July 24, 2025 • 59 mins
Mike Harmon and Dan Beyer are talking about NY Giants football. Fenway concession workers could strike for the first time in the stadium’s 113-year history. The guys give out fantasy football advice. And NFL Insider Jason Cole joins the show.
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Greetings and welcome in another beautiful night here Fox Sports
Radio Midweek. Hopefully you're having a good one out there,
whatever however you're doing as we get into the final
throws of your summer months. Maybe back to school shopping
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Whatever however you're listening. Thanks for being part of our
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League Baseball action, all the.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Training camp news and notes coming about.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
We got a lot of quarterback stories that are circuling,
which is always good as well as the holdout fun
because while we need labor dispute in every sport, it
would see him at this point check an other box
but in Jason's place tonight as he traverses the universe,
perhaps actually making his way to Michigan for a muskrat
and dinner. Dan Byer, my colleague, got great to be here.
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I watch a flex podcast. You hear him on the
Doug Gottlieb Show and part of Cavino and Rich and
of course on Sundays Fox Sports Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He and I.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Have you been hitting the links like you had a
couple of days. I know, just got a family in town.
Any golf in the.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Mix family put it on a hiatus, Mike. But I'm
ramping up for a big, big event in the next month,
and that's just basically going home and playing with the buddies.
I'm gonna try to have to make a fool of myself.
So golf clubs with family in town put aside. But
I am going to be getting into mode, ramping up
for that Masters. If you will, just like you O
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Tiger Woods would always try to do well, That's just
it right.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You got to have that goal and visualize it and
have it out there.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And I mean, if you need me to put out
some tweets about it, you know, just to try to
fuel you I can.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
I could do that too. By the way, Who am
I kidding?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Tiger just kicked everyone's butt anyway, so they didn't need
to wrap up.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh something had to click there mentally. I mean, we've
been talking about that a lot, you and I off
air and on the Sunday Show is related to Scottie
Scheffler and all that fun dialogue about him. We're watching
The Rays and White Sox. We'll see if I get
another text from my mom if the Rays can hold on,
because she mocked me after the last raise win in
that series.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So that was great.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Always good to know that your family loves you and
it's checking in thanks to our team being.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
With us here.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
We got Monsey at the news desk, We've got Alex
and Justin making a sound so pretty, and of course
all of you.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
However, you're listening on.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Our terrestrial radio stations four hundred plus affiliates nationwide, the
iHeartRadio app where you take us wherever you go set
a land. We've got a fun four hours ahead of
you for you. Some fantasy football mixed in, some top
five lists, a lot of quarterback news, and a little
league controversy that I think will all appreciate.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It just dawned on me that your parents are kind
of the argument for the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Now with new ownership coming in.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I know, they're expected to stay in the area because
the ownership group is from Florida, but the new stadium
that they wanted now maybe not gonna happen. But the
argument had always been, Mike, the Rays get good viewership.
They watched the Rays in the Tampa Bay area, and
here your mom is turned into a Raise fan because
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of their living situation in the area from Chicago. She
is the example that so many points to on why
the Rays should stay on the west coast of Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I do dig that.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Then they got a valuation of one point seven billion.
That shows you the price of poker and what the
imminent TV deals really kind of mean.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And this whole process.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
We got some data from the NFL that'll blow your
mind a little bit later on. But yeah, White Sox,
now take a lead. Maybe I should start texting her, haha,
how's that feel? Colson Montgomery just called up one of
the would be new stars for the White Sox.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But yeah, the old.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
One with the the hefty bag look and everything. Obviously
you know, big thought violent storms took it down. But
other than the two touch ray tank, not a whole
lot of personnality.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
No, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
One of those parks where you if you're on a
ballpark tour, you do it because it's one of the
thirty that you have to go to, but not one
that you circle and make you're like, well, let's just
get the rays out of the way, then we'll figure
out everything else from there.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
No, that's it, right, And it was a cheap gut yeah,
I mean it's a five dollar entry on most nights
as well as you roll up with many folks coming
from assisted living centers and others by the bus load.
I'm calling it what it is. It's just reality. You
want to hate ad swollen down on this.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I thought that's what they did well, but.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
That's the larger thing, right for that and they become
Lightning fan. Mom still has her allegiance to the Cubs
and the memory of Ron Sano, but we'll leave that
and put a pin in that for now, as that
game is in the top of the eight White Sox
of rally to an eight to seven lead National Football League.
So many stories, Dan and one that I think is
moderately interesting because the first video clip I saw this
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morning when I loaded up my computer because I had
an adventure where I left my phone at a grocery
store and thankfully they didn't sell.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
It before I recovered it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
But I load up the old X account and there's
the first video is Jackson Dart throwing a pick six
in an eleven on eleven Like, there you go, so
that's fun. And then we get Joe Shane, Brian Dable,
everybody talking about, well Dart has the opportunity to make
some noise in the quarterback Derby, But as expected, Russell
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Wilson's going to get the one chair out of the
gate to see what he can do here in training camp.
And it's the curiosity of how much Russ's learned from
past experiences, past locker rooms, past media coverage of his
being in said locker rooms, and maybe those disconnects and
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whether that matters to him at this point, Like, because
that's the thing with Russell Wilson as he goes to
another spot. No expectations for the Giants to achieve, which
is curious because you'd think you'd go all in either
on the veteran with the ability to still be an
ace or Jackson darts a guy that let's call it
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what it is, it's a dart throw. Right when we
got to the drafts, he was a guy that was
very a sexy prospect. Last September. By draft day, I
was like, Ah, let's see what happens. Right, A couple
of people liked him and you saw, like you know,
the old movers and the charts or whatever. But the
jury was out and now you have this quarterback room
with an embattled GM and coach.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
The old adage was coaches and gms would stick with
the veteran because they felt that that was the guy
that could save their job. And that's no longer the case.
It hasn't been that case for ten years in the NFL.
And if if you and I'm not talking about you,
Mike Carmon, I'm talking about anybody listening, and I guess
Russell Wilson for this. If you think that Russell Wilson
can be the starting quarterback of the New York Giants
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for this entire season, you're an idiot because it's not
going to happen, not for the entire season. There's already
rumblings that if they start off zero to two, by
the way, in a division, for as bad as we
think that Dallas could be, or at least what their
off season was, for as bad as it could be, we.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Still think the Giants are worse.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Right and so too to look at where the Giants
are right now, and even here Joe Shane not even
give the one hundred percent endorsement. Russell Wilson needs to
know and everybody I think knows by now that Russell
Wilson's days is a long term starting quarterback in Mike
Long term I mean a season, a full season as
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a starting quarterback not working. We saw it not work
in Denver, we sawt not work in Pittsburgh. In fact,
the message from Pittsburgh to us was we're not gonna
bring back both Fields and Wilson, but we could bring
back one of them. Well Field signs with the Jets,
and Wilson's still out there and there's no Russell Wilson
back in Pittsburgh. Obviously they go with Aaron Rodgers in
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the end, but didn't seem like the Steelers were really
in any hurry to bring him back to Pittsburgh. So
now you go to the Giants, and you think it's
gonna be anything different than the previous two stops, it's not.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, the end the amount of money that Denver eight
to make him go away, sure, and then Mike Tomlin
was bullheaded.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
They had success with Fields, was it perfect?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
No, But they make the switch to Wilson and he
was damned if that wasn't gonna work.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I mean, that's the epitome of man.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
When your kids are young and they want to put
that block in that hole that you know isn't gonna fit.
They're gonna find a mallet, they're gonna find another truck,
another dinosaur or whatever, and they're gonna hammer the hell
out of it until it kind of starts to break
apart to where it fits into that hole. Current over
unders Eagles eleven and a half, wins Commanders at nine
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and a half, Cowboys a Curiosity at seven and a half,
and then the Giants at five and a half.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Here's Joe Shane on what his best case scenario would be.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
I'm wondering how you Gduely feel about, you know, sort
of for lack a bit of turned red shirting a
quarterback or a first round pick and sort of having
them sit the majority or most of the year.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Yeah, you know, going through the process. We have Mike
Kafka on the roster or on the staff obviously as
our offensive coordinator. He was in Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes.
I think he played one game at the end of
the year, so we've seen that. Our plan in Buffalo
was for Josh to probably not play much his first year,
but the way it worked out, halftime in the first game,
we're get blown out by Baltimore and we put him
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in and you know, he played the rest of the year.
So you know, I think there's some real benefits from
sitting and learning. Specifically is from some of the guys
in the room that have the experience that they have.
But you know, if the coaching staff at some point
feels it's right and he's ready, then you know, I'll
leave that up to them.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Assistant head coach and OC go kats, Mike Kafka, uh
former Eagle and Chief and everything and then in his
coaching career. But it does become the curiosity of when
you see the writing on the wall of the last ditch,
you know, pull the pin on the grenade because you're
trying to save your job if you're both Joe Shane
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and Brian Dable.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
And at some point you're gonna have to turn to
Jackson Dart. But not because he's a first round pick.
But it's just the way in today's NFL that you
just you need to find out, you need to find out.
And I think it could be a lost year with
how things are setting up for the Giants, Mike. Defensively,
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they've got dudes, They've got guys. If their offensive line
can stay healthy, fine, but still at the quarterback position,
and I don't know if there's a sure fire answer
because the only person I just don't know about is
Jackson Dart. I know about Russell Wilson, I know about
Jamis Winston, I know about Tommy DeVito, and we know
those three. I know we all know about those three guys.
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So when you have Jackson Dart, even if he's the
twenty fifth overall pick, and I don't love Joe Shane
using him in the same breath as Josh Allen and
Patrick Mahomes, however, it helps his argument with it.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
And if Jackson Dart.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Doesn't work out, new people are in and the Giants
are probably starting over. Again, anyway, it's not as big
of a loss because it was twenty fifth overall pick
in the draft. However, you have to take a look
at him and at least get some sort of assessment
this season on him. And I think if you're a
Giants fan, sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It is the fun part when you get into hey,
we've got Kafka on the staff, and look who he
worked with and look how great they are. Yeah, like,
all right, you might be over selling his in put
to the process. I'm not gonna say he's a zero,
but on a giant pie chart, I mean, what about
that Andy Reid guy? Yes, you know, and then even
had you know, former Bears coach Naggy, that's going to
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take some slice of that and go on down the line,
go back to Buffalo and what they've had run through
there as well.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Just even I who Patrick Mahomes was coming out of college,
there was enough to be like, Okay, this could be
the guy, and we didn't think it was going to
be just Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen honestly was such
an intriguing prospect for what he was out of Wyoming.
There were just questions because of Wyoming and could he
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be accurate? And he's obviously worked through those, but they
were top prospects. They were bigger prospects, and their draft
position represents that than Jackson Dart was entering, entering this
quarterback draft that we had this past year, which wasn't
even then enticing no exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And you know it's one.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I don't do a lot of victory laps on Fox
Sports Radio, but I will dunk on those colleagues that
thought Josh Allen was just going to be a running
back manny an argument, particularly on Fox Sports Sunday all
those years ago. Interesting to note that the Giants begin
their season ready at Commanders at Cowboys home against Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh oh wait, then the Chargers come to town.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I didn't even I can't remember who it was, but
somebody said, if they're facing zero to two, you may
be looking at Jackson Dart in week three.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Think about that.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
That's, by the way, that's all you need to know
about about Russell Wilson again, like they're not going to
give them any leeway on the road, Dable and Shane
trying to save their jobs, You're gonna at least want
to get a look at the kid. But it also
makes me wonder about Jameis Winston. I think people believe
that Tommy DeVito's the odd the odd man out in
all of this, But I don't know. Can you have
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Winston and Will both on the same team and want
to get a look at Jackson dart on me counter productive?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Only if you now get a reality show out of it.
