The Herd with Colin Cowherd - What's Wright - Nico Harrison FIRED Instant Reaction, Bills HUMILIATED, Packers FADING? NFL Week 10 | Nick Wright

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

All lines provided by Hard Rock Bet.  Nick Wright reacts to the Dallas Mavericks firing GM Nico Harrison. Nick breaks down why the Luka Doncic trade will go down as one of the greatest blunders in sports history, why Dallas winning the Cooper Flagg lottery should not have saved Harrison, and what's next for the Mavs & Lakers moving forward. Next, Nick turns his attention to Week 10 of the NFL season, starting with Jalen Hurts' Philadelphia Eagles defeating Jordan Love's Green Bay Packers, and what it means for the NFC playoff picture. Then, Nick discusses an embarrassing loss for Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills to the Miami Dolphins and crazy comeback wins by Caleb Williams' Chicago Bears and CJ Stroud's Houston Texans. After, Nick weighs in on how worried he should be about Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after their loss to Drake Maye's New England Patriots, and what the coaching change means with Dan Campbell calling plays for Jared Goff's Detroit Lions. Later, Nick answers your questions. #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And I think, again, stay tuned for the end of the show for a really awesome announcement. So, Tim McMahon, who is as plugged into the Mavs as anyone, with respect to Mark Stein, telegraphed this a bit yesterday on the Great Hoop Collective podcast with he and Wendy and my pal, Timp's, talking that Nico Harrison could be fired. and Nico Harrison, now, I don't want to incorrectly report this as we record live or we broadcast live at 10.34 a.m. Eastern. Nico Harrison has not yet been fired in a truly mortifying end to a truly indefensible nine-month reign of terror. Niko Harrison has a meeting with Mab's ownership in 25 minutes where he will be fired. I got to tell you, I'm not sure I'd show up to that meeting.

If Shams has it and the whole world knows that you know what, guys, this can be a Zoom. So the impacts and implications of this are far reaching. Most notable is the following. And this might sound shocking. This might sound drastic. But I believe this to be true. Teams around the league should immediately call Dallas and ask about Anthony Davis's availability.

Certainly teams around the league that would be interested and this probably is going to have to be something far later once you see him if he returns pre-trade deadline should ask about kairi irving and that is because the dallas mavericks are now in total build around cooper flag try to rebuild our draft capital that keep in mind they do not either they either don't have well they either don't have a pick or don't have their own pick in the next four drafts they had gone all in around historically great superstar luca danchich and then because of ego and hubris lucidantzic was traded in the middle of the night in the type of move that if there were ever

cause for a fan base to file a class action lawsuit against management, this would be it. You had one of the greatest players ever at the very beginning of the prime of his career, and I said it at the time, and I will say it again. And because of nothing more than power and ego, you have. lit the franchise on fire. Power and ego. Everyone was searching for why Nico would have done this.

And the only logical, and it's not logical, but the only reasonable explanation was he didn't like the fact that someone within the organization had more power than him and that someone was Luca. So we got him out of there.

And it will go down in the annals of sports history as one of the single greatest gaps in a front office has ever made. That is not an overreaction. That is not an overstatement. that is simply what it was the moment it happened and now is being exacerbated night in, night out, as Luca, instead of coming off an injury as he was last year, reminds everyone, yes, I am the guy who dragged a Dallas Mavericks team to the conference finals when I was 22 and to the NBA finals when I was 24. And now I'm 26, and I have more first team all MBAs under my belt than Steph Curry does.

And you got rid of me. And I don't, I also don't think this is an overstatement. Nico Harrison will never work in an NBA front office again. He's going to have to work for Nike or an agency or. or something. But this is, you cannot recover from something like this. And the arrogance that less than, you know, we are a dozen games into this season.

