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the way tire buying should be. Well, it looked like
Game one of the World Series is gonna be a snoozer.
The astros around, Kyle Tucker's got two home runs, justin
Verlanders throwing a perfect game. It's all great, and then
Verlander couldn't grab Rial Muto's soft liner. He winds up
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getting it out. Could have been an ending, ending double play.
The Phillies rattle off three straight hits after that to
make it five three, and now they have tied the
game at five apiece as they continue to bat. In
the top of the fifth inning, go ahead run at
third base with two out, Real Muto doing the damage
again with a double that scored marsh and Schwarber all
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the way from first base. And I know, Mike Harmon,
watching Babe Schwarber score all the way from first base
had to warm the cockles of your heart just a
little bit. Well as a man who's got a pretty
good first step himself, me uh, But then you know,
you start to peter out as you get to seventy.
I felt for him, obviously laboring with a knee injury,
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but gutting it out in the big moments, knowing that
it's all on the line. Watching Verlander after dominating early
regress to the guy he's been in the World Series
in the past. The Twitter verse not kind to him
or his family. Really. Along the way, you had a
botch national anthem, and when it was five nothing, I
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got a fear that a lot of executives from the
larger Fox organization like damn it. But then it starts
to come back. So they're they're calling the lost baby hotline,
Baby come back. We got ourselves a tie game. Let's
go Amazon Prime going, oh, we're not the only big
time company that bought it spent a lot of money
on sports and not getting good. Oh now we gotta return.
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Now it's five five, Okay, everything is wonderful. And you
see the Amazon stock today. Look what happened you You
put the Tampa Bay Bucks on and they lose it
the stink. Look what happens to Amazon? Man? Yeah, down
down about seven regained about a half a buck of
share in post. But it's been a rough, rough few
days for that. Amazon stott straighten at one twenty to
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start the week, and oh yeah, and at one oh
three and change and had a minute. Bezos was the
richest guy on the planet. Amazon was worth hundreds of
billions of dollars. What happened? They spent a lot of
money on Thursday night football and then it all went away.
They lost And it's time to start adding those little
uh all right, get your air fryer now, come at
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all For the next ten minutes only you can get
the air fryer to the stars. Every tenth order will
come with some you know, uh, licensed paraphernalia from your
favorite team. I'm picturing I'm picturing bezos in in a
in a meeting. Uh they did call him. It's the
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same thing. I'm picturing him in a meeting like Tom
Cruise and Tropic Thunder when he's going where's the director
and where's the keeper? Who's the guy that told me
to go buy football? Who's the guy that told me
to buy Thursday Night football? Where's that guy? Where's that guy?
Where is he? Where is he? Where is he? Where
is he? Where is he? Where the very is You
hit that guy really hard? Well now and now they've
doubled out because we have the story yesterday that breaks that.
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Now they're gonna start doing some stuff with Lebron James.
What do they gotta pay out a pocket to have
him on board? Billions? Billions and billions of dollars the
table like the party atmosphere. Yeah, some sort of Manning
cast rip off kind of thing and hoping again, is
he gonna show for products? Hey, you can get this,
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you know, leftover Space Jam, the next the New Legacy
or whatever doll now on Amazon Boy. But I I
tell you that drop by Verlander on that soft liner
by JT. Realmut. I mean that that was an inning
ending double play. And it's five nothing going to the
fifth inning, and Verlander is still cruising and everything is fine.
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But just that, I mean and and and the Phillies, look,
they are relentless, right, that's the one thing they don't
know how to give up. This is a team that
was dead in the water in the beginning of the season.
It was it was Alec Bohm was I hate playing
in Philadelphia because he was getting booted, made an error
against the Mets. This is this is, this is how
bad things getting Philadelphia. They were, they were ready to
punt on the season in April. But here they are
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and just that little bit opening, there's still two outs.
Everything is still fine. He got an out on the play,
but instead of a double play, the Phillies are still batting,
bang bang, bang, three hits in a row and attendance
five three and now now here. Maybe the Phillies are
getting the signs right now in Houston. And so the
Phillies now tied five five, A lot of pointing and
waving as the Phillies rounded, rounded third, got to home
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and then we're pointing into the stand. So, uh, if
nothing else, a little bit of love and in the crowd.
But I also had it was taken aback. I mentioned
it a minute ago, the idea that someone botched the
national anthem, and I saw the name and I go, wait,
Eric Burdon from the Animals, Why the hell would he
be singing the nationally No, it's Eric Burton from a
band called the Black Pumas. So he botched it, t J.
