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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Well, Jason couldn't be here tonight.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
His Knicks are up three to zero and he's in
Arizona at the Mets game.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Nix in four, nix in four, nix in four, nix
in four.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
They got to clear the benches to my the seventy
six ers on their home court.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
You sound pretty good from Arizona. Yeah, I do, well,
I do. You're so clear. Do a lot of things, man,
do a lot of things. Frostburg's upset that I'm wearing
a Mets T shirt tonight with the Knicks playing, and
I had to explain, Dude, all my knick stuff is
in the I gotta wash tomorrow for the rest of
the weekend, for next week. Dude, You're a winner. Tonight
you're losing. I'm always winning. Man losing. I am rolling

(01:11):
sevens man, It's so good. The Mets are actually winning too.
I'm worried about Mike's eyes. No, the orange, the orange
gets me. It's it's still orange. Go New York, Go
New York. Goat, Go New York, Go New York. Goat. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Every time it looked like the Sixers might have a
little bit of fighting to him, Yeah, Joel Embiid would
pull up for the three.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Uh, Jason, you got like one week left to where
Nicks gear?

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Dude? No, no, I got a long time dude, pistons
an last.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
That.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Look. The Knicks win tonight one, eight ninety four over
the Sixers, and there's a lot of stuff to get to.
But I'll tell you the two biggest things right number one,
the biggest one.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
It's a lot to get you. They're on the door
step of the No Conference finals and the Sixers are
putting up no resistance.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Ogan Unobi doesn't matter, right, doesn't matter. Jalen Brunson goes
for thirty three Mical Bridges is terrific. But really it's
the Landry Shammitt game. Shannit. How many big shotsed Landry
shaman Man? Look Shammittt. You go back and look at
any series in NBA history, right, any series NBA history,
the team that won, you can look down and say,

(02:21):
the reason they not is because their star goes for
thirty three or one of their you know, one of
their top three guys goes for twenty five. You find
one guy off the bench that is not supposed to
play and have this kind of game, and he has
a game like that, and that tilts the series forever
in their favor. And Landry shammittt fifteen points off the
bench tonight, five out of six from the floor, made

(02:42):
a huge tree the end of the third quarter like
it was the Landry Shammitt game. Like you'll look back
at this series when the Knicks win in four, You'll
look back at this series go wow, look at that
game three? Where what did they get? They got fifteen
from Landry shammittt off the bench, and that's it again.
It's great to look at you look and say, okay,
well here's this, yeah, oh no, no, someone's I'll had
twenty five off the bench in that game. You weren't
expecting that. Everywhere you want to go, it's the Landry

(03:05):
Shammock game, the Landry Sham. You keep that. I'm going
cat once again, just doing the dirty work. Doesn't have
to do it.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
In the scoring column, just eight points on three of
eight shooting, a couple of three point misses, only two
free throw attempts, but twelve board, seven assists.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'll take that.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
My big guy is going to be distributing the ball
like that and keep it moving and keep the defense
feet moving. Because again we've talked about this series, not
a lot of depth necessarily when you get down to it,
even though I think every kid in New York's gonna
want that Mitchell Robinson poster.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Going sad, yeah, scared looking Joel Embiid. That was everything
that that picture of him dunking over Embiid, where Embiid
looks like a guy in a park watching someone play
a game and like the ball is good, is falling
coming into the stands and he's ducking his head to
get hit by it. Yeah, like that's what Mbid looks like.

(04:02):
It looks like a great shot.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
It really is one of my favorite action photos that
we've seen. But we've counted on him. He's back in
the lineup right. Gives you nineteen minutes six points and
six boards. But yeah, Landry Shammitt, you needed one more
score to be the difference maker. And you watched as
the sixers, as I said, every time it looked like
they were starting to make a little bit of a push,

(04:26):
and you get it down to seven or five, it
swelled right back out to a double digit league after
a couple of dubious shot selections, some really poor ball handling, right,
just situational awareness of hey, you know the second guy's coming.
They're playing raptor defense on you, and the second guy's
coming from behind, so don't be loose with your dribble.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well look here, here's the look. There's two points. One
is a really fun one. One to do x's and o's.
First is that you can point to a lot of things, right,
Karl Anthony Town's becoming the facilitator, right, not a that
needs to go twenty four and twelve anymore. The best
version of the Knicks is when the offenses kind of
run through him and seven assists tonight, twelve rebounds. He

(05:09):
doesn't need to score twenty four again. They don't need
to make sure we get him going in the post.
They got to make sure he stays out of bleep
in foul trouble, which is becoming a thing for him.
But as you see, they can pick up their scoring
in other places. Right, So you have Karl Anthony Towns
finally has hit the best version of himself. And look
at where the Knicks are defensively the last month of
the season. They really hit their stride. And what are

(05:30):
they doing here in the playoffs so far? There's not
a lot of room for the Sixers unless you are saying,
here's one of your fourth or fifth best player on
the floor open for a three. That's what the Knicks
are allowing the six You could talk about the Sixers
missing and look Paul George fifteen points in the first
quarter and scoreless the rest of the way. But you
watch the way the Knicks play defense in the second half,

(05:51):
and this was we are gonna stop your top three
threats from getting to the hoop when we're not in
transition and we're okay leaving your fourth or fifth best
guy opened for a three, right, And that's the only
open shots the Sixers got. They couldn't make them. This
is the best version of the Knicks of the last
three years. If they don't go to the finals this year.

(06:14):
It's never going to happen. It's never stop with that negativity.
It's never gonna happen Like this is it. We'll be
Fistons before first over the Caves. Then it'll be the Knicks.
But if they don't go this year, they're never gonna
go because everything is in line for them. Yes, you're
gonna play somebody tough in the Eastern Conference finals, but
it's the Pistons. They had trouble in the first round.

