Achilles' heel

Um, I could start with Pete and then go to you, Jim, and Bobby.

But what would you say right now through three weeks is your team's Achilles heel? Um, for the Jets, if I'm allowed to say coaching, I'd say that.

If not, I think I would say the interior offensive line because the running game has been non-existent since the Titans in week one.

But Pete, I guess I'll start with you then go to Bobby and then Jim.

Sorry.

Go ahead.

No, I, I, I think, uh, Pete's q- answer was really good, uh, 'cause he was saying Drake May, and I would say as well, I think for me right now the Achilles heel would be Malik Willis, just inexperience is showing, but that goes for the whole team.

I think the Achilles heels is inexperience and obviously talent.

A gift destroys the heart of the wise.

I used to have a sermon called The Wise Man's Achilles Heel.

If you have wisdom, you're one out of 100 Christians that has wisdom.

But the Christians that have wisdom, they still have a weakness.

An Achilles heel.

What is it? Gift.

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Today, helping me as my co-host is Indiana, and she'll join us in just a second.

And today, we're gonna talk about our Achilles heel.

Achilles heel.

Do you guys know this expression, your Achilles heel? It comes from an old Greek myth about a warrior named Achilles, who is really strong and unbeatable everywhere on his body except for one spot on his heel.

So, an Achilles heel is your one weak spot.

It's the one thing that trips you up or causes you to make an error or a mistake, even though you're pretty much perfect otherwise.

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You go back to even the Cincinnati game last year, where they went right down the field and scored, and then they scored with no time on the clock.

There are so many of those instances that you just get worried that that could be their Achilles heel.

And number three, I have the Buffalo Bills.

Game of the week, I think the Texans and Bills was the game of the week, and it was a game that we thought, well, the Texans, uh, arguably have the best defense in the NFL, and Buffalo has Josh Allen.

So how effective is he after, at that four-week mark, right? When they take him off IR and everything like that, is he the same guy that he was before the season started? I don't know that.

Maybe he is, 'cause we've seen miraculous recoveries.

We saw Kittle out there, who tore his Achilles heel in January.

We saw Mahomes last night, you see-

Man, we really screwed ourselves pretty royally in the last election, dude.

You had this, just to wrap this up, you had this good piece arguing that Iran and Canada have found Trump's Achilles' heel.

You just alluded to that, which is that he can just be bled out politically in the run-up to the midterms.

Iran is just holding out and pushing global prices higher, energy prices higher, and Canada's gonna accept some short-term pain in a trade war, which will be real, in order to hurt Republicans in some of these border states with big Senate races.

Andrew Wiggins, over 40%, low volume.

When I think about what might be the Achilles heel for the Miami Heat, I do wonder if there's enough volume three-point shooting on that, on this team.

Is that a fair concern that I have? Or maybe am I overthinking things a little bit given the amount of names on the page?

So, I think it's more so the type of shooting.

These are the backups for Jokic.

Maybe it works.

Maybe Dayron Holmes looks like the guy he did at Dayton before suffering the traumatic Achilles injury he did before his real rookie season.

Maybe Marvin Bagley figures things out in, what is this, year eight of his NBA career? Trayvon Brazil, a guy who I really liked when he was an underclassman in college, who suffered a torn ACL, took a bit of time to get back to becoming an explosive lob guy, found himself again last year.

I thought we were all going to have the same answer here in honor of Teddy, but it's clearly the power stations out there in San Francisco, right?

Oh, you didn't want to give that Achilles heel to the...

That is the...

Wait, we're on the Achilles heel, aren't we? We were bent out of shape.

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God damn it.

Well, all three of us went.

Spoiler alert.

So fundamentally, I think electronics is probably the biggest part of the story here, but of course, other things like pharmaceutical products, certain chemicals, rare earth magnets, also a really important part of the story.

The report also says that about twenty-five percent of the imports are potential, and I'm putting this in quotes, Achilles' heels.

Shubham, can you talk to us a little bit about what makes a product an Achilles' heel?

There's three things that we looked at.

One is how critical is the product or category.

And then the third one is, does the supply source rest in a geopolitically distant country? In MGI, we define that as whether the two countries' foreign policy objectives align or not.

And so when we look at those three, and we then categorize all of the different product categories, that's what then leads us to understanding.

And if any two of those three factors are present, we think of that as an Achilles' heel within that.