August 8, 2023 • 29 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon update you on the Orioles/Kevin Brown situation. Longtime NFL Insider Jason La Canfora drops in for all the latest headlines from around the league. And the USWNT got eliminated from the World Cup.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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are about positivity. We're about positivity where we have to be.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
We have to be.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I mean, I came on air for the Fox Sports
Sunday Show I do and Dan Byer I couldn't be
positive yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Hard It was less than an hour.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, it was after everything melted down.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It was hard and then there was actually traffic and stuff, bad,
bad things on the highways at five fifteen in the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It was hard.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Good, it was very difficult day, dark day, but positive
Monday positivity. I mean we got a Mets yearbook. Yeah,
and during the rain delay. So you can actually think
back when they were good.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Look at this, I'm seeing highlights from twenty fifteen when
they were all good and Cespitus was good.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Remember when you were talking to guard Yeah, you were
talking about that rotation like it was gonna be yeah,
seventies Orioles.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh sure, it was so great. Stephen Mattz before his
era was seven. It's fun. Oh, turn back the clock.
Uh so, Yeah, Look, we got a lot of big
stuff happening tonight. You know, hey, we could have three
more schools or more change conferences by the time the
end of the show. Who knows, Steve just say you
will be on that the entire night.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I do have a question, though, Steven, in his update
give us the you know heads up that hey, the
men's national team is gonna gonna he is gonna play
Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's a US territory. Well, so, why
why do they have a separate team. Why aren't they
folded in? It's it's a scrimmage. But why wouldn't they
just be folded into a scrimmage. It's a scrimmage, I
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mean a scrimmage drying out.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Great Britain countries have their own teams.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Sure yeah, I mean look, hey, hey, you know England
could say that for us for a long time. Well
you are no, not anymore. Well we were, well we.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Want I mean, like Scotland and Wales has their own
soccer team.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Uh yeah, sure, so it's half fold them in. Bring
the best players together.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
That you gotta, you gotta be able to gotta be
spread it out there. Some people say, listen, I'm not
gonna I'm not good enough to play for the United States.
I'm gonna try to find a way to well that certificate.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, you got a little twenty three and me or
sometimes it just a how much you will it cost
to get you a play.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
For our Didn't Mike Piazza do that at the end
of his career where he wasn't good enough to catch
with the in the World Baseball classics. Always I'm gonna
play for Italy. Oh oh okay, anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah, Historic Italian Soccer Club.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And then managed Italy, didn't he they Shore, Yeah, they
had an espresso machine in the Dougouys. I would love
to play for Italy. I would play for them for that.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Here it cures back, Acney.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You got you know what? Too soon, too soon, prosper
you can play for the United States and what probably
make it the championship and put out the best lineup ever.
Trey Turner will be good for this and not sucky
like he's been all year. Or he could play for
Italy and we got espresso during the game. Yeah, no,
I'm good for that because the games are late at night,
and you know BB and fifty. I want a little
bit of I need a little pick me a little
bit of juice. I'm like, okay, maybe I go for
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a third espresso.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Everything comes full circle, by the way, because that Puerto
Rico basketball game starts on FS one as soon as
penalty kicks are over on.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
FS one, So too soon.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Carmann exactly mentions the sadness from PK's yesterday twenty four
hours later.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Soon are you talking about mess he didn't miss?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Look? Well, we'll get to and the United States women's
natural team, which is still such an unbelievably huge story
twenty four plus hours after their elimination from the World Cup,
but a story that everybody has an opinion on. I'm
stunned how big this story got so fast. You may
know him, you may not, but it really doesn't matter.
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The play by the play by play guy for the
Baltimore Orioles is Kevin Brown. Yeah, I mean coming off of.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Not Kevin Brown.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Kevin Brown can I was. I had a fun one liner,
but you had to make tie. Gotta say not that
Kevin Brown. I had a fun one liner. Now it's over. Now,
now it's over. You know, now it's over. Now it's over.
I had a great one line. I've been practicing it
all to Adam and Ah, I'm practicing it all. Yes,
I had a great one line. I had it like
Vince Scully. It was great. Now forget it now you
ruined it. So not that Kevin Brown. Positivity. Kevin Brown's
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a play by play man for the Baltimore Orioles, and
he was reportedly removed from MASN Broadcast, which is the
local cable network that the Orioles around regional cable network
after he made reference to Baltimore's lack of success against
the Rays at Tropicana Field in previous years. Now, this
goes back to July twenty third before, you know, when
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they were in the middle of this series against the Rays.
They were doing okay, and they were trying to take
the series, and he wanted to point out just what
they're up against and how poorly the Orioles have played
in Tampa the last few years. Now, very shortly after this,
he was removed from the broadcast. He only did radio
for a couple of days after because they had another
issue with somebody, which I mean, come on, really, you
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have issues? How many issues are the Ools out with
their broadcasting? So he gets taken off. There hasn't done
a game since, and it's been widely reported now and
ESPN's got the story and John Oran had the story
today that the Orioles were very upset and the front
office ownership was upset with what he said about their
lack of success against Tampa and that's why he's been suspended.
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He was and here we're gonna play this for you.
There was a graphic up on the screen that is
illustrating everything he is going to say about the Orioles. Basically,
he's saying, hey, the Orioles have a chance to something
haven't done here in a long long time because they've
been this bad at the Trump This is the rent
or not rent. But this is just what he said
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that got him suspended.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Hey, guys, I got an email from the Orioles.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I might have got.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I'd been doing a lot of spot with in Baltimore forever,
I might not get to do it anymore earlier.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And we got locking forward coming up in a few minutes.
He lives in Baltimore. He might be done.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, we don't bow to anybody, so.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
We could play. Hey, I told you the Oriols are
gonna win the al least they still love me in Baltimore.
Let's play. This is what Kevin just in a pregame.
Hey taking up some time telling me about what the
Orioles are focused before the game goes on.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
For the Orioles, Brandon Id has felt like this has
been maybe the toughest ballpark to play in. But the
Orioles have a chance to do something special today. They've
already clinched at least as split in the series, winning
two of the first three, and they could pick up
a series win behind Tyler Wells today it's been a minute.
