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Welcome in what driving the great episode 390 this episode is always brought to you by our friends at Boost Mobile and Damanze is not here today. We will explain why later in the show. If you watched the very beginning of First Things first tomorrow or yesterday, how could you have watched the very beginning of First Things first tomorrow? If you watched the very beginning of First Things first yesterday or if you follow my wife on Instagram, you already know why Devonte is not here. If you didn't do those two things and first of all, why would you not have done one and why would you be doing the other? Why would you miss the beginning of the show and why are you following my wife on Instagram? The you already know if you got it through those sources or those avenues, but if not, we will discuss it later in the show. However, we have a ton to get to. We have a very tight clock today because I sadly misread my calendar and double booked myself this Tuesday. I booked myself for something that I thought was tomorrow, but it is for today. And we have breaking news. Nico Harrison's been fired. More on that in a second, but first, straight to voicemail. Brought to you by Boost Mobile LeBron's going to practice with the South Bay Lakers this week, Gronk is going to retire as a Patriot, and Joe Burrow returns to practice. The guy loves football. Good for him. Will it matter? I don't think so. We will discuss that in a bit. Reminder to everyone to like rate, subscribe, review to the pot, please Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, all of it helps us greatly. And I think again stay tuned for the end of the show for a really awesome announcement. So Tim McMahon who is as plugged into the Mavs as anyone with respect to Mark Stein, telegraphed this a bit yesterday on the Great Hoop Collective podcast with he and Wendy and my pal Tim Bond Timps talking that Nico Harrison could be fired and Nico Harrison. Now I I don't want to incorrectly report this as we record live or we broadcast live at 10:34am Eastern. Nico Harrison has not yet been fired. In a truly mortifying end to a truly indefensible nine month reign of terror. Nico Harrison has a meeting with Mav's ownership of in 25 minutes where he will be fired. I gotta tell you, I'm not sure I'd show up to that meeting if Sh Shams has it and the whole world knows that. You know what guys, this can be a zoom. So the impacts and implications of this are far reaching. Most notable is the following. And this might sound shocking, this might sound drastic, but I believe this to be true. Teams around the league should immediately call Dallas and ask about Anthony Davis's availability. Certainly teams around the league that would be interested and this probably is going to have to be something far later, once you see him, if he returns pre trade deadline should ask about Kyrie Irving. And that is because the Dallas Mavericks are now in total build around Cooper Flag try to rebuild our draft capital. That keep in mind they do not either. Ha. They either don't have. Well they either don't have a pick or don't have their own pick in the next four drafts they had gone all in around historically great superstar Luka Doncic. And then because of ego and hubris, Luka Doncic was traded in the middle of the night in the type of move that if there were ever cause for a fan base to file a class action lawsuit against management, this would be it. You had one of the greatest players ever at the very beginning of the prime of his career. And I said it at the time and I will say it again, and because of nothing more than power and ego, you lit the franchise on fire. Power and ego. Everyone was searching for why Nico would have done this. And the only logical, and it's not logical, but the only reasonable explanation was he didn't like the fact that that someone within the organization had More power than him. And that someone was Luca. So we got him out of there. And it will go down in the annals of sports history.
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One of the single greatest gaffes in a front office has ever made. That is not an overreaction. That is not an overstatement. That is simply what it was the moment it happened and now is being exacerbated night in, night out, as Luca, instead of coming off an injury as he was last year, reminds everyone. Yes, I am the guy who dragged a Dallas Mavericks team to the conference finals when I was 22 and to the NBA Finals when I was 24. And now I'm 26 and I have more first team all NBAs under my belt than Steph Curry does. And you got rid of me. And I don't. I also don't think this is an overstatement. Nico Harrison will never work in an NBA front office again. He's going to have to work for Nike or an agency or something. But this is. You cannot recover from something like this. And the arrogance that less than you know, we are a dozen games into this season. And Nico, after they spun a 1.8% lottery ball chance into Cooper flag the fact that he said, do you see the vision now? Was one of the most tone deaf, ludicrous statements. And I'm not a Mavs fan. Hell, I'm an adopted, I guess Laker fan because that's who Braun plays for. So the Lakers getting Luca, who's my second favorite player, was. And he and Braun playing together was a true dream. And I'm still mad about this trade on behalf of Mav fans. I can't imagine what this is. This was a sports felony inflicted upon a fan base. And yes, now the. The villain has been captured and is facing justice, but it doesn't change the havoc he wreaked and the long term impact on your fandom. So I, I want to just revisit before we get to last night's game, before we get to football, what I said off the top. And credit to Tim Bontemps. He's been talking about this for a while, but now it is to me a more. Because it was never going to happen with Nico in charge. But the Dallas Mavericks have to consider a fire sale.
