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Good morning, everybody.
It is Friday, April 19th, and this is the Doug Collins Podcast.
I am Chip Blake.
I'll be guest hosting today with our illustrious producer, James.
And we're going to, Friday, Sunday, we're going to go with the theme that we normally have on Fridays.
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We'll leave that for Doug to address a little bit on Monday.
James and I are going to do an NFL draft preview because the NFL draft is next week.
It starts next Thursday evening.
And so with the first round, second and third round on Friday, the remaining rounds on Saturday.
So we are going to talk about some mock drafts.
We're going to talk about where some of these prospects are likely to go in the first round of the draft.
We're going to talk about Jonte Porter getting a lifetime ban from the NBA for gambling activities and how stupid that was on his part, especially the type of bets that he's been accused of influencing.
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We'll be right after the break.
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All right, folks, thanks for joining us.
I want to welcome to the podcast our illustrious producer James Simeone.
And James, today is the day we've been waiting for for a while.
Yeah!
Because the draft is now within a week's time.
The draft begins next Thursday evening in Detroit, I believe, is where they're holding the draft this year.
Yeah, that was a choice.
Yeah, but look, the NFL always makes it fun, right?
Wherever it is.
Yeah.
And, you know, the NFL will do a good job to make Detroit fun, I guess, right?
Did you see the Hollywood sign, though, that was brought there?
No.
So I guess, this was a while.
This was like two weeks, maybe three weeks ago.
I think they were, you know, when the NFL does something, they try to make it big.
So Detroit, I guess, they asked for a Hollywood sign.
And they got one, but it was placed in a terrible spot, and it looks like a seven-year-old did it.
And it just only adds to how, you know, Detroit.
Well, they're trying to make Detroit...
I mean, Detroit's been the butt of a joke for a while, and that's tough to deal with, but...
They're trying to make Detroit not...
You have to because it's now a premier team, right?
You have to.
When Tennessee Titans are playing well, what was the first thing they did?
They sent the draft over there.
Nashville's popular.
The Predators were doing well.
The Titans were playing good football.
I think they were just in the AFC Championship game at that time.
So, like, you bring it to Nashville.
So, it's a good move.
Don't get me wrong.
It's going to be fine.
Everyone's going to enjoy the draft.
I think they'll have less attendance than normal.
Because nobody wants to go to Detroit, but it'll still be fun because it's the NFL. It'll be a lot of fun.
And one of the things I think, James, that makes this draft...
Fun.
First of all, all drafts are fun, right?
Because, you know, when football season ends, you know, there's always a kind of a sports lull.
I, you know, I have a good friend of mine that's in sports talk radio here in Atlanta, and he says, you know, they get, you know, they get 70% of their advertising revenue over four months of the season, and that's football because that's always when they get the most listeners.
Yeah, I mean, if you really think about it, every time the football season ends, we cling on to basketball and playoff hockey and college basketball, right?
That's right.
But that entire time, we're discussing who's going into the NFL draft.
That's right.
And who's going into the NFL, right?
Once that ends, though, I don't care what anyone says.
The time between the end of the playoffs for basketball and hockey and the beginning of football season, I know it's baseball season and I know people care about baseball, but it's only baseball.
Luckily this summer, and I'm a nerd for the Olympics, I'm in.
I'm all in on the Olympics, especially because the USA is sending their Avengers squad.
But if there's no Olympics this summer, I try to get to as many baseball games as possible.
But it's basically you're just day drinking because you're bored.
Yeah.
You're like, when is football coming back?
And they're like, I promise you it's the end of August.
And you're like, I don't have time for that.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
Well...
James, let's kind of dig into it.
I've been kind of studying mock draft boards, as I know you have, and I know a lot of people are this time of year.
Obviously, Mel Kuyper with ESPN and Adam Schechter with ESPN are two people that, you know, I think folks are used to seeing regularly on ESPN talking, you know, and they have talking on ESPN about where they think a lot of these players are and they have talking on ESPN about where they think a lot of these And, you know, one of the reasons why Kuyper and Schechter are so fun to listen to is, you know,
have probably better sources within the industry with general managers and assistant general managers and personnel, NFL team personnel, than probably anybody out there.
But I printed three mock drafts that I'm looking at, and I know you've got another one in front of you as well.
And Yeah, from Peter Schrager of NFL.com.
Yeah, and I've got Mel Kiper's draft, and I've also got a draft from Brendan Donahue from the Huddle Report and a guy named Ryan McChrystal.
And I kind of, you know, follow those three people, and what I think is very interesting Extremely interesting in this year's draft is the only three things that they agree with that are likely to happen in the first round is they all agree that Caleb Williams is going to go number one to the Bears at a USC. I think we've all realized,
especially after the Justin Fields trade, after they really offloaded Justin Fields for nothing, Essentially, nothing to what they thought they could get for them three months earlier on the open market.
After that, everything is kind of up in the air.
So this could be the first time in a long time and likely will be the first time in a long time.
When the first three picks in the draft are the quarterback position.
This is a quarterback deep draft.
A couple years ago, we didn't have that.
You remember the Falcons drafted Desmond Ritter three years ago, and he was the third quarterback off the board, and they got him early in the third round.
Yeah.
You know, this draft, the third quarterback off the board will be gone after the third pick.
Well...
Yeah, so I've seen a lot of mock drafts obviously having people trade up.
