Sports talk with.....Cullen?

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All right. So here we are. This is sports talk with Gary except Gary's not here. So a special special treat for everybody today is actually going to be sports talk with Colin because Colin's here for the whole episode with us to talk Philadelphia sports sports at large, everything we are going on in the Philadelphia area. Let's get into it. Brian, you. Oh, Brian's here. Colin, no, Colin and Brian. I'm going to be there. It takes two people.

Gary. That's right. Absolutely. Absolutely. This is not your whole area. That's not valuable wild card is can I tell you how much I miss talking to Gary. It's been like two weeks and I'm like coming unhinged. But you haven't got this guy. I haven't heard a two-year point in a while. And it's bugging me.

No, I hear you. Well, I had the spirit of about Gary. Let's cover Gary's favorite topic, which is Eagles talk. Start with the right tackle from Georgia, Colin. I came out of that kid's name is great thing. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, he's the sixth something like really tall 300 some pounds. So yeah, that's a right tackle.

He was originally slotted and rumored to be around by the Eagles picked. Yeah, it is. Yeah, I think a lot of mock tracks. I can come into us. So I mean, I'm, I'm okay. I'm okay with it. I love the pick. So great. His apparently his combine. He had the best combine out of any line.

And yeah, I thought he'd agree. Yeah, now the talk is that he might go at 15, which is luck. I mean, this, this draft, more than any, like more than your draft of recently is stacks with tackles. Yeah, like it is stacked. So you could get an offensive lineman at 23 or possibly even trade back and get a lineman and at like 26 at typically that lineman would be going at 15.

Or 14, only because the depth of the position. But the more you look at it, the more you think like, okay, lineman's probably the way to go. You would think first round, right? Yeah, unless an unless an insanely talented Etrusher falls into their laps. No, it's not. There's not. I don't think there's really any amazing addresses out of the top 15.

Yeah, right. And I think that every mock draft you see that has that organ tight end, going to the Eagles. That guy's just had AI do that mock draft one. Yeah, since since I combine him, he went crazy.

And so his stock road up in the bucks for them at 15. Yeah, so I mean, he's a valuable look. He's a freak at tight end. But I think now, like, with the

Eagles, you don't necessarily need to pick for need, but drafting a tight end is more of a luxury in the first round, especially when you have so many picks. So I could imagine, I really could see them focusing on lineman in that first.

Yeah. If we take a tight end, I would really love to see us take, I think it's Eli Stowers in the second round. I think he went to like Mandy. He had a really good comment too. But I think first round, we definitely take a tackle.

Because when Lane's gone, you're not going to throw Fred Johnson in for 17 games. Right. And right now, it's like, I feel like ultimately, you would be getting the best of both worlds because you're bringing this kid in is a swing tackle.

I don't think you're getting 16 or 17 games out of Lane Johnson anymore, right? This was built in his health. So you get this kid in a lot of duty, get him out, get laid in, he spends a year.

There will be a national lane, right? Like it's, I think you slide him in in a year to kind of go from there. It's like, I feel like ultimately, that might be the best situation for them.

Right. Yeah. And then inevitably when both my Lata and Johnson are out for a game, you don't throw in like a Matt prior, you know, Fred, nothing one side and a rookie.

Thunder. I don't know why you have to say you do gross things like that, Colin, like, I have a map. That's a cuss word in this house, Matt prior. We don't, we don't talk like that around here.

Did you see that guard from Iowa to the one with the really nice hair? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. We picked him up. You look nice in Dallas. Got it. Nothing screams green pay Packers and that guy's mullet.

Not.

That guy would be, I mean, you want to have to wore that. She said.

I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up going in the second or third round.

But if you can get him, because the guard, right, he's not the tackle is going to be a garden. Yeah. Yeah. So like he's got second or third round written all over him. I could see them potentially.

If he's there in the third, then moving around to get him. So like to get now, your problem is right. Let's say you go first and second round, offensive lineman, not sexy, not fun.

We would all be fine with it, though, because it's something you need where you know you have to replace Lane Johnson now. Right. Yes, he's back this year, but you have to have his guy waiting in the wings and Tyler Steen's not good enough.

So you need a guard as well. You need somebody with Tyler Steen's just having a dog chick game. You need a guy to jump in there.

But you find yourself having a little bit of a problem at a different position that I certainly wasn't expecting. But free agency has really gotten us down at the safety position.

Right. Reblink and chip lead. Yeah. When we just lost Cindy Brown today. That's what I'm talking about. So that look, Cindy Brown wasn't like the world of fire, but the guy was deaf at safety.

Special teamer. He was a great special teamer. I'm so happy he's gone.

Well, he's a penalty machine. He was a liability, but he was a player at a position. You have Makuba coming off an injury and then.

