March 4, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike react to Jimmy Johnson announcing his retirement from Fox Sports on The Herd. NFL Insider Jason La Canfora all the latest from the Combine including Shedeur Sanders, Deebo Samuels, And Davante Adams future in New York with the Jets. Plus, the guys debate whether or not Pete Rose should be pardoned.
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should be. Well, here we are on a Monday, after
you were very upset that I didn't text you today
and get in a personal text chain with you about
John Cena's heel turned from this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I was saving it as surprise, just so you know
I was.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
But now that can't surprise you on it because now
you say, how come we haven't texted about that? I
was like I was saving it, but now you ruin Christmas.
So now we can't have that John Cena heel turn surprise. Really,
unless I hit you over the head with a chair,
that would be very surprised about that.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Do you realize they had elimination chamber? They actually had
commemorative John Cena chairs. That's one of the packages you
can buy. If you sit ringside, you get to take
the chair with you.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Really, I didn't know that they've been doing it for years.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Wow, So there's a there's a secondary market about chairs.
You just get to walk right out with the chair,
like you fold up your chair and you walk out.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's kind of dangerous. I think. I don't know how
far they've had no incidents. Really, yeah, that's really yeah. Okay,
so either that's doing a dive like a Buffalo Bills
fan through a table or anything.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yet it's worked out. Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
That's like, that's like why baseball teams don't have bat
day anymore. Like you know we're not going to have
bat Day.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I remember my by Jim Spencer giveaway bat ago for
the for the.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It went from it was a regular sized bat to
wait and okay, now it's a smaller bat than they rees. Okay, no,
bats are good. People could get more power into right
the mini bat small. You could hide it in your
sleeves like you're John Wick and then just slide it
out and start hitting somebody with it. Damn right the
baseball bat kind of you gotta stick it into the
side of your pants and kind of walk stiff leg
(02:22):
and by the time you want out the guy it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Why are all these people showing up wearing dusters?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Mason?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Why do you have three legs?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I'm just you know, Frostburg. We could talk about my
college days and other times. Heyah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Was that a hot rock?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Is that you look at all these happen?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yes, I mean we exchange messages and then you give
us some some thoughts of where your head's at and hitting,
you know, a snapshot of the day. And I'm like,
there's just an obvious glaring emission. And that's all I
said is we were making a cup of a cup
of coffee to come in. I should have said, here's
your heel turning bad? Hit you with a tray in
the head.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, I thought, making sure how we.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Rosemaned you with them? The from the parade that's what
I should have done.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
You could have gone with a little bit of the
great Kabuki and instead of spitting green mist in my face,
maybe you just kind of threw the coffee in my
face and it would disarm me, and all of a
sudden you had an advantage.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
They're really, really, really really hot cup of coffee right
on your screaming. Then I hit you with something.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
No, that's it.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Then it's the kick to the mid section, hitt you
the gourdbuster or whatever you're gonna give.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I give. If I hit you in the face with coffee, first,
you would really be woozy for a couple of secs,
and then I could really get over whatever I want.
What I would take.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Great offense at you wasting coffee. That's one of the
most treasured things we have on this earth.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That was my cup. I don't care about the coffee anymore.
That's it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, it's game time.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Hey, well that's a segue. We should talk about family now.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Family. Family. You know, they're shutting down the Fast and the.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Furious little Thing where you can go hang out with
hey dom and everything.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I think they're shutting down the Raider store at Universal City.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Walk is it finally happy?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I think it's shutting down because most things have kind
of been gutted, because I think they're actually gonna raise
that area and not a hotel.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It's gonna be a Jim Harbaugh khaki pants store. All
you can get is khakis. That's all you get Lululemon.
Frostburg's already told me he's working there. He sent me
twenty five percent of first I'm a purchase. Yeah, I'll
be working the counter. Yeah, nicely done. It'll be awesome. Hi,
welcome in, sir, Hi, welcome in, sir. Yeah, you'd be
a great employee.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I show up with great enthusiasm, unrivaled by any other
every day, unknown the man. God, that's right, I've known
the man that would be.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That would be the saying.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Or you'd have to hit it every day, like when
you walk by play like a champion. You have to
walk by and hit it banning sign all that. Yeah, yeah,
good plays for he's a jolly good fellow.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Froberg. Are he comes in? Are you selling pants with
an enthusiasm unknown to mankind? Yes? I sold eight pair
of pants this morning, just eight? Why we on these
old eight parapants? Guy came in.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Jim he tried to put patches on.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Pants he had. He's iron on Patizona. I don't know
what happened. I he's trying to iron stuff that it
didn't work. But look, but let's talk about family. It's like, look,
the biggest story of the NFL today after thirty one years. Yeah,
and on and off, because you know, he was hired
in the beginning when Fox first got the NFL. Then
(05:15):
he left to go coach the Dolphins. Then he came back.
Jimmy Johnson announces that he is leaving Fox. He is
retiring as a broadcaster, with the eighty one year old
making the announcement earlier today on The Herd.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
As you know, probably the most fun I've ever had
in my career, and that's counting Super Bowls and National Championships,
was at Fox Sports. You know, I have an absolute
ball with my friends on the set and the best
friends I've ever had there with Fox. And then I'll
(05:51):
tell you on top of that, you know, I love
working for Eric Shanks, our CEO, and our producer Bill Richards.
I've made an an.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Extremely difficult decision.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I've been thinking about it for the last four or
five years and I've decided to retire from Fox.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So that was just making that kind of surprise announcement
today on the Herd. I think it's surprised Colin. I
think it's surprised old Wait, whoa, he's retiring. He's walking
away after thirty one years with Fox, pregame show, postgame show, halftime,
everything we've seen. I mean there's people now. Everybody who
is listening to the show, I mean has a memory.
Jimmy Johnson's been somewhere for their life, whether it was
(06:32):
as a college head coach, with Miami, head coach of
the Cowboys winning the Super Bowl, or with Fox. Like
everybody's got it. I remember Jimmy Johnson has this, or
he's this, or he's this. Everybody's got it. Now he's saying,
that's it eighty one years old and.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
He's going, yeah listening to I was in the car
and hear a snippet of it and it sounded like
it was just gonna be a all right, here's off
season football talk, and then he drops that Yeah, it's like,
oh okay, and obviously going back to the Super Bowl
when I do have.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
An opinion on Daniel Jones Colin.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But let me just say this first, let me get
this out while I'm at it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
But when they did the tribute at the Super Bowl
and we talked about it on air the next day,
right Ai, Jimmy Johnson and he had done the voice
over kind of chronicling his career and everything.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Really a magnificent piece.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
If you haven't seen it, I'll find it and make
sure to retweet it out at Swollen Dome, we'll do
it at how about a fresc and at Fox Sports Radio.
But a really magnificent piece talking about his life and
football and you know, his relationship even though it was
strained for a while, but go back to college with
Jerry Jones and and everything that he's gone through, his
(07:38):
love of his Fox family all the way through.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Look, we learned football through him. We watched him win
at every level.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You know, my ex is dad, Like, nothing good has
happened since Jimmy and he had a fight.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
So he's been thirty years of isery may all cursive
Jimmy Johns.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
But they did with Harry Switzer, so yeah, it was,
but it was still Jimmy seam.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, So I mean, you know, what's that fracture. Then
you say, I was twenty four, I might have been
able to win that Super Bowl. I what did you
guys do last year? Just do the same Stuff'm gonna
drink gator right on the sideline. Okay, cool?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Coach left his notes here and the training schedule, Oh okay, good.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
But just an amazing run.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And the great thing he said about there and there
is he talked a lot about family.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
And that can get a little.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Overused or a little schmaltzy, especially when you know, growing
up in the Fast and the Furious era where in
every every movie, Don Turetto talks about family. Family, We
have family. It's family, family, family.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Fat he has along Andy Serkis.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Oh no, Andy Serkis's.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Family.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Andy Serkis is playing me right now. But he talked
about family and how these are my best friends and
how coming into work every day. And you've heard Jay
Glazer on with us talk about that about you know,
he and Jimmy and Terry and Howie and and you
know JB when he was there and now Kurt when
he's there. Now Gronkowski is open to it, and you've
(09:02):
heard him talk about that like Jay. I remember Jay
was talking about he didn't want to really wear a
mask during you know, the after the COVID epidemic happened,
but he wore it for Jimmy because he thought, hey,
you know, jim Jimmy's a little more susceptible, So he
wore the mask for Jimmy, which is really what it's about.
