The Kevin Sheehan Show - Disqualifying Aiyuk?

Episode Date: June 4, 2026

Kevin and Thom today with a recap of the Knicks win over the Spurs in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. The conversation turned to Brandon Aiyuk and whether or not his arrest warrant should be disqualifying for Washington fans. Kevin responded to the "Terry is Elite" crowd who in unison slammed him for saying that Drake London is better. Also on the show, follow up to Randy Wittman's appearance on the show yesterday, the Nats 3rd straight loss, and an undrafted free agent WR making headlines in Ashburn.   For all your football betting needs: DCRELOAD at MyBookie for a 50% Deposit Match   Refresh your everyday with luxury you'll actually use. Head to www.quince.com/SHEEHAN for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too.   Chime is not just smarter banking, it is the most rewarding way to bank. Head to www.Chime.com/SHEEHAN. It only takes a few minutes to sign up.     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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The Brandon Ayuk situation is becoming disqualifying for many of you. We'll get to that. But Tommy, this email to open up the show, and I got several that were similar to this one. But Gary wrote it the best. He writes, Kevin, Randy Whitman is a top five guest on your show. I never thought he was that good of a couple of a couple of. coach, just a guy that turned up every few years as an interim coach for somebody that got fired. The basketball talks you've had with him have been as good as Tim Legler. And as you said,

he's had a very interesting basketball life. Why isn't he on TV doing analysis he should be? I had Randy Whitman on the show Tommy yesterday, and it really is one of those, he's one of those guys over the last four or five years, I've had them on pretty much once a year, this time of year, you know, during the playoffs or before the finals. And he's just, he's had a fascinating basketball life. The one part I haven't talked to him about, and I made a note of it yesterday, you know, he grew up in the, you know, Indiana high school basketball environment. He was a big-time star, you know, in Indianapolis.

And then obviously went to Indiana. Indiana played for Bobby Knight, was on the national championship team that beat North Carolina on the day that Reagan got shot in 81. I asked him yesterday, you know, you played with, you know, Isaiah Thomas, Dominique Wilkins, you coached guys like John Wall and Kevin Garnett. You know, who's the best player you've ever been around as a player or coach? And he immediately just said, Isaiah. Isaiah is the best ever. But, you know, then he went to the Hawks in the NBA. and played on those really good Hawks teams in the 80s with Dominique Wilkins.

And he was a part of that Larry Bird Dominique Wilkins game 7 and 88, which is a legendary playoff game, where Neek went for 47 and Bird had 35. And then obviously had a long, and yes, Gary kind of says it the way that I would have said it when Randy Whitman got the job here, that it was kind of a journeyman existence. as a coach. He was basically wherever Flip Saunders was. He was an assistant on Flip Saunders staff, but he's

very good at basketball talk, obviously, he was a coach, and he loves going back and talking about some of the, you know, days in the past. Gary, I appreciate that, and those of you that sent me other

emails and tweets that were similar to that, I appreciate that because I really enjoy him. too. He is, he also appears to be a great guy. And everybody that ever got to know, Randy always said he's really a good dude. I, I, you know, we were doing the show together at the time. And people were like, oh, Randy Whitman. I'm like, no, he's a good coach. Like, you can tell he, he knows what he's doing. They're well coached. And other coaches would say that about him. But John Wall and Beal and others wanted a change. And they went to Scott Brooks.

who was much more of a players coach, I think, than Randy Whitman was. But he's really good, really good. Let me ask you this. Yeah. Was he the best coached the Wizards had since Dick Mata? Yeah. I mean, that's a long list. I mean, Gene Shoe, Kevin Lockery,

what's his face that coached the Weber? You know, the former St. Joe's college coach. Bernie Bickerstap? Well, Bernie actually, it was an excellent assistant coach. No, the guy that coached them in the Jordan series when Jordan said, you know, oh, why am I blanking? Jim Linham. Jim Linham.

Jim Linham was a good coach. He was a good coach. But they wanted to, I mean, you know, they had their best season under Randy Webb. and they won 49 games? No, Scott Brooks. They won 49 years. Oh, that was Scott Brooks? That was.

Yeah, 2017 was the 49 win season in the game seven in the second round. Okay. Yeah. Look, you know what? Flip Saunders was actually a pretty good coach in the NBA. He was my favorite. Flip was?

He was the guy who came out and used the word knuckleheads. Oh, about the, Gileriness and Yeah. Yeah, Curtin did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here's...

