Summary
In this episode of the Shrewdness podcast, the hosts dive into the ongoing Winter Olympics, discussing the current medal standings, the performance of the US team, and the excitement surrounding hockey rivalries. They also explore the impact of the NHL's break for the Olympics, the absence of Russia from the games, and the unique challenges of various Olympic sports. The conversation shifts to the NFL offseason, focusing on Tyreek Hill's uncertain future and the importance of drafting young talent. Personal favorite Olympic sports are shared, highlighting the diverse interests of the hosts. In this episode, the hosts delve into the dynamics of player loyalty and team strategies as they discuss potential moves in the NFL free agency. They analyze the quarterback market, focusing on players like Daniel Jones and the implications of their injuries. The conversation shifts to wide receivers, particularly George Pickens, and the impact of free agency on team compositions. The hosts also explore the defensive strategies teams might employ to enhance their rosters, followed by a discussion on the running back landscape, highlighting Breece Hall and Kenneth Walker. As the episode progresses, they touch on tight ends, specifically Kyle Pitts, and the potential for trades. The conversation wraps up with injury updates and a look ahead to spring training in baseball, emphasizing the transition from football to baseball season.
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All right tonight. We're going to talk about the
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Olympics. Those are going on right now.
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If you haven't, if you haven't watched, you need to.
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It's only it's only going to be on another week or something.
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So get in some Olympics fix that'll last you four more
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years. Then we're going to talk about a
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few kind of offseason NFL things like a free agents in particular
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tonight. And then we'll wrap up with some
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pre previews kind of stuff for baseball because MLB is right
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around the corner, right around the corner.
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All that and more on to the Shrewdness Podcast you can.
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Only have here, that's right. So cheers.
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Absolutely. Give us your take on the
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Olympics. What What are your captivating
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events that you like to go to? What's?
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Captivating you I want. To, I want to, I want to start
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out with the medal count. So out of the gate, because you
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know, even when I was a little kid, even though I didn't know
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anything about anything, I wanted the USA to be at the top
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of the medal count. That was the deal, right?
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It's like, I don't care. We just got to win the most and
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ideally the most golds as well. But we've been a little bit, by
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all accounts, disappointing this year.
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Like we sent a team that everyone was like, hey, this
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team's supposed to be one of the best teams ever for the US Right
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now they're in 3rd. They've got 21 medals, only 6
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golds. Norway's kicking our butt, they
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got 31. And then Italy, the host
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country, Italy's beating us with 24.
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So right now we're in 3rd. It's kind of disappointing, not
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going to lie. So hopefully, you know, we'll
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pile on some at the end here, but there's only a couple sports
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that, well, we're going to talk about.
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Sports we like. Deck's going to lead us in that
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for a second. Sports are interesting, but
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sports I do want to talk about in particular.
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Look, kind of like the marquee 1 is hockey.
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Yeah, so hockey. Hockey's fun because if you
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watch NHL, and so a lot of you do, probably for some shortness.
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We know what the game is and how the rules work.
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Right. Yeah, we get this.
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I understand what I. Do.
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I need either a stopwatch or more goals than the other
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person, right? I get those things that no
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judges. Right, it's a lot less
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subjective than figure skatings. Right, absolutely.
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Exactly. So, you know, we came in and our
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big, our tribal, of course, in the men and women is Canada.
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Canada's, you know, the inventor and owner of sport for a long
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time. The women, we've actually, the
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Canadian women have had the best of us lately.
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But the US women, holy crap, they are on like a ridiculous
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run and they're in the final. So we're going to be playing
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Canada in the final. Great rivalry game.
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But if you look at what at what the US has done thus far, well,
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all they've done is not a lot of goal.
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They haven't allowed a goal the entire Olympics.
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So they they have won five to nothing, 5 to nothing, 5 to
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nothing. Sounds like they could get a
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little more offense. Let's see here.
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No, I'm sorry, Tang it. They did allow one, one goal,
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5:00 to 1:00 and then in the quarterfinals they won 6 to
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nothing and in the semifinals they won five to nothing.
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So. Did they just stop at 5:00?
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Yeah, they just, Yeah. You don't get to get any more
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like play little kid basketball in 3rd grade and he's they can't
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win by more than 10. That's not They'll be defeated.
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That's right. So Canada's had a little harder
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time getting in. They they took them two, they
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barely won their semifinal match 2 to one against Switzerland,
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but they kind of have the recent history against us.
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So that one I'm looking forward to because it would be cool to
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own them, own the sorry Canadians and women's.
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Hockey, you said. You said.
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Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday.
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Nice. And men's hockey, men's hockey,
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we are now to the quarterfinals, so we still got some hockey left
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to play. The men are undefeated.
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They did the round Robins right. Everybody had their kind of like
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World Cup stuff. Everybody plays.
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All the preliminary. The main beasts all with three
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and O's what I'm tracking. So USA 3 and O Canada 3 and O
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that's someone else. Wasn't one there 3 divisions?
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I want to say maybe Finland 1/3 and O maybe?
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Somebody else did. So US and the quarterfinals play
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Sweden tomorrow. So tomorrow being Wednesday and
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Canada plays Chechia. Chechia, Czechia.
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Czechia. I get it.
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Chechnya. CCHECHIA, as Stan says, it was
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easier when it was Czechoslovakia.
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I could say that one Czech Republic, I think it's the other
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part of Slovakia that broke away the other half.
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Czech Czech, see ya check. Check.
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Check Mia. Check, Mia.
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I thought I was. Check.
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There's no N there's no N in the in the word, but it maybe it's
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one of those words that it's like an invisible N and you say
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it right. It's.
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Visible. Chechnya, I don't know.
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He's CHIA in post. You need to put this up on the
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screen, bro. That's in airplane.
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So I'm going to bet that Canada beats them.
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We don't even know you. Think that's what's going to
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happen and that's when the Chechnyans.
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That's right, but if all goes to form we will play them in the
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final. Recently the Canadian men have
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beaten us as well. So that that's going to be fun
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drama US, Canada, little US, Canada action there, which
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that's a good rivalry on the ice and we really are clearly kind
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of a top two team. So if we don't make the finals
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in the men's, that's going to be that'll be a major upset.
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All right, so. Did the did the NHL just take
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weeks off for the Winter Olympics?
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Is that what happens? So they've they've taken like 3
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weeks off. Do they then extend the season
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into like are we going to have NHL finals in July like 4th of
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July? Really good question.
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Because you still have to play the same amount of games, don't
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you? Yeah, they're going to.
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Have to not play seven games or whatever.
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Right, right. I.
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Mean they're going to have. The Olympics was happening
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before the season started, so they would have cut it short for
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everybody or I don't know of. Course I feel like they started
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earlier. I don't know it just.
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Seems like So what what happened was they've included a break
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February 5th to the 25th right And three weeks.
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So 20 day hiatus. Longest mid season break since
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9798 season. So they don't do it for every
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Winter Olympics. I don't know, it's super weird.
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So they turned into a sports. Podcast to find the answer to
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this question. Yeah, we should If only we had a
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sports podcast, right? Answer this so the.
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Break is strategically the typical All Star break.
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So they are, they are going to play the same number of games as
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they usually do. So I, I feel like, you know,
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probably some probably. Well, I think, I think what
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they've done, they're going to have the, the the finals will be
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in June, Stanley Cup finals will be in June, but I think they're
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usually in June aren't. They it is.
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Yeah, maybe. Because it's early, maybe late
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June versus. We're almost to the All Star
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break in baseball and I'm watching hockey.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, unless you're, you
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know, playing for your country, which a lot of these guys are,
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but I think most of them are, are sitting on the couch right
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now. Nah, they're not sitting on the
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couch. They're probably, you know,
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working out hard to stay in shape.
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But yeah, big break. And I know because I bet hockey
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and I miss it. So I'm I'm pulling up the old
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Google Master and it says return of best on best after skipping
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2018 and 2022. The NHL pause for the 2026 games
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to allow top players to participate.
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So I wonder if they just on your own and the team just had to not
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have you for those couple years. Oh, they may have just said,
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yeah, it's on. It's on you.
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I'm. Going to be on coach for two
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weeks or whatever. And yeah, right about that
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playoff run. Yeah.
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Don't mind me for three weeks, I'll be back and don't worry, I
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can play with my buddies and not not go to the bar every night.
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Yeah. Hang out in the Olympic Village.
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My Chechnya. My Chechnya buddies, my
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favorite. Chechnya.
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I did have a question as I was thinking about this, because I
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was thinking about hockey. Naturally, I thought, like
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Russians and like, is Russia not in the Olympics this year?
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No, they are not in there and neither is Belarus with big
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bullies. Stop beating up on Ukraine.
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Get the hell out of. You So did Did we just tell
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Russia like we collectively, as the world say, you can't come?
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Yes. OK, Olympic International
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Committee, wow, Olympic Committee, IOC, whatever it is.
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Yeah. So they can't go, but some of
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their athletes can participate. So when you see these are under
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like a it's a neutral Ain, you'll see some of these Figure
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skaters and everything and speed skaters.
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So they're not screwing them because man, it's not their
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fault. They're from a country with a
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government that's telling these type of stuff.
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I don't. Know what it stands is.
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That where the is that what this this?
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I feel like I looked up before, now I can't remember.
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Ain, I don't know. I don't know what that is, but
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it's unfortunate. So it's representing no on the
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on the podium representing Anus. God it is stupid.
