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I remember being a local sportscaster and people coming up to me when I would go out and uh you know shank drives why do you guys talk about Tiger Woods? The dude won a U.S. Open at Pebble Beach by 15 strokes. And he was like, 21? I mean, come on. Wim Otani is better than I was told he was gonna be . Tiger Woods in his prime was better than the media guaranteed he would be. Wemby is 22 years old . He's better than I thought he would be . So when anybody says, oh, you guys are hyping stuff up, Tiger better than you would have guessed in his early 20s. He would go to Pebble Beach and win it, win a major over the world's best golfers by 15 strokes. Tiger for 10 years, there was a 10 year period where between the Sopranos and Tiger Woods and Majors, Sunday night was better during that season than the NFL season. I mean it was you you just could you had to be around a T V on Sundays. Tiger to major in the Sopranos. Okay, I just saw this. Um record setting NCAA tournament viewership continu es. Um apparently Duke and Yukon, CBS Sports is saying this, and TNT, uh, most watched tournament game, Duke Yukon uh since 1993. Uh Yukon Duke peak with 19 million viewers. Oh, interesting, despite no Cinderella team . Yeah. David v. Goliath is a fun story. Goliath vs. Goliath in the good old days sold more tickets. Um I don't want glass slippers in March. I want Jordan brand sneakers. I want big brands. I want Dodgers, Yankees, Cubs. My first day 20 years ago. It was almost 20 years ago today. It was I think it was April. I went on syndicated radio from local radio to syndicated radio. And I remember my first show. I said I said , you don't like underdogs. You say you do, but you like favorites. You go to watch Tom Cruise in the movie theater, not film noir . Right now, people go to Vegas to watch you two at the sphere, not the indie band . And um and this ratings indicates once again for the first time ever on this show. Yep., on Wednesday I usually do that in Monday. Let's do it on a Wednesday. Give me one more. Where Colin was right from day one. Thank you. Stop telling me you love Cinder ella. You You y you don't. It it's cute. Hopefully you guys are coming around to my side because when James Madison made the college football playoffs, finally everybody was like, what the hell are we doing with this? Give me a break . I mean you got SEC teams and Big Ten teams and you got Big Brands. The Avengers, Tom Cruise, Otani and the Dodgers , Michigan, the fighting alumni , Yukon , Arizona. It's gonna be I I think it'll be the highest rated final four. I mean in in a decade. And a lot of it's NIL. With that, let's bring out first things first. Nick Wright, the Nixter. Boy, is he exploded in pop. He is so popular now. Where did that come from? Well, you just I see I everywhere. It's poker. Oh yeah. It's your podcast. A lot of poker. Yeah. Oh, the podcast. Got great bosses there. You know, it is it's a collective effort. Good to see you, my friend. Great to see you. Okay, I threw this by the show this morning by the staff. Yeah. We know Andy Reed is part of Mahomes' success, probably the best coach. I I would argue once the rules change the offense, Belichick dropped, Reed flourished and he's arguably the second best coach I've ever seen to Bill Walsh. I mean I d honestly. So and we know f coaching matters in football. You can see a c a a guy go to a college program, Mike Frabel goes to the Patriots, Super Bowl. Like, right.? Yeah I watched JJ Reddick. He was a podcast host a year and a half ago. He walks into the Lakers, same roster. You know, he gets JJ right . First year, a little bumpy. This year', theyre setting records. They're efficiency through the roof. They're the best clutch team in the league. LeBron's getting older. Austin Reeves suddenly didn't Edwards. Lucas good. He's always been good. Is basketball coaching at the pro level . There's no recruiting here. It's not college. And I I'm saying this is a compliment to how darn good he is. But do we overvalu? How come Steve Kerr isn't winning anymore? How come Spoolstra is not winning titles? They don't have the guys. That Reddick's proving that it's a players' league, it always has been, and coaching's overrated in the NBA . Well, listen, I think that it is certainly not what coaching is in the NFL. That is obviously true. I do think it's more meaningful though than coaching or managing in major league baseball. And I do think that there are certain coaches can there are it's