August 1, 2025 • 42 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon react to the NFL Hall of Fame game now in the books as we are so back in the NFL. Plus, the guys have a nice chat with JP Morosi after a wild trade deadline day for the ages.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Greetings, welcome inside. The NFL season is here. We made it. Yeah,
we made it, we made it. We made it another year.
Here we are real life football with great uniforms and everything.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Now then now we just need at least a safety
for the rest of the game. And we're sitting pretty
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tastes good. Well, here we are midway through the third quarter,
Chargers all over the Lions twenty four to seven, and
you know after vacationing in Detroit for the better part
or the Greater Michigan area.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Great.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, now you're a greater Michigan. Yeah. I've always been
a greater Michigan. I've been one of the greatest Michiganders ever.
You've certainly proclaimed yourself to be. So this is with
these two teams right now, and Trey Lance is playing
quarterback for the Chargers. Now it feels like it's twenty
twenty again. We're back in five This is awesome. I
want to say this, the sense of football fans and
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the general sense of how they feel in Detroit now,
going back once a year like I normally do, it's
one of those where I can take a snapshot and
because I'm not there every day, I can see the progression.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So you went and checked out all the jerseys that
people are wearing and all that, or they're wearing Tigers
gear at none of the I tell you, well, first
of all, everybody, it's it's University of Michigan. Sure, it's everything,
whether they have an allegiance tied to them or not.
You just have to pretend. There's people who have never
even been to the Greater Ann Arbor area everybody where's Michigan.
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Gu Yeah, I mean, look Notre Dame fans and all
that other. I mean there's plenty. And boy did I
did I go shopping great in ann Arbor at the
Michigan Store when I was fantastic. But in the last
few years, right, because remember when I told you, hey,
this Lion's team is coming, They're going to the Super Bowl.
And they were one. They fell one game shot, they
lose in the NFC Championship game, they throw up on
themselves in the second half. The general sense of Lions
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fans now has gone and I agree, it's gone from
it's unbelievable that we're this good. Pinch me because I
can't believe this. We've never been this good. And then
it went to the following year was okay, hey, we
got a taste last year. This is a super Bowl
year for us now and it comes to a screeching
hauled against Jayden Daniels and the Commanders in the playoffs.
And now it's more, hey, man, if it ain't this year,
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we gotta blow it up like this is where in
just two years, forget about the fact the Lions have
been relevant being at in years. I mean it's been
You go back to Barry Sanders retiring on the eve
of training camp, right, Matthew Stafford getting to one playoff game,
whatever it was. You forget Calvin Jarry. Yeah, oh, I'm
done like it. It's gone in the last three years.
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It's gone from what a great story this is, this
is a magic carpet ride to hey man, if we
don't do it this year, we gotta make changes. We
got to blow it up and and and honestly, that's
what's gonna likely have to happen. Because Jared Goff needs
new contract. I'm and Ross Saint Brown's got gotta need
a new contract. These guys are up. They want to
give more money to Aiden Hutchinson. It's like, okay, there's
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only so much and there's other players a guy to
get paid to like, this is a super Bowl or
bust year for the Lions and when's the last time
and not even when Bob because they didn't have a
super Bowl when Bobby Lane was a quarterback. This is
a super Bowl or bust year for the Loans. And
if they don't, if it doesn't happen, this is we
gotta retool, we gotta redo things. We gotta pay Jared Goffield.
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We gotta pay some Like what are you gonna do this?
This is it? This should be the year, right, they
should be the favorites in the NFC. It should be
them and the Eagles again, Right, but the Eagles coming
off a super Bowl? Okay, are they still gonna have
the hunger? Things are gonna go right for them? Like
they should be the team that you say, who should
be in the super Bowl this year? It's the Lions.
It is super Bowl or bust. And if it's bust,
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it's gonna be an entirely new look to this team
because you guess what, eventually Jimmie or Gibbs is gonna
want to get me. You gotta pay all this money. Right,
they've already I think realized that, Okay, this is Jameis
and Williams's last year, Right, we can't we can't pay
the guy. We're just gonna have it and he's gonna
go away. But all these guys are gonna want to
get paid. Sam Laport is gonna want to get paid
after this year because he's one of the top five
tight ends in the NFL. Like this is it is
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for the Lions. In two years, it's gone from what
a great story we are to it's super Bowl or
bust and everything change. We need new guys who doesn't
work out well. It's an a amazing run and shows
you how quickly the life cycle is in this league,
and that you're also talking about super Bowl or Bust
as the second favorite behind the Eagles, sandwich nicely between
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those NFC East powerhouses and the Eagles and the commanders there.
But you're looking at it from the standpoint of you're
also doing it while changing out your coordinators as they
both leave this offseason, which we know is not the
easiest task. We watch the Eagles have that huge falloff.
Now they've got some shuffling up again after winning the
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Super Bowl, but it's now the curiosity for the lines.
David Montgomery spoke to this a little bit last week
as they were entering camp of some of the expectations
and looking around the locker room of you know, the
guys kind of recognizing exactly what you're talking about. Between
contracts and just the way the National Football League is.
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You know, we can talk about how robust and deep
the AFC is, and it's and it is right. You've
got a lot of heavyweights. While in the NFC side
of things, we watched the Commanders rise up quickly. Do
you expect a little bit of a fallback from the
Commanders this year? Perhaps a little bit, right Deebo Samuel
checks in with McLaurin, will eventually figure things out with them.
(06:17):
I don't think he's going anywhere. But they also want
a lot of one score games a year ago. Law
of averages says, maybe you give one or two of
those games back, which which puts you back into the nice,
meaty part of the curve. Packers. You've got one hundred
wide receivers. I don't know if you have a great one,
but you've got a pretty good roster top to bottom.
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Forty nine ers come back and in theory, you'll have
better health. Perhaps the specter, that is, the injury plague
finds another squad and leaves you Rams. Matthew Stafford does
back hold up love the rest of the roster. Do
you trust Jimmy g if Stafford's not there? Men, He
and DeVonta Adams are best friends. Now the Buccaneers read too,
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Baker Mayfield. Are they gonna be healthy enough? Like there's
a bunch of teams that are kind of there, but
it's a talent level of the Lions is on paper,
right them and the Eagles, and it's young talent. It's
all young. This is not hey, this guy's little too well, No,
the oldest guy is golf and a quarterbacks obviously you
play at high level till your mid to late thirties.
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Like everybody's young. Everybody this is. This is the roster
everybody wants in the NFL. And it's a super Bowl.
What a world we live in. It's a super Bowl
or bust year for the Lions, not the Cowboys, not
the Steelers, not the Chiefs, not the Dolphins. I know
it's super Bowl or bus for the line, But I
already go to the offensive side of things, Right, we
look at some of these juggernauts and guys that for
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fantasy purposes we're gonna be drafting highly, and then you
decide how much you love or hate youared golf. But
look at your coordinator. It's gonna be a completely different
game getting called yea, we're not gonna have you know,
passes to the offensive tackle or a little and you
know trap plays to them. I mean those are gonna
be gone. All the gadgets. Ben Johnson such a wizard,
(08:05):
and I read today that they're already all done answering
the questions of how different will the offense look this year?
A Ben Johnson like, They're like they're done right with no.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
One's asking, Hey, how about asking about Aaron Glenn Right,
have someone asked me we lost their defensive No, ask
me again about Ben on the defensive?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Is Hutch healthy?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Because if Hutch is healthy, we're feeling okay because on
the defensive side of the ball. I mean you talk
about what Glenn was able to do, I mean that
was bandages and duct tape. With the way that defense
was structured at the end of the year, right, so
many guys were out injured, It's like, can you get
to the next game? Like we were trying to learn
who some of these guys were. It's like, remember him,
he was a second team All SEC or what whatever
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in CIRT Conference. Here he hasn't played much of the NFL,
but damnit, he was good college years. I'm all due
and so far, I'm all on Aaron Glenn Man. He
is done. He is a culture guy. Hearing the Jets
say the practices are better, the communication is better. Everything is.
But I'm like, oh my goodness, man, I'm gonna what
else are they gonna say? It's gonna you know what,
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it sucked last year, it's just as bad.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
No, it's a new guy.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Everybody's sucking up, including all of the Beat reporters, Samini.
They all have to suck up because they need the quotes,
they need the access. It's a new regime. So you're
you're gonna say all the positive, glowing things. You paid
your superstars all of that to say, Yeah, it can't
be any darker than it was the last couple of years, right,
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I mean, you've got to have hope springs eternal there
for the New York Football Jets, but yeah for your Lions.
You started it and then you took them as far
as you could and then you abandon them. Now they
got to do it. Everybody's got to do something for themselves.