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That's what I thought. So the acronym Ain, when you
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think of acronyms, normally it's in order, no individual neutral
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athletes INA. But the thing says Ain, you
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can't have an acronym when it's not in the right words.
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So it's like Spanish. So they do, they do, they do
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athlete, they do athlete, individual neutral.
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So that's the maybe that's how you do it in Italian, maybe
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Italian, that's how you do. It.
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Ain, but it's English word is standing for individual neutral
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athletes. The acronym AIM for individual
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news athletes. I know that's not the right
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guess. That the Italian word for
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athlete is something like athlete, probably.
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Close. It's athlete.
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It still starts with. AI think it's like Atlanta is
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what it is it's like. Yeah, we got this thing, dude.
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We're nailing episode. 3-3 days worth of follow up posts to
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answer all of our own questions. I know Chechnya, sounds like you
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guys just went on and looked everything up.
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That's how in depth you'll get here at the straightness we are
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diving in. Where's Russia?
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I didn't even these are our. I was like, they they should be
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good. This.
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Is our main sport right here is Winter Olympics.
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Let's get back, I mean on task. Let's get back on task here,
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boys. All right, all right, so all
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right. Favorite into the Yeah, what do
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you. Like to watch?
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Like it It comes every four years and I know we wait with
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bated breath for Winter Olympics to come.
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Absolutely. And we've already talked about
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hockey. That's one, right?
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But Pruitt, like when you're thinking, God, I am so excited
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for the Winter Olympics to get here, I can't wait to watch.
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What sport? It's, it's curling for me.
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Love curling? It's you, that's right.
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You just love that hammer. You love having the ends.
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I love the, I mean, I love the strategy part of it.
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That's. Fun.
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It's there's a lot of strategy. There's a lot of, I mean,
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there's, there's teamwork and all these, you know, team sports
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or whatever. But just like the verbal
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communication during the play that's like, you know, some of
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these end up with totally half an inch between them and, you
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know, victory and and a loss. So there's just, I don't know, I
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think it's cool. I think it's amazing how good
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they are at curling these stones around all the way down and
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stopping it in the button like a.
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Little. Itty bitty circle that is on
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ice. They're pushing.
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Stuff in. I mean, they're pushing off with
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their whole body weight, which just getting that consistent
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would be hard. It's incredible.
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And then they're releasing it with a little bit of spin on it.
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I got these guys, you know, brushing the ice to to make it
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curl more or less or whatever. Into the strudeness out there, I
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think we're joking. We're legit impressed with this.
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Like this. This is amazing from the heart.
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Like, curling is kind of cool. And The thing is, it goes
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forever, as Chism is talking during the Patreon.
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I mean, you got your double s, you got your mixed double s, you
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got your men's, you got your women's, you got your mixed,
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mixed mix, and you got your, I mean, it just goes forever.
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I feel like I've watched curling every day I get to come.
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Watch me all day every day and all day every.
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Cock and find the next curling event.
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That's pretty. That's a pretty fun Chism.
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What are you looking forward to or what do you enjoy, like
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turning on besides hockey when it's not hockey?
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I'll tell you one thing I don't like, and then I'll tell you the
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thing I like. OK?
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I'll tell you one thing I really don't like.
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And I have to say these people are incredible.
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I'll say they're incredible and I say they must love their
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sport. But have you tried to watch
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cross country skiing? It's it's hit the suck.
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It is like the worst, like these people are incredible athletes.
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Like you see how fast they're going on skis.
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That's insane. But like, Oh my God, it's.
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Boring. It's like watching a marathon.
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Boring in the summer. It.
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Is right. Like imagine the marathon with
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the rifle. That's why they added the Bible.
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I started. This is kind of boring, but if I
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shoot crap every lap, how cool is that?
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I started to say that that is probably my second favorite
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event to watch. Hey.
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Athlon. That's so just just having
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played sports and knowing how like when you're, your heart is
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working and you're exhausted, all your muscles are exhausted
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and then to just stop and like hold your breath so that you
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don't shake around or whatever and and try to shoot something
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from oh. It's super impressive.
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You have to get like all 5 targets, otherwise you have to
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take the long road. And I guess I didn't understand
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how that worked. I'm like, Oh my God.
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It's like that one Rd. Yeah, it's like when it goes.
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Farther like, Oh yeah, that's sucks.
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I don't like that. I also don't like ice dancing.
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Like that's stupid. It's like, it's like ice
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swimming. It's like ice skating without
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like jumps. Awesome, that sounds like
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something. But that all this stuff that
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makes it marginally interesting. Interesting, because you might
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fall. No, take all that out.
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The thing that I really like that I think super underrated is
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speed skating. I think it's it's cool.
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I think scooty like like because like there's a lot of and
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there's a lot of collisions too. Like there is.
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Wipeouts all the time on it because they're like pushing up
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against each other, like trying to angle and like it's.
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Like roller Derby? Yeah, totally.
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That's and you got to be like short track, right in
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particular. What?
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You're talking short track. The short track.
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Especially the, yeah, the longer races, they've got just
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one-on-one in their own lanes kind of thing, and OK, that's
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cool. That is fun, fast.
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But yeah, the short track is pretty exciting.
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Short cuz it's like how quickly get out of the black and like
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they're all kind of all over each other and yeah, it's fun.
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It's I like, I like watching that one.
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It's almost always a disqualification at the end.
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Always, always like somebody did this and it's like you, you
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pulled on his whatever. Yeah, that didn't sound.
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Good, but I think you know so I. Like that right out?
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The interesting ones that you just don't ever see, which we
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already talked about the biathlons.
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Cool. Because when else you get to
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just run around, then shoot stuff and then run around then
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shoot stuff, that's that's just not a thing.
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And I'm like, that sport had to have had some history to it.
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Yeah. I.
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Don't. Know if they let that happen,
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like could we even do that in Illinois?
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Do you can you even practice biathlon in most states here?
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I don't know if that happened right.
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Bobsled is always weird just because it's it's so weird.
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Let me just jump in this wooden rickety thing and just bobble
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around this thing. And then after watching that
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reel that you sent out, Chism, Oh my God, that Saturday Night
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Live guy. I would look.
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Terrifying. It looks like a terrifying
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event, but it's kind of fun. But.
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It does make me wonder, like a few of those, like bobsledding
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and luge. Yeah.
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Skeleton. Skeleton who?
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Who is like the first person to be like, hey, hey, I got I got
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an idea. There's a really Steve Hillary.
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It's like ice down. Why don't you like, get on this
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tiny little thing? And we'll just RIP through that
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thing. Let's just see what happens.
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Well, we've all, I think when we were younger, I'm sure we all
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went straight down the hill. But then who's right?
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Who had decided that it was a great idea to put turns and
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stuff and. Not curves.
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We need curves. We need curves and not all the
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same like some of them sharper than others and like.
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It was like. Hydra slide and wet willies back
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growing up like yeah, absolutely that's what the box looks like.
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But I mean, obviously I like the I like the freestyle.
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I think skiing when you're doing those jumps oh that's scary cool
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yeah it's terrifying. I wouldn't even go off the I
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wouldn't even start down the hill, much less put a ramp at
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the bottom of it. Like everything about Winter
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Olympics terrifies me. I wouldn't want to do the
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downhill skiing. I don't want to do the jumps,
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the half pipe. Nope, I don't want to do that.
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Bobsleds. No, None.
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Of this stuff skiing. Yeah, hard, because the Summer
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Olympics are just running hard or playing games.
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These it looks like death if you miss.
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There's a death element involved.
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You're doing 4, 4 flips. You go off these ramps 90 miles
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an hour backwards and start spinning and doing loops.
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And this one chick landed straight on her back and then
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just skied out of it. I'm like, good Lord, I don't
00:19:02
know how much pressures went in. He like, yeah, yeah.
00:19:04
I just fell like God damn. There's a there's a dude in that
00:19:08
in the ski jumping event, one of them, I don't remember which
00:19:11
one, but he did like a whatever the equivalent of 6 1/2 turns.
00:19:19
Yeah, gosh. And they saw those.
00:19:21
I think it was the first time ever that somebody had pulled it
00:19:23
off in a competition. But like who?
00:19:25
Even I. Want to know how you how?
00:19:27
You trains for that. Well, how do you, how do you
00:19:29
start doing that? How do you practice that?
00:19:32
Like, right, like I'm just going to go do this and like, well,
00:19:35
let's hope it works out this time when I do the flip.
00:19:37
Yeah, I think they go into it. Over like I.
00:19:40
Think they go into pools. I think they land in pools.
00:19:42
They do it in like the summer time.
00:19:44
But then at some point, you gotta be like, all right, we're
00:19:47
going out on the real. Let's go on land where it's
00:19:49
actually gonna hurt. You can't simulate snow in the
00:19:52
summer time that. Often right.
00:19:55
That'll be tough. And then the the premier events
00:19:58
are is figure skating. And so that's what they always
00:20:00
pump up, right? It's like in the summer and you
00:20:02
get the gymnastics and they're pumping up like the the main
00:20:04
four or five. Yeah, I feel like the US ones
00:20:07
they've pumped up have highly disappointed.
00:20:10
And it's kind of sad because you know, this is a horrible like so
00:20:15
much dedication has to go into this sport and you're just there
00:20:19
by yourself. They keep talking about 12 hour
00:20:21
training days just to get this stuff right.
