The Show Episode 563

LeBron James, ESPN Layoffs, Kyle Shanahan and Tony Romo, NFC South, Carolina, Atlanta

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:45

Yeah, this is episode five sixty-three. And here we are again. Sitting here recording on a Sunday. And you know what I'm doing. We are seven weeks away, folks, from the beginning of the NFL season. We have the Hall of Fame game. We have the Hall of Fame game, people, coming up on August 3rd. If you can believe it or not. I mean, I like we said, training camps is open for some of the teams. A lot of teams report this coming week. We're going to be in full swing of NFL training camp. Talk and action, preseason, and before you know it, that seven weeks is going to be here. But we're here. We're here to do the show. We're here to talk about other things. And of course, you know the first thing we're going to have to talk about. As the sports world turns. Well, we finally got the decision again from Lebron James of where he intends to play next season. Libron said he wanted to play, keep on playing. He declined that he was going to go to the Los Angeles Lakers. Los Angeles Lakers said, okay, fine with us. They went ahead and they signed a bunch of guys this offseason. We already talked about that on a previous show. Now there was all this speculation out there of where Libron was going to go. Was he going to go play with Steph Curry at Golden State? Was he going to go back to Miami and play with Giannis and Eric Spelestra and Pat Rowley? Was he going to go back to his hometown and play for the Cleveland Cavaliers for a third time? And there were some talks out there of him gonna join Philadelphia because Philadelphia made that big trade and got Jalen Brown on their team. They also had some key free agent signings this offseason. Nobody knew where Lebron was gonna go. And then you had last week, prior to Libron announcing, we had the Miami Heat on their social media page leaking a press conference announcing Libron is rejoining the Heat. Well, that didn't work out too well for the person who posted that on their social media. That person was let go because the next day the Miami Heat had an ad out looking for someone to hire for their social media. So that person uh kind of screwed that up. Then, before Libron made his announcement, you had Mr. Barlow, Adam Silver, calling out LeBron in the media several times, telling him to hurry up and make a decision because the NBA wanted to finalize their season schedule. You know, because they had to finalize it to where Libron was gonna go. Because, you know, whatever team Libron was gonna go, that team was gonna be on prime time the most times. You know, they had to fix their Christmas Day schedule, depending where Libron was gonna sign. They had to work out all of the deals with NBC and Peacock, they had to work out the deals with ESPN. All this was all pending on where Libron was gonna sign. So you had Adam Silver calling Libron out in the in the media. Libron said, now that Adam Silver said something, he's gonna wait another week. So he made Adam Silver and the NBA wait again. Well, that didn't matter because on Friday, Libron finally announced that he was gonna sign, and I already know a lot of people already know who are listening to the show, but he signed with the Philadelphia 76ers got Libron for his 24th season. He signed a two-year deal worth $8 million. Now you heard prior to this, you heard Dwayne Wade. Dwayne Wade, one of Lebron's closest friends, played with Libron on Miami for years. And in later stages of uh Dwayne Wade's career, he even went and played with Lebron up in Cleveland. Dwayne Wade said he didn't know whether Lebron was gonna play or not, and he said, don't expect Libron to take a discount. That was the main thing Dwayne Wade said when they asked him where he they thought Libron was gonna sign. Libron ended up taking a 92% pay cut. He made $52.6 million last year playing for the Los Angeles Lakers. He signed for two years, $8 million. Oh, I got a couple other facts about the pay. We'll get to that in a second. Libron last year alone, on top of the $52.6 million he earned with the Lakers, Libron earned over $85 million last year off the court, and a lot of it was from Nike. Now, Libron's signing with the Philadelphia 76ers, this is Libron's fourth team, fourth NBA team, where he's gonna go and try to win a championship. Of course, we all know he won two championships in Miami, championship with Cleveland, and a championship with the Lakers. Now he's signing with Philadelphia to win another championship, his fifth, that would be, with his fourth different team. Now, you've seen all these guys over the years, jump ship and switch teams. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. Moses Malone was a big time player back in the 80s, jumped ship from the Houston Rockets to the Philadelphia 76ers, won a championship. So you've seen players over the years, you know, big-time players jump teams and then go to another team and win. Libron's done it. Libron did it. He went from Miami winning to Cleveland to winning to the Lakers to winning. He's done it. So he's very capable of coming home with another championship if he could lead Philadelphia. Now, the question is: the way Libron jumps around here and to all these different teams, do you think it hurts any of his legacy? I'm just throwing that out there. Do you think it tarnishes what Libron's done over his career by playing for so many teams? Do you think it would have been okay if he went back, just went back to Cleveland and said, you know what? I started in Cleveland, I'm going to finish at Cleveland. But you know, that's not the case now, obviously, because he signed with Philadelphia. But do you think that this is hurting his his legacy, everything he's done, all-time points leading. Most all-star game