The Orioles split a two gamer with the Rays in June.
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They had lost their last fifteen series here at Trumpicata Field.
You have to go back to when are now colleague.
Brat Brock picked up the win in the series finale
June twenty fifth, twenty seventeen, the last time the Orioles
won a series here in sam d already got three
and two of the Troup this year after winning three
of eighteen the previous three years. Come Bine, it is
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a stark difference, Ben, and it is.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Not a bad race team.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
It's not like all of a sudden the race became
slouches in the American leagueest. They've led this division every day,
but now two and the Orioles once again are back alone.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
In first place.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, all right, So that's all it was. He was
reading a graphic that showed you that network Orioles broadcast
partner MSN produced mid Atlantic Sports Network. They was That's
all he was doing, was reading the graphic, and obviously
somebody high up, maybe was Peter Ansels, maybe was somebody else,
very upset that the attention was drawn to the fact
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that the Orioles have not played well there, and he
was suspended and removed from the broadcast. Since then, now
so many people have come to his defense, and look,
there's right now, there's only one side of the story
because it's utterly ridiculous, which makes me think, is there
something else else happening going on that nobody knows about?
Because it's it's it's stupid to suspend a guy for this,
right and so so that's what first thing to tell
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you is that everybody's jumping to the fence. And if
this is what it is, yes, it's ridiculously dumb. But
let's you know, because they have another announcer that was
dealing with something, which is why he jumped over to
do radio. I think they were upset with what the
guy was wearing. I think he had to fill in
for a guy on radio because they were he was.
They were upset about what that person was. Where the
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attire that the broadcaster was wearing. And I don't know
what that was. It was it was it was one
person could have been wearing, could wear in your Taylor
Swift jacket that on Friday, who knows. So that's where
we're at right now, and this is all we know.
But let me just say that, I'll tell you something
that that's not just it's I can't believe this happened.
Is that this goes on. Okay, this goes on. Yes,
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it's ridiculous, but this is what it means. Sometimes when
you work for a sport, a team, when you work
for a team that owns or has a stake in
a television contract, usually not to this extent, but it happens.
It's happened to people that have been guests on our
show now like they didn't like them when I said
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this about this team, and at the end of the year,
your contract's not renewed because you're being too negative. Now
part of it, I understand, Hey, people who watch the game,
they're fans of the team. But you got to allow
free speech for the broadcasters say what he's going to say.
The fact that this is out there everybody shot. Don't
be shocked because you would be stunned with how teams
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want their broadcasters and what they want them to say
and what they can't say. We don't want you to
say this, this or this. We don't want you to
bring this up. You don't want to bring this up.
You be positive on it, but I can't be bout
they lost a heart breaker in thirteen innings last night,
three to two because a guy forgot to tag up. No, no, no, no,
you're too negative. You're too negative. And that is the
world that some broadcasters live in, and it's it's it's
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it's hard to hear, but yes, you know. In fact,
one of the guys, I was even gonna call him today, going, dude,
do you want to come tell your story on what
happened to you with a Major League Baseball team? What
happened today? But I don't think you can come on tonight.
I said, do you want to say anything? And and
he was like, I don't know, but it happens. It
happens much more often than you think it is. The
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control that teams have over broadcasts is immense. And while
this certainly is extremely benign, you know that which makes
you say, okay, is there something else going on? But
you think this is ridiculous, Yeah it is, but this
is not something that's an outlier, maybe to this extent.
But watch me, trust me, you're gonna start seeing over
the next couple of days, former broadcast, former broadcasters for teams,
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they're gonna do interviews gonna do podcasts, are gonna say, well, wait, well,
let me tell you what happed when I was broadcasting
for the A's or when I was broadcasting for the
San Francisco And I'm just saying. I'm not saying that
I was worked out for the A's or the New
York Giants, or the Jets or the Mets or And
You're gonna see a lot of stories going. They wouldn't
allow me to say this. This this, trust me, this
is the beginning of this story. Because now you got
pissed off broadcasters, You're gonna see oh wait a minute,
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this was the world they lived in for a long time.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, we know a lot of folks that have had
to do the course correction during a season when it's
gold right now, suddenly you know they they've got to
go and figure it out. So it's it's a curiosity.
And and like like with you, that was the first
thing I started thinking about, was, all right, what else
is behind this? Because broadcast Partner Graphics didn't offer any
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opinion on it, right, literally, just a few words to
join together the bullet points that were on the screen,
all right, didn't talk about hey, dismal failures of the
past and the true reality of what the Orioles have been.
And I'm sadden because again long standing relationship with some
folks there in Baltimore and obviously Jason Lock andfora give
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us a little little insight there as well.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
But knowing what I know about.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Relationships some some broadcasters have had with the with Angelos
and the higher ups, Like it was finally hands off
in twenty twenty three, and it seemed like all was
right with the world, right, the team's winning, the farm system,
has got some of the most coveted players in minor
league baseball. They got draft after draft right of guys
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who've come through the organization. Everything's working right, and then
this happens, like, yeah, all right, same old Orioles.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
We get right.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Back into it.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
All right, Now we're gonna be mad at media or whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's like, you can't dismiss what like what the past was,
and really all it was was shining a light on hey,
it's a new world order.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
No, it just started screaming about it.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
We sucked the last you. I mean, the whole world knows. Boy,
the Orioles. Yeah, everybody knew he sucked. We were terrible.
How do we not win any of these games? Brad
Brook who was just okay and he's just an okay
broadcaster that we have on with me. I mean, you know, Brad,
I'm telling you the truth. He was t was awful
and he was lucky to get a save of that game.
But he would have won that last time against against Tampa.
I mean, he didn't do that. He this is what's
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going This is a pre produced graphic that's on the air.
