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We dive into the most intriguing sports topics of the week, from surprising NFL trades to viral debates that have taken the internet by storm.
• Four college programs since 2000 that produced both #1 NBA and NFL draft picks: Utah (Alex Smith and Andrew Bogut), Georgia (Matthew Stafford and Anthony Edwards), LSU (Joe Burrow and Ben Simmons), and Oklahoma (Sam Bradford/Baker Mayfield/Kyler Murray and Blake Griffin)
• Cowboys trade for wide receiver George Pickens, potentially getting fleeced as reports indicate he has no desire to re-sign after his contract year
• The Commanders hype train is reaching unprecedented levels with a new stadium, hosting the 2027 NFL Draft, and sky-high expectations following last year's success
• Current NBA playoff situation with Cavaliers bouncing back against Indiana, Thunder blowing out Nuggets, and Celtics struggling against the Knicks
• Bill Belichick's girlfriend situation creating unexpected drama for the typically focused coach
• The viral debate about 100 men fighting a silverback gorilla and why the humans stand virtually no chance against a creature that can lift 1800 pounds
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Friday Night Sports Intro
Speaker 1What is going on? Dc, maryland, virginia. Listeners across the globe Turn the volume up. Power is back on for this Friday night. It is May 9th. It's your boy, dylan Gatz, from Mile High City in Denver, colorado, joining me, as always from Oney, maryland, mr Cruz.
Speaker 2What is going on, mr Gatz? How has your week been? How's it going? How's the weather, How's the fam? We are back again on a Friday to talk about sports.
Speaker 1Weather is sunny and 60s. It's going to be the 80s weekend, so it's that perfect transition time from a weather perspective. But it's also Denver, so it can also be bipolar at the same time. We might get snow next week. Who the fuck knows Family? Denver, so it can also be bipolar at the same time. We might get snow next week. Who the fuck knows family? Not sure, haven't really heard from them in a couple months. It's going to be really awkward when I just pop up in a month and just be like surprise bitches. I'm still alive, work, work wasn't too bad this week, taking a good approach in the morning, so so have a little meditation session on the balcony and just look at the mountains and freaking set yourself for the day. Man, just gotta take breaks. Take breaks at work people.
Speaker 2Gotta stay sane, somehow, man.
Speaker 1Gotta stay sane somehow, but it's good. How is Oni, maryland?
Speaker 2Oni's. You know, all right, um, still in a battle with our property management for the apartment. Uh, had some muckaboos happen that they don't want to take responsibility for, so that's annoying. Um, you know, works, work, had a couple hiccups there as well, but, but, you know, still working, doing, trying to not get bit by whatever nests are being laid in the ceiling of houses, dude, I'm telling you. So this is off topic. Um, uh, for the listeners, but, uh, I was texting the group chat.
Speaker 2I was at work today and I get up into the ceiling above this master bedroom and I get up in there and there's this huge, probably three foot by three foot nest, just right where I need to work of just sticks and hay, and it looked like there was a little burrow in it, so I took a picture of it. Of course, little like a burrow in it, so I took a picture of it. Of course, that way if I got attacked, I could show the paramedics what the nest actually looked like. Uh, in animal control, uh, but then also just to be like this, you know, this is kind of why I got out of residential.
Speaker 2But you know, uh went ahead, got my stuff done, it was all fine, all good, nothing jumped out at me, um. But yeah, man, other than that, you know, uh, life's life just gotta keep rolling with it, man, and that's exactly what we're gonna do. And to start off the show, mr guys, we got a lot to talk about, but I posed this question in the group chat and I feel like it snagged y'all up a little bit. And that question is since 2000, can you name the four college teams or programs to produce both a number one NBA draft pick and a number one NFL draft pick?
College Teams with #1 Draft Picks
Speaker 1So that's a great question. And, of course, you can check us out on all podcast platforms for free five-star reviews, send us feedback in the link right above the episode and, of course, social media at DJPowerHour. Give us a like, give us some love and enjoy. It's a really great question because you would think that the big programs in football would correlate to basketball and it doesn't. And that's tricky. It's rare. Like you know, a buddy of Rich was asking Texas I know Texas is not one of them Because the best player would have been Kevin Durant and he went number two in his draft. Because the best player would have been Kevin Durant and he went number two in his draft the one I'm pretty sure I know, 2005 Utah, it's Alex Smith who went number one in the NFL draft and I believe Andrew Bogut went number one overall in the NBA, the only school to have number one players drafted in the same year. Wow Bam, I told you I'd nail one. I told you I would nail one.
Speaker 2I did not think that that was the one you were going to get. I swear to God that was the one that was going to trip you up, but you are right. They were both part of the Mountain West at the time and in 2005, utah goes back-to to back in the NFL and NBA drafts with the selections of Alex Smith and Andrew.
Speaker 1Bogan, bam, boom, um, okay, there's only four. That's impressive, okay. So see, the NFL one is tougher because when I think of like, when I think NBA, the big school is like, ohio State comes to mind, with a couple of players that went number one, like a Greg Odom, for example, complete bust, but I know they haven't had, I don't think they've had anyone go number one. In the NFL, it's always top picks, but not number one. Texas ain't on there, always top picks, but not number one. Texas ain't on there. Kentucky, kentucky's another good one, because they factory produce fucking, uh, number one players in the nba. But I also don't I don't think it's translated into the nfl, so they're out.
