Best Of The Jason Smith Show w/ Mike Harmon

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I say this to you, Mike Carmen. Yeah, have a
nice discussion football impact of certain moves today of Dalvin
Cook signing with the Jets and what it means and

(01:08):
Breis Hall get into a lot of different angles of
at the fantasy angles what it means going forward Aaron Rodgers,
Or for four hours, I could just.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Go super Bowl, super Bowl, super Bowl, super Bowl, super Bowl,
super Bowl. You just have to put in the gay
melody and stick with what do you like? Super Bowl
super Bowl. I could sing super Bowl, super Bowl, any
tears for fear songs you want to.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
I think if you want to just keep doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
For four hours per Bowl, super Bowl, you'll run out
of breath and you'll be done. I don't know, man,
but I could do the in depth analysis super Bowls
and run around as you just dance like you're one
of those wind up monkeys clapping symbols super Bowl super Bowl,
because that's kind of what I'm feeling here, Like that's
the vibe, like the beginning fanom of the opera. This
masterade painted faces on parade, super Bowl, super Bowl, super Bowl,

(01:57):
super Bowl. I saw it come through my timeline. The
Dalvin Cook signing moments after Ezekiel Elliott got his from
the Patriots, Like Wow, what a reactionary move. They're afraid
of zeke just going to the Patriots. But it came
through and I let out an audible expletive. I let

(02:18):
the explotives fly, saying here we go again, super all
these times, no nice things for you. Every time you
think it's got a giant bow on it, inside the
box is an empty plate.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
No, no, no, see this is where this time, that's time.
But this time it counts at least for the moment.
I would. There's a lot of big things to get
to with this, a lot event and obviously Dalvin Cook
signing a one year deal with the Jets. There's a
lot to get to on this. But I will say
this for even you know, the old broken clock is
right twice a day kind of things. Oh yeah, yeah,

(02:53):
every fifty years things go the Jets way. And maybe
not for fifty years after, but for fifty every fifty years, eh.
And it's not an exact thing. It's like, you know,
it's like when people try to say, oh, Notre Dame
has predicted this, really he did. I was off. He
was off by a little bit, and I was off
by a little I was off by a few centuries. Sorry,

(03:15):
it's a rounding era. Yeah, because he lived a long
time ago, No, sure, but every so you know, every
fifty years it happens for the Jets, and this is
that time. It's like seeing Helly's comet, Like Heley's comic
came around when I was, when you were our kids.
And now I'm like seventy six years, seventy six, well,
seventy six.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Well, like I went out to the desert last night.
I had big clear skies. You got meteor showers, all
this stuff. Peyote, sure, some folks, Yeah, fun out.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
I might harming man, you told me last night. I'm line,
is that a coyote? I like the color that high?
That's just a guy who had some good stuff. Look
at the colors in the sky, thered and blue and
green and white, and the jets and he's awesome. Man,
Why is that one really bright looking like it's coming?

(04:06):
And me, hey, I think that's Harry's patroness. Man, that
looks like that looks like a dome. Man.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
I go from seeing stars and then all of a
sudden you add another one.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Just teams weird. Every fifty or so years it works out,
And this is that time for the Jets. So okay,
so okay, all right, this is the fifth This is everything.
Now the next fifty years is gonna be wof I
gotta start. I still have to play this season. Here's
the problem. I mean, you are champions of an offseason.
If you're Jim Mersey, there's a banner going up right now.

(04:38):
They may cancel the games. They may not need the games.
Just have the super Bowl. Just wait four months to
the Super Bowl. Aaron Rodgers, the Jets, how will it work?
They'll get Breese Hall back. What will the work division,
labor division be with.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
That?

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Jets Jets, Jets, Jets je But you still have that
schedule to navigate.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Doesn't matter. That division is not easy. So we got
Dalvin Cook. Doesn't matter. But I'm glad you brought that up.
I'm glad you brought that up because there are some
big takeaways from this and this is this is this
is number one. Yeah, this is Why did the Jets
get Dalvin Cook? Why did it happen? Why is this
such a big move? Why am I saying super Bowl?
I mean, I wouldn't be doing this with the Jet
sign of Ezekiellen. I'd be going you were already.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Saying super Bowl, super Bowl, super Bowl. Yeah, so I
just could thine anything else was additive. But even if
it was Ezekiel Elligert, you might have gone, but you
would have still been yelling super Bowl, maybe a little
more hushed super Bowl, super Bowls.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Why is this a great move?

Speaker 5 (05:30):
Why?