As long as it's a trade up to the fourth pick, whoever it is, J.J. McCarthy's going fourth.
The order is Caleb Williams, then it's Jaden Daniels and Drake May swap and everything, right?
It's either Jaden Daniels or Drake May going two or three.
And then everyone has J.J. McCarthy as their fourth quarterback off the board, which Man, if you told people that the day Michigan won the national title, people would have looked at you like you were an absolute psychopath.
Sure.
Am I right?
And we were talking about this weeks ago, that I was trying to convince myself that I wanted J.J. McCarthy.
Because as a Vikings fan, obviously, the teams that need quarterbacks on this list, for the record...
We can go through this real quick.
The Giants need a quarterback, supposedly.
The Vikings need a quarterback, Denver needs a quarterback, and the Raiders need a quarterback.
Those are the top teams that need a quarterback.
If you're the Chargers or Arizona, you're in a great position because you get to make all the decisions.
Yeah.
Realistically.
And I don't know about your mock draft, but in Peter Schrager's mock draft, they have the Giants moving up to get J.J. McCarthy.
At what pick?
What was that?
At what pick?
Where would they move up?
At the fourth pick, they trade.
See, they have the sixth pick.
They have the sixth pick, so they have a huge opportunity here.
Because, I'm sorry, they have the fourth, the Giants have the sixth pick.
So the Giants move from six to four, right?
So they get their quarterback.
But Arizona gets possibly one of the top, gets one of the top receivers in the draft still.
Because I don't know what the gap is between Marvin Harrison Jr. and Romo Dunze is, but it's clearly not enough for them not to trade that pick in this mock draft.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
That makes sense to me, though, because...
Marvin Harrison Jr. is probably an incredible choice.
But I don't think if you get Romo Doomsday, you're going to be like, damn it, did we pass on...
Marvin Harrison Jr., you know what I'm saying?
No, I know.
And look, I think this wide receiver crop in this draft is really three deep.
It's Marvin Harrison Jr., Malik Nabors, and Roma Duzier from Washington.
And I don't think you go wrong with any of those three guys.
You really can't.
It's going to be like that draft with...
Mike Evans.
Yeah, yeah.
It was like nine receivers in that draft and they all hit.
I think, James, the amount of draft day...
Well, I say draft a really first round, early first round trades.
I mean, you know, it's not unusual to see trades in the NFL draft, but I think, you know, I think we're going to see a lot of trades pretty early in the draft because, and I'm going to go ahead and just bring up a team that I know is near and dear to your heart, the Minnesota Vikings.
Everybody's waiting to see what Minnesota does.
Do they draft up and pick J.J. McCarthy?
I've got three mock drafts in front of me, and all three of them have Minnesota doing different things.
Mel Kuyper does believe that they will jump up to the fifth position, and they will trade, and they will take J.J. McCarthy.
Brendan O'Donohue has them trading up to the fourth position and taking Drake May from North Carolina, which is interesting.
And then Ryan McChrystal doesn't think they're going to be able to execute a draft day trade.
He doesn't think they believe in J.J. McCarthy enough to give up what they would have to give up in a trade to move up.
So he has the Vikings staying at 11. And picking Dallas Turner, the edge rusher from Alabama, who's I think going to be a phenomenal NFL player.
He just lost an edge rusher.
He just lost one of the best ones in the league.
Yeah, so what do you think?
As a Minnesota Vikings fan, what are your expectations heading into the draft?
Well, I have hopes and dreams, Chip, but I don't know if I have expectations because you just laid out three opposite things.
Can you say three opposite?
I don't know if that works.
I don't understand it.
I don't understand language enough to know.
First and foremost, us trading up for J.J. McCarthy means that we believe that we're good enough right now where we can let...
What's his name?
Who do we pick up in the offseason?
I'm blanking out his name right now.
Oh, gosh.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't even know the Minnesota Vikings.
Whatever it is, it's not a quarterback.
Sam Darnold.
Yeah, it's not a quarterback that you're going to hand the keeper.
So Sam Darnold is clearly a stopgap, right?
That's the word everyone loves using.
So Sam Darnold is going to be a stopgap quarterback for us.
So whoever we pick this year I doubt is going to play unless Sam Darnold is, and I mean dreadful, In this offense, which should be pretty hard to do.
He is Sam Darnold.
He is Sam Darnold, that's true.
And he did have two of the worst opportunities to start your career in the history of football in the Jets and then Carolina.
However, then you tell me another draft says they're going to trade up to four.
And they're going to go get Drake May somehow.
And Drake May is going to drop to four somehow.
Because everyone was freaking out about his pro day, even though three or four weeks ago we were talking about him having the best arm and turning into a Justin Herbert.
So, you know, then there's that.
And then you tell me, all right, they're not going to do any of that.
They don't believe in any of the quarterbacks in this draft.
Because what they're saying by not drafting a quarterback at 11, who would be Michael Penix Jr. or Bo Nix, probably in that area, They don't believe in them either, and they're going to go get a big time defensive end, an edge rusher, and they're going to turn their team slowly, even though they have all that offense and they need a quarterback immediately.
They're going to make that choice because they believe next year they might be a better option.
That's all I'm hearing.
And all I can tell you is if you don't get a quarterback in this draft, I genuinely believe they're going to regret it no matter what the decision, who it is.
Yeah.