more often that a coach's weaknesses kneecap a team than his strengths elevate a team in the NBA, in my opinion. Good point with the rare exception of like the all-time great coaches this is gonna sound ridiculous, but are all-time great for a reason. They are they are uniquely gifted at certain things. Phil Jackson was just a great connector of people in dealing with these giant personalities and and finding a way to meet people on their level. I think Pat Riley, as a coach and then as a front office guy, a always kind of had a tactical vision and an understanding of the sport that separated him from others. Popovich was good seemingly at everything. I think JJ is ve I think he is very, very sharp as for on the little stuff, the out-of-time out plays. I think he took his medicine on the mistake he made in the playoffs on not subbing for a whole half and has tried to be a little less rigid. I so I don't know that JJ is yet a great coach, but I do think he has the kind of the bones of a potentially good coach as long as his own personality foibles that we've known about since he was at Duke don't get in his own way. But the biggest reason, and I'm glad we're starting here, that the Lakers look awesome is that old number 77. That when he comes up on this show, he's either you know a poor man's Carmelo Anthony or just the modern James Harden , or I'm sure there's some, you know, I I don't know if you've broken out even, you know, the Alex English comp. That guy scored a bunch, didn't defense, and you loved him as a kid. I know he was your favorite player . And all Lucas done is win player of the month in January. And now folks are like, oh, he just started playing good. No, he didn't. He was 45 a game, though, in October, granted just three games, the first month of the season, player of the month in January, had a rough February, and in March he has lit the league abla ze every single night. And what I w my frustration with some of the Luca commentary and then some of the MVP talk, which I know we'll get into, is folks are , I think, pretending like, oh yeah, we thought the Lakers would win 54 games and be the three-seed. Nobody did. They've smashed their over already. They have the same number of wins as Boston. They they might finish with the third best record in the entire NBA. Austin and Braun have missed 47 games this year. It's because of Luca. He is that transcendently great of an offensive player. And I know it can irk some folks because he does yell at the officials a lot, but he is a once in a lifetime offensive force of nature, Colin. Yeah, I wouldn't deny that. Um so I said before um or maybe the top of the hour, I said everybody talked about Tiger Woods, and then in his prime he was better. He was literally better. He was winning US Open by fifteen strokes. It's insane. And I think LeBron, frankly, is better than people said. I mean nobody thought I mean give me a break. If I'd have said all-time leading score, you'd be like, Well, he's a better passer. I mean he can score in high school twenty-eight a game. I'm watching Wemby. Okay, forget the defense where he literally has like forty-five more blocks than anybody and alters every possession. When he is hitting his three, and it's inconsistent . Nick, I've I said this yesterday . When LeBron came into the league, LeBron did things that even Michael couldn't because of his physical stature. Sure. But there are some things Michael's does better than LeBron . There are multiple things that Wemby does LeBron couldn't do. And I never thought I would defensively, LeBron can't physically, genetically, you can't do it. And offensively, if he if if Wemby is cutting to the basket, if you don't throw bodies at that, well it's over. I don't know how you don't know. Now we've gone too now we've gone too far again. Now we've now Wimby is in ro ute to being the greatest defensive player, if not ever, certainly since Bill Russell. Like a the that would be, and he already the the best defensive player I have ever seen in my lifetime is Akeem Olajuan. The second best is Tim Duncan. And you could argue that Wimby right now is already better than both of them. Okay? So like that part, that that part is undeniable. But Wimby's here is my and again, I think Wimby right now is third in the MVP race. I think the Spurs might be able to win the title. I think he is a great player, and they have they also have overachieved in an insane way. Nobody thought they would flirt with 60 wins, that they'd be the two seed. But you are now what