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So let me, let me. I want to give everyone the actual draft pick situation for Dallas in 2026. They have their pick. So my apologies, I said that wrong. 2026, they have their pick. This year, they have their pick. And maybe that's good because right now they're terrible. In 2027, their pick basically totally unprotected, protected only for spots one or two. So unprotected goes to Charlotte in 2028. Jesus. The rich get richer. The Thunder can swap with them in 2029, their pick goes somewhere in a swap. And they do have the Lakers pick. And in 2030, my God, the Spurs can swap with them. So first of all, in 2028 and 2030, the Mavericks first round pick is going to go to the Thunder and then the spurs. Holy. In 2029, their pick goes somewhere. I can't figure it out. It says 2 of 2 most favorable of Dallas, Houston and Phoenix. To Houston and then other to Brooklyn via Dallas and Phoenix. To Brooklyn via Dallas or Phoenix. To Houston. Via Houston. Swap for Dallas or Phoenix. I don't get it. But whatever. The. The Mavs will not after this coming year's draft. They do not have control of their. Their first until 2031, until Cooper Flag is in the midst of his second contract. So they need to recoup picks. They need to figure out like Klay Thompson's contract is fully underwater. Kyrie's an interesting one. And I, it's just. And by the way, they're three and eight and I think, Let me check. I think they have literally the worst offense in the NBA. I know. So let's just check in real quick. Defense wins championships. Because that's all we heard from this, this guy. All we heard from him. Their offense is, oh, is it no longer dead last? The. Hold on, let me. I had it. I thought they were dead last. Maybe I'm wrong because that says they're 14th right now. So. Oh, that's last year. I'm looking at last year. It's like. Hold on a second. This can't be correct. It can't be the mavericks having the 15th offense. No chance. All right, here we go. Oh, no. Fair is fair. They don't have the worst offense in basketball. They have the second worst offense in basketball to the Pacers, whose best player tore his Achilles in game seven of the finals. And second best or third best player left the team now. I mean, this is just perfect. Just Chef's kiss. Perfect defense wins championships. The Dallas Mavericks are 3 and 8. They fired Nico Harrison. They. They currently have the third best defense in basketball. Maybe that was a miscalculation because you have the second worst offense in basketball. Good luck, Mavs fans. I feel sick for you.
