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[Assistant] They said, it's black lung. You're eating up a black lung. They put me in a hospital. I had 30-something pounds of fluid on me, on my lungs. I'm not feeling good today, buddy. I didn't sleep good.


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[Assistant] I was scared. It was tough on all of us because my wife was scared that I was dying and I was scared that I was dying and I was.


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[Assistant] I think about all the hours that I worked. I was under one month. I never come outside for four days. I actually slept on the ground.


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[Assistant] And you sit and think about that and all the things that I give up with my family, you know, I work anywhere from 12 to 18 hours a day.


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[Assistant] I'm dying over now, you know what I'm saying? I love you. Give me a kiss!


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[Assistant] Alright. See, that feels pretty good right there.


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[Assistant] Uh, a little bit of both, honestly. I was proud of working here. I was a young man and I was making good money.


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[Assistant] To sit back and look at it now, you know, they kind of molded us the way that they wanted to mold us. Buying us nice t-shirts and tools and hats all the time and all this trips and stuff like that. It wasn't worth it, you know, because, and the bonuses and all that stuff.


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[Assistant] And we all worked our long hours and forsake our families for it. You know, it's tough. We was all young men.


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[Assistant] But we worked hard. We killed ourselves here.


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[Assistant] When you already got your plot picked out at my age, it's kind of a scary thought, you know.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, just give me a minute, I'm alright. If I can see my babies graduate from college, both of them.


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[Assistant] You're saying there's an actual living forerunner inside of this thing. Huh.


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[Assistant] I wonder what she could tell


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[Assistant] It's not us, it's moving. It's Requiem. The Artifact Conduit. They're pulling infinity with it.


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[Assistant] Well, the first test showed that it is inert. But, this part's really weird. On a molecular level, it's incomplete. It just, it makes no sense. It's like, it's like we're only seeing half of it.


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[Assistant] Pulling x-rays back to, uh, 2014 to 2017. Three years of x-rays. Uhm, we quickly identified 416 during that three year period.


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[Assistant] And I don't know what your test will reveal today, but, and I tell everybody this for almost 30 years, don't get discouraged.


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[Assistant] We do have a new respirable dust rule. I say it's new. It's 2014.


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[Assistant] Here's what I got for Father's Day. What'd you get? Honey.


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[Assistant] Do you have anything to say before- I think I crinkled the shirt a little bit. Do you have anything to say before football season starts?


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[Assistant] It used to be NBA season for me. It's like, you got anything to say, you got anything to do, let's get it in before October. Because from October to June, I am unavailable.


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[Assistant] Did you do anything exciting for Father's Day? Yeaah, we went to the pool, had, uh, my mom and my in-laws over Loki Day. We kept it real chill. It was nice.


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[Assistant] I mean, we were, I took AJ to Columbus last week and we went to like a grader's and there was like, she wanted to make sure that I saw that there was a place to tip. You scooped one scoop of ice cream and put it in a cone. You did your job. Whenever I go to Mitchell's, I give a tip. I don't know. I'm done. I'm done with it.


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[Assistant] No, I say no. Real quick, I gotta tell you, this is real funny. Uh, where were we?


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[Assistant] And I, I like hit the microphone. I forget, I think we were at dinner and I said, Hey, our ring is just fine.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, I thought they needed the extra roster spot for the spot start for 2Key, but I guess that wasn't necessarily the case.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I, I don't know. Uh, Bo Naylor, I said a hundred times, he's not going to save the season. Should this have been done?


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[Assistant] No, but it is nice to get him up here at least, give him a chance, see what he's got. We saw Zenino, we saw there was nothing there. They were as patient as they could with them. It hurts an organization like this to flush six million. That's a hit.


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[Assistant] That's gotta be the most. That's crazy. That comes around once and forever.


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[Assistant] Sure, but that happens, I mean that happens, right? It happens all the time. Tampa feels like they're in a class above everybody else, as far as I'm concerned. And, and it's not a lot of household names, certainly. But just the way that entire organization is structured, they get the absolute most out of it. They're almost like the Miami Heat of baseball, it feels like. It's a good comparison. And they just, like, how are they different?


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[Assistant] They squeeze everything that they can get out of these guys and they lose a guy and you think, okay, that's it. And then two more come up. And I just, to me, that's the class of the, of the, now that doesn't mean they're not, they're not unbeatable.


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[Assistant] But I, I certainly would think the girls would have a hard time going head to head with them.


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[Assistant] But this, this is an organization, they try to win every year, they compete every year, they try to win every year, but they are so dependent on


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[Assistant] The lifeblood of the farm system and keeping things going and keeping things going. I don't think they can risk not trading Bieber.


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[Assistant] Especially if he is the number one piece on the market right now, which all indications are they are, although I have to think the White Sox are going to pull the flag at some point and make Giolito available. But still, that's only two. The reality is that Marcus Stroman of the Cubs has pitched better than both those guys. Are they going to make them available? They should. Are they going to? I don't know.


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[Assistant] All the indications right now are that Bieber is going to be probably the best pitcher on the market. If that's the case, I think you have to sell. Because there are enough red flags around Shane and


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[Assistant] We've talked about the velocity before and they're just, there's no room for error with him and he's not the same pitcher that he was. Other teams know that. So that drops his value. What increases his value is the fact that he's the, but he's still the best available and there's a lot of scarcity of starting pitching.


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[Assistant] And there's a way to do both. Like the Bower deal, they did both.


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[Assistant] You know, they, they got. And Clevinger also. Cleving, uh, Clevinger felt like more prospect. Oh, I guess they got Naylor. Naylor came up. Right. But in the Bowery deal, they got Fran Mill and they got Puig. So they got two bats to plug into the lineup immediately.


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[Assistant] It was Cincinnati, San Diego, and Cleveland.


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[Assistant] I don't remember all in particular, but there's a way to do both where you can get help for now and something for later. Right. And I just think if you lose that extra year of postseason control and you wait until next year to trade Shane, you've cut his value in half, if not more. They're going to trade them. I agree with you.


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[Assistant] I disagree with you on the Donovan thing, I think, but I wanna hear you out. Alright.


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[Assistant] He's never been a guy, like when I did the piece before the season on guys I would extend right now, I didn't include him. He's never been like a long-term contract guy to me. Maybe he's playing himself into that conversation.


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[Assistant] Speaking of what he was last year, he is not the same. But if you just look at his numbers, he's an all-star.


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[Assistant] That's what I said. The Cardinals are so far back, why would they, why would they do that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't, I don't think, I don't think the Guardians are doing anything until the deadline. Like, you wanna let this build.


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[Assistant] You want to let teams bet against each other and let the, let the value grow there. So I don't think


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[Assistant] That has some major league hitting talent. Right. Or you could also, again, I keep going back to the Bower deal. It became a three team deal. It would not at all shock me if the Beaver trade evolves into something that looks like that, where it's three teams and you get multiple pieces back. You get guys to help you now and something for later.


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[Assistant] Three years left, you know. And that's a huge thing with these guys. Obviously is control.


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[Assistant] You know, I just wonder, and we don't have any clear answers on this. Like, I don't know the answers to this, but what's the timeline here in terms of


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[Assistant] They're spending money that they don't have to worry about because, and maybe I'm totally wrong on that. Maybe seven years from now. I hope you're right. Maybe seven years from now it's still looking exactly as it does today. I don't think that's the case. I think I don't have the exact timeline.


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[Assistant] But, but just look at the contracts and the indications. I think that they're spending future money that the Dolans aren't going to have to pay. Right. And Blitzer obviously gave an okay to. Yeah. And so I just wonder how that impacts all of this. But again, they target control yours, control yours, control yours. How long do we control these guys? Yeah. Go ahead, Mike.


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[Assistant] You could buy a steak for what it costs you for pizza in M&M's at the movie theater.


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[Assistant] A snack? Crazy. So we always, you guys not smuggle, we always smuggle. Nah. We go to the grocery store, we go to the grocery store and load up my wife's purse.


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[Assistant] Popcorn and, popcorn and milk duds. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] He's overpaid, he's good, but not great. So here's this hulking boulder, and you don't even get to decide where you drop it. Right. So, that was... Yeaah, so there's no comparison really to other situations. No, Porzingis they could actually get assets for, and they would have...


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[Assistant] Zack, I love Zack, like I have a ton of respect for Zack. I think he's terrific at what he does. He knows better than to throw that out there. That's never gonna happen because why would the Wizards want Jared Allen and, and


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[Assistant] I was going to say trash, but I'm trying to be nice to the people involved. Yeaah. But why would the Wizards want any part of that deal? You could get, you could actually get a number one for Brazingas.


