March 1, 2025 • 41 mins
Welcome into the FSR Friday Night Party with Jason and Mike! Cavs-Celtics a lock for the Eastern Conference Finals? Why does everyone win with Mathew Stafford returning to the LA Rams? A Seahawks/Packers trade for DK Metcalf would be incredible for both teams. And Jason shares his Aaron Rodgers nightmare situation!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Friday, The Jason Smith Show with
my bes friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It's Friday, It's Friday. Isn't that what I'm supposed to sing?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I don't think that's a song that's now She's back?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Okay, sure, don't you remember her?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
No, no, I remember now. I remember Rebecca black Shorts. Okay,
it's like it's twenty sixteen. I remember Rebecca black Short.
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Speaker 4 (01:15):
Look, another big day at the Combine.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
We finally got a picture of the potential Jordan Schultz
Ian Rappaport confrontation from two days ago.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Like, whoa, we got a picture. There's no video.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
We got a picture of what the confrontation looked like. Okay,
suddenly we're getting there, Mike Carmon, event we're getting there.
Eventually someone's gonna have video of this thing. Well, but
today's AI technology, we can have our own video that
we propagate by morning. Oh you know, yeah, but I
come yeah, like it could have gone like this, like
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everything will suddenly be like an ending of the movie Clue. Oh,
it could have happened this way. It could have happened
this way. It could have happened this way. Oh, but
it really happened like this. I kind of like to
see how that really would.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Have went, Like I can't, yeah, happen.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
There's certain things like I'd like to see alternate versions
of Like would I like to see an AI version
of what happened if Bill Buckner caught the ground or
at first base right like and and would he beat
Mookie Wilson to the bag with a met stilla won
the game? But they'd still won the World because the
game was tied at that point in Game six of
the eighty six World Series. Like, how how would that
(02:24):
have gone? Like certain things, I wouldn't mind seeing that,
but stuff like fights and stuff is like, eh, I
kind of I kind of want to see the real thing. Wow,
why don't we just make him claimation and just bring
back celebrity deathmatch. I thought you're going back to like
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and you're without a Santa Claus,
going back to Clay for Gonna.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
There's suvereren goal the guys that do Wallaston Grammitt to
put it together.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh okay, that would be See that would be that
would be old school enough with a new school enough
twist on it.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
See yea go that's you thinking.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And we'll win awards.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
But tonight we kind of have.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
To begin with a little bit of a somber note,
at least for me personally. Uh, Cavaliers beat the Celtics
to night one twenty three, one sixteen and watching this
game down the stretch and you see the night that
Jason Tatum had this monster forty six and sixteen and
nine night that wasn't enough because Donovan Mitchell had forty one.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Uh you know, I.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Look at this and I go, yeah, this is the
Eastern Conference Finals. Like I I sit here and go,
you know, the Knicks have a great starting five and
maybe the best starting five in the NBA. And I
let but I'm just look and I go, this is
every really really this is.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
The Eastern Conference Finals. Like I mean, like I hit,
it's like a weird deal. Like it's not like I've
been coming to it. It's just watching tonight and seeing
the level of play that the that these teams have
and obviously Boston getting out to the big lead and
the Cavaliers coming back. Look, there's a reason why they
had the best offense in the NBA all year.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I just watch and I.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Go, Yeah, these teams are just way more complete than
anybody else. I mean, look, you know we spend a
lot about the Lakers, and Lakers have the big game
coming up.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
We'll get to that in a few minutes. Lebron is
playing tonight, but the Celtics, Cavaliers and Thunder more than
anybody else. Watching those three teams play, I can clearly
say so they are so much more complete than any
other team. Like they're more complete. Look as good as
the Lakers are with Luca and Lebron. Now those teams
(04:29):
are more complete, because hey, what do the Lakers have
coming off the bench? Well, now, okay, you got Hachamura
and Austin Reeves are gonna have bigger role. Okay, so
they have a really good starting five.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
They'll be the Knicks.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Right Like all these other teams, I feel like they
have way more flaws and they're not as complete, They're
not as whole as these three teams. And look, you're
talking about the three teams with the best records at
the top of the NBA. But it's it's more like
these three teams are just such a cut above. Like
it's not like, hey, yeah, the Cavaliers and the Celtics
are the top two teams, but hey, it's a toss
(04:59):
up series when they play the Knicks or the Bucks
or anybody else. Like I just can't see that, Like
these three teams have shown that. Okay, it's the three
of us and really everybody else.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, I mean we watch as the Cavaliers. They added
DeAndre Hunter. He's coming off the bench, a big rebound
and point guy. Right, he was trapped in Atlanta for
all those years. Best season of his career this year,
averaging eighteen plus and now he's coming off the bench
and he's had a couple of double doubles, but their
(05:30):
efficiency ratings have been through the roof since his acquisition,
giving them more depth on the bench, and just a
fantastic finish here. I mean, this was a fun, fun one.
You know, when we talk about the NBA, since so
many of the NBA stars Lebron want to talk about
how everybody hates on the game, how about you turn
on the radio, stop listening to the same two dopes
(05:50):
that are in your head or whoever you're sick of.
Fans are passing near their Twitter accounts or video clips.
We've celebrated all these teams probably talk more Detroit basketball
than they have out anywhere outside of Detroit, uh in
terms of top teams in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
But there just is that level of separation.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And it's it's a little bit of the thing we
did for years here on the show Jason of the
all Right, we got a very small group of teams
that we just say, all right, obvious title contenders, and
then we start trying to argue our way into adding
more of them, right, your Nicks for a while, it's like, Okay,
they're gonna get healthy, they're gonna get Robinson back, they're
(06:31):
gonna not Well, it's more fun when you add the
Knicks and the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
It's like, let's add more garlic to this. Hey, more
garlic would be awesome. What more garlic?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, and in America just to add another pile of salts.
But all of that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, and more cheese. I want extra cheese? Can I
get heavy cheese?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
That's my new thing in the restaurants now with is
you have the choices because when you order now at Kiosks,
that you know that's not extra. It's heavy. It's like
oh heavy choice heavy great, Yeah, heavy cheese.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah, like instead of an extra slow, like they just
dropped like a whole block on it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, here you go, there's heavy cheese. I kind of
dig that heavy. Have to try that when I go
out next. I don't think I'm supposed to eat that
much cheese, but you know what, for giggles and for
the purpose of the shit, it's protein, man, It's good
for it. We're fine on PhD with protein, man. And also,
heavy cheese is a great name for a band. Oh
that's a great name. Yeah, dude, you got the new
(07:23):
Heavy Cheese.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Oh my god, it's awesome. Heavy Cheese is great.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
That is a seventies offshoot.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
On all the guys long long mustaches. They all look
like they're from Supertramp.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Hey, Heavy Cheese.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Has this new one.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And he's throwing out the little baby bells to the crowd.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I remember back in seventy four when I first saw
Heavy Cheese live for the first time. It was it
a small arena and Sacramento, and boy, I tell you,
these guys came out, bell bottoms, guitars blazing. It was
some kind of show man. I do hate Heavy Cheese.
This album was gonna rock the first half of nineteen
seventy four.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, but here's the problem. The first negative review. They're
just gonna figure out what the stinkiest Cheese is and
that's gonna be the headline.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And I'm ever gonna get rid of that.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, No, it's gonna be all you know, uh,
Heavy Cheese, Heavy Cheese and you know album review. Heavy
Cheese much more blue this time around.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
They went back to their roots on this one. It's
more of a blue age style, but no, it's it's fun.
I mean, you got Memphis, they're thirty eight and twenty,
but do you really feel they're a threat?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I don't know, know, it's such a huge slot. Yeah,
we keep willing, right.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, No, they're definitely the next It's almost like how
the the MVP in the National League last year, where
we said, hey, okay Otani obviously hey, and Lindora is
going to be really happy to be the unanimous second
place sure, Like that's kind of how I fll. There
is a clear second tier of wannabe title contenders in
the NBA, and it's led by the Knicks and the
(09:03):
Nuggets and the Lakers and the Grizzlies. Like those four
teams are at the top, Like, hey, who's that next
level I want to be?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
It's the Knicks, the Grizzlies, the Nuggets, and the Lakers.
Those are the teams.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Then everybody else is the next level below that. That's
where you get to your Bucks, Pistons, Pacers, Rockets, Clippers,
like that's kind of where that's kind of where we're at.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
So those four teams clearly in the second level.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
But now at seven and three in their last ten
winners of their last five and coming off the beautiful
February twenty seventh is my day, Steph Curry with his
fifty six. By the way, the number of great performances
on February the twenty seventh, I mean, it's Steph Curry
Day in the Bay Area. They're on the come and
really looking to chase down the Clippers. We'll see how
the Clippers fare over the next couple of nights playing
(09:46):
those home and homes against the Lakers. Now, meanwhile, the
other big news in the NBA today, and you know,
I hate to say, you know, I told you so, but.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I would not be surprised. In fact, it should happen.