Just think about those three guys in a room together,
just Russell.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Jamis Sar.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
It's called Winston, Winston and Wilson.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
There you go have it at it.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
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Speaker 3 (16:54):
Greetings and welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith
Show with Me, Mike Carmon, No Jason Smith this week
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Speaker 2 (17:03):
Maybe in the state of Michigan. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Maybe it'll be in a new tourism ad with me
today and tomorrow. I got Dan Bayer joins me. You
hear him Middays on the Doug Gottlieb Show as part
of that show and Cavino and Rich and then he
and I do a little thing called I Watch a Flex,
the Fantasy Football podcast, which is coming back, and earn
us some segments already up there from some of our
Sunday Morning Fox Sports Sunday conversations, some of the ranking stuff,
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some of the off season meanderings and draft status and
all that fun stuff. And well now we get to
rev it up again.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
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on this well, from the way the season ends, all
the way in the spring through the summer and even
right now. But I feel like August first is the
start line. That's what you start. There could be early
drafts because of people's schedules, but August one is the day,
but we try to get you wrapped up for the
fantasy season. Can't wait to talk fantasy later on in
the show. And I'm also wondering why Jason doesn't do
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any Smith and the Minton sort of shows like that
should be the promo if he's doing a show. If
he was to do a show while in Michigan, Smith
and the Mitton I think works really well.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I think that rolls off the tongue.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yes, especially if he's at that restaurant with the Muskrat dinners.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I think it would be good.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
He also want to say, Mancy Blonda is at the
news desk. She found out within the past three years
that there's an upper peninsula right Monty up.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Correct, there you go.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
That was that was a new found the tidbit.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
Yes, and it was easy to remember. I'm really bad
with geography. I don't know where anything's up it.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
So as like the up.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
Yeah, and he's like upper peninsula and I said, start over,
that's okay. I'm like, it's first grade.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Explain it to me.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I remember, forget it geography something long, long ago, right long,
and it's just up.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's just up the up. I won't forget it.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
And that's one to grow on. See the learning never stops.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Man.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Every day we come up with something chaotic. Now coming
into this we and into this week where we sit
in this moment in time on a Wednesday, we've been
talking a lot about labor disputes, whether it's holdout players
in the National Football League. Trey Hendrickson, I'm taking my
ball and I'm going down to Florida. I'll keep training
and see y'all later. Michah Parsons, I'm going to show
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up and I'm going to start trading barbs with Jerry
Jones through the media and so many others. Right Juwan Jennings,
he showed up for work and he practiced with the
forty nine ers earlier as he's still saying, hey, I
want to get paid beyond my meager earnings here. But
a couple of stories also that go into our baseball
world and the WNBA. That's a whole other CBA that
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needs to be agreed upon. But going into this weekend,
the huge baseball series that will will come to bear,
and there's a story spawning off of that. First off,
Mookie Betts, former Red Sox star now with the Dodgers
and struggling this year. Go back to the series in
Japan where he lost a lot of weight and was
unavailable for a period of time, and he struggled all
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season long, changing of positions. Now back at the top
of the batting order, He's three for twenty eight since
being reinstalled there, so trying to figure out his swing.
Dave Roberts says he may miss the opening of the
series for personal reasons, So trying to figure out. And
I'll hope he and his family are okay, but certainly
for the Dodger fans and the Greater Los Angeles base,
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still a lot of questions and concerns for that. Now
to the labor side of things, Fenway Park workers have
agreed to green light a strike that could happen for
three days and three days only. I feel like I'm
going into Mama Mia at the end when Meryl Streep
comes forward for one night and for one night on
for three days. So it's already just predetermined. We're gonna
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have a lotted, thirsty and hungry Dodger fans filling Fenway Park.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And being around the area. So you know what, Aaron Mark,
we want more money. We want less automation right, less
of the Kiosk kind of stuff. We want more ability
to wear its transactions with dollars because well, people more
likely maybe give me a quarter tip there as opposed
to just click click click on a tablet all of
those things. So saying that they could begin striking at
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noon on Friday, lasting three days while the Dodgers are
in town.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
I am shocked at this.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
The reason being is why would you show how they
can get by in life without you. I understand that
there's a huge weekend and that's why they're choosing this
weekend to do it, to try to cause chaos, and
maybe the systems that the Red Sox don't have in
place at this time Mike are able to be implemented
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on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but Monday's going to come
around pretty quick. So I hate to say it, but
I'm siding with the team on this, Like, how are
you gonna how are you going to show your worth
moving forward? If you're worried about being replaced buy machines
at some point. I I don't know the ins and
outs of it, and I know when you go to
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football games. The neat thing about a football game is
a lot of times it's maybe local organizations running that
booth or a college atmosphere because college basketball there's only
so many games that you have in a season that
you can get a youth group or a church group
they run that concession stand and you have people there
when it's in it's a way for those groups to
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raise money.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
When you have this.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
In this company and everything is turning to automation, yeah,
it's going to cause chaos this weekend. I just don't
know how in the world it's going to strengthen your case,
because to me, it's just a matter of time before
those Fenway franks are being handed out by robots. Well yeah,
just not robots, but you know what I mean, but.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
The ordering process right, to streamline the process, I mean,
we've seen booskus all over fast food restaurants and in
a lot of a lot of ballparks. Now you have
the order from your phone and they bring it to
you like they do at movie theaters whatever else. It
doesn't eliminate people entirely, but it cuts some off right.
It's going to shrink their workforce. And in this case,
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they've been operating without a deal since the end of
the calendar year twenty twenty four and operating this entire time,
talking about all these different parts of their labor, just
the friction, but then saying, well, because it'll be a
really busy weekend, this is how we're going to show them.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
If you knew that there wasn't somebody walking up and
down the aisle saying.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Cold beer, you know what you would do? You just
go get your cold beers.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Right right like, and that's the time there.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I mean, look, I operated out of the third deck,
you know, the three hundred levels in Chicago, other than
that one guy who's a legend because he would carry
like four cases at a time.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And just dominate a lot of times those beers were warm.
I mean it just it was a.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Tough go so you'd end up at the kiosk yourself anyway.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I get the personality of some it's not all we
know that for sure. Times you sitting there at a
baseball game going like, gosh, is the lemonade guy gonna
come by again? He has not been here since the
second inning. Guess so I'm just gonna go up and
get a lemonade. I just I don't know, I don't
know what leg they have to stand on. But I
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would not want to give the Red Sox an opportunity
to do anything or show anything that would make their
work less important than it already seems to be.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
To the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Beer vendor, Laura Crystal told Front Office Sports, quote, it's
a big series. A lot of people in town, Henry
and Aramark scan to make a lot of money. They
don't want a disruption as much as we don't want
a disruption. But if that's going to help us, so
be it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
So be it. Again, Owing to.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
The whatever it would take and the time to develop
an app to get someone to bring it to your seat,
there's half your vendors gone. Now you just have a
runner for five sections, yes, or you go get it yourself.
In the instance that you brought.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Up, that's yeah, I get it.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
I get that they're trying to squeeze, But if you're
worried about that, I just wouldn't give them any opportunity
to show that they can get by with you.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
That is the opportunity.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yes, it feels awful saying take what you can get,
but I kind of just feel like that's the case.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Well, but also I mean there's there's always the potential
that they just say you don't you don't want to
work here, and you've got deals like the union deal
is suspended, right and they're they're operating good faith whatever.
Not showing up for a big series, you're kind of
breaking some of that. Yeah, also announcing it with a
few days advance. Notice you don't think there's meetings in
the Red Sox offices right now. Of how automation, Hey,
(25:39):
can we get another computer or two up and running
by Friday morning. Might have to change up how we
do things a little bit, but we'll get by.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I don't know if they'll do it like Doug Deacon
and Arthur did when they were on strike at ips
on King of Queens. But it'd be a wonderful way
to spend a weekend, wouldn't it right?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And eventually I end up with any money that's land grubin.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Betting on the what's the what was the spinning wheel?
The say thee and.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Say that's nicely done. Ah, I bet you it's going
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Speaker 3 (26:39):
During the strike was about as good as it gets.
All right, let's start it over to the news desk. Now,
coming up next, we'll talk more well, more labor, and
some more chaos here as they try to navigate the
college world with the sharks swimming. But since it is
Shark week, but let's go over to the news desk
with Mancy Belangia's full slate of Major League Baseball. So
she'll have to talk really.
Speaker 11 (26:58):
Fast and maybe a little bit of Upper Peninsula and
the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I I'll find out some facts.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Do you know who's from the Upper Peninsula?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
No, John Morosi.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I was really kind of hoping that there was just
gonna be some random ames. No.
Speaker 11 (27:13):
I was thinking of a random I was like, who's
from the other who's from Michigan? No?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
No, John PALMROSSI I did not know that.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
All right, we'll start here in baseball fellas eleven innings
in Philadelphia of baseball going on. It's been back and
forth between the Red Sox and the Phillies. Right now,
Boston is up nine to seven bottom of the eleventh inning.
Phillies have a man on third, but they are down
to their final out in this game. Breitz Harper hit
his three hundred and fiftieth career home run for Boston.
(27:41):
Rome Gonzalez hit a grand Slam in the fifth inning
to take the lead. It really has been back and forth,
but nine to seven bottom of the eleventh inning, Boston
on top. White Sox are on top of the Rays
eleven nine. Bottom of the eighth inning. The Rangers just
edged the A's two to one. A's are probably not
gonna forget this one. That go ahead run scored by
Texas is on a pop fly where the A's just miscommunicated.
(28:03):
It dropped a run scored Rangers win. It not gonna
forget that one anytime soon. The Blue Jays outscored the
Yankees eight four. They now have a four game lead
on New York in the Al East. Aaron Judge did
hit his thirty seventh homer of this season. In this loss,
the Dodgers walked it off four to three against the
Twins thanks to a bases loaded two RBI single from
Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
He's used to that.
Speaker 11 (28:23):
Sho Hey Adani also homered for the fifth consecutive game time,
a Dodgers franchise record, and Mookie Betts could miss Friday's
series opener against the Red Sox due to personal reasons.
Dave Roberts announced this after the game. The Guardians did
edge the Orioles three to two. In college hoops, USC
five star freshman Elijah Arenas has suffered a meniscus tare
(28:44):
and is expected to be sidelined for at least six
to eight months, and fever star Kaelin Clark has been
ruled out for Tomorrow's game against the Aces.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Back to you guys, there you go, Manti Belagias, find
your eye on Twitter at Monte Belangia's famous people from
the up. Who's in the news A lot who shall
not be named. I'll just leave it at that. We've
got the Terry Crews, Madonna James of the UP.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Really I thought that she was just from suburban Detroit.
Speaker 12 (29:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Well, they've credited her as a yuper, So.
Speaker 11 (29:17):
You're not You're not from the same area. Like, it's
not like you got up a peninsula in Detroit. You're like, no, well,
separate Northern California, southern California.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
There might be beef with this list.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
I don't know, and Detroit just in you know, entire rivals.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, Vince Gilligan breaking bad. Josh Grobin, I mean, come on,
it's beautiful up. You don't know, Josh Grobin, I mean, come.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
On, Marquette, the whole deal, Marquette Michigan. Yes see, there
you go.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
See we learned all sorts of new things. Thanks Monsie.
I will check back with you in a little bit
as we go. Hey, Also a reminder, Hair, your next success,
we're gonna go to a different state.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
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Speaker 3 (29:54):
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Speaker 5 (30:11):
Maybe not.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Just Hey, Jason Smith and doctor Harmon.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
By the way, I know you're transitioning to a topic
regarding the ACC with a Big ten school but a
former Atlantic Coast Conference member, University of Maryland.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah, so we've got the ACC now changing up their
policy of how they're going to report injuries where we're
going to get some of the more traditional listings like
we've seen for NFL games and for those unaware, long
long time ago, the injury report existed and it was
pretty much known far and wide. It was because of gambling. Likewise,
(30:51):
the ACC and changing the policy for all conference games
is owing to that same thing, with the number of
people that are fishing around for inside information, the growth
of the gambling space, the legalization state to state and across.
Really there's just a couple of states that seem like
there'll be a holdouts forever, and we're residing in one
(31:13):
now here in California, where daily fantasy may go away
before it's all said and done. But that's a whole
other thing. Yeah, just cut off those revenue streams. You
don't need that. But all in that to say, this
doesn't seem like I like the announcement of it, but
this always was the case. You always had people fishing around.