And Nico, after they spun a 1.8% lottery ball chance into Cooper Flagg, The fact that he said, do you see the vision now? Was one of the most tone death, ludicrous statements. And I'm not a Mavs fan. Hell, I'm an adopted, I guess, Laker fan because that's who Braun plays for. So the Lakers getting Luca, who's my second favorite player, was, and he and Bronn playing together, was a true dream and I'm still mad about this trade

on behalf of Mav fans. I can't imagine what this is, this was a sports felony inflicted upon a fan base and yes, now the villain has been captured and is facing justice but it doesn't change.

the havoc he reeked and the long-term impact on your fandom. So I want to just revisit before we get to last night's game, before we get to football, what I said off the top. And credit to Tim Bond tips, he's been talking about this for a while, but now it is to me a more, because it was never going to happen with Nico in charge. but the Dallas Mavericks have to consider a fire sale the so let me let me I want to give everyone the actual draft pick situation for Dallas in 2026 they have their pick so my apologies I said that wrong 2026 they have their pick this year they have their pick and maybe that

good because right now they're terrible in 2027 their pick basically totally unprotected protected only for spots one or two so unprotected goes to Charlotte in 2028 Jesus the rich get richer the thunder can swap with them in 2029 their pick goes somewhere in a swap, and they do have the Lakers pick. And in 2030, my God, the Spurs can swap with them. So first of all, in 2028 and 2030, the Mavericks first round pick is going to go to the Thunder and then the Spurs. Holy shit. In 2029, Their pick goes somewhere. I can't figure it out.

It says two most favorable of Dallas, Houston, and Phoenix to Houston, and then other to Brooklyn. Via Dallas and Phoenix to Brooklyn, via Dallas or Phoenix to Houston, via Houston, swap for Dallas or Phoenix. I don't get it. But whatever. The Mavs will not, after this coming year's draft, they do not have control of their first until 2031. until Cooper Flag is in the midst of his second contract. So they need to recoup picks. They need to figure out like Clay Thompson's contract is fully underwater.

Kyrie's an interesting one. And I, it's just, and by the way, they're three and eight. And I think, let me check, I think they have literally the way, worst offense in the NBA. I know, so let's just check in real quick. Defense wins championships, because that's all we heard from this, this guy. All we heard from him, their offense is, oh, is it no longer dead last?

The, hold on, let me, I had it. I thought they were dead last. Maybe I'm wrong, because that says they were 14. right now. So, oh, that's last year. I'm looking at last year. It's like, hold on a second. This can't be correct.

It can't be the Mavericks having the 15th offense. No chance. All right, here we go. Oh, no. It fair is fair. They don't have the worst offense in the basketball. They have the second worst offense in basketball to the Pacers, whose best player, Tori's Achilles in game seven of the finals,

and second best, or third best player left the team. team. Now, I mean, this is just perfect. Just Chef's Kiss. Perfect. Defense wins championships. The Dallas Mavericks are three and eight. They fired Nico Harrison. They currently have the third best defense in basketball. Maybe that was a miscalculation. Because you have the second worst offense in basketball. Good luck, Mavs fans. I feel sick for you. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast?

Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it.

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define the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reid. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then He has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too.

Steve Nash would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He running up the court, licking his fingers, why he got the ball. Like, you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Saigon, the story of my family and of the country that shaped us. The United States will not stand by and allow any power, however great, take over another country.

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I don't think I could be in the same room with Shamrock the pair. I'd be too nervous. That's right. The very funny Will Ferrell joins Rory Scoble and me, Josh Dean, for an episode dedicated to the many crimes committed by people also named Will Ferrell. They called to his fellow officer for the nippers. What are the nippers? Very good question.

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because everything that had existed prior in my reality, is now untrue. Listen to Deep Cover the Family Man on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right. Now to our, we had three dog

primetime games this week. It started with a 10-7 Broncos win over the Raiders. It ended with a 10-7 Eagles. win over the Packers and sandwiched in the middle was Aaron Rogers looking every bit of 41 years old and the Chargers blowing them out after a game that was 3-2 at one point. So the Eagles win 10-7 quickly on the Packers and then we will get to Philadelphia.

The Packers have now lost three, all three of their loss. their defense has not allowed 17 points that I think that is more losses when the defense allows less than 17 than the rest of the NFL combined aside from the bizarre cowboys 40 to 40 tie that defense has been as advertised but there seems to be a weird disconnect growing between Jordan Love and Matt LaFleur. And the Matt LaFleur thing that came out of nowhere was Matt Schneiderman from the athletic wrote an article this morning and asked LaFleur last night about his job security, which I did not see coming.

But Jordan Love at zero touchdowns one pick, a 74 rating over the last two weeks, two losses. the team has scored a total of 20 points. Now, do I think the Packers are going to miss the playoffs? No, but it can't be dismissed. Right now they're the 7 seed, with San Francisco being percentage points back as the 8 seed. San Francisco has a far easier schedule moving forward, and Green Bay has a far tougher one.

