December 9, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react live to the Monsters Inc simulcast of Eagles vs Chargers on MNF. Audacy NFL Insider Jason LaCanfora reacts to the biggest headlines from week 14 including Philip Rivers coming out of retirement, Shedeur retaining his starting job, Chiefs downfall, controversial officiating and more! Plus, “outrage” over Notre Dame missing the college football playoff.
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All the big content you get. Coming off of a
big weekend and non National Football League and halftime tonight,
(01:01):
we jump right in on Monday Night the Chargers and
the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Go Chargos.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You thought it would be a night for the over
so far ten to six Charge.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
With the lead over the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Eagles with the field goal, final play of the first half.
There's been turnovers, there's been excitement. Not the cleanest of games,
but we have a close game between two good teams
and a Monday night we're all winning.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
You add the Monsters Ink type of telecask when you
have six turnovers and chaos, that's what it deserves.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It deserves animation.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I want to tell you this right just not to
pull back the curtain embarrass Mike Carmen. He said, can
we watch Monday Night football only on the Monsters Inc.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Version?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And I said, no, we need we need the regular
show over to see what's going on. But the Monsters Inc.
Version is more entertaining. And I'm not disagreeing with you
on that.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Hey, they've mapped all the players properly. I know who
they are.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
But we need the replays.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
We need that, we need we need to get No, no,
we don't, We're not gonna get so re enacting a
replay and all of a sudden walking around going Mike
was Ouski.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Mike was asking, we know we need the acts.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Come on, and the scare pig came out and stole
the ball at one point.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, I gotta be honest, I always thought Sully was
s U l Y. I didn't know was su Oh
you missed the e not know that.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I can't believe that John Goodman has been signing autographs
for Tops and he's had to do the inscription.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I think he screwed up a couple of times it
had to add the E bag. You ever heard of Vietnamzowski?
You ever heard of that?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Mike was auskingh So yeah, Harmon wanted to watch the
entire game on the Monsters Inc. Broadcast Right now, Mike
and Sully are giving pep talks to Jalen Hurtson and
Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Stopped fumbling the ball.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So luckily we have can have the two screen experience
here where they're about to kick off the second half,
where we can actually see it on Big Boy ESPN Television.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
You know what, I'm a kid at heart, and I
wear it proudly each and every day of my life.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I come in here.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
The goal is to go one and oh, find our positivity,
entertain and inform America and the globe for four hours
every night on the iHeartRadio app and all our affiliates nationwide.
So welcome in to another beautiful week.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So this is this is typical Philadelphia, right. You hear
all these typical Philadelphia fans stories, typical Eagles fans stories.
So the last couple of days, Eagles fans have just
descended on LA for this game, likely because oh, Chargers tickets,
we can get tickets to that game. That's gonna be great.
And there are tons of Eagles fans, like there's video
(03:23):
of that. It looks like they're taking over like the
Venice boardwalk in different places, like Eagles Nation is out
in force.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Today.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Went to lunch just around the corner from our house.
Normal one place we go, like you know once every
couple of weeks, and these three people walk in. You
can tell they they've come into town for the game
because they are all blinked out. Man, it is ossive.
It's a guy and two girls. She's wearing big good grim,
big green wig, big Eagles backwards hat jersey. The other
woman same thing, Eagles, you know, all Eagles, Eagles, beads,
(03:52):
Eagles everything. He's in a big Philly Bourne Jalen Hurts
jersey and he's got the big Eagles hat with like
with like cult with like rhinestones on it and okay.
So yeah, so you can tell, like, okay, these are
people that come. You can always tell these people are.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
In town for the game, work with the glue gun,
the fastener, maybe a little Etsy shop on the side.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, I mean going on.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's not like just hey, our game is today. Team's
planning to wear a hat, I'm gonna wear the jersey.
They're all blaked. This is all like, this is all
like stuff that you can say, Boy, I'm seeing dollar
signs when I see what they're wearing.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, it's like when you walk around a theme park.
So I start counting two hundred and four hundred. How
big is that bag? That's four hundred dollars worth of merchant? Yeah,
same thing.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So I walk by their table and and you see,
if I go, I gotta say something. So I walk
by and I just go, I go hey, and they'll
look at me. I go, how come your team they
all hate each other? Why can't they all get along?
And the one woman just goes and he and the
guy just smiles. He goes, well, can I say? I said,
but no, But I gotta be honest. I said, the
(04:52):
way that you can still win games and be completely
dysfunctional is really impressive.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Right, and now the.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Other him and goes, ah, oh, I'm killing.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
It this ship.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I missed Man on the Street opportunity. This would have
been gold the show. I am killing at this table
right now.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So the guy looks at me and he goes and
these guy's probably about thirty. He looks at me and goes, hey, hey,
it's a beautiful thing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You're wearing any Jets or Syracuse member.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Syracuse Okay, yeah, because I was gonna say so, My
d was gonna be, hey, you know, how's Dona McNabb,
But instead I'm like, no, no, no, So I just
walked up because they look very personal, they're fun, and
I just he just yeah. So then then we dap
and I walk away. My wife goes, oh that go wow,
they're in town for the game. I wanted to say hi,
just like oh okay, but just the way that I
like it. Nobody even said wait, wait, wait no we
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all like each other. And I was like, yeah, no,
they all hate each other.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Philadelphia fans right there, all right there, it's it's a
beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He said. It's like I wear that as a badge.
That's just that ship. Yeah, that's the goal.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
You go want to know every day, no matter how
messed up your game, maybe you find your way.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
To come out on the positive.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
And that's what the Eagles have been all year Longman
to the fact Corse Ciriani was showing up at more
offensive meetings. They actually put the ball into the gut
of Saquon Barkley more in the first half. Yeah yeah,
this game, of course, a lot of that was late
after the Jalen Hurts mishaps to where it was, you
know what, We're not gonna trust you to throw the
ball anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
This is the thing is that it's a little bit
in common with the Dolphins, right what you know, especially
after seeing what they've been able to do over the
past few days, watching them against the Jets yesterday, Right,
like the Eagles way forward and through all of this
is to change their identity for this season, right like
(06:43):
the Dolphins went from hey, we throw the football over
the field. Tua can throw for four thousand yards, Tyreek
kill is terrific, right, Jalen Wattle's terrific. We can run
the ball. We are a full service offense. Well, guess
what that does work? And Tyreek kill got hurt too,
was you know you figure too without Tyreek running on
the field, and they can't throw the football, so what
do they do? A few weeks ago they decided we
(07:05):
are going to be ground and pound. We are changing
our offensive identity. And guess what, it's worked, right eight
chan and right, even Ali Gordon when he doesn't fumble
to an extent, they go out and they just sledgehammer
teams now running the football. This is a this is
a Miami Dolphin team that here we are at the
end of the season is trying to run the football
and a and be a ball control team to win
(07:27):
games and stay in it. Which is awesome, right, because
that's that's clearly been working for them. With Tua being
a game manager. You don't need to throw the ball deep.
You know, he's still finding Jalen Waddle, right, still got
a couple of big weapons there. Offensively, Dulsit has come
in at tight end. Right, You got Waller back, so
you can still do some things. But now you've changed
your identity, you're winning football games. It's incredibly impressive. The
Eagles have to do the same thing they've been going
(07:50):
through most of the season. Okay, Saquan's not the same
guy start of the year because of the carries from
last year.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
We talk about it a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
He's not gonna have a great season, but they've tried
to put forward is so many different ways. Being Jalen
Hurts driven, right, We're gonna Hurts is gonna be the guy.
He's gonna build on this last couple of seasons. He's
now our best player offensively, and it just isn't working.
One week, I'll have a big week, the other week
they won't be able to throw the football at all.
One week they look like world beaters or defense plays great.
The other week what is happening and Hurts is turning
(08:19):
the ball over. You're not gonna get any more out
of Hurtz and Goddard, n aj Brown, DeVante Smith.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
It's not I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
The way forward for the Eagles now is to be
Saquon Barkley intensive, and you've he hasn't had to carry
so far this year. He hasn't had the same wear
and tears a year ago.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
This is now.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Okay, it's December, Saquon. Now, they have to change and
become a Saquon first team kind of like they were
last year, except maybe more so because their passing game
is even even more haphazard than it was last year.
And if they can make that change, if they can
stay on the ground and win this football game and
gain some confidence and they change their identity over the
course of the last month, then I'll be back buying
(09:01):
in on the Eagles. But they need to do it
because you can't keep going through Week thirteen, fourteen fifteen Seingle.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Oh, well, this week, it'll work. This week.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts like each other. This week
they like Jalen Hurts. They did their best work last
year when Barkley was the forefront, and he covered a
lot of problems last year.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Right, they still had these issues last year.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Remember AJ Brown reading on the sideline, And now you
get reports this year of hey, Jalen Hurts is ad
libbing on plays. Barkley covered a lot of their ills
last year. When you have a guy running for two
thousand yards, is going to happen to do that. Now
you're at the point where, Okay, it's been the first
two and a half three months of the season.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
It's not working with this.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
So now Saquon, we're loading you up for the rest
of this and we are going to be Saquon Barkley driven.