And that's the kind of respect that you have when
you work for people, when you work with those kind
of people and respect that Jay Glazer has for Jimmy Johnson.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
And it's overrated. It sounds a little schmaltzy, but you know.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Working in sports on sports television everywhere else is just
like anywhere else where. Boy, it's a lot more fun
when you're working with people that you like, that respect
you when you're coming in every day, because you can
come in and try to create all kinds of great
television or radio. And if you don't get along with
the people you work with, or you're not to the
point where, hey, we get along, to the point where
(09:50):
we can enjoy each other's company outside of work for
a little bit, or when we can talk about what
happened with the weekend with all of us. It's long,
and it's sucks, man, It sucks because I'll tell you
I've had both ends of the experience. This experience here
has been awesome, right, I mean like we we've been
all together for a decade or so, you know, you
and I for eleven years now in Frostburg the same
(10:11):
U de saga as well, right, I mean Mary's here
for now a year, and it feels like she's been
here for ten. I mean, you know she's working.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
We've aged a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. Mary started when she was twenty one.
Now she's thirty seven. Really yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, Actually I was twenty and now and forty okay othough,
oh happy birthday? Did I miss one?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Birthday? It was it was a little while, yeah, because
you know, because because not every place because as I
as I've mentioned before, like when I was an NFL
network man, that was rough. That was a rough a
rough time, man, it was.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
It was.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I always say that was a time when I thought
I was working with my friends and I wasn't. And
I said, I'm never going to underestimate people I work
with again, because boy, I learned a big valuable lesson
when I worked there and I came here and I'm
like gonna have to worry about that anymore. I mean,
eleven years I figure were okay, unless, like I said,
I justaid it hit you over the head with a
chair first, it would spill coffee and right over there
with a chair. I hope you mean you know, only
(11:02):
only if you're really upset me would I do that.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Well, But as long as we got it on tape, yeah, okay,
and it was able to go viral and be tagged
it out right, and you showed my anguish because right,
it's it's got to be both right, all of that, Uh,
and we really played it up then then yeah, I
mean we got something. I mean, I'm in, let's go.
But but it is very Look, I've had plenty of
work environments that have been toxic would be an understatement, right,
(11:29):
and some of it you like, all right, you can
see the end game. You could see how it's only
for a short period of time and then it ends.
What I try to tell my daughters as they're in school, right,
they and all of you out there, you know, with
your kids, with your own jobs, whatever the case may be, Like,
most things in this world are very fleeting, right, And
(11:51):
if you're taking a class that's kicking your ass. Guess what,
you got to get through it for three months, four months,
and then you get to the next semester. Now, if
you're trying to sign up for a course of stuff
that's going to require more of that discipline.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
You may have to rethink some things and reevaluate. Let's
get a twenty, No you don't. Let's take the full
time out. Let's take the full time out of discuss
this twenty is not gonna be enough. Let's take the
full time out.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
If we're gripping really hard when it comes towards the funal,
we gotta go. Likewise, a job, if you're miserable and
I remember this, you know, working up in the Bay Area, right,
and start up kind of situation at Yahoo, and you'd
have an awful lot of complaints about you know, what
was being asked and whatever. It's like nobody's keeping you here, right,
And we all have our days, we certainly do. And
(12:33):
it could go on for a couple of days whatever,
But eventually you snap out of it and then think
about what else is there for Jimmy Johnson and for
this team thirty one years, I mean, Jay Glazer, how
many stories. He told us of his relationship with Jimmy,
with Howie, with all these guys, that it's and it's
not just an on set thing, right. Jimmy was on
(12:54):
talking about all the different visitors he's had from guys
that played for him and everything else, you know, coaches
that had gone on, guys you'd had spats with, and
that eventually you talk it out and you find your
common ground. And that was you know, it's one of
the big rules of Thumb and all of this family. Uh,
you can't get rid of them. So figure out how
(13:14):
got to get along. And look like it's like anywhere
else where you go into work, no.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Matter what you do, if if you don't enjoy the
company of the people that are there, it's gonna make
it It makes difficult to walk through the doors, right man.
That's why I always say, whatever job. Whenever someone says
to me, I've been doing this for a for a
long time. Do I need a change? Do I not?
Do I jump? Do I try to change careers? Do
I try to jump from one place to another? And
I always say the same thing I said, You know,
(13:39):
when it's no longer fun to walk in the studio
or to sit on the set and the camera goes on.
When that part is not fun, that's when you know
to go. That's you know, okay, that's not fun. And
part of that is it encroaches on. It is how
you feel when you're coming to work every day and
if you come to work and the camera goes on
or you turn the microphone on and you're like, boy,
(13:59):
I'm just not feeling it. I have been happy since
I walked through the door. I mean that, that's a
big part of it. That's when you know, okay, you
know what I need to change. I need to do
something else. And thirty one years and look, this crew
stayed together. Right, There's there's been no you know, hey,
someone's aging out. No one really remembers who they are.
So let's let's move. We got to move somebody into
a into a calling a game role when somebody younger
is coming on, like this has been this family's been
(14:21):
together for a long time. Yes, new voices are coming
on because they're expanding the show. But like nobody's left
and been replaying it's been howe and time. Look, JB
left to go to CBS. He got a big offer.
That happens but like you know, Kurt's been on for
a long time. Everybody, they all just stay together, and
it's really really cool that they've done that.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
It's an amazing, amazing run, a great testimony, h a
testament to you know, friendship, family and recognizing, you know,
you can come together and put on some I mean,
they were the leading show for thirty years.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's a long time. It's long continue man, crazy exit.
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There we go. So coming off the combine, there's been
a bit of a fluctuation in beliefs and how much
(17:23):
people love or don't love the quarterbacks, or how much
people are starting to like the quarterbacks and free agency
maybe a little bit more. But one of the big
stories today from Josina Anderson reported that according to one
of the teams who pick in the top seven, they
said that Shador Sanders came across as brash and arrogant
(17:49):
during his interview with this team in Indianapolis. And it's
a quarterbacks coach. It was not keeping his opinion to himself,
making his assessment known to a number of people.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
So this is what's happening right now, is all.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Of a sudden. Sometimes, yeah, you can go to the combine,
you can biff the interview or understand that. Hey, sometimes
brash and arrogance is gonna sell a team on you,
like Baker Mayfield. Sometimes it's going to make a team
turn off on you because they wonder if you have
the maturity to continue on to be a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Old rule of thumb.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Know your audience, right, what's the coach in front of
you want to hear?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Need to hear? Hi ring manager at any job here?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah? So are Schador, Sanders and cam Ward gonna.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Go at the top? Are they gonna slide down? Joining us?
Speaker 6 (18:35):
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Speaker 6 (18:48):
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Speaker 1 (18:48):
Man?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
I'm doing all right? How are you guys?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Jack?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
We're watching the you know, potentially Shador, Sanders and cam
Ward slide up and down the first round of the draft.
It's kind of fun. I'm I'm my neck. I got
whiplash from back and forth.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Who knows? Who knows? Sillo ways away sliding up and down. Huh.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Well we talked about with the gun.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Well, we talked about the story here that that that
an unidentified quarterbacks coaching a team said that Shadora Sanders
appeared brash and arrogant during their interview. Is letting people
know about that for Sanders? And I said, yeah, that
could be. That could be a red flag. He could
also be something that a team wants. I like brash,
just and arrogance. We need somebody like that in a quarterback.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Look, kid's been around professional athletes his entire life. He's
like Patrick Mahomes in that way. I mean, he grew
up around this. He understands that the mix of sort
of ego but also selflessness. This kid took a kind
of hits. If anything, he held the ball too long
trying to make things happen. He's tough as nail. He
(19:46):
did turn two programs around. He may not be every
billionaire white guy's cup of tea. We can create, you know,
stuff about whether it's dad or metal or this or that,
but the kid's a winner and I'll be value I
know and trust last year loved this kid. And these
are guys who don't have a dog in the fight.
(20:06):
A lot of them aren't in a position to draft
a quarterback. But but you know, there are valuators and
they want to be on top of it. And you
never know down the line who becomes available, available or
what makes sense for your team. And these guys love
the kid. And he's got some falls and he's got
some faults, and again he might he might rub some
people the wrong way, but anybody who's been around him
(20:28):
knows that he understands the kind of dedication it takes
twenty four seventy three sixty five, not just in season,
not just on game day, but at practice and being
a leader in practice and leading by example. And you know,
I don't know, man, he's got a lot going for him.
And I mean, slide up, slide down. I don't know exactly,
you know where he's supposed to go, where he's going
(20:49):
to go, But I don't think he'll be waiting that
long to hear his name cop.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yeah, coming out of the combine though, as we look
at the carousel spinning and watching review. I know you
didn't stay glued to the to the workouts fully as
as neither did I, but saw enough to be dangerous.
But any any big storylines that that hit your, uh,
your radar.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
No, No, I mean I think if anything, you know,
it's it's the usual talking of people who are like,
I don't know why I come here every year, you know,
like team officials are like, I'm not you know, I'm
an evaluator. I'm not a doctor. They don't do much here.