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Why does this work so well? Why is this a
super Bowl type move? Because the Jets stared into the
abyss and after this weekend in which they dominated the
Carolina Panthers, their second string defensive line dominated the entire
first half against the pat I mean, this Jets defense
is going to be a monster. And I'm sure the
Jets sat back and said, Okay, what's our disaster scenario

(05:52):
early on in the season, what what what could be?
So what's our disaster scenario? And you could point to
a lot of things. Well, we give up a lot
of points defense. Well, if that happens, it happens, because
what else are you gonna do. You built one of
the best defenses in the NFL. You have a great
defensive line, you have a great secondary. The defense is great.
What's gonna happen offensively? Well, we got Rogers, right, we
got the wide receivers he wants right, our offensive line,

(06:15):
we're figuring out who our tackles are going to be.
But the interior of the line is really good. Okay,
there's still question right, but yeah, you ran the ball. Well,
you know, the quarterback stays upright. Everything is fine. What's
the one thing. What's the one thing is I could
see the Jets and here's your disaster scenario. I did
the Jets starting out two and three, two and four,

(06:37):
and they're not scoring points and why because bres Hall
isn't quite back yet or he's not back at all,
and the Jets struggle running the football because look, Michael
Carter's are really good number two running back, but they
gave him the chance to be the one last year
he couldn't get it done right. You're talking about Zonovan Knight,
who has been the guy running is the number one

(06:57):
running back with the Jets this can it's been Michael Carter.
It's been Zonova Knight, who played a little bit last year.
They drafted Ubon a Conde in the fourth round. He's interesting,
but that's what the Jets saw. We go into this
season if we can't run the football and teams are
able to load up on us with the pass and
we just can't score enough and we lose games. We're

(07:18):
losing games sixteen thirteen, We're losing twenty to sixteen thirteen
ten because we just can't there's no separation. Teams are
laying back. That's the disaster scenario for the Jets. Why
because we can't run the football. And what would happen
in New York and national media? It would mushroom. How
do the Jets not take care of the running back position?
How do you not see this coming? How do you

(07:39):
not see that if Breese Hall isn't ready to go,
that you're gonna go into the season thinking this is
going to work. That Michael Carter and a guy you
drafted in the fourth round and Zonovan Knight, this is
gonna be your running back situation. And suddenly it looks
like the Jets had no planning. They were thinking, we're
just gonna go and throw the football seventy five times
a game. That's the disaster scenario. So what they said was,

(08:01):
you know what, let's solve this. There's not another offensive
tackle out there that we can go get that's gonna
come and help us on the offensive line. We have
the money to spend, so let's go get Dalvin Cook
for one year and now when Breese Hall does come back,
we don't have to give him the ball twenty times
a game. He can work himself back in. Dalvin Cook
is a workhorse back. He can play all three downs.

(08:22):
You still have Carter can play on passing down to
you know, he had a really good game on Saturday,
catch the ball to the backfield. So what they did
was say, that's our disaster scenario. How do we how
do we fix that. Let's go get Dalvin Cook. Now
the Jets have no weaknesses. Yes, you have certain parts
positions where oh are they as good? But they have
no weaknesses now and they've they've guarded against what could

(08:43):
be the worst thing that could befall them, and now
they have fixed it. So that's why Supermo, sup Permo,
Supermo Supermo.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Well, I mean, it's something we talked about a while ago.
When Aaron Rodgers redid his deal right and cleared up
some cash and gave them some space and opportunity to move.
It's like it seemed to foretell that this was going
to happen, just a matter of when and what the dollars,
dollars and cents needed to be and when Dalvin Cook

(09:11):
wanted to go back to work.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
August fourteenth. This is the day everybody wanted to go back.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
It's back to work day. You didn't know that National
back to Work Day. I didn't even look up what what?
What I think holiday? No?

Speaker 1 (09:22):
I think it's a I actually read what it might
have been? It might have been I always say National
Donut Day, because I always say that when I picked
up from school. Hey, you know, today's National Donut Day.

Speaker 5 (09:31):
Really?

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, let's go get it. Let's go get a donor.
Yeah no, that's not a bad move. Yeah, it's all
and she goes dad. Isn't that like the third time?
It's National Donut Day this month? Yes, National donutt Just
run with it. So today is something? But no, today
was something that awareness? No? Really what creamsicle Day?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (09:47):
I might have been creamsicle Day? Tattoo removal day? Why today? Though?
Now you want to wait till today? I want to
get that tattoo off?

Speaker 3 (09:54):
The World Lizard Day? How about that the lizard? There's
got to be something else better than that. There's about
have a creamsicle?

Speaker 1 (10:01):
His story ones in here and love your Bookshop. No, no, no,
let's go with Creamsicle Day, because anytime you can talk
about a dessert and throw it in there, I like that. Okay,
that's good, So so we it's Creamsicle or Tampa Bay
Buck Jersey's Day. It's also Navajo code Talker's Day. Oh
so Nick Cage is he doing a bit? But what
was the movie he's in? Wind Talkers? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Okay, all right, So I mean, but Zeke Elliott gets signed,
Sure your guy Dalvin joins the Jets. Sure Zach Martin
finally realizes there's no recourse for him, so he signs
a new deal with the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Everybody's back.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
We get the word that Jonathan Taylor he's at least
gonna show up. It's not gonna play practice or do
anything else unless but that's a whole other thing. But
I mean for today, I mean, it is a celebration
for you if you have won another day in the
off season. But it was foretold by Aaron Rodgers and

(10:54):
the contract manipulation that they did a little while ago,
that they were ready for another big move. And here
it is, doubt are you ready to come to work?