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[Assistant] Right now today, that is far better than anything else on that list. They don't want Jared Allen at $20 million a year. Jared Allen, I know everyone's down on him now. I know. I get it. And ultimately, I don't know that you can play two non-shooting bigs together. We've had that conversation a hundred times, but


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[Assistant] I think that there is value to Jared Allen, just not to the Wizards. So there's no way that that ever gets done, and I don't know why they bothered to throw that out there. That's a waste of time.


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[Assistant] There is a lot of value. There is value to Jared Allen. There really is. Just not to get the guys that everybody wants to get. You have to be realistic about who you can get.


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[Assistant] What you need is what you can't get for Jared Allen. You need playmaking wings. You need guys who can.


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[Assistant] I don't, I, I don't, I don't know. I don't, I'm not in on those conversations, but here's, here's like the little cheat code that fixes the two non-shooting bigs if Evan Mobley learns to friggin' shoot.


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[Assistant] That makes this look a whole lot easier. Now, is it realistic to think that, I mean, he regressed as a three point shooter this year. Is it realistic to think that he's going to jump to 35% next year? Probably not.


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[Assistant] But if, if, if, if Evan develops on the perimeter a little bit more the way that they thought that he would and the way that I still think he can, it doesn't always come on our timeline, right? Like he's going into year three and it doesn't always happen the way that we want it to happen to. But if he takes another step,


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[Assistant] That alleviates a lot of the two non-shooting bigs thing. I think that Jared, what he provides defensively


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[Assistant] But I just think that we're overlooking that there is still a lot of good that he does. And I have said, and I still say yes, I would entertain the thought of trading him. Yes. I just don't know that the deal is out there that's going to bring you back what you need. The Cavs have done the hard part. Like I think I put that in the group text. Theoretically,


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[Assistant] I don't know the exact number. 22 teams around the league are trying to do that. They've got that part.


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[Assistant] Well, it was zero, but it was also one, it was...


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[Assistant] That's Donovan and Darius' job. They're asking Mobley to stretch the floor. It's a big difference. You don't have to carry the entire franchise. And number two, the whole idea, like, I know like,


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[Assistant] We've talked about it in the past about Damien Lillard. Should the Cavs go after Damien Lillard?


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[Assistant] Should Denver, what, what year is Yokichin? What do we say eight? He's in year eight. This was the eighth year. What's, what's Murray? Year seven. I think.


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[Assistant] Okay, so should Denver have traded Jamal Murray for Russell Westbrook after his second or third year? Like, you know, you're short cutting


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[Assistant] You're, you're, you're, you're already up against it now with Donovan and the amount of time that you have against him. We've, we've covered that. If you were to do something rash and go get another veteran who's not going to be here for long,


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[Assistant] And that just doesn't make sense to me because again, we want these things right now and I get it, as fans you want it right now. But it took Denver seven and nine years with their two best players for it to figure it all out. And the Cavs, the Donovan thing is a separate conversation. You don't have that long with Donovan. But you do have Darius and Evan that long.


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[Assistant] And so I just don't think that you start rushing to make knee-jerk emotional trades now that's going to cut off what you could have. It may not happen in year three, but there's year four, year five, year six.


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[Assistant] But Darius is really friggin' good. And Evan, Evan is-


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's not an elite guy. Because it's, we talked about it before on the show. When you have, it's like a quarterback in the NFL. It's like starting pitching a baseball. When you have it, you don't get rid of it. But if Tim Hardaway, would you trade Jared Allen for Tim Hardaway Jr.? No, I don't think I would, no.


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[Assistant] And, and their top four is pretty friggin' good. Yeaah. Against a lot of other teams. And, and for all... And they're still going to get better.


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[Assistant] When they signed him to the deal, I had conversations with people in there, in the organization going, you could scheme him off the floor in a playoff series, is that really worth 20 million?


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[Assistant] And I've kind of flip-flopped multiple times on that where I thought, oh, they overpaid. And then watching them thought, no, he can play, he can stay on the floor. And then watching how the Knicks guarded them. But again, it's not necessarily the Jared Allen problem. It's the Mobley piece. Mobley has to shoot better.


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[Assistant] And if Mobley, I think they expected Mobley to take a step last year in his shooting, that didn't come. Now I'm still incredibly high on Evan Mobley but he did not shoot the ball as well as they hoped that he would. Again, if Mobley


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[Assistant] Is a stretch four, which he's not yet, but had he evolved into more of that player, if he took that step, it's a lot easier to play Jared Allen. That's right.


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[Assistant] No, I mean they've got the mid-level exception. They can spend about 12 and a half million. 12, 12 and a half I think is the number. 10 or 12, something like that. Which doesn't go as far anymore as it used to. Right. Quite honestly. But they do have, they can add a serviceable piece, a rotational piece with that. 100%. But they also need


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[Assistant] They need, they either need Dean Wade to pull himself together and get over whatever happened. But again, you're not asking Dean Wade to carry you. No, I know. You're asking Dean Wade to make three threes a night and grab a few rebounds. You're asking him to be a rotational player. Yeah, you're just asking him to make a couple of threes and grab a couple of rebounds. That's it. It's not, it's not a high bar that you're asking for. I agree.


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[Assistant] Well, they have. I can't believe how much time I've spent defending the Cavs today. I'm looking for them, but... Jason will become a Cavs apologist in his old age.


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[Assistant] The guys that they have haven't really shot it necessarily. Although Dean Wade should be one of those guys. Like Dean Wade is an undrafted guy that they developed. They gave him a 25 million dollar contract. Like that's one of those guys that fits exactly what you're talking about. He just lost his mind when Kevin left and he just completely unraveled.


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[Assistant] Right, right. He played a role. He filled a need. He filled a need that the Cavs had, rebounding a three point shooting. But they still probably lose that next series. Oh, he's not the player that he was. But anyway, like Lamar Stevens is a guy that they have developed. They picked him off the scrap heap. They developed him.


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[Assistant] Dean Wade's another one. Now, again, you need shooting. You've gotta have shooting. They've gotta develop shooting and find shooters. But they have actually done, they've done a better job, I think, under this regime than they did


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[Assistant] Those guys are not guys that are comfortable using them. Yes, but again, like the Cavs got here way faster than I thought they could. Okay, that's fair. They sped up their own timetable.


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[Assistant] But now that's gotta happen. Like the guys that Miami used, they weren't guys that were minimum guys.


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[Assistant] Who did they find and develop and turn into something, a useful piece off a scrap heap or on the margins? Really nobody.


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[Assistant] This team got off to a terrible start. This version, those first couple of post LeBron years this time were awful.


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[Assistant] But, they've done a nice job of finding the Lamar Stevens, the Dean Wades, the throwaway guys, and developing them into useful rotational pieces. Now they did help you in the playoffs, because you gotta have shooting in the playoffs. You have got to be able to shoot, and that's the next step.


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[Assistant] Real quick, before we get to this, the fact that Cavs have 3 of the top 26 on his list is really impressive. Like that's really impressive. And they had 4.


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[Assistant] Cause the playoff. But I'd be curious to know how many other teams have three of the top 30. Probably not very many. That just shows you what I'm trying to say.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean most of the, most teams in the league, if you're


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[Assistant] I don't wanna, let's go back to this. If you've got a top three or four, like, you gotta have a little bit of depth. But the bottom six through, seven through twelve is usually interchangeable. But you gotta have a few more pieces than what they do. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] Well, injuries matter for me. So I talked to Mikey a little bit about this. Mackenzie was on the list yesterday. Oh, Mackenzie should probably be the top 10, but maybe because of the injuries.


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[Assistant] This is part of the reason, this is, I think what the guardians are trying to figure out. I know for this exercise, maybe this doesn't apply, but I think this is what the guardians are spending the next, what, five, six weeks trying to figure out, is what do they want back for them? Do you want a one for one, legitimate,


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[Assistant] Power hitter, you can plug into the lineup. If you want to go the route Mikey's talking about with more prospects. I know for the sake of the exercise, we're trying to do prospects and everything, but I don't think frankly, I don't think the guardians know what they want to get back.


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[Assistant] He's not a top receiver at all. I mean, I defer to Ty because he knows more about defensive backs than the NFL than I do. I would have taken Emerson over. I'd have put Newson on the list. I wouldn't have either on the list.


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[Assistant] I have Emerson. I think Emerson is going to be a beast and I understand that's projecting. He had one solid year and it was not a high pick. I don't care that he wasn't a high pick. He's massive with long arms and he's a great


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[Assistant] Ball coverage. Now, again, he's gotta do it again. Yeaah. I really like him. Alright, number eight, Mike.


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[Assistant] No, it's a, it's a hundred percent a team friendly deal. If he plays, puts up last year's numbers, if he puts up this year's numbers, it's not.