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Clearly they have to get out of that place. If
you're botching the national life, damn right they do. But yeah,
I mean Verlander was cruising, man, they first locating well
and then and then it all went out. Yeah I know, buddy,
I I know you know. And and here's the thing. Look,
I said it last night, and I understand. I understand
if people are mad at me, but I I really
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I can't have the Phillies win. I knew it last time.
I'm going I can't root for them. I can't look,
as I said, I can't have another n L e's
team win the World Series in the last four years,
especially the Phillies can't do it. I can't watch Bryce
Harper and Noahs nder Guard and Zach Wheeler win the
bleep in World Series. Now I can't have the Astros
win either, But I really can't have the Phillies win.
So I knew going I'm like, okay, maybe I'm gonna
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change a little bit when they get No, no, no,
I'm still like, oh, come on, the Astros gotta get
this out. You know how you can have figured this out?
Of this I feel put up a pole question and
had your followers tell you what to do. Uh No,
I can't, no, no, no, I know I can't root
for the Philly I know I can't. I can't. There's
no way I can root for the phil Like now,
I guess for the Astros. You say, all right, Dusty
Baker would get his his World Series. Is that enough
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for you? Is that enough for a justification as opposed
to I just can't have those guys Dot Dot Dot
and Tucker with a couple of home runs. He came
into the series. Tend to want odds to be the
series m v P don Al. Obviously, everybody watching the
Exploits of Al two, he's over three on the night,
by the way, and then hit this postseason. Yeah, he's
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like over his last Now I think not so hot
without the buzzer right coming into the game three of
thirty two walks eleven strikeouts. Man, yeah, it was oh
nine four before this game. But the point getting to
I mean, yeah, I know your Phillies hate and you
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saw Harper get the hit. You like, he can't score
on a Harper hit. Can't do it. I can need
your mind, Smith, I know what you want them to win,
but you want him just tough. You got three or
four guys on the Phillies that you put up pictures
with like exces through them. Guy, these guys can't contribute.
They have to do it without without him, without him. No, no, no,
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because Marsh got a better, better head of hair and
beard than I do. No, Marsh is fine because I
feel like Jason Worth is back playing for the Phillies
when I see it's okay. But I know I can't.
I can't. I can't. I can't have Synder Guard and
Wheeler win the world and the pictures of both of
them hugging, you know, giving the giving the the veritable
middle finger to the Mets. Hey, look where we are.
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I can't have it, man, I know seven't want to
go though, Yeah, right, and then they left. Yeah, no,
I I can't. I can't have it. I knew going
in maybe, but I I don't know. I mean, they
couldn't get to the bottom of all that rat business.
You can, of course the low ball them. This is
they stopped him, he said. Synder Guard said, oh, I'd
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be happy to get the qualifying offer for the Mets,
which is like eighteen million. The Mets give it to him,
and the Angels say, here's twenty million. Oh I'm gonna leave.
Oh yeah, so much for being happy for getting the
qualifying offer. What I can't have it, man, I can't
have those guys win. I can't. I can't have Harper
win and walking around. I can't have it. Man. I'm sorry.
I'm not actively rooting for the Astros, but I'm not
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rooting for the filling. It's very difficult. It's a tough
needle to thread. I understand this. No one's forgiven the
Astros for what whatnot in the cheating scandal, because you
still have a lot of players playing in this game,
the entire starting in field. So yeah, I'm sorry, I can't,
but I really can't have the Phillies win. If the
game could end five five, and they they end the
World Series because of you know, darkness. Hey, we can't
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see a game ending darkness. Now the lights are all out. Okay,
no World Series anymore, and there's no champion this year,
then I would be probably the happiest. But you know,
I love baseball and I really can't go into the
offseason unhappy again. I don't want to. So yeah, so
I kind of have chosen, and I've chosen to not
have the filling I feel. I don't want the Phillies
to win more than I don't want the Astros to win.
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That's kind of where I'm at with it right now.
Somebody has to win, right Somebody's gotta win. I mean,
I understand that somebody's gotta win, and I'd rather it
not be the fight I really wanted to not be
the I know, I feel dirty, I feel awful after
saying it, but that's how I feel. He just walked
all the way around in circles, going on the ground
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and trying to people to think right a point. No,
I don't want people to actively think like I'm out.
I'm buying Astro's gear and wearing it, and I got
the day glow. Nolan Roy No, no, like and and like.