appearances. Do you think any of this is hurt in his career by carrying on and playing with Philadelphia? Now, Philadelphia, to their advantage, they got quite the starting five now. They got Libron, they got Jalen Brown, which they acquired in a trade with Boston. They got Maxie. They got Edge of Combe. And they also got Joel Embiid. And again, I mentioned this at the very top of the show. They signed Dean Wade as a free agent, four-year, $39 million deal. They also added Anfanier Simons on a free agency deal. So on paper, on paper, this Philadelphia team looks great. Remember, this Philadelphia team beat Boston last year in a seven-game series. Jason Tam didn't play game seven. Then they ended up losing to the Knicks. Bad. Joel Embiid, of course, hurt. Wasn't right in that series. So that leads me into this. Take out Joel Embiid. Off the team. Not off the team, but just say he probably won't play because of his injury history. Let's just say he doesn't play. And keep in mind, Joel Allen B. The last three years, he's played 38 games, 19 games, and 39 games. The most games he's ever played in his career in one season is 68. Allegedly, Joel Allen Bede and Libron had a private two-hour meeting two weeks ago in which Embiid said, he's healthy, he's ready to go. This is the first off season, he told Lebron, the first offseason in the last five seasons where he wasn't rehabbing an injury. He was just going to take it easy all summer and be ready to go for this upcoming season. Now let's let's just take Joel Umbi back and put him aside because I don't think he's gonna play that many games. I don't think he's gonna be playing a lot for a 76 guy. I think he's gonna be hurt again. And he's only 32. So let's let's leave the four guys. Libron, Jalen Brown, Maxie, Edja Combe. Those four starters. Libron's 40, what? 42? Jalen Brown, Maxie are still young. Jalen Brown's an Iron Man. He plays every game. He doesn't sit out any games. He plays every game. Warrior. Maxie gets hurt sometimes. Maxie's kind of a little banged up now and then, always hurts his ankles, hand, hamstring, bada. He's not he's not full 80 game player. So take shake again, take Joel on B from the side. How good is Philadelphia to compare the rest of the East team? They better than the Knicks? They better than Boston? They better Indiana with Halbertson coming back? How about Cleveland with Harden and Donovan Mitchell? How about upcoming Orlando team? Upcoming Atlanta Hawks team. Detroit Pistons if they sign Durant again. They keep Durant on their team. Not Durant, but Durant. They keep him on their his team. East is loaded. East is tough. East is gonna be tough. Miami's got the freak. You know, I I don't know. I don't know where Philadelphia is gonna go with this team. If Joel Umbi can't be out there. Now, if you put Joel Onbiat out there, how many people out there still think Philadelphia, how many people if you put Joel on B out there, how many people think Philadelphia is the best team in the year? The host doesn't have his hand up. William Hill improved Philadelphia's odds of winning the NBA Finals, but it didn't improve it that much. They're still behind the Knicks as the favorite. So getting Leibron, getting Jalen Brown, the Knicks are still behind. I mean, I'm sorry, Philadelphia's still behind the Knicks in the betting odds to win the NBA final. I'll just say this. How many times have we seen teams go and put a really super team together? Now I know Miami did with Lee Braun, Dwayne Wade, Ray Allen, Chris Bosch. They won two championships. We saw that. We saw that. How many other teams have been successful doing that? Remember when the Lakers got Carl Malone and Steve Nash? How'd that work out for them? You know, Golden State now got Durant. It worked out, but they already had that. That team was already together. They just added Durant. Remember Oklahoma went and got Paul George, Russell Westbrook. How did that work out for them? Doesn't always work out when you add players and put them all together. You gotta have chemistry. You can have all the best names on paper. You gotta have chemistry. If these guys don't have chemistry together, they're not gonna be able to win. You know why the Knicks were so damn successful this season? And have been successful the last three seasons playing in the playoffs and winning games? Because all those guys play together as a team. They all feed off each other. Don't you think Philadelphia's gonna some of these guys are gonna be fighting for the ball, fighting for shots? And these guys gotta play together to be able to win. Joel and B, I don't think, is gonna play. This guy's always gonna be injured. He's always injured. I don't think. Is Philadelphia gonna be exciting to watch? Are they gonna be on the highlights every night? Is everybody gonna be posting their what they're doing on X and Twitter and all that? And during the season, are they gonna be on prime time a lot? Absolutely. Do they have a chance of winning the East? Absolutely not. I'll say it right now. This is July. I'm saying this right now. The Philadelphia 76ers will be a non-factor in the Eastern's conference. A non-factor. Oh, it's a great story. Oh, you want to watch one of the all-time best players keep on playing in the NBA? Oh, sure. Turn on the TV, watch Philadelphia play. It's great. It's great to watch him play. He's a great player. And again, hats off to Libron. I'll say this about Libron. You know, we may not, you know, him and I might not see eye to eye on some of his uh beliefs that he talks about most of the time. Well, I'll say this about Libron. He doesn't sit out because he feels like sitting out. He doesn't do load management. If he's really hurt, he's hurt and he sits out and rests. He does. But he tries to play out there every game. He believes in putting a show on the fans every game. I'll give him that credit. He doesn't like to sit out. Unless he really has nagging injury or something that's really bothering. You know, we've seen him sit out weeks with uh a bad knee. We've seen him sit out uh weeks with uh a bad groin or uh an ankle or whatever. But most of the time he's out there giving in his all, making the commitment. That's what he said in his statement. He's making a commitment to play. He's all in. I don't know if Joel Mbita's all in. And I saw this too. This is this is the other thing I saw about um Libron that was that was pretty funny. Oh, this is this is this is why this is great. Libron James! 