He was the guy who used the word knuckleheads. Here's the list. I mean, you know, it's... I always find this interesting about the NBA and just about coaching. You know, there's always been this discussion, obviously, and for justifiable reasons. The lack of diversity in coaching,

general managership, in all of the four major sports. But the NBA has had black head coaches and black general managers for a long time because before Dick Mata, K.C. Jones was the coach here. And K.C. Jones was the coach in 75 when the bullets got swept by Rick Berry and the Golden State Warriors coached by Al Adels. And I think that had to have been, Tommy, you may remember something different. that had to be the first ever matchup in a championship game or a series with two black head coaches. Had to be, right? You would think so.

I mean, I can't guarantee that, but it's hard off the top of my head to think of another situation that would have come up like that before then. I mean, Bill Russell was technically the coach of the Celtics in a championship series, but he wasn't coaching against a blackhead coach in L.A. Right. Here's the list of the bullet slash wizards coaches since the last time they won 50 or more games and were in the NBA finals. That was 1979 when Dick Mata was the coach.

Dick Mata, by the way, in Washington, his record was 185 and 143, a 564 win percentage. KC. Jones was 155 and 95. as the bullets coach. He had a 630 win percentage, which is clearly the best ever of any bullets or wizards coach. And then obviously Casey Jones,

most of you, I bet, remember Casey Jones as the coach of the Celtics during the 80s. All right, so following Dick Mata, Gene Shue, he had the job here for seven years. I think Gene Shue was considered a decent coach, but he did not have a winning record here. He had coached the Baltimore Bullets when they were really good before moving to D.C. Following Gene Chu, Kevin Lockery, then Wes Sunseld, then Jim Linum, then Bob Stack is an interim coach, then Bernie Bickerstaff, Jim Brevelli was an interim coach, Gar Hurd, that was a disaster,

Darrell Walker interim coach, Leonard Hamilton, that was a disaster. And Leonard Hamilton went on to be a great college coach at Florida State. I mean, I say a great coach. I always thought Leonard Hamilton was a phenomenal defensive coach all those years at Florida State. And they always had talent, too, man. Always had talent. Following Leonard Hamilton, Doug Collins, we forget about the Doug Collins era. Then it was Eddie Jordan, and they had some success with Eddie Jordan.

Ed Tapp, Scott briefly, Flip Saunders came in. Randy Whitman replaced Flip. than Scott Brooks, Wes Unsell Jr., and currently Brian Keefe. Pretty long list. Actually, I think the list could have been longer had the owners been willing to spend more on coaches and dump them sooner. Who knows? I think Randy was an excellent coach.

I remember Tommy, I was coming out of one of the playoff games, and I was coming down that elevator, you know, the elevator that you get, from the media level, and I wasn't even sitting on the media level, and JT3 was on the elevator with me. And, you know, we were talking, and I think the Wizards had won the game. And he said, man, I'll tell you, without prompting, he just said, I'll tell you what, I'm going home and watching this game because Randy Whitman's got like five inbounds plays that I've got to steal.

He's like, it's unbelievable the place he has to get the ball in bounds. And I said, yeah, he's really good, right? And he said, oh, he's excellent. He's excellent. And I just remember going, yeah, fans and people don't know that. Because he wasn't necessarily the most exciting guy, you know? Yeah. But excellent guest, been a part of a, I mean, just was never the guy,

but in many instances was the other guy, you know, with Isaiah at Indiana, with, you know, after Dominique, it was really Doc Rivers and Randy Whitman were Tree Rollins was a big part of that team, but Randy Whitman was, you know, a shooter, man, a really good shooter. Yeah, he was a shooter. Yeah. All right. Wow.

What a game won. You watched it, right? Uh-oh. Yeah, I watched it. Of course I watched it. Okay. Don't panic. Well, you hesitated there for a moment.

Well, because you said, what a game won. Yeah. Wasn't a great game. It was a great fourth quarter. Oh, I thought it was, it was not a... Oh, come on. Well, hold on. Let me finish. It was a great game from the standpoint of just the competition of it, the intensity of it, the swings in the game, especially when we got to the second half.

The figuring it out on the Knicks part. It was not a clean game, certainly. It was sloppy at times. the Knicks were clearly rusty offensively in that first half, because they had a lot of shots that they have been knocking down. And so they missed a bunch of shots San Antonio did. But just like the series that I've talked about that I've really enjoyed already in the postseason, the defensive intensity is really impressive.