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[Assistant] Even though you knew that was coming. He's probably the one guy on the list where value is in the eye of the beholder because there's probably, there's teams out there that would give you two or three number ones for him. I believe that. Still? Yes. Yes. And I think there's teams that won't touch him. But not many teams.


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[Assistant] I don't know that anybody would give up the same price. You think Tampa would? Look who they're starting. Look who their quarterbacks are. You think they would give up? I think they'd give up two. Three may be a stretch. I think they'd give up two. Three's a stretch. Yea, I could be talked into two.


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[Assistant] I think I'd have him on the list. I think the contract hurts him a little bit because of how big the number is. And he's not it. He's good, but not as good as the


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think Donovan had accomplished more in Utah at the time of the trade, just in terms of all-star appearances and everything else. Yeah, you did say 75% of Donovan. Yeah, yeah, I know. I think, I think Darius belongs on the list, but I think I'd have him a little bit better.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I, Mikey had it like kind of even. I think Darius brings back more because of the contract because he's under control longer. Right. I think Donovan's probably about half. He said 75%. I think it's probably more 50%. Yeah. Half of what they gave up. They could recoup. And again, yeah, like the Knicks offer.


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[Assistant] I think the Knicks are probably going to offer similar to what they offered Utah. They're not going to go. What was that? What was that Mike? It was Barrett. It was Barrett topping.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I mean, the, the, the all, the all-time deal, we're getting off track, the all-time deal was Anthony Davis and what New Orleans was able to extract from LA. It's like that, that's the type of deal that you, but you're not going to get that this time around.


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[Assistant] I personally, I would not trade Donovan this offseason. Like, you're already all in. Yeaah, that's crazy. So let's go. Like, run this thing back another year. And I think that there's a lot of internal growth with this roster still. There's another level for them to get to. Like, let's see it again.


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[Assistant] In the NBA, more than anywhere else, four quarters do not equal a dollar.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's hard because we have to let this year play out. What does this look like?


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[Assistant] What he said at the start is like, what are you, are you valuing, how much value are you putting on an NFL first round pick versus a baseball top prospect, which has a better hit rate?


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[Assistant] I think NFL first round picks are more valuable than NBA. Those depend where they are. Well yeaah, but that's what I was going to say. When you get past the top five in the NBA. Right.


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[Assistant] And it's also hard because if, are you trying to trade him for prospects? Are you trying to trade him for, you know, if he's on the Red Sox and you're trading him, it's probably a different package that you're asking for.


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[Assistant] If you get three of a team's top five, and again, just because Baseball America ranks them doesn't mean the teams actually agree with the rankings. Right, right, right. But let's just use Baseball America, or let's use Keith Law from The Athletic. The top five, if you have three of the top five, to me that's three first round picks.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, right now he is yeaah, but I, I just, I think Mobley because of the contract situation, uh, and how team, now again, he's got a,


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[Assistant] If he could shoot it better, I don't think it would be close. You could make a compelling case for Jose 1. I think it's close between Jose and Evan 1 and 2. And I probably would have Miles 3 on me.


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[Assistant] I think you'd be really close. Because of the positions that they play. Well, you just said Miles Garrett. You think they could get three first for Watson. Well, I said two. And maybe three. I said for sure two and maybe three. But there's no maybe three with Miles Garrett. No, it's two. It's two for Miles. I could get a second round pick.


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[Assistant] I don't think there's any debate. I think you for sure get two for miles and you're getting two and you're getting something else. Linebacker. A player if you want it. Mid-round pick.


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[Assistant] Sure, but I still think over the course of a season.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I still think he's worth, I'd say he's worth one and a half. I think he's worth one and a half wins. Man, I don't know. I don't think any non-quarterback's worth it.


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[Assistant] That's not in that category. I did a, I did a story on him a couple years ago. He was on pace. Like he was close to the Bruce Smith type career sack numbers. I haven't looked at it lately, but it's not a fair comparison. I'm just throwing the ball way more now. I'm just saying if you just look at the numbers and I understand you can make numbers say whatever you want.


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[Assistant] He was on pace a couple of years ago. Yeaah. He was stride for stride with the greatest, with some of the greatest. Oh my god. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Let's go next. It's fine to have them on the list. Well done.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, I guess the Mannings do have two sons, but Archie Manning wasn't any good. I would not have the Mannings on the list.


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[Assistant] Seth? Seth's not that good. No, Steph and Delph. I know, I know, I know. Oh, dang!


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[Assistant] Sir, it's already overheating. I'll have to separate the core and align them manually when they need to blow.


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[Assistant] That's a macro. You've only got one shot left, you better make it count.


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[Assistant] Stand up. You are now a detainee of Camp 7, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Nod if you understand me.


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[Assistant] Why didn't you find him is the question. I blame the government. I really truly do.


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[Assistant] I blame the government. I really truly do. Uh, that red flags went up over the years and nothing was done about it.


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[Assistant] In other words, he would pay for what they call order flow.


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[Assistant] Did you ever think to yourself, this just is too easy, this is too good?


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[Assistant] So you bring the, uh, clients to us and we'll give you a kickback.


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[Assistant] But you've publicly called for transparency. That's transparency.


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[Assistant] Did it ever raise red flags that all his confirmation tickets were


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[Assistant] But you can also opt to get one electronically, which is something Bernie Madoff didn't offer.


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[Assistant] But it never seemed odd that he didn't issue an electronic confirmation.


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[Assistant] But it reached no adverse conclusions estimate off.


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[Assistant] An investment advisor services more than 15 clients, 15 or more clients, it is supposed to register.


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[Assistant] He was conducting the Ponzi scheme. We now know he was conducting.


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[Assistant] Wait a minute, I'm not finished. I'm not finished, fake news. That was a horrible day.


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[Assistant] I watched those very closely, much more closely than you people watched it. And you have, uh, you had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. And nobody wants to say that, but I'll say it right now.


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[Assistant] These are not acts of peaceful protest, but really, domestic terror.


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[Assistant] A federal officer in California was shot and killed. The destruction of innocent life


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[Assistant] And the spilling of innocent blood is an offense to humanity.


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[Assistant] I'm a computer scientist. Uh, my background's in data mining and data science. So that means using, you know, facts and figures, names, dates, photos, dollar amounts, just all that good stuff. And then we look for patterns in that data.


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[Assistant] Charlottesville was incredibly disruptive to these groups. It started everything from infighting amongst themselves, all the arrests that happened afterwards, and then the lawsuits were just absolutely devastating for these groups.


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[Assistant] Really responsibility and scrutiny after Unite the Right and then came up to rear their ugly heads much later.


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[Assistant] This is a anti-Muslim group. Here's an anti-immigrant group.


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[Assistant] Literally as I think about him, I think about him lying on the concrete.


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[Assistant] It's, it's been, it's been horrific for us, uh, and at the same time it feels like we're constantly, you know, reliving it over and over again. So there's, uh, it's hard to say that we've had closure because we haven't.


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[Assistant] Sadness in hoping that we were going to, uh, find the people that murdered my brother in cold blood.


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[Assistant] And uhm, after that, I'm not quite sure what happened because I don't know. I can't remember if the screaming was, was for me or if it was from her. And it was just a bit hazy, a bit foggy because you go,


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[Assistant] Completely to a state of denial, are you sure it can't be? What do you mean? You go through all of those things trying to find some type of logic in an illogical situation.


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[Assistant] Hey baby grump, are you him? What kind of question is that? Look at my Instagram! Would you take her to prom someday?


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[Assistant] What are you gonna do, you know, to stay sharp and keep your skills up if you're actually not gonna go through with middle school and high school?


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[Assistant] I saw that you're foregoing middle school and high school football. How are you gonna keep preparing yourself to play college football in this whole process? Anything you wanna say before we dip out, baby girl?


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[Assistant] I might fly out here and come do a pregame show or something, who knows?


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[Assistant] You need some sauce with those noodles, bro. Hey listen, Nuggets, I was so shocked he came down to the front row to let me know he was here. I seen him in the tech. Right, that's for Nuggets? Listen, he's got guns out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, our whole D-line just had an amazing game and our DBs are flying around. Nice. Just a complete dominant defensive performance. Yeah, it was fun.


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[Assistant] Early in the game, you don't want to exhaust yourself. And I planned on us getting a lot of turnovers, so that's a lot of trips on this 300 pound body.


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[Assistant] Blue lady, blue on the side. White lady, white on the head.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I scored a touchdown at San Jose State. I ran the ball. Yeah, I wish. I got the, you got the video of McNuggets. I gotta send it to you, man.


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[Assistant] I gotta send you that clip of me running the ball at San Jose State and scoring.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's a good stat to have though. But, but I'll take that stat any day. I'll take that stat any day.


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[Assistant] That's viral. And we practice it every Friday, so my O line will be on the same accord. Okay, good.


