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3:07behind the scenes is the fact that you never know when Costos, despite it being his day off, we'll just jump into the YouTube chat randomly, which by the way, for those of you listening, you can also watch the show, youtube.com slash at the Costos THE KOS TOS. You can watch You Better You Bet every day there and catch up on things you may have missed as well. youtube.com slash at the Costos. And we were having a spirited conversation in the chat earlier about this week, being the 30th anniversary of the song Return of the Mack by Mark Morrison, obviously, because I'm here filling in for Nick yet again, get it? Haha, Return of the Mack. Used to hate the song, by the way. I've gone through waves. I've had a very roller coaster relationship with the song Return of the Mack. Obviously, with the last name Mack,

4:09I got it. You know, when the song first came out, loved it, thought it was great. I was a teenager at the time. I remember, did they have circuit city all over the country? I think that was a national chain, wasn't it? Anyway, it was one of those big box electronic stores that you would go to where you could buy music, you could buy, you could buy computer, you could buy giant 12-inch speakers to put in a box in your trunk so that your 1992 Toyota Tursell would rattle when you turned up outcast or ice cube. Not that I ever did something like that. Bow down when we come to your town. Bow down. Westside connection, specifically not ice cube solo work there. Anyway, you could buy everything at circuit city. And I remember buying the Mark Morrison Return of the Mack CD single at circuit city. Love the song. And then it got to be overbearing and overkill. Every time somebody would have me on a show or the name would come up,

5:15you'd hear it. Bow down. Bow down. The Mark Morrison Return of the Mack bed would hit. And then eventually, I got to a point where I decided to embrace it. But anyway, we were talking about Return of the Mack by Mark Morrison and Costos just jumps into the chat on his day off. And mentions, did you know Mark Morrison is British? Couldn't travel to the US to properly promote the song due to legal issues? I didn't know Mark Morrison was British. I didn't know the part about him not being able to travel to the US to promote the song. That's one of the things I love about this show. I fill in for Nick and he still jumps in the YouTube chat to update me on little bits of trivia about the great Mark Morrison and Return of the Mack. I also love that because Nick, now that the football season is over, doesn't mind taking a Friday off now. And then

6:16and you know what? If you get the days, use them, brother. I've heard Romy say that before. You know what? I've heard people ask Jim Rome. Why do you take so much education, Jim? And his response is because I have the vacation to take, brother. They give me the days I'm taking them. Hell yeah. But since Nick likes to take Fridays, I end up here filling in for him many Fridays when I can't. And Nick Friedell, bang, rubber stamp it. You're almost every Friday. And we'll have him again in about 20 minutes to talk about Jason Tatum's return for the Celtics tonight and how that throws the top of the Eastern Conference into a blender. And because it's Nick and I got poke the bear just a little, I'll ask him again about LeBron and where he'll be next year. LeBron breaking the record last night for most field goals made in an NBA career.

7:18But there's plenty to talk about because I think we've seen some dense in the armor with the pistons over the last few weeks. Nick again, joining us in about 20 minutes. Nick Friedell, that is Nick Costos off today. I'm Chris Mack. We've set the table now. Everybody cool. You know who's talking to you? Good. If you'd like to talk to me directly 310 840 4910 310 840 4910. Even if it's just to tell me about that time, you put speakers in the back of your car and it broke the rear window. No, I never turned mine up. White that loud. Free agency hits in the NFL on Monday. I mean, officially on Wednesday, I wish they would stop doing this by the way with the legal tampering period. Just say just have it open on Monday. Anyway, it's a little tiny detail we don't need to get balled down in. And the dominoes have started to fall already, especially at a key position as far as really any off season goes in the NFL. But I feel like particularly this off

8:20season wide receiver for a number of different reasons, right? Because you don't have a wealth of high end talent available in free agency. Because the draft has some nice high end talent available in the first say 20 to 25 picks at that position. But then you've also got at least a handful of teams that are scrambling, playing this game of quarterback musical chairs, wondering if they'll be the one left out. Like at 2 a.m. at the bar are the jets and two are going to look at each other each with a set of beer goggles on and go, all right, I didn't think it would come to this, but I guess we're going home with each other. Couldn't you see that happening by the way? Like we get a good two, three weeks into free agency. And the jets don't have any answers at quarterback and they go,

9:26all right, do it. No, no, we don't have to do it. No, do it. Do it. Okay, make the call. Nobody's phone actually sounds like that, but that's the best phone noise I can make with my mouth. Mahalo toa. Yeah, this you, I think so. Okay, close enough. Still interested in playing quarterback? Yeah. Would you like to be in New York? Is this the giants or the jets? It's not the giants, right? Nope. Jets? Yep. Okay, I guess. Or did the jets go in the Geno Smith direction? I guess it's just become official that he got released. It's going to be a messy week of free agency. But especially at wide receiver where the bills got out ahead of it. And maybe jump the gun so to speak. I think they did,

