November 28, 2019 • 23 mins
On tonight's Best of The Jason Smith Show, Mike Harmon is joined by Jonas Knox filling in for Jason as the guys recap homecoming night for Anthony Davis in New Orleans and Kyrie Irving in Boston. Jerry Jones heaps ice cold praise on Jason Garrett after putting him squarely on the hot seat but the guys aren't worried about him losing his job until he sees the season though. Plus the guys tell you why John Harbaugh should play the short game over the long game when it comes to running Lamar Jackson.
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It was homecoming in the NBA. We had Anthony Davis
returning New New Orleans, coming up with big plays and
scores and well the introduction that you had to expect
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the people want to know, all right, that was inverted.
That was the Kyrie. That was Kyrie Irving. He wasn't
there in Boston as the Brooklyn Ets headed to meet
the East Front running Celtics. Celtics with an eleven point victory,
but fans very angry at Kyrie Irving. Still, you remember
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before last season sat on that stool and talked about
I'll be here as long as you'll have me, and
it was heartwarming, it was fun and we said, well,
it's like weather in the Midwest. Right, wait five minutes,
and then tell me how you feel again, Right, what
you need to wear Chicago. You don't like the weather?
Wait a minute, Yeah it is going to change, right,
I have a nice sunny day and all of a sudden,
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well the snow starts or the heavy rains or go
on down the line. But you know he's not there.
There's posters outside the t D Garden pain in the
ass man. It's really what he is. He's just a
pain in the ass. He was a paint in the
ass last year. It's just it's just who he is,
calling him a coward and well, but that's stick. You
don't know the Evan flow, right, And we watched that
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team two years ago when he wasn't around to be
the the ball stopper or plate generator however you want
to look at it, and he does both things well,
uh as necessary. But two years ago, the young guys
all got their opportunity to run, right, they all found
their role and they have that deep playoff run and
everybody's whoa, whoa, whoa. And then last year there he
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is back in. Everybody's got a suck back into where
where they fit in. As to how he runs an offense,
and it was just jointed and confusing. At times. You
could tell guys were frustrated as hell with their roles,
their minutes, their touches, all the way down the line.
Two years ago, Jayson Tatum became the de facto leader
as a rookie, and now here this year he's taken
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that role on once again. And they took Lebron to
a seventh game and if they could hit a couple
of threes, would have been in the NBA Finals. And
then to be told the very next season how the
NBA really should be played by a guy who missed
majority of the season with injury. I would have an
issue with that too, Like, hold on a second, like
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we were like we were a game him away, Like
we were like a couple of shots away from going
to the finals last year without you, and then you're
gonna come in and tell us that we're doing it wrong,
Like it's why they It seems like such a breath
of fresh air with him not around, And that's that.
It doesn't mean he's a bad guy. It just means
he takes himself way way away, too serious, and it
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projects on the other people around him and that's why
there's been issues with him wherever he goes well, and
that's it. Over the course of this week, they played
in Cleveland, did Brooklyn, He didn't, wasn't at that game,
and there's questions and everybody wondering if he's ever just
gonna stick putting Cleveland again or if he's in a
no fly zone there he's just got to navigate around
and then certainly for this one, the Celtics fans let
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him at it. On the other side, we have Anthony
Davis and the Lakers the Great Show because their highlight
reel right there. This is the next incarnation of Showtime
the way the highlight reels have worked here for the
first month plus and Anthony Davis was back in New Orleans.
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I do like that the Imperial March is used. We
got a little bit of Star Wars almost like they're
helping to tease episode nine. Can we can we hear
that again? Because were they did they just continue to
boo or when they heard the name Frank Vogel they
also said, you know what to screw him to? Why not?
They said who? Okay, that's what it is, very very bizarre,
Like that was a long and extended boo and I
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thought the p A announcer probably would have waited a
little bit before announcing Frank Vogel the head coach, just
so all the booze rained down exclusively on Anthony Davis.
That would have been the move. What's funny is the voice.
Can we hear the beginning of that the voice forward?
It sounds like the voice that's always the stadium guy
and family guy. Okay, yeah, almost like there's a punch
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line getting ready to I mean, look, we have self
checkouts at supermarkets. I mean, when are we going to
start having self p A announcers like you? Just so
you just sort of record it and just kind of
play it. I'm not that I'm trying to take anybody's
job or anything like that, but um, if you're Anthony Davis,
if you really want to embrace the heel roule, I
don't know, I don't know. This probably is difficult for
you to read on me, but growing up, I always
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like the bad guys in wrestling, go figure out you
and I kindred spirits and that you hated. I used
to my mom, used to get my mom my well.
I used to have a rowdy, roddy piper shirt. My
mom used to get mad at me because my favorite
wrestler for a long time was ravishing Rick Rude. And
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why is that not surprised? I would I would do
the ravishing Rick Rude taunts to where he would rub
his body and throw a sweat on people like and
then about the fat husband that was with you tonight,
saying I want is for all you fat, out of
shape New Hampshire hill billies to set your ask down
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and have your ladies look at what a real man
is supposed to look like. Hit my music. I I
I loved Ravishing Recruit, So I say that to say this.
If you're Anthony Davis, you're in the Smoothie King arena,
take off the shirt and be wearing a Jomba juice.
