Everybody Calm Down

Mac had a bad day. There are bigger problems in New England. One of those problems is not Brad Stevens. The better Marcus Smart is the perfect fit for the Celtics. A new segment is revealed: This or That with Mr. Bobby. Money grabbing whores PLUS Dr. Big Mac is on edge.

• Everybody Calm Down: Patriots vs. Cowboys review

• HEADLINES with The OBVIOUS ONE

• The Better Marcus Smart: The Jrue Holiday trade

• Player Profile: Jrue Holiday

• This or That with Mr. Bobby

• Simplest Minds of the Week

SHOW NOTES:

Cold Open

Opening Takes

Bobby -

Rich - Everyone calm down

Ray - 

Show Run Down

Everybody Calm down Pats v Cowboys review

A better Marcus Smart

BotPods Basement: The Real Hunger Games

Simple Minds saves sports

Simplest Minds of the week

Everyone calm down Pats vs Cowboys

Patriots 3 - Cowboys 38

Worse loss in Belichick career statistically 

Turning points 

Not picking up 1 yard in 1st quarter at the end zone for a TD

Strip Sack TD

Pick 6 TD - Missed the over the top throw

  - 2nd INT was worse. Step into it.  Lazy route from JuJu

PS - Defense sucked too

Takeaways

Bad Game. Out Coached

Adrian Klemm? O line still stinks. Receivers still can't separate. Mac Stunk

 - RBs averaging 2.5 yards per carry

 - 50% pressure rate vs cowboys. 41% vs jets. 2022 Titans had the highest rate of 27.5%

Worst game of Mac's career.  Who else had a similar outcome in their 34th NFL start? 

 Tom Brady 31- 0 vs Bills. 4 INTs

ANYWAYS...

Plain and Simple Mac is being asked to do too much or taking it on himself to do too much

* Biggest concern and bummer is Gonzo and Judon out

JC Jackson traded for. Jones Trio still out in the secondary? 

 - Can Trey Flowers help fill the Judon injury? OR Keon White?

* Belichick is toast

All of 2022 draft class has regressed

Cole Strange

Marcus Jones

Ramandre Stevenson

Jack Jones

Tyquan Thorton

 - Zero innovation - Currently Jonnu Smith has more yards than every Patriots receiver 

- Zero urgency

 - Zero discipline. 11h most penalties this season. 6 on Sunday vs cowboys.

12 missed tackles sunday

* Next 2 weeks are the barometer for the season 

  - Win both and they are who we thought

   - Lose 1 and in for a bad year

News

Pats trade for JC Jackson

Jackson and 2025 7th for 2025 6th 

Patriots and Chargers are reworking Jackson's remaining $9.33 million salary for 2023, with New England covering around $1.5 million and the Chargers covering the rest in a signing bonus, sources told ESPN's Jeremy Fowler. Jackson's contract, which runs through the 2026 season, stays intact otherwise, the sources said.

Rumors

Patriots made significant push to trade for Chase Claypool

 - more of the same from Bill.  Distressed asset with issues.  

How about Identifying a guy and spending money and assets to get him.  

  - Give up a 2nd for Jeudy for example

Look ahead

How boring will Sunday be vs Saints? 

Predictions? 

HEADLINES with The OBVIOUS ONE

A better Marcus Smart

Celtics get                               Blazers Get

Jrue Holiday                             Robert Williams

                                                 Malcolm Brogdon

                                                  2024 Unprotected 1st rnd pick - Warriors

                                                  2029 1st rnd pick - Celtics

Player Profile

Jrue Randall Holiday

33 years old. Born June 12 1990 to Shawn and Toya Holiday. Both College basketball players

From los Angeles California 

2023          2024

$36.8 mill       Player option $39 mill

6' 5 220lbs

32.6 min  19.3 pts   5.1 rbs   7.4 asst  1.2 steals   38.4 3%

2021 NBA champion

2 x NBA allstar

3x All NBA Defensive 1st team

2 x All NBA Defensive 2nd team

3 x NBA teammate of the year

2020 Gold medal winner

Spent 1 year at UCLA

Drafted by 76ers 17th over all in 2009 

traded to Pelicans 2013 for Nerlens Noel and a 1st round pick

Traded to Bucks 2020 multiple first round picks

Traded to Blazers and then Celtics 2023

Two Brother play in the NBA. Justin and Aaron. 

Younger Sister played college basketball at UCLA

In July 2013, Holiday married United States women's national soccer team midfielder Lauren Cheney.[78] The two first met at a UCLA women's basketball game during his only season at the school. While he was approaching his seat, a young girl asked if he was Darren Collison and asked for his autograph. After explaining that he was not Collison and preparing to take his seat, Cheney, who was seated behind him, said, "Don't worry, you're cuter than Darren is." At the time, both were in relationships with others, but they became friends, and began dating after he was drafted by the Sixers.[79] They later began hosting annual combo basketball and soccer clinics at UCLA.[80]

In September 2016, Holiday took indefinite leave from the Pelicans to care for his wife after she was diagnosed with a brain tumor.[81] The following month, Lauren had brain surgery only weeks after giving birth to the couple's daughter, J.T. (Jrue Tyler).[21] Holiday and his wife Lauren had their second child, a boy named Hendrix, in late 2020.[82]

WIkipedia would like you to know Jrue believes in Jesus Christ “I'm a Christian athlete who has faith in Jesus Christ. So when I encounter circumstances over which I have no control, I believe and have peace.