00:20:24
And then they wipe out on a triple Axel and that's kind of
00:20:27
the end of their Olympics. I'm like, that is horrible, That
00:20:31
sucks, but like that. But Ilya Milanin the kid from
00:20:36
Virginia or whatever. Quad God.
00:20:37
The quad God. He's supposed to win it all.
00:20:40
He is pretty fun to watch though.
00:20:42
He reminds me of Sunshine from Remember the Titans.
00:20:45
Totally. Sunshine.
00:20:47
But he does like backflips and he did what he did.
00:20:49
The four and a half turns Spinorama thing.
00:20:52
That's amazing, That's pretty cool.
00:20:54
But then have it all just go away because you fell once.
00:20:57
Now you're done. It's like, well, four more
00:20:59
years. You'll be 26.
00:21:00
Next time I was thinking about this the other day that like, I
00:21:04
think it would be I mean, it's brutal, right?
00:21:05
You trained for four years for this one moment and like you
00:21:07
kick butt for like 20 runs in a row.
00:21:09
And then the one that matters. Yeah.
00:21:11
Well, but the the one that would I don't think I could handle is
00:21:16
the pairs because like I was watching this pair the other day
00:21:20
and like the guy had a great skate and the girl felt three
00:21:27
times and you know, like, you know, like they're skating back
00:21:30
and they're like smiling and everything.
00:21:32
You know, he's just like son of a I kneeled my skate.
00:21:36
You failed out three times in the Olympics.
00:21:39
What happened? What, like so you didn't wasted
00:21:44
my four years. You did everything you're
00:21:46
supposed to do when you get Zippo big, old, fat nothing
00:21:50
because your partner had a bad day and like that's what you're
00:21:54
signing up for. Like, you know, they could have
00:21:56
a bad day and it could be you that has the bad day and then,
00:21:58
you know, so like, oh, I don't think I can handle that.
00:22:02
I don't think I can handle training for that long.
00:22:03
And then like just. What about the the Lindsey Vonn
00:22:07
situation? Like, you come back from laser
00:22:11
surgery, you're at the tail end of your career, One last run.
00:22:15
Yeah. And 10 seconds into your run,
00:22:18
you pretty much wipe out your leg.
00:22:20
Again, career over. It's an inherently dangerous
00:22:24
sport. Yeah, like, right.
00:22:26
Every run could be that. And it does suck, don't get me
00:22:28
wrong. But the other one, like what
00:22:30
Chisholm saying like, these are just routine.
00:22:32
You're not going to die. You're not going to die on this
00:22:35
stupid thing. Figure skating, but it's just
00:22:37
it's the margin of error is so absolutely slim.
00:22:40
The the only thing that reminds me of is the gymnastics we.
00:22:43
Yeah, we talk they. Land on the beam and half an
00:22:45
inch and you do a wiggle. Yeah.
00:22:47
And now you're you lost it for your entire country.
00:22:50
Yeah. It's very, yeah, it's very
00:22:52
subjective, right? It's like if the the judge saw
00:22:55
that and it's maybe it's a tenth, maybe it's 2/10
00:22:58
deductions and all that. It's like dependent on judges
00:23:01
and all that. And it comes down to thousands
00:23:04
of a point and stuff and like, yeah.
00:23:06
That'd be I would struggle with the judge.
00:23:08
I would struggle with the judge aspect because.
00:23:11
Yeah. Like you see it a lot and you
00:23:12
see the Olympics and these judges are like the best judges,
00:23:15
like they're the best all the time and they they got to
00:23:17
qualify. It's like the people that do the
00:23:19
see the officials that get to do the Super Bowl, right?
00:23:20
They're the ones that graded out the best and all that.
00:23:23
But then you see it in like inevitably every Olympics.
00:23:25
I saw one, you know, this one, like they just screwed it up.
00:23:30
Like the the scores were not right.
00:23:31
And then announcers were like, Oh my gosh, this is yeah,
00:23:34
tragedy, you know, And I'm like, yeah, yeah.
00:23:36
So like there's no appeal process.
00:23:38
Like can I throw my flag and be like hold on a second?
00:23:40
Let's go to the replay. Let's see the replay.
00:23:42
Clearly was on. You know I was not.
00:23:45
Why? Why are there all these red?
00:23:46
Flags on the ice. So now that I'm thinking about
00:23:50
that dex. So I view the biathlon as one of
00:23:53
the the most like, I guess least tolerant or least risky from
00:23:58
that perspective. Like you're in control of your
00:24:00
own destiny on that event. Totally.
00:24:02
Yeah. That's right, you can't really
00:24:03
blame the conditions you have yourself.
00:24:06
Everybody's in the same conditions.
00:24:08
For bad shots and all that. Yeah.
00:24:10
I'm not sure, it's like, I guess luge.
00:24:14
The downhill scene in the half pipe, it's the same for
00:24:17
everybody. It's just whether you land your
00:24:18
trick or not, right? Yeah, yeah.
00:24:20
I mean, the margin for error though, I think is like you
00:24:23
said, it's kind of life or life or injury it.
00:24:25
Could be death. Could be death.
00:24:27
Some of those don't look good. They're getting air lifted off
00:24:30
the mountain. Yeah, yeah.
00:24:32
They're not look good. That's not good.
00:24:35
That's not good. And yeah, seeing Lindsey Vonn do
00:24:37
that like that was, I mean, I kind of wondered when she was
00:24:40
skiing with the torn ACLI was like, yeah, that's probably not
00:24:44
good. Seems like seems like a downhill
00:24:47
ACL is kind of a big deal. The whole stability thing on a
00:24:50
knee. Going. 70 miles an hour on ice.
00:24:54
Yeah, right. It feels like it would be
00:24:56
important, but yeah, it is it. You're right, Dex.
00:24:59
This is a lot more the Winter Olympics is more harrowing for
00:25:03
sure, because like it's stuff we we wouldn't do Like everybody
00:25:07
like most, most people are like most people are like, well, I
00:25:10
ran track at junior high and like, I know, you know, like.
00:25:13
I know how to swim. I could throw a ball over the
00:25:15
mountains. Yeah.
00:25:17
It's like you've done all the summer Olympic sports except
00:25:19
maybe pole vault and. Right, it's.
00:25:22
Past that I mean. You can you can imagine.
00:25:26
Yourselves doing it, even if poorly and not very good.
00:25:30
You can see yourself doing all those winter sports.
00:25:34
Just the camera angle looking at the ski jump.
00:25:38
No way. God, Hey man, you'd have to pay
00:25:43
me like $100 to ever even pretend to get to the top.
00:25:48
I don't even know if I'd go down.
00:25:49
That's just like, that's a steep ass hill.
00:25:52
And then raise yourself. Laugh like a bat and then like,
00:25:56
yeah. And then do the flying squirrel
00:25:58
jug to get more wingspan with your stuff.
00:26:03
Like I don't even. Right.
00:26:04
Totally. I will say another we haven't
00:26:09
mentioned this yet, but there I have a new appreciation for
00:26:12
drone pilots, too. There's a lot of drones that
00:26:15
follow these athletes down the hill.
00:26:16
And they're good. Through the bobsled and all that
00:26:19
good. I mean, there are some talented
00:26:21
drone pilots. That got.
00:26:22
Hired to do this, you know, because.
00:26:24
You're getting some incredible looks that we haven't had at a
00:26:27
lot of Olympics because we have technology.
00:26:30
Yeah, yeah. So.
00:26:32
Even the Piazza line, I can see the smoke come out of the gun
00:26:34
because that matters, and the bullets slowly cascading because
00:26:40
the skill of the bullet shrapnel is something I need to get very
00:26:43
up close. Right and.
00:26:44
Then we get nasal Cam. My favorite camera angle is
00:26:47
nasal Cam for. Curling.
00:26:49
So they curl and they just go right up in your business.
00:26:52
I'm like, and there's the nostril hair because I don't
00:26:55
want to see you. All these guys start shuffling.
00:26:57
It's like I'd rather just. See the stones sliding down the
00:27:00
ice? Exactly.
00:27:01
But it is. Kind of fun because you do get
00:27:03
sports you'd never pay attention to outside hockey, right?
00:27:06
You get sports, you don't pay attention to people get into it.
00:27:09
We do appreciate the athleticism.
00:27:11
There's some funny, funny things you learn about things you
00:27:13
haven't learned about, and so there's some interesting things.
00:27:16
Every four years is about right, though.
00:27:18
That's about right now, Yeah. I don't feel like I need this.
00:27:20
X Games in between X Games in World Group events, which I
00:27:25
didn't know. I know they exist because they
00:27:27
would say she just won the World Cup of the skiing and like,
00:27:30
yeah, do they show that like. Surely somewhere on ESPN the
00:27:35
Ocho or something. Yeah, they've got to be.
00:27:38
It's got to have a. Somewhere you got to be into it
00:27:41
to find it, though. Yes, totally.
00:27:42
That's what I think. Absolutely.
00:27:43
All right, let's pivot into NFL Chisholm.
00:27:46
Let's get us down a topic we actually know something about.
00:27:50
Let's try this out. All right, sureness.
00:27:52
We got you. Thanks for sticking with us.
