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champion New York Knicks win the E Cup. I've been
drunk all day. It just sobered up for the coffee
that I went to Trader Jose. I got one of
those things where it's just like straight espresso down that
I am ready for tonight did you just drink the
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Instead of diluting it like you're supposed to hell with it,

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I'm just going straight concentrates many through it, man, I
had to be ready for the show man good man. Hey,
And in part of my hayese are the Bears moving
to Indiana? Yeah? Is that a real story? No, that's
been a real story for a long time. They bought
that swap of land like they've got land all over
That's one of the things that's been strolling in the
background for a long time. I'm all not leveraging the

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city and that horrible, horrible field that they've been playing on,
a sacred ground in terms of what a stadium. Once
upon a time was the Great Soldier Field, and then
they put that toilet bowl over the top of it,
but handled by the park District, one of the worst
surfaces you'll ever play a football game on, or watch
people play a football game on. So, yeah, trying to

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leverage the city to put some money towards things, well,
I gotta say, if you were gonna move to Indiana
to play football, now's the time. It's never been better
than it is in India. I mean, come on, they're
in the They're in the playoff to the number one
team in the country. I mean, come on, this is
when you go to Indiana. This is going to New
York the New York team stink. I'm not going. No,
We're going to Indiana. That's what we at least the
Colts have drifted back, so you would be number two

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in the state right now. Ah well, yeah, Sycamores don't
feel the team, do they. No, I don't. I don't
think you can. You already have so much a Larry
Bird and Kreem Abdul Jabbar, but I no, I think
you would probably boy Indiana. They would have to go
all the way. But it's still the NFL. No, they

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would fight the Indoe Hoosiers for number one in the state.
They would fight Indy, the Indiana Bears. It already rolls
off the tongue, Indiana Bears, Indiana Bears rolls off the table.
It would have to be you know, wherever they end
up setting up and it's like some sub section. Yeah,
it's it's crazy, but yeah, that is going on, and
it's been part of the All right, let's use whatever

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leverage we can buy some land. Nothing else. Lands appreciating
in value, so it sound investment. So there you go.
There's your investment advice in three minutes after the hour.
But yeah, it's Hoosier's day here at Soldier Field. He
get a free Indiana Hoosiers replica Mendoza Jersey. I can't
say his whole name because then we'd have to pay
him money. But get your replica Mendoza Jersey here at

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the game odd Sunday. Yeah, it is some mex level stuff.
So that's one of the stories swirling in the background
of Packers week out. That's it. Yeah, yeah, that's one
of the greats the Bear I mean, look, this has
been a great upping the anti story over the course
of the past few years. And now that look, this

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is the biggest game the Bears have had at home
in a long time, right, this Saturday game against Green Bay,
who's basically going to decide the NFC non decide. You know,
they could finish this highest second in the in the
NFC this year. This is when CEO Kevin Warren says,
oh yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, hey, hey, you know we
could move and we could move entirely out of Illinois.

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They're looking outside of Cook County. They're looking at the
big property in Arlington Nights and potentially northwest Indiana. I
mean that's just awesome. I like how he says it's
not about leverage now, it really is about you're not
gonna move You're really gonna move the Bears to Indiana.
It's gonna be the Indiana. But come on, man, you're
not moving the Bears. And it is all about leverage
and where you you've had opportunity, and you look in

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the area just up and down the highway there, it's
a nice short drive. You mentioned Purdue there Justice So
like all of that to say, uh yeah, when you're winning,
it's a lot easier to go back to a city
state and just say, hey, what do we got on
the table here, because you know, we got a lot
of options. And right now we're really popular with this

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you know, good better, best co coach and a second
year quarterback that people are starting to fall in love
with a little bit and the brand is at its
peak since nineteen eighty five. So yeah, it's exciting times.
But yeah, you gotta leverage this for every bit that
you can. I mean, it's like whenever there's an opening.

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You know, no matter where you work, if there's an
opening that suddenly avails itself, you have to raise your
hand and say, hey, what do I got? Oh I
get to we got to bring Brent Musburger out of
a time to say you are looking live at Kevin
Warren Field here in Indiana as the Indiana Bears hosts
the Green Bay Packers. Yeah. I mean because if you

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listen to a Bear's broadcast, there are advertisers and businesses
from northwest Indiana and as part of the a's part
of the broadcast. So this doesn't come out of the blues.
So folks that think this is just kind of like
a random Okay, it's Midwest, they're near blah blah. No, no, no, no,
there's advertising dollars that have already been exchanged and promotions

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for cities in Indiana for a long time. So yeah,
it's it's it's timing, man. You gotta strike while the
iron's hot, man, I'll tell you. So, you know, look,
a plethora of big football stories tonight. You know, Joe
Burrow is leaving more crumbs. He wants out, and I
really feel like he really does want out. Patrick Mahomes
wants to be back week one. But yeah, sometimes in

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the world we live in now, the you become the news.
Right and right now this hour here, Fox Sports Radio
is big time in the news. Is our colleague here
for better part of the last ten years. Doug Gottlieb
has announced he is leaving Fox Sports Radio and he
is gonna, you know, just concentrate more full time on

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coaching the Green Bay Phoenix. You know, the last couple
of years Doug's been doing both really cut through the clutter.
It was. It was incredible endeavor for him to undertake
to do a daily sports talk radio show and coach
the Green Bay Phoenix. Doug just making that announcement a
few minutes ago that he is gonna have his last
I think on Friday and then uh, you know, going
to continue on to do his podcast, but uh obviously

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devoting even more of his time to the Green Bay Phoenix.
Now this story is is uh, look, it's been really
incredible to watch and follow this over the course of
the last you know, couple of years that it's been.
But as far as this ending, I I this was
sort of we'd we talked about it when it happened.
I felt like it was sort of inevitable that it's
sometime he was gonna have to choose, right, Like, sometime

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he was gonna have to choose. I either stay at
Fox Sports Radio and do what I've been doing for
a long time and continue to be a you know,
a newsmaker and an opinion giver and and and everything else,
or I was gonna have to choose. I gotta pick
full time and and and and donate all of my
time to coaching, like to do like for for a
team like Green Bay. Because you think about it from
their perspective. When this came out, this is a really

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controversial topic, and it was, okay, if Doug was leaving
to coach UCLA or Michigan or Indiana or someplace, and okay,
wait a minute, you're gonna do a full time radio
show and coach this high level d one. Okay, Okay,
I don't know about that, but here's here's here's Green
Bay and getting Doug who's been a big national voice
for the last you know, twenty some odd years. Uh,

