March 4, 2026 • 40 mins
Jason Smith threw it out there that if you're the Raiders and you’re not sold on Fernando Mendoza, is it better for them to sign Kyler Murray (2 years, 40M?) and trade the #1 pick to get a slew of terrific draft picks and build the team?
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
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big day in the NFL. We got franchise tags. We
have transition tags. Someone actually use one of those. Yeah,
I know, right, I thought it was just in the
matter giggles.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But tonight in basketball we'll get to Kyler Murray, who
now is gonna have a new destination, new team coming
up right now. Big night tonight the throwback game, the
throwback graphics, NBC. They've been looking forward to this for
a few weeks. Now, Hey, the Spurs and the Sixers
is gonna throw back. We're gonna play round Ball Rock.
We're gonna it's gonna look like it did in the
(01:25):
nineties when the NBA was king and we Love Time
and Michael Jordan was on TV all the time and
it was him and Shack and the Showtime Lakers. Tonight's
throwback game, and the graphics look great. Graphics look great,
the round ball Rock, the music look great. I could
just see when they showed the Spurs and the Sixers,
I could just hear Marv Albert and tonight, David Robinson
(01:46):
and the Spurs, we'll head into Philadelphia to take on
Darryl Dawkins and the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. Right now,
there's thirty five seconds left in the third quarter. Yeah,
and the Spurs are leading this game by forty seven points.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Forty seven, forty seven. It is one eleven sixty four
with thirty seconds to go. No stop. Come on, Nick's
already won Throwback Night, a big night. John Starks Patrick
Ewing the Knicks beat Muggsy Bogues and the Raptors one
eleven to ninety four.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Yes, yeah, well at least that game was competitive for
le Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
The next pull away late a big three by Ken
the animal Banister, the spark plug. Mike Frattello, what did
you think about the Knicks and pulling away at.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
The end of the night. Well, I tell you, Mark,
what I thought I saw in the third quarter was
the defensive intensity really came to bear and the Knicks
really exerted their their dominance late. That's a pretty good
Mike for Tello.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, and I shrugged my shoulders a little.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Actually, were hunching down in your seat, like I gotta
be shorter to do. I mean, we we saw that
graphic that was showing up on the internet. Here's Jim Gray,
he's the tallest of them. Doug Collins seated, then little
Bob Costas and then Mike Furtello was actually shorter than him.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
But we're gonna sit in size order, everybody in size order.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Okay, here we go. That's how we're gonna do it.
But it was fun to see, right and the build up.
Now Michael Jordan is back on TV with regularity. He's
just holding up trophies after winning NASCAR events as opposed
to being part of the NBA another NBC, How foolish
are you right now? You paid him literally, what was
it like, one hundred million dollars for three minutes? Sit down.
We have no idea what the final like. Somewhere from
(03:35):
sports is getting here for like an hour on the
racetrack these days for free.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
And here's the law gets to talk to him every week.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And here's more of the two hour interview with Mike
to Rico that is being chopped up over the course
of an entire season.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
This was taped eight months ago. But here is Mike
to Rico with something relevant. With Michael Jordan. They're gonna
pull iteah and Fox has them on live every race.
Hey Michael, how's it going?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Over, Yeah, it's not fantastic. Yeah, you're the brains, Like
all these great quotes you're getting about the pit crew
and and the driver and everything else.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And then they've got an interview that has to be evergreen.
You might as much him.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
He was the h what was it on the baseball
bunch when Lesorda would put on the have the crystal
ball out everything. That's kind of what you might as
well have had Jordan do when he sat down with Jeriko. Michael,
how do you feel about?
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Happy for my pit crew, happy for my driver, happy
for my team. But but I don't think Luca and
jj Reddick are getting along. You want you to ask
me about that? Whoa, whoa, NBC's gone. Wait, come on,
we paid a lot of money for this. Come on, man,
we paid some money. That's that's what they should really
start doing. Hey, let's extend this another minute or two.
Let's ask you a couple of NBA questions, and here
we paid you for it. You're on for gratis. Don't
(04:49):
forgot halftime an interview Mike Urico did eight months before
the Olympic Games with Michael Jordan. They could have at
least faked it and made him have to do a
couple of wardrobe switches like he was shiky.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You're at a concert or something.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Wait, come on, but you know, look to make a
bigger point out of this, and it's great. Look you
see round ball roxy John Tesh pretending to dribble the
basketball when he's when he's when he's you know, conducting
round ball rockets. Awesome, right, it almost takes this thing
away from the fact that boy and I asked a
serious question here, how many more? How much longer can
the NBA go on where every night ninety percent of
(05:24):
the games are decided by ten, fifteen points or more.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
How many more nights can we have that?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
No, just take a look at tonight. Right, Spurs are
leading by forty nine. The lead is almost at fifty
going to the fourth quarter. Right, the Thunder lead the
Bulls by fifteen with five minutes left. Timberwolves and the Grizzlies.
That's a nine point game with nine minutes left to go,
So that's kind of up in the air. Hornets beat
the Mavericks by twenty seven. Right, Cavillers beat the Pistons
by four. Right, Great Game Magic beat the Wizards by seventeen.
(05:54):
He beat the Nets by twenty seven, Nicks beat the
Raptors by sixteen. I mean, how much longer can the
NBA one where every game? And this is where you
think tanking is gonna be good. This is where every
NBA owner that says, oh, tanking's great, tanking will work.
You have to be able to take people are gonna
tune out of this product, man, because every single night
there's no compelling storylines to talk about. I mean, tonight
(06:15):
in the NBA, we got round Ball Rock, we have
the Throwback Game. Whatever fun we're gonna have with the
Knicks and me doing my Marv Albert, which I mean
it is really, really bad. Yeah, and it's really good,
So don't think we're not gonna have fun with it.
But I mean, look, look at every night. The every
night drama in the NBA season has gone because every
game is a blowout. Right, if you get one game
that's decided by less than ten points, you feel like, well,
(06:37):
at least I got one game tonight. How much longer
can the NBA go on like this?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
The running joke used to be, Hey, let's see what's
going on, maybe six minutes left, four minutes left in
the fourth quarter, tune in and see the score and
decide whether I'm coming in. That's been so exacerbated out
it's like halftime. Like, think about all the hype for
this game. Oh, they still do it now, but they say, hey,
tune in the second quarter. It's a four point game,
because the fourth quarter it's gonna be twenty points. Watch it.
(07:01):
But but like, think about this game tonight. The amount
of hype, press conferences, media availability and call ins and
promos for this How many times could they have shown
Minu Bowl draining six to three pointers on this date
thirty three years ago? I mean they probably went to
the whale at Hey, remember Moses Malone, Let's talk about
him a little bit. That's all you can do, because
(07:22):
this game sucked and it wasn't like Wenby scored forty
points and it was near a triple double with blocks.
He hasn't had to do anything because they've been destroying
the sixers from the from the get go. So it's like,
all right, what do we talk about now? Hey, remember
that time we were at that restaurant. Let's come on,
let's just say.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
What what would got What would have got higher ratings tonight?
If you did the throwback game like they're doing airing
Spurs in the seventy six ers, or if you did
the throwback night and just aired that game where Minut
Bowl had six.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Game we're gonna switch to a more competitive contest. That's
kind of where we're at.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
We're switching to a more headitive game. This one from
thirty three years ago. We went back in the archives
and found them a newt ball six to three pointer game.
Enjoy it because I'm on the call sounding just like
this with Mike Frattello.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Or or no, no, no no. Maybe it would have
been more and being on the call myself and Matt
Gukas had this thirty three years and mats like that's
the thing that they would end up having to do.
Let's go through the roll call of all the folks
that have worked with us year. I bet you Doc
Rivers played in that game. I forget. I bet you
he played in that game thirty three years ago. I
(08:36):
might have to look up the box score for that one.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And Doc rivers first name is Glenn. No one calls
him that. They've all called him Doc.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
That's his nick. Till Oscar de la Joya and I
party late night, John Contact. The five year, twelve million
dollar contract checks in for the Hawks. You got Charles
Barkley running over a high five and the New Bowl
after he's traded three and everything. That's how hediculous that
game got, you know, just to think about that for
the NBA for so, I'm not lying to you with
(09:03):
these scores going on right now. I mean, when when
you have a you have a night where you've got
nine or ten games or eight games a night. And
I don't mean that that when there's three games, okay,
there's three games, only so much you can do. Uh,
But when you have a full night and every game
is this, I'm like, when is when is tuning into
the NBA regular season of priority? When when does it
become like I sit back right now and I go
(09:24):
wouldn't now, seriously, wouldn't now be the best time to
have the playoffs in the NBA? Right? Think about it,
We're sixty games in we start.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I'm a big fan if you can start the NBA
Christmas Day, but okay, let's start the normal time. You
don't want to be away for too I understand that
if you started the NBA where it is and think
about the sports calendar, Super Bowl happens. The immediate aftermath
of the Super Bowl, teams come to spring training. In baseball,
we're getting ready for March, the madness of March, World
(09:56):
Baseball Classic. Once every four years, we had the Olympics, Right,
what if we got into the beginning of March was
the NBA playoffs? Because now these are all useless games
for the next twenty some odd games till the end
of the season. It's just everybody is punching a time clock.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
We're going and we're playing. You're not gonna see big
movements in the standings. Maybe a team moves a spot
up or down, maybe a team slides into the play
in round, or maybe a team slides from the playing
round into the top six, or one team goes from
the top six into the playing round. That's all you're
getting for twenty some odd games, right. The NBA is
perfect at fifty five sixty games. Think about where you
(10:35):
would pick up the momentum in the sports calendar and
you go right to the NBA playoffs now, right, hey,
team it up. You have the NBA playoffs, you have
an NCAA tournament. All right, that's great, right, all, but
you're gonna fight between now. It's really only one week.
