October 3, 2025 • 42 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon give the biggest hot take of the day by claiming that the 49ers did not need to pay Brock Purdy his extension. Plus, the guys chat with JP Morosi as they close out the wildcard round of the MLB Playoffs, and more!!
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Radio Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My
best friend Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Stream three. A night filled with drama from the jump,
whether it was the awful home plate umpiring Yeah, he's terrible,
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Padres and the Cubs fired, the drama of the Yankees
win where they've found their new Jeter and new Andy Pettitt,
and then we have whatever that was on Thursday night
where the forty nine Ers upset the Rams twenty six
twenty three in overtime, a game that the Rams were
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just not gonna be happy until they gave it to
San Francisco. No, no, no, we're gonna give We're gonna
give it to, We're gonna keep give We're gonna keep
giving it to. They gave them this game. They not
to be They did claw back from a fourteen nothing
deficits should have never even fourteen seven should have never
been fourteen Why because they they came out and they
played very well. Off are better everywhere, but they weren't
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for a half Gon put right exactly. They're better everywhere
than the forty nine ers are. This game shouldn't have
even been close any given Sunday, baby, were you not watching?
Remember the Titans celebrating the anniversary this week? You know
I disagree with this strong side because today's Thursday left side,
wrong side might as well be Sunday today. This is
an embarrassing result for the NK. They were a three
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and one team and they had a lot of heart
and knowledge in Shanahan, and you got mac Jones.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Kendrick Bourne on thurs is right. He looked he found
his identity. He looked like rand He looked like Randy
Moss in his supremacy. Nicely well played, but yeah, I
mean you still had Christian McCaffrey. He was still flying around.
Doesn't matter. This should have been a The Rams should
have won this game by by twenty points. That's how
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much better they are than the foot. I mean the
spread was only eight and a half. That's still have
one by twenty. But no Jennings, no Kittle, Nobody, no Rice,
no Tailor, no Peerson, No Brent Jones, Brent Jones my
friend from when he and Jerry Jones and I scouted
the East West Shrine game practice when Tom Brady was
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still in school. No Ricky Piersoll, No Jimmy Piersall, No
Preston Pearson, no Drew Pearson. No what is that? Fear
strikes out right in the basis. Yeah, for a White
Sox broadcaster. You want a great, big, hot take coming
off of this game, Oh please, I got one for you.
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Come out hit it. Uh And it's great news for
the forty nine ers, great news to a point. Tonight
the game belonged to mac Jones thirty three out of
forty nine, three hundred and forty two yards, passing two touchdowns,
the game winning drive for a field goal. This was
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the kind of night that mac Jones had.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
McCaffrey ships out from under center. Mac Jones takes petty coals.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It's a touchdown, touchdown forty nine ers on the opening
drive of the game.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
A couple of penalties and they can't be stopped.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Did he mean for his voice to go up and
crack like that? They can't be stopped the forty nine ers. Oh,
they were a juggernaut, or at least they still finish
with four hundred and seven total yards. They cannot be stopped.
Mac Jones, this is the best game I have ever
seen him play. He was decisive with the football, He
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stayed in, he took big hits. He played with no
weapons to throw the football too. He's still liked Christian McCaffrey,
but no wide weapon. I mean, look, Kendrick Bord is
a guy. Okay, here he is out. He pops up
every once in a while. I see managers right now
are going, Oh, I'm so glad. I picked him up
in one of my dad and you picked him up.
You got your ten for eleven targets, ten of eleven
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and an incredible game by him. But Matt Jones, this
is his third big game that he has had to
play so far for brock Purty. Six touchdowns, one interception,
quarterback rating over one hundred. Yes, he beat the Saints
the first time. Okay, beat the Arizona Cardos a little
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bit better. Now you beat a really good defense, one
of the top three defense in the NFL with no weapons.
Short week, without your top weapons. They showed the graphic.
You're gonna love this. So fourth forty nine er quarterback
to win his first three starts, Montana Young No, Alex Smith, No,
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m all right, did I get Montana Young?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Right? No?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You got ye a tittle? Oh, little Jimmy g I
remember whye tittle I had him in Fantasy that year,
A new boy, new offense with a forty nine title.
Ight tittle, Jimmy g Oh, Jimmy g Yeah, Urty okay,
and now Matt Joe back Johnson. Well, it's funny you
mentioned Brock Purty, right, because here's this is the big
hot take. Tonight is a great night for Kyle, A
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great night for the forty nine ers. We had a
great night, eat night. They improved a four and one. Yeah,
great night for Kyle Shanahan because look, I've told you
how great a coach he is for a long time.
I don't get the Kyle Shanahan haters, but he's proven
again tonight what a great offensive mind he is. He
is shown once again that he can pick and choose
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anybody to come in and play quarterback for the forty
nine ers and then they're pretty good. Okay, great night
for mac Jones. He is restarting his NFL career, right,
no matter what happens after this year, and you know,
brock perty getting that big contract. Hey mac Jones, Hey,
maybe mac Jones is the next Sam Darnold or Geno Smith, right,
thinking mac Jones can get donalded now at some point
because of the way he's played well, because remember he
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was three years in New England where he had a
great first year and then they just started Bill bellichitting
the wheel. Bill Belichick decided a tank coming in. I'm
gonna have my DCB the OC, I'm gonna draft players nobody,
So I'm gonna leave this cupboard so incredibly bare for
the next coach to come in. You're not gonna win.
And then he was okay, but wasn't gonna be the
guy in Jacksonville. Everybody was pot committed to Trevor Lawrence.
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So now as a member of the forty nine ers,
here we are, like we have said, and we said
this all week, there is a system for everyone, right,
There's a system for every quarterback in the NFL. You
just have to find it now Mac Jones in a
very quarterback friendly system. But here's your hot take. They
didn't need to pay brock Party. Did not need to
pay brock Party because this shows you that, hey, not
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that brock Purty hasn't played well, because he has. Right,
the guy's been to a Super Bowl. But go back
to when Kyle Shanahan took over. Let's go get Jimmy Garoppolo.
Jimmy Garoppolo came in, played really well, right. Garoppolo came
and went to an NFC championship game, went to a
Super Bowl. Right, Jimmy Garoppolo has played pretty well, all right, Garoppolo.
You draft Trey Lance. If Trey Lance been able to
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stay on the field, Trey Lance would have been fine
in this offense. But he couldn't stay on the field.
That was That's not a forty nine ers thing. This
was They wanted to sit and watch his first year.
Then they gave him the job. He got hurt, he
missed the whole season. Brock Purty comes in, Trey Lance
gets hurt again. Okay, but brock Purty comes in and
he's mister irrelevant and he turns out to be able
to run this team. Is brock Purty really that we
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talked about this for years. It's why I have no
problem saying this, was brock Purty really that good? Or
is this an offensive system that you can put a
lot of guys in a quarterback and they can succeed?
All right? Not that brock Purty didn't play well, not
that he didn't deserve his contract, But you're trying to
build a super Bowl winning team and now you have
Mac Jones in here who has shown you that I
can give you the same kind of production as brock Purty,
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maybe even better because I'm doing with less weapons than
brock Purty did it with. When brock Purty came in,
he had Kittle in his prime and Deebo in his
prime and Brandon Ayuk and they make the move for
Christian McCaffrey. Okay, you got great weapons everywhere. Man. This
year has been hey man, no Ayuk. You know Deebo
no Deebo. Kittle's been out make it work, and Mac
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Jones has made it work. The pedigree that he has
had coming from being a first round pick out of
Alabama is showing itself right now. You did not need
to pay brock Purty. You did not need to give
him this money. And you're looking at a situation now
where man had we just kind of gained the quarterback
situation a little bit if we understood, hey, other guys
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can we can make it work? How much better would
it have been for the Niners to be looking at
a future the next years as well? We got but
Matt Jones in here for a couple of years and
twenty million dollars, not brock Party for the next five
to six years. At two hundred and sixty million dollars,
we have a lot more money to go out there
and get other players to shore up our defense, to
get more playmakers in because we're gonna need more playmakers
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as these guys wind up following that finding their way
out of the league. Right, we can go get a
tight end, we can go get somebody. We're gonna need
these kinds of things. The Niners have an incredible offensive
system that they can make it work with just about
any quarterback that they picked that they know is the
right fit. So now I look back and go, what
really did you need the Brocolipse. Did you need to
pay brock Party? You did not. You could have made
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this work with Mac Jones, because I trust Kyle Shanahan
and everything he wants to do offensively going forward. You
could have made it work. And what kind of situation
would you be in, knowing what you need to make
your offensive system work. If you've got a quarterback that
you're saying, yeah, this guy's gonna work for ten to
fifteen million dollars a year, not even that for the
next couple of years, versus the guy that yeah, you're
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getting the same production, but you're paying him fifty million
dollar dollars a year. Brock Party didn't need to get
that money. They could have done a lot of things.
