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A quicker show on this Friday, March 20th,

day two of the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Day one was pretty good day.

I'll go through some of that here momentarily.

On the show today, I'm also in the second segment

gonna get to what Tom Brady said to Jaden Daniels

on the stage as they were holding their draft

for this flag football game,

which is scheduled for tomorrow in Los Angeles.

I have some thoughts on not only what Brady said to Jaden,

but the game itself in Jaden's participation in it.

We'll get to that in the next segment.

Real quickly, my smell test picks get posted on Twitter.

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I was three in one yesterday,

four in one now for the tournament so far

and I've got four more picks for day two this afternoon

and this evening.

Day one of the tournament, good day.

I loved Howard's first half against Michigan.

They really represented well in this tournament

for the MiAC.

They won their first ever tournament game

on Tuesday night and the first four against UMBC

and then they were within 50 to 46 at half time

against a one seed as a 30 and a half point underdog.

They ended up covering easily.

They lost by 21, but really good effort by Howard,

especially in that first half.

How about Virginia Commonwealth

coming from 19 down in the second half

to knock off North Carolina?

A lot of people kind of looked at that as a major upset.

It really wasn't.

It was an 11 over a six,

but North Carolina was just a two, two and a half point

favorite in that game.

Remember, they are without and were without Caleb Wilson,

one of the best freshmen in the country,

a top three, top four projected pick in the June draft.

But tough loss for Hubert Davis,

who's now kind of on hard times here recently

with North Carolina after taking them to the title game

in his first year as a head coach.

That's something to watch certainly to see.

If one of the blue blood programs

decides to take on a new coach possibility

and moving on perhaps from Hubert Davis,

the high point win over Wisconsin

was just a brutal loss for Greg guard, man.

That guy is a really good basketball coach at Wisconsin

and he now has not taken his team

past the first weekend since 2017.

It really is one of those situations

and I thought about it after he lost

and you could see the dejection on his face

because everybody in the business knows that Greg guard

is a very good basketball coach.

But man, this sport is measured on what you do in March

and I can remember these conversations

about Mark Turgent with Maryland fans

and Maryland fans hated when I said,

look, be careful what you wish for

because Mark is an excellent coach.

Everybody knows it.

Anybody that knows anything about basketball knows

he's an excellent coach

and all of the regular season fun that we've had

and all of the tournament trips

he went to six out of the last seven

when he was the Maryland coach.

You know, they're not guaranteed by anybody new

but you know, March success wasn't there for him.

You know, he got Maryland to the sweet 16 one time

in all of those tournament trips

but you really do have to

as a college basketball fan of a big program

in a big league.

You do have to kind of enjoy the journey.

I mean, Wisconsin won games at Purdue, at Illinois,

top 10 teams on the road

in ridiculously difficult environments.

That is so thrilling in the moment.

You know, I remember in 2020,

you know, before COVID hit and shut down the tournament,

you know, Maryland went on the road that year

and had just some memorable wins.

They went on the road and beat Illinois on a Friday night

with, I mean, that place in champagne was just lit

because Illinois was good that year

and Maryland won that game.

Maryland came back with Anthony Cowan knocking down

three threes in the final like three minutes of the game

at Brezlin Center to beat Michigan state late in the year.

I mean, those are moments, man.

And yet these coaches are judged on what they do in March

and doesn't matter if you're ranked 10th in the country.

Doesn't matter if you're a 3C.

Doesn't matter if you want a regular season championship

in your league, you better, you know,

you better get to the final four at certain places

and you better get to the second weekend in a lot of places.

So Greg Gard and Wisconsin fell to high point.

AJ DeBonza and BYU ousted by Texas 7971.

Despite DeBonza scoring 35 of the team's 71 points,

he got seven million reportedly.

Seven million to go to BYU to play for what turns out

to be one year and not even one NCAA tournament win.

Nebraska won its first ever NCAA tournament game.

Looked good doing it by crushing Troy, St. Louis

and Georgia played last night that I had the over

and that game ended hit.

And if you haven't seen Robbie Avila play for St. Louis

yet, check him out tomorrow, 610 center, goofy looking

as hell, glasses, the whole thing.

He played at Indiana State a few years ago

before transferring to St. Louis,

but he can just really play really good passing big man.

Great feel for the game.

They play tomorrow against Michigan.

And then the Seattle Duke game for me,

that was the most intense drama of day one.

