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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
This is Steve de Seger and our Fox Sports Radio
studios in Los Angeles. We're still hooking up with the
guys who are on location, shall we say, And while
the WiFi is not completely.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Down here at the studio, there have been.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It's been a spotty mess that is not helping and
getting in connection with our two hosts. So momentarily that's
gonna happen. We've got a lot of football to discuss
this evening either way, and a guy who played for
three NFL teams this season, well the third team even
said goodbye to him because Deontay Johnson is I won't
say out of the league, but he is out of
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a job yet again. The Texans today waved wide receiver
Deontay Johnson after only two games there now his first
team in the league, he lasted a few years. This
year three different teams started with Carolina, then Baltimore, then Houston,
and remember the Ravens had suspended him before they cut him,
and then a team that's still in the playoffs. The
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Texans waved Deontay Johnson today. Houston wide receiver Robert Woods
misspractice with a hip injury. Tight End Dalton Schultz was
limited with a shoulder injury. Houston tight end Cad Stover
was placed on injury reserve. Golden Headphones just in his nickname,
he is Steve.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
You're blaming you on the Wi FI. Did the Knicks lose?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Holy, that could be playing that we lost last night? Right, Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And in fact, Karl Anthony Town's questionable for Wednesday because
he got hurt last night, sprained right thumb.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I knew it was not definitely out, but there will
be some sort of I knew it was related, Steve.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I wanted to bring you in, not only because Jason's
not here so we don't have to talk about the
Knicks or the Mets or the Jets, but you were
in Houston at the Texans playoff game over the weekend
that was a game where I know forever and history
it's written in ink. They won a playoff game. They
were down six nothing to the Chargers late in the
(02:22):
first half. Your impressions of the playoff game that opened
wild Card weekend.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Ooh, I don't know if I'm ready to talk.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
About it yet, Steve, Because fair to say, as objective
as I can be, for three quarters, neither team was
terribly impressive. Fair to say, oh, it was such a
winnable game. That's I think, that's absolutely absolutely it was.
And justin Herbert, we'd never seen him play this bad.
I wouldn't put all four reception interceptions on him. Doesn't matter.
(02:50):
It's an l and Houston, of course, you noticed got
that time slot. They've maybe playoffs eight times. All eight
times they put him in the afternoon times to open
wild card weekends. Keep them as far away out, yeah,
keep them game from frometime. No say guess what, guess
where they're playing. It's even the Chiefs is the opponent
this weekend. Houston has the afternoon time slot to begin
(03:13):
the divisional playoffs This Saturday four teen, via.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Taxis Houston playing first on Wildcard.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Week So ESPN kind of gets stuck with the Texans
no offense. But we'll get to the ratings in just
a moment. Do you know that Chiefs hosted and beat
Houston not that long ago, just before Christmas twenty seven
to nineteen. Any predictions on what Patrick Mahomes is going
to look like? People will have already complained that he
hasn't had a Mahomes like season this year. By the way,
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they are the one seed. They didn't have to play
this past weekend. This is still a good team and
a great play all year. They didn't They didn't score
over thirty points in a single game this year and
still had the best record.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
In the two You got the refs on your side,
makes things easy. Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That is the Chargers producer speaking, and fifteen and two
was the it's a great defense and they do have.
I mentioned this on one of the shows in the
last couple of days talking about the Chargers post mortem.
You could see once they get got into the playoffs
that it's just year one of Harbaugh as coach. Such
an improvement over the previous year and the previous regime.
(04:19):
I mean from the start it was an obvious cultural change,
and then it wound up in the standings and obvious.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Change, Steve. They won five games last year.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
That's right, and went from double digit losses to double
digit wins in one year.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I mean, I can't tell you lifelong charge of Fanny.
I cannot tell you how good it is to have
a real football head coach. Never had it before.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So Houston winds up leading ten to six in the
third quarter, which kind of showed to me the game
as it progressed last Saturday. What they don't have yet
on this roster compared to pretty much every other playoff
roster that we saw this past weekend. They don't have
a healthy go to running back every game for a
full season. I don't even mean Sekuon Barkley. I just
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mean a healthy, reliable running back. It doesn't mean that JK.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Dobbins can't be that guy, but the health has been
an issue in his young career every time.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
The other thing is as wonderful as the draft choice
was in the second round of Lad McConkie from George.
What a golden fine, one thousand yard receiver he turns
out to be. You see on the other side of
the ball last weekend, a guy that can be an
a one receiver for years. Nico Collins said seven catches
one hundred and twenty two yards for Houston and a
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touchdown ever heard of them and James Cook the next
day for Buffalo.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
It's just that kind of at the skill positions on
offense I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It's that kind of player that the Chargers just don't
possess at this point after year one of the hardball regime.
So they won double digits this year. Yes, the schedule
will get harder, but I assume the roster will get better.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
That absolutely will. They crushed the diraft last year. I
expect them to crush it again.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Steve, And that was also the way Harbaugh was gonna
go when they lost for financial reasons. Let's be quite
frank that they went all in the previous year and
crashed and burned spectacularly and fired the coach before the
year was over, and then had to make a choice.
We can't keep all of these guys, so Bosa was
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keptain Khalil Mack was kept, Keenan Allen know Mike Williams
at wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
No.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So they had very little at white out this year
and still I know first month of the season they
didn't pass much at all, but still it wound up
roughly twenty three touchdown passes three interceptions.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I think for Justin Nerber for the season.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Crazy so for him to have that game last weekend
after yet another good season, and he's had five good
seasons in this league.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
That was a notable bad game.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
But there was a total of seven turnovers in the game,
only about half from the visitors. So as we get
into this matchup on Saturday, Kansas City hosting Houston, of
course it should be the Chiefs winning this huston an
average scoring just twenty two points a game in the
regular season, which is quite low for a playoff team.
Kansas City's defense is there, and not just this year.
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Chris Jones, by the way, practicing and just fine. He'd
had the calf injury. Patrick Mahomes full practice today after
the ankle injury. He's had three weeks off Mahomes.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
But yeah, we actually have a caller, So okay, I
want to talk some Charger Charger football. Here. Let's go
to the line West La. Hello, you're on the show.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Hi, this is Sharon Moore. I really had trouble at
quarterback this year, so I wonder if you have any advice,
if you could talk to Jim Harbaugh what I should
do for next year, because well, he took all the
good guys with him when he left.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
He took the whole staff with him as well, not
just players. I will add to that.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Mister Jason Smith. Can you somehow get JJ McCarthy to
reverse eligibility and have him go backwards to Michigan because
you know he didn't Is that some sort of red
shirt that he can go.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
By he didn't play again? Well, now, listen, the rules
in college football now are so crazy. As long as
he doesn't play five games in the NFL, he can
go back to college whenever he wants to.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
That's my game.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
He could have started the first four games of this
year right Green Bay, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, and then
he doesn't play and then he goes back to school.
It works. That's how the rules work now.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So it's kind of like a JC year is really
what it counts like? I think he can go backwards
for the.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Next five minutes. It does, and then then it will change. So,
but for right now, these are the rules.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's awesome now as well as you called we're talking
about the Houston Texans, a team that doesn't have much
offense compared to a lot of the other playoff teams
that we're seeing. Is it just as obvious as it
seems that the Chiefs, despite the time off and it's
a lot of time off for the amount of people
they set in the regular season finale, that the Chiefs
should eventually roll, not just win, but win pretty easily
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at home on Saturday to open there's no playoffs.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Well, I gotta say this, and I know it's uh,
you know, it's only Tuesday, and usually will make these
these decisions and these sticks until the end of the week.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
But as you can tell, we're.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
In a really crazy show right now.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
This is the charge of.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Postgame show that I'm calling it. Normally, the show that's
on in this in this time slot is fantastic. I
think you guys doing a great job. I think I'm
doing a great job. Steve, you're doing a great job.
Justin you're doing a great job. It's a great show.
It's the most fun shown on Fox Sports Radio. You
should get rid of the guys who are on this
side slot. They're they don't talk about their favorite teams enough.
(09:37):
I need to hear more about the Jets. I don't
get it. I don't hear more about them, get it.
I need more things like that like this on the show.
You guys talking about your teams. This is what I need.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Actually we're talking playoffs, which of course would not be
a Jets conversation. Bears, we just as the show began
this hour, this segment. We said this out loud, but
you know we were thinking this anyway. It was our
one opportunity to have an opening now hour without mentioning the.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Jets or the Knicks. Oh, it's phenomenal. Therefore, I thought
we would take advantage.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Well, I think you guys have done a great job.
I really do, and I think that listen, I think
maybe a National Charger postgame show has a big future.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Can we ask, as far as tonight's show, can we
go behind the curtain that it's actually possible that you
and or Mike could be on the show tonight, that
it's just on.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
The show right now, it's.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Just I'm on the show technically, you are, that it's
just a technical glitch and that we'll get things back
and you never know.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
It's not like you're out of state right.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I can't tell you how fast I got When Frostburg said, hey,
technical stuff, you gotta come in. It was it was
like a pit stop and Nascar. I was like, shoes jacket,
I'm going. My wife is like, what's happened to though?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Going in? Go take food?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I go, no time I go order food, Just take something.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I go.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
No, I have no time.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I gotta get on the show. Start. It's already started.
