Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the best of The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Ah, it's a beautiful night. Welcome in Wednesday, the calm
before the storm, Sweet sixteen, all the fun that you
could possibly imagine. Why cause the heavyweights are coming to town.
Mike Carmon alongside Aaron Torres, special guest star to my
Radio right Radio, Well you're left of me, but TV right,
whatever the case is. Welcome in body, It's good to

(00:52):
see you.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
It is my absolute pleasure to be here Wednesday night.
But I'll tell you this, Lakers are on a nit.
Like you said, it feels like the calm before the storm.
I don't know about you, but you know you watch
four straight days of college back. I needed a break.
It was funny like Monday. People were like, oh, who
do you like? In the Duke Arizona game, I'm like,

(01:14):
can you give me ten minutes to just decompress?

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Sound like tom Izzo trying to get back. I don't
need to know what I'm playing next week exactly, want
to go.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
To the locker room exactly. So it's like, did you
see the mc cronan. They asked him about his plans
for the offseason, He's like, I just want to get
on this crappy Allegiant flight and get back to Los Angeles,
thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Not of anger. McK cronin so angry, such an angry man.
So that just difficult process here. But we got a
one point game, Pacers Lakers coming down fifteen second shot
clocked down to three and the shot is no good.
So now the Lakers with the ball one last gasp

(01:53):
would be a fourth loss in row. Lebron did extend
that streak of double digit scoring games. Now is it
gonna count? We're gonna get a review. Lebron with a
tip in live action. I think it's good, but I
like chaos, so let's uh, let's pause, let's pause the
great celebration. Uh Luca with a runner in the lane

(02:16):
that comes off Lebron comes in unchecked, uh for the
tip in, and it looks like the Lakers are gonna
leave Indiana with a w We're watching a replay now, Aaron,
sure does he get it? We need another angle? We

(02:36):
need Oh, this is this is one. They might as
well go order out for dinner now while they review this.
My goodness, off of his finger. It's good. See we
got the second angle. Looks like it's gonna be good,
Like it's gonna be a game winner. Uh, And all
of the the Lakers are sinking, dying, floating, floating, George,
the bottom might actually end here?

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Does this mean that they're back to being the best
team in the hit story of the NBA? Like someonere
arguing a week into the Luca Lebron uh dynasty here.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well, that is generally one of the things I really
wait for Frostburg to acknowledge. Yes, they're back. Yeah, there
you go back to what they're back the playing or
beyond the plane or what we're back to greatness.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Okay, I told Mike it's hard for me to get
the last coach that you just fired made the Western
Conference finals in year one. Coach before that won an
NBA title. I need to you know, like, I'm glad
you had a good two weeks, but let's let's pump
the brakes on.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Uh So you're not buying the Lakers at all with Luca,
I'm saying we need a little time asking wow, buying them?

Speaker 4 (03:38):
No, no, no, I'm not buying them to do anything other
than wait championship this year.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
They will, but I'm going to do this on the
one the one time I'm going to steal from our buddy,
the stinking genius. Oh no, the show is today. The
show is today, So we're going to talk about the Lakers.
It's the in the now. We're not looking ahead towards
the likely in like a likelihood of an injury as
we've seen fall so many.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
But I will say this, though, I think when you're
relying on a forty year old to get through two
months with and by the way.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
He just took a couple of weeks off though, yeah
because grind, Yeah, okay, he was hurt well, but it
was a groin injury.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
But here's the thing, though, right is that isn't that
a metaphor? Is that they already need everything. They don't
have a defense they're not very good defensively, they don't
have a true five, and so they basically need everything
to go perfect for four straight rounds with a forty
year old pretty much playing thirty eight thirty nine minutes
a game. And so you asked me the show is tonight,
I will tell you the Lakers are not winning the championship.

(04:36):
Sorry to ruin Justin Frosburg's May and June. You can
take time off in late May.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Try not. I look forward to sending you with that
text when they do. And even if they do, he'll
be so ensconced in Dodger blew, it won't matter. I know,
it turns out they might not have lost the game
by that point, so well, so we might be on
the road to one sixty two, you know. Yeah no,
and then the Chargers, I mean, look, reboot and get ready.
I mean, he gets to start his year in Brazil. Whoa, well,

(05:04):
not start, but he will be in Brazil. So I mean,
like there's all this stuff I'm got Opening Day truly
tomorrow in Major League Baseball. I mean there's just a lot.
Did you get a passport stamp, by the way yet, Mike,
I don't have that one yet. Aaron, what about you've
been to Brazil. I've never been to Brazil, but I've been.
I was, Uh, passport's ready, I know it. Yeah, I'm ready.

(05:24):
Mine's renewed. I've got eight years in a lot of space.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
My wife is from Guatemala. We went to Guatemala last
summer and it was an amazing trip, but had to
get a new passport, got it stamped, got back into
the country, so I know it's up to date because
I got back in with that it.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
I know a lot of folks that do the last
minute Oh yeah, we decided to go here. It's like,
what are we doing? You want to hear a story
about that? Plenty of time, man.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
We were planning a trip my wife and my sister
in law and me summer of twenty twenty for a
trip to Europe, and like literally mid January, my wife
was like, you're gonna need a passport in like eight weeks,
and so I paid for the whole express this that
it was like an extra three hundred bucks or something.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
And of course a week later there was, you know,
a global.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Shutdown, and you know, we don't need to go back
to you know, February and March of twenty twenty, twenty twenty.
I'm just here to say that spent a lot of
money to get my passport ready to go for a
trip that obviously.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Well, but then you were ready once everything opened back
up and you could go make that trip. And hopefully
you've used it a few times. Just for Guatemala, we
have not been. I want to get back.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
I've been to Europe once when I was much younger,
and I'm hoping to get back soon.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Past summer. I got to go to Ireland to go
see Taylor Swift. Yeah, you that was fun. How long
were you there for? We were We did about a
week between Ireland and England. Did you have a good time.
I've only been to Ireland, I've never been to England.
England's like London is basically New York City. Everyone since
London's great. Yeah, a lot of theater at a lot

