September 11, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon talk about how bad Kirk Cousins looked in his first game and why he may now be a bridge QB.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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be well. Two big stories to hit you with right
out of the gate. First of all, hashtag debate twenty
twenty four. Are things really okay for the Jets following
their loss last night? I say that's Mike Carmon. You
have one minute. Go ahead, you have one minute. You
tell me things aren't good for the Jets A day after.
Go ahead, go ahead, you go one minute. Go now
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you have fifty five seconds.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Your quarterback proves laterally worse than I do.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Now fit stop, that is a lie. He doesn't crack.
That is I've seen you move side to side, you
sip over like that bleeping.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Bear compared to that right now? Do you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I'm a dancing bear. I'm just picture you with the
with like the music, like the Russian Christmas music.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Normally that look, if you provoke, that bear's gonna attack,
So you better be careful. That's what I was talking.
It's called the offensive lineman. Be it be a good
dancing bear, Get lateral and keep your opponent in front
of you. I can do that Aaron Rodgers, not some
mobile last night. So that's a little concerning your defense
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getting runned over. But again we.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Talked you say run over? I did did you really see?
Where did you go to school? Where'd you go to
the specifically, where'd you go? Where'd you go to school at?
For where you go to college? Chats where'd you go to?
What you went to? Where'd you go to school?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
What's to Northwestern? And here's the thing, No, no, no,
but listen to me.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
To the Northwestern They're not gonna learn English very.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, you're gonna learn English brilliantly, and then you're gonna
recognize that the English you used in school doesn't matter,
because you can use words however you want, and they'll
add them to the dictionary anyway, use them improperly enough,
they'll just say okay.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Especially on the SATs, I hear they're really leaning on that. Yeah,
make up whatever words you want to say. Well, you,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You want a lot of schools. You don't even have
to take them anymore, So what the hell is the difference?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
No, I think it's coming back now. I think it's
retro like the nineties. I think SATs are coming back,
making a comeback. Yeah, they're making a comeback. Man, SATs
had their heyday in the eighties. Now I think the
SAT is coming back. We judge people getting.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Into say yeah, so the last eight seconds of my minute.
You do have a pretty soft schedule coming up these
next three weeks before that showdown date, would Sam Darnold.
So yeah, it's it's there's positivity to be had, but
tempered optimism.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now, let me just say this before we get into
a big story out of baseball. That's it's kind of
a shocker and exactly what one World Series hopeful absolutely needs. Look,
today was a day for the Jets to get mad. Right.
Aaron Rodgers had the big headline of the day. He
went on Pat McAfee show and said, if you want
to jump off the bandwagon, go ahead, but don't try
to get back on. He is supremely confident that things
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will work for the Jets after their loss last night.
And I'll tell you, look, the biggest thing everything else
we've talked about. Look, we know how bad of a
head coach Robert Sala is, right, we know the defense
came out crappy last night and got worked by the
forty nine ers eight drives in a row for points.
I understand all of that. But Robert Sala actually said
something really good today and very precient when he said,
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owen one this year feels like better than one and
zero last year. And he's right because death Jets beat
the Bills last year in the opening game, but they
lost for the Sea was over.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I know the New York Post couldn't resist.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, but you lost a road game against a team
that was in the Super Bowl. It's okay. And it
goes to show you and this is why again the
day after when I picked myself up after that big loss,
is that everything really is okay because everything comes down
to is Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers, if he is that
will cover up everything. Again, I told you it's a
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huge deal. You're covering up everything, all the ills and
organization has trading for a guy that is the only
remaining holdout in the NFL. Because of course he's the
only remaining holdout in the NFL. All these things, all
these things that we know, you're asking Aaron Rodgers cover
up all of this, cover all of this stuff. And
if he can do it, everything is going to be fine.
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So when he feels good, if Aaron Rodgers feels good,
getting passed last night was a huge mental hurt for him, right,
That's the biggest thing that we haven't talked about. Yes, Rogers,
the guy who's played twenty years in the NFL, never
had a situation like this, playing four snaps, being out
for the year, being asked to be the savior coming back,
there's going to be that mental hurdle you need to
get by in that first game back. It's not just
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going to be one hundred percent. We're going out one
hundred percent. It's a game plan here and win the game.
Some of it is and it's just natural for athletes.
I have to know that I can do it. After
last night, I know we can do it. Did he
look okay throwing the football? Yes, look like the same
guy throwing the football. Was he as mobile as I
would like him to be. No, but it didn't look
like he was a statue in the pocket. No, he's
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something that's going to come back to him a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
He looked like an Olympic sprinter compared to Kirk Cousins. Yeah,
Kirk Cousins looked like the quarterback he used to have
on the electric football that just had to stand there.
Everybody else running around in circle quarterback.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
He doesn't move. Just touch him, he's not moving.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Take the shotgun snap and then just pivot left or right.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Do I think that he's gonna be more mobile? He
even said yes, I felt good. A lot of it
is testing what he's accomplishing. No matter what you do,
you're gonna get in that point. Boy, am I running
left here? What's gonna happen? Oh? I'm okay. And then
eventually you're not thinking about it, you're gonna get on
the same page. You haven't had any game tenth a
game plan in game time with your receivers, and you
had some of the joint practices, but nothing replaces the reps.
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I am feeling good, I'm feeling not. I don't feel
bad about last night. I'm feeling just as good today
as I was about an hour after the game. During
the game, different story after the game, a little bit different.
But I will throw this out there. Ask me again
after the Tennessee Patriots Broncos run that we're on right now,
and we'll see if the answers the same. If we're
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three and one, everything is good. They're two and two
or one and three, Hey, the answer is a lot different.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
No, that's it. It becomes a burn it down scenario.
And we talked about it last night. Find a podcast
wherever you will. But to do the summarization here, it's
a Yeah, you played the defending NFC champs, played a
squad that had everybody back. Now were they playing at
full tilt? No, obviously, McCaffrey's not there, didn't matter. Jordan
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Mason was fantastic. Brandon Ayuk a couple of balls he
would normally catch. He didn't, but it didn't matter because
super Tow was out there and you just slammed his
head as far as you needed to. As far as
Moody goes twenty one field goals in week one from
fifty yards or more in the NFL, So take that
one as you go through and think about how the
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field position game changes so much more with these kickers
these days. But for a number of teams, right, a
lot of debate about the Chargers and their win and
running the football. Couple of huge runs from JK. Dobbins
maybe skew what they're doing, but doesn't take away from
what the mo was. Remember Justin Herbert was in a
walking boot all of the offseason, right, and he was
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hardly a training camp at all. And if you have
the opportunity to go run people over, guess what, you
go run people over. He's still trying to get used
to all these new faces in the receiver room because
the old, tried and true guys they're gone, so you know,
and we can go on down the line. There's so
many teams that for Week one you're just trying to
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get out unscathed. If you got away with a victory,
you're feeling better like my beloved Chicago Bears. You gotta win?
Was it pretty Hell? No, No, it's got plenty of
room for improvement, right, and we'll talk about them as
the show goes on. But it's just the idea. With
your jets watching it yesterday with you, you were calm,
and I actually had a couple of folks text me going,
is he okay? Does he care? Is he just focused
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on the match? I go, well, early on, Ryan, a
little bit of anxiousness and you were shuffling in your
seat a little bit, but then you got run over.
So after a while it became all right, I'm resigned
to the fact that this is going to happen. Now
that touchdown passed the first to Lazard the free play
when should have been whistled dead because dude was nine
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yards in the backfield and coming off the edge, but
they didn't do it. It's a free play, it's a touchdown.
The graphic was ready as we talked about and everything else.
That's fine, it counts, but you didn't have any hope
that you were suddenly going to go on a tear
and win that game. So you were able to measure
your emotions, and I was proud of you because otherwise
you might have been banging your head on the desk.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
If it happened. It talked to me after the Titans
indoor Broncos game.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
If Will Levis's shuffle board and some touchdown passes against it,
now we got problems. If Tony Pollard's running amok like
Jordan Mason did last night, yeah, it will not be pretty,
and we'll make sure to zoom call you so we
at least get a snapshot of that for the show.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Look at bow Nick's going right at Sauce Gardner the
entire first half exclusively. He's got four touchdowns. Yeah, so
t but right now.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Sauce would need to be within four yards of the
line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
That is that You're right about that? Yeah, that is true.