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you know, doing games and being on the radio and
on TV. Uh you know that that's a coup, right, Hey,
we got somebody that's got a big national personality. It
will help recruiting, it's gonna help visibility, it will help
all of this. So I get, you know, when we
talked about it, when it happened, I get why both
sides were in for it. Right, Fox is in for Hey,
we got to He's gonna coach, He's gonna do the show.
It helps us, you know, everybody kind of wins. As

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long as Doug can do it. It's a lot to
take take that responsibility, even though, as he said, you know,
it's two hours in the middle of the day. I
can fit it in. I can do it a couple
of things. The way he said it, I don't know
that I would have said it quite that way, but
I get what he was saying. Yeah, I can do
the show, and I can and I can still coach
because it's it's it's downtime for me during the day.
So I get it, and it's been a fascinating thing
to watch. But I always felt that eventually he was

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gonna have to choose whether it was Hey, one of
the sides make him choose, or he was going to
realize that, Wow, you know, I'm not twenty five and
the endless amounts of energy that I had the first
year plus doing this, that kind of goes away, right.
It's like, you know, I look at my daughter who
is talking about now flirting with the idea of going

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to the East Coast for college, and I'm like, okay,
go oh, I love the fall. I go, yeah, okay.
Let me just tell you something here. The fall is great,
and the fall is great, and I know that you
love the winter. Your experience with the winter has been
one week at Christmas and we fly home. Yeah, And
she said, no, I know that, but I would. I said, yeah, No,
here's what's going to happen. You're gonna love the weather

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for the first two weeks, maybe the first month. It's
gonna hit November, whether you're in Syracuse or New York
or NYU, whatever you want to go, go and it's
going to be great. And then December is gonna come
and it's gonna be cold and slushy and sleet and
rain every day. And this is going to happen for December, January, February, March,

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and and April's gonna come and you're gonna say, hey,
we got a couple of sunny days this is great.
The weather is changing, and then you're gonna get four
feet of snow sometime at the end of April. You
don't understand that. I know it sounds great and you
can you're full of energy now, but trust me, I
grew up there, I lived there. It's it gets to
you after the first couple of months when the fall
is very short, and you know, to a different extent,

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like with Doug, it's like, hey, to devote this kind
of energy. And you know he talked a lot about
his family as well, and and having to fit them in.
When is when is when his kids come to see him?
Eventually you were gonna have to make a choice, like
we You know, he's done this for a couple of
years and it came time to Okay, I have to choose.
His team is pretty good, you know. I could tell
just by talking to him and doing shows together that

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we've done in the past, everything. You know, Look, he
loves doing what he's doing. He loves this. Coaching lights
him up, man, and I get it. Look as the
youth coach I was, I get coaching lights you up.
But it just absolutely light him up. And he coach
coach all the time. He would go to Israel and
would still do his Fox Sports radio show, and he's
doing the Maccabi games and all kinds of stuff. So
I get it. But I so I always felt like
at some point he was going to have to choose,

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and he chose the Phoenix, and he chose his kids
that he's coaching, and you know, best of luck to
him with that. I want him to succeed. I want
to see the Phoenix in the tournament. I want to
see him throw more chairs, so we could talk about him.
It's it's you know, I'm happy for him. I'm happy
for this choice, and I know it must have been
difficult and a hard thing to do and to say
at this point, this is when I have to walk away.

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But again, his team is pretty good. Just beat Calcanda Barber,
they won a few games, so this was the time
to make that call, which again I thought would happened
at some point five and two in their last seven
and starting to get a little bit of momentum. Obviously,
we talked about the chair throwing in that near miss
in the final minutes, right an opportunity to really push ahead,

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and you know, you could see the emotion because it's
two loves, right, And I think we lost Harmon there
for a second. We'll get a back in a second,
Jason Smith Mi Carmen Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Yeah,
it's it. And you know, Harmon gets in that point

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there about saying, yeah, you have two things that you love,
and it's okay to love a couple of things, right,
It's okay to love two things. But when you realize
that hosting a full time sports talk radio show, that's
a full time job for everybody, right, And then when
you're hosting a when you're coaching Division one college sports,
that's a full time job for everybody. I get that
you can love both of them. You can, you can

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love a lot of things, and and I completely get that,
but again, you only have so many hours in the day,
and you know, when you're into your you know, I
think Doug's in his late forties now, I think he's
a couple of years younger than I am. Uh yeah,
that that uh, that energy reservoir, doesn't You don't quite
bounce back as well as as you normally did when
you know, you know, you don't do that anymore. But
that's just it. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox

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Jason Smith Mike Carman live from the Fox Sports Radio studio.
So best of luck to Doug again. This news just
coming out now here. We'll continue to talk about it
throughout the show tonight. But coming up next, we got
big stuff out of the NFL. There is an official
benching in the NFL for one quarterback and another quarterback
may really just at some point have to say I

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But two big quarterback to stories to get to right now.
Number one, Well, we talked about it on Monday night,
said it should happen. It was talked about yesterday like
it was going to happen, and officially it happened today.
Tua Tongue of Iloa, the three day odyssey of him?

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Will he still be the quarterback of the Dolphins. He
has been benched for this weekend's game by head coach
Mike McDaniel. Quinn yours six round draft pick out of Texas.
We'll start passing over Zach Wilson. Sorry, Zach Wilson, I'm sorry.

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And if he sucks, Marina, we'll get the start.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah sure, Yeah, Jay Fiedler, Yeah, they got a whole
bunch of guys ready to go. Wow, go Feedler Feeley,
keep going down the line. So Tua is benched, and
quite honestly, by benching Tua, you have announced the end
of the Tua Toungueo vloa era as a starter in Miami.
You don't go back after benching him. This is not

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one of those Hey, he's not right, he's not healthy,
he needs to sit, he needs to get better. This
is the quarterback position is not giving us what we need,
so we need to move on. You don't get your
job back after you get benched like this. You only
find a way to be a backup or move on
someplace else. Now, for Tua, yesterday we told you that, hey,

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the best straight up trade one on one would be
at the Arizona Cardinals, right, because you can make the
money work. Teams are exchanging problems for other problems. Getting
the better quarterback would be the Dolphins, but they'd have
to pay Kyler Murray a little bit more than the
Cardinals would have to pay Tua. Tua and Jacoby Brissett
would be a complete locker room. Maybe it's a change