(06:53):
of stuff to see. Food still rates lowest on my
international travels, but can always find something.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
The only thing I remember about Ireland, which I don't
think you probably did with your children, was the Guinness Brewery.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Obviously. Well that was a good That was a good one.
I went there years ago. Yeah, yeah, I did that,
and I went to the why is my brain My
brain isn't the synapses are not firing. The people that
make the the trophies for the AFC and NFC that crystal, Well,
we went and did a tour of that. So you
had me holding the base of the AFC really quick.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
I know we have a lot of sports to get to,
but we also have four hours. You said London was
at the bottom of your international food ranking.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah, so what is it the top? I have to know.
I'm not able to make it through another segment with it.
The milkshake at raat Field, how dare you? It is
a pilgrimage to go back to the South side of
the question about it? No, this ice cream milkshake that
they're giving away if you come to the White Sox game,
not giving it to you. I mean last year they
had the campfires to come out to the game. Well,

(07:58):
that was the thing. Last year they kept running out
of the milkshake. Oh, because nobody wanted to watch. Shirts
brings everybody to the yard, So it did. There's no question.
And this year there's more like a birthday cake confection
kind of thing that has people fired up because it's
been all food talk so last two weeks, so what
is number one? On number one? We actually found a
cool little pub in Dublin.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
Outside but so you said London was number was a bottom,
but Dublin is the top, not just from this trick
you said.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
No, no, no, look, the top would be when we went
to Scandinavia. Wooh oh, we're gonna talk about this, so
hanging out and that's a bucket list for Copenhagen, and
then uh wow, this is Oslo and then a little
bit of Stockholme Marman with bare Chested. You really you've
been there? Well, no, I haven't gone bare chest and
yet I'm still working on the PhD weight loss. I

(08:49):
got another fifteen pounds to go. And then maybe you
know it's it's we're going streaking in the quad pet
your harm beer fast Aaron. Have you really been to
scandon Navia multi couple of times? It's glory? Do you
have like ax wife was Swedish oh okay ok and
her family had come over so we always had a
place to stay for front.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
That's like a bucket list that part of the world.
Like you said, Norway, you know.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
What do you know what the little dirty secret in
it is, though we get to it could be lazy
because English is compulsory there as of third grade. What
do you mean, so everybody's figuring it. Yeah, unless they
just decide they don't like you. Sure, sure you might
meet some old timers. But then once they find out
you're from Chicago or LA you must know either celebrities

(09:31):
or gangsters. Oh yeah yeah, And so now they're buying
you beer to tell you to tell some stories. When
you could pick the most obscure movie and start going
down the facts of that.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
When I was in Europe, it was like the height
of the show Entourage, and everyone was convinced that every
American just sat by the pool all day and just
completely hung out. And I'm like, no that, No, I
actually have like a job, and I show up every
day for like eight hours, and they pay me to
do that because I don't just hang out and sit
at the pool with pretty girls like I actually have
stuff to do.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
You would like to be turtle. So that's an open
audition right now, Dad, Aaron underscore towards former Fox Sports
radio host Jerry Ferrara Sunday Afternoons. Absolutely, Oh my goodness,
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their long arduous journey might as well be a global
expedition to try to get towards the NBA Finals. But

(10:43):
you know, not often do it. We We were just
complaining for days having no buzzer beaters, So how about
they didn't see them?

Speaker 5 (10:50):
There he is down court, Luco for two for the
wind jams at the buzzer.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
He didn't see him. Where's your buzzer beater?

Speaker 6 (11:07):
Now?

Speaker 3 (11:07):
All right? There you go. ESPN on the call. And
that was the curiosity, right the parting of the red sea.
Nobody recognizing where Lebron James was after him could put
that ball up basketball one oh one box out the
best player on the floor that's also the best athlete.
Generally a pretty good idea right, you lose space spatial recognition.

(11:29):
But he he finishes with thirteen boards on the night,
thirteen points, seven assists in a plus five after only
shot four of twelve from the field. After all the podcasts,
you always wonder whether he was only retired after his
new podcast was announced. And then hanging out with McAfee
all day, doncic for his part thirty four, seven and

(11:50):
seven with a big, robust minus sixteen. So this is
where we start getting into the minutia of fun watching
down the stretch of pretending to play defense affected defense
because right the other night, I'm sure you guys had
a little bit of it a Saturday and last week
you you and Jason talking a little bit on your

(12:11):
Saturday show about Bronnie James and his big, oh big
performance right against against Milwaukee. I mean, he had his
seventeen points but was a minus forever in a day.
What was it thirty six or something like that.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
All I know is I think the title of the
segment was Bronnie James just had the best game of
his career and it means absolutely nothing.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
There you go, if you missed, Edi doubled up and
I mean he came up with a huge G League.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Well, you know it was funny because we were on
air during the Lakers Bulls game and I said, you know.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
How I know that game means so much of a game.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
You know how I know that game means nothing because
if Bronnie was some rising star that this seventeen point
performance meant something, you feel like you would to put
him in for a minute or.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Two before the game got completely out of hand.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
If you have a young rookie that is on the
cusp of greatness, I don't know that you wait down
till you're down thirty to put him in.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
But what do I know. I'm no jj Reddick. I'll
tell you that. Well, none of us are. And by
the way, Jason Smith too. You know he hates me too,
Oh does he? Okay? Yeah, he gave him a good h.

Speaker 6 (13:19):
What did you do?

Speaker 3 (13:20):
What did you do to him?

Speaker 4 (13:22):
I've told this story so many times for I won't
bore everyone with all of the details. He misinterpreted a
tweet that I said about college basketball.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
This was when he was in the media.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
He tweeted, tell me you don't know college back, tell
me you don't know basketball. Without telling me you don't
know basketball Now. Then on his podcast with Kevin Durant,
he said, yes, some college guy was trying to talk
to me. First of all, he tweeted it me, and
so basically the premise was I basically said that NBA
players were not allowed by rule to play college to

(13:56):
play defense like college players were.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
He perceived that as.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
Oh, so you're one of these guys that think NBA
players don't play defense. So anyway, so I said something
to the effect of, if NBA players were allowed to
play defense like college players, we would have plenty of
games and NBA teams would be scoring in the seventies
or eighties. And that was when he said, tell me
you don't know basketball. If you don't know basketball, and

(14:20):
so that I then proceeded to every single time a
team scored in the eighties just tag them and say,
I thought you said this was impossible, including a game
that he called on ESPN. I said, JJ, I know
you were courts. I don't know if you picked up
on this, but I think it was the MAVs Sun
series when the MAVs knocked out the Suns a few
years ago. And so I kept doing it, and then

