January 4, 2025 • 52 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon talk Jimmy Butler not finding joy anymore. Plus, the guys talk about college football playoffs, chat with Jason Cole, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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(00:52):
a chance to take our breath from the college football
bowl system. Everything is fine. We do have one bowl
game on right now, the Dukes. May We do Duke's
Mayo bull.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I've never had Duke's brand mayo.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Uh, I never have. It's a It's I think it's
a South thing.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's tangy and zesty and has some other kind of
flavor to it.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Probably if you said to me sight unseen. I don't
know why I would do this because I'm not like
a taster. You said sight unseen. What would Duke's Mayo
taste like. I would say it tastes like miracle whip.
That would be my guest. I don't know, because you know, Mayo,
you gotta kind of do something, do it to to
kind of stand out as Mayo?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Do you do you? I think I feel the need
to buy a jar for next week so we can
try it. Okay, i'd begin you could order one on Amazon,
and that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
You're gonna do it right.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Now because I gotta replace the headphones that went walking,
So I gotta do that too.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
You're gonna wait, someone stole your headphones? Yes, studio?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
No good, Really, I don't know what someone stole your.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Head I could. I could do this now. I can
investigate and find out who did it.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Nicely done. Yeah No, I don't know either that or
I left him somewhere. No no, no, no, don't order headphones anyway. Listen,
here's how I do it, because I know how to
do it. I'll do it just like they did every
episode of NYPD Blue. I'll pinpoint who my whom I
think the the perpetrator is.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'll let them lie to me. Then I'll bully them
a little bit and they'll confess and that's every NYP
and I will find it.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Well, he got the first lights that go on that
you had it pretty brightened here, so we can put
them under the heat lamps.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
No, no, no, no, first, get the needle. I need to
I just need to talk to Tyshirt. That's the he
knows everything that goes. He's the only I need to
talk to him, and that's it, and he'll tell me.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
No, I'm not making an accusation. I'm just saying I
have not been able to find them. No, no, no,
but there here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You just said the headphones that went walking. That doesn't
mean I lost them. That means somewhat stole my headphones.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Dunt dunt dum, just saying they're not here. Yeah, yeah,
it's kind of crazy, but yeah, I will order some
mayonnaise the case.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Of the stolen heades. But it's like a Hardy Boys
Mike Harmon in the case of the stolen.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Hardy Boys mystery. Now now you're talking. Now we're going
old school here.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Frank and Joe try to find Mike Harbin.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
A hair of Parker Stephenson or what. There you go,
old guy reference every.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yet it dude, I don't know that, Jen X remembers
Parker Stevenson. I mean you got, you got, you gotta get,
you gotta get boring man. He's one of the hardy boys.
He was married to Kirsty Ally and that was Parker Stevenson.
There you go. I just summed up the guy's career
in four seconds. That was Parker Stephens. That was really
well done by Sean Cassidy. Would take me a little
bit longer, Run Run, Run It.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
In the seventies became a TV producer, produced American Gothic,
so six seconds for yeah, yeah, it was like that
was like his baby. I think American Gothic was his baby.
About that he loosened Gary Cole on the World before
he became Bill Lumberg.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
The night Stalker.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, oh no, no, Bill Lumbert. He was a bad
due Gary Cole bad. He was the bad guy in
a Bad Guy and also look also getting their start
that's a big TV show because getting their starts in
those shows, Gary Cole, uh Lucas black right, and uh,
what's her name? From Ocean's eight? I can't. I could
(04:18):
see her right now now. She's she's, she goes, she's,
she's did she lives with she Daves Holland Taylor, Uh,
Sarah paul Sarah Paulson. There you go, ye, there you go.
All got their start in American Gothic. How about that?
That was the show was like six episodes in like
the nineties. But anyway, so that's where we are. The
Duke's Mayo bawl. Now before we get to the NBA.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I mean, we did have that Texas Bowl earlier, so
that was good.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, we did, but but I mean, come on, the
Texas Ball what was it? North Texas and Texas State.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
But you know what was great, though, is you eventually
got to the point where they had to say famous
alumni and your stone cold Steve Austin up on the screen.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I thought they're gonna do famous alumni Sindbad and Kathy
Ireland and Scott Bakula.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
All coached by Robert Loja.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Let's go. Let's go back and take a look at
when Kathy Ireland beat Texas with this big field goal
back in nineteen ninety one the Armadillos.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Robert Loja. When the play wouldn't work, he would just
rip it out of the playbook in front. We're never
calling that again. He would just rip and throw it.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Away, Robert Loja.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But look, there's a big thing here because now we
take our we take a pause. Obviously, you know the
Duke's Mayo Bowl where you look at the game and
you think LSU is in the Mayo Bolt nol it's Minnesota.
But wait a minute, but Virginia Tech. No, no, no,
Virginia Tech is wearing their uniforms which look like Minnesota's uniforms.
Minnesota is wearing LSU uniform?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Is it the screaming Eagles's coach Hayden Fox out there?
It works, Luther?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Is that now that we have seen the playoff get
to the final four?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Because here's where we would normally be if we were
just getting to the playoff now, right? Who are the
four teams in? And I think all of the controversy
surrounding this, of the seedings weren't right, and the home
games are a much bigger deal, and twelve teams might
be too many, and do we let all the right
teams in all of that is a load of crap.
(06:02):
And you know why, because the main reason we have
the playoff. We're doing the playoff like this is because
we want to make sure the top five or six
teams are in the playoff. Right because every year, hey,
you talk about top four, you get a team left
out that could easily be one of the top four
teams in the country.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Look, Florida State went undefeated last year and they didn't
get in because their quarterback got hurt. Right, was that right? No,
not at all. They won thirteen games, they were third.
Now they got beat in the bowl game, but it
doesn't matter. They did everything they wanted. The main purpose
of this is to make sure that we get the
top five or six teams into the playoff. And that's
what we have and that's why this is a success.
(06:39):
You can argue about teams twelve and eleven, it doesn't matter.
That's irrelevant. It's fun for It's just like the NACATE tournament.
It's fun for a day, but then we get to
the games and then okay, then the snubs don't matter
and we don't sit back and look at them anymore.
And that's what this was because you look at where
we're at right now, who is in the final four.
When you talk about the top twenty five rankings, the
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number three, four, five, and six team in the country
are all in. And I think that is that is
the poster statement for the college football playoffs. You want
to make sure the best five or six teams get
in because those are the teams that are above everybody else.
And what happened The top two teams number one and
number two lost, but we got three, four, five six in.
It's not like, hey, teams were a rank eleventh and
fourteenth and no, you got three, four, five six in.
(07:22):
This shows you the playoff works. It's fine. You see
the television ratings, the way college football is taken over
the sports menu over the course of the past couple
of weeks. With the playoff, everything works. Everything is great.
We can debate and want to complain and moan about
oh should this team be it? And look at this
and all those teams losing, It doesn't matter. There is
unprecedented attention on college football, and in the end, you're
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letting the right teams in. As long as the top
five or six get in the last three or four.
I don't care about because you can argue you could
have put three of those teams in. We saw the
way they played, you could have knocked them out and
put in Syracuse. And you could have put in another
team for the Big ten. You could have you could
have done a lot of things right. You could have
put All Miss in right the way they played, right,
(08:06):
come on, we were great. You know, you could have
put other three loss teams in All Miss, Syracuse, whatever
was and and the playoff would have been fine. But
but what they needed to do and what they need
to accomplish was all right, nobody's getting snub that can
win the national championship. And God bless you. If you're
a team that's a twelve seed and you win your
way all the way up, Hey, you know what, you
win the championship. So it's fun to complain. A look
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at these seeds. But in the end, what do we have.
We have four of the top six seeds and a
one and two lost. Right, it's pretty exciting, right, We
got one and two losing, and we got three, three, four, five,
and six in the AP top twenty five. Everything has
worked out great. This college football playoff is a tremendous
success no matter how you cut it up.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, even going back to the beginning, when we're arguing
about who's in who's out, that's a win for college
football in the middle of an NFL season because normally
the bulls would get announced and the playoffs got announced.
And yes, last year we got the outrage from Florida State,
but you could make the argument, much like you could
have done with Georgia looking at You're not that you're
(09:04):
gonna leave them out obviously for what they did all year,
but when we talk about seating and pushing things forward,
there was no back, so you get into those kind
of discussions about where they should have been, and seating
will be a topic of conversation going forward. Because we
had the Rose Bowl in Oregon in Ohio State, and
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even before the game's kicked off, it was well is
it right? Is it right? Full Sam Kennison back to
school kind of moment. But all of it to say,
we've argued about everything, We've marveled at the great performances,
and we've excoriated those who fail. It's worked out exactly
as you want and in the end, there are teams
(09:44):
that still have respect grandeur, the pageantry, the fan bases,
everything to keep your money machine rolling and interest at
a sky high level. Right for Texas, we're still talking about, Hey,
which quarterback is going to be sitting around? Is yours
gonna even be there? Who's the mystery six million dollar team?
All of these storylines and more. They give us so
(10:07):
much time and time again, and then we get down
to it. To your point, if a twelve or eleven
seed or whoever's on that back end suddenly goes on
a monumental run, then we all win, Right, we all
win because it's now gonna bring in the folks who
like absolute chaos and otherwise couldn't care less about college
football because everybody wants to see institutions burn. We thought
(10:31):
we'd do it all the time. Anything that becomes a
monolithic structure. People want to take their whack at it
with the twenty pounds sledge like they're at a carnival.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That's what we do.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We all want to do it, and we get to
do it through the power of the microphones and the
Fox Sports Radio network. Everybody else does it around their
office place or to make conversation and keep it, you know,
to where it can still be quasi civil at the
you know, holiday holiday holiday tables. It all worked out beautifully,
and there's still a lot of hate watching to do
(11:03):
based on the fan bases. Whether you like their fans
or the teams that are still playing here, all four
have plenty of reasons for you to wag your finger
at them for past transgressions, annoying fan bases, and their
historic failures on grand stages. It's ripe for us to
(11:24):
have so much more fun with the four deams remaining,
and it's already been one hell of a party. We
got to say scataboo nine thousand times yesterday.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Stataboo, Will you do the fan bango? I've been saying
that all day. I've been saying that all day.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Just punch you in the head.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
No, because well, here's the thing. And you say it's
fun for everybody, all right, and it's And the one
person that this playoff is not fun for is my wife.
It is not fun for being a Michigan fan. Who
are the teams that are left?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, I get it, I get it right.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Three three of the biggest, she goes. The only thing
that could be worse is if Michigan State was in
instead of Texas.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Hey, Madge K. Johnson reportedly is going to spend every
last dollar he has to make it a contender.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
She said to me, And I said, look, look at
it this way, right, because you know it's awful for you. Right,
it's awful because you're talking about the biggest rival in
Ohio state. You're talking another biggest rival in Notre Dame, right,
you're talking about another huge rival at bed State. Yeah,
you're all in on Texas. I said, Now, don't ask
me if I think Texas is gonna win, because you're
not gonna like the answer. But look at it this way, right.
(12:25):
How did I look at the Super Bowl when the
Giants and the Patriots were in it? And she said,
I don't know. I wasn't paying attention. I said, okay,
here's how I look at it. I said, I looked
at it as Okay, this is gonna suck because no
matter who wins, one of my biggest rivals, I gotta watch, right,
the Patriots are gonna win or the Giants are gonna win. Right,
this was awful. Now in the end, I said, eh,
if I'm sitting here rooting, who would i'd rather see win?