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of scenery, but there is a lot of money at
stake for this. But you talk about two teams that
need to move on from quarterbacks, might not pick so high,
might not like some of the guys in the draft. Hey,
that works for Tua. But two other situations right, One
we only briefly touched on yesterday is that if it
gets bad, right, and clearly, Tua has not done a

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lot to show everybody that, oh, hey, he could be
the answer. Like it looks a lot like Kirk Cousins
and the Falcons where they couldn't move on from him.
He wouldn't take less money, and he had to back
up Michael Pennick Junior until Penix got hurt. And now
Kirk Cousins is playing and he's playing pretty well. Maybe
he jumpstarts his career and after this year teams will

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be okay with taking on two years of his salary
to come in and be a bridge type quarterback. Maybe
that could happens. But been a big year for Kirk Cousins.
But trying to move Kirk Cousins. Remember the end of
last year, he lost his job, he was benched and
Michael Pennock Junior came in. He knew he was gonna
be the guy coming in if you couldn't find a
way to figure out the money, and you always can
figure out the money. This was Kirk Cousins digging in

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and the Falcons digging in because the Falcons don't want
to They're not gonna for one second let it be
known they made a bad decision by signing Kirk Cousins
and drafting Michael Pennick Junior. They are gonna just continue
to die on that hill that we did the right
thing with these two quarterbacks, and that it looks like
they may have no quarterbacks because Michael Pennick Junior hasn't
been good and he's been injured. So this could wind

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up being a big possibility for the Dolphins. Is that, Yeah,
you have Tua who is not gonna be the starter anymore,
and maybe Quinn Ewers lights it up the next couple
of games and he comes in like it kind of
projected to be a little Justin Herbert esque when he
was in college. Now, clearly you gotta wait and see
how it goes. But either that or it's somebody else

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in free agency, or it's somebody in the draft it's
a first round pick and or it's nuss Meyer, or
it's somebody early second round that comes in and gets
the job. And Tua is the highest priced backup in
the NFL for at least this next year. So I
could really see a scenario in which Tua winds up
staying with the Dolphins as the backup quarterback. Is Hey,

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your cousins was a pro right, there were no real problem.
We didn't hear about problems he's causing behind the scenes
with Atlanta this year, there was none of that. He
was fine. They manage a situation as much as it
could be. And Tua is like that too. He's a pro.
He may not like it, but he's not somebody who's
going to try to make waves. He kind of is
like a Russell Wilson esquhere. Hey, I'm always trying to
do the right thing. I want the right image of

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me out there, and I want to do the right thing.
So I have no doubt that he would handle it
as best as he could. But that's a real possibility.
Might because you look at what his capt is the
next couple of years, and you're coming off being bench,
not just we got another guy. It's it's not Sam
Darnell coming off of forty touchdowns where hey, I got
this is Tua coming off of being bench. That's a possibility, yeah.
I mean the only thing that comes to it when

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you look at the dollars and cents is whether they
just decide to go to the Russell Wilson route and
just take the poison pill and move on, just recognizing
the next couple of years will be miserable in theory
because you have such a restrictive cap hit. I mean,
you see the numbers that have been flow loaded about right.
It's pre June first reduces the dead cap to forty

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five million. Otherwise we're looking at almost one hundred million
dollars that's on the table here with TUA. And that's why,
you know, if I'm going back to your scenario of
the Kyler Murray trade, which is this fun in theory,
I get the far worst guy and I'm still on
the hook for a ton of money for next and yeah,
no I'm out. But it's just the idea in Miami.

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I remember Quinn Ewers was the guy that kept arch
Manning on the bench, So I mean, there's something there.
Unless there's not, I don't know. But he got to Cincinnati.
They can't stop the you know, our show, and five
or six other guys. I mean, that's that defense is
no good. So you got an opportunity to at least
put something decent on on paper here, and then you
got Tampa Bay. Their secondary has been terrible. So the

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next two weeks you at least have some opportunities for
McDaniel to show that he can do the job with
the next guy up, because that's the other domino that
can still fall in all of this. I mean, I
don't know how much he had say versus it coming
down from on top. Right, you got a power vacuum
in terms of your GM that you fired mid season,
so you're trying to figure out what the next steps

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are forward, and it's sounded and looked like maybe McDaniel
would would stay and get a stay of execution, but
the next three weeks might just be all right, we're
just turning the page altogether. So you got that part
in there. Season finale is on the road at New England.
But for the TUA situation, just from a money perspective,

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trying to find anybody to take on any portion of
that salary is just not going to work. Like, this
isn't a third year that you're moving on from the guy, right,
this is this is year six, right, this is who
he is at this point in terms of how he operates.
Co Sell and I have talked about it a lot
and his tape review NFL Films Greg coach Sell and

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I on our Sunday mornings. It's like it's all timing, right,
It's all timing patterns. It's not hey, I can drive
the ball in and make a big throw, a big
play it's it's a lesser version of the Russell Wilson
moon ball. To go back to the you know Russell
Wilson from an economic standpoint, but also from a playing standpoint.
You know, once upon a time Russ can at least

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drive that down, and he can also make some plays
with his legs. Well, Tua just runs into trouble more
than anything. And we talked about it on Monday night
against the Steelers. The number of sacks that he took
that were just inexplicable in an obvious throw the damn
ball out of bound situations. So you know, those decisions
in addition to just throwing the ball the interception was unconscionable.

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I mean the number of turnovers he's made over the
coach of the year. Normally we could pick a pick
and choose through all right off the receiver's hands. Off
this virtually all of them are his fault and bad
reads and bad decision making. And now with that level
of financial responsibility to it, it's it puts Miami in
absolute hell trying to figure out what to do going forward.

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Jason Smith my harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studio,
sor right, what do you got on this Rosburg.

