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Jason and Mike update Packers/Eagles from Brazil. Jason explains why the NFL will eventually realize the field is a big thing to get “right” in big games. How will Tom Brady’s debut go? A Week 2 preview from our most trusted College Football Insider. Saquon Barkley balling out in Brazil is all the proof you need to know that the New York Giants are tanking. Plus, our Week 1 NFL Upset Specials!!

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is the way tire buying should be. Tonight's like one
of those virtual reality things, Mike Carmon, where you put
one of those headsets on and everywhere you look there's
something big, whether it's the NFL game in Brazil or
something from baseball and the big Caitlyn Clark game tonight.
Looking at college football tomorrow, it's like, wherever you go,
you can't miss. It's one of those.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I've had I think four different screens going on. I've
done the multi ass thing that they allow you to do.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
You know. One of the.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Perks of some of the new streamers, they're getting cute
and creative with what they're doing, almost like you're watching,
you know, a Sunday full of football. But I've got football,
I've got basketball, I've got college football. It's just a
century overload. The White Sox lost again, so I've got
everything I need.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Hey, dude, my aunt was at the game tonight, her
first ever baseball game. How about that. She's retired. She's
my aunt that knows absolutely nothing about sports. Sure, Like
she's the one I keep saying we should do this
thing called ask Aunt Janet because she doesn't know any
I know nothing about sports. But she's retired. Her and
her husband, my aunt and uncle. They drive around the
country and they like to travel and stuff, which is

(01:55):
very intoxicated to do something like that. So they decided
we're gonna go to a baseball game. You know, Randy
wants to go to the game or go And her
first baseball game was tonight and she went to see
the Red Sox and the White Sox and Fenway she's
sending me pictures. Are these good seats? Is this gonna
be a good game? And I said, well, I'll tell
you this. The Red Sox are most likely going to win.
How do you know, Well, well, let me tell you

(02:16):
about the Chicago White Sox for a second. Sure enough
something She watched the lost number one hundred and ten
for the White Sox tonight. I gotta say there.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Is something intriguing about the idea of once the kids
are off to college, you get yourself a nice RV.
Make sure you got a good satellite dish so you
can connect the ComRes on the road. Why not go
station to station and visit all the affiliates.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I like, I'm gonna follow the White Sox around the country,
all right. Wait, wait, wait, let's think about something different
than that. No, no, no, I want to fuddle the
White Sox around the country.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Look, man, I'll start looking like I'm aging like a president.
Wait what happened? This was spring training. He's hanging out,
he's at Camelback. Whoa, he's fired up.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
And then Kate one look at he's.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Still bright eyed and they asked him to throw out
a first pitch. He's excited. Game one sixty two. He's
beaten down. He's beaten down, and now he's wearing nothing
but football gear because the Wildcats embarrass.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Are in the seats. But look obviously all eyes well
when they weren't on the Mets tonight, all eyes in
Brazil for the first ever NFL game. We're at halftime.
Packers lead the Eagles nineteen to seventeen. Halftime show going
on right now, and it's no facular. I know many
people are got peak. I got a five. I know,

(03:36):
I know. Peacock still sneaks up on people right now.
How much planning today, it still sneaks up on people.
It's like, okay, this like see, that's the difference between
when ESPN and Direct TV decided to say, oh, hey,
guess what, Yeah, you're not getting a game in twenty minutes. Yeah, sorry,
the carriage dispute is done, so you're not gonna get
to watch USC and LSU. Sorry, we're gonna do it

(03:57):
right here and hold you hostage. At least you know
there was leading up, you knew the game was on. Peacock,
I don't have a lot of sympathy because you knew
the game was on, you knew the game was, I
don't care that it's Friday. Oh I worked all week.
I want to come up. Yeah, everybody works all week.
Everybody wants to watch the game. They've done a good
enough job to let you know exactly where the game
is now getting it. I understand, and I understand that
now there's eleven different places you need to have, or

(04:21):
need to own or subscribe to if you want to
watch every single game this year, which is something the
NFL is gonna really out the deal because they're gonna
suddenly say, oh, we can't spread ourselves too thin. But
tonight for this, you knew it was on Peacock, and
so hopefully you're able to watch it.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, not to you know, beat beat the proverbial dead
horse on the other carriage dispute. I mean, there were
plenty of notices, plenty of scrawls, just not as intense
as it normally is. And generally what happens, it's like
a storm that's coming, like, hey, you should probably evacuate. Ah,
we've been here for thirty years. None of that crab's
gonna happen. And then all of a sudden, the storm's

(04:55):
on top of you and you're suddenly in the land
of Oz. I mean, craziness happens, and that's exactly what
it is.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Like.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
You go to read an article now and you've got
in your right or left navigation, you gotta add that
pops up. By the way, if you're affected by dispute,
this dispute, here's the way is to communicate and contact
folks and tell them how mad you are. And then
you've got websites popping up saying here's here's how you
get around it. Here's the other options that you have

(05:23):
to go find some of those channels that you're now mad.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
You didn't get. But for Peacock, Yeah, there was no
hiding from this one. This was well publicized.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Its a rival, if nothing else, it was at the
bottom of everything you watched or or read about the
problems that these guys were talking about for months between
the Colored Green and what they needed to do around hotels.
It's been there in the background the whole time.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Don't forget, game is on Peacock, Games on Peacock. So
how to break things down? How to sum up the
first half between the Packers and the Eagles. It's a
lot like one of those NFL you get at the
end of the regular season where there's just enough snow
and ice on the field to make it so incredibly slippery,

(06:10):
where the defense has trouble making tackles because offensive players
catch the ball, make a juke in their gongs. Everybody
slipping and sliding, and as a result, we get like
twelve eighty yard plays in a game, and it's wow,
look at all this, because that's what the first half
was like, big play after big play because the field
nobody can stand up on it. It is in terrible shape.