Speaker 1Georgia. I mean, anthony edwards was number one overall pick coming out of georgia, but of, but of the great Georgia players that have come out, especially over the last, just freaking like 10 years, I also I'm pretty sure none of them have also gone number one. So it's not Georgia. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh, wait, hold on, hold on, on, hold on. Don't disrespect my boy from the 2009 class, matt stafford bro, oh, wow, yeah, that's, that is quarterback georgia. That may, yep, makes perfect sense. Yeah, okay, so we got Georgia. We got Georgia and Utah. I don't know if I want to ask the year that either of these players got drafted into their respective sport or the conference.
Speaker 2No, go for conference. Give me conference If I give you the year. Okay, so which one do you want the? Uh, so you want a conference.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2One of them is the SEC.
Speaker 1So there's two SEC schools, okay. So, oh my God, and the SEC just fucking restructured too.
Speaker 2So no, no, this is a pre-restructure.
Speaker 1Okay cool, so actual SEC Got it. Um, so no, no, this is a pre-restriction. Okay cool, so actual sec got it. Um, I'm a guest lsu. I think that's wrong, it's not? Oh, let's go. You got burrow in 2020, in 2020, yep yeah 2016 you got Ben. Simmons I forgot Ben Simmons. He was a one-year wonder at LSU and the NBA, Wow yeah pretty much, pretty much.
Speaker 2And the last one I'm not going to give it to you. You just got to start naming out programs and I'll guide you?
Speaker 1Oh, I don't get the conference.
Speaker 2No, that's too easy, man, that's too easy.
Speaker 1Okay, you know what I'm doing, much better at this than I thought. All right, god, this is, I'll go. I guess I'll go west and work my way east. I'll go Pacific Northwest, we'll go Washington. We'll go Pacific Northwest, we'll go Washington. We'll go Oregon, we'll go Oregon State, we'll go Stanford, we'll go Cal, ucla Nope. Usc Nope. San Diego State Nope. Fresno State Nope, you're going to go. I already said Utah, so it's not Utah State under that much. Nope, it's not UTEP. It's not BYU Nope, all right. So I know it's not Colorado. It's not Boise State Nope. It's not Idaho Nope. It's not Iowa, not Iowa State Nope, it's not Idaho Nope, it's not Iowa, not Iowa State Nope. Okay, it's not Wyoming, it's not Arizona. Good guess.
Speaker 1Oh damn, all right. So it's not Arizona, not Arizona State, not New Mexico State, not UNLV, okay, okay. So then we get to Nebraska. It's not Kansas, it's only Kansas for basketball, correct, let's only Kansas for basketball, correct, let's see. So then you got Oklahoma, oklahoma, wait, no, it's Oklahoma. It's Blake Griffin and Sam Bradford, bam Boomers.
Speaker 2You can say Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1You know what that's true?
Speaker 2Or.
Speaker 1Kylerler right, didn't kyler go one also, yep oh yeah, okay, so oklahoma boomer sooner 2009.
Speaker 2Blake griffin, and you can either say sam bradford or baker mayfield or kyler green. Yeah, those are the four schools that have produced both an NFL and NBA number one draft pick.
Speaker 1That was good. That was good. That was a good brain teaser right there. I don't know which one. Did you think I was going to get Oklahoma or Georgia?
Speaker 2I thought you were going to get LSU. You're our LSU boy.
NBA and NHL Playoff Updates
Speaker 1Yeah, I know, but the Ben Simmons has been so long since he's been relevant in basketball yeah, I forgot. He transferred from playing the Australia International team and then went to LSU for the one year he was a fucking monster and then that's all she wrote after his rookie year Perfect. Well, speaking of more basketball, uh news. You got nba playoffs on right now. You got the cabs up by 21 to the third game three at indiana. Obviously, cleveland. Cleveland went down. Oh two at home. Um, in the second round playoff series against Indiana. You've got game three tonight. Thunder and Denver here in Denver Series tied 1-1. The Nuggets got blown out by 43.
Speaker 1In game two at OKC You've got I know I'm just obliterated the Thunder scored 87 points in the first half. I believe that's the most first half points scored in a playoff game Of all time, which is just ridiculous, damn. You've got the for NHL. You've got the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Florida Panthers in the second period. That's a 4-3 game, seven goals scored through two periods. Goodness gracious. At Florida, at Truist Bank Arena right in Sunrise, florida, florida Panthers down 0-2 after taking it to the chin. At Toronto, you got Dallas Stars at the Winnipeg Jets for game two as well at Winnipeg. Dallas took game one at Winnipeg. That crowd is just insane. Winnipeg is the best team all year.
Speaker 1And tomorrow you've got a 3.30 fucking mid-afternoon game between the Boston Celtics and the Knicks. I'm not really sure why this isn't a 7.30, 8 o'clock tip-off. That is just poor justice on the NBA for having a massive game for the Celtics, who are down 0-2 because they can't hit the broad side of the fucking ocean, they can't hit the Boston Harbor. They can't hit anything right now. You've got that going on. And then a little bit of wrestling. News, cruz, this is a dagger for you. Backlash is tomorrow and of course, it's all about the main event John Cena versus Randy Orton for the final time for the title. Take us back to 2006,. Folks, bad beat. It's a bad beat by you.