It just was a little more buried underground here. But
(31:36):
I think just the formalization of the process of trying
to be transparent. I would be curious in each of
those organizations, like what now other hallmarks that you're setting
up for security, and how people are engaging in their
processes and who outside the organization that they're working with.
(31:58):
But it's at least a step you acknowledge, Hey, we
see problems, we see major League Baseball, we see other
leagues that have had these issues. We're at least going
to make a public policy to thwart this to a degree.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I think that to your point of it, being transparent
is one hundred percent the deal. And it was just
more of a case of I feel Vegas knew the
information and you could tell with lines on players. Sure,
you just wouldn't know if a guy was going to
play or not by what the what that line was?
(32:34):
Vegas had that information. Now it's just the acc saying like,
we're not trying to keep the wole, you know, pull
the wool over your eyes or keep it hidden from you.
But they, they, and by they, the insiders in Las
Vegas have known this information many a times. Mike, do
you remember when you just would look at a line
(32:56):
and be like wow, so and so is injured on Saturday,
that line is now this, they have no chance to play.
And the only thing that was I guess, non transparent
about it was just that the teams and the schools
and the leagues just wouldn't tell us. But that information
was there, and if you knew the line and you
(33:19):
looked at the line, you knew what the status of
said player would be.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Something we talk about all the time, right, how much
value right quarterbacks? Obviously the biggest movers we can see
three points to ten points.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Right, Brady was.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Worth nine and a half I think for a good
chunk of his career, perhaps even a little more. Patrick
Mahomes when that Chiefs machine is rolling, go on and
you know all the way through right wins above replacement
come to your betting line. The other piece of this is, obviously,
as states are taking some of this money in right.
So we're talking about the North Carolina considering a proposal
(33:53):
right now that would give him up to twenty million
dollars of tax revenue from gambling into state ins institutions.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Such as North Carolina and NC State.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
So in that case, the more you're in bed with
gambling as a as an entity, whether it's advertising behind
home plate in a game or in this case, state
school's taking funding from such residuals that you know, transparency
is the only way to go.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
I don't think it changes much. I think that the
inside information is still going to be there. And again,
this is just what twenty four to forty eight hours
before kickoff, and a lot of this stuff is known
on Monday and Tuesday of that week. Very rarely other
situations where there's a player who has got a significant
sort of ability to move the line that you just
talked about, that we really don't know his status, like
(34:46):
even if it's a if it's a star running back
like usually the team is. I mean, it would have
been different if just naming names like it's different if
Ashton Genty doesn't play for Boise State and if he
isn't playing in that game, you know that, Okay, maybe
it's gonna be a little different. Maybe that line would
have been significantly less. But we're also just I think
(35:06):
talking about quarterbacks here, right, I mean, like there's for
the most part, yeah, I mean outside of a Jeremiah
Smith at Ohio State, that's who we're talking about here.
And I think I still think that information is going
to be able to be consumed and and shown by
Vegas on the Sunday and Monday when those lines are
This is just kind of a look at we're to
(35:26):
your point. Look, we're playing good, we're playing nice. Here
is the injury report. But I think we're gonna know
well before those games, because I just don't think in
college guys are truly game time decisions like give them,
give them a chance to make it work in pregame warmups.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
That doesn't happen as much as it does in the pros.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I think once upon a time, like if we go back,
I don't know, give it a good decade or so,
you might have been able to opuskate a little bit
with your practice possibility, right, stuff you do in the bubble,
uh you know, and away from what the beat reporters
are seeing and reporting, or the guy with the uh
you know how power telescopic lenses.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Looking in and beaming in.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Hey, that guy wasn't on the field, and maybe there'd
be some moving in that. Now we're we're into that
more perfect information because again the revenues are flowing the
changing face of college sports as a whole, which take
it or leave it, whether you want to want to
or not. It begets more of these kind of conversations,
you know, especially when you're having what media days in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
And other spaces as you have low so many years. Hey.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
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into the fantasy land with our top five quarterbacks for
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can make.
Speaker 8 (36:57):
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Speaker 2 (37:06):
Welcome back at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Jason smiths yeald with me, Mike Harmon, No Jason Smith Tonight,
Dan Byer in his stead, We're gonna do our fantasy
top five QB. See if we get a jumbling from
what we saw in twenty twenty four, any new entries,
and always trying to figure out how much you calculate
the greatness or the operation shutdown of week eighteen into
(37:28):
your new year and as you look ahead. But first
we've got the play of the day and well a
day game here in Los Angeles in triumphant fashion.
Speaker 12 (37:41):
That's the third, the time run, oh Tania's second, the
winning run one two Freeman line's about.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Him left field pater can't get him in.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
The Dodgers one's taper him my hero. Here you go,
Freddie Freeman with the walk off. Joe Davis, Dodgers TV
on the call. Bader tries to make the hero play
and instead allows the winning run in Otani.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
To score from second base. Four to three year final.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
O'tani did homer earlier in the game as well, fifth
straight day with a home run for him as well,
So yeah, getting it done. So the Dodgers now will
have a day off before they head to Boston. For
that story, we talked about Big Series Boston, one of
those teams kind of in no man's land of deciding
whether they want to hang around and see if they
(38:34):
can cobble together something to be competitive down the stretch
or did they start selling off ancillary parts.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Well, and the other thing about just the conversation that
we had miss speaking in a way that wasn't meant
to be misspoken. The labor dispute is between Aeron Mark
and it's in the union. The Red Sox are being
used to be brought into the ponds. Yeah, but it's
yeah to try to say like, all right, we either
need the workers or we don't. And I think that
(39:02):
the Union feels that the Red Sox could come in
and help their cause by saying we really need these
people for this three.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Games, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Yeah, it's the Ara Mark and the Union and certainly
the Red Sox ownership them in. They've got the deals
in place, right, So how much do they want to
flex in this prospect with so much revenue coming into town?
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Speaker 2 (39:38):
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Speaker 3 (39:39):
As we look at last year's final quarterback stats, you
go to the tail of the tape. Lamar Jackson was
your leader in the clubhouse, had a nice Week eighteen,
doesn't matter, was still number one. Josh Allen did not
play Week eighteen. He was number two. Joe Burrow and
Baker Mayfield curiously tied for third. They both played in
(40:03):
Week eighteen. With a bigger effort from Mayfield and number
five rookie Jaydon Daniels against the schedule that they had,
with some huge games down the stretch. He was a
hero certainly in the fantasy playoffs twenty three, six thirty six,
four thirty two eight. Right behind them Jared Goff and
Bo Nicks, those are your magnificent seven.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Kind of funny considering the recent ESPN rankings that had
the quarterbacks in the top five. Was the big discussion
on Jayden Daniels being at five the core four, if
you will, But the core four for fantasy does not
include Patrick Mahomes. As you look at those point getters
and Mike even as I'm sitting here looking at my
(40:45):
rankings as well, I don't know how you decipher Allen
and Lamar Lamar and Allen, it's it's I honestly think
it's it's who you like, and I just I think
that they're gonna put their numbers up, that they're gonna
put theirs up, and so it's however you want. However,
I do feel now that Jadon Daniels is a part
(41:05):
of that conversation, just because Burrow's the different type of
quarterback where he's not gonna be running as much, and
who knows what Jalen hurts and what's gonna happen with
the Eagles if you're not getting as many touchdowns. But
for those three, Mike, I, I'm actually moving Jaydon Daniels
up after the great rookie season is possibly being able
(41:25):
to challenge him those two for the number one spot.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Patrick Mahomes number eleven last year wide receiving course. Still
waiting on how many games Rashi Rice will miss when
the hammer of the NFL law comes down on him. Alan,
I guess James Cook gonna play the whole year? Is
he gonna be salty? Don't know, Lamar Jackson, You've still
got the Derrick Henry part of things. Joe Burrow, I
(41:49):
like him, perhaps as much of them, because guess what
we talked about Trey Hendrickson and Shamar Stewart a lot.
That defense didn't get any better.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
No, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Their offensive line still stinks too, though. So Joe Burrow
could be broken in half by how would you five?
Speaker 5 (42:03):
How would you put the five in order?
Speaker 3 (42:04):
I would take Jackson first, followed by Burrow, then Allen,
I'm gonna slide him down a little bit. And then
for me, the curiosity becomes Jalen Hurts number eight a
year ago, thinking maybe we get a little bit of
a bounce from him in the past game.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
Ah, Allen, Daniels, Lamar Hurts, Burrow my honorable mention, Dak
look at you.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
You like that George Pickens connection, do you?
Speaker 5 (42:32):
I just don't trust their defense.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yeah, that's probably a fair point, especially if maybe Micah
feels a little more of a hamstring sure pull that
takes him out and bad back right now from carrying the.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Weight of the world.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
He's Dan Byer on Mike Carmon Fox Sports Radio, Jason
Smith Show.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
With Me, Mike Carmon coming out next. How about building
of trust? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:50):
That let me go dance party on a Wednesday night here,
Mike Carbon Dan Byer with you, no Jason Smith night. Now,
I want to watch the video. I don't want to
talk to Jason Cole anymore. I I want to watch
music videos. As we said here at Dan Byron all
in his own rights right, it's it Jason Cole, no
(43:10):
question about. He's a powerful and attractive man on the
hotline with us. Find us at me at Swallendo, Dan
and Dan Byron Fox. Our next guest, NFL Hall of
Fame voter, author of many books that you can find
on Amazon, purveyor of great opinions across the National Football
League landscape. It's our buddy, Jason Cole at Jason Cole
(43:33):
sixty two on Twitter. Hey buddy, I was waiting work
that roundup. We didn't get it.
Speaker 12 (43:38):
You can't screw that up. But that's okay.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Well I didn't filibuster enough the A thank you the
man of the place, he's got the big deal.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
I don't know, I said, all your CV.
Speaker 12 (43:50):
Well, here's my question. Shouldn't we be playing like eight
miles a dictation to Smith since he's in Detroit or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
I mean, he's not here. I've staged a bloodless coup.
I'm the captain now.
Speaker 12 (44:06):
Yeah. Yeah, so or maybe maybe do we do Bob
Seeger or Kid Rock? Which would which would be the
Michigan Flash Detroit Star that you would pick?
Speaker 2 (44:20):
That's a good question. We should probably put it up
as a pole question.
Speaker 12 (44:24):
Yeah, I would. I would think so because you know,
you got all the motown. Yeah, yeah, so this is important.
What is he actually doing in Detroit? And this is
the annual this is the annual Detroit vacation.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Yeah, instead of going during the holidays, he's we finally
got him to move it to the summer.
Speaker 5 (44:43):
I tabbed it Jason Smith in the Mitten.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
I think that that like rolls off the tongue very well,
and I think that he needs to take more advantage
of Smith.
Speaker 12 (44:53):
Yeah, but that that sounds like like a serious dad joke.
It really does.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
I think it's pretty good.
Speaker 12 (45:00):
It's not bad Smith, and it's not bad, but it
is it's got dad joke jokish.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
But that's okay to do. He's a dad, My dad,
you're dead, I am, that's right. Yeah, so we got
that's flowing.
Speaker 12 (45:15):
What do we need to know about the National Football League?
Speaker 3 (45:18):
Well, how long will Joe Burrow have to put up
eighty five points a game because his top defensive pass
rushers aren't there. Seven years, seven more years, all right,
he's gone, and he's a mirror.
Speaker 12 (45:32):
This is this is this is the Cincinnati Bengals we're
talking about. They do not know how to take advantage
of a good thing. You've been handed one of the
great quarterbacks in the game, and it's like, oh, yeah,
let's play you know, let's short our best defensive player
and let's play games with our draft picks. That's that's clever,
(45:53):
and I love that. I love the logic from the
other day about the draft pick, which was, what if
he gets arrested? If you think this guy's going to
get arrested or has that higher propensity to get arrested,
why did you take him in the second round? Just
ask him that question. Why if he's such a risk,
if he's such a bad guy, why would you draft
(46:14):
him in the second round? Just just curious. Mike Brown,
can you answer that one for me?
Speaker 5 (46:20):
Did the answer? I can't?
Speaker 12 (46:22):
No?
Speaker 5 (46:23):
I yeah, well it.
Speaker 12 (46:26):
Is kind of a rhetorical question, but it's not as
good as Smith's in the midten What what?
