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Jason Smith and Mike Harmon weigh-in on Colts QB Anthony Richardson’s Injury. Two RBs playing tonight that Jason loves for different reasons this season. And another dildo hit the WNBA court!

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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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We have the Hall of Fame game last week. Now
we're about to kick off the third of three games tonight.
And you know coming in the studio following the show,
you know Aaron Torres and he from we're here doing
the show talking. Hey, all right, hey, making sure the

(01:12):
televisions are all set right. We have the two preseason
games going on already, and I said, and I get
on the talk back to talk to Frostburg and Tyshert,
and I go, hey, can I don't know if it's on,
can you change put the Raiders and the Seahawks on?
And both I got double middle fingers from both of
them because I said, Raiders.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, that'll do it. I mean, it is a conditioned
response around these parts, I.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Had to say. And they both looked at me, and
Tysher's there his ours folded, and I said, okay, can
I get the Seahawks scrimmage that's going to air on
TV in the next week with sports radio?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Sir?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Ye were you?

Speaker 1 (01:50):
This is a Wendy's So now we got we have
the the Seahawks scrimmage against another NFL team about to
kick off in a.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Couple were already at two for two with the over
three for three actually, with two games tonight and the
Hall of Fame game, So let's see if the Seahawks
scrimmage can live up to that and keep that moving.
So big headlines in the first couple of games, and
none bigger than what we've seen with the Ravens and
the Colts. About two and a half to go in

(02:19):
the fourth quarter, Colts trail the Ravens twenty four to sixteen.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
However, they're dealing with a little bit more than just that,
because Anthony Richardson wait for it, wait for it, wait
for it, left the Gay with an injury after getting sacked.
He has a dislocated pinky on his throwing hand. If
you see the video online or screen grabs, you will
see his pinky finger just kind of sticks out to

(02:43):
the side where a pinky finger is not supposed to
stick out. Yeah, you look at it and you go,
oh my goodness. David Ojabo goes in on a blitz
and is uncovered. Yeah, no, that was some really bad
protection right there. But before we get to before you
get to the big thing, I just want to say this,
because there is a really big thing. Is I'm gonna
say this and you're gonna go, oh my goodness, is
that true? I want to say first of all that

(03:04):
this injury to Anthony Richardson is two people's faults, and
one of them is mine. Okay, I want to say
right now, I want to say it right now. It's
it's it's a big part of it is my fault. Now, Okay, sure,
So today my wife and I and Zoe we go
into uh we go into one of our favorite coffee places,
uh Mavro, and I I want to say this because

(03:27):
I feel bad about what happened. Uh grateful. Oh my good.
They put they put foam on the top, like it's
like when you go to Harry Potter World and uh
in Universal Studios, and it's just like they can't. They
have caramel foam and cinnamon foam. Oh it's so good.
And I go in and I never had for a
god so good.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
So we go in and and and the guy working
there works there a lot, and maybe he's the owner,
I'm not sure, younger guy, probably in his mid thirties, Okay,
And he comes in, he goes and we can go.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
He goes, oh, you guys from Michigan. And I look
and I go, oh, Pam is wearing a Michigan uh
T shirt and I'm wearing my Michigan hat. And I said, oh,
and he looks at me. I go, well, I'm married
into it. It's it's she's Michigan.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Does she make you wear the hat?

Speaker 1 (04:05):
And he goes, you wear that hat today, it's time
to wear that hat. Okay, I'll wear the hat. Uh
nobod it's cool. It's cause the bell Toalerana to wear
the hat. That's awesome. So I said, yeah, I know,
I married into it. At hergyes oh, and Pem goes,
don't tell me you're from Ohio state. We like coming
in here, and the guy goes, no, no, I'm actually no,
it's fine. I went to Indiana and I said, oh,
I said, oh wow. I said, well, well this is

(04:25):
this is the year. This is the greatest year you've
ever had in your sports life with Indiana. Go and
go to the player last year at football and he goes, yeah,
he goes, you know, but the thing is, it's so
it was so rough for so long. I'm a much
bigger Colts fan than I anything else. And oh, I said, well,
good luck tonight and he and the guy says yeah,
but I mean, what are you really gonna do? Anthony
Richardson hasn't been good and Daniel Jones stinks and I'm like, okay,

(04:47):
and he doesn't know.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
He doesn't know who I am.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
I'm just I'm just a guy talking to him, right,
I'm just a guy talking to him.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah. But as soon as you start going deep into
your well, you know, and Alice's some Colts quarterbacks, he's
gonna raise an eyebrow.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
I said, well, look, and I was gonna say something like, well,
you know, hey, you know, Burt Jones can play a
little bit too, just let me test your nose. But
instead I said, I said, I heard that. I'm gonna
have to disallow that. The Alana Mechi she missed the
Alana Mechie question. So I said, well, I said, look,
I said, I get look, Anthony Richard I'm not an

(05:19):
Anthony Richardson guy, even though I have him in a
Dynasty Fantasy league. But I think Daniel Jones will really
be okay. I said, you have a lot of weapons
on that team. You got a really deep wide receiver room,
you have a great running back, offensive offensive line is good.
I said, I think Daniel Jones will be able to
get the ball where he needs to be, and you
guys will move the football. You do well with Daniel Jones,
And he goes, yeah, But I mean, but you know,

(05:41):
I don't know it's just hard to get excited, and
especially tonight when I go watching the game, that that
likely our offense is not going to be good. And
this is where Anthony Richardson's injury is my fault. This
is where it's my fault is because then I said
to him, and I said, well, look at it this way,
it's pre season. As long as nobody gets hurt, everything
is fine. You can't go back to that place for
a week. No, I can't go back there ever again.

(06:03):
And I love the drinks.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
No, next time you come in with a fake mustache
and an Ohio State hat.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Like it went like Bobby Valentine managing the Mets with
a mustag. And I said, as long as nobody gets hurt,
everything is fine. That's a victory. He goes, ah, yeah,
I guess you're right. Okay, great talking, all right, see
you next time. Okay. I felt I felt awful. I
felt absolutely as soon as I saw that video and
the replaying that finger sticking out is it that's my fault.
That is absolutely my fault. I did that to him.
I did that, and now you know what it was.

