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Introduction & Show Promotion
00:00:00
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O-O, Juno, Bottom Line, Ford Show, Master Plan, Flo, Ken, G, N-O, I-D-J, O-Show, Ford Professor, nose-wind, Ali, you jammin' in, them toes never fold out to win them boys with better ends. I need my hands, I need my hands, I need my hands, I need my hands, I need my hands, I need my hands, I need my hands, I need my hands, I need my hands,
00:00:33
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Street professor back again it's game time, a la playa no playtime, it's a playa cause we ain't talking about practice like AI, sports professor spit the best takes out like AI, up for the intelligent AI, can't right mind, rhyme siding with girls DMs like Messi after the goal time, that was a triple hundred, did you get any rambling? You still been some old miles, we the bottom line champions, I need my hands, just like this world, and they should say
00:01:03
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Bottom line, flow, canteen, hot take JKNO For the professor on the show, you know it's free Yo, street professor, I'm back baby Like I never left Bottom line, flow, canteen, hot take JKNO Listen in action and it potatoes where's the potato chip man? chipre this
00:01:38
Speaker
now is ta down I don't know. yeahs what me He said he taking down this place from the fourth to the last. He said he popping some fireworks. What are you talking about?
MLB Standings & All-Star Break Impact
00:01:48
Speaker
In the comments however you want to find us at the Bottom Line Sports. The Bottom Line Sports. All social media platforms. All social media platforms. All platforms. YouTube.
00:02:06
Speaker
Hey Flo. Yeah. This show right here, man. Yeah. That's my hey you got my favorite background. music This show reminds me ah probably about eight, nine months ago. Eight, nine months ago, we were in Dallas, man. and Yeah. but man It reminds me of Dallas show tonight. We were over at that Airbnb with Omar. And oh yeah all the others came a loose and we went A-Y crazy, man. And then, it knock hey, things happen, man, but we ah we digress. We are resilient. At the bottom line, we are resilient and we bounce back. We can be in a stadium. We can be in a van. We can be in a bathroom. It does not matter. We find ways to make things happen, bro. We find a way to make it happen.
00:03:10
Speaker
Yeah, I'm on the road doing it all man, thanks for gonna show appreciate everybody on the 5 or on the repeat appreciate you guys talk a little football a Little NBA talk a little MLP Maybe a little Olympic sitting there. You got some MLB for us, can't you? 10 of the men, that's Batman. Yeah man, so hey man, as we look at the Major League Baseball stuff, man, we're looking at the American League East right now. The Orioles are still in first place there at 57 and 33. The Yankees are slightly three games behind them at 55 and 37. Red Sox are falling off.
00:03:47
Speaker
yeah connect the yanges are falling out so hey If you throwing potato chips at light fireworks, your team is stalling baby. Let's try to eat some more chips. Hey, the Rays, and the Rays are 13 games behind, and the Blues days are actually 16 games behind. The American League Central, the Guardians are still atop of that division at 56-33, and the Twins falling behind them with five games behind. I really don't see much coming from the Royals, Tigers, or the White Sox. The White Sox play 32 games behind, Tigers play 14 games behind in the Rose 8 games. When we look at the the closest division that seems to have the most to be the most friction and seems that this division may be a toss up. The Mariners are at 49 and 43 on top of that division over 500. Then you have the Astros over 500 at 46 and 44 at two games behind. But the Rangers man, the Rangers are playing prominent baseball right now and the Rangers are at 43 and 48 with five and a half games behind man.
00:04:54
Speaker
So I mean, i mean that that's what we have out for the American League. When we look at the National League, bill is are fifty eight thirty two the The Braves are seven and a half games behind. I think the Braves, if they get healthy and they get on the right glide, the Braves may be a team that we may see that may be able to do some damage with the playoffs. But everybody else that was that is within the National League East, the americarick the Marlins are 26 games behind, the Nationals are 17 games behind. and the Mets are 14 games, man. So I don't really see too much from those three teams, but I do see the Braves being able to peak and make something happen within the rest of the baseball season. As we come upon the All-Star break, which is the All-Star break, because actually this weekend coming up, the All-Star break is this weekend. All-Star break began. Y'all can't see All-Star break that major league baseball All-Star break. It'd be some fun. Yeah, like I said, they're already putting out some of these
00:05:59
Speaker
No Wildcard is Yankee in the twins and the Red Sox there
00:06:09
Speaker
And then nationally, you would have the number one slot in the Dodgers and the Brewers. The Brewers are at 53 and 38. Right. And they're only... They're on the big wild card right now. Yeah. And then the Cardinals have four and a half games. They're at 48, 42 behind. That would be the number two wild card slot. They're behind the Brewers. And then you have the Dodgers, 55, 36. But then the Padres are seven and a half games behind the Dodgers, man. Man, bro, as I said earlier, man, I think there's a toss up across the whole Major League Baseball platform right now. I think once we get through this all-star weekend, bro, I mean, you got to look at it, bro. We're essentially we're halfway through July, bro. Right. I mean, after Sunday, we'll only have, what, 15, 16 days left in the month, bro. And then you got to think about it, man.
MLB Playoff Predictions
00:07:01
Speaker
All this is going to roll in here hot and heavy, man.