00:27:53
Let's go. Yeah, so let's talk about NFL
00:27:56
for So we're into free agent time, we're talking about
00:28:00
drafts. Just had a really interesting
00:28:03
piece of news we want to start off with first, which is
00:28:05
especially for those of you who are like us and Chiefs fans, the
00:28:09
cheetah was cut. The cheetah was cut yesterday.
00:28:13
Tyree kill from the Dolphins. They've decided that chapter is
00:28:17
over. Cheetah's 31.
00:28:19
He's still fast. He's not 2324 fast like back in
00:28:24
the day whenever we first got him on the Chiefs, but he's
00:28:28
still an incredible above average receiver.
00:28:32
I would say first question to you guys.
00:28:34
Any chance he comes back to the Chiefs?
00:28:36
And then second question, what would you want that to happen?
00:28:39
Bruce started up. Dang it, I was hoping you can go
00:28:42
first. Well, I can go first.
00:28:44
But I think there is a chance. Honestly, I think I've think I'm
00:28:47
OK shutting the door on that chapter and moving on to someone
00:28:51
else. He's had AI don't know.
00:28:54
I feel like we've already had enough off the field issues.
00:28:59
With the wide receivers. Like how many arrests do we need
00:29:04
to highlight for chiefs? Receiver, I feel like that the
00:29:07
the better the receiver, the more arrests you get.
00:29:09
So it's kind of like the prima Donna kind of nature goes with
00:29:13
it. But you're right, you definitely
00:29:16
Tyreek comes with a price tag. Price tag is he's a diva and he
00:29:20
has a lot of negatives off the field.
00:29:22
There's yeah, there's there's like literal price tag.
00:29:25
There's off the off the field issues.
00:29:28
He's 31. He had a major knee injury.
00:29:32
Yeah, that was disgusting. I.
00:29:34
Don't know if he is going to be a fast cheetah.
00:29:36
He could be a hobbled up Nick Chubb like we don't even know.
00:29:39
But it's to answer your first question Chez and he talked
00:29:42
about this a few episodes back. It was one of Andy Reid's either
00:29:46
go it's going to kill him or help him as his loyalty to
00:29:49
players and Tyreke was one of his boys that helped him get to
00:29:52
some Super Bowls. And if the doors open, we may
00:29:57
not have Rasheed Rice so well, that's another one.
00:30:01
Hollywood Brown is probably on the way out the door and Mike
00:30:06
Evans is a free agent. That'd be interesting.
00:30:08
But I think he just goes either to Tampa Bay or nowhere probably
00:30:12
right. So Tyree kill is someone that is
00:30:14
there a spot for him? Sure.
00:30:16
Now it's exactly what Pruitt said, like our getting in
00:30:20
trouble with the law. Wide receiver spots kind of
00:30:22
full. That roster spot is taken.
00:30:24
Got a couple and it'd be nice just to not have that.
00:30:30
Maybe we could draft so we have some options drafting at the 9th
00:30:34
spot. We can probably take the number
00:30:36
one running back off the board or the number one wide receiver
00:30:41
off the board, right? There's some pretty decent ones.
00:30:44
I think that is the Ohio State guy.
00:30:47
He's projected on the one the Tate I think is right, the
00:30:49
Cardinal Tate. What's the right name?
00:30:52
If it's not just correct me, but I think that's what it is.
00:30:54
But he is someone that would be awfully intriguing there.
00:30:57
And Ohio State whiteouts traditionally do pretty Dang
00:31:01
well in the NFL right off the bat.
00:31:05
So mega Buca, for example, Marvin Harrison Junior.
00:31:10
I mean, The thing is, you can go down the list like all over the
00:31:13
place. Terry Mclaurin, we got Ohio
00:31:16
State's got tracker. So I think that'd be a fun
00:31:18
choice instead of drama. Broken knee, 31 year old, I
00:31:24
don't know how many maternity. With the.
00:31:27
Next, you're. Out on him.
00:31:30
I'm out on Tyreke. I think I'm you're out on him.
00:31:32
I. Think I am too.
00:31:34
The sequel's never as good as original, so I worry a little
00:31:37
bit about I don't know that he's, I don't know that he's
00:31:41
especially coming off an injury. I don't know that he's a one
00:31:43
anymore. So no, you know.
00:31:46
I saw him listed as a three and like AI did see a If this
00:31:50
happened he would probably be our wide receiver 3.
00:31:54
Right. Can't seem to disagree with, but
00:31:56
that's probably right. You do have Carnell Tate that's
00:32:00
coming out, like you said, Dex. There's also a guy named Jordan
00:32:05
Tyson who's highly projected guy at Arizona State from a wide
00:32:09
receiver standpoint. So there's a couple of choices
00:32:13
with the pick that they have that they could choose to fill
00:32:15
that with. So the price should be way lower
00:32:17
too. Right.
00:32:19
Right. Incontrollable for five years.
00:32:22
That's tough to look away. From the Chiefs don't have a lot
00:32:25
of money right now. There's no cap cap.
00:32:28
They're going to have to restructure a lot of or a lot of
00:32:32
contracts. Find a way to get rid of one of
00:32:34
our favourites, defensive tackle, right?
00:32:39
Right. That would open up multiple
00:32:42
spots, yeah. Right.
00:32:44
Right. And man, I kind of want to do it
00:32:47
now. I know.
00:32:49
I feel like the drop off from him to the next person that
00:32:52
would fill that spot, right, is compared to what you get for
00:32:56
that money. Yeah, right.
00:32:58
It's just, I think there's no way it doesn't exceed value to
00:33:02
go the other direction and just move away from that.
00:33:04
I don't know if they will. I mean, Speaking of loyalty,
00:33:06
right, But Veach, he's got a decision to make.
00:33:09
I don't know if he's even tradable because he didn't have
00:33:12
the best season last year and he's one year older.
00:33:15
I don't know. I don't know if he's a guy that
00:33:16
can impact games like he did. Like what we were talking about
00:33:18
the end of the season for the Chiefs.
00:33:20
He was almost making the plays that got us to the yeah to over
00:33:24
the hump, almost made them all. I think they're going to go to
00:33:28
him and and ask for some help is what I think is going to happen.
00:33:32
I think they're going to go to him and say, hey, we want to
00:33:34
keep you your chief. We'd like for you to retire.
00:33:37
Chief. He wants to be a chief for life.
00:33:38
He said that, yeah. Hey, you want to be a chief for
00:33:42
life? You want to have a chance at a
00:33:43
run, We need you to shave a little here, restructure a
00:33:46
little there. Yeah.
00:33:47
We don't want to be 6 and 11 again.
00:33:50
We need more money to get more players.
00:33:52
Yeah, yeah, I think that's going to happen.
00:33:54
So Speaking of more players, let's talk a little bit about
00:33:57
the free agents that are out there right now.
00:33:59
There's an interesting free agent class that's coming out.
00:34:03
Wanted to get you guys takes on a few of them in particular and
00:34:06
see where you think some of these guys may end up this year.
00:34:10
So one of them is Daniel Jones. On the first quarterback that
00:34:14
kind of comes up on the list is Daniel Jones.
00:34:17
So what do you think about Daniel Jones from a quarterback
00:34:21
standpoint? Where do you think he he might
00:34:24
land? Do you think he goes back to the
00:34:25
Colts or do you think he goes somewhere else?
00:34:27
I don't know if he's going to have a team until mid season.
00:34:31
I mean, he tore his Achilles. I don't think he's going to be
00:34:33
on a roster until. So you don't think anybody?
00:34:35
'S going to take a flyer and be like, dude, I want a chance at
00:34:38
Daniel Jones when he gets healthy.
00:34:40
It's a one year injury and you got hurt in the middle of the
00:34:42
season, right? He's a running quarterback like
00:34:46
I. Why?
00:34:47
Wouldn't you? I'll throw out a couple names
00:34:49
I've heard. OK.
00:34:52
Minnesota. Nope, they won't.
00:34:54
I've heard Minnesota. No, I've.
00:34:56
Also heard Arizona so well. These guys are trading Kyler
00:35:01
Murray and they need somebody for the middle half of the
00:35:03
season. So there's those are two
00:35:05
different spots. That I thought were interesting
00:35:07
as the starter in both situations.
00:35:10
Or is he the back? He'd be the starter in both
00:35:13
those situations, obviously, when it gets when it gets
00:35:16
healed. Yeah.
00:35:17
So as a Minnesota fan, Dexter adamantly against it sounds
00:35:21
like. No, I don't need.
00:35:23
Are you? Are you happy with McCarthy?
00:35:25
Are you looking elsewhere? If we are, I think.
00:35:30
Let's let's pretend Joe Burrows not in the equation.
00:35:34
I don't think that's going to trade.
00:35:35
Man, how much? If I was playing Madden
00:35:38
franchise right now, I know I would have Joe Burrow already.
00:35:41
I would keep throwing. Picks out until this thing
00:35:44
turned green and I could hit the button right.
00:35:46
I know John Dexter's front office has Joe Burrow coming to
00:35:48
the Vikings, but let's pretend though, Joe.
00:35:50
Burrow also wants to come to Minnesota.
00:35:52
Let's be real. Let's just be right.
00:35:54
But that is. There any chance that there's
00:35:56
there any chance that the the Colts, the Colts say we want to
00:36:03
keep them round. They need somebody.
00:36:05
They don't have any quarterbacks and all of Rivers off really
00:36:08
well. I think Phillip's done.