2026-2027 salary 3.87 Lakers! Ronnie James! 2026-2027 season. 2.29 million. Lee Brown, one of the greatest players to ever set foot on an NBA court, and in his maybe his final year, he did sign a two-year deal, maybe his final year of playing in the NBA, he makes $1.6 million more than his son. And his son is a terrible player, and his son is only on the Lakers because of his dad's name. And who saw this too? Lee Brown James salary 2006-2027 season. 3.88 million. Does anybody know who Milan Mama Clavic is? And I'm probably saying that last name wrong. You know how this goes on this show on the uh with the host. Milan Mama Slavic. Maybe I'll say it that way. Anybody know who he is? He makes six million dollars a year. But wait. He decided to play for Kentucky this year. Kentucky. Oh, that's right. Kentucky. They're a college basketball team. So you have a college basketball player. Make it more this year than Lee Brown. That's just unbelievable, right? That's just how it is now in the NBA. Or, I mean, I'm sorry, that's just how it is now in college. Some of these players are gonna make a lot more money than some of these NBA guys. Something to think about. But Libron taking a huge pay cut after several people said he wouldn't. He's gonna be on Philadelphia trying to win his fifth NBA championship. I'll tell you right now. I'll say it again, in case you didn't hear me the first time I said it a few minutes ago. Philadelphia 76ers will be a non-factor in the East with Libron. A non-factor. And yeah, if they if they're if don't worry. I'll write down this show and I'll save these sound bites. I'll play, I'll be honest, I'll play it next May or June. If Philadelphia is up there in the Eastern Conference Finals or they make it to the final, I'll replay these clips. I'll embarrass myself right here in this show. I got no problem with it. But I'm saying it now. Oh, and don't get me wrong, if I'm right, you'll be hearing this clip a lot more, too. That's for sure. You'll be hearing a lot of this clip. Um if that keeps on happening. Um, in other news this week. ESPN went through another batch of layoffs at the four-letter giant this past week. They laid off several, several big name employees and several people we've seen on TV over the last several years. Including host nemesis, Tom Pelcero. Now, a lot of you don't know who he is. He's a uh NFL beat writer for ESPN. He loves to tout stupid things about when and make a big deal when players sign on teams. And I went ahead After him and went at it with him on Twitter over Odell Beckham Jr., one of the host's friends. He made a big deal of Odell Beckham Jr. signing these contracts when he's been a bump for years. Just acting like Odell Beckham Jr. was still, you know, 25 years old, you know, uh catching 100 balls for 1,500 yards. And he acted like all these were big signings. And I went after him up for it. And he fired back at me. Tom Parasol, let go by ESPN. Other name, let go by ESPN. 33-year veteran, Carl Ravich. Now, Carl Ravich was on baseball tonight for many years. He's also the play-by-play guy for the Little League World Series for many years. He's also been on a lot of the ESPN hockey coverage. Carl Ravich let go after service of 33 years at ESPN. Also let go in this bloodbath by ESPN. Cam Newton! Now he of course Cam Newton, anybody see his outfits? He looks like Blade from Puppet Master. Anybody ever you know that reference? Blade from Puppet Master? Look it up. You'll see the comparison of Cam Newton and Blade once you look that up. Cam Newton, who you know has been known for over the last few seasons to jar back and forth with Stephen A on his show first take in the morning. And then also make appearances on GetUp and other news saying outrageous and outlandish comments just to get himself out there in social media. And of course, the other guy ESPN let go, Ryan Clark. Now look, the host was a fan of Ryan Clark. Mainly because Ryan Clark played many years for the host team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Ryan Clark probably laid on some of the biggest hits on people I've seen in football games. One of the most notable hits was knocking out Willie McGuinness in the AFC Championship game in 2008. Another big hit was to uh, I can't remember if it was Julia Edeman or uh one of the other New England Patriots receivers. He let the boom out on one of those guys in a game one time. Known for big hits. Those hits now that he did on players, he'd probably be suspended half a season if he hit someone like that today in today's NFL. I mean, he clearly was launching himself like a missile and going after people's heads back then. Because it was allowed. They allowed it back then. But now, of course, you can't do that in the NFL. And that's what Ryan Clark was doing us. Hard-nosed player, played safety, you know, made some big interceptions over the years for the Steelers in the playoffs and regular season. Great player. And then he got on ESPN. And he became a total jackass. Known race baiter. Always had to make it about him. Always had to call out the other person he was arguing with. Always had to go against everybody else. Always had to make it about himself. And here's one of the prime examples I'm talking about right here.

