Lamar Jackson is doing it all this year & still being slept on - Bo | #TheRightTime w/ Bomani Jones

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email who makes the story ladies and gentlemen welcome to the right time my name is Bomani Jones thank you for listening wherever you get your podcast thank you for watching us on YouTube rate us review us give us five stars you only give us four stars I'm inclined to believe that you hate it's Foxworth Friday Dominique Foxworth what's going on what's going on while I was listening to you read the promo about my show. I am enormously grateful for your help in promoting. He's

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great, but two, I realize I think I might be pushing back, maybe it's an off-air conversation between you and me, but I just realized.

It could be that I'm a victim of pushing back, it's a possibility, I just like it, I know. who, like you and other people, came to you to create more episodes. I'm here routinely churning out three a week with everything they didn't ask for as much, that's it, that's a side hustle if it was, if I had done it. I haven't seen one, but not everyone says you just need more reps to get better, so I'm like, I'm going to do these reps and get these reps. I'm going to be good, no, it's not a bag of fights like we used to do. two episodes a week and it became three until we started playing, after they started playing they were like, "How would you like to play 38 minutes a game?" You know what I'm saying, they're like you do all these shooting.

Honey, why did you put a little more like they wanted you to take most of the shots? That's, uh, that's a big win, man, no, but they ask you to take most of the shots and

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is the part that could be for an off-air conversation. Taking more shots comes with a little bit of leverage, once you've already shot them, you'll say, hey, I mean, I've been shooting these shots on my rookie contract and they'll

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be like, hey, well, that's what it was. It was expected of you, so that's what I mean when they asked me to start putting those shots, I was on the deal before, they weren't like me, how would you like to make some extra money?

I remember when he appeared and I said like this. Is this a request and it's like no, it's not this, this was this, this wasn't negotiated at all well and just like that it came on Friday? I was like, oh, okay, that's how we're going, but no, man, I'm glad I have you. I know I've been listening to very strong podcasts, my man Charlie Kravitz, working with you, one of my favorite people in this game, so I'm glad you're developing the reports, just complicated because it would have to be like you, possible. Friday arrived. I have to make sure I don't step on your toes, you know what I mean, I never want to say that our conversations go somewhere else all the time, it's kind of unpredictable and it's always amazing, so yeah, even if we talk about the same topics, somehow it ends. in a different place, yeah, cool, we've got some NFL to talk about, we've got some big quarterback matchups and we're also going to talk a little bit about the wildness of the whole picture udoku story, which doesn't seem like it It is resolved, but it is resolved for the better.

Now, but no one knows what to do with that, but we'll get there, but Dominique what we have is the NFL will give us Lamar Jackson against Josh Allen every

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like they used to give us Brady Manning, because I have to say it on a level . here for this on another level, it's going to destroy America exactly, it has that boxing feel to it, well you're invested in watching it more than like there are other investments besides your team on the field because most people aren't Ravens . or the Bills are fans of most people, but both quarterbacks, well actually one of them unless it's a really strong reaction, that's like irrational polarization considering the results he's gotten and that quarterback field is obviously Lamar Jackson Josh Allen, the reaction to him is polarizing. based on how he actually played, no, there was a huge benefit of the doubt extended to Josh Allen early in his career that, based on his college performance, based on his NFL performance, seemed unfounded and people are surely proud of that investment now. and while for Lamar Jackson it was the complete opposite, where despite the Absurd level success he was having, it was the opposite of the extended Goodwill tour for him, where it's like

doing

it again, doing it better, doing it different, no, you are not good enough. and I will leave it.

I'll get back to you in a second, but I feel the need to mention this quote that I also made on my podcast, but I think it was Jeremy Fowler when he did the preseason quarterback rankings. and Lamar was like 11th and an anonymous defensive coordinator said Lamar will never be the number one quarterback, he's a great football player. I don't care if he wins 12 MVPs, in my mind he will never be number one and if that He's not drenched in all kinds of books because that's what I get with Josh Allen and I think you and I are the right people to talk about the point I'm going to make because we weren't involved with Josh Allen. and then when Josh Allen started crying, what did we do?

We came out here and said: Josh Allen is playing well and not even with him, but we will see that I did have a measure, but we will see after his third

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what he pitched for. like 4,800 yards, but I

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said that even if he doesn't put up these same numbers again, that doesn't mean he's not good, it's true that these numbers are not realistic and then for me, it was that Kansas City game. that the playoff game was completely solidified, no, man, he's that guy, let's go out here and enjoy the fact that he's that guy.