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Let me ask you this. We we spend a lot
of time debating greatest teams of all time? Right? Is
the greatest NFL team of all time? Is it the
eighty five Bear? Right? Is it the two thousand rates? Right?
Is it one of Tom Brady's? Uh so that's done.
So I debate that. Now I ask you, this is
the twenty twenty three Jets off season the best off

(11:27):
season team ever? Are we the best team of the
off season ever? The only other.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Team I could think of it. I'd have to actually
look up the year because I don't know what offhand.
But remember when Washington signed all those guys that would
end up going into the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Oh, that was pretty good, right, But on paper it's
when the Lakers brought in Malone and everything's like whoa.
But we didn't have the attention that this did. It's
twenty years later. Yeah, if all those guys including Dion
are going there then, but the hype, the hype is
so big. The hype is much bigger now than Cargo.
You could sign a buy the glitter suit and he

(12:04):
was Billy. He's a Broadway guy. Aaron Rodgers a Broadway
could be Billy Flynn. He could be Billy Flynn. They're
pop six squits Oh, Cicero, Rogers Pop six Squitch, Oh,
Rogers best off season team of all time.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
We'll have to go through the history, and they go
through and try to figure out if there's another time.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
I don't think there is it.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
I don't think in terms of hype, expectations and the
potential for it to implode so horribly.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, yeah, all those things are true. Look at the Jets.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
All those things are true because it's not like, Wow,
they did a lot of cool stuff. Let's see what
happens super Bowl or bust. If he doesn't win it,
it's bust.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Doesn't matter. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
I mean, he's like James Harden in the playoffs. So
I mean, let's see what happened.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
I may just need this best offseason team of all
We don't need need the games. Yeah, but we won
the off season. I mean you've got a uh stay
one hundred. Yeah. Should we just I won the offseason?
Should I make that for it? Twenty twenty three offseason champions?
You know what Eleanor designed that?

Speaker 3 (13:06):
The I like the raised lettering, like the felt ice
and fuzzy je textile thing.

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(13:33):
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a big day in the NFL. August fourteenth, and it's
people going to workday right. It'll come to workday right.
Zach Martin got paid. Ezekiel Elliott is a Patriot. Dalvincook

(15:56):
is a Jet August fourteenth who knew well Jerry Jones
did exactly what we knew he to do. I like Zach.
I'll go to pay these other guys. I need Zach.
It's down on the list. The guy got it on there.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
How many times you think Dak Prescott texted Jerry Jones,
go and get him back?

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh, mad him back. That's the guy was I wanted
the Wilson kid. He was good last week. That's the
Zach I wanted. I wanted.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
That's I didn't know, Okay, they just they put the
they erased the letter at the top and put put
a Z in.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
So I had to Zach Wills that. Zach said he
was pretty good.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Tell you play a second string defense, uh against the
team in preseason.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Zach Wilson's gonna nickel and down you to death. He
could throw the ball five six yards and get downfield.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Are we gonna get another montage of Aaron Rodgers calling
plays for Zach Wilson.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Oh see, I'm hoping. See, I was hoping that the
Dalvin Cook thing could make it into tomorrow's heart? Is
it too?

Speaker 3 (16:50):
They might have already done tape, because don't you think it?

Speaker 1 (16:54):
He was there right, I mean, he was on campus.
Aaron Rodgers can call Live Schreiber and say, hey, dude,
voice of God, you got it, Come in we got
Dalvin Cook. No, they're buds now. Yeah, but I'm kind
of busy doing it. No you, hey, Ray Donovan, get
your ass in here. We flew you here in a
bleeping helicopter. Maybe get here and give that line over
for Dalvin Cook.

Speaker 5 (17:11):
But a new running back was on the way to
New York, maybe in a helicopter. Maybe he was getting
driven there, but Dalvin Cook is now in the building.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
See I could do it, just call me up. I
could do the live shiver. He doesn't even talk like that.
That's only he doesn't even sound like that when he.

Speaker 5 (17:25):
Does his movies, but when he talks for Hard Knocks,
that's how I said.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
I say it like this, Well, it's a different part
of acting.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
You thought things were going well.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
And then he sounds nothing like, yeah, that's exactly nothing
like that. That's exactly how he said.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
No.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
I mean, I'm just gonna let him go with the
illusion because what he's hearing in his mind is a
perfect representation. He also was picturing himself with the gun
show and everything that Shriver's hair.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
You know, my wife used to say that to me
a lot, like if I was walking around the house
and she would say something and I would either didn't
hear it, or she would say and five minutes later
I forget. She would say I just said that to
you five minutes ago, and I would say, no, you didn't,
Yes I did, But you're walking around the house going jets, jets, jets,
Jess Curtis Martin Curtis Martin, Curtis White juts Jets. I said, okay,
maybe I was, but you didn't say that.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
You didn't you didn't say take the garbage out, or
you didn't say, hey, can you run to the store
and get ice.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
I just said that to you.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Jet's Judt's judge Judgs Jets Jets, I have no knowledge
in such circumstances, ju je Jet.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Now speaking of hard Knocks, right, yeah, cook to the Jets. Right, Look,
we're going to the super We talked about super Bowl,
super Bowl. This is what hard Knocks can do for you,
what you can do for me.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
This is why Well when I say you, I say
that it's the collective you. This is the collective you.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, because hard Knocks gets a bit of a bad
get gets a bit of a bad rap. Then this
gets into quarterback Netflix, which we'll get to in a
couple of seconds. But so many teams are hasn't hard Knocks.
Why do we want hard Knocks? Oh, it's a distraction.
It's this, it's that, Okay, I said, the Lions who
are approached, they should be the official team of hard Knocks,