If the Eagles do that, I'll be backing on the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I have to wonder if to some degree we talked
about this and look at the workloads for different running backs,
go back last year kind of the workload that you
had in Detroit and then Jamier Gibbs the second half
of the season was a monster for Barkley. How much
of this year is also just your You're kind of
trying to get by without killing him early, knowing that
(10:04):
you're gonna need him late as the weather changes, and
as you're playing for the playoffs. You're trying to grind
games out men. Even tonight, right first half, time of
possession was two to one, right nearly twenty minutes of possession,
even though Hurts was ten of nineteen, had nineteen attempts
in the first half, a couple of interceptions, had a fumble.
Not often you get a guy with an interception and
(10:25):
to fumble on the same play. But Barkley already with
thirteen carries sixty nine yards. So yeah, going to that identity,
even though he's down two yards per carry from last
year and You've had a lot of guys in and
out of the offensive line, other injuries later as this
game went on as well, So you're trying to navigate
(10:45):
that as you go hurts putting the ball downfield, averaging
like nine intended air yards per attempt for the year.
But to try to get back to balance, because you're
good enough to grind things out. Now how much the
Jalen Carter injury and surgeries come back to bite You
been watching this game, and not that the Chargers have
had the ball a ton but why are you not
(11:07):
just running the ball immediately?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You got a guy that playing.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
With a broken hand and been a couple of circumstances
for Herbert, it's looked all.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Terrible and he's gone looked good for any of them tonight.
This game is not this name has not been good.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
For anyone at know.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
But just from the aesthetics of all right, he can't
do this, he can't do that, and uh, when he's
taken off to run a couple of times like just
get down or get out, run straight out of bounds,
whatever the case is, don't take another hit on that hand.
But for the Eagles at eight and four years you're
still controlling a pretty good chunk here in your NFC
with the chaos that that has been wrought across the NFL.
(11:45):
So yeah, get back to Saquon Barkley and see if
you can't rediscover some of that magic and bully ball
that made you so successful a year ago.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I Meanwhile, for the Chargers, I kind of feel like
they're still figuring out their identity too. As good as
they all look, both teams eight and four, both teams
have big time hopes and dreams this postseason. The Chargers
went from all right early on Harbaugh's gonna build the team,
continue to build how he wants to with a couple
of really good running backs and Justin Herbert running things.
(12:14):
Gonna be a full service offense. Right last year he
tried it, you can't do it with two running backs
that have been hurt all year. For the Ravens, I
don't care what kind of bill of goods your brother sold.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, you'll be fine with these guys. You know they're
gonna we're bringing them in our training room.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Oh wait, your training room's also had a lot of
problems through the years, well chronicled on this show.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So they thought coming in they're gonna be able to
run the football, Naji Harris and Murray and Hampton, and
it'll be a better version of what they were a
year ago. Then Harris gets hurt, Hampton gets hurt, Harbaugh realizes, Okay,
Herbert's our best player. They start throwing the football a
ton across the field. Everything is going well, but then
the offensive line breaks down and Herbert's under fire the
entire time.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Again.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Joe Alt probably the real NFL MVP, because right when
things were looking great for them, he got hurt. And
the Chargers it's been a big struggle. Not that they're
not good, it's been a struggle to get to eight
and four and here's where they are. So now, who
are they? Can they run the football? Are they a
team that's gonna throw? I still feel like the Chargers
looking for their identity. Are they justin Herbert driven? Are
they gonna be running back driven?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Now?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Mari and Hampton is back and they found Kamani Vidal
who may be the next version of Austin Eckler. Very
similar stories how they've come around and dented the NFL.
So these are both teams that are still kind of
searching for their identities. But the Chargers, it's like, Okay,
you gotta with four games left, are you gonna run
the football? You're gonna throw? What are you gonna be?
And I still feel like they don't know who they are.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Twenty gary seventy six yards between them tonight, including three
scrambles from Justin Herbert for twenty five yards. Hampton's shown
some pretty good burst. Again, this is an Eagles team.
When we saw them last they were getting run over
by the Bears, So the opportunity is there with Carter
out to perhaps makes them ay, but trying to get
(13:54):
the wide receivers involved. Over the course of this one,
just eight completions look clearly Herbert's effect did a lot
of questions as to whether you'd see Trey Lance tonight
or maybe they can beat some other team and bring
a veteran like Philip Rivers back in. No, we'll get
to that as the jo go design. But you know
you're looking at dump offs to the running backs have
(14:16):
been the primary responsibility here. You've seen a couple of
short passes to Johnston and Gadston, but really not much
downfield getting the ball out of his hands, trying to
live to see another down right now for Justin.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Herbert exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Right now,
Chargers lining up for a thirty four yard field goal.
If Dicker makes it would give them a thirteen to
six lead with five and a half to go in
the third quarter. In fact, he has done so, so
it's a touchdown lead again for the Chargers. The happiest
(14:52):
people in the world, those who have the under Yeah. No, absolutely, yeah,
there's no question about. We'll see if there's anything in
the final minutes that can create chaos like in other games.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Carol P. Carroll coaching this game.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
See, I've got like ten minutes on why that was
the right move. And people can be mad about it
all they want. Remember, Jake Elliott, we watched it on
the Monsters broadcast. Missed a field goal before just before
the half, so that looms. Sure you get that out
there that we watch on the Monsters. Well, I mean,
because they did some great graphics with it.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It was cool, but I don't know if half the
stuff on the Monsters broadcast actually happens, Like you know what,
we like a fever dream, No, we don't like that
play because that was boring.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
We're gonna give you a new play that we like better.
Oh okay, great, You're just gonna animate Randall and he
popped up in the end zone. Racia the hell he
come from rasion to the scare floor?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, exacts. So again, we'll have more on this game
coming up. We got Jason lock and four on the
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cut it to a thirteen to nine Charger lead, still
in the third quarter. We have more on this game
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Speaker 2 (18:03):
Happy Monday?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Hey, what's going on? Gentlemen?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
About it?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
All right?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
So you got to help us out here, Jay?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
So obviously the big story in the last forty five
minutes the Colts, after injuries to Daniel Jones now out
for the year of the torn achilles Riley Leonard is
week to week they are going to work out Philip Rivers,
who last played in the NFL for them four years ago.
Happy birthday, Philip Rivers, by the way, last played four
years ago. Forty four years old. Jay, This isn't real,
(18:30):
is it?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Do We don't have many kids today? Have they had
more kids? To see? Last busy public spirit?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Well, I know he's got a grand kid now, yeah,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I think he was up to like ten or eleven kids.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, a lot of time.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Yeah, I think the cults are cooked no matter what
happens here. We talked about him quite a bit this
week on one of that because you can get plus
two forty on them to miss the playoffs and that
wasn't going to be around for much longer. You know.
It's uh, it's really unraveled. I mean they had the
inside shot at the one seed and had the best
record in the AFC. A few weeks back. I think
(19:06):
that game in Pittsburgh really kind of started to unmask them.
And they still moved the ball, but they turned it over.
They kind of they screwed that game up. They had
that terrible muff punt. The offensive line started to whelped
a little bit. Daniel Jones started to look like Daniel Jones.
(19:27):
The injuries obviously mounted for him. The Sauft Gardner trade
was an overpay to begin with, and now with him
being hurt, that really looks tough. And Daniel Jones is
going to be compromised through the offseason. And let's face it,
when you trade two ones for Sauft Carter, you're doing
that because you don't think you need a quarterback. You're
doing it because you think you've got book. And now
(19:50):
you know they're trying to sign pill of rivers off
the street, like yeah. And the real problem for them
is the division actually pretty good for the first time
in forever, So I don't think it's gonna matter to it.
You can really trace it all back to the Richardson
situation and not being able to develop him and the
(20:12):
injuries and the lost opportunity and the lost developmental time
and now that whole organization. It's just crazy. A month
ago to now, it just feels like it's not just
a couple of like you know, losses on a on
a football field. It feels like their direction was a
little bit to me now, well.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
You know me, the longer we can get these guys
in their forties to hang around, I don't feel so
old my own self.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Jason, there you go.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
How about there more talk of where Lamar is physically
or hating on officials today?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
There's plenty of time and energy for all the above.
