August 10, 2024 • 42 mins
Jason and Mike tell you if they’re buying the Texans for the Super Bowl. Jason explains that Kirk Cousins/Michael Penix, Jr. is more Russell Wilson/Justin Fields than anyone wants to admit. And Jayson Tatum’s mom demands answers over his lack of Team USA playing time!
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We got an fl we have MLB, we have Olympics.
It is a full service August night here in a Friday,
Mike Carmen, it is I feel like, hey, we've made
it through. Hey, the Olympics has helped us into Okay
now where he now? Football is here. We are here now.
And it was one game last week and one you know,
the game last night, two games, tonight, whole bunch of
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game with three games tonight, bunch of games tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
We made it, buddy, we made it again. We're here,
the long, arduous journey.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
And look, we get to stretch our legs a lot
in those non football months. Not that there aren't still
a lot of contract stories, Jerry Jones quotes and other
things to dissect, don't get me wrong, And the waves
of free agency are always out there. But tell me
you didn't enjoy watching old CJ. Stroud and Tank Dell
watching Justin Fields make some of the same mistakes he
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made in Chicago. A couple of nice flash plays, but
some otherwise questionable decisions, and that offensive line not so great.
But you add it all up. Yeah, it's back. It's
all back. And tomorrow morning I get to watch Caleb
Williams he might actually taken.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, they're gonna save him to Game three.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, well, if it rains or something, or if it's cloudy,
we're gonna sit and we don't want to.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Mercury is in retro grade, so maybe you need to
sit him.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I don't know, all right, but.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Let le let's start. Let's start with of course we're
gonna start with the NFL tonight. Let's start with something that.
And I'm kind of upset that the world is making
me do this right and I always felt, wait, but
what are you talking about, jac You always do your ownay.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Now now the world is making me do this.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The big headline tonight from the NFL games. You watch
the big headline CJ. Stroud with a big thirty yard
touchdown pass to Tank Dell and suddenly.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Ah, yeah, the Texans are back.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Texts are back, Tank Della's back. I would love to
pick the Texans for the Super Bowl or the AFC
title games. You know, we picked the NFC championships. I
would love to pick them for the AFC Championship game.
I would love to pick the Texans for the Super Bowl.
But I'm not. You know why not? Because I don't
believe in them? Because wow are they good?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Wow? Is CJ? Stroud good? Wow?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Did they get better in the offseason? And they're getting
Dell back. This team is locked and loaded and ready
to go. But I'm not gonna pick him because everybody
else is going, well, it's over wary.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm not doing it now. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I'm not. I'm not gonna pick the trendy hey everything,
because the trendy Super Bowl is gonna be the Texans
and the Packers, right like Texans Packer. Okay, that's not trendy,
that's insane. But but for trendy because you're going off
a last year's success. Every's Texans, but the Bears are
gonna be this year's Texans.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
JA, They're gonna.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Run, Buddy, I'm hoping Jets Bears in the super Bowl.
I'm hopeless. Look, I just put my just I just
elbowed you and put my team. Dude, you just want
your guy to get past the fifth snap. Once that happened, Dude,
don't say because if he had gets hurt in the
sixth snap, it's not gonna be any better, all right,
just because I can see it at.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Least steps this year. No, no, no, no, no, would
I ever say that. I would never say that. You
would say that. You would send me texts with that
every single day.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I might make your shirt with that. I'm not gonna
pick the because I'm not. Everybody else is going to
and it's gonna look like I'm following the crowd. What
are you worried about? People think about you know it's
not gonna do it. I'm gonna pick somebody. I'm gonna
pick the Jets, but I'm not gonna pick the Texas
because that's gonna be everybody's trendy pick. Which is a
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credit to the team they've assembled and how in one
short year they went from we're starting over and drafting
a quarterback with our pick early in the first round. Two, Hey,
people think we're going to the super Bowl, and they
got turned around in the year. You can turn things around,
and even less than that, if you get the quarterback right,
everything is possible for you.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Well, that's just it. They also added Mixing and Stefan Diggs.
Do I want to Stefan Diggs in year two or
year three? Maybe not, but for one year with CJ.
Stroud throwing them the ball and Tank Dell, I think
the one thing you did take out of it is like, yeah,
you look like the Jets were still there. And I
don't mean your Jets. I mean that his legs are
just fine and he's fully operational, which is problem for
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defensive coordinators. But you look at that roster all the
way through Schultz gone down the line. They bolstered things
with a couple of veteran ads, and so yeah, it's
it's the trendy pick. They're one of the favorites in
this super Bowl, in the Super Bowl excitement, and obviously CJ.
Stroud is a guy that you know, because of Joe
(05:17):
Burrow's health issues, folks want to put them right behind
my homes in terms of their top ten rankings.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
So all of that to say, here we go, not
gonna fall in line, not gonna do it. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I'm not gonna do it. I don't care how good
I think. I'm just not gonna do it. I'm not
going to because I know everybody's go all. The Texans
were good left they were a team that was good
last year, made the playoffs and can make it jump
Like I feel like that's all anybody.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Does when they make their pixes.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Who's a team that made the playoffs, that was pretty good, young,
with a chance to grow, they get a little bit
better in the offseason.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yes, that's my team.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
That's you know what, though, I think folks will start
to jump off as they realize they're they're not They're
not alone in the forest. You know, they're looking there's
there's another guy waving right back at like, oh, I
thought I was gonna see.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
The rare bird myself. You're up.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You're not up all night like me watching twe watching
All twenty two film. You're not doing that. That's right
after I finish the show and I go get a
glass of wine and I sit and watch All twenty
two film four five o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
And I go to sleep for forty minutes. I get
a full forty minutes like Buddy the Elf. Then I'm
back up and watching All twenty two film. That's what
I'm doing all that. That's what I'm doing. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I actually used to watch that a lot when they
made it hard to find. Yeah, and then it became
part of the NFL Plus packet. You're like, all right,
now everybody's got it and everybody's sighting this. Although I
gotta say that that shot from the Steelers game, from
where the camera angle was, I don't know if you're
getting anything better that might be that might serve as
the All twenty two based on where that camera was.
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But as we sit here tonight, Chiefs forty nine ers
both six to one, Raven's at ten to one Lions
at twelve to one. Eagles despite all the Sirianney Jalen
Hurts slap fight thirteen to one. Texans come in next,
tied with the Bank and Bills at fifteen to one.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
All right, I may take one of those teams, but
I'm not taking the Texans.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
There you going not doing it well.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I mean, once Joe Burrow got his eminem or Tody
Rhoades haircut, I know you started getting all excited so
you could start saying, what.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Maybe I picked the Bengals, baby, I picked the Jets.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I don't know. Well, you wear the mask like he does,
come into the ring.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Sure, I'll wear the mask and I'll have the haircut if.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I end the giant robe. Yeah, you know, it's a
good theme. You just get to stomp a couple of times.
There's a lot of pyrotechnics.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Meanwhile, we saw the debut tonight of Michael Pennick Junior,
and for the Falcons. In his game, he was nine
out of sixteen through FO one hundred yards, did not
throw for a score, did not throw for an interception.
Michael Pennock Junior tonight was fine. He did some really
good things. You saw the touch he has on the
ball that he showed through college. Fantastic. He overthrow a
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couple of receivers. Okay, it happens, right, Yes, this is
the first taste of action against the Dolphins, and Michael
Pennick Junior was fine. This conversation is not about now
suddenly he's great, he's gotta take over. But you see
the reaction to Michael Pennick Junior tonight on social media
from Falcons fans, people around the league, the NFL. And
(08:19):
this is why I say the Falcons really don't understand
about building a team because they still think we can
start Kirk Cousins as long as we want to win.
Michael Pennix Junior, when is he gonna Initially I thought, yep,
Kirk Cousins will get this year and then they'll trade
him in the offseason. Michael Pennick Junior will take over
last year. That ain't happening. This is more of a
(08:41):
Russell Wilson justin field situation than the Falcons want to admit.
Because if Kirk Cousins is great out of the gate,
and he's okay, awesome, right, he plays all that, but
and he has a better chance of playing well than
Russell Wilson, because Kirk Cousins is a better quarterback. But
when he falters, it's gonna be Michael Pennix. We need
Michael pennixs No, it's not gonna be wait till the end.
(09:01):
Let's give Kurt the chance to sit. That's not how
it goes when you draft a quarterback that early in
the NFL draft. When you draft a guy's a franchise,
he plays sooner rather than later. And if he shows
in the games that he's that he's ready to at
least take on some kind of role i e. Not
throwing up on himself, because that's all you gotta do.
And they just don't throw up on yourself and team.