Speaker 2Yeah, bad beat dude, I completely forgot. But I agree, I, yeah, a bad beat dude, I just completely forgot. I mean, don't get me wrong, love my family but to have family plans, especially ones that'll take me. At least the plans will end once the main event starts. It's a bad beat.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's a bad beat.
Speaker 2I have to throw it on and hopefully I get home before the end of the match as soon as like everything's out. Okay, bye and see ya.
Speaker 1Yep, happy Mother's Day. Good seeing you. I gotta go and it's in St Louis. Come on, bad beat, bad beat, bad beat.
Speaker 2Hopefully some matches run long and you know I can get there maybe with only like 10 minutes into the match, because we know it's going to be longer, unless Cena goes with the route of him rooting professional wrestling and he ends up like beating Randy Orton in like five, but I doubt that that's going to happen. Could, but I doubt that that's going to happen.
Speaker 1Could I mean you could do the you know tables to turn when he, uh, him and Orton fall all those years ago in Orton like kept getting disqualified or or getting counted out to like retain his title. Cena could also go that route too. Who the fuck knows? But yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1I don't think that's what it is I mean. I mean, If you're going to ruin wrestling, you might as well just keep it super short with the anticipation and just have a collapse like that We'll see. You also got Golden State Minnesota Timberwolves game three at Golden State tomorrow. Minnesota lost game one, won game two at home head over to the Bay Area. Steph is out for at least a week with a hamstring injury First time he's gotten a hamstring injury in his career, by the way. That's absurd, that's insane, yeah, super insane. And then Caps Washington Capitals game three at Carolina. Tomorrow Six o'clock puck drops East Coast time. Carolina took game one in DC. Capitals came back and roared three to one. So play just missed the playoff sports and it missed the baseball.
Speaker 2And you know if you're watching your trashy mlb team not gonna name names, your teams um, you could probably take your time and, uh, put it elsewhere um, funny thing is I don't mean to cut you off, but pretty sure they're on playstation playing call of duty right now during one of the games that's going live hold the fuck, hold the fuck, hold on, hold on, sorry, let me, let me, let me, let me pull playstation app real quick, hold up, oh okay.
Speaker 1Oh okay, that's cool, that's cool, interesting, interesting. Might screenshot that and just send you the group chat, but whatever, neither here nor there I'm to let that slide for the next about 40 minutes, okay. And of course, bill Belichick's girlfriend, banned from UNC football stadium and then rescinded that like a couple hours later. What an absolute mess that is just gonna be.
Speaker 2Plus, he's gotta be bombed dude for a man like bill belichick to just like ruin his whole aura and legacy over, like it's just and I don't even mean to talk like that down about a woman, but like she's got a hold on bill, that's just crazy ain't that the truth?
Speaker 1she's just been.
Speaker 2she has just been ransacking everything he's been a part of and making it about well them, but quote, unquote about her. Yeah, and it's, it's just sad to see man, it's really sad to see, doing it in every single interview. She, she's, it's just Bill. You're smarter than that, bro, you are so much smarter than that, I mean, but you know, I guess that's what like a 40-year age difference does for you 49-year age difference.
Speaker 1He don't give a fuck, I do, he's just yeah, I guess. Yeah, I mean she must be doing rope-a-dope tricks on little Bill. I don't know what's going on, but that's a fucking train wreck. I'm really curious how, during the season that's going to be, he's one to shut everything out and just focus on the game. But damn man, I don't know if he can block this out.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's kind of hard when your girlfriend won't let you. Well, that's true. He's trying to be all business and she's the one that's fucking everything up.
Speaker 1That's what happens when you go 49 years younger. Yeah.
NFL Trade News and Updates
Speaker 2Wouldn't you so, bro? You could have got an established woman that was younger than you, but for fresh in college, yeah, bro it could have went to like 45 and been just fine 45.
Speaker 1Yeah shit Seriously. And then last two things. Then we get into some NFL. You got Manny Pacquiao's coming out of retirement. That broke. He's been retired for four years. He's 46. He's going to take on the whatever fucking heavyweight weight class title. There's so many different title weight classes in boxing I can't keep up. But he's going to go against the champ. I think it's Marco Barrios. I think his name is in July, so that was a little stunning. And then meant to touch on it. Last week, greg Popovich stepping down as head coach for the Spurs, taking a front office role I mean, he was the longest tenure coach in the NBA Obviously won five titles with a bunch of ballers. He had 18 50-win seasons in a row Absurd.
Speaker 2Fantastic Definitely one of the greatest coaches of all time.
Speaker 1Absolutely.
Speaker 2I mean, like you said, these are the 70s man. I mean it's well-deserved.
Speaker 1Had some health issues. Yeah, I mean you hate to seedeserved had some health issues.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, you hate to see it because it's the end of an era. It's the ending of a figure, almost a face of the NBA, Definitely of the Spurs organization. But you know, it's just that time. I'm glad he was able to do it on his terms.
Speaker 1Yep.