SPEAKER_02 25:56

Okay, you look at AJ Brown, which is this number one wide receiver who got one target all night, and then you got CeeDee Lamb. But that's the When was the straight? That's the target. But I'm saying was the one target.

SPEAKER_03 26:05

I'm saying you could have 54 seconds left in the game on second and 11. It was the one target. He runs the outside. You wake up this corner got away. AJ Brown had a better day than CeeDee Lamb.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

You know what you wake up saying, though? AJ Brown's team is one and oh. Of course. I get it. But the thing is this though, and and you shouldn't do this on TV. And so I apologize if people think this is rude. That's the non-player.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

Oh, stop. That's no, that CD Lamb is. And let me tell you why. I'm not saying I'm not looking at fantasy football. Ryan, I'm not, don't, don't, don't belittle me like that. I could come in and say, as three ex players are saying one thing and give an alternative perspective that maybe CeeDee Lamb did play well.

SPEAKER_01 26:46

Peter, what I need for you to do, what I need for you to do is not get mad and let me finish for one thing. Okay, go on. It wasn't about you. It was going to be about me. Okay. As a player, I can't speak for CD.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

That's what he would do all the time on those shows. He would say stuff like that just to irritate the people he was working at. Of course, he had to call out Peter Slager there. Peter Slager was the guy who he said, don't belittle me, because Peter Slager is, of course, a non-NFL player. And Ryan Clark thinks that non-NFL players, like the host, should be talking about the NFL the way they do. And so not only is Ryan Clark talking to Peter Schlager like that, he's talking to someone like me. Now I know I didn't play NFL football.

unknown 27:35

Okay?