00:07:03
Speaker
You got pre-season the football kicking off on like August the 5th with the Hall of Fame game. Baseball will take its peak. College football kicking off on the 31st. So there's so much that's going to transpire within like the next 60 days, man. And what I'm saying for baseball teams, man, I mean, you need to be, you know, relaxer and all-star break, but really be ready to come out and play and swing and play your major baseball rather than all-star break because you're going to separate them in front of boys at that point, bro. Yeah. Yeah, right now, I mean, the royals and the Astros are out. The Rays are out. Yeah. The Rams are out right now. Diamondbacks, the Mets are out. Giants are out. And so a lot of teams that were in the playoffs last year are out right now. They won't even see it this year.
00:07:54
Speaker
But we'll see. I mean, they're not out of it completely right now. If the playoffs start today, they'd be out. So a lot of work for some of these teams coming out of the All-Star break. Who do you see making a push who's not currently in the All-Star, currently in the playoffs right now, as we speak? push plug get in cause You got the Royals right there, the Astros and the Rays over there in the American League. And then you've got the Diamondbacks, Mets and the Giants.
00:08:24
Speaker
right behind who hos the Cardinals there. I don't know. Do you see a team kind of going getting hot after the all-star break? Man, right now,
00:08:39
Speaker
I would say, who did you say from the American League that you that you thought would be hot? I'm just saying from the American League, the Royals are just outside of the wild card, both Astros and the Rays. And then the Rangers are next after that. Man, right now?
00:09:00
Speaker
Man, probably the Astros, man. okay that The Astros, well, they currently sit at 46 and 44. They're playing at 0.511, 0.500. They're three-and-a-half games off from the playoffs. Yeah, I see them being at perennial power-outs. I see them being able to, but like I said, Flo, there's so much baseball left,
Team USA Basketball for Olympics
00:09:22
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in man. Like I said, you know, I've never watched that Major League Baseball. I don't see, I don't know how these guys take the home run derby and all their games seriously. But I think after these guys get through next week, after Sunday, Monday, whatever, man, I think these guys that really want to play and really want to go on. A push man, like got say I said, I counted the braids out, but I think man the braids may shake back. That shows look really, really, really good man. and I really want to see if the Orioles can make a push and stay above the miracle they keep.
00:09:59
Speaker
Yeah, we'll see what happens. Let us know what you guys think. We're going to make the playoffs, maybe not in the playoffs right now. The Astros, you know, certainly they're, they're formidable. The Royals have been a surprise team this year. Let's see if they can finish the season and and get in the playoffs. And of course, in the Imagine Day, the Diamondbacks were a playoff team back here. That's how they made it in the wild. They're right there. So I'm sure Omar,
00:10:35
Speaker
So we'll see. Let us know what you think, which team when she will get hot out there after the all-star break and make a push for the playoffs in the Major League Baseball. small Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. All right, Canteen, give me up for baseball. That's what I got for baseball, bro. OK. All right. So Team USA, some people say this is the deepest team that USA has had in basketball, in the Olympics. You know, it's double elimination. What do you think, Canteen? As it's just me and you, we'll talk about the story back and forth. But Team USA is obviously the favorite team in the goal. But there's a lot of teams that have a lot of NBA players. Reese has got Giannis. Canada's got like four or five NBA players. SGA, they have Brooks. They have Jamal Murray. Where's Schroeder playing, man? Remember that kid Schroeder? I don't know. I don't know if he's playing on the Olympics. He's not playing on the Olympics. But what is more likely to happen, you think, Canteen, is it more likely
00:12:00
Speaker
USA basketball team. Does it go undefeated? Or is it more likely that it loops a game? Or is it more likely that it loops a game? Let me run through a few names first. And this ah this is to me, this is delivered by everything, man. Bam out of Bayou, St. Devon Bush, Curry, David, Grant. I mean, Anthony Edwards, if you look at the men's Olympic team, MB, caliber.
00:12:36
Speaker
they I think the U.S. has all the powerhouse players from each team, from each conference. And surprisingly, Canteen. Steph Curry has never won a gold medal. I'm not a big fan of Steve Kirby and the head coach. You know, I got my reserve feeling about Kurt. I think Kurt trash. I think he washed up.
00:13:00
Speaker
As a coach, come on, man.
00:13:06
Speaker
I like sports, Drew. I love Tyron, Lou, and I love Martin, you're the coach that set up. Is the more likely they can still get the gold or they just carve anyway? They may slip up and lose one. OK. OK. Who do you think beats them, baby? man they probably won't meet Canada until later on we'll see uh they probably gonna play they're gonna play Serbia Greece with Giannis but they got and not no and no no no no let me take this back they they got they got Canada early on bro oh they do they got Canada too high ten okay so i think but
00:13:55
Speaker
Go ahead. I'm talking about when the Olympics start. The Olympics don't start until the 26th of July. Oh yeah, yeah. So they start out with Serbia. So they start out July 28th, they got Serbia, then they got South Sudan, Puerto Rico. South Sudan ain't gonna make it, I don't think. Nah, man. it's It's hard to say, man, the way the stage is set now, I think they might have a field they broke. They they got all the guns, bro. When they when they when they selected the men's team, they got all the heavy hitters. All the heavy hitters, man. Yeah. OK. They may go for the good start and not lose at all. So who do you put as your starters then, right there? Who do you start? Man, bro, I'm going with LeBron. LeBron.