you just told me is Wimby already can do things offensively that peak LeBron James couldn't do. I don't know what a single one of those things is. This year . Wimby is averaging a whole three more points, three than LeBron in year 23. LeBron in third, you know, the Swiss Army Knife third option LeBron's 21 a game. Wimby, who I think you're already comparing to Tiger at Pebble, is at 24 a game. Like uh Wimby is not yet a better offensive player, just offensive player than Devin Booker, much less a better offensive player than prime LeBron James. Let's be fair. LeBron was playing forty-six minutes. Wemby's minutes are minuscule. So per minute, his numbers are insane , but they are smartly protecting him because seven four is a body type that's hard to keep healthy. So I'm so glad you brought up the minutes because Wimby this year is one hundredth in the NBA in minutes. Yes. He has played five hundred fewer minutes than the guy I was talking about earlier, Luca, which is the equivalent of at thirty minutes a game, sixteen games fewer than Luca. So that that that gap in in Wimby's defensive impact versus Luca compared to Luca's offensive impact versus Wimby when you add Lucas played the equivalent of 16 additional games, that gap must be just a the sides of the Rock of Gibraltar. But set that aside . I am totally fine with the minutes conversation being a part of why someone says the Spurs are gonna win the title. If they're this good with him playing twenty-nine a game in the playoffs when he plays thirty-six, then how they're gonna be dominant. I I think the minutes conversation belongs there. If people wanna say this is why I think Wimby is going to be the greatest player of all time, because think about when he plays 34, 35 minutes a game. I think that's fair. If people want to say, I believe Wimby could average 30 a night if he played heavier minutes. I think that's fair. I do not think it is fair or with any precedent at all to use his lack of minutes as an argument for him to be MVP. MVP is not a hypothetical award. It is not a projection award. And I think when you have the season Shay is having and the season Luke is having to say, yeah, but what if Wimby was playing as much as them? He's not. And one of the taxes of not playing as much typically is you don't get all of the awards. Now maybe they'll win the title because of it, but I don't love the extra credit for not playing the which some people want to give to Wimby because everybody loves him. I mean the PR, this French kid who's never won anything and comes here and says we play ethical basketball and they, I mean, I it's unbelievable. Everybody's like, you know why the All-Star game was fixed? Because of Wimby. Well, I don't know. I know the Americans beat him twice. I I I don't I don't know. I I just know that we the this guy, Colin, can you imagine just thought exercise? If next year in year three, having won nothing, but he had won a playoff game, if Caleb Williams is asked around week 13 , hey, what do you think about you in the MVP race? And he goes right at Matt Stafford's throat, and he's like, Well, we dominated him when we played him. I think actually completion percentage is an overrated stat, and here's where escapability really matters . That's why I'm the MVP. You think the media would be like, man, love the gumption on that kid. And did you see the nail polish he added on when he said it? No. Wimby comes here and is like, here's why I'm the MV P, the Thunder, the defending champs, we dominated them. It's my award. And everyone's like, wow, refreshing. This is an odd media double standard with the seven foot-six French kid. That's all I'm saying. Go ahead. That's funny. So it's uh I got a couple of things. Let let's do let's let's stay let's do this one. Let's do this one. So um we we all know that um uh Cam Newton's career because he took so many shots, big Ben similarly, they age very quickly. Uh a Brady who avoided avoided sacks, practiced how to get sacked lasts forever. Right? Uh McVeigh and Stafford. Stafford, McVeigh. McVeigh, you know, he finds fifth rounders that help Stafford. He's elevated his career. He's a better Ram than he was a lion. He was good with both, but he's great now. And I look at the Knicks, and it's a really J Mac brought this up . I love Jalen Brunson. He's my favorite Nick ever. Ewing second, Carmelo. Well, Bernard King Ewing. Yeah. But he's small, he gets attacked on the defensive end. He is completely high, ball sc He's aging fast. He doesn't feel this year