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Did you see the Paul Pierce High School dunk contest video that was circulating? How'd you check it out?

Is that the one where they were like puts in respect of his name?

No, that was after that was his response after because the high school contest video was bad. And then Pierce, you know,

hit up a video showing him dunking on guys in the pros. That was always the thing with Pierce is that he was always kind of the slower, methodical angle, non-explosive guy, especially coming in with Vince Carter.

And that was one of the knocks on Pierce like the idea that Paul Pierce went 10 and there was a lot of big names in that draft, but it was kind of funny to watch a high school kid because usually, you know, that's when you have all your bounce.

The weird thing for me is I couldn't dunk and now I can still hang on the rim. So now I realize that there was just all this untapped just like I was like, I don't know what it was.

My bounce was like fracking that you just couldn't get to the angle was off. If I could still hang on the rim at 44, that just means that I denied myself.

Some serious posters in my 20s, but I don't know, just didn't work out. I'm getting depressed just thinking about it. Anyway, back to state farm. Get a teammate who can help you navigate the unexpected talk to a state farm agent today.

Here are my teammates for today's podcast. Kevin Clark from the Ring or Football Show. And of course all of his pieces you've seen on the NFL. I'm going to do a big free agency roundup with him. Heavy on the Colts too, little bears.

Very little Pat's because we're going to save that for Seth Wickersham who has the piece on the Brady Bella check divorce up on ESPN dot com. It's incredible. Great timeline stuff.

That's one of my favorite football writers. So that is the plan for today. So let's start it off with Kevin Clark.

Kevin, here's the plan. I gave you the list of all the stuff that I want to do regarding NFL free agency. We realize why some of this stuff has gone overlooked because of bigger things going on outside of football.

But let's start with the Colts because I was watching some Chris Ballard stuff this morning where they gave Jacobi percent the two year deal before the season started to get his money up.

But at the end of the year, I thought it was really revealing for Ballard, which because most guys just won't even do it even though it seems like the obvious thing. It's like, look, we the jury still out. We've got a year deal on him.

They go ahead and do Philip Rivers that make a trade in the first round for for the forest box there. Let's start with rivers and in big picture. What are the Colts doing?

The Colts are trying to plug a hole that was incredibly clear in the second half of last season. Now, Berset was a little bit banged up, but he was basically bottom five quarterback the last half of the season.

Prof. Ball reference has this thing called bad throws. He was at about 20 percent last season. Rivers was I think sixth best in that category at around 14 or 15.

And so Berset wasn't throwing down field at all. I think he was 29th in the NFL and his ability to even throw the deep pass let alone be accurate on it.

This is just I think the Colts understand that they have a deep and talented roster and trying to get there. I think the argument for Philip Rivers is, you know, I rich or hamburger on my podcast last week and he played with rivers and he was saying rivers is the worst player to have in a bad situation in the sense that he will he's such a competitor.

He's always the kind of the meme about the purpose is always forcing you know some pass with two minutes left down eight or whatever he played the entire season like that he had almost no time to throw I think they were in the bottom four in offensive line last year.

Now he goes to the top three offensive line by profile focus. And so I think the argument here is that the any decline from Philip Rivers was almost all situational and guys trying to do too much as a common theme.

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