You know, with Lamar, it's the physical stuff, but it's
now mental. I mean, he's been visibly frustrated. He's been
clearly plumbaged and confused and pissed, and he's got a
bad offensive line in front of him, and I think
he's starting to crack a little bit. And he's attacking
(21:10):
some guys verbally on the sidelines and I don't blame
him for that, but it's not a good sign. And
they need people to make plays for him, and it's
it's not really happening, and the running backs starting to
look his age a little bit. Nobody makes plays in
the passing game except for Jake Flowers, and Jake Flowers
is a little guy and he doesn't score touchdowns. There's
(21:32):
a lot. There's a lot to unpack right now. It's
a bad offensive line, it's a bad defensive line. And
it's going to be a really interesting offseason around here,
whether they make changes in the front office, whether they
make changes in the coaching staff. I personally don't think
this under is going to do it, but we'll see.
I mean, the left tackle probably nearing the end. The
(21:53):
center is a free agent. They re upped Derrick Henry,
but I mean Chiefs I don't know. They've got to
redo Lamar's deal again because he's got an eighty million
dollar cap hit, so they have to get that done.
He might hold their feet to the fire there. They
don't have any pass rushers they I don't think non
(22:14):
Be not a b K I was gonna play on
the stat in the NFL. So the best player on
defense is probably done. There's there's a lot a lot
going on here.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Well, you get to the likely touchdown that got overturned.
That's been a big topic of conversation.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Start foot down. Look, I mean, I'm fifty two years old.
That was I mean, where has that been all my life? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I know, you gotta get that.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Oh three feet down? Okay, hey toe tamp on the sideline,
but across the middle.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Hey, I mean I don't I don't understand Jay any
of that call and not allowing that touchdown. That When
I see plays like that, I go wow, I look
back and I go Sometimes the NFL just decides we're
gonna really look at this and see if we can
do everything we can to change this call.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
And sometimes they don't.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
And this is one of the.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
They did everything they could to change that call that
clearly was a touchdown.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Big Brother jumps in and gets caught up in the
weeds in the minutia. In one game and another game,
they're willing to let head to head collisions on a
quarterback go. They're willing to let guys being dragged into
the end zone BYO by four people not push them behind,
but pulled across the line like they're letting things. They
get called out in real time by announcers and refereeing experts.
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Refereeing experts to the league, by the way, was too
cheap to keep. That's why they all last, because they
could make more money talking about it on TV than
he could actually overseeing it for the NFL. That's all
cheap the billionaires. Yeah, we find ourselves in predicaments like this,
I mean two feet down in a football move, and
like I had no money on likely to catch a touchdown,
(23:48):
Like it didn't affect my pocketbook, and it didn't affect
any fandom. But like he's got two feet out almost
a third foot and he takes the ball and extends
it away from the defender. If that's not a football move,
what the hell the football move?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Fair boy?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Jason locking for our guest Washington Bows one five seven
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Speaker 1 (24:09):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Where you find about Jason Lockin for on X for
all of that in the above and his missives on
the NFL as we roll forward. So but stay in
the AFC North Shadora Sanders now the King of Yak
and he's got the job for the rest of the year.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
I mean he's he's held up pretty well with a
team that's pizzle and collapsed, playing for a coach who
clearly never wanted anything to do with him. Yeah, I mean,
I don't think there's really any other choice. Like what
you can go back to Dylan Gabriel and then this guy,
actually Jerry Judy actually plays football again. You know, both
tight ends. I know, wh Djuco Joko got hurt again
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in this game, but like both tight ends actually played
football again, Like they actually run rounds where they have
a chance of the ball hitting them in the hands
more than four feet down field. Like it's it's I mean,
shameful what they did. It really is it's ridiculous that
they wasted half this kid's rookie year so that they
could look at Flacco for three or four weeks and
(25:09):
then look at you know, waste six weeks with going
Gabriel pretending that he's an NFL quarterback er has a
chance of being an NFL quarterback. Like it's really, it's
really kind of ridiculous because we should know more about
shud Door Sanders. They should know more about Shandor Sanders.
You know, you draft him where you draft him, and
maybe you don't want to play him at first, like okay,
(25:30):
but but when you're trading Flacco and then you're going
to Gabriel, it's just it's it's ridiculous, but whatever, Uh,
I don't know, guys, like uh, I don't know if
the Fanski will still be there. I don't know. I'm
sure Sanders will be there, but like, I don't know
if he's gonna be competing with a veteran. I don't
(25:51):
know if they're going to use the high draft they
want to on a quarterback again, Like, is Andrew Bury
definitely there or was the Podesta's departure sign of other
moves to Comba. Don't know the answer to all those questions,
but he's definitely the best quarterback on their roster and
an even close.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
All right, Jay, how about this? We watched the Chiefs
lose last night. The Texans keep rolling their defense playing
at such a high level. Are the Chiefs cooked for
this season? Can they still find their way back?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Where are you on this?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I mean they're cooked to the Super Bowl contender like
they you know, I don't know, to just fall off
a cliff and you know, this game tonight is obviously
shoote for them and the Chargers hold on here or not.
I mean, that's that's kind of everything for for these guys.
Obviously they've got some head to head to head long
(26:39):
instacts head to head lost in suson. So that's gonna
be real tough at the time with those guys and
any sort of wild card, uh situation. I mean, they're
they're horribly flawed football team. They're there age and they're
their agents spots and just there the lack of ability
(27:05):
in others. It's it's kind of shocking, how what we're
not that far removed from them winning seventeen straight one
score games, you know, and now they get in a
close and late situation and you just kind of wait
for them to melt down there, you know, something to
go wrong and guy to drop the ball and kind
to knock the ball off his hands to the other team,
(27:28):
tip her to miss one. It's just they find a
myriad of ways to lose now, which is the antithesis
of what they've been.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Yeah, it's always been the one score game going the
other way back into the playoffs. So now we got
a live Miami Dolphins after they take down the Jets.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Yeah, well, look, I think they're keeping keeping your coach
and your quarterbacks employed down there, which if you're a
Dolphins fan, should probably make you sick. But I think
you're going to run it back with these guys, I
really do. Yeah, And I think they'll probably be pretty
bad by Thanksgiving again next year, and then the owner
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is going to be deep enough down the road where
he'll be paying two or sixty million one more time
and everybody will be gone by this time next year.
But yeah, they're winning games. And look, they've allowed seventeen
or fewer, I think, in for their last five games.
Anthony Weaver's doing a really nice job with the defense,
even after they trained Jalen Phillips, and they're running the
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hell out of football, you know, And that's that's really
what it is. I mean, too is not doing anything special.
He has hitting the occasional deep shot the wattle, which
is more than he did in the pass. But it's
it's really kind of old school, and it's it's been
really effective the last four or five weeks. And look,
could they going to Pittsburgh and beat them Monday night?
(28:48):
I certainly think they could because they can run the
ball and that's been obviously a problem for Pittsburgh, and hell,
it's been a problem for Pittsburgh against teams in that division.
So no, I don't I don't think they're particularly close
to being a true contender. But I don't think many
people would want to come into that situation as a
(29:08):
head coach and have to inherit to and inherit all
of that. And you know he's McDaniel's guy. So I
think the book coming back honesty.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Washington Post one oh five seven The fan in Baltimore
want to bet with us dot com Jason lockinfora Jay
as always, Buddy, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Man, have a great week. We'll talk to you.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
You guys are the same.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Thank you, Jason telling me Man.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
The Dolphins they change it. It's a bold thing to
do in the middle of the season, but they changed
their identical look. They came out yesterday in the first
fifteen plays, Like, I think Syracuse had a stronger start
against Notre Dame than the Jets had against the Dolphins.
I mean, it doesn't matter who was running the ball
for the Dolphins. Could have been eight Chen, it could
have been Reggie Bush, could have been Larry Zanka. Like
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they were just sledgehammering away current Dave, Larry Yes, current
day Larry Zanka, just you know, just to give them
the ball. Oh, all kinds of room, like a lot
of aura there. I mean, there's there's a they were
blowing open hole. Like when they had the ball inside
the five yard line, they were blowing open holes in
the Jets to fend, there's more room for them to
run on the goal line.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I'm going, how is this happening?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So a lot of it is the Jets, but I
give the Dolphins credit because it's a gutsy thing to say,
all right, how are we gonna win? We're one and six,
We're gonna become a ball control team, We're gonna run.
We got two good running backs, got another guy we
drafted who was a rookie that we really like, Hey,
this is gonna be how we're gonna do it. And
two is gonna be a game manager. And all of
a sudden, bang, Dolphins are six and seven and they're
(30:30):
on the periphery of the playoffs. Oh he's basically the
junior moon ball of Russell Wilson. Right, He's not a
guy that drives the ball in. So it all becomes
about timing. And when your offensive line's been compromised, well,
timing's not gonna be there. You don't have that deep threat.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
So and you realize, hey, this eight chand guy, he's
pretty damn Yeah, he's not bad, Bob. So let's give
him the ball twenty five times and see if we
can't make some good things happen. Fox Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. So,
as I said a few minutes ago, if the Eagles
become Saquon Barkley driven, if they changed their identity, I'll
(31:05):
believe in them. On a pitch play, Saquon Barkley just
takes it to the house for a go ahead touchdown.