That's. Yeah, we signed the apps today. Did I talk about it?

The apps and then you know, you never know. I mean, ultimately, who knows what they do. I feel like safety.

You can figure it out. You're a veteran signing in a draft, but go away.

Um, I honestly looking at it. So I originally thought in that second round, if they looked at that, why was he from Louisville?

I'm like, you put that bar of silver rain. You haven't, you haven't played.

Um, what Dotson spot was. And then maybe on the outside, eventually a year from now, if they move AJ Brown.

But instead, like, uh, instead, you ain't got Hollywood Brown.

So I don't know if that.

I just came across a video of the guy that doesn't, he doesn't want to play Philadelphia. Like.

That was when he got, when I think I was in his draft year.

Okay. Yeah. Uh, what did he say? He didn't want to play.

I don't want to talk about like, I mean, in toxic. Yeah.

What it is, but, but I guess when he got drafted, maybe it was.

Well, you got drafted. I think the year we were coming up the Super Bowl.

So we were at like our max level. It kind of was. Carson once was there. So.

Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it was toxic.

He didn't want to talk about it.

But he said that he was not going to play with us.

But instead, I don't know about the, um, you know, I don't want to talk about it.

Yeah.

Um, but I think.

Okay.

Some of you guys were right.

Uh, but I mean, what a, what an upgrade from on your what that your wife receiver three spot from Dotson to Hollywood. Brown.

I mean,

and now you can get the Vaughn.

Now you can get the mont.

Now you can get devon to smoke on some like.

Shiftier routes, instead of having to having them go deep every play because you don't have that deep threat.

Yeah.

I mean, if you give you the ability to slide.

Um.

I, that will be fantastic. So you have, you know, hybrid. So it's Chris Brown or Chris Bell,

but we'll see you from Louisville. Okay. Yeah. Chris Brown, Chris Brown be women up. Chris Bell, not so much.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Literally, according to the tape. Yeah. Allegedly.

Well, Chris Bell, yeah, it's 220, 72 catches 900 yards, six touchdowns in Louisville. So, uh, so I mean, you're going to keep, you're going to keep five whiteouts on the roster, right?

Yeah. He's got a build like AJ Brown, looking at his highlight reel. He had a torn ACL in November. And that's why he is would be potentially in the second.

They're getting America around. Because of that injury. But I mean, ACL, what? 21 years old he'd be perfectly fine like one man. Right. Like I think it will be okay. So I mean, at that age, you're probably, he's probably gonna be stronger than he was.

I mean, like those, when they, when they repair those in your 21, a lot of times, it retired or nurse Tom tells me that he should be, you know, an injury like that.

that you're going to end up being stronger than you were, not weaker.

So like he's not going to tear it down again.

Right.

And I think that the idea of maybe a people being like, well, what about Sydney Jones?

Like, well, Sydney Jones blew out his entire knee at Washington.

Right.

It was completely different injury than a 20 CL.

So I, you know, I could see him, coincidentally, I could see them taking him

in a second round as a wide out, um, maybe having played inside his first year

and then move him to the outside, potentially in year two, if they end up moving

AJ Brown.

But one of the things I would really think that they should look into is that they

have a lot of these middle round picks.

I would trade if he had, I would meet him for just what I agree.

Well, I mean, you look at his deal compared to what is deal like to compare

to what you just lost Philb's to, like his total, total contract is $76 million.

Philb's just signed for like a buck 20.

Yeah.

And Josh wet has a lot of front end money and incentive stuff in that contract.

So it's not even like we're going to, the Eagles wouldn't even take on that whole

contract.

So, uh, and Josh wet knows the defense.

He knows the coaching staff.

He knows the guys he'd be playing next to.

Like there wasn't a lot of turnover in the couple, it wasn't he gone two years.

Like there's not a lot of turnover.

There's he knows the scheme, the chemistry can get right back into where it needs to go.

And then you have, you have your deend.

And now you can get these younger guys kind of built up within.

We say call.

But I did hear that we're in trade talks for Jonathan Grinard in Minnesota.

And he's been playing, he's played really well the past couple of years.

He's only 28, which was like 32 maybe.

So he's a lot younger and he had a great season with Houston.

I think two years ago, and then I think he had an all right season last year.

But I guess they're just trying to ship him for maybe cap reasons.

But I would love to see him because he can also play some outside.

He's like a, uh, a jail ex hunt where if you need him to, he can drop back.

But he's not, he's almost never going to.

So if we can see him come to fully, I think he'd be a better option than sweat.

Just because of his age and how we've been performing recently.

And he's, I think he's overall had many better seasons of sweat in less time.

So I think he would be the best option.

Sweat the good second option if you can't get Grinard, but I think it's, he's a number one pick.

So is that a weight until June 1st?

Is that an after the draft kind of move?