They will regret not taking them.
Yeah, I was watching a draft special specifically on the quarterback position yesterday on ESPN. And, you know, Mel Kuyper, who has...
I mean, how long has he been evaluating college talent for you?
Seems he got yelled at by the Colts.
Yeah, that's right, he did.
You know, Kuyper said, in all of my years of evaluating quarterbacks, he said, J.J. McCarthy might be the hardest quarterback that I've evaluated.
And he went on to say the reason he is one of the hardest quarterbacks to evaluate is because, you know, he said, I watched a lot of film on the kid and I kept on waiting for that wow moment, right?
You know, what can this kid do that is exceptionally better than so many of his peers?
And he goes, I never saw that on the table.
But I also didn't see many mistakes either.
He said he was the quarterback in a system that was run-heavy, that had a good offensive line, and so they didn't ask him to do a whole lot.
But what they asked him to do, he did really, really well.
Ironically, he said, Michigan...
Was closer to a prototypical NFL offense than a college offense.
So, you know, he said, look, JJ McCarthy might go on to have a very long and successful pro career.
But there's nothing that really sticks out at me in evaluating him where I'm like, wow, this kid could be really good at blank or blank.
And you hate to use the word game manager.
We talked about it a lot last year.
And it was, you know, used as a phrase to kind of credit for those that wanted to be critical of, you know, for those that wanted to be critical of Brock Purdy.
You know, but the reality is I'll take a game manager all day long because when folks are calling quarterbacks game managers, what does that really mean?
Doesn't that mean they're winning football games?
You rather have Brock Purdy or Jameis Winston?
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Yeah, every once in a while, Jameis Winston's going to do something and you're going to be like, oh my God, that's the worst play I've ever seen.
And then 10 minutes later, he throws a touchdown from the opposite side of the field and you're like, who are you and why can't you do this all the time?
That's right.
With Brock Purdy, the difference though, I will say Brock Purdy made some pretty incredible plays last year that people forget because it's easy to look at him and be like, yeah, he threw that short out route to Debo and Debo ran it 40 yards.
Or he had this great screen pass to McCaffrey and he took it 50. That's why, you know, but if that's a play and they get a touchdown, who cares?
Yeah, well, it's the same knock on Bo Nix.
I mean, look, I'm a huge Bo Nix fan.
Obviously, I'm an Auburn graduate, Auburn football through and through.
Oh, are you?
I had no idea.
Yeah, that's right.
Went to college with his dad.
His dad played at Auburn when I was there.
And look, you know, everybody's like, well, aren't you mad at Bo for transferring?
And I said, not at all.
You know, because, look, I'm a father, and I've got two kids in college, and while neither one of them play college football, you know, if you're a quarterback, Auburn's not a program where you want to send your kids the last four, five, six, seven years.
It's just not.
And the reality is he had no offensive line.
He had no skill players.
And so he played three seasons at Auburn, and the guy just got killed, and he didn't put up great numbers.
He didn't have an offensive line.
He didn't have skill players.
He was running for his life.
He has an opportunity to go all the way across the country.
I mean, Auburn and Oregon are a long way away.
It's not a dive.
It's a dive.
And look what he did there with a good offensive line and skill players.
I mean, he was immediately good.
He did.
And, you know, I'm curious to see where Bo goes.
I happen to think he's going to go number 12 to the Broncos because I think the Broncos need that.
The knock on Bo Nix is...
From listening to the talking heads on the ESPN show yesterday is arm strength.
Arm strength is not elite like a Patrick Mahomes or a Josh Allen or a Trevor Lawrence.
But I don't know.
It's great to have elite arm strength, but I'm going to tell you a quarterback that is probably in the bottom 20% of the NFL in arm strength, that's the San Francisco 49ers quarterback that we talked about just a minute ago, and that's Brock Purdy.
I don't know that you need arm strength as long as you can read and see the field really well and you can be accurate and not make mistakes, right?
A nice career without the elite arm strength is Kirk Cousins.
That's exactly right.
Kirk Cousins was talked about.
He doesn't have that cannon.
Yeah, but Kirk Cousins just made himself another $185 million.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm not saying...
It also depends on the situation you're in, right?
I think maybe if he goes to the Broncos, their offense isn't set up for...
Greatness, but I'm just saying if he drops past the Broncos and goes to the Raiders, I think that's a great spot for him.
Yeah.
You got one of the best wide receivers in the history of the sport.
And you have a good defense, and your offensive line has played well, I think that could be a decent spot for him.
Yeah, I think so too.
I mean, I think it'll be a great spot for him.
If not, you know, with...
With really four quarterbacks likely to go in the top six picks, it leaves the fifth and sixth quarterback, who is Michael Penix and Bo Necks, kind of, you know, they're kind of the wild cards of this draft, right?
I've been convincing myself now that Michael Penix might be the pick for the Vikings.
And I'll tell you why.
Every single time I think of Michael Penix and I see Michael Penix, obviously what do we all think of right now at this moment?
It is the Michigan game.
The championship game where they dared him to throw it short and he didn't do well.
He also just didn't play well at all.
He didn't even hit the throws he normally hits.
I'm not saying that it's unfair because Michigan's a good defense and maybe his line didn't play well and the rest of his team didn't play great and you can put that on the whole team and not just him.
That's fine.
