The Right Time with Bomani Jones - NBA regular season heats up, NFL Combine absurdity, Kyler Murray's future | 03.02

Episode Date: March 2, 2026

Bomani Jones reacts to a stacked weekend of NBA action, including the Cleveland Cavaliers vs. the Detroit Pistons, the Oklahoma City Thunder vs. the Denver Nuggets, the Minnesota Timberwolves vs. the Denver Nuggets & the San Antonio Spurs vs. the New York Knicks.  He argues that the NBA season is finally heating up, and we should get excited about the regular season stretch run.  Later, he discusses how the NFL Combine is for dorks and that teams like the Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers should be lining up to sign Kyler Murray.  Finally, he discusses the weird thing about the war in Iran, the Hawks' upcoming Magic City Monday promotion, and laughes at the idea of Colin Cowherd AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original. My name is Beaumani 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. I got some kind of sort of combine thoughts.

I usually don't do that, but you know, you got to meet people where they're at. You know what I'm saying? Got some of that, you know, weird old stories at the end of the show. but all right, I got to tell you something. You know, and I talk about this just about every year. I don't have much of a problem admitting this, that we get so overrun by football from September to February that, like, I dip my toe into the NBA before football season's over,

and then now is the time to, like, really, really, really get in there. Like, every now and then you get to watching the game. And, Ryan, I don't know if this happens to you, but it's more and more because I don't follow him. college basketball like I used to. Boy, you can sneak a motherfucker in there. I ain't never heard of real smooth. Minnesota got some African dude that's new,

but he seems to be very good. Yeah. Yeah. Like, this is that time of year, especially if you used to play for a handful of teams. For example, that Gaffert dude that the Maverick's got that year they went to the finals, I had never heard of him. And I could not understand how that was possible.

And then they told me that he played for the Wizards. That'll do it. With his protection. Essentially this year when it's almost two-thirds of the league. Yeah. Who are just, you know. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of teams that I don't need to check.

Like, Sacramento, that's also witness protection, where you can go over there, except for that one year, right? You go over Sacramento, like, I get to play in the Immacqually Grid, man. I don't know what to do. And they fuck around and put Sacramento in Orlando. And it's like, damn, this could be who. I got to like really start working my way through some all three-way trades. But anyway, now's the time to, like, really.

to get this going with the NBA. Like you see more of the Knicks because we live here and stuff like that. And I also watch the Knicks play against the Spurs. They put the hurdle on the. Oh, yeah. I was a little surprised. Now, granted, I do think the Knicks and the Lakers

both have this one. And I guess the Clippers, too. But they mess around to play a team in that early Sunday slot or whatever early is for local. Y'all should win. Right. Right.

People had fun. We are right. It's the Spurs one time pulling up. If y'all get to play, them on Sunday, y'all should win, right? But no, good. I mean, Carl Towns played well. Like, it was a, it was a strong game. But I also watched three other games this weekend. I watched Detroit Cleveland. I watched Oklahoma City and the Nuggets. And then I watched the Nuggets again against Minnesota. Nuggets, not a great weekend. I feel like they need to be glad to Mike Malone to do a TV and not being the coach,

because I bet he would be miserable to be around after the weekend that they had. But I'm mention those games, because those games were good, right? And they were good for, I'd say, an interesting range of reasons. Detroit and Cleveland was the sort of game that I ordinarily would have wanted to watch and then found out that Donovan Mitchell was not playing. I think James Hardin was also out of that game. I would find out that those two guys were not playing in that game, and then I would not watch that game anymore, right? I don't know. Like, Ryan, I feel like it was a good game, but I don't know if the way I'm putting this is going to make this seem.

But, you know, the Pistons didn't quite bring it as they should have. Right. And that's that, that, stats, there we go. Okay. But at the same time, that was Jared Allen, Evan Mobley. Okay, those are NBA players. Dennis Schroeder, Sam Meryl, and Jalen Tyson, and a dude named Naekwon was the first man off the bench.

A series of gentlemen that I'm not very familiar with came off the bench. For sure. And it was a game, right? Like, like, it was an intense, like, I mean, look, Detroit, they're back, right? The city is clearly back into it. I realized this, especially since it's been a while since they moved out to palace, but I had had a whole lot of watch the Pistons since they left the palace situations, right? It still feels weird when I watch a game there.

It's been a long 15 years. Yeah, it has been. Like last year, you know, we got in and checked out a little bit. But all of a say, it was a really, really good game. even with Cunningham filing out late and everything else. I know Jared Allen also filed out on that one. But it was an intense, really hard play game, followed by Oklahoma City and Denver.

And that one was serious, right? Everybody was there for right. Two best players in the NBA playing in that game, right? Chatsback playing in that game went hard. Lou Dort had a moment in that game that seems to happen somewhat often with these cats in the NBA where somehow they forget the Yokic is real big. big and scary and intense.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's, he's, you know what, Yogi's got a lot of, I ain't no sucky in him, right? Because he's just kind of like, hey, just running down the floor, play basketball, be excellent, right? But every now and then, he need to remind you that, like, you all want these problems. Lou Dort, you know, like what?