So again, I am fine after I know, thank you
for all your thoughts. I am fine after last night.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Meanwhile, I think they were hoping you would lose your
mind though.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, no, but it was, but you know it, Look
it was. It was a little bit and then I
reeled it back, and then I understood that, okay, because
I was never all in on this game like big
because it's if it was opening up at home against
the Patriots, where a game like you kind of have
to have it, and you were that bad, I would be,
oh my goodness, the sky is falling. But on the
road against forty nine Ers, Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Didn't you produce five touchdowns for Rogers?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Though? I did? I did? Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And I remember that from your Twitter timeline.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I'm going to travel to the Earth that uh, where
that happened on. So I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna
make it's not Earth six one six obviously the ten
thousand and five, the one that Deadpool got Wolverine from.
Maybe I'll go there. Just make sure you're regenerate. How
long does it take you to regenerate? What I think
of all the lines in that movie, that's the funniest one,
(10:46):
I really do. I think that's that's the one I
laughed at the most regenerate as the blood is coming
out of his mouth. Regenerate. Uh, But a big moment
major League Baseball now, And I look, I know that
I'm don't want to be prisoner of the moment here,
but at this point where we sit right now on
September tenth, I don't know that there is a bigger moment,
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bigger game that could tell you about the rest of
the season than what we're seeing in Los Angeles right now. Right,
first of all, you have a great pitching matchup show
to Imonaga, who has been phenomenal this year and making
his return to the Dodgers. Three hundred million dollar man,
Yoshinoba Yamamoto already struck out the first batter. This is
going to tell you exactly how big a favorite or
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threat the Dodgers are. To win the World Series. They
need Yamamoto to be good, and there's no second place,
there's no alternative because they have nobody else. Right now,
you have Jack Flaherty, who is a nice starter, right
and he's a guy that's built for the moment. He
is tough. He is your game one starter for the Dodgers.
Outside of that, you have no one. Kershaw's out, Gavin
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Stone is out, Tyler Glass now who knows, you don't
have anybody else? Walker Bull Look, he gives up five
months out.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah, in ineffective and can't get past the fourth.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
If Yama Moto can come back over the next three weeks,
he's gonna pitch about forty to fifty pitches tonight, I
think is gonna be the limit for him. If he
comes back over the next three weeks and shows I
am a three hundred million dollar man. This is why
you got me. Hey, I'll feel great about the Dodgers
of the playoffs because you'll shorten your rotation. You'll do
what you need to Flarerty and Yama Moto, and that's great.
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But if you don't get if they don't get Yama Moto,
just think about this for a second. Let's say the
first round of the playoffs, they're gonna play the Mets,
all right, and the Mets pitch, and the Mets starting
rotation has the advantage over the Dodgers if the Mets
won through three or Sean Manea and David Peterson you
had a bad night tonight, but it's his first bad
game in like twelve starts and Louis Severino against Flaherty
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and who knows, Like that's what it is for the
like the team that squeaks in is gonna have a
huge advantage over the Dodgers in their rotation when they
play in the playoffs. So the Dodgers are either gonna
stay a big oct over favorite and Yamamoto is the guy,
or they're gonna be just one of anybody else. Hope
they have to outslug everyone. Everybody's eyes in baseball is
on this game. How good is Yamamoto? How does he look?
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Is he still strong? Is he still throwing the ball?
Really well? What's he going to what's he going to
be like bouncing back? This is the biggest story in
baseball as far as winning the World Series and favorites
over the next three weeks. Yes, we have Otani has
pursued of fifty to fifty and all the big play races,
but you're talking about play. This is the biggest story
in baseball the next three weeks. Well, that's just it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
It's the billion dollar squad, you know, too big to fail,
all of those cliches that we threw in and you
and I as the season began, you're excited to see
how it plays out, right, particularly when Yamamoto comes over
six and two two nine two era strikeout raid everything
in his fourteen starts. But been on the shelf a while.
And so the final couple of weeks and this is
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the matchup made in heaven. Cubs come in and you
get in Minaga, who's been phenomenal on the other side.
So this pitching matchup, I mean, it's just a really
great opportunity if you were able to get out to
the ballyard here at Dodger Stadium today, fortunately for me
in the Fox Sports radio studios and watching it pitch
for pitch and covering it with you here, blessed to
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do that. But yeah, it's all the the expectations of
this squad, because remember when they started, they had too
many starters. It would be it was however, we pair them.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Down, we got twelve, we got Colfax coming in for
a couple of ins. You get still, you can still
they'll still throw inside on you. He'll give them the
chin music and throw outside install. How's that going on?
I mean, that's where you're at.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
But it was so many and now you're at you're
on pace with all of the things we talked about.
If the fifty to fifty and other guys going forty
to forty to no fanfare at all, is the fact
that you're gonna have it. You're on pace to have
five Dodger relievers finished with fifty appearances. That's a lot
of work over the course of a season campaign and
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and really the big biggest question for any of these
returning starters is what kind of strength you got? Can
you give me six? Can you steal me a six inning? Hell,
sometimes it's been can you steal me five? But a
call third strike sends the Cubs down here in the
first Dodgers coming up the bat. So good movement on
his pitches and good velocity thus far for Yamamoto as
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he gets checked by the umpire.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
No bigger story in baseball than how good he is
in the next three weeks. It's a three hundred million
dollar guy. Either we can win the World Series or
we're gonna lose to the Mets. Well, because think about it,
or the Braves are there. I would think that the
Mets and Braves are tied to or we'll lose to
the Brazs. It's how it can go.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Well, but that's just it, right, Some of the poison
pens already out here in Los Angeles, and Yamamoto one
of those guys that, unfortunately he becomes one of the
the guys that wears it because of the size of
the contract. Right, this is what we do in sports,
especially within the individual cities. It's we either don't spend
enough or they spent a lot of money, and this
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is what we got dot dot dot And for Dodger fans,
that's been the story of the last decade. And looking
at the way the squad rolls right now. Yeah, how
healthy can you get with your rotation? Ready for that
round one matchup?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Exit out about a fresca exit swollen dome. The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live from
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got more NFL. We told you last night and we've
been telling you for a while. Deshaun Watson is eventually
going to not be the starting quarterback for the Browns,
and that day is coming sooner than you think. We
want to check it out. We put it up off
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Speaker 1 (18:18):
Alex Tyser now just playing songs for his girlfriend on
the radio. That's all he's doing.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Oh no, baby, this is for me.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
That's all I'm doing. Now.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I'm sorry, this is me. I love Mickey.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Why can't I could picture you doing this at karaoke?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Oh I could kill it.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I could actually picture you doing this a karaoke.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Invite me one time.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Harmon does karaoke every Friday night.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, I've been knowing to do Hot to Go a
couple of times, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
But here's here's the thing, though, I think it would
be a very eclectic night, like because Tysher would do
this and Harmon would do war Pigs. So I mean
you definitely have to have a bit of a wide
variety in music if you want to go to karaoke
with the two of you.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, but that's the key though, right, I mean we
get we draw everybody in because they may have never
heard his songs. And I guarant damntee a lot of
folks haven't heard what I'm bringing to the table. Hey, touch,
and I got moves you've never seen. So I mean,
you add it all together, it is one big night
out toutcher.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I need you to just go and the whole time,
and then I'm gonna come in and sing. Okay, but
just keep it, don't stop, just keep doing the It's
gonna be like that scene in School of Rock when
Jack Black is teaching everybody how to do smoke on
the water and then Zach you come in with a
face melter. But Freddie, you could give me the.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I don't resemble that character at all.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I'd love to see that.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I have never had anybody compare me to the electricity
and effervescence of Jack Black. No, no, no, that's never occurred.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Give me a little I don't even know who you
are just do it. Boy. Guy in the purple shorts
is really amped up tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
He's really getting after it.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Let's go so again. Big baseball game of the night.
Imanaga and Yamamoto in LA. Both of them get through
the first inning unscathed. Yoshidoba Yamamoto his first start in
a while. Look, the biggest story, playoff story in baseball
the next three weeks. If he's good, Dodgers are okay.