What they do is kind of stupid and scripted. And
Belichick had the right idea three or four years ago,
(21:34):
starting to do other things and zigging while all there's
zag and McVeigh was really smart to follow that.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
But i'd want to see I'd want to see Jordan
schultzenean Rapaport fight.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I mean, wow that.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I mean, if you tell me what it's going to happen, I.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Think you're using I think you're being very liberal what
you're used to do. I hope there were copious amount
of air quotes going on in that studio.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And well, I mean we had to get something. Well
we're trying to get video somewhere. I mean, there's no
video in this thing, you know. I mean that was
the biggest story to Combine this week. It was the
biggest story till Deebo gets traded.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
So something like that, right, I mean, what is the
combine what? What? What purpose is it serving other than
as a medical clearinghouse, as a chance to get a
little FaceTime with these kids. But the ones you're really
most invested in, and the ones you know you're gonna
you're going to invest the most money in, you're going
to have in your building at some point, and you're
going to see them at their pro day and go
for a private visit and send somebody to their high
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school to talk to you know, the janitors and people
who work in the cafeteria. So I you know, in
an era with zoom and all this other technology, it
is we didn't manage everything. You know, if they managed
to hold the draft back there in the UH in
the COVID year, right and like the world didn't stop.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, everything works.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Without a combine. World did not stop.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
And Belichick's dog made some picks. So it's all good
as you go.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
So, I mean, look, all week it was Schultz and
Rappaport until the Deebo Samuel trade goes down and that's
a big domino to fall. San Francisco thirty one million
dollar dead cap, but Washington gets another weapon. How many
more do they add for Jaden Samuels before it's all
said and done?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Not just so this is a weapon, you know, is
there a decoy or is it a weapon? I think
he's pretty broken down, and I think it was a
salary dumps and I'm surprised kind of that San Francisco
was able to move that whole thing and get even
a five in return. I mean, the player who I
think has been slowing down for a couple of years.
(23:37):
I've written about this at the Washington Post. You know,
he's somebody they were trying to move on from a
year ago and they couldn't really reach a price point
in the contract. Was a problem. And is everybody going
to use him the way he was used there? How
much longer can you use him that way? I don't know, man.
I think it's it's a lot of money, and I
guess they don't care. And I'm not one hey people
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should spend, but it's just about sort of bang for
your buck, and I'm not sure how much you're going
to get it at He's been on the injury report
a lot. He was asked to play a hybrid role,
you know, between the tackle box quite a bit, and
that'll take its toll. And you know, like running backs, man,
when they go they go all at once. This guy
was kind of a hybrid tight end, wide receiver, running back.
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And he took a lot of hits over a long
period of time, including you know a lot of playoff
games and long seasons that went in a long postseason.
So I think there's a lot of buyer beware that.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Jason Locking for our guest Jason Smith Mike Harmon live
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Speaker 3 (24:35):
All right, I know the answer this is going to
be no, they're going to release him.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
But I'll ask you anyway, are the Jets going to
find a trading partner for DeVante Adams with that thirty
eight million dollar salary?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Yeah? I don't know. I mean the call the commanders,
I guess right, I mean, I don't know. If lightning's
going to strike twice, I think it's I think it's
going to be tough. You know, there's everybody's hitting the
street now, you know, no agents were at the combine
trying to see if they can facilitate something that stay
faced for some of their guys, or you know, can
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we find a team that's willing to eat more of
this and people think they might be. I think it's
a real tough nut to crack. And there's a glut
of guys, you know, older wide receivers who are already
on this market, who I think are going to have
a little bit of a tough time of it than
we've talked about at that position for a while now,
and now you add more potential names to it. I
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just don't. I don't know, man, I would be surprised
if they can move him.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
As we look at the quarterbacks remaining right, Stafford re ups,
lots of whispers about Rogers. I'll let Smith try to
figure out how he wants to turn that we've got
Sam Darnold probably not getting a tag, but now rumors
that Daniel Jones becomes the next guy, and trying to
look at the list of free agent quarterbacks mister Locke
for and I don't I don't see a lot of
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sizzle here.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
No, there's not a lot on that plate. Again, for
what it's worth, because some of these guys do have
a dog in the fight. But people I was talking
to as they came back from Indianapolis and finished their
meeting with agents seem to be inclined to believe. And
some of these guys are in the market. So again
you have to take it for what it's work. But
they think that it's a softer market than these guys imagine,
(26:20):
and that you know, Darnold might go back to Minnesota
kind of on his hands and knees a little bit
and they won't need the tag to get him back.
And you know, it's real tough sledding for the Russell
Wilsons and the Justin Fields of the world. So again,
it only takes one team to book that trend in
its position where people get desperate quickly. And this is
the column before the storm will be it. This is
(26:42):
a quiet storm. I mean, this is like smooth jazz.
This this there is no base, there's no riffs, there's
no intensity. I mean, there's not a lot of tone setters,
not much there. But we'll see if that changes. But
that that's what I was picking up is that some
of these quarterbacks and some of their agents are back
(27:04):
to the drawing board because the money they thought was
going to be there does not on the surface appear
to be.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and for that is
at Jason lock and for Odyssey one oh five seven
the Fan in Baltimore, Washington Post. Jay as always, buddy,
appreciate it, man. We'll talk to you as the week
goes on. Have fun.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
I appreciate it, guys, Thank you, see Jason.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
All right, great stuff there. Yeah, look, I mean I
like the smooth jazz. Like no, it's good to say
this is a smooth jazz. This is free agent class.
Although I will say this as time goes on, right,
and it gets to it gets to the point of
how do I make the how do I make this comparison?
When you have a bunch of choices. Right, Let's just
say you're going to go out to dinner, right, and
(27:46):
you're going to a restaurant and there's nothing you like.
At noon, you're looking at the rent men, you go
there's nothing I like on this menu. There's nothing I like,
there's nothing I like. And then as you go on
later on in the day there's nothing done. Okay, well,
all right, maybe that might not be bad all right,
I'm still not that excited, but that might not be bad.
All right, well, okay, and then by the time you
get hungry and at six o'clock six thirty and you're
(28:08):
out to dinner, you're like, uh, oh, I gotta have that.
I gotta have that to one. I gotta be looking
forward to this all day. Like that's how I think
people feel about quarterbacks. At the beginning. It's I don't
like Darnold, I don't like Justin Field, I don't like
Daniel Jones. But now as time goes on, you realize, oh,
nothing else is coming. This is your meal. One of
these you need a quarterback in free agency, one of
these guys is your meal. You start getting more excited,
(28:30):
artificially excited about these guys, and suddenly, where two months
ago it was Daniel Jones, come on, now, it's we
gotta get Daniel Jones. Man, if you don't get if
we get Daniel Jones going to the Super Bowl, Like,
that's what happens over the course of time, when you realize, oh,
there's nothing coming in to change this. These are still
gonna be my choices. I gotta get excited about one
of them. And this is gonna be the one.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
I think it always comes down to, you know what,
as good as as your options are right. One of
those old things, what is the police line? When the
world is running running down, you make the best of
what's still around. That's kind of it, like, all right,
everything's gone to hell. We didn't get that quarterback he
decided to aeshee the forty million we put out in
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front of him.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Who's left? Oh yeah, that guy.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Remember that game he had, Oh that fourth quarter come back?
Speaker 4 (29:17):
My goodness, if he could do that for us, think
about him in our uniform.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
He was a first round draft pick.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
What grade did we have on him six years ago
when he came out, even though we've changed out our
entire scouting crew, our GM twice and our head coach
has been blown out.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Every year, taking him third overall, getting that big deal.
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Jones of Fox Sports Radio. You take that back, he
was written, it is special delivery, Steve Desager.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Guys want to finish to the NBA game at Memphis.
Atlanta is visiting and Memphis does not have its point
guard John Morant again tonight out with a bad shoulder,
and for that matter, Jaron Jackson left early due to
an ankle injury. But Desmond Baine has a triple double.
Baine for Memphis has the ball final seconds tie game
against the Hawks and he turned it over.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Had le Bert Carris comes up.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
The over gamee Terrorislebert?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
What's it for the Hawks?
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Hawks TV on fan duel Atlanta one thirty two to one,
thirty winners.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
On the road. On a fast break layup at the buzzer,
Who who is?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Who is the analys just going Bain Baine.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I think he was saying Bain.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
He's calling Kame. I thought he was saying Bay, Like Paine,
what are you doing?