I mean, you've seen it with San Antonio and OKC, San Antonio, Minnesota. And the Knicks got a taste of what real playoff defense is like because they did not face that against the Cavaliers at all. But yeah, I thought it was a very entertaining, intense game. I enjoyed it a lot. I did. Maybe saying a great game wasn't what I intended to say. It's what I said, but it wasn't what I meant. It wasn't a clean game, but I thought it was a highly enter.

entertaining game. Do you agree with that or not? I don't know. It was entertaining fourth quarter, but it was disappointing to me because it seemed like even when they were ahead, the Spurs seemed to have no offensive game plan. I mean, particularly with their biggest weapon in Wembe Yamah. You know, they just They never seem to have any kind of offensive flow for any stretch of time. Now, if you want to credit that to Mitchell Robinson, you know, go ahead. But I just thought it was a poorly coached game on the Spurs part. The Spurs definitely were out of sync offensively.

I think part of the credit goes to the Knicks and the defense they played. Yeah, it probably does. It probably does. But they have the Jaden Daniels of the NBA. Tommy just compared Jaden Daniels to Victor Wembeyanma. Well, in the sense that that's the guy who corrects your mistakes. That's the difference maker. And he never seemed to be in the flow of the game offensively.

You know, you're right about that. I mean, if somebody, you know, I know a lot of the box score readers that then act like they really watch the game. And I'm sure some of them woke up this morning and said, oh, 26 points, 12 rebounds, you know, three block shots. He did not play well. He did not play well. He was six of 21 from the floor. He was discombobulated with the basketball. Now, part of that could be that they were, you know, they just came off an absolutely.

absolute grueling series. Yes. And they were facing a team that basically has played four games in like 23 days or something like that. Yeah, I agree with you on Wembe Nama. I'll tell you, Champani really saved them in the first half with his shooting. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

I really do love Dylan Harper, man. I'm surprised. The two Rutgers kids that went in the top five in the draft, Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey. I was not an Ace Bailey fan at all. And I understood the talent. It's amazing that a team could be that bad with two top five picks. But that tells you about college basketball these days is you don't win typically big with freshmen. You need some age and some maturity.

And, you know, AJ DeBonsa didn't get out of the first round of the tournament. And he's going to be the number one pick. But I liked Dylan Harper at Rutgers, but I didn't see this. That kid is fearless, and he finishes through contact for a young player that shouldn't be able to do that as a rookie. He does it as well as anybody in the league does it, and he is a rookie. He is 20 years old, and he finishes around the rim and through defenders as well as anybody does. Harper and Champani really kept them not only in the game, but they had a seven-point lead at halftime

because I thought the first half was a terrible half for Jalen Brunson. It was. It definitely was. He was sloppy. He couldn't knock down shots that he usually makes. For me, this story of the night was Carl Anthony Towns. Right from the beginning, I was like, this guy came to play.

And he was going to... He took the ball to the basket. He was doing that pick and roll and scoring on them. And, yeah, I was very impressed with him. I mean, Cat is, you know, 50-50. Like, you don't know what you're going to get. He is super talented. And he's done this thing, Tommy, during this postseason where, like, he has made the case that in last year he was very misunderstood, that he's not a scorer. a facilitator. You know, he wants to be known as a facilitator. You run the offense through Meebies. I'm a great passer. And part of that comes with, you know, if you've been reading about Kat at all, which I know you haven't, and most of the listeners haven't, he really fancied himself to be Yokic, that he was that good of a passer. And he wasn't recognized for that. So this postseason,

he's been excellent as a passer. And he is a very good. good passer. He's got very good feel for the game. He's got very high IQ for the game. But there are times where you're like, you're like, cat, you got to, you got to score, dude. You can't pass up on some of these. You've got to drive

it. You got to finish. And right from the jump last night, he was aggressive going after Wembenyama. And I thought, you know, Wembenyama, and they'll have to, we'll see what the adjustment is. But if you get too close with Wembe Nama against Towns,

going to go by him and he does have the ability to finish even with Wembeenjama trailing. And I thought he was the tone setter. I thought he was the most valuable player in the game, although the close second was Josh Hart. Because there's another one. If you're reading a box score, you're like, damn, Josh Hart, three points, one for five. He was, and he always is. I mean, he literally plays with as much heart, no pun intended, as any player on the court when he's on it. You know, a DMVer, Sidwell friends, I saw him play multiple times in high school, obviously part of the Villanova trio in New York. 15 rebounds, 15. And I want to know how many deflections, how many balls he kept alive.