(06:34):
They seem to have hit their stride. Uh, this is
why the playoffs they go really weird. And with the
Celtics being knocked out, sometimes the path gets a little
bit easier, right the Nuggets when they won their title,
that everybody had their superstar out like that was one
of the easiest roads to a title you've ever seen.
The best player and every other team was hurt all
the way through. If they don't go this year, I

(06:56):
don't know when they're gonna go, Like this is it?
Like that all of a sudden, And I'm happy because
what did I say during the season, Boy, maybe the
window was closed because the ascending teams like the Pistons
and the Celtics are still really good. Uh you're seeing
the magic are really or even though they had a
bad record, but like middle of the season, like maybe
the window was shut. But now like this is the

(07:16):
most open it's ever gonna be this year, this moment
in time, right now, they're better than the Sixers. They're
just a better basketball team. They're better everywhere than Philadelphia
and they're showing it. Well.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Your nervousness coming into the series, Uh, clearly unfounded.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
I'm still nervous now at three to zho if anybody
can blow it in.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Celtics falling to the wayside and going down as they
did Jalalen Brown continuing to do interviews and talk about,
uh how he was done wrong along the way, but
they they fall off to the side. I mean, look,
a week and a half ago, you wanted to fire everybody.
It was here's Giannis and a Nick's uniform. Who else
can he bring with him? You were trying to figure

(07:57):
out his friend's list. You were trying to find his
face book, is Instagram, close friends list, all of that
stuff to decide who you could start a letter writing campaign.
You know you're you're not a free agent yet, but
are you happy where you are, let me tell you
on New York.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Uh, and going through that process. But as it stands
right now.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
The world joyster, I mean, you've you've got Karl Anthony
Towns whatever that switches and we talk about it with
guys that are that are A or B stars right
at the one A one b uh and having to
redefine the rules?

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Could we talk about in football all the time? Right?

Speaker 5 (08:31):
You're a number one wide receiver. Maybe you're slowing down
a little bit. Hey, can you work inside a little
bit more? Are you willing to not be the number
one target?

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Uh? And extend your career. You'll still catch eighty eighty footballs,
but you're not gonna do it necessarily with the glory
touches that you did once upon a time. Are you
good with that?

Speaker 5 (08:50):
And plenty of wide receivers, no, they're not, right, cornerbacks,
et cetera. As the game goes on for NBA players,
it's been that same question.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Right. It's why I think a lot of folks really,
if they were on the fence, which is hard to
be with Lebron James this year finally might have pushed
them over. I was like, all right, he accepted the
number three roll.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
Now he didn't have to do it for long because
both those guys got hurt, so he was back to
number one again. But there was something about the way
he changed his game to make the team flow. Same
thing with Karl Anthony Towns here, because in the past
he would have pouted. Right in the past, you would
have got no effort on defense and you would have
had issues just in terms of him forcing up a

(09:31):
bad shot. Whatever he's bought into, whether it's Hart, whether
it's Brunson, Mike Brown, Timothy shallow May, whoever has Ben
Stiller and his orange to I don't know who it is,
whoever got through to him.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
To say, hey, sure's how this should go and it
runs through him. Maybe he's watching Ted Lasso and talking about, Hey,
work with Jamie Turk. You know what I mean, go
throw go through me Jamie. And you know the other
part of it. Now to to why it out a bit,
you mentioned his name. Notice how nobody has said at
any point in the last few weeks, oh boy, you know,

(10:07):
Tibbs might have been better off. They might have bet.
No one is saying that the Knicks are exactly where
they hoped they would be with the hiring of Mike Brown,
because I guarantee you this right, that big blank you,
because that was a huge blank you to the Sixers.
Mike Brown taking everybody out except for Brunson who's at
the free throw line. He's taken everybody out and he

(10:29):
is and he is emptied, like Tyler Kolett got in,
like he was the first guy to check in. Like
that's such a huge blank you. Josh Hart is waving
to the Sixers fans. They're coming out really slow, they're
leaving the court really you could tell there's a lot
of sun on back like that moment, you know, and
then Brunson coming out of the game, and the fans
were really just honking it up because again it was
about split between uh, the Knicks and Sixers fans, which

(10:52):
we'll get into in a few minutes. But the Knicks
are exactly where they should be. With Mike Brown, he
is coming. It took him longer than expected, right, I
thought it would be. You know, hey, these guys have
been playing together now with Mike Brown, with his system
commitment to defense, it's gonna be a month or so,
a couple of months. But maybe by the time you
flipped the calendar in the new year, they'll get it.
Took longer, maybe a little bit nervous, but getting closer

(11:14):
to the end of the season when you saw them
pick it up defensively. The flip the switch was flipped
in the playoffs, and now is anybody doubting that that
was the right call? Anybody? How do you do that? No,
I'm waiting to text him after a game four, after
game four, I'll text him. Well, no, after the next
win game four.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
No, No, this is normally when the win game four.
This is normally when you text coaches when they're on
top of the world, and then it crumbles underneath it.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
I just have to I just have to make because
Ryan Hollins refused to give me Mike Brown's cell phone number,
which he had the other night. Luckily Justin Frossberg has it.
I didn't know he had. He found it and sent
it to me. So now it's got to wait until
the right moment. Yeah. I mean that was pretty great
that you were able to send it to Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Hollins goes the other way. I said, what do you
mean other Mike browt like what other micro Bengals owner
Mike Brown is that what it is. Hey, where's the
money on the field? No, so I have Mike Brown
cell phone on my phone. That's a dangerous thing. Go
New York, Go, New York.

Speaker 6 (12:09):
Go.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
I mean it's Friday night. You might get a little loose.
And then in the late nine hours, now game four,
you get out of this into the finals.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Then then you're in Arizona at the Mets game. You
don't even know the next one, no idea. You're still
lamenting that are not a home run. But yeah, I'll
text him, I'll text him.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
You know.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
It's just that that time for for New York, that
it's rolled up and it's opened up the door. You
mentioned the Denver run to their title and and how
things had to happen here same thing. Were you afraid
because of the lack of depth? I mean I still
am to a degree. But in the Eastern Conference, you're
you're sitting pretty. You only need seven guys Robinson and

(12:51):
the occasional Landry sham.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Landry Shammit, it's the Landry Shammock game.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
Look looking at the fourth quarter shoot shooting grid for
the UH sixers, A zero for Paul George, Just no George.
But if you just go and look at their shot chart.
You've got three at point blank range, three of eleven
from three point range, and an awful lot. I mean,
it's a nice coloring page if you want to teach
the kids how to you know, colorad a bubble there.

