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What is going on, everybody? Welcome back to another episode, another edition of Sports prep live. I'm your host, Graydon Prescott, and this week was a big one in sports. Very, very big one. There is a lot going on in multiple sports, especially possibly the two most popular sports in America right now, and those being American football and basketball, the two biggest sports leagues in America are possibly the NBA and the NFL. There's an argument to be made for the MLB, but I think most would agree that the NFL and the NBA are the biggest sports leagues in America, and there were two huge events going on with those two leagues, respectively, those being the startup of the NBA Playoffs, and, of course, the NFL Draft. Now we're going to start in the NFL. I got KB here today, and the reason that we're going to start in the NFL is because there was a huge storyline along the NFL draft, and massive KB and I are both going to have some opinions on it. But first and foremost, congratulations cam Ward and Travis Hunter and Abdul Carter. Now these, these are the top three. These were the consensus top three, right? And it went as expected. Yeah. Cam Ward went first to the Titans, great Travis Hunter, second to the Jaguars. Great Abdul Carter, third, great. Now, this guy we're talking about wasn't supposed to go four or five. Some had him six. Son had him ninth. Some had him as low. I saw his 15th, but he was the even 21 but he was the consensus second or third best quarterback in this draft. Probably second consensus, uh huh. It was either him or dart out of Ole Miss. But most people had

K.B. 2:21
this. I only heard his name mentioned in conjunction with Kim Ward, yeah, so it was really one two, right in terms

Graydon Prescott 2:29
of clear one and then two, yes. Cam Ward was gonna be the first pick, correct? But this guy had a great season in college, and for some reason we saw him slide and slide and slide all the way out of the first became a precipitous drop all the way out of the first round. And, you know, people were shocked he was supposed to be a top 20 pick in the NFL Draft. Okay, fine. He slides out of the first round. We've seen people slide out of the first round before. Surely he'll be picked in the second round, and he continues to slide and SLIDE until he's going until it's a complete avalanche and he's just in a free fall, and he slides and slides and slides. Second round is over. His name is still on the board. He has not been drafted. What is going on third round? There's no way that a that a projected top 20 pick isn't in the first three rounds, and he slides and he slides and he slides all the way down

K.B. 3:27
again. I think, I think your free fall reference is probably more apropos, but, but go on

Graydon Prescott 3:32
all the way out of the third round. Yes, what is going on with this dude? I mean, he was supposed to be a top 20 pick in the NFL Draft. Some people had this dude as high as the sixth pick in the NFL Draft, especially to a team that needed a quarterback. And the notable pick for me in the third round was the Cleveland Browns picking up Dylan Gabriel out of Oregon, the quarterback for Oregon.

K.B. 3:56
I think, for the folks who haven't followed the story, and they may be living under a rock. You've maintained the drama for quite some time. I don't think you've said the name of the individual that you're offering.

Graydon Prescott 4:07
Okay, on purpose, Dylan Gabriel selected to the Cleveland Browns in the third round of the draft. So now, okay, Cleveland was a team that came into the draft needing a quarterback. Yes, they have a terrible quarterback. They've had a terrible quarterback situation with Joe Flacco as their backup, getting some starts, because Deshaun Watson just hasn't been a sustainable quarterback in the NFL for the last three to four years. And so they draft Dylan Gabriel, and this guy was supposed to be one of the Cleveland Browns. Guys like Cleveland should be one of the teams to pick him going into the draft. Sure it's Cleveland, it's the Giants. Okay, we're done with round one, he's not picked. We're done with round two, he's not picked. Round three, he's not picked. Round four, starts day three of the. Of L draft. Why is he not getting picked on the board, and he free falls all the way out of round four. Now, I already mentioned the Cleveland Browns, because they were really they shocked a lot of people by picking Dylan Gabriel as their quarterback in round three, and they trade two draft picks. Let me refer to my notes here. They trade draft picks, numbers 166 and 192 to the Seattle Seahawks for the fifth round pick number 144 where, finally, in the fifth round of the NFL Draft, a consensus top 25 player yes on every mock draft. Drum roll please, up to six, as low as 22 gets picked 140/4 in the fifth round to the Cleveland Browns, who picked their second quarterback of the draft. And of course, if you follow sports and you don't live under a rock, we are talking about shadoor Sanders from Colorado, why did he fall from a six to 20 all the way down to 144 just 55 picks above the man who, who his father wants to mentor him. Tom Brady, what just happened? That's the question. And I