Speaker 7 (30:59):
If you say hey, you have to say it in
that Batman movie type of voice.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yes, mister Warren, I can shined the ball to the
other team because it's what the words rector. I was
gonna blow up the court all the way down. But
heinz Ward didn't show up. It was somebody else. I'd
be give them the basket.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Certainly people are falling through mid court. Yes, it's just
like that football sields.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Well.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Hey, if the Knicks could do that, I guarantee you
they'd start winning a lot more games against the Celtics
and the Cavs and the Thunders.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Of course, it won't be televised on MSG apparently the
ways that's true.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
That's true, but doesn't mean it's not gonna happen. So
NBA TV will pick up everything. Yeah, it's fine, that's right.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
It's like all those baseball teams that suddenly don't have quote,
don't have a baseball network to show.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
MLB just takes over. Sure, you'll still have it.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
At Oklahoma City tonight, fifty one points for Shay Gil
just Alexander in an okay See win against Houston one
thirty seven to one twenty eight. There are two late games.
About three minutes left at Dallas, Kings lead the Mavericks
one eleven to eighty seven. The bad news for the MAVs.
Kyrie Irving left early with the knees sprain for Sacramento
to and to sabonas out at least a week with
(32:02):
a strain hamstring wins for Portland and Miami, and for
Golden State, which won at Charlotte one nineteen to one
oh one. The Hornets have lost seven in a row
to college basketball final week in the men's regular season,
Number two Duke now eighteen and one in the ACC
after ripping Wake Forest tonight ninety three to sixty. Currently
under ten minutes to go at number three rank Houston,
(32:23):
it's the Cougars over Kansas forty eight to forty two
and about five and a half minutes left in the game.
On FS one, Ucla has taken the lead at Northwestern
sixty to fifty two. Auburn and Duke, by the way,
still one two in the new college polls. Florida dropped
to number five, and if you didn't hear this story yesterday,
yes Texas today is still ranked number one in women's hoops,
(32:45):
but it will be seeded second for this week's conference tournament.
In the SEC, it lost a coin flip against South Carolina.
The number one team in the country is not the
one seed in their own conference.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Coin flip makes a lot of sense, let's just go
to a coin flip. Let's just do that for all
of life. The last time I've seen that work where
there was any sort of dramas in Friday Night Lights
when they had to have the three way coin flip
to determine who won't go to this is in nineteen
eighty eight.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I know you had what happened. I thought you were
going dark Knight, come on, way, just stay with the bat.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Within a decade behind that, didn't the Lakers get Magic
Johnson on a coin flip?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, for the number one again in the seventies, in
the eighties fight we have a little bit more. Now
we can do a little bit more than just have
a coin flip.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Among the six NHL games tonight, just the one late
game still going at Chicago, third period Blackhawks over the
La Kings. Four to one shootout victories for Washington and
San Jose, and two notes from spring training. Tonight, the
Yankees had Max Freed on the mound through two scoreless innings,
then charged with two runs in the third as a
reliever gave up a home run behind him. Yanks won
(33:47):
for what it's worth twelve three over the Pittsburgh Pirates,
code I singa started for the Mets through two scoreless innings.
One to one was the final Mets and Marlins as
the Mets offense went two for twenty eights.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Back to you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
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I'm still trying to figure out how this makes sense.
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon, Yes, Sir,
Live from theti rag dot com studios. Now, this story
from this weekend, I mean, and I'm still trying to
figure out, like just what so President Trump announces he's
pardoning and plans to pardon Pete Rose.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
This ostensibly means maybe he can get back in the
Hall of Fame, maybe he get reinstated for baseball. Kind
of weird that he says that, and then Rob Manford says, oh, yeah,
we've been looking at at his case for the last
couple of months.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
And uh, now you know, yeah, we've been we've been
looking at him like.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
A request by the family, like all these details.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Like one of two things happened. Either Trump pushed us
forward by saying this and now Rob Manford's looking at it,
or he knew that they were looking at it and
came out and said, hey, I think you should pardon
you know, Pete Roae should be pardoned. Here's the thing
I don't get is that he's not. He was never
First of all, it's too late for Pete, which we'll
get to in a minute. But he wasn't convicted of
(35:46):
a crime. He wasn't like, he wasn't in prison. He's
I mean, what do you mean we're pardoning? I understand,
Like I don't get like there's no pardon, Like if
if he wanted to say hey, like basically the right
thing to say is hey, he should be reinstated into
Major League Baseball, but like pardoning him, Like, I don't,
I don't think that.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
I think.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
I really just think it's the wrongs have been so
big the last months.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Everybody's getting pardons, right to pardon, pardon it's a blanket term.
I'm just gonna say pardon the part of it. But
there's it's not he wasn't he didn't go to prison
for pardon me. I mean, he had other issues in
his life, surely, but like, there's no pardon involved in this.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
I don't understand, like what like if this is more like, hey,
I'm greasing the skids to open the door to put
Pete Rose back in the game. Okay, I kind of
get that because quite honestly, look, I mean, if you
want to think about Pete Rose's cases, it's being looked
at in Major League Baseball. Is that if Pete came
about now, if Pete's running a foul, running with the fouls,
(36:49):
with the with the rules of baseball, you know, betting
on his team, if that came out now, right, let's
just say came out now, he would get a big suspension, right,
it would be well, a manager of a baseball team,
betting a you know, gambling on baseball.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Okay, hang on, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
You're gonna get a suspension, but you would get a
suspension for what a year or two, and then you'd
be back in the game. Right the Astros, everybody was
eligible to get back in after a year, the big
cheating scandal that they won two World Series on, everybody
got back in. So you can't tell me that there's
certain crop of crime. So tell me there's certain things
you would do from Ajor League Baseball that would force
(37:25):
people to say, oh, you're out forever. Like Pete would
get a suspension. I'm not saying it wouldn't happen, and
it would be a big deal, but it would be
a year or two and then he'd be allowed back
in the game and to be back in coaching, doing
whatever he was doing, be an ambassador of the game.
And you know, cause you look at the way that
all sports now embrace gambling. I mean, in every baseball
game you see the announcers do commercials for gambling. They
(37:47):
talk about this, commercials run on television for gambling gambling
and sports now is is weed? Together? And yeah, we
get the odd story once and again of DFS let
that story with the what Fresno State last week, guys
were betting their own player prompts, like their individual player
props in the game.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
So yeah, you're gonna deal with that. But gambling has
been such a big part.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
It's make money throughout the sport, you know, around it
and created interest that you really can't come down and say, Okay,
this is absolutely awful. Look what Calvin Ridley's making bets
got suspended for a year. Pete Rose would be a
manager of a team, so maybe maybe it would be
a year or two, maybe something, but it would be
something that he'd be able to come back from and
it wouldn't be this, Hey, here's this whole big lifetime
ban and we're not gonna think about Euphrean statement at
(38:31):
all ever like it was that was in the eighties
and now here we are where gambling. Everybody's shaking hands
when it comes to gambling in sports, gambling sports. He
would be back in after a year.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Yeah. The hard part to it is the language that
was used.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
It wasn't a lifetime ban because then you just say,
all right, it's a moved point.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
He's dead, so move on. It was a it was
a permanent ban.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Yeah, differently again language right, pardon versus you know, reevaluation
or whatever. What's what's interesting is in the timeline of
everything that seems to get lost quite often is when
Rose signed off and made the agreement with A. Bartlett Giamatti.
As we think about Paul Giamatti on the show all
the time, is that he was under the impression one
(39:16):
that it was only going to be a short term
thing and that Giamatti dies so it never could get revisited.
Comes in and That'savin's advice. A while, I'm not gonna
undo what he did. They all respected him so much,
we're going to come in undo what he did.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
So clearly they didn't have that conversation or any notes
related to that, so that stays on. But the other
thing was at that point, the Hall of Fame had
no rule that really addressed this at all. That didn't
come up until ninety one when Pete was going to
be eligible, and in February they adopted what became the
(39:51):
Pete Rose Rule. And so at that point it was, hey,
if you're on this list, you can't get in. Like
there's a little time there that a lapse of oh wait,
Now he's like, what do we do? But to your point, now, yeah,
you've got a bunch of rules in place, and maybe
he can't manage, but he would be able to go
and teach hitters. That was the thing that killed him
down this stretch, right for a good decade plus.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
It was I can't go teach.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
A guy how to hit on the spring training practice fields,
Like I can't go meet in the backning cages with
a guy like he couldn't be around baseball at all,
So like a whole other world.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
But now, yeah, there's all sorts of rules and precedents set.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yeah, and look, obviously it's too late and it's weird,
like really now you're now you're you're looking at this now. Really,
I mean it's just but I mean that that would
be that to think about the times and and what
do they what do they always say that? Uh uh,
what's the big phrase? Treason is a matter of dates? Right,
Like that's a big for history. Treason is a matter
of dates. Something that was treason US in sixteen thirty
(40:53):
is not treason US in seventeen forty, right, Like it's
the same thing with Pete. This is a is a
matter of dates, because what was it was in the
eighties is not so much in the twenties.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
That and you can also say how I'm gonna look
at it, and then the season starts and people forget
about it for a minute.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
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should be. Well, here we are on a Monday, after
you were very upset that I didn't text you today
and get in a personal text chain with you about
John Cena's heel turned from this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I was saving it as surprise, just so you know
I was.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
But now that can't surprise you on it because now
you say, how come we haven't texted about that? I
was like I was saving it, but now you ruin Christmas.