The thing Lujort did wasn't like the biggest cheap shot we've ever seen, right? But once Yokich ran up on him, I mean, for you to be Lou Dort, baby, you can't, you got to be full troll or if you're going to play the way he plays, you got to be ready to fight too, right? Like, you got to be a full Patrick Beverly. You got to be a, but he's at his size, you got to be a defenseman, right?

Yeah. Big football playing Joker. Like, that's what it's got to be. Yokic ran up on him. And he was like, ooh, I did not properly do the math on this situation. Then we had this, uh, Minnesota, Denver game. which I'd say wasn't a great game in terms of the margin. Yolkes played a really good game.

Not enough dude, but Minnesota dude, Anthony Edwards, the legend killer. I don't know what Minnesota is going to do in the playoffs. I wouldn't want to play Minnesota in the playoffs because I've watched the playoffs for the last two years, right? Like, Minnesota is such a weird team in the sense

that they have been to the Western Conference finals two years in a row and not a single one of us is looking at them like, don't you think it's time to take the next step? which is typically how we view it, if you're making to the Western Conference Finals, two years in a row. That is, I guess, a byproduct of this era of parody. Me and Goff talked about this last week.

I grew up with Dynasty Saugas. I kind of preferred Dynasty Saugas. But we do have, we got a Western Conference where I don't know if there are six teams that can win. In fact, I know they're not six teams that can win the West because Houston cannot. But there are, I'd say, five. teams that I think could make it to the conference finals, and I'm again removing Houston from this.

And it's the structural point guard issue. I just don't think that that roster can pull that all. Do you count the Lakers in those? Hell, hell no. Okay, who were the five? So I mean four. Sorry, got my count wrong. Yeah. And I know that I got my count wrong by you being like, wait a minute, are you talking about the Lakers? Yeah. No, I am talking about Minnesota, Denver, San Antonio, and Oklahoma City. Right. Right. I forgot and Houston is the five in that one. Yeah. I can see any of those four going, right?

And we just talked about games, but, you know, basically just with three of them. Here's why I bring up those games and why I want to talk about this off the top. Ryan, I'm curious what you think about this. I talked about last week, I think on this Monday show, was just the idea that the NBA regular season, I don't know what it takes. I don't know what has to happen in the regular season of the NBA to break through to, like, really matter.

The Spurs were just on a 12-game winning streak. and I knew that because you told me. Right. Right. I did not realize that. Now, of course, they are no longer on a 12-game winning streak, but that should be the big. There's nothing else going on.

Right. Right. Like, Victor Win by Yama is living up to the hype and expectation that was there. They are two games out of first in the West. I do think it's going to matter. Like, those seedings are actually going to matter. With the tiebreaker against Oklahoma City already. Right, right.

Like, we got, if this were based, ball back in the days, we call it a Pinnett race. Like, we have a very interesting race in the West, and we saw it bear out, like, say, in the way that some of these games looked. Like, Minnesota came in, they were playing to win that game. Right, right? Like, Denver was, nobody was just out here like, oh, one of 82, right? No, no, no, no.

They was out there to win that game. That Detroit Cleveland game on Friday night. They was out to win that one. We have a very interesting thing going on in the East where, and I think it's kind of similar in the West. I would pick San Antonio to win the West, except the small problem is they've never won anything, this particular people, a group of people of San Antonio, just to be clear. They've never won anything.

The same thing with Detroit. The only reason to not pick them is that they have not done this before. And by this, we mean win a series in the first round. Or in the case of San Antonio, go, like actually play in the playoffs, right? Even with losing to the Knicks, dude, the no-fly zone that happens. I mean, I watch Victor Guard the ball, the pass, and the weak side on the same, like, right at the same time. Oh, like, it doesn't even seem real. It looks like he's playing against three-year-olds, right?

Like, all right, everybody against dead, right? Like, it doesn't even seem possible. But I talked about the regular season and the idea of the regular season doesn't matter or is treated like it doesn't matter. I think it's very important for me to make a distinction because it's, it's easy to lose sight of this, particularly when talking about the NBA because people have a predisposition to think about the worst. The regular season seems to clearly matter to those guys. Okay?

Now, there are some teams that have clearly mailed it in on this season. And I have a problem with the fact that they have mailed it in on the season. And the big part of why I have a problem with the fact that they mailed it in on the season is that they still charge people money for the tickets, right? Like, you're still a chunk of the cable bill. You're selling us this. Being a fan of basketball is not just simply about the positioning of your team for down the line and championship and everything else.

No, I want to enjoy some games, right? Like, these games are right here. There are teams that have absolutely given up on that, and I have a giant problem with it, okay? But there are also situations where, we got a problem with the lower management and everything else and this has been sold as a superstar league. But I watched that Cleveland team without their two best players,

and it was a game. It was a game worth watching. It was an entertaining game. We got a lot of teams left with a lot to play for, and if we're being perfectly honest, them teams that are not giving it, they all, you wouldn't watching them anyway. Like, it is at a front to the local fans for what they're doing.

but if you're talking about it as a like overhead like a 3,000 foot view, whatever that phrase is, looking down on the league, you wouldn't go watch them anyway. But the teams that you're going to watch, oh, there's so much to watch right now, right? I think I lost track of my thought earlier, but I didn't even get to bring it up. The fact that Jason Tatum apparently is going to try to come back and play. In the next two weeks.

