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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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tire buying should be. Now, let me let me just.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Get out in front of this first, before anybody starts
to get to crad Let me just get out in
front of this dude.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
You welcome back, Alex Tischer. I don't care that the
Jets aren't getting Dante More. I don't care care that
they're not getting Are you doing a parenthetic call this year?
I you know what you're gonna suck again, and you're
gonna be waiting for him in twenty seven. No, no

(01:21):
waiting for Archer Manning in twenty seven. Well, you gotta
you gotta move up that last spot. That's all right,
that's all right. Hey, listen, I said from the beginning, Okay,
I said from the beginning, I'm not that high on
this quarterback class.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Dante Moore is a risk. He could be great, he
might not be. But in the end, whatever the Jets
do is gonna be wrong your quarterback. So if they're
not picking a quarterback, okay, I am, I am. I
absolutely am fine with him not getting in the draft
and Jets potentially ruining their future. Look, maybe he's great,
but he's a risk. And obviously he says I gotta
go back to college.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
All right. Maybe it's self confidence, isn't there that he's
ready for the NFL. But run, I'll tell you right,
I do not care that he went back to Oregon
and the Jets aren't going to get him. I'm actually
relieved that they can go and do something else with
the pick. They can, you know, trade out at number
two to somebody who wants to move up. You know,
they can do any of those things. I am okay

(02:18):
with them not getting him all. My disagreement with Dante
Moore's decision has to do with him and his future
and listening to the to the wrong people who are
just costing him, you know, somewhere upwards of forty million dollars.
But as far as the Jets, not that, I am
okay because I already know who the Jets quarterback is
going to be next year.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
I don't know he's gonna be playing this weekend, actually
at weekend or is he in the booth? Actually, if
he plays this weekend, his team is might be in
a little bit of trouble. But then the quarterback next
year is it's gonna be Matt Jones. It's good to
because he still has a year left on his deal.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
But I really thought you were gonna tell me it
was Kirk Cousins agent.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Come on, man, you can't do that. You can go
back to that in New York. You don't go back
to that guy.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
A couple of couple of things here. You know, you
started when you said the word wrong, it was like
you were watching all in the family all day.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
He's wrong.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I mean, I was just showing you. It's a celebration
of Sandford's son and their initial foray into the television
universe today. But wrong, Yeah, more, there's there's a lot
we'll get into it in terms of how many starts
or whatever else. But for the Jets, yeah, I mean,
you get the opportunity to push that can and kick
that can down the road. Uh. If you do go

(03:37):
to trade for Mac Jones, be careful because you'll give
up all discernible assets to get him, you know, Jets.
All right, now, let me just say this my favorite
all outside of Archie the you know, coming up with
the different ways to kill himself. While Edith is telling
a story, like, my favorite all in the family joke
was when Archie and and and Mike rest in peace

(03:58):
rob Ryder when they were arguing over Harvey Haddocks.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Remember when the big MLB games growing up, we heard
about this, and he had a perfect game into the
twelfth inning and he wound up losing it, and and
he lost the game. He got a home run, He
had a perfect game into the twelfth inning of the game.
He lost it, right, So they were arguing that Haddocks
had and Archie Bunker says he had a perfect game.
He had a perfect Mike says, no, he didn't know
he'd give a home run in the twelfth And they

(04:21):
were arguing over this, and and Mike finds the newspaper
and sees his here, I found a copy of the newspaper.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
From you know, however many years ago it was.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
He goes here, Harvey Haddocks loses perfect game and twelfth inning,
and he goes, I just won the bet, meat head,
because if he didn't have a perfect game, how did
he lose it? Arguing without logic to somebody, how he
how did he have it? How could he lose it
if he didn't have it to begin with? Right, Like,

(04:50):
that's our that's some great writing. But no, look but
but mac Jones worriing it to Dante more is that?

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Look?

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yes, in theory, the forty nine ers keeping Matt Jones
for one more year, you know, like seven million dollars
would be the smart thing. But number one, generally, teams
don't keep a guy from getting a starting job as
long as they can get good value for him in
a trade. And they will get great value from Mac
Jones because the quarterback crop now this offseason is not
gonna be great. The Jets don't want to go spend

(05:17):
all kinds of money to go to acquire Kyler Murray
or to a tongue of Iloa for for a season
until they get their next guy. But mac Jones would
be great at bidding war. He'll get at least a
fourth round pick, which if you're the forty nine Ers,
great maybe because more Pete teams rich, maybe you can
get a third for mac Jones as well as he's
played now this year. But really, the forty nine Ers

(05:38):
are in a it's a sticky spot because yeah, I'm
old enough to remember when brock Purty was out and
mac Jones was playing just as well as brock Purty was.
The Niners don't want to be any part of a controversy,
even though Mac, even though brock Purty has shown that
he will get dinged up, they don't need part of
a quarterback controversy. And brock Purty's distinguished himself the last
few weeks since he'd come back, had a great game

(05:59):
last week, So yeah, I think the Niners might be
a little bit more motivated to.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Move on for mac Jones. And clearly Kyle Shanhannis Shoon
whoever he brings in, Hey, I can fix and they
can be a quarterback. So yeah, if they can get
a fourth or third round pick and they move on
from any potential mess they would have with Brock Perdy
if he gets hurt Mac Jones, I think they would
do it. Yeah. I think we want to stay to
the Patriots. You know he wants to stick into the Patriots. Yeah,
and I think there's a bigger divide between Purdy and

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Jones than you do. But the idea that going into
next year, given the fact that Perdy has missed time
due to injury several years in a row, you do
have a lot of needs. Even though you're still playing
this weekend and you're actually getting potentially some of these
guys back. Yeah. I don't know if Fred Warner is
at sixty percent or eighty percent or what his power
bar is in the old video game system, but his

(06:48):
presence would be a mits rinky peersaw all these guys
back at practice. That's great, But just the idea that
you are aging out, you do have a lot of issues.
You're not gonna have George Kittle for the foreseeable future
if he comes back in this next year at all.
And we've seen with Shanahan the ability to say I

