The Kevin Sheehan Show - Brady Barbs Jayden

Episode Date: March 20, 2026

Kevin opened with some NCAA Tournament 1st-round talk before getting to an interesting Brandon Aiyuk take. Kevin then spent time on Tom Brady's light-hearted barbs towards Jayden Daniels before this Fanatics Flag Football event tomorrow in Los Angeles. Kevin expressed concern over Jayden's participation in the game and made the case that it isn't the best look. Kevin finished the show with the brother of the top Commanders' free agent hitting the shot of the NCAA Tournament so far.   For all your football betting needs: DCRELOAD at MyBookie for a 50% Deposit Match Our listeners get the Harry’s Plus Trial Set for only $10 at https://www.Harrys.com/[INSERT CODE]  #Harryspod Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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A quicker show on this Friday, March 20th, day two of the first round of the NCAA tournament. Day one was pretty good day. I'll go through some of that here momentarily. On the show today, I'm also in the second segment going to get to what Tom Brady said to Jaden Daniels on the stage as they were holding their draft for this flag football game, which is scheduled for tomorrow in Los Angeles. I have some thoughts on not only what Brady said to Jaden, but the game itself in Jaden's participation in it. We'll get to that in the next segment. Real quickly, my smell test picks get posted on Twitter at 11 a.m. I'll have them out on Saturday and Sunday by 11 a.m. as well. So if you're waiting for this podcast to come out

to get my smell test picks, that's probably not the best idea since the games are going on all day long. Now, none of my smell test picks have gone yet, but follow me on Twitter at Kevin Sheen, D.C, and you can get the picks there in a very timely manner. I was three and one yesterday, four and one now for the tournament so far, and I've got four more picks for day two this afternoon and this evening. Day one of the tournament, good day. I loved Howard's first half against Michigan. They really represented well in this tournament for the Miak. They won their first ever tournament game on Tuesday night in the first four against UMBC. And then they were within 50 to 46 at halftime against a one seed as a 30 and a half point underdog. They ended up covering

easily. They lost by 21, but really good effort by Howard, especially in that first half. How about Virginia Commonwealth coming from 19 down in the second half to knock off North Carolina. A lot of people kind of looked at that as a major upset. It really wasn't. It was an 11 over a 6, but North Carolina was just a two, two and a half point favorite in that game. Remember, they are without and were without Caleb Wilson, one of the best freshmen in the country, a top three, top four projected pick in the June draft. But tough loss for Hubert Davis, who's now kind of on hard times here recently with North Carolina, after taking them to the title game in his first year as a head coach.

That's something to watch certainly to see if one of the Blue Blood programs decides to take, you know, on a new coach possibility and moving on perhaps from Hubert Davis. The high point win over Wisconsin was just a brutal loss for Greg Gard, man. That guy is a really good basketball coach at Wisconsin, and he now has not taken his team past the first weekend since 2017. It really is one of those situations, and I thought about it after he lost, and you could see the dejection on his face, because everybody in the business knows that Greg Gard is a very good basketball. basketball coach. But man, this sport is measured on what you do in March. And I can remember these conversations about Mark Turgeon with Maryland fans. And Maryland fans hated when I said, look,

be careful what you wish for because Mark is an excellent coach. Everybody knows it. Anybody that knows anything about basketball knows he's an excellent coach. And all of the regular season fun that we've had and all of the tournament trips. He went to six out of the last seven when he was the Maryland coach. You know, they're not guaranteed by anybody new. But, you know,

