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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hello, welcome inside. Happy Tuesday. That is Happy Tuesday. Everybody
who doesn't live in Detroit. Happy Tuesday. Eh, The Jason
Smith Show with my bass friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Look at you getting all chesty again, buddy boy. I'm
sorry I missed at the last.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah. Well, I gotta say the family chat that I
have with everybody in Pam's family is a lonely place.
The last couple of days with the Mets taking the
first two as big as I have against the time.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Are you just got a text into a black hole
at this point? No, he's engaging.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, I texted when it was Walt when the Yankees
are going bad, when McNeil singled to make it ten
to two. I gave him the Simpsons jiff of stop
stop he's already dead. And I got crickets. I got
absolute crickets, no blowbacks. I got so absolute crickets. Yeah,
they're just.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Too busy reveling in Underwood having a good performance.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Well yeah, listen, hey, he's he's got everybody going, oh, okay, okay,
things might be all right this year. Now, things might
be okay, they might be okay, all right, we got
a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Okay, I remember they won a title with a guy
who nobody loved as a quarterback just a couple of
years ago. As I recall, all right, well you know
their long nightmare of mediocrity.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Oh it lasted a year.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
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(02:10):
baseball is getting hot and heavy right where I can't
believe we're into you know, we're getting twenty games left
in the regular season. And I could tell my baseball
friend fans who are all nervous now about what because
their tempers are shorter. Their tempers are shorter now, and
I can't believe my temper is as good as it is.
I'm like, hey, man, we love three or four of
the Marlins.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
No, it's a prime I'm okay. Maybe because it's Lightning
McClain day. And watching McClain throw is so much fun
because nobody in Major League Baseball has his stuff. He
throws a frisbee for a cutter that is just out
of this world. He is so much fun to watch pitch,
like in an era when you like to see guys
that throw big heat and throw certain pitches and the
ghost fork has become a big thing and draw. But
(02:51):
he throws some cutter that just floats. And even the
Tigers guys were amazed today, going They're going, I don't
know what that was, but it was when across the plate,
Like that's how wowd they were by Nolan McClain.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
No, that's just it. Four straight wins. He's been fantastic.
You know, it's funny if you look to an AI
overview of this game. He's the first Mets pitcher to
win his first four MLB starts since twenty fourteen, when
another picture parenthetical who has not yet been named, he
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named from twenty fourteen.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Hey, we don't know who he is.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yet, I don't know, don't know, we'd have done I
love that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, but but it's exciting, right, you got two young
pictures that that have electrified the world. You got Juan
Soto who after a rough start and a lot of
bad press, horrible ink and all the talkers, and they're
in New York trying to pile up as fast as
they can, all of a sudden they look up and
they look at those numbers, are like, he's doing things
(03:52):
no one he's ever done before.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Just hasn't done it quite quite a long time. But
because of Schwarber, but because of Otani, it gets pushed
to the wayside. Uh And it's gonna be overshadowed by
these young guys, particularly when they get nineteen runs of
support and all that kind of nonsense. But uh Wan
Soto having himself the year that you paid all that
money for, and.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Listen if you listen to The Odd Couple a few
minutes ago with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington talked about
how you know Wan Soto hasn't lived up to expectations.
There's a reason why I ked Rob Parker's car on
the way in for the show today. I said, Okay,
you're gonna say that, I'm gonna key your car. So
his car's got a nice little jagged s O t
O on it, So he's got like that's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
He said, Yeah, I would have just put a giant
question mark like you were the Riddler. It's like, I
don't understand what's he supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I mean, he's like he's gonna in the end, Wan
Soto's gonna finish in the top five and MVP voting
in the National League. I'll finish there like he's gonna
fin Yeah, it could be his highest of depending on
how the rest of it he He and Alonso are
dragging the Mets the playoffs, whether they want to go
or not. They're just dragging you and them.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Rookie the babes will lead them.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, and McLean has showed up and he's he's a
four starts he's our best picture. He's had fourth major
league starts. He's our best picture.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Everybody else the day without having a picture of Bruce
Willis in my head.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Oh see, I just keep thinking of Lightning McClain, like
lightning McQueen.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Chow good chow good chow. Either that or Denny McClain.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Uh oh, it's got different, different McLain, different mclan he was.
He was in prison for a while. The guy won
thirty games. But with the prison it's fine.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I read.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I read the third thirty one and six, the Story
of Denny McClain. I read that book, you know, and
my teachers here's the okay that as a book report
at least, I really no, I really want to go back,
No to the Baseball Life of Sandy Kofax was my
I had the Mickey Mann. Oh that's a good one too. Yeah,
no one too. But like like I want to go
back and tell my teachers, all my English teachers and
(05:44):
my you know they taught me in like you know, third, fourth, fifth,
sixth in elementary school, middle school and saying hey, I
have I am an incredible reader. I read fifty books
a year. I read, I read all kinds of fiction
I read. I want you to know this because they
probably they think back now in their eighties now, but
they go Jason Smith. All he did was do book
reports on sports players and athletes. It's all he did. No,
(06:07):
I don't read a lot of sports books anymore. I
read novels. I read. I'm all into mysteries and thrillers
and everything. The novels I'm not in your creditsit extension
of the Universe.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I read there.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I read everything. I read everything on the top list
of the Year. I read all of it, Wild Duck Shores,
I might pick for Best of twenty twenty five, so far,
all of it. I don't read sports books, but I
want that out there because I don't want to be
Yeah he was that guy that just loved sports, and
yeah he did the did that, did the thirty one
and sixth, The Story of Denny McLain and all that.
Oh yeah, yeah, all the big sports books.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I used to pick some that were kind of controversial,
like in between all the sports was like, why did
you pick that one? I'm like, cause it really shouldn't
be on a library for why did you.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
In fifth grade? Why did you pick Lou brock Well,
the beginning of free agency was a new dawn in
the era of Major League Baseball. Oh okay, sure, sure.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Also going all the way back now, I'm read a
book about dopamine.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh okay, why is it? Does it make you feel good?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Very No?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Oh wow, it must not be a good book. No,
it must not be a good book.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
That how we chase, why we chase, and all all
of these effect Yeah, it's it's very interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Reed, I don't feel good. What was it?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
What was the Uh? I don't feel good about it?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Was the South Park the Chasing the Dragon? The one
where the the video that Chasing the Dragon video.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
That's kind of where we're at.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But here we are now as we get set for
Week one in the NFL again, we're happy NFL Eve
the Eve, yeah right now? And uh the end of
the week where college football dops its cap and says, hey,
we have all the attention for this run of five
seven days. The latest AP poll came out this week,
and to no surprise, Ohio State number one team in
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the country. After beating Texas fourteen to seven. Last week.
They ascended number one. Other teams four top ten teams lost.
They didn't drop all that far, which is good when
wasn't a knee jerk re action to what we saw
first week of the season. Look, we saw some big games,
and clearly none was bigger on the field we talk
about in the standings and the rankings, then Ohio State
and Texas. And the funny thing is this is that
(08:12):
all the attention the last couple of days has been
on arch Manning, and rightfully so. Right arch Manning and
Bill Belichick are the two stories of college football, and
arch Manning and his debut and how poorly he played
and what he has to do and what he has
to work on, and his arm angles and all of that.
I get that that was the complete total story. Ohio
State did not play well. Okay, Ohio State didn't play well.
(08:34):
Are we sure that Ohio State is good? Just saying
are we sure or what? Because we don't know if
Texas is good and Ohio State they were just sort
of hanging around like they didn't do a lot offensively. Yes,
defensively they played, but arch Manning missed a lot of throws.
It was not a well played game. And I get Look,
obviously arch Manning is a story. He's the rockstar college football.