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All right, now to our we had three dog primetime games this week. It started with a 107 Broncos win over the Raiders. It ended with a 107 Eagles win over the Packers. And sandwiched in the middle was Aaron Rodgers looking every bit of 41 years old. And the Chargers blowing them out after a game that was 32 at one point. So the Eagles win 107 quickly on the packers and then we will get to Philadelphia. The packers have now lost three all three of their losses. Their defense has not allowed 17 points. That I think that is more losses when the defense allows less than 17 than the rest of the NFL combined. Aside from the bizarre Cowboys 40 to 40 tie. That defense has been as advertised, but there seems to be a weird disconnect growing between Jordan Love and Matt LaFleur. And the Matt LaFleur thing that came out of nowhere was Matt Schneiderman from the Athletic wrote an article this morning and asked LaFleur last night about his job security, which I did not see coming. But Jordan Love has zero touchdowns, one pick, a 74 rating over the last two weeks, two losses, the team has scored a total of 20 points. Now, do I think the packers are going to miss the playoffs? No, but it can't be dismissed right now. They're the seven seed with San Francisco being percentage points back as the eight seed. San Francisco has a far easier schedule moving forward and Green Bay has a far tougher one. So as far as easiest schedules moving forward, San Francisco has or toughest. Let me do it a different way. San Francisco has the 20th toughest schedule moving forward, so 13th easiest. And Green Bay has the ninth toughest. Green Bay has one game left against a bad team, flat bad team. That's the Giants. San Francisco has Titans, Browns, Cardinals, Panthers, so that obviously greatly works in their favor. Now, even if San Francisco gets hot, the question is, could Chicago fall out of it? Who has the second hardest schedule remaining? And that's certainly on the board. So I don't predict Green Bay misses the playoffs, but it's certainly possible. More importantly though, that team's got to figure out what's going on with the offense. That's the story out of Green Bay this weekend. The. The more interesting thing, as always, is the P the Eagle side of it. Because the Eagles just. They are. They are just Saints of the content industrial. What do you complex they win, but they win in such bizarre fashion and they create these firestorms that you see. You see them lighting fires during the game that you know are going to sustain at least until next week, even while you expect them to win. So yesterday was just a horrific offensive performance where once again, after declining to trade AJ Brown, they decided to pretend he's not on the team. That is, of course, until the very end of the game when they have the game stone one as long all they've got to do with 31 seconds left is punt the ball and Green Bay is going to have the ball with around 25 seconds left, maybe backed up inside their own 20. Worst case scenario for Philly on their own 20 and no timeouts. Instead, Sirianni leaves the offense out there, has them go for it, and then tries to feed A.J. brown a feelgood highlight moment. It falls incomplete and all of a sudden the packers are two plays away from being in field goal range. Just an absolute bananas decision soaked in either ego or trying to placate what you know is going to be an upset. AJ Brown yeah man, we didn't go to you all game, but we went to you when it counted. All this just craziness, right? And it gave the Packers a chance to win the game. It gave him a leg or at least tie the game and then winning in overtime. So I know, I mean Sirianni's record is what it is. And the Eagles defense looked awesome and while Saquon got bottled up on the ground again, he he did have the one long reception that was huge. But Philly is just such a weird team and they they simply seem allergic to drama. Free wins and I don't know what has happened to the Jaylen Herz AJ Brown connection, but I know it is in shambles compared to what it once was. And Sirianni's call to go for that fourth down was just as poor game management as it gets. And for folks that always freak out about the analytics boogeyman, it should be noted every single analytical model preferred punt there. Every single one. Sirianni was going for a highlight moment that could have cost him the game. With that said, they're 7 and 2 after they play the Lions this coming Sunday night. They've got Cowboys, Bears, Chargers, Raiders, Commanders, Bills, Commanders. 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The biggest upset of the weekend, Buffalo getting blown out by Miami. And so Buffalo is still the team that I would least like to play in the postseason in the AFC if I'm Kansas City. But there are some red flags here. Okay, one is this. As of a month ago, The Bills had one double digit loss. In the last four years, their last 60 games, they had one loss by more than a score. And it was the blowout to Baltimore last season. And then they avenged it and beat Baltimore in the playoffs. They have two double digit losses in their last month of football. 