And who knows what kind of charger stuff is being
set on the air right now.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
So I think mccaffee on this fantasy team, Yes, they
don't one of the leads.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
This might be the you know, this might be the
future of radio at some point where you know, instead
of being in a studio to people just do shows
from their cars as they're driving. And that's part of
the thing is, Oh they're driving and talking and doing
a show. Look at the Look at the multi purposes
that's going on here.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I have seen ze I have seen talk shows with
Zoom and one of the two co hosts is talking
in his cars and.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You can do a whole other show and just hang
up on you.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
By the way, can you confirm it's not just me.
The traffic in Los Angeles has been unexpectedly superb in
recent days for obvious reasons.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
But the traffic has been great.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Yeah, except you say that. And now I get in
my car and I'm at a standstill. I haven't even
gotten to the ten yet, and I don't know what's happened.
It showed me a half hour driving into work and
then in the last couple of minutes it's gone forty
forty five, So something must have happened in front of me.
Maybe I will double as a traffic person. It's like
an offer, like you just got to play the.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Lolo bloh blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Half on the final five. Here's traffic on the fourth
Chas and Stick.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
What do you see? We'll believing in the fool. I
see there's a poor trying to get to work and
it's really not going to be alarm Cut.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
It's gonna be a while before they got there. Oh boy,
living there's chasing Strick. You are completely screwed. Go back
to the studio.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
How the Jets finish their uh interview with John Eric Sullivan?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yet you mean the kid from Malcolm in the middle
who played Dewey. He got an interview. Wow, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Well of the interim guy, you may as well just
keep going.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Well, look, I don't even think some of these names
that Jets are talking to now are real. I don't think.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
I think they're just throwing names out there look like
they're doing it.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
They're just making sun has been done for years. Joe Walton,
I think Joe Walton is next.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
They're going through their high school yearbooks looking at names,
going ah, this dude was funny. I'll say we interviewed him. Oh,
that's great.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And for those who didn't hear, former Jets coach Robert
Sala did interview with Jacksonville today for that head coach opening,
and without harmon here I'll mention that his bears are
due to officially interview former Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy
on Wednesday, and the Saints are expected to talk to
him next week. Of course, McCarthy just let go as
they couldn't agree on a new deal with the Cowboys.
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His playoff record in five years with Dallas was one
in three. That's not the kind of thing that would
keep you from getting a Bears job, you would think. Nonetheless,
those are the facts.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
You know. My favorite part about the solid story is that,
you know what was his biggest thing in New York?
The defense was great, but boy, he really couldn't get
anything offense. To the offense, we're terrible. He couldn't bring
along a young quarterback. They got rid of Zach Wilson,
he got fired. What are they gonna have him do
with Jacksonville? Well, you got a kind of along Trevor
Lawrence and make him into something that's really good, Like
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we've seen that fail, Like we've seen him failed exactly
what you're gonna ask him to do. But I guess
maybe the Jaguars are throwing the hands up saying, well
always the defense will be good. I don't know the
defense will be good, but the offense I don't know.
I mean, like, how is he the guy gets the
interview on a team that needs somebody with a big
offensive background to hopefully unleash. You know, it is one
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of the ninth year of his contract for Trevor Lawrence
that he's finally gonna be good.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
You got a question, they did.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Have something question, Yes, what does this have to do
with the Charger game. The hell is this guy talking
about it? No more call Steve, No more calls.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
To save the show.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I would add Jacksonville is probably just like the Bears,
where they've got a list of ten or twelve names.
Let's just crash through these and meet with as many
people as we can get here.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I look like we're lost anyway as a franchise. Let's
just go through it.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Well, that's how you win it, you know. Forget about
the old philosophy that works at Hey, you're a destination.
You hear one or two names, and that's the name
that winds up being the coach. No, no, no, let's
have a nationwide search. Let's get to like twenty twenty
five names like and you show me you have no
idea what you want or what you're looking for without
telling you you have no idea what you want you're
(15:19):
looking for? Instead of talking to one or two people,
Now let's say we don't know these ideas they might have.
Let's talk to sixteen, seventeen, eighteen people. We don't know
what we're looking for, we know we want, we have
no idea. Let's just do this and really show everybody.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Boy, we just have no clue, Steve I detections just
scored again. Well that's not possible. It's detections, Jason Smith.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Can you say before we break here that for sure
this hour you'll be here in studio, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Dion Sanders from last night where I uh where, when
he was asked about his interrom the Cowboys just I'm
very healthy and Boulder and I and uh, it's very
flattering they called me. So there's no confirmation, no denial.
I will say that I'm gonna do my best to
get there as fast as I bleep and can, and
that includes driving on two wheels. However, I'm not gonna
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say I will definitely be there at eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So, in other words, he's saying, I'm very happy to
be in my car and I'm glad you called me.
So let's take a break here. Listening to Fox Sports Radio,
we have so much more on the NFL and today's
news and the playoffs coming for the weekend, and we'll
get to the TV ratings for this past weekend that
are now out. Who had the top rated game of
all the wild Card weekend matchups? We'll get to that
(16:35):
on Fox Sports Radio in a.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
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Speaker 3 (17:54):
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on their Way in Jason Smith and Mike Harmon Harmon
Chicago Bulls were losers at home tonight two New Orleans
one nineteen to one.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Thirteen.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
New Orleans was eight and thirty two coming in. We'll
get to the NFL TV ratings over the weekend in
a moment, but I will mention to our beloved Jason Smith.
Once you get past the Getty center of the four
or five, things are okay. It's just anybody driving the
four or five freeway in LA. Of course, you can't
take an off ramp due to the fires. Literally every
(18:28):
off ramp is closed, so there is that you're kind
of literally stuck on the freeway once you get on
that freeway. But does anybody have a guess on what
might have been the highest rated NFL playoff game over
the weekend? Now, we had a couple on Saturday, we
had three on Sunday. We had the Monday night game
with the Rams win in Arizona against the Vikings, which
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was the most viewed. As the TV ratings are out
for the wildcard.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Week, well, I think everybody was waiting to see Saquon Barkley.
It was in fact equal.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah, it was Packers and Eagles on Sunday afternoon. And uh,
I won't say it was the equal of having a
Cowboys game in that slot because it was down about
ten percent from when it was Packers Cowboys last year.
But memo to the NFL, there's no Dallas Cowboys in
the playoffs this year, so your ratings are just not
going to equal what a Cowboys game can normally give you.
(19:22):
By the way, what's the highest rated NFL game of
the whole season?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Still?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
It's the Cowboys Thanksgiving game on Fox. It's no, clearly no,
you didn't say the game twice and three times.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
No.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
The number three game on the list for the whole
season now is that Packers Eagles Wildcard game on Fox.
About thirty five million viewers last Sunday last night got
twenty five million the Monday night game and that's if
you add up ABC and ESPN and the Manning cast
all of that. For Vikings rams was twenty five million.
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Number one was Packers Eagles, And this is really an
indication of a couple of things. One how strong the
NFL audiences are compared to other sports audiences. And then
the obvious that it just dwarfs any other program in
all of television, drama, comedy, documentary, whatever you can throw
up there, Packers Eagles. And like most of the games
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this weekend, you know, it wasn't one that you're going
to write home about. Thirty five million people were watching
this thing, So we expect better ratings and better matchups
as we get to the division.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Guys, imagine the ratings had Jordan Love been vocal.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
In case you didn't hear, that's apparently the new tack
for Green Bay. And okay, this is kind of a
Jets mentioned I don't want to violate our pact here
justin but the guy who was the quarterbacks coaching Green
Bay that Aaron Rodgers said, can you please come back
and unretire and be my assistant coaching green Tom Clements,
is actually retiring.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
The veteran quarterbacks coach for the Packers is saying, this
is it?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
How old is he?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
He was Notre Dame's quarterback over fifty years ago when
they and USC were dominating college football nineteen seventy two
to seventy four. Tom Clements was the Irish quarterback for
those three years, including the undefeated team in nineteen seventy three,
probably start for the Jets.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Plait, Roger Clemens was
coaching Jordan Love and Grass amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Tom Clemens with a tea.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
And while we're talking.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
While we're talking, Notre Dame, Tommy Reeves is in the
news today because the Browns are promoting him at age
thirty two to offensive coordinator, former Notre Dame quarterback, former
Notre Dame offensive coordinator. And the great story is Tommy
Reeve's dad was Cleveland's director of player personnel about twenty
years ago for five years. So Tommy Reeves grew up
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with the Browns and in fact was the Cleveland Browns
ball boy at one point. And now he is the
Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator. Now it's literally have Jesus as
their offensive coordinator. Will no, no, because that occurred with
Notre Dame and that as a recall offense didn't look
for it again.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
That's a plot of draft day. What are you talking
about bah Boys coaches.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
A team fires, his dad, dad dies of a heart attack.