You talked about franchising in this year and maybe, hey,
you make that decision after this year. Oh okay, Well
if we franchise Brock Party for this year, okay that
you're still paying him this year, but after this year, hey,
we can make this work with mac Jones. Brock good
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luck and free agency, and we're paying mac Jones a
fraction of that kind of money and we build our
roster even better. Plus side, looking for forty nine ers
looking into the contract a little bit more, only making
nine million against the cap this year, Okay, twenty four
to seven next year, thirty in twenty twenty seven, and
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then it leaps to fifty seven twenty twenty nine is
where you absolutely get murdered because it's seventy two and
a half but one hundred and eighty one million guaranteed.
And as we know, you can always play with money
in the NFL and have some fun with its salary
cap will keep going up, so we'll be a lesser
percentage if he's still with you, if you haven't negotiated
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some sort of settlement, buy out, et cetera for this year.
I mean mac Jones on a two year deal. Seven
million dollars is all he's on for this year and
next and for even next year dollar cost averaging, that's
enoughing for your quarterback position. It's those years hence where
it starts to get a bit dicey. And to your point,
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if you've found another option in mac Jones that can
give you the same or better that you know eventually
you've got to pay the piper. For this year, they're
actually in pretty good shape. They they've sloughed off a
number of those high priced players against the cap, but
they're gonna need to keep doing that. Right, Well, we
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watched it where they didn't bring Deebo back, and they'll
have to make some decisions. Trent Williams getting older, George
Kittle getting older, guys that are that are more expensive.
You will have to make those hard decisions here in
this coming off season. But short term, yeah, there's gonna
be a lot of handwringing with Mac Jones playing as
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well as he did, especially this week when it started
becoming well, because it's a short week, you're not gonna
rush brock Purty back. Could he have played maybe? Maybe not.
Now you're like, damn right, I'm back for next week.
I'm sitting down long week. I'll be ready for Week
six against Tampa. Matt Jones is out partying brock Purty.
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He's out purtying him. You're getting out partied. We got
to figure out something that's you know, he's got he's
out purty him. You're out getting out pretty. It's a
new Brocolypse party. Mah perdy Man's I mean, really you went,
you went full Batman and Prince soundtrack. There you go.
It's it's it's not the case of second guessing. All well, clearly,
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if we knew Mac Jones. You have to know, Kyle Shanahan.
He's made it work with all of these guys, right,
so with Brock Purty and it became a thing, and
they were wringing their hands his Brock Purty stuff, right
because they waited. They wait well, because he's also a
cult hero, drafted, mister irrelevant. All of that. You get
a lot of good will off of that, right, and
it's good will, But eventually it's about winning football games.
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And you had Purty for his contract in which you
weren't paying him, and you couldn't win the Super Bowl.
You got there, right, you got close. How do you
keep that window open? You have to know, and Kyle
Shanahan's got to know if you if you made it
work with a guy that was mister irrelevant, Okay, there's
other guys out there that can come in that you
can make it work with. And it's not that you
had just suddenly kick brought Perty to the curb. But okay, hey, Brock,
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we're gonna franchise you this year. Mac Jones coming. You
want to push this out because the minute you get
locked into a quarterback like that, that cuts your window
to win the Super Bowl. That cuts it in half
because you're paying all this money to a quarterback when
you need other you need other things to changes the window.
It also depends on where where you're at in your
life cycle of the rest of your roster. And for
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San Francisco, the NOD last year and certainly the note
coming into this year is that you've got a lot
of these aging parts at key contributors, right that, at
key positions. Again, owing back to where Trent Williams is
in his football timeline, I mean they may look back
at this and go, hey, well we're lucky we got
another guy and perty comes back. But mac Jones, I mean,
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he looks really comfortable in this offense. He looks really good.
He this again, this is the best I have seen
him look in the NFL. He had a good rookie year,
but clearly he had the shackles on him a bit
with the Belichicks. And we're not gonna remember the one
game he had where we threw the ball three times.
We're just gonna run the ball every single pack fall
A good strategy though, because it worked. But it's but again,
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but it's not like mac Jones was. So he didn't
come in and lead like Dan Marino. You know, look
at this, he's just throwing the ball all over the field.
I have seen him play. Oh, Dan Marino is gonna
come kick your ass. He's gonna got my gloves. I'm
ready for you.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
He's gonna use isotonas to not leave marks on your face.
That's what he's gonna hurt and leave no mark. Nine
may come to rue that decision to pay brock party.
Seeing what you know, and you gotta know this is
these are the guys who can do things like this
in our quarterbacks, but also just the larger point, as
we've talked about this week and many weeks before, about
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finding your system, getting that next chance, keeping keeping things alive,
and this is, you know, not just football related, but
just in life that you find your spot. But certainly
for Mac Jones, this guy being written off right Patriots
to the Jaguars, Like, ah, he's just a guy, Like
maybe he's not. Maybe it's all about where you end up,
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right system, right time and place, and keep taking your
throwing your punches, exit out about a fresca, exit swollen
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Just add Matt Jones out purtying brock Purty. Coming up next,
we have more on Thursday Night Football, we break down
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and why I think one team now is destined to
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something a Cardifield goal on the final play of regulation.
Ricocarty said, Ricocardi, yes, I have I have his nineteen
seventy four Atlanta Braves. I done, now, you guy, I
got a couple from the late seventies with the Blue Jams,
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The Rams and the forty nine Ers are headed to overtime,
tied at twenty three a piece. We'll have more on
this game coming up in a few minutes, but all
the drama of the day in Major League Baseball joining
us now the hotline. Someone who I guarantee is wiped
out with all of the action everyone. He's spent today
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getting drunk with his dad after the Tigers won allegedly
allegedly I mean, I mean the Tigers did win. I
mean the other part. MLB Network Insider Extraordinaire on Twitter
at John Morosi. It is John Paul Morosi. What's happening, man?
How are you? Bud?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Not a drop? My friend? I was. I was not
even on assignments in Cleveland, so I can't even claim
to have just absorbed the general alcohol content of the
champagne celebration in the clubhouse there in Cleveland. So there
is a very distinctive. You've ever covered one of those
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champagne celebrations, it has a The humid intensity of air
filled with champagne bubbles is really pungent, and I'm sure
I'll experience that later on this month. There was actually
one time when I was covering a champagne celebration and
the producer kept sending me back into the clubhouse and
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I wasn't even actually sure if any of the interviews
were airing. I just thought they were having fun with me.
And then I basically emerged from the clubhouse drenched with
champagne and was delicately told that I would be riding
by myself to the airport because yeah, no one else
really wanted to hang out with me at that point
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in time.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Up this guy, he's Blast and he tells me he's
been working all night. He just like, yeah, you're at alcohol.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
That's the thing is. So I went. It was in Chicago.
I went straight from Wrigley to O'Hare and my flight
and I remember boarding the boarding the aircraft and people
looking at me like, man, like, it's it's now seven
o'clock in the evening. Were you have you been out
on Rush Street since last night? I mean, what where
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where are we at here? So at least gave me
a good storty.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Wait, wait a minute, So you took a car or
did you take the blue line?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
I took a.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Car at the blue line would have been interesting.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
You would have gone viralight, not the blue line that time.
There may have been a time that I was on
the blue line in similar in similar stead, but that
was not that particular ocasion.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
All right. So speaking of Champagne celebrations, and here, I've
already accepted this, John Paul, after seeing Ryan McMahon make
the new Jeter play Cams Letler turned into the new
Andy Pettitt. The Yankees are going to win the World Series.
They're a team I've already I've already come to accept
that team of destiny. The win tonight. They're gonna win
the World Series. That got everything they need. It's twenty
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years ago. The dynasty is now going to be reborn.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Well, let's let's slow down a little bit. That they
stuff to face a Toronto Blue Jays team, which, by
the way, has their own version of Cam Schlitzler in
Treyy Savage, who I've been arguing, uh for days should
definitely get a start, and there are some people questioning, well,
do you want to put a kid out there? I
don't know. Slilla looked pretty good. He's you know, he's
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a he's a rookie, and he looked all right. So
I think that there's a there. Sometimes is in the
postseason a bit of an over reliance on experience, and
Cam Schlitzler tonight showed the entire baseball world the value
of stuff. Moxie Velo I thought in his postgame interview
with Bus Rolney was really interesting. He was kind of
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hinting at maybe just different things he was hearing from
his buddies back in New England. Of course he was
from Massachusetts. I thought that was a really interesting sidelight
and subplot of the game. But my goodness, everything after
arriving to the ballpark today, it's so funny how postings
and baseball works. Aaron Boone is just everything's in advice
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for him. There's such tension one loss away from maybe
facing some serious questions about the job, and then he
entrusts the least experienced starting pitcher on the roster in
the biggest game of the year, and he simply deals
in a way that basically no other Postiason pitcher ever has.