(06:32):
That was like two hours before the game too. It
wasn't like early in the No, it was like two hours,
so really fast that that hole. So they'd already get
out on the field. Oh yeah, warming up and they're
getting dressed and everything else. Yeah, absolute hundred percent, one
hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, that's a gaff on a million million levels. You
can almost hear the guys on the sideline, Yo, throwing
a damn town I mean hot round, I mean get down,
get down, because he came in absolutely unabated, uh, un
challenged in any way, shape or.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Form, like oh this is bad.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, like that first step off the line of scrimmage, like, oh,
you gotta get down. This is where you need that
that toy like Peyton Manning used to be, where you'd
press the button and the legs collapse right there. We
used to have a goat up in here in the
studios there, well a whole line of those toys. Oh collapsed,
Oh let it go, hey, Lucky jumps back up. That's
what Anthony Richardson needed here. You needed that button on

(07:29):
the sideline. Make him get down. This is not gonna
end well. And now he's got a pinky like like
my daughter has.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I just I just think when you're saying that of
the crust of the cloud, buy my cereal. By my,
they're pulling the things, buy my cereal. They actually have.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
That toy now, but it only goes so far right
crusty the I'm crusty the clown and I don't like you.
That's as far as he goes. He does not go
to the threat of killing you. Now, I did not
put that in the toy.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
I'm going to say this. I need people to share
this injury with me, and I know exactly who to
play like. I think I'm not taking the whole injury.
I'll take half of it when somebody else. But first,
here's what it sounded like the Anthony Richardson injury. It
is a dislocated pinky finger. He has ruled out for
the game. There is no word yet on when he's

(08:16):
coming back. Let's hear Anthony richards.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Anthony Richardson goes out of the gun ballman here Hash
backs the throat and he is decked from the left
and he is sacked and buried. He took a big
time hit, but more importantly, hangs on to the football
and the ravens with a sack.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Off the left edge and he's going off the field
Matt He got hit unabated. There was no one blocking
the slat. The protection was totally not there. So there
it is. On Colt's TV, David Ajabo, Look, I remember
him seeing him blow people up at Michigan a couple
of years ago, and he was fantastic. Now he's healthy
and ready to recavocate that. Watch out. But here's the thing,

(08:57):
as you heard there, boy unblocked and he comes in
and absolutely levels written. Your starting quarterback gets hurt.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Now here's just goes Oh, at least here's here's who's
gotta share the blame for me?

Speaker 1 (09:12):
And this is absolutely on Shane Steichen and the Colts
because what did they decide to do. Well, we're gonna
have Anthony unless they wanted the guy to get hurt.
What did they decide to do tonight? We're gonna start
Anthony Richardson and he's gonna play most of the first
half in the first preseason game when guys are still
getting used to things and we're all figuring stuff out. No,

(09:33):
we're gonna throw him out there. Okay, so behind his
offensive line. No, we're gonna hold out three starters from
the offensive line, including Quentin Nelson, Braden Smith all all
held out of the gain. They held out three starters.
You hold out your left tackle, your left guard, and
your right tack. Yeah, now, I don't know what protection
they would have been a potential Yojabo. It was a

(09:53):
great It was a great maneuver on the ravens end
to get him to free him up for the sack.
Like you don't know what that play is gonna be.
But just think about the decision to put Anthony Richardson
out there, who you think, hope and can still be
your franchise quarterback the first game of the preseason where
things a little weird. You got to iron the kinks
out at least if you put him out there, put

(10:14):
him in a position to succeed and not in a
position to get hurt. And what happens, He gets blown
up because we're holding our guys out. Okay, And I'm saying, look,
if you want to hold your guys out, I get it.
Don't put your franchise quarterback out there behind a backup
offensive line to start the game. What the hell is
wrong with you? Really? What the hell is wrong with
you that you're doing that? And again I'm not saying

(10:34):
he got injured because of this that. But that's a
horrible decision to make to say we're gonna put him
out there and we're not gonna protect him. We're not
gonna put him in a position to not only hey,
play well, but stay healthy. Like that's a horrible, horrible,
horrible misstep and decision by the Colts.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Well, in the end, you're trying to find out whether
he can read pick up. In this case, you have
the guy comes in on debated and hammers him. Your
your running back is going into a pass route. You've
got him running out of the shotgun. We can talk
about a million parts of the play call and the
decision making. I understand the Hey, you know you start

(11:14):
your quarterback in this battle richardson this week. And then
we know, uh, they had already said Daniel Jones was
going to start game two and while he's starting forever now.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Uh, but.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
He's got to play right, you got to see him.
So I guess the the next question would be the
play call of running him on a shotgun, uh, and
leave him exposed where he's doesn't even have the potential
of someone chipping, doesn't feel the hot hot read or
just to get down but yeah, it's it's a an

(11:49):
amalgam a litany of errors that come. But he's got
to be on the field, right. We saw starters all
over the place, and yes, they had more complete lineup
surround them. I understand that. Uh, but those are some
veterans and guys who've made it. Anthony Richardson's fighting for
a job, and it's an unfortunate occurrence. Fortunately, it's just

(12:10):
a pinky uh, and he should, in theory, get back
out there fairly soon.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, you know, But the thing is is that, yeah,
is he fighting for a j as fight. Yeah, but
he still could be your starting quarterback. Sure, you don't
want to put yourself I remember when.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Right, But if Daniel Jones had started, and maybe he
gets decked the same way, maybe he doesn't.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
I don't know that I put Daniel Jones out there either.
I don't. I'm not gonna put a guy that could
start for me out behind a backup offensive line in
the first game where you're still worried about protection, you're
worried about any sort of chemistry and your face. Why
would you do that? I go all the way back
to when Rex Ryan decided to put Mark Sanchez out
there in the in the second half the Giants game
of a Giants preseason game for the Snoopy Bowl, behind