Eric Spolstra apparently said about Josh Hart, and I was reading this earlier this morning, that he doesn't get 50-50 balls. He gets 70-30 balls or 30-70 balls. He's like, he gets balls that nobody should ever get. And the number of extra possessions, the number of big defensive rebounds he came up with, it was Towns, Hart, and then, of course, Brunson is the finisher. He was spectacular in the fourth quarter. Yes, he was.

Look, I don't feel particularly good about my spurs and sixth pick now. I mean, I know it's quick to bail, but I just don't know if the spurs have the discipline or the intensity to beat the Knicks. Well, they definitely have the intensity. We've seen that throughout the postseason, and they are well-coached. I do believe that he does a good job and they've been well coached. I think, you know, the concern about the team that's got the long layoff is Rust. The concern about the team that just finished a grueling seven-game series is fatigue.

And I think that the Rust sort of got shredded quickly enough for the fatigue to become the bigger factor in the game last night. because you even saw it with the Aaron Fox who played so well in game seven. He couldn't finish. Castle is a beast on defense as well. But they didn't get good performances from some of the players they've been getting good performances from. And to your point, and it's spot on from my standpoint, when Binyama's stat line looks good, I didn't think he played well. And I thought that he was, you know, he'll figure.

out, you know, he's done it before, but I didn't think he was anywhere near good enough for them to win four out of seven against this team that's rolling right now. I picked the Spurs and Seven on yesterday's show, but I said I've come a long way from thinking that no team, you know, including the Knicks, would have a chance against O KC or San Antonio to believing that the Knicks did have a chance and they do. They are currently Tommy favored right now. After game one, they have become the favorite to win the title. I can understand that. I mean, when Bayana is the player, maybe I'm putting too much pressure on a young man. But he should be the player that the other team goes back to the huddle. And first question is, how do we stop this fucker? That's the player he should be. Ever since Kinlaw dropped the MFer, you've been dropping a bunch of MFers and just F

on this podcast, which immediately makes it, you know, puts the warning out. Sorry for those of you that had kids in the car. I don't, I care, but I don't care. This is the nature of the format. Continue. So that's all. I mean, maybe I'm just putting too much pressure on a young player. Yeah, I mean, let me just tell you, that stretch in the fourth quarter when they were down

94-86 and they ran off, you know, nine straight to take the lead and when Benyama's knocking down shots. He had a chance to be the hero last night. I thought he was on the verge of becoming the hero. I mean, that was quite the, that, that, that, the back and forth of the fourth quarter, you know, Knicks taking an eight-point lead, then being down one and then coming back. I mean, the, the corner three after Brunson kept the ball alive, the shot and the paint, you know, the up and under. He is, I thought, I made a note to myself during the game. I'm like, there's too much ISO ball tonight, too much ISO ball.

I know this guy is just a phenomenal shot maker, but they're kind of relying a little bit too much on him dominating the basketball. I mean, he was laboring at times just to get the ball across half court against Castle. And I like to see when the Knicks. meet, like, you should, I mean, this is so sort of high school youth coach basketball 101, but you should reverse the ball. The ball should go side to side at least once to move the defense. Just get the defense to move a little bit before you shoot, before you attack.

It usually makes it easier. But at the NBA level, there are a lot of reasons that that's, hard. Sometimes it's a 24 second shot clock. It's, you know, all these different things, but there was a lot of ISO ball. And then at the end, the ISO ball with him, man, it does work. He really is a spectacular shotmaker, really for his size. It's amazing. And he was 12 of 31, but he can close out a game as good as any small player we've seen in a long time. You got to give him that, absolutely. I think he's Mount Rushmore.

Worthy. Yeah. bullshit. I loved what the Knicks had off the bench. Shamit was great. Alvarado played really well. McBride had some big shots.

They got, you know, they got just enough from the others last night where San Antonio really did. And I know Harper was, you know, came in off the bench, but his minutes are starter minutes. But I enjoyed it. I can't wait for tomorrow night.

I do think, that I remember saying about Oklahoma City in Game 2, if they don't win Game 2, this series is over. And I felt that way after San Antonio won game 1. I think every single game in this series has a chance to kind of be its own thing. And so if San Antonio were to lose tomorrow night, I wouldn't say that it's over yet because of what I've seen from the Spurs in the postseason. But I think you'd feel like with the Knicks going home,

with a 2-0 lead to that madhouse at the garden on Monday night, that it would feel like it's pretty much over. It would. It's tough. It's tough for them. Imagine them going down 2-0-0, turning around at the garden. You know, I wanted to mention to you because, obviously, I think most of you guys know, Tommy grew up a Knicks fan.