So now we can't have that John Cena heel turn surprise. Really,
unless I hit you over the head with a chair,
that would be very surprised about that.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Do you realize they had elimination chamber? They actually had
commemorative John Cena chairs. That's one of the packages you
can buy. If you sit ringside, you get to take
the chair with you.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Really, I didn't know that they've been doing it for years.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Wow, So there's a there's a secondary market about chairs.
You just get to walk right out with the chair,
like you fold up your chair and you walk out.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's kind of dangerous. I think. I don't know how
far they've had no incidents. Really, yeah, that's really yeah. Okay,
so either that's doing a dive like a Buffalo Bills
fan through a table or anything.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yet it's worked out. Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
That's like, that's like why baseball teams don't have bat
day anymore. Like you know we're not going to have
bat Day.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I remember my by Jim Spencer giveaway bat ago for
the for the.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It went from it was a regular sized bat to
wait and okay, now it's a smaller bat than they rees. Okay, no,
bats are good. People could get more power into right
the mini bat small. You could hide it in your
sleeves like you're John Wick and then just slide it
out and start hitting somebody with it. Damn right the
baseball bat kind of you gotta stick it into the
side of your pants and kind of walk stiff leg
(02:22):
and by the time you want out the guy it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Why are all these people showing up wearing dusters?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Mason?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Why do you have three legs?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I'm just you know, Frostburg. We could talk about my
college days and other times. Heyah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Was that a hot rock?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Is that you look at all these happen?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yes, I mean we exchange messages and then you give
us some some thoughts of where your head's at and hitting,
you know, a snapshot of the day. And I'm like,
there's just an obvious glaring emission. And that's all I
said is we were making a cup of a cup
of coffee to come in. I should have said, here's
your heel turning bad? Hit you with a tray in
the head.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, I thought, making sure how we.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Rosemaned you with them? The from the parade that's what
I should have done.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
You could have gone with a little bit of the
great Kabuki and instead of spitting green mist in my face,
maybe you just kind of threw the coffee in my
face and it would disarm me, and all of a
sudden you had an advantage.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
They're really, really, really really hot cup of coffee right
on your screaming. Then I hit you with something.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
No, that's it.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Then it's the kick to the mid section, hitt you
the gourdbuster or whatever you're gonna give.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I give. If I hit you in the face with coffee, first,
you would really be woozy for a couple of secs,
and then I could really get over whatever I want.
What I would take.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Great offense at you wasting coffee. That's one of the
most treasured things we have on this earth.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That was my cup. I don't care about the coffee anymore.
That's it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, it's game time.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Hey, well that's a segue. We should talk about family now.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Family. Family. You know, they're shutting down the Fast and the.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Furious little Thing where you can go hang out with
hey dom and everything.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I think they're shutting down the Raider store at Universal City.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Walk is it finally happy?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I think it's shutting down because most things have kind
of been gutted, because I think they're actually gonna raise
that area and not a hotel.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It's gonna be a Jim Harbaugh khaki pants store. All
you can get is khakis. That's all you get Lululemon.
Frostburg's already told me he's working there. He sent me
twenty five percent of first I'm a purchase. Yeah, I'll
be working the counter. Yeah, nicely done. It'll be awesome. Hi,
welcome in, sir, Hi, welcome in, sir. Yeah, you'd be
a great employee.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I show up with great enthusiasm, unrivaled by any other
every day, unknown the man. God, that's right, I've known
the man that would be.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That would be the saying.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Or you'd have to hit it every day, like when
you walk by play like a champion. You have to
walk by and hit it banning sign all that. Yeah, yeah,
good plays for he's a jolly good fellow.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Froberg. Are he comes in? Are you selling pants with
an enthusiasm unknown to mankind? Yes? I sold eight pair
of pants this morning, just eight? Why we on these
old eight parapants? Guy came in.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Jim he tried to put patches on.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Pants he had. He's iron on Patizona. I don't know
what happened. I he's trying to iron stuff that it
didn't work. But look, but let's talk about family. It's like, look,
the biggest story of the NFL today after thirty one years. Yeah,
and on and off, because you know, he was hired
in the beginning when Fox first got the NFL. Then
(05:15):
he left to go coach the Dolphins. Then he came back.
Jimmy Johnson announces that he is leaving Fox. He is
retiring as a broadcaster, with the eighty one year old
making the announcement earlier today on The Herd.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
As you know, probably the most fun I've ever had
in my career, and that's counting Super Bowls and National Championships,
was at Fox Sports. You know, I have an absolute
ball with my friends on the set and the best
friends I've ever had there with Fox. And then I'll
(05:51):
tell you on top of that, you know, I love
working for Eric Shanks, our CEO, and our producer Bill Richards.
I've made an an.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Extremely difficult decision.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I've been thinking about it for the last four or
five years and I've decided to retire from Fox.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So that was just making that kind of surprise announcement
today on the Herd. I think it's surprised Colin. I
think it's surprised old Wait, whoa, he's retiring. He's walking
away after thirty one years with Fox, pregame show, postgame show, halftime,
everything we've seen. I mean there's people now. Everybody who
is listening to the show, I mean has a memory.
Jimmy Johnson's been somewhere for their life, whether it was
(06:32):
as a college head coach, with Miami, head coach of
the Cowboys winning the Super Bowl, or with Fox. Like
everybody's got it. I remember Jimmy Johnson has this, or
he's this, or he's this. Everybody's got it. Now he's saying,
that's it eighty one years old and.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
He's going, yeah listening to I was in the car
and hear a snippet of it and it sounded like
it was just gonna be a all right, here's off
season football talk, and then he drops that Yeah, it's like,
oh okay, and obviously going back to the Super Bowl
when I do have.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
An opinion on Daniel Jones Colin.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But let me just say this first, let me get
this out while I'm at it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
But when they did the tribute at the Super Bowl
and we talked about it on air the next day,
right Ai, Jimmy Johnson and he had done the voice
over kind of chronicling his career and everything.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Really a magnificent piece.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
If you haven't seen it, I'll find it and make
sure to retweet it out at Swollen Dome, we'll do
it at how about a fresc and at Fox Sports Radio.
But a really magnificent piece talking about his life and
football and you know, his relationship even though it was
strained for a while, but go back to college with
Jerry Jones and and everything that he's gone through, his
(07:38):
love of his Fox family all the way through.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Look, we learned football through him. We watched him win
at every level.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You know, my ex is dad, Like, nothing good has
happened since Jimmy and he had a fight.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
So he's been thirty years of isery may all cursive
Jimmy Johns.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
But they did with Harry Switzer, so yeah, it was,
but it was still Jimmy seam.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, So I mean, you know, what's that fracture. Then
you say, I was twenty four, I might have been
able to win that Super Bowl. I what did you
guys do last year? Just do the same Stuff'm gonna
drink gator right on the sideline. Okay, cool?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Coach left his notes here and the training schedule, Oh okay, good.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
But just an amazing run.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And the great thing he said about there and there
is he talked a lot about family.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
And that can get a little.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Overused or a little schmaltzy, especially when you know, growing
up in the Fast and the Furious era where in
every every movie, Don Turetto talks about family. Family, We
have family. It's family, family, family.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Fat he has along Andy Serkis.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Oh no, Andy Serkis's.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Family.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Andy Serkis is playing me right now. But he talked
about family and how these are my best friends and
how coming into work every day. And you've heard Jay
Glazer on with us talk about that about you know,
he and Jimmy and Terry and Howie and and you
know JB when he was there and now Kurt when
he's there. Now Gronkowski is open to it, and you've
(09:02):
heard him talk about that like Jay. I remember Jay
was talking about he didn't want to really wear a
mask during you know, the after the COVID epidemic happened,
but he wore it for Jimmy because he thought, hey,
you know, jim Jimmy's a little more susceptible, So he
wore the mask for Jimmy, which is really what it's about.
And that's the kind of respect that you have when
you work for people, when you work with those kind
of people and respect that Jay Glazer has for Jimmy Johnson.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
And it's overrated. It sounds a little schmaltzy, but you know.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Working in sports on sports television everywhere else is just
like anywhere else where. Boy, it's a lot more fun
when you're working with people that you like, that respect
you when you're coming in every day, because you can
come in and try to create all kinds of great
television or radio. And if you don't get along with
the people you work with, or you're not to the
point where, hey, we get along, to the point where
(09:50):
we can enjoy each other's company outside of work for
a little bit, or when we can talk about what
happened with the weekend with all of us. It's long,
and it's sucks, man, It sucks because I'll tell you
I've had both ends of the experience. This experience here
has been awesome, right, I mean like we we've been
all together for a decade or so, you know, you
and I for eleven years now in Frostburg the same
(10:11):
U de saga as well, right, I mean Mary's here
for now a year, and it feels like she's been
here for ten. I mean, you know she's working.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
We've aged a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. Mary started when she was twenty one.