Seemed like you could have been a one night endorsement. Yeah,
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Jomba juice, or or wear a Rams jersey just you know,
stick the knife in a little bit more. You know,
based on what happened in the NFC title game last year,
have a jersey that says river Yes all the way
through Yes, and our river On jersey. In fact, have
our river on take your warm up shirt off. I'm
like there are ways to approach this, and I think
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he should have embraced it a little bit more. I
do enjoy it. As we've talked about over the course
of the night, though, that the NBA at least tried
schedule wise to give themselves a little bit story because
it's very easy for all these games to fall into
no man's land, and you really all get that. Look
the first time is is really when you get most
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of the heat when yeah, when a very special edition
of The Jason Smith Show and back to the NBA. So,
but when when Kevin Durant went to Oklahoma City for
the first time after signing with Golden State, Remember they
were like grown men dressed up as cupcakes. Bro, you're
fifty two, you're dressed up as a pastry. I mean like,
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at some point you know that's not just a normal Thursday.
And at some point doesn't one of your buddies Tappy
on the shoulder and say that, hey, man, you wonder
why you're still single? Like this is this is what
we're talking about, Like, why do you dress up like
you're making a fool? You have to accept them for me, Yeah,
it just but so he goes back the first time,
and it was bad, and they booted him and they
gave him a hard time, and it's sort of dissipated
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as he went back. Every time he went back, it
just wasn't as much. So if you're the NBA and
you've got these homecoming games, you have to play these
up because when he goes back to New Orleans a
second time, it's just not as big of a deal.
And especially if they just keep winning. Yeah, right, and
New Orleans sitting at six and twelve. They've got some
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fine young players, right, Brandon Ingram still wondering what he becomes.
And he just got a guy that's gonna compile bad,
big numbers on a bad team. When when Zion comes
back to you know, do they find some flow and
actually win some games? Now that the West is gonna
be easy to navigate, but for now, like now, you
you went and you kicked them around. Anthony Davis fifteen
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of thirty on the night, one point nine boards and
had a big defensive play to help seal the victory.
Is the Lakers win by four? Whatever the hell inbounds
call that was? That's what the hell was that man?
They thought he was still on the squad I don't
never forgot what happened to bad lighting. I mean, like
what happened in there? Like they literally just one of
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the worst inbound passes uh to finish a game that
I've seen a long long time in the NBA. But look,
when Kyrie Irving got traded to the Celtics, what did
the NBA do Game one of the next season, Celtics
at Cats? Like, like, that's so market these things to
the max when you can. I felt like they tried
to do them both on the same night because it
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was a homecoming night around the country and they thought
it was perfect timing. Unfortunately, Kyrie didn't show up. Anthony
Davis did in a big in a big way. The
Lakers gotta win, and and they're rolling to start the
season sixteen and two. Now, what is that nine in
a row? Frostberg? So, but who's counting right? Well, you
know a lot of Laker fans. I'm waiting to see
what kind of merch other guys starting, because we've got
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a lot of Laker fans here in southern California where
we come from the Geico studios. It's just like, at
some point didn't somebody want to like do something original like.
That's why I give Ben Maller credit. Ben Maller who said,
you know what, while everybody's going this way, I'm gonna
go that way. And so for ye years he rooted
for the Clippers, who used to sneak homeless people inside
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the arena, the old Sports Arena, so they could fill
up and make it look like it was a capacity crowd,
and Ben chose that team over the showtime later they
still do that. That's called dedication and that's being an antagonist. Well, yeah,
there's that where we are in sports talk radio after all.
Something he said, No, but it's I don't fall to a
a good strategy. I'm just calling it what it is.
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Is it is it worse than when Arnie Spaniard was
was hosting a national shows on another network that turned
into a Mandarin station in the middle of the night
for some reason. Arnie span your uh Fox sports radio host,
was hosting at another national network and during a playoff
series at Staples Center, he thought it would be funny
as they were doing a remote broadcast to stay over
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the loudspeakers, that Kobe Bryant was injured in warmups and
not going to be playing tonight. How'd that work out?
We've never invited back. That sounds like an Arnie span Hey,
Laker fans, Haker and everybody's got an army. We all
we've listened to art and had the opportunity as we
You and I have chronicled some of the guys we
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we've grown up listening to that. We've were now worked
across the five ties before break, Artie Spaniel, I want
to take some calls. I got a story in the NFL,
I got two NBA teams that could win it all,
and I want to hear from you next here. Hey, pretty,
I hate that man the Jonas Knocks on Twitter, find
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me over had swollen. Don't be sure to catch live
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Radio and the I Heart Radio app. You know another
guy who's looking to to pay bills and he does
so each and every week, and well, he wants someone
to to finish the job. When who are you talking
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about their mark? Exactly when that check cash is. He
wants results and he's looking for a big result tomorrow.
Jerry Jones continues to bark up the coaching chain. Right.
We saw it on Sunday. Troy Aikman in the booth
a couple of times pointed out coaching gas by Jason
Garrett and his staff and Jerry Jones immediately like, look,
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I've got we built this roster and really reinforcing the
I'm the GM, not just the owner, but I'm the GM.