Everybody's chomping on that that pistons band. I can push
you on your bicycle, but you got a pedal and
(09:51):
make it doing yours. I could do that, but you
don't have to pedal anymore. You got these electric bikes.
I don't have to pedal a damn bit. Uh so
we'll we'll have stuff on the chargers well coming up,
because Trey Lance has thrown two touchdowns and we've hit
the over. I'm waiting for the for the obligatory. You know,
Trey Lance is younger, is still younger than seventy four
percent of the quarterbacks they have a U. But he
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has on a couple of touchdowns for the charge. We
got stuff on the chargers coming up. I mean he
had a fumble on the opening. Yeah, hit that over.
But today also trade deadline day in Major League Baseball.
We get to the big particulars coming up. The let's
make big moves, the Padres make big moves right the Mariners.
But uh, this was a day where everybody seemed to
get a closer. It's like Oprah walking and you get
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a closer, and you get a close. The Yankees got
a closer and said, nope, Devin Williams is still a closer. Okay,
I mean closers went yesterday. Today it's the year of
the relief pitcher being traded. Right this trade deadline. There
were there were thirty four trades, I think is what
it was, and I think thirty one of them were relievers.
Certainly thirty thirty one were relievers and it was Suarez
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and Mullins, right, and that's well. And everybody had once
upon a time wore up Padres or Twins Jersey. Yeah,
poor twins. They don't have a team then, I think
they they only have two guys under contract through the
end of next year. With nine players off their roster
from this week have been traded in nine guys. A
lot of rosters shuffling there. But look, here's where I
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could tell you the why, right, Because why do we
get so many relievers traded? Why is it? Are the
the the influx of it? Why so many today? And
this is part of the new baseball with the one
deadline at the end of July. Why did all these
relievers get traded? Mainly because relievers are the easiest players
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to trade and to trade for. It's it's sometimes it's
just that simple, right, Why is so many every Does
everybody the Padres need a reliever? No, but it was
pretty easy to trade for. We got another club. We
got Mason Miller. Okay, we got we got another club.
We don't need it, but we got one. It's easier
to trade for relievers because these guys aren't getting paid
a ton of money. If you want to resign a reliever,
it's generally not for a ton of money. The prospects
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you will give up are not gonna be ones at
the top, but there'll be decent prospects. They'll be periphery
top ten prospects. It's easy. It's like trading and fantasy
with the owner you know you can trade with, versus
the owners you know you can't trade with. And that's
kind of what it is in baseball. Okay, Hey, all
these teams understand that we're gonna build our starting pitching,
we're gonna build our offense, and then if we need relievers,
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we can get them at the deadline because there will
be a plethora of relievers available and we'll be able
to trade some prospects that are in our top prospects
and be able to move that. That's just the way
baseball goes. Now, look at all the teams that had weaknesses.
Look what they did. The Mets bullpen huge weakness. Now
it's one of their big strengths.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
The Phillies turn their bullpen into a big strength. The
Padres made their bullpen even a bigger strength. I don't
even think they need starting pitchers anymore. It's gonna go
with the relievers and roll them all the way through. Right,
the Yankees make a trade for a closer. These guys
are all getting all these teams where the bullpen is
our weak link. They know, guess what, at the deadline,
we can do this because it is the cheapest way
to improve our team. And that's simply why. And this
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is going to be a case forever now because you
only have the one deadline in Major League, but they
don't have the end of August, where hey, these other
pitchers that are coming up, we can get rid of them.
They can pass through waivers. They're worth a lot of money.
It's the easiest way to improve your team. And teams
are now going to go into a season saying, hey,
we like our bullpen, but we're not going to go
crazy signing bullpen guys because we don't know how the
first half of the year is going to go. We
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don't know if the magic this guy had for twenty
twenty four is going to come through in twenty twenty five.
We're gonna need to move on from him. So at
the deadline, yeo, okay, who's having a big year. All right, great,
we can make that move again. This is something that
is going to happen every year. Big relievers will get
dealt every single season, and teams are going to build
that way. So when they get to the deadline, we know, okay,
how do we make our team better check mark. We'll
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get a couple of relievers coming in, We'll get a closer,
and suddenly our bullpen has lights out. Now, all of
a sudden, these big contenders got way better by not
giving up a lot. It's a very popular way. Well,
and that's the other part is just the way the
game itself has been structured and changed that you know,
we get guy that goes seven innings, we're busting out
the New Year's Eve streamers and horns to celebrate a
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big effort. Otherwise it's you need three four arms a day.
We talked about it last night. Look at the Dodgers.
They made some moves, not the big splash than any
anybody was really looking for, although they did get mister Tibbs,
so we'll get to run that line a lot for
the second TIBs. They picture the Reds and the Mets
in the eighties. He was supposed to be great. Jab
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is still around, no question, no, but it's it's just
the idea that you're gonna need there. They already have
gone through thirty seven arms the road shut up. But
all of that to say, I mean the get Us
Book of World Records. We said it last night. It's
forty two. And now you're adding more arms and hoping
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Blake Snow when he comes off Saturday, can give you
a bunch of innings. Otherwise you've got a bunch of
relievers that are already been highly leveraged and trotted out
quite frequently. So team for team, they're trying to match up.
When you look at your front runners in either league,
but also just the changing face of baseball. You need
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to get through the long slog in the dog days
of August and into September. If you're still a competitor,
you need fresh arms, and you need three guys that
are gonna be at the ready every day. And you
can't keep trotting guys out two three times a series
and think you're gonna have great success. Allows more roster
management and opportunity, you know, to find that that perfect
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matchup and give guys you know their their inning and
push it forward. So yeah, from an economic standpoint, absolutely,
from a gameplay standing you know, it's just the new
new world order in baseball. Yeah, it's It's just this
is how it goes. It's easy. Relievers are going to
find their market the off season not being great and
then being well sought after the deadline. That's just how
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it's gonna I mean, we talk with John Palmarrossi a
little bit Tuesday. We'll talk to them again now that
the dust is starting to settle, and he's like, yeah,
it's it's all relievers all time. We asked about starting pitch,
he goes, baby, Babe, you'll see a couple of guys
that we did, but a couple of jags and no, no,
but that we didn't see Dylan Cees. We didn't see
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all the.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Going all in.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
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today was trade deadline day in Major League Baseball, and
every single team got a closer. Congratulations. It seems about
right everybody, you get a closer, you get a close.
You can't use my road, but you can have a closer.
Who are the big winners? Who are the big losers?
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What does John Paul morose you have to say about this?
LB Network insider joins us now on the hotline to
break down on what he saw today and John Paul,
congratulations on closer day in Major League Baseball. All thirty
four players traded today were closers. I didn't think we'd
ever see something like that.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Thirty four, by the way, is also the number of
points that were scored by the Chargers against the Lions,
but we'll get into that one laterally.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Pre season football, John Paul, don't.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Streuss right right.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
The preseason football is far down the list of topics
to discuss today. Actually, you'll forget me. Just before we
came on the air, there was a knock on my
door and it was the Twins. Beloved and cuddly TC Bear,
who was also traded. He was traded away today. He
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is emblematic of the Twin Cities, and he too has
been dealt.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
So you gave it ug.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, I gave I gave TC a big hug. I
told him, buddy, we're going to hang out again. I
met first the Metrodome long time ago. I always loved
the Metrodome more than most people did. But we're gonna
have all kinds of memories now. The Twins got great
history and they've got a bright future. But the president
right now is not so much fun. After making a
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lot of trades they did well. To be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Sam Paul, they don't have a team.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
They traded away out half half of their I don't
think they have enough guys to play the rest.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Of the season they can bring down there. There is
a I believe a Northern League team it's based out
of Winnipeg's gonna be loan them some players. And then
there's the Saint Paul Saints. Uh that that's actually a
Triple A team, no longer an independent team that Kevin
Mallar played four years ago, but it is. It is
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a remarkable time. The Twins have basically done trades with
everybody except they did not trade Joe Ryan, and that
was that was the one blockbuster of blockbusters they could
have made. Of course, they did not do that, but
they traded just about everyone else, including the beloved TC Bear.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
All Right, so we talked about the winners losers today.
I'll give you the two big winners today, and there's
a third winner. But these two above three big winners
trade deadline over the course of the past few days.
You got it, The Mariners, the Padres, and the Mets.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Good, I agree. And you know what, there's there's also
this little small market team, it's based out on the
East Coast called the New York Yankees, and they did
pretty well too. They traded for seven players. Seven that's
almost a third of their team. Now I realized that
Aaron Judges on the injured list. They don't have Garrett Cole.
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But now they've got, I believe, by my count, I
think at least four different relievers who have their own
pyrotechnics and musical display when they enter the game, which
is usually pretty good indication. And the Mets have the
same thing. We're gonna have, like dueling, dueling, game presentation entrances.
