I need some motivation after that. This one is highly motivational. They all three no
indictments. Just motivation. All right. So let's start with Luca Dons. As you see, uh Luca,
just like I called Patrick Mahomes Jordan esque the first ever do it. Now, it's stuck to
him. I was the first to call you. I believe this Nick the first to call you Luca legend.
That one is Luca legend, right? In tribute. He's the new age Larry Bird. He, he's a new age
version of Larry Bird with one difference. At least so far. Larry used to
win. All right, Larry now. And you can't say, oh, yeah, he was with Boston. Well, Boston,
they won 29 games a year before Bird got there and 61 his rookie year with essentially the
same team. Uh and then his second year, won a championship by year six or in his sixth year,
completing his six year, he had two of his three championships. All right. And three trips
to the NBA finals, Luca, you are now in your sixth year, got to a conference final, but
really not near a championship. So Luca, I am calling on you. You're the seven seed right
now. You're better than this. The Knicks said you could win the MVP. I believe it too, but
not as a seven seed. Not when people feel like you're under all, I'm asking. I know you don't
have the best roster in the league, but you gotta get up to that fifth or sixth seed. By
the time the playoffs start, get to the fifth or sixth seed. Make a deep run in the playoffs,
even if it ends in the second round. You gotta be in the hunt. It's gotta be like a tough six,
maybe seven games and you get ousted by a team that could win the championship that we could
live with that. All right. So Luca, here's the last thing I say, Luca, I love your game but
learn how to move without the ball, learn how to get off the ball, maybe set some screens,
you know, talk on defense, you're not gonna be a great defender. We get it, but Luca's gotta
ask some things too. So I, I think you should be working on that too. So I wanna, so a couple
of things on Luca before we move on on the butt list. 11 thing to be fair to Luke in
reference, Larry Birds. You're right about how great Larry was instantly, but Luca in year six
is not that much older than Larry was in year two. I mean, Larry 22.
Exactly. And so the, so Luca and Lucas, we assume, gonna play far longer than Larry did.
The, here's my concern for the Mavs as a whole . We know the way they're built,
especially with Luca and Kyrie, they're not gonna ever be a great defensive team right at
the break. They were like 19th in defensive rating. I think they would happily take if they
could somehow be right around the average, right around 15. The problem is they're only
11th in offensive. The way this thing is the only way this thing is gonna work is if the
second half of the year, you know, the last third of the year, really, this is a top five
offense with those two guys. It's, he's missed 22 games. So if he's healthy, it's got to be a
great offense. And I think Luca has proven that if the Mavs are locked
into, for example, the six seed, I don't know if that's gonna happen, but say in the final
week of the year, I think you would have teams trying to dodge them. I think you would have
teams saying that we would rather play a lot of the teams we could rather than have to face
that guy in a playoff series because even in the playoff series, he's lost, he's been such a
killer. Yeah, they, they, they're not, honestly, they as great as Kyrie is, I think
they were better before that trade. I mean, and I think as we've seen now him with 30
something games. I think so. And yeah, so they , they got, they got some work to do a lot of
people around the league. They compare Luca to James Harden. It, it's a good, it's a
compliment because Harden is great. But you know what I mean? Like dominant, you're not
gonna win it. Well, you, but I mean, like the one man show that type of offense. All right.
At number two, we're gonna go to the NFL, Justin Fields, Justin, I get it, I get it,
Justin Fields. He, he's saying Caleb Williams, Caleb Williams, I was Caleb Williams.
