February 22, 2025 • 53 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon have with all the details on another Knicks LOSS. The guys tell you why the concern for Wemby is HUGE. And the New York Yankees getting rid of their facial hair mandate after 49 years. Plus, a visit from NFL Insider Jason Cole!
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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we're gonna be close, Mike Carmon. We've made it, you know,
just one more day until the NBA begins their games again,
start the second half of the season. One more night
of no games, So we've almost made it there, buddy,
We've almost made you.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Got the flashy thing put on your head already?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Or what almost made it almost no NBA games. There
was no NBA games.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Did you get men in blacked?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
There was no was no. I don't know what you're
talking about. Would you see these games that are supposedly
updated in quotes on social media on website? Uh, these
are just computer projections of certain hypothetical matchups. The real
game start tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
So what you're saying is we we just had an
old update of Steve playing.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean really Steve. Well, well
I think it's Ai Steve Disager too, who is giving
the updates of the basketball game.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So just some random scores kind of uh brought out
its thin air. Yeah, none, none of these things going
back to prior All Star breaks for the NHL, So
no games being played there either.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Thing. You really think Calves one for one oh five
was a real score? Come on, man, that doesn't go on.
You think that was real?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
That Lebron showing up in the garden.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I got a bridge to sell you. That's not a
real wasn't a real game. Didn't happen tonight, But I
heard it.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I thought I heard it somewhere that this was the case.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It was also it was like it like in a
Captain America first Avenger. They went through the whole thing
to make him think he was, you know, back in
nineteen forty two and they're playing the old baseball game.
That's what they do, do you. Let's say, just want
you to make you think, hey, we're back. When the NBA,
NBA doesn't come back for another night, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Is that really the case? Because I thought I heard it.
Let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
The final call.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, let's hear the final call of the Yeah, play
that fake final call, the fake fire.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, that's the buzzer. The Knicks suck. They follow the
oh and six against the Calves Celtics and thunder.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That sounds like a very disinterested announcer.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, well, what do you expect?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
My eyes hurt? Well, I mean you start doing filler stuff.
That's where you have a lot of Hey, did you
know where this guy's favorite sandwich? You join in when
he comes down the road.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
They were doing that in the second quarter tonight in
this game.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
You know, he visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He was incredulous that such and such a band wasn't in.
This becomes the opportunity for the host to shill for
whatever band he feels has been snubbed to load these
many years.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Say, look, I'll say I'll say this right well, because
there is a big take coming off of this game,
the marquee game of the night. Uh, it really was unfair. Look,
the Knicks are coming off the game they played the
night before. Doesn't matter that the Cavaliers played the night before.
Clearly it's an un it's an it's an unfair advantage
that the Cavaliers are to have coming off of a
(03:38):
game the night before. Then the Knicks did coming off
the game the night before as well, And if you
played the Bulls, that's it doesn't matter. That's something that
they rectify.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I mean that's like a day off.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I don't know, you need to rectify that. The fact
that he playing the second night a back to backs
affect some teams differently, and it clearly affected the Knicks
more tonight. They expended more energy and had a lot.
It was unfair. I mean, it's nfair. It's unfair. I'm
both teams coming off back to bout. You know one
team's not gonna play. Well, that's what happened tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
To be true and fair, you you did really struggle
against the Bulls, and earlier today I called for your
you to be relegated.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
No, wait, we won, though it doesn't matter. There's a
win column and a laws.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
But if you're gonna then use it as an excuse
going a you know, we played yesterday, so yeah, we
had nothing left in the tank.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
No, the Cavaliers clearly knew something. Look, clearly the Cavaliers
been given an advantage by the NBA in the second
night of back to back game that the Knicks don't have.
It's a way of keeping the Knicks down, right, Oh,
we got to keep the Knicks down. You got to
keep the Knicks down. Can't reward the big market teams, right,
Rick Carlisle tell you that again, all the big market teams,
all the you guys can carry something going on. There's
something going on.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I guess technically you did play the slightly better Bulls
team as opposed to Cleveland playing Brooklyn a night ago.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
But all of that to say just slightly better, Well.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I mean book Bulls twenty two wins Brooklyn. Now with
twenty y Now.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Look I did. Here's the thing, and here's where I'm
at with this. Really, would I like the Knicks to
have played better tonight. Sure right, it's a marquee game
of the Night national television. I wanted them to play well,
but they got boat raced. And I know the big
thing is zero to six against the Cavs, Celtics, and Thunder. Okay,
I understand that, but really nobody has a good record
(05:21):
against those three teams. So it's not like saying the
Knicks are an outline, but I would want the Knicks
to be playing better against the best teams because to
win an NBA championship, in theory, you have to go
through the best teams. But it's February twenty first, so
I'm it's not gonna.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Change, buddy.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It's not the Eastern Conference finals, and it's not Everything
is fine. The Knicks are their benches coming back, starting
to get hell, they got a couple of guys coming
back to the rotation. It's February twenty first. I don't
get too worked up in regular season games like this. Hey,
they went and they played the best team in the
Eastern Conference so far on their court and.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
They got killed. You're really cute with your company. First,
couple of guys coming back to the rotation, it's February twenty,
Tom Thibodeau. You can't lie through your teeth like Da Coden. Well,
we got a couple of guys coming back to the rotation.
They won't play. But now that's the thing. Now, that's
the big thing.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
They won't play, Mike Carmen, that's the big thing is
that it's It sounds crazy, but if the Knicks don't
have a successful playoff, right, this season is fine, They're
twenty games, over five hundred, everything is fine, right, can't
be good teams, but they gotta have a successful play
It's not the playoffs, man. But if they don't have
a successful playoffs, and by that I mean they don't
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go further than they did a year ago, Tim's is
gonna get fired. As good a coach as he is,
a good a defensive coach as he is, he's gonna
get fired because two big things. The Knicks are clearly
not as good defensively as they were the last few years.
Making the changes to the team they did, yes, you know,
ruin not ruined, but messed with a little bit of
the chemistry. But they brought in Karl Anthony Towns and
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of course the guy's been phenomenal. Right, he's been fantastic,
But his calling card is defense, and the Knicks are
no longer a defensive team, right they're not. So what
are you keeping him around for if they no longer
do what he does? But he's there to be a
great head coach defensive or keeping going. If they're no
longer defensive team, then he loses a little bit of
his value. But as long as the team is good,
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he's gonna stay. But the Knicks didn't make these moves
and send five number one picks for Mical Bridges and
make a big deal with with Julius Randall and de
Vincenzo for Karl Anthony Towns and Jalen Brunson didn't say, hey,
I'll take less money so we can get more guys
in here so we can make this work. They didn't
extend O g Andrew Nobi. They didn't pay all these
guys to not get out of the second round of
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the playoffs. Ye, so yeah, if this, if they don't
make it out of the second round, he's gonna get fired.
You can and you can merit hey should they should
they not? But if they don't make it and if
they're not, if defensive is no being great defensively is
no longer their hallmark. Then I'll tell you what what
are they doing? Then? Like the Knicks are, They're gonna
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be really upset. I think the front front off is
going to be mad. Dolan's gonna be mad. It's wait
a minute, I'm spending all this money. We have the
best starting five in the NBA top to bottom, and
here's where we're at. We don't get out of theecond
round of the playoffs. Like if that, if they're not
in the Eastern Conference finals, it's going to be a
new head coach for the next time.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So there's no question about it. They went all in
and made the big move to give him what he needed.
Why he still is reluctant to expand beyond the six
man rotation. All right, occasionally you'll get that seventh guy in,
but only if you're blowing a team out. But I mean,
I was heartened today and very excited for you, as
(08:36):
I'm sure all Knicks fans were. And I mean this
is you're a bulliant and why you really want to
dismiss today's efforts because according to reports, I mean, you
got the inside track to land Victor Oladipo from the
analyst chair. I mean, come on, why not, right?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Why not? I mean, hey, and sometimes, look, I'm okay
with getting anybody who can come off the bench, no
matter what they do. Care. Yeah, no, I don't care.
Whatever you need, coach player, Hey, we got to get
somebody that can help coming off the bench and not
the starting five. I'm good with him.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Well, if you can bring Noah, I mean he gets
your heart and hustle. You got that for you, Yeah,
I mean that's.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's the thing. Oakley might. Oakley might. They may actually
he might actually get to come down and take over
mid game for TIBs if they're not doing well in
the playoffs, like he could. I could see him getting
allowed back in the garden coming in like not making
the playoffs now, like Hogan coming in off the side,
and everybody's yelling his name, and Oakley's ripping his tie off,
he's taking off his jacket. He's allowed back in the garden.
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It's Charles Oakley. And Oakly comes and and and sticks
his thumb out and and puts his TIBs out, and
TIBs leaves and he walks off, of course with his
arms folded, hunched over, wondering what happened, and Oakley says, okay,
it's my team, and everybody goes crazy and the Knicks
go on a big run. I could see that.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Tell me, you don't half expect Oakley to show up
either like Terry Cruz in Idiocrity or looking like Jim
Brown from The Running Man. It's got electrolytes coming from
one or the others.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Either way, his chest is moving without him moving, right.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Oh, that's it. Yeah, like it's an electro stimulus thing
going on.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, Jason, you're gonna cry when they don't make it.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Du What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Man?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
What are you talking?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It's February. You've been warned.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It's fine. It's it's fine. We're twenty games over five
hundred Frostburg. We didn't just spend the last two nights losing.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Remember it's February. There's plenty of time.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
We didn't spend the last two nights losing to two
teams with a combined twenty seven wins like the Lakers did. Okay,
just so you know, let's.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
James got minutes against you guys, cancel the season?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
No, see, look, I'm not letting you do the Vegas misdirection,
the hey, we we have a very short bench. Tims
is gonna run these guys until they're tripping over their tongues.
That we're gonna have an early exit. And he could
be fired too. Yeah, but we didn't lose too in
a row. Like the Laker.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Bradford once come in and say something something outlandish and foolish.
You're not big in the playoffs, you might not. Frostburg
brought that up.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Because those are all losses.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
If the rest of the games were against the Cavs
and the Celtics and the Thunder, I would say, yeah,
I'd be in trouble. But they're not going to be everything.
It's fun that we lost that. We did lose that game,
That's okay. The game where the Lakers knew that they
were trading for Luka Doncic, they were clearly more motivated
to play that game. You guys played it, Lakers played
well that game. It's okay.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
The next time this season you beat somebody a good
it'll be the first.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay, All right, Fine, what's the Lakers record against the Thunder,
Celtics and Cavaliy, Yeah, I don't, I don't know that
it is, man, I don't know. I don't know if
it's not all right? Look it up right now? There
we go six.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Remaining strength of schedule, and see where are the Knicks
nicky years.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Find me the Lakers record against the best three teams
in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
But as you talked about the other night, I mean,
the Lakers do have they're tied for the hardest schedule remaining,
and unlike the Phoenix Suns, they'll actually want to play it.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, why'd you gotta sideeswipe the Suns?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Like?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Did you not watch some of that game last night?
I mean my dual screen experience was obviously the Nation's
Cup Final and watching the Sun's kind of sleepwalk through
a game against the wenby less San Antonio Spurs to
where they look like they'd rather be anybody anywhere else,
like the guys Charles and Kenny and everybody else. They
(12:35):
could have done the gone fishing emojis for them last night,
the way they were looking around at each other.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, we're just gonna hang that side up, but walk away.