And if it is just him and he had one bad game and we're going to judge his entire career on one bad game just because it's a big game, I don't know if that's fair either.
However, What we were talking about prior to that was he's got all the intangibles of Patrick Mahomes without the short game.
That was their only concern.
He's opposite of a game manager right now.
But in the right system, he could be something close to that with that cannon of an arm.
Personally, he's like a Dante Culpepper.
As soon as he catches it, he can launch it.
Did I lose your chip?
Yeah, I'm here.
Yeah, sorry.
Okay, I got you.
But yeah, so that's like, to me, like, I don't know if not, I think with the guys in this draft, if you can get Drake May, go get Drake May.
I really believe that.
Let him sit a year or two and he could be your next Jordan Love.
He can be the next Justin Herbert.
I'm not opposed to that.
If any team were to decide to do that.
But Michael Penix is ready now, and he could be ready in a year given the right system.
And if you're talking about, I hate Colin Coward because I think he's wrong 98% of the time.
But if there is something he's right about, it's that the Vikings are a furnished apartment.
Yeah.
They have everything you need for a quarterback to step in and just play decently.
Yeah.
Arguably the best wide receiver in football, a great number two, one of the best tight ends, a great running back now.
Great, probably strong work because he's older, but he was a great running back.
He knows his...
Had to play ball in Aaron Jones, and they have a good offensive line.
So, I don't know.
I think Michael Penix, with the three, with the Raiders, the Vikings, and the Broncos, could be an immediate starter, but also could wait a year and be a good player for them.
Yeah, and it's going to be interesting to see where Pennix goes because a lot of the points you just pointed out, but I don't think a team, it's possible that both Bo Nix and Michael Pennix slipped early second round.
It really is.
Sure, absolutely.
They made that pretty clear.
If I'm an NFL, if I'm evaluating quarterbacks and I'm an NFL general manager, I'm probably more likely, I think, to take a run on Bo Nix than I am Michael Pennix in the first round, only because...
Only because Bo Nix hasn't had the injuries in his career that Michael Penix has had to face.
That's the other part I totally forgot about, Jim.
Yeah, there's just questions on Penix's durability, but look, second round's still early in the draft, but...
That's a good time to take a run at a quarterback that just had a monster season.
And you hit the nail on the head, man.
He had his worst game at the worst time.
She's going to become a Shane Falco from the Westman.
That's what it's looking like.
So he's either going to make it to the NFL and prove all of those evaluators wrong, which is completely possible.
Look, I'm a big Michael Penix fan.
I'm cheering for him.
I think his story, I mean, he's overcome not one, but two ACL reconstruction surgeries.
Not one, but two.
I mean, who does that before the draft?
People are in their careers after that.
Yeah, I mean, it's just insane.
You know, my youngest son tore his ACL his senior year in high school.
I see what he went through just to get his knee back.
And by the way, he didn't play football after surgery because it was his senior season.
So I can't imagine what it was like to get that knee ready, you know, for a full sport contact.
So I'm really cheering for him.
I hope he ends up, you know, just being in a good position, right?
Because if you do fall the number in the second round in the draft, you have the potential to be in a better spot, right?
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
I mean, Brock Purdy won't get a chance to play.
Because all the quarterbacks above him got hurt, and he was in a really good program.
It kind of reminds me of where Minnesota is right now in some respects.
They're in a weird spot.
Minnesota is in a weird spot because they have everything to win.
They can win games.
Unfortunately, they are in a...
Nasty division.
Yeah, they are.
Right now, the Vikings, and the same goes, I mean, this is why I think Atlanta took their shot at Kirk Cousins, is because their division is very winnable.
If you've had Kirk Cousins at Atlanta offense, they might walk through that thing.
Yeah.
No offense, I mean, to everybody else in that division, but if they took a shot on Kirk Cousins, because they're like, oh, we can win right now.
Where the Vikings knew, like, we could take Kirk Cousins, but we're taking a risk on the idea that he's 35, you know, coming off the injury in a division where everybody's young and ready to go.
I mean, if you look, listen, the Bears are about to get Caleb Williams, and you are in my opinion.
We're convinced that...
I'm a little less convinced that he's the god that they talked about in the beginning, but I just can't imagine he's not going to be a perennial pro bowler slash all-pro...
I just think he's too talented.
I don't care that he has a pink...
The off-the-field stuff means nothing to me if he can throw a football.
That's right.
Everyone freaked out when Dan Marino smoked weed in the 80s and they lost on probably the best quarterback who's ever lived next to Patrick Mullins and Aaron Rodgers.
As far as talent is concerned, we all know TB is in his own category.
But I'm just saying, you can't move on from that.
Don't worry about that stuff.
He is going to dominate the NFL. We do have to take a moment, though, and realize, don't expect the season we all got last year from What's his name in Houston?
That's a miracle season that you need to get out of your mind now, because Caleb's going to have some struggles.
Yeah, he definitely is.
He definitely is.
Let me ask you this, as a Vikings fan, because you said they do have a lot more pieces right now.
A lot more than...
You know, a lot more than Washington, a lot more than Chicago, a lot more than New England, who are going to take quarterbacks at 1, 2, and 3. But, you know, if you do get J.J. McCarthy...
Do you think it's the expectations of the Vikings brass that J.J. McCarthy immediately steps up and starts?
Or do they let him sit behind a more experienced Sam Darnold?
100%.