Lamar Jackson won an MVP after leading this franchise and saving everyone's jobs and you still had people resisting and so on. Now this year we have Lamar Jackson in one of my favorite NFL phenoms, the contract year, right Dominique, you just happened to have a contract here all year, the best year of my career? Also, we played them before the saddest year of my entire life because the pressure was very real, but also motivation is something like psychological motivation, it is something that cannot be faked and I understand why coaches make board material of advertisements. I understand why you do all that because there is nothing. nothing more powerful than legitimate intrinsic internal motivation, that's why we revere those greats who are great and somehow still find a reason to be angry and send themselves to the gym, but yeah, if I had to feel how I felt that season every year of my life and the result is that I am the best of all time I think I don't want it I think I don't want it I prefer to be happy for much more of my life and uh and I don't have the career that a great one had.

I have to be honest with you. I know it sounds crazy, but I think if you touch that place, you could understand it. He was there at the Red, the Residence Inn, pedaling back, getting ready. out of the box, you all know that was on TV, everything you do, that's what was on that field DVD they sent you with, that was it, you haven't seen any new movies and Lamar Jackson is here like me it's time to get this bread dog it's time to get this bread um it looks like we can't complain about their receivers anymore because Rashad Bateman seems to be becoming what they hope he will become Devin Duvernay is coming there they have Mark Andrews like him doing so far this year, we'll see how he stays physically, we'll see how all that goes, but I feel like there are still people who are just sitting around waiting for something like losing a game to the Buffalo Bills, for example, that for the Es totally possible because the strange thing is the Ravens had all those injuries in the secondary last year and what do I keep hearing about the secondary now

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banged up like they're still in a very similar place on the other side that we have?

I got the bills and I actually feel like they've talked, they've taken this Josh Allen thing too far if you ever have him throwing 63 passes, no that's wrong, that's a bad recipe for any quarterback in football, ​​um, the big injury. things on the Ravens are important but left tackle is another very important spot they are now on their third string and at certain points last week their fourth left tackle and Lamar Jackson is special so you can design things to take the pressure of the left tackle with Lamar Jackson that you wouldn't exercise with other people, however, Von Miller and that Buffalo defensive front is also very special, so it's a tough spot for the Ravens to figure out how to deal with that, but um, yeah.

To your point, I agree, obviously the pressure they put on Josh Allen and Josh Allen's play last week is hard if it's hard for you to like the grade, I guess because they asked him to do it so much and he put up numbers. crazy which would suggest you give him a high rating, but he also liked to throw the ball to the other team and do weird things like those risky old school Josh Allen things where he fake spiked and tried to throw a pick six . before halftime and he likes to hit, hold the ball and get sacked, fumble and hit Xavian Howard in the chest with the ball in the end zone, so yeah, and then just put him on his back and go for big runs and Playing people running over people, so it was a high variance game where I don't know how to feel about him in that game, but I mean he's good enough to not know that a single game matters to him, It's not an insurance issue for Lamar. although unfortunately, yeah, we're past the point, especially with Josh Allen, where every game is a referendum, you know what I mean and I think about when you start to see the ways that people talk about Lamar Jackson, okay, great, just remember this, that friend. he was in a draft with five first round picks he was one Josh Allen was the other the number one pick doesn't play for the same team the number three pick doesn't play for the same team the guy who was drafted right after Josh Allen Not even I'm sure if he's in the league, we didn't think Josh Allen was the best Josh in that draft, right, Lamar Allen, I mean Lamar Jackson, three trips, two trips to the playoffs and the MVP, as well as keeping that part It doesn't matter when you start talking about oh man, this guy isn't this, it's not that or whatever, no, Baker Mayfield, it's not Sam, damn, it's not Josh Rosen, it's not that Lamar Jackson, mvp, it we have seen everything. quarterbacks lose and all quarterbacks have deficiencies and all quarterbacks who are good lose in big game situations.

The bad thing about Lamar Jackson. The hard thing about evaluating or hearing people evaluate Lamar Jackson is that a lot of them come with this confirmation bias, frankly wanting to be right, which is fine and we all have that about Lamar Jackson, but they don't take into account that he also he passed LeBron, but they look at his record in the Finals as if not the fact that he took some of those teams to the Finals. The finals, it's true, are way ahead of schedule for a player like that, that's how it is. The Spurs had no business in the finals with that roster, but he was good enough to get there and somehow now we look at this like, oh, but he was.