(06:30):
It is slippery. There are players still slipping on every
single play. Jayden Read's touchdown eighty yards, somebody slips in, falls,
Sakuon Barkley's touchdown, somebody slips in, falls, No one can
keep purchase. And that's kind of what we're looking at
in that that's how this game is going, where if
there's a big play in open space, it can go
for six. And as the time goes on, you see

(06:52):
the halftime adjustments teams are gonna have, You're gonna see
more big plays, which is fun. Right. Hey, we had
a game last night where boy, fantasy points, come on,
come on, We're going all the fantasy points to night
because we're getting extremely big plays, and you know, it's
great to see because everybody loves seeing big plays. But
how many times are we going to see a big game,
whether it's an international game or a Super Bowl, where

(07:14):
the field sucks and the players slip on it and
keep it all the time paint?

Speaker 3 (07:20):
How many times not being able to account for what
it's like at a different time of year. Right, what
the the climate is all about? I mean, did they
bring enough cleats? I mean, what's the equipment budget to
carry things over? Did they have the proper propper stuff
on the sideline at halftime to make all those adjustments?

Speaker 1 (07:37):
I like, how that's always the thing. Oh, we have
to change our cleats if the field sucks, it doesn't matter.
What doesn't matter if you're wearing like hiking boots in
the snow.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
That people wearing some of those too, That's right, All
of a sudden, you got the giant blades underneath your feet,
just like your wolverine.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's how. That's how I'm running because and I don't
know how many times we have to get through because
there's the problems that are the micro problems, which are Hey,
MetLife Stadium has the worst turf in the league. Everybody
understands it, and it's a thing that doesn't cost a
lot of money. Yet still, the NFL watches the Jets
and have this really bad field that guys get hurt on.

(08:16):
Right then you have the macro of the Super Bowl
and games like this where hey, here's the spotlight and
guess what. Everybody's slipping and falling. And as I say this,
what happens. Jalen Hurts hits AJ Brown, which what looks
like normally would be, hey, this is probably a twenty
or twenty five yard play, but because the Packers defenders
can't keep their balance, he's able to make a cut

(08:39):
and nobody and the Packers can't make a sharp cut
like AJ Brown can, so he takes it all the
way to the house for a seventy yard touchdown, and
now it's a twenty four to nineteen lead extra point
pending for the Eagles. Like it's great to see all
these plays and I understand, but wow, man, it's tough
seeing a play go out there and someone make it
catch and make one move and boom, defenders on his

(09:00):
ass because he can't stand up, and here's a touchdown.
I mean It's like one of those games, whether it's
just a little bit too much ice on the field
and we can't stand up and make plays. There's been
plays like this the entire second half. We're not even
a minute in and we're already nearly at the over, right,
we're just I think we're one score over right now.
Twenty four to nineteen is the score?

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, it was forty nine was the over under here.
It just kind of pushes it over the top. Alexander
can't keep his feet, can't catch up, safety comes sliding
over the top, can't break right. It's like it's like
you could hear the screeching of his brakes as he
tries to slow down and not let Brown run past him.
And then it's a dead sprint using the official as

(09:41):
a pretty good shield as well on his way to
the end zone. But big plays all around, because it
was sloppy to start and a miserable slog when it
was six to nothing. You're watching the miscommunication on the
offensive line, Jason. There was actually a play where there
were twelve men on the field for both damn teams.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, how sloppy this was. I you know what, here's
the thing if there's twelve men on the team for
until both teams let the place stand and they're both
running off the field.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Right. Not even one of those guys was doing anything
that would be considered Hey, they're part of the play, right.
It's it's like you and you call it off sides
and you review it in soccer's like, yeah, technically are
off sides, but they're running forty yards over there, so
they don't.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Right, So but chaos here. You know, we got the
landing zone.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
The Packers got creative at one point and kicked it
just inside the boundary of the landing zone right behind
the lines of would be blockers and tacklers, so forced
and necessitated a return.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
So that was good.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
We got to see it in action for once. Sure,
I don't know, I'm trying to find some positives.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
No, I know you are. I know you are because
I don't know how this post game speech from Roger
Goodell is gonna go. Hey, guys, look, thanks for coming.
I understand it's been a tough week. Just let me talk,
let me talk. I know coming to Brazil wasn't anybody's
first choice. I know you guys were excited because the thought, hey, Brazil,
it's fun, we can sight see do some things. It'll

(11:10):
be like a London game. And instead it was don't
leave your hotel because it's really too dangerous and we
can't guarantee your safety, so stay inside and just come
to play the game. Look, I get that that's a
bit of a buzzkill. I get that you didn't want
to bring your family. I understand this. I understand that
you're not happy that many people aren't allowed to use Twitter,
and because Brazil is banned Twitter, so you can't get

(11:32):
on social media.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Walk do you communicate with their wives? I get that
friends back home to communicate what they wanted.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
To talk about. I get that. I know you guys
love social media. Sorry, we can't do that. I'm sorry,
Brazil band. Twitter. There's nothing we can do about that. Okay,
but just door. But hey, you're playing a game and
it's gonna be awesome. But here's the other thing. Okay,
here's the other thing I want to apologize for. I
know that you all risked your lives tonight for the
product that is the National Football League, and I want

(11:58):
to say thank you. I know that you guys were
nervous about slipping and falling and getting hurt and potentially
ruining your career. Maybe you're out for the game, maybe
you're out for the season. Who knows, but you guys, really,
you guys all sucked it up, and I want to
say I'm proud of you. Doesn't mean you're getting any
extra money, doesn't mean you get anything anything extra for
playing in this game, but I just want to say
thanks for doing that solid and yeah, hey, you know what,