(13:19):
You had a lot of circles I think defensively, So
when the Sixers really had to get back in like
watching the Knicks play the end of last year against
the Pacers, right to go back to a really bad
memory Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals where the
Knicks continually left the Pacers open for threes because the
pace had a lot of guys can shoot threes, and
they kept hitting threes in Game one and threes and Halliburton.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Hits that shot that bounces up, bounces down, does the
choke sign? They win Game one on the road, they
go to the finals. Incredibly painful. That's not happening now.
Like I said, the Knicks are saying, we'll leave your
worst three point shooter open. He's got no choice but
to take that shot. Right. They're not allowing They didn't
allow Maxi to get to the hoop. They didn't allow
edgecumbe any room. They didn't allow Paul George. At one
point there was just a dude, just go shoot, not

(14:00):
making anything six eighteen fift team in the first quarter. Yeah,
zero points in the last three quarters. By the way,
just to close the loop. You know, Tom Thibodeau is
rumored to be returning to Chicago. Yeah, yeah, well still,
but he's still gonna wear the Knicks. Uh uh the jack,
the jacket and the and the yeah present. Yeah, yeah,

(14:20):
it looks close enough, right, No, no, no, no, no, no,
I think it's I think what he's got is like
with with the Velcrow, where he could pull the Knicks
patch off and just put the Bulls patch on. Fine, yeah,
he's still he'll look exactly the same, arms folded. Yeah,
he'll leave all your starters in until there's like a
minute left in the game. But we're up by twenty five,
doesn't matter. Leaving all the guys in, leaving bruntson in, coach,

(14:41):
it's okay, you could take no no, no, no, no,
Now we're gonna leave Brunson. It gonna leave me in
the end of the game. Okay, okay. Uh so the
Knicks up three zip over the Sixers, Nicks in four. Uh,
we have more on this game coming up, including a
surprise surprise crazy thing uh from the Knicks the Sixers. Meanwhile,
Spurs and the Tea Wolves right now, late in the

(15:04):
first quarter and Edwards has just hit a bucket to
cut the Spurs lead to four twenty three to nineteen.
We'll have more on this game coming up as well
straight ahead, So more NBA, more NFL. It is a
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Speaker 2 (16:45):
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(17:11):
Wolves up over the Spurs twenty nine twenty seven early
in the second quarter. We'll have more this game coming
up in a bit.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
This is Creed's hard stuff.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. This was the early days
when Creed was a rock band. Yeah yeah, a metal
rock band. Yeah yeah. Like seeing the video of Alanis
Morissette being like this pop star when she was like
sixteen or seventeen, and all of a sudden, it's you
want to know, You're like, whoa wow, whoa whoa.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
They also have two hands in their pocket ooh okay, yeah,
And and.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
The other one is saying nix yo. Yeah, you can
say nix no one finger Yeah, I could say nix
with four fingers, nix in four nix wow hockey. Yeah. Well, well,
when you're up three zip justin when you got the horses, hockey,
You got the horses. If they blow this lead, you're
never gonna see me again.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
Well, I mean, god, you gotta crow a, you gotta
be excited about it. You mentioned Paul George repeatedly to
really give you the magnitude of his failure.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
You know what is over underd for points? Was in
the game? Oh, fifteen and a half, seventeen and a half?
Was it? Really? You had to be feeling awesome at
the end of the first score. Yeah, I'm licking bills, man,
I'm great. Yeah, no, no, boy, I wonder what the
odds were if you wanted to live that end of
the first quarter, the under for Paul George points, Like,
what kind of odds would you? What's a good? I mean,

(18:27):
could I get anything you want? One thousand to one,
ten thousand to one fifteen in the first quarter? All
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Speaker 6 (19:01):
Tyler Collock across a big court, and that will do it.
The New York Knicks, with thousands of their fans behind
them here on the road in Philly, win games three one,
eight ninety four, and they've taken a three o lead
in the Eastern Conference semi finals.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Knicks Radio Network on the call, and h this is
what I wanted to get into a great call right there,
because at this point, if you're the Sixers disband, I really.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
Thought you were gonna say, because Tyler Kolek is the
guy dribbling the final seconds of.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Uh, you know, Nixers disband went no, no, no, but
Sixers disband? Okay. Before the series began, Joel Embi, the
first thing he said was, don't let the Knicks fans
come to game three. I'd be more like, okay, dude,
let's worry about game one. In game two first Madison
Square Gard East, You're worried, right, No, no, no, let's
make sure. Let's make sure. Let's make sure. Hey, it's like,
wait a minute, you're Philadelphia. Come on, man, Philly, you

(19:54):
gotta have some kind of pride. You just beat the Celtics.
Come on, man, just stop fried Celtics. Yeah, say not.
My first day to try to combat this, all right.
I read last night that the Sixers gave away a
couple of five hundred sets of sets of five hundred
tickets to the game to a local area benefits businesses,

(20:18):
so Knicks fans wouldn't invade the arena, and it didn't
mattered to you heard that crowd. It was probably at
worst fifty to fifty Knicks and Sixers. Then at the
end it was way more Knicks fans because Sixers fans
left early. I mean it, man, if you are the Sixers, disband, disband.
If you you are one of the most proud NBA

(20:39):
cities in the history of the game, doctor j Iverson,
This is not some small market where hey, we have
trouble selling out because we can't sell the NBA here, right.
This is not when the NBA was in Vancouver or
someplace elseiae we don't really know where. Every true this
is philip Leependelphia. Man, this is one of the This
is an organization and a that is interwoven into the

(21:03):
fabric of the NBA. And you can't sell out playoff
games and you have people coming from other cities to
come in, especially Knicks fans, and you go to all
these different lengths to try to keep the tickets out
of Knicks fans hands. And this is what you get tonight.
Everybody I've read it seemed like it was fifty to
fifty looking through social media. Hey maybe sixty forty maybe

(21:24):
that definitely at the end, it was all you saw
was all Knicks fans in the end. That's so embarrassing
for Philadelphia that you can't coming off beating the Celtics.
They beat you playoffs three straight times. Okay, you lose
the first two games in New York, but all right,
hey we're back home now, we get control of this series.
No and Unobi in game three and still you have
this embarrassing output. I mean it, they should disband. Disband

(21:48):
because if you're Philadelphia and you can't get your fans
in the building for game three of a playoff, I'm sorry,
it's really really embarrassing.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
See I'm conflicted about a lot of it because you
have the idea that it does go to a bunch
of medical personnel and educators and everything else, which is fantastic,
right that those tickets get into those hands. Now, the
larger issue that everybody and the consternation going back to
the original sixers losing their mind and Joel Embiid with

(22:17):
his impassioned plea of hey, I've got money. If you
need money, everybody's got a price.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
And if you've got the opportunity to pay for some
portion of next year's tickets or reimburse your accounts for
what you just spent for this ride, you may take
that and just say, you know what, I'd rather watch
this game at home. I just don't want to deal
with it.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
And once you go into the secondary market, there's no
controlling who's buying those tickets right that is out the door.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
This is not a five hundred seat concert venue.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
When you've got a Springsteen or McCartney show or whatever,
where you get the wristband and you go straight in.
There's no chance of reselling or any of that kind
of thing.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
But this is sporting event.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
Recognize there are gonna be the opponents fans, and if
that's going to change how you play, how you operate,
then then you suck.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Right. It's always the the theory that that I have.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
Oh, you're gonna ruin this guy if you start up
too early. Well, if you're worried about that that he's
not your guy?

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Is he right?