Anybody we draft is sitting unless it's, I think, Michael Penix or Bo Nix.
And I think they'll sit, too, to be 100% honest with you.
Yeah.
I think Kevin O'Connell, I mean this in the nicest way possible, I believe he is delusional enough to believe he can make anyone a superstar in this league.
That's how good he thinks he is at his job, and I agree with him wholeheartedly.
I have seen him take quarterbacks that have been on our roster for years that look like they had no shot at doing anything on a football field, mainly because Kirk Cousins was there and wasn't going to give him a shot.
But Kirk Cousins was having an arguably, before he got hurt last year, he had arguably an MVP-type season.
He was having an MVP-type season.
Yeah.
Just numbers alone.
Don't worry about the wins, because that was God.
But then we brought in the past or not.
And we all know what happened for two games.
It went straight downhill after that.
But for two games, the dude lit it up.
Then we brought in...
We've had him for three or four years now.
And again, I'm blanking on his name because I'm a horrible fan.
But he comes in and has a couple of good games.
Yeah, we lost to Jake Browning, who we let go, but it was still a close game.
My point is that this man thinks he can work with anyone.
You're talking about talented?
The talent pool of quarterbacks in this draft?
I genuinely believe that whether we take Drake May, J.J. McCarthy, Michael Panix, Bo Nix, or in some crazy world where Jaden Daniels slips, because I heard that a couple times, which is really starting to piss me off.
Don't even bring that up because I don't want to get my hopes up.
That will turn any of those guys into a star.
Now, I have a question for you here because I'm looking at this.
And we can jump to another subject in a minute, but besides the quarterbacks in this draft, we talked about the wide receivers.
Could the Cardinals and the Chargers be in any better position if you're a franchise right now?
Could what now?
They both have, could they be in any better position?
Those are two teams that just need, well, the Cardinals and Chargers need a little bit more, but as far as getting their quarterback something, they both need a wide receiver.
That's all they need to get kick-started on offense.
The Chargers need a wide receiver.
Their wide receivers are gone.
They let Keenan Allen go.
I can't even, that makes no sense to me, but whatever.
They're going to get two of the best wide receivers in the league right now.
I mean, coming into this league, Kyler Murray's about to save his job with that because he started playing really well at the end of that season last year.
He came back and was immediately good.
The Cardinals suck, but he was good.
And the Chargers are another one, but those are two teams that could not have fallen into a better position.
They pull all the strings for every team in the NFL right now.
It's kind of amazing.
Well, Ann, if there wasn't such a need for the quarterback position at the top of the draft, one could argue...
One could argue, and I think it would have a very strong argument, that the Cardinals at four might be getting the best player on the draft board overall, Mark Harrison Jr., right?
Exactly.
It's a great position for them to be in.
And, you know, you stay with Jaden Daniels, and I think Jaden Daniels is an incredible prospect as well, but, you know, two of the top four receivers in this draft are LSU receivers, Brian Thomas Jr. and Malik Nabors.
You know, did Jaden Daniels put up numbers because he had two of the top four receivers in the country?
Or did Malik Nabors and Brian Thomas Jr. get to be the top two, two of the top four receivers in the country because Jaden Daniels was their quarterback?
Probably a little bit of both, but I'm curious to see how both of them.
You can compare it to another LSU team that won a championship.
All three of those guys went on to be some of the best of their position, right?
Joe Burrow is a top five QB, and Justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase are two of the best wide receivers in the NFL. Go on, I forgot Jamar Chase was on that team as well.
That to me, if you look at that team, it blows your mind that the two of them were on a team together.
It does.
Joe Burrow was only there one year.
One year, and the two of them were just catching everything.
Yeah, no, it...
Yeah, if you're Ed Orgeron, Ed Orgeron will be spending money for the rest of his life, thanks to those three guys.
Ed Orgeron, who I love as a personality, he's a larger than life personality.
He really doesn't have a body of work as a head football coach that looks very successful, with the exception of the year he had Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, and Justin Jefferson.
What an embarrassment of riches for a college football coach, a head football coach.
And then he got paid, and then Orgeron got paid, and he didn't win again.
No, no, he didn't do anything after that.
No, and then he got fired two years later and he hasn't worked since.
But to his credit, he doesn't need to work in any event.
No, no, he just goes around telling stories about how he tricked kids into coming to his team with shrimp.
That's basically what he's doing.
Big, big personality.
Big personality.
Oh, yeah.
No, he just always sounds like he's eating rocks.
Like, that's just the way to describe his voice.
He's just constantly eating rocks.
That's the way it is.
That's the way it is.
And out in the bush in Louisiana, Bayou Country.
You can do whatever you want out there.
Hell, what's his name?
Steven Seagal at a TV show where he was a cop out there?
Probably the funniest TV show on the planet.
If anyone has ever seen it, please watch it.
If you haven't seen it, please watch it.
It's so bad.
Exactly right.
Well, before we wrap up and move on, kudos to the NFL for making the NFL draft what it is today, right?
I mean, 10 years ago, you know, 10, 12 years ago, you know, the draft was a weekend event over a Saturday and a Sunday, and now they've made it into a lot of fun.
It's a three-day event.
A Thursday night, two of those days are primetime, you know, Thursday and Friday nights.
And look, you can get some good talent towards the end of this draft.
Puka Nakua wasn't drafted until Saturday last year.