(19:04):
because as long as you have your house together, it
can be a huge thing for your organization. Right, First
of all, you would own the month of August. You
would own the entire month. He would be. The attention
would be on your team because now in the preseason
stars don't play at all. We're looking for more football
content and and hey, Hard Knocks has provided it. And

(19:26):
the biggest thing is that if you have your house
in order, what's gonna happen? Everybody around the league watches this, right,
forget about the forget for a second about you and
I and the fans watching Hard Knocks. And I've watched
Hard Knocks now four times from last week and I
can't wait for you for another time.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, really, Yeah it was fun, dude, that's what you
call mad obsession.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
You want me to start playing then? And I wanted
to see the part where Elbrick said, hey, we had
perfect coverage on this, but what the hell are you
gonna do when he throws that ball like that side
arm on the out of like supermo supermot. So when
you have your house in order and you're on Hard Knocks,
it's not just hey, this looks this is pretty good television.

(20:07):
It's for free agents out there, for agents, for players
who are coming up on an expiring deal. Hey, that
looks like a pretty cool place to play.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Detroit had Dan Campbell that kind of guy. It. This
guy believes in us, he taught the way he gets
after it. I can get on board. But you didn't
know because you need them to play last year. Oh
and now okay, now the Lions are a place, but
now you have the Jets. And who's not watching that
first episode if you're a player saying, oh, I think

(20:40):
I want to go there, You're seeing Aaron Rodgers make
all kinds of crazy ass throws, So you know the
belief in the quarterback is there. You see a head
coach that you'd like to play for. I love the
the the the Eagle and the and the and the Crow.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Story of the eagle takes the crow up so high
it asphyxiates him and kills the crow, and that's how
he eats.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
It's pretty started interesting. I don't know, I don't know
really they animated. Yeah, I'm just picturing, like when iron
Man went all the way up through the uh we
only up in the atmosphere in.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
I was picturing this. I got you so, But who's
not watching that episode last week? Going Hey, that's where
I want to play? The players all. They all had
the belief in the quarterback. The defense is really good.
You saw everything on tape that you liked. You watch that,
even though it's just a view from Hey, I'm watching
an hour show. You don't know about the culture of

(21:34):
a team. You don't know what it's like going to
play somewhere. You go someplace, You talk to a couple
of friends around the league. Hey, what do you think
it's like playing in New York? What it's like playing
for the Jets. What's it like playing Maybe you call
a couple of players on the team. You don't know.
But now you get this and you get a little
bit of Hey this, I see what's going on on
the field. I see the way the coaches are acting,
and the cameras are on all the time. I see

(21:55):
what's happening. I like, no one's watching that first episode
last week and not that's a great place to play.
They flew in the Bleep and Voice of God on
helicopter and he's talking to the quarterback and he's talking
about what he played high school football against Brooklyn Tech,
and we kicked the crap out of Brooklyn Tech, and
we played them and we tied them, and then we
beat them. Yes, we beat Brooklyn Tech. We beat you

(22:17):
Live Shreiber, we beat you.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
I did put a note in the mail to see
if we can't find a way through to him.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
I didn't. I went went mail.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
I wrote an hand note to see if we can't
find out how to get him on the ship.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
I'm pretty sure it's all against Him'm pretty sure.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
See if we can't verify that, maybe he trucked you.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
No, no, no, if he was a defensive defensive unless
it's on special teams. And I got trucked a couple
of times on special teams, but not against Erasmus all man.
I got trucked against Erasmus on special teams once when
I was covering a kickoff and the coach when I
was going back and happened to be somebody was off side,
so we had to do it again. We had to
kick it again, and I'm going back to my bot,

(23:00):
and the coach goes, Jason, okay, yeah, yeah yeah, and
then one of the players you okay. I go, no,
just give give me a minute, Give me a minute,
Give me a minute, because I just got absolutely destroyed
on the play. And it's not like I was. It
was just one of where you get hit and you're like,
I don't feel my body. It's one of those happened.
It was I was the hawk on the kickoff team,
which meant that when the ball was kickedside, I grabbed

(23:24):
the player tried to bring him up. So the hawk
on the kickoff team, as you start off on the
outside and you go in to make the tackle, your
your job is just to go in all the way
and make the tackle. Because I was pretty good at it.
But this one time we had this kickoff and was
playing Erasmus, who turns into this big city power in
New York. And I'm going in and it's one of
those where I evade. I evade a couple of guys
and all of a sudden, I'm like, how do I

(23:44):
miss this guy? And all of a sudden, I'm running
straight into a guy who's like six ' five and
I go and there's no way that I'm gonna avoid him,
and he's down and he just explodes into me and
completely not I'm glad it wasn't on tape because the
kick was was was on the other side of the
field and he just explodes in me and I hit
the ground and I get up right and I get
up right away, and I'm like, I can't, I don't.

