August 28, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon break down how helpful a time machine would be when it came to fantasy football, a curious choice made by the Los Angeles Rams, how LeBron James plans to treat a new teammate, why the Conor Stalions documentary doesn’t really change much, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Greetings, then welcome inside to what is so far a
perfectly acceptable enough Tuesday, The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. You just took it to nothing lead,
come on to nothing lead. But the Braves are winning
four to three and the Padres are winning six to five.
So I mean it's so far it's acceptable. We'll see
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how it plays out at that time. So the ways
to go here man, positivity, Man, I'm telling that's why. Heyday,
I am. Okay, here's better. Okay, welcome in sid Well.
We gotta do it again. We do it again, do it,
do it again, start again, start again, start again. Here's
how we do it. Here's how we do it. Here's
let's start again. Start again. Here we go. Mary. When
I say that, I mean start the music again. That
means start the music, start the music that what do
(01:12):
you mean you can't do that? You are you or
you're not in charge of running the music and the
board and everything else.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
He told you to mess up the first time.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It was a perfectly acceptable open until Harmon pointed something
out and I said, okay, I want to be more accurate. Okay,
so so so conversation. So she probably was. Yeah, I
was on my phone with my friend, and you know,
I really thought you guys were taking the show now,
So I'm sorry. I said, let's give me Narco again,
give me Nark again. We'll we'll start again, the right
way to start, the right wait, hold on, hold on,
(01:44):
hold on, wait wait, I gotta put my phone down
and tell you, hey, Debbie, text you later. Guys are
being real idiots here on the show, all right. I
don't even have a friend name with Okay, okay, Janie,
I don't have I don't know how that would be distress.
I have my my friend Diana. Dianna is the one
(02:05):
you're texting. No, I'm not texting anyone. Actually, Oh okay,
could you stopped to put the phone o? No?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
No, actually mej was you know, give me a fib
tell me goodbye.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh okay, okay, saying okay, you have to throw him
under the buck on the radio and the truth. Okay, okay, okay, Yeah,
I hit me Narco again. Cool greetings, Welcome inside to
a very cautiously optimistic Tuesday here on Fox Sports Radio,
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Is that bad? Cautiously optimimist? Cautiously optimistic? That man?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I call it pretty good. White Sox got their games suspended. Yeah,
it's like it's this guy is about to open up
over pearl jam there at regular Field.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That's not looking good.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It almost looks like a scene straight out of the
original Ghostbusters over the stadium right now. So I think
we've got some chaos getting ready to ensue.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And look before we get to football. Just you know,
you know, this is what's gonna really, this is gonna
grind by gears. If you wind up at the end
of the season not having the worst record of all time.
So the sixty two Mets stay in the record books
because you have games suspended that never get mail. There's
no real reason to make this up. And don't you
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feel bad for the White Sox that they're so bad
all and suddenly you're only playing one hundred and fifty
five games. No, we don't need those, we don't need
those other seven. It's absolutely fine. Don't worry about it.
Winning percentages okay, that they won't go down as the
worst team of all time. Now I can see that happening.
Baseball doing you at solid.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You would expect a lot of those games April and
into May, because you still get snow and really torrential downpours.
You get into the and a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
More of that.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Usually this is about the time of year where it's
really nice to go to Chicago. Temperatures come down a
little bit, still gonna be a little bit muggy, but
you can go take a walk along the lake and
then you've got some of the greatest outdoor bars you're
gonna find across this great American landscape. And today the
sky has decided to open up maybe looking out for
Grady Sizemore and trying to keep him from aging too
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terribly rapidly.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Every game you play, every game, every Jason game, we
have as many blown saves as we do wins thirty
one and thirty one. Baby, let's go. I like that. Yeah, yeah,
I just want to say that.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
If you were a better get this. I saw this
stat earlier, If you were a betting man, and we've
talked about this a bunch, we're gonna peel it back
just a little bit after the fifth inning, you would
be down two units for the year. That's how competitive
they are real and they get out to early. Wouldn't
literally only be down despite the future misery what the
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season that has been. You would be down two whole units.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
So if games were only five innings, you might be
you might be in the playoff of five hundred. Sure,
how about that? So look love Big Baseball Night. Obviously,
as were getting closed, you know a lot of races
are affected. But obviously look today being cut down day
in the National Football League, and we all saw some
names getting let go. That are all names we've watched
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play the last few years. Whether it's Bailey Zappi or
Kadarius Tony, big names out there, Desmond Ritter gets let go.
But I always come back to this, right, and I
think about this, like when I saw today James Robinson
getting cut, Alan Robinson getting cut, Miles Gaskin getting cut,
and to an extent, seeing a couple other players get cut.
(05:53):
To Kadarius Tony a little bit. I always say, I
always think about these guys and I go, you know,
if I had a machine, okay, finding time machine, this
is of all the things you would do, I'm gonna
go back. I would do this. I would bet on this.
I've got here's here's here's the definitive thing I would
do if I had a time machine and it was
easy for me to go back to any time I
wanted to. Right, it was easy to this. This is
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what I would do. Just bop around the time. Get it.
I would go back to right after these guys had
their big rookiear second year seasons. Right, I would go
right after t when James Robinson had his been I
would get him on my team for their rookie year,
their big year. Because James Robinson had a phenomenal rookie year,
ran for a thousand yards. We all thought he was
gonna be great. Alan Robinson had that huge twenty sixteen season.
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All my Allan Robbins is gonna be awesome. Miles Gaskin
had that one year at the Dolphins where you thought, oh,
he's gonna be the number one running back. At how
great it is to have him. I would go back
in time and I would get all of them on
my team for that year, and I would trade them
at the end of the year, and everybody else would
say to me, Oh my god, you're insane. What are
you doing your trans go go ah. I got a
feel him. I think this is gonna be it. I
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think it's the best we're gonna see. Oh, you're crazy, y'all.
Make that trade for all? Who do you want? Who
do you want? I'll take uh. Oh, I don't know.
Uh you know, you know what? Give me?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Uh you know what? Give me? Give me this Brady
kid that the Patriots drafted out of the out of
Michigan to the sick card. Yeah no, but I would
go get people who are so incredibly unherolded. That's what
you want, Yeah, that's what I want. That's what I want. Oh,
all right, then and all of a sudden, guys that
go from undrafted to making Pro Bowls and everything, or
at least being great fantasy players. That's what I would do.
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And I would have everybody say, you're crazy, You're crazy.
I just stole James Robbinson for you. I just stole
Miles Gaskt from you. Yeah, and I got a first
round pick or a second rounder. I got this. And
I would just wait and let the season play out,
and just so I could say at the end, told you,
told you, let's make another trade, told you, told you? Yeah,
I would really do these guys well.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Obviously it's one of the worst forty eight hour periods
that we see as the cut down to fifty three happens,
and then we start seeing just to shovel some guys
will end up what the practice squads are seventeen large
so guys. Some guys will get another chance and hang
on for another run. Others will get into whatever the
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next part of their lives are either media opportunities, perhaps
back towards their alma maters, to go back to school,
or whatever the case may be, the next next career.
But yeah, just a ton of names and like, all right,
that guy was with number three wide receiver on the
number of my fantasy squad. I'm looking at you, Tim
Patrick or kJ Hambler, another guy that was expected to
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take some step forward, and now we're watching the roster shuffle. Hell,
that was one of the things out of Hard Knocks.
You started to love all those backup quarterbacks from the
Bears because you got to meet their families. So they
played on your emotions. And now they're gone, as the
Bears only carry two going forward. Yeah, so we'll see
what happens there, whether Ripping finds his way or the
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everybody's favorite read finds himself another job. I don't know,
but you know they did a good job of again
keeping hard nooring and basically saying you're never going through
these hallways again.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
We fulfilled our commitment.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Now you take us out of that tumbler for future iterations.
But I like, I like your time machine kind of thing.
If you do time in a bottle, this is what
I do with it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I mean, like all the other I would go
back and I would buy stock here and I would
do this, and I'd be rich. I'd be a millik. Well,
if I could go back in time, I got time
to do all that stuff. I would definitely spend a
good bunch of time going let me go back James Robinson.
I don't know if I could let James Robinson go.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Man, the guy ran for it, because remember, like man
was doing his thing and it was years in a
matter of seconds that he was experienced.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Ah could I could? I could? I could? I trade?
I don't know, Man, he's really good. You know what?
You know what, listen, I'll you know what. Who'd you
get in the first round of the d you know what?
Give me Give me that new kid, Tyreek Hill, give
me him. I I don't know if he's gonna be
any good. I don't know. He's a rookie. Who knows.
I'll give you, James, I'll give you a thousand yard rugger.
You give me Tyreek Hill? What a deal? I stole
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him from you? Smith? Yeah you suck Smith? Yeah yeah.