K.B. 6:23
think there's a lot of answers to that question, as people begin to dig in to the backstory here, and there is a lot to dig into. There is a lot of blame to go around. There's some cultural tension that reared its ugly head. There's some racial tension that reared its ugly head. There is a lot to this story, but I think most of the blame, or at least where I would lay a lot of the blame on, this, begins at home, and I mean the home of the Sanders family. I think for sure, at the A lot of times when African American players have swag. I think it's now called, which may be a milder term for the word arrogance, which is also a stronger term for the word confident. And most people feel like it's okay to be confident, it's okay to have swag, arrogance, I think, is still viewed negatively by the masses of people out there, and whether it's radio, land, television land, or just, culturally speaking, the general population. And I think he crossed over from the swag to the arrogance in the eyes of a lot of people. And unfortunately, some of the decision makers came from that group of a lot of people, whether fairly or unfairly, and there was, there was both. There was, it's a mixed bag. Some of this was unfair, some of it was unfounded. Some of it should have never happened. But there are aspects of this story. There are aspects of this back story where you can say, ah, that that might be fair. In other words, if that were another individual behaving that way, they may not have been drafted at all, as opposed to just being drafted in the fifth round 140/4 and absolutely, he did not deserve to fall or to be castigated in the way that he was and humiliated in the way that he and his family was. But I think the NFL was trying to teach a lesson, not only to shadoor, but to his daddy. Deion Sanders has some blame in this whole cluster, f of a situation, just like chador does. Dion said some things on record. Said some things recently he was on with Tamara Hall, where he referenced whether or not his son would listen to him, as opposed to a coach that drafted him in the NFL. Like, who is he going to listen to, and whether it was tongue in cheek or not, in that moment where he was being interviewed by Tamara Hall, he says, Who are you talking about? My kids? Like, like, my kids are going to listen to me, as opposed to listening to a coach. He predicted his son would go top five, and maybe he should have, and he said that there were teams that he wouldn't allow his team his son to play for. I think when you're trying to get something from another individual or an entity or an organization, because let's cut through the BS. This was a job interview more than anything else. This was a job interview. And there are rumblings that his job interviews plural because he sat down with a bunch of teams, different managers, different owners, you name it, coordinators, offensive coordinators, quarterback coaches. He sat down with a whole multitude of people from different NFL organizations, and it seems like almost to the person, they were unimpressed. And not only were they unimpressed, they were disappointed. And some of them let that disappointment be known now they did not affix their name to the reports that are out there. Yeah, I saw some stuff on Yahoo News. I saw some stuff on the New York Post. I saw some stuff, of course, on ESPN. There was a lot of story out the story line out there that he just interviewed poorly, that he was full of hubris, that he was full of arrogance, that he was cocky and displayed no humility, and I don't think and he didn't win a college championship, he's a great quarterback, but you know, I myself heard an interview that he did with his father, and you mentioned earlier the great Tom Brady. Tom Brady happened to be on this phone call when they were on a podcast, and I remember thinking to myself, as shadur was talking about how much he wanted college championship, no, the Heisman No, to be the number one quarterback in the nation collegiate No, what he wanted more than anything it seemed like was a Bentley. And I think that kind of mindset is maybe what put him in the position that he now finds himself. And so there's a lot to push back on this story. He's to blame because of the arrogance his dad is to blame, because I think he kind of set him up in a way that the only thing that could happen, the only thing that could come out of this, it was going to be negative, and that's unfortunate, because he's a good dude. He's a great coach. He's, you know, one of the best athletes that we have ever encountered in the history of athletics, regardless of sport. The kids at University of Colorado, where he is the head coach, Deion Sanders, they love him. The players that have played with him, they love him. I just saw Jerry Jones talking about Dion's tenure at the Dallas Cowboys. They loved him, you know, the the whole Jones family. So he is a really good guy, but some of his public pronouncements with respect to his son were off kilter. And his son, and I would say his sons, plural, paid the price. And so there is some blame to go around, speaking of which, there are aspects of this that that you know, and I know that you, you know a little bit about this as well that became really ugly. And I'm speaking about Jax and his father, who is a coach, I believe, at for the Atlanta Falcons, Jeff Ulrich, Ulbrich, and his son, Jax, who is the the culprit behind the anonymous prank call that the Sanders family received on Saturday, which was, in and of itself, just one of the most pretrocious, horrendous, disgusting things that I've ever witnessed. You know, I saw this on social media. It was humiliating. It was embarrassing, and I'm glad they found the culprit behind this. This Jax guy needs to be excoriated. He is. They keep referencing him as a kid. He's not. He's a 21 year old man, just like chador. His picture is out there for people that want to know who this Jax Albrecht is. His father is a, I think, an offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons, and he embarrassed his father, he embarrassed his family, but he also did this gray and I want to point this out those news reports that were anonymously sourced that said some scathing things about shadoor Sanders and his father, but primarily shadoor Sanders, if you have your son get a phone number from Your private computer or your iPad, and you make this prank call, what do you think the son had to have heard from the father to be in a position to make that call? So now it puts an eye on Jeff Albrecht for being the potential source behind some of the nasty things that were said about chador Sanders. Because if I'm a son, and I know how my father feels about this guy, right talk in the home, things of that nature, that's the type of person I might target for humiliation. So I don't know whether Jeff had anything to do with the anonymous, anonymously sourced articles, but I'm just saying that question is now being asked, was he the person that was speaking to the media and saying all of these disgusting things about chador Sanders.