(12:50):
a backup offensive line, and he got killed, and I
opened the door for Gino Smith to go start right like.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
So we should have just gone straight to I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
I don't understand why you would do that if you're
not gonna if you don't put guys out there, big
time starting players out behind an offensive line that you're
putting at least three backups out there, you don't do
that for Josh Allen. The Bills aren't gonna throw Josh
Allen out there and say, okay, hey go start, but
we're gonna put three backups out. No, nobody does.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
That, No, no, no, But I mean clearly a bit
of apples and oranges in terms of the quarterback. Yes,
just starters, but different degree, different different apter and different
decision making. Right. I think this is the first year
when we look at the league since McVeigh began his
grand experiment, that we're starting to see more teams want

(13:36):
to come out there. Because we certainly watched with the
Bengals and what became what over fifty points between them
and the Eagles, but you had Joe Burrow and Jamar
Chase come out there, do some great work and sit down. Yeah,
you've paid the guy. You protect the guy Richardson. I'm
not saying that you know he's disposable in any way,

(13:58):
shape or form. But you obviously made the decision that
you weren't gonna run out all your starters, and you
allowed a number of guys to sit, whether it was
because they're nursing injuries or because they just said, nope,
not gonna do it. That's that's the decision I want
to know. And they do.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
They get the opt out option, and that's what they did.
I mean, really that that's such an epic fail by
the cults. I can't I can't get over it. I
really can't get This is what we're doing. Yes, here's
the two guys that are battling it out to be
our starting quarterback and their neck and neck. But oh yeah,
we're gonna put one of the guys out there without
three fifths of the offensive line. And again, it's not

(14:39):
if this was the third or fourth game of the preseason.
These guys have played together. It's a little bit more togetherness.
But instead you're worried about what you're calling out, worried
about protection, You're worried about plays like this, where a
job that just runs free and absolutely Dex Richard said, like,
what are you doing? Man? Like, what are you doing
that to your quarterback? That's just wow?

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, I mean you should have just come in and
hand off a couple of times. I guess, don't. Don't
even expose him on the the shotgun and you're trying
to see if he can make plays and read and whatever. Yeah,
you certainly didn't give him a full compliment, a full
deck to work with. But you know what Shane Steichen's learning.

(15:17):
Oh wait, he's been there a couple of years.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
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Raider the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Nothing.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Nothing. Midway through the first quarter, and Pete looks exactly
the same moving around, Saint Pete Carroll, same.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Everything does an age. It's like he's been locked in
a hyperbaric chamber for several years and it's now been unleashed.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, still weird.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Not he got the smelling salts and now he's pacing
the sideline. Oh yeah, because coaches can bring their own
smelling salts in, right.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
I can do that, right, I mean, can you hire
a valet to have your custom smelling salts on the side.
Can the coaches get him from the team, but the
players can't? Like, I mean I think it can't. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
I think Pete Carroll probably could say, hey, I'm I'm
requisitioning these and it's you're it's my expensium.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
So there could be the smelling salts guy who's like, well,
there's the smelling salts guy who works for the for
the team and the league, and the smelling salts guy
who works for the player. It's okay, all right, very
good zone personal guy.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Zone.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Hey guys, Yeah, Rosburg, I fought ash On jeny was good. Wow,
pass three carries minus one yards. He's just sniff he's done.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Sell Sell sell sell.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Look, dude, Aidan O'Connell is already in the game. Okay.
I just just so you know everything. Look, I'm I am,
I am big, Just to let you know right here,
I am absolutely big and bullish on the Raiders this
year for being less terrible best last place team in
the NFL. Okay, they're gonna be the best last place

(19:28):
team in the wins best last place team. And this
is because a the AFC West is gonna wind up
being the best division in football, right, one hundred percent.
You're talking about three teams already that have big time
playoff and potential Super Bowl hopes, and the Raiders have
stopped the backsliding. Right. I'm always a big fan of that.
They find they hired a coach they needed, Pete Carroll, great,
Tom Brady is there helping. Awesome, They got the quarterback

(19:51):
they need and Gino Smith Yes, then Ashton Genty who
I love. Yes. Okay, So the most important positions they
have figured out. They figured out the quote GM head
coach quarterback right because with Brady doing what he's doing, awesome,
Pete Carroll, great solid. You need Sometimes teams just need
a guy to come in and say I can run
a program. I know how to run a program, and

(20:11):
things are going to be better.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
So I am.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
I am bullish on the Raiders. They will be the
best last place team in the NFL this year. They'll
win a couple of big games in divisional, upset a
couple of teams. They'll still Raider their way because you
know Raiders, but they'll be the best last place team
in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
There'll be more entertaining. They're sixteen to want or higher
to win the division. Some heavy lifting to go there.
But yeah, I mean you're looking at what I always
used the pat system. I got a protector, I got
an attacker, and I got a thrower. Gino's established himself
at least mid Yeah, with the opportunity to outperform. Right,

(20:47):
you got a guy in Bowers, you got a number
of number two wide receivers to compliment him.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
So yeah, and May are still there. So yeah, you've
got you've got a lot of opportunity.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Hey, No, I mean, I mean they figure out the
three toughest position, three things you need to be able
to have to succeed and okay, we're good, Right, we're good. Now,
we're awesome. Things are awesome. But because what it's been,
come on, man, they didn't they didn't beat the Chiefs
last year in the game because the quarterback happened to
not be looking when the snap was coming. Just that's

(21:19):
how they lost a game.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
At the end of the year, I can really investigate
the tape that probably happened multiple times to sell them
throughout the years.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
All Right, guys, I know this happens eight times a game.
Let's make it just four times a game this week. Okay,
all right, that's great. That's great because we're the Raiders
right route game hands in Raiders on three one two
three Raider.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yeah, we're working on a silent count because they're cheering loudly,
uh for the opposition in our stadium.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
But I think I think that's apropos. They are the
best last place team, will be the best last place
the NFL. Yea, we are frost. I thought Ashton was good.
Ashton genty will be just how many people have you
texted that too? Not one fresh?

