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What's going on with Jaylen Brown? Is he comfortable with his role? Is this something or nothing? #NBA #Celtics insider Mego joins!
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00:00Our Celtics insider Meg Oh, and I'm just learning yet another victim of
00:05Food theft. Yeah in this. Well, I was talking to Courtney
00:09I just said somebody stole my organic easy Mac two weeks ago
00:13When I was coming in for a night shift and that I was depending on that for my dinner
00:17Oh, well, I don't know what her name was on it. My name was on it. Where was it? It was in the kitchen
00:22Someone took we're in the kitchen. It was sitting on the old table, but it was before the table was removed
00:30There's only one person
00:32No
00:34Feel like things that are on the table though, but it had my name on it
00:38It had your name on it
00:39But it was sitting there for a couple days because I had a plan of coming in later in the week and having it there
00:45Yeah
00:47I mean, that's unadulterated theft unless there's a second mega in the building. I don't think there is no
00:54Congratulations to your commanders. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I I have said this before
00:59I'm learning that I might be the only
01:01Washington football fan that anyone knows north of the Mason-Dixon line
01:06Because the amount of text tweets and wonderful messages that I got I'm like you realize there was this whole fan base there before
01:13the Patriots like
01:14NFL football did happen before
01:172001 yeah, so yeah, there are these other fan bases out there, but thank you. I have a friend in selfie
01:24That is a big commanders fan. I walked along with him on on Saturday. Where is he from?
01:28I would have to ask you specifically. You don't know where your friends are from. No, he's from
01:37We talked about you though, and he was like looking up where your town is and stuff you find Leighton's Oh, yes
01:43It's a small town. Yeah, but I think you guys are different in age a bit
01:47But he was wearing like a vintage Clinton Portis Jersey. Yeah, love Clinton Portis
01:52I just show with Clinton Portis back in the day. Really?
01:54Out of out of college at with the ACC yeah, I was called are you serious? Yeah, that's awesome
01:59What was he he was he was a huge hero of mine. Yeah, I love him. He's a character
02:05Yeah, I think unfortunately I have to lean toward the
02:08ELG FES Eagles
02:10Let me hear you all say
02:20What do you want to do with them for I just feel like they're I feel like they are gonna win this forgot the a
02:26Well, she was confused a little bit there, but I don't know
02:33I don't know if you'd put your actually your actual money on them. I like pin your hopes. I'm putting actual money dollars
02:39I'm putting it on the
02:41Commanders and I am putting it on the bills. Okay, that would be late Super Bowl member, Washington and Philly split
02:47yeah, there are two meetings and
02:50Jalen Hurts is gonna be dealing with that knee injury. So he's not gonna be mobile
02:54You look at you look at the game that they won
02:56last week
02:59Jalen Hurts has a big run in that game early in the game
03:03And I think that Dan Quinn is gonna be like we're not gonna let say Quan Bockley beat us
03:07We'll load up the box and put it on the shoulders of the guy who's got one leg and who's not really
03:14This great passer in Jalen Hurts. That's what I would do if I was the commanders
03:18I would put it in and say J Jalen Hurts. You gonna have to beat us
03:24Shine had a great take the other day that I cuz we were doing the afternoon show wiggy. I want your opinion on this
03:32Jaden Daniels already top five quarterback in the league
03:38Who's in the five spot, maybe put your foot on the brakes
03:41Well, tell me who's in the fight. So my top five would be obviously my homes Alan Allen Lamar. Yeah, borrow. Yeah
03:50Then who's better than James Herbert? You think Herbert's better than Daniels? I'd probably go CJ Stroud
03:57That's that's where I was hinting to probably go if I had to listen
04:02I think if Jaden Daniels can play like this again next year then
04:07We can start having the conversation, but I probably would go CJ Stroud
04:13Before him just because a little bit more experience and so he would be six for you then
04:19Still pretty high
04:21Arguing conversation. Yeah, I could say it sounds insane at first and then you start going through the quarterbacks right now and you go
04:29Oh, wow, I could put him in the top ten easily all day long. Well, yeah top ten
04:34Top five not top five, you know, maybe
04:37Stafford, yeah, I like Stafford. See I like Stafford Michael. It's Stafford all these great quarterbacks who are
04:44Playing in the playoff. Oh, yeah, that's true. That's what I'd also retire
04:49Here's the advantage of Jaden Daniels because if I had to pick one to start a team
04:54I would go with Daniels for Stafford and everything else. All right on to the cell. Yes
04:58You're on this team all the time
05:00What is or is not going on with Jalen Brown, oh, so you guys are in on the Jalen Brown conspiracy
05:07I am NOT. Well, you're a Jalen Brown like
05:11Apologize but
05:14You love him. I think it's just any time that it starts getting a little bit slumpy
05:19Which is what this team has been anytime. They get a little bit slumpy. It turns back to the Jays
05:24Yeah, the Jays can they coexist the Jays? Can they run it back the Jays?