10:31given up a second round pick for DJ Moore. And I'm going to be reminded by a steamed board op, Kenneth Henderson. Once again, hey, they got a fifth round pick too. Okay. DJ Moore in a fifth round pick for a second round pick. Still not recouping a lot of value there. It's a second round pick for DJ Moore essentially. Too much, too much. But the bills have to because they are in that position. They're there. They have to get wide receivers. Same thing could be said in New England. Same thing could be said in Pittsburgh. There are teams that have to get wide receivers. And so they may have to overpay. It's why Alex Pierce is going to end up somewhere this year getting $30 million a year. And this is the third time I've said this this morning. But I want to reiterate this is not a knock on Alec Pierce. Great up and coming. Very good. Let

11:37me be clear. Very good up and coming. Deep target. Like if you were a compliment to DK Metcalf in Pittsburgh. That make a ton of sense. But the Pittsburgh Steelers as an example aren't going to pay Metcalf and Alec Pierce a combined $65 million. I wouldn't anyway. But Alec Pierce is going to get paid. And then it's going to be Mike Evans, 32-year-old Mike Evans. Which okay, 32 in an average everyday walk of life. Your life's just getting started, right? Maybe you just got married a few years ago. You're having some kids. You get that 401k statement every couple of months ago. Look, I'm saving money. I'm an adult. 32 in the NFL. You're ancient. You're prehistoric.

12:37So you got Alec Pierce. You got Mike Evans. You got the ghost of Stefan Diggs. The hollowed out husk of Tyreek Hill being held together with duct tape and paper clips. Debo Samuel comes to you wrapped in bubble wrap. Romeo Dobbs, Juan Dale Robinson. The one guy, the one guy, I would be okay overpaying with. And look, most of these guys probably will get a little overpaid because the cap keeps jumping exponentially. And like I said, teams who consider themselves contenders, like Buffalo and New England, maybe Pittsburgh. They need wide receivers. The chargers apparently in on the AJ Brown sweepstakes. They're going to overpay. One of the guys I would definitely be willing to overpay in this free agency cycle is Rashid Shaheed. Not just because he was a Super Bowl winner this year, but because I think you saw, he is a classic

13:45example of a player, I think, who plays even better when he's surrounded by greater talent. And I'm not breaking any news there. That's not some sort of trend I just unearthed that you've never thought of. Oh, you put a guy on a better team. He plays better. But Shaheed, I think, is a classic example. You get your return, man. You get a quality number two target. But the problem is going to be where some of these teams are adding these wide receivers as number ones instead of number two. And that's the trap that Buffalo, I think, has fallen into with DJ Moore. The Steelers go out and get someone. Okay, they're adding to them to the mix alongside DK Metcalf. You're not asking them to be a number one. You're just asking them to be better than Calvin Austin, the third was last year, or Marcus Valdis-Skantling, what Adam Fielin was. It's an obvious upgrade.

14:51But when you're talking about adding DJ Moore as a number one, or Mike Evans at this age as your number one. Okay, now Rashid Shaheed even as a number one. Now we're sliding down a slippery slope that doesn't really add up. It's why New England is backed into this corner. And we talked to Russ Tucker earlier. I'll let you hear the clip again before we wrap up the show. But, you know, Russ Tucker made the point that all this smoke around AJ Brown to New England, you have to believe something is in the works. Obviously, the pre-existing relationship between Vrable and AJ Brown from their time in Tennessee together. But also, the patriots are desperate for a number one wide receiver. Someone they can lean on. I love booty. Clip that, save that for a drop later. I love case on booty, but he's not a wide receiver one. They need that number one guy.

15:55AJ Brown is that guy. And you've got to decide how much are you willing to overpay to get that guy, AJ Brown, a true number one, as opposed to how much you're willing to overpay cash-wise, not draft resources wise, but cash-wise in free agency for a guy that you know is not a number one. It appears, a Shaheed, a Jennings. I don't see, by all means, 310, 840, 4910, 310, 840, 4910, or jump in the YouTube chat. By all means, tell me if you see any of the guys in this free agent class immediately vaulting themselves into wide receiver one territory. I don't. All twos at best. And in some cases, very good twos. But twos, the only one that's truly out there and

17:02maybe available is AJ Brown. So if you're looking for that, and the patriots are the most clear-cut example left of someone clearly looking for a number one wide receiver, we're probably overpaying in draft compensation, but we're willing to do it. The overpayment just got that much bigger, though, with yesterday's trade between Chicago and Buffalo. If DJ Moore is getting you a second round pick, then AJ Brown's getting you at least a first. And then what? On top of it. Do you want to jump the line and do that this weekend before free agency hits on one day? Has to, if you're the Patriots, it has to happen this weekend. If you're ever going to do it, this weekend is the time. Kenny, explain yourself now. Jump on if you don't mind for a second.