Where are you guys going to get the second half?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
No, no, we're done, We're kind of they're done. We're done, okay,
Just so.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You know, I don't like each other. We don't want
to be here. The only reason I'm still here, Kevin
Durant is I didn't want to move and the other
guy he wouldn't wave a there's no trade clause. Otherwise
we don't be in a different destination.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
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that's the big takeaway. The Knicks don't get out of
the second round. It's gonna be a new head.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Coach, Phil John Jackson.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Next he's coming back. He's gonna wake him up off
the subway and Phil's gonna take over.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I'm telling you it's virtual Phil Jackson.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
It's a robot that goes up and down come hovered
by remote control with a monitor for a head, and
he never leaves the TP.
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And before you get to that big fact today, I'd
look at it three times before us how true it was.
You know yesterday you and I we were on during
the day in for Cavino and Rich and Doug Gottlie
been obviously right in our window of doing the show.
The Wemby story broke Victor wembin Yama out for the season.
(15:43):
The Spurs are shutting him down with deep vein thrombosis
in his right shoulder, and you and I talked about it,
and it became a thing today all all over. Yeah,
you got some good radio who man, and and I
feel like, I mean, I don't know why I have
doctors who are upset with what I've said, and I'm like,
(16:05):
I don't understand what is a bit? What what people
seem to be upset about? But day that happens, right,
I mean, look, the Wemby thing was big. It's a
big deal. And look you can get the uh you
can listen to it. It's on a Fox Sports Radio
Twitter account. It's it's up there. You can go grab it.
Mike and I have retweeted it as well. But basically,
you know we talked about this is that you know
(16:26):
this is not an injury for Wemby, Like this is
this is a medical condition and it's a big concern
like thrombosis and deep vein thrombosas blood clots are a
big deal. And he's got to take blood thinners and
he can't play while he's taking blood thinners. And you
want to think, Okay, he's gonna be all right. Yeah, yeah,
I hope, So everybody hopes. So prayers up for Wenby
because you know, we want to see the guy back,
(16:47):
want to see him healthy. And the Spurs had to
say yesterday that, yeah, we think he'll come back for
the beginning of this season. Like and and when I
see this, I go, I don't know what what the
normal is gonna be. And I say this, like, I
literally don't know, because this is something that's got to
be managed because if you look at you look at
the deals with thrombosis and deep vane thrombosis. It affects
people who are tall, and it affects people who fly
(17:09):
a lot, you know, and and hey, what are NBA players, right?
They're tall and they fly a lot, right, And it's
a it's a big thing. Like even you know, the
last few times that we've flown. When we flew to
the United Kingdom this summer, my wife is like, you
got to wear the compression socks. And I'm like, why
where them? It's a big long flight. We're over fifty.
I said, Okay, okay, so we're the compression socks. I mean,
it's a thing. And and this is something you know,
(17:31):
thrombosis a little bit different for Chris Bosch, but this
basically cost him his career. Now. The flip side of
it is Brandon Ingram who had it a few years ago.
He's been able to bounce back and look, the guy's
got a big contract all Stars. So you know, you're
seeing like kind of both ends of the spectrum on this.
But this is like a condition that's got to be managing.
I don't know what the what the norm is going
to be for Wemby going forward. You hope it's a
(17:52):
big recovery, and you hope it's a big h you know, Hey,
he's back and he's better than ever and being in
his shoulder is probably better than it is being in
his leg. But like, what's going to be a thing
like are longer? Flight's going to be something that maybe
you have to sit out and miss a couple of
these games man, you know, I mean all the international
travel that I mean, I don't know what the new
normal is going to be for him as far as
flying and monitoring this. But it's a thing. It's you know,
(18:14):
it's it's not an injury. It's a condition now from
someone who was in there early twenties that hopefully they
can manage it the rest of his career.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, talking about you know, blood clots in the lungs
versus you know, the injury and the effects of the shoulder.
So but all of it to say, and I saw
the internet. Doctors were out there and then you know
they're trying to get the distinction from a number of
you know, leaders in the field. So you know, saying
(18:43):
that it has less risk, well that doesn't make it zero.
It still needs to be treated and monitored on a
daily basis. You're still talking about being away from the
game a minimum of five to six months before you're
resuming working out and trying to get back on the court,
and you don't know what the lingering effects are, right,
and the long term treatment plans are going to be different.
(19:04):
You know, there's no one size fits all. And we're
talking about a guy. Uh, you know, when we're looking
at to your point of international travel and and in
his case, just needing to be on a plane and
back to backs and all of those things. You start
changing up the schedule, uh, and needing to bring in
teams of doctors and surgeons to go through this to
(19:28):
make sure he's got everything he needs. So just dismissing it, Hey,
he's younger and it's got less of a chance of
being a recurrent issue because of its placement. Doesn't again
mean it's zero. So you know, dismissing it categorically is foolhardy.
It does. Yes, it sounds like it's a much better situation.
(19:50):
We're also that many more years developed in terms of
what we know about, you know, the these kind of
syndromes and how to treat and right, you know, we're
always getting modern medical advances, how quickly things move. But
it's when min Yama, it's a guy that last week
everybody was you know, wagging their fingers and talking about
(20:11):
as the face of the new NBA. Uh yeah, No,
it's it's still a serious thing. You don't categorically rule
anything out. You're hoping for the best, and it sounds
like it should be manageable. But what that looks like
nobody knows yet.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well, it's it's it's it's like, think about it like this.
You go to the doctor and the doctor tells you
you have high blood pressure. Okay, well, high blood pressure
is not great. Now. If your blood pressure is a
little bit high, okay, that's still a concern. If it's
a lot high, obviously it's a much bigger concern. Hey,
we really got to bring this down. There's more. But
if you have high blood pressure, that's still a thing
(20:49):
you have to monitor. And especially if your job is
something that brings high blood pressure along with it. Well
your bloo pressure a little high, will my job's a
little stressful. Okay, Well we got to monitor this.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
May I mean I do that every day, Smith, Yeah,
I mean it's I deal with you for four hours,
I have to blood pressure, my salt intake.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
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I'm the I'm the brother you need it, not the
brothers you have.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
The dumbest thing I've ever heard you.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Come on, man, you could put all your brothers together.
They're not the influence on you that.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I Ah, my brothers are wizards.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
It's not even because there's they're still driving that stolen
golf cart full all bertrandise off of Bear's campus. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
My younger brother's coming off by a giant meeting that
he's just like thanks for the note. I'm going to bed.
I'll talk to you Sunday Like, wow, you're sleeping for
twenty four plus.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I mean, look at and and it's because your apt Yeah, yeah,
I mean that's what it is. It's like, you know, yeah, okay,
it's not as high. It's not you know, there are
certain conditions that you have, but when you get diagnosed
with something, it still means that it's something that's got
to be taken care of, and especially if what you
do for a living plays into it. How many people
when when they get old and they have a you know,
(22:01):
whether it's a it's a heart condition or something, they go,
you know what you just you need you can't have
stress anymore, you can't do what you do for a
living because it's bringing you too much stress. You have
to retire. Like we've seen that. I've seen that, you
know from my uncle you know, had to had to
retire because of that. So it's like, so it just
realized that that there's a there's a different there's a
wide swath of things it can be. And and that's
(22:22):
why the whole comparison of Hey, Chris Bosh again a
little bit different kind of thrum, but still it's deep
vein thrombosis and cost him his career, brandon Ingram comes
back from it. There's a wide swath of it, and
I just don't know because it's a condition and not
an injury. Like, what does the future hold? Like, I
don't know what kind of new normal you have to
find now if you're Wenby, if you're the Spurs or
him for his career. Hopefully they take care of it. It finishes,
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and and the blood thinners work and everything is great.
But just the fact they said, yeah, we hope that
he's ready to go for this fall. Whoa, whoa, whoa
you mean October? It's February and you hope that he's
ready to go in the fun I mean, this is not. Hey,
unfortunately he's going to miss the rest of this season.
We're probably not going to the play, so it's only
a couple more months before the playss. Yeah, we're going
to keep him out. This is we hope he's ready
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for the beginning of the season. You're you're talking about
late September, when when when this goes on? And it's
only the middle of February. Like that's where that's where
I put my antenta up and said, oh wow, this
is this is really something.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, a couple of months to monitor, right, decide a
course of action and and how his body responds. I mean,
I have joked about a Madden Cruiser in terms of
road trips and you know, things of longer length where
the schedule permits. But you really do start looking into
the different long term effects of this and how you
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have to to manage it right, much like your high
blood pressure situation, whether it's medication, whether it's just a
change in diet and exercise. What do you have to
do when you first meet a new doctor, Well, I
need a family history. Give me a legitimate family history
if you have it right, because that's the other thing.
(23:59):
A lot of times you're flying blind because your your parents,
your grandparents either didn't believe in going to the doctor
unless you know, they literally had a life altering event.
Uh you know, I may raise my hand in that
in that regard. H So you're guessing at what family
and back in the day they just chronicled everything as
a heart attack. So you about have died from any
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myriad of things. But oh what happened? Oh yeah, his
heart failed in this case. For when bin Yama, I
hope they have an extended family history that's really well
and in depth so that they can draw from that
and try to build on on towards a definitive conclusion.
But in the interim, you know, it's it's a lot
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of hot. Does his body react to stress? And and
and what got Do you need surgery? Is that it right?
They say it's an isolated thing for him versus where
or bosh, it became a chronic, chronic issue that needed,
you know, more than and then one treatment, one course
of management you have to adapt to and move on.
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So all the best young guy obviously very able bodied,
except in this and people were trying to pinpoint, all right,
well here's the injury, here's the shoulder injury that must
have caused it, Like you don't know that. It's a
nice try, like we all love to play junior cis agent,
you know, going on William Peterson on stuff to try
(25:26):
to figure out causes. But you know, for now we
don't know. But hopefully by the beginning of next year,
this spurs squad that we were getting excited about Smith
at the trade deadline, that they're fully reformed and ready
to go.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tirec dot Com studios.
That big sports fact that I still can't believe coming
up in ninety seconds but first special delivery. Steve de
Saga with us, a guy who's been called the Greg
Popovich of Fox Sports Radio. You look at him and
you go, boy, he really could be nicer to people.
But that's kind of what do you know, it's SD
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that's what's trending.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
No, not as moody and not giving the one word answer,
so really not really much of a correspondence there. Those
first are in action tonight and down twenty in the
fourth quarter. Mid fourth, Detroit leads at San Antonio one
seventeen to ninety seven. Big lead for the Thunder late
first half sixty four to forty one. At Utah Dallas
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Mavericks with eight minutes to go, I had ninety four
eighty six over the Pelicans, who might be falling to
thirteen and forty.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Three on the season. And right now it's in the
second quarter. At Houston. At the end of one the
Rockets led Minnesota forty eight to thirty eight. Right now
Houston is tied fifty eight all against Minnesota with about
four minutes left in the second quarter. Anthony Edwards was
questionable with a sore hit, but he is playing. Cleveland
won at six straight game, beating New York one forty
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two to one oh five. Cav shot sixty one percent
from the floor. Ognanobi did return for the next had
five five points. Josh Hart was out again with a sortnee.