05:29Is it a usage thing, you know, is it should it be JT's team is a JB's team?
05:34I'm just like I don't know what's mad two years past this Jalen Brown is clearly a guy who is very
05:43Determined in his beliefs and he did the same stuff kind of in speaking last year about Joe
05:50Missoula at times saying this is a team that needs to have a defensive identity and that should be at times our prerogative
05:58I'm totally paraphrasing here
06:00But he speaks his mind louder for the people in the band
06:03It doesn't mean that that there is disharmony in the team. I find why is he avoiding the media?
06:10Yes, I go keep going. Why is he avoiding the media? Yeah, what do you mean? He's not he's four or five times
06:15He's refused to apparently to go out and talk postgame of late. I mean, I
06:22Has expressed that he's not comfortable with his new comfortable with his new role
06:27Like what?
06:28You're telling me. There's no new role. Did he say specifically? I'm not comfortable or did he just talk about having a new role?
06:34He's a bitch in he said that he was being more you being used more as a playmaker, right?
06:41He goes he goes I'm getting and I maybe it wasn't comfortable. He says I'm getting
06:47Adjusted to my new role, but it could have been not comfortable. I don't know
06:54Playmaker so I would ask you like
06:57If you work with someone and they constantly harum and said they don't like their role. Would you say they were happy? No
07:03It's doesn't mean they're a bad person or a bad worker or they're bad at their job
07:07But I just read the direct quote. Yes, I've had to adjust. It's a different year
07:11I just do what the team needs me to do. I've been able to evolve through different things in my career this team
07:17I'm more of a playmaker
07:18So I just embrace it and get better in the role and do what I do
07:22Like what Wiggy just said and what was actually said is so different
07:30Also, does he know there's only one playmaker, right Michael Urban
07:38Played it the other day played it the other day. I didn't play it. I have no idea
07:43Cuz Greg asked me this I think it was yesterday. I'm like, I have no I can't find this
07:46I
07:50Know
07:56My word for it
07:57He is unhappy when he's speaking with Abbi chin when you watch the video it is basically gone viral
08:03He it was one of the first times in a while that he spoke to the media and it's not some
08:08manufactured drama
08:10He is someone who is open about when he is unhappy with something
08:16That's all if that's anybody else on any other team
08:19We went into the we broke down every move Tom Brady made or Pedro Martinez or any of the great players that the boss
08:26Boston has had over the last 20 years
08:29So I would say a couple things one
08:32like I don't know if it's manufactured or not because it's very possible that there is something behind the scenes like I just would say
08:38That I have I don't know. I don't know that I don't you know, is that fair to say?
08:44You're not seeing it I don't see it so I'm not saying it's manufactured or not there can be truth there
08:50I don't know, but I hope that's okay to say but at the same time with Jalen Brown
08:55Every season there's something like this, you know, it was two years ago
08:58He was talking about the sacrifices that he had to make he went into a New York Times
09:04interview
09:05athletic where he talked extensively about taking a backseat and
09:10Sacrificing and at the same time he was getting a super max deal in his future
09:14and so I don't I think my feeling is just that it's not anything new and
09:19The team is in the position they're in where they're defending champs and they're not playing their best basketball right now
09:26so everyone's looking for reasons why that is and
09:29The parsing of every single breakdown of what they say as as you said Curtis people did it with Brady
09:34This is what happens when you're a mega when the player says it
09:38There's a reasoning why they say it right used it and they said it yesterday, right? So so what when the player says
09:47I'm getting adjusted and I sent chime some audio when there's a little bit of like there's a little of
09:55the player being
09:58Unsure about his new role and how they're handling him, right?