Speaker 2And you know he still has a role to play in the Spurs organization, hopefully, oh yeah. But yeah, man, I mean it's more bittersweet than anything.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's definitely bittersweet. As much as everyone hated the Spurs in the early 2000s up to 2019, class act organization from top down, just across all sports, winning his head coach of all time Just five rings. I mean just a class representation of player development and accountability. So good for Pop. Take a step back, get into the front office. Um, you can still make an impact and make a change, um to keep the program going forward. And then nfl news finally, we got something, but we got rookie signed to contracts and all that stuff.
Speaker 2um oh, um. By the way, I'm pretty sure I can't remember who he was with, but for the first time in I don't know how many years, a rookie wide receiver got a fully guaranteed contract.
Speaker 1It was Higgins, the second round pick for the Texans out of Iowa State.
Speaker 2What I mean. I guess that's cool. You do that on a second-round pick. Wasn't the last fully guaranteed contract, Sam Bradford?
Speaker 1Well, yeah, but you know, times have changed.
Speaker 2Right. I think contracts are going so well. Fully guaranteed contracts are going so well today in the NFL. Let's call the Cleveland Browns and pass them how that's going.
Speaker 1Look again it's a wide receiver, not a quarterback.
Speaker 2I think he's the first second-round player ever to get a fully guaranteed contract.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm as surprised as you are. Hope waits for that statement. I, yeah, like I don't mean the dramatic pause, but like that's, it's, um, it's something his deal is only 11 million dollars, but still correct, yeah, so yeah, exactly, it's only 11 million dollars uh, yeah, 11 million dollars.
Speaker 2Fuck out of here. That's fuck you money.
Speaker 1That's big. Fuck you money. Higgins is the first second round pick In NFL history to have a fully Guaranteed contract.
Speaker 2He's, he's gotta have Kirk's agent, like that's just.
Speaker 1Hey, look, you wanna get that agent man. Look, want to get that agent man. Look, you want to get that money. Yeah, so good for Higgins and Tyler Warren, ashton Ganti All these guys are signing as well. And then the Cardinals made a late post-draft selection. I'm talking about Pope Leo XIV for the conclave over in the Vatican, first American Pope in the conclave's history, a Chicago native.
Speaker 2Chicago has produced a Pope quicker than they have produced a 4000 yard passer yikes America produced the Pope before they have produced a 4,000 yard passer.
Speaker 1Yep, yikes, yep. America produced the Pope before Rockstar Games could get GTA 6 out for everybody. By the way, fantastic fucking trailer I'm so hyped for it Okay, well, cool, keep waiting another year, wait another year.
Speaker 2If they give me another trailer in like two months, I'll be okay with it, because those graphics look fucking insane, and I'm not just talking about the ass jiggles like that. Shit look almost like a show I mean it.
Speaker 1It's a show.
Speaker 2That's what it's a show it is, and I do love the voice actor, and if you're a true gaming fan, then you know what I'm talking about.
Commanders Hype Train Discussion
Speaker 1They did they. They did good. Just get the fucking game out at this point. Um, all right, dallas Cowboys of course can't go, can't go in off season without talking about the Lakers was brought in the Cowboys, but the Cow. The Cowboys made a trade, and I'm reading reports from Dallas that cover the team. They actually think this trade was brilliant. They actually think Jerry Jones fleeced a trade for the first time in like 25 years, which I don't know how I feel about that. But Cowboys make a trade with the Steelers. Trade to get George Pickens to be their wide receiver too. He's entering his final year of his rookie deal. Trade to get George Pickens to be their wide receiver too. He's entering his final year of his rookie deal. I believe they also traded a third-round pick and got a sixth-round pick in return. So you got Dak CeeDee and George Pickens, they got Javante Williams and a bunch of scrubs in the backfield and you got Luke Skudmaker for their tight end. So Cruz, who won the trade? Does it do anything for Dallas?
Speaker 2Okay, so like on paper, it does a lot. George Pickens is a boom or bust player. You either get 70 yards and a touchdown at least from him in a game or you get a catch for four yards in a game. He's boom or bust. It looks great on paper. It takes pressure off a CD, you know. Hopefully Javante Williams and company can do something for the run game to help.
Speaker 2Dak out Scootermaker. I'll say it, I like him. Baller, he is a reliable, big target for a quarterback. He reminds me of Jason Witten, reminds me of Jake Ferguson. He is a true Cowboys tight end at the end of the day. So you know, it should help them out in all retrospect, you know.
Speaker 2But the steelers, they have the perfect track record of letting go of star quote, unquote, wide receivers at the right fucking time and getting what we think. Every single time we think they get fleeced, we think that they get pennies on the dollar. And then you have an antonio brown, then you have a chase claypool, then you have a martavius brian, you have a dionte john, like it just never fails. And one of the things is, I have been hearing a lot of hoopla. I don't know how much you want to dive into it, but considering we're talking about George Pickens here, he has no he's on the contract here. He has no desire whatsoever to resign with the Cowboy. He wants to the contract year. He has no desire whatsoever to resign with the Cowboy, he wants to test free agency.