Like what was that a draft day move to go get that guy?

I think I think it might be a, um, after June 1st or draft day move.

It's not going to be anytime soon.

It'll be a little later, but I could see, I could see, um, even like,

just like a second or third round pick for him could work out plus like a backup layer.

Like, it's like a backup detack or something.

We know how old he is.

Is he is 28.

Oh, those are good prime years.

Yeah.

And I bet, I bet his number on his deal is in close to what the market is right now.

Oh, he also, the only bad thing is last year, he suffered a shoulder injury in December.

So he should be fine by the start of the season.

But I don't know.

We've never played safe and shoot him like a horse.

Like, like, like, you know, like, you know, like, ah, he had a good ride.

Sorry kids.

He's in the ball.

Yeah.

Sorry.

You want to go to the wall?

This will be really.

So when, when we talk about these June 1st kind of cap changes, the post June 1st kind of trades and moves.

The next thing that's been all over my social media has been this Adam Schefter talking about how the Patriots and Eagles have a deal for

AJ Brown, but it's post June 1st.

And I'm like, I fucking hate you guys.

You go back to the same well all the time.

It's not, they're not trading them.

He's, they're not trading.

Well, I see upside the trading in.

I don't think we will.

But, uh, after the year, JSN had after decaying that calf left after that big body receiver left and key became the number one.

People are saying, the math this myth can take that jump and become one of the top tier receivers in the NFL next year.

If we get it right around, but that would also make us have to take a top three round right receiver, which I don't want to do.

I have zero doubt that the Von Day Smith could be another one receiver on the team.

He'd be in a more receiver right now on 70% of the team in the NFL.

But the Eagles, the reason why they're doing this is just there's nothing else to talk about.

Smoke screen.

You need to actually.

All you need is you need some sort of traction and apparently social media talk of AJ Brown and the Eagles, because the Eagles are such like their popular team, their winning team, like they have this player.

He's a little bit.

He's an eccentric personality.

You're going to get a lot of traction on social media.

That's what you want.

You're going to constantly put it out there.

That's it.

He's not, I don't see how he was been doing that deal.

I don't, I don't see him move them.

I don't see him picking a cap it.

I don't see that at all.

Um, why you would do that with a new offense coordinator in a year that seems like it.

I don't know long it shouldn't be, but it seems like a little bit of like maker break with the coach and the quarterback.

I don't know if it's true, but sort of get that feeling potentially.

So you're not the first person I've heard bring up that if it doesn't work this year, you got to move Jalen Hertz.

Like I've seen people like before you move AJ Brown, you should move Jalen Hertz.

Now, those are one of the people that was just me in a fake Mustang and then me and probably had and then me in a ski mask.

And then me with the girl that's on the keeper mask.

It was just, no, either I think you do move on from AJ before Jalen.

But if Jalen doesn't surpass, if Jalen doesn't surpass 37, 3800 yards in the next two seasons or a season without AJ Brown, I think you have to look at shopping him the way.

I don't think it's, I don't think it's numbers with, um, Jalen Hertz.

I just think it's in terms of like chemistry in the locker room and the ability to work within what the coaches are asking them to do.

You know, I think like, you know, it will matter how dominant, you know, you know, how we can be dominant.

He's not going to be dominant putting up 4,000 passing yards, because he'll be dominant in other ways.

It's just as he will do those things again in order to be that way.

So I think ultimately that is what the question comes down to as an organization.

Now, this is an example of what I'm talking about with traction and the Eagles and topics.

So this week, and eventually, the New York media was talking about the reason why the Eagles traded for.

Was because they would trade.

They floated out the idea of trading general North,

retop picking the draft.

Then having Andy Dalton be the backup that's one of the, I was like, there's no way.

There's no way that I've ever heard.

So many better chances of trading Tanner instead of,

he had better chances of trading Andy Dalton away.

Is this really where we're at now?

Like, this is how slow it is.

Yeah.

Here's why he went out there.

He went out.

He went and got Andy Dalton for a seventh round pick, a bad, like a late seventh round pick too.

It wasn't like cop of the seventh.

He goes and gets Andy Dalton because Andy Dalton is a capable,

you know, sideline guy.

And he's not even your backup, right?

He's your third option.

I mean, he's 700 years old, right?

Joe Biden wasn't available.

So they're like, oh, let's get Andy Dalton.

And they got him because at some point,

someone's going to take an injury in their quarterback room and they're going to need a guy.

And you're going to go, hey, I have a guy,

whether it's Kyle McCord or Andy Dalton, you're going to go, I have a guy.

Give me a sixth round pick.

And now you've, you've just turned a seventh round pick into a sixth round pick like that.

Yeah.

So it's so easy.

And I got to tell you, I, I have the sense.

Andy Dalton's like, I have this weird feeling.