(07:09):
can get another guy into my system and we can
keep the line moving. Right as long as twenty three's
out there, you got a puncher's chance. Right. But you
go into the marketplace and there's such a divide in
terms of who's got a quarterback and the uh what
twenty five teams that don't that you're gonna have a
market for Mac Jones and Dante Moore opting to go

(07:31):
back to school certainly creates a bigger void. Now. Dante Moore,
Oregon quarterback who decided to go back to school, A
nice job, Dylan Reyola getting that dot may maybe you
want hit the portal again get paid.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
But he goes back to college and this is why
he made the wrong decis. I don't know who he
was listening to. I don't know what what what pushed
it one way or the other. Maybe it was well
that might have helped him.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
A couple of those plays from that game against Indiana
that really look terrible the Jets the second Dante Moore
would have gone second. Yeah, I say, you are we
sure that Dante Moore was gonna get the Jets were
gonna pick them. Are we sure that they were gonna
pick second or somebody else was gonna say, Hey, there's
a lot of time between now and the draft. Certainly
the Jets, if I know, they were sold on Mendoza

(08:20):
because they went to see Mendoza one hundred times this year.
It's like a travel It's like a dead show, you know,
traveling to go see Fanana Mendoza every week. But maybe
and really long time togo. Hey, guess what so and
so wants to trade up to two and the Jets
needing all sorts of of of stuff to fill their roster.
Ound get hey, we'll take draft picks. Oh wait a minute,
So I could be going someplace else at number two.

(08:40):
But the bottom line is that is two things. Number One,
every decision you take, whether you stay in college go
to the NFL, carries risk. Am I going to the
right team? Am I not going to the right team?
It's a risk just because it's not the Jets. Do
you think the Cardinals are better? You think that? You
think all these other teams that are picking at the
top of the draft. You think the Browns are gonna
be better? I think that's a better fit for you.

(09:01):
I mean next year, because here's who's going you think
those are better fits. Every decision carries risk, right, and
I'll tell it to you this way. I'll give it
to you this way, and then you show how this
is a decision that doesn't make sense, whether you do
football for living or anything else. Let's say you, Mike Harmon,
are the manager of a grocery store. All right, okay,
I'm gonna make you manager a Pathmark where I work.

(09:22):
I no, no non foods, deli, department, bakery, produce, front
end security, everything, perishables. You are you manage the whole store,
keep from the water melon. No, that's it. He's away
from all the melons and fruits. So you are the
manager of this store right now. You do really well

(09:44):
at this store. The store does fantastically well. It makes
so much money. Wow. Okay, hey, guess what We want
you to.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Come back next year as arm And you don't have
a contract, so hey, you know you're you're a pretty
salt after store manager and this and Pathmark says, hey,
you know what, we want to give you a one
year deal versus somewhere between seven and ten million dollars.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
That's pretty good. Right, Okay, all right, that's not bad now,
knowing full well that you're only gonna be here for
one year because the next year the store is getting
sold and they're getting rid of everybody, so you can
only go for one.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Year on.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Year. Now, there's this other bigger grocery store chain, let's
call it Wegmans, where I worked in college. That hey,
wait a minute. Everybody who works in a grocery store,
whether it's Pathmark or Stop and Shop or or Pavilions
or Vaughn's, normally you make up names. These are all

(10:40):
real places places, right you want to go. Everybody wants
to get to Wegmans. Right, that's the thing. We're at
whatever grocery store, they all want to get to Wegmans, Right,
Wegmans is the destination. And Wegmans calls you and says, hey,
we saw what you did here at Pathmark. We really
like what you did. We want you to come in
here and be our manager and manage this big store

(11:02):
for us. And we're gonna give you four years and
fifty million dollars and it's all guaranteed. And you say, wait,
is there any way I'm not going to see the
end of this. No, no, no, you're guarant no matter what happens,
you are guaranteed this money. You are getting four years
and fifty million dollars guaranteed. Okay, all right, Well what
do we have to do? Well prove yourself. Obviously we

(11:23):
want the store has to run as well as Now.
If the store doesn't run as well, you have four
you bs some time. You have a lot of time
because we really like you. But I'm still getting the money.
You're getting the money no matter what.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
But because we because we're coming after you so early,
you're gonna get a lot of time to get this
store going, right, right, this is our underperforming store. But
it's a big deal this store. You know, we got
stores in New York, we got stores in Arizona, we
got stores in Tennessee, we got stores in Las Vegas.
But this, this store, this New York store is a
really big deal for us. Right, we want you to
come in and do it, Okay, And you say, well,

(11:56):
you know, here's the thing. I really like this other store.
And I know it's it's you know, it's getting sold
in a year and I'm not gonna have a job,
but I really like to go back there for a
year and then I want to I definitely want to
come to Wegmans. I definitely want to come there, but
I really want to go back here for one year
and eight million, and then I want to come here.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Is this all for gonna be here for next year?
And they go, well, Wegman says, we'll take you. I
mean absolutely, one hundred percent your town. We'll take you,
but I can't guarantee you that money. Well, what can
you guarantee me? I can't guarantee you anything. I mean,
i'd like to think that because of the manager that
you are, you'll come back in and hey, we'll want
you and give you a four year, fifty million dollar

(12:36):
contract because it's not getting any better than that when
you come next year.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
This is the top dollar. Like, you're not gonna come
back next year and it's gonna be more money. This
is what we give you. Okay, Well, but you can't
guaran No, I can't guarantee it because if there's other
store managers that we like, I guess what, We're gonna
have them come in and do different things and there
will be a place for you.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
But I can't guarantee you the money. You might get
pushed down the depth Charte to where you gotta go
those Arizonas.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
We may send you to our store and Chandler, we
may send you to our store in Las Vegas. We
may set you so just so you know, that's not guaranteed.
But right now, you come here for four years and
fifty million, we'll give it to you. Who says I'm
staying at that first store? Nobody does. I don't know
how you give Dante Moore that kind of ice or

