The Right Time with Bomani Jones - Danny Parkins on Bam Adebayo drops 83 points, Ravens back out of Crosby trade, sign Trey Hendrickson | 03.11

Episode Date: March 11, 2026

On this episode of The Right Time with Bomani Jones, Bo is joined by Danny Parkins of "First Things First" to break down one of the wildest nights in sports.First up: the unbelievable 83-point performance from Bam Adebayo. Bo and Danny discuss how it happened, why it sparked debate across the NBA, and whether a night fueled by 43 free throws belongs among the greatest scoring performances ever.Then they shift to the NFL where the Baltimore Ravens shocked the league by backing out of their trade for Maxx Crosby after his physical. The twist? Baltimore immediately turned around and signed Trey Hendrickson, raising serious questions around the league about how the situation went down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original. My name is Bobani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars, you only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. It is that time of week where we have a guest join us. Check him out on first things first on FS1, 5 p.m. Eastern. Danny Parkins, what's going on, man?

Bo, I always love hanging out with you, but man, we have some dozies for us today. We do, we do. I'm so excited to be here. So there are like a couple of things that are going on here. One, New York has experienced the thaw, like the first real thaw. We've had 70 degrees the last couple of days. Changes everything, right? Time change came, we got the thaw.

It's like everybody gets a little boost. The other thing is Danny and I are both radio guys and people. and people don't quite understand how daunting it can be the prospect of filling three or four hours of a radio show. But there's a very special feeling that comes when it's six, maybe seven o'clock the night before. Maybe it goes to eight or nine or whatever. But something happens and you realize, oh, the hay is in the barn. This show has taken care of itself. I don't have to think about it.

I can just turn on the phones if I want to. And we can just hang out for three hours. And we have one of those sorts of days in a space where we only have to fill an hour. And this happens because I looked down at my phone last night after not having looked at it for a while. And I have all these texts about Bam scoring 83 points. And I can't understand either A, who Bam. is or B, what game we're talking about people playing because there's no fucking world in in which Bam out of bio puts 83 points up in an NBA game, but it happened. And Danny,

it didn't just so happen. Now, look, it was against the Wizards and that part is part of the story. But for people who are unaware of what happened, there are important details that I want to make sure that you understand about how absurd this was. Bam, scored 83 points in a game where he shot below 50% from the floor, below 33% from three, but shot 43 free throws. In the history of the NBA, the guys who have put up free throw attempt numbers in one game that are up there, all have one thing in common.

Daddy, you know what that is? Tell me. They all stink at shooting free throws. Oh, yeah, okay. We'll. DeAndre Jordan. Yeah. Andre Drummond.

Yonnes. Like, the people were intentionally putting them on the line. Like, Will Chamberlain in the 100-point game. That was another part of it is that they put them on the line. Yeah. But all of this added up to BAM scoring 83 points. It's, I, too, was alerted to this via the group chat. And unlike you, I was, I was home.

And I got league pass. And so my ass turned it on. And I got to say, Bo, I think this is where I've settled on it. That was the Michael Strayhan sack record of NBA scoring accomplishments. Like Michael Strayhan, great player, great season. But how he got the record, kind of whack. Yeah. Like, not even kind of.

Objectively whack how he got the record. And bam. Listen, man, he had, he's a great player. He's a gold medalist. He's an all-star. He's a top 10 defensive player for a long stretch. Great backstory. I'm happy for him.

He had 43 points at halftime. The last, call it six or seven minutes of that game, was a clown show. And I have no problem with them running up the score on the bum-ass wizards. I have no problem with his teammates letting him stat pad. I have no problem with going for the record. It's a regular season NBA game and one of the teams is tanking. I have no problem with it. But when you are intentionally fouling, literally,

intentionally fouling on multiple possessions to extend it, when Spoe is challenging a charge call with four minutes left in the game to hunt some extra free throws. It's just a, it's, it's a little corny. Yeah, yeah. It's a little corny how he got the record. I feel like that's fair. I think the question is,

and I think it's important to note, he did not get a record. The modern scoring record. Yeah, yeah. So, so funny, Wilt is on such another level from everything. Yep. that we don't even count that as the record, right?

Like, eventually somebody hit more home runs than Babe Ruth, right? Eventually somebody outscored Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. We're like, look, it's not even fair to compare anybody to wilt on top of the fact that some of y'all think that shit is made up. But we haven't seen the video. That's a big part of the reason. It's not simply that we haven't seen the video. It's just who we are.

now. Yeah. Right, right, right. Like this is, this is what it is. But this, I was watching on a get up before we got in here. And Mike Greenberg made the point that history will just remember the number and therefore this is history. And so it ties in also to my man, Neil Postman, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death and other books. And he makes the point that with the printing book, press and the ability to like put down the written word. He said before the written word, there were no memoirs. Right. And so his point was that the notion of legacy came in the form of the written word and in the form of the printing press. And what it did was give man the arrogance to believe that he could live forever because he could live forever in these, like I say, in legacy, in the things that are, that, that man himself has written or in the things that man has written about him, right? So if you view it through that prism, yes,

history will remember that Bam at a bio scored 83 points. But we will never remember it in the way that we remember Kobe scoring the 81. And I hate this because I don't know where you are on this, but I hate Kobe stands. I ain't saying nothing about Kobe. I hate Kobe stands.