as good as last year. And my take is this is why the Knicks have to go after Giannis. They'll both be on the same timeline. It for different reasons. Giannis injuries is aging. Brunson stylistically. We know this usage rate. You have to go back to Jordan, number one usage rate, one in title. It wears guys down. And Brunson doesn't quite feel quite quite as good as last year. He's not going to age, I don't think, terribly well based on stylistically being attacked and having the ball. The Knicks have lost three straight. You can blame what you want. Why are they suddenly not good? And the Brunson idea that go get Giannis and the primary reason is your best current pla yer's career is going in about three years to not look the same. So I think that I don't want to be too harsh on the Knicks because I do think that they are they have a puncher's chance to come out of the Eastern Conference. But the fact that I have relegated them to puncher's chance makes this season already close to a catastrophe . They were with obviously with Indiana punting on the season, Boston was we thought going to be in you know in flux for a year. They beat Detroit in the playoffs last year. We thought that this was the Knicks moment to at least make a finals, the first finals this century. And instead, they feel to me like a third tier contender. Like that you would you you have oh the top tier for me, I know some would argue, but is OKC kinda by itself, but then also San Antonio, Boston, and I have the Lakers. Some would have the Lakers in the next one. That's fine. And then the next group to me is Denver, Minnesota, Detroit, and then you get to Cleveland, the Knicks, the and and that's that's really, really disappointing for the Knicks, and not where Houston would be in that group. Not where they're supposed to be. Yeah. And m listen, maybe Brunson's been an excellent playoff player. Maybe they can, you know, have a upset in round two and then you upset Boston in round two and change the narrative entirely. Obviously, I agree with you, if they could get Giannis, I think Giannis, at least in the short term, makes every team, basically every team, better. But they traded so many of their assets for bridges that I think that's going to be a hard trade to execute. Can I throw a different Can I throw a different option at you? Okay . Well what if you could just, you know, add a guy who's proven he can immediately become the best Swiss Army knife in the league for very little money for a final year in the league in LeBron James. Oh I think it'd be a good idea I think on this team. And you don't it w right . Brunson is playing the Luca role. Well, it's a good one. LeBron can like I LeBron probably is better served with a slightly higher usage than he has now in LA because he's deferring not just to Luca But he's proving I can fit anywhere and if I am asked to do less on offense, I can help you more on defense, be pretty good. Yeah. Lake Lakers could say, Hey, can we have bridges in that deal? We could use a we could use a wing to find it. Well, I don't know if they'd have to trade it. The thing is this: LeBron's a free agent. Right. LeBron can just leave. And we are I I know that it's all happy go lucky right now in LA. And I think that they have I sta I think that as Celtics are my pick to win the title, I would go Celtics my first pick, Thunder my second pick, and then I think the Lakers are right there with San Antonio as far as chances with Denver lurk So I don't know that he'll be back with the Lakers next year. And I think the Knicks are a pretty good fit. All right. Uh, first things first after our show. I gotta I gotta touch on this. So I said in August, I had somebody who I trust that had a very good relationship with Howie Roseman and the Eag les tell me Jalen Hurts is not well liked. He's hard to coach, can be stubborn. And then in November, Derek Gunn, a reporter in Philadelphia , respected reporter came out and said, Yeah, he's patting the ball, he won't run the plays. Then today Jeremy Fowler, respected journalist, comes out and says, Yeah, it's a problem, and everybody in the building knows it. And and and Nick, because the Eagles go through so many different coordinators, you know how people protect their careers. If you want to find information, go find somebody that got fired, replaced, they talk. And the Eagles just run through coordinat ors and they're very aggressive with players and front office people. Um you and I have always been, I think, like Brock Purdy, kind of doubters