And then I would wait until the end of the year,
would just go I did it. I told you I
would so do that. I mean, I go back the
other stuff too. Sure, I would really go back to
the other stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
You'd go and find somebody else being more amenable to
maybe giving them a hat.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yes back when you were the kid. Sure, you gotta
listen to the whole show.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
It's a really rich, marvel cinematic universe kind of timeline
that we're traversing right now. But the other hard part
of today, Jason, was all the number of the players
that just litany of players that ended up going to
the injured reserve, not just the pup list, because most
of those guys we kind of expected, but some that
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were all right, pup list, maybe we'll see what happens. No,
flat out ir Aj Dillon or Elijah Mitchell kind of
out of the blue. I just drafted him in a
guillotine league. Guess what happened two guys later or even
the next guy after me. It was like Jordan Mason,
and then twenty four hours later, it's no longer just
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a hamstring injury. It's a season ending hamstring injury. So
another hard part of the continuum here, just forty eight
hours of the reality shock. Even though we're getting all
the ticker tape parades and fantasy drafts. We got guys
showing up to their drafts and limos and all these
other videos making their way around, but some harsh reality
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for a number of NFL players.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, I mean, you see some of these guys who
were just such lynch pins a couple of years ago
and now out there looking for work. We knew Tim
Patrick was going to get let go earlier in the
he was gonna get trained, all right, Now the Lions
are signing Tim Patrick. So okay, Look, it was a
really big day with movement and guys and guys going
moving from one place to another. But man, I always
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think back to if I could do stuff like that,
that would be that. That would be the most awesome thing.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
You're missing the point of the exercise, Soner, that would
be the No one would ever clean stuff up because
just think, just think, they would go.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
How is it this guy knows everything. He's the real
fantasy football genius in this league because he makes trades
of guys who were fantastic wait a minute, and then
they suck. But doesn't he always gets the unheralded guy.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
But does Bif Tanning exist in this universe? Is Back
to the Future been released? Does the Almanac exist?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Well, I'd have to go back before that and get
the almanacs, right you.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And you would be in Back to the Future. No,
that's the real guy.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't be in a fantasy
league with Bift. I would avoid I would not be
Fift tann and Celebrity League. I would not be in THEE.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Now we have an all timeline to where it becomes
a John Wick kind of situation and you're hunting down Nift.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Tan, Dude, don't trade with Jason. Why because you think
you're getting the most unbelievable trade possible. Like, yes, man,
I'm telling you, dude, don't do it. Why don't do it?
Why because? Man, look a few years ago, Alan Robinson's
coming off this huge year with Blake Bortles, and he's unbelievable,
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and you know, I don't know how good Lamar Jackson's
going to be. He's a rookie, doesn't get drafted really high.
So you know I traded him Amar Jackson and Robins like, yeah,
that's what I want to. Don don't trade with Jason. Now,
eventually I'd have to stop because I'd or had to
join different leagues because people would say I can't, don't dry.
They just wouldn't do it. They'd say, whatever you wanted,
(13:17):
I'm not doing it.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Yeah, but in this type of scenario, you can change
your identity and pop in.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
A different times. That is true.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I mean there's lots of ways this works out to
your advantage.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I could easily do that. Who's that guy? Trade with him?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I don't know, man, Yeah, but then you got guys
that are around calling you the devil you show up
or the ghost.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I just call you the ghost.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
You pop in and win a Fantasy Leagues and whatever
happened to that guy, he came, collected his winnings and
he was never seen again.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
This guy wants to trade me Cadarius Tony for Julian Edelman.
I'll do that one, sure, you know. I mean that's
kind of fun stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Man, look at you fun creating chaos across many timelines.
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Boom, Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. Yes, sir, time to put the
kids in bed shows on Everybody. Uh, we got a
crazy ass basketball story that could only come to us
from the mouth of Lebron James coming up in a
couple of minutes. But here on cutdown Day, many different
(15:56):
big NFL stories that we saw. We saw plenty of
players get let go. We talked about draft strategies and
fantasy a few minutes ago, but especially if you had
that you know, time Turner thing. Yeah, if you're anger
or you know, you had all the Avengers working with you,
you know, the Infinity Stones and all, you'd be good.
James Robinson, I got James Robinson for a first round pick.
(16:18):
He's gonna be awesome. Uh. The biggest story that's been
making its way around the last couple hours has been
news that the Rams are going to use Kyen Williams
to return punts. Yep, okay. Sean McVay making that announcement
earlier today, saying that hey, it's another opportunity for him
to get touches and impact the game. You feel comfortable
(16:41):
of that because of the confidence they have in Blake
Korum and Ronnie Rivers being able to spell him if
need be. Okay, let's let's let let's just before let
me just say this right here. Kien Williams with a
huge injury history his first two and a half years
in the league. He got hurt in the off season. Yeah,
it really takes something to get hurt in the off season,
(17:02):
and he got hurt in the off season. Now you're
gonna have him return punts? What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Well, and the podcast that we put up in the
running back position, the Iwacher Flag, you can find it
on every audio platform, really talked about Blake Koram a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
What could possibly go wrong? Kyron Williams, who is one
of the most talented running backs in the game. He
was he was third in the NFL and rushing. He
only played in twelve games last year. Look, I get that,
there's a big uh. Look what people do understand what
the RAMS is. Their running scheme is so great anybody
can succeed in it. Right you talk, We're talking about
(17:38):
watching like Royce Freeman come off his couch and have
an eighty yard game last year or whatever the hell
it was that he had. I mean, you can come in.
If you have announced of talent, you will succeed well
in this Rams scheme. It's fantastic. But Karen Williams is
incredibly talented, right, and it's like, okay, I get it.
And then Blake Koram is incredibly valuable because you got
to treat him as an RB one in fantasy. But
for the Rams, they're there. Listen, this could be a
(17:58):
Super Bowl year for the Rams.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I'm telling you, the Rams are this loaded, They're this good.
Are you really going? Are we at the point now
where you can really impact the game when punt returns,
Like this is not two thousand and eight, where hey,
if you have a Devin Hester you flip the field
like punt returns. It's not what it was, you know,
I mean, I understand, Hey, it's another way to get
the guy's hands on the ball and all that. We
(18:21):
have other running backs now, and maybe we're gonna cut
his work a little bit, which is probably a good
idea because he gets hurt very easily. But this is
not a long time This is not fifteen years ago
where hey we have a dynamic punt returner. That's not
the NFL anymore. There's hardly any punt returns for touchdowns.
It's it's the punters are too much better. They're too
much better directionally punting. You just don't have it. You
(18:42):
just there's so much more of an emphasis on special
teams now, especially now that, hey, the last couple of
years you have had to worry about kickoffs all it's like, Okay,
we're gonna work on punt return Okay, great. I don't
see how this is gonna be a big thing. And
the main thing it's gonna wind up is a guy
with injury problems you're putting on special teams. Like, I
love Sean mcvayh and he is brilliant. And again, I'm
(19:03):
probably gonna pick the Rams to go to the Super Bowl.
But wow, I don't see how this is something that
can have a really good ending, see it. I don't
see how this ends well. At the end of the year,
the Rams are in the Super Bowl and Kyen Williams
has like five punt returns for touchdowns, returns of punt
for a touchdown of the Super Bowl to win the game.
I can't see it ending that way.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
And maybe he does, you know, looking at last year's stats,
Brandon Powell was your leader. He averaged seven point eight
yards per return on thirty seven attempts. Smith Marsett also
thirty seven returns. He was at eight point seven yards,
So that's good. Xavier Gibson he gets up to nine
point seven yards on his thirty three returns.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
In terms of yards per return.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Looking at all the leaders, we can tap out at
fourteen point four on Britain Kobe, who had twenty nine returns. Otherwise,
he got about five guys that got into double digit
return on average, and the touchdowns were few and further between. Now,
if he's on kickoff returns, this is where we start
getting into the strategy and what the kickoff return may
(20:08):
become a lot of discussion about that, I know. Bill
Belichick chimed in on that, something we've been talking about
for a while, like, if you really just want to
make it an actionable play, Yeah, have the guys kick
off from the ten yard line or fifteen yard line
or something instead of what you're doing now, all right,
it has to drop into this zone and whatever instead
you're still gonna kick the ball. You know, it's not
(20:29):
that punitive to just kick it out of the end zone.
So you've got that. But for punt returns, I don't know.
You've been watching guys get blown up all your life.
I remember it going all the way back to my
days at Northwestern where you said a prayer before Brian
Musso had the ball kicked to it because he was
gonna get blown up, and if he managed to survive
that first contact, you might have a big return.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
But guess what, the guy's body was torn up, chewed
up over the course of a season. So it's like, hey,
is he gonna be available? Don't know. With Gyron Robinson,
I mean you need him, he's your guy. There were
eight punt returns for touchdowns last year.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Sorry Williams, I'm mixing surnames as that's okay.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I know you already knew you're talking. No, no, no, you
know I'm the letter of the law. That's our self flagellation.