(09:22):
Everybody's gonna think you're great. You see already the reaction
to Michael Pennick Junior by look at Michael, look at
what he did. Look at this throw here, Look at
this throw here. We're gonna ignore the fact that he
missed almost half his throws. Well, we're gonna look at
this or look at this. You can see the the
intent and you can see the desire to see him play.
And while the Falcons can sit around and say we
(09:43):
don't need to do this. Yeah, if you're one in three,
you're two and five. And Kirk Cousins is coming off
of three bad games in a row. And let's face it,
Kirk Cousins ain't coming into the season full of confidence.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
He's still mad.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
We have reports a week and a half ago. He's
still mad that they took Michael Pennick junior. Guess what
you're throwing Michael Pennis in week five, Week six. This
is way more of a of a Justin Fields Russell
Wilson situation than anybody wants to admit.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
You took Michael Pennick junior.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Now he's gonna play way earlier than you wanted him
to because the desire from everyone, Because that's gonna even
seep into your team. It's gonna seep into your players
who we're gonna see and hear everything and go, whin,
where's Kirk's confidence?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
We have him playing well, Maybe we should see what
Mike Scott he looks. He does great stuff in practice,
goes against number one defense all the time in practice,
looks really really good. That's all things have been going
on so far this summer with the Falcons. Hey, first
team defense he's making some throws, he's wowing us. This
change is coming sooner than anybody anticipates.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I'm telling you, Oh, it's funny that you mentioned the
Steelers because that's who they start the season against. So
week one, Pittsburgh, Week two, Philadelphia, Week three of the Chiefs.
And let's not forget Kirk Cousins is coming off a
pretty damn serious injury. Right For all, we've talked about
Aaron Rodgers and coming back and he's forty, et cetera. Yeah,
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it's a couple of more spins on the odometer than
old Captain Kirk. But you're talking about a dead set
pocket passer coming off a severe leg injury. So that's
always swirling in the background. There's no guarantee he's back
to form, and you're gonna have to pay him out regardless.
I mean that guaranteed money is there. The best businessman
(11:24):
we've ever seen, maybe him and Nick Foles. They can
open their own business school and sell seats. But for
Michael Pennix Junior, Yeah, the hyperbole is there. It's the
sexiness of the quick release in the big arm and
the effortless throws.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
All of that's there.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And if they do jump out early terribly because the look,
there's another one where it's not a huge bandwagon. But
I've seen you know, there's murmurs of hey, that could
be a team that rises up right, great offensive line,
a run game that has been very effective. Remember Pat
rob it didn't get used last year. I mean he
(12:02):
is a brand new Tires that had been locked up
for a whole year because of what they did, the
malfeasans of a year ago. Think about how much life
would have been easier for Desmond Ritter and those guys
quarterbacking a year ago, you know, if you'd actually used
the guy you drafted in the top ten. But we
don't need to relitigain the ineptitude and stupidity of a
(12:22):
coaching staff of a year ago. But you know, you
look at the receiving corps. I mean, there's so much
to like about what they have, at least in theory,
because it's a division that doesn't have any heavyweights. Right,
Tampa is the team that you push forward because you
saw the reclamation project that was Baker.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Well, Canalys is gone. That was the guy that helped
fix him.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
As that continue, Maybe maybe not you like the receiving corps,
a couple of pieces, good running back, all that. But
the Falcons are our team that could go and win
the division. So if they get out of the jump
slowly playing those three on division games, then you might
be looking over your shoulder a lot faster.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I don't know where Pittsburgh is. I still think at
a guilt they're gonna.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Have to start Russ Will, but just still look has
accelerated that timeline. No, Michael Penick Junior, it's more, Hey,
by mid season if we're struggling, he's the guy like
it could be even sooner than that. But forget about Hey,
they'll wait, he'll sit all season. Now, that ain't happen anymore. Man,
you can see thee and that again, that seeps into
(13:29):
the locker room, It seeps into the team, and it
becomes do you want to keep your job? You're starting?
Michael Penick Junior. I got Atlanta bit off more than
they can chew. They'll find out, though, and they're start.
They'll start to find out. Now, oh wait, wait a minute,
we have we have to play this guy a lot earlier.
He looks really good in practicing. Man If Kirk kirktt
doesn't have any confidence that we start out bad.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Oh my goodness, you guys, tonight is just outrageous.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Well, what are you talking about, Frostburg. We're talking about
all the quarterback playing and you're missing the greatest one
that played the night.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
We'll get to Justin Fields. I'm talking about Kenny.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Pickett, legendary Chenny Ticket now that he's out of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Sure, sure, we're tea.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
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Speaker 3 (16:43):
We got justin fields to get to.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
We have one team USA hoops player's mom is very
unhappy with her son not playing.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Gee, try to guess who that is shot.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
However, we need some time to talk about the four
x one hundred relay. Both men's and women's today at
the Olympics. We need, we need, we need to talk
about this. We need to have a conversation. Uh, let's
do the good part first. Shakiri Richardson anchors the women.
She takes the baton in fourth place, blitzes by France
(17:20):
and Germany and the United States, wins a gold medal.
It's her first gold medal and the you know, look,
I'm always wanting to say, oh, this photo is iconic.
This photo is iconic. Her getting set across the finish
line looking back at the two, the two, the two
races that she just passed. That's bleep and iconic, cold
blood outstanding.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
That is a once they do the Hey, we've got
a bunch of Olympians together at Convention Center ats to
sign autographs.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I'm buying that eight by ten. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I mean that's I mean, there's the thing is, there's
so many different versions of it. Right, It's not like, hey,
one guy captured this photo, right, It's like, wow, is.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
That who's got the best, wide, most expressive eyes and
me mug like yeah, yeah, I gotcha. Because let's face
it, it wasn't clean, no no, no, no, no, no. I mean,
that's the one word that is not being used to
describe either relay squad.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
But look, you know, and the thing is is for
Shakari Richardson right, Like when I saw her do that,
I this wasn't just your Hey watch me, hey cause look,
maybe we're just so much better than everybody in track
and field. We give everybody a lead now because every
race we're winning big, we're winning in the final like
three or four meters, like that's every race now, fifteen hundred,
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one hundred to it doesn't matter. It's like, hey, we'll
give you guys a lead. Let you guys think you're
gonna win, and then we're gonna come from behind in
the last few Wow. Look at that, like we're seeing
at the entire Olympics, Like it would not surprise me
if that was a strategy. Hey listen, we gotta make
it look good. It's the Olympics. They've asked us just
you know, give them a little bit.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
No wa, wait wait wait, Now you're making beans dashed
from the incredible skiff when he finally gets to run
at the end of the first one.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And then you run near the end, yes, in the
back the men's four to one hundred team. So should
we like mess around with the baton? No, do not
mess around with the baton? Handoff clean. You guys are
the only ones just do You haven't won a medal
in a hundred years and we should be dominant. No,
don't mess around. Yeah, but it might be fun if
we do the whole Oh I can't find it. Oh
here's the baton. I left it in my shorts here. No, no,
(19:28):
don't everybody everybody else? Hey, let them feel good for
their first three quarters part of the race and then
just pass them at the end. And if you want
to give a peek over the side.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Uh with Shakari Richards, you get guys, Cadillac And now
what you just did? You just dis missed all the
efforts of all these other nations, made a lockery of
international competition and basically said, we're running out a team
of superhumans.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
What are you doing? Smith? You're putting the target on it. Hey,
how about a fresco at School of Dome? Did we
or did we not have a race to decide?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I'm gonna smile in the backstretch so you could see
my gold teeth, gold medal teeth. As I pass everyone
to win the gold medal, I'd say it.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
There's not a lot of ego involved.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
We had a man go straight into the wheelchair to
tell you how much you know, what kind of temperature
he was running and how sick he was. So look,
theatrics are certainly part of what Team USA is all about.
The next Olympics are in Hollywood for crying out loud.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
They're setting it up.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But look, but just just an appreciation moment for a second.
But before we get to the men's Shakri Richardson is
someone who you know her story and it's it's it's
it's sad because a lot of it it was done
by her own doing. Of course, she missed the Olympics
four years ago or three years ago because as she
smoked marijuana before, had a positive test and it got
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all the way to They were asking Joe Biden, President Biden,
can you intervene on this? He's like this, I can't
intervene on this.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
It's sad. But what do you want me to do?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
He's spending his time. No, yeah, you have failed the
test that they still run. How did argue whether they
should or not? But how did this get to my desk.