And if they listen to the show, which they should,
but we should have seen Joel Embiid play his final
game in a Sixers uniform. We told you the other
night he's not gonna play again. He doesn't look like
he's wanted to play all season long. He's not been healthy,
he's not been motivated, and the Sixers made it official
(10:19):
today he will not play again the rest of the season.
Maybe he needs another knee surgery, maybe not. Who knows
what it is with him at this point. But you
can just tell the guy needs to be someplace else,
he doesn't want to be there, and the Sixers need
to move on. Right, not quite the Miles Garrett of
I want the blank out and don't even put some contract.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Offer in front of me. But you can tell. And
Beid's kind of had it and the Sixers need to
move on. And we've talked about this for a while
that this should be it. And in the offseason, as
long as Embiid has a clean bill of health, yeah,
there should be another whether we talked about it last night,
because the Warriors are one trade away from being at
the top of the Western Conference, and Joel Embiid is
(11:03):
clearly a gamble because any time you sign a big
star in free agency in the off season, most of
them there's going to be some level of risk. And
you know, but Embiid comes with risk because you're talking
about talent and motivation.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Now for the next two years, I feel like it
Beat will be motivated enough to to go get him.
I'm a big proponent of if he's healthy and a
change of scenery and Beid would really be fantastic, right
because the guy, as long as he can, as long
as he's a motivated Joel Embiid. He's terrific player and
he's not too far removed from being the MVP of
the NBA. I don't know what I would do once
he got too close to thirty five. That's where I
(11:36):
would kind of get out of the Embiid business. But
the next couple of years, sure, why not? And it
just this is just a move that's made sense for
both sides for so long. And instead of it being
a a Luka doncic hey, we decided today we're doing it,
ripping the band aid off. This is more we're all
coming around to the idea and eventually we're going to
get to an inevitable conclusion.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
But this should be it, and Bee should have played
his final game as a Sixer.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Well, I remember we had that big moment ahead of
the trade deadline where all of a sudden, he's given
us a triple doubles, like, I want to be traded.
I don't want to play with Paul George or any
of these guys again.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
And then well now now he's.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Not so Look, he's such a questioned asset at this
point for any team that would look to acquire or
if the Sixers want to run with him, because you
you can't bank on a night to night whether he's
gonna be there. So any kind of trade, I am
not giving you full value. I've been saying this for
(12:33):
a very long time. Look, you know it's really about
the money at this point. Yeah, we're taking the money,
So you're not gonna we said, we're not going to
give you back Anthony Davis, like, we're taking the money here, Okay,
we're taking enough. Well, but I'm just saying, like, somewhere here,
either you're eating a lot of this money and we
were figuring out this trade that way, or when we
(12:53):
go through the dopey NBA channels of matching up salaries
and whatever else. Yeah, here's you're getting every expired contract
and I'm looking through my books to find out whether
we have the rights to Keith van Horn or any
of those guys where there's still a bunch of money
because they're a tenured veteran remanding you know what you're
(13:14):
getting missed too, jerk, just because I said so. But yeah,
it's a very difficult trade to kind of put together because,
as you say, it's the if and when and how
and all that. I'm not trusting it. This is a
I don't think just a simple operation shut down. You
know what, he's sore or whatever. Well, we're talking about
(13:36):
these types of surgeries for a guy that's already walked.
So many weary miles missed several seasons in their entirety.
The game's mislog rivaling that of Zion Williamson in terms
of percentages that you know you're you're not getting much.
But if it gives you a new identity in Philadelphia
and you can reset with Maxi as your star, ideally
(13:59):
you get rid of Paul's George while you're at it
podcast p uh, and you get back in into the
business of rebuilding that roster.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yeah, this whole.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Week has been the funeral, the funeral for the process.
Yeah right, like we've had we've had the funeral, we've
had calling hours, we've had the celebration of life, like
we've had all of that for the process. Okay, we're
taking this entire week from the beginning of Hey, embiid
might not play again to Paul George's stopping his podcast
(14:28):
with ridiculous reasons because it's way too late to now
and Bead is not playing.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Like this has been with the funeral. The funeral in
the middle of the lunching right now, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the final one before people start getting
out of Hey, when do you leave?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
All?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
My flight leaves at three?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Okay, great, hey, okay, thank thanks for coming all this stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Yeah, that's what you have right now, that's what you have. Yeah,
the process.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
There, go get some more ham there you were, one
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biggest domino of the off season in the NFL, as
far as quarterbacks goes fell today.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
What does it mean?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
We break down the biggest quarterback story of the off
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Speaker 6 (17:06):
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Speaker 4 (17:13):
I can never get it. I can never get that
out of my head. Now, just like your presets on
the right, lock it in and rip the knob off.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
So great.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You know, I think about that and I go, I
got to explain to millennials what that means.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
People will go, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
A knob?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It's it's well, it's how you would turn your dial
in a radio. I just pressed the button. Yeah, okay, Well,
in cars in the seventies and eighties there was a knob,
but you turned to dial in your station to go.
You would have to just spin the knob to go
from like ninety three to one to one hundred, and
you had to, like when you got there, you had
to just really go slow until you got the clearest
reception possible. I can't believe that's how that's how we
(17:51):
used to listen to radio stage. I can't believe that
we used to listening. Oh I got it, Wait a wait, wait, no, no,
go back a little bit to the left, the back
of Oh no, no, back to the right.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
No, perfect, perfect, leave it, leave it, leave it good, good, goody.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's like watching anything with my daughters. And suddenly there's
the concept of Rabbit years for the television and just
stand there in holding, stand there in holden, just hold it.
Why is that hanging off to TV like that? Don't
whatever works, man, whatever works?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Oh man, I'll tell you I I can't get over that.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
So we have more from the NBA coming up in
a few minutes, but a big day in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Look, and I'm not over selling this, you know.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Here we are on a Friday where the biggest domino,
the biggest quarterback storyline of the off season was solved
today because what happened with Matthew Stafford was going to
affect everyone. Matthew Stafford stays with Los Angeles. Okay, it
means one thing for all these other teams and need
quarterbacks in the off season. Matthew Stafford going to another
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team meant something different for the Rams, something different for
the team that got Matthew Stafford. That was the biggest domino,
the biggest quarterback story by far. And we found out
today what we told you last night was gonna happen.
Right if you listen last night, we said, Hey, a
lot of smoke, a lot of stuff going on right now.
In the end, Matthew Stafford's not gonna leave the Rams
(19:13):
because there's not many contenders that can give him what
he wants. Yes, he wants more money. He doesn't want
to go and give away the last two years of
his career with the team. That's terrible, right For all
this posturing going on with Stafford wanting more money in
the Rams, say we don't want to give you more
money in the end. If there were more contending teams
out there that were a quarterback away from the super Bowl,
(19:33):
I would get it.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
But the Steelers are the only ones.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
They're the only contender where you can say at a quarterback,
and hey, they could be a super Bowl team. Everybody
else that's super Bowl contenders has quarterbacks. Steelers are the
only one.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Steelers try to do things in the bargain basement like
they're like they they're They're the team that walks into
target and says, I ought to have anything on my list.
I'm just gonna get whatever the is the dollar section
right here at the beginning.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I'm just gonna get everything.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Look, I got a notebook, and I got a soap,
and I got a beg of cookies on it's three
dollars grant. Like this is how the Steelers try to
get their quarterbacks. So you know they're not going to
give Stafford what he wanted, which we said last night
was two years and seventy five million probably, and it
turned out that he might have gotten even more. Stafford
met with the Giants, according to the New York Post. Hey,
(20:16):
the Giants had an offer out there with him of
two years and potentially one hundred million dollars, but in
the end it wasn't enough, and Matthew Stafford went back
to the Rams. Today he got whatever it was, it
was not publicized yet. The more money he got but
Stafford got enough financial compensation to stay with the Rams,
And we told you that's how it was gonna end,
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because there was simply nowhere else out there because Stafford, look,
he wants to win, right, he wants money, but he's
not one of those guys that I just want to
get paid and I don't care who pays me.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I want to get paid and I want to win. Right.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
He's had that big taste of winning with the Rams
and he wants to keep that going.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
He knows how good the team is.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So in the end, when this happened today, and it's
hard because it's hard to get a topic like this
where you can say, hey, everything is good for all
the sides, but yeah, this was a win for the
Rams and a win for Stafford. Right, Stafford stays with
a team where he's this close to winning the super
Bowl because they were clearly the second best team in
the NFL when you break down the playoffs last year,
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they almost beat the Eagles. They probably should have beaten
the Eagles and gotten to the super Bowl. So it
makes sense for him to stay there, and it makes
sense for the Rams rather than to try to reload
on the fly with a quarterback that's not Stafford. I'm
sure they had their next guy lined up. I'm sure
that whether it was Sam Darnold or somebody else, they
had their guy lined up.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
But it's still gonna work better with Matthew Stafford and
the Rams keep this super Bowl window open for the
next couple of years. So this is one of those
stories like there's nothing hot on either side.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
It's cooler. Heads prevailed.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Stafford made the right decision, the Rams made the right decision,
and he's where he should be.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
This is the way the way it should have gone.
