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Speaker 1 (00:26):
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
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here we are in a big Friday night, getting into
a big football weekend. Dodgers had their big parade today.
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Keith k Hernandez is the superstar of that parade and
it's kind of a nice little Okay, now all the
baseball is over, we're into the off season, and now
it's okay. We're in the beginning of November and football
can take over again. We had an unbelievable MLB playoffs
and now okay, everyt not tipping the cap, and now
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it's football.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
But I want to know from that parade how much
time over the course of the year do those guys
sit around as a group and watch wrestling promos? Because
every guy, once he got the mic, was walking around
like he was in the center of the ring. And
I gotta tell you, hey, Pelly, these teams, you know,
those guys in New York, you know, and they start
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smack talking and talking about their families and whatever else,
getting them the curse. And just one guy after another,
Clayton Kershaw, I didn't do anything, but thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
This is great.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I mean, just one guy after another and they asked
him a two million people, Jason two million. I'm glad
I had to. I didn't have any business downtown today.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well, I will say I think, I think, and I'm
gonna go out on a limb by saying this, and
this is a really hot take. I think that alcohol.
I think that alcohol helps. I think in a situation
like that, your inhibitions go away a little bit, and
I'm pretty sure it helps. I'm just going by experience,
I think that helps a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Well, tall and bullet bulletproof, no question inebriation. I mean
it allows you to speak in foreign tongues.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Sure, you could say whatever you want. Look show how
Tani brought decoy to the parade and Clayton Kershaw was emotional.
He would you know, he went out of his way
to say I had nothing to do with this, but
it's just so exciting. I'm just happy to be here.
But when we say Key a Hernandez won the day,
Key a Hernandez won the day. The Dodger center fielder
who had his shirt off during the parade and then
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decided to enthrall the fans at Dodger Stadium, getting them
all to say the F word as one, which was
pretty which is you know, it's a pretty big accomplishment.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Stole it straight from Steve Steve Austin.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
But we all know why, right, why we won because
we don't give a blank. And then he decided, well
it's not enough to we beat the Yankees. I'm gonna
go after Fat Joe ice Cube was there today, did
a rendition of it was a good day. Uh, you
know his performance before Game one of the of the
World Series, and then the Yankees answered with Fat Joe,
a performance and on social media was to be kind
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widely panned, and uh Kei k Hernandez decided to h
you know, I'm I can't let this go. I can't
go gently into the good night of the offseason winning
the World Series without letting people know just what I
thought about the Fat Joe performance. When we played in
New York. Here's key Y Hernandez from earlier today.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Then we got to New York in this guy he used.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
To be fat, he's not fat anymore.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
His name is Joe.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
He can't sad.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
And guess why we didn't even need to play because
after that performance we had already won. We didn't need
to play because after we watched Fat Joe rap, we
knew it was over. Do we even need to play?
Do we we need to come out? Okay, we'll come.
We'll go through the motions started a couple of games.
But you just saw Fat join me. Come on, man,
all right, all right, let's go out and play. But
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we're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Got him dragged just a little bit more, by the way,
during that ice Cube performance, Tell me what what was
Dave roberts On because that ain't just feel good.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, hey, who whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa allegedly allegedly.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I mean, you talked about the demon alcohol help.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You could see it with guys when they're on the
when they're on the bus.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I'm just saying, Dave got loose, and good for him.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You could see it. It's like they're all, come on, man,
the avocado vodka or whatever it was he was having.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Oh see, there you go. You take their shots at
people who love overpriced avocados.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Sure, exactly. Well, look, avocados are expensive, man, I mean
that's that's like, that's one of the gourmet fruits. You're
not You're not walking in saying, hey, getting like a
bunch of avocados.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Hey wait a minute, dude, that's that's categorized as a
luxury item.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
At this meado.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Wait, you are guacamole. You must have had a good
year if they're to make it at the table for me,
all right.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I kind of miss that. That's one thing. I miss
that because I don't think restaurants are gone back to
that after COVID. You're coming to the table and making
the guacamole they're doing as much.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
No, the bougie ones to Okay, you gotta go upscale, buddy.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Some places that I've gone to and then I'm like,
oh no, you used to do that. Yeah, no, we
don't do that anymore. Okay, well you know what, you
know what you could do though?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You can bill on down on the table. I bet
you they'll make that quacam the table money place.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Is there anything I have in my pocket that I
could give to you that would make you make the guacamole? Ear? Uh?
So the Dodgers, you know, the end of the baseball season.
And you know what I love is that you can
always tell when a sport finishes and has a and
has an ending that that people have desired to see.
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You saw the look the TV ratings for it, like worldwide,
it's like thirty million people who watch the World Series, right,
like the seventeen million here at average, and then probably
the fifteen million at least in Japan that watched the
World Series. And you could tell because the day after
the World Series like normally, okay, that's it. It's the end.
You get the articles online of here are your early favorites,
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and here's the early power rankings for next year. And
here's the gambling favorites. The Dodgers are favorite to repeat.
Everybody's always favorite to repeat, even though nobody does. But
instead of that, we've gotten the last couple of days,
it's been okay, who's a free agent now, and who's filing,
and who's coming out and and and you know, free
agency starts in a few days, and suddenly we've gone
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from okay, this is over and it's like there's been
one day of off season and now we're into the
next season. And that always tells you what cut season
of sport has it when they get to the end
of the when they get to the end of everything,
usually there's a break, we move on. But this, this
is what baseball has done. Headlines of Blake Snell opting
out the Braves and Angels making a trade yesterday, and
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you look at all the people who are trending on
social media and you think it's a lot of football.
We got a big slate going into tomorrow, and instead
it's all about hey, Pete A. Lonzo is trending and
another player, what's gonna happen here? Who's gonna go? Soto
is trending? He's gonna be such a big thing. You
could tell baseball is having a great moment right now,
and it's extending past the World Series. And that tells
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you what kind of year baseball had.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, I mean, you see the type of year the
Dodgers were able to put together ninety eight wins to
lead all the Major League Baseball despite the fact that
they went through what was it, seventeen starting pitchers and
a roster of thousands. How they'll divvy up the checks
for everybody postseason wise, Well, you were around for a while,
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all right, you get a sliver and start parsing it out.
It'll be an interesting watch when that fits voted on.
But to that point, it just showed that there's, you know,
just another way to find your yourself on a path
to the World title. And so what do you need
to do? You start to emulate what's working. Right In
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the PostScript of the World Series, everybody's mocking the fundamentals
of the Yankees. Boy, I'll tell you what if I
had a Nickel's easy. No, no, no, I'm just saying, but
suddenly it becomes it. Well, don't be those guys. Meanwhile,
the gritty, gutsy Dodgers over here with all of these
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glue guys, and as we chronicled the other night talking
about the next iteration of things where bullpen management, bullpen employment,
you're feeling pretty good if you're coming up on a
free agency year and you did your job as a
reliever because of what the Dodgers just did. And you
looked at what the Dodgers roster was, a lot of
those guys were only making a million dollars. They were
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not on the hook for massive amounts. Grader was like
two point seven, Brazier was I think the high man
at like five point four, and then if we count
Walker Bueller, he was eight million. Can't wait to see
what his deal is. But the point being that in
order to go chase the leader, you can't sit around
on your laurels. You can't be I mean, even the
White Sox announced the manager. I mean, even the dregs
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of Major League Baseball are active immediately in the aftermath
of the World Series.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
So again, we'll we'll bring you some more baseball, some
more upset and cursing Dodger players throughout the night of
the show. But look, big night in the NBA happening
right now two finals. Want to spend a couple of
minutes here on before you get into our big Friday
football preview. The Cavaliers improved to six and oh they
beat the Magic one twenty one oh nine. And just
for a couple minutes on this, because yes, the Magic
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are playing without Paulo Bancaro now for at least the
next four to six weeks. It's a big deal. But
here's Cleveland, and I want to say, because we've had
conversations about this, they have the best record in the NBA,
and you know, I don't know how it's going to continue.
But of all the teams I told you that dark
horse rising in the East that were not talking about enough.
Look conversation about the Celtics and the Knicks. I get it,
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they're they're the big sexy teams in the East, of course,
but Cleveland was a really good team last year. They
ran into the Knicks. It's a tough matchup for them.
But this is a good, young rising team and I
expect them when it's all said and done. If they're not,
if they're not one of the top three teams in
the Eastern Conference, I'll be really surprised. And and and
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maybe the wind up with a better regular season record
then either the Knicks or the Celtics, because are the
Celtics really going to go all out to get the
number one record in the Eastern Conference. That's gonna be
a thing. But Cleveland, if they're not one of the
top three teams and a big, serious title threat by
the time we get to the playoffs, I'll be really surprised.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
No, you look at the balance and tonight, you know,
you hang a star on it. As you said, man,
Caro doesn't play, and it's a blowout, so everybody plays,
everybody wins, but putting up big points, good balance, and
you've got the two headed monster right off the jump.
