On today’s program, Chase is joined by SNY’s David Vertsberger to talk about the NBA’s Atlantic Division (7:40), Raptors belief (9:10), Knicks’ repeat chances (15:00), why the Bucks will be the worst team in the East (33:00), Celtics and Pacers winning the East (38:50), NBA East League Pass teams to watch (44:00) and much more. Then, Yahoo! & Phantom Island’s Steven Godfrey joins the pod to talk about the state of college football (55:00), the future of conferences and the G6 in the CFP and much more.

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by fellow University of North Georgia alumnus Matt Green to talk about Georgia staying perfect and beating Vanderbilt (9:30), Tennessee beating Auburn (20:00), Missouri thrashing Florida (34:10), Alabama beating Mississippi State (49:30), Minnesota beating Michigan (58:00), Big 12 chaos, CFB coaching hot seat rankings and preview the Week 6 college football betting lines.

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by Stay Hot’s Theo Ash to talk about what’s ailing the 1-2 Green Bay Packers this season (3:30), early Michael Penix returns (14:30), the 3-0 49ers and Vikings (19:00), Justin Herbert’s play in Los Angeles (28:00), the Raiders’ surprising 3-0 start (32:20), if Jonathan Taylor might be washed (42:30) and much more.

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by NBA writer and podcaster Lauren Gunn to talk about the NBA’s Northwest Division, why it’s especially interesting this season (2:00), Cooper Flagg and Kyrie Irving in Dallas (24:00), PJ Washington’s trade value (37:30), Sabonis trade ideas for the Kings (44:00) and the Jalen Duren situation in Detroit (52:00). Then, Hightop Sports’ Shelton Walker joins the program to talk about the Florida Gators hot start (67:00), the Gators’ big win over Ole Miss, Buster Faulkner’s electric offense, Jaden Baugh’s Heisman case, and the big-time Florida vs. Georgia match-up on the horizon.

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by former Georgia quarterback & SEC Network color commentator Aaron Murray to talk about Missouri vs. Mississippi State, Kamario Taylor’s elite play for Mississippi State, what’s different about Arch Manning this season, Florida’s elite offense under Buster Faulkner, where Gunner Stockton continues to improve, all the elite QBs in the SEC this season and if Tennessee can beat Texas on Saturday. Then, Oxford Eagle’s Jake Thompson joins the program (15:00) to talk about Ole Miss’s big win over LSU, if the Rebels can win the National Title, where Pete Goulding is different than Lane Kiffin, needed improvements from the Ole Miss linebackers, and much more.

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by Check The Mic’s Sam Monson to talk about why the Lions’ defense, not their offense, is the problem, what to make of Kenneth Walker’s debut for the Chiefs, if Sean Payton will take back play-calling in Denver soon, why the Giants’ offense could be legit, the talent on Dallas’ defense, why the Rams really need to avoid an 0-2 start and much more.

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by Stats & Schemes’ Tej Seth to talk about how the Saints pushed the Lions to the brink in Week 1 (1:50), Brian Flores’ aggresive blitzing against the Packers (5:15), Chargers and Cowboys Week 1 disaster (7:00), the NFC South mess (10:00), Rams losing Myles Garrett (17:30) and the Vikings vs. Bears Week 2 scheme preview (20:10). Then, The Ringer’s Joe House joins the program to talk Washington Wizards (30:00), if Washington will make the Play-In (34:30), Alex Sarr and AJ Dybantsa questions (41:30), why the Hawks should be awesome again (48:20) and doubt about the Lakers and Celtics (56:00).

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by Light Years’ Andy Liu to talk about the Golden State Warriors, what has gone wrong over the last couple of years, what Steph Curry is going to do, the new reality for Curry in 2026, why Steve Kerry returned to the Warriors, the Warriors not trading for Anthony Davis or Jaylen Brown, their chase of LeBron James, the failure of the Two Timelines strategy and much more.

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by fellow University of North Georgia alumnus Matt Green to talk about Georgia’s blowout win over Western Kentucky (10:30), Vols taking care of business in Atlanta (20:00), SEC’s early national dominance (42:30), Big Ten has real problems (46:40), Oregon’s upset loss (51:20), Arkansas may go 1-15 this season (65:45) Alabama and Texas A&M’s statements (73:30) and preview the early Week3 CFB betting lines (77:00).