He's a closer in the Finals and the same thing happens to Lamar Jackson, where it's like you got them, you left him and one of the best ways to look at this about Lamar Jackson is that they were a mediocre or bad football team, they took out Joe Flacco. and fell to Lamar Jackson, they did not lose again until the playoffs. I think it was six in a row and then he brings them into these games routinely in high leverage situations and Patrick Mahomes' first run in his first year and second year was successful. in those situations no one else does it, it's so weird I don't know Ben Roethlisberger, maybe I guess you could say Russell Wilson, but they don't ask him to do much and that's another thing, plus Ben Roethlisberger wasn't the catalyst. to those teams you know and Tom Brady, yes, Tom Brady again had success in those high leverage situations, but he was not the fulcrum on which that team pivoted in the same way that Lamar is, to come to the criticism that are potentially fair. about Lamar Jackson, in certain situations you have to overlook so many incredible things that he's done to get there and that's what I find frustrating, particularly when juxtaposed with Josh Allen, where everyone will or won't, so many people are fine with wait and and and I think that probably fueled some of my criticism of Josh Allen, since I'm watching Josh Allen not play well and people like him, but he's good, and I'm watching Lamar Jackson beat everyone's ass and people like him like it, but in the fourth quarter of a playoff game, how is Lamar going to do well?

Well, that's all I have to say and I think this should make it clear if Lamar is not doing well, explain to me why Brian Daybowl is anyone's head coach and Greg Roman. It's not because normally, when you have a quarterback that goes out and plays the same way that Lamar Jackson has, there was an MVP, your offensive coordinator would get a job somewhere, that's how it works, nobody's trying tohire Greg Greg Roman, yeah, I think so. You're probably right, but I think Greg Roman is also thought to be a certain type of quarterback. Whisperer, yes, yes, it is and no one has Lamar Jackson.

I guess I heard Jalen hurts, he's someone who could benefit from a Greg Robin style offense. because, like when you point out Greg Roman's success, he's behind Kaepernick and Lamar Jackson. Well, wait, wait, but don't forget the neighbor reanimation because that implies that something was alive before, but bringing Alex Smith to life in 2011 also happened in Greg Roman. Look, that's fair and yeah, yeah, I mean. I think that's why Greg Roman, or at least that's what teams can point to, has so many podcasts. Did you know that there are currently more than 2.4 million podcasts in the world, including the one you're listening to right now? a team of people to help put these podcasts together, it takes Gabe directing everything from the top, it takes ADI to put together the video footage, it takes Dominique and all the guests that come to join in and help make it all a lot better, now it goes without saying that hiring the right people for these roles is important and whether you are hiring for a podcast or for your growing business, there is only one place that makes it easy: zip recruiter and now you can try it for free at ziprecruiter.com ZipRecruiter uses this powerful technology to find and match the right candidates to your job, plus ZipRecruiter has a full suite of tools that makes it easy to filter, review and qualify your candidates, so if you're a fan of this podcast and want to try ZipRecruiter for free, you must remember. our special URL ziprecruiter.com once again than ziprecruiter.com b-o-m-a-n-i ZipRecruiter, the smarter way to hire, can you?

I mean, this is a bit of a tangent to that Washington Post article, uh, and they're doing a whole exposé series on black NFL coaches, but the one from a couple weeks ago really made me think a lot more about this, but the idea that we don't have the Genius guy label or just his General Genius label just for offensive guys is a little absurd, particularly in a season where it seems as if defenses are ahead or improving for the first time in a long time. and I thought about that when I was watching that admittedly terrible Thursday night game between the 49ers and the Broncos oh Monday night, yeah, oh yeah, Sunday night, Sunday night, Sunday night night, Sunday. night game my bad um and I was just watching the Demico Ryan thing and I thought Brandon Staley did a lot less and got a job and we all like to bow at the altar of Kyle Shanahan and he deserves a lot of that credit but two years into this moment. by D'Amico Ryan and this the strength of that team has been the defense, not the offense, the offense has been fun and unique, but the reason why they are winning important and competitive games and why they are in this game in the that are. this last game and the reason they might have a run this year is because what D'Amico is doing, why aren't we talking about him as a kid genius like we do a lot of other places?

I mean, I know the answer to that, but yeah, tangent. Off your tangent oh double Tangy, yeah, so I was with a radio station in San Francisco for a while and they wanted to talk about the 49ers and it was interesting because they were like you were talking about the 49ers offense and you said it was weird. I said no, I didn't say the 49ers offense is weird. I said Kyle Shanahan's quarterbacks are weird and I really don't understand the guy who actually thinks of Kirk Cousins ​​as a vision of perfection for his offense and the guy who went with Jimmy Garoppolo instead of even trying Mitchell Trubisky, DeShaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes and he finally becomes the guy that goes with the trade lands, they like it, those are things here that don't really add up for me in terms of his flavor of quarterbacks.

