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NBA Panic Rankings, NFL Draft Guesses, and a Michael Jackson Movie Review | With Todd McShay, Steve Muench, and Van Lathan

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons catches up on Tuesday's NBA playoff matchups before taking a look at the panic teams (3:00). Then, Todd McShay and Steve Muench join Bill to preview the NFL draft (25:05). Fi...

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It is available on Netflix as well. Next week, Ghostbusters, which you can also watch on Netflix. That's coming with me in Van Lathen and Chris Ryan. We have some ringer stuff for you. Sean Fantasy, you might have heard from him.

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A new book that came out today called American Men. It's excellent. If you like reading books, I would recommend it.

And then, Legata, the third episode of that podcast, which I told you.

If you like Scarface and my advice and 80s cocaine, all that stuff. This is the podcast for you. Legata, the third episode is up now. On this podcast, I'm going to be reacting to all the basketball tonight. Plus the basketball yesterday at the very top of this.

And then I have Todd McShay and Steve Mensch. We taped our lives today. Whole bunch of NFL draft stuff. All of our thoughts. I threw some crazy stuff at them.

Are there going to be any crazy wrinkles? What's going to happen in this draft? Covered it off. And then last but not least, Van Lathen came on because he saw the Michael Jackson movie. And he thought it was abominable.

And we talked about the movie and the state of biopics and documentaries. And all the stuff that seems to be going in the wrong direction these days. So that's all coming up next.

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It is 1023 Pacific Time on Tuesday night because I stupidly stayed up until the end of this slakers rocket's game. Thinking something spectacular would happen.

And it was spectacular if a rock fight that almost injured people in the first couple rows

in the seats were spectacular with all the bricks and air balls. Oh my god, it was so bad. I'd like to apologize to Gahaud and Eduardo who are behind the scenes team. I made them stay up late. Now they have to put this podcast up because I thought it would be worth it.

It wasn't worth it. We should have done this two hours ago. Katie came back. So that was a wildcard. He had nine turnovers.

Four, four, five in the fourth quarter.

Part of his fault, but also like a, why is he out there?

B, why is he doing so much? Because he clearly didn't see 100% re-chepard. This might have been it for E-mail and re-chepard. Nicky played. What do I have here?

Ten minutes. Oh for four for re-chepard. The number three pick of the 2024 NBA draft. One pick ahead of Stefan Castle. Houston, they changed stuff up.

They pressured a game late with that idea. When you have Marcus Spartan, the bronze James and Luke Canard break in the ball. Why not pressure those guys down before feet. Jaden McDaniel style. They didn't do that.

I looked it up. Nobody has ever been fired during a series before. So I think he made a joke is safe probably until after the series. But they're down. Oh two.

And the big thing for me. The fact that they didn't trade for C.J. McCollum at any point. They're in the season before it later got him. It's just bonkers. It felt like the natural thing that was going to happen after Van Vuey got hurt.

And the salary is kind of lined up. Houston has a bunch of extra picks. Washington basically, you know, they were ready to give away McCollum. They finally ended up putting him in a trading deal. Which really they're taking trading off at Lannis Hans.

McCollum goes and he's one of the stars of the game two.

And one of the potential stars of the playoffs.

He's almost becoming a villain for an M.S.G.

with the New York fans, even though as he said after the game, I'm a police villainy guy possible. I don't know why Houston didn't trade for him. I don't get it. They thought they were good with the team.

Like they like having been bleed around. We can't play till next year. Like worst case scenario. He just opt out of his contract. You can resign him.

But it's weird to me that they didn't do anything. And the email clearly doesn't trust. Re-chepard. So can the Lakers actually pull this off? Because we got info today.

Maybe Luka wouldn't be around until round two. That maybe Reeves was actually a better option to come back. I'm looking at the playoff odds right now. Houston. Wow.

Lakers minus. They're up to nothing in the series with the game seven in home. And they're minus one twenty have fandle. Because everybody's like, well, baby Houston's going to turn around. I don't know.

The team I watched tonight. I don't see it. I mean, just to come back from two oh in a series. The percentages are against you. But the way they do the chemistry and the court.

To rent and I look at a hundred percent. Shengun looks like he's already on redfin. Look at at Milwaukee houses for the inevitable. You're on a straight that I'm starting to feel like it happened. Could the Lakers do this?

And I don't know why I'm excited about it because I hate the Lakers. But it would just be more fun to have them in the next series. If Luka can come back against OKC. By the way, OKC. Big winner of round one.

Right.

But like when be when be gets can cost, which we'll talk about in a second.

But that series looks like it's going to go longer. Denver, Minnesota is going to be a war. Meanwhile, OKC is going to cruise to round one. And then they're going to get one of these two teams and round two. Holy shit.

Panic rankings. I wanted to take you into the NBA panic room really quick. I have the rockets now number one because if you lose this series. If you lose this series to this Lakers team, you got to be kidding me. Yeah.

So you got to be kidding me. That would be just one of the dumbest playoff losses I could remember. You're 41 year old, the broad. Luka Nard, who anybody could have had. Mark a smart in corner three.

Jackson Hayes is out there. I just can't believe it. How many lottery picks does Houston have? I think.

I think they had five or six guys who were taking like in the top five of the lottery.

Oh my god. Anyway, I've used the number one. And I blame Houston for the fact that it's 1027. I'm doing a podcast right now. Anyway, number two.

The spurs. Wendy gets concussed on the night that he is given the defense. A pair of the year award. And it looked bad immediately. It was not great.

And in football, the concussion protocol is like at least a week. Who knows with basketball? He's definitely not going to be in game three. But maybe he comes back for a game four. But at the very least Portland steals one.

If you're staying in Tony out, there's some questions that come out of that game. That I had already been thinking about when he comes out of it. Obviously, he's their best offense of player. But my fear with them all along was like shot creation in half court. When you're in a playoff atmosphere, and you've got to create shots.

And really it was just Fox Fox was the only everything was on Fox and Portland. Portland could kind of shut it down. And then it comes down to Drew Holiday who had 1659 classic Drew winning basketball. Get's the block in the corner. Get's the go ahead basket on the on the put back on an air ball.

Like always in the right place right time.

That's why they traded for him. And then the Scoot Henderson game 31 points. So Nick Wright texted me this. He now has 10 more career playoff points than Wemby. I feel like I'm still in it was good. Can't give up yet.

I thought Scoot was awesome. Now he'd won rebound in zero says, but the defense and the fearlessness in the athleticism was what we thought it might be. It might be when when, you know, I was arguing him versus Brandon Miller and I conceded to KOC, sorry Kevin O'Connor, I conceded to you two months ago that you won the brain and Miller versus Scooter. I mean, I feel like I'm alive. I just climbed out of the coffin. And congrats to Portland owner, El Chepo, who, who the guys after the game, they're reporting tap water on each other because he probably didn't have alcohol in the locker room.

But El Chepo gets a win. Now they go back to Portland for game three. No t-shirts for those fans because those t-shirts are expensive. That anyway, the spurs.

I have them at the top here in the panic because if they don't have Wemby for either of these Portland games, I think Portland's legitimately good.

Like, Toronto bogus five seed, just bogus for the capital big.

Houston bogus five seed.

Not capital B bogus, but bogus. Portland, Frisky seven seed.

Like, I think Portland's a better playoff team than they're used in or Toronto.

So, you're going to Portland.

The energy is going to be amazing. El Chepo is going to be shooting out probably used t-shirts out of 50-year-old kidding t-shirt candidates.

I can't wait for this weekend. But we'll see what others spurs have in them without Wemby. They signed a new coordinate over the summer, who is one of the best free agents signings of the summer. Big game for him, obviously, game three, game four. They're going to need a lot more from him. But as crazy as it sounds, like Portland, this could be a long series.

And I don't think Portland's going to go away. This is a team that knows who they are, really good defensively. Come on, I thought they had a great job down the stretch. And a little fight to your adversaries. I think San Antonio was minus 1,400 heading into the series.

So, it's a 1-1 going back to Portland. We're definitely not going to have one to be for game three. We'll see. That is my number two panic team. So, Houston, San Antonio. Number three is Detroit. They're playing tomorrow night.

They got their ass kicked at home and game one. And they've lost 12, 11 straight playoff games. This would be the 12th that they lose game two. Orlando is a ton of confidence. Their catch in this Orlando team, they're just at a 180.

That hit rock bottom, crawled out of it. We talked about it on Sunday night. And might not give a shit anymore. It might just feel like fuck it. Maybe we're better than these guys.

This is a Norman Dale and Hoosier's moment for JB Picker's stuff. And the pistons. This is JB, look at these guys. Maybe they're right about us. Maybe we weren't a one seed.

He's got to start challenges them a little bit.

I think this Detroit Orlando game went tonight.

A must watch. I think it's going to be violent. I expect like I don't know if you're watching the hockey. But Bruins Buffalo almost had two different bench going braels. It brought me back to 1988 when I really loved the Bruins the most of 70s and 80s.

And we played Buffalo. I think it was 600 plus penalty minutes in a six game series. And multiple bench going fights. Guys just fighting every game. The same guys like Jay Miller.

I think that we had really played. I think they had Clark Gillies. I forget they had another fighter, but just to every game. The same guys were fighting. I don't think Detroit Orlando is going to be like that.

But I think it's going to get feisty tomorrow. I think this is one of those Detroit's going to lay this back down. Try to give the physicality. I think Orlando likes what it gets physical. They like that kind of action.

And that's a must watch. But I would be really nervous if I'm Detroit. Because Orlando, you know, there's two kinds of upsets.

There's the filly kind that we'll talk about in the second against Boston and game two.

And there's the we actually belong on the court. It might be better than you guys upset. And I felt like Orlando in that one. Now they're nine point underdogs in game two. Which I think is too high.

There's a lot of data going for the home team gets blown out. The game one has a big favorite. And Zach talked about that on Sunday.

But I think Orlando composed these guys.

So Detroit's my number three. The nuggets are number four. First nuggets last yesterday at 33 days. I have multiple concerns coming out of the game. One Aaron Gordon, not healthy.

I thought he got banged up in different ways and game one. And then game two just didn't look like himself. So he was room protection. You lose the crazy athleticism. You lose the reckless threes in the corner that go in.

All that stuff. I didn't think he seemed like the same guy. Not his fault. I just think he's banged up. I think he's been banged up all year.

Second biggest thing. Yoke is threes. Which we've seen come and go in the playoffs. If you really put a beating on him, which Minnesota did. Minnesota had Randall beating on him.