That's right now. I let it. I let it. Whenever
I make a mal of prop like that you always
pointed out, and I let yours go. So that's okay.
That's how it works. That's out way. Okay, yeah, that's
a eight returns for touchdowns last year of all the
players who have who averaged more than ten yards a return,
(21:35):
you're talking about guys topping out with twenty five returns
for a season. So this is one time where they're
going to return a punt in a game. And is
it worth it? Is it worth it to get a
guy potentially hurt on one play one and a half plays.
Let's just say, I don't I don't see it. I
don't see where this is a great idea. Again, I
(21:57):
love showing me. I want to give him the benefit
of the doubt because he's a great head coach and
I love everything he has done. And the Rams have
found a way to just blow past every NFL norman,
say blanket, we're still finding a way to succeed. We
don't have draft picks, doesn't matter. Don't have money in
free agency, doesn't matter. We're still gonna wait. Okay, we're
gonna make trades, we're gonna go up, but tons of assets,
doesn't matter. We're gonna win.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Maybe Jase Blackburn's just that much of a wizard. I
don't see it. Over from Tennessee that he's got it
all figured out.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
This this risk reward, there's too much risk and not
enough reward for well, I.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Mean for your super Bowl pick. I mean you're gonna
be able to get a letter over to McVeigh and
company to try to dissuade him from this. Have you
run the stats coach? Hey, god, simulations on a video
game where maybe you figured out the glitch.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Dear Sean, it's me Jason Smith, Yes, the guy that
got you the head coaching job because Eric Dickerson lit
up Jeff Fisher on our show and then got fired
a few days later. PS. I'm still waiting for my
Super Bowl ring. Hey, don't think Kyen Williams running back
is a really good idea? Just me? But what do
I know. I'm only the guy that got you the
(23:05):
gig and got the Rams the Super Bowl. Sincerely, Jason
Smith and Mike Harmon. Boom, there you go. There's a letter.
I like that. There's a letter thanks for the Yeah,
hey you guys letter right there, and we'll notarize it
look really official.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
We'll go get one of those big kind of wax
seals with some kind of funky logo we designed.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
That'd be good. What could possibly go wrong with this? Oh?
I go now nervous about picking the Rams with the
Super Bowl, But hey.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
You weren't nervous already over whether Matthew Stafford was gonna
stay up there.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I'm okay. I mean, I know he's doing you know,
mattress as all bit. I know he's getting a good
night's sleep. That's he's taking care of his back. That's
all right. I know he's I know he's let's sleeping
on some rd mattress on. This is awful. I gotta
get a new man, Princess and the p here we go.
I've made like seven hundred and fifty million dollars in
an NFL salary. I can't get a good bed. I
(23:57):
understand about this now. I feel good, and and mainly because,
as I said, anybody who runs the ball for the
Rams has turned out to be pretty good. I want
to think Blake Koram is going to be that guy
as well if they give him the ball. Run a
lot last year, so he's he's pretty good. Yeah, but
I've seen lots of guys run the ball well in
college and suddenly the NFL. That's a different story. Now, Okay,
(24:17):
But Kyle Williams a special man. You could see he's
got that jump and and to be able to say, hey,
third in the NFL and rushing after playing twelve games,
I mean that you'd have led the league if you played.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
In there's the rub the league. How much split workloads
and become.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't see anything that could go wrong with this.
That's now, I'm just so nervous.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
You want to go back at the time machine and
take this thought out of head. I wish I could
go the whole time continuum thing that you were screwing
with the last segment.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
And I would definitively pick up Kien Williams last year
in the preseason one hundred.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
But he wasn't even fought the end of the first round.
Just wait, just who is this guy?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Williams? Yeah, why you take don't worry about it. You
would have gotten a lot of columns written about it. Yeah,
we'll worry about your own team. Look that's your idiot.
Look what he's doing Kyen Williams. Wait is he even
gonna make the team. I'm okay, I'm okay. You make
fun of me, that's all right. Uh, we got the
big Lebron story coming up in ninety seconds. But first,
Brian Finley has what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Ye, and apparently Jason and Mike. I know, Jason, you're
gonna about You're about to be a Bills fan because
Mike White, according to ESPN, is going to the Buffalo
Bills to their practice squad.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I don't care. He was here, he's gone. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah, but see now he knows everything about the Jets
and the Dolphins that is, and he doesn't need to
know anything about the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
He's got an information. Yeah, they'd say, hey, Mike, what
can you tell us about the head coach and what
he tries to run? He goes, oh, I'm sorry, I
never met Aaron Rodgers. I don't I don't know anything
about I'm sorry, I never played.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Wow, I thought you were talking about his time in Miami.
He told me some wild stories of the stuff he
was doing at night.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Have you seen the pictures of coach?
Speaker 5 (25:58):
And I'm sure he has a thing or two to
say about what Jets fans are like. And I'm not
going to include Jason in that conversation, or maybe I will.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase is playable for Week one,
so since he head coach Zach Taylor Dolphins wide receiver
Odell Beckham Junior out at least the first four games
of the season, he is on the physically unable to
perform list. Packers moving running back ag Dillon to season
ending ir and the forty Nunnters doing that for their
Bell Cow or one of their running backs at least
(26:27):
Elijah Mitchell. The Browns holding on to four quarterbacks Tyler Huntley,
Dorian Thompson, Robinson, Jamas Winston, Deshaun Watson. This all on
the heels of the roster cuts that need to be
finalized today to fifty three for that regular season roster.
In regards to what else is going on, let's go
to Major League Baseball, where the Mets are up two
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to nothing against the Diamondbacks in the fourth inning. Significant
this one because the Mets are currently three games out
of that third and final wildcard spot and the Diamondbacks
have won six games in a row and continue to
play well as well. But as we continue to look
at what's going on in Major League Baseball, we do
have the Rays and Mariners just underway scoreless. There in
(27:10):
the fourth Dodgers won Orioles one. That's in the third inning.
Also the Phillies, well, they got the big bat from
Nick Castianos.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Ah, the pitch breaking ball hammer deep left field.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
That one is up and that one is gone.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Number eighteen for Nick Casteanos and it's a three run
home run.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
The break up and some breathing room as the Phillies
now lead the Astros.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Forard and nothing.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Phillies Radio Network. I know Jason did not like to
hear that, but it was five to nothing Phillies winning
against the Astros. Also, the Yankees could not get it
done against the Nationals. Foward to two, Red Sox over
the Blue Jay six to three Mike Harmon's White Sox.
They had a rain delay in Chicago. Now they're going
to push that back, the suspended game to tomorrow at
five to ten Eastern time, and they're taking on the Rangers.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
At the US Open.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Lastly, we've got Shelby Rodgers, a pair of Americans in
their first round about right here on Arthur Ash the
main court taking on the sixth seed Jessica Pagoula, Rogers
and Pagola into their second game, and they are on
serve Carlos Sakras, the three seed on the men's side,
advancing in four sets after dropping the second set to
(28:21):
lead to the Australian but alkaaz into the second round
is as is the one seed, Janick Sinner, who did
drop a set as well, but he took it against
Mackie McDonald in four wins as well. For Naomio Osaka
in the one seat IgA FIATEC, she advances despite forty
one heirs to two guys who never air when it
(28:44):
comes to having our tennis racket in their hands. They're
the sports radio's best doubles team I've ever seen. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Wow, that was a way to volley it back to us.
Brian like that. Very nice? Yes, very good, very good.
You Uh. A story that could only be from the
mouth of Lebron James. Uh. We're getting closer to the
beginning of the NBA season. Of course, Lebron and Bronni,
you're gonna share the court to some extent this year.
(29:13):
We're not sure exactly how it's gonna go. I'm sure
a lot in the preseason, maybe a tiny bit in
the regular season. Bronnie, I'm sure he is gonna play
a lot in the G League and with the Lakers
G League team being and it's very easy for them
to do that. So the big question that Lebron was
asked earlier in the day was about, Hey, what's Bronny
gonna call Like when you guys are playing together, what's
he's gonna call your dad? And it's gonna say Dad,
(29:35):
I'm open? Is he gonna call your dad? Pop?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
What what's he gonna call you? And Lebron had a
list of things that Bronny can and can't call him.
Take a listen, have you thought through that relationship? Because
you always be his dad, always be a sib. But
what's your working relationship?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Is he gonna call you Dad at practice in the
locker room.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
We already laid that No, we already laid no, he can't.
We already laid that down. I cannot call me Dad
in the workplace once we once we leave out of
the private facility and the gates closed, I could be
Dad again in the car if we ride together at home,
I could be Dad. No, he gotta call me like
two three or bron okay or you know, goat if
(30:14):
he wants to that's up to him.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I mean, he's up to him. But it's easy for me.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
It's easy to me because it's easy for me because
I've been calling Brownie for so long. It's not like
I've been called his son a son like, so it's
easy for me. It's gonna be the adjustment for him.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
But he cannot. We cannot be running down the court.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
And he'd been like, Dad, no, you cannot do that.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Okay. First of all, I love Lebron slipped in there.