(08:55):
But man, Ohio State coming off the championship, I get it,
But are we or that they're good because they didn't
look that great on Saturday. There's a couple other teams
that look better. And yes, it's one week one of
the season, but all of a sudden, hey here's Ohio
State number one. You expected a little bit more. If
they were that good, that'd be more sloppiness in the game,
be more offense in the game, and there wasn't. And
Julian saying didn't put up a lot offensively, and it
(09:18):
was just it wasn't a great game to watch when
we think these are two great teams. So I mean,
are we sure Ohio State is good? Because I don't
know that Ohio State's a great team. I'm gonna put
it this way.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I'll put it in terms because we try to grab
the sporting world in a giant hug. I felt like
I was watching a Floyd may Weather fight.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
That he was gonna win.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
He was holding up the other person for a few
rounds and I was gonna win.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
But like we're just kind of dancing and watching the
clock tick away, not taking a lot of shots downfield,
not getting really creative and going for the jugular on
either side. Right, because for Julian saying right, he was
the number one quarterback the year after Arch or two
years after Arch.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
So, young guy with a lot of expectations on I
know you had a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Of attrition both sides.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
You're losing players to the draft, to the portal and
all that stuff, new bodies whatever, some of it owing
to the you know, play it close, so don't take
a lot of chances to where you end up getting
run out the gym. Now, the fact that the lack
of creativity or taking the points whichever side you want
to go on in that third quarter possession where they
(10:29):
run the ball four straight times inside the Ohio State
ten and get stuffed, that was one where I'm just
standing there with my you know, shrugging, going what are
we doing? What I mean, absolutely nothing, no juice and
the play calling and certainly the excellence of execution on
the Ohio State side, but all of that to say
we danced and look at what it costs. Texas they're
(10:52):
number seven.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, But the thing is is that, and this is
what gets me about this is that this is Ohio State, Texas.
This is a game that, hey, both teams need to
win this because this is a If we lose this game,
you only have so many losses till we can't put
you in the College Football Playoff anymore. Yeah, this is
a game, but this is But you know, Ohio State's
got some tough games this season, So I get that
(11:15):
when you're playing a take Michigan for example, right when
they go out and they play New Mexico, I get
how vanilla their offense was. They don't want to put
anything on tape for Oklahoma. Look, and no one's seen
outside of coaches, no one sees more mission games last
thirty years, and I have this is what they do.
They never put anything out there until they absolutely have to.
It's why when they play early in the season they
don't blow teams out by as much as you think,
(11:36):
because they don't put stuff out there until they get
to their first test. So, yeah, the offense was a
little vanilla, and Bryce Hunder was really good, but the
offense was vanilla. They didn't really do a ton And
I get that because what we're going to win this game,
and if we get to a point where things are
a little loose, we can make an adjustment, but ohiosea Texas, Hey,
you got to throw it all out there because you
(11:57):
lose this game all of a sudden, well, you only
have one more loss, maybe the rest of the way
to get into the playoffs, two more losses, maybe forget it.
You're out at three. Three is like that line of
demarcation where hey, two you should be able to stay
in in a Power five conference. Three I don't know.
So all of a sudden, you're one more away and
you have a tough schedule. So I expected to see
more creativity, more stuff, a little more of a normal
(12:20):
outside the box type game plan. And you had Sarkisian
at halftime telling arch Manning, hey, take what the defense
gives you, don't try, and and Ohio State being incredibly
conservative unless they don't just don't trust Julian saying which
if they don't trust him, goes back to my first point.
Are we sure Ohio State's a great team? Because man,
I don't know about that, So you know, pay you
to say that?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
No, no, I said to Pants.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Did Pants pay you?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No? They had an extra portion of no, no, I
need her putting an Ohio State loves me because I
said on Friday night. What if arch Manning sucks, what
does that mean for college football? He sucked on Saturday.
So you're welcome Ohio States and we give it. We
get uh so yeah, so they're okay, they want it
was a tough watch. They want to shout. They want
to know how State have like two order thirteen yard
(13:03):
they weren't great like they did or something. You see
these other one.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Throw he needed to tate. Yeah, forty yard touchdown mass
and that's it. There's your explosiveness.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
But you saw these other teams that were all playing
top five, you know, two other top ten games, right,
and no, tre Dame still moved the football and looked
okay offensively against a really good Miami team. And Miami
did the same thing against Notre Dame. When when we
watched LSU and Clemson, even though it was seventeen ten,
Clemson still moved the football. LSU still moved the football.
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They were able to do that. You can't sit here
and tell me the Texan Ohio States defenses are so good.
They're replacing so many players. You can't say, well, there
are two best defense in the country. Of course I
got no Week one. If you have any kind of
talent offensively, you should be able to exploit the defense
a little bit. I'm not saying it should have been
forty one forty, but it should have been a little bit.
But fourteen to seven, man, it's like, whoa, I get that.
(13:52):
The next couple of days belonged to arch Manning. But man,
ohast I get there. The champs, I get, But are
they are? They really? Are they that great? I don't no, man,
I mean really, like, that's a tough thing to suddenly say, hey,
they're great because they did not look good.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, but that was ignoring that.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
But that's the beauty of the early part of the season,
right because now if you want to get in on
the arch Manning by low situation right post post draft
hype and all that kind of stuff like we would
do for trading cards of like, hey, he was the
prospect everybody wanted, and then he didn't. He comes up
as a bad call call up in September, so everybody
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jumps off his cards and it's like, all right, he
comes back, he adjusts, he'll be better.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Arch Manning fourteen to one.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Now he was the leader in the clubhous six or
seven to one, Yeah, coming into the year nuss Meyer
who had a big one, big drive but got it done.
And then Leonora Sellers.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, suddenly get.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Hey, you know where he started his career and couldn't
get on the field and transferred Syracuse.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Yeah we'll get into transfers.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I got a great story after Notre Name game, right, Yeah,
So you know, maybe in the South Side Chicago, got
a lot of vested interest because you know, friends, family
that went there, and a lot of my colleagues from
from high school that shoot me the line of expectations
and whatever else. They're they're at times insufferable. But my
daughter at her job on Sunday, they have a resident
(15:14):
who is a Notre Dame guy who was really excited
to watch the game. So they all gathered to watch
that in the common area, and they indulged him. They
stayed up late. They're watching the game, and then they
were all pissed off after the game ended.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I stayed up late for this.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
This is the worst thing. Hid on the well.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
They felt bad for the guy because I mean he
had he had a loss, so he was salty, and
everybody else like stayed up way past bedtime.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I'll tell you Dan Deviney'll have him ready for the
next game. I'll be sure about that. No more players
walking in saying take my jersey. If the Ruddicker kid
doesn't dress, take that jersey back. Exit out of Fresco
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NFL insider. Check him out on the thirty third team.
He is a Pro Football Hall of Very Good voter.
He is a very good guest with us. He is
on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. It is Jason Cole.
What's happening, man, I'm an excellent guest.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Legend, you're a very good guest.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I would if I had to vote for best guests,
and I had to vote for they had a very good.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
For guests, would be in.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I know, I think Judge Wafner would say I'm an
excellent guest.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Fernando Valenzuela pitched Wednesday, not stilled to pitch again until Saturday. Yeah,
so you're happy, man, We've made it to another NFL season.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. This is great. Michael Parson's
take from last week, which you know came true within
like a day, which you know, made Michael Irvin looked
not so good, you know, you know, one minute before
the trade actually came down. Not real observant about what's
going on, Michael irvins So but yeah, like it's been
(18:56):
a wild it's been a wild setup to the season.
Can't wait as he did, Alice get crushed by about
thirty an opening night. That's great.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Finally moved an extra half a point after the trade.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Wisconsin, who looks worse this week? The Cowboys on Thursday
night of North Carolina last night, who looks worse?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Oh you can't. You really can't beat what happened last night,
you know, like and just the Jordan Hudson means and
it just it was out of control last night. I
just went on and went, this is bad for Bill.
This is really really bad for Bill. But yeah, the
person that I really think it's even worse for is
and who's not really getting the quote unquote credit he deserves,
(19:37):
as Michael Lombardi. Who if you know, when you talk
to agents who represent these high school and college kids
now as they moved their way around the country looking
for nil dollars, like the person that they that they
were sort of laughing at the most in terms of
his his arrogance was Michael Lombardy. He was like he
(20:03):
just he believed that they were going to reinvent college
football inside of the first three months. Yeah, we know
what we're doing here. Yeah, we don't judge players. And
somebody is so full of himself and you know, you
had the books that came out and all this other stuff.
But I feel bad for Bill because I actually liked Bill,
(20:26):
but he kind of deserved it after everything that happened
in the offseason and the way that this is all
played out. He kind of you kind of look at
it and go, Yeah, that's the come up that the
world was looking for for Bill Belichick, and there.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
It is, And in forty eight hours we'll see Jerry
Jones front and center. Can the offense score enough to
at least make the game interesting?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Yeah? Score? Okay, I mean I can't run, but they
weren't gonna be able to run against Jalen Carter in
the rest of that group anyway, So you know, kind
of who cares, Like, Okay, let's just open up up
in five wides and just go for it, especially now
that you have Pickens and Lamb. The question really is,
at one point in the game, will George Pickens quit
(21:10):
on a route? And what will Dak Prescott do? Like,
that's what I really want to know, because George Pikets
is good for quitting on a route minimum one time game,
especially in a big game when it's televised, you just
know that he's going to sit there and go you
expect me, that's that. Yeah, it was like within reach. Yeah,
we expect we expected to at least run the route out,
(21:32):
you know, Like I still remember the one against San
Francisco where he's running a deep route and he blamed
Picket for it, right, like Picket halls back and it
was like the one play they had and Piketts quit
on the route. It was like it was a bomb.
Like he was scored against San Francisco that was in
the opener two years ago. What are you doing, man?
Like run the route out? So Pickens Pickings to quit
(21:55):
on a route awesome, literally looking for that. We can
I bet that.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I'm gonna have the right time we get.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That is there? Can I go to Vegas and bet
that George Pickens quits on a route?
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Like how do I? I think? Yeah, I think if
you go to Caesar So get that on the board.
The other one is the whatever the logic that comes
out of Jerry Jones. My favorite tweet of the week
in the aftermath of the Michael Parkinger trades is Jerry
Jones talking about, you know how we need to upgrade
the run defense and this isn't going to help us,
(22:30):
and help us and help us, and ed Warder just
comes in with the tweet bomb going they didn't draft
anybody who plays along the interior defensive line until the
sixth round this last year. So it obviously was not
a priority earlier in the offseason when you could really
do something about it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Now, look when the night that happened, we said, Jerry, Jerry,
how do I defend this? And it sounds like they
just realized, Oh, we have to stop the run. Didn't
do it in free agency, didn't do it in the draft,
but all of a sudden, Oh, you gotta stop the run,
gotta go get that. Yeah, that's why we had to
make this trade that was going to happen.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
The way you stop the run is outscoring people. That's
how you do it. You force the other team to
have to throw. That's what you do. That's how the
NFL works today. Like stopping the run like it was
in the in the eighties and the seventies, that's not
a thing anymore. It's just not It's that's gone. Like
if you give up a few yards on the ground,
you give one hundred yards in a game, you're okay.
(23:25):
As long as you get your goal has to be
get to get up by these ten points so you
can force the other team to stop running. That's how
you play this game this year, and so all the
Jerry stuff is just it's just a Michi goosh, michi gosh.
Like there we go. That's a good word.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
So we Actually that's the name of the agent that
talked to for a part. It was it was Michigosh
and he just said, you got to call me for
a contract, and I said, I didn't have to. The
rules say it's not technically illegal. So I had a
handshake deal.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Okay, let's moving along.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You know, by the way, you know, my Jerry Jones
impression is getting better because he's coming back to me now.
The older he is getting, he sounds a lot more
like me doing an impression of him. Listen to that
Press College from last week, smart guy, and you'll see, oh, man,
Jason sounds a lot like him now. Because Jerry Jones
is over eighty, he's coming back to the pack.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Now you have to you have to do a little
bit more fog born leg horn to get to the
to Jerry. Okay, so you've got to channel your fog
horn leg horn, which we all did as kids.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Okay, all right, I got one for here we go.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Okay, I'll say I'll say, Mica is not with our
team anymore and we're gonna have some problems. Yeah, whatever,
we have to rest the path.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I'll tell you we got challenge you. I'll tell you
we got we got a We got a couple of
players running around on defense that they're sweatier than a
head band and a fireman's helmet.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
That's better, now you're getting it.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I'm not an actual foghorn leg one. That boy's about
his sweaty as a headband and a fireman's helmet. Yeah,
that's a good one.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
So how bad is the field on Friday night?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
To take away from what could be a fun game
between the Chargers and Chiefs?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Sorr, I get so much feedback. What was the question?
I was about the Chargers and Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
We're just talking about how miserable the field is and
what we expect from Harbaugh. Can he get justin Herbert
actually slinging the ball or we played defense and run
run again.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
I think they probably rather play this alligatory alcatraz at
this point.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
But wow, wow, oh boy.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I mean, look, people just don't understand like these which
is really important thing is to get right, like especially
when you're dealing with professional athletes. So the fact that
they go and they play these games on fields that
just are not very good, it always just balls me.
It's like you spend millions upon millions of dollars on
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athletes and making sure everything's supposed to be right, and
then you go play in a place where it's got
a crappy field, Like, can't you get this right? You know, like,
how many times does this happen? Last year it happened.
It's happened in Mexico City more than more than once. Yeah,
it even happened in Camon you know at the Hall
of Fame. The Hall of Fame game was it was
(26:29):
canceled one because of the Yeah, the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
You really push that.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
You know what happens eight or nine times a year
at Soldier Field with the Chicago Park Parks Department running
that place.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It well, yeah, which makes explain what the uh the
mccaskeys are doing at this point in time. But have
they reached a deal on that? I lost track of that.
Do they have a deal yet in Chicago and what
they're going to do or do we know we're still fighting.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
You still have all the politicians that are trying to say, well,
it's still in Cook County.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
So.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Technically it's over here. It's still in that zone.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Some of us still in the Cook zone. As long
as it's like it's still in the frying pan. Okay, No,
I think I like Chiefs and Chiefs and Chargers. I
love this game. I love Yeah, I just there wasn't
this potential distraction of being on a horrible field. You know,
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it's start of like last year when you had the
Eagles and Green Bay playing that game, and it was
it was a really good game, and then all of
a sudden, it's like the sidelight is the fields just choppy?
Is I'll get out. You'd like to have a better quality,
and you'd also like to have a division game like this,
not farmed out like if you know, like if it
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was the Chiefs playing against you know one, I can
see farm in that game out because you'll draw with
that game no matter what. But but why do you
have to send the Chiefs and Chargers, you know, you know,
outside outside the country. I don't quite. I don't play
to get them. That's too important a game to be
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playing it elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
All right, Jay, col last time we get to talk
before the season starts. Your Super Bowl pick are the
Jets and who.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Jets? This is my twenty eighty pick, So two eight season,
I have the Jets going up against the Bullet Seams.
Mustangs are tough.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
They're tough enough, tough.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
At all advant Yeah, for this season, I really tend
to go Eagles to repeat because I love their defensive line,
but I just don't trust him enough.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
So we're going Dan Campbell and the and the Lions,
despite the fact that they're changing at the coordinator. We're
going Dan Campbell's Lions. That's how they're going to be known.
They're not the Detroit Lions anymore. That Dan Campbell's Lions call. Yeah,
that's that's the the d C Lions.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
The d is go going to be the old English
d is going to be a d C on the hats.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Yeah, sure, okay, right exactly.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
So we're gonna Lions, Jets, Ravens, Lions Ravens there you go,
all right, Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna see Lamar Jackson's
finally who's gonna play it together and not screw it
up in the playoffs, Who's going to have another m
v P caliber season And he'll finally get through the playoffs.
I believe. I believe that is a.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Very good pick by Jason Cale. NFL Insider's got the
Ravens and the Lions and the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
H yeah, no, no Bucks now Bucks. But yeah, there's
too much Buckaloves going on out there. I can't buy.
I can't abuy that too much Bucklove.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
All right, you're easy, buddy, we'll talk next week after
Week one.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Enjoy week one.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
There Goes Jake calls too much, too much boys, got
too much buccaneer love. I'm like, wait, what like that?
Not buccaneer I've not heard one thing like there.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Are Goes I mean under the radar tape.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
But I mean, well, it's not like all of a
sudden like they're the trendy team to go to the
Super I mean I tried to speak it into existence
a little bit, but uh yeah, that's that's bold because
right now it's it's it's the Packers in the Eagles, right,
I mean, that's it. Tell how to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. But Guy's been
called but Nolan MacLean of Fox Sports Radio, because he
(30:32):
knows how to throw a frisbee too. It is Steve
the Seger with what's trending too much bucklove, but you
can never have too much buckloh.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Nicely done, very much.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
By the way, there was a stat out tonight about
Nolan McLean and the Mats. Of course, in his first
four career starts, he's four and oh with an ERA
under one and a half and at least twenty five strikeouts.
The only other guy who started like that was Fernando
Alanzuela nineteen eighty one. A little context, Fernando did that
for his first eight starts, and it was five shutouts
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in his first eight starts, and he went nine innings
for all eight starts to begin the nineteen eighty one season.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
And he was only twenty one.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Theoretically.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
Andy had eleven strikeouts against the Mets and ten against
the Padres, and ten against the Giants and eleven against
the Houston. It was just an incredible beginning and he
was Rookie of the Year and he was cy young winner.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Bernando had a screwball. Noel McLain has the frisbee. Like
it's say that he's got their pitches.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
It's fine, so we can accurately say that we haven't
seen anybody with the pitch movement like Nolan McLain has
since say Dustin May, so stay.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Tuned, Wow May.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
The Orioles are leading at San Diego five to two
at the top of the sixth inning. The Dodgers were
already beaten at Pittsburgh nine to seven, Shoheo Tani with
his forty sixth home run, Cal Raley with his fifty
first homer. But Tampa Bay beat Seattle six to five.
Raleigh struck out with bases loaded to end the top
of the seventh. The Yankees won seven to one at Houston.
Trent Grisham with a grand slam off losing pitcher from
(32:02):
ber Valdez, who then apparently crossed up his catcher on
purpose on the next pitch, just so he could nail
him in the chest with a fastball. No kidding, the
San Francisco Giants of.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
These are professional players.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Steve put it this way. There are other catchers in
the history of the league who just would have fought
their own pitcher right on the stea in the infield.
San Francisco has one nine of its last ten. Got
a seven to four victory at Colorado for the Rockies.
That is a record now of thirty nine and one
hundred and if you didn't hear about this, the losing
pitcher Kyle Freeland, who's now three and fourteen, he allowed
(32:38):
a first inning homer to the Giants Ralphael Devers and
then yelled at him for admiring it, and the benches
cleared and Freeland was kicked out in the first inning.
Texas has won six in a row. They have fallen behind.
It's five to two Arizona going to the eighth inning.
By the way that Tampa Bay went over Seattle. That's
five straight for the Rays. Junior Camenaro with his fortyeth homer,
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he had four RBIs. He's up to one hundred RBIs
this season. The Angels won five to one at Kansas City,
victories for the White Sox and Saint Louis for Washington
as well. The Cubs edged Atlanta four to three, Kyle
Tucker with a three run homer. The Idol Brewers first
in the NL Central five games over the Cubs. Now,
the Mets were twelve five winners at Detroit. Yes Nolan
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McLain four and Oho got the win. His era one
point three seven so far, six innings, just two runs allowed,
seven strikeouts. Juan Soto with his thirty seventh homer, five
in his last five games. Toronto a twelve nine winner
at Cincinnati. George Springer with two home runs, and Boston
scored four times in the bottom of the eighth to
beat Cleveland eleven to seven. Ohio State is number one
(33:44):
in the new college football polls. Penn State is still
number two. LSU is up to number three in ap
The new England Patriots say wide receiver Stefan Diggs will
play Sunday against the Raiders in the opener after last
year's torn acl Buffalo is signing wide receiver Gabe Davis
to its practice squad after his knee injury last season.
Brown's running back Pierre Strong was waived from injured reserve
(34:06):
Veteran white out Robert Woods was granted his release from
the Steelers practice squad. The Texans gave backup quarterback Davis
Mills a one year extension. The Giants listed rookie QB
Jackson Dart as the backup to Russell Wilson. Jamis Winston
listed as third string tennis tonight. Novak Djokovic has advanced
and men's number two. Carlos Alcarez also won. There are
(34:28):
two WNBA games tonight, including right now Golden State at
home leading New York early fourth quarter fifty nine forty six,
and Hall of Fame college basketball coach George Raveling passed
away at the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve Oh coming up next.
What former star wishes every year his former NFL team
would go winless? He said it in a podcast today.
I hope every year they go Oh for the season.
That's next, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (35:09):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
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Speaker 4 (35:18):
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Speaker 3 (35:19):
My brothers went and saw a system of it down
and they had the guys doing the running in a
circle and starting to chuck each other like a mosh pit.
Oh goes out to Walter Payton Jersey that was running
a mack Was he holding the football out?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I get for him like stiff arm guys. So Johnny
Manzel made headlines. I know, crazy, wait, Johnnie Manzel. Johnny
Manzel made headlines today and it and it begged a
really big question and something that I'm really stunned about.
Johnny football. Okay, Johnny Manzel, who very famously Heisman Trophy
(35:56):
winner Browns gave his career away, had problems with subten's abuse,
you know, bipolar disorder. I had a whole host of
issues that hey, some a little bit, i'll past his control,
some completely in his control. Did a podcast. He was
asked about his time with the Cleveland Browns, and let's
just say that every year Johnny Manziela is hoping the
(36:20):
Browns tank for the number one overall pick in the draft.
Speaker 9 (36:23):
I sit here today and I go back and forth
with man, am I gonna let Cleveland off the hook
and just like let it go? Or am I gonna
sit here with hate and animosity in my heart for
the rest of my life?
Speaker 5 (36:35):
I finally sit here today, I'm like good.
Speaker 9 (36:36):
I think I'm gonna be pissed at them and hate
him forever.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
So it is what it is.
Speaker 9 (36:43):
Man, No no love for the Browns. I'm rooting for
oh with seasons every season.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Okay, well, first of all, they play seventeen games now,
But that's okay. I get what he was saying. I
get what he was saying, right am I gonna hold
this hate in my heart the rest of my life? Okay?
And you know it's this is this is where I'm
at now because Manzel You know, we've talked for for
so long about all Manziel gave his career away at
all these different things. And the one thing that I'm
really surprised, at least publicly now, is how at peace
(37:13):
he seems with not having a career in the NFL,
like knowing full well yeah, because he even said, listen,
I had some problems. You know, obviously had some abuse problems.
He had he had problems, you know, bipolar. We mentioned it,
but he says, hey, I I did a lot to myself, right,
I did a lot to it. I'm responsible a lot
of it because if I'm thirty two, which is what
he is, and I see where I was a Heisman
(37:35):
Trophy winner. Man I was taken in the first round
of the draft. I told the Browns to come up
and take me, and I couldn't get I should still
be playing in this league. I should still be making
you know, I should be making fifty million dollars a
year my latest contract extension, and I'm not. And but
at least very publicly, he seems at peace with it,
when when normally for players who have had that kind
(37:58):
of career, you would see it. You would see it
in headlines about them and how they spoke about their careers,
how they spoke about it. But he just seems, yeah, okay, yeah,
I still hate them and all this, but yeah, yeah,
so I'm gonna hate a blanket. I hate them, but
so at ease with that part of his life being
over when I can't believe it's not a bigger deal
to hi.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, I mean, some of it goes back to questioning
your full love of the game and where that stops
and ceases and you move on with yourself. You know,
some of the questions about Manzell and the self sabotage
part of it not from the health side, but you know,
things that he did that were in his control. Is
there was always just that question of well, family had
(38:39):
oil money from his grandpa and whatever else, So how
much of that is well, he had a soft landing.
Not that he didn't struggle with all that other stuff,
but in the end it wasn't the all right, I've
got to go work a nine to five and you know,
humble myself to that level.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah. And how much did he like being a star.
I'm really good at football. I like being a star
more than I actually liked football.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
No, that's it. I mean we got a Cleveland Browns fan.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Believe it or not, we actually have one on staffh
Shay's sitting there and he's just shaking his head.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
He wants to go home after this. He's like, you're
talking about man's hell, I'm leaving. I'm going home. I'm like, okay.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
He may have mouthed something to those.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
It really impresses me that he seems, at least publicly
such a peace with with this one. I would be like,
I'd be like bounced off the walls every single time.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
But at some point yet you just have to own
it and try to move on and profit from it. However,
you can sign more autographs, to make more appearances, do
more speeches. It's at least a few more bucks and notoriety.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. Well, we
talked about Bill Belichick not getting it in college football. Uh,
maybe Deon Sanders doesn't get it too. Break that down
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Speaker 3 (00:41):
Look at you getting all chesty again, buddy boy. I'm
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Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah. Well, I gotta say the family chat that I
have with everybody in Pam's family is a lonely place.
The last couple of days with the Mets taking the
first two as big as I have against the time.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Are you just got a text into a black hole
at this point? No, he's engaging.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, I texted when it was Walt when the Yankees
are going bad, when McNeil singled to make it ten
to two. I gave him the Simpsons jiff of stop
stop he's already dead. And I got crickets. I got
absolute crickets, no blowbacks. I got so absolute crickets. Yeah,
they're just.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Too busy reveling in Underwood having a good performance.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Well yeah, listen, hey, he's he's got everybody going, oh, okay, okay,
things might be all right this year. Now, things might
be okay, they might be okay, all right, we got
a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Okay, I remember they won a title with a guy
who nobody loved as a quarterback just a couple of
years ago. As I recall, all right, well you know
their long nightmare of mediocrity.
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Oh it lasted a year.
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baseball is getting hot and heavy right where I can't
believe we're into you know, we're getting twenty games left
in the regular season. And I could tell my baseball
friend fans who are all nervous now about what because
their tempers are shorter. Their tempers are shorter now, and
I can't believe my temper is as good as it is.
I'm like, hey, man, we love three or four of
the Marlins.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
No, it's a prime I'm okay. Maybe because it's Lightning
McClain day. And watching McClain throw is so much fun
because nobody in Major League Baseball has his stuff. He
throws a frisbee for a cutter that is just out
of this world. He is so much fun to watch pitch,
like in an era when you like to see guys
that throw big heat and throw certain pitches and the
ghost fork has become a big thing and draw. But
(02:51):
he throws some cutter that just floats. And even the
Tigers guys were amazed today, going They're going, I don't
know what that was, but it was when across the plate,
Like that's how wowd they were by Nolan McClain.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
No, that's just it. Four straight wins. He's been fantastic.
You know, it's funny if you look to an AI
overview of this game. He's the first Mets pitcher to
win his first four MLB starts since twenty fourteen, when
another picture parenthetical who has not yet been named, he
(03:25):
named from twenty fourteen.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Hey, we don't know who he is.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yet, I don't know, don't know, we'd have done I
love that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, but but it's exciting, right, you got two young
pictures that that have electrified the world. You got Juan
Soto who after a rough start and a lot of
bad press, horrible ink and all the talkers, and they're
in New York trying to pile up as fast as
they can, all of a sudden they look up and
they look at those numbers, are like, he's doing things
(03:52):
no one he's ever done before.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Just hasn't done it quite quite a long time. But
because of Schwarber, but because of Otani, it gets pushed
to the wayside. Uh And it's gonna be overshadowed by
these young guys, particularly when they get nineteen runs of
support and all that kind of nonsense. But uh Wan
Soto having himself the year that you paid all that
money for, and.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Listen if you listen to The Odd Couple a few
minutes ago with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington talked about
how you know Wan Soto hasn't lived up to expectations.
There's a reason why I ked Rob Parker's car on
the way in for the show today. I said, Okay,
you're gonna say that, I'm gonna key your car. So
his car's got a nice little jagged s O t
O on it, So he's got like that's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
He said, Yeah, I would have just put a giant
question mark like you were the Riddler. It's like, I
don't understand what's he supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I mean, he's like he's gonna in the end, Wan
Soto's gonna finish in the top five and MVP voting
in the National League. I'll finish there like he's gonna
fin Yeah, it could be his highest of depending on
how the rest of it he He and Alonso are
dragging the Mets the playoffs, whether they want to go
or not. They're just dragging you and them.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Rookie the babes will lead them.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, and McLean has showed up and he's he's a
four starts he's our best picture. He's had fourth major
league starts. He's our best picture.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Everybody else the day without having a picture of Bruce
Willis in my head.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Oh see, I just keep thinking of Lightning McClain, like
lightning McQueen.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Chow good chow good chow. Either that or Denny McClain.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Uh oh, it's got different, different McLain, different mclan he was.
He was in prison for a while. The guy won
thirty games. But with the prison it's fine.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I read.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I read the third thirty one and six, the Story
of Denny McClain. I read that book, you know, and
my teachers here's the okay that as a book report
at least, I really no, I really want to go back,
No to the Baseball Life of Sandy Kofax was my
I had the Mickey Mann. Oh that's a good one too. Yeah,
no one too. But like like I want to go
back and tell my teachers, all my English teachers and
(05:44):
my you know they taught me in like you know, third, fourth, fifth,
sixth in elementary school, middle school and saying hey, I
have I am an incredible reader. I read fifty books
a year. I read, I read all kinds of fiction
I read. I want you to know this because they
probably they think back now in their eighties now, but
they go Jason Smith. All he did was do book
reports on sports players and athletes. It's all he did. No,
(06:07):
I don't read a lot of sports books anymore. I
read novels. I read. I'm all into mysteries and thrillers
and everything. The novels I'm not in your creditsit extension
of the Universe.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I read there.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I read everything. I read everything on the top list
of the Year. I read all of it, Wild Duck Shores,
I might pick for Best of twenty twenty five, so far,
all of it. I don't read sports books, but I
want that out there because I don't want to be
Yeah he was that guy that just loved sports, and
yeah he did the did that, did the thirty one
and sixth, The Story of Denny McLain and all that.
Oh yeah, yeah, all the big sports books.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I used to pick some that were kind of controversial,
like in between all the sports was like, why did
you pick that one? I'm like, cause it really shouldn't
be on a library for why did you.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
In fifth grade? Why did you pick Lou brock Well,
the beginning of free agency was a new dawn in
the era of Major League Baseball. Oh okay, sure, sure.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Also going all the way back now, I'm read a
book about dopamine.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh okay, why is it? Does it make you feel good?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Very No?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Oh wow, it must not be a good book. No,
it must not be a good book.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
That how we chase, why we chase, and all all
of these effect Yeah, it's it's very interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Reed, I don't feel good. What was it?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
What was the Uh? I don't feel good about it?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Was the South Park the Chasing the Dragon? The one
where the the video that Chasing the Dragon video.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
That's kind of where we're at.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But here we are now as we get set for
Week one in the NFL again, we're happy NFL Eve
the Eve, yeah right now? And uh the end of
the week where college football dops its cap and says, hey,
we have all the attention for this run of five
seven days. The latest AP poll came out this week,
and to no surprise, Ohio State number one team in
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the country. After beating Texas fourteen to seven. Last week.
They ascended number one. Other teams four top ten teams lost.
They didn't drop all that far, which is good when
wasn't a knee jerk re action to what we saw
first week of the season. Look, we saw some big games,
and clearly none was bigger on the field we talk
about in the standings and the rankings, then Ohio State
and Texas. And the funny thing is this is that
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all the attention the last couple of days has been
on arch Manning, and rightfully so. Right arch Manning and
Bill Belichick are the two stories of college football, and
arch Manning and his debut and how poorly he played
and what he has to do and what he has
to work on, and his arm angles and all of that.
I get that that was the complete total story. Ohio
State did not play well. Okay, Ohio State didn't play well.
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Are we sure that Ohio State is good? Just saying
are we sure or what? Because we don't know if
Texas is good and Ohio State they were just sort
of hanging around like they didn't do a lot offensively. Yes,
defensively they played, but arch Manning missed a lot of throws.
It was not a well played game. And I get Look,
obviously arch Manning is a story. He's the rockstar college football.
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But man, Ohio State coming off the championship, I get it,
But are we or that they're good because they didn't
look that great on Saturday. There's a couple other teams
that look better. And yes, it's one week one of
the season, but all of a sudden, hey here's Ohio
State number one. You expected a little bit more. If
they were that good, that'd be more sloppiness in the game,
be more offense in the game, and there wasn't. And
Julian saying didn't put up a lot offensively, and it
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was just it wasn't a great game to watch when
we think these are two great teams. So I mean,
are we sure Ohio State is good? Because I don't
know that Ohio State's a great team. I'm gonna put
it this way.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I'll put it in terms because we try to grab
the sporting world in a giant hug. I felt like
I was watching a Floyd may Weather fight.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
That he was gonna win.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
He was holding up the other person for a few
rounds and I was gonna win.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
But like we're just kind of dancing and watching the
clock tick away, not taking a lot of shots downfield,
not getting really creative and going for the jugular on
either side. Right, because for Julian saying right, he was
the number one quarterback the year after Arch or two
years after Arch.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
So, young guy with a lot of expectations on I
know you had a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Of attrition both sides.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
You're losing players to the draft, to the portal and
all that stuff, new bodies whatever, some of it owing
to the you know, play it close, so don't take
a lot of chances to where you end up getting
run out the gym. Now, the fact that the lack
of creativity or taking the points whichever side you want
to go on in that third quarter possession where they
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run the ball four straight times inside the Ohio State
ten and get stuffed, that was one where I'm just
standing there with my you know, shrugging, going what are
we doing? What I mean, absolutely nothing, no juice and
the play calling and certainly the excellence of execution on
the Ohio State side, but all of that to say
we danced and look at what it costs. Texas they're
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number seven.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, But the thing is is that, and this is
what gets me about this is that this is Ohio State, Texas.
This is a game that, hey, both teams need to
win this because this is a If we lose this game,
you only have so many losses till we can't put
you in the College Football Playoff anymore. Yeah, this is
a game, but this is But you know, Ohio State's
got some tough games this season, So I get that
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when you're playing a take Michigan for example, right when
they go out and they play New Mexico, I get
how vanilla their offense was. They don't want to put
anything on tape for Oklahoma. Look, and no one's seen
outside of coaches, no one sees more mission games last
thirty years, and I have this is what they do.
They never put anything out there until they absolutely have to.
It's why when they play early in the season they
don't blow teams out by as much as you think,
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because they don't put stuff out there until they get
to their first test. So, yeah, the offense was a
little vanilla, and Bryce Hunder was really good, but the
offense was vanilla. They didn't really do a ton And
I get that because what we're going to win this game,
and if we get to a point where things are
a little loose, we can make an adjustment, but ohiosea Texas, Hey,
you got to throw it all out there because you
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lose this game all of a sudden, well, you only
have one more loss, maybe the rest of the way
to get into the playoffs, two more losses, maybe forget it.
You're out at three. Three is like that line of
demarcation where hey, two you should be able to stay
in in a Power five conference. Three I don't know.
So all of a sudden, you're one more away and
you have a tough schedule. So I expected to see
more creativity, more stuff, a little more of a normal
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outside the box type game plan. And you had Sarkisian
at halftime telling arch Manning, hey, take what the defense
gives you, don't try, and and Ohio State being incredibly
conservative unless they don't just don't trust Julian saying which
if they don't trust him, goes back to my first point.
Are we sure Ohio State's a great team? Because man,
I don't know about that, So you know, pay you
to say that?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
No, no, I said to Pants.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Did Pants pay you?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No? They had an extra portion of no, no, I
need her putting an Ohio State loves me because I
said on Friday night. What if arch Manning sucks, what
does that mean for college football? He sucked on Saturday.
So you're welcome Ohio States and we give it. We
get uh so yeah, so they're okay, they want it
was a tough watch. They want to shout. They want
to know how State have like two order thirteen yard
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they weren't great like they did or something. You see
these other one.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Throw he needed to tate. Yeah, forty yard touchdown mass
and that's it. There's your explosiveness.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
But you saw these other teams that were all playing
top five, you know, two other top ten games, right,
and no, tre Dame still moved the football and looked
okay offensively against a really good Miami team. And Miami
did the same thing against Notre Dame. When when we
watched LSU and Clemson, even though it was seventeen ten,
Clemson still moved the football. LSU still moved the football.
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They were able to do that. You can't sit here
and tell me the Texan Ohio States defenses are so good.
They're replacing so many players. You can't say, well, there
are two best defense in the country. Of course I
got no Week one. If you have any kind of
talent offensively, you should be able to exploit the defense
a little bit. I'm not saying it should have been
forty one forty, but it should have been a little bit.
But fourteen to seven, man, it's like, whoa, I get that.
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The next couple of days belonged to arch Manning. But man,
ohast I get there. The champs, I get, But are
they are? They really? Are they that great? I don't no, man,
I mean really, like, that's a tough thing to suddenly say, hey,
they're great because they did not look good.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, but that was ignoring that.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
But that's the beauty of the early part of the season,
right because now if you want to get in on
the arch Manning by low situation right post post draft
hype and all that kind of stuff like we would
do for trading cards of like, hey, he was the
prospect everybody wanted, and then he didn't. He comes up
as a bad call call up in September, so everybody
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jumps off his cards and it's like, all right, he
comes back, he adjusts, he'll be better.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Arch Manning fourteen to one.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Now he was the leader in the clubhous six or
seven to one, Yeah, coming into the year nuss Meyer
who had a big one, big drive but got it done.
And then Leonora Sellers.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, suddenly get.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Hey, you know where he started his career and couldn't
get on the field and transferred Syracuse.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Yeah we'll get into transfers.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I got a great story after Notre Name game, right, Yeah,
So you know, maybe in the South Side Chicago, got
a lot of vested interest because you know, friends, family
that went there, and a lot of my colleagues from
from high school that shoot me the line of expectations
and whatever else. They're they're at times insufferable. But my
daughter at her job on Sunday, they have a resident
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who is a Notre Dame guy who was really excited
to watch the game. So they all gathered to watch
that in the common area, and they indulged him. They
stayed up late. They're watching the game, and then they
were all pissed off after the game ended.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I stayed up late for this.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
This is the worst thing. Hid on the well.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
They felt bad for the guy because I mean he
had he had a loss, so he was salty, and
everybody else like stayed up way past bedtime.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I'll tell you Dan Deviney'll have him ready for the
next game. I'll be sure about that. No more players
walking in saying take my jersey. If the Ruddicker kid
doesn't dress, take that jersey back. Exit out of Fresco
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of the NFL on NFL Eve eve In his longtime
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NFL insider. Check him out on the thirty third team.
He is a Pro Football Hall of Very Good voter.
He is a very good guest with us. He is
on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. It is Jason Cole.
What's happening, man, I'm an excellent guest.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Legend, you're a very good guest.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I would if I had to vote for best guests,
and I had to vote for they had a very good.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
For guests, would be in.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
I know, I think Judge Wafner would say I'm an
excellent guest.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Fernando Valenzuela pitched Wednesday, not stilled to pitch again until Saturday. Yeah,
so you're happy, man, We've made it to another NFL season.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. This is great. Michael Parson's
take from last week, which you know came true within
like a day, which you know, made Michael Irvin looked
not so good, you know, you know, one minute before
the trade actually came down. Not real observant about what's
going on, Michael irvins So but yeah, like it's been
(18:56):
a wild it's been a wild setup to the season.
Can't wait as he did, Alice get crushed by about
thirty an opening night. That's great.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Finally moved an extra half a point after the trade.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Wisconsin, who looks worse this week? The Cowboys on Thursday
night of North Carolina last night, who looks worse?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Oh you can't. You really can't beat what happened last night,
you know, like and just the Jordan Hudson means and
it just it was out of control last night. I
just went on and went, this is bad for Bill.
This is really really bad for Bill. But yeah, the
person that I really think it's even worse for is
and who's not really getting the quote unquote credit he deserves,
(19:37):
as Michael Lombardi. Who if you know, when you talk
to agents who represent these high school and college kids
now as they moved their way around the country looking
for nil dollars, like the person that they that they
were sort of laughing at the most in terms of
his his arrogance was Michael Lombardy. He was like he
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just he believed that they were going to reinvent college
football inside of the first three months. Yeah, we know
what we're doing here. Yeah, we don't judge players. And
somebody is so full of himself and you know, you
had the books that came out and all this other stuff.
But I feel bad for Bill because I actually liked Bill,
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but he kind of deserved it after everything that happened
in the offseason and the way that this is all
played out. He kind of you kind of look at
it and go, Yeah, that's the come up that the
world was looking for for Bill Belichick, and there.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
It is, And in forty eight hours we'll see Jerry
Jones front and center. Can the offense score enough to
at least make the game interesting?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Yeah? Score? Okay, I mean I can't run, but they
weren't gonna be able to run against Jalen Carter in
the rest of that group anyway, So you know, kind
of who cares, Like, Okay, let's just open up up
in five wides and just go for it, especially now
that you have Pickens and Lamb. The question really is,
at one point in the game, will George Pickens quit
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on a route? And what will Dak Prescott do? Like,
that's what I really want to know, because George Pikets
is good for quitting on a route minimum one time game,
especially in a big game when it's televised, you just
know that he's going to sit there and go you
expect me, that's that. Yeah, it was like within reach. Yeah,
we expect we expected to at least run the route out,
(21:32):
you know, Like I still remember the one against San
Francisco where he's running a deep route and he blamed
Picket for it, right, like Picket halls back and it
was like the one play they had and Piketts quit
on the route. It was like it was a bomb.
Like he was scored against San Francisco that was in
the opener two years ago. What are you doing, man?
Like run the route out? So Pickens Pickings to quit
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on a route awesome, literally looking for that. We can
I bet that.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I'm gonna have the right time we get.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That is there? Can I go to Vegas and bet
that George Pickens quits on a route?
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Like how do I? I think? Yeah, I think if
you go to Caesar So get that on the board.
The other one is the whatever the logic that comes
out of Jerry Jones. My favorite tweet of the week
in the aftermath of the Michael Parkinger trades is Jerry
Jones talking about, you know how we need to upgrade
the run defense and this isn't going to help us,
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and help us and help us, and ed Warder just
comes in with the tweet bomb going they didn't draft
anybody who plays along the interior defensive line until the
sixth round this last year. So it obviously was not
a priority earlier in the offseason when you could really
do something about it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Now, look when the night that happened, we said, Jerry, Jerry,
how do I defend this? And it sounds like they
just realized, Oh, we have to stop the run. Didn't
do it in free agency, didn't do it in the draft,
but all of a sudden, Oh, you gotta stop the run,
gotta go get that. Yeah, that's why we had to
make this trade that was going to happen.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
The way you stop the run is outscoring people. That's
how you do it. You force the other team to
have to throw. That's what you do. That's how the
NFL works today. Like stopping the run like it was
in the in the eighties and the seventies, that's not
a thing anymore. It's just not It's that's gone. Like
if you give up a few yards on the ground,
you give one hundred yards in a game, you're okay.
(23:25):
As long as you get your goal has to be
get to get up by these ten points so you
can force the other team to stop running. That's how
you play this game this year, and so all the
Jerry stuff is just it's just a Michi goosh, michi gosh.
Like there we go. That's a good word.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
So we Actually that's the name of the agent that
talked to for a part. It was it was Michigosh
and he just said, you got to call me for
a contract, and I said, I didn't have to. The
rules say it's not technically illegal. So I had a
handshake deal.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Okay, let's moving along.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You know, by the way, you know, my Jerry Jones
impression is getting better because he's coming back to me now.
The older he is getting, he sounds a lot more
like me doing an impression of him. Listen to that
Press College from last week, smart guy, and you'll see, oh, man,
Jason sounds a lot like him now. Because Jerry Jones
is over eighty, he's coming back to the pack.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Now you have to you have to do a little
bit more fog born leg horn to get to the
to Jerry. Okay, so you've got to channel your fog
horn leg horn, which we all did as kids.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Okay, all right, I got one for here we go.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Okay, I'll say I'll say, Mica is not with our
team anymore and we're gonna have some problems. Yeah, whatever,
we have to rest the path.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I'll tell you we got challenge you. I'll tell you
we got we got a We got a couple of
players running around on defense that they're sweatier than a
head band and a fireman's helmet.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
That's better, now you're getting it.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I'm not an actual foghorn leg one. That boy's about
his sweaty as a headband and a fireman's helmet. Yeah,
that's a good one.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
So how bad is the field on Friday night?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
To take away from what could be a fun game
between the Chargers and Chiefs?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Sorr, I get so much feedback. What was the question?
I was about the Chargers and Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
We're just talking about how miserable the field is and
what we expect from Harbaugh. Can he get justin Herbert
actually slinging the ball or we played defense and run
run again.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
I think they probably rather play this alligatory alcatraz at
this point.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
But wow, wow, oh boy.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I mean, look, people just don't understand like these which
is really important thing is to get right, like especially
when you're dealing with professional athletes. So the fact that
they go and they play these games on fields that
just are not very good, it always just balls me.
It's like you spend millions upon millions of dollars on
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athletes and making sure everything's supposed to be right, and
then you go play in a place where it's got
a crappy field, Like, can't you get this right? You know, like,
how many times does this happen? Last year it happened.
It's happened in Mexico City more than more than once. Yeah,
it even happened in Camon you know at the Hall
of Fame. The Hall of Fame game was it was
(26:29):
canceled one because of the Yeah, the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
You really push that.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
You know what happens eight or nine times a year
at Soldier Field with the Chicago Park Parks Department running
that place.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It well, yeah, which makes explain what the uh the
mccaskeys are doing at this point in time. But have
they reached a deal on that? I lost track of that.
Do they have a deal yet in Chicago and what
they're going to do or do we know we're still fighting.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
You still have all the politicians that are trying to say, well,
it's still in Cook County.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
So.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Technically it's over here. It's still in that zone.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Some of us still in the Cook zone. As long
as it's like it's still in the frying pan. Okay, No,
I think I like Chiefs and Chiefs and Chargers. I
love this game. I love Yeah, I just there wasn't
this potential distraction of being on a horrible field. You know,
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it's start of like last year when you had the
Eagles and Green Bay playing that game, and it was
it was a really good game, and then all of
a sudden, it's like the sidelight is the fields just choppy?
Is I'll get out. You'd like to have a better quality,
and you'd also like to have a division game like this,
not farmed out like if you know, like if it
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was the Chiefs playing against you know one, I can
see farm in that game out because you'll draw with
that game no matter what. But but why do you
have to send the Chiefs and Chargers, you know, you know,
outside outside the country. I don't quite. I don't play
to get them. That's too important a game to be
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playing it elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
All right, Jay, col last time we get to talk
before the season starts. Your Super Bowl pick are the
Jets and who.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Jets? This is my twenty eighty pick, So two eight season,
I have the Jets going up against the Bullet Seams.
Mustangs are tough.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
They're tough enough, tough.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
At all advant Yeah, for this season, I really tend
to go Eagles to repeat because I love their defensive line,
but I just don't trust him enough.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
So we're going Dan Campbell and the and the Lions,
despite the fact that they're changing at the coordinator. We're
going Dan Campbell's Lions. That's how they're going to be known.
They're not the Detroit Lions anymore. That Dan Campbell's Lions call. Yeah,
that's that's the the d C Lions.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
The d is go going to be the old English
d is going to be a d C on the hats.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Yeah, sure, okay, right exactly.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
So we're gonna Lions, Jets, Ravens, Lions Ravens there you go,
all right, Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna see Lamar Jackson's
finally who's gonna play it together and not screw it
up in the playoffs, Who's going to have another m
v P caliber season And he'll finally get through the playoffs.
I believe. I believe that is a.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Very good pick by Jason Cale. NFL Insider's got the
Ravens and the Lions and the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
H yeah, no, no Bucks now Bucks. But yeah, there's
too much Buckaloves going on out there. I can't buy.
I can't abuy that too much Bucklove.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
All right, you're easy, buddy, we'll talk next week after
Week one.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Enjoy week one.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
There Goes Jake calls too much, too much boys, got
too much buccaneer love. I'm like, wait, what like that?
Not buccaneer I've not heard one thing like there.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Are Goes I mean under the radar tape.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
But I mean, well, it's not like all of a
sudden like they're the trendy team to go to the
Super I mean I tried to speak it into existence
a little bit, but uh yeah, that's that's bold because
right now it's it's it's the Packers in the Eagles, right,
I mean, that's it. Tell how to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. But Guy's been
called but Nolan MacLean of Fox Sports Radio, because he
(30:32):
knows how to throw a frisbee too. It is Steve
the Seger with what's trending too much bucklove, but you
can never have too much buckloh.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Nicely done, very much.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
By the way, there was a stat out tonight about
Nolan McLean and the Mats. Of course, in his first
four career starts, he's four and oh with an ERA
under one and a half and at least twenty five strikeouts.
The only other guy who started like that was Fernando
Alanzuela nineteen eighty one. A little context, Fernando did that
for his first eight starts, and it was five shutouts
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in his first eight starts, and he went nine innings
for all eight starts to begin the nineteen eighty one season.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
And he was only twenty one.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Theoretically.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
Andy had eleven strikeouts against the Mets and ten against
the Padres, and ten against the Giants and eleven against
the Houston. It was just an incredible beginning and he
was Rookie of the Year and he was cy young winner.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Bernando had a screwball. Noel McLain has the frisbee. Like
it's say that he's got their pitches.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
It's fine, so we can accurately say that we haven't
seen anybody with the pitch movement like Nolan McLain has
since say Dustin May, so stay.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Tuned, Wow May.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
The Orioles are leading at San Diego five to two
at the top of the sixth inning. The Dodgers were
already beaten at Pittsburgh nine to seven, Shoheo Tani with
his forty sixth home run, Cal Raley with his fifty
first homer. But Tampa Bay beat Seattle six to five.
Raleigh struck out with bases loaded to end the top
of the seventh. The Yankees won seven to one at Houston.
Trent Grisham with a grand slam off losing pitcher from
(32:02):
ber Valdez, who then apparently crossed up his catcher on
purpose on the next pitch, just so he could nail
him in the chest with a fastball. No kidding, the
San Francisco Giants of.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
These are professional players.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Steve put it this way. There are other catchers in
the history of the league who just would have fought
their own pitcher right on the stea in the infield.
San Francisco has one nine of its last ten. Got
a seven to four victory at Colorado for the Rockies.
That is a record now of thirty nine and one
hundred and if you didn't hear about this, the losing
pitcher Kyle Freeland, who's now three and fourteen, he allowed
(32:38):
a first inning homer to the Giants Ralphael Devers and
then yelled at him for admiring it, and the benches
cleared and Freeland was kicked out in the first inning.
Texas has won six in a row. They have fallen behind.
It's five to two Arizona going to the eighth inning.
By the way that Tampa Bay went over Seattle. That's
five straight for the Rays. Junior Camenaro with his fortyeth homer,
(33:00):
he had four RBIs. He's up to one hundred RBIs
this season. The Angels won five to one at Kansas City,
victories for the White Sox and Saint Louis for Washington
as well. The Cubs edged Atlanta four to three, Kyle
Tucker with a three run homer. The Idol Brewers first
in the NL Central five games over the Cubs. Now,
the Mets were twelve five winners at Detroit. Yes Nolan
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McLain four and Oho got the win. His era one
point three seven so far, six innings, just two runs allowed,
seven strikeouts. Juan Soto with his thirty seventh homer, five
in his last five games. Toronto a twelve nine winner
at Cincinnati. George Springer with two home runs, and Boston
scored four times in the bottom of the eighth to
beat Cleveland eleven to seven. Ohio State is number one
(33:44):
in the new college football polls. Penn State is still
number two. LSU is up to number three in ap
The new England Patriots say wide receiver Stefan Diggs will
play Sunday against the Raiders in the opener after last
year's torn acl Buffalo is signing wide receiver Gabe Davis
to its practice squad after his knee injury last season.
Brown's running back Pierre Strong was waived from injured reserve
(34:06):
Veteran white out Robert Woods was granted his release from
the Steelers practice squad. The Texans gave backup quarterback Davis
Mills a one year extension. The Giants listed rookie QB
Jackson Dart as the backup to Russell Wilson. Jamis Winston
listed as third string tennis tonight. Novak Djokovic has advanced
and men's number two. Carlos Alcarez also won. There are
(34:28):
two WNBA games tonight, including right now Golden State at
home leading New York early fourth quarter fifty nine forty six,
and Hall of Fame college basketball coach George Raveling passed
away at the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve Oh coming up next.
What former star wishes every year his former NFL team
would go winless? He said it in a podcast today.
I hope every year they go Oh for the season.
That's next, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, Ramon's always what you want to
drink really fast?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Oh Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
My brothers went and saw a system of it down
and they had the guys doing the running in a
circle and starting to chuck each other like a mosh pit.
Oh goes out to Walter Payton Jersey that was running
a mack Was he holding the football out?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I get for him like stiff arm guys. So Johnny
Manzel made headlines. I know, crazy, wait, Johnnie Manzel. Johnny
Manzel made headlines today and it and it begged a
really big question and something that I'm really stunned about.
Johnny football. Okay, Johnny Manzel, who very famously Heisman Trophy
(35:56):
winner Browns gave his career away, had problems with subten's abuse,
you know, bipolar disorder. I had a whole host of
issues that hey, some a little bit, i'll past his control,
some completely in his control. Did a podcast. He was
asked about his time with the Cleveland Browns, and let's
just say that every year Johnny Manziela is hoping the
(36:20):
Browns tank for the number one overall pick in the draft.
Speaker 9 (36:23):
I sit here today and I go back and forth
with man, am I gonna let Cleveland off the hook
and just like let it go? Or am I gonna
sit here with hate and animosity in my heart for
the rest of my life?
Speaker 5 (36:35):
I finally sit here today, I'm like good.
Speaker 9 (36:36):
I think I'm gonna be pissed at them and hate
him forever.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
So it is what it is.
Speaker 9 (36:43):
Man, No no love for the Browns. I'm rooting for
oh with seasons every season.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Okay, well, first of all, they play seventeen games now,
But that's okay. I get what he was saying. I
get what he was saying, right am I gonna hold
this hate in my heart the rest of my life? Okay?
And you know it's this is this is where I'm
at now because Manzel You know, we've talked for for
so long about all Manziel gave his career away at
all these different things. And the one thing that I'm
really surprised, at least publicly now, is how at peace
(37:13):
he seems with not having a career in the NFL,
like knowing full well yeah, because he even said, listen,
I had some problems. You know, obviously had some abuse problems.
He had he had problems, you know, bipolar. We mentioned it,
but he says, hey, I I did a lot to myself, right,
I did a lot to it. I'm responsible a lot
of it because if I'm thirty two, which is what
he is, and I see where I was a Heisman
(37:35):
Trophy winner. Man I was taken in the first round
of the draft. I told the Browns to come up
and take me, and I couldn't get I should still
be playing in this league. I should still be making
you know, I should be making fifty million dollars a
year my latest contract extension, and I'm not. And but
at least very publicly, he seems at peace with it,
when when normally for players who have had that kind
(37:58):
of career, you would see it. You would see it
in headlines about them and how they spoke about their careers,
how they spoke about it. But he just seems, yeah, okay, yeah,
I still hate them and all this, but yeah, yeah,
so I'm gonna hate a blanket. I hate them, but
so at ease with that part of his life being
over when I can't believe it's not a bigger deal
to hi.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, I mean, some of it goes back to questioning
your full love of the game and where that stops
and ceases and you move on with yourself. You know,
some of the questions about Manzell and the self sabotage
part of it not from the health side, but you know,
things that he did that were in his control. Is
there was always just that question of well, family had
(38:39):
oil money from his grandpa and whatever else, So how
much of that is well, he had a soft landing.
Not that he didn't struggle with all that other stuff,
but in the end it wasn't the all right, I've
got to go work a nine to five and you know,
humble myself to that level.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah. And how much did he like being a star.
I'm really good at football. I like being a star
more than I actually liked football.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
No, that's it. I mean we got a Cleveland Browns fan.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Believe it or not, we actually have one on staffh
Shay's sitting there and he's just shaking his head.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
He wants to go home after this. He's like, you're
talking about man's hell, I'm leaving. I'm going home. I'm like, okay.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
He may have mouthed something to those.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
It really impresses me that he seems, at least publicly
such a peace with with this one. I would be like,
I'd be like bounced off the walls every single time.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
But at some point yet you just have to own
it and try to move on and profit from it. However,
you can sign more autographs, to make more appearances, do
more speeches. It's at least a few more bucks and notoriety.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. Well, we
talked about Bill Belichick not getting it in college football. Uh,
maybe Deon Sanders doesn't get it too. Break that down
next Fox
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