I'm reading off the graphic, and yet he's the guy
that gets in trouble for it. It's insane.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Yeah, I mean, maybe he should have punctuated at the end, hey,
that that's yesterday and now they've got they've really got
a chance, and they've now taken control of the division,
which I got to imagine if you watch the full
pre game and into the first innings, there's got to
be more of that. But I I just have to wonder, Okay,
what's the other shoe to drop, like behind the scenes
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or the when the did he get caught with a
hot mic behind the scenes or was he criticizing something
behind the scenes and it was finally l escalated to
a all right, this is it?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Because if this is it, like be sure to catch
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Speaker 6 (14:11):
Really good pick you made, you know at O Wyoming there,
and it's nice that you know, you upgrade it at
left tackle and you got Orlando Brown now, But like
if you don't you know, I don't know when Joe
Burrow is coming back from this thing. I have a
hard time thinking it's anytime in the preseason, right, it
wouldn't make any sense, which means you've got about a
month now to get something done before the season starts.
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And it would really make a whole hell of a
lot of sense to get something done before the season starts.
So you know that situation and Mike Brown having two
deep digger in his you know, deeper in his pockets
than he ever has before. I'm really interested to see
the end game there. I don't think it's just this
little game of leap frog we've been doing where oh,
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this guy gets five hundred thousand dollars more a year
than that guy, and then this guy gets five hundred
thousand more than that, And I think this is a
whole different sort of and gelata going on there. You know,
on field, there's a lot of quarterback situations that I'm
looking at and kind of wondering, you know, Mac Jones
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and Bill O'Brien, is this going to actually turn anything
around in New England or is that just you know,
a team that's really devoid of sufficient skill players with
with you know, a limited NFL starting quarterback in Atlanta.
Some people are kind of high on them. I get
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to send some people like them and this whole you know,
bijon thing and go with the skilled players they've drafted
really high. But I don't know, man, desn't really you know, really,
I don't know. I get the sense Anthony Richardson is
going to play right away in Indianapolis because the hunky
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tunk man really wants him to play. And I mean
he's hiring coaches firing coaches, right. He had a Sam
Ellinger fetish for a couple of weeks last week last year.
So all of a sudden, that guy started NFL games
with Jeff Saturday as his coach, or maybe Saturday came
right after that. It's it's hard to remember all the
nonsense blends in, but you know, sort of how how
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some of these rookie situations play out. We talked about
Bryce Young, I don't know, four or six weeks ago,
it feels like sometime around then, and I'm really high
on him. I'm really bullish on Carolina and and you know,
I want to see how that kind of comes together
and coalesces a little bit here in the preseason. Now
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Sean McVeigh is playing starters. Apparently in the season, you know,
does that trend, does that tendulum start to swing a
little bit more to where a few more teams are
actually looking at what they looking at their veterans more
than we've become accustomed to. You mentioned Aaron Rodgers. Obviously,
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the corollary to that story is in Green Bay, where
some people seem to think Jordan Love might not be
up to the task. I would think he'd be. His
preseason performances will probably be among the most micro managed
and obsessed about of anyone, right considering he's been there
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for several years now, and this isn't you know, He's
not like a lot of these other young quarterbacks who
are going through it for the first time. And Aaron
Rodgers wasn't a guy who was doing a whole lot
in the summertime in Green Bay in years past. So
Jordan Love was getting all that work. So does that
manifest itself quickly in that offense looking at least.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Competent Jason you'd mentioned McVeigh and getting ready to play
some of the starters U Sean Payton's talked about that
as well. Does do you owe some of that maybe
to the number of new coordinators in the league.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Yeah, it could be.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I think what in the AFC, Well, it's half the
teams in the league, right, Yeah, Yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Mean I think in the AFC alone last year it
was ten or eleven in that conference alone where the
guy this year was not the play caller last year. Yeah,
I mean that that all that change could certainly have
something to do with it. Some of these situations are
a little different where you've got some guys like even
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here in Baltimore with Odell Beckham, like, man, I don't
think we'll play. I doubt I guess I doubt that
he plays at all. But with how much time he's missed,
you know what, it would it make some sense do
they find at least a couple of series for him?
But you always come back to these trade offs like, well,
if you do that, he is Lamar out there too,
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you know what I mean, Because if he's not, then
what are we really gaining here? And if we do
put Lamar out there, then we better put the first
string left tackle in, the first dring right tackle and
the center out there. So that calculus can get a
little dicey for some of these teams, you know, especially
teams that are kind of in super Bowl or bus
mode or they think they're really close to winning at all,
because you know, the wrong injury this time of year
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can derail everything. I still think, you know, the vast
majority of teams will be resting the kind of players
that frankly, if you're paying money to go to those
exhibitions that you'd want to see. But yeah, I think
you know a few of these guys in their certain situations,
you know, Sean Payton someplace other than New Orleans for
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the first time in forever, they're going to want to
get a look see at some of these guys.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
See I can go real. You know, conspiracy theory is
was there like a wink and a nod for the league, going, hey,
we need more people watching these preseason games, you got
to play some starters. We need to see some here
a little bit.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I Look, if that was the case, I don't think
Sean Payton would be the conduit. I'm old enough to
remember bounty Gate and you know the Saints being outlaws
and him, you know, being banished for a year and
Dennis Allen having to coach that team. So even if
that were the mandate, I don't think that Sean would
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be the guy picking up that drum beat for the
league office. I still don't think they exchange a whole
lot of holiday cards.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
So, Jason, one of the big visuals on Thursday night,
you know, just to rewind to that Hall of Fame game,
was the Goodell hug of Deshaun Watson that you know,
made the rounds and like he's just going to be
such a difficult guy to talk about no matter how
well the the Browns may play. Yeah, but the optics
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of that one, we talked about it, and it's one
that it's very rare for Jason and I here in
the studio to have moments where we're trying to look
for that next word in a sentence. Yeah, we kind
of when we were talking about that exchange.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Yeah, I mean there's a there's a creepyness to him.