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by fellow University of North Georgia alumnus Matt Green to talk about Georgia’s blowout win over Tennessee State (4:30), Faizon Brandon’s debut for the Vols (15:25), LSU dominating Clemson (25:30), FSU or Clemson is the better head coaching job (37:50), Michigan vs. Western Michigan shenanigans (49:00), and preview early Week 2 college football betting lines (60:30).

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by Locked On Hawks’ Brad Rowland to talk about Jonathan Kuminga leaving the Hawks for the Minnesota Timberwolves (1:30), why Dyson Daniels is the most underrated Atlanta Hawk (8:00), Jalen Johnson’s needed development in the halfcourt (14:30), Oneyka Okongwu as a five (20:50), if Nickeil Alexander-Walker is a core guy (26:30), Kingston Flemings’ role as a rookie (33:40), Anthony Edwards trade possibilities for the Hawks next summer (43:20), Quin Snyder & Onsi Saleh questions (50:00) and much more.

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by Stay Hot’s Blaiden Kirk to talk about the upcoming NFL season, if there is a chance the Browns are good (2:35), why he’s bullish on Washington’s Jaiden Daniels (14:00), if the Bengals could have the No. 1 offense (21:00), the Seahawks’ regression chances (25:20), worst team in the NFL (28:30) and a 49ers & Chiefs Super Bowl question (34:30).

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I tend to remember what sporting event was on during some of the biggest moments of my childhood. I remember the dangerous ice storm that rocked Atlanta when I was eight because that was the day we lost power at my house, so we watched the Super Bowl, the St. Louis Rams vs. the Tennessee Titans that particular year, in Atlanta, too, funny enough, at my grandparents’ house. I remember the last time I was riddled with a stomach bug as a kid, in Jerry Seinfeld-esque fashion, was while I was watching the Oakland Raiders take on the New York Jets one random Sunday afternoon in the fall. I even remember the night I had to go to the emergency room for some stitches below my lower lip after I dove for a football and crashed into a bedside table at my aunt and uncle’s house in Jacksonville was the same night the Peach Bowl was on the television in the living room that pitted Auburn against North Carolina. All of those games and events happened a very long time ago, and here we are many years later, and they are all still firmly etched into my quite silly sports-centric brain. Conversely, it is only late August, and I have already forgotten that the Cleveland Cavaliers reached the Eastern Conference Finals this past NBA season. The Cavs reached the ECF for the first time in eight years, and it’s like it never happened.

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Unless you’re a Cavs fan, of course.

Part of that is circumstance. Cleveland had a very friendly road to the ECF, and when they got there, they were swept. It didn’t help that the Toronto Raptors, without one of their best players, forced a Game 7 in the first round. It didn’t help that the Detroit Pistons, who looked dreadful from the get-go, went up 2-0 on the Cavs in the Conference Semifinals. It didn’t help that the expected James Harden Playoff Questions resurfaced. To their credit, though, they did do the thing that ultimately matters to reach the ECF – win enough playoff games to advance to the aforementioned ECF. They could have been upset by the Raptors, who were without one of their best players, but they were not. They could have been disposed of by the No. 1 seed in the East, but they were not. Ultimately, Cleveland was eliminated by the team that won the NBA championship.

Cleveland has quietly grown in the NBA postseason over the last four seasons. The team was eliminated in the opening round in 2022-23. Then, they were eliminated in the semifinals the next two seasons. Now, they’re coming off their first conference finals appearance in nearly a decade. The last team to get eliminated in the Eastern Conference Finals won the NBA championship the following year, that being this year’s Knicks, of course. This does not mean the Cavs are going to win the 2027 NBA Finals. Still, if head coach Kenny Atkinson’s team does reach the ECF once again, friendly playoff draws or not, they will find themselves in the same position as the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Knicks, who have reached at least the conference finals the last two seasons, and both, obviously, became the last two NBA champions.

To be a Cleveland Cavaliers Optimist, you have to be a bona fide Donovan Mitchell Believer in that he can be the best player on a championship team because he is and will continue to be the best player on the Cavs for the duration of this run. You have to believe that there is another level for Evan Mobley to reach, particularly from three-point land. You have to believe in Playoff James Harden, at least a tad. You also probably have to believe that the Cavs have finally solved their fifth-starter problem on the wing with Peyton Watson.