• A matchup between Indiana and New Orleans in the 2019-2020 season was the first time that 3 brothers were in an NBA game at the same time

• Jrue is one of 7 cousins whose names begin with “J”

• Jrue credits his wife for leading him to try new things, such as sushi

Press Conference 

“They're a bit crazy. They get rowdy. They get in your face. Definitely one of the best sixth men in the league, if not the best,” Holiday said. “I love the aggression. I love the environment … The fans are literally insane, and I'm proud to be part of that coming in this year.”

“Few days ago, before I got traded, it was just like ‘Where am I going to land?' I hoped it was [Boston],” he revealed

The Team to beat 

Jrue Holiday

Derek White

Jaylen Brown

Jayson Tatum

Kristops Porzingus

Al Horford

Bench

Guards                          Forwards                     Bigs

Payton Pritchard             Oshe Brissett             Luke Kornet

Dalano Banton                Sam Hauser               Neemias Queta

Svi Mykhailiuk                 Lamar Stevens           Wenyan Gabriel

JD Davison                      Jordan Walsh              Kylor Kelley

Jay Scrubb

Camp Started Tuesday

"There was just an electricity in the gym today," co-owner Steve Pagliuca said. "Paul Pierce turned to us and said he's never seen an NBA practice in his whole entire career, that they went that hard, that fast for that long."

"We made a thousand mistakes. But you could also see, like, there's that thing that's there," Stevens said at an introductory news conference Wednesday, three days after the Celtics traded for Holiday. "There's a togetherness. There's an excitement. There's a joy, a competitiveness.

Celtics salary $185 million

2nd apron $182 million

What are the penalties for the first apron?

The first apron hits when a team's payroll exceeds $172 million. At this point, the following restrictions are triggered:

• Teams cannot acquire a player in a sign-and-trade if that player keeps them above the apron

• Teams cannot sign a player waived during the regular season whose salary was over the $12.2 million midlevel exception

• Salary matching in trades must be within 110 percent, rather than 125 percent for teams not above the apron

What are the penalties for the second apron? 

All of the penalties for the first apron apply to the second apron as well, which is triggered when a team's salary exceeds $182.5 million. For the 2023-24 season, one additional penalty is added when crossing the second apron:

• No access to the $5 million taxpayer midlevel exception

Starting at the end of the 2023-24 season, even more restrictions will be added to the second apron. These include:

• Teams cannot use a trade exception generated by aggregating the salaries of multiple players

• Teams cannot include cash in a trade

• Teams cannot use a trade exception generated in a prior year

• First-round picks seven years out are frozen (unable to be traded)

• A team's first-round pick is moved to the end of the first round if they remain in the second apron for three out of five seasons

$32 million tax bill - Wyc "We havent blinked. as long as we win"

Competition 

Jimmy Butler has lost his mind

Blazers hate Pat Riley so they fucked him

Embid doesnt think they have something to prove vs Celtics

Harden going to make things very uncomfortable 

  - Rockets pulled a max contract beacuse Harden wants the scoring title

What are the Bucks thinking now? 

Go Celtics

QUICK BREAK

BOTPODs Basement: Real Life Hunger Games

• quickly synopsis of the movie is each distract has 2 tributes who fight the other tributes from the other 13 distracts to win money and pride for said distract. The fighting surface is forest with hills and hiding spots. 

• So here was my idea the three of us can choose any two living people to compete in our hunger games. Just so rich takes this seriously the winner will win a billion dollars. 

• Who would you pick and why? 

AFTERNOON DELIGHT

Simple Minds Saves Sports

All-star Games/ Competitions have outlived their usefulness.  What to do with these events which are designed as a celebration of the best athletes  in the game?

-Some Quick hitters - pick your preference - out of the 2

Brady or Belichick

Justin Jefferson or Jamar Chase

Milfs or college chicks?

Great O-line or Great D-line

Breaskfast for dinner or dinner for breakfast?

Gronk or Edelman?

Mazzoula or a used condom

Breaking Bad or Walking Dead?

Manny or Ortiz

Hakeem the dream or Shaq

Be loved by all or feared by all

Eat out or Home cooked

Paul Peirce or Jayson Tatum

Marry deaf chick or Blind chick

SIMPLEST MINDS OF THE WEEK

MLB - 

Bring back the play in game.

Dont allow Tampa Bay to have a baseball team

Smallest post season crowd since 1919

Tik Tok Bone smashers (Insert Irene Joke)

Tik Tok kids are intentionally fracturing their face in an effort to get better bone structure and look pretty

Lindsey Hill

Trevor Baur accusor

--Hill describing Bauer as "Next victim. Star pitcher for the Dodgers."

--Hill asking a friend "What should I steal?" and getting the answer "Take his money."

--Another says "I'm going to his house Wednesday. I already have my hooks in," followed by what looks like a screengrab of their conversation and "You know how I roll." 

--Then he claims that after the first time they ahem "met," her texts read, "Net worth is 51 mil." and "bitch, you better secure the bag." 

--He asks how she planned to do that. And answers with texts that read, "need daddy to choke me out," and "Being an absolute WHORE to try and get in on his 51 million."