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[Assistant] Not now, you know, they're enemies this week, and I really don't like them, so. Now you've beaten them. No, we haven't.


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[Assistant] No, they beat us. Ooh, what was the score? Twenty to three, it was three to six with ten minutes in the fourth quarter, so it was a defensive battle.


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[Assistant] What a cheese cup though, pretzel and a cheese cup.


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[Assistant] So if you think if they had Deshaun on that, uh, 2020 team, do you think that...


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[Assistant] I just always found it strange, you know, why receiver is the most dependent position.


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[Assistant] Why they were always pitting the receiver versus the quarterback against each other.


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[Assistant] It can be physically and mentally taxing because when you're at the top of the top, you know, you're going to get everybody's best. You know, there's certain teams that can catch people by surprise because there are no expectations.


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[Assistant] You're labeled like one of the playoff teams are expected to be great that year. You're going to get everybody's best every Sunday. You can't take no Sunday off. So that takes a, uhm, that changes your mindset during training camp. You have to, uhm,


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[Assistant] I would say that goes back to the guys in the locker room, the leadership in the locker room, how close the team is, because everything's not going to go perfect. But if you tuck your tail after a loss or two, then that just goes back to show that the team was never really tight, because things are going to go sideways.


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[Assistant] Definitely, I would say so, because uhm, I would say speaking back to the Pittsburgh Marlins this year, we've had a lot of very close, one score tough losses, but we have a very strong leadership that can rally the troops and let guys know we have to get back to work and let's not pick our heads.


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[Assistant] Uh, when I have to. I'm more of a lead by example guy, but we have two vocal leaders on our team that'll stand up and get guys riled up and things like that.


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[Assistant] It means a little, it means a little more just cause I'm not always talking in the sense of, let's go, ra ra ra, getting guys motivated and things like that. But it's definitely, I will say, the players.


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[Assistant] You know, it's a very fine line before it comes divisive in the locker room. Yeaah. And I'll go back to the leadership on the team, the relationships you have with the team. We're a very tight-knit group. Our offense has struggled a lot this year.


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[Assistant] You get what I'm saying? And I know how much it means to him and to the team. So it just depends how tight your team is in that personal relationship.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. And then the second thing, a team's gonna take the morale of their head coach. So if the head coach is being divisive, cause I've seen a head coach who could be in team meetings and he can put one side of the ball on the pedestal as opposed to the other side.


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[Assistant] That's easy for me. I'm going with what I've seen every year and I'm going Nick Chubb, Mr. Consistent. Why would I lean on something new when I have


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[Assistant] That's just them lining up against you saying you can't stop us and that's a deal.


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[Assistant] You know, sometimes the D.C.'s get, get in their feelings and their egos get hurt. They just think like, you not finna keep doing this to us. Oh, he did it. They did it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I mean look, the NFL is not a league of blowouts. My counterargument to that is everything you say is true. The offense is clicking.


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[Assistant] They're up 21 points. You lost me when you say you subbed him out. I think that's when you hand him the ball and just ground and pound and run out the clock. That, that would be my-


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[Assistant] No, so I stay in the apartment, I got my lease, but my thought process was if we didn't win, I would say y'all can have the apartment. I'm leaving early. I'm out of here, but uhm. You gotta, if we don't win.


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[Assistant] There was the most generous slot machine game ever invented. My sister would play it for hours, just clicking on the buttons until she had maxed out her money. Dracula's 5 was a fully working space shooter, by far the best of the games and even complete with a hungry hedgehog's bonus level where you could finally exact justice on those kinky creatures. And then there were others as well.


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[Assistant] You didn't have to know anything about anything to be able to make your own games. You see, instead of coding, you simply run the level and it pops up notifying you when a button is pressed or when something happens. All you have to do is to decide on what it does at those stages. It's so simple and if it hadn't been I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have gotten very far with the program.


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[Assistant] Of course, it has its limitations. You can't, for example, do the same thing twice so if you miss your opportunity the first time you have to start making the game all over again.


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[Assistant] Hence why it was better to learn the much more powerful and flexible event editor, which I eventually did, which is like a large grid where you do pretty much the same thing but at your own pace. But trust me, it gives you the flexibility to do what you want. I just wasn't very good at it back then.


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[Assistant] Sadly, I no longer have my earliest efforts. They have long since been wiped through countless reformats. They tended to be side-view, heavily scripted scenes sort of like this one. I'm not sure what exactly I was trying to achieve. I'd rarely get past the first cutscene of my game and when I did there was seldom any gameplay. And they certainly weren't that fun.


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[Assistant] But I enjoyed making them and they let me get to grips with the game maker. In fact, although I have many fond memories of Click and Play, I eventually upgraded to the Games Factory, since it was clearly Click and Play's fault that I wasn't able to make the next ground-breaking title.


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[Assistant] Sorry HyperBank, you've met your match. My Metal Gear Solid rip-off, Plastic Cog Floppy, showed real potential but still have no gameplay. Those system requirements sure were high. In fact, I think that the PC I was using at the time was only slightly better than that in every way. Off of the odds.


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[Assistant] Just don't even get me started on ragdoll physics. I played Unreal Tournament 2003 for hours just to chuck my character down the pits to see the next-gen physics in action. I even made my own but they were always limited and buggy.


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[Assistant] The Jedi Knight 2 imitator was perhaps the closest I got to being fun since it actually had enemies that you could kill. Plus real-time shadows, which of course made it a better game. Definitely. I refined this in a Lord of the Rings rip-off where you had to duel a hardcore orc using a sword, bow and arrow and an overpowered magic spell.


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[Assistant] Compared with the other ones, my Final Fantasy knock-offs seemed pretty decent, displaying some degree of artistic talent and potential. But alas, I didn't stick with those projects either. Anyway, you get the idea. A lot of unfinished projects. Nothing to show for it other than a poor reflection of the games that inspired me to make my own.


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[Assistant] I very quickly discovered that trying to make your own version of a game that you like doesn't end well. Back then I blamed my lack of experience and kept trying. Now, I know that if you want to remake a game because you like the original, then it's only ever a poor imitation of the original, which is always a tough act to follow, particularly for a lone 13 year old armed with click and play. Hence why I teamed up with Tom.


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[Assistant] Tom is my friend. I've known him since before we even started school and we have a huge amount in common. And we both loved computers. We called ourselves the 3klikateers because we wanted room to expand, but we never found a third person. He called himself TommyTTK, as in, Tommy the 3klikateers. And I settled on... 3kliksphilip.


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[Assistant] At first we made projects separately but later on we collaborated on some complicated and exciting things. More on those later. Although I was useless at finishing games, some people were much better. THE best game made on the click products was Triumph War.


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[Assistant] Awesome multiplayer wargame where you had to defeat the enemies to progress to the next level.


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[Assistant] Even to this day we enjoy booting it up at LAN parties. It's a great way to kill time and is remarkably balanced up until the final level. And, of course, we ripped it off with our own games. Perhaps the first decent game that I made and completed was Doom of the World, which was strangely like Triumph War, only much, much simpler.


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[Assistant] I quickly followed it up with Doom of the World 2 which was bigger, more complicated and WORSE in every way. It turns out that a large scrolling screen isn't fun if you have more than one player. The controls were messy and the game often forgets to update what's going on outside of the visible area.


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[Assistant] TommyTTK also made his own games. He had a few years head-start on me since he had had a PC from an earlier age and his projects often reflected that. He made more historically accurate games, complete with ammo, reloading and better scenery. The first game we collaborated on was for a Christmas 2002 competition.


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[Assistant] We titled it Christmas Combat, and it was to be a Tekken-style fighting game.


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[Assistant] Tom came up with the idea and drew the characters whilst I focused on the background and special effects. And I think that my dad made some music for it, but we may have opted for Street Fighter music for the final version. We both took part in coding it.


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[Assistant] However, the day before the deadline I took a look at it and decided that there wasn't much gameplay, so I hastily threw together an experience system where you could upgrade your equipment. Anybody who has ever worked on a project knows that it's a bad idea to start on any new idea so close to the deadline, particularly one so game-changing and complicated. And yet, despite that, it worked perfectly.


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[Assistant] It added a LOT to the game experience. Do you replay the same fight a couple of times to get amazing equipment, or do you try to limp through with underpowered weapons and armour? Granted, some of the things weren't very well implemented but they all sort of worked and meant that even a bad player could complete the game if they were willing to invest enough time into it.


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[Assistant] I was proud of it at the time but looking back, I failed to understand the true significance of what I had done. I hadn't just added quantity, I had added complex gameplay elements to the game.


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[Assistant] I had no idea of balancing at the time and was unaware of what I had done, but I walked away with important knowledge of what worked and what didn't. For instance, to this day I dislike the idea of armour when its only benefit is to reduce damage by a certain percent. It's unrewarding and you often don't feel the connection between investing in it and being saved by it.