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It’s the latter that is most interesting to me. I already believe that Mitchell can be the best player on a title team in the NBA’s current Parity Era. I already believe that Mobley can be the No. 2 on a title team, eventually, if he takes another step next season. I also believe that Atkinson is one of the best coaches in the NBA. Cleveland is still a deep team with guys like Jarrett Allen, Sam Merrill, Thomas Bryant, Jaylon Tyson, and my favorite, long-forgotten wild card Mario Hezonja. It’s that they have missed on Isaac Okoro. They missed on DeAndre Hunter, and man alive, they are hopeful they don’t miss on Watson.

The Cavs were eighth in offense last year and fifteenth in defense. Could the addition of Watson, along with Mobley and Tyson, propel Cleveland into the top-10 in defense? The team that just won the NBA championship was fourth in offense and tenth in defense. The two NBA champions before that were in the top 5 in offense and defense, too. For Cleveland to take that final leap back to the NBA Finals, it all starts with working their way into the top 10 defensively. They have to get there to have a realistic chance.

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In three of Watson’s four five-man units in Denver last year that played over 100 minutes together, they combined to accumulate a plus-minus of +41.4. He worked well with several different Nuggets around him, particularly on the perimeter. There is evidence that he can thrive at the four or the three in the League. The question is where Cleveland will need him to thrive the most this upcoming season.

A lot of Cleveland’s ceiling will depend on how Watson integrates into two of Cleveland’s best potential five-man units: 1) Mitchell-Harden-Watson-Mobley-Allen and 2) Mitchell-Merrill-Tyson-Watson-Allen. When you replace Watson with Hunter and Watson with Dean Wade, respectively, in those two lineups last year, they produced a plus-minus of +68.2 in 232 possessions overall, per CleaningTheGlass. (You need to replace Harden with Darius Garland in that first group, too.) If Watson can thrive and shoot just well enough at the four when it’s just Allen inside and if he can do the same at the three when it’s Allen and Mobley inside, you feel better about Cleveland’s playoff chances next season.

I have liked a lot of what Cleveland has done over the last several years. The Cavs have averaged 53.75 wins over the last four seasons. They just reached the ECF. The vast majority of that winning core is coming back, and they added a worthy gamble on the perimeter in Watson. They still have the great coach, the great depth, and the high-usage, high-offensive-upside lead guard. They should be even better next season. They could even be a real contender next season, even if you are already like me and don’t remember they advanced all the way to the ECF like a real contender this past season.

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by Baltimore Baseball’s Rich Dubroff to talk about the Baltimore Orioles’ disappointing 2026 campaign, the bigger disappointment question between Gunnar Henderson and Jackson Holiday, trading Adley Rutschman, whether Mike Elias should still be in charge of baseball ops for the O’s, 2027 Baltimore questions, and much more.

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by fellow University of North Georgia alumnus Matt Green to talk about Georgia’s best underrated MVP choice this season (4:09), Tennessee’s best underrated MVP choice (12:45), Kentucky season preview (22:00), Tennessee preview (31:20), Auburn preview (38:20), and Mizzou (48:00).

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by fellow RealGM & Locked On Heat’s Wes Goldberg to talk about the Boston Celtics’ strange offseason (4:20), the Heat’s new-look roster around Giannis (15:00), Jimmy Butler’s exit from Miami (25:00), the vast parity in the NBA (37:30), and if the Wolves & Sixers are doomed to combust next season (42:20). Then, Phil Steele joins the program to talk about the upcoming 2026 college football season, Tennessee’s quarterback battle (55:00), Georgia’s national title chances, Miami vs. Notre Dame as contenders, trouble ahead for Neal Brown at North Texas, the best G6 situations and Michigan’s Year 1 under Kyle Whittingham.

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The Baltimore Orioles could still qualify for the 2026 MLB postseason. If the Orioles competed in the AL West rather than the AL East and had the same record they do now, they would be just 2.5 games back from leading the division. Postseason or not, the Baltimore Orioles are one of baseball’s biggest disappointments this season and beyond.

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Let’s back up.

When your team first elects to tear the whole thing down, it can be a bit invigorating. This is particularly true if your team has been mired in mediocrity for a while. Going into this new NFL season, I’m searching for that same invigoration for my team, the Atlanta Falcons, who have gone 8-9 for what seems like nine years in a row. Mercedes-Benz Stadium opened in 2017, and the Falcons have hosted exactly zero playoff games in their new home. The 2027 quarterback class looks to be filled with potential franchise-changing quarterbacks, so here I am in Mid-August, hopeful the Falcons bottom out and the March For Arch is on for the next several months in Atlanta.