And Stafford, I give him credit because he played a
drama where there wasn't really a lot of drama. Hey,
I might retire. I want to get a new deal
someplace else. And he turned into more money with the Rams.
So good for Stafford. But in the end, this works
for everybody. This is how it should have been. Everybody wins, Mike,
and it's a Friday, maybe because we're full of positivity
(22:13):
on a Friday.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Hey, everybody wins in this story.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
All about positivity, and you know, instead of fighting each
other at a Starbucks. This is an exercise in how
to use the pawns that are insiders.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
And reporters when you want your information out.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You know, Sean McVay is really happy if he's got
to run with Jimmy Garoppolo. How many days did we
have the Sam Darnold and Sean McVay. They've been eyeballing
him for a very long time. Aaron Rodgers could be
a guy with the Los Angeles Rams, and now we
turn our attention to whatever the giants do and move
it along. But it's just to that point of all right,
(22:50):
they did it too, saying all right, go out and
figure out what it is you want. But to your point,
any of these teams ever even close to contending for
any other than saying, hey, with the Raiders, you can
save ten percent of your income because there's no state
income tax, and you could wear a cool looking uniform
with the Raiders. I mean, you're four and four in
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the division quite obviously, right, you're not gonna be They've
got a lot of money to spend, there's no question
about that. But you know you've got to get every
bit of that right to be able to make that work.
You know, this is another one where Tom Brady is
on the slopes or in the chalet or whatever, and
it didn't work. So you know clearly his recruiting skills
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and brand and that of the Raiders aren't as great
as perception would have you believe. You will come to
the now. I'm not gonna do it, Tom, I'm out.
So you've got that. And for Stafford, yeah, you look
at the bigger, bigger picture.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
He's made a ton of money.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Not that you wouldn't trade at all for a little
more Montgomery Burns style, but you're looking at the opportunity
in that division because what are all the other stories circulating?
Look at all the guys that Seattle may offload before
it's all said and done. Right, here's DK Metcalf, he
may go here, here, here. We gotta get to that.
That's a great rumor, man. You got to get to
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that DK Metcalf rumor next hour man. But that's the thing, right,
You've got all these rumors of all right, which of
those guys stays? Smith and Jigma and the other guys
are both gone, right, Lockett could be gone to and
you still have Geno and you re up from there, Arizona.
Are they ever gonna break through? I don't think you're
really banking on that. In San Francisco, we know is
in complete overhaul. All the rumors of where Deebo's gonna
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end up is I you gonna come back the same
guy George Kittle? For all we're talking about how old
Travis Kelsey is. George Kittle's missed a bunch of games.
He's a year older too, and he might be in
the elimination chamber tomorrow night for the WWE before it's
all said and done. So you have no idea, brock Purty,
love him or hate him, You've got that. So for Stafford,
you're looking at legacy history or whatever. I can make
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another E or whatever the number end up being disclosed
and potentially get back to another Super Bowl run with
this squad. Oh by the way, on the day they
announced that they're bringing me back, he probably got a
text going, oh yeah, we also took care of Jackson.
He's sticking around for another three years as well. So
you'll have a guy to keep you up right. Yeah, Okay,
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I'm in you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Three years, fifty seven million dollars extension, you.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Know you garantee all like that that comes down everybody
like Stafford's having like no, no, no, The other thing
is they they sent him a picture and said, this
guy re signed. It's like the old seventy six Tops
baseball cards when you had the this guy's been traded.
They didn't have an updating uniform, so they just put
like a stamp on it, like it was a yeah
stars on the side it would be traded, yeah, yeah yeah.
(25:50):
And then like what like in the eighties they did
the traded sets right like midway through the season. You
would get the new card with them on their new
team that oh, the traded set comes out.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Midway through nineteen eighty three, No.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
It's it right, so ye had it in eighty one
was Fisk in Company. Eighty two that was the great
cal Ripkin junior card. Eighty three Tops had Darryl Strawberry
that was pretty sweet. And then the eighty four was
the classic with dwy goodin, Kirby Pucket and Roger Clemens
on the Fleer side of things. So all of that
to say, yeah, that's what he got. He got that
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notice and like, yeah, I guess I'm in huh, let's
go exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome. The
Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon, we
got more NFL coming up in ninety seconds. But first,
let's find out what's trending in the wide world of
sports from a man who's been called the og and
unobia Fox Sports Radio. Why because he hits game winning
(26:44):
threes to beat the Grizzlies. It's Steve de Sager with
what's trending?
Speaker 7 (26:47):
How did I know we were going there? Yes, in
the final seconds. The next win at Memphis one fourteen
one thirteen, Ja Moran did have twenty five points, but
missed the last second layup at ten Grizzlies from three
point range four for thirty one the feature matchup late.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
They were four for thirty one, right, Well, Howard hell
are they in this game? Because they shot thirty nine
for sixty from inside the arc?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Right they were? They were thirty nine. They shot like
an eighty percent from inside the arc. It was justice.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
They couldn't hit a three all night and then they
lost giving up a three. Yeah, by five seconds ago
Denver wanted Detroit, ending the Pistons eight game winning streak
one thirty four one to nineteen. The Clippers are currently
leading at the Lakers twenty three eighteen late in the
first quarter, fifty percent shooting for the Clips. Lakers do
have in the starting lineup tonight. Lebron James, who was
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originally questionable with his foot injury. Luka Donzich is playing.
He was called a game time decision with the bad
calf earlier. Cleveland won it's ninth in a row. What
a comeback at Boston won twenty three to one sixteen.
Calves were down twenty five to three in the first
five minutes of this game and still won it. On
the road against Indefendic champs. Donovan Mitchell forty one points.
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Caves guard Dari Scarland return tonight. He missed the previous
two games with the bruise hip. He had twenty points.
Oklahoma City's now forty eight and eleven after winning it.
Atlanta won thirty five one nineteen Shay Gilgis Alexander thirty
one points. Portland won at Brooklyn, Miami over Indiana Sons
with a huge lead late in the third against the
Pelicans eighty eight sixty four. Looks like the Pels record
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will go to sixteen and forty four for New Orleans.
Zion Williamson is out for Rest tonight, the Bowls are
in overtime, leading the Raptors one thirteen to one ten,
still about three minutes to go. In the OT the
Timberwolves are winning without Anthony Edwards. He's serving his one
game suspension tonight because of too many technical fouls this season.
Te Wolves up at the half at Utah sixty seven
(28:43):
fifty six. Utah with a record of fourteen and forty four.
Joel Embii to the Sixers, will miss the rest of
the season with his bad knee. In fact, he had
a series of tests this past week he's been deemed
medically unable to play. Saturday, Philadelphia, losers of nine straight,
will host Golden State, which is one five in a row.
Jimmy Butler the Warriors, questionable for that game due to backspasms.
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There was college hoops on Fox TV again tonight, a
Friday tradition, now number twenty per New at home beat
UCLA trail to Bruins with seven and a half minutes left,
but beat UCLA seventy six to sixty six, and a
programming note. As women's basketball ends its regular season this weekend.
Number two UCLA Saturday Night will host number four USC
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on Fox TV. Just three NHL games this evening Toronto,
a three to two winner at the Rangers. At Dallas
Stars have beat in La six to two, and late
second period at Colorado Avs over Minnesota four to two.
Show Hey Otani homerd in his first at bat of
spring tonight, and it came against his old team, the Angels,
who have just taken a ninth inning lead five to
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four over the Dodgers. Dustin May was the Dodger starting
pitcher all out of Grand Slam. In the second Yankees
pitcher Luis Hill stopped his bullpen session due to shoulder
tightness eleven MRI. He was Rookie of the Year in
the American League last season. The Yankees did win their
exhibition tonight six three over Toronto, the win to Garrett Colo,
who had five strikeouts in three and a third innings.
(30:09):
Cody Bellinger homeward and this programming note. The IndyCar season
begins this Sunday, with all seventeen races this season now
on Fox TV, including the Indy Five in late May.