(12:21):
maybe maybe next time things go a little bit better.
Can't guarantee it, but boy, we had good ratings and
we made some money and it's really good. Again. You
guys aren't gonna see any of it, but I know
that this is a very tough week, and I just
want to acknowledge that for you before you all get
on planes and go back home. I'm getting on a
plane separately from you going back home because I really
have to get out of here, because boy, I really
don't want to be in here any more time than

(12:43):
we have to. So I'm gonna leave while you two
got while you guys you have are the diversion, so
if people think you're still around, my plane can take off.
I have to have to worry about stuff and getting
there and all kinds of stuff I have to go through,
So you guys will be the distract everybody. Then you'll
get out and go and then you'll be back in
fill Elfia, Green Bay and everything is wonderful. But thanks again,
see you next time down the road.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Is that the replacement of this is your captain speaking
after they get to their pods and first class, like, hey,
there's an in flight announcement that needs to be done.
I'm glad you're all back on the plane. Now it's
time to get back to the States. Remember, you do
get half of the money earned off of this based
on the CBA, so you will be splitting it with
your colleagues who well, they're all gearing up for home

(13:28):
games or maybe short flights. Good luck to you, and
thanks for putting on a hell of a show. Back
to the game. Just the laughability of yesterday. I remember
the point of emphasis of where you're lining up and everything.
Whether the Ravens got screwed or not, you can fight
that all you want. They've deemphasized holding, it seems in

(13:48):
these first two games, because guys are getting away with
absolutely mauling each other both in the defensive secondary and
at the line of scrimmage, and it's just been an
absolute train wreck as far as that goes. Not to
mention the footing as you anticipate the hit.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
So let me tell you, I mean, how do you
not have the field? It's the most important thing that
you can take care of that really is on you.
Let's make sure the field is ready to go. Oh yeah,
I talk to the guys. Guys, are all good? Field
seems it looks green, you know, I see the lines
are straight, everything I mean looks like a football field.
I don't understand what you're talk I mean, can we
really just I mean, it's not that much money at all,

(14:26):
and on the grid scheme of things, it's about half
a million dollars to get a field looking great. That's
nothing for each team for the NFL to make sure, Hey,
guys aren't slipping and falling and a potentially getting injured.
I don't understand they had it covered. Exit out about
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(15:10):
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Green Bay is in the red zone because you know
this is how the game is gonna go, because no
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Speaker 1 (17:11):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. Thanks to a slippery field, we have hit
the over. Yeah, Packers Eagles game. Ten minutes to go
in the third quarter, doesn't matter. I've already seen two
touchdowns in the second half twenty six, twenty four Packers
with the lead. Jordan Love now two touchdowns throwing the
football again. Just keep running posts and crossing routes. Defenders

(17:34):
can't stand up be an eighty yard touchdown every single play.
They'll break all kinds of offensive records tonight.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
I mean, unless you just let your guy break containment. Jason,
that's it game. Let's fit a second. Yeah, unless it's
Josh Jacobs. Unless it's Josh Jacobs, that's that who. But
I thought he was gonna be the big breakout guy
and he's declining it all.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
No. Hey, we'll have more from this game coming up
a bit again to the Long Way to Go ten
and a half to go in the third quarter, twenty
six to twenty four. Already Packers and the Eagles, but
joining us now, I'm the hotline. Nobody better to take
a look at a big weekend in college football. It
is Week two. You can follow him on Twitter at
Pete Feutech. He as the owner, editor, proprietor of college

(18:18):
Footballnews dot com. You're one stop shopping for everything college football.
All the previews, all the analysis, all the predictions. It's
there for you at college Footballnews dot com. But before
we get there, I do need to say something to
get it out of the way. I believe in fantasy
that Pete Feutech drafted both Mark Andrews and Josh Jacobs

(18:38):
and started them this week. So I'm sorry about that. Pete.

Speaker 5 (18:42):
Absolute opposite. I drafted Travis Kelsey and idea likely, and
I shot one of them, not the right one. By
the way, I do believe this. I heard somewhere. I
could be really wrong about this, but I don't think
this gay counts because it's on Peacock, so I think, oh,

(19:03):
that's fun. So none of these stats, all these bets,
all the veggas things. They don't actually like. It just
because it's on you know, just pretend network with you know,
you can't multi verse in or or like you know,
watch other games are flip around channel time, so it
doesn't really count. So you know, all the all the
points that you're getting hit by. If you're got you know,
a J. Brown are playing against these quarterbacks, you're good,
You're good? All right?

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Oh good, now I know, so I can go to
my commission on Monday. Go no, I actually want, Pete,
Hu Tech told me none of those stats count. You
can just call here's the SOHO.

Speaker 5 (19:32):
Number, the total Lias Taekwon Barkley and Devonte Smith. So
don't count. Don't actually count because, by the way, the
exact you're not you're bearing the lead here, especially for
you guys, the exact opposite think is happening about a
you know, a few drivers and three woods away from
me right here on in Evanston with your Northwestern wild Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
I'm not living and dialing dying with every catch of
that game at all.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
Pete, Yeah, yeah, every catch if they're already that's well
every game. You know, whoever scores first gonna win those games.
But yeah, by the way, brilliant job, you have the
most beautiful studying in college football, and you're playing it
on Friday nights that we can actually see the lake
night course, guys.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
But all the pregame footage of the rolling waves was
really cool.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
And the tornadoes that are supposed to come in and
you know, off the lake, which actually is not going
to happen. But yeah, all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
it's just lovely. But you know, but I digress. Yes,
it is college football. And you know those people who
actually you know, are sitting on peacock right now and
not watching tennis or you know, college football, are going
on on date night or something. You know, there is
north Western Duke there for you.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Hey, and I'll tell you what. Let me be the
first one to say, those are two smart teams. Okay,
those are two smart teams. That's a smart Those are
two smart teams going at it right now.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
I guess you know, right, I mean, that's you know
that they do that once in a while. These guys
are you know, they're playing football, but they go to
class too. They are what everything's all about in college football.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
All right, Well, let's kick things off with a big
nude kickoff tomorrow, Texas at Michigan. I tell you, Pete
living in a Michigan house. I've spent the last couple
of days telling my wife, I think you're gonna get
boat raced on Saturday. I die. I have a bad
feeling about this. I don't think you can score. I
think Texas is gonna run rough shot over you. She
gets mad, but then comes back in the room. So