(14:41):
all my followers kind of picked up to it, so
every time a team would score in the seventies or eighties,
they would tag him on it.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
So eventually he just blocked me.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
It's a better story than that, But I tried to
paraphrase it into ninety seconds so I don't bore the audience.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Well, it still comes back to nobody loves themselves some,
JJ Reddick, not more than JJ ri and maybe we
should all love ourselves and hopefully the people around us
as much as JJ Reddick loves him some. JJ Reddick.
All right, as we just get things started, there's an
exciting open to it world travel. JJ Reddick hates more
people that I know. It's going to be a giant

(15:14):
board before the night's over. It's really great. And then
we've got obviously Major League Baseball starting tomorrow, more in
the NBA, but a lot in the NCAA tournament. Because
we are everybody who's complaining about Cinderella over the last
several days, I say, it's okay that she didn't show
up for work. We'll talk about that as we continue.

(15:35):
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Speaker 2 (16:39):
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Speaker 7 (16:50):
The Clock at the Lakers poo goo, seven seconds left.
The cops got it with four cluick three. Look up,
it won't count.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
I think the lights will on. Open your eyes too. Yeah,
the lights weren't on for that announcer fortunately, fortunately for
the Lakers. He needs to go to what laser Laser
Eyes Center, Lens Crafters or whoever else. They're not sponsors,
but whatever, go get those eyes check Lakers TV on

(17:26):
the call.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
Of that's not part of the job. You gotta be
able to see, okay, to call games.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Well, but you know, split second thing. You know, maybe
you're trying to like if he was doing a better sell. Oh,
I don't know what's gonna count. Oh we gotta out
like here's like a SA good account. Have you ever
done play by play before? I have not, so I
haven't either.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
But I think that's like one of the cardinal rules
is that you never assume anything.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
You always like.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
Lay out as if it could be about like, like
you said, does it count?

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Is it good?

Speaker 6 (17:55):
Not?

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well?

Speaker 3 (17:55):
That though though the light's clearly off. You know, it's like,
I don't think you're supposed to do that, but well,
well then you have the I mean from the analyst job.
But what are you doing? I mean, you get to
do that for football. It's like I'm assuming there's a
fumble on the play. I don't know here it was
did the light go on? Sometimes we're all waiting for
the light to go back on. I could start singing

(18:16):
the Billy Joel song that was released last year if
you want, but we'll leave it for now at Aaron
Underscore Toys where you find it. You hear him Saturday
nights with Jason Martin here on Fox Sports Radio and
all across the network. His time to shine as well
with college basketball at the forefront as we roll through
Fighting with JJ Redicks. So very welcome addition to the

(18:37):
program this evening because we're racking up. Well, we'll be
on JJ Reddick's hit list if things go arrive for
the season, no question about it. But one of the
things that we talked about a lot, and for me,
it hasn't been a detriment. It's a positive. Now the
ratings might back me up. Now it's a new ratings

(18:58):
metrics system. We talked about that a little bit, Jason
and I with our resident television ratings guru Steve Desager
in the chair yesterday. But all of that to say,
men's basketball tournament this time around healthy, We're not getting
the buzzer beaters, lamentation. Cinderella did not show up in
some thirteen seed or fifteen seed that rises up. Justin

(19:24):
is still fixated on the Maryland. Was it a travel
was it not? Is it a blue dress or a
black dress? I mean, all of those things beauty in
the eye of the beholder. I'll let basketball Twitter sort
it out. As a guy who picked Maryland to keep
dancing for a while, I was okay with the no call.
It's really funny.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
I'm hosting a survivor pool and I had Maryland in
that game, and I was so excited. But then today
I went to set, you know, I set my picks
for me, for my wife whatever, and I went and looked,
and I would say probably a third of the pool
had Maryland, and I was like, I just told my
wife before I left. I was like, you know what,
it actually would have been best if I had just
lost that and Maryland had lost because a third of

(20:04):
the pool would have been out.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
So it is what it is, succeed and proceed. But yeah,
there was your one spot, and which is why we
celebrated the Lebron buzzer beater, because again we're not seeing
a big run of those and people like them in
the moment because it's the Hey, get to your TV,
get to your phone, get your your digital device for
the final four minutes because the game is close, right,

(20:26):
set up your alerts and away we go. That's how
we're consuming a lot of this. But I do believe
that we've got a proliferation with legalized wagering in a
lot of states. The people that are betting the five
to ten dollars not the professionals. Professionals, it's the Ronco
set it and forget it. I've made my bets. I'm
gonna go live my life and I'll check my account
later whether I want or not, and whether the math

(20:47):
was math and by how I analyzed the game before it.
We'll talk to Todd Furman later on in the show
from Vegas to Behind the the Bet the Board podcast
to get into that a little bit later on. But
with Cinderella not making you know what, is always a
rare appearance. Right in terms of making a real run.
It's one thing to get a win on the first

(21:08):
Thursday on the first rounds, for the for the for
the the the upset. Yeah, it wasn't even hanging out
in the rafters like sting back in the day for
w c W. We didn't. We didn't even get any
threat uh that she was showing up. But for me,
it's the Okay, that's that's fine for bracketology and the
oh I get to go to the watercool and say
why I picked that one? Right? So I got that

(21:30):
one point, which is great, But on the whole it's
the we're gonna get better basketball. The rules of engagement
have changed. So while Cinderella is not dead, it's like chivalry,
like I always say, like if you open a car
door for someone that or hold a door for someone,
they're shocked and a pulled like wait what huh? Like

(21:51):
just absolute exasperate and like no, no, no, it may be
on life support, but it's not dead. And I think
right here, we're we don't have to kill Cinderella off
because there's still going to be a school there mid major.
We'll get into some comments about mid majors or lower
tier schools in the bigger conferences, because do they still
count the same just because they come from the Power Conference?

(22:13):
Should they be counted the same as the top end
of that bracket? You know, if it also ran suddenly
sneaks in based on a fun little run in the
conference tournament, that they get treated the same as the
team that finished first in the Power Conference. Yeah, they all,
I guess count the same because you know, we do
the math of where they come from. But my point

(22:34):
just being someone will figure out, you know, the the
leftover kids to cobble a team together that competes and
can win one game.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Well, I mean, listen, Drake did it this year. I
mean they were a bunch of d two kids. The
only thing I will say, and I think, first of
all I agree with you Mike, is that everybody wants
to complain about the Cinderellas. But one I don't think
there's anything we can do. I think the reality is
the reason there's no good mid major teams. All the
good mid major players are playing at high major schools.