Now she's thirty seven. Really yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, Actually I was twenty and now and forty okay othough,
oh happy birthday? Did I miss one?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Birthday? It was it was a little while, yeah, because
you know, because because not every place because as I
as I've mentioned before, like when I was an NFL
network man, that was rough. That was a rough a
rough time, man, it was.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
It was.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I always say that was a time when I thought
I was working with my friends and I wasn't. And
I said, I'm never going to underestimate people I work
with again, because boy, I learned a big valuable lesson
when I worked there and I came here and I'm
like gonna have to worry about that anymore. I mean,
eleven years I figure were okay, unless, like I said,
I justaid it hit you over the head with a
chair first, it would spill coffee and right over there
with a chair. I hope you mean you know, only
(11:02):
only if you're really upset me would I do that.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Well, But as long as we got it on tape, yeah, okay,
and it was able to go viral and be tagged
it out right, and you showed my anguish because right,
it's it's got to be both right, all of that, Uh,
and we really played it up then then yeah, I
mean we got something. I mean, I'm in, let's go.
But but it is very Look, I've had plenty of
work environments that have been toxic would be an understatement, right,
(11:29):
and some of it you like, all right, you can
see the end game. You could see how it's only
for a short period of time and then it ends.
What I try to tell my daughters as they're in school, right,
they and all of you out there, you know, with
your kids, with your own jobs, whatever the case may be, Like,
most things in this world are very fleeting, right, And
(11:51):
if you're taking a class that's kicking your ass. Guess what,
you got to get through it for three months, four months,
and then you get to the next semester. Now, if
you're trying to sign up for a course of stuff
that's going to require more of that discipline.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
You may have to rethink some things and reevaluate. Let's
get a twenty, No you don't. Let's take the full
time out. Let's take the full time out of discuss
this twenty is not gonna be enough. Let's take the
full time out.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
If we're gripping really hard when it comes towards the funal,
we gotta go. Likewise, a job, if you're miserable and
I remember this, you know, working up in the Bay Area, right,
and start up kind of situation at Yahoo, and you'd
have an awful lot of complaints about you know, what
was being asked and whatever. It's like nobody's keeping you here, right,
And we all have our days, we certainly do. And
(12:33):
it could go on for a couple of days whatever,
But eventually you snap out of it and then think
about what else is there for Jimmy Johnson and for
this team thirty one years, I mean, Jay Glazer, how
many stories. He told us of his relationship with Jimmy,
with Howie, with all these guys, that it's and it's
not just an on set thing, right. Jimmy was on
(12:54):
talking about all the different visitors he's had from guys
that played for him and everything else, you know, coaches
that had gone on, guys you'd had spats with, and
that eventually you talk it out and you find your
common ground. And that was you know, it's one of
the big rules of Thumb and all of this family. Uh,
you can't get rid of them. So figure out how
(13:14):
got to get along. And look like it's like anywhere
else where you go into work, no.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Matter what you do, if if you don't enjoy the
company of the people that are there, it's gonna make
it It makes difficult to walk through the doors, right man.
That's why I always say, whatever job. Whenever someone says
to me, I've been doing this for a for a
long time. Do I need a change? Do I not?
Do I jump? Do I try to change careers? Do
I try to jump from one place to another? And
I always say the same thing I said, You know,
(13:39):
when it's no longer fun to walk in the studio
or to sit on the set and the camera goes on.
When that part is not fun, that's when you know
to go. That's you know, okay, that's not fun. And
part of that is it encroaches on. It is how
you feel when you're coming to work every day and
if you come to work and the camera goes on
or you turn the microphone on and you're like, boy,
(13:59):
I'm just not feeling it. I have been happy since
I walked through the door. I mean that, that's a
big part of it. That's when you know, okay, you
know what I need to change. I need to do
something else. And thirty one years and look, this crew
stayed together. Right, There's there's been no you know, hey,
someone's aging out. No one really remembers who they are.
So let's let's move. We got to move somebody into
a into a calling a game role when somebody younger
is coming on, like this has been this family's been
(14:21):
together for a long time. Yes, new voices are coming
on because they're expanding the show. But like nobody's left
and been replaying it's been howe and time. Look, JB
left to go to CBS. He got a big offer.
That happens but like you know, Kurt's been on for
a long time. Everybody, they all just stay together, and
it's really really cool that they've done that.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
It's an amazing, amazing run, a great testimony, h a
testament to you know, friendship, family and recognizing, you know,
you can come together and put on some I mean,
they were the leading show for thirty years.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's a long time. It's long continue man, crazy exit.
How about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith Mike
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There we go. So coming off the combine, there's been
a bit of a fluctuation in beliefs and how much
(17:23):
people love or don't love the quarterbacks, or how much
people are starting to like the quarterbacks and free agency
maybe a little bit more. But one of the big
stories today from Josina Anderson reported that according to one
of the teams who pick in the top seven, they
said that Shador Sanders came across as brash and arrogant
(17:49):
during his interview with this team in Indianapolis. And it's
a quarterbacks coach. It was not keeping his opinion to himself,
making his assessment known to a number of people.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
So this is what's happening right now, is all.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Of a sudden. Sometimes, yeah, you can go to the combine,
you can biff the interview or understand that. Hey, sometimes
brash and arrogance is gonna sell a team on you,
like Baker Mayfield. Sometimes it's going to make a team
turn off on you because they wonder if you have
the maturity to continue on to be a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Old rule of thumb.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Know your audience, right, what's the coach in front of
you want to hear?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Need to hear? Hi ring manager at any job here?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah? So are Schador, Sanders and cam Ward gonna.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Go at the top? Are they gonna slide down? Joining us?
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Now?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
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Speaker 6 (18:48):
Bud? How are you?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Man?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
I'm doing all right? How are you guys?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Jack?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
We're watching the you know, potentially Shador, Sanders and cam
Ward slide up and down the first round of the draft.
It's kind of fun. I'm I'm my neck. I got
whiplash from back and forth.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Who knows? Who knows? Sillo ways away sliding up and down. Huh.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Well we talked about with the gun.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Well, we talked about the story here that that that
an unidentified quarterbacks coaching a team said that Shadora Sanders
appeared brash and arrogant during their interview. Is letting people
know about that for Sanders? And I said, yeah, that
could be. That could be a red flag. He could
also be something that a team wants. I like brash,
just and arrogance. We need somebody like that in a quarterback.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Look, kid's been around professional athletes his entire life. He's
like Patrick Mahomes in that way. I mean, he grew
up around this. He understands that the mix of sort
of ego but also selflessness. This kid took a kind
of hits. If anything, he held the ball too long
trying to make things happen. He's tough as nail. He
(19:46):
did turn two programs around. He may not be every
billionaire white guy's cup of tea. We can create, you know,
stuff about whether it's dad or metal or this or that,
but the kid's a winner and I'll be value I
know and trust last year loved this kid. And these
are guys who don't have a dog in the fight.
(20:06):
A lot of them aren't in a position to draft
a quarterback. But but you know, there are valuators and
they want to be on top of it. And you
never know down the line who becomes available, available or
what makes sense for your team. And these guys love
the kid. And he's got some falls and he's got
some faults, and again he might he might rub some
people the wrong way, but anybody who's been around him
(20:28):
knows that he understands the kind of dedication it takes
twenty four seventy three sixty five, not just in season,
not just on game day, but at practice and being
a leader in practice and leading by example. And you know,
I don't know, man, he's got a lot going for him.
And I mean, slide up, slide down. I don't know exactly,
you know where he's supposed to go, where he's going
(20:49):
to go, But I don't think he'll be waiting that
long to hear his name cop.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Yeah, coming out of the combine though, as we look
at the carousel spinning and watching review. I know you
didn't stay glued to the to the workouts fully as
as neither did I, but saw enough to be dangerous.
But any any big storylines that that hit your, uh,
your radar.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
No, No, I mean I think if anything, you know,
it's it's the usual talking of people who are like,
I don't know why I come here every year, you know,
like team officials are like, I'm not you know, I'm
an evaluator. I'm not a doctor. They don't do much here.