That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, right? I mean, I can only assume that it's medically cleared. Yeah, I can't. I can't. By his doctors and the teams. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the only way. I can't assume that anybody, like, look, I mean, look, Derek Rose would not have been

playing this season, right? You understand what I'm saying? Like, like, by the way, wouldn't be hearing nothing for me about that. Of course. Also, also the Bulls would have been leaking. You know, he actually could have played two and a half months ago, you know, if that would have come down. But do you realize how crazy that it is?

First of all, the fact that the Celtics have been as good as they have been, that Jalen Brown, who could not dribble with his left hand not too long ago. Isn't the top five of MVP conversations? I mean, he has an argument for being the MVP if you wanted to make it, right? Hey, man, it matters. These cats are out here, right? There's a lot of discussion about that 65 game rule. And I, look, if you don't play 65 games, history has said you're not the MVP.

to once. Yeah. It was the Bill Walton. Yes. It was the year Bill Walton got hurt. That's basically the only one out of a full 82 game season. I think there's been like one more or something like that. But typically, that was always a disqualifying factor.

The reason they put that rule in was not about the MVP. They put that rule in so the cats who were trying to make all NBA and thereby maybe get the supermax on would not be out here mailing in games. That's what they were going. going for, but the MVP, this has always been a self-regulating sort of situation. And the guys that are playing games, Kay Cunningham, playing those games, Janem Brown playing those games. Those are the guys that I think we should be talking about for MVP.

If Shade Gilders-Alexander gets up around that total of games, then, yeah, we'll talk about it. Yon could you miss how much time? You don't win the MVP when you do that. You just don't. That has nothing to do with- There's only one person who can win it. Right.

You know, only one person who's going to be the best. That's correct. By the way, that has nothing to do with what I was just talking about. Yeah. But I did realize I wanted to talk about that and make that point. So the point's been made. The point that I'm here to make is the regular season of basketball can matter as much as we want it to matter. Because there is basketball that matters that's on right now.

And guess what? We got another like month and change of the regular season. Right. Like this is about to be a run to the end in the West who you wind of. up playing is so important. I think everybody would like to get themselves positioned against Houston. They're teams that don't want to play each other. The teams are close enough such that the idea of having home court is something. Like Minnesota beat them under these circumstances two years ago, but I personally would not want to play a game seven in Denver. If Oklahoma City were not playing

Denver game seven in their house, do they win that one last year? I don't think they do. Well, Aaron Gordon were hopping around on one leg. Right. And that still is the thing. with Denver, right, as if Eric Gordon winds up coming back. But San Antonio, with a team that young, where they play these games, all of this stuff is going to matter. It's about to be on fire to the finish. The Knicks, because all the pressure around them still remains. And they're a soap opera over there, Ryan.

Like, I don't think people quite pick up on the fact that the guys don't seem to like to coach that much. They fired the coach that got them to the conference finals. It means going to the NBA finals. is kind of sort of the expectation. Like we got three really interesting teams. Right. In the East.

We've got four really interesting teams in the West. It's a thing going on, guys. It is. And I will be very curious to see if all of us around this are going to treat this like it's a thing. Because this could be a whole hell of a lot of fun before this season's over. And then after that, we get two months of place.

playoff basketball where this conference, the conference semifinals this year are going to feel like, my buddy Nick always makes the point that the best weekend of the season in the NFL, and he's right, is the division round. That is the best one. That is what the conference semifinals are going to feel like this year. Like we're going to have two games a night of great basketball. I cannot wait. Let us get our minds in that way.

We pass All-Star. We pass that little withdrawal time we have from after football. so nothing's good enough for us. So we just shit on the league. Now we take a week and you look around and be like, oh, no, baby, it is pop. And after all that, Ryan, we're going to talk about hypothetical football.

Yep. That's insane. It's the combine. It's the combine. Do you think Marceanchez came to the combine? I think he is going to be avoiding Indianapolis and all of its... I mean, he can only avoid it, but so much. I'm sure he got some court dates.

Yeah, I think he's going to be just in that courtroom. Oh, how crazy would it be if Mark Sanchez had a court date during the combine? And he's just like on his flight or at the airport or waiting that baggage claim. And everybody's like, oh, surprised to see you here. You got a court date or something?

And he's like, yeah, I do. Actually. It's funny you mentioned that because I think some other information about this dropped. It turns out Mark Sanchez, and this isn't exactly news, accusing Sanchez of being under the influence of cocaine, fentanyl, marijuana, and alcohol under the time of the altercation. That's right. However, what not included on the list, not even in others receiving votes, was that dust.

I was still, you know, and let me tell you that, what you just ran off, that list of things that they say Mark Sanchez was on, and it made him act like he was on that dust. that is one hell of a commercial for that dust. You take, you take a, he took, I think it's the exact, I think it's a bit of a warning label for that dust. Well, also, two things could be true at one time. But he, he, he had like a long island ice tea of dope. Just everything you got, just throw it into, throw it in and shake it up.