And buddy, they are charged up right now. Perhaps we will get back to that, but I just want to throw that out there. If you love a Kobe stand, call them, see how they doing, and don't take it personally when they scream at you. It's about something bigger than you right now. But we all remember it like Kobe's 81. To me, the more impressive one, and we won't remember it like that one, is when Kobe has 62 and three quarters,

and the Mavericks had 61, and those Mavericks went to the, the finals that year. Right? Kobe sat the fourth. Yeah, yeah. Like they were this close to win in a championship that year. We are never going to talk about this game from Bam in that way. But hey, cool for him, right?

Like, you got to say that you scored 83 points. Nobody's going to take that away from you. But we don't have to be fucking morons. Okay. We know what that was. We know what that was about. And I agree with you that it's a little corny, but I want to throw this out there.

It is something that I feel like is a little bit underrated about professional sports. They are so cutthroat and guys are so petty. But I'm on the list of unwritten rules, which we only really talk about with somebody getting injured

or it's time to fight. One of the unwritten rules is if your opponent has some sort of historic feet, close, attainable, everybody else is supposed to do whatever it takes to help him get there, right? Like you don't bunt during a no-hitter. Yep.

For example. And I get down what that is a little bit. Yeah. Especially if the game's not close. Like that's a little bit janky. But if I didn't like you, yeah, lay it down. Yeah. But on the other hand, that means the next time you see you, earhole.

95. Earhole. It's coming right there. But that is one of the fascinating things to me is that the decision was clearly made by all parties involved here that we're going to help you get it. And to be honest, me, after he had them 30 in the first quarter, where to clothes line at? Well, so, I mean, listen, they were double teaming him in the back court.

They were triple teaming him at times. And, like, you know, you see that like entry passes, like over three dudes, like just force feeding bam. Like, it was hilarious. And yeah, I said, man, I have no, no problem with his teammates trying to stat pad for him. They were blowing out the wizards and you should blow out the wizards. Like that, that is all, that is all fine. And I know that if any of this gets clipped and they hear me say the Strayhan part of the whack part, I'll be called a hater by Heat Nation and Heat Culture and all that, whatever.

That's all fine. But if you listen to the whole show, I fucking love the NBA. I love basketball. Like, I already can tell, I already can see 24 hours in the future of, like, Kevin Durant doing something about, like, do you guys even like basketball or do you just, like, complaining about basketball? It's like, no, man, like Bam had 43 at half. He had over 60 through three. That was a great game and no one can take it away from him. And he was second now all time and he's the modern scoring leader. And Kobe was his favorite player and we'll tell the story of his background and everything that he overcame to get to where he was. That's all great. And it legitimately should be celebrated. But we, like you said, we're not morons. Like we can. we can look at a sporting accomplishment and say, well, they're not all created equal, right? They're not all created equal. I called Thunder Nuggets the night before on TV.

I was like, that was the game of the year. I had two, my wife was out last night with some girlfriends. I had the BAM game on. I had Celtic spurs on. Like, I am mainlining NBA regular season basketball. Like, I love the sport. But that wasn't hoop. At the end of that game, that was not a basketball game.

It just wasn't. And that was the interesting thing about the Kobe 81 was that was a basketball game. That was a basketball game. Right. Like he got it. Like, he was the only guy who shot for the last like six or seven minutes of that game. Yeah. But, but I mean, that's fine.

He did that all the time any goddamn way. No, that's what I'm saying. I watched that game too. It was a basketball game. Yeah. The end of the game last night, I, I, anyone who's talking. talking about it today, if you're going to do your homework, you need to have either watched it or you need to go watch the extended YouTube highlights of that game. It was not a basketball game.

It just wasn't. Well, also, generally speaking, any record, and I think this is a way to be fair to Bam, anything that is in that record space, somebody gunned for it to get it, right? When O.J. Simpson ran for 2,000 yards. If there had been one more game that season, he does not run for 2000 yards in 14 games because they went out there in game 14 with the plan of we're going to go get this record, right? Yeah. The infamous David Thompson George Gervyn scoring title run where David Thompson scored something like 73 and I think Gervin had to come back and get like 60 or something to do it after.

Everybody was gunning for a number in order to make that happen. When Kobe got the 81, it was, you know, again, he did that stuff. anyway, but it was, hey, we're going to get this number up as high as we can. Wilk Chamberlain when that happened. But I saw, again, I was watching get up before I came in here. And Alan Hahn was making the point, don't talk to me right now about ethical basketball. And his argument was it wasn't ethical basketball in the Wilt game because they fouled him all the time early because they thought he couldn't shoot free throws.