(21:20):
I have to pick my spots. Do you see it
the same way?

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Well, you can't do anything about it. It's not up
to you that if you're a thing, it's not your fault.
Michigan is bad at college football.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Now.

Speaker 5 (21:34):
All you can do is, you know, predict, and no,
I don't think that's gonna happen. I don't think Michigan
wins because I just don't buy the offense. I don't
buy the quarterback situation. Not like JJ McCarthy was needed
all that much last year, but it doesn't. There's not
a lot of confidence being inspired by that opener against
Fresno State with that quarterback situation. But that defense, the

(21:56):
defense is gonna hold. I do actually think all year
long that he is going to be right right there
and keep Michigan games. I still don't quite I truly
believe in Texas when it happens. I know, they beat
Alabama last year and all that, but then they went
all Texas and gagged away in the college football playoff.
But I still kind of think at the end of
the day, it's still Texas. They'll blow it at some point.

(22:17):
But this, if you can kind of look ahead, as
we're you know, talking about in September sixth, if you
can kind of figure out these schedules, this is kind
of a college football playoff game because if you look
at what each of these two have, there's at least
a loss coming up for both of them, probably two.
So the loser of this probably loses three games and

(22:38):
is probably out, and the winner, you know, you can
absorb the two losses and you're probably just fine. That's
the kind of cushion we're going to have now. Is
the kind of the way this is going to look
going forward. But yeah, I think the winner of this
is probably going to get be like your eighth or nineties.
I don't think Texa's going to win the SEC or
anything like that. So uh, but yeah, the loser of
this probably out of the college football playf and you

(22:59):
know we're starting this up right now.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Let me step away from games for a second. Just
take the larger picture coming out of Week one, any
of the would be powerhouses that you have true concern
for or is it just hey, get ready, get right, preseason.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
Kind of mode exactly. You know, if the Oregon game
with the one weird one, I don't want to say
we actually watched it, but the only way I can
describe that is Oregon just kind of forgot the score.
You know. It's like, we're Gon, We're gonna go up
and down the field. We're gonna we're gonna come up
with a lot of yards and got a big plays
and this is a lot of fun. And oh yeah,

(23:33):
we're supposed to like put points on the board. That's
the whole point of this thing. And that'll be fine,
It'll be okay. I mean, they just they have a
little tippy tappy, dank dunk offense that sometimes you know,
can do a lot of things and you know, just
not go anywhere at the end of the day. But
that that team will be okay. But look, the big
thing I think that comes out of this is Notre Dame.

(23:55):
If you look at their schedule, you know, you look
across the slate. They could gack at some point looking
into Louisville or Georgia Tech or something. But Florida State's
looking very beatable. And that's it. You know, that's that's it.
Going into the n about it.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Sure, that was very nice. They're looking they're they're looking beatable.
Look at and.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
Again, you know we talked about me I just talked
about Michigan and Texas being kind of like a college
football playoff game. Well, as it turns out, if you
look at the USC schedule, USC LSU is probably one
of those two because LSU schedule is not that bad.
If you're if you're if you're good enough to be
LSU and think that you should be playing in college
football playoffs things, you should be able to still go

(24:39):
ten and one if you're really that good. But you
needed that one extra buffer because they're not Bama or
Georgia this year. So uh, that was probably an elimination
game and we're wait now you kind of look at
USC difference that you know what, they might be able
to go in there and beat Michigan. They might be
able to you know, take out Wisconsin's and notre games
and things like that on their schedule.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
I gotta tell you the two teams that we thought
we don't know which way they're gonna go. You have
the contenders that we Okay, we know how good Alabama's
going to be, how good Georgia's gonna be. But a
couple of teams where where it would they fall into
the category of, hey, if things fall right, but it
also might not happen for him. I am in on
USC and Miami. After Week one, USC the defense is

(25:21):
a lot better. It looks like Moss is a really
good quarterback. Miamt cam Ward is making a dazzle play
every time he throws the football. Like these two teams,
I'm really in on for being one of those teams
that meant that that not squeaks in but could be
the second team from a conference making a playoff, depending
how things go.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
I always I've preached this for over twenty years, and
I'll still get I don't know why anybody schedules anybody
good week one. I mean, the stat's incredible. I think
it's like sixty one to one. The SBS teams won
against the FCS teams, and they're all blows. That's why
you schedule those games you can tune up. And so
the thing about USC Okay, they great win the defense,

(26:00):
they still gave up over four hundred yards and that
LSU team, I think that you can kind of see
if you're read between the Brian Kelly lines, that he
kind of realized, like, gosh, my team just got just
that they're not going to make those dumb mistakes in
two weeks, in three weeks, once you get the timing down,
once you get there's a lot of little false starty
things and just you know, just procedural stuff that you know,