(23:05):
Walter Clayton, maybe the best player in this tournament, started
his career at Iona Jan I brewm maybe National Player
of the Year started his career at Morehead State. Mark
Sears started his career in the MAC now the Star
at Alabama. So one, that's why it's not happening. But two,
to your point, just because it didn't happen this year
doesn't mean that it's never gonna happen again. But what

(23:26):
I would also say, and I'm curious for your perspective
on this, I think what we have to start to
accept as a college basketball audience, whether you're somebody who
loves the sport like me or you just tune in
for three weeks, I think you have to accept that realistically,
with the best players at the mid major level transferring up,
we are probably going to see less significant upsets early

(23:49):
in the tournament. But I think that also sets up
much better games later in the tournament. And I know
this is always a talking point, but I think it's true.
Would you rather see Duke Arizona this week or Duke whoever?

Speaker 3 (24:02):
I don't remember who Arizona played in the first round.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
You know Arizona Oregon played Liberty, right, what if Liberty
beats Oregon in Arizona? Would you rather see Duke Liberty
or would you rather see Duke Arizona. And Arizona has
three or four NBA players, And so I think we're
gonna have to start to accept that we're probably gonna
have to sacrifice some early round upsets for just better
games overall. If they start tomorrow, I know you're gonna
be on with Dan Bayer, But Duke Arizona Tennessee Kentucky

(24:28):
on Friday, Perdue Houston. I mean, these are great games,
big brands, coaches you know, maybe players you know in
some cases, and I think overall it's a net positive
to have.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Fewer upsets earlier in the tournament. Well, and that's the thing,
right the old you pay for it somewhere in the quality. Now,
Duke looks like they made dispatch of everybody pretty handily.
Perhaps we'll see, we'll see, right, I mean, every game
to game bad shooting. Florida is really a really good squad.
And look, there's still some heavyweights still in her Texas

(24:58):
Tech has had a fantastic stick season. You just go
on down the line. You mentioned Alabama, but all that
to say, yeah, you might get a couple in that
first round, but we get better basketball later. It's the
way this plays out and with the money flowing, because
that's the other part that Genie's not going back in

(25:18):
the bull Nope, So anybody's like suddenly the NCAA, with
what little power they have the last vestiges holding on,
they can't. They're not putting that back in. Like, if
nothing else, you come to an agreement on how frequently
people can transfer, maybe you change what the portal dates are,
which has been a big complaint this week by a
lot of coaches, Like if the kid was gonna leave,

(25:40):
you knew it. But if you're a coach and you
were gonna leave, you knew it. Right, trying to keep
that cat in the bag. There's too much information flow,
So right is I've heard so many why is no
portal open during the tournament?

Speaker 4 (25:53):
It's like, first of all, there's only sixteen teams left, osay,
so ninety five plus percent of the sport is not playing,
and all these kids know where they're gonna leave and
know where they want to go, So why are we
pushing it off? The analogy that I use, the whole
NBA draft process goes on during the NBA playoffs, So
if you make the NBA Finals, you're at a disadvantage

(26:14):
come draft night. But guess what, you made the NBA finals.
You won an NBA title. And it's the same thing.
If you're in the final four, by definition, you're pretty good,
and by definition, you are going to be attractive to
other to players that are not in your program. So
everybody just calmed down about the portal being open. It's
not that big of a deal. And the thing I realized, Mike,
no matter what happens, somebody's gonna complain about something. Did

(26:37):
you see this story today by Ross Dellinger. So we're
gonna go to rev sharing next year, where the schools
can pay the players. And apparently now SEC coaches are
complaining that the Big East, which does not have football,
they're gonna be able to share a bigger percentage of
their revenue with foot with their basketball players because they
have no football.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
And so these SEC coaches are.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
Like, it's not fair that they get to spend and
it's like, you're freaking Tennessee. And I'm just using It
wasn't Rick Barnes, but I'm just saying, hypothetically, you're Tennessee,
you're Alabama, you're Georgia. If you want a player you're
gonna be able to get it. But the only point
that I'm trying to make is, no matter what rule.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
You change, people will complain.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
If they move the portal back till after the season,
players are still gonna announce, players are still gonna enter.
They'll probably commit before they're even allowed to be in
the portal.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
There's no perfect system for any of this. People like
to complain, well, but that's it. Like change is always
hard in any way, shape and form in your life, right,
trying to do anything as you go through right now,
you know, Smith and I are doing our work here
with PhD weight loss, right, and it's early on, early on,
a little a little difficult, right, you know, cause you

(27:48):
a schedule and whatever. Work sound weird, but you look great.
I appreciate it. Just Jay Smith look great too? Or
he lost two hat sizes in this way. Yeah, so
like he's been leaving hats around And it's not like
when he was trying to pick up girls when he
was a teenager and in college he would say, you know,
talk about hats, well, his grandpa would take them all
and then date the girls. Wow, that escalated quickly somewhere.

(28:11):
It could very well be he never got messages from
his grandpa about people calling his house. Wow, long long
harboring ill. But but the idea is, like those first
couple of days, right, we're working weird schedules, getting off late.
What's what woulds the trap we fall into eating late
or drinking a soda or something to keep your yourself moving.