The only one greater than day Glow Nolan Ryan is
day Glow Jr. Richard. Okay, so that's the only one
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that would be better. But if you were wearing that,
nobody would blame you, even if it wasn't the World Series.
I mean, that's just I mean, that's a that's a sweet.
That's not no, that's a sweet sweet that is awesome.
The levels of orange running around with an old school
oilers Earl Campbell Jersey, I mean, you just command respect
that you can't come in here again for a HOGI no,
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I know you're the guy on the radio that never
against us, but you did pick Jalen hurt Stein m
v P and said the Eagles were going to the
Super Bowl. So I guess maybe I could give you
half a HOGI you get half justin unlike a lot
of folks with Mike, you're not bound, You're not. I
appreciate you and a tuna whatever you want, man, No,
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I appreciate that I do. He's not gonna came from
the tuna fish, but because they use real tuna. That
was my point. Okay, But here here's the thing for
Jason is that they'll still welcome him because he's more
than willing to pay full price, maybe looking to make
their own sandwiches, maybe buying some cold cuts. Whatever, he's
still like loaded up an extra met this time. He's
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getting as soon as Walt Well, I mean that can happen. Clubs,
you also to take in it. It's gonna be difficult
for you when you walk out this door. It's not
gonna have you better eat that jogi fast because you
know what's gonna happen. We're gonna We're gonna shove it
somewhere on you, and it's gonna happen. I mean, look,
but I will say, hey, I picked the Eagles. I
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picked the Eagles like Hurts. That's right. Hurts isn't even
rooting for the Phillies. He's a turn coat. He can't either. Look,
I would say, listen, I would root for you, Philadelphia.
I would root for you if you weren't a team
that I couldn't root for. You know what I'm wearing
right now, don't don't, dud dude, it's too early for
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this Philly's hat. Wait a minute, why are you wearing
the Phillies hat? Why are you wearing pies against your
astro's pick you, you and out just to be opposite me,
and is wearing a Philly's hat. No, wild, I start
wearing Cubs gear every time. I'm gonna wear a Rhine
Sandberg jersey every single day. I see you go back
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and read his autobiography. We should do a dramatic reading
every single time. I'm gonna wear and school kids. I'm
gonna wear a Rick Sutcliff jersey on every day, bart alone,
different Cubs every single day every day. Now there's there's
there's a couple of those guys that were mighty entertaining,
And I'm gonna come into Cody Davis. No, I know
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what I'll do even worse. I'm gonna come in wearing
a Matte Naggy mask every single day with the headphones
and everything. Yeah, there you go, now that and paying
good money to have that made. Now I got the
way there was demand enough to fabricate those. Hey, this
guy wants to order a Matte Naggy mask. He's on
like a second different impression of dialects in the United States.
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In the first segment of the show, Can we make
it and give it to him so we can stop
this alright, great, Yeah, you got that Matt Naggie thing
coming out in about five minutes. We're all good. Oh boy, Hey,
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weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. Well, we
have a big day in college football coming up tomorrow.
We got all sorts of top twenty five games potentially
headed by Syracuse Notre Dame. Second week in a row,
Syracuse is on national television. Mike Carmon, think about this.
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All the portals to hell are opening up. Syracuse on
national TV twice in two consecutive weeks. Yeah, really plaus
in well to Uh the Halloween weekend, now doesn't it? Well?
Did you take a picture? Syracuse ranked and Notre Dame
not go ahead, take its as low as twenty five
bucks for the get in on that one too. Uh
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Uh big Big ten match up, the Big Nude kickoff
on Fox. Ohio State and Penn State. You got two
and thirteen. There another one between Oklahoma State Kansas State. Uh,
things are starting to get to a little bit of
separation time here. We're gonna find out more if Tennessee
is for real. They got a tough game coming up
against Kentucky. Can us see they stubbed there till once
can a one loss USC team find their way in?
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Now every week is riddled with all kinds of drama
and anxiety for USC and oh, by the way, Michigan
and Michigan State, while every year Michigan finds a way
to lose to Michigan State when Michigan has a much
better team. So we got a lot on our plates tomorrow. Yeah,
Northwestern Iowa the over under a like thirty and a half. Yeah,
legitimately and Iowa sam in for Alex TiSER tonight legitimately.
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Tickets as are as low as sixteen bucks? Wait what what? What? What?