00:36:10
He's finally done. He's like, I'm really done this
00:36:13
time. Yeah, unless they need a coach.
00:36:16
Yeah. So that's an interesting 1.
00:36:18
So that one. So that's top quarterback.
00:36:20
Now let me throw out a wide receiver for you guys.
00:36:23
It fits very well with the podcast because he's quite
00:36:25
mercurial. Mr. George Pickens, the number
00:36:30
one wide receiver according to most people and free agency.
00:36:34
What do you think? Does he stay in Dallas?
00:36:37
I think so. I think they're going to
00:36:38
franchise him. That's what all the talk is.
00:36:40
All the rumor mill is from the people that you actually trust
00:36:43
in the industry. They all say it.
00:36:45
And I'm sure if we check the Vegas odds on where the
00:36:47
franchise tag is, probably like -10, right?
00:36:50
So I think he'll probably stay there.
00:36:52
Now. Is that a good move?
00:36:54
We could talk about whether that's smart to franchise.
00:36:56
Well, the. Cowboys don't always make good.
00:36:59
Move let's so yeah let's let's stick with the probabilities
00:37:02
first then we'll decide if it's a good move but right what are
00:37:07
your other options on the table choose I don't so I don't think
00:37:11
he'll go anywhere other than Dallas but.
00:37:13
Other other suitors there are rumored that might be interested
00:37:17
in Mr. Pickens. There are Washington commanders,
00:37:19
the Baltimore Ravens. It should be Buffalo Bills on.
00:37:24
There, Denver Broncos, those are the three kind of being rumored
00:37:29
about. God Buffalo needs a white out so
00:37:33
bad it hurts. And they're never rumored to
00:37:35
have any white outs coming there.
00:37:37
The one that the one that the one that Buffalo, the rumor
00:37:41
mill's signing out for Buffalo is Alec Pierce.
00:37:42
So yeah. The he'd be an improvement.
00:37:45
He'd be a major improvement on that team.
00:37:48
That's the one that they seem to be honed in.
00:37:50
I don't know if the attitude. Also, they've been rumored for
00:37:53
Joanne Jennings, who's, you know, the 49ers, Buffalo.
00:37:58
Yeah, Buffalo's been been talking about potentially him.
00:38:01
I don't know if the price tag is too much for Pickens and they're
00:38:04
avoiding it or if the personality, mercurial
00:38:07
personality is something they want to stay away from.
00:38:10
Yeah. You know, he can definitely
00:38:12
wreck a locker room, I think. I.
00:38:15
Mean that's that's one of the reasons you got to have like a
00:38:18
coach that can handle that guy. Right and right.
00:38:22
I don't know who that is. I don't know if Sean Payton
00:38:24
would be willing to put up with it.
00:38:26
That's my whole point. I think some of the best
00:38:27
coaches. Those two feel like no thanks.
00:38:30
I don't. Even like he'd be mad and weak
00:38:32
too and then be like on the bench or, you know, yeah,
00:38:36
whatever. I feel like that.
00:38:37
That could be a challenge. But I could see the Ravens.
00:38:42
Who's I? Don't even.
00:38:43
Who's their coach now? I don't even remember if they'd
00:38:45
hired any. Guy.
00:38:47
The guy who used to be their DC. Oh yeah, yeah, he came back from
00:38:51
like, came. From the target in San.
00:38:53
Diego So that that might end up being a train wreck, but I could
00:39:00
see something like that happening where it's a new coach
00:39:03
and he doesn't quite know how to put his foot down or like, yeah,
00:39:07
control of that type of type of situation, right.
00:39:11
So I could see him go to the Ravens maybe.
00:39:14
Yeah, yeah. Jesse Mentor is that coach's
00:39:16
name. Mentor.
00:39:16
That's right. Yeah, that's right.
00:39:18
I think you're right though, Dex, I think he probably stays
00:39:21
with the Cowboys and I think they probably overpay.
00:39:25
Him because it's a franchise tag for year one.
00:39:28
It's where if they keep him two years, right and I think maybe.
00:39:33
Franchise tag, don't you? I think franchise tag get to pay
00:39:35
like the average market. It's high.
00:39:37
It'd be like wide. Receivers in the league. $28
00:39:40
million for one season. For him, for a guy.
00:39:43
He's. Got a lot of paying.
00:39:44
He's got a lot of quit in him, as we like to say.
00:39:47
I don't know. He's he's mercurial.
00:39:49
He's awesome though. That's the other thing.
00:39:51
When he wants to play, he's awesome.
00:39:53
When he plays and his head is in the game and he's just beating
00:39:57
down on the defensive backs. Yeah, he is actually fun to
00:40:01
watch. His catches he can make.
00:40:02
He's so athletic. He's so fast, so big, so strong.
00:40:05
I. Mean there's no doubting.
00:40:07
So frustrating when he doesn't do it.
00:40:09
He had 93 catches for 14129 yards.
00:40:13
That's yeah, pretty freaking good and this is opposite when
00:40:16
you have CD Lamb on your team too yes so like that that that's
00:40:21
the the PR machine in Dallas is saying that Jerry feels like he
00:40:25
cannot let Pickens leave because the Parsons thing was such a
00:40:29
disaster and everyone was mad at him with Parsons thing and he.
00:40:32
Was well, Michael Parsons is. Way different.
00:40:35
Way different in my book too. Parsons plays every down.
00:40:40
Yeah, and he's defensive Player of the Year kind of good,
00:40:42
whereas George Pickens will never be MVP type of good,
00:40:45
right? He will never be that Cooper Cup
00:40:47
MVP type season, Yeah. He won't.
00:40:50
So what do you think about? I agree.
00:40:53
So this guy's an interesting one for me.
00:40:56
I think he's really interesting, Defensive end Trey Hendrickson.
00:41:02
Yeah, he's a he's a difference maker.
00:41:05
He's the one they wouldn't sign last year.
00:41:07
Yeah, Hendrickson, similar actually, Yeah, but I, I think,
00:41:12
you know, huge, huge pressure guy.
00:41:15
The Bengals are out. So the folks that are being
00:41:20
rumored here are again, the Ravens.
00:41:24
Yeah, he'd get Ravens fit there. The 49ers.
00:41:29
Nick Bosa and him and Fred Warner, right?
00:41:33
Screw that, Chargers, right? That wasn't good either.
00:41:37
And the Cowboys, those are kind of the four that are seemed to
00:41:41
be, of course, anybody could jump in.
00:41:43
But Cowboys would then double them up with it.
00:41:45
Williams, they'd have him, and that'd be right.
00:41:49
God, that'd be a really good line too.
00:41:51
He's a pseudo Parsons replacement.
00:41:54
Right, right. So the pass rush should be
00:41:57
unbelievable. Yeah, right, right.
00:42:01
So what do you guys like there? Do you like anybody?
00:42:05
The reason the Ravens are kind of popping to the top?
00:42:07
The Ravens finished 31st in sack rate this year, so they are not
00:42:14
putting any pressure on the quarterback.
00:42:17
And they need a guy who you know, and, and in theory they're
00:42:22
win now, right? You got your Lamar, you got your
00:42:26
you know, how much, how much longer are we going to, we're
00:42:29
going to have Derek Henry, Derek Henry running like he's running.
00:42:35
Yeah, but they seem to be said for the four years because that
00:42:38
defense isn't getting younger and they're.
00:42:41
All that's an older defense. There are.
00:42:43
And John Lynch, I think is also a tremendous GM and he knows
00:42:48
what it's going to take to win in his division.
00:42:50
He's really good to. You got the Rams and the
00:42:52
Seahawks and you got to now compete with those defenses.
00:42:56
Right. Why not add a guy who can lead
00:42:59
the league in sacks, right? Let's be impressive.
00:43:04
I don't know. I think that matching that with
00:43:06
Bosa, that would be that wouldn't even be fun to play on
00:43:09
Madden. Wouldn't even be fun.
00:43:10
No, no, no, no. Drop back sack.
00:43:13
Oh, drop back sack. That's fun.
00:43:14
So, so I'll turn now to let me turn now to the top of running
00:43:19
back that's available. The top running back, according
00:43:22
to most, is Reese Hall. Reese Hall is the guy who is out
00:43:28
there now. Kenneth Walker is also a free
00:43:32
agent. We talked about him in free MVP,
00:43:35
that out MVP, Kenneth Walker, but Breeze Hall is rumored.
00:43:42
There's three teams right now that are kind of popping to the
00:43:45
top. The Chiefs, the Broncos,
00:43:47
interestingly same division, the Broncos and the Seahawks.
00:43:52
Speaking of MVP, thought being he will go somewhere else and
00:43:57
they would backfill Mr. Walker with Breece Hall.
00:44:01
What do you guys think of those potential fits?
00:44:05
I think it depends on whether Breece Hall wants to be the
00:44:07
every down back and if he does, I mean the Chiefs to be a pretty
00:44:12
good place for that because they like throwing to the ball and.
00:44:16
He's a good pass catcher. That's the thing he can run and
00:44:19
he can catch. Whereas if you go, I mean
00:44:21
Charbonnet is still going to get.
00:44:23
I mean, I don't know really if Seattle they they want another
00:44:26
back, but I don't know if they need Breece Hall.
00:44:28
I think they'd be kind of that's where I'm that's.
00:44:30
Where I'm. At Yeah.