The nca TURN has games every night one week. That
one week is okay, one week is all right, down.
The next week you'll play till Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
(10:56):
It's okay, because that's really all that's going on. You're
not into baseball yet, you're out into the NFL draft. Yet,
there's enough to go around where basketball can really own
it in March and in Marching on. I mean, so
just think about this what we're seeing now in the
NBA with teams deciding, hey, we're gonna tank, but we
want to do it a little bit obliquely, like we're
in such a rough part of the NBA calendar where
(11:18):
it's never gonna get better. Teams aren't gonna suddenly start
playing it closer to the vest. Now play, we're gonna
try to win these games. You're just gonna get twenty
some odd games of every single night for the next
twenty games for the rest of these teams, where in
a ten ten games in a night, none of them
are gonna be decided by double digits. One of them's
may be close near the end. I don't mean like,
I don't even mean close where hey, we have a
(11:38):
buzzer beater, or it comes down to the final possession.
I mean close where at least in the final two
minutes it's up in the air. You're not can we
not get that?
Speaker 6 (11:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And that's been the difficult part. And as much as
you may love the flow of the game, and we
highlight the superstars and some of the big matchups where
where we've been blessed with with some of these ready
made for TV events, which in theory that could have
been the Spurs and Sixers for this throwback game. Instead
you got a lot of Charles Barkley. And again here's
(12:06):
my new poll on display in throwback fashion. But it's
it's just tough. Wait. We look at the Western Conference
right now, you've got all right between the three seed
and the seven seed divide decided by about four games. Okay,
so there might be a little bit of movement up
and down. You can still fall beyond the sixth spot
(12:28):
where we're watching the Nuggets, the Lakers, the Suns before
a little bit of a fallback to Golden State. Okay, fine,
Eastern Conference Pistons well ahead of the Celtics. Right there
are the Knicks and Cavaliers and then a couple game separation.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
From there out we want to see the stars.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And really it always comes back to, all right, how
do you make it punitive enough to where it's it's
something the teams have to consider, right because you saw
those fines and teams that got fined just laughed at
at the commissioner's office. Because we talk about it in
the NFL all the time, Like, guys and the pain threshold.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Right, are you injured? Are you hurt? What can you
play through?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Never mind what you take and do to get yourself
on the field, and the immediacy guaranteed contracts versus non guaranteed,
all those things. For the NBA, how many times do
we see a guy at this point it's like, well,
he's done for the year. Oh, he might legitimately be injured,
but there's no incentive or disincentive in place that to say, hey,
(13:34):
he's got he's got a toughen out a few more
games here, right, the money's guaranteed, he's getting paid no
matter what. He's not fighting for the next contract. In
that moment, the team if they realize, hey, we're streaking
towards the lottery. We want as many lottery ping pong
balls as we can get. So until you change that
function altogether, like there's nothing to suage. What one hundred
(13:57):
thousand dollars fine, five hundred thousand dollars fine. How much
we get from the revenue sharing off of these TV partnerships? Again,
the fact that this is where Mark Cuban needs to
jump up and do the same thing for the NBA
that he did for the NFL all those years ago,
talking about how you know the pigs get slaughtered and
all that stuff, because that might be where you are. Unfortunately,
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guys are making money, so much money right now. They're
not looking down the road, right owners aren't looking down
the road. We just signed these big broadcast deal. Look
at all the money we're making.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Exit out bout a Fresca exit swelling Dome, Jason Smith
Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. I mean,
we're in this such a dead part. We're just waiting
for the playoffs. Twenty plus games, they're useless.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Put them on.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Bubble wrap, especially if teams aren't gonna take it seriously.
I mean, that's where we're at now. Oh but tanking's
going to solve the problems in the NBA, Sure, sure will.
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Speaker 3 (16:16):
Peter A Lonzo's home run against the Netherlands from today.
Netherlands playing playing in the Al East this year are
gonna be tough for the Netherlands. That's a long road trip, man,
That's a long road trip. Well, I mean, look, expansion,
aggressive expansion.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
If you watch Ted Lassa, you see crazy things happen
when they go play in Netherlands. So I send you
sent a baseball team there. It's gonna be Difficult's.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Funny you should say that I actually watched that episode
earlier today. That's what we do over breakfast. We watch
an episode of Ted Lasser. So yeahs do stop. It's
it's exhibition. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter matters. It's
they're playing the Netherlands. Man, come on to your beef
with the Netherlands.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
They're playing the Netherlands two to RBI the home run.
Come on.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Kenneley Jansen. Kenneley Jansen once played catcher for the Netherlands
and the WBC. He was a good catcher. He maybe
should have stuck with that all the games he blew
for the Dodgers. Yeah, I mean it was an eight
to five lost to the Netherlands. Yeah, that's okay, we lost.
They lost the pillow Fight to the Netherlands. Not you
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Speaker 7 (18:03):
Rhymes good if it goes from three quarters of the length,
but it comes up short. The Spurs do indeed make
history their largest lead through three quarters in Francise history,
forty nine points, one thirteen sixty four at the end
of three.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It's just so embarrassing the sixers. Now, hey they they
have cut it to forty two. Oh good, so this
last three minutes might really be something. It's one twenty
six eighty two. They have cut it to forty two.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
No quitting this team, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I want to see if the Spurs get it back
up to fifty. Hey, show me you got something here.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Walker and Watford really trying to bring the charge off
the bench. Late, guys are gonna play this message from
Greg Papovich who wants a fifty point win tonight. Okay,
you just take a look and see.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I mean Wemby, Wemby played twenty four minutes, He's got
ten points, eight players in double figures.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
That's it. This one just eight well for I mean,
that's it. It's still early. I mean, I mean Waters
has eight and is nine minutes played. I mean this,
like I said, how many more?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
How much longer can the NBA go on with with
nine out of every ten games being of ten to
fifteen point burial every single night?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
But you can't look at it and I get it.
We started getting it on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Bring it on at how about a Presca at Swollen
Dome at Fox Sports Radio. I know there are a
lot of blowouts late in the season in the National
Football League, and certainly you have great degrees of variants
in terms of competitive balance in college football. That is
always going to be that that's never going to go away.
You're in and you're out for the NFL, you still
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had a third of your games decided by three or
fewer points. H So you know when we get down
to it in over one hundred games decided by seven
or few, or keep going on down the line, that
we we've got at least balance into the final weeks
of those seasons. Sure there are bottom feeders, and there
(20:02):
are teams that are heading towards the number one pick
in the draft, but you don't get to the level
of tanking and just terrible play with months to go
like you do here. Yeah, you got one or two
teams that you can recognize are going to be terrible
in the National Football League. In the NBA, we're talking
(20:23):
about half the league looking around, going, well, there's gonna
be seven or eight really good players coming in that
are freshmen into the draft, plus the international prospects. To
hell with it. You're hurt, right, get in a suit.
So to the NFL we.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Go, where what we knew was coming became somewhat official today.
It's not going to be official official till next week.
But the Cardinals tell Kyler Murray he will be released
next week. You put a big message on social media
thanking the fans. Sorry he couldn't end the seventy seven
year drought for the organization. I am sorry, I failed us.
(21:00):
It's the Cardinals. I think everybody. Everybody is okay. It's
it's not like you went. Hey, Steelers, we couldn't get
back to the super Bowl. Patriots Chiefs couldn't get back there. No, hey,
I'm sorry. It's been seventy seven years. I think the
fans understand we're probably not gonna win a super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
But here's the thing, right, a lot put on his shoulders,
certainly as the number one pick going back to twenty nineteen. Right,
he's brought in, He and his guy Kingsbury. They were
going to rule the world. And you've seen a number
of coaching changes, regime changes. It goes back to how
much do you blame? You'll blame pie. And there are
certainly some that are stomping up and down on Kyler Murray.