Now for the Mets, you've got Hell's bells, You've got
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you still have the trumpet's playing now the Mets, now
the Yankees as well, with the arrival of Camilo Dovall
and David Bednard at joining them with Devin Williams. They're
looking really good now. And they also got, by the way,
amid all the talk and the scrutiny on Anthony Bolpi,
gidding Hoste Cavagto was a very important move too, because
he's actually a very solid defensive player. I think they
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did exceptionally well. Do I really do. I would have
liked to have seen the Yankees get a starting pitcher
as well, but by and large I like their deadline
in addition to three teams that you mentioned, So the
overall takeaway is basically twofold number one, the best trade
deadline I have ever covered. I've been doing this for
exactly twenty years. The first first one I covered as
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a major league writer was with the Seattle Post Intelligencer
back in two thousand and five, and the Seattle Mariners,
like recite the trades from memory, they traded Randy Winn
to the Giants for a package that included Jesse Foppert.
Why I'm amber, I do Jesse fopperts Jesse Fopper. Just
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look him up. He was traded Jesse Fopper. So so
that was twenty years ago. This is the best trade
deadline I have ever covered in terms of just excitement,
diversity of moves. You had buyer and buyer, and seller
and seller and then buyer and seller. There was all
kinds of different combinations. It felt like an NBA trade
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deadline on most because of the different combinations of elements there.
So that's number one best ever and it also conveyed
to me and this is really awesome news for a
lot of baseball fans that a lot of teams in
a lot of different markets believe that they can win
the World Series. Because you saw, by most measures in baseball,
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depending on how you've got this kind of thing, the
two smallest markets are Milwaukee and Cincinnati, and both of
them were buyers. In fact, Cincinnati they added to Brian Hey,
they had Zachtel, they were adding multiple players, and the
Brewers made I thought, some pretty interesting moves with the
in terms of players and players out. They trans Nestor Cortez,
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brought in Shelby Miller. There's just a lot of really
interesting movement that I loved, and that cemented my idea
that this is as wide open as any postseason that
I've ever covered is going to be.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That's the fun of all of a JP. We talked
about it a little bit when you joined us earlier
this week. Sue as the big chip already making paying
dividends for the Mariners, looking resplendent in those blue jersey tops.
Oh yeah, on side, cal Raley so solid there. I
immediately went as we went down our list of potential
losers in all of this, to the North side of Chicago,
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where there were a lot of expectations that at least
one starting pitcher was going to walk through those doors. Instead,
it's a utility man and another reliever.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, I was a little bit underwhelmed. I thought that
they would do more. I thought the Red Sox would
do more. I thought the Tigers would do more. But
you're right the Cubs in particular. There were a lot
of big time names that were linked to the Cubs again,
Ahannio Suadez was actually one of them. There was more
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talk about what they could have done at third base.
I just feel like the Brewers have a little more
momentum now than the Cubs do, and the Brewers have
this youth on their side. I do think sometimes the
experience is a little bit overrated, especially in a situation
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where you've got and again it's not like the Cubs
are this ancient team, but the Brewers have this really
good style they play with, and they brought in Mizerowski,
They've got Chad Patrick, and now they've got also the
experience a little experienced with Brandon Woodruff coming back in,
and then this really impressive bullpen that's missing a lot
of bats. So I think the Brewers are playing an
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excellent brand of baseball, and the Cubs they just there's
a little bit more that I believe they should have
done with respect to their rotation. Yeah, they've got six
starters if you consider Soroka to be a starter. But
I just don't know how the likes of Ben Brown
and Kate Horton again into the second half, longer season,
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how they're going to respond. You've seen a little bit
of inconsistency with Imanaga this season. I just I like
the Brewers a little bit better. And then you look
at a team like the Podreys now again in the
National League with a ton of momentum. That team is
so much fun. They aj Proler basically made a trade
at every hour, it seemed this year, this day, and
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one of them, of course, Mason Miller coming over from Oakland,
one of the best closers in the game, and he
actually Robert Suarez and he kept Dylan ceased. But for
me to help address the catching situation, he brought in Loreano,
he brought an O'Hearn. Just a masterclass of work in
the deadline, being clever with what assets he had at
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the budget. And and aj Preller is not afraid to
make a trade and give up a top prospect, same
like Dave Dombrows Gilber in Philadelphia. So I'm a big believer.
I really I like it when teams that go board
are rewarded. And I believe that the National League is
going to be represented eventually in the World Series by
a team that was aggressive on this day and in
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general this season, and that would include teams like the Padres, Phillies, Mets. Yes,
I made sure to include the Mets there. Yeah, I
know I held you in suspense there, but they did.
I thought the Mets did a very good job. Listen,
they they paid and I know that the New York
fan of you, Jason was very excited that. Listen, they
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were not afraid to overpay a little bit, especially in
the Rogers deal that was they paid a ton, yeah
to get in, but you know how important it is.
And they now have an almost all new late inning
setup crew in front of Edwin Diaz, which is I
think bodes very well for their postseeded fortunes.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
John Paul Moros, the MLB Network Insider with us here
the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen. Now, I want
to bring up something that you had the big breaking
news on today. We saw that Carlos Correa going back
to the Houston Astros, and I'm sure everybody's saying, wait
a minute, they have a pretty good shot. No, no, no,
you said, Carlos Correa is okay with playing third base.
So I know everybody is happy the band is getting
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back together in Houston. But John PAULA, it sounds great,
but Carlos Correa hasn't really been that player now for
almost four years. I feel like, Oh, everybody's expecting Crea
to come back and we're going to turn the clock
back to twenty seventeen, and that I don't think that's
gonna happen he's not that guy anymore.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I think you're right that there is a little bit
of nostalgia here, which again is good. It's part of
the reason why and again not the same thing, but
why the Mariners are so excited about getting Suarez back.
It's that romance of bringing back the player that helped
you win before. So I understand that. But you're right,
is ops even from just last year to this year, Jason,
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he was an All Star year ago, an OPS around
nine hundred. Now it's around seven hundred. And when you
take that OPS and you put it over at third base,
there were teams that had that level of production at
third base this season who were trying to upgrade on it.
And so I just I'm with you. The talent is
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still there. He is not an old man by any
stretch of the imagination, but he's going to have to
I think kick it up a notch and he may.
I think back to run to what Chorycholwitzky did over
a brief amount of time with the Jays when he
was traded there at ten years ago, where he was
sort of towards the back end of his career, and
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yet he found a way to summon that that talent
and that postseason dry for him. So I do think
you'll get a better version of Korea in Houston with
a Pennant race with a lot of excitement there. But
I am with you that I fully agree we have
not seen the best of him in a while, and
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he's going to have to reprove himself. And you know
that those that bat that he had in twenty seventeen
or twenty nineteen or twenty twenty one, they're not going
to count right now. There's nothing about those that bats
that are going to be event of much value when
he's in the batter's box right now, he is going
to have to produce more, and I, like you will
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sort of withhold judgment a little bit before we see
exactly what he's able to bring on a consistent basis
and stay durable, stay in the lineup. He's been injured
way too much lately. That has to change.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Twitter at John Morosi, That is at John Morosey MLB
Network Insider And and Hey, since I know you're going
to talk to Sternsy, your former college roommate, pass along
this message for me. Uh, great job today. I'm looking
forward to seeing sprot and McClain sometime in August. Uh,
who's out the Mets starting staff. So I just let him.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
What he got.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I think, seeing how they like to bring up pictures,
I think they're gonna want to see him do it
a little bit longer like Sproton McLain. I feel like
they're the most ready, but Tong is going to be Hey,
they want to see him do it maybe a little
bit longer. So I'm fully expecting to see him next year.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I agree, I think he'll he'll keep pitching for the
Binghamton Rumble Ponies. I just wanted to find a reason
to mention the Binghamton rumble Ponies.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Of course, let's done that.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And yeah, it's really the the ideal capstone of my
trade deadline day. We've talked about the Binghamton Rumble Ponies
on national radio, and we've talked about uh and and again.
The only reason why, and I'll bring it back to
where we started, The only reason why the Lions went
down to a thirty four to seven defeat tonight in
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Canton is that I did not I did not preemptively
on these airwaves give you the final score two nights ago.
Now now again, the preseason. I'm not going to bring
out my a game of predictions now because there's I
got along. I got It's a long season, but rest
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assured when it comes time to week one. And I
believe I heard a report that they actually play seventeen
regular season games down the NFL, which I think is
a new thing. Maybe this year. I'm joking, but I'll
make sure that I get that prediction in before the
first game did actually counts.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
John Paul is always buddy appreciated, my friend week.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
We have too much fun. We have too much fun.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I didn't give you that pick the other night.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
That's why we got killed. Okay, got it because I
know we actually we went back and forth and you're like, yeah,
we didn't do a pick for Thursday. I'm like, we
covered like nine teams in the fifteen minutes he was
with Hendon Hooker's playing for you. It's okay, It's okay, fine.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
You once thought he was gonna be the guy.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
It was a long time ago, man, it was a
long change. Speaking was so long ago. The Mets had
a bad bullpen. Now look at what it's done today.