Miami in overtime won at Toronto one twenty to one eleven,
ending a four game losing streak. Memphis edge to Orlando
one oh five one oh fours. The Magic went scoreless
for the last two and a half minutes. Milwaukee won
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at Washington one oh four to one hundred x of
the Wizards. Kyle Kuzma had nineteen points tonight. The Wizards
have lost five in a row. Washington as a record
of nine and forty six. In the late game at Sacramento,
it's tied late first quarter. Kings and Warriors even at
twenty six. Two games of note in men's college basketball,
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only a couple weeks left in the regular season Top
twenty matchup at Michigan went to the rival Michigan State
Spartan seventy five sixty two. This was a two point
lead with under twelve minutes to go, and this on
the day that Michigan gave coach Dusty May a new contract.
No details announced At Villanova. Earlier on FS one, the
Wildcats beat up number sixteen Marquette eighty one sixty six.
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Villanova had lost seven of its last eleven game games.
The NHL is off until Saturday, after almost two weeks
off fourteen hockey games. Tomorrow, of course, there was no
NHL All Star Game this year. They played the Four
Nations Tournament instead. The Winter Olympics are one year from
now in Italy. The New Orleans Saints new defensive coordinator
will reportedly be Brandon Staley. He worked with new head
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coach Kellen Moore two years ago with the Chargers. Jacksonville's
new general manager as James Gladstone from the Rams. Eagles
linebacker Nolan Smith had triceps surgery this week. He played
through the injury in the recent Super Bowl. The Bears
cut tight end Gerald Everett and defensive end DeMarcus Walker.
Cincinnati released defensive tackle Sheldon Rankings. Pittsburgh signed tight end
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Donald Parham. The NFL scouting combine starts Thursday. In fact,
on Saturday, March first, not that far away as the
workouts for the quarterbacks, wide receivers, and running backs. Nebraska
canceled its home and home football series against Tennessee, which
would have been in twenty twenty six and twenty seven,
with Nebraska siding its upcome stadium renovations and Yankees manager
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Aaron Boone signed an extension through twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Back to you, thanks, Stevell, and just real quick to
to you know, for something that could be great for
the Spurs. Right. We had a quick fun joke there
about you know Greg Popovich, you know, being you know,
the krusty Greg Povich that we know and love.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah, that might be the first time that Steve's rebuffed
any comparisons normally gives it a little bit of credence.
This one.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
What a great story it would be if he could
come back for the end of the season, right, Like,
like Wenby is out and you're hoping that, but like,
I know, he's been really aggressive in his rehab. Chris
Paul says he calls him after almost every game. This
is what I see, This is what I see. And
I know there's no timetable, obviously, you're coming back from
the from the stroke he suffered last fall. But boy,
what a great story would be if he could get
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back to the sideline before the end of the season. Still,
some time to happen, and the fact that he's still involved,
to still talk to the team and talking to the
players like that's all awesome, awesome stuff, and you know
that'd be that'd be a great thing for them and
for the NBA.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
And also for TNT.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Maybe one last game with them before they lose the
NBA and one last chance to give a one word answer.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Oh that is that could happen. Thank you, Steve now Hey,
speaking of TV this story today that I knew the
number would be high. I didn't know it would be
this high when we went into previewing the Four Nations
Championship between Canada the United States the other night is Look,
it's the biggest hockey game in forty five years. You
(30:27):
go back to Miracle on Nice. There are just too
many confluence of circumstances that make this bigger than any
game since then, right, Bigger than any Olympic game, Bigger
than a World Cup game. You have the the the
NHL situation between having the best two most popular teams playing.
You have the rivalry with them. You have the geopolitical
background and backdrop of Trump and Trudeau and Canada and California.
(30:51):
And we knew it was going to be that big,
biggest game in forty five years. And we saw an
amazing game last night. And when I say we saw,
I mean we in the general we as ten and
a half million people watch this game at its peak
and overall nine and a half million viewers. It is
the largest audience ever for a hockey game on ESPN,
(31:14):
also the largest audience for a non NFL event on
ESPN Plus. And ESPN has had hockey for the most
part since the late seventies. Okay, like there's a few
years where hockey went away and then you know, the
NHL did that thing where they went to versus and
they tried to go and they were this on the
CW and you crazy stuff. Then it came back to ESPN,
(31:35):
and you know they've had it for you know, they've
had it on and off, you know, for a long time.
This is the largest audience for a hockey game ever
on ESPN last night, and it was an insane game.
And like we said last night, I'm hoping that this
is gonna be a big rebirth of the next big
jump that they can capitalize in springboard off of this,
(31:56):
just like hockey springboarded off the miracle on ice in
nineteen eighty and the NHL saw great heights in the
late eighties and early nineties before lockouts, and Gary Bettman
decided to say, oh no, no, no, we're gonna push this
all the way down. So it's a fringe sport. Now
they have that chance. They add that to You saw
the best players in the world on the ice. You
saw the best player in the world, you know, score
a goal in overtime to win it. And maybe this
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is gonna be something that gives you that next great
springboard into hockey and that can really capitalize on it,
because last night you went through and saw you know,
you see social media the top twenty posts are all
about this game. Like even the Super Bowl, the top
twenty posts on social media not about this game. But
everybody's on there, whether it's it was Bennington or Kuchuk
or doesn't matter who it was or McDavid, it was
(32:40):
everybody watched this game. It was an insane event and
for hockey, it's the biggest thing that's happened to them
in nearly five decades.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Yeah, it would be nice to think you can capitalize
on it. I fear a lot of it is just
with the geopolitical backdrop that folks wanted to get their
memes and jokes and in and certainly watched and were
treated to a fantact, fantastic spectacle with a really head
scratching end to it in terms of how the play
(33:10):
wore out your physical physical Oh wait, there's the best
player in the world standing by himself in the slot.
But all of that to say that, look, you got
a lot of good will, right, a lot of people
talking hockey. PK. Suban got to go and evangelize for
hockey on any number of platforms today, great spokesman for
(33:31):
the game, great enthusiasm, and I thought him, we're.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Gonna fight last night.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Oh yeah, but that's just it, right. It brought out
that intensity and then he was able to carry it
forward with a number of appearances today. So hopefully that
that brings more folks to the yard, if only short term.
You just wish that the hockey playoffs were coming straight in, right,
(33:56):
because you match that intensity, because I fear folks going
into second half quote unquote hockey, you're gonna be like
that wasn't the game I saw like the other night, right,
Whereas with the playoffs, I mean, that's what you get each.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And every night.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Way off something that knicks aren't going to.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Step what you just stop for, you would keep losing credibility. Frostburg,
You're like incredibility. You're like Luca taking a three. Everyone
is worse than the last one. That's what's happening right now, dude,
I have.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
The crystal ball for your teams? Just strip now do
you have the script?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Good, okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
For your teams? Yeah, because they're easy to call where
they start.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
All your team stinks? Smith? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
By the way, in the world is sports Dog radio
and television?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:40):
The next He's not even close to the metal stand
at this point in terms of craziness coming out of
his mouth and credibility. Come on, we shore that. We
smile it.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
That's all I got. It's all I add. Man, coming
up next, speaking of fifty years, right, biggest hockey game
in the last forty five years? How about something huge
in sports that ended today that's been around for longer
than that, something just shy of fifty years. Nope, not
gonna see it anymore. What is it that's next? Jason
(35:11):
and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (35:24):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend
Mike Harmon Live Fromthtirack dot Com studios, where today ended
nearly fifty years of a long standing rule and now
it's over. The New York Yankees announced that no longer
will they have a rule against facial hair like they've
(35:47):
had in place for the better part of the last
forty nine years.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Simpsons episode is obsolete.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Metically shave those sideburns. I don't think you know what
they mean, Coach. The Yankees are now going to allow
well groomed beard on the field. Not the beards, not
not like zz Top. I'm gonna grow them all the
way down to the no. But if you have a
nice trimmed beard, you're allowed to have it on the
(36:12):
field with the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Evidently Cashman said, well, we're not going for duck Dynasty.
Here was the reference used. What when was the last
time they made that show?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
A look that shows you how out of touch the
Yankees are. Because this is the big point. Why is
this such a big deal?
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Obviously to laugh at going yeah, I don't want to
go to the yank and I'll be able to wear
a beard. You know what, what do I go back
to saying all the time? One thing I know from
coaching youth sports, I know from a happy player is
a good player. Right. I always know a happy player
is always going to be better than better than a
player that's not happy. And the Yankees have these crazy
things that they stick to that are so outdated that
(36:52):
turn players off. One of the reasons, not the reason,
but clearly it's part of it. Hey, they lost Juan
Soto because they wouldn't give him a sweet and his
family a sweet. Yankee games, Well, we don't do that.
We didn't do it for Jeter, didn't do it for Judge.
We're not gonna do it for you. Okay. Hey, the
Mets said, yeah, see if Cohen said, how many sweets
do you want? You can have my sweet. I don't care. Now,
you can come and come live with me, it doesn't matter.
(37:13):
You can have have a suite. Right. It's not that
he signed with the Mets because of that, but that's
a thing that goes in the Mets favor or another
team going, yes, we'll do this for you, and how
many players are gonna say, yeah, you know, Yankees, what's
the whole thing with the facial hair? That's ridiculous. It
gives me a bad vibe. It doesn't give me confidence
that I can go there and be myself that I
(37:34):
have to worry about, you know, if I don't shave
for a day or or whatever it's going to be.
The Yankees are still conducting business like it's nineteen eighty
five and nineteen ninety and nineteen ninety six and two thousand,
where we're the destination and if you can come here,
and but you're gonna do it our way, and players
are saying, no, I don't need to I can go
(37:54):
someplace else and get paid. I don't need to go
there and play by these ridiculous rules of certain things
like no facial hair. There's a reason why the Yankees
did this. After the offseason, they lost Jan Soda. Right,
all these changes they're making, they lost one soda. They
realized he thought I could go to Queen's and have
a better chance of winning a championship, and I can
have a better baseball life with the Mets than I
(38:17):
would have with the Yankees. Then I give the Yankees credits.
It's a look in the mirror moment. It's more than
outdated for them to continue to subscribe to thoughts like this,
where players right now are going, Dude, I could play
for you or not. You know, to tell me that
I got I can't have a beard. You can tell
Jesse Winker could never play there. You're really gonna do
this to me. You're not gonna give me a sweet
(38:38):
I mean, this is how negotiations are in twenty twenty five.
I don't know what year you're negotiating in or what
year you're trying to get players are, but this is
twenty twenty five and the Yankees need to get out
of that if they're gonna continue to get free agents
and keep players and not have them leave like and
other than saying, well, we're just gonna overpay, and that's
gonna be the thing, right what they did for free
Agenci this offseason. We're gonna way overpay for guys because well,
(39:00):
it's how we get guys into New York. It's how
the Mets used to do things. Now it's like, hey,
we we offer a good situation. Yes, we paid a
lot of money for Sodo, but look the guy's the
best free agent on the you know him and Otani,
best free agents the last twenty five years. But yeah,
but other guys, we want to go play there. We
want to go play there. It's a destination. Yankees had
to wake up. And while this is completely old and
outdated and it seems kind of minor, it's part of
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them understanding they got to go in a new direction.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Well, you have to recognize the seed change across the league,
right from what the Mets are doing to how the
Dodgers are operating. Rob Mamford making the statement he did,
I can guarantee you the next set of owners meetings
there'll be a lot of discussion about it. But the
reality is you have to play by different rules and
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free agents have a lot of different asks.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Remember, even just going back to the NFL, what was
one of the rumors of Caleb Williams He's asking for
an ownership stake. Whether that was real or not, it
became a thing that people had to address of wait,
is that possible? Is that allowed? And for players, Yeah,
they've asked for all sorts of things, and a suite
(40:09):
is not anywhere near close to the most outrageous man,
that's nothing. That's that's a We've had private jets right
go back to Kevin Brown have been part of it,
or allowances for such things and ancillary you know, media
tags and you know, access to the playing field, the clubhouse,
(40:32):
whatever else. Guys make all sorts of ass You have
to decide how deep you want to go in. By
the way, the Duck Dynasty series ended ended in twenty seventeen.