Speaker 3 (21:59):
I'm loving this.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
He will be. It's all to myself. You can't. This
is a nice rebound because look, it's been a day. Hey,
Frostburgs had a tough day. No, it's it's been a
prosperg has had a tough day, had a tough day.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
That was my guy.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, he's had he's had a tough day. Frostburg's had
a tough day. Chargers game producer Justin Frossbury had a
tough day to day, tough day to day. No, it's
a rough day at the office, There's no question about it.
But are you okay Frostburg with me saying the Raiders
will be the best? Last? Who is it? Never heard
of them? All right? How about we get to something
good then, and by that I mean we'll get to

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Speaker 5 (23:08):
Burrow waiting for the shotgun snap two by two formation,
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Speaker 4 (23:13):
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Nice Bengals, Chamar Chase kicking up where he left off
last year.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
There it is Bengals TV on the call the play
of the day, Joe Burrow's touchdown to Jamar Chase Chase
four for seventy seven and a touchdown on the damn.
This is when you know the fantasy owners start start
really jonesing for the year because they look and go, man,
those are fantasy points and not getting because the season
doesn't start for another month. But wow, you know, just
six four for seventy seven in a touchdown, that's a

(23:46):
seventeen points in a PPR league. The Bengals. As long
as Joe Burrow is healthy, the Bengals will be fine.
But the guy I want to talk about for a
couple minutes here and I know you're you're in the
middle of doing all your your draft at your you're
drafting and you're getting your ADP's ready for fantasy. The
guy that I look that's gonna be such a big
deal for this team this year. That's gonna take a

(24:08):
big jump. We know about we know about Jamar Chase, right,
we know about Chase and Burrow, But watch out for
Chase Brown. Yeah, Okay, he's gonna be it. He's gonna
be easily probably i'd say top five, top seven fantasy
running back this year. He really came on last year
when he when he won the job, rested away from
Zach Moss when Zach Moss got hurt. You saw it
tonight in just a little bit of a cameo. Five

(24:31):
carries for twenty three yards. He also caught three passes
out of the backfield for twenty five yards. He basically
will have this to himself. This is gonna be a
big three for the Bengals situation this year where it's
Burrow and the two chat and that's gonna be a
nickname somehow, Burrow and the two Chases, right or something
like that. You're gonna get you something out there. But
I'm telling you Chase Brown finished I believe twelfth to

(24:51):
thirteenth last year, depending on on.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
PPR finished tenth, didn't play week eighteen, and really didn't
do a whole lot the first three weeks.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, depending where, depending where you're at, if you do PPR,
if you don't, he's between you know, ten and thirteen.
This is gonna be a top five, top seventy. And
he's got a lot of good guys ahead of him,
but he is gonna get the bulk of the usage,
and he is young. He is ready. You saw h
mis send last year. I am a big fan of
Chase Bare.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
I mean the beauty is the defense is still gonna stink,
and their offensive line they'll achieve in spite of a
bad offensive line. I mean that that's really all there
is to it. They're gonna win shootouts, and he'll be
a big contributor in both the run and the pass game.
The fact that he does leak out of the backfield

(25:36):
and catches a number of balls per game. It's gonna
be huge. This was a great I think we talked
about last as we started the show, Jason, just the
philosophy kind of pushing away from what we had in
the Sean McVay era of all right, we're not gonna play, guys.
So everybody started looking around going, well, why am I
gonna play? Why am I gonna do this? Yeah, all right,

(25:58):
I don't need to take the extra I don't need
to do this open up for risk for injury. There's
some now you know, you've got enough data that you
start doing some analysis saying this might actually be to
our benefit. The other thing is Zach Taylor's one in
twelve in September, in weeks one and two in his
career as the head coach of the Bengals.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, he's the Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
So it's basically been the all right, we're gonna try
to do what Bill Belichick did and feel our way
into a season, only he actually won the games. They
weren't aesthetically pleasing, they weren't you know, thirty eight point,
you know onslaughts from Brady and company. No, they were slugfests,
but they were winning football, and you know, kind of

(26:43):
testing your boundaries, expanding, figuring out roles, what work what didn't.
Bengals have tried that and they've been an absolute failure.
And then what are you doing. You're chasing in December.
Great for fantasy owners, great for Joe Burrow owners.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
You know, if you.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Went and you up and were able to get Jamar
Chase with and that was great. But in terms of
winning football, no, you're bind the eight ball and you're
in a division that your only benefit is the Browns
can't get out of their own way.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, because the other.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Two teams, you're gonna be in a dog fight all
all season long.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah. I mean, look the Bengals, it's gonna be they're
gonna be offensive driven. Obviously, they're gonna be points on
the board. They're gonna be a shootout type team, and
they're loaded and ready to do.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
It this year.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Right, you have the weapon, get a quarterback, wide receiver,
running back. You are loaded ready. But I'm telling you,
Chase Brown, I love him this year. Now. Another guy tonight,
same game right that I want to talk about for
a couple minutes because I know this sounds like heresy
and what are you insane? Eagles lead the Bengals right
now again, thirty four to twenty seven, three and a
half to go in the fourth quarter. But a guy
who's gonna you both on the field and fantasy wise,

(27:47):
that's gonna have a sneaky big impact on the Eagles
this year. You're talking about the defending champs, and I
realize I'm saying this after he's coming off the season
that he's had. But watch out for Will Shipley. Okay,
this is a rookie, second year guy out of Clemson
who tonight had a really big night starting the game
seven carries for forty eight yards seven yards of carry.

(28:08):
I know they got aj Dillon there too, but Will
Shipley is live. He is a terrific running back. Last
year was kind of a red shirt year for him,
and the Eagles aren't gonna do and they can't due
to Saquon Barkley what they did to him last year.
Barkley had three hundred and seventy eight touches last year,
three seventy eight. Man, that's when you talk about no,

(28:29):
because you're talking about the touches don't stop when the
playoffs start, you get well, they held it to three hundred, No,
because remember you had the entire playoff run for Saquon Barkley,
three hundred and seventy eight touches. And I don't need
to you know, I don't need to be a doctor
to go through things and say, hey, let's take a
look and see what guys how they do after having
three hundred and seventy five touch seasons in the NFL,
how are they the next year? And he's not gonna

(28:50):
be going for the rushing record again. It was easy
to continue to play him and continue to give him
the football because you were trying to win the Super
Bowl and you were realizing he was a guy that
was leading the team. You got caught up last year,
and I get it right, I get Nick Surry, everybody
getting caught up, and he's our leader. We're gonna keep
feeding h the football kers are winning games now, It's okay, Wow,
we can't do that to Barkley again. Already. You know