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[Assistant] In Counter-Strike you'll hear a DINK which pretty much tells you that it's saved you from an incident headshot, but all too often its benefits are too subtle or hidden to appreciate. I would much rather boost the amount of health you have instead from 100 to 150, or to make armour completely deflect the occasional attack.


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[Assistant] These were things that I discovered serendipitously with Christmas Combat that have shaped my projects ever since and will no doubt continue to do so into the future.


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[Assistant] I continued to refine how I made games and started ripping off my new favourite game, Deus Ex.


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[Assistant] But this time, there was a difference. It wasn't a total copy. It also borrowed bits from Hitman and changed it into an above-view game.


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[Assistant] Once again with some degree of depth in the form of a levelling system, which I could now do since I had learned how to carry values across from different levels with Christmas combat which opened up countless new options. I called this one Duragon Aramime.


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[Assistant] There was a landmark game for me for a number of reasons. It successfully, if a little clumsily, split a level up into multiple screens, looked better and had more polish than my earlier games. You can now choose how to play it, either by lockpicking the side door or by shooting your way through the level.


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[Assistant] Not that it was that balanced. Tom quickly discovered that maxing out your speed stats gave you...


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[Assistant] Bit of an advantage. But then came 2004. I returned to the Triumph 4-style games and in the space of a month had completed Doom of the World 3. It built on the strengths of the first game and added better targeting, graphics, balance and AI to the mix. Invisible areas in each battlefield instructed soldiers where to go so they appeared to advance across the map towards the enemy base.


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[Assistant] I had finally created a game that I was proud of. With hindsight, it can be frustrating when one team begins to CRUSH the other and you end up feeling fairly helpless, whereas Triumph Wars' appeal was how influential your effort was on the battle's outcomes. I didn't realise this at the time and thought that better AI meant that it would be a better game.


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[Assistant] But I didn't stop there. In the following month I began on Duragon Eremine again, this time with even better graphics and gameplay. Somewhat controversially I switched to a scrolling screen.


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[Assistant] One of the first things I added was the ability to blow holes through walls. It sounded fatty but really shaped how this game played. You could now study the base you had to break into, find a secluded spot and blast your way through. You could even use them to blow guards up even if you were nowhere near them when they went off.


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[Assistant] You could pick up objects to form walls that would obstruct enemies' vision. Alternatively, you could use them as cover that would gradually be worn away as you fought.


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[Assistant] I even added grenades which were perfect for lobbing around corners. With precision accuracy they could even open up holes in walls like the mines could.


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[Assistant] Just as better AI doesn't necessarily equate to a better game, better controls don't make it more enjoyable. With Dragon Eremine you could either aim or move, not both at the same time. This sounds stupid but it made it less about run and gun and more about finding alternative solutions to situations, using weapons as a last resort rather than the means to completing the game.


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[Assistant] Sort of similar to the limited ammo in Human Revolution, if you will. Now here's the question- which game was THIS ripping off? Was it Deus Ex, or was it the earlier version of Dragon Eremine? I believe it's a combination.


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[Assistant] After Deragon Eremine I poked my feet up and went back to little creative projects again.


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[Assistant] Tom and I discovered that placing lots of 2D objects on top of each other created a cool, 3D-looking effect which we then used in future projects. At one point I put a Ragnaromine on all of the computers in the music suite at school and every lunchtime I'd visit to find about 5 people playing the game.


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[Assistant] How long does it take to make a game? I could be annoying and say, depends on the game. But that's not really what you want to know now, is it? I finished Deathgiver in 2 hours. And most of that was spent placing objects in levels and drawing the main menu. You can see it being made here.


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[Assistant] 2 hours. If you're watching this video then you probably have an interest in making games yourself.


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[Assistant] How long have you been trying for? How many have you finished? And why is that number so small?


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[Assistant] I hope that this video will convince you to make a game so small and simple that you cannot fail. Even if it's painfully boring for you to make such a basic... thing, you'll still have the willpower and determination to get it done simply out of sheer brute force. It's not about making a rubbish game. It's about completing


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[Assistant] It's an opportunity to learn all about the stages of game development that you don't normally reach. You'll learn to pace yourself and how to put a realistic end date on different parts of game development. You'll witness that beautiful final stage where you can playtest it and iron out bugs, knowing that everything you do from now on is only improving on an already finished project.


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[Assistant] How many times have you played a game only to spot an obvious glitch and to think, if I made this game I wouldn't have made these mistakes?


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[Assistant] You'll thank me later. Every game is like an iceberg. Imagine that gamers are like people sailing past on boats. They fail to realise that even the smallest of games has had a lot of work and effort put into it. Even the simplest ones have deep foundations underneath the surface. For every hour that they think has gone into one, the reality is probably 10 times more than that.


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[Assistant] How long will that dream project that you're working on take you? A couple of months? Turn that number into years.


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[Assistant] It doesn't look so appealing now, does it? My old Atari STOS basic manual used to quote, Falls rush where angels fear to tread, and I still stubbornly dislike it out of principle, even though there's meaning to be had from interpreting it. But it used to make me angry. I'm not interested in making simple little games. I want to make the next big thing! Who are they to say otherwise?


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[Assistant] And in a way, it's true. Why would you invest years into stuff that you don't like in order to reach what you do?


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[Assistant] I'd have learnt just as much from working on smaller projects, only the knowledge would have been more relevant AND would have included the later stages of game design as well, such as pacing yourself towards the end and searching for bugs in the final release.


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[Assistant] All too many people are like me, half-finishing most of their stuff or designing it in a vacuum, oblivious to the reality that awaits their creation upon its release into the overpopulated ocean of games. Looking back at how I learned, it's a miracle that I got anything completed.


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[Assistant] I suspect that many people who adopt the same approach run out of steam long before their first release. And it's because of this that I've developed a disliking to people who call themselves game developers when they have no finished projects to show for it. Perhaps they'll have a few tech demos or at best, a half-finished engine. I don't doubt their knowledge of the early stages of game design.


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[Assistant] You people know who you are. You have an unbalanced knowledge and as a result will likely invest your time into the wrong things. Those fancy graphical effects you thought acted as armour plating against bad reviews may ultimately be the thing that weighs your product down. Nimble, simpler flash games may be more responsive and enjoyable than your complex, lumbering wreck of a creation.


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[Assistant] And when the storm of negative reviews arrives, will you ride with it or stubbornly battle against it until it tears you apart? You probably won't get this process right first time.


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[Assistant] Your games won't necessarily sell themselves. This is why it's so important to get into the good habit of completing and releasing your games. You must remain in-tune with the rest of the world, with what they want and what they think of both you and your creations. Don't assume that everybody else is wrong and that you're right. The numbers don't go in your favour, even if you think that you're making the game for


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[Assistant] Because the chances are that in working so closely with your project, you miss obvious flaws that others can easily spot from afar.


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[Assistant] Watch her closely as she plays it and see what happens. Imagine that everybody who downloads your game is like her. Then realise that you need to make your game more foolproof. Not that your mum's a fool. Well, maybe she is, I wouldn't know.


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[Assistant] But yea, this realisation about foolproofing your games took me YEARS to realise. Deathgiver was a turning point for me and without it I wouldn't have made the far superior, but still surprisingly basic, sequel. Sequels are magical things. You get some kind of incredible motivation once you've completed the first game.


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[Assistant] All of these things only make your next project easier to do. This is why I urge you to throw whatever complicated thing you're working on right now aside and to instead make a game in 2 hours. It'll be done before you go to bed tonight.


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[Assistant] You must show the world that you've finished a project. If it's bad, perhaps that will motivate you to make a better one. Once you've treaded the path from start to finish once, the second time is easier. Best to make the mistakes now with a project you don't really care about too much. It doesn't matter if you know you can do better. Everybody can do better than the best game they've released.


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[Assistant] I have half-finished projects that are a thousand times better than the stuff I've released. But they're not really better because they were never finished. They're worth nothing.


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[Assistant] Advanced. More advanced. Always more advanced. Worse still, if they have any respect for you then they'll instead assume that it's the game development tool that's at fault.


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[Assistant] It's not hard to do. There are thousands of people out there who are happy to tell people to instead jump straight to C++ and to learn how to make games properly. It's not fair. All of the big blockbusters are made using that method. How could my finished efforts possibly compete?


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[Assistant] And it makes me angry that people who code somehow deem themselves superior, even if they, themselves, have never finished anything with it. It makes me question if these people have ever even used programs like Construct or Fusion 2.5 or if they're simply assuming it's a dragon drop tool where you only choose the backdrops and weapon types and the game maker does the rest for you. It's not like that.


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[Assistant] There may be pre-made sprites and in-built movement types but you can, and will, make your own once you've picked up the basics.