00:14:48
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And then we'll go, uh, Anthony Davis, Curry, uh, probably Halliburton, and Bam out about you.
00:15:06
Speaker
Are you kidding me, man? Who's going with it? Man, you got, you got a Who? MB. He's a good boy guy. Okay, so you start MB at five. MB at the five. I would probably put in. Durant and Ford. I'd probably put Durant.
00:15:30
Speaker
Probably put in Tatum. Davis. And then my two guards would be Curry.
00:15:43
Speaker
I can't I can understand against what you laid out, right? I like i dig Yeah, I mean I can see the bronze startings, but I mean why started I mean you got all these other guys I can start I mean Otherwise you might start Yeah, I think you got bam All these guys are used to starting Yeah, I'm not with you I think they might slip up
00:16:26
Speaker
that still can fall. As I said, bro, they'll fall to one, but I think they can bounce back. They'll end up winning, man. Because like I said, man, when you look at, when I look at like top him before that roster, man, I mean, they got out of bayou, Wooken, Perry, Davis, Durant, Edwards, Embiid, Halliburton, Tialid, Lebron James, Kawhi Leonard, and they got Taylor. All hippy hitters.
State of U.S. Basketball Talent
00:16:49
Speaker
And I don't want to say this, but they got all brothers. All brothers. All the brothers. All the brothers. but They picked from a good talent booth. All right, bro.
00:17:08
Speaker
I mean, you know. Come on, man. What else we got, man, on all the other good players are foreigners. Foreigners.
00:17:22
Speaker
We ain't got any more Larry Bird out there, man, on the American side. I mean, I guess the closest thing you got is a booker, right? I don't know.
00:17:36
Speaker
Bruggone, man. Bruggone. You think you made it? Oh, so now you want to say, there's a book he hasn't had. He hasn't had. I don't know.
00:18:03
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you know the hate now now blow it name hate um I'm not gonna try to downplay the white guys, but they got no prominent white American guys owner few minutes
00:18:18
Speaker
Yeah, not really. I mean, there really isn't that many. There used to be, I mean, Larry Bird's, who was after Larry Bird? Mullens was on the last team. Probably Crip Mullens, Kurt. Who? I think Kurt made one of them teams. Oh, I don't think he made the limit. I don't know. Crip, man, nobody plays at Crip Mullens, man. Crip Mullens back in the day, man.
00:18:46
Speaker
I can't remember the last eight. That's a good trivia question. Who was the last white guy to make the E.U.S.A.? I can't remember. I mean, there probably has been. I just can't think of it. But who was the last white guy to make the E.U.S.A. or non-black guy?
AFC Threats to Kansas City Chiefs
00:19:06
Speaker
I can't put it. Hey, that was mad that he wasn't going to play for France or something. Alright Flo, they say in 20 years there's only two white guys to play on the U.S.A. I'm about to pull them over. Oh, okay. Alright, let us know what you think. See if y'all know who the last white guy to play on the U.S.A. And then Larry Bird, I don't know. Tryna think. Zach Zach, he's not white man. He's not white. I think he's mixed too. And he mixed.
00:19:42
Speaker
But he missed too. Yeah. I was trying to think maybe was it was a Steve Nash. But he is Spanish, man. Steve Nash ain't Hispanic, man. What are you to talking about? Hold on, man. It's pretty Spanish, man. Come on, man. Bro. There's only been... It says in the last 20 years, there's only been two white players to play on the USA. I'm looking I'm looking it up now as we speak, but okay. Oh, we've got it. I mean, I was just wondering cuz I can't remember since you brought it up. It was all it was all black. It was all brothers on the team.
00:20:25
Speaker
All right, let's move on.
00:20:31
Speaker
Okay, so let's talk a little NFL, let's look at some NFL, then we'll talk a little NBA, kind of see what kind of goes from there. So NFL, Canteen, on the AFC side, we all kind of know the Chiefs, some kind of the favorites over the AFC. Who's the biggest threat to the Chiefs? The AFC, you know, it's the Ravens, it's the Bengals, it's the Bills. I mean, who do you think is the biggest threat? Of course, they're the favorites, but if there was somebody that could possibly knock them off in the AFC Championship, who do you think that would be? Man, Flo right now, I think the most prominent team right now in the AFC and now, it's Kansas City, man.
00:21:20
Speaker
I don't want to be the bearer of bad news and I don't want you to take this the long wait. But I mean, who can knock the city off? who's that um Right, right, right. Now the team that has the prominence and the probability to knock the notcan city off.
00:21:37
Speaker
that's that that's That's tough, man. I mean, if we look, i mean yeah like to I'm just saying right now, who do you think We, that team right now, as we know, before preseason and all that kind of here, Baltimore, Baltimore and the reason I say Baltimore. is because you got lamar de and you got dary here and got safe out and they got to be stacked up offen stacked up defense um I think oh their offensive coordinator got it came from Georgia. you Yeah, he's done a phenomenal job with the offense and the season looks good. But right now, if you look number five and on paper wise right now, Baltimore is the best senior team with their reps last season at 13 and four. The build's been 11-6, Kansas City even went 11-6 for their season last year, but watch this. I think the team that's gonna make some biggest turn and do some great things this year and really be a threat to Kansas City, possibly flow with it, just in that.