(28:32):
That's one aspect of change. We talk about sports. The
good old days weren't always good. I agree the guys
that we're paying players, that's always been there like that,
just now it's just somewhat out in the open because
I still think there's, you know, some other caverns that
need to be explored in this process. But to the
revenue share, like, as long as we're talking percentages like

(28:53):
that's that's if everybody's got to play by the percentages,
all the sec guys need to shut off.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Well, I mean the argument is is there they're going
to get more, right, they're gonna have a higher dollar
amount from well, there's everyone's supposed to have a cap
on what they can spend. But as you know, there's
gonna be lost. Nothing's gonna change because as you said,
the NCAA is on its deathbed. There are no rules,
and every time they try to enforce a rule, somebody
sues them in court and they just say screw it.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Whatever.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
So but it's the only point is everybody likes to complain,
whether it's about the portal, whether it's about I mean,
the Cinderella stuff. I think is an interesting conversation. I
am just on your side personally about it's better basketball.
The ratings reflect that people want to watch. I know
you said like that the ratings can be skewed a
little bit, but I think it's a net positive. But
I also think some of these other things people just

(29:39):
like to generally complain about.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
Now one hundred percent always find and any bit of
change is gonna make people uncomfortable. And I was trying
to explain this to my daughters a little bit earlier
today we're talking about some other stuff. When you get
into the now teenagers, you know, they what do you
think of this? What do you think of that? Very
large global kind of things, And it's like, just always
remember people that have power, people that have influence and

(30:02):
have money will be damned if you're just gonna come
and take it away. So anything they can do to
hold on to the last vestiges of that they will,
which makes everything a little awkward and clunky, which is
why you had a number of coaches that decided to leave.
And then guys who are kind of doing this model
all along. Why hey here we are, Hi, coach Caliperry.

(30:23):
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Speaker 8 (31:03):
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Speaker 8 (31:12):
Thank you, little little little hefty, But I'm powering through it.
So we're the lost angeg muscles. It's it's Mark McGuire
like neck muscles. After I'm done with this hat dramatic finish.
Tonight in the NBA in Indiana, the Pacers led the
Lakers one nineteen to one eighteen in the dying seconds.

Speaker 7 (31:31):
Lakers seven seconds left.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
I think the lights war. I'm hoping it'll count.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
But.

Speaker 8 (31:50):
It did count, Lakers within one. Twenty one nineteen on
Spectrum Sports Net. James finished with thirteen points, thirteen rebound,
seven assists. Luka Danci's thirty four points, seven rebound, seven assists.
Austin Reeves scored twenty four. Right now, Denver holding on
to a ninety three to eighty nine lead over Milwaukee,
won twenty four left in the third quarter. Bucks playing
with that Giannis on Ted Kumpo because of a sprain

(32:12):
left foot. Luka Dacich excuse me. Nikola Jokic twenty nine points,
six rebounds and six assists. Michael Porter Junior with twenty
points and nine rebounds for Denver. Also right now, the
Boston Celtics playing without Jason Tatum because of a sprain
left ankle, but they have a forty two to thirty
six lead at Phoenix in the dying moments of the

(32:33):
first quarter. There the Sea is shooting sixty four percent
from the field at the outset of the game. Guys,
back to you, thanks so much. Iilo at Isaac lohen
Kron where you can find him. On March eighteenth, nineteen
ninety five, seventeen months after retiring to play baseball, Michael
Jordan announced that he was back, effective immediately.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Today. We got the greatest retirement announcement of all time.
We'll tell you who it is and what it's all
about and figure out what the statute of limitations are
on those kind of things. He's erin Torres in for
Jason Smith on Mike Carmon. Jason Smith Show with Mike
Carmon continues on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 8 (33:12):
That man put his hands on me, I would have
immediately swung on them immediately.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with Me Mike Carmon. No Jason tonight or the rest
of the week. He's off Gallivantink probably celebrating the entire
Mets New Uh food fair, or maybe he's auditioning to
be one of the vacation with Saint John's. Let's be honest.
Oh wow, he's gone fishing with Caon Okay, that is

(33:47):
no question about it. Erin Torres the voice you hear
in for Jason Smith tonight. Appreciate you all giving us
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Milwaukee early fourth six point lead for Denver. Obviously Milwaukee
going through it. Jannis's injury and then the Dame Lillard
blood cloths, so keeping an eye and you know what
the medical updates there, and then we've got the Celtics
and Sons getting after it in this one as well,

(34:29):
So keeping an eye there. But a story that popped
up on the radar as the afternoon warhn Aaron, which
made me laugh. We teased it ahead with the Michael
Jordan anniversary, which we commemorated on the eighteenth of the
I'm back, okay, cool effective immediately, I've done with this
baseball experiment. I've done with the SI covers mocking me,

(34:51):
and I'm going back to basketball and I'm gonna do
my thing comes back. Where's number forty five? We have
all of that, and eventually we get another three championships.
Jordan and the Bulls, What do you mean we has
a basketball loving society? I mean, I'm not that guy.
Just because I'm sitting in the chair Jason usually occupies,

(35:12):
doesn't mean I went full we as if I were
a member of the team.

Speaker 4 (35:16):
Just because you watched a winner every once in a while,
it's been a minute, though, I know it's been a minute, buddy.
For same for Jason Smith, if it makes you feel
any about it in nineteen seventy three, for him, how's.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
He feeling about the justin fields?

Speaker 2 (35:27):
There?

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Is he fired up? Or he's selling it like they're
gonna go and run away? Kidding me? That's the greatest
thing that ever. Unfortunately we do collide in a way
in that I think Arthur Smith holds everybody back. Sure,
so for me, him getting away from him, it's like
hey man, who knows what you can unleash, get away

(35:48):
from the ineffectiveness and an aptitude of the Bears coaching
staff for those years. And now Arthur Smith's true, maybe
he really could be that guy. I mean, look, Sam
Darnold took him a lot of years before he found
someone to bring out his greatness. But it's still the Jets.
But all that to say, we round out and Jason
has not announced his retirement, if you think that's what
I'm getting to. But jim Nantz did. He said he's

(36:09):
going to retire from calling the Masters now. Dan Patrick
on our network has announced that, look after the Super
Bowl in Atlanta in a couple of years, he's done right,
tapping out doesn't say he will stop doing vocal tracks
and doing sports at every level, but not doing the
five day a week show.

Speaker 6 (36:30):
Right.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
He's been very upfront about this in his conversations. I
was talking with Ernie Johnson a little bit about it today, saying, hey,
maybe we got together, you know kind of thing, because
they'll be back in Atlanta. But jim Nantz announced he's retiring,
not in three years now. He's got not a five
year plan, Aaron one year plan has he done after
this Masters. Now he's gonna quit in twenty thirty six.