Graydon Prescott 14:04
I'm not going to go as far as to point the fingers Jeff at the culprit. I would like to focus on Jax, who is a grown man in his own right. Those actions are completely inexcusable, as he said, but is that really? I don't think that's a genuine apology. The Atlanta Falcons are not taking against him. I agree he was, you know, what are you gonna What are you gonna say? You're forced into saying that? I mean, it's, it's public excoriation. There's nothing else that you can say. He's just trying to save face. So there's, he's not genuinely apologizing for what he did. I don't think so. And I also don't think that serious enough ramifications are being had for his actions. He's not, you know, the Falcons aren't taking any action against him. The NFL did their investigation, but nothing much has come of that, sure. So, I mean, he's really getting off with, oh, it's, it's embarrassing. And. You know, people can, can fall flat on their face and get off with, oh, that's just embarrassing. But get, you know, have as much punishment for that as he is getting for flashing someone's dreams in front of their eyes like there's some little animal trying to, you know, offer, oh, when you want a bone here, jump and pull the bone sure, you know, yeah, that's essentially what he did, uh, to shadow Sanders and the Sanders family, and he's getting off with without any punishment. So from my point of view, that's just ridiculous,

K.B. 15:29
and it wasn't, it wasn't criminal. So I don't know it's not, no, no, it's not. Punishment would be but warranted. But I do think that a public apology, don't humiliate in private. I'm trying to apologize or humiliate in public, and then try to apologize in private, right? I think that he should have had an on camera public apology. Well,

Graydon Prescott 15:50
I mean, technically, no no, because he was impersonating a saints, GM, technically, that's fraud. That is

K.B. 15:55
true. That is true. So, I mean, and there may be, there may be some criminal element, criminal element to that. But there was no get. There was nothing that he was, was monetary gain. And so that's why I say it probably isn't criminal. I think they would stretch any statute if they tried to make this criminal and and I wouldn't condone that anyway. I don't think that he should be criminally charged for anything. It was stupid, it was irresponsible, it was grotesque, but because it was, of all, all of those things, I do believe that, again, you shouldn't have public humiliation, but private, private apology. He should sit down in front of cameras, unlike, or not unlike, the news conferences that his father and the other coaches of Atlanta do almost after every game that they have, and answer questions about why this happened, how this happened, how you got the number, when did you know that you were going to do this? Who else was involved? Who Who was with you when the call was made? He hasn't had to answer those questions. And that's what I would like to see. I would see I'd like to see transparency. I as they say, sunlight is the best disinfectant, and I think that is what's going to potentially prevent something like this from happening. I

Graydon Prescott 17:02
really think that maybe the Sanders family doesn't see this as necessary, but I really think that they should press charges, because this is really there are five pillars for fraud. I'm a young you know, I'm I've taken an interest in being a law student, sure, in the future, but I do know this, there are five Philip there are five pillars for fraud. There's false statement misinterpretation. Yeah, he did that. He's not, he's, you know, the Saints weren't drafted. Yeah, so that's a false statement, right? He's not a representative of 18. Number two, knowledge of the falsity. Of course. He knows the saints aren't drafting him. He has nothing to do with the falsehood. Yes, right. Number three, intent to deceive. Yes, that was more. That was there. Number four is reliance. That means that they must rely on the false statement in making a decision. So for chador, the false statement, Oh man, I'm getting drafted by the saints. I'm, you know, I'm excited. All my family is here. You know, we're looking, we're looking into apartments in New Orleans. And next thing you know, his name isn't getting called for the draft. So that's number four, and the number five is damage. And it doesn't have to be physical damage. It can be emotional damage, too.