I told you only Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I only Syracuse stuff on my desk, So you know, look,
obviously that was that was awful. You know she felt awful,
of course, track and feel fell awful.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Was a badness.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
There was nothing you can do, There was no positives
out of it. Then she comes to this Olympics. Finally
she doesn't medal. What she doesn't get a gold medal
when she's a heavy favorite, and but she comes from
behind and wins here. And I guarantee you that look
that was. That was months and years of frustration and
being upset and saying this is this is how good
I am, this is how good we are, and that
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was all let out in that moment as she as
she looked to the side and then crossed the finish
line and screamed like that. That's how I took that
from Shirki Richardson, Like, here's that moment where everything I've
gone through the last three plus years, I've had people
on my side. I'd have people tell me I'm stupid,
what are you? And all of that. Here now I'm
getting the gold medal. I've anchored a team event and
we're winning and every we're all gonna hold up the
(22:02):
card and me and the flag, and me and Gabby
Thomas are gonna be next to each other. It's gonna
be an awesome moment. I mean it was. It was
that kind of moment. That's what I took away from
Shircarry Richardson at the end.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yeah, Look, it's three years of build up and you
think about the amount of revenue lost during that period, Like,
there's great motivations, right, we talk about the Jordan and
I took that personally all the time.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Every other athlete has.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Some level of that in terms of pushing themselves to keep.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Their job or to become the best of the best.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
And in this it's you know, we watched it through
all these Olympics, Jason, I mean the margin of between
first and last. I mean it's it's Ricky Bobby Eskla
Frostburg brought up yesterday. I mean, there's there's really not
a lot of margin for anything. It's one false step,
it's it's one taking someone for granted. And again for
Shcariy Richardson, all the articles and thought pieces and everything
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else going through and I gotta think all she, I
have no doubt, has had her backers and sponsors and
people on board wearing medals three years ago would have
helped to make give there a little bit more and
so that that burns as well, because if you don't
have the hardware in front of you, as we've seen,
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you know, it becomes a huge medal count thing. And
what what we're doing this entire Olympics. It's Biles, it's Ladecki,
it's lebron and and Kevin Durant and the celebration of
these guys, uh and women that are are piling up
stacks of medals.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Shakira Richardson didn't get to do that, you.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Know, and look and it's a great moment for track
and field, a great moment for her, a great redemptive
moment as well, and just the cold blooded look that
just the you're not even worth my time, Like I
hope you enjoyed that, that that last three and a
half seconds where you thought one of you was gonna
win a gold medal, because that's not happening for you.
It's happening for us right now as I crossed the
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finish well. But that there's the other part of it,
right is that you you have had a Bravado, that
Hubris that I'm finishing. How many of those videos have
you seen from different events over the last year or
two All Track and Field World Championships or whatever. It's
like I'm done, or I'm gonna get to the end
zone in the NFL and you get chased down in
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the ball, knocked through the end zone, or whatever the
case may be. This is one that that stands up
on the metal stand literally of all of those of Yep,
you think you had us, but we figured it out
just in the nick of time, because it becomes one
of those if you were gonna do a one shining
moment for the Olympics, this moment comes up in there, right,
(24:43):
isn't that the final cord?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
The stare down and then it just says LA twenty
twenty eight or Tom Cruise does something crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I don't see, We'll see Tom Cruise on Sunday. We'll see, well,
we'll see Tom Cruise Sunday, I guarantee it.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
How many cameos from the p people that have been
on the Celebrity Rose.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Oh, let's see, I'm oh, I'm well, I'm sure somehow
Hoda Kobe is going to be involved, Like she's in
She's everywhere, Like Hoda Kobe is going to be there,
Tom Brady probably and and his daughter Vivian, they will
be in it as well. I'm trying to think of
the people who we see all the time. Yeah, it's
I would say the three of them for sure.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Of course, the fact that Flavor, Flave and Snoop have
been everywhere. You sure this isn't really our Olympics too.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah, but here's the thing though, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
It feels it's it's the US Olympics held in brought
to you by Paris. Yeah, uh no, we see them
too much. It's got we see them. They're part of
the cover.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I mean, overexposed, commercialized.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Dog's getting paid a half a million dollars a day
to be come on, let's go half a million.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I did like to the Olympics for that.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Strolling up to the breakdancing competition today, I mean, come.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
On, uh now, we have to get to the men's
for by one. The United States team disqualified after they
were the heavy favorite, messed up a changeover with a
baton again and got dq' because the handover the changeover
didn't come within the designated space.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Now, This is still.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Stunning, even though we knew that Noah Lyles was not
gonna run, and he said, listen, I'm not gonna run.
So I get there's a little bit of a Okay,
we're taking somebody out.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
We're taking our best, our best runner out.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Who would you know was probably gonna run the anchor,
I mean if he was healthier, but he what but he.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Probably that's probably.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yesterday that happened. I think to withdraw. I think he
meant that was his temperature. I think that that's what
he was one hundred and two according to his coach today.
So you know he wasn't gonna run. So that changes
things a little bit. So I understand that.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
But this is the fourth Olympics in a row.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
We've messed up the baton path for not one, that
is not the for all.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Look how sad that is.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And they couldn't get this is four Olympics in a row.
No one, to Carl Lewis, wants everybody fired. If you look,
you know me, I'm I'm a layman's track and field fan,
But I gotta figure there's two things you're practicing when
you're running. When you're running the four you're practicing the
sprinting and you're practicing the handoffs for four years. You're
practicing the handoffs. It should be precision. You see some
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of those other teams that go by. I went back
and watching the replay, going this is just like it's
like it's like a conveyor belt. It's bang bang bang
baton go, baton, go, baton go.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
All the other.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Countries can do it. And yet this is the fourth
Olympics in a row. We've had superstars and we can't
get the handoff right. I feel like Flynn Ryder entangled.
They still can't get my nose right. We say, this
is sixteen years of not being able to get the
handoff of baton right in the four by one hundred
gold medal relay like once, okay, twice, hey, come on
(27:47):
three times?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
It's what the hell? I mean this is the fourth time.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I mean, come on, man, I mean, are we setting
the bar so loo that in a Los Angeles gonna
be Hey, as long as they just hand the baton off,
we don't care.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
As long as they finish and don't get disqualified. Where fine.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I mean this is embarrassing, man, I mean, this is
this is something that can be done. This is not Hey,
We're trying to really hit a degree of difficulty on
a vault and I'm out of bounds around here. No,
this is this is something that can be taught. You
see all the other countries do it. You see they
all get the handoffs right. We can't get the handoff right.
I mean, seriously, what the hell is going on?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
We practiced a lot, Me and Kenny and Nerik I
have been competitors, but teammates. A few times we felt
really confident out there and in the heat of the moment,
just didn't happen. Asked again to specify what went wrong.
I'm not sure if you want me to point fingers
or something like that. As a team, as a unit,
we didn't get it done today. Teammate Curly said, y'all
(28:40):
say the same blank over and over, and then Carl
Lewis joined the frame.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It's time. It is time to blow up the systudy
gets time to blow up the system.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
This continues to be completely unacceptable. It's clear that everyone
all caps at USA Track and Field is more concerned
with relationships than winning. No athlete athlete should step on
the track and run another relay until this program is
changed from top to bottom.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Carl, let me just say this, Carl. You're watching us
win all the other races, right, You're watching those dominate
can use us like every other like you're watching that happen, right,
This is not Hey, nobody can even get a bronze. Yeah,
we've had a couple of times where one of our runners,
who was a heavy favorite, finished and won the silver. Okay,
that happens. It's the Olympics. It's it's why they have
(29:31):
a scoreboard up, it's why we have the events right.
But by and large, this is.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Another extremely successful Olympics. This is just one part of it.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
You want to get rid of everybody just because they
can't get the baton, handoff, n it down. This is
like an Adam Sandler snls get oh we gotta do
this where Sandler's the baton handing coach and him and
Will Ferrell do something funny and oh yeah we.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Gotta have that.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I mean that's insane. I mean, how do we not
get this is teach it? How do we not get
this right? How can we not get that handoff?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Love?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Every second of it? I don't understand. And I like
how they're all yelling at each other at the end.
Oh yeah, and then you hear you hear the the
the analyst saying, well, he could have left too early.
Well it could have been a bad handoff. Well he
could have left too early and it would have been
a bad handoff. Well it could be didn't catch up
to him. It doesn't matter. They still screwed up the
baton handoff and wound up getting disqualified. Like I don't understand.
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I don't what is practice?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Really, do you want to see what price like for
the furby one hundred men's team? I really do. The
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and what could be a World Series preview tonight as
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the Mets take on the Mariners.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Oh my boy, was that a reach?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
You know, hey, you know, like the Gong Show bring
out the Giant hook could be I.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Would say, I didn't know where you going with that.
We all know exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Where you were going.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
With that.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
By the way, I have a relay stat for you
that since nineteen ninety five, in both Olympics and World Championships,
the US now has had eleven drop batons, disqualifications or bands.