(26:22):
a team that's had a couple of games under its boat,
they don't have those moments anymore. And that really seemed
like what LSU was in this. So it was great
win for USC, hey, they got it done. But also
at the same time, it got helps that they just
so happened to get LSU at the right time. And
when it comes to Miami, maybe Florida's just that bad.
Miami did look good. The thing that we're gonna have
to kind of wrap our heads around as well, as

(26:44):
as I've said this tea from the start, we're killing time.
I mean again, Ohio State, Georgia and everybody else. And
part of this is that, yeah, okay, Clemson, you know,
got housed by Georgia, but comesant did still win the
a SEC Championship. There's still really good and so they
can still take out Miami. And so yeah Miami again,

(27:04):
kind of like Texas'll believe it when I see it.
Keep it going. Thank Florida is just that bad. I
think that defense is just that big of a mess.
But until Miami can do this on a regular basis,
I'm not quite there yet. But yeah, how can you
not look at that game and say, yeah, that looks
like a team that in the ACC should probably be
somewhere in the college football playoffs.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Next Jason Smith Show with Me Mike Harmon live from
the Tirack dot com Fox Sports Radio studios, on the
hotline with US College Footballnews dot Com at Petefutech on Twitter.
Che I got Pete Fucheck join just each and every week.
Check out all his musings of the games ahead, and
a big one for me. I grabbed Nebraska and I
decided I was going to push them towards the playoffs.

(27:44):
I know, a difficult end of season, but a big
tilt this week against Colorado nearly a touchdown favorite against
the team Sanders.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
How do you not have the big new to kickoff
show there? I mean, isn't that on standards? It's a
different thing, right, I mean I I just I just
courted that FBS versus the FCS team. One of the
few teams that struggled was Colorado. They did not fix
the glitch. Uh, there's still have no defensive front. They

(28:16):
still do not have an offensive line. And at some
point someone's gonna have to make a business decision on
chadur Standers because he might be the number one overall
pick in the draft and he is getting you know,
nailed every single play. He is so tough and he
is so willing to stand there and take shots, and
he is just getting rocked way too much for a

(28:38):
player of his caliber. I will be really curious, though,
and imagine before I kind of like the whole Colorado thing.
I think it's fun. I love this offense. I love
watching Shador Sanders throw it all around. I don't think
they have I'll be interested to see if Nebraska had
to tomorrow and they just come out and just hang
something on them. I meand' is still going to throw
for over three hundred yards, but there's no running game whatsoever.

(29:00):
And that defense. I mean, I know everyone's in love
with Travis Hunter. They don't have a defense. So this
is really where Nebraska really has to show up and shine.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
All right, Pete, before you let you go. If you're
looking at the top twenty five games, you see a
big upset somewhere. Who would if I said to you, hey,
don't be surprised if big time team X lost tomorrow.
Who are you gonna get me?

Speaker 5 (29:23):
There's not a lot of that. If you look at
the schedule. It's kind of wany when you have said
South Carolina Kentucky's your big afternoon game. That's bringing in
Colorado Nebraska. It's all right, I'm kind of looking at
Michigan State Maryland. It's not really a top twenty five
ish game. I think week zero, week one games Michigan
State should have put like forty on Florida Atlantic. And

(29:45):
that again, that's why you put schedule an easy week
one game, because they just kept screwing up. And that's
the type of thing that maybe from week one to
week two you fix that glitch and all of a sudden,
Aidan Childs becomes a lot sharper and just a week
it's not He's got, you know, a game under his belt.
I kind of think, and I think Michigan State's going
to have a little something in this from Maryland tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
He's on Twitter at Pete feutech. That is, at Pete
feu Tech. Checkout college Footballnews dot com, your one stop
shopping for everything college football. The previews, the analysis, the prognostications.
It is all there for you college Footballnews dot Com.
Pete is always buddy appreciated, my friend. Enjoy the games
this weekend, and I look forward to seeing Isaiah Likely
in your lineup next week.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
Yeah, Travis Kelsey catch three touchdowns, That's just how it
works for me.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Hey, just play two tight ends in a flex right
to be in looks they're gonna run the football.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
That's exactly what I'm gonna do. Actually, but yeah, see
Anyboddy there goes Pete few Tech.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
I had them both and I played the wrong one.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Well, I mean, look, it's not a bad strategy. I
mean you go back and watch a lot of yesterday's games.
Mark Andrews was double teamed straight Offen. That probably goes
to Likely going forward. Doesn't it because he's got a
little bit of the I don't know, maybe a little
smaller and I use that very loosely version of Antonio
Gates running around there with his athleticism.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Exit out, bout of Fresca, exit swollen down the Jason
smithser with Mike Carmon Love from the tyrech dot Com studios.
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. As obviously all our eyes are in
one place watching the jiff over and over of Mark
Biento's's game winning walk off home run for the Mets.
Steve di Seger has that more with what's trending.

Speaker 6 (31:29):
And Atlanta did win. They're still tied for the final
Ana wildcard spot. There is a second party involved in
this just for the rest.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, but now guess who else is coming in? The
Diamondbacks starting to come back to the pack there a
little bit uh look out look.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
I do like that you described it as a party, though, Steve,
So let's go on a Friday night, man, it's.

Speaker 6 (31:47):
A Friday night party and the Diamondbacks are getting shut
out eight nothing at Houston in the bottom of the
eighth jord On Alvarez a couple of home runs. That
Mets win was their eighth in a row. Phillies won
their sixth straight Yankees and Orioles each on the O's
or a half game up on the Yanks for first
in the AL East. You were talking college football. It
is halftime on FS one. Northwestern playing in its temporary stadium.