It was just a remarkable performance, pinpoint command, and just
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the Red Sox. It never felt like they really had
a chance tonight, which is saying a lot for a
team that certainly in the opening game of the series
found a way to get to the Yankee pen. I
just thought that was sheer dominance tonight from Cam Schlitzler.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
JP. Let's stay in this series a second. I mean,
obviously ten and four regular season win Game one, and
then we look at Game two, rap Byela. The decision
to bunt is one we first guest on air, and
as they pack up the gear for the long offseason,
we bring it around again. Between that and not trying
to score after the I mean a great play by Chisholm,
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a couple of things in that inning that may have
changed their fortunes and sent baseball into a spiral.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Well, you're right, Michah, and I think that they're If
we're gonna look at the big picture of the Red Sox,
they got to this spot, I believe because of fundamental
execution and an excellent manager in Ales Korra. Let's remember
that they're by brand name best player when the season
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began now plays with the Giants, and rock Field evers
their best player at his peak during the season. Roman
Anthony is injured and not available. And so if I'm
being honest here, the Boston Red Sox would have had
to have played a perfect beer in my estimation to
win it and to beat the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
US.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
You look at the and again story hasn't really good
at bats this series. So did Bregman, but the rest
of the lineup really never got going in a big way.
Nate Eaton had a nice series, but there was just
not that top to bottom depth that the Yankees have.
And I think we just saw it. And whether it
was even Voltany having a moment early on in the
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series in the first game, Judge, of course, I thought
was of all the series that he played in last
year's postseason and then to this one, this is the
best series he's played in the last couple of years
in the postseason. So the Red Sox don't have an
answer to Aaron Judge. It turns out that they didn't
even have an answer to Anthony Volpi and this particular series.
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So it's just that the Red Sox and you're right there,
was some missed execution plays, but they would have had
to play in my estimation and absolutely perfect series for
them to win. They did the They kind of got
on the board with like an early birdie in the round,
so to speak, by winning with Crochet on the mound
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and Chapman coming in behind them. But they just did
not have the depth in my view, to be able
to just play the rest of the series straight up
and win against the Yankee swing for swing. They had
to do something crafty and different. They tried, they failed.
The better team won, and the better team now that's
going to face Blue Jays is the New York Yankees,
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and that's going to be one heck of a series
against a rested but somewhat weary Blue Jays team that
may probably will not, if I'm being honest, probably will
not have the services of Bobashett in this next round.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
MLB Network inside of John Paul Morosi, our guest Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right,
let's get to the ninth inning of the Cubs and
the Padres today, because as soon as this play happened,
I said, the ABS Challenge system can't get here fast enough.
Three nothing, top of the ninth inning home run to
lead off the inning for the Padres, and then Xander
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Bogertz gets punched out on a call where the ball
wasn't even close to being a strike. Now that changes
the inning and changes the direction of the game. Next
two batters are hit by Keller. He comes out of
the game. Cubs wind up getting out of the inning,
but John Paul a big difference from first and second
and one out to bases loaded and nobody out, which
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likely it would happen because you know, Keller couldn't you know,
find the played after that. So he hits two guys,
comes out of the game. Craig Council takes him right
out of the game. That should have been bases loaded,
nobody out for the Padres. Down three to one in
the top of the ninth.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Inning, changes everything, And of course then the play and
again you never know how the how the rest of
the inning unfolds. But Kittrick comes in and that was
it barely got chrona worth on that slow roller. It
took a really really good play by Sew to get him.
You're right, it's it's a miss call. There was a miscall.
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Yet today, in a pivotal moment in the Tigers Guardians game, Uh,
it's it's unfortunately always has been part of part of
the game. To be honest, it's less a part of
the game now than it's ever been, and next year
it will be even less. We're just we will still
have some mistakes. That that is inevitable, that the human
element is still alive and well in baseball and has
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been for a long time. The entirety of its existence
is fact. But you hate to see that. You hate
to see a call that that swings the game at
a really crucial point. And you're right, you never know
how that ending unfolds if Boguards is on baze, as
he should be, especially in light of what happened after that.
But I think that the Podreys also, they they did
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not get on the board until the final inning, and
I think that's that's a very difficult way to try
to win a winner take all game. I think of
the of the results today, for me, the most stunning
one was was the pod race. Was the Podreys losing.
I thought they were gonna win the game. The Padres
only getting seven hits, I thought that was a very
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very surprising outcome. Obviously a lack of extra base power.
Only two extra base hits in this in this game
for the for the Padres. That for me actually was
so two doubles and one in the one home run.
It's just there was not enough pump in at a
time of year where you're gonna have to have some
slug more often than not to be able to win
Winston ball games. So that to me, of the three
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results today was the most surprising. And and you're right,
it's it could have easily gone differently if a call
had been ruled correctly. But it's asking a whole lot
to be able to make a three run comeback in
the in the top of the ninth in a decisive
game when you really didn't do much at all offensively
in the first eight innings.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, I'll be curious to see what they do in
the offseason, as only the Cardinals and Pirates had fewer
home runs this season than in lineups. That was the
lamentation from the local San Diego think Sky's falling radio
is always fun JP.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
And to be fair, I love Luis areas and the
ability to make to make contact, but but you need
more than a contact bat at first base if you're
gonna win the World Series. And that's and I think
that's where they fell a little bit short. That they
need that first base spot. I love Louis awesome player,
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but I think they probably have to upgrade there at
that particular spot that.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I Finishing top ten and team batting average does you
no good when you need a big hit. Could you
have the Guardians who finish at the bottom, And they
were in and they were nearly into the next round
of them see hit two twenty six. This year, they
were nearly to the next round of the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Yeah, they were. They were kind of the exception and
in a lot of different ways. I mean, And that
to me is it's so interesting guys that though here
we are and in some ways I love this part
of the game, we have seen two completely on press
then in playoff runs in back to back years. The
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Tigers last year, the Guardians this year. Statistically, they were
just not supposed to happen. And I do think and listen,
it's like, what are the chances of a less than
one in one hundred outcome happening in back to back
data sets. I realized there's thirty different data sets, thirty
different teams. But the fact that Tigers made the playoffs
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last year and they had less than one percent chance
of making it, and the same with the Guardians one
year later just might finally tell us that this beautiful
sport of ours is it's very difficult to predict. And
while predicting things is a good endeavor and in fact
allows you to plan and help make decisions of your
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front office person, this is probably a game that should
just be enjoyed and not predicted and scripted, because man,
that's a lot of randomness in back to back years
that would suggest to me that we should leave a
little bit more space for the surprise and for elements
like that, because it really those two teams Tigers last
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year Guardians this year are a big reason why this
is such a beautiful sport.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
All right, So it's time for you to make three
big predictions in the next few seconds.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
You ready, I am one hundred percent ready, let's go.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay, the Alcs will be who, the nlcs will be who.
And give us your Lions prediction for this week, you
Lions insider, you.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
All right, Mariners will meet the Blue Jays. That's what
I've got there. The Marriage will meet the Blue Jays,
the Phillies. I believe they're going to find a way
to beat the Dodgers. The Phillies will meet the Brewers.
I think that's gonna be a fun series two if
it plays out that way. And then the Detroit Lions
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this weekend will triumph by a score of thirty one
twenty one. I'm going a little higher scoring than I typically.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Wow, that's way high. He's hitting the over which is
forty nine and a half and the spread is ten.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
They're playing in Cincinnati against the Bengals. By the way,
that game interesting and these are very rare things that
I know. I don't know a lot, but I do
know that typically AFC games are supposed to be on CBS,
but that will flex the Fox Baby because they know
the national audience wants more Lions. They want more Lions
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on national TV, so they flex them into the four
twenty five slot. Lions Bengals, the Detroit Lions thirty one,
the Cincinnati Bengals twenty one, and it'll it'll be a
very robust weekend of sports in my great city. And
of course they're all playing on the road. The Lions
and the Tigers. But the Lions of Cincinnati the Tigers
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in Seattle. I think the Tigers find a way to
split the first two games, but the Mariners eventually prevail
in five.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
This could be and John Paul, this could be a
big weekend for Michigan, a big week for Michigan over
Ohio in general. You know you already had this. You're
gonna have it on have it on Sunday again. Yeah,
to be a big Michigan overall.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Fil taken on the whole state. What we need is
the next Piston's Cavaliers playoffs. Heres. We have to wait
for this one for a while. Uh. This, by the way,
is only and I always love these cross sport dynamics.