There's a cringe worthy or just cringey nature to him. Now,
some of the comments he made early in camp kind
of blew my mind. He clearly doesn't. I think he's
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such a megalomaniac. I think he's so ego maniacal that
he still doesn't possess the humanity or the humility to
take a step back and have any semblance of an
understanding of the you know, his actions and his words
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and how grossly disgusting and inappropriate they are, and how
demeaning and belittling they are, and whenever he speaks in
a cavalier tone, ortikaly or you know, goes out of
his way to somehow invoke the hardships he's been through
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in relation to what he's accused to have done, credibly
accused by numerous women who told remarkably similar stories, in
whom the league itself believed to be Basically I'm trying
to remember the exact terms that got out from the report,
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but someone who had no place on a football field
for a long period of time, and again, if Roger
Goodell I think had abided by everything that was recommended
to him, Deshaun Watson would be out, you know, maybe forever.
So I understand it's not a court of law, and
these leagues are operating in a difficult space at times
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when it comes to these situations where there's he said,
she says, or he said he says, it's impossible to
get to the truth right, because the legal system isn't
always about the truth. It's about how easy it is
to get to the truth and how provable that case
is and is there enough physical evidence, not just credible evidence.
So it's tricky, man. But yeah, you want to go
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and put your arm around that, dude, that's certainly your prerogative.
But especially someone in the role of Roger Goodell should
be incredibly mindful of how so many people, and it's people,
it's not just women. So many people will look at
that and want to puke on their shoes.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four That is
at Jason locking for it. Check them out on Odyssey
Washington Post N one O five seven the fan in Baltimore.
Jay as always, buddy, appreciate it, great stuff.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Hey, and joy the preseason football gentlemen. I can't wait.
I can't wait for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Enjoy the game tomorrow. Be good, buddy.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Hey, the Raven Streak is alive. Man, The Raven Streak
is on the line.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Yeah, it's on the line.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Have a good one, je see you, buddy, say up.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 2 (24:28):
Well.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
The United States men's national team beating Puerto Rico right now,
thirty nine to thirty three. It's an exhibition. Austin Reeves
has nine. He's the new captain America. Maybe the men understanding, Hey,
we saw everybody just turn on the US women's team
after he lost. We got to win this game. Here.
When it was eight to Puerto Rico, Twitter was getting
(24:50):
ready to turn the United States look at what they're doing.
Let all these stars they shouldn't be stars. I can't
believe it.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Everybody upset anybody on social media, you know, people can turn.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
On I'll tell you that. That was the most surprising
and disappointing thing about the women's team losing is the
the apparent personal reveling in the team losing, right that
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from from everybody. Now there's two factions of reveling in
the United States who they lose to Sweden PKS early
yesterday morning. There's the the people who are happy that
the United States lost because they don't like the political
views of the women's national team, which I get right.
I mean I could disagree with it, but I get
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it because that's the way we are in this country.
We can have we can have differences politically and move on.
It's if you don't agree with me politically, you're my enemy.
So I understand the online rooting against Megan Rapino in
the United States. These are also people that are never
gonna watch a game. No, they're gonna go they're going,
oh good, they lost, I'm glad because Rapino was, Or
they're making noise about more money that's gonna have that
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I understand. I just agree with it, But I understand.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Just like a lot of folks in our business that
wrote their five thousand word missives or did segment after
segment on a game or tournament that they never watched
a minute of.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It's it's just it's it's disappointing. But I'm not surprised
at that, sure. But the criticism that we get from
Carly Lloyd, who says, look at the Nike sweatsuits they
were wearing. Look at how they're behaving going to the
locker room, look at them signing autographs. Look at the
commercials they have. People who haven't done anything have commercials
and they shouldn't have them. And Bill Simmons today is
saying Alex Morgan's not great, She's a coach's kid. Like
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Alex Morgan was one of the best players in the
in the in the world once upon a time, not anymore.
We've talked about that.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Did he did he need to get his name back
out there? Something rough times in the Simmons household. I mean,
what do we got.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
The glee with which pundits are reveling in the loss
of the women's national team is stunning to me. It's
absolutely stunning, like personally like like they bet on the
on the United States women's team and they didn't win.
So now I'm mad. Now I'm gonna get my pound
of flesh. And I don't under I don't understand that
part of it. I don't understand the part. Hey they lost, Okay,
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well what went wrong? How can they fix it?
Speaker 7 (27:14):
That?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Suddenly there were no reports of them having bad experiences,
there were no reports of them not practicing. This is
the women's national team. I'm gonna go under assumption Andonofsky
had them practicing a lot and not blowing off practice
to go to Dave and Busters. I'm thinking that that's
not gonna happen, right, But it just just to look
at the way they carried themselves and I don't like them.
It just seemed personal. And that was some of that stuff.
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I'm sorry it was out of bounds. It was it
was too much. You want a criticism for losing and playing? Hey,
that stuff and we'll get into that because there's a
lot of stuff. We told you exactly how this turnill
fell according to.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
A month a month.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Before the turner, we told you how it was gonna go,
and it went that way. But that that's legitimate. A
lot of this stuff. I'm like, I'm so stunned at
at at just a group of athletes who everybody should
be rooting for. I mean, you don't have to, but
you should be rooting for. But just the glee with
which they are celebrating the loss in like, what's your endgame?
Like what are you trying to accomplish with that? I
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don't understand.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Well, if you're a political a political animal, you're trying
to rally your base, right, because you know, how many
articles did you see about hey, they're not singing at
the top of their lungs during the national anthem?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
How many?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
How many people generally do do you watch all fifty
three people on a football field on each side? Are
they singing? Are they standing at attention?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
No?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
No, I mean you know, I mean there's a million
things going on. They just became a punching bag. And
obviously Repino's one that you know, people will had their
gleeful moment when she missed the pik the first in
what five years that she'd missed, And certainly we'll talk
about Sophia Smith and the moment being too big, but
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go on down the line, but the amount of vitre
y'all like, let it out. I guess hopefully you're better
to the people around you than you work, you know,
clacking away at a keyboard or on a on a microphone,
because I mean, it's a level of absurdity unseen.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
It's like they did something to them exact. Hey, we'll
have more on this story and more on the big
developing Orioles broadcaster Kevin Brown story. Keep it right here,
Jason and Mike. You are listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Jason, I'm trying to find their next game. When do
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are about positivity. We're about positivity where we have to be.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
We have to be.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I mean, I came on air for the Fox Sports
Sunday Show I do and Dan Byer I couldn't be
positive yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Hard It was less than an hour.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, it was after everything melted down.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It was hard and then there was actually traffic and stuff, bad,
bad things on the highways at five fifteen in the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It was hard.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Good, it was very difficult day, dark day, but positive
Monday positivity. I mean we got a Mets yearbook. Yeah,
and during the rain delay. So you can actually think
back when they were good.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Look at this, I'm seeing highlights from twenty fifteen when
they were all good and Cespitus was good.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Remember when you were talking to guard Yeah, you were
talking about that rotation like it was gonna be yeah,
seventies Orioles.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh sure, it was so great. Stephen Mattz before his
era was seven. It's fun. Oh, turn back the clock.