US men were disqualified formally in their relay at the
Olympics today they finished seventh after a problem with the
first exchange, which was an illegal pass.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Canada took the gold.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Noah Lyles, after testing positive for COVID this week, missed
the relay race on the track. The US women won
the four by one hundred relay running the last two
legs were Gabby Thomas and Shkeri Richardson, who came from
behind to win. US men's hoops play Saturday's gold medal
game against France in Paris.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Sunday.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
In the women's final, it's the US against France, which
won in overtime. Today, US women's basketball advanced easily over
Australia eighty five sixty four. The Americans are going for
their eighth straight gold medal. This weekend, US men's volleyball
won the bronze the match against Italy. US women's volleyball
plays Italy in a Sunday final. US women's soccer is
(32:05):
in Saturday's gold medal final against Brazil. Germany's women won
the bronze medal game won nothing, stopping a late penalty
kick by Spain. The men's soccer gold went to Spain
in overtime against France five to three, the highest scoring
men's final in Olympic history. The Philadelphia Eagles have won
their exhibition at Baltimore sixteen to thirteen. Here's how Jake
(32:25):
Elliott tried a fifty yard field goal in the final
seconds and it hit the right upright, no good. Game
tied thirteen all. There's no overtime, thankfully in exhibition football,
so we're thinking this one's going to finished tide. First
Baltimore play, after that sack fumble, Eagles recover Elliott from
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forty nine yards out.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Final play.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
It's good.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Eagles sixteen to thirteen.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
The final.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Houston won at Pittsburgh twenty to twelve c J. Stroud
with a touchdown pass to Tank Dell of thirty four yards.
By the way, eight total kickoffs, none into the end
zone in that game. At Miami thirty seconds ago, Dolphins
leading the Falcons twenty to thirteen. Jason Sanders an early
fifty eight yard field goal and a forty six yard
as well. To Major League Baseball. The Cubs are holding
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on seven to six at the White Sox in the
bottom of the eighth inning. Garrett Crochet was a White
Sox starter. He was down seven to nothing in the third.
Minnesota won the first of a double header over Cleveland
four to two, so that six straight losses for the Guardians.
Ninth inning Twins are winning again six ' three over Cleveland.
Padres won their sixth in a row, a ten inning
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win at Miami six to two Yankees. Texas rained out Orioles.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Won Back to You, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen
Lotte from the Tireck dot Com studio. Like flyin, they
still can't get my nose after all this time, we
still can't get the change up. We still I mean
eleven drop batons in World Championships or the Olympics since
nineteen ninety five. Like what is being haunted practice? At
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this point? Just throw it to the next guy. Here
you go, ready and go deep. I'll throw it here
you go. Oh that's illegal. Two doesn't matter. Look out,
look at look We're way ahead. Give us a penalty.
I mean, I don't know how this is happening to us.
How this happens to the best track and field squad
in the world, this happens to us.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
It always comes back to this, the excellence of execution.
Get back to watching some of those breadth the Hitman
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Speaker 3 (34:35):
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Speaker 1 (34:37):
Coming up next, someone's mom is real unhappy, or son's
not playing for the US men's Olympic basketball team.
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Speaker 3 (35:47):
What do I always say? Mike Carmon? What am I
undefeated in saying undefeated? Unlike Big Max?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Well, there is that that is true. I am undefeated
every dayfea. I am undefeated when I say milkshakes? Okay,
yes that too, chocolate? Yes, okay, okay, I'm undefeated a
lot of sandwiches, I am. Yes, I'm so cheapest yes, yes, yes, wow, okay.
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I'm d I like propane now that's a nice one
extra one propane and propane. Okay, let's stop style. Okay,
let's stop it right there. Let's stop right there. Let's
it's a family show. I am undefeated in a statement
I've made now for the better.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
But you're just getting the Alley Hayes. Just get it.
I know, I understand you're just getting it. You're just
getting it off. Yes, no, no, no, I got it.
And then he doubled down.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, you just that's okay. I am undefeated when I
when I say, anytime and athletes, family member, or significant
other gets involved in a story, it's never good. It's
never good. You need to allow that person to fight
their own battles and not draw any attention to it.
(37:07):
You're talking about a superstar athlete. And to this, we
have Jason Tatum and his mom, Brandy Cole, who is
not happy that Jason Tatum's not been playing. Look, I'm
sure Jason Tatum's not been happy he's been playing either.
But Dick Vital of ESPN put out a statement on
Twitter talking about how, hey, please someone let me know.
(37:27):
Is Jason Tatum hurt? He hasn't gotten the playing time
you'd expect an all NBA player to get. All right,
this is just Dick Vital. YESU They saying hey, but
Jason Tatum whereas he's not playing? And Jason Tatum's mom
quote tweeted that and wrote, no, he not, but if
you find out what's going on, please let me know.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Unacceptable and makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Jason Tatum not playing, according to his mom is unacceptable. Look,
I thought we had taken care of this. I thought
we would take a Steve Kerrz got to be said, really, Jason,
your mom, I don't know's coach.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
This does not help anything.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
I don't know. I don't know. I get that that
Jason that that.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I'm sure Jason tATu's mom is just sick of hearing
from all her friends and text messages. Why is Jason
not playing? Why is Jason not playing? Can you believe this?
Can you believe he's not playing? Can you believe he's
not getting minutes? Can you believe Joel Embiid, who's indifferent
on defense at best, is getting minutes?
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Can you believe that? I'm sure she is sick of that.
Might be getting it from Jason too.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I get it, I get it. I'm sure. Hey, I'm
not I get it, but you're not. This doesn't help anything.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Whenever there's a there's a playing time, team player thing
that's going on, right, there's things outside of it where, hey,
I get where family members and significant others get involved.
You're talking about out something off the court, right, something
with treatment. I'm away from the game. I had this
going on in my life. I understand when that happens.
This is a playing time situation, this is a coach
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player situation. This is the Olympics. Not everybody's playing the
minutes they want. And I get it. I understand I
would feel feel the same way. But you gotta put
that away.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I mean, basically, what you're saying is, hey, it doesn't
matter that we're one game away from a gold medal.
My son's not playing, and I want to know why.
Like you sound like one of the worst youth coach,
youth sports moms you possibly could be. I get it,
I understand. I understand the frustration with this situation. I
get it. But this is not something that anybody outside
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of Jason Tatum and Steve Kerr and his assistant coaches
in the team should be involved with. This isn't on
the court thing. This is that this is no place
for a mom, a dad, a husband, a wife, a brother,
a sister, whatever it is. I mean, Jackson Mahomes will disagree.
But whatever it is, there is no I mean you
just all you're gonna do is make it worse. And
here's a situation where all right, the United States has
(39:45):
one more day to go, right, Steve Kerr has has
piloted this thing masterfully. We're one day away from playing
for the gold medal. I get that players are and happy,
they're grousing. Maybe they won't come back in four years
in La. I get that, but we're one day away. Nope,
here comes somebody's mom with it's unacceptable that my son
isn't playing, Like, really, you need this. You need this
at this point, right now, right before the gold medal game,
(40:06):
because what you're showing is I just care about that.
It doesn't matter anything else. I'm gonna show you that.
It's just like U sports, I don't care if we win.
My kids gotta play.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
Look, if she didn't have enough, she doesn't need to
do anything. That's that's the biggest thing. A lot of
times you're taking up for your kid, your brother, whatever,
and you might be you know, privyy, just there's a
little bit of noise, right, there's a little bit of
things within the individual city. Here, it's a global phenomenon
with many talking heads with their you know, steam coming
(40:41):
out of their ears, pissed for Jason Tatum. Mom doesn't
need to say anything, just sit back and have a
tasty beverage because you got a bunch of other folks
being hot heads and doing the dirty work for you.
In the end, he's gonna get his gold medal and
everybody's gonna move on. Does it potentially cause them problem
in future Olympics getting guys to show up? Hey, am
(41:03):
I gonna get playing time? Or am I gonna get Tatum?
I mean that's gonna be a thing. Or am I
gonna get Hallim Burton? And I'm the point I'm the
point guard, but I don't actually get to go run
point at all.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Like Steve's gonnas gonna see this like it is youth
sports going okay, better playing in the next game. His
mom's gonna get match, She's gonna go to the board.
I'm gonna have to have a meeting on Friday. I'm
gonna have to go down to the field when I'm
not I don't have time to go to the field Fridays,
have that meeting out of town. This is I mean,
this is this is where you're at now, this is
this is the the youth league level stuff that's going
(41:35):
on with USA Olympic basketball team. Like I said, never works.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Yeah, I chuckled just at Steve Kerk, going, well it's
a math problem. It's like, well, you still have forty
minutes to work with and five slots.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Coming up.
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Next, we'll tell you who's gonna win the gold medal
game between the United States and France, and we break
down the Steelers' debut of Justin Fields.