And then they were doing everything they could to stop him from getting baskets. I'm like, no, that makes the Wilt Feet even more impressive. Right? They thought, well, you can't shoot free throws. that'll do it. And he was on fire that day. And so no, no, no, no, no, no, right? The wilt feet, like I say, there's a reason why we just talk about everything else in this. This, however, was simply not one of the great scoring performances of all time.

It was a great way to spend an evening, apparently. Oh, yeah. Like it was a great ending of it. It was a very Miami situation, a really good, ultimately superficial, and insignificant good time. right? Like, that's a great. And by like, yeah, I should make that, should have made that pointer.

I was laughing my ass off watching it. Like, like, I'm not, I'm not like offended. Right. By it. But it was just like, oh, you, you kind of see what's going on. Yeah. I mean, like this was not. We've had so many people score 70 points lately.

Yeah. But at least it all felt like this is crazy. They don't feel like they were on fire. I can't imagine as a basketball team. team, even with some of the files being intentional, let me get to the early part. How y'all so sorry y'all put BAM on the line 43 times? They are the worst defense in the NBA, and it showed.

Yeah, I mean, but oh my God, and I was watching them out there. They mailed it in on that game early. Like, I can't imagine how much it sucks to be a Washington Wizard. They ain't mailed that shit in. They're just like, look, man, we just be out here. Like, we just play, you know. Yeah, just going out. It was like with that press conference with Russ.

us a couple of games back at Sacramento. He's like, what's your incentive to go out for, you know, the last 15 games, or 20 games, whatever it was. And he's like, well, I mean, there's a basketball game to be played. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But see, the difference is Russ is a professional. That's right. No, he will play hard.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. These guys are just out here, like, I don't even know, man. Like, like, what we, what we doing here? But I'm going to throw another game out here. And this is where you and I have just enough of an age difference that I don't know if you remember this. But do you remember when David Robinson put up? I think it was 71 in 19.

in 1995. Yeah, because he was the first guy to do it. It was, it was Wilt and Elgin, and then he became the third guy ever to do it. Well, he was, the David Thompson. He was the first one since David Thompson in the scoring title race. But the thing about the game was,

it was the last game of the season. They were playing against the Clippers at the old L.A. sports arena. And Shaq, who had already invented reasons to dislike David Robinson, was poised to win the scoring title until the Spurs decided they wanted David Robinson to win the scoring title. And they were up big and foul and late so that they could get the ball back and everything else.

And even with the fact that it was the first and however long, as you described it, we have never treated that as one of the great scoring performances of all time. We have never thought about that the way we thought about MJ's 69 against, I think it was against the cap, but his 69. or the 63 against the Celtics, because we understood the context and we knew what it was. That doesn't mean, again,

that anybody has to apologize for the fact that they enjoyed watching it. But you're not, I don't have to treat this like it was a, it was, you know what, I feel like we need to come up with a distinction between history and a record. You know what I mean?

Like remember the devil booker at that 70 points in the bubble? And that was before the 70 point run that's happened, right? Like, look at Lucas hit for 70 since then. Donovan Mitchell's here from 70. Nobody remembers Devin Booker score 70. Like, we know that Devin Booker did it, right? The Lucas 70, we know he did it, but they are not history. Right. And there's, there is a, this is all parsing greatness. But that's what we do when we, when we talk about sports. Like, we, we debate useless shit. Right, right, but was this, I think it's fair to ask if this was great. Is it a, great scoring performance when you're 20 for 43 from the floor and seven for 22 from three.

Is that great? And you said you made more free throws than anyone in the history of basketball and you attempted more free throws than anyone in the history of basketball. Like it is again, like if it's not greatness, it's what? I mean, he still scored 83 points in a professional basketball. Hell of a night. Right. So it's so is great is a great is a great night. greatness. Yeah, that's, I mean, I guess that's a good question. So one that I was thinking about was, you remember when Clay Thompson, I forget if he was 61 or 62? Yeah, with the like four dribbles or whatever. Yeah, yeah, in 29 minutes. Yes. It was like, wait, he was like, what? Yeah, that was nuts. That was nuts. Like, like, that, that is more greatness. Yes.

than what BAM did last night, and he scored 22 fewer points. Look, that's what you think is going to happen or it has happened if somebody says somebody scored 83 points. Yeah. It's something like that. That's right. Because I was watching both games last night, and, you know, Tariko is doing the, and the NBC, like the main NBC crew were doing the Spurs Celtics game. And so, like, they're like during the fourth quarter of that game, like, they're talking about BAM. and I think, yeah, it's Reggie Miller.