IndyCar season ends in August. NASCAR is also on Fox
TV this Sunday from the road Course in Austin, Texas,
and then NASCAR will switch to f S one after
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this weekend for six straight Sundays.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve, o Hey, just real quick,
you have did did Nester Cort test hey today? Oh hey,
if we had Louis Heel in the World Series, we
would have swept the Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Say that on the mound in the tenth inning against
Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Maybe that would have made a difference. If anybody but
me was on the mound. We sweeped the Dodgers. Thank you, Steve.
Now I mentioned this and screw it.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
We'll just do it now because you know it's Friday.
Let we talk about positive Friday and things that work
out for both teams. Yes, Stafford staying the Rams. Uh
big NFL possibility. A couple of reports that the Packers
and Seahawks have a deal on the table that could
send Dk Metcalf to the Packers in exchange for the
(31:14):
first round pick of the Packers this year and one
of their younger receivers, either Romeo Dubbs maybe Dantevian Wicks.
So this is potentially what is out there for Dk Metcalf.
And again yea again, hey, maybe all these great things
come up on a Friday for a reason. This is
a win win for both teams. It's an app because
the Packers clearly, look, Jordan Love is a really good quarterback,
(31:38):
and I know he didn't quite have the year this
year that you expect him to have coming off of
last year.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
He still makes.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
His receivers better, but I think you saw this year
you kind of need that that one that one guy
to be the to be the a receiver.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
You need the one guy that can catch.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
You need, Yeah, you need the one guy that you
can look for on third down, the one guy you're
gonna go to in the red zone.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
You need that.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
And you have a lot of really good young receivers.
Look with Watson and Dubs and Wicks like that. They
have lots of really good young, young receivers, but they
don't have that one. Hey, this is our guy, right,
So getting dk Metcalf, who's twenty seven and still an
elite receiver, yeah, that would be an incredible move for
the Packers and for the Seahawks to get a first
(32:23):
round pick and a younger wide receiver. That's huge because
Metcalf is really good, but he's been eclipsed by Jackson
Smith the Jigbu. He is terrific. He's the back half
of the year. Smith the Jigba put up an incredible
stat line in every game. He was a target monster.
He's what you watched the Seahawks play the second half
of the season. It's easy to tell this is the
(32:45):
guy they go to. And is there room for DK Metcalf,
for another guy making a lot of money or is
it better to have another good receiver you can throw
in there with with Smith the Jigbu and Locket whoever
else that Hey, okay, this is you know, this works
out better and we get.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
A first round pick to shore up another position.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
So again, this is another deal that I see this
for the Packers, Yeah, makes complete sense, first round picking
a young receiver. Yeah, and you get DK Metcalf of
your Green Bay one hundred percent. This is a phenomenal
move for both sides, and I would sign off on
this both sides tomorrow if I were these teams.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Well, and for Seattle, you're trying to figure out what
the hell your direction is. You've got to pay several
of these guys, right, You've got to pay a couple
of your receivers, Locket coming up, and then Metcalf also in.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
The final year of his deal.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
So you're not gonna load up fully on wide receivers cuz,
let's face it, Gino is not your long term as
much as we love him and we chant his name
on Monday nights or Thursday nights whenever they're playing in
our window or he has that monster game, because well
it still vexes you after all these years, still crazy,
(33:55):
after all these years that you get those Geno big moments.
He's not the long term solution. So you've got to
start the overhaul, and paying a bunch of wide receivers
ain't the way to do it. With a defensive minded coach.
You need to work on that side of the ball.
You need to work on the interior. I like Walker
when he's healthy. You got Sharbona there, So you got
(34:16):
a couple of backs that get it done. But from
the wide receiver point, you know, and I joked about
someone who can catch the ball. Packers receiver is a
total of thirty four drops last year. Think about how
much better Jordan Love than the Packers offense looks if
someone can actually secure the ball for a first down.
Oh wait, that's what we just said. DK Metcalf could do.
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So there's your opportunity. And for the this Seahawks, you
also pick up the first round pick and really start
building towards the future.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
So it's it's a perfect.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Wow, win win. That doesn't happen often. Someone's got no man.
I think Mark Murphy said some dumb things. Can I
still just keep going at him? No, it's okay, It's
okay because we've had a lot. You want to know
who's gonna lose with with NFL story. I'll tell you
exactly what I am gonna lose if this NFL story
that we think could happen could happen.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
So we have that.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Coming up, the Yin and the Yang. We have all
the positivity, but I'll tell you why I will lose.
But everybody else will win, but I will lose really
big if this quarterback story happens.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
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Speaker 3 (35:50):
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Speaker 1 (35:56):
So we talked a lot about Matthew Stafford re sign
with the Rams, staying big flirtation. The Giants were in
on him, He met with the Giants, met with Brady,
all the clandestine meetings that happened or didn't happen that
may or may not have caused fights at Starbucks. But
now the Giants who were left at the altar by
(36:18):
Matthew Stafford are potentially pivoting. As the Giants have said
about discussing the potential of bringing in wait for it,
wait for it, wait for it, Aaron Rodgers as they're
starting quarterback.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
This according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
You know, when I saw this today, I said, you know,
I can't even I can't, I can't even have I can't.
You know, at least when darnaldh when the Jets got
rid of Darnald, they sent him so far away like Carolina,
Fine and having to watch Donald do well in Minnesota. Okay, fine,
you know what what, I don't care, no, no, no,
(37:02):
because I know what's gonna happen. I know the Giants
are gonna get Aaron Rodgers, and all of a sudden,
I'm gonna have to watch Aaron Rodgers lead a great
what a rag tag run Rogers is leading? Sudden, it
looks like Rogers the Elak neighbors have played together their
whole career, because you just know if he goes to
the Giants, he's gonna be terrific. He's gonna say things like, oh,
(37:24):
you know, the Jets were great. You know, I don't
want to say anything bad about them. It was a
great two years. I love New York. I love my
time there. I wish I was healthier. I wish I
was healthy for my time there.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
But I feel great right now and my arm feels
good and my legs feel good, and I can play
another three four years and look at this, and hey,
I'm just enjoying things. Now Here are the Giants and
Brian Dable not only gets to keep his job, he
gets a contract extension. Joe Shane gets to stay. All
of a sudden, it's look at this, you just were
All they needed was Aaron Rodgers to show up, and
everything is phenomenal with the Giants.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
We traded and got Saquon Barkley back. It's fantastic. Look
at it. Everything's coming up Giants. I just know that's
gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
I've already steeled myself for the fact that I'm gonna
have to watch Aaron Rodgers. Now it is that not
going crazy to lead some sort of wild card run
because you know, look, they're they're not, they're not nearly
the best team in the division. But watching lead them
some kind of crazy wild card run where they're a
little bit above five hundred all year while the Jets
(38:25):
try to figure things out, make it work with whoever
they're gonna wind up getting. And I just to sit
back and go I believe in Aaron Glenn. Sure, I
believe in Aaron. And look at Aaron Rodgers here, Logant
Rodgers leading everything is great. No one's talking about Tommy
Devino anymore. I just know this is gonna happen. It's
gonna be great for everybody. That that's a story like
that is great for everybody. Sucks for me, but it's
(38:45):
great for everybody. But I'm okay, I got big shoulders.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
I'll take wan Dale.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Robinson becomes a PPR. Montag Tracy is suddenly uh fifteen
hundred yard back total between his running and receiving, and
he's making it work like a lot of it comes
back to Andrew Thomas staying healthy. That defense had a
couple of component parts that were moderately interesting. It's just, well,
(39:13):
you didn't have a quarterback, right, you don't have a quarterback?
What do we always say? You got nothing? And look,
he's used to New York, New Jersey. He's got a
home there. He's got homes everywhere people, so that doesn't matter.
But if he truly does love the life that he's
built there, then you have an opportunity. You still play
on a grand stage because even when they suck, and
(39:35):
we know they're going to suck, the Giants are on
national TV windows all the damn time. So more Aaron
Rodgers for everybody. So yeah, and Malik Neighbors was a
beast with me throwing to him last year. So you've
got an opportunity here and a top draft pick to
keep adding assets. Yeah, it's it's the best of the
(39:57):
spots available, isn't it. Just Hey, I wish I'd play
with a back like Tyrone Tracy my entire career. He
does everything touches him all in the backfield. You're right,
this is what talent we have on this Giants team.
I just that's that's how it's gonna go. I see,
Raiders are taxes, tax savings and the branding. Yeah, the
(40:20):
Giants historical franchise just like the Raiders right there. No,
that's getting You're so sad. No, it's made it at
least as I get older.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Now I can accept the worst case scenario for my
teams and everything else happening much easier than like, oh man,
I wish that won't happen.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
I can't even think about it. No, accept it right away.
