In this episode, we’re diving into a thrilling crossover event: the NFL Basketball Draft. Imagine top NFL stars stepping onto the basketball court, and our lineup includes Patrick Mahomes, the Super Bowl MVP and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, known for his incredible athleticism; Drake Maye, the standout North Carolina QB making waves in college football; and C. J. Stroud, the promising Houston Texans quarterback with impressive skills.
But that’s not all. We’re also including Justin Jefferson, the dynamic wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings; Keon Coleman, the standout wide receiver from the Buffalo Bills; Myles Garrett, the dominant defensive end for the Cleveland Browns; and Davante Adams, the elite wide receiver currently with the Las Vegas Raiders.
In this episode, we’ll explore how these football stars might perform if they played basketball together, which of their football skills could translate to basketball, and their potential impact on the court. Join us for an engaging discussion filled with predictions and insights on this unique sports crossover.
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So the NFL starts tomorrow night. If you're watching this episode on Wednesday, obviously the Ravens will face off against the Chiefs. I'm excited for that. Imagine because I'm so excited. George and I are going to draft an NBA team of NFL players. George, I'll give you the first pick because I forgot the dice. And we got to keep it going. So who do you want on your team? This is tough because then you realize how small NFL players are. Yes. Who's the most athletic tight end? Six, six? Where am I going to get my size? I'm just going to go with sick athlete, massive range. I'm going to go Justin Jefferson. Jettus. I don't know if he has any basketball background. Like I was going with guys of that, but I want to have some fun with it. So I'm going Justin Jefferson, my first pick. Do you have a position that you want to put him in? Six, one, two, oh five. So I think he's I think he's a two. He's a receiver, you know, he doesn't he doesn't got the IQ of a quarterback. He's a receiver. I'll put him at the two spot. Yeah, I didn't have him on my list. I'm going to take a guy that no one's going to know who this is for our whole my banner fans unless you're a huge NFL fan. I'm taking tight end for the Colts. Mo Ali Cox. Yeah. He played at VCU for four years, averaging eight points a game for rebounds. I need an actual guy who got it done at some type of level over high school. So I'm going to take him and put him at the position he played in college at the four. Mo Ali Cox wasn't even on my list. I love that pick. Yeah. All right. I'm going with the guy that to me, his best release off the line of scrimmage in the NFL. I'm going to another receiver here, but I'm going backwards, a guard driven league, right? Yep. Devante Adams. How he got so good with his route running and how he's so good at getting open. And he said, it's like, I just crossed dudes up and he played basketball in high school, could have got a basketball scholarship, decided to go play football at Fresno instead. Kids, you know, he couldn't know who that Fresno, because boys like my guy Tait Aunty were there. So it's like, I don't got a chance on that team, but I'm going with Devante Adams. He's got that basketball background. He still plays like one. I want to go Tait Adams. Yeah. I got to go with a guy that's going to make this team a lot of fun. Another receiver like you, you've been taking off the board. I got to go get a guy who played spot minutes as a freshman at Michigan State. Give me Keon Coleman. He's going to make the team hilarious. You know, we all need to have a good laugh because there's going to be a lot of bad basketball being played out there. So give me Keon Coleman and I'll put him at the two. I like that pick six, four or two bigger than jets or Devante Adams. Actually, I'm going to put him at the three. Put him at three stretch wing there. All right. You're not going to like this pick. I'm actually our guard guard. Yeah. I'm going to go with my center now. Okay. Devante Jones. Devante Jones. Offensive tackle for the Brown 68. He had offers in high school to play basketball at Ball State, Kent State Bowling Green, but then USC Ohio State Penn State Florida came knocking for football and he made the right choice. But six foot eight and he's got like a 325 pound frame. I mean, he's playing hoops. Let's get that down to like 290 and no one's going to be able to mess with him. Yeah. I'm going to save my center because you already wasted yours and I'm going to go get some more guards. I need a guard who is extremely good. Now, look, there's some guys who have played high school basketball, been good, but none like Drake May. His brother Luke was so good at