What they do is kind of stupid and scripted. And
Belichick had the right idea three or four years ago,
(21:34):
starting to do other things and zigging while all there's
zag and McVeigh was really smart to follow that.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
But i'd want to see I'd want to see Jordan
schultzenean Rapaport fight.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I mean, wow that.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I mean, if you tell me what it's going to happen, I.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Think you're using I think you're being very liberal what
you're used to do. I hope there were copious amount
of air quotes going on in that studio.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And well, I mean we had to get something. Well
we're trying to get video somewhere. I mean, there's no
video in this thing, you know. I mean that was
the biggest story to Combine this week. It was the
biggest story till Deebo gets traded.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
So something like that, right, I mean, what is the
combine what? What? What purpose is it serving other than
as a medical clearinghouse, as a chance to get a
little FaceTime with these kids. But the ones you're really
most invested in, and the ones you know you're gonna
you're going to invest the most money in, you're going
to have in your building at some point, and you're
going to see them at their pro day and go
for a private visit and send somebody to their high
(22:29):
school to talk to you know, the janitors and people
who work in the cafeteria. So I you know, in
an era with zoom and all this other technology, it
is we didn't manage everything. You know, if they managed
to hold the draft back there in the UH in
the COVID year, right and like the world didn't stop.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yeah, everything works.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Without a combine. World did not stop.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
And Belichick's dog made some picks. So it's all good
as you go.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
So, I mean, look, all week it was Schultz and
Rappaport until the Deebo Samuel trade goes down and that's
a big domino to fall. San Francisco thirty one million
dollar dead cap, but Washington gets another weapon. How many
more do they add for Jaden Samuels before it's all
said and done?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Not just so this is a weapon, you know, is
there a decoy or is it a weapon? I think
he's pretty broken down, and I think it was a
salary dumps and I'm surprised kind of that San Francisco
was able to move that whole thing and get even
a five in return. I mean, the player who I
think has been slowing down for a couple of years.
(23:37):
I've written about this at the Washington Post. You know,
he's somebody they were trying to move on from a
year ago and they couldn't really reach a price point
in the contract. Was a problem. And is everybody going
to use him the way he was used there? How
much longer can you use him that way? I don't know, man.
I think it's it's a lot of money, and I
guess they don't care. And I'm not one hey people
(23:58):
should spend, but it's just about sort of bang for
your buck, and I'm not sure how much you're going
to get it at He's been on the injury report
a lot. He was asked to play a hybrid role,
you know, between the tackle box quite a bit, and
that'll take its toll. And you know, like running backs, man,
when they go they go all at once. This guy
was kind of a hybrid tight end, wide receiver, running back.
(24:20):
And he took a lot of hits over a long
period of time, including you know a lot of playoff
games and long seasons that went in a long postseason.
So I think there's a lot of buyer beware that.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Jason Locking for our guest Jason Smith Mike Harmon live
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Speaker 3 (24:35):
All right, I know the answer this is going to
be no, they're going to release him.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
But I'll ask you anyway, are the Jets going to
find a trading partner for DeVante Adams with that thirty
eight million dollar salary?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Yeah? I don't know. I mean the call the commanders,
I guess right, I mean, I don't know. If lightning's
going to strike twice, I think it's I think it's
going to be tough. You know, there's everybody's hitting the
street now, you know, no agents were at the combine
trying to see if they can facilitate something that stay
faced for some of their guys, or you know, can
(25:07):
we find a team that's willing to eat more of
this and people think they might be. I think it's
a real tough nut to crack. And there's a glut
of guys, you know, older wide receivers who are already
on this market, who I think are going to have
a little bit of a tough time of it than
we've talked about at that position for a while now,
and now you add more potential names to it. I
(25:29):
just don't. I don't know, man, I would be surprised
if they can move him.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
As we look at the quarterbacks remaining right, Stafford re ups,
lots of whispers about Rogers. I'll let Smith try to
figure out how he wants to turn that we've got
Sam Darnold probably not getting a tag, but now rumors
that Daniel Jones becomes the next guy, and trying to
look at the list of free agent quarterbacks mister Locke
for and I don't I don't see a lot of
(25:55):
sizzle here.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
No, there's not a lot on that plate. Again, for
what it's worth, because some of these guys do have
a dog in the fight. But people I was talking
to as they came back from Indianapolis and finished their
meeting with agents seem to be inclined to believe. And
some of these guys are in the market. So again
you have to take it for what it's work. But
they think that it's a softer market than these guys imagine,
(26:20):
and that you know, Darnold might go back to Minnesota
kind of on his hands and knees a little bit
and they won't need the tag to get him back.
And you know, it's real tough sledding for the Russell
Wilsons and the Justin Fields of the world. So again,
it only takes one team to book that trend in
its position where people get desperate quickly. And this is
the column before the storm will be it. This is
(26:42):
a quiet storm. I mean, this is like smooth jazz.
This this there is no base, there's no riffs, there's
no intensity. I mean, there's not a lot of tone setters,
not much there. But we'll see if that changes. But
that that's what I was picking up is that some
of these quarterbacks and some of their agents are back
(27:04):
to the drawing board because the money they thought was
going to be there does not on the surface appear
to be.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and for that is
at Jason lock and for Odyssey one oh five seven
the Fan in Baltimore, Washington Post. Jay as always, buddy,
appreciate it, man. We'll talk to you as the week
goes on. Have fun.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
I appreciate it, guys, Thank you, see Jason.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
All right, great stuff there. Yeah, look, I mean I
like the smooth jazz. Like no, it's good to say
this is a smooth jazz. This is free agent class.
Although I will say this as time goes on, right,
and it gets to it gets to the point of
how do I make the how do I make this comparison?
When you have a bunch of choices. Right, Let's just
say you're going to go out to dinner, right, and
(27:46):
you're going to a restaurant and there's nothing you like.
At noon, you're looking at the rent men, you go
there's nothing I like on this menu. There's nothing I like,
there's nothing I like. And then as you go on
later on in the day there's nothing done. Okay, well,
all right, maybe that might not be bad all right,
I'm still not that excited, but that might not be bad.
All right, well, okay, and then by the time you
get hungry and at six o'clock six thirty and you're
(28:08):
out to dinner, you're like, uh, oh, I gotta have that.
I gotta have that to one. I gotta be looking
forward to this all day. Like that's how I think
people feel about quarterbacks. At the beginning. It's I don't
like Darnold, I don't like Justin Field, I don't like
Daniel Jones. But now as time goes on, you realize, oh,
nothing else is coming. This is your meal. One of
these you need a quarterback in free agency, one of
these guys is your meal. You start getting more excited,
(28:30):
artificially excited about these guys, and suddenly, where two months
ago it was Daniel Jones, come on, now, it's we
gotta get Daniel Jones. Man, if you don't get if
we get Daniel Jones going to the Super Bowl, Like,
that's what happens over the course of time, when you realize, oh,
there's nothing coming in to change this. These are still
gonna be my choices. I gotta get excited about one
of them. And this is gonna be the one.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
I think it always comes down to, you know what,
as good as as your options are right. One of
those old things, what is the police line? When the
world is running running down, you make the best of
what's still around. That's kind of it, like, all right,
everything's gone to hell. We didn't get that quarterback he
decided to aeshee the forty million we put out in
(29:11):
front of him.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Who's left? Oh yeah, that guy.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Remember that game he had, Oh that fourth quarter come back?
Speaker 4 (29:17):
My goodness, if he could do that for us, think
about him in our uniform.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
He was a first round draft pick.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
What grade did we have on him six years ago
when he came out, even though we've changed out our
entire scouting crew, our GM twice and our head coach
has been blown out.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Every year, taking him third overall, getting that big deal.
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(29:54):
wide world of sports. Man has been called the Daniel
Jones of Fox Sports Radio. You take that back, he
was written, it is special delivery, Steve Desager.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Guys want to finish to the NBA game at Memphis.
Atlanta is visiting and Memphis does not have its point
guard John Morant again tonight out with a bad shoulder,
and for that matter, Jaron Jackson left early due to
an ankle injury. But Desmond Baine has a triple double.
Baine for Memphis has the ball final seconds tie game
against the Hawks and he turned it over.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Had le Bert Carris comes up.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
The over gamee Terrorislebert?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
What's it for the Hawks?
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Hawks TV on fan duel Atlanta one thirty two to one,
thirty winners.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
On the road. On a fast break layup at the buzzer,
Who who is?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Who is the analys just going Bain Baine.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I think he was saying Bain.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
He's calling Kame. I thought he was saying Bay, Like Paine,
what are you doing?