(32:10):
They're using the next couple of years. Ten to seven,
Northwestern over Duke at the break. BYU has just won
at SMU eighteen fifteen. And Indiana won its home game
seventy seven to three against Western Illinois. Hoosier's offense over
seven hundred yards. Next weekend Indiana at UCLA Saturday on
Fox TV, Number three, Texas at number ten Rank Michigan

(32:33):
noon Eastern time, Saturday night on FS one, number nineteen,
Kansas at Illinois. Now to the NFL game in Brazil.
About seven minutes to go in the third quarter, and
it's the Green Bay Packers in the lead over the Eagles,
twenty six, twenty four guys. After the Eagles quarterback Jalen
Hurts had two early turnovers, we had eight consecutive drives

(32:56):
with points going back and forth, and yes, some slipping
on the field to Jordan Love with two touchdown passes
for green Bay. In fact, for the Packers, Jayden Reid
with a thirty three yard touchdown run and a seventy
yard touchdown catch. On the Eagles side, Sakuon Barkley with
a touchdown run and a touchdown catch. Aj Brown of

(33:17):
Philly four receptions, one hundred eight yards and a td
green Bay in the lead twenty six twenty four. The
Packers were stopped on a two point try in the
first half. Josh Jacobs was stopped on that carry and
for the night. In addition, he has eight carries ten
yards rushing, but the Packers do have a slight lead

(33:37):
mid third quarter.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Another seventy two carries and he'll be at one hundred
one hundred yards n seventy two carries away.

Speaker 6 (33:44):
Not terribly confident about that tonight. Actually, Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson,
that's like the White Sox. Another seventy five games played
and they might get to a five hundred mark. Steelers
quarterback Russell Wilson is questionable for Sunday with calf tightness.
He was limited in practicing today. Bengals wide receiver t
Higgins is doubtful with a hamstring injury. Bengals wide receiver

(34:06):
Jamar Chase says he's a game time decision Sunday. He
wants a new contract. The Dolphins gave defensive back Jalen
Ramsey a three year extension worth about seventy two million dollars.
They've started a fifth set at the US Open and
the men's semis between two Americans. It's Taylor Fritz against
Francis Tiafo the winner.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Taylor Swift is in the US Open.

Speaker 6 (34:24):
Wait for Fritz against Francis Tiaffo the winner against number
one Yadig Center in Sunday's final. And among the four
WNBA games tonight, Minnesota did win at Indiana ninety nine
eighty eight Caitlin Clark and the loss twenty five points,
eight rebounds, eight assists and seven turnovers.

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(35:05):
to twenty four packers with the leads still six and
a half to go in the third quarter. Coming up next, Yeah,
we got more NFL coming your way. How is the
biggest most anticipated NFL debut in years going to go
on Sunday? We'll tell you next Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
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(36:24):
in the fourth quarter, it's the Eagles who now have
the lead over the Packers thirty one to twenty six.
Saquon Barkley, now having a huge night, just ripped off
a thirty four yard run. He's got ninety four yards
receiving to go along with twenty three ninety three yards
rushing to go along with twenty three yards receiving three

(36:45):
touchdowns on the night, and the Eagles are in the
red zone right now looking for more. This could get
away from the Packers pretty fast because down five another touchdown,
it doesn't seem like either defense can really stop the
the other. But boy, I'll tell you a missed field
goal a few moments ago by Braydon Arvison from forty

(37:06):
three yards could have cut this to a two point
lead kept it close. It was a huge miss for
the Packers, and the best thing I can say, Mike is,
at least for Green Bay, it's somebody new missing big kicks,
So it's not the it's not Andrews Carlson again, who
missed forty seven kicks last year. At least if somebody
new missing it. It's like I feel like with the
Mets bullpen, Hey, when the Mets bullpen blows a bunch

(37:27):
of games, I'm like, let's just trade the bullpen sight
unseen for another team's bullpen, because I don't care if
the other team's bullpen is terrible. At least it's new
guys blowing games, and I don't have to see the
same guys. I guess what you can say at least
is a new guy not making kicks. So it's not boy,
we're still holding on to the old guy who couldn't
make any kicks.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Psychologically that helps you get through that. Packer fans right
now are just wondering why their defense. Not only are
there large gaping holes in the secondary something they're used to,
they're getting absolutely run over downfield. I mean, you're just
watching Barkley, you bully people. And I just sent you
a tweet that just went out from Micah Parsons, which

(38:06):
is just absolutely fabulous when it comes down to evaluating
this game. Quote, the Giants should be under investigation. So
here's a guy that's not looking forward to seeing this
offensive line at sa Kwan Barkley sing In Division for
another couple of games as we get ready for the

(38:26):
rest of this campaign. But big plays all around and
the receivers starting to get a little bit of a flow.
Jalen Hurts after rough start, has for the most part
played fairly clean football, although he just got away with
what might have been a ninety yard touchdown return up
the sideline, but for a matter of inches.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
So yeah, just chaos suing.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
But the Packers missing that field goal and a big
opportunity doesn't matter, though betters are already paid they got
the over.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah, but look, but look what because because this is
a thing. This goes back to what we talked about
a couple of weeks ago with the Giants. Everything makes
sense if you understand the Giants are tanking for next year.
Everything makes sense. Everything they've done, the lack of players
they brought in in the offseason, letting Saquon Barkley go,

(39:18):
coming back to Daniel Jones for one more year, everything
makes sense. Right now. You could sit here and say, well,
why wouldn't Okay, why wouldn't you try, Why wouldn't you
just you know, try to do something if you could. Well,
here's the thing. If you're bad after this year, Joe
Shane is not getting another shot at it, and neither

(39:38):
is Brian Dable. Like, you're gonna have a new GM
and a new head coach, and guess what, the new
GM and the new head coach are gonna want their
own quarterback in right, that's why they didn't go up.
They love JJ McCarthy, but for some reason, Wait a minute,
they didn't move up to get JJ McCarthy like he
was he was the guy. He was linked to the
Giants as soon as Michigan won the national championship. He
was linked to them. Wait a minute, but they didn't