The Eagles now have the sixteen thirteen lead over the Chargers.
In the fourth quarter, Barkley is honking it up on
the sideline, high fiving everybody.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Maybe the Eagles are back from more on this game.
Let's find out what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports with Chris purfetz Seep, what do you
got for us?
Speaker 8 (31:29):
Hello, guys, Yes, the Eagles have taken the high Hi, Mike, Hey, Hey,
how are we doing?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (31:35):
Hey, well that's an oldie, that's an old pole. Wow,
that guy just felt a ghost going up my shoulder there. Yes,
Eagles did take the lead. For those you might say,
the Eagles are back. But I am sure if I
channeled the words of a producer Bo Benson around here.
Jalen Hurds has two picks in this game, however, and
as somehow they're winning in spite of him, I'm sure
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that will come back as well.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
But either way, yes, Eagles take the lead.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
There was earlier in this half also a just one
of my favorite drives ever, which is a nine nine
and a half, nine and a half minute drive by
the Chargers ending in a field goal on sixteen plays.
Anytime you can chunk up a ton of time, that's awesome. Yes,
as we've been talking about, Philip Rivers is going to
be trying out for the Colts. Their quarterback situation is
(32:23):
dire the body count. Daniel Jones done for the year
with an achilles stare, Riley Leonard weeked a week with
some sort of knee injury. Anthony Richardson still an injured
reserve with the orbital fracture a broken face. The only
quarterback left practice squad Brett Ripion. Heisman finalists were announced
on Monday, Notre Dame running back Jeremiah Love, Indiana quarterback
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Fernando Mendoza, Vanderbilts Diego Pavia, Ohio State quarterback Julian saying
is the field. We'll find those out soon enough. On Monday,
the tamp Bay Buccaneers hosted veteran linebacker Jason Pierre Paul
for a tryout, and afterwards he was signed to the
practice squad. Might see another veteran come back again at
some point. NBA scores most of it is, yes, it
(33:06):
is all final, three games, our final. The Spurs take
down the Pelicans one thirty five to one thirty two,
Sons defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves one eight, one oh five,
and the Pacers knock off the Kings one sixteen to
one oh five. And earlier today, Orlando Magic's Desmond Baine
has been fined thirty five thousand dollars for throwing a
(33:27):
ball at Knicks forward og Ananobi on Sunday Sports like that.
That's that's like the second time he's done that move
this year where he just grabs the ball in just
volleyballs at some guy as they're falling down. I'm not
sure why he keeps doing this, but uh gotta look
into that.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Back to you guys, Thanks a bunch. Chris Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carman. Coming up next,
we get into the biggest football controversy that's become a
conflagration over the last couple of days, maybe even hotter
and full of more fire after what was said earlier today.
That's next, Jason to Mike, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show is my best friend,
Mike Harmon so festive. Yes, yes, I get all bathed
in the Christmas season when I hear your songs, Alex.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Show Jason, No one's playing our music. No, No, you
are right about that.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I've explained that to my daughters, Like you gotta see
some of the stuff Alex comes up with.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Jason, what if I told you one song I'm gonna
play as a commercial from a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Everyone's probably forgotten about it.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Okay, it's good, all right, and I'll have to identify
it when it comes up at some point in the show.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Oh you'll know. Okay, I very good, just like when
we know you finally have a good take show turn
on the news.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Okay, mister man that's good, okay. Eleven to go in
the fourth quarter of Philadelphia with a sixteen to thirteen
lead over the Chargers right now, Eagles got the ball
back first and ten their own twenty seven yard line.
It's been a rough night for the Chargers, both holding
onto the football and maybe getting a penalty.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Go in their way at some point.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
But Sakwan Barkley's big touchdown run has given the Eagles
a sixteen to thirteen leading. And we'll have more on
this game coming up in a few minutes. But the
last twenty four hours has been owned by the college
football playoff storyline and Notre Dame getting snub Miami gets
in and James Madison gets in and Duke is out.
(35:42):
There's a lot to get to with this. So let's
just do this first here, because I love First of all,
I've been waiting to do this Notre Dame story all
day for one reason. And you know why I've been waiting,
as Notre Dame story all day. Notre Dame, after getting
left out of the playoffs a day ago, first come
out with oh, we're not going to any games now,
blank you. I'm sorry, ESPN, you hate us. We're not
(36:03):
going to a bowl game. You're not gonna match it
up against BYU and piggyback off of our name. No,
we're not going to a bowl game, which is a
little bit bitter. But then today you got Notre Dame
ad Pete Baovaqua on the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio earlier today and he talked about how the
ACC in the wake of the playoff has caused quote
(36:27):
permanent damage to the relationship Notre Dame has with the conference.
Here is and as Berman would say, TJ A very
Kurt Bovaqua on this SI sente to do that all day.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Yeah, buld, I'm blowing champion of nineteen seventy five on
a seventy six tops card, A very Curt Bavaqua nicely
talking about the Notre Dame relationship with the ACC, which
may be irreparable.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
I have tremendous respect for Miami, you know, the great team,
great school, but we were mystified by the actions of
the conference to attack their biggest really business partner in
football and a member of their conference in twenty four
of our other sports. I wouldn't be honest with you
if I didn't say that they have certainly done permanent
(37:15):
damage to the relationship between the conference and Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Okay, now, something you've heard all day is that what
the AEC is not supposed to stand behind their teams.
Of course they are. You are a business partner. You
are not in the ACC. You've had chance to join conferences,
but no, no, no, you've wanted to stay independent the
whole time. Of course the ACC is going to do.
Of course they're going to back their day. They want Miami,
they wanted a team in. Of course that's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
I heard this live and I started laughing, almost did
a spit take as he spewed those words.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
I'll tell you two things. Number one, Notre Dame wants
out of the ACC, right, you want to get to
a bigger picture thing. The ACC is a dying conference.
As you can tell, they've not been able to. You
can criticize the Big ten and the SEC for being
about themselves, which they are.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
The ACC needs a.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Little bit more of that, need a little bit more
of hey, we're still a big boy conference instead of hey,
we're hoping to just kind of, you know, make it
to whatever the next version of Division one football is.
Because you know, college football changes every five minutes.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
So yeah, the ACC.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah there, Wait, they won out. I'm sure they won out.
I don't know if it means they're gonna join a conference,
but they want out. The second part is, man, everybody
felt bad for Notre Dame a day ago. Everybody felt
bad because there's no world where you can say, James
Madison getting in the playoffs is better than Notre Dame
getting in. But wow, the heel turn Notre Dame has
pulled off in the least twenty four hours. It was
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a longer journey for anak into the dark side than
it was for Notre Dame to go from. Boy, you
feel bad for them to say no, we're not going
to a bawl. The ACC has done a reparable damage.
And oh, by the way, Bavakua also says they kind
of have a handshake type agreement that if they're in
the top twelve next year, they automatically get into the
playoffs no matter what.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Yeah, we're Notre Dame. We're elitists, we're better than you,
and we know it now.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
I want Notreame to get left out of every playoff
just because hey, we're Notre Dame. Don't you know how
self important we are. I understand how important Notre Dame is.
I get I get they are. I may disagree with it,
but I get it. But now when they come out,
want to stand up on that. No, Now I hope
they get left out of everything. Yeah, I hope you
get left out of field, hockey. Hope you get left
out of soccer. Hope you get left out of everything, fencing, whatever,
(39:22):
whatever of sports you have with the AC, say, get
left out of all of them.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I hope you get left out of every single one.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
There's so many pieces to this that are just so delicious,
the different arguments from the conference and how they were treated.
It's like, yeah, you're not a member, they don't get
any money. You're not giving them any money for anything
you do in the playoffs. They don't get to trade
on your name for that. Just because you're on with
them with track and field and swimming, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
You're not a full partner. This is the I equate
it to the mean girls.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Right for the spring fling queen, we all sit at
the same lunch tape. But if I want that plastic crown,
I will kick your ass. That's exactly what they did
here in the comparison side to side and the TV
part of it. We always talked about the TV show
you got got for several weeks. You were used as
the prop of Oh my god, how could they have
(40:13):
Notre Dame? H No boom at the last minute. There's
your twist, there's your plot twist for the next next season,
the next finale, the next piece of the equation of oh.
Head to head always mattered, but it didn't while we
were still doing this TV show.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
This is the table of the girls who eat their feelings.