I'm watching how he, you know, get rid of Sidney Brown with a couple

draft pick changes and then give another seventh for Andy Dalton,

which I, which gives you too many quarterbacks.

So there's value somewhere on your staff.

Something's happening in the draft.

He's, he's, he's got some plan to move for somebody.

And I don't think it's moving up in the first round,

but I think it is probably moving up from late rounds to get back,

to get another pick with in maybe the second round,

to make another second round pick happen.

So I think he's really working on something.

Yeah.

I mean, I can, I can, I can, all the, all the complimentary picks that we got recently,

like we got that actually third and a fourth.

You can move up into the second with the new picks you have alone.

Like you don't need to bend any year.

Older picks, like the ones you had to start at Sidney.

You can just hold, you know, all the compensators.

Just got.

I think that the reason, yeah, I think why.

So I think Nick, you're right with the draft and the quarterback position.

A, B, I think the only reason they got any Dalton was because

you have another voice that can potentially teach this offense,

this brand new offense to the other quarterbacks.

Like I think he's in for a camp, who knows if he keeps camp or not.

You know, I mean, like who knows, you know, they could always just release him

at the end of camp, whatever.

But I think that he's a veteran veteran quarterback,

who knows every sort of system, who knows all the terminology for all the systems.

He can help teach this system to the other quarterbacks in McKee and Hertz.

And like, kind of make the progress of this offense a little faster, potentially.

That's what I think that they brought him in.

But at the same time, like I've said in the past, I would not

put it past them to use a fourth round pick to draft the quarterbacks in my

Alan Green.

That kid is everything that they love athletic tall, big arm quarterback

that you can build the exact offense you've been running and been successful with.

For the last, what, five, six years now, you can run that offense with this kid.

Except for last year from there.

So, and he looks just like Randall Cunningham.

Like I can't stress that enough.

Like if you see him, we're like, he looks just like Randall Cunningham.

Yeah, all the equipment looks too big.

The best quarterback in the SEC last year.

Yep.

Yeah, he's been only one bad thing I've been seeing about tonight.

Really bad thing I've been seeing about that guy is,

this is like he needs help with his decision making.

And sometimes it's accuracy.

I've been seeing a lot of a lot of stuff.

Like he, he's obviously many clips of an open receiver downfield and said he tries to

gamble and gets like a two-yard gain.

But isn't that what, isn't that what we have right now?

Yeah, and that's the coaching.

Yeah, we have that right now.

You can coach how to read an offense or how to run an offense.

I mean, that's essentially what you're doing.

Any, yeah, we're like trying, we're trying to coach like they're coaching that right now.

So like your athleticism though, he is a freak athletically, absolute freak.

And I think that whoever ends up getting him, they could end up with a franchise quarterback.

They really could.

So I just, you look at the kid, you're like, there's so much talent.

His release is a little long, but I think that's perfectly fine.

You know, the speed again has that, he's got really long legs.

So his stride doesn't, makes it look like he's not as nice as he is.

But his strides are so long that it's hard to keep up with him.

And so looking at him on Mike, whoever ends up with that kid is going to end up with a real talent.

So it would be good if he'd end up being the Eagles because I think McKee's going anyway.

I wouldn't be shocked if they move McKee in this draft and like, regardless.

I can see it.

You probably get a fourth or fifth maybe for McKee,

because it's pretty seasoned games has always been really, really good.

Jay, he shows a lot of upside, but in a real game, you can, you see,

it's lost a little bit more.

But I think, I think it's fine.

I think Tanya McKee is an eagle.

No, great.

I mean, you drafted the kid, I think with a six from pick.

Yeah.

I think, yeah, I think Tanya McKee, Tanya McKee's going to be an eagle

until some team loses their quarterback in preseason.

And then he's going to turn to the San Bradford.

And you're going to go get way too much for him.

Somebody's going to overpay you for the kid.

And I think that's probably how he's playing.

It's a little bit of quarterback factory mode out of how he roseman.

I don't think trading him for a fourth round pick in this year's draft.

It's really going to help you all that much.

So listen, we've got one of you.

Maybe it's in for a pick next year.

Yeah, well, you know, I mean, you're going to have a ton of cap space next year

with the way they're lining everything up.

So, yeah, I mean, you're right.

But I kind of, you're, your audio is dying.

You know, your audio channel, I think it's Colin's fault probably.

You want to go sit down next to your son and his correctly coordinated

is correctly coordinated camera.

I mean, you're like 12 steps away from him.

I'm in the basement.

When the room.

Yeah, I think maybe that's maybe that's a safer bet.

It's like you're called from the moon in 1963.

It's it's it's coming through on my end.

And the time I can share my upstairs before I can hear you on this camera.

Oh, boy, I can hear you at all.

I'm dropping out and coming back.

We'll see if that helps.

Yeah, it's always going to work on your end.

You know, it starts with audio issues and blanks when I, he's just wandering

and everyone is underwear.

Doesn't know who he is or where he's going.

You know, yeah, keep an eye on him, Colin.

Yeah, it's how it's how quickly the mind slips, right?

Yes.

Oh,

you're good.

Are we, is that any better?

So much better.

Okay, so that's right.

Hey, sometimes we just need to hit refresh a little bit.

You know, it's okay.

All right, okay, okay, okay.

I probably should have just hit refresh.

Yeah, use your headphones like a big boy.

Look at you.

Yeah, look who's got audio.

Oh gosh, well now it's not recording yet.

So I got to fix that.

Oh, go away.

Oh, my God, each other recording too.

No, the recordings going.

Just switch on all the needs.

They work so much better if it's not that, kid.

It's just not it's not a promise.

It's not that the stupid fucking Mike Colin.

Okay, all right, okay, working better for me.

I don't want to see why you need a mic.

Why do you need all this anyway?

It's all of you.

I will stand running all of this.

No, I'm not you.

Me, because because there's so much shit going on in this house,

like the cats walking by every five seconds screaming at me.

I was just saying it's the cat.

It's a cat.

It's the loud hat.

It's the cat thing ever.

Yeah.

So like every and if I wear the headset,

you only hear what I'm saying.

You don't hear what the cat's up to.

So that's, that's all right.

This cat is dividing your life.

Yeah, yeah, to the to the point where we're going away in June.

And I'm like, what am I going to do?

If this cat lives until June, what am I going to do with this cat?

I was talking to my godmother today and she was like,

that cat's still alive.

You got to kill that cat.

So it's it's Brian,

Brynn, Steve and Sue.

Everybody killed the cat.

Like the time her time is over.

She had a really good run.

Yeah, yeah, she had a long run.

Yeah, 20 years.

It's a long run.

I can't live like royalty.

She still does.

Yeah, she still does, man.

Yeah, she's having a good time.

She's ruining mine, but she's having a good time.

So yeah, and I don't even think it's my headphones.

I think it's just my internet connection in this house.

There's too many people sucking on the internet, right?

We're streaming television.

We got two different people to it.

I don't know, or it's a computer.

I don't know.

I don't know, but I can't, I can't sink anymore money into this

marginally unsuccessful podcast that would start it.

So, hey, this is what we get.

So I got a guy down here.

If you need, we do.

I'll take, you'll put your cat in a cage.

I'll take you out to Mill Lake and I'll drop the cage in the lake.

With some rocks in it.

No, no, no questions there.

There's nothing.

They'll never see snowball again.

They care snowball.

I, it's been great.

We'll miss you terribly.

I like it a lot.

Very respectfully, very respectful.

Yeah, well, so what do you think the five?

Right.

Well, maybe I make all you to take advantage of your guy.

His name rhymes with like Brian, doesn't it?

No, no, no, he only goes by the name.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

So, he's on me.

A US for.

I'll know what your ass come for.

Right on as we said.

Yeah, is this thing still recording?

We're now doing.

We know what we're doing.

Yeah, we never stopped.

I never turned it off.

We're good.

So everything's fine.

So I know we talk about the Eagles,

but the baseball start.

Yep.

We got it over.

How could we not talk Philly's?

I mean, come on.

Right.

We got to give Kelly something to listen to on this podcast.

So.

Not evident.

She's so sick of me at this point.

Like I saw, I saw a family guy clip and the two of them,

Lois and Peter arguing and they're arguing about,

well, I did this.

Well, I did this and Peter's like, well, I started,

I started to podcast.

It takes up all of my time.

It takes it all away from you.

She's like, yeah, I don't like that.

Peter.

And I was like, oh,

yeah.

So like when she's like, what are you doing?

I'm like, oh,

I'm just making another cartoon about Brian's dad

to put up about the podcast.

She's like, well, you've been out there for about an hour.

I was like, yeah, well,

it's not quite the way I want it.

She's like, you know, you don't get anything out of this,

right?

Like this is like a hobby.

You're spending a lot of time with this hobby.

Like, yep, I know.

It's the only thing bringing me joy.

What are you doing, huh?

And she's like, I'm going to go watch

our true crime doc and take notes.

Yep.

There's a lot of them too.

Oh my god, like, if I ever,

if I ever mysteriously die,

my wife did it.

Telling you what they tell the universe.

Yeah, it's not a mystery.

Yeah, no, it's no mystery.

Yeah.

Nope.

All know did it.

It was like, yeah, yeah,

when the cops like, yeah,

we found him with a pair of

Wi-Fi podcasts that from shut up is ass.

Shut up.

Like, you never did it.

Yep.

Okay, there's only one.

Hey, get the car off.

I'll take you over.

Yep.

I know.

I know who to call.

All right, here we go.

So yeah, let's talk about the Phillies,

even though Kelly is going to go to the Phillies game with us.

Colin and I are going to the Phillies game next Saturday.

It's the second game.

So the game after the home opener.

Yep, we get Aranola pitching.

Which is.

But it should be great, man.

Like, we were going to go opening day,

but the tickets were like,

triple the cost.

It was insane.

Opening day tends to get rained out a lot

and when it doesn't get rained out,

not all the time,

but I'm driving time.

It's cold.

It's overcast.

Yeah.

Yeah, like, yeah.

Happy one way or another.

So yeah, no, I'm think it's a really good

not to go to opening day.

But I have been watching.

I love, it was a baseball fan.

I love spring training.

And I love following prospects.

So out of spring training this year.

So like the last few years,

I thought the Phillies were going to take a step back last year.

And they clearly did,

I mean, they didn't write your season ones.

They only got better.

This year, I'm really intrigued with the team

because they have really good young talent

in spots that are really impactful,

storytelling-wise.

And the talent they have in those spots

potentially could be absolutely like

franchise altering and dominant.

And so that's surprising to hear.

You're the first person I've heard.

Say anything like that.

Yeah.

So I'm like, of the top five stories

coming out of spring training this year.

One is, I don't even know how it looks for really good.

It's pretty true.

And he just looked really good in the World Baseball Classic

pitching for Italy.

He's hitting 94 on the radar.

And typically he doesn't hit 94.

Last year, he hit 94 maybe a couple of times post-Jolani.

So like you could tell that he was really worn down.

He was really beaten up last year.

They said this year he looks in great shape,

great command of the ball.

He's going to be slotted as number two in the rotation,

which is a great platform

in between Sanchez and Luzorno.

So he's going to be really good.

I mean, the expectation right now,

he's he's had a great spring.

So they're expecting a really positive season for him.

But the bigger story

is number five starter and perfect

Andrew Painner.

Now, just confirming not related to Ryan.

No relation, unfortunately.

He'd be the best painter.

Oh, okay.

The right professional.

Come on, guys.

So if people,

people don't know about Andrew Painner,

so he is the top

Phillies pitching prospect,

the best Phillies pitching prospect since Cole Hamilton's.

Yeah, he was drafted.

Should have been a top five pick.

He ended up going at the end of that first round.

Everybody knew from that draft,

like this kid could be a locomotive on a pitch,

like the baseball mound.

Like pitching wise, he could dominate.

So he had a Tommy John surgery two years ago.

Last year was in the minors didn't come up last year

because a year after Tommy John surgery,

you have to work a lot on your control

and you have to work a lot on your conditioning.

And those were the two things he struggled with in the minors last year.

Bring training this year in the majors.

He has loved unbelievable, unbelievable.

And so I think with him,

there is real potential for him come July.

Every time he starts,

it could be an event,

the way that Cliff Lee used to take the mound.

Well, you're like,

oh, we got a lot of just high pitch like a tumbling.

Like he has that type of front and

front line potential.

And he looks like he already has it.

Like he's already figuring out.

Like he's physically a tall,

physically dominant pitcher from the mound.

His delivery, his fastball, everything

looks fantastic so far in the spring.

So you like that.

Shut that up.

Sorry, not yet.

It's a cat.

It's a cat.

It's a cat.

It's a cat.

So with that,

the overall story is

Wheeler comes back who he already has been pitching

and spring training that some hitters.

But if he comes back and he's mostly coming back early

by the end of April this time,

there are national writers who are from the Philadelphia area

who believe, and I could see this,

they believe that this rotation

could be just as good if not better

than the Holiday Lee Hamils,

Clinton,

Oswald rotation from 2011.

I think potentially they could be better

because three of those guys,

Lazardo, Sanchez, and Painter

are all just young dominant talent

and none of them have any of the figured out yet.

They're just pitched off of talent.

Dude, how crazy is it?

It's insane.

How crazy is it that when you bring up that line up of pitchers

that Roy Oswald,

like SEAL Team 6 Roy Oswald,

is number five?

That's crazy.

Yeah.

So yeah.

And that was like,

I mean, that was Roy Oswald.

At that point, living off of a reputation,

he was still Roy Grapritzer,

but he was living off of a reputation more than that.

Like, it wasn't as dominant as he was in the past,

but he was still really good,

better than most,

if not all the other fourth starters in the majors.

But this year, like your third starter,

Lazardo, who they just,

of all the contracts that were handing out

on the first day of free agency,

who the NFL is extension for the Phillies,

was shocking.

It was shocking to say.

He's a 29 year old left-hander.