He loved the Knicks, you know, the 70s, Nick's in particular. And my youngest lives in New York, lives in Manhattan. And he called me last night. He's like, I just, he was heading back from work. And he passed the garden. And he said, you would not believe the scene for the watch party at the garden. He went out to a bar with a bunch of friends.

He's really into, he's not a Knicks fan, but he is right now. And he called me last night at the end. He said, you wouldn't have believed the city. last night. It was just incredible. The Knicks, everybody wearing Nix gear signs up every bar packed to the, to the gills. And the Nix are a big deal, man, in New York. They are, I mean, Ryan said to me, he said, Dad, what's the order? And I said, I think it's Yankees.

And then maybe Nicks next. You would know as much as anybody else would. I mean, I know when the Knicks have been good, it is taking that city over, just like when the Yankees are good. You know, New York is one of those cities like Boston and Chicago that can have multiple passions. But I mean, passions, it's different than just rooting for a team.

Right. You know, I mean, you know, there's a lot of cities where fans root for a team. In New York, Boston, Chicago, they have passions for teams. In Chicago, they don't have a passion for the White Sox. But for the Cubs, the Bulls, the Bears, the Blackhawks, yeah, those are passions. Yeah. The same way in Boston, same way in New York.

It's a big deal right now in New York. And the Knicks haven't won a title since 73, and they're up a game on the sports. in the NBA finals. All right. Maybe Brunson will get named the MVP of the finals, which would give him one less than Willis. Two that Willis Reed had when he played. Right. Yeah. Well, I mean...

I mean, if there, how many measures are there? There's many. But one particular measure of clutch is being named the most valuable player of a championship. series. Sure. Agreed. Yeah. Yeah. And Willis Reed has two of those. Yes.

Against arguably the greatest player of all time. Isn't it insane that the Dallas Mavericks had Jalen Brunson and Luke Adonchich and don't anymore? All right. Wow. We are going to talk some

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86690 Nation or windownation.com. So, Tommy, on yesterday's podcast, as I was recording it, just before. as I was starting it, I had to go back and restart it. Brandon Ayuk was issued an arrest warrant for the speeding episode back in December that he posted to YouTube. And then, I guess yesterday on his Instagram, he posted a video of himself and a vehicle actually racing around a racetrack, which is if you're going to speed, a racetrack is actually the place to do it. it, not, you know, out on residential streets or streets around the stadium. So I got this from Bev. Bev writes, if Iyuk's behavior isn't disqualifying enough for you, Sheehan, I don't know what

you are doing. And then he went on to list a bunch of different decisions that I've made on the year over the years it didn't go well, which was pretty funny. And which, and by the way, you got some of them wrong. Some of them were right. But yeah, I, I'm not disqualifying Brandon Ayyuk because he was charged with a misdemeanor. I said on the show yesterday, Tommy, and I've said all along, if you tell me I'm getting the Brandon Ayuk from 2023 and that Adam Peters and Dan Quinn and the entire front office, they've done their due diligence, something we can't do as fans, and they think it's worth it. I'm on board because I know what kind of player he was.

But I've also said this guy clearly is limited in his ability to make good decisions. He threw away between $30 and $40 million, and he's posting himself basically committing, you know, a traffic misdemeanor violation on YouTube. And, you know, poor judgment is part of the due diligence. Like, if this guy's stupid, is that going to affect your locker room? Is that going to affect the play on the field? I don't know. But a misdemeanor traffic violation, are you kidding me?

The list of those for players around the league? I mean, it seems like every week somebody's being cited for speeding somewhere as an NFL player. That would not be disqualifying on its own for me. What about you? Here's what should be disconcerting, though, for you. He's not posting workout videos. Yeah.

You know? Right. He's posting racing videos, not workout video. Look, if what you say is true and it makes sense that if these guys, Adam Peters, would know, as much as about Ayyuk as anybody outside of

San Francisco you would think in terms of the NFL having worked with the 49ers if you have

faith in this group to make the decision that you know he could he can

be an asset to the team then I guess you have to go along with it but unlike making a

decision about the talent of a player, if they're wrong, it's really a black mark on all those decision makers. You know what? It's not going to cost a lot of money because they're not going to... That's why I would say it's more of a grayish mark. It's not, it's a black mark when you take great risk and it fails. They won't be taking any risk other than maybe the guy being a disruptive, you know,

player for, but they can move on from it. It will give you, it will give you pause about the confidence you have in the ability of these people to make decisions.