So as far as easiest schedules moving forward, San Francisco has, or toughest skill, let me do it a different way. San Francisco has the 20th toughest schedule moving forward, so 13th easiest. And Green Bay has the ninth toughest. Green Bay has one game left against a bad team, flat bad team, and that's the Giants. San Francisco has Titans, Browns, Cardinals, Panthers. So that obviously greatly works in their favor.

Now, even if San Francisco gets hot, the question is, could Chicago fall out of it, who has the second hardest schedule remaining? And that's certainly on the board. So I don't predict Green Bay misses the playoffs, but it's certainly possible. More importantly, though, that team's got to figure out

what's going on with the offense. That's the story out of Green Bay this weekend. The more interesting thing, as always, is the Eagles side of it. Because the Eagles just, they are just saints of the content industrial complex. They win, but they win in such bizarre fashion

and they create these firestorms that you see, you see them lighting fires during the game that you know are going to sustain at least until next week, even while you expect them to win. so yesterday was just a horrific offensive performance where once again after declining to trade a j brown they decided to pretend he's not on the team that is of course until the very end of the game when they have the game stone one as long all they've got to do with 31 seven seconds left is punt the ball and Green Bay is going to have the ball with around 25 seconds left, maybe backed up inside their own 20, worst case scenario for Philly on their own 20 and no timeouts.

Instead, Siriani leaves the offense out there, has them go for it, and then tries to feed a defense. J. Brown, a feel good highlight moment. It falls incomplete and all of a sudden the Packers are two plays away from being in field goal range. Just an absolute banana's decision. Soaked in either ego or trying to placate what you know is going to be an upset A.J. Brown. Yeah, man, we didn't go to you all game, but we went to you when it counted.

all this. Just craziness, right? And it gave the Packers a chance to win the game. It gave him a or at least tie the game and then winning in an overtime. So I know, I mean, Siriani's record is what it is. And the Eagles defense looked awesome. And while Sequin got bottled up on the ground again,

he did have the one long, reception that was huge. But Philly is just such a weird team. And they simply seem allergic to drama-free wins. And I don't know

what has happened to the J.L. And Hurt's A.J. Brown connection, but I know it is in shambles compared to what it once was. And Siriani's call to go for that fourth down was just as poor game management as it gets. And for folks that always freak out about the analytics boogeyman, it should be noted. Every single analytical model preferred punt there. Every single one.

Siriani was going for a highlight moment that could have cost them the game. With that said, they're 7 and 2. After they play the Lions, this coming Sunday night, they've got Cowboys, Bears, Chargers, Raiders, commanders, bills, commanders. So given that we expect the NFC North and NFC West to beat up on each other, and Tampa just lost, Philly's in really. good shape to maybe be the one seed. They're just such a weird team.

Such a weird team that wins, but in not even dramatic, just angsty fashion. So Scruff Dog says Casey won the same ugly games last year. No doubt Casey won close. But Casey was right or wrong, a bullion after the games. running onto the field celebrating locker room totally connected what case he wasn't doing

was having a weekly heart to heart with their star receiver i guess in part because last year case he had no star receivers and andy reed calling some of the most absolutely bizarre end of game plays so i got no problem with winning others but that was weird and by the way and I'm not going to spend time on it because I just at this point I don't get why the NFL can't get this right but once again the Packers are in a fourth and inches they line up for a regular football play they false start it gets called the Eagles are in a fourth and inches they line up for their stupid rugby play they obviously on live camera, not on slow-mo replay.

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Hey, it's us to Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, name? Huge news. we created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it.

We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers.

This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys.

Listen to Hey Jonas on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. What's up, fam? It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm CJ Toledano, and our podcast Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs

without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs.

I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reid. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nass would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying.

He run up the court, licking his fingers, why he got the ball. Like, you go through a training camp with that Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Saigon, the story of my family and of the country that shaped us. The United States will not stand by and allow any power, however great, take over another country. From My Heart Podcasts, Saigon. Please allow me to introduce Joseph Sherman.

You don't think I'm serious about a free Vietnam? I should stop talking so much. I like hearing you talk. One city, a divided country, and the war that tore America apart. This is for Vietnam. I've taken it. a hit from Japanese ground fire. Do you rate me? They're pouring petrol

all over him. He's holding matches. I'm on a landmine. For three, die. Let's get out. Freedom, Mom, hit. Nah. Run! Scogon, starring Kelly Marie Tran and Rob Benedict. Sting, here's madness. The world should hear about this.