(21:36):
Whether it's his size, whether it's his alleged love of
video games. How much of that's true and false? I
you know, you got to decide noise when stuff starts
leaking out like that, how much of that is coaching
staff's trying to fly, well, this guy just doesn't work
hard enough. How much of it is he's always been
great going through high school, through the Heisman, through the
(22:00):
number one pick here being a top ten pick in baseball,
that that next level of dedication wasn't there because he
hadn't had to do it. I don't know how much
percentage you have signed there, but for him to put
out that message to say, yep, put it on me, fine,
bring it on. I kind of dig that about it
my for seventy seven years, that's not you. But okay,
(22:22):
but thank thanks for much. But by putting that specificity
on he goes I might have been part of the
problem here these last few years. Decide how much it's
a long standing issue. And yeah, Kurt Warner got closed,
but they did not break down that wall.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Now, two things, because there's one team that already Kyler
Murray is being linked with, and that's the Jets. And
I'm first to tell you this is not about the Jets,
because boy do I have a great hot take for you. Uh,
the Jets you only go to when you have no
other choices. Okay, that's when you go to the Jets.
We have no other choice, Right, why did Justin Fields
become a Jet? Wasn't going anywhere else? Only choice was
(22:57):
the Jets. Okay, I'm going to the Jets. Kyler Murray
has op he's got options, he's got teams that want them.
Are already seeing, hey, where could he fit with a
bunch of different teams. But you're seeing the Jets mentioned
most often because the Jets aren't getting a quarterback. They
are absolutely quarterback needy. They need to get a quarterback
this year because as much as you want to wait
and I'd love to see them tank for next year,
(23:17):
when quarterbacks there, we can go get Arch Manning or
Dante more and we have a new head coach and
everything else. Because we're just gonna suck this year. I
get that that's not gonna happen because Aaron Glennon company
want to be around for twenty twenty seven. So they
gotta go get a quarterback. They gotta get somebody to
come in and win games. They can't just go three
and fourteen again and hope to be brought back. But
Murray's got options. He's got options. He's the most talented
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guy out there. His resume, he's still young, he's got
a couple of Pro Bowls. He's gonna have a lot
of options. He should be the number one most sought
after guy. Whether he's number one on your board, but
he should be the number one most sought after player
because now you don't have to worry about trading for him,
don't have to worry about salary, dead cap money. You
can sign him most likely to a deal we talked
about last week, which is, hey, two years and forty million.
(24:01):
That'll get you what what justin Field signed for last
year is what you can get a guy like Kyler
Murray for this year. Two years and forty million. Whether
it's got to be guaranteed or thirty million of it
is guaranteed, that's okay. But two years for Kyler Murray,
that's about where you're at.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Right. So that's Kyler Murray. So where's his fit? Because again,
he's got he's got options, right the men Jets are
no no options, Jets options anywhere else but the Jets.
Let me throw this out there.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
We talked about this last night, that that Atlanta is
the best the best fit for him, right, we mentioned this.
He should want to go where Kevin Stefanski can can
continue to do the magic that he does with quarterbacks.
He should be joining a team that's young, up and coming,
the energy that he would bring. They should both be
desirous of each other. All right, Murray got getting there
with the team. He can make a lot of plays
with mobile quarterback. Atlanta is made for him. But let
(24:51):
me throw this out here. Let me throw this hot
take out here. Are the Raiders really sold on Fernando Mendoza?
Are you sold on him?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Kyler Murray for two years and forty million, and the
Jets will give you a lot for that number one
pick for Fernando Mendoza. They'll give you a ton or
somebody else would give you a ton to move up
to get him because he's the only quarterback in the draft.
I say the Jets because I know that they went
out and they looked at him a bunch of times.
They sent scouts to like I think the last nine
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games he had. Are you that sold on Fernando? Do
you love Fernando Mendoza that much? Do you love him
that much? Because you've heard a lot of stuff coming
off the combine. Maybe his tape isn't that great. Look
I told you at the beginning, I thought Fernando Mendoza
is the best of a weaker group of quarterbacks. And
if he's a combination of Kerry Collins and Kirk Cousins. Okay,
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is that a guy you draft number one overall? If
he's a combination of Kirk Cousins and Kerry Collins. Try
to say that three times fast, combination of Kirk Cousinskerry Collins.
Combination Kirk Cousinskerry Collins. Are you that sold? Or are
you better off if you're the Raiders because you're starting
over with a guy like Kyler Murray coming into an
offense where the head coach just won a Super Bowl,
(26:11):
just made it work with a quarterback that people had
in the scrappyap a couple of years ago. As good
as Sam Darnold was with the Minnesota Vikings, he goes
on and wins a super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks.
They win when he has big games, win when they
run the ball. Well, Clint Kubiak now taking over, this
is the job he wanted. He wanted the Raiders gig.
This wasn't where Hey, the last guy standing is the
Raiders head coach. All of a sudden, I throw that
(26:35):
out there. You sign Kyler Murray, you trade the number
one pick and you get a high first round pick.
Another first round pick, maybe a first round pick next year,
second round pick this year, because that number one pick,
somebody's gonna want that quarterback. Somebody's gonna be all in
on Fernando Mendoza. If you're not in on him, if
you are not in, if you doubt a little bit
(26:56):
that he's the guy that maybe I don't know, I
don't know if his tapes stands out, I don't know,
if he's someone that's going to translate to the next level.
Don't you look at this. Don't you look at this
and say, maybe Kyler Murray for two years and forty million,
because it doesn't work, we can easily go out and
get our quarterback next year. We always pick at the
top of the draft. If it works out for us, great,
If not, we're.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Here again next year and we'll go get Arch Manding
or Dante Moore, whoever else is there.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Just think about if if you're not sold, does Kyler
Murray and a treasure trove of picks, including an early
first round pick, like you can draft Caleb Downs and
the numb you can draft Rvel Reees.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
You can get somebody really good. You can you can go.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Get whoever you want to in the top five, top seven,
because that's we're gonna wind up picking. Just think about
that option for Kyler Murray.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Well, the question for Murray becomes the reality of, you know,
how how robust is the marketplace because you've got a
lot of places that could be in play, right your Jets, Cleveland, Minnesota.
He was a Minnesota fan, right and O'Connell certainly after
the uh Quezy got back bounce and Justin Jefferson got
(28:03):
Chirpye and a lot of others potentially there. We talked
about Atlanta a lot yesterday. Certainly, options and the Mendoza
thing is something we have kicked that tire a couple
of times. You and I in terms of whether you
trade the pick. The look, the Cardinals are on the
hook for almost thirty seven million dollars, right, It's like
thirty six eight or thereabouts once they release him, So
(28:25):
it's not like you necessarily have to break the bank
for Kyler Murray. This might be the way you also
figure out how to not only make a trade if
you're the Raiders and get picks back and everything else,
but if you can get Murray on the cheap on
approved deal not quite to the Russell Wilson. He's much
younger than Wilson was at the time. Denver swallowed that
(28:47):
pill and moved on. But if you can get him cheap,
then maybe you can figure out a way to keep
Max Crosby happy. Look, we bring in a quarterback, we
make a deal. We also have also pick, and you
could stay right because you want to be a raider
in theory, right, and that's where you try to figure
out what the noises around him.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
But suddenly you.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Are able to build a roster with other picks for
the offensive line to bolster things. And suddenly you become
competitive and Murray's there on a maybe a one year
prove it, second year becomes club option. Hey, well we'll
play you then and go through that. But I don't
hate it. Like we watched Mendoza a lot and I
(29:26):
like him. But it is that question of does it
did he separate himself because of the back end struggles
of Simpson, because of nuss Meyer getting ousted at LSU,
and because guys that were expected to be some of
the head heavyweights in this class fell back.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, North Dakota State moving up maybe and being the
number two quarterback. If it's not ty Simpson, Right, is
Fernando Mendoza really that good? Or is he just the
best quarterback in this draft? And because of that and
the Raiders need it?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Hey? No, Number one overall, there's your marriage, right. Just
think about that for a second, because I remember reading
some stuff last week where it was thrown out there
should teams trade for for Kyler Murray. I remember reading
one I think I think it was a Raider's blog
when someone someone said something like, oh if we traded
this pick and this pick.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
For Kyler Murray. I'm like, you don't need to trade
a pick for Kyler Ridge. Just wait now, you get
it negative for nothing.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
You don't need to give ut.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You don't need to give him a big contract.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You don't need to bring in Kyler Murray for five
years and two hundred and thirty million dollars. You can say, okay,
two years and forty million.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Guess what if it sucks, We're right back here next
year and we get a better quarterback and we go
back and get them. Are you that?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Do you love for Nando Mendoza that much? Now I'm
making all the Raiders palm sweat. How much do we
really love Mendoza?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
That much. Do we really love them that much? Just
think about that exit? Ou about a Fresca exit, swollen dome.
Time not to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports from someone who's been called the Fernando
Mendoza of Fox Sports Radio because they're the exact same height.
