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Ebony
This is an iHeart podcast.
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Katie Couric
On the latest episode of Next Question with me, Katie Couric. I sat down with Jasmine Crockett, Democratic representative of Texas. She's holding down the fort for her party in one of the most conservative states in the union.
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Jasmine Crockett
I think that ultimately who will become the Democratic nominee for president will be someone that has been out there and has shown that they won't allow themselves to be punched and just say thank you like they will punch back.
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Katie Couric
Listen to Next Question with me, Katie Couric on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Ebony
Welcome to Pretty Private with ebony, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebony and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast network. Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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Dr. Leitra Tate
If you're looking for another heavy podcast about trauma, this ain't it. This is for the ones who had to survive and still show up as brilliant, loud, soft and whole. The Unwanted Sorority is where black women, femmes and gender expansive survivors of sexual violence rewrite the rules on healing, support and what happens after. And I'm your host and co president of this organization, Dr. Lea Trittate. Listen to the Unwanted Sorority. New episodes every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jemele Hill
I'm Jemele Hill, host of the sports and politics podcast Spolitics. On this week's episode, I'm joined by all time great Hooper and basketball analyst Candace Parker, who gives insight into her candid new book including why she waited two years into marriage to come out.
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Candace Parker
I never envisioned being with a. I'll just be honest, like when I close my eyes at night every night I was like, I need to find my prince charming. Like it was never a princess.
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Jemele Hill
Make sure you listen to this episode of Spolitix on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
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Candace Parker
The Volume what is going on everybody? How are we doing? Happy Friday. Happy Fugazi Friday. Here was the plan. We had some moving parts. What I ended up doing is TJ Watt signed a big contract. So I did a big reaction to that that we put up on YouTube right away. So I, I included that as well as a mailbag. So today's Friday podcast will basically just be my reaction to T.J. watt, the Steelers, how it impacts other guys, how it impacts their franchise this season, and just a lot of different angles from the Steeler standpoint, as well as a long mailbag at John Middlekopf. So not, not a crazy long pod, but yeah. So that will be the case today. You guys know the drill. If you listen on Collins feed, make sure you subscribe to Three and Out as well as the YouTube page. You'll never miss anything. Did a saving podcast yesterday. You might have missed it. You got to subscribe. We got you on YouTube, we got you on the podcast feed. Never miss a thing. But let's, let's dive into TJ Watt, obviously, before we do. You know, I got to tell you about my friends, my partners, and the official ticketing app of this podcast, Game Time. Best in the business. You guys want to go to a game, you want to go to an event, we got you covered. You can search by venue, concerts, comedy shows, you name it. Take the guesswork out of buying tickets with Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, use the code John for $20 off your first purchase terms apply. Again, create an account, redeem the code John for $20 off the game Time app today. Last minute tickets, lowest prices guaranteed. Okay, we just had some breaking news. I was at my desk and I said, you know what, let's react. T.J. watt signs, as Adam Schefter put it, another record breaking deal for the second time in his illustrious career, making a lot of money, well over $100 million, he becomes the third big name pass rusher this offseason. Miles Garrett, Max Crosby, and now T.J. watt. The position is, you know, treated like quarterback on defense. Once you have a great one, you pay them and you pay them a lot of money. And I've been saying this for a while, that the moment this offseason played out the way it did with Aaron Rodgers and them trading for DK Metcalf, and it was clear that the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Mike Tomlin era, put all their chips in the middle of the sea in the table for this kind of operation. You trade Mika Fitzpatrick, you sign Darius Slade to go with Jalen Ramsey, you just change everything as a move to, like, we're going to do everything we can to win. I think we all agree that even if they're better, we've seen the last couple years, like, what is their ceiling? It's not to me, Super Bowl. But can they win a playoff game? Can they be a lot more competitive down the stretch and in January and I think if you probably polled Tomlin in the group internally, they would say, we feel a lot better about our team. TJ had him by the balls. He's the best player on the team. He's their team captain. He's the heartbeat of the franchise. Cam Hayward said this sometime over the last week. He deserves to be a one helmet guy. When you think the Pittsburgh Steelers post roethlisberger, you think T.J. watt. I think over the last five seasons, no player has more sacks. When he is, you know, healthy and playing well. He is as good of a player in the NFL and he's the type guy like, he's the reason as a gm you want to hit on a draft pick. You want to get a guy that you extend, you keep. And as long as he's playing at a high level, you continue to pay. And because of the position he plays, you know, he now costs well over $100 million as his third contract. But I think once we saw Miles Garrett and Max Crosby, like you had two options with tj you either give me a number that became this well over $100 million in guarantees. And I know we love throwing away around, you know, $40 million a year. That number never really means that much to me. How much am I getting guaranteed, right? You can give me $40 million a year if you guarantee me 30. Who cares, right? It's the guarantee. And it's going to be a shorter term deal. I'm a little older, but it's going to be well over $100 million. And that's the number. So whether it lands on 110, whether it lands on 105, like we know what the fucking ballpark is. And you got Aaron Rodgers, 41 years old, you trade for DK Metcalf, which I'm sorry, I didn't quite understand. Now, I think there are mixed opinions. Like, I do trust Tomlin if he wants to short Minka Fitzpatrick. And safety is a