(29:12):
he's not gonna have the year he had last year,
But guys coming off of years with this kind of usage,
the next year is generally not nearly as good. But
the good news, I'm telling you Shipley again, I watch
acc footballs. You don't have to. I had a feeling,
he said, this guy when he gets to the NFL,
give him a little bit of time and he's gonna
come in and be a really good running back, complimentary

(29:34):
guy that's that shifty, can change direction, he's sneaky fast.
I mean, he's a pretty good running back. He's gonna
have a pretty big role on this team, whether it's
third down, out of the backfield, spelling Saquon Barkley. I
know that Dylan is there too, but you know, aj
Dillon is kind of the guy he is right now. Obviously, hey,
he's a veteran pass protection. We're gonna think about him,
but watch, I'm telling you will Shipley's a guy that's

(29:55):
gonna carve out a role here. And you're hoping Barkley
stays healthy. You're hoping he's able to to be Saquon Barkley.
But it's not gonna be the year it was last year,
and tonight was just kind of the first taste you're
getting of him going forward.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
No, always the reminder, I mean, we've kind of gone
away from the age of you gotta have your handcuff,
you gotta have it, But there's still several teams that
have that identity that they're going to continue to run
the football and obviously a lot of stats get vultured
away from hurts. His own activity on the ground particularly
in and around the goal line, and that's where aj
Dillon probably comes back to bite you in the ass

(30:29):
a little bit this year as well. If he stays healthy,
that he'll come and take some of the thunder away there.
But yeah, you definitely go in for the Eagles backfield
as you build out your roster, and maybe you come
back for ship Leo a little bit earlier again based
on the opportunity that is going to be there. Another

(30:50):
guy that you know we were watching a little bit
who was hurt last year, probably carves himself out a
role in Baltimore's Keaton Mitchell, who missed most of last year.

Speaker 7 (31:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Right, so he had a big touchdown ran with authority. Uh,
not that he's taken anything away from Derrick Henry, but uh,
he will have to come off the field. And you're
playing for January, right, both these teams, like you're you're
not gonna go and expose these guys to four hundred
touches again.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
You just can't. It's bad bad science.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
The other thing with the Eagles is the curiosity with
the new coordinator of not getting caught into bad habits
because Kellen Moore got away with some because you're running
a guy that much and using him that much as
a running back, you're flirting with disaster.

Speaker 7 (31:33):
No.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Look, and Mitchell's a great point too, because you're not
gonna use you can't kill Derrick Henry like you did
last year. Right, Okay, at some point, guys, like, at
some point he's gonna kill the wall, right he and
he's thirty two, right, you know, Barkley is still in
his late twenties, but he's he's had a lot of
cut I mean, you forget that. What he meant to
the team when he was hell, he burst on the seat,
was like, Wow, this is a guy that that that

(31:54):
he could take it to the house on any play.
He's that exciting. They really missed him last year, some
telling some guys to watch out here time not to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
So someone who's been called the Keaton Mitchell of Fox
Sports Radio, all right, when she's not here, you realize
you miss her. Thanks, guys, he's really angling for that

(32:14):
bobblehead again.

Speaker 7 (32:15):
Yeah, I know, I no, no, no, yeah, he's been
trying to get back on my good side, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
That's exactly guess at least you know, but that that's
that worked. I asked her that Hernanda's bobblehead, you threatened
to kick me in the shins.

Speaker 7 (32:26):
Twice, that's right, one for each bobblehead. And I said,
you keep it up, you're gonna get a third kick
with the.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Right. This is all accurate.

Speaker 7 (32:35):
That's exactly how the conversation went. Yeah, the Eagles of
the Bangles down to the final two minutes here in
this preseason game three NFL preseason games tonight. How fun
is that Philadelphia is up thirty four to twenty seven.
Tanner McKee, Hey, the tush push is alive and well
in Philadelphia, because even Tanner McKee used that today with
the rushing touchdown, he also threw for two hundred and
fifty two yards and two touchdowns. And you guys mentioned

(32:58):
that Joe Burrow completed nine of ten for one hundred
and twenty three yards two touchdowns only played the first quarter.
One of them went to Jamar Chase four of four
seventy seven yards and that touchdown.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
But Eagles are up right now.

Speaker 7 (33:09):
The Raiders Zhawks still scoreless. They're coming down to the
final minute of the first quarter. The Ravens defeated the
Colts twenty four to sixteen. Colts head coach Shane Steiken
confirmed that Anthony Richardson has been diagnosed with a dislocated
right pinky finger.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
He is day today.

Speaker 7 (33:24):
He also said that he's going to have to reevaluate
the plan for their game next week to see if
Richardson is available since he didn't get as much playing
time as they planned. Daniel Jones went in there to
finish the first half. He was ten of twenty one,
one hundred and forty four yards, no touchdowns, no interceptions.
Riley Leonard took over in the second half. Injuries did
happen in this one. Raven's sixth round rookie cornerback Bill

(33:45):
all Cone suffered a torn ligament in his knee. If
you did not see this video, don't look for it.
It's a rough video to see in his knee. The
way it goes, he will be out for the season.
Colts third round rookie cornerback Justin Wally toward his acl
He's going to be out for the season. Other NFL news,
My Chargers are cursed. Pro Bowl left tackle Rashaun Slater

(34:06):
tore his left Pateeller tenant in practice today. He's going
to be out for the season. When it comes to
Texans safety CJ. Gardner Johnson, he was carted off the
field today, but ESPN reports that he did not tear
his ACL during today's practice. He's expected to miss sometime,
but the injury is not expected to be season ending.
In baseball, all the games have wrapped up. The Braves
beat the Marlins eighty six. The Pirates shut out the

(34:27):
Red seven zero. Paul Skeins bitch six innings, gave up
seven hits, seven hits, no runs, struck out eight, no
walks either. The Mariners walked it off four to three
against the White Sox on an RBI single from Dominic Canzone.
Let's check in on the WNBA.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Why not Mercury up on the fever forty four tonight?
We got ye taking responsibility.

