IT IS WHAT IT IS - Joe Burrow Vs. Trevor Lawrence, 0-3 Teams That MUST WIN In Week 4 & Top HS Prospect Kevin Savage!

Episode Date: October 1, 2026

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If you were someone you know is concerns about gambling, visit connectsontario.ca. Or call 1866 5 through 1,2600. Terms and conditions apply. Stab baby along with your host Mace and Cam and y'all today we are joined with our analysts Arabia Killer was oh my goodness what is what is going on last week she was Selena this week you got the hair blowed out and curls this is crazy something you run that I'm assuming that's crazy this was going on murder she running around Dallas crazy

What does that mean? Looking for cowboys? That's crazy. I'm not running around nobody city. I'd be at home. Running around Dallas is crazy. I'm not running around Dallas. It's down crazy.

Looking for cowboys. I'm not looking for no power. First of all, Arabia, I'm just disappointed, man. You know, we spoke. over the summer. Yo, I live closer to the show. I want to come in studio more. I want to be there when it's time for the open the show up

for my first episode. Got to Dallas, lost, went crazy, and lost. That's not coming in the studio once anytime. Curl in a hell. No, this is true. Yeah. This is not true.

What I'm saying is not true. Okay, let me tell my version. I don't want a line stuff. You done? I don't want to be habitual. I want to be habitual. I mean respectful. Let me show you done.

There you go. Okay. You're welcome. Okay. So I did say, I said, okay, I want to come into the studio at least once a month once the show starts, right? Boom. I asked Nick. No, no.

Let's stop there. I don't mean the last step, but you said the first episode. You said that. I did. Back, sorry. I did. Okay. Then the first episode was kind of up in the air.

We ain't know if it was going to be this day. We ain't know if it was going to be that day. All of a sudden is this day. is this date and I was like, okay, by that time, it was too late. So then I was thinking early October, I was supposed to have surgery. My surgery ended up getting canceled, so I had to pivot. And now I'm back free again.

So where's my invite? I would love to come in this studio, but I'm waiting to see when it's good for you. Why do we have to invite you when you've been on this show for three, four seasons and you need an invite and I told you it was cool already. I don't think I got to ask anybody. I think the doors open for you.

Listen, man, Don't like getting popped up for. Let's get the judge in this. Mace, what do you think about this? I laid my testimony. She said hers. What do you think? I got a call cap when I see it.

I got to call it. Yeah. You know, it just had too many, too many turns. Mood a niggins. Pause. It had too many turns to it, you know, pause. Nobody's running around Dallas very much at home. I can't wait to come to Vegas.

So, you know. You'll see me soon. Yeah, that's what they're saying in Dallas. They say you dying your hair, all kind of stuff. I said, I don't know. I got to check out. I got to check it. I think you look nice, though.

You do look nice, but if you're running around Dallas, looking for a cowboy to say that. Thank you. I appreciate that. But not running around for me. What an irony that a commander would move to Dallas. And be looking for cowboys. You can't make this up.

I don't like this narrative. Stats, save me. Okay, what's our first topic? Goodness, gracious, girl. Yeah, no commercial breaks. But yeah, we can move. I don't think it's cat. That's what I'm like, I guess, I don't know.

You don't think the cowboy thing is cat. Thank you, stat. Women always get together and they support and say the same thing. And she's just protecting Arabia because no, like, it just. Women empowerment, I feel it. And it is. There's no point even making. making a prediction or saying cap because y'all are going to think what you're going to think.

Women empowerment. Women empowerment. And women, women empowerment started 30 seconds into Arabia's first episode when I was monitoring and she got to mad at the questions the stat wrote. That's the big deal when stat wrote the questions. That's when it started. Yeah. Let's move on.

I digress. I got to see everybody. So we're going to get into some NFL previews. The Chiefs versus the Raiders. Raiders. So they're both three and O teams. We haven't talked too much about the Raiders, but Mace actually going to let you go first. Who do you think wins this one? Stad, do you be setting me up? You know somebody's old half the goal and it's not going to be the Chiefs. I mean, what can I say? You know, Kirk Cousin has been playing well. This, this, this, this,

this, this Raider team, Vegas Raider team has been playing extremely good. I mean, but you know, sometimes you run into somebody that's a little bit better. You have a good. good defense and they have much better offense. And that's what that's what it's looking like is going to be. I don't want to spoil anybody parade. If you got a bet out there, I can't tell you what to do. But stay away from the mighty chiefs, man. Nobody want to see us right now. I can't wait to come back in here, you know, with my red outfit. But I'm going to let y'all keep the blankets and all that type of stuff right now. It's the chiefs until somebody proved differently. Okay, we'll go Cam, then we'll go Arabia.

Got my beard back. Baccarat, man. Baccarat in the beard is crazy. You ain't see what's going on, man. You have to look at a little bit like that. What is a bit? What's going on, man? I know what are you doing?

There's a guy that spray like this, and then he walked in and do all of this. Yeah, all that, you know what I'm going on, man. Listen, I'm going with the Raiders, man. I'm not going with the Raiders long term, but I think that the Raiders are playing really good. But everybody knows I'm a big Kirk Cousin fan. You know, y'all had them one time, Arabia. But, you know, that's my nigger. I fuck with Kirk Cousins.

And I think Arabia made a point a couple years ago. It didn't work out with the Knicks. But, you know, she's more football. But ownership and management counts. Big Tom upstairs, man. Big Tom is putting that battery in their back right now. And they're playing really good. You know Max Crosby always plays good.