Speaker 5 (23:03):
Jason on a scale from one to sixty seven. Yeah, okay,
are you for two on the Jets? Come on a no,
that's his landing spot.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Listen, listen, listen.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
I'm not trying to get like three great years out
of that. When I says great, I mean for us,
not you. Content No, no, for us, not you.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah. The fact that the Dolphins would trade to it
of the Jets in division tells you what they think
of him and how how good they think he's going
to be. Oh, I will trade with the Jets. What
do you want. We won't take anything you promised to
start him for the next three years. We'll trade him
to you. We won't even take anything from you. Hey,
two and oh I just clinched just being two and
oh against the Jets the next three years. There we
go chet that off. I'm GM of the Year. Everybody, well,

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I mean you also, you get a statue immediately what
were I was the interim GM. This got me a
seven year deal because I was able to keep him
in division. Ah. You don't let it get can you imagine,
like you know, it's one of those dinner parties in
the off season, you're hanging out with UH, with Brandon
Bean and and UH and and Vrabel and they're like, hey,

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great move you got thanks for doing that and keeping
them in condivision. Man, that's great. We're gonna be two
and h against him every year. No, you did, you
did great. You think he couldn't throw the football in
the cold? Wait, he tried to throw the football at
MetLife all those times. Oh, that's gonna be fantastic. No, no, great,
but you guys are great. But we talked about it yesterday.
That was the only part of the trade to Arizona
I liked was the idea of that. Well, at least

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he's in a dome and most and all the division
games will be on the West coast, right exactly, And
that's a big thing. Right. There was all these reasons why, No,
he's still terrible. It doesn't. But it's an extra. But
when you when you have two quarterbacks that are making
all that money, it's an exchange of problems. You know,
it's not working for Kyler and Arizona not working for
two in Miami. Maybe it works the other way. Either way,

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you're still on the hook for this money. You're still
paying somebody at least you could pay somebody else, uh,
you know, to come in and maybe it's different, maybe
it works, if it doesn't, Okay, you tried, right, I
would just look around and say, all right, we need
a couple of defenders. Can Kyler do that? Because that
ain't his fault. But let's let me throw this one
out here for me too, because this is a team's

(25:11):
absolute specialty. Okay, Now again, you have to figure the
money out, and if you're motivated enough, there's always a
way to figure the money out. How about this, Because
it's their team's specialty to make crazy trades that go
against the norm, that bring in high priced guys. And
I've wondered for the past seven eight years how they

(25:34):
continue to bring in these high priced vets for short
term and turn them around and still stay under the
cap and are able to compete and be the best
team overall in the NFL the last seven or eight years.
But it is a typical Sean McVay thing to do
for the Rams, to say, you know what, I'm a
quarterback guru. I can make it work with a lot

(25:55):
of guys. Right, Remember Baker Mayfield was here. He went
and look at all the money he's getting with with Tampa. Right,
I had him here, right, Matthew Stafford was someone nobody
wanted in Detroit. It was aw Stafford's terrible all that
bloated salary. Now all of a sudden, no, wait a minute,
Matthew Stafford might be the best quarterback in the NFL.
It's gonna win MVP this year. But that is a
typical thing to do for Sean McVay. And again, it's

(26:20):
about the challenge of doing something like this, because look,
everybody's human and everybody wants to be able to say, hey,
that's a challenge for me. We have seen too a flash.
It's not like we haven't seen him play well or
we've seen him at four thousand yard seasons. You know,
we've seen him be able to do that. But he
comes in, they figure out a trade, they figure out
the money. It's not going to be a lot of uh,
you know, it's not gonna be a lot of draft

(26:40):
capital going one way or the other. But they figure
out the money and Tua comes in and he sits,
and he sits behind Matthew Stafford until he retires, and
then Tua just assimilates into the role of starting quarterback,
because where else the Ram's gonna get a guy outside
of taking someone late in the draft that you're gonna
have to groom any Tua is twenty five, so if

(27:02):
he sits until he's twenty seven, twenty okay. They got
Matthew Stafford when he was thirty three years old, right,
I think they're okay with Tua. If he took over
a twenty eight or twenty nine, it's not like he's
got to worry about losing a lot of speed. You know,
it's like Philip Rivers and everybody speed to begin with.
But that would be a typical La Rams swing for
the fences. We have our quarterback. It also puts pressure

(27:24):
on Matthew Stafford after every year to go, hey, I
may retire. I want more money. I may retire. I
want more money, because you know they're kind of sick
of that. And if you thought you were done with
it after last year, oh wait, do you see after
he wins MVP this year what he wants for a
new deal. But think about that for a second, because
that's the Rams specialty, is taking money that doesn't seem
like it works, making it work. And Tua comes in

(27:45):
and he backs up Stafford, and it's written in stone
that he is the heir apparent, and Tua can calm
himself down and learn a playing quarterback from the best
guy you could learn to play quarterback from on a
great team in a great environment that plays on the
West Coast, that plays in good weather, plays away games
in good weather. To it to the Rams, the Rams
do crazy things like this all the time. Why not

(28:07):
this You can add Shanahan to that list if we
want to go down this road as well. Right, a
guy that you get him in a system, you get
him in the right space, that maybe it could work.
I would say this for the Rams, though, I'm looking
at the Falcons pick that they're getting for this year,
and I'm liking where they have a lot of options, right,
because not yeah, they'll draft in their own in the

(28:30):
high twenties or whatever, but that Falcons pick. Every week,
we sit there and wait with baited breath to see
how high or low that'll become, you know, like you
watch for that first pick when you had it from
the Panthers, when you want to turn that into Caleb Williams.
But that's it, right, It's just say, all right, how's
this going to finish out as it sits. You know,
it would be the number one pick right or number

(28:52):
ten pick, I should say right now, ahead of where
Miami is selecting if the draft were held today. But yeah,
I McVeigh is certainly a guy that loves his challenges
and loves the rebuild and the money can be figured
out to a point somewhere along the way. Someone has
to just swallow all that dead cap and push on

(29:16):
for two. Again, that four thousand yards was a couple
of years ago, and you know what he is at
this point in his career. How much you can fix it?
I mean, if he was so upset he didn't want
Jared Golfer round, Yeah, Eddy years later talks about it's like,
well I was in mature. It's like, yeah, you were.
You had a guy that was pretty damn good and

(29:37):
you didn't harness it. You still had some pretty good runs.
Yet he ended up being the fall guy. Yeah, you
got your super Bowl with Stafford, but you know, you
look at what the career golf has had, It's been
pretty strong. But trying to fix another guy, yeah, I
mean there's a couple of coaches and every offensive genius
thinks that they can fix someone else's cast offs. Just

(29:58):
when Baker Mayfield was there, there was no money attached
to it, right there was there was There was nothing
that you had to worry about, and you didn't exactly
have to shell out a bunch of of prospects and
draft picks or anything else to bring him into that
building for that short term. So you know about, hey,
look what I've done. I helped turn him around, like
so you know I could do it for you until

(30:20):
it would be acceptable to the trade coming in somewhere
to be. At this point, he's got no choice. That
is true. You basically had Mike McDaniel say, hey, we
need some vote of confidence at the quarterback position. In
other words, right now, his team has told him they
have none time now to find out what's trending in
the wide world sports. So someone who's been called the
Matthew Stafford of Fox Sports Radio, that's right, she's not

(30:43):
really welcome in Detroit anymore. It's utile.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
This is just for you, Jason, going to your going
to your goat gony, your going to your goaty.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Didn't hang a banner. You can't saying didn't hang an.