position on defense that I think is highly debated in football circles. Its importance. Clearly they think he's trending down, he's going to need a new contract. And they punted. Now, you could argue they punted for Jalen Ramsey. They also got Johnny Smith with Arthur Smith knows, but they go now we got two press corners. But our most important aspect of this team is our front. We draft the defensive tackle high. We already had another pass rusher to go along, T.J. but T.J. is the heartbeat of this thing. T.J. watt is the Pittsburgh Steelers, right? Some franchises like Lamar, Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes, they are their franchise. Like they are there he is the poster child. Even adding Aaron Rodgers, it's not even close. And TJ knew it. And once you pass the draft, even if you would entertain like, hey, could we get two ones for this guy? Like, once you pass the draft, you're not going to do that. Especially like if you, if you were the Browns, technically you could have got past the draft if you had an extended miles and go, listen, we're going to suck. Let's trade them for two ones, two twos and just start over. Tank this year and just completely suck. But the Steelers, they don't play that game. Like they are obsessed with. We never lose was like, well, did you win? Well, not really. We got work down the stretch. But hey, our 110 games. And like that means a lot to him, which I respect. You know, tanking is such a big part of, of sports now. I mean, so many basketball teams do it, baseball teams do it. Even in the NFL, the second half of the season, it's like, yeah, let's just kind of keep losing some games, right, to get a good draft pick. And listen, I understand it, but the Steelers don't play that game. And I think they showed their true colors when it came to this contract. They are pretty loyal when it, when it comes to their defensive guys. When you think of the ethos and the, the culture for my entire life, going back before I was born, the Steelers are like a successful version of the Bears. Defense, defense, defense. You know, and obviously Roethlisberger changed it for a little bit, but they have stayed competitive because of good defensive players post Roethlisberger. And I mean, last year they're, I mean, their defense kind of fell apart as well, but I thought the quarterback experiment kind of blew up in their face. And listen, they're doing it again this year. But I think if you got Mike Tomlin over a cocktail, he'd say, I think our defense is going to be a lot better. I feel a lot more confident improving our cornerback position. Even if Jalen is player whose arrow is pointing down. We can play this bump and run style, which we've always loved to play with two long corners and let our pass rush dominate because the easiest way to make a decent or average defensive backfield look good, get after the quarterback. And in that conference or that conference for sure. But in that division, you're playing Lamar, which in a weird, ironic way, the Steelers have. Actually, I think I remember last year, it's like for whatever reason, over the Last several years, they've played him the best. And I think part of that is they're comfortable seeing him. You know, he gets, he plays so many of these teams, especially any one off scenario, like the rotating divisions, you don't see him very often. So all of a sudden you see him, his speed, the way he plays, he just destroys everybody in the regular season. But the Steelers are pretty comfortable playing and obviously Joe Burrow, you got to get after him and you weren't. You know, we, we have seen a guy like T.J. you know, I, I guess it was different because Khalil Mack was, it was his first contract. But Aaron Donald, the kind of that those two guys held out and Jon Gruden traded Khalil Mack. Now there are financial ramifications there, but when you do something like that, it doesn't help you in the upcoming season. So even if they could have got a haul for him, if they weren't comfortable giving him this amount of money, you would have had to do that before the draft. And once they didn't, like we all knew the, the end result, it was just when's it going to get signed and what is the exact number going to be? But we knew the ballpark. And this is the probably the least shocking thing of the offseason. I also think now this has a kind of a downstream impact on Micah Parsons, who I just saw headline that are like, I don't know what the Cowboys are doing, like we're ready to play ball here. Like these are the numbers, Jerry. You know, I mean in Micah's number because it's a longer term extension. He's a younger player. It's much more like Nick Bosa was a couple years ago, which I think the guaranteed money was 120. I bet Michael wants $140 million guaranteed. So it's like, Jerry, are you just going to wait and ultimately give him the amount of money which he is going to get? And I think there are other young pass rushers who still have a year or two to go before their extension. Look at these numbers go, you know, if Jalen Carter keeps playing at a high level, if Will Anderson keeps playing at a high level, these defensive linemen, I know Mike Florio thinks this collusion thing is going to end the NFL. All I noticed when I watch, you know, these player contracts is everyone keeps getting more and more money and it's never been a better time. Obviously quarterbacks are paid like NBA stars, but if you are a really good defensive lineman, outside linebacker, pass rusher, if you can get after the quarterback. It pays such a premium. It, it really does. And obviously if you can block those guys, pays a premium. We have so many guys, pass rushers, tackles, wide receivers and quarterbacks just making an insane amount of money. Hell, even these corners now, because if you can cover these guys, you can make a lot. But T.J. watt gets what. I guess we kind of knew what was coming. And here's the thing. When you bring in the Rogers, let's call it a circus. I mean, it is a little bit. Fair or not, you didn't want a scenario where training camp starts at Latrobe home, Arnold Palmer, and have TJ not there doing a holdout. Being a situation that's it. That becomes just, not just uncomfortable, but it becomes kind of chaotic. And with Rogers missing basically the entire off season, like you want training camp to be very focused, everyone on the same page, not just a chemistry building moment, but like, I don't want circus. Like Jerry's, like Micah Parsons probably ain't going to be there, right? I mean, the 49ers always have a holdout. Certain teams, like, just buckle up, you're going to have people just no show, right? Trey Hendrickson, the Bengals, hell, their second Shamar Stewart, they're going to have multiple guys just not there. I don't think the Steelers wanted to deal with that at all. They didn't want that. They didn't want a scenario where in the middle of training camp you got TJ Watt barging