10 points to Atlanta and really getting boat raced by Miami when Miami controlled every aspect of the game. That is concerning the fact that the Bills themselves might not think they're quite good enough, evidenced by the fact that they offered a one and a three for Jalen Waddle. That is a little concerning. The fact that Josh Allen is starting to turn the ball over again but now it's not coming with the quick strike 60 yard touchdowns on the other side of it. That is a little concerning. So it's not the sky is falling, but it is a little hmm. Also they are going to be I now fully believe and this is real tangible and it matters and it might happen to the Chiefs too, but they are going to be the wild card team in the AFC East. They are going to be on the road for potentially the entirety of the playoffs. That's not nothing. When they started 4 and oh with one of the softer schedules in the league coming like as as their next month they looked like they were in great shape for the one seed which is one thing they've never gotten since Alan's been there. Now they're six and three with all of a sudden wait, is that a sneaky tough remaining schedule. Home for the Bucks, then a Thursday night road game against a suddenly semi frisky Houston team, then at Pittsburgh, then all of a sudden a game against the Bengals that people think Joe Burrow will be back for. Then at the Patriots, then you take your breath a bit at the Browns. Home for the Eagles. In a game the Eagles might go into saying hey we win this we can, you know one seed implications and then at home for the jets to you know as a nice little end of season respite. So it's not nothing. And then there's also this which I think is noteworthy. We can fold this in to Brian D. Being fired after another fourth quarter collapse by him. If this goes badly for Buffalo, like really badly, I don't think they'll miss the playoffs. But if this goes there the five seed and they go to Baltimore which now is the huge favor to win the AFC north and they lose in round one. If would the Buffalo Bills consider reuniting Brian Dabel with Josh Allen but not as a coordinator, as a head coach. It is something to think about again. I think Dable deserved to be fired. However I his connection with Josh Allen was great. Josh Allen has had massive influence on who the coordinators post Dable would be it it seems like there's a little angst there. Dable and McDermott according to the great Tyler Dunn who has a great substack that people should subscribe to go long TD. You know as reported that the Dable McDermott relationship was not great at the end and had a great story a couple years ago about whether or not. They kept the wrong coach and letting Dable leave and keeping McDermott. Would they consider bringing Dable back and reuniting him with Josh Allen as the head coach? I'm sure they, you know, I shouldn't say I'm sure I would think they'd love him as the coordinator, but I don't know what that relationship with McDermott is. Just something to consider. Now, as far as the comebacks this weekend, the Jags just invent ways to lose. Some of it's on Trevor. He was not good in that game, but the comeback was more on the defense. It was a miracle with how poorly Trevor had played that they were up 29 to 10. And then they just invented a way to lose. Just a horrific beat for me and picks in the whole nine. And credit to Caleb for a second straight weekend with clutch drives in the fourth quarter to really flip the narrative on him and their season. And I don't think the Bears are that good. But they dominated Cincinnati, then collapsed and then stole it back. They got dominated by the Giants and then stole it. And now all of a sudden they're in Minnesota, a team that they dominated for three quarters in week one and then gave the game away with a chance to get to 7 and 3. And yeah, I mean, they're a field goal underdog. And so. And, and I'll say one other thing about the Bears. All of a sudden, those two Packer games late in the year don't seem quite as ominous. And they are huge games. Just absolutely huge games because those teams are now, I guess they're both still in the thick of the NFC north race and while also being in the thick of. Wait, could we miss the playoffs? The producers are asking me. Worst mistake, Selling my Caleb stock too soon or holding onto my Trevor stock. Well, listen, I didn't sell my Caleb stock. I diversified my portfolio a bit, but I, you know, I still, I'm. I, I still have some of it. The Trevor stock might be going to zero, boys. Now, on the bright side, in two years, when Trevor Lawrence is the starting quarterback for Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco 49ers and looks like the league MVP, I'll get to have Collins Sam Darnold moment, right, that he's having right now. We'll get to Darnold in a moment. But first, as the holidays approach, get what you need to personalize your home with Wayfair. Shop holiday decor for every room in the house, whether it's Christmas trees, wreaths, or inflatables for the front yard. 