10:02What is his new role of more of a playmaker?
10:05So whatever that means
10:10On the court like
10:12They're all playmakers and they all get to put the who put the ball in the hoop
10:16Everyone I think what people are reading between the lines there. I'll speak for Curtis
10:21You can tell me since it seems like you're on kind of the other side of this if I'm misinterpreting this
10:28Jalen's talking about being the guy with the ball in his hands at the beginning of the play versus at the end of the
10:32Play. Mm-hmm. Is he the guy with the final shot?
10:35Is he the guy who's going to the hoop or is he the guy who's setting other guys up? That's a playmaker
10:41Yeah playmakers is that's you know
10:42he's making 300 plus million dollars have the ball at the beginning or the middle or the end like
10:49It's I thought it was a team and the object is to win the basketball game
10:53It's physically impossible in the NBA to be paid more than Jalen Brown is currently being paid
10:59I'm gonna try but everything he said is basically like I'm doing what's best for the team
11:04So I I just I think it what Mego said is completely right
11:07It's rinse and repeat every year if you are complaining about doing what's best for the team
11:11Then you are unhappy about it. He's getting asked a certain question. You think Abby shit was like tell me right now. You're unhappy. I
11:19Don't believe he said he's unhappy. Well, I just I would love to hear him say that
11:23If we can ever get the audio, but I just feel like when you win when a player is
11:31He sends me an Instagram link, which I can't roll in from my computer
11:34I can't even get it on my computer. So I had to send it to Jackson. It's I'm waiting for it. I'm trying here
11:38So we literally used it 24 hours. I have looked through every folder unless it's in some random folder
11:45So somebody put so mega I I guess for me is like I get hit cuz his a sister up
11:50So I get being more of a playmaker and that was one of the things that maybe I knocked him on a little bit
11:55I would be like, oh he can score
11:57but how does he do when he has to get everybody else involved and
12:01And so when I hear him say this and this was after the magic game where I was at that game
12:05I I just wonder like when a player says that like there's a little bit of top of daily Jalen Brown playmaker
12:13All right, but there's just a little bit that you start to wonder like is like there's a frustration there for him
12:20When the player says I got to get used to it, and it's something that I'm trying to get used to
12:27Yeah, I mean I've had to adjust, you know, it's a different year
12:30And I just do what the team needs me to do, you know, I've been able to evolve
12:34Do different things in my career, you know this team. I'm more of a playmaker
12:38So I just embrace it
12:40So
12:50You are so right so he said I had to adjust it literally was exactly what I read off of my screen
12:59Courtney how do you not understand when somebody says I have to adjust yeah to a new role. Yeah
13:04That means he's unhappy. No, I didn't say he was unhappy. Oh my god. Am I on a different show?
13:09You guys just wait you and Curtis just
13:19I said he said he had to adjust that's not what you originally said
13:25What is he I
13:27Maybe i'm an idiot
13:28But what is that different on this team the way they're running their office? Listen, Greg. I don't know. I'm like
13:35Please tell me I don't get it
13:37I've had to adjust meaning it wasn't his choice, right?
13:41So that's all I said to what?
13:44To his new role as a playmaker and that's why i'm saying to you mego. You're down there. There's two roles
13:49If a player says that
13:52I'm, not saying and I never said he wasn't happy. I'm just saying there's some
13:56There's some
13:58Hesitation or reluctancy whatever the words you want to use trepidation trepidation to jaylen brown and his new role
14:05I just my feeling is that this is not an individual thing with jaylen. There isn't something that's
14:12Turned over this season if you look at jaylen as a guy over his career with the celtics
14:17This is increasingly
14:19He is somebody who is constant and very firm in his beliefs of how things should be
14:25He started his own shoe line. He doesn't want to be with nike
14:28He didn't go to the olympics and didn't want to have he felt very snubbed by that
14:33I would guess that maybe that has something to do with not wanting to talk after a golden state game
14:38When kerr is on the other side and he and jason tatum are both seemingly sidestepping him on the sideline
14:43Enjoy the two of them ignoring steve kerr the other like I I think extraordinary and again like jaylen spent two years ago
14:50Talking about sacrifice last year. He talked about them being a defensive team
14:53He's been in the past talked about
14:56How much both he and jason tatum loved ime odoka when they're going through the transition away from that, right?