You're not, you're not supposed to hit Yatzi with vices. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He shook it all up, then put a little bit of Coke on top, and there you go. Like, that, that was, who, man, man, he's going to, he's got to go to jail for that. Okay, sorry.

That wasn't what we talked about. The combine, I don't think nothing greedier than the NFL turned to the combine into like a thing that people watch on TV. Right. Like, I do believe that what you really start, like, okay, you get a clip of somebody doing avert or running to 40 or whatever it is.

Okay, that's, fine, but you be like watching. You know, you're all working the biz, you just sit up there and you watching. I mean, that's a little weird. Right. That's all I'm saying.

Like, that's a little, that, that's, that's, that's, like, you know how it is, it's weird? How they got, it's illegal for you to be at the playground if you ain't got no kids. This isn't exactly that, obviously. But it ain't exactly not that. Right? But anyway, one of the interesting elements of the combine is everybody be up there, right?

Like, I can only be convinced. You just compared NFL super NFL fans to sex offenders. No, I compared them to the people who sit by the playground who are not necessarily sex offenders, but acknowledged to be weirdos. Fair enough. There we go. So anyway, the combine, which I'm convinced your greatest testament that the league is full of dudes who just don't feel like hanging out with their wives. Like, the season. Let's all go to Indianapolis the end of February.

The season just ended. Right. Like, it's not like, it's not like it's been all summer long or something like that. The Super Bowl was three weeks ago. They were all there, too. Yeah, they were all there. We just had a big industry. party for a week.

In a much better location. And so now it's been three weeks. We haven't been able to work for 50 hours a week. Let's all go to St. Elmo's in Indianapolis. But you know what I think part of it is, though? I do think that part of it is that for the Cobbide, the tier two people, the people that do not get the Super Bowl, get the Super Bowl plug. Right, right.

This is their party. This is their VIP event. This is Old Navy Super Bowl. Got it. Of the Super Bowl hierarchy, right? But anyway, they're there. Saying a lot of men. warehouse at these events.

There we go, right? And that's where everybody gets together and they get to talk and like the groundwork for the personnel moves down the line start happening. And Ryan sent me something, and granted, it's from an aggregator account, but it's still worthwhile. And it makes this

point. I'm going to read it. What was this? Ari Merlob, if that's a person, I have no idea. Anyway, this was worth this. There is a potential scenario this offseason where up to five veteran quarterbacks we guaranteed money already in

2026 could be released and as a result their next contract with the new team could be for the minimum. Tootunga Vyloa, 54 million guaranteed. Kyla Murray, 36.8 million guaranteed. Gino Smith, 18.5 million guaranteed. Kirk Cousins, 10 million guaranteed.

Just the Fields, 10 million guaranteed. Okay. I have two thoughts on this. Number one, apparently nobody in the NFL has ever heard the song is cheaper to keep it. Now, you know, I know Tua would be offended if he heard that I was calling him a her.

But it's a metaphor, young man, okay? The whole point of these guarantees and the way they do this is we go work this out. Right? Like there's some security of the idea this didn't work and go, okay, all right, well look, we go, we kind of stuck with each other. We going to have to work this out.

We can't afford to, quit this. We going to work this out. I don't care what we've been saying about to it and everything else. We are paying him 54. We already got, we already got quarterback in the refrigerator. We're not going out to eat when we got food. Food that's been paid not a little bit, by the way, right? Like, we have steak at the house. There are as a porterhouse that I have taken out of the freezer. Like, that's your quarterback, right? Doesn't look like it. I mean, Oh, okay. That's all I got.

You're not really trying to win. You can't be. You got $54 million a cap hole. Okay. I think, I think Tua's combined dead money cap numbers, $99 million. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, come on, man, what are we talking about here? Right?

Like, if you see a quarterback worth drafting, go ahead and do it. But your options are, you tell me if I'm wrong here, Tua Tug of our law, Malik Willis or another quarterback whose previous team felt the same way about them as you feel

about the one that you're about the one that you're about to get rid of. I don't know, man, that sounds like too to me. It could be, right? Kyle Murray, $37 million guarantee. Let me ask you. I'm just going to throw this out here.

Okay? I've looked at the stat. when did Kyle or Murray become terrible? Because I don't really see that. He's had a few very good years. Yeah. He's at, he tore the ACL a few years ago. Yeah.

And last year he just had this mysterious mystery injury. Yes. And they decided they didn't want to play him anymore. Correct. That I, look, man, we have seen evidence of this. And lots of us have been told this. his soft skills are poor. Clearly.

What I mean by that for those don't understand is people don't like him. Okay. He comported himself in such a way that the team felt like they had to put a video game clause in his contract, basically. Okay. I still think the team was wrong for that and they set themselves up for unnecessary scrutiny because ultimately you were still going to sign them so it didn't really matter. But the truth is, it did happen.

and they didn't just pull that out of the air and his side didn't feel like they could get it out of the deal. Right. Okay. He does not play well with others. But I'm looking at him on a list with like Kurt Cousins who got one leg and is 38, 9 years old.

And it's just as likely to be in a booth next year. Yeah. Which it looks like he'll be pretty good at. Yes. Better than he is at cubing. Yeah. And just in Justin Fields. And, you know,

We all thought it would, we all thought it would go different. Right. It just, it just has it. It did not. They're going to go there. Gino Smith, I don't really know what to do with because he was on a terrible team and just felt like it was Yolo time, whatever, any little blip I saw him on the Red Zone channel, it was him just saying, fuck it.