(13:21):
he thinks I'm turning down this four years and fifty
million guaranteed for one year an eight million when there's
a risk everywhere. But I can guarantee generational wealth or
one year of incredible wealth year, but four years of
generational wealth and all I have to do. I have
to prove myself, right, No matter where you go, they
want you to prove yourself. So yeah, uh, this is

(13:41):
kind of the risk here. So I want to know
how anybody thinks that's the smart decision to go, Hey,
one year, eight million dollars nil money versus number two
overall pick and fifty million.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
I don't know. Yeah, I've been trying to wrap my
head around this because we talked about it last week
when it started to become this this big, raging topic,
and then today we get the decision and he does
it on TV and everything else. As like trying to
put my arms around it. When you talk about getting
more experience, sure long term potential success, we've done all

(14:13):
the talking points of a guy with you know, just
thirteen fifteen eighteen starts different data points that we have
against more tenured guys, you know, the brock Parties of
the world who go to mister irrelevancy before making their
big money and becoming stars like he did in San Francisco.
But for Dante Moore, you've showed very well except for

(14:36):
that game against Indiana. Yeah, you got another guy that
they signed in the case that you didn't show up.
So who's to say, Dan Lanning and the coaching staff
don't look around and maybe you get beat out in camp.
Maybe it's that bad. I don't anticipate that it is,
but maybe it is. Maybe you get hurt all of
those things. Yeah, I want the fifty two million dollars

(14:58):
in the bank, but you knew that was gonna be
my answer from day one. Either without your shopping experience,
good luck Dante Moore, Good luck everything's ariythen no good luck.
I hope it works out for him again. I'm okay
not getting him. That's why I can say I'm okay now.
But you're just kind of kicking it down the road

(15:20):
because you know you're still gonna be drafting where you're
gonna draft him in the top five. Detch. It's not
like Peyton Manning decided I'm going back to school because
Bill Parcells wouldn't guarantee that he's taking me number one overall.
I mean, come on, it's not that. Good luck Dante more,
good luck with that horrendous decision. Good luck exit ou
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(15:42):
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Speaker 1 (16:30):
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Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Got
a great, big hot take from a big NFL story
coming up in a minute. But first, uh, I gotta

(16:51):
say this because boy, a season just becomes more and
more of a disaster with every passing day. And by that,
I mean that's or does no, no, no, don't well, okay,
that that's The Knicks just started. They're getting blown out
by Sacramento.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
It's and they're getting your as go in the first quarter.
It's fine, It's these are a new little King's squad.
It'll get after you. Is It's new look king Squad?
Uh Yeah, Weber will be great. Mike Bibbie yeah, no, no.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Years old. He could get after that.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
But uh, with every passing day as we get set
for the National Championship game on Monday between the Hurricanes
and the Indiana Hoosiers, which again, yeah, I mean someone
got dropped down from another planet. Just heard that for
the first time.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
It said what what Miami and Indiana?

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Uh, the Ohio State season just gets more and more
disastrous with every passing day, because today linebacker Sonny Styles
declared for the NFL Draft, which we thought was gonna happen.
Oh yeah, so now you have Sunny Styles rvel Re,
who may wind up going number two overall. Now, right,

(18:02):
he might be the he's the favorite to go number
two because hey, if he's getting Micah Parsons comparisons. Okay,
I'm okay with the Jets picking a defensive guy because
they do okay with those the quarterbacks, they're always wrong,
But I'm okay with that. But you have him, You
have Caleb Downs, who I told you I would take
as the number one non quarterback pick. This guy's like
drafting Rod Woodson. You have Carnal Tate, right, and you

(18:22):
got Kaden McDonald. All five of these Ohio State stars
are projected to go in the top twenty. Right, they're
all in melk kiper Junior's top fifteen overall draft selections. Right,
you have five guys that you are gonna see drafted

(18:43):
in the top fifteen to twenty. Let's just be in
top twenty. And you still lost your couldn't win the
Big Ten, and lost your first playoff game this season
for Ohio State.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
So you're calling for fired, Well, it's not because that's
really where I'm connect the dots. You know, he won
the national title a year ago, and that's okay. I'll
give you a year Mulligan for winning. But when you
come back, like I thought last year from Michigan was
a disaster coming off the national title when they had
what four guys taken in the top twenty five and

(19:17):
they just didn't get a quarterback and so they gave
away that year. This is even worse. Right, this is
your by far and away, the best team in the country.
And look at this NFL talent again. You're gonna have
five names selected in the top twenty, which is gonna
be great for recruiting. Ryan Day's gonna be calling guys
and hey, look at this.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Five of your starters selected a first round of the draft,
and you couldn't even win the Big Ten. That is,
that is an absolute disasse. No one had a more
disastrous season in college football than Ohio State.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, I know those others that ar mean. Marcus Freeman
had to have a press conference to say, I'm not leaving.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Well, don't lose your first two games and you'll you know,
you'll got like that.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Was the savor of Oh well, at least he's not
leaving more disastrous that. There's other seventeen guys. Are they
going to be first? Right on the twenty two?

Speaker 3 (20:12):
A disaster? Disaster? Now the good news for this, the
good news for this. Yeah, when this happened, all day,
I've been thinking, well, how would Berman announce that? Boy,
how would Berman announce Sunny Styles to the NF No, no, no,
I've been working on three good ones all day. Okay,
I think I know what one of them is.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
We'll decide three good ones, three good ones. We'll decide, Okay,
nor clearly, TJ he's not every day Tom Dick or
Harry Styles is headed to the NFL draft. Harry Styles
coming to a town near you.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
For Styles, there is one direction in his career. And
that's to the NFL Draft.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
We're staying with this theme. Okay, uh.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Going into the draft, he was unsure of his talent level,
if he should be someone that should go back to
school for a year or head to the NFL. The
scouting report on him says he was insecure, but you
don't know what's for. He was turning heads when he
walked through the door, or everyone else in the draft

(21:18):
room could see it, everyone else but him. He lights
up running backs like nobody else. The way he flips
quarterbacks gets me overwhelmed. You don't know you're a top
pick in the NFL DRAFTDJ.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
That was the fastest three minutes. Chris burder I was
waiting for a Furious Style. I got Julius Styles in
Oh I could have I could have got Julius Style. Well,
we also are in the first half hour of the show. Boy.
You don't think I didn't have Julius Styles ready, I
didn't have burn after reading making fans in Columbus. Furious

(21:55):
Styles is headed to the NFL. So you're gonna do
some lines of ten things I hate about you, some
Larry Miller like lines. But but you, Sonny, you're my son,
you're my problem and you want to head to the NFL.
There you go, Ryan Day holding the ball bearings like Lauren.