The way when it does happen, Okay, I've dealt with
I've known it was coming. Well, you knew it was coming,
And if something else does happen, you'll be pleasantly surprised
and in a much better mood.
Speaker 5 (40:51):
Aaron Rodgers twenty twenty five NFL MVP Coming up next,
Speaking of quarterbacks, we got a big one coming up
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
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Speaker 4 (01:15):
Look, another big day at the Combine.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
We finally got a picture of the potential Jordan Schultz
Ian Rappaport confrontation from two days ago.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Like, whoa, we got a picture. There's no video.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
We got a picture of what the confrontation looked like. Okay,
suddenly we're getting there, Mike Carmon, event we're getting there.
Eventually someone's gonna have video of this thing. Well, but
today's AI technology, we can have our own video that
we propagate by morning. Oh you know, yeah, but I
come yeah, like it could have gone like this, like
(01:47):
everything will suddenly be like an ending of the movie Clue. Oh,
it could have happened this way. It could have happened
this way. It could have happened this way. Oh, but
it really happened like this. I kind of like to
see how that really would.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Have went, Like I can't, yeah, happen.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
There's certain things like I'd like to see alternate versions
of Like would I like to see an AI version
of what happened if Bill Buckner caught the ground or
at first base right like and and would he beat
Mookie Wilson to the bag with a met stilla won
the game? But they'd still won the World because the
game was tied at that point in Game six of
the eighty six World Series. Like, how how would that
(02:24):
have gone? Like certain things, I wouldn't mind seeing that,
but stuff like fights and stuff is like, eh, I
kind of I kind of want to see the real thing. Wow,
why don't we just make him claimation and just bring
back celebrity deathmatch. I thought you're going back to like
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and you're without a Santa Claus,
going back to Clay for Gonna.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
There's suvereren goal the guys that do Wallaston Grammitt to
put it together.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh okay, that would be See that would be that
would be old school enough with a new school enough
twist on it.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
See yea go that's you thinking.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And we'll win awards.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
But tonight we kind of have.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
To begin with a little bit of a somber note,
at least for me personally. Uh, Cavaliers beat the Celtics
to night one twenty three, one sixteen and watching this
game down the stretch and you see the night that
Jason Tatum had this monster forty six and sixteen and
nine night that wasn't enough because Donovan Mitchell had forty one.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Uh you know, I.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Look at this and I go, yeah, this is the
Eastern Conference Finals. Like I I sit here and go,
you know, the Knicks have a great starting five and
maybe the best starting five in the NBA. And I
let but I'm just look and I go, this is
every really really this is.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
The Eastern Conference Finals. Like I mean, like I hit,
it's like a weird deal. Like it's not like I've
been coming to it. It's just watching tonight and seeing
the level of play that the that these teams have
and obviously Boston getting out to the big lead and
the Cavaliers coming back. Look, there's a reason why they
had the best offense in the NBA all year.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I just watch and I.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Go, Yeah, these teams are just way more complete than
anybody else. I mean, look, you know we spend a
lot about the Lakers, and Lakers have the big game
coming up.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
We'll get to that in a few minutes. Lebron is
playing tonight, but the Celtics, Cavaliers and Thunder more than
anybody else. Watching those three teams play, I can clearly
say so they are so much more complete than any
other team. Like they're more complete. Look as good as
the Lakers are with Luca and Lebron. Now those teams
(04:29):
are more complete, because hey, what do the Lakers have
coming off the bench? Well, now, okay, you got Hachamura
and Austin Reeves are gonna have bigger role. Okay, so
they have a really good starting five.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
They'll be the Knicks.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Right Like all these other teams, I feel like they
have way more flaws and they're not as complete, They're
not as whole as these three teams. And look, you're
talking about the three teams with the best records at
the top of the NBA. But it's it's more like
these three teams are just such a cut above. Like
it's not like, hey, yeah, the Cavaliers and the Celtics
are the top two teams, but hey, it's a toss
(04:59):
up series when they play the Knicks or the Bucks
or anybody else. Like I just can't see that, Like
these three teams have shown that. Okay, it's the three
of us and really everybody else.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, I mean we watch as the Cavaliers. They added
DeAndre Hunter. He's coming off the bench, a big rebound
and point guy. Right, he was trapped in Atlanta for
all those years. Best season of his career this year,
averaging eighteen plus and now he's coming off the bench
and he's had a couple of double doubles, but their
(05:30):
efficiency ratings have been through the roof since his acquisition,
giving them more depth on the bench, and just a
fantastic finish here. I mean, this was a fun, fun one.
You know, when we talk about the NBA, since so
many of the NBA stars Lebron want to talk about
how everybody hates on the game, how about you turn
on the radio, stop listening to the same two dopes
(05:50):
that are in your head or whoever you're sick of.
Fans are passing near their Twitter accounts or video clips.
We've celebrated all these teams probably talk more Detroit basketball
than they have out anywhere outside of Detroit, uh in
terms of top teams in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
But there just is that level of separation.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
And it's it's a little bit of the thing we
did for years here on the show Jason of the
all Right, we got a very small group of teams
that we just say, all right, obvious title contenders, and
then we start trying to argue our way into adding
more of them, right, your Nicks for a while, it's like, Okay,
they're gonna get healthy, they're gonna get Robinson back, they're
(06:31):
gonna not Well, it's more fun when you add the
Knicks and the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
It's like, let's add more garlic to this. Hey, more
garlic would be awesome. What more garlic?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, and in America just to add another pile of salts.
But all of that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, and more cheese. I want extra cheese? Can I
get heavy cheese?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
That's my new thing in the restaurants now with is
you have the choices because when you order now at Kiosks,
that you know that's not extra. It's heavy. It's like
oh heavy choice heavy great, Yeah, heavy cheese.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah, like instead of an extra slow, like they just
dropped like a whole block on it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, here you go, there's heavy cheese. I kind of
dig that heavy. Have to try that when I go
out next. I don't think I'm supposed to eat that
much cheese, but you know what, for giggles and for
the purpose of the shit, it's protein, man, It's good
for it. We're fine on PhD with protein, man. And also,
heavy cheese is a great name for a band. Oh
that's a great name. Yeah, dude, you got the new
(07:23):
Heavy Cheese.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Oh my god, it's awesome. Heavy Cheese is great.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
That is a seventies offshoot.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
On all the guys long long mustaches. They all look
like they're from Supertramp.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Hey, Heavy Cheese.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Has this new one.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And he's throwing out the little baby bells to the crowd.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I remember back in seventy four when I first saw
Heavy Cheese live for the first time. It was it
a small arena and Sacramento, and boy, I tell you,
these guys came out, bell bottoms, guitars blazing. It was
some kind of show man. I do hate Heavy Cheese.
This album was gonna rock the first half of nineteen
seventy four.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, but here's the problem. The first negative review. They're
just gonna figure out what the stinkiest Cheese is and
that's gonna be the headline.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And I'm ever gonna get rid of that.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, No, it's gonna be all you know, uh,
Heavy Cheese, Heavy Cheese and you know album review. Heavy
Cheese much more blue this time around.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
They went back to their roots on this one. It's
more of a blue age style, but no, it's it's fun.
I mean, you got Memphis, they're thirty eight and twenty,
but do you really feel they're a threat?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I don't know, know, it's such a huge slot. Yeah,
we keep willing, right.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, No, they're definitely the next It's almost like how
the the MVP in the National League last year, where
we said, hey, okay Otani obviously hey, and Lindora is
going to be really happy to be the unanimous second
place sure, Like that's kind of how I fll. There
is a clear second tier of wannabe title contenders in
the NBA, and it's led by the Knicks and the
(09:03):
Nuggets and the Lakers and the Grizzlies. Like those four
teams are at the top, Like, hey, who's that next
level I want to be?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
It's the Knicks, the Grizzlies, the Nuggets, and the Lakers.
Those are the teams.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Then everybody else is the next level below that. That's
where you get to your Bucks, Pistons, Pacers, Rockets, Clippers,
like that's kind of where that's kind of where we're at.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
So those four teams clearly in the second level.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
But now at seven and three in their last ten
winners of their last five and coming off the beautiful
February twenty seventh is my day, Steph Curry with his
fifty six. By the way, the number of great performances
on February the twenty seventh, I mean, it's Steph Curry
Day in the Bay Area. They're on the come and
really looking to chase down the Clippers. We'll see how
the Clippers fare over the next couple of nights playing
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those home and homes against the Lakers. Now, meanwhile, the
other big news in the NBA today, and you know,
I hate to say, you know, I told you so, but.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I would not be surprised. In fact, it should happen.