The combo of Pete Carroll, Chip Kelly and Pete Carroll's son as the offensive line coach. Yes. Seemed to have really broken, Gene. Yeah, it was bad news. But I mean, I'm looking, but all of this combined, all these guys were looking at. to me, Kyle Murray is like a different player than any of these guys that we talked about here. Like if you're Minnesota and the Steelers,

in fact, that's what they need to do up there. Is sausage party now an inappropriate term? I think you get one. Okay, so last week, sausage party was my limit on calling the sausage party. I would say the one 30 seconds ago was your one. Oh, wow. I didn't know I had already done it.

Okay. Anyway, if you haven't been to a Friends here. Yeah, but if you haven't been to a sausage party, the kind of thing, you'd never know when an impromptu wrestling match might break out, right? Just like two dudes who decide, hey, it's just a bunch of dudes around here. Who wants to wrestle, right? You know, like in a dorm or something like that.

You know what I mean? Is that a two-America situation or one-America situation? No, no, no, no. I think it's a one-American situation. Like, I don't mean, in this case, I don't mean like it's a sausage party like, you get there and the ladies ain't showed up yet, right? Where it's supposed to be ladies free before 11, but apparently nobody told them and then you just look around us,

but, you know, the ratio was all off. I don't mean that kind. I mean, this more like it's a bunch of dudes in a dorm or at a sleepaway camp or something like that. Or Vegas for the first weekend of the NCAA tournament. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so invariably some rough housing comes up when you have this sort of thing, Anyway, I bring that up to say,

I don't know who the new general manager is in Minnesota, but whoever it is, shouldn't him and Omar Khan have to, like, wrestle at some bar and the winner gets Kyle and Murray? That would be more interesting to watch the actual combine. Yeah, let's be clear. I had to watch that. GM fights?

Yeah, for sure. If you're telling me that you just watch the combine in case the GM fight breaks out, Hey, okay, I see you. But, no, like, if you're one of these teams that needs a quarterback, that would be, and you're telling me he's available? Like, I would get in Arizona. Like, what are you going to do?

Are they going to bring Brissette back again? I mean, Brissette, drafting someone, they might, they seem to be. Who are they going to draft? Well, I don't even know if we got one quarterback in this draft. This is my favorite part of the combine, too, is people, convincing themselves they like media of quarterbacks. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

We're there. He did a great job throwing against the ghost man. Like, he didn't see the ghost man. The ghost man had his hand right there, and he just dropped it right over the ghost man. And he made the catch. No, like, I'm just, I mean, I'm looking at every scenario here, and it blows my mind that we're talking about Kyle and Murray.

Like, he has been put into maybe he could have a Sam Darno-like resurrection. Kyle and Murray should come find you, stand on a phone book and slap you in the face for saying that. he's in a completely he has never been where Sam Darnel was. No, not even close. Not even close. But I feel like that's the way we talk about him.

The talent is still there. He's 28. He'll only be like Speedy Gonzalez Fas a roadrunner but for so long, right? Like we recognize that. But, and of course there's the size part. I'm not saying there are no negatives. And from Minnesota, I understand the real issue is y'all got to have at least one quarterback somebody likes.

Like, can you imagine what it would be like to be Kevin O'Connell who clearly can't stand JJ McCart? And he's clearly not the only one. Right. But then you also give him Kyle or Murray? Well, if you're the quarterback whisper or whisper, you know? Yeah. I mean, let me ask you this. Well, that's more rhetorical.

but for anybody. I would assume right now that people think that Sam Donald is a better quarterback than Kyle of Murray by how much and why exactly. You know what I mean? Like two years ago, you wouldn't have dreamed of saying that. I just don't see this Kyle of Murray

has fallen off completely thing. Would you rather have Tyler Murray or Baker Mayfield? Ooh, that is interesting. Interesting, because they're both starting quarterbacks. Would you rather have Kyla Murray or Bryce Young? Kyler Murray, not even close. Would you rather have Kyla Murray or Jalen Hertz? I would rather have Kyle or Murray.

Would you rather have Kyler Murray or Brock Purdy? Ooh, okay. I would rather have Kyler Murray, comma, but I can't confidently say he's better than Brock Party. And that's because this Brock, even if I can acknowledge he's better than ever thought he would be, that'll be it. I'll want him. Would you rather have Kyle Murray or Bow Nicks? Kyle of Murray.

You know what? I think the way to play this game is where it gets fun is if we, if we plugged Kyle or Murray into some of those situations that we're talking about. For example, if Kyle or Murray were the quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks, how much different do you think the results would be? If Kyle and Murray were the quarterback of the Denver Broncos, how much different would the results be? I think if Cowan Murray were the quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles,

we'd have a happy AJ Brown. Brother, I think that you and I have been working together a little too long because I was about to say the exact, oh, no, no, no, I love the fact that you had and I was going to say the exact same thing that I bet you, AJ Brown wishes Kyle was the quarterback. Are the Eagles? Yeah. I bet he badly wishes that that was the case.