Speaker 5 (23:19):
He's not your chosen one. Now, there's something to be
said for seasoning, having a guy, uh you know, at
the quarterback position in the NFL and everything else to
helps offen the blow and get that learning curve decelerated.
But eventually you got to figure out whether a guy
can play or not. And here, if your fans can't

(23:39):
overtake that, I mean, I get it. There's there's ravenous
Knicks fans and they're they're sensing it, right, they're feeling
the excitement. And as you said, if they're not ready now,
they're never gonna be that you're going to have that
pressure coming in and it kills me because this was
a nice gesture Unfortunately it should have been given before

(24:01):
the playoffs started, as this is what we're gonna do
in our community, not here's how we combat the Knicks
fans taking over, right, Because it's a great gesture, fantastic,
the team showing up at schools, showing up beds, yes,
hospitals and everything else. It's great community stuff. But in
the aftermath of Joel Embiid crying, it doesn't look so good. Hey,

(24:26):
thanks for the tickets, but you know what, I had
this Knicks fan in New York offer me like double,
so I'm gonna do that instead.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
So you I'm let them go to the game. Thanks
for the ticket. I just made seventy five dollars.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
But I would love to see, right once you gave
away those five hundred, because it's five hundred per game, right,
so the five hundred for for Game four. But once
you gave away those five hundred, how many of them
got resold?

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Oh yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
Wait wait I got free tickets that I can get
two hundred, three hundred bucks of bees more on the market.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
See, you Knicks fans just had to say, Oh, so
you're making me jump through hoops, all right, So I
gotta wait until you'll give these tickets away. Then I'll
buy them from the All right, I'll do it.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
You just wait till we find out these were like
kids in hospitals and Knicks fans stole them.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
No way find it's all the families. They all made
money on them. They all made my Hey, yeah, sell them.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
But who's the one who went there instead of the
kid in the hospital.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
The Knicks fan. Okay, let's not. Let's let's let's not.
Oh yeah, you're acting like something like that didn't happen.
He's saying, the Knicks fan took it straight from the
sick kid's hand. You know, you know I'm gonna get
this anyway, so just give it to me. Now, just
give it to me. Okay, that's great, Thanks a lot.
I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
I promise I'll tell them be the drop ten.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, go New York, Go New York.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Go yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Just you know, I'm getting the tickets some way. So
we could we could do it as the easy way,
or we could do it the hard way. How about
I doubled the face value and a ticket for you,
and then we leave and you go your way and
I go mine.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
It's like the signfeld birthday card. Hey, Paul O'Neil's getting
two home runs for.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Two home runs two, right, I mean, I mean this
is it's the fact that this is where we're at
with Philadelphia. I mean just I mean, that's what baffles
me on it. And and I think it's if it
was again, if it was a smaller, smaller market, where hey,
we're just gonna get drubbed. We're already we're you know,
we lost the first two games by fifth. They lost

(26:11):
the first one by fifty. We lost the first two
games by fifty. It's the first round of the playoffs.
There's no real excitement. We're gonna lose and go home.
I get it. But they just beat the Celtics like
they're running at an all time high. They just came
back and beat came back and they beat the bleep
in Celtics, and it's wow. And you still can't get
the excitement level to buy tickets to go to the game.

(26:31):
You still have to say, we gotta do all we
we gotta play better defense trying to keep Nicks out
of Philadelphia. Then the worped up better defense keeping the
Knicks off the scoreboard, and both of those things failed,
by the way, like that, that's the level of defense
that the Philadelphia fans I do. I mean, and I
look at I go. I mean, it's Philadelphia. It's Philadelphia, man.
According to a quick search, the population of Philadelphia is

(26:56):
somewhere between one point five and one point six million people,
so it would be the sixth most populous city in
the United States. So a little bit down since the
twenty twenty census whatever else, But overall, I mean, that's
a pretty large marketplace for your eighteen thousand in change
arena to try to keep Knicks fans out. Yeah, but

(27:21):
whether there's a will, there's a way, like I always say,
you know.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Or they're just smart and they don't want to spend
a dollar on their crappy ass.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
Well no, but that's the thing, right you decide, Hey,
either we're not winning this game, or I'll reinvest that
money that I could sell to a Nick fan and
if we do move past them, I can have that
towards you know, something a little more meaningful.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
I'll save it to go see the Flyers. Oh oh,
that's not happening. Oh I'm telling you, man, nix Upanny.
Baseball's got the Phillies on the comm mix up three
to zero, Carolina up three to oho, Jason Smith to
Philadelphia zero. I am shutting out Philadelphia right now by myself. Yeah,

(28:03):
by my Well, they did I help you. Now you've
done nothing. I've done everything, Jason Zone, which means they're
they're all gonna fail at zero because you've done this before.
You did it with the Lions. I got the Lions
as far as no, no, no no, I got the
Lion for me. I got the Bears as far as
the second he said it, we knew it's not my.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
It was just a matter of what the end you know,
blueprint was gonna be.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
I didn't tell Dj Moore, hey, don't run out that
play out. I didn't tell him that that's not me.
You didn't get out there. You talked about it.

Speaker 5 (28:35):
But there's gonna be that hall of you know, the
snapshots of great predictions gone wrong for Jason Smith.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Here's a drop ball by the Lions. I'm as Dj Moore.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
I mean, it's like a Sports Flicks card where you
turn it a little bit and you see him slow up, like, wait,
is that just the no, no, he really did.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
I'm like the star starting pitcher that goes eight innings,
throws one hundred and twenty pitches, strike out twelve, gives
up one hit, and says is Jacob as, Okay, bullpen,
can you come in and just do one inning? And
the bullpen comes in and yeah, not my fault, man,
I gave you all. You had to just do one inning.
Just had to come up with one inning. That's all.
Not my fault. Not my fault. You gotta finish the job. Smith.

(29:16):
Jason too, Philadelphia zero.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
That's you, Jason. If you think Night's attendants there sucked.
Oh just wait for Mother's Day, dude, Sunday show up.
It's gonna be eighty percent Nick fans one hundred.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
I'm going because we know nobody in New York cares
about their mom.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Hey Mom, I just wanted to call and tell you
we're gonna do Mother's Day dinner Saturday, and it's we're
pushing it the next year. In fact, we're gonna do
it Saturday. In fact, we're gonna do it right now.
I know it's Friday night at midnight, but like we're
gonna leave tomorrow to go to the game. We got tickets,
so we're gonna go there. I want to go out.
I want to go to South Street, want to get
some I want to get some Geno's. So we're gonna
do your Mother's Day dinner. Now, I know we had
a big plan from for Sunday was great. I had

(29:55):
an awesome plan.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
But the Knicks a plan get in is two hundred
bucks for what fans Sunday for who? Well you might
have to pay in New York two two hundred bucks
for the Sixers fans. How much for Nick fans? Doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
We're paying it. Well, doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
Will you be able to do a better Philadelphia accent?
That's the thing for you.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Over Donnie's tolls over bridges these days? No, I mean
that means yeah, now we're talking it. As long as mom,
Donnie's not hugging anybody from the Knicks, I'm okay. I'm
actually for that. Tonight we will be all right. I'm
Donnie hugs for all the Knicks. Let's find out what's
judging right now in the wide world of sports. From
Special Delivery Steve de Sager, who has twenty five incredibly

(30:36):
interesting facts about the Knicks three to zero lead over
the Sixers. Steve, go, I do have one, okay, sorry
to disappoint, all right, but if it's one good one one.