You could call me goat. You know you want to
call it that is, you call me goat. I'm the greatest,
the one. It's okay if you call me got. But
it's a humble brag. You call me goat man, but
not really a humble break. It's just a breag.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
It's just like the thing we talked about with Brady
doing that fanatics fest man. He knows his audience and
he knows the reaction he's gonna get. Let's go for
the line that And it's a reminder, this is you
know what I call myself?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Bring it in. That wasn't even you can call me king, no, no, no,
call me all the big nicknames. Is that you call
me king. You can call me probly, no, you can.
You can call me Ray and you can call me
j You can't call me dad. Uh. Here's the thing.
I honestly i'd be okay if he did that. I
really would be for a couple of reasons. One, wait
and call him dad. No call him dad, I call
(31:30):
him goat. That's just stupid. That's just no, call him down.
I mean, it fits the profile. I mean, come on,
because I think, you know, because I think back of
coaching my daughter as long as I did in in
in youth league and we got to whether it was
all star games or games with you know, with a
lot of stuff going on. You know, she called me
Dad and it was fine. You know she didn't you know,
I just look, call me whatever you want to call him.
(31:51):
But it's okay if you call me. Everybody knows that
I'm your dad. It's okay for that. And you just
have to understand as a coach, right, you know, treat
treating all the girls equally. And we were very lucky
that we had a great relationship the entire time that
I coached. It was great. But I was always okay
with her and we'd feel weird for calling me coach.
I'm like, call me dad. You just you could just
say that, like I'd be I'm eminently okay with that.
(32:11):
Like if he's his dad, dad dad, Like I'd be
all right with that. But where it could really backfire
no one's thinking about is that Let's say Lebron's got
the ball and it's like a fast break or something.
If you're a defender and you are like lagging behind
the play, Like what if you just called that dad
dad dad and then he just throws a blonde pass. Oh,
(32:32):
I'll take.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
You one step further after he don'gs on bron he goes,
you can call me daddy.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah. Look, hey, there's a lot. I just dude, there's
gonna be a lot to get to with what Bronni's
relationship experience in the NBA is going to be. Like
play with Lebron, I hope he's for every one of us.
Let's stick to well where the MIC's got to catch
what other people say.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
It'll be a hell of a lot more entertaining than
than hard knots or any of this other stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Let's go. Can we get an omni directional microphone? We
got to pick up everything?
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Is there a guy with a parabolic microphone? As why
does he look like Al Franken. He's running down the court.
Even Scott Foster is saying stuff at me. I just
called a foul on him. He said, I'm your dad.
I'm like, go, what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
This is crazy? I really, I have no pride if
he wanted to call him dad. I get it. I
think everybody gets it. It's a weird thing. We've never
seen it before in the NBA. No one would be mad.
I feel that because I just think about, Okay, if
I'm a coach, I'm playing and someone you know, like
Zoe calling me down, like yeah, okay. I mean, it's
not It's not suddenly where people think, oh, Lebron's not
(33:39):
going to pass me the ball. He's just going to
pass the ball to his son, you know. I mean,
I don't think this is these games are televised, it's
a really big deal. As has been frozen out of
the offense. Austin Reeves hasn't had a shot in seventeen games.
He's played thirty minutes a night with no shots. Anthony
Davis is scoring eight points a night now, But boy,
look at Brownie shot attempts. He's averaging thirty two points
(34:01):
a game on eighty six shots, all from Lebron. It
has been an outstanding run for the Lebron James father
son doing this. They haven't tapped to thirty seven lobs
in this game in a row. Shut up up. I
think it's great. Ah, well, why do it? Do it?
Call him Dad? Call him Dad? I want I want
to see it app but it's not that big a deal. Exit.
(34:23):
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Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live from the
tire Rack dot Com studios, and we'll get into some
big takeaways from Cutdown Day coming up in about ten minutes.
You think you don't have cut Oh, we got some
hot takes. We got some great hot takes coming off
Cutdown Day. But brand new big sports doc debut today
(35:33):
on Netflix. Sign Stealer about the Connor Stallion saga, the
former Michigan Quote employee who got the school in a
lot of hot water at the NCAA by videotaping other
team signals and potentially bringing them back to Michigan where
they will use them where they could take a look
and know exactly what other teams were calling. It's a
(35:54):
very big deal. Last year at unfolding all during Michigan's
run to the National Championship, and some big things from
the beginning of the documentary that got released today was
Stallion said listen, he never obtained signals through in person scouting.
He didn't try to get tickets for anybody, didn't try
to direct anyone to go to a game to try
to help him steal signals. These are the things coming
(36:17):
out about this and his claims. That's what he's that's
what he says. But I think it gets I think
we I don't even think we need to get into
that part of it because I just don't think anybody cares, right,
I mean I I And this is probably why the
NCAA is still so hasn't really ruled on it permanently yet,
(36:38):
like Michigan tried to do the whole Big Hey, we're
gonna preemptively suspend Jim Harbaugh and okay, and the Big
Ten was gonna be was on board with it, and Okay,
this is what we're gonna do. Okay, now it's done,
but we're still gonna look into this. But honestly, nobody cares.
There's been no real outrage, there's been no real take
their title away. There's been none of it. So how
(37:00):
do we respond to this? Even when we talked about
Michigan going to the national title last year, there was
hardly any talk about this. There was none. And yes,
because things change all the time in sports, we moved
past certain scandals, this one never really had a lot
of traction, but college football with the nil transfer portal,
(37:22):
college football has always been shady. It's always been under
the table sport. And because of that, I don't think
people really care about this. Look NFL professional with rules,
you do this, you don't do that. Super bowls Hey, okay,
this is why spygate was such a big deal. But
college football, I think people understand a it's if you're
not cheating, you're not trying kind of sport, right. Every school,
(37:44):
Every school is able to find a way to get
guys in, to get guys to a team. You know,
nobody finds a way to get guys in the NFL
drapped to a team. Oh, we just stole that guy
right out from under us because we were picking sixteens,
but instead they jumped up and picked fifteenth. Like that
doesn't work that way. But because college football is such
an under the table type sport, most fans like, yeah,
this is kind of how it goes. This is part
(38:05):
of what college football is about. And I think you're
gonna have a hard time drumming up a lot of
oh this is I'm full of fire and brimstone about
this story. Like the Connor stallion story happened, it's over,
and it's and it's now something where the NCAA. We're
waiting for them to give some kind of ruling and
if they really come down hard on Michigan, that's gonna
piss a lot of people off. Look, even the other school,
(38:26):
you would think Ohio State and Penn State would all
be going, I can't believe that you need to get
rid of these guys and they gotta be on probate.
There's none of that. There's absolutely nothing. But like today,
you had the audio of Kirk Ferns.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Right, he's got to he's suspended for week one because
of a recruiting thing, and it's basically falling on the sword.
It's my fault, stupid mistake. All these years we've been here,
and this will be the first Iowa game where it's
not him or Hayden Fry on the sideline since nineteen
seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
How do you like that?
Speaker 4 (38:57):
But he was asked about this today and he goes,
who cares? At this point, it's done, moving on because
part of the Stallion's documentary is talking about the game
ball he got for signal deciphering against Iowa.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Right, go back to spygate. I still shrug.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
It's the letter versus spirit of the law, right is
you're allowed to tape, just not where they did, Okay,
so everybody else was taping, just not this defined area.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
So all of those kind of things.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
And recruiting, while Miami Ohio's coach getting mad saying they
still our kicker, right, all of these things, and everybody
laughs and they shrug because it's the wild West. Nobody
knows what If there are rules, they're written in crayon
and then you bleed over the top of them because
you ran out of paper. That's what we're doing right now.
(39:47):
There's no semblance of order. The NCAA is just a
shell of what it once was, trying to hold onto
those last bastions of power and security and authority where
they still have letterhead, Like.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
How many more reams of paper we got with the letterhead? Uh,
we gotta go.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Through those because otherwise, I mean, that's just a lot
of wasted costs, kind of like the PAC twelve and
all their buildings and everything they had going on.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
But it's it's laughable, you know.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
He even says, well, you know, in one quote, kind
of talking about breaking the rules, he goes, well, I
didn't really break the rules.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
It kind of operated in the gray.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
And isn't that where we've all kind of believed college
football was for better or for worse all these years?
I mean that's there's really no big revelations in any
of this, and here it was just a documentary.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Come meet Connor Stallions. Who cares He's gonna be signing autograph? Oh?
I got that lithough at Connor Stallion's in that box.