If not, they can lose in the first round. And
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so far his pitches look pretty good. He's only going
to throw about fifty ish pitches tonight. But again, this
is the biggest story in baseball for the next three weeks.
You got John Paul Morosi stopping buy less than an
hour talk about it with us. But coming off of
the week that was in the NFL, I can't remember
as many conversations about quarterbacks losing their jobs as I
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have after Week one. After this year. Now I get that,
and hey, in the world, now everything ramps up. Now, right,
everything is much more earlier than we expect it to be.
You know, right now, you know a player used to
be able to get drafted the NFL, a first round
pick and get four years to prove that he could
be a franchise quarterback. Now you get like a year
and three starts. Yeah, so I get I understand that. Hey,
well you know this guy, Give this guy some time,
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Give this guy some time.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah. I'm still on board with Brady and Hasselbeck and
a bunch of other folks that you know, subscribe to
that theory of things. Yeah, but that's not the reality
in the world we're living in. No, it is much
to you know, even though the data suggests you probably
should go back to a simpler time. I mean Tops now, right,
the program that they do where they commemorate big events
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in sports. They just put out a card commemorating the
fact that Caleb Williams was the first number one pick
to win his opening start since two thousand and two. Okay,
that should tell you something. Yeah, that, David Carr is
the answer to that trivia question.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
It's a long time, man, that's a lot of number
one picks that loss right.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Out of the jump.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Now, normally you go to a terrible team and not
one coming off a seven win season. But the point being,
that's a long damn time, and maybe you want to
look at things a little differently.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, but look, I mean it shows you how hard
it is, right, I'll show you how hard it is.
It's a big deal. But no, remember Sam Donald won.
Remember Sam Donald one is is uh his first game?
He's so he was the.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
First numb He wasn't the number one dark right, Darnald was.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The last rookie quarterback to win his first start back on.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Twenty eighteen, and Williams was the last number one.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
My goodness, that is It's just this that shows you
how tough it is to come into the league.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Sam, Sam, We'll.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Get to Sam darl trust me. I've been waiting to
talk about Sam Donald. But look last night. Look, the
Deshaun Watson era is coming to a close in Cleveland.
It won't be more than a couple of games before
he hits the bench. Right, that's just how it goes.
They're not going to sit and go through this forever.
They'll figure out the money at the end of the year.
And there's always a way to figure out the money.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Now, you have another lawsuit, Jason, so contracts, as we
talked about a little bit yesterday, but you know, more
details coming out on that. Certainly not not going to
be an easy end there.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
No, there's when you talk about unforeseen things that can happen.
Uh No, one takes that into account. There are ways
to make the money work. I don't know what the
way is, but they'll find a way. They'll find whether
it is we have the you have these these these
new lawsuits hanging over you, whatever kind of language is
in your contract, let's figure out a buyout. Let's do this.
(23:17):
Let there'll be a way to do it. The salary
cap is going up. You can always figure out the money.
So if Deshaun Watson only has a couple of games left,
there's a couple other quarterbacks that also are staring down
the barrel of being backups. We'll do We'll do the
easy one first, Okay, because I don't think there's any
doubt that Daniel Jones is nearing the end of his
run with the Giants, right, What did I say? One
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of the Big Bowl predictions we made a few weeks ago,
about a month ago, Tommy DeVito will be starting a
quarterback for the Giants. By Week eight. They will play
and start all three of their quarterbacks this year. They'll
start him, They'll start Drew Locke and Daniel Jones will
start for another couple of weeks, but things are already
so bad. Just think about this. After week one he
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was boos after the second pass of the game. So
you know there's no rope at all from any of
the fans, right. Brian Dable already has had to talk
about the fact that I'm not benching Daniel Jones, and
that's not happening when you have to do that after
week one? Just where are you at with the confidence
of your players and your team. Malik Neighbors, who has
played all of one game is a New York Giant,
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just one game. One game, is asked about Daniel Jones,
what did you think and instead of giving the answer
of hey, Daniel Jones is a great quarterback, we left
some plays out there, it's hey, I don't know, I
go out for passes, he.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Said, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Wow, I don't know, man, No, I don't know. I
can't just say the right And it's not like Malik Neighbors,
as someone that's never had a microphone in front of
him before, he's talked to a lot of people. He
knows what it means to back up a quarterback. People
know how to say nothing right. Even the rookies coming
into the league know. When I'm asked this question, I
say nothing. I say something like, hey, it was a
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rough game for all of us. We can all do better.
I'm looking forward to this week. We're gonna batten it down,
will be better. I'm excited about that. But instead all
I do I don't know what's happened. I don't know
what's going on. Hey, my name's Bennett and I ain't
in it. He's got another few weeks and then it'll
be Drew Locke and then he'll stink and it'll be
Tommy Cutletz. Because we've told you the Giants are tanking
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this year to tank, and they're tay. They tanked their
Week one. They made Sam Donald look good, which should
show you this is the level of tanking they were at.
They were able to make Sam Donald look good. Giants
will play three quarterbacks, They'll start three quarterbacks not due
to injury.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
By week nine, I would say this, they're all the
greatest actors ever and they should be hired for Hollywood
films coming out of that offseason. Hard knock, because they
all sure as hell seem like they were losing their
minds over some of the decisions they had to make,
including the owner for that matter, going back to Saquon Barkley.
But for Daniel Jones, he's just a curious case, right
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because he's coming off in ACL and gets absolutely no grace.
Micah Parsons even pleading for him. I don't know if
that's just because he wants to face him and sack
him twelve times, but going the man was down to
an ACL just nine ten months ago, But no grace
for him. For the old quarterbacks that we still like
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the names and as you'd like to say the back
of their football cards, it's like, oh, yeah, they're gonna
be fine. It's just a matter of time. They'll be okay.
Daniel jokes neck injury ACL, coming back a lot of
new component parts and getting back into the sitting Nah,
forget it. He stakes he's a bum moving god. And
I'm not saying he was great before he got hurt
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last year. I am not doing that. And certainly we've
all seen the graphic the number of turnovers, the number
of interception, and that was other than Will Levis, the
worst play of Week one of the National Football League, right,
the interception touchdown that he threw, and he's got more
of those than he has touchdown passes, you know, the
last couple of years. And I get that, but there's
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absolutely no grace for him getting back on a field.
Whereas everybody else. It seems like we lined up excuses
wherever we could.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I exit out about a Fresca exit, swollen dome, the
Jason smithsho with Mike Carmon live from the tyrac dot
Com Studios. Now the other guy, that's a little more difficult,
but I'll tell you what it's gonna happen. Is Kirk Cousins.
I hate to say I told you so, but it
doesn't matter what kind of money you're making. When you
have a guy that you trade, that you draft high
in the first round, who looks really good in camp,
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you are a bridge quarterback. You're a forty million dollar
bridge quarterback. But guess what, You're a bridge quarterback. And
the worst case scenario for the Falcons is also their
best case scenario. Because Kirk Cousins looked awful on Sunday.
The whole offense looked awful when I watched them trying
to run their hurry up offense. Near the end, I
felt like nobody knew what plays were going to be called.
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They're all looking back at everybody's looking back at Cousins
at the line of scrimmage, like what's going on? What
are we doing here? Like normally, when that happens, guys
get up, they get in there, they get in their
their stance, and they're ready to go. But I just
felt like none of them were on the same page.
And to hear Raheem Morris with a very telling statement
following the game, Kirk cousins struggles were not injury related.
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That is an alarm bell after Week one. They're not
gonna sit back a team with expectations. The Falcons went out,
they did all the crazy stuff in the draft, getting
Michael Pennix junior at Kirk Cousins, they got better, They
fired a coach, brought in a new coach. Hey, we're
not gonna sit here in this division with all this
talent that people keep saying we have, How great Bjon
Robinson is, how great Kyle Pitch is supposed to be,
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how great Drake London is? Oh, how great? And we're
not gonna lose Kirk Cousins does not have a lot
of time to get things going because eventually, and I
mean by I'm thinking week six is or so if
Kirk Cousins, and maybe sooner because you can imagine how
the calls are gonna grow. Because Michael Pennix Junior looked
good in the preseason. He didn't look overmatched. All the
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players said, what a great ball he throws. He carries
himself differently. They're excited about this kid and he could
be special. Now, am I concerned a little bit about
plays when they kind of get off kilter, which happens
in the NFL like sixty percent of the time. How
is he gonna be when something is not made to
order for him? Because that's kind of been his career
at ed Washington was when when he's able to get
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time and throw, he was great, but you pressure and
move him out of the pocket, Suddenly he's just a guy.