Of the Thursday games all due respect to Virginia

and Purdue, both of those teams being the only two to ever lose

as one seeds to 16 seeds.

But if Duke had gone down yesterday to Sienna

as a one against a 16,

it would have become the NCAA tournaments all time upset.

NC stayed over Houston, you know, in 83 that was shocking

in the final Villanova over Georgetown in 85,

a little less so than NC stayed over Houston,

but a big shocker and considered to be one of the biggest

upsets in NCAA tournament history,

but nothing, nothing would have matched.

Sienna as a 27 and a half point underdog beating Duke.

First of all, they didn't, they lost 71 to 65.

But if you watch this game, Sienna was up 11 at halftime.

And that's the largest halftime lead by a 16 over a one ever.

They actually built their lead to 13 early in the second half.

And there was a critical moment.

They had two dunk opportunities to go up 15 with about 17 minutes left.

And they missed both.

And then on the other end, it turned into a dunk.

So instead of being up 15, they were just up 11.

Man, a 15 point lead is a pretty big lead.

I don't care what your seating is, but that was a key moment in that game.

Duke came back.

Look, Sienna, they played five guys for 40 minutes.

They made one substitution in the final minute of the minute of the game,

just for a few seconds to put somebody else in the game to foul when they were behind.

How about that five players for basically 40 minutes?

And they had chances, even as they got tired playing just five.

They had open threes that if they had knocked down, they may have had a legit chance

to pull it off or would have at least come down to a last possession.

They definitely scared Duke.

Shire said he was outcoached.

I don't know about that.

I just did not really sold on Duke.

Like I made the note yesterday, I made two notes during that game after that 17 minute

two dunks missed and then Duke turned it into an 11 point deficit instead of being behind 15.

But I wrote down number one.

Duke's not winning this tournament.

They're missing pieces and they're just not at the same level.

I don't think athletically and even depth wise as some of the other teams they'll have to face.

And then number two is this, Cam Booser, a projected top three pick in the NBA draft.

I love him as a college player and I think he's going to be a good NBA player.

He's very high floor, but compared to a lot of the other players in this draft, I think

he's got one of the lowest ceilings.

I think I said this to somebody not that long ago on the podcast it may have been radio.

There's a lot of what I would compare him to Tyler Hansbro in him from North Carolina,

one of the greatest college players really of all time.

Hansbro had very short arms and it really impacted his ability at the NBA level because he couldn't

finish.

He could finish in college to a certain degree, but not even in college effectively near

the rim.

And then he had to almost become a perimeter player, which he really wasn't equipped to

be a nice NBA career, but hardly a great NBA career.

And I see Cam Booser as being a better version of Hansbro, but he can't finish over smaller

college players.

I saw it against Carolina.

I saw it against Florida state last week and I saw it yesterday.

He's just not a finisher around the rim is a 6.9 6 10 250 pound player.

Now he can shoot.

He can stretch the floor.

I think he's going to be a good player in the NBA, but he's not worth number one,

number two or number three, he's not, uh, I mean, I like a cuff junior, the, uh, at

Arkansas, where I like a meant at Tennessee more, uh, DeBonza for sure.

And I guess Peterson, although that's still, you know, a big who the hell knows, although

there's a pretty good story written about their Peterson in, uh, the athletic, um, and

I read it the other day, he, he was kind of sick, uh, there for a while and was having

some cramping and dehydration issues had, you know, it had a bad case of the flu and they

should have talked about that during that period of time, you know, back in January when

he was looking more like a load management college player.

But anyway, um, I actually think that the draft in June is a super deep draft with really

good players, but I don't think there's a Cooper flag or certainly not a Victor Wombon

Yama.

Um, you may end up getting, you know, the best player in the draft at four, five or six

rather than at one, two or three, uh, time will tell, but, uh, Duke's not winning this

turn of it.

Uh, I don't think they are, uh, but wouldn't surprise me if they blow out TCU tomorrow because

sometimes when you see a high seed team struggle on the first round, TCU, Beto, Ohio State,

um, and you'll see a big number and Duke is an 11 point favorite, uh, tomorrow.

The public's going to jump all over TCU.

I, I would not surprise me if I give Duke out tomorrow as a play.

Um, anyway, day one, pretty good day, uh, for sure, uh, the, the late games were, were

painful.

Blowouts.

I was interested in St. Louis, Georgia going over the total, which you did, but that was

about it.