(12:46):
I've seen the Patriots win five Super Bowls already, so
what's a big deal for another one?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
If I could see the Giants win again, that would
be worse. I realized, Okay, I'm sort of pulling for
the pain, which is sounded weird, but that's what it is.
But I look at it this way, look at it instead.
Look at this way. Is that you know for sure
two of those three teams that you don't like are
gonna lose.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Just look at it this way.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You know, two of those teams are gonna not be
celebrating and being really really upset. And I know she's
hoping for the much. She's hoping that it's Ohio State,
like that's the one she wants. But I said, just
understand that two of those no matter what happen, worst
case scenario, worst case scenario, two of those rivals are
gonna lose, whether it's Penn State, Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
and two of those teams are gonna lose. And you
(13:28):
you know, at the end, maybe one of those teams,
one of the teams you're not gonna have a choice,
is gonna win and win them. But just know that
of the three teams. Two of them are gonna lose.
You're not having You're gonna have a six sixty seven
winning percentage on seeing your rivals lose and leave with
a dejected reason as they walk off that field. So
two of those six sixty seven winning percentage on this.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
You're so much nicer than I would have been. It's
like you won last year. Your team's been mid for decades.
Be quiet?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well no, I said that.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Well, okay, I'm not gonna say that to my wife
and fluffier language.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You wouldn't you would, you wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Be.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I went for the concise argument.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, quite, No I did with the hey, you won
the championship last year. She said, yeah, but yeah, And
I think a lot of it is the frustration that's
seeing the way Michigan closed the season by beating Ohio
State and and and and beating Alabama. If we had
just had a bleeping quarterback man, this season could have
been different. It would have been way different. But again, again,
(14:31):
it's the biggest mystery in college football. Yes, it's great,
they got price onto it. They flipped it from LSU.
How you come into this season with a seventh year senior,
a fifth year walk on and a gadget guy, and
that's your the.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Title run like they were hiding from people.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Look I then people went away from it and then
came back and said, wait, this is who Michigan's quarterbacks are.
But like, how the hell did this happened?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I remember, like I told you, a lot of negative
recruiting can have been out there. You know they're gonna
get the death penalty, right, you know. You know they're
to be on probation, They're not gonna be able to
go to a bowl game or any of that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Worry about it. Uh, hey, Wade, I just watched them
beat Ohio, So yeah, it doesn't matter. It's irrelevant. Worry
about it. It doesn't count. It doesn't count, It makes
no different, doesn't count. So that's what I would have been.
I mean that, that's the way I told her to
look at it, and hopefully she sees it more of
a sunny side up thing. I'm singing Eyes of Texas
as I walk around the house during the day, so
hopefully that puts her in a bit of a in
a bit of a.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
But what's the go to? Can?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You can?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I mean, you go flowers, you go chocolate, sandwiches. I mean, what,
what's the key to Pam's hert here to get her
through these next couple of weeks? That'll be better?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I think it is. It is an unexpected, unexpected decision
of an unexpected initiative that takes care of something that
she had on her to do list.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Okay, all of a sudden comeback, that'll make it back.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah, well I did give her the glug that you
made last night. She was very big fan of that.
She didn't chuck it like Frostburg did when when when
they brought it to him. But no, she was a
big fan. But like if I come up, like if
she's I gotta make sure, I gotta, I gotta get
up to the mall and I gotta buy this for
you know, a like a present for one of Zoe's
friends for a birthday. Like if I said, oh no,
I took care of that, when did it yesterday? That
that would be all Okay, that's.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
You're almost there, my friend. When when Zoe's gonna be
able to drive herself and you don't have to do
that crap anymore. Yeah, it's coming. It's kind you're going
to be sad that it's gone. To a degree, and
then you're gonna be happy on the other side, going, yeah,
I can still sit here and play with the dog
and watch TV.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Go ahead, that's gonna work. So anyway. So so that's
everybody is happy. Except but here's how you be happy.
Just understand that some of your rivals are not going
to win and and just celebrate that.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Well, it's like Sunday, right, I got Lions and Vikings.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I wanted.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I wanted to be a tie.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, he's not gonna happen. Yeah, and I really like that.
It would be good for me.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I mean, they're both getting in, so I mean it's
not like, you know, get the playoffs not.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
You know, Yeah, suddenly I don't know one one one
seed path may be easier and better and than the other.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Anyway, Exit out bout a Fresca, Exit Swollen Dome. The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Ti
rack dot Com studios. Coming up. Hey, We're gonna hit
you with all our big playoff predictions in the AFC
and NFC this weekend. Who's gonna wind up with those
final seeds? Where are they gonna be? We'll give you
our feearless predictions as well as a big developing NBA story.
(17:22):
It looks like a superstar is out there for the taking.
If you want to make a trade, that's coming up
next right here. Happy Friday, Jason and Mike. This hey,
and Happy Friday to you, Pam. Even though your rivals
are gonna play again in a week, I Pam, it
is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
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Speaker 1 (17:48):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
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Com studios, and we'll take you through a really big
story out of the NFL coming up in a second.
But we said it last night. It's coming true. It's
why we call the show ahead of the curve. Last night,
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when Jimmy Butler decided, I'm gonna get a little extemporaneous
at my postgame press conference and make sure everybody knows
how unhappy I am here in Miami. Oh, I'm happy
off the court. I'm just not happy on the court.
Can you ever find that joy?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Back.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Jimmy, Jimmy said no, Jimmy, Jimmy played good. Jimmy, Jimmy
said no. Can't get the joy back. We told you
last night. He's played his last game for the Miami
Heat after that kind of insult. Can't play. He's gonna
be sat down until they trade him.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I thought about it a lot last night after we
finished up and did the Outwatch Flex podcast. I was
driving home and thinking about the Jimmy Butler thinks some
more because he's always been one of my favorite guys.
I don't have any joy playing. I didn't know whether
to feel sad or mad at him, because you always can, like, look,
no matter how bad things are in the outside world,
what do we always do when when it comes to uh, say,
(19:02):
our show and many other folks, right, you go to
work and you still find some pleasure, some joy, some respite.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He's even said he even said he can't find he
can't find joy. He said, I can't find That's what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Like, I'm disappointed that he that it's gotten so bad
he can't even find joy.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Like he's got his eyes closed watching inside out. I
can't find joy. I don't know where joy is.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I'm sadness sadness take over? Yeah, or the the other
emo things.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Of this What was the new one? That that was
the second one?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
And and yeah they had a bunch of like odd balls.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Oh okay, yeah, cause I didn't see it. I know
it good. How could you say it's good? You don't
remember what the new what the new addition?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I saw it a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
But the new emotion is euphemisms? No, I mean, like,
I like, what is it? If it's that good? It
had to be a very memorable character.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
There were it was anxiety, embarrassment, envy and on wei
on wei.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Okay, all right, very nice on we correct? I think
you did. Yeah, everybody it's e n n U. I yes,
so everybody knows it's it's oh that word.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I understand the feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction, you know,
kind of where we're at with Jimmy Butler right now.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Because I was gonna say, you know what when I
when I when the story broke last night, I said, yeah,
that's Jimmy right like that. That wasn't I wasn't surprised.
I wasn't. I don't think I was weary. I guess
I was more more like, yeah, well we've seen this before, Okay,
but now he's gonna get traded. Right now, you've crossed
that rubicon when you say I can no longer find
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joy with this team. And of course you crossed rubicon
when you're thirty five years old. You're no longer the
best player on the team. And we told you last night,
somebody's gonna get in, and they're gonna get in on him,
because the one we know in basketball is that superstars
who get disenfranchised with their franchise raculously find a way
to turn it around and play great when they get
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a new setting.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
We've seen it with James Harden, we saw it with
Chris Paul. We've seen it with a lot of guys
like yeah, I'm done. I don't care about being here.
I just want to get out. Oh look I found
the fountain of youth and look how well I'm playing.
So yes with the new team, with a contending team,
they can use Jimmy Butler's specific type of volatile leadership
that he has shown on and off in the last
few years. He's you know, he's got he's got a
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big skill set, doesn't need to be the number one
scorer anymore because he knows he's not. But he's someone
that can hit big baskets, play crunch minutes, and give
you that little bit of crazy leadership that some teams
kind of need because sometimes a little bit of crazy works.
And sure enough, what do we find out just a
couple hours ago, Shams Tarani of ESPN reporting Jimmy Butler
(21:45):
suspended for seven games, and they're going to listen to
trade offers. Like we said last night before this came out,
I we can be NBA. I can be an NBA. Int.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I remember eight days ago when Pat We're not trading
Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, but you have that saying don't say never. But
but here's the question now for Shams. If I were
to use a a meme right or a gift up
on Twitter to kind of describe this whole thing, two
of them are gone. I can't use Connor McGregor or
Vince McMahon. So how do who's walk do I get
to emulate? Is it seth Rollins coming into or you know,
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the the Cody Rhodes. I mean, what am I doing?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
You gotta find a new walk. Yeah, find a new walk. Yeah, yeah,
there's a whole other thing.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I did like Tyler Heroes quote from last night though, quote,
I feel like the vibe is great. I'm about to
I'm about to enjoy my night because I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
The best player on the team now.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Man, I twenty four and a half.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Man, I could say I can take all the shots now,
not just most of them. I can take all the
shots now. I could wear my bucket hat anywhere I want.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
To go lumberjack competition. Man.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
But look, of course he's going to get dealt. He's
played his last game with the heat. When you say
things like I'm I'm not happy here, I don't have joy.
And when you're thirty five, you're no longer the player
you were and your team is meandering around five hundred,
it's time. It's time to make that move, and they will,
and you're gonna see big teams get involved because he's
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not gonna cost very much. This is not getting Jimmy
Butler three four years ago. This is getting Jimmy Butler
at thirty five, when there's a there's a lot of
question about what he has left in the tank. So
you're gonna get a pretty a pretty cheap uh ask back.
So okay, so you're gonna it's not just gonna be Hey,
we're gonna dump you off to Detroit or somewhere else. No,
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there's gonna be contending teams that can feel we need
a little bit of that on our team, right, like
all the teams that thought maybe middle of last year, hey,
if the Warriors want to part ways with Draymond Green,
we could really use a little bit of that attitude.
Maybe he's not the player he was, but boy, he
really comes in and he's the policeman and he knows
how to he knows how to push buttons and get
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a team focused. We could use some of that. Jimmy
Butler is kind of like that, but but no, not
quite as demonstrative and over the top, and he doesn't
get thrown out as many times. But that that teams
that need something like that, they're gonna look to him.
And all those teams on his list that he put
out a few weeks ago. Phoenix, yeah, the Dallas yeah,
of course, Golden State. Yeah, all these teams are gonna say, yeah,
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we can use it because he could be a great
addition because of what he can bring. If as long
as he has the fountain of youth and he feels
motivated for the next year plus. Right, the beauty of.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It is, he only got to get through the end
of this year because he's got a player option, which,
according to the reports, he already has informed everybody, he
and his agent and anybody will listen, they're declining it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, let's wait and see, Let's wait and see how
the rest of the year goes before you watch.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
But no, but but but there's the beauty of it, right,
there's there's the risk risk idea of it. Of well,
it is a player option, and if this goes south,
he's gonna be waving at us telling me to give
you his fifty to two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Now, if you're looking at where he could end up, right,
looking at where he could it up. He gave his
list of teams that he would be okay going to
right and and and we we told you about that list.
The Rockets are also on this list. The Rockets might
be a little nervous about it because like, hey, we
got a kind of got a good thing going on here,
and and nobody thought we were gonna be good and
looking look, we're.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Pretty good and someone James harden Thy Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Don't uh, don't say anything. Don't tell anybody. We're good.
But we feel pretty good about what we have. So
I can see Houston saying no, but Dallas absolutely. I
can see the Golden State Warriors absolutely, Phoenix absolutely. But
you're gonna see teams like the Lakers are gonna get involved,
and maybe the Nuggets get involved, and maybe the Timberwolves go, hey,
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we need another guy. Come back, Jimmy, come back, everything
is forgiven. Come back here. And other teams in the
East are gonna say, yeah, we think we need Jimmy too.
The Atlanta Hawks, do we do we punt on the season?
Do we? What do we do? No, let's go get Jimmy.
You're gonna see a lot of teams that are gonna
wind up going in on him. But I'll tell you
this one hundred percent, pat Riley is not gonna trade
into a team in the East. It is only going
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to the West. He will give him to a team
kind of on his preferred list because you have to,
because you want to move on from him. You want
to make sure he reports he's gonna go there, he's
gonna play. So it will be from his preferred team.
I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say when it comes
down to it, the four teams, we're gonna be talking
about it the next few days. Take the Rockets out
because I don't think the Rockets want to do that
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at this point. They want to continue to see what
they have. They're ten games over five hundred, they're a
game out of second place. I think the Rockets think
they're pretty good. But a team like but it's gonna
be Dallas, it'll be Golden State, it'll be Phoenix, and
it will be the Lakers. Watch out for the Lakers.
They're feeling good about what they've done. They just made
a trade already with Frid'angelo Russell. They've opened things up
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for Austin Reeves. Maybe Jimmy Butler is that guy that
comes in that can do what they were hoping some
of their guys could do this year, and that is, hey,
we have Knights, so we can give Lebron some rest
and a d some rest. Because Jimmy Butler can be
a guy that once every three or four games can
be the Jimmy Butler of old and hey, this game
we're doing pretty well. Lebron can take a little bit
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less minutes and not worry about the wear and tear.
I'm telling you take the Rockets out, put the Lakers in,
because he can kind of take any role you need
right there. He can shoot, he can play clutch minutes.
He's done it before. You know, Lebron and Ad would
trust him right away. I'm telling you put the Lakers
on that list. With those other three teams.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Well, got to have a bit of veteran leadership in
a locker room, right to make sure that if he
comes in, you know, you've got some guys that have
the gravitas to, you know, keep him to where he's
not taking over. Because that was the problem in the past,
right with young players, that he would be too exacting,
too demanding, dismissive, and then they'd get in their fields.
(27:48):
Go back to your guy Bodega and so many others.
The history is littered with them. With Lebron and Ad
it would work. Now I've seen a couple of us
wondering about you.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Got to make the money work. That's the big things.
You got to make the money work. But there's ways
to do that with three teams and say hey, we're
gonna make this trade here and do this, so you
could always find a way to make the money. It
doesn't have to be well, it's got to be Austin Reeves,
that's not gonna happen. There's ways to make.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
No, you're not bringing in Jimmy Butler and getting rid
of Austin reasons.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
No, what I'm saying is that you gotta make the
salaries much.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Because they don't the NBA. Yeah, I mean, you've got
to be creative, there's no question about it. Get another
team involved. Because the Lakers outside of and we had
this conversation a couple of weeks ago in terms of
what else they could do. The fact that they were
able to make a deal and ship off DeAngelo Russell. Okay,
there's part one. But you don't have a lot of
other discernible assets that are building you towards a championship
(28:44):
contending squad that are on the roster. Nor do you
have guys that are making big money that make the
equations for the NBA trades work, which is why you'd
have to get creative with a third or fourth team
coming into the fray. But that gets fun. The Clippers
were all so kind of mentioned it's curious because you're
still waiting on is it Kawhi Leonard supposed to play
(29:04):
one of these days?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Isn't that at some point? Yeah, there's a lot of
there's a lot of talk. Maybe he's gonna play at
some point. All to talk about him is false according
to the every day he'll play at some point, we'll
see him. We see him every year. We just don't
see him that often. He's gone from Hey, a guy
we saw all the time too. Yeah, he comes back
into town once a couple of times a year. I
(29:27):
saw him at a bar. A couple of weeks ago,
I saw Uncle Jim at a bar.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
It's like when I have the schedule opportunity to go
home to Chicago. Yeah, Mike's gonna be at this bar
and you can show up. Great, there's not enough time.
It's a short trip.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
He's not just We went from seeing him all the
time and now now I don't see him anymore. So
you run into that front, Hey, you ever see Yeah?
You ever you ever see Bob anymore?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Man? No, I used to see him all the time,
but now, like I don't know, a couple of times
a year I saw him at that big wing bing event. Uh,
he was there, but then he was only there for
a little while. I saw him at Christine's birthday. But
now then he went back home. That that's kawhi, Lenny's
gone from. Hey, we used to go in all the time, man,
we were wingmen. Yeah. Now it's as see a couple
of times a year.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
But I at least have the excuse, you know, the
You can commiserate with me on air twenty two hours
a week plus a podcast, so you can have my
thoughts on a wide range of topics like you intimately
are sitting at a table with me over a candlelight
in a dimly lit dive bar.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Let's go exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carman,
live from the tire rack dot Com studios. Time now
to find out what's trending in the wide world of
sports with special delivery Steve the Seger, and I do
want to say this coming in breaking news coming in
the Knicks Thunder game was abandoned in the fourth quarter
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with the Knicks having a lead. They're going to finish
that game tomorrow night. Steve, you have more details on
that Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
It turns out it was only abandoned by the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
City wins the game one seventeen, one oh seven. The
next nine game winning streak is over. OKC has won
fourteen in a row. Shake Gilgess Alexander thirty three points.
OKAC outscored him in the fourth by eighteen. New Orleans
ended an eleven game losing streak. Beat Washington won thirty
two to one twenty C. J McCollum with fifty points
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tonight from three point range, he was ten of sixteen.
Looks like Cleveland's gonna win again. Leading at Dallas with
four minutes to go one twenty seven to one oh eight,
thirty four points for Evan Mobley. This would put Cleveland
at thirty and four. This would be their ninth straight win.
For the Mavericks, Kyrie Irving out due to illness. At Denver,
the Nuggets Nikola Jokic with thirty seven points. Denver is
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tied late third quarter against San Antonio eighty seven all
the two late games. Lakers are about to host the Hawks.
The Kings are hosting the Grizzlies. Boston won again twenty
six and nine record after a victory at Houston one
oh nine eighty six. Rockets forward Jabari Smith broke his
hand shoot around. He'll be reevaluated in four to six weeks.
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Victories for Detroit and Orlando. The Miami Heat did suspend
Jimmy Butler's seven games for conduct detrimental to the team.
The Heat will listen to trade offers now. College hoops
on Fox TV tonight. Eighteenth rank Michigan State was a
winner at Ohio State sixty nine to sixty two, and
there's a game on FS one right now at a
rank Marquette, the home team holding on against Creighton fifty
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six fifty three with eleven minutes to go. Among the
five NHL games, Edmonton up on Anaheim two to one
at the end of two periods. Florida in a shootout,
beat Pittsburgh three to two. The Dodgers signed Korean infielder
High Sung Kim three years plus a two year option.
In college football a couple of bowl games. There's one
in Charlotte with about two minutes left right now. Minnesota
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leads twenty four to ten over Virginia Tech in Dallas today,
Texas State beating North Texas thirty to twenty eight, and
Dolphins quarterback tu Atongavailoa is unlikely to play Sunday at
the Jets due to his hip injury. Quarterback Tyler Huntly,
due to start for Miami season ends this weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. And oh, by
the way, I to show you what I'm like as
a radio host in the person, I can put my
fandom aside sometimes and say things that that credit teams
that I really don't like. Georgetown might be back. Yeah,
they won tonight over Xavier. Georgetown is twelve and two
(33:26):
so far, they're unbeaten the Big East, like George. Which
it pains me to say this because I go I
tell Zoe you go anywhere you want. You can't go
to Georgetown. Can't go to college George. That only play way.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
But if they become a juggernaut again and it knows
to go, No, can't go to George, and then you
can keep yelling it like Voldemort is back, No, Georgetown
is back.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Can't go to but Georgetown. I mean, they are twelve
and two and they have been just absolutely terrible the
last few years and here they are now top of
the Big East. Twelve and two. I mean, this is
some kind of turnaround right now for Georgetown.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I'll tell you how does that make you feel they
have a.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Better record than Yukon right now?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I mean Yukon will never travel again?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Oh no, you cut. Yeah, Danny Harrell is gonna say, listen,
aund in in Hawaii. All home games. Thirty home games.
That's what we're gonna play. We're only gonna play two
away games. We're gonna play once in Hartford, right so
we don't have to go very far. And we'll play
one game at Madison Square Garden. That's it.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
So he's basty games going up in the SEC football schedule.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Thirty games, that's all it is. The Jason Smith Show
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one future NFL Hall of Fame quarterback. We'll tell you
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Speaker 2 (34:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (34:49):
You know, The Jason Smith Show is my best friend.
Mike Harmon Live at the tirect dot com Studios. We
got a big NFL Sunday coming up, final play, all
spot up for grabs of the AFC, as is the
final spot in the NFC? Are the Lions taking the
number one seed? Is it the Vikings? Is Aaron Rodgers
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really playing his final game of the year and final
game of his career on Sunday? Joining us now on
the hotline is a longtime NFL insider. He is helping
the Jets search for their GM on the thirty third team.
He is a Pro Football Haul of very good voter.
He is on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. It
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is Jason Cole j Cole, Happy New Year.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Man, Happy May Year to you fellows. My game, the
Gang in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
It's all good, wow, all good?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
All right.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
So you're telling me that that everything's going to be
good and Aaron Rodgers is going to come back next
year and the Jets are going to be great. Thanks
a lot. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Kurt Rogers might come back. He ain't come back of
the Jets, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Don't don't stick a fork on that just yet. He
knows it's a Jet about.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Can I say, can he be more derisive and reference
to the owner with the way that he says, asked Woody?
Because you know what he's doing that is that what
he wants to be referred to as mister ambassador. And
he keeps doing the ask Woody, ask Woody and just
refers to him as Woody is just like like he's
(36:22):
taking a fork and putting in his ribs every time.
Because all those stories that were in that report about
his kids.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Ask Brick, okay, ask Brick, my sweet Brick, did you
did you know that?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Did you notice one of the bylines that was on
that story. If you did, that points a lot towards
Aaron did not do anything, put up any fight against
that story. Let's just put it that way.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Well, he did.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
But here's the thing. Did you also notice that Aaron
Rodgers had a pretty good two year run with back
to back m vps when he would hate it on
everybody involved in Green Bay? When you thought that was
enough to get rid of him.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Yeah, but this is where you say when you're taking
on an owner. See, in green Bay, there was no
owner and there was nobody to really that she could
really get into their skin on a daily basis. You
know there's Mark Murphy who put up with his nonsense
and famously said he's a different kind of guy. There's
the GM's the different you know, two different gms basically
(37:28):
between between Ted Thompson rest in peace and you know
Brian comes and then you know the coaches who went
between McCarthy and Lafleur. He you know, they act like
Margaret Thatcher smelling bad cheese every time he talked about
those guys for for a couple of years. So, yeah,
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he ripped a lot of people, but it's different when
you're ripping the owner.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Yeah, Johnson's not paying attention. He's playing Madden right now.
Brooke has no idea what's being said about him.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
What he's paying attention now. Sheriff Woody ain't playing like that.
He didn't like that. Sheriff Woody gets ripped up and down.
I mean, you know, he has come a long way
from the propeller hat to being you know, an ambassador,
and he's not happy about said that he was not
(38:25):
named an ambassador again. So these are not good times
for Woody Johnson because he's being mocked relentlessly. And yeah,
we'll see if Rabel takes that job, you know, if
he even gets offered it. But it tells you a
lot when Rivera's you know, being announced early as one
of the candidates, and I know that Rivera satisfies the
(38:47):
minority candidate option in this whole thing. So they want
to get that news out there as much as they
possibly can. But like, that's this is not like a
real a great starting point for an announcement for the Jets.
And to me, Rabel's using this early on to stir
up interest from other teams that might have openings, particularly
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you know, Vegas. Depending on how much power you know,
Brady really has and how much sway he has with
Mark Davis, Well.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
That's the go ahead, Jason.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
It's like, look, the Jets are going to wind up
being Last Chance Hotel. They're going to get a coach
in a GM. It's the only job they're going to
get is the coach or GM of the Jets. Anybody
with an option is not going to be with the Jets.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
It is only a place for the daring and the desperate.
That is true. I think it was. I think yeah,
I think Trey Armstrong came up with that line one time.
He was referring when he was playing, he was referring
to some place and he goes, yeah, this is the place.
It's only for the daring and the desperate. So it's
pretty It was a pretty funny line.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Is that how people refer to dealing with him as
an agent? Now, when you have to go to a
it's that you're desperate.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
No Trace is a sharp agent. He's he's going to
get long lists of people, and he's pretty powerful in
that coach game, I'll say that.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
So as we get into the the final weekend of
the season, we got a lot of preliminaries, but it
all settles up on Sunday night. Seriously, as a Chicago guy,
I hope both teams lose. But what do you think
does Ben Johnson have enough to cook Brian Flores for
previous snows.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
It's really interesting because because Flores can do a lot
of things and that will confuse GoF right and make
him hesitate. The question is is Golf learn enough from
the you know, the previous three times he's played against them,
that that's not going to matter anymore. So I'm really
(40:53):
fascinated by this matchup because there are only so many
tricks you can pull as a defensive coordinator to keep
fooling players again and again and again, and and Detroit's
just even with the injuries they've had, you know, on offense,
they're so loaded. So I think Detroit's got enough to
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get through this one. But obviously the strength for Minnesota
is that defense and what Flora's has been able to do.
You know, Darnold's had terrific here and there's the starter
again there next year. But they're they're really riding it
on the fact that Flora comes up with innovative game
(41:34):
plans weekend and week out to make them hard for
opposing teams. And I just it's a division opponent, so
it's not it's just this one's it's just a this
one's a tough call. But I would favor Detroit in
this one, all right.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
So staying in the NFC, who's getting that final playoff
spot is? Is m v P Baker Mayfield getting it?
Or are we going to see somehow the Falcons with it?
Speaker 4 (41:59):
Yeah? I think m v P m v P Baker,
m v P Baker. Where did that come from? Like?
What planet are we on?
Speaker 1 (42:06):
He's one of the top three four quarterbacks in the
NFL this year. That's how good he is.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Yeah, he's a lot. He's a long way from the top.
From number one and number two.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
We're just you're just to hate. You're hating non Bake,
you just hate Baker Bayfield.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Well, I mean we're not friends or anything like that.
He's he's had a tragic year. And I like that,
Like they slipped that team around really fast. Now, Grant
you know, they're still, you know, depending a lot on
aging Mike Evans, who's still remains incredibly productive, and you know,
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they're not getting a lot out of the you know,
the McMillan's and you know, Kate as Aten's actually played
pretty well, but they're not getting a lot from the
number two and NU there's three options on the offense
and the receipts, but you know, Bucky Irving and the
offensive line and really young Baker's finally maturing a little bit.
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He's still got a little too much far in him,
but that's probably never going to change. He's always going
to be like that. So I I like camput a
hold on to that spot. I like him actually get
the number three spot, even though I think if if
the Rams, the Rams really should want to get the
three spot. They really should, because I don't know that
(43:26):
I want the loser of Detroit or Minnesota. I really
even you know, even at home, I don't want that game.
I don't want I don't want either one of those teams.
I'd much rather get Washington, who I know I can
score on. If it's probably you know, because it's probably
gonna be Washington at six. I know there's still some
opportunity there for that's changed. But you know, whether whether
(43:51):
it's Washington or whether it's Green Bay, I'd rather have
one of those two than the loser of what happens
between the Bikings and Alliance.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
We did see Jimmy aroppolo under center this weekend. Ja Cole,
how sweet is that?
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Well?
Speaker 4 (44:06):
I still love all the stories about Jimmy g forgetting
the play call between the between the huddle and the
line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
A lot going on, a lot of noise. Hey, who's
uh finishing the back end of the AFC side of things?
Speaker 4 (44:23):
Are we getting well? We're getting done. I mean, I mean,
Kimisey is basically going to bubble wrap everybody except for
their like punter.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
Right, But Carson Wentz can earn another job.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
He's going to go for four fifty and five touchdowns.
Ja Cole.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Just watch how many games does he get to do that?
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Three games, three games, five touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
He's earned another year of being a backup in Kansas City.
That's certainly true.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Do you take the ten and a half nor.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
Tell you that? Well, my favorite is the twenty point line.
That's a good one, right that Saturday, we're between Cleveland
and Baltimore. Twenty points. That's the fourth biggest line in
NFL history. That's amazing. This is it's like the biggest
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lines as well. I mean, there was one that was
the twenty eight point line between Denver and Jacksonville back
in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
But before that, it was Super Bowl three. It was
the Jets and the Colts.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
No, No, the biggest line before that was actually it
was eighty seven between the forty nine Ers and since
maybe or somewhere Cleveland, I can't remember who it was.
And then there was another one that was Pittsburgh, the
Steelers in their heyday in the seventies against the expansion
Buccaneers was like a twenty twenty four point line and
(45:54):
they covered, of course, But like this is just a
twenty point I mean, like, man, that's just such a
siege number. That just stuns me. I you know, and
I realized that the Jacksonville Denver game was not that
long ago, but it still stuns me that there's a
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twenty point line in an NFL game.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
It's the glory of Week eighteen. Come on, it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
Wait wait, we get that Week nineteen every twenty in
the coming years.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
We're going to start the league in Week sixteen.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
We got hey, Jake Coling, Hey j Cole, Week twenty seven,
you got that big matchup with the Cowboys and the Steelers.
It's in two and a half months. Who do you
think is going to win that one?
Speaker 4 (46:41):
I was joking with this one offense is why. Then
the other day we were talking about it, like, you
guys are just gonna you guys are going to totally
give them the eighteenth game. The only thing you're gonna
get is, oh, we don't have to show up in June.
Oh my god, isn't that great.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
July first? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (47:00):
Yeah, I was. I told that another player today. I
was talking to them that, I said, you guys don't realize, like,
if you gave them five points. They wouldn't They don'tly
even see you between like January and July. They don't care.
You can have the entire off season off if you
give them five points. That's how much the owners care.
They'll just look at the coaches and say, you guys,
fix it. We don't care. Like the owners just do
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not care about offseason conditioning and teaching. They like it's
just not even an issue. So you know, like that
the players give that, you know, like the oh, we
look at what we want more time off.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
They don't care.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
They just don't care.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
You can also do it in week eighteen even because
the games a lot of them don't matter. I mean,
it looks like he couldn't go for a record and
he's sitting on his ass right.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
And my other my other favorite was, I said, that
is the first offensive lineman. I said. One of the
biggest problems you guys have is you got like all
these punters and kickers as player reps. Do you think
kickers care about whether they have eighteen games or not. Oh,
let's have a games. I'll brady games. I don't care.
(48:08):
I never get hit Like you guys, get a little
smarter about who represents.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
You look, forget about owning February. We're gonna We're gonna
have a thirty three week season. We're gonna go through March.
We're gonna play the super Bowl on the night of
the NCAA Championship game in April.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
Yes, exactly. I'm justin Tucker. I want to score two
hundred and fifty points in the season.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
And then and the next day is the Draft. We're
gonna go right from that to it.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
Those guys are gonna play immediately because everybody else will
be dead. It's gonna be a continuous season and the
kickers like kickball get checked like, I mean, that's only
care about me. It's so idiotic. But yeah, we're gonna
be playing eighteen games, and you know, the NFL will
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of course like, go oh here, we'll make it up
to you. We'll give you two by weeks in the season.
You know, they'll be something like that. So we'll have
twenty weeks and we'll be having Fantasy championship games, you know,
on you know, on New Year's Day and stuff like that.
It's just it's going to be insane. And then you know,
President's Day weekend super Bowl is going to be on
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the President's Day weekend probably within two to three years,
and it's just going to be the greatest, you know,
it's going to be the greatest weekend of football excess
of all time because nobody has to show up for
work on Monday, so they can just get completely plastered,
even more than they already do at their Super Bowl parties.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
He is a man already planning for the super Bowl
of President's Weekend. It is Jason Cole. Check out on
Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two thirty thirteen. J Cole
as always, buddy, appreciate it, man, enjoy the games. We'll
talk to you, chet.
Speaker 4 (49:57):
Let's go check yeah. Done.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Not to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from a guy we value here maybe a
little bit more than Aaron Rodgers values Brick Johnson. It
is Steve Desager. He's got what's trending.
Speaker 5 (50:13):
Well, if you're gonna put it that way, my goodness.
Dolphins quarterback to a tongue of ioloha, thank you. It's
unlikely to play Sunday at the Jets due to his
hip injury. Quarterback Tyler Huntley is due to start for
Miami Denver can clinch the final playoff berth in the
AFC this weekend. The Broncos one game ahead of both
Miami and Cincinnati with one game left. Jets defensive back
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Sauce Gardner out with a hamstring injury, and tight end
Tyler Conklin as a game time decision with a calf injury.
Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson, with a bad back, is out
Sunday against the Jaguars. The Titans will start quarterback Will Levis,
but quarterback Mason Rudolph will also play against the Texans.
Tennessee running back Tony Poller questionable with an ankle injury.
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Eagles QB Jalen hurts his Sunday against the Giants with
his concussion. Running Back Saquon Barkley is officially doubtful to play,
as his wide receiver AJ Brown. Forty nine Ers quarterback
brock Perty is out Sunday at Arizona elbow injury, and
wide receiver Deebo Samuel is out rib and wrist injuries.
In College Football Bowl victories for Minnesota and Texas State
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in the NBA, the Spurs won at Denver one thirteen
to one ten victor Wembin Yama thirty five points, eighteen rebounds,
eight turnovers as well thirty five points in thirty three
minutes for him. Cleveland won its ninth straight game one
thirty four, one twenty two at Dallas. Evan Mobley thirty
four minutes, thirty four points, I should say in thirty minutes.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
At New Orleans, C. J.
Speaker 5 (51:41):
McCollum fifty points in a win over Washington one thirty
two to one. Twenty victories for Detroit and Boston, for Orlando,
and Oklahoma City, which won its fourteenth straight came back
beat the next one seventeen one oh seven. The Knicks
had won nine games in a row. There are two
late contests, the Las at be half leading at home
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against the Hawks sixty five fifty seven, and at Sacramento
it's the Kings over Memphis ninety four eighty nine with
about five minutes left. College hoops Number eighteen Michigan State
was a winner at Ohio State sixty nine sixty two,
and number eight Marquette has beaten Creighton's seventy nine seventy one.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
Back to you, Thank you, STEVEO. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carmen live from the Tireck
dot Com studios. Coming up next, fair is fair. We
told you last night. Jalen Milroe has been the biggest
loser of the Bowl season so far, his stock dropping.
He's headed to the NFL, probably because he thought he
could lose his job at Alabama. Who's been the biggest
(52:41):
winner so far of the Bowl season. That's coming up next,
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a chance to take our breath from the college football
bowl system. Everything is fine. We do have one bowl
game on right now, the Dukes. May We do Duke's
Mayo bull.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I've never had Duke's brand mayo.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Uh, I never have. It's a It's I think it's
a South thing.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's tangy and zesty and has some other kind of
flavor to it.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Probably if you said to me sight unseen. I don't
know why I would do this because I'm not like
a taster. You said sight unseen. What would Duke's Mayo
taste like. I would say it tastes like miracle whip.
That would be my guest. I don't know, because you know, Mayo,
you gotta kind of do something, do it to to
kind of stand out as Mayo?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Do you do you? I think I feel the need
to buy a jar for next week so we can
try it. Okay, i'd begin you could order one on Amazon,
and that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
You're gonna do it right.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Now because I gotta replace the headphones that went walking,
So I gotta do that too.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
You're gonna wait, someone stole your headphones? Yes, studio?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
No good, Really, I don't know what someone stole your.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Head I could. I could do this now. I can
investigate and find out who did it.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Nicely done. Yeah No, I don't know either that or
I left him somewhere. No no, no, no, don't order headphones anyway. Listen,
here's how I do it, because I know how to
do it. I'll do it just like they did every
episode of NYPD Blue. I'll pinpoint who my whom I
think the the perpetrator is.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'll let them lie to me. Then I'll bully them
a little bit and they'll confess and that's every NYP
and I will find it.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Well, he got the first lights that go on that
you had it pretty brightened here, so we can put
them under the heat lamps.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
No, no, no, no, first, get the needle. I need to
I just need to talk to Tyshirt. That's the he
knows everything that goes. He's the only I need to
talk to him, and that's it, and he'll tell me.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
No, I'm not making an accusation. I'm just saying I
have not been able to find them. No, no, no,
but there here somewhere.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You just said the headphones that went walking. That doesn't
mean I lost them. That means somewhat stole my headphones.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Dunt dunt dum, just saying they're not here. Yeah, yeah,
it's kind of crazy, but yeah, I will order some
mayonnaise the case.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Of the stolen heades. But it's like a Hardy Boys
Mike Harmon in the case of the stolen.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Hardy Boys mystery. Now now you're talking. Now we're going
old school here.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Frank and Joe try to find Mike Harbin.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
A hair of Parker Stephenson or what. There you go,
old guy reference every.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yet it dude, I don't know that, Jen X remembers
Parker Stevenson. I mean you got, you got, you gotta get,
you gotta get boring man. He's one of the hardy boys.
He was married to Kirsty Ally and that was Parker Stevenson.
There you go. I just summed up the guy's career
in four seconds. That was Parker Stephens. That was really
well done by Sean Cassidy. Would take me a little
bit longer, Run Run, Run It.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
In the seventies became a TV producer, produced American Gothic,
so six seconds for yeah, yeah, it was like that
was like his baby. I think American Gothic was his baby.
About that he loosened Gary Cole on the World before
he became Bill Lumberg.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
The night Stalker.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, oh no, no, Bill Lumbert. He was a bad
due Gary Cole bad. He was the bad guy in
a Bad Guy and also look also getting their start
that's a big TV show because getting their starts in
those shows, Gary Cole, uh Lucas black right, and uh,
what's her name? From Ocean's eight? I can't. I could
(04:18):
see her right now now. She's she's, she goes, she's,
she's did she lives with she Daves Holland Taylor, Uh,
Sarah paul Sarah Paulson. There you go, ye, there you go.
All got their start in American Gothic. How about that?
That was the show was like six episodes in like
the nineties. But anyway, so that's where we are. The
Duke's Mayo bawl. Now before we get to the NBA.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I mean, we did have that Texas Bowl earlier, so
that was good.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, we did, but but I mean, come on, the
Texas Ball what was it? North Texas and Texas State.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
But you know what was great, though, is you eventually
got to the point where they had to say famous
alumni and your stone cold Steve Austin up on the screen.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I thought they're gonna do famous alumni Sindbad and Kathy
Ireland and Scott Bakula.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
All coached by Robert Loja.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Let's go. Let's go back and take a look at
when Kathy Ireland beat Texas with this big field goal
back in nineteen ninety one the Armadillos.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Robert Loja. When the play wouldn't work, he would just
rip it out of the playbook in front. We're never
calling that again. He would just rip and throw it.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Away, Robert Loja.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
But look, there's a big thing here because now we
take our we take a pause. Obviously, you know the
Duke's Mayo Bowl where you look at the game and
you think LSU is in the Mayo Bolt nol it's Minnesota.
But wait a minute, but Virginia Tech. No, no, no,
Virginia Tech is wearing their uniforms which look like Minnesota's uniforms.
Minnesota is wearing LSU uniform?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Is it the screaming Eagles's coach Hayden Fox out there?
It works, Luther?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Is that now that we have seen the playoff get
to the final four?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Because here's where we would normally be if we were
just getting to the playoff now, right? Who are the
four teams in? And I think all of the controversy
surrounding this, of the seedings weren't right, and the home
games are a much bigger deal, and twelve teams might
be too many, and do we let all the right
teams in all of that is a load of crap.
(06:02):
And you know why, because the main reason we have
the playoff. We're doing the playoff like this is because
we want to make sure the top five or six
teams are in the playoff. Right because every year, hey,
you talk about top four, you get a team left
out that could easily be one of the top four
teams in the country.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Look, Florida State went undefeated last year and they didn't
get in because their quarterback got hurt. Right, was that right? No,
not at all. They won thirteen games, they were third.
Now they got beat in the bowl game, but it
doesn't matter. They did everything they wanted. The main purpose
of this is to make sure that we get the
top five or six teams into the playoff. And that's
what we have and that's why this is a success.
(06:39):
You can argue about teams twelve and eleven, it doesn't matter.
That's irrelevant. It's fun for It's just like the NACATE tournament.
It's fun for a day, but then we get to
the games and then okay, then the snubs don't matter
and we don't sit back and look at them anymore.
And that's what this was because you look at where
we're at right now, who is in the final four.
When you talk about the top twenty five rankings, the
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number three, four, five, and six team in the country
are all in. And I think that is that is
the poster statement for the college football playoffs. You want
to make sure the best five or six teams get
in because those are the teams that are above everybody else.
And what happened The top two teams number one and
number two lost, but we got three, four, five six in.
It's not like, hey, teams were a rank eleventh and
fourteenth and no, you got three, four, five six in.
(07:22):
This shows you the playoff works. It's fine. You see
the television ratings, the way college football is taken over
the sports menu over the course of the past couple
of weeks. With the playoff, everything works. Everything is great.
We can debate and want to complain and moan about
oh should this team be it? And look at this
and all those teams losing, It doesn't matter. There is
unprecedented attention on college football, and in the end, you're
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letting the right teams in. As long as the top
five or six get in the last three or four.
I don't care about because you can argue you could
have put three of those teams in. We saw the
way they played, you could have knocked them out and
put in Syracuse. And you could have put in another
team for the Big ten. You could have you could
have done a lot of things right. You could have
put All Miss in right the way they played, right,
(08:06):
come on, we were great. You know, you could have
put other three loss teams in All Miss, Syracuse, whatever
was and and the playoff would have been fine. But
but what they needed to do and what they need
to accomplish was all right, nobody's getting snub that can
win the national championship. And God bless you. If you're
a team that's a twelve seed and you win your
way all the way up, Hey, you know what, you
win the championship. So it's fun to complain. A look
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at these seeds. But in the end, what do we have.
We have four of the top six seeds and a
one and two lost. Right, it's pretty exciting, right, We
got one and two losing, and we got three, three, four, five,
and six in the AP top twenty five. Everything has
worked out great. This college football playoff is a tremendous
success no matter how you cut it up.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, even going back to the beginning, when we're arguing
about who's in who's out, that's a win for college
football in the middle of an NFL season because normally
the bulls would get announced and the playoffs got announced.
And yes, last year we got the outrage from Florida State,
but you could make the argument, much like you could
have done with Georgia looking at You're not that you're
(09:04):
gonna leave them out obviously for what they did all year,
but when we talk about seating and pushing things forward,
there was no back, so you get into those kind
of discussions about where they should have been, and seating
will be a topic of conversation going forward. Because we
had the Rose Bowl in Oregon in Ohio State, and
(09:24):
even before the game's kicked off, it was well is
it right? Is it right? Full Sam Kennison back to
school kind of moment. But all of it to say,
we've argued about everything, We've marveled at the great performances,
and we've excoriated those who fail. It's worked out exactly
as you want and in the end, there are teams
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that still have respect grandeur, the pageantry, the fan bases,
everything to keep your money machine rolling and interest at
a sky high level. Right for Texas, we're still talking about, Hey,
which quarterback is going to be sitting around? Is yours
gonna even be there? Who's the mystery six million dollar team?
All of these storylines and more. They give us so
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much time and time again, and then we get down
to it. To your point, if a twelve or eleven
seed or whoever's on that back end suddenly goes on
a monumental run, then we all win, Right, we all
win because it's now gonna bring in the folks who
like absolute chaos and otherwise couldn't care less about college
football because everybody wants to see institutions burn. We thought
(10:31):
we'd do it all the time. Anything that becomes a
monolithic structure. People want to take their whack at it
with the twenty pounds sledge like they're at a carnival.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That's what we do.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We all want to do it, and we get to
do it through the power of the microphones and the
Fox Sports Radio network. Everybody else does it around their
office place or to make conversation and keep it, you know,
to where it can still be quasi civil at the
you know, holiday holiday holiday tables. It all worked out beautifully,
and there's still a lot of hate watching to do
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based on the fan bases. Whether you like their fans
or the teams that are still playing here, all four
have plenty of reasons for you to wag your finger
at them for past transgressions, annoying fan bases, and their
historic failures on grand stages. It's ripe for us to
(11:24):
have so much more fun with the four deams remaining,
and it's already been one hell of a party. We
got to say scataboo nine thousand times yesterday.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Stataboo, Will you do the fan bango? I've been saying
that all day. I've been saying that all day.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Just punch you in the head.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
No, because well, here's the thing. And you say it's
fun for everybody, all right, and it's And the one
person that this playoff is not fun for is my wife.
It is not fun for being a Michigan fan. Who
are the teams that are left?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, I get it, I get it right.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Three three of the biggest, she goes. The only thing
that could be worse is if Michigan State was in
instead of Texas.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Hey, Madge K. Johnson reportedly is going to spend every
last dollar he has to make it a contender.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
She said to me, And I said, look, look at
it this way, right, because you know it's awful for you. Right,
it's awful because you're talking about the biggest rival in
Ohio state. You're talking another biggest rival in Notre Dame, right,
you're talking about another huge rival at bed State. Yeah,
you're all in on Texas. I said, Now, don't ask
me if I think Texas is gonna win, because you're
not gonna like the answer. But look at it this way, right.
(12:25):
How did I look at the Super Bowl when the
Giants and the Patriots were in it? And she said,
I don't know. I wasn't paying attention. I said, okay,
here's how I look at it. I said, I looked
at it as Okay, this is gonna suck because no
matter who wins, one of my biggest rivals, I gotta watch, right,
the Patriots are gonna win or the Giants are gonna win. Right,
this was awful. Now in the end, I said, eh,
if I'm sitting here rooting, who would i'd rather see win?
(12:46):
I've seen the Patriots win five Super Bowls already, so
what's a big deal for another one?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
If I could see the Giants win again, that would
be worse. I realized, Okay, I'm sort of pulling for
the pain, which is sounded weird, but that's what it is.
But I look at it this way, look at it instead.
Look at this way. Is that you know for sure
two of those three teams that you don't like are
gonna lose.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Just look at it this way.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
You know, two of those teams are gonna not be
celebrating and being really really upset. And I know she's
hoping for the much. She's hoping that it's Ohio State,
like that's the one she wants. But I said, just
understand that two of those no matter what happen, worst
case scenario, worst case scenario, two of those rivals are
gonna lose, whether it's Penn State, Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
and two of those teams are gonna lose. And you
(13:28):
you know, at the end, maybe one of those teams,
one of the teams you're not gonna have a choice,
is gonna win and win them. But just know that
of the three teams. Two of them are gonna lose.
You're not having You're gonna have a six sixty seven
winning percentage on seeing your rivals lose and leave with
a dejected reason as they walk off that field. So
two of those six sixty seven winning percentage on this.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
You're so much nicer than I would have been. It's
like you won last year. Your team's been mid for decades.
Be quiet?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well no, I said that.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Well, okay, I'm not gonna say that to my wife
and fluffier language.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You wouldn't you would, you wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Be.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I went for the concise argument.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, quite, No I did with the hey, you won
the championship last year. She said, yeah, but yeah, And
I think a lot of it is the frustration that's
seeing the way Michigan closed the season by beating Ohio
State and and and and beating Alabama. If we had
just had a bleeping quarterback man, this season could have
been different. It would have been way different. But again, again,
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it's the biggest mystery in college football. Yes, it's great,
they got price onto it. They flipped it from LSU.
How you come into this season with a seventh year senior,
a fifth year walk on and a gadget guy, and
that's your the.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Title run like they were hiding from people.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Look I then people went away from it and then
came back and said, wait, this is who Michigan's quarterbacks are.
But like, how the hell did this happened?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I remember, like I told you, a lot of negative
recruiting can have been out there. You know they're gonna
get the death penalty, right, you know. You know they're
to be on probation, They're not gonna be able to
go to a bowl game or any of that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Worry about it. Uh, hey, Wade, I just watched them
beat Ohio, So yeah, it doesn't matter. It's irrelevant. Worry
about it. It doesn't count. It doesn't count, It makes
no different, doesn't count. So that's what I would have been.
I mean that, that's the way I told her to
look at it, and hopefully she sees it more of
a sunny side up thing. I'm singing Eyes of Texas
as I walk around the house during the day, so
hopefully that puts her in a bit of a in
a bit of a.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
But what's the go to? Can?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You can?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I mean, you go flowers, you go chocolate, sandwiches. I mean, what,
what's the key to Pam's hert here to get her
through these next couple of weeks? That'll be better?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I think it is. It is an unexpected, unexpected decision
of an unexpected initiative that takes care of something that
she had on her to do list.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Okay, all of a sudden comeback, that'll make it back.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah, well I did give her the glug that you
made last night. She was very big fan of that.
She didn't chuck it like Frostburg did when when when
they brought it to him. But no, she was a
big fan. But like if I come up, like if
she's I gotta make sure, I gotta, I gotta get
up to the mall and I gotta buy this for
you know, a like a present for one of Zoe's
friends for a birthday. Like if I said, oh no,
I took care of that, when did it yesterday? That
that would be all Okay, that's.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
You're almost there, my friend. When when Zoe's gonna be
able to drive herself and you don't have to do
that crap anymore. Yeah, it's coming. It's kind you're going
to be sad that it's gone. To a degree, and
then you're gonna be happy on the other side, going, yeah,
I can still sit here and play with the dog
and watch TV.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Go ahead, that's gonna work. So anyway. So so that's
everybody is happy. Except but here's how you be happy.
Just understand that some of your rivals are not going
to win and and just celebrate that.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Well, it's like Sunday, right, I got Lions and Vikings.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I wanted.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I wanted to be a tie.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, he's not gonna happen. Yeah, and I really like that.
It would be good for me.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I mean, they're both getting in, so I mean it's
not like, you know, get the playoffs not.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
You know, Yeah, suddenly I don't know one one one
seed path may be easier and better and than the other.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Anyway, Exit out bout a Fresca, Exit Swollen Dome. The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Ti
rack dot Com studios. Coming up. Hey, We're gonna hit
you with all our big playoff predictions in the AFC
and NFC this weekend. Who's gonna wind up with those
final seeds? Where are they gonna be? We'll give you
our feearless predictions as well as a big developing NBA story.
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Com studios, and we'll take you through a really big
story out of the NFL coming up in a second.
But we said it last night. It's coming true. It's
why we call the show ahead of the curve. Last night,
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when Jimmy Butler decided, I'm gonna get a little extemporaneous
at my postgame press conference and make sure everybody knows
how unhappy I am here in Miami. Oh, I'm happy
off the court. I'm just not happy on the court.
Can you ever find that joy?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Back.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Jimmy, Jimmy said no, Jimmy, Jimmy played good. Jimmy, Jimmy
said no. Can't get the joy back. We told you
last night. He's played his last game for the Miami
Heat after that kind of insult. Can't play. He's gonna
be sat down until they trade him.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I thought about it a lot last night after we
finished up and did the Outwatch Flex podcast. I was
driving home and thinking about the Jimmy Butler thinks some
more because he's always been one of my favorite guys.
I don't have any joy playing. I didn't know whether
to feel sad or mad at him, because you always can, like, look,
no matter how bad things are in the outside world,
what do we always do when when it comes to uh, say,
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our show and many other folks, right, you go to
work and you still find some pleasure, some joy, some respite.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He's even said he even said he can't find he
can't find joy. He said, I can't find That's what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Like, I'm disappointed that he that it's gotten so bad
he can't even find joy.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Like he's got his eyes closed watching inside out. I
can't find joy. I don't know where joy is.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I'm sadness sadness take over? Yeah, or the the other
emo things.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Of this What was the new one? That that was
the second one?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
And and yeah they had a bunch of like odd balls.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Oh okay, yeah, cause I didn't see it. I know
it good. How could you say it's good? You don't
remember what the new what the new addition?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I saw it a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
But the new emotion is euphemisms? No, I mean, like,
I like, what is it? If it's that good? It
had to be a very memorable character.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
There were it was anxiety, embarrassment, envy and on wei
on wei.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Okay, all right, very nice on we correct? I think
you did. Yeah, everybody it's e n n U. I yes,
so everybody knows it's it's oh that word.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I understand the feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction, you know,
kind of where we're at with Jimmy Butler right now.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Because I was gonna say, you know what when I
when I when the story broke last night, I said, yeah,
that's Jimmy right like that. That wasn't I wasn't surprised.
I wasn't. I don't think I was weary. I guess
I was more more like, yeah, well we've seen this before, Okay,
but now he's gonna get traded. Right now, you've crossed
that rubicon when you say I can no longer find
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joy with this team. And of course you crossed rubicon
when you're thirty five years old. You're no longer the
best player on the team. And we told you last night,
somebody's gonna get in, and they're gonna get in on him,
because the one we know in basketball is that superstars
who get disenfranchised with their franchise raculously find a way
to turn it around and play great when they get
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a new setting.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
We've seen it with James Harden, we saw it with
Chris Paul. We've seen it with a lot of guys
like yeah, I'm done. I don't care about being here.
I just want to get out. Oh look I found
the fountain of youth and look how well I'm playing.
So yes with the new team, with a contending team,
they can use Jimmy Butler's specific type of volatile leadership
that he has shown on and off in the last
few years. He's you know, he's got he's got a
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big skill set, doesn't need to be the number one
scorer anymore because he knows he's not. But he's someone
that can hit big baskets, play crunch minutes, and give
you that little bit of crazy leadership that some teams
kind of need because sometimes a little bit of crazy works.
And sure enough, what do we find out just a
couple hours ago, Shams Tarani of ESPN reporting Jimmy Butler
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suspended for seven games, and they're going to listen to
trade offers. Like we said last night before this came out,
I we can be NBA. I can be an NBA. Int.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I remember eight days ago when Pat We're not trading
Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, but you have that saying don't say never. But
but here's the question now for Shams. If I were
to use a a meme right or a gift up
on Twitter to kind of describe this whole thing, two
of them are gone. I can't use Connor McGregor or
Vince McMahon. So how do who's walk do I get
to emulate? Is it seth Rollins coming into or you know,
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the the Cody Rhodes. I mean, what am I doing?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
You gotta find a new walk. Yeah, find a new walk. Yeah, yeah,
there's a whole other thing.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I did like Tyler Heroes quote from last night though, quote,
I feel like the vibe is great. I'm about to
I'm about to enjoy my night because I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
The best player on the team now.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Man, I twenty four and a half.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Man, I could say I can take all the shots now,
not just most of them. I can take all the
shots now. I could wear my bucket hat anywhere I want.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
To go lumberjack competition. Man.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
But look, of course he's going to get dealt. He's
played his last game with the heat. When you say
things like I'm I'm not happy here, I don't have joy.
And when you're thirty five, you're no longer the player
you were and your team is meandering around five hundred,
it's time. It's time to make that move, and they will,
and you're gonna see big teams get involved because he's
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not gonna cost very much. This is not getting Jimmy
Butler three four years ago. This is getting Jimmy Butler
at thirty five, when there's a there's a lot of
question about what he has left in the tank. So
you're gonna get a pretty a pretty cheap uh ask back.
So okay, so you're gonna it's not just gonna be Hey,
we're gonna dump you off to Detroit or somewhere else. No,
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there's gonna be contending teams that can feel we need
a little bit of that on our team, right, like
all the teams that thought maybe middle of last year, hey,
if the Warriors want to part ways with Draymond Green,
we could really use a little bit of that attitude.
Maybe he's not the player he was, but boy, he
really comes in and he's the policeman and he knows
how to he knows how to push buttons and get
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a team focused. We could use some of that. Jimmy
Butler is kind of like that, but but no, not
quite as demonstrative and over the top, and he doesn't
get thrown out as many times. But that that teams
that need something like that, they're gonna look to him.
And all those teams on his list that he put
out a few weeks ago. Phoenix, yeah, the Dallas yeah,
of course, Golden State. Yeah, all these teams are gonna say, yeah,
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we can use it because he could be a great
addition because of what he can bring. If as long
as he has the fountain of youth and he feels
motivated for the next year plus. Right, the beauty of.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It is, he only got to get through the end
of this year because he's got a player option, which,
according to the reports, he already has informed everybody, he
and his agent and anybody will listen, they're declining it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, let's wait and see, Let's wait and see how
the rest of the year goes before you watch.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
But no, but but but there's the beauty of it, right,
there's there's the risk risk idea of it. Of well,
it is a player option, and if this goes south,
he's gonna be waving at us telling me to give
you his fifty to two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Now, if you're looking at where he could end up, right,
looking at where he could it up. He gave his
list of teams that he would be okay going to
right and and and we we told you about that list.
The Rockets are also on this list. The Rockets might
be a little nervous about it because like, hey, we
got a kind of got a good thing going on here,
and and nobody thought we were gonna be good and
looking look, we're.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Pretty good and someone James harden Thy Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Don't uh, don't say anything. Don't tell anybody. We're good.
But we feel pretty good about what we have. So
I can see Houston saying no, but Dallas absolutely. I
can see the Golden State Warriors absolutely, Phoenix absolutely. But
you're gonna see teams like the Lakers are gonna get involved,
and maybe the Nuggets get involved, and maybe the Timberwolves go, hey,
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we need another guy. Come back, Jimmy, come back, everything
is forgiven. Come back here. And other teams in the
East are gonna say, yeah, we think we need Jimmy too.
The Atlanta Hawks, do we do we punt on the season?
Do we? What do we do? No, let's go get Jimmy.
You're gonna see a lot of teams that are gonna
wind up going in on him. But I'll tell you
this one hundred percent, pat Riley is not gonna trade
into a team in the East. It is only going
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to the West. He will give him to a team
kind of on his preferred list because you have to,
because you want to move on from him. You want
to make sure he reports he's gonna go there, he's
gonna play. So it will be from his preferred team.
I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say when it comes
down to it, the four teams, we're gonna be talking
about it the next few days. Take the Rockets out
because I don't think the Rockets want to do that
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at this point. They want to continue to see what
they have. They're ten games over five hundred, they're a
game out of second place. I think the Rockets think
they're pretty good. But a team like but it's gonna
be Dallas, it'll be Golden State, it'll be Phoenix, and
it will be the Lakers. Watch out for the Lakers.
They're feeling good about what they've done. They just made
a trade already with Frid'angelo Russell. They've opened things up
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for Austin Reeves. Maybe Jimmy Butler is that guy that
comes in that can do what they were hoping some
of their guys could do this year, and that is, hey,
we have Knights, so we can give Lebron some rest
and a d some rest. Because Jimmy Butler can be
a guy that once every three or four games can
be the Jimmy Butler of old and hey, this game
we're doing pretty well. Lebron can take a little bit
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less minutes and not worry about the wear and tear.
I'm telling you take the Rockets out, put the Lakers in,
because he can kind of take any role you need
right there. He can shoot, he can play clutch minutes.
He's done it before. You know, Lebron and Ad would
trust him right away. I'm telling you put the Lakers
on that list. With those other three teams.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Well, got to have a bit of veteran leadership in
a locker room, right to make sure that if he
comes in, you know, you've got some guys that have
the gravitas to, you know, keep him to where he's
not taking over. Because that was the problem in the past,
right with young players, that he would be too exacting,
too demanding, dismissive, and then they'd get in their fields.
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Go back to your guy Bodega and so many others.
The history is littered with them. With Lebron and Ad
it would work. Now I've seen a couple of us
wondering about you.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Got to make the money work. That's the big things.
You got to make the money work. But there's ways
to do that with three teams and say hey, we're
gonna make this trade here and do this, so you
could always find a way to make the money. It
doesn't have to be well, it's got to be Austin Reeves,
that's not gonna happen. There's ways to make.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
No, you're not bringing in Jimmy Butler and getting rid
of Austin reasons.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
No, what I'm saying is that you gotta make the
salaries much.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Because they don't the NBA. Yeah, I mean, you've got
to be creative, there's no question about it. Get another
team involved. Because the Lakers outside of and we had
this conversation a couple of weeks ago in terms of
what else they could do. The fact that they were
able to make a deal and ship off DeAngelo Russell. Okay,
there's part one. But you don't have a lot of
other discernible assets that are building you towards a championship
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contending squad that are on the roster. Nor do you
have guys that are making big money that make the
equations for the NBA trades work, which is why you'd
have to get creative with a third or fourth team
coming into the fray. But that gets fun. The Clippers
were all so kind of mentioned it's curious because you're
still waiting on is it Kawhi Leonard supposed to play
(29:04):
one of these days?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Isn't that at some point? Yeah, there's a lot of
there's a lot of talk. Maybe he's gonna play at
some point. All to talk about him is false according
to the every day he'll play at some point, we'll
see him. We see him every year. We just don't
see him that often. He's gone from Hey, a guy
we saw all the time too. Yeah, he comes back
into town once a couple of times a year. I
(29:27):
saw him at a bar. A couple of weeks ago,
I saw Uncle Jim at a bar.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
It's like when I have the schedule opportunity to go
home to Chicago. Yeah, Mike's gonna be at this bar
and you can show up. Great, there's not enough time.
It's a short trip.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
He's not just We went from seeing him all the
time and now now I don't see him anymore. So
you run into that front, Hey, you ever see Yeah?
You ever you ever see Bob anymore?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Man? No, I used to see him all the time,
but now, like I don't know, a couple of times
a year I saw him at that big wing bing event. Uh,
he was there, but then he was only there for
a little while. I saw him at Christine's birthday. But
now then he went back home. That that's kawhi, Lenny's
gone from. Hey, we used to go in all the time, man,
we were wingmen. Yeah. Now it's as see a couple
of times a year.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
But I at least have the excuse, you know, the
You can commiserate with me on air twenty two hours
a week plus a podcast, so you can have my
thoughts on a wide range of topics like you intimately
are sitting at a table with me over a candlelight
in a dimly lit dive bar.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Let's go exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carman,
live from the tire rack dot Com studios. Time now
to find out what's trending in the wide world of
sports with special delivery Steve the Seger, and I do
want to say this coming in breaking news coming in
the Knicks Thunder game was abandoned in the fourth quarter
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with the Knicks having a lead. They're going to finish
that game tomorrow night. Steve, you have more details on
that Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
It turns out it was only abandoned by the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
City wins the game one seventeen, one oh seven. The
next nine game winning streak is over. OKC has won
fourteen in a row. Shake Gilgess Alexander thirty three points.
OKAC outscored him in the fourth by eighteen. New Orleans
ended an eleven game losing streak. Beat Washington won thirty
two to one twenty C. J McCollum with fifty points
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tonight from three point range, he was ten of sixteen.
Looks like Cleveland's gonna win again. Leading at Dallas with
four minutes to go one twenty seven to one oh eight,
thirty four points for Evan Mobley. This would put Cleveland
at thirty and four. This would be their ninth straight win.
For the Mavericks, Kyrie Irving out due to illness. At Denver,
the Nuggets Nikola Jokic with thirty seven points. Denver is
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tied late third quarter against San Antonio eighty seven all
the two late games. Lakers are about to host the Hawks.
The Kings are hosting the Grizzlies. Boston won again twenty
six and nine record after a victory at Houston one
oh nine eighty six. Rockets forward Jabari Smith broke his
hand shoot around. He'll be reevaluated in four to six weeks.
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Victories for Detroit and Orlando. The Miami Heat did suspend
Jimmy Butler's seven games for conduct detrimental to the team.
The Heat will listen to trade offers now. College hoops
on Fox TV tonight. Eighteenth rank Michigan State was a
winner at Ohio State sixty nine to sixty two, and
there's a game on FS one right now at a
rank Marquette, the home team holding on against Creighton fifty
(32:25):
six fifty three with eleven minutes to go. Among the
five NHL games, Edmonton up on Anaheim two to one
at the end of two periods. Florida in a shootout,
beat Pittsburgh three to two. The Dodgers signed Korean infielder
High Sung Kim three years plus a two year option.
In college football a couple of bowl games. There's one
in Charlotte with about two minutes left right now. Minnesota
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leads twenty four to ten over Virginia Tech in Dallas today,
Texas State beating North Texas thirty to twenty eight, and
Dolphins quarterback tu Atongavailoa is unlikely to play Sunday at
the Jets due to his hip injury. Quarterback Tyler Huntly,
due to start for Miami season ends this weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. And oh, by
the way, I to show you what I'm like as
a radio host in the person, I can put my
fandom aside sometimes and say things that that credit teams
that I really don't like. Georgetown might be back. Yeah,
they won tonight over Xavier. Georgetown is twelve and two
(33:26):
so far, they're unbeaten the Big East, like George. Which
it pains me to say this because I go I
tell Zoe you go anywhere you want. You can't go
to Georgetown. Can't go to college George. That only play way.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
But if they become a juggernaut again and it knows
to go, No, can't go to George, and then you
can keep yelling it like Voldemort is back, No, Georgetown
is back.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Can't go to but Georgetown. I mean, they are twelve
and two and they have been just absolutely terrible the
last few years and here they are now top of
the Big East. Twelve and two. I mean, this is
some kind of turnaround right now for Georgetown.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I'll tell you how does that make you feel they
have a.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Better record than Yukon right now?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I mean Yukon will never travel again?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Oh no, you cut. Yeah, Danny Harrell is gonna say, listen,
aund in in Hawaii. All home games. Thirty home games.
That's what we're gonna play. We're only gonna play two
away games. We're gonna play once in Hartford, right so
we don't have to go very far. And we'll play
one game at Madison Square Garden. That's it.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
So he's basty games going up in the SEC football schedule.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Thirty games, that's all it is. The Jason Smith Show
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one future NFL Hall of Fame quarterback. We'll tell you
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Speaker 2 (34:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (34:49):
You know, The Jason Smith Show is my best friend.
Mike Harmon Live at the tirect dot com Studios. We
got a big NFL Sunday coming up, final play, all
spot up for grabs of the AFC, as is the
final spot in the NFC? Are the Lions taking the
number one seed? Is it the Vikings? Is Aaron Rodgers
(35:09):
really playing his final game of the year and final
game of his career on Sunday? Joining us now on
the hotline is a longtime NFL insider. He is helping
the Jets search for their GM on the thirty third team.
He is a Pro Football Haul of very good voter.
He is on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. It
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is Jason Cole j Cole, Happy New Year.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Man, Happy May Year to you fellows. My game, the
Gang in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
It's all good, wow, all good?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
All right.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
So you're telling me that that everything's going to be
good and Aaron Rodgers is going to come back next
year and the Jets are going to be great. Thanks
a lot. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Kurt Rogers might come back. He ain't come back of
the Jets, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Don't don't stick a fork on that just yet. He
knows it's a Jet about.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Can I say, can he be more derisive and reference
to the owner with the way that he says, asked Woody?
Because you know what he's doing that is that what
he wants to be referred to as mister ambassador. And
he keeps doing the ask Woody, ask Woody and just
refers to him as Woody is just like like he's
(36:22):
taking a fork and putting in his ribs every time.
Because all those stories that were in that report about
his kids.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Ask Brick, okay, ask Brick, my sweet Brick, did you
did you know that?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Did you notice one of the bylines that was on
that story. If you did, that points a lot towards
Aaron did not do anything, put up any fight against
that story. Let's just put it that way.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Well, he did.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
But here's the thing. Did you also notice that Aaron
Rodgers had a pretty good two year run with back
to back m vps when he would hate it on
everybody involved in Green Bay? When you thought that was
enough to get rid of him.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
Yeah, but this is where you say when you're taking
on an owner. See, in green Bay, there was no
owner and there was nobody to really that she could
really get into their skin on a daily basis. You
know there's Mark Murphy who put up with his nonsense
and famously said he's a different kind of guy. There's
the GM's the different you know, two different gms basically
(37:28):
between between Ted Thompson rest in peace and you know
Brian comes and then you know the coaches who went
between McCarthy and Lafleur. He you know, they act like
Margaret Thatcher smelling bad cheese every time he talked about
those guys for for a couple of years. So, yeah,
(37:51):
he ripped a lot of people, but it's different when
you're ripping the owner.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Yeah, Johnson's not paying attention. He's playing Madden right now.
Brooke has no idea what's being said about him.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
What he's paying attention now. Sheriff Woody ain't playing like that.
He didn't like that. Sheriff Woody gets ripped up and down.
I mean, you know, he has come a long way
from the propeller hat to being you know, an ambassador,
and he's not happy about said that he was not
(38:25):
named an ambassador again. So these are not good times
for Woody Johnson because he's being mocked relentlessly. And yeah,
we'll see if Rabel takes that job, you know, if
he even gets offered it. But it tells you a
lot when Rivera's you know, being announced early as one
of the candidates, and I know that Rivera satisfies the
(38:47):
minority candidate option in this whole thing. So they want
to get that news out there as much as they
possibly can. But like, that's this is not like a
real a great starting point for an announcement for the Jets.