March success wasn't there for him. You know, he got Maryland to the Sweet 16 one time in all of those tournament trips. But you really do have to, as a college basketball fan of a big program in a big league, you do have to kind of

enjoy the journey. I mean, Wisconsin won games at Purdue, at Illinois, top 10 teams on the road in ridiculously difficult environments. That is so thrilling in the moment. You know, I remember in 2020, you know, before COVID hit and shut down the tournament, you know, Maryland went on the road that year and had just some memorable wins. They went on the road and beat Illinois on a Friday night with, I mean, that place in Champaign was just lit because Illinois was good that year and Maryland won that game. Maryland came back with Anthony Cowan knocking down three threes in the final,

like three minutes of the game at Breslin Center to beat Michigan State late in the year. I mean, those are moments, man. And yet these coaches are judged on what they do in March and doesn't matter if you're ranked 10th in the country, doesn't matter if you're a 3C, Doesn't matter if you won a regular season championship in your league. You better get to the final four at certain places, and you better get to the second weekend in a lot of places. So Greg Gard and Wisconsin fell to high point.

A.J. DeBonsa and BYU ousted by Texas 7971, despite DeBanza scoring 35 of the team's 71 points. He got $7 million reportedly. million to go to BYU to play for what turns out to be one year and not even one NCAA tournament

win. Nebraska won its first ever NCAA tournament game. Looked good doing it by crushing Troy. St. Louis and Georgia played last night I had the over in that game and it hit. And if you

haven't seen Robbie Aveila play for St. Louis yet, check him out tomorrow. 610 center, goofy looking as hell, glasses, the whole thing. He played at Indiana State a few years ago before transferring to St. Louis, but he can just

really play, really good passing, big man, great feel for the game. They play tomorrow against Michigan. And then the Sienna Duke game, for me, that was the most intense drama of

day one, of the Thursday games. All due respect to Virginia and Purdue, both of those teams being the only two to ever lose as one seeds to 16 seeds. But if Duke had gone down yesterday to Sienna as a one against a 16, it would have become the NCAA tournament's all-time upset. NC state over Houston, you know, in 83, that was shocking in the final Villanova over Georgetown. in 85, a little less so than NC State over Houston, but a big shocker and considered to be one of the biggest upsets in NCAA tournament history, but nothing, nothing would have matched. Sienna as a 27 and a half-point underdog beating Duke.

First of all, they didn't. They lost 71 to 65, but if you watch this game, Sienna was up 11 at halftime. That's the largest half-time lead by a 16 over a one ever. They actually built their lead to 13 early in the second half, and there was a critical moment. They had two dunk opportunities to go up 15 with about 17 minutes left, and they missed both, and then on the other end, it turned into a dunk. So instead of being up 15, they were just up 11. man, a 15-point lead is a pretty big lead.

I don't care what your seating is. But that was a key moment in that game. Duke came back. Look, Sienna, they played five guys for 40 minutes. They made one substitution in the final minute of the game just for a few seconds to put somebody else in the game to foul when they were behind. How about that five players for basically 40 minutes? minutes. And they had chances, even as they got tired playing just five. They had open threes that

if they had knocked down, they may have had a legit chance to pull it off or would have at least come down to a last possession. They definitely scared Duke. Shire said he was out-coached. I don't know about that. I just did not really sold on Duke. Like I made the note yesterday. I made two notes during that game. After that 17-minute, two dunks missed, and then Duke turned it into an 11-point deficit instead of being behind 15.

But I wrote down, number one, Duke's not winning this tournament. They're missing pieces, and they're just not at the same level. I don't think athletically and even depth-wise as some of the other teams they'll have to face. And then number two is this. Cam Boozer, you know, a projected

top three pick in the NBA draft. I love him. a college player, and I think he's going to be a good NBA player. He's very high floor, but compared to a lot of the other players in this draft, I think he's got one of the lowest ceilings. I think I said this to somebody not that long ago on the podcast. It may have been radio. There's a lot of what I would compare him to Tyler Hansbro in him from North Carolina, one of the greatest college players really of all time. Hansborough had very short arms and it really impacted his ability at the NBA level because he couldn't finish. You know, he could finish

in college to a certain degree, but not even in college effectively near the rim. And then he had to almost become a perimeter player, which he really wasn't equipped to be. He had a nice NBA career, but, you know, hardly, you know, a great NBA career. And I see Cam Boozer as being, you know, a better version of Hansbrough. but he can't finish over smaller college players. I saw it against Carolina. I saw it against Florida State last week, and I saw it yesterday. He's just not a finisher around the rim as a 6-9, 610, 250-pound player. Now, he can shoot, he can stretch the floor.