Speaker 8 (30:44):
Is the opinion. First off, that the Knicks may not
lose another game this month. They've won six in a row.
They're up three games to none in their second round
series after winning at Philadelphia one eight ninety four. The
other is AP reports that in the first nine playoff
games this postseason, the Knicks have set an NBA record
largest point differential. At this point of the playoffs, they're

(31:07):
a plus one sixty four, way ahead of the two
thousand and nine Nuggets, who were plus one forty six
after nine playoffs.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Hang the banner. We may as well stop now, I
mean really, the Knicks. Damnicks are on the road to repeat. Yeah,
that's Philadelphia Base i St Championship now this one and
then n Knicks is trying to go back to back.
They figured it.

Speaker 8 (31:27):
Out considering Nick's history the last fifty years. They should
stop now. It's not gonna get any better.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
It really, this might be it. This might be it.

Speaker 8 (31:35):
Jalen Brunson had thirty three points and nine as sadocchi
Adanobi was out with a strained hamstring. Joel embiid for
the loser's return from injury at eighteen points Paul George
fifteen all in the first quarter for Philly. He wound
up six of eighteen shooting from.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
The floor in the game.

Speaker 8 (31:51):
There is a second game on the slate tonight, tied
at a game apiece. It's San Antonio leading thirty nine
thirty seven at Minnesota mid second order Victor Webbin Yamo
the Spurs fifteen points, nine rebounds, two blocks in under
fifteen minutes on the court so far.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Steve, is it normal that they play the varsity game
first in the jv game second? Like it's weird, it's weird. Well,
they're doing that tonight, it's weird.

Speaker 8 (32:15):
He is really feeling at this point.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
My goodness.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah, Okay.

Speaker 8 (32:20):
As for the WNBA season openers, New York all over
Connecticut one oh six seventy five. The Connecticut team that's
moving to Houston after this season. We see why Washington
won sixty eight to sixty five at Toronto expansion Toronto
shot twenty seven percent from the floor the late game's
early second quarter. Seattle at home down twenty six twenty
four to the Golden State Valcrees. In the NHL playoffs,

(32:44):
Montreal a five to one winner at Buffalo to tie
up that second rounder at a game apiece. Vegas out
to a three to nothing lead at Anaheim end of
one that series for the moment tied at a game apiece.
This season's NHL MVP finalists include Edmonton's Connor McDavid, who's
already won it three times.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
That is, that is Olympic silver medalist Connor McDavis. Put
some respect on his name silver medalist.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
Player who is not in the second round. He just
won his sixth scoring titles.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, silver medalist Connor McDavid.

Speaker 8 (33:13):
The NFL will release its full schedule on Thursday. The
NFL referees Union ratified a new seven year labor contract
to Major League Baseball. There was scant reference to Jacob
Mizerowski recently. The man has nine career strikeouts at at
least one hundred and two miles an hour, and half
of them were tonight. In the game at Milwaukee, the

(33:34):
Brewers beat the Yankee six nothing. Miss Rowski the winning
pitcher six scoreless innings and eleven strikeouts in this game.
The Cubs have won nine in a row, and they're
winning seven to one at Texas. In the ninth inning,
Mets are tied one to one in the fifth at Arizona.
Nolan McLain on the mound. Mark Fientos a second inning
home run, but McLain gave up an Heirnato home run.

(33:57):
Nolan Aernado for Arizona These Days tied it up in
the bottom of the second. Cardinals ad Padres scoreless in
the fourth streaming only good luck finding it. Dodgers are
tied one one with Atlanta in the bottom of the
second inning. That's Chris Sale on the mound for the Braves,
and the Mariners won twelve eight at the White Sox.
Good news for the White Sox. Munataka Murray Kami with

(34:19):
another long ball, fifteenth homer of the season, as many
as Aaron Judge right. Meanwhile, see is all.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
The home run in every game the first game every
like the last seven or eight series, correct.

Speaker 8 (34:30):
Which is in MLB first to open each series with
a home run like that? But Luke Rayley and the
Mariners had two hits. One was a Grand Slam, one
was a three run homer, and the Mariners won twelve
eight in Chicago Bank.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Thank you, Steve, Thanks Steve. Jason Smith show with My
best Friend Mike Harmon. We got more NBA on the
way again, the Spurs and the t Wolves. A forty
thirty seven lead right now for San Antonio. Got more
in the Nicks and the Sixers. But coming up next,
this is this is gonna be year. Well we've been

(35:03):
on the air. How many years you and I know,
twenty fourteen, thirteen, twenty fourteen, So twelve year, thirteenth year.
This is gonna be the thirteenth year we say something
about the NBA and it's true and they won't do
anything about it. That's next, Jason and Mike Fox.

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(35:52):
Still a forty three to thirty nine lead for the Spurs,
three minutes to go before halftime. We'll have more in
this game coming up in a few minutes. But Sunday
is the NBA Draft Lottery. Yeah, okay, how excited are
you again? We've been on the air now this is
thirteen years, and this is the thirteenth year of saying

(36:13):
what the hell is the NBA doing. It's a marquee event,
the NBA Draft Lottery. Everybody cares. People care that about
that more than the actual draft itself. And it could
be a standalone event. You don't need playoff games on
the night. You can give everybody a night off of
the playoffs you want them, Hey, we're gonna go here.
We're gonna have the Draft Lottery. It's gonna be a

(36:34):
standalone thing. The Draft Lottery is really it's a it's
an extra night of the draft. I mean, it's you
if you had that thing on a Wednesday night and
you put it in a big window where you had
a four hour special. You had an hour pre lottery,
then you had an hour laying it out, and then

(36:55):
you had two hours of Okay, here's who, here's who
might wind up going here, here's reactions from from the
people at the at the lottery. You could have a
four hour show that would make a lot of money.
It's a standalone event, especially this year, where there's five
or six players that are real Like, this is a
deep draft. This is not where hey, when you get

(37:15):
to number one you get Cooper Flagg, congratulations. It's one
person draft. This is there. There's five or six guys
that are gonna go and at the top of this
draft that people are gonna be really happy for. And
yet the NBA saying, yeah, we're gonna jam it in
Sunday in a half hour in between the Knicks and
the Sixers and the Wolves and the Spurs, Like, I
don't I don't understand how you don't take advantage of
this day on the calendar.