And Reggie's like, he's like, someone's going to get 100. And I'm like, I don't know. It's been a long time. It's been a long time. We've had this three-point thing for a while. And you could question the narrator or the messenger there of Reggie Miller. And I certainly have plenty of issues with this commentary. But like, yeah, it feels like we have bad defense.

We have bad teams. We have tanking. We're going to see teams overtly tank as hard as they possibly can. And the three-point shot is like, why can't, someone hit 20 threes in a game. Yeah. That's coming. That's coming.

That is coming at some point and we'll have to reckon with it. I'm sorry, man. I don't consider myself to be no kind of hater or anything like that, but I'll kidney punch you first. Like, there's just no, there's just no, like, I just, I just can't, I just can't abide by. I have been accused that points in my life of taking myself too seriously. And I don't think I take myself too seriously, but I tell you this right now,

I ain't no joke. You know what I'm saying? Like, this is not, like, the Wizards, somebody got to come out here and just decide they've had enough. Now, of course, every now and then, somebody has a moment where they decide they've had enough and it goes too far.

Do you remember that time that DeAndre Joy and dunked on Brandon Knight so bad that he knocked him out to sky? But it was entirely Brandon Knight trying to prove that the Pistons wasn't no joke. And it turned out, They were a riot, in fact.

Yeah, they were, it were uproarious if we're being perfectly honest. But I wouldn't have said none of this last night. You know what I'm saying? I'd have done nothing to take away from his joy. Like he should feel like he scored 83 points. That being said, I have to get back to this Kobe stand thing. Please. I don't know if you have seen the tweets from the Kobe stands.

I have, yeah, you know, the algorithm is. Yeah, you're pumping out that rage, huh? Yeah, sure is. I've seen it all, Beau. They are furious. This is amazing, right? I read it in the Windhorst story. I didn't see this yet, but they booed?

They booed. They booed. They booed at crypto last night. They booed. They booed. I would actually love to know what Kobe would passive-aggressively snidly say about this if he were here. Only took me 20 free throws.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, just a waiter. like just but this Kobe stayed like the memory of Kobe is so important obviously right Kobe passing you know contributes or adds to it but I've seen people imply that there was a conspiracy to just keep sending Bam to the line to give this record or whatever no this is just a lot of weird stuff came together at the same time to create this moment do you think we will now like because this got

celebrated I mean LeBron Katie Janice like I saw the who's who of NBA greatness immediately

throw their arms around this and again Bam is a likable dude their teammate on team USA yeah great backstory all that stuff

do you think we're gonna like we got 15 games left, 18 games left, depending on the team, in a regular season where about a third of the league is tanking. Yeah, will somebody try it? Yeah.

If what happened last night is celebrated and is just like immediately embraced, you just Google, I googled Bamat autobiot today just before we came on just to like, you know, top five headlines, some straight news stories, like recap, he scores 83, Miami Star scores 80. then the other three the other three that come up of the five bam out of bio scores 83 points stop complaining about free throws and just appreciate greatness celebrate bam out of bios eighty three point game don't debate its merits bam out of bio rode free throws to 83 points but there's little shame in it like it just everyone is just immediately there is a concerted effort i think it is in part to the pushback of the tendency post all star around all star every year to talk about

what's wrong, right? Now it's what I alluded to with the KD thing of like, but I promise you you can love basketball and still debate these things on its merits. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, this is, this is a wild shit. This is a wild shit. This is a wild shit. Right. Damn out of bio averages, four and a half free throws a game. Last night he shot 43. Yes, yeah. Come on. You know what? This would actually be better if Bam was so good. Like if this is somebody like. If Kobe White. Yeah, exactly.

Right? Because then it becomes more of a Rudy story. Yeah. And then nobody says anything bad about it because it's just good for him. It'll never be like this again. Da, da, da, da, whatever. Not hot. Like, bam, got a girlfriend we like.

He got gold medals. You know what I'm saying? He was Kentucky. Like, this is not. Yeah, it doesn't. There's a world in which it feels a little better and a little different. But no, I'm with you. You're not going to get me on a.

you just hate the NBA. Because all those people that do that, what my response is, but you know I don't hate the NBA, so now what? And then they don't have anything to respond to, right? Like, it is straw man construction in large part. And I also think, like, writing something that jumps out preemptively

telling people not to dislike it. Because they can be saying this too. Kobe fans are coming. They put your car on blocks. They don't care. Like, you're going to tell them not to do this. Like, no, no, no. And Kobe's 81 is still going to be.

Kobe's 81 going to be like for old white people with Bay Roof 714 was. Like, yeah, I heard somebody broke that shit, but 714, boy, it got a ring to it. Yeah. And I don't like to be lumped with the old whites, but I kind of agree. Well, no, I'll put it like this.

How many people know how many home runs, Barry Bonds finished with? Right. More people know, I bet you, it's 762, but I bet you more people know 755. Yep, exactly. then they know 762. Like, you know, and I think that is probably what's going to happen.