I like when you get late into Thursday night or Friday night and there are two or three

cliffhangers.

We had none of that, uh, late last night, um, smell test again, three, three and one

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Uh, I got this from Marty, uh, Marty writes, Kevin, your guest from the salary cap website

was really good explaining the brand and I you situation.

I have a question for you.

If I you really wants to play for our team and with his former college teammate, Jaden Daniels,

why not trade a seventh round pick if he commits to taking less money when he gets here?

You know what, Marty?

That's a good question, uh, and a good thought.

Um, just a reminder to everybody, by the way, the, the salary cap website guy that I had

on was Michael Genetti, the co owner and, uh, editor of spot track, the site that I always

used to talk contract salary cap, et cetera, Mike is really good.

And he was excellent yesterday, by the way, uh, night yesterday on Wednesday on Wednesday

show, March 18th, the show titled a brand and I you prediction, the 23 minute, four second

mark, 23, oh, four is where Mike started with me.

I'm telling you, if you didn't listen to that on Wednesday, it's worth listening to.

He was excellent on our team's free agency and he was really good on brand and I you,

you know, talking about why it's played out the way it's played out and what the 49ers

will likely do.

Um, but look, for those that don't know, just as a reminder, brand and I you has a contract

currently with the 49ers that will pay him a base salary of just over $27 million next

year, uh, unless, of course, the 49ers wave him, uh, and then the contract doesn't convey

to the next team that he ends up playing for.

Um, he would sign a newly negotiated deal with his next team, uh, and, you know, that's

assuming he's healthy physically, healthy, mentally and if he is, I do think there will

be some competition for him, but if a team traded for him, the contract would convey.

So you'd end up having to pay him $27 million in base salary next year.

And Michael Genetti's point was no one's going to do that.

And I've talked about that even before, uh, Mike was on the show.

No one is going to pay, uh, this guy after his behavior, his erratic behavior over the

last, you know, six to 12 months, nobody's going to first give up, let's just say a six

or a seventh round pick and then take on his new contract.

And what Mike predicted is that the 49ers would very likely wait until post June 1, like

on June 2nd to release him, you know, waiting for maybe somebody to lose their mind and trade

something for him and take on his contract.

But more because he felt maybe they want to be vindictive.

They don't want to do him a favor and they don't want to do the new team that signs him

a favor by allowing that to happen a month and a half earlier than it needs to.

You know, from their standpoint, if it went down the way, you know, they think it went

down or claim that it went down, which is they can't believe he behaved this way.

Nobody can believe that he put himself into a position and even Michael talked about

this the other day, Michael, Genetti, uh, where essentially all he had to do was show up

at the facility twice a month to get his knee checked.

And instead he lost $30 million through avoided, uh, legitimately avoided, uh, dollars.

And Mike even said he, like, reminded, uh, all of us, he didn't even fight that with

the NFL PA or anybody else, like no one's ever really done what he did at the very least.

It's very, very questionable judgment.

Um, but yeah, Mike thought that, you know, the 49ers would likely cut him on June 2nd.

And then it'll be, we'll see what happens.

Can Washington sign him?

Will they be interested in signing him?

Nobody's going to know the player more likely than not than Adam Peters and Jayden Daniels.

But um, yeah, Marty, it's an interesting thought.

Now, you know, if it's true that Washington's like the only team that he wants to play for,

you know, maybe he would commit to taking less if he were traded for, but I think you have

to, uh, the 49ers have to allow him to seek a trade because if not, it's tampering.

You know, I don't think you're allowed to talk to him or his agent as long as he's under

contract for the team, unless the team gives him specific permission to seek a trade.

And I don't think they've done that yet.

So I don't think that the team would do that without knowing for sure that he's going

to restructure or essentially take a massive pay cut because uh, Genetti came in at like,

you know, the, the spot track value was I think 13 million a year.

I think he said 13, 14 million a year, um, but that you're probably going to get an

eight to nine million dollar, you know, base salary, you know, and then everything else

would be incentivized.

Um, yeah, I, I think given his situation, you can't trust the situation.

It's got to be a prove it deal without any draft compensation.

But I understand your thought and your question, Marti, that if Washington's the only

team he wants to play for, why not just give him a seventh, get it over with, get him in here and

you know, have him take the pay cut.

I just don't know how that would work logistically.

Um, all right.