But the fact that they took the liberty to sit Mendoza, this is a, when you're number one pick, most of the time, you come in and play automatically. But they knew to sit them down. They seen something Kirk Cousins to start them. And they're playing really well. And right now, if I'm not mistaken, that they're playing at home, the Raiders are, right?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm taking them at home, man. I think the Chiefs are also looking good. But when you think about considering Patrick Mahomes coming off this injury, coming back fast, looking good, their running game. Walker, oh, my God, I know Seattle is sick. I know they're sick. He's a, listen, and you know who got mad at me one time last season? And I'm not throwing sort on your wound because you're hurt right now. But Pacheco got mad at me. They wrote something in the comments about me one time, right?

Yeah. Yeah, Pichko. What do you say? I go, I'm not, because what happened was when he got traded to Detroit, the left to go to Detroit, whatever situation was, I was like, congrats to Detroit. I don't think it's going to be a big loss on the chief's part. I'm a sucker.

I don't know what I'm talking about, bitch-ass. No, you know, the regular. Fuck me, he didn't all that other shit. But I wasn't being rude about it. I just was saying I don't think it's going to be a big loss, so he got mad at me. But for them to lose Pracheco and get Walker. Subbole, listen, you don't acquire shit like that.

Everything points to the Chiefs to win, especially, you know, jelling together with a new running back. You know you got your security blanket if you're Patrick Mahon, Travis Kelsey, you know what Andy Reid does, Andy Reid does, Eric Bairn, so on and so forth. But I just think these are one of the games

on the schedule that the Chiefs are going to lose. I don't see them losing more than four games this season, maybe five, and I see them also one in the division. But I just think this is a game on the calendar right now that the Raiders are away. Okay. Arabia. You know that Kat Williams joke where he's like a Chrysler 300 looks like a Phantom until a Phantom pull up?

I think the Chiefs might be that Phantom. And I think the Raiders could be that Chrysler 300 that looks good. Good three and no team, you know. But week one, they play the Dolphins. All right. Week two, they play the Chargers. The Chargers don't look particularly good. Week three, they did play the Saints. You know how I feel about the Saints.

I'm high on the Saints right now. But this is a really good opportunity for the Raiders to show we're the real deal and we're really good against formidable teams. But Patrick Mahomes plays very well against the Raiders. He has 36 passing touchdowns against the Raiders, which is a career high against any single opponent. He also has career highs against the Raiders and passing yards, first downs and completions over 25 plus. But Cam makes a great point. By the way, Cam, love the beard. I think the beard looks absolutely amazing.

But Cam makes a really good point. Thank you. You're welcome. Cam makes a good point as far as ownership. It's not the same Raiders team that he's been kind of dunking on over the last few years. And this is their chance to prove it. So I'm going to go Chiefs because until for until proven otherwise, I'm going Chiefs, but a great opportunity for the Raiders to show who they really are against a really good opponent.

And just to add, even if they do lose, it's still an opportunity to show that they can be competitive, that they compete, kind of like the Colts did, right? Like the Colts played a really good, a really good game to go in overtime against the Chiefs. And everyone was kind of looking like, okay, Colts. So even if they do lose, we got to look and see how they lose so they can be competitive against a really good team. So I'm going Chiefs, but keep an eye on for Kirkcotechains. Kirkgo Chains.

Yeah, listen, real quick, real quick, because you mentioned how the Raiders beat the Dolphins, the Chief played the Dolphins. The Chief beat the Colts. Now, they did beat the Broncos, but that was the first game of the season, And we knew that it was a new play calling with Sean Payton not calling the plays. So that may just been a tweak on the Broncos part. So the same way you see it as their opponents, it's the same way I see it. And I completely agree 100%.

So to add another layer, you have two different, you have a two-headed monster, so to speak, when it comes to that Chief's offense. And you can maybe say the same thing about the Raiders. They have a lot of similarities. Both teams have 10 total touchdowns against the season. But the difference is right now the Raiders only have one rushing touchdown versus nine receiving touchdowns. I think the ground game for the Chiefs is a lot stronger. So if you do find a way somehow to slow down Kenneth Walker, you still have to worry about Patrick Mahomes in the air raid.

So a lot of similarities between these teams. If you actually look at it, that's a great point. But at the end of the day, I think it's going to be hard to slow down Kenneth Walker and Patrick Mahomes on that office. What about Rice and Worthy? That's cool. That's lumped into the Patrick Mahomes category. got to be throwing to somebody so you know we got too many we got too many weapons is it's gonna be a long night you know pause I see y'all come

January man catch up you know pause just that he just wanted to hear you side with Chiefs Arabia but I don't know we'll see I like your ravia this week this week I like her this week she's doing good for herself she's always been doing good for herself but I love that I Love that. We're saying this. So this next game, Jaguars versus the Bengals. They're both two and one.

Mace, who do you got winning this one? Jaguars and the Bengals. I mean, Killer just slighted my team, so I got to slide them back. I can't let them get away with that. Pause, you know, I got to go home team. This is Jacksonville. You asked me this. We got Trevor Lawrence playing good.

Defense looked decent, you know. And I just don't think. you know that the bingles have any more wins to get I think they're gonna win about six games this year I think they started out red hot but you know it's time to turn into the bingles we know and I hate to say it but they ran into a Jacksonville team that's hungry with something to prove pause and they're looking to show that these first couple of games wasn't a flute and I look for them to get the win against against um a real good Bengals team at this point.

Okay. Cam? I know I wasn't here after the Bengals lost. Everybody thought I was running. I accepted the loss Arabia. Stad, I already talked about it to the fans. I know I wasn't here. Don't make that face. You're excited.

Yes. I am. In less than 300 yards, that's on you. That's exactly with mediocracy at his finest. Congratulations. I would do that against St. You know what that means? Two else.