Speaker 7 (34:46):
Now, I know, I know, not yet not Yeah, Mercury
fever game. Mercury is out forty to twenty nine, three
minutes to go in the first half. And also early
in the first half. It's the Sun who are on
top of the Sparks forty two to thirty three.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
All right, back to you guys. Thanks a bunch of
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we'll have more football on the way. Seahawks kicking the

(35:20):
extra point. They are up six nothing over the Raiders.
Sorry Pete Carroll, but coming up next, we may now
know who's been throwing the bilbo baggins on the floor
in WNBA games. Yeah, a group is claimed responsibility. It's
next right here, And I'm telling I'm serious, it's true. Yeah,
right here, Jason Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
I thought the Raiders were good Fox Sports Radio, The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Not
after that. We were just at moments away from this
song being played, because Tyser has been listening to the
song like on a loop for the course of the

(36:09):
past like a couple of hours. But I mean, any
song that gets Jerry Stackhouse songs you don't get Jerry
stackhouse of many songs. We will have more NFL coming
up in a few minutes and including one of the
worst passes you will ever see a quarterback throw. And
really we're gonna talk about a play that that illustrates

(36:29):
exactly why the Raiders went out and got Geno Smith
in the off season. But a big mystery in the
sports world may have been solved. A self described crypto
enthusiast Okay, crypto enthusiast told ESPN tonight he is part

(36:49):
of a group that has bought the NFL. Note has
told him he is part of a group that has
bought the red zone. Him has told ESPN he is
part of a group that has bought the stream writes
the WWE. Okay, he's told ESPN he is part of
a group that orchestrated recent bilbo baggin stunts in which
sex toys have been thrown on the court of at

(37:12):
least three WNBA games in the past ten days. There
was a couple other potential throws of bright neon green
bilbo baggins that didn't make it onto the court that
we didn't see but still hit the floor. The guy
talks on the condition of anonymity over video conference Wednesday,
saying that these stunts were meant to market a crypto

(37:35):
coin that his online community created. So this is a guy.
Look when I said this, when we first talked about this,
I said, how much does this sound like some sort
of crazy TikTok trend or something. Hey, I'm going to
get attention. This is not Hey, WNBA needs to be
taught a lesson. I'm going to you know, put them
in their place for liking or not liking Caitlin Clark

(37:57):
or Angelries. It sounded like it was so sort of
crazy trend like you see online and that looks exactly
what this is. So maybe this is this is what
we're seeing it this guy because he wants to bring
attention to his crypto firm. Is they coordinated throwing stuff
on the court at WNBA games.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
Yeah, So spoke to USA today and it got picked
up and run as the day went on. They said
the guy that got arrested, the one that hit Sophie Cunningham,
was not affiliated with any of that stuff. He just
decided to act on his own right. So now we
start getting into conspiracy theories and all that part of
the discussion. As we you know, For those that didn't

(38:39):
hear us the other day, you can grab the podcast,
but i'll truncate my part of the thing here was
it really doesn't matter what their intent was after it
started to happen, because it took a life of its
own right in terms of the discussion of we're not
talking about the games. We're not talking about the players

(39:00):
and box scores or anything. We're talking about this as
an act that intended or not becomes a ridiculing of
the sport, which people were still reticent in our business
across the bord. There's still a lot of folks that
don't take it seriously at all. So the only opportunity

(39:20):
to talk about it was either hatred towards catle Clark
or giant green neon green things showing up on a court.
But yeah, meme coins there you go.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah, that's what it is. The guy put his user
name on because doing this interview he didn't want people
to know who he was. And it's a play on
Brad Pitt's character's name from Glorious Bastard's although Ray.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Night, and well, you know.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
This is how we do threes, This is how this.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
He said that the group is planning more quote unquote
pranks to promote the coin, but that they will be
quote lighter unquote and more tasteful.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Did he finish this thing by going see that's.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
Now if he that, that's how he hung up on
the little conference.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Now, look, now here's the good part of this, right,
The fact that he is this, this person is out
saying we were behind it, we were doing it. Right.
If he's telling the truth right and not saying I'm
just gonna say we're doing it because it'll help my
crypto company. If he's doing this now, this tells me
they're done doing this at w NBA games, right, That's
that's the news I think to hear. You don't go

(40:30):
public with this if you're gonna keep doing because you know,
the punishment is just gonna ratchet itself up. It's going
to be more and more, the arrests, whatever they're gonna
be out, it's not going to go well for you.
So the fact that hey, I'm saying this, we wanted
to do it a lighthearted way. We want we wanted
to do things a little bit differently. The fact he
is making himself as known as he can right now
tells me that Okay, they're gonna be done doing this

(40:51):
and and this is now going to stop at w
NBA games, which is the best news with w NBA players,
because I want to you can be laugh at this
all the time. When I say this, you can say, oh,
it was funny. It was this, It was ridiculous. But
when it got to the point where they threw one
at Sophie Cunningham, like, okay, come on, I mean that
that's you're you're you're taking that that crap a little
bit too much play.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
But you can also see from a league wide standpoint,
right again, it wasn't wasn't about basketball the last week,
no matter how good the games were, and that game
last night was pretty good. Asia Wilson had a great game.
It's it was an afterthought to will something happen? Right,
That's how you got viewers to tune in. So while

(41:30):
they may not do it, there's still a bunch of
jackasses continue to track it.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
To the copycat, but eventually they'll start doing something else.
I think the the how do you ratchet up from there?
The hubbub that's I mean, I think the hubbub over
this part. Now that he's come out and said, Hey,
we're doing it. That's gonna go away. And that's the
best news for the WNBA because they want this to
just be something we don't talk about.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
But he's like an anonymous coach or scout or whatever else.
Show your face you cowered. So good news to the
w NBA, Good news for a couple of NFL teams. Tonight,
that's next, Right are Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
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That's UMGC dot edu. So it was how long ago?