into the Rooney's office again like art, let's get this deal done. Like, let's just get this fucking deal done in the middle of July. So whenever the veterans are supposed to report in a week, he's one of the first guys there's. Because he essentially, in a weird way, kind of is our quarterback and we need him setting the tone. This is how we practice. This is how we operate. We have some new young guys that we're going to be very dependent on. Who do you usually look up to? The best player on the team, which is him. So if you do have these aspirations to like kind of break the cycle, which I, I respect the Steelers this offseason, we'll see how everything worked. But that Minka Fitzpatrick move was almost like a wake up call to everyone in the organization. Like there are no sacred cows here beside TJ and Cam Hayward, who've kind of earned it. But everyone else, your head better be on a swivel because if we keep getting our ass kicked down the stretch in the playoffs, we Will get rid of every single person here. This is the NFL and we get a lot of credit for being really loyal to Mike Tomlin. This is not how it works. Like we were loyal at different times when we were winning at a really high level, right? It's easier for the Chiefs to be loyal. They go to the super bowl every year. We get worked in the first round. This is not okay. And we can't just repeating. The standard is the standard. The standard is a standard because the new standard is win 10 games, get worked in the first round and go home. And I think that Minka thing had to be a pretty big shock to the locker room, right? And now you bring tj, who is there to like, hey guys, now it's time to everyone get focused and try to break the cycle. That has been these last handful of years that for Steeler fans, again, their standard is so much higher. Like so when I say kind of been embarrassing, you know, you have fans of half the league like the Giants be like, we die for that. Well, yeah, their standards are a little higher, you know, or the Jags or the Cardinals, like yeah, they ain't you. They're one of the premium brands in this league who have been winning for 50 plus years. And everything that's been going on like this is an opportunity to change it. But the only way they could change it and maybe have like an 11 win team that can kind of win a playoff game. And who knows, you just. Playoffs are weird. It's one game scenario, maybe win a couple, right? I don't think that's going to happen, but clearly they do is with this guy. And the rate is the rate, right? I mean this is, there's not like this isn't some desperate individual that you can lowball. This is one of the, I mean he's going to go down as one of the better players in franchise history. Now a big part of that with the Steelers, like win a ring now, I think it's going to be difficult, but you got no shot to compete for a ring, for the afc, for the division. If you don't have this guy lining up for you not just week one, but start a training camp like setting the tone. I mean that's a huge part of football. This isn't just show up and roll out the balls or you know, in baseball we'll figure it out. And by middle summer, like this football like you set the tone for your season for the year, for the team's long term toughness, for everything. In early August, even though training camp is so dramatically different than it once was. There's still an element to that in this sport. And having him there and having him participate, even if you give him some days off because he's an older player, was was vital and they clearly valued that because they got it done and they avoided any TJ Watts not nowhere to be found. God, I'm fired up. The British Open is here. 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Jasmine Crockett
I think Democrats have for a very long time allowed Republicans to play them. So essentially Republicans came up with a narrative and Democrats decided to play into that. And that only hurt the Democrats.
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Katie Couric
I'm Katie Couric. Jasmine Crockett, Democratic representative of Texas, is not known for holding back and our recent chat on Next Question is no exception. But when you hear how she got to where she is, her intensity makes perfect sense.
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Jasmine Crockett
It's just hard to imagine a world where you don't have enough people that care to do right by people. And so that same passion that carried me through as a public defender, that led me to want to change laws and thinking about the harm that will happen not just to my constituents, but just generally. Like I carry that weight with me.
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Katie Couric
Because you've seen it up close.
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Jasmine Crockett
Yeah.
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Katie Couric
Listen to Next question. With me, Katie Couric on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Candace Parker
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Candace Parker
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Ebony
Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebony, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebony and every Tuesday, I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. On Pretty Private, we'll explore the untold experiences of women of color who faced it all childhood trauma, addiction, abuse, incarceration, grief, mental health struggles and more and found the strength to make it to the other side. My dad was shot and killed in his house. Yes, he was a drug dealer. Yes, he was a confidential informant, but he wasn't shot on street corner. He wasn't shot in the middle of a drug deal. He was shot in his house, unarmed. Pretty Private isn't just a podcast. It's your personal guide for turning storylines into lifelines. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast network. Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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Candace Parker