Now they're coming back with something this summer, evidently some
kind of revival. But that's a nice eight year gap
that we're working with.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
That's how with the times the Yankees are that we
are ready to go.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Maybe he saw the notice of the revival and that's
what prompted.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
It coming up. We get into a huge story involving
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version posted right after we get off the air. Well,
we're getting set for the Combine next week, which means
that teams are going to talk and there could spee
some movement when it comes to the big quarterbacks. No
one better to talk to than the guy that knows
a thing or two about very good quarterbacks. He's the
thirty third team. He is a Pro Football Hall of
(42:01):
Fame voter. Longtime friend of the show. Is on Twitter
at Jason Coles sixty two. It is Jason Cole. What's up? Jay?
Speaker 5 (42:10):
All the same, I'm very impressed. I'm very impressed. Yeah, Well,
it's gonna be a very good podcast.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
I'm sure. I'm sure we'll do it. We'll do a
very good interview with you. We'll talk about some very
good quarterbacks. How about that.
Speaker 5 (42:25):
Let's do it. Let's go, let's go for it.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Jay Cole is like, hey, something, we're gonna do something
even different than we do all the other. All right,
let's do it. Let's go all right, so listen, Uh, now,
everybody's starting to make rankings for quarterbacks and hoop everybody
alongs who could go someplace? But I want to start here.
Speaker 5 (42:52):
Where'd you come up with your rankings? How did you
come up with yours?
Speaker 1 (42:57):
My rankings are one not anybody who's ever played for
the Jets before, and then two guys who want to
bring back. That's my that's my list. Uh Are you
buying that maybe Matthew Stafford changes uh changes teams? That
that that the Rams have just had enough with him
and his wife and all the stuff about we could
leave and I want more money, whatever reason he's talking
(43:17):
about not coming back.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
I think that Sean McVay right now is outside of
matt Stafford's house.
Speaker 8 (43:27):
He stays, he's holding up the boom box like in
say anything, and he's just playing rabbit all day, rabbit
all night, Rabbit all day, rabbit all night.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
He's totally he's totally gone, Cusack, I can totally is
your uhs.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
With a trunch goat on and everything? Oh sure, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
And anybody that doesn't know the references. Now when you're
standing out there just randomly in a trench coat. That's
not good for anybody.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
No, no, no, he would probably be the like sitting
on Aaron Donald's shoulders so he could get closer to
the to the window where Matthew Stafford is holding out
of the boom box.
Speaker 5 (44:14):
He's like, he's like jumping up and down, you know,
close the close of the window. I be in. Please
let me in, Let me in, let me in, Let
me talk to you. He's that Stafford's not going anywhere,
like he makes that team. If you're gonna let Cup
go and you're you've got to have a guy who
(44:34):
can run that offense. That's the only guy that that
McVeigh trus So like always talk about you to go
and then you know it's a nonsense. They're going to
pay him because he makes he makes them a contender.
I mean they almost be silly for one reason, because
matt Stafford can read defenses and you know, make adjustments
(45:00):
that just other guys can't do. Right now, he's so
far ahead of everybody else when it comes especially on
the the NFC side. He gives them a fighting chance
to win the NFC. He's that good. So they got
to keep playing him. I mean, I don't know what
their playing is. Otherwise, what are you going to go
(45:22):
get Kirk Cousins or something like that? I mean, what
do you what are you doing? There's there's nobody else
who can do what he does. So yeah, you guys
stay with him. And like I said, mcve on, mcvay's
out front of the house right now going I'll buy
I'll buy that legally, you know, you know, I'll buy
I'll buy whatever that that thing online that you guys
(45:43):
are pitching all the time for for for wills and
stuff like that. I'll do it. I promise I'll do it.
I'll buy like ten thousand subscriptions right now. I promise
I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
It's pretty good. That's taking care of a lot of people,
and that's what you should do, Jacob, after your people.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
All right.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
So now that he's officially exited New York, uh, do
the Jets go get Sam Donald because in Rogers just
done and being stalked by t m Z. I guess
that so good?
Speaker 5 (46:19):
Reunited Sam?
Speaker 4 (46:21):
Do you really think they stalked him?
Speaker 5 (46:26):
Would that be the ultimate? That'd be the ultimate? Like,
would he move? I'll bring him back, bring it back.
It's like it's like Reavis to the reuniting, Like this
set's let's let's let's lose all of our pride a
second time because on this one, no, you know, it.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Would be a better A better wood he moved would
be they cut Aaron Rodgers and they figure out where
all the dead cat money goes, then they re sign
him for less money and that way what he says.
But if we cut him again, don't have to worry
about paying him, So let's do it. That would be
the big jets.
Speaker 5 (46:59):
That would Now the ultimate move would be to suck
this year, find out that arch Manning is not coming out,
have to suckond the following year, and then realize that
arch Manning, just like his uncle, will never play for you.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
Yeah. Hey, every twenty years, right, we see, Yes, to
repeat itself is going to happen again.
Speaker 5 (47:18):
Yeah, absolutely, We're going to suck for the man for
one of the Mannings and oh that didn't work. Oh
get oops oops. Like Aaron Glenn's going to have a
better job, do a better job of talking into it
than Parcels. That's just perfect. So okay, so we dispensed
(47:41):
with that. I'm just not sure. Like the Raiders and
the Jets, it is such a race to the bottom
in terms of being able to attract quarterbacks and say,
now this is really where you want to come play.
We really have all the answers. Now, the Raiders have
a little bit of a chance. But that quarterback has
(48:03):
to be at least forty years old so that he
knows how to relate to Pete Carroll.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
Now, if that forty year old does go and become
becomes a Raider, can he bring DeVante Adams with him?
Speaker 5 (48:18):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Enough people left the building.
Speaker 5 (48:20):
I guess that is another Peaches in her moment, isn't it. Wow?
If DeVante DeVante comes back, Davante is sort of becoming
like Joe Pesci to Danira that.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
He gets out of retirement every couple of years, but
only if he gets to work with Bob. Yeah, I
get it, exact.
Speaker 5 (48:48):
Adam like the last person that he would ever compared
to is Joe Pecci, Like just the last of being
ever that you would.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
Maybe Joe Pecci has a taco bell in his house too.
You never know.
Speaker 5 (49:00):
He could. I actually fully I fully expect that. I mean,
I am he invites to Niro and Marty over score
square sase and you know, Bob Marty, if you want
some chelopas, what do you want?
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Jeloops, that's just give me an idea for an incredible movie.
I have to go. I'll see you, all right. So
what you're telling me is then if I can.
Speaker 5 (49:25):
If I can digress, We've digressed that Joe Peshi with
a taco bell inviting Martin Squirt saves and Bob de
Niro over this is this is this chef's kiss to that.
I just got to say that that's it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
And I just want to say, listen, if I'm trying
to glean what you're telling me over the last few
minutes is that the big takeaway is Pete Carroll is
a win now head coach.
Speaker 5 (49:51):
Think do you think just making sure now with the
win now with a roster that is would be fifth
death in a fourteen division? I mean, they got no ship,
they have no shot. I don't I don't understand that
that's higher. I mean, and people, the funny part is
there was like, oh, this is a great hire by Brady.
(50:12):
Brady didn't make this higher. This was this was Mark Davis.
Because Mark Davis got ticked off when Ben Jonson didn't
want to take the job. He didn't like the move
that they made at GM, and he got impatient, let's
go get Pete Carroll because he didn't want to listen.
He also didn't want to listen to Brady when it
came to the Rabel. So like, this one's not really
(50:36):
working the way a lot of people think. Like you know,
a lot of people are like, oh, yeah, Brady was
all over wanting Pete Carroll. No he didn't. That's just
not the move that he wanted to make. No matter
what he says, this was not the move. So there
you go.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
Well, I just think honestly with with Pete Carroll the Raiders,
why why I liked it is that he's someone that
will stop the backsliding that because that's what they need,
someone to stop the bag. Okay, we're down, we're down
at rock bottom. Now let's treat a little.
Speaker 5 (51:02):
Bit net we're network now comparing like Pete told of
the Dutch Boy. Is that what we're saying.
Speaker 1 (51:08):
No, No, he's gonna he's not going to get any
further in the hole like Baine in the dark night,
and maybe he can get out of the hole a
little bit is what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (51:19):
Wow, that was that was bant Bain. Sure we're talking
good fellows. We're I mean, man, we've we've got some
stuff going on here.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
Your whole show. You got to listen more than the
ten minutes you're on with it. This is our whole
show every night.
Speaker 5 (51:35):
This is the best ten minutes. Why would I listen
to anything else?
Speaker 1 (51:37):
Yeah? Well, because okay, I think drop there's a big
rop off in your house in the ten minutes you
spend with us and the rest of your life because
you're watching Stanford football.
Speaker 5 (51:48):
I keep watching the Stanford football Syracuse game over over and.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
The game that kept us from the playoff, because that's
a game that kept us from the bleeping playoff? Is
living that way?
Speaker 5 (52:00):
Hey, anything we can do for you, I'm happy to do.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (52:08):
We're building the new rivalry. We're building the on s crime.
That's what we're building. We're building aga. The orange as
versus the Cardinal is. This is what this is what
we're doing.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
It's the orange on tree crime. Yes, I got yeah,
very very difficult, very difficult.
Speaker 5 (52:24):
Yes, well, I mean you can have orange trees. I
mean if you know you can have the Orange Tree Classic.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
Well, let's think about it.
Speaker 5 (52:34):
It would be played in Orland. That would Stanford and
Syracuse in Orlando would be the least relevant football game
ever because nobody would be like, why are they doing this?
We don't get it?
Speaker 3 (52:44):
Be a betting line that would.
Speaker 5 (52:47):
Be about it. That would be the only reason to
watch that game. And your luck and Donovan McNabb would
be on the sideline to do the coin toss.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
He's on Twitter Jason Colson x two, that is at
Jason Coles sixty two. Check him out at thirty thirteen.
Speaker 5 (53:05):
We talked we have any kind of discussion about anything.
Speaker 3 (53:08):
No, Yeah, we talked some quarterbacks. I was going to
talk about Joey Gladstone but we didn't have time.
Speaker 1 (53:13):
No, and again, Pete Carroll is a win now head coach.
I think that's a big Fil'm going to tweet that out.
You made sure everybody knows that now.
Speaker 5 (53:20):
Yeah, at age eighty seven, he is. Yeah, he's the
Marvel Lady of his time.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
Seeyboddy, we'll talk to the tie by. Last week, did you.
Speaker 3 (53:32):
Like how I called James Gladstone Joey Gladstone cut?