Speaker 6 (30:57):
Really, I don't blame him. That is what it is
it important or isn't not important? Half the people make
fun of this. Half the other people aren't watching it,
so I don't believe them for not hanging it.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
I have to correct all of you. This is when
you say it, it's world champion New York Knicks. That's
how you have to say it. It's a no banner
to move it though they win the Emirates Cup. That's
how you have to say it. It's a law.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Now, I don't know if it's a law, it is.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
I trust me. I'll send you the paperwork.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Please send me the paperwork.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Everybody that just really hated on this though, Moncie and
we talked about this last night. They just need a hug. Sure, right,
the league made a championship, they made a tournament, they
won the tournament. What am I missing? Right?

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (31:37):
No, I actually watched it, so I get it. I
get it, But people just you know, it's I get
both sides. But I enjoyed. I enjoyed the game. But yeah,
so going to your going New York go all right?
Two NBA games and they've both wrapped up. The Grizzlies
out last of the Timberwolves in Minnesota. One sixteen to
one ten was the final score. This just ended. Jaren

(31:58):
Jackson Junior twenty eight points, twelve rebounds, Rudy Gobert in
the last sixteen points and sixteen rebounds.

Speaker 7 (32:04):
The Bulls, who had you know, started off hot, kind
of struggled. They gotta win today, yeah, Over the Coup
of Years went twenty seven to one eleven. Josh Gitty
with another triple double twenty three points, eleven rebounds, and
eleven assists, while Donovan Mitchell dropped thirty two points in
the loss.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
The Lakers have ruled out DeAndre eight and four Tomorrow's
game at Utah. When it comes to men's college shops,
Number thirteen Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt survived seventy seven to seventy against
Memphis in overtime, so Vanderbilt is still undefeated. Number sixteen
Alabama pulled away and defeated South Florida one o four
to ninety three. Right now, halfway through the second half.

(32:40):
Number seven Gonzaga has a seventy two to sixty lead
over at Campbell. When it comes to the NHL, the
Hurricanes are up on the Predators three to one. Late
in the third period down to the final two minutes,
Devils and Golden Knights are scoreless. Halfway through the first period,
the Panthers defeated the Kings.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Three to two, so LA's losing streak continues.

Speaker 6 (32:58):
Mammoth over the Red Wings to one, and the Blues
edged the Jets one zero. When it comes to the NFL,
Thursday Night football is kicking off Week sixteen, and it's
from Seattle, where the Rams are taking on the Seahawks.
The Rams were supposed to fly out a few hours ago,
but ESPN reported that their flight has been significantly delayed

(33:18):
due to an equipment issue on the plane. The Rams
are also listing wide receiver Davante Adams as doubtful for
tomorrow's game because of his hamstring injury. Yeah, the Dolphins
benched quarterback to a Togobai Looya, while the Jets are
once again gonna start undrafted rookie Brady Cook at quarterback
Sunday at New Orleans, New York.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
New York Coat Go, New York, New York Coat.

Speaker 6 (33:40):
And Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was kept at home
today due to the flu.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Back to you.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Guys, thanks a bunch of bots real quick, because we
talked about it. Because I know you know this off
the top of your head. If you can visualize how
many banners do the Clippers hang, how many banners the
Clippers have?

Speaker 3 (33:55):
What What did I do to you?

Speaker 1 (33:57):
I want to ask you.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
I started with go to your go New York, and
then are you're gonna.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Do that to me? Swinging that break.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Coming list therost no study in.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
You said it's all good, and then you said something
about porcupines. Okay, all right, you're good. She wants you
to fall on the quills. All right, that's final. All right,
thank you, Manzi.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
You're not welcome, You're welcome.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Harmon, thank you mans your voice out.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
Almost there, almost one hundred percent back.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Don't they put one up? Every time they signed Kawhi
Leonard for more money they signed resigned? Who no?

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Whose stusana ah.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Manzi, let's let's clip us.

Speaker 8 (34:49):
That's done in my they are in my quarenta. There
you go, mil Noveciento. So's going on.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
He's just citing numbers now coming up next week, back.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Numbers, biggest NBAST. Don't do that because now Tyer's gonna
play the francesc counting to forty one. We got to
learn somehow get into the biggest NBA story of the
day next right here, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.

(35:32):
Oh my god, that'll learn.

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

Speaker 1 (35:48):
The holidays. And if you want someone to take care
of an unfaithful partner for you, Hey, that's that's This
is a song for you. Hey. Fox Sports Radio, The
Jason Smith Show with a best friend Mike Harmon. We
got some big NFL stories coming your way in about
ten minutes, including a two not one, but two crazy

(36:09):
stories surrounding one player from today. It's been a full
day for this NFL. So yeah. But the New York Knicks, sorry,
the world champion New York Knicks have decided, probably not
making Adam Silver happy, that they are not going to
raise a banner for the Emirates Cup title at Madison Square.

(36:30):
Guard Now, the other teams that have won put banners up.
The Knicks decided they're not gonna do it. Uh. Jalen
Brunson today said, look, we're gonna enjoy the hell out
of this. But once we get back to once we
get back home, get playing again. Where we're moving on.
We're on to other things. Look, they got their next
game tomorrow night against the Pacers. I think they're gonna
sit their entire team against them because they're all exhausted
from the e Cup run and the win last night. Wow, celebrations. Hey,

(36:54):
come on, I mean, look, this is this is a storyline.
We have to look past the headline of raising the
banner number one. This is a This is a story
and this is a celebration. This is for me and
the fans, right, this is this is for all the
Knick fans that have been waiting countless years for a

(37:14):
mid season tournament that we can call our own, that
we could just sit here and just get drunk for
a week and say go New York, Go, New York go. Right,
it's a thing. Now the Knicks are saying the right
thing about hanging a banner. Hey, they're asked about it. No,
we're focused on the task at hand. We're focused on
the NBA title. We think we're the best team in
the East, and then look by any metrics at one

(37:36):
of the top four or five teams in the NBA
one of the top two teams in the East. So yeah,
they're saying the right things. Are they going to put
the banner up? Yeah, they're just not gonna do it,
Like when everybody gets back from from Christmas break right,
and they're not gonna do it on Christmas Day. They're
not gonna do it now when they get back home.
They'll eventually put it up because look, the NBA wants