Uh so, Yeah, Look, we got a lot of big
stuff happening tonight. You know, hey, we could have three
more schools or more change conferences by the time the
end of the show. Who knows, Steve just say you
will be on that the entire night.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I do have a question, though, Steven, in his update
give us the you know heads up that hey, the
men's national team is gonna gonna he is gonna play
Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's a US territory. Well, so, why
why do they have a separate team. Why aren't they
folded in? It's it's a scrimmage. But why wouldn't they
just be folded into a scrimmage. It's a scrimmage, I
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mean a scrimmage drying out.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Great Britain countries have their own teams.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Sure yeah, I mean look, hey, hey, you know England
could say that for us for a long time. Well
you are no, not anymore. Well we were, well we.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Want I mean, like Scotland and Wales has their own
soccer team.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Uh yeah, sure, so it's half fold them in. Bring
the best players together.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
That you gotta, you gotta be able to gotta be
spread it out there. Some people say, listen, I'm not
gonna I'm not good enough to play for the United States.
I'm gonna try to find a way to well that certificate.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, you got a little twenty three and me or
sometimes it just a how much you will it cost
to get you a play.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
For our Didn't Mike Piazza do that at the end
of his career where he wasn't good enough to catch
with the in the World Baseball classics. Always I'm gonna
play for Italy. Oh oh okay, anyway.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah, Historic Italian Soccer Club.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And then managed Italy, didn't he they Shore, Yeah, they
had an espresso machine in the Dougouys. I would love
to play for Italy. I would play for them for that.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Here it cures back, Acney.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You got you know what? Too soon, too soon, prosper
you can play for the United States and what probably
make it the championship and put out the best lineup ever.
Trey Turner will be good for this and not sucky
like he's been all year. Or he could play for
Italy and we got espresso during the game. Yeah, no,
I'm good for that because the games are late at night,
and you know BB and fifty. I want a little
bit of I need a little pick me a little
bit of juice. I'm like, okay, maybe I go for
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a third espresso.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Everything comes full circle, by the way, because that Puerto
Rico basketball game starts on FS one as soon as
penalty kicks are over on.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
FS one, So too soon.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Carmann exactly mentions the sadness from PK's yesterday twenty four
hours later.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Soon are you talking about mess he didn't miss?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Look? Well, we'll get to and the United States women's
natural team, which is still such an unbelievably huge story
twenty four plus hours after their elimination from the World Cup,
but a story that everybody has an opinion on. I'm
stunned how big this story got so fast. You may
know him, you may not, but it really doesn't matter.
(04:08):
The play by the play by play guy for the
Baltimore Orioles is Kevin Brown. Yeah, I mean coming off of.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Not Kevin Brown.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Kevin Brown can I was. I had a fun one liner,
but you had to make tie. Gotta say not that
Kevin Brown. I had a fun one liner. Now it's over. Now,
now it's over. You know, now it's over. Now it's over.
I had a great one line. I've been practicing it
all to Adam and Ah, I'm practicing it all. Yes,
I had a great one line. I had it like
Vince Scully. It was great. Now forget it now you
ruined it. So not that Kevin Brown. Positivity. Kevin Brown's
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a play by play man for the Baltimore Orioles, and
he was reportedly removed from MASN Broadcast, which is the
local cable network that the Orioles around regional cable network
after he made reference to Baltimore's lack of success against
the Rays at Tropicana Field in previous years. Now, this
goes back to July twenty third before, you know, when
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they were in the middle of this series against the Rays.
They were doing okay, and they were trying to take
the series, and he wanted to point out just what
they're up against and how poorly the Orioles have played
in Tampa the last few years. Now, very shortly after this,
he was removed from the broadcast. He only did radio
for a couple of days after because they had another
issue with somebody, which I mean, come on, really, you
(05:22):
have issues? How many issues are the Ools out with
their broadcasting? So he gets taken off. There hasn't done
a game since, and it's been widely reported now and
ESPN's got the story and John Oran had the story
today that the Orioles were very upset and the front
office ownership was upset with what he said about their
lack of success against Tampa and that's why he's been suspended.
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He was and here we're gonna play this for you.
There was a graphic up on the screen that is
illustrating everything he is going to say about the Orioles. Basically,
he's saying, hey, the Orioles have a chance to something
haven't done here in a long long time because they've
been this bad at the Trump This is the rent
or not rent. But this is just what he said
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that got him suspended.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Hey, guys, I got an email from the Orioles.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I might have got.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I'd been doing a lot of spot with in Baltimore forever,
I might not get to do it anymore earlier.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
And we got locking forward coming up in a few minutes.
He lives in Baltimore. He might be done.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, we don't bow to anybody, so.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
We could play. Hey, I told you the Oriols are
gonna win the al least they still love me in Baltimore.
Let's play. This is what Kevin just in a pregame.
Hey taking up some time telling me about what the
Orioles are focused before the game goes on.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
For the Orioles, Brandon Id has felt like this has
been maybe the toughest ballpark to play in. But the
Orioles have a chance to do something special today. They've
already clinched at least as split in the series, winning
two of the first three, and they could pick up
a series win behind Tyler Wells today it's been a minute.
The Orioles split a two gamer with the Rays in June.
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They had lost their last fifteen series here at Trumpicata Field.
You have to go back to when are now colleague.