Martin Weise has more on that and the rest of
the day in the NLB trade deadline.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
With what's trending, Let's get to some actual baseball being
played today, Cale Rally with this forty second home run
of the year. Now, this is one of those records
that has like an asterisk, but it's still pretty cool.
Most in a single season by a switch hitting catcher.
Kyle Raley with his forty second home run of the
year of The Mariners just scored their sixth run now
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six to nothing over the Rangers in the bottom of
the sixth inning. And you also had Aohenneo Suarez making
his second Mariner's debut as he's in the lineup today.
Josh Naylor's out there. A ton of people have been traded. Oh,
Kyle Ridley at the plate right now. The Braves won today,
eleven to twelve to eleven and ten innings. The Blue
Jays traded earlier to day for Shane Bieber. The Yankees
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added three arms to their bullpen. Dovolved, David Bennar and
Jacob Byrd from the Rockies. The Red Sox got Duft
and May from the Dodgers. The Padres made five trades
in total before the deadline. JP Rosie said it fella
he made a like Prebler made a trade every hour.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Well.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
They got first base from Ryan O'Hearn outfield of Ramon Loreano.
They also added Mason Miller, JP Series and Freddie for me.
The Dodgers acquired Alex Call from the Nationals and Rock
Stewart from the Twins. Those same Twins trading Carlos Correa
to the Astros. Tigers traded for Kyle Finnegan and Charlie
Morton to add to their pitching staff the Texas Rangers,
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while Merrill Kelly from the Diamondbacks and the Mets got
Cedric Mullins from the Orioles. Then Nicks and Ford mckill
Bridges have agreed in a four year, one hundred and
fifty million dollar contract extension and Washington Commanders, while he
Terry McLaurin has asked the Commanders to trade him the
two sides Terry and the team unable to come to
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terms on a contract extension. The Hall of Fame game
happened today thirty four to seven, the Chargers of the
winner in a game that does not matter one bit.
Trey Lance, though, had his best game as a pro
as a guys outlined earlier today thirteen for twenty two
touchdowns on under twenty yards passing. Dj U Alungele finished
the game. Kyle Allen had two interceptions, and Hendon Hooker
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finished the game for the Lions. And mop up dude.
He saw a few guys who you'll see on you know,
the standard NFL Sunday, or at least we've seen in
the past.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Craig Reynolds had a touchdown.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
Hassan Haskins saw him play more for Michigan than he
did for the Tennessee Titans, but still out there and
playing for his former head coach Jim Harbaugh. Back to
you guys, Thanks a bunch of mark. Now I'll tell
you this. I see your Cal Rowley now. Most home
runs by a switch hit and catching MLB history. The
record he broke was forty one, held by he former
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New York met Todd Hunley ninety six ninety seligate that
finally that the met. He was the catcher for like
nine years and finally he broke through. He had an
incredible year. They moved in the left field and he
couldn't field at all, and it was awful. At one
point when he caught a fly ball, he actually tipped
his cap to the crowd because he was such he
was so bad in the outfield.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
But man ninety six, ninety seven six, yeah, forty one, Randy, Yeah, Dad,
he was great that year. I mean we didn't we
didn't do it, but he was right, man, it was great.
It's all the matters. Thanks a bunch, Martin coming up next. Yes,
as you just heard Martin Wise say, an all pro
wide receiver wants a trade. So I'll tell you why
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I am okay trade to him and who should trade
for him? That's next right here, Jason of Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
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Speaker 1 (36:56):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. We have more in the MLB trade
deadline coming up in about ten minutes. Thanks to John
Paul Morosi as always for stopping by telling us how
well the Mets did. But big NFL news today, a
congratulations we all made it NFL season. Yeah, it is
that time Hall of Fame game. How sweet it was
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seeing those Chargers jerseys on the field tonight at all.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
It is great.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Now we're gonna rank our top five plays as made
by Trey Lance tonight. But outside of that, it's not
often that an all pro wide receiver request to be traded.
But that's what happened today. We're Terry McLaurin of the
Commanders made good on his threat slash promise to request
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a trade. He has done so. Jordan Schultz reporting this,
Adam Schefter reporting this. He wants a new contract. He
saw guys like Garrett Wilson get paid around thirty million
dollars a year, and mclaurin's coming off a great year.
Clearly he is the number one option in that offense.
He wanted more money and now it doesn't like he's
gonna get it, and so he wants a trade.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I know the Commanders have been getting all kinds of flack.
How do you not take care of this guy? He's
your best wide receiver. But first of all, I'm okay
if the Commanders trade him, because Jaden Daniels is that
kind of quarterback, right, there's a reason why he's a
top five quarterback in the NFL. Already. You can already
see that he makes everybody around him better. He's not
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just a guy that can put up stats or if
you give him great weapons, he can do well. That's
most of the quarterbacks in the NFL, but there's very
few who no matter what they have around them, they're
gonna make them better. So yeah, I'm okay with not
paying a twenty nine year old wide receiver who's been
good but not great over the course of his career.
I'm okay with not paying that guy thirty million dollars
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because in theory, you could say, all right, we can
get to the guy in here that can be just
as good. Right, we can get to the guy. Now
you're getting close to the season. You want somebody to
get on the same page with your with your quarterback
and your team. So yeah, maybe this could have been
something you handled better. Cau If you're going to trade
Terry mc lauren should have done it earlier where he
can go out and get somebody. But I'm okay with
them trading him because, yeah, if this is Jamar Chase,
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I get one. If this is Ceedee Lamb, But come on,
Terry mclaurin's a guy catches seventy five eighty passes a year.
Which is good. He's been good, but he's not a
he's not a twenty three year old, twenty four year
old butting star. He's gonna be thirty and all of
a Sudden'm not gonna pay him just because he's been
through all the wars in Washington with all these horrible quarterbacks. Yeah.
I get that he wants to get paid and he's
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a good receiver. But for the Commanders, no, you are
Jayden Daniels driven. He will make the team better. You
can let him go and figure something else out final
year of a three year, sixty eight million dollar extension
that he signed. To your point, last year, his base
numbers looked very similar to the year before and the
year before that, and the year the uptick was obviously
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red zone. Right, he gets into double digit touchdowns as
that offense humes, and then you have to decide how
much does he help fuel everything else, drawing extra attention,
et cetera. Again, numbers didn't really change terribly much along
the way. So is that worth thirty million dollars plus?
Probably not. Now on the eve of the season, I
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think this becomes the you get a sit, right, you
really want to sit go ahead, But if you're looking
at your roster in Washington right now, you got Noah Brown,
Deebo Samuel and a wishing, wanting hoping that Michael Gallup
is that guy that he wants upon a time was
in Dallas before he was out of football. Art Monk,
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that's a lot, and that zach Ertz is gonna stay Hearthy,
Charlie Brown, Yeah, sure right. I mean you look at
Brian Robinson and Austin Eckler out of the backfield. Terry
mcglaurin's I think gonna try to leverage this his best
by what I just said, all these other guys like
this is what you got, and so how much you
believe in old number five to carry you for now
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Here's but here's the thing is that they need to
make a trade and get a wide receiver back, right,
That's what they need to do, and they can and
the two teams they should look to deal him to, right,
Obviously the Steelers are gonna always be linked with a
wide receiver and a way what right, sure, clearly that's
not gonna happen. The two teams that you're trade for him,
and who I would call if I'm Washington, I call
the Bills, because the Bills have a horde of okay
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but not great receivers. They could use a stud like McLaurin,
and the Broncos could use a stud to pair with
Courtland Sutton for Bonnix's development. Again, it's an arms race
in the AFC West about continuing to add weapons because
it's gonna be the best division in football. Those are
the teams that should have the most interest in McLaurin
and who I would make sure I would call to say, Okay,
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I gotta make sure I get a wide receiver back,
forge a wide receiver and a draft pick, whatever it is,
but I get somebody back and do it soon. Those
are the teams I call. Those are the teams that
I would call if I were to make this trade out. Now,
here's the current odds is, courtesy of DraftKings, that he
stays a commander and wal minus two fifty Patriots plus
four fifty Raiders plus five hundred Titans and Chargers. Chargers
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might want to make a play, right, We were talking
about that receiving corps and maybe you think we need
one more. You think we need one more, Let's go
get one more. Jet said thirteen to one by the
way exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Carman coming up next. Back into what made today
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Here we are real life football with great uniforms and everything.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
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tastes good. Well, here we are midway through the third quarter,
Chargers all over the Lions twenty four to seven, and
you know after vacationing in Detroit for the better part
or the Greater Michigan area.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Great.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, now you're a greater Michigan. Yeah. I've always been
a greater Michigan. I've been one of the greatest Michiganders ever.