Only the second time ever that a in the four
major sports that a Detroit team has played a Seattle team.
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The previous time was was the Jim Caldwell coached Lions
who went out to Seattle, and I believe the final
score was twenty six to six. It was a fairly
bland game as Yeah. January seventh, twenty seventeen. It looks
like the Lions did all their scoring on two Matt
Prater bigels. Uh. There was there was a lot of
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uh uh and Doug Baldwin big catch there at the
end from Russell Wilson's there you go. So that was
that was That was the box score. Some goodness now
eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
John Paul Morosi on Twitter at John Morosi as always, buddy,
appreciate it. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Enjoy the games this weekend, Love the conversation my friends.
You guys reach out anytime, you know, if there's ever
something happened to the game that you don't that you
we just need some additional context on you.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Wake me up. I mean, I'll be out trading as
call me and we'll make sure that we we get
on the air. And I'll even predict a Lion's inter
squad scrimmage. I dig that.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Final score of the Phillies inter squad. No, just kidding
you got he. We'll talk to you, here goes John
Paul Morosi. And the drama has not stopped the forty
nine Ers and the Rams in overtime, the Niners with
a twenty six to twenty three lead after a field goal.
The Rams, faced with a fourth and one inside the
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red zone, they decide to go for it on fourth
and one. How did it turn out? Mister Belanos has
the answer and what's trending?
Speaker 7 (34:01):
It was not good for La as the Niners stop
that fourth and one on their own eleven yard line.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Rams were knocking on the door to score.
Speaker 7 (34:11):
It was a nice thirty eight thirty eight yard pass
from Matthew Stafford to two to out well to get
them downfield. But San Francisco makes another stop, another crucial stop.
They win it twenty six to twenty three.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Who to thunk it? None of you, none of us,
None of us. We're thinking. I thought it was going
to be forty eight seventeen Rams be it were really
that the number, It was unreal.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
And there was another hit while you guys were talking
to JP Morosi on Mac Jones, the first sack of
the game for the Rams, and I really was like,
his pants are falling.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
He's not coming back, you guys, He's dying right now,
Like get him off the field.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Poor kid did not go did not have to go
back out there, but he did end thirty three or
forty nine for three hundred and forty two yards, two touchdowns,
no interceptions. Matthew Stafford was thirty to forty seven three
hundred and eighty nine yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions either.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
What a game.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
Kendrick Bourne ten catches for San Francisco and one hundred
and forty two yards.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
San Francisco improves.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
To four and one, Rams fall to three and two.
Other NFL news, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson missed his second
straight practice today because of a hamstring injury. Buccaneers running
back Bucky Irving, who was seen in a boot earlier
this week, didn't practice either, and the Commanders have officially
ruled out wide receivers Terry McLaurin and Noah Brown four
Sunday's matchup in LA. When it comes to base ball, well,
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the Yankee shut out the Red Sox four zero two
advance to the Alds where they will face the Blue Jays.
The Cubs are advancing to the NLDS to face the
Brewers after taking down the Padres three to one. It's
the first time that the Cubs are headed to the
NLDS since twenty seventeen. Tigers are going to face the Mariners.
They beat the Guardians earlier today sixty three, so they'll.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
See see in the Alds. Back to you guys, Thank
you very much MONTI Yes, who was that picture for
the Yankees that won eight in tonight? Cam Schlittler, right.
Speaker 7 (36:10):
Who was taking pictures with like like a UFC or
like a wrestling belt?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah, yeah, ye give you that belt.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
He gave me that.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Yes, he was awesome.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
He was.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
We'll have more baseball on the list. Slip slip, but
coming up next. I'm like, I'm scratching on it. Slip
slip slip coming up next, not one, but the first
of two big hot takes coming off of this forty
nine Ers upset win over the Rams on TNF. That's
next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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Run the touch push play and you'd be keep playing.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Five that's wrong Play Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, I mean
that was a tush push, just inverting the y. The
Niners pull off the upset over the Rams twenty six,
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twenty three. The Rams had a chance and could have
kicked the game tying field goal that would have extended
the game. But on fourth and one, they go for
it from the from inside the fifteen yard line. And
it was a bad play call from the beginning. Right away.
I first guessed it. I said, where is the yard
gonna come from? Everybody is stacked the line of scrimmage there.
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A yard is not going to come out of this play.
But the Rams decide, Hey, fourth and one, let's go
for it. Let's be bold. And this is how it
turned out. One for the Rams.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Niners lead by three, a chance to win it with
a stop. Here in overtime. Stafford gets under center at
the eleven yard line. He takes it, he turns, he
gives to Karen Williams.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
He gets packed. I think he's short, Tim, I think
he's short. And the forty nine store in the field.
It is all over. The forty have won it in
over time here in la I just want to let
you know, Tim, Yes, it was short, all right, so
Tim knows. I think Tim now knows that play was short.
Tim the play was short. He thought about it, thought
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about it. I mean very slow developing play. Yes, it was.
It was an awful play call. Again, the Niners were
stacked to stop it. They had called time out. I
don't see how the Rams thought this is gonna get
a yard. But this is why, again, this is why
the tush push is such a big deal and why
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it's a big advantage when you can pull this off.
I bet you Sean McVay is walking off the field
right now, going, you know what, screw it, We're gonna
do the tush push. We're gonna because I can't have
that again. Stafford adn't skip leg day, Kyan Williams. Two
bad play, two big plays. Is fumble going into the
end zone could have won the game for the Rams.
Uh he gets stopped here on fourth and one. But
again the tush push that this is This is why
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the Eagles win. It's why the Eagles win games. It's
why plays like this you get the third and one,
fourth and one. The Eagles are unstoppable because they can
continue to run a play like this, And really, I
don't understand why other teams haven't picked it up. I
really don't. It's not like the Eagles have ownership over
the play. It's when you saw teams running uh, you
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know when when you would have the quarterback come out
of the game when Ronnie Brown would run wildcat out.
When the wildcat came into the league, other teams did
the wildcat. There was no prople. Other teams did the wildcat.
Most teams tried it. Okay, we really don't have the
personnel for it, but okay, but you saw other teams
try the wildcat. This is a play that you can
easily figure out what to do. Like tush, push is
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a pretty easy play. Get your line and one you
going down, figuring pushing, you can do it. I don't
know why all the the teams in the NFL having said, oh, well,
if they do it, we're gonna steal that play because
it's gonna get us a yard on fourth and one,
a third and one. All the time. We're gonna figure
out how to pull this off. We're gonna install it
during training camp, we're gonna practice it. We're gonna do X,
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Y and Z, gona do all of these things. I
don't know why other teams haven't done this, I really don't.
I don't know if they feel like, well, we're infringing
on the on the Eagles, you know, they they're gonna
say Hey, back away, this is our play. I don't
know why other teams haven't done that. Yeah, I mean
in this case, I guess I understand it. With Matthew Stafford,
kind of like the fact that Philip Rivers, for as
great as he was, you knew there was never gonna
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be a quarterback sneak with it. With Matthew Stafford, I
think we're kind of in that same boat, right that
we're not gonna see it, and then it just becomes
a question of where the ball's going. And again, the
handoff being as slow at it as it was, that
you were able to plug the gap and you had
multiple guys coming from the second level to crash the
party and keep Williams from getting to the first down
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a league wide Yeah, the fact that that isn't a
more widely used and perpetrated move, I guess some of
it owes to the larger question that we keep having
about practice time and scaling that back and your reliance
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on your offensive line, the cohesion of your offensive line
because it's got a click, right. The fact that we
haven't seen a bunch of penalties called after the incidents
of earlier in the two weeks ago is kind of curious.
We'll see when that first one comes out against the Eagles,
But to this point now they're running variations of it.
Right now, I play and all there's I mean, I
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don't see how this is like it's a copycat. If
the NFL wasn't a copycat league, I would say what
But everybody copycats everything and they don't do it, especially
this which has what a ninety seven percent success right,
I don't get the rams. They got to own this loss.
They gave this game to the forty nine multiple times.