Speaker 5 (37:36):
Well, especially if you're at a point in a series where,
let's face it, a lot of folks are gonna be
two down. It's Mother's Day. It's Mother's Day, and it's
a three to zero series. Folks are gonna be checking
that one on the phone. They watch it necessarily, But
it's an opportunity in some years are more equal than others.
As you say, the Cooper Flag year, and now there
are a couple of other impact players there.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Dylan Harper whatever. But you know this year, you do
have all of these extras.

Speaker 5 (38:00):
And as we've talked about and chronicled it year after year,
it's the here's a bunch of guys that you know
nothing about, and cue the Tom Ronaldy vignette of who
they are, where they're coming from, their backgrounds, and like,
this is your get to know, get to know your
draft class America. And to your point, you've got representatives. Hell,

(38:22):
send a stand up comedian with them, take them away
from the you know, the Netflix, uh comedy star parade
that's going on here across Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
You go to the draft lottery and you you yuck
it up with these guys. You'll sit with Reggie Miller,
You'll be over there with whoever the bulls send and
go on down the line. Uh, there's just it's easy content.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
It is just an absolute layup because you get to
do reviews of the year that was for these teams
that are in the lottery and and where things may
may have gone awry. It allows you to kiss the
ass of whatever player or players played well and in
eight of the team's overall morass and and fail. But

(39:06):
it's just the the curiosity just that people know morass
is a word.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Yeah, you didn't. You didn't. Just I didn't say morass
morass is a word? Just why? But you know that?

Speaker 5 (39:14):
But just the idea that you're burying it on a Sunday,
it's like, all right, I'll read about it in post. No,
I don't know making an event. You see what the
NFL does with the with the draft itself, and the
NBA does to a degree, but it doesn't have the
same pomp as circumstance. But with all these players for
this year in particular, why would why would you not

(39:35):
sell the hell out of this when you're talking about
five ten guys that are expected to be impact players.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
And that's the thing.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Okay for a four hour show when it's just Cooper
Flag all right, I get it, I get it. You
can still make it a three hour show. You can
just you have enough analyst you can put on TV.
They're gonna talk about this. But I mean, this is
a deep draft you can have. You can have j
Billison talking about these guys at the that people have
heard about that. Okay, well here's here's what I saw.
Here's the thing here. Then where's a guy a best

(40:06):
fit or right, here is this? Right? Here is this?
And you're reacting and you're flying. I mean, this is
a it's an easy decision, and the NBA still says no, no, no,
just get a jam between a couple of playoff games.
Now this year, we're bearing on a Sunday on Mother's Day,
Like it can't get worse than that.

Speaker 5 (40:19):
No, it's it's poor planning and it just falls in
line with our general feeling for the NBA. And I
know someone's gonna hold up the sign saying eleven years,
seventy six billion dollars or you're only picking on the
NBA right now, we're talking about the NBA.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
Okay that that is the topic at hand.

Speaker 5 (40:37):
So you can save those tweets or you can send
them anyway at Swollen Dome at how about a Fresca.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
It's not NBA hate, it's trying to help them get
out of their own way. I mean, the NFL always
knows when can we take advantage of a day on
the calendar and look at schedule release? Yeah, look how
much run it out? Just to say, hey, you know what,
it's Thursday. Do you know if the NFL did a
draft lottery, do you have any idea, what the what
the what the video, what the ratings before it would be?

(41:05):
You have any idea what a draft, especially this year
for it's for Nana Mendoza or nobody, you have any
idea what that would look like? It would be. It
would be like the Super Bowl. People would watch it.
It would be fifty million people would watch.

Speaker 5 (41:15):
In the interim, I am ready to give all my
attention to the Los Angeles Chargers team for the schedule
release video.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swollendome coming up next.
We got some big stuff out of the NFL. This
is Fox. What we did for her for her birthday
was we set her up with an email like she
didn't know anything about it, and we set up with
the email account and sent her a big gift card
you know in the email. Right, so she and she
wants she heard about email, she everybody did. It was

(41:45):
I'm really wanted. I'm excited to do email, right, this
is there, Sure, I'm excited to do email. We set
her up with an email account like we'd set her
up on Yahoo with a Yahoo email account, right, and
we sent her like I said, and she had a
big gift certificate that we sent her. She was way
more excited. Thought we spent so much money setting her up.
Within the email that catches. Oh, my son gave me

(42:05):
an he's telling story. I can hear on the phone.
My son gave me an email account for for my birthday.
Oh my god, it's a I got my pipe, put
my password in and everything. I don't know. I don't
know how much planning it was. I'm like, oh my god,
my mom thinks we really Mom, Look mom, look in
the email. We say that's the money we spent was
for the gift cards for But she thought like I.
I turned to Pam and I said, we didn't even
need you. That's all it was that you could email

(42:30):
all time. And she loved it, loved it, loved it.
I mean it was she loved sending emails. She was
and she wasn't someone that would send forwards. She would
just email back and forth. I can send you a
note and get something back like within you know, an hour,
maybe I go, all right, well not always on email,
not on that time, but yeah, sure, yes, absolutely, like
within a day. Yeah, you send me an email and
I'll send you an email back and all this. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(42:52):
I'm like, wow, we got I still think about that.
I still think about like that. I know what it was,
like like one hundred dollars hundred and twenty five dollars
or something for it, Like we could have just saved
because you could have gone out to dinner a couple
of times that we got you once because we got
you your name with your email. Oh yeah, yeah. She
loved She loved it because it was Glorious Syracuse was
her email, and she loved being Oh yes, oh my god,

(43:14):
glorious said yeah, yeah, yeah, what's your what's your password?

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (43:18):
And like it was fifteen minutes. I got to come
up with a really good password, Like okay, usually people
come up with passwords like within thirty seconds. But okay,
take your time, bub But well, I'll just stand here
at the computer center, at the computer with a poised
over what you want in your email to be when
it says confirmed passwords, I'm just gonna stay right here.
You tell me what you want. It's funny.