(22:16):
Now you're talking Curious Styles, one of the greatest names
and movies.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Oh I like that. I really had to get all
the Harry Styles out.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
No, that's good, Yeah, because we got to get let
you know, because listen, the gen Z millennials all get
Harry Styles. Get a little bit deeper for boys, I
mean Boys in the Hood that came out, you know,
thirty five years. It's a long time. I mean, there's
a bunch of people still watch it, but if they
haven't seen it, it's their loss. And I got to
get ten ten things I hate about you and Julius Styles.
That's a watch ago man. Well, but that allows you

(22:45):
to go down the road of any kind of joker
quote you want to get in or anything else that
Heath Ledger did.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
So h yeah, so so so sunny. So again, this
season just gets worse and worse for all house Well,
or does it.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Get better that you say for those that were able
to vanquish them, that they beat the best, and for
the Ohio State coaching staff and administrators. You can go
back and say, you know what, we need bigger checks. Yeah,
bigger checks because we need clearly, even these five we're

(23:16):
not enough.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, got we got one hundred thousand, we got a
we got a what they got one hundred million dollars
roster at Ohio State and we didn't even win the
Big ten and we got guys going. We got five
guys got every fourth.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Pick in the Mets spent three hundred million dollars. They
got nothing. Come on, man, that's what a disaster for
Ohio State. Now you want a great, big hot take
off of one of the big stories this week in
the NFL. Today, UH, Steelers owner Art Rooney the second
talked about his conversation with Mike Tomlin in why he

(23:49):
walked away from the Steelers job. He resigned.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
H He's gonna potentially do TV free or something else,
not expected to coach in twenty twenty six and then
re enter the market in twenty twenty seven. Now you
want a great, big hot take, let's hear Steelers owner
Art Rooney the second UH talking about his conversation with Tomlin,
how it went, and where the future sits for the Steelers.
Take a listen, because boy, we got something for you.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
You know, Mike indicated that he did not anticipate coaching
at least, you know, in the near future. I think
he wants to spend time with his family and do
some of the kinds of things he hasn't been able
to do for the last you know, many many years.
And so you know, if if something like that comes up,
we'll deal with it when it comes up. But right now,
that doesn't seem to be on his radar.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Doesn't he sound a bit like Aaron Rodgers?

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Does it? Not?

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Rudey said, play the beginning of that again, tyser, A
little bit, a little bit of Aaron Rodgers. Good.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
You know, Mike indicated that he did not anticipate coaching
at least you know, in the near future.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
I think he wants so maybe a little ai happened,
maybe like it was Art Rudy, but it was Aaron
Rodgers providing the voice. It's pretty emotional. Honestly, it's been
a great year.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
But you want a big hot take, Okay, what now?
And and Rooney went on to talk about how it
surprised him. We talked about running it back. This is
Mike's decision, and he doesn't seem to me like he
wants to coach in the foreseeable future. Obviously, you know
things will change in a year. However, let me throw
this out there. What if he's done? What if he's

(25:21):
done coaching?

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Right, because in theory, Bill Kauer was gonna do the
same thing coach of the Steelers. I'm walking away, gonna
do TV for a little bit, then get back on
an NFL sideline. He was young enough, Okay, I know
the big thing's gonna open up for me. What's Bill
Cower doing? Still on television? All right? And millennials don't
even know who he is other than he's a guy
on TV, right, Mike Tomlin coming off of nineteen years

(25:45):
as an NFL head coach. And we've seen it before
where guys who have disdain for the media suddenly love
the media. I love the media. He's gonna show up,
go on TV, make tons of money, very sought after, right.
Maybe it's Fox at next to Jake, Maybe it's something else.
And do you really think he's not gonna sit back and.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Go, boy, this is a pretty good paycheck and I
can have time for myself, my family, whatever I want
to do. Still be a big guy in the League
not have to worry about dealing with egos and quarterbacks
and everything else. And hey, I kind of like this
for a little bit here. Remember John Gruden was the
same way, right, He's only gonna be there for a year,
John Grut year after year head coach, head coach. Because

(26:28):
Mike Tomlin, I'm sure has an idea of what he
wants his next job to be, but you're not guaranteed
that job is going to open up. Maybe he wants
the next job to be forty nine Ers head coach.
Well guess what, that's what opened up anytime soon. Maybe
he wants to go be the head coach of the Patriots.
Well that's it opened up. I'm just throwing this out
there that every year you are, you are beholden to
the jobs that are open. And Tomlin may have an idea.

(26:51):
I don't think he's walking away from saying I'm done coaching.
But as time goes on and your life gets a
little cushier in the studio, guys who retire young, hey,
I kind like this. The job I really want never
opened up for me, So yeah, I am more than
happy doing this. We've seen it so many times with guys, right,
we said, anybody go into the booth becoming a big person. Hey,

(27:11):
guess what, I kind of like this, and I'm staying
I'm sure right now Tomlin has the idea of I'm
gonna take some time away. I'm not gonna rush back
into it. I want my want to pick my own situation.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
I'll do TV. But he's gonna do TV. He's gonna
love it. He's gonna see that.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
You know, like as Jay Glazer, you're involved in every
face of the league and you're talking to coaches and
players and everything else, and boy, this is fun. I
have to worry about a weekly test that could wind
up seeing me get hired, fired, whatever it's going to be,
because he knows wherever he goes, he's not gonna have
the same cachet that he had with the Steelers for
nineteen years. They keep coaches, right, We talked about this,

(27:45):
So what if Mike Tomlin has done What if we've
seen him for the last time and he starts to
really enjoy that other life and maybe he's like Bill
Kauer and we just don't see him on the side.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
So I've wondered all along, right, nineteen years here a
lot of speculation in the whether he was tiring of
hearing the fire Mike Tomlin. Chance, you got three or
four years of that, the silliness that we have in
pervasiveness fan bases and media, and the clamoring for it.
When it comes down to the way that job went.