(36:51):
Oh okay, okay, And here's his logic one. It would
be the perfect place to walk out. Well, of course,
you know tradition unlike any other. Do I owe him
seven dollars? I don't know, but it would be his
fifty first time calling the tournament. Under that for a second,
that's great, that is great, And the one hundredth anniversary

(37:12):
of the Masters.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
I mean, the fifty one is crazy, but not and
no more significant than fifty, I will say.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
When I saw him, and I mean, you got the percentage,
the percentages, I.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
Guess, so he'd be covering more than half of the
Masters for two years and then he wouldn't be anymore.
So when I saw this headline, I was like, well,
that's just preposterous. But I will also say I do
think I do get the idea of it will be
the hundredth Masters, he will have been at more than
half of them.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
I'll also say this, if you enjoy doing what you're doing,
and you're still doing it at a high level, why
put an artificial cap on it? Like you know, somebody
else stepped away from something, and I'm blanking on who
was the most recent person to retire. But it's like,
if you're still good at it, and we'll see Jim
Nantz is sixty five right now, We'll see if he's
still at the top of his game at seventy six.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
I don't know, just I get it sort of. It's
calling golf though, do you really have to be at
the top here here? I mean in theory, right, the
worst you are you put people to sleep. That's kind.
I mean there's a lot of but there's a lot
of empty spaces that you're not filling. That's true, right,
Let the action. There's a lot of silence. No, just sure,

(38:30):
I want to talk. You're not getting paid by word there?

Speaker 4 (38:33):
Yeah, Vernon Lungquist, I think that's the only thing. I
think he just retired for that. But it was the
one hole. Yeah, it was the only thing he did
all year long. Quit quit quit college football quick NCAA
tournament was like, I'll call the masters, but.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
That's it, right, I'm a big believer in let him
tear the jersey off you. I agree. Whatever you're doing, right,
take the microphone from my cold dead hand here in
the that's Hierach dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios. But
for all players, when people, oh, that guy should hang
it up, right, because we're having that conversation. Russell Wilson's
still out there now that he's a Giant's like, oh,

(39:05):
you should have quit. It's like, why I agree? Someone
pay him twenty million dollars yep to come in and
have a back and forth preaching. Justin and I were
joking about it yesterday. The Righteous Gemstones meme for Jamis
and Russell Wilson in a locker rooms about sums it up.
He's got half the guys he's preaching two over here,

(39:25):
he's got half over there, and you're trying to figure
out what the hell either of them actually mean. So
you've got that process. But like when when Brady was
in his final throws, like I kept hoping he would
come back Lebron, Well he won't be the same. Players
like fine, adapt and move into a new role.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
Sure, I mean, if they want to play, yeah, I
just I just think people underestimate how boring retirement is.

Speaker 6 (39:49):
Now.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
Jim lant Natz clearly likes to golf, so maybe he
will be the one guy that's happy golfing every day.
But like, if you're good, I don't know, if you're
good at your job and you enjoy doing it. Now
you know, if you don't enjoy doing your job, if
you're Nick Saban and it's no longer fun to deal
with the nil era, that's a different conversation, but I
get it.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
I also think it's interesting.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
It was broken by the magazine Bunkard, which I had
not heard of until this. You feel like this would
be like a big announcement that would come, you know,
from Jim Nantz's self.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Is the own part of that?

Speaker 4 (40:21):
He might probably not though. Is there a tournament right now?
He said, it's the Scottish golf magazine bunkerd Okay from Glasgow, Scotland.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
An eleven year run guys an eleven year retirement run.
But I mean, think of all the gifts eleven times.
I also even Kareem didn't do that, doesn't any rocking
chairs he's gonna get it?

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Doesn't it make it less fun because then you're like, oh,
I'm down to eight, I'll be down to five by
the You know, you get a lot of gifts, but
I just feel like, just when you're ready, just give
it a year's somebody. Oh it was uh Gary Danielson
today said one, yeah, yeah, I'm taking twenty twenty five
and then I'm out. And it's like, that's fine. I
think eleven years, it's just gonna be miserable. Every year

(41:03):
you go to the master. Oh one less year, one
less year, one less year. But what do I know.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
I've never done anything for fifty one years straight. Well,
let's see if we can get there. Knockwood. Hey, if
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Speaker 3 (41:44):
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(43:06):
the TJ's and some others. We're at like four bucks
a dozen the whole time. What's TJ's.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
Don't even oh Trader Chill got a sponsor. No, I
thought you said TJ. I thought you meant like, because.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
Yes, I'm gonna send you to Tijuana. Why you id
a guy down to Mexico or something? That's not a
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Speaker 9 (43:24):
In Tijuana, No, my uh, it's painted on it's a donkey.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
That really just changed the entire structure of things down. Yeah,
I mean I got I got Torres going down to
Tijuana to get some eggs. Just eggs, though, just decks,
just exs. Just crazy as it were. Well, you know,
seventy three fifty four halftime Celtics, uh bludgeoning the suns
here as we watch this game. So now it's time

(43:50):
to go to the hollow. We got a guy who's waiting. Yes,
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(44:11):
of the thirty third team and longtime friend of the show,
Jake Cole, Welcome in, Buddy.

Speaker 6 (44:17):
I'm thinking of a new song. I got a new song.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
You're working on a new song. Okay, we just got
got used to this one.

Speaker 6 (44:23):
Well, no, I'm not working on a new song. I'm
thinking of a new one for an intermusica thanks conversation. Yeah,
the Tijawana eggs thing. I'm thinking we do Wall of Voodoo.
I'm on Mexican radio.

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Oh that's a good one.

Speaker 6 (44:36):
Oh that's sae. There we go that you're going, whoa,
I'm on a Mexican radio, ma'am man, and we are.

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On the iHeartRadio app. Take us with you wherever you go.
We're global, Jake Cole, a global enterprise here at Fox
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Speaker 6 (44:59):
I am huge and that's huge.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
Huge, Well, which brings me if we're going to talk
about global expansion. What about mister unlimited showing up days
after Jameis Winston as a member of the New York
Football Giants.

Speaker 6 (45:14):
God the rust cooks and Jabo eats? Is that what
we're saying.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Those w's maybe let's go. I mean, it's a divided
locker room in terms of speech and preaching styles, though.

Speaker 6 (45:29):
Definitely different. A lot of God. There's a lot of
God there, but they're very different styles, Like definitely that
is definitely the case. And one of them is believable
when he talks about God, and one.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Is Okay, okay, really.

Speaker 6 (45:47):
Shouldn't do that. I really shouldn't.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
No, tell me, tell me about the quarterback play. So
this means Travis Hunter is a member of the Giants.