He led the National League of Strikeouts last year,

his feet seventh in Saiyong Award Voting,

and had 32 starts, which is insane.

Like, he,

and for the number that they got him at,

is crazy.

So, like looking at it,

you have this guy who could potentially be even better.

You have two of the top seven

young finalists from last year,

with the runner-up being Sanchez,

and now Lazardo being at number seven.

So, and those are two of your top three pictures,

and then you have Aranola.

There's a multi-time off-star,

and then you could have Wheeler coming back,

Healthy, who is a Saiyong contender year in year-out.

So, you're five guys every day,

you could have a rotation.

So, Dave Dombraski built an unbelievable young rotation

in Miami that won a more world series,

and it was like a once-in-a-generation young type rotation.

This could be that same type of rotation.

So, you could, every game you could be going,

and seeing an unbelievable online starter,

which is crazy to think about,

in Majority Baseball right now.

And then the outfield,

there's a kid, he's a center-fielder,

Justin Crawford.

His father, Carl Crawford,

multi-time off-star,

very talented,

played for the Tampa Bay.

He played on the race team that they faced

in 2008 World Series.

This kid, you look at him,

and you're like, oh, this guy,

25 home runs right now over him.

Like, this guy's going to be unbelievable.

He doesn't really have a lot of power,

but his speed and his ability to make contact.

He'll be your nine-hitter for right now,

is remarkably better than what you've ever had

at center-fielder in the last, like, fun, didn't he?

I was like, he's going to be just on town alone,

is your best center-fielder,

since Victorino involved people.

Like, wow.

It's pretty crazy.

So, like, you have these guys that are really,

they're going to be intriguing to watch.

I think if they go, if they just fill the roles,

if the Phillies want them to fill,

I think you're going to have a good season.

That's why you're answering the season.

When you're talking about a second-generation player,

I really hope that you're getting Randy Orton,

and not Ted DiViasi Jr.

You know what I mean?

Like, I hope you're getting.

You mean, you newly acquitted Ted DiViasi Jr.

Is that what you're talking about?

Are you, man, Ted DiViasi Jr.

Right.

Right.

I don't want him.

I want Crawford to be the Randy Orton.

If I get your next-generation guy.

I read that headline today,

and the first year across my mind,

is him standing up in court,

doing his father's laugh.

Yeah.

Probably going down in a couple of years.

Well, right?

Like, you're just like, that would be amazing.

But yes, it would be to have him as a Randy Orton.

Orton.

And not a Ted DiViasi, right.

Randy Orton, and Ted DiViasi Jr.

or a Austin Rhodes.

Yeah.

So, what's that face?

I just, I like to shut up.

I like, I like Dustin Rhodes.

I like Gold Dust back in WWE.

I did.

I did.

I liked when he got electrocuted.

He's walking around like, right?

You can't turn right.

Yeah.

He got electrocuted into threats.

It does not work like that.

I came to find out.

But yeah, no, I like that.

I understand that he's not dusty,

but neither is Cody.

Like, Cody is a machine-built character at this point.

We're talking about wrestling.

This is not the wrestling show.

We can do this.

We can do this on Sunday.

I don't know.

Do you guys want to talk about the Sixers?

No.

No.

Yes.

I have one note about the Sixers.

Okay.

One note.

Sell the team.

I was writing, I was writing to the theme.

There is a conspiracy theory.

Ooh.

Oh.

Out there for the Sixers.

Okay.

Okay.

I follow with me.

The Oklahoma City Thunder.

Have a own Utah Jazz's first round pick.

Right?

In the Utah Jazz place, that first round pick

is protected.

I believe as a top four or five pick.

Okay.

So if the Utah Jazz ended up with one of the top four picks,

they keep their pick.

If they go outside of four, Oklahoma City Thunder

gets Utah's first pick.

Okay.

All right.

Now, Utah has purposely been tanking

for three quarters of the year,

to a point where they are pulling their start players out

midway through the third quarter

and just putting them on the bench,

and out now tanking or saying they can't play

because they're injured,

a point where the NBA sent in their own doctors

to look at these players.

The Oklahoma City was so outraged about this.

The Oklahoma City followed up and played with the league

and was like, this has to be addressed as campy.

This is so egregious, right?

Right.

So, Oklahoma City Thunder owned Utah Jazz's pick.

There's not top four protect.

Okay.

Utah Jazz tanked their way all the way to number two right now.

Okay.

All right.

All this impacts the Sixers.

All right.

Please.

The Sixer,

their first round pick, okay,

is they owe it also to Oklahoma City.

But it's also top four protected.

Okay.

You're the Sixers and you're Darryl Mori

and you want to get Utah out of,

you want to get Utah out of the top or, right?

Oklahoma City gets that pick

and you want to get somebody else in there

and purposely knocks Utah out.