00:44:33
As far as like other options on the table, I think Bruce Hall is
00:44:36
he's very attractive free agent in that just the way it is with
00:44:40
the running back market. It's kind of nice to get
00:44:43
something, you know, for a a price that's manageable.
00:44:46
I mean, he probably won't go more than like 12 million be a
00:44:49
humongous contract. I don't think he even, I mean,
00:44:52
it's just crazy how much running backs get.
00:44:54
I think they're a commodity. Saquon Barkley did a three-year,
00:44:58
$36 million contract for Saquon Barkley, right?
00:45:02
He's making 4 million less than one year of Daniel Jones, right?
00:45:06
What, three years of Saquon's 4 million?
00:45:09
Less than one year. Daniel Jones.
00:45:10
OK. For taking 150 more hits every
00:45:13
year. Yes.
00:45:14
And so I think, I don't know, I mean, maybe he doesn't want to
00:45:17
get hit all the time. If you don't, let's go to
00:45:18
Seattle, suit up with Charbonnet and you get it up, you have a
00:45:22
team that just won the Super Bowl, so you're in a good
00:45:26
position, obviously. But I think he'd be a great fit.
00:45:29
Not just because it's a Homer thing to say, but good Lord,
00:45:32
he'd look good in the Chiefs red.
00:45:34
I would love that. And as long as we can get the
00:45:37
money and a cap space to make it happen, he'd be awesome in
00:45:41
Kansas City. I feel like if I'm Seattle I'm
00:45:46
putting my eggs in the charbonnet basket and I draft a
00:45:49
new running back to pair with him or something.
00:45:52
That's what I would do too. Another another running back
00:45:55
that's interesting out there is similarly is Travis Etienne.
00:45:58
Kind of an intriguing option. He's the guy that kind of flies
00:46:02
under the radar, but he's actually pretty productive back.
00:46:04
He built his value back up. This year he was way under and
00:46:08
then this year he had a resurgence and he was.
00:46:10
He's a really good pass catcher as well, but it feels to me like
00:46:16
a lot like. Clyde Edwards, Zillaire or
00:46:18
something, yeah, like a little bit smaller, but he's a good
00:46:22
pass catcher and. Well, he's actually been good,
00:46:24
unlike Clyde Edwards. Zillaire too fair.
00:46:27
Let's let's not screw ETN with those my.
00:46:30
Seats. I'm just saying my.
00:46:31
Like I do feel like he has like games where he just disappears.
00:46:35
For me, like his, his stature and his kind of flying under the
00:46:39
radar, like, I mean, yeah, Clyde's not been great.
00:46:45
He's had some. Great.
00:46:46
Moments, but he's I don't know, I feel like ETN just kind of
00:46:50
flies on the radar for me. I don't notice him as a.
00:46:52
He does premier back. You didn't notice the Jaguars
00:46:55
until Week 16. I know he's very appropriate for
00:46:58
the Jaguars. He flies under the radar, just
00:47:00
like the Jaguars. Just like.
00:47:02
All the rest of them. Yeah.
00:47:04
I think. I agree.
00:47:05
Is he not expected to be resigned by them?
00:47:08
They're they're going to, the word on the street is they are
00:47:10
going to, they're heavy into him.
00:47:12
They want to try to keep him. Yeah, I think they should keep
00:47:14
him. They're they're going to try
00:47:16
their best, especially because, you know, Trevor Lawrence and he
00:47:19
played together, Clemson, they played together for a long time.
00:47:22
I think he's kind of in there for the long haul.
00:47:25
Let's go back when Chisholm go back to Kenneth Walker, like
00:47:28
what are his suitors outside of Seattle?
00:47:30
I'm sure that he'll. Yeah, at least look at that.
00:47:33
And he'll be. Another, another wide receiver
00:47:35
out there. As I'm looking through that,
00:47:36
Javonte Williams, he's kind of a big question.
00:47:39
Mark, but I don't really know. Yeah, for for Denver, right.
00:47:45
Well, I mean Dallas. Here, it's for Dallas.
00:47:47
Sorry, he was at Denver. 2 two years ago I got it.
00:47:51
I've got it back two years ago. No, it'll if you look at Seattle
00:47:55
or you look at Walker Walker Walker rumors are are Cowboys
00:48:00
Texans as another one. That that'd be a good fit.
00:48:03
I like the Houston Texans fit. That'd be pretty good.
00:48:06
And then? Of course, The Jets, if they
00:48:07
lose Breece, they'd be interested in him.
00:48:09
So that could be a funny swap of free agent running backs.
00:48:13
They're they're not rumoring him for the Chiefs and I think it's
00:48:16
mainly because he doesn't catch well and the Chiefs.
00:48:19
That's why Bruce Hall is a better.
00:48:20
Thing throw the ball to the back.
00:48:22
So I think that's kind of the downside in the Andy Reid
00:48:25
offense. I think he's a really good
00:48:27
running back, but he's just, he's got Monostate Theodoros
00:48:30
men. I think Kenneth Walker with
00:48:32
Woody Marks would be a that'd be a nice tandem backfield there.
00:48:36
I think that would be really good is Woody Marks and catch
00:48:38
the ball and. He can.
00:48:40
He's good. He's going to have to steal from
00:48:42
Nick Chubb, you know? But I.
00:48:44
Don't know if Nick Chubb, I think his contract's over any
00:48:47
another free agent on your list there?
00:48:50
He's not in the top 100, so let's.
00:48:54
Let's just say. Let's just say.
00:48:57
Another one mentioned for Kenneth Walker is the Saints as
00:48:59
well. They're another one that's
00:49:02
rumoured interest in him. The radar.
00:49:07
Couple more I want to. A couple more I want to throw
00:49:09
out for you guys to get questions on bigger names, Mike
00:49:13
Evans. It's kind of hard to.
00:49:14
Imagine Mike Evans not as a Buccaneer, right, but the Bills
00:49:19
and the Ravens are also interested.
00:49:22
Do you see any world in which he goes to one of those teams?
00:49:27
If anywhere, probably Buffalo. I just think.
00:49:30
That'd be pretty scary, right? Perfect, perfect fit for that
00:49:33
team. And Baltimore still has safe
00:49:36
flowers. He's in.
00:49:37
I think he is a wide receiver. All day.
00:49:40
I mean, they signed D Hop, right?
00:49:43
I could see them. I could see them bringing in
00:49:45
Mike Evans for a year or something to.
00:49:47
Yeah, yeah, that's true. OK, I lied.
00:49:51
Two more. I got to do one more, this one
00:49:52
just for Dex, and then I want to end with the fun one.
00:49:56
This is for Dex, Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers is stop it.
00:50:00
The suitors are the Steelers. Saying suitors.
00:50:04
And the Vikings. They are not a suitor.
00:50:08
Stop saying suitors so. So.
00:50:13
So you're watching. Too much fake news?
00:50:17
The third suitor is the couch. Those are the three.
00:50:21
Couch needs to be it. Do you think Couch, do you think
00:50:24
Couch wins or do you think he comes back for another year?
00:50:27
Peru, what do you think? I have to type something real
00:50:30
quick. What do you?
00:50:31
Think if we if the Vikings fail to land anybody, can't trade for
00:50:36
anybody and it's. If they can't get Daniel Jones,
00:50:40
yeah, then they're. Among others, like they're
00:50:44
looking at Anthony Richardson. They're like all these I'd.
00:50:47
I'd rather have Anthony Richardson.
00:50:49
Yeah, no, but so Aaron Rodgers was all the stuff last year.
00:50:55
I don't know how many times. We have to keep doing it.
00:50:57
Why not Aaron Rodgers? You could totally.
00:50:59
I could totally see him in the purple.
00:51:01
I mean, like, how about Malik Willis?
00:51:04
He's out there. That's one I kind of like.
00:51:07
Malik Willis would look good back there.
00:51:09
Yeah, that'd be all right, because we used to mock him,
00:51:12
remember, like 2 years ago? Totally.
00:51:14
He goes throw the ball. And then also he throws it just
00:51:18
fine. When he played.
00:51:19
The Titans, I was like, I can't believe this guy's an NFL
00:51:22
quarterback, man. He was.
00:51:24
He played. Against this in an AFC playoff.
00:51:26
Playoff game in the. Chiefs and he was God awful,
00:51:30
like just a. Horrific game for him.
00:51:32
Move the ball like 7 yards in the second-half or something it.
00:51:36
Was so bad, yeah, but you're right, he's matured and he seems
00:51:38
like he's a decent option now. Speaking of guys who've gotten
00:51:41
better Year 4 or five in the NFL, there's one.
00:51:43
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
00:51:45
He's going to get paid now. He didn't lose any games with
00:51:48
Green Bay, did he? I don't think he did I.
00:51:50
Think every time he started he. Won.
00:51:52
He was a good fill in I. Mean he's still Davis Bills, but
00:51:55
come on now. He's going to get.
00:51:57
He's going to get. I will say since we brought him
00:51:59
up, I will say that the most popular landing spot for him has
00:52:02
been projected as the Dolphins. He's really close.
00:52:06
Yeah, that's where people. Tend to be a pretty good fit
00:52:09
too. It would it would so the last
00:52:12
one I want to throw out and I had could not leave this one for
00:52:16
this podcast without the the supposed top free agent tight
00:52:21
end Mr. Kyle hits Kyle hits so. Let's go to Mr. Titan himself.