We have more on this big story coming up next,
Notre Dame and their self importance and why you should
have all seen this result of the college football playoff
coming way ahead of time.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
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All the big content you get. Coming off of a
big weekend and non National Football League and halftime tonight,
(01:01):
we jump right in on Monday Night the Chargers and
the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Go Chargos.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You thought it would be a night for the over
so far ten to six Charge.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
With the lead over the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Eagles with the field goal, final play of the first half.
There's been turnovers, there's been excitement. Not the cleanest of games,
but we have a close game between two good teams
and a Monday night we're all winning.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
You add the Monsters Ink type of telecask when you
have six turnovers and chaos, that's what it deserves.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It deserves animation.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I want to tell you this right just not to
pull back the curtain embarrass Mike Carmen. He said, can
we watch Monday Night football only on the Monsters Inc.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Version?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And I said, no, we need we need the regular
show over to see what's going on. But the Monsters Inc.
Version is more entertaining. And I'm not disagreeing with you
on that.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Hey, they've mapped all the players properly. I know who
they are.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
But we need the replays.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
We need that, we need we need to get No, no,
we don't, We're not gonna get so re enacting a
replay and all of a sudden walking around going Mike
was Ouski.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Mike was asking, we know we need the acts.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Come on, and the scare pig came out and stole
the ball at one point.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, I gotta be honest, I always thought Sully was
s U l Y. I didn't know was su Oh
you missed the e not know that.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I can't believe that John Goodman has been signing autographs
for Tops and he's had to do the inscription.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I think he screwed up a couple of times it
had to add the E bag. You ever heard of Vietnamzowski?
You ever heard of that?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Mike was auskingh So yeah, Harmon wanted to watch the
entire game on the Monsters Inc. Broadcast Right now, Mike
and Sully are giving pep talks to Jalen Hurtson and
Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Stopped fumbling the ball.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So luckily we have can have the two screen experience
here where they're about to kick off the second half,
where we can actually see it on Big Boy ESPN Television.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
You know what, I'm a kid at heart, and I
wear it proudly each and every day of my life.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I come in here.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
The goal is to go one and oh, find our positivity,
entertain and inform America and the globe for four hours
every night on the iHeartRadio app and all our affiliates nationwide.
So welcome in to another beautiful week.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So this is this is typical Philadelphia, right. You hear
all these typical Philadelphia fans stories, typical Eagles fans stories.
So the last couple of days, Eagles fans have just
descended on LA for this game, likely because oh, Chargers tickets,
we can get tickets to that game. That's gonna be great.
And there are tons of Eagles fans, like there's video
(03:23):
of that. It looks like they're taking over like the
Venice boardwalk in different places, like Eagles Nation is out
in force.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Today.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Went to lunch just around the corner from our house.
Normal one place we go, like you know once every
couple of weeks, and these three people walk in. You
can tell they they've come into town for the game
because they are all blinked out. Man, it is ossive.
It's a guy and two girls. She's wearing big good grim,
big green wig, big Eagles backwards hat jersey. The other
woman same thing, Eagles, you know, all Eagles, Eagles, beads,
(03:52):
Eagles everything. He's in a big Philly Bourne Jalen Hurts
jersey and he's got the big Eagles hat with like
with like cult with like rhinestones on it and okay.
So yeah, so you can tell, like, okay, these are
people that come. You can always tell these people are.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
In town for the game, work with the glue gun,
the fastener, maybe a little Etsy shop on the side.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, I mean going on.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's not like just hey, our game is today. Team's
planning to wear a hat, I'm gonna wear the jersey.
They're all blaked. This is all like, this is all
like stuff that you can say, Boy, I'm seeing dollar
signs when I see what they're wearing.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, it's like when you walk around a theme park.
So I start counting two hundred and four hundred. How
big is that bag? That's four hundred dollars worth of merchant? Yeah,
same thing.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So I walk by their table and and you see,
if I go, I gotta say something. So I walk
by and I just go, I go hey, and they'll
look at me. I go, how come your team they
all hate each other? Why can't they all get along?
And the one woman just goes and he and the
guy just smiles. He goes, well, can I say? I said,
but no, But I gotta be honest. I said, the
(04:52):
way that you can still win games and be completely
dysfunctional is really impressive.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Right, and now the.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Other him and goes, ah, oh, I'm killing.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
It this ship.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I missed Man on the Street opportunity. This would have
been gold the show. I am killing at this table
right now.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So the guy looks at me and he goes and
these guy's probably about thirty. He looks at me and goes, hey, hey,
it's a beautiful thing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You're wearing any Jets or Syracuse member.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Syracuse Okay, yeah, because I was gonna say so, My
d was gonna be, hey, you know, how's Dona McNabb,
But instead I'm like, no, no, no, So I just
walked up because they look very personal, they're fun, and
I just he just yeah. So then then we dap
and I walk away. My wife goes, oh that go wow,
they're in town for the game. I wanted to say hi,
just like oh okay, but just the way that I
like it. Nobody even said wait, wait, wait no we
(05:42):
all like each other. And I was like, yeah, no,
they all hate each other.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Philadelphia fans right there, all right there, it's it's a
beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He said. It's like I wear that as a badge.
That's just that ship. Yeah, that's the goal.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
You go want to know every day, no matter how
messed up your game, maybe you find your way.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
To come out on the positive.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
And that's what the Eagles have been all year Longman
to the fact Corse Ciriani was showing up at more
offensive meetings. They actually put the ball into the gut
of Saquon Barkley more in the first half. Yeah yeah,
this game, of course, a lot of that was late
after the Jalen Hurts mishaps to where it was, you
know what, We're not gonna trust you to throw the
ball anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
This is the thing is that it's a little bit
in common with the Dolphins, right what you know, especially
after seeing what they've been able to do over the
past few days, watching them against the Jets yesterday, Right,
like the Eagles way forward and through all of this
is to change their identity for this season, right like
(06:43):
the Dolphins went from hey, we throw the football over
the field. Tua can throw for four thousand yards, Tyreek
kill is terrific, right, Jalen Wattle's terrific. We can run
the ball. We are a full service offense. Well, guess
what that does work? And Tyreek kill got hurt too,
was you know you figure too without Tyreek running on
the field, and they can't throw the football, so what
do they do? A few weeks ago they decided we
(07:05):
are going to be ground and pound. We are changing
our offensive identity. And guess what, it's worked, right eight
chan and right, even Ali Gordon when he doesn't fumble
to an extent, they go out and they just sledgehammer
teams now running the football. This is a this is
a Miami Dolphin team that here we are at the
end of the season is trying to run the football
and a and be a ball control team to win
(07:27):
games and stay in it. Which is awesome, right, because
that's that's clearly been working for them. With Tua being
a game manager. You don't need to throw the ball deep.
You know, he's still finding Jalen Waddle, right, still got
a couple of big weapons there. Offensively, Dulsit has come
in at tight end. Right, You got Waller back, so
you can still do some things. But now you've changed
your identity, you're winning football games. It's incredibly impressive. The
Eagles have to do the same thing they've been going
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through most of the season. Okay, Saquan's not the same
guy start of the year because of the carries from
last year.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
We talk about it a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
He's not gonna have a great season, but they've tried
to put forward is so many different ways. Being Jalen
Hurts driven, right, We're gonna Hurts is gonna be the guy.
He's gonna build on this last couple of seasons. He's
now our best player offensively, and it just isn't working.
One week, I'll have a big week, the other week
they won't be able to throw the football at all.
One week they look like world beaters or defense plays great.
The other week what is happening and Hurts is turning
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the ball over. You're not gonna get any more out
of Hurtz and Goddard, n aj Brown, DeVante Smith.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
It's not I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
The way forward for the Eagles now is to be
Saquon Barkley intensive, and you've he hasn't had to carry
so far this year. He hasn't had the same wear
and tears a year ago.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
This is now.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Okay, it's December, Saquon. Now, they have to change and
become a Saquon first team kind of like they were
last year, except maybe more so because their passing game
is even even more haphazard than it was last year.
And if they can make that change, if they can
stay on the ground and win this football game and
gain some confidence and they change their identity over the
course of the last month, then I'll be back buying
(09:01):
in on the Eagles. But they need to do it
because you can't keep going through Week thirteen, fourteen fifteen Seingle.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Oh, well, this week, it'll work. This week.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts like each other. This week
they like Jalen Hurts. They did their best work last
year when Barkley was the forefront, and he covered a
lot of problems last year.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Right, they still had these issues last year.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Remember AJ Brown reading on the sideline, And now you
get reports this year of hey, Jalen Hurts is ad
libbing on plays. Barkley covered a lot of their ills
last year. When you have a guy running for two
thousand yards, is going to happen to do that. Now
you're at the point where, Okay, it's been the first
two and a half three months of the season.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
It's not working with this.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
So now Saquon, we're loading you up for the rest
of this and we are going to be Saquon Barkley driven.