Ooh, what do we do with C.J. Stroud? I was just about to. The C.J. Stroud's a hard one. The Kyler Murray game is fun. Like, now that we're here playing it, this is a big time. Do you think they have a similar situation? Do you think they'd be just as good if you flip-flopped Dak, Prescott, Tyler Murray?

No, I think Dak Prescott is better than him. I think that, I think, yes. I think that Dack Prescott is better I do too. I think that is like my exact like once you get past like 12 anything's possible. Anything's possible. Yeah and that this is if he's available I think the league is going to jump on. I think all we've been talking is about to

whittle away and go away because if you're telling me that if I don't get Kyle and Murray, I got to go get Tua or 35-year-old Gino's, if he's 35. Or the corpse of Aaron Rogers. Or $30 million a year to Malik Willis. And by the way, somebody's going to do it and I think there's a good chance it can work out.

We're far, we are far removed from watching Malik Willis be abject. For sure. We are way past that. I just don't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I would not want it to be my $30 million,

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U.S. has bombed Iran and people started betting on it on a pot market at least $200 million was staked on four wagers relating to the U.S. stakes in Iran. Kalsi had to put out this tweet. The odds that the Ayatollah is out at the Supreme Wader has surged to 68%. Reminder, Kalsi does not offer markets that settle on death. But what was your reaction to this? Hey, man, there is somebody who works there that's like, I can't keep doing this. Right. Imagine you being the person at the meeting

where they're talking about all of these things that have happened. Or you have to raise your person to raise your hand. So what's our rule if he dies? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So how exactly, I can't believe this is life, right? Like this is, this sounds like parody or satire in that. Right. I will say this.

I don't feel like getting into the real nitty gritty of the war. and I guess if there's it even count as war I don't know what all was I don't I don't know where to go okay I mean I think people in Congress are going to be debating that this next point week so I'm going to make two points there are just two observations that I have that we could all deal with right now number one I remember the first I told him first I told her for those of you who were too young was a really big deal like whenever it was that it was time like

back in the day we we talked about dictators a lot more you know what I mean mean, but he was a tier one, bad person. We talked about him all the time. And then he died. And I don't know why, but the next Iatollah, we don't really, he just got to, we never really bring him up very much, in spite of the fact that apparently he's so evil

that you got to smoke his ass and all his pottiness, right where they stay in. Are you saying we used to be a proper country because we knew who our dictators were? No, I'm trying to figure out how it is that this Iatoll had never caught on. It's like the new Kim Jong doesn't really catch on like that. Yeah, no, but I'm saying we've known all the kilns, right?

All as that is going on. But with this right here, I'm just very surprised that we, we, this, it's been the same one for 37 years and people don't know his name or nothing like that. I didn't even try to attempt to pronounce it. Yeah, it had just been, it had just been Iran. We never, we never got to the particulars of it. I don't, I just, I just personally don't understand. how that happened or why.

Number two, I cannot imagine that I finally, if you were the type of person who would want to do this, and I'm not. You finally stacked up your bread, you got on that plane, and you took your vacation to Dubai, and your hotel is getting bombed.

Private flights are going for six figures out of there. $325,000. It's one thing to go so much. wearing it's hurricane season, right? Like, oh, damn, they are bombing Dubai to airport. They're like, no, man, y'all's, you can't be serious right now. No, but they are. This is what happened.

I can't think of anything where one thing happened, and then the other team was like, all right, everybody getting it. Yeah. Anybody that's staying with you that's close to us, they're going to get it. And this has only been a couple of days. It is only, man, I think that was the other part. Oh, but Trump is like, hey, man, so here's what we going to do. We go bomb them and then y'all can go take over your country, which on paper may not sound like the worst idea.

In application, the probability of chaos is very, very high. If we've weren't anything for the last 60 years, it's a little bit harder on paper than it is in real life than it is on paper. Particularly there. Yes. And that's 70 years almost. But yes, particularly there. Have you seen Argo?

Yes. Argo made me rethink something. By the way, I watched Argo on a plane, and that was a shockingly emotional experience. Altitude does that, right? But when they was trying to get through the airport at the end, I've never been more on edge in my life. But that scene made me think about something

that nobody talks about when it comes to overthrowing the government. Everybody want to overthrow the government so they can do all the top line stuff. But once you overthrow the government, you are also responsible for the government. And so in Argo... The bureaucracy of the government. Yeah, yeah.

So in Argo, it was watching who the dudes were that are looking at passports. They're just dudes and camouflage with guns. They didn't get into this to be looking at your fucking passport. Nobody wants to do that. Right? And so they're like, hey, we're going to overthrow the government. Okay, then you overthrow the government. This somebody's got to run it.

And it's like, I said, who's going to work the airport? What do you mean? I don't want to work the airport. Like, there's not one person associated with their revolution that's like, yo, and once I get this, tell you. I want to be TSA. Yeah, school lunches. I'll be in charge of that.