And and they've already taken down a couple of big teams,
uh in terms of what they've been able to do,
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including your Knicks.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
So opportunity uh duff knock here some blowout wins uh
and early on buy in. Normally we do the well,
we gotta wait for a month or we wait till
Christmas to try to judge squad. Now, no, no, baseball's over.
We gotta judge people right now, and right now they're
kicking ass. So in the East that that's fun to
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get another team as opposed to just the all right whiteboard,
there's the Knicks, there's the Celtics, and then we'll wait
and see. No, let's have other teams in the mix.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And one of the other teams we talked about. Look,
they've started out better than we expected, better than they've
started out in the last few years. The Lakers just
put the finishing touches on a win over Toronto. They
went at one thirty. Another big night from Anthony Davis.
He scores thirty eight. Now you think I'm gonna come
out and say, oh, the Lakers are going with a
Nikers are let me just say, hang, no, no, no,
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this this is the There is no reason, no reason,
no reason, no reason you can give me to not
be somewhat encouragingly cautiously optimistic for the Lakers so far
this year. I mean, I'm dead encouraging, cautiously optimistic, carefully,
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that's that's kind of where I am. I mean, look,
we've seen enough of this Laker team, and obviously, hey,
when the big players like Ad and Lebron who are older,
especially Lebron, when they haven't played in a long time,
they're gonna come out fresh and play well beginning of
the season. Obviously things are going to be different at
the end when these guys have had long seasons. It's
just how it goes. But right now, I mean, look,
they've started off better than I thought. They've looked a
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lot better, They've looked a lot more in sync than
I thought they would. You're talking about a couple of
players they expect to take big steps. You have a
new head coach, and I mean, I mean really early, encouraging,
cautiously optimistic. That's where I am for the Lakers right now,
and you gotta take it. That's as far as I'll go.
But I do feel then if you're looking at a
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needle in the middle and it's at zero and then
like one hundred is all the way down at the
right angle, and then zero, you just move a little
bit to the right. It's just a tiny bit to
the right, a little bit, a little bit more towards
one hundred than it is towards the other side. So
it's just a time the bit early, cautiously, extremely extremely
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cautiously optimistic.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Well, it's like we were talking about your mid season jets.
With their win last night, over the Texans. We'll move
them past the midpoint towards Hey, maybe something can be
brewing with the schedule ahead, continuity, consistency, et cetera. For
the Lakers, got to be impressed early on with what
JJ Reddick's gotten out of them in terms of committing
on both sides of the court. For Anthony Davis, the
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beat rolls on. So playing in the Olympics and all
of those things, where you start you start worrying about
where right, especially for guys that.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Have missed time.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I'm so much time in the past due to injuries.
So for Davis and James, wherever they're going to be
able to find some rest moments. I got to think
over the course of the regular season they do. But
out of the gate, this is one of Lebron's more
complete games that he's given thus far. They combined for
sixty five and eighteen Lebron with tennis sists as well
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Reeves and Russell at twenty and nineteen, and the starters
had their way not to not to you know, totally
dismiss RJ. Barrett, former Nick and Grady Dick, who combined
for sixty four points in the loss. But you should
also make note Bronnie James did get a minute in
this game.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, well, look they're up because he was up big. Yeah,
when you're up big, you get a minute. Guy, get
a minute. And that's the thing is that, Hey, how
much can we give Bronnie James where he's not going
to impact the game at all? Okay, you know, when
a guy's got to come out at the end of
a quarter, we give him a minute, right because okay, defensively,
he won't kill us for a minute, and the g
League can't get here fast enough, but we're gonna play
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it for a minute here and there. It's gonna happen.
But here's one minute of Brownie James. So nobody else
picks up a foul.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, and again I'm not dragging him. It's not his fault.
He's part of a machineer. But for the Lakers, you
gotta be encouraged. And again, you know, owing to history
of Chiefs win, Dodgers win, question mark going back to
twenty twenty, how about that, let's.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
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Speaker 1 (17:14):
I'm always a big fan of the last time you'll
ever hear someone do something in their life, last time
you'll ever hear fat Joe do something before a Yankee game.
That's it right here? What's tough?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I men? Look cause immediately what does everybody go to?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
You were fat Joe? You're not fat? But that's good though,
Like the guy's healthy normally. I agree. He's medium sized Joe.
He's a little bit smaller Joe.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
It's like medium medium beat that we always saw about.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
He was two pros and a cup of Joe. Now
he's just a cup of Joe. He's just Joe. It's
tough man man.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But I mean, that's your moniker.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That's how people know you. You just take me.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Talk about all the comedians when suddenly you go and
and you drop fifty pounds. Suddenly they don't. They don't
last up at your pract falls the same way.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
You used to be funnier when you were heavier. I
know what I'm doing, but I write so much better now. Yeah,
I don't care. It doesn't matter. I want to be
a dramatic actor. Damn you. Why are you fat? Joe?
My bank account is fat. That's what I would say.
I would be fat, or I would I would rebrand
myself like fat Joe. P h A T like like
to try to again sell more merchant stuff, and I
try to do that like that point there you go,
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you gonna do Yeah, see that's that's how you gotta
do it now. But I mean, I fat. They'll never
have fat Joe again. Fat Joe is done though at
what at at at at singing before Yankee games. That's
not when you do it. Just a general du bank,
not a good run.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I mean, all good things come to an age, it happen.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So but no, he's still a successful artist. He still
makes a lot of money, and he still has a
lot of hits up. But I mean, but as far
as you talk about hey singing for the Yankees, and
I'll be no, that's it. It's not a good run.
It's one and done.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
No, on some level, I mean you have to wonder,
you know, who thought that that was the big guy
to trot out attended?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Who do we got hang on? Uh? Billy, Yeah, he's still.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Hunt tour and then he's hanging out at the Taylor
Swift show with his kids, so he's out.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
De Snyder keeps calling, no, gotta move on. Can't have
d Snyder move on?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Springsteen and his band were rehearsing the Ghostbusters theme for
that that show on the thirty first, so he was unavailable.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
We can we can't have Springsteen? Why because he wants
forty five minutes. He says he needs to do a
couple of really long songs. He wants to talk to
the audience. He needs too much time. You can't just
have him come out for one song.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
He tried to force Paul Simon to it to work
with Garfunkel, he refused.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
First pitch will be at ten o'clock New York time.
We can't have that. Can't do it. So the classes
coming to town. Not many, not many. Uh So, a
big titanic weekend in college football. One of the biggest
Top twenty five, Top five matchups we'll see all year,
Ohio State and Penn State, part of the Big Dude
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Kickoff on Fox. Got Pete Futech coming up a little
less than an hour from now. I'm gonna tell us
how he thinks this game is gonna go. And look,
we'll get to the cowboys of what happened with Jerry
Jones today in a minute. But look, this is the
game we're all gonna wake up and watch tomorrow. And
you're talking about two of the best teams in the country,
and I know that there. Look, Drew Alller's status is
going right out to game time, and James Franklin being
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very cagy with it. I assume he knows by now,
But hey, you got to prepare for a couple of quarterbacks.
This is how you thought it would go. I even
though they're at home and they're seven to zero, I
don't think it's going to matter number one, because I
have to see James Franklin win a big game at
some point. Sure, Like I gotta say, I'm not just
gonna say this is the time to do it. I can't.
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I can't do it. I can't just play whack a
mole and go this is when he's gonna win the
big game. This is what no. Ryan Day and Ohio
State don't generally lose games like this in the regular season.
They should have probably won a couple weeks ago against
Oregon had you had a little bit smarter play in
the last minute with your quarterback. But it was still
a back and forth game. It was on the road.
Ohio State plays these games extremely well, and I have
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seen Ohio State win games like this big regular season
tests for the better part of the last twenty years.
Whether it was Ryan Day or Urban Meyer, Jim Trussell.
They don't lose these games. It's the end of the
year when you get to the Big Ten in Michigan,
that's when they start. Look that's what okay, Now, that
is when we start losing. But I've seen Ohio State
win these games, and it's not gonna be a great
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game for offense. Both defenses are really good and I
can't really see Ohio State running the football. But in
the end, Ohio State's gonna make more plays. I have
more confidence they're gonna make more plays than Penn State's.
Whether drew aller plays or not, they will find a
way to get it done. And simply because Ryan Day
and Ohio State they know how to navigate these big ones.
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It'll be close, and I'll take Penn State in the under.