I think he's going to be a good player in the NBA, but he's not worth number one, number two, or number three. He's not. I mean, I like Acuff Jr. at Arkansas more. I like Amen at Tennessee more. DeBanza for sure. And I guess Peterson, although that's still, you know, a big who the hell knows. Although there's a pretty good story written about Darren Peterson in The Athletic. And I read it the other day. He was kind of sick there for a while and was having some cramping and dehydration issues. Had, you know, had a bad case of the flu, and they should have talked about that during that period of time, you know, back in January when he was looking more like a load management college player. But anyway, I actually think that the draft in June is a super deep draft with really good players, but I don't think there's a Cooper flag or certainly not a Victor Wimbunyama.

you may end up getting the best player in the draft at four, five, or six rather than at one, two, or three. Time will tell. But Duke's not winning this tournament. I don't think they are. But wouldn't surprise me if they blow out TCU tomorrow because sometimes when you see a high seed team struggle in the first round, TCU beat Ohio State, and you'll see a big number, and Duke is an 11-point favorite. tomorrow, the public's going to jump all over TCU. I would not surprise me if I give Duke out tomorrow as a play.

Anyway, day one, pretty good day for sure. The late games were painful. They were all blowouts. I was interested in St. Louis, Georgia, going over the total, which you did, but that was about it. I like when you get late into Thursday night or Friday night, and there are two or three cliffhangers. We had none of that. late last night.

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And you'll see, you know, Kevin Sheehan's best bets. And you'll see the boosted odds on. some of my plays. Also, by the way, My Booky still giving out a 50% cash bonus to all of my listeners. But you have to use the promo code, DC Reload, DCRELOAD, DCRE, L-O-A-D to get a 50% cash bonus. MyBooky.ag or mybooky.com promo code, DC reload. four plays today. Virginia minus 18. Virginia right state over 145 and a half. Tennessee minus 12 against Miami of Ohio and Villanova plus one and a half against Utah State. So four plays today. I had four yesterday as well. I got this from Marti. Marti writes, Kevin, your guest from the salary cap website.

was really good explaining the Brandon Ayuk's situation. I have a question for you. If Ayuk really wants to play for our team and with his former college teammate, Jaden Daniels, why not trade a seventh round pick if he commits to taking less money when he gets here? You know what, Martit, that's a good question and a good thought. Just a reminder to everybody.

By the way, the salary cap website guy that I had on was Michael Genetti, the co-owner and editor of SpotTrack, the site that I always used to talk contracts, salary cap, et cetera. Mike is really good. And he was excellent yesterday, by the way. Not yesterday on Wednesday. On Wednesday show, March 18th, the show titled A Brandon Iyuk prediction, the 23-minute 4-second mark, 230-0-4 is where Mike started with me.

I'm telling you, if you didn't listen to that on Wednesday, it's worth listening to. He was excellent on our team's free agency, and he was really good on Brandon Iuk, you know, talking about why it's played out the way it's played out and what the 49ers will likely do. But look, for those that don't know, just as a reminder, Brandon Ayuk has a contract currently with the 49ers that will pay him a base salary of just over $27 million next year, unless, of course, the 49ers waive him. And then the contract doesn't convey to the next team that he ends up playing for.

He would sign a newly negotiated deal with his next team. and, you know, that's assuming he's healthy physically, healthy mentally, and if he is, I do think there will be some competition for him. But if a team traded for him, the contract would convey. So you'd end up having to pay him $27 million in base salary next year. And Michael Genetti's point was, no one's going to do that. And I've talked about that even before Mike was on the show. No one is going to pay this guy after he, his behavior, his erratic behavior over the last six to 12 months, nobody's going to first give up, let's just say, a sixth or a seventh round pick, and then take on his new contract.