SPEAKER_00 27:35

And I'm not saying I know everything about football, but I watch a lot of football. And I see what goes on on the field. So I have every right, as Ryan Clark does, to come on this show, my podcast, and see what I feel like I see on the TV or see what I see at the games. It doesn't mean that I'm right. I'm just giving my opinion. And, you know, Ryan Clark always has to act like that on no matter what show he's on. And that was his downfall. And ESPN came out and said that was one of the reasons they let him go is the way he was acting towards other colleagues on the air. Now, the best part about this was ESPN didn't want the news to get out because they knew everyone was going to make a big deal and talk about it because a lot of people didn't like Ryan Clark. A lot of people thought Ryan Clark was outspoken and they didn't like everything he was shouting and saying out there. So a lot of people, you know, we're gonna run to the hills celebrating Ryan Clark getting fired. Well, Ryan Clark was pulled off a show, mid-show, and told he was being let go by ESPN. So of course, after all this, Ryan Clark was, you know, on his own podcast. He has his own podcast called The Pivot, and he has other uh black athletes that played football or basketball on his show with him, and he came out and said ESPN wouldn't allow him to be too black. I don't know what that is supposed to mean, but you can all take it for what he said and spin it your own way. But that's what he said. So I don't know what he's trying to imply. Again, you can interpret it any way you like, but that's the type of person he's turned into. Like I said before, a great player on the field, but a total idiot on TV, and he deserved to be let go from ESPN for acting like that. I mean, that's just that's just unbelievable. Uh, one other bit of NFL news before I get into uh some more uh division predictions. Kyle Shanahan, coach of the San Francisco 49ers, injured in a car accident when he collided with another SUV. It said in a report that Kyle Shanahan may be limited in coaching in the upcoming training camp. Kyle Shanahan in that accident suffered a broken nose, three broken ribs, a broken hand. He also needed 40 stitches to his face, and he also suffered a severe concussion. Whoa! You gotta be kidding me. He he's pretty hearing all that, what happened to him? He's pretty lucky that uh he's still gonna be coaching on the sideline. I I mean, nobody was at fault, uh, no no DUIs, uh no uh, you know, no tickets, nobody speeding, none of that. No DUIs. Speaking of DUIs, Tony Romo arrested in Wisconsin for OWI operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Good old Tony Romo. Now, Tony Romo is lucky that he didn't get in any kind of accident like Kyle Shandahan did. Hey, Jim, how about you start the car for me?

SPEAKER_04 31:42

Can you start the car for me, Jim?

SPEAKER_00 31:46

Ugh. It's too bad CBS won't take this seriously and kick this guy off the air because he makes this too too damn much money for that. $18 million. $18 million. You don't Romo. $18 million. You go into your, whether you have an iPhone or a Galaxy phone or whatever you have. You go to the iTunes store or the Google store. They got an app. It's called Uber. You punch in where you're at for a small minimal fee. They come get you and they take you wherever you want to go. It's kind of like a taxi. You should look it up. For a small minimum fee where you need to go. No matter how you are. Drunk off your ass, sober, just hanging out. This service will come get you and take you where you need to go. And guess what? You won't be in the news, you won't be on social media with your mugshot. You won't be getting made fun of like you are right now on this show. Nobody will hear anything about you. You make more money now than you did when you were playing in the NFL. All you do is announce one game a week for $18 million. And all you have to do is download an app, hit the button where you want to go, and get in the car when it pulls up. It's so simple. These athletes, these people who make all this money. It's so easy. Yet here you are, another one embarrassing themselves because they just can't help themselves and are totally unaware of the situation. It's so simple, Tony. Maybe he was so drunk he couldn't operate his phone. Maybe he lost his phone. I don't know. Alright, anyway. Oh my god. Got one coach who's not drinking, almost costing some life. You got an ex-player who is drinking, and somehow he's okay. I I just I just don't understand it. I I mean, you know, it just the wrong stuff happens to the wrong people sometimes. And I'm not saying uh something really bad should have happened to Tony Romo because he was drinking, but the people who do stupid things, they should pay the price. But, you know, maybe he is paying the price now because he did get caught and now he's getting being embarrassed all over social media and in the news and everything. So maybe, maybe there is some ratifications for being that stupid. But here's a guy like Kyle Shanahan just driving back from practice, gets steamrolled by an SUV, and has to have all this done. Meanwhile, Tony, let me call Jim!

SPEAKER_04 35:00

Hands free, gym! I'm driving, I had a few drinks, gym, gym! Who's our weak one opponent?