And if they listen to the show, which they should,
but we should have seen Joel Embiid play his final
game in a Sixers uniform. We told you the other
night he's not gonna play again. He doesn't look like
he's wanted to play all season long. He's not been healthy,
he's not been motivated, and the Sixers made it official
(10:19):
today he will not play again the rest of the season.
Maybe he needs another knee surgery, maybe not. Who knows
what it is with him at this point. But you
can just tell the guy needs to be someplace else,
he doesn't want to be there, and the Sixers need
to move on. Right, not quite the Miles Garrett of
I want the blank out and don't even put some contract.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Offer in front of me. But you can tell. And
Beid's kind of had it and the Sixers need to
move on. And we've talked about this for a while
that this should be it. And in the offseason, as
long as Embiid has a clean bill of health, yeah,
there should be another whether we talked about it last night,
because the Warriors are one trade away from being at
the top of the Western Conference, and Joel Embiid is
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clearly a gamble because any time you sign a big
star in free agency in the off season, most of
them there's going to be some level of risk. And
you know, but Embiid comes with risk because you're talking
about talent and motivation.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Now for the next two years, I feel like it
Beat will be motivated enough to to go get him.
I'm a big proponent of if he's healthy and a
change of scenery and Beid would really be fantastic, right
because the guy, as long as he can, as long
as he's a motivated Joel Embiid. He's terrific player and
he's not too far removed from being the MVP of
the NBA. I don't know what I would do once
he got too close to thirty five. That's where I
(11:36):
would kind of get out of the Embiid business. But
the next couple of years, sure, why not? And it
just this is just a move that's made sense for
both sides for so long. And instead of it being
a a Luka doncic hey, we decided today we're doing it,
ripping the band aid off. This is more we're all
coming around to the idea and eventually we're going to
get to an inevitable conclusion.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
But this should be it, and Bee should have played
his final game as a Sixer.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Well, I remember we had that big moment ahead of
the trade deadline where all of a sudden, he's given
us a triple doubles, like, I want to be traded.
I don't want to play with Paul George or any
of these guys again.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
And then well now now he's.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Not so Look, he's such a questioned asset at this
point for any team that would look to acquire or
if the Sixers want to run with him, because you
you can't bank on a night to night whether he's
gonna be there. So any kind of trade, I am
not giving you full value. I've been saying this for
(12:33):
a very long time. Look, you know it's really about
the money at this point. Yeah, we're taking the money,
So you're not gonna we said, we're not going to
give you back Anthony Davis, like, we're taking the money here, Okay,
we're taking enough. Well, but I'm just saying, like, somewhere here,
either you're eating a lot of this money and we
were figuring out this trade that way, or when we
(12:53):
go through the dopey NBA channels of matching up salaries
and whatever else. Yeah, here's you're getting every expired contract
and I'm looking through my books to find out whether
we have the rights to Keith van Horn or any
of those guys where there's still a bunch of money
because they're a tenured veteran remanding you know what you're
(13:14):
getting missed too, jerk, just because I said so. But yeah,
it's a very difficult trade to kind of put together because,
as you say, it's the if and when and how
and all that. I'm not trusting it. This is a
I don't think just a simple operation shut down. You
know what, he's sore or whatever. Well, we're talking about
(13:36):
these types of surgeries for a guy that's already walked.
So many weary miles missed several seasons in their entirety.
The game's mislog rivaling that of Zion Williamson in terms
of percentages that you know you're you're not getting much.
But if it gives you a new identity in Philadelphia
and you can reset with Maxi as your star, ideally
(13:59):
you get rid of Paul's George while you're at it
podcast p uh, and you get back in into the
business of rebuilding that roster.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yeah, this whole.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Week has been the funeral, the funeral for the process.
Yeah right, like we've had we've had the funeral, we've
had calling hours, we've had the celebration of life, like
we've had all of that for the process. Okay, we're
taking this entire week from the beginning of Hey, embiid
might not play again to Paul George's stopping his podcast
(14:28):
with ridiculous reasons because it's way too late to now
and Bead is not playing.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Like this has been with the funeral. The funeral in
the middle of the lunching right now, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the final one before people start getting
out of Hey, when do you leave?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
All?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
My flight leaves at three?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Okay, great, hey, okay, thank thanks for coming all this stuff.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Yeah, that's what you have right now, that's what you have. Yeah,
the process.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
There, go get some more ham there you were, one
out pour one out for the process. Jason Smith, Mike
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biggest domino of the off season in the NFL, as
far as quarterbacks goes fell today.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
What does it mean?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
We break down the biggest quarterback story of the off
season to this point. Next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Now, look,
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Speaker 6 (17:06):
Just lock it in and rip the knob off Z
one hundred.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I can never get it. I can never get that
out of my head. Now, just like your presets on
the right, lock it in and rip the knob off.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
So great.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You know, I think about that and I go, I
got to explain to millennials what that means.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
People will go, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
A knob?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It's it's well, it's how you would turn your dial
in a radio. I just pressed the button. Yeah, okay, Well,
in cars in the seventies and eighties there was a knob,
but you turned to dial in your station to go.
You would have to just spin the knob to go
from like ninety three to one to one hundred, and
you had to, like when you got there, you had
to just really go slow until you got the clearest
reception possible. I can't believe that's how that's how we
(17:51):
used to listen to radio stage. I can't believe that
we used to listening. Oh I got it, Wait a wait, wait, no, no,
go back a little bit to the left, the back
of Oh no, no, back to the right.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
No, perfect, perfect, leave it, leave it, leave it good, good, goody.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's like watching anything with my daughters. And suddenly there's
the concept of Rabbit years for the television and just
stand there in holding, stand there in holden, just hold it.
Why is that hanging off to TV like that? Don't
whatever works, man, whatever works?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Oh man, I'll tell you I I can't get over that.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
So we have more from the NBA coming up in
a few minutes, but a big day in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Look, and I'm not over selling this, you know.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Here we are on a Friday where the biggest domino,
the biggest quarterback storyline of the off season was solved
today because what happened with Matthew Stafford was going to
affect everyone. Matthew Stafford stays with Los Angeles. Okay, it
means one thing for all these other teams and need
quarterbacks in the off season. Matthew Stafford going to another
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team meant something different for the Rams, something different for
the team that got Matthew Stafford. That was the biggest domino,
the biggest quarterback story by far. And we found out
today what we told you last night was gonna happen.
Right if you listen last night, we said, Hey, a
lot of smoke, a lot of stuff going on right now.
In the end, Matthew Stafford's not gonna leave the Rams
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because there's not many contenders that can give him what
he wants. Yes, he wants more money. He doesn't want
to go and give away the last two years of
his career with the team. That's terrible, right For all
this posturing going on with Stafford wanting more money in
the Rams, say we don't want to give you more
money in the end. If there were more contending teams
out there that were a quarterback away from the super Bowl,
(19:33):
I would get it.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
But the Steelers are the only ones.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
They're the only contender where you can say at a quarterback,
and hey, they could be a super Bowl team. Everybody
else that's super Bowl contenders has quarterbacks. Steelers are the
only one.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Steelers try to do things in the bargain basement like
they're like they they're They're the team that walks into
target and says, I ought to have anything on my list.
I'm just gonna get whatever the is the dollar section
right here at the beginning.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I'm just gonna get everything.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Look, I got a notebook, and I got a soap,
and I got a beg of cookies on it's three
dollars grant. Like this is how the Steelers try to
get their quarterbacks. So you know they're not going to
give Stafford what he wanted, which we said last night
was two years and seventy five million probably, and it
turned out that he might have gotten even more. Stafford
met with the Giants, according to the New York Post. Hey,
(20:16):
the Giants had an offer out there with him of
two years and potentially one hundred million dollars, but in
the end it wasn't enough, and Matthew Stafford went back
to the Rams. Today he got whatever it was, it
was not publicized yet. The more money he got but
Stafford got enough financial compensation to stay with the Rams,
And we told you that's how it was gonna end,
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because there was simply nowhere else out there because Stafford, look,
he wants to win, right, he wants money, but he's
not one of those guys that I just want to
get paid and I don't care who pays me.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I want to get paid and I want to win. Right.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
He's had that big taste of winning with the Rams
and he wants to keep that going.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
He knows how good the team is.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So in the end, when this happened today, and it's
hard because it's hard to get a topic like this
where you can say, hey, everything is good for all
the sides, but yeah, this was a win for the
Rams and a win for Stafford. Right, Stafford stays with
a team where he's this close to winning the super
Bowl because they were clearly the second best team in
the NFL when you break down the playoffs last year,
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they almost beat the Eagles. They probably should have beaten
the Eagles and gotten to the super Bowl. So it
makes sense for him to stay there, and it makes
sense for the Rams rather than to try to reload
on the fly with a quarterback that's not Stafford. I'm
sure they had their next guy lined up. I'm sure
that whether it was Sam Darnold or somebody else, they
had their guy lined up.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
But it's still gonna work better with Matthew Stafford and
the Rams keep this super Bowl window open for the
next couple of years. So this is one of those
stories like there's nothing hot on either side.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
It's cooler. Heads prevailed.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Stafford made the right decision, the Rams made the right decision,
and he's where he should be.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
This is the way the way it should have gone.