(37:57):
them to put it up, you know. And then maybe
the NBA will make the do it. But at some
point the Knicks will do it. Maybe they do it
Opening Night next year, maybe they do at the end
of the year this year. I don't know, but at
some point they'll do it. But it's the right thing
to say. Now, hey, we're not doing it now. We're
focused on other things. We don't want anybody to think
that we have are resting on our laurels, that we
won this championship and now we're all good for a while. No,

(38:18):
we want to show you that, hey we won, we're
business as usual. We're getting back to it. So this
is not we're thumbing our nose at the NBA. This
is not all the knickser. The knickser aren't treating that.
The Knicks had to win because they needed the the
absolute tangible proof that the direction they're on after firing
TIBs was right, and they need a little bit of
that early in the season, some validation to say, hey,

(38:41):
we're on the right path, this group can coalesce, we
can win things great. The Knicks needed that win last
night for all those all of those reasons, right. They
need to show that tangible proof that moving on from
Tibbs is the right thing and that shadow is no
longer hanging over the organization. But yeah, Mars, this goes
they'll they'll hang They'll hang it at some point, it'll hang.
Just it's got to call on silvers, dude, don't worry
about me. Well hang it at some point. Just just

(39:03):
it's not just going to be right now, give us
a break on it. Well, but that's the thing, right,
It's it's all in how you message it. As it stands.
You kind of said, well, we're not doing this, like,
well don't you can't. You can't do that because I'm
sure the partner that had the elaborate ceremony and ponied
up a lot of cash, you know, to the tune
of five hundred and what thirty eight thousand dollars per

(39:24):
player and full contract guy and all whatever else is involved.
I'm sure they want their just due to wear their
logo and everything hangs from a banner that is in
the arena. So I got to imagine there's a phone
call mixed there and you could have said, you know,
now is not the time, like just you know, however
you massage it, but you can't. Just can't. No, no, no,

(39:46):
we got other things we need to do. No, no, no, no.
This is important. It's important to your fans. If other
people want to mock it, it's like we talked about
you with your T shirt or hat combination or jeorts
or whatever you wanted to do with the logo and
the championship bond it. If folks want to judge it,
that's on them. Internally, you actually won something, all right.
They built a tournament, you want it. Celebrate it for

(40:08):
the Knicks. Yeah, there's still a lot of this great
proof of concept short term in this odd construction of
a tournament and a Spurs team. That's it'll playing right
now with Victor women Yama on a minute restriction. No excuses,
Just here's part of the equation of what you're doing.
You got a lot of work left to do, a
lot of work with the rotation, got to get through

(40:29):
healthy whatever. But yeah, at least at this point you've
had a test and you passed with flying colors. But
at some point I would imagine the sort of damocles
I e. The Emirates Company or Adam Silver starts waving
at you, going you know, Banner's got to go up, Buddy,
Banner's gotta go up. Yeah again, it just won't be
in the next few months. It's fine, they'll do it.

(40:52):
It's all good. Yeah, But then it'll be forgotten about
when you melt down in the playoffs champion New York
Knicks that crazy story out of the That Fella's next.
Jason and Mike Flow Happy Night four The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. So, uh,

(41:29):
speaking of Adam Sandler, Yeah, I was thinking about him
earlier today when he was at the Oscars did his
whole Shallow May bit. Now I'm gonna be at Veterans
Park playing here at midnight. Uh, big news. The Oscars
is going to YouTube. It's gonna be Yeah, on YouTube
in twenty twenty nine. Nobody under the age of sixty
is gonna be able to find it. It's never gonna

(41:50):
forget the Oscars, which is an older watch anyway, for bid,
no one, No one over the age of sixty gonna
find it. Nobody. Well, and while you're on YouTube for it,
I don't even know. I don't even know where it is.
I can't find it. Wait, oh, come on, it's not
that hard anymore.

Speaker 7 (42:04):
Hang on it.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Look, wait a minute, here it is. I'm getting I
type in Oscars. Okay, wait, Oscar Madison, Oscar the Grouch,
Oscar Meyer, Oscar, Oscar, Oscar Oscars, Oscar, Oscar Goldman. That's
six million dollar man's boss. Oscar Okay, Oscar Okay, Oscars.
I mean really, I mean, here goes the Oscars to YouTube, right,
And you know what the thing is, I get it

(42:26):
because the Oscars has been hemorrhaging viewers for the better
part of the last decade plus, because look, it's one
of those things where you thought the Oscars was gonna
live forever. Is the number one thing in entertainment every
year all you know, thirty forty million people watching the
Oscars and then people started going away from the Oscars
when people, you know a lot of movie goers got

(42:48):
a little disenfranchised with how they awarded the Oscars and
who they gave Oscars to basically became a lifetime achievement award.
Then when the pandemic came and the broadcast were awful,
and now that we're to nominate ten films and most
most of them are films that nobody has seen. Like
it's just they're just leeching viewers year after year after year.

(43:09):
They had to do something bold. They had to do
something where it looks like they're still room for growth.
So yeah, so in a few years, we're gonna go
to streaming and and we're gonna get money for it, right,
I'm sure you know they're getting money for this. And
if the viewership is down, it's okay, because it's streaming.
We're building. And what what the Oscars has done is
they've bought themselves a decade more of relevance. Hey if
the if the viewership is down, and you know, hey, yes,

(43:30):
we know in a couple of years it's going to
YouTube and and this is what's gonna happen. And they've
bought themselves time they've they've had a big problem and
they've just kicked that can down the road. They got
some I'm sure they got more money, and they realize
that now in twenty twenty nine, if less people watch
doesn't matter, because we're gonna measure it all different ways
because it's streaming, it's here, it's here. People are picking
this up and we can we can obfuscate it and

(43:52):
make it seem like the Oscars is still great. Meanwhile,
less and less people are watching it every year. Yeah,
let's see one hundred and fifty million dollars in revenue
for the Act during the fiscal year that ended June thirtieth,
the vast majority of which came with the rights deal
of ABC Disney Sniff amount of related content, because that's
part of it, right, that all the ancillary content that

(44:13):
goes through it, with the red carpet shows and behind
the scenes and all the buy in you get from
the nominees and the process. Because this will then leak
back into deals with the studios and production companies themselves
to get exclusive content as they promote and pimp out

(44:34):
their wares for the opportunity to be in front of you.
You know, it just becomes the different system that needs
to get fed to push forward. So yeah, it'll be
interesting to watch. The Google Arts and Culture Initiative is
what they're calling it, to help provide digital access to
select exhibitions and programs and digitize more than the fifty