He takes over the team.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Hey, spoiler alert, they.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Traded a quarterback, then they trade back to get draft picks.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
That's the plot of Draft Day.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I feel like we say that phrase every other night
here on this show with you, mister movie spoiler alert.
Tommy Rees promoted by the Browns at a very young age.
Now it's let's go back to the Rams from last night.
As an example, Sean mcmay was facing a guy who
was his offensive coordinator. Right Kevin became the Vikings head
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coach after being a Sean McVay assistant, he had the
offensive coordinator title. You and I both know that Sean
McVay didn't give up play calling duties. The next thing
to see in Cleveland is that mean Kevin Stefanski is
going to be the play caller in Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
It doesn't mean this assistant is doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
But usually when you think offensive coordinator, it's automatically play caller.
Recent years, especially in the NFL, that's not necessarily the case.
Jase does mean it's not worth being on staff or
anything like that. It's just not the last stop on
the play.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Well, look, I think when you when you're when you're
trying to look at the age of.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Guys and and how old they are, why not.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
I mean, this is one of those This is one
of those hiring cycles in the NFL where there are
no great candidates.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
You know, what do we see last night?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Deon's name is out there. I'm sure John Gruden is
going come on, phone ring ring. I'm up at three
thirty in the morning every day, ring ring. So now
you're getting a lot of unconventional phone calls. It's like, well,
we're not going Mike Rabel's gone, We're probably not going
to get Ben Johnson. Everybody else is kind of is
like ten miles behind. So why not why not give
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somebody young. Maybe we get the next Mike Tomlin. You know,
maybe we don't and we get the next Adam Gase,
but maybe we do, and maybe it works out that way.
So I think that this is going to become more
of the norm than it is the outlier over this
hiring cycle, just because there's not a lot of guys
out there.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
And we'll talk about Tomlin as we go down the road.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Jason Smith, we will see you in person shortly you
and Mike Harmon and for the rest of the show
in studio. We look forward to that and thank you
for joining us part time on the way up to
the studios. Let's get to the music. It's bottom of
the hour. Let's get an update because there are NBA
games going on, and the Denver Nuggets are already leading
(24:35):
late first half sixty four to thirty nine. At Dallas,
Jamal Murray has twenty eight points already for the Dallas MAVs.
They do have Kyrie Irving playing tonight after the bad
back he had missed five games. Irving is three of ten,
nine points, but a huge deficit for the home team
there the late game, and I mean nobody outside of
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Brooklyn and Portland is going to pay attention to this.
The Nets, who've lost five in a row, are leading
twenty seven to twenty four against the Blazers late in
the first quarter. The Sacramento Kings had won seven in
a row, but trailed by twenty one after the first quarter.
At Milwaukee, the Bucks beat The Kings won thirty to one, fifteen.
New Orleans a winner at Chicago one nineteen one thirteen.
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The Pelicans had been eight and thirty two this year,
and Atlanta Tree Young with forty three points in a
close win over Phoenix won twenty two to one seventeen.
DeAndre Hunter of the Hawks, averaging nineteen points a game,
was out with a sore foot, and both Cleveland and
Oklahoma City each one again. Cleveland is thirty four and
five after a victory at Indiana won twenty seven one seventeen.
(25:38):
Donovan Mitchell thirty five points. The Pacers six game winning
streak is over. Tyrese Haliburton of the Pacers was out
tonight with a strang groin. Philadelphia did not have due
to injuries Joel Embiid, Paul George, or Tyrese Maxi, and
they were hosting Oklahoma City, a team that's now thirty
three and six. OKSE has won eighteen of its last
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nineteen game games. The Thunder one at Philadelphia one eighteen
one oh two. Shay Gilgos Alexander started ten of ten
shooting from the floor, thirty two points for him. Joel
Embiid is missing a fifth straight game tonight with his
sprain foot, Paul George sat out with a sore ankle,
and Tyrese Maxi was out with a left hand injury.
Upset in college basketball at number four Alabama twenty first
(26:21):
ranked ole Miss took him down seventy four to sixty four.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Near upset at De Paul.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
This is a DePaul team that did not have a
conference win this year and yet took number seven ranked
Marquette to overtime. Marquette wins at eighty five eighty three
college started, You could you can write that down in Penn.
It has actually started. We're in mid January, not in
mid March. And De Paul is oh to seven in
the Big East. Now Victory's four, Auburn over Mississippi State
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for Kentucky, which beat Texas A and M, and Illinois
dominated at Indiana. Among the NHL games and there are thirteen,
Boston beat Tampa Bay six to two. The Texans waived
wide receiver Deontay Johnson after two games there. Lions running
back David Montgomery participated fully at walk through after last
month's knee injury, and also for Detroit, defensive back Terry
(27:09):
and Arnold was a full participant. News from Washington that
linebacker Bobby Wagner missed practice with an ankle injury, and
wide receiver Jamison Crowder rested because of his hamstring. Washington's
kicker here last weekend, Zane Gonzalez, limited in practice by
a hip injury, and a reminder of the College football
National Championship game isn't until Monday night in Atlanta. The reason,
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as we saw with the early rounds of the college playoffs,
they don't want to go up against the NFL on TV.
So Monday night we've got seven seed Notre Dame against
eight seed Ohio State. That's the fourteen and one Irish
underdogs against the Buckeyes, who are thirteen and two. Ohio
State this year was ten and one until losing that
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game at home to Michigan thirteen to ten, completely laid
at egg and here they are on the verge of
a national title anyway, because since then Ohio State is
eating up Tennessee and beating up number one Oregon easy
wins there, and then they eliminated Texas twenty eight to fourteen.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
That game was tied mid fourth quarter. What time does
USC play? That's a no? What do you mean? No?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I believe USC basketball men's and women's is in progress. No,
I've looked, No, there is no US.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
But it's funny that you brought up David Montgomery.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
There because he's playing and didn't have surgery. We actually
know the guy who was responsible for his injury.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
We do, Yeah, we do. And he's on the phone
right now standing five collar collar.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Hi, this is Dan Campbell. It's four down.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
I'm going for it.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
I'm going it is not my fault that. It's not
my fault that David Montgomery got hurt and now.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
He's back, so it's all good.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
It was not. He did an interview with us, he
had a good time, we talked about his nickname, and
the next game he got hurt.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
That is not lady, That is not the true story.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Now, I don't remember this show being a kiss of
death because we've had plenty of other guys after playoff games,
college and pro on this show.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Sure, and but but of course the guys that keep
coming to mind right now are well, Mike Woodson came
on the show and boy, thanks, I haven't been really
good for Indiana and they lost by fifty tonight. Okay,
so that's the first thing that came to my mind.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
So un this guy.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Alford Knuckles, who is a vegetarian or doesn't eat any
fish or anything, what was he a vegan?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Wanted him to go sign Sonic burger Steve David Montgomery, Yeah,
oh my goodness, did.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
You actually no?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Yeah, well, because obviously there's Sonic and Knuckle.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Next day he's heart.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
There's no Knuckle, there's no knuckleburger anywhere. I would have
said that he doesn't have to eat while he is
at Sonic.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
He should just go and.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Sign the autographs while Jamir Gibski, Jamir Gibsky, Okay, Sonic
come here. He just gotta sign autographs. I was look
at a way to get him some money, and you.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Could have the shakes and the frozen drink and just
a void the meat altogether.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Exactly. You're just about science, is not about hey coming
here to eat food. Now you're showing up there, you're
just signing autograph.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Not only did you not get him money, but you
cost him money.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I did.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
That must cost him his career.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
How do I cost money? That makes sense?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
They still get paid. He wasn't suspended, He was just injured.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
By the suspending him.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
After the interview on Fox Sports three.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Yeah, well if they had heard it, sure, Yeah, that
might be a separate thing. That was a great interview.
Toil Sonic.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
It was fine, and he just listen and he just
said what I said, Hey, you should sign something at Sonic.
He said, I'm gonna pass on that. Okay, great, And
then I found out he was a vegssari. Okay, so
all right.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
But later that same night, I have a furger.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I didn't go go do this.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I didn't say that, just said, hey, go to Sonic.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
And if there was a knuckles place that had knuckles
in it, I would say, go there and and and
sign autographs.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
You know what, you're gonna get a knuckle.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
You're Jason about the Detroit Lions because after the bye
week for them to start the postseason, they were, after all,
the one seed in the NFC fifteen and two they're
going to be on Fox TV Saturday night hosting a
Washington team that's won six in a row.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Two points. Two questions for you.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
One, are you as shocked as I that Montgomery apparently
will be his old self, not just active, but a
regular part of the offense when he could have had
surgery and we wouldn't see him in the playoffs at all. Second,
Washington being the hot team with the hot rookie quarterback.
How much of a chance do you give them at Detroit?
Speaker 5 (31:30):
All right, I'll take the first part of the question first.