(39:58):
go get a quarterback. No, it doesn't make it. We
know Daniel Jones stinks they didn't go out and get
anybody because they know this is a year where we're
just gonna go out there, we're gonna play and maybe
it's Shador Sanders, maybe it's Carson Beck, maybe it's somebody else,
but we're gonna get our quarterback next year because it's
gonna be a new head coach and a new GM
and a new regime, and they're gonna pick their own guys,
which is what you want, right You don't want to say, Okay,

(40:20):
well we drafted JJ McCarthy and we don't know how
he's gonna be. And now there's a new coach coming
in that maybe runs a system that is not gonna
take advantage what JJ McCarthy does. Everything makes sense once
you understand, Hey, the Giants are tanking. Did they really
want to keep Saquon Barkley? They really want to get?
You saw how bad and hard knocks in the off
season that the ownership we really want to get and

(40:41):
they still let him go. And they still let him go.
So you all the talk to oh, we really want
to get that was just for show. Understand the Giants
are tanking and that's why they let him go. Now
I'm I on one on Saquon Barkley is reborn. No,
it's game one. He's it's it's a new team. He
wants to come out big. I get it. Let you know,
for Saquon Barkley being the real thing, this is where
you got to get to the middle of season and

(41:02):
see where he's at, if he's still playing, if he's
still this effective. But for right now, this part of
the season, he's playing great. And for the Giants, yeah,
Barkley has played well for him, he's been their big weapon,
went healthy off and on for the past five years.
But when you understand that they're tanking, letting Saquon Barkley
go makes sense. Everything they've done makes sense. It's all
about this year is gonna be whatever it's gonna be.

(41:24):
And if we're somehow good, great, right, If we're somehow good,
and Daniel Jones is great again and he's like he
was two years ago, and we find a way into
the playoffs, and Brian Dable is back to being the
coach he was when he surprised everybody in the NFL. Awesome.
We don't need to start over again, all right. We
feel like we're back. So the Giants are playing with
house money right now. If we're great, we're gonna keep

(41:44):
it going, and if not, we're gonna blow it up.
And that's why they did their own version of being
all in this year. Let the Jerry John, Hey, we're
all in on this year. What does that mean? We're
not gonna do anything and if we're good, great, and
if not, we're blowing it up. So we're not gonna
go get a quarterback. We're not gonna keep Saquon bar
We're not gonna do any of these things. We're just
gonna have what we have and go from there.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Now, what you're selling me, if I'm going to just
summarize it, is that they were all just really good
actors on Hard Knocks and eron television, layers of an
eeron television.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
See.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
I chalked it up to bad actors as an inept
at their jobs. But the way you describe it is
like they were Shakespearean master thespians between Shane wearing it
from his kid.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Hey, can we do that again? All right?

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Tell me how dumb I am? Which quarterback that should
be draft? That's kind of what you just said there.
And Saquon, Oh please, Saquon don't leave either way. Yeah,
it all plays out that if the numbers are to
be believed and what we think is going to be
like out Like, I don't know how good or bad
Daniel Jones is. He wasn't great the first couple of

(42:49):
games last year, but then he got hurt. To hear
the offseason talk was like he went through a full
seventeen game slate and was just awful from pillar to post,
which a true because that means you all slipt walk
through the Tommy Devido era, which I know you didn't
because you couldn't wait to tell me how great he
was at every turn and tell me his life story

(43:13):
and all this stuff. What the restaurant when his agent
got screwy and whatever else, I mean all of those things.
So yeah, they're interesting and Barkley, look, there's a lot
of talent on this Philadelphia squad, and it's almost as
if I cursed them, because as soon as I said
it hurts, it's played more efficiently. He throws an interception
in the end zone. Now part of it looked like

(43:33):
aj Brown lost his footing go figure once again in
the end zone as he went to set up and.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
Come back for the ball.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
But either way, it goes down as an interception and
you move on. But you know, when we're talking about
the Division and the Cowboys and Parsons chiming in, however
sloppy this game may be, I don't think this Division
is a race at all, which is why you can
make the case for the Commanders to suddenly be an

(44:01):
upstart squad because I think those other two teams are
gonna be mediocre at best, so they can they can
fight and slap fight over mediocrity, and eventually you will
apologize to Saquon Barkley.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Not why well he's been off and on the last
few I don't need to apologize to anybody. I need
to apologize to him. He's been off and on. He's
been when he's been healthy. He was good at Toms Show,
and he's not been healthy at other times. He hasn't
been dominant. He's been a decent two pretty good running
back for the last fight. But you know how many
guys are all like that. There's lots of guys like
There's a lot of guys like that.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
By the way, I just want to throw this out
all the fantasy football players out there, and I know
you number the millions in our audience across this globe.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Are you in the situation where you're starting Barkley in
one league and playing him in another?