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That's wayfair.com w a y f a I r.com wayfair every style every home all right, so I got this game dead wrong. The Bucks, off a buy, get upset by Drake May and the Patriots. The Bucks are in a bit of a rough stretch and they all of a sudden have a massive game for both teams this weekend at Buffalo. And we've said this all year that the Bucks had this Pats, Bills, Ram stretch, which is really hard, and then the softest final six games of the year one could ever imagine. Cardinals, Saints, Falcons, Panthers, Dolphins, Panthers. Part of our Bucks to the super bowl belief was that because of that schedule they could be the one seed and if they can get a split at Buffalo and at the Rams, that's still very in play. If they can get a split at Buffalo and at the Rams, they absolutely can just sweep that right hand column and be 13 and 4. If they lose both of those games, then you probably have less faith in them also sweeping that right hand of the column and all of a sudden they're likely 11 and 6 and it feels a little like, okay, these are the Bucs teams we've seen before. I still believe this team has super bowl upside, particularly because they are they are going to get everyone back with the possible question about Mike Evans and they've dealt with just a disproportionate amount of injuries. But that was a game they were up early and then got thoroughly outplayed by the Patriots, who shout out listen, man, everybody. Every NFL fan out there should look at what the Patriots are doing and then ask themselves why are we. Why is our. If you're in a rebuild, why is our rebuild not gone the p the way the Patriots has under Varel? And the answer is for all of them, if it's not going well, is we either have the wrong coach or the wrong quarterback. Unless they're a rookie. Rookie. Rookie quarterbacks are rookie quarterbacks. But all it takes to become a contender is the right coach and the right quarterback. Everything else you can fill in around the edges. And if you're certain you have the right coach and the teams you know still in the midst of is still floundering, then you know the right quarterback. And if you're certain you have the right quarterback and the team's floundering, then you don't have the right coach. It's really that simple. And now that's just to be like on the periphery of contending to actually win a championship. It takes a lot more, but you can turn it around that quick in this league if you have the right coach and the right quarterback. And the Patriots are showing you that. And I think Drake May, while Stafford, to me is clearly the MVP right now. I understand the reason Drake May is the best MVP odds is they think he's likely to be the 1 or the 2 seed and there's a chance because of how good Seattle's been that Stafford's a wild card. And that just really hurts your ability to be league to be MVP for the quarterback of a wild card team. So that's why the odds are where they are. But through 10 weeks, Stafford's been the MVP, but Drake may is now just going to be a perennial top five quarterback. I really believe in that. I think he's that good. He's only 23, he's big, he's strong, he's tough, he's legit. And VRA Brable's game management stuff I just like so much that he's so. He's always thinking about stuff. He did something and it almost cost him. And maybe it's not even the right move, but it's something I, from my couch, have wanted my team to do for years, which is recognize at the end of the half the goal is not necessarily simply score a touchdown. The goal is to like, let me put it like this, end of half, too often teams don't recognize. All right, if we score a touchdown and leave the other team plenty of time and they go down and get a field goal, that is only one point better than if we just killed all the clock and kicked the field goal ourself. That's only a, you know, it's seven three versus three. Nothing's only one point better. And if we and if we score a touchdown and leave them plenty of time and they go down and get a touchdown, that's a net zero as opposed to grinding out the clock and kicking a field goal, which is a net positive 3. Vrabel was thinking about that, which is why when he had first and goal from the one and Tampa having zero timeouts, there was a minute 40 left. He took a knee. Now the Patriots afterwards lied about it. That's fine. That's what he was doing. And I know some of the analytic models thinks that's a mistake. I thought it was incredibly sharp. 