Michigan showed you that in the National Championship Game. But
by and large, they're all excited about him, and he's
got a play, and the money for Kirk Cousins does
not matter anymore because you have both of these guys
on the team. You fit him under the salary cap,
and it's gonna be a case of, just like we
said with Deshaun Watson last night, you replace him with
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a better quarterback in Jamis Winston or Brian Sipe, whoever
you want to And I keep going back to Brian
Steche you do, you like that, and you figure out
the money in the off season, it'll be the same thing.
Michael Pennick Junior will step in and they'll figure out
Kirk Cousins at the deadline or in the off season
when they want to move on. So that's absolutely closer
than you think. The money does not matter. He is
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a bridge quarterback to get you to Michael Pennick Junior.
Couple of starts like this, and that's gonna happen too well.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
At the end, it's all dollar cost averaging. And with
Cousins and with the Falcons, you know, again, I put
the star on it because again, not a lot of
reps together, and that's by choice, right by design, and
what they built into their preseason for Raheem Morris kind
of telling as almost to say, that's not my guy,
that's not my choice, but this is the way it
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has to go. But you look at their schedule coming up,
Jason on the road at Philadelphia home against the Chiefs,
home against the Saints. I look, the Saints beat the
hell out of the Panthers, but you know, their defense
probably is going to be decent. I don't think their
offense is any great shakes, but either way, not an
easy game, divisional game. And then you get the Buccaneers,
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our Buccaneers and Baker Mayfield, and then you go all
the way to Week six. That's when you get a
road tilt against the Carolina Panthers. Maybe you got a
month and remember er dollar cost averaging Kirk dollars and
what Penix is making as a rookie, not that itcounts
against the salary cap the same way. We understand that,
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but it's you know, the rookie pool and all that
fun kind of stuff. But when we get down to it, yeah,
they're not beholding him. There's a lot of change made
in that in that coaching staff and on that squad
and Michael Pennix Junior. If they think that he can
push the offense forward, they will. For Captain Kirk, the
mobility thing is the biggest thing for me. If you're
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not gonna be able to extend plays at least a
little bit. Not that he was captain mobility, but my goodness,
he was stiff.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Well and here's the and here's the other part of it.
If all I don't why would that be coming? Why
would that be coming? You know, no matter what, after
this year, you're going to Michael Pennix junior. Right, And
you have to be able to move on from Kirk Cousins.
The longer you let him play if he's not good,
the harder it's going to be to trade him, and
the less you're gonna get in return. So that's why
this is gonna be a quicker trigger. Hey, Kirk might
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not be right. We cease and you're gonna see the story. Hey,
we don't think he's quite right yet, and rush himself
back from injury, and Cousins will go along with the timeline. Look,
we're gonna go to Michael Pennick Junior. Hey, we're sorry
it didn't work out, but let's make sure you're still
someone that teams want. So you keep his value at
its highest in the offseason, because if he plays nine
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weeks and he stinks, what are you getting for him?
How are you able to trade him? In the off
season less you're eating so much money. But if you
do it afterward yet, but if you do it after
three or four weeks and you say, hey, he's not
quite right. Something is wrong, and that's the narrative you
further and then you go to Michael Pennick Junior. Well
then suddenly, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we believe that that
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you know, Kirk is now healthy. He wasn't really comfortable.
There's a lot of things happening, and we're more we
feel better about absorbing that salary and trading away whatever
draft picks you're gonna get. So they need to be
able to preserve his value. And the longer he plays,
if he's not good, that's not gonna work for them.
So that's why it's going to be a quicker hook
than you think for him, and Peedick Junior will get
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in there.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
To play the other Bart was. I mean, look, and
the Steelers are pretty good defense, right, whatever we think
about the offense, they're good enough to be dangerous defensively
so long as TJ. Watts on the field, and you
watched he terrorized them this week. But for a couple
of penalties, he would have had a monster day. But
you're looking at ziggy. You know, when you talk about
Arthur Blank, he's eighty one. We talk about the mortality
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of Jerry Jones, and I got a win now kind
of thing. They're in Atlanta and they kind of got
the same mentality, which is why they went heavy in
for Kirk Cousins and then Michael Pennick Junior fell into
their lap. So now we see how quickly they pull
that band aid off.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Time now
to find out about a guy who just yanks band
aids off him, whether he's got a cut or not.
It's Isaac Lohenkron. He's got what's trended.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Actually, it's surprisingly lucrative because pharmaceutical companies actually pay you
to tell out their new band aids. Unfortunately, you do
have to sign a waiver. So that has had several
undesirable side effects. A desirable what do you mean by that? Now,
I'm just kidding, A desirable side effect. The Los Angeles
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Dodgers getting Yoshinobu Yamamoto back on the mound for the
first time since June fifteenth. He'd been out with a
right triceps injury. Right now, Yamamoto and the Dodgers are
tied with the Cubs at one at the top of
the third inning. Yamamoto has allowed a run in three hits,
but he has recorded five of the six outs he's
recorded so far on strikeouts. Also going on right now,
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the Oakland A's and Houston Astros tied to two. They're
in the bottom of the ninth enny, and Christian Walker
of the Diamondbacks has two home runs. Arizona leading with
Texas Rangers for nothing in the top.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Of the fourth.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Kysh Schwarber the Philly Said a major league record Tuesday
nine with his fourteenth home run leading off a game
this season, the record previously held by Alfonso Soriano. Trey
Turner later added two home runs as the Phillies beat
Tampa Bay nine to four, from their major league leading
eighty seventh victory of the season. Detroit's Kaider Montero a
complete game, three hit shutout on the tigers eleven nothing
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win over the Colorado Rockies. Michael Harris of the Braves
had two home runs and a twelve nothing win at Washington.
Yankees had just three hits at a three nothing loss
at home to the Kansas City Royals, Baltimore Cedric mullins
two home runs in a five to three victory over
the Red Sox at Fenway. You know, Jason and Mike,
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Speaker 4 (35:51):
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Speaker 2 (36:04):
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Speaker 1 (36:07):
That's Wes Netsman right, the farm report right from WKRP
would always have that.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
You just went until Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Oh the pork bellies. That God is my witness. I
thought turkeys could fly. Thank you. I appreciate it, My friend.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live the tirect
Dotcom studio. So there's two quarterbacks again who are closer,
way closer than you think to getting replaced. How about
coming up next, Mike and I break down the biggest
rule change in the NFL for Week one to tell
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you what it's going to look like going forward. Yeah,
we're telling you exactly how the kickoffs are going to
be going forward in the NFL. And it's not going
to go how you think that's next? Right here, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (36:58):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith's with My best friend
Mike Harmon Live Fromthetirack dot Com studios. And Uh, after
Week one of the NFL, now we sit back on Tuesday,
we can take a breath, digest what we saw after
one week and after seeing it across the league, I
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can tell you where the new NFL kickoff rule is
going to end up.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Okay, and it's pretty easy.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Uh. In the beginning, what did we say it was
going to be? Teams are going to be okay, giving
other teams the ballt the thirty yard line, right, we
don't want to mess around with it. The thirty yard
line is not that big a deal. We'll give you
the ball the thirty yard line, okay, it's it's if
you're there, it's okay. And that's by and large what
we saw. We did see one return for a score,
and that's going to make teams think more about, hey,
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let's just kick it deep and and they'll start with
the ball at the thirty. However, you're going to start
seeing some teams and board special teams coordinators are going
to try to tinker and see what they think can work.