It's Steve de.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Sager and same bank account just a few months from now.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Well, I think nil. I think he did pretty well.
I don't think they were paying him with Chipotle Bucks.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I think he did.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Okay, I saw you in a Dodger uniform. You got paid?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Uh no, no, nil back then for the media game. No,
we do have the final from saying get a sandwich?
Did we get a sandwich?
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Yes, of course, press box was totally free back then.
Boom yeah, how things have changed to the NBA scoreboard.
The Spurs final was one thirty one to ninety one
at Philadelphia Minnesota in action tonight, and well they had
they had Anthony you know, it was the before the game.
Anthony Edwards is questionable. Suddenly he's questionable. Foot injury maintenance
(31:44):
is getting to set out now.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
He played.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
He had forty one points in thirty seven minutes. On
the court, and the Timberwolves have beaten Memphis one seventeen
to one ten. Oklahoma City's record now forty eight and
fifteen at a victory in Chicago tonight one sixteen to
one oh eight, and Shay Gilgess alex Ander was out
managing an abdominal strain. New York's Jalen Brunson with twenty
six points, tenn assists, just one turnover. Nicks won at
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Toronto one eleven ninety five. Miami sent Brooklyn to a
ninth straight loss, Charlotte won its fifth in a row.
Orlando pounded the Washington which is lost sixth straight, and
Cleveland beat Detroit one thirteen to one oh nine. The
two late games, well one of them about to begin
in LA. Lakers are hosting New Orleans. Ion Williamson is playing.
He was questionable. He had missed the Sunday game in
(32:30):
LA against the Clippers with a sprained ankle. In a
half an hour. Still, we'll get the late tip off
at Sacramento. The Kings at fourteen and forty eight hosting Phoenix.
So you know, everybody stayed through that NBC fifty point game.
The Spurs just put up and staying to watch the
Sacramento Kings. Of course, right after.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Hey, the Kings, led by Vlati Vats will take on
the Charlotte Hornets and Buggsy.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Boats, if only they had that team. As for college hoops,
it's on FS one right now. Fourteenth rank Kansas was
down twenty at Arizona State and Bill self was kicked
out coach before halftime. ASU's lead now forty two to
thirty three against the Jayhawks early in the second half.
Number nineteen Miami of Ohio thirty and oh now after
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winning seventy four to seventy two against Toledo, Georgia upset
Number sixteen Alabama ninety eight eighty eight. Saint John's edged
Georgetown TCU won at number ten Texas Tech, Virginia Edgewake,
Forest and North Carolina beat Clemson sixty seven sixty three.
In the NHL, the Dallas Stars are going for a
tenth straight win. Late second period, Dallas up five to
(33:37):
one at Calgary, oh.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Mike MacDonald with three goals, Jerome Acginla scoring for the Flames.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Yes for Calgary, as they would say, north of the Border,
and wins for Buffalo and Boston Already the Jets franchise
tagged running back Breefe Hall. Today was the deadline to
do that. The other two officially tagged were wide receiver
George Pickens by Dallas and tight end Kyle Pitts by Atlanta,
So the Bank did not tag defensive end Trey Hendrickson,
and the Seahawks did not tag running back Kenneth Walker
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so he could be a free agent soon. The Colts
use the transition tag quarterback Daniel Jones, so Indy has
the right to match any offer he gets. He's coming
off of torn Achilles Braves. Outfielder Jerrekson Profar was handed
a one year suspension. Team USA won its exhibition in
Arizona fifteen to one over the San Francisco Giants to
run singles for Aaron Judge and Bryce Harper, and in
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an exhibition tonight, Puerto Rico got a five to three
win against the Red Sox, getting three runs top of
the first back to you.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Hey, you know how Berman would announce it. Daniel Jones
story has that and.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Like the crack of a whip, hoping to keep him
in Indiana, Jones gets the franchise tag or transition tag
by the Colts and I don't know why I'm doing
more of Albert doing it. It just sounded like the
right thing to do.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Yes, it's causing our face to melt.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Thank you. Stevo coming up there, Big NFL on the way,
we'll get into the transition tag franchise tag. But straight ahead,
the biggest piece of sports memorabilia in months has been found.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
And wait, do we tell you how much it might
be worth? That's next Jason and Mike Fox. Is it
the illustrator?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yes?
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Speaker 1 (35:26):
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friend Mike Harmon. Tag your it coming up in about
ten minutes. However, the biggest piece of sports memorabilia this
year and probably the entire year has now officially been located.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Wait, we already own it, and I got questions? What
do we own? Frostburg. That's Mike, he bought us shares.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
I still have shares in the jockstrap.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Oh, we do have giants jockstrap.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
But that was never that was never missing, and we've
we've had that for that week.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
We know that for a while, but you said the
most covenant prize of all of.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
This here, Yeah, okay, we own a piece of andre
the top that uh, the puck with with Jack Hughes
scored the game winning goal in the Olympics has been located.
Remembers right after the game that hey, do you have
the puck you scored the goal? Game winning goal? He goes,
(36:19):
no idea where the puck went. I know who doesn't
have it is me? I sure, as held on. That's
too bad he didn't have it. Turns out now we
know where it is. Canadian goalie No, Jordan Bennington has
it and I'm gonna burn it. Apparently and I say apparently,
the Hockey Hall of Fame has it. Wow.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
The found located and according to reports, the puck from
the gold medal game, the game winning puck is going
to be displayed along with other memorabilia from the Olympics.
Hillary night Jersey, I think the puck from Megan Keller's
game winning goal and the women's game is going to
go up there. So it's been found, or at least
a quarter to reports, has been found. Maybe the Hall
(37:01):
of Fame just said nobody knows where it is. That
looks like a puck. We'll just say we have it.
We'll say that's it, all right, great fun. Hey, here's
the game winning puck. Here's the puck that Jack Hughes
used to score the game winning goal.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
It is curious, though, because whenever we get to milestones
in baseball, we've seen it for Otani, for Judge, back
when Bonds was hitting home runs, that the Big Chase
of ninety eight, going back McGuire so, so whatever they
would authenticate the baseballs that were put into play, and
I'm curious what the process was for the gold medal game. Hey,
(37:34):
just we got a couple of pucks. Just put him
in play, you know. I gotta think there was some
authentication process. I mean, they know the business. That's actually
the puck that McDavid missed on the breakaway with. We'll
just tell him it's the Hughes which but I want
to know this and here because this this, this is
my main thing with this is that Hughes is I
have no idea what happened to the puck. And I
get it that it's an incredible moment, game winning goal
(37:55):
in overtime Olympic. This puck, according to some professionals say,
this puck would go for a million dollars if it
was sold right now, a million dollars right now. With time,
will it appreciate in value or depreciate. It probably will
go down, but right now it would go for a
million dollars. What I want to know is how did
(38:19):
nobody say, let's get the puck because we're in such
an We're in such an era now of knowing when
when Otani hit that fiftieth home run, we knew you
had to get that ball. Whenever somebody we know when
something's big. This puck is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Not one person, I get cueses insane, But not one
person coming off the bench, not not one player, not
one coach came on the ice and grabbed it and said, hey,
let me get that puck. Nobody, nobody grabbed the puck
like I don't understand. The Zamboni guy come out at
the end and go, hey, I got the puck. I'm
gonna give it to you because that's a million dollar puck.
Speaker 7 (38:53):
Man.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
I know that Jack Hughes is in the middle of
an eight year, sixty four million dollar contract, so he's
doing okay. But somebody could had that somebody could have
picked it up. It could have been the guy out
to clean the eyes. I'm gonna make a million dollars
of this. I'm gonna sell. It's gonna change my life.
How did nobody pick up the buck? How did nobody
pick up that?
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Yeah, it just seems someone would have gone off the
bench to grab it if nothing else for Team USA history,
or for Hughes or or somebody would have had the
presence of mind to just go make sure there was
no question of providence and authenticity. It's like, all right,
I went and grabbed it from the back of the net.
(39:31):
Like I said, I wouldn't have been surprised if you
pocket that. Yeah, I gave up the goal, but I'm
gonna get a payday out of this, right, netminder, one
of the defense sewers. You're salty about it, but you
realize the largesse of the moment and what the memorabilia
market will do. Right, we doctor you and I going
back for a you know, a Tom sever item that
(39:55):
went for over eight hundred thousand this weekend, Hulk Hogan's
boots from WrestleMania One. Some question of whether it was
another Madison Square Garden card, but either way went for
a million dollars. UH signed yellow boots this weekend. Here
piece of history, forty six years since the last US
gold medal. Yeah, there there's a hot market right now.