And Stafford, I give him credit because he played a
drama where there wasn't really a lot of drama. Hey,
I might retire. I want to get a new deal
someplace else. And he turned into more money with the Rams.
So good for Stafford. But in the end, this works
for everybody. This is how it should have been. Everybody wins, Mike,
and it's a Friday, maybe because we're full of positivity
(22:13):
on a Friday.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Hey, everybody wins in this story.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
All about positivity, and you know, instead of fighting each
other at a Starbucks. This is an exercise in how
to use the pawns that are insiders.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
And reporters when you want your information out.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You know, Sean McVay is really happy if he's got
to run with Jimmy Garoppolo. How many days did we
have the Sam Darnold and Sean McVay. They've been eyeballing
him for a very long time. Aaron Rodgers could be
a guy with the Los Angeles Rams, and now we
turn our attention to whatever the giants do and move
it along. But it's just to that point of all right,
(22:50):
they did it too, saying all right, go out and
figure out what it is you want. But to your point,
any of these teams ever even close to contending for
any other than saying, hey, with the Raiders, you can
save ten percent of your income because there's no state
income tax, and you could wear a cool looking uniform
with the Raiders. I mean, you're four and four in
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the division quite obviously, right, you're not gonna be They've
got a lot of money to spend, there's no question
about that. But you know you've got to get every
bit of that right to be able to make that work.
You know, this is another one where Tom Brady is
on the slopes or in the chalet or whatever, and
it didn't work. So you know clearly his recruiting skills
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and brand and that of the Raiders aren't as great
as perception would have you believe. You will come to
the now. I'm not gonna do it, Tom, I'm out.
So you've got that. And for Stafford, yeah, you look
at the bigger, bigger picture.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
He's made a ton of money.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Not that you wouldn't trade at all for a little
more Montgomery Burns style, but you're looking at the opportunity
in that division because what are all the other stories circulating?
Look at all the guys that Seattle may offload before
it's all said and done. Right, here's DK Metcalf, he
may go here, here, here. We gotta get to that.
That's a great rumor, man. You got to get to
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that DK Metcalf rumor next hour man. But that's the thing, right,
You've got all these rumors of all right, which of
those guys stays? Smith and Jigma and the other guys
are both gone, right, Lockett could be gone to and
you still have Geno and you re up from there, Arizona.
Are they ever gonna break through? I don't think you're
really banking on that. In San Francisco, we know is
in complete overhaul. All the rumors of where Deebo's gonna
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end up is I you gonna come back the same
guy George Kittle? For all we're talking about how old
Travis Kelsey is. George Kittle's missed a bunch of games.
He's a year older too, and he might be in
the elimination chamber tomorrow night for the WWE before it's
all said and done. So you have no idea, brock Purty,
love him or hate him, You've got that. So for Stafford,
you're looking at legacy history or whatever. I can make
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another E or whatever the number end up being disclosed
and potentially get back to another Super Bowl run with
this squad. Oh by the way, on the day they
announced that they're bringing me back, he probably got a
text going, oh yeah, we also took care of Jackson.
He's sticking around for another three years as well. So
you'll have a guy to keep you up right. Yeah, Okay,
(25:22):
I'm in you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Three years, fifty seven million dollars extension, you.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Know you garantee all like that that comes down everybody
like Stafford's having like no, no, no, The other thing
is they they sent him a picture and said, this
guy re signed. It's like the old seventy six Tops
baseball cards when you had the this guy's been traded.
They didn't have an updating uniform, so they just put
like a stamp on it, like it was a yeah
stars on the side it would be traded, yeah, yeah yeah.
(25:50):
And then like what like in the eighties they did
the traded sets right like midway through the season. You
would get the new card with them on their new
team that oh, the traded set comes out.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Midway through nineteen eighty three, No.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
It's it right, so ye had it in eighty one
was Fisk in Company. Eighty two that was the great
cal Ripkin junior card. Eighty three Tops had Darryl Strawberry
that was pretty sweet. And then the eighty four was
the classic with dwy goodin, Kirby Pucket and Roger Clemens
on the Fleer side of things. So all of that
to say, yeah, that's what he got. He got that
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notice and like, yeah, I guess I'm in huh, let's
go exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome. The
Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon, we
got more NFL coming up in ninety seconds. But first,
let's find out what's trending in the wide world of
sports from a man who's been called the og and
unobia Fox Sports Radio. Why because he hits game winning
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threes to beat the Grizzlies. It's Steve de Sager with
what's trending?
Speaker 7 (26:47):
How did I know we were going there? Yes, in
the final seconds. The next win at Memphis one fourteen
one thirteen, Ja Moran did have twenty five points, but
missed the last second layup at ten Grizzlies from three
point range four for thirty one the feature matchup late.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
They were four for thirty one, right, Well, Howard hell
are they in this game? Because they shot thirty nine
for sixty from inside the arc?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Right they were? They were thirty nine. They shot like
an eighty percent from inside the arc. It was justice.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
They couldn't hit a three all night and then they
lost giving up a three. Yeah, by five seconds ago
Denver wanted Detroit, ending the Pistons eight game winning streak
one thirty four one to nineteen. The Clippers are currently
leading at the Lakers twenty three eighteen late in the
first quarter, fifty percent shooting for the Clips. Lakers do
have in the starting lineup tonight. Lebron James, who was
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originally questionable with his foot injury. Luka Donzich is playing.
He was called a game time decision with the bad
calf earlier. Cleveland won it's ninth in a row. What
a comeback at Boston won twenty three to one sixteen.
Calves were down twenty five to three in the first
five minutes of this game and still won it. On
the road against Indefendic champs. Donovan Mitchell forty one points.
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Caves guard Dari Scarland return tonight. He missed the previous
two games with the bruise hip. He had twenty points.
Oklahoma City's now forty eight and eleven after winning it.
Atlanta won thirty five one nineteen Shay Gilgis Alexander thirty
one points. Portland won at Brooklyn, Miami over Indiana Sons
with a huge lead late in the third against the
Pelicans eighty eight sixty four. Looks like the Pels record
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will go to sixteen and forty four for New Orleans.
Zion Williamson is out for Rest tonight, the Bowls are
in overtime, leading the Raptors one thirteen to one ten,
still about three minutes to go. In the OT the
Timberwolves are winning without Anthony Edwards. He's serving his one
game suspension tonight because of too many technical fouls this season.
Te Wolves up at the half at Utah sixty seven
(28:43):
fifty six. Utah with a record of fourteen and forty four.
Joel Embii to the Sixers, will miss the rest of
the season with his bad knee. In fact, he had
a series of tests this past week he's been deemed
medically unable to play. Saturday, Philadelphia, losers of nine straight,
will host Golden State, which is one five in a row.
Jimmy Butler the Warriors, questionable for that game due to backspasms.
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There was college hoops on Fox TV again tonight, a
Friday tradition, now number twenty per New at home beat
UCLA trail to Bruins with seven and a half minutes left,
but beat UCLA seventy six to sixty six, and a
programming note. As women's basketball ends its regular season this weekend.
Number two UCLA Saturday Night will host number four USC
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on Fox TV. Just three NHL games this evening Toronto,
a three to two winner at the Rangers. At Dallas
Stars have beat in La six to two, and late
second period at Colorado Avs over Minnesota four to two.
Show Hey Otani homerd in his first at bat of
spring tonight, and it came against his old team, the Angels,
who have just taken a ninth inning lead five to
(29:47):
four over the Dodgers. Dustin May was the Dodger starting
pitcher all out of Grand Slam. In the second Yankees
pitcher Luis Hill stopped his bullpen session due to shoulder
tightness eleven MRI. He was Rookie of the Year in
the American League last season. The Yankees did win their
exhibition tonight six three over Toronto, the win to Garrett Colo,
who had five strikeouts in three and a third innings.
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Cody Bellinger homeward and this programming note. The IndyCar season
begins this Sunday, with all seventeen races this season now
on Fox TV, including the Indy Five in late May.
IndyCar season ends in August. NASCAR is also on Fox
TV this Sunday from the road Course in Austin, Texas,
and then NASCAR will switch to f S one after
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this weekend for six straight Sundays.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve, o Hey, just real quick,
you have did did Nester Cort test hey today? Oh hey,
if we had Louis Heel in the World Series, we
would have swept the Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Say that on the mound in the tenth inning against
Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Maybe that would have made a difference. If anybody but
me was on the mound. We sweeped the Dodgers. Thank you, Steve.