Speaker 5 (46:32):
What is more egregious, though, is it that?
Speaker 4 (46:35):
Is it the not getting the Trey Hendricksson deal done
or having Shamar Stewart still not be signed.
Speaker 12 (46:42):
Alvit Hendrickson because he's he's actually a great player and
he's proven it and he deserves to get paid. There's nobody,
there's nobody in that locker room who who would sit there,
and probably nobody around the league who would say that
guy doesn't deserve to get paid and that you can't
build around him, because you build around guys like that.
You know, defense, the defensive lineman, defensive end our gold.
(47:05):
You have to have them. They change games. It's as
simple as that. They are ahead of only cornerbacks in
terms of defensive importance. You know, Now, if you have
a great defensive tackle who can also rest of the
passer and disrupt, say you have the Aaron donald type,
(47:25):
then that can trump an edge guy, but only occasionally.
You got to have, you case, you have to have
a defensive tackle who can produce twelve, thirteen, fourteen sacks
you know, every year, or has that kind of potential. See,
you know you're talking Warren Sapps, You're talking to Aaron Donalds.
You're talking about pure Hall of Fame guys.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
And dominicanso Like he was saying he should have been
paid more than Matthew Stafford the other day.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
So you got all of that.
Speaker 12 (47:52):
Yeah, you actually have to touch the quarterback though, and
dominants generally just wrestled with offensive lineman. This is why
to beat.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Them up literally at times, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Jason call our guest here, Jason Smith show with me,
Mike Harmon, No, Jason Smith and I Dan Byer in
his stead. So Mike Brown had his press conference and
all that fun. And then Jerry Jones our favorite, he's
at it again with Micah Parsons. Can we just get
to the end of the night dance where it's last
chance and these guys just sidle up to each other
(48:25):
and get done with it because you know he's got
to pay on.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Just do it.
Speaker 12 (48:29):
Yeah, there's a fast war fund to head here and
there's some games in the ship. But this is this
is Jerry just playing the role that hey, look at me,
I'm so great and let's get the attention. So let's
generate some more attention out of this, which again it
goes back to his mantra, there's no news there's nothing.
(48:54):
There's no bad news out there, you know, there's no
bad publicity. And it's just like no, because this is
the kind of news that aggravates your players and makes
your players ask if that dude can't get paid. It's
the same thing with Hendrickson, if that dude can't get paid?
Who does get paid? What do you have to do
to get And do I have to endure this? He
(49:15):
is again to make me nervous all the time. It's just,
you know, it's distraction for distraction's sake. Although I had
this thought today. Is he trying to get the rights
to the Mica Bees, which would be like the mccaby's,
Like wow, right, yeah, because you're getting the whole, you know,
ethnic athletic association kind of thing, and you're just kind
(49:38):
of crossing over into the mccabis. You know. I think
this is brilliant by Jerry. So it's the Mica Bees.
Speaker 5 (49:46):
In the end.
Speaker 4 (49:48):
Does Michael Parson's care because he's going to get paid?
Speaker 5 (49:51):
Like we can say, players are ticked off.
Speaker 12 (49:53):
I really thought you're asking the serious questions.
Speaker 5 (49:55):
I just can't Mica be Hey, hey, I'll tell you
what you got?
Speaker 4 (50:00):
Hey, will you will you said, you shut down my
smith in the Minten like you wouldn't believe and you
can't handle that.
Speaker 12 (50:06):
I mean, come on, with bees, it's it's a cowboy
it's a news strain of cowboy bees.
Speaker 3 (50:13):
The cowboy Bees is a log see Dan apprivy to
that part though, the cowboy Bees merchandising of years past.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
It's a new year, it's a.
Speaker 3 (50:22):
New it's a new UH annual output here.
Speaker 12 (50:25):
They're faster, They're faster and quicker bees. They don't pivot
play the run particularly well, but they're faster and quicker bees.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
It's a long, long run with Jerry Jones, no question
about it. Here we were talking a little bit about Miami. Uh, Mike,
Mike McDaniel. Uh, what's your overall evaluation of him as
a coach? Does he just need a different quarterback to
build with?
Speaker 12 (50:49):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (50:50):
How does this play out as to UH and Tyreek
Hill and well a team trying to get back on
you know, don't.
Speaker 12 (50:56):
You get the kind of the the feeling that uh,
you know, like you like McDaniel personally, but he's kind
of like a likable version of Chip Kelly where you're
just playing this BS offense that's wide open that can't
really run the ball officially, can't control games. It'll produce
(51:17):
a lot of points, it'll be interesting to watch, it'll
be fun. They'll be really entertaining, but it's not really
winning football. Now. They have a pretty soft schedule, if
I remember, in the first five weeks, I don't have
it up in front of me, so they have a
chance to kind of spring that to a good start.
But they'd be really good because I think they have
like three cold weather games in the last six weeks.
(51:39):
I mean, it's or some really tough schedule that you
just kind of look at and go, you bet you
better have built up a bunch of wins before you
get to that stretch. But yeah, I like I like
McDaniel and I want him to succeed because he's fun
and he's interesting. But the offense is I don't I
(52:00):
really don't believe in the offense being a title winning offense.
And it may be more about the quarterback than it
is the offense. But even though the forty nine ers
have come close to winning it with theoretically the same offense,
it's only theoretically the same offense. In practice, it looks
(52:21):
more like Chip Kelly like, let's just you know, let's
chuck and duck, you know, like just throw it around
and make sure that Tua doesn't get hurt. But you
know two is going to get hurt. It it's just
gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (52:32):
Mike and I were just talking about Tua having to
talk about Tyreek Hill and building trust. If you're talking
about building building trust in the first day of training,
first days of training camp with your veteran receivers, is
that a sign of Is that a bad sign entering
the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 12 (52:51):
Well, it's not promising. But I'll also get this, like,
who's he going to throw it to.
Speaker 4 (52:57):
Johnny Smith left to pay him?
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (53:01):
Yeah, I mean we're gonna throw the ball more to Waddle.
I mean, but when you when you drop back and
you say which dude's open, you look at Tyreek. That
dude's going to be open, right, So Tyreek's still going
to get the ball playing and he catches it and
he doesn't. I mean, he's a dangerous dude. He's a
border borderline Hall of Famer, probably a Hall of Famer
(53:25):
at some point. But you know that's gonna be a
tough argument because of all the wide receivers who generate numbers,
but like, this is a singularly special player who's been
able to maintain his speed and ability for so long.
At the end of the day, it's sort of like
the Oakland as in the nineteen seventies. They really didn't
(53:46):
get along that well, but they played hard on the field.
They got they got a lot, like they literally punched
each other in the lock in the locker room and
you know, in the clubhouse and in the dugout. But
then they went once for straight championships, Like like I
think you kind of have to look at it and say,
that's what two is going to do. He may not
(54:07):
like throwing the ball to Tyreek, he may not like Tyreek,
but it's like that dude's open.
Speaker 4 (54:13):
You're getting on me for dad jokes and you're referencing
the nineteen seventy A's cole Like.
Speaker 5 (54:19):
Come on, like what are we what are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (54:23):
Bill norths Now.
Speaker 12 (54:26):
That's just it's just so weak.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
It's just so verbal.
Speaker 12 (54:31):
I know. But but I can go from Mica Bees
to the Subtecree. I'm showing I am showing range.
Speaker 2 (54:38):
That is good, a lot of range.
Speaker 12 (54:41):
Tremendous range here, I am like Ozzie Smith. Baby, That's
that's the kind of range that I have.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
All right, you were great in the field and occasionally
you hit all right, now the.
Speaker 12 (54:53):
Which is true. It's actually true, so I couldn't hit
it all.
Speaker 3 (54:56):
So let me pull this back in in the NFL
world as a whole. Remember, we are need to be
FCC compliant. So you're gonna have to go into your
thesaurus and dictionary pull out. If I were to just say,
Jason Cole, give me like I'm a five year old,
you're descriptor of the current situation with the NFLPA.
Speaker 12 (55:20):
I think Wayne Johnson said it all what he said today.
Speaker 2 (55:23):
Yeah, no, you can't say that.
Speaker 12 (55:25):
I can't say that. I can't say it. Look, we've
known this for seventeen years. I mean, just go back
to when they elected Demorris Smith. This is this is
a great this is a great story that somebody told
me the other day that it was year. It was
twenty eleven. De Smith was in his like third or
(55:47):
fourth year, right, and he was in he was out
let's just say he was out on the road. I
don't want to narrow it, and he met up with
this agent, and this agent had one of his players
with him, and the player was a backup player who
was a free agent or about to be a free agent. Yeah.
(56:10):
Nice nice guy, nice player, but you know, just a backup.
And so they got into the discussion, Oh, you're gonna
be a free agent, and he said, are they going
to franchise you? And the agent kind of looks and
goes the thoughts on himself, we have no chance. He
(56:31):
was like in in year four and he didn't understand
what the franchise tag was. He also didn't understand like
this is not used on backups. He didn't understand who
the player was he was talking about. And this has
just gone and gotten worse and worse and worse and
more games to play. I actually think that this is
(56:51):
when we step back from this. This is actually going
to be a really healthy thing. It's like it's like
a really violent cleansing. It's like taking you know, tept
of this mall for seven straight days and seeing, you know,
what the what the results are and then adding like
brand on top of it. This is what this is
(57:12):
kind of what the NFLP is going through. But I
think that the end result has a chance to be
really great because they'll get back to the fundamental things
they need to have, which is player leadership and players
paying attention. And so yeah, they're going to have to
live through you know, what Pat McAfee has said, which
(57:32):
was vicious, what Lane Johnson said, which was vicious but accurate. Right,
They're going to have to live through all the embarrassment
of you know, their executive director, not just not just
the fact that they broke the law or broke union
law by not disclosing you know, breaching by breaching fiduciary responsibility,
but not giving players information that was critical to contract negotiations.
(57:56):
Never mind that, but the guy went to a club,
made the car wait for eight hours, and then expensed
it even though he's making three point four million dollars.
Speaker 4 (58:07):
Yeah, I just don't think he gets enough credit for
being a good hang, you know, Like I mean, you
can rip him the strands.
Speaker 12 (58:14):
Oh no, oh no, no no no. You talk to players,
they'll tell you that Lloyd was a good hang. They liked.
Speaker 2 (58:20):
No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 12 (58:21):
He gets a lot of credit. If you talk to
guys off to the side, they're like, oh, yeah, he
was cool, he was a good hand. That's not what
you want for an executive director, but.
Speaker 2 (58:31):
You not it.
Speaker 3 (58:32):
But if you're expensing all sorts of stuff, you're thinking
I can get away with this, you know, extra plate
of chicken wings at the strip club.
Speaker 12 (58:39):
Well but yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
And an eight hour car service that you said.
Speaker 12 (58:42):
Going to toutsy which advertises itself as seventy six thousand
square feet of the largest strip club in the world.
And it was built. It was built in a former
BJ's appropriately BJ's distributorship. Okay, that's what it used to be.
(59:03):
It was one of the where it was one of
the warehouses for for Bjay's discount.
Speaker 3 (59:08):
It's also seventy five percent the size of the Universal
Studios Hollywood Horror Nights.
Speaker 2 (59:14):
There's one, there's one to go for, okay, sure nights.
Good lord.
Speaker 5 (59:21):
Just trying to keep it.
Speaker 3 (59:22):
Here, keeping it above board here like eating a spoonful
of draino. Sure it'll clean you out, but I'll leave
you a hollow inside frank drabbing naked gun. Thanks Jason Cole,
You're a wonderful human being. Thanks for stopping out.
Speaker 12 (59:35):
I'm a great hang and my bagels at the Magel
Bakery that.
Speaker 2 (59:40):
I'll shuffle up and deal and do that right away.
Speaker 3 (59:42):
At Jason Coal sixty two you can see his latest
work that he's doing.
Speaker 2 (59:46):
Uh yeah, he bought a bagel place down in Florida.
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:58):
Training camp news and notes coming about.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
We got a lot of quarterback stories that are circuling,
which is always good as well as the holdout fun
because while we need labor dispute in every sport, it
would see him at this point check an other box
but in Jason's place tonight as he traverses the universe,
perhaps actually making his way to Michigan for a muskrat
and dinner. Dan Byer, my colleague, got great to be here.