I feel just as strong about the under as I'm
sorry Ohio State in the under. I feel just as
strong about the under. But it'll be close. But gimme
Ohio State seventeen sixteen. They win and they continue to
stay alive and not have to worry about polls and
voting whatever else it is for the top twelve for
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the playoff, gimme Ohio State by a point.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Look at you, I'm gonna take him to cover the
three and a half and to win easily. Looking at
the James Franklin resume as you go through against top
ten teams three and seventeen. Let's be more generous, let's
just say top twenty five. He's still just twelve and
twenty five. He's going five lifetime against Ohio State. They
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get drummed in this one. They don't generate any offense,
they're smothered by Ohio State, and they win going away.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
If you know, look, I'd love to be able to
see because Penn State being good is really good for
college football, and they can afford a loss. Let's be honest, right,
you know, you know, even though there at all they
can afford a loss, maybe a little bit less with
Ohio State. A two loss Ohio State team probably still
gets into the playoff. But you still have Indiana coming up,
you have Michigan coming up. Like you are running out
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of real estate to say, hey, we feel comfortably in
the field of twelve. And again, if Penn State wins
this game, I will now feel confident about picking Penn
State to win big games. But they gotta do it first,
and I really I gotta see if James Franklin actually
win a game. You know, win's something that really Amdericans say, Wow,
that's a signature win for James Franklin to Penn State.
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I gotta see him do it. I gotta see him
do it. So I'll take Ohio State.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Three and a half point road favorites. Total is forty
five and a half. Feels like a I don't know,
thirty to fourteen game or something.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Mike Harmon a little bit more on Ohio State than
I am. So there's our first big pick of the
day again, big nude kickoff on Fox tomorrow morning. We
will get to the Cowboys coming up in ninety seconds,
but first special deliveries Steve to say are going to
tell us everything that's trending in the wide world of sports.
Kicking off with the fact that he made fifteen thousand
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dollars tonight because he bet the Knicks giving twenty nine
to the Detroit Pistons. Hey Steve, weaked one out, Hey.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Steve, was it only twenty nine? We've seen the Pistons,
and we've seen this before from the Pistons, But yeah,
Detroit's one in five after losing by thirty points at
home to the Knicks one twenty eight, ninety eight, such
a blowout that Jalen Brunson had thirty six points in
thirty one minutes on the court. He had scored twenty
six points in the first half. Boston's five and one
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after winning at Charlotte won twenty four to one oh nine.
Jason Tatum thirty four points, Cleveland six and oh It
led by nineteen at the half, and Viato Orlando won
twenty to one oh nine. Jalen Sugs twenty eight points
in defeat wins for Brooklyn and Sacramento. Also for the Lakers,
who won at Toronto. Lakers were up after the first
quarter forty three to nineteen and held on to beat
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the Raptors one thirty one, one twenty five. Davis thirty
eight points. Raptors record now one in five and it's
a final at New Orleans. Zion Williamson with thirty four
points ten assists in a victory against Indiana one twenty
five one eighteen. Pelicans guard C J. McCollum is out
two to three weeks with a strained deductor. There are
only two late games in the NBA. Late first half
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at Minnesota Timberwolves lead fifty eight to fifty five over
the Denver Nuggets, and late first quarter the Thunder four
and oh leading at Portland twenty six to fourteen. Golden State.
Steph Curry will miss a third straight game tomorrow with
an ankle injury. The new WNBA coach for Indiana is
Stephanie White, a former player and coach there. Among the
six NHL games, one in Finland today, Florida defeated Dallas
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six to four. They'll play again there tomorrow. Wins for
the Rangers and Winnipeg tonight Winnipeg ten and one.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Now.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
As for the college football on FS one, about a
minute to go in the third quarter at fifteenth ranked
Boise State forty two to ten is the Broncos lead
against San Diego State, and this will put Boise State
at seven and one on the season. Heisman candidate running
back Ashton genty on twenty seven carries as one hundred
and seventeen yards and a TD. By the way, Grand
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Canyon University within two years will join the Mountain West Conference,
which is losing five members to the new PAC twelve,
including Boise State. In the near future. The Phoenix school
was going to join the West Coast Conference, especially for basketball,
but Gonzaga is leaving that league for the PAC twelve.
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was cleared to play Sunday. He'd
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miss practice Wednesday and Thursday with backend knee problems. Giants
pitcher Blake Snell opted out of his contract and the
Giants promoted Zach Manascion II general manager. His brother is
the Angels GM. The Yankees picked up the option on
closer Luke Waiver, and the Dodgers victory parade was today
through downtown LA. Afterwards, there was a ticketed celebration at
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the stadium and that with the upper deck seats closed
the top deck I should say about forty two thousand
fans for that party at the stadium today. By the way,
LA reliever Daniel Hudson retired, and outfielder Kevin Kiermyer announced
his retirement, and Clayton Kershaw said he will have two
surgeries on Wednesday, one on the toe, one on the knee.
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He already had the shoulder surgery a year ago, but
does plan to pitch next year. He just didn't want
to be on crutches during the postseason and during the parade.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
And wait a minute, Steve, I think Daniel Hudson retired
running out to the mound to celebrate after the final out.
It wasn't like I think that. I think he ran up.
I'm retired. I'm retired. They jumped on the Bueller he retired.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Back then, as I recall time ago, it was Daniel
Hudson who gave up the Vulpie Grand Slam in the
All bullpen game. And if Walker Buehler didn't do the
job in the ninth to clinch, guess who was going
to pitch the tenth inning for the Dodgers One Herscheiser,
Daniel Hudson. Did you notice Walker Bueller wearing apparently a
game warn Hersheiser got that.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You really don't think her Schier was going to pitch
the tenth as Jersey was there all ready to go.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I think he already proved in the eighty eight playoffs
against the Mets. He could start, he could relieve everything.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
It doesn't matter at the age.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Oral also said, when he gets it back, he's not
gonna wash it. So whatever Walker Bueller's done to it,
that's the condition it'll stay in. Thank you, Steve, appreciate it,
thank you, thank you. That's that's Steve to say. He
knows when to drop the mic. He know dropping the mic.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Balk Uh the Jason Spitzer with Mike harmon Live dot
Com Studios. No, I know he's walking. No, he knows
to drop the mic. I'm walking away from you because
you're gonna get struck by lightning. So that's that's what
he's doing. I get it. That was his drop the
mic because the lightning's gonna come, it's going to strike
and if he's holding the microphone, it's going to strike him.
So I'm dropping the mic walking away, so the lightning
just strikes you, all right, that's all. Uh So, Dallas
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in Atlanta one of the big games on Sunday in
the NFL. Not the biggest. I mean, the Lions are
playing the biggest game in the NFL Sunday things. I
didn't think guy'd say three years ago. But ahead of
this game, which is which is a titanic game for
the Cowboys as they try to continue to salvage whatever
they have going on this season, Jerry Jones did one
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of his weekly spots on one O five three the
Fan today and talked about the cowboys less than stellar
start right there, three and four. They're not one in
five at three and four, so okay, but uh, Jerry
Jones actually said Hey, you know the way the Cowboys
have been playing, it's kind of a surprise to him.
Take a listen, this is where we have the Jerry
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Jones sound ready when he.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Talks, Sure, look the monkeys.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Look at the smith kid said that, Look, this start
is rougher than I anticipated. Even though I didn't sign
anybody in the off season and all I did was
give guys money. I thought we'd be better just by osmosis,
you know, learned about that in the chemistry back in Arkansas.
Than just.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Because you guys are talking.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's gonna wind up being something that just just it
just like like the zombie plague that just goes from
person to person like that. We were just gonna just
get there and just suddenly be good because of that.
And I don't know why we're not playing better. What
was your question? We do have the we do have
the sound ready. Now here's Jerry Jones.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
I think we're having a rougher go than I anticipated.
Let's put it like that. Okay, so that's don't let's
don't a couple that with just those two. Yeah, let's
but having me in the loop needs to be there.
It is rougher. Uh, and I did not anticipate the
challenges that we're having with this team. But I uh
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am reminded of teams that I've seen that have had
a lot of success and put themselves in a position
to take a shot. And they were three and four.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Wait, did you really say I got to be in
the loop more? You know, I can't. They keep telling
me these meetings are at three o'clock. Show up at
five to three. They tell me the meeting was over
and I'm late. So I go back to back to
my desk and make some phone calls, been on some
stuff on eBay. Bought a nice big cowboy helmet clock
the other day. It was great. Guy got it right
on there. Every time I turn the light on, it
plays the It plays a call a Cowboys winning the
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Super Bowl after I bought the team. It's fantastic. But
then I got a meeting at five o'clock and I
get there five to five and they tell me the
meeting is already at I don't know what's going on.
I call Steven, I say Steven, when was the meeting?