I open. This is fan.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
One of the big things is he can't be on
a coaching staff for three years now.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
He's a volunteer. We talked about it last week, right
for a high school team. Oh boy, I just don't
think anybody can about this club now. If the NCAA
just said it's done, we're moving, everybody would be just
as happy with that. Uh. The big takeaways from cut
down Day next right here. Jason to Mike Fox Sports
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Greetings, then welcome inside to what is so far a
perfectly acceptable enough Tuesday, The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. You just took it to nothing lead,
come on to nothing lead. But the Braves are winning
four to three and the Padres are winning six to five.
So I mean it's so far it's acceptable. We'll see
(00:51):
how it plays out at that time. So the ways
to go here man, positivity, Man, I'm telling that's why. Heyday,
I am. Okay, here's better. Okay, welcome in sid Well.
We gotta do it again. We do it again, do it,
do it again, start again, start again, start again. Here's
how we do it. Here's how we do it. Here's
let's start again. Start again. Here we go. Mary. When
I say that, I mean start the music again. That
means start the music, start the music that what do
(01:12):
you mean you can't do that? You are you or
you're not in charge of running the music and the
board and everything else.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
He told you to mess up the first time.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It was a perfectly acceptable open until Harmon pointed something
out and I said, okay, I want to be more accurate. Okay,
so so so conversation. So she probably was. Yeah, I
was on my phone with my friend, and you know,
I really thought you guys were taking the show now,
So I'm sorry. I said, let's give me Narco again,
give me Nark again. We'll we'll start again, the right
way to start, the right wait, hold on, hold on,
(01:44):
hold on, wait wait, I gotta put my phone down
and tell you, hey, Debbie, text you later. Guys are
being real idiots here on the show, all right. I
don't even have a friend name with Okay, okay, Janie,
I don't have I don't know how that would be distress.
I have my my friend Diana. Dianna is the one
(02:05):
you're texting. No, I'm not texting anyone. Actually, Oh okay,
could you stopped to put the phone o? No?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
No, actually mej was you know, give me a fib
tell me goodbye.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh okay, okay, saying okay, you have to throw him
under the buck on the radio and the truth. Okay, okay, okay, Yeah,
I hit me Narco again. Cool greetings, Welcome inside to
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Is that bad? Cautiously optimimist? Cautiously optimistic? That man?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I call it pretty good. White Sox got their games suspended. Yeah,
it's like it's this guy is about to open up
over pearl jam there at regular Field.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That's not looking good.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It almost looks like a scene straight out of the
original Ghostbusters over the stadium right now. So I think
we've got some chaos getting ready to ensue.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And look before we get to football. Just you know,
you know, this is what's gonna really, this is gonna
grind by gears. If you wind up at the end
of the season not having the worst record of all time.
So the sixty two Mets stay in the record books
because you have games suspended that never get mail. There's
no real reason to make this up. And don't you
(03:36):
feel bad for the White Sox that they're so bad
all and suddenly you're only playing one hundred and fifty
five games. No, we don't need those, we don't need
those other seven. It's absolutely fine. Don't worry about it.
Winning percentages okay, that they won't go down as the
worst team of all time. Now I can see that happening.
Baseball doing you at solid.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You would expect a lot of those games April and
into May, because you still get snow and really torrential downpours.
You get into the and a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
More of that.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Usually this is about the time of year where it's
really nice to go to Chicago. Temperatures come down a
little bit, still gonna be a little bit muggy, but
you can go take a walk along the lake and
then you've got some of the greatest outdoor bars you're
gonna find across this great American landscape. And today the
sky has decided to open up maybe looking out for
Grady Sizemore and trying to keep him from aging too
(04:24):
terribly rapidly.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Every game you play, every game, every Jason game, we
have as many blown saves as we do wins thirty
one and thirty one. Baby, let's go. I like that. Yeah, yeah,
I just want to say that.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
If you were a better get this. I saw this
stat earlier, If you were a betting man, and we've
talked about this a bunch, we're gonna peel it back
just a little bit after the fifth inning, you would
be down two units for the year. That's how competitive
they are real and they get out to early. Wouldn't
literally only be down despite the future misery what the
(05:05):
season that has been. You would be down two whole units.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
So if games were only five innings, you might be
you might be in the playoff of five hundred. Sure,
how about that? So look love Big Baseball Night. Obviously,
as were getting closed, you know a lot of races
are affected. But obviously look today being cut down day
in the National Football League, and we all saw some
names getting let go. That are all names we've watched
(05:31):
play the last few years. Whether it's Bailey Zappi or
Kadarius Tony, big names out there, Desmond Ritter gets let go.
But I always come back to this, right, and I
think about this, like when I saw today James Robinson
getting cut, Alan Robinson getting cut, Miles Gaskin getting cut,
and to an extent, seeing a couple other players get cut.
(05:53):
To Kadarius Tony a little bit. I always say, I
always think about these guys and I go, you know,
if I had a machine, okay, finding time machine, this
is of all the things you would do, I'm gonna
go back. I would do this. I would bet on this.
I've got here's here's here's the definitive thing I would
do if I had a time machine and it was
easy for me to go back to any time I
wanted to. Right, it was easy to this. This is
(06:13):
what I would do. Just bop around the time. Get it.
I would go back to right after these guys had
their big rookiear second year seasons. Right, I would go
right after t when James Robinson had his been I
would get him on my team for their rookie year,
their big year. Because James Robinson had a phenomenal rookie year,
ran for a thousand yards. We all thought he was
gonna be great. Alan Robinson had that huge twenty sixteen season.
(06:36):
All my Allan Robbins is gonna be awesome. Miles Gaskin
had that one year at the Dolphins where you thought, oh,
he's gonna be the number one running back. At how
great it is to have him. I would go back
in time and I would get all of them on
my team for that year, and I would trade them
at the end of the year, and everybody else would
say to me, Oh my god, you're insane. What are
you doing your trans go go ah. I got a
feel him. I think this is gonna be it. I
(06:56):
think it's the best we're gonna see. Oh, you're crazy, y'all.
Make that trade for all? Who do you want? Who
do you want? I'll take uh. Oh, I don't know.
Uh you know, you know what? Give me?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Uh you know what? Give me? Give me this Brady
kid that the Patriots drafted out of the out of
Michigan to the sick card. Yeah no, but I would
go get people who are so incredibly unherolded. That's what
you want, Yeah, that's what I want. That's what I want. Oh,
all right, then and all of a sudden, guys that
go from undrafted to making Pro Bowls and everything, or
at least being great fantasy players. That's what I would do.
(07:26):
And I would have everybody say, you're crazy, You're crazy.
I just stole James Robbinson for you. I just stole
Miles Gaskt from you. Yeah, and I got a first
round pick or a second rounder. I got this. And
I would just wait and let the season play out,
and just so I could say at the end, told you,
told you, let's make another trade, told you, told you? Yeah,
I would really do these guys well.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Obviously it's one of the worst forty eight hour periods
that we see as the cut down to fifty three happens,
and then we start seeing just to shovel some guys
will end up what the practice squads are seventeen large
so guys. Some guys will get another chance and hang
on for another run. Others will get into whatever the
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next part of their lives are either media opportunities, perhaps
back towards their alma maters, to go back to school,
or whatever the case may be, the next next career.
But yeah, just a ton of names and like, all right,
that guy was with number three wide receiver on the
number of my fantasy squad. I'm looking at you, Tim
Patrick or kJ Hambler, another guy that was expected to
(08:29):
take some step forward, and now we're watching the roster shuffle. Hell,
that was one of the things out of Hard Knocks.
You started to love all those backup quarterbacks from the
Bears because you got to meet their families. So they
played on your emotions. And now they're gone, as the
Bears only carry two going forward. Yeah, so we'll see
what happens there, whether Ripping finds his way or the
(08:52):
everybody's favorite read finds himself another job. I don't know,
but you know they did a good job of again
keeping hard nooring and basically saying you're never going through
these hallways again.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
We fulfilled our commitment.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Now you take us out of that tumbler for future iterations.
But I like, I like your time machine kind of thing.
If you do time in a bottle, this is what
I do with it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I mean, like all the other I would go
back and I would buy stock here and I would
do this, and I'd be rich. I'd be a millik. Well,
if I could go back in time, I got time
to do all that stuff. I would definitely spend a
good bunch of time going let me go back James Robinson.
I don't know if I could let James Robinson go.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Man, the guy ran for it, because remember, like man
was doing his thing and it was years in a
matter of seconds that he was experienced.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Ah could I could? I could? I could? I trade?
I don't know, Man, he's really good. You know what?
You know what, listen, I'll you know what. Who'd you
get in the first round of the d you know what?
Give me Give me that new kid, Tyreek Hill, give
me him. I I don't know if he's gonna be
any good. I don't know. He's a rookie. Who knows.
I'll give you, James, I'll give you a thousand yard rugger.
You give me Tyreek Hill? What a deal? I stole
(09:59):
him from you? Smith? Yeah you suck Smith? Yeah yeah.