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Stream three. A night filled with drama from the jump,
whether it was the awful home plate umpiring Yeah, he's terrible,
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Padres and the Cubs fired, the drama of the Yankees
win where they've found their new Jeter and new Andy Pettitt,
and then we have whatever that was on Thursday night
where the forty nine Ers upset the Rams twenty six
twenty three in overtime, a game that the Rams were
(01:09):
just not gonna be happy until they gave it to
San Francisco. No, no, no, we're gonna give We're gonna
give it to, We're gonna keep give We're gonna keep
giving it to. They gave them this game. They not
to be They did claw back from a fourteen nothing
deficits should have never even fourteen seven should have never
been fourteen Why because they they came out and they
played very well. Off are better everywhere, but they weren't
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for a half Gon put right exactly. They're better everywhere
than the forty nine ers are. This game shouldn't have
even been close any given Sunday, baby, were you not watching?
Remember the Titans celebrating the anniversary this week? You know
I disagree with this strong side because today's Thursday left side,
wrong side might as well be Sunday today. This is
an embarrassing result for the NK. They were a three
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and one team and they had a lot of heart
and knowledge in Shanahan, and you got mac Jones.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Kendrick Bourne on thurs is right. He looked he found
his identity. He looked like rand He looked like Randy
Moss in his supremacy. Nicely well played, but yeah, I
mean you still had Christian McCaffrey. He was still flying around.
Doesn't matter. This should have been a The Rams should
have won this game by by twenty points. That's how
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much better they are than the foot. I mean the
spread was only eight and a half. That's still have
one by twenty. But no Jennings, no Kittle, Nobody, no Rice,
no Tailor, no Peerson, No Brent Jones, Brent Jones my
friend from when he and Jerry Jones and I scouted
the East West Shrine game practice when Tom Brady was
(02:45):
still in school. No Ricky Piersoll, No Jimmy Piersall, No
Preston Pearson, no Drew Pearson. No what is that? Fear
strikes out right in the basis. Yeah, for a White
Sox broadcaster. You want a great, big, hot take coming
off of this game, Oh please, I got one for you.
(03:06):
Come out hit it. Uh And it's great news for
the forty nine ers, great news to a point. Tonight
the game belonged to mac Jones thirty three out of
forty nine, three hundred and forty two yards, passing two touchdowns,
the game winning drive for a field goal. This was
(03:29):
the kind of night that mac Jones had.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
McCaffrey ships out from under center. Mac Jones takes petty coals.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It's a touchdown, touchdown forty nine ers on the opening
drive of the game.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
A couple of penalties and they can't be stopped.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Did he mean for his voice to go up and
crack like that? They can't be stopped the forty nine ers. Oh,
they were a juggernaut, or at least they still finish
with four hundred and seven total yards. They cannot be stopped.
Mac Jones, this is the best game I have ever
seen him play. He was decisive with the football, He
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stayed in, he took big hits. He played with no
weapons to throw the football too. He's still liked Christian McCaffrey,
but no wide weapon. I mean, look, Kendrick Bord is
a guy. Okay, here he is out. He pops up
every once in a while. I see managers right now
are going, Oh, I'm so glad. I picked him up
in one of my dad and you picked him up.
You got your ten for eleven targets, ten of eleven
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and an incredible game by him. But Matt Jones, this
is his third big game that he has had to
play so far for brock Purty. Six touchdowns, one interception,
quarterback rating over one hundred. Yes, he beat the Saints
the first time. Okay, beat the Arizona Cardos a little
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bit better. Now you beat a really good defense, one
of the top three defense in the NFL with no weapons.
Short week, without your top weapons. They showed the graphic.
You're gonna love this. So fourth forty nine er quarterback
to win his first three starts, Montana Young No, Alex Smith, No,
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m all right, did I get Montana Young?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Right? No?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You got ye a tittle? Oh, little Jimmy g I
remember whye tittle I had him in Fantasy that year,
A new boy, new offense with a forty nine title.
Ight tittle, Jimmy g Oh, Jimmy g Yeah, Urty okay,
and now Matt Joe back Johnson. Well, it's funny you
mentioned Brock Purty, right, because here's this is the big
hot take. Tonight is a great night for Kyle, A
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great night for the forty nine ers. We had a
great night, eat night. They improved a four and one. Yeah,
great night for Kyle Shanahan because look, I've told you
how great a coach he is for a long time.
I don't get the Kyle Shanahan haters, but he's proven
again tonight what a great offensive mind he is. He
is shown once again that he can pick and choose
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anybody to come in and play quarterback for the forty
nine ers and then they're pretty good. Okay, great night
for mac Jones. He is restarting his NFL career, right,
no matter what happens after this year, and you know,
brock perty getting that big contract. Hey mac Jones, Hey,
maybe mac Jones is the next Sam Darnold or Geno Smith, right,
thinking mac Jones can get donalded now at some point
because of the way he's played well, because remember he
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was three years in New England where he had a
great first year and then they just started Bill bellichitting
the wheel. Bill Belichick decided a tank coming in. I'm
gonna have my DCB the OC, I'm gonna draft players nobody,
So I'm gonna leave this cupboard so incredibly bare for
the next coach to come in. You're not gonna win.
And then he was okay, but wasn't gonna be the
guy in Jacksonville. Everybody was pot committed to Trevor Lawrence.
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So now as a member of the forty nine ers,
here we are, like we have said, and we said
this all week, there is a system for everyone, right,
There's a system for every quarterback in the NFL. You
just have to find it now Mac Jones in a
very quarterback friendly system. But here's your hot take. They
didn't need to pay brock Party. Did not need to
pay brock Party because this shows you that, hey, not
(07:05):
that brock Purty hasn't played well, because he has. Right,
the guy's been to a Super Bowl. But go back
to when Kyle Shanahan took over. Let's go get Jimmy Garoppolo.
Jimmy Garoppolo came in, played really well, right. Garoppolo came
and went to an NFC championship game, went to a
Super Bowl. Right, Jimmy Garoppolo has played pretty well, all right, Garoppolo.
You draft Trey Lance. If Trey Lance been able to
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stay on the field, Trey Lance would have been fine
in this offense. But he couldn't stay on the field.
That was That's not a forty nine ers thing. This
was They wanted to sit and watch his first year.
Then they gave him the job. He got hurt, he
missed the whole season. Brock Purty comes in, Trey Lance
gets hurt again. Okay, but brock Purty comes in and
he's mister irrelevant and he turns out to be able
to run this team. Is brock Purty really that we
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talked about this for years. It's why I have no
problem saying this, was brock Purty really that good? Or
is this an offensive system that you can put a
lot of guys in a quarterback and they can succeed?
All right? Not that brock Purty didn't play well, not
that he didn't deserve his contract, But you're trying to
build a super Bowl winning team and now you have
Mac Jones in here who has shown you that I
can give you the same kind of production as brock Purty,
(08:10):
maybe even better because I'm doing with less weapons than
brock Purty did it with. When brock Purty came in,
he had Kittle in his prime and Deebo in his
prime and Brandon Ayuk and they make the move for
Christian McCaffrey. Okay, you got great weapons everywhere. Man. This
year has been hey man, no Ayuk. You know Deebo
no Deebo. Kittle's been out make it work, and Mac
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Jones has made it work. The pedigree that he has
had coming from being a first round pick out of
Alabama is showing itself right now. You did not need
to pay brock Purty. You did not need to give
him this money. And you're looking at a situation now
where man had we just kind of gained the quarterback
situation a little bit if we understood, hey, other guys
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can we can make it work? How much better would
it have been for the Niners to be looking at
a future the next years as well? We got but
Matt Jones in here for a couple of years and
twenty million dollars, not brock Party for the next five
to six years. At two hundred and sixty million dollars,
we have a lot more money to go out there
and get other players to shore up our defense, to
get more playmakers in because we're gonna need more playmakers
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as these guys wind up following that finding their way
out of the league. Right, we can go get a
tight end, we can go get somebody. We're gonna need
these kinds of things. The Niners have an incredible offensive
system that they can make it work with just about
any quarterback that they picked that they know is the
right fit. So now I look back and go, what
really did you need the Brocolipse. Did you need to
pay brock Party? You did not. You could have made
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this work with Mac Jones, because I trust Kyle Shanahan
and everything he wants to do offensively going forward. You
could have made it work. And what kind of situation
would you be in, knowing what you need to make
your offensive system work. If you've got a quarterback that
you're saying, yeah, this guy's gonna work for ten to
fifteen million dollars a year, not even that for the
next couple of years, versus the guy that yeah, you're
(09:57):
getting the same production, but you're paying him fifty million
dollar dollars a year. Brock Party didn't need to get
that money. They could have done a lot of things.