18:07You just, you just threw in the chat, the group chat, not trading a first for a book reader. Do we really believe that if AJ Brown gets a new lease on life somewhere else, he doesn't still have that true wide receiver one capability? You know, I'm I'm a known Eagles hitter. So I'm just, you know, I'm making fun of our guy. I know a little bit, but I'm not the biggest fan of AJ Brown either. I think he's great. I just don't like the kind of vibes he brings to the team. I think there's a clear reason why the Eagles want to get rid of him. I think if he does go somewhere, it's probably back with my label in the New England Patriots. I think that's the best fit. I think back with variable with with a lot of continuity there. They know each other very well. I think that those two guys will that'll work. I think it goes anywhere else though. I'm just not sure how it's going to work out. And I don't think, yes, I agree with you that what Chicago did trading trading DJ Moore for a second round pick tells the league that, you know, AJ Brown's better than DJ Moore. So probably he's worth the first round pick, but at the same time, I don't think anyone's willing to stomach that. So I think we're going to be in a standstill here potentially, unless the Eagles are willing to

19:10budge. I just see how he roseman sitting back and waiting to play this like the evil Machiavellian genius that he is. And that's fine. You don't want to give me a first round pick now. That's cool. Have fun and free agency. Go get your Alec pierces of the world. And everybody's come back going to come back around after that that aisle at the grocery store gets cleared out and call up how he'd say, yeah, well, you still interested. The guy's going to get a first round pick for AJ Brown. And I agree with you, I said it the day after the Eagles were eliminated, they have to move on from AJ Brown. Like you said, it's, it's gotten toxic there between AJ Brown and Nick Sireonny and the coaching staff and no amount of firing Kevin Petulo and bringing in a different OC is going to save that. I don't think. Like you said, when the dude's hanging out reading a book on the sideline, that infiltrates its way through the room and even onto the field where Jalen Hartz

20:14can go one of two ways. He's either ignoring, I'm making air quotes with my fingers, ignoring AJ Brown or he's overfeeding AJ Brown in an attempt to stab and soothe his ego and it hamstrings an offense that should be based around Sequan Barkley first and foremost. So it makes sense to move on from AJ Brown. But it's amazing to me that we're in a position now where the Eagles know they almost have to move on from AJ Brown, but given the fact that there is one, at least one team out there that we know is very, very interested. And now we've seen more come off the board for a second round pick. It locks it in that like if you're the Patriots, you don't have a choice. You've got to trade a first round pick for AJ Brown. Yeah, no, I probably agree with that for sure. That's like the move that they have to make, right? Because they need receivers so badly. I mean, at this point, Buffalo's got to be out of it.

21:14I don't know if there's any other teams for AJ Brown besides New England that make like a whole bunch of sense. Like even the chargers, they've got enough guys there. Lad Maconkey, Quentin Johnston, you know, they have cats in the young tight end there as well. Like I think that New England was just the perfect fit because he is a number one in the league. And I think with what I said with variable, I'm already knowing each other and you got a good young quarterback and Drake, me, it just makes way too much sense. And Ross Tucker kind of didn't break the news, but he told us what he knows and we know he knows a lot. So yeah, Ross has plugged in out in Philly. He's out on not far from Philly in the Eastern side of the state and does some work during the preseason for the Eagles. So that smoke is definitely there again. We'll let you hear that before you wrap up the show here on you better. You bet. Chris Mac infranite costos today. Again, you want to be a part of the conversation. The YouTube chat is there and available where you can watch the show youtube.com slash at the costos YouTube.com slash at the costos. And is it what's the phrase fate? A

22:15complete. I think is that Latin or French? I don't know. I'm bad at languages that aren't English enough. Just the tiniest bit of Spanish. They'll serve as us Mossport before. It's about as far as I get. But is it fake? A complete that AJ Brown is done. He is done in Philly and the only place to go is New England. Feels like that to me. And I think most of the NFL how long can how he Roseman string that out and get maybe more than that first round pick? Even though there may only be one team that's seriously in the market only takes one team to make a market. Speaking of what's going on up in Boston, they get Jason Tatum back tonight. The Celtics. The return of Jason Tatum. Does this throw the entire top of the Eastern Conference in the NBA into a blender? Or does it solidly make the Celtics the team to be in the East now that Tatum is back?

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