Brat Brock picked up the win in the series finale
June twenty fifth, twenty seventeen, the last time the Orioles
won a series here in sam d already got three
and two of the Troup this year after winning three
of eighteen the previous three years. Come Bine, it is
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a stark difference, Ben, and it is.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Not a bad race team.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
It's not like all of a sudden the race became
slouches in the American leagueest. They've led this division every day,
but now two and the Orioles once again are back alone.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
In first place.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, all right, So that's all it was. He was
reading a graphic that showed you that network Orioles broadcast
partner MSN produced mid Atlantic Sports Network. They was That's
all he was doing, was reading the graphic, and obviously
somebody high up, maybe was Peter Ansels, maybe was somebody else,
very upset that the attention was drawn to the fact
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that the Orioles have not played well there, and he
was suspended and removed from the broadcast. Since then, now
so many people have come to his defense, and look,
there's right now, there's only one side of the story
because it's utterly ridiculous, which makes me think, is there
something else else happening going on that nobody knows about?
Because it's it's it's stupid to suspend a guy for this,
right and so so that's what first thing to tell
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you is that everybody's jumping to the fence. And if
this is what it is, yes, it's ridiculously dumb. But
let's you know, because they have another announcer that was
dealing with something, which is why he jumped over to
do radio. I think they were upset with what the
guy was wearing. I think he had to fill in
for a guy on radio because they were he was.
They were upset about what that person was. Where the
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attire that the broadcaster was wearing. And I don't know
what that was. It was it was it was one
person could have been wearing, could wear in your Taylor
Swift jacket that on Friday, who knows. So that's where
we're at right now, and this is all we know.
But let me just say that, I'll tell you something
that that's not just it's I can't believe this happened.
Is that this goes on. Okay, this goes on. Yes,
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it's ridiculous, but this is what it means. Sometimes when
you work for a sport, a team, when you work
for a team that owns or has a stake in
a television contract, usually not to this extent, but it happens.
It's happened to people that have been guests on our
show now like they didn't like them when I said
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this about this team, and at the end of the year,
your contract's not renewed because you're being too negative. Now
part of it, I understand, Hey, people who watch the game,
they're fans of the team. But you got to allow
free speech for the broadcasters say what he's going to say.
The fact that this is out there everybody shot. Don't
be shocked because you would be stunned with how teams
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want their broadcasters and what they want them to say
and what they can't say. We don't want you to
say this, this or this. We don't want you to
bring this up. You don't want to bring this up.
You be positive on it, but I can't be bout
they lost a heart breaker in thirteen innings last night,
three to two because a guy forgot to tag up. No, no, no, no,
you're too negative. You're too negative. And that is the
world that some broadcasters live in, and it's it's it's
(10:11):
it's hard to hear, but yes, you know. In fact,
one of the guys, I was even gonna call him today, going, dude,
do you want to come tell your story on what
happened to you with a Major League Baseball team? What
happened today? But I don't think you can come on tonight.
I said, do you want to say anything? And and
he was like, I don't know, but it happens. It
happens much more often than you think it is. The
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control that teams have over broadcasts is immense. And while
this certainly is extremely benign, you know that which makes
you say, okay, is there something else going on? But
you think this is ridiculous, Yeah it is, but this
is not something that's an outlier, maybe to this extent.
But watch me, trust me, you're gonna start seeing over
the next couple of days, former broadcast, former broadcasters for teams,
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they're gonna do interviews gonna do podcasts, are gonna say, well, wait, well,
let me tell you what happed when I was broadcasting
for the A's or when I was broadcasting for the
San Francisco And I'm just saying. I'm not saying that
I was worked out for the A's or the New
York Giants, or the Jets or the Mets or And
You're gonna see a lot of stories going. They wouldn't
allow me to say this. This this, trust me, this
is the beginning of this story. Because now you got
pissed off broadcasters, You're gonna see oh wait a minute,
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this was the world they lived in for a long time.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, we know a lot of folks that have had
to do the course correction during a season when it's
gold right now, suddenly you know they they've got to
go and figure it out. So it's it's a curiosity.
And and like like with you, that was the first
thing I started thinking about, was, all right, what else
is behind this? Because broadcast Partner Graphics didn't offer any
(11:45):
opinion on it, right, literally, just a few words to
join together the bullet points that were on the screen,
all right, didn't talk about hey, dismal failures of the
past and the true reality of what the Orioles have been.
And I'm sadden because again long standing relationship with some
folks there in Baltimore and obviously Jason Lock andfora give
(12:09):
us a little little insight there as well.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
But knowing what I know about.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Relationships some some broadcasters have had with the with Angelos
and the higher ups, Like it was finally hands off
in twenty twenty three, and it seemed like all was
right with the world, right, the team's winning, the farm system,
has got some of the most coveted players in minor
league baseball. They got draft after draft right of guys
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who've come through the organization. Everything's working right, and then
this happens, like, yeah, all right, same old Orioles.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
We get right.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Back into it.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
All right, Now we're gonna be mad at media or whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's like, you can't dismiss what like what the past was,
and really all it was was shining a light on hey,
it's a new world order.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
No, it just started screaming about it.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
We sucked the last you. I mean, the whole world knows. Boy,
the Orioles. Yeah, everybody knew he sucked. We were terrible.
How do we not win any of these games? Brad
Brook who was just okay and he's just an okay
broadcaster that we have on with me. I mean, you know, Brad,
I'm telling you the truth. He was t was awful
and he was lucky to get a save of that game.
But he would have won that last time against against Tampa.
I mean, he didn't do that. He this is what's
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going This is a pre produced graphic that's on the air.
I'm reading off the graphic, and yet he's the guy
that gets in trouble for it. It's insane.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Yeah, I mean, maybe he should have punctuated at the end, hey,
that that's yesterday and now they've got they've really got
a chance, and they've now taken control of the division,
which I got to imagine if you watch the full
pre game and into the first innings, there's got to
be more of that. But I I just have to wonder, Okay,
what's the other shoe to drop, like behind the scenes
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or the when the did he get caught with a
hot mic behind the scenes or was he criticizing something
behind the scenes and it was finally l escalated to
a all right, this is it?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Because if this is it, like be sure to catch
live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon
weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Really good pick you made, you know at O Wyoming there,
and it's nice that you know, you upgrade it at
left tackle and you got Orlando Brown now, But like
if you don't you know, I don't know when Joe
Burrow is coming back from this thing. I have a
hard time thinking it's anytime in the preseason, right, it
wouldn't make any sense, which means you've got about a
month now to get something done before the season starts.
