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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Here we go. It is a Tuesday. Live in Los Angeles. It's the Herd. Wherever you may be and however you may be listening, thanks for making us part of your day Tonight is the night. Tonight is the night. Luka Donta, the newest Laker in Los Angeles and the team that traded him away. Shockingly, the Dallas Mavericks limp into town with all their bigs injured. This has the potential to get really ugly. J. Mac is going to this one. I'll be locked on a tv, smoking a stove, maybe knocking down a gin and soda, checking out what will be a spectacle in Los Angeles tonight. And this is a city over the last several years between Mookie Betts and Freeman and Shohei Ohtani and Lincoln Riley and Jim Harbaugh. A lot of stars coming to town. J. Mac tonight is going to be interesting. So Luka Dontich at home hosting the Mavs. You're going to officially see how awful this trade was. Luka is going to be inspired. He's going to be ticked off. And JJ Redick and LeBron James are going to make sure he eats. They're going to feed him the ball all night. This is going to be the New York Giants against Saquon Barkley. This is going to be dinner with your ex and she upgraded. You're going to be wondering if you're Dallas, what was I thinking? Where did it all go wrong? It sets up to be a bloodbath potentially because Dallas, all their bigs are hurt. So Luke is going to score any way he wants. And I said this, if the Mavericks would have gotten Anthony Davis, Austin Reaves and three first round picks, I still wouldn't have made the deal. But I, but I could, I, you know, he's hurt, conditioning, maybe I'd sleep a little better at night. But giving him away for one pick for Anthony Davis and he is not 26 years old yet. He's got two more days to be 25. And here's the thing, the thing I'm thinking about this morning. Yes, Saquon Barkley to the Eagles was a huge gaffe by Joe Shane, the Giants gm. But Saquon Barkley's a running back. They don't last forever. 32 years old, they can be out of the game. 33 years old, they retire soon. So you don't have to sit and watch this forever. Luke is 25. If he gets the conditioning right, he could be dropping 33 points a night for the next 14 years. And the other thing, he's in the Western Conference. So Luka could be keeping Dallas because I actually like Dallas's roster. Ad Kyrie, their size, their coach. I actually like Dallas's roster. But there's a real opportunity here for the Lakers to bounce the Mavericks out for years. And this is a player that is just in two days turning 26. So years ago, about 15 straight years out of college, I used to have a dream that haunted me and it may have lasted 20 years. And this thing woke me up in a sweat about three times a month. I had this dream that I was going to take a college final and I wasn't prepared. And I had this dream all the time. And just think about it this way. Luca is advanced calculus and the Mavericks. Nico Harrison is going to spend the next 12 to 13 years waking up at least two to three times a month in a sweat. That's why if you're going to trade Luka, you got to get assets, you got to get ammo, you got to get him out of your conference. He can't get in the way of keeping you from trophies. So tonight's the night. Dirk Nowitzki, previously in Dallas. Their greatest player ever. He'll be here tonight. And he has been in LA several times to support Luca. I felt a little disappointed and sad for him. You know, I think he obviously didn't see this coming. So he invited me to come out to his first game in la and I felt like I had to support him. It was reported that he was pretty obviously down and disappointed how it went down. And so I wanted to be there for him. I wanted to be there for his family and show support. It was weird. It was surreal to see him play for the Lakers. And so at the end of the day, I mean, I'll never be a Lakers fan, but it was always be a Luca fan. Tonight is a spectacle. We've been lucky in Los Angeles. We've just had big coaches and, you know, Stafford to town and Harbaugh to town and Shohei moves up the i5. And here comes Freddie Freeman from Atlanta. And here comes Mookie Betts. And now it's Luca in our lap and facing his Mavericks hobbling into town tonight. Can't wait. So Mel Kuiper, maybe you've heard of him, has a big mock draft and he released it today. And a lot of people are surprised that Shedeur Sanders, who people, you know, during the college football season, many people speculated he go number one, he's going number seven in the mock draft of the New York Jets. And I was thinking about this this morning. That's about where he should go. I think he's a good B plus prospect. I think he's a good kid. He's accurate. But my favorite part about Shador Sanders is not. It's not that his dad is Dion. It's not that he was one of the first guys that made Big Nil money. Actually, my favorite part isn't his strength. He's really accurate. You want to know my favorite part of Shadour Sanders? The last two years he has been the most sacked college quarterback out of every single Power 5 school. Oh, it gets worse. In the last two years he had the worst running game of any other quarterback in Power 5 conferences. This is Andy Dufresne escaping from Shawshank. This kid has been through a tunnel, okay? This kid has swam through a tunnel. You know what? And there's a reason that there aren't a lot of great Ohio State quarterbacks in the NFL and not a lot of great Notre Dame quarterbacks, USC quarterbacks, Texas quarterbacks, Georgia quarterbacks. Why is that? Why is that? Yet Cal, the Golden Bears have given us Goff and Aaron Rodgers. North Carolina State gave us Philip Rivers, gave us Russell Wilson. Eastern Illinois gave us Garoppolo and Tony Romo. Why is that? Josh Allen's from Wyoming. Patrick Mahomes is from Texas Tech. Lamar Jackson from a basketball school, Louisville. Why is that? It's because of what Shador Sanders faced. A tunnel of crap. Is that the reality is when you go to an Ohio State, you take a three step, three step drop, hit a receiver, a five star receiver on a drag route. He goes for 48 yards. It's easy living. Go back to Matt Leinert at USC. How many times was he sacked? I mean, one time, one year, it was 11 times. It's not a real life that you'll face in the NFL, especially if you're a top 10 lottery pick. You go to bad teams and battle lines and bad receivers and often really bad coaches. That is why Big Ben didn't go to Ohio State. He was overlooked by them. Miami of Ohio, Drew Brees didn't go to Texas. He was overlooked by them. He went to Purdue, Mahomes, all those guys from Cal. Shador Sanders has had to manufacture offense. And that's what happens in the NFL. Even if you're Patrick Mahomes, because you make so much money, you don't have an elite offensive left tackle. And you have to manufacture stuff because you have to let Tyreek Hill go. Philadelphia is an outlier. They pay the quarterback and they're loaded. The reality is in the NFL, if you're a top 10 quarterback, you usually go to a lousy roster or a really bad smell in the organization. And then once you do get paid, you're going to be limited on actually what they can put around you. I mean, that's the downside to being a lottery pick. But Shador Sanders, the most sacked quarterback, the worst running game. This kid's ready for it. It's not that his dad's Dion. It's not that he was the first nil star or second. It's not that he's really accurate. He's lived a real life in the NFL. I mean, Caleb Williams, high school and college, everything was easy. He goes to Chicago. That's a real life. The coach, the coordinators, the roster. You're o line. The media is not in your corner. So I look at Shador Sanders and I looked it up this morning and he's seventh in Mel Kuiper's draft. That's exactly. That's exact. By the way, if you look at the top seven teams in the NFL draft, I could argue the jets have the best roster. Gonna fall a little. Oh, they got a number one receiver and a number one back and they have a left tackle from Penn State. And they've got maybe the best corner or second best corner in the league. And they've got a top linebacker. Now they got a new coaching staff. But I would argue falling in the draft of the jets, it's a better roster than Tennessee or the Giants or Cleveland or the Raiders. So I looked up the composite rankings of Colorado that Shadour Sanders played with. It was even with byu, SMU and Arizona State. And there are two quarterbacks in this draft that are ready to play day one, Cam Ward and Shador Sanders. And the biggest reason is he's lived a real NFL life, running for his life with no running game for two years and having to manufacture offense. J Mac, you are very fired up. I would ask you where you got your tickets. I hopefully you had to pay for them. You didn't get freebies, so you can relate to people. But you are going to the game tonight and I'm a little jealous, but I'm going to sit back, watch. And my guess is luka goes for 44.