(40:17):
Someone would have been wise to make sure they plucked
that that puck immediately gone and gotten his stick gone.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
And got his held.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I don't understand you know how big a deal that is.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
You know, we got it, whoever scores it, whoever scored
the goal, we gotta make sure we go get this
is gonna be a golden goal, right to it.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
I don't get that. I feel it. So it's so
odd that that feels wrong. The Hall of Fame has it, like, hey,
nobody and went straight to the Hall of Fame, and
this is insane. Coming up next, we're the tags, right,
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big day in the NFL. We got franchise tags. We
have transition tags. Someone actually use one of those. Yeah,
I know, right, I thought it was just in the
matter giggles.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But tonight in basketball we'll get to Kyler Murray, who
now is gonna have a new destination, new team coming
up right now. Big night tonight the throwback game, the
throwback graphics, NBC. They've been looking forward to this for
a few weeks. Now, Hey, the Spurs and the Sixers
is gonna throw back. We're gonna play round Ball Rock.
We're gonna it's gonna look like it did in the
(01:25):
nineties when the NBA was king and we Love Time
and Michael Jordan was on TV all the time and
it was him and Shack and the Showtime Lakers. Tonight's
throwback game, and the graphics look great. Graphics look great,
the round ball Rock, the music look great. I could
just see when they showed the Spurs and the Sixers,
I could just hear Marv Albert and tonight, David Robinson
(01:46):
and the Spurs, we'll head into Philadelphia to take on
Darryl Dawkins and the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. Right now,
there's thirty five seconds left in the third quarter. Yeah,
and the Spurs are leading this game by forty seven points.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Forty seven, forty seven. It is one eleven sixty four
with thirty seconds to go. No stop. Come on, Nick's
already won Throwback Night, a big night. John Starks Patrick
Ewing the Knicks beat Muggsy Bogues and the Raptors one
eleven to ninety four.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Yes, yeah, well at least that game was competitive for
le Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
The next pull away late a big three by Ken
the animal Banister, the spark plug. Mike Frattello, what did
you think about the Knicks and pulling away at.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
The end of the night. Well, I tell you, Mark,
what I thought I saw in the third quarter was
the defensive intensity really came to bear and the Knicks
really exerted their their dominance late. That's a pretty good
Mike for Tello.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, and I shrugged my shoulders a little.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Actually, were hunching down in your seat, like I gotta
be shorter to do. I mean, we we saw that
graphic that was showing up on the internet. Here's Jim Gray,
he's the tallest of them. Doug Collins seated, then little
Bob Costas and then Mike Furtello was actually shorter than him.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
But we're gonna sit in size order, everybody in size order.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Okay, here we go. That's how we're gonna do it.
But it was fun to see, right and the build up.
Now Michael Jordan is back on TV with regularity. He's
just holding up trophies after winning NASCAR events as opposed
to being part of the NBA another NBC, How foolish
are you right now? You paid him literally, what was
it like, one hundred million dollars for three minutes? Sit down.
We have no idea what the final like. Somewhere from
(03:35):
sports is getting here for like an hour on the
racetrack these days for free.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
And here's the law gets to talk to him every week.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And here's more of the two hour interview with Mike
to Rico that is being chopped up over the course
of an entire season.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
This was taped eight months ago. But here is Mike
to Rico with something relevant. With Michael Jordan. They're gonna
pull iteah and Fox has them on live every race.
Hey Michael, how's it going?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Over, Yeah, it's not fantastic. Yeah, you're the brains, Like
all these great quotes you're getting about the pit crew
and and the driver and everything else.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And then they've got an interview that has to be evergreen.
You might as much him.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
He was the h what was it on the baseball
bunch when Lesorda would put on the have the crystal
ball out everything. That's kind of what you might as
well have had Jordan do when he sat down with Jeriko. Michael,
how do you feel about?
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Happy for my pit crew, happy for my driver, happy
for my team. But but I don't think Luca and
jj Reddick are getting along. You want you to ask
me about that? Whoa, whoa, NBC's gone. Wait, come on,
we paid a lot of money for this. Come on, man,
we paid some money. That's that's what they should really
start doing. Hey, let's extend this another minute or two.
Let's ask you a couple of NBA questions, and here
we paid you for it. You're on for gratis. Don't
(04:49):
forgot halftime an interview Mike Urico did eight months before
the Olympic Games with Michael Jordan. They could have at
least faked it and made him have to do a
couple of wardrobe switches like he was shiky.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You're at a concert or something.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Wait, come on, but you know, look to make a
bigger point out of this, and it's great. Look you
see round ball roxy John Tesh pretending to dribble the
basketball when he's when he's when he's you know, conducting
round ball rockets. Awesome, right, it almost takes this thing
away from the fact that boy and I asked a
serious question here, how many more? How much longer can
the NBA go on where every night ninety percent of
(05:24):
the games are decided by ten, fifteen points or more.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
How many more nights can we have that?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
No, just take a look at tonight. Right, Spurs are
leading by forty nine. The lead is almost at fifty
going to the fourth quarter. Right, the Thunder lead the
Bulls by fifteen with five minutes left. Timberwolves and the Grizzlies.
That's a nine point game with nine minutes left to go,
So that's kind of up in the air. Hornets beat
the Mavericks by twenty seven. Right, Cavillers beat the Pistons
by four. Right, Great Game Magic beat the Wizards by seventeen.
(05:54):
He beat the Nets by twenty seven, Nicks beat the
Raptors by sixteen. I mean, how much longer can the
NBA one where every game? And this is where you
think tanking is gonna be good. This is where every
NBA owner that says, oh, tanking's great, tanking will work.
You have to be able to take people are gonna
tune out of this product, man, because every single night
there's no compelling storylines to talk about. I mean, tonight
(06:15):
in the NBA, we got round Ball Rock, we have
the Throwback Game. Whatever fun we're gonna have with the
Knicks and me doing my Marv Albert, which I mean
it is really, really bad. Yeah, and it's really good,
So don't think we're not gonna have fun with it.
But I mean, look, look at every night. The every
night drama in the NBA season has gone because every
game is a blowout. Right, if you get one game
that's decided by less than ten points, you feel like, well,
(06:37):
at least I got one game tonight. How much longer
can the NBA go on like this?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
The running joke used to be, Hey, let's see what's
going on, maybe six minutes left, four minutes left in
the fourth quarter, tune in and see the score and
decide whether I'm coming in. That's been so exacerbated out
it's like halftime. Like, think about all the hype for
this game. Oh, they still do it now, but they say, hey,
tune in the second quarter. It's a four point game,
because the fourth quarter it's gonna be twenty points. Watch it.
(07:01):
But but like, think about this game tonight. The amount
of hype, press conferences, media availability and call ins and
promos for this How many times could they have shown
Minu Bowl draining six to three pointers on this date
thirty three years ago? I mean they probably went to
the whale at Hey, remember Moses Malone, Let's talk about
him a little bit. That's all you can do, because
(07:22):
this game sucked and it wasn't like Wenby scored forty
points and it was near a triple double with blocks.
He hasn't had to do anything because they've been destroying
the sixers from the from the get go. So it's like,
all right, what do we talk about now? Hey, remember
that time we were at that restaurant. Let's come on,
let's just say.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
What what would got What would have got higher ratings tonight?
If you did the throwback game like they're doing airing
Spurs in the seventy six ers, or if you did
the throwback night and just aired that game where Minut
Bowl had six.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Game we're gonna switch to a more competitive contest. That's
kind of where we're at.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
We're switching to a more headitive game. This one from
thirty three years ago. We went back in the archives
and found them a newt ball six to three pointer game.
Enjoy it because I'm on the call sounding just like
this with Mike Frattello.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Or or no, no, no no. Maybe it would have
been more and being on the call myself and Matt
Gukas had this thirty three years and mats like that's
the thing that they would end up having to do.
Let's go through the roll call of all the folks
that have worked with us year. I bet you Doc
Rivers played in that game. I forget. I bet you
he played in that game thirty three years ago. I
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might have to look up the box score for that one.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And Doc rivers first name is Glenn. No one calls
him that. They've all called him Doc.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
That's his nick. Till Oscar de la Joya and I
party late night, John Contact. The five year, twelve million
dollar contract checks in for the Hawks. You got Charles
Barkley running over a high five and the New Bowl
after he's traded three and everything. That's how hediculous that
game got, you know, just to think about that for
the NBA for so, I'm not lying to you with
(09:03):
these scores going on right now. I mean, when when
you have a you have a night where you've got
nine or ten games or eight games a night. And
I don't mean that that when there's three games, okay,
there's three games, only so much you can do. Uh,
But when you have a full night and every game
is this, I'm like, when is when is tuning into
the NBA regular season of priority? When when does it
become like I sit back right now and I go
(09:24):
wouldn't now, seriously, wouldn't now be the best time to
have the playoffs in the NBA? Right? Think about it,
We're sixty games in we start.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I'm a big fan if you can start the NBA
Christmas Day, but okay, let's start the normal time. You
don't want to be away for too I understand that
if you started the NBA where it is and think
about the sports calendar, Super Bowl happens. The immediate aftermath
of the Super Bowl, teams come to spring training. In baseball,
we're getting ready for March, the madness of March, World
(09:56):
Baseball Classic. Once every four years, we had the Olympics, Right,
what if we got into the beginning of March was
the NBA playoffs? Because now these are all useless games
for the next twenty some odd games till the end
of the season. It's just everybody is punching a time clock.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
We're going and we're playing. You're not gonna see big
movements in the standings. Maybe a team moves a spot
up or down, maybe a team slides into the play
in round, or maybe a team slides from the playing
round into the top six, or one team goes from
the top six into the playing round. That's all you're
getting for twenty some odd games, right. The NBA is
perfect at fifty five sixty games. Think about where you
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would pick up the momentum in the sports calendar and
you go right to the NBA playoffs now, right, hey,
team it up. You have the NBA playoffs, you have
an NCAA tournament. All right, that's great, right, all, but
you're gonna fight between now. It's really only one week.