And then I would wait until the end of the year,
would just go I did it. I told you I
would so do that. I mean, I go back the
other stuff too. Sure, I would really go back to
the other stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
You'd go and find somebody else being more amenable to
maybe giving them a hat.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yes back when you were the kid. Sure, you gotta
listen to the whole show.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
It's a really rich, marvel cinematic universe kind of timeline
that we're traversing right now. But the other hard part
of today, Jason, was all the number of the players
that just litany of players that ended up going to
the injured reserve, not just the pup list, because most
of those guys we kind of expected, but some that
(10:40):
were all right, pup list, maybe we'll see what happens. No,
flat out ir Aj Dillon or Elijah Mitchell kind of
out of the blue. I just drafted him in a
guillotine league. Guess what happened two guys later or even
the next guy after me. It was like Jordan Mason,
and then twenty four hours later, it's no longer just
(11:00):
a hamstring injury. It's a season ending hamstring injury. So
another hard part of the continuum here, just forty eight
hours of the reality shock. Even though we're getting all
the ticker tape parades and fantasy drafts. We got guys
showing up to their drafts and limos and all these
other videos making their way around, but some harsh reality
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for a number of NFL players.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, I mean, you see some of these guys who
were just such lynch pins a couple of years ago
and now out there looking for work. We knew Tim
Patrick was going to get let go earlier in the
he was gonna get trained, all right, Now the Lions
are signing Tim Patrick. So okay, Look, it was a
really big day with movement and guys and guys going
moving from one place to another. But man, I always
(11:45):
think back to if I could do stuff like that,
that would be that. That would be the most awesome thing.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
You're missing the point of the exercise, Soner, that would
be the No one would ever clean stuff up because
just think, just think, they would go.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
How is it this guy knows everything. He's the real
fantasy football genius in this league because he makes trades
of guys who were fantastic wait a minute, and then
they suck. But doesn't he always gets the unheralded guy.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
But does Bif Tanning exist in this universe? Is Back
to the Future been released? Does the Almanac exist?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Well, I'd have to go back before that and get
the almanacs, right you.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And you would be in Back to the Future. No,
that's the real guy.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't be in a fantasy
league with Bift. I would avoid I would not be
Fift tann and Celebrity League. I would not be in THEE.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Now we have an all timeline to where it becomes
a John Wick kind of situation and you're hunting down Nift.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Tan, Dude, don't trade with Jason. Why because you think
you're getting the most unbelievable trade possible. Like, yes, man,
I'm telling you, dude, don't do it. Why don't do it?
Why because? Man, look a few years ago, Alan Robinson's
coming off this huge year with Blake Bortles, and he's unbelievable,
(12:57):
and you know, I don't know how good Lamar Jackson's
going to be. He's a rookie, doesn't get drafted really high.
So you know I traded him Amar Jackson and Robins like, yeah,
that's what I want to. Don don't trade with Jason. Now,
eventually I'd have to stop because I'd or had to
join different leagues because people would say I can't, don't dry.
They just wouldn't do it. They'd say, whatever you wanted,
(13:17):
I'm not doing it.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Yeah, but in this type of scenario, you can change
your identity and pop in.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
A different times. That is true.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I mean there's lots of ways this works out to
your advantage.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I could easily do that. Who's that guy? Trade with him?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I don't know, man, Yeah, but then you got guys
that are around calling you the devil you show up
or the ghost.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I just call you the ghost.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
You pop in and win a Fantasy Leagues and whatever
happened to that guy, he came, collected his winnings and
he was never seen again.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
This guy wants to trade me Cadarius Tony for Julian Edelman.
I'll do that one, sure, you know. I mean that's
kind of fun stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Man, look at you fun creating chaos across many timelines.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
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Boom, Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. Yes, sir, time to put the
kids in bed shows on Everybody. Uh, we got a
crazy ass basketball story that could only come to us
from the mouth of Lebron James coming up in a
couple of minutes. But here on cutdown Day, many different
(15:56):
big NFL stories that we saw. We saw plenty of
players get let go. We talked about draft strategies and
fantasy a few minutes ago, but especially if you had
that you know, time Turner thing. Yeah, if you're anger
or you know, you had all the Avengers working with you,
you know, the Infinity Stones and all, you'd be good.
James Robinson, I got James Robinson for a first round pick.
(16:18):
He's gonna be awesome. Uh. The biggest story that's been
making its way around the last couple hours has been
news that the Rams are going to use Kyen Williams
to return punts. Yep, okay. Sean McVay making that announcement
earlier today, saying that hey, it's another opportunity for him
to get touches and impact the game. You feel comfortable
(16:41):
of that because of the confidence they have in Blake
Korum and Ronnie Rivers being able to spell him if
need be. Okay, let's let's let let's just before let
me just say this right here. Kien Williams with a
huge injury history his first two and a half years
in the league. He got hurt in the off season. Yeah,
it really takes something to get hurt in the off season,
(17:02):
and he got hurt in the off season. Now you're
gonna have him return punts? What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Well, and the podcast that we put up in the
running back position, the Iwacher Flag, you can find it
on every audio platform, really talked about Blake Koram a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
What could possibly go wrong? Kyron Williams, who is one
of the most talented running backs in the game. He
was he was third in the NFL and rushing. He
only played in twelve games last year. Look, I get that,
there's a big uh. Look what people do understand what
the RAMS is. Their running scheme is so great anybody
can succeed in it. Right you talk, We're talking about
(17:38):
watching like Royce Freeman come off his couch and have
an eighty yard game last year or whatever the hell
it was that he had. I mean, you can come in.
If you have announced of talent, you will succeed well
in this Rams scheme. It's fantastic. But Karen Williams is
incredibly talented, right, and it's like, okay, I get it.
And then Blake Koram is incredibly valuable because you got
to treat him as an RB one in fantasy. But
for the Rams, they're there. Listen, this could be a
(17:58):
Super Bowl year for the Rams.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I'm telling you, the Rams are this loaded, They're this good.
Are you really going? Are we at the point now
where you can really impact the game when punt returns,
Like this is not two thousand and eight, where hey,
if you have a Devin Hester you flip the field
like punt returns. It's not what it was, you know,
I mean, I understand, Hey, it's another way to get
the guy's hands on the ball and all that. We
(18:21):
have other running backs now, and maybe we're gonna cut
his work a little bit, which is probably a good
idea because he gets hurt very easily. But this is
not a long time This is not fifteen years ago
where hey we have a dynamic punt returner. That's not
the NFL anymore. There's hardly any punt returns for touchdowns.
It's it's the punters are too much better. They're too
much better directionally punting. You just don't have it. You
(18:42):
just there's so much more of an emphasis on special
teams now, especially now that, hey, the last couple of
years you have had to worry about kickoffs all it's like, Okay,
we're gonna work on punt return Okay, great. I don't
see how this is gonna be a big thing. And
the main thing it's gonna wind up is a guy
with injury problems you're putting on special teams. Like, I
love Sean mcvayh and he is brilliant. And again, I'm
(19:03):
probably gonna pick the Rams to go to the Super Bowl.
But wow, I don't see how this is something that
can have a really good ending, see it. I don't
see how this ends well. At the end of the year,
the Rams are in the Super Bowl and Kyen Williams
has like five punt returns for touchdowns, returns of punt
for a touchdown of the Super Bowl to win the game.
I can't see it ending that way.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
And maybe he does, you know, looking at last year's stats,
Brandon Powell was your leader. He averaged seven point eight
yards per return on thirty seven attempts. Smith Marsett also
thirty seven returns. He was at eight point seven yards,
So that's good. Xavier Gibson he gets up to nine
point seven yards on his thirty three returns.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
In terms of yards per return.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Looking at all the leaders, we can tap out at
fourteen point four on Britain Kobe, who had twenty nine returns. Otherwise,
he got about five guys that got into double digit
return on average, and the touchdowns were few and further between. Now,
if he's on kickoff returns, this is where we start
getting into the strategy and what the kickoff return may
(20:08):
become a lot of discussion about that, I know. Bill
Belichick chimed in on that, something we've been talking about
for a while, like, if you really just want to
make it an actionable play, Yeah, have the guys kick
off from the ten yard line or fifteen yard line
or something instead of what you're doing now, all right,
it has to drop into this zone and whatever instead
you're still gonna kick the ball. You know, it's not
(20:29):
that punitive to just kick it out of the end zone.
So you've got that. But for punt returns, I don't know.
You've been watching guys get blown up all your life.
I remember it going all the way back to my
days at Northwestern where you said a prayer before Brian
Musso had the ball kicked to it because he was
gonna get blown up, and if he managed to survive
that first contact, you might have a big return.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
But guess what, the guy's body was torn up, chewed
up over the course of a season. So it's like, hey,
is he gonna be available? Don't know. With Gyron Robinson,
I mean you need him, he's your guy. There were
eight punt returns for touchdowns last year.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Sorry Williams, I'm mixing surnames as that's okay.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I know you already knew you're talking. No, no, no, you
know I'm the letter of the law. That's our self flagellation.