15:02This is just jaylen speaks his mind and I got no problem with that. He has he will let you know
15:08About how he's feeling about different things. I actually feel like that's a much less
15:12The clip with abby on the sidelines is just a lot less
15:15I don't know of a bombshell than things that he's said in the past and they still won a championship last year
15:21May I say on behalf of all boston jaylen brown? We appreciate your sacrifice
15:27Thank you
15:28Thank you for that
15:30But but mango you're you're the basketball per and i'm not saying there
15:34Do you believe do you think i'm being naive about this? No. No, I I think that you're in like
15:41We you love jaylen brown as a player he's a tremendous player
15:45But I think where you're kind of like what's the whole saying you're whistling past the graveyard
15:50Like I think there's there's just something there and it might be nothing but there's a little percolation going on
15:57But is there something there that's always been there?
15:59Well, I think with jaylen jaylen always stands on business exactly. That's the right way to say he's not afraid to
16:06Say what's on his mind and people tend to take that as like he's mad or he's upset
16:12No, that's just who that's his personality, you know, I don't know we're on the same page now
16:16But no, no, it ain't gonna do but courtney you can't say I said
16:21That he's mad when I did
16:23All right, one more for me before you go. Yeah
16:26We we're hearing that there are four to five groups that will submit an offer, uh,
16:32very very soon tomorrow tomorrow any idea on who they are is bezos still in or
16:39Is uh, I am I have been praying
16:43that rob hale
16:44Uh celtics limited partner is a part of one of these groups. Uh, what are you hearing?
16:49So we know pags and his consortium because he can't go out and do that on his own
16:54He's gonna have backers with them. Other than that. I know that there was the
16:59Story that came out from nbc sports national the other day that got a ton of traction about fsg fenway sports group
17:06And that they're expected to make a bid. I found that story cocoa bomb
17:10Well, I found the way that they wrote that story
17:12I don't know your opinion on it courtney or if you have new information. I found the way they wrote that story really strange
17:17They basically aggregated a story from the globe that didn't say that at any point and then threw that in as an
17:24unattributed line
17:25and I just I I have to say
17:29I'll be a little surprised if they come out as one of the bidders on thursday
17:32Although I don't think we're gonna magically learn all the identities on thursday
17:36So we're probably gonna keep going and trying to guess all of this
17:40but I found that particular report from
17:44NBC sports national just the way it was written
17:46It was like somebody just trying to aggregate the landscape and it was super weird
17:50but the expectation or at least this the
17:53Speculation is that those bids will all be over six billion dollars. That's what everybody wants
17:59That's the goal if they don't hit six billion dollars, then that's a major disappointment
18:03not just for
18:05the gross specs trying to sell their shares but for nba owners
18:09Across the league because they want the expansion teams to be six billion dollar franchises
18:14And you're trying to do it with a team that has the payroll that they have right now
18:18And all the tax slap on the wrist that they're gonna incur from that and then on top of that
18:24They don't have their own arena
18:26so it's just it's and not even one like
18:29Insight down the road or a location that you could potentially say that the nba in some way would be like
18:35Any other team any other team that has their own arena maybe go up for sale right now
18:40But they gotta make it work with six billion
18:42I think my guy josh craft will get him a building if they need a building. Are they gonna need that?
18:47Is that your new guy? Well, he's gonna run for mayor
18:49I'm saying like I feel like you haven't had a hyper local political ally in a while. Yeah, it's been a while
18:55I really I I well and baker was love hate. I've lost my touch, but I am
19:00abw curtis
19:02Anyone but will okay that has to work for the chiefs
19:06All right, mega great to see you. Great to see you guys
19:10I hope you find your organic mac is organic mac better than regular mac like craft mac and cheese
19:16It makes me feel better about it. You know, it's probably all garbage, but it makes me feel better. All right
19:22Well that powder can't be good for you
19:25It's so don't isolate
19:28All right

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