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So about that flag football game that Jayden Daniels committed to about a month and a half ago,

the game that was scheduled to be played this weekend in Saudi Arabia but was moved for obvious

reasons to Los Angeles. Well, that game is going to be played tomorrow for PM Eastern in LA.

It is called the Fanatics Flag Football Classic. Fanatics is the big sponsor, Michael Rubin,

who started that company. He's a good buddy of Tom Brady's and they put this thing together

to really promote flag football. And certainly there was a massive revenue opportunity

to play the game in Saudi Arabia. I don't know how that works with respect to whatever.

They were going to get paid to play that game in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Now that the game's been

moved, if they're still getting paid by that country, but the game is going to be played tomorrow.

And there was a press conference a couple of days ago to promote it and to draft the teams

that would be playing in it. By the way, it's televised tomorrow on Fox. It looks like it four o'clock

Eastern. And it's not just one game, but it's like a series of games. It's like a round robin

with three different teams and they actually drafted the teams the other day. Tom Brady and

Jalen Hertz were captains for the team called the Founders Flag Football Club roster. And

Jaden Daniels and Joe Burrow were the captains of a team called the Wildcats Flag Football Club.

And then there's a third team. And that is the US men's national team roster.

So this is the Flag Football team that will be participating as of now in international events

and eventually the 2028 Olympics. It is an Olympic sport now. And look, Flag Football is

on what you know, it's wildfire right now everywhere. You know, the participation in

tackle football at the youth levels gone down significantly over the years. All the while,

the increase in Flag Football participation has been crazy. My kids are older and grown.

I had two of my boys play or actually all three of them played tackle football. And Flag was

becoming popular at that point. But because of the concussion issue, Flag Football for younger

kids is a much better alternative for parents. And for those of you that are in a situation with

young boys and girls and you're in Flag Football, you know that these leagues are all over the place,

all over town. And I have a couple of friends with younger kids and they love it. And it's a great

sport. It's a great participation sport. And it doesn't come with the risk of concussions.

And some other injuries, although there are risks associated with Flag Football certainly

whenever you are competing and running around and cutting and jumping and the whole thing.

I'll get to that in terms of Jayden Daniels here in a moment. But it's like a round rob and I

guess with the three teams, they'll each play each other. And I guess the person with the best

record at the end of the round, Robin will play in some sort of championship game. By the way,

the Brady Hertz team, they drafted among others, Stefan Diggs, Ashen Gentee, Alvin Camara,

Von Miller is playing in the game, Devonte Smith, Rob Grinkowski, Gronks playing in the game. So

some retired players I think are playing in this game as well. The Jayden Daniels Joe

Borough team drafted Devonte Adams, Saquon Barkley, Odell Beckham Jr., Durwin James. So there's

some big names, you know, playing in this game. In the promotional event the other day,

to get everybody ready for tomorrow at four o'clock, there was a very, you know, I think light-hearted

fun exchange between Tom Brady and Jayden Daniels. So what I'm going to play for you is you're

going to hear Kevin Hart sort of introduce Jayden Daniels. He had just introduced Tom Brady

as the other teams lead captain. And Jayden's coming up to the stage and then you'll hear Brady

say something about how commanders fans are going to be happy to see him on the field after so

many months of him not playing. And then Jayden will actually offer up a response and then Brady

adds to that response. I'll let you listen to it. And then we'll come back and talk about it.

And then I'll get into just kind of how I feel about Jayden participating in this event

at all. But this was the other day, you'll hear Kevin Hart, then Brady, then a little bit,

you'll hear of Jayden. You're not going to hear him super clearly, but you'll hear the other two

and I'll kind of make sure you understand what Jayden actually said. So here it was.

All right, second captain, let's go ahead and bring up Jayden Daniels.

All the command of fans are going to be happy seeing Jayden on the field once for the first time

in about seven, eight months. What was that about? I know he's jealous. He's slight build.

Don't worry. They don't hit you in his hand so you'll be okay.

Well, I just to tell the truth.

Have a cold cap. You don't want to say anything to that?

No, man. He's 50.

Oh, I'm just happy his mom let him play.

That was my favorite part of the exchange right there at the end when Jayden showed a real

understanding of what Brady said context wise and had a great sense of humor about it.

Brady saying, I'm just glad your mom's letting you play in this game and Jayden saying,

I like that one. It's a good dig at Jayden and everybody understands the context of Jayden's mom

being injected into that back and forth. She's been very involved.