(28:17):
They never bottomed out, whether that was his choice, whether
that was an organizational thing. You never got a full reset.
And you and I were talking about it and talking
with Ben a little last night, like you go through
all these years of those rosters, weren't very good years,
and yet they were still scrauted. How many times did
you come into the year going, this is the year

(28:38):
that it's gonna end, right, the street's gonna end, and
then lo and behold, there they were at the end,
either fighting for a playoff spot or at least doing
the plus five hundred. There's very few organizations that you
look at to where you have stability, not just the hey,
you can have a couple of down years not get fired,
but just in general that it's not always you know,

(28:59):
ratcheted up to this defcon level of chaos in the
local media, in the newspapers, fan bases where everything is
angsty right, it's constant. You know. The Kansas City's one
place that might have stability. San Francisco eventually maybe right.
Every once in a while there's some whispers with Shanahan,

(29:19):
but now that they've won, in spite of all the
walking wounded, that probably gets kicked down the curve for
a while. But there's just very few organizations where you
point to stability. He had one of those. So if
legitimately it's one hundred percent he walked away of his
own accord, he might be walking the earth like Cana
and Kung Fu show up with Jay Glazer, Remember Jimmy

(29:41):
Johnson did that yep, right, And then all of a
sudden he had his yacht. He loved going fishing, yep.
And then he'd come back and he'd fly in and
he'd be down at the avenue of the America's. You'd
run into him at the hotel there, and he'd talked
about how great it was because he'd come in, he'd
go to work with the guys, with his family, as
Jay's told us all these years, and then he flies
out after and guess what, He's back on that damn

(30:03):
boat on Monday morning, ready for the next charter. Yeah.
I mean, that's that's a life that becomes very difficult
to say. You know what, I want to go back
to coaching ninety hours a week. Yeah, I mean I'll
tell you what if it Just think about that, what
if he's done, because that that's something that whoa wait,
he's too young too. We've seen it so many times.
At fifty three, still a good I mean, still a

(30:23):
run man. Yeah, oh no, see, he's got time. But
I'm saying, hey, I can still wait.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
I can do it in five y seven years, eight
years that Harry Pete carrolln who was seventy four.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
I mean, come on, exactly. The raider's job is always
gonna be there for you. I can have that job
whatever I want, Raiders, Jets, Browns, I mean a lot
of these jobs. All he's got to do is pick
up the phone. He just wave at somebody and they'll
they'll move heaven and earth to bring him in time
now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports, and someone who's been called the Mike Tomlin

(30:51):
of Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, she can have a pick
of anything she wants to do, and she picks to
be here with us. It's Monty Belongas And.

Speaker 5 (30:59):
You know what, I would love to have a drink
with Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
You know a number of people. Well, so you don't
want to have a drink with Lane Kiff ever? Do
you want to have a drink with Mike tom I do? Okay,
I do.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
I would love to chat.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
And your boyfriend is okay with you continuing to say
people you want.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
To have drinks with, instead of me telling you that
I want to have a cup of coffee with them,
That's not what I want to do. I want to
have a drink and chat and pick their brain. That's
what it's about. I don't have cups of coffee. Let's
have a drink, all right, because the drink lets people.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Be more honest. Okay, so what's in what you drink
every night here? I'm just curious.

Speaker 5 (31:32):
Don't tell the listeners that I'm drinking here, all right?

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Okay, don't tell Scott Shapiro I'm drinking Oh okay, Okay,
it's watery water. Listen. I've had water that's not water. Listen.
Wouldn't be the first shows listen. Good, Yeah, guys.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
Obviously a lot of teams are still looking for their
next head coach. The Ravens did interview Browns defensive coronator
Jim Schwartz and Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Mintor Frosberg. Can
we stop letting Jesse Mentor interview anywhere?

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Can we just stop that? That is what I'm requesting.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
A former Ravens head coach. Yeah, John Harbaugh met with
the Giants today, while the Athletic reports that he's gonna
be with.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
The Titans Thursday.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
The Dolphins interview Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley for their
head coaching job, and the Falcons are gonna interview former
Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce for their head coaching job,
while two time Pro bowlide receiver Adam Thiela announced his
retirement today after thirteen seasons. When it comes to college football,
Oregon quarterback Dante Moore, who is only twenty years old
only has twenty starts, announced that he's going to return

(32:33):
to the Ducks next season.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Right now, in the NBA, Mavericks.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
Are losing at home to the Nuggets sixty three to
forty six.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
It's halftime.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
Also a small scare Cooper Flag limped off the floor
in the second quarter.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
He went to the locker room.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
He already came back and he's back.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
He was back on the court.

Speaker 5 (32:49):
But something to keep in mind because he injured his
left ankle on Monday in their win against the Nets,
and it seemed to have been the same ankle limp
to the back came out, So just something to keep
an eye on. The Knicks are losing right now to
the Kings thirty two to seventeen after the first quarter.
The Cavaliers took down the seventy six ers one thirty
three to one oh seven Donovan Mitchell thirty five points,
and the Bulls beat the Jazz one twenty eight to one.