on this. I said earlier it feels very Russell Wilson. Hurts gets the credit when they win. None of the blame when they lose. You know, Pete Carroll preferred the run game. Nick Sari's on. Nick Seriani's like, let's throw less. That's not, nobody's doing that with Mahomes. Your take on the story the way today that was unveiled about problems in Philly with Hertz. So I I think the Russell the Russell Wilson comp is the one I've leaned on for quite some time where the neither was a first round pick, both you know went to multiple colleges, both nobody questioned their leadership or unique talents as a scrambler or as a rusher at the quarterback position, but there were questions about the being able to pass every quadrant of the field. Also the odd part of both of their best pass was the deep ball. There's a lot of similarities between the players. Yes. Um but uh including one a ton. Everywhere they went, one a ton. And they did have that it factor, which I think matters. Played a lot of their best games in their biggest moments. That's particularly true , obviously, historically with Jalen . But I also think that one of the reasons A.J. Brown in consecutive seasons could light that locker room on fire and remain popular amongst his teammates is because I think guys are like, well, somebody's gotta say it. I'm glad AJ will take the hit for us. I'm not saying AJ handled it the right way, but it no i if if everyone thought AJ Brown was as out of pocket as the media thought, he would not have had the support within the locker room that he did seem to have. And I think that the Eagles, J J listen, Jalen Hurts played Patrick Mahomes in back-to-back Super Bowls. In the first one, played excellent, came up short. In the second one, played the great. And they and they trounced my Chiefs. He will always have that. You can never ask question, can you win with Jalen Hurts? They did win. And they at one point won like twenty-one out of his twenty-two starts. That's all true. It's also true that you need a sp in my opinion, you need a specific type of team to have peak success with Jalen . He had that. I don't know that they have it anymore. And if he doesn't evolve as a more mature, pure passer . I think that they could have similar struggles. And the Eagles move off coaches and quarterbacks and coordinators, like the you say Howie Roseman, it's also Jeffrey Laurie. So I do think this is a critically important moment in Jalen's career. And I whenever you read an article where it says we talked with 12 team sources right after the owners' meetings and then the coaches' meetings with the coach team photo. It's like, man, it's a lot of noise in that building about it Jalen having such Nick right. Long segment. We we just we just points, so I kept you. You know, that's what I'm saying What I strive. Just one percent better every day, Colin. Great to see you, my friend. Nick Wright, first things first. And a heck of a podcast as well for a very uh rr reputable company, I will say that. Um the other thing, and I think we all admit this now, Tua, Kyler Murray, Jalen Hurts, Russell Wilson. Size matters at quarterback. You're looking at that video when we show Jalen Hurts video. I mean, he looks a foot shorter, and I'm not mocking it. It's just it's really hard to see over the middle of the field. And we went through this era where it's like, well, it doesn't matter. I like my quarterbacks like I like my furniture. Big and hard to move. I I I like big guys. I like six two and a half, six three and a half, two four. I like Fernando Mendoza. Six five, two forty-five. Big, trunky , can see over the line. That's what I like . One more herd? The herd streams twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week within the iHeartRadio app. Search herd to listen live or on demand whenever you'd like. Hey, it's me, Rob ker. Check out my weekly MLB podcast Inside the Parker for 22 minutes of pipe and hot baseball talk featuring the biggest names and newsmakers in the sport, whether you believe in analytics or the eye test, we've got all the bases covered. New episodes drop every Thursday. 