I thought I'd do a little mailbag, ease on into the weekend, call it a little weekend mailbag. Not much going on. Take a deep breath before for another week until we get to the to the grind of football on a daily basis. Watching a little British Open today looks cool. I mean it's listen, I have a lot of respect for those across the pond. If it was that cold and windy and wet all the time, I would never play golf. We will do a mailbag though. At John Middlekopf. At John Middlekopf. Is the Instagram fire in those DMs? Get your questions answered here on the show. We will start with Miles Texans fan. I'm curious how we should go about handling the upcoming salary cap situation with C.J. and Will Anderson. They were both will be due for extensions as we know and both are top five picks in the same draft class. I can't remember a team ever having a situation like this. Do you try and extend one of them a year early if they would be willing. Even though I'd imagine they both want to wait because the market gets reset seemingly every offseason or realistically, are we going to have to break the bank for these two? Well, I think there are a lot of different variables here in, in relation to your question. They play premium positions. So if Will Anderson, who I think is going to be one of the better players at his position for obviously health permitting the next eight to ten years, I mean that's, that's a long time, but definitely the next five, six years. So he's in no doubt about it. Cj Big year for him, right? Coming off incredible rookie season, weird offensive season, offensive line was bad let's face it, they pointed the finger at Bobby Slowik who as I was talking to a buddy in the NFL basically tried a copy and paste version of Shanahan which he knows the offense in the first year it worked pretty well. But as time went on, people adjusted. He got really exposed. And I think the Texans think they upgraded an offensive coordinator. They can be a more balanced operation. The offensive line is a question mark, but Nico's a stud. They draft the wide receiver really high from Iowa State. The running game, we'll see. I mean that's, I mean a huge part of a quarterback. It helps the quarterback a lot. I mean it just does. They bring in Nick Job, does he have anything left? But I would expect a bounce back year from CJ but bottom line is if you get a top front guy, defensive tackle, edge rusher, outside linebacker, you know, pass rusher, he's a double digit sack guy, that's the most important guy you can get on defense. And they already have a star corner and obviously the most important guy you could have on offense is the quarterback. But I think what we need to learn about cj like do you feel comfortable, like if he, if he has a bounce back year and two of his three years have been exceptional, it's like, okay, he's the top six, seven quarterback in the NFL, but if he has a year again like last year, you're like, well then it's. I think you pump the brakes, right? If Will Anderson keeps doing what he's doing, he's an auto try to extend after year three to me, CJ not saying he's going anywhere, but this is, this is a big year for him. The offense, the offensive coordinator, you know, d' Ameco made a big move firing Slowik who was his buddy. Not that he deserved to keep his job, but I'm sure it wasn't easy. I think Texans are going to be good. I mean they're going to have one of the best defenses in the league. I mean honestly, they have an opportunity to be right there with teams like the Ravens, teams like the Bronco, I mean their defense is going to be awesome. So offensively, if they answer the bell, I was looking on draftkings, you can get them plus 110 to win the division. I would be stunned. Now obviously football injuries can happen, but just based on what we've seen in the last couple years, they're not going to win the division. Like it's pretty crazy that their odds aren't like minus 150. Kind of love it now, last year I got a little bullish on them. I bet him to get the number one seed. I wouldn't go that far. And listen, I don't think they can win the afc, but I think they can be pretty good. Was listening to you talk about Nick Saban and I had a random question. Which football coach could you see being a great U.S. president? What traits and qualities would translate well into that role? Bill is the goat, but would that mean he could also be the goat president? I would say Saban and Belichick would have absolutely zero chance to be good presidents. I mean, one, I think being a good politician, those days are fucking dead. I mean, look at some of these people all over the country that are in office. I mean, it's a joke now. Maybe it's always been a joke. Maybe the older you get, you know, if I was 40 years old in 1978 or 1995, I would have said the same thing. And maybe it's just different because of social media. But listen, I'm from a world where we respect the private sector. The government is kind of a laughing stock where I come from. So I just think these guys would never be used to playing politics. Like build and play politics. In New England for 25 years, there were no politics for Nick Saban. He did what he wanted to do. He was a fucking dictator. That's how most college, that's how Kirby is now. So Coach K was. That's how John Calpari is. I mean, that's how all these basketball and football coaches are. I do think if you throw back to the 90s when you know the Bobby Bowden type guy, Steve Spurrier, I think their personalities were a little more, quote unquote political back in the day. Not that they didn't have a lot of juice, but one, politics doesn't pay. I mean, so many of these politicians, that's like their job. They go in poor and come out rich. Doesn't quite make sense, but I don't know. I think politics is a fucking joke. Hey, John, another question. I mean, obviously it's not. It impacts our lives, but these people that get up in arms, it's like, I just, I don't respect these people. I mean, I really, I just don't. And that's why, honestly, I think in the football community the respect for most politicians is pretty low. It's really low. And I would say that in most industries now, you need them sometimes. Obviously you gotta do what you do. But you know, in football, you know, for political stuff, the league office handles a lot of that. And sometimes your team president, if you're trying to get a stadium that the coaches, they don't deal with any of that bullshit. We talk about GMs and owners in the NFL. How does your knowledge, how to your knowledge does the league look at Mickey Loomis and Gail Benson? Are they good and well respected or are they a clown? Show what's up. Love the pot. New Orleans native, born and raised. I feel like a lot of broadcasters forget about the length of time the Saints dominated and now we are consistently shit on. I get it, trust me, since Drew and Brees have, since Drew and Sean have left. But why is Tyler Schuck and Kellen Moore getting swept under the rug? Kellen Moore just won the Super Bowl. Gray Cosell and a lot of other NFL films analysts said he's really good. Shuck had the second best film coming out of the draft. I know the quarterback sucked, class sucked compared to last year. Also. I hear what you're saying. I think, you know, it's funny, like, was the Patriots a well run organization or did like Bill and Tom know what they were doing right now, obviously they got variable. Now maybe they can run. But if you just gave Robert Kraft some random coach, he's probably going to suck. Like the owners a lot of times have nothing to do with it. I mean, they do. Once they get the right guy, they support him. But if you gave Jeffrey Lurie the wrong coach, he will lose. Right. If you give Robert Kraft the wrong coach, he will