I'm going to answer that.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Look, as long as you don't say, I'll take the
rest off the air, and I'll take.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
It off the air. Thanks guys doing a great job.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
This is a great show.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
It's awesome.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
So look, I'm not surprised David Montgomery, because look that
God wants to play. Of course, this is a super
Bowl or bust year for the Lions, and guys are
gonna do anything they can to be part of it.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
And it wasn't knee injury. It was no small fan.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yeah, well, I'll think for a second they're going to
put him out there if they really you know, it
was like, okay, the case of reinjury is really big.
I don't think that was going to happen. I mean, look,
and quite honestly, if he goes out there and he's
not feeling it or he's not not his normal self,
Jamir Gibbs, since the injury has been terrific, he's the
better running back. He's he's electric. I would take him
(32:18):
over any other running back in the NFL right now.
The last game, yeahs, I take him over Curtis Martin.
I take him over Saquon. I take him over Derrick
Henry because of what he does, the pressure he puts
on the other defense, catch the ball out of the
back field running. He can handle twenty plus touches a game.
Like if you're saying, hey, boy, this injury really hurt
us in Detroit, boy, now they had to give the
(32:40):
ball more to Jamir Gibbs and look, the offense has
been fantastic.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Yea. And what about the chances for Washington Saturday Night.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
I have family that listen to the show every night,
that texts me every day. You really think I'm going
to pick plus?
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Really they got me that I was all the Michigan
got me for Christmas.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
So officially, you're saying, Washington commanders have no chance in
Detroit Saturday Night.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
No. Detroit Detroit forty eight, Washington negative six.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Steve, you know what that means Washington and a seventh
straight win for No.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
This is like a day for Jadeen Daniels three hundred
through the air and two hundred on the ground.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
This would like be asking Harmon and Friends about the
Bears in the middies. Oh, I thought you met like
it was a mini didco? Okay, only forty two to two?
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Then that kind of thing. We should call Hollis Hall
or Hallis Hall will get a hold of Harmony Place Hall. Well,
we will ball, we will break.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Now, we will have both of our co hosts in
studio shortly. And a reminder, that is the Fox TV
game Saturday Night, Washington and Detroit. This Washington franchise that
hadn't won a playoff game since the two thousand and
five season until Sunday Night, had been owned five since
in the postseason. Now their run defense is among the
worst in the league. They allowed twenty three points a game,
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worst among playoff teams, and they're going up against the
top seed on the road. They need magic from the
rookie quarterback. Let's take a break. We're back with more
NFL talk and NBA updates in a moment.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Welcome inside, Hey, this sounds better, Hi buddy, The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Good to
see you Steve de Sager justin Frossberg giving you forty
five minutes of the Charger postgame show.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Oh, we had technical difficulties here.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Just explain what was going on so tonight because of
the high wins in the area with the LA wildfire schedule,
this is the worst time, right. We talked about it
a night ago that we got to get to six
pm Wednesday. That was the moment that everybody is pointing
to the fire department singlet's get to that. But with
the wins so high, you and I were doing the
show show from home tonight, and then right before the show,
(35:03):
Frostburg calls us both and said, hey, we got technical problems.
Get in, get in, get in, get in. So Harmon
and I getting our cars and break speed records to
get here. Two big accidents on the four h five
on the way, including one guy who's I don't know
what happened, but his car stalled and and he was
in the middle lane, and he was in his car
and he was holding his phone out of the window
(35:23):
like like with the flashlight on, and I'm like, you
have big headlights on you we can see your car
is there.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
But if I hold my phone out and wave it
like a concert. Yeah, exactly. So as soon as you
said there's a car stalled and the guy is still
in his seat, I first thought it's Jordan Addison, isn't it.
And then he wasn't asleep, so apparently everything was It
was somebody else. I don't know why. I know why
he thought.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
But if I hold my phone out the window, people
will know to go around me. Now, people that we've
seen accidents before, you know, go to around him. So
the last forty five minutes, it's been harm I do't
know if you've listened, but it's been me on the
phone and Steve and Justin and it was the Chargers postgame.
We got into the Chargers of the eighties. Then we
broke down the Super Bowl year in nineteen ninety four,
(36:07):
we talked, We had an interview with al Papunu really
caught that big pass in the AFC title game in
ninety four.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
On Rod Woodson still remembers the last time the Jets
were good.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
H no, No.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
We went to back to back AFC title games in
twenty ten and twenty.
Speaker 8 (36:19):
Sanchez banking on job again because of oh good.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Time showing you videos.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Actually Mark Sanchez got brought up this weekend because with
Jade and Daniels, a rookie quarterback winning a road playoff game,
they're saying, hey, since Sanchez Placo people like that as rookies,
this hadn't happen.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
I got news for you.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Take a look at the list of quarterbacks with more
road wins than Mark Sanchez in the playoffs. D that
went after him talking about eating a hot dog on
the sideline too, Yes, that was this weekend.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
It was a little Sanchez you think good going on?
Do you think Mark Sanchez bought Nate Cating a house? Uh?
I remember that miss field goal? I was there, Thank you,
that misfit? That was all then that game that was
Marty Schottenheimer. Oh yeah yeah, in all his glory of.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Why he doesn't win playoff games. Hey, we're on the
edge of field goal range. Let's just run three running
plays straight into the center of the line and kick it.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Get out of here.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Wait a minute, it's a rookie kicker on wet grass.
Is he gonna who cares.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Three running plays straight into the center of the line.
This is this is what the show was, we Wedowa.
He should be able to do it. We had gotten
up to twenty fifteen twenty sixteen Chargers, when.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
Of anger that's been bottled up just to the surface
today you.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Can One update is there is an NBA blowout tonight
with Denver leading at Dallas seventy seventy one forty five.
Denver at the half. Jamal Murray in nineteen minutes has
thirty two points in the first half.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Hey, you got more on Portland and Brooklyn. No, that's
that's a huge game tonight. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Like during your update when you said a game that
you know only a dozen or so people want Portland
and Brooklyn, I'm like, yeah, but I got up there
Portland on the.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
The previous show tonight, I have predicted that nobody could
actually name anybody on the Brooklyn Nets. And then somebody said,
wait a minute, they kid, they did make a trade.
So D'Angelo Russell is playing, even if he's.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Not, Sarry Martin, Edgar Jones. I still go back to
Keith van Horn, Keith and Todd McCulloch.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
You know, every every few years Keith van Horn's contract
gets brought up, like, hey, we could trade Keith van
horns contract hasn't played in the Nbas's two thousand and
three and his name comes up because there's something weird
with his contract where you could trade his contract as
part of a salary duck.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Twenty years after he actually was on the court.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
And I don't know how, but I guarantee you if
you interviewed him, he would still have socks up to
his niece.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Can you still do that? With the John Contact contract
that was.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Only five years and twelve million? Think about that was
five years and twelve millions.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Like when people thought the big Reggie Jackson contract, Oh
my goodness, they're paying five million dollars for no wait
a minute, wasn't.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
It five years and three million dollars total?
Speaker 8 (39:01):
Or still on the dole?
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Ludicrous?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (39:04):
Still, he hasn't played in no no since he was
a White Sox Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
And if I want to get it right, I want
to say Ricky Henderson was the first player three million
a year.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
I think he was the first. I remember me Buckett
was around there.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, but I remember for the longest time it was
all the big players were getting their extensions. It was
two point eight one million a year. Now this guy
got two point eight four million two years ago. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Once they broke three million, like that was it.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
It went to every it was three to eight to ten,
it was but so many bad Hey, highest paid player
two point nine to one. I'm getting two point nine
one five, two point nine two, two point nine two two.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Well, that's what's gonna come up here in the next
few weeks in baseball because they're gonna have arbitration hearings
and so like Alex BESSI is coming off a great
bullpen year and the bullpen saved them more than once,
needless to say, for the Dodgers, and I think it's
literally like, we want to pay you two million, I'm
asking two point two oh for.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Crying out loud. Are we gonna have a hearing over this?
Speaker 8 (39:58):
How much?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
How much deferred money do you have? Franchise.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Let's just there should not be an arbitration hearing on.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
The Gazaki they have to add in there, and I
want you to stock my soda machine for the next
three years.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
That's right, paying for soda.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
You guys that you are.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
By the way, if people are expecting Sasaki, the young
fisher from Japan to sign as soon as like the
day breaks on business tomorrow, it's just the start of
the window. It could be a full seven or eight
days before he actually goes. It's already done with anybody
Padres included. The Padres are a finalist who told you
was already done from the Padres aren't really finalists.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
They just have to say that to make things look
like two people are in.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
The rest, and then you give them a swinging neck.
Exactly with the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
This would be.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
This would be the exact signing.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
The Padres neat because they've done nothing else this offseason
and they've painted themselves into the corner with all these contracts,
so many long term contracts, they can't do much. And
yet this wouldn't cost much to get a starting pitch.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
So we'll be on Sasaki watch the next few hours.
But straight ahead, let's go. Yeah, we're back, we're in.