And you look at that roster they were they were
missing van direction. They've been very healthy for the course
of the year, right, I haven't missed a ton of games. Yeah,
Zeke missed time at the start as he was trying
to get himself in shape and everything else, but otherwise
they've been healthy for the balance of the year. And
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we saw some obvious moments in the Spotlight game on Sunday.
We're just things failed special teams, gaffs and offensively just
no answering. Yes, you're facing the new England defense, but
just down in distance and some of those other things
that the armchair coach and all of us is just
scratching our head going, Hey, So for Jason Garrett, we've
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known for years, Right, it's always been the the seat
has always been warm. Just a question of how hot
it would get and whether it would back off based
on a couple of wins and the early hot start
for the Cowboys. This year was really more about, all right,
how much is Dak Prescott gonna make versus is Jason Garrett,
you know, gonna get fired at least for the first month,
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and then now all of a sudden it's flipped on
its head as a coach. In his time as a
Dallas Cowboys head coach, Jason Garrett's nineteen games over five,
He's got one losing season, and uh, he gets treated
like absolute crap. He gets treated like absolute crap. They
treat him like he's the worst coach that ever walked
the face of the earth. I get it that Jason Garrett. Look,
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I'm not gonna say that he got out coached. I
think a lot of people do this in in in
our business and what we do, and they have no
idea what they're talking about. Oh we got out coached, alright,
what happened there on that play? Oh no, okay, then
shut the hell up. You have no idea what you're
talking about. But if you want to say that he
was out strategized, I agree. The decision on Sunday at
New England. To go for the field goal and not
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go for it late in that game didn't make a
lot of sense to me unless he had money on
on his own team. Well, I I put it up there.
I theorized this though, that they thought if um, if
things really went bad and they and they didn't convert
the field goal, they had him backed up and they
were planning on the safety and then they would only
need the field goal to win. Yea, So they never
actually needed that touchdown. Jonas that I went deep, like,
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I mean, that was crazy, like a Fox spokes spoken
like a guy who's played a lot over under. Okay,
that is spoken like a true guy who's been the
total in a lot of games. I've been there, trust me,
I still do it. But I just I feel like,
is he is he the greatest coach in the world. No,
he's not the greatest coach Award. He's also not the
worst man. There's a lot of coaches out there who
you give him ten years to coach and and they
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will put up an atrocious win loss record. I mean,
you remember Mark Trustman in Chicago. Jason Garrett's better Mark Trustman. Uh,
he was better than John Fox. In Chicago. There's a
lot of other proud France chise, just like the Dallas Cowboys,
who who who have coaches who put up much more
mediocre numbers as far as winds go than Jason Garrett.
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I feel like he's just the easy guy to pick on.
But is that the easiest organization to be a coach for. Yeah,
they're going to be loyal to you, but does he
have any control there? Is he able to like make
any decisions? And it's why everyone wants to have this
talk about, well, Dallas needs to hire this guy and
they need to hire that guy. That's a tough place
to go be a coach because no matter what, look,
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he chased Jimmy Johnson out. He chased Jimmy Johnson U
because Jimmy Johnson just got tired of having to fight
for power with the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry always wants to
be the center of attention, even when when they were
had did have one losing season, they were a four
and twelve football team. Jerry Jones is going on local
radio and Dallas talking about glory holes and pet monkeys
he had when he was a child. Monkeys. It's just
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it's just weird, just bizarre behavior. So I actually give
Jason Garrett a lot of credit. He hasn't shown outward frustration.
He's probably gonna get canned after this season because the
expectations are way out of whack. But I don't think
he's the worst coach in the world. We'll go back
to Wade Phillips and Wade Phillips history. Obviously as a
coordinator's unmatched, right. He's a guy that everybody celebrates what
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he does with defenses. He was the head coach there
for fifty six games. He had a twelve game above
five record. You would never know it by the way
he was talked about as a head coach to your
point of of Jason Garrett. And it's always the question
for me when we get into these discussions, who are
you gonna go get? Is Lincoln Riley really leaving Oklahoma
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with what the run he's had these last four years
five years and what you're building as a continual Heisman
Trophy churning, you know, machine as well as ten Wins
said it, forget it, scoring sixty points a game. You're
gonna leave to go be a yes man? To go
be a yes man for Jerry Jones. Okay, here here
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the sun of take you back in time. And that's
how unrealistic the Dallas Cowboys are and their fan base.
The last time Dallas won a Super Bowl, the starting
quarterback they beat was Neil O'Donnell. Okay, there is at
least seventy of people listening right now who have no
idea who the hell Neil o'donald's odd a quarterback in
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the National Football League, quarterback for the Steelers and for
the Cardinals. Like it was it was, it was so
long ago the starting Widers hero was Yancey Thigpin. Okay, like,
like this is how far back we've got to go?
It was? Was it nineties six? Didn't force Gump just
come out into Yesterday's pretty good? Like it's like it's
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some point if you're Jerry Jones and you're the Dallas Cowboys,
I get it that that you you think you're the
greatest America's team and all that stuff, but man, it's
been a long time since you want a damn thing,
and and to just go ahead and assume that you
deserve all of this. I mean, there's been a lot
of playoff appearances where they've come up short, or something
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hasn't gone their way. They I think they got screwed
at lambeau Field with the Des Bryan catch. They got
absolutely job there. That was a very good Dallas Cowboy team.