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All right. Lions beat the Commanders. The Commanders are done. Dan Campbell took over play calling. I'm not sure if I fully buy that he took over all play calling, but he did have his glasses on, play sheet in hand. This is something interesting to monitor with the Lions as the Lions have a really important stretch coming up. I'll be totally honest, I was that afternoon window of the Lions blowing out the Commanders, the Seahawks blowing out Arizona and the Rams blowing out the Niners was kind of uninspiring. I wish one of those games had been good. So I'm not gonna say I was checked out, but I was watching Rams Niners the closest, but that's a good bounce back win for Detroit. And then the night game. Chargers, Steelers. Aaron looked old and looked like he didn't want to get hit. I mean that and all of a sudden The Ravens are minus 280 or something to win the division. The Steelers margin of error has evaporated. The Chargers on the other hand, looked awesome. And credit to Justin Herbert. And I don't think I did a great job on TV on this yesterday. So I want to just clarify here. I think Herbert was excellent in that game and I think Herbert has the ability to be excellent. The point I was trying to make on TV yesterday was I just don't want if he's not excellent or if the Chargers end up collapsing or if they're nine and eight and sneak into the playoffs and lose in round one. I just don't want to hear how, oh, it's like, what do you want from him? His offensive lines hurt. It's the NFL, man. Everybody's dealing with something. The Chargers have had bad offensive line injury luck. Luckily they have a great defense, a great head coach, supposedly a great quarterback. And we just saw them against Pittsburgh dominate with the team they're going to have moving forward. So if Herbert's supposed to be one of the five best quarterbacks in football, which all of his fans swear he is, then they should be a legitimate contender right now. And let's just on Sunday night they looked like it. All right. The other games quickly Broncos beat the Raiders I'm gonna listen. We're into a ton of Broncos chief stuff this weekend and this week I should say the defense is awesome. B Knicks is not good. He is not scary and I believe he is the reason they are going to go from 8 and 2 to being a wild card team. Colts beat the Falcons 31:25 Jonathan Taylor is one of the best running backs of his generation. The guy for his NFL career has averages 110 yards from scrimmage per game and nearly a touchdown per game in 77 games. Just an unbelievable football player. Jets beat the Browns 27:20 thanks to a couple kick words special teams touchdowns. Justin Fields completed six passes in that game. Saints beat the Panthers 17 to 7 in a game. I'll just be totally honest I was not locked in on at all. Tyler Shuck it looks like played okay Ravens be the Vikings 2719 in the game. I did watch closely. Great win for the Ravens. Not a great game for the Ravens and they they just haven't looked like the Ravens yet this year. Maybe that's coming but at this point they just need to stack wins and then maybe the two best teams in football. Not much to say about them right now other than they might be the two best teams in football. The Seahawks annihilated the Cardinals second straight game. They were up 28 nothing in the second quarter and the Rams beat the Niners soundly and now we get Seahawks Rams this weekend. I cannot wait more on that those two teams and Thursday show and I am not going to do the very sappy I might I don't Damanze would be mad at me about this and I I kind of want to do like a long form tribute to my son because the news is my son. My co host Damanz is not going to be here for the next few weeks because my son is now a dad and his baby girl Milo was born Sunday morning. 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Date: November 12, 2025
Host: Nick Wright (with Chris Vernon as guest host at points)
This episode is packed with rapid-fire reactions to major events across the NBA and NFL. Nick Wright dives deep into the breaking news of Dallas Mavericks GM Nico Harrison’s firing and the fallout of Luka Doncic's shocking trade. He also breaks down the latest NFL headlines: the Buffalo Bills getting blown out, the Green Bay Packers’ offensive malaise and playoff outlook, and big-picture takeaways from Week 10, including Justin Herbert’s performance and the Patriots’ resurgence. Expect fierce opinions, sharp analysis, and signature Nick Wright candor throughout.
[03:46 – 17:34]
Breaking News Context:
Luka Trade Aftermath:
[21:53 – 33:41]
Green Bay Packers Struggles:
Eagles’ Perplexing Play Calling:
[37:57 – 54:40]
Bills’ Blowout by Miami:
Bears, Jags, Patriots Notes:
[58:57 – 66:46]
Other Noteworthy Performances:
Quick-Hit Team Comments:
Nick Wright’s tone is passionate, at times incredulous, always sharply analytical, and not afraid to call out stupidity or hubris from franchises and coaches. He injects humor and empathy (especially for devastated fan bases like Dallas’s), and his language is vivid and unvarnished, e.g., “sports felony” and “reign of terror.” Occasional self-deprecation and openness about personal picks gone wrong bring a friendly, relatable vibe.
This summary captures the main themes, insights, and stand-out moments from this sports-packed, high-opinion episode. Great for listeners who want both the drama and the analysis.