No, it's just, you know what that means? You know, it's so aggravating. Loses. And you said two else. Get it together, two else, man. But listen, you know, it's been a conversation this week on Aldo Sazza, and we can't go over what makes sense because he's not really being objective.

he just wants to go against me because I went against these things throwing no objectivity into this this is all personal that he just wants to go against the Bengals because I went against the cheese this is not what they pay you to do we're not as not personal against me and you man it's other people here besides us it's just me and you it's all you get personal with this now man But it's been a conversation this week that I've been seeing on other shows, and it kind of made me mad, but it isn't an argument that shouldn't be talked about. People are talking about right now, who would you take, Joe Burroughs or Trevor Lawrence?

And it's been basically 50-50. They're saying that Trevor Lawrence is ascending and Joe Burroughs is descending. And what happens is Joe Burroughs, before I get to the actual who I'm picking, As much as I love Joe Burroughs, as much as I still consider him on top five quarterback. He holds onto the ball trying to make magic happen too long, knowing that your offensive line is flimsy. You know, at the end of the game against Steelers, you hold on to the ball. Not only do you hold onto the ball, you get a sack fumble, and you lose the game. Sometimes you got to know and throw away.

Sometimes you got to get rid of it. And I know you want to create opportunities and routes to get ran because you got two monsters at the wide receiver. but you got to know as a quarterback when they get rid of the ball. And sometimes Joe Burroughs holds on to the ball too long. On the other end of the coin, when we talk about Trevor Lawrence, the way he ended the season last year, the way he's starting to season this year, he's looking tremendous trying to put his name in the conversation

for one of them guys. And he has Jacksonville looking really good. Every time I pick the Bengals to win, they lose. And when I pick him to lose, they win. So I'm picking them to lose. I'm going with the Jaguars. That's fair. Arabia.

The Jaguars defense is allowing the fewest points per game. They're really, really good against the run. They haven't allowed a single running back to get more than 75 yards in the last 20 games. But against the pass, they can be got. They're allowing the ninth most passing yards in the NFL. And against Joe Burrow and arguably the best wide receiver duo in the NFL and T. Higgins and Jamar Chase, this is a great opportunity for an air rate. I think this could potentially be a very high scoring game because the Jaguars can put points up too.

They're averaging about 27 points per game. So I think this is a, this could be a shootout potentially if these defenses are having a hard time really stopping either Joe Burrow or what we've seen Trevor Lawrence in this offense is capable of doing. Like we've already talked about the AMC North is two and one top to bottom. Every single win matters for every single team in the AMC North right now. There's really no wiggle room. So the Bengals need to hoard wins as much as they can. but it's going to be hard against the team like the Jaguars, who it seems like week after week is just getting stronger and stronger.

So I'm going to go Bengals, but I really wouldn't be surprised if the Jaguars pulled this one off. Yeah, I was really saying that the Jaguars should win, because they really should. But if Jacobi Myers is not playing and LeQuint, I'm not sure, because right now it seems like they're on the injured list, and I want to keep that out there. So if they don't play, if they don't play, then I'm going to.

on with the Bengals. Okay, so no longer out of spite. Got it. This next one, the Rams versus the Eagles. We know the Rams are 1 and 2. Mace. What's your prediction for this one? The Rams and the Eagles is a goody,

especially because, you know, the Rams really need, this one as well as Philadelphia need this win. But if I had to go with, this is an interesting game, you know. This is an interesting game for a lot of reasons. A lot of players on their way got to show that they bounced back from last weeks and the prior weeks. So I'm really going to go with Philadelphia. For some reason, I'm leaning towards Philadelphia. I think they'll get it done.

I think Sequana played brilliant. I think they'll get them going in a running game. And this team will actually be able to beat the Rams. But I wouldn't be surprised at the Rams win, but I'm going with Philadelphia. for you. The Rams got hos last week, B. Word up. I'm mad about it.

The niggas, the fucking referees, I don't know what type of time they was on. That interception was not a motherfucking pass into interference. Then they called another pass interference. Listen, we're supposed to be undefeated. They're not supposed to be one and two. First week, Sean McVeigh want to be brilliant. You know one of these football minds, and I'm not saying he's not a great football mind. I know what to do.

We're going on a flight to Australia six hours before the game. And we land that we play and go, nah, nigger, fucking San Francisco was laying on y'all niggas for a week. They used to the Times Zone. They used to the fool, everything else. Miles Gabbard was 100%.

So that first game, I'm blaming now, Sean McVeigh. They won the second week. And last week, the penalties called against them. It need to be an investigation against them referees, man. I don't know what that shit was about. They cheated them niggas bad. So to me, the Rams should be

at least two and one minimum. I'm going with the Rams to win this game. Philadelphia just looked, you know, I didn't like the body language on the sideline. I didn't like the way that they let Case Keenham eat them up. I don't like the way niggins was hitting on Justin Fields. They're knocking them all out of bounds looking like a crash test dummy. I didn't like the way Philly language looked at all.

Will they bounce back? Phillies champions, they should bounce back. But I got to go with the Rams. To me, the Rams should be three and no of not two and one. Yeah, both of these teams are looking their wounds from week three. The Rams have a couple players that were banged up from that Denver game. Both Jalen Watson and Terrence Ferguson both are likely going to be out for this game. Both teams traveled a long way this season just to lose.

Week one, but the Rams, like Cam's, Cam already said. And then the Eagles are coming back from Brazil in a relatively heartbreaking loss against the Ravens at the last second, literally. So on one hand, I want to go Eagles because the Rams looked a little shook against that, Denver defensive front. And Philly's defensive front is something to be reckoned with, both the exterior and the interior. However, because this is sort of a short week for them, considering they flew back and forwards to Brazil over the last few days,

that kind of adds to it. You got to look at international games and the way that that kind of lag happens if you don't have a buy week before or after international game. So for that reason, I'm going to give the edge to the Rams just for travel. But otherwise, I think the Eagles defensive front really can create problems for Matthew Stafford in this team. Man, they ain't probably caused no motherfucking problem for Case Keenum. There's no problem whatsoever with Ben Johnson.