And also, for the record, you know how damn lucky
the Dallas Cowboys are as an organization. Dak Prescott was
your fourth choice of quarterback in that draft. You wanted Carson.
Once he was gone, you wanted Paxxton Lynch and and
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and it was jumped over and and the Denver Broncos
took Paxston Lynch. Then you wanted Connor Cook and Reggie Mackenzie,
and the Raiders jumped you for Connor Cook. So you
settled on Dak Prescott. Your first two quarterbacks on the
depth chart got injured and then you had to turn
the keys over to Dak Prescott. And wouldn't you know it,
he put up amazing numbers and he's been a really
good NFL court. They are so damn lucky. But they
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just have this idea of who they are, and it's
like it's like a fun house mirror, Like look in
a real mirror and get a better perspective on what
you actually are. And then Jason Garrett won't get all
the heat that he gets. I think it's crap. We'll
continue with this in a moment. We've gotten sound from Jerry,
who kept chirping today you went on NFL Network after
his early week tirades, and and we'll continue with the
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perception versus reality again. Top fifty three. Coming into the year,
you'd say the Cowboys were one of your top five rosters,
and for now playoff out. Be sure to catch live
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just putting it out there. Put your name on it
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the other night at Lamar Jackson and kept trying to
get him to talk about being the m v P
and his years, like I just want to win. Slid
me alone, talk to me later, which might be disingenuous,
might be just who the guy is, whatever hot take
you want to throw out on it. For now, he's
not letting that enter the sphere, right, just kind of
pushing that down the road. I love the people that
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are surprised. Oh my god, Lamar Jackson's really good. He
won a Heisman, He was a Heisman troph the winner,
and he was a guy that even though last year
it was the discussion of when does he get on
the field, right, I always thought the wide receiver talk
wasn't so much, Hey, we want you to be a
wide receiver. You're an athlete. We want to put you
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on the field for five to ten plays. That's how
I always interpreted it, not you can't be a quarterback.
So anybody that's trying to push that narrative on you
take it with a grain of salt. But they built
the offense around him, and I celebrated openly on these
airwaves every chance I got hardball. When asked about how
they were gonna use Lamar Jackson coming into the season
said if I got to run them fifteen times, I'm
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running up fifteen times. I was, no, you can't do
that anymore. Like, if that's what it's gonna take to win, yeah,
what's the difference. And I think Lamar Jackson also would realize,
if I become the best player I can be for
seven years, it's better than being mediocre or terrible for
ten doing something I can And look, if John Harbor
wins another super Bowl, he's going to the Hall of Fame.
He's right. He's a borderline Hall of Fame coach as
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it is. If he wins another Super Bowl, he's going
to a Hall of fame. You think John harbod gives
a rip whether or not it's gonna work. Six years
from now, he's trying to win super Bowls. Now, he
was getting talked about being fired. I remember when it happened,
like this is how this is how crazy the Baltimore
Ravens situation is. There was a report, a credible report
that came out that the Ravens, because they respected John
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Harbaugh so much last year, they were gonna wait until
after the season and they were gonna mutually part ways
because they looked at it like this, all right, John Harbaugh,
Joe Flacco, Ozzie Newsome all were there together, and they're
all going to leave at the same time. And then
you just turn it over and you find a new
coach and you build a new thing. And then Lamar
Jackson went off on this tear and they started winning
games and they got hot and it saved John Harbaugh's job.
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So of course John Harbaugh looked at it like, you
know what, I'm actually gonna hire a staff to build
around this guy who in essence, saved my job. He
went out, he hired coaches who ran the triple option
in college to work on the staff. They completely built
around him, and it's working. It's what teams have always
have done, is play to your quarterback strengths, not the
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other way around. Well, that's it. Figure out what what
he is and what you could implement into your game plan.
You've got the three tight ends. All three of those guys, uh,
two of which are are recent. I mean you're talking
about draft picks. Big Mark Andrews looks like a steal
in that third round pick. Hayden Harris was in the
same draft that. You've got guys that are blockers. Right,
Hurst was picked first, Right, he was overall. They come back,
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trade in, get Jackson, and you look at what they've
done over the last three drafts. Look at their all
twenty two. Look at how many guys came out of
those last three drafts that we're talking about as stars.
And then they go make make the move and you
bring in a guy like Marcus Peters who might be,
you know, a little left to center in terms of
you know, coming, but that's what you gotta be to
be a cornerback right in terms of how you going
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to approach the game. So, yeah, you've got some attitude.
I don't get the people that are still fighting against
this and their their counter is, well, I don't know
if it's gonna work long term? Who cares? You know what?
I don't know if I'm gonna be a man in
two weeks from now. So like, what are we worried about?
I'm worried about today? I don't I'm not worried about
whether or not Lamar Jackson is going to be a
great quarterback ten years from now. I'm trying to win
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super Bowls. If it's working now, focus on that this
whole you have a long term, long term you don't
know anything. You have no idea whether the Ravens are
gonna be an organization at ten years from now. Just
focus on the now and then now is Lamar Jackson
and they look like they're on their way to a
super Bowl. You really buried the lead with that whole
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Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.