What number is greater? The number the number of the
over under, or that the money it costs to buy
a ticket. What's greater? Right now? It's I don't know,
that's six teens looking pretty pretty good right now. But yeah,
I mean you U c l A has got Stanford.
I mean there's so many good games. Our guy labar
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Arrington going back at Penn Steak and to be part
of the big noon or nude as we call it
kickoff here. Uh, tomorrow morning is the Ohio State visits
and you know he's going into the College Football Hall
of Fame and all that fun. So he'll he'll be
there ready to celebrate. Uh tickets even there only bucks.
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Of course, there's a hundred thousand of them, so do
the math. Joining us now on the hot lot the owner,
proprietor grand puba of College Football News dot com, you
are one stop shopping for college football. Pete feu Tech.
You can follow him on Twitter at Pete feu Tech.
And for a guy that eats, sleeps, and breathes college
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football like Pete does, you need to excuse him. Growing
up a Phillies fan the Phillies tied five five Game
one of the World Series. We have a very nervous
Pete fu Tech with us right now. What's happening? Man?
Oh yeah, I'm never really that nervous about that was
you know. Also back then, I like, you know, raspberry
coconut zingers too, So like it's I've sort of a
grown some of that stuff. I had that strange moment tonight.
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You know, we've all been to a ton, you know,
doing what we do, been to a ton of big games.
I grew up in Minneapolis. After I went to Twins
World Series games, I was definitely at six and seven
of ninety one. I couldn't remember what I was at
at eight. You'd think I would remember if I was
at like World Series games, but I couldn't remember that.
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So that I'm a little bit nervous about. Other than that,
I'm doing all right, all right. So so you so
you're feeling okay, I'm feeling nervous because I know we're
gonna win tomorrow because you know, look what, we have
the better team. But still I can just see things
continuing to fall apart for Syracuse like they did last
week against Clemson and I'm going Notre Dame is going
to somehow find a way to win this game, and
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I'm gonna be upset at you know, twelve thirty West
Coast time tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. But the fun thing about
that though, is it kind of it's just a nonconference
game at this point. Doesn't matter because you know the
loss to Clemson and all that, But you should beat them.
I mean, look, it's one of your million home games
that you get. You know, you took a little vacation
and now you're back because like you know, Syracuse, god forbid,
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you have more than you know, one road game this year.
And the only question is is the team just healthy enough?
I mean that's you know, the they do have the
talent there to do this. Nord name is not that good.
This should work, but you've got all those injuries on
the defensive front. If you could just hold up against
the run, I think your guys are gonna be okay. Alright, Pete.
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So the big game Ohio State at Penn State. Ohio
State scoring forty five or more points and six straight contests,
what what Conpenned States defense due to slow it down
and perhaps score an upset. First of all, during the promo,
they did absolutely enunciate noon, and then the second time
he said, he absolutely said nude. I'm telling you it is.
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I tried. I'm not joking. They're doing this just to
mess with me. It's absolutely. First of all, it's not Michigan,
you know, big nude kick off. It's the House State
two weeks in her own. I know you guys are jail,
but like, look, yeah, and the problem with the pen
Penn State trying to hang with this team is you
can do everything right and then all of a sudden,
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boom boom boom, they'll just hit with like three big
plays and then turn the lights out with this offense.
The funky part about Ohio State and a lot of
the Big Ten this year is that all these great defenses,
at least statistically, are in the Big tenant Ohio State
is one of them. So this defense, which has been
great so far, can show up and stuff the p
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in State running game. Make sure that doesn't do much
of anything. Get out to an early leagues. They should
be just fine in this. But it's gonna have to
take something miraculous, like a complete o House State meltdown
for them to lose this With that said, at the
immediate moment, the three of us we have as many
wins over currently ranked teams as Ohio State does and
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Alabama by the way, combined. So it's not like the
House States as great as it looks done that they've
played a bunch of killers yet and this is probably
the best team that they faced so far. Well to
that end, are you gonna split screen it with Northwestern
Iowa so you have balanced in your Yeah, I know
we dog Iowa, but like I here's a crazy stat
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with Iowa. Yes, they're people, you know, it's a stat
to make their offense takes the world a sadder place.
But they've also played like every team they played so
far has is like a top ten defense. It's in
even like South Dakota State is like the number three
defense in the f due world. So like, you know,
every everyone from Rutgers you know, to how State, you know,
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everybody I always played except for Northwestern has been until
is that thing is that it has a great defense.