You talked about franchising in this year and maybe, hey,
you make that decision after this year. Oh okay, Well
if we franchise Brock Party for this year, okay that
you're still paying him this year, but after this year, hey,
we can make this work with mac Jones. Brock good
(10:17):
luck and free agency, and we're paying mac Jones a
fraction of that kind of money and we build our
roster even better. Plus side, looking for forty nine ers
looking into the contract a little bit more, only making
nine million against the cap this year, Okay, twenty four
to seven next year, thirty in twenty twenty seven, and
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then it leaps to fifty seven twenty twenty nine is
where you absolutely get murdered because it's seventy two and
a half but one hundred and eighty one million guaranteed.
And as we know, you can always play with money
in the NFL and have some fun with its salary
cap will keep going up, so we'll be a lesser
percentage if he's still with you, if you haven't negotiated
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some sort of settlement, buy out, et cetera for this year.
I mean mac Jones on a two year deal. Seven
million dollars is all he's on for this year and
next and for even next year dollar cost averaging, that's
enoughing for your quarterback position. It's those years hence where
it starts to get a bit dicey. And to your point,
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if you've found another option in mac Jones that can
give you the same or better that you know eventually
you've got to pay the piper. For this year, they're
actually in pretty good shape. They they've sloughed off a
number of those high priced players against the cap, but
they're gonna need to keep doing that. Right, Well, we
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watched it where they didn't bring Deebo back, and they'll
have to make some decisions. Trent Williams getting older, George
Kittle getting older, guys that are that are more expensive.
You will have to make those hard decisions here in
this coming off season. But short term, yeah, there's gonna
be a lot of handwringing with Mac Jones playing as
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well as he did, especially this week when it started
becoming well, because it's a short week, you're not gonna
rush brock Purty back. Could he have played maybe? Maybe not.
Now you're like, damn right, I'm back for next week.
I'm sitting down long week. I'll be ready for Week
six against Tampa. Matt Jones is out partying brock Purty.
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He's out purtying him. You're getting out partied. We got
to figure out something that's you know, he's got he's
out purty him. You're out getting out pretty. It's a
new Brocolypse party. Mah perdy Man's I mean, really you went,
you went full Batman and Prince soundtrack. There you go.
It's it's it's not the case of second guessing. All well, clearly,
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if we knew Mac Jones. You have to know, Kyle Shanahan.
He's made it work with all of these guys, right,
so with Brock Purty and it became a thing, and
they were wringing their hands his Brock Purty stuff, right
because they waited. They wait well, because he's also a
cult hero, drafted, mister irrelevant. All of that. You get
a lot of good will off of that, right, and
it's good will, But eventually it's about winning football games.
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And you had Purty for his contract in which you
weren't paying him, and you couldn't win the Super Bowl.
You got there, right, you got close. How do you
keep that window open? You have to know, and Kyle
Shanahan's got to know if you if you made it
work with a guy that was mister irrelevant, Okay, there's
other guys out there that can come in that you
can make it work with. And it's not that you
had just suddenly kick brought Perty to the curb. But okay, hey, Brock,
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we're gonna franchise you this year. Mac Jones coming. You
want to push this out because the minute you get
locked into a quarterback like that, that cuts your window
to win the Super Bowl. That cuts it in half
because you're paying all this money to a quarterback when
you need other you need other things to changes the window.
It also depends on where where you're at in your
life cycle of the rest of your roster. And for
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San Francisco, the NOD last year and certainly the note
coming into this year is that you've got a lot
of these aging parts at key contributors, right that, at
key positions. Again, owing back to where Trent Williams is
in his football timeline, I mean they may look back
at this and go, hey, well we're lucky we got
another guy and perty comes back. But mac Jones, I mean,
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he looks really comfortable in this offense. He looks really good.
He this again, this is the best I have seen
him look in the NFL. He had a good rookie year,
but clearly he had the shackles on him a bit
with the Belichicks. And we're not gonna remember the one
game he had where we threw the ball three times.
We're just gonna run the ball every single pack fall
A good strategy though, because it worked. But it's but again,
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but it's not like mac Jones was. So he didn't
come in and lead like Dan Marino. You know, look
at this, he's just throwing the ball all over the field.
I have seen him play. Oh, Dan Marino is gonna
come kick your ass. He's gonna got my gloves. I'm
ready for you.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
He's gonna use isotonas to not leave marks on your face.
That's what he's gonna hurt and leave no mark. Nine
may come to rue that decision to pay brock party.
Seeing what you know, and you gotta know this is
these are the guys who can do things like this
in our quarterbacks, but also just the larger point, as
we've talked about this week and many weeks before, about
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finding your system, getting that next chance, keeping keeping things alive,
and this is, you know, not just football related, but
just in life that you find your spot. But certainly
for Mac Jones, this guy being written off right Patriots
to the Jaguars, Like, ah, he's just a guy, Like
maybe he's not. Maybe it's all about where you end up,
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right system, right time and place, and keep taking your
throwing your punches, exit out about a fresca, exit swollen
down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Just add Matt Jones out purtying brock Purty. Coming up next,
we have more on Thursday Night Football, we break down
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what is next now for the Niners and the Rams,
plus all the big drama of Major League Baseball today
and why I think one team now is destined to
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something a Cardifield goal on the final play of regulation.
Ricocarty said, Ricocardi, yes, I have I have his nineteen
seventy four Atlanta Braves. I done, now, you guy, I
got a couple from the late seventies with the Blue Jams,
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The Rams and the forty nine Ers are headed to overtime,
tied at twenty three a piece. We'll have more on
this game coming up in a few minutes, but all
the drama of the day in Major League Baseball joining
us now the hotline. Someone who I guarantee is wiped
out with all of the action everyone. He's spent today
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getting drunk with his dad after the Tigers won allegedly
allegedly I mean, I mean the Tigers did win. I
mean the other part. MLB Network Insider Extraordinaire on Twitter
at John Morosi. It is John Paul Morosi. What's happening, man?
How are you? Bud?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Not a drop? My friend? I was. I was not
even on assignments in Cleveland, so I can't even claim
to have just absorbed the general alcohol content of the
champagne celebration in the clubhouse there in Cleveland. So there
is a very distinctive. You've ever covered one of those
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champagne celebrations, it has a The humid intensity of air
filled with champagne bubbles is really pungent, and I'm sure
I'll experience that later on this month. There was actually
one time when I was covering a champagne celebration and
the producer kept sending me back into the clubhouse and
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I wasn't even actually sure if any of the interviews
were airing. I just thought they were having fun with me.
And then I basically emerged from the clubhouse drenched with
champagne and was delicately told that I would be riding
by myself to the airport because yeah, no one else
really wanted to hang out with me at that point
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in time.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Up this guy, he's Blast and he tells me he's
been working all night. He just like, yeah, you're at alcohol.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
That's the thing is. So I went. It was in Chicago.
I went straight from Wrigley to O'Hare and my flight
and I remember boarding the boarding the aircraft and people
looking at me like, man, like, it's it's now seven
o'clock in the evening. Were you have you been out
on Rush Street since last night? I mean, what where
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where are we at here? So at least gave me
a good storty.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Wait, wait a minute, So you took a car or
did you take the blue line?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
I took a.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Car at the blue line would have been interesting.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
You would have gone viralight, not the blue line that time.
There may have been a time that I was on
the blue line in similar in similar stead, but that
was not that particular ocasion.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
All right. So speaking of Champagne celebrations, and here, I've
already accepted this, John Paul, after seeing Ryan McMahon make
the new Jeter play Cams Letler turned into the new
Andy Pettitt. The Yankees are going to win the World Series.
They're a team I've already I've already come to accept
that team of destiny. The win tonight. They're gonna win
the World Series. That got everything they need. It's twenty
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years ago. The dynasty is now going to be reborn.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Well, let's let's slow down a little bit. That they
stuff to face a Toronto Blue Jays team, which, by
the way, has their own version of Cam Schlitzler in
Treyy Savage, who I've been arguing, uh for days should
definitely get a start, and there are some people questioning, well,
do you want to put a kid out there? I
don't know. Slilla looked pretty good. He's you know, he's
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a he's a rookie, and he looked all right. So
I think that there's a there. Sometimes is in the
postseason a bit of an over reliance on experience, and
Cam Schlitzler tonight showed the entire baseball world the value
of stuff. Moxie Velo I thought in his postgame interview
with Bus Rolney was really interesting. He was kind of
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hinting at maybe just different things he was hearing from
his buddies back in New England. Of course he was
from Massachusetts. I thought that was a really interesting sidelight
and subplot of the game. But my goodness, everything after
arriving to the ballpark today, it's so funny how postings
and baseball works. Aaron Boone is just everything's in advice
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for him. There's such tension one loss away from maybe
facing some serious questions about the job, and then he
entrusts the least experienced starting pitcher on the roster in
the biggest game of the year, and he simply deals
in a way that basically no other Postiason pitcher ever has.