So we talk some more and we should talk about Jimmy and I'm like, man, he's not doing well, so I look up and the San Francisco, I don't know if he's the San Francisco Chronicles, one of those San Francisco, uh. like newspaper websites and they're talking about how gleefully he was tearing up Jimmy Garoppolo and I'm like, there was no joy in tearing him up, this is just a matter of fact, a situation where he runs out the back of the zone annotation, shout out to you, Dan Orlowski, your sense of humor is incredible, your willingness to laugh at yourself is great because I would have had enough after 14 years, um, and I said, no, this is not about gleefully trashing Garoppolo. as much as Justin's recognition and a question of why people are so similar to not everyone, but there is still a segment of people who are so insistent on trying to say, "Hey, Jimmy G is a winner and I'm like the winners did not do it.

They don't throw passes with their eyes closed, you know what I mean, that's not what they do, but it was funny because then that radio station comes on at the end because you know I had skepticism about Steph Curry at the highest, highest levels , higher, higher. It's not that I don't think Steph Curry is a Hall of Famer. I don't think Steph Curry is that good, it was like Hey, I've never seen Steph Curry in this situation, let's see how he goes and then he gets into that situation and it was the way other people assumed.

I didn't suppose it was going to happen, but I never thought that he can't do that. It's like, hey, let's go ahead and see, so what do I see in San Francisco, the capital of aggregation? "Bomani apparently admits that he was wrong about Steph Curry. What I specifically said was that he took all the skepticism I had about him, wiped his butt with it, and asked me to take a good sniff. I was skeptical, but I didn't say that I could." I don't do it well, but man, he's so wild that the particular market is the one that will take one little thing and turn it into something else and I'm like, he's fine, I don't even want to talk to any of you.

No more, I said I couldn't do it, no one added me, that's you, you're a victim of your well, I guess Steph himself added me, but you're a victim of your own success, where they want to use. your name to get me excited, but I think this is like we as people see the world through stories and stories, we like to have absolutes and you know, we would like to have a bad boy and a good boy, and that helps. so much so that I think yeah, uh,

being

like it's a piece that you write or a radio segment that you do, that's like yeah, he's fine, whatever it is, it's not that funny or the fans follow the narrative season, It's not as fun as watching. a game and not waiting to dunk on someone after it's over and even it doesn't matter what they said, the details don't matter, is it close enough to be opposite to my opinion or what we just saw to dance on?

It's a lot more fun, it's a much more rewarding experience as a story, so as I understand it, I'll be there for you from time to time, but when I'm right, I need all of you to come. here and celebrate, but that's the problem. I think it's like, you don't celebrate my correctness with almost the same zeal with which you jump on the moments where even if I was wrong, I wasn't wrong, you decided I was wrong even if I was right that you wanted me to be right. Yes, you know what I'm saying. I'm not even saying you need to come jump on me when we are in opposition with the same fervor when I'm right and you're wrong.

You understand, you know what I'm saying, but even if we are on the same team, it is not possible to talk about us. Sorry, yes, no, no, I was just going to say that talking about us seems to be right, we never came. We found out our number, uh, when we go to review the Tom Brady situation and I recognize that it's not just about Tom Brady because, in fact, they are exhausted, they have some issues that they have to deal with and that they don't Do you have anything what to do with him? They were there with me, you, Gabe and the wide receiver.

I get that, um, though, he still didn't look like a big, proper, lookalike Tom Brady, and to give you an example of this, that Super Bowl with the Chiefs and the Bucks playing this week Mahomes was right there with me, you and Gabe blocking. and Mahomes has never looked better. I've never been more impressed than watching him run for his life throwing touchdown passes Fade Away all this stuff right, you know what I mean and I can't blame the guy for dropping it, why would he think the ball was coming right? Why would you expect something like that to happen?

Brady It doesn't seem like he's great and surrounded by obstacles like Daniel Jones, for example, where you can make all the arguments about the line and everything else, but I know what it looks like when a good quarterback has a bad offensive line. I saw Andrew Luck in full. The time in Indianapolis, for example, is not really what it seems like now in Tampa Bay, they seem like a team with a great defense and I guess we'll see when Evans, you know, Evans will be suspended again because God wants to come back eventually. and then we'll see what that offense looks like, but for now Tom Brady doesn't look like a guy that's rising, yeah, you said a bunch of things there that are super interesting to me, so first about this.

A little bit about the Daniel Jones thing is I think you said you know what a good quarterback looks like behind the line and I think you would know what a great quarterback looks like behind the journeyman behind an offensive bat line and like Andrew Luck was really great. behind that crap my house is really cool behind that crap so I think it's fair to look at Daniel Jones and say we don't know what we have because there is the potential to have a game manager that I know no one really wants, without However, if you have a type that is good enough.