Right. I think, I think it calls in the question their ability to make decisions. If this guy is, uh, is a train wreck here.

Mm-hmm. How could they be so wrong about a guy they did so much due diligence about. That's fair. That's the only thing. That's fair. Although, you know, it could be one of those things where they're like, look, we didn't get Pierce, we didn't get Dobbs. We got Antonio Williams. We're really happy about that. We need one more guy. We're not, for whatever reason, we're not a fan of Diggs. We, you know, we know what we have in IUC, and there may be a bit of a risk that he's a bit of a wing nut and he may not be brilliant.

but physically he more than passed, you know, in terms of his knee, and he's got motivation, and we're going to take, we're just going to roll the dice. Like, teams do that, you know. Some teams will sign players that they're like, it may not work out, but if it does. And so if they took that kind of gamble and that kind of risk, and by the way, the risk is minimal again because they're not spending anything, the risk would be what you said, which is we're going to look bad in the eyes of some of our fans because we made the wrong decision.

I don't know that I could fault them in that instance if it didn't work out. Because to me, you know, you've got to have real risk for real criticism in a situation like that. It wouldn't lessen your confidence in this group to be so wrong about this guy. Well, again, I mean, there are degrees of being so wrong. And so I don't know what this situation would be, but let's just say it was the worst case. You know, he comes in, he's not ready, he barely plays, and then he's involved in something more than a misdemeanor traffic violation. You know, he's involved. Like I just pulled up the list of, you know, arrests in the NFL in 2000.

You know, last week, Josh Jacobs, the great running back in Green Bay, Domestic violence arrested, domestic abuse, strangulation, disorderly conduct. Nolan Smith, the Eagles linebacker a few weeks ago, reckless driving in Georgia. I mean, you know, James Pierce, the Atlanta guy, he's going to jail. It would appear. It's just this is not disqualifying on its own. The whole picture right now, certainly from the outside looking in, doesn't look great. It looks like this guy's a bit of a moron.

I mean, you don't give away $30 to $40 million because you didn't want to post at their facility to get your knee checked in a, you know, a 30 minute exam. That's that kind of judgment would concern me. And then posting videos and we, you know, I talked about yesterday when he posted that video that Jaden sent to him, you know, during his first rookie, you know, offseason. He does not exhibit a lot of consistent good judgment. That's for sure. The last time I saw him play in 23, he was a great receiver, and he was getting better. And they need another great receiver.

Yes. Because they do have one already. I'm going to get to some of your reactions to what I said about Drake London on my radio show yesterday. I'll finish up on. Terry McCorn. I mean, God, this sense. What is wrong with you?

Our fan base, some of our fan base, is just so thin-skinned. I mean, and I... I know, but you set yourself up for this. How do I set myself up for it? Because every time you talk about Terry McClure, there's always a qualifier. Yeah, uh-huh. There's always a butt. Well, the story was Drake London yesterday,

signing the third biggest deal in the history of the league for a wide receiver, and I said, I'm a big Drake London guy. and then somebody emailed me and said, I guess you're going to say that Drake London's better than Terry after this contract. And I said, actually, I do think Drake London's better than Terry. I would take Drake London. And I think most NFL people would take Drake London in front of Terry. But a lot of our fans that are that way don't, I'm convinced of it.

They're thin-skinned and they don't watch a lot of the rest of the league. They just watch our team, which is fine, but you're just whatever. to save that for the last segment, but let's get to it now. I mean, I said that on the radio show because somebody emailed me to say, you know, what I just said. And I said, Drake London, six foot four. He's 210, 15 pounds. He's dominated games before. The year with Kirk in 2024, he had 100 catches, 1,200 yards. Terry's never had those numbers before. And you just, if you've watched him, you can see what could be. coming. Now, in Atlanta, who's the quarterback going to be? Penix Jr. Is it going to be Tua? Who knows?