(24:06):
I'm just well, I don't know what's going on right now.
And then I see that there's a flag and I
stand there and they go, it's it's it's offside. I
don't know why I was off side of kid back.
So we had to do it again because it wound up.
The ball wound up going to a point where they
they we were able to get to it and down
it like at the twenty yard line or something and
kick off in high school, you know you want to
take you want to take over, like the forty yard line.
So we had to do it again, and I go,

(24:28):
all right, all right, and I think I can't remember,
but I think I told the other guy switch with me,
and I'll be the contained guy. You be the hawk
on this one, because I don't know that I can
go back in there because I just wasn't anywhere. So
the two guys on the outside, the one guy's the hawk,
the one guy's contained, which means you stay outside and
if it breaks through, you have to take the angle
to catch the guy. Now, I wasn't nearly fast enough

(24:49):
to catch anybody. But I was like, if this happens
at Hawker, so I switched with the guy on the
second on the second kick, I'm pretty sure. And no,
I don't know what happened. I come off the field
and I was like, I need a minute. I need
a minute. I need a sandwich. I need a minute
because because I because I was supposed to go right
back I got back the smelling sandwiches. Don't you know?
Was I supposed to go right back out?

Speaker 3 (25:07):
I was supposed to stay on the field to play
defense because I was defensive back, and it was And
I was like, and I came off the field because
I got to go yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, I didn't think he knew that. I got blown
up and I needed a minute. So I sidelined. I
took a drink and I was like, okay, the doctor
looked at me. I said, here's your header. I go. No,
I just got I just I don't know. I just
I'm feeling a little. Yeah. I felt like I could
have flown right. So anyway, but it was not against
Brooklyn Tech. But that's what hard knocks can do, is
that it can it can present your organization as a

(25:36):
destination and is there any surprise that Dalvin Cook chose
the Jets. Well, but the other part.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
That the Jets are doing No, Look, they cleared up
money they wanted to pay him, So that wins out
for everything. Right, When when it's all said and done,
how much playing time are you necessarily going to be afforded?
How much free money did you have? Well, we know
the Jets freed up money when Aaron Rodgers redid his deal,
so that was there. But certainly from an organizational standpoint,

(26:03):
quarterbacks the rock star, all eyes are on him. You
come in and do your work, and if you succeed,
you're right along for the ride and you get all
the glory and all the big things that go. I mean,
look at all those guys, uh celebrating. Yeah, Joe Namath's
the head of the snake, but guys have dined out
on that for fifty years.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
We're the old meeting. We're it. That's all we got.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
So when when you have a hard knock situation and
you and I have been watching it for years and
we've talked about it a lot, like there's so much
you can do, and the Jets taking control of things too, Right,
what we got out of it is like, hey, we're
not doing the cut thing.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
What else?

Speaker 3 (26:39):
What else did they negotiate in terms of how their
team had to be portrayed, right, Because you've got the
game tape.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Right.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
My older daughter loves watching these reality competition shows, right,
your big brothers, your survivors, whatever else. So the patterns emerge,
So you start debating, all right, who's fitting into the
old pa and gonna get kicked out or get escalated
to this or whatever. And there's message boards and everybody's
online and freaking out when.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Stuff stuff happens.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Same thing with hard Knocks, Like it's predictable patterns and
a lot of this stuff. But when you can be
a team that just says, you know what, we're not
doing that, and we're not doing that. We'll do your show,
we'll do your show, but here's how it's going to operate. Yeah,
you put yourself in the best light and you put
your best foot forward.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
With the Lions.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
You just happen to have a charismatic, kind of crazy
coach who really carried things into a whole other world.
So it's more about him in this case. A lot
of players on the team, right sauce Gard guy. People
want to know about Garrett Wilson, a guy people want
to know about Aaron Rodgers image rehabilitation, which is what

(27:47):
we've been talking about ever since he decided and declared, Hey,
I have every intention to.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Be a jet.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
That's what this has all been about. So now you
take to the national airwaves and once a week you
get to I mean, it's paid for programming, right.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Would you like all these greatest hits of the seventies
assembled on two compact discs? But that's it.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
This is how we operate. Look at the freedom our
players have, Look how cool they are. Look at how
everybody gets along. Yeah, the quarterback comes in, he's got
a secret handshake with everybody. All of these things, it
becomes this great come play here. It also is I
think a great blueprint to make other teams feel at
ease as opposed to the Now we're not doing that.