He said, Dad, you were there? You don't remember, And
I'm like, no, I don't, Okay when? And then then
the day ends, and next thing I know, I'm signing
over money to Dak Prescott. So that's how it's been
far so far. For Jerry Chones to say, uh, the
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start is rougher than I anticipated. If he really believes that,
then he has completely lost his fastball. Right, if he
honestly believes it's un anticipated, he has completely lost his
fastball because he knows he's on the team for a
long time. If you don't improve in and offseason, guess what,
You're not going to suddenly magically improve when you start
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playing in September, just because the calendar changes. It's something
everybody learns, but usually the younger age. Well, we're gonna
be better next year. Why because it's not this year. Oh
that's right. Once the calendar. Once we watch the ball
go down in Times Square and Ryan Secrets is smiling
at me, and I'm watching sailors kiss their girlfriends. Oh,
magically it's gonna be better for us. Doesn't work that way.
So I know if he really believes that that he's
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lost his fastball. And Jerry Jones, whatever you want to
say about him, he's not lost his fastball. He's still jerrying,
which is what he does, you cannot like it and
it doesn't make it right. And how he has run
the team. But he is still Jerrying. He is still
keeping the Cowboys in the conversation when they're not winning.
Now he knows, he knows this whole thing is going on.
He's trying to find a way to motivate the team
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through his appearances because he knows everybody listens and pays attention.
But if I really thought for a second he believed that,
I would say he's lost his fastball, and wow, this
is really this is gonna be really difficult because he
no longer can really run the team. But I don't
think for a second that's what it is. He's still,
like I said, he's still Jerrying. He's still doing everything
to keep the Cowboys top of mind, whether it's threatening
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to fire radio hoster, saying stuff like this every week,
He's doing it how he's always done it. It's always
his fault until he decides it's not. I'll take responsibility,
but then when it gets too much for me, it's
gonna be somebody else's fault. This is all the Jerry's
always done, and this is just one of those tools
he is using to make people think, oh, hey, you're surprised.
I'm surprised, like we had a really good team. Now
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everybody knew, Jerry, you're the only guy trying to push
it a different way to say it's not my fault.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
See, I would say this, it's the not necessarily in
Jerry's mind, is it where their record is, because notice
he pulls out the three and four, it's how they've
lost that. He didn't think the margin was that much
between them and a Baltimore, a Detroit, or a San Francisco.
Because the San Francisco it's cosmetic, that thirty to twenty
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four final.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
That game against New Orleans, well we've seen what New
Orleans is. So I'm sure he's pissed about that, and
in a quiet moment, he'd start letting out a litany
of curse words to describe his feelings over having gotten
drummed in that one. But certainly even Jerry has to
realize that there was going to be a gap, and
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you wanted to see how your team would compete with
teams that are seen as elite, because the Cowboys were
not seen by anybody. Even Jerry had his most delusional
as being in the same class as Baltimore, Detroit and
San Francisco. You just didn't think you'd get smacked around
as easily as you did. So going forward, how do
you change it? Well, you should have probably actually kept
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Tony Pollard. Who would have thought he might have been
a lynchpin to this whole damn thing just having a
functional running back this whole time.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Think about that running back, he was the guy. He's
like the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Think now, obviously you have issues defensively. You've had injuries
and you weren't able to bolster the defensive front. You
had a couple of injury eas to your secondary where
you're starting corners, I've been out even though you get
digs back, bland and miss so much time. Oh of that,
Parsons is out. All that to say, though, the gap,
you know, the wins above replacement from.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Those players is so huge.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Then you're now in this spot where you're trying to
spin in week nine.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Exit ut about a Fresca exit swalling down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the Tirech dot
Com Studios. Sorry, everything is fine for the Cowboys until
they lose again On Sunday, So we'll have more on
this game coming up in a little bit, but straight ahead,
one of the best games in the NFL on Sunday
features a team who right now they have the NFL
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Coach of the Year. And it's not even close. Way,
way do we tell you who that? No, it's not Cleveland.
Way do we tell you who that Coach of the
year is? That's next right here, Jason and Mike Happy Friday,
Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (36:07):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen
Live from the Tirack dot Com studios. Coming up about
ten minutes, we'll take a look and preview the game
of the week in the NFL. It doesn't get any
bigger than what we're gonna get to. But one other
game from this weekend that holds a lot of intrigue
on the slate are the Broncos and the Ravens. But
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not for the Ravens, right, Ravens are really good. Their
only issue is consistency, Right, Like I think Jason lock
and four hit it on the head with us, right,
you know NFL Insider, he joins us every week. He
you know, lives in Baltimore, lives and dies every every
couple of you know, every day with the Ravens. And
it's like, you know, this is what happens. The Ravens
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show up for a couple of weeks, they play really well,
and then they get loose and then oh then they
then they're motivated for a couple of weeks, and then
they get bored or whatever. And that's really kind of
what we have seen with the Ravens is kind of
what he's pointing out that with Hey, they are really
really good, but you can see them their attention to
detail and their attention to coming out every week and
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being consistent is not quite there.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Well, their defense stakes, I mean, there's no true, there's
no two ways about it. That secondary is a disaster.
We said it before the season started, and the like
the profits we are here, we are going into week nine.
They're huge favorites in this game. But do I trust
that defense to close anything out? Hell No, it's You're
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sitting there going how many carries do I get combined?
Out of Lamar and Derrick Henry. That's going to dictate
whether you win the game, because that means the other
offense wasn't on the field at all. To dice up
that pathetic excuse for a Baltimore defense, we talk about
all time defense is Jason Smith and we always talk
about the Ravens, as you know, being in that class. Well,
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they didn't answer the they overslept this year.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Well, but look at the two games they've three of
the games they've lost, obviously opening night to the Chiefs,
that was a game the look, they were very clear
they were one. They were Isaiah likely wearing white shoes
away from winning that game. But look doesn't Vegas shouldn't
have carved him up and they did. Jamis Winston shouldn't
have carved him up and they did. It's like the Raves, a, Okay,
we're taking it easy things. We think this game is
gonna be easy. I don't know if it's about preparation,
(38:23):
but look they show up when when they show up
every few weeks and then they take their foot off
the gas a little bit, and yes, you're right about
their defense, and it's terrible and I'm sure they will
find a way to give up points to the Broncos
on Sunday and can't score.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
But look Bot Knicks for your fantasy guy, man oh Nick,
He's a top ten fantasy quarterback right now.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Three eighty and four touchdowns. I don't believe it should
be back to reality a little bit for Denver on
Sunday at Baltimore. With this game coming off the loss
last week. I think they'll be refocused as they get
into uh A Division play coming up the next couple
of weeks. But that shouldn't take away from the fact
that there is really one choice for Coach of the
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Year right now in the NFL, and that's Sean Payton.
I mean, you look at there's other better teams in
the NFL, surely, but this is a team that is
bereft of talent and they're somehow five and three. I mean,
I mean, look, are there wins that incredibly impressive. No,
they're not beating all the top teams in the league.
But this is a team that you have a quarterback
that can't really move the football. You just have a
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bunch of guys at running back and wide receiver. Your
defense is pretty good, but by this team doesn't scare anybody.
They don't know anybody. You come into this game and say,
we got to stop this guy, We got to stop
them doing this. But he finds a way to come
in and win a game with a game plan and
execution that the other teams don't have. And if last year,
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the last couple of years have been really difficult for
him and trying to navigate things with Russell Wilson, look
at what's going on so far this year despite the
fact his team is no good and there's still don't
know if bon Nicks will be their quarterback even next year.
Look at them in the thick of the play off race. Uh,
with with what they have on that roster, that is
some kind of job. And that comes back to Sean Payton.
I'll tell you he's a coach. There's nobody else I
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would put even close right now for Coach of the
Year with it.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
The only other guy I would go to is Quinn
in Washington, but he's got to split the award with
the OC, right, So.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
It's Hey, Jayden Daniels is great, you know, he's better
than bo Nicks.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Yeah, and no disrespect to Vance Joseph. I mean that
defense has been fantastic for Denver in a number of
these games. So again, they're not all heavyweights. But you
can only beat who and and play who's on the schedule, right,
So I would I would have to agree. And Sean
Payton is a guy that I've certainly had my say
on because remember that Super Bowl win is a long
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long time ago. For folks that's still well but that
want to do the genius genius genius thing.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Well, maybe he's maybe he's got it back, Maybe he's
a genius again.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Even if he doesn't like bo Nicks, even if they
don't get along, it's still working exit out about a
Fresca exit swelling dome.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
We look at the big his Game of the Week
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here we are in a big Friday night, getting into
a big football weekend. Dodgers had their big parade today.