It was homecoming in the NBA. We had Anthony Davis
returning New New Orleans, coming up with big plays and
scores and well the introduction that you had to expect
(00:49):
the people want to know, all right, that was inverted.
That was the Kyrie. That was Kyrie Irving. He wasn't
there in Boston as the Brooklyn Ets headed to meet
the East Front running Celtics. Celtics with an eleven point victory,
but fans very angry at Kyrie Irving. Still, you remember
(01:12):
before last season sat on that stool and talked about
I'll be here as long as you'll have me, and
it was heartwarming, it was fun and we said, well,
it's like weather in the Midwest. Right, wait five minutes,
and then tell me how you feel again, Right, what
you need to wear Chicago. You don't like the weather?
Wait a minute, Yeah it is going to change, right,
I have a nice sunny day and all of a sudden,
(01:33):
well the snow starts or the heavy rains or go
on down the line. But you know he's not there.
There's posters outside the t D Garden pain in the
ass man. It's really what he is. He's just a
pain in the ass. He was a paint in the
ass last year. It's just it's just who he is,
calling him a coward and well, but that's stick. You
don't know the Evan flow, right, And we watched that
(01:54):
team two years ago when he wasn't around to be
the the ball stopper or plate generator however you want
to look at it, and he does both things well,
uh as necessary. But two years ago, the young guys
all got their opportunity to run, right, they all found
their role and they have that deep playoff run and
everybody's whoa, whoa, whoa. And then last year there he
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is back in. Everybody's got a suck back into where
where they fit in. As to how he runs an offense,
and it was just jointed and confusing. At times. You
could tell guys were frustrated as hell with their roles,
their minutes, their touches, all the way down the line.
Two years ago, Jayson Tatum became the de facto leader
as a rookie, and now here this year he's taken
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that role on once again. And they took Lebron to
a seventh game and if they could hit a couple
of threes, would have been in the NBA Finals. And
then to be told the very next season how the
NBA really should be played by a guy who missed
majority of the season with injury. I would have an
issue with that too, Like, hold on a second, like
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we were like we were a game him away, Like
we were like a couple of shots away from going
to the finals last year without you, and then you're
gonna come in and tell us that we're doing it wrong,
Like it's why they It seems like such a breath
of fresh air with him not around, And that's that.
It doesn't mean he's a bad guy. It just means
he takes himself way way away, too serious, and it
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projects on the other people around him and that's why
there's been issues with him wherever he goes well, and
that's it. Over the course of this week, they played
in Cleveland, did Brooklyn, He didn't, wasn't at that game,
and there's questions and everybody wondering if he's ever just
gonna stick putting Cleveland again or if he's in a
no fly zone there he's just got to navigate around
and then certainly for this one, the Celtics fans let
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him at it. On the other side, we have Anthony
Davis and the Lakers the Great Show because their highlight
reel right there. This is the next incarnation of Showtime
the way the highlight reels have worked here for the
first month plus and Anthony Davis was back in New Orleans.
(04:12):
I do like that the Imperial March is used. We
got a little bit of Star Wars almost like they're
helping to tease episode nine. Can we can we hear
that again? Because were they did they just continue to
boo or when they heard the name Frank Vogel they
also said, you know what to screw him to? Why not?
They said who? Okay, that's what it is, very very bizarre,
Like that was a long and extended boo and I
(04:34):
thought the p A announcer probably would have waited a
little bit before announcing Frank Vogel the head coach, just
so all the booze rained down exclusively on Anthony Davis.
That would have been the move. What's funny is the voice.
Can we hear the beginning of that the voice forward?
It sounds like the voice that's always the stadium guy
and family guy. Okay, yeah, almost like there's a punch
(04:56):
line getting ready to I mean, look, we have self
checkouts at supermarkets. I mean, when are we going to
start having self p A announcers like you? Just so
you just sort of record it and just kind of
play it. I'm not that I'm trying to take anybody's
job or anything like that, but um, if you're Anthony Davis,
if you really want to embrace the heel roule, I
don't know, I don't know. This probably is difficult for
you to read on me, but growing up, I always
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like the bad guys in wrestling, go figure out you
and I kindred spirits and that you hated. I used
to my mom, used to get my mom my well.
I used to have a rowdy, roddy piper shirt. My
mom used to get mad at me because my favorite
wrestler for a long time was ravishing Rick Rude. And
(05:39):
why is that not surprised? I would I would do
the ravishing Rick Rude taunts to where he would rub
his body and throw a sweat on people like and
then about the fat husband that was with you tonight,
saying I want is for all you fat, out of
shape New Hampshire hill billies to set your ask down
(06:03):
and have your ladies look at what a real man
is supposed to look like. Hit my music. I I
I loved Ravishing Recruit, So I say that to say this.
If you're Anthony Davis, you're in the Smoothie King arena,
take off the shirt and be wearing a Jomba juice.