Fuck Matt for staff, you're gonna pick them niggins apart, man. And Case Keenum do that shit to him. My bad. Oh, you're good. You have these backup quarterbacks. You, like. No, I was asking you want some G shit worth them over. I was happy for Case Keen.

That was a dope moment, man. You don't get, you know, 38 years old, Journey, you don't get them opportunities, man. And I don't know if y'all seen his speech. Did y'all see his speech when he made the speech after he won the game? Yep. Anybody on the shirt? Yeah.

Did you all see the nigga, Kayla Williams in the background with his arms folded, like, enjoy it while at last, nigga. This think it was sitting there like, look at this, nigga, you're excited. Have fun, I'll be back at the week after next. And I thought that was selfish on Caleb Williams' part. I thought he gave a little woo, but the rest of the team was happy,

but Caleb Williams, though, have fun, nigga. But Case Keenham, I was very, very happy for that moment because a lot of backup quarters don't get quarterbacks from me, especially journey quarterbacks don't get the moment that he had, man. So I was really, really happy for. True. And that's a good thing to recognize. Okay, this last game, Broncos versus the 49ers.

We haven't talked about the 49ers too, too much. But, Mace, what's your prediction here? The 49ers and the Broncos. Broncos? Ah, man. You know, people count on me to be right. So I got to take my time for us. I got to think about this one because this is this is the type of game that either one of them could win.

I'm not I'm not really sure who would win. I'll let Arabia go and I'll come in after her. Yeah, I got to go 49ers in this game for a while over the last few years. I've kind of been like higher and higher on the 49ers. They really know how to draft. They know how to have core depth. Right now they're dealing with so many injuries. but it seems like season after season, no matter how many injuries they get,

no matter how many victims this electrical substation gets, they find ways to win. Brock Purdy looks very, very good. And this defense is so dominant at every level. This linebacker room is something very, very special. So the Broncos had a good win against the Rams last week, and that's amazing. We see how they're really clicking offensively, defensively.

We know exactly who they are. But I'm going to go 49ers in this game. I think they're a team that for some reason, a lot of people aren't really talking about that much. But they look like probably the best team in the NFC, in my opinion. So I got to go with San Francisco. Okay. Cam. Mays, do you want to go after Arabia since you can't go first?

You can't get your own ideas? You said you want to go after us. Should I go first? And then you just take what we say and piece it together. What are you doing? Are you next to or something? We were looking at the list. Show them the list.

That somebody gave us a. Somebody gave us the numbers are all NFL picks record the pause record and the line step record oh you're the leader for line stepping and the leader for pause for line stepping mace he got five line steps that's crazy this is season stats and he got the most me low down there. Yeah, you know what, Nick, I need one of them every weekend. We're gonna tally up. Yeah, that's crazy.

Because Cam just said he hated the way that they let Case key to eat them up. But I didn't even say anything about it, but since we keep in the record, let's keep the record. Let's put that on that record. Pause right now. Go ahead, Cam, because I'm working on something. Pause. Let me see that stat. It's cute.

You want to dismantle the list You don't want to write on the paper already It's crazy Yeah That's crazy You can't even let the list Live for five minutes Yeah

This thing is crazy It's crazy It's all good It's all good, man No I think when they Let me go ahead and go Pause I think when it comes to the

49ers and the Broncos even though Arabia says she's gone with the 49ers, you know, I got a lot of people in that staff called the 49ers. I still got to go with Bo Nix and them. I think they'll be able to pull it off this week. Seth, what is the issues? You said, what?

You got a lot of people in that staff. If the 49ers, what is that? No, please. What does that mean? I'm glad you'll catch a noise. No, I do. We've talked about. This, we talked about this years ago.

What? When I talked about the twins, I talked about different people that run the organization staff. If you wasn't there and you wasn't paying attention, that is not my fault. I'm only here to say. You've said Seattle and you've said Milwaukee. You haven't said the 29 staff. I talked about the twins in, in San Francisco. You got it.

You got it. You don't know the twins? You got it. You got it. I can't tell you. I can't tell you everything I know now. See, Nick, what I go through? Who are the twins?

We all want to know who the twins. Okay. Research, research. Say, who are the twins for San Francisco? I can't do everything for you. And I can't feel ashamed that I know people in high places. I just can't do it. Is that?

This is that. Do you know the owner who was trying to get, do you know the owner trying to get $160 hand job? You know what? No, I didn't know. They don't know him. I said the twins. You said people in high places.

That's the highest place you're in the 49 organization. I'm sitting here with Statt, while the mic's immunity, she's behind the scene, said, no, I don't want to say it. Cam is going to get mad at me. I didn't say that. This is what I'm going through. I said, I don't want to say it. I want to say it.

You say why. What if I ever said? I don't want to say this. You was going wild in your takes, but Stapp wouldn't say no. She just keep going. You see how this is? You know, but the whole thing is. Just say it.

This is why I feel is rigged up here, Arabia. I feel how you feel, Arabia. How she was going on. Wait, hold on how I feel. Listen, man. There's no friends up here. Okay, I like that vibe. I'll go with that.

There's no friends. How do I feel? That is crazy. What do I expect? It's Baltimore in the house. It's Baltimore in the house. Let's go, Statt. Every man for himself.

She's not from. Are you from? I'm going to say, who's from Baltimore? I'm from D.C. D.C. My bad. My bad. That's okay.

with so many different places. So the staff that you know, the 49ers, go ahead, Cam. Yeah. Yo, Mace, you know he shot me up in D.C., man. Yeah, that's what I said. That's what I was saying, you know, D.C. Hey, Harlem, you know, but this is a, so I'm used to it. I'm used to it.

No. Yeah, they shot you a car. She just shot at me. It's all the same. No, I would, I would never. I love New York. I love New York. I love Harlem.