The nca TURN has games every night one week. That
one week is okay, one week is all right, down.
The next week you'll play till Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
(10:56):
It's okay, because that's really all that's going on. You're
not into baseball yet, you're out into the NFL draft. Yet,
there's enough to go around where basketball can really own
it in March and in Marching on. I mean, so
just think about this what we're seeing now in the
NBA with teams deciding, hey, we're gonna tank, but we
want to do it a little bit obliquely, like we're
in such a rough part of the NBA calendar where
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it's never gonna get better. Teams aren't gonna suddenly start
playing it closer to the vest. Now play, we're gonna
try to win these games. You're just gonna get twenty
some odd games of every single night for the next
twenty games for the rest of these teams, where in
a ten ten games in a night, none of them
are gonna be decided by double digits. One of them's
may be close near the end. I don't mean like,
I don't even mean close where hey, we have a
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buzzer beater, or it comes down to the final possession.
I mean close where at least in the final two
minutes it's up in the air. You're not can we
not get that?
Speaker 6 (11:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And that's been the difficult part. And as much as
you may love the flow of the game, and we
highlight the superstars and some of the big matchups where
where we've been blessed with with some of these ready
made for TV events, which in theory that could have
been the Spurs and Sixers for this throwback game. Instead
you got a lot of Charles Barkley. And again here's
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my new poll on display in throwback fashion. But it's
it's just tough. Wait. We look at the Western Conference
right now, you've got all right between the three seed
and the seven seed divide decided by about four games. Okay,
so there might be a little bit of movement up
and down. You can still fall beyond the sixth spot
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where we're watching the Nuggets, the Lakers, the Suns before
a little bit of a fallback to Golden State. Okay, fine,
Eastern Conference Pistons well ahead of the Celtics. Right there
are the Knicks and Cavaliers and then a couple game separation.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
From there out we want to see the stars.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And really it always comes back to, all right, how
do you make it punitive enough to where it's it's
something the teams have to consider, right because you saw
those fines and teams that got fined just laughed at
at the commissioner's office. Because we talk about it in
the NFL all the time, Like, guys and the pain threshold.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Right, are you injured? Are you hurt? What can you
play through?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Never mind what you take and do to get yourself
on the field, and the immediacy guaranteed contracts versus non guaranteed,
all those things. For the NBA, how many times do
we see a guy at this point it's like, well,
he's done for the year. Oh, he might legitimately be injured,
but there's no incentive or disincentive in place that to say, hey,
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he's got he's got a toughen out a few more
games here, right, the money's guaranteed, he's getting paid no
matter what. He's not fighting for the next contract. In
that moment, the team if they realize, hey, we're streaking
towards the lottery. We want as many lottery ping pong
balls as we can get. So until you change that
function altogether, like there's nothing to suage. What one hundred
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thousand dollars fine, five hundred thousand dollars fine. How much
we get from the revenue sharing off of these TV partnerships? Again,
the fact that this is where Mark Cuban needs to
jump up and do the same thing for the NBA
that he did for the NFL all those years ago,
talking about how you know the pigs get slaughtered and
all that stuff, because that might be where you are. Unfortunately,
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guys are making money, so much money right now. They're
not looking down the road, right owners aren't looking down
the road. We just signed these big broadcast deal. Look
at all the money we're making.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Exit out bout a Fresca exit swelling Dome, Jason Smith
Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. I mean,
we're in this such a dead part. We're just waiting
for the playoffs. Twenty plus games, they're useless.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Put them on.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Bubble wrap, especially if teams aren't gonna take it seriously.
I mean, that's where we're at now. Oh but tanking's
going to solve the problems in the NBA, Sure, sure will.
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Kyler Murray's gonna be available, and boy do we have
a great, big hot take on that. Coming up next
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Speaker 3 (16:16):
Peter A Lonzo's home run against the Netherlands from today.
Netherlands playing playing in the Al East this year are
gonna be tough for the Netherlands. That's a long road trip, man,
That's a long road trip. Well, I mean, look, expansion,
aggressive expansion.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
If you watch Ted Lassa, you see crazy things happen
when they go play in Netherlands. So I send you
sent a baseball team there. It's gonna be Difficult's.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Funny you should say that I actually watched that episode
earlier today. That's what we do over breakfast. We watch
an episode of Ted Lasser. So yeahs do stop. It's
it's exhibition. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter matters. It's
they're playing the Netherlands. Man, come on to your beef
with the Netherlands.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
They're playing the Netherlands two to RBI the home run.
Come on.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Kenneley Jansen. Kenneley Jansen once played catcher for the Netherlands
and the WBC. He was a good catcher. He maybe
should have stuck with that all the games he blew
for the Dodgers. Yeah, I mean it was an eight
to five lost to the Netherlands. Yeah, that's okay, we lost.
They lost the pillow Fight to the Netherlands. Not you
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and you lead a team by forty nine points after
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the play of the day.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Rhymes good if it goes from three quarters of the length,
but it comes up short. The Spurs do indeed make
history their largest lead through three quarters in Francise history,
forty nine points, one thirteen sixty four at the end
of three.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It's just so embarrassing the sixers. Now, hey they they
have cut it to forty two. Oh good, so this
last three minutes might really be something. It's one twenty
six eighty two. They have cut it to forty two.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
No quitting this team, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I want to see if the Spurs get it back
up to fifty. Hey, show me you got something here.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Walker and Watford really trying to bring the charge off
the bench. Late, guys are gonna play this message from
Greg Papovich who wants a fifty point win tonight. Okay,
you just take a look and see.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I mean Wemby, Wemby played twenty four minutes, He's got
ten points, eight players in double figures.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
That's it. This one just eight well for I mean,
that's it. It's still early. I mean, I mean Waters
has eight and is nine minutes played. I mean this,
like I said, how many more?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
How much longer can the NBA go on with with
nine out of every ten games being of ten to
fifteen point burial every single night?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
But you can't look at it and I get it.
We started getting it on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Bring it on at how about a Presca at Swollen
Dome at Fox Sports Radio. I know there are a
lot of blowouts late in the season in the National
Football League, and certainly you have great degrees of variants
in terms of competitive balance in college football. That is
always going to be that that's never going to go away.
You're in and you're out for the NFL, you still
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had a third of your games decided by three or
fewer points. H So you know when we get down
to it in over one hundred games decided by seven
or few, or keep going on down the line, that
we we've got at least balance into the final weeks
of those seasons. Sure there are bottom feeders, and there
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are teams that are heading towards the number one pick
in the draft, but you don't get to the level
of tanking and just terrible play with months to go
like you do here. Yeah, you got one or two
teams that you can recognize are going to be terrible
in the National Football League. In the NBA, we're talking
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about half the league looking around, going, well, there's gonna
be seven or eight really good players coming in that
are freshmen into the draft, plus the international prospects. To
hell with it. You're hurt, right, get in a suit.
So to the NFL we.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Go, where what we knew was coming became somewhat official today.
It's not going to be official official till next week.
But the Cardinals tell Kyler Murray he will be released
next week. You put a big message on social media
thanking the fans. Sorry he couldn't end the seventy seven
year drought for the organization. I am sorry, I failed us.
(21:00):
It's the Cardinals. I think everybody. Everybody is okay. It's
it's not like you went. Hey, Steelers, we couldn't get
back to the super Bowl. Patriots Chiefs couldn't get back there. No, hey,
I'm sorry. It's been seventy seven years. I think the
fans understand we're probably not gonna win a super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
But here's the thing, right, a lot put on his shoulders,
certainly as the number one pick going back to twenty nineteen. Right,
he's brought in, He and his guy Kingsbury. They were
going to rule the world. And you've seen a number
of coaching changes, regime changes. It goes back to how
much do you blame? You'll blame pie. And there are
certainly some that are stomping up and down on Kyler Murray.