K.B. 18:08
In psychological Yes, right? Yes, was, was, and that was clearly present. Was

Graydon Prescott 18:12
the victim damaged by the action? The answer is yes, absolutely. So this meets five, all five of the criteria of the criteria for fraud, the only one that is really iffy is number four, which is reliance, right? Other four, yes, it meets the criteria. So they have a strong case as to at saying that this is fraud, because he knew what he was doing and he knew what it of course,

K.B. 18:37
he caused, of course, he 21 years old. Yes, he knew he's a grown man. He's a grown Exactly.

Graydon Prescott 18:41
So sorry for my little law tangent there. But I really do think that, you know, there, there are, there's a case to be made for this being a criminal offense at worst, if not still a civil offense worthy of being sued for.

K.B. 18:58
And I also don't want to let off the hook the the NFL owners in this I don't believe that there was out and out collusion, but I do believe that they all tend to think alike. Yeah, and maybe it was a message being sent to not only should or but was also being sent to Dion to stay in your lane, you're a college coach, and go out and be that, and be great at it, but stay in your lane. You're no longer a part of this organization. That being the NFL, I believe there is a lot of blame to go around there as well, because we have NFL players who have been arrested for assault, arrested for domestic violence, arrested for illegal use of drugs, alcoholism or driving while under the influence, even up to and including murder, much worse. Yeah, right. And some of these people and some of these crimes have been swept under the rug and. I don't know to this day how seriously the NFL takes domestic violence,

Graydon Prescott 20:04
not seriously enough, right? Sean Watson is still a quarterback for the correct

K.B. 20:09
and it's interesting that you mentioned that. So not only domestic violence, but sexual assault. Ben Roethlisberger, so when we have these sorts of backstories out there in the the background of some of these players. And what I do know about shadoor is that he's never committed a crime, never. What I do know about SHA Nour, he's never been charged with a crime. I what I do know about him is aside from the swag and showing off the watch, you know, if he scores a touchdown, or he throws a touchdown, or what have you, okay, that's bravado, and maybe that rubs people the wrong way. Maybe a confident or arrogant black man tends to run, even a young black man tends to rub people the wrong way, and they get in their feelings about that, that sort of bravado, but I do know this, he has done nothing criminal. He is a good kid. He has never been any trouble. His brother has never been any trouble. For that matter, Deion Sanders has never been in any trouble. So why the response, the sort of communal response from the NFL that we have to teach this kid a lesson. What did he do wrong? Yeah, other than be a confident young African American athlete, and for some people, that may be just too much right. And that's the part of this story that I have a problem with. 140/4 like, are we serious? That is unbelievable. This kid broke records at this school. This kid outperformed almost every other collegiate quarterback in terms of stats this entire season. I'm not saying that he should have bought gone number one. I'm not even saying that he should have gone top 10, but first round, right? Like, come on. And I think that's why this has become so ugly for a lot of athletes, a lot of spectators, a lot of people who follow the NFL or follow collegiate sports. I hope something like this never, ever happens again. He did not deserve this, no matter how arrogant he may be, he didn't deserve this.

Graydon Prescott 22:18
Yeah, and you know, the worst thing he ever said, or anyone in his family, said, is, oh, I'm, you know, a top five talent. That's the worst thing, correct. Meanwhile, you got Harrison bucker running around here, telling praising people, like at a church, telling people that women should be cooking in the kitchen, whatever, and and how did the Chiefs respond? Praise? Oh, yeah. How did the Chiefs respond? We're going to give you a contract extension worth $27 million but shadoor Sanders has to slide in the draft for saying, I believe in my own talent. It's It's hypocrisy. It is ridiculous, and this should not be tolerated by the NFL. It's unfortunate that it is, and there needs to be a response to it, because these, especially these young African American athletes, do not deserve to be penalized for having confidence in themselves, even if they express it in a way that rubs people the wrong way, right, right? Because these there, let's, let's call a spade a spade. There are white people in the NFL doing and saying ridiculous things and not being punished for it, and they looked into Ben Roethlisberger and turned a turned a cheek to it. And there was

K.B. 23:24
a lot of people, at least legally, that said there was some there there, with respect to those allegations that were made against the Steelers. Ben Roethlisberger, so you are absolutely right. Things like this should not go on. He didn't do anything that was illegal. Did he do some things that were stupid or ill advised? Absolutely, and he does bear some responsibility for his fall. He does bear responsibility for not recognizing Hey, I'm going into a job interview. I want something from the audience that is sitting across the table from me. I have an obligation, not only to myself, but to all the years of hard work that I have put in the people that have that have supported me, I have an obligation to go into that setting and be as prepared as I possibly can. And SHA door did not do that, and that is on him. And he wasn't tasked with doing that by his father, and that is on him. But he did not do anything illegal. He did not cross any bounds ethically. All he did was be a little bit too arrogant and a little too, I guess for a lot of people, a little bit too much of a Showboat. Yeah, he didn't do anything illegal. He did not deserve this, and it is going to be lasting, and hopefully, hopefully he responds now, the last few comments that I've seen from him have been on the right track, right? He's been humble. He has been humbled, and if he takes that humility along with the work effort to get