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And it would really make a whole hell of a
lot of sense to get something done before the season starts.
So you know that situation and Mike Brown having two
deep digger in his you know, deeper in his pockets
than he ever has before. I'm really interested to see
the end game there. I don't think it's just this
little game of leap frog we've been doing where oh,
(14:56):
this guy gets five hundred thousand dollars more a year
than that guy, and then this guy gets five hundred
thousand more than that, And I think this is a
whole different sort of and gelata going on there. You know,
on field, there's a lot of quarterback situations that I'm
looking at and kind of wondering, you know, Mac Jones
(15:20):
and Bill O'Brien, is this going to actually turn anything
around in New England or is that just you know,
a team that's really devoid of sufficient skill players with
with you know, a limited NFL starting quarterback in Atlanta.
Some people are kind of high on them. I get
(15:41):
to send some people like them and this whole you know,
bijon thing and go with the skilled players they've drafted
really high. But I don't know, man, desn't really you know, really,
I don't know. I get the sense Anthony Richardson is
going to play right away in Indianapolis because the hunky
(16:01):
tunk man really wants him to play. And I mean
he's hiring coaches firing coaches, right. He had a Sam
Ellinger fetish for a couple of weeks last week last year.
So all of a sudden, that guy started NFL games
with Jeff Saturday as his coach, or maybe Saturday came
right after that. It's it's hard to remember all the
nonsense blends in, but you know, sort of how how
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some of these rookie situations play out. We talked about
Bryce Young, I don't know, four or six weeks ago,
it feels like sometime around then, and I'm really high
on him. I'm really bullish on Carolina and and you know,
I want to see how that kind of comes together
and coalesces a little bit here in the preseason. Now
(16:46):
Sean McVeigh is playing starters. Apparently in the season, you know,
does that trend, does that tendulum start to swing a
little bit more to where a few more teams are
actually looking at what they looking at their veterans more
than we've become accustomed to. You mentioned Aaron Rodgers. Obviously,
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the corollary to that story is in Green Bay, where
some people seem to think Jordan Love might not be
up to the task. I would think he'd be. His
preseason performances will probably be among the most micro managed
and obsessed about of anyone, right considering he's been there
(17:30):
for several years now, and this isn't you know, He's
not like a lot of these other young quarterbacks who
are going through it for the first time. And Aaron
Rodgers wasn't a guy who was doing a whole lot
in the summertime in Green Bay in years past. So
Jordan Love was getting all that work. So does that
manifest itself quickly in that offense looking at least.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Competent Jason you'd mentioned McVeigh and getting ready to play
some of the starters U Sean Payton's talked about that
as well. Does do you owe some of that maybe
to the number of new coordinators in the league.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Yeah, it could be.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I think what in the AFC, Well, it's half the
teams in the league, right, Yeah, Yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Mean I think in the AFC alone last year it
was ten or eleven in that conference alone where the
guy this year was not the play caller last year. Yeah,
I mean that that all that change could certainly have
something to do with it. Some of these situations are
a little different where you've got some guys like even
(18:38):
here in Baltimore with Odell Beckham, like, man, I don't
think we'll play. I doubt I guess I doubt that
he plays at all. But with how much time he's missed,
you know what, it would it make some sense do
they find at least a couple of series for him?
But you always come back to these trade offs like, well,
if you do that, he is Lamar out there too,
(19:01):
you know what I mean, Because if he's not, then
what are we really gaining here? And if we do
put Lamar out there, then we better put the first
string left tackle in, the first dring right tackle and
the center out there. So that calculus can get a
little dicey for some of these teams, you know, especially
teams that are kind of in super Bowl or bus
mode or they think they're really close to winning at all,
because you know, the wrong injury this time of year
(19:23):
can derail everything. I still think, you know, the vast
majority of teams will be resting the kind of players
that frankly, if you're paying money to go to those
exhibitions that you'd want to see. But yeah, I think
you know a few of these guys in their certain situations,
you know, Sean Payton someplace other than New Orleans for
(19:45):
the first time in forever, they're going to want to
get a look see at some of these guys.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
See I can go real. You know, conspiracy theory is
was there like a wink and a nod for the league, going, hey,
we need more people watching these preseason games, you got
to play some starters. We need to see some here
a little bit.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I Look, if that was the case, I don't think
Sean Payton would be the conduit. I'm old enough to
remember bounty Gate and you know the Saints being outlaws
and him, you know, being banished for a year and
Dennis Allen having to coach that team. So even if
that were the mandate, I don't think that Sean would
(20:21):
be the guy picking up that drum beat for the
league office. I still don't think they exchange a whole
lot of holiday cards.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
So, Jason, one of the big visuals on Thursday night,
you know, just to rewind to that Hall of Fame game,
was the Goodell hug of Deshaun Watson that you know,
made the rounds and like he's just going to be
such a difficult guy to talk about no matter how
well the the Browns may play. Yeah, but the optics
(20:48):
of that one, we talked about it, and it's one
that it's very rare for Jason and I here in
the studio to have moments where we're trying to look
for that next word in a sentence. Yeah, we kind
of when we were talking about that exchange.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Yeah, I mean there's a there's a creepyness to him.
There's a cringe worthy or just cringey nature to him. Now,
some of the comments he made early in camp kind
of blew my mind. He clearly doesn't. I think he's
(21:26):
such a megalomaniac. I think he's so ego maniacal that
he still doesn't possess the humanity or the humility to
take a step back and have any semblance of an
understanding of the you know, his actions and his words
(21:47):
and how grossly disgusting and inappropriate they are, and how
demeaning and belittling they are, and whenever he speaks in
a cavalier tone, ortikaly or you know, goes out of
his way to somehow invoke the hardships he's been through
(22:08):
in relation to what he's accused to have done, credibly
accused by numerous women who told remarkably similar stories, in
whom the league itself believed to be Basically I'm trying
to remember the exact terms that got out from the report,
(22:32):
but someone who had no place on a football field
for a long period of time, and again, if Roger
Goodell I think had abided by everything that was recommended
to him, Deshaun Watson would be out, you know, maybe forever.