Seemed like you could have been a one night endorsement. Yeah,
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Jomba juice, or or wear a Rams jersey just you know,
stick the knife in a little bit more. You know,
based on what happened in the NFC title game last year,
have a jersey that says river Yes all the way
through Yes, and our river On jersey. In fact, have
our river on take your warm up shirt off. I'm
like there are ways to approach this, and I think
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he should have embraced it a little bit more. I
do enjoy it. As we've talked about over the course
of the night, though, that the NBA at least tried
schedule wise to give themselves a little bit story because
it's very easy for all these games to fall into
no man's land, and you really all get that. Look
the first time is is really when you get most
(07:10):
of the heat when yeah, when a very special edition
of The Jason Smith Show and back to the NBA. So,
but when when Kevin Durant went to Oklahoma City for
the first time after signing with Golden State, Remember they
were like grown men dressed up as cupcakes. Bro, you're
fifty two, you're dressed up as a pastry. I mean like,
(07:32):
at some point you know that's not just a normal Thursday.
And at some point doesn't one of your buddies Tappy
on the shoulder and say that, hey, man, you wonder
why you're still single? Like this is this is what
we're talking about, Like, why do you dress up like
you're making a fool? You have to accept them for me, Yeah,
it just but so he goes back the first time,
and it was bad, and they booted him and they
gave him a hard time, and it's sort of dissipated
(07:54):
as he went back. Every time he went back, it
just wasn't as much. So if you're the NBA and
you've got these homecoming games, you have to play these
up because when he goes back to New Orleans a
second time, it's just not as big of a deal.
And especially if they just keep winning. Yeah, right, and
New Orleans sitting at six and twelve. They've got some
(08:16):
fine young players, right, Brandon Ingram still wondering what he becomes.
And he just got a guy that's gonna compile bad,
big numbers on a bad team. When when Zion comes
back to you know, do they find some flow and
actually win some games? Now that the West is gonna
be easy to navigate, but for now, like now, you
you went and you kicked them around. Anthony Davis fifteen
(08:38):
of thirty on the night, one point nine boards and
had a big defensive play to help seal the victory.
Is the Lakers win by four? Whatever the hell inbounds
call that was? That's what the hell was that man?
They thought he was still on the squad I don't
never forgot what happened to bad lighting. I mean, like
what happened in there? Like they literally just one of
(09:00):
the worst inbound passes uh to finish a game that
I've seen a long long time in the NBA. But look,
when Kyrie Irving got traded to the Celtics, what did
the NBA do Game one of the next season, Celtics
at Cats? Like, like, that's so market these things to
the max when you can. I felt like they tried
to do them both on the same night because it
(09:21):
was a homecoming night around the country and they thought
it was perfect timing. Unfortunately, Kyrie didn't show up. Anthony
Davis did in a big in a big way. The
Lakers gotta win, and and they're rolling to start the
season sixteen and two. Now, what is that nine in
a row? Frostberg? So, but who's counting right? Well, you
know a lot of Laker fans. I'm waiting to see
what kind of merch other guys starting, because we've got
(09:44):
a lot of Laker fans here in southern California where
we come from the Geico studios. It's just like, at
some point didn't somebody want to like do something original like.
That's why I give Ben Maller credit. Ben Maller who said,
you know what, while everybody's going this way, I'm gonna
go that way. And so for ye years he rooted
for the Clippers, who used to sneak homeless people inside
(10:04):
the arena, the old Sports Arena, so they could fill
up and make it look like it was a capacity crowd,
and Ben chose that team over the showtime later they
still do that. That's called dedication and that's being an antagonist. Well, yeah,
there's that where we are in sports talk radio after all.
Something he said, No, but it's I don't fall to a
a good strategy. I'm just calling it what it is.
(10:27):
Is it is it worse than when Arnie Spaniard was
was hosting a national shows on another network that turned
into a Mandarin station in the middle of the night
for some reason. Arnie span your uh Fox sports radio host,
was hosting at another national network and during a playoff
series at Staples Center, he thought it would be funny
as they were doing a remote broadcast to stay over
(10:48):
the loudspeakers, that Kobe Bryant was injured in warmups and
not going to be playing tonight. How'd that work out?
We've never invited back. That sounds like an Arnie span Hey,
Laker fans, Haker and everybody's got an army. We all
we've listened to art and had the opportunity as we
You and I have chronicled some of the guys we
(11:10):
we've grown up listening to that. We've were now worked
across the five ties before break, Artie Spaniel, I want
to take some calls. I got a story in the NFL,
I got two NBA teams that could win it all,
and I want to hear from you next here. Hey, pretty,
I hate that man the Jonas Knocks on Twitter, find
(11:34):
me over had swollen. Don't be sure to catch live
editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays
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Radio and the I Heart Radio app. You know another
guy who's looking to to pay bills and he does
so each and every week, and well, he wants someone
to to finish the job. When who are you talking
(11:56):
about their mark? Exactly when that check cash is. He
wants results and he's looking for a big result tomorrow.
Jerry Jones continues to bark up the coaching chain. Right.
We saw it on Sunday. Troy Aikman in the booth
a couple of times pointed out coaching gas by Jason
Garrett and his staff and Jerry Jones immediately like, look,
(12:16):
I've got we built this roster and really reinforcing the
I'm the GM, not just the owner, but I'm the GM.
And you look at that roster they were they were
missing van direction. They've been very healthy for the course
of the year, right, I haven't missed a ton of games. Yeah,
Zeke missed time at the start as he was trying
to get himself in shape and everything else, but otherwise
they've been healthy for the balance of the year. And
(12:38):
we saw some obvious moments in the Spotlight game on Sunday.