We're all good.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Mike Tomlin. We have to get into this. That's next, Jason, Mike, Steve, Justin,
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
This is Steve de Seger and our Fox Sports Radio
studios in Los Angeles. We're still hooking up with the
guys who are on location, shall we say, And while
the WiFi is not completely.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Down here at the studio, there have been.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It's been a spotty mess that is not helping and
getting in connection with our two hosts. So momentarily that's
gonna happen. We've got a lot of football to discuss
this evening either way, and a guy who played for
three NFL teams this season, well the third team even
said goodbye to him because Deontay Johnson is I won't
say out of the league, but he is out of
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a job yet again. The Texans today waved wide receiver
Deontay Johnson after only two games there now his first
team in the league, he lasted a few years. This
year three different teams started with Carolina, then Baltimore, then Houston,
and remember the Ravens had suspended him before they cut him,
and then a team that's still in the playoffs. The
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Texans waved Deontay Johnson today. Houston wide receiver Robert Woods
misspractice with a hip injury. Tight End Dalton Schultz was
limited with a shoulder injury. Houston tight end Cad Stover
was placed on injury reserve. Golden Headphones just in his nickname,
he is Steve.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
You're blaming you on the Wi FI. Did the Knicks lose?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Holy, that could be playing that we lost last night? Right, Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And in fact, Karl Anthony Town's questionable for Wednesday because
he got hurt last night, sprained right thumb.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I knew it was not definitely out, but there will
be some sort of I knew it was related, Steve.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I wanted to bring you in, not only because Jason's
not here so we don't have to talk about the
Knicks or the Mets or the Jets, but you were
in Houston at the Texans playoff game over the weekend
that was a game where I know forever and history
it's written in ink. They won a playoff game. They
were down six nothing to the Chargers late in the
(02:22):
first half. Your impressions of the playoff game that opened
wild Card weekend.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Ooh, I don't know if I'm ready to talk.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
About it yet, Steve, Because fair to say, as objective
as I can be, for three quarters, neither team was
terribly impressive. Fair to say, oh, it was such a
winnable game. That's I think, that's absolutely absolutely it was.
And justin Herbert, we'd never seen him play this bad.
I wouldn't put all four reception interceptions on him. Doesn't matter.
(02:50):
It's an l and Houston, of course, you noticed got
that time slot. They've maybe playoffs eight times. All eight
times they put him in the afternoon times to open
wild card weekends. Keep them as far away out, yeah,
keep them game from frometime. No say guess what, guess
where they're playing. It's even the Chiefs is the opponent
this weekend. Houston has the afternoon time slot to begin
(03:13):
the divisional playoffs This Saturday four teen, via.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Taxis Houston playing first on Wildcard.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Week So ESPN kind of gets stuck with the Texans
no offense. But we'll get to the ratings in just
a moment. Do you know that Chiefs hosted and beat
Houston not that long ago, just before Christmas twenty seven
to nineteen. Any predictions on what Patrick Mahomes is going
to look like? People will have already complained that he
hasn't had a Mahomes like season this year. By the way,
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they are the one seed. They didn't have to play
this past weekend. This is still a good team and
a great play all year. They didn't They didn't score
over thirty points in a single game this year and
still had the best record.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
In the two You got the refs on your side,
makes things easy. Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That is the Chargers producer speaking, and fifteen and two
was the it's a great defense and they do have.
I mentioned this on one of the shows in the
last couple of days talking about the Chargers post mortem.
You could see once they get got into the playoffs
that it's just year one of Harbaugh as coach. Such
an improvement over the previous year and the previous regime.
(04:19):
I mean from the start it was an obvious cultural change,
and then it wound up in the standings and obvious.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Change, Steve. They won five games last year.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
That's right, and went from double digit losses to double
digit wins in one year.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I mean, I can't tell you lifelong charge of Fanny.
I cannot tell you how good it is to have
a real football head coach. Never had it before.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So Houston winds up leading ten to six in the
third quarter, which kind of showed to me the game
as it progressed last Saturday. What they don't have yet
on this roster compared to pretty much every other playoff
roster that we saw this past weekend. They don't have
a healthy go to running back every game for a
full season. I don't even mean Sekuon Barkley. I just
(05:03):
mean a healthy, reliable running back. It doesn't mean that JK.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Dobbins can't be that guy, but the health has been
an issue in his young career every time.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
The other thing is as wonderful as the draft choice
was in the second round of Lad McConkie from George.
What a golden fine, one thousand yard receiver he turns
out to be. You see on the other side of
the ball last weekend, a guy that can be an
a one receiver for years. Nico Collins said seven catches
one hundred and twenty two yards for Houston and a
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touchdown ever heard of them and James Cook the next
day for Buffalo.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
It's just that kind of at the skill positions on
offense I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It's that kind of player that the Chargers just don't
possess at this point after year one of the hardball regime.
So they won double digits this year. Yes, the schedule
will get harder, but I assume the roster will get better.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
That absolutely will. They crushed the diraft last year. I
expect them to crush it again.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Steve, And that was also the way Harbaugh was gonna
go when they lost for financial reasons. Let's be quite
frank that they went all in the previous year and
crashed and burned spectacularly and fired the coach before the
year was over, and then had to make a choice.
We can't keep all of these guys, so Bosa was
(06:21):
keptain Khalil Mack was kept, Keenan Allen know Mike Williams
at wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
No.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So they had very little at white out this year
and still I know first month of the season they
didn't pass much at all, but still it wound up
roughly twenty three touchdown passes three interceptions.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I think for Justin Nerber for the season.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Crazy so for him to have that game last weekend
after yet another good season, and he's had five good
seasons in this league.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
That was a notable bad game.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
But there was a total of seven turnovers in the game,
only about half from the visitors. So as we get
into this matchup on Saturday, Kansas City hosting Houston, of
course it should be the Chiefs winning this huston an
average scoring just twenty two points a game in the
regular season, which is quite low for a playoff team.
Kansas City's defense is there, and not just this year.
(07:10):
Chris Jones, by the way, practicing and just fine. He'd
had the calf injury. Patrick Mahomes full practice today after
the ankle injury. He's had three weeks off Mahomes.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
But yeah, we actually have a caller, So okay, I
want to talk some Charger Charger football. Here. Let's go
to the line West La. Hello, you're on the show.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Hi, this is Sharon Moore. I really had trouble at
quarterback this year, so I wonder if you have any advice,
if you could talk to Jim Harbaugh what I should
do for next year, because well, he took all the
good guys with him when he left.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
He took the whole staff with him as well, not
just players. I will add to that.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Mister Jason Smith. Can you somehow get JJ McCarthy to
reverse eligibility and have him go backwards to Michigan because
you know he didn't Is that some sort of red
shirt that he can go.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
By he didn't play again? Well, now, listen, the rules
in college football now are so crazy. As long as
he doesn't play five games in the NFL, he can
go back to college whenever he wants to.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
That's my game.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
He could have started the first four games of this
year right Green Bay, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, and then
he doesn't play and then he goes back to school.
It works. That's how the rules work now.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
So it's kind of like a JC year is really
what it counts like? I think he can go backwards
for the.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Next five minutes. It does, and then then it will change. So,
but for right now, these are the rules.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's awesome now as well as you called we're talking
about the Houston Texans, a team that doesn't have much
offense compared to a lot of the other playoff teams
that we're seeing. Is it just as obvious as it
seems that the Chiefs, despite the time off and it's
a lot of time off for the amount of people
they set in the regular season finale, that the Chiefs
should eventually roll, not just win, but win pretty easily
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at home on Saturday to open there's no playoffs.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Well, I gotta say this, and I know it's uh,
you know, it's only Tuesday, and usually will make these
these decisions and these sticks until the end of the week.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
But as you can tell, we're.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
In a really crazy show right now.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
This is the charge of.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Postgame show that I'm calling it. Normally, the show that's
on in this in this time slot is fantastic. I
think you guys doing a great job. I think I'm
doing a great job. Steve, you're doing a great job.
Justin you're doing a great job. It's a great show.
It's the most fun shown on Fox Sports Radio. You
should get rid of the guys who are on this
side slot. They're they don't talk about their favorite teams enough.
(09:37):
I need to hear more about the Jets. I don't
get it. I don't hear more about them, get it.
I need more things like that like this on the show.
You guys talking about your teams. This is what I need.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Actually we're talking playoffs, which of course would not be
a Jets conversation. Bears, we just as the show began
this hour, this segment. We said this out loud, but
you know we were thinking this anyway. It was our
one opportunity to have an opening now hour without mentioning the.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Jets or the Knicks. Oh, it's phenomenal. Therefore, I thought
we would take advantage.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Well, I think you guys have done a great job.
I really do, and I think that listen, I think
maybe a National Charger postgame show has a big future.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Can we ask, as far as tonight's show, can we
go behind the curtain that it's actually possible that you
and or Mike could be on the show tonight, that
it's just on.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
The show right now, it's.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Just I'm on the show technically, you are, that it's
just a technical glitch and that we'll get things back
and you never know.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
It's not like you're out of state right.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I can't tell you how fast I got When Frostburg said, hey,
technical stuff, you gotta come in. It was it was
like a pit stop and Nascar. I was like, shoes jacket,
I'm going. My wife is like, what's happened to though?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Going in? Go take food?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I go, no time I go order food, Just take something.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I go.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
No, I have no time.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
I gotta go.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I gotta get on the show. Start. It's already started.