They go bare beating on him. They had elbows. Not as reads beating on him. And they just tried to wear him down. And it got to the point.

It felt like they were leaving them open a little bit. And I think he was one for seven. A lot was made out of the go bear. One of them with defense against Joker. I didn't think that's why they won.

I thought they won because the physicality of all four quarters.

Combined with the third thing I want to mention.

McDaniels, you know, you could see what the game plan was in game two. It's like McDaniels is going to hound Jamal Murray 94 feet. And I don't know why more teams don't do this when you have a jay to McDaniels. But I thought Murray was just gasped in the fourth quarter. Because McDaniels was just wearing him down and in his t-shirt.

Which is I think he was the t-shirt and started inside the jersey. Which I support. I thought he warmed down. So you have McDaniels 94 feet. You go bear the one on one day.

You have aunt with the room protection. You have Randall and Nasrid being super physical. And then you have different chenzo with some big ball shots.

You have bones highland as just the random Dionwaters.

We might have to rename Dionwaters on rewatchables.

And then you have on offense. Everyone attacking the rim.

Because they know if Gordon's a little compromised.

Joker's not really a shopwalk or they're going. So when I think about upsets. I said this after game one Nasak. Even a Minnesota didn't play that well. I felt like the physicality they seem very comfortable.

And I thought it was a little concerning after game one. They didn't play that well. But they still were in the vicinity of winning the game. Game two super comfortable. And it's a team that thinks they're better than Denver.

So if I'm a nuggets fan. A more concern that I was four days ago that I was getting out of this series. They were three to one to win the series. Now I'm concerned. I'm also concerned what happens if I get out of this series.

Because now I'm put in San Antonio. I have a lot of miles on me from round one. And then I still have OKC waiting for me in round three. And they're going to do all the same physical beat you up stuff. That Minnesota's doing.

Now this was the case. I thought Denver was going to make the funnels. The case against it was the road is too hard. And the way this is playing out. That case might have been right.

I've met have been wrong. I thought Minnesota was alive. Potential could put it together from four rounds. But and who'd name it seem like it was 100% healthy all the time yesterday. Combined with McDonald's coming back from injury.

I just didn't think they were going to be able to put it together like that. But man. They looked like a conference finalist last night.

So these two either of these teams playing San Antonio is going to be an incredible series.

And I thought last night I thought that was like watching a game five of the conference finals level quality of basketball. I loved it. I'd be nervous if I was Denver. I wouldn't be quite as nervous if I'm the next. But I'm a little nervous because game two against Atlanta.

It picks some scabs for me. Right. There are we two brunts in centric. Are we sure Mike Brown is a good coach. Is McCowbridge is playing tonight.

Oh, he's played 32 minutes. I didn't realize it. Oh, he took the last shot of the game with five seconds left. I forgot he was on the team. They had a bunch of that stuff going.

The backup guards. McBride was bad. Shaman was bad. So they got nothing really from their bench. Other than Clark some made a couple plays.

And the town's piece of it.

Now, my next fan friends were like, why didn't town's get the ball tomorrow?

You know, why were we so brunts in centric? McCowbridge was doing a good job on town. So I think it was a combination of views being really physical. They found something with that small ball lineup. And if I was the next an hour, I'd read it for the next.

That they now make me the most nervous other than Josh Hart. It was the best part of my team in game two. I would be nervous that Alexander Walker in Jalen Johnson. Jalen Johnson did not shoot well in the second game, and it's one to one. And they're going back where I think they're pretty good in Atlanta.

So I'd be nervous that Alexander Walker hasn't gone yet. And then the CJ McCollen piece was doing getting to whatever spot he wanted. You have these two wings. And it'll be in bridges that you've traded all this capital and big big contracts to. And over and over again, he was just getting away from those guys and trying to repeatedly get brunts in on him.

McCombs like having this is a moment for him, right? This is the afterthought in Portland.

Dame's teammate put it a million trade rumors.

He got mad at me publicly a couple times. Kind of bounces around ends up in Washington. Become such an afterthought that Houston does need to trade for him. And now he's he's wearing it now. He's ready to to to be the foil in the next series.

So I would be wouldn't be crazy nervous if I was the next. What are the odds in this series? Yeah, minus 174 on Fandel. That seems about right. I thought the next we're going to win in six.

I still think that. But the CJ piece was unexpected. We'll see if he can keep it going. And then the last one for our panic team, the Celtics. So I would have right on the bottom here.

First of all, in game twos, I don't know what happens to them. They're five and five in their last 10 playoff home game twos. They lost to the next last chair Miami and Cleveland in 24. And the Miami game was one of the dumbest losses of all time. They lost to Miami in 23.

Then they lost today. Filly did exactly what I thought they're going to do. They shot a bunch of threes. Edgecomb got hot. I think he was six for 10.

He had a 30 and 10 was super comfortable. And then Maxie got going a little bit. The Celtics were playing this just insanely dumb drop coverage. That I didn't understand for the life for me.

And giving up. I think it was ninety one eighty nine.

Boston has the ball about taking the Tatum jacks up a bad three. And then Maxie, I think it two straight threes on that stupid drop coverage.

The Celtics were 13 for 50 from three.

In Sean Grande, my friend. Who does radio for the Celtics said regular season in playoffs. That's the 12th time in the last 161 games. The Celtics have failed to shoot better than 26% from three. And they've lost all 12 including game one and game two against the next.

And then this game last night. So the question is total aberration or are they starting to look a little like. Nick series Celtics last year. I will say. The two things that scare me a tiny bit.

Derek White has. Really been bad from threes is January 1st. He's under thirty one percent from three now. He's two for ten tonight. And the next scene. The six are seemed. Totally fine with him shooting from three.

Whereas I think in November and December, we're not have been as fine.

He got to the point out was wondering if they might take him out and put Schiremernin,

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McShayan mentioned here.

They are here all week.

Doing. Potomac Shay show. The Mac Shay show, which is behind us. I like that little fancy thingy. Yeah.

So we're using your set. I love it.

Hey, last time I talked to you, we went.

I wasn't that excited about the draft and then you kind of 45 minutes later. You've fluffed me a little bit. Yeah. You got me a little excited about it. He's a great fluffer.

Barely excited by the end. Now I'm way more excited.

There's, there's never a bad draft, man.

That's the thing. Like even the. It's their favorite. It came in value. There's never a bad draft.

There's bad drafts. There's no players. Right. Yeah. But it's like Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is always going to be good. Yeah. At some point, there's going to be food tea. And it always gets hectic. There's always family drama.

That's just the same thing here. And then, like, I got lied to. I think about the Jets pick. And that's okay. I'm here for.

I think so. I did see you did a little switch. Of course. Yeah. Yeah.

I didn't. By the way, like the draft's not here. We'll see what happens. But I get the strong sense that the Jets worth getting that out there.

I always get nervous about, because I was the only one saying our bell Reese.

So. And then a couple other people a little bit. But I always get nervous when everyone all of a sudden on a Monday. After a weekend, I've seen the same thing. So the Jeremiah loved thing.

I just, I worry about that at number three. But it looks like Bailey. And they're doing a good job of being really quiet about it. Even though there's really no reason to be quite outside of. Hey, everyone thinks we're taking Bailey.

But really trying to fake out. Listen. David Bailey. I actually had that this internal conversation myself. David Bailey's been kind of what everyone in league circles has kind of assumed, right?

For a while. Let's throw out there. We might take our bell Reese to see if someone's more interested in Reese. And get the, you know, because there's people talking about Arizona. We're going to move on.

Which ever past Russia doesn't go to go to go to. We, you know, the pick is open in Arizona. Number three. Why not? Why not get the phone calls?

I have a feeling that that's what was going on.

The only thing I don't like about this theory is it's the jets that involves foresight, a plan. Understand. Strategy. Like chess moves moving around. Yeah.

And if it's true. And what I'm kind of surmizing, then I think I think. The moral moji is is doing a pretty good job of managing this thing.

If there are two guys who play the same position, basically.

And people are arguing about which one's better. I'm just, I was parachuting the draft every year, basically knowing nothing and trying to learn. Right. Why wouldn't you take the guy who's two years younger? Is that just two obvious or imagine?

Actually not. You would be, I don't think you'd be surprised. But it's, it's surprising how much is Reese's two years younger. Yeah. If this is put into the, the age for defensive prospects specifically.

But if it was me, I would take the younger guy. It's two years. It's like getting a car from 2024 versus 26. Right. But it's five years. It's a miles.

It's a five year lease. You're not going to keep it for the life of the car. You know what I mean? Yeah. If you like the car better and you get a better lease than take the lease.

But nobody can agree, which one of these guys are better. Why wouldn't I just take the younger guy? I would take our bell Reese, but I've got to have a defensive coach. If I'm the general manager, I've got to have a defensive coach. It can lay out what exactly is the plan to show me how it's going to work.

Because this guy is more talented. Okay. The talent isn't quite developed. He's a one year starter. Yeah.

I was state. So that means higher talent, higher bus potential. Yes. Okay. Yeah.

Someone brought this up on the next. I want to actually mention this by before we've even got on here. But we're talking about the jets again. So if you have a plan for this kid, that's great.

Is Aaron Clinton going to be their head coach next year?

Right. Or in October. Or in October. Or in October. Like exactly.

So then then the plans out the window. Or if you're a movesie, are you thinking yourself? I don't know who's going to take out what's next year. I'm going to take the guy he's been playing at just a life. The information I got 10 days ago.

I think it's 10 days now. It was the Sunday before this past Sunday was. What's your football sense if you want the short thing? And the Darrell moogie is is a human risk of version. I've compared it yesterday.

I like it came poly. I like just a human risk of version corporation. Like walking down the street, like everything's about risk. And apparently that's that's kind of his DNA in his makeup. I would argue the better player who the fallback is.

I'm getting deven Lloyd. It that to me is is less risk than drafting David Bailey. And maybe he's just a DPR. It doesn't need a password. And he's not very good versus the run.

So like it's true. But this guy we know can rush the quarterback better than anyone. And this draft. And yes, it's with speed. And yes, he's got to kind of get stronger and all that.

Let's go with the guy that's proven as a pass rusher.

Because that's the most important thing you can do in this league outside of being a quarterback.

Fandel has Reese minus 130 Bailey plus 115 on Tuesday afternoon as we record. Did that flip from yesterday? Yeah. This morning. Yeah.

This morning. I looked and it was like it was still plus 160. And then I looked four hours ago and it was minus 110. So it did shifting rapidly. Yeah.