00:22:41
Speaker
I need a healthy Joe Burroughs. I need a healthy Joe Burroughs. So you you pick two team, Cincinnati or the Ravens? Who do you think? Ravens. The Ravens. Okay. them Okay. Now, Lamar Jackson got a lot of a lot on the table. He got the proof, man. He got prove a proof of life, bro. I mean, they had a phenomenal season. who did do They lost the Buffalo last year, the playoffs, or they lose the Buffalo. Who? Who did? Who did? who did ho did ah The Baltimore loop for the playoffs. They lost to the Chiefs. And the wild part, the business round. I think that was the NFC Championship game. No, but I'm saying, who did the Baltimore beat somebody, and then they end up playing an AFC Championship. I forgot who they beat. it but They won two games. I think they beat the Bills. Or they beat the Texans, right? They beat the Texans at home, and then the Bills beat the Pittsburgh Steelers.
00:23:44
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then they lost Baltimore lost today.
NFL Teams' Playoff Potential
00:23:50
Speaker
It's a championship. I think Lamar Jackson got a lot to prove. I mean, I think that he's worthy of proving it is your man, but it's hard. manflow It's hard to be into the man. I mean, he doesn't get as much. Really, but he's got as many wins as
00:24:18
Speaker
I mean, he's got a losing record in the playoffs for sure. He did win a couple of lashes. He might be two and four or something like that. Maybe three and five. But he's kind of faltered in the playoffs. That's kind of been Zach's thing.
00:24:37
Speaker
Do you think he can get more to criticism? Who's that? Lamar Jackson, because he doesn't seem like he'd get as much as that. I mean, that, of course, plays for the Cowboys. So, Flo, i'm um in in the infamous words of albert Alberto Flory, Flory and always say that when quarterbacks get big fields, when they get paid large amounts of money, they tend to choke and choke when it comes to the playoff situation, man. And we see it all the time, man. I think that Lamar Jackson is taking his whooping, taking his licking as a man, and he's learned things to say, and I think that this year, the tables will turn, man. So this is his year to turn it and make a run at the Super Bowl. Awesome. What is their schedule like? So you feel like it's probably going to be a rematch at this point.
00:25:30
Speaker
i mean when don't that look at the whole sketch im say it let li li li hip on limit me Let me make a speculation. give me Let me give you five games and make speculations on the Baltimore Ravens. They open up on Thursday night against the Chiefs. I don't think they beat Kansas City in their head on the phone night week one. They're not gonna beat Kansas, but that's a loss right there. but in that the ra game for the raver zo isn't it that's big No, no, listen, I'm gonna give you my first five games predicting the Ravens man all right They'll be they won't beat the Chiefs on Thursday night football week one. That's a loss They'll be the Raiders we two We three they come to us and down This will be tied across the board. I'm not gonna predict anybody right now. I need to see what both team wrote like why i make a prediction on this game week four
00:26:23
Speaker
they'll beat the bills And week five, they got to go to the bingo. They won't beat them then. So it might be two and three or three and two possibly coming out. That's like three and two. I'm saying. So who do they beat in that five game stretch? They'll beat the Raiders, Beals, and possibly Dallas. OK.
00:26:50
Speaker
Yeah, I think about that stretch three and two. That'd be pretty good for that. Then and that'll paint a good picture, man. But like I said, bro, I mean, it's about to get hot in heaven, man. In a bell coming. It's coming. It's coming. Yeah. I mean, I kind of like the... I kind of like... Make a little run. Now, Houston finished 10 and 7. Even though I did say that, I thought CJ would have a sophomore slump. ah He had a great year. I mean, but he I can see him dabbing the sophomore slump. Yeah, second year. And where everybody kind of knows him now, he was kind of the unknown coming into the season.
00:27:36
Speaker
And now we teams kind of have film on him. They know what his tendencies are. See how he adjusts to how defenses have probably adjusted to him. That's going to be key to see a drought. Can he adjust to the defense is now that they have a lot of tape on him. They know what they're going to know his weaknesses. They're going to know his tendencies. Anything about. Let's see how he is. The point that you just made, for they'll they'll be able to pick those guys and be able to have a greater understanding of who CJ Stroud is, his capabilities and what he's done. So a guy like that, he cannot make freshman mistakes. He got to be able to bounce back into a softball slump. I think at his playing level, you learn, you bounce back and you got to push forward, man.
00:28:27
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I can see the Texans making a run.
Pressure on NFC Quarterbacks
00:28:32
Speaker
I mean, there's always a team that kind of comes out that didn't wasn't in there last year, who do you see kind of coming out of there that didn't make the playoffs last year, that will kind of make a little run this year. American League? I mean, AFC? I mean, yeah, they were talking to AFC. Man, close. Who didn't make the playoffs? You might think I'm crazy for saying this, man. Besides the Bengals, because we all kind of feel like the Bengals are here to make it. Nah, man. Like I said, the Bengals are going to be good, man. I think his first year coaching, first year coaching, I like Harbaugh. OK, you like the Chargers? I like Harbaugh and the Chargers. I think Harbaugh and the Chargers will finish second in the AFC win.