lose. I've seen Jed York look smart with Jim Harbaugh and Kyle Shanahan and look like an idiot with Jim Tomsula and Mike Singletary. So I don't care who you are as an owner, Stan Kroenke, like the Rams are well run. Why Sean McVeigh's their coach. If they had hired Joe Judge. Right. Everyone thought the Giants were one of the model organizations for about a decade with Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning, look what they've been for the last seven, eight, nine years. So I think it's very, very coach dependent. And when you had Sean Payton, he's really good. Look, he goes to the Broncos, they're immediately good. So like is Mickey Loomis know what he's doing? Yeah, I mean he's, he had a front row seat working hand in hand with Sean. But like if he doesn't, if you give him Dennis Allen, he's going to suck. Is Kellen Moore a good head coach? I don't know. I Don't know. To me, the Tyler Schuck thing. History would say that guys like him are not going to be good players. I mean he played in college for seven years. Like I'm sorry Mick called me old school archaic way of thinking. But he was in like the same recruiting class as Brock Purdy. Love the show. Should the Rams and the Rams fans be worried that they're starting left tackle? They just paid now as blood clots and the right tackle got a complete shoulder clean out and was not active during minicamp last year. We started out without our starting tackles and went one and three. You know what's funny is I think I'm going to do some like division previews over the next couple weeks and I think if you just ask most people, the Rams get a lot of credit and rightfully so for how good they looked against the Eagles. Right? They were right there. They could have easily beat the team that dominated Washington, dominated the Chiefs. They were playing really well at the last point of the season and even the previous year they easily could have beat the I think. Did they play the Lions? They played. No, I forget. Did they play the Lions? Yeah, they did in the first round, right. Maybe I'm getting that wrong. But whoever they played, I'm pretty sure they did two years ago. They've won 20 games the last two years, 10 and 10. I think that sometimes we talk about them in the off season like they're the Lions or the Eagles, like they've been rattling off 13, 14, 15 wins. They're not the fate the betting favorite to win the division. So I think the Rams very top heavy. They're very dependent on like four or five guys. Now granted those guys when Stafford's playing, when Puka's playing, when Verse and Fisk are playing, they're going to be good. But they are not to me. Some like Eagles when the Lions are healthy. The Ravens like their roster is not quite that. They do have a lot of young ascending talent but they are a couple injuries away like you said from being in they've started really slow the last couple of years. Their talent they get by a lot with tough they're tough on defense now the young guys in the front is good. Their coaching with Sean is elite and Stafford on individual games can go toe to toe with anybody. But now they add Devonte offensively they should be better or just more dynamic. But Cooper cup was actually sneaky more productive than you realized last year. So I don't care who you are, if I if your tackles and listen we got. It's July 17, so we'll see what happens over the next. They don't play a game for almost two months. If I take anyone starting two tackles away, again, I don't know, these guys, both might be ready to play, but in a game, you could be playing a team that wins three or four games, let alone a playoff team, you might. You can easily lose that game. So offensive line depth, the amount of good offensive line that have come into the league over the last decade is diminished relative to what it used to be. So most teams, and I wouldn't say the Rams, you know, have some like, superior offensive line, though. Ryan Windell, Fresno State guy, their offensive line coach. I was just DMing with his wife Meredith, who when I was at Fresno was. Worked with us in recruiting. She lives in la. Because I was texting her, she DM me congrats on the baby. And I. She laughed at the picture I reposted of McVeigh. I'm like, how does he look so good? Is he on Botox? She's like, he just. He works out and he eats really healthy. But he looks the same like his picture year one, year nine. But Ryan Windell, who was taught by Pat Hill in college, went on to play in the NFL as an undrafted free agent, started in the super bowl for the Patriots, and he learned from. Dante Scarnecchia is a really good offensive line coach. I mean, really good. He's a guy that probably more people should talk about, I think, internally. I mean, Sean knows how good he has it. Ryan's a really, really smart tough guy. I mean, ask Tom. I know you can't ask Tom Brady. Neither can I. I don't know the guy. But if you did ask Tom Brady or Belichick about Ryan Windell, the way they would speak about him would be really, really highly. So I think that's offensive line coaching is pretty important. Like, I've seen it forever with the 49ers. I'm like, beside Trent Williams, who are some of these guys? How are you competing at the highest level with this group? It's like, I think Kyle would tell you Chris Forrester is pretty elite as job and our scheme, it's no different. McVay like our scheme. Now, the difference is Kyle avoids the pass as much as possible. McVeigh likes to. McVeigh is like kind of like a 40 year old in shape. Andy Reid, if you could. If McVay had to pick a game plan 10, you know, like the NFC championship five years ago when Kyle and Jimmy Garoppolo threw it eight times or 10 times. Like Harbaugh two years ago with J.J. mcCarthy against Penn State. I guess Harbaugh was suspended, but they didn't throw it in the second half. And JJ, I forget the exact, like 8 attempts, 5 attempts, 10 attempts, whatever it was. Herbaugh, Kyle Shanahan, Mike Shanahan. Those guys live, like, if they could win a game with throwing like less than five passes and just run the ball down your throat and physically embarrass you, they would play like that. Where Andy, like, if he could choose, he would be the opposite. He'd rather score 50, throw it 50 times, throw like 10. All go specials. McVeigh's that. Which is kind of weird because McVay came up with Gruden and the Shanahans, which actually are much more old school running the ball. I thought Gruden maybe just because I had forgotten he had been out of coaching for a while. On tv, it's like, oh, this guy's like a passing game guy. And then you watch him. Gruden wants to run the ball. Gruden wants to play old school football. And I just think that you are who you are, so your personnel really dictates. Obviously, Sean can adapt when needed, but, like, we all have things we lean on in whatever we do, and he leans on the best. Why he loves Stafford. Question for the pod. You were