There's a fire coming to this country, and it's going to burn out everything. Listen to Saigon on the I-heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This week on Crimless, we're joined by our first ever guest. Sorry, our first ever human guest. I don't think I could be in the same room with Shamrock the pair. I'd be too nervous.

That's right. The very funny Will Ferrell joins Rory Scoble and me, Josh Dean, for an episode dedicated to the many crimes committed by people also named Will Ferrell. They called to his fellow officer for the nippers. What are the nippers? Very good question. No, I was thinking, would that be a good name for like a salad dressing? Simple assault.

And it's a play on word, salt? Maybe not. I say we invest and we see. There's only one way to know. This did not amuse the cops. By the way, normally the cops are amused, but this did not abuse the cops. Will even comes clean about some of his own crimes. I didn't get caught.

You know why? If you don't want to be suspected of anything, you whistle as you walk. Listen to crime lists on the first. the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Keith Giamanka seemed like a mild-mannered suburban dad, but secretly, he became someone else, a master of disguise who went on a crime spree. At the time, did it seem like a crazy idea? It seemed very crazy, but I felt so desperate that I felt it was the quickest, easiest way out.

Did you allow yourself to think about how it could go wrong and what that might look like? No. I didn't want to manifest that. I was trying to manifest success. Every family has its secrets. But what happens when you discover that your dad has been living a double life? That is not the look of an innocent man. This is going to change my life and my family dynamic forever,

because everything that had existed prior in my reality, is now untrue. Listen to Deep Cover the Family Man on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The biggest upset of the weekend, Buffalo getting blown out by Miami. And so Buffalo is still the team

that I would least like to play in the postseason in the AFC if I'm Kansas City. But there are some red flags here, okay? One is this. As of a month ago, the bills had one double-digit loss in the last four years. Their last 60 games, they had one loss by more than a score. And it was the blowout to Baltimore last season. and then they avenged it and beat Baltimore in the playoffs.

They have two double-digit losses in their last month of football. Ten points to Atlanta and really getting boat raced by Miami when Miami controlled every aspect of the game. That is concerned. The fact that the bills themselves might not think, they're quite good enough. Evidence by the fact that they offered a one and a three for Jalen Waddle. That is a little concerning. The fact that Josh Allen is starting to turn the ball over again,

but now it's not coming with the quick strike 60-yard touchdowns on the other side of it. That is a little concerning. so it's not the sky is falling but it is a little hmm also they are going to be i now fully believe and this is real tangible and it matters uh and it might happen to the chiefs too but they are going to be the wild card team in the a of C East. They are going to be on the road for potentially the entirety of the playoffs. That's not nothing.

And when they started 4 and O with one of the softer schedules in the league coming, like, as their next month, they looked like they were in great shape for the one seed, which is one thing they've never gotten since Alan's. been there. Now they're six and three with all of a sudden wait. Is that a sneaky tough remaining schedule? Home for the Bucks. Then a Thursday night road game against a suddenly semi-frisky Houston team. Then at Pittsburgh. Then all of a sudden a game against the Bengals that people think Joe Burrow will be back for. Then at the Patriots. then you take your breath a bit at the Browns,

home for the Eagles. In a game, the Eagles might go into saying, hey, we win this, you know, one seed implications. And then at home for the Jets to, you know, is a nice little end of season respite. So it's not nothing. And then there's also this, which I think is noteworthy.

fold this in to Brian Daible being fired after another fourth quarter collapse by him. If this goes badly for Buffalo, like really badly, I don't think they'll miss the playoffs. But if this goes

they're the five seed and they go to Baltimore which now is the huge favor to win the AFC North and they lose in round one. If would the Buffalo Bills consider

reuniting Brian Davel with Josh Allen but not as a coordinator as a head coach. It is something to think about. Again, I think Davel deserved to be fired. However,

his connection with Josh Allen was great. Josh Allen has had massive influence on who the coordinator's post-Dable would be. It seems like there's a little angst there. Dable and McDermann, according to the great Tyler Dunn, who has a great substack that people should subscribe to, Go Long T-D, as reported that the Dable