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Keith k Hernandez is the superstar of that parade and
it's kind of a nice little Okay, now all the
baseball is over, we're into the off season, and now
it's okay. We're in the beginning of November and football
can take over again. We had an unbelievable MLB playoffs
and now okay, everyt not tipping the cap, and now
(01:17):
it's football.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
But I want to know from that parade how much
time over the course of the year do those guys
sit around as a group and watch wrestling promos? Because
every guy, once he got the mic, was walking around
like he was in the center of the ring. And
I gotta tell you, hey, Pelly, these teams, you know,
those guys in New York, you know, and they start
(01:41):
smack talking and talking about their families and whatever else,
getting them the curse. And just one guy after another,
Clayton Kershaw, I didn't do anything, but thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
This is great.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I mean, just one guy after another and they asked
him a two million people, Jason two million. I'm glad
I had to. I didn't have any business downtown today.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well, I will say I think, I think, and I'm
gonna go out on a limb by saying this, and
this is a really hot take. I think that alcohol.
I think that alcohol helps. I think in a situation
like that, your inhibitions go away a little bit, and
I'm pretty sure it helps. I'm just going by experience,
I think that helps a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Well, tall and bullet bulletproof, no question inebriation. I mean
it allows you to speak in foreign tongues.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Sure, you could say whatever you want. Look show how
Tani brought decoy to the parade and Clayton Kershaw was emotional.
He would you know, he went out of his way
to say I had nothing to do with this, but
it's just so exciting. I'm just happy to be here.
But when we say Key a Hernandez won the day,
Key a Hernandez won the day. The Dodger center fielder
who had his shirt off during the parade and then
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decided to enthrall the fans at Dodger Stadium, getting them
all to say the F word as one, which was
pretty which is you know, it's a pretty big accomplishment.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Stole it straight from Steve Steve Austin.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
But we all know why, right, why we won because
we don't give a blank. And then he decided, well
it's not enough to we beat the Yankees. I'm gonna
go after Fat Joe ice Cube was there today, did
a rendition of it was a good day. Uh, you
know his performance before Game one of the of the
World Series, and then the Yankees answered with Fat Joe,
a performance and on social media was to be kind
(03:22):
widely panned, and uh Kei k Hernandez decided to h
you know, I'm I can't let this go. I can't
go gently into the good night of the offseason winning
the World Series without letting people know just what I
thought about the Fat Joe performance. When we played in
New York. Here's key Y Hernandez from earlier today.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Then we got to New York in this guy he used.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
To be fat, he's not fat anymore.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
His name is Joe.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
He can't sad.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
And guess why we didn't even need to play because
after that performance we had already won. We didn't need
to play because after we watched Fat Joe rap, we
knew it was over. Do we even need to play?
Do we we need to come out? Okay, we'll come.
We'll go through the motions started a couple of games.
But you just saw Fat join me. Come on, man,
all right, all right, let's go out and play. But
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we're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Got him dragged just a little bit more, by the way,
during that ice Cube performance, Tell me what what was
Dave roberts On because that ain't just feel good.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, hey, who whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa allegedly allegedly.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I mean, you talked about the demon alcohol help.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You could see it with guys when they're on the
when they're on the bus.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I'm just saying, Dave got loose, and good for him.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You could see it. It's like they're all, come on, man,
the avocado vodka or whatever it was he was having.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Oh see, there you go. You take their shots at
people who love overpriced avocados.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Sure, exactly. Well, look, avocados are expensive, man, I mean
that's that's like, that's one of the gourmet fruits. You're
not You're not walking in saying, hey, getting like a
bunch of avocados.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Hey wait a minute, dude, that's that's categorized as a
luxury item.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
At this meado.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Wait, you are guacamole. You must have had a good
year if they're to make it at the table for me,
all right.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I kind of miss that. That's one thing. I miss
that because I don't think restaurants are gone back to
that after COVID. You're coming to the table and making
the guacamole they're doing as much.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
No, the bougie ones to Okay, you gotta go upscale, buddy.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Some places that I've gone to and then I'm like,
oh no, you used to do that. Yeah, no, we
don't do that anymore. Okay, well you know what, you
know what you could do though?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You can bill on down on the table. I bet
you they'll make that quacam the table money place.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Is there anything I have in my pocket that I
could give to you that would make you make the guacamole? Ear? Uh?
So the Dodgers, you know, the end of the baseball season.
And you know what I love is that you can
always tell when a sport finishes and has a and
has an ending that that people have desired to see.
(06:02):
You saw the look the TV ratings for it, like worldwide,
it's like thirty million people who watch the World Series, right,
like the seventeen million here at average, and then probably
the fifteen million at least in Japan that watched the
World Series. And you could tell because the day after
the World Series like normally, okay, that's it. It's the end.
You get the articles online of here are your early favorites,
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and here's the early power rankings for next year. And
here's the gambling favorites. The Dodgers are favorite to repeat.
Everybody's always favorite to repeat, even though nobody does. But
instead of that, we've gotten the last couple of days,
it's been okay, who's a free agent now, and who's filing,
and who's coming out and and and you know, free
agency starts in a few days, and suddenly we've gone
(06:44):
from okay, this is over and it's like there's been
one day of off season and now we're into the
next season. And that always tells you what cut season
of sport has it when they get to the end
of the when they get to the end of everything,
usually there's a break, we move on. But this, this
is what baseball has done. Headlines of Blake Snell opting
out the Braves and Angels making a trade yesterday, and
(07:05):
you look at all the people who are trending on
social media and you think it's a lot of football.
We got a big slate going into tomorrow, and instead
it's all about hey, Pete A. Lonzo is trending and
another player, what's gonna happen here? Who's gonna go? Soto
is trending? He's gonna be such a big thing. You
could tell baseball is having a great moment right now,
and it's extending past the World Series. And that tells
(07:25):
you what kind of year baseball had.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, I mean, you see the type of year the
Dodgers were able to put together ninety eight wins to
lead all the Major League Baseball despite the fact that
they went through what was it, seventeen starting pitchers and
a roster of thousands. How they'll divvy up the checks
for everybody postseason wise, Well, you were around for a while,
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all right, you get a sliver and start parsing it out.
It'll be an interesting watch when that fits voted on.
But to that point, it just showed that there's, you know,
just another way to find your yourself on a path
to the World title. And so what do you need
to do? You start to emulate what's working. Right In
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the PostScript of the World Series, everybody's mocking the fundamentals
of the Yankees. Boy, I'll tell you what if I
had a Nickel's easy. No, no, no, I'm just saying, but
suddenly it becomes it. Well, don't be those guys. Meanwhile,
the gritty, gutsy Dodgers over here with all of these
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glue guys, and as we chronicled the other night talking
about the next iteration of things where bullpen management, bullpen employment,
you're feeling pretty good if you're coming up on a
free agency year and you did your job as a
reliever because of what the Dodgers just did. And you
looked at what the Dodgers roster was, a lot of
those guys were only making a million dollars. They were
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not on the hook for massive amounts. Grader was like
two point seven, Brazier was I think the high man
at like five point four, and then if we count
Walker Bueller, he was eight million. Can't wait to see
what his deal is. But the point being that in
order to go chase the leader, you can't sit around
on your laurels. You can't be I mean, even the
White Sox announced the manager. I mean, even the dregs
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of Major League Baseball are active immediately in the aftermath
of the World Series.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
So again, we'll we'll bring you some more baseball, some
more upset and cursing Dodger players throughout the night of
the show. But look, big night in the NBA happening
right now two finals. Want to spend a couple of
minutes here on before you get into our big Friday
football preview. The Cavaliers improved to six and oh they
beat the Magic one twenty one oh nine. And just
for a couple minutes on this, because yes, the Magic
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are playing without Paulo Bancaro now for at least the
next four to six weeks. It's a big deal. But
here's Cleveland, and I want to say, because we've had
conversations about this, they have the best record in the NBA,
and you know, I don't know how it's going to continue.
But of all the teams I told you that dark
horse rising in the East that were not talking about enough.
Look conversation about the Celtics and the Knicks. I get it,
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they're they're the big sexy teams in the East, of course,
but Cleveland was a really good team last year. They
ran into the Knicks. It's a tough matchup for them.
But this is a good, young rising team and I
expect them when it's all said and done. If they're not,
if they're not one of the top three teams in
the Eastern Conference, I'll be really surprised. And and and
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maybe the wind up with a better regular season record
then either the Knicks or the Celtics, because are the
Celtics really going to go all out to get the
number one record in the Eastern Conference. That's gonna be
a thing. But Cleveland, if they're not one of the
top three teams and a big, serious title threat by
the time we get to the playoffs, I'll be really surprised.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
No, you look at the balance and tonight, you know,
you hang a star on it. As you said, man,
Caro doesn't play, and it's a blowout, so everybody plays,
everybody wins, but putting up big points, good balance, and
you've got the two headed monster right off the jump.