We're just things failed special teams, gaffs and offensively just
no answering. Yes, you're facing the new England defense, but
just down in distance and some of those other things
that the armchair coach and all of us is just
scratching our head going, Hey, So for Jason Garrett, we've
(13:00):
known for years, Right, it's always been the the seat
has always been warm. Just a question of how hot
it would get and whether it would back off based
on a couple of wins and the early hot start
for the Cowboys. This year was really more about, all right,
how much is Dak Prescott gonna make versus is Jason Garrett,
you know, gonna get fired at least for the first month,
(13:21):
and then now all of a sudden it's flipped on
its head as a coach. In his time as a
Dallas Cowboys head coach, Jason Garrett's nineteen games over five,
He's got one losing season, and uh, he gets treated
like absolute crap. He gets treated like absolute crap. They
treat him like he's the worst coach that ever walked
the face of the earth. I get it that Jason Garrett. Look,
(13:43):
I'm not gonna say that he got out coached. I
think a lot of people do this in in in
our business and what we do, and they have no
idea what they're talking about. Oh we got out coached, alright,
what happened there on that play? Oh no, okay, then
shut the hell up. You have no idea what you're
talking about. But if you want to say that he
was out strategized, I agree. The decision on Sunday at
New England. To go for the field goal and not
(14:04):
go for it late in that game didn't make a
lot of sense to me unless he had money on
on his own team. Well, I I put it up there.
I theorized this though, that they thought if um, if
things really went bad and they and they didn't convert
the field goal, they had him backed up and they
were planning on the safety and then they would only
need the field goal to win. Yea, So they never
actually needed that touchdown. Jonas that I went deep, like,
(14:26):
I mean, that was crazy, like a Fox spokes spoken
like a guy who's played a lot over under. Okay,
that is spoken like a true guy who's been the
total in a lot of games. I've been there, trust me,
I still do it. But I just I feel like,
is he is he the greatest coach in the world. No,
he's not the greatest coach Award. He's also not the
worst man. There's a lot of coaches out there who
you give him ten years to coach and and they
(14:48):
will put up an atrocious win loss record. I mean,
you remember Mark Trustman in Chicago. Jason Garrett's better Mark Trustman. Uh,
he was better than John Fox. In Chicago. There's a
lot of other proud France chise, just like the Dallas Cowboys,
who who who have coaches who put up much more
mediocre numbers as far as winds go than Jason Garrett.
(15:08):
I feel like he's just the easy guy to pick on.
But is that the easiest organization to be a coach for. Yeah,
they're going to be loyal to you, but does he
have any control there? Is he able to like make
any decisions? And it's why everyone wants to have this
talk about, well, Dallas needs to hire this guy and
they need to hire that guy. That's a tough place
to go be a coach because no matter what, look,
(15:30):
he chased Jimmy Johnson out. He chased Jimmy Johnson U
because Jimmy Johnson just got tired of having to fight
for power with the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry always wants to
be the center of attention, even when when they were
had did have one losing season, they were a four
and twelve football team. Jerry Jones is going on local
radio and Dallas talking about glory holes and pet monkeys
he had when he was a child. Monkeys. It's just
(15:53):
it's just weird, just bizarre behavior. So I actually give
Jason Garrett a lot of credit. He hasn't shown outward frustration.
He's probably gonna get canned after this season because the
expectations are way out of whack. But I don't think
he's the worst coach in the world. We'll go back
to Wade Phillips and Wade Phillips history. Obviously as a
coordinator's unmatched, right. He's a guy that everybody celebrates what
(16:15):
he does with defenses. He was the head coach there
for fifty six games. He had a twelve game above
five record. You would never know it by the way
he was talked about as a head coach to your
point of of Jason Garrett. And it's always the question
for me when we get into these discussions, who are
you gonna go get? Is Lincoln Riley really leaving Oklahoma
(16:36):
with what the run he's had these last four years
five years and what you're building as a continual Heisman
Trophy churning, you know, machine as well as ten Wins
said it, forget it, scoring sixty points a game. You're
gonna leave to go be a yes man? To go
be a yes man for Jerry Jones. Okay, here here
(16:58):
the sun of take you back in time. And that's
how unrealistic the Dallas Cowboys are and their fan base.
The last time Dallas won a Super Bowl, the starting
quarterback they beat was Neil O'Donnell. Okay, there is at
least seventy of people listening right now who have no
idea who the hell Neil o'donald's odd a quarterback in
(17:20):
the National Football League, quarterback for the Steelers and for
the Cardinals. Like it was it was, it was so
long ago the starting Widers hero was Yancey Thigpin. Okay, like,
like this is how far back we've got to go?
It was? Was it nineties six? Didn't force Gump just
come out into Yesterday's pretty good? Like it's like it's
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some point if you're Jerry Jones and you're the Dallas Cowboys,
I get it that that you you think you're the
greatest America's team and all that stuff, but man, it's
been a long time since you want a damn thing,
and and to just go ahead and assume that you
deserve all of this. I mean, there's been a lot
of playoff appearances where they've come up short, or something
(18:05):
hasn't gone their way. They I think they got screwed
at lambeau Field with the Des Bryan catch. They got
absolutely job there. That was a very good Dallas Cowboy team.