You know, I have no hate for nobody. Love Harlem. My favorite place outside of D.C. Love it. Okay. Yeah, we're just playing. But you can't ever be non-biased. I don't think it's possible for you.

To be non-biased? Yeah, you just... I feel like I am non-biased. Okay. I just feel like you projected. You said that. Oh, I said he was going to be mad about something for something that you caught

that I didn't catch until you brought it to my attention. Oh, my gosh. goodness whole thing is stat go ahead with mason see if you get to the garden oh October 20th y'all I don't know how to get there for one way hey hey I see what happens when I'm not there yeah team up oh my gosh link up open the night yeah I go I go go crazy Listen, real talk, back to the game.

All jokes aside, all just side. The Broncos seem like they found their self in the second half of their game last week. And I was sitting there saying to myself, if they lose this game, because I know it's really probably really tough for Sean Payton to sit and just head coach to not be a play caller on offense, which he wants to do. But he sat down and gave DeRane's offensive coordinator. And I remember watching the first game that they played that they lost. They were saying, how does it feel for you not to be calling the plays?

And they asked them at halftime. He said, asks me when the game is over. And I was like, oh, shit, this may not go well because they got smacked the first week. And then the last week before last, they caught up group. But last week, it seems like they caught their vibe. But I have to agree with Arabia, San Francisco right now, even with all the injuries that they have looked like a well-oiled machine. This is San Francisco's problem every year. Injuries.

Injuries, they should have won the Super Bowl the last couple of years. at least one, but injury after injury, whether it's Kittles, whether it's McCaffrey, it's always some of us, IU, there's always somebody getting injured. But what I will say is that they look happy right now. We know Debo didn't want to be there. He got out his contract. He's seen what life was like outside of San Francisco and said, please take me home.

I'll come back home. I don't know. I don't want to be in D.C. Please take me back home for him back home. Brock Purdy looks really, really good. We know what Cal Shanahan does. does on the offense as far as offensive mind. I'm going to have to go with the 49ers,

even though it does look like the Broncos are starting to get their groove, especially the second half of the game last week. Mace, in the stat sheet. Okay, last thing before we wrap, and then are you good on your 49ers Broncos? Like, you're set on that? Mm-hmm. Okay, cool.

So looking at these last O-N-3 teams, we got the Chargers, Texans, bucks and the Titans. Mace, who do you think needs a win the most? Who's playing again? Chargers, Texans, Bucks, and Titans. The Texans. And the Texans need this win the most for C.J. Strout, right?

When I think we're looking at the other quarterbacks, I think we kind of understand what we're looking at. I think he's the one that was supposed to, not that the Titans quarterback wasn't supposed to be for me. I think the decision is already kind of made about him. about him, even though I think he's a great quarterback and he could have been even greater if some things were different. But when it comes to CJ Stroud, I think he's on that verge.

I think this is the year that he's supposed to have a contract year coming out of this year or sometime pretty in the near future. He's the one I need to win the most. Okay. Cam? This is a great question because I think every one of them need a win for different reasons. We see Ken Ward and the struggles he's having down there with Tennessee, you know,

it's looking like his job is on the line, not saying he won't be part of Texas, but people are screaming, do they want him to be the starting quarterback? So the Texans, pardon me, the Titans for that reason, the Texans for a different reason, you know, C.J. Strout is on a contract year. And, you know, I really hate when it's a black quarterback

back in a black coach and it's like, we try to give y'all niggas the reins, man. This is why we can't do it. And last year, you know, what I will say to the Texans, on a positive note, they start off bad last year, but you don't want to start off like that every year and hopefully you win fucking seven or eight or nine out of ten games towards the end.

You want to get some wins in the beginning, especially C.J. Strout being on the contract year. for the charges, are they going to say, look, the Jim Harbaugh project may not be working out. Look, we bought him in from Michigan. He's a good coach of Michigan. He's a good coach before he got to Michigan with San Fran, but this may not be the match. So I think it's important for everybody. Who was the last team stat that I didn't name?

Bucks, bucks. Yeah, and Tampa Bay, I'm not going to expect too much from them because Baker Mayfield is hurt. We don't know timeline of him coming back. We got to see what their backup quarterbacks are going to do. So I'm not going to put them to Tampa Bay Buccaneers in this conversation just because we have to see what's going on in Baker Mayfield. But I think a win is very important for all three of those other teams outside of Tampa Bay for different reasons. Okay.

And Arabia. Yeah, I'm going to eliminate teams first. I'm not going to say the Chargers. And the reason why is because for some reason, people still seem to put Herbert on this pedestal. People are starting to kind of wake up now recently over the last year or two. But it seems like no matter what he does in the regular season or the postseason or what he doesn't do, people still have this love for the type of quarterback that he could be. He has white privilege.

So does Harbaugh. He got family ties. He's had a long career in college in the NFL. They'll be okay. Everything will be okay with him. So now I'm looking at the books. Baker Mayfield is injured. The expectation for the bucks without Baker Mayfield, I don't think is the same with Baker Mayfield.

Expectations are low and they're losing games because Baker is out. I don't think that's the same as all these starting quarterbacks back in. Cam Ward. and C.J. Stroud are both still on their rookie contracts. And now I'm looking at head coaches. Robert Sala gets another chance that head coach after being the Jets head coach and then he gets fired. So now this is a second chance for him. And he definitely wants to do the best that he can so that he isn't forced back to being a coordinator. Obviously he wants to be a head coach.

And then as far as D'Amico Ryans, what a dream to play for an NFL team and then come back and be the head coach. I think this is mostly needed for the Texans. Last year they started O and 3 as well, ended up in the season 12 and 5. second in the division behind the Jaguars. They know how to dig themselves out of O and three, but do they know how to dig themselves out of O and four in a division where it looks like once again, the Jaguars are going to be competing for the number one spot. So I'm going to go with the Texans here.