00:29:22
Speaker
right now. Okay. Right now, with the experience, with the coaching, and with the quarterback, I think Harvard put some spin on the ball, put some spin on the whole organization. Okay. I like the charge coming out of the AFT, which I like the part of the team. So you don't think it's going to be the Broncos? Who? Who? I'll take a break Don't take this break.
00:29:55
Speaker
Yeah. You know, just know Jake, let me tell you about Jake. Jake is delusional. How you still firing off fireworks? And today is the 9th. Or today was the 9th of the 8th. I don't know what he's doing. I don't know what he's doing. He eating chips out there, shooting fireworks. I don't know what he's doing. Hold on, Jake. Get in, Jake. Make it make sense. I don't know. I just don't get it. I don't get it. What is Jake doing out there? He's saying it.
00:30:24
Speaker
Now, let's talk NFC. All right, so I had a question on the NFC. My first question for the NFC was, which quarterback is under the most pressure? I had Dak, Jalen Hurts, from Rock 30. Who's under the most pressure next year, or is it some other quarterback? That ain't even a question, man. Dak Prescott. OK. Dak. And for the reason I say Dak is, That got to answer the question is, why are we having 12 and five seasons, 11 and six, 10 and seven? Why are we consistently having seasons between win, win, win? We're gonna take them to one division. Hear me out, hear me out, Lou. Okay. 12 and five seasons. Okay, okay. And why can't we be a seven-seated Green Bay team? Now, if you look at the tree's quarterback's unique name, I'll give her the hall pass.
00:31:19
Speaker
because of that slump that you talked about, that slump. They get the big paydays, Flo. Come on. You said it out of your own mouth. I said, you said they don't have a good season. They don't. and So he got a good payday. He didn't have a good season last year. He went 11-6, but they choked too. Now, here's what I'm saying. They definitely choked at the end of the season. Out of all three quarterbacks, your name? Yeah. Rock Perdue went 12-5. Yeah, but they still haven't brought birdie a solid long-term deal. So when I say to quarter and they have out on the but they can't because he was drafted right in the second, this is the third
NFC Teams' Dominance Potential
00:32:03
Speaker
year. So they can't actually offer a contract after this year. Here's the Dak has the most approval.
00:32:12
Speaker
I was watching, I was watching NFL Network today, man. I was watching NFL Network on my break when I was out at the school with the guys hanging out. Okay. Dak said he's not concerned about no money. That's what he said on NFL Network. Dak said his main objective now is to focus on winning and the money will come. Okay. Right. Now Flo. Let me carry out on this one note right here. And i'm ah um um I'm asking five simple questions, man. And I just want i just want your opinion on what you think out of five games where we We wear the cleaves at the Browns at the Dawg family. won't wear the Dawg family. Win or loss?
00:33:07
Speaker
I'm going to say it's a win because I think Deshaun, I think we still got to get himself back into a groove of football. He hasn't really played a whole season in a long time. So I think he's still, he's got to get a couple of games to get his, kind of his legs back under him, so to speak. But I think we can win that game because Deshaun probably going to struggle a little bit. Even though that defense is solid, I think we we can come out with a W there. All right. Home opener to New Orleans Saints in Dallas.
00:33:41
Speaker
That's a tough one. The Saints always play as well. But a home opener, I feel like we went, we lost, we only lost one game which happened in the playoffs last year. But, uh...
00:33:59
Speaker
I'm going to say we pull out the game, the first game at home. We kind of continue that winning streak, that good home field advantage. I feel like we win that game one. Right. Week three, we got the Ravens rolling to town. Week three, that's going to be tough.
00:34:25
Speaker
And Dallas, AT&T. OK, that gives us a little bit of advantage. Man, I feel like we might could lose that game because Baltimore is a solid team. They got a really good defense. Let's see how Derek Henry looks. Let's see how that offense looks. I mean, I don't know. It's going to be a totally different kind of offense. I mean, they've always been kind of a running team, but the Mars lost some weight. You may be a little quicker, but I don't know how, like, you can take running around. So I feel like we could sweep that one out, possibly. I'm gonna probably sweep that one out by the skin of our teeth. Man, if I feel low, we'll sweep that one out, but it could be tough. All right, week four of Thursday Night Football, we're at MetLife Giants.
00:35:21
Speaker
Giants want to play us tough. Daniel Jones, he's finally got some a receiver or two. He did lose, say, Quando, so the running game's gonna struggle. They're still trying to shore up that offensive line. I feel like we win that one fairly handily. Maybe by 10 points. All right, week five. Sunday night football. Sunday night football. Pittsburgh. I feel okay. Uh you either got Russell Wilson still starting or
00:36:20
Speaker
This one if not one of those two games Just because they got a tough defense. And I would say that Steelers won because it's on the road. Steelers play really well at home. Mike Tomlin, they've lost a couple games. He doesn't want to lose any more games. We're going to play his stuff. By the end, they'll know what they have in Russell Wilson. And they'll have a game plan set up to make it successful.
00:36:55
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ball control when that might be stole So out of five games, what are we sitting bro, say we're for one 4-1 out of 5 games. Now let me say this before we move forward. Last year, Dallas wanted a Tampa Bay won the NFC South at 9-8. And the NFC West was won by a 10-7 Ram team.