00:52:29
What do we do? What is our resident expert on
00:52:33
tight ends? Does he go the tight end
00:52:35
Atlanta? Why would he go anywhere else
00:52:38
than Atlanta? Does he stay in Atlanta?
00:52:41
The other suitors that are being listed are the Chargers and the
00:52:45
Commanders. Is is Gadsden a tight end?
00:52:50
Yeah, he is. Yeah.
00:52:51
He is, he is. Harande gets in the 4th or 8th.
00:52:56
But he but he was kind of like a platoon tight end, wasn't he?
00:52:59
It was kind of weird how they handled that situation.
00:53:01
Well, he's also a rookie. Well then Disley or whatever his
00:53:04
name is too, right? So.
00:53:06
Will Disley. I don't.
00:53:08
Chargers kind of strikes me as odd.
00:53:10
You said commanders. Is the other one commanders?
00:53:13
So Ernst is getting up there in years.
00:53:15
Well, he also got hurt really bad.
00:53:17
Yeah, yeah. Sure.
00:53:18
He's retiring. And they had the other guy, Ben
00:53:21
Cynic, and that's the guy they got a couple years ago, Yeah.
00:53:25
I lost on the guy with him this. Year, yes, you did, yeah.
00:53:28
He did I. Remember 1.
00:53:30
Catch or something? He just needed one catch.
00:53:32
That's all he needed. Now he knows he got a target,
00:53:37
but yeah, so I think that would not be a yeah, yeah.
00:53:42
Ben Cynic. That's right.
00:53:43
But I think that'd be probably a better scenario.
00:53:46
I think that'd be Jaden Daniels like you were talking, yes, as
00:53:49
one of the potential surprise teams to come back.
00:53:51
I mean, they're in the NFC Championship game two years ago.
00:53:54
And then this year they're bad. I mean, it's just an injury to
00:53:58
Jaden Daniels. I mean, right.
00:53:59
And you give them another target and Terry Mclaurin's getting a
00:54:02
little older. He could probably use some help.
00:54:04
And they're going. To need another receiving.
00:54:05
Target. That'd be a pretty good fit, I.
00:54:08
Think that'd be good. Drake London and Kyle Pitts
00:54:10
matches up close to Mclaurin and Kyle Pitts.
00:54:14
Yeah, like as as far as danger or like A and.
00:54:18
And you pair that with Jayden Daniels instead of Michael
00:54:21
Pennix, it's probably better for.
00:54:23
Him it's it's an upgrade for Pitts if he if he goes there for
00:54:27
sure from a quarterback standpoint, not the Pennix is is
00:54:29
horrible, but he's he's not as good as Jayden Daniels and I, I,
00:54:33
I think he he probably ends up at the Falcons just because
00:54:37
Stefanski Stefanski likes tight ends a lot and I think he'll
00:54:44
probably do what he can to keep him because he's a he's a
00:54:47
quality tight end and he seems to be on the upswing.
00:54:50
He's a guy that we've talked about for a while too.
00:54:53
He's been frustrating his crap for the first three or four
00:54:56
years and then like all of a sudden he's kind of come on and
00:54:59
like we all knew he had talent just.
00:55:01
Yeah, go first year he did. That's the thing.
00:55:05
He came out swinging year one as a rookie and then he did went
00:55:09
backwards and then he bounced back.
00:55:13
Yeah, that's right. Some of that is offensive
00:55:15
coordinator and other. That's right.
00:55:17
Whatever, but. Marcus Mariota, Yeah.
00:55:21
And just some, I mean, who is that other terrible guy they had
00:55:25
playing Atlanta, that terrible quarterback?
00:55:28
Well, there's a lot. There's a laundry list.
00:55:30
I know, but it was right before Mariota.
00:55:32
Yeah. That one Ritter, Something like
00:55:36
that. Ritter, he was the Cincinnati
00:55:38
quarterback in college. I just heard this news, I think
00:55:42
yesterday. Wanted to get you guys reaction
00:55:44
supposedly coming out of retirement.
00:55:48
Derek Carr. Derek what?
00:55:50
Carr really has announced that he would be interested in making
00:55:53
a return to the NFL in the right situation.
00:55:57
Colts, do you see it? You think Colts?
00:56:00
I think he could. He could make a run there with
00:56:02
them, right? Well, there's nobody there.
00:56:05
Right. Yeah.
00:56:06
Like legitimately Richardson is. I don't think they need to keep
00:56:10
him anymore. Right.
00:56:11
Did Derek Carr call the? Guy Phillip Rivers is out and
00:56:15
then they all they have is the the Notre Dame kid, right?
00:56:18
The yeah, the rookie blanket he's.
00:56:21
Not a starting NFL quarterback. Though no, he's not.
00:56:24
Did did David Carr call the Colts the day after Philip
00:56:27
Rivers announced he wasn't coming back?
00:56:29
Right. He's like, hey, maybe, maybe
00:56:31
there's a chance, guys. This is Derek Carr Pruitt.
00:56:34
I mean, Derek. Derek.
00:56:35
Yeah, Derek. David was like.
00:56:37
David was his. Brother, early 2000s, yeah.
00:56:40
Houston, David. Derek Carr, Captain, check down.
00:56:43
I know who you're talking about. Captain check down.
00:56:45
Well, I mean, Derek Carr's only 34.
00:56:48
I know. So he's like 10 years younger
00:56:50
than Aaron Rodgers. His quote was.
00:56:52
His quote was would I do it? Yes.
00:56:56
Would I do it for anybody? Absolutely not Would I do it?
00:56:59
Absolutely I would. I told you 2 things.
00:57:01
I have to be healthy and I want a chance to win a Super Bowl.
00:57:04
It's a tough thing to find. That's hard to do.
00:57:06
That's not easy. It's an interesting idea.
00:57:11
So who is a Super Bowl contender that doesn't have a quarterback
00:57:15
already? Right, right.
00:57:17
The Colts are not a bad option. I mean, you got Jonathan Taylor
00:57:20
that does most of it for you, so.
00:57:22
I'm just going to throw the Vikings back in there.
00:57:24
I hate to do that to you next with the Vikings and then
00:57:28
they're there was not worse than.
00:57:29
What we have? There was a rumor about the
00:57:34
Chiefs and Derek Card because he could start the first month of
00:57:38
the year if Patrick's not ready yet and then he's a backup and
00:57:44
you know, gets a ring maybe right.
00:57:47
So that's that's I don't think it happens, but that no a rumor
00:57:51
that was thrown around as well. I mean, he's probably an upgrade
00:57:54
over Chris Soledoken, I mean. As much as we give, as much as
00:57:58
we give him a good, he was a four time.
00:58:01
You know, a good fit and I think it would be easy to beat him out
00:58:06
is Atlanta. You got to beat out Michael
00:58:09
Pinnocks, then he can drop down to Bijon Robinson.
00:58:11
That's a check down just made in heaven for Captain Check down.
00:58:16
Yeah. That's true.
00:58:17
Hey, you don't have Alvin Kamara anymore, but you know who you do
00:58:19
have? Bijon Robinson and his 90 plus
00:58:23
catches. Wow.
00:58:25
If you want to check down, check down to that guy.
00:58:27
Yeah. And then if you want to throw,
00:58:30
you have Drake London. Now here's the tricky part about
00:58:33
Derek Carr. Is he retired with two years
00:58:37
left on his contract. So technically you would have to
00:58:41
work out some sort of trade compensation with New Orleans
00:58:43
because he's still. I don't think that'd be hard.
00:58:46
Here's a warm bag of potato chips.
00:58:49
I think. There's some St. side peanuts,
00:58:53
let's do. This thing, I think that's about
00:58:55
all you would need. I think they're perfectly happy
00:58:58
with Tyler Shock now, and they'll be.
00:59:00
Like, I think you're right. Yep.
00:59:01
See ya. I think that's exactly right.
00:59:04
I think that's exactly. Right.
00:59:05
All right, let's pivot real quick to baseball and then Yep,
00:59:08
we'll wrap this thing up. We're not ready much.
00:59:10
For baseball spring training. Oh, yeah, get ready to kick off.
00:59:13
Dex is going to be live on the scene.
00:59:15
We're going to have a live reporter on the scene from
00:59:19
spring training this weekend, right?
00:59:20
Dex, you're heading. Out this weekend, yeah.
00:59:22
So we down there, we're going to.
00:59:23
See, what games are we going to see?
00:59:26
So Saturday we're going to be at Talking Stick, so we're going to
00:59:29
see the Diamondbacks and the Rockies love talking.
00:59:32
And then Sunday we're heading over to the Brewers spring
00:59:35
training in Phoenix. They're taking on the Royals, so
00:59:38
we're going to see some junior hopefully because it's they
00:59:41
don't have a. Squatch.
00:59:42
Yeah, so we should be a full Royals team and a split squad
00:59:45
Brewers team, right? Monday we're going to take off
00:59:48
and then Tuesday we are seeing, oh, we're back.
00:59:52
We're going to watch the Rockies again.
00:59:54
So one of her favorite teams, Iraqi so and they're close to
00:59:57
where we're going to be in Scottsdale, so.
00:59:59
Right. We're going to see that one
01:00:00
surprise is a very long ways away.
01:00:02
You'll realize when you're in the Phoenix area.
01:00:04
No, it is. If you don't stay in surprise,
01:00:06
it ends up being like a 45 minute drive no matter where
01:00:09
you're from. Somehow that's.