McDermott relationship was not great at the end and had a great story a couple years ago about whether or not they kept the wrong coach and letting Dable leave and keeping McDermott. would they consider bring Dable back and reuniting him with Josh Allen as the head coach? I'm sure they, you know, I shouldn't say I'm sure. I would think they'd love him as the coordinator,

but I don't know what that relationship with McDermott is. Just something to consider. Now, as far as the comebacks this weekend, the Jags just invent ways to lose. some of it's on Trevor he was not good in that game but the comeback was more on the defense it was a miracle with how poorly Trevor had played that they were up 29 to 10 and then they just invented a way to lose just a horrific beat for me and picks and the whole nine and credit to Caleb for a second straight weekend with clutch drives in the fourth

quarter to really flip the narrative on him in their season. And I don't think the bears are that good, but they dominated Cincinnati, then collapsed and then stole it back. They got dominated by the Giants and then stole it. And now all of a sudden, they're in Minnesota, a team that they dominated, for three quarters in week one and then gave the game away with a chance to get to seven and three. And, yeah, I mean, they're a field goal underdog.

And so, and I'll say one other thing about the Bears. All of a sudden, those two Packer games late in the year don't seem quite as ominous, and they are huge games. Just absolutely huge games. because those teams are now, I guess they're both still in the thick of the NFC North race, and while also being in the thick of wait, could we miss the playoffs? The producers are asking me, worst mistake selling my Caleb stock too soon or holding on to my Trevor stock.

Well, listen, I didn't sell my Caleb stock. I diversified my portfolio a bit, but I still have some of it. The Trevor stock might be going to zero boys. Now, on the bright side, in two years, when Trevor Lawrence is the starting quarterback for Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco 49ers, and looks like the league MVP, I'll get to have Collins' Sam Darnold moment that he's having right now.

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this weekend at Buffalo. And we've said this all year that the Bucks had this Pat's Bill's Ram stretch, which is really hard, and then the softest final six games of the year one could ever imagine. Cardinals, Saints, Falcons, Panthers, Dolphins, Panthers. Part of our Bucks to the Super Bowl belief was

that because of that schedule, they could be the one seat. and if they can get a split at Buffalo and at the Rams, that's still very in play. If they can get a split at Buffalo and at the Rams, they absolutely can just sweep that right-hand column and be 13 and 4. If they lose both of those games, then you probably have less faith than them also sweeping that right-hand of the column,

and all of a sudden they're likely 11 and 6. and it feels a little like, okay, these are the bucks teams we've seen before. I still believe this team has Super Bowl upside, particularly because they are going to get everyone back with the possible question about Mike Evans, and they've dealt with just a disproportionate amount of injuries. But that was a game they were, up early and then got thoroughly outplayed by the Patriots who shout out, listen, man, everybody,

every NFL fan out there should look at what the Patriots are doing and then ask themselves, why are we, why is our, if you're in a rebuild, why is our rebuild not gone the way the Patriots has under variable? and the answer for all of them, if it's not going well, is we either have the wrong coach or the wrong quarterback, unless they're a rookie. Rookie. Rookie quarterbacks are rookie quarterbacks. But all it takes to become a contender is the right coach and the right quarterback.

Everything else you can fill in around the edges. And if you're certain you have the right coach, and the teams, you know, still in the midst of, is still floundering, then you don't have the right quarterback. And if you're certain you have the right quarterback and the team's floundering, then you don't have the right coach. It's really that simple. And now that's just to be like on the periphery of contending.

To actually win a championship, it takes a lot more. But you can turn it around that quick in this league if you have the right coach and the right quarterback. and the Patriots are showing you that. And I think Drake May, while Stafford to me is clearly the MVP right now, I understand. The reason Drake May is the best MVP odds is they think he's likely to be the one or the two seed. And there's a chance because of how good Seattle's been that Stafford's a wild card,

and that just really hurts your ability to be MVP for the quarterback of a wild card team. So that's why the odds are where they are. But through 10 weeks, Stafford's been the MVP. But Drake May is now just going to be a perennial top five quarterback. I really believe in that. I think he's that good. He's only 23. He's big.