Now they're gonna play a team it doesn't have a
great defense. And now let's see if this offense could
open up and be the greatest show on turf and
score you know, fifteen points or so. Pete Feutech with
US College Football News dot Com. Alright, so explain to
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me how this is gonna happen, because I want to
make sure I prepare my wife because every year it happens,
Michigan is favored in a large way over Michigan State.
Doesn't matter where the game is makes no diff Michigan
State could be playing with seven and somehow Michigan finds
a way to lose that game. How do they lose
the game tomorrow? Just so I could tell her so
she doesn't get surprised by it again. And the rest
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is gonna you know, you know, screw over the Wolverines
like they sort of did last year late and give
him a couple of breaks there. Or it's just one
of those games that Michigan State shows up and Michigan
turns it over in nineteen times. I don't know if
Kenneth Walker flew in from Seattle to do that again,
but you're right there there. They had this weird mind
meld over this program. I mean, seriously, they stunk in,
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didn't matter, still beat Michigan. They were, you know, pretty
good last year. Somehow beat Michigan that's why that only win.
But I don't think it will happen. I think Michigan
is just gonna be just too tough with that running game,
too methodical. It's just gonna take like a bunch of
turnovers and a bunch of mistakes for them to stuff.
But you're right, Michigan State's owned this program at least
been right there, you know, for the last you know,
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fifteen years or so, or it's either have been dead
even or Michiganan may haven't the lead in this. And
mel Tucker has beaten Hardbo twice, so yeah, everyone's helps
her up. I think they've only had one game where
Michigan's beat Michigan State by more than twenty two and
a half or whatever the spread is that right now
since two thousand, So uh, it'll I think Michigan State
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covers just because it's Michigan State Michigan. But this isn't
where Michigan's not losing this all right, we'll Levis with
a big spotlight game, pulling the upset Heisman trophies, all
that fun stuff because we get to talk Kentucky football.
Not crazy. Yeah, I mean, look, at some point, having
the second worst past defense in college football is gonna
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bite Tennessee. And you're right if you're will love this
and you are potentially that you know, your next Carolina
Panthers starting quarterback next year, and you're going against this this,
you know, the past defensive getting just obliterated, partly because
everyone's got to throw to keep up. Well, then all right,
you know, let's go, let's get this done, Kentucky. Let's
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see what you can do. Because Kentucky's got this funky
type of system that just slows everything down, makes everyone
play their tempo. And even though last year was the shootout,
I think one Tennessee, uh, this is I think gonna
be kind of slow. It's gonna be a little bit tougher.
I do think they're gonna grind it out a little bit.
I think Kentucky covers, but Tennessee pulls it out. All right,
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we get back to the games of a second. But
you mentioned, you know, franchise quarterbacks next year. We have
a lot of good quarterbacks coming out of the draft
this year. Who's the best one, who's the who's the
who's the best quarterback that should be taking number one
overall next year? Right now, what you've seen so far.
Can we put Bryce Young in the body of like
a six four two pound guy because he's so small,
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but man, that guy just sees everything. He's just calm,
He's got the right there. Actually, I want I want
Bryce Young and DJ Youngla's you know, skill set in
body that That's what I would want in one of
these quarterbacks because Young just he's got it. He just
knows how to read everything. He's just the smartest dude
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on the field and makes every right throw. He's just
really really small. And that was okay for Kyler Murray
because he could run faster and everyone, but that's just
not Bryce Young. So I think quarterback wise, talent wise,
it's Bryce Young. C J. Strout is just terrific. I'm
with everybody though, in until you get a good Ohio
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State quarterback other than Mike Tomzack, you know who really
shows that they can, you know, do something in me.
I think technically right now, the most productive all time
drafted Ohiose State quarterback is Kent Graham. Uh In turn
all the staff and stuff until Justin Fields finally takes
that over. But uh Stroud certainly there, TJ started a
terrific I'm a Hendon Hooker fan. I don't see it
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when we'll love us? I I is he the guy
who's gonna You're gonna win a super Bowl because you
have will love us. I'm not there, but he's probably
gonna go before all of them, all right. The PAT
twelve commissioners saying, hey, fans aren't in favor of those
Los Angeles teams leaving the conference and we will make
more money. You will lose by leaving. But both teams
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still ranked highly. How did they finish out? I keep
saying this, and I said, you guys, every week, keep on,
everything is going according to plan. You us see losing
a Utah that was budgeted in you like going to
Uh do you feel like going to Oregon and losing
that was sitting in the system. And if you notice
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by the way home teams and Power five conferences, particularly
the Big twelve and the Pack twelve are dominating last
two weeks. Uh So the homes have been dominating Big
twelve and Pack twelve over the last few weeks. So
UH soon this plays out is that if you look
at the rest of Oregon schedule, I don't think it
loses again. And if it does, it gets it has
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a weird rivalry loss to Oregon State. I think we're
gonna get two eleven and one pack twelve teams playing
in the Pac twelve Championship with the winner of that
going to the College Football Playoffs. So all the talk
about oh, well, we're gonna have three SEC teams in,
I don't think so. I think you've got it this year.