01:00:10
True, it's out there. Unbelievable.
01:00:12
So that'll be kind of fun, but let's talk about some spring
01:00:15
training. So the injury du jour to start
01:00:19
off this year's 2026 spring training for some of the key
01:00:24
players in your fantasy drafts or on your favorite team is the
01:00:28
small but very important Hammett Bone.
01:00:33
Somewhere in here. Show us where.
01:00:36
That is. Show us where that is.
01:00:37
It's, it's generally speaking one of these hand bones connect
01:00:42
to the arm bone, the arm bones connect to the finger bone.
01:00:46
So it's one of those here, here. So the Hammett bone has struck
01:00:53
and it is gone right to the right to the All Stars.
01:00:57
So Corbin Carroll, centerfielder, was going to be
01:01:01
going to Team USA like immediately for World Baseball
01:01:05
Classic guy. He's a fun player to watch.
01:01:08
He's now going to be out for at least a month plus with a hammer
01:01:12
bones, Francisco Lindor, All Star shortstop.
01:01:17
Yeah, hammer bone. And he's he's getting a little
01:01:20
older. I wouldn't get hurt.
01:01:22
Switch hitter. I don't know if it's going to
01:01:23
matter. Maybe come back quicker because
01:01:25
you can bat the other way. I don't know if it really
01:01:27
matters with the hands. We'll see the Jackson holiday
01:01:30
for the Orioles. So he is out all three with a
01:01:34
Hammett bone all three in the first week of spring training,
01:01:37
batting practice and. Yeah, we're not even aiming yet.
01:01:41
We're just batting practice. They weren't even in really
01:01:44
simulations. So right, they all got smoked, I
01:01:47
guess, on the hand with the pitch and they didn't even get
01:01:51
to go to first because it wasn't even real baseball.
01:01:54
And now they're out. So that's a killer.
01:01:56
And those are huge position players too.
01:01:58
Like Corbin Carroll to me is probably the biggest one out
01:02:01
because he is just amazing for Arizona.
01:02:06
So that's a big, big loss. I mean, Lindor is going to kill
01:02:08
it too for. How long are they up with US?
01:02:11
Energy to injury? So it's like 6 weeks around
01:02:14
supposedly. So no more expected to be there
01:02:16
for opening day and it's counted in weeks.
01:02:20
So at least it's not counted in months.
01:02:22
Yeah, but I mean four to six weeks.
01:02:24
And that's just when they can get back to start doing baseball
01:02:27
activity. I don't know if that means game
01:02:28
time stuff. Right.
01:02:29
And I feel like the guys that have these things, it lingers
01:02:34
how we were talking about this last year for a few players
01:02:36
during our baseball previews. And the players that had these,
01:02:41
they came back, yes, but they came back.
01:02:44
It's the same as like when you get the intercostal, that muscle
01:02:47
on your back, the trap, they just don't come back right and
01:02:50
they seem to get hurt again and again, and the one more pitch
01:02:54
that comes up and in, they get popped on the glove and then
01:02:56
they're out for another month. This is a killer injury.
01:03:01
Last February, the Royals prospect Blake Mitchell had this
01:03:06
catching prospect and he got hurt in February and honestly,
01:03:11
he was not right until August until mid season.
01:03:15
Yeah, it's it's forever. Yeah.
01:03:17
Like now granted he's a catcher, probably affected some, but but
01:03:21
still like it's it is a seems like a nagging kind of lingering
01:03:27
gang, which is not good. So that's a.
01:03:31
A rough way to start. And then as always, we've
01:03:33
already had one episode of right arm forearm tightness.
01:03:38
As Tim Sylvester will know, that's just a death sentence.
01:03:41
So it turned into Tommy John for Pablo Lopez.
01:03:44
So the Twins number one pitcher, the ace of their staff and some
01:03:48
will argue it's Joe Ryan, but I think it's Pablo Lopez, even
01:03:51
though he didn't get as many innings as we may have liked
01:03:54
last year. I think he only got to 70 or 80
01:03:56
innings last year, but they're awesome, awesome innings.
01:04:00
But now he got, I don't even know if he got to the third
01:04:03
inning of pre season again, simulated games, the games
01:04:07
haven't even started yet and he's now out for the year.
01:04:10
So that's a killer for the Twins right off the bat.
01:04:13
And frankly, I think this helps the Royals probably move up in
01:04:17
the division. You just got rid of one of the
01:04:19
best pitchers in the AL Central. Probably does, right?
01:04:22
Yeah. Yeah, so that's a, that's a big,
01:04:24
big injury. So keep your eyeballs out for
01:04:27
the right forearm tightness. It's gonna be not good.
01:04:31
And then The thing is. And the Hammers and the Hammett
01:04:33
bone and the Hammett, he's another one, by the way, he's
01:04:36
had a Hammett injury. And that's when I I was talking
01:04:38
about the. Warriors.
01:04:38
Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah.
01:04:39
Sorry. Yeah, so three big ones.
01:04:41
And then The thing is, we have to never forget.
01:04:45
I love the World Baseball Classic.
01:04:46
I want it, I love it. But there is a chance, I
01:04:50
believe, Edwin Diaz, the last World Baseball Classic, he got
01:04:54
hurt jumping and celebrating with his teammates in his house
01:04:57
for the year for the Mets. And he kind of hasn't been right
01:05:00
since. Of course, now he's with the
01:05:02
Dodgers. I'm sure he'll be just fine.
01:05:05
Ryan there when he's up 1:50. And he's let's hope and save the
01:05:09
game. Yeah, let's hope he can come
01:05:11
back from that. It'll.
01:05:12
Be really rough, right? That's exactly right.
01:05:16
So that's kind of our key. Injuries are off the bat.
01:05:18
We are going to be starting probably in a couple weeks.
01:05:21
We need to get some games in first, yeah, so we can start
01:05:24
evaluating the teams and kind of seeing these on the roster.
01:05:27
But we are going to do a division by division rundown.
01:05:31
So last year I know we had a lot of favourable reviews on our
01:05:34
team by team, but boy, we don't have the bandwidth to go that
01:05:38
deep again. We almost all got divorced and
01:05:40
lost our jobs to try to give you that content last year.
01:05:43
So we just can't do that. But what we are going to do is
01:05:47
give you the next best thing. And so we're going to do
01:05:49
division previews. We're going to talk about the
01:05:51
main players on each team and which teams in that division are
01:05:55
going to make a run. We'll still give our predictions
01:05:57
and everything. Yeah, so it'll be a lot of fun.
01:05:59
But this won't be 30 for 30, because that was a labor of love
01:06:03
last. Season a lot.
01:06:04
Of work, hey. And when we all retire, we'll
01:06:07
come back to that. Absolutely, you know.
01:06:09
So in a couple years from now, we'll start knocking those out
01:06:11
again. It was fun, I loved it.
01:06:14
It was fun. We like put AI mean not only
01:06:17
will we go into the baseball season itself, but we'll put our
01:06:20
our fantasy spin on things too. Of course.
01:06:23
Yeah, line line you up for a fantasy baseball season which is
01:06:26
near and dear to all of us. All right.
01:06:30
I think that's going to wrap it up for this episode.
01:06:33
I think, Yep. Like I said, as we go forward
01:06:36
next week, we'll probably still hit on the next week of the
01:06:38
Olympics. We'll talk about hey and next.
01:06:41
Week, I just got confirmation, so my cousin who is a minor
01:06:45
league pitcher is going to join us.
01:06:47
So he's going to give us a little insight into spring
01:06:50
training and let us know kind of what the spring training
01:06:53
experience is like. So that'll be kind of cool to
01:06:55
get it first hand. So we will have have him on next
01:06:59
week. Matt Cronin.
01:07:00
Matt Cronin. So that'll be fun.
01:07:03
Yeah, that's awesome. Former Arkansas Razorback
01:07:07
current, that's right, Tacoma Rainier, as long as he goes back
01:07:10
to that level, right? So AAA Mariners organizations,
01:07:14
that'll be awesome. Yeah, we could even have some
01:07:17
interviews from Surprise AZ from Yeah.
01:07:20
You never know. We'll see Won't actually be a
01:07:23
surprise if you guys won't be a surprise.
01:07:26
Not surprise shorts from Talking stick there we.
01:07:29
Go stick and. Talking stick in American Family
01:07:32
Ballpark in Phoenix? That's right, the Brewers
01:07:34
hometown. Yeah, home away from home.
01:07:37
So anyway, shrewdness, thanks for joining us.
01:07:39
Had a good time. Hopefully did too.
01:07:41
This is kind of a categories episode today, talking Olympics,
01:07:45
but it's Winter Olympics. Come on now.
01:07:47
We gotta love it. We got to bridge the gap between
01:07:50
football and baseball season here, folks.
01:07:51
That's right. That's right.
01:07:52
We. Got to bridge the gap.
01:07:53
We got to mind the gap, mind the gap.
01:07:55
That's right. So that's what we got for you.
01:07:57
Looking forward to it. We got some more swag.
01:08:00
So if you want to place an order for the next round of shirts,
01:08:03
please do so. That'll be awesome.
01:08:05
We got all the colors you can pick from on the website, just
01:08:07
make sure you check that out. And other than that, as we go
01:08:11
through baseball season, mind your hammock bone, watch out for
01:08:14
right forearm tightness, and most importantly, stay shrewd.