Betting on the draft is like betting on roulette. Well, doing cocaine. It's like saying the odds are just. Oh, no. Just go crazy.

It all times. I would never do draft bets. The only one that seems like it hits every year is like the more offensive line. And then we thought. Yes.

It seems like every year. So now it's going to be seven. Actually it's 10 because we get in the draft and everybody's like, Oh, fuck. We need a red tackle. Yeah.

Better today than the half. I haven't looked, but I would bet it's an eight and a half. For who take from now or another? Yeah.

So there's going to be a second guard that sneaks in.

Right. I would think like it's from Georgia. Seven and a half.

Oh, I think that seems like he but fucking bang that one.

Right. Hold it right now. Let's be at least nine. Take it right now. Yeah.

If you're going to be at least eight. There's seven tackles in one guard. I think not. Yeah. You're right.

It's going to be. Sure. It's going to take somebody. You're not sure if you're sitting there at thirty. Yeah.

Absolutely. Yeah. You put it in right now. No. I'll do it after.

I have a bunch of questions tied to the drafts. But this is my favorite one. What are the giants do at number five?

Because they ask up number ten.

Yeah. If the first four picks. Yep. Okay. Mendoza.

Rease. To the jets. Arizona says fucking takes love. Yep. And then Solana and Tennessee go.

Fuck it. And they take styles. So it goes. Mendoza. Rease loves styles.

Another giants are in the clock. What happened?

You think they would take Bailey anyway?

With Bailey. I was told by somebody that. Because even if you flip flopping, it's Bailey. It's Bailey at two. And it's reset five.

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You know, offensive tackles are off the board and that's scenario, right?

Well, that's the other thing. We live through this with the draft every hour. It's like, yeah, I don't think they'll go to 9 or 10. And then they go 6. Yeah.

And the teams get in there and they just panic. Yeah. They can't figure out who to pick and they just go with size. Yeah. How high, what's the highest downs could go that you would be.

Either of you that you would be. Actually kind of shocked by like Arizona's out of the question. Top four would be anywhere in the top four. So it's 10 to see, but he's not going there.

Yeah, wouldn't shock me if he went fifth.

But I would I would do it.

And I just heard you guys say all those things about it.

But give me a top eight offensive tack on the league versus the best safety. Like that's that's going to win game. I get it. I was doing all the research for running backs. Because this ties into the love conversation.

And it feels like top five is just too high for certain positions. Even though we know. Yeah. We do the draft. Yep.

But 6 to 10 is not too high. So if you go through all the running backs,

basically the last 20 years.

The 2 to 2 and 3 were Ronnie Brown Bush, Reggie Bush, Barkley and Trent Richardson. So I'm going to say those first four. Three of them know where that team does it again. Yep.

And Barkley still defensible. Yes. 100%. He was incredible. Right.

And it was. Yeah. It was a quarter by was like Tribisky or somebody. I don't remember. It was a quarter back then.

It was 13th overall. But yeah. Tribisky was third. Remember? Oh, you see.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway. So 2, 2, 2, 3.

We went one for four. Even if you count Barkley as a hit. He's a hit. There's their profile. And you go catch Reggie Bush right.

I don't. I don't either. He was two people. Yeah. Now.

But Peter Thomas was the better running back in the snow.

Yeah. And that year. So 4, 4 and 6. Leonard Ford net. Derrick Fadden and Gentie last year.

That would be part of it. I was.

I think I don't think any of those teams do that again.

Even Gentie who I thought had some moments. But I just don't think the Raiders would have done that if they could redo that. I think they would take alignment. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. But now we go to the seven eight. I think he's going to have a good year this year. But yeah. So I grew the.

Not going to like the beach on. Peter's in seven. Yeah. Pretty good value. Yeah.

And then CJ spell or nine. Z Kelly at 10. Gurly 10. All right. So this is a fucking random sample size.

But what I learned from that is maybe wait till 6 to 10. Right. To take love because history says you go earlier. That's a mistake. Yeah.

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you need to know in the human being. Then analytics department comes in and tells you all the things you can and can't do in all that. Then you get the whether it's AIQ or different intellectual testing.

You have to cycle out because it's psychologists and all that.

It's amazing to me that we get to this point in the process and like the last month.

In the private jet, it's, you know, right. And four or five of the people who are the most influential people go and they have dinner with, they meet with family, agent, they go and they throw some passes out in the side field or they put them through a test, they get them on the board and they wind up. Not necessarily disregarding, but that kind of trumps it.

Now all that information is used to kind of shrink the pool, right? Yeah. So it's down to four or five times. That's just having tidbits every place they can. But that 24 hour interaction, maybe over two, whether it's a coming to our facility, we

go up to you and your college town, like, I don't know, 10 to 20 hours worth of interaction typically winds up pumping a lot of other stuff. Would you trust what the coach said, because I wouldn't really trust that much unless the coach was so psychotic about how much he loved the guy has to be earned. Like it has to be something that he's told you in the past, he has a track record right

of telling you that, like, you cannot do it right now. Like, I mean, tell me about your Marcus Russell and all that, that, that's idea, LSU telling about, well, are you talking about your own coach or the coach from the school? Oh, the coach from the school MS, yeah, yeah, yeah. Unless it's negative or, like, you said a track record, right.

The interesting one is your own coach and, oh, yeah, that's dynamic, but, well, I wouldn't trust my own coach that much at all. Well, you got to make sure to fit the scheme or else you're giving them the same thing. I know, but NFL coaches last three to four years, barring, like, example, I would be

really interested in the parent interactions, because I do think like you could, you could

learn a little something. My favorite story about this stuff was, this might be a, a pack of, but it was when the Celtics had the Marco Fultz, Jason Tatum, that, when they had the number one pick. Yeah. And they brought Marco Fultz to Boston to meet him for the weekend.

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Black.

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Yeah. But those, that was his big Boston questions, they're like, huh, you're judging us, no. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Are you going to fit here? All right, so Giants at 5 and 10 is the most fun team in this draft. Arizona is kind of the most pathetic.

They're just wearing a cocktail dress at the bar like anybody want three?

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Anyone? Yeah. And I don't know if you can create your own analogy to, too, but, but also, I'm going to stay. Here we go. There's also an element with the ownership, where you're out at the bar by yourself,

but you're still being controlled by who's making that decision. And I'm depends on who you listen to now there. There's been a, just talking to people in the league, there's, there's been talk of, maybe, ownership wants Jeremiah, love at three, and that's a whole other factor, man. Yeah.

These are orders that come in. Yeah.

And Arizona needs so many things.

I don't even know what they need. If I was doing the team needs of like, I have players. Have you looked at the dolphins roster? Well, that's, I don't know. That's the satisfaction.

It is. It's, it's beyond. I mean, at least they have a lot of picks. So it's interesting, but I mean, it's bad and bad. Well, it's weird when you trade Jaylon Wattl for 30.

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Yeah. Yeah. They need so much. I don't know that I've ever been this late in the process, studying rosters and really diving in and built more help with about a roster.

I actually believe in my image. Yeah. I believe in John Eric Sullivan. I believe in Jeff Halfway.

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This is like blank slate time. And we hear BPA best player available all the time. Like they literally can just sit there like. Like. Yeah.

Where's our board? Okay. There it is. Yeah. Golden.

Who's number three. Yeah. To take them.

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And they had like three quarters of what he's playing as a rookie.

Yeah. They wanted to win for them. They're friendly. Yeah. But that's the biggest if-and-sports.

Yeah. Yeah. They have rosters. Like, sometimes it needs.

It's like the first two are really important needs.

The second one we need to get some depth. The third, or the third, the fourth. But for them, like, there's, yes, there are offensive lines. Let's continue to build that. And they don't have a lot of, like, they're loaded with deep and wide receiver.

Yeah. And they run and see that's coming back this year. The defenses. The ramps are up there, too, man. I mean, no, I said the ramps.

Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, I was going to talk about the ramps with one of the pressure teams at 13. Because the Puka thinks a huge story. I don't know, it's been one of the-

No one's taken under the rug. Yeah. No one's taken under the rug. No one's taken under the rug. No one's taken under the rug.

No one's taken under the rug. No one's taken under the rug. No one's taken under the rug. No one's taken under the rug.

Finally went in to rehab, and this was the best receiver in the league.

Yeah. And we have no idea what we're going to expect from this year now.

Or what we're going on with him, or is it going to get better?

And there are one of the teams that's just like, "We're probably taking a receiver, probably taking a receiver." Like, so blatantly that I almost don't trust it. I don't think they are at 13. I think they're going to take a second round.

Maybe taking a second round. Yeah. Yeah. They've wore you out with this attraction as different, right? Like one person, you'd be attracted to everyone's beautiful, and all that.

For the lawns. Yeah. For the Rams, they, with their system specifically, they're not attracted to a lot of the fastest, tallest, all those receivers. They're attracted to one type, and that one type is a physical son of a bitch blocking

contact balance, toughness up. And we're going to scheme you up, and we'll get you open. And all you got to do is break that first tackle and just ram, you know, and keep it rolling and block for our, for our on yet. And so I can get that in a second round.

There's déjà on stripling from Ole Miss. There's Jeremy Bernard from Malibam.

There's, there's even the third round.

So I, I think less need is the biggest wild card in this first round of the draft. They seem like a down Z kind of team to me. I, so here's like moving up like a couple spots and just swooping in and getting them. They have guys there. I don't know if it's, you know, like they have, but it's one of two things, right?

I just, I don't envision less and, and Sean's sitting back at 13. We'll take a guard or we'll take a. Right. It's either we are all in as it is all indicators are pointing. They have to be all in in general, because Stafford's got two years left.

We're, like, we're all in. And, like, we really don't, like, if we want to give up 2027, we're not, we're not that worried about it. We need to give up a second next year or so like that and go move up and target a guy. Jeremy, I love his fascinating to me if he starts to fall. So Cleveland.

Yeah. I mean, can we start?

Can we, can we make a road that he can't go to Cleveland?

No, no, I'm saying trade. I'm just saying, like, you know, one of the guys. That's my worst case there for him. Or for us to the guys in the dress. Yeah.

Yeah. And you're saying ramp switching goes. Yeah. Something like that would be, would be something to look out for. Like a little like Todd Gurley, 2.0 action for that.

But then what if it's a total pivot? And it's like, yeah, we're going to be here beyond Stafford. And let's, we're, we're doing a deal now with Matthew and we're going to keep him happy. But, but we are in love with Tysonson. And so we're just going to take my 13.