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Let me know at Swollen Dome at Holbodafresca at Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
So again, look, if you understand that the Giants are tanking,
it makes sense letting Saquon Barkley go. I'll hit up
my Parsons kind of explain what that's all about to
him now, speak of speaking of the pain too. What
Mike Harmon was trying to explain a couple minutes ago
was there was a big turnover in the end zone
when it looked like the Eagles were going in for

(45:14):
a score that could have put them up by as
many as thirteen depending on what they decided to do
if we're going for two points. Instead, it turned into
an interception and the Packers take over again. Slippery field.
We've talked about it, We'll talk more about it, and
the Packers are now driving it down the field. Down
thirty one to twenty six, ten minutes to go in

(45:34):
the fourth court. I feel like the clock isn't really ticking.
They are in the red zone and could potentially go
up over the Eagles now again, still a lot of
time left, but boy, that turnover. The Eagle sideline just
looks morose right now because they looked like they could
have been going in for the kill shot and instead
aj Brown slips, the ball is picked off, and now
it's the Packers who have a chance to go up

(45:55):
in this game again. Thirty one to twenty six. They're
inside the twenty yard line just on ten minutes left to.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Go in this one, another big play for Jane Reid.
He's up to one hundred and five yards on the
night after another big completion. Vic Fangio's defense has been
suspected at best.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
As long as he's not allowed to call timeouts, Vic
Fangiel will be fine. I mean, I know, I know,
you know what, Vic vanjail. As long as you're not
allowed call tie bount since five.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
Yes, see another part of yesterday's game that started to
get some run.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Hey, looks Magnola call time out. They realized he's not
a head coach. Right, But how about we take a
look at the games on Sunday. I can't believe how
many upset specials I have four week one in the NFL,
two and zero in college football last week. Excited about
that little nervous I have. I'm nervous that I have

(46:44):
a lot of upset specials to pick. Yeah, why not? Right?
So I'll kick things off and I'll tell you I'll
go with one of the big ones on Sunday. We
talked about it a few minutes ago. Tom Brady's gonna
call it the Cowboys and the Browns. For some reason,
the Cowboys are getting three and it's it just seems
weird that these are the Browns who have a really
bad situation a quarterback because Deshaun Watson is terrible.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Wow, and he's also dealing with the family thing he had, Yeah,
the loss in the families right and and and he
was hurt.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
Yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot you don't know
about the Browns and where they're gonna be, like coming
into the Skinwalk. The Browns are a talented roster and
they have a really good team. But still here's the
Cowboys coming in. They're all pissed off. The one thing
I can say is Jerry Jones is everybody mad, and
get everybody mad. Nobody's getting paid only CD lambage, but
still people are mad they didn't go in and get
players in the offseason. The Cowboys early on is kind

(47:37):
of it's kind of where they need to be. They
need to be pissed off and sharp, and we're gonna
see them out of the gate. They're gonna win this game.
I'll take the three points. I won't need them, but
I'll still take him because you know they're offered to me.
But yeah, number one upset special. Give me the Cowboys
getting three against the Browns.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Total sitting at forty eight. In this one, two of
my favorite quarterbacks to watch square off in Buffalo. Now
I have the Buffalo Bills racing all the way to
New Orleans when it's all said and done. But they're
gonna struggle in this one. They're gonna eke out a win.
But give me Arizona and the upstart Cardinals with Kyler
Murray and the speed that they've added at wide receiver,

(48:16):
the power that is Connor, and of course the video
game tendencies as a runner for Kyler Murray. Uh to
get us within the six and a half.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Oh yeah, I love the but I always love what
I can say. I don't need the points, but I understand.
I understand you need the points, buddy, I don't you
always need the points. I understand the points. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Look, I suppose you could probably go to the sports
book and just say I don't but that's where you
just say, I'll take them on the money line.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I don't need the points, so you
want the money line? Yeah, but it sounds better if
I sound I don't need the points, but I kind
of really do want the points. You understand what I'm
trying to do here, sir?

Speaker 3 (48:52):
What you want a powerful discussion? If I just say
I don't need good points, sir, why don't you just
come back and tell me what you want to bet. Okay,
you're betting a team. You're telling me what the points.
Just come back when you're ready. All right, I don't
care what you want to do. The other game, I'll
give you for now. They're getting four on the road,
I get it. But give me the Rams over the

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Lions in the Big Stafford Golf Bowl. The Rams defense
is going to surprise you. They're going to surprise a
lot of people. Look, there might pick for the Super
Bowl this year. I know that it seems like a
big turnover for the Rams defensively. But there's nobody I
trust more in the NFL than Sean McVay.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Every move he's ever made has worked. There's not one
time I can go boy, Sean McVay completely screwed the
Rams by that No doesn't matter, So I have complete
confidence he has fixed the wobbliness of the defense and
coming in. I know how big they are offensively, how
many points they're gonna put on the board. You have
a little bit of an injury issue with Jamir Gibbs,

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the Lions coming off the NFC title game last year.
Now they're part of the hunted. I don't this means
suddenly the lines are gonna lay an egg. But I
see a big fireworks night and I will take the
Rams thirty eight to thirty five in this big night
for Stafford, big night for both offenses. When it comes
down to it, the Rams defense holds just enough. They

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get a big turnover or two here, and you start thinking, Okay,
maybe this is gonna be it for the Rams. I'll
take the Rams. I'm not gonna need the points, but again,
I'll take the four.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Points fifty one the total, the post, Aaron doneal Era
and a little bit of a banged up secondary.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
That's my only concern for you, my brother.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
But Miami Jacksonville, one of the other games that we're
expecting a ton of points. Forty nine and a half
is the total. Almost eighty percent of the money is
on the over on this one. But my other AFC
title contender coming out of this game, the Jacksonville Jaguars
getting three and a half on the road taking down
to a tonguea Bai Loa and company.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Bang Bang, let's go. Wow, you're gonna go get book it.
Even though we interviewed Raheem Moster and he told us
how big Mike McDaniel's feed are, You're still gonna bet again?
Wow Wow, Raheem most It's never gonna talk to you again.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
Man, No he will, because I still have great hopes
for them for the season. But no, not in this one.
Not in the opener. The Jaguars plus three and a half.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
So we have more upset specials coming away again. I
got five big upset specials. I like five five count
I got five. We'll get to them more coming up
later on this hour, but straight ahead we'll have more
on the Packers and the Eagles. Plus why I'm even
more worried about the Ravens than I was a night ago.

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