Speaker 7 (30:59):
If you say hey, you have to say it in
that Batman movie type of voice.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yes, mister Warren, I can shined the ball to the
other team because it's what the words rector. I was
gonna blow up the court all the way down. But
heinz Ward didn't show up. It was somebody else. I'd
be give them the basket.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Certainly people are falling through mid court. Yes, it's just
like that football sields.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Well.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Hey, if the Knicks could do that, I guarantee you
they'd start winning a lot more games against the Celtics
and the Cavs and the Thunders.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Of course, it won't be televised on MSG apparently the
ways that's true.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
That's true, but doesn't mean it's not gonna happen. So
NBA TV will pick up everything. Yeah, it's fine, that's right.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
It's like all those baseball teams that suddenly don't have quote,
don't have a baseball network to show.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
MLB just takes over. Sure, you'll still have it.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
At Oklahoma City tonight, fifty one points for Shay Gil
just Alexander in an okay See win against Houston one
thirty seven to one twenty eight. There are two late games.
About three minutes left at Dallas, Kings lead the Mavericks
one eleven to eighty seven. The bad news for the MAVs.
Kyrie Irving left early with the knees sprain for Sacramento
to and to sabonas out at least a week with
(32:02):
a strain hamstring wins for Portland and Miami, and for
Golden State, which won at Charlotte one nineteen to one
oh one. The Hornets have lost seven in a row
to college basketball final week in the men's regular season,
Number two Duke now eighteen and one in the ACC
after ripping Wake Forest tonight ninety three to sixty. Currently
under ten minutes to go at number three rank Houston,
(32:23):
it's the Cougars over Kansas forty eight to forty two
and about five and a half minutes left in the game.
On FS one, Ucla has taken the lead at Northwestern
sixty to fifty two. Auburn and Duke, by the way,
still one two in the new college polls. Florida dropped
to number five, and if you didn't hear this story yesterday,
yes Texas today is still ranked number one in women's hoops,
(32:45):
but it will be seeded second for this week's conference tournament.
In the SEC, it lost a coin flip against South Carolina.
The number one team in the country is not the
one seed in their own conference.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Coin flip makes a lot of sense, let's just go
to a coin flip. Let's just do that for all
of life. The last time I've seen that work where
there was any sort of dramas in Friday Night Lights
when they had to have the three way coin flip
to determine who won't go to this is in nineteen
eighty eight.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I know you had what happened. I thought you were
going dark Knight, come on, way, just stay with the bat.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Within a decade behind that, didn't the Lakers get Magic
Johnson on a coin flip?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, for the number one again in the seventies, in
the eighties fight we have a little bit more. Now
we can do a little bit more than just have
a coin flip.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Among the six NHL games tonight, just the one late
game still going at Chicago, third period Blackhawks over the
La Kings. Four to one shootout victories for Washington and
San Jose, and two notes from spring training. Tonight, the
Yankees had Max Freed on the mound through two scoreless innings,
then charged with two runs in the third as a
reliever gave up a home run behind him. Yanks won
(33:47):
for what it's worth twelve three over the Pittsburgh Pirates,
code I singa started for the Mets through two scoreless innings.
One to one was the final Mets and Marlins as
the Mets offense went two for twenty eights.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Back to you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
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(34:22):
I'm still trying to figure out how this makes sense.
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon, Yes, Sir,
Live from theti rag dot com studios. Now, this story
from this weekend, I mean, and I'm still trying to
figure out, like just what so President Trump announces he's
pardoning and plans to pardon Pete Rose.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
This ostensibly means maybe he can get back in the
Hall of Fame, maybe he get reinstated for baseball. Kind
of weird that he says that, and then Rob Manford says, oh, yeah,
we've been looking at at his case for the last
couple of months.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
And uh, now you know, yeah, we've been we've been
looking at him like.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
A request by the family, like all these details.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Like one of two things happened. Either Trump pushed us
forward by saying this and now Rob Manford's looking at it,
or he knew that they were looking at it and
came out and said, hey, I think you should pardon
you know, Pete Roae should be pardoned. Here's the thing
I don't get is that he's not. He was never
First of all, it's too late for Pete, which we'll
get to in a minute. But he wasn't convicted of
(35:46):
a crime. He wasn't like, he wasn't in prison. He's
I mean, what do you mean we're pardoning? I understand,
Like I don't get like there's no pardon, Like if
if he wanted to say hey, like basically the right
thing to say is hey, he should be reinstated into
Major League Baseball, but like pardoning him, Like, I don't,
I don't think that.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
I think.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
I really just think it's the wrongs have been so
big the last months.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Everybody's getting pardons, right to pardon, pardon it's a blanket term.
I'm just gonna say pardon the part of it. But
there's it's not he wasn't he didn't go to prison
for pardon me. I mean, he had other issues in
his life, surely, but like, there's no pardon involved in this.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
I don't understand, like what like if this is more like, hey,
I'm greasing the skids to open the door to put
Pete Rose back in the game. Okay, I kind of
get that because quite honestly, look, I mean, if you
want to think about Pete Rose's cases, it's being looked
at in Major League Baseball. Is that if Pete came
about now, if Pete's running a foul, running with the fouls,
(36:49):
with the with the rules of baseball, you know, betting
on his team, if that came out now, right, let's
just say came out now, he would get a big suspension, right,
it would be well, a manager of a baseball team,
betting a you know, gambling on baseball.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Okay, hang on, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
You're gonna get a suspension, but you would get a
suspension for what a year or two, and then you'd
be back in the game. Right the Astros, everybody was
eligible to get back in after a year, the big
cheating scandal that they won two World Series on, everybody
got back in. So you can't tell me that there's
certain crop of crime. So tell me there's certain things
you would do from Ajor League Baseball that would force
(37:25):
people to say, oh, you're out forever. Like Pete would
get a suspension. I'm not saying it wouldn't happen, and
it would be a big deal, but it would be
a year or two and then he'd be allowed back
in the game and to be back in coaching, doing
whatever he was doing, be an ambassador of the game.
And you know, cause you look at the way that
all sports now embrace gambling. I mean, in every baseball
game you see the announcers do commercials for gambling. They
(37:47):
talk about this, commercials run on television for gambling gambling
and sports now is is weed? Together? And yeah, we
get the odd story once and again of DFS let
that story with the what Fresno State last week, guys
were betting their own player prompts, like their individual player
props in the game.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
So yeah, you're gonna deal with that. But gambling has
been such a big part.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
It's make money throughout the sport, you know, around it
and created interest that you really can't come down and say, Okay,
this is absolutely awful. Look what Calvin Ridley's making bets
got suspended for a year. Pete Rose would be a
manager of a team, so maybe maybe it would be
a year or two, maybe something, but it would be
something that he'd be able to come back from and
it wouldn't be this, Hey, here's this whole big lifetime
ban and we're not gonna think about Euphrean statement at
(38:31):
all ever like it was that was in the eighties
and now here we are where gambling. Everybody's shaking hands
when it comes to gambling in sports, gambling sports. He
would be back in after a year.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Yeah. The hard part to it is the language that
was used.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
It wasn't a lifetime ban because then you just say,
all right, it's a moved point.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
He's dead, so move on. It was a it was
a permanent ban.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Yeah, differently again language right, pardon versus you know, reevaluation
or whatever. What's what's interesting is in the timeline of
everything that seems to get lost quite often is when
Rose signed off and made the agreement with A. Bartlett Giamatti.
As we think about Paul Giamatti on the show all
the time, is that he was under the impression one
(39:16):
that it was only going to be a short term
thing and that Giamatti dies so it never could get revisited.
Comes in and That'savin's advice. A while, I'm not gonna
undo what he did. They all respected him so much,
we're going to come in undo what he did.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
So clearly they didn't have that conversation or any notes
related to that, so that stays on. But the other
thing was at that point, the Hall of Fame had
no rule that really addressed this at all. That didn't
come up until ninety one when Pete was going to
be eligible, and in February they adopted what became the
(39:51):
Pete Rose Rule. And so at that point it was, hey,
if you're on this list, you can't get in. Like
there's a little time there that a lapse of oh wait,
Now he's like, what do we do? But to your point, now, yeah,
you've got a bunch of rules in place, and maybe
he can't manage, but he would be able to go
and teach hitters. That was the thing that killed him
down this stretch, right for a good decade plus.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
It was I can't go teach.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
A guy how to hit on the spring training practice fields,
Like I can't go meet in the backning cages with
a guy like he couldn't be around baseball at all,
So like a whole other world.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
But now, yeah, there's all sorts of rules and precedents set.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yeah, and look, obviously it's too late and it's weird,
like really now you're now you're you're looking at this now. Really,
I mean it's just but I mean that that would
be that to think about the times and and what
do they what do they always say that? Uh uh,
what's the big phrase? Treason is a matter of dates? Right,
Like that's a big for history. Treason is a matter
of dates. Something that was treason US in sixteen thirty
(40:53):
is not treason US in seventeen forty, right, Like it's
the same thing with Pete. This is a is a
matter of dates, because what was it was in the
eighties is not so much in the twenties.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
That and you can also say how I'm gonna look
at it, and then the season starts and people forget
about it for a minute.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
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