And then, you know, three years ago, Brock Purdy was Mr. Irrelevant.
He was the last guy taken.
Yeah.
And what a pick by San Francisco.
Never be afraid of your late-round picks.
No.
Don't dismiss them immediately.
Not at all.
Hey, Stefan Diggs, who probably caught the most important football in Vikings history, even though it led to nothing, was a fifth-round pick.
You just never know where you're getting it.
And also, check on your undrafted guys.
Check on your undrafted guys.
Oh, absolutely.
You guys turn into Adam Thielen and John Randall.
That's exactly right.
There will be some undrafted free agents that end up contributing big time for their teams next year.
Not just in the career, but next year.
Kudos to the NFL for doing that.
Looking forward to that.
By the time we do Friday's Finest next week, the first round will be in the books.
Yeah, I'll be crying.
I'll be like, we didn't even draft anyone.
We traded all our picks.
Yeah.
Trade news story out of the NBA. John Tay Porter from the Toronto Raptors.
Stupid.
Dumb.
Dumb.
Not only did he get caught betting on NBA basketball, which is a big, big no-no.
And everybody knows that.
Look, if you get caught gambling as a professional athlete, You do not gamble the sport that you play, number one.
Number two, you blame it on your interpreter.
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have gone there.
But, you know, we hear in a lot of these gambling scandals the words point-shaving, and so that everybody knows that's listening, point-shaving means you know there's a line out there in total number of points Or there's the line in the game, meaning Detroit Pistons, seven-point favorite, and they win by two.
That's point-shaving when you're trying to get the outcome of that.
And that's wrong, too.
But this idiot, Jontae Porter, decides he is going to illegally bet on a player prop on him.
On a night that he knows he doesn't feel good, and he's not 100%.
So he tells a 24-year-old confidential information about his health to one known better, and they say that another better reporter knew then placed an $80,000 wager.
Parlay, by the way.
...would underperform in the Raptors' 20th game against the Sacramento Kings.
The league said the better was stood to make $1.1 million if the wager hits.
Thankfully, look, it's very hard right now to...
To illegally gamble and the regulators not figure it out.
I say the regulators, the internal regulators.
They found out immediately.
Immediately.
Can we talk about why they found out immediately though?
What's that?
This is very important for everyone.
I want everyone to get this very clear.
Jonte Porter is at most the ninth or tenth man on that bench.
Yes.
Okay?
That means he's not a starter and that means he's not getting a ton of playing time.
Okay?
If somebody bets $80,000 on Michael Jordan or LeBron James, the Vegas doesn't really care because that makes sense to people.
If somebody places $80,000 on a parlay that includes...
A guy named Jonte Porter who plays about four minutes a game and knows he's coming out of this game.
The red flag is going straight through the roof.
The only thing that Jonte Porter is known for is being the brother of Michael Porter who plays for the Denver Nuggets.
Who's the starter?
That's it.
Jontae Porter had...
And guys, he's on the roster, so it's not like he doesn't have money.
Let's not forget that, though, either.
He is actually on the roster.
He doesn't have a 10-day contract.
He's not internet.
He is on the roster.
So someone with that kind of money who said, you know what?
I make enough money, but let's screw it.
I'm not getting enough playing time.
Let's make some money off this.
I'm baffled.
I'm honestly baffled by the stupidity.
Jason Whitlock.
We all know Jason Whitlock.
Very controversial.
A lot of fun to watch.
Not a fan of him, but continue.
Yeah.
But his stuff is always...
Entertaining?
Always entertaining.
Speaking of the entertainment value of Jason Whitlock and John Tate Porter, I think it was Jason Whitlock that went to Twitter after Porter's suspension.
Did you see what Whitlock said?
No.
Whitlock, who is unabashedly conservative.
Correct.
And the NBA is not.
I mean, let's just face it, right?
The NBA is very woke.
They're very progressive.
They're very left.
So Jason Whitlock suggested that Jonte Porter should become trans, play in the WNBA, And see if...
And see and score 40, 50 points a game.
I mean, Jontae Porter's what?
6'9", 6'10"?
He can pull a Juana, man.
100%.
He can do it.
You put him in the WNBA and he...
So, look, I'm not sure that Jontae Porter would want to go to those extremes.
But in today's environment, you know, the left has said they are fine with men competing in women's sports.
We are always a day closer to the movie Juana Man, and I'm really looking forward to it.
So, in any way...
I still think that Caelan Clark is going to give him buckets regardless, so...
That would be a high price to pay.
I'll tell you what, Chip.
Can we talk about, though, the NBA, in the words of Pat McAfee, put the hammer down on this issue immediately.
Oh, yeah.
They said, banned.
Banned.
Don't even think about coming back.
Don't even talk to us.
Don't even wear another NBA jersey.
If we catch you outside an NBA arena, we are going to shoot on sight.
The NBA said you're not allowed to play basketball in a professional manner for the NBA ever again.
And he's an easy...
He's an easy example to make, right?
Because, as you said, it's not like he's a superstar.
No.
And he was generating revenue for the NBA. Absolutely not.
He was getting in and maybe getting 12 to 17 minutes a game.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Honestly, I can look this up right now.
I am actually curious.
Let's see.
Jonte Porter, stats.
So Jonte Porter, if I can find it here, he played 14 minutes a game and averaged 4.5 points per game.