(33:09):
Twenty six starting suing Wizards and the Clippers. No Avitza Zubots,
no John Collins for La. In men's college hoops, Number
ten Vanderbilt, who is undefeated, is losing right now to
Texas on the road, sixty four to fifty five with
about nine minutes to go halfway through the second half.
Number fourteen North Carolina is up on Stanford sixty seven

(33:30):
to sixty and Ole Miss defeated number twenty one Georgia
with they put back in the final seconds of overtime
ninety seven to ninety five in the NHL, only one
game going on right now, the Golden Knights and the Kings.
They are scoreless halfway through the first half, while the
Senators doubled up on the Rangers eight to four. And
in Casey Miston and baseball, the Red Sox are signing
left handed pitcher Ranger Swatis to a five year, one

(33:53):
hundred and thirty million dollar deal.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Back to you may, thank you very much, Watson. Good
luck with loud coming up next. We got more NFL
on the way.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
We got got a big hot take coming up next
hour for the Eagles. Can't wait for that one.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
But when an NBA superstar is potentially about to be
traded and I don't think anybody wants them, that's next
right here. And it's not Joel Embid Okay, it's not
Joel embiid. It's not Joel emb that's next. Anthony Davis's
not I said Star, I said Star. That's next. Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Oh, it's definitely Jaylen Browns.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. I'm standing up in the studio and TJ.
Much like the nineteen seventies, Mets young Blood at the
top of the batting order for rock and roll, TJ
having himself a run, no question about huh, hanging out

(35:01):
with Aerosmith and come on, I can't really get from
Joel to its hard Joe. No, he's not far from
the last of us. Joel young Blood at the top
of the charts this year in rock and roll. My
people about the last of us? That's been a minute.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
What I got Well, I just come on, man, people,
I just said Joel young Blood. People have no idea
who that, although he does know he does have a record.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
He has a record. Only guy with two hits on
one day for the same team. That's good. The Mets
trade into the Expos. He played in the day game,
got a hit, got to the ballpark enough time to
get into the game with the Expos, and got to
hit that night. He's the only player to have a
hit in two except for two teams in one day.
Second time, we can get the Expos into a larger
discussion in the last week because you saw they trolled

(35:45):
the about their trademarks.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
And I got explain to the milleniums who the Montreal
expos bore. Now it's really just it's it's just a cycle.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Uh. So we got Rick Buker coming up a little
over an hour from now, and and uh, I'm sure
one of the big conversation pieces with him is going
to circle. Uh will will circumvent the situation, the trade
situation that's going on right now with John Morant, who
has been put on the trade block by the Grizzlies.
They are looking for fielding offers for him. And as

(36:17):
he said today when he was asked about the trade rumors,
John Moran said, I just got to live with it.
Now they're hoping he's gonna play in the big international
trip coming up. It's unsure. Uh, but John Morant potentially
is on the trade block. And when I saw today
in the reports, hey, numerous teams have reached out about
John Moran. Have they really like, are you doing work?

(36:40):
Are you helping out the Grizzlies or agents? Have teams
really reached out for John Moran?

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Because Rick Bucker joined us last week and said there
are crickets yeah, for John Moran. There's no you talk
about because we talked Trey Young. Trade was last week.
There was limited interest in Trey Young. There are crickets
for John Moran.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, he dropped that in the middle of talking about Young, right,
all of a sudden, that's it, crickets for him. And yeah,
because you know what, I can't trade for John Morant.
I mean, he's got he's under contracts the next couple
of years. Okay, that's fine, But this is a guy
that has proven over the course of his career that
he just doesn't get it right. Like he's he's a
live wire who continues to make bad decisions. And now

(37:21):
it's a tough time staying healthy. Right, how many chances
warnings was he given? Dude, don't you know you got
all stuff going on with guns and fights and suspensions
and multiple suspensions. Show everybody that you get it, and
he never has. Don't make the machine gun motion after
hoop because the NBA doesn't like that. What did he
do the next day?

Speaker 3 (37:40):
I made the machine gun Like, he doesn't get it.
And so I'm not gonna give up. I don't care
how talented he is. I'm not going to give up
anything for him because I don't know how long he's
going to be in the league. If I said to
you right now, is he gonna be in the league
when he's thirty years old, I don't know that I
would take that bet. If you said, over under thirty
years old, is John Moran still in the NBA?

Speaker 1 (37:58):
I would say yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
I don't know, because the guy has proven time and
again to show that he doesn't get it. And now
when you compound that with hisj with his injury situation,
Now are you gonna go You're gonna be the one
that goes and gets the best John Morant? I don't
think so. I don't know any team that is calling saying, yeah,
we'd love to go crazy for John Morant. I don't
know any team that's saying.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
That, Yeah. You look at a guy who's still owed
well in excess of one hundred million dollars over the
next several years. His scoring average has gone down four
straight seasons. This year, he is shooting forty percent, down
six percent from his career average six percent. And it's
not like he's a chucker. This is a guy that

(38:40):
usually works around the rim. So the fact that he's
shooting forty percent is a whole other problem. He's played
in eighteen games of their thirty nine. Just keep checking boxes.
There's video of him beefing with teammates time and time
again in practices, on the sidelines, in the Hoddel you
name it. All of those things. Add the history that

(39:02):
he's got with the league and how many strikes, what's
the next issue that that will emerge? Uh, Look, you
hope he gets it right, and you hope he has
himself right on the larger scale, but certainly on the
micro side, being a good teammate, being available. This slight
body frame has always been something even when he was

(39:24):
entering the league, whether he'd fill out, add more more weight,
or when he was doing his high flying you know,
one hit here or there and suddenly he's out for
an extended period of time. We've seen that repeatedly. Right,
he goes down to the court. And I mentioned Anthony
Davis when you were teasing, uh, you know about guys,
because we talked about him. I mean there's images of him.

(39:45):
People have photo photoshopped him into bubble wrap as he's
on the court. But I like the one where Anthony
Davis has debuted his new shoe and it's and it's
a walking boot. Yeah right, get his a head on
there and his signature in the whole night yards. But
we always talk about assets and money can always be work.