And I have so much belief that this is what's
gonna wind up happening. Teams are gonna find out that
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if the kicker knuckleballs it over everybody's head, where the
ball lands somewhere after the thirty yard line, in between
the in the zone where the returner goes to get
the ball, right, they're gonna know that if we can
knuckleball the ball that way, we can either maybe get
a turnover where the ball is kicked or at the
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very worst, it skips into the end zone. But if
we kick it to where it bounces and the returner
feels he has to make a play on it, there's
not as much set up for hey kick left, it's
a left side return, kick, right, it's a right side
return kick, middle, middle return. All the different ways the
teams have of setting up their blocking on kickoff returns,
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you are putting the receiving team on the defensive and
if the worst case scenario is it skips into the
end zone and if you take over the thirty, but
there's gonna be the ball bouncing where it bounces right
to a returner, or it bounces off his hands, or
it bounces to a return to where he feels he
can make a play. And teams are gonna realize if
they do that, we can tackle this guy way before
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the thirty yard line. We can get him maybe before
he gets the twenty. And when you look at it
from that perspective of we feel really good that we
can tackle him because he's not able to do it.
He's got to just pick up the ball and look,
and it's a lot of chaos. If we know we
can do that, that's how we're gonna kick it, because
we would much rather them start at the eighteen yard
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line than at the thirty yard line. Right. Once teams
feel confident they can do that, that's how all the
kicks are gonna go. They're gonna be knuckleball kicks. They're
gonna be difficult to field, and that will soon be
the norm for how teams go through it because they
know they can continue to hold the upper hand if
that's how they do it, the whole kicking it high
and trying to time it do No, that's a recipe
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for disaster, because a guy can can burst through a
couple of blocks and all of a sudden the thirty
yard line, he's home free. It's gonna be the knuckleball
is what it's gonna be, and you're gonna see a
lot of teams do it. You're gonna see a lot
of kickers try to do work on that during the
during practice. Hey, I'm working on kicking it this way
to get it bounced, to get it to stay in
bounce and kind of maybe go dead around the ten
or five yard line. That's what kickers are going to
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do now, to try to do this as a season
goes on, that's where gonna see the kickoff go. I
guarantee it.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
I appreciate your your optimism that it becomes that nuanced.
I think most teams line up with what we saw
Week one, the prediction would be the twenty eight or
twenty nine yard line would be the average starting spot.
Guess what twenty eight point four, let's go fifty seven returns.
You had one touchdown and then of course you had
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the Bears have a good old Velis Jones have it
bounce off his knee and chaos ensues. So yeah, perhaps
perhaps you get cute. And I think when you're down
in a game and try and come back mode, you know,
since you can't do an on side kick, So like
say the Jets, you're giving up that six straight possessions,
seventh straight possessions, and then you finally get on the board. Yeah,
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you're probably gonna start getting creative and trying to make
something happen there. But I think the vast majority, yeah,
we're still gonna see the boring yep, trot it out
to the thirty. It's not penalty because they still got
to move the ball. Even with super tow out there,
they still gotta move at forty yards to get a
good field goal attempt.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
No, it's gonna take a little while, but that's how
you're gonna segue it through because Tina's no, we don't
want to take a chance. Don't want to take a chance.
Oh wait this really works. Hey wait a minute. We
can do this now, trust me.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Just don you remember the one bounce that gets true
into the guy's hand. One guy, he gone, Coming up next.
Two more quarterbacks, two more big stories. Keep it right here,
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be well. Two big stories to hit you with right
out of the gate. First of all, hashtag debate twenty
twenty four. Are things really okay for the Jets following
their loss last night? I say that's Mike Carmon. You
have one minute. Go ahead, you have one minute. You
tell me things aren't good for the Jets A day after.
Go ahead, go ahead, you go one minute. Go now
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you have fifty five seconds.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Your quarterback proves laterally worse than I do.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Now fit stop, that is a lie. He doesn't crack.
That is I've seen you move side to side, you
sip over like that bleeping.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Bear compared to that right now? Do you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I'm a dancing bear. I'm just picture you with the
with like the music, like the Russian Christmas music.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Normally that look, if you provoke, that bear's gonna attack,
So you better be careful. That's what I was talking.
It's called the offensive lineman. Be it be a good
dancing bear, Get lateral and keep your opponent in front
of you. I can do that Aaron Rodgers, not some
mobile last night. So that's a little concerning your defense
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getting runned over. But again we.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Talked you say run over? I did did you really see?
Where did you go to school? Where'd you go to
the specifically, where'd you go? Where'd you go to school at?
For where you go to college? Chats where'd you go to?
What you went to? Where'd you go to school?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
What's to Northwestern? And here's the thing, No, no, no,
but listen to me.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
To the Northwestern They're not gonna learn English very.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, you're gonna learn English brilliantly, and then you're gonna
recognize that the English you used in school doesn't matter,
because you can use words however you want, and they'll
add them to the dictionary anyway, use them improperly enough,
they'll just say okay.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Especially on the SATs, I hear they're really leaning on that. Yeah,
make up whatever words you want to say. Well, you,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You want a lot of schools. You don't even have
to take them anymore, So what the hell is the difference?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
No, I think it's coming back now. I think it's
retro like the nineties. I think SATs are coming back,
making a comeback. Yeah, they're making a comeback. Man, SATs
had their heyday in the eighties. Now I think the
SAT is coming back. We judge people getting.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Into say yeah, so the last eight seconds of my minute.
You do have a pretty soft schedule coming up these
next three weeks before that showdown date, would Sam Darnold.
So yeah, it's it's there's positivity to be had, but
tempered optimism.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now, let me just say this before we get into
a big story out of baseball. That's it's kind of
a shocker and exactly what one World Series hopeful absolutely needs. Look,
today was a day for the Jets to get mad. Right.
Aaron Rodgers had the big headline of the day. He
went on Pat McAfee show and said, if you want
to jump off the bandwagon, go ahead, but don't try
to get back on. He is supremely confident that things
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will work for the Jets after their loss last night.
And I'll tell you, look, the biggest thing everything else
we've talked about. Look, we know how bad of a
head coach Robert Sala is, right, we know the defense
came out crappy last night and got worked by the
forty nine ers eight drives in a row for points.
I understand all of that. But Robert Sala actually said
something really good today and very precient when he said,
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owen one this year feels like better than one and
zero last year. And he's right because death Jets beat
the Bills last year in the opening game, but they
lost for the Sea was over.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I know the New York Post couldn't resist.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, but you lost a road game against a team
that was in the Super Bowl. It's okay. And it
goes to show you and this is why again the
day after when I picked myself up after that big loss,
is that everything really is okay because everything comes down
to is Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers, if he is that
will cover up everything. Again, I told you it's a
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huge deal. You're covering up everything, all the ills and
organization has trading for a guy that is the only
remaining holdout in the NFL. Because of course he's the
only remaining holdout in the NFL. All these things, all
these things that we know, you're asking Aaron Rodgers cover
up all of this, cover all of this stuff. And
if he can do it, everything is going to be fine.
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So when he feels good, if Aaron Rodgers feels good,
getting passed last night was a huge mental hurt for him, right,
That's the biggest thing that we haven't talked about. Yes, Rogers,
the guy who's played twenty years in the NFL, never
had a situation like this, playing four snaps, being out
for the year, being asked to be the savior coming back,
there's going to be that mental hurdle you need to
get by in that first game back. It's not just
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going to be one hundred percent. We're going out one
hundred percent. It's a game plan here and win the game.
Some of it is and it's just natural for athletes.
I have to know that I can do it. After
last night, I know we can do it. Did he
look okay throwing the football? Yes, look like the same
guy throwing the football. Was he as mobile as I
would like him to be. No, but it didn't look
like he was a statue in the pocket. No, he's
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something that's going to come back to him a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
He looked like an Olympic sprinter compared to Kirk Cousins. Yeah,
Kirk Cousins looked like the quarterback he used to have
on the electric football that just had to stand there.
Everybody else running around in circle quarterback.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
He doesn't move. Just touch him, he's not moving.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Take the shotgun snap and then just pivot left or right.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Do I think that he's gonna be more mobile? He
even said yes, I felt good. A lot of it
is testing what he's accomplishing. No matter what you do,
you're gonna get in that point. Boy, am I running
left here? What's gonna happen? Oh? I'm okay. And then
eventually you're not thinking about it, you're gonna get on
the same page. You haven't had any game tenth a
game plan in game time with your receivers, and you
had some of the joint practices, but nothing replaces the reps.