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The Orioles have not won a playoff game since 2014. Baltimore fans have watched an AL East team advance to the World Series the last two falls with the New York Yankees in 2024 and the Toronto Blue Jays in 2025. This year in the AL East, it’s the Tampa Bay Rays who are having the kind of season Orioles fans hoped was possible coming into this season. Even the Boston Red Sox stunningly righted the ship over the summer. Playoffs or no playoffs, this season for Baltimore will be remembered as the year they traded star catcher Adley Rutschman.

There was not a more depressing trade this summer than the O’s electing not only to move a franchise centerpiece they took first overall a decade ago, but to move him to a division rival, the Red Sox. Rutschman, along with Gunnar Henderson, Jackson Holliday, Jordan Westburg, Sam Basallo, and Colton Cowser, were part of a seemingly never-ending cavalcade of future offensive talent. Is there anything more fun for a baseball fan of a team that isn’t traditionally one of the biggest spenders in the sport than building what looks to be the next great offensive core? On the flip side, is there anything more depressing for a baseball fan than it all not working out after all those years of waiting for the highly-touted prospects to arrive in the big leagues and prosper?

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I do not wish for a long lockout in 2027, one where many games are lost. However, if there was ever a fanbase that could maybe use a year off, it’s the Baltimore Orioles fanbase.

Henderson has a 98 WRC+ this season. Holliday has a 105 WRC+. Cowser has a 95 WRC+. General manager Mike Elias traded two of the team’s top four hitters this season in terms of WAR ahead of this summer’s MLB trade deadline, Rutschman and Taylor Ward, but what is the plan for the team this winter and beyond? Baltimore no longer looks like the next great young team that features a lineup loaded with future multi-time All-Stars. Even more frustrating for O’s fans, Pete Alonso has proven to be worth every penny with his 141 WRC+ and 28 homers. Pair that production with what we thought Henderson and Rutschman and Holliday could all be, and, man, look out for the O’s.

I don’t know what you do if you’re a diehard O’s fan or what you do if you’re Elias. I imagine both the fans and the front office had dreams of a Houston Astros-like run of the last decade over the last couple of seasons. Instead, the Orioles are not a disaster, but they do not look to be a long-term sustainable juggernaut in the AL anymore, either. This is not a unique development for the Orioles.

This happens in the NBA all the time. The Orlando Magic are the closest recent example. They secured a No. 1 overall pick in Paolo Banchero. They have drafted well around him with guys like Franz Wagner, Jalen Suggs, Anthony Black and company. They added quality vets like Wendell Carter and Desmond Bane. It just hasn’t all come together as it has for the San Antonio Spurs or the Oklahoma City Thunder. Instead, the Magic are one of the most depressing situations in the sport.

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The Orioles seemingly did everything right in their tear-down-and-rebuild strategy. How many baseball fans and analysts were not excited about this young core and this potentially potent everyday lineup across the last couple of seasons? Back then, time was on Baltimore’s side. Now, the clock is ticking once again on which direction the team should go and what they should do to try and be the next AL East team to win the pennant. Do they continue to ride with their young core, or was the Rutchman trade just the beginning of another hard reset in Baltimore? Either way, I feel for the O’s fans – their team is between a rock and a hard place, and I don’t know how they see their way out.

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by fellow University of North Georgia alumnus Matt Green to talk about the current biggest questions surrounding Georgia football (13:20), Tennessee football (29:45), and then dive into their SEC Football Buy or Sell series of podcasts with LSU (48:45), Texas (57:50), Florida (64:30), and Alabama (71:00).

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Over the last four seasons, the No. 1 overall pick has won the NBA Rookie of the Year award three times. This past season, it was Cooper Flagg. Two seasons before that, it was Victor Wembanyama. Before that, it was Paolo Banchero. The season before last, though, it was Stephon Castle. Zaccharie Risacher, drafted by the Atlanta Hawks No. 1 overall in the same draft as the former UConn star, did not win the award, obviously, and, after a very disappointing sophomore season in the NBA, was traded to the Dallas Mavericks in a three-team deal with Oklahoma City this summer that also landed the Hawks his replacement, Lu Dort. The Hawks jumped ship on their No. 1 overall pick from the 2024 NBA Draft after just two seasons.

And that was that.

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With Risacher now in Dallas, he is the first No. 1 overall pick to be on team No. 2 in his NBA career since DeAndre Ayton, who continues to bounce around the Association, now with the Washington Wizards. The former Arizona big went No. 1 overall all the way back in 2018. Since then, Zion Williamson, Anthony Edwards, Cade Cunningham, Banchero, and Wenbamyama all remain with the teams that drafted them No. 1 overall, each making a galactic amount of money while still being their team’s best player. For the Hawks to be so unlucky given that kind of run on hits at No. 1 overall in the NBA Draft is pretty brutal.