He's strong. He's tough. He's legit. And Brable, Brable's game management stuff, I just like so much that he's so, he's always thinking about. stuff. He did something and it almost cost him. And maybe it's not even the right move,

but it's something I from my couch have wanted my team to do for years, which is recognize at the end of the half, the goal is not necessarily simply score a touchdown. The goal is to, like let me put it like this, end of half too often, teams don't recognize. All right, if we score a touchdown and leave the other team plenty of time and they go down and get a field goal, that is only one point better than if we just killed all the clock and kicked the field goal ourselves. That's only a way, you know, it's 7.3 versus 3. Nothing's only one point better. And if we, and if we score a touchdown and leave them plenty of time and they go down and get a touchdown, that's a net zero as opposed to grinding out the clock.

and kicking a field goal, which is a net positive three. Vrable was thinking about that, which is why when he had first and goal from the one and Tampa having zero timeouts, there was a minute 40 left, he took a knee. Now, the Patriots afterwards lied about it. That's fine.

That's what he was doing. And I know some of the analytic models thinks that's a mistake. I thought it was incredibly sharp, incredibly sharp. Where you are, you feel like we're still going to be able to get a touchdown. So let's limit the amount of time the opposing team's going to have to come back on us. I think it's super sharp. And so I, listen, I know Drake May said Vita Vaya blew up the play. I do not believe him. And I think the Patriots are really buttoned up. Hey guys, you ever notice

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we created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a... We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. But this one's extra special.

So how did we actually come up with a name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. before Jonas Brothers was... This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes.

I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, people could call in and say, Hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title

for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. What's up, fam?

It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Tolodano and our podcast. podcast point game is about defining the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before.

And he knows without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nasree. he has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night bases on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson,

we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nass would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He running up the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball, like, after you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court,

and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you. you get your podcasts. This is Saigon, the story of my family and of the country that shaped us. The United States will not stand by and allow any power, however great, take over another country. From My Heart Podcasts, Saigon.

Please allow me to introduce Joseph Sherman. You don't think I'm serious about a free Vietnam? I should stop talking so much. I like hearing you talk. One city, a divided country, and the war that tore America apart. This is for Vietnam. I've taken a hit from Japanese ground fire. Do you rate me?

They're pouring petrol all over him. He's holding matches. I'm on a landmine. For free time! Get out! Freedom, vomit. Run! SIGON, starring Kelly Marie Tran and Rob Benedict.

Sting, here's madness. The world should hear about this. There's a fire coming to this country, and it's going to burn out everything. Listen to Saigon on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you. you get your podcasts. This week on Crimless, we're joined by our first ever guest. Sorry, our first ever human guest. I don't think I could be in the same room with Shamrock the pair.

I'd be too nervous. That's right. The very funny Will Ferrell joins Rory Scovel and me, Josh Dean, for an episode dedicated to the many crimes committed by people also named Will Ferrell. They called to his fellow officer for the nippers. What are the nippers? Very good question. No, I was thinking, would that be a good name for like a salad dressing?

Simple assault. And it's a play on word, salt? Maybe not. I say we invest and we see. There's only one way to know. This did not amuse the cops. By the way, normally the cops are amused, but this did not abuse the cops. Will even comes clean about some of his own crimes.

I didn't get caught. You know why? If you don't want to be suspected of anything, you whistle as you walk. Listen to Crime List on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Keith Gianmanca seemed like a mild-mannered suburban dad, but secretly he became someone else, a master of disguise who went on a crime spree. At the time, did it seem like a crazy idea? It seemed very crazy, but I felt so desperate that I felt it was the quickest, easiest way out. Did you allow yourself to think about how it could go wrong and what that might look like?

No. I didn't want to manifest that. I was trying to manifest success. Every family has its secrets. But what happens when you discover that your dad has been living a double life? That is not the look of an innocent man. This is going to change my life and my family dynamic forever because everything that had existed prior in my reality,

is now untrue. Listen to Deep Cover the Family Man on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, Lions beat the commanders. The commanders are done. Dan Campbell took over playcalling. I'm not sure if I fully buy that he took over all playcalling,

but he didn't have his glasses on play sheet in hand. This is something interesting to monitor with the Lions. as the Lions have a really important stretch coming up. I'll be totally honest. I was, that afternoon window of the Lions blowing out the commanders, the Seahawks blowing out Arizona and the Rams blowing out the Niners was kind of uninspiring. I wish one of those games had been good.

So I'm not going to say I was checked out, but I was watching Rams, Niners, the closest. but that's a good bounce-back win for Detroit. And then the night game, Chargers, Steelers, Aaron looked old and looked like he didn't want to get hit. And all of a sudden, the Ravens are minus 280 or something to win the division. The Steelers' margin of error has evaporated. The Chargers, on the other hand, looked awesome.