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[Assistant] Most limitations can be avoided by using a different strategy or custom plugin.


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[Assistant] I'd rather be a pro at a basic program than a noob with an advanced one. Game makers such as Fusion 2.5 DO have lower limits than C++ does. I'm not denying that.


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[Assistant] But I seriously doubt that ANYBODY has ever reached them. They're capable of far more than those basic platformers and shooters that you see made with them and anybody who says otherwise either hasn't tried them, or is John Carmack.


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[Assistant] It's a shame that anybody who embarks on more complicated game projects with the basic tools almost never finishes them for the reasons outlined in this video. I for one am happy to stand up and to admit that with the games that I want to make, I'm the limiting factor. But here's the bombshell.


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[Assistant] Had I used C++ instead of click and play, I would have achieved even less. I would have embarked on the same journey, it just would have taken a lot longer to make the same mistakes. Back to the original question, how long does it take to make a game? Depends on what you make it on.


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[Assistant] I would lose this with a larger project where I would have to work with other people. Because of this, programs such as Fusion, Gamemaker and Constructor offer the best compromise between power and speed and maximise what I can hope to make on my own, given any feasible time-span.


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[Assistant] Where do you feel like you're at right now in your life? Like, you're a mysterious goddess.


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[Assistant] I feel like there was like an era where a lot of rappers were getting by on all image and then I feel like that's kind of waning now where people are like trying to


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[Assistant] I remember it, but I always, I never take that shit that serious because like, okay, you're saying you went through that. I think about Soulja Boy and Ice Tea.


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[Assistant] 12 years is so crazy. Look at the number of running backs that are great to never play 12. Gale Sayers didn't play 12. No. Jim Brown didn't play 12. Barry Sanders didn't play 12. Terrell Davis, no uhm, no 12 years. That's a long time.


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[Assistant] In The Time Machine, and uh, was watching a documentary three days ago, what happened to Saturday Morning Cartoon?


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[Assistant] It has to be. Like, I, I, and think about it, I used to come on early. I used to get up. It am. Well, if I, if I got in trouble, shout out to my parents. Like if I got in trouble. They got you up. I used to have to get up at like four or five. On Saturdays? On Saturdays. And I had to clean and I had to do math facts.


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[Assistant] They made you the person you are. Listen, I'm gonna have to, listen, I'm gonna have to at least put some of that on my kids, but I'll tell you what, TGIF Friday and Saturday morning cartoons.


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[Assistant] Was, was a, a 36 hour extravaganza. You got to watch TGIF? You went to sleep and you got back up and you had cartoons on? Are you serious?


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[Assistant] He was doing physical with olive oil in public, like grabbing her up. Also, uh, Pepe the Pew, that cat was doing, like, he was chasing that cat for years. Yeah, he was. And he was just, he was thirsty. He was thirsty. He was robbing her. He was trying to, he was trying to get kisses in public. I'm like, bro, you can't do that, my man.


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[Assistant] I didn't like how he just, they defied the laws of physics on him. Like he would cut the ledge and the whole mountain would fall and he would stay there.


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[Assistant] And then he would fall. Man, well, I'll tell you what. Here's, there's a couple cartoons I used to watch that was very over people's head. Like, it used to come on very early and it used to be bullwinkle.


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[Assistant] Oh, I remember Bullwinkle. Bullwinkle was kinda like over people's heads. They had like imagery in there. They would have like different like political jokes in there that you wouldn't even have gotten.


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[Assistant] My home, my era was, you know, obviously Ninja Turtles was great. Sonic the Hedgehog. Not the, not the. Ninja Turtles, great call. Great Ninja Turtles. Not the Sonic the Hedgehog. After my time. There was two Sonic the Hedgehogs. There was two. There's a good and a bad one. It was a, it was a dark one that used to come on where it was just like.


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[Assistant] That was crazy. Car jackings, everything. Cartoons was the greatest. Yeah, we got some from the chat.


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[Assistant] Spongebob. Transformers? Transformers? I don't like Doug. Well did you, did your kids, so is there, as a parent, did your kids like at a point in time,


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[Assistant] Like, try to sell their souls because they wanted something like, a specific thing for Christmas. Like, for me, my, my mom got me, when it was all the craze, my mom got me a cabbage pesto.


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[Assistant] Like, they was like, he, listen, Ron, just get it for him. And he, like. What, dance is why I'm not giving my son a doll? He's like, I mean, he's not about to have no doll out here. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I still watching that. What you talking about? I still, Toonami came back on Cartoon Network. Toonami is great. I got the DVDs and everything.


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[Assistant] Yes. I mean, that sucked. You was in the cages. You're ready. They took you, they took you to swings and things. You got your eye ready to go. And next thing you know, you look up, it is boring. Even worse, Jay?


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[Assistant] Well, they sneaky. They're very, that's the way it happens in baseball. Sometimes you can start off bad. We, you know, we was just laughing and joking about baseball. There's a lot of things that can come down to.


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[Assistant] You know, if you don't, a lot of the balls that they were hitting earlier this year was right at people. A lot of them loop singles wasn't, wasn't falling in.


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[Assistant] And you can start to see, oh, there's a level of confidence because now you got another guy back who now when he's pitching, you don't think you got to have every, you don't got to put up nine, 10 runs, right? You just need to get enough over the hump. So that, that infuses what you, what was some confidence.


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[Assistant] Will Brennan just thinks he's my guy. Will Brennan feels like he, he is actually playing right now. Like he feels like that's his position.


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[Assistant] As they were pitching, I said, is Jane Bieber the, uh, the, the new version of Corey? Corey Kluber.


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[Assistant] One guy who, who does have plate discipline, um, Jose Ramirez, three home runs, first three at bats, uh, I think he hit two from, two from the right side, one for the left side. Yeaah. Uhm, you know, to me, it's always fascinating when you talk about, uhm, you know, switch hitters, because they're, they're


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[Assistant] There, there, another part of an equalizer, right?


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[Assistant] You know, if you got multiple switch hitters in your lineup, you do a great opportunity, you have an opportunity to keep a good hitter in the lineup. And one thing about Jose Ramirez is,


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[Assistant] Hitting them free home runs, it's crazy because it was the first time, I think in a while, it kind of reminded people.


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[Assistant] That why he's a superstar, right? You know what I'm saying? Uh, also, crazy player at third base. It went down the line, like that was a crazy player getting thrown him out of first base. So the great thing about it is, especially when you talk about baseball,


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[Assistant] Is everybody knows the clubhouse is infectious. Like if you see Jose Ramirez go up there and he hit three home runs.


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[Assistant] That puts a little bit of onus on you. That makes you feel like, oh, they're hittable. Jose is hitting them. Jose is lining them up. I think I'm hot too all of a sudden. Then you see Will Brennan come up and hit home run. You know, for the Guardians, it was refreshing to see that, you know, people were still trying to come up


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[Assistant] And they were still trying to put more runs on the board. I think sometimes when you're conservative and you don't get a lot of runs, sometimes people go up there and they get a two, three run lead. They want to wave the flag and say, all right, let's just coast this out. Nah, I need y'all to see. It's okay to put 12 on a team. We all adults here. They run real people.


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[Assistant] Because no one else is making noise. I look at it, I think there's a date. Like in my mind, you know how they talk about it in basketball, you want to cut it to a certain, certain. Right. Ten and a half time. I think that they have to be, if they can be in first place within the next. They can be in first place in two


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[Assistant] In high school, if you get two home runs, matter of fact, because they don't even have fences like that in high school.


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[Assistant] Many don't. So when you, listen, if you, if you up and you hitting two home runs, I used to tell my coach, there's no way, I'm not even looking at you down there. Listen, I will swing at the first pitch fastball.


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[Assistant] Man, so first of all, you said you'd talk about coming off the bench, right?


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[Assistant] Well, he's not going to be a starter on this lineup. That, I mean, I haven't never seen Chris Paul come off the bench.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is, he's, he's really, I think this is the, the, this is where his, this is his Carmelo years. Uhm, 13.9, or this is, that's for his career, but 13, 14 points a game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, obviously he's lost a few steps. And to me, Chris Paul was never a guy who was never in tip-top shape.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, he's always, he seems to be injured at the wrong time. Especially lately. Yeah. Right? Even early. The Clippers, he was hurt. I remember he was, the Clippers had, somebody beat, they had Blake Griffin and Deandre Jordan. They were beating the Rockets.


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[Assistant] They've been probably the best team in the west the last couple of years. He's been injured. He was injured last game. I don't think, uh,


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[Assistant] I would take Chris Paul. I think he does bring something to the table. But like I told Jason Lloyd, I think the only places that he's thinking about going is LA.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Chris Paul to me, he has one of the, he's gonna end up with one of the, I guess one of the more interesting resumes when he's done. His legacy of what Chris Paul is, right?