But no, he'll look, it's not, the other thing about this too is you can put together a highlight package that that then becomes the defining memory. Because I don't know if you remember the worst officiated game in the history of American professional sports, but in the 1997 National League Championship Series, Levon Hernandez, I believe, I can't remember if it was 15 or 17 strikeouts where all he had to do was throw the ball in the motherfucking stadium. and Eric Gregg was just punching them up, right? Just going for it. And they made a 30 for 30 about the Hernandez brothers, LeVon and El Duque. And I went to the premiere that it was in Miami. And, you know, it was super Cuban in there, right?

So I'm just surrounded by all these people who think this moment for LeVon is historic. And me, Braves fan, is seething and furious. I'm hating every minute of it. But I watched the way they chop that up, man. You would never know it. It was cheating. Movement on those pitches.

Guys were chasing. Yeah, yeah, you never know they were cheating for the way they chop that up. So you chop up 83, you know what I'm saying? You can turn it into a thing. And again, 43 in the first half. Right. Like I, that is something.

Again, it hit my group chat of NBA fan friends at halftime. Like, you know what I mean? Like it was a great, it was a great night that got greatly, ridiculous. But both can be true. We can, we can, we can, we can, we can, we can, we can, we can, we can, we can, we can, we can't, we can't, we can't, we can't take all of the story. Well, I'll also, I'll also tell you this. There's a little short stretch of time about 10, 12 years ago, we're Phil Jackson and I were Twitter buddies. Nice. Um, and he made a point to me about Kobe and Kobe taking all of that shots. It was like, let's just say the number was 40. He's just basically like, let me tell you something. What's really hard to do. to take 40 shots. Like the effort it takes to simply put up 40 shots,

bam put up 40 shots and 40 free throws, right? You know what that's like? That's like playing 36 holes of golf. And everybody who thinks that golf don't take no effort and golf ain't hard work, go out there and swing that club 150 times. Yeah, and that's if you're good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And walk the eight miles and be outdoors and in the sun and all that stuff. Yeah. No, like absolutely right. Now, we hold professional athletes to the standard of being able to do it. But I am quite sure that Bam was tired after that game. Yeah, no, no, there's a lot of dudes in the league that could not put up 40 shots if it came to it. Like, it's just, it is a thing. But coming up next, you guys may have heard that the Max Crosby trade guy rescinded it,

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Right? Like maybe. Yeah, yeah. I mean, look, the Ravens generally knew to Carfax on Max Crosby. And let's be honest, 29 years old, coming off a meniscus tear, trained two first round picks, which sounds like was more than anybody else was offering, was a lot to throw out there. apparently, just so I can set it up for the people, Crosby gets to the Ravens, they do the physical,

and they decide that he a little too dinged up. They still had their receipt. And so they returned Max Crosby to Sender. Okay. Now, there's been a lot of discussion around sending Max Crosby back to Sender, the ethics of it from the Ravens. I am curious where you fall on that. Well, listen, if you,

if you traded two first round picks for somebody and then you do your medicals and you think that he the medicals don't look good to you like that that's within the it's within the rules yes you know like if it was my team was rich rich eisen said the bears also offered two first round picks and like if if they got if they the bears did it a couple years ago and i was a free agent sign they signed larry ogen job to a big deal and then he flunked physical and they took away as like 40 million bucks that they gave to this defensive tackle. And Larry Ogunjobie never had a good year the rest of his career. And I'm like really glad that my team didn't, you know, throw, you know, good money after bad. So like it's within the right. They can do it. But what I think is very fishy about this is no one was ever claiming that Max Crosby was cleared to play if there was a football game tomorrow. He had knee surgery. He, The Raiders shut him down at the end of last year. Now, Crosby was reportedly furious about that because he wanted to play through it.

And this is a meniscus, not a full, you know, ACL reconstruction or anything like that. So like you can you can grind it out and play through. But like, he had knee surgery within the last few months. No one is claiming that if there was a football game tomorrow, he could play. The question is, is he on track to fully recover from this? the Raiders say yes, the Ravens evidently say no. But like, you traded for a dude coming off knee surgery, who hasn't been, right, who has not been cleared to play.

So like, you knew that when you traded for him. So is it within the rules? Yes. But is it, it's beyond fishy. And I would be furious if I were the Raiders. And now I can period, next paragraph this. I said on Monday after the trade to Brew, who's a Ravens guy, I was like, this is an overpay. Like historically, it's an overpay.

All of the trades of multiple first round picks for non-quarterbacks, sauce Gardner, Micah Parsons, Laramie, Jalen Ramsey, Khalil Mack, like, all of those guys are 25, 26 years old. And Max Crosby's 29 coming off of knee surgery. So it was an incredibly risky trade just based on the age of Crosby. So now to flunk is physical. And if they turn around and sign Trey Hendrickson, who boy, the league is going to be furious? Well, what if I told you that the news you could use that I teased for you earlier? Oh, no.