And what Mike predicted is that the 49ers would very likely wait until post-June 1, like on June 2nd, to release him, you know, waiting for maybe somebody to lose their mind and trade something for him and take on his contract, but more because he felt maybe they want to be vindictive. They don't want to do him a favor, and they don't want to do the new team that signs him a favor by allowing that to happen a month and a half earlier than it needs to. You know, from their standpoint,

if it went down the way, you know, they think it went down or claim that it went down, which is they can't believe he behaved this way, nobody can believe that he put himself into a position and even Michael talked about this the other day, Michael Genetti, where essentially all he had to do was show up at the facility twice a month to get his knee checked, and instead he lost $30 million through voided, legitimately voided dollars. And Michael even said, like reminded all of us,

he didn't even fight that with the NFLPA or anybody else. Like no one's ever really done what he did. At the very least, it's very, very questionable. judgment. But yeah, Mike thought that, you know, the 49ers would likely cut him on June 2nd. And then it'll be, we'll see what happens. Can Washington sign them? Will they be interested in signing him?

Nobody's going to know the player more likely than not than Adam Peters and Jaden Daniels. But, yeah, Marti, it's an interesting thought. Now, you know, if it's true that Washington's like the only team that he wants to play for, you know, maybe he would commit to taking less if he were traded for. But I think you have to, the 49ers have to allow him to seek a trade because if not, it's tampering. You know, I don't think you're allowed to talk to him or his agent as long as he's under contract for the team,

unless the team gives him specific permission to seek a trade. And I don't think they've done that yet. So I don't think that the team would do that without knowing for sure that he's going to restructure or essentially take a massive pay cut. Because Genetti came in at like, you know, the spot track value was I think 13 million a year. I think he said 13, 14 million a year. But that you're probably going to get an $8 to $9 million base salary, you know, and then everything else would be incentivized. Yeah, I think given his situation, you can't trust the situation. It's got to be a prove it deal without any draft compensation.

But I understand your thought and your question, Marti, that if Washington's the only team he wants to play for, why not? Just give him a seventh, get it over with, get him in here, and, you know, have him take the pay cut. I just don't know how that would work logistically. All right. Did you hear what Tom Brady said to Jaden Daniels the other day?

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Schedule that free-in-home estimate as soon as you can so that you can access the 50% off offer between now and the end of the month. So about that flagged football game that Jaden Daniels committed to about a month and a half ago, the game that was scheduled to be played this weekend in Saudi Arabia but was moved for obvious reasons to Los Angeles, well, that game is going to be played tomorrow, 4 p.m. Eastern in L.A. It is called the Fanatics Flag Football Classic. Fanatics is, is the big sponsor, Michael Rubin, who started that company. He's a good buddy at Tom Brady's, and they put this thing together to really promote flag football.

And certainly there was a massive revenue opportunity to play the game in Saudi Arabia. I don't know how that works with respect to whatever they were going to get paid to play that game in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, now that the game's been moved, if they're still getting paid by that country. but the game is going to be played tomorrow and there was a press conference a couple of days ago to promote it and to draft the teams that would be playing in it. By the way, it's televised tomorrow on Fox,

it looks like at 4 o'clock Eastern. And it's not just one game, but it's like a series of games. It's like a round robin with three different teams and they actually drafted the teams the other day. Tom Brady and Jalen Hertz were captains for the team called the Founders Flag Football Club roster. And Jaden Daniels and Joe Burrow were the captains of a team called the Wildcats Flag Football Club. And then there's a third team, and that is the U.S. men's national team roster.

So this is the flag football team that will be participating as of now, you know, in international events and eventually the 2028 Olympics. It is an Olympic sport now. And look, flag football is, you know, it's wildfire right now everywhere. You know, the participation in tackle football at the youth level has gone down significantly over the years, all the while the increase. in flag football participation has been, you know, crazy. My kids are older and grown.