We can move on. Don't ask more questions. We don't have to dwell on it. But I'm just saying I said it. Yep.

It's on. Okay. Totally. Mackerel. Wouldn't you at least trade back to do that?

He's going higher than you think.

That was one of my, one of the questions I had for you. Because I was, I was watching one of the channels this morning. And they were talking about is 21 to high to take Tysonson for Pittsburgh. And I'm like, what are you just talking about?

He's definitely the question is will he be there at 21 for Pittsburgh to take?

Because somebody is going to shoot their wild and take them in the top 20. Would be my prediction. That's the information I'm getting. And I don't definitively know. I throw the Rams out there because I'm getting information definitely.

And I know the Rams at one point really like Tyson. Like that's firm. His Fando draft position is 29.5 under. Yeah. Yeah.

Because even if you're the, even if you're the cardinals, you are, You're worried that there's another team or, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. You can't wait.

Yeah. You can't have, have interest, but I've also told that the Jets are 16. No, no. At 33, you could take him.

I think he's not getting out of the first round.

Like I just don't see it. We're saying this ain't bad. Yes. Well, but you get the extra year. That's the secret sauce to all this.

You get the fifth year if you take the first round. Yep. You talked about Pittsburgh. Is Aaron Roder's going to make an appearance and say he's coming back in front of the tens of thousands of draft fans there. And then what were the reaction?

No, because Aaron Roder's won. Yeah, he's Malcolm. Yeah. How many times are we going to put it? I don't even understand why like,

Shefter and, like, why people are out there. I know that he and those two have a thing. And I love it. Right. But I don't even understand why there's this, like,

You know, you should tell the organization to stop you.

We get, it's ever year. It's the same thing. It's just the human being. Human being Aaron Roder wants this. And he would, like, nothing more going out there gives closure.

And then we're still not talking about it through the second round.

I'm a Jerry Jones or the two that like, how how can I get attention? Right. This is going on in late March. But the dream being late. It's very late.

Yeah, late. No question. Yeah. If we go on in Pittsburgh, he can go on front of all the fans. He has so many points.

He's going to hold it. Be like, Aaron here, you know. Yeah. I mean, I'm here. Kind of the sad thing about that is nobody's doing that.

Yeah. That's what I mean. Like, does he come out? I'm coming back and all the Pittsburgh fans are like, Oh, cool.

Yeah, great. We did it. You know, like, it's not the responsibility thinks it's going to be. Also, I, I said this to you last year. I just think people get him leisure within a fell season.

And we throw ourselves in the draft and free agency. And then it's the summer. And then we get to August and people just don't remember what happened there. But we just like, we left last season be like, yeah, Aaron Rodgers. Probably not winning more than one playoff round at most with Aaron Rodgers.

As you keep it age 42. Yeah. Four months off and everyone was at their right now. Right. Did they get them?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're Howard right now. So I don't know.

Well, we finally made it. The NBA playoffs. No more tanking discussions. At least for a couple days. We get to watch the best players and teams compete every day when the stakes are highest.

And when I watch, I like to bet on Fandoffando as a brand. I trust easy to build by bet. I know I'll get my winnings instantly. I love looking at the odds there. So this week, I still feel like Orlando is being overlooked.

They were like plus nine something like that.

I think that's a 50/50 series potentially.

I also like Denver and Minnesota. I think Minnesota is a really good road team. But you could also get them in Minnesota. Those would be the two I would look at. I'm going to have at least one more set of picks over the weekend.

I'm going to put on Twitter. Check out my picks and the Fandoffando sportsbook app. And on my Twitter feed. Don't forget to boost your potential winnings before you place it. where you place it, Fandal, play your game.

So Rams are off the board. We have no idea what they're gonna do. And then the filly thing is the other weird thing about this draft. We talked about this before. We started with this AJ Brown trade that is apparently happening.

And yet unlike in the NBA, we're used to say, we've agreed to a trade, we can't become official till July 15th in the NBA. - Yeah. - And if I was like, well, they can't trade them until June 1st 'cause the Nick and split is cat.

So we would have to happen after June 1st. It's gonna happen. Is it happening or is it not happening? - Right. - And then all the variables that could change this happening,

including like a wet receiver ending up free to the Patriots or the Eagles that they get excited about. AJ Brown feels like he has leveraged and says, well, I need a contracting extension

if we're gonna do this. Like, I'm just glass half empty on this. - Is this the Jay Brown thing? - Is this a Jay Brown thing? - Speaking or just in the--

- Hey, your fan speaking. - Okay, yeah. - Is this trauma from when the Red Sox isn't gonna get everyone? - Trauma from when we didn't get everybody. Out's friends, like four months ago.

It's coming for 150 billion, anyway.

- Oh, yeah. - I just don't. When you get agents involved and just outside factors, I just don't think anything until it happens. - If you're someone a receiver gets hurt or something happens where you think someone needs and all of a sudden

they're in the market and they're calling Philadelphia.

- The Patriot Brown's wife is calling about dance classes

and per client or something like that. I mean, he'd dig her up a Patriot fan. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, but it's-- - No, I am gonna say, it's one of what if he's in Vegas and Jaylin hurts his there too and they're like,

"What's have dinner? Let's have dinner." Two hours later, it's like, "Hey, we're good. "Hey, Jay wants to stay." - Right.

So a problem there is how he's like, "Well, I just traded for Wix and brought in this other guy." - Right. - Yeah. - We're gonna draft someone and-- - Yeah.

- So they're 23. - Yeah, the Beatles, but they're not gonna pick 23.

That's how we roast them and how it's got--

it has to move around and they need an offensive tackle. And what's gonna happen is we're gonna have-- French is my one, we know from Miami and Spencer Fano from Utah and somewhere in that top 10-12 range, right?

And then there's this second wave of--

and I think it starts at 17, there could be a team in between. The ravens could go off and go guard and Venga, you want a from Penn State. But then 17's Detroit and everyone knows that they've put in more work than every other organization

that's off its tactics. So the JetCert16, Tampa is at 15, and they're already getting phone calls from organizations. Like the Steelers, the Eagles, the Texans, the Hood, the Texan, the 49ers, the Bears,

the Bears or Possibilities. So all this-- - Yes. - You got this murderers' row of teams that need offensive tackles from 17 to 30. I mean, Miami, if they don't get a tackle at 12,

they could use one. So a 13-- - A 13-- - I can't say the Patriots don't need a tackle-- - No, no, no, sorry, 31, yeah, absolutely 31. So 17 to 31, there's about 18s that need an offensive tackle

and there's at that point only five remaining. So there's gonna be movement there. - That's why seven and a half over. - Yeah.

- Do you wanna hear the Patriots excuses

that have talked myself into? - Oh, here we go.

- What's in Super? - Yeah. - Why they lost? - Yeah. - Okay. - Drake was hurt. - I don't know if that's true or not.

- That's right, well, we think it's true. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I did see him throwing the mini footballs at the basketball game a couple of weeks ago. - I don't know if he saw that.

- We'll go and study that. - I did see that actually. - I thought he was snapping it again. - Yeah. - Drake was definitely hurt.

That's one thing I say. Wilcam will definitely play on a bun knee. - Yeah. - Gun in it out. - You know, he's a whipping boy during the playoffs.

- Yeah. - He's a hero to me, he's played through pain. - Yeah. - God only knows what we're covering. - Dude, we're covering was great either by the way. Like, I mean, everyone talks about Campbell, but Jared Wilson.

- Our whole line got destroyed.

- Yeah. - The Seattle didn't even know which side to go after. - Did I tell you about the Him and Elliott Wolf? - Oh, no. - We had Elliott Wolf and we did the GM series.

- Yeah. - And we had Elliott Wolf and I had... I had met him before but I didn't know him well and Mensch got in late the night before. We got an Indianapolis also to weather and New England.

You don't deal with it out here anymore, Bill. - And now, and so we hadn't had a chance to really talk about it. We sit down and I asked a couple of questions I'm talking about, like, Elliott, what's it like, you know, Ron, you're with your dad and the bowels

of Lambo Field and you're watching tape as you know, I'm kind of getting them warmed up, right? - The fluffers. - The fluffers. - Yeah. - A lot of fluffers, actually.

- Question three goes from Mensch. I can kind of feel him like, he's like, well, can't but, yeah, I thought he was early. - Well, you didn't tell me the story. - Well, can't, I saw the short arms on tape.

You saw it in the playoffs and I'm like, he's going for it. - I was like, you guys move in a regard? - Yeah. - I didn't say it that way, but I was like, everyone's moving in a regard.

- Maybe in a regard, he was awesome. He looked like he goes, he is absolutely our last act. - Yeah. - He was great, you know. - He was great. - But I feel like I had to ask him

and I've been ripping Campbell all, like, now he's gonna be on our show and I'm not gonna say anything. - He was the type. - The only thing I worry about him is,

I think he's such an intense, committed, competitive,

crazy all about the football team guy, like the moment he got drafted, he's like, I'm now Drake May's bodyguard from the dive. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And I really wonder mentally how he handled,

just get his ass kicked in the playoffs, you know? And he's probably been successful at that position in every stage of his life, dating back to like, age four. - Yeah.

- You know, yeah, some of the stories too are, he's in, he's as intense as he can get. - Like the team worries about him a lot but taking the job home. - Yeah. - Taking the job home.

- So I just, I hope, I hope he got through that 'cause we've certainly seen some Boston athletes over the years that, yeah. - Kind of world-fucked. - Yeah, that had, well, that he had, that had the bad moment

and they were kind of, I can't remember an offense. - Half of him, that kind of moment. - Should be flat, kind of. - Plus that Rubin Bannis, the new shorter I'm guy.

- Yeah. - Yeah. - Right, Rubin Bannis. - He passed his torch. - Right, Rubin. - Right, Rubin. - And who can talk about your arms down? - There's an offensive tackle from Utah, I love,

and he's got shorter arms when Campbell and everyone's like, what's the deal, dude? - How can you? - How can you, like, one over the other? - Yeah. - It's different type.

- So the other thing I, the other past stance I have now is we just should have lost in Denver

It would have been fine.

Like, lose there and a Blizzard, they score in the, with five minutes left.

- First of all, we don't have to go to the Super Bowl.

- Yeah, get this huge ass kick. - No one wins in Denver. - It turns out right, it turns out right after the game Drake May was actually hurt the whole time. - Yeah. - And we're just like, great.

Okay, great season, let's move a building. It's like getting that Super Bowl ass kicking just made it so much worse. - Yeah, it's really what should happen. - It's not a good thing.