Four years, $112 billion. Trey Hendrickson to the Ravens. Oh, no way. Is that real? Yes, I was sitting here the whole way letting you set up the fish case and I was going to be like, well, what if I told you? Oh, my God. Dude, look, man, let me tell you this.

As somebody who is taking a job and then turned it down because something else happened, right? I know exactly what happened here. Absolutely. They were like, you don't say, huh? But, oh, wow. Okay, well, I mean, that is, listen, like, I mean, hilarious for having no, no dog in the fight for rooting for it. But like, that absolutely needs to be investigated. You can't do that.

But the trade isn't official so you can always turn back around. Like, sometimes people just got to be mad at you. Yeah, sure, sure. Sure. But if you want people to do business with you in the future. I agree. I agree. I fully agree with you.

It's a bad way to play it. You'll never do a deal with Max Crosby's agent ever again. You might never do a deal with the Ravens again. Like, if you, because if you are getting out of it through the prism of, well, he flunked his physical, but that's not the actual thing. Like, that's, that's bad business, man. Business, that's an F. But at the same time, is there a sliding scale on physicals? And what I mean by that is, what has happened in the past in different sports is the physical has been faked.

and then the terms of the trade change. Right. So you can say with the physical being this, maybe it's one first round pick instead of two. The Ravens, I think what is most suspicious is that the Ravens completely bailed it sounds like. I have not read anything or seen anything that implies that there was an attempt at a renegotiation,

which is something that was on the board. They got out and instead, in free agency signed damn near the same player. Yeah, I mean, a couple years older, but not coming off of meniscus. But not coming off of meniscus surgery. That is, that is wild. And yet, listen, the point of like sometimes people just have to be mad at you because you have to operate in self-interest is a very, like, real, practical.

you are objectively correct and like would I do something that would make me unpopular if it was for the betterment of my wife and kids like obviously but like this is breaking with a lot of precedent man it's not it's not the trade is not official until the new league year starts so yes you can rescind it yes you're allowed to rescind it for a physical but to then turn around also before the new year new league year starts like the things are obviously connected Like no one is going to be able to conclude that the Ravens just found themselves having interested in Trey Hendrickson after the Crosby, after they failed him on the physical. They're going to, everyone is going to say, my guess is correctly, oh, we realized we could just get this dude for just money and keep our picks. And then they went ahead and did it.

Yeah. And by the way, the whole league was furious immediately. Nobody in the league entertained the possibility. It's from all the stuff that we're saying from report. that the entire league, which tells me, apparently Baltimore, Baltimore been out here living janky in other ways, right? Like, I mean, just, just Lockham Four came out there and just said basically that they have a fraud of a general manager or like, you know, the people are running this.

This is, they are being, and this is after everybody had always had so much positive to say about them, right? Like, we've seen them as a model organization. Diana Rossini, by the way, sent the tweet, I'm going to read a word for word. It's been made clear by multiple people around the NFL and all. levels that Baltimore had all the information and understood where Max Crosby's knee was in terms of his recovery timeline. Many in the league believe GM Eric DeCosta and the Ravens ultimately just got cold feet. Yeah, it's janky, man. Ain't a way around it. Yeah. Yeah. Like,

that is going to be, you know, it's not, it's not the exact same as like the Chris Paul trade when the league stepped in, but it's like, who, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, like, there's something going on there and it just doesn't sit right with you. That doesn't sit right with me at all. And I have to like take a little bit of a moment here to put my finger on it. But like it's just basically like you. It's dishonest. It's dishonest. And like, Tray Hendrickson was also available when you trade it from Max Crosby. It's like what new piece of information could there really be? Like you got a world renowned surgeon. It's a minor surgery. like he's got the best work ethic of like everyone's like well max crosbie he's the edge rusher who doesn't come off the field he plays all three downs his character is this his motor is this his locker

like he's like is there any doubt that max crosbie is gonna recover from a meniscus cleanup like i just i don't know that is a that is a wild way to do business man well also do you call trey hendricksson and does trey hendrickson call you like at what point in the process did that really get going. Because I mean, I just don't believe that out of nowhere at the end, they call Trey Hendrickson. Was it a matter of you've made this trade and then somehow you wind up on the phone with Trey Henderson and now you believe that that is attainable. And you're like, but like, Trey Hendrickson, we have known Trey Hendrickson was going to be available this off season. Yeah, but they didn't know they was going to get them. Yeah, but they didn't know they

was going to get them. No, they did not. And maybe that's it. Like, I don't know. Like, there's, there are moving parts here that are just, like in the end, nobody's going to to care, right? Sure. But it is a, it's such a great in the moment story, right? Just like how in the world, this was the biggest story coming off the weekend. Trades being rescinded generally are a great topic. This is different, though, because it was a guy getting traded for picks,

and we know that guy is not still going to be there. I was in Houston with the all-time rescinded trade when the Rockets trade of Robert to Detroit for Sean Elliott and Sean Elliott failed to physical because of a kidney situation. and then Ori had to come back. Like, we don't really got one of those. Listen, I mean, the Raiders also spent a gripload of money in free agency and like cap ramifications. And, you know, they, they were like, we are going to, you know, we're going to sign Naylor from Minnesota.