talking about all the college quarterbacks other than Manning. I was talking about the SEC guys. I wasn't talking about them all, but the SEC guys. What about Riola at Nebraska? He has only started in one year, but he flashed some great stuff. My buddy is a diehard Nebraska fan, so I watched him quite a bit. I really think he and Matt Rule are going to put together a great season. Wanted to hear your opinion. Well, like anybody, I was excited to watch him play. He. I mean, I. There are certain players in college or, you know, I don't follow like, some of you guys. If you're a big college football fan, you're probably a little more dialed in on college recruiting. And certain guys like Arch Manning, you knew that name when the kid was 15 years old. But for the most part, there are a lot of recruits, like, never heard of this guy, right? And Riola is a guy that I had heard of at like 16 years old. Started in Arizona, transferred to Georgia. He was going to go to Georgia, and then he goes to Ohio State. Then it's. Then it's Nebraska. Obviously, Nebraska paid him millions of dollars, and I was excited to Watch him play. Pretty underwhelmed. In fairness to Dylan Raiola, his dad, Dominic Raiola, the center for the Lions. Football's hard. And being a true freshman playing quarterback in the Big Ten, a conference that is really good on defense, I thought he was not good last year and kind of self destructed at times. There was just like a instinctive aspect to his game. Now you bring in Dana Holgerson, who might not be the greatest head coach, dynamic offensive mind, you know, I just think it's going to be fascinating. One thing that I'm just very interested in moving forward with college. I mentioned this with Colin. When you give a guy like Riola whatever he's making cup several million dollars a year now, he grew up rich anyway. But regardless, you're giving him millions of dollars, right? I'll give you an example. Derek Carr. When Derek Carr got to Fresno State, while his brother wasn't like, obviously, you know, he wasn't. His brother's money wasn't his. He did show up driving a Hummer, right? So like the brother, their, their family's so close, it's basically all under the same umbrella. But Derek shows up driving a Hummer. A lot of other guys driving hoopties and shit at Fresno State. But Derek gets the same scholarship and the same lifestyle as everyone else on campus. Has college roommates when he gets to Fresno State like anyone else. No different than Matt Leinert would have or Cam Newton or whoever, right? Forever in college football. Now when I pay a guy like Riola all this money, you know, I talk to people. They say a lot of these quarterbacks live in a huge house kind of by themselves, that they're not necessarily living with their teammates. So you're kind of out of touch. There has to be a little resentment. If I'm like a third year guy, let's say I'm like a guard or a defensive tackle and I'm a guy in Nebraska, I'm one of the best players. I'm making some nil, but I'm, I'm going to be one day, probably like a second, third, fourth round pick. I'm an, I'm an NFL player one day. I'm one of our best players. Just a high level guy. Wouldn't I resent that a little bit? I have no problem if you come in, you're making a lot of money and you're good, but like I'm busting my ass and I'm watching you making all this money and you suck. I just think that these things get weird I think there's a lot of pressure on Riola being good. If he's not like, you could argue that program could kind of crumble. They went all in on the guy. I mean, they treated him like he's like Luca or something. It's like, well, that's fine as long as he's a good player. Listen, we can debate Quinn Ewers all we want. You have, you have put Quinn yours on a good team. He's good enough to win you a bunch of games. Carson Beck, same thing again. We can nitpick these guys all we want. Like, I've seen Carson Beck on a really good team win a lot of games. I watch Riola fucking, you know, melt like a, like put an ice cube in, you know, an Arizona summer day. And I don't know, there's no disputing his physical characteristics. But one thing we've seen now time and time again, college football, definitely the NFL is like just having a huge arm or being able to run. Like you got to be able to play quarterback. And maybe the hype, maybe the offense, I don't know. But I was, I was down on the experience. Now, like I said, new Dana came in at the end and took over. But you get an off season with them. Excited to watch just the whole thing kind of come together or not. I mean, it's going to be rule Riola are going to be a big college football story this year.
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Jasmine Crockett
I think Democrats have for a very long time allowed Republicans to play them. So essentially Republicans came up with a narrative and Democrats decided to play into that. And that only hurt the Democrats.
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Katie Couric
I'm Katie Couric. Jasmine Crockett, Democratic representative of Texas, is not known for holding back, and our recent chat on Next Question is no exception. But when you hear how she got to where she is, her intensity makes perfect sense.
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Jasmine Crockett
It's just hard to imagine a world where you don't have enough people that care to do right by people. And so that same passion that carried me through as a public defender that led me to want to change laws and thinking about the harm that will happen not just to my constituents, but just generally. Like I carry that weight with me.
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Katie Couric
Because you've seen it up close.
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Jasmine Crockett
Yeah.
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Katie Couric
Listen to Next question with me, Katie Couric on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Candace Parker
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Candace Parker
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Candace Parker
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Ebony
Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebony, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebony and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. On Pretty Private, we'll explore the untold experiences of women of color who face the it all childhood trauma, addiction, abuse, incarceration, grief, mental health struggles and more. And found the strength to make it to the other side. My dad was shot and killed in his house. Yes, he was a drug dealer. Yes, he was a confidential informant. But he wasn't shot on a street corner. He wasn't shot in the middle of a drug deal. He was shot in his house, unarmed. Pretty Private isn't just a podcast.
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Candace Parker
It's.