And and they've already taken down a couple of big teams,
uh in terms of what they've been able to do,
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including your Knicks.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
So opportunity uh duff knock here some blowout wins uh
and early on buy in. Normally we do the well,
we gotta wait for a month or we wait till
Christmas to try to judge squad. Now, no, no, baseball's over.
We gotta judge people right now, and right now they're
kicking ass. So in the East that that's fun to
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get another team as opposed to just the all right whiteboard,
there's the Knicks, there's the Celtics, and then we'll wait
and see. No, let's have other teams in the mix.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And one of the other teams we talked about. Look,
they've started out better than we expected, better than they've
started out in the last few years. The Lakers just
put the finishing touches on a win over Toronto. They
went at one thirty. Another big night from Anthony Davis.
He scores thirty eight. Now you think I'm gonna come
out and say, oh, the Lakers are going with a
Nikers are let me just say, hang, no, no, no,
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this this is the There is no reason, no reason,
no reason, no reason you can give me to not
be somewhat encouragingly cautiously optimistic for the Lakers so far
this year. I mean, I'm dead encouraging, cautiously optimistic, carefully,
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that's that's kind of where I am. I mean, look,
we've seen enough of this Laker team, and obviously, hey,
when the big players like Ad and Lebron who are older,
especially Lebron, when they haven't played in a long time,
they're gonna come out fresh and play well beginning of
the season. Obviously things are going to be different at
the end when these guys have had long seasons. It's
just how it goes. But right now, I mean, look,
they've started off better than I thought. They've looked a
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lot better, They've looked a lot more in sync than
I thought they would. You're talking about a couple of
players they expect to take big steps. You have a
new head coach, and I mean, I mean really early, encouraging,
cautiously optimistic. That's where I am for the Lakers right now,
and you gotta take it. That's as far as I'll go.
But I do feel then if you're looking at a
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needle in the middle and it's at zero and then
like one hundred is all the way down at the
right angle, and then zero, you just move a little
bit to the right. It's just a tiny bit to
the right, a little bit, a little bit more towards
one hundred than it is towards the other side. So
it's just a time the bit early, cautiously, extremely extremely
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cautiously optimistic.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Well, it's like we were talking about your mid season jets.
With their win last night, over the Texans. We'll move
them past the midpoint towards Hey, maybe something can be
brewing with the schedule ahead, continuity, consistency, et cetera. For
the Lakers, got to be impressed early on with what
JJ Reddick's gotten out of them in terms of committing
on both sides of the court. For Anthony Davis, the
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beat rolls on. So playing in the Olympics and all
of those things, where you start you start worrying about
where right, especially for guys that.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Have missed time.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I'm so much time in the past due to injuries.
So for Davis and James, wherever they're going to be
able to find some rest moments. I got to think
over the course of the regular season they do. But
out of the gate, this is one of Lebron's more
complete games that he's given thus far. They combined for
sixty five and eighteen Lebron with tennis sists as well
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Reeves and Russell at twenty and nineteen, and the starters
had their way not to not to you know, totally
dismiss RJ. Barrett, former Nick and Grady Dick, who combined
for sixty four points in the loss. But you should
also make note Bronnie James did get a minute in
this game.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, well, look they're up because he was up big. Yeah,
when you're up big, you get a minute. Guy, get
a minute. And that's the thing is that, Hey, how
much can we give Bronnie James where he's not going
to impact the game at all? Okay, you know, when
a guy's got to come out at the end of
a quarter, we give him a minute, right because okay, defensively,
he won't kill us for a minute, and the g
League can't get here fast enough, but we're gonna play
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it for a minute here and there. It's gonna happen.
But here's one minute of Brownie James. So nobody else
picks up a foul.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, and again I'm not dragging him. It's not his fault.
He's part of a machineer. But for the Lakers, you
gotta be encouraged. And again, you know, owing to history
of Chiefs win, Dodgers win, question mark going back to
twenty twenty, how about that, let's.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
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kick things off with a huge NFL figure that makes
you wonder if he's losing his fastball. That's next right here,
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Speaker 2 (17:03):
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Speaker 1 (17:14):
I'm always a big fan of the last time you'll
ever hear someone do something in their life, last time
you'll ever hear fat Joe do something before a Yankee game.
That's it right here? What's tough?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I men? Look cause immediately what does everybody go to?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
You were fat Joe? You're not fat? But that's good though,
Like the guy's healthy normally. I agree. He's medium sized Joe.
He's a little bit smaller Joe.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
It's like medium medium beat that we always saw about.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
He was two pros and a cup of Joe. Now
he's just a cup of Joe. He's just Joe. It's
tough man man.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But I mean, that's your moniker.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That's how people know you. You just take me.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Talk about all the comedians when suddenly you go and
and you drop fifty pounds. Suddenly they don't. They don't
last up at your pract falls the same way.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
You used to be funnier when you were heavier. I
know what I'm doing, but I write so much better now. Yeah,
I don't care. It doesn't matter. I want to be
a dramatic actor. Damn you. Why are you fat? Joe?
My bank account is fat. That's what I would say.
I would be fat, or I would I would rebrand
myself like fat Joe. P h A T like like
to try to again sell more merchant stuff, and I
try to do that like that point there you go,
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you gonna do Yeah, see that's that's how you gotta
do it now. But I mean, I fat. They'll never
have fat Joe again. Fat Joe is done though at
what at at at at singing before Yankee games. That's
not when you do it. Just a general du bank,
not a good run.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I mean, all good things come to an age, it happen.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So but no, he's still a successful artist. He still
makes a lot of money, and he still has a
lot of hits up. But I mean, but as far
as you talk about hey singing for the Yankees, and
I'll be no, that's it. It's not a good run.
It's one and done.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
No, on some level, I mean you have to wonder,
you know, who thought that that was the big guy
to trot out attended?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Who do we got hang on? Uh? Billy, Yeah, he's still.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Hunt tour and then he's hanging out at the Taylor
Swift show with his kids, so he's out.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
De Snyder keeps calling, no, gotta move on. Can't have
d Snyder move on?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Springsteen and his band were rehearsing the Ghostbusters theme for
that that show on the thirty first, so he was unavailable.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
We can we can't have Springsteen? Why because he wants
forty five minutes. He says he needs to do a
couple of really long songs. He wants to talk to
the audience. He needs too much time. You can't just
have him come out for one song.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
He tried to force Paul Simon to it to work
with Garfunkel, he refused.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
First pitch will be at ten o'clock New York time.
We can't have that. Can't do it. So the classes
coming to town. Not many, not many. Uh So, a
big titanic weekend in college football. One of the biggest
Top twenty five, Top five matchups we'll see all year,
Ohio State and Penn State, part of the Big Dude
(20:07):
Kickoff on Fox. Got Pete Futech coming up a little
less than an hour from now. I'm gonna tell us
how he thinks this game is gonna go. And look,
we'll get to the cowboys of what happened with Jerry
Jones today in a minute. But look, this is the
game we're all gonna wake up and watch tomorrow. And
you're talking about two of the best teams in the country,
and I know that there. Look, Drew Alller's status is
going right out to game time, and James Franklin being
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very cagy with it. I assume he knows by now,
But hey, you got to prepare for a couple of quarterbacks.
This is how you thought it would go. I even
though they're at home and they're seven to zero, I
don't think it's going to matter number one, because I
have to see James Franklin win a big game at
some point. Sure, Like I gotta say, I'm not just
gonna say this is the time to do it. I can't.
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I can't do it. I can't just play whack a
mole and go this is when he's gonna win the
big game. This is what no. Ryan Day and Ohio
State don't generally lose games like this in the regular season.
They should have probably won a couple weeks ago against
Oregon had you had a little bit smarter play in
the last minute with your quarterback. But it was still
a back and forth game. It was on the road.
Ohio State plays these games extremely well, and I have
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seen Ohio State win games like this big regular season
tests for the better part of the last twenty years.
Whether it was Ryan Day or Urban Meyer, Jim Trussell.
They don't lose these games. It's the end of the
year when you get to the Big Ten in Michigan,
that's when they start. Look that's what okay, Now, that
is when we start losing. But I've seen Ohio State
win these games, and it's not gonna be a great
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game for offense. Both defenses are really good and I
can't really see Ohio State running the football. But in
the end, Ohio State's gonna make more plays. I have
more confidence they're gonna make more plays than Penn State's.
Whether drew aller plays or not, they will find a
way to get it done. And simply because Ryan Day
and Ohio State they know how to navigate these big ones.
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It'll be close, and I'll take Penn State in the under.