That's what he's saying. All right, he's saying Caleb sophomore year threw for 42
touchdowns, five interceptions. I threw for 41 touchdowns, three interceptions. My sophomore
year, Caleb had a career, uh, passer rating in college. 169. Mine was 179. I was Caleb
Williams. So, what are we talking about? All right, then. He's saying I've had two head
coaches in my three years in Chicago. I've had two offensive coordinators in my three years in
Chicago and I'm the problem. I get it. Justin, here's the thing though. You gotta be mature
about this. All right, and scrubbing the, the Bears off your Instagram is not really being
mature. Even if I buy, I'm not saying I do, but even if you buy the excuse, Nick of, you
know, I just than what them on my timeline, which might be I get it. You don't wanna see
all this stuff about you and them cutting you or moving on or whatever. But it's still not a
good look and you should know by now that it's going to be taken the wrong way, even if you
mean it differently. So what I'd say, Justin is look at the bright side, that's what I'm
trying to motivate you. If you get traded, then you are going to a team that absolutely
wants you and a team that most likely has had a good quarterback since the 19 forties when
Sid Luckman play and a team that will build around you if they trade for you, Justin,
they're saying, ok, we're gonna build around this guy's strength so it could be a good
situation for him, Nick, if he ends up somewhere. So look at the bright side, Justin,
I do believe him and I like Justin, but I don't, I don't feel like Justin Fields is being
done wrong. He's had three years, 2, 2.5 as the starter. I know he's missed time.
He's never thrown for 2600 yards. He's never thrown for 20 touchdowns in his career.
He's at 40 touchdowns, 30 picks you want to bring in the, well, but he has 14 rushing
touchdowns, but most of the highlights, but he also has 16 fumbles to go along with the 14
rushing touchdowns. So I'm not writing him off , but I do not think it is the Bears doing him
dirty for wanting to draft Caleb Williams. They passed on drafting a quarterback number
one last year to give you another year. It was another kind of fits and starts, fits and stops
here. So I understand it. Now, you like the because you bro, I don't know if it was you
that threw it yesterday about maybe keeping him. I don't think that could work. He'd have
to be a good soldier, but I think there's an argument to be made that you draft Caleb, you
keep Justin and you play Justin that you do that. You do tell Caleb, people say you're
Patrick Mames 2.0 We're gonna do what they do with Patrick Mahomes and tell Justin, hey, man,
you have a, this is the biggest one, your career. You know what I mean? We can, you can
improve your stock and get a big contract from whoever's gonna trade for you. But I, nobody
thinks they're gonna do that other than me that's asking a lot of those guys will be
mature at a young age. But anyway. All right at number one, the aforementioned Caleb
Williams. All right, Caleb. Uh Everybody loves you. Everybody loves Caleb. I, I love you. Uh
Nick, there's is a big debate on this show. Does Nick think Caleb might be better than
Mahomes. We, we just, he says you're Patrick Mahomes 2.0 I looked it up 2.0 means a better
version. Now he's gonna say something differently. But I don't know. I'm not sure.
All right. But here's the thing, everybody love Trevor Lawrence and ju jury is still out
in all seriousness. But right now we don't know if he's gonna be great. We don't know if
he's gonna be a superstar. Other guys. Number one, Kyler Murray Baker, Mayfield, Jameis
Winston. All right. So my point is this Caleb, even if you are drafted, number one, which
seems likely. And I think that's the smart thing for the Bears to do. You are still going
to have to work incredibly hard to live up to your promise. All right. And, and here's the
thing too, even though the Bears are not a great organization and there's obviously been
some chatter about you not wanting to go there . There won't be any uses, Nick, like Joe Burrow
going to Cincinnati, which was a place people thought he shouldn't go a cheap franchise, at
least at that point, he turned him around immediately. CJ. Stroud goes to Houston, which
had been an embarrassment to the league for the last five years or so. He turned them
around immediately. So now when you go to Chicago, I personally am not expecting you to
necessarily be CJ out right away, but there will be those expectations that he is great
right away. So I would say this lastly, Caleb in the NFL, the mind is just as important as
the body at that quarterback position. You gotta be just as mentally strong as you are
physically strong. The study habits are just as important as how far you can throw the
football, how fast your legs can move. I do believe in, you can look, it's gonna be a lot
of hard work.