Obviously, Linderbaum from Baltimore. We're going to sign a Kobe Dean on defense. And we're going to, and we have the 14th pick. And all of a sudden, new coach. you like 60% of your offensive line. You got your tight end. You got your running back. You're bringing in a quarterback.

This blows up their whole plan. Who does Max Crosby play for this year? We just know it ain't the Raiders. Say again? We just know it ain't the Raiders. It seems impossible for him to go back. But if you're going to trade Max Crosby for two firsts, and one of those firsts is the 14th pick in the draft,

like that is a premium draft asset. Oh, yeah. They ain't getting that. No, no, no. But like, Bargain, like, is he going for a second round pick now? I think, like, maybe like a one and a three. Okay.

I mean, I guess, but if he goes, if he gets traded for a premium haul like that, which is still a lot of draft capital, and the other team has no problem passing him on his physical, I just don't know how the Ravens come out. Like, they're going to have some tough questions to answer, man. they're going to have something because again he should not be he is not cleared to play football you traded for a player who is off crutches who is off surgery who should not be able to play how can you fail him on his physical you can't be like well he couldn't run the 40 or he couldn't do

the three cone drill like he's recovering from surgery his surgeon says he's good to go what are we talking about here that's very weird to me man yeah boy there's nothing like what people just thank you chanky you're Yeah. Yeah. You're, yeah. Hey, nobody going to try to talk to you and come by next year. Yeah, and listen, again, you're right. You have to operate in your own self-interest, but that is, that is dirty pool, man. No, no. There's nothing quite like, though, when you understand something,

it might be dirty pool, and you're like, but I do it. Yeah, yeah. And you got to make the call, and you're like, hey, so about that. Yeah, I know. yeah hey hey you're making you're making some fair points yeah yeah you're making it a worse bad you know like like like hey just just just just let me finish just just just let me finish and then you can say whatever you want and then I will listen right and then we'll hang up the phone and I don't expect for us to talk again for a long time yeah it'd be a whole lot of you right you're right that's fair yeah yeah yeah no no I hear you yeah yeah no it's a good point

look nobody's saying you're wrong here I understand where you're coming from. I would feel the exact same way. I just, I just had to do it. Hopefully one day you'll understand. Sometimes it's got to, it'd be like that so times. Yeah. You know how it is. Oh my goodness gracious. This is, this is going to, we talked about this the other day. It's going to be such an interesting NFL season because like, it's wide open. Everything everywhere feels wide open. Like even, and you think about the NFC, On one hand, Super Bowl champions loaded. On the other hand, the quarterback Sam Donald still on the board.

You know what I mean? Yeah. You know, I got one more for you. How about what a come up for Trey Hendrickson? Yes. Trey Trey Hendrickson gets to stay in the AFC North and stick it to Cincinnati, who he feels like have like underpaid and so all I have to do is have more sacks over the last three years than like Micah Parsons and A&E.

Aiden Hutchinson, and you cheat bastards are only willing to pay me a year at a time. Yes. And like a crown jewel until this organization in the league decided at 30 whatever years old, 31, 32 years old, I was worth $112 million. Like he is going to do, he is going to, his 15 yard unsports, like conduct penalty when he sacks Joe Burrow is going to be earned. Look, man. He was like, I've been, I've been playing for the spirit airline.

of the NFL. Right? Now, this is what a real airline feels like, huh? Ain't that something? Yeah, yeah. So, sorry, I just had to get one more off there. But no, to the wide open point, I think one of the cool things about this upcoming season,

and it's the NFL, there's always a million great storylines. But like, as we sit here in the second week of March, a lot of teams are all in. Yeah. Like Baltimore, more doing this is like an all-in move. Buffalo doing the DJ Moore thing is a let's push our chips and move. The Rams just they've made one first round draft pick in the last like literally eight drafts. Hit it out of the park with the Jared verse pick, but they're like, oh, we need to rebuild

our secondary? No problem. We'll do that in one off season. Trade first round pick, biggest contract ever for a cornerback, sign a couple more DBs. Like got a 38-year-old's quarterback so, you know, F it, let's go all in. The Steelers, it looks like are going to run it back with Rogers, which is ridiculous, but whatever. Like, but like there are, it's just a lot of teams that are pushing chips into the middle to go try to win this Super Bowl because Lamar's never been to one, Josh has never been to one, Stafford's year to year. So I think that component of it. And those are three of the, the Rams are the favorite and the Ravens and the Bills are the two favorite, the two of the top five favorites of the Super Bowl. The, the biggest Super Bowl

favorites are hemorrhaging or mortgaging a lot of their future for this year, which I think always adds like a degree of excitement. And like it makes which, whichever, they all can't win the Super Bowl. So whichever one loses, it makes it that much more painful. It is also an interesting year because the quarterback draft situation isn't really strong. Yeah. And so we are seeing at least what feels to me, I guess I'm operating anecdotally here, but more, um, movement from I eight quarterbacks that aren't that easy to come by.