I feel just as strong about the under as I'm
sorry Ohio State in the under. I feel just as
strong about the under. But it'll be close. But gimme
Ohio State seventeen sixteen. They win and they continue to
stay alive and not have to worry about polls and
voting whatever else it is for the top twelve for
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the playoff, gimme Ohio State by a point.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Look at you, I'm gonna take him to cover the
three and a half and to win easily. Looking at
the James Franklin resume as you go through against top
ten teams three and seventeen. Let's be more generous, let's
just say top twenty five. He's still just twelve and
twenty five. He's going five lifetime against Ohio State. They
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get drummed in this one. They don't generate any offense,
they're smothered by Ohio State, and they win going away.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
If you know, look, I'd love to be able to
see because Penn State being good is really good for
college football, and they can afford a loss. Let's be honest, right,
you know, you know, even though there at all they
can afford a loss, maybe a little bit less with
Ohio State. A two loss Ohio State team probably still
gets into the playoff. But you still have Indiana coming up,
you have Michigan coming up. Like you are running out
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of real estate to say, hey, we feel comfortably in
the field of twelve. And again, if Penn State wins
this game, I will now feel confident about picking Penn
State to win big games. But they gotta do it first,
and I really I gotta see if James Franklin actually
win a game. You know, win's something that really Amdericans say, Wow,
that's a signature win for James Franklin to Penn State.
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I gotta see him do it. I gotta see him
do it. So I'll take Ohio State.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Three and a half point road favorites. Total is forty
five and a half. Feels like a I don't know,
thirty to fourteen game or something.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Mike Harmon a little bit more on Ohio State than
I am. So there's our first big pick of the
day again, big nude kickoff on Fox tomorrow morning. We
will get to the Cowboys coming up in ninety seconds,
but first special deliveries Steve to say are going to
tell us everything that's trending in the wide world of sports.
Kicking off with the fact that he made fifteen thousand
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dollars tonight because he bet the Knicks giving twenty nine
to the Detroit Pistons. Hey Steve, weaked one out, Hey.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Steve, was it only twenty nine? We've seen the Pistons,
and we've seen this before from the Pistons, But yeah,
Detroit's one in five after losing by thirty points at
home to the Knicks one twenty eight, ninety eight, such
a blowout that Jalen Brunson had thirty six points in
thirty one minutes on the court. He had scored twenty
six points in the first half. Boston's five and one
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after winning at Charlotte won twenty four to one oh nine.
Jason Tatum thirty four points, Cleveland six and oh It
led by nineteen at the half, and Viato Orlando won
twenty to one oh nine. Jalen Sugs twenty eight points
in defeat wins for Brooklyn and Sacramento. Also for the Lakers,
who won at Toronto. Lakers were up after the first
quarter forty three to nineteen and held on to beat
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the Raptors one thirty one, one twenty five. Davis thirty
eight points. Raptors record now one in five and it's
a final at New Orleans. Zion Williamson with thirty four
points ten assists in a victory against Indiana one twenty
five one eighteen. Pelicans guard C J. McCollum is out
two to three weeks with a strained deductor. There are
only two late games in the NBA. Late first half
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at Minnesota Timberwolves lead fifty eight to fifty five over
the Denver Nuggets, and late first quarter the Thunder four
and oh leading at Portland twenty six to fourteen. Golden State.
Steph Curry will miss a third straight game tomorrow with
an ankle injury. The new WNBA coach for Indiana is
Stephanie White, a former player and coach there. Among the
six NHL games, one in Finland today, Florida defeated Dallas
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six to four. They'll play again there tomorrow. Wins for
the Rangers and Winnipeg tonight Winnipeg ten and one.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Now.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
As for the college football on FS one, about a
minute to go in the third quarter at fifteenth ranked
Boise State forty two to ten is the Broncos lead
against San Diego State, and this will put Boise State
at seven and one on the season. Heisman candidate running
back Ashton genty on twenty seven carries as one hundred
and seventeen yards and a TD. By the way, Grand
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Canyon University within two years will join the Mountain West Conference,
which is losing five members to the new PAC twelve,
including Boise State. In the near future. The Phoenix school
was going to join the West Coast Conference, especially for basketball,
but Gonzaga is leaving that league for the PAC twelve.
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was cleared to play Sunday. He'd
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miss practice Wednesday and Thursday with backend knee problems. Giants
pitcher Blake Snell opted out of his contract and the
Giants promoted Zach Manascion II general manager. His brother is
the Angels GM. The Yankees picked up the option on
closer Luke Waiver, and the Dodgers victory parade was today
through downtown LA. Afterwards, there was a ticketed celebration at
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the stadium and that with the upper deck seats closed
the top deck I should say about forty two thousand
fans for that party at the stadium today. By the way,
LA reliever Daniel Hudson retired, and outfielder Kevin Kiermyer announced
his retirement, and Clayton Kershaw said he will have two
surgeries on Wednesday, one on the toe, one on the knee.
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He already had the shoulder surgery a year ago, but
does plan to pitch next year. He just didn't want
to be on crutches during the postseason and during the parade.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
And wait a minute, Steve, I think Daniel Hudson retired
running out to the mound to celebrate after the final out.
It wasn't like I think that. I think he ran up.
I'm retired. I'm retired. They jumped on the Bueller he retired.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Back then, as I recall time ago, it was Daniel
Hudson who gave up the Vulpie Grand Slam in the
All bullpen game. And if Walker Buehler didn't do the
job in the ninth to clinch, guess who was going
to pitch the tenth inning for the Dodgers One Herscheiser,
Daniel Hudson. Did you notice Walker Bueller wearing apparently a
game warn Hersheiser got that.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You really don't think her Schier was going to pitch
the tenth as Jersey was there all ready to go.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I think he already proved in the eighty eight playoffs
against the Mets. He could start, he could relieve everything.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
It doesn't matter at the age.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Oral also said, when he gets it back, he's not
gonna wash it. So whatever Walker Bueller's done to it,
that's the condition it'll stay in. Thank you, Steve, appreciate it,
thank you, thank you. That's that's Steve to say. He
knows when to drop the mic. He know dropping the mic.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Balk Uh the Jason Spitzer with Mike harmon Live dot
Com Studios. No, I know he's walking. No, he knows
to drop the mic. I'm walking away from you because
you're gonna get struck by lightning. So that's that's what
he's doing. I get it. That was his drop the
mic because the lightning's gonna come, it's going to strike
and if he's holding the microphone, it's going to strike him.
So I'm dropping the mic walking away, so the lightning
just strikes you, all right, that's all. Uh So, Dallas
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in Atlanta one of the big games on Sunday in
the NFL. Not the biggest. I mean, the Lions are
playing the biggest game in the NFL Sunday things. I
didn't think guy'd say three years ago. But ahead of
this game, which is which is a titanic game for
the Cowboys as they try to continue to salvage whatever
they have going on this season, Jerry Jones did one
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of his weekly spots on one O five three the
Fan today and talked about the cowboys less than stellar
start right there, three and four. They're not one in
five at three and four, so okay, but uh, Jerry
Jones actually said Hey, you know the way the Cowboys
have been playing, it's kind of a surprise to him.
Take a listen, this is where we have the Jerry
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Jones sound ready when he.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Talks, Sure, look the monkeys.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Look at the smith kid said that, Look, this start
is rougher than I anticipated. Even though I didn't sign
anybody in the off season and all I did was
give guys money. I thought we'd be better just by osmosis,
you know, learned about that in the chemistry back in Arkansas.
Than just.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Because you guys are talking.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's gonna wind up being something that just just it
just like like the zombie plague that just goes from
person to person like that. We were just gonna just
get there and just suddenly be good because of that.
And I don't know why we're not playing better. What
was your question? We do have the we do have
the sound ready. Now here's Jerry Jones.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
I think we're having a rougher go than I anticipated.
Let's put it like that. Okay, so that's don't let's
don't a couple that with just those two. Yeah, let's
but having me in the loop needs to be there.
It is rougher. Uh, and I did not anticipate the
challenges that we're having with this team. But I uh
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am reminded of teams that I've seen that have had
a lot of success and put themselves in a position
to take a shot. And they were three and four.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Wait, did you really say I got to be in
the loop more? You know, I can't. They keep telling
me these meetings are at three o'clock. Show up at
five to three. They tell me the meeting was over
and I'm late. So I go back to back to
my desk and make some phone calls, been on some
stuff on eBay. Bought a nice big cowboy helmet clock
the other day. It was great. Guy got it right
on there. Every time I turn the light on, it
plays the It plays a call a Cowboys winning the
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Super Bowl after I bought the team. It's fantastic. But
then I got a meeting at five o'clock and I
get there five to five and they tell me the
meeting is already at I don't know what's going on.
I call Steven, I say Steven, when was the meeting?