North Carolina that I got to put Drake at point for me. I see this has he pulled six four averages, doubles, double in high school. And he's a QB. I got to put him at the point guard. So Drake May at my point guard. I was being nice. And that's why I saved this pick. I'm going CJ Stroud. F you. I know you want to strive. I even had Drake May highlighted red. I'm marking my team is red. Yours is blue. I already had Drake May highlighted red because I was going to go with him after Devante Jones. I like, I like that. I like that. Okay. 31 points in the all-star game can shoot. And again, a quarterback. No, he's got the IQ. Yeah. Another guy who is a, you know, a good shooter. We have him here on this graphic man playing for the Kansas City Chiefs. He's a great quarterback. He can shoot the ball. I've seen him in pickup man. He has a handle. He can shoot it. He's calm like he is on the football field. I'll put in him at the two. Give me Patrick my homes. That's good. And you know, he's a winner. Come how competitive he's going to be. Molly's going to come in though with a George and Yang body. Let's see if he gets right to be playing in the NBA. Nah, no, he's going to be ready. He's going to be ready. All right. So I got Devante Adams, Justin Jefferson, DeWann Jones and CJ Stroud. So I got three guards in the center. Yeah. I need a good wing. Yeah. I'm going pure athleticism here. I don't know any basketball background, but at six foot six, I'm going Kyle Pitts. He's like my favorite. He's my, he, you love drafting Kyle Pitts. He's a sick athlete. I don't care. He sucks as a tight end. We'll see him now in his Zach Robinson system. You love drafting Kyle Pitts and it is a sick athlete. Six, six. Give me, give me Kyle Pitts. Yeah, he definitely has the tools. I'm going to go get a guy that I have seen play pickup basketball beforehand who was also a sick athlete. This guy defensive in he is a good call. I need Miles Garrett. That was bad on my part. Miles Garrett, that center will be insane. Yep. So I'm going to rock with him. Miles Garrett. He's like six one, six, two, though. Do one, John six, eight. Yeah, but a perfect match of a brand to get to tackle. Oh, I was the line. We're going to see it, man. We're going to see it. I am going to take the guy who I've seen just be a small human being out there looking like the thing from Fantastic Four. Yeah. Yeah. I'm rocking with miles. And then he stands next to Steph and he looks small height wise next to Steph Curry. He looks short. He looks short. He's a small height wise. It looks small. All right. Now if attacking short kinks, all right. Me and Miles Garrett, we're both Sam high. We're both short kinks. So I got sixth man now. Yeah, six man. I wonder if you know this. I'm going Daniel Jones, Danny Donald Jones. So six, five, two, 30, he played on Jay Billes's AAU team in high school. And I was a team of Grant Williams and he was a really good player. Yeah. But get this going into his senior year of high school. He won MVP at Billes's camp. Yeah. And he showed up with a brace on his wrist because he broke it. And he's still one MVP of the camp. Give me Daniel Jones under rate athletically. Awful quarterback, but a good athlete. So give me DJ off the bench. That's my sixth man. Yeah. All right. So with the last pick, I have a couple of guys that I want to look at. So Cooper Dajean, I got a call. He had a thousand one hit. I mean, excuse me, 1,832 points in high school. Joe Burrow average 20 points a game in high school. Mike Evans was a guy who averaged like 18 and five in Texas. Drake London was a two sport athlete at USC. He was on the basketball team. I don't think he ever got in the game. And then after freshman year, like Keon Coleman just focused on football and being a receiver. So I have a lot of good guys here. But I think I want to take Mike Evans because once again, size is everything having that big of a receiver. He's obviously extremely reliable guy in the NFL, a thousand yard receiver every single year. I need a guy who's going to be consistent, reliable. I know what I'm going to get every single time. Once again, playing out of Texas, he's seen some good high school basketball. I'm sure he would have been a good college athlete if he chose to play basketball as well. But he did it. So I'm going to rock with Mike Evans. All right. I like that pick. I didn't even think you put in this one too. Like pick a coach. Yeah. From the NFL. Give me Andy Reid. Creative, creative drama plays. I didn't even think of a coach. You heard of me, bro. I love it. I love it. That's for Keon Coleman. That's for Drake may actually coast that you tip as well. So I love it. Oh man. I'm going to go with Kyle Shanahan. Smartly. Go to good play. Call a good designer. Exactly. He's just going to drop good offense. All right. Let's run through our teams