- Right, and then you think about all the bad signs for this year in the bad juju that comes with this. - Yes, yeah. - The H.A. Brown thing, 2022 and 23 years, first two years

when you got traded from Tennessee to Philly, three hundred and three targets in those two years, almost three thousand yards and 18 T.D's. He's only, he's gonna be 29 this season. There's good, pretty good track records

with people moving that age. - Yeah, yeah. - It seems good, something scares me about it and I don't know what it, I didn't like the way he looked last year.

- And I love to know more about why did he look that way?

- I agree with that, I also think fresh store, I think everyone kind of looked that way on the offense for the Eagles last year. There was a lot going on. So I would be, if they were just going to work,

like this sucks. - Skin broke my job with all the reports. I think it was just a drain and obviously he wears his emotions on his sleeve and it's very public about everything that he's dealt with and I think it's just it hit a point.

- Is there a receiver that doesn't wear their emotions on their sleeve? - It very few. - It's was won, that's it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- There was part of his Hall of Fame case.

- Yeah, never wears his glasses on his sleeve.

(laughing) - What about it? - Unlike any other receiver, really. - Literally didn't wear sleeves. - Obviously there was a lot that I just think about Drake

with his development, getting him that. He doesn't have that. He's never had anything close to that. - We made a set on NFL Live yesterday, which I was watching, that the paths had been to me

and defense, the highest number of any team in the league. - Yeah. - 'Cause what we could feel it watching the game 'cause every defense was like, eh. - Yeah.

- Where are we worried about?

- Which this will play up on all these guys.

And AJ is like, by all these big stats, the best guy against mid to mid defense and this would be a game changer. - Right. - So I get it.

- The thing was interesting about the Yspen article that came out about the Eagles and Jim and Hertz calling his own place. And did you read this? - Oh yeah, yeah.

- So he was changing all the play. If you're an office coordinator and you're game planning for a guy, if you have a talent like AJ Brown and you're like, we're game planning in this way.

And all of a sudden, your quarterback is changing everything that's no longer making him the focal point of the offense. - Yeah. - Because at least, and then you have an opportunity to play for Josh Dam, McDonald's,

who's gonna, like, that's what he does. - Yes, yes. - Well, they'll also play with pace,

which is the thing I never understood with the Eagles.

I know they, it seemed like this was an actual strategy for them to limit the minutes in the game 'cause of possessions, 'cause of the wrath of this. I don't think the paths think that way at all. So they would be more like,

we'll put pressure on you and we have AJ out there and you're gonna have to be constantly worried and you keep your defense on the field. - And our quarterback can run if you turn, so hopefully he can run and throw

unlike the last two games of the season. - Yes. - They've assumed he'll be able to roll out and throw again. - We're calling that way. - We're calling that way.

I don't know if we're playing. - When we were calling, the Drake may rolls out and whips a line drive play. I was like, he's fucking hurt. Like, can't tell me he's not hurt.

- Yeah. - It wasn't even, yeah. - The arc and the velocity are just different. - What are the pages taking a tight end? - They're gonna need a tight end, right?

- I feel like people are talking. - Or they're talking. - They're invited to the combat and talking to you tight end. - They'll be somewhere around there. - Yeah.

- Or maybe four. - They signed a rocking tight end. They were all excited. - Yeah, Julian. - Julian, somebody.

- Yeah. - Julian Bell. - Okay. Last thing, well, second of last thing. So Zona and Cleveland are the trade down teams.

- Yep. - And you think Saints, Cowboys have 12 and 20 and like getting attention. Jets at 16. - Rams at 13 are they're in either trade up teams?

- I'm trying to sit here. I don't wash. The Washington's not going to. Cleveland you talked about. - I think that's the list.

- Yeah, I think that's probably the list.

- I was trying to figure out when we get the offensive tackles. I think when we get to like Philly in some of those teams, I could see a move up. - It's a little like a bit smooth. - But not a four, four, four.

- Yeah, a four by spots. - Yeah. - I was trying to figure out like somebody is on the board at nine. That Jerry gets all excited about

'cause he's 98 years old. Like Jeremiah love false to nine. - Or down. - Or down. - Somebody's telling us we can anticipate it.

- Right, you know, and could there be a 12 and 20? - Yes. - And the Chiefs have nine and 40. Could there be like a new take our 12 and 20? We'll take back nine, 40 and a third.

One of those type of trades.

- Yeah, the problem with that theory is I've told the only reason the Cowboys would move up as for an Eddrosser. And if there's an Eddrosser work taken there, I think the Chiefs would take it.

That would be Rubin' Bank. - Right. So, we do this, we'll talk about, you talk about the Amnesia and the Offseason and the NFL. There's Amnesia every year with the Cowboys in the draft.

- Yeah. - You know that they've had 34 picks, 37 picks I want to say. Some are in the mid to high thirties of picks

in the first three rounds dating back to 2014.

And one time, they have moved up that was the Marcus Lawrence in 2014 since then that nothing. - So it's a lot of chatter about moving up and Jerry's up. - Oh, Jerry's up. - Well, work down me, 'cause I don't know

the way to find a way to try it out every year. But this year, it actually would make sense as long as it doesn't require pick 20.

If you pick, I think 92 overall, the third round.

I could see that, but that's not getting up to three. That's moving up a handful of spots to go get an Eddrosser. I just don't know how feasible it is unless you're given away next year or something,

which I think, I said, it's a fireable offense. - Now, it's kind of walked it back by the way. - I haven't, like fireable offenses on my favorite phrases and would be a good blog name. (laughing)

- Yes, yeah. - It would be, yeah. - And even a good band. - Yeah. - Going to see fireable offense to the Eddrosser.

- Let's get rid of that, right? - So a fireable offense is trading

a first round pick from next year.

That class is gonna be, and it's not just the quarterback. So, but as mentioned, it started as work on the class of 27 yet. - The quarterbacks we know pretty well, not a lot of the other players.

- I got a mocked draft coming out on, yeah, the way you were early mocked you're after, and that's why I thought those. - Take the show on Monday. - I mean, it's, you're the problem.

But you know, it'd be, you know, it'd be a good talk. - It's, is reviewing the way to early mocked drafts. - Oh, they do it. - But no, you guys doing it.

- Oh, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, we should do that.

- That's incredible. - 'Cause you read a couple of quarterbacks. - That's the way up there. - Yeah. - It's the thing with the dribble timing.

- So volatile. - Thanks, Bill. - No, you're right. - You're a kid. - You're a kid.

- I mean, you wrote kids. - Yeah, well, yeah. - My son's 18, and he's had five zags just in the last seven months. - Right, right.

- I just, these are teenagers and young dudes. - Yeah, yeah. - And we saw some zags this fall. - Well, the quarterbacks. - Are all or you're out on him?

- I wasn't in on him last year. - Yeah, he was never.

- Yeah, but he's gonna go pro in the third row.

- There are some teams who like him. - Not smire. - He loves not smire. - I like not smire. - Yeah, I think there's a shot.

- Now, you can do not smire in the third round the right system. - Doesn't have a ton of starts. He gets hurt, he's small. I don't, I don't, I don't see it.

- I didn't see it either. - Good, all right. (laughing) - Make you feel hard. - Crazy, I'm looking at the window ads.

Is it Bailey or Reese, there's no chance anyone else goes to? - Correct. - What if it's a trade? - There didn't think there was gonna be a trade last year.

- Everyone else's odds are 125 to one and up. - So it's really, everybody's decided these are the two. - Yeah, it's definitely. - Number three. Reese is the favorite at plus 130.

Bailey's plus 260. Love is plus 330. - Say that on medium? - Reese plus 130. Bailey plus 260.

Love plus 330. - Yeah, that was fairly exciting. - Bailey's assumed to go the second overall pick. So that makes Reese the favorite. The problem with the Arizona pick is

that there's a legitimate chance that the team moves up to three and Arizona takes a below market deal. - But they move up to three who they take the other. - Yeah, yeah.

- All right, four. What's any styles, number four? For four? - Yeah. - Well, love is plus 115 the favorite.

Bailey's plus four 10 and stiles is plus four 90.

- I think styles could be, I'm not saying he will.

What I've been told for for Tennessee is if one of those ad pressures does get there, let's say Arizona takes Jeremiah love it three. - Yeah. - They would take Reese, let's say.

If not, sunny styles. Robert Salah views it differently than most. That middle linebacker is like, that's equivalent of getting an edge for him. - Yeah.

- That's, you know, Fred Warner, that's there. So that's something to look up for. - I can see styles going for it too. I also didn't mind Tennessee's running back last year, but you'd have to really love love.

But it makes me nervous spending all that capital on a cubic ender running back. - Yeah. - Right. - You're gonna, the fourth and the first pick

and back to back drafts. - The thing about Tennessee's run game where I started looking at it, Paulard's a pretty good back. I mean, thousand yards for like five or six years.

- He doesn't run. - He's running down the stretch last year. - Yeah, he's good. - Yeah, he was like winning at five or six years. - But Spirits can't stay healthy.

- Yeah. - So they had the third fewest carries. You have a rookie quarterback and they had the third fewest carries in the league. They gotta get, it doesn't have to be loved.

They gotta get another back that they can get more committed to the ground game. Like they just have to. - What I'm interested in is sitting there for,

You have to take styles at four

or you try to bait up a team to get, come get Jeremiah. - So close. - And the Giants putting out the all of a sudden in the last 72, it's tough to manage all this man.

- Yeah. - 'Cause you're having conversations with people who are actually making decisions and we're talking about all 31 other teams and what they could do,

what they're hearing, what the scouts are hearing. - And they're kind of using you to find out what you're hearing. - Totally. - Yeah.

- And I'm using them to find out what they're hearing. - Yeah. - And so we're kind of, and we're doing the tap dance. - Yeah. - And then you get off the phone

and you get on the next call. So there's just a lot of,

but I always get worried in the last 72 hours

to like 150 hours of, why is this message just coming?

Is resurfacing, or this is the first I've heard of this, you know?

- Right. - Is this late developing news? - Right. - Or is it say purpose alone? - Is now the poor fear that decisions are basically made.

So, but all of a sudden the Giants, it's like, if love is there, they'll take them. But what if love is there, isn't that like, come, come move up and get it? What they don't know is that might drive the market up

for Tennessee to get a good deal to move out of for. Now, Styles is probably gonna go seven. So, where would that be, too? But, yeah, I would have been-- - If I could kind of say I would have my move

back a couple spots, I'd pick it up something, 'cause I just need people. - Yeah. - Fifth pick the odds, Styles is the favorite of +185, Tyson's +--

- I'm told it's not style. - And take the field now, I'm-- - Love +38, Caleb Downs +550. - What about Tyson? - Tyson was +280.