(44:56):
two million items that are currently part of the Academy collection.
So there's a whole other scope to this when you
talk about the history of movies, uh, and the art
and everything. There's a museum here that's been opened in
Los Angeles, but the bowels that have so much stuff
that you can call that hasn't seen the light of
day in forever that you know, there's a vast reservoir

(45:20):
of interviews and content, uh to to go and build
out this whole universe. And while you're at it, at
YouTube slash at Jason Smith's show in case you get
bored with the preachiness of the Oscar speeches, Yeah, we're
there now, going, We're there for you. We're there now.
We're already ahead of the head of the game. So yeah,

(45:41):
in four years, who is Joe Burrow playing quarterback for?
Because I'll tell you what after today, doubling down, it
ain't gonna be the Bengals. It was last week Joe
Burrow had his very oh what a human moment press
cops from Joe Burrow talking about his frustrations with the game. Okay, Yeah,
I understand that. Joe Burrow also pretty he's a pretty

(46:02):
savvy guy. He knows what he's saying, he knows how
his words are going to be interpreted. And the fact
that he said a week ago at a press conference
he wants to be happy. He's got to find happiness
in the game and that's what he needs to be
able to go forward. Hey, he's telling you, I'm not
happy here in Cincinnati anymore. I'm not happy getting my
ass kicked and we're not winning, and we didn't build
on the Super Bowl. I am not happy. And I

(46:24):
get it. Not the first athlete to be unhappy with
the Bengals and Mike Brown not the last. So I
get that he wants out. We talked about it last week. Yeah,
he is sounding the alarm that he wants out. If
he was talking about retiring or if he was unhappy
because it was something outside of football. Yeah, guys generally
don't say that they if they're gonna retire, they don't

(46:44):
throw it out there, I might retire. They don't throw
it out there about whatever personal things they might be
going through. This is this is really yet another another
instance of Hmmm, here's a superstar that knows how to
play the media, right, and here's and I don't doubt
Burrow about his happiness or anything else. But you know,
when you put that message out there getting close to
the end of the year, you're eliminated from the playoffs.

(47:05):
You're frustrated. Yeah, you've tried to make it work in
Cincinnati and you haven't. And you're at the midway point
of your career. You've been hurt a lot. You want
to play in front of an offensive line that's actually good.
You want to be able to do these things. And
you know that the Bengals don't have a great track
record for saying, oh, we're so sorry you're unhappy. Here,
we'll trade you wherever you want to go. Right now,
we're gonna screw you. We sent Carson Palmer to the

(47:28):
Raiders that ended his guy's career, right, so, just so
you know, so he knows it's gonna be hard. So
that was the take last week. You would think after
the firestorm, if Joe Burrow really didn't mean it to
be about the Bengals. He would have shut down a
lot of things. He would shut down all the talk
about it and say, look, guys, I don't know what
you're saying. This is not what it's about. I'm here,

(47:48):
I'm playing X, Y and Z. But instead, today he
gets asked if he ever envisioned playing for another franchise,
And here was Joe Burrow's answer to that question.

Speaker 9 (47:59):
A lot of crazy things happen every year. Michael Parsons
got traded right before the seat, right before the season.
I think this year something I hadn't seen in a
long time in the NFL. So crazy things gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
You know what that means. That's him saying to thirty
one other teams, come and get me, Come and get me.
Come here, Come and get me, save me, save me.
I am here, Come and get me. Because the answer
to that question is no, No, I don't envision play
I'm happy here. I love playing here. I want to
make it work. That's the answer you give. That's the
answer the quarterbacks give. That's what you say when you're
the frace of the franchise and you're getting that kind

(48:36):
of money, and you know what you say matters, that's
the answer you give. But instead, crazy things happen every year.
You never know. I could be on a new team
next year. I mean, is there any way he is
on the Bengals next year, even though he even said, hey,
it's hard for me to believe I'm somewhere else a
few days ago because of the money and his contract wise,

(48:56):
but he's putting that out there, saying, let's make it work.
You know a team's gonna want me. It's easier to
trade for Joe Burrow and pay him a lot of
money than is a trade for Tua and pay him
a lot of money. So yeah, this is this is
Joe Burrow doubling down, and he is saying, come and
get me. I want out. And if I don't know,
there's any other way you could think of this other

(49:18):
than he wants phone calls to happen. He wants to
talk to other teams. He wants other teams to call.
He wants to start shaking this tree a little bit
because he's seen how it's worked, right, He's seen how
it works in other sports. When stars want out, they
have to say it. They can't say well, no, no, no,
or we're kind of we're kind of, you know, looking
at different things we haven't asked.

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Now.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
He knows you gotta be public with your request and
that's how you get things done. Right. You go back
to James Harden. You know, I'm just gonna say bad
things about people with the organization till they tell me
I'm out, and then I wind up getting traded. That
he knows this is how it works. Again. Burrow is
a smart guy, right, He's a smart dude. He gets it.
And if there was any question that last week didn't

(49:59):
go the way he wanted, he would shut down every
one of these questions. But he's not. He is still
feeding them. He wants out. He is hoping by next year,
maybe he's he thinks, well, even in a Russell Wilson
kind of way, if it's not next year, it's the
year after. And I'm thirty and the back half of
my career, i want a Matthew Stafford like back half
of my career where I'm on a team that wins.

(50:20):
I'm sure he sees that with Stafford going, man, the
guy toiled in obscurity for years with the Lions, and
look at the last five years he's at He's got
a Super Bowl, He's gonna have the MVP. That's what
I want. This is what I'm looking at. But I
gotta start laying the groundwork now, and maybe I will.
I will throw this out there. Maybe it's not enough
to happen for next year, but for two years from now, okay,

(50:42):
but he wants it to happen. He wants to happen tomorrow.
But he understands it's not an overnight process and it
needs to be something that takes on its own life.
But you never know. You never know what a team
is gonna say, Hey, here's our draft picks, here's our
quarterback and more draft picks. Give us Joe. We love
Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow is great, and I love Joe Burrow.
So let's go do it. You never know, but you
gotta put it out there, and he's putting it out there.

(51:03):
This is his plan. Yeah, the last week has just
been odd.

