>> Most underrated athlete right now.
>> You know, you can get me credit for the topic, but it's not as easy to do. >> But I really like that. I'm like, shit, that fucking makes my head spin a lot. >> Yeah, because I actually try to think about it.
I'm in the shower, I'm like, fuck.
“I think it's easier to talk about all time, most underrated players”
to think modern day, I mean, I think that's tough. I think just the easy one, obviously I watched the dolphins a lot. And I can pair these together. I think underrated's got to be, you can tie them together. Aaron Brewer and Patrick Paul.
You know, Aaron Brewer when he came here, people thought,
who is this guy, he's undersized, he's never going to hold it down in the middle.
He's turned into an all-pro center, like, he does this thing weekend and weak out. Patrick Paul, when we drafted him, everybody said what? At this high, like, what are you doing? He had bad faith, bad hand placement.
Rawls can be, they had no shot at development. And then he's sit behind Armstaff for one year, and he starts this year for the first time. And he's just plugging play for get about it.
“So to me, I think most of those guys are highly underrated.”
And Patrick Paul, a little deserving, I mean, first year starting, I get that. But nonetheless, those guys are awesome. >> Brewer for sure, I mean, shit, didn't even make the first, what is it though, probal, probal, but it was like this team, all probal. >> Yeah. >> Make it make sense.
>> I got an underrated athlete for you. Not just somebody in specific, but all hockey players. I think hockey is one of those. >> I agree. >> From one year, learn how to be coordinated and to skate.
You're hitting each other. You're using the puck. There's so many different things that go in the hockey. I think it's very difficult. And then, we got to give a shout out to our boy, Chuck, right?
When you look at somebody who was coming off an injury, right? He was out for most of the season, comes back to play with the Panthers. And then just gets thrown right into this trip with United States. I mean, shout out to him, I think people aren't giving him the kudos that he deserves. They're obviously he's a top player in the NHL, but look at someone who's just coming off
a major injury, got back mid-season for his regular season team is now playing for the Olympics. I think that's something definitely that hasn't been highlighted as much. Going into how difficult hockey really is for guys. And the told that they take on their bodies, I mean, you get to the end of the season. You realize that you have six bruise ribs, a concussion, you have all these no teeth.
You got fake teeth in dentures. So I think that's something that's definitely underrated that people don't realize. Yeah. To piggyback on New Wingo, I like that's a great thing. That's, I was actually going to go to the hockey rod as well. And the fact that you took all the hockey players is actually, like it's true.
It's always underrated sport and I was playing with broken sternum. It's crazy, but for me, kind of like you mentioned Chuckie, right?
Somebody who I don't think is as underrated anymore because of the run that we've had these last two years. But people are always, always sleeping on barcoff, right? And barcoff is somebody that in these two years people have come to realize, obviously how good he is now, right? He's not as underrated as he was, maybe just two years ago. But barcoff has been this guy for years, like eight years at this point.
And I think it's even, you're even seeing it now with this current panther's team, like, obviously we've missed him the entire year. And now that, like, we're not like fully struggling struggling, but like we're, we're going to have to make a big push against the playoffs. And missing barcoff is such a huge piece. So I think like in pairing with Chuckie, because Chuckie's also been out, like how important those two guys are to us, but also just like
lead why, because everyone talks about obviously, make David, dry side, or like in my opinion, I think barcoff is the second best player in the NHL. And that's my take. I think barcoff, Conorimate David is number one, like he is, he's ridiculous. Barcoff for me, I think, is, it should be in the discussion for the second best player in the NHL. And he's rarely was in that conversation. Now he's kind of entered it in terms of, like,
people consider him like probably top five. I would assume five. Grange, but I think he's number two. So yeah, no, I agree. Hockey players are, I don't know, as far as, like, athletic abilities. Yeah, because they're doing all that shit on ice. Yeah. Like, yeah, it's insane. People can't do that on land. You know, it's funny. By the way, underrated. Well, you know what? I'm going to make this as my take. I'll make it after.
“Right. One of the things, one of the early thing, you guys remember the show Sports Science?”
Yes. Yeah, that's great. So one of my favorite, I just, I remember this like vividly, is they had a thing about what sport, like, who sweats the most after a game. And the winner was actually hockey. Like, they had technically the least amount, or one of the
least amount of time because they're always interchanging. But even those short spurts that they're on
there, they are doing so much. They're a great person. So much. Exactly. That they actually even being in the ice and the cool, they are, they finish a game and like, they are the one the most. The sweaty as athletes of all. And until you look at like your stories of these gollies,
Who will drop like 15 pounds in a game.
they're just like, they're just like, oh, all those little moves constantly. Like, it's draining.
“You're balancing the whole time. Like, you've got to be engaged at all times. You're not on flat”
land. Like, it's absurd. It is crazy. Which I was going to go, you know, very similar route to like Wingo, general, you know, general athlete, which I'm going to give him a little love, right? Is those PGA tour guys that are 140, right? Where shit's coming out of their pocket. No one's really seeing the grind that, you know, those guys are going and they're fighting to make cuts. It's expensive. You pay for your travel. You pay for your cat. You pay for your coach, right? All
these things. You might get some sponsors and stuff like that that help eat some of the costs
“throughout the year. But those guys are grinding, right? And you've seen guys like Jake Naps, right?”
Yeah, that they come out of nowhere, 150 plus and then all of a sudden are, now in the thick of it, it makes out a ton of money, right? But it is a grind to be those guys. But when we were having this hockey talk, the referees, bro. All three athletes, bro. Yes, three. Those folks are coming under and they're jumping up in the air, landing smooth on their feet, dodging pucks, sprinting up and down the ice, like talk about athletes, bro. Those, I picture myself being a referee on
ice and you're just thinking, oh, you just got to watch the game, make sure no penalties break up a fight here there. Fuck, no, bro. Those guys, every time I see that guy jump, clear in the air over a puck and land one that instincts to react and real time to upcoming God knows how fast that you and then land on the ice and then just keep moving like if nothing happened, breaking
up fights, being in the thick of it. Always on the ice up and back up and down, bro. And they
don't have those, uh, intermission periods, you know, like some of these players have, like obviously intermission of the actual periods ending, but like they're not getting on and off the ice, like they're up and down the whole time. So shout out the rafts and hockey because it is impressive. What, what they do. Yeah. Well, since we were going to go for a cup. I was just got me and Joe was actually on the phone this morning and we were talking about the kid from Oregon coming on
this draft. He's a white safety and I remember at first I really didn't like them and then I was like
man, we got to get him in the second round. And this morning a report that came out and said, after the combat, he might be a talk 20-pick. Wow. And I was like, dude, it's so crazy. And we started thinking about it. When was the last like real good, like white safety? There's not there's only a few and there's like one for every decade. And that made me realize the most underrated
“player in the league might be Harrison Smith for the Vikings. Wow. I think you're going to go”
like, dude, he's a talk. Yeah. No one talks about Harrison Smith. That dude has been a dog for 15 straight years. Yeah. Yeah. That dude is like, we'll come down and knock him on the focus head off. And then take a pick six 90 yards and he's like 33 at this point. And like, no one talks about Harrison Smith. That dude has had no decline in 12 years. He is a dog. That's a dog. That's a dog. People do not talk about him. I know I was being like one of those safety's like, he's how long
he's been in the league now. Better for a while. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I get it. I like it.