I really want to see the Miko do well. I really want to see C.J. Strau get to that second contract. And it's really tough as a young quarterback if you're already pigeonholed it into this narrative that you're not very good. I mean, the other two have made it out of their rookie, out of their rookie contracts. Herbert and Baker are well out of their rookie, rookie contracts. They've gotten other offers into their next contract. So for Cam Ward and CJ Shout is very important for them to solidify themselves as young

quarterbacks in this league so that they have a good future. So at the end of the day, I'm going to go Houston because expectations are high. Okay. Let me ask you something before we go, Rabi. Do you think Salas should have been fired from the Jets in the first place or you think that was some Aaron Rogers shit? Oh, man. I think that was some Aaron Rogers shit for sure because then you have Nathaniel Pickett come over. It's like Aaron Rogers loves bringing his buddies with him.

It never works out. He wanted to bring his buddy picket over with him to the Jets. It didn't work out. Then he wants to bring Devonthe over, didn't work out. Now he wants to go back with his buddy, Mike McCarthy. We're going to see how that works out to be determined. But I don't think that was a Robert's solid issue. But just like quarterbacks, head coaches get sometimes all the praise if things go well.

And then sometimes all the blame of things don't go well. So I don't think that was necessarily fair, which is why I want to see him get another chance in Tennessee. Do you know my God? Fair. We're not kids. What do you mean fair? I mean, nobody said it's right or wrong, but fair is fair. It's not fair that a quarterback is blamed if the receiver is dropping the ball and has a low completion percentage.

But it is what it is. It's not fair, but it is what it is. It's life. That shit ain't fair because Aaron Rogers really just disrespect to the judge organization. First of all, you come to the judge organization. You take one snap until your Achilles or whatever injury. he's out for the season. Next year, Aaron Rogers,

and we've been using his word this week, base a few times, I think he's bigger than the program all the time. And Robert Sala was doing decent, but you've seen the chemistry. He came to give Aaron Rogers a hug. Aaron Rogers pushed him and all type of shit, and it only takes for the quarterback,

be like, yeah, I'm not feeling him. And to me, this isn't Aaron Rogers that we're seeing now. you have to realize with the jet skin Aaron Rogers that particular year, this was like, oh, we're getting Green Bay Aaron Rogers. We're getting four-time league MVP Aaron Rogers. We're getting Super Bowl champion Aaron Rogers. And it just didn't work out for the Jets and other people suffered behind it. So I agree with Arabia saying, but I also agree with Mesa San.

It's a cold world, man. Hookers, hobos, gangbangers, and prostitutes. Yeah, what he said. it. Okay, y'all. Let us know y'all's thoughts in the comments down below. We're going to go to break. When we return, we will come back with a special guest.

She called us thing about toxic. Got you feeling like an option. Maybe I'm my own problem, babe. She's tired of hearing. know what's happening me won't fuck all trust. But she really thinking about one, he'll walk away. I wish somebody told me the rules. Disagreements let her win and it's cool.

Welcome back. So today, y'all, we have a very special guest. He's a top recruit, Kevin the Future, Savage the Third. He's classed in 2027. Point guard from Atlanta. And y'all, you know we have to highlight the future. So Kevin, welcome to the show. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you, thank you all for having me. Keh, it was good, man.

It was good, it was good. Killer, what's going on, man? What's up, foe? They're watching the drop. I don't know, you're watching the drop. I'm not watching the drop. What's up, fool? What's up, fool?

You're West Coast now. Yeah, you West Coast Cam now. Yeah, cuz. You forgot what you came from. Cous is crazy. You forgot what you came from. I got the pictures still, Nick. The Spurs jersey on that.

Yeah, yeah, you know where I'm from, Cud. Yeah, they know more. Yeah. M. Dollar Loke was good. Yeah, man, I'm good, man. I'm doing better than I look. I'm doing better than I look. Good.

I like that, man. I love that for you. That's what they say. I love that for you. It's that. Well, I want to speak a little bit more to Kevin. So Kevin, of course, glad to have you on the show. What's up, Kevin?

Yeah. No, it's good. I'm trying to gaslight Mace early. No, you're good. I'm trying to gaslight Mace early. My bad guy. Like, you're going, bro. Yo, I ain't trying to come in you early,

but that's Gucci. Yeah, it is. Yeah, they're not. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. We might gotta talk then.

I like that though. You got Gucci on. It's a good start, man. I like that. You got the complexion for the protection too, you know? You got the collection, you got the collection and the protection. The handline good, the brazes need. I like the way we're starting this.

So funny. Okay, well, starting off with the guys are saying you're fly, which is always a good thing to hear. I know you're in Vegas, but you're from Atlanta. So what brings you to Vegas? And then what are some recent things that you've been up to that you would like to share with the show? I'm really out here for like a basketball camp called Woolen Camp.

It's kind of like a basketball camp that we play in front of the McDonnell's all the American committee. So all the top kids around the country come to this camp and really just play against each other, try to. really get an invite to McDonald's American game. Nice. And then I know, of course, you're around a lot of other kids your age, and there's going to be things that are going to separate you

from everybody else in your class. What are some things that you feel like you have to sacrifice, especially being younger, that maybe a lot of people don't realize because I think it speaks to, one, your character and then, like, your dedication to the game. What are some things that you've had to sacrifice? So you're like, okay, I'm in this to win it. No, I really feel like really just putting it in the work.

Sometimes I miss out on. party and I miss out on the outside stuff. So I really just been in the gym most of the time, really just trying to put it in the work. Because I know what it takes to definitely make it to where I'm trying to go. How do they protect you from spinning your NIL on ladies? That's what I really wanted them to come up here

so we can quiz them on. We can't send them out green, you know? No, I mean, no. I mean, they really just tell me, like, just manage your money the right way. Really don't just be giving it out, just giving it out. And really just, and I end got like a financial advisor. So he really tells me how to use and it really how to just. Got a financial advisor in high school?