You've got to go twelve and one at least and
when you're Power five conference champion to get in this playoff.
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You can fall on Twitter at Pete fu Tech. That
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Joining us now on the hotline. He has a Pro
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Football Hall of Fame voter. He has a longtime NFL
inside to check him out on out kick. He is
Jason Cole, who right now is working on frantically redoing
his rankings for the two season and finding a way
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to put the New York Jets in the top ten.
Jake Hole, what's happened, buddy? How are you man? Jets
are Gets are number one? Yeah, buddy, top ranked team
and with the Bears not so closely behind Bears, big
resounding victory against a New England team that's gonna beat
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the Jets this week. So that's okay? You'd wait a second, Yeah,
that's right. You really think that New England team, based
on what we saw the other night, is ready to
beat anybody these days? Like having the Jet it is
the Jets, It is the Jets. Will Well, look, I
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know it's fully capable of happening. But when you're again,
when you're starting Frank Zappa, you've got some problems. Unless
he's going to break out the whole, the whole like
side a of sik your booty um, you know, like
that that could work out. Oh, that's right, But he's appy.
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Never mind, I thought you said the great kabuki as
if we were going back to world class championship wrestling.
So I mean there's all sorts of stuff going on
in there. Oh, absolutely, kabuki sheikabooty that actually, you know
with how how how ridiculously racist would be considered if
Frank Zappa were to do the cover of that in
today's world where he dressed up as a sheik on
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the cover of that. But yeah, that wouldn't that wouldn't
play well, that wouldn't play. I don't think so, I
really don't think so. Now, I say, I thought you
could sit here with your rankings of the I think
you're gonna go like, what what? What are the rankings
of the Zappa family? Is Dweezel number one is moon Unit,
Zappa is one? Well, I mean Frank is one. Okay,
the progenitor, the progenitor is one. But I can't move. Yeah,
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you get the word progenitor in so you win, guys. Absolutely,
you gotta work progenitor into every conversation. So Sara, like
Robert Sala is the progenitor of New York, all right, now,
yes he is? Look, how look how good the Jets are.
Look how good the Jets are. Look how good we are.
It's awesome. It's so awesome. Look at entertained just in
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time for Zach Wilson to throw four picks on Sunday,
And it's what happened. Does just in time? Just hey?
So look we we We spent some time talking about
the Brady situation a few minutes ago, and now the
divorce with Giselle is finalize, it's done. Uh. Look, I
always say, show me a guy going through a divorce,
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and I'll show you a guy having an awful season.
And while Brady has not had an awful season, it's
not quite been what we've expected to get from him.
But he's Look, he's not been Look look he's not like,
you know, five touchdowns, thirteen picks. He's still you know,
he's still playing okay, but he's not having a good
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Do you expect an uptick from him? Is it now
that this at least you know professionally, that this is
a story that he can put behind him go forward,
that things might change for him now going you know
I had the rest of the year. Is that offensive
line any better? So? Um, look, this is the thing
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we like to twist everything too. Oh, there's just a
solution around the corner. And everybody, look at how fast
Brady gets through the ball, and look at how quick
he is, and he's even quicker than before. That's because
he's throwing the ball to avoid getting killed, right, And
that doesn't make for a functional offense, right, it means
that you're playing you're playing offense in a shoe box
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basically the way. That's what they did. Now. They succeeded
for one drive um to open the game yesterday and
then yeah, Baltimore and in Baltimore is not very good defensively, right,
It's just aren't. But they figured it out in a
hurry and said, okay, well we'll take all this stuff away,
will press them up and you know, force some to
force them to throw a couple of balls deepening, He
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got close on a couple of balls. But like they
just they can't develop routes. He can't go through progressions
right now because there's just no structure because of the
you know, the foundation of the offense is a wreck.