(06:22):
I am feeling good, I'm feeling not. I don't feel
bad about last night. I'm feeling just as good today
as I was about an hour after the game. During
the game, different story after the game, a little bit different.
But I will throw this out there. Ask me again
after the Tennessee Patriots Broncos run that we're on right now,
and we'll see if the answers the same. If we're
(06:42):
three and one, everything is good. They're two and two
or one and three, Hey, the answer is a lot different.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
No, that's it. It becomes a burn it down scenario.
And we talked about it last night. Find a podcast
wherever you will. But to do the summarization here, it's
a Yeah, you played the defending NFC champs, played a
squad that had everybody back. Now were they playing at
full tilt? No, obviously, McCaffrey's not there, didn't matter. Jordan
(07:08):
Mason was fantastic. Brandon Ayuk a couple of balls he
would normally catch. He didn't, but it didn't matter because
super Tow was out there and you just slammed his
head as far as you needed to. As far as
Moody goes twenty one field goals in week one from
fifty yards or more in the NFL, So take that
one as you go through and think about how the
(07:28):
field position game changes so much more with these kickers
these days. But for a number of teams, right, a
lot of debate about the Chargers and their win and
running the football. Couple of huge runs from JK. Dobbins
maybe skew what they're doing, but doesn't take away from
what the mo was. Remember Justin Herbert was in a
walking boot all of the offseason, right, and he was
(07:51):
hardly a training camp at all. And if you have
the opportunity to go run people over, guess what, you
go run people over. He's still trying to get used
to all these new faces in the receiver room because
the old, tried and true guys they're gone, so you know,
and we can go on down the line. There's so
many teams that for Week one you're just trying to
(08:12):
get out unscathed. If you got away with a victory,
you're feeling better like my beloved Chicago Bears. You gotta win?
Was it pretty Hell? No, No, it's got plenty of
room for improvement, right, and we'll talk about them as
the show goes on. But it's just the idea. With
your jets watching it yesterday with you, you were calm,
and I actually had a couple of folks text me going,
is he okay? Does he care? Is he just focused
(08:33):
on the match? I go, well, early on, Ryan, a
little bit of anxiousness and you were shuffling in your
seat a little bit, but then you got run over.
So after a while it became all right, I'm resigned
to the fact that this is going to happen. Now
that touchdown passed the first to Lazard the free play
when should have been whistled dead because dude was nine
(08:53):
yards in the backfield and coming off the edge, but
they didn't do it. It's a free play, it's a touchdown.
The graphic was ready as we talked about and everything else.
That's fine, it counts, but you didn't have any hope
that you were suddenly going to go on a tear
and win that game. So you were able to measure
your emotions, and I was proud of you because otherwise
you might have been banging your head on the desk.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
If it happened. It talked to me after the Titans
indoor Broncos game.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
If Will Levis's shuffle board and some touchdown passes against it,
now we got problems. If Tony Pollard's running amok like
Jordan Mason did last night, yeah, it will not be pretty,
and we'll make sure to zoom call you so we
at least get a snapshot of that for the show.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Look at bow Nick's going right at Sauce Gardner the
entire first half exclusively. He's got four touchdowns. Yeah, so
t but right now.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Sauce would need to be within four yards of the
line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
That is that You're right about that? Yeah, that is true.
So again, I am fine after I know, thank you
for all your thoughts. I am fine after last night.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Meanwhile, I think they were hoping you would lose your
mind though.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, no, but it was, but you know it, Look
it was. It was a little bit and then I
reeled it back, and then I understood that, okay, because
I was never all in on this game like big
because it's if it was opening up at home against
the Patriots, where a game like you kind of have
to have it, and you were that bad, I would be,
oh my goodness, the sky is falling. But on the
road against forty nine Ers, Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Didn't you produce five touchdowns for Rogers?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Though? I did? I did? Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And I remember that from your Twitter timeline.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I'm going to travel to the Earth that uh, where
that happened on. So I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna
make it's not Earth six one six obviously the ten
thousand and five, the one that Deadpool got Wolverine from.
Maybe I'll go there. Just make sure you're regenerate. How
long does it take you to regenerate? What I think
of all the lines in that movie, that's the funniest one,
(10:46):
I really do. I think that's that's the one I
laughed at the most regenerate as the blood is coming
out of his mouth. Regenerate. Uh, But a big moment
major League Baseball now, And I look, I know that
I'm don't want to be prisoner of the moment here,
but at this point where we sit right now on
September tenth, I don't know that there is a bigger moment,
(11:08):
bigger game that could tell you about the rest of
the season than what we're seeing in Los Angeles right now. Right,
first of all, you have a great pitching matchup show
to Imonaga, who has been phenomenal this year and making
his return to the Dodgers. Three hundred million dollar man,
Yoshinoba Yamamoto already struck out the first batter. This is
going to tell you exactly how big a favorite or
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threat the Dodgers are. To win the World Series. They
need Yamamoto to be good, and there's no second place,
there's no alternative because they have nobody else. Right now,
you have Jack Flaherty, who is a nice starter, right
and he's a guy that's built for the moment. He
is tough. He is your game one starter for the Dodgers.
Outside of that, you have no one. Kershaw's out, Gavin
(11:54):
Stone is out, Tyler Glass now who knows, you don't
have anybody else? Walker Bull Look, he gives up five
months out.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah, in ineffective and can't get past the fourth.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
If Yama Moto can come back over the next three weeks,
he's gonna pitch about forty to fifty pitches tonight, I
think is gonna be the limit for him. If he
comes back over the next three weeks and shows I
am a three hundred million dollar man. This is why
you got me. Hey, I'll feel great about the Dodgers
of the playoffs because you'll shorten your rotation. You'll do
what you need to Flarerty and Yama Moto, and that's great.
(12:25):
But if you don't get if they don't get Yama Moto,
just think about this for a second. Let's say the
first round of the playoffs, they're gonna play the Mets,
all right, and the Mets pitch, and the Mets starting
rotation has the advantage over the Dodgers if the Mets
won through three or Sean Manea and David Peterson you
had a bad night tonight, but it's his first bad
game in like twelve starts and Louis Severino against Flaherty
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and who knows, Like that's what it is for the
like the team that squeaks in is gonna have a
huge advantage over the Dodgers in their rotation when they
play in the playoffs. So the Dodgers are either gonna
stay a big oct over favorite and Yamamoto is the guy,
or they're gonna be just one of anybody else. Hope
they have to outslug everyone. Everybody's eyes in baseball is
on this game. How good is Yamamoto? How does he look?
(13:10):
Is he still strong? Is he still throwing the ball?
Really well? What's he going to what's he going to
be like bouncing back? This is the biggest story in
baseball as far as winning the World Series and favorites
over the next three weeks. Yes, we have Otani has
pursued of fifty to fifty and all the big play races,
but you're talking about play. This is the biggest story
in baseball the next three weeks. Well, that's just it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
It's the billion dollar squad, you know, too big to fail,
all of those cliches that we threw in and you
and I as the season began, you're excited to see
how it plays out, right, particularly when Yamamoto comes over
six and two two nine two era strikeout raid everything
in his fourteen starts. But been on the shelf a while.
And so the final couple of weeks and this is
(13:52):
the matchup made in heaven. Cubs come in and you
get in Minaga, who's been phenomenal on the other side.
So this pitching matchup, I mean, it's just a really
great opportunity if you were able to get out to
the ballyard here at Dodger Stadium today, fortunately for me
in the Fox Sports radio studios and watching it pitch
for pitch and covering it with you here, blessed to
(14:13):
do that. But yeah, it's all the the expectations of
this squad, because remember when they started, they had too
many starters. It would be it was however, we pair them.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Down, we got twelve, we got Colfax coming in for
a couple of ins. You get still, you can still
they'll still throw inside on you. He'll give them the
chin music and throw outside install. How's that going on?
I mean, that's where you're at.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
But it was so many and now you're at you're
on pace with all of the things we talked about.