And who knows what kind of charger stuff is being
set on the air right now.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
So I think mccaffee on this fantasy team, Yes, they
don't one of the leads.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
This might be the you know, this might be the
future of radio at some point where you know, instead
of being in a studio to people just do shows
from their cars as they're driving. And that's part of
the thing is, Oh they're driving and talking and doing
a show. Look at the Look at the multi purposes
that's going on here.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I have seen ze I have seen talk shows with
Zoom and one of the two co hosts is talking
in his cars and.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You can do a whole other show and just hang
up on you.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
By the way, can you confirm it's not just me.
The traffic in Los Angeles has been unexpectedly superb in
recent days for obvious reasons.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
But the traffic has been great.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Yeah, except you say that. And now I get in
my car and I'm at a standstill. I haven't even
gotten to the ten yet, and I don't know what's happened.
It showed me a half hour driving into work and
then in the last couple of minutes it's gone forty
forty five, So something must have happened in front of me.
Maybe I will double as a traffic person. It's like
an offer, like you just got to play the.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Lolo bloh blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Half on the final five. Here's traffic on the fourth
Chas and Stick.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
What do you see? We'll believing in the fool. I
see there's a poor trying to get to work and
it's really not going to be alarm Cut.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
It's gonna be a while before they got there. Oh boy,
living there's chasing Strick. You are completely screwed. Go back
to the studio.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
How the Jets finish their uh interview with John Eric Sullivan?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yet you mean the kid from Malcolm in the middle
who played Dewey. He got an interview. Wow, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Well of the interim guy, you may as well just
keep going.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Well, look, I don't even think some of these names
that Jets are talking to now are real. I don't think.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
I think they're just throwing names out there look like
they're doing it.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
They're just making sun has been done for years. Joe Walton,
I think Joe Walton is next.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
They're going through their high school yearbooks looking at names,
going ah, this dude was funny. I'll say we interviewed him. Oh,
that's great.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And for those who didn't hear, former Jets coach Robert
Sala did interview with Jacksonville today for that head coach opening,
and without harmon here I'll mention that his bears are
due to officially interview former Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy
on Wednesday, and the Saints are expected to talk to
him next week. Of course, McCarthy just let go as
they couldn't agree on a new deal with the Cowboys.
(13:30):
His playoff record in five years with Dallas was one
in three. That's not the kind of thing that would
keep you from getting a Bears job, you would think. Nonetheless,
those are the facts.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
You know. My favorite part about the solid story is that,
you know what was his biggest thing in New York?
The defense was great, but boy, he really couldn't get
anything offense. To the offense, we're terrible. He couldn't bring
along a young quarterback. They got rid of Zach Wilson,
he got fired. What are they gonna have him do
with Jacksonville? Well, you got a kind of along Trevor
Lawrence and make him into something that's really good, Like
(14:03):
we've seen that fail, Like we've seen him failed exactly
what you're gonna ask him to do. But I guess
maybe the Jaguars are throwing the hands up saying, well
always the defense will be good. I don't know the
defense will be good, but the offense I don't know.
I mean, like, how is he the guy gets the
interview on a team that needs somebody with a big
offensive background to hopefully unleash. You know, it is one
(14:24):
of the ninth year of his contract for Trevor Lawrence
that he's finally gonna be good.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
You got a question, they did.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Have something question, Yes, what does this have to do
with the Charger game. The hell is this guy talking
about it? No more call Steve, No more calls.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
To save the show.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I would add Jacksonville is probably just like the Bears,
where they've got a list of ten or twelve names.
Let's just crash through these and meet with as many
people as we can get here.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I look like we're lost anyway as a franchise. Let's
just go through it.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Well, that's how you win it, you know. Forget about
the old philosophy that works at Hey, you're a destination.
You hear one or two names, and that's the name
that winds up being the coach. No, no, no, let's
have a nationwide search. Let's get to like twenty twenty
five names like and you show me you have no
idea what you want or what you're looking for without
telling you you have no idea what you want you're
(15:19):
looking for? Instead of talking to one or two people,
Now let's say we don't know these ideas they might have.
Let's talk to sixteen, seventeen, eighteen people. We don't know
what we're looking for, we know we want, we have
no idea. Let's just do this and really show everybody.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Boy, we just have no clue, Steve I detections just
scored again. Well that's not possible. It's detections, Jason Smith.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Can you say before we break here that for sure
this hour you'll be here in studio, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Dion Sanders from last night where I uh where, when
he was asked about his interrom the Cowboys just I'm
very healthy and Boulder and I and uh, it's very
flattering they called me. So there's no confirmation, no denial.
I will say that I'm gonna do my best to
get there as fast as I bleep and can, and
that includes driving on two wheels. However, I'm not gonna
(16:12):
say I will definitely be there at eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So, in other words, he's saying, I'm very happy to
be in my car and I'm glad you called me.
So let's take a break here. Listening to Fox Sports Radio,
we have so much more on the NFL and today's
news and the playoffs coming for the weekend, and we'll
get to the TV ratings for this past weekend that
are now out. Who had the top rated game of
all the wild Card weekend matchups? We'll get to that
(16:35):
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Speaker 4 (16:37):
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Speaker 3 (17:54):
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on their Way in Jason Smith and Mike Harmon Harmon
Chicago Bulls were losers at home tonight two New Orleans
one nineteen to one.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Thirteen.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
New Orleans was eight and thirty two coming in. We'll
get to the NFL TV ratings over the weekend in
a moment, but I will mention to our beloved Jason Smith.
Once you get past the Getty center of the four
or five, things are okay. It's just anybody driving the
four or five freeway in LA. Of course, you can't
take an off ramp due to the fires. Literally every
(18:28):
off ramp is closed, so there is that you're kind
of literally stuck on the freeway once you get on
that freeway. But does anybody have a guess on what
might have been the highest rated NFL playoff game over
the weekend? Now, we had a couple on Saturday, we
had three on Sunday. We had the Monday night game
with the Rams win in Arizona against the Vikings, which
(18:50):
was the most viewed. As the TV ratings are out
for the wildcard.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Week, well, I think everybody was waiting to see Saquon Barkley.
It was in fact equal.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah, it was Packers and Eagles on Sunday afternoon. And uh,
I won't say it was the equal of having a
Cowboys game in that slot because it was down about
ten percent from when it was Packers Cowboys last year.
But memo to the NFL, there's no Dallas Cowboys in
the playoffs this year, so your ratings are just not
going to equal what a Cowboys game can normally give you.
(19:22):
By the way, what's the highest rated NFL game of
the whole season?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Still?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
It's the Cowboys Thanksgiving game on Fox. It's no, clearly no,
you didn't say the game twice and three times.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
No.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
The number three game on the list for the whole
season now is that Packers Eagles Wildcard game on Fox.
About thirty five million viewers last Sunday last night got
twenty five million the Monday night game and that's if
you add up ABC and ESPN and the Manning cast
all of that. For Vikings rams was twenty five million.
(19:57):
Number one was Packers Eagles, And this is really an
indication of a couple of things. One how strong the
NFL audiences are compared to other sports audiences. And then
the obvious that it just dwarfs any other program in
all of television, drama, comedy, documentary, whatever you can throw
up there, Packers Eagles. And like most of the games
(20:20):
this weekend, you know, it wasn't one that you're going
to write home about. Thirty five million people were watching
this thing, So we expect better ratings and better matchups
as we get to the division.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Guys, imagine the ratings had Jordan Love been vocal.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
In case you didn't hear, that's apparently the new tack
for Green Bay. And okay, this is kind of a
Jets mentioned I don't want to violate our pact here
justin but the guy who was the quarterbacks coaching Green
Bay that Aaron Rodgers said, can you please come back
and unretire and be my assistant coaching green Tom Clements,
is actually retiring.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
The veteran quarterbacks coach for the Packers is saying, this
is it?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
How old is he?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
He was Notre Dame's quarterback over fifty years ago when
they and USC were dominating college football nineteen seventy two
to seventy four. Tom Clements was the Irish quarterback for
those three years, including the undefeated team in nineteen seventy three,
probably start for the Jets.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Plait, Roger Clemens was
coaching Jordan Love and Grass amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Tom Clemens with a tea.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
And while we're talking.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
While we're talking, Notre Dame, Tommy Reeves is in the
news today because the Browns are promoting him at age
thirty two to offensive coordinator, former Notre Dame quarterback, former
Notre Dame offensive coordinator. And the great story is Tommy
Reeve's dad was Cleveland's director of player personnel about twenty
years ago for five years. So Tommy Reeves grew up
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with the Browns and in fact was the Cleveland Browns
ball boy at one point. And now he is the
Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator. Now it's literally have Jesus as
their offensive coordinator. Will no, no, because that occurred with
Notre Dame and that as a recall offense didn't look
for it again.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
That's a plot of draft day. What are you talking
about bah Boys coaches.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
A team fires, his dad, dad dies of a heart attack.