I had two of my boys play, or actually all three of them played tackle football, and Flagg was becoming popular at that point. But because of the concussion issue, flag football for younger kids is a much better alternative for parents. And, you know, for those of you that are, you know, in a situation with young boys and girls and you're in flag football, you know that these leagues are all over the place, all over town, and I have a couple of friends with younger kids, and they love it.

And it's a great sport. It's a great participation sport. And it doesn't come with the risk of concussions and some other injuries, although there are risks associated with flag football, certainly whenever you are competing and running around and cutting and jumping and the whole thing. I'll get to that in terms of Jaden Daniels here in a moment. But it's like a round robin, I guess, with the three teams.

They'll each play each other. And I guess the person with the best record at the end of the round robin will play in some sort of championship game. By the way, the Brady Hertz team, they drafted, among others, Stefan Diggs, Ashton Genty, Alvin Kamara, von Miller is playing. in the game, Devante Smith, Rob Grinkowski, Gronks playing in the game, so some retired players I think are playing in this game as well. The Jaden Daniels-Joe

Burrow team drafted Devante Adams, Sequin Barclay, O'Dell Beckham Jr., Derwin James. So there's some big names, you know, playing in this game. In the promotional event the other day

to get everybody ready for tomorrow at 4 o'clock. There was a very, you know, I think lighthearted, fun exchange between Tom Brady and Jaden Daniels. So what I'm going to play for you is you're going to hear Kevin Hart sort of introduced Jaden Daniels. He had just introduced Tom Brady as the other team's lead captain. And Jaden's coming up to the stage and then you'll hear Brady say something about how commanders fans are going to be happy to see him on the field after so many months of him not playing. And then Jaden will actually offer up a response.

And then Brady adds to that response. I'll let you listen to it. And then we'll come back and talk about it. And then I'll get into just kind of how I feel about Jaden participating in this event at all. But this was the other day you'll hear Kevin Hart, then Brady, then a little bit you'll hear of Jaden. You're not going to hear him super clearly, but you'll hear the other two,

and I'll kind of make sure you understand what Jaden actually said. So here it was. Introduce the second captain. All right, second captain. Let's go ahead and bring up Jaden. There you go. Come on, Jay.

Yeah. All the commander fans are going to be happy, seeing Jaden on the field once for the first time in about seven, eight months. What was that about? I know he's delicate. He's slight bill. Don't worry, they don't hit you in this game, so you'll be okay.

Ooh. Oh, just to tell the truth. It's okay. All right. You don't want to say anything to that? No, no, man. He's 50. Oh, shit.

I'm just happy as mom let them play. Oh, okay. Hold up. Oh. I like that. That was my favorite part of the exchange right there at the end when Jaden showed a real understanding of what Brady said context-wise and had a great sense of humor about it.

Brady's saying, I'm just glad your mom's letting you play in this game. And Jaden's saying, I like that one. It's a good, you know, dig at Jaden. And everybody understands the context of Jaden's mom being, injected into that, you know, back and forth. Uh, she's been, you know, very involved, been public in a lot of things. She is currently his agent. She got certified.

She's a certified NFL agent and her first client is her son. Um, you know, and I haven't had honestly an issue with any of the stuff that she has said or been involved with since, uh, Jaden got to town. It is completely different and not comparable, um, or, analogous to what happened here in 2012. I did not love, you know, the social media exchange with or about John Kime having the guy that coached or was involved in helping Jaden from a quarterback standpoint years ago and the mom got involved and said, this guy hasn't coached my son in years or whatever. I mean, what's the point of doing that?

And now that she's his agent, I don't know. There are obviously high-profile agents that are public, but most agents you don't even know as a fan of the sport, you know, who they are. You probably can't name as an NFL fan more than, you know, Drew Rosenhaus and a few others in terms of high-profile agents. But, you know, the exchange starts with Kevin Hart introducing Jaden as a captain and Brady's saying Washington fans are going to be happy to finally see him back on the field after seven or eight months and called him delicate. And then, you know, Kevin Hart says, do you have a response to that?