Speaker 5 (43:36):
When I worked at Yahoo, we we'd do a lot
of testing before the launch of a new fantasy game,
right as would come into football season, and we had
a couple of accounts that we would use, and one
of the guys I worked with, it was always about
the last Stanley Cup for the New York Rangers was
the password, no matter what account, no matter what we
needed to access, I always knew. I didn't even have

(43:57):
to ask, like I knew nineteen forty going all with
a bunch of other letters and symbols or whatever. But
it was just funny as hell. And he goes you
it's got something to do with Baines nineteen.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Baines three try three Banes try h Baines try, hal
Bays try hal Baines three try three hal Banes try
hal Banes h o F try Baines adh f three
age dh h. There's all. See. That's the thing is like,
even if I get I guess it was something to
do with Harold Baines. I'm like, boy, it could be anything.

(44:31):
Oh no, it's a million. It's a million. Yeah, that's
a long time to guess. Man Like, like, oh, it's
actually a stat line from the nineteen eighty one season.

Speaker 5 (44:38):
It's a celebration of the home run he hit to
end a twenty inning game when the reporters said to him, Hey, Harold,
you really got all of that one. He looked at him,
looked around the room and said.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Evidently it's three two eight three two one one seven.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Well, he had three twenty eight with thirty one home
runs and one hundred and seventeen RBIs three two eight
three one one one seven. There it is right there,
right now. I guarantee you. I just put somebody's password
out on the air something as that passed it and
it's their stats from from their best year, from their
best year, guarantee now. Just because it's a big NBA
night and huge, you know, and even though the serpients

(45:15):
have something cooking, yes listen, yes, the Mets, Yes, Nolan McLain.
It upsets me a tiny bit. But I have too
much going on with the Knicks right now. I am
too locked in on the Knicks. I don't have time
for a lot of other things in my life right now. Yeah.
But they changed their team name to defeat you. Yeah, yeah,
but that's okay, seven pient, Yeah, you knowh should change
your team name seventy six ers, you know, they should

(45:35):
change it instead of seventy six they should be zher
and four. Oh too soon, too soon, You're so soon
you're just enjoying this, perhaps a little bit too much.

Speaker 5 (45:46):
Gotta be careful. The basketball gods do not wish to
be It's like a happy fun ball. Yeah, you know
the old Saturday Night Live.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Do not taunt fun. But I'm really but I'm so
locked inn in the moment. I don't have time for
other things. I'm so locked in on the next that
it's like, okay, Like when Pam says, hey, can we
go to Costco today and then do this? And I'm like, yeah, yeah,
sure because there's no game today, or you say, hey,
this is not a good sample day. No, I'm not
going No, like be ten o'clock in the morning and

(46:14):
like it. I'll get up and i'll you know, check
the world is there, and start, you know, prep write
out or note. We're gonna you know, stuff topics and
stuff for the night. We send it you and I
start sending text and emails you me and Frostburg like okay,
she's hey, can we do Costco? And then uh, Trader
Joe's and then I might have to go to Target.
I'm like, yeah, no game today, We're good. You're like,
I don't know that I'm gonna have enough time. Good, No,

(46:35):
get a depot in there, but no, no home. No home.
Depot is more of a weekend thing. It's a weekend thing.
But on a day where there's a game and the
games at four, it's ten o'clock, can we do that? No? Can't,
But we have six hours? I go, yeah, no, I'm
just locked in. We could do one of those things,
but I need to get back and just sit and
just sit and have just nothing go through my head

(46:56):
while I just look at the clock getting ready for
four o'clock. Maybe we can street a couple of shows
that we've been watching, but I'm really not gonna pay
that much attention because I'm locked in on the next.
Like I got a stretch, you got a hydrate? Yeah,
I can't. I mean, I mean, I'm ready. I mean really,
Chalomea is not shooting a movie now he knows you
can't do it. He's locked in on the next. Everybody,
Tracy Morgan at that he's not doing they're not shooting

(47:17):
The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins. That you can't do.

Speaker 5 (47:19):
What Congratulations on the renewal, though, Yeah, it's funny showing
with suddenly everybody kind of recognizing how talented that Radcliffe
really is.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
It's a really it's a really fits well done. Yeah. Uh,
And Daniel Radcliffe kind of grows into the role like
midway point of the season because Tracy Morgan carries the
whole thing. Oh he's amazing. I mean good to see
him back in h you know, in that comfort some
of the stuff he says, just like, the guy's a genius. Right,
it's just absolutely a genius.

Speaker 5 (47:45):
But now we can't work because he's he's got to
go to the next he's locked in on the next.
Think about every contract you're signing for a movie or
TV show not shooting.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
We're not what he's out Like, you're calling Shala May's agent, Hi,
this is Steven Spielberg. Oh is that Steven Spielberg? Say no,
this is Stephen. I want to shoot a movie. I
want Shalamy to be my star. It's gonna be a
big thing. When do you want to start shooting? Well,
we're gonna start sometime in the next couple of weeks. Yeah,
you know, Tim's gonna take a little bit of time
right now, don't know how long, but he's got a

(48:14):
real busy next couple of weeks. Well, I watch all
I see him is he's a sidelines at the Knicks games.

Speaker 8 (48:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Yeah, that's Tim's focus right now. And and we're just
gonna let him do that. And then you know we're
gonna hit him up after the next season is over.
That that's when it's gonna happen again.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
Oh well, all right, so people see him in a
positive light here, it kind of pushes away from that
ballet story.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
But I but I really want to start shooting this movie. Listen,
you know what, we got Zac Efron as a client
to Why don't we give you Zach's number? He's forty?
Now did you know that? Like Zach is forty some
odd years old, he's not twenty three. He's not Troy anymore. Yeah,
but he showed it that he canna mote too. You
saw that von Eric moves. Yeah, I used to be
a brother. Okay. I actually had another uh project in
mind for zach Efron, So you know, I'll never mind. Hey,

(48:57):
you know what, we also we represent Zach Braf. He's
done shooting that scrubs Rey, But yeah, you know what,
I'll call you back for Tim in a couple of weeks,
call him back for Shadowy Shadowy that got renews for
season two as well, so he doesn't have time. Nobody
Ann Hathaway has no time. Luckily, Devilwaar's Product two is out.
She's done all the push forward because now it's next
time now it he understands, well, she's.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
Got all sorts of other movies. She got like four
other movies coming out. She had another area that came
out in mid April ahead of Devilware's Productuo.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
I mean she's locked in on the thing man.