(01:24):
I watch a flex podcast. You hear him on the
Doug Gottlieb Show and part of Cavino and Rich and
of course on Sundays Fox Sports Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
He and I.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Have you been hitting the links like you had a
couple of days. I know, just got a family in town.
Any golf in the.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Mix family put it on a hiatus, Mike. But I'm
ramping up for a big, big event in the next month,
and that's just basically going home and playing with the buddies.
I'm gonna try to have to make a fool of myself.
So golf clubs with family in town put aside. But
I am going to be getting into mode, ramping up
for that Masters. If you will, just like you O
(02:01):
Tiger Woods would always try to do well, That's just
it right.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You got to have that goal and visualize it and
have it out there.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And I mean, if you need me to put out
some tweets about it, you know, just to try to
fuel you I can.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
I could do that too. By the way, Who am
I kidding?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Tiger just kicked everyone's butt anyway, so they didn't need
to wrap up.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh something had to click there mentally. I mean, we've
been talking about that a lot, you and I off
air and on the Sunday Show is related to Scottie
Scheffler and all that fun dialogue about him. We're watching
The Rays and White Sox. We'll see if I get
another text from my mom if the Rays can hold on,
because she mocked me after the last raise win in
that series.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So that was great.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Always good to know that your family loves you and
it's checking in thanks to our team being.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
With us here.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
We got Monsey at the news desk, We've got Alex
and Justin making a sound so pretty, and of course
all of you.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
However, you're listening on.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Our terrestrial radio stations four hundred plus affiliates nationwide, the
iHeartRadio app where you take us wherever you go set
a land. We've got a fun four hours ahead of
you for you. Some fantasy football mixed in, some top
five lists, a lot of quarterback news, and a little
league controversy that I think will all appreciate.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It just dawned on me that your parents are kind
of the argument for the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Now with new ownership coming in.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I know, they're expected to stay in the area because
the ownership group is from Florida, but the new stadium
that they wanted now maybe not gonna happen. But the
argument had always been, Mike, the Rays get good viewership.
They watched the Rays in the Tampa Bay area, and
here your mom is turned into a Raise fan because
(03:38):
of their living situation in the area from Chicago. She
is the example that so many points to on why
the Rays should stay on the west coast of Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I do dig that.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Then they got a valuation of one point seven billion.
That shows you the price of poker and what the
imminent TV deals really kind of mean.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And this whole process.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
We got some data from the NFL that'll blow your
mind a little bit later on. But yeah, White Sox,
now take a lead. Maybe I should start texting her, haha,
how's that feel? Colson Montgomery just called up one of
the would be new stars for the White Sox.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But yeah, the old.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
One with the the hefty bag look and everything. Obviously
you know, big thought violent storms took it down. But
other than the two touch ray tank, not a whole
lot of personnality.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
No, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
One of those parks where you if you're on a
ballpark tour, you do it because it's one of the
thirty that you have to go to, but not one
that you circle and make you're like, well, let's just
get the rays out of the way, then we'll figure
out everything else from there.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
No, that's it, right, And it was a cheap gut yeah,
I mean it's a five dollar entry on most nights
as well as you roll up with many folks coming
from assisted living centers and others by the bus load.
I'm calling it what it is. It's just reality. You
want to hate ad swollen down on this.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I thought that's what they did well, but.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
That's the larger thing, right for that and they become
Lightning fan. Mom still has her allegiance to the Cubs
and the memory of Ron Sano, but we'll leave that
and put a pin in that for now, as that
game is in the top of the eight White Sox
of rally to an eight to seven lead National Football League.
So many stories, Dan and one that I think is
moderately interesting because the first video clip I saw this
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morning when I loaded up my computer because I had
an adventure where I left my phone at a grocery
store and thankfully they didn't sell.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
It before I recovered it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
But I load up the old X account and there's
the first video is Jackson Dart throwing a pick six
in an eleven on eleven Like, there you go, so
that's fun. And then we get Joe Shane, Brian Dable,
everybody talking about, well Dart has the opportunity to make
some noise in the quarterback Derby, But as expected, Russell
(05:56):
Wilson's going to get the one chair out of the
gate to see what he can do here in training camp.
And it's the curiosity of how much Russ's learned from
past experiences, past locker rooms, past media coverage of his
being in said locker rooms, and maybe those disconnects and
(06:16):
whether that matters to him at this point, Like, because
that's the thing with Russell Wilson as he goes to
another spot. No expectations for the Giants to achieve, which
is curious because you'd think you'd go all in either
on the veteran with the ability to still be an
ace or Jackson darts a guy that let's call it
(06:36):
what it is, it's a dart throw. Right when we
got to the drafts, he was a guy that was
very a sexy prospect. Last September. By draft day, I
was like, Ah, let's see what happens. Right, A couple
of people liked him and you saw, like you know,
the old movers and the charts or whatever. But the
jury was out and now you have this quarterback room
with an embattled GM and coach.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
The old adage was coaches and gms would stick with
the veteran because they felt that that was the guy
that could save their job. And that's no longer the case.
It hasn't been that case for ten years in the NFL.
And if if you and I'm not talking about you,
Mike Carmon, I'm talking about anybody listening, and I guess
Russell Wilson for this. If you think that Russell Wilson
can be the starting quarterback of the New York Giants
(07:20):
for this entire season, you're an idiot because it's not
going to happen, not for the entire season. There's already
rumblings that if they start off zero to two, by
the way, in a division, for as bad as we
think that Dallas could be, or at least what their
off season was, for as bad as it could be, we.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Still think the Giants are worse.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Right and so too to look at where the Giants
are right now, and even here Joe Shane not even
give the one hundred percent endorsement. Russell Wilson needs to
know and everybody I think knows by now that Russell
Wilson's days is a long term starting quarterback in Mike
Long term I mean a season, a full season as
(08:01):
a starting quarterback not working. We saw it not work
in Denver, we sawt not work in Pittsburgh. In fact,
the message from Pittsburgh to us was we're not gonna
bring back both Fields and Wilson, but we could bring
back one of them. Well Field signs with the Jets,
and Wilson's still out there and there's no Russell Wilson
back in Pittsburgh. Obviously they go with Aaron Rodgers in
(08:24):
the end, but didn't seem like the Steelers were really
in any hurry to bring him back to Pittsburgh. So
now you go to the Giants, and you think it's
gonna be anything different than the previous two stops, it's not.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, the end the amount of money that Denver eight
to make him go away, sure, and then Mike Tomlin
was bullheaded.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
They had success with Fields, was it perfect?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
No, But they make the switch to Wilson and he
was damned if that wasn't gonna work.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I mean, that's the epitome of man.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
When your kids are young and they want to put
that block in that hole that you know isn't gonna fit.
They're gonna find a mallet, they're gonna find another truck,
another dinosaur or whatever, and they're gonna hammer the hell
out of it until it kind of starts to break
apart to where it fits into that hole. Current over
unders Eagles eleven and a half, wins Commanders at nine
(09:11):
and a half, Cowboys a Curiosity at seven and a half,
and then the Giants at five and a half.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Here's Joe Shane on what his best case scenario would be.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
I'm wondering how you Gduely feel about, you know, sort
of for lack a bit of turned red shirting a
quarterback or a first round pick and sort of having
them sit the majority or most of the year.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Yeah, you know, going through the process. We have Mike
Kafka on the roster or on the staff obviously as
our offensive coordinator. He was in Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes.
I think he played one game at the end of
the year, so we've seen that. Our plan in Buffalo
was for Josh to probably not play much his first year,
but the way it worked out, halftime in the first game,
we're get blown out by Baltimore and we put him
(09:53):
in and you know, he played the rest of the year.
So you know, I think there's some real benefits from
sitting and learning. Specifically is from some of the guys
in the room that have the experience that they have.
But you know, if the coaching staff at some point
feels it's right and he's ready, then you know, I'll
leave that up to them.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Assistant head coach and OC go kats, Mike Kafka, uh
former Eagle and Chief and everything and then in his
coaching career. But it does become the curiosity of when
you see the writing on the wall of the last ditch,
you know, pull the pin on the grenade because you're
trying to save your job if you're both Joe Shane
(10:30):
and Brian Dable.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
And at some point you're gonna have to turn to
Jackson Dart. But not because he's a first round pick.
But it's just the way in today's NFL that you
just you need to find out, you need to find out.
And I think it could be a lost year with
how things are setting up for the Giants, Mike. Defensively,
(10:53):
they've got dudes, They've got guys. If their offensive line
can stay healthy, fine, but still at the quarterback position,
and I don't know if there's a sure fire answer
because the only person I just don't know about is
Jackson Dart. I know about Russell Wilson, I know about
Jamis Winston, I know about Tommy DeVito, and we know
those three. I know we all know about those three guys.
(11:15):
So when you have Jackson Dart, even if he's the
twenty fifth overall pick, and I don't love Joe Shane
using him in the same breath as Josh Allen and
Patrick Mahomes, however, it helps his argument with it.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
And if Jackson Dart.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Doesn't work out, new people are in and the Giants
are probably starting over. Again, anyway, it's not as big
of a loss because it was twenty fifth overall pick
in the draft. However, you have to take a look
at him and at least get some sort of assessment
this season on him. And I think if you're a
Giants fan, sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It is the fun part when you get into hey,
we've got Kafka on the staff, and look who he
worked with and look how great they are. Yeah, like,
all right, you might be over selling his in put
to the process. I'm not gonna say he's a zero,
but on a giant pie chart, I mean, what about
that Andy Reid guy? Yes, you know, and then even
had you know, former Bears coach Naggy, that's going to
(12:12):
take some slice of that and go on down the line,
go back to Buffalo and what they've had run through
there as well.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Just even I who Patrick Mahomes was coming out of college,
there was enough to be like, Okay, this could be
the guy, and we didn't think it was going to
be just Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen honestly was such
an intriguing prospect for what he was out of Wyoming.
There were just questions because of Wyoming and could he
(12:39):
be accurate? And he's obviously worked through those, but they
were top prospects. They were bigger prospects, and their draft
position represents that than Jackson Dart was entering, entering this
quarterback draft that we had this past year, which wasn't
even then enticing no exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And you know it's one.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I don't do a lot of victory laps on Fox
Sports Radio, but I will dunk on those colleagues that
thought Josh Allen was just going to be a running
back manny an argument, particularly on Fox Sports Sunday all
those years ago. Interesting to note that the Giants begin
their season ready at Commanders at Cowboys home against Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh oh wait, then the Chargers come to town.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I didn't even I can't remember who it was, but
somebody said, if they're facing zero to two, you may
be looking at Jackson Dart in week three.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Think about that.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
That's, by the way, that's all you need to know
about about Russell Wilson again, like they're not going to
give them any leeway on the road, Dable and Shane
trying to save their jobs, You're gonna at least want
to get a look at the kid. But it also
makes me wonder about Jameis Winston. I think people believe
that Tommy DeVito's the odd the odd man out in
all of this, But I don't know. Can you have
(13:59):
Winston and Will both on the same team and want
to get a look at Jackson dart on me counter productive?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Only if you now get a reality show out of it.