Been public in a lot of things. She is currently his agent. She got certified. She's a certified

NFL agent and her first client is her son. I even had honestly an issue with any of the stuff

that she has said or been involved with since Jayden got to town. It is completely different and

not comparable or analogous to what happened here in 2012. I did not love the social media

exchange or about John Kine having the guy that coach was involved in helping Jayden from a

quarterback standpoint years ago and the mom got involved and said, this guy hasn't coached my

son in years or whatever. I mean, what's the point of doing that? Now that she's his agent,

I don't know. There are obviously high profile agents that are public. But most agents,

you don't even know as a fan of the sport who they are. You probably can't name as an NFL fan more

than Drew Rosenhausen and a few others in terms of high profile agents. But the exchange starts with

Kevin Hart introducing Jayden as a captain and Brady saying Washington fans are going to be happy

to finally see him back on the field after seven or eight months and call them delicate. And then,

you know, Kevin Hart says, do you have a response to that? And what I don't think you heard is Jayden say,

nah, I'm not going to respond to that. He's 50. And that got kind of the laughs. And then they got

into, you know, the Jayden mom exchange. You know, lighthearted, nothing, you know, to be upset about

at all. They're trying to promote the event. I'm sure somebody's going to be upset with Brady going

after his mom or going after his delicateness. I couldn't care less about what they were doing

up on stage the other day. What I do care about and I have talked about this a little bit.

And I admit, this is probably way too kind of protective. Because very likely it'll turn out

that Jayden and the other players in the game, you know, aren't really competing super hard.

They're probably jogging around a little bit in the cases of the quarterbacks. They're going to

throw some passes from the shotgun here or there. No running, no juking, no real, you know, competitive

battling. But, but if it's what it could turn out to be, and by the way, they promoted it this way

as a real competition, you know, highly competitive professional athletes, you know, getting highly

competitive in a competitive event. If it turns out that it's more that and they're running around

and they're playing hard and they're cutting and they're juking and they're, you know, trying to

make things happen, then for me, this is not something that I would be thrilled about if I were

Josh Harris or Adam Peters or Dan Quinn or any of the people out in Ashburn. One wrong,

you know, plant foot on a cutback. And this thing could be disastrous, disastrous. Now, I'm sure it

won't be. I'm sure that the chances of anything bad happening to Jayden Daniels or anybody else

out there are slim and none. But I also know that if you're not playing in that game, the chances

are none. Zero percent that something could happen. Players and teams sports, you know, they've got

things in their contracts that prevent them from doing certain high risk activities, you know,

skiing, hang gliding, whatever they are. I'm not saying that this event is high risk. In fact,

it's low risk. But for Jayden Daniels, it's different than a lot of these other players. It's

different because he barely played the season that just ended. Every time he took the field,

he seemed to get hurt in 2025. If this were March of last year following his rookie 2024 season,

nobody's talking about this or I'm not talking about this. But this just seems a bit like

somebody isn't doing a great job reading the room.

And if the money is so outrageous and my guess is it might be who am I or any of us to push back on

that. These guys should be trying to make as much money as they can, you know, especially in the

off season. But what if, you know, this game gets competitive and he gets into it and whether it's

against the other, you know, pros or that US flag football team, you know, they're probably going

to be playing hard against the NFL players. They're probably going to want to win and show, you

know, hey, we're the, this is our sport, man. You play a different sport. What if he gets real

competitive and takes one wrong step and it's a knee or an Achilles. God help all of those people

if something like that happens. But it very likely won't and he'll be the life of the party and

he'll look great and we'll be talking about how healthy he looks and not another word will need to

be said about what happens tomorrow. But that's really not the point. The point is why should

the first football, Jaden plays since being shut down at the end of the 2025 season shut down

because of all the injuries that he had had, even though he was probably healthy enough

to play in some of those games, why should the first amount of football he plays after a dreadful

five and 12 season dreadful primarily because of him being injured. Why should the first football he

plays be something that is not advancing his number one responsibility, which is to get better

at playing tackle football in the NFL. I mean, nothing he does tomorrow on the field is getting him

ready to play in David Blow's offense. Nothing he does tomorrow is getting him ready to play tackle

football in the NFL. It's a great promotional event for flag football. It's something that probably

pays very well and it'll be fun. And again, if this is March of last year, it's not even a conversation.