It was just a remarkable performance, pinpoint command, and just
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the Red Sox. It never felt like they really had
a chance tonight, which is saying a lot for a
team that certainly in the opening game of the series
found a way to get to the Yankee pen. I
just thought that was sheer dominance tonight from Cam Schlitzler.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
JP. Let's stay in this series a second. I mean,
obviously ten and four regular season win Game one, and
then we look at Game two, rap Byela. The decision
to bunt is one we first guest on air, and
as they pack up the gear for the long offseason,
we bring it around again. Between that and not trying
to score after the I mean a great play by Chisholm,
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a couple of things in that inning that may have
changed their fortunes and sent baseball into a spiral.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Well, you're right, Michah, and I think that they're If
we're gonna look at the big picture of the Red Sox,
they got to this spot, I believe because of fundamental
execution and an excellent manager in Ales Korra. Let's remember
that they're by brand name best player when the season
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began now plays with the Giants, and rock Field evers
their best player at his peak during the season. Roman
Anthony is injured and not available. And so if I'm
being honest here, the Boston Red Sox would have had
to have played a perfect beer in my estimation to
win it and to beat the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
US.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
You look at the and again story hasn't really good
at bats this series. So did Bregman, but the rest
of the lineup really never got going in a big way.
Nate Eaton had a nice series, but there was just
not that top to bottom depth that the Yankees have.
And I think we just saw it. And whether it
was even Voltany having a moment early on in the
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series in the first game, Judge, of course, I thought
was of all the series that he played in last
year's postseason and then to this one, this is the
best series he's played in the last couple of years
in the postseason. So the Red Sox don't have an
answer to Aaron Judge. It turns out that they didn't
even have an answer to Anthony Volpi and this particular series.
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So it's just that the Red Sox and you're right there,
was some missed execution plays, but they would have had
to play in my estimation and absolutely perfect series for
them to win. They did the They kind of got
on the board with like an early birdie in the round,
so to speak, by winning with Crochet on the mound
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and Chapman coming in behind them. But they just did
not have the depth in my view, to be able
to just play the rest of the series straight up
and win against the Yankee swing for swing. They had
to do something crafty and different. They tried, they failed.
The better team won, and the better team now that's
going to face Blue Jays is the New York Yankees,
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and that's going to be one heck of a series
against a rested but somewhat weary Blue Jays team that
may probably will not, if I'm being honest, probably will
not have the services of Bobashett in this next round.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
MLB Network inside of John Paul Morosi, our guest Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right,
let's get to the ninth inning of the Cubs and
the Padres today, because as soon as this play happened,
I said, the ABS Challenge system can't get here fast enough.
Three nothing, top of the ninth inning home run to
lead off the inning for the Padres, and then Xander
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Bogertz gets punched out on a call where the ball
wasn't even close to being a strike. Now that changes
the inning and changes the direction of the game. Next
two batters are hit by Keller. He comes out of
the game. Cubs wind up getting out of the inning,
but John Paul a big difference from first and second
and one out to bases loaded and nobody out, which
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likely it would happen because you know, Keller couldn't you know,
find the played after that. So he hits two guys,
comes out of the game. Craig Council takes him right
out of the game. That should have been bases loaded,
nobody out for the Padres. Down three to one in
the top of the ninth.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Inning, changes everything, And of course then the play and
again you never know how the how the rest of
the inning unfolds. But Kittrick comes in and that was
it barely got chrona worth on that slow roller. It
took a really really good play by Sew to get him.
You're right, it's it's a miss call. There was a miscall.
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Yet today, in a pivotal moment in the Tigers Guardians game, Uh,
it's it's unfortunately always has been part of part of
the game. To be honest, it's less a part of
the game now than it's ever been, and next year
it will be even less. We're just we will still
have some mistakes. That that is inevitable, that the human
element is still alive and well in baseball and has
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been for a long time. The entirety of its existence
is fact. But you hate to see that. You hate
to see a call that that swings the game at
a really crucial point. And you're right, you never know
how that ending unfolds if Boguards is on baze, as
he should be, especially in light of what happened after that.
But I think that the Podreys also, they they did
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not get on the board until the final inning, and
I think that's that's a very difficult way to try
to win a winner take all game. I think of
the of the results today, for me, the most stunning
one was was the pod race. Was the Podreys losing.
I thought they were gonna win the game. The Padres
only getting seven hits, I thought that was a very
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very surprising outcome. Obviously a lack of extra base power.
Only two extra base hits in this in this game
for the for the Padres. That for me actually was
so two doubles and one in the one home run.
It's just there was not enough pump in at a
time of year where you're gonna have to have some
slug more often than not to be able to win
Winston ball games. So that to me, of the three
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results today was the most surprising. And and you're right,
it's it could have easily gone differently if a call
had been ruled correctly. But it's asking a whole lot
to be able to make a three run comeback in
the in the top of the ninth in a decisive
game when you really didn't do much at all offensively
in the first eight innings.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, I'll be curious to see what they do in
the offseason, as only the Cardinals and Pirates had fewer
home runs this season than in lineups. That was the
lamentation from the local San Diego think Sky's falling radio
is always fun JP.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
And to be fair, I love Luis areas and the
ability to make to make contact, but but you need
more than a contact bat at first base if you're
gonna win the World Series. And that's and I think
that's where they fell a little bit short. That they
need that first base spot. I love Louis awesome player,
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but I think they probably have to upgrade there at
that particular spot that.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I Finishing top ten and team batting average does you
no good when you need a big hit. Could you
have the Guardians who finish at the bottom, And they
were in and they were nearly into the next round
of them see hit two twenty six. This year, they
were nearly to the next round of the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Yeah, they were. They were kind of the exception and
in a lot of different ways. I mean, And that
to me is it's so interesting guys that though here
we are and in some ways I love this part
of the game, we have seen two completely on press
then in playoff runs in back to back years. The
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Tigers last year, the Guardians this year. Statistically, they were
just not supposed to happen. And I do think and listen,
it's like, what are the chances of a less than
one in one hundred outcome happening in back to back
data sets. I realized there's thirty different data sets, thirty
different teams. But the fact that Tigers made the playoffs
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last year and they had less than one percent chance
of making it, and the same with the Guardians one
year later just might finally tell us that this beautiful
sport of ours is it's very difficult to predict. And
while predicting things is a good endeavor and in fact
allows you to plan and help make decisions of your
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front office person, this is probably a game that should
just be enjoyed and not predicted and scripted, because man,
that's a lot of randomness in back to back years
that would suggest to me that we should leave a
little bit more space for the surprise and for elements
like that, because it really those two teams Tigers last
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year Guardians this year are a big reason why this
is such a beautiful sport.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
All right, So it's time for you to make three
big predictions in the next few seconds.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
You ready, I am one hundred percent ready, let's go.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay, the Alcs will be who, the nlcs will be who.
And give us your Lions prediction for this week, you
Lions insider, you.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
All right, Mariners will meet the Blue Jays. That's what
I've got there. The Marriage will meet the Blue Jays,
the Phillies. I believe they're going to find a way
to beat the Dodgers. The Phillies will meet the Brewers.
I think that's gonna be a fun series two if
it plays out that way. And then the Detroit Lions
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this weekend will triumph by a score of thirty one
twenty one. I'm going a little higher scoring than I typically.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Wow, that's way high. He's hitting the over which is
forty nine and a half and the spread is ten.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
They're playing in Cincinnati against the Bengals. By the way,
that game interesting and these are very rare things that
I know. I don't know a lot, but I do
know that typically AFC games are supposed to be on CBS,
but that will flex the Fox Baby because they know
the national audience wants more Lions. They want more Lions
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on national TV, so they flex them into the four
twenty five slot. Lions Bengals, the Detroit Lions thirty one,
the Cincinnati Bengals twenty one, and it'll it'll be a
very robust weekend of sports in my great city. And
of course they're all playing on the road. The Lions
and the Tigers. But the Lions of Cincinnati the Tigers
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in Seattle. I think the Tigers find a way to
split the first two games, but the Mariners eventually prevail
in five.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
This could be and John Paul, this could be a
big weekend for Michigan, a big week for Michigan over
Ohio in general. You know you already had this. You're
gonna have it on have it on Sunday again. Yeah,
to be a big Michigan overall.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Fil taken on the whole state. What we need is
the next Piston's Cavaliers playoffs. Heres. We have to wait
for this one for a while. Uh. This, by the way,
is only and I always love these cross sport dynamics.