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We got an fl we have MLB, we have Olympics.
It is a full service August night here in a Friday,
Mike Carmen, it is I feel like, hey, we've made
it through. Hey, the Olympics has helped us into Okay
now where he now? Football is here. We are here now.
And it was one game last week and one you know,
the game last night, two games, tonight, whole bunch of
(01:15):
game with three games tonight, bunch of games tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
We made it, buddy, we made it again. We're here,
the long, arduous journey.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
And look, we get to stretch our legs a lot
in those non football months. Not that there aren't still
a lot of contract stories, Jerry Jones quotes and other
things to dissect, don't get me wrong, And the waves
of free agency are always out there. But tell me
you didn't enjoy watching old CJ. Stroud and Tank Dell
watching Justin Fields make some of the same mistakes he
(01:45):
made in Chicago. A couple of nice flash plays, but
some otherwise questionable decisions, and that offensive line not so great.
But you add it all up. Yeah, it's back. It's
all back. And tomorrow morning I get to watch Caleb
Williams he might actually taken.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, they're gonna save him to Game three.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, well, if it rains or something, or if it's cloudy,
we're gonna sit and we don't want to.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Mercury is in retro grade, so maybe you need to
sit him.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I don't know, all right, but.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Let le let's start. Let's start with of course we're
gonna start with the NFL tonight. Let's start with something that.
And I'm kind of upset that the world is making
me do this right and I always felt, wait, but
what are you talking about, jac You always do your ownay.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Now now the world is making me do this.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The big headline tonight from the NFL games. You watch
the big headline CJ. Stroud with a big thirty yard
touchdown pass to Tank Dell and suddenly.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Ah, yeah, the Texans are back.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Texts are back, Tank Della's back. I would love to
pick the Texans for the Super Bowl or the AFC
title games. You know, we picked the NFC championships. I
would love to pick them for the AFC Championship game.
I would love to pick the Texans for the Super Bowl.
But I'm not. You know why not? Because I don't
believe in them? Because wow are they good?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Wow? Is CJ? Stroud good? Wow?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Did they get better in the offseason? And they're getting
Dell back. This team is locked and loaded and ready
to go. But I'm not gonna pick him because everybody
else is going, well, it's over wary.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm not doing it now. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I'm not. I'm not gonna pick the trendy hey everything,
because the trendy Super Bowl is gonna be the Texans
and the Packers, right like Texans Packer. Okay, that's not trendy,
that's insane. But but for trendy because you're going off
a last year's success. Every's Texans, but the Bears are
gonna be this year's Texans.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
JA, They're gonna.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Run, Buddy, I'm hoping Jets Bears in the super Bowl.
I'm hopeless. Look, I just put my just I just
elbowed you and put my team. Dude, you just want
your guy to get past the fifth snap. Once that happened, Dude,
don't say because if he had gets hurt in the
sixth snap, it's not gonna be any better, all right,
just because I can see it at.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Least steps this year. No, no, no, no, no, would
I ever say that. I would never say that. You
would say that. You would send me texts with that
every single day.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I might make your shirt with that. I'm not gonna
pick the because I'm not. Everybody else is going to
and it's gonna look like I'm following the crowd. What
are you worried about? People think about you know it's
not gonna do it. I'm gonna pick somebody. I'm gonna
pick the Jets, but I'm not gonna pick the Texas
because that's gonna be everybody's trendy pick. Which is a
(04:15):
credit to the team they've assembled and how in one
short year they went from we're starting over and drafting
a quarterback with our pick early in the first round. Two, Hey,
people think we're going to the super Bowl, and they
got turned around in the year. You can turn things around,
and even less than that, if you get the quarterback right,
everything is possible for you.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Well, that's just it. They also added Mixing and Stefan Diggs.
Do I want to Stefan Diggs in year two or
year three? Maybe not, but for one year with CJ.
Stroud throwing them the ball and Tank Dell, I think
the one thing you did take out of it is like, yeah,
you look like the Jets were still there. And I
don't mean your Jets. I mean that his legs are
just fine and he's fully operational, which is problem for
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defensive coordinators. But you look at that roster all the
way through Schultz gone down the line. They bolstered things
with a couple of veteran ads, and so yeah, it's
it's the trendy pick. They're one of the favorites in
this super Bowl, in the Super Bowl excitement, and obviously CJ.
Stroud is a guy that you know, because of Joe
(05:17):
Burrow's health issues, folks want to put them right behind
my homes in terms of their top ten rankings.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
So all of that to say, here we go, not
gonna fall in line, not gonna do it. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I'm not gonna do it. I don't care how good
I think. I'm just not gonna do it. I'm not
going to because I know everybody's go all. The Texans
were good left they were a team that was good
last year, made the playoffs and can make it jump
Like I feel like that's all anybody.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Does when they make their pixes.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Who's a team that made the playoffs, that was pretty good, young,
with a chance to grow, they get a little bit
better in the offseason.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yes, that's my team.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
That's you know what, though, I think folks will start
to jump off as they realize they're they're not They're
not alone in the forest. You know, they're looking there's
there's another guy waving right back at like, oh, I
thought I was gonna see.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
The rare bird myself. You're up.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You're not up all night like me watching twe watching
All twenty two film. You're not doing that. That's right
after I finish the show and I go get a
glass of wine and I sit and watch All twenty
two film four five o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
And I go to sleep for forty minutes. I get
a full forty minutes like Buddy the Elf. Then I'm
back up and watching All twenty two film. That's what
I'm doing all that. That's what I'm doing. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I actually used to watch that a lot when they
made it hard to find. Yeah, and then it became
part of the NFL Plus packet. You're like, all right,
now everybody's got it and everybody's sighting this. Although I
gotta say that that shot from the Steelers game, from
where the camera angle was, I don't know if you're
getting anything better that might be that might serve as
the All twenty two based on where that camera was.
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But as we sit here tonight, Chiefs forty nine ers
both six to one, Raven's at ten to one Lions
at twelve to one. Eagles despite all the Sirianney Jalen
Hurts slap fight thirteen to one. Texans come in next,
tied with the Bank and Bills at fifteen to one.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
All right, I may take one of those teams, but
I'm not taking the Texans.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
There you going not doing it well.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I mean, once Joe Burrow got his eminem or Tody
Rhoades haircut, I know you started getting all excited so
you could start saying, what.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Maybe I picked the Bengals, baby, I picked the Jets.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I don't know. Well, you wear the mask like he does,
come into the ring.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Sure, I'll wear the mask and I'll have the haircut if.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I end the giant robe. Yeah, you know, it's a
good theme. You just get to stomp a couple of times.
There's a lot of pyrotechnics.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Meanwhile, we saw the debut tonight of Michael Pennick Junior,
and for the Falcons. In his game, he was nine
out of sixteen through FO one hundred yards, did not
throw for a score, did not throw for an interception.
Michael Pennock Junior tonight was fine. He did some really
good things. You saw the touch he has on the
ball that he showed through college. Fantastic. He overthrow a
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couple of receivers. Okay, it happens, right, Yes, this is
the first taste of action against the Dolphins, and Michael
Pennick Junior was fine. This conversation is not about now
suddenly he's great, he's gotta take over. But you see
the reaction to Michael Pennick Junior tonight on social media
from Falcons fans, people around the league, the NFL. And
(08:19):
this is why I say the Falcons really don't understand
about building a team because they still think we can
start Kirk Cousins as long as we want to win.
Michael Pennix Junior, when is he gonna Initially I thought, yep,
Kirk Cousins will get this year and then they'll trade
him in the offseason. Michael Pennick Junior will take over
last year. That ain't happening. This is more of a
(08:41):
Russell Wilson justin field situation than the Falcons want to admit.
Because if Kirk Cousins is great out of the gate,
and he's okay, awesome, right, he plays all that, but
and he has a better chance of playing well than
Russell Wilson, because Kirk Cousins is a better quarterback. But
when he falters, it's gonna be Michael Pennix. We need
Michael pennixs No, it's not gonna be wait till the end.
(09:01):
Let's give Kurt the chance to sit. That's not how
it goes when you draft a quarterback that early in
the NFL draft. When you draft a guy's a franchise,
he plays sooner rather than later. And if he shows
in the games that he's that he's ready to at
least take on some kind of role i e. Not
throwing up on himself, because that's all you gotta do.
And they just don't throw up on yourself and team.
(09:22):
Everybody's gonna think you're great. You see already the reaction
to Michael Pennick Junior by look at Michael, look at
what he did. Look at this throw here, Look at
this throw here. We're gonna ignore the fact that he
missed almost half his throws. Well, we're gonna look at
this or look at this. You can see the the
intent and you can see the desire to see him play.