So, no.
If you're putting money on Jonte Porter at $80,000, there's going to be a red flag.
There's going to be a red flag.
Especially if you're taking the parlay, if you're taking the prop over.
But then the question becomes, though, why is Vegas setting prop bets on NBA players' total scores and total rebounds who only average 14 minutes a game?
I mean, come on.
You know, I thought about this, right?
I understand it in the Super Bowl.
I've played some pretty terrible bets.
Yeah.
I'm not going to pretend I have it.
When I was in Jersey and I found out we can gamble, I went to town.
I had to delete the app because part of me believes I might be an addict.
So...
But I know basketball, or at least I feel like I know basketball pretty well to bet on certain guys.
Let me make this super clear.
If you're betting on Jonte Porter, you have one of two problems.
One is you have inside information and you're about to get arrested.
Two, you are an addict.
To no end, and you heard information.
That's all I know.
Because if you're betting on Jonte Porter, one, you're crazy.
Two, you have inside information.
And three, you're an addict.
All three of those items are true.
Yes, exactly.
All three can be true at the same time.
That's right.
That's right.
Well, let's pivot a little bit off of John Tay Porter.
One thing I want to talk about before we get to this crazy bank loan situation out of South America.
The transfer portal.
We've talked about the transfer portal on here a while, and there's really two big windows for the portal.
There's the after the season concludes window, which is the largest It's when if schools are going to make coaching changes, they make it at the end of the season.
And it's when the most players end up in the portal.
There's also a window now, which is after the conclusion or right at the conclusion.
Most schools have already had their spring game, but some of them haven't.
Some of them I think are this weekend, but I think it wraps it up this weekend.
Auburn had theirs three weeks ago.
But, or two weeks ago, I guess.
But the transfer portal opened, I believe it was Tuesday or Wednesday of this week.
And look, I'm not like a lot of my friends in the fact that I don't know why so many people have such strong hatred towards Deion Sanders.
I don't.
I think he's good for college football.
I'd be happy to let my kids...
There are a couple reasons that people don't like him.
One, they're probably just racist jerks.
But also, you know, I'm not saying your friends are.
I'm saying it's a possibility.
But also, because Deion's brash.
He comes right in your face.
People don't like to be told what's up, and he's just going to say it no matter how you feel.
He is, and I... You know, I always come from the school and it's just my style and obviously Dion's style is different than mine and that's completely fine.
He's a lot more success than I have, but I always like to lower expectations and then exceed them.
Dion raises expectations and then they're hard to meet, right?
Now, you know, the over-under on total wins, I think, last year for the Buffaloes was three and a half.
And they had four wins for the first five games of the season.
I don't know that they won another game, right?
I mean, maybe one more, right?
Yeah, I think maybe one or two more games.
I'll look it up.
It was interesting that this week, in the last two days, Fourteen Colorado players have entered the portal, and I just scratched my head wondering what's, you know, what's going on over there.
And so, you know, as I was kind of scanning, you know, scanning the wire for, you know, topics for this week, that one kind of stood out.
Kyle Bonagura, who is a great writer on the West Coast for ESPN, you know, wrote a story on it.
And, you know, Dion said...
You know, Deion said, quote, we're good.
I trust the recruiting team.
I trust our coaches.
and please have faith in me.
We're good.
We're all right.
Sanders then said most of the movement in the transfer portal consisted of backups.
And he believes it's rare for starters to enter the portal at this stage.
I think that's right.
And I think that's probably fair.
But, you know, I mean, 14 players enter in the portal.
I mean, Auburn struggled with the portal like all.
And I think we had one, maybe two players kind of enter the portal.
And it looks like Most of the teams that I looked at are kind of looking at that because if you were going to enter the portal and you were unhappy with the program, you probably would have entered at the end of the year.
So I think that's something we ought to just keep our eye on.
I wouldn't be shocked if a lot of people go to Colorado in hopes of...
Maybe it'll bring my Instagram numbers up.
Maybe it'll bring my whatever.
Maybe I'll get more playing time because I am a Colorado and it's not that big of a school compared to the other schools that wouldn't even give me a shot.
But then what happens is they probably realize, they probably see two sides of Dion, right?
The side of Dion we see is the one that's like excited to have you on the team.
Let's do this, rah-rah.
We're going to be big dogs in this house.
We're going to do everything we can to make sure that you're great, I'm great, and we're great.
Then they get there and realize that it's not all fun and games and Deion's probably a hard coach.
Deion probably coached his players pretty hard.
He made Jackson State a good football team.
And last year to start the season, I know, yes, they did end up going 4-8.
So to start the season, Shador played well, like guys played well, but also it was probably really hard to play on that team.
A bunch of dudes left before the season started.
And I think that's going to be the case with Deion.
They probably come in thinking, "I'm going to go play for Deion," and then they realize they're playing for Deion Sanders, and it's not as fun as you thought it would be.
And let's be honest, in this generation, I'm not saying kids don't work hard.
They do.
These kids work incredibly hard to get to where they're at.
But they're also in a generation where they don't get yelled at anymore because they do get paid to do whatever they want.
That's right.
And they're getting Rolls Royces and they're getting Range Rovers and they're getting Corvettes and it's legal now?
Yeah.
And you're going to tell me they're like, I'm going to get yelled at by Deion Sanders who I haven't seen play in 20 years?