And what I don't think you heard is Jaden say, no, I'm not going to respond to that. He's 50. And that got kind of the laughs. And then they got into, you know, the Jaden Mom exchange. You know, lighthearted, nothing, you know, to. be upset about it all. They're trying to promote the event. I'm sure somebody's going to be upset with Brady going after his mom or going after his

delicateness. I couldn't care less about what they were doing up on stage the other day. What I do care about, and I have talked about this a little bit. And I admit, this is probably way too kind of protective because very likely it'll turn out that Jaden and the other players in the game, you know, aren't really competing super hard. They're probably jogging around a little bit in the cases of the quarterbacks. They're going to throw some passes from the shotgun here or there. No running, no jukeing, no real, you know, competitive battling. But if it's what it could turn out to be, and by the way,

they promoted it this way is a real competition. You know, highly competitive professional athletes, you know, getting highly competitive in a competitive event. If it turns out that it's more that and they're running around and they're playing hard and they're cutting and they're jukeying and they're, you know, trying to make things happen, then for me, this is not something that I would be thrilled about if I were Josh Harris or Adam Peters or Dan Quinn or any of the people out in Ashburn. One wrong, you know, plant foot on a cutback. And this thing could be disastrous. Disastrous. Now, I'm sure it won't be. I'm sure that the chances

of anything bad happening to Jaden Daniels or anybody else out there are slim and none. But I also know that if you're not playing in that game, the chances are none. Zero percent. That that something could happen. Players in team sports, you know, they've got things in their contracts that prevent them from doing certain high-risk activities, you know, skiing, hang gliding, whatever they are. I'm not saying that this event is high risk. In fact, it's low-risk.

But for Jaden Daniels, it's different than a lot of these other players. It's different because he barely played the season that just ended. Every time he took the field, he seemed to get hurt in 2025. If this were March of last year following his rookie 2024 season, nobody's talking about this or I'm not talking about this. But this just seems a bit like somebody isn't doing a great job reading the room. And if the money is so outrageous, and my guess is it might be, who am I or any of us to push back on that?

These guys should be trying to make as much money as they can, especially in the off-season. But what if, you know, this game gets competitive and he gets into it, and whether it's against the other, you know, pros or that U.S. flag football team, you know, they're probably going to be playing hard against the NFL players. They're probably going to want to win and show, you know, hey, we're the, this is our sport, man, you play a different sport. What if he gets real competitive and takes one wrong step and it's a knee or an Achilles?

God help all of those people if something like that happens. But it very likely won't, and he'll be the life of the party, and he'll look great, and we'll be talking about how healthy he looks, and not another word will need to be said about what happens tomorrow. That's really not the point. The point is, why should the first football Jaden plays since being shut down at the end of the 2025 season? Shut down because of all the injuries that he had had. Even though he was probably healthy enough to play in some of those games,

why should the first amount of football he plays after a dreadful 5 and 12 season, dreadful primarily because of him being injured. Why should the first football he plays be something that is not advancing his number one responsibility, which is to get better at playing tackle football in the NFL? I mean, nothing he does tomorrow on the field is getting him ready to play in David Blow's offense. Nothing he does tomorrow is getting him ready to play tackle football in the NFL. it's a great promotional event for flag football. It's something that probably pays very well, and it'll be fun.

