Joy Taylor (39:45)
By the way, not to bore you with o line talk, but the Chiefs agreed to a two year expensive deal with Jalen Moore as a left tackle who was a backup in San Francisco. He got some starts late in the year. That's what happens when you pay the quarterback all that money. You can kick the can down the road, but they're taking a big swing. Not a huge swing, but a big swing on a left tackle that's never been a starter in the AFC where you got a lot of good pass rushers. And by the way, Chargers have them and Denver's got him and the Raiders have Max Crosby. So that is a big ass for a guy that's never been a starter. So there was a move over the weekend and I touched on this to start the show is that it's a lot of your life and my life and professional athletes life is fit. So Geno Smith is leaving Seattle and he's going to the Raiders and he's going to sign a long contract. It's pretty expensive. I actually like the move Geno Smith in Seattle to a better roster was played out. It's a very good Seattle roster. He couldn't take him to the next level and and I would have let him go. It was a nice story. He's a nice player. But the Raiders is a much different situation. They haven't won a playoff game in 22 years. They have no stability at all at quarterback and it's a really bad quarterback draft class. So Gino Smith with a coach he knows and respects, Pete Carroll, and with a quarterback coach slash coordinator Chip Kelly, who likes his quarterbacks to be accurate and move well, Gino's a great fit. He's going to end up this year with the Raiders having a mid or better 97 passer rating. He'll complete 67, 68% of his throws, he'll have a ton of yards and he'll give you stability and production. So what's interesting is if you go back since 2022 to Geno Smith and a quarterback I really like, Justin Herbert, it's kind of the same guy. If you look at the numbers, it's the same guy. Now I think Herbert has a much higher ceiling than Geno Smith. Obviously most people would agree with me, but they're big, they move well and they're accurate at throwing the ball. So and again, Genoa with Chip and Pete Carroll is going to be fine. Life is all about timing. Pete Carroll is not at the age at 73. He's got great energy, but he doesn't want to be a babysitter at quarterback. And Geno's an adult, comes in, gets it done. Tom Brady, it should be noted, also signed off on this move. So I have no problem with it. Tom knows quarterbacks. Gino's Also, interestingly, Geno's 34 years old, but Gino hasn't played as many snaps as a lot of 34 year olds. So he's like a young 34 year old. He hasn't taken nearly the hits as most 34 year old quarterbacks because he did some backing up. I think he backed up Eli Manning at one point. So again, Geno's 34. He's probably got a 30 to a 31 year old body more than anything. Pete is stability. Chip Kelly, Geno Smith, that's what they need. Seahawks have been stable forever. Same ownership group, they don't run through coaches. Pete Carroll was there forever. Now they have Mike McDonald. John Snyder has been the GM. He's been in the front office forever. Seahawks have all sorts of stability. It's a very good organization with a good roster. But they're looking at their division. They're looking at the Rams and going, all right, we're not as good as the Rams. They're looking at the Niners and thinking, I'm not sure. We're as good as the Niners. And they're looking in Arizona thinking, well, Kyler Murray's a playmaker, they got their coach. We don't want to end up fourth. And we kind of feel like we kind of hit a ceiling. Absolutely. Hit a ceiling. Like the move. All right. So yesterday OKC in Denver played. So I'm not really an awards guy. I've always said I used to have a Heisman vote. I think it's silly. It's too regional. So I'm not, I'm not really into awards. They don't really. Very subjective. You know, a lot of these awards have included media members who all have biases. They're, you know, not. I mean, and again, we all have. I have biases. Everybody does. Politics, sports, every regionalism, everybody's got that. But I thought yesterday was kind of that, you know, hammer meets nail. Sga, Oklahoma City, I thought wrapped up the MVP over Jokic and I think Jokic is the better player. But there's three reasons I would give it to sga and number one is his team is much better and they're 12 games ahead of Denver in the Standings. And so let's be honest, it does matter how good your team is. How valuable can you really be if your team is. Isn't very good? Denver is. Is a good team. Oklahoma City favored to get to the finals. So the team is better. Number two is SGA is playing with a much younger team. Their average age is only one year older than the Auburn, and it's harder to play with young players. Young players, especially on the road, are much less consistent. So SGA is. Team is better. He's playing with a much less experienced roster. And the other thing is, and this is probably only about 20% of it, SGA is a much better defender. Jokic in their championship year, you know, that playoff run was pretty good defensively, pretty inspired. He's not a very good defender. And Denver is atrocious defensively, so that matters a little too. And the other thing is, words matter. It's called most valuable player. It is not best player. It's not even most productive player. Jokic is more productive, and he is the best player in the world. I think there's a real argument. SGA is either second or third. I mean, if you need a bucket. Not a lot of guys in the league right now. I mean, right now he's better than Luka because he's in much better shape and he's a much better defender. So Jokic is the world's best player. There's an argument SGA is number two. And again, this is. And this is another component. I think OKC and Denver play again tonight. OKC's beating them two or three times. And when you watched SGA put 40 burger on Denver, it's something. It's 6%, it's 8%. So remember this about MVP. If MVP was about best player, why does Michael Jordan have only five? If MVP is about best player, why does LeBron have only four? If you would have taken every year that LeBron and Michael were the best player, you'd have about 24 MVPs. 22, 20 minimum. They've got nine. Phil Jackson, how many Coaches of the year does he have? You have to contextualize it. He had Shaq. He had Kobe in their prime. He had Michael Jordan. He had Scotty Pippen. So I always thought that was ridiculous that, you know, Phil only won, I don't know, one or two Coaches of the year award. He was obviously a very fair argument. He's the greatest coach of all time. You know, in a very short list of maybe two other guys, you could argue, but one of them Being Red Arbok. So I, I to me that game yesterday, and I, I'm a Jokic fan, I said, years ago, everybody gave Embiid an MVP over Jokic. Jokic was a much better player. But everybody kind of felt like, you know, he's already won back to back. I kind of feel here is we can keep giving it to Jokic, but SGA is caring the youngest team in the league. And here's the other thing. His second best player, Chet Holmgren is hurt regularly. So there are a lot of nights he's babysitting this offense. Jokic has Michael Porter, Gordon, Jamal Murray, veteran coaching staff, not a bunch of kids here. So yeah, Phil Jackson, I'm told one coach of the year once. Here's SGA after the win over Denver in the MVP race. I love MEPs, I love all Stars, I love all the accolades that comes with it, but none of it matters.