Only the second time ever that a in the four
major sports that a Detroit team has played a Seattle team.
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The previous time was was the Jim Caldwell coached Lions
who went out to Seattle, and I believe the final
score was twenty six to six. It was a fairly
bland game as Yeah. January seventh, twenty seventeen. It looks
like the Lions did all their scoring on two Matt
Prater bigels. Uh. There was there was a lot of
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uh uh and Doug Baldwin big catch there at the
end from Russell Wilson's there you go. So that was
that was That was the box score. Some goodness now
eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
John Paul Morosi on Twitter at John Morosi as always, buddy,
appreciate it. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Enjoy the games this weekend, Love the conversation my friends.
You guys reach out anytime, you know, if there's ever
something happened to the game that you don't that you
we just need some additional context on you.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Wake me up. I mean, I'll be out trading as
call me and we'll make sure that we we get
on the air. And I'll even predict a Lion's inter
squad scrimmage. I dig that.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Final score of the Phillies inter squad. No, just kidding
you got he. We'll talk to you, here goes John
Paul Morosi. And the drama has not stopped the forty
nine Ers and the Rams in overtime, the Niners with
a twenty six to twenty three lead after a field goal.
The Rams, faced with a fourth and one inside the
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red zone, they decide to go for it on fourth
and one. How did it turn out? Mister Belanos has
the answer and what's trending?
Speaker 7 (34:01):
It was not good for La as the Niners stop
that fourth and one on their own eleven yard line.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Rams were knocking on the door to score.
Speaker 7 (34:11):
It was a nice thirty eight thirty eight yard pass
from Matthew Stafford to two to out well to get
them downfield. But San Francisco makes another stop, another crucial stop.
They win it twenty six to twenty three.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Who to thunk it? None of you, none of us,
None of us. We're thinking. I thought it was going
to be forty eight seventeen Rams be it were really
that the number, It was unreal.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
And there was another hit while you guys were talking
to JP Morosi on Mac Jones, the first sack of
the game for the Rams, and I really was like,
his pants are falling.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
He's not coming back, you guys, He's dying right now,
Like get him off the field.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Poor kid did not go did not have to go
back out there, but he did end thirty three or
forty nine for three hundred and forty two yards, two touchdowns,
no interceptions. Matthew Stafford was thirty to forty seven three
hundred and eighty nine yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions either.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
What a game.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
Kendrick Bourne ten catches for San Francisco and one hundred
and forty two yards.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
San Francisco improves.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
To four and one, Rams fall to three and two.
Other NFL news, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson missed his second
straight practice today because of a hamstring injury. Buccaneers running
back Bucky Irving, who was seen in a boot earlier
this week, didn't practice either, and the Commanders have officially
ruled out wide receivers Terry McLaurin and Noah Brown four
Sunday's matchup in LA. When it comes to base ball, well,
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the Yankee shut out the Red Sox four zero two
advance to the Alds where they will face the Blue Jays.
The Cubs are advancing to the NLDS to face the
Brewers after taking down the Padres three to one. It's
the first time that the Cubs are headed to the
NLDS since twenty seventeen. Tigers are going to face the Mariners.
They beat the Guardians earlier today sixty three, so they'll.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
See see in the Alds. Back to you guys, Thank
you very much MONTI Yes, who was that picture for
the Yankees that won eight in tonight? Cam Schlittler, right.
Speaker 7 (36:10):
Who was taking pictures with like like a UFC or
like a wrestling belt?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah, yeah, ye give you that belt.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
He gave me that.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Yes, he was awesome.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
He was.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
We'll have more baseball on the list. Slip slip, but
coming up next. I'm like, I'm scratching on it. Slip
slip slip coming up next, not one, but the first
of two big hot takes coming off of this forty
nine Ers upset win over the Rams on TNF. That's
next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (36:43):
I buy even if I'm not wrestling.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Run the touch push play and you'd be keep playing.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Five that's wrong Play Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, I mean
that was a tush push, just inverting the y. The
Niners pull off the upset over the Rams twenty six,
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twenty three. The Rams had a chance and could have
kicked the game tying field goal that would have extended
the game. But on fourth and one, they go for
it from the from inside the fifteen yard line. And
it was a bad play call from the beginning. Right away.
I first guessed it. I said, where is the yard
gonna come from? Everybody is stacked the line of scrimmage there.
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A yard is not going to come out of this play.
But the Rams decide, Hey, fourth and one, let's go
for it. Let's be bold. And this is how it
turned out. One for the Rams.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Niners lead by three, a chance to win it with
a stop. Here in overtime. Stafford gets under center at
the eleven yard line. He takes it, he turns, he
gives to Karen Williams.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
He gets packed. I think he's short, Tim, I think
he's short. And the forty nine store in the field.
It is all over. The forty have won it in
over time here in la I just want to let
you know, Tim, Yes, it was short, all right, so
Tim knows. I think Tim now knows that play was short.
Tim the play was short. He thought about it, thought
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about it. I mean very slow developing play. Yes, it was.
It was an awful play call. Again, the Niners were
stacked to stop it. They had called time out. I
don't see how the Rams thought this is gonna get
a yard. But this is why, again, this is why
the tush push is such a big deal and why
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it's a big advantage when you can pull this off.
I bet you Sean McVay is walking off the field
right now, going, you know what, screw it, We're gonna
do the tush push. We're gonna because I can't have
that again. Stafford adn't skip leg day, Kyan Williams. Two
bad play, two big plays. Is fumble going into the
end zone could have won the game for the Rams.
Uh he gets stopped here on fourth and one. But
again the tush push that this is This is why
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the Eagles win. It's why the Eagles win games. It's
why plays like this you get the third and one,
fourth and one. The Eagles are unstoppable because they can
continue to run a play like this, And really, I
don't understand why other teams haven't picked it up. I
really don't. It's not like the Eagles have ownership over
the play. It's when you saw teams running uh, you
(39:32):
know when when you would have the quarterback come out
of the game when Ronnie Brown would run wildcat out.
When the wildcat came into the league, other teams did
the wildcat. There was no prople. Other teams did the wildcat.
Most teams tried it. Okay, we really don't have the
personnel for it, but okay, but you saw other teams
try the wildcat. This is a play that you can
easily figure out what to do. Like tush, push is
(39:54):
a pretty easy play. Get your line and one you
going down, figuring pushing, you can do it. I don't
know why all the the teams in the NFL having said, oh, well,
if they do it, we're gonna steal that play because
it's gonna get us a yard on fourth and one,
a third and one. All the time. We're gonna figure
out how to pull this off. We're gonna install it
during training camp, we're gonna practice it. We're gonna do X,
(40:15):
Y and Z, gona do all of these things. I
don't know why other teams haven't done this, I really don't.
I don't know if they feel like, well, we're infringing
on the on the Eagles, you know, they they're gonna
say Hey, back away, this is our play. I don't
know why other teams haven't done that. Yeah, I mean
in this case, I guess I understand it. With Matthew Stafford,
kind of like the fact that Philip Rivers, for as
great as he was, you knew there was never gonna
(40:38):
be a quarterback sneak with it. With Matthew Stafford, I
think we're kind of in that same boat, right that
we're not gonna see it, and then it just becomes
a question of where the ball's going. And again, the
handoff being as slow at it as it was, that
you were able to plug the gap and you had
multiple guys coming from the second level to crash the
party and keep Williams from getting to the first down
(41:00):
a league wide Yeah, the fact that that isn't a
more widely used and perpetrated move, I guess some of
it owes to the larger question that we keep having
about practice time and scaling that back and your reliance
(41:21):
on your offensive line, the cohesion of your offensive line
because it's got a click, right. The fact that we
haven't seen a bunch of penalties called after the incidents
of earlier in the two weeks ago is kind of curious.
We'll see when that first one comes out against the Eagles,
But to this point now they're running variations of it.
Right now, I play and all there's I mean, I
(41:45):
don't see how this is like it's a copycat. If
the NFL wasn't a copycat league, I would say what
But everybody copycats everything and they don't do it, especially
this which has what a ninety seven percent success right,
I don't get the rams. They got to own this loss.
They gave this game to the forty nine multiple times.
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