No, I don't think so.
Yeah.
It's possible.
Look, I think they're going to be better this year, and they have two players that are likely going to be first-round draft picks in next year's draft, Travis Hunter and then Shador Sanders.
I'm curious to see how Deion does in year three of the program, because he won't have Travis Hunter and Shador Sanders.
And again, I'm hoping the best for him, but either way, it's going to be extremely entertaining.
Oh, yeah.
This is going to be all for the next whatever amount of years.
If Deion's coaching, wherever he's coaching, we're going to be watching.
That's right.
That's right.
All right, last story today.
We had to touch upon this.
Did you know about this before I texted you?
You know, I had heard something about it, but I had not looked at the details of it.
When I looked at the details of it, it's even more frightening.
So, a woman, Erica Nunez, 42 years old, In an area outside, just about, you know, 30, 40 miles outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, tried to obtain a bank loan this week, on Tuesday this week.
A woman brought a man in a wheelchair into a South American bank and attempted to take out a loan in his name.
And look, I'm sure a woman bringing a man in a wheelchair to bring, I'm sure it happens across the world.
It's never weird.
That's totally fine.
But what made this attempt at a loan unique is that the man had been dead for hours.
The woman claimed the man identified by police, the 68-year-old Paulo Roberto Braga, was her uncle.
And wanted to sign for papers for a $3,250 loan.
Now, the woman told police that she routinely cared for her uncle.
Well, you got to give it to the bank employees.
They got suspicious.
They got suspicious and they called the police.
During the policing...
Did you give the details as to why they were suspicious?
Because I heard some of them.
It was that she pretended to talk to him.
She nodded his head, she nodded his head, and she picked up his hand to write, to sign the check, or to sign the deposit, or whatever.
I am, oh my, Chip, if you're a bank employee, and when you finally realize that guy is either dead or passed out, that moment must be so surreal.
Ugh!
Ugh!
A bank employee said, you know, I don't think this is legal.
He doesn't look well.
He's very pale, one teller says in the video that captured the scene inside the bank.
Nunes responds and says, he's just like that.
Oh my god.
Let's give props to this woman for having the cojones to walk into a bank with a dead guy.
Full weekend at Bernie's for three grand.
Now, is it $3,000 in American money?
Or was this $3,000 in...
I'm sorry, I don't want to come off as ignorant, but I don't know what...
You know, I don't know what the conversion rate is for Brazilian currency, but I'm going to guess that it was an amount that's probably comparable, because the article had a dollar sign on it to $3,200.
Okay, and that's what, yeah, we're going to assume it's $3,200.
Oh, Chip.
When I heard this story, I'm in the car.
I almost crashed.
I was laughing so hard.
I'm sorry.
Rest in peace, okay?
Let's get that out of the way.
But just the idea that she pretended to talk to him and then moved his hand.
But if she knew he was dying, And I'm assuming she did.
She spent all her time with him, yeah.
And she was wanting to obtain a loan in his name.
Why not take him to the bank when he's incapacitated and about to die?
Yes.
And try to obtain the loan, like maybe a couple days earlier?
This is what I think happened.
Somebody said there's a chance they had an agreement and he died early.
And all I could think to myself was like, first of all, nobody dies early.
They just die.
Second, this woman was waiting.
If it was hours after he died, she's been waiting for him to die for quite some time.
His body was probably still a little warm.
My father passed probably six, seven years ago.
It was devastating, right?
He was my hero.
Yeah.
But we knew once he got into the hospital, and he was septic.
He had sepsis after a surgery.
And when you get septic, I didn't know what that was at the time.
It's awful.
It's a nightmare.
It's a nightmare.
And ultimately, he passed from it.
But his best friend.
Best friend, a guy by the name of Larry Bacon, who is just a great human being and one of the funniest guys you'll ever meet.
And I remember on that Sunday morning, As my father was taken off of a ventilator and we knew he was about to pass, we were all there as a family and he died and there were tears and we all held hands in kind of a...
Kind of a room off of the ICU, and we cried and we prayed.
And Mr. Bacon, who, as I said, was one of Dad's best friends, turned to me when everybody was looking.
He said, you know, when your father passed, he owed me a significant amount of money.
And he said, just get with you afterwards and the trust will handle it.
And it was, you know, it was a good breaker to a very tense situation.
That man gets it.
And everybody started laughing because if you know this, you know, that's his humor, right?
Hey, when your father passed, you know, he owed me a significant amount of money.
He just told me to get with you and you'd take care of it.
That man, I want that man at every sad event.
Oh, it was great.
That's incredible.
It was great because something needed to happen to kind of protect everybody from death.
It always does.
And it reminded me of this old lady, you know, Wheeling in her uncle.
She should have said, look, he would want me to get this loan in his name.
No, no, you don't understand.
He said, I can have this money.
He just said, I need to bring him in after it happens.
Exactly right.
James, our time's flown by, man.
I really enjoyed it.
And we'll be back on Monday.
Doug will be back on Monday.
He's been serving our country in the United States Air Force Reserves.
We thank him for that.
We thank everybody that serves.
And we will see everybody on Monday.
Next Friday.
Next Friday, we're going to talk about the NFL draft.
Tears are tears.
That's what's coming next Friday.
We'll get it.
Either way, we're going to talk about it.
Thanks for joining us on the Doug Collins Podcast.
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