don't know. We'll see how it goes. But you know, it's the first time we've actually had a live audience. They've actually listened, gave us some feedback, so we greatly appreciate them.
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