It's, oh my God, they came from nowhere

and they keep their first round pick.

You go to the Sixers who just traded

Eric McCain to Oklahoma City for nothing.

And the Sixers hank down to the 10th spot.

They get into the lottery.

The NBA says, oh, look at that.

The second year in a row,

a team with a 10th or 11 pick

jumped all the way up to the front of the lottery.

I guess it's not slotted to where if you tank,

you just end up in the top.

Utah gets penalized, they lose their pick,

they make a levelee.

Oklahoma City still gets a first round pick

and ultimately they get Jared McCain for nothing

for all their trouble.

Sixers get a fourth overall pick in the draft

and they draft a kid in a draft

that has like five or six top players in it.

So just what I'm saying right now, lottery night,

keep an eye out.

I don't think the Sixers,

the Sixers clearly have been tanking since the trade deadline.

Absolutely.

Clearly.

McCain, and every time they win,

two more players go on the individual.

So like, I think that this is,

they're gonna lose in the playing game,

be the 10th seed.

Right.

Getting a lottery.

You're getting a lottery.

They'll get the fourth pick.

They're not getting them an overall pick.

You don't need no one to roll pick.

Because the fourth pick, you talk it's knocked out.

Oklahoma City gets a first round pick.

I think it's Jared McCain.

Bring Bang Boom.

We're good to go.

That is my Sixers.

Okay.

That's what I brought it up because we would have got,

okay.

All right.

So we got Sixers talk and a conspiracy theory

from Brian and it kind of tracks it.

Yeah.

All right.

The only other thing I wanted to talk about today,

which is a little bit of a crossover subject

between real sports and sports entertainment

with Pro Wrestling is Dennis Robman

is going to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame

for his two years worth of part-time work at WCW.

Like, are they just running out of ideas?

Is that all this is?

At least we're not out of ideas.

He's the celebrity inductee.

I get put Pete Rose in.

You know what I mean?

Like Pete Rose had to go into some kind of Hall of Fame.

What's that?

Yeah, seriously.

All right.

Here's my other problem.

Shouldn't they have done this stuff?

We're gonna say the same thing.

Yep.

Shouldn't you have done this before Hulk Hogan died?

Right.

Right, right.

Yep. Okay.

Yeah.

As soon as I saw it, I was like, this is ridiculous.

Like, the only guy left is Kevin Nash.

And he didn't have anything to do with it.

Like, who's coming?

Or Bichoff.

Yeah.

And Bichoff don't want to be bothered with that.

So, go back to something that Colin had mentioned

a month ago at Elimation Chamber.

Are they ultimately getting like, okay?

African-American celebrity athlete

and African-American wrestler to induct them.

Oh, like what?

I said no.

Oh, you were like, all the comparisons, like,

Oh, no.

Why is African-American wrestler to comparison move?

African-American wrestler, like,

but it gets like, it falls in the same idea.

Like, I feel like it's gonna make,

oh, we're gonna have like, oh, both of them induct them.

Yeah.

Right.

Like, it's worth frequent, or whoever.

Like, yeah, I just like, one of these guys.

Kofi Kingston.

Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kofi Kingston.

Like, never met him.

Well, the part that's so weird about it

is the guy most recently was on AEW.

Like, his last wrestling appearance was in AEW in 2023.

So, like, but they're just, I get it.

They need celebrities.

There's not a lot, but I don't know.

It just seems like such a stretch.

He looks like it's so cool.

So, I mean, it's like, it's a big thing.

I think he is still always in Las Vegas times.

Yeah.

And I guess in a year,

we're like, you're putting in Stephanie McMahon

and demolition.

It's kind of like, whatever.

Just pick a guy, a cares.

Maybe it's weird that they're not putting John Cena in.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's really weird.

Unless, and we'll talk about this more.

John Cena is still involved.

He's not an active wrestler, but he's still involved.

So, yeah, like, maybe they're waiting

because like they go to, they go to the Middle East

next year or whatever is left to the Middle East.

So, like, I'm not going to deduct them in the Middle East.

They don't think they're going to.

Two years from now, they're going to, I don't.

You don't think, well, maybe in a couple of years,

we're having a WrestleMania in like Iran.

Like, you know, just it'll just be outside.

Like on the beach.

But you have a WrestleMania.

It's good.

Hey, I think it's right now.

I'm like, right now, I'm like 40, 60

that this may be the world's last WrestleMania.

That's a awful boy.

So, does that mean?

No, I think you're going.

I'm like, no more podcasts then.

Where we stopped doing this, too, was that?

Do we have to do something to do it all the time?

No, I like Nick.

Ironically, Nick's cat mate out there, that's all.

All right, I'm going to go on.

Your audio is absolutely garbage again.

Yeah.

See you later.

Bye, boys.

Yeah.