(21:36):
Whether it's his size, whether it's his alleged love of
video games. How much of that's true and false? I
you know, you got to decide noise when stuff starts
leaking out like that, how much of that is coaching
staff's trying to fly, well, this guy just doesn't work
hard enough. How much of it is he's always been
great going through high school, through the Heisman, through the
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number one pick here being a top ten pick in baseball,
that that next level of dedication wasn't there because he
hadn't had to do it. I don't know how much
percentage you have signed there, but for him to put
out that message to say, yep, put it on me, fine,
bring it on. I kind of dig that about it
my for seventy seven years, that's not you. But okay,
(22:22):
but thank thanks for much. But by putting that specificity
on he goes I might have been part of the
problem here these last few years. Decide how much it's
a long standing issue. And yeah, Kurt Warner got closed,
but they did not break down that wall.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Now, two things, because there's one team that already Kyler
Murray is being linked with, and that's the Jets. And
I'm first to tell you this is not about the Jets,
because boy do I have a great hot take for you. Uh,
the Jets you only go to when you have no
other choices. Okay, that's when you go to the Jets.
We have no other choice, Right, why did Justin Fields
become a Jet? Wasn't going anywhere else? Only choice was
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the Jets. Okay, I'm going to the Jets. Kyler Murray
has op he's got options, he's got teams that want them.
Are already seeing, hey, where could he fit with a
bunch of different teams. But you're seeing the Jets mentioned
most often because the Jets aren't getting a quarterback. They
are absolutely quarterback needy. They need to get a quarterback
this year because as much as you want to wait
and I'd love to see them tank for next year,
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when quarterbacks there, we can go get Arch Manning or
Dante more and we have a new head coach and
everything else. Because we're just gonna suck this year. I
get that that's not gonna happen because Aaron Glennon company
want to be around for twenty twenty seven. So they
gotta go get a quarterback. They gotta get somebody to
come in and win games. They can't just go three
and fourteen again and hope to be brought back. But
Murray's got options. He's got options. He's the most talented
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guy out there. His resume, he's still young, he's got
a couple of Pro Bowls. He's gonna have a lot
of options. He should be the number one most sought
after guy. Whether he's number one on your board, but
he should be the number one most sought after player
because now you don't have to worry about trading for him,
don't have to worry about salary, dead cap money. You
can sign him most likely to a deal we talked
about last week, which is, hey, two years and forty million.
(24:01):
That'll get you what what justin Field signed for last
year is what you can get a guy like Kyler
Murray for this year. Two years and forty million. Whether
it's got to be guaranteed or thirty million of it
is guaranteed, that's okay. But two years for Kyler Murray,
that's about where you're at.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Right. So that's Kyler Murray. So where's his fit? Because again,
he's got he's got options, right the men Jets are
no no options, Jets options anywhere else but the Jets.
Let me throw this out there.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
We talked about this last night, that that Atlanta is
the best the best fit for him, right, we mentioned this.
He should want to go where Kevin Stefanski can can
continue to do the magic that he does with quarterbacks.
He should be joining a team that's young, up and coming,
the energy that he would bring. They should both be
desirous of each other. All right, Murray got getting there
with the team. He can make a lot of plays
with mobile quarterback. Atlanta is made for him. But let
(24:51):
me throw this out here. Let me throw this hot
take out here. Are the Raiders really sold on Fernando Mendoza?
Are you sold on him?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Kyler Murray for two years and forty million, and the
Jets will give you a lot for that number one
pick for Fernando Mendoza. They'll give you a ton or
somebody else would give you a ton to move up
to get him because he's the only quarterback in the draft.
I say the Jets because I know that they went
out and they looked at him a bunch of times.
They sent scouts to like I think the last nine
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games he had. Are you that sold on Fernando? Do
you love Fernando Mendoza that much? Do you love him
that much? Because you've heard a lot of stuff coming
off the combine. Maybe his tape isn't that great. Look
I told you at the beginning, I thought Fernando Mendoza
is the best of a weaker group of quarterbacks. And
if he's a combination of Kerry Collins and Kirk Cousins. Okay,
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is that a guy you draft number one overall? If
he's a combination of Kirk Cousins and Kerry Collins. Try
to say that three times fast, combination of Kirk Cousinskerry Collins.
Combination Kirk Cousinskerry Collins. Are you that sold? Or are
you better off if you're the Raiders because you're starting
over with a guy like Kyler Murray coming into an
offense where the head coach just won a Super Bowl,
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just made it work with a quarterback that people had
in the scrappyap a couple of years ago. As good
as Sam Darnold was with the Minnesota Vikings, he goes
on and wins a super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks.
They win when he has big games, win when they
run the ball. Well, Clint Kubiak now taking over, this
is the job he wanted. He wanted the Raiders gig.
This wasn't where Hey, the last guy standing is the
Raiders head coach. All of a sudden, I throw that
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out there. You sign Kyler Murray, you trade the number
one pick and you get a high first round pick.
Another first round pick, maybe a first round pick next year,
second round pick this year, because that number one pick,
somebody's gonna want that quarterback. Somebody's gonna be all in
on Fernando Mendoza. If you're not in on him, if
you are not in, if you doubt a little bit
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that he's the guy that maybe I don't know, I
don't know if his tapes stands out, I don't know,
if he's someone that's going to translate to the next level.
Don't you look at this. Don't you look at this
and say, maybe Kyler Murray for two years and forty million,
because it doesn't work, we can easily go out and
get our quarterback next year. We always pick at the
top of the draft. If it works out for us, great,
If not, we're.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Here again next year and we'll go get Arch Manding
or Dante Moore, whoever else is there.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Just think about if if you're not sold, does Kyler
Murray and a treasure trove of picks, including an early
first round pick, like you can draft Caleb Downs and
the numb you can draft Rvel Reees.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
You can get somebody really good. You can you can go.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Get whoever you want to in the top five, top seven,
because that's we're gonna wind up picking. Just think about
that option for Kyler Murray.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Well, the question for Murray becomes the reality of, you know,
how how robust is the marketplace because you've got a
lot of places that could be in play, right your Jets, Cleveland, Minnesota.
He was a Minnesota fan, right and O'Connell certainly after
the uh Quezy got back bounce and Justin Jefferson got
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Chirpye and a lot of others potentially there. We talked
about Atlanta a lot yesterday. Certainly, options and the Mendoza
thing is something we have kicked that tire a couple
of times. You and I in terms of whether you
trade the pick. The look, the Cardinals are on the
hook for almost thirty seven million dollars, right, It's like
thirty six eight or thereabouts once they release him, So
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it's not like you necessarily have to break the bank
for Kyler Murray. This might be the way you also
figure out how to not only make a trade if
you're the Raiders and get picks back and everything else,
but if you can get Murray on the cheap on
approved deal not quite to the Russell Wilson. He's much
younger than Wilson was at the time. Denver swallowed that
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pill and moved on. But if you can get him cheap,
then maybe you can figure out a way to keep
Max Crosby happy. Look, we bring in a quarterback, we
make a deal. We also have also pick, and you
could stay right because you want to be a raider
in theory, right, and that's where you try to figure
out what the noises around him.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
But suddenly you.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Are able to build a roster with other picks for
the offensive line to bolster things. And suddenly you become
competitive and Murray's there on a maybe a one year
prove it, second year becomes club option. Hey, well we'll
play you then and go through that. But I don't
hate it. Like we watched Mendoza a lot and I
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like him. But it is that question of does it
did he separate himself because of the back end struggles
of Simpson, because of nuss Meyer getting ousted at LSU,
and because guys that were expected to be some of
the head heavyweights in this class fell back.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, North Dakota State moving up maybe and being the
number two quarterback. If it's not ty Simpson, Right, is
Fernando Mendoza really that good? Or is he just the
best quarterback in this draft? And because of that and
the Raiders need it?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Hey? No, Number one overall, there's your marriage, right. Just
think about that for a second, because I remember reading
some stuff last week where it was thrown out there
should teams trade for for Kyler Murray. I remember reading
one I think I think it was a Raider's blog
when someone someone said something like, oh if we traded
this pick and this pick.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
For Kyler Murray. I'm like, you don't need to trade
a pick for Kyler Ridge. Just wait now, you get
it negative for nothing.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
You don't need to give ut.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You don't need to give him a big contract.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You don't need to bring in Kyler Murray for five
years and two hundred and thirty million dollars. You can say, okay,
two years and forty million.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Guess what if it sucks, We're right back here next
year and we get a better quarterback and we go
back and get them. Are you that?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Do you love for Nando Mendoza that much? Now I'm
making all the Raiders palm sweat. How much do we
really love Mendoza?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
That much. Do we really love them that much? Just
think about that exit? Ou about a Fresca exit, swollen dome.
Time not to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports from someone who's been called the Fernando
Mendoza of Fox Sports Radio because they're the exact same height.
It's Steve de.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Sager and same bank account just a few months from now.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Well, I think nil. I think he did pretty well.