really quickly. All right. Mine is Devonta Adams, Justin Jefferson, Kyle Pitts, CJ Stroud. CJ Stroud is my point guard in all this. Pitts is my four. Jets and Adams are my two and three. The one Jones down low is the five. Daniel Jones off the bench. Six, five, two, 30. And then on the sidelines, big red Andy Reid. Yeah. I'm got Drake May at the one. Patrick Mahomes at the two. Keon Coleman at the three. Mo Ali Cox who actually played college basketball at the four. Don't play it. No, you didn't play. Miles Garrett at the five. Mike Evans as my six men. And then I'll have Kyle Shanahan as my coach. Y'all tell us who you think would win in the comments. You have two separate college, former college basketball players. We don't get to have any minutes. Keon Coleman played. We got two guys that actually played D one ball. Yes. I just got sick athletes. Yes. Daniel Jones. That would be the one people like who what? Yeah. All right. Now I have this ranking that I got from NBA Central. They have a lot of great content on Twitter. They wanted us to rank these players all time from one to four. So it's James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Dwayne Wade and Chris Paul. All right. How do you rank these four players, George? Dwayne Wade, one three time NBA, champ finals MVP, a time all NBA, Chris Paul to 11 time all NBA, nine time all defense, third all time and assistant league. Westbrook three, James Harden, four and Westbrook and Harden similar somewhat overall resumes, both one and MVP. Ross two times scoring champ, three time assist champ. Harden's a reverse, but like Russell Westbrook Scott, that dog in him, James Harden wants nothing to do with it. When the game's matter most in the playoffs, he doesn't want the ball on his hands. So I'm bumping. I don't even want James Harden on my list. He's four, but my list is one through three, bro. Yeah. Huh? Bro, what is James Harden done in the playoffs that you want him? Huh? Huh? Okay. You want Jimmy Harden? I'm surprised they even called him James. Hold on. Hold on, Joyce. Okay. D. Wade won there. Chris Paul to. Yes. One of the all time goats. Russell Westbrook three. Yes. Carrying a Thunder team and I put Jimmy Harden fourth, ranking one through four. So okay, we both agreed D. Wade is one. That's that's an easy one. D. Wade is the best player on this list, right? Third best student guard in NBA history. None of these guys are third best in their position at all. Right? All right. Scratch that off the list, right? Well, this team to a championship. After that, the other three guys, two of them have won MVP and one of them never have. So I've already dropped in CP the four. All the way to four. He's already four. Bro, because his PQ was never the best player in the league. Two of these guys were Westbrook and Harden. So I'm putting them above. Now, this is where I think it gets like, Hmm, was it Westbrook or was it Harden? This is the hard decision for me. I personally think I'm going to rock with Westbrook as well as the second best player on this list. But if we're talking about their entire body of work, then I got to look at Harden as a better player throughout his entire career. You know what I'm saying? Because Westbrook kind of fell off a cliff after his MVP years. Yeah, Harden has been more consistent. You know what I'm saying? So I'm going to put Harden to Jimmy. Jimmy Harden's consistent of you get to the playoffs and you're in a must-win game and he doesn't show up and doesn't want the ball. I'm taking that. I'm going resume and then I'm going what I see on the court. Yeah, but what I get everything you're saying with the ball at the end of the game. But what does he do with it? You know, at least he's that competitor that wants the ball in his hands. James Harden game seven against the Celtics when he was with the 76ers a minute into the game. Everyone in that arena knew he did not want to be there. I was Russ gets you to the end of the game. I saw James Harden take the best team in NBA history to seven. You know what I'm saying? When he took the Warriors, Westbrook was out there getting dog by Damian Lillard by himself. And this is at their peak. Right. So like, come on, bro. Yeah. Like, I got to give Harden a nod. Westbrook is third. Who else was on that team with James Harden when it took him to seven? When he was he wasn't really doing my team. Are you choked? Jimmy Harden no go for me, bro. He hates. He hates. He hates it when stuff matters most. Whatever, man. Just route the show up. I'm a you got me. Chris Paul to Russell Westbrook three. That's it. My list stops at three. I don't go for on this one. Don't miss out on a second of the action. Follow Nessa on Instagram, Facebook, X and TikTok to stay in the loop on all things New England sports from news to exclusive behind the scenes action. Nessa has you covered.