Speaker 2And you know, if that's the case, then the Cowboys got fleased Like. If he's already having that mindset, which I can 1,000% believe from a player like George Pickett is that it's fuck me, I'm going to do me, or fuck them I'm going to do me, especially when it comes to the Cowboys. I just I mean, you know this should work on paper, but I don't think it can. The Cowboys are still very dysfunctional. They still need a lot more help on defense and we've seen a much better offense try to outscore their opponents with no defense and it not work well for them.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2I mean, and it's just of course, I'm talking about the Bengals, the 2024 Bengals. If you give me an offense to choose between the two, I'm taking the Bengals Facts On paper again. The Cowboys defense should be better than it is. They had a lot of injuries last year, especially to their secondary. Hopefully they can come back, but usually, like secondaries and injuries, once they start they don't stop. It's just. You know it's a slippery slope. You know, jerry Jones isn't this player or mastermind that can sit there and rile in a quote-unquote unhinged personality which, let's be honest, george Pickens kind of is.
Speaker 1He ain't kind of no, he is.
Speaker 2He is. I mean, he's entertaining as fuck to watch. He's either catching a one handed diving catch or he's fighting your favorite defensive he's throwing two hands. So it'll definitely be interesting with that trade. I am still not worried about the Cowboys it's fair.
Speaker 1It's fair, I think. The Cowboys it's fair, it's fair, I think the Cowboys got hosed in this trade as well. There's got to be a study or documentary on the intuition that Mike Tomlin and the organization has when it comes to five menacing diva receivers and then they trade them at the. I mean it's literally the Belichick blueprint, but for behavior, not performance. Now, in most cases. Chase Kalaypul complete bust after his rookie year. Deontay Johnson complete bust. Martavis Bryant again complete bust. He was a boomer bust guy.
Speaker 1And then George Pickens. I mean Pickens has been okay his first three years in the league. I mean he's just a big catch guy. He had 52 catches for 800 yards. His rookie year had 63 catches for 1140 yards. The second year that 59 catches for 900 yards. Um, last year. And yeah, like he's, either he's either making ridiculous one-handed deep ball catches down the field or he's throwing two hands to a DB and just fucking, just wrecking him. And I think, I think from the Steelers perspective. You know you traded for DK, metcalf, metcalf and you assigned him to like $130 million deal or $150 million deal for DK, and it's he's. Basically I love DK, but he's a he's a bigger, probably a tad slower version of George Pickens when it when it's all said and done like definitely overpaid for him, in my opinion, but yeah, I mean because because and they got no quarterback.
Speaker 1So like, um, yeah, right, they got no quarterback, um, najee Harris is gone, um, he, he's, he's on the chargers and you know you got you got Pat Fryer Ruth, who's good for like four catches and 40 yards a game, um, and an occasional touchdown. But you, but Metcalf, he's been turned into a deep ball guy only, which is a shame, because you would have thought with him and Lockett and Jackson Smith and Jigba in Seattle, they would have utilized him more for different routes or even in the slot, and he's boom or bust also. It's pretty wild.
Speaker 1So I think, from the Steelers' perspective, their offense and Arthur Smith is the offensive coordinator, you know that's going to be a joke of an offense anyway so their defense is going to hold opponents to 17 to 20 points and the offense, it could be an enigma offense. It could be an enigma offense very similar to the Broncos where they're struggling to get 14 to 24 points in a game you got no quarterback, your running game could be a little suspect. Your defense is, of course, going to carry the team, but I think Tomlin is just a genius as far as just getting rid of guys in the organization and to trade a diva to the biggest diva owner in probably all of sports history, jerry Jones, I think, just puts a nice little comical cap on top of it, because it ain't going to take long for Pickens to bitch about not getting the ball, or he's going to fight somebody. He's probably going to fight Trayvon Diggs or Deron Bland and practice.
Speaker 2It's going to be irritating.
Speaker 1And Stephen A Smith always says the Cowboys are an accident waiting to happen. George Pickens is now the accident waiting to fucking happen. It just is A thousand percent. A thousand percent, I think, does it help the Cowboys Kind of.
Speaker 1You know you could say Pickens is their receiver too, but I mean, their run game is going to be ass. And I love Javante, but he's cooked and you've got Rico Dowdle. Run game is going to be trash. You've got new offensive line pieces and some stable ones, of course, but it's going to be CD and the Ferguson schoonmaker show and you're probably going to be expecting more from a healthy defensive secondary with Micah DeMarcus and then Bland and Trayvon Diggs on the backside. It's just, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, maybe maybe he, maybe he just balls out and tests free agency and it could go really well, or he could go really well, or he could go for like 50-something catches for 700 yards and like three touchdowns and it could be a fail for his perspective.
Speaker 1But I think the Steelers wanted to trade just with getting a third-round pick and getting a player that they drafted pretty high. I believe he was second-round pick. If I recall correctly, pickens was. So you know I trust Tomlin over, you know, 90% of the other coaches in the NFL and I sure as fuck trust the Rooney organization over the Jerry Jones organization when it comes to judging players and talent. So, oh, and George Pickens has the same age as Micah Parsons. So Jerry Jones didn't know Micah Parsons' age name. He's going to know him now. So there's that, and I think the Cowboys will still be third and probably be third in the NFC East when it's all said and done.