(40:07):
What do you want to do? How much could this
help push you forward? It can't. They're not winning with him.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
There and I had zero interest in it. Would you
take the entire package of him again? I'll believe he's
there's interest when he's actually traded. I'll believe there's interest
when the.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Great talent on the grand scheme. But no coming up next?
If you thought Jahn Morant was a big deal, how
about what's been going on with Lebron James, the Lakers,
Rich Paul and Austin Reeves. Oh is that a doozy?
That's next? Actually, it's like I keep going there, tough shower, sure,
and then you get ready for the knockout blow in

(40:44):
the final round? Is that what you're doing? Uh? Now?
If you thought the Ja Morant stuff was fun, well,
the drama with Lebron James the last twenty four hours
has been It's been even for Lebron, it's been over
the top. And that's saying something right for Lebron, who

(41:05):
loves controversy, loves it being about him. All that this
is even over the top. Now, this manifests itself from
a podcast that Rich Paul did a few days ago
talking about what the Lakers should do with the trade
deadline and what Rich Paul again, clutch sports Lebron's agent,

(41:25):
it's synonymous with Lebron James. Rich Paul's idea was to hey,
Lakers got to make a big trade at the deadline.
How about if it's Scottie Pippen, how about if they
trade the new number two guy? What if they trade
Austin Reeves.

Speaker 6 (41:40):
First of all, if you watch the show, this was
a hypothetical conversation we were having if I was running
a team, not this is what's gonna happen, et cetera. Secondly,
I believe it's very complementary two Ar because he's on
a team with two future.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Halls and he happens to be the asset. Right. Here's
what I will say, and this is complimentary to Ar.

Speaker 6 (42:07):
If you were sitting here and you said, Rich, you
take this one, I'll take that one. I'm not saying
an equal players, but what I am saying is, however
you want me to start to then build the rest
of my team.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
I'm fine either way with Luca or Austin.

Speaker 6 (42:23):
I can build a team either way. Now we're talking
about hypotheticals. This does not mean you want somebody to
be traded. And there's some insider information in the locker room.
And this is not a Lebron thing.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Uh, yeah, of course not. You know, here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
If I thought this was his first day doing a
podcast or talking about something or running clutch sports, I
would tell okay, But no, he knows what he's saying.
And Lebron did no favors when he was asked about
this last night following the Lakers game by saying, Hey, Rich,
Paul's his own guy. That's his own opinion. I love ar.

(42:58):
He knows how I feel about him. Uh, this is
such an absolute mess. I almost feel like Lebron is
now sabotaging the Lakers. Like seriously, I mean I'm not
saying like like I feel like he's sabotaged. How do
I get back at the Lakers for making me go
through this miserable season where I'm the third option and
they can't wait to get me out?

Speaker 1 (43:17):
What do I do?

Speaker 4 (43:18):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (43:18):
I know my agent's gonna go out there and the
guy running the agency that I'm he's gonna say they
should trade that guy that's keeping me from being Luca's
buddy and going forward and having this great status with
the team. They want to push me out because everybody
loves it. Austin Reeves is the number two guy with
with Luka Doncic. Everybody knows what they're saying. Rich Paul

(43:41):
knows what he's saying. Lebron James knows what he's saying
when he says, what do you want me to say?
He's his own guy, right. This is Lebron again, and
part of he's done this throughout his career, choosing his
friends and his business partner over his teammate. Right. Because
I don't care if you hate the media and you
think the met is doing something to you, your teammates

(44:02):
need you to talk about this publicly and say, hey,
I don't know what Rich is saying. I love Austin Reeves,
We're going for a championship. We're great right where you
Whatever you believe behind closed doors is one thing, But
publicly you say, hey, I don't want my guy traded.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
No, no, no, no, you call Rich Paul Gore. Dude, you
can't do that, man, You can't say that. You know
that's gonna come back and blow back on me. The
only reason that said is if Lebron's God his blessing, it,
it's got Lebron's blessing. It's okay that he said that
because Lebron wants to sabotage the Lakers. I mean it,
because why else would you have that go out there
at a time when things aren't going great. You've kind

(44:38):
of hit the skids after a strong start. Why are
you doing that, right, Lebron? Really, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
If Lebron wants to try to find a way to
get traded, he wants to try to find a way
off the Lakers. He's just mad the Lakers to do it,
but I feel like he's sabotaging them with this. What
would happen if Austin Reeves said, hey, you know what,
I'm doing a podcast, Yeah, maybe we should trade Lebron? Like,
what would happen? What happened if that? If that happened?
What if his agent went on and say, you know what,
what if you know, you know, hypothetically, just hypothetically, you know,

(45:06):
since you know what if we traded Lebron to Cleveland
and we got what, like, how do you think that
would go? Man? First off, it would be great to
watch all the national media sycophants I could come to
his defense. How dare you talk about trading Lebron? Lebron
James is mad that he's currently in Lebron spot on

(45:26):
the metal stand. Uh, you know how much I love
the movie. The other guys Uh huh Right, I'm a
peacock captain. You gotta let me fly, don't go chase
in water. For all sorts of quotes, the best was
from Samuel Jackson where he says, I'm gonna take my
fist dot dot dot and I'm gonna work him off
like a puppet. That's kind of what we got here.

(45:48):
Lebron James, no matter how much he does protest that
he's not part of this, This is like going back
to when Luca got traded there and they tried to
sell the whole thing. If Lebron had no knowledge this
was gonna go down, nobody bought that then. Okay, some
of those that want to just take everything that Lebron

(46:09):
says and does as gospel and the greatest because They
don't want to lose access, right, They don't want to
be seen as the the against the foes of the
Lebron James hype experience. But you know from the twenty
three patch, that's fine, that's a deal with tops and fanatics.
Folks just have to get over that forty six games.
He's gonna wear this patch about his career. But this

(46:31):
whole thing, right, the agent's actually got together, right Rich
Paul and Austin Reeves agent for a couple of minutes,
and they were seen having a bit of an animated discussion,
so they clearly did not take it as a he's
his own man on a podcast, just throwing out hypotheticals. No,
nobody buys that for a second, that it's not a
calculated ploy to. I don't know if they're trying to

(46:54):
get JJ reddicks the head to explode like he's in Scanners.
There you go, eighties movie, Go watch that horror movie.
That's a great one. Uh start look at him twitch.
Maybe maybe it's trying to help you. Maybe you're the
Svengali of it all, because it gets JJ Reddick to
not hate you for a minute. I mean, really, JJ,
on the least of your problems. Man, you guys got