Impact of Recent NBA Draft Picks
00:37:26
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Who do you project from the NFC that can make a run and has the potential team and potential organization to really dominate this year, NFC-wise. I know you asked me AFC-wise, so I'm just flipping the question on you. To dominate? I don't think any team is going to dominate. OK. I feel like the Rams will probably make the playoffs. I feel like they're going to make a little bit of research. They were 10-7 last year.
00:38:01
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What's his name? He was a little banged up and then, uh, cup was kind of coming off an injury. So he wasn't, I don't think he had fully recovered from his injury from the beyond career year prior. I think he'll be a hundred percent now. And then you got hook in the Kua. It was looking really good now. His second year, I feel like he's going to really come to his own. They grabbed his Blake Coram. I think he'd be a solid third down guy. That's a rookie. I think he could be solid for them. And that kind of rims also. So I think Matt Stafford was a little banged up last year. I don't think he was fully healthy.
00:38:39
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He missed a few games I know he got knocked out when we played him He got kind of knocked out of the game. So he wasn't he was banged up by traffic. He'll be a little healthier I think the Rams might be a team that will prize people and possibly challenge the Niners for uhh What was that? The Channons challenged the Niners for that, but really the Niners should pull it out
00:39:12
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Yeah, man, so I mean they brought a brother football seat football season gonna be kind of crazy man, like I said, man, it's a lot of
00:39:24
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Yeah. Let us know what you think. Who's got, who's under the most pressure. Dak Prescott brought Purdy. I'm telling flowing tell you, man, Prescott, Prescott. I mean, I feel this way. Canteen with that one. I think Dak's always under pressure at some cowboy quarterback. So I think he's under pressure no matter what. It may be slightly higher because he doesn't have a contract. We fought for the last three games. To be fair, I'm going to say last year, the defense really ended up down in that playoff game too. So to be fair, that wasn't all that. I mean, they were giving up points left and right. The defense was supposed to be solid. And like and and as we said, it bro, it wasn't even Prescott, man. It was mostly our defense, man. The defense, over flow I mean, who had to play from behind? So when we when we look at when we look at the season, man, man the season is like like right now, what's the date? Today is what, July 9th.
00:40:13
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We got 21, 21, 31, 51. And we got like 58 days until NFL, 57, 58 days until NFL see the stars, man. And this is about to get crazy. we try to pull off a Dallas game or something. We're going to try to pull off something, man. Maybe. We'll see what happens. Yeah, we're going to try and see. Yeah. All right. So you got another NFL topic or another? I know that the Cowboys need to sign CD. That's kind of up in the air right now. But you have another topic you want to discuss? in it though Oh, man, I forgot to mention, man. And rest in peace, man. So the NFL player, Kyrie Jackson kid, man, he was drafted, drafted.
00:41:08
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One of that came out of Alabama, man. Wow, did Mike hit him? Yeah, if everybody bite his end up getting killed, man, man. Rest in peace to this kid, man. Yeah, that was for that. Prominent player that played for Nick Saban down in Alabama, man. Good kid, man. if He was a senior. One round pick out of Oregon. Is it Oregon? Oregon, yeah. Oregon, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kyrie Jackson. Rest in peace, man. Yeah. Nah, that was for that. He spent two years. And Alabama before, yeah, he's been to the U's but Alabama didn't even work on you, right? You ain't got that right, right? Yeah, so look to him, it's family, man. Shout out to him, man. But, um... All right. Go ahead, bro. Yeah, for sure. Uh, yeah, so, uh, any other topic of NFL you wanna discuss? Nah, man, we good with NFL, bro. All right.
Pressure on Lakers for Upcoming Season
00:41:58
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So, NBA, kind of the big hot topic, uh, is who's under the most pressure group?
00:42:08
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coach, but kind of went off on him last week about him getting that job and got LeBron coming back for a, I believe he'll turn for you next year. And then you got Bronte, probably the most, how did second round ever had a, I mean, I've never seen another guy pick 55th, have a press conference with the head coach. And so,
00:42:37
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But who right now is under the post pressure in L.A. Brony, LeBron, or J.J. Reddick, or is it somebody else? He's under the post pressure in L.A. Here's the deal, here's the deal, man. You re-sign LeBron James, man, on a two-year contract, $101.3 million for Maggie's deal. Like, really? Really? I mean, he's already hurt, man. You sign this, y'all, and I'm not knocking this guy for this max deal. You bring his son on board. I'm not gonna knock the players or anything, man. When it comes to winning and losing in an organization where you look at CEO,
00:43:22
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the owners, and you look at the head coach. You look at the Lakers, man. who Who's on the most? cut they they they they got They got rid of Ham, Darvin Ham. Yeah. dar they They said the Auburn Ham was was was the pawn that needed to be removed. So if the Lakers going to lose the Swedish, who's going to be the dominant pawn they're going to remove? Ready. And so you bring on a guy with no coaching experience. He don't bring netting to the table. But he figured they're going to give him more than one year. They at least give him two. That's my point. So for me, man.
00:43:59
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and So it's definitely not LeBron. Like you said, he signed the deal. I think he's under pressure, but as the most pressure, I think JJ, I think Ronnie's under quite a bit of pressure being a second rounder and being drafted. and I mean, he's under pressure to do well and play, I think, at some point in the season. I mean, he's in the summer league now. He's not ready. He's scoring two points per game in the summer league. Now summer league isn't always determined how good you're going to be in the NBA necessarily, but he's struggling a little bit. It's good for him to get that playing time against professionals.
00:44:46
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I think you're right. JJ's probably into the most. He's under a lot. he's He's under the gun flow. I mean, I would say this, I would say this man, if we, if we look at the counter offer, man, the Yukon coach, he signed a Dan Hurley sign with like a six year deal from $50 million. Right. Dan Hurley got the same thing in LA. right But Dan Hurley don't want the pressure that comes with being the coach of the Los Angeles Lady. He don't want the pressure of being able to deal with guys who make more money than him and they can down talk him and down play him. He was wise. He went back to UConn to try to win another chip. Could have made the same money in LA. There's a lot of pressure in l LA because they want to win. They haven't won and they want to win now. Right. And they're in a win now situation.
00:45:51
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Yeah, I think he's he's under the most pressure next year to turn it around, to make them a viable team, and not just a play-in team, but to make them possibly a six-speed, get out of that play-in type of thing. But at the same time, I mean, you basically have the same team. How much better have they gotten? They haven't really gotten better once they're older. And Flo, that's my point exactly, man, is They've allowed toxicity to ruin the organization, man. And I get it. LeBron has won everywhere else. I mean, I guess Jake's going to count that bubble championship. You know what I'm saying? What do you say, man? Jake's going to count that bubble championship. You see one from the bubble, right?
00:46:54
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I'm just saying, I mean, that's definitely ah an asterisk there, but it does count as a championship for LeBron. It counts as one of his. But Flo, there's no validity in that. Come on, man. There was no crowd. It was a shortened season. I mean, it's tough to really count that. Hey, when was the last time the ladies won the championship before that?
00:47:24
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Kobe, the last Kobe championship. 2011. 2011, okay.
Memphis Grizzlies' Health & Success
00:47:29
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It's been a minute. But to be fair, the Celtics were in the same position. It's been a while for you. The last time the ladies won was 2011. I think the, was it the Celtics 2008? Something like that. The Celtics were 09. 09, 08, somewhere in there. 09, 09. The Celtics had been a minute for their championship. All piers, all piers running it.
00:47:59
Speaker
i like home but two thousand ten two thousand The Spaniard and Kobe. That's what Kobe done wanted. It was in there something. I can't remember. Okay. Yeah. I mean, let us know what you guys think, uh, who's under the most pressure. Is it JJ Reddick? Is it LeBron? Is it Brony? I think Brony's under more pressure than any 55th pick.
00:48:42
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and NBA history. I mean, you need something like 4 or 55th pick. That flow, I'll give you my honest opinion of the trap, man. NBA Trap 2024, man. It was a... It was an end show, man.
00:49:04
Speaker
I mean, when you look at some of your some of your top talent, man, you had guys like... For the first draft pick, went to the Hawks foreigner and then you had another guy, went to the Wizards foreigner, but then you got like Stephon Castle. So I think the first round was predominantly dedicated to mostly foreign guys, man, foreign kids. Cass, I ain't never heard of, Cass, you've never heard of foreigners. Yeah. So how does that appeal to guys, or USA guys,
00:49:37
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From from the USA and they and they prominent players and and i' and all in all the Japanese go to foreign That's a big question Right. I mean that's a big question Yeah, I mean that was a lot a lot of foreigners not a lot of american players it wasn't I think
00:50:01
Speaker
He didn't look pretty good, that guy from Purdue. He had a double-double. He had, I think, 14.16 rebounds and a couple assists or something. he He looks pretty good right now. He went to the Grizzlies. He went to the Grizzlies. I think he's going to be a solid pickup for them. They didn't have a good big man. What's that guy's name? I played for them. He been hurt a couple years. For the Grizzlies? Yeah. I'm trying to remember his name. He's been hurt. Scott or something like that. I'm trying to name his name. Man, what's his name? Brother Christmas. What was his name playing? He's a center for them, but he didn't hurt. What's his name, man? You guys know him. I'm talking about that.
00:50:56
Speaker
I can't remember his name. He's like an Australian guy, I thought.
00:51:02
Speaker
They may not have any more. No, I can't remember. He's got like a beard, a long hair. I thought he played for the Grizzlies. I don't think he's playing for him this year. But anyway, they replaced him. He's he's been hurt the last couple of years. You remember, you know, he's got a beard. He's got a beard and a long hair. He's a tall guy. I can't remember his name now. I thought it was Scott something.