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And also, hey, besides Lucas 42-piece, how about LeBron passing Kareem Abdul Jabbar, my dad's favorite player in NBA history. For most wins in the regular season and postseason combined, LeBron was kind of quiet last night. A couple thunderous dunks, 14, 5, and 6. Here are the most wins by player on the screen. Interesting. Two Lakers, followed by Tim Duncan, the Chief, Robert Parrish, and then Carl, the mailman Malone. LeBron just stacking records in NBA lore. Basically, he has all the important ones, which is why I have him as the GOAT. Um Well, I mean Bill Russell got eleven titles. That's the most important thing. Games played, wins, points, assists, all-stars. I don't know why all-stars. Second and assists all time. He's got a very redeemable career. Absolutely. Redeemable career . He 's been a gold mine for this show for for Colin Coward and his brand. I have been a LeBron fan. I'm a LeBron fan. I I do think he fits eventually better elsewhere, unless he takes a massive pay cut, then he's certainly welcome back. Yeah. Hey, real quick, um, to to go back, uh, you know, you talked about LeBron and the Lakers' chances in the playoffs. You mentioned Minnesota as a scary team. So I spent the better part of an hour analyzing that series last year against Minnesota. So yeah, the Lakers got smoked. Um but it was it was different. Uh LeBron was like the number two guy clearly last year. Yeah. Austin Reeves was three, and oh by the way, he was hurt. He had a major toe injury that almost required surgery. So his numbers were way down. So he had a major toe injury that almost required surgery. That's why they lost the series. No, no. He let me finish. So he was not as good as he was in the regular season. I mean, you've got why are you laughing? DeAndre A yton, integral role players. I'm not worried about the Timberwolves. Lakers swept them in the regular season pretty handily. Um Nikhail Alexander Walker from Minnesota. Uh we know Chris Finch is uh a friend of the show. One of my favorite guys. Is Ant still playing? Is Randall still playing? Is Jaden McDaniel still playing? Glad you brought up Randall. He had singularly the greatest series in playoff history that he's ever had against the Lakers. Wow. He never shoots that well from three or from the field. Why would he? Because they can't defend their spending so much time trying to stop and so Randall was open. Randall's always been a more than capable scorer. Julius Randle has had a very nice career, hadn't had a lot of great playoff series, but the reason he scored against the Lakers, they didn't have anybody that could shut down Ant, so they had to build their defensive game plans around stopping him. Julius Randle gets thrown out like he can't play. I mean, what is his career average? 18? He's a he I mean it's higher than that, isn't it? Well I mean he's a real higher than that, but it's a shooting percentage where he just will take bad shots, miss a lot of shots. Hey by the way, Marcus Smart, don't look at how he locked up. As as the kids say they put the seatbelt on Anthony Edwards in the last meeting. Uh he was like one of fourteen. You like the seatbelt? I do that sometimes in league games. Oh I've been. You're a real pleasure. You putting the seatbelt on who? The other five-four guy? All right. Oh my god. You love those digs. Hey, personally, I like the jabs. It's funny. Uh, all right, let's move on to George Pickens, who nobody can put a seatbelt on. That guy's unbelievable. He's pretty dominant. Also, um, he's probably not showing up for voluntary OTAs. Jerry Jones gave this incredible soundbite when asked about pickets . to agents. I need to do a better job of not getting uh uh well daddy said I could have it and uh him going to mama and mama saying uh daddy said I could have it. Uh we've gotta get on the same page and I have something to do with that. It always works out if uh if he worked without an agent, he'd save a lot of money. Do you anticipate going into with me? Are you I mean this is happening again, Colin. Well, agents, you know, they um they charge you a fee. Do you want to know who Pickens agent is? Who? David Mullighetta. Oh, yeah. Same guy who uh got into it with Jerry over Micah Parsons. So clearly he's making this personal. And you know, in the political space now everything is personal. Who's got to be Jerry Jones has a personal issue with this guy. Okay, but who's got the power? Well, uh don't don't tell me it's Jerry Jones. Uh is it Jerry? Yeah. I mean George Pickens. Really? What power does he have? Just 'cause he's a billionaire? He hasn't won a damn thing. He has the longest championship playoff drought in the NFC. Longer than the Panthers. He's got CD Saints. He's got C D Lamb. He's got a number one. There's always a dozen wide receivers in college who can come and play every year. Uh the the agents don't have the leverage. Okay. I mean