If the Eagles do that, I'll be backing on the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I have to wonder if to some degree we talked
about this and look at the workloads for different running backs,
go back last year kind of the workload that you
had in Detroit and then Jamier Gibbs the second half
of the season was a monster for Barkley. How much
of this year is also just your You're kind of
trying to get by without killing him early, knowing that
(10:04):
you're gonna need him late as the weather changes, and
as you're playing for the playoffs. You're trying to grind
games out men. Even tonight, right first half, time of
possession was two to one, right nearly twenty minutes of possession,
even though Hurts was ten of nineteen, had nineteen attempts
in the first half, a couple of interceptions, had a fumble.
Not often you get a guy with an interception and
(10:25):
to fumble on the same play. But Barkley already with
thirteen carries sixty nine yards. So yeah, going to that identity,
even though he's down two yards per carry from last
year and You've had a lot of guys in and
out of the offensive line, other injuries later as this
game went on as well, So you're trying to navigate
(10:45):
that as you go hurts putting the ball downfield, averaging
like nine intended air yards per attempt for the year.
But to try to get back to balance, because you're
good enough to grind things out. Now how much the
Jalen Carter injury and surgeries come back to bite You
been watching this game, and not that the Chargers have
had the ball a ton but why are you not
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just running the ball immediately?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You got a guy that playing.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
With a broken hand and been a couple of circumstances
for Herbert, it's looked all.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Terrible and he's gone looked good for any of them tonight.
This game is not this name has not been good.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
For anyone at know.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
But just from the aesthetics of all right, he can't
do this, he can't do that, and uh, when he's
taken off to run a couple of times like just
get down or get out, run straight out of bounds,
whatever the case is, don't take another hit on that hand.
But for the Eagles at eight and four years you're
still controlling a pretty good chunk here in your NFC
with the chaos that that has been wrought across the NFL.
(11:45):
So yeah, get back to Saquon Barkley and see if
you can't rediscover some of that magic and bully ball
that made you so successful a year ago.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I Meanwhile, for the Chargers, I kind of feel like
they're still figuring out their identity too. As good as
they all look, both teams eight and four, both teams
have big time hopes and dreams this postseason. The Chargers
went from all right early on Harbaugh's gonna build the team,
continue to build how he wants to with a couple
of really good running backs and Justin Herbert running things.
(12:14):
Gonna be a full service offense. Right last year he
tried it, you can't do it with two running backs
that have been hurt all year. For the Ravens, I
don't care what kind of bill of goods your brother sold.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, you'll be fine with these guys. You know they're
gonna we're bringing them in our training room.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Oh wait, your training room's also had a lot of
problems through the years, well chronicled on this show.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So they thought coming in they're gonna be able to
run the football, Naji Harris and Murray and Hampton, and
it'll be a better version of what they were a
year ago. Then Harris gets hurt, Hampton gets hurt, Harbaugh realizes, Okay,
Herbert's our best player. They start throwing the football a
ton across the field. Everything is going well, but then
the offensive line breaks down and Herbert's under fire the
entire time.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Again.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Joe Alt probably the real NFL MVP, because right when
things were looking great for them, he got hurt. And
the Chargers it's been a big struggle. Not that they're
not good, it's been a struggle to get to eight
and four and here's where they are. So now, who
are they? Can they run the football? Are they a
team that's gonna throw? I still feel like the Chargers
looking for their identity. Are they justin Herbert driven? Are
they gonna be running back driven?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Now?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Mari and Hampton is back and they found Kamani Vidal
who may be the next version of Austin Eckler. Very
similar stories how they've come around and dented the NFL.
So these are both teams that are still kind of
searching for their identities. But the Chargers, it's like, Okay,
you gotta with four games left, are you gonna run
the football? You're gonna throw? What are you gonna be?
And I still feel like they don't know who they are.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Twenty gary seventy six yards between them tonight, including three
scrambles from Justin Herbert for twenty five yards. Hampton's shown
some pretty good burst. Again, this is an Eagles team.
When we saw them last they were getting run over
by the Bears, So the opportunity is there with Carter
out to perhaps makes them ay, but trying to get
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the wide receivers involved. Over the course of this one,
just eight completions look clearly Herbert's effect did a lot
of questions as to whether you'd see Trey Lance tonight
or maybe they can beat some other team and bring
a veteran like Philip Rivers back in. No, we'll get
to that as the jo go design. But you know
you're looking at dump offs to the running backs have
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been the primary responsibility here. You've seen a couple of
short passes to Johnston and Gadston, but really not much
downfield getting the ball out of his hands, trying to
live to see another down right now for Justin.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Herbert exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Right now,
Chargers lining up for a thirty four yard field goal.
If Dicker makes it would give them a thirteen to
six lead with five and a half to go in
the third quarter. In fact, he has done so, so
it's a touchdown lead again for the Chargers. The happiest
(14:52):
people in the world, those who have the under Yeah. No, absolutely, yeah,
there's no question about. We'll see if there's anything in
the final minutes that can create chaos like in other games.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Carol P. Carroll coaching this game.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
See, I've got like ten minutes on why that was
the right move. And people can be mad about it
all they want. Remember, Jake Elliott, we watched it on
the Monsters broadcast. Missed a field goal before just before
the half, so that looms. Sure you get that out
there that we watch on the Monsters. Well, I mean,
because they did some great graphics with it.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It was cool, but I don't know if half the
stuff on the Monsters broadcast actually happens, Like you know what,
we like a fever dream, No, we don't like that
play because that was boring.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
We're gonna give you a new play that we like better.
Oh okay, great, You're just gonna animate Randall and he
popped up in the end zone. Racia the hell he
come from rasion to the scare floor?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, exacts. So again, we'll have more on this game
coming up. We got Jason lock and four on the
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cut it to a thirteen to nine Charger lead, still
in the third quarter. We have more on this game
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He is on Twitter at Jason Lock and for the
it's at Jason Lock and for Jay, what's happening man?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Happy Monday?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Hey, what's going on? Gentlemen?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
About it?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
All right?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
So you got to help us out here, Jay?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
So obviously the big story in the last forty five
minutes the Colts, after injuries to Daniel Jones now out
for the year of the torn achilles Riley Leonard is
week to week they are going to work out Philip Rivers,
who last played in the NFL for them four years ago.
Happy birthday, Philip Rivers, by the way, last played four
years ago. Forty four years old. Jay, This isn't real,
(18:30):
is it?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Do We don't have many kids today? Have they had
more kids? To see? Last busy public spirit?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Well, I know he's got a grand kid now, yeah,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I think he was up to like ten or eleven kids.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, a lot of time.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Yeah, I think the cults are cooked no matter what
happens here. We talked about him quite a bit this
week on one of that because you can get plus
two forty on them to miss the playoffs and that
wasn't going to be around for much longer. You know.
It's uh, it's really unraveled. I mean they had the
inside shot at the one seed and had the best
record in the AFC. A few weeks back. I think
(19:06):
that game in Pittsburgh really kind of started to unmask them.
And they still moved the ball, but they turned it over.
They kind of they screwed that game up. They had
that terrible muff punt. The offensive line started to whelped
a little bit. Daniel Jones started to look like Daniel Jones.
(19:27):
The injuries obviously mounted for him. The Sauft Gardner trade
was an overpay to begin with, and now with him
being hurt, that really looks tough. And Daniel Jones is
going to be compromised through the offseason. And let's face it,
when you trade two ones for Sauft Carter, you're doing
that because you don't think you need a quarterback. You're
doing it because you think you've got book. And now
(19:50):
you know they're trying to sign pill of rivers off
the street, like yeah. And the real problem for them
is the division actually pretty good for the first time
in forever, So I don't think it's gonna matter to it.
You can really trace it all back to the Richardson
situation and not being able to develop him and the
(20:12):
injuries and the lost opportunity and the lost developmental time
and now that whole organization. It's just crazy. A month
ago to now, it just feels like it's not just
a couple of like you know, losses on a on
a football field. It feels like their direction was a
little bit to me now, well.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
You know me, the longer we can get these guys
in their forties to hang around, I don't feel so
old my own self.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Jason, there you go.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
How about there more talk of where Lamar is physically
or hating on officials today?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
There's plenty of time and energy for all the above.