I think we're so caught up as fans and media people that it's like saying Check Yes, Check No, this guy is Elite, if he's not Elite let's move on when in reality you can win with a guy who isn't Elite and Daniel Jones, I think he falls into that category, but we don't know what he is, so all that aside, as far as Tom Brady, there are questions about his recipe for success, he's a great defense and we said that at the beginning of the year, so It was like this. The Packers game was exactly how they want things to go, it's a great defense, we give it to our guy at the end in a decisive situation and he will be able to put us in a situation to win the game and that's what makes it difficult to be. critical of Tom Brady right now, which I have had no problem criticizing them for.

The reason we didn't put a number on him last week was because I came in and said we don't need to put a number on them I'm seeing these things and he's not that guy right now and whether it's because of any psychological impact of the drama on his life or perceived drama in his life off the field or it's because he's getting older or it's because he's old players because they're receivers. Don't know. I can not tell you. All I can tell you is that when I watch him, he throws a great pass every once in a while, but most of the game is him. not being able to pass on quotes Elevate the team around him like everyone said Dak needed to do and it seems like he can't do that, which is fine, I mean like Lamar Jackson can, I don't know who else I can I can't point to anyone else from above, yes I mean Josh Allen, yes, however Josh Allen became Josh Allen with Stefan Diggs so it seems like it's no disrespect and I'm much better hurt now that AJ gets there.

No, the line is great. I guess my general point is that I don't know, we've never done it. I guess we saw houses in that playoff game with a garbage offensive line, but I don't know who can do it like the people we talked about. It's because I think it's a good talking point, but football is so dependent, that position is so dependent, no one really lifts the bad ones, you might like to lift the mediocre ones a little higher, but anyway, yeah, Freddie is in the crib warming them all. tb12 hungry man. Dennis, he also sells food.

I mean, I don't know, but all I'm saying is that normally in a situation like this, given what's going on, I don't know if he watched the first season of True Detectives and they had that. scene where Woody Harrelson was sitting in the crib with the TV tray eating that hungry man eating that dinner, that hungry man, and it was like, oh boy, you're wrong, that's one of the scariest things I've ever seen in my life, Tom Brady eating them, hug. Your man asks me why I'm here friend, why am I here but what was I thinking?

People still eat them. I mean, I guess they still sell them, but I feel like when I was young, I guess in the '90s and early '90s, like microwaves. I just started showing up, damn, I'm old and I like TV dinners and chilled or frozen dinners, it was like a thing and I feel like maybe it's just that I don't know your mayor, you're married, that's where It all comes down to liking you. Come highlight some people like me, but I do a different way of dinners. I do a catering service. You know what I'm saying, oh yeah, you know.

So, they have evolved. This is not necessarily necessary. Come in and get lasagna off the couch, that's what I want. You all know that you don't necessarily have to go do that, but no, catsThey are not yet trying to cook their own food. They know that game is still going on. that's like Tom Brady has to have a tb12 brand hungry man because otherwise they'd be putting things in there like meat, um, you know, he might catch a strawberry seed in there or something or whatever and then they say you know that everything is going downhill. uh, maybe that explains it, I think you might have figured it out, aha, you've been eating strawberries, it's not good at all anymore, she doesn't have the hand to get the meals she deserves anymore, yeah, she likes it, Alice doesn't know how to cook .

Meals Alice prepares other things that they can write, but you know he can't, he can't understand that now, the other side of that game because you know we don't know if the game will probably be played in Minnesota because a hurricane approaching Tampa, huh , Mahomes, it's interesting now because they didn't kill Tyree and Tyreek Hill mattered and to me what makes Tyree's kills so impressive is not just his speed. It's speed that goes from side to side and up and down, it's at the north, southeast, west, so it's not a guy like Randy Moss, who might be the fastest guy in football I think I've ever seen, but you were just afraid of Randy.

Moss straight speed in Parkinson 6-4 right Tyreek Hill that five nine five ten five eleven Zona is stretching the field in all directions that offense doesn't have that anymore like they don't have anyone to get the ball to, that's scary that they have guys that are effective, but not scary and, as a result, the offense looks different, yes, that agility, that quickness and the real football like it was Tyreek Hill is a unique football player because he is a football player, ​If that makes sense, because like many. Guys that have that kind of speed can't track the ball in the air, they don't have vision with the ball in their hands and the biggest thing you were talking about is that lateral speed, that quickness, they don't have that and so on.