so and the really good players like JSN, the GM signed them. There's never a head. Larry Fitzgerald didn't have contract many contract disputes. You know, if you're if you're a great Aaron Donald, you know, Matt Stafford, you figure it out. I I it, you know, if it's owner and agent, I don't want to hear the agents got the power. Sounds a lot like what Jerry was saying when they moved off Micah Parsons. Oh, yeah, we got the power. A lot of a lot of defensive end, edge rushers out there. How'd that work out? Now they're they're trying to get Max Crosby. I see Bruce Feldman's Did you see Bruce Feldman's mock draft just dropped? He had the Cowboys trading up to get David Bailey at three. That's how desperate they are for a pass rusher. First of all, that's a mock draft. Second of all. How did the Packers do with Micah Parsons? Oh, seventh, and then they didn't last long. They were great until he busted up his leg and he was out for the season. I mean, come on. Listen. I I know we like Jerry Jones and you know he's had a great run. He's a rich guy. He he's just pushing all the wrong buttons. Now you're needling the agent of Pickens who you already got into it with six months ago and lost Michael Parsons? A battle by the way he lost? I can't believe you're defending Jim. You and your billionaire Ilk, you rich guys all hang out. What what do they call um uh coastal elites? Yeah, oil money. Yeah, whatever. Fin al story is the New York Giants, your team of destiny. Yeah. For 2026. So John Harbaugh has been taking some heat because allegedly, you know, Joe Shane has no power now. He's the GM in name only. But at the league meetings, Harbaugh was talking about how happy he is with the partnership and they're working together. And he's really saying all the right thing. Look, there they are. Colin, it's just one happy family. It's all peachy in New York. I cannot wait. I'm telling you, the two teams in the draft I'm fascinated by are the Giants, who I think should move down, and the Dolphins, who I think should move up. I think the Giants draft is the Giants need a right tackle. They're seven in the first two rounds they can get. They don't need, and and and I'm not sure if the Utah tackle, Feno , is worthy of their pick. He's closer to 10, 12, 13. I would love to see the Giants trade back five, six spots, get another third round pick, fourth round pick, and I would love to see the Dolphins go up and get you know, Carnell Tate uh they don't need a running back. It's about the only thing they don't need is a quarterback and a running back. But the j the the Dolphins have four third round picks. Would I give up one to go get the best right tackle available? Absolutely. I'd like to see, I'd like to see the Dolphins use a third round pick, one of their four, move up, just a couple of spots, and go get that right tackle. If Jeremiah Love, Caleb Downs, like a real can't miss guy. Well, there's talk that the uh Giants are interested in Caleb Downs because of what Harbaugh's success with that defense was with um Kyle. Kyle Hamilton from Hamilton. And then the you know the the whole linebacker situation. Sonny styles is being pegged there. But it this Giants stuff is interesting, Colin. When I did my list of Jalen Hurts teams, I had yes, and then I had maybe's. We'll see after the season. And the Giants are a maybe. Because I don't know what Jackson Dart's gonna be. And if they're like a seven-win team and they don't make the playoffs, I think they could go hunting for a quarterback. Now in the division's tough. But do I mean Jackson Dart? You think he's taking him to the promised land ? I think Jackson Dart can win the division . Next year? Yeah. You saw you saw the story on Jalen Hurts, didn't you? Okay, so rank the quarterbacks in the NFC East while we're on it . Jaden Daniels, Dak . By the end of the year, Jackson Dart, Jalen Hurt. If if you had said Dart ahead of d I would literally walk off the set. Jalen Hurts was a Super Bowl MVP like 15 months ago. Nick Foles beat Tom Brady in a Super Bowl. Yeah, that was like eight years ago. I'm talking 15 months ago. So Jalen Hurts is now behind Jackson Dart. Cow Heard. Come on, bro. I thought you were having a great show with it. You were pitching a perfect sh perfect game earlier. And now you're just hemorrhaging. They're warming up guys in the bullpen right now with that Jackson dart take. Come on. J Mack with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The Herd Lie News. Mark Cuban saying it. I don't know if I'm buying it next .