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[Assistant] He plays in a certain way and he's notorious for rubbing people the wrong way because of the way he goes about leading and the way he talks and the way he's in that locker room.


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[Assistant] I think he knows it as well as everybody else that, you know, there's a couple of guys who, you know, the only difference between Dwayne Wade and Carmelo and Chris Paul is Dwayne Wade got his out the way.


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[Assistant] Like, he got his championships, he got, he caught LeBron in his prime, and he got, he, and he led. He won, he won.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so he, he, he did it, he was a finals MVP, so it's a little different, but Chris Paul is, his, his resume is going to be up for debate. He's going to end up in the top three and assist. Uhm, the question is,


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[Assistant] You know, how will they look at him? He's not really a clutch player. He's never really been, uh, an MVP. Uh, so even when, even when you look at the, you know, how you go about saying Chris Paul in point guards, Isaiah Thomas,


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[Assistant] Put up more points than Chris Paul, right? When you take a look at John Stockton, assist, Magic Johnson, you already know what that is, MVP and championships. Steve Nash got two.


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[Assistant] So when you start talking about point guards and, and, and you know, like he's, he's a quintessential point guard, start looking at that pecking order and you might get, have to get down to about seven before you start seeing Chris Paul.


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[Assistant] I think, I think this, this looks like to enter the big three era. Like the big names that just go get together. I hope so. I hate it. I think, I think Denver is kind of ushering in a new way that you got to think about doing it because you know, you're counting on when you're getting these big threes that they gel quickly.


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[Assistant] Then there's no personality. And they all want to stay. And they all want to stay. And that doesn't happen. And then they like to coach. They usually, they get there, they fire the coach immediately. They try to figure it out. Then it's like, okay, well, who got to take less shots? The, the big three era has not been successful, if you really think of it, since what? My, the heat? The heat? Well, and not only that, but...


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[Assistant] I didn't, I didn't, here's the thing, LeBron's was different. Like, LeBron couldn't get over, like, you know, the Boston Celtics beat LeBron before he went to Miami, right?


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[Assistant] He was up 3-1, and then you were like, and there's like, oh, Kevin Durant's a free agent, where you gonna go? Is he gonna stay in Oklahoma City? And all of a sudden, he's like, we're rocking with the, with the, that's, that's, that's tramp.


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[Assistant] And if you're putting two and three of them in one city. Say what you want. David Stern had it right. I could go down the list of players. You know, Bulls had, you know, Jordan. Celtics had Byrd.


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[Assistant] Cavs, you know, like, you look. Lakers had magic. Lakers had magic. Uh, Indiana had Reggie Miller. Carl Malone was out in Utah.


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[Assistant] Like, they had guys in every city that you could say, hey, this was the guy you went to see, and somebody come here, like, obviously, home games, away games, you got to see one of the good players. Trailblazers had Clyde Drexler, Lajuan was in Houston.


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[Assistant] Now it just seems like there's a conglomerate of them, but I think they're doing a good job of getting that out of the system. And now it's gonna look a little more like football. Now you gotta win on rookie deals.


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[Assistant] But what I would like to say is, let's not forget he was a first round pick. He was a first round pick.


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[Assistant] If any year was the year that he should decide to actually do something, I think he's pivotal this year.


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[Assistant] It's like, there shouldn't be no excuses. There shouldn't be any.


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[Assistant] Listen, you, you, you, you weathered the storm, you became a better blocker, you got your money, you're secure, you got your long, your hair is longer, you got the good ice cars, I wanna see you put up, this is the year, can we get a thousand?


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[Assistant] Can we get it? Like, you know, Keller Winslow put up a thousand and he wasn't Travis Kelsey is getting 1200, 1300 in 17 games. This is the year we would like to do it. And if he is,


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[Assistant] And here's another thing too. We talk about DeAndre Hopkins a lot. If they got the 5th or 6th highest paid tight end,


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[Assistant] That's a pass catcher, that's that fast, that athletic.


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[Assistant] Man, you're being consistent. Like, because here's the thing. If you, if I know that you're gonna catch the football.


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[Assistant] I know that now I can, I can attack.


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[Assistant] All different types of the field. Like, not just one or two routes. For me, they don't even really send him on.


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[Assistant] Some of the vertical routes that Kelsey gets, like some of the deep over routes, some of the other things, you don't see them doing that. He mainly runs a couple routes where he's going five, maybe seven yards sitting down in his own.


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[Assistant] I know the consistent guy is not going to have holding penalties. I know the consistent guy is also going to make the routine catch as well as making some of those difficult catches. And you know, down this year it's just


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[Assistant] The team, this is such a pivotal year. I know we say it a lot of times, but this really is a year you're really going to have.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you're gonna have to make a decision about what you are. Cause if they don't play well...


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[Assistant] For a lot of people that, that is kind of questionable. Questionable, can you pay two guards like that? Sure. Questionable, if you pay overpaying for, for David and Joku as a vertical threat when he's really, uh, he might be medium, you're paying a running back a lot of money.


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[Assistant] You plan an aging receiver and a Mark Cooper, $20 million is supposed to. And by the way, don't look at Denzel Ward too.


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[Assistant] They drafted him this year, they got Peppers.


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[Assistant] Okay, so he's got at least five full seasons.


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[Assistant] On Wednesday, Tibus came in and said Sean Watson looked like Brady.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then Dale Ryder doubled down and said, I've never seen a bronze quarterback.


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[Assistant] Play like that. And then Jason Lloyd said, I'm trying to think of another quarterback, maybe Dan Marino.


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[Assistant] And at the end of the day, I was so mad that once again, the day was seven and ten. Like you came in last place.


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[Assistant] When, you know, the Steelers were breaking in new quarterbacks and all kind of other stuff. And still finishing 500. Higher than you. Winning records. So that, I totally get that. So there's a part of me that says, nah, we gonna have to see that. We gonna have to...


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[Assistant] We're going to have to feel that. But then you get caught up in the moment. Yes. And then when you see, when you see people catching the football and you see an offense that you may not have seen before.


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[Assistant] Because pressure at anything, whether you work in a job or whether you in a office, whether you're doing, it's something different. You ever have that feeling when you be working a job and they say, guys, guys, guys.


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[Assistant] The boss says, ay, I need y'all to get y'all stuff together today. Yeah. Corporate's here.


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[Assistant] Yep. There's a different vibe. It's a different vibe. Yeah. You see them coming from down, down the cubicles. They walking in. You're like, Oh, that's the big dog corporate out. Yeah. They came from California. They over here looking at the productivity is down over here over the last. This is supposed to be the best, best shop.


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[Assistant] This is the best guys. So when you start seeing that, you and your cubicle, you get there early. You be there about 30 minutes early. You done cleaned up your desk. You ain't got no papers out. You going around touching base with Joe associates that report to you. Now you telling your associates, Hey, I need you. Hey.


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[Assistant] Don't you come in here with them leggings on no more. Hey, I mean, hey, you better have that collared shirt and listen and stop getting up going to this break.


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[Assistant] They looking around like, why G Bush's people always up and moving? This is real life facts, stories. Why G Bush? Your boss come to you. Hey, why are you guys always in there? Do they got break time? Why are they always in there? You see, like, it's just one of them things. And now the Browns.


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[Assistant] They got that same level of pressure. They had to get two new coaches. They had, you look at it, the fact that you got Deshaun Watson, who is under extreme pressure, the coaches is under pressure. And guess what? You got the AFC North.


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[Assistant] All three games, first three out of four in a bye week. That's a recipe for getting fired.


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[Assistant] I love the pressure. I love it on these boys. Show me.


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[Assistant] If you have not seen him, Gilbert Arenas has like, probably, I don't know how many podcasts he got.


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[Assistant] The news of Liv broke, you weren't here. Yeah. What were your thoughts on that? I was thunderstruck. Like, because to me...


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[Assistant] There is, there is a lot, you hear McElroy talking? Yea, and I'll blame him. These guys is not, they're like, this is no happily ever after. No. We're not inviting these guys back in, and a lot of the live guys that took the money was like, phew, what a life.


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[Assistant] And then go back and look at Alabama where he won the Heisman. He's been that guy everywhere. He's got 2000 yards at every level. I don't think that's ever happened.


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[Assistant] I think he might be the only player to rush for 2,000 yards at every level. I wanna say he went over 2,000.


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[Assistant] Browns fans will remember this. One of my favorite, my favorite memories from the playoff year was the Browns 8-3.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, Baker played great. Jarvis Landry played good. Donovan Peoples Jones had the long touchdown bomb. Good old days. It was, hey, we was rolling. Something just hit me.


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[Assistant] 8,000 yards. That means you're close to 10,000 yards, man. Yeaah. Like, I don't think Zeke is that close. That's a lot of yards, man.