Now it can get fixed, um, not easily, but I
can get fixed if they can get healthy on the
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offensive line. I just don't you know, I don't see
it happening real fast. Now. The fortunate part for them
is nobody's ain't good in that decisions, so they could
win that division at eight nine, and you know it's finally, finally,
Kirk Curve Street like made one point in the entire
you know, it came in like minute fifty five of
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the game, but he made a sailient point. My god,
you know, for a guy who's so good at football,
and you know, when he's talking about the college game,
it's just unbelievable how dull he is talking about them
in fact, And I just like, is it just because
it's not in his wheelhouse? And he's like it's kind
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of forcing himself to do it and doesn't really have
a passion for it, but he just doesn't sound like
he's all that interested. I think it doesn't help that
Al doesn't want to be there, and that's palpable from
the moment that they come on air. Al doesn't want
to be next to him, and basically no, I think
I think Al would rather be at home, but he
had a big enough pay check and was convinced to
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show up. Al still, I'll still puts in the work though,
I'll fake it, fake it pretty good. But sus ice
to say, right, like Kirk herb Street cannot fake it.
And but he made one point and again it came
with like five minutes less than the game. It's like, well,
you know, the way the division is going, they could
win this thing with a losing record. Yeah, that's right,
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that's why they you know, they're fans shouldn't totally freak out.
The problem is like, is this a team that can
go on the road and win, but they may win
the division? That would get them through one game, right
and make it a little bit easier. And the NFC
is not so hostile, Like there's nobody in the NFC
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that like scares you at this point in time that
it's so he's playing really good football. But you know, again,
they don't scare you that. The Giants don't really skin anybody.
I think Dallas defensively is really really good. But in
San Francisco they could really get together. But that's a
lot of ifs. And maybe there's nobody who's there. Ain't
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no Buffalo or Kansas City, let's just that way, or
the Jets. There's no Jets in there either, there's No,
there's no Jets. There's absolutely no Jets in the NFC.
They'd be the best team in the NFC. You put
the Jets that they'd be the best team. Is that
with or without Breeze Hall. No, I'm gonna have them.
I'm analyizah Vera Tucker. I'm petitioning in to have them
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switch with the Giants so the Jets can go to
the krap tastict NFC and the Hunts can go on
the loaded up a FC. I don't know. You always
wanted a bad division? Do you want email? I can
send your Goodell's email. You can. You can go to
him directly, our Goodell at three four five Park Avenue. Alright, great,
got it? And while I've got your ear, here a
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list of cowboys. He calls himself the Raja. Imagine Roger Goodell,
I am the Raja. You will you will, you will
absolutely address me as the Rajah. And that's it. Oh okay, okay,
that sounds good. Now he's doing a Laddin as his
Halloween theme. Okay, why do we know? Why do we
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not give more carries to Talbert? Why do we get
giving the ball to Ezekiel Elliott Jaffa Jafar. Why is
this happening? Why can't we just put him evenly? You
have a little bit like Johnny Most on that one.
So Johnny most Channels is enter. Gilbert got pretty idea.
It's a lot closer to Johnny Most than Gilbert Godfrey.
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I gotta tell you that that's actually a pretty good Gilbert.
Do you know you are just anti every impression I have,
which are all good one because like this, I don't
like this. I don't like this. Jerry Jones is not good.
The Burman is not good. The brad Children's isn't good.
Oh though, I don't like any of the brand presidents
you have. They're all bad. Yes, you're not good. You're
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not You're not good. You're no. You just you just don't.
You just don't know. Funny, I don't know funny you are.
You are the Josh Hader of of this of this show.
I am the joy. Yeah. If I could grow hair
like that, though, that would be impressive. That would be
well in that room to catch your phones for the
Hall of Fame. I have such a huge head that
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if you put that kind of of shad, I mean,
I would look like I had a size eighteen a
head if I had Josh Hayter's hair. Who is this
hippie about to vote for the Hall of Fame that
wants Roger Stall back out? Who was that guy? I
don't even know he's channeling there? Jake just you know,
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like a really bad Is that like Jerry Jones mixed
with Michael Caine? No, that was Michael Kine speaks to
his nose like this. He gets very specific and when
it gets loudly, it gets loud and date all right now,
um no, that was more just my you know, hey, people,
who is Steve Coogan doing Michael Kane? Don't know the
refreshing of Steve Coogan doing Michael Caine. The rails, the
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rails completely come off. That's why I was trying to
get it back to football and some rudamentary form. Michael
can used to talk like this in the nineteen sixties, right,
but that has changed and over the years with the
cigars and the brandy. Michael Caine, Uh no, I was
just doing my Hey, this is what people on things
sound like when we're discussing voting for the Pro Football
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Hall of Fame. I don't know, And you made the
guy ninety five years old. I remember back when the
single wing was getting we still left to get Jay
Berwanger in the mess is watching all the guys, everybody
on the zoom call, because now you can see everybody's face.