That's right now. I let it. I let it. Whenever
I make a mal of prop like that you always
pointed out, and I let yours go. So that's okay.
That's how it works. That's out way. Okay, yeah, that's
a eight returns for touchdowns last year of all the
players who have who averaged more than ten yards a return,
(21:35):
you're talking about guys topping out with twenty five returns
for a season. So this is one time where they're
going to return a punt in a game. And is
it worth it? Is it worth it to get a
guy potentially hurt on one play one and a half plays.
Let's just say, I don't I don't see it. I
don't see where this is a great idea. Again, I
(21:57):
love showing me. I want to give him the benefit
of the doubt because he's a great head coach and
I love everything he has done. And the Rams have
found a way to just blow past every NFL norman,
say blanket, we're still finding a way to succeed. We
don't have draft picks, doesn't matter. Don't have money in
free agency, doesn't matter. We're still gonna wait. Okay, we're
gonna make trades, we're gonna go up, but tons of assets,
doesn't matter. We're gonna win.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Maybe Jase Blackburn's just that much of a wizard. I
don't see it. Over from Tennessee that he's got it
all figured out.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
This this risk reward, there's too much risk and not
enough reward for well, I.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Mean for your super Bowl pick. I mean you're gonna
be able to get a letter over to McVeigh and
company to try to dissuade him from this. Have you
run the stats coach? Hey, god, simulations on a video
game where maybe you figured out the glitch.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Dear Sean, it's me Jason Smith, Yes, the guy that
got you the head coaching job because Eric Dickerson lit
up Jeff Fisher on our show and then got fired
a few days later. PS. I'm still waiting for my
Super Bowl ring. Hey, don't think Kyen Williams running back
is a really good idea? Just me? But what do
I know. I'm only the guy that got you the
(23:05):
gig and got the Rams the Super Bowl. Sincerely, Jason
Smith and Mike Harmon. Boom, there you go. There's a letter.
I like that. There's a letter thanks for the Yeah,
hey you guys letter right there, and we'll notarize it
look really official.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
We'll go get one of those big kind of wax
seals with some kind of funky logo we designed.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
That'd be good. What could possibly go wrong with this? Oh?
I go now nervous about picking the Rams with the
Super Bowl, But hey.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
You weren't nervous already over whether Matthew Stafford was gonna
stay up there.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I'm okay. I mean, I know he's doing you know,
mattress as all bit. I know he's getting a good
night's sleep. That's he's taking care of his back. That's
all right. I know he's I know he's let's sleeping
on some rd mattress on. This is awful. I gotta
get a new man, Princess and the p here we go.
I've made like seven hundred and fifty million dollars in
an NFL salary. I can't get a good bed. I
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understand about this now. I feel good, and and mainly because,
as I said, anybody who runs the ball for the
Rams has turned out to be pretty good. I want
to think Blake Koram is going to be that guy
as well if they give him the ball. Run a
lot last year, so he's he's pretty good. Yeah, but
I've seen lots of guys run the ball well in
college and suddenly the NFL. That's a different story. Now, Okay,
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But Kyle Williams a special man. You could see he's
got that jump and and to be able to say, hey,
third in the NFL and rushing after playing twelve games,
I mean that you'd have led the league if you played.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
In there's the rub the league. How much split workloads
and become.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I don't see anything that could go wrong with this.
That's now, I'm just so nervous.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
You want to go back at the time machine and
take this thought out of head. I wish I could
go the whole time continuum thing that you were screwing
with the last segment.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
And I would definitively pick up Kien Williams last year
in the preseason one hundred.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
But he wasn't even fought the end of the first round.
Just wait, just who is this guy?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Williams? Yeah, why you take don't worry about it. You
would have gotten a lot of columns written about it. Yeah,
we'll worry about your own team. Look that's your idiot.
Look what he's doing Kyen Williams. Wait is he even
gonna make the team. I'm okay, I'm okay. You make
fun of me, that's all right. Uh, we got the
big Lebron story coming up in ninety seconds. But first,
Brian Finley has what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Ye, and apparently Jason and Mike. I know, Jason, you're
gonna about You're about to be a Bills fan because
Mike White, according to ESPN, is going to the Buffalo
Bills to their practice squad.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I don't care. He was here, he's gone. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah, but see now he knows everything about the Jets
and the Dolphins that is, and he doesn't need to
know anything about the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
He's got an information. Yeah, they'd say, hey, Mike, what
can you tell us about the head coach and what
he tries to run? He goes, oh, I'm sorry, I
never met Aaron Rodgers. I don't I don't know anything
about I'm sorry, I never played.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Wow, I thought you were talking about his time in Miami.
He told me some wild stories of the stuff he
was doing at night.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Have you seen the pictures of coach?
Speaker 5 (25:58):
And I'm sure he has a thing or two to
say about what Jets fans are like. And I'm not
going to include Jason in that conversation, or maybe I will.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase is playable for Week one,
so since he head coach Zach Taylor Dolphins wide receiver
Odell Beckham Junior out at least the first four games
of the season, he is on the physically unable to
perform list. Packers moving running back ag Dillon to season
ending ir and the forty Nunnters doing that for their
Bell Cow or one of their running backs at least
(26:27):
Elijah Mitchell. The Browns holding on to four quarterbacks Tyler Huntley,
Dorian Thompson, Robinson, Jamas Winston, Deshaun Watson. This all on
the heels of the roster cuts that need to be
finalized today to fifty three for that regular season roster.
In regards to what else is going on, let's go
to Major League Baseball, where the Mets are up two
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to nothing against the Diamondbacks in the fourth inning. Significant
this one because the Mets are currently three games out
of that third and final wildcard spot and the Diamondbacks
have won six games in a row and continue to
play well as well. But as we continue to look
at what's going on in Major League Baseball, we do
have the Rays and Mariners just underway scoreless. There in
(27:10):
the fourth Dodgers won Orioles one. That's in the third inning.
Also the Phillies, well, they got the big bat from
Nick Castianos.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Ah, the pitch breaking ball hammer deep left field.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
That one is up and that one is gone.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Number eighteen for Nick Casteanos and it's a three run
home run.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
The break up and some breathing room as the Phillies
now lead the Astros.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Forard and nothing.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Phillies Radio Network. I know Jason did not like to
hear that, but it was five to nothing Phillies winning
against the Astros. Also, the Yankees could not get it
done against the Nationals. Foward to two, Red Sox over
the Blue Jay six to three Mike Harmon's White Sox.
They had a rain delay in Chicago. Now they're going
to push that back, the suspended game to tomorrow at
five to ten Eastern time, and they're taking on the Rangers.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
At the US Open.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Lastly, we've got Shelby Rodgers, a pair of Americans in
their first round about right here on Arthur Ash the
main court taking on the sixth seed Jessica Pagoula, Rogers
and Pagola into their second game, and they are on
serve Carlos Sakras, the three seed on the men's side,
advancing in four sets after dropping the second set to
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lead to the Australian but alkaaz into the second round
is as is the one seed, Janick Sinner, who did
drop a set as well, but he took it against
Mackie McDonald in four wins as well. For Naomio Osaka
in the one seat IgA FIATEC, she advances despite forty
one heirs to two guys who never air when it
(28:44):
comes to having our tennis racket in their hands. They're
the sports radio's best doubles team I've ever seen. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Wow, that was a way to volley it back to us.
Brian like that. Very nice? Yes, very good, very good.
You Uh. A story that could only be from the
mouth of Lebron James. Uh. We're getting closer to the
beginning of the NBA season. Of course, Lebron and Bronni,
you're gonna share the court to some extent this year.
(29:13):
We're not sure exactly how it's gonna go. I'm sure
a lot in the preseason, maybe a tiny bit in
the regular season. Bronnie, I'm sure he is gonna play
a lot in the G League and with the Lakers
G League team being and it's very easy for them
to do that. So the big question that Lebron was
asked earlier in the day was about, Hey, what's Bronny
gonna call Like when you guys are playing together, what's
he's gonna call your dad? And it's gonna say Dad,
(29:35):
I'm open? Is he gonna call your dad? Pop?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
What what's he gonna call you? And Lebron had a
list of things that Bronny can and can't call him.
Take a listen, have you thought through that relationship? Because
you always be his dad, always be a sib. But
what's your working relationship?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Is he gonna call you Dad at practice in the
locker room.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
We already laid that No, we already laid no, he can't.
We already laid that down. I cannot call me Dad
in the workplace once we once we leave out of
the private facility and the gates closed, I could be
Dad again in the car if we ride together at home,
I could be Dad. No, he gotta call me like
two three or bron okay or you know, goat if
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he wants to that's up to him.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I mean, he's up to him. But it's easy for me.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
It's easy to me because it's easy for me because
I've been calling Brownie for so long. It's not like
I've been called his son a son like, so it's
easy for me. It's gonna be the adjustment for him.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
But he cannot. We cannot be running down the court.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
And he'd been like, Dad, no, you cannot do that.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Okay. First of all, I love Lebron slipped in there.