Just think about those three guys in a room together,
just Russell.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Jamis Sar.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
It's called Winston, Winston and Wilson.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
There you go have it at it.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
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Speaker 9 (15:50):
Hey, we're Cavino and Rich Fox Sports Radio every day
five to seven pm Eastern. But here's the thing. We
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Speaker 10 (15:58):
And that's why we have a brand new podcast called
over Promised. You see, we're having so much fun in
our two hour show. We never get to everything, honestly,
because this guy is over promising things we never have
time for.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, you blubber list jam in me.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Well you know what it's called over promise. You should
be good at it because you've been over promising women
for years.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
Well, it's a Covino and Rich after show and we
want you to be a part of it. We're gonna
be talking sports, of course, but we're also gonna talk
life and relationships. And if Rich and I are arguing
about something or we didn't have enough time, it will
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Speaker 2 (16:29):
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Speaker 3 (16:54):
Greetings and welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith
Show with Me, Mike Carmon, No Jason Smith this week
off gallivanting and finding himself.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Maybe in the state of Michigan. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Maybe it'll be in a new tourism ad with me
today and tomorrow. I got Dan Bayer joins me. You
hear him Middays on the Doug Gottlieb Show as part
of that show and Cavino and Rich and then he
and I do a little thing called I Watch a Flex,
the Fantasy Football podcast, which is coming back, and earn
us some segments already up there from some of our
Sunday Morning Fox Sports Sunday conversations, some of the ranking stuff,
(17:28):
some of the off season meanderings and draft status and
all that fun stuff. And well now we get to
rev it up again.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
There are a lot of sickos that will be in
on this well, from the way the season ends, all
the way in the spring through the summer and even
right now. But I feel like August first is the
start line. That's what you start. There could be early
drafts because of people's schedules, but August one is the day,
but we try to get you wrapped up for the
fantasy season. Can't wait to talk fantasy later on in
the show. And I'm also wondering why Jason doesn't do
(17:59):
any Smith and the Minton sort of shows like that
should be the promo if he's doing a show. If
he was to do a show while in Michigan, Smith
and the Mitton I think works really well.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I think that rolls off the tongue.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yes, especially if he's at that restaurant with the Muskrat dinners.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I think it would be good.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
He also want to say, Mancy Blonda is at the
news desk. She found out within the past three years
that there's an upper peninsula right Monty up.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Correct, there you go.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
That was that was a new found the tidbit.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
Yes, and it was easy to remember. I'm really bad
with geography. I don't know where anything's up it.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
So as like the up.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
Yeah, and he's like upper peninsula and I said, start over,
that's okay. I'm like, it's first grade.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Explain it to me.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I remember, forget it geography something long, long ago, right long,
and it's just up.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's just up the up. I won't forget it.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
And that's one to grow on. See the learning never stops.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Man.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Every day we come up with something chaotic. Now coming
into this we and into this week where we sit
in this moment in time on a Wednesday, we've been
talking a lot about labor disputes, whether it's holdout players
in the National Football League. Trey Hendrickson, I'm taking my
ball and I'm going down to Florida. I'll keep training
and see y'all later. Michah Parsons, I'm going to show
(19:16):
up and I'm going to start trading barbs with Jerry
Jones through the media and so many others. Right Juwan Jennings,
he showed up for work and he practiced with the
forty nine ers earlier as he's still saying, hey, I
want to get paid beyond my meager earnings here. But
a couple of stories also that go into our baseball
world and the WNBA. That's a whole other CBA that
(19:39):
needs to be agreed upon. But going into this weekend,
the huge baseball series that will will come to bear,
and there's a story spawning off of that. First off,
Mookie Betts, former Red Sox star now with the Dodgers
and struggling this year. Go back to the series in
Japan where he lost a lot of weight and was
unavailable for a period of time, and he struggled all
(20:02):
season long, changing of positions. Now back at the top
of the batting order, He's three for twenty eight since
being reinstalled there, so trying to figure out his swing.
Dave Roberts says he may miss the opening of the
series for personal reasons, So trying to figure out. And
I'll hope he and his family are okay, but certainly
for the Dodger fans and the Greater Los Angeles base,
(20:24):
still a lot of questions and concerns for that. Now
to the labor side of things, Fenway Park workers have
agreed to green light a strike that could happen for
three days and three days only. I feel like I'm
going into Mama Mia at the end when Meryl Streep
comes forward for one night and for one night on
for three days. So it's already just predetermined. We're gonna
(20:45):
have a lotted, thirsty and hungry Dodger fans filling Fenway Park.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And being around the area. So you know what, Aaron Mark,
we want more money. We want less automation right, less
of the Kiosk kind of stuff. We want more ability
to wear its transactions with dollars because well, people more
likely maybe give me a quarter tip there as opposed
to just click click click on a tablet all of
those things. So saying that they could begin striking at
(21:12):
noon on Friday, lasting three days while the Dodgers are
in town.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
I am shocked at this.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
The reason being is why would you show how they
can get by in life without you. I understand that
there's a huge weekend and that's why they're choosing this
weekend to do it, to try to cause chaos, and
maybe the systems that the Red Sox don't have in
place at this time Mike are able to be implemented
(21:42):
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but Monday's going to come
around pretty quick. So I hate to say it, but
I'm siding with the team on this, Like, how are
you gonna how are you going to show your worth
moving forward? If you're worried about being replaced buy machines
at some point. I I don't know the ins and
outs of it, and I know when you go to
(22:02):
football games. The neat thing about a football game is
a lot of times it's maybe local organizations running that
booth or a college atmosphere because college basketball there's only
so many games that you have in a season that
you can get a youth group or a church group
they run that concession stand and you have people there
when it's in it's a way for those groups to
(22:24):
raise money.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
When you have this.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
In this company and everything is turning to automation, yeah,
it's going to cause chaos this weekend. I just don't
know how in the world it's going to strengthen your case,
because to me, it's just a matter of time before
those Fenway franks are being handed out by robots. Well yeah,
just not robots, but you know what I mean, but.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
The ordering process right, to streamline the process, I mean,
we've seen booskus all over fast food restaurants and in
a lot of a lot of ballparks. Now you have
the order from your phone and they bring it to
you like they do at movie theaters whatever else. It
doesn't eliminate people entirely, but it cuts some off right.
It's going to shrink their workforce. And in this case,
(23:07):
they've been operating without a deal since the end of
the calendar year twenty twenty four and operating this entire time,
talking about all these different parts of their labor, just
the friction, but then saying, well, because it'll be a
really busy weekend, this is how we're going to show them.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
If you knew that there wasn't somebody walking up and
down the aisle saying.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Cold beer, you know what you would do? You just
go get your cold beers.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Right right like, and that's the time there.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I mean, look, I operated out of the third deck,
you know, the three hundred levels in Chicago, other than
that one guy who's a legend because he would carry
like four cases at a time.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And just dominate a lot of times those beers were warm.
I mean it just it was a.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Tough go so you'd end up at the kiosk yourself anyway.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I get the personality of some it's not all we
know that for sure. Times you sitting there at a
baseball game going like, gosh, is the lemonade guy gonna
come by again? He has not been here since the
second inning. Guess so I'm just gonna go up and
get a lemonade. I just I don't know, I don't
know what leg they have to stand on. But I
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would not want to give the Red Sox an opportunity
to do anything or show anything that would make their
work less important than it already seems to be.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
To the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Beer vendor, Laura Crystal told Front Office Sports, quote, it's
a big series. A lot of people in town, Henry
and Aramark scan to make a lot of money. They
don't want a disruption as much as we don't want
a disruption. But if that's going to help us, so
be it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
So be it. Again, Owing to.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
The whatever it would take and the time to develop
an app to get someone to bring it to your seat,
there's half your vendors gone. Now you just have a
runner for five sections, yes, or you go get it yourself.
In the instance that you brought.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Up, that's yeah, I get it.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
I get that they're trying to squeeze, But if you're
worried about that, I just wouldn't give them any opportunity
to show that they can get by with you.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
That is the opportunity.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yes, it feels awful saying take what you can get,
but I kind of just feel like that's the case.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Well, but also I mean there's there's always the potential
that they just say you don't you don't want to
work here, and you've got deals like the union deal
is suspended, right and they're they're operating good faith whatever.
Not showing up for a big series, you're kind of
breaking some of that. Yeah, also announcing it with a
few days advance. Notice you don't think there's meetings in
the Red Sox offices right now. Of how automation, Hey,
(25:39):
can we get another computer or two up and running
by Friday morning. Might have to change up how we
do things a little bit, but we'll get by.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I don't know if they'll do it like Doug Deacon
and Arthur did when they were on strike at ips
on King of Queens. But it'd be a wonderful way
to spend a weekend, wouldn't it right?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And eventually I end up with any money that's land grubin.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Betting on the what's the what was the spinning wheel?
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Speaker 2 (26:10):
Say that's nicely done. Ah, I bet you it's going
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All right, let's start it over to the news desk. Now,
coming up next, we'll talk more well, more labor, and
some more chaos here as they try to navigate the
college world with the sharks swimming. But since it is
Shark week, but let's go over to the news desk
with Mancy Belangia's full slate of Major League Baseball. So
she'll have to talk really.
Speaker 11 (26:58):
Fast and maybe a little bit of Upper Peninsula and
the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I I'll find out some facts.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Do you know who's from the Upper Peninsula?
Speaker 5 (27:08):
No, John Morosi.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I was really kind of hoping that there was just
gonna be some random ames. No.
Speaker 11 (27:13):
I was thinking of a random I was like, who's
from the other who's from Michigan? No?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
No, John PALMROSSI I did not know that.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
All right, we'll start here in baseball fellas eleven innings
in Philadelphia of baseball going on. It's been back and
forth between the Red Sox and the Phillies. Right now,
Boston is up nine to seven bottom of the eleventh inning.
Phillies have a man on third, but they are down
to their final out in this game. Breitz Harper hit
his three hundred and fiftieth career home run for Boston.
(27:41):
Rome Gonzalez hit a grand Slam in the fifth inning
to take the lead. It really has been back and forth,
but nine to seven bottom of the eleventh inning, Boston
on top. White Sox are on top of the Rays
eleven nine. Bottom of the eighth inning. The Rangers just
edged the A's two to one. A's are probably not
gonna forget this one. That go ahead run scored by
Texas is on a pop fly where the A's just miscommunicated.
(28:03):
It dropped a run scored Rangers win. It not gonna
forget that one anytime soon. The Blue Jays outscored the
Yankees eight four. They now have a four game lead
on New York in the Al East. Aaron Judge did
hit his thirty seventh homer of this season. In this loss,
the Dodgers walked it off four to three against the
Twins thanks to a bases loaded two RBI single from
Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
He's used to that.
Speaker 11 (28:23):
Sho Hey Adani also homered for the fifth consecutive game time,
a Dodgers franchise record, and Mookie Betts could miss Friday's
series opener against the Red Sox due to personal reasons.
Dave Roberts announced this after the game. The Guardians did
edge the Orioles three to two. In college hoops, USC
five star freshman Elijah Arenas has suffered a meniscus tare
(28:44):
and is expected to be sidelined for at least six
to eight months, and fever star Kaelin Clark has been
ruled out for Tomorrow's game against the Aces.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Back to you guys, there you go, Manti Belagias, find
your eye on Twitter at Monte Belangia's famous people from
the up. Who's in the news A lot who shall
not be named. I'll just leave it at that. We've
got the Terry Crews, Madonna James of the UP.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Really I thought that she was just from suburban Detroit.
Speaker 12 (29:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Well, they've credited her as a yuper, So.
Speaker 11 (29:17):
You're not You're not from the same area. Like, it's
not like you got up a peninsula in Detroit. You're like, no, well,
separate Northern California, southern California.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
There might be beef with this list.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
I don't know, and Detroit just in you know, entire rivals.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yeah, Vince Gilligan breaking bad. Josh Grobin, I mean, come on,
it's beautiful up. You don't know, Josh Grobin, I mean, come.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
On, Marquette, the whole deal, Marquette Michigan. Yes see, there
you go.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
See we learned all sorts of new things. Thanks Monsie.
I will check back with you in a little bit
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Speaker 5 (30:11):
Maybe not.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Just Hey, Jason Smith and doctor Harmon.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
By the way, I know you're transitioning to a topic
regarding the ACC with a Big ten school but a
former Atlantic Coast Conference member, University of Maryland.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah, so we've got the ACC now changing up their
policy of how they're going to report injuries where we're
going to get some of the more traditional listings like
we've seen for NFL games and for those unaware, long
long time ago, the injury report existed and it was
pretty much known far and wide. It was because of gambling. Likewise,
(30:51):
the ACC and changing the policy for all conference games
is owing to that same thing, with the number of
people that are fishing around for inside information, the growth
of the gambling space, the legalization state to state and across.
Really there's just a couple of states that seem like
there'll be a holdouts forever, and we're residing in one
(31:13):
now here in California, where daily fantasy may go away
before it's all said and done. But that's a whole
other thing. Yeah, just cut off those revenue streams. You
don't need that. But all in that to say, this
doesn't seem like I like the announcement of it, but
this always was the case. You always had people fishing around.