Speaker 1And we're going to stay in the NFC East because another team in the NFC East man. It's been a ride for Commanders fans since getting a new ownership and I don't want to use the term glazing, but I will say there has been a tremendous amount of spotlight on the command, and for good reasons. Let me also clarify for good reasons this time, not bad reasons, but new ownership. You draft your franchise quarterback in James Daniels. You get to the NFC title game. Now you're getting RFK Stadium rebuilt. You got that working towards the future. K-stadium rebuilt you got that working towards the future. Now you got the NFL draft coming in 2027 at the National Mall, which is insane. You got Rich Eisen putting the Commanders number two in his early power rankings. You got everyone on the Commanders Cruz. It's weird for you because you're a lifelong Commanders fan. Should we pause for the cause a little bit on the Commanders train that's on a bullet to greatness for the first time in 30 years. But like, is it too much talk? Is there too much Commanders spotlight going on for you?
Speaker 2Too much Commanders spotlight going on for you as a diehard Commanders fan that has never seen his team be successful since he started paying attention to football back in 2000,. Yeah, honestly, I don't think. Last year the Commanders had one of the easiest schedules at the beginning of the year. And throughout they pretty much played out the same. This upcoming year we're going to have the eighth toughest schedule the top ten in difficulty.
Speaker 1That's a big difference.
Speaker 2That's a big difference. Now I'm not going to say that we don't have the pieces or the staff. Shane Daniels had the best rookie season of all time. Arguably. He set records. He was the most efficient quarterback on fourth down within the minutes, Better than every other quarterback in the league. He was on point. He showed a lot of poise. I get why there's hype, but there is so much hype surrounding this team that the only way they can live up to the hype is if they win a Super Bowl or make it to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1That's bad juju. That's bad juju, that's terrible juju.
Speaker 2If it's anything less than the NFC Championship, then this team will be looked at as a failure.
Speaker 1Slump, sophomore slump. Maybe we looked into it too much. Exactly, Exactly.
Speaker 2Even if we make it to the divisional round, even if we make it to the wild card. Let's be honest, we haven't gone back-to-back in playoffs since God knows fucking. But if we do not make it to an NFC championship game again, if we do not beat the Eagles in the playoffs, it's a wrap. It's a wrap. And we overhyped Jay Daniels, we overhyped Dan Quinn, we overhyped Adam Peters. Like there's just so much hype. You know it's bad juju in my opinion, but fuck it, fuck it. We taking it that. Oh, I am sorry, oh it's a lot of bad juju, but this is the first time I've ever seen hype like this for a washington commanders football team. And god damn it if I don't like it. God damn it if I don't like it. All right, you know what? Alright, you know what? Like I'm back in. You know what? I'm hyped that everybody wants to come and be a commander. I'm hyped that we're getting all this spotlight. But, goddammit, if that ain't bad juju, I like it though. You gotta rise and overcome this is what the fuck we're proving that we're changing the culture. We're proving that we're not just some Dan Snyder rejects. We're better than that. We're more than that. We're gonna fucking go in.
Speaker 2Josh Harris, adam Peters, dan Quinn. They're gonna leave us to the fucking promised land. Will it be next year? Probably not, but I like what they're doing. They're still looking to win now, while also for more acquisitions. I like what's going on. Give me a veteran pass rusher leading up to minicamp and OTAs and all that shit for the preseason. Jadavion Clowney.
Speaker 1Or or or or or. Former number one overall pick, jadavion Clowney.
Speaker 2I don't know about that, but give me a Z'Darrius Smith, give me fucking, or give me a Jalen Ramsey. Jalen Ramsey, you know what, I'll take two. You know just one more veteran piece to that defense. He making noise.
Speaker 1Making noise, making more noise. Yes, the last time the Commanders made back-to-back playoff appearances. I'll give you a hint you and I weren't even born.
Speaker 2Had to have been like fucking 87 close 1990 and 91.
Speaker 1Wow, that's the last time the commanders have made back to back playoff appearances 91 we won the championship 91,.
Speaker 2we won the championship 91,.
Speaker 1You did win the championship. That is correct. God damn. I pose this question and I do listen to a DC sports show pretty much every day at the office and of course it's all Washington, so it's going to be commanders this and commanders that. But I mean the last couple years until you drafted Jada, you know guys like Louis Riddick and all these other guys in the NFL were always like, oh man, they got that.
Speaker 1Alabama wall defense Commanders. I see commanders going Super Bowl. It's like your dark horse team. And then you just fell flat. And now you have a quarterback and you traded for Tunsell. You traded for Debo, you drafted Trey Amos. You drafted some good pieces. You got Deft at line to protect your quarterback. Your running game.
Speaker 1I don't know what's going to go there. Maybe it's a running back by committee situation. I don't know. I don't think that was addressed really at all, addressed really at all.
Speaker 1Um, I would be, I would be scared, shitless going into this season if, if my team went from 30 years of just straight ass, not in just performance but also culturally as an organization. You are the laughing sock, the butt of the jokes, and then you're going, you do a complete 180 and, oh, my god, you're making moves, you're signing key like veteran players on defense. You, you, uh, you know you got the number two overall. Pick you, no brainer choice. Like you took the quarterback who bought out as as a rookie but next bought out too, but um. Like you get the nfc championship game. Like there, there's good and bad when it comes to having so much success in such little time. You typically see it within with, like like childhood actors or like actors or musical prodigies. They make it big so young and so quickly. It's not just the money and the fame, it's just the overall success and what that comes with and what that comes with. And I think, look, I think Josh Harrison and Adam Peters have done a tremendous job since taking over for the Commanders and I think the Commanders have definitely taken leaps and bounds in the right direction. Like I said, they're on a bullet train to success. You got a new stadium coming in. You got the fucking NFL draft coming in already for your team under new ownership. Like scheider was still the owner, I don't know if dc would have ever had a draft as long as he was like living and breathing, um, or owning the team.