SPEAKER_00 35:08

Jim! Just going back and forth in and out of the lanes. Meanwhile, Kyle Shanahan has practically almost died. According to that report. Unbelievable. All right, we move on now to our next division and our over and under predictions for this upcoming NFL season. We are currently sitting at 11-7-2 of our over and under from last season. We kick it off with the NFC South on this show, the 2026 Carolina Panthers. Their 2025 record was 8-9. Their head coach is Dave Canales. Their QB is Bryce Young, 3,011 yards, 23 touchdowns, and 11 interceptions. The leading wide receiver is Tatorio McMillan. He had 1,014 yards and seven touchdowns. Their leading running back was Rico Dow, 1,076 yards with six touchdowns. Their leading sacker was Derek Brown. Their leading tackler was Christian Rosesm with 122. Their offensive rank was 27. Their defensive rank was 16. Odds to win the division plus 310. Odds to win the conference plus 4,500. Odds to win the Super Bowl plus 9,000. Their 2025, I'm sorry, their 2026 over and under is 6.5. Minus 170 to the over, plus 140 to the under. Their 2025 over and under was 6.5. The host had 5-12. They finished 8-9. Oh, loss for the host. She is now 11, 8-2. I can't believe, right? Now that we go back, if you've been listening to this show, the host declared the Carolina Panthers his NFC, his NFC team last year. And I picked him to go 5-12. What an idiot. I can't believe I was rooting this team out all year, knowing that I was losing my over and under bet on him. Key additions. They signed Jalen Phillips to a four-year $120 million deal to help with that pass rush. They got Devin Lloyd for a three-year $45 million deal. They added Kenny Peckett from the Oakland Raiders. Their key departures, Rico Dowell, Andy Dalton, and Ashawn Robinson. They drafted Munro Freely, Lee Hunter, and Chris Brussel. Now before I go into their schedule, we saw bits and pieces of Bryce Young. Play good, play bad. Play good, play bad. There was too many bads for me. And not enough good. I expected a lot more good from Bryce Young last year, but there was just wasn't enough of that. And I don't think that's gonna get any better this year. Now, the key thing here is Rico Dow was a big help to Bryce Young. Not only did he rush for over a thousand yards, he also caught a lot of balls out of the backfield. Well, he's gone. He also had a great mentor, veteran backup, and Andy Dalton. He's gone. And now you got Kenny Pickett. We all know he's not gonna win. I think this Carolina team, which won the division, which had a playoff game, a home playoff game, dude. I think this Carolina team is gonna take a step back. They were six and a half over and under in 2025, they're six and a half over and under in 2026. They open up at home against Chicago, lost. At Atlanta, loss. At Cleveland, lost. Detroit at home on Sunday night football, lost. They have an early buy. At lost. Home at Tampa Bay, win. Thursday night football at Green Bay, loss. Home to Denver, lost. At New Orleans, lost. Baltimore at home, lost. At Tampa Bay on Monday night football, lost. At Minnesota, lost. New Orleans at home, win. Cincinnati at home, I'll give them a win. At Pittsburgh loss. Home to Seattle lost. And on the last season, on the last day of the season, they play Atlanta. I'll give them a win. I got Carolina going 4-13. I got them going under to 6.5. The under is plus 140. Now, William Hill really likes Carolina to go over to 6.5 because they got them at minus 170. I don't just see, I don't see that happening. I don't think Bryce Young takes the next leap. I don't think there is another leap for Bryce Young. I think the loss of Rico Dow is going to really hurt him. I wasn't too impressed with Jalen Phillips last year, going from Miami, going to Philadelphia on that trade. And then he didn't really do anything great for Philadelphia. Philadelphia has a great defense. He should have stood out there being a player on a great defense. He should have made a bigger impact and he didn't. And maybe the Philadelphia defense was hard to learn. Maybe he didn't understand it that well. But now he goes to Carolina. I don't think he's that big of a deal. I don't think he's going to make that big of an impression on that on that Carolina defense. I like, I really like the under of Carolina here. Under the 6.5. I'm going to stick with that. So I got Carolina finishing 4-13. Give me Carolina under for 2026. Our second NFC South team. 2026, Atlanta Falcons. Their 2025 record was 8-9. Their new head coach is Kevin Stefanski, of course, who coached the Cleveland Browns the last two seasons. Their leading quarterback was Michael Pettix with 1,982 yards, nine touchdowns, and three interceptions. Their leading receiver was their tight end, Kyle Pitts, 928 yards, five touchdowns. Their leading running back was, of course, was B. John Robinson, 1,478 rushing yards with seven touchdowns. He also added 820 receiving yards with four touchdowns. Their leading sacker was rookie James Pierce with 10.5. Cading Ellis was their leading tackler 107. Their offense finished 14th. Their defense finished 15th. Odds to win a division plus 360. Odds