You know, with Lamar, it's the physical stuff, but it's
now mental. I mean, he's been visibly frustrated. He's been
clearly plumbaged and confused and pissed, and he's got a
bad offensive line in front of him, and I think
he's starting to crack a little bit. And he's attacking
(21:10):
some guys verbally on the sidelines and I don't blame
him for that, but it's not a good sign. And
they need people to make plays for him, and it's
it's not really happening, and the running backs starting to
look his age a little bit. Nobody makes plays in
the passing game except for Jake Flowers, and Jake Flowers
is a little guy and he doesn't score touchdowns. There's
(21:32):
a lot. There's a lot to unpack right now. It's
a bad offensive line, it's a bad defensive line. And
it's going to be a really interesting offseason around here,
whether they make changes in the front office, whether they
make changes in the coaching staff. I personally don't think
this under is going to do it, but we'll see.
I mean, the left tackle probably nearing the end. The
(21:53):
center is a free agent. They re upped Derrick Henry,
but I mean Chiefs I don't know. They've got to
redo Lamar's deal again because he's got an eighty million
dollar cap hit, so they have to get that done.
He might hold their feet to the fire there. They
don't have any pass rushers they I don't think non
(22:14):
Be not a b K I was gonna play on
the stat in the NFL. So the best player on
defense is probably done. There's there's a lot a lot
going on here.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Well, you get to the likely touchdown that got overturned.
That's been a big topic of conversation.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Start foot down. Look, I mean, I'm fifty two years old.
That was I mean, where has that been all my life? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I know, you gotta get that.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Oh three feet down? Okay, hey toe tamp on the sideline,
but across the middle.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Hey, I mean I don't I don't understand Jay any
of that call and not allowing that touchdown. That When
I see plays like that, I go wow, I look
back and I go Sometimes the NFL just decides we're
gonna really look at this and see if we can
do everything we can to change this call.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
And sometimes they don't.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
And this is one of the.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
They did everything they could to change that call that
clearly was a touchdown.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Big Brother jumps in and gets caught up in the
weeds in the minutia. In one game and another game,
they're willing to let head to head collisions on a
quarterback go. They're willing to let guys being dragged into
the end zone BYO by four people not push them behind,
but pulled across the line like they're letting things. They
get called out in real time by announcers and refereeing experts.
(23:27):
Refereeing experts to the league, by the way, was too
cheap to keep. That's why they all last, because they
could make more money talking about it on TV than
he could actually overseeing it for the NFL. That's all
cheap the billionaires. Yeah, we find ourselves in predicaments like this,
I mean two feet down in a football move, and
like I had no money on likely to catch a touchdown,
(23:48):
Like it didn't affect my pocketbook, and it didn't affect
any fandom. But like he's got two feet out almost
a third foot and he takes the ball and extends
it away from the defender. If that's not a football move,
what the hell the football move?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Fair boy?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
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Speaker 4 (24:09):
Where you find about Jason Lockin for on X for
all of that in the above and his missives on
the NFL as we roll forward. So but stay in
the AFC North Shadora Sanders now the King of Yak
and he's got the job for the rest of the year.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
I mean he's he's held up pretty well with a
team that's pizzle and collapsed, playing for a coach who
clearly never wanted anything to do with him. Yeah, I mean,
I don't think there's really any other choice. Like what
you can go back to Dylan Gabriel and then this guy,
actually Jerry Judy actually plays football again. You know, both
tight ends. I know, wh Djuco Joko got hurt again
(24:48):
in this game, but like both tight ends actually played
football again, Like they actually run rounds where they have
a chance of the ball hitting them in the hands
more than four feet down field. Like it's it's I mean,
shameful what they did. It really is it's ridiculous that
they wasted half this kid's rookie year so that they
could look at Flacco for three or four weeks and
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then look at you know, waste six weeks with going
Gabriel pretending that he's an NFL quarterback er has a
chance of being an NFL quarterback. Like it's really, it's
really kind of ridiculous because we should know more about
shud Door Sanders. They should know more about Shandor Sanders.
You know, you draft him where you draft him, and
maybe you don't want to play him at first, like okay,
(25:30):
but but when you're trading Flacco and then you're going
to Gabriel, it's just it's it's ridiculous, but whatever, Uh,
I don't know, guys, like uh, I don't know if
the Fanski will still be there. I don't know. I'm
sure Sanders will be there, but like, I don't know
if he's gonna be competing with a veteran. I don't
(25:51):
know if they're going to use the high draft they
want to on a quarterback again, Like, is Andrew Bury
definitely there or was the Podesta's departure sign of other
moves to Comba. Don't know the answer to all those questions,
but he's definitely the best quarterback on their roster and
an even close.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
All right, Jay, how about this? We watched the Chiefs
lose last night. The Texans keep rolling their defense playing
at such a high level. Are the Chiefs cooked for
this season? Can they still find their way back?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Where are you on this?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I mean they're cooked to the Super Bowl contender like
they you know, I don't know, to just fall off
a cliff and you know, this game tonight is obviously
shoote for them and the Chargers hold on here or not.
I mean, that's that's kind of everything for for these guys.
Obviously they've got some head to head to head long
(26:39):
instacts head to head lost in suson. So that's gonna
be real tough at the time with those guys and
any sort of wild card, uh situation. I mean, they're
they're horribly flawed football team. They're there age and they're
their agents spots and just there the lack of ability
(27:05):
in others. It's it's kind of shocking, how what we're
not that far removed from them winning seventeen straight one
score games, you know, and now they get in a
close and late situation and you just kind of wait
for them to melt down there, you know, something to
go wrong and guy to drop the ball and kind
to knock the ball off his hands to the other team,
(27:28):
tip her to miss one. It's just they find a
myriad of ways to lose now, which is the antithesis
of what they've been.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Yeah, it's always been the one score game going the
other way back into the playoffs. So now we got
a live Miami Dolphins after they take down the Jets.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Yeah, well, look, I think they're keeping keeping your coach
and your quarterbacks employed down there, which if you're a
Dolphins fan, should probably make you sick. But I think
you're going to run it back with these guys, I
really do. Yeah, And I think they'll probably be pretty
bad by Thanksgiving again next year, and then the owner
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is going to be deep enough down the road where
he'll be paying two or sixty million one more time
and everybody will be gone by this time next year.
But yeah, they're winning games. And look, they've allowed seventeen
or fewer, I think, in for their last five games.
Anthony Weaver's doing a really nice job with the defense,
even after they trained Jalen Phillips, and they're running the
(28:28):
hell out of football, you know, And that's that's really
what it is. I mean, too is not doing anything special.
He has hitting the occasional deep shot the wattle, which
is more than he did in the pass. But it's
it's really kind of old school, and it's it's been
really effective the last four or five weeks. And look,
could they going to Pittsburgh and beat them Monday night?
(28:48):
I certainly think they could because they can run the
ball and that's been obviously a problem for Pittsburgh, and hell,
it's been a problem for Pittsburgh against teams in that division.
So no, I don't I don't think they're particularly close
to being a true contender. But I don't think many
people would want to come into that situation as a
(29:08):
head coach and have to inherit to and inherit all
of that. And you know he's McDaniel's guy. So I
think the book coming back honesty.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Washington Post one oh five seven The fan in Baltimore
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as always, Buddy, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Man, have a great week. We'll talk to you.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
You guys are the same.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Thank you, Jason telling me Man.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
The Dolphins they change it. It's a bold thing to
do in the middle of the season, but they changed
their identical look. They came out yesterday in the first
fifteen plays, Like, I think Syracuse had a stronger start
against Notre Dame than the Jets had against the Dolphins.
I mean, it doesn't matter who was running the ball
for the Dolphins. Could have been eight Chen, it could
have been Reggie Bush, could have been Larry Zanka. Like
(29:50):
they were just sledgehammering away current Dave, Larry Yes, current
day Larry Zanka, just you know, just to give them
the ball. Oh, all kinds of room, like a lot
of aura there. I mean, there's there's a they were
blowing open hole. Like when they had the ball inside
the five yard line, they were blowing open holes in
the Jets to fend, there's more room for them to
run on the goal line.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I'm going, how is this happening?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So a lot of it is the Jets, but I
give the Dolphins credit because it's a gutsy thing to say,
all right, how are we gonna win? We're one and six,
We're gonna become a ball control team, We're gonna run.
We got two good running backs, got another guy we
drafted who was a rookie that we really like, Hey,
this is gonna be how we're gonna do it. And
two is gonna be a game manager. And all of
a sudden, bang, Dolphins are six and seven and they're
(30:30):
on the periphery of the playoffs. Oh he's basically the
junior moon ball of Russell Wilson. Right, He's not a
guy that drives the ball in. So it all becomes
about timing. And when your offensive line's been compromised, well,
timing's not gonna be there. You don't have that deep threat.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
So and you realize, hey, this eight chand guy, he's
pretty damn Yeah, he's not bad, Bob. So let's give
him the ball twenty five times and see if we
can't make some good things happen. Fox Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. So,
as I said a few minutes ago, if the Eagles
become Saquon Barkley driven, if they changed their identity, I'll
(31:05):
believe in them. On a pitch play, Saquon Barkley just
takes it to the house for a go ahead touchdown.
