00:00What's your excitement level for Canes, Knights, Stanley Cup?
00:06I'm not going to say, I'm not even nowhere close to a 7, but I will watch some of the
00:11games.
00:12The thing about me...
00:14Stanley Cup Final Hockey is so good.
00:15I love Stanley Cup Final Hockey, but if the Caps are in it, I'll probably be there, I'll be a
00:2110.
00:22The Caps are in it, be a 30.
00:23These are people that I don't really watch very often.
00:27The Canes, I don't like.
00:30I'm going to watch some games, but I'm not going to be like, if I'm out somewhere, I'm not going
00:35to rush to go find it.
00:36I'm not going to be asking people to turn it to it.
00:37If it's on, I'll sit there and watch it.
00:40So that's where I'm at with it.
00:42I didn't know it started tonight.
00:44So that kind of tells you...
00:46But you never know when hockey starts.
00:48Hockey just pops up on you.
00:50I think when you look at the basketball, football, even baseball, they are constantly running.
00:59You know, things telling you, hey, this is going to come on, promotions.
01:02They don't do that with hockey all the time.
01:04So there's a number of ways I could have been more interested.
01:08One, I do not like the Carolina Hurricanes.
01:11That's one.
01:13Like, if Montreal broke through and it was a chance for Canada to get their first cup since 92 or
01:19whatever it is, 93 maybe, that would give me a storyline I'm interested in.
01:23Okay.
01:24Plus, when you watch those games at Montreal, the place is on fire.
01:29Like, it's just such an amazing crowd that I'm into it.
01:33If the avalanche had gotten through, I'd be interested, and this is purely selfish, because I predicted it was going
01:40to be the Canes versus the Avs.
01:41Yeah.
01:42So I just would have felt validated in my prediction.
01:45If Anaheim had gotten through, I'd be into it for John Carlson.
01:48Like, I could have talked myself into a lot of interesting points.
01:52Mm-hmm.
01:53Vegas, Carolina ain't it, though.
01:55Now, like you, I will end up in my chair on my porch with hockey on at some point, undoubtedly,
02:02because the actual product on the ice is so excellent that I'm going to want to watch it.
02:09But I'm rooting for Vegas, I guess.
02:11You're rooting for Vegas?
02:13Yeah.
02:14Because what's the cap?
02:15I remember I was trying to think of the guy's name that left the caps and went there, and they
02:19had their little...
02:20Stall.
02:21No, it wasn't stall.
02:22They left the caps.
02:23When they had their little draft, when they first came into the league.
02:28Yeah, the expansion draft.
02:28And they took him.
02:29And that's why I've always...
02:30And I liked that dude when he was here.
02:32He was cool as hell.
02:33The guy, he always smiled a lot.
02:35He had, like, blondish hair, I think.
02:36Kerwin will text us, because he knows he's in this person.
02:38Kerwin did it last time.
02:39Yeah.
02:39He sent it last time.
02:40Waiting to hear from Chris.
02:41I'll pull it for them, because he was there.
02:43And I like Vegas.
02:44Yeah, I mean, I'm just...
02:46I'm not rooting for...
02:48Not Koozie, Joey, you dummy.
02:50I just...
02:52Joey just...
02:52I'm not even talking to you, Joey.
02:56All right, so that was your Stanley Cup preview from B. Mitch and Finley.
03:00Jeff, J-Dawg's forever, I guess.
03:02Damn, I'm conflicted.
03:04But in about...
03:05We should be hearing from David Blau here in a few minutes, and he's an insightful dude.
03:09You gotta listen close, but he's an insightful dude.
03:14Something interesting, though, B, the Patriots were in the Super Bowl this past year.
03:21Now, you could argue that kind of their run-up to the Super Bowl was a little enhanced.
03:25They got some good breaks along the way.
03:27But whatever.
03:28They were in the Super Bowl.
03:28It happens.
03:30The Rams have won a Super Bowl within the last five years, and we're in the NFC Championship game.
03:35And frankly, that NFC Championship game really could have gone either way.
03:39That was a tight game till the end.
03:41I think you could argue that was kind of the Super Bowl.
03:42Whoever was winning that was going to win the next one.
03:47Both the Rams have made the biggest move across the NFL to add Miles Garrett.
03:54Nate Schmidt buries for Lugas 6.
03:56There we go.
03:56There you go.
03:57Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
03:58Yes.
03:59Thank you, Barry.
04:00I was Googling it.
04:02But you gotta write some damn words to do that.
04:05It is good to know people are listening.
04:06Yeah.
04:07So, the Rams have made another exceptional move to try to win another Lombardi trophy.
04:14Yep.
04:16The Patriots have made a big move.
04:19Now, they had Steph Diggs, who had a good year there.