But he's a talent. He's the guy that Washington wanted in the draft where they traded back and took Johan Dotson. They desperately wanted London. I mean, Scott Turner told me that I knew it at the time and talked about it at the time. And Turner was on with me recently before the draft or after the draft, and he said, yeah, that was our guy. We weren't sure he'd make it to us and he didn't, but we would have taken Drake London. London's a really talented receiver. But so is Terry. He's a really good receiver, but I'm taking Drake London right now. Well, because Terry's going to be 31 years old. I mean, there's a reason Atlanta just gave him the third largest contract in NFL history for a wide receiver. And Terry couldn't get anywhere near that a year ago. That's a good point. I mean,

So whatever. I mean, people really are. He is really, in my world, he's become polarizing, but he should be the last person that's polarizing because he's a really good receiver. He is somewhere in that 11 to 16 range in the league, 12 to 16 range, somewhere in there. That's not bad. This is a league filled with great receivers. He's just not elite.

that's all. You know, the irony of that is when I used to say about Kirk Cousins, the same exact thing, he's really good, but he's not elite. People would kill me for saying that he was really good, because they didn't even think he was really good. And they mistook what I would say about him for me saying that he was elite. So Brandon Ayuk, are you in or out? I'm out. I'm not out yet I've been out all along yeah

I'm definitely not out not quite yet we'll see how the rest of the summer goes I still think the 49ers are probably going to hold on to him as long as they can which is all the way through August 31st and that alone I think could be disqualifying although Jake Rudin told me

if he's in a week before the regular season begins yeah Jay's not a stickler for me When he sees a talented wide receiver, he's like, get him in here. Get him in here. I'll put up with the other stuff. We'll deal with it. Speaking of wide receivers, there is an undrafted free agent who apparently is

turning heads at OTAs. More on him and are, unfortunately, flailing nationals all of a sudden next, after these words from a few of our sponsors. All right, Tommy, tell us about Shelly's. Well, one of the great things about Shelly's is it's a great location to watch sports. Shelly's at 1331 F Street, Northwest, in the district. It's not a sports bar, but it's a great bar to watch sports. Okay, because they have eight high-definition TVs throughout the complex.

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and after last night's victory, you could be like Red Hourback used to be with the Celtics and light up a victory cigar. You can find out more at shelley's backroom.com. You're an experienced cigar person, but you're not like a connoisseur, right? You've said that before. But if you weren't...

Yeah, go ahead. No, go ahead. No, that's what that drives people nuts who are cigar connoisseurs. I don't want to talk to me. about cigars and I'm totally, I said, you look at, I just light them up and smoke them. So if you were a first time cigar smoker and you were at Shelly's and what do you think you would be looking for? What would you tell the person that you're, you know, I don't, I don't know

a lot about cigars. I'm just curious, a first time person you said they would help you find what you want. What would that look like? for a first time cigar smoker. Well, I mean, it's pretty much like anything when you're dealing with taste. You'd want to start with something mild. Mm-hmm. I mean, you know, cigars, you know, have, have the smoke, have different degrees. And so, you know, you want to want something mild and not a big cigar, not a big gaits cigar, something a little bit smaller.

That's pretty simple. You know, if you're trying wings for the first time, you know, You want to try mild wings for the first time, just like anything else. And, you know, that's what I would tell you. Okay. I always, you know, I remember the Jameson tour that we went on in Ireland, which was very interesting because I'm not a whiskey person either. I'm not a wine person either.

I'm like you with alcohol. I drink it, and I can tell the difference occasionally. but it's not like I really know what I'm talking about. Although I do have some interest in whiskey in particular, like trying to understand the differences after that one day at the Jameson distillery, which was quite the day because I think we all kind of wobbled out of there, which was fine. But I remember you really could tell the difference when you're walking through it in sort of a tutorial.

You know, you're sitting at a table, a tasting, and somebody's there to say, this is this, this is that. And that's, you know, Irish whiskey. Obviously, bourbons is much different. Scotch is different. Yeah, I think that would be fun to learn more about whiskey, which, by the way, Shelly's has plenty of whiskey options on the menu. Yes. If you're interested.

Yes, and you can find those options if you go online. Yeah. It's an impressive list. Yeah. All right. We'll get to the Nats in a moment. But this was sent to me by Rich. Rich linked to me to a story on Rigo's Rag.

Rigo's Rag's title to the story, Commander's undrafted rookie is torching OTAs like his career depends on it. And he's getting noticed. So I'll be honest with you. I was unfamiliar with this particular player. But he is a wide receiver. his name is Jaden Bradley.

He signed as an undrafted free agent after going undrafted in the 2026 draft. And Washington gave Bradley, Jaden Bradley, gave him a $45,000 guarantee. So they gave them about as little, you know, a signing bonus as you can get if you're getting a signing bonus. Not every undrafted free agent gets a signing bonus, but a lot of times there's competition for these drafted free agents, so you've got to spend to get them into your camp, even though they weren't drafted. And they spent $45,000 on this guy, which means they weren't expecting that much. Well, Tommy, Jaden Bradley.