And while the Falcons can sit around and say we
(09:43):
don't need to do this. Yeah, if you're one in three,
you're two and five. And Kirk Cousins is coming off
of three bad games in a row. And let's face it,
Kirk Cousins ain't coming into the season full of confidence.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
He's still mad.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
We have reports a week and a half ago. He's
still mad that they took Michael Pennick junior. Guess what
you're throwing Michael Pennis in week five, Week six. This
is way more of a of a Justin Fields Russell
Wilson situation than anybody wants to admit.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
You took Michael Pennick junior.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Now he's gonna play way earlier than you wanted him
to because the desire from everyone, Because that's gonna even
seep into your team. It's gonna seep into your players
who we're gonna see and hear everything and go, whin,
where's Kirk's confidence?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
We have him playing well, Maybe we should see what
Mike Scott he looks. He does great stuff in practice,
goes against number one defense all the time in practice,
looks really really good. That's all things have been going
on so far this summer with the Falcons. Hey, first
team defense he's making some throws, he's wowing us. This
change is coming sooner than anybody anticipates.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I'm telling you, Oh, it's funny that you mentioned the
Steelers because that's who they start the season against. So
week one, Pittsburgh, Week two, Philadelphia, Week three of the Chiefs.
And let's not forget Kirk Cousins is coming off a
pretty damn serious injury. Right For all, we've talked about
Aaron Rodgers and coming back and he's forty, et cetera. Yeah,
(11:02):
it's a couple of more spins on the odometer than
old Captain Kirk. But you're talking about a dead set
pocket passer coming off a severe leg injury. So that's
always swirling in the background. There's no guarantee he's back
to form, and you're gonna have to pay him out regardless.
I mean that guaranteed money is there. The best businessman
(11:24):
we've ever seen, maybe him and Nick Foles. They can
open their own business school and sell seats. But for
Michael Pennix Junior, Yeah, the hyperbole is there. It's the
sexiness of the quick release in the big arm and
the effortless throws.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
All of that's there.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And if they do jump out early terribly because the look,
there's another one where it's not a huge bandwagon. But
I've seen you know, there's murmurs of hey, that could
be a team that rises up right, great offensive line,
a run game that has been very effective. Remember Pat
rob it didn't get used last year. I mean he
(12:02):
is a brand new Tires that had been locked up
for a whole year because of what they did, the
malfeasans of a year ago. Think about how much life
would have been easier for Desmond Ritter and those guys
quarterbacking a year ago, you know, if you'd actually used
the guy you drafted in the top ten. But we
don't need to relitigain the ineptitude and stupidity of a
(12:22):
coaching staff of a year ago. But you know, you
look at the receiving corps. I mean, there's so much
to like about what they have, at least in theory,
because it's a division that doesn't have any heavyweights. Right,
Tampa is the team that you push forward because you
saw the reclamation project that was Baker.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Well, Canalys is gone. That was the guy that helped
fix him.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
As that continue, Maybe maybe not you like the receiving corps,
a couple of pieces, good running back, all that. But
the Falcons are our team that could go and win
the division. So if they get out of the jump
slowly playing those three on division games, then you might
be looking over your shoulder a lot faster.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I don't know where Pittsburgh is. I still think at
a guilt they're gonna.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Have to start Russ Will, but just still look has
accelerated that timeline. No, Michael Penick Junior, it's more, Hey,
by mid season if we're struggling, he's the guy like
it could be even sooner than that. But forget about Hey,
they'll wait, he'll sit all season. Now, that ain't happen anymore. Man,
you can see thee and that again, that seeps into
(13:29):
the locker room, It seeps into the team, and it
becomes do you want to keep your job? You're starting?
Michael Penick Junior. I got Atlanta bit off more than
they can chew. They'll find out, though, and they're start.
They'll start to find out. Now, oh wait, wait a minute,
we have we have to play this guy a lot earlier.
He looks really good in practicing. Man If Kirk kirktt
doesn't have any confidence that we start out bad.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Oh my goodness, you guys, tonight is just outrageous.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Well, what are you talking about, Frostburg. We're talking about
all the quarterback playing and you're missing the greatest one
that played the night.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
We'll get to Justin Fields. I'm talking about Kenny.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Pickett, legendary Chenny Ticket now that he's out of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Sure, sure, we're tea.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
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Speaker 1 (14:14):
How about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (16:43):
We got justin fields to get to.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
We have one team USA hoops player's mom is very
unhappy with her son not playing.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Gee, try to guess who that is shot.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
However, we need some time to talk about the four
x one hundred relay. Both men's and women's today at
the Olympics. We need, we need, we need to talk
about this. We need to have a conversation. Uh, let's
do the good part first. Shakiri Richardson anchors the women.
She takes the baton in fourth place, blitzes by France
(17:20):
and Germany and the United States, wins a gold medal.
It's her first gold medal and the you know, look,
I'm always wanting to say, oh, this photo is iconic.
This photo is iconic. Her getting set across the finish
line looking back at the two, the two, the two
races that she just passed. That's bleep and iconic, cold
blood outstanding.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
That is a once they do the Hey, we've got
a bunch of Olympians together at Convention Center ats to
sign autographs.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I'm buying that eight by ten. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I mean that's I mean, there's the thing is, there's
so many different versions of it. Right, It's not like, hey,
one guy captured this photo, right, It's like, wow, is.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
That who's got the best, wide, most expressive eyes and
me mug like yeah, yeah, I gotcha. Because let's face
it, it wasn't clean, no no, no, no, no, no. I mean,
that's the one word that is not being used to
describe either relay squad.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
But look, you know, and the thing is is for
Shakari Richardson right, Like when I saw her do that,
I this wasn't just your Hey watch me, hey cause look,
maybe we're just so much better than everybody in track
and field. We give everybody a lead now because every
race we're winning big, we're winning in the final like
three or four meters, like that's every race now, fifteen hundred,
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one hundred to it doesn't matter. It's like, hey, we'll
give you guys a lead. Let you guys think you're
gonna win, and then we're gonna come from behind in
the last few Wow. Look at that, like we're seeing
at the entire Olympics, Like it would not surprise me
if that was a strategy. Hey listen, we gotta make
it look good. It's the Olympics. They've asked us just
you know, give them a little bit.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
No wa, wait wait wait, Now you're making beans dashed
from the incredible skiff when he finally gets to run
at the end of the first one.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And then you run near the end, yes, in the
back the men's four to one hundred team. So should
we like mess around with the baton? No, do not
mess around with the baton? Handoff clean. You guys are
the only ones just do You haven't won a medal
in a hundred years and we should be dominant. No,
don't mess around. Yeah, but it might be fun if
we do the whole Oh I can't find it. Oh
here's the baton. I left it in my shorts here. No, no,
(19:28):
don't everybody everybody else? Hey, let them feel good for
their first three quarters part of the race and then
just pass them at the end. And if you want
to give a peek over the side.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Uh with Shakari Richards, you get guys, Cadillac And now
what you just did? You just dis missed all the
efforts of all these other nations, made a lockery of
international competition and basically said, we're running out a team
of superhumans.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
What are you doing? Smith? You're putting the target on it. Hey,
how about a fresco at School of Dome? Did we
or did we not have a race to decide?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I'm gonna smile in the backstretch so you could see
my gold teeth, gold medal teeth. As I pass everyone
to win the gold medal, I'd say it.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
There's not a lot of ego involved.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
We had a man go straight into the wheelchair to
tell you how much you know, what kind of temperature
he was running and how sick he was. So look,
theatrics are certainly part of what Team USA is all about.
The next Olympics are in Hollywood for crying out loud.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
They're setting it up.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But look, but just just an appreciation moment for a second.
But before we get to the men's Shakri Richardson is
someone who you know her story and it's it's it's
it's sad because a lot of it it was done
by her own doing. Of course, she missed the Olympics
four years ago or three years ago because as she
smoked marijuana before, had a positive test and it got
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all the way to They were asking Joe Biden, President Biden,
can you intervene on this? He's like this, I can't
intervene on this.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
It's sad. But what do you want me to do?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
He's spending his time. No, yeah, you have failed the
test that they still run. How did argue whether they
should or not? But how did this get to my desk.