You could call me goat. You know you want to
call it that is, you call me goat. I'm the greatest,
the one. It's okay if you call me got. But
it's a humble brag. You call me goat man, but
not really a humble break. It's just a breag.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
It's just like the thing we talked about with Brady
doing that fanatics fest man. He knows his audience and
he knows the reaction he's gonna get. Let's go for
the line that And it's a reminder, this is you
know what I call myself?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Bring it in. That wasn't even you can call me king, no, no, no,
call me all the big nicknames. Is that you call
me king. You can call me probly, no, you can.
You can call me Ray and you can call me
j You can't call me dad. Uh. Here's the thing.
I honestly i'd be okay if he did that. I
really would be for a couple of reasons. One, wait
and call him dad. No call him dad, I call
(31:30):
him goat. That's just stupid. That's just no, call him down.
I mean, it fits the profile. I mean, come on,
because I think, you know, because I think back of
coaching my daughter as long as I did in in
in youth league and we got to whether it was
all star games or games with you know, with a
lot of stuff going on. You know, she called me
Dad and it was fine. You know she didn't you know,
I just look, call me whatever you want to call him.
(31:51):
But it's okay if you call me. Everybody knows that
I'm your dad. It's okay for that. And you just
have to understand as a coach, right, you know, treat
treating all the girls equally. And we were very lucky
that we had a great relationship the entire time that
I coached. It was great. But I was always okay
with her and we'd feel weird for calling me coach.
I'm like, call me dad. You just you could just
say that, like I'd be I'm eminently okay with that.
(32:11):
Like if he's his dad, dad dad, Like I'd be
all right with that. But where it could really backfire
no one's thinking about is that Let's say Lebron's got
the ball and it's like a fast break or something.
If you're a defender and you are like lagging behind
the play, Like what if you just called that dad
dad dad and then he just throws a blonde pass. Oh,
(32:32):
I'll take.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
You one step further after he don'gs on bron he goes,
you can call me daddy.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah. Look, hey, there's a lot. I just dude, there's
gonna be a lot to get to with what Bronni's
relationship experience in the NBA is going to be. Like
play with Lebron, I hope he's for every one of us.
Let's stick to well where the MIC's got to catch
what other people say.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
It'll be a hell of a lot more entertaining than
than hard knots or any of this other stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Let's go. Can we get an omni directional microphone? We
got to pick up everything?
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Is there a guy with a parabolic microphone? As why
does he look like Al Franken. He's running down the court.
Even Scott Foster is saying stuff at me. I just
called a foul on him. He said, I'm your dad.
I'm like, go, what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
This is crazy? I really, I have no pride if
he wanted to call him dad. I get it. I
think everybody gets it. It's a weird thing. We've never
seen it before in the NBA. No one would be mad.
I feel that because I just think about, Okay, if
I'm a coach, I'm playing and someone you know, like
Zoe calling me down, like yeah, okay. I mean, it's
not It's not suddenly where people think, oh, Lebron's not
(33:39):
going to pass me the ball. He's just going to
pass the ball to his son, you know. I mean,
I don't think this is these games are televised, it's
a really big deal. As has been frozen out of
the offense. Austin Reeves hasn't had a shot in seventeen games.
He's played thirty minutes a night with no shots. Anthony
Davis is scoring eight points a night now, But boy,
look at Brownie shot attempts. He's averaging thirty two points
(34:01):
a game on eighty six shots, all from Lebron. It
has been an outstanding run for the Lebron James father
son doing this. They haven't tapped to thirty seven lobs
in this game in a row. Shut up up. I
think it's great. Ah, well, why do it? Do it?
Call him Dad? Call him Dad? I want I want
to see it app but it's not that big a deal. Exit.
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big takeaways from Cutdown Day coming up in about ten minutes.
You think you don't have cut Oh, we got some
hot takes. We got some great hot takes coming off
Cutdown Day. But brand new big sports doc debut today
(35:33):
on Netflix. Sign Stealer about the Connor Stallion saga, the
former Michigan Quote employee who got the school in a
lot of hot water at the NCAA by videotaping other
team signals and potentially bringing them back to Michigan where
they will use them where they could take a look
and know exactly what other teams were calling. It's a
(35:54):
very big deal. Last year at unfolding all during Michigan's
run to the National Championship, and some big things from
the beginning of the documentary that got released today was
Stallion said listen, he never obtained signals through in person scouting.
He didn't try to get tickets for anybody, didn't try
to direct anyone to go to a game to try
to help him steal signals. These are the things coming
(36:17):
out about this and his claims. That's what he's that's
what he says. But I think it gets I think
we I don't even think we need to get into
that part of it because I just don't think anybody cares, right,
I mean I I And this is probably why the
NCAA is still so hasn't really ruled on it permanently yet,
(36:38):
like Michigan tried to do the whole Big Hey, we're
gonna preemptively suspend Jim Harbaugh and okay, and the Big
Ten was gonna be was on board with it, and Okay,
this is what we're gonna do. Okay, now it's done,
but we're still gonna look into this. But honestly, nobody cares.
There's been no real outrage, there's been no real take
their title away. There's been none of it. So how
(37:00):
do we respond to this? Even when we talked about
Michigan going to the national title last year, there was
hardly any talk about this. There was none. And yes,
because things change all the time in sports, we moved
past certain scandals, this one never really had a lot
of traction, but college football with the nil transfer portal,
(37:22):
college football has always been shady. It's always been under
the table sport. And because of that, I don't think
people really care about this. Look NFL professional with rules,
you do this, you don't do that. Super bowls Hey, okay,
this is why spygate was such a big deal. But
college football, I think people understand a it's if you're
not cheating, you're not trying kind of sport, right. Every school,
(37:44):
Every school is able to find a way to get
guys in, to get guys to a team. You know,
nobody finds a way to get guys in the NFL
drapped to a team. Oh, we just stole that guy
right out from under us because we were picking sixteens,
but instead they jumped up and picked fifteenth. Like that
doesn't work that way. But because college football is such
an under the table type sport, most fans like, yeah,
this is kind of how it goes. This is part
(38:05):
of what college football is about. And I think you're
gonna have a hard time drumming up a lot of
oh this is I'm full of fire and brimstone about
this story. Like the Connor stallion story happened, it's over,
and it's and it's now something where the NCAA. We're
waiting for them to give some kind of ruling and
if they really come down hard on Michigan, that's gonna
piss a lot of people off. Look, even the other school,
(38:26):
you would think Ohio State and Penn State would all
be going, I can't believe that you need to get
rid of these guys and they gotta be on probate.
There's none of that. There's absolutely nothing. But like today,
you had the audio of Kirk Ferns.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Right, he's got to he's suspended for week one because
of a recruiting thing, and it's basically falling on the sword.
It's my fault, stupid mistake. All these years we've been here,
and this will be the first Iowa game where it's
not him or Hayden Fry on the sideline since nineteen
seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
How do you like that?
Speaker 4 (38:57):
But he was asked about this today and he goes,
who cares? At this point, it's done, moving on because
part of the Stallion's documentary is talking about the game
ball he got for signal deciphering against Iowa.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Right, go back to spygate. I still shrug.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
It's the letter versus spirit of the law, right is
you're allowed to tape, just not where they did, Okay,
so everybody else was taping, just not this defined area.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
So all of those kind of things.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
And recruiting, while Miami Ohio's coach getting mad saying they
still our kicker, right, all of these things, and everybody
laughs and they shrug because it's the wild West. Nobody
knows what If there are rules, they're written in crayon
and then you bleed over the top of them because
you ran out of paper. That's what we're doing right now.
(39:47):
There's no semblance of order. The NCAA is just a
shell of what it once was, trying to hold onto
those last bastions of power and security and authority where
they still have letterhead, Like.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
How many more reams of paper we got with the letterhead? Uh,
we gotta go.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Through those because otherwise, I mean, that's just a lot
of wasted costs, kind of like the PAC twelve and
all their buildings and everything they had going on.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
But it's it's laughable, you know.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
He even says, well, you know, in one quote, kind
of talking about breaking the rules, he goes, well, I
didn't really break the rules.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
It kind of operated in the gray.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
And isn't that where we've all kind of believed college
football was for better or for worse all these years?
I mean that's there's really no big revelations in any
of this, and here it was just a documentary.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Come meet Connor Stallions. Who cares He's gonna be signing autograph? Oh?
I got that lithough at Connor Stallion's in that box.
I open. This is fan.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
One of the big things is he can't be on
a coaching staff for three years now.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
He's a volunteer. We talked about it last week, right
for a high school team. Oh boy, I just don't
think anybody can about this club now. If the NCAA
just said it's done, we're moving, everybody would be just
as happy with that. Uh. The big takeaways from cut
down Day next right here. Jason to Mike Fox Sports
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