So Terry McClorn, apparently, I'll read from Rigo's Rag. And actually, they're actually commenting or reacting to Zach Selby, who writes for the team's website. who wrote that Jaden Bradley has the size to be a force and he knows it. When he secured an outstanding contested catch over veteran Antonio Hamilton Sr. There was one cheerleader above all else leading the celebrations. It was none other than Terry McCorn. Terry was fired up when Jaden Bradley made this catch.

He was the loudest person cheering and he screamed I told you the ball would find you. So Terry, very excited about Jaden Bradley, a kid that played at Nevada Tommy last year, caught 59 balls for 931 yards and four touchdowns. He's got good size, though. Really good size. There's a lot to like about this guy.

There is? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, he was a kickoff. You return five kickoff there for 21 yards to carry, kickoff. He blocked a punt, returned another block punt for a touchdown through a 16-yard touchdown pass. Pretty versatile.

Okay. You know? Yeah. So there's a lot of light-down. By the way, it looks like he was at UNLV, not Nevada. Those are two different places. The story said Nevada. I just pulled up his bio.

And he was at UNLV, yes. Yeah. Look, I hope it's true. I hope they found the guy, you know, and he's good enough to be a contributor on the team. And, you know, but when I read torching, you know, OTAs, it's a little bit absurd. Nobody's playing defense in a full uniform. There's no hitting. But, you know, Terry McClure was seen as a guy early on that was not what they thought he was.

You know, Jay's told the story many times. When did you know that Terry McCorn was going to be more than just a special teams guy? The very first day of rookie minicamp. I knew that this guy wasn't just a special teamer. So maybe Jaden Bradley fits that mold. We'll see. What about the Nats losing three and three. a row after we, you know, lauded their recent run and to the Marlins of all teams?

Well, they're having a moment, you know. They're having a moment where we'll see a little bit about how good they are and how well they're managed and coached. So far, on both those counts, they've had, they've been pretty impressive this year. But the one thing you want to do is you don't want to fall into a losing streak of more than three games. I mean, the Marlins seem to have their number in terms of the Nats. Now they go out west. Yeah. For their first trip out west, they play Arizona, who's a good team.

They have a winning record, and the Giants who are kind of a train wreck. So they might have an opportunity to right the ship a little bit out west, but you don't want to fall into a five or six game losing. street. I mean, because the Nats may be good, but I don't think they're come back from 19 and 31 kind of good. Yeah. I think they need to maintain a certain level of competition and not fall too far behind. And they've done that so far. In this deep in the season, nobody thought they would. But it'll, you know, it's funny. I say it'll depend on their pitching, but they didn't get hitting against the Marlins.

Yeah, I know. They, they, all this actually, you know, there was a game, I think, in San Diego where they erupted offensively, but they've actually come back to Earth offensively over the last week and a half. You know, the two of the games that they won against the Braves were really pitching wins. They want, they want a game two nothing, and I think they want a game three to one or two to one. But yeah, you know, I, the season is so long, and these guys, you know, I can't imagine get super high or super high or super. low unless streaks get really long. But I think coming off that, you know, span of the Braves, Cleveland and San Diego and being two games above 500, and you've got the Marlins who had lost five in a row, you know, coming into D.C. You know, you had visions of, man, we could be five

games above five hundred and three days. And, you know, now all of a sudden people are really going to start paying attention to us. So it's got to be a lot of. a little bit deflating to go out and lose three straight to Miami. But like you said, Arizona's obviously struggling, huh? I mean, it shouldn't be. And these guys know, it's 162 games. Long season. You know?

Yeah. Let's wait until they're home again at the end of next week. See what their record is on this road trip. You know, I'm looking at the standings right now just in baseball, and I'm trying to find, like, the big surprise. Like the White Sox being in second place in the AL Central, that's got to be a bit of a surprise, right? It is.

It is a bit of a surprise. Look at how many teams in the National League have winning records. Yeah. A lot. Every team in the National League Central has a winning record. Yeah, but only two in the East and only, and three in the West, yeah. Three in the West.

That's pretty impressive. I don't think the American League can say that. So, yeah, 10 out of the 15 teams have winning records. In the American League, you've only got one, two, three, four, five winning teams. Yeah. All right, you got anything else? I got nothing else for you today, boss.

All right. Have a good day, everybody. Back tomorrow.