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Ebony
It's your personal guide for turning storylines into lifelines. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast network. Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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Candace Parker
I have a question regarding Lamar, Jalen and Josh and all the quarterbacks that run. Why is it when a quarterback throws for three, 500 yards and rushes for 500 we treat the guy like a scrub? But the 4,000 yard passers, some barely have over 200 yards on the ground. Why is it that after the likes of Cam Newton, Michael Vick, isn't it discussed total yards to make it fair for everyone who isn't just passing? Also, please explain the Josh over Lamar MVP. Lamar had the first team all pro but lost the MVP to the second team all pro, Josh Allen. One more win that important if Lamar had almost 700 more yards? Yeah, I mean I just think people are going to be hard pressed with a guy who had crumbled before like a cookie in the playoffs giving his third mvp. I think that played a huge factor. They're just like we're going to make this guy a third mvp and we've watched him in the playoffs crumble like a cookie. Now last year was his best showing in the playoffs, that second half against the Bills. But I think people and I would have had a hard time like Google some of the three time MVPs, right? The Brady's, the Mannings, the Farves. Like it would have been not saying that he doesn't deserve another MVP sometime in his career and I understand it's a regular season award, but let's face it, there are a lot of different variables there. Listen, you could argue a lot of different things like why do I get an If I throw 10 interceptions on the season, if four of them bounce off my wide receivers hands, how is that my fault? Now I think you could counter. Well, it's like what about the five that were dropped by dbs right now in this one it's very black and white. It's like well I ran, I threw for 3,800 yards and I ran for another 700. Yet some guy throws for 4,500 and doesn't run at all. It's the Jalen thing because I'd be like, well Jalen only threw 18 touchdowns, right? It's like, well yeah, he runs for 14. So it's like he accounted for well over 30. These are questions that are just never going to get answered. How does guaranteed money, signing bonuses, incentives per year affect the salary cap? Does the cap limit include incentives and bonuses? Do teams often have leftover or unspent money on the Cap at the end of the year due to unfulfilled player incentives. How does that all work? The bonus stuff I think carries over to the next year because obviously if you have a million dollars worth of cap space and have to pay out $10 million with the bonuses, it's, it'd be impossible. And it's a hard cap, so it carries over to the following year. Guaranteed money, obviously by definition is the money you know, you have to pay a guy. But you can manipulate the salary cap by putting, if I, if I give you, let's use Trey Smith. I give Trey Smith $70 million guaranteed. Well, if I give him a four year contract, right. And that's either an extension, so it's actually I have him under contract for five years or in his situation, he was on a franchise tag. So it's just, it's just the next four years I can give him all of that money up front. I give him a signing bonus of 70 million and then I can distribute that over the life of the contract however I want. Right. It's why you see a lot of guys sign contract extensions and their salary cap number goes down. Because if I give you a 30, a 50, whatever million dollar bonus, I can then manipulate it and amortize it for you. Accounting majors over the salary cap. But it's why, you know, in these other contracts, specifically basketball, when I give a guy $200 million over five years, it's $40 million every year. Or maybe 38, 39, 40, 41, 42. Right. However, it is, football is never like that. It's why you have to treat the salary cap like a puzzle and use the guaranteed money to your advantage. Now the more and more you want to give out in upfront signing bonuses, the more and more cap you can create. So the more an owner is willing to pay cash on individual years, the more they can load up their team. Right? Not guaranteed to work. No one spent more actual cash in bonuses than Jimmy Haslam over the last four years. But I think like second and third were like the Eagles and the 49ers who have won a lot. They have spent a lot of money over the last several years up front, giving out bonuses and manipulating the salary cap. And there are a lot of teams that are somewhere in the middle. They're like, yeah, we'll kind of do it and kind of not do it. I would say this, like, I think it's easy to go, well, why wouldn't you just. You have so much money. I think some people try and then it Backfires, you're like, what am I doing this for? And football more than basketball or baseball. Like, if I do sign Aaron Judge or Paul Skeens or whoever, in baseball, unless they get injured, I know they're going to be good, right? In. In basketball, if I get Jokic or whoever, it's guaranteed. In football, it's like, some guys fall off a cliff, some guys get an injury, are never the same. There just feels like there are a lot more variables because of the physicality of the sport and the coaching scheme, turnover, they're just. They're more variables than any other sport. And I think teams get hesitant to try to manipulate it with money because it backfires sometimes and it feels like you wasted it. And once you get burned, right? If you're like, God, I spent. Let's just. Let's just say I'm an owner and I'm like, you know, typically I would have given X in bonuses, and this year I gave $75 million more because we got aggressive. And then all of a sudden we win six games. I'm like, what a waste of money. And then my franchise getting shit on that whole time, too. As the season approaches, what defines a great NFL season? Is the league better served by dominant teams and many mediocre ones, or by upsets and parity with traditional powerhouses struggling? I'm a lifelong football fan, hoping to see the likes of. Of the Lions, Bills and Bears succeed. As just a sports fan, I think it's very, very well defined in most lanes. What works right, Even if we want to go to individual sports. I talk about. I'm not even a UFC guy. When are they at their best? When they have an absolute rock star superstar. Boxing, same thing. Give me Mike Tyson. Over 10 good boxers. Basketball, one. Not even debatable. The best teams in the biggest markets are when the league is thriving. The most. Same thing with baseball. World Series, smoked. The NBA Finals. Not by accident. It was the Yankees versus the Dodgers. Football is the one sport that it truly doesn't matter. I mean, it really doesn't. Whether it's Lions versus the Chiefs or, you know, the Giants versus the Steelers. Pittsburgh, a smaller market. The Cowboy, the Cowboys versus the Jets. There's no. Obviously that. That would never happen, but my point is the markets truly don't matter in football. And because of the nature of the sport, you know, I think this number has changed a little bit. But at one point in time, it was like 80, 85% of games are one score going into the. Into the fourth quarter. A lot of football games in the NFL, college is different. Are just by nature close. So I don't think there is. To get a good season, you need close, exciting games. But I don't think we're in this sport as determined by colleges. Right? College like Indiana, that's not going to work on a yearly basis. Right. You need the Ohio State, you need the Michigan's, you need the Georgia's, the LSU's, the Florida's, the Ohio states, the. I already said that twice. But that's how I mean Ohio State's the biggest brand in, in the