He takes over the team.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Hey, spoiler alert, they.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Traded a quarterback, then they trade back to get draft picks.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
That's the plot of Draft Day.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I feel like we say that phrase every other night
here on this show with you, mister movie spoiler alert.
Tommy Rees promoted by the Browns at a very young age.
Now it's let's go back to the Rams from last night.
As an example, Sean mcmay was facing a guy who
was his offensive coordinator. Right Kevin became the Vikings head
(22:44):
coach after being a Sean McVay assistant, he had the
offensive coordinator title. You and I both know that Sean
McVay didn't give up play calling duties. The next thing
to see in Cleveland is that mean Kevin Stefanski is
going to be the play caller in Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
It doesn't mean this assistant is doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
But usually when you think offensive coordinator, it's automatically play caller.
Recent years, especially in the NFL, that's not necessarily the case.
Jase does mean it's not worth being on staff or
anything like that. It's just not the last stop on
the play.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Well, look, I think when you when you're when you're
trying to look at the age of.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Guys and and how old they are, why not.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
I mean, this is one of those This is one
of those hiring cycles in the NFL where there are
no great candidates.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
You know, what do we see last night?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Deon's name is out there. I'm sure John Gruden is
going come on, phone ring ring. I'm up at three
thirty in the morning every day, ring ring. So now
you're getting a lot of unconventional phone calls. It's like, well,
we're not going Mike Rabel's gone, We're probably not going
to get Ben Johnson. Everybody else is kind of is
like ten miles behind. So why not why not give
(23:54):
somebody young. Maybe we get the next Mike Tomlin. You know,
maybe we don't and we get the next Adam Gase,
but maybe we do, and maybe it works out that way.
So I think that this is going to become more
of the norm than it is the outlier over this
hiring cycle, just because there's not a lot of guys
out there.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
And we'll talk about Tomlin as we go down the road.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Jason Smith, we will see you in person shortly you
and Mike Harmon and for the rest of the show
in studio. We look forward to that and thank you
for joining us part time on the way up to
the studios. Let's get to the music. It's bottom of
the hour. Let's get an update because there are NBA
games going on, and the Denver Nuggets are already leading
(24:35):
late first half sixty four to thirty nine. At Dallas,
Jamal Murray has twenty eight points already for the Dallas MAVs.
They do have Kyrie Irving playing tonight after the bad
back he had missed five games. Irving is three of ten,
nine points, but a huge deficit for the home team
there the late game, and I mean nobody outside of
(24:57):
Brooklyn and Portland is going to pay attention to this.
The Nets, who've lost five in a row, are leading
twenty seven to twenty four against the Blazers late in
the first quarter. The Sacramento Kings had won seven in
a row, but trailed by twenty one after the first quarter.
At Milwaukee, the Bucks beat The Kings won thirty to one, fifteen.
New Orleans a winner at Chicago one nineteen one thirteen.
(25:17):
The Pelicans had been eight and thirty two this year,
and Atlanta Tree Young with forty three points in a
close win over Phoenix won twenty two to one seventeen.
DeAndre Hunter of the Hawks, averaging nineteen points a game,
was out with a sore foot, and both Cleveland and
Oklahoma City each one again. Cleveland is thirty four and
five after a victory at Indiana won twenty seven one seventeen.
(25:38):
Donovan Mitchell thirty five points. The Pacers six game winning
streak is over. Tyrese Haliburton of the Pacers was out
tonight with a strang groin. Philadelphia did not have due
to injuries Joel Embiid, Paul George, or Tyrese Maxi, and
they were hosting Oklahoma City, a team that's now thirty
three and six. OKSE has won eighteen of its last
(25:59):
nineteen game games. The Thunder one at Philadelphia one eighteen
one oh two. Shay Gilgos Alexander started ten of ten
shooting from the floor, thirty two points for him. Joel
Embiid is missing a fifth straight game tonight with his
sprain foot, Paul George sat out with a sore ankle,
and Tyrese Maxi was out with a left hand injury.
Upset in college basketball at number four Alabama twenty first
(26:21):
ranked ole Miss took him down seventy four to sixty four.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Near upset at De Paul.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
This is a DePaul team that did not have a
conference win this year and yet took number seven ranked
Marquette to overtime. Marquette wins at eighty five eighty three
college started, You could you can write that down in Penn.
It has actually started. We're in mid January, not in
mid March. And De Paul is oh to seven in
the Big East. Now Victory's four, Auburn over Mississippi State
(26:47):
for Kentucky, which beat Texas A and M, and Illinois
dominated at Indiana. Among the NHL games and there are thirteen,
Boston beat Tampa Bay six to two. The Texans waived
wide receiver Deontay Johnson after two games there. Lions running
back David Montgomery participated fully at walk through after last
month's knee injury, and also for Detroit, defensive back Terry
(27:09):
and Arnold was a full participant. News from Washington that
linebacker Bobby Wagner missed practice with an ankle injury, and
wide receiver Jamison Crowder rested because of his hamstring. Washington's
kicker here last weekend, Zane Gonzalez, limited in practice by
a hip injury, and a reminder of the College football
National Championship game isn't until Monday night in Atlanta. The reason,
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as we saw with the early rounds of the college playoffs,
they don't want to go up against the NFL on TV.
So Monday night we've got seven seed Notre Dame against
eight seed Ohio State. That's the fourteen and one Irish
underdogs against the Buckeyes, who are thirteen and two. Ohio
State this year was ten and one until losing that
(27:51):
game at home to Michigan thirteen to ten, completely laid
at egg and here they are on the verge of
a national title anyway, because since then Ohio State is
eating up Tennessee and beating up number one Oregon easy
wins there, and then they eliminated Texas twenty eight to fourteen.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
That game was tied mid fourth quarter. What time does
USC play? That's a no? What do you mean? No?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I believe USC basketball men's and women's is in progress. No,
I've looked, No, there is no US.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
But it's funny that you brought up David Montgomery.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
There because he's playing and didn't have surgery. We actually
know the guy who was responsible for his injury.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
We do, Yeah, we do. And he's on the phone
right now standing five collar collar.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Hi, this is Dan Campbell. It's four down.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
I'm going for it.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
I'm going it is not my fault that. It's not
my fault that David Montgomery got hurt and now.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
He's back, so it's all good.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
It was not. He did an interview with us, he
had a good time, we talked about his nickname, and
the next game he got hurt.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
That is not lady, That is not the true story.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Now, I don't remember this show being a kiss of
death because we've had plenty of other guys after playoff games,
college and pro on this show.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Sure, and but but of course the guys that keep
coming to mind right now are well, Mike Woodson came
on the show and boy, thanks, I haven't been really
good for Indiana and they lost by fifty tonight. Okay,
so that's the first thing that came to my mind.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
So un this guy.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Alford Knuckles, who is a vegetarian or doesn't eat any
fish or anything, what was he a vegan?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Wanted him to go sign Sonic burger Steve David Montgomery, Yeah,
oh my goodness, did.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
You actually no?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Yeah, well, because obviously there's Sonic and Knuckle.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Next day he's heart.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
There's no Knuckle, there's no knuckleburger anywhere. I would have
said that he doesn't have to eat while he is
at Sonic.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
He should just go and.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Sign the autographs while Jamir Gibski, Jamir Gibsky, Okay, Sonic
come here. He just gotta sign autographs. I was look
at a way to get him some money, and you.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Could have the shakes and the frozen drink and just
a void the meat altogether.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Exactly. You're just about science, is not about hey coming
here to eat food. Now you're showing up there, you're
just signing autograph.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Not only did you not get him money, but you
cost him money.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I did.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
That must cost him his career.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
How do I cost money? That makes sense?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
They still get paid. He wasn't suspended, He was just injured.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
By the suspending him.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
After the interview on Fox Sports three.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Yeah, well if they had heard it, sure, Yeah, that
might be a separate thing. That was a great interview.
Toil Sonic.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
It was fine, and he just listen and he just
said what I said, Hey, you should sign something at Sonic.
He said, I'm gonna pass on that. Okay, great, And
then I found out he was a vegssari. Okay, so
all right.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
But later that same night, I have a furger.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I didn't go go do this.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I didn't say that, just said, hey, go to Sonic.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
And if there was a knuckles place that had knuckles
in it, I would say, go there and and and
sign autographs.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
You know what, you're gonna get a knuckle.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
You're Jason about the Detroit Lions because after the bye
week for them to start the postseason, they were, after all,
the one seed in the NFC fifteen and two they're
going to be on Fox TV Saturday night hosting a
Washington team that's won six in a row.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Two points. Two questions for you.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
One, are you as shocked as I that Montgomery apparently
will be his old self, not just active, but a
regular part of the offense when he could have had
surgery and we wouldn't see him in the playoffs at all. Second,
Washington being the hot team with the hot rookie quarterback.
How much of a chance do you give them at Detroit?
Speaker 5 (31:30):
All right, I'll take the first part of the question first.