And again, if this is March of last year, it's not even a conversation. But after this season that he just went through, playing in four complete football games, being injured three different times and then being shelved for the last quarter of the season, this kind of very tiny risk of getting injured event, I'm not sure he should be taking that tiny risk, given the season he just had. That's all. But again, I mean, I'm sure he's going to be in shotgun,

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unbelievable frantic final few seconds. Santa Clara was up by two. Kentucky tied it. Then Santa Clara hits a three to go up 73 to 70 with three seconds to go. And then Kentucky's Otaga away hits a 35-footer, banks it in at the buzzer to force overtime, and Kentucky just won in overtime, 89 to 84. a moment that is literally related to our football team because Otega Owe is the younger brother of Washington's first big free agent signy

Adafé O'A, the edge pass rusher from the Chargers. His younger brother in the game went for 35 points. It included that 30-foot-plus bank shot at the buzzer to save Kentucky season. Our new pass rusher, we're hoping an elite one eventually, his younger brother, so far the star of the tournament. And Kentucky just went final beating Santa Clara. I had Santa Clara in the pool that Tommy and I did.

I had that as one of the upsets. But the 10-seed falls to the 7-seed Blue Blood. Kentucky 89 to 84. Should be a great day and great night of hoops. And then I think Saturday and Sunday are phenomenal because then you get the better matchups in terms of talent, you know, being comparable. And we'll have some great basketball. And again, my smell test picks I'll put out on Twitter by 11 a.m., 11 a.m. on both

Saturday and Sunday. This from District Sports Talk, he writes, Things don't feel like rock bottom at all. And he's commenting on Tom and I on yesterday's show. I don't even remember what we talked about because we talked about a lot of different things. But I know in one part of the show, we talked about how right now, in terms of kind of the six big sports properties of the DMV, the skins, the gnats, the wizards, the caps.

Maryland basketball, and Georgetown basketball. That would be the big six. Everything else that comes after that is nowhere near sort of the followings of those six teams. And of course, there are categories of those six. You know, it's football number one. And then next up is, you know, debatable given the year. But I would certainly think that the Nats and the Caps fan bases, and probably Maryland basketball's fan base are somewhere in that next category and then I think the wizards are still the sleeping giant will hopefully get a chance to test that theory in the coming years. But I mentioned and we talked about how five and 12 for the football team, you know, a dreadful basketball team, the worst team in the NBA or second

worst in the NBA. They lost again last night. That's 14 straight losses. The caps are very likely to miss the playoffs this year. The Nats are predicted to be the second worst team in baseball based on their over under number. And then Maryland and Georgetown, neither one of them had a winning record, and neither one of them are in the NCAA tournament. And I said, this may be the worst it's ever been. So district sports talk responding to that saying, things don't feel like Rock Bottom at all, considering the football team just made the NFC championship game, the Caps just made the playoffs. Nats have a new front office. Nats have a new front office. and are an upstart.

Wizards are tanking and will be in the playoffs next year. Maryland football and basketball, I don't know what to tell you. No, I agree with that. And I said, like, the idea that it means anything for next season is ridiculous because especially, you know, in all of these sports now, quick turnarounds are possible, certainly in the NFL, certainly in college basketball. Quick turnarounds happen now with NIL and with the portal,

and the whole thing. And hockey's kind of random to begin with. And the Nats and the Wizards are rock bottom, certainly, but the Wizards, I agree with you, are on the verge of coming out of this intentional, you know, three-year run of accumulating draft choices and young talent. And, you know, it'll be capped off by the player they select in the draft

in 2026 in June, this couple of months away. So, yeah, I kind of feel what you feel, which is it doesn't feel like rock bottom. But I guess my point was it is in terms of the aggregate records of the six teams. I mean, if we want to throw Maryland football in there, if we want to throw some of the other local college basketball programs, honestly, I can't tell you what the spirit or the MLS teams are doing in town. I know that that is important to some of you. but yeah in terms of the big six record wise aggregate record wise it's got to be the worst it's it has to be the worst it's ever been but does not mean that next year won't be different all right that is it for the show enjoy the basketball enjoy the weekend back on monday two points santa clara lead 17 seconds same message trying to get something going towards the basket gets it to O way to spin, elevates, lays it in, and we're tied.

Shearana just sit on, look at the Santa Clara. Is this Garvin Lugo, leaves, and he's, Oh, Burles it. 2.4 away. Oteda just, which is in March, Magnet, is large.