(28:31):
It's gonna be a distraction. Makes you look at House
and say the hell's wrong with your organization that you
don't trust it. Although I'd like Washington to be on
there because I want to see Eric Banemy yell at
people and see how they cower in fear.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Hey, we're not gonna let you show our offensive coordator
yelling at other people. Then why are we doing the
show what hard knocks can do for you? Trust me?
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Speaker 1 (30:20):
Didn't we have an open like a year ago? There
was these guys hate everybody?

Speaker 4 (30:24):
Do we know?

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Again?

Speaker 1 (30:25):
It might be two years ago.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Maybe with age we've come to accepting, sure, recognizing that
positivity is really the only path.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
What's up? We still hate everybody? Now? Okay? Well, but
I mean outwardly, don't we have to say the other?

Speaker 3 (30:39):
I mean, I hate Dolvin Cook, but we love the Jets. Jets, Jets, Jets,
you love the Jejets.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Jets. The Jets go to the Super Bowl. I'm already
tired of him. Dog is fourteenth? Well, get ready, get
ready for fourteen and oh four.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
I'll probably smoke some meat. Yeah, that's how I'm gonna
pass some time. You know what, Maybe I'll do that
this week and I'll bring it in Jets Jet.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
No, don't, because you all you promised last week gonna
go all this great food and bring it in and
everybody comes in and yah, I can't come into. He
wouldn't have eaten it. I can't come in. Wouldn't have
eaten it.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
I didn't.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
I didn't grow tone now I couldn't come into. Forget.
We have his card on file. We that is true.
We will order from Fat Seals on Harmon's card. We'll
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why they're going to the super Bowl, all the big
questions we will answer.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
Because desperation is a stinky desperate man. Once we are
the hunted pile of chips into the center of the table,
you look to your friends, go, hey, that guy re upped.
You got anything left? Much? Go?

Speaker 1 (32:07):
So if desperations is stinky cologne, what is beyond desperate?
That's good question? Hang on, hang on, giant bunch of
chips in the middle. But we got John Paul Morosi
coming up in a couple minutes MLB Network Insider, And
there's this really big, crazy, potentially awful story out of

(32:29):
Major League Baseball involving tamp May Ray shortstop Wander Franco,
who may be the best shortstop in the game at
this point. He was just signed to a big contract
a couple of years ago by the Rays, young player
who was up locked into the team for the next
few years. He is now on the restricted list after
social media posts questioned the alleged nature of relationship between

(32:50):
Franco and a younger woman who may be underage. Now,
there's not been a lot of details about this story.
You can get online and see all kinds of stuff,
but right now there due to some social media posts
that it never really went via that we didn't really
get to see that Franco may be involved in or

(33:10):
had been involved in a relationship with someone with a
woman who was underage. Not a lot of details outside
of that are what are known right now. What we
do know is that he didn't make the trip with
the Rays to San Francisco. They got a three game
series starting tonight they're playing right now, and the restricted
list takes a player off the team's roster, and usually

(33:30):
you hear about this in the NFL when a player
does something bad, he's on the restricted list. He's here.
It was a whole Deshaun Watson case as well, and
he can be on the restricted list now. They're not
required to pay players on the restricted list, but the
Rays are continuing to pay Franco's salary, so now it's
being investigated. Both the Rays and Major League Baseball mutually
agreed that he will go on the restricted list and

(33:53):
take leave from the team for the duration of their
current road trip, and there's so many things to get to.
It's it's it's impossible to go on and look a
social media because you have people saying, I know this happen,
I know this happened, I know this happened. I know
this happened. I know this. This is all we know,
right and and it's it's in a way, it's weird

(34:14):
because we never don't have information, we never don't have
information story. We are in the age of instant information,
and to not have the information to story like this
is kind of odd. And it's an outlier because even
with something that is as as sensitive as as what's
gained relationship with a younger woman, we still would get

(34:35):
that we don't have that information. And this is playing
out for now behind closed doors. Joining us now for
more on this, John Paul Morosi, you can follow on
Twitter at John Morosi MLB Network Insider JP. Well, what
are you hearing about Wander Franco the situation going on
right now with him the rais in Major League Baseball?

Speaker 4 (34:54):
Well, gooding, guys. It's obviously a very concerning situation overall
for everybody involved it. I think that for me, right
now I'm just hearing what's been said publicly, and obviously
Franco right now is on the restricted list by mutual
agreement of franco On and the Rays to make sure

(35:15):
that MLB has time to look into the allegations that
were made. And beyond that, I don't have any specifics,
and I don't think a lot of other people do.
I think it's it's being done in a confidential fashion,
which I think is important for a matter of this
sensitivity and this high level of concern, and I think

(35:35):
that at that point in time, you just have to
let the process play out. And that's been what I
think the MLB has said, It's been what the Rays
have said, and really beyond that, it's it's really inappropriate,
I think, from my perspective, for to say any more,
because I just I don't think we don't We just
don't know, and I think that that, to me is
the important thing to say, to acknowledge what we don't know,