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[Assistant] I feel like Zeke would be in more Pro Bowls. But 8,200 yards, that's a lot. Alvin Kamara got a lot of yards. Is this rushing yards or combined yards? This is rushing yards. Okay.


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[Assistant] I mean, his first couple years he did have fifteen hundred.


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[Assistant] Doesn't it always seem like the Cowboys always have somebody that never, like they never ride out into the sunset, like Amari Cooper, Dez Bryant, Zeke Elliott. Did Tony Dorsett


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[Assistant] Is this finally Austin Eckler coming off the board? No, NFC. Aaron Jones in Green Bay. I like it. I like that.


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[Assistant] Well, you know what, I'll give you my thoughts on it. You know, I just, you know, some of you may have heard me, I just bought a house.


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[Assistant] And the crazy thing about buying houses, you know, they tell you to save your money and you got to have a certain credit score. You do all of this saving, right? You do all of this saving and you can't spend any money. They check your accounts. They say, don't you take no money out of these accounts. We need to see screenshots of everything you've done.


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[Assistant] My desk ceiling is looking good. Can you check your report? But then you get the house, right? And so then they take the restraints off. So you've already been, that 30 year mortgage means you all in. That means you will be here paying for this come hell or high water. For 30 years, till you're 70. So my thing is,


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[Assistant] They say, well, Gee Bush, man, well, you got the house, you can't go back, but you in there and get a bunch of new furniture. Cause guess what? You get new furniture, now you got the house, you gotta pay on the furniture stuff. And you start to think, you say, but I'm, I'm supposed to pay on this till I'm 70. At what point in time I'm not gonna enjoy any of this.


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[Assistant] Soooo, why am I saving this money and going to the thrift store?


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[Assistant] And buying second hand furniture. Why am I going around here messing around, getting appliances from your next door neighbor in an apartment building? No. If the house costs a certain amount, the furniture has to add up. And guess what?


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[Assistant] The house that the foundation at the Cleveland Browns built their house on is 250.


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[Assistant] It's 50 million and it gets the cap. That is Deshaun Watson. So at any point in time, because he is the house and you can't get out of that, you can't just give a house back. You gonna pay on that. That's called foreclosure.


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[Assistant] You can't foreclose? Guess what? You always in the business for looking for home improvement. McNuggets, you might want a deck.


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[Assistant] You might want siding. You might want a little bit dead in the basement. So you always looking for, yeah, you know what? I'm gonna go ahead and do that. Yeah, give me that because I want to enjoy it until I'm 70, right? So the Cleveland Browns should be looking


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[Assistant] All the time. They got to break the bank, but it's okay to go look for vases and it's okay to go look for a recliner once in a while. Hey, you want a TV? Your TV is 55 inches. You say I want one of those 70 inch TVs like Jay. I'm going to be somebody, right? But, but, but I gotta, I save, I gotta save up a couple of weeks for that.


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[Assistant] He just go get his. But the reality of the situation, the Browns actually have the money. So they can just go get theirs, right? Now next year you might not have it, but that's a long out drawn analogy about why the Browns should always be aggressive because you told us that you was buying the house.


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[Assistant] Guess what, he got 15 million and then all the rest of the receivers was like, well, hold on now. I was going to take a discount, but I'm better than him and I'm more durable. I think I can get X, Y, Z. Guess what, Jay, like you said, somebody going to get hurt. Someone will get hurt.


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[Assistant] That's why I said they should not be done. You're supposed to still be looking because guess what? I can't.


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[Assistant] You got Anthony Walker, you got J.O.K., you got Phillips, you got Taki Taki.


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[Assistant] These guys have been injured at some point every single year. So for me,


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[Assistant] It's wishful thinking that all of a sudden they're going to make me just. They're going to all be healthy and play great. All be healthy, right? And then, and then, you know, here's another thing we don't take into consideration. When you coming off of a major injury, it's a two year process.


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[Assistant] To get bigger or faster or more explosive, you're just trained to know how to walk again.


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[Assistant] Like, you gotta think about it. You're doing eight months of rehab to walk straight, to run straight, and to strengthen your legs up to a point where you can now be functional enough to play. That is not


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[Assistant] Enough in the league at the highest of high when guys, I realized after, after I toured my second ACL, everybody has hopes, dreams and aspirations. When I toured my second ACL within


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[Assistant] 18 months, 16 months, second ACL. I just got done rehabbing this one and then tore the other one. I knew it was, it was a long shot. It was over because I looked at it and was like, okay, well, even if you say I'm on a Mac level and I feel like I'm one of the best players in the Mac.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you gotta be dominant and your numbers gotta look great and your production. So I said, okay, well you missed the whole calendar here.


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[Assistant] Now when you come back, you're gonna be rotating because they're not gonna play you 100,000 snaps. Now, you didn't even get to re- you didn't really get to train to get better. You just trained to get back. And now, you tear another ACL, that's a whole nother another eight months.


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[Assistant] So now you don't have a strong side anymore either. Now, now you don't have, you just, now you gotta learn to play with less explosion. You gotta do some different things to augment your game. And it's just like everybody else has been training for two years. You can't give a


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[Assistant] So, some people have, and we should have probably rolled this out a little bit better, but,


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[Assistant] A lot of people have hit me up and DM'd me and said, hey G Bush, man, what's going on with, you know, we, we've noticed you haven't been on Locked on Browns. Um, and you know,


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[Assistant] I was, I was gonna come out and say something about it, but you know, you don't think we get doing stuff and Jeff is still doing his thing over there. So, you know, I wanted to let the fans know we did a great job of building it up over there. We over 6,000 people, I think.


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[Assistant] I definitely saw a lot of people reaching out. Hey, where's G Bush? Where's G Bush? So, um, there's no bad blood or anything. Um, it just didn't work out schedule wise. Um, and they're still going to do a great job of watching that and covering the Browns every day. Um, so I do have some exciting news though.


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[Assistant] I will be having some things rolling out, uh, for football season with some other, uh, independent content. So I'm really excited about that. Um, if you like the post games, um, you know, we'll, we'll be doing something a little more like that on my channel as well.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and, uh, I am doing some other things. So today, I will be doing, this is probably my third time doing, I'll be doing a National Browns Live on Bleacher Report.


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[Assistant] So you guys can check that out. It's a, you know, we'll be talking about the depth chart, what happened in OTAs, um, and kind of previewing the season. So this is the third time I've, I've worked over there, worked on them. So you guys can check that out, that live stream of Bleacher Report. But I do got some cool content coming. So I do want to thank Ross and Dave for the opportunity because


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[Assistant] You know, when I came into it, you know, they were the first person to give me an opportunity, uh, to do a podcast every single day. I cut my teeth. I learned a tremendous amount about the business and I thank them for giving me that opportunity. So just want to say thank you to them and continue to support the Lockdown Browns Podcast.


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[Assistant] You know for me what this screams of is he wants a one more payday.


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[Assistant] It always seems to change your mind about where you are in life based upon your friends, right? Like, you know, sometimes we've all had friends who've gotten their first real job first and you're kind of doing odds and ends jobs and you still maybe not be working full time, part time, doing a couple things here. And then the first thing you notice is like,


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[Assistant] You got a new house, huh? That's a nice apartment. Well, wow, the car, car got upgraded. Okay. Hey, hey, hey, you can be feeling good about your situation over here. You're feeling like, okay, well, you know, I'm not working full time, but you know, I got some expendable income.


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[Assistant] But what happens is you look around the league and DeAndre Hopkins has to be looking around and looking at Odell Beckham Jr. being like,


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[Assistant] I mean, this dude ain't played in years. He was a guy that I, we was thinking it was gonna take, you know, four or five million dollars or whatever the case may be. When they talk about 15, uh, guaranteed an 18 to up to 18, it makes you think a little bit different. And DeAndre Hopkins in his mind is like,


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[Assistant] I don't know what his spending habits is and I'm not going to put that out there like he's reckless with money or anything.


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[Assistant] But I know how it can be when you say, hey, I want one more bite at the apple. Like right now I'm in my early thirties. I know that this is going to be the biggest check. Probably I'm going to get the rest of my career no matter what I do with the production on the field. So for some people,


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[Assistant] That check, at the end of the day, to take care of your family, or to make yourself comfortable as you get older, is, it takes priority over the winning situation. I mean, it's made over a hundred million dollars.


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[Assistant] If he, if his family's not comfortable now, they're never going to be. Well, here's the thing. Some people, we automatically think, Jason, people prioritize that ring over that bag and they don't be like that.


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[Assistant] And you know he's telling his agent, listen, if he's sitting there and for a guy like DeAndre Hopkins who gets cut, right, he's expecting that phone to be ringing today, like.