I'm going to answer that.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Look, as long as you don't say, I'll take the
rest off the air, and I'll take.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
It off the air. Thanks guys doing a great job.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
This is a great show.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
It's awesome.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
So look, I'm not surprised David Montgomery, because look that
God wants to play. Of course, this is a super
Bowl or bust year for the Lions, and guys are
gonna do anything they can to be part of it.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
And it wasn't knee injury. It was no small fan.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yeah, well, I'll think for a second they're going to
put him out there if they really you know, it
was like, okay, the case of reinjury is really big.
I don't think that was going to happen. I mean, look,
and quite honestly, if he goes out there and he's
not feeling it or he's not not his normal self,
Jamir Gibbs, since the injury has been terrific, he's the
better running back. He's he's electric. I would take him
(32:18):
over any other running back in the NFL right now.
The last game, yeahs, I take him over Curtis Martin.
I take him over Saquon. I take him over Derrick
Henry because of what he does, the pressure he puts
on the other defense, catch the ball out of the
back field running. He can handle twenty plus touches a game.
Like if you're saying, hey, boy, this injury really hurt
us in Detroit, boy, now they had to give the
(32:40):
ball more to Jamir Gibbs and look, the offense has
been fantastic.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Yea. And what about the chances for Washington Saturday Night.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
I have family that listen to the show every night,
that texts me every day. You really think I'm going
to pick plus?
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Really they got me that I was all the Michigan
got me for Christmas.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
So officially, you're saying, Washington commanders have no chance in
Detroit Saturday Night.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
No. Detroit Detroit forty eight, Washington negative six.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Steve, you know what that means Washington and a seventh
straight win for No.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
This is like a day for Jadeen Daniels three hundred
through the air and two hundred on the ground.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
This would like be asking Harmon and Friends about the
Bears in the middies. Oh, I thought you met like
it was a mini didco? Okay, only forty two to two?
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Then that kind of thing. We should call Hollis Hall
or Hallis Hall will get a hold of Harmony Place Hall. Well,
we will ball, we will break.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Now, we will have both of our co hosts in
studio shortly. And a reminder, that is the Fox TV
game Saturday Night, Washington and Detroit. This Washington franchise that
hadn't won a playoff game since the two thousand and
five season until Sunday Night, had been owned five since
in the postseason. Now their run defense is among the
worst in the league. They allowed twenty three points a game,
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worst among playoff teams, and they're going up against the
top seed on the road. They need magic from the
rookie quarterback. Let's take a break. We're back with more
NFL talk and NBA updates in a moment.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Welcome inside, Hey, this sounds better, Hi buddy, The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Good to
see you Steve de Sager justin Frossberg giving you forty
five minutes of the Charger postgame show.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Oh, we had technical difficulties here.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Just explain what was going on so tonight because of
the high wins in the area with the LA wildfire schedule,
this is the worst time, right. We talked about it
a night ago that we got to get to six
pm Wednesday. That was the moment that everybody is pointing
to the fire department singlet's get to that. But with
the wins so high, you and I were doing the
show show from home tonight, and then right before the show,
(35:03):
Frostburg calls us both and said, hey, we got technical problems.
Get in, get in, get in, get in. So Harmon
and I getting our cars and break speed records to
get here. Two big accidents on the four h five
on the way, including one guy who's I don't know
what happened, but his car stalled and and he was
in the middle lane, and he was in his car
and he was holding his phone out of the window
(35:23):
like like with the flashlight on, and I'm like, you
have big headlights on you we can see your car
is there.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
But if I hold my phone out and wave it
like a concert. Yeah, exactly. So as soon as you
said there's a car stalled and the guy is still
in his seat, I first thought it's Jordan Addison, isn't it.
And then he wasn't asleep, so apparently everything was It
was somebody else. I don't know why. I know why
he thought.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
But if I hold my phone out the window, people
will know to go around me. Now, people that we've
seen accidents before, you know, go to around him. So
the last forty five minutes, it's been harm I do't
know if you've listened, but it's been me on the
phone and Steve and Justin and it was the Chargers postgame.
We got into the Chargers of the eighties. Then we
broke down the Super Bowl year in nineteen ninety four,
(36:07):
we talked, We had an interview with al Papunu really
caught that big pass in the AFC title game in
ninety four.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
On Rod Woodson still remembers the last time the Jets
were good.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
H no, No.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
We went to back to back AFC title games in
twenty ten and twenty.
Speaker 8 (36:19):
Sanchez banking on job again because of oh good.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Time showing you videos.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Actually Mark Sanchez got brought up this weekend because with
Jade and Daniels, a rookie quarterback winning a road playoff game,
they're saying, hey, since Sanchez Placo people like that as rookies,
this hadn't happen.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
I got news for you.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Take a look at the list of quarterbacks with more
road wins than Mark Sanchez in the playoffs. D that
went after him talking about eating a hot dog on
the sideline too, Yes, that was this weekend.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
It was a little Sanchez you think good going on?
Do you think Mark Sanchez bought Nate Cating a house? Uh?
I remember that miss field goal? I was there, Thank you,
that misfit? That was all then that game that was
Marty Schottenheimer. Oh yeah yeah, in all his glory of.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Why he doesn't win playoff games. Hey, we're on the
edge of field goal range. Let's just run three running
plays straight into the center of the line and kick it.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Get out of here.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Wait a minute, it's a rookie kicker on wet grass.
Is he gonna who cares.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Three running plays straight into the center of the line.
This is this is what the show was, we Wedowa.
He should be able to do it. We had gotten
up to twenty fifteen twenty sixteen Chargers, when.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
Of anger that's been bottled up just to the surface
today you.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Can One update is there is an NBA blowout tonight
with Denver leading at Dallas seventy seventy one forty five.
Denver at the half. Jamal Murray in nineteen minutes has
thirty two points in the first half.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Hey, you got more on Portland and Brooklyn. No, that's
that's a huge game tonight. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Like during your update when you said a game that
you know only a dozen or so people want Portland
and Brooklyn, I'm like, yeah, but I got up there
Portland on the.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
The previous show tonight, I have predicted that nobody could
actually name anybody on the Brooklyn Nets. And then somebody said,
wait a minute, they kid, they did make a trade.
So D'Angelo Russell is playing, even if he's.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Not, Sarry Martin, Edgar Jones. I still go back to
Keith van Horn, Keith and Todd McCulloch.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
You know, every every few years Keith van Horn's contract
gets brought up, like, hey, we could trade Keith van
horns contract hasn't played in the Nbas's two thousand and
three and his name comes up because there's something weird
with his contract where you could trade his contract as
part of a salary duck.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Twenty years after he actually was on the court.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
And I don't know how, but I guarantee you if
you interviewed him, he would still have socks up to
his niece.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Can you still do that? With the John Contact contract
that was.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Only five years and twelve million? Think about that was
five years and twelve millions.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Like when people thought the big Reggie Jackson contract, Oh
my goodness, they're paying five million dollars for no wait
a minute, wasn't.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
It five years and three million dollars total?
Speaker 8 (39:01):
Or still on the dole?
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Ludicrous?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (39:04):
Still, he hasn't played in no no since he was
a White Sox Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
And if I want to get it right, I want
to say Ricky Henderson was the first player three million
a year.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
I think he was the first. I remember me Buckett
was around there.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, but I remember for the longest time it was
all the big players were getting their extensions. It was
two point eight one million a year. Now this guy
got two point eight four million two years ago. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Once they broke three million, like that was it.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
It went to every it was three to eight to ten,
it was but so many bad Hey, highest paid player
two point nine to one. I'm getting two point nine
one five, two point nine two, two point nine two two.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Well, that's what's gonna come up here in the next
few weeks in baseball because they're gonna have arbitration hearings
and so like Alex BESSI is coming off a great
bullpen year and the bullpen saved them more than once,
needless to say, for the Dodgers, and I think it's
literally like, we want to pay you two million, I'm
asking two point two oh for.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Crying out loud. Are we gonna have a hearing over this?
Speaker 8 (39:58):
How much?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
How much deferred money do you have? Franchise.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Let's just there should not be an arbitration hearing on.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
The Gazaki they have to add in there, and I
want you to stock my soda machine for the next
three years.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
That's right, paying for soda.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
You guys that you are.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
By the way, if people are expecting Sasaki, the young
fisher from Japan to sign as soon as like the
day breaks on business tomorrow, it's just the start of
the window. It could be a full seven or eight
days before he actually goes. It's already done with anybody
Padres included. The Padres are a finalist who told you
was already done from the Padres aren't really finalists.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
They just have to say that to make things look
like two people are in.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
The rest, and then you give them a swinging neck.
Exactly with the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
This would be.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
This would be the exact signing.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
The Padres neat because they've done nothing else this offseason
and they've painted themselves into the corner with all these contracts,
so many long term contracts, they can't do much. And
yet this wouldn't cost much to get a starting pitch.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
So we'll be on Sasaki watch the next few hours.
But straight ahead, let's go. Yeah, we're back, we're in.
We're all good.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Mike Tomlin. We have to get into this. That's next, Jason, Mike, Steve, Justin,
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