(35:56):
and right now there is not a lot that we know,
and so I think that we all have to wait
and see what is said and what is ascertained in
the next week. And I think that that is the
next interval that sort of has been acknowledged that the
Rays and Franco have understood that he's going to be
on the restricted list for the next week, and then
next week perhaps there will be more information or perhaps

(36:18):
some level of clarity as to what the next step
forward are going to be.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
JP turning our attention to the Diamond, we'll go to
the well what used to be the Mets Hurler and
Max Scherzer report over the weekend that Justin Verlander was
a bit of a diva that caused some problems in
locker room, but everything seems right in Texas as he
dominates once again.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
Well to me there, to back up a little bit
on Schurzer and Justin, I think that the two of
them have always been ultra competitors. It did not surprise
me that when they both departed that there was some
difference of opinion, let's say, about about how each regarded

(37:02):
either the other or being a teammate in general. None
of that was a surprise to me. It just wasn't.
And I think that to that point, Schurezer is still
showing that he's got something left to offer, and I've
been impressed by what he's done so far since coming
to Texas. You know, it's interesting the Rangers. You know,

(37:23):
they've they've had some injury concerns here in recent days,
the Jonah him situation. Now he's back, Josh Young is
on the il and they're not really sure when he's
going to come back. So they've had it now really
lean into their pitching and rely on them a lot.
And the way that Max has pitched so far shows
to me that he still has something to offer. And

(37:43):
I think that team's going to be a tough, tough
out in the postseason. We know how deep their lineup is,
and now that they've added Shure's are on top of it.
It's pretty remarkable. I think the point I want to
make about Texas in general is let's not forget the
big picture of this team. Three year years ago, they
opened the new stadium and they can't have any fans,

(38:04):
and they end up hosting the World Series in the bubble,
and it was obviously a very difficult time for our
country and for baseball. And now with this new look
team and all the talent they've got, they've kind of
had a second chance to relaunch that period of time
in their new ballpark and on top of that, you

(38:25):
really have to credit ownership because even though the Mets
are paying a significant amount of money on Surezer's contract,
the Rangers are still you know, there was still an
investment of prospects, an investment of some money on top
of what they thought they were going to get from
de Grom. So I think in terms of ownership groups,
you tip your cap to the ones that really invest

(38:47):
and spend and want to win. And I just wanted
to give a lot of credit to the Rangers for
what they've done in their ownership group, because they deserve
a ton of credit for investing in this team, and
right now they're really really seeing they were of that
and they'll.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Be now we're getting inside of John Paul Morosi, our
guest here The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon. All right, JP,
let's go west for a second. I'm gonna say something
and you give me agree or disagree? You're ready?

Speaker 4 (39:11):
Sure thing?

Speaker 1 (39:11):
All right? This season now an eight and a half
game lead in the NL West. This is the most
impressive regular season the Dodgers have had in the past decade.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
I agree. I agree because the reason I'll say that
this is not the most talented team, And I like
how you not. I like how you phrased that it's
not the most talented team, but it is in a
lot of ways the most the most impressive job that
Dave Roberts has done. And by the way, since Dave

(39:44):
Roberts has come in as a manager, you know, we
don't talk enough about him, about what a great leader
he is and how he sets the culture. Since Dave
Roberts took over this organization, no one has won more
games in Major League Baseball than Dave Roberts. And I
don't care what your payroll is, I don't care how
many stars you've got. That says a lot about the manager.

(40:06):
So I've been really impressed by Dave Roberts. I think
he gets it. I think he's got a superstar Layden
club that plays very unselfish, team oriented baseball. You know,
speaking to you tonight from Atlanta, the Braves won. They
arrive at three in the morning from New York and
still have the energy and get out there and have
a lopside to win over the Yankees. It will be

(40:29):
a surprise if the NLCS is not Atlanta versus the Dodgers.
Now certainly a lot of things can happen. How many
times have we seen the postseason and nothing expected happens.
So I think we have to keep open that possibility.
But I look at this matchup and say to me
right now that those two teams, the Braves and the Dodgers,
they're doing it a little bit differently. The Braves are

(40:51):
just an absolute one through nine show of hitting. They
are deep and talented, and they just have you know,
Ozzy Albi's is out of the lineup, He's going to
be out for a while. Nicki Lopez comes in three hits,
He's bat in seven hundred right now. It's unbelievable. What's
what's going on for the Braves? Just one great player
after another. So, but I answer your question, I fully agree.

(41:14):
I think it's the most impressive season because they've missed
Kershoff for a while, they've missed Buehler for all obviously
an entire season at this point in time, Dustin May
gets hurt, Gonsolin initially was out for a period of time.
Look at what they've been able to do, and they
keep calling up players in the minor leagues, especially pitchers
this year, who can contribute along with outman in the outfield.