So I understand it's not a court of law, and
these leagues are operating in a difficult space at times
(22:55):
when it comes to these situations where there's he said,
she says, or he said he says, it's impossible to
get to the truth right, because the legal system isn't
always about the truth. It's about how easy it is
to get to the truth and how provable that case
is and is there enough physical evidence, not just credible evidence.
So it's tricky, man. But yeah, you want to go
(23:18):
and put your arm around that, dude, that's certainly your prerogative.
But especially someone in the role of Roger Goodell should
be incredibly mindful of how so many people, and it's people,
it's not just women. So many people will look at
that and want to puke on their shoes.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four That is
at Jason locking for it. Check them out on Odyssey
Washington Post N one O five seven the fan in Baltimore.
Jay as always, buddy, appreciate it, great stuff.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Hey, and joy the preseason football gentlemen. I can't wait.
I can't wait for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Enjoy the game tomorrow. Be good, buddy.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Hey, the Raven Streak is alive. Man, The Raven Streak
is on the line.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Yeah, it's on the line.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Have a good one, je see you, buddy, say up.
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (24:14):
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Speaker 2 (24:28):
Well.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
The United States men's national team beating Puerto Rico right now,
thirty nine to thirty three. It's an exhibition. Austin Reeves
has nine. He's the new captain America. Maybe the men understanding, Hey,
we saw everybody just turn on the US women's team
after he lost. We got to win this game. Here.
When it was eight to Puerto Rico, Twitter was getting
(24:50):
ready to turn the United States look at what they're doing.
Let all these stars they shouldn't be stars. I can't
believe it.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Everybody upset anybody on social media, you know, people can turn.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
On I'll tell you that. That was the most surprising
and disappointing thing about the women's team losing is the
the apparent personal reveling in the team losing, right that
(25:21):
from from everybody. Now there's two factions of reveling in
the United States who they lose to Sweden PKS early
yesterday morning. There's the the people who are happy that
the United States lost because they don't like the political
views of the women's national team, which I get right.
I mean I could disagree with it, but I get
(25:42):
it because that's the way we are in this country.
We can have we can have differences politically and move on.
It's if you don't agree with me politically, you're my enemy.
So I understand the online rooting against Megan Rapino in
the United States. These are also people that are never
gonna watch a game. No, they're gonna go they're going,
oh good, they lost, I'm glad because Rapino was, Or
they're making noise about more money that's gonna have that
(26:03):
I understand. I just agree with it, But I understand.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Just like a lot of folks in our business that
wrote their five thousand word missives or did segment after
segment on a game or tournament that they never watched
a minute of.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It's it's just it's it's disappointing. But I'm not surprised
at that, sure. But the criticism that we get from
Carly Lloyd, who says, look at the Nike sweatsuits they
were wearing. Look at how they're behaving going to the
locker room, look at them signing autographs. Look at the
commercials they have. People who haven't done anything have commercials
and they shouldn't have them. And Bill Simmons today is
saying Alex Morgan's not great, She's a coach's kid. Like
(26:37):
Alex Morgan was one of the best players in the
in the in the world once upon a time, not anymore.
We've talked about that.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Did he did he need to get his name back
out there? Something rough times in the Simmons household. I mean,
what do we got.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
The glee with which pundits are reveling in the loss
of the women's national team is stunning to me. It's
absolutely stunning, like personally like like they bet on the
on the United States women's team and they didn't win.
So now I'm mad. Now I'm gonna get my pound
of flesh. And I don't under I don't understand that
part of it. I don't understand the part. Hey they lost, Okay,
(27:11):
well what went wrong? How can they fix it?
Speaker 7 (27:14):
That?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Suddenly there were no reports of them having bad experiences,
there were no reports of them not practicing. This is
the women's national team. I'm gonna go under assumption Andonofsky
had them practicing a lot and not blowing off practice
to go to Dave and Busters. I'm thinking that that's
not gonna happen, right, But it just just to look
at the way they carried themselves and I don't like them.
It just seemed personal. And that was some of that stuff.
(27:37):
I'm sorry it was out of bounds. It was it
was too much. You want a criticism for losing and playing? Hey,
that stuff and we'll get into that because there's a
lot of stuff. We told you exactly how this turnill
fell according to.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
A month a month.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Before the turner, we told you how it was gonna go,
and it went that way. But that that's legitimate. A
lot of this stuff. I'm like, I'm so stunned at
at at just a group of athletes who everybody should
be rooting for. I mean, you don't have to, but
you should be rooting for. But just the glee with
which they are celebrating the loss in like, what's your endgame?
Like what are you trying to accomplish with that? I
(28:12):
don't understand.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Well, if you're a political a political animal, you're trying
to rally your base, right, because you know, how many
articles did you see about hey, they're not singing at
the top of their lungs during the national anthem?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
How many?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
How many people generally do do you watch all fifty
three people on a football field on each side? Are
they singing? Are they standing at attention?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
No?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
No, I mean you know, I mean there's a million
things going on. They just became a punching bag. And
obviously Repino's one that you know, people will had their
gleeful moment when she missed the pik the first in
what five years that she'd missed, And certainly we'll talk
about Sophia Smith and the moment being too big, but
(28:56):
go on down the line, but the amount of vitre
y'all like, let it out. I guess hopefully you're better
to the people around you than you work, you know,
clacking away at a keyboard or on a on a microphone,
because I mean, it's a level of absurdity unseen.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
It's like they did something to them exact. Hey, we'll
have more on this story and more on the big
developing Orioles broadcaster Kevin Brown story. Keep it right here,
Jason and Mike. You are listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Jason, I'm trying to find their next game. When do
they play jerk
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