You've certainly proclaimed yourself to be. So this is with
these two teams right now, and Trey Lance is playing
quarterback for the Chargers. Now it feels like it's twenty
twenty again. We're back in five This is awesome. I
want to say this, the sense of football fans and
(01:40):
the general sense of how they feel in Detroit now,
going back once a year like I normally do, it's
one of those where I can take a snapshot and
because I'm not there every day, I can see the progression.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So you went and checked out all the jerseys that
people are wearing and all that, or they're wearing Tigers
gear at none of the I tell you, well, first
of all, everybody, it's it's University of Michigan. Sure, it's everything,
whether they have an allegiance tied to them or not.
You just have to pretend. There's people who have never
even been to the Greater Ann Arbor area everybody where's Michigan.
(02:15):
Gu Yeah, I mean, look Notre Dame fans and all
that other. I mean there's plenty. And boy did I
did I go shopping great in ann Arbor at the
Michigan Store when I was fantastic. But in the last
few years, right, because remember when I told you, hey,
this Lion's team is coming, They're going to the Super Bowl.
And they were one. They fell one game shot, they
lose in the NFC Championship game, they throw up on
themselves in the second half. The general sense of Lions
(02:39):
fans now has gone and I agree, it's gone from
it's unbelievable that we're this good. Pinch me because I
can't believe this. We've never been this good. And then
it went to the following year was okay, hey, we
got a taste last year. This is a super Bowl
year for us now and it comes to a screeching
hauled against Jayden Daniels and the Commanders in the playoffs.
And now it's more, hey, man, if it ain't this year,
(03:02):
we gotta blow it up like this is where in
just two years, forget about the fact the Lions have
been relevant being at in years. I mean it's been
You go back to Barry Sanders retiring on the eve
of training camp, right, Matthew Stafford getting to one playoff game,
whatever it was. You forget Calvin Jarry. Yeah, oh, I'm
done like it. It's gone in the last three years.
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It's gone from what a great story this is, this
is a magic carpet ride to hey man, if we
don't do it this year, we gotta make changes. We
got to blow it up and and and honestly, that's
what's gonna likely have to happen. Because Jared Goff needs
new contract. I'm and Ross Saint Brown's got gotta need
a new contract. These guys are up. They want to
give more money to Aiden Hutchinson. It's like, okay, there's
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only so much and there's other players a guy to
get paid to like, this is a super Bowl or
bust year for the Lions and when's the last time
and not even when Bob because they didn't have a
super Bowl when Bobby Lane was a quarterback. This is
a super Bowl or bust year for the Loans. And
if they don't, if it doesn't happen, this is we
gotta retool, we gotta redo things. We gotta pay Jared Goffield.
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We gotta pay some Like what are you gonna do this?
This is it? This should be the year, right, they
should be the favorites in the NFC. It should be
them and the Eagles again, Right, but the Eagles coming
off a super Bowl? Okay, are they still gonna have
the hunger? Things are gonna go right for them? Like
they should be the team that you say, who should
be in the super Bowl this year? It's the Lions.
It is super Bowl or bust. And if it's bust,
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it's gonna be an entirely new look to this team
because you guess what, eventually Jimmie or Gibbs is gonna
want to get me. You gotta pay all this money. Right,
they've already I think realized that, Okay, this is Jameis
and Williams's last year, Right, we can't we can't pay
the guy. We're just gonna have it and he's gonna
go away. But all these guys are gonna want to
get paid. Sam Laport is gonna want to get paid
after this year because he's one of the top five
tight ends in the NFL. Like this is it is
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for the Lions. In two years, it's gone from what
a great story we are to it's super Bowl or
bust and everything change. We need new guys who doesn't
work out well. It's an a amazing run and shows
you how quickly the life cycle is in this league,
and that you're also talking about super Bowl or Bust
as the second favorite behind the Eagles, sandwich nicely between
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those NFC East powerhouses and the Eagles and the commanders there.
But you're looking at it from the standpoint of you're
also doing it while changing out your coordinators as they
both leave this offseason, which we know is not the
easiest task. We watch the Eagles have that huge falloff.
Now they've got some shuffling up again after winning the
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Super Bowl, but it's now the curiosity for the lines.
David Montgomery spoke to this a little bit last week
as they were entering camp of some of the expectations
and looking around the locker room of you know, the
guys kind of recognizing exactly what you're talking about. Between
contracts and just the way the National Football League is.
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You know, we can talk about how robust and deep
the AFC is, and it's and it is right. You've
got a lot of heavyweights. While in the NFC side
of things, we watched the Commanders rise up quickly. Do
you expect a little bit of a fallback from the
Commanders this year? Perhaps a little bit, right Deebo Samuel
checks in with McLaurin, will eventually figure things out with them.
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I don't think he's going anywhere. But they also want
a lot of one score games a year ago. Law
of averages says, maybe you give one or two of
those games back, which which puts you back into the nice,
meaty part of the curve. Packers. You've got one hundred
wide receivers. I don't know if you have a great one,
but you've got a pretty good roster top to bottom.
(06:37):
Forty nine ers come back and in theory, you'll have
better health. Perhaps the specter, that is, the injury plague
finds another squad and leaves you Rams. Matthew Stafford does
back hold up love the rest of the roster. Do
you trust Jimmy g if Stafford's not there? Men, He
and DeVonta Adams are best friends. Now the Buccaneers read too,
(07:00):
Baker Mayfield. Are they gonna be healthy enough? Like there's
a bunch of teams that are kind of there, but
it's a talent level of the Lions is on paper,
right them and the Eagles, and it's young talent. It's
all young. This is not hey, this guy's little too well, No,
the oldest guy is golf and a quarterbacks obviously you
play at high level till your mid to late thirties.
(07:21):
Like everybody's young. Everybody this is. This is the roster
everybody wants in the NFL. And it's a super Bowl.
What a world we live in. It's a super Bowl
or bust year for the Lions, not the Cowboys, not
the Steelers, not the Chiefs, not the Dolphins. I know
it's super Bowl or bus for the line, But I
already go to the offensive side of things, Right, we
look at some of these juggernauts and guys that for
(07:43):
fantasy purposes we're gonna be drafting highly, and then you
decide how much you love or hate youared golf. But
look at your coordinator. It's gonna be a completely different
game getting called yea, we're not gonna have you know,
passes to the offensive tackle or a little and you
know trap plays to them. I mean those are gonna
be gone. All the gadgets. Ben Johnson such a wizard,
(08:05):
and I read today that they're already all done answering
the questions of how different will the offense look this year?
A Ben Johnson like, They're like they're done right with no.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
One's asking, Hey, how about asking about Aaron Glenn Right,
have someone asked me we lost their defensive No, ask
me again about Ben on the defensive?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Is Hutch healthy?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Because if Hutch is healthy, we're feeling okay because on
the defensive side of the ball. I mean you talk
about what Glenn was able to do, I mean that
was bandages and duct tape. With the way that defense
was structured at the end of the year, right, so
many guys were out injured, It's like, can you get
to the next game? Like we were trying to learn
who some of these guys were. It's like, remember him,
he was a second team All SEC or what whatever
(08:45):
in CIRT Conference. Here he hasn't played much of the NFL,
but damnit, he was good college years. I'm all due
and so far, I'm all on Aaron Glenn Man. He
is done. He is a culture guy. Hearing the Jets
say the practices are better, the communication is better. Everything is.
But I'm like, oh my goodness, man, I'm gonna what
else are they gonna say? It's gonna you know what,
(09:06):
it sucked last year, it's just as bad.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
No, it's a new guy.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Everybody's sucking up, including all of the Beat reporters, Samini.
They all have to suck up because they need the quotes,
they need the access. It's a new regime. So you're
you're gonna say all the positive, glowing things. You paid
your superstars all of that to say, Yeah, it can't
be any darker than it was the last couple of years, right,
(09:30):
I mean, you've got to have hope springs eternal there
for the New York Football Jets, but yeah for your Lions.
You started it and then you took them as far
as you could and then you abandon them. Now they
got to do it. Everybody's got to do something for themselves.
Everybody's chomping on that that pistons band. I can push
you on your bicycle, but you got a pedal and
(09:51):
make it doing yours. I could do that, but you
don't have to pedal anymore. You got these electric bikes.