Speaker 1So I, I, I. I like to taper just just expectations and talks. You know CJ Stroud, he didn't have a good sophomore season. He also got sacked 52 times. Like I love Jane, trust me, I'm no more Jane Daniels fan over here. Okay, I get it.
Speaker 1I don't know if he's going to have a slump. I think performance-wise I think he's going to be just fine and I don't think he's going to have a slump per se. It is a year under his belt. It is a year for teams to understand the playbook and to understand James' anticipations in X, y and Z and I think that will catch up a little bit. But I also just think he's that dude and when you have that dude in the most important position for your team, I think it's going to allow you to go far and to go places.
Speaker 1Top 10 toughest schedules are going to be tough places. Top 10 toughest schedules are going to be tough and obviously the schedule release which I think comes out, comes out in five days, so that might be next week's first half of the season schedule predictions mid-May. If I'm a Commanders fan, I'm starstruck with all the chatter. I think, with the season starts and bullets are flying, I think it's going to be truly a week-by-week case of like do we want to keep chatting about the Commanders Hell yeah, they're hitting expectations or do we don't want to be like okay, let's bring it down? Let's bring it down just a notch Like NFC title game with the rookie quarterback. It's an anomaly, it just is. It doesn't happen in the NFL. It happened a handful of times. So Mark Sanchez got back there his next year to the AFC title game.
Speaker 1So, like they could do it. They could fucking do it. They could play the Eagles again. Maybe Saquon just fucking dogwaters them again, who knows? But like I think you have to be able to confidently say the commanders are the best team in their own division. And they're not, it's the Eagles, and I think.
Speaker 1I think if it was, flipped okay, maybe, maybe it could be like man, this ceiling, this ceiling is high, but they have the talent and the personnel to do it. But I think if you, if you aren't even the best team in your division, you're definitely one of the top five teams in the NFC. I will say that I just think tougher. Schedule another year of film. I would be a little pessimistic as a Commander's fan. But I love that you're all in. I love that you're invested, you're ready to roll, you're ready to see this team run through brick walls. It's going to be an interesting year for your team and your second-year quarterback. It's going to be an interesting year for my team and my second-year quarterback, and you know we'll just have to wait and see. But are you going to the draft in two years at DC? Are you going to go to the draft? It doesn't get closer, unfortunately, than the National Mall.
Speaker 2I mean you almost kind of have to.
Speaker 1I feel like you almost kind of have to. Actually, I also feel like the DC draft can get a million people there over the three days.
Speaker 2Easily, yeah, easily, but also the one thing that I'm also very worried about is what if you've got to take a piss? The draft is a long process, so it's like Times Square on New Year's Gotta wear a diaper.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean, your dog wears a diaper. You're just gonna have to do the same thing for six hours. I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 2I mean, it is what it is. But you know not to change subjects, but I'm looking now. It looks like Bengals first round pick, Shamar Stewart, is holding out on his contract and will not join until he signs that contract.
Speaker 1That's bad news, bengals right there. That's bad news.
Speaker 2Bengals right there Especially's bad news bangles right there, especially for someone you know he had a lot of. He was able to beat some pass blocks but if you look at his total sacks, I think he only had like four in college or something like that Wasn't great, wasn't great. More likely, he was just a combine. Yeah, that looks rough. And now the first ever second Wide receiver Getting a fully guaranteed contract Could be coming to fight the rest of the league in the ass. Because you know, that's just you know.
Speaker 1That ain't good man. That ain't good for the Bengals, absolutely not. You gotta get that locked up, man.
Speaker 2For one and a half sacks and six tackles for loss his entire last year of college. I just don't understand.
Speaker 1I couldn't tell you. You know what? Here's what I don't understand.
Speaker 1And then we'll wrap up this Friday night with this A gorilla. A lot of chatter about this trend of with this A gorilla. A lot of chatter about this trend of 100 men fighting a silverback gorilla. Also, I don't understand why people think it's like a Royal Rumble style. I would imagine it's just all 100 people going into a fucking cage with a gorilla A gorilla's winning. I don't care what type of strategy you want to use. I don't care if you sacrifice the first 15 to 20 people and then circle it. Bitch, are you kidding me right now?
Speaker 2I mean don't get me wrong I do know at least one person that thinks he can take on a gorilla Himself. Fds that's initials for people that know FanDuel Sportsbook no, first day, first day definitely thinks he'd be able to take on a gorilla, but, that being said, 100 men are getting with a gorilla. But, that being said, a hundred men are getting with a gorilla, yes. Now the question is if you could put together a team versus that gorilla to give you the best shot, who would be in your team? Give me three.
Speaker 2Like currently, like not prime in in life, in life, right now in life right now, as they are yes brock, brock, lesnar is one that's one for me as well.
Speaker 1I think I would put oh man, man, this is tough Three. Wow, you know what I would put? A? Just from a visual standpoint, it would be interesting. The Joey Swole guy I would Do better. Gorilla, do better.
Speaker 2The gym is not just for you, it's for everybody.