But after this season that he just went through playing in four complete football games,

being injured three different times and then being shelved for the last quarter of the season,

this kind of very tiny risk of getting injured event, I'm not sure he should be taking that tiny risk

given the season he just had. That's all. But again, I mean, I'm sure he's going to be in shotgun

just throwing some passes and not, you know, being Jaden Daniels trying to make plays and

juke people and outrun people on a field where, you know, who knows what the conditions will be like.

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of the NCAA tournament so far, and we are very early into it, but definitely a moment that will show

up in that final one shining moment on championship Monday, Kentucky and Santa Clara in the first game

of the, of the first round here on this Friday, unbelievable frantic final few seconds.

Santa Clara was up by two Kentucky tied it. Then Santa Clara hits a three to go up 73 to 70 with

three seconds to go. And then Kentucky's Otaga away. It's a 35 footer. Banks it in at the buzzer

to force overtime and Kentucky just one in overtime 89 to 84. A moment that is literally

related to our football team because Otaga away is the younger brother of Washington's first

big free agent, Sinie, Adafee away, the edge pass rusher from the chargers. His younger brother

in the game went for 35 points. It included that 30 foot plus bank shot at the buzzer to save

Kentucky season. Our new pass rusher we're hoping an elite one eventually his younger brother

so far the star of the tournament in Kentucky just went final beating Santa Clara. I had Santa Clara

in the pool that Tommy and I did. I had that as one of the upsets. But the 10 seed falls

to the seven seed blue blood Kentucky 89 to 84. Should be a great day and great night of

hoops. And then I think Saturday and Sunday are phenomenal because then you get the better matchups

in terms of talent, you know, being comparable and we'll have some great basketball. And again,

my smell test picks I'll put out on Twitter by 11 a.m. 11 a.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.

This from district sports talk he writes things don't feel like rock bottom at all. And he's

commenting on Tom and I on yesterday's show. I don't even remember what we talked about because

we talked about a lot of different things, but I know what one in one part of the show we talked

about how right now in terms of kind of the six big sports properties of the DMV, the skins,

the gnats, the wizards, the caps, Maryland basketball and Georgetown basketball. That would be the

big six. Everything else that comes after that is nowhere near sort of the followings of those

six teams. And of course, there are categories of those six, you know, it's football number one.

And then next up is, you know, debatable given the year, but I would certainly think that the

gnats in the caps fan bases and probably Maryland basketball's fan base are somewhere in that

next category. And then I think the wizards are still the sleeping giant will hopefully get a

chance to test that theory in the coming years. But I mentioned and we talked about how five and

12 for the football team, you know, a dreadful basketball team, the worst team in the NBA or

second worst in the NBA, they lost again last night. That's 14 straight losses. The caps are very

likely to miss the playoffs this year. The gnats are predicted to be the second worst team in

baseball based on their over under number. And then Maryland and Georgetown, neither one of them had a

winning record and neither one of them are in the NCAA tournament. And I said, this may be the worst

it's ever been. So district sports talk responding to that saying things don't feel like rock bottom

at all, considering the football team just made the NFC championship game. The caps just made the

playoffs. gnats have a new front office and are an upstart. Wizards are tanking and will be in

the playoffs next year. Maryland football and basketball. I don't know what to tell you. No, I agree

with that. And I said like the idea that it means anything for next season is ridiculous because

especially, you know, and all of these sports now, the quick turnarounds are possible. Certainly in

the NFL, certainly in college basketball, quick turnarounds happen now with NIL and with the portal

and the whole thing. And hockey's kind of random to begin with. And the gnats and the wizards

are rock bottom. Certainly, but the wizards I agree with you are on the verge of coming out of this

intentional, you know, three year run of accumulating draft choices in young talent. And you know,

it'll be capped off by the player they select in the draft in 2026 in June, this couple of months

away. So yeah, I kind of feel what you feel, which is it doesn't feel like rock bottom. But

I guess my point was it is in terms of the aggregate records of the six teams. I mean, if we want to

throw Maryland football in there, if we want to throw some of the other local college basketball

programs, honestly, I can't tell you what the spirit or the MLS teams are doing in town. I know

that that is important to some of you. But yeah, in terms of the big six record wise aggregate,

record wise, it's got to be the worst. It has to be the worst it's ever been. But does not mean

that next year won't be different. All right. That is it for the show. Enjoy the basketball,

enjoy the weekend back on Monday.