Yeah, man. That's crazy. Killer. We ain't had no. Yeah, the game didn't change. Yeah, we ain't had no financial advisor in high school. I just got a good financial advisor thing for 20 years ago, man. Financial advisor was, like, just give me what you got when you had it.

Yeah, I want to know. Very smart. I mean, I thought he was green. I was going to ask him, is he far as green or lime green? You know, because a few ladies said they hit him up online, you know. They're trying to get in his pocket killers. So that's how I really reached out to him to give him some counsel. And I thought you would be a good guy to give him some counsel about that, you know?

He's going out to college. Well, first of all, let's talk about your career so far. For the people that don't know, what school do you go to? What school do you plan on attending? What position do you play? I go to Willa High School right now in Marietta, Georgia, and I'm going to play college basketball at Purdue University next year. Okay.

And what position are you? Oh, point guard. Pause. Yeah, that was great. Is there a better point guard than you in here? Is there a better point guard than you in the country? right now? No, sir. Not at all. Not one. What's your ranking? Uh, 26. At the point guard position? No, point guard position. What's your record at the point guard position?

Um, number six. What about the five guys that they say are better than you? Uh, I don't really see how they better than me, but some people got different opinions. So, really just got key proving how I'm better than them. So that's what I'm about to do this weekend. I like that. I like that attitude, man. That's the attitude that you got to have. So this camp that you're at right now. Is it? So when you first got on, you said it's trying to get into McDonald's. You're not solidified McDonald's yet. But these, you know, the school year coming up, these tournaments you're getting into. That's going to lead you to McDonald's. Is that your goal for this year being that you already signed with Purdue? Yeah, definitely. That's probably been my goal since I was a kid. Just seeing all the other kids getting McDonald's American game, I just know like I wanted to do the same. Right.

Hey, Mesa, I got a question for you. I seen like this clip. I think you and Ken was in high school. It was like, I think it was a championship game. Yeah, don't bring that up. No, I wanted to ask you like what? You think he was supposed to kick the ball up to you? What do you think?

You're a point guard. You tell me. I'm glad you brought that up. What are you? Now that we got Cam here with an unbiased person, what do you think? No, he was supposed to kick it up to you. He was supposed to kick it up to me. He went like 104 to like.

He was one on four. Yeah. Tell that thing, he's right there, man. Tell him, don't tell me. I don't even bring it up no more. We're good now. We're good. How long he was mad at him for?

Okay. Yo. He's still mad. Very much. Hey, Ken, what you were saying? Thank you when you shot it. All right, let me, you have a point guard, right? So let me lay down the scenario for you, right?

I'm going to lay down the scenario that you make up your mind and after you instead of just going off the clip. This is the scenario, right? Yeah. I'm leading the game and scoring on both teams. I got 18, 19 points. I'm leading a scorer in the whole game. We're on the, this is the champion.

chip. It's four seconds on the clock. The guy misses the boy, the guy misses Corey Wright is his name. He misses the free throw. When you get the rebound with no timeouts left and there's four seconds, I know you think point guard first because you're a point guard. What are you thinking when it's four seconds after somebody misses and you get the rebound? No, I ain't allowed. Exactly. If you're a nice scenario. If I'm leading this, I'll do the same thing. I was just the same thing. I was trying to win it from my team.

And not only that, you don't really have a lot to think about when you're on the other end of the court. Now, mind you, this isn't a high school gymnasium. This isn't a little, this is my, we're literally in Madison Square Guard and this is an NBA regulation court. Yeah. I couldn't even get to the basket for a layup. Like I would have, he's only down one.

I would have preferred to take a layer. Yeah. But the clock expired and I had to shoot it. to shoot it. Come on, baby. You know, it's like, then I'll say that. You can say on Mayside, I don't want you change, but I want you to know this, right? I was, I said, I don't want you know this, guy.

I wasn't a point guard. I was the two guard. I'm shooting. That's what two guards do. Hey, now, I respect it. Combo guard. Yeah, combo guard. Yeah, that's what everyone was.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, man. I was, I realized. I just didn't grow tall enough. If I grew 6, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6. I might have went pro, man.

I just wasn't tall enough. I wasn't a traditional point guard. Mace is a traditional point guard. I was mad athletic, but I just didn't grow past 6'1. Only nigger who did it in my height was AI. That's it. Only two guards, 6'1, 6 feet under. So I'm glad you had to change of mind.

You hear that, Mason, rational thinking, man. Yeah, rational thinking. You know, the switch up is crazy. The switchup is crazy, but, you know, I'm gonna ask you, I'm gonna stick with basketball. What is your, what is it like your, when you go to Purdue, what is it that you wanna accomplish that first year you there?

I wanna get Big Ten freshman of the year, and I wanna at least try to make it to the final four to get that experience. Mm-hmm. Where those really my main two goals. When you say that, right? Yeah. Sorry, sorry, Seth.

Okay. Are you, and it seems like you're, Ray, I don't know your background for a parent and everything, but you seem like a great kid sitting up here, like very well-managed, very on point. Is your goal to be one and done or to do a couple years of high school, pardon me in college when you get there?

Because it seems like over the last decade, if not more, the longer you stay in college, the more it seems like you're not ready for the NBA. They like to get them one and done. Pause. What's your opinion on going to the NBA after the first year? I mean, if I do what I got to do, I mean, if I got a chance to go one and done, I'd definitely take it.

But like, if I got to do two, three years, then I still got that chance to make it to the NBA. That's what I'd do. Because the college really changed. But if you got the- Sorry, cut you a, but so you're saying not to cut you up, if you got the chance to go to your first year, you're going. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If it's the right, like, if I know it's the right time to go, I'd definitely go.