I told you only Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I only Syracuse stuff on my desk, So you know, look,
obviously that was that was awful. You know she felt awful,
of course, track and feel fell awful.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Was a badness.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
There was nothing you can do, There was no positives
out of it. Then she comes to this Olympics. Finally
she doesn't medal. What she doesn't get a gold medal
when she's a heavy favorite, and but she comes from
behind and wins here. And I guarantee you that look
that was. That was months and years of frustration and
being upset and saying this is this is how good
I am, this is how good we are, and that
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was all let out in that moment as she as
she looked to the side and then crossed the finish
line and screamed like that. That's how I took that
from Shirki Richardson, Like, here's that moment where everything I've
gone through the last three plus years, I've had people
on my side. I'd have people tell me I'm stupid,
what are you? And all of that. Here now I'm
getting the gold medal. I've anchored a team event and
we're winning and every we're all gonna hold up the
(22:02):
card and me and the flag, and me and Gabby
Thomas are gonna be next to each other. It's gonna
be an awesome moment. I mean it was. It was
that kind of moment. That's what I took away from
Shircarry Richardson at the end.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yeah, Look, it's three years of build up and you
think about the amount of revenue lost during that period, Like,
there's great motivations, right, we talk about the Jordan and
I took that personally all the time.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Every other athlete has.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Some level of that in terms of pushing themselves to keep.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Their job or to become the best of the best.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
And in this it's you know, we watched it through
all these Olympics, Jason, I mean the margin of between
first and last. I mean it's it's Ricky Bobby Eskla
Frostburg brought up yesterday. I mean, there's there's really not
a lot of margin for anything. It's one false step,
it's it's one taking someone for granted. And again for
Shcariy Richardson, all the articles and thought pieces and everything
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else going through and I gotta think all she, I
have no doubt, has had her backers and sponsors and
people on board wearing medals three years ago would have
helped to make give there a little bit more and
so that that burns as well, because if you don't
have the hardware in front of you, as we've seen,
(23:18):
you know, it becomes a huge medal count thing. And
what what we're doing this entire Olympics. It's Biles, it's Ladecki,
it's lebron and and Kevin Durant and the celebration of
these guys, uh and women that are are piling up
stacks of medals.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Shakira Richardson didn't get to do that, you.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Know, and look and it's a great moment for track
and field, a great moment for her, a great redemptive
moment as well, and just the cold blooded look that
just the you're not even worth my time, Like I
hope you enjoyed that, that that last three and a
half seconds where you thought one of you was gonna
win a gold medal, because that's not happening for you.
It's happening for us right now as I crossed the
(23:58):
finish well. But that there's the other part of it,
right is that you you have had a Bravado, that
Hubris that I'm finishing. How many of those videos have
you seen from different events over the last year or
two All Track and Field World Championships or whatever. It's
like I'm done, or I'm gonna get to the end
zone in the NFL and you get chased down in
(24:20):
the ball, knocked through the end zone, or whatever the
case may be. This is one that that stands up
on the metal stand literally of all of those of Yep,
you think you had us, but we figured it out
just in the nick of time, because it becomes one
of those if you were gonna do a one shining
moment for the Olympics, this moment comes up in there, right,
(24:43):
isn't that the final cord?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
The stare down and then it just says LA twenty
twenty eight or Tom Cruise does something crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I don't see, We'll see Tom Cruise on Sunday. We'll see, well,
we'll see Tom Cruise Sunday, I guarantee it.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
How many cameos from the p people that have been
on the Celebrity Rose.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Oh, let's see, I'm oh, I'm well, I'm sure somehow
Hoda Kobe is going to be involved, Like she's in
She's everywhere, Like Hoda Kobe is going to be there,
Tom Brady probably and and his daughter Vivian, they will
be in it as well. I'm trying to think of
the people who we see all the time. Yeah, it's
I would say the three of them for sure.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Of course, the fact that Flavor, Flave and Snoop have
been everywhere. You sure this isn't really our Olympics too.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah, but here's the thing though, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
It feels it's it's the US Olympics held in brought
to you by Paris. Yeah, uh no, we see them
too much. It's got we see them. They're part of
the cover.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I mean, overexposed, commercialized.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Dog's getting paid a half a million dollars a day
to be come on, let's go half a million.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I did like to the Olympics for that.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Strolling up to the breakdancing competition today, I mean, come.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
On, uh now, we have to get to the men's
for by one. The United States team disqualified after they
were the heavy favorite, messed up a changeover with a
baton again and got dq' because the handover the changeover
didn't come within the designated space.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Now, This is still.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Stunning, even though we knew that Noah Lyles was not
gonna run, and he said, listen, I'm not gonna run.
So I get there's a little bit of a Okay,
we're taking somebody out.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
We're taking our best, our best runner out.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Who would you know was probably gonna run the anchor,
I mean if he was healthier, but he what but he.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Probably that's probably.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yesterday that happened. I think to withdraw. I think he
meant that was his temperature. I think that that's what
he was one hundred and two according to his coach today.
So you know he wasn't gonna run. So that changes
things a little bit. So I understand that.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
But this is the fourth Olympics in a row.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
We've messed up the baton path for not one, that
is not the for all.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Look how sad that is.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And they couldn't get this is four Olympics in a row.
No one, to Carl Lewis, wants everybody fired. If you look,
you know me, I'm I'm a layman's track and field fan,
But I gotta figure there's two things you're practicing when
you're running. When you're running the four you're practicing the
sprinting and you're practicing the handoffs for four years. You're
practicing the handoffs. It should be precision. You see some
(27:13):
of those other teams that go by. I went back
and watching the replay, going this is just like it's
like it's like a conveyor belt. It's bang bang bang
baton go, baton, go, baton go.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
All the other.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Countries can do it. And yet this is the fourth
Olympics in a row. We've had superstars and we can't
get the handoff right. I feel like Flynn Ryder entangled.
They still can't get my nose right. We say, this
is sixteen years of not being able to get the
handoff of baton right in the four by one hundred
gold medal relay like once, okay, twice, hey, come on
(27:47):
three times?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
It's what the hell? I mean this is the fourth time.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I mean, come on, man, I mean, are we setting
the bar so loo that in a Los Angeles gonna
be Hey, as long as they just hand the baton off,
we don't care.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
As long as they finish and don't get disqualified. Where fine.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I mean this is embarrassing, man, I mean, this is
this is something that can be done. This is not Hey,
We're trying to really hit a degree of difficulty on
a vault and I'm out of bounds around here. No,
this is this is something that can be taught. You
see all the other countries do it. You see they
all get the handoffs right. We can't get the handoff right.
I mean, seriously, what the hell is going on?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
We practiced a lot, Me and Kenny and Nerik I
have been competitors, but teammates. A few times we felt
really confident out there and in the heat of the moment,
just didn't happen. Asked again to specify what went wrong.
I'm not sure if you want me to point fingers
or something like that. As a team, as a unit,
we didn't get it done today. Teammate Curly said, y'all
(28:40):
say the same blank over and over, and then Carl
Lewis joined the frame.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It's time. It is time to blow up the systudy
gets time to blow up the system.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
This continues to be completely unacceptable. It's clear that everyone
all caps at USA Track and Field is more concerned
with relationships than winning. No athlete athlete should step on
the track and run another relay until this program is
changed from top to bottom.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Carl, let me just say this, Carl. You're watching us
win all the other races, right, You're watching those dominate
can use us like every other like you're watching that happen, right,
This is not Hey, nobody can even get a bronze. Yeah,
we've had a couple of times where one of our runners,
who was a heavy favorite, finished and won the silver. Okay,
that happens. It's the Olympics. It's it's why they have
(29:31):
a scoreboard up, it's why we have the events right.
But by and large, this is.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Another extremely successful Olympics. This is just one part of it.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
You want to get rid of everybody just because they
can't get the baton, handoff, n it down. This is
like an Adam Sandler snls get oh we gotta do
this where Sandler's the baton handing coach and him and
Will Ferrell do something funny and oh yeah we.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Gotta have that.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I mean that's insane. I mean, how do we not
get this is teach it? How do we not get
this right? How can we not get that handoff?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Love?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Every second of it? I don't understand. And I like
how they're all yelling at each other at the end.
Oh yeah, and then you hear you hear the the
the analyst saying, well, he could have left too early.
Well it could have been a bad handoff. Well he
could have left too early and it would have been
a bad handoff. Well it could be didn't catch up
to him. It doesn't matter. They still screwed up the
baton handoff and wound up getting disqualified. Like I don't understand.
(30:24):
I don't what is practice?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Really, do you want to see what price like for
the furby one hundred men's team? I really do. The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen live from the ti
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ninety seconds, but first let's find out what's trending in
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who of course has all a big action from today
and what could be a World Series preview tonight as
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the Mets take on the Mariners.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Oh my boy, was that a reach?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
You know, hey, you know, like the Gong Show bring
out the Giant hook could be I.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Would say, I didn't know where you going with that.
We all know exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Where you were going.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
With that.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
By the way, I have a relay stat for you
that since nineteen ninety five, in both Olympics and World Championships,
the US now has had eleven drop batons, disqualifications or bands.