Speaker 8 (49:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
Now, big NFL story today and it doesn't come without
a caveat. Uh. The Jets re signed Breese Hall two years. Basically,
it's a two year deal fourteen and a half million
dollars a year, right, so the still it's a three
see And here's the thing trail is that like, I'm
excited about this, but I shake my head because this

(49:50):
is a typical Jets thing to do. Right? Is bris
Hall a really good running back? Yes? Did they do
the right thing and keeping Breeze Hall by giving him
a contract now because Robinson's coming up for a new
deal and so is Jamiir Gibbs, and these guys are
gonna get upwards of twenty million dollars a year's running backs. Absolutely,
So yeah, you get breissee Halls, one of the top
I would say any year, one of the top ten

(50:12):
running backs in the game. Running for one thousand yards
on that craptastic Jets team last year. That's a pretty
big accomplishment. So, yeah, you kept a playmaker. You gave
him a second contract. It's a good thing to tell
your your free agents. Hey, you can see a second
contract here. Him and Garrett Wilson got the second contracts. Right,
everything makes sense, except because you know there's a butt,
because you know the Jets can't have to have things.

(50:34):
Is that? Okay? What's the main thing for the Jets
this year? Get a quarterback? Right, finish low enough where
you can get one of the six or seven quarterbacks
who right now project to be top half of the
first round picks. Not just Arch Manning or Dante More
or Leonora's sellers, maybe sores B who he might be

(50:54):
a supplemental guy if he loses his eligibility. But there's
six or seven guys that you are seeing every single
analyst say, these guys right now are all first round talents. Now,
not every guy is going to be a first round talent.
Some guys like Kate club Nick looked like they're a
first round talent, but they play their way into the
later end of the draft. Right you see that every
time Garrett nuss Meyer could have been a first round pick,

(51:14):
but again way later, struggle got hurt multiple times. Yeah,
you know how it's but right now you are seeing
this and Arch Manning and Dante Moore are what are
seen as These are two generational type quarterbacks, franchise type quarterbacks.
You gotta make sure you are finishing low enough that
you can get one of them. You have the draft
picks next year if you want to move up to
a team that's picking second, that as a quarterback that

(51:35):
just had a bad year. Hey, here's our number six pick,
and our number fourteen pick and our number thirty three pick. Okay, great,
you got the second pick and get your quarterback right.
It's so important. You got to get your quarterback right.
But what do the Jets do this offseason? Because the
goals of the organization don't match the goals of Darren
Mugi and Aaron Glenn, which is, we want to keep
our jobs after this year, so we gotta win. Because

(51:57):
they blew it so badly last year and they were terrible,
and now it's okay, Well I want to keep my job.
We got to win this year. So what did they do.
They went out and made smart signings in free agency. Now,
the draft was great, the drafted great players, supposed to
do that, but they went out and they signed guys
good enough defensively in free agency and the draft they did.
They'll be good enough to finish tenth with a tenth

(52:19):
overall pick. Right, they'll win six games, six games, and
that's gonna be ten to fifteen. How is that gonna
get them their quarterback? Right now? It's now we gotta
find a way to try to move up even further
from there from ten. Like the needs of the organization
should always be in line, and they don't meet the
needs of the head coach in the GM. And this
is where if Woody Johnson was a good owner, he

(52:40):
would say, hey, we're just gonna do what the Dolphins did.
And that's like, let everybody go bringing a quarterback who's
not gonna be any good, not really give them a
ton of money for a couple of years, and we're
gonna have arch manning next year. Everybody in Miami is
on board. That's why they should have ate all of
to his money this year. Because you're gonna be bad anyway,
why not just say, yeah, we're gonna do it this year.
You know it's gonna be a rough year. But the

(53:00):
prize after this year could be Arch Manning and we're
great for a decade, or Dante Moore, whoever you want
to fill in there. The Dolphins are doing it right
now here. The Jets all because we got to save
our jobs. This is what we're doing. Like they got it.
You gotta sync up Miami. New head coach knew everything.
Yes they're keeping Devon h Okay, you're keeping a running back.
You can still deal him with the deadline. Yes, that's

(53:21):
all good, right, you can still do that. But they
are more in line with we know what we need
to do and what this year is all about. And
the Jets were, well, we thought that was last year,
but no, it was so bad. But with your first
year head coach, and he was so bad, and the
GM brought some talent in but it didn't matter. Now
their needs and what they want to do are different.
And because Woody Johnson is the worst owner in the NFL. Yeah,

(53:45):
we gotta try to win. No, dude, you gotta have
a vision. You gotta have a vision for what your
team needs. Yeah, the problem is that you had all
the big splash moments with the Giants this last year,
right when he wasn't in a blue Tan Jackson Dart
looked pretty good at times when he was healthy, look
pretty good at time. Now you've made some extra additions
and you changed out the head coach to a guy

(54:06):
who's what's that word good? Now, So all of that
to say, Woody Johnson recognizes that on the back of
the fish raps that you're getting obliterated because your team
still looks like it's running in mud or has been fossilized.
And so what do you do? You try to bring
your level of competency. Problem is you're in division with

(54:27):
a team that decided to.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Go all in.

Speaker 5 (54:30):
As you mentioned with the Miami Dolphins, e Chan won't
be there or shouldn't be there in the grand scheme
of this and spending money on Malik Willis's more, I
think just to keep the NFL leaving them alone in
terms of tanking. Now, No, look, we got our legit
potential quarterback of the future. You saw how good he
was in those thirty passes he threw this year. He's

(54:51):
fantastic and he knows the coach and all of this stuff,
and that's all fine and good, and maybe he will
be Maybe Milik Willis will be a good middle of
the road quarterback with some upside we'll see. But all
in for the Jets, you're you're just stuck in no
man's land, right, you're over under. I think it's five
and a half wins the year, and you'll be just

(55:13):
good enough with those skill position players to win six games.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Now.

Speaker 5 (55:17):
I think Frostburg might might have this right, is because
of the price of poker for running backs keeps going up,
that you may have contenders knocking on your door to
take on the contract because it's not it's not egregious, right,
it's not completely over the top. And we've seen how
the offensive weapon instead of running back is the is
the term you want to use now, which is why

(55:38):
you know Jeremiah Love ends up getting drafted third and
gets his big contract, uh and guarantees and everything else.
That maybe you'll have someone come over the top once
you realize, hey, you know what we could use an
extra draft pick maybe to package and be ready to
move up in the draft if we need to.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Yeah, because now you've made him more attractive at the
deadline to where you can get more because teams say, well, okay,
we're paying the rest of this year than fourteen and
a half million for next year. We can exercise the
option on the third year if we want to. We
don't have to. Now we're not just renting a guy.
We're getting a guy we think can be someone for
the next year and a half. And now the Jets
get a better draft pick for it. But I mean, really,

(56:16):
this is the Jets can't do it right. They can't
ever get on the same page what the organization needs right.
That's what it is. It's why Gino Smith's gonna be
our quarterback for the next five years. That's the one
thing that's gonna help you keep from winning too many games.
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