I think Tyson's in play. I mean, I know Tyson's in play, but do they think they can get him at 10? Same thing with Downs. Jeremiah loves the wild part.

- I think. - Taking Tyson at 5 would be kind of insane. I think. - That's incredibly-- - Because of the injuries. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, 'cause of the injuries.

- Yeah, well, I remember seeing her is to be in the field. - Yeah, yeah. - It becomes this balancing act of, or now we fall in love.

But where should, where do we really truly think we should be?

But we should be able to take him versus where can we take it? - Why did the chance to enter another stud receiver, by the way? - Well, from the late neighbors, they don't even know they're worried about when he's coming back to full strength.

Oh, like the start of the season, there's part of that. You've got a quarterback that needs another weapon. Honestly, it wreaks to me. Jordan Tyson feels like if we can get him at 10, awesome. - Okay.

- But the information for what it's worth is saying that they might, they could take a swing there. - Can it give you my five types of receivers? - Yes. - Speaking of Jordan Tyson, the injury prone stud.

- Yep. - Really tough one. - Yeah. - I really have to have a lot of meanings about that. - High floor ceiling guy, but something leaves you

a little cold. Cardinal Tate. - But yeah, he's gonna be awesome. But it's, well, why aren't I more excited to take him? - Yeah.

- Well, because he was the second best receiver

on his college team. - So what did you say? - I get it, but that was the same thing on JSN. Was this guy gonna be? - JSN when he leaves me a little cold.

- Okay.

- Physical and traffic wins every ball guy.

This guy just goes either way. - Yeah. - Like he just, you know, this was like the, the DeAndre Hopkins was a great example of this. - Yep.

- The Patriots have had guys like this. Other times, the guy just can't get open. - Yeah. - Who's that? - He's a scheme.

- Kelvin Benjamin for the Panthers isn't he a big guy. - Yeah. - Yeah. - So, Denso Boston is the version of that this year. - I like him.

- We know. - The inside of the guy that everyone calls twitchy. - Yeah. - That's case I case he accepts you on twitchy is a good one. So the Panthers are kind of Williams last year's twitchy.

- Yeah. - He'll beat you up and he, and then a slot stud, which is my personal favorite. That's lemon. - Yeah.

- I like when it's just like, you know, this guy is he's an awesome fucking slack guy. And he's just gonna get open and he can block. - That sounds great. I'll take that guy.

- Well, then you take it. - How early is the second round? - 'Cause that's the second round. - Yeah. - There you go.

- Right, yeah. - Yeah, so you'd love Jeremy Bernard. You'd love Deja unstribbling. Omar Cooper Jr. One point we thought was gonna be second,

but it's gonna be first. Those are those guys. - And then there's the other, there's the sixth type, which is the guy, what's his name Brazil Jr.

- Yeah. - It's one of those, like, for us with your love and/or you're getting fired, one of those guys. - Yeah.

- Yeah. - Depending on how high you go. But he just seems the highlights for him are awesome. - Awesome. - Yeah.

- You're like, whoa. - And then the trail answers brother is another one like that, tall, or threes, all of it. - Yeah.

- The one guy would never take is just a,

this dude's super fast and we'll figure out the rest. - Yeah. - The paths took that guy 20 times. - Yeah. - Well, the raiders used to take him every year.

- Yeah.

- Then there's the Bengals John Ross.

- Yep. - That was a good one. - Was it Devin? What was the name of the, - The Jeff.

- The Jeff's took one. - Well, in the 80's, this guy used to go all the time. - Yeah. - They used to, the raiders and the jets. Who was the guy that jets had that one time?

They took him in the top four. - Oh, shoot. - Remember him is Johnny Lam Jones. - Okay. - Yeah, that's true.

- That's insane. - It's insane. - He's really fast. - That's it. - That's it.

- Yeah. - We've had those. - Yeah, there's a lot of those.

I think we're getting better at not taking those guys too high.

- Dude, there's like, oh, he runs a four too. - Cool. - Historically, they don't do. - Yeah. - But the fastest guy at the combine is like,

it's like 10% chance of you hitting on where they actually drop. - Who's your chip on the shoulder receiver this year? 'Cause that guy hits 100% of the time. The guy who's just angry that he's not being mentioned with better guys and produced everywhere he went.

- It could be Jeremy Bernard. - It could be. - The Alabama guy wasn't even the best receiver, but everyone's measure Alabama. - Yeah.

- You'd Ryan Williams just distributed him in the second round? - Yeah. - Bernard. - Yeah, I don't. - I just don't get it.

'Cause all I hear about, it's the same conversation. We had these conversations and we talk about how speed isn't as important as you think when you get down to that range. - Like, Jeremy Bernard only does his make plays on tape, man. - Like, only does his make plays.

- Yeah. - It's best player on that team last year. I mean, people are like, ah, I don't know. - I don't know. - I don't know.

- Yeah, he wouldn't. - But if you fit him right in the right system, he's got a chance to be, you know, 80 catch a year gone. - If I was the WAD receiver draft specialist, I would just want guys that got open on the tape

that I was watching. - In caught the ball. - Yeah. - Get open. - Did you get open?

- Did you catch it when they threw it to you?

- It sounds so easy. - It's so cool.

- Those guys about like, he's amazing in traffic.

It's like, cool. - No thanks. - Yes. - It's holding on Williams is one from Clemson. He just gets open.

- Yep. - He gets open. - Is there a beloved running back for you in the second, third, fourth rounds that you're just a woman?

- Okay. - Maurice Schoen's real. - That's what he's built like. - He's a shortloader of the people who love those guys too. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He danced behind a washing offence of wine that wasn't great and they, I guess. He just, he, his twitch and his build and his contact balance, like I think he's gonna be a really good pro.

- Second round. - Fourth. - Oh, wow. - Yeah. - And who's your Tyler Shuck this year?

I mean, cool paint. McShayfuckin' nailed that last year. - Oh yeah. - You talked, you talked, let him on my pot. So you're still with him.

- Yeah, you might be able to get him late, third, early, fourth. - Man. - Do you win on this? - No, not at all.

- And he looks like, he was hit there all year long until you about how important snaps are. - We're getting like, yeah. - Text from everyone. - This is why I would hire him.

- Same with him. - He's balls all year long about like, how many snaps do we say, how many snaps? And then we get into the process and Garrett Nussbyer is a great

even though he doesn't have that many snaps. And he pulls this guy off from the FC, the watered down FCS. - Yeah. - We're all the guys of left for better teams

and Bryce Lance is the best athlete on the field is running around like it's backyard football. And this lefty who's playing running back two years ago is also gonna be the next, the next great quarterback. He called him better than Carson Wentz, right?

You said he was better prospect than Carson Wentz.

- I think I think, yeah, I think he has better traits.

- Sometimes you can just get a lot of confidence after you hit one of these, yeah. Like this might be your heat chum rollin'. - Yeah. - Host shook.

- I'm rolling. - You're just trying to make the magic happen again? - Yep, dartin' shook last year. - Give me tailing green. - I love shook.

- I don't know how many years he's gonna play 'cause he takes huge hits, doesn't he? - Yeah, he does. - He does the same way. - Yeah, history.

- But check it up every time. - Oh, yeah. - Or at least he did last season. But I like them. - He's a tough, he's a tough, I just, I, yeah.

- All right, so you're playing this week. - Yes. - We are gonna be doing shows all week. We're gonna be live on Netflix during the first round Thursday night.

- Oh, I wonder when this might. - Yeah, no, it's not my idea. Actually came from Richard's and I'm just gonna be honest. - Instead of the time for me to spend the, - Mm-hmm.

- Yeah, but it won a player's pitch. - Oh, dude, the Netflix noise? - Yes, that's a good idea, right? - You like it? - I don't know, we'd have to find out from the guys

and look at them in the show around. - They were working on it, but I just wanted to-- - It's a really good idea. - Right, right? - Yeah.

- And the NFL draft is wild enough. - I know it's Netflix. - I feel like I'm about to watch a true crime documentary,

but no, it's always, all the stuff that you ask you

where you were, when he said I want to run something by you on your show. - I mean, with McShay, you got to hold on your seat and all the time. - Right, yeah, this is where we're going.

- Yeah, that's where. - No, that's good for you. - That actually is pretty doable. So we got Thursday and Friday night live, don't we'll do a Saturday, like,

wrapping up the whatever, and then we're in Sunday, we do a big 32 team, so it lasts the off season, so you can kind of, yeah, get the deep dive in that. Every Monday, we're in tape in the way to early mock draft and then we're out of it.

- Right, we're out of here. - Don't forget to do the redo of last year's mock draft.

- I think that's a good idea.

- Yeah, you got that. - In a lead-up, right? Not now, but in a lead-up. - No, like just when you get every green content for when it's kind of dying and that's the spring.

- Yeah, I think it's great. - Yeah, I love it. - All right, good to see you guys. - Thanks for coming on. - See you next week.

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Covered jafions are selected by the customer, availability, and eligibility, very, by state. - With Van Lathen, we're in the ringer tailgate set. You saw the Michael Jackson movie last night. We did rewatchables together.

We did rewatchables for next week. We did Ghostbusters. And then you left to go see Michael Jackson. - A movie that ends in 1989. - It's bad, yeah, it's bad.

It was like a lot of performance of Van Lathen one day. I'm gonna try not to spoil as much as you guys and go out and see the movie before yourself. - Well, we know what happened to Michael Jackson. - We do, we do.

But you know, there's still some things in there

that I think people are gonna be interested in seeing.

Like what, the performance of jafar Jackson in the movie is a revelation. He's phenomenal as Michael Jackson. - Is it any relation? I know nothing.

I've read nothing. I think. - Okay. - Jame Jackson. So Jame Jackson plays Michael Jackson,

which in some ways probably is some weird cosmic justice

for Jame Jackson, you know, there wasn't always a word.

- Did he need justice? - No, he did. But I'm saying it's like they, at times Jame and Michael didn't have like the best relationship or whatever, but you know, they're brothers.

So that's what happens in family. But yeah, so he plays Michael Jackson. He dances like Michael Jackson. He embodies the spirit of Michael Jackson. And honestly, he nails it.

When I say he nails it, he nails it to a degree that like a Hugh Jackman Wolverine type nail in it. He really nails Michael Jackson in the movie. And it's a shame because the movie isn't a domination. - A domination.

- Yeah. - Okay, so I have to, I have to, you guys know me. I always start in love. Home of Demingo, great, Neil Long, great, far Jackson, great. It's not a serious movie.

It's not a serious movie. It's a movie about somebody who we all love to pieces.

Love Michael Jackson to pieces, right?

He is almost like a mythical character, not even like a human being. And that's the way the movie treats him. The movie treats him like a mythical character. - Don't always.

- Music, hey, yeah. Hey, yeah, agarface. Treat the people that way, like out in John, Freddie Mercury, like I'm kind of used to this with my bio-packs for movies. - Yeah.

- To a degree, you're not wrong, which is why I realized something while I was watching Michael. The bio-pick is dead. The bio-pick as to me. The bio-pick, and maybe even the bio-graphical documentary

as a storytelling tool, I think, is going.

- I would say both of, I've been saying this for a while. We saw this happen with books. Books used to be, they would do biographies about people that people just paid in. And sometimes it'd be pretty hard hitting,

maybe the person would regret participating at all. And then eventually that shifted to the autobiography. And almost every time, when somebody does the autobiography, it's like, all right, I'm going to take this with an entire salt-shaker of salt, not just one green.

I'm going to just assume this is this person's version. It's going to be very flattering to them. They're going to remember the things they want to remember. Not be that candid about the things maybe they don't want to talk about.

And that's just what I'm getting. And in documentary, and it's for a while, they felt pretty, you kind of felt like you were getting all the sides of the stories. And something shifted with that in the last 10 years.

- Yeah, I think the shivers has something to do with it in terms of the amount of people that were doing biopics on themselves while they were still around, I think. - Or the estate that controls it. When you look at this movie though,

this, like right off the bat, there's a storytelling issue here. The movie has no story. There's no story to the movie. - Well, wasn't the famous, the story was that they did it a certain way and the estate made them change everything, right?

I mean, this has been a long time. - I want to make sure people understand. I am not complaining about this movie or down on the film because the movie didn't go into some of the more controversial aspects of Michael Jackson's life.

Controversial.

- Yeah. - Yeah. - That's the word we're doing. - Yes, okay.

- The sexual assault allegations are against that.

- Oh, okay. - I can say that as well. Let's say that. - I'm not tripping because the movie didn't get into that. It because I didn't expect it to.

Is that it doesn't really interrogate anything about Michael Jackson really that seriously? Like the movie, what you were supposed to come away from is that Michael Jackson is like divinely touched, extraordinarily good.

I thought that anyway. - Well, but what I'm saying is, it's a musician or a person, no, no, no, as a person, as a person, the movie goes through a greatly, great lengths to

saint him, to make him look like an every, every time there's a kid, Michael's thoughts for the kid, every time. And you see people looking at him as he's doing these good works and they seem to be like arrested by his purity.

It's really laid on thing. Now look, once again, the same magical space that Michael Jackson exists in

for a lot of people he exists in that space for me.

And I understand that that's people want to kind of live in that. But like you gotta give me something, right? You gotta give me a real analysis of where the genius and the drive and all that stuff came from.

And the movie just doesn't take any of that seriously. - Yeah, so all right, so if the estate's like, here's all the stuff that's off limits, but you can make a movie anyway. I'd be, I'd probably have focused it thriller

to when his hair gets caught on fire and he starts getting weird.

And he becomes so famous that he basically can't do anything

and becomes a recluse on top of the fact that the hair thinks him like it was really damaging him. He got burned, he felt like he was disfigured. Led to a lot of the stuff that is skin changing. All the plastic surgery, that seemed to be the tipping point moment.

Combined with the victory tour when him and his brothers went out and they bankrupted the Sullivan family basically. But just that whole era, I just would have centered it there versus stopping in 1989 is insane. Bill, why was that the stopping point?

- I think you know why. - I mean if you, if you were not stopping like 1987, why did they pick 89? - Well, if you go to 1997, you can't not talk about it. But I'm saying why not it's just stopping in '87,

just stopping for that, for bad, like they get to, they get to him on a world tour. It's like him doing a solo world tour, which was a big deal for him. He wanted to do a solo world tour,

so they stop with him doing the bad world tour.

Here's the first or anything.

Everything that you just talked about, that's all in the movie. All of it's in the movie. His plastic surgery stuff is in the movie. Vittaligo stuff is in the movie.

The burning of the hair is probably the thing that the movie gets the most right, right? Interesting. Because of the reason why he's doing that commercial, obviously at the behest of his father.

He wants to go back on on tour with his brothers, like what it costs him, and how him being burned, actually starts his relationship with paint collection, stuff like that, which we all know would eventually take us life.

So that sounds interesting to me. But it just, it's just on the screen. - Yeah. - Okay, it's, there's nothing. So it's just like, hey, like I have Vittaligo,

I have to take this medicine for it. Like Michael, in one point says he doesn't like his nose,

the next thing he comes home and he's had a nose job, right?

There was a movie called The Jackson Family in American Dream, a mini series from the early '90s, right? I saw, okay, that movie treats Michael Jackson as a real fragile wandering mind of genius in a real serious way.

There's a scene of him looking in the mirror, talking about the fact that his face is breaking out, talking to his mother about his nose, and you get the feeling of how this place he felt and his body at some time, right?

And it's a serious scene. It's like a real scene. And or when Motown 25 is about to happen, and Michael goes, I'll do it with my brothers, I'll perform my brothers, but I want a solo spot.

It's a powerful moment of him like stepping away.

This movie just can't get to any of that stuff. It's on the screen, but not really interrogated in any way, but I do know what is interrogated. A weird scene with Miles Teller as the lawyer, right? Where Michael Jackson is bestowed in the movie.

But, as the fucking, I'm sitting next to Joey, I'm like, we're watching the scene, and there's weird scene where all of these guys are sitting around, and he's fucking talk some Miles Teller's character, and he's like, everybody out the room,

you stay, you're in my guy. And then they're in the movie, and I'm like, yo, whoever that guy is, right, he greenlit this movie. So he has to have them to do it this movie, because the scene doesn't make any fucking sense

to be in the movie about Michael Jackson. Now this guy pops in, and you got an A-list star playing him, it didn't make any sense whatsoever. And then at the end of the movie, I'm looking,

It says, hey, look, producer, John Bronco,

whatever his name is, whatever.

So like, I don't mean to trash it because there are, I think that people are gonna enjoy it, 'cause you're gonna take a trip down memory lane,

but it's just, it was just like glossy bullshit, right?

Well, and Antoine Fuqua is the director. - Yeah. - So when he, he probably signed up for something that he felt like was gonna be a completely different movie, and now has to pretend this was the movie he made,

which is clearly not the case. - I mean, the movie isn't poorly made. I mean, it's got all, it's got, like, top, well done, gloss. - Well done, gloss, but like, I don't know. People are gonna hear this,

and they're gonna be like, how can Van B, this upset about it? Because Van is the one that year after year, it goes into the theater to watch some of the most hand-handed superhero shit that's ever existed, right?

- It occurred to me. - Yeah. I held out a difference, or I made a distinction here. This is the MCUification of a biopic. This is the, we know that we have you,

so we don't have to do anything else, which is the criticism about the MCU that exists now, about superhero movies that you send up for this, so it's not our fault. - Hey, you're in here to watch action figures fly around.

- Yeah. - And that's all we gotta give you. - Earlier on, I think the exciting thing about, like those movies was that they did not do that. They played around with genre,

they took chances, they did other stuff. But they got to the point where they knew they had us, and so we're gonna watch whatever it was, and now there's a lot of people that are disillusioned with them. What I go to see a movie about, this type of person,

that this type of impact, you wanna come away feeling like you know what made that guy to it. - So what would be the perfect IP that you would wanna sign up for for Michael Jackson? 'Cause for me, it would be like a 10 hour documentary

that was like, words and all, it's like, let's go. Let's dive into this dude. - There are two different movies. One movie would be this same movie, but just about the making of thriller.

- Hmm. - So you can find it to like 80 to 85, that's it. - Just about the making of thriller.

- By the way, that's what they should have done.

- Right, like when I say just that takes them off the hook with everything that happens in the 90s. You can flash back to stuff that happens. We really don't necessarily need the whole Jackson 5 journey. It is one of the most famous journeys

that's ever existed in Superstar. But the making of thriller is very special. It's a special time in music, it's a special time in culture. And it's a special time where this person

like reaches their zenith, like an athlete, like what was the season that Michael Jordan just became the guy that everybody was waiting for Michael Jordan to become. That doesn't happen in culture as much as we think that.

- They try to do that with the Springsteen movie and it was weird. They picked Nebraska, which I'm a Springsteen guy. Nebraska was a really interesting choice, but it was basically they told the whole story

to set up what happens with born in the USA, which then then don't go into. So it's like, we assume you already know what happened with born in the USA. This part's more interesting.

It's like, hey, you know, it'd have been a really interesting born in the USA. But with that, and if you go granular, if you get deep into like what Michael had to sacrifice what he was going through, the pressure he was under,

you see how, oh, child star, that piece of art, he's in the 70s cocaine era. He's at studio 54, all of that. - Everyone's trying to get in with him. - And just after what it means to be like

the biggest star in the world, that's one. Number two, an interesting story that no one talks about.

Is the just ridiculously amazing story

of how Michael Jackson came to control the Beatles catalog. He's right. Like, not just high, I'm cool with Paul McCartney. Paul has the idea. Michael is sure enough to go and work him on the idea.

Just everything that had to happen for him to get that, because that ends with a deal for him to have to perform in Australia, right? And can perform in Australia, one of the accusers. - Yeah.

- So there's a whole bunch of things that happen, I mean, you'll necessarily have to get into that. There's a whole bunch of things that happen with that. And it's one of the more, that is a story about the genius, the business genius,

and the cultural genius of Michael Jackson. - I would also throw in the Lisa Marie Presley wedding and it's the third movie. - She wanted to say. - I just don't know what happened with that.

That was one of those, nobody knew who was going on the attack. We still don't know what happened.

We don't, and I remember they came on an interview

and it's like, no one thought this would last. And my dad was like, it hadn't last. (laughing) What are you like, what are you talking about? It had less, yeah.

- I think with some of these things, the biggest things we've ever had,

which is basically like Elvis, the Beatles, Michael Jackson,

these things come around, content wise, every few years.