(47:15):
you gotta start. This is I mean, really it is.
It's like sabotage. I mean, it's okay again. And I
told you would be awkward because Lebron is not gonna
be happy playing this whole season as the third week.
He chose it, right, But it doesn't matter. He's not good.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
This is the reality. He still chose it. He doesn't care.
He's not gonna go back and go well, I chose
I gotta keep my mouth shut. No, he wants everything,
folks that he wants all of it right, But Lebron
doesn't care. He has remember, and now what do I do.
We said it was gonna be awkward. We said it
was gonna be really, it was gonna be difficult. I
don't know how Lebron finishes the season on the Lakers.
I don't know how this happens. But this is I

(47:51):
mean the Lakers. We've already heard how upset they are. Yeah,
they should be pissed that the agent of a guy
that you know doesn't say anything or have things said
unless it's been at And the fact that Lebron didn't
say whoa.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Whoa, whoa. This is not right, This is not true.
He needed to be stronger standing up to do that publicly,
and he didn't. Right this, I mean really, I mean
I feel like it's we want to push the guy
out that's taking his taking his spots as the other
guy with Luca. I can be okay being Luca's other guy.
I'm okay with that. But now that I'm the third
guy and as I've come back, it's not my team

(48:23):
and I'm not it's not nearly close to me and
people can't wait for me to go. How do I
grease the skids on this? Right?

Speaker 3 (48:28):
I feel like now he's moving, he's trying to find
a way to get traded at the deadline.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
How where? Because now now, how tenable is it for
Lebron to stay on this team and play with Austin
Reeves when his agency I would trade him.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
I don't care, it doesn't matter. Oh, this is in
some sort of you know, in an absolute world. It's
not not what I would do. No, you know what
you're doing when you say trade Austin reed you know
exactly what you're doing and what you're trying to get out.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
And the babe of the woods thing doesn't work. You've
been around for twenty three years. You've been the business
partner in and a mouthpiece all these years, and just right,
you put it out there, if this is what I
would do.

Speaker 5 (49:04):
Well.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
A couple of years ago, I think we all believed
and I think we were right and assuming so that
Lebron James was in charge of everything and Clutch Sports
ran the operation, Rob Polinka and everybody there. There were
empty suits. And now the power has shifted with Luka
Donchetz coming to town and it's a new world order.
You got a new ownership group, you got a new

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everything that has come in to run this organization into
the next phase, which means Lebron James, you're there. You
still put asses in seats, you still drive ticket sales,
but beyond that, you're a jag. Right, you're number three,
number four on some nights, you don't play defense. And
then everybody immediately shifted from this conversation, right, it got

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a very small, compartmentalized thing in his time, because it
immediately became a let's talk about how great you were
against the Hawks. I mean, look against the Hawks. If
Lebron James stays on the team past the deadline, the
Lakers season will spiral, right, it's already starting to spire
a little bit now because they had no problems. Now

(50:11):
Lebron jameson back for two or three weeks. Guess guess
what they got problems? Right, they got problems. They were
winning lots of games against good teams because the Lakers
had had their team. This is how we want to
play with lucas our number one. Also reasons are Scottie Pippen,
everybody else fit into their role like that. Everything was awesome.
Now Lebron came back. He's still getting his but now
the Lakers are hit the Skins. If they hold on

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to him past the deadline, this season is going to
spiral and fall apart. It's almost like he's there again.
He was daring them to trade him in the offseason,
daring them for different things. I don't see how the
Lakers can hold on to him past the deadline. Well,
we cannot find a way to.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
Move on and just get whatever you even if it's
just salary cap relief. At this point, let's find something
and make a different trade to bring in whatever you
feel you need to build around Luca. But I don't
know how he stays on the team after this.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Because the other piece that has to be just said,
those that haven't watched the Lakers up and down. You
haven't seen Austin Reeves since Christmas, right, so he's not
there and you're having these issues, and eventually when he
gets reintegrated, guess what Lebron's shots, the standing around, the
getting him subbed out in minutes, because you can't have

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two defensive liabilities of that magnitude on the court. Right
when you talk about Luca, who, let's face it, oftentimes
it doesn't even look like he's pretending to play defense,
and Lebron doesn't come back on defense on a number
of possessions. So all of that just begets bigger and
bigger problems, particularly as you get closer to the end

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of the regular season you start playing those meaningful games,
whether it's proceeding to avoid the play in to be
in the playoff picture at the end of it all.
And they're in good spot now, but it's still a
long season, right, You still got to navigate injuries like
Luca getting extra treatment, question night to night of what's
going on with his squad, Lebron and whether you got

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to manage it one year. One day he was telling
you how old he was, uh, and he wasn't gonna
play the back to back and then he's he's pumping
his fist and losing his mind against Atlanta yesterday. So
day to day you're trying to navigate that. And now
Rich Paul throws this out there. Hey, when this guy
comes back, maybe he should go back, maybe he should
be traded. I mean, I wow, man, I mean really

(52:23):
just I mean I I I even That's why this
even surprised me for Lebron, that he would get to
this point where that Rich Paul throws it out there
and Lebron doesn't really pour cold water on it. She's like, well,
he's his own guy. He says what he wants, like, dude,
stand up for your teammate. Man, stand up for your teammate. Hey,
I'm not a puppet, dude. It's a long thing. Dude,
Like he just kept going and circling back to he's
his own man. You think I control everything? Yes, yeah,

(52:46):
kind of dude.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
He is daring him to try and again at this point,
the Lakers have to or there. This is how bad
the season's going to get. This is how much it
will spiral if he stays a Laker.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
Past it that, Lebron James Man, thanks, Lebron, uh content
creation you exit? How about a Fresca exit swollen dome
Jason Smith, Mike Carbon, Cleveland. Come knock on the door,
whatever it is, somebody come and get him. Because the
the Lakers keep trying to put them back in Cleveland.
You think they want to stuff back, Lebron James. We

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