Speaker 1 (53:36):
Yeah, that's pretty good. I like that
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we're gonna be close, Mike Carmon. We've made it, you know,
just one more day until the NBA begins their games again,
start the second half of the season. One more night
of no games, So we've almost made it there, buddy,
We've almost made you.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Got the flashy thing put on your head already?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Or what almost made it almost no NBA games. There
was no NBA games.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Did you get men in blacked?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
There was no was no. I don't know what you're
talking about. Would you see these games that are supposedly
updated in quotes on social media on website? Uh, these
are just computer projections of certain hypothetical matchups. The real
game start tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
So what you're saying is we we just had an
old update of Steve playing.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean really Steve. Well, well
I think it's Ai Steve Disager too, who is giving
the updates of the basketball game.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So just some random scores kind of uh brought out
its thin air. Yeah, none, none of these things going
back to prior All Star breaks for the NHL, So
no games being played there either.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Thing. You really think Calves one for one oh five
was a real score? Come on, man, that doesn't go on.
You think that was real?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
That Lebron showing up in the garden.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I got a bridge to sell you. That's not a
real wasn't a real game. Didn't happen tonight, But I
heard it.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I thought I heard it somewhere that this was the case.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It was also it was like it like in a
Captain America first Avenger. They went through the whole thing
to make him think he was, you know, back in
nineteen forty two and they're playing the old baseball game.
That's what they do, do you. Let's say, just want
you to make you think, hey, we're back. When the NBA,
NBA doesn't come back for another night, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Is that really the case? Because I thought I heard it.
Let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
The final call.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, let's hear the final call of the Yeah, play
that fake final call, the fake fire.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, that's the buzzer. The Knicks suck. They follow the
oh and six against the Calves Celtics and thunder.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That sounds like a very disinterested announcer.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, well, what do you expect?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
My eyes hurt? Well, I mean you start doing filler stuff.
That's where you have a lot of Hey, did you
know where this guy's favorite sandwich? You join in when
he comes down the road.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
They were doing that in the second quarter tonight in
this game.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
You know, he visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He was incredulous that such and such a band wasn't in.
This becomes the opportunity for the host to shill for
whatever band he feels has been snubbed to load these
many years.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Say, look, I'll say I'll say this right well, because
there is a big take coming off of this game,
the marquee game of the night. Uh, it really was unfair. Look,
the Knicks are coming off the game they played the
night before. Doesn't matter that the Cavaliers played the night before.
Clearly it's an un it's an it's an unfair advantage
that the Cavaliers are to have coming off of a
(03:38):
game the night before. Then the Knicks did coming off
the game the night before as well, And if you
played the Bulls, that's it doesn't matter. That's something that
they rectify.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I mean that's like a day off.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I don't know, you need to rectify that. The fact
that he playing the second night a back to backs
affect some teams differently, and it clearly affected the Knicks
more tonight. They expended more energy and had a lot.
It was unfair. I mean, it's nfair. It's unfair. I'm
both teams coming off back to bout. You know one
team's not gonna play. Well, that's what happened tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
To be true and fair, you you did really struggle
against the Bulls, and earlier today I called for your
you to be relegated.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
No, wait, we won, though it doesn't matter. There's a
win column and a laws.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
But if you're gonna then use it as an excuse
going a you know, we played yesterday, so yeah, we
had nothing left in the tank.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
No, the Cavaliers clearly knew something. Look, clearly the Cavaliers
been given an advantage by the NBA in the second
night of back to back game that the Knicks don't have.
It's a way of keeping the Knicks down, right, Oh,
we got to keep the Knicks down. You got to
keep the Knicks down. Can't reward the big market teams, right,
Rick Carlisle tell you that again, all the big market teams,
all the you guys can carry something going on. There's
something going on.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I guess technically you did play the slightly better Bulls
team as opposed to Cleveland playing Brooklyn a night ago.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
But all of that to say just slightly better, Well.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I mean book Bulls twenty two wins Brooklyn. Now with
twenty y Now.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Look I did. Here's the thing, and here's where I'm
at with this. Really, would I like the Knicks to
have played better tonight. Sure right, it's a marquee game
of the Night national television. I wanted them to play well,
but they got boat raced. And I know the big
thing is zero to six against the Cavs, Celtics, and Thunder. Okay,
I understand that, but really nobody has a good record
(05:21):
against those three teams. So it's not like saying the
Knicks are an outline, but I would want the Knicks
to be playing better against the best teams because to
win an NBA championship, in theory, you have to go
through the best teams. But it's February twenty first, so
I'm it's not gonna.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Change, buddy.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It's not the Eastern Conference finals, and it's not Everything
is fine. The Knicks are their benches coming back, starting
to get hell, they got a couple of guys coming
back to the rotation. It's February twenty first. I don't
get too worked up in regular season games like this. Hey,
they went and they played the best team in the
Eastern Conference so far on their court and.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
They got killed. You're really cute with your company. First,
couple of guys coming back to the rotation, it's February twenty,
Tom Thibodeau. You can't lie through your teeth like Da Coden. Well,
we got a couple of guys coming back to the rotation.
They won't play. But now that's the thing. Now, that's
the big thing.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
They won't play, Mike Carmen, that's the big thing is
that it's It sounds crazy, but if the Knicks don't
have a successful playoff, right, this season is fine, They're
twenty games, over five hundred, everything is fine, right, can't
be good teams, but they gotta have a successful play
It's not the playoffs, man. But if they don't have
a successful playoffs, and by that I mean they don't
(06:34):
go further than they did a year ago, Tim's is
gonna get fired. As good a coach as he is,
a good a defensive coach as he is, he's gonna
get fired because two big things. The Knicks are clearly
not as good defensively as they were the last few years.
Making the changes to the team they did, yes, you know,
ruin not ruined, but messed with a little bit of
the chemistry. But they brought in Karl Anthony Towns and
(06:55):
of course the guy's been phenomenal. Right, he's been fantastic,
But his calling card is defense, and the Knicks are
no longer a defensive team, right they're not. So what
are you keeping him around for if they no longer
do what he does? But he's there to be a
great head coach defensive or keeping going. If they're no
longer defensive team, then he loses a little bit of
his value. But as long as the team is good,
(07:16):
he's gonna stay. But the Knicks didn't make these moves
and send five number one picks for Mical Bridges and
make a big deal with with Julius Randall and de
Vincenzo for Karl Anthony Towns and Jalen Brunson didn't say, hey,
I'll take less money so we can get more guys
in here so we can make this work. They didn't
extend O g Andrew Nobi. They didn't pay all these
guys to not get out of the second round of
(07:38):
the playoffs. Ye, so yeah, if this, if they don't
make it out of the second round, he's gonna get fired.
You can and you can merit hey should they should
they not? But if they don't make it and if
they're not, if defensive is no being great defensively is
no longer their hallmark. Then I'll tell you what what
are they doing? Then? Like the Knicks are, They're gonna
(07:58):
be really upset. I think the front front off is
going to be mad. Dolan's gonna be mad. It's wait
a minute, I'm spending all this money. We have the
best starting five in the NBA top to bottom, and
here's where we're at. We don't get out of theecond
round of the playoffs. Like if that, if they're not
in the Eastern Conference finals, it's going to be a
new head coach for the next time.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So there's no question about it. They went all in
and made the big move to give him what he needed.
Why he still is reluctant to expand beyond the six
man rotation. All right, occasionally you'll get that seventh guy in,
but only if you're blowing a team out. But I mean,
I was heartened today and very excited for you, as
(08:36):
I'm sure all Knicks fans were. And I mean this
is you're a bulliant and why you really want to
dismiss today's efforts because according to reports, I mean, you
got the inside track to land Victor Oladipo from the
analyst chair. I mean, come on, why not, right?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Why not? I mean, hey, and sometimes, look, I'm okay
with getting anybody who can come off the bench, no
matter what they do. Care. Yeah, no, I don't care.
Whatever you need, coach player, Hey, we got to get
somebody that can help coming off the bench and not
the starting five. I'm good with him.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Well, if you can bring Noah, I mean he gets
your heart and hustle. You got that for you, Yeah,
I mean that's.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's the thing. Oakley might. Oakley might. They may actually
he might actually get to come down and take over
mid game for TIBs if they're not doing well in
the playoffs, like he could. I could see him getting
allowed back in the garden coming in like not making
the playoffs now, like Hogan coming in off the side,
and everybody's yelling his name, and Oakley's ripping his tie off,
he's taking off his jacket. He's allowed back in the garden.
(09:40):
It's Charles Oakley. And Oakly comes and and and sticks
his thumb out and and puts his TIBs out, and
TIBs leaves and he walks off, of course with his
arms folded, hunched over, wondering what happened, and Oakley says, okay,
it's my team, and everybody goes crazy and the Knicks
go on a big run. I could see that.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Tell me, you don't half expect Oakley to show up
either like Terry Cruz in Idiocrity or looking like Jim
Brown from The Running Man. It's got electrolytes coming from
one or the others.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Either way, his chest is moving without him moving, right.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Oh, that's it. Yeah, like it's an electro stimulus thing
going on.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, Jason, you're gonna cry when they don't make it.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Du What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Man?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
What are you talking?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It's February. You've been warned.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It's fine. It's it's fine. We're twenty games over five
hundred Frostburg. We didn't just spend the last two nights losing.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Remember it's February. There's plenty of time.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
We didn't spend the last two nights losing to two
teams with a combined twenty seven wins like the Lakers did. Okay,
just so you know, let's.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
James got minutes against you guys, cancel the season?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
No, see, look, I'm not letting you do the Vegas misdirection,
the hey, we we have a very short bench. Tims
is gonna run these guys until they're tripping over their tongues.
That we're gonna have an early exit. And he could
be fired too. Yeah, but we didn't lose too in
a row. Like the Laker.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Bradford once come in and say something something outlandish and foolish.
You're not big in the playoffs, you might not. Frostburg
brought that up.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Because those are all losses.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
If the rest of the games were against the Cavs
and the Celtics and the Thunder, I would say, yeah,
I'd be in trouble. But they're not going to be everything.
It's fun that we lost that. We did lose that game,
That's okay. The game where the Lakers knew that they
were trading for Luka Doncic, they were clearly more motivated
to play that game. You guys played it, Lakers played
well that game. It's okay.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
The next time this season you beat somebody a good
it'll be the first.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay, All right, Fine, what's the Lakers record against the Thunder,
Celtics and Cavaliy, Yeah, I don't, I don't know that
it is, man, I don't know. I don't know if
it's not all right? Look it up right now? There
we go six.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Remaining strength of schedule, and see where are the Knicks
nicky years.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Find me the Lakers record against the best three teams
in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
But as you talked about the other night, I mean,
the Lakers do have they're tied for the hardest schedule remaining,
and unlike the Phoenix Suns, they'll actually want to play it.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, why'd you gotta sideeswipe the Suns?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Like?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Did you not watch some of that game last night?
I mean my dual screen experience was obviously the Nation's
Cup Final and watching the Sun's kind of sleepwalk through
a game against the wenby less San Antonio Spurs to
where they look like they'd rather be anybody anywhere else,
like the guys Charles and Kenny and everybody else. They
(12:35):
could have done the gone fishing emojis for them last night,
the way they were looking around at each other.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, we're just gonna hang that side up, but walk away.
Where are you guys going to get the second half?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
No, no, we're done, We're kind of they're done. We're done, okay,
Just so.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You know, I don't like each other. We don't want
to be here. The only reason I'm still here, Kevin
Durant is I didn't want to move and the other
guy he wouldn't wave a there's no trade clause. Otherwise
we don't be in a different destination.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But here we are, exit out about a Fresca exit
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the second round. It's gonna be a new head.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Coach, Phil John Jackson.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Next he's coming back. He's gonna wake him up off
the subway and Phil's gonna take over.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I'm telling you it's virtual Phil Jackson.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
It's a robot that goes up and down come hovered
by remote control with a monitor for a head, and
he never leaves the TP.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
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And before you get to that big fact today, I'd
look at it three times before us how true it was.
You know yesterday you and I we were on during
the day in for Cavino and Rich and Doug Gottlie
been obviously right in our window of doing the show.
The Wemby story broke Victor wembin Yama out for the season.
(15:43):
The Spurs are shutting him down with deep vein thrombosis
in his right shoulder, and you and I talked about it,
and it became a thing today all all over. Yeah,
you got some good radio who man, and and I
feel like, I mean, I don't know why I have
doctors who are upset with what I've said, and I'm like,
(16:05):
I don't understand what is a bit? What what people
seem to be upset about? But day that happens, right,
I mean, look, the Wemby thing was big. It's a
big deal. And look you can get the uh you
can listen to it. It's on a Fox Sports Radio
Twitter account. It's it's up there. You can go grab it.
Mike and I have retweeted it as well. But basically,
you know we talked about this is that you know
(16:26):
this is not an injury for Wemby, Like this is
this is a medical condition and it's a big concern
like thrombosis and deep vein thrombosas blood clots are a
big deal. And he's got to take blood thinners and
he can't play while he's taking blood thinners. And you
want to think, Okay, he's gonna be all right. Yeah, yeah,
I hope, So everybody hopes. So prayers up for Wenby
because you know, we want to see the guy back,
(16:47):
want to see him healthy. And the Spurs had to
say yesterday that, yeah, we think he'll come back for
the beginning of this season. Like and and when I
see this, I go, I don't know what what the
normal is gonna be. And I say this, like, I
literally don't know, because this is something that's got to
be managed because if you look at you look at
the deals with thrombosis and deep vane thrombosis. It affects
people who are tall, and it affects people who fly
(17:09):
a lot, you know, and and hey, what are NBA players, right?
They're tall and they fly a lot, right, And it's
a it's a big thing. Like even you know, the
last few times that we've flown. When we flew to
the United Kingdom this summer, my wife is like, you
got to wear the compression socks. And I'm like, why
where them? It's a big long flight. We're over fifty.
I said, Okay, okay, so we're the compression socks. I mean,
it's a thing. And and this is something you know,
(17:31):
thrombosis a little bit different for Chris Bosch, but this
basically cost him his career. Now. The flip side of
it is Brandon Ingram who had it a few years ago.
He's been able to bounce back and look, the guy's
got a big contract all Stars. So you know, you're
seeing like kind of both ends of the spectrum on this.
But this is like a condition that's got to be managing.
I don't know what the what the norm is going
to be for Wemby going forward. You hope it's a
(17:52):
big recovery, and you hope it's a big h you know, Hey,
he's back and he's better than ever and being in
his shoulder is probably better than it is being in
his leg. But like, what's going to be a thing
like are longer? Flight's going to be something that maybe
you have to sit out and miss a couple of
these games man, you know, I mean all the international
travel that I mean, I don't know what the new
normal is going to be for him as far as
flying and monitoring this. But it's a thing. It's you know,
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it's it's not an injury. It's a condition now from
someone who was in there early twenties that hopefully they
can manage it the rest of his career.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yeah, talking about you know, blood clots in the lungs
versus you know, the injury and the effects of the shoulder.
So but all of it to say, and I saw
the internet. Doctors were out there and then you know
they're trying to get the distinction from a number of
you know, leaders in the field. So you know, saying
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that it has less risk, well that doesn't make it zero.
It still needs to be treated and monitored on a
daily basis. You're still talking about being away from the
game a minimum of five to six months before you're
resuming working out and trying to get back on the court,
and you don't know what the lingering effects are, right,
and the long term treatment plans are going to be different.
(19:04):
You know, there's no one size fits all. And we're
talking about a guy. Uh, you know, when we're looking
at to your point of international travel and and in
his case, just needing to be on a plane and
back to backs and all of those things. You start
changing up the schedule, uh, and needing to bring in
teams of doctors and surgeons to go through this to
(19:28):
make sure he's got everything he needs. So just dismissing it, Hey,
he's younger and it's got less of a chance of
being a recurrent issue because of its placement. Doesn't again
mean it's zero. So you know, dismissing it categorically is foolhardy.
It does. Yes, it sounds like it's a much better situation.
(19:50):
We're also that many more years developed in terms of
what we know about, you know, the these kind of
syndromes and how to treat and right, you know, we're
always getting modern medical advances, how quickly things move. But
it's when min Yama, it's a guy that last week
everybody was you know, wagging their fingers and talking about
(20:11):
as the face of the new NBA. Uh yeah, No,
it's it's still a serious thing. You don't categorically rule
anything out. You're hoping for the best, and it sounds
like it should be manageable. But what that looks like
nobody knows yet.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well, it's it's it's it's like, think about it like this.
You go to the doctor and the doctor tells you
you have high blood pressure. Okay, well, high blood pressure
is not great. Now. If your blood pressure is a
little bit high, okay, that's still a concern. If it's
a lot high, obviously it's a much bigger concern. Hey,
we really got to bring this down. There's more. But
if you have high blood pressure, that's still a thing
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you have to monitor. And especially if your job is
something that brings high blood pressure along with it. Well
your bloo pressure a little high, will my job's a
little stressful. Okay, Well we got to monitor this.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
May I mean I do that every day, Smith, Yeah,
I mean it's I deal with you for four hours,
I have to blood pressure, my salt intake.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
And I'm the greatest influence you've ever had in your life.
I'm the I'm the brother you need it, not the
brothers you have.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
The dumbest thing I've ever heard you.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Come on, man, you could put all your brothers together.
They're not the influence on you that.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I Ah, my brothers are wizards.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
It's not even because there's they're still driving that stolen
golf cart full all bertrandise off of Bear's campus. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
My younger brother's coming off by a giant meeting that
he's just like thanks for the note. I'm going to bed.
I'll talk to you Sunday Like, wow, you're sleeping for
twenty four plus.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I mean, look at and and it's because your apt Yeah, yeah,
I mean that's what it is. It's like, you know, yeah, okay,
it's not as high. It's not you know, there are
certain conditions that you have, but when you get diagnosed
with something, it still means that it's something that's got
to be taken care of, and especially if what you
do for a living plays into it. How many people
when when they get old and they have a you know,
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whether it's a it's a heart condition or something, they go,
you know what you just you need you can't have
stress anymore, you can't do what you do for a
living because it's bringing you too much stress. You have
to retire. Like we've seen that. I've seen that, you
know from my uncle you know, had to had to
retire because of that. So it's like, so it just
realized that that there's a there's a different there's a
wide swath of things it can be. And and that's
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why the whole comparison of Hey, Chris Bosh again a
little bit different kind of thrum, but still it's deep
vein thrombosis and cost him his career, brandon Ingram comes
back from it. There's a wide swath of it, and
I just don't know because it's a condition and not
an injury. Like, what does the future hold? Like, I
don't know what kind of new normal you have to
find now if you're Wenby, if you're the Spurs or
him for his career. Hopefully they take care of it. It finishes,
(22:44):
and and the blood thinners work and everything is great.
But just the fact they said, yeah, we hope that
he's ready to go for this fall. Whoa, whoa, whoa
you mean October? It's February and you hope that he's
ready to go in the fun I mean, this is not. Hey,
unfortunately he's going to miss the rest of this season.
We're probably not going to the play, so it's only
a couple more months before the playss. Yeah, we're going
to keep him out. This is we hope he's ready
(23:05):
for the beginning of the season. You're you're talking about
late September, when when when this goes on? And it's
only the middle of February. Like that's where that's where
I put my antenta up and said, oh wow, this
is this is really something.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, a couple of months to monitor, right, decide a
course of action and and how his body responds. I mean,
I have joked about a Madden Cruiser in terms of
road trips and you know, things of longer length where
the schedule permits. But you really do start looking into
the different long term effects of this and how you
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have to to manage it right, much like your high
blood pressure situation, whether it's medication, whether it's just a
change in diet and exercise. What do you have to
do when you first meet a new doctor, Well, I
need a family history. Give me a legitimate family history
if you have it right, because that's the other thing.
(23:59):
A lot of times you're flying blind because your your parents,
your grandparents either didn't believe in going to the doctor
unless you know, they literally had a life altering event.
Uh you know, I may raise my hand in that
in that regard. H So you're guessing at what family
and back in the day they just chronicled everything as
a heart attack. So you about have died from any
(24:22):
myriad of things. But oh what happened? Oh yeah, his
heart failed in this case. For when bin Yama, I
hope they have an extended family history that's really well
and in depth so that they can draw from that
and try to build on on towards a definitive conclusion.
But in the interim, you know, it's it's a lot
(24:43):
of hot. Does his body react to stress? And and
and what got Do you need surgery? Is that it right?
They say it's an isolated thing for him versus where
or bosh, it became a chronic, chronic issue that needed,
you know, more than and then one treatment, one course
of management you have to adapt to and move on.
(25:04):
So all the best young guy obviously very able bodied,
except in this and people were trying to pinpoint, all right,
well here's the injury, here's the shoulder injury that must
have caused it, Like you don't know that. It's a
nice try, like we all love to play junior cis agent,
you know, going on William Peterson on stuff to try
(25:26):
to figure out causes. But you know, for now we
don't know. But hopefully by the beginning of next year,
this spurs squad that we were getting excited about Smith
at the trade deadline, that they're fully reformed and ready
to go.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tirec dot Com studios.
That big sports fact that I still can't believe coming
up in ninety seconds but first special delivery. Steve de
Saga with us, a guy who's been called the Greg
Popovich of Fox Sports Radio. You look at him and
you go, boy, he really could be nicer to people.
But that's kind of what do you know, it's SD
(26:02):
that's what's trending.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
No, not as moody and not giving the one word answer,
so really not really much of a correspondence there. Those
first are in action tonight and down twenty in the
fourth quarter. Mid fourth, Detroit leads at San Antonio one
seventeen to ninety seven. Big lead for the Thunder late
first half sixty four to forty one. At Utah Dallas
(26:26):
Mavericks with eight minutes to go, I had ninety four
eighty six over the Pelicans, who might be falling to
thirteen and forty.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Three on the season. And right now it's in the
second quarter. At Houston. At the end of one the
Rockets led Minnesota forty eight to thirty eight. Right now
Houston is tied fifty eight all against Minnesota with about
four minutes left in the second quarter. Anthony Edwards was
questionable with a sore hit, but he is playing. Cleveland
won at six straight game, beating New York one forty
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two to one oh five. Cav shot sixty one percent
from the floor. Ognanobi did return for the next had
five five points. Josh Hart was out again with a sortnee.
Miami in overtime won at Toronto one twenty to one eleven,
ending a four game losing streak. Memphis edge to Orlando
one oh five one oh fours. The Magic went scoreless
for the last two and a half minutes. Milwaukee won
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at Washington one oh four to one hundred x of
the Wizards. Kyle Kuzma had nineteen points tonight. The Wizards
have lost five in a row. Washington as a record
of nine and forty six. In the late game at Sacramento,
it's tied late first quarter. Kings and Warriors even at
twenty six. Two games of note in men's college basketball,
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only a couple weeks left in the regular season Top
twenty matchup at Michigan went to the rival Michigan State
Spartan seventy five sixty two. This was a two point
lead with under twelve minutes to go, and this on
the day that Michigan gave coach Dusty May a new contract.
No details announced At Villanova. Earlier on FS one, the
Wildcats beat up number sixteen Marquette eighty one sixty six.
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Villanova had lost seven of its last eleven game games.
The NHL is off until Saturday, after almost two weeks
off fourteen hockey games. Tomorrow, of course, there was no
NHL All Star Game this year. They played the Four
Nations Tournament instead. The Winter Olympics are one year from
now in Italy. The New Orleans Saints new defensive coordinator
will reportedly be Brandon Staley. He worked with new head
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coach Kellen Moore two years ago with the Chargers. Jacksonville's
new general manager as James Gladstone from the Rams. Eagles
linebacker Nolan Smith had triceps surgery this week. He played
through the injury in the recent Super Bowl. The Bears
cut tight end Gerald Everett and defensive end DeMarcus Walker.
Cincinnati released defensive tackle Sheldon Rankings. Pittsburgh signed tight end
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Donald Parham. The NFL scouting combine starts Thursday. In fact,
on Saturday, March first, not that far away as the
workouts for the quarterbacks, wide receivers, and running backs. Nebraska
canceled its home and home football series against Tennessee, which
would have been in twenty twenty six and twenty seven,
with Nebraska siding its upcome stadium renovations and Yankees manager
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Aaron Boone signed an extension through twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Back to you, thanks, Stevell, and just real quick to
to you know, for something that could be great for
the Spurs. Right. We had a quick fun joke there
about you know Greg Popovich, you know, being you know,
the krusty Greg Povich that we know and love.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah, that might be the first time that Steve's rebuffed
any comparisons normally gives it a little bit of credence.
This one.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
What a great story it would be if he could
come back for the end of the season, right, Like,
like Wenby is out and you're hoping that, but like,
I know, he's been really aggressive in his rehab. Chris
Paul says he calls him after almost every game. This
is what I see, This is what I see. And
I know there's no timetable, obviously, you're coming back from
the from the stroke he suffered last fall. But boy,
what a great story would be if he could get
(29:47):
back to the sideline before the end of the season. Still,
some time to happen, and the fact that he's still involved,
to still talk to the team and talking to the
players like that's all awesome, awesome stuff, and you know
that'd be that'd be a great thing for them and
for the NBA.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
And also for TNT.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Maybe one last game with them before they lose the
NBA and one last chance to give a one word answer.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Oh that is that could happen. Thank you, Steve now Hey,
speaking of TV this story today that I knew the
number would be high. I didn't know it would be
this high when we went into previewing the Four Nations
Championship between Canada the United States the other night is Look,
it's the biggest hockey game in forty five years. You
(30:27):
go back to Miracle on Nice. There are just too
many confluence of circumstances that make this bigger than any
game since then, right, Bigger than any Olympic game, Bigger
than a World Cup game. You have the the the
NHL situation between having the best two most popular teams playing.
You have the rivalry with them. You have the geopolitical
background and backdrop of Trump and Trudeau and Canada and California.
(30:51):
And we knew it was going to be that big,
biggest game in forty five years. And we saw an
amazing game last night. And when I say we saw,
I mean we in the general we as ten and
a half million people watch this game at its peak
and overall nine and a half million viewers. It is
the largest audience ever for a hockey game on ESPN,
(31:14):
also the largest audience for a non NFL event on
ESPN Plus. And ESPN has had hockey for the most
part since the late seventies. Okay, like there's a few
years where hockey went away and then you know, the
NHL did that thing where they went to versus and
they tried to go and they were this on the
CW and you crazy stuff. Then it came back to ESPN,
(31:35):
and you know they've had it for you know, they've
had it on and off, you know, for a long time.
This is the largest audience for a hockey game ever
on ESPN last night, and it was an insane game.
And like we said last night, I'm hoping that this
is gonna be a big rebirth of the next big
jump that they can capitalize in springboard off of this,
(31:56):
just like hockey springboarded off the miracle on ice in
nineteen eighty and the NHL saw great heights in the
late eighties and early nineties before lockouts, and Gary Bettman
decided to say, oh no, no, no, we're gonna push this
all the way down. So it's a fringe sport. Now
they have that chance. They add that to You saw
the best players in the world on the ice. You
saw the best player in the world, you know, score
a goal in overtime to win it. And maybe this
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is gonna be something that gives you that next great
springboard into hockey and that can really capitalize on it,
because last night you went through and saw you know,
you see social media the top twenty posts are all
about this game. Like even the Super Bowl, the top
twenty posts on social media not about this game. But
everybody's on there, whether it's it was Bennington or Kuchuk
or doesn't matter who it was or McDavid, it was
(32:40):
everybody watched this game. It was an insane event and
for hockey, it's the biggest thing that's happened to them
in nearly five decades.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Yeah, it would be nice to think you can capitalize
on it. I fear a lot of it is just
with the geopolitical backdrop that folks wanted to get their
memes and jokes and in and certainly watched and were
treated to a fantact, fantastic spectacle with a really head
scratching end to it in terms of how the play
(33:10):
wore out your physical physical Oh wait, there's the best
player in the world standing by himself in the slot.
But all of that to say that, look, you got
a lot of good will, right, a lot of people
talking hockey. PK. Suban got to go and evangelize for
hockey on any number of platforms today, great spokesman for
(33:31):
the game, great enthusiasm, and I thought him, we're.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Gonna fight last night.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Oh yeah, but that's just it, right. It brought out
that intensity and then he was able to carry it
forward with a number of appearances today. So hopefully that
that brings more folks to the yard, if only short term.
You just wish that the hockey playoffs were coming straight in, right,
(33:56):
because you match that intensity, because I fear folks going
into second half quote unquote hockey, you're gonna be like
that wasn't the game I saw like the other night, right,
Whereas with the playoffs, I mean, that's what you get each.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And every night.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Way off something that knicks aren't going to.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Step what you just stop for, you would keep losing credibility. Frostburg,
You're like incredibility. You're like Luca taking a three. Everyone
is worse than the last one. That's what's happening right now, dude,
I have.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
The crystal ball for your teams? Just strip now do
you have the script?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Good, okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
For your teams? Yeah, because they're easy to call where
they start.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
All your team stinks? Smith? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
By the way, in the world is sports Dog radio
and television?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:40):
The next He's not even close to the metal stand
at this point in terms of craziness coming out of
his mouth and credibility. Come on, we shore that. We
smile it.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
That's all I got. It's all I add. Man, coming
up next, speaking of fifty years, right, biggest hockey game
in the last forty five years? How about something huge
in sports that ended today that's been around for longer
than that, something just shy of fifty years. Nope, not
gonna see it anymore. What is it that's next? Jason
(35:11):
and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (35:24):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend
Mike Harmon Live Fromthtirack dot Com studios, where today ended
nearly fifty years of a long standing rule and now
it's over. The New York Yankees announced that no longer
will they have a rule against facial hair like they've
(35:47):
had in place for the better part of the last
forty nine years.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Simpsons episode is obsolete.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Metically shave those sideburns. I don't think you know what
they mean, Coach. The Yankees are now going to allow
well groomed beard on the field. Not the beards, not
not like zz Top. I'm gonna grow them all the
way down to the no. But if you have a
nice trimmed beard, you're allowed to have it on the
(36:12):
field with the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Evidently Cashman said, well, we're not going for duck Dynasty.
Here was the reference used. What when was the last
time they made that show?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
A look that shows you how out of touch the
Yankees are. Because this is the big point. Why is
this such a big deal?
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Obviously to laugh at going yeah, I don't want to
go to the yank and I'll be able to wear
a beard. You know what, what do I go back
to saying all the time? One thing I know from
coaching youth sports, I know from a happy player is
a good player. Right. I always know a happy player
is always going to be better than better than a
player that's not happy. And the Yankees have these crazy
things that they stick to that are so outdated that
(36:52):
turn players off. One of the reasons, not the reason,
but clearly it's part of it. Hey, they lost Juan
Soto because they wouldn't give him a sweet and his
family a sweet. Yankee games, Well, we don't do that.
We didn't do it for Jeter, didn't do it for Judge.
We're not gonna do it for you. Okay. Hey, the
Mets said, yeah, see if Cohen said, how many sweets
do you want? You can have my sweet. I don't care. Now,
you can come and come live with me, it doesn't matter.
(37:13):
You can have have a suite. Right. It's not that
he signed with the Mets because of that, but that's
a thing that goes in the Mets favor or another
team going, yes, we'll do this for you, and how
many players are gonna say, yeah, you know, Yankees, what's
the whole thing with the facial hair? That's ridiculous. It
gives me a bad vibe. It doesn't give me confidence
that I can go there and be myself that I
(37:34):
have to worry about, you know, if I don't shave
for a day or or whatever it's going to be.
The Yankees are still conducting business like it's nineteen eighty
five and nineteen ninety and nineteen ninety six and two thousand,
where we're the destination and if you can come here,
and but you're gonna do it our way, and players
are saying, no, I don't need to I can go
(37:54):
someplace else and get paid. I don't need to go
there and play by these ridiculous rules of certain things
like no facial hair. There's a reason why the Yankees
did this. After the offseason, they lost Jan Soda. Right,
all these changes they're making, they lost one soda. They
realized he thought I could go to Queen's and have
a better chance of winning a championship, and I can
have a better baseball life with the Mets than I
(38:17):
would have with the Yankees. Then I give the Yankees credits.
It's a look in the mirror moment. It's more than
outdated for them to continue to subscribe to thoughts like this,
where players right now are going, Dude, I could play
for you or not. You know, to tell me that
I got I can't have a beard. You can tell
Jesse Winker could never play there. You're really gonna do
this to me. You're not gonna give me a sweet
(38:38):
I mean, this is how negotiations are in twenty twenty five.
I don't know what year you're negotiating in or what
year you're trying to get players are, but this is
twenty twenty five and the Yankees need to get out
of that if they're gonna continue to get free agents
and keep players and not have them leave like and
other than saying, well, we're just gonna overpay, and that's
gonna be the thing, right what they did for free
Agenci this offseason. We're gonna way overpay for guys because well,
(39:00):
it's how we get guys into New York. It's how
the Mets used to do things. Now it's like, hey,
we we offer a good situation. Yes, we paid a
lot of money for Sodo, but look the guy's the
best free agent on the you know him and Otani,
best free agents the last twenty five years. But yeah,
but other guys, we want to go play there. We
want to go play there. It's a destination. Yankees had
to wake up. And while this is completely old and
outdated and it seems kind of minor, it's part of
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them understanding they got to go in a new direction.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Well, you have to recognize the seed change across the league,
right from what the Mets are doing to how the
Dodgers are operating. Rob Mamford making the statement he did,
I can guarantee you the next set of owners meetings
there'll be a lot of discussion about it. But the
reality is you have to play by different rules and
(39:45):
free agents have a lot of different asks.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Remember, even just going back to the NFL, what was
one of the rumors of Caleb Williams He's asking for
an ownership stake. Whether that was real or not, it
became a thing that people had to address of wait,
is that possible? Is that allowed? And for players, Yeah,
they've asked for all sorts of things, and a suite
(40:09):
is not anywhere near close to the most outrageous man,
that's nothing. That's that's a We've had private jets right
go back to Kevin Brown have been part of it,
or allowances for such things and ancillary you know, media
tags and you know, access to the playing field, the clubhouse,
(40:32):
whatever else. Guys make all sorts of ass You have
to decide how deep you want to go in. By
the way, the Duck Dynasty series ended ended in twenty seventeen.
Now they're coming back with something this summer, evidently some
kind of revival. But that's a nice eight year gap
that we're working with.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
That's how with the times the Yankees are that we
are ready to go.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Maybe he saw the notice of the revival and that's
what prompted.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
It coming up. We get into a huge story involving
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version posted right after we get off the air. Well,
we're getting set for the Combine next week, which means
that teams are going to talk and there could spee
some movement when it comes to the big quarterbacks. No
one better to talk to than the guy that knows
a thing or two about very good quarterbacks. He's the
thirty third team. He is a Pro Football Hall of
(42:01):
Fame voter. Longtime friend of the show. Is on Twitter
at Jason Coles sixty two. It is Jason Cole. What's up? Jay?
Speaker 5 (42:10):
All the same, I'm very impressed. I'm very impressed. Yeah, Well,
it's gonna be a very good podcast.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
I'm sure. I'm sure we'll do it. We'll do a
very good interview with you. We'll talk about some very
good quarterbacks. How about that.
Speaker 5 (42:25):
Let's do it. Let's go, let's go for it.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Jay Cole is like, hey, something, we're gonna do something
even different than we do all the other. All right,
let's do it. Let's go all right, so listen, Uh, now,
everybody's starting to make rankings for quarterbacks and hoop everybody
alongs who could go someplace? But I want to start here.
Speaker 5 (42:52):
Where'd you come up with your rankings? How did you
come up with yours?
Speaker 1 (42:57):
My rankings are one not anybody who's ever played for
the Jets before, and then two guys who want to
bring back. That's my that's my list. Uh Are you
buying that maybe Matthew Stafford changes uh changes teams? That
that that the Rams have just had enough with him
and his wife and all the stuff about we could
leave and I want more money, whatever reason he's talking
(43:17):
about not coming back.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
I think that Sean McVay right now is outside of
matt Stafford's house.
Speaker 8 (43:27):
He stays, he's holding up the boom box like in
say anything, and he's just playing rabbit all day, rabbit
all night, Rabbit all day, rabbit all night.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
He's totally he's totally gone, Cusack, I can totally is
your uhs.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
With a trunch goat on and everything? Oh sure, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
And anybody that doesn't know the references. Now when you're
standing out there just randomly in a trench coat. That's
not good for anybody.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
No, no, no, he would probably be the like sitting
on Aaron Donald's shoulders so he could get closer to
the to the window where Matthew Stafford is holding out
of the boom box.
Speaker 5 (44:14):
He's like, he's like jumping up and down, you know,
close the close of the window. I be in. Please
let me in, Let me in, let me in, Let
me talk to you. He's that Stafford's not going anywhere,
like he makes that team. If you're gonna let Cup
go and you're you've got to have a guy who
(44:34):
can run that offense. That's the only guy that that
McVeigh trus So like always talk about you to go
and then you know it's a nonsense. They're going to
pay him because he makes he makes them a contender.
I mean they almost be silly for one reason, because
matt Stafford can read defenses and you know, make adjustments
(45:00):
that just other guys can't do. Right now, he's so
far ahead of everybody else when it comes especially on
the the NFC side. He gives them a fighting chance
to win the NFC. He's that good. So they got
to keep playing him. I mean, I don't know what
their playing is. Otherwise, what are you going to go
(45:22):
get Kirk Cousins or something like that? I mean, what
do you what are you doing? There's there's nobody else
who can do what he does. So yeah, you guys
stay with him. And like I said, mcve on, mcvay's
out front of the house right now going I'll buy
I'll buy that legally, you know, you know, I'll buy
I'll buy whatever that that thing online that you guys
(45:43):
are pitching all the time for for for wills and
stuff like that. I'll do it. I promise I'll do it.
I'll buy like ten thousand subscriptions right now. I promise
I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
It's pretty good. That's taking care of a lot of people,
and that's what you should do, Jacob, after your people.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
All right.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
So now that he's officially exited New York, uh, do
the Jets go get Sam Donald because in Rogers just
done and being stalked by t m Z. I guess
that so good?
Speaker 5 (46:19):
Reunited Sam?
Speaker 4 (46:21):
Do you really think they stalked him?
Speaker 5 (46:26):
Would that be the ultimate? That'd be the ultimate? Like,
would he move? I'll bring him back, bring it back.
It's like it's like Reavis to the reuniting, Like this
set's let's let's let's lose all of our pride a
second time because on this one, no, you know, it.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Would be a better A better wood he moved would
be they cut Aaron Rodgers and they figure out where
all the dead cat money goes, then they re sign
him for less money and that way what he says.
But if we cut him again, don't have to worry
about paying him, So let's do it. That would be
the big jets.
Speaker 5 (46:59):
That would Now the ultimate move would be to suck
this year, find out that arch Manning is not coming out,
have to suckond the following year, and then realize that
arch Manning, just like his uncle, will never play for you.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
Yeah. Hey, every twenty years, right, we see, Yes, to
repeat itself is going to happen again.
Speaker 5 (47:18):
Yeah, absolutely, We're going to suck for the man for
one of the Mannings and oh that didn't work. Oh
get oops oops. Like Aaron Glenn's going to have a
better job, do a better job of talking into it
than Parcels. That's just perfect. So okay, so we dispensed
(47:41):
with that. I'm just not sure. Like the Raiders and
the Jets, it is such a race to the bottom
in terms of being able to attract quarterbacks and say,
now this is really where you want to come play.
We really have all the answers. Now, the Raiders have
a little bit of a chance. But that quarterback has
(48:03):
to be at least forty years old so that he
knows how to relate to Pete Carroll.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
Now, if that forty year old does go and become
becomes a Raider, can he bring DeVante Adams with him?
Speaker 5 (48:18):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Enough people left the building.
Speaker 5 (48:20):
I guess that is another Peaches in her moment, isn't it. Wow?
If DeVante DeVante comes back, Davante is sort of becoming
like Joe Pesci to Danira that.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
He gets out of retirement every couple of years, but
only if he gets to work with Bob. Yeah, I
get it, exact.
Speaker 5 (48:48):
Adam like the last person that he would ever compared
to is Joe Pecci, Like just the last of being
ever that you would.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
Maybe Joe Pecci has a taco bell in his house too.
You never know.
Speaker 5 (49:00):
He could. I actually fully I fully expect that. I mean,
I am he invites to Niro and Marty over score
square sase and you know, Bob Marty, if you want
some chelopas, what do you want?
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Jeloops, that's just give me an idea for an incredible movie.
I have to go. I'll see you, all right. So
what you're telling me is then if I can.
Speaker 5 (49:25):
If I can digress, We've digressed that Joe Peshi with
a taco bell inviting Martin Squirt saves and Bob de
Niro over this is this is this chef's kiss to that.
I just got to say that that's it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
And I just want to say, listen, if I'm trying
to glean what you're telling me over the last few
minutes is that the big takeaway is Pete Carroll is
a win now head coach.
Speaker 5 (49:51):
Think do you think just making sure now with the
win now with a roster that is would be fifth
death in a fourteen division? I mean, they got no ship,
they have no shot. I don't I don't understand that
that's higher. I mean, and people, the funny part is
there was like, oh, this is a great hire by Brady.
(50:12):
Brady didn't make this higher. This was this was Mark Davis.
Because Mark Davis got ticked off when Ben Jonson didn't
want to take the job. He didn't like the move
that they made at GM, and he got impatient, let's
go get Pete Carroll because he didn't want to listen.
He also didn't want to listen to Brady when it
came to the Rabel. So like, this one's not really
(50:36):
working the way a lot of people think. Like you know,
a lot of people are like, oh, yeah, Brady was
all over wanting Pete Carroll. No he didn't. That's just
not the move that he wanted to make. No matter
what he says, this was not the move. So there
you go.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
Well, I just think honestly with with Pete Carroll the Raiders,
why why I liked it is that he's someone that
will stop the backsliding that because that's what they need,
someone to stop the bag. Okay, we're down, we're down
at rock bottom. Now let's treat a little.
Speaker 5 (51:02):
Bit net we're network now comparing like Pete told of
the Dutch Boy. Is that what we're saying.
Speaker 1 (51:08):
No, No, he's gonna he's not going to get any
further in the hole like Baine in the dark night,
and maybe he can get out of the hole a
little bit is what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (51:19):
Wow, that was that was bant Bain. Sure we're talking
good fellows. We're I mean, man, we've we've got some
stuff going on here.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
Your whole show. You got to listen more than the
ten minutes you're on with it. This is our whole
show every night.
Speaker 5 (51:35):
This is the best ten minutes. Why would I listen
to anything else?
Speaker 1 (51:37):
Yeah? Well, because okay, I think drop there's a big
rop off in your house in the ten minutes you
spend with us and the rest of your life because
you're watching Stanford football.
Speaker 5 (51:48):
I keep watching the Stanford football Syracuse game over over and.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
The game that kept us from the playoff, because that's
a game that kept us from the bleeping playoff? Is
living that way?
Speaker 5 (52:00):
Hey, anything we can do for you, I'm happy to do.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (52:08):
We're building the new rivalry. We're building the on s crime.
That's what we're building. We're building aga. The orange as
versus the Cardinal is. This is what this is what
we're doing.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
It's the orange on tree crime. Yes, I got yeah,
very very difficult, very difficult.
Speaker 5 (52:24):
Yes, well, I mean you can have orange trees. I
mean if you know you can have the Orange Tree Classic.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
Well, let's think about it.
Speaker 5 (52:34):
It would be played in Orland. That would Stanford and
Syracuse in Orlando would be the least relevant football game
ever because nobody would be like, why are they doing this?
We don't get it?
Speaker 3 (52:44):
Be a betting line that would.
Speaker 5 (52:47):
Be about it. That would be the only reason to
watch that game. And your luck and Donovan McNabb would
be on the sideline to do the coin toss.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
He's on Twitter Jason Colson x two, that is at
Jason Coles sixty two. Check him out at thirty thirteen.
Speaker 5 (53:05):
We talked we have any kind of discussion about anything.
Speaker 3 (53:08):
No, Yeah, we talked some quarterbacks. I was going to
talk about Joey Gladstone but we didn't have time.
Speaker 1 (53:13):
No, and again, Pete Carroll is a win now head coach.
I think that's a big Fil'm going to tweet that out.
You made sure everybody knows that now.
Speaker 5 (53:20):
Yeah, at age eighty seven, he is. Yeah, he's the
Marvel Lady of his time.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
Seeyboddy, we'll talk to the tie by. Last week, did you.
Speaker 3 (53:32):
Like how I called James Gladstone Joey Gladstone cut?
Speaker 1 (53:36):
Yeah, that's pretty good. I like that
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