00:51:33
Speaker
Scott Foster, not Scott Foster. I can't remember his name now. But anyway, now they got Zack Edie up through center. I mean, I know Jaron Jackson kind of played that role, but he's not more of a wing, more of a power forward. Brandon Clark, same thing for me, and he played center. li But I think this will be a good solidified kind of the middle for them. ah He'll be a presence in their big body. I think this could be, that could be good for them. that That's a good pickup for
Future Plans for Bottom Line Sports
00:52:00
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them. uh going in the next year and then uh John Moran coming back healthy they could they could uh be a team to be reckoned with next year because they weren't seen as the next team up all right then John Moran got in trouble and then he got hurt and just last couple of years kind of gone downhill especially last year but anyway
00:52:29
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They got Marcus Smart, too, but he was injured most of the year last year. Smart was injured, man. and poem yeah yeah So he'll be back. John Miranda back. He got Zack Edie. They still got Desmond Bain. I don't know if Derek Rose, I think he may have retired, but they also got Jared Jackson. He's solid. And then they got Zack Edie to come in there and then brian Brandon Clark off the bench. So they got a solid team coming back. They had a lot of injuries. So we'll see what happens next year for them. Did you have something else on the NBA draft we were going to say? I'm good, bro. Okay. Any other stories for the NBA you want to talk about? I'll be good, though. Okay. All right. Now, we did mention it last week. but We didn't talk a whole lot about
00:53:18
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uh i know jake brought it up but how much of an impact you think chris paul will make for the Spurs coming in there i didn't really get to talk about it jake said a little bit about it personally i think i know they get better with chris paul always makes a team better when he first comes in there i think his experience is His leadership will be good for them, but I feel like he's a little washed. I don't think he's a player he used to be. But at the same time, I feel like I got the expected score a lot. He's going to be just running the offense. That's good for him. I don't know if they're going to start him off the bench. I feel like he's probably more of a starter with the Spurs. How much of an addition does Chris Paul make? This is my Spurs.
00:54:11
Speaker
Man, Flo, man, that's a tough question for me, man, because when when I look at the Western Conference standings last year, man, the Spurs finished 20-60, man, they lost like 35 games behind Thunder, man, and I think- They didn't have much. Here's here's here's what i hear's what I'll say, man. I love Greg Poppins. I love Greg Poppins and how he told you, man. You had guys like Tim Duncan, David Robinson. You had Manu Jannobu. You guys have had a lot of powerhouse players that have played under a great coach like Poppins. Poppins is a no-nonsense type of guy. He's a winner, and he likes to win. I think that they would utilize a guy like... His name Flopridge, I just didn't say it, man.
00:55:03
Speaker
What's the kid's name? You just said his name, bro. What's your name, Flo? Who? Uh... Play for the Warriors. What's your name? Play for the Warriors. Nah, the guy you just played that stuff. Chris Paul. Chris Paul. I think that Popovich will utilize the guy like Chris Paul for his advantage to kind of help him develop a guy like Winbiana. develop him, be like ah be like a ah coach, mentor, trainer, and then build from that. i think that's I think this is the last run for a guy like Chris Paul, man. He don't get a chip now, and he ain't have no time, so. Yeah, I mean, Evan Vassal was hurt last year. He'll be back. He's a solid player. They got Harrison Barnes now. He's a good veteran. And then they drive to that guy, Stefan Castle. I think we saw him as a rookie. You probably have to start as a rookie.
00:55:58
Speaker
They also killed it. Johnson's a pretty good player. He was hurt. And so I think this could be if they can add one more shooter, they could add to play Thompson or something like that. But if they can add a solid shooter on the outside, the women you can kick out to or Chris Paul can set up three corners, I think that'd be solid. Maybe we can get Patty Mills back in the mix. He's a solid corner. He knows Popovich. He knows his system. I don't know, I think we need a solid shooter. Someone can really knock down threes. And I think we can make the playoffs, make a push for maybe the play-in next year. When would y'all mind only going to get better? We saw as he got more play-in time, he got better, he got more blocks. He let the league get blocks. He started really coming to the zone. The more play-in time he got, the better he played.
00:56:55
Speaker
So I think as it gets more and more plain time, I think probably it was, I guess it was smart to kind of read it in there. He knew we weren't going to win a bunch of games. So why play him too much? You know, and then maybe wear him out his first season in the NBA. Play him, you know, sparingly, you know, and then work him in as the season goes on. And don't worry about his first year, you know, getting used to the NBA game. I think that was smart in the end. That was smart because we weren't going to win like a bunch of games anyway. So that was a smart move. I think in the end by Poppin Beach, I think this year he started, I think he's going to average over 30 minutes, probably 30 to 35 minutes a game. I think we start seeing him start to dominate a little more in the NBA.
00:57:51
Speaker
I mean, I agree with Jake that he's going to be really good and he's going to dominate. I don't know if we're going to get a championship, but I think eventually we will. Maybe the second season with Chris Paul there, we'd add another piece. Make a push in two years. Next year, I think we make a push for the playing end, and that's possible.
00:58:15
Speaker
I agree, bro. Yeah, we may do a football. We got Let's Talk Sports. But we may have a football show on that network. We'll be able to look out for that. Bottom line, we might have a football show over on the Let's Talk Sports network, exclusively on Let's Talk Sports. Man, it's been good meeting you, the old geebs here in the house.
00:58:43
Speaker
Hey, bro. Hey, man. Hey, I don't care what nobody said, bro. Man, we did it for a while, just me and you. Yeah. All the time, bro. It is what it is, man. Hey, thanks for everybody in the comments. Thank the people who joined in. Appreciate you guys watching live. Watch it. After this, you can hang out? Yeah, we can hang out for a minute. I mean, I got to get back on the road. I'll wait for you to hang out. OK, man. Appreciate it, everybody. He bought a nice board to check us out every day on Tuesday, every week on Tuesday. We might start the football back up. Yes, sir. I can't. I got water. I'm driving. Ain't flow what you said is in right here.