I don't have to pedal a damn bit. Uh so
we'll we'll have stuff on the chargers well coming up,
because Trey Lance has thrown two touchdowns and we've hit
the over. I'm waiting for the for the obligatory. You know,
Trey Lance is younger, is still younger than seventy four
percent of the quarterbacks they have a U. But he
(10:12):
has on a couple of touchdowns for the charge. We
got stuff on the chargers coming up. I mean he
had a fumble on the opening. Yeah, hit that over.
But today also trade deadline day in Major League Baseball.
We get to the big particulars coming up. The let's
make big moves, the Padres make big moves right the Mariners.
But uh, this was a day where everybody seemed to
get a closer. It's like Oprah walking and you get
(10:34):
a closer, and you get a close. The Yankees got
a closer and said, nope, Devin Williams is still a closer. Okay,
I mean closers went yesterday. Today it's the year of
the relief pitcher being traded. Right this trade deadline. There
were there were thirty four trades, I think is what
it was, and I think thirty one of them were relievers.
Certainly thirty thirty one were relievers and it was Suarez
(10:55):
and Mullins, right, and that's well. And everybody had once
upon a time wore up Padres or Twins Jersey. Yeah,
poor twins. They don't have a team then, I think
they they only have two guys under contract through the
end of next year. With nine players off their roster
from this week have been traded in nine guys. A
lot of rosters shuffling there. But look, here's where I
(11:15):
could tell you the why, right, Because why do we
get so many relievers traded? Why is it? Are the
the the influx of it? Why so many today? And
this is part of the new baseball with the one
deadline at the end of July. Why did all these
relievers get traded? Mainly because relievers are the easiest players
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to trade and to trade for. It's it's sometimes it's
just that simple, right, Why is so many every Does
everybody the Padres need a reliever? No, but it was
pretty easy to trade for. We got another club. We
got Mason Miller. Okay, we got we got another club.
We don't need it, but we got one. It's easier
to trade for relievers because these guys aren't getting paid
a ton of money. If you want to resign a reliever,
it's generally not for a ton of money. The prospects
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you will give up are not gonna be ones at
the top, but there'll be decent prospects. They'll be periphery
top ten prospects. It's easy. It's like trading and fantasy
with the owner you know you can trade with, versus
the owners you know you can't trade with. And that's
kind of what it is in baseball. Okay, Hey, all
these teams understand that we're gonna build our starting pitching,
we're gonna build our offense, and then if we need relievers,
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we can get them at the deadline because there will
be a plethora of relievers available and we'll be able
to trade some prospects that are in our top prospects
and be able to move that. That's just the way
baseball goes. Now, look at all the teams that had weaknesses.
Look what they did. The Mets bullpen huge weakness. Now
it's one of their big strengths.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
The Phillies turn their bullpen into a big strength. The
Padres made their bullpen even a bigger strength. I don't
even think they need starting pitchers anymore. It's gonna go
with the relievers and roll them all the way through. Right,
the Yankees make a trade for a closer. These guys
are all getting all these teams where the bullpen is
our weak link. They know, guess what, at the deadline,
we can do this because it is the cheapest way
to improve our team. And that's simply why. And this
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is going to be a case forever now because you
only have the one deadline in Major League, but they
don't have the end of August, where hey, these other
pitchers that are coming up, we can get rid of them.
They can pass through waivers. They're worth a lot of money.
It's the easiest way to improve your team. And teams
are now going to go into a season saying, hey,
we like our bullpen, but we're not going to go
crazy signing bullpen guys because we don't know how the
first half of the year is going to go. We
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don't know if the magic this guy had for twenty
twenty four is going to come through in twenty twenty five.
We're gonna need to move on from him. So at
the deadline, yeo, okay, who's having a big year. All right, great,
we can make that move again. This is something that
is going to happen every year. Big relievers will get
dealt every single season, and teams are going to build
that way. So when they get to the deadline, we know, okay,
how do we make our team better check mark. We'll
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get a couple of relievers coming in, We'll get a closer,
and suddenly our bullpen has lights out. Now, all of
a sudden, these big contenders got way better by not
giving up a lot. It's a very popular way. Well,
and that's the other part is just the way the
game itself has been structured and changed that you know,
we get guy that goes seven innings, we're busting out
the New Year's Eve streamers and horns to celebrate a
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big effort. Otherwise it's you need three four arms a day.
We talked about it last night. Look at the Dodgers.
They made some moves, not the big splash than any
anybody was really looking for, although they did get mister Tibbs,
so we'll get to run that line a lot for
the second TIBs. They picture the Reds and the Mets
in the eighties. He was supposed to be great. Jab
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is still around, no question, no, but it's it's just
the idea that you're gonna need there. They already have
gone through thirty seven arms the road shut up. But
all of that to say, I mean the get Us
Book of World Records. We said it last night. It's
forty two. And now you're adding more arms and hoping
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Blake Snow when he comes off Saturday, can give you
a bunch of innings. Otherwise you've got a bunch of
relievers that are already been highly leveraged and trotted out
quite frequently. So team for team, they're trying to match up.
When you look at your front runners in either league,
but also just the changing face of baseball. You need
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to get through the long slog in the dog days
of August and into September. If you're still a competitor,
you need fresh arms, and you need three guys that
are gonna be at the ready every day. And you
can't keep trotting guys out two three times a series
and think you're gonna have great success. Allows more roster
management and opportunity, you know, to find that that perfect
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matchup and give guys you know their their inning and
push it forward. So yeah, from an economic standpoint, absolutely,
from a gameplay standing you know, it's just the new
new world order in baseball. Yeah, it's It's just this
is how it goes. It's easy. Relievers are going to
find their market the off season not being great and
then being well sought after the deadline. That's just how
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it's gonna I mean, we talk with John Palmarrossi a
little bit Tuesday. We'll talk to them again now that
the dust is starting to settle, and he's like, yeah,
it's it's all relievers all time. We asked about starting pitch,
he goes, baby, Babe, you'll see a couple of guys
that we did, but a couple of jags and no, no,
but that we didn't see Dylan Cees. We didn't see
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all the.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Going all in.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I got a lot of people that are really meant
and device degrees. I found his way out right. Yeah,
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today was trade deadline day in Major League Baseball, and
every single team got a closer. Congratulations. It seems about
right everybody, you get a closer, you get a close.
You can't use my road, but you can have a closer.
Who are the big winners? Who are the big losers?
(18:53):
What does John Paul morose you have to say about this?
LB Network insider joins us now on the hotline to
break down on what he saw today and John Paul,
congratulations on closer day in Major League Baseball. All thirty
four players traded today were closers. I didn't think we'd
ever see something like that.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Thirty four, by the way, is also the number of
points that were scored by the Chargers against the Lions,
but we'll get into that one laterally.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Pre season football, John Paul, don't.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Streuss right right.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
The preseason football is far down the list of topics
to discuss today. Actually, you'll forget me. Just before we
came on the air, there was a knock on my
door and it was the Twins. Beloved and cuddly TC Bear,
who was also traded. He was traded away today. He
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is emblematic of the Twin Cities, and he too has
been dealt.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
So you gave it ug.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, I gave I gave TC a big hug. I
told him, buddy, we're going to hang out again. I
met first the Metrodome long time ago. I always loved
the Metrodome more than most people did. But we're gonna
have all kinds of memories now. The Twins got great
history and they've got a bright future. But the president
right now is not so much fun. After making a
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lot of trades they did well. To be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Sam Paul, they don't have a team.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
They traded away out half half of their I don't
think they have enough guys to play the rest.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Of the season they can bring down there. There is
a I believe a Northern League team it's based out
of Winnipeg's gonna be loan them some players. And then
there's the Saint Paul Saints. Uh that that's actually a
Triple A team, no longer an independent team that Kevin
Mallar played four years ago, but it is. It is
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a remarkable time. The Twins have basically done trades with
everybody except they did not trade Joe Ryan, and that
was that was the one blockbuster of blockbusters they could
have made. Of course, they did not do that, but
they traded just about everyone else, including the beloved TC Bear.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
All Right, so we talked about the winners losers today.
I'll give you the two big winners today, and there's
a third winner. But these two above three big winners
trade deadline over the course of the past few days.
You got it, The Mariners, the Padres, and the Mets.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Good, I agree. And you know what, there's there's also
this little small market team, it's based out on the
East Coast called the New York Yankees, and they did
pretty well too. They traded for seven players. Seven that's
almost a third of their team. Now I realized that
Aaron Judges on the injured list. They don't have Garrett Cole.
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But now they've got, I believe, by my count, I
think at least four different relievers who have their own
pyrotechnics and musical display when they enter the game, which
is usually pretty good indication. And the Mets have the
same thing. We're gonna have, like dueling, dueling, game presentation entrances.