Except that it’s not.

Not really.

Atlanta was the only playoff team to beat the NBA champion New York Knicks twice this postseason. Forward Jalen Johnson had a breakout season for the Hawks and made his first All-Star team. He made third-team All-NBA. He averaged 23 ppg, 10 rebounds rpg, and 8 apg on a Hawks team that won their most regular-season games since the 2015-16 season. The Hawks’ overall record has improved each year under head coach Quin Snyder, going from 36 wins to 40 wins to 46 wins this past season. With the additions of guys like Dort and Aaron Wiggins this summer, along with retaining important veterans like CJ McCollum and Jock Landale, it would not be all that surprising if Atlanta pushes for fifty-plus wins next season.

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Trading your former No. 1 overall pick after just two seasons should be the kind of thing that demoralizes a fanbase. Instead, Atlanta Hawks basketball is in the best shape it’s been in over a decade, dating back to the peak of the Mike Budenholzer era. The Hawks finished last season 12th in Net Rtg. The team had a top-10 Def Rtg and just added a superb wing defender in the aforementioned Dort this offseason. With Dyson Daniels and Dort hounding opposing wings, guards and bigs, the Hawks’ defense should be elite once again next season for Snyder’s club. That would be a pretty important development for Atlanta, as the top-3 teams in Def Rtg last season, Oklahoma City, Detroit and San Antonio, each also happened to be the only teams that won 60 or more games in the regular season last year.

The Hawks added another exciting lottery pick, Houston guard Kingston Flemings, who gets to learn behind McCollum until he’s ready to take the reins this season or next. The Hawks also added two more bigs in the 2026 NBA Draft, including one in the second round who most NBA Draft evaluators had as a first-round talent. Hawks president of basketball operations Onsi Saleh has done an excellent job of adding quality veterans like Dort and Wiggins, retaining quality veterans like McCollum and Landale while also continuing to infuse Atlanta’s young core, which includes Johnson, Daniels and Okongwu, with more young talent like Flemings, Zuby Ejiofor, and Henri Veesaar.

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Last summer, the addition of Nickeil Alexander-Walker proved to be Saleh’s best move. He won the NBA’s Most Improved Player Award. The season before that, Daniels won the award. (For a Hawk to win this award next season and complete the three-peat, Okongwu would be Atlanta’s best bet.) Alexander-Walker is the perfect kind of complementary guard to play alongside a veteran high-usage guy like McCollum or a rookie, low-usage guy like Flemings. For the latter, Alexander-Walker’s shooting, particularly in the corner, could prove to be huge for Flemings, as the former shot 48 percent from that spot this past season. Dort could provide similar versatility defensively that Alexander-Walker provided Atlanta offensively last season. The big question is what Atlanta looks like offensively, particularly in the halfcourt, with Dort and Daniels on the floor at the same time. The good news, particularly in the regular season, is that Snyder will be able to stagger the dynamic defensive duo early and often.

Atlanta is a team on the rise. Each year under Snyder, the team has gotten better, gotten deeper. They have a great lead front office executive and a great head coach. Sure, the Eastern Conference is loaded this season, but Atlanta is somewhere in that crowded group that could finish anywhere from the third-best record in the conference to the tenth. Atlanta suddenly has the contracts, draft assets, and projected cap space to go big-game hunting next summer. Johnson could go from earning third-team All-NBA honors to second-team All-NBA honors next season. Flemings could look like a future star lead guard out of the gate. Daniels could regain his confidence from deep.

There are all sorts of possibilities for the Hawks next season and beyond. Sure, the team was incredibly unlucky in the 2024 NBA Draft. It’s a bummer it didn’t work out with Risacher. All the team has done since then, though, is get better each year and is now on the best path they’ve been on in over a decade.

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On today’s program, Chase is joined by Jovan Buha of Buha’s Block to talk about LeBron James leaving the Lakers and signing with the Philadelphia 76ers (4:40), if the Lakers will replace him with PJ Washington or Jonathan Kuminga (12:00), what a Kuminga trade looks like with the Hawks (17:30), how JJ Redick has performed as the Lakers’ head coach (23:40) and which team has had the best NBA offseason thus far (29:50).

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