And to me, Rabel's using this early on to stir
up interest from other teams that might have openings, particularly
(39:10):
you know, Vegas. Depending on how much power you know,
Brady really has and how much sway he has with
Mark Davis, Well.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
That's the go ahead, Jason.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
It's like, look, the Jets are going to wind up
being Last Chance Hotel. They're going to get a coach
in a GM. It's the only job they're going to
get is the coach or GM of the Jets. Anybody
with an option is not going to be with the Jets.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
It is only a place for the daring and the desperate.
That is true. I think it was. I think yeah,
I think Trey Armstrong came up with that line one time.
He was referring when he was playing, he was referring
to some place and he goes, yeah, this is the place.
It's only for the daring and the desperate. So it's
pretty It was a pretty funny line.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Is that how people refer to dealing with him as
an agent? Now, when you have to go to a
it's that you're desperate.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
No Trace is a sharp agent. He's he's going to
get long lists of people, and he's pretty powerful in
that coach game, I'll say that.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
So as we get into the the final weekend of
the season, we got a lot of preliminaries, but it
all settles up on Sunday night. Seriously, as a Chicago guy,
I hope both teams lose. But what do you think
does Ben Johnson have enough to cook Brian Flores for
previous snows.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
It's really interesting because because Flores can do a lot
of things and that will confuse GoF right and make
him hesitate. The question is is Golf learn enough from
the you know, the previous three times he's played against them,
that that's not going to matter anymore. So I'm really
(40:53):
fascinated by this matchup because there are only so many
tricks you can pull as a defensive coordinator to keep
fooling players again and again and again, and and Detroit's
just even with the injuries they've had, you know, on offense,
they're so loaded. So I think Detroit's got enough to
(41:14):
get through this one. But obviously the strength for Minnesota
is that defense and what Flora's has been able to do.
You know, Darnold's had terrific here and there's the starter
again there next year. But they're they're really riding it
on the fact that Flora comes up with innovative game
(41:34):
plans weekend and week out to make them hard for
opposing teams. And I just it's a division opponent, so
it's not it's just this one's it's just a this
one's a tough call. But I would favor Detroit in
this one, all right.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
So staying in the NFC, who's getting that final playoff
spot is? Is m v P Baker Mayfield getting it?
Or are we going to see somehow the Falcons with it?
Speaker 4 (41:59):
Yeah? I think m v P m v P Baker,
m v P Baker. Where did that come from? Like?
What planet are we on?
Speaker 1 (42:06):
He's one of the top three four quarterbacks in the
NFL this year. That's how good he is.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Yeah, he's a lot. He's a long way from the top.
From number one and number two.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
We're just you're just to hate. You're hating non Bake,
you just hate Baker Bayfield.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Well, I mean we're not friends or anything like that.
He's he's had a tragic year. And I like that,
Like they slipped that team around really fast. Now, Grant
you know, they're still, you know, depending a lot on
aging Mike Evans, who's still remains incredibly productive, and you know,
(42:45):
they're not getting a lot out of the you know,
the McMillan's and you know, Kate as Aten's actually played
pretty well, but they're not getting a lot from the
number two and NU there's three options on the offense
and the receipts, but you know, Bucky Irving and the
offensive line and really young Baker's finally maturing a little bit.
(43:06):
He's still got a little too much far in him,
but that's probably never going to change. He's always going
to be like that. So I I like camput a
hold on to that spot. I like him actually get
the number three spot, even though I think if if
the Rams, the Rams really should want to get the
three spot. They really should, because I don't know that
(43:26):
I want the loser of Detroit or Minnesota. I really
even you know, even at home, I don't want that game.
I don't want I don't want either one of those teams.
I'd much rather get Washington, who I know I can
score on. If it's probably you know, because it's probably
gonna be Washington at six. I know there's still some
opportunity there for that's changed. But you know, whether whether
(43:51):
it's Washington or whether it's Green Bay, I'd rather have
one of those two than the loser of what happens
between the Bikings and Alliance.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
We did see Jimmy aroppolo under center this weekend. Ja Cole,
how sweet is that?
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Well?
Speaker 4 (44:06):
I still love all the stories about Jimmy g forgetting
the play call between the between the huddle and the
line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
A lot going on, a lot of noise. Hey, who's
uh finishing the back end of the AFC side of things?
Speaker 4 (44:23):
Are we getting well? We're getting done. I mean, I mean,
Kimisey is basically going to bubble wrap everybody except for
their like punter.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
Right, But Carson Wentz can earn another job.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
He's going to go for four fifty and five touchdowns.
Ja Cole.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Just watch how many games does he get to do that?
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Three games, three games, five touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
He's earned another year of being a backup in Kansas City.
That's certainly true.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
Do you take the ten and a half nor.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
Tell you that? Well, my favorite is the twenty point line.
That's a good one, right that Saturday, we're between Cleveland
and Baltimore. Twenty points. That's the fourth biggest line in
NFL history. That's amazing. This is it's like the biggest
(45:20):
lines as well. I mean, there was one that was
the twenty eight point line between Denver and Jacksonville back
in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
But before that, it was Super Bowl three. It was
the Jets and the Colts.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
No, No, the biggest line before that was actually it
was eighty seven between the forty nine Ers and since
maybe or somewhere Cleveland, I can't remember who it was.
And then there was another one that was Pittsburgh, the
Steelers in their heyday in the seventies against the expansion
Buccaneers was like a twenty twenty four point line and
(45:54):
they covered, of course, But like this is just a
twenty point I mean, like, man, that's just such a
siege number. That just stuns me. I you know, and
I realized that the Jacksonville Denver game was not that
long ago, but it still stuns me that there's a
(46:15):
twenty point line in an NFL game.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
It's the glory of Week eighteen. Come on, it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
Wait wait, we get that Week nineteen every twenty in
the coming years.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
We're going to start the league in Week sixteen.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
We got hey, Jake Coling, Hey j Cole, Week twenty seven,
you got that big matchup with the Cowboys and the Steelers.
It's in two and a half months. Who do you
think is going to win that one?
Speaker 4 (46:41):
I was joking with this one offense is why. Then
the other day we were talking about it, like, you
guys are just gonna you guys are going to totally
give them the eighteenth game. The only thing you're gonna
get is, oh, we don't have to show up in June.
Oh my god, isn't that great.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
July first? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (47:00):
Yeah, I was. I told that another player today. I
was talking to them that, I said, you guys don't realize, like,
if you gave them five points. They wouldn't They don'tly
even see you between like January and July. They don't care.
You can have the entire off season off if you
give them five points. That's how much the owners care.
They'll just look at the coaches and say, you guys,
fix it. We don't care. Like the owners just do
(47:23):
not care about offseason conditioning and teaching. They like it's
just not even an issue. So you know, like that
the players give that, you know, like the oh, we
look at what we want more time off.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
They don't care.
Speaker 4 (47:36):
They just don't care.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
You can also do it in week eighteen even because
the games a lot of them don't matter. I mean,
it looks like he couldn't go for a record and
he's sitting on his ass right.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
And my other my other favorite was, I said, that
is the first offensive lineman. I said. One of the
biggest problems you guys have is you got like all
these punters and kickers as player reps. Do you think
kickers care about whether they have eighteen games or not. Oh,
let's have a games. I'll brady games. I don't care.
(48:08):
I never get hit Like you guys, get a little
smarter about who represents.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
You look, forget about owning February. We're gonna We're gonna
have a thirty three week season. We're gonna go through March.
We're gonna play the super Bowl on the night of
the NCAA Championship game in April.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
Yes, exactly. I'm justin Tucker. I want to score two
hundred and fifty points in the season.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
And then and the next day is the Draft. We're
gonna go right from that to it.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
Those guys are gonna play immediately because everybody else will
be dead. It's gonna be a continuous season and the
kickers like kickball get checked like, I mean, that's only
care about me. It's so idiotic. But yeah, we're gonna
be playing eighteen games, and you know, the NFL will
(49:05):
of course like, go oh here, we'll make it up
to you. We'll give you two by weeks in the season.
You know, they'll be something like that. So we'll have
twenty weeks and we'll be having Fantasy championship games, you know,
on you know, on New Year's Day and stuff like that.
It's just it's going to be insane. And then you know,
President's Day weekend super Bowl is going to be on
(49:25):
the President's Day weekend probably within two to three years,
and it's just going to be the greatest, you know,
it's going to be the greatest weekend of football excess
of all time because nobody has to show up for
work on Monday, so they can just get completely plastered,
even more than they already do at their Super Bowl parties.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
He is a man already planning for the super Bowl
of President's Weekend. It is Jason Cole. Check out on
Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two thirty thirteen. J Cole
as always, buddy, appreciate it, man, enjoy the games. We'll
talk to you, chet.
Speaker 4 (49:57):
Let's go check yeah. Done.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Not to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from a guy we value here maybe a
little bit more than Aaron Rodgers values Brick Johnson. It
is Steve Desager. He's got what's trending.
Speaker 5 (50:13):
Well, if you're gonna put it that way, my goodness.
Dolphins quarterback to a tongue of ioloha, thank you. It's
unlikely to play Sunday at the Jets due to his
hip injury. Quarterback Tyler Huntley is due to start for
Miami Denver can clinch the final playoff berth in the
AFC this weekend. The Broncos one game ahead of both
Miami and Cincinnati with one game left. Jets defensive back
(50:35):
Sauce Gardner out with a hamstring injury, and tight end
Tyler Conklin as a game time decision with a calf injury.
Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson, with a bad back, is out
Sunday against the Jaguars. The Titans will start quarterback Will Levis,
but quarterback Mason Rudolph will also play against the Texans.
Tennessee running back Tony Poller questionable with an ankle injury.
(50:58):
Eagles QB Jalen hurts his Sunday against the Giants with
his concussion. Running Back Saquon Barkley is officially doubtful to play,
as his wide receiver AJ Brown. Forty nine Ers quarterback
brock Perty is out Sunday at Arizona elbow injury, and
wide receiver Deebo Samuel is out rib and wrist injuries.
In College Football Bowl victories for Minnesota and Texas State
(51:19):
in the NBA, the Spurs won at Denver one thirteen
to one ten victor Wembin Yama thirty five points, eighteen rebounds,
eight turnovers as well thirty five points in thirty three
minutes for him. Cleveland won its ninth straight game one
thirty four, one twenty two at Dallas. Evan Mobley thirty
four minutes, thirty four points, I should say in thirty minutes.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
At New Orleans, C. J.
Speaker 5 (51:41):
McCollum fifty points in a win over Washington one thirty
two to one. Twenty victories for Detroit and Boston, for Orlando,
and Oklahoma City, which won its fourteenth straight came back
beat the next one seventeen one oh seven. The Knicks
had won nine games in a row. There are two
late contests, the Las at be half leading at home
(52:02):
against the Hawks sixty five fifty seven, and at Sacramento
it's the Kings over Memphis ninety four eighty nine with
about five minutes left. College hoops Number eighteen Michigan State
was a winner at Ohio State sixty nine sixty two,
and number eight Marquette has beaten Creighton's seventy nine seventy one.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
Back to you, Thank you, STEVEO. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carmen live from the Tireck
dot Com studios. Coming up next, fair is fair. We
told you last night. Jalen Milroe has been the biggest
loser of the Bowl season so far, his stock dropping.
He's headed to the NFL, probably because he thought he
could lose his job at Alabama. Who's been the biggest
(52:41):
winner so far of the Bowl season. That's coming up next,
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