US men were disqualified formally in their relay at the
Olympics today they finished seventh after a problem with the
first exchange, which was an illegal pass.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Canada took the gold.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Noah Lyles, after testing positive for COVID this week, missed
the relay race on the track. The US women won
the four by one hundred relay running the last two
legs were Gabby Thomas and Shkeri Richardson, who came from
behind to win. US men's hoops play Saturday's gold medal
game against France in Paris.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Sunday.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
In the women's final, it's the US against France, which
won in overtime. Today, US women's basketball advanced easily over
Australia eighty five sixty four. The Americans are going for
their eighth straight gold medal. This weekend, US men's volleyball
won the bronze the match against Italy. US women's volleyball
plays Italy in a Sunday final. US women's soccer is
(32:05):
in Saturday's gold medal final against Brazil. Germany's women won
the bronze medal game won nothing, stopping a late penalty
kick by Spain. The men's soccer gold went to Spain
in overtime against France five to three, the highest scoring
men's final in Olympic history. The Philadelphia Eagles have won
their exhibition at Baltimore sixteen to thirteen. Here's how Jake
(32:25):
Elliott tried a fifty yard field goal in the final
seconds and it hit the right upright, no good. Game
tied thirteen all. There's no overtime, thankfully in exhibition football,
so we're thinking this one's going to finished tide. First
Baltimore play, after that sack fumble, Eagles recover Elliott from
(32:46):
forty nine yards out.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Final play.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
It's good.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Eagles sixteen to thirteen.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
The final.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Houston won at Pittsburgh twenty to twelve c J. Stroud
with a touchdown pass to Tank Dell of thirty four yards.
By the way, eight total kickoffs, none into the end
zone in that game. At Miami thirty seconds ago, Dolphins
leading the Falcons twenty to thirteen. Jason Sanders an early
fifty eight yard field goal and a forty six yard
as well. To Major League Baseball. The Cubs are holding
(33:15):
on seven to six at the White Sox in the
bottom of the eighth inning. Garrett Crochet was a White
Sox starter. He was down seven to nothing in the third.
Minnesota won the first of a double header over Cleveland
four to two, so that six straight losses for the Guardians.
Ninth inning Twins are winning again six ' three over Cleveland.
Padres won their sixth in a row, a ten inning
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win at Miami six to two Yankees. Texas rained out Orioles.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Won Back to You, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen
Lotte from the Tireck dot Com studio. Like flyin, they
still can't get my nose after all this time, we
still can't get the change up. We still I mean
eleven drop batons in World Championships or the Olympics since
nineteen ninety five. Like what is being haunted practice? At
(34:01):
this point? Just throw it to the next guy. Here
you go, ready and go deep. I'll throw it here
you go. Oh that's illegal. Two doesn't matter. Look out,
look at look We're way ahead. Give us a penalty.
I mean, I don't know how this is happening to us.
How this happens to the best track and field squad
in the world, this happens to us.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
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Get back to watching some of those breadth the Hitman
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Speaker 1 (34:37):
Coming up next, someone's mom is real unhappy, or son's
not playing for the US men's Olympic basketball team.
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Speaker 3 (35:47):
What do I always say? Mike Carmon? What am I
undefeated in saying undefeated? Unlike Big Max?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Well, there is that that is true. I am undefeated
every dayfea. I am undefeated when I say milkshakes? Okay,
yes that too, chocolate? Yes, okay, okay, I'm undefeated a
lot of sandwiches, I am. Yes, I'm so cheapest yes, yes, yes, wow, okay.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
New balance, uh, white shoes.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I'm d I like propane now that's a nice one
extra one propane and propane. Okay, let's stop style. Okay,
let's stop it right there. Let's stop right there. Let's
it's a family show. I am undefeated in a statement
I've made now for the better.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
But you're just getting the Alley Hayes. Just get it.
I know, I understand you're just getting it. You're just
getting it off. Yes, no, no, no, I got it.
And then he doubled down.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Yeah, you just that's okay. I am undefeated when I
when I say, anytime and athletes, family member, or significant
other gets involved in a story, it's never good. It's
never good. You need to allow that person to fight
their own battles and not draw any attention to it.
(37:07):
You're talking about a superstar athlete. And to this, we
have Jason Tatum and his mom, Brandy Cole, who is
not happy that Jason Tatum's not been playing. Look, I'm
sure Jason Tatum's not been happy he's been playing either.
But Dick Vital of ESPN put out a statement on
Twitter talking about how, hey, please someone let me know.
(37:27):
Is Jason Tatum hurt? He hasn't gotten the playing time
you'd expect an all NBA player to get. All right,
this is just Dick Vital. YESU They saying hey, but
Jason Tatum whereas he's not playing? And Jason Tatum's mom
quote tweeted that and wrote, no, he not, but if
you find out what's going on, please let me know.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Unacceptable and makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Jason Tatum not playing, according to his mom is unacceptable. Look,
I thought we had taken care of this. I thought
we would take a Steve Kerrz got to be said, really, Jason,
your mom, I don't know's coach.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
This does not help anything.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
I don't know. I don't know. I get that that
Jason that that.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I'm sure Jason tATu's mom is just sick of hearing
from all her friends and text messages. Why is Jason
not playing? Why is Jason not playing? Can you believe this?
Can you believe he's not playing? Can you believe he's
not getting minutes? Can you believe Joel Embiid, who's indifferent
on defense at best, is getting minutes?
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Can you believe that? I'm sure she is sick of that.
Might be getting it from Jason too.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I get it, I get it. I'm sure. Hey, I'm
not I get it, but you're not. This doesn't help anything.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Whenever there's a there's a playing time, team player thing
that's going on, right, there's things outside of it where, hey,
I get where family members and significant others get involved.
You're talking about out something off the court, right, something
with treatment. I'm away from the game. I had this
going on in my life. I understand when that happens.
This is a playing time situation, this is a coach
(38:53):
player situation. This is the Olympics. Not everybody's playing the
minutes they want. And I get it. I understand I
would feel feel the same way. But you gotta put
that away.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I mean, basically, what you're saying is, hey, it doesn't
matter that we're one game away from a gold medal.
My son's not playing, and I want to know why.
Like you sound like one of the worst youth coach,
youth sports moms you possibly could be. I get it,
I understand. I understand the frustration with this situation. I
get it. But this is not something that anybody outside
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of Jason Tatum and Steve Kerr and his assistant coaches
in the team should be involved with. This isn't on
the court thing. This is that this is no place
for a mom, a dad, a husband, a wife, a brother,
a sister, whatever it is. I mean, Jackson Mahomes will disagree.
But whatever it is, there is no I mean you
just all you're gonna do is make it worse. And
here's a situation where all right, the United States has
(39:45):
one more day to go, right, Steve Kerr has has
piloted this thing masterfully. We're one day away from playing
for the gold medal. I get that players are and happy,
they're grousing. Maybe they won't come back in four years
in La. I get that, but we're one day away. Nope,
here comes somebody's mom with it's unacceptable that my son
isn't playing, Like, really, you need this. You need this
at this point, right now, right before the gold medal game,
(40:06):
because what you're showing is I just care about that.
It doesn't matter anything else. I'm gonna show you that.
It's just like U sports, I don't care if we win.
My kids gotta play.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
Look, if she didn't have enough, she doesn't need to
do anything. That's that's the biggest thing. A lot of
times you're taking up for your kid, your brother, whatever,
and you might be you know, privyy, just there's a
little bit of noise, right, there's a little bit of
things within the individual city. Here, it's a global phenomenon
with many talking heads with their you know, steam coming
(40:41):
out of their ears, pissed for Jason Tatum. Mom doesn't
need to say anything, just sit back and have a
tasty beverage because you got a bunch of other folks
being hot heads and doing the dirty work for you.
In the end, he's gonna get his gold medal and
everybody's gonna move on. Does it potentially cause them problem
in future Olympics getting guys to show up? Hey, am
(41:03):
I gonna get playing time? Or am I gonna get Tatum?
I mean that's gonna be a thing. Or am I
gonna get Hallim Burton? And I'm the point I'm the
point guard, but I don't actually get to go run
point at all.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Like Steve's gonnas gonna see this like it is youth
sports going okay, better playing in the next game. His
mom's gonna get match, She's gonna go to the board.
I'm gonna have to have a meeting on Friday. I'm
gonna have to go down to the field when I'm
not I don't have time to go to the field Fridays,
have that meeting out of town. This is I mean,
this is this is where you're at now, this is
this is the the youth league level stuff that's going
(41:35):
on with USA Olympic basketball team. Like I said, never works.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
Yeah, I chuckled just at Steve Kerk, going, well it's
a math problem. It's like, well, you still have forty
minutes to work with and five slots.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
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Speaker 1 (41:47):
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game between the United States and France, and we break
down the Steelers' debut of Justin Fields.
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