It just was a little more buried underground here. But
(31:36):
I think just the formalization of the process of trying
to be transparent. I would be curious in each of
those organizations, like what now other hallmarks that you're setting
up for security, and how people are engaging in their
processes and who outside the organization that they're working with.
(31:58):
But it's at least a step you acknowledge, Hey, we
see problems, we see major League Baseball, we see other
leagues that have had these issues. We're at least going
to make a public policy to thwart this to a degree.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I think that to your point of it, being transparent
is one hundred percent the deal. And it was just
more of a case of I feel Vegas knew the
information and you could tell with lines on players. Sure,
you just wouldn't know if a guy was going to
play or not by what the what that line was?
(32:34):
Vegas had that information. Now it's just the acc saying like,
we're not trying to keep the wole, you know, pull
the wool over your eyes or keep it hidden from you.
But they, they, and by they, the insiders in Las
Vegas have known this information many a times. Mike, do
you remember when you just would look at a line
(32:56):
and be like wow, so and so is injured on Saturday,
that line is now this, they have no chance to play.
And the only thing that was I guess, non transparent
about it was just that the teams and the schools
and the leagues just wouldn't tell us. But that information
was there, and if you knew the line and you
(33:19):
looked at the line, you knew what the status of
said player would be.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Something we talk about all the time, right, how much
value right quarterbacks? Obviously the biggest movers we can see
three points to ten points.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Right, Brady was.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Worth nine and a half I think for a good
chunk of his career, perhaps even a little more. Patrick
Mahomes when that Chiefs machine is rolling, go on and
you know all the way through right wins above replacement
come to your betting line. The other piece of this is, obviously,
as states are taking some of this money in right.
So we're talking about the North Carolina considering a proposal
(33:53):
right now that would give him up to twenty million
dollars of tax revenue from gambling into state ins institutions.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Such as North Carolina and NC State.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
So in that case, the more you're in bed with
gambling as a as an entity, whether it's advertising behind
home plate in a game or in this case, state
school's taking funding from such residuals that you know, transparency
is the only way to go.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
I don't think it changes much. I think that the
inside information is still going to be there. And again,
this is just what twenty four to forty eight hours
before kickoff, and a lot of this stuff is known
on Monday and Tuesday of that week. Very rarely other
situations where there's a player who has got a significant
sort of ability to move the line that you just
talked about, that we really don't know his status, like
(34:46):
even if it's a if it's a star running back
like usually the team is. I mean, it would have
been different if just naming names like it's different if
Ashton Genty doesn't play for Boise State and if he
isn't playing in that game, you know that, Okay, maybe
it's gonna be a little different. Maybe that line would
have been significantly less. But we're also just I think
(35:06):
talking about quarterbacks here, right, I mean, like there's for
the most part, yeah, I mean outside of a Jeremiah
Smith at Ohio State, that's who we're talking about here.
And I think I still think that information is going
to be able to be consumed and and shown by
Vegas on the Sunday and Monday when those lines are
This is just kind of a look at we're to
(35:26):
your point. Look, we're playing good, we're playing nice. Here
is the injury report. But I think we're gonna know
well before those games, because I just don't think in
college guys are truly game time decisions like give them,
give them a chance to make it work in pregame warmups.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
That doesn't happen as much as it does in the pros.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I think once upon a time, like if we go back,
I don't know, give it a good decade or so,
you might have been able to opuskate a little bit
with your practice possibility, right, stuff you do in the bubble,
uh you know, and away from what the beat reporters
are seeing and reporting, or the guy with the uh
you know how power telescopic lenses.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Looking in and beaming in.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Hey, that guy wasn't on the field, and maybe there'd
be some moving in that. Now we're we're into that
more perfect information because again the revenues are flowing the
changing face of college sports as a whole, which take
it or leave it, whether you want to want to
or not. It begets more of these kind of conversations,
you know, especially when you're having what media days in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
And other spaces as you have low so many years. Hey.
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into the fantasy land with our top five quarterbacks for
this year. Let's see how it jumbled the list we
can make.
Speaker 8 (36:57):
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Speaker 2 (37:06):
Welcome back at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Jason smiths yeald with me, Mike Harmon, No Jason Smith Tonight,
Dan Byer in his stead, We're gonna do our fantasy
top five QB. See if we get a jumbling from
what we saw in twenty twenty four, any new entries,
and always trying to figure out how much you calculate
the greatness or the operation shutdown of week eighteen into
(37:28):
your new year and as you look ahead. But first
we've got the play of the day and well a
day game here in Los Angeles in triumphant fashion.
Speaker 12 (37:41):
That's the third, the time run, oh Tania's second, the
winning run one two Freeman line's about.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Him left field pater can't get him in.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
The Dodgers one's taper him my hero. Here you go,
Freddie Freeman with the walk off. Joe Davis, Dodgers TV
on the call. Bader tries to make the hero play
and instead allows the winning run in Otani.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
To score from second base. Four to three year final.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
O'tani did homer earlier in the game as well, fifth
straight day with a home run for him as well,
So yeah, getting it done. So the Dodgers now will
have a day off before they head to Boston. For
that story, we talked about Big Series Boston, one of
those teams kind of in no man's land of deciding
whether they want to hang around and see if they
(38:34):
can cobble together something to be competitive down the stretch
or did they start selling off ancillary parts.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Well, and the other thing about just the conversation that
we had miss speaking in a way that wasn't meant
to be misspoken. The labor dispute is between Aeron Mark
and it's in the union. The Red Sox are being
used to be brought into the ponds. Yeah, but it's
yeah to try to say like, all right, we either
need the workers or we don't. And I think that
(39:02):
the Union feels that the Red Sox could come in
and help their cause by saying we really need these
people for this three.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Games, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Yeah, it's the Ara Mark and the Union and certainly
the Red Sox ownership them in. They've got the deals
in place, right, So how much do they want to
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Speaker 3 (39:39):
As we look at last year's final quarterback stats, you
go to the tail of the tape. Lamar Jackson was
your leader in the clubhouse, had a nice Week eighteen,
doesn't matter, was still number one. Josh Allen did not
play Week eighteen. He was number two. Joe Burrow and
Baker Mayfield curiously tied for third. They both played in
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Week eighteen. With a bigger effort from Mayfield and number
five rookie Jaydon Daniels against the schedule that they had,
with some huge games down the stretch. He was a
hero certainly in the fantasy playoffs twenty three, six thirty six,
four thirty two eight. Right behind them Jared Goff and
Bo Nicks, those are your magnificent seven.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Kind of funny considering the recent ESPN rankings that had
the quarterbacks in the top five. Was the big discussion
on Jayden Daniels being at five the core four, if
you will, But the core four for fantasy does not
include Patrick Mahomes. As you look at those point getters
and Mike even as I'm sitting here looking at my
(40:45):
rankings as well, I don't know how you decipher Allen
and Lamar Lamar and Allen, it's it's I honestly think
it's it's who you like, and I just I think
that they're gonna put their numbers up, that they're gonna
put theirs up, and so it's however you want. However,
I do feel now that Jadon Daniels is a part
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of that conversation, just because Burrow's the different type of
quarterback where he's not gonna be running as much, and
who knows what Jalen hurts and what's gonna happen with
the Eagles if you're not getting as many touchdowns. But
for those three, Mike, I, I'm actually moving Jaydon Daniels
up after the great rookie season is possibly being able
(41:25):
to challenge him those two for the number one spot.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Patrick Mahomes number eleven last year wide receiving course. Still
waiting on how many games Rashi Rice will miss when
the hammer of the NFL law comes down on him. Alan,
I guess James Cook gonna play the whole year? Is
he gonna be salty? Don't know, Lamar Jackson, You've still
got the Derrick Henry part of things. Joe Burrow, I
(41:49):
like him, perhaps as much of them, because guess what
we talked about Trey Hendrickson and Shamar Stewart a lot.
That defense didn't get any better.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
No, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Their offensive line still stinks too, though. So Joe Burrow
could be broken in half by how would you five?
Speaker 5 (42:03):
How would you put the five in order?
Speaker 3 (42:04):
I would take Jackson first, followed by Burrow, then Allen,
I'm gonna slide him down a little bit. And then
for me, the curiosity becomes Jalen Hurts number eight a
year ago, thinking maybe we get a little bit of
a bounce from him in the past game.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
Ah, Allen, Daniels, Lamar Hurts, Burrow my honorable mention, Dak
look at you.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
You like that George Pickens connection, do you?
Speaker 5 (42:32):
I just don't trust their defense.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yeah, that's probably a fair point, especially if maybe Micah
feels a little more of a hamstring sure pull that
takes him out and bad back right now from carrying the.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Weight of the world.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
He's Dan Byer on Mike Carmon Fox Sports Radio, Jason
Smith Show.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
With Me, Mike Carmon coming out next. How about building
of trust? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (42:50):
That let me go dance party on a Wednesday night here,
Mike Carbon Dan Byer with you, no Jason Smith night. Now,
I want to watch the video. I don't want to
talk to Jason Cole anymore. I I want to watch
music videos. As we said here at Dan Byron all
in his own rights right, it's it Jason Cole, no
(43:10):
question about. He's a powerful and attractive man on the
hotline with us. Find us at me at Swallendo, Dan
and Dan Byron Fox. Our next guest, NFL Hall of
Fame voter, author of many books that you can find
on Amazon, purveyor of great opinions across the National Football
League landscape. It's our buddy, Jason Cole at Jason Cole
(43:33):
sixty two on Twitter. Hey buddy, I was waiting work
that roundup. We didn't get it.
Speaker 12 (43:38):
You can't screw that up. But that's okay.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Well I didn't filibuster enough the A thank you the
man of the place, he's got the big deal.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
I don't know, I said, all your CV.
Speaker 12 (43:50):
Well, here's my question. Shouldn't we be playing like eight
miles a dictation to Smith since he's in Detroit or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
I mean, he's not here. I've staged a bloodless coup.
I'm the captain now.
Speaker 12 (44:06):
Yeah. Yeah, so or maybe maybe do we do Bob
Seeger or Kid Rock? Which would which would be the
Michigan Flash Detroit Star that you would pick?
Speaker 2 (44:20):
That's a good question. We should probably put it up
as a pole question.
Speaker 12 (44:24):
Yeah, I would. I would think so because you know,
you got all the motown. Yeah, yeah, so this is important.
What is he actually doing in Detroit? And this is
the annual this is the annual Detroit vacation.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
Yeah, instead of going during the holidays, he's we finally
got him to move it to the summer.
Speaker 5 (44:43):
I tabbed it Jason Smith in the Mitten.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
I think that that like rolls off the tongue very well,
and I think that he needs to take more advantage
of Smith.
Speaker 12 (44:53):
Yeah, but that that sounds like like a serious dad joke.
It really does.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
I think it's pretty good.
Speaker 12 (45:00):
It's not bad Smith, and it's not bad, but it
is it's got dad joke jokish.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
But that's okay to do. He's a dad, My dad,
you're dead, I am, that's right. Yeah, so we got
that's flowing.
Speaker 12 (45:15):
What do we need to know about the National Football League?
Speaker 3 (45:18):
Well, how long will Joe Burrow have to put up
eighty five points a game because his top defensive pass
rushers aren't there. Seven years, seven more years, all right,
he's gone, and he's a mirror.
Speaker 12 (45:32):
This is this is this is the Cincinnati Bengals we're
talking about. They do not know how to take advantage
of a good thing. You've been handed one of the
great quarterbacks in the game, and it's like, oh, yeah,
let's play you know, let's short our best defensive player
and let's play games with our draft picks. That's that's clever,
(45:53):
and I love that. I love the logic from the
other day about the draft pick, which was, what if
he gets arrested? If you think this guy's going to
get arrested or has that higher propensity to get arrested,
why did you take him in the second round? Just
ask him that question. Why if he's such a risk,
if he's such a bad guy, why would you draft
(46:14):
him in the second round? Just just curious. Mike Brown,
can you answer that one for me?
Speaker 5 (46:20):
Did the answer? I can't?