If the fifty to fifty and other guys going forty
to forty to no fanfare at all, is the fact
that you're gonna have it. You're on pace to have
five Dodger relievers finished with fifty appearances. That's a lot
of work over the course of a season campaign and
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and really the big biggest question for any of these
returning starters is what kind of strength you got? Can
you give me six? Can you steal me a six inning? Hell,
sometimes it's been can you steal me five? But a
call third strike sends the Cubs down here in the
first Dodgers coming up the bat. So good movement on
his pitches and good velocity thus far for Yamamoto as
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he gets checked by the umpire.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
No bigger story in baseball than how good he is
in the next three weeks. It's a three hundred million
dollar guy. Either we can win the World Series or
we're gonna lose to the Mets. Well, because think about it,
or the Braves are there. I would think that the
Mets and Braves are tied to or we'll lose to
the Brazs. It's how it can go.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Well, but that's just it, right, Some of the poison
pens already out here in Los Angeles, and Yamamoto one
of those guys that, unfortunately he becomes one of the
the guys that wears it because of the size of
the contract. Right, this is what we do in sports,
especially within the individual cities. It's we either don't spend
enough or they spent a lot of money, and this
(15:53):
is what we got dot dot dot And for Dodger fans,
that's been the story of the last decade. And looking
at the way the squad rolls right now. Yeah, how
healthy can you get with your rotation? Ready for that
round one matchup?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Exit out about a fresca exit swollen dome. The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live from
the ti rack dot com studios. Coming up next, we
got more NFL. We told you last night and we've
been telling you for a while. Deshaun Watson is eventually
going to not be the starting quarterback for the Browns,
and that day is coming sooner than you think. We
want to check it out. We put it up off
(16:28):
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Speaker 1 (18:18):
Alex Tyser now just playing songs for his girlfriend on
the radio. That's all he's doing.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Oh no, baby, this is for me.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
That's all I'm doing. Now.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I'm sorry, this is me. I love Mickey.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Why can't I could picture you doing this at karaoke?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Oh I could kill it.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I could actually picture you doing this a karaoke.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Invite me one time.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Harmon does karaoke every Friday night.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, I've been knowing to do Hot to Go a
couple of times, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
But here's here's the thing, though, I think it would
be a very eclectic night, like because Tysher would do
this and Harmon would do war Pigs. So I mean
you definitely have to have a bit of a wide
variety in music if you want to go to karaoke
with the two of you.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, but that's the key though, right, I mean we
get we draw everybody in because they may have never
heard his songs. And I guarant damntee a lot of
folks haven't heard what I'm bringing to the table. Hey, touch,
and I got moves you've never seen. So I mean,
you add it all together, it is one big night
out toutcher.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I need you to just go and the whole time,
and then I'm gonna come in and sing. Okay, but
just keep it, don't stop, just keep doing the It's
gonna be like that scene in School of Rock when
Jack Black is teaching everybody how to do smoke on
the water and then Zach you come in with a
face melter. But Freddie, you could give me the.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I don't resemble that character at all.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I'd love to see that.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I have never had anybody compare me to the electricity
and effervescence of Jack Black. No, no, no, that's never occurred.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Give me a little I don't even know who you
are just do it. Boy. Guy in the purple shorts
is really amped up tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
He's really getting after it.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Let's go so again. Big baseball game of the night.
Imanaga and Yamamoto in LA. Both of them get through
the first inning unscathed. Yoshidoba Yamamoto his first start in
a while. Look, the biggest story, playoff story in baseball
the next three weeks. If he's good, Dodgers are okay.
If not, they can lose in the first round. And
(20:17):
so far his pitches look pretty good. He's only going
to throw about fifty ish pitches tonight. But again, this
is the biggest story in baseball for the next three weeks.
You got John Paul Morosi stopping buy less than an
hour talk about it with us. But coming off of
the week that was in the NFL, I can't remember
as many conversations about quarterbacks losing their jobs as I
(20:42):
have after Week one. After this year. Now I get that,
and hey, in the world, now everything ramps up. Now, right,
everything is much more earlier than we expect it to be.
You know, right now, you know a player used to
be able to get drafted the NFL, a first round
pick and get four years to prove that he could
be a franchise quarterback. Now you get like a year
and three starts. Yeah, so I get I understand that. Hey,
well you know this guy, Give this guy some time,
(21:03):
Give this guy some time.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah. I'm still on board with Brady and Hasselbeck and
a bunch of other folks that you know, subscribe to
that theory of things. Yeah, but that's not the reality
in the world we're living in. No, it is much
to you know, even though the data suggests you probably
should go back to a simpler time. I mean Tops now, right,
the program that they do where they commemorate big events
(21:25):
in sports. They just put out a card commemorating the
fact that Caleb Williams was the first number one pick
to win his opening start since two thousand and two. Okay,
that should tell you something. Yeah, that, David Carr is
the answer to that trivia question.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
It's a long time, man, that's a lot of number
one picks that loss right.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Out of the jump.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Now, normally you go to a terrible team and not
one coming off a seven win season. But the point being,
that's a long damn time, and maybe you want to
look at things a little differently.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, but look, I mean it shows you how hard
it is, right, I'll show you how hard it is.
It's a big deal. But no, remember Sam Donald won.
Remember Sam Donald one is is uh his first game?
He's so he was the.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
First numb He wasn't the number one dark right, Darnald was.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The last rookie quarterback to win his first start back on.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Twenty eighteen, and Williams was the last number one.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
My goodness, that is It's just this that shows you
how tough it is to come into the league.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Sam, Sam, We'll.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Get to Sam darl trust me. I've been waiting to
talk about Sam Donald. But look last night. Look, the
Deshaun Watson era is coming to a close in Cleveland.
It won't be more than a couple of games before
he hits the bench. Right, that's just how it goes.
They're not going to sit and go through this forever.
They'll figure out the money at the end of the year.
And there's always a way to figure out the money.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Now, you have another lawsuit, Jason, so contracts, as we
talked about a little bit yesterday, but you know, more
details coming out on that. Certainly not not going to
be an easy end there.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
No, there's when you talk about unforeseen things that can happen.
Uh No, one takes that into account. There are ways
to make the money work. I don't know what the
way is, but they'll find a way. They'll find whether
it is we have the you have these these these
new lawsuits hanging over you, whatever kind of language is
in your contract, let's figure out a buyout. Let's do this.
(23:17):
Let there'll be a way to do it. The salary
cap is going up. You can always figure out the money.
So if Deshaun Watson only has a couple of games left,
there's a couple other quarterbacks that also are staring down
the barrel of being backups. We'll do We'll do the
easy one first, Okay, because I don't think there's any
doubt that Daniel Jones is nearing the end of his
run with the Giants, right, What did I say? One
(23:39):
of the Big Bowl predictions we made a few weeks ago,
about a month ago, Tommy DeVito will be starting a
quarterback for the Giants. By Week eight. They will play
and start all three of their quarterbacks this year. They'll
start him, They'll start Drew Locke and Daniel Jones will
start for another couple of weeks, but things are already
so bad. Just think about this. After week one he
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was boos after the second pass of the game. So
you know there's no rope at all from any of
the fans, right. Brian Dable already has had to talk
about the fact that I'm not benching Daniel Jones, and
that's not happening when you have to do that after
week one? Just where are you at with the confidence
of your players and your team. Malik Neighbors, who has
played all of one game is a New York Giant,
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just one game. One game, is asked about Daniel Jones,
what did you think and instead of giving the answer
of hey, Daniel Jones is a great quarterback, we left
some plays out there, it's hey, I don't know, I
go out for passes, he.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Said, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Wow, I don't know, man, No, I don't know. I
can't just say the right And it's not like Malik Neighbors,
as someone that's never had a microphone in front of
him before, he's talked to a lot of people. He
knows what it means to back up a quarterback. People
know how to say nothing right. Even the rookies coming
into the league know. When I'm asked this question, I
say nothing. I say something like, hey, it was a
(24:55):
rough game for all of us. We can all do better.