The, it happened the Beatles a couple years ago

when that thing, the behind the scenes, Peter Jackson, documentary, that was awesome. And it was like, oh, the Beatles are having a moment again and then it goes. And then six years later, something else will happen.

I think that's happening with Michael Jackson now.

I know everybody doesn't like the movie, but I think it's going to be the catalyst to a re-examination of all the stuff he did 'cause what really happens is the new generations who don't, like my son, when my son was like five,

he didn't know backstory of Michael Jackson. He just knew he liked the songs and the kids get into it.

And it's a generational thing that never stops.

And I think this goes to a bigger point which we were talking about when Kanye was here. It's so far a couple weeks ago about people being able to separate the art from other stuff that may have happened and how you can compare, if you like the music,

you like the music and you can just put it there and you can kind of push the other stuff this way. And that whole dialogue about whether that's something we should, should we be that way? - With the heart, what, with the heart, what?

- We don't have any choice. I mean, if we're being honest, when I say we don't have any choice, what I mean is it's like, I can choose if I want to not to listen to Michael Jackson music or to whatever, what I can't do with him specifically,

not all the artists that have been involved in a fuck shit are like this, but with Michael Jackson, it's so tied to the most formative years of my brain that if I see him or I hear the music, my body reflexively does something.

- Right.

- You hear Billie Jean and it's like,

"Oh, it's the trophy. There's nothing you can do." Now, you can make this decision to talk about things responsibly and make sure you hold space for victims and make sure you have these conversations

with the gravitas and the way that they deserve, right?

You can do all of that. - Nobody wants to do that when they're on Spotify on a walk at two in the afternoon or working out. - Yeah. - And it's like fucking, I'm gonna put my Michael mix.

- Yeah, it's true. And so the reality of all it is, and by the way, I just wanna say this real quick. And this is, you know, people can feel how the way the way one about this.

I worked at Tanzi for a very long time, right? - Yeah, worked at Tanzi for a long time. - So the people that I know that have looked into Michael Jackson's various cases, the people that I know have looked into them

in a really granular way, like in a really detailed way. Looking at his situation is interesting because I have to be real, it's a real observation. The people that I know, the deeper you get into all of the stuff that happened with him,

the more questions you actually have about whether or not he ever was actually guilty of something. I, the news director at TMZ back in the day, this is like, wasn't, I'm not talking about, he's not from South Baton Rouge, I mean,

he's a white boy from Orange County. Swore up and down, he's like, Ben, I have all of these documents, he didn't do anything. - Yeah. - All of this stuff.

And so there is, there is this thing with him and all of his cases, he beat it in court, there's this thing with him to where, the more you get into it, a people that I know that really have deep knowledge

of everything that happened, they look at it and they go, they don't think that he did anything. Now, maybe that's me coping, that could be me coping, but the reality of the situation is that is true

from people that I know, they have really looked at the time. - That's how I felt about Mike Farable. (laughing) - Mike, man, the guy just thought it's a rest.

(laughing) The other six people they were there. - It's a great resort. - Yeah, it's a great resort. - No, it's a great resort.

- Like a relaxation weekend. But to your point though, the movie, the first thing I did when I got home was put on Michael Jackson's shit on YouTube. - The first thing I did, but even that,

if you do a bio pick about Michael Jackson and you're far Jackson once again, in the performance and in the dancing, it's great. - If you do a bio pick about Michael Jackson, the best parts can't be like making through a lower

performance stage 'cause if I want that, I could just go to YouTube and watch that. So there has to be other parts of the movie that aren't oriented around the music and around someone doing a Michael Jackson

essentially in impression. Now, this movie just doesn't matter.

- Well, apparently there's an incredible

Elvis documentary right now that somebody spent a lot of time on Bosnale and Renee think. - Oh come, and it was like behind the scenes Vegas, they found all this footage and it's amazing. And if that had come out in like 1989,

it felt like it would've been the biggest movie in the world. Now, it's 2006. Elvis has been dead for 49 years. I don't know if he has the same hold on people under 50.

I think like people in their 70s and 80s, my care.

I wonder where Michael Jackson's gonna hit that point. I would argue with like in the Spotify era where people are just downloading music. Might not hit that point for like 40 more years. But people are just like, there might be some five-year-old

right now in a car in the way home from school.

They're listening to the thriller.

And they don't know any better.

They don't know anything other than the songs they're listening to. - You know, this might be the old man talking.

But, and Elvis is a ridiculously important

American pop culture figure. It just feels different with Michael Jackson. - I don't know. - I think that's generational. - Probably everything is, everything culturally expires.

Everything culturally expires. - 'Cause it's the same thing for like Mickey Mano, Babe Ruth, Frank Sinatra. There are these people that had these runs, but then as the years pass,

there's nobody there to kind of keep the torch going with the flames. - I mean? - No, no, no, no, no, no people got a thriller though. - That's true.

Elvis was way up there though. - Elvis is, I mean, Elvis was the biggest star we had in the world. - I know, but for years. - But that's how we thought.

- Yeah. - Then the biggest star came into the room. - It's just different. - You have to tell me, I don't know. - Michael's the biggest, he's the most talented,

biggest star I've ever seen in my life. - Right, and I, - Like him doing the Motown 25 was like, probably the greatest non-sports TV moment I've ever had. - And so, I remember watching that,

just over and over and all of the videos. Michael has so many different areas. Like, you can't really put it all in one bio because his life was like, it had like three or four seedlings, right, until he passed on.

- But, I'm a lot of analysis too, like just long conversations with friends in high school about what is my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, whatever that would have that, what do they mean?

(laughing) To me, to me, to me, that genius, like, not just deserves, but it requires special, real examination. - Real examination. - But as we did that with Prince

and we're never gonna see that either.

- Right, but look, once again, I think that we're out

of the era of bio picks. If we think what are the best bio picks? Ray was a great bio pick, right? I actually, I kind of liked the clean one. I watched it again, okay.

And why is it good? 'Cause in the last 25 minutes, it just is the live-a show, which I could watch on YouTube, but it was really fun to watch as the movie. You just have performances that make it.

Outside of music bio picks, you wanna relive the music and you wanna see how people embody the character. But like when I think about movies like Malcolm X, like X, it was basically obviously different, yeah. But that's a guy that's a cultural deity, deity to me.

The movie does not deify him at all. Like the Johnny Cashman, it does deify him. - That one, that's one of the best ones. - The co-maner's daughter is really good. Like these movies are about people who have genius.

- Usually they work the best when it's people who have genius, but also have a flaw or two flaws. Or have a relationship that doesn't work. Or like marry the wrong person, fall in love the wrong way. Or like whatever.

Something that's humanized. - Teenage turner one is good too. - Right. That one was phenomenal. - Yeah.

- That might be the best one. - That's the best music bio pick that I can remember. - Yeah. - It's phenomenal. - But it had a villain.

This one has a villain. Joe Jackson is the villain. - Yeah, he seems. - Joe Jackson seems. - But even in this movie, it's made by his family.

And you can feel the conflict in this movie. - Yeah. - The estate makes the movie. They're telling this story. You can feel them holding back.

- Well, it's heavily reported. They had to change just about everything about the movie. - Right. - As they're making. - But even in this version, like, okay.

- You think Miles Teller is like, "Hey, Miles, here you have the new movie out." - Yeah. - Well. - Yeah.

I guess, film it a long time ago. - I'm just saying, man, when you do it commit. Like, you know, blood on the dance floor. Show how hard it was. Show the road he had to climb.

- We agree, but this will be the number one when it ends up on Amazon or wherever. This will be the number one rental for like five straight weeks. - I probably gonna see it again.

- Yeah. - I probably gonna see it again just because like, I can't wait till the seven-time you see it when you talk yourself into it. I'm probably gonna see it again.

Do you know why you really know why? - It's a little bit higher learning. - Yep. - I'm missed Michael Jackson. I missed him.

Like, guys, I'm just a regular person. So you guys get mad, whatever. I missed Michael Jackson. - You missed the genius. - I missed him.

- Like, I had missed him. - This was the secret of the last dance with Michael Jordan. - So you know what? - I really missed this guy.

- Yep.

- Like, that's why the biggest documentary right now

that's sitting there. If it was done correctly, is the Kobe dock. But it'll never happen

'cause I think his wife just will never let it happen.

The way it could happen. But I think that would have the same impact. We're so many people love Kobe, that if they did that correctly, it would be the same thing. You're like, you know, I'm gonna watch that a fifth time.

I really missed this guy. - Yeah. And more to the point with Michael Jackson, I missed the version of Michael Jackson

That existed before I had to consider any of the others.

- 80s Michael Jackson. I missed that guy.

I missed just being able to have,

I missed the feeling of unbridled joy

that exists with me being dumb and not knowing.

And like, just now I'm, that's, that's super cool again another one. - Hulk Hogan, like I used to (laughs) I used to, I used to rip the shirt being a Hulk man.

- Yeah. - And he was a Hulk man. - I was a Hulk man. - Everyone was a Hulk man. - He was a Hulk man.

- Now, he was a, he would not have liked it. - He would not have liked me at all.

He would not have liked me, he would have said it.

Or he would have liked me until I tried to take his daughter out. - And he would have flipped. - And then he would have flipped out anyway. - I see what you mean about.

My wife says this all the time

was she'll be watching some movie or TV show

that she seems 1700 times and show is like, "I missed my friends." - Yeah. - Devor is proud of, I missed my friends. I'm gonna hang out with them again.

The Michael Jackson experienced something. I'm definitely gonna say it.

I won't say it in the theater,

but I'm gonna, when it's out on rental, I'm gonna rent it. - No, I should go see it in the theater. - You think? - Yeah, I could see it in the theater.

I like everyone that had any interest in the movie, because the reviews have been brutal. I have to keep it real. - The reviews have been hilarious. - They've been, yeah.

- They've been, yeah. - Yeah, because they really hated it.

But at the same time, the people that feel super connected

to Michael Jackson are going right into defense mode. I'm sure some of those people would be mad at me. I'm encouraging people to go see the movie in the theater because I think I saw it in IMAX. I think it plays best in the theater.

'Cause you wanna be a part of the concert experiences and things like that. But yet, not, not, not to me, a serious attempt at trying to tell a real story about somebody as consequential and important.

- So what's your Roger Ebert, four stars? How many of you go? - One, two, three. - One, two, three. - One, two, three. - I have Van Laith and good to see you.

Peace. (dramatic music) - All right, that's it for the podcast. Thanks to McShade, mench, thanks to Van. Thanks to Gahau and Eduardo as well.

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