Plus, he accelerates incredibly fast, which there's no answer, thank God, he's not six-two because the league would be over if he was at least six feet tall, but all of that together makes him effectively helpless because he can play all. and also since he would have done it, they could have won that game with him because he erases things you know, like the mufa plant, all that stuff, Kelsey drops all that stuff, it doesn't matter because we're in a one score game and somewhere moment during the course of this scoring game, he would have taken a play that was supposed to be a five-yard gain and turned it into 25 or taken away someone else's amount of defense to allow him to score. great game and those are the things that you won't be able to manufacture with a scheme or with any player you bring in because it's kind of one on one, like I think maybe Dante Hall, but even that was just running back kicks.

Yes I know. I had to guard him in the slot many times and it was a pain, but he wasn't putting. I ran into him in Las Vegas, uh, at the draft, good guy, anyway, I'm impressed that you recognized him without a helmet. Honestly, by the way, every time I didn't do it at first, but I mean, I don't know if I would have recognized him, not because I didn't see him, my friend who was a roommate in college and was a punt returner who broke records in college loved Dante when I was in college so I saw him from across the club and then we walked up and yelled at him but anyway yeah he was like there you go so I went over it and Lo we brought to the table, we had a good time anyway, the point is that killing Tyree is that special and you can't replace it and I'm happy that I can talk to you in these squares and there's no one out there telling me.

Go cover that and The scary part, by the way, is that the Dolphins have two of them, yes, they swagger too. It's time every time it's both, yeah, man, yeah, he and two are doing their thing, like analyzing a couple of his plays recently, while he's not and maybe he. He'll grow up, maybe prove me wrong and become the elite quarterback, but to me he's a franchise quarterback, which is kind of an arbitrary term, but I like to say it as a high-level game manager. , not as a game. Changer, he's like a guy you don't want to change, but you like him because if you play well with him and you ask him, look, we need five plays from you this week, we need three plays from you this week, he'll give it to you.

That's consistently without going down his leg, yeah, and that's a lot to ask, but if you say, go be Lamar Jackson, go be a patch on my houses, no, no, what you're asking for a quarterback at Less is fine, that is. It's no longer a question we should answer, like I feel pretty decent after three weeks as a wounded Jalen skeptic, well, that's no longer the question the Eagles should try to answer, you know what I mean, like If I had already done enough to know where it is. The best quarterback in the world. No, he must jump on my back.

The situation probably not, but they don't need to spend this year as a man. I have to figure out if we need to go to the draft and get a quarterback next year, no. No, no, no, no, that's not like that, that's not where we are. You have a team like Washington that literally every year for the last nine from 2013 until now, what are we doing with the quarterback right after Robert Griffin got hurt? Every year, so what are we? let's do with this quarterback. I just want to get to this because it happened when we were away, like when I was away.

I've never been more off the record OMG than with this email udoga story. I wish I could tell you everything I've heard but I don't want to get sued oh yeah I'll tell you oh it's all over the place man do I need to hear it before I continue this conversation? Is this a musical game situation or are we talking after the after the show, yes, play it, thank you for your patience, a representative of the right time will be with you shortly, your current wait time is 15 seconds, foreigner, but that is all I heard, you know what I mean, a lot of it was flying around and it turned into a larger discussion about everything else, well what's the problem if he had a consensual relationship with someone who works there and I was like, damn, was that also a moment where I became more and more aware of George Floyd?

It was a moment, I was also a moment because look man, in that position you can't get depressed with subordinates. You can tell me what everyone else in the league is doing and you can tell me this is something that happens across the board, maybe. that's why he got caught why he was the one that got caught up in this I don't know I really don't know I don't have the answers for you on that, but one thing I learned in 2017 is subordinates are a No-No and you could break down an org chart for me and you could tell me well, she worked in another part of the office, you are the subordinate coach by definition, if you come in and say she's going to be fired, she can be fired and that means you can't meet that period.

I'm surprised people are responding to that like I'm surprised he didn't get fired yeah the head coach um everyone's off limits everyone in the building is off limits if you're the head coach of the football team or I introduce a basketball team or any team that is generally like that I feel like there are some people in the organization and I know that most organizations have a policy of not fraternizing with employees and I also understand that many people They fall in love and marry someone they met in office, so they like rules that are different for different people at different levels of organization, but this is obviously not analogous to the Robert Sarver thing, but it makes me think about that when Adam Silver gave that press conference where he essentially said, I mean, paraphrasing, he essentially said that Robert Starver uh doesn't have to follow the rules the same way the rest of you do because he owns the team. an example that shows that if there are different levels of expectations and greater responsibility when you are at the top of an organization and you send an email to Doga is at the top of the organization, so there are different levels of expectations and responsibilities, the difficult about this or It's not a difficult thing, but the most interesting thing about this topic to me is the racial component, which is not the most important part, but it is the part that I find most interesting to think about because all the other things in it seem quite obvious.