Now I mentioned this and screw it.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
We'll just do it now because you know it's Friday.
Let we talk about positive Friday and things that work
out for both teams. Yes, Stafford staying the Rams. Uh
big NFL possibility. A couple of reports that the Packers
and Seahawks have a deal on the table that could
send Dk Metcalf to the Packers in exchange for the
(31:14):
first round pick of the Packers this year and one
of their younger receivers, either Romeo Dubbs maybe Dantevian Wicks.
So this is potentially what is out there for Dk Metcalf.
And again yea again, hey, maybe all these great things
come up on a Friday for a reason. This is
a win win for both teams. It's an app because
the Packers clearly, look, Jordan Love is a really good quarterback,
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and I know he didn't quite have the year this
year that you expect him to have coming off of
last year.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
He still makes.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
His receivers better, but I think you saw this year
you kind of need that that one that one guy
to be the to be the a receiver.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
You need the one guy that can catch.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
You need, Yeah, you need the one guy that you
can look for on third down, the one guy you're
gonna go to in the red zone.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
You need that.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
And you have a lot of really good young receivers.
Look with Watson and Dubs and Wicks like that. They
have lots of really good young, young receivers, but they
don't have that one. Hey, this is our guy, right,
So getting dk Metcalf, who's twenty seven and still an
elite receiver, yeah, that would be an incredible move for
the Packers and for the Seahawks to get a first
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round pick and a younger wide receiver. That's huge because
Metcalf is really good, but he's been eclipsed by Jackson
Smith the Jigbu. He is terrific. He's the back half
of the year. Smith the Jigba put up an incredible
stat line in every game. He was a target monster.
He's what you watched the Seahawks play the second half
of the season. It's easy to tell this is the
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guy they go to. And is there room for DK Metcalf,
for another guy making a lot of money or is
it better to have another good receiver you can throw
in there with with Smith the Jigbu and Locket whoever
else that Hey, okay, this is you know, this works
out better and we get.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
A first round pick to shore up another position.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
So again, this is another deal that I see this
for the Packers, Yeah, makes complete sense, first round picking
a young receiver. Yeah, and you get DK Metcalf of
your Green Bay one hundred percent. This is a phenomenal
move for both sides, and I would sign off on
this both sides tomorrow if I were these teams.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Well, and for Seattle, you're trying to figure out what
the hell your direction is. You've got to pay several
of these guys, right, You've got to pay a couple
of your receivers, Locket coming up, and then Metcalf also in.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
The final year of his deal.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
So you're not gonna load up fully on wide receivers cuz,
let's face it, Gino is not your long term as
much as we love him and we chant his name
on Monday nights or Thursday nights whenever they're playing in
our window or he has that monster game, because well
it still vexes you after all these years, still crazy,
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after all these years that you get those Geno big moments.
He's not the long term solution. So you've got to
start the overhaul, and paying a bunch of wide receivers
ain't the way to do it. With a defensive minded coach.
You need to work on that side of the ball.
You need to work on the interior. I like Walker
when he's healthy. You got Sharbona there, So you got
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a couple of backs that get it done. But from
the wide receiver point, you know, and I joked about
someone who can catch the ball. Packers receiver is a
total of thirty four drops last year. Think about how
much better Jordan Love than the Packers offense looks if
someone can actually secure the ball for a first down.
Oh wait, that's what we just said. DK Metcalf could do.
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So there's your opportunity. And for the this Seahawks, you
also pick up the first round pick and really start
building towards the future.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
So it's it's a perfect.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Wow, win win. That doesn't happen often. Someone's got no man.
I think Mark Murphy said some dumb things. Can I
still just keep going at him? No, it's okay, It's
okay because we've had a lot. You want to know
who's gonna lose with with NFL story. I'll tell you
exactly what I am gonna lose if this NFL story
that we think could happen could happen.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
So we have that.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Coming up, the Yin and the Yang. We have all
the positivity, but I'll tell you why I will lose.
But everybody else will win, but I will lose really
big if this quarterback story happens.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
That's next. Radio, Okay, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon, Yeah, Live.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
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Speaker 5 (35:42):
Where Yeah, with every bit of positivity we talk about
in sports, Yeah there comes a story.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Like this Yin and Yang baby balance in the force.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
So we talked a lot about Matthew Stafford re sign
with the Rams, staying big flirtation. The Giants were in
on him, He met with the Giants, met with Brady,
all the clandestine meetings that happened or didn't happen that
may or may not have caused fights at Starbucks. But
now the Giants who were left at the altar by
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Matthew Stafford are potentially pivoting. As the Giants have said
about discussing the potential of bringing in wait for it,
wait for it, wait for it, Aaron Rodgers as they're
starting quarterback.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
This according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
You know, when I saw this today, I said, you know,
I can't even I can't, I can't even have I can't.
You know, at least when darnaldh when the Jets got
rid of Darnald, they sent him so far away like Carolina,
Fine and having to watch Donald do well in Minnesota. Okay, fine,
you know what what, I don't care, no, no, no,
(37:02):
because I know what's gonna happen. I know the Giants
are gonna get Aaron Rodgers, and all of a sudden,
I'm gonna have to watch Aaron Rodgers lead a great
what a rag tag run Rogers is leading? Sudden, it
looks like Rogers the Elak neighbors have played together their
whole career, because you just know if he goes to
the Giants, he's gonna be terrific. He's gonna say things like, oh,
(37:24):
you know, the Jets were great. You know, I don't
want to say anything bad about them. It was a
great two years. I love New York. I love my
time there. I wish I was healthier. I wish I
was healthy for my time there.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
But I feel great right now and my arm feels
good and my legs feel good, and I can play
another three four years and look at this, and hey,
I'm just enjoying things. Now Here are the Giants and
Brian Dable not only gets to keep his job, he
gets a contract extension. Joe Shane gets to stay. All
of a sudden, it's look at this, you just were
All they needed was Aaron Rodgers to show up, and
everything is phenomenal with the Giants.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
We traded and got Saquon Barkley back. It's fantastic. Look
at it. Everything's coming up Giants. I just know that's
gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
I've already steeled myself for the fact that I'm gonna
have to watch Aaron Rodgers. Now it is that not
going crazy to lead some sort of wild card run
because you know, look, they're they're not, they're not nearly
the best team in the division. But watching lead them
some kind of crazy wild card run where they're a
little bit above five hundred all year while the Jets
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try to figure things out, make it work with whoever
they're gonna wind up getting. And I just to sit
back and go I believe in Aaron Glenn. Sure, I
believe in Aaron. And look at Aaron Rodgers here, Logant
Rodgers leading everything is great. No one's talking about Tommy
Devino anymore. I just know this is gonna happen. It's
gonna be great for everybody. That that's a story like
that is great for everybody. Sucks for me, but it's
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great for everybody. But I'm okay, I got big shoulders.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
I'll take wan Dale.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Robinson becomes a PPR. Montag Tracy is suddenly uh fifteen
hundred yard back total between his running and receiving, and
he's making it work like a lot of it comes
back to Andrew Thomas staying healthy. That defense had a
couple of component parts that were moderately interesting. It's just, well,
(39:13):
you didn't have a quarterback, right, you don't have a quarterback?
What do we always say? You got nothing? And look,
he's used to New York, New Jersey. He's got a
home there. He's got homes everywhere people, so that doesn't matter.
But if he truly does love the life that he's
built there, then you have an opportunity. You still play
on a grand stage because even when they suck, and
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we know they're going to suck, the Giants are on
national TV windows all the damn time. So more Aaron
Rodgers for everybody. So yeah, and Malik Neighbors was a
beast with me throwing to him last year. So you've
got an opportunity here and a top draft pick to
keep adding assets. Yeah, it's it's the best of the
(39:57):
spots available, isn't it. Just Hey, I wish I'd play
with a back like Tyrone Tracy my entire career. He
does everything touches him all in the backfield. You're right,
this is what talent we have on this Giants team.
I just that's that's how it's gonna go. I see,
Raiders are taxes, tax savings and the branding. Yeah, the
(40:20):
Giants historical franchise just like the Raiders right there. No,
that's getting You're so sad. No, it's made it at
least as I get older.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Now I can accept the worst case scenario for my
teams and everything else happening much easier than like, oh man,
I wish that won't happen.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
I can't even think about it. No, accept it right away.
The way when it does happen, Okay, I've dealt with
I've known it was coming. Well, you knew it was coming,
And if something else does happen, you'll be pleasantly surprised
and in a much better mood.
Speaker 5 (40:51):
Aaron Rodgers twenty twenty five NFL MVP Coming up next,
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