Now for the Mets, you've got Hell's bells, You've got
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you still have the trumpet's playing now the Mets, now
the Yankees as well, with the arrival of Camilo Dovall
and David Bednard at joining them with Devin Williams. They're
looking really good now. And they also got, by the way,
amid all the talk and the scrutiny on Anthony Bolpi,
gidding Hoste Cavagto was a very important move too, because
he's actually a very solid defensive player. I think they
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did exceptionally well. Do I really do. I would have
liked to have seen the Yankees get a starting pitcher
as well, but by and large I like their deadline
in addition to three teams that you mentioned, So the
overall takeaway is basically twofold number one, the best trade
deadline I have ever covered. I've been doing this for
exactly twenty years. The first first one I covered as
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a major league writer was with the Seattle Post Intelligencer
back in two thousand and five, and the Seattle Mariners,
like recite the trades from memory, they traded Randy Winn
to the Giants for a package that included Jesse Foppert.
Why I'm amber, I do Jesse fopperts Jesse Fopper. Just
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look him up. He was traded Jesse Fopper. So so
that was twenty years ago. This is the best trade
deadline I have ever covered in terms of just excitement,
diversity of moves. You had buyer and buyer, and seller
and seller and then buyer and seller. There was all
kinds of different combinations. It felt like an NBA trade
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deadline on most because of the different combinations of elements there.
So that's number one best ever and it also conveyed
to me and this is really awesome news for a
lot of baseball fans that a lot of teams in
a lot of different markets believe that they can win
the World Series. Because you saw, by most measures in baseball,
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depending on how you've got this kind of thing, the
two smallest markets are Milwaukee and Cincinnati, and both of
them were buyers. In fact, Cincinnati they added to Brian Hey,
they had Zachtel, they were adding multiple players, and the
Brewers made I thought, some pretty interesting moves with the
in terms of players and players out. They trans Nestor Cortez,
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brought in Shelby Miller. There's just a lot of really
interesting movement that I loved, and that cemented my idea
that this is as wide open as any postseason that
I've ever covered is going to be.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That's the fun of all of a JP. We talked
about it a little bit when you joined us earlier
this week. Sue as the big chip already making paying
dividends for the Mariners, looking resplendent in those blue jersey tops.
Oh yeah, on side, cal Raley so solid there. I
immediately went as we went down our list of potential
losers in all of this, to the North side of Chicago,
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where there were a lot of expectations that at least
one starting pitcher was going to walk through those doors. Instead,
it's a utility man and another reliever.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, I was a little bit underwhelmed. I thought that
they would do more. I thought the Red Sox would
do more. I thought the Tigers would do more. But
you're right the Cubs in particular. There were a lot
of big time names that were linked to the Cubs again,
Ahannio Suadez was actually one of them. There was more
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talk about what they could have done at third base.
I just feel like the Brewers have a little more
momentum now than the Cubs do, and the Brewers have
this youth on their side. I do think sometimes the
experience is a little bit overrated, especially in a situation
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where you've got and again it's not like the Cubs
are this ancient team, but the Brewers have this really
good style they play with, and they brought in Mizerowski,
They've got Chad Patrick, and now they've got also the
experience a little experienced with Brandon Woodruff coming back in,
and then this really impressive bullpen that's missing a lot
of bats. So I think the Brewers are playing an
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excellent brand of baseball, and the Cubs they just there's
a little bit more that I believe they should have
done with respect to their rotation. Yeah, they've got six
starters if you consider Soroka to be a starter. But
I just don't know how the likes of Ben Brown
and Kate Horton again into the second half, longer season,
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how they're going to respond. You've seen a little bit
of inconsistency with Imanaga this season. I just I like
the Brewers a little bit better. And then you look
at a team like the Podreys now again in the
National League with a ton of momentum. That team is
so much fun. They aj Proler basically made a trade
at every hour, it seemed this year, this day, and
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one of them, of course, Mason Miller coming over from Oakland,
one of the best closers in the game, and he
actually Robert Suarez and he kept Dylan ceased. But for
me to help address the catching situation, he brought in Loreano,
he brought an O'Hearn. Just a masterclass of work in
the deadline, being clever with what assets he had at
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the budget. And and aj Preller is not afraid to
make a trade and give up a top prospect, same
like Dave Dombrows Gilber in Philadelphia. So I'm a big believer.
I really I like it when teams that go board
are rewarded. And I believe that the National League is
going to be represented eventually in the World Series by
a team that was aggressive on this day and in
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general this season, and that would include teams like the Padres, Phillies, Mets. Yes,
I made sure to include the Mets there. Yeah, I
know I held you in suspense there, but they did.
I thought the Mets did a very good job. Listen,
they they paid and I know that the New York
fan of you, Jason was very excited that. Listen, they
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were not afraid to overpay a little bit, especially in
the Rogers deal that was they paid a ton, yeah
to get in, but you know how important it is.
And they now have an almost all new late inning
setup crew in front of Edwin Diaz, which is I
think bodes very well for their postseeded fortunes.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
John Paul Moros, the MLB Network Insider with us here
the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen. Now, I want
to bring up something that you had the big breaking
news on today. We saw that Carlos Correa going back
to the Houston Astros, and I'm sure everybody's saying, wait
a minute, they have a pretty good shot. No, no, no,
you said, Carlos Correa is okay with playing third base.
So I know everybody is happy the band is getting
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back together in Houston. But John PAULA, it sounds great,
but Carlos Correa hasn't really been that player now for
almost four years. I feel like, Oh, everybody's expecting Crea
to come back and we're going to turn the clock
back to twenty seventeen, and that I don't think that's
gonna happen he's not that guy anymore.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I think you're right that there is a little bit
of nostalgia here, which again is good. It's part of
the reason why and again not the same thing, but
why the Mariners are so excited about getting Suarez back.
It's that romance of bringing back the player that helped
you win before. So I understand that. But you're right,
is ops even from just last year to this year, Jason,
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he was an All Star year ago, an OPS around
nine hundred. Now it's around seven hundred. And when you
take that OPS and you put it over at third base,
there were teams that had that level of production at
third base this season who were trying to upgrade on it.
And so I just I'm with you. The talent is
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still there. He is not an old man by any
stretch of the imagination, but he's going to have to
I think kick it up a notch and he may.
I think back to run to what Chorycholwitzky did over
a brief amount of time with the Jays when he
was traded there at ten years ago, where he was
sort of towards the back end of his career, and
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yet he found a way to summon that that talent
and that postseason dry for him. So I do think
you'll get a better version of Korea in Houston with
a Pennant race with a lot of excitement there. But
I am with you that I fully agree we have
not seen the best of him in a while, and
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he's going to have to reprove himself. And you know
that those that bat that he had in twenty seventeen
or twenty nineteen or twenty twenty one, they're not going
to count right now. There's nothing about those that bats
that are going to be event of much value when
he's in the batter's box right now, he is going
to have to produce more, and I, like you will
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sort of withhold judgment a little bit before we see
exactly what he's able to bring on a consistent basis
and stay durable, stay in the lineup. He's been injured
way too much lately. That has to change.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Twitter at John Morosi, That is at John Morosey MLB
Network Insider And and Hey, since I know you're going
to talk to Sternsy, your former college roommate, pass along
this message for me. Uh, great job today. I'm looking
forward to seeing sprot and McClain sometime in August. Uh,
who's out the Mets starting staff. So I just let him.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
What he got.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I think, seeing how they like to bring up pictures,
I think they're gonna want to see him do it
a little bit longer like Sproton McLain. I feel like
they're the most ready, but Tong is going to be Hey,
they want to see him do it maybe a little
bit longer. So I'm fully expecting to see him next year.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I agree, I think he'll he'll keep pitching for the
Binghamton Rumble Ponies. I just wanted to find a reason
to mention the Binghamton rumble Ponies.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Of course, let's done that.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And yeah, it's really the the ideal capstone of my
trade deadline day. We've talked about the Binghamton Rumble Ponies
on national radio, and we've talked about uh and and again.
The only reason why, and I'll bring it back to
where we started, The only reason why the Lions went
down to a thirty four to seven defeat tonight in
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Canton is that I did not I did not preemptively
on these airwaves give you the final score two nights ago.
Now now again, the preseason. I'm not going to bring
out my a game of predictions now because there's I
got along. I got It's a long season, but rest
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assured when it comes time to week one. And I
believe I heard a report that they actually play seventeen
regular season games down the NFL, which I think is
a new thing. Maybe this year. I'm joking, but I'll
make sure that I get that prediction in before the
first game did actually counts.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
John Paul is always buddy appreciated, my friend week.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
We have too much fun. We have too much fun.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I didn't give you that pick the other night.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
That's why we got killed. Okay, got it because I
know we actually we went back and forth and you're like, yeah,
we didn't do a pick for Thursday. I'm like, we
covered like nine teams in the fifteen minutes he was
with Hendon Hooker's playing for you. It's okay, It's okay, fine.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
You once thought he was gonna be the guy.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
It was a long time ago, man, it was a
long change. Speaking was so long ago. The Mets had
a bad bullpen. Now look at what it's done today.