Texas sc, Oregon. Like it's important, you know, in the NFL if like the Chiefs, let's just say they had a season from hell and went 6 and 11. Like the Niners, they just lost all these close games. It was the opposite of last year. Blew them all, had some injuries. It was a disaster. Which big picture it actually wouldn't be because they get a high pick and they kind of get to reset. But let's just use that example. And the Chiefs, which are the biggest brand in the league, they would get flexed out of some of their games and they would just pivot to whoever's playing well. Okay. The Broncos are in first place. Their games will get flexed into the better games. Right. Or The Patriots now are 11 win team their teams. They would get flexed into the games. You would ride the Bills, you'd ride. You just pivot where you just. The Thunder had a remarkable season. They won like 67 games. They won the NBA championship and they just don't move the needle. I mean they were historically low rated in the same with the Pacers, even though the Pacers have much more history like when I was a kid. My point is that the football it doesn't necessarily matter as long as the games are Good question for the bag. Longtime Bucks fan and really excited. What would you say are some of your favorite. I get asked this all the time. Your favorite jerseys? Maybe a top three. I said this the other day on the mailbag. I. I'm not a. Like, I don't. I. That's just one element of the sport, of the conversation around the sport that I just paid no attention to. I'm not a jersey guy. I don't own jerseys. Obviously there are some jerseys that are easy to make fun of. Like some of the color Rush on Amazon Prime Thursday Night Football. Like I'd rather just have you play the traditional jersey, but I've never been like the Raiders and the Steelers are so much. Obviously the Jags can feel A little. You know, franchises like that. But I'm more of a traditional guy. Like, I just like stuff that I grew up on in terms of the jersey. It's why I have a lot of respect for Penn State, Alabama, usc. I just. And I got no problem with Oregon, but jerseys are just not something I spend any time thinking about, truly. How would the Niners or Commanders operate at all without Jennings or McLaurin next season? Don't they have to pay these guys? They don't have a Choice. Well, Terry McLaurin accounted for 13 touchdowns. 13 touchdowns. So if he disappears, where are you making that up from? I'm not saying he's going to disappear, but that's pretty important. Juwan Jennings accounted for 77 catches in a season where they lost Iuk. They had a lot of wide receiver issues and their offense was actually pretty good. They just were bad in the red zone. But he was extremely productive for him. Yeah, I mean, both guys have leverage. The 49ers, you know, I. People think they're going to suck. I just look at their schedule. I think it would be. I mean, they're the betting favorite for a reason. But he is their top wide receiver, at least going in early in the season, until Ricky Pearsall. Now, I would say the difference. Terry McLaurin is a true one, right, or true one. I mean, obviously he's not as good as some of the true ones, but he's a guy that if your team's good, you can rely on him to ride him. Right. And obviously the quarterback and him have an excellent rapport and he's their top option. Even trading for Debo, he's a better player than Debo. The 49ers you would say is like, well, George Kittle's better than Juwan Jennings, and if McCaffrey's healthy, he is as well. So I guess it'd be easier for the 49ers to get by for a minute, but I think both guys be a problem. Okay, we'll end on this. College football head coaching USGA gin rankings. This means the handicap for the different college coaches. The best handicap, Trey lamb is a plus one.3 at Tulsa, Dilfer is a 0.7. Now, in fairness, Dilfer was a scratch before he got into coaching. Most of these guys are coaches. I would say in a perfect world, if you told me what would you like your college football coach? If you're at a Power 5 program, his handicap to be. You would like him to be decent because recruiting boosters is important. Recruiting people money around the program is important. So he's got to be able to play golf. To me, somewhere between like a 10 and 15, I would say if you're a single digit, might be playing a little too much. Of all the guys at the top program like Hugh Freeze, seven, Lincoln Riley, nine, like, that's. I would. You could even go seven to 15. Kirby Smart is a 12, Belichick is a 12, Ryan Day is a 12. I would say 10 to 12 is my sweet spot. Like, my coach has a little personality, can socialize, get out, takes it seriously, likes to compete, but also isn't spending in so much time on the driving range that he's trying to become a four. Now, a lot of these guys, they play probably a lot in the summer, in the off season, and they don't play at all in the fall. But so of all the guys running big programs, Hugh Freeze has the best. Shane Beamer's a 9, PJ Flex an 11. Dan Mullen, he's at UNLV, is a 12. But he's been, he's been in the media for a little while. I would pay to watch Belichick vs. Ryan Day or Belichick vs. Kirby in just a match play scenario. I think that would, if we put that thing on YouTube, it'd probably do pretty well. Brian Kelly's A14, Whittingham's A14. Good golf in Utah. I enjoyed that graphic. So have a good weekend. Talk to everyone later. See you. The volume.
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Katie Couric
On the latest episode of Next Question with me, Katie Couric. I sat down with Jasmine Crockett, Democratic representative of Texas. She's holding down the fort for her party in one of the most conservative states in the union.
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Jasmine Crockett
I think that ultimately who will become the Democratic nominee for president will be someone that has been out there and has shown that they won't allow themselves to be punched and just say thank you like they will punch back.
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Katie Couric
Listen to Next Question with me, Katie Couric, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Ebony
Welcome to Pretty Private with ebony, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebony, and every Tuesday, I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect podcast network. Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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Dr. Leitra Tate
If you're looking for another heavy podcast about trauma, this ain't it. This is for the ones who had to survive and still show up as brilliant, loud, soft and whole. The Unwanted Sorority is where Black women, femmes and gender expansive survivors of sexual sexual violence rewrite the rules on healing, support and what happens after. And I'm your host and co president of this organization, Dr. Leitra Tate. Listen to the Unwanted Sorority New episodes every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jemele Hill
I'm Jemele Hill, host of the sports and politics podcast Spolitics. On this week's episode I'm joined by all time great Hooper and basketball analyst Candice Parker who gives insight into her candid new book including why she waited two years into marriage to come out.
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Candace Parker
I never envisioned being with a woman. I'll just be honest. Like when I close my eyes at night every night I was like I need to find my prince charming. Like it was never a princess.
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Jemele Hill
Make sure you listen to this episode of spolitix on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast.
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Candace Parker
This is an I heart podcast.