Graydon Prescott 24:48
into the gym, thank you. That's where I was going. He should never be out of the gym like we shouldn't see chador posting up on Instagram. Get

Both 24:56
the Bentley and the Rolls Royce watches and the chains. Right? Yeah, exactly like, don't

K.B. 25:01
you need to be in the lab sweating. I don't need to see ice and bling and all of that stuff. All I want to see from you are beads of sweat, right? No other beads, beads of sweat. Show this world athletically. Show the spectators. Show the collegiate people that pass you over for maybe some postseason awards. Show this the entirety of the NFL. Show them what you are made of. I'm talking about the DNA athletically of the Sanders name and Deion Sanders worked his rear

Graydon Prescott 25:28
end off. And that's See he show me that here about your Bentley, here's the only thing that I can say with shador that I think he got mixed up with. He thought that because he, let's not get it twisted. Chaur Sanders played great football College. He played fantastic football, but he thought that the football he played in college was on par with what his dad and it was not. It was not, when, in reality, the guy who was on par with what his dad was doing. Teammates, yes. Travis Hunter, yes. Travis hunter could say, or now he didn't. He did, which is, you know, they probably should have had that flipped, if anything, or they should have had a conversation, right? He should have learned Travis Hunter was humble, yes. But even if Travis Hunter were to go running his mouth, there, it was undeniable. Deion Sanders was seen as arrogant. He went fifth in the NFL. Yes, yes. Like, there's nothing that might have been too long, yeah, there was nothing you could say. He was by far the best talent in the draft, absolutely, and he showed it once he got to the NFL. He proved it should or Sanders, he was the second ranked quarterback coming into this draft. I stand by the fact that he is the second most talented quarterback in the draft. His he had a quarterback on his team picked above him in the third round, and Dylan Gabriel chador standards needs to prove not just to his organization, not just to the NFL, not just to the world, but to himself, why he was the second ranked quarterback coming into this draft, and why he should have been picked among the top 10 players. That's what Chad Sanders needs to do. I have confidence that he will be able to do it as long as he stays in the gym and takes the Tom Brady approach, because he was drafted 190/9 he wasn't a starter until Drew Bledsoe, messed up, almost died on a football threat, right? And then Tom Brady got his shot, and that's how it turned the rest is history. Nourse sander is going to be the fourth string quarterback on this team. If Deshaun Watson doesn't go, it'll be Deshaun Watson and Joe Flacco and Dylan Gabriel, who got picked ahead of so he's got a chance, but he's got a chance, but shadore Sanders, if he works, Joe Flacco is on the wrong end of 30. On the wrong end of 30, he's pushing for Correct, correct. Deshaun Watson is a has been Dylan Gabriel is the one that you're going to be fighting with go for the future of the Cleveland Browns football team. It's the third round pick who was supposed to be a third round pick, versus the fifth rounder who's supposed to be a first round pick. And

K.B. 27:55
don't think Dylan isn't going to come in here. Dylan is focused, right? I guarantee you he's not Bentley's in in Dylan Gabriel

Graydon Prescott 28:02
is going to come in with the mentality that he has something to because now everybody is talking about the Cleveland Browns drafted or nobody's checking for Dylan Gabriel anymore, correct? So he's going to come in with that same mentality. So she doors got to put some work in. Unfortunately, that doesn't leave us with time to talk about the NBA, but this was an important storyline that we had for the latest you can see what's going on in the NBA. You know what's happening? The Lakers are down three, one, I'm spiraling. The Warriors are are in a great spot. They tip off in an hour. Yeah, that's pretty much Jimmy's playing tonight. Yes. And Anthony Edwards is just is a dog. That's all we can really say. Thank you everybody for tuning into this episode of sports prep live. It was, it was an important one things needed to be said. I'm great impressed. Scott, thank you, KB, as always, for coming on, and we will see you all next week, right back here on 91.5 Q and B. This is sports prep live. Have a good one, everybody. Thank you for tuning into this episode of sports prep live. I'm Graydon Prescott, and don't forget to catch all of our episodes on Apple Spotify or wherever you get your podcast, and be sure to follow us on Instagram or Twitter at sports prep live. Thank you.