Speaker 12 (46:22):
No?
Speaker 5 (46:23):
I yeah, well it.
Speaker 12 (46:26):
Is kind of a rhetorical question, but it's not as
good as Smith's in the midten What what?
Speaker 5 (46:32):
What is more egregious, though, is it that?
Speaker 4 (46:35):
Is it the not getting the Trey Hendricksson deal done
or having Shamar Stewart still not be signed.
Speaker 12 (46:42):
Alvit Hendrickson because he's he's actually a great player and
he's proven it and he deserves to get paid. There's nobody,
there's nobody in that locker room who who would sit there,
and probably nobody around the league who would say that
guy doesn't deserve to get paid and that you can't
build around him, because you build around guys like that.
You know, defense, the defensive lineman, defensive end our gold.
(47:05):
You have to have them. They change games. It's as
simple as that. They are ahead of only cornerbacks in
terms of defensive importance. You know, Now, if you have
a great defensive tackle who can also rest of the
passer and disrupt, say you have the Aaron donald type,
(47:25):
then that can trump an edge guy, but only occasionally.
You got to have, you case, you have to have
a defensive tackle who can produce twelve, thirteen, fourteen sacks
you know, every year, or has that kind of potential. See,
you know you're talking Warren Sapps, You're talking to Aaron Donalds.
You're talking about pure Hall of Fame guys.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
And dominicanso Like he was saying he should have been
paid more than Matthew Stafford the other day.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
So you got all of that.
Speaker 12 (47:52):
Yeah, you actually have to touch the quarterback though, and
dominants generally just wrestled with offensive lineman. This is why
to beat.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Them up literally at times, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Jason call our guest here, Jason Smith show with me,
Mike Harmon, No, Jason Smith and I Dan Byer in
his stead. So Mike Brown had his press conference and
all that fun. And then Jerry Jones our favorite, he's
at it again with Micah Parsons. Can we just get
to the end of the night dance where it's last
chance and these guys just sidle up to each other
(48:25):
and get done with it because you know he's got
to pay on.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Just do it.
Speaker 12 (48:29):
Yeah, there's a fast war fund to head here and
there's some games in the ship. But this is this
is Jerry just playing the role that hey, look at me,
I'm so great and let's get the attention. So let's
generate some more attention out of this, which again it
goes back to his mantra, there's no news there's nothing.
(48:54):
There's no bad news out there, you know, there's no
bad publicity. And it's just like no, because this is
the kind of news that aggravates your players and makes
your players ask if that dude can't get paid. It's
the same thing with Hendrickson, if that dude can't get paid?
Who does get paid? What do you have to do
to get And do I have to endure this? He
(49:15):
is again to make me nervous all the time. It's just,
you know, it's distraction for distraction's sake. Although I had
this thought today. Is he trying to get the rights
to the Mica Bees, which would be like the mccaby's,
Like wow, right, yeah, because you're getting the whole, you know,
ethnic athletic association kind of thing, and you're just kind
(49:38):
of crossing over into the mccabis. You know. I think
this is brilliant by Jerry. So it's the Mica Bees.
Speaker 5 (49:46):
In the end.
Speaker 4 (49:48):
Does Michael Parson's care because he's going to get paid?
Speaker 5 (49:51):
Like we can say, players are ticked off.
Speaker 12 (49:53):
I really thought you're asking the serious questions.
Speaker 5 (49:55):
I just can't Mica be Hey, hey, I'll tell you
what you got?
Speaker 4 (50:00):
Hey, will you will you said, you shut down my
smith in the Minten like you wouldn't believe and you
can't handle that.
Speaker 12 (50:06):
I mean, come on, with bees, it's it's a cowboy
it's a news strain of cowboy bees.
Speaker 3 (50:13):
The cowboy Bees is a log see Dan apprivy to
that part though, the cowboy Bees merchandising of years past.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
It's a new year, it's a.
Speaker 3 (50:22):
New it's a new UH annual output here.
Speaker 12 (50:25):
They're faster, They're faster and quicker bees. They don't pivot
play the run particularly well, but they're faster and quicker bees.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
It's a long, long run with Jerry Jones, no question
about it. Here we were talking a little bit about Miami. Uh, Mike,
Mike McDaniel. Uh, what's your overall evaluation of him as
a coach? Does he just need a different quarterback to
build with?
Speaker 12 (50:49):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (50:50):
How does this play out as to UH and Tyreek
Hill and well a team trying to get back on
you know, don't.
Speaker 12 (50:56):
You get the kind of the the feeling that uh,
you know, like you like McDaniel personally, but he's kind
of like a likable version of Chip Kelly where you're
just playing this BS offense that's wide open that can't
really run the ball officially, can't control games. It'll produce
(51:17):
a lot of points, it'll be interesting to watch, it'll
be fun. They'll be really entertaining, but it's not really
winning football. Now. They have a pretty soft schedule, if
I remember, in the first five weeks, I don't have
it up in front of me, so they have a
chance to kind of spring that to a good start.
But they'd be really good because I think they have
like three cold weather games in the last six weeks.
(51:39):
I mean, it's or some really tough schedule that you
just kind of look at and go, you bet you
better have built up a bunch of wins before you
get to that stretch. But yeah, I like I like
McDaniel and I want him to succeed because he's fun
and he's interesting. But the offense is I don't I
(52:00):
really don't believe in the offense being a title winning offense.
And it may be more about the quarterback than it
is the offense. But even though the forty nine ers
have come close to winning it with theoretically the same offense,
it's only theoretically the same offense. In practice, it looks
(52:21):
more like Chip Kelly like, let's just you know, let's
chuck and duck, you know, like just throw it around
and make sure that Tua doesn't get hurt. But you
know two is going to get hurt. It it's just
gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (52:32):
Mike and I were just talking about Tua having to
talk about Tyreek Hill and building trust. If you're talking
about building building trust in the first day of training,
first days of training camp with your veteran receivers, is
that a sign of Is that a bad sign entering
the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 12 (52:51):
Well, it's not promising. But I'll also get this, like,
who's he going to throw it to.
Speaker 4 (52:57):
Johnny Smith left to pay him?
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (53:01):
Yeah, I mean we're gonna throw the ball more to Waddle.
I mean, but when you when you drop back and
you say which dude's open, you look at Tyreek. That
dude's going to be open, right, So Tyreek's still going
to get the ball playing and he catches it and
he doesn't. I mean, he's a dangerous dude. He's a
border borderline Hall of Famer, probably a Hall of Famer
(53:25):
at some point. But you know that's gonna be a
tough argument because of all the wide receivers who generate numbers,
but like, this is a singularly special player who's been
able to maintain his speed and ability for so long.
At the end of the day, it's sort of like
the Oakland as in the nineteen seventies. They really didn't
(53:46):
get along that well, but they played hard on the field.
They got they got a lot, like they literally punched
each other in the lock in the locker room and
you know, in the clubhouse and in the dugout. But
then they went once for straight championships, Like like I
think you kind of have to look at it and say,
that's what two is going to do. He may not
(54:07):
like throwing the ball to Tyreek, he may not like Tyreek,
but it's like that dude's open.
Speaker 4 (54:13):
You're getting on me for dad jokes and you're referencing
the nineteen seventy A's cole Like.
Speaker 5 (54:19):
Come on, like what are we what are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (54:23):
Bill norths Now.
Speaker 12 (54:26):
That's just it's just so weak.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
It's just so verbal.
Speaker 12 (54:31):
I know. But but I can go from Mica Bees
to the Subtecree. I'm showing I am showing range.
Speaker 2 (54:38):
That is good, a lot of range.
Speaker 12 (54:41):
Tremendous range here, I am like Ozzie Smith. Baby, That's
that's the kind of range that I have.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
All right, you were great in the field and occasionally
you hit all right, now the.
Speaker 12 (54:53):
Which is true. It's actually true, so I couldn't hit
it all.
Speaker 3 (54:56):
So let me pull this back in in the NFL
world as a whole. Remember, we are need to be
FCC compliant. So you're gonna have to go into your
thesaurus and dictionary pull out. If I were to just say,
Jason Cole, give me like I'm a five year old,
you're descriptor of the current situation with the NFLPA.
Speaker 12 (55:20):
I think Wayne Johnson said it all what he said today.
Speaker 2 (55:23):
Yeah, no, you can't say that.
Speaker 12 (55:25):
I can't say that. I can't say it. Look, we've
known this for seventeen years. I mean, just go back
to when they elected Demorris Smith. This is this is
a great this is a great story that somebody told
me the other day that it was year. It was
twenty eleven. De Smith was in his like third or
(55:47):
fourth year, right, and he was in he was out
let's just say he was out on the road. I
don't want to narrow it, and he met up with
this agent, and this agent had one of his players
with him, and the player was a backup player who
was a free agent or about to be a free agent. Yeah.
(56:10):
Nice nice guy, nice player, but you know, just a backup.
And so they got into the discussion, Oh, you're gonna
be a free agent, and he said, are they going
to franchise you? And the agent kind of looks and
goes the thoughts on himself, we have no chance. He
(56:31):
was like in in year four and he didn't understand
what the franchise tag was. He also didn't understand like
this is not used on backups. He didn't understand who
the player was he was talking about. And this has
just gone and gotten worse and worse and worse and
more games to play. I actually think that this is
(56:51):
when we step back from this. This is actually going
to be a really healthy thing. It's like it's like
a really violent cleansing. It's like taking you know, tept
of this mall for seven straight days and seeing, you know,
what the what the results are and then adding like
brand on top of it. This is what this is
(57:12):
kind of what the NFLP is going through. But I
think that the end result has a chance to be
really great because they'll get back to the fundamental things
they need to have, which is player leadership and players
paying attention. And so yeah, they're going to have to
live through you know, what Pat McAfee has said, which
(57:32):
was vicious, what Lane Johnson said, which was vicious but accurate. Right,
They're going to have to live through all the embarrassment
of you know, their executive director, not just not just
the fact that they broke the law or broke union
law by not disclosing you know, breaching by breaching fiduciary responsibility,
but not giving players information that was critical to contract negotiations.
(57:56):
Never mind that, but the guy went to a club,
made the car wait for eight hours, and then expensed
it even though he's making three point four million dollars.
Speaker 4 (58:07):
Yeah, I just don't think he gets enough credit for
being a good hang, you know, Like I mean, you
can rip him the strands.
Speaker 12 (58:14):
Oh no, oh no, no no no. You talk to players,
they'll tell you that Lloyd was a good hang. They liked.
Speaker 2 (58:20):
No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 12 (58:21):
He gets a lot of credit. If you talk to
guys off to the side, they're like, oh, yeah, he
was cool, he was a good hand. That's not what
you want for an executive director, but.
Speaker 2 (58:31):
You not it.
Speaker 3 (58:32):
But if you're expensing all sorts of stuff, you're thinking
I can get away with this, you know, extra plate
of chicken wings at the strip club.
Speaker 12 (58:39):
Well but yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
And an eight hour car service that you said.
Speaker 12 (58:42):
Going to toutsy which advertises itself as seventy six thousand
square feet of the largest strip club in the world.
And it was built. It was built in a former
BJ's appropriately BJ's distributorship. Okay, that's what it used to be.
(59:03):
It was one of the where it was one of
the warehouses for for Bjay's discount.
Speaker 3 (59:08):
It's also seventy five percent the size of the Universal
Studios Hollywood Horror Nights.
Speaker 2 (59:14):
There's one, there's one to go for, okay, sure nights.
Good lord.
Speaker 5 (59:21):
Just trying to keep it.
Speaker 3 (59:22):
Here, keeping it above board here like eating a spoonful
of draino. Sure it'll clean you out, but I'll leave
you a hollow inside frank drabbing naked gun. Thanks Jason Cole,
You're a wonderful human being. Thanks for stopping out.
Speaker 12 (59:35):
I'm a great hang and my bagels at the Magel
Bakery that.
Speaker 2 (59:40):
I'll shuffle up and deal and do that right away.
Speaker 3 (59:42):
At Jason Coal sixty two you can see his latest
work that he's doing.
Speaker 2 (59:46):
Uh yeah, he bought a bagel place down in Florida.
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