You can't mess with the people you work with if you're a head coach, so the reaction isn't that interesting to me and I talked a little bit about this in the bonus episode I do with my podcast with David. Dennis is partly because of how the information came out, people took sides and then once they took sides, they didn't entrench themselves into either side and the racial component is almost reflexive when a black person is in trouble or did something wrong or they are being accused of something or being punished there is a segment of society, particularly when it is a black man, there is a segment of society or black people in general who go to the Cape to get them immediately and then there is also a segment of the internet at least that I'm sure you know because I hear he's mad at me if I don't dress up as DeSean Watson or email Joker or whoever he's in trouble and given the paucity of early reports and , frankly, the use of the word. consensual they entrenched themselves and then when we started to find out more, they didn't want to get out of it and you have to be able to get out of it because I'm okay, even I'm not okay, I feel It's also part of my responsibility as a black person in the media to point out the inequalities and hypocrisies that apply to black people in sports and around the world.

I don't have to defend everyone though, yes, and some people I can't defend until I hear everything about it and that's how I feel like I wish more people would react, yes, but with the things that I don't know if they're official, all the things that revolve and everything that arises around him, I just feel like they would fire this guy if they weren't really interested in him as a coach, I mean, no one wants to get this guy, at least not from a standpoint. organizational; There might be someone who works there who would really like it. that good things happen to him, but I don't feel like the world is behind him, so when you talk about people coming together right now because we have to defend the black man and I think that type of things happen and his general, yes a woman is definitely not if a black woman doesn't stand up for the black man in these circumstances, then by definition that woman, whoever she is, hates black men like it's crazy to talk to them.

I think all of that goes too far, but we are here largely because that man had been dealing with me like that. The saddest thing I saw was all those cats, prominent people, blue checks, elected officials, thinking this is the time to Shoot Nia Long, bro, all you're doing is making things worse for her because she's the collateral damage. in all of this because bro, this is embarrassing for her, yeah, like she's like, it would be really cool if you all did it. just leave me out of this yeah now my wife explained that to me quickly where I was complaining about these people like trying to celebrate Nia Long right now and I just said it was annoying and stupid and she was like no it's worse . like no woman wants this to come out and no matter how many people run to her side to comfort her right now, this is not the comfort you want, you're like you don't want to, you know, you know, that's right it's not something to be proud of and maybe she's the most understanding person on this but tell me a black woman trying hard to be understanding just no that's not on them and that's okay thank you sleazy stranger.

I really appreciate you showing it. Up here I'm always used to joking about guys at these times. You know they appear like you know. I never thought he was good for you, but you know you seem happy, so I just wanted you to be happy. That's it, that's what all these guys are and I said, what are these casts? It's a matter of time for us, you know, how about I come over, we read the good book and think about where we're going to go from here, anyone? It's not yeah, this is this, it's not, do you think that, aside from the Nia Long situation, that type of man exists outside of that, do you think that you don't know that if you make that game and it worked, it's because she liked you beforehand she knew what was coming up and if you pulled that game and it didn't work it's because it's a crazy game they see right through you you're not fooling them they smell better than you anyway yeah you might have made it when you were 19 years, like you accomplished that in high school, right when you were trying to solve their problems to get to the place everyone really wanted to go, but you'd be embarrassed to get up because 'Everyone went to church their whole damn life, but no, No, no, the past like Nia log is already over, no, it's all bad, go ahead, can I say somethingabout the point about to continue as if black people feel the need to Capa him or defend him as I understand it and they are probably right, probably not, many white men and white coaches have done similar things and probably got away with it and got away with it.

You might say that, just as white executives could get away with two, you could also point out several examples of white executives not getting their way. Is there unequal treatment in this world? Yes, however, whether you are explicit or not, you are not arguing for equality, you are arguing to everyone to create another class that is above the law, so it's like saying they wouldn't have done this to a man white. You're not making the world a better place, you're just making it a worse place for women and if your hope is how you wish it would be.

I have treated email the same way I would have with a white man. I left out the facts of the situation and will just accept it as if I don't have to do any research to back up whether that is true or false. It is difficult to prove it. but I'll go and accept that it's true what your solution is if you're preparing to treat him like this mythical white man that you're talking about if that's your solution that's not better you're on the wrong side and That's why it's okay to say let's make sure Hold everyone to this standard, that's fine, but coming out here saying you shouldn't have lost your job because it wouldn't have been done to a white man is essentially saying, let's rise to this level. that allows us to get away with mistreating people, it's not like you're not fighting right, you think you're fighting and I would also take note that they replaced him with a black man with a domestic violence charge in his past now same.