(41:36):
So I. And by the way, let's not forget they
lost their shortstop in spring training and Gavin Lux, So
I just think that, Yeah, I agree with you one
hundred percent. This is the most impressive regular season they
have had during this amazing streak of playoff appearances. Well, well,
well phrased with that question, excellent job.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Holy wow, look at that that question. I could do
in print. I could do all the peyton and professorship
in class and.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
You can take over there, no question about it. All right,
I'm gonna steal a line from Taylor Swifty. This is
why we can't have nice things because you said all
those great things.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
The Mets stink.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
But the fact of the matter is jp we also
say that about the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Now
show hey Otani with the arm fatigue? Are we getting
operations shut down on the pitching side here? Given their
current state of affairs, losing again tonight twelve to nothing,
one hit in a miserable performance that it keeps sinking,

(42:34):
Well it is.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
I'll say this about the Angels. They have been through
quite the topsy turvy season. I'll go back and I'll
say this because I want to be true to what
I told you guys in the last days of July
that while I understand the baseball rationale for why you
should have traded O'tani, I think for their fans at

(42:58):
that time they made the call. They had played well
enough to earn a chance. You want to set the
right standard about your organization and let them follow through
on it. And obviously, basically nothing has gone right since
they made that decision. Now we could say that it
was predictable that that was going to happen, and again,

(43:20):
even on their best day in the last part of July,
their chances of making the playoffs, if you look at
a lot of the algorithms, that was still under ten percent.
And I respect that, but I respect that they made
the decision to keep going for it, because when you've
got a generational player, if you weren't going to trade
them a year ago, then I think that it was

(43:41):
the right decision to keep them. Now. Now all that
being said, I think that the way that he's handled
going forward is going to be fascinating because you've got
a team in the Angels who probably doesn't have a
great chance to sign on this winter because they continue
to prove to everybody that they're just not ready to
win right now, even with Otani. So Otani's gonna look

(44:05):
around and say, wait a minute, So why would I
sign back with you if for the first six years
of my career all we've done is not be good enough.
I just I don't see it happening. And so now,
how well, what is your obligation then I think it's
the same obligation as anybody to take care of your players. Period.

(44:25):
That's your number one job as an organization to take
care of your players, put them in the best situation
they can to succeed, no matter if you're one hundred
and fifty and ten or the opposite, that you have
to do right by your players. I think with show A,
you know, it's a fine line. If he's if his
arm is tired, if you can't pitch, then he can't pitch.

(44:46):
But if I'm a GM who's going to make a
decision about if I'm going to tell my owner that
it's worth half a billion of his or her dollars
to spend in the off season, and the owner says, well,
how often did he pitch down this stretch? And I
say it says here that he made six starts since
the beginning of August, and then and then the owner says,

(45:06):
and we're gonna give him half a million dollars, So
like that's that's that's the question. And so I think
that for show A, we're reaching a very interesting point
in this whole story to where him pitching with good
results and good health is gonna matter a lot more,
a ton more to him than it will to the Angels.

(45:27):
And how they manage that situation, I think is one
of the most interesting storylines that we have got in
the final quarter of this regular season.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
You can fall on Twitter at John Morosi, that is
at John Morosi, MLB Network insider, who now looks like
he's not gonna get to be the head coach of
Michigan for four games this year. But that's okay. Let's
cover baseball all the way the end of the season.

Speaker 4 (45:50):
I understand there have been big happenings in that area.
I need to go back and study it, but I
do know this. I do so the Big Ten, which
has approximately thirty five teams. Now, yeah, there was a
graphic on on on television I saw today. We got
a lot of the top ten teams in the ap pole.
I feel pretty excited about that.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Yeah, well, when you have that many teams, you got
to have some going on.

Speaker 4 (46:13):
It's a law of averages. Yeah, when you when you've
got when you've got a you know, I remember this,
There was a there was a I can't remember. And
this is going to date me back to when I
really followed filed national college football on a very very
serious level. I was a younger I was a younger kid,
and so I think was around the time when maybe
the Southwestern Conference was going away. But there was one

(46:35):
of those glossy season preview magazines had had this massive
picture of the United States with all this dramatic it
was sort of tongue in cheek realignment. What was going
to look like? And I think it was two lane
that they said was going to be a conference of
one and they called it, they called it, very appropriately,
the Big Easy, meaning one team conference that included one

(46:58):
team in New Orleans. They were gonna call it the
Big Easy. And it was too late. And I love that.
This amazing the stuff you remember when you were like ten,
and that is like looking at that magazine is like
burn into my mind, Like why do they have this
one conference and the one name was the Big Easy
and one team from New Orleans, and my dad explained
it to me and then it all made sense. It

(47:19):
was all good. My dad's a wise man. He taught
me a lot of stuff.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
JP is always great stuff. Thank you so much, The
Big Easy Conference, every the Jason Smiths with Mike Carmon,
great stuff to get. Yes, that O Tawny story, that's
gonna be a really big deal the last six and
a half weeks of the season. Coming up next we
will get back into the biggest story in the NFL.
A huge signing today and it means the super Bowl

(47:44):
for one team. That's next. Fox