No. No. So we did this for you. Now you can overthrow the government. There's a whole lot of cats that was like, hey, man, we ain't like him, but we wasn't trying to like. do his job. You know what I'm saying? Like there's a reason why we didn't do this ourselves. And this is an awful man, just to be clear. Yeah, not a fan. Yeah, yeah. But I'm just saying,

we, we killed your leader so that you could take over. I mean, thanks. All right, speaking of headlines that don't sound real, the Atlanta Hawks will host a Magic City Monday. Let, Libon Pepper Wings will be on the menu. T.I. is going to perform. This will happen. next few weeks, of course, Magic City, famous Atlanta strip club. But what was your reaction when you heard this news? Okay. So, number one,

maybe I'm just becoming a bit more prudish in my old age, but we don't need to mainstream the strip club that far. We know where it's at. You know what I'm saying? Like, we don't need to, I don't know. But number two,

I heard you say that they was going to have wings. I heard you say that T.I. was going to perform. You know what I didn't hear you say? Anything about dancers. Everything I've heard about Magic City night at State Farm Arena

has sounded like the city, but I ain't heard shit about no magic. The wings ain't that good. I go to Magic City just for the wings. Liant ass. If you do, you're doing it really wrong. Okay? But if it's Magic City Night and all it is is Wings and T.I.

I would stay at home. Or, or maybe I'd go to Magic City where they will have wings and they won't have T.I. but they'll have something I'd like a lot more in 2026. All right. And finally, Fox Sports debuted a new feature on its app where there is an AI Colin Cowherd. You can, you know, ask him anything, get his opinions, get his takes.

I asked AI Colin Cowherd, should Bomani Jones get his own AI app? This is what it said. Bumani Jones deserves his own AI app because he's a trailblazer in sports media, consistently pushing boundaries with his unfiltered opinions and should, sharp analysis. His commentary on athletes like Dionne Sanders and controversies surrounding Serena Williams has shown he's not afraid to tackle the tough topics. Jones has also been vocal about the state of sports media criticizing the quote, stick to sports crowd and highlighting the influence of athletes and media. Jones has expressed frustration with sports media

personalities, including AI generated takes to boost engagement, calling him, quote, fucking dorks. He believes that relying on AI undermines the value of original thought and authenticity in sports commentary. This stance demonstrates his commitment to maintaining high standards in sports media. Creating an AI app inspired by Jones could revolutionize how his fans consume sports analysis. It would offer a unique blend of his insightful commentary and sharp wit, potentially changing the sports media landscape. Bo, does this sound like you? Yeah, it would, it would revolutionize how my fans get their sports content by cutting me out.

Hey, man, that Colin, that's a shrewd man. That's a man who, his paper is right. I can't believe he agreed to this. Hey, hey, hey, why don't you make it a little easier to replace me next go round? Hell no, I ain't, no. This is fucking ridiculous. I couldn't believe, I can't believe. No, not in any way whatsoever.

Do I want any, any parts of this? And as we have talked about before, when it comes to AI versions of me, Remember when we did that that one day, Ryan? I do remember that one day. It was really racist, guys. Like, not offensively racist, but it wasn't like flattering racist. I don't know if, okay,

there is a sort of flattering racist, but I don't want to talk about that right now with my mama there. All right, Bo. Got some voicemails, a lot of good ones. Here's the first. How you doing, Bo? This is Jay from Boston.

and I had a question for you about the NBA. Pat Riley at his recent Hall of Fame speech made it clear that he wanted NBA coaches on the sidelines to go back to wearing suits. While I grew up in the era where Iverson was obviously demonized for the way he dressed and David Stern enacted, you know, a much tougher dress code that, you know, sort of morphed into, you know, the sideline. turned into runway that we kind of have going on now. I appreciate, you know, the freedom of coaches wearing what they want, but as a longtime fan, I can't deny that suits on the sideline bring an air of, I don't know, seriousness or gravity that, you know, on many levels, we all know the game, especially in the regular season, is lacking.

Doc Rivers had come up with a bit of a compromise when asked about it by the athletic. And he said that maybe coaches should, you know, wherever they want to wear during the regular season, but ship the suits for the playoffs to show, you know, the seriousness of, you know, playoff series. I think that's also, you know, potentially a decent compromise. But I did want to hear your thoughts about coaches going back to wearing suits on the sidelines. A long time fade of the show. Love what you're doing. Have a great day. I am 100% in agreement with Pat Riley on this.

it's part of the show. Yeah, it's good for the TV show. Yeah, I was saying it's also, look, let's, let's stop acting like we don't understand how things work, right? The suit, as you would, it is a signal of seriousness, right? Like, you are the guy in the suit. Why should anybody listen to you? You out here wearing a pullover?

You know, is that what I'm saying? I have to say, this is a little bit of, you know, Pat Rodas, who clearly looks better than most people in a suit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's, you're like, yeah. Yeah, everyone's wearing shoes. But these cats ain't talking this because they don't look good in suits. They're talking this because they're lazy. And they just want to throw the pullover all.

No, man, it's a part of the show. Now, I think the suit thing was actually better when the coaches were a little worse dressed. Right? Like, I'll never forget. I don't know. Doug Mo died recently, right? He rest in peace. You'd have no reason to remember when Doug Moe was the coach of the Nuggets.