to win the conference plus 3,500. Odds to win the Super Bowl plus 6,500. Their 2026 over and under is 7.5 plus 100 to the over. Minus 120 to the under. They finished 8-9. So what a host is now 12-8-2 on his 2025 over-under predictions. Almost there, folks, to have a winning record. Almost there, folks. Three more wins to have a winning record for last year. They lost, I'm sorry, their key additions. They got Tua from Miami. They got Johan Donson. They re-signed, I mean, they got, I'm sorry, they signed Brian Robinson to help out help Bijan Robinson out at running back. And they also added Nick Folk. Atlantis had so many problems with their kickers over the year. They did lose Kirk Cousins, Darren Almooney, and Hayden Hodge. They drafted. And I can't read my own writing. We'll skip him. Zachary Branch and Kendall Daniels. I don't even know what their second round pick was because remember, they had two first round picks last year. Now they'd have a little trouble in the offseason with their leading sacker, James Pierce, who got in some scuffle with the police. He led the team with 10.5 sacks. So that's something to keep an eye on. Now they got Michael Penix coming off an injury. They got Tua. This is supposed to be a battle of the left-handed QBs in camp. They got Steven. I mean, sorry, they brought in Kevin Stefansky to be their head coach. Now their offense was 14th last year. So better than half the league. And their defense was 15th. So their defense, which they really focused on last season in the draft, they improved there. Now, their big star in their team, of course, is B. John Robinson. And this guy is awesome. You know, Steven Fancy's going to use this kid to his max ability. Running, catching balls out of the backfield. This guy's going to be uh, of course, Michael Pennix and two is the best friend. Because this guy's going to be the whole offense. They did resign Kyle Pitts to a deal. But here we go. Remember, keep an eye on this. Not only does the host try to give you a prediction, Vegas is telling you right to your face. Last year, their over and under was seven and a half. This year, their over and under is seven and a half. So Vegas is saying the team didn't improve. Just like the team before, Carolina. Their over and under didn't improve. They were six and a half last year, six and a half this year. Same thing. Let's look at their schedule. Week one at Pittsburgh. Lost. At home at Carolina, win. At Green Bay, Thursday night football. Lost. At New Orleans, lost. Baltimore at home. Sunday night football. Win. Chicago at home. Win. San Francisco at home. Lost. At Tampa Bay lost. Cincinnati. That game is in Spain. Lost. Kansas City at home. Lost. They have a bye. At Minnesota lost. At Detroit win. At Cleveland. I'm sorry. Detroit at home win. At Cleveland, win. At Washington, win. Tampa Bay at home win. New Orleans at home win. At Carolina lost. Notice the last three games of Atlanta's schedule. All division opponents. Two at home, one on the road. I got them going 2-1 in those last three games. I got Atlanta finishing 8-9. I think they're going to have a rough start to the season. You know, early, they have Green Bay, Baltimore, Chicago, San Francisco, Tampa Bay, Sidse. They got Kansas City. They have a really rough first half of the season does the Atlanta Falcons. Now, I have them in that first start of the season. I got three. I got them going three and six. Maybe they come out of that four and five. Maybe they come out of that five and four. But that that rough start, those first nine games. I mean, you can't really say Carolina and New Orleans are cupcake games for them and Tampa Bay. Because they're teams in their division. No game in your division is a cupcake game unless you're playing the Jets or Miami this year. Always gotta get a shot shot in to the to the guests listening. Um yeah, so no division game is a cupcake, especially this division, where you have the most even teams here in this division, if you've ever seen. Not one team really stands out is gonna hit the road as a real winning team. So I got Atlanta going 8-9. I don't know if that's gonna be good enough to win the division. It was last year. They finished 8-9 last year. They hired a new coach. Their owner, Arthur Blank, he wants he wants wins. He expects expectations. So we'll see what Kevin Stevensky is. Remember, everybody said, oh, Kevin Stevansky, he's a great coach. He's just stuck in Cleveland. Well, I guess we're gonna find out. I don't I don't think he's a good coach. I don't the host doesn't think so. So we'll see. We'll find out. We'll find out. But that's all I got for you on this show, folks. Again, you know where to get the show by now. That's the Twitter X, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Google Podcasts, Podcast Act, and of course Amazon Music. And as always, it's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. I got something for you today, folks. Uh not many people probably know who this stand is. This is off their upcoming 10th album, which comes out in October. This is Amon Amir, and this is their one of their lead tracks off the new album. It's called Yaka.