I don't think they were paying him with Chipotle Bucks.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I think he did.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Okay, I saw you in a Dodger uniform. You got paid?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Uh no, no, nil back then for the media game. No,
we do have the final from saying get a sandwich?
Did we get a sandwich?
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Yes, of course, press box was totally free back then.
Boom yeah, how things have changed to the NBA scoreboard.
The Spurs final was one thirty one to ninety one
at Philadelphia Minnesota in action tonight, and well they had
they had Anthony you know, it was the before the game.
Anthony Edwards is questionable. Suddenly he's questionable. Foot injury maintenance
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is getting to set out now.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
He played.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
He had forty one points in thirty seven minutes. On
the court, and the Timberwolves have beaten Memphis one seventeen
to one ten. Oklahoma City's record now forty eight and
fifteen at a victory in Chicago tonight one sixteen to
one oh eight, and Shay Gilgess alex Ander was out
managing an abdominal strain. New York's Jalen Brunson with twenty
six points, tenn assists, just one turnover. Nicks won at
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Toronto one eleven ninety five. Miami sent Brooklyn to a
ninth straight loss, Charlotte won its fifth in a row.
Orlando pounded the Washington which is lost sixth straight, and
Cleveland beat Detroit one thirteen to one oh nine. The
two late games, well one of them about to begin
in LA. Lakers are hosting New Orleans. Ion Williamson is playing.
He was questionable. He had missed the Sunday game in
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LA against the Clippers with a sprained ankle. In a
half an hour. Still, we'll get the late tip off
at Sacramento. The Kings at fourteen and forty eight hosting Phoenix.
So you know, everybody stayed through that NBC fifty point game.
The Spurs just put up and staying to watch the
Sacramento Kings. Of course, right after.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Hey, the Kings, led by Vlati Vats will take on
the Charlotte Hornets and Buggsy.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Boats, if only they had that team. As for college hoops,
it's on FS one right now. Fourteenth rank Kansas was
down twenty at Arizona State and Bill self was kicked
out coach before halftime. ASU's lead now forty two to
thirty three against the Jayhawks early in the second half.
Number nineteen Miami of Ohio thirty and oh now after
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winning seventy four to seventy two against Toledo, Georgia upset
Number sixteen Alabama ninety eight eighty eight. Saint John's edged
Georgetown TCU won at number ten Texas Tech, Virginia Edgewake,
Forest and North Carolina beat Clemson sixty seven sixty three.
In the NHL, the Dallas Stars are going for a
tenth straight win. Late second period, Dallas up five to
(33:37):
one at Calgary, oh.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Mike MacDonald with three goals, Jerome Acginla scoring for the Flames.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Yes for Calgary, as they would say, north of the Border,
and wins for Buffalo and Boston Already the Jets franchise
tagged running back Breefe Hall. Today was the deadline to
do that. The other two officially tagged were wide receiver
George Pickens by Dallas and tight end Kyle Pitts by Atlanta,
So the Bank did not tag defensive end Trey Hendrickson,
and the Seahawks did not tag running back Kenneth Walker
(34:05):
so he could be a free agent soon. The Colts
use the transition tag quarterback Daniel Jones, so Indy has
the right to match any offer he gets. He's coming
off of torn Achilles Braves. Outfielder Jerrekson Profar was handed
a one year suspension. Team USA won its exhibition in
Arizona fifteen to one over the San Francisco Giants to
run singles for Aaron Judge and Bryce Harper, and in
(34:28):
an exhibition tonight, Puerto Rico got a five to three
win against the Red Sox, getting three runs top of
the first back to you.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Hey, you know how Berman would announce it. Daniel Jones
story has that and.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Like the crack of a whip, hoping to keep him
in Indiana, Jones gets the franchise tag or transition tag
by the Colts and I don't know why I'm doing
more of Albert doing it. It just sounded like the
right thing to do.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Yes, it's causing our face to melt.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Thank you. Stevo coming up there, Big NFL on the way,
we'll get into the transition tag franchise tag. But straight ahead,
the biggest piece of sports memorabilia in months has been found.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
And wait, do we tell you how much it might
be worth? That's next Jason and Mike Fox. Is it
the illustrator?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (35:26):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my bass
friend Mike Harmon. Tag your it coming up in about
ten minutes. However, the biggest piece of sports memorabilia this
year and probably the entire year has now officially been located.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Wait, we already own it, and I got questions? What
do we own? Frostburg. That's Mike, he bought us shares.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
I still have shares in the jockstrap.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Oh, we do have giants jockstrap.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
But that was never that was never missing, and we've
we've had that for that week.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
We know that for a while, but you said the
most covenant prize of all of.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
This here, Yeah, okay, we own a piece of andre
the top that uh, the puck with with Jack Hughes
scored the game winning goal in the Olympics has been located.
Remembers right after the game that hey, do you have
the puck you scored the goal? Game winning goal? He goes,
(36:19):
no idea where the puck went. I know who doesn't
have it is me? I sure, as held on. That's
too bad he didn't have it. Turns out now we
know where it is. Canadian goalie No, Jordan Bennington has
it and I'm gonna burn it. Apparently and I say apparently,
the Hockey Hall of Fame has it. Wow.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
The found located and according to reports, the puck from
the gold medal game, the game winning puck is going
to be displayed along with other memorabilia from the Olympics.
Hillary night Jersey, I think the puck from Megan Keller's
game winning goal and the women's game is going to
go up there. So it's been found, or at least
a quarter to reports, has been found. Maybe the Hall
(37:01):
of Fame just said nobody knows where it is. That
looks like a puck. We'll just say we have it.
We'll say that's it, all right, great fun. Hey, here's
the game winning puck. Here's the puck that Jack Hughes
used to score the game winning goal.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
It is curious, though, because whenever we get to milestones
in baseball, we've seen it for Otani, for Judge, back
when Bonds was hitting home runs, that the Big Chase
of ninety eight, going back McGuire so, so whatever they
would authenticate the baseballs that were put into play, and
I'm curious what the process was for the gold medal game. Hey,
(37:34):
just we got a couple of pucks. Just put him
in play, you know. I gotta think there was some
authentication process. I mean, they know the business. That's actually
the puck that McDavid missed on the breakaway with. We'll
just tell him it's the Hughes which but I want
to know this and here because this this, this is
my main thing with this is that Hughes is I
have no idea what happened to the puck. And I
get it that it's an incredible moment, game winning goal
(37:55):
in overtime Olympic. This puck, according to some professionals say,
this puck would go for a million dollars if it
was sold right now, a million dollars right now. With time,
will it appreciate in value or depreciate. It probably will
go down, but right now it would go for a
million dollars. What I want to know is how did
(38:19):
nobody say, let's get the puck because we're in such
an We're in such an era now of knowing when
when Otani hit that fiftieth home run, we knew you
had to get that ball. Whenever somebody we know when
something's big. This puck is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Not one person, I get cueses insane, But not one
person coming off the bench, not not one player, not
one coach came on the ice and grabbed it and said, hey,
let me get that puck. Nobody, nobody grabbed the puck
like I don't understand. The Zamboni guy come out at
the end and go, hey, I got the puck. I'm
gonna give it to you because that's a million dollar puck.
Speaker 7 (38:53):
Man.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
I know that Jack Hughes is in the middle of
an eight year, sixty four million dollar contract, so he's
doing okay. But somebody could had that somebody could have
picked it up. It could have been the guy out
to clean the eyes. I'm gonna make a million dollars
of this. I'm gonna sell. It's gonna change my life.
How did nobody pick up the buck? How did nobody
pick up that?
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Yeah, it just seems someone would have gone off the
bench to grab it if nothing else for Team USA history,
or for Hughes or or somebody would have had the
presence of mind to just go make sure there was
no question of providence and authenticity. It's like, all right,
I went and grabbed it from the back of the net.
(39:31):
Like I said, I wouldn't have been surprised if you
pocket that. Yeah, I gave up the goal, but I'm
gonna get a payday out of this, right, netminder, one
of the defense sewers. You're salty about it, but you
realize the largesse of the moment and what the memorabilia
market will do. Right, we doctor you and I going
back for a you know, a Tom sever item that
(39:55):
went for over eight hundred thousand this weekend, Hulk Hogan's
boots from WrestleMania One. Some question of whether it was
another Madison Square Garden card, but either way went for
a million dollars. UH signed yellow boots this weekend. Here
piece of history, forty six years since the last US
gold medal. Yeah, there there's a hot market right now.
(40:17):
Someone would have been wise to make sure they plucked
that that puck immediately gone and gotten his stick gone.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
And got his held.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I don't understand you know how big a deal that is.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
You know, we got it, whoever scores it, whoever scored
the goal, we gotta make sure we go get this
is gonna be a golden goal, right to it.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
I don't get that. I feel it. So it's so
odd that that feels wrong. The Hall of Fame has it, like, hey,
nobody and went straight to the Hall of Fame, and
this is insane. Coming up next, we're the tags, right,
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