(42:31):
It was forty little bit less than forty minutes ago. Right,
We talked about the latest development in the WNBA Bilbo
Baggins situation. Yeah, where a lot of bilbos have been
thrown on the floor in the last ten days. Three Yeah, plethora,
We have had a plethora. At least three more have

(42:52):
been thrown as well, but obviously the person didn't have
enough arm because it never made it to the floor
where the players were playing yeah, okay, and the fact
that a guy in charge of a crypto company laid
claim to and said, hey, we're doing it for publicity
for this crypto company and everything else going on with it.
I said, you know, you don't go out there and
lay claim to it and make it public if you're

(43:15):
going to continue to do it right. This is where
I said, okay, And I felt pretty confident with the
fact that you know, this tells me this is gonna
be on the Wayne. Now, may be some copycat you know,
you talked it could be some copycatters, but really, okay,
copycat coming off the original of the throwing of the
Bilbo Baggins. I you know, okay, it'll go away. I
felt good news for the WNBA. This tells me that

(43:37):
this is gonna end sometime soon. And this is on
the Wayne that was not even forty minutes ago, not
even gonna set you fast sometime that I tweeted out
our take on it, right, so it's out there on
social media. And you know, in the past I have
tweets that haven't aged well. We all have. I've not
had one that didn't age well in such a short

(44:01):
amount of time. It was eight minutes.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Well you've had some again, you know baseball stuff where
you got chesty about the match.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Well, that's well that you know that, that's the heat
of the moment. That's mets like that doesn't count. Uh No,
I mean like real show stuff. Did we do?

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (44:16):
The real it was eight minutes? Eight minutes after it,
we talked about it. I tweeted out, Hey, it's on
the wing and you're not going to see it. And then,
in the words of DJ kahlled another one with about
five seconds to go in the Dream Sky game tonight,
with about five seconds left, one was thrown on the

(44:38):
court behind the players. So it wasn't near anybody, and
uh it was not Neon Green. It was purple. So Mike,
you where was it? Where his brothers? Where's his brothers?
That's what I want to know. This is not their
Chicago sky, is not their bad Chicago sky. How do
you know? How do you know? Living a double life?

(44:59):
F you never know about? Yeah, I mean you don't know.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
Look, there's money to be made on it, though, right
because I mean we have had betting odds for non
Neon Green. Mm, like those bill take it off the ball.
This tells me, maybe it's a copycat. Boy.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
I feel like I feel like I'm in a in
a cop movie where I'm like, hey, I think that's
a copy cat. You know, we gotta get out there,
all right. Maybe I feel more like I'm in Brooklyn
nine to nine, Oh boil. But now I kind of
feel like this could be a copy cat. Is this
the real Bilbo Baggins thrower? Or is this a copycat
Bilbo thrower? I don't know. Is it the real Bilbo?
Is it not a real Bilbo?

Speaker 5 (45:30):
Is it not?

Speaker 1 (45:31):
Where's the ring? Where's sniegel? Bilbo? Not real? The green?
Is it count ifits purple? I mean maybe it's a
copycat person throwing it on the floor.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
Yeah, I gotta find the odds. And this goes back
to again the intent of what you might have been
trying to do. Yeah, hype up your your meme coin
and whatever, doesn't mean that that's where it stayed. And
now it's become something much much different and worse. You
have the already a guy that was charged with the salts,
he should be charged probably with more before it's all

(46:01):
said and done. I I go back to but for
the meme coin operators, then they get off the hook.
I'm gonna go back when the uh the prosecutors on
Law and Order SVU. I gotta go to TV because
that's where my lawyering is done. Lewis Black was a
shock jock and started railing about something and then somebody
got attacked because of it, so they went to prosecute

(46:23):
Lewis Black.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
They said, hey, you know what, let's uh, let's borrow
from that great Robin Williams Jeff Bridges movie Fisher King,
and let's put it on. Make it seem like it's
a ripped from the head.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
But that's it, right, It's it's now. Well, you get
the shock jock in there. And that was all the
rage because this is a fairly old episode at this point.
But but you started it right by doing this, and
it escalated, and but for the grace of someone's bad arm,
or perhaps as a testament to their accuracy, nobody got

(46:54):
hit the first.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
I'm glad it was behind the play. You know, you
know what I mean in this case, behind the play,
I mean five seconds left, you had you were five
seconds away. Well, but someone cashed the ticket on a
purple Bilbo five. You know, we we have Todd Furman
coming up our Vegas inside. I want to find out
if these are they taking odds on that in Vegas?
You're taking odd No.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
I don't think you can because I think there's too
perfect you know, an information right, because you get it's
like or.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
Todd's gonna say maybe if some offshore books, you can,
but not legitimately like it would be offshore books. Right,
I'm sure there's there are plenty that have made markets
on it. But because what's to stop me from having
a big bet and making you the fall guy, especially
if they're only going to get a slap on the wrist. Now,
if they get charged as a sex offender and it
becomes part of their permanent registration. That's that's where you

(47:46):
can curb some of this, right, because that sticks, that
keeps you from getting employed. That's that's really reaching in
instead of you know, you earn two hundred dollars on
the bet you made, because I don't think you're gonna
have the large limits on this either. But the other side,
like because I could pay some some patsy he uh,

(48:06):
you know, a couple of bucks, Hey, go throw this
and I know what color he's got, all right, and
as long as he's got a decent enough arm and
the shoulders not mine, might actually make it to the
to the floor. Now I could have actually solved this.
I actually did solve it for the WNBA. They just
didn't listen to me. Uh What did I say after

(48:27):
this happened a second time? Right after this happened a
second time? Right cause I I, you know a lot
of people want to laugh at it. A lot of
w NBA players want to laugh at it. But obviously
you don't want people throwing stuff, right Yeah, but you
don't want people throwing stuff at players, So I understand
that part of it. What did I say this after
the second one happened? I said, if I'm Kathy Engelberg,
and I don't know why they should have listened to me.
I could have solved it. I say to the broadcast partners.