Speaker 6 (45:55):
I would look tramas center is logical. I mean, they
still could do the saurs Anders thing. But like it's
already going to be a bad enough quarterback room with
with Russ, and because Russ is just like he'll make
it uncomfortable. I mean, like there's a dog barking in
the background. He knows how bad this is, but he

(46:17):
knows how uncomfortable it's going to be between Russ and
James and Jamis won't even do anything wrong, but you know,
like Russ will make it uncomfortable. I can tell you
that right now, Like this is a great band aid,
I guess, and maybe they do. They're doing the two
year march for Arch because I think that I come

(46:41):
back to like, you know, Arch Manning is not I
don't think Arch Manning is going to come back next year.
I think I really do think he's going to take
two years, two full years of Texas and then you
know he'll he'll go into the pros. Like I think that.
I think that's the that's the plan. And just knowing

(47:01):
how the Mannings have handled their careers, and you know,
the Giants would be a great suitor for him, even
though things sort of ended badly with Eli. You know,
Eli still you know, loves the Giants and you know
there's not going to be a problem there and you
know they can make that work. So maybe they just

(47:23):
you know, like suck it up and be terrible for us,
you know, be mediocre bad with rust this year, fire
day Ball, be terrible another next year as you rebuild
under a new coach and flush your roster, and then
you get arch Ins you know, twenty twenty six or
was it twenty twenty seven? Yeah, yeah, twenty twenty seven draft.

(47:44):
I mean it's a long way. It's basically a long
way home. But that's what Giants fans are I think
are probably hoping towards this point.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
So to you, Jason, this has nothing to do with
Shador as in because my my first thought is when
you're signing out one but two veteran quarterbacks, you either
don't like Shador or you just don't think he'll be there.
But you think this is more about just, hey, it's
okay to keep sucking for the to get the right
quarterback at the right time.

Speaker 6 (48:11):
Could you imagine Dion's son in the same room with
Russ and wind and Janis.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
Yes, with Tommy Cutlets sitting in the corner taking notes.

Speaker 6 (48:21):
Wow, I mean like wow, Like that is just there's
just not enough. There is not enough hot air and
helium to fill those those those those brain cavities. Man, No,
there's just no way. Like that is just such a
collision to the egos. I can't even imagine what it

(48:43):
would be like having those those three guys in the
same I mean, yes, it would be kind of fun
to watch, but it would be terrible in terms of,
you know, how are you running your team, because you
would spend so much time having to to basically all
of them into some state of you know, would probably

(49:05):
handle it the best, but Russ would melt down, and
then you would have the inevitable stories that what Russ
and his people would leak out about how he's being
done wrong and the coaches aren't listening to him, and
then Jamis would just say something stupid along the line
because that's just what Jamis does, and that'll be a
headline for like two weeks and then will not back

(49:29):
down from any of it. So there's half a season's
worth the headlines. I mean, I'm you know, I can
I can you know Paul Schwartz could write these stories
right now and like take half a season off.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
It's kind of like the Jets, the last couple of
a couple of years with the Air.

Speaker 6 (49:49):
The last the last decade.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Well got to go to the most recent chapter in
that long, sad, drawn out.

Speaker 6 (49:57):
Book or two of the shots at Smith even when
he's away, well.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
He knows that they're there.

Speaker 6 (50:03):
And good luck to young Smith, the young Lass that
he was taking up to the Bay Area. To see
cown Stanford. I'm very proud of Smith's for doing that.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Yeah, I think he's lying. I think he's sitting on
his couch getting ready for Mets Opening Day. But that's
a tournament in San Francisco, something to do with Maybe
he gets up there is is he a secret Texas
tech fan and we just don't know about it? Well,
he has kind of adopted them since his pick of
Saint John's went to the toilet.

Speaker 6 (50:33):
Oh there you go, Red Red Raiders, Baby red Storm
Red Raiders.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
There you go, all about the color all coming together
and all make.

Speaker 6 (50:41):
And cardinal red. There you go, there you go.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Hey, how about your GM firing? The coach.

Speaker 6 (50:49):
Had had to do it. I have to, you know,
like you're gonna set standards. You got to set standards
right off the start, right off the start. And you know,
Troy Taylor nice enough guy. I you know when I've
met him, you know, I don't always like to work
for him. Obviously not pleasant to work for him, or
this wouldn't have happened. But you can't have two of

(51:09):
these like he signed. My favorite part of this story
is he signed the paperwork on the first investigation on
Valentine's Day, you know, a year ago, not this, you know,
twenty twenty four. The ink wasn't dry on that one
before they started the second investigation in June. To think

(51:30):
about that, you know, he gets the first one and
then he doesn't even go three whole months before they're
calling for another investigation. It's like, it's just not worth it.
You have a guy's down three and nine, move on,
just you know, start fresh with a new guy who
can be sensible and be an adult.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
Think about that, though, getting a Dear John letter from
Captain Andrew Lutt.

Speaker 6 (51:56):
It is with great sadness that I prevail upon you
to let you be aware of my most noble decision
to move on from this unstructured and tattered wayward. How
should we do this organizational theory that we have going
upon us? Is it to read something like that, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
It's a good start. Yeah, well we'll get that guy
with a fiddle behind it and it'll work out really well.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
Let me ask you a question, Jason, is uh is
Mike Vrable going to be writing a letter like that
when he has to deal with Stefan Diggs for like
the next three year, Like, what did you make of
that that was. I know they want a wide receiver one.
I know they went after Godwin Stefon digs off an
acl at thirty one sixty nine, twenty whatever guaranteed.

Speaker 7 (52:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
I just I got thoughts, but I'm curious for your perspective.

