K100 Sports 144 w/ Mark Madden! Stanley Cup Preview & more!

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I'm real good, man. How are you?

**Mark Madden** (1:21)
Yeah.

**Disco** (1:22)
What does that mean?

**Mark Madden** (1:24)
I'm just like, eh.

**Disco** (1:26)
Oh yeah, because it's that part of the year where it's just, eh, it's like only the pirates, right?

**Mark Madden** (1:30)
Well, yeah, and like the Steelers, you have to bisect every little bit of the minutiae, even though, you know, OTAs mean nothing, mini camp means nothing, and then they just go 10 and 7 and losing the playoffs. It's always the same thing.

**Disco** (1:44)
Right.

**Mark Madden** (1:44)
So I just get bored to tears with it.

**Disco** (1:46)
What about the, do you think that Aaron Rodgers behind the scenes navigated the Myles Garrett trade out of the division?

**Mark Madden** (1:53)
Well, last year when we lost to Cleveland, at the end of the year, the Steelers did. One reason the Steelers played badly and Rodgers did, he was just trying to avoid being sacked by Garrett because he wanted to keep Garrett from getting the single season sack record. That was so evident with the way he approached the game. That said, he doesn't like to get hit by anybody, in particular, went nowhere near Garrett. But Garrett got the record anyway and then got traded to the Rams. The Steelers should have traded Watts a few years back when they had the chance. Now he's washed and wouldn't bring any return. How about TJ Watts never won a playoff game?
He will be the phoniest pro football hall of fame ever. A guy with all kinds of stats that never came close to winning.

**Disco** (2:39)
All regular season stats, but he does have fascinating regular season stats compared to how the team performs, when he plays and when they don't. That's the only thing he really has to tip his hat to.

**Mark Madden** (2:50)
He's a great regular season player.

**Disco** (2:52)
Correct. There's rumors now.
Aaron Donald is posting videos of himself working out and saying, I'm ready and people are wondering if they bring Donald back to go with Myles Garrett. This is just like they're going all in this year on the Super Bowl.

**Mark Madden** (3:09)
He did an interview just a couple of days ago, where Aaron Donald said, I have no interest in playing again.

**Disco** (3:16)
Okay.

**Mark Madden** (3:17)
So I'm going to take him at his word, not what he's trying to imply and maybe young people's chains on social media.

**Disco** (3:25)
Well, that's what we do here though.

**Mark Madden** (3:27)
Oh, no question.

**Disco** (3:28)
Right.
So let's talk about the NHL playoffs. I had predicted Vegas to go to the finals. Well, you did that because you're a homer.

**Mark Madden** (3:37)
You don't know anything about hockey. You're not a paid expert like I am. You just root for Vegas, so you predicted to be in the final and here they are. But good for them, they deserve it. They're red hot, they swept Colorado. Caroline is 12-1 in the playoffs.
I think this will be a very, I don't want to say boring, that's too negative a word. It'll be a very systematic matchup. I don't think it'll be back and forth. I don't think it'll be free-flowing.
But I think you can make a case that the two teams that are playing the best in this postseason both made it. Colorado winning the President's Trophy with 121 points duly noted, but they were really banged up for that Vegas series.

**Disco** (4:22)
I got a theory here, everybody in their mother is talking about, the hockey experts are talking about this is going to be great finals. But your typical lay person on Twitter is talking about this is going to be boring.

**Mark Madden** (4:32)
The hockey experts are usually shills and stooges who say everything that's going to happen is going to be great. It's often not.