But I remember when Dan Issel became the coach of the Nuggets. He played for Moe with the Nuggets and he went to college at Kentucky and played. under Adolf Rupp. And just to give you an idea of what kind of man Doug Moe was, Ensel said in his first game, as a tribute to Adolf Rupp, I'm going to wear a brown suit. As a tribute to Doug Moe, we're going to wear black shoes. Because Doug Moe shit was always super sloppy all over the place. But there's something to be said for like being the coach that can't get it right. You know, like this is, I don't know, the everybody looks the same.

And the significance of coaching has dwindled in so many ways. right, like the idea that the coach matters in basketball has fallen off. In baseball is the same way, right? And I don't think that's good for the product, actually. I think that they are part of the show. They are part of the tapestry, the mosaic, and all of these things. And dressing like this game matters or like you're an important person in this, I think those things matter, right?

I think those things go somewhere. And it was the thing that came around during the pandemic. And it made sense during the pandemic. Okay. But y'all don't work from home. So like, come on, man. Of course, I show up here with a wrinkle sweatshirts on every week. But that's a part of this show.

That show is different. All right. Here's our next one. Well, what up, Bo. This shack from O.P. And, bro, I've been listening to you for a long time over 10 years. I appreciate everything that you, you know, say and do and everything. And from a lot of listeners, they part on the O.P. stand for, I'm from Apollosos.

And I know you and Ryan, well, your pops is from Odell, Ryan from Lafayette. And I think we all got to a point in our lives when we were. can't go back all stars, all of us. My question for you, Bo, is who are the new age can't go back

all stars? Because we got the old school can't go back. Now, who are these youngs? These youngsters now for the can't go back. All right, Bo, appreciate you. Later. All right, you know, we ain't got as many as we used to, Ryan. This is becoming...

But, all right, Anthony Edwards, we absolutely know. Yeah. He is on that list. As I recall, Jonathan Cominga moved himself from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Yeah.

I did not know this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He ain't going back. I'd tell you that right now. Who else? Does Jonas count? Yes. The man who wasn't even a citizen?

Yeah. They wouldn't even give him a passport. Yeah, I would. The man who, by the way, they say still like come pick up leftover food. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And put it like this.

He believes that he can't go back. All the matters. Yeah, yeah, that certainly would put him on the list. I'd tell you this, I looked at Bones Highland. He was about to punch Valachunis in the face on Saturday. He looked like he in that boat. For sure. All right, here's our next one.

Hey, what's up, Bo? This is John Collier from Charlotte. And I just got a question, man. Where did we lose with R&B? Like, why is an R&B popping like you used to? And I'm asking because my reason about my pop's vinyl workers, and I know he's a big Josie fan. I'm just jem it out to him.

And they got some good stuff. I just want to know, like, where did we lose the rest of people in the can of R&B? I appreciate it. You know, I don't even... The thing that's gotten me is that if you're a certain age, and I feel like if you're asking that question, you're probably of this age,

you don't know anything about like contemporary R&B that doesn't sound like rap or like doesn't come with a rap verse or have the imaging of such. And it really was just one of those things where you just looked up and it happened. You know, like you go see, the problem is stuff that don't seem like that long ago is. But I'm like, man, if you think about 06, okay, that was 20 years. 20 years ago. Right. But like if you go to that point, you know, or the end of the aughts, I mean, there's still R&B out there.

like, you know, played on the same stages with the rap, played alongside of it that is clearly not rap, right? Does not necessarily have that influence. He just looked up one day and it was out of here, but what's wild about it is, the people that sell a zillion, not all, like all of them, obviously, but like,

Adele is singing a form of R&B music and she still makes zillions of dollars doing that. Bruto Mars, who's making zillions of dollars doing that. Anderson Pox, my favorite, and he has his own lane along there, but it's out there. the people who do it are hugely successful. So sometimes I feel like it's a misplaced question,

but I know exactly why you're asking the question, and I don't ever have a great answer for how it is that it, you know, got to that place. But, you know, like I do one of this, right, like at talent shows, the kids get up and sing in talent shows anymore because singing don't seem to be like what, what the game is. Yeah, I wonder if we're just almost too cynical. Yeah, almost not.

sincere enough for that sort of music. Yeah, but I think the problem for... I think to counter that is, again, Adel makes a zillions of dollars. Yeah, yeah. But the problem for me is I don't listen to radio because I'm never in a car. Same. So I don't... I can't say with any accuracy myself how these things are curated to say that there is no more blank.

Because every now of this, somebody will hit me up with somebody that, like, it'll feel to me more like music for somebody my age than for somebody young. You know, so I don't... Damn so old that I can I don't even know if I can I'm even allowed to talk about this no more. Ain't that something. All right. Here's our last one. Hey, Bo and Ryan.

This is Matt from New Orleans. I knew a white man who I knew is Dan for eight years. And I got his wedding invitation. It turns out his name was Danarius. She bought the good work. I think that's the same face mat made as well. He hug up that phone. like Larry Byrd in the three-point contest.

Dragon Fly Joe said that was on Twitter about somebody. I think he said with that dude here, Roland Martin, with both of these nuts back in the day. That is my image forever when somebody knows it's going in, right? He dropped down when he was like, he knew when he hung up that he was going to be on the show. For sure. He is stuck around the whole time to get to this.

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