What's the right time? Gotcha. Like, I know, like, I'm on, I'm on the good, I'm on the draft boards. I'm, like, kind of mid-first-round lottery, something like that, I definitely, I definitely enter the draft. All right. But I know if I'm, like, late second round, me, late first round, going into the second hour, I'll probably just go back to college. So I'm curious, what players do you look up to and what kind of players do you like? Because we always have different conversations about people's votes.

Some people think Paul George is the goat. Some people think for Vaughan. Like what is your mindset with that? I really watch Jalen Brunson from the Knicks. I watched Jalen Brunson a lot. He kind of got the similar game. He six foot, six one left-handed. I'm kind of sick, same thing.

So I kind of try to like monitor my game at the air man. And here at Paul George and the goat is crazy. That's that that's that's insane. Who's your goat? Who's your goat? That's why I got to ask. No, I told Mace. there's a couple weeks ago. I said my goal to MJ. Other people might think.

Raising you right over there, man. When you hear from Broke George, yeah, yeah, there you go. If you, when you hear Paul people say Paul George to go, because Paul George got mad at me, what do you think of that when people like, your, Paul George to go? Because, you know, it's a lot of players, you know, I'm thinking about Kayne, Anthony, and the other collegiate players as well as high school players saying that Paul George is their goal. What do you think when you hear that? And Paul George, you know you, my nigga. We're not on here bashing you every day.

We just want to get younger people's opinion on this. No, Paul George definitely could play, but I don't think Paul George did enough to just be in a goat talk. Like, I feel like he, he definitely, like, a top 10, top 15 score of all time, but I don't think he ain't, like, in a goal conversation. But he's still a good player, great player. You got them top 10 scores of all time? Top 15, top 20.

Oh, I was about to say. No, top 10 crazy. Top 15, top 20. 10 is crazy. Top 10 is crazy. That was insane. That was insane. Killer, where you got Paul George's scores of all time?

That's crazy. All you gotta do is Google it. We ain't gotta speculate. That's what you have. Where's he at in the top scoring of all time? We ain't even got to speculate. So that way I ain't gotta have him nowhere. It's literally where is he in top scoring.

So we can Google where he's at. So it's not like I'm speculating. speculate. It ain't where I think he's at. It's where is he. I like the new cam, man. I like this. You know, cause. Because he can't get mad at you. He's not going to get mad at me either. Where's he at?

66. See, I didn't want to be the nigger to be like top 15 is crazy. I didn't want to be that nigga. I didn't want to be that nigga that's like top 20. 66. Make top 20 a bug out.

Yeah, to put them at top 20 is crazy. But among active, he's number nine. Among active NBA players, he's number nine. Okay. So just discount the niggas who ever plays, right? Yeah, just don't want everybody that's ever play. Discount Michael Jordan and all these niggas. Just discount dumb niggas call him alone and everybody else.

That's how you get in the top 10. I'm nine active. I would run with that too. I would run with top nine active. That's how stat does it. everything new new age not necessarily sometimes but we give credit where credit's due so I'm like out of active players number nine I don't want to brush past that okay so same way we just kind of looked at Paul George's rankings and I know Cam talked to you about like the other top five point

guards in front of you how much do rankings motivate you or do you try not to pay too much mine and just stay on track um I kind of not pay attention to it but it's definitely like a motivation to to see all the people in front of me definitely give me like like when I'm in the gym working out kind of make me go harder pause to go uh to uh to uh definitely just i mean my goal is to be like top 15 top top uh 10 kid in the country so really just them seeing me in front of me knowing I'm better than just kind of just gave me real motivation all right and then my last question before mace or can may have any other further questions what do you think separates you from the other guys in your class uh I say my

work ethic. I work, I probably work out two or three, two, three times a day, like, every day out of the week. So I feel like my work ethic and really just like my consistency. I'm consistent in the gym and I think that's really many two things. Yeah. How tall are you? Six feet. Oh, you can't be me involved. I thought she was like six three or something, man. Yeah, now you wow. Hey, glad.

You were able to guard me. Listen, you, listen, man, if I could get, if game is 11 and I could get two timeouts, you lose. No. You lose, man. Ain't like, and look, and look, I let you start with ball, too. But if I get ball back, it's over. You got to do your favor, baby? See, you know why you lose?

What's that? You don't know about this. Ask your father about this. this one defense. Hey, La, I know about that. I'd be using that. Okay, okay. I know, Lus, son.

You, my, my, don't go down, man. Don't go down, man. It stays there, man. It might be a goodie, man. Something you that now. See, don't ever play Mace. This is what Mace like to do. He liked to play the game is one,

and he gets the ball first. He's still running around right now, looking about he beat Alan Navison, his game was won. And he had the ball first. It was for 10 racks. It was for 10 racks. He threw me,

he did what you did, the mistake. I'm going to give you the ball first. I say you can pause. You're not going to let me have the rock first in this game. I don't care who you were going for. Yeah, I cut it out. May, don't go that far. I don't care what you.

Kevin. Kevin scrape you, man. I got my money. you're going to get scraped, my man. For sure. But what I want to say closing on my part, yo, listen, man, you seem like a really great create, pardon me, a really great kid,

well-mannered. And I like what you're talking about as far as your work ethic is going on and concerned. And you have a vision for yourself, not just basketball-wise, but as far as your financial career is concerned as well, I'm going to be looking forward to seeing you play the season and good luck we're getting to the McDonald's All-American game.

Yes, sir. Appreciate you. Appreciate you for having me, too. Okay. Well, Kevin, thanks for doing. No, thank you. Like you said, dedicated on track. You're not worried about the girls. You've got your money in order. You locked in.

That's the way to go. And we love to hear that, especially on the show, especially other people who could also be inspired by you, your game, and who are trying to get to where they want to get as well. But thanks for joining us. Thank you. Y'all. That is all the time that we have for today.

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