And credit to Justin Herbert, and I don't think I did a great job on TV on this yesterday, So I want to just clarify here. I think Herbert was excellent in that game. And I think Herbert has the ability to be excellent. The point I was trying to make on TV yesterday was I just don't want, if he's not excellent, or if the chargers end up collapsing, or if they're nine and eight and sneak into the playoffs and losing round one,

I just don't want to hear how, oh, it's like, what do you want from him? His offensive lines hurt. It's the NFL man. Everybody's dealing with something. The charges have had bad offensive line injury luck. Luckily, they have a great defense, a great head coach, supposedly a great quarterback, and we just saw them against Pittsburgh dominate with the team they're going to have moving foe. So if Herbert's supposed to be one of the five best quarterbacks in football,

which all of his fans swear he is, then they should be a legitimate contender right now. And let's just, on Sunday night, they looked like it. All right, the other games quickly. Broncos beat the Raiders. I'm going to, listen, we're into a ton of Broncos chief stuff this weekend, and this week, I should say. The defense is awesome.

Bo Nix is not good. He is not scary. And I believe he is the reason they are going to go from 8 and 2 to being a wildcard team. Colts beat the Falcons, 3125. Jonathan Taylor is maybe one of the best running backs of his generation. The guy for his NFL career has averages 110 yards from scrimmage per game and nearly a touchdown per game in 77 games. Just an unbelievable football player.

Jets beat the Browns, 2720, thanks to a couple kick rured. Special teams touchdowns. Justin Fields completed six passes in that game. Saints to meet the Panthers 17 to 7 in a game. I'll just be totally honest. I was not locked in on at all. Tyler Shuck, it looks like played okay. Ravens be the Vikings 2719 in the game I did watch closely. Great win for the Ravens. Not a great game for the Ravens. and they just haven't looked like the Ravens yet this year. Maybe that's coming, but at this point, they just need to stack wins. And then maybe the two best teams in football,

not much to say about them right now other than they might be the two best teams in football. The Seahawks annihilated the Cardinals. Second straight game, they were up 28-0 in the second quarter, and the Rams beat the Niners soundly. And now we get Seahawks Rams this weekend. I cannot wait. More on that, those two teams and Thursday show. And I am not going to do the very sappy.

I might. Demonsie would be mad at me about this. And I kind of want to do like a long-form tribute to my son because the news is my son, my co-host, de Monzae, is not going to be here for the next. few weeks because my son is now a dad and his baby girl myelah was born Sunday morning and I'm just so so yes I'm a grandfather now and I'm just so over the moon happy my wife's out there in California and I I can't describe it.

And again, I don't, this should have been Demonsi's announcement to make, but we didn't really plan it that well in that he was like, I'll announce it when I come back and then it is my, you know, it's going to be on social media. Like what, so this is what I want to say. Demandze has not had the easiest go of it. And he, for people that know about my family, whatever, you know, my wife was very, very young when she had Demonsay under some really tough circumstances. And he's been through a bunch. And he, like everybody, you know, has had some successes and some failures.

You know, it's sometimes been maybe more down on himself than I, you know, felt was right. And his, his fortitude and ability to just continue striving forward and what he's the man he's turned into in the last five years from just announcing to his mom and I, he's leaving the house. he needs to go figure it out on his own and got a job in the Midwest building fences to just kind of become a grown man and on that from there to where now he's worked at Fox

for a few years, does a great job there is so good and so fun on this podcast and now is starting a family of his own it's just unbelievable and I'm just so proud and I'll talk I'll talk about that more with him when he's back. But congrats to him and Maddie on the baby girl Mila.

Love you all so very much. Talk to you guys. Talk to you guys. The Jonas Brothers. I'm Joe. I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick. And guess what?

We created our own podcast called, Hey, Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We have first people to do podcasts. We get to ask other people questions. because we're sick and tired of being asked questions. Well, sick and tired is a strong way to put it, but, you know,

tired and sick. Tired and sick. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. What's up, fam? It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Toledano.

It's our favorite time of the year on our podcast point game, the playoffs. We're digging into the biggest surprises of the season. And I'm looking back on some of my greatest playoff moments. If we didn't talk ever again, I was part of it. You just understood. That's how a person. know a gap. Wow. Then after that game seven, Mark keep coming to you. He's like, you know, I

love you, dog. You know, it's all love. This was just playoffs. This was just basketball. So listen to Point Game on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Every family has its secrets. But what happens when you discover that your dad

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