I understand it's the Franco Harris team, you know what I'm saying, his team. I don't want to say team Mike Tirico because Joe Missoula seems to approach this differently. You know Giancarlo Esposito in a way he didn't expect when I saw Joe Missoula. He was going to be the next coach and then I looked up and he looked a lot like George Hill. I did not do it. I died. That wasn't what he expected. He surprised me too. Yes, but it's hard to argue that it's about taking. For the black guy, I want to make a point before I talk about Missoula and the domestic violence charge because I've seen this come up, I've seen the internet chatter about all of this stuff, I mean, it's the stuff surrounding her and Malika.

In mentioning that on that broadcast, please understand that when Vic Reisbach, the owner of the Celtics, did his press conference about all of this stuff, he was asked about it and he explained that apparently they had looked into this thoroughly and they asked him about it. when she hired him and then Missoula got to a new place in her life and everything else is fine, this is the bottom line, if you are a man accused of putting his hands on a woman, at any time there is a good chance that you will have answer for it for the rest of your life that's the trade, that's the game you end up with and once a lot of people, particularly women, realize that you have this on your record, they want and need it to be recognized because too often we have simply ignored this with men in these circumstances.

Now what I would say is that if I were a television producer, I probably would have put this is what Big Grossbach said about this right, but it's something that needs to be mentioned, it's something that needs to be mentioned. I mentioned and I was stunned when I found out that the guy had this in his background and then he got the job since we're dealing with udoka and it's related to the treatment of women. Right, I thought, oh, are you sure that's the way you want to do it, but they vouched for it and it's something that Missoula at some point will probably have to vouch for and it's something that I think is fair to mention even if It was 13 years ago because what people ask again I thought we had learned some things in me too and that's how you know me too for many people it was just a moment, is the feeling that the people who committed such events are now They take responsibility and they don't have to answer for what they did and that's why people want that and so I understand why someone mentions that thing so I'm sorry, this is a bit of another tangent but I think people come on our tangents, but when I was watching Whit Groesbeck's press conference uh and um, whatever it was.

I googled who he was to read and learn a little more about him and I think his name is Wyclef, for example, why clef John or why Cliff, it's me W Wick. it's short for w-y-c-l-i-f-f-e that's why bro I thought it was like Vic spelled Wick, I never realized I didn't know there was another Wyclef key or wow I don't know do you think he can do do you think he can make some Beats. I mean, Wyclef, he made a good beat in about 20 years, so he didn't really make some good ones, he made some good ones back then, although I don't know what else we pointed out.

I don't know, you know? more about music than me, he was going to say kitty rap, but hey, that's questionable, that's cool, yeah, I know that's what I did. I didn't want to mention that. The only thing I know why clapping is good is that it can make Beats. I'll end this with one of my best musical takes and I'll take this one to the grave. Carnival is a better album than Lauryn Hill's Miseducation. Don't tell your wife I said that. Don't tell your wife I said that. I actually feel like I've gotten back to having a halfway decent grace with her.

I don't like that Monty said that the carnival is better than Mrs. Dominique's wife. Ms. Dominique's wife gave me the bird for saying that Lauren Hill's unplugged album was a beating for anyone who didn't. I don't know what she'll do to me for being rude, yeah to be fair she's not a crazy Lauryn Hill fan, she likes Lauryn Hill, but I think it was one of those albums where I think she was pregnant and uncomfortable and that was On the album we already had kids and that was the album that helped her get over it like an old album.

She wasn't pregnant when the album came out, but for some reason those songs spoke to her at the time, so they hold a place in her. life is different from the rest, so she, she, she, she, she, no, she's not mad at you for saying she won't be mad at you for saying that carnival is better, okay, she's not like she's not a Lauryn Hill post, it's just That particular album happened to him because he would be killing the women who were pregnant when the rudeness came out and it would be another Joy, oh mom, no, I hate that song, that song is crazy and I did, maybe or I may not have ever told someone who was telling me how much they loved that song.

I thought, look, I've never been pregnant, so maybe I'm just not in the situation where I can properly appreciate where that came from. I probably should. stop talking now man they have a lot more Jodeci or play in the house than us Lauren Hill to be completely honest with you smart play smart play that's Dominique Foxworth check him out on antscape check him out get up check them out glance in the first shot. and of course check out the entire Dominique Foxborough show, two episodes a week plus a bonus, be sure to check it out my friend.

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