Martin Weise has more on that and the rest of
the day in the NLB trade deadline.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
With what's trending, Let's get to some actual baseball being
played today, Cale Rally with this forty second home run
of the year. Now, this is one of those records
that has like an asterisk, but it's still pretty cool.
Most in a single season by a switch hitting catcher.
Kyle Raley with his forty second home run of the
year of The Mariners just scored their sixth run now
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six to nothing over the Rangers in the bottom of
the sixth inning. And you also had Aohenneo Suarez making
his second Mariner's debut as he's in the lineup today.
Josh Naylor's out there. A ton of people have been traded. Oh,
Kyle Ridley at the plate right now. The Braves won today,
eleven to twelve to eleven and ten innings. The Blue
Jays traded earlier to day for Shane Bieber. The Yankees
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added three arms to their bullpen. Dovolved, David Bennar and
Jacob Byrd from the Rockies. The Red Sox got Duft
and May from the Dodgers. The Padres made five trades
in total before the deadline. JP Rosie said it fella
he made a like Prebler made a trade every hour.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Well.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
They got first base from Ryan O'Hearn outfield of Ramon Loreano.
They also added Mason Miller, JP Series and Freddie for me.
The Dodgers acquired Alex Call from the Nationals and Rock
Stewart from the Twins. Those same Twins trading Carlos Correa
to the Astros. Tigers traded for Kyle Finnegan and Charlie
Morton to add to their pitching staff the Texas Rangers,
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while Merrill Kelly from the Diamondbacks and the Mets got
Cedric Mullins from the Orioles. Then Nicks and Ford mckill
Bridges have agreed in a four year, one hundred and
fifty million dollar contract extension and Washington Commanders, while he
Terry McLaurin has asked the Commanders to trade him the
two sides Terry and the team unable to come to
(35:06):
terms on a contract extension. The Hall of Fame game
happened today thirty four to seven, the Chargers of the
winner in a game that does not matter one bit.
Trey Lance, though, had his best game as a pro
as a guys outlined earlier today thirteen for twenty two
touchdowns on under twenty yards passing. Dj U Alungele finished
the game. Kyle Allen had two interceptions, and Hendon Hooker
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finished the game for the Lions. And mop up dude.
He saw a few guys who you'll see on you know,
the standard NFL Sunday, or at least we've seen in
the past.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Craig Reynolds had a touchdown.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
Hassan Haskins saw him play more for Michigan than he
did for the Tennessee Titans, but still out there and
playing for his former head coach Jim Harbaugh. Back to
you guys, Thanks a bunch of mark. Now I'll tell
you this. I see your Cal Rowley now. Most home
runs by a switch hit and catching MLB history. The
record he broke was forty one, held by he former
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New York met Todd Hunley ninety six ninety seligate that
finally that the met. He was the catcher for like
nine years and finally he broke through. He had an
incredible year. They moved in the left field and he
couldn't field at all, and it was awful. At one
point when he caught a fly ball, he actually tipped
his cap to the crowd because he was such he
was so bad in the outfield.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
But man ninety six, ninety seven six, yeah, forty one, Randy, Yeah, Dad,
he was great that year. I mean we didn't we
didn't do it, but he was right, man, it was great.
It's all the matters. Thanks a bunch, Martin coming up next. Yes,
as you just heard Martin Wise say, an all pro
wide receiver wants a trade. So I'll tell you why
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I am okay trade to him and who should trade
for him? That's next right here, Jason of Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. We have more in the MLB trade
deadline coming up in about ten minutes. Thanks to John
Paul Morosi as always for stopping by telling us how
well the Mets did. But big NFL news today, a
congratulations we all made it NFL season. Yeah, it is
that time Hall of Fame game. How sweet it was
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seeing those Chargers jerseys on the field tonight at all.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
It is great.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Now we're gonna rank our top five plays as made
by Trey Lance tonight. But outside of that, it's not
often that an all pro wide receiver request to be traded.
But that's what happened today. We're Terry McLaurin of the
Commanders made good on his threat slash promise to request
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a trade. He has done so. Jordan Schultz reporting this,
Adam Schefter reporting this. He wants a new contract. He
saw guys like Garrett Wilson get paid around thirty million
dollars a year, and mclaurin's coming off a great year.
Clearly he is the number one option in that offense.
He wanted more money and now it doesn't like he's
gonna get it, and so he wants a trade.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I know the Commanders have been getting all kinds of flack.
How do you not take care of this guy? He's
your best wide receiver. But first of all, I'm okay
if the Commanders trade him, because Jaden Daniels is that
kind of quarterback, right, there's a reason why he's a
top five quarterback in the NFL. Already. You can already
see that he makes everybody around him better. He's not
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just a guy that can put up stats or if
you give him great weapons, he can do well. That's
most of the quarterbacks in the NFL, but there's very
few who no matter what they have around them, they're
gonna make them better. So yeah, I'm okay with not
paying a twenty nine year old wide receiver who's been
good but not great over the course of his career.
I'm okay with not paying that guy thirty million dollars
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because in theory, you could say, all right, we can
get to the guy in here that can be just
as good. Right, we can get to the guy. Now
you're getting close to the season. You want somebody to
get on the same page with your with your quarterback
and your team. So yeah, maybe this could have been
something you handled better. Cau If you're going to trade
Terry mc lauren should have done it earlier where he
can go out and get somebody. But I'm okay with
them trading him because, yeah, if this is Jamar Chase,
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I get one. If this is Ceedee Lamb, But come on,
Terry mclaurin's a guy catches seventy five eighty passes a year.
Which is good. He's been good, but he's not a
he's not a twenty three year old, twenty four year
old butting star. He's gonna be thirty and all of
a Sudden'm not gonna pay him just because he's been
through all the wars in Washington with all these horrible quarterbacks. Yeah.
I get that he wants to get paid and he's
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a good receiver. But for the Commanders, no, you are
Jayden Daniels driven. He will make the team better. You
can let him go and figure something else out final
year of a three year, sixty eight million dollar extension
that he signed. To your point, last year, his base
numbers looked very similar to the year before and the
year before that, and the year the uptick was obviously
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red zone. Right, he gets into double digit touchdowns as
that offense humes, and then you have to decide how
much does he help fuel everything else, drawing extra attention,
et cetera. Again, numbers didn't really change terribly much along
the way. So is that worth thirty million dollars plus?
Probably not. Now on the eve of the season, I
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think this becomes the you get a sit, right, you
really want to sit go ahead, But if you're looking
at your roster in Washington right now, you got Noah Brown,
Deebo Samuel and a wishing, wanting hoping that Michael Gallup
is that guy that he wants upon a time was
in Dallas before he was out of football. Art Monk,
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that's a lot, and that zach Ertz is gonna stay Hearthy,
Charlie Brown, Yeah, sure right. I mean you look at
Brian Robinson and Austin Eckler out of the backfield. Terry
mcglaurin's I think gonna try to leverage this his best
by what I just said, all these other guys like
this is what you got, and so how much you
believe in old number five to carry you for now
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Here's but here's the thing is that they need to
make a trade and get a wide receiver back, right,
That's what they need to do, and they can and
the two teams they should look to deal him to, right,
Obviously the Steelers are gonna always be linked with a
wide receiver and a way what right, sure, clearly that's
not gonna happen. The two teams that you're trade for him,
and who I would call if I'm Washington, I call
the Bills, because the Bills have a horde of okay
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but not great receivers. They could use a stud like McLaurin,
and the Broncos could use a stud to pair with
Courtland Sutton for Bonnix's development. Again, it's an arms race
in the AFC West about continuing to add weapons because
it's gonna be the best division in football. Those are
the teams that should have the most interest in McLaurin
and who I would make sure I would call to say, Okay,
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I gotta make sure I get a wide receiver back,
forge a wide receiver and a draft pick, whatever it is,
but I get somebody back and do it soon. Those
are the teams I call. Those are the teams that
I would call if I were to make this trade out. Now,
here's the current odds is, courtesy of DraftKings, that he
stays a commander and wal minus two fifty Patriots plus
four fifty Raiders plus five hundred Titans and Chargers. Chargers
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might want to make a play, right, We were talking
about that receiving corps and maybe you think we need
one more. You think we need one more, Let's go
get one more. Jet said thirteen to one by the
way exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Carman coming up next. Back into what made today
the best MLB trade deadline ever
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