(48:50):
Right tonight's game was on Prime and w CiU locally,
I said, Okay, listen, if at all possible, if somebody
throws something on the court, do not show it cut
away to something else. Because it's the same philosophy of
why leagues don't show fans running on the field at
baseball games, or fans running on the field of football games, right,

(49:12):
because if they show it that that's a big can opener. Two, oh,
I can get on television and do it, right, that's
a big can opener to do it. And the same
thing for this. Right if someone throws a bilbo baggins
on the court and they show it, Hey, guess what.
I threw it on the court. Now, if you are watching,
and you should, you have, should have somebody watching like
a hawk. Hey, it happened. Cut to your cutter. You

(49:34):
know what you're gonna do if something happens. We're cutting
to the head coach right where, we're cutting to the
we're cutting to the fans. We're cutting away from this,
and you're gonna talk right, and we'll tell you what's
going on. There's a stoppage of play on the court.
Not sure what's going on? Okay, but don't show it
because once you show it, it gains life immediately on
social media. And no, you can't stop people from taking
video with their cell phones, but you still blunt the

(49:57):
impact of this getting shown. And what did the broadcast
do here? It was the bilbo baggins was thrown behind
the play. You didn't really see it. But after timeout
was called on the court, the camera pans back and
you can see it on the court. And this is
where I say to my you could that this tonight

(50:19):
could have been avoided. You didn't have to have it
shown tonight if you had a plan in place, which
you should have had, because it's a pretty big thing.
And I just solved it in like eight seconds. So
I'm pretty sure Kathy Engelberg could have had a couple
of seconds out of her day to say, Hey, I'm
gonna talk to our broadcast partners if something is shown
on the field. You've done games before, you know, and
if you're doing a game and someone runs on the court,
we don't show them. Can you figure that out? Yes? Absolutely,

(50:40):
well do that you did not. I mean, this didn't
have to go viral. You didn't have to see it.
It's a different story is because you got to hope
that somebody's got their camera out, and if someone does
have their camera out, you know that it's someone that
is knowing that it's gonna happen. So you could potentially
find that person. In the stands of a pretty good
success rate of finding people who take videos and they
put stuff out there, So you know, someone, because no

(51:01):
one's out there with their phone the entire game going Okay,
I want to wait for this. So if you're not
showing it, you are blunting the impact.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
Well, so this guy could be the accomplice, the one
that Front off of Sports retweeted because they didn't do
the one from the game telegas. Now, the way the
camera moves there, have you ever used one of those
things from the sideline, uh, for your soccer games where
it's you got it on the the giant tripod and
it's what, however, many feet up high in the air

(51:31):
and it pans and it's got the chip and the ball,
so it follows the ball. This moved backwards like it
was one of those like the ball and rolled back
or something to where it's not. It didn't look like
it was an actual man manned cameras.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Let me go by.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
By the way, there's also the report that that one
got to the court, another one landed by the sky.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
One another one right and and you see this, you
know if you're the WNBA, because it's embarrassing for them,
I understand it, right. You know, we've we've fought through,
We're finally we have a seat at the big table
with with with the rest of the sports because of
Caitlin Clark, we're part of the everyday discussion. We're getting
everybody's getting richer, things are getting better for our league.
You know you don't want this. I understand it, and

(52:11):
it was. This was completely avoidable. But for some reason,
I know they didn't have any any kind of meeting
or any kind of conversation because that would have not
happened tonight. Woulden okay, oh something on the court? Cut
to the coach. You know it's in the pre show meeting.
And I don't think the WNBA is outside of their
breadth of influence at all by saying, listen, we don't
want to do this. Uh you know, don't show it

(52:33):
when when it comes on the floor. But instead, no, no,
not only not only did it land they would the
camera person went back, Wait, what is that? Wait, zoom
in on it. Let's say oh, oh, okay, okay, I
mean it's embarrassing man, Like I could. I there's times
I go, what kind of qualifications do you really need
to be the commissioner of a sport? Like I think

(52:53):
I could. I could have zipped right in and solved
this thing for the w right away. I could have
done that without any sort of business experience, paid money
for a for a business education or some sort of NBA.
What is different business? NBA?

Speaker 3 (53:05):
Are you just kind of flipping me off while you're
while you're talking about this NBA right now, I paid
a lot of money for my Okay, yeah, and I'm
sitting next to you.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
I can just it right up. Well, we've we've gone
over that for the past ten years. I can ZiT
right up there. I don't need business, I don't need
anything else. Lawyer, I'm prepared. Everything's gonna be a lawyer
now to be something. Forget it, man, I don't need
I need to waste my time in school. I could
have just gone right from Hey, guess what I'm from
the school of common sense. Let me have a meeting
with every with all our broadcast but with Amazon Prime
in the local stations where call in everybody's calling in

(53:34):
for five minutes. We have a five minute call in
today at noon. Let's do it. Dial in. You'll join
the meeting in a moment, and I would just say, hey,
just so we know, let's not show it. There's a
plan you guys, got it good? Okay, talk to you
later and we're done and we're out, and I solved
the issue for the WNBA. But instead, now here's another
night and now more people are gonna throw stuff on
the court, and now it's not going to end.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
Yeah, the the question is, I mean, you're still gonna
have to acknowledge it on the broad casts just to creatively,
Uh how you do it as there's a stoppage in
play because an object? Yeah, what do they say when
when when fans run on the field of the game. Oh,
we have a stoppage on the field right now? Is
uh security personnel or taking care of a situation? You know, Troy?

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Uh looking at the Cowboys here in the fourth quarter,
they really don't seem to have any any uh any
cohesion offensively. Yeah, you know, Joe, they don't have any cohesion.
And uh the reason for that is because Jerry Jones
is awful. That's how it's done. And they don't care
ready to play again, right, That's that's how it is.
I had to sideswipe Jerry Jones to make your point.
Why why so hateful? Well, because I go, okay, if

(54:38):
I do Joe and Troy. Troy is gonna say something
besideswipe Jerry Jones. Okay, it's fair. Yeah. Here we notice
Troy listen to it this year. Whenever Joe Buck sets
Troy up with something, Troy always says the last few
words that Joe Buck says and then repeats it like
Joe Buck would know that's that's that was a great
pass by Dak Prescott. Wasn't that Troy? You know it

(54:59):
was a great pass? Like and whatever Joe says, he
will repeat the end of it and then go into
his point. You realize that's what ex ballplayers are taught
to not have to do. You would think, you know
that habits horrible mistake by the Jets, Troit. You know
it was a horrible mistake. Let me tell you