04:21A.J. Brown's at a different stage of his career.
04:22I think A.J. Brown, with a quarterback, at least based on last year, who's significantly better than Hurts, could
04:32really unlock A.J. in a lot of ways.
04:34I mean, this is a dude that's not scared to be physical, not scared to play in the middle of
04:37the field, and Jalen Hurts doesn't like to throw it in the middle of the field.
04:40Drake May will and does.
04:44Those two teams did a lot to build.
04:47Now, Washington, just two years ago, was in the NFC title game.
04:50They had an aggressive free agency period, but nothing like either of those moves.
04:56Do you think Washington is...
05:02Do you think they should have been more aggressive this offseason, seeing what some of these better teams did?
05:07I think they were aggressive to the point of what they were trying to build.
05:11Watching some of these other teams, I think what L.A. just did is basically, we got one more year
05:18with Matt.
05:18We're trying to go for it.
05:21What the Patriots did, we've been hearing about this possibility before the season ended.
05:26And then all of a sudden, all offseason, it was there.
05:28I don't think...
05:30Well, and A.J. Brown now is claiming he's a lifelong Patriots fan, and this is where he wanted to
05:35be all along.
05:36Whatever, however it goes.
05:38But my whole thing is, how aggressive were they?
05:43They can't fix everything at one time.
05:48To me, look at the 25 season, where you trade for Laramie Tunsil and you trade for Debo.
05:54Those were bigger moves.
05:56Those were bigger swings.
05:58And then they were relatively quiet in pre-agency.
06:01This year, they were pretty aggressive, I would say, in pre-agency.
06:05I mean, Adafi Elway got a big old contract.
06:08They were in on, but didn't go to the finish line for Alec Pierce or Romeo Dobbs.
06:12And frankly, I'm kind of okay with that, especially the Pierce thing.
06:15The Pierce money...
06:17Remember how...
06:20Remember NFTs during COVID?
06:22Yeah, yeah.
06:22NFTs were all through the roof, right?
06:24Yeah.
06:24I think that was a byproduct of people having too much money and nowhere to go with it.
06:29Having nothing to do.
06:29Right.
06:30Yeah.
06:30Like, Alec Pierce getting the 29 mil a year, I think, was a down receiver free agency market and a
06:36salary cap that's exploding.
06:38I think that's how you land at that salary.
06:40Right place, right time.
06:42A.J. Brown is a different beast entirely.
06:46But keep in mind, this is now a player traded for the second time.
06:50Yeah.
06:51And generally, when you see a player moved around that frequently, there's something with the player.
06:56Yeah.
06:56It might be a very good player, but there's something.
06:59It could be that.
07:00But the whole thing about it is, he left from a place where he must have been cool with the
07:04coach, and now the coach is running things, and they're trying to get him back.
07:09But I think that's a deal where Washington wasn't going to get involved with that.
07:13No.
07:13I don't think the Eagles are going to work with him.
07:15No.
07:15With them.
07:16You know, so when we see these other moves, I think it's got to get to the point where we
07:21see somebody else make a move, and that automatically starts thinking, well, why didn't this team do that?
07:26Because they weren't talking to him.
07:29But beyond that, because I don't think the Commanders had any shot at Garrett, and I don't think really they
07:36had any shot at Brown.
07:37Do you think they did enough in their approach this offseason to be a playoff team again?
07:45I think yes, because I feel if the defense is much better, the offense with Jaden Daniels will be better.
07:54Because everyone wants to just talk about getting another receiver, this, that, and the other.
07:59If the defense is giving up 30, I don't give a damn who you get.
08:02You're going to put pressure and stress and make the quarterback think he's got to be Superman, and he's going
08:08to end up in a bad predicament.
08:10If the defense can hinder people, slow them down, all of a sudden we're back until 2024.
08:15Well, you give them a chance to the end, and then I'll put my money on Jaden late in the
08:19game.
08:20So, to that point, they had the historically bad stretch where they lost four straight games by three touchdowns or
08:28more, right?
08:29Two of those games, at Dallas and home against Seattle, those were name-your-score games.
08:34Like, Dallas could have put up 60.
08:36Seattle could have put up 60.
08:38They were doing whatever they wanted and then eventually kind of called the dogs off for most of the second
08:43half.
08:44It wouldn't have mattered if Jaden was completely lights out.
08:48They were losing those ballgames.
08:50Yeah, I understand that.
08:51I'm agreeing with you.
08:52So, my thing is, I think I mentioned this to you heavy double-digit years ago.
08:58When Coach Gibbs said, if we score three touchdowns and a field goal, you win the football game.
09:04That's saying you need to score 24 points.
09:06So, if your defense can stop people from scoring 21, you win the damn game, right?
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