Speaker 1This is our space, this isn't just yours. Great, and then I would need third person is a pure distraction. Comical purpose could be sacrificial, depending on how it plays out. I would want entertainment and Chris Tucker would be my third person on the team, just for pure gorilla impersonations and fucking jokes.
Speaker 2God damn, god damn, god damn. Whoa, I like it. Okay, you know, that's funny, that's funny. You went for me, girl, okay, so I gotta stop. So I mean, yeah, okay, okay, I like it. So my three, of course. Brock Lesnar I agree with you on that one. Second one, and I said it in the group chat a while ago Brian Shaw, oh yeah, brian Shaw is an enormous human fucking being. He makes certain primates look like they're small and it's just fucking insane. Yeah, he's training MMA, he's fast for his size. Three, three, and I don't want this to be misconstrued in any way, shape or form. But his name in the WWE is Joe Henry.
Speaker 1I'm leaving, joe Henry. No, it was the silverback himself, mark Henry. The world's strongest man. It's a great one.
Speaker 2Mark Henry, now I still feel like could do some damage. Give me those three freaks of nature and they stand a chance against him.
Speaker 1A chance a chance.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, don't be wrong, they're probably still not winning they cooked is what they are.
Speaker 1You could give me Mark Henry, you could give me prime peak angle, current angle, and Brock Lesnar, and they cooked. Now that angle.
Speaker 2They were respectful by the way they were respectful. You didn't say the other term, you said peak angle.
Speaker 1Yeah, peak angle, come on. Come on now. Now that angle locks will be silly when he gets that gorilla on the fucking ground and he just starts losing his shit on him. But a current person who would be alternate number one, who would replace Chris Tucker, obviously for a built standpoint, would be Bobby Lashley. Bobby Lashley could also still do some great fucking damage there, could also still do some great fucking damage there. But I don't again, I don't understand why people think it would be like a one-by-one scenario. It could be one-by-one, it could be 10-to-one, it could be 100-to-one, it don't fucking matter, it could be a silverback, it could be a humpback gorilla in three, like it don't fucking matter. At the end of the day, a silverback gorilla can weigh up to 450 pounds. This motherfucker can lift up to like 1800 pounds. And, by the way, they don't they don't attack humans unless provoked. Okay, let's just start there. Like they're not a reckless creature that's just gonna fuck with everything just because they want to. No, they fuck with you if you fuck with them.
Speaker 2Yeah you're dead and I'm pretty sure like if you look at your, at a gorilla, they're fucking fangs that they got. They don't even use them when fighting. No, if they were to use them, you would be fucked up, and I know we sound like Joe Rogan right now. We understand that you sit there and go. Oh, but fucking, if a gorilla really wanted you to imagine if a gorilla actually took weightlifting seriously right they're just that fucking strong, just by being themselves. They are built different.
Speaker 2They're built fucking different they the real question is the real question is 100 women for a pound of cake?
Speaker 1I'm going to get a lot of hate for that one. I'm sorry Oof you might Oof Might be getting, might be getting a.
Speaker 2I don't feel like that's a pretty decent place to end it.
Speaker 1I don't know what I mean. Well, you know what. No, I can't end on that. No, I'll say this A gorilla can run up to 25 miles per hour. Okay, that's one. And then they, their bite power is like 1300 PSI, damn Like, if you, if you truly think, a hundred Joe Schmoes, of whatever team, and again, there's no. You got no weapons, except whatever's in the whatever's in the domain of the gorilla. It's your fist, it's your fist, it's your feet, it's over. That's it, bro. Cooked, cooked that game.
Speaker 2It's going to get swept in four.
Closing Thoughts and Sign-off
Speaker 1You could put 80s Hulk Hogan or mid-2000s Undertaker in there, it don't fucking matter who you put in there. That gorilla is going to gorilla out and fuck your shit up, and I can't believe the attention that a fucking random ass tweet, question on like a sunday or a random thought has just taken over the the entire world. You're dead. Your, your head's gonna get ripped off or smashed by either its head or its hand.
Speaker 2Yeah, man, this is the same generation that put Tide Pod on pizza, so you know.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's definitely kind of fucked either way, you know, I could see why the Pope left America and went to the Vatican. He just, he had enough of that. Yeah, he just, he just, yeah, he just, he had enough of that. Yeah, he just, he just, yeah, he just, he just had enough of that. By the way, holy smokes the term holy smokes would have thought it came from like a conclave, because it's legit holy smoke. But no, the term holy smokes has been around for like 2,500 years, Just a fucking fun fact right there. So Fair enough, the more you know.
Speaker 1Yeah, one gorilla is beating 100 men. We're not going to repeat Cruz's 100 women comment and we're going to end this Friday night on a great note, as we're probably going to hop on and get some war zone in. Finally, unless Ridge is being a little pee Pee-ish, yeah, exactly as always. You can check us out for free on all podcast platforms, any device. Five-star reviews. Let us know how we're doing. Hit that link in the episode to just send us direct mail and feedback at DJPowerHour on social media. Have a wonderful Mother's Day weekend. We will get into scheduled predictions weeks one through eight next week and some more NBA NHL playoff updates for Dylan Gatz. Join with me as Mr Cruz, as always, turn the volume down. The power is off. Bada bing, bada boom.