And also, for the record, you know how damn lucky
the Dallas Cowboys are as an organization. Dak Prescott was
your fourth choice of quarterback in that draft. You wanted Carson.
Once he was gone, you wanted Paxxton Lynch and and
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and it was jumped over and and the Denver Broncos
took Paxston Lynch. Then you wanted Connor Cook and Reggie Mackenzie,
and the Raiders jumped you for Connor Cook. So you
settled on Dak Prescott. Your first two quarterbacks on the
depth chart got injured and then you had to turn
the keys over to Dak Prescott. And wouldn't you know it,
he put up amazing numbers and he's been a really
good NFL court. They are so damn lucky. But they
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just have this idea of who they are, and it's
like it's like a fun house mirror, Like look in
a real mirror and get a better perspective on what
you actually are. And then Jason Garrett won't get all
the heat that he gets. I think it's crap. We'll
continue with this in a moment. We've gotten sound from Jerry,
who kept chirping today you went on NFL Network after
his early week tirades, and and we'll continue with the
(19:12):
perception versus reality again. Top fifty three. Coming into the year,
you'd say the Cowboys were one of your top five rosters,
and for now playoff out. Be sure to catch live
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just putting it out there. Put your name on it
(19:33):
the other night at Lamar Jackson and kept trying to
get him to talk about being the m v P
and his years, like I just want to win. Slid
me alone, talk to me later, which might be disingenuous,
might be just who the guy is, whatever hot take
you want to throw out on it. For now, he's
not letting that enter the sphere, right, just kind of
pushing that down the road. I love the people that
(19:53):
are surprised. Oh my god, Lamar Jackson's really good. He
won a Heisman, He was a Heisman troph the winner,
and he was a guy that even though last year
it was the discussion of when does he get on
the field, right, I always thought the wide receiver talk
wasn't so much, Hey, we want you to be a
wide receiver. You're an athlete. We want to put you
(20:13):
on the field for five to ten plays. That's how
I always interpreted it, not you can't be a quarterback.
So anybody that's trying to push that narrative on you
take it with a grain of salt. But they built
the offense around him, and I celebrated openly on these
airwaves every chance I got hardball. When asked about how
they were gonna use Lamar Jackson coming into the season
said if I got to run them fifteen times, I'm
(20:35):
running up fifteen times. I was, no, you can't do
that anymore. Like, if that's what it's gonna take to win, yeah,
what's the difference. And I think Lamar Jackson also would realize,
if I become the best player I can be for
seven years, it's better than being mediocre or terrible for
ten doing something I can And look, if John Harbor
wins another super Bowl, he's going to the Hall of Fame.
He's right. He's a borderline Hall of Fame coach as
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it is. If he wins another Super Bowl, he's going
to a Hall of fame. You think John harbod gives
a rip whether or not it's gonna work. Six years
from now, he's trying to win super Bowls. Now, he
was getting talked about being fired. I remember when it happened,
like this is how this is how crazy the Baltimore
Ravens situation is. There was a report, a credible report
that came out that the Ravens, because they respected John
(21:17):
Harbaugh so much last year, they were gonna wait until
after the season and they were gonna mutually part ways
because they looked at it like this, all right, John Harbaugh,
Joe Flacco, Ozzie Newsome all were there together, and they're
all going to leave at the same time. And then
you just turn it over and you find a new
coach and you build a new thing. And then Lamar
Jackson went off on this tear and they started winning
games and they got hot and it saved John Harbaugh's job.
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So of course John Harbaugh looked at it like, you
know what, I'm actually gonna hire a staff to build
around this guy who in essence, saved my job. He
went out, he hired coaches who ran the triple option
in college to work on the staff. They completely built
around him, and it's working. It's what teams have always
have done, is play to your quarterback strengths, not the
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other way around. Well, that's it. Figure out what what
he is and what you could implement into your game plan.
You've got the three tight ends. All three of those guys, uh,
two of which are are recent. I mean you're talking
about draft picks. Big Mark Andrews looks like a steal
in that third round pick. Hayden Harris was in the
same draft that. You've got guys that are blockers. Right,
Hurst was picked first, Right, he was overall. They come back,
(22:26):
trade in, get Jackson, and you look at what they've
done over the last three drafts. Look at their all
twenty two. Look at how many guys came out of
those last three drafts that we're talking about as stars.
And then they go make make the move and you
bring in a guy like Marcus Peters who might be,
you know, a little left to center in terms of
you know, coming, but that's what you gotta be to
be a cornerback right in terms of how you going
(22:48):
to approach the game. So, yeah, you've got some attitude.
I don't get the people that are still fighting against
this and their their counter is, well, I don't know
if it's gonna work long term? Who cares? You know what?
I don't know if I'm gonna be a man in
two weeks from now. So like, what are we worried about?
I'm worried about today? I don't I'm not worried about
whether or not Lamar Jackson is going to be a
great quarterback ten years from now. I'm trying to win
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super Bowls. If it's working now, focus on that this
whole you have a long term, long term you don't
know anything. You have no idea whether the Ravens are
gonna be an organization at ten years from now. Just
focus on the now and then now is Lamar Jackson
and they look like they're on their way to a
super Bowl. You really buried the lead with that whole
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