Speaker 6 (51:06):
Right.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
You go back to that thing where you might as
well have had the Little Riverband playing cool change behind him,
and you know, the albatross and the whaler, they are
my brother. As he contemplated the meaning of life, and
people were like, well, you can walk away with the
Andrew Luck. No, no, no, this guy just did a
grueling rehab. He wasn't quitting. And then Sunday he gave
me what can only be described as a poor effort

(51:30):
against the Ravens, one that just really which one of
these is not like the other is in terms of
his entire football career, going back to smoking a cigar
at LSU, He's like, all right, after you know that
soulful speech. I really thought in between the white lines
you'd find some happiness and instead, well we got what
we got. Now you have this And at some point

(51:53):
he's just got to embrace a guy who was active
going back and what was it ninety two to ninety six,
the WWF raizor Ramone with It's okay to be the
bad guy. At some point you just have to say
this is I can't dance on the fence because I'm
gonna keep getting asked these questions. And the reporter I get,

(52:14):
I give him credit like he he stumbled and fumbled
through it because he didn't want to ask it directly,
but eventually got there of the well do you envision
and the NFL and then' say no, no, just ask
him you want to trade? Are you looking to get traded?
Just you know, let's just throw it out there instead.
You know, you get this medium outh thing coming back.
And there's no question it's on his mind. It's the

(52:37):
instead of saying, hey, a lot needs to change or
I want out, he's trying to be nice about it
and keeps up. But no, eventually, as you say with
James Harden, remember when he was overseas doing his shoe deal, yelling, hey,
let me do that again for the guy in the back. Yeah,
that's what Joe Burrow needs to do at some point.
And again, like he's basically when he says, oh, Michael

(52:57):
Parson's got traded, like he's saying, whoa, the team might
decide to trade me, Like whoa, whoa, whoa, Wait, why
are you saying we're trying to trade? He wants out?
And for the first time, I'll tell you this, I'm
getting a little excited because the Bengals don't really want
to trade him to where he wants to go. They'll
trade him, but they'll want to screw him. Where else
can you screw him worse? Where the Bengals can say Hey,

(53:19):
we're gonna send you someplace worse than us because we
can get a lot of draft picks. Because oh, by
the way, they just got a lot of draft picks
at the trade deadline. Hey, here's the first we got
from from the Cowboys for Quentin Williams, and what we
got from the culture sauce Gardener and Joe Burrow's cornerback
of the Jets next year. Look at you, buddy, let's
go at yo. You just went straight over the board.

(53:42):
You leapt from just past your first roll of the
dice all the way back home with the Jets, and
you stomped on it like a little kid with both feet.
Oh and now of sudden, I'm thinking Joe Burrow at
Met Life, man, So I love thinking we have the
draft picks, and the Bengals say, yeah, bad as we are,
it's worse with them. So we're we'll trade you there.

(54:03):
That's fine. We're not gonna trade you to a team
that we think could be good. You think, wait, but
this one, I don't think he has any kind of
no trade things, so I think he's kind of screwed.
It just would become a will not report. Yeah, we
be in Gotham City. Yeah, yeh see, that's why it's happening.

(54:24):
Man that writes itself. Remember those old posters hand and
all those guys back in the day. There's your commercial
right there. That is your commercial right there. Didn't you
have a Dark Knight with the Mets at one point? Yeah?
But okay, well need a new Dark Knight. He'll be
the new Dove he had just recasts, just a guy
like ndk new Dark Knight. He's new dark dyk Uh.

(54:47):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports, and someone who's been called the Batman
of Fox Sports Radio because.

Speaker 6 (54:59):
I I would love to be a billionaire superhero that
doesn't really have a superpower.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Well, you're incredibly rich, that's your's that would be the superpower.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
That would be the super I would love that.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
I would love that what Robert wool said in the
nineteen eighty nine classic.

Speaker 6 (55:14):
But then you think of other superheroes and I'm like, damn,
I would like to have some sort of, you know,
ability above the normal. If I was a superhero, not
just a billion Yeah, no, that's not good enough.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
I want to be able to read people's brains. I
want to be able to read people's brains.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
That's what that's that's creepy.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
That is creepy. Then, oh, I'm just saying I would
like to read people's minds.

Speaker 6 (55:43):
Whatever bar whatever bar. All right, well start here with
NFL news. Why not Thursday night football Rams and Seahawks
still not update, but it seems like the Rams I'm
not flown to Seattle.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
They were supposed to fly out around four pm Local time.

Speaker 6 (55:58):
Which is seven pm Eastern, but they had some sort
of mechanical issue, something with the flight equipment issue on
the plane, significant delay, so less than twenty four hours
later they still had an off flown out to Seattle.
Rams are also listing wide receiver DeVante Adams's doubtful for
tomorrow's game because of his hamstring injury. Other NFL news,

(56:20):
the Associated Press has a story that Chiefs quarterback Patrick
Mahomes has begun rehab following the surgery he had to
repair his two torn ligaments, and the team is optimistic
that he could be back early next season, perhaps even
by the time Kansas City plays Week one. Associated Press
has the story the Jets are once again gonna start
undrafted Ricky Brady Cook for Sunday's game at New Orleans.

(56:44):
Falcons are gonna have Drake London at least he was
at practice today. He's missed the last four games with
a knee injury. Buffalo Bills have designated wide receiver Nicole
Hardman to return from injured reserve. In the NBA, the
league has fined Rockets head coach Imo Udoka twenty five
dollars for publicly criticizing the officials after Monday's overtime loss

(57:04):
to Denver, even though they came out and said he
was right.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
You're right three times. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
It's like, you're right, but you can't talk to us
like that, So we're gonna find you.

Speaker 6 (57:17):
Josh Giddy with a six triple double of the season,
and the Bulls defeated the Cavaliers one twenty seven to
one eleven, while the Grizzlies puwled away in the fourth
quarter to defeat the Timberwolves on the road, one sixteen
to one ten. In men's college hoops, the last game
has wrapped up number seven Gonzaga Cruz pass Campbell ninety
to seventy, but number thirteen Vanderbilt stays undefeated. They survived

(57:40):
seventy seven to seventy against Memphis in overtime in the
NHL one game going on, it's the Devils in the
Golden Knights, and the Devils are up right now one
zero late in the second period while the Hurricanes outscored
the Predators four to one.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Back to you guys, thanks a bunch much, yess. The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen. Joe
Burrow quarterback New York Jets. Oh, broad Jets, Broadway, Joe,
we'd have another Broadway. Joe rights itself. Yeah, don't starts

(58:14):
trying to speak to in new existence. Put that evil
on me justin. Come on, man, a couple more hits
to the head. You're getting to it. Didn't I pay
for a sticks cover band and a nacho fountain at
your wedding? Come on, man, you can't do that to me.
Coming up next, are we about to see one superstar
quarterback a lot sooner back from injury than we thought.

(58:36):
That's next, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio,