December 7, 2024 • 43 mins
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Fifteen seconds, third and twenty six. Caleb's gotta make a
play here with eleven seconds to go in the game,
awaiting the snap, Gotta hurry it up. Seven to six,
takes the snap, Caleb Williams from the pocket sings it
down the field, twisting turning inside the five as time
expires for Roma Dunza. That's it, no flags and the
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ballgame is over. Everybody's standing around and stunned, displief on
both sides. Nobody's celebrating, but the game is over. Sucking
happen down the stretch here. It did not make sense.
Third and twenty six. That ball goes incomplete and Alliance survived.
Hey hillacious comeback by the VARs from sixteen down, another
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one third.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Down and seven from the Seattle nine. Blitz's come and.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Throw inside kick off Leo Williams coming near side.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
He's running like a race horse. He's at big field.
Turns up, feel at blockers. Holy smokes, are you kidding?
Leo Williams. It's gonna take it in for a touchdown. Cheyawks.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Meanwhile, forty seven seconds left, Cousins Robinson to his left,
looking middle of the field. No pressure throws.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Editor septad Derwin James ends the game too at.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Durwin and due to their defense, the Bolts are gonna
get on a plane back to Los Angeles with a victory.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Gold chargas well. That's thenight show. Ben Maller is next.
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we'll we'll get to Monday night football coming up in
a couple of minutes. Yes, yes, yes, the Broncos and continually.
I can already tell you the storyline the next twenty
four hours is going to be cow great. Sean Payton
is Yes, he's a coach. The yeah yeah, no, we
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kind of told you a couple of weeks ago. But
there is your there is your big take tonight. Plus
that's all right, he's still gonna lose to Jamis one
see Jameis Winston experience. This is exactly why I think
people go, man, I miss Jameis, I have the lightning.
Maybe let's James. He moves his team up and down
the field. It's two touchdowns for his team to every
one he gives up for the other team. And you
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had that tonight. Two touchdown passes, actually three touchdown passes.
He's two to his team and he's got the one
to the Broncos. No, he keeps both teams in the
game like nobody else.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Man, he is a scoring machine. The pick six, you
throw your hands up and then they get the ball
back at bam, right back down the field and away
you go.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Never boring.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
You're never gonna be able to say it's a boring
situation there. Look, bo Nix has gotten away with a
couple of pretty bad throws, and his stat line should
look a lot worse, except you know they were They
smartly batted the ball down and allowed them to actually punt.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
All right.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
They had got the ball ten yards further back than
they would have with the pick.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But that's okay.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
It was a third down punt kind of situation. But
all said, twenty one to seventeen at halftime, it's a
game we will take considering the number of dogs, and
obviously with that open the efforts of our respective teams.
I told you we could run the press conference the
Bears did earlier today with Poles and Warren. Everybody knows
my thoughts on Warren. I almost got bleeped on my
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own show for it a while back ago. But the
that we could run that as a comedy block and
maybe won an Emmy.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Uh yeah, Look, it's a it's been a weekend. It's
it's been a weekend for everybody.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
I almost stormed the uh. I was gonna go down
to the Tampa studio just start banging out the door.
On Thursday. I'm leaving Thanksgiving dinner. Why I mean, I'm
going into the studio to do the show.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I mean, Frostbury. I couldn't get one of Kyle McCord's touchdowns.
Come on, man, I couldn't get the biggest win syracusees
had in years, maybe twenty five years. I couldn't get
a Kyle McCord touchdown.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I really thought you would have at least gotten the
clip of him mocking Ohio State.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I'll tell you, there are happy people this weekend, and
Michigan certainly is happy, but there is nobody had The
party at the mccorthouse must have been lit because they
might just be waking up the performance against Miami. And
oh yeah, you didn't think I could Uh, I could
throw the watching Will Howard give the ball away at
Ohio State. Couldn't trust him to throw the football at
all on Saturday? Oh I was the problem. I was
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a problem here. I am I'm the number one passer
in the country. No wants to throw it from more
yards this year than me. But I was the problem.
It must have been.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
There's a meme that makes the rounds whenever there's one
of these situations where there's like like a V formation
on a blacktop, right, so they're on a basketball court
and then the dude kind of creeps up to the
middle and then they go into a dance that's kind
of the McCord family.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, it was full on celebration.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
You want to talk about a happy Thanksgiving weekend and
a lot of spiking. Man, they planted a flag somewhere,
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But look, but let me just say this because obviously
the you know, look, the Bears have really owned the
news cycle for the past few days, the fire of
Eberflus after everything happened on Thanksgiving, and and here's the thing,
and this is why when I'm like, man, I wish
I was on the air that night, Yeah, is that
there's a lot to rip Eberflus for. But I think
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people just saw, oh, he didn't he had a time
out and he didn't use it, and that's just ridiculous,
and that became the story, and that was the piece
of momentum that went overboard. Right, what did you see?
What'd you find out today? All the players after the
game chant we had the time out? Why didn't we
use it? And I'm sitting here going, how do I
know more about football than so many people? Just want
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to see the timeout and go, how do that use
the timeout? It's third and twenty six. Okay, there's thirty
three seconds left in the game. It's third and twenty six.
You're not getting the first down and you can't spike
it on fourth down, so you need the time out
to get the kicking unit onto the field. And I
know Bill Kawer right after the game said, oh, you
run your kicking unit on the field. Oh you can, really,
I mean you can run. First of all, it's the
Bears kicking unit. You want them to. They're the keystone
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cops of the NFL. I don't think they could. I
don't think they can find their helmets in time to
run on the field. So I get so, so I
disagree with the Oh you should just call time out. Okay,
you're gonna have to really want to do that. You
want to that kind of chaos and run them onto
the field. That's stupid. That's not the real point. The
real point is that with thirty three seconds left, there
was no anticipation that, Okay, if something happens, we have
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to run a play quickly so we can try to
get more yards the field goal. And it took them
thirty three seconds to run that play. It was Comet
and DJ Moore lollygagging their way back when they got
to get back fast, and the Bears overall and Eberflues
didn't really have a plan for if we get sacked,
what do we do? All Right, that's the big and
that's the latest on all the things that Eberflus did
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at the end of games. The meltdown to these had
just not being able to navigate the end of football games.
That was, to me was a big one. Is that, Yeah,
I get not using the time out, get everybody back,
you throw a pass for ten twelve yards, you call
time out, you get your kicker out there, and you
tie the game like that should have been what it was.
But to take twenty eight seconds before you snap the
ball like that, that's what's on Eberfluess.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
That was the worst part. Well, but that's it. It's
the latest in the long line. And look, folks would
go at swollen don plenty of threads on this timeouts agreed,
just but it's the we don't have anything set, so
someone's got to be a leader in the moment.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Right Eberflus.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Obviously it's the amalgam of a month of just misery
in the end of game situations, right, what do I
always say, if you're gonna fail, fail spectacularly? And he
did at every turn. And here was another end of
game situation where you take the sack right your offensive line. Again,
a lot of questions, and this is why the muted
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tones and everything in ten to twelve seconds of silence.
We couldn't even play the Ryan Poles clips from the
Pressure today because there'd be too much dead air. We'd
start having all sorts of triggers as he went to
answer questions like what went wrong with Shane Waldron ten
seconds ten seconds.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Before he says a word, you had four days.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
You guys have been in hiding for four bleeping days
again exactly, Hey man, when we said Eberflus out there
on Friday, we didn't know we were gonna fire him.
My answer just a clown show, one after another. But
to the end of game situation, your quarterback, we know
his physical attetude. As a leader of the team, he
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can call time. You got Keenan Allen, you got all
these guys that pretend to be leaders, And I'll give
your new head coach mister Brown a little bit of
love in that he actually raised his hand and he goes,
you know I have a part in that too. It's
part partially my faults, which is if you go back
in my timeline, exactly what I was asking is like,
(09:19):
Eberflow's not the only guy that can call a damn
time out as soon as you realize you weren't getting
to the line anywhere close to getting it done and
giving yourself enough time to run a real play, and
everybody's confused. Someone could have called the time out at
thirty two seconds, Yeah, right as you and Cole Comett
needs to stop, you know, trying to take the guys
heads off in pass routes.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
But that's a whole other thing. Two of those.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
But all of that to say it was the perfect
bookend because guess what, Caleb Williams pass attempt didn't get
to the end zone, just like the Hail Mary four
weeks ago with Jade and Daniels didn't get to the
end zone.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Same thing. They didn't perfect at that point, Like what
did you want at that point? I just hope they don't.
The clock doesna the ball the ball isn't even saying
that's all you were hoping. So, are we're gonna get
the playoff? Are we gonna get the play that's all
your own, My mom's good? Is that gonna happen?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Like?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
All right, it's time need I'm like, you're kidding right,
Like there's two minutes left of this game and.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's the Bears time. Are you kidding?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Like all of that, and your point about getting the
field goal unit out and actually being able to attempt
something is apt, assuming again, you can run the and
that's when when But if you were if you're taking
the time out in thirty seconds and then in theory
you can get up clock the ball whatever, assuming you're.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But you got to get third and twenty six. That's
the thing. It's not foot and four twenty six. You're
not getting the first down. You need to be able
to get out about Yeah, So that's what that That's
whole thing that people missed in that whole story was
that you know, well, if you take the time out there,
let's you you don't know how long that next play
is gonna run. What if Caleb Williams is rushed out
of the pocket, he throws across the field. Suddenly there's
fifteen seconds left by the time the play is over
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and you try to run everybody on the field for
a kick. Now, the thing was was that, and that's
the whole thing, is that there's certain times when you
can't handle parts of a game that's going to wind
up getting you fired. Happy with Brandon Stanley in the
fourth and two's with the Chargers and happened with Matt Eberflus.
When when you keep melting down at the end of
games and there's decisions you are making after your team
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fights for fifty nine minutes and twenty seven seconds and
you make up and you're not ready with something at
the end of a game that's going to get you fired.
It's funny, though, Jason, because part of the discussion is
also the how about we explain to no show effort
on both sides of the ball for the first half? Right,
you want to talk about lifeless on both ends? Right?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
All your offensive your coordinator's a genius. Oh he goes
from being you know, goes up the ladder three rungs
in eighteen days. This is the guy that you finally
now seem to have some semblance of an offense you
want to run. It's like, oh, you know what, let's
keep the head coaching responsibilities on top of that and
promote another guy.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
This is good at strategy. So you've got that rolling.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
But Iberflus never took accountability for a damn thing as
oh we had the right call.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I wouldn't change a thing, like really, I see that
just and yeah, and that was okay. What he's got
to do is explain. Can't say wouldn't change a thing,
because like, okay, you really screwed up the you can't
screw up at the end and side, I wouldn't change
a thing. You have to take a little bit responsibility
and say this is what I wanted to do. We
weren't just explain it just how I did. It's crazy
that from three thousand miles away that I can say,
(12:30):
I go, okay, I understand what's happening here, and you
don't see that and how I look. I can't help that.
I you know that that I know more about football
apparently than Bill Coward does. But uh, you know that
you gotta you gotta take up and understand. Okay, this
is my fault. That goes so far when someone says
my fault, this is on me. I let the guys down.
That goes a long way. It goes a long way
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to respect in the locker room, respect whether you know,
even with your friends, if you screw up, if something happens.
I'm in a fight with a friend of mine because
I was supposed to pick him up for the air
but then he didn't text me. But I wasn't here.
But then I realized it's my fault. I can't say anything.
You come back and say, hey, listen, my fault. I
screwed up that that that's my bad. It goes a
long way. It goes well, it was longer than it
should but it goes a long way. But for have Eberflus, no,
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and in a moment again when when it comes down
to a big moment, not knowing what to say or
what to do, that's Eberflu's saying, oh no, no, I
was I would do the right thing, and get no,
you wouldn't do the same thing. And because obviously you
had time to do something different and you didn't do it,
that that was I always think that there's times in
postgame press conferences that is the final straw to see
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a coach fired, like when Robert Sala said, nobody in
this locker room is panicking after they lost in London
to the Vikings. I said, that's it. That's the moment
that they decided to fire him. And I think that
was probably the moment for eberfools when he said, I
do the same thing again. Okay, no, dude, you're gone now.
Now that's wherever it was. It was teetering. That's where
guys walk away and the owner and the GM that no,
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that's it, You're done. I can't believe you said that.
If we were having any sort of question, that tilted
it forever the other way. Yeah, I think whatever.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Jay Glazer reported also Jalen Johnson lighting into Eberflus after
his hey, good job, good effort, I have a good
holiday speech was really about all you needed out of that, right,
he said, it was a good ten to fifteen minutes.
I heard Johnson on in Chicago earlier and he goes, ah,
guys get hired and fired. That wasn't on me, Like, no, no, no,
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everybody wants to build a statute to you. Don't try
to dismiss it.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
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Speaker 2 (14:29):
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Speaker 1 (14:40):
The biggest night of the year in the NBA. It
is the final night of group play for the Emirates Cup. Wow,
and I am just waiting with baited breath for the
Knicks to close out this one twenty one one oh
three win over Orlando. Hang the banner, get that one
seed in Group A the Emirates.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Hey, man, you gotta take every little step on the
road to an actual championship. Find your wins on a
given Tuesday in early December, just like you did. Wake
it up this morning, he said, damn it, I made
it to another day.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Let's go. It's an E Cup night, Mike Harmon, Come on, man,
it's a different night. It's just a different night. Well,
we got the Cup. Nights are different.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Well, you got a huge, resounding Nicks win. I mean,
they know what's at stake. I mean, I'm telling nothing
to chance. I mean the Cup, the Cup, man, is
the Cup.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That's come on. If you gotta be cool, you gotta
say E Cup is a big deal, right, Lakers won
the first one. Now you know, Hey, this is a
big deal, man, This is a this is kind of
a dress rehearsal for the real thing. Like that's why
it's a big deal. Like if the Knicks win this, Okay,
it's a dress rehearsal for the big NBA playoffs later on. Yeah,
but Lebron told me now it doesn't matter because he
already won one. He doesn't care. Just like, is he
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just quitting in jail? No, just like when the Lakers
won in twenty twenty, he doesn't feel the need to
win again. He's fine. Ah, I won in twenty twenty.
I don't care that nobody cared. We want this tournament?
Does it? I won, doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Meanwhile, Hey, how quickly can I open a bottle of
champagne after the final buzzer?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Lakers already won one. This is this is the this
is the new look, And I gotta say, let's let's
be honest. Let's let's take We'll take better part of
the next four hours breaking down the E Cup level
of play this year versus the E Cup level of
play a year ago. It's important. We'll go all the
way through. We'll go that great ularity is what we do.
The floors, right, the floors have really taken a step
up this year, you know, I mean, the Knicks played
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an entirely orange floor tonight.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
I'm a little surprised they haven't, you know, had the
inlaid uh led lights really come into effect yet. That's
you know, our in synchronization with the music that they play,
you know, defense, and we get like little swells to
see what we can do with it. I mean to
make for a great televised attraction there.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So again we will keep you updated on all the
big E Cup moments of the night time. May have
a like a one shining moment, get all the great
things to all the great highlights the one shining moment,
But sure, I think that's what that would give you
the E Cup level of experience that you need to have.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
We've done a hell of a job selling the E
Cup in these opening moments of a show, let me
tell you, because I think across the oh, this one
was an E Cup game.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I didn't know for the New York Knicks, Orlando Magic
and all the other fine teams in the NBA. I'm
jim nantz enjoy one shining moment as we look back
at the E Cup that was Bullues tipped and Jalen
Brunson with a coast to coast drive. There you are.
Oh look at Nicola Yo, kicch running for your life,
big Bodaga from Free. You're a shooting stuff. I could
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just do it like that. There are other players need
to do it. Do it? Nicks highlights. The Knicks couldn't
make the Double E Cup. That's that's not that your
Brixcuse me? Adam Silver has the Double E Cup for
next year. Okay, that's that's what it is. It's getting
when the Lakers are already working on the logo for it.
It's fine the E Cup. That don't don't that's behind
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the pay We can yo, yeah we can't. We can't
pull the top off us. No, that's only that's a
whole other thing. It's NBA only fans. Oh that's it.
Can you earn forty three million dollars? Let's see you
see the new Double Cup on only fans? But what
is it? What is it? Let me look, we have
today what we knew what was coming. And this is
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why we have a twelve team playoffs, so we could
have the mass anarchy and arguments that are going on
right now about the twelve team college football bracket projection.
The latest college football playoff poll is out the number
one through four seeds right now, Oregon, Texas, SMU and
Boise State. Of course, you know, the top four conference
winners get the top four seeds. Put a pin in that.
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But the big controversy here is Alabama is in at
number eleven over Miami, who was number twelve? No, I
remember because Q show, Yeah, exactly right. We killed Miami.
Syracuse killed Miami. You planted that flag. We dealed Miami
a heart, We did a hurricane. We just came out
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with that big machete in the woods like Jason Modes,
are gonna kill Miami. Come on in, come on in
with your imbus, Come on in, Come on, ask got
one of our reporters. Come on, We're gonna kill you.
Mario crystal Ball.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Do you guys put out a thing of roasting him
on a spit yet or what?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But all this cord just eating wings is ripping him
right off the mascot and eating But we watched it
earlier this year, Miami, the Year.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Of Living Dangerously from Miami. Did not think that the
final I don't know blow would come from the Syracuse Orange,
particularly in the game where we saw our friend Pete
Futech immediately going, boy, I really picked this one wrong.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
And then in the end he was right. How about
we're gonna have him next hour on the show. It'll
be fine. But here's look, here's the thing. Look, here's
the thing, jetsure, it doesn't matter. We're a football school
and big bodega. As if you couldn't tell by that
tonight Syracuse when our football lost by fifty to Tennessee,
we're a football school. Yeah, Wildcats lost football. We killed Miami.
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We ended Miami.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
No, you did kill then you resurrected not only Dabo Swinney,
but you also put Alabama in the number one evens.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
So now because of teams that can win and rise up,
Clemson can win and move up their number seventeen. They're
in the AC Championship game. The way things stand, Miami
is out because the College Football Playoff Committee has already
said Alabama and Miami teams that aren't going to play
are not going to lose their ranking. There's no way
they can lose their right now. Obviously, depending on if
other teams move ahead of them, that could have, but
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they're not going to lose their ranking to the fact
where next week Miami will leap frog Alabama. So Miami
is out, they'll be out of the playoffs. Because again,
once everything is set, the teams that the teams that
are outside the top twelve that are going to win
a conference title, are going to move ahead and move
ahead of them. So Alabama is ahead of Miami. Now,
first thing, let's take care of this first. This is
this is the big one because Syracuse ended Miami. We
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ended Miami. That's so great. Uh, I'm okay of this.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
I'm okay with going to make a shirt and walk
around the rest of the holiday.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Look, my Twitter avatar is the upside down Miami Hurricanes logo. Man,
we ended Miami. We ended there.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
See, you're part of the problem between horns and down
now flipping the logo no no no no no no
no no no a rebellion.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's been a thing for Syracuse for the big restaurant
on campus, the varsity.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
But we put all little flags of the teams we
play up on up above where we get food from,
and if we beat them, it's a big thing where
they turn it upside down and stays upside down for
the season. If they beat us, their flag stays right
side up, so you know, that's been a whole thing.
So you know, now here, this big win, maybe the
biggest win series. They beat Clemsing, But we were four
and eight that year, so what kind of win? Did
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that turn out to be? Probably the biggest win Syricus
had in twenty years. Yeah, I'm going upside down my head.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
But also huge magnified by the fact that McCord had
the game he did while Ohio State loses. So it
makes him look I mean, he's king statue, look at me,
I'm the king of Central New York.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
That the specificity of Central New York. I'm okay with
Alabama being ahead of Miamiami being out. Why if you
have three losses and Alabama's losses the Oklahoma loss is
really bad. That's the one that sticks out going. Oh man, Yeah,
I get that. Maybe you fell asleep for Vanderbilt, but
the was a giant slay right over the course of
the year though they were surprised. But it's still three losses.
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And now the way it looks like three losses is
where the line of demarcation is going to be set
for the polls. But I'm okay with it, because if
you have three losses, you have to have a really
good resume outside of that to get in the playoffs.
And you know what Alabama does. They have three wins
over the teams that were ranked, including Georgia, who's number
five overall. They have a resume. Miami doesn't quite have
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the resume that they have. Now, if they are a
one loss team and they go in and beat Syracuse, okay, great,
but they lost. And so a two loss Miami team
and a three loss Alabama team that's playing a more
difficult schedule played more teams in the top twenty five,
Alabama deserves to be in there ahead of Miami. And
I get that, Mario Cristo baal is try argument because
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it's a very sophisticated argument of Hey, in our conference,
we won ten games. How many people can do that,
how many teams can say that? And across the board. Yeah,
I understand that, But you're also at a time where
you're letting in mid major conference champions because I'm sorry,
but the Big Twelve is a mid major conference. Now,
Mountain West is a mid major conference. It's college basketball playoff.
(23:34):
Come to come to the college football, So you're letting
in these teams. So I'm gonna try to find an
argument that works for me. Oh ten wins in my conference? Well,
all right, Obviously people are going to argue about the
other teams getting in the seeds they're getting in the
Mountain West and the Big twelve. But to take care
of the Miami Alabama thing is you know, yeah, I mean,
everybody looks at their resume now and and you're when
(23:57):
you're going to be going back in fur now because
the because the resume is so important, it's less important
if you're in the top four. Because if you're in
the top four, hey, as long as you win all
your games, you're getting in. Right Power five or now
Power three conference, you're getting in. But once you get
it out to twelve, you're gonna be battling with teams
and say, hey, yeah, you lost a couple of games,
(24:19):
how's the rest of your schedule. You can't say, well,
we're playing three teams that we're just gonna warm up
with and not play anybody who is good, because if
you're gonna get in, you need to have that resume
that says, hey, we beat some other teams that are
really good. It's just like you know, like I mean,
it's more and more like college basketball. Hey, what's the resume? Say? Boy,
this team has ten losses. Can we let them in? Yeah?
(24:39):
But look they beat Duke on the road, they beat
North Carolina at home, they beat Michiet whatever you want
to say. So you need the resume to get in.
And Alabama has the resume over Miami, who escaped for
a long time. They lost two of their last three games.
I get it, yet as it sucked to the ten
and two team in the ACC, isn't making it? Yeah,
but you know, you gotta make your conference championship game.
They didn't do that, and you let the door open
(25:01):
for there to be an argument. And that's where I
come down. The second part of why I'm okay with
Alabama is because it's an argument. You would beat Syracuse.
You're fine, don't worry about it. But all hey, we
lost a couple of games. Look at what we did.
We won ten games. Yeah, but you didn't play the
teams Alabama did. I'm fine with Alabama being.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
A Florida A and m Ball state, Yeah, in in
conference and then beating up on Florida State. Clearly that
didn't matter this year, and you lose two of three
down the stretch. Oh, by the way, we didn't even
mention the whole brand thing. Okay, this isn't the you right,
this isn't this isn't that Just because.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Michaeliver was on the sideline last weekend and everybody else
could come back as well.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
You could have a damn class reunion and bring back
every legend that ever wore the uniform. It doesn't matter, right,
Alabama still rates and Obama still has a number of
players at the collegiate level. We know their names, right,
we know and anticipate what they're gonna do on the
next level.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So yeah. The other is if we're going to be arguing,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
You got three losses or two losses down the stretch,
Like we're not at the point once we get to
we're arguing about the number twelve team, I don't really
feel bad for you if you get left.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Out of the game.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
It's really hard to get too fired up about that
that last slot because that's what.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
We do, no matter what we do.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Expand the playoff brackets too, soays, well, that was someone's
gonna get left out right somewhere. Someone's gonna say it's unfair,
and yeah, they they'll make their argument, right. They'll get
your coaches, you'll get your sid you'll get everybody in
a room and you'll go up on a whiteboard and
you'll make your argument. We got ten wins, we did this,
We did this, and you'll go through everything. This is
(26:41):
like Scott Boris going around AJA League Baseball. We were
talking about him the first.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
One of these, and that's why people, how is this
going to It's the first one. So I'm gonna act
just like the last ones have been and how are
we not getting in? I'm gonna politic my way in.
But yeah, when when you're talking about the top twelve,
it's going to be, oh, yeah, so Miami should have
beat Syracuse. Okay, goodness, that's just it, right.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
It's all data points that lead to the next iteration
and the next decision process. Here it is they're they're
drawing from scratch and to James Franklin's point and from others.
You know, when you do have the opportunity to go
and throttle what is a highly heralded opponent, you need
to go do it right where there's some expectations and
(27:22):
you have to live up to them. So when when
we see a big crushing loss or a narrow escape,
you know you're going to get a shrug of the
shoulders and it's not going to have the same weight. Yeah,
you won, succeed and proceed only really matters in the
NCAA tournament.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, but even if it was the U and they
were on top and they were undefeated, you lose the cues.
You're you're automatically disclas dude. We're a football school. Now
we're going to the nation.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
You lose you No, to your point, it's the first
year of this playoff. It's the first year of the
Fran Brown world. Yeah, and so we don't know yet.
And let me tell you one thing.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I'll tell you. I'll tell you this. He showered yet,
And this is this is a fair point, dude. He
was just roasting Ryan Day on the radio today. He
was roasting Ryan Day. Because here's what I think is,
I look and I go, had seriocus, have we just
beaten either Stanford or Boston College. We're on the cusp
of the playoff, Like that's how great this playoff is? Right,
(28:17):
Just to take it from you and I perspective and
blow it out. There is that would you ever have
thought in a million years a year ago, is sitting
right here that I could sit here a year from
now and say, and here if I'd be saying, boy,
if we had just won one more game, we could
be in the playoff. But that's what's the best part
about this is that so many teams can say that, look,
you play in the other division in the Big Ten,
(28:39):
you could have a big run and win some sort
of crazy ass high breaker and get into the Big
Ten championship game. Oh man, if we had just won
one of those games where now at the imbalance scheduling, hey,
this is a year where we don't play in Michigan,
Ohio State and Wisconsin, we could wind up getting there.
Like now, the door is open for so many teams
to dream about the playoff. And that's why this is
still such a great thing, because yeah, okay, now it's
(29:02):
open to everybody. Again. A year before this time, I
would never say that, But now here I am thinking
it's a possibility.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
And five more plays Lincoln Riley and the US Trojans.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Colorado was was was one game away, right, Illinois, Missouri.
I mean, all these teams was so so many. I say, hey,
we have that dream now and that's why it's so
great man. And now we get into the portal and
let's go.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well, now, just to pull back the curtain here a
little bit. Today was our big holiday party, Holiday, Holiday party,
Holiday here at Fox Sports Radio. Oh and already I
got my first holiday gift because waiting for me when
I came in here is a nineteen ninety one Rich
co type football card. Here you go, buddy, Thanks buddy.
(29:57):
It cost me. I told you Nickel right, worst head
coach in the history. You know, sometimes you need to
be reminded of where you came Bridge Kote type, the
guy who screwed the Jets out of Jerry Rice richekotype.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I was fun seeing everybody there.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
I had a lot of folks that work behind the
scenes that we don't normally get face time with, some
bosses that we don't normally get FaceTime with.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
And then it ended up being you, me, Rich and
Steve talking about New York sports.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Wait, my crap, ass teams talking about the Mets and
a lot about rock rock music.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
So I mean it worked out really well. Yeah no,
but but I always like getting presents, like I always
of course, my wife says, I said, I love giving president,
but I'd like getting presents too. And I got the
word the worst at this. Every time I look at
ridge Coat and it's a reminder of how bad the
Jets are. So I appreciate that, and so I just
I remember how bad they are.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
The funny thing is really off the tie of a
couple of blips on the radar.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
In forty years, nothing's changed. Oh yeah, yeah, like you
you you would look at like a graph and see
like a spike here and there, and it looks like
that happened to like an earthquake, because you know what
happens when you add that piece of cheesecake. That's where
your body sugar spiked, and then all the way along
here and right here. Yeah, so here we are in
two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, there's your spike,
and now you're all the way back down to zero,
(31:13):
having had to do those meters for a while. All
the way.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
It's always fun when they you got to go explain
to a doctor what happened here. It's like, oh, that
was the second jacket coirke.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
My my dad has a meter for his gluecoast all
the time, right, So just to pull the curtain back
even farther, I could tell the story because my dad's
not listening. I have not been as mad at him
as I was two weeks ago. You know, Zoe was
in the play. It's her school play, and they always say, okay,
you know, shut off your phones. Okay, great, So I
(31:43):
always tell him, Dad, make sure your phone is shut off,
because he's got individual rings for people so you can
get like Welcome to the Jungle or loving an elevator.
Like that's my dad's thing, Like, Dad, make sure your
phone is off, okay? And then in there and then
it's getting hot in near shit. And then in the
middle of the first act, the middle of the first act,
you hear bet it boop bet it boop bet boo.
(32:06):
I'm like, whose phone is that? What the hell? And
I look and I go, oh my god, it's right
next to me. Dad, Dad, your phone, Dad, Dad? And
I'm hit him, Dad, your phone. He's like what he
can't hear it? And then you hear again, bet it boop,
bet it boop? Is it at a rate that only
dogs are supposed to hear it? And I'm like, Dad,
give me your phone, give me your phone. He was,
what's on? I go, give me your phone? I go,
how do you shut it off? And I'm sitting here,
(32:26):
I'm going, this is awful. How do you shut this?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I shut it off? And then then we hit intermission
and he goes, give my phone back? What the hell?
I go, Dad, your phone was going off in the middle.
Everybody is looking around. He goes, I didn't hear it.
I go, what was it? He goes, Oh, that was
my glucose meter. It just remind me I had to
take a pill. I go, okay, all right, So you
know that the entire first act, the entire front bet boop,
bet boop. That's a part of the soundtrack remix. Uh. So,
(32:53):
here we are on a Thursday night and the game
that we told you last night was gonna be an
incredible match up. The elect trizzity in ford Field is
through the roof and we are getting a great one
right now. Seventeen to fourteen. Lions have the lead over
the Packers. Early in the third quarter, it looked like
the Lions were hitting halftime and they were just gonna
(33:13):
start rolling. They get a fourth and one touchdown pass
to Jamiir Gibbs to give him a ten point lead,
and then Jordan Love takes the Packers right down the field.
He had a bad first half. He only threw for
thirty one yards. Big long pass to Christian Watson setting
up a touchdown pass to Tyler Kraft. This makes it
a seventeen to fourteen game early in the third quarter
with the over runner for this fifty one, and it's
(33:34):
fit up to fifty three by the time they kicked off.
I'm feeling pretty good right now, but still here are
the eleven and one lines, nine to three Packers. This
will wind up being the most watched third and night
game of the year. It is that exciting. Now you're
gonna really see something. You had enough points in the
first half and now we're kicking off great in the sad.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Fifty nine yard pass play to Watson the key on
the scoring drive. Five plays seventy yards a quick one,
so yeah, open the game up. Josh Jacobs scored for
all you fantasy owners. Both Montgomery and Gibbs found their
way to the end zone. But to your point, Jordan
Love just thirty one passing yards in that first half,
and they came out and hit the bomb right right away.
(34:12):
So curious see how much they stretch and how much
the early runs success that Jacob's had maybe saw from
the you know, the the underbelly of that defensive line,
which we know is missing several component parts there for Detroit.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Look, and that's the big thing about the Lions because
it's not sexy to talk about because their offense is
just so good and it's so much fun to talk about.
You get to the Yeah, but the dad who cares
about the line's defense. Gad, look at this thought. It's
the best off means we've seen it twenty five years
of the NFL. They're just blowing teams out. I understand that.
But the Lions defensively, they have lost a lot of dudes.
They've lost a lot of dudes over the last few weeks.
(34:48):
And that gets real. I mean, it's gonna be really
difficult because as you get closer to the postseason, you
don't you just don't. Teams don't put up forty points anymore.
It doesn't happen that way. Look, you want to go
back to the Greatest Show on Turf from the Rams
got to Super Bowl, were they scoring points? They won
their NFC championship game over Tampa Bay ten to nine.
So you want to talk about dark sides for the Lions.
We talked about campbelling because Dan Campbell's gonna do crazy
(35:10):
things and make really ridiculous decisions that are gonna come
back to hurt the Lions. But really the injuries defensively
for them are really hurting because it's like every week
they lose somebody and they lose a starter in there.
You can only put so much duct tape and and
all kinds of gum and whatever else you're using to
try to put this together. Because that's the big thing
for the Lions is that we're get in the middle
(35:31):
of December now and suddenly teams are starting to put
some points up on them now. And it's not just well,
we can race out to a twenty point lead now,
it's oh no, no, we're gonna stay with you enough
because your defense because you're missing so many players. But
that's it.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
You lose reader, you lose some of these other component
parts and obviously hoping you get many of them back
for the stretch run. But what is Philadelphia able to
do to you? There's your number one opponent. What are
they gonna do with those road graders on the offensive
line and Saquon Barkley running behind him? Oh that hurts guy.
I can take off and run on his year as well.
So that's a matchup that suddenly looks that much worse.
(36:06):
And as we're speaking about the prolific Detroit offense, Jared
Goff with a bad interception, and now the Packers are
in business again.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
I'll tell you seventeen fourteen, the Lions had the ball.
This just happened a few seconds ago. Nixon jumps the route.
He's gonna throw a slant inside. It looked like the
coverage was sliding towards Jamior Gibbs is going to catch
a pass out of the backfield, but he tries to
go for the slant. Nixon jumps the route, picks it off,
gets a decent return. So now the Green Bay Packers
(36:35):
are going to have a first and goal from the
six yard line. And this seventeen to seven lead, where
the Lions felt pretty good going in a halftime they're
about to be, at worst, back to an even.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Game plus three actually, and yet at plus three and
a half, plus three and a half, yes, okay, yeah,
all right, let's so plus three and a half and
fifty three is the total. And then an absolute bull
rush into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
John Jacobs in the end zone for a touchdown, the
Jared Goff interception. The Packers make them pay right away,
so that lead is gone. Two touchdowns in the first
four minutes of the second half. Extra point pending for
green Bay now gonna wind up being a It's twenty
to seventeen, likely twenty one seventeen, and it's looked easy
(37:20):
for green Bay. That's the thing about this, this beginning
of the second half of the Packers, like they struggled
a lot in the first half, right, I know that
we talked about big first drive, right, yeah, and that's it, right,
And you know you talk about halftime adjustments in the
NFL are not that great. It's not that suddenly, hey,
we're figuring things out. But yeah, there are tweaks that
are made, there are strategies that are that are now implemented.
(37:41):
But the Packers have come out of the gate here
and they have not been slowed down at all. They
had the long pass to Watson. They're getting the end
zone easy. This was an interception and two plays later
it's it's simple into the end zone. All of a sudden,
the Packers have done whatever they wanted to in the
first five minutes of the second half.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Yeah, fewer than four minutes. And when we always talk
about quarters in games, but you know, last four, first four,
and you thought Detroit had taken care of business by
by getting their their points in the final four of
the first half, but just blitzed out of the gate
here and you know, Love opening up with that big
play to Watson, single coverage down the field, just over
(38:18):
the top, dropped in perfectly, and now we've got ourselves
a much different ballgame and Jared Goff coming back onto
the field after that interception, right, which all the year long,
it's all been about taking care of the football. We
talked about it last night, the turnover differential for both
of these teams, sitting at plus eight and plus nine
Lions and Packers respectively. And you know the tail of
(38:39):
the tape. You know, Josh Jacobs in the run game,
but who's going to take care of the football and
what we've seen from Jordan Love even with that robust
plus minus number, he's certainly giving it away a lot
can get after you. Sure, sure all the turnovers that
you waited on for years because they were always the
that that defense looks great. They're a great fan to
(39:00):
see sleeper defense, and they never showed up with the
turnover rate. This year, they're giving you that in spades.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swallowing down the Jason
smithshore with Mike Carbence. We'll keep you updated on this
game throughout the rest of the night again twenty one seventeen.
If you have the over, like mons, I'm sure Monsey
has the over on this. Trying to make her money
back from that Clippers game. She lost a lot of
cash on last night. Yeah, she's mouthing to me, I
have the over. I have the over. Okay, So he
spin the ber meanwhile, and something we're gonna get into
(39:28):
in a bigger coming up in a few minutes. But
I know I had to take a couple of different
looks at the computer today when I saw Wait, Bill
Belichick interviewed for the North Carolina head coaching job. The
North Carolina head coaching job. Bill Belichick interviewed. Yeah, Now
at first I was upset you, I was upset. Why
are we upset? Because all the Bill Belichick how he's
(39:50):
gonna communicate with younger people, all the best jokes were gone,
like all like all the pictures of him and his
twenty two year old girlfriend, like all the jokes were
gone all d I'm like, oh, no, I sent you
a good one. You said you did. I I can't
say it on the air, but you didn't. Jerry k No,
I don't know about that. I don't know about that.
Well you sure? You kid? Why you just want something
(40:11):
to happen to me so you can say, Hey, it's
a Mike Harmon Joe. But man, sometimes you gotta go
to the edge. At the same time, Harmon's ready. He's
got his hand over the dump button as we sitting
wait for it. No wammy, no whammy, no wammy, no
the one the one thing I will say that we
can say, all right, no, I'm just kidding, no the uh,
(40:33):
Frostburg said, And now I want this more than anything.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
I want him to get the job just so he
can have a bad game like against North Carolina State
or I don't know, wake far answer or something and
then have to answer questions postgame and just absolutely say
we're onto Syracuse. We're on to Syracuse. We're on to Syracuse. No,
it's good, it's already been addressed. We're onto Syracuse. I
mean proof of concept that he relates to young kids
(40:59):
building Yeah, yeah, showers. Yeah, well yeah he might do that. Dude, dude,
don't don't like coach man, don't how much coach.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
How much older or younger is he than Mac Brahmo, don't, well,
the whole that whole thing. But but yeah, on onto Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
And you know it's crazy. You know it's even crazier
about this because I thought about this today too. I'm like, wow,
if Belichick cats this gig at North Carolina, right, And
I started thinking, I said, oh man, think about that,
and it just hit me. I said, oh man, because
you know, Manny d as the head coach at Duke.
He and I were production assistants together at ESPN in
the early nineties. I'm like, so this guy, we were
productions together. You know, each go different directions. I go
(41:40):
the broadcast route, he goes the coaching route. That's the
thing here. He is he's going to be coaching against
Bill Belichick next year. Very strange world. It is a
very odd world that we live in. That's so strange.
Belichick in college in this college age. Well he's he's
got the hoodie and that's very popular and call you know,
(42:03):
the sweatshirts and a very popular look. He's gonna he's
gonna fit in right on campus. He'll fit in really
well right there. Man, are you kidding? Yeah? Yeah, the
sleeveless North I guarantee you there's North Carolina parties going
on right now, and it's I'm gonna take my brand
new Carolina spect the champion one I got down at
the store. Where's bye you going for Christmas? I would
(42:24):
cut the sleeves in it tonight. You want someone to
wear it outside in the snow, in the rain. I
want to be out there two am tonight just in
my huddy. My sleeve is honey, man, I'm feeling really good.
That's gonna happen tonight North Carolina campus.
Speaker 5 (42:38):
Oh it's funny though, is that you've already had him
on the Simpsons, you know, putting the hood up in
the whole nine yards. So now you just take it
to a college campus. But yeah, him in this nil
goes back to what we were talking about last night,
the job you could never do right, go ahead, your
cruder and watching someone flip at the last minute.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
How the hell do you think that would go over
with Belichick. We're on a Syracuse. We're on the Cyrus.
We're on a Syrius. We're onto our next run on
the Syracuse. Bill you lost a guy for twenty five
hundred dollars at the Best Bite. We're onto Syracuse. We're
on a Syracuse. We're on a Sycus.
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Fifteen seconds, third and twenty six. Caleb's gotta make a
play here with eleven seconds to go in the game,
awaiting the snap, Gotta hurry it up. Seven to six,
takes the snap, Caleb Williams from the pocket sings it
down the field, twisting turning inside the five as time
expires for Roma Dunza. That's it, no flags and the
(00:49):
ballgame is over. Everybody's standing around and stunned, displief on
both sides. Nobody's celebrating, but the game is over. Sucking
happen down the stretch here. It did not make sense.
Third and twenty six. That ball goes incomplete and Alliance survived.
Hey hillacious comeback by the VARs from sixteen down, another
(01:10):
one third.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Down and seven from the Seattle nine. Blitz's come and.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Throw inside kick off Leo Williams coming near side.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
He's running like a race horse. He's at big field.
Turns up, feel at blockers. Holy smokes, are you kidding?
Leo Williams. It's gonna take it in for a touchdown. Cheyawks.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Meanwhile, forty seven seconds left, Cousins Robinson to his left,
looking middle of the field. No pressure throws.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Editor septad Derwin James ends the game too at.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Durwin and due to their defense, the Bolts are gonna
get on a plane back to Los Angeles with a victory.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Gold chargas well. That's thenight show. Ben Maller is next.
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we'll we'll get to Monday night football coming up in
a couple of minutes. Yes, yes, yes, the Broncos and continually.
I can already tell you the storyline the next twenty
four hours is going to be cow great. Sean Payton
is Yes, he's a coach. The yeah yeah, no, we
(02:35):
kind of told you a couple of weeks ago. But
there is your there is your big take tonight. Plus
that's all right, he's still gonna lose to Jamis one
see Jameis Winston experience. This is exactly why I think
people go, man, I miss Jameis, I have the lightning.
Maybe let's James. He moves his team up and down
the field. It's two touchdowns for his team to every
one he gives up for the other team. And you
(02:56):
had that tonight. Two touchdown passes, actually three touchdown passes.
He's two to his team and he's got the one
to the Broncos. No, he keeps both teams in the
game like nobody else.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Man, he is a scoring machine. The pick six, you
throw your hands up and then they get the ball
back at bam, right back down the field and away
you go.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Never boring.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
You're never gonna be able to say it's a boring
situation there. Look, bo Nix has gotten away with a
couple of pretty bad throws, and his stat line should
look a lot worse, except you know they were They
smartly batted the ball down and allowed them to actually punt.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
All right.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
They had got the ball ten yards further back than
they would have with the pick.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But that's okay.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
It was a third down punt kind of situation. But
all said, twenty one to seventeen at halftime, it's a
game we will take considering the number of dogs, and
obviously with that open the efforts of our respective teams.
I told you we could run the press conference the
Bears did earlier today with Poles and Warren. Everybody knows
my thoughts on Warren. I almost got bleeped on my
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own show for it a while back ago. But the
that we could run that as a comedy block and
maybe won an Emmy.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Uh yeah, Look, it's a it's been a weekend. It's
it's been a weekend for everybody.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
I almost stormed the uh. I was gonna go down
to the Tampa studio just start banging out the door.
On Thursday. I'm leaving Thanksgiving dinner. Why I mean, I'm
going into the studio to do the show.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I mean, Frostbury. I couldn't get one of Kyle McCord's touchdowns.
Come on, man, I couldn't get the biggest win syracusees
had in years, maybe twenty five years. I couldn't get
a Kyle McCord touchdown.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I really thought you would have at least gotten the
clip of him mocking Ohio State.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I'll tell you, there are happy people this weekend, and
Michigan certainly is happy, but there is nobody had The
party at the mccorthouse must have been lit because they
might just be waking up the performance against Miami. And
oh yeah, you didn't think I could Uh, I could
throw the watching Will Howard give the ball away at
Ohio State. Couldn't trust him to throw the football at
all on Saturday? Oh I was the problem. I was
(04:56):
a problem here. I am I'm the number one passer
in the country. No wants to throw it from more
yards this year than me. But I was the problem.
It must have been.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
There's a meme that makes the rounds whenever there's one
of these situations where there's like like a V formation
on a blacktop, right, so they're on a basketball court
and then the dude kind of creeps up to the
middle and then they go into a dance that's kind
of the McCord family.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, it was full on celebration.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
You want to talk about a happy Thanksgiving weekend and
a lot of spiking. Man, they planted a flag somewhere,
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But look, but let me just say this because obviously
the you know, look, the Bears have really owned the
news cycle for the past few days, the fire of
Eberflus after everything happened on Thanksgiving, and and here's the thing,
and this is why when I'm like, man, I wish
I was on the air that night, Yeah, is that
there's a lot to rip Eberflus for. But I think
(05:51):
people just saw, oh, he didn't he had a time
out and he didn't use it, and that's just ridiculous,
and that became the story, and that was the piece
of momentum that went overboard. Right, what did you see?
What'd you find out today? All the players after the
game chant we had the time out? Why didn't we
use it? And I'm sitting here going, how do I
know more about football than so many people? Just want
(06:12):
to see the timeout and go, how do that use
the timeout? It's third and twenty six. Okay, there's thirty
three seconds left in the game. It's third and twenty six.
You're not getting the first down and you can't spike
it on fourth down, so you need the time out
to get the kicking unit onto the field. And I
know Bill Kawer right after the game said, oh, you
run your kicking unit on the field. Oh you can, really,
I mean you can run. First of all, it's the
Bears kicking unit. You want them to. They're the keystone
(06:34):
cops of the NFL. I don't think they could. I
don't think they can find their helmets in time to
run on the field. So I get so, so I
disagree with the Oh you should just call time out. Okay,
you're gonna have to really want to do that. You
want to that kind of chaos and run them onto
the field. That's stupid. That's not the real point. The
real point is that with thirty three seconds left, there
was no anticipation that, Okay, if something happens, we have
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to run a play quickly so we can try to
get more yards the field goal. And it took them
thirty three seconds to run that play. It was Comet
and DJ Moore lollygagging their way back when they got
to get back fast, and the Bears overall and Eberflues
didn't really have a plan for if we get sacked,
what do we do? All Right, that's the big and
that's the latest on all the things that Eberflus did
(07:18):
at the end of games. The meltdown to these had
just not being able to navigate the end of football games.
That was, to me was a big one. Is that, Yeah,
I get not using the time out, get everybody back,
you throw a pass for ten twelve yards, you call
time out, you get your kicker out there, and you
tie the game like that should have been what it was.
But to take twenty eight seconds before you snap the
ball like that, that's what's on Eberfluess.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
That was the worst part. Well, but that's it. It's
the latest in the long line. And look, folks would
go at swollen don plenty of threads on this timeouts agreed,
just but it's the we don't have anything set, so
someone's got to be a leader in the moment.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Right Eberflus.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Obviously it's the amalgam of a month of just misery
in the end of game situations, right, what do I
always say, if you're gonna fail, fail spectacularly? And he
did at every turn. And here was another end of
game situation where you take the sack right your offensive line. Again,
a lot of questions, and this is why the muted
(08:15):
tones and everything in ten to twelve seconds of silence.
We couldn't even play the Ryan Poles clips from the
Pressure today because there'd be too much dead air. We'd
start having all sorts of triggers as he went to
answer questions like what went wrong with Shane Waldron ten
seconds ten seconds.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Before he says a word, you had four days.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
You guys have been in hiding for four bleeping days
again exactly, Hey man, when we said Eberflus out there
on Friday, we didn't know we were gonna fire him.
My answer just a clown show, one after another. But
to the end of game situation, your quarterback, we know
his physical attetude. As a leader of the team, he
(08:59):
can call time. You got Keenan Allen, you got all
these guys that pretend to be leaders, And I'll give
your new head coach mister Brown a little bit of
love in that he actually raised his hand and he goes,
you know I have a part in that too. It's
part partially my faults, which is if you go back
in my timeline, exactly what I was asking is like,
(09:19):
Eberflow's not the only guy that can call a damn
time out as soon as you realize you weren't getting
to the line anywhere close to getting it done and
giving yourself enough time to run a real play, and
everybody's confused. Someone could have called the time out at
thirty two seconds, Yeah, right as you and Cole Comett
needs to stop, you know, trying to take the guys
heads off in pass routes.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
But that's a whole other thing. Two of those.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
But all of that to say it was the perfect
bookend because guess what, Caleb Williams pass attempt didn't get
to the end zone, just like the Hail Mary four
weeks ago with Jade and Daniels didn't get to the
end zone.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Same thing. They didn't perfect at that point, Like what
did you want at that point? I just hope they don't.
The clock doesna the ball the ball isn't even saying
that's all you were hoping. So, are we're gonna get
the playoff? Are we gonna get the play that's all
your own, My mom's good? Is that gonna happen?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Like?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
All right, it's time need I'm like, you're kidding right,
Like there's two minutes left of this game and.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's the Bears time. Are you kidding?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Like all of that, and your point about getting the
field goal unit out and actually being able to attempt
something is apt, assuming again, you can run the and
that's when when But if you were if you're taking
the time out in thirty seconds and then in theory
you can get up clock the ball whatever, assuming you're.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But you got to get third and twenty six. That's
the thing. It's not foot and four twenty six. You're
not getting the first down. You need to be able
to get out about Yeah, So that's what that That's
whole thing that people missed in that whole story was
that you know, well, if you take the time out there,
let's you you don't know how long that next play
is gonna run. What if Caleb Williams is rushed out
of the pocket, he throws across the field. Suddenly there's
fifteen seconds left by the time the play is over
(10:55):
and you try to run everybody on the field for
a kick. Now, the thing was was that, and that's
the whole thing, is that there's certain times when you
can't handle parts of a game that's going to wind
up getting you fired. Happy with Brandon Stanley in the
fourth and two's with the Chargers and happened with Matt Eberflus.
When when you keep melting down at the end of
games and there's decisions you are making after your team
(11:18):
fights for fifty nine minutes and twenty seven seconds and
you make up and you're not ready with something at
the end of a game that's going to get you fired.
It's funny, though, Jason, because part of the discussion is
also the how about we explain to no show effort
on both sides of the ball for the first half? Right,
you want to talk about lifeless on both ends? Right?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
All your offensive your coordinator's a genius. Oh he goes
from being you know, goes up the ladder three rungs
in eighteen days. This is the guy that you finally
now seem to have some semblance of an offense you
want to run. It's like, oh, you know what, let's
keep the head coaching responsibilities on top of that and
promote another guy.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
This is good at strategy. So you've got that rolling.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
But Iberflus never took accountability for a damn thing as
oh we had the right call.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I wouldn't change a thing, like really, I see that
just and yeah, and that was okay. What he's got
to do is explain. Can't say wouldn't change a thing,
because like, okay, you really screwed up the you can't
screw up at the end and side, I wouldn't change
a thing. You have to take a little bit responsibility
and say this is what I wanted to do. We
weren't just explain it just how I did. It's crazy
that from three thousand miles away that I can say,
(12:30):
I go, okay, I understand what's happening here, and you
don't see that and how I look. I can't help that.
I you know that that I know more about football
apparently than Bill Coward does. But uh, you know that
you gotta you gotta take up and understand. Okay, this
is my fault. That goes so far when someone says
my fault, this is on me. I let the guys down.
That goes a long way. It goes a long way
(12:52):
to respect in the locker room, respect whether you know,
even with your friends, if you screw up, if something happens.
I'm in a fight with a friend of mine because
I was supposed to pick him up for the air
but then he didn't text me. But I wasn't here.
But then I realized it's my fault. I can't say anything.
You come back and say, hey, listen, my fault. I
screwed up that that that's my bad. It goes a
long way. It goes well, it was longer than it
should but it goes a long way. But for have Eberflus, no,
(13:14):
and in a moment again when when it comes down
to a big moment, not knowing what to say or
what to do, that's Eberflu's saying, oh no, no, I
was I would do the right thing, and get no,
you wouldn't do the same thing. And because obviously you
had time to do something different and you didn't do it,
that that was I always think that there's times in
postgame press conferences that is the final straw to see
(13:35):
a coach fired, like when Robert Sala said, nobody in
this locker room is panicking after they lost in London
to the Vikings. I said, that's it. That's the moment
that they decided to fire him. And I think that
was probably the moment for eberfools when he said, I
do the same thing again. Okay, no, dude, you're gone now.
Now that's wherever it was. It was teetering. That's where
guys walk away and the owner and the GM that no,
(13:57):
that's it, You're done. I can't believe you said that.
If we were having any sort of question, that tilted
it forever the other way. Yeah, I think whatever.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Jay Glazer reported also Jalen Johnson lighting into Eberflus after
his hey, good job, good effort, I have a good
holiday speech was really about all you needed out of that, right,
he said, it was a good ten to fifteen minutes.
I heard Johnson on in Chicago earlier and he goes, ah,
guys get hired and fired. That wasn't on me, Like, no, no, no,
(14:26):
everybody wants to build a statute to you. Don't try
to dismiss it.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (14:40):
The biggest night of the year in the NBA. It
is the final night of group play for the Emirates Cup. Wow,
and I am just waiting with baited breath for the
Knicks to close out this one twenty one one oh
three win over Orlando. Hang the banner, get that one
seed in Group A the Emirates.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Hey, man, you gotta take every little step on the
road to an actual championship. Find your wins on a
given Tuesday in early December, just like you did. Wake
it up this morning, he said, damn it, I made
it to another day.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Let's go. It's an E Cup night, Mike Harmon, Come on, man,
it's a different night. It's just a different night. Well,
we got the Cup. Nights are different.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Well, you got a huge, resounding Nicks win. I mean,
they know what's at stake. I mean, I'm telling nothing
to chance. I mean the Cup, the Cup, man, is
the Cup.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That's come on. If you gotta be cool, you gotta
say E Cup is a big deal, right, Lakers won
the first one. Now you know, Hey, this is a
big deal, man, This is a this is kind of
a dress rehearsal for the real thing. Like that's why
it's a big deal. Like if the Knicks win this, Okay,
it's a dress rehearsal for the big NBA playoffs later on. Yeah,
but Lebron told me now it doesn't matter because he
already won one. He doesn't care. Just like, is he
(15:51):
just quitting in jail? No, just like when the Lakers
won in twenty twenty, he doesn't feel the need to
win again. He's fine. Ah, I won in twenty twenty.
I don't care that nobody cared. We want this tournament?
Does it? I won, doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Meanwhile, Hey, how quickly can I open a bottle of
champagne after the final buzzer?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Lakers already won one. This is this is the this
is the new look, And I gotta say, let's let's
be honest. Let's let's take We'll take better part of
the next four hours breaking down the E Cup level
of play this year versus the E Cup level of
play a year ago. It's important. We'll go all the
way through. We'll go that great ularity is what we do.
The floors, right, the floors have really taken a step
up this year, you know, I mean, the Knicks played
(16:29):
an entirely orange floor tonight.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
I'm a little surprised they haven't, you know, had the
inlaid uh led lights really come into effect yet. That's
you know, our in synchronization with the music that they play,
you know, defense, and we get like little swells to
see what we can do with it. I mean to
make for a great televised attraction there.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So again we will keep you updated on all the
big E Cup moments of the night time. May have
a like a one shining moment, get all the great
things to all the great highlights the one shining moment,
But sure, I think that's what that would give you
the E Cup level of experience that you need to have.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
We've done a hell of a job selling the E
Cup in these opening moments of a show, let me
tell you, because I think across the oh, this one
was an E Cup game.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I didn't know for the New York Knicks, Orlando Magic
and all the other fine teams in the NBA. I'm
jim nantz enjoy one shining moment as we look back
at the E Cup that was Bullues tipped and Jalen
Brunson with a coast to coast drive. There you are.
Oh look at Nicola Yo, kicch running for your life,
big Bodaga from Free. You're a shooting stuff. I could
(17:37):
just do it like that. There are other players need
to do it. Do it? Nicks highlights. The Knicks couldn't
make the Double E Cup. That's that's not that your
Brixcuse me? Adam Silver has the Double E Cup for
next year. Okay, that's that's what it is. It's getting
when the Lakers are already working on the logo for it.
It's fine the E Cup. That don't don't that's behind
(17:58):
the pay We can yo, yeah we can't. We can't
pull the top off us. No, that's only that's a
whole other thing. It's NBA only fans. Oh that's it.
Can you earn forty three million dollars? Let's see you
see the new Double Cup on only fans? But what
is it? What is it? Let me look, we have
today what we knew what was coming. And this is
(18:19):
why we have a twelve team playoffs, so we could
have the mass anarchy and arguments that are going on
right now about the twelve team college football bracket projection.
The latest college football playoff poll is out the number
one through four seeds right now, Oregon, Texas, SMU and
Boise State. Of course, you know, the top four conference
winners get the top four seeds. Put a pin in that.
(18:42):
But the big controversy here is Alabama is in at
number eleven over Miami, who was number twelve? No, I
remember because Q show, Yeah, exactly right. We killed Miami.
Syracuse killed Miami. You planted that flag. We dealed Miami
a heart, We did a hurricane. We just came out
(19:03):
with that big machete in the woods like Jason Modes,
are gonna kill Miami. Come on in, come on in
with your imbus, Come on in, Come on, ask got
one of our reporters. Come on, We're gonna kill you.
Mario crystal Ball.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Do you guys put out a thing of roasting him
on a spit yet or what?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But all this cord just eating wings is ripping him
right off the mascot and eating But we watched it
earlier this year, Miami, the Year.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Of Living Dangerously from Miami. Did not think that the
final I don't know blow would come from the Syracuse Orange,
particularly in the game where we saw our friend Pete
Futech immediately going, boy, I really picked this one wrong.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
And then in the end he was right. How about
we're gonna have him next hour on the show. It'll
be fine. But here's look, here's the thing. Look, here's
the thing, jetsure, it doesn't matter. We're a football school
and big bodega. As if you couldn't tell by that
tonight Syracuse when our football lost by fifty to Tennessee,
we're a football school. Yeah, Wildcats lost football. We killed Miami.
(20:04):
We ended Miami.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
No, you did kill then you resurrected not only Dabo Swinney,
but you also put Alabama in the number one evens.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
So now because of teams that can win and rise up,
Clemson can win and move up their number seventeen. They're
in the AC Championship game. The way things stand, Miami
is out because the College Football Playoff Committee has already
said Alabama and Miami teams that aren't going to play
are not going to lose their ranking. There's no way
they can lose their right now. Obviously, depending on if
other teams move ahead of them, that could have, but
(20:34):
they're not going to lose their ranking to the fact
where next week Miami will leap frog Alabama. So Miami
is out, they'll be out of the playoffs. Because again,
once everything is set, the teams that the teams that
are outside the top twelve that are going to win
a conference title, are going to move ahead and move
ahead of them. So Alabama is ahead of Miami. Now,
first thing, let's take care of this first. This is
this is the big one because Syracuse ended Miami. We
(20:56):
ended Miami. That's so great. Uh, I'm okay of this.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
I'm okay with going to make a shirt and walk
around the rest of the holiday.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Look, my Twitter avatar is the upside down Miami Hurricanes logo. Man,
we ended Miami. We ended there.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
See, you're part of the problem between horns and down
now flipping the logo no no no no no no
no no no a rebellion.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's been a thing for Syracuse for the big restaurant
on campus, the varsity.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
But we put all little flags of the teams we
play up on up above where we get food from,
and if we beat them, it's a big thing where
they turn it upside down and stays upside down for
the season. If they beat us, their flag stays right
side up, so you know, that's been a whole thing.
So you know, now here, this big win, maybe the
biggest win series. They beat Clemsing, But we were four
and eight that year, so what kind of win? Did
(21:47):
that turn out to be? Probably the biggest win Syricus
had in twenty years. Yeah, I'm going upside down my head.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
But also huge magnified by the fact that McCord had
the game he did while Ohio State loses. So it
makes him look I mean, he's king statue, look at me,
I'm the king of Central New York.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
That the specificity of Central New York. I'm okay with
Alabama being ahead of Miamiami being out. Why if you
have three losses and Alabama's losses the Oklahoma loss is
really bad. That's the one that sticks out going. Oh man, Yeah,
I get that. Maybe you fell asleep for Vanderbilt, but
the was a giant slay right over the course of
the year though they were surprised. But it's still three losses.
(22:28):
And now the way it looks like three losses is
where the line of demarcation is going to be set
for the polls. But I'm okay with it, because if
you have three losses, you have to have a really
good resume outside of that to get in the playoffs.
And you know what Alabama does. They have three wins
over the teams that were ranked, including Georgia, who's number
five overall. They have a resume. Miami doesn't quite have
(22:50):
the resume that they have. Now, if they are a
one loss team and they go in and beat Syracuse, okay, great,
but they lost. And so a two loss Miami team
and a three loss Alabama team that's playing a more
difficult schedule played more teams in the top twenty five,
Alabama deserves to be in there ahead of Miami. And
I get that, Mario Cristo baal is try argument because
(23:13):
it's a very sophisticated argument of Hey, in our conference,
we won ten games. How many people can do that,
how many teams can say that? And across the board. Yeah,
I understand that, But you're also at a time where
you're letting in mid major conference champions because I'm sorry,
but the Big Twelve is a mid major conference. Now,
Mountain West is a mid major conference. It's college basketball playoff.
(23:34):
Come to come to the college football, So you're letting
in these teams. So I'm gonna try to find an
argument that works for me. Oh ten wins in my conference? Well,
all right, Obviously people are going to argue about the
other teams getting in the seeds they're getting in the
Mountain West and the Big twelve. But to take care
of the Miami Alabama thing is you know, yeah, I mean,
everybody looks at their resume now and and you're when
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you're going to be going back in fur now because
the because the resume is so important, it's less important
if you're in the top four. Because if you're in
the top four, hey, as long as you win all
your games, you're getting in. Right Power five or now
Power three conference, you're getting in. But once you get
it out to twelve, you're gonna be battling with teams
and say, hey, yeah, you lost a couple of games,
(24:19):
how's the rest of your schedule. You can't say, well,
we're playing three teams that we're just gonna warm up
with and not play anybody who is good, because if
you're gonna get in, you need to have that resume
that says, hey, we beat some other teams that are
really good. It's just like you know, like I mean,
it's more and more like college basketball. Hey, what's the resume? Say? Boy,
this team has ten losses. Can we let them in? Yeah?
(24:39):
But look they beat Duke on the road, they beat
North Carolina at home, they beat Michiet whatever you want
to say. So you need the resume to get in.
And Alabama has the resume over Miami, who escaped for
a long time. They lost two of their last three games.
I get it, yet as it sucked to the ten
and two team in the ACC, isn't making it? Yeah,
but you know, you gotta make your conference championship game.
They didn't do that, and you let the door open
(25:01):
for there to be an argument. And that's where I
come down. The second part of why I'm okay with
Alabama is because it's an argument. You would beat Syracuse.
You're fine, don't worry about it. But all hey, we
lost a couple of games. Look at what we did.
We won ten games. Yeah, but you didn't play the
teams Alabama did. I'm fine with Alabama being.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
A Florida A and m Ball state, Yeah, in in
conference and then beating up on Florida State. Clearly that
didn't matter this year, and you lose two of three
down the stretch. Oh, by the way, we didn't even
mention the whole brand thing. Okay, this isn't the you right,
this isn't this isn't that Just because.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Michaeliver was on the sideline last weekend and everybody else
could come back as well.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
You could have a damn class reunion and bring back
every legend that ever wore the uniform. It doesn't matter, right,
Alabama still rates and Obama still has a number of
players at the collegiate level. We know their names, right,
we know and anticipate what they're gonna do on the
next level.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So yeah. The other is if we're going to be arguing,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
You got three losses or two losses down the stretch,
Like we're not at the point once we get to
we're arguing about the number twelve team, I don't really
feel bad for you if you get left.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Out of the game.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
It's really hard to get too fired up about that
that last slot because that's what.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
We do, no matter what we do.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Expand the playoff brackets too, soays, well, that was someone's
gonna get left out right somewhere. Someone's gonna say it's unfair,
and yeah, they they'll make their argument, right. They'll get
your coaches, you'll get your sid you'll get everybody in
a room and you'll go up on a whiteboard and
you'll make your argument. We got ten wins, we did this,
We did this, and you'll go through everything. This is
(26:41):
like Scott Boris going around AJA League Baseball. We were
talking about him the first.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
One of these, and that's why people, how is this
going to It's the first one. So I'm gonna act
just like the last ones have been and how are
we not getting in? I'm gonna politic my way in.
But yeah, when when you're talking about the top twelve,
it's going to be, oh, yeah, so Miami should have
beat Syracuse. Okay, goodness, that's just it, right.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
It's all data points that lead to the next iteration
and the next decision process. Here it is they're they're
drawing from scratch and to James Franklin's point and from others.
You know, when you do have the opportunity to go
and throttle what is a highly heralded opponent, you need
to go do it right where there's some expectations and
(27:22):
you have to live up to them. So when when
we see a big crushing loss or a narrow escape,
you know you're going to get a shrug of the
shoulders and it's not going to have the same weight. Yeah,
you won, succeed and proceed only really matters in the
NCAA tournament.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, but even if it was the U and they
were on top and they were undefeated, you lose the cues.
You're you're automatically disclas dude. We're a football school. Now
we're going to the nation.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
You lose you No, to your point, it's the first
year of this playoff. It's the first year of the
Fran Brown world. Yeah, and so we don't know yet.
And let me tell you one thing.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I'll tell you. I'll tell you this. He showered yet,
And this is this is a fair point, dude. He
was just roasting Ryan Day on the radio today. He
was roasting Ryan Day. Because here's what I think is,
I look and I go, had seriocus, have we just
beaten either Stanford or Boston College. We're on the cusp
of the playoff, Like that's how great this playoff is? Right,
(28:17):
Just to take it from you and I perspective and
blow it out. There is that would you ever have
thought in a million years a year ago, is sitting
right here that I could sit here a year from
now and say, and here if I'd be saying, boy,
if we had just won one more game, we could
be in the playoff. But that's what's the best part
about this is that so many teams can say that, look,
you play in the other division in the Big Ten,
(28:39):
you could have a big run and win some sort
of crazy ass high breaker and get into the Big
Ten championship game. Oh man, if we had just won
one of those games where now at the imbalance scheduling, hey,
this is a year where we don't play in Michigan,
Ohio State and Wisconsin, we could wind up getting there.
Like now, the door is open for so many teams
to dream about the playoff. And that's why this is
still such a great thing, because yeah, okay, now it's
(29:02):
open to everybody. Again. A year before this time, I
would never say that, But now here I am thinking
it's a possibility.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
And five more plays Lincoln Riley and the US Trojans.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Colorado was was was one game away, right, Illinois, Missouri.
I mean, all these teams was so so many. I say, hey,
we have that dream now and that's why it's so
great man. And now we get into the portal and
let's go.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
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Speaker 1 (29:36):
Well, now, just to pull back the curtain here a
little bit. Today was our big holiday party, Holiday, Holiday party,
Holiday here at Fox Sports Radio. Oh and already I
got my first holiday gift because waiting for me when
I came in here is a nineteen ninety one Rich
co type football card. Here you go, buddy, Thanks buddy.
(29:57):
It cost me. I told you Nickel right, worst head
coach in the history. You know, sometimes you need to
be reminded of where you came Bridge Kote type, the
guy who screwed the Jets out of Jerry Rice richekotype.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I was fun seeing everybody there.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
I had a lot of folks that work behind the
scenes that we don't normally get face time with, some
bosses that we don't normally get FaceTime with.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
And then it ended up being you, me, Rich and
Steve talking about New York sports.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Wait, my crap, ass teams talking about the Mets and
a lot about rock rock music.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
So I mean it worked out really well. Yeah no,
but but I always like getting presents, like I always
of course, my wife says, I said, I love giving president,
but I'd like getting presents too. And I got the
word the worst at this. Every time I look at
ridge Coat and it's a reminder of how bad the
Jets are. So I appreciate that, and so I just
I remember how bad they are.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
The funny thing is really off the tie of a
couple of blips on the radar.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
In forty years, nothing's changed. Oh yeah, yeah, like you
you you would look at like a graph and see
like a spike here and there, and it looks like
that happened to like an earthquake, because you know what
happens when you add that piece of cheesecake. That's where
your body sugar spiked, and then all the way along
here and right here. Yeah, so here we are in
two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, there's your spike,
and now you're all the way back down to zero,
(31:13):
having had to do those meters for a while. All
the way.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
It's always fun when they you got to go explain
to a doctor what happened here. It's like, oh, that
was the second jacket coirke.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
My my dad has a meter for his gluecoast all
the time, right, So just to pull the curtain back
even farther, I could tell the story because my dad's
not listening. I have not been as mad at him
as I was two weeks ago. You know, Zoe was
in the play. It's her school play, and they always say, okay,
you know, shut off your phones. Okay, great, So I
(31:43):
always tell him, Dad, make sure your phone is shut off,
because he's got individual rings for people so you can
get like Welcome to the Jungle or loving an elevator.
Like that's my dad's thing, Like, Dad, make sure your
phone is off, okay? And then in there and then
it's getting hot in near shit. And then in the
middle of the first act, the middle of the first act,
you hear bet it boop bet it boop bet boo.
(32:06):
I'm like, whose phone is that? What the hell? And
I look and I go, oh my god, it's right
next to me. Dad, Dad, your phone, Dad, Dad? And
I'm hit him, Dad, your phone. He's like what he
can't hear it? And then you hear again, bet it boop,
bet it boop? Is it at a rate that only
dogs are supposed to hear it? And I'm like, Dad,
give me your phone, give me your phone. He was,
what's on? I go, give me your phone? I go,
how do you shut it off? And I'm sitting here,
(32:26):
I'm going, this is awful. How do you shut this?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I shut it off? And then then we hit intermission
and he goes, give my phone back? What the hell?
I go, Dad, your phone was going off in the middle.
Everybody is looking around. He goes, I didn't hear it.
I go, what was it? He goes, Oh, that was
my glucose meter. It just remind me I had to
take a pill. I go, okay, all right, So you
know that the entire first act, the entire front bet boop,
bet boop. That's a part of the soundtrack remix. Uh. So,
(32:53):
here we are on a Thursday night and the game
that we told you last night was gonna be an
incredible match up. The elect trizzity in ford Field is
through the roof and we are getting a great one
right now. Seventeen to fourteen. Lions have the lead over
the Packers. Early in the third quarter, it looked like
the Lions were hitting halftime and they were just gonna
(33:13):
start rolling. They get a fourth and one touchdown pass
to Jamiir Gibbs to give him a ten point lead,
and then Jordan Love takes the Packers right down the field.
He had a bad first half. He only threw for
thirty one yards. Big long pass to Christian Watson setting
up a touchdown pass to Tyler Kraft. This makes it
a seventeen to fourteen game early in the third quarter
with the over runner for this fifty one, and it's
(33:34):
fit up to fifty three by the time they kicked off.
I'm feeling pretty good right now, but still here are
the eleven and one lines, nine to three Packers. This
will wind up being the most watched third and night
game of the year. It is that exciting. Now you're
gonna really see something. You had enough points in the
first half and now we're kicking off great in the sad.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Fifty nine yard pass play to Watson the key on
the scoring drive. Five plays seventy yards a quick one,
so yeah, open the game up. Josh Jacobs scored for
all you fantasy owners. Both Montgomery and Gibbs found their
way to the end zone. But to your point, Jordan
Love just thirty one passing yards in that first half,
and they came out and hit the bomb right right away.
(34:12):
So curious see how much they stretch and how much
the early runs success that Jacob's had maybe saw from
the you know, the the underbelly of that defensive line,
which we know is missing several component parts there for Detroit.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Look, and that's the big thing about the Lions because
it's not sexy to talk about because their offense is
just so good and it's so much fun to talk about.
You get to the Yeah, but the dad who cares
about the line's defense. Gad, look at this thought. It's
the best off means we've seen it twenty five years
of the NFL. They're just blowing teams out. I understand that.
But the Lions defensively, they have lost a lot of dudes.
They've lost a lot of dudes over the last few weeks.
(34:48):
And that gets real. I mean, it's gonna be really
difficult because as you get closer to the postseason, you
don't you just don't. Teams don't put up forty points anymore.
It doesn't happen that way. Look, you want to go
back to the Greatest Show on Turf from the Rams
got to Super Bowl, were they scoring points? They won
their NFC championship game over Tampa Bay ten to nine.
So you want to talk about dark sides for the Lions.
We talked about campbelling because Dan Campbell's gonna do crazy
(35:10):
things and make really ridiculous decisions that are gonna come
back to hurt the Lions. But really the injuries defensively
for them are really hurting because it's like every week
they lose somebody and they lose a starter in there.
You can only put so much duct tape and and
all kinds of gum and whatever else you're using to
try to put this together. Because that's the big thing
for the Lions is that we're get in the middle
(35:31):
of December now and suddenly teams are starting to put
some points up on them now. And it's not just well,
we can race out to a twenty point lead now,
it's oh no, no, we're gonna stay with you enough
because your defense because you're missing so many players. But
that's it.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
You lose reader, you lose some of these other component
parts and obviously hoping you get many of them back
for the stretch run. But what is Philadelphia able to
do to you? There's your number one opponent. What are
they gonna do with those road graders on the offensive
line and Saquon Barkley running behind him? Oh that hurts guy.
I can take off and run on his year as well.
So that's a matchup that suddenly looks that much worse.
(36:06):
And as we're speaking about the prolific Detroit offense, Jared
Goff with a bad interception, and now the Packers are
in business again.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
I'll tell you seventeen fourteen, the Lions had the ball.
This just happened a few seconds ago. Nixon jumps the route.
He's gonna throw a slant inside. It looked like the
coverage was sliding towards Jamior Gibbs is going to catch
a pass out of the backfield, but he tries to
go for the slant. Nixon jumps the route, picks it off,
gets a decent return. So now the Green Bay Packers
(36:35):
are going to have a first and goal from the
six yard line. And this seventeen to seven lead, where
the Lions felt pretty good going in a halftime they're
about to be, at worst, back to an even.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Game plus three actually, and yet at plus three and
a half, plus three and a half, yes, okay, yeah,
all right, let's so plus three and a half and
fifty three is the total. And then an absolute bull
rush into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
John Jacobs in the end zone for a touchdown, the
Jared Goff interception. The Packers make them pay right away,
so that lead is gone. Two touchdowns in the first
four minutes of the second half. Extra point pending for
green Bay now gonna wind up being a It's twenty
to seventeen, likely twenty one seventeen, and it's looked easy
(37:20):
for green Bay. That's the thing about this, this beginning
of the second half of the Packers, like they struggled
a lot in the first half, right, I know that
we talked about big first drive, right, yeah, and that's it, right,
And you know you talk about halftime adjustments in the
NFL are not that great. It's not that suddenly, hey,
we're figuring things out. But yeah, there are tweaks that
are made, there are strategies that are that are now implemented.
(37:41):
But the Packers have come out of the gate here
and they have not been slowed down at all. They
had the long pass to Watson. They're getting the end
zone easy. This was an interception and two plays later
it's it's simple into the end zone. All of a sudden,
the Packers have done whatever they wanted to in the
first five minutes of the second half.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Yeah, fewer than four minutes. And when we always talk
about quarters in games, but you know, last four, first four,
and you thought Detroit had taken care of business by
by getting their their points in the final four of
the first half, but just blitzed out of the gate
here and you know, Love opening up with that big
play to Watson, single coverage down the field, just over
(38:18):
the top, dropped in perfectly, and now we've got ourselves
a much different ballgame and Jared Goff coming back onto
the field after that interception, right, which all the year long,
it's all been about taking care of the football. We
talked about it last night, the turnover differential for both
of these teams, sitting at plus eight and plus nine
Lions and Packers respectively. And you know the tail of
(38:39):
the tape. You know, Josh Jacobs in the run game,
but who's going to take care of the football and
what we've seen from Jordan Love even with that robust
plus minus number, he's certainly giving it away a lot
can get after you. Sure, sure all the turnovers that
you waited on for years because they were always the
that that defense looks great. They're a great fan to
(39:00):
see sleeper defense, and they never showed up with the
turnover rate. This year, they're giving you that in spades.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swallowing down the Jason
smithshore with Mike Carbence. We'll keep you updated on this
game throughout the rest of the night again twenty one seventeen.
If you have the over, like mons, I'm sure Monsey
has the over on this. Trying to make her money
back from that Clippers game. She lost a lot of
cash on last night. Yeah, she's mouthing to me, I
have the over. I have the over. Okay, So he
spin the ber meanwhile, and something we're gonna get into
(39:28):
in a bigger coming up in a few minutes. But
I know I had to take a couple of different
looks at the computer today when I saw Wait, Bill
Belichick interviewed for the North Carolina head coaching job. The
North Carolina head coaching job. Bill Belichick interviewed. Yeah, Now
at first I was upset you, I was upset. Why
are we upset? Because all the Bill Belichick how he's
(39:50):
gonna communicate with younger people, all the best jokes were gone,
like all like all the pictures of him and his
twenty two year old girlfriend, like all the jokes were
gone all d I'm like, oh, no, I sent you
a good one. You said you did. I I can't
say it on the air, but you didn't. Jerry k No,
I don't know about that. I don't know about that.
Well you sure? You kid? Why you just want something
(40:11):
to happen to me so you can say, Hey, it's
a Mike Harmon Joe. But man, sometimes you gotta go
to the edge. At the same time, Harmon's ready. He's
got his hand over the dump button as we sitting
wait for it. No wammy, no whammy, no wammy, no
the one the one thing I will say that we
can say, all right, no, I'm just kidding, no the uh,
(40:33):
Frostburg said, And now I want this more than anything.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
I want him to get the job just so he
can have a bad game like against North Carolina State
or I don't know, wake far answer or something and
then have to answer questions postgame and just absolutely say
we're onto Syracuse. We're on to Syracuse. We're on to Syracuse. No,
it's good, it's already been addressed. We're onto Syracuse. I
mean proof of concept that he relates to young kids
(40:59):
building Yeah, yeah, showers. Yeah, well yeah he might do that. Dude, dude,
don't don't like coach man, don't how much coach.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
How much older or younger is he than Mac Brahmo, don't, well,
the whole that whole thing. But but yeah, on onto Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
And you know it's crazy. You know it's even crazier
about this because I thought about this today too. I'm like, wow,
if Belichick cats this gig at North Carolina, right, And
I started thinking, I said, oh man, think about that,
and it just hit me. I said, oh man, because
you know, Manny d as the head coach at Duke.
He and I were production assistants together at ESPN in
the early nineties. I'm like, so this guy, we were
productions together. You know, each go different directions. I go
(41:40):
the broadcast route, he goes the coaching route. That's the
thing here. He is he's going to be coaching against
Bill Belichick next year. Very strange world. It is a
very odd world that we live in. That's so strange.
Belichick in college in this college age. Well he's he's
got the hoodie and that's very popular and call you know,
(42:03):
the sweatshirts and a very popular look. He's gonna he's
gonna fit in right on campus. He'll fit in really
well right there. Man, are you kidding? Yeah? Yeah, the
sleeveless North I guarantee you there's North Carolina parties going
on right now, and it's I'm gonna take my brand
new Carolina spect the champion one I got down at
the store. Where's bye you going for Christmas? I would
(42:24):
cut the sleeves in it tonight. You want someone to
wear it outside in the snow, in the rain. I
want to be out there two am tonight just in
my huddy. My sleeve is honey, man, I'm feeling really good.
That's gonna happen tonight North Carolina campus.
Speaker 5 (42:38):
Oh it's funny though, is that you've already had him
on the Simpsons, you know, putting the hood up in
the whole nine yards. So now you just take it
to a college campus. But yeah, him in this nil
goes back to what we were talking about last night,
the job you could never do right, go ahead, your
cruder and watching someone flip at the last minute.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
How the hell do you think that would go over
with Belichick. We're on a Syracuse. We're on the Cyrus.
We're on a Syrius. We're onto our next run on
the Syracuse. Bill you lost a guy for twenty five
hundred dollars at the Best Bite. We're onto Syracuse. We're
on a Syracuse. We're on a Sycus.
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