Speaker 6 (52:50):
Well, twenty guaranteed. It's nothing may it's a one year deal,
you know, so you can get if it's a problem,
you can get out of it after one year. So
I don't have a problem with it. As long as, like,
if Stefan is angry at other people, you're fine. Like
he can be angry at the bills, he can be

(53:10):
angry at you know, yeah whatever, you know, just he
can be angry at whoever wants to. As long as
you're not angry at you and taking it out on you,
you're okay. If he's angry at you, it becomes Giant Paine.
It's sort of like Jimmy Butler, sure, and would go
like every stop in Jimmy Butler's career, it's like everything's

(53:33):
you know, the first like year that Jimmy or even
two years that Jimmy Butler is somewhere, it's all good, right,
and then something happens that pisses him off, and all
of a sudden, like he's just angry at everybody and
he's taking it out on everybody and he becomes it
becomes unworkable. Well let's see how long it lasts in

(53:56):
New England. And I'll say this Stefan's so, you know,
I'm sure he wants the money out of this, and
he knows that his age. But there's not a lot
of other suitors out there. I mean the fact that
this is only a one year essentially a one year
deal in terms of the guarantee, and they can they

(54:16):
can dump him immediately if it's a problem. He's going
to have to be on his best behavior if he
wants to see you know, most of that contract. So
I don't think this is not bad a deal. I mean, again,
Stefan is Stefan and we know what the deal is,
but he's under control in this situation.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Do they double down with all the cap space they've
got and bring in Tyler Lockett too?

Speaker 6 (54:44):
I think that they're just guys out there, like lock
It will be there. There's you know, there's still a
bunch of other guys. You can wait and you can
get Lockett for even less than that. I would think
at this point, isn't lock of the guy who you
bring in for like eight million dollars in one of those contracts.
It's sort of like what what the Bills did with Bosa.

(55:04):
You know, they went up as high as twelve because
they had to. They had to get up higher than
Miami and San Francisco because Miami and San Francisco. I
think we're between eight and ten. And the Bill said, look,
we understand it's Buffalo, so here's an extra two million dollars,
you know, come on up. And so he did it
for that. So I but I think that you know,

(55:25):
with a lock It, you can wait a little bit longer,
especially wait at this point. You wait until after the
draft because you got the one guy, You're okay with that,
and then see what see what happens in the draft
played out, and then if lock it, if you need Locket,
you can go get him at that point and.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
When the players and their agents get desperate to get
that that next check.

Speaker 6 (55:44):
I mean the surprising thing I mean, I mean I
think that the other thing with Digg is like he's
working out on a regular business because he's rehabbing, right, Yep,
he doesn't happen necessarily practice. What you find with most
veterans is they don't want to find now because if
you sign now, you have to go through the off
season program. Fair point, you're you would rather just sit

(56:08):
and rest, and you probably come to a you know,
an agreement. You say, Okay, look, you guys want me,
I'm not going to you know, you fishing around for
another deal, and you have a nudge dunch of wink wink,
and you say, we'll sign this thing. You know in
it can be late May, it can be June. I'll
show up for the last two weeks. You know, I'll
make sure I know the playbook, but just don't wear

(56:31):
me down. Or we'll do it in July, just before camp.
But most guys don't want to sign now. I mean,
their bodies are too beaten up, and teams know what
it's about. So teams are likely to say, okay, well,
you know, we'll well, we'll let it go a little bit.
You know. The one exception here in the case of
the Patriots is you've got a young quarterback who needs

(56:53):
to work with this guys, and so you have to
you have to look beyond that. You know, to me,
I wouldn't want to do that with a young quarterback.
I would rather have my receivers in And I'm already
making exception with Diggs, who's not gonna be able to
practice with him during the offseason. But we'll have him
ready by the beginning of camp.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
He's a legend. He joins us each and every week.
Proud Stanford man. He heard his analysis on the firing
the coach, new GM, the power and authority of Andrew Luck.
Are you going to write that book?

Speaker 6 (57:25):
Dal I was going, Actually, I'm being a retrospective on wall.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
Oh get good. That's fight I'll look forward to in
the form of a.

Speaker 6 (57:36):
Pamphlet forty years after the fact.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
There you go. He's been operating out a ten year,
one sandwich deal for a long time with us. He's
ja Jason sixty two.

Speaker 6 (57:51):
I've been ripped off worse than the NFL players.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
Oh come on, I'll send you more booze and pizza
Pisa low brother, have a good week. Jason Cole always
with us here. Smith's always talked about he get your
sandwiches like it always comes out of my wallet. Oh yeah,
I keep.

Speaker 9 (58:10):
Them applied with booze and food. No questions, Mike, I'm
gonna be honest. It pays better when you pay for it. No, well,
there's no question about it. There's no question about it.
It's all about positively and love.

Speaker 3 (58:22):
Just like our band in the news desk, it's time
for some Isaac loewen Kron, Why thank you?

Speaker 8 (58:29):
Time for some excitement in the NBA. Earlier this evening,
the Indiana Pacers holding a one to nineteen one eighteen
lead over the Los Angeles Lakers, and the final seconds
blue co two.

Speaker 5 (58:42):
To the wind.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
Count the chains at the puzzle.

Speaker 8 (58:50):
It did count the call on ESPN as Lebron and
the Lakers on in one twenty to one nineteen.

Speaker 6 (58:55):
It's always tricky when you know you kind of touched
the ball, you kind of see to the rail light
around a board, and you don't quite know if you've
got it all the time. I thought I had it
on time, but you never know, you know.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
Sometimes.

Speaker 8 (59:05):
Luca Dodgers had thirty four points, his fourth consecutive thirty
plus game. He also had seven rebounds and seven assists.
Denver defeated Milwaukee won twenty seven to one seventeen Nikolejokich's
thirtieth triple double of the season thirty nine points, ten rebounds,
ten assists. The Bucks played without Giannis Antetekoompo, who was
out because of a sprained left foot. The Boston Celtics

(59:27):
playing without Jason Tatum because of a sprain left ankle,
but they won at Phoenix. They're leading at Phoenix rather
by twenty five, ninety to sixty five. Midway through the
third quarter. In the NIT quarterfinals. You see Irvine in
overtime has held off Alabama Birmingham eighty one to seventy seven.

(59:48):
It'll be the and Eaters if you see Irvine against
North Texas in the semi finals next Tuesday at Hinkle
Field House in Indianapolis. Earlier, Loyal, the Chicago defeated Kent
State seventy two to sixty two. They will take on
Chattanooga in the other semi final.

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
Guys, back to you. Thanks I Loo. As we continue
here in the Tirak dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios,
Aaron Torres in for Jason Smith. I'm Mike Carbon thanks
for being with us, being part of the family. Thanks
to Jason Cole for stopping by Todd Furman with us
next hour, talking all things odds and ends. But there
is one bet that I wanted to get everybody's opinion
on deal or no deal. Would you take the cash

(01:00:28):
off the table. We'll talk about it next here on
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