The Eagles now have the sixteen thirteen lead over the Chargers.
In the fourth quarter, Barkley is honking it up on
the sideline, high fiving everybody.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Maybe the Eagles are back from more on this game.
Let's find out what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports with Chris purfetz Seep, what do you
got for us?
Speaker 8 (31:29):
Hello, guys, Yes, the Eagles have taken the high Hi, Mike, Hey, Hey,
how are we doing?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (31:35):
Hey, well that's an oldie, that's an old pole. Wow,
that guy just felt a ghost going up my shoulder there. Yes,
Eagles did take the lead. For those you might say,
the Eagles are back. But I am sure if I
channeled the words of a producer Bo Benson around here.
Jalen Hurds has two picks in this game, however, and
as somehow they're winning in spite of him, I'm sure
(31:56):
that will come back as well.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
But either way, yes, Eagles take the lead.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
There was earlier in this half also a just one
of my favorite drives ever, which is a nine nine
and a half, nine and a half minute drive by
the Chargers ending in a field goal on sixteen plays.
Anytime you can chunk up a ton of time, that's awesome. Yes,
as we've been talking about, Philip Rivers is going to
be trying out for the Colts. Their quarterback situation is
(32:23):
dire the body count. Daniel Jones done for the year
with an achilles stare, Riley Leonard weeked a week with
some sort of knee injury. Anthony Richardson still an injured
reserve with the orbital fracture a broken face. The only
quarterback left practice squad Brett Ripion. Heisman finalists were announced
on Monday, Notre Dame running back Jeremiah Love, Indiana quarterback
(32:44):
Fernando Mendoza, Vanderbilts Diego Pavia, Ohio State quarterback Julian saying
is the field. We'll find those out soon enough. On Monday,
the tamp Bay Buccaneers hosted veteran linebacker Jason Pierre Paul
for a tryout, and afterwards he was signed to the
practice squad. Might see another veteran come back again at
some point. NBA scores most of it is, yes, it
(33:06):
is all final, three games, our final. The Spurs take
down the Pelicans one thirty five to one thirty two,
Sons defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves one eight, one oh five,
and the Pacers knock off the Kings one sixteen to
one oh five. And earlier today, Orlando Magic's Desmond Baine
has been fined thirty five thousand dollars for throwing a
(33:27):
ball at Knicks forward og Ananobi on Sunday Sports like that.
That's that's like the second time he's done that move
this year where he just grabs the ball in just
volleyballs at some guy as they're falling down. I'm not
sure why he keeps doing this, but uh gotta look
into that.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Back to you guys, Thanks a bunch. Chris Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carman. Coming up next,
we get into the biggest football controversy that's become a
conflagration over the last couple of days, maybe even hotter
and full of more fire after what was said earlier today.
That's next, Jason to Mike, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show is my best friend,
Mike Harmon so festive. Yes, yes, I get all bathed
in the Christmas season when I hear your songs, Alex.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Show Jason, No one's playing our music. No, No, you
are right about that.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I've explained that to my daughters, Like you gotta see
some of the stuff Alex comes up with.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Jason, what if I told you one song I'm gonna
play as a commercial from a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Everyone's probably forgotten about it.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Okay, it's good, all right, and I'll have to identify
it when it comes up at some point in the show.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Oh you'll know. Okay, I very good, just like when
we know you finally have a good take show turn
on the news.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Okay, mister man that's good, okay. Eleven to go in
the fourth quarter of Philadelphia with a sixteen to thirteen
lead over the Chargers right now, Eagles got the ball
back first and ten their own twenty seven yard line.
It's been a rough night for the Chargers, both holding
onto the football and maybe getting a penalty.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Go in their way at some point.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
But Sakwan Barkley's big touchdown run has given the Eagles
a sixteen to thirteen leading. And we'll have more on
this game coming up in a few minutes. But the
last twenty four hours has been owned by the college
football playoff storyline and Notre Dame getting snub Miami gets
in and James Madison gets in and Duke is out.
(35:42):
There's a lot to get to with this. So let's
just do this first here, because I love First of all,
I've been waiting to do this Notre Dame story all
day for one reason. And you know why I've been waiting,
as Notre Dame story all day. Notre Dame, after getting
left out of the playoffs a day ago, first come
out with oh, we're not going to any games now,
blank you. I'm sorry, ESPN, you hate us. We're not
(36:03):
going to a bowl game. You're not gonna match it
up against BYU and piggyback off of our name. No,
we're not going to a bowl game, which is a
little bit bitter. But then today you got Notre Dame
ad Pete Baovaqua on the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio earlier today and he talked about how the
ACC in the wake of the playoff has caused quote
(36:27):
permanent damage to the relationship Notre Dame has with the conference.
Here is and as Berman would say, TJ A very
Kurt Bovaqua on this SI sente to do that all day.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Yeah, buld, I'm blowing champion of nineteen seventy five on
a seventy six tops card, A very Curt Bavaqua nicely
talking about the Notre Dame relationship with the ACC, which
may be irreparable.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
I have tremendous respect for Miami, you know, the great team,
great school, but we were mystified by the actions of
the conference to attack their biggest really business partner in
football and a member of their conference in twenty four
of our other sports. I wouldn't be honest with you
if I didn't say that they have certainly done permanent
(37:15):
damage to the relationship between the conference and Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Okay, now, something you've heard all day is that what
the AEC is not supposed to stand behind their teams.
Of course they are. You are a business partner. You
are not in the ACC. You've had chance to join conferences,
but no, no, no, you've wanted to stay independent the
whole time. Of course the ACC is going to do.
Of course they're going to back their day. They want Miami,
they wanted a team in. Of course that's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
I heard this live and I started laughing, almost did
a spit take as he spewed those words.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
I'll tell you two things. Number one, Notre Dame wants
out of the ACC, right, you want to get to
a bigger picture thing. The ACC is a dying conference.
As you can tell, they've not been able to. You
can criticize the Big ten and the SEC for being
about themselves, which they are.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
The ACC needs a.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Little bit more of that, need a little bit more
of hey, we're still a big boy conference instead of hey,
we're hoping to just kind of, you know, make it
to whatever the next version of Division one football is.
Because you know, college football changes every five minutes.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
So yeah, the ACC.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah there, Wait, they won out. I'm sure they won out.
I don't know if it means they're gonna join a conference,
but they want out. The second part is, man, everybody
felt bad for Notre Dame a day ago. Everybody felt
bad because there's no world where you can say, James
Madison getting in the playoffs is better than Notre Dame
getting in. But wow, the heel turn Notre Dame has
pulled off in the least twenty four hours. It was
(38:36):
a longer journey for anak into the dark side than
it was for Notre Dame to go from. Boy, you
feel bad for them to say no, we're not going
to a bawl. The ACC has done a reparable damage.
And oh, by the way, Bavakua also says they kind
of have a handshake type agreement that if they're in
the top twelve next year, they automatically get into the
playoffs no matter what.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Yeah, we're Notre Dame. We're elitists, we're better than you,
and we know it now.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
I want Notreame to get left out of every playoff
just because hey, we're Notre Dame. Don't you know how
self important we are. I understand how important Notre Dame is.
I get I get they are. I may disagree with it,
but I get it. But now when they come out,
want to stand up on that. No, Now I hope
they get left out of everything. Yeah, I hope you
get left out of field, hockey. Hope you get left
out of soccer. Hope you get left out of everything, fencing, whatever,
(39:22):
whatever of sports you have with the AC, say, get
left out of all of them.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I hope you get left out of every single one.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
There's so many pieces to this that are just so delicious,
the different arguments from the conference and how they were treated.
It's like, yeah, you're not a member, they don't get
any money. You're not giving them any money for anything
you do in the playoffs. They don't get to trade
on your name for that. Just because you're on with
them with track and field and swimming, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
You're not a full partner. This is the I equate
it to the mean girls.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Right for the spring fling queen, we all sit at
the same lunch tape. But if I want that plastic crown,
I will kick your ass. That's exactly what they did
here in the comparison side to side and the TV
part of it. We always talked about the TV show
you got got for several weeks. You were used as
the prop of Oh my god, how could they have
(40:13):
Notre Dame? H No boom at the last minute. There's
your twist, there's your plot twist for the next next season,
the next finale, the next piece of the equation of oh.
Head to head always mattered, but it didn't while we
were still doing this TV show.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
This is the table of the girls who eat their feelings.
We have more on this big story coming up next,
Notre Dame and their self importance and why you should
have all seen this result of the college football playoff
coming way ahead of time.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
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