Like Kyle Murray, it's eye quarterback. There ain't a lot of eye quarterbacks that are really out here, right? Like what happened with Atlanta, wherever Kyle, like I say, I think people should be fighting to go get Kyle of Murray. Like looking at what's available and where people are standing. If Daniel Jones, they can get 50 million in the culture like you'll have to settle for 37.

There's a lot of money out there to be made. This is like a kind of sort of regular dude out there. Like everybody's trying something. the dolphins are trying something with Malik Willis. Everybody is given something a goat. I will be floored if Kyler Murray isn't a Viking. Like that one just makes too much sense to me. J.J. McCarthy, you know, you'll trade him and swing and a miss.

I don't understand what the cartels are doing. Like, what is the likelihood that the Cardinals are going to wind up with a quarterback better than Murray? I mean, next year, zero. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Next year's zero. And I mean, you hired Mike LaFleur, you have some nice pieces on offense. Yeah, I mean, listen, they chose Jacoby Brissette over Kyler.

They did. Down the stretch of last year. And it looks like Jacoby's going to get to run it back. Yeah. He is the replacement player, right? Like he is the definition of the replacement quarterback. We talked about this on the show about Kyle. going to the Vikings, where I think that should be where he goes.

But good gracious, don't you want a quarterback somebody likes? Well, yeah, probably, but don't you want a quarterback that it's like if you just give them, who cares if you like them, if you just give them decent quarterback play? Oh, yeah, there's a football contender. Super Bowl contender. Right, you're right about that. Look, they went from a bad quarterback, a bad quarterback that nobody likes to a good quarterback that nobody likes if they make the mood of Murray.

Right. I'll take that one. Yeah, yeah, no question. It's the movie. Like, like two years ago, they won 14 games with Sam Darnold. Like Brian Flores, because of reasons, can't get a head coaching job. So he's just there still with a top defense in the NFL, like with Justin Jefferson, with that coach. Like, they have to make that. Well, I'd say this, people must really like Kevin O'Connell. Because if you got Brian Flores, J.J. McCarthy, and Kyle and Murray,

Like somebody's got to like somebody in this building. Good gracious. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Damn. Like, like, they just, there's a bottom line, it's a bottle-line oriented operation over there. That is an excellent point. Do you think, and I know we've talked a little bit about Mendoza in the past,

so all of a sudden not a terrible situation to go to? On one hand, you are correct. On the other hand, it's still the Raiders. Still the Raiders. And it's a lot of weird stuff going on over there still. No doubt. But all of a sudden it's like, okay, you just signed, you know, top two or three center in football, got a good left tackle, got one good guard, got a good running back, got a good tight end, got an offensive.

I thought an excellent tight end. Yeah, I mean, best tight end in football. Got an offensive head coach, who's a play caller, who just did his thing with. Darnold, like, the team's not going to be good, but like, the goal is if you're going to draft a quarterback number one overall and play him immediately, like, that you have to at least be putting him into a situation where you can get a fair evaluation of him. Yeah. I think that offense, we've seen situations that are worse. Yeah, I think they can find a way to not have to play him immediately, to be honest. I, I wouldn't keep Gino if I were in their situation. That's the thing,

right? Like, after you lose Gino, I don't know. Yeah. I think cousins, I guess. I don't know. I don't know who you play over the number one pick when he's a pro-style, you know, 22, 23-year-old kid by the time of next year comes around. Like, I just, I'll be, I think he's going to be a week one starter. Yeah, I think you're right.

I mean, they should be two games better just because what they were doing last year is not what they were doing this year. Like it was full on chaos over there. Now, some of the chaos is gone because Pete was a cause of some of the chaos with his son, coaching the offensive line, the Jim Kelly situation, right? But the other part of the chaos is Tom Brady and Adatz Guerrero and whatever they do with that operation. Oh, it's still a story. It's still a, and you're right, it's still the Raiders. But I just feel like Fernando Mendoza likes his situation now.

Better, yes. better than he did when the college football season ended. Yes. Also, just want to remind people right fast about Alex Guerrero. And Alex Guerrero is Tom Brady's like medicine man. But let us not forget this. In 2005, Guerrero was sanctioned by the United States Federal Trade Commission for falsely presenting himself as a doctor

and claiming to be able to cure cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, arthritis, and Parkinson's disease using a dietary supplement call, Supreme Greens. That's from the wiki, and that happened. That's the man behind TB12. Man, people will really buy in anything. Hey, man, pliability.

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