He said, Dad, you were there? You don't remember, And
I'm like, no, I don't, Okay when? And then then
the day ends, and next thing I know, I'm signing
over money to Dak Prescott. So that's how it's been
far so far. For Jerry Chones to say, uh, the
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start is rougher than I anticipated. If he really believes that,
then he has completely lost his fastball. Right, if he
honestly believes it's un anticipated, he has completely lost his
fastball because he knows he's on the team for a
long time. If you don't improve in and offseason, guess what,
You're not going to suddenly magically improve when you start
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playing in September, just because the calendar changes. It's something
everybody learns, but usually the younger age. Well, we're gonna
be better next year. Why because it's not this year. Oh
that's right. Once the calendar. Once we watch the ball
go down in Times Square and Ryan Secrets is smiling
at me, and I'm watching sailors kiss their girlfriends. Oh,
magically it's gonna be better for us. Doesn't work that way.
So I know if he really believes that that he's
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lost his fastball. And Jerry Jones, whatever you want to
say about him, he's not lost his fastball. He's still jerrying,
which is what he does, you cannot like it and
it doesn't make it right. And how he has run
the team. But he is still Jerrying. He is still
keeping the Cowboys in the conversation when they're not winning.
Now he knows, he knows this whole thing is going on.
He's trying to find a way to motivate the team
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through his appearances because he knows everybody listens and pays attention.
But if I really thought for a second he believed that,
I would say he's lost his fastball, and wow, this
is really this is gonna be really difficult because he
no longer can really run the team. But I don't
think for a second that's what it is. He's still,
like I said, he's still Jerrying. He's still doing everything
to keep the Cowboys top of mind, whether it's threatening
(33:06):
to fire radio hoster, saying stuff like this every week,
He's doing it how he's always done it. It's always
his fault until he decides it's not. I'll take responsibility,
but then when it gets too much for me, it's
gonna be somebody else's fault. This is all the Jerry's
always done, and this is just one of those tools
he is using to make people think, oh, hey, you're surprised.
I'm surprised, like we had a really good team. Now
(33:28):
everybody knew, Jerry, you're the only guy trying to push
it a different way to say it's not my fault.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
See, I would say this, it's the not necessarily in
Jerry's mind, is it where their record is, because notice
he pulls out the three and four, it's how they've
lost that. He didn't think the margin was that much
between them and a Baltimore, a Detroit, or a San Francisco.
Because the San Francisco it's cosmetic, that thirty to twenty
(33:54):
four final.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
That game against New Orleans, well we've seen what New
Orleans is. So I'm sure he's pissed about that, and
in a quiet moment, he'd start letting out a litany
of curse words to describe his feelings over having gotten
drummed in that one. But certainly even Jerry has to
realize that there was going to be a gap, and
(34:16):
you wanted to see how your team would compete with
teams that are seen as elite, because the Cowboys were
not seen by anybody. Even Jerry had his most delusional
as being in the same class as Baltimore, Detroit and
San Francisco. You just didn't think you'd get smacked around
as easily as you did. So going forward, how do
you change it? Well, you should have probably actually kept
(34:39):
Tony Pollard. Who would have thought he might have been
a lynchpin to this whole damn thing just having a
functional running back this whole time.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Think about that running back, he was the guy. He's
like the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Think now, obviously you have issues defensively. You've had injuries
and you weren't able to bolster the defensive front. You
had a couple of injury eas to your secondary where
you're starting corners, I've been out even though you get
digs back, bland and miss so much time. Oh of that,
Parsons is out. All that to say, though, the gap,
you know, the wins above replacement from.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Those players is so huge.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Then you're now in this spot where you're trying to
spin in week nine.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Exit ut about a Fresca exit swalling down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the Tirech dot
Com Studios. Sorry, everything is fine for the Cowboys until
they lose again On Sunday, So we'll have more on
this game coming up in a little bit, but straight ahead,
one of the best games in the NFL on Sunday
features a team who right now they have the NFL
(35:42):
Coach of the Year. And it's not even close. Way,
way do we tell you who that? No, it's not Cleveland.
Way do we tell you who that Coach of the
year is? That's next right here, Jason and Mike Happy Friday,
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
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Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
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Speaker 1 (36:07):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen
Live from the Tirack dot Com studios. Coming up about
ten minutes, we'll take a look and preview the game
of the week in the NFL. It doesn't get any
bigger than what we're gonna get to. But one other
game from this weekend that holds a lot of intrigue
on the slate are the Broncos and the Ravens. But
(36:31):
not for the Ravens, right, Ravens are really good. Their
only issue is consistency, Right, Like I think Jason lock
and four hit it on the head with us, right,
you know NFL Insider, he joins us every week. He
you know, lives in Baltimore, lives and dies every every
couple of you know, every day with the Ravens. And
it's like, you know, this is what happens. The Ravens
(36:51):
show up for a couple of weeks, they play really well,
and then they get loose and then oh then they
then they're motivated for a couple of weeks, and then
they get bored or whatever. And that's really kind of
what we have seen with the Ravens is kind of
what he's pointing out that with Hey, they are really
really good, but you can see them their attention to
detail and their attention to coming out every week and
(37:12):
being consistent is not quite there.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Well, their defense stakes, I mean, there's no true, there's
no two ways about it. That secondary is a disaster.
We said it before the season started, and the like
the profits we are here, we are going into week nine.
They're huge favorites in this game. But do I trust
that defense to close anything out? Hell No, it's You're
(37:35):
sitting there going how many carries do I get combined?
Out of Lamar and Derrick Henry. That's going to dictate
whether you win the game, because that means the other
offense wasn't on the field at all. To dice up
that pathetic excuse for a Baltimore defense, we talk about
all time defense is Jason Smith and we always talk
about the Ravens, as you know, being in that class. Well,
(37:58):
they didn't answer the they overslept this year.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Well, but look at the two games they've three of
the games they've lost, obviously opening night to the Chiefs,
that was a game the look, they were very clear
they were one. They were Isaiah likely wearing white shoes
away from winning that game. But look doesn't Vegas shouldn't
have carved him up and they did. Jamis Winston shouldn't
have carved him up and they did. It's like the Raves, a, Okay,
we're taking it easy things. We think this game is
gonna be easy. I don't know if it's about preparation,
(38:23):
but look they show up when when they show up
every few weeks and then they take their foot off
the gas a little bit, and yes, you're right about
their defense, and it's terrible and I'm sure they will
find a way to give up points to the Broncos
on Sunday and can't score.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
But look Bot Knicks for your fantasy guy, man oh Nick,
He's a top ten fantasy quarterback right now.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Three eighty and four touchdowns. I don't believe it should
be back to reality a little bit for Denver on
Sunday at Baltimore. With this game coming off the loss
last week. I think they'll be refocused as they get
into uh A Division play coming up the next couple
of weeks. But that shouldn't take away from the fact
that there is really one choice for Coach of the
(39:04):
Year right now in the NFL, and that's Sean Payton.
I mean, you look at there's other better teams in
the NFL, surely, but this is a team that is
bereft of talent and they're somehow five and three. I mean,
I mean, look, are there wins that incredibly impressive. No,
they're not beating all the top teams in the league.
But this is a team that you have a quarterback
that can't really move the football. You just have a
(39:25):
bunch of guys at running back and wide receiver. Your
defense is pretty good, but by this team doesn't scare anybody.
They don't know anybody. You come into this game and say,
we got to stop this guy, We got to stop
them doing this. But he finds a way to come
in and win a game with a game plan and
execution that the other teams don't have. And if last year,
(39:46):
the last couple of years have been really difficult for
him and trying to navigate things with Russell Wilson, look
at what's going on so far this year despite the
fact his team is no good and there's still don't
know if bon Nicks will be their quarterback even next year.
Look at them in the thick of the play off race. Uh,
with with what they have on that roster, that is
some kind of job. And that comes back to Sean Payton.
I'll tell you he's a coach. There's nobody else I
(40:08):
would put even close right now for Coach of the
Year with it.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
The only other guy I would go to is Quinn
in Washington, but he's got to split the award with
the OC, right, So.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
It's Hey, Jayden Daniels is great, you know, he's better
than bo Nicks.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Yeah, and no disrespect to Vance Joseph. I mean that
defense has been fantastic for Denver in a number of
these games. So again, they're not all heavyweights. But you
can only beat who and and play who's on the schedule, right,
So I would I would have to agree. And Sean
Payton is a guy that I've certainly had my say
on because remember that Super Bowl win is a long
(40:44):
long time ago. For folks that's still well but that
want to do the genius genius genius thing.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Well, maybe he's maybe he's got it back, Maybe he's
a genius again.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Even if he doesn't like bo Nicks, even if they
don't get along, it's still working exit out about a
Fresca exit swelling dome.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
We look at the big his Game of the Week
next Fox
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