We used to be in like a youth formation, so
you couldn't see every single person, but now you can
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see the people who are like nodding off in the
middle of the meaning after about wait a minute, I's
out of the Hall of Fame. How did that happen?
He fell asleep? Clearly that's a no. I guess the
message is not getting through, is it. Well that's next
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level stuff right there. All right, um, well let's go.
You mentioned the forty niners before Deebo Samuel out this week.
McCaffrey comes in last week, limited role, A lot of
injuries on this squad. Rams who I don't know that
anybody is saying how good they are, and hey, they
got a whole half of football still still to play.
I mean, how did for this week? What do you
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see on the field? But long term, you know, Ken
San Francisco figure out the offense on a larger scale, Well,
I mean, look from a strategic standpoint, the forty Niners
owned the Rams like they just I mean, we all
know that, and and probably the Rams again, the Rams
wouldn't win a Super Bowl if somebody could hold onto
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an interception in the NFC Championship game last year. But yeah,
then side like, if the Rams are ever going to
kind of get it together and say we are the
champions and we want to you know, make another run,
it starts has to start happening now because they've played
such awful football. Um, and even if they win this Sunday,
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I'm not sure I really trust them to continue because
I just think mentally this team has sort of said,
you know, oh yeah, we we showed everything we had
last year, and you know, all right, we'll put on
a couple of put on a couple of moments. But
they're not built mentally to grind out of season. They're
just that's just not where they are right at this
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point in time. So I would side was saying, Okay,
the forty Niners should win this game, as they've won
all the other previous matchups. I just wonder if if
the Rams have enough to make this a game at home,
which puts the Forts even further out on a Cliff
in terms of where they are put Again, I come
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back to look at the entire NFC West. Are you
really believing in Gina Smith? I mean, I know that
all that training that he got from the Jets, from
those from those days made him the contender that he
is now. But yeah, but not not buying it, okay,
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Like just not not seeing Seattle and Gino Smith raising
the NFC West crown the flag along with the twelfth
Man that's at their whatever they named their stadium these days.
Um yeah, I'm just not really buying that. Um So,
I think that that division is still wide open, which
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means ultimately I think San Francisco's the best team once
they figure out McCaffrey, once they get into by healthy.
But the once they get everybody healthy, it's been a
couple of years since they've gotten everybody healthy. At the
same time. I mean, they weren't healthy, you know, most
of the last year, right, and they just happened to
catch fire at the right time. They weren't happy, They
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certainly weren't weren't healthy the year before now, they were
very healthy the year that they went went to the
Super Bowl and everything fell into place. I will also
say this for McCaffrey, though, I think he puts a
lot of pressure back on Garoppolo, where Garoppolo now knows, okay,
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Shanahan is doing everything he can to help me, like
he can't sit there and make the argument, well, you know,
Channing and wanted me out of here, so I'm just
you know, biding my time and you try and make
it work. Once they make the trade for McCaffrey, it's like, oh,
I'm better perform here, like because they're making my job
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as as easy as possible for me to be great
and possibly get to the super Bowl. They're doing it
by going out and getting a guy like McCaffrey. So
I think that that helps them sort of reunite some
passion for Garoppolo, who certainly was not into this idea
of playing for them in the game this year. He's
on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two, that is, at
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Jason Cole sixty two, pro Football Hall of Fame voter,
longtime NFL inside to check out all this. Now, I'm
not you're not doing it how Michael Kaine speaks, You're not.
You're not. It's not name because I'm not gonna try.
I just look, I do cowboy That's that's what I got.
You don't do the you don't do the pro good voice.
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But he gets very emotional cowboy bes. Take it easy, buddy,
what's not while we get some cowboy be together. Oh
but my impressions are bad. You're just doing whatever right now.
My impressions. I admit that my impressions are bad. I
tell you they're awful. My impressions are You live in
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a world where you think that's actually good. I'm not
gonna respond to that. That's that's a cold guy going.
He wants to keep Drew Piercing out of the Hall
of Fame. But I don't like that.