I'm looking forward to this week. We're gonna batten it down,
will be better. I'm excited about that. But instead all
I do I don't know what's happened. I don't know
what's going on. Hey, my name's Bennett and I ain't
in it. He's got another few weeks and then it'll
be Drew Locke and then he'll stink and it'll be
Tommy Cutletz. Because we've told you the Giants are tanking
(25:17):
this year to tank, and they're tay. They tanked their
Week one. They made Sam Donald look good, which should
show you this is the level of tanking they were at.
They were able to make Sam Donald look good. Giants
will play three quarterbacks, They'll start three quarterbacks not due
to injury.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
By week nine, I would say this, they're all the
greatest actors ever and they should be hired for Hollywood
films coming out of that offseason. Hard knock, because they
all sure as hell seem like they were losing their
minds over some of the decisions they had to make,
including the owner for that matter, going back to Saquon Barkley.
But for Daniel Jones, he's just a curious case, right
(25:50):
because he's coming off in ACL and gets absolutely no grace.
Micah Parsons even pleading for him. I don't know if
that's just because he wants to face him and sack
him twelve times, but going the man was down to
an ACL just nine ten months ago, But no grace
for him. For the old quarterbacks that we still like
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the names and as you'd like to say the back
of their football cards, it's like, oh, yeah, they're gonna
be fine. It's just a matter of time. They'll be okay.
Daniel jokes neck injury ACL, coming back a lot of
new component parts and getting back into the sitting Nah,
forget it. He stakes he's a bum moving god. And
I'm not saying he was great before he got hurt
(26:32):
last year. I am not doing that. And certainly we've
all seen the graphic the number of turnovers, the number
of interception, and that was other than Will Levis, the
worst play of Week one of the National Football League, right,
the interception touchdown that he threw, and he's got more
of those than he has touchdown passes, you know, the
last couple of years. And I get that, but there's
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absolutely no grace for him getting back on a field.
Whereas everybody else. It seems like we lined up excuses
wherever we could.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I exit out about a Fresca exit, swollen dome, the
Jason smithsho with Mike Carmon live from the tyrac dot
Com Studios. Now the other guy, that's a little more difficult,
but I'll tell you what it's gonna happen. Is Kirk Cousins.
I hate to say I told you so, but it
doesn't matter what kind of money you're making. When you
have a guy that you trade, that you draft high
in the first round, who looks really good in camp,
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you are a bridge quarterback. You're a forty million dollar
bridge quarterback. But guess what, You're a bridge quarterback. And
the worst case scenario for the Falcons is also their
best case scenario. Because Kirk Cousins looked awful on Sunday.
The whole offense looked awful when I watched them trying
to run their hurry up offense. Near the end, I
felt like nobody knew what plays were going to be called.
(27:48):
They're all looking back at everybody's looking back at Cousins
at the line of scrimmage, like what's going on? What
are we doing here? Like normally, when that happens, guys
get up, they get in there, they get in their
their stance, and they're ready to go. But I just
felt like none of them were on the same page.
And to hear Raheem Morris with a very telling statement
following the game, Kirk cousins struggles were not injury related.
(28:10):
That is an alarm bell after Week one. They're not
gonna sit back a team with expectations. The Falcons went out,
they did all the crazy stuff in the draft, getting
Michael Pennix junior at Kirk Cousins, they got better, They
fired a coach, brought in a new coach. Hey, we're
not gonna sit here in this division with all this
talent that people keep saying we have, How great Bjon
Robinson is, how great Kyle Pitch is supposed to be,
(28:32):
how great Drake London is? Oh, how great? And we're
not gonna lose Kirk Cousins does not have a lot
of time to get things going because eventually, and I
mean by I'm thinking week six is or so if
Kirk Cousins, and maybe sooner because you can imagine how
the calls are gonna grow. Because Michael Pennix Junior looked
good in the preseason. He didn't look overmatched. All the
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players said, what a great ball he throws. He carries
himself differently. They're excited about this kid and he could
be special. Now, am I concerned a little bit about
plays when they kind of get off kilter, which happens
in the NFL like sixty percent of the time. How
is he gonna be when something is not made to
order for him? Because that's kind of been his career
at ed Washington was when when he's able to get
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time and throw, he was great, but you pressure and
move him out of the pocket, Suddenly he's just a guy.
Michigan showed you that in the National Championship Game. But
by and large, they're all excited about him, and he's
got a play, and the money for Kirk Cousins does
not matter anymore because you have both of these guys
on the team. You fit him under the salary cap,
and it's gonna be a case of, just like we
said with Deshaun Watson last night, you replace him with
(29:36):
a better quarterback in Jamis Winston or Brian Sipe, whoever
you want to And I keep going back to Brian
Steche you do, you like that, and you figure out
the money in the off season, it'll be the same thing.
Michael Pennick Junior will step in and they'll figure out
Kirk Cousins at the deadline or in the off season
when they want to move on. So that's absolutely closer
than you think. The money does not matter. He is
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a bridge quarterback to get you to Michael Pennick Junior.
Couple of starts like this, and that's gonna happen too well.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
At the end, it's all dollar cost averaging. And with
Cousins and with the Falcons, you know, again, I put
the star on it because again, not a lot of
reps together, and that's by choice, right by design, and
what they built into their preseason for Raheem Morris kind
of telling as almost to say, that's not my guy,
that's not my choice, but this is the way it
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has to go. But you look at their schedule coming up,
Jason on the road at Philadelphia home against the Chiefs,
home against the Saints. I look, the Saints beat the
hell out of the Panthers, but you know, their defense
probably is going to be decent. I don't think their
offense is any great shakes, but either way, not an
easy game, divisional game. And then you get the Buccaneers,
(30:48):
our Buccaneers and Baker Mayfield, and then you go all
the way to Week six. That's when you get a
road tilt against the Carolina Panthers. Maybe you got a
month and remember er dollar cost averaging Kirk dollars and
what Penix is making as a rookie, not that itcounts
against the salary cap the same way. We understand that,
(31:10):
but it's you know, the rookie pool and all that
fun kind of stuff. But when we get down to it, yeah,
they're not beholding him. There's a lot of change made
in that in that coaching staff and on that squad
and Michael Pennix Junior. If they think that he can
push the offense forward, they will. For Captain Kirk, the
mobility thing is the biggest thing for me. If you're
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not gonna be able to extend plays at least a
little bit. Not that he was captain mobility, but my goodness,
he was stiff.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Well and here's the and here's the other part of it.
If all I don't why would that be coming? Why
would that be coming? You know, no matter what, after
this year, you're going to Michael Pennix junior. Right, And
you have to be able to move on from Kirk Cousins.
The longer you let him play if he's not good,
the harder it's going to be to trade him, and
the less you're gonna get in return. So that's why
this is gonna be a quicker trigger. Hey, Kirk might
(32:01):
not be right. We cease and you're gonna see the story. Hey,
we don't think he's quite right yet, and rush himself
back from injury, and Cousins will go along with the timeline. Look,
we're gonna go to Michael Pennick Junior. Hey, we're sorry
it didn't work out, but let's make sure you're still
someone that teams want. So you keep his value at
its highest in the offseason, because if he plays nine
(32:22):
weeks and he stinks, what are you getting for him?
How are you able to trade him? In the off
season less you're eating so much money. But if you
do it afterward yet, but if you do it after
three or four weeks and you say, hey, he's not
quite right. Something is wrong, and that's the narrative you
further and then you go to Michael Pennick Junior. Well
then suddenly, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we believe that that
(32:43):
you know, Kirk is now healthy. He wasn't really comfortable.
There's a lot of things happening, and we're more we
feel better about absorbing that salary and trading away whatever
draft picks you're gonna get. So they need to be
able to preserve his value. And the longer he plays,
if he's not good, that's not gonna work for them.
So that's why it's going to be a quicker hook
than you think for him, and Peedick Junior will get
(33:03):
in there.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
To play the other Bart was. I mean, look, and
the Steelers are pretty good defense, right, whatever we think
about the offense, they're good enough to be dangerous defensively
so long as TJ. Watts on the field, and you
watched he terrorized them this week. But for a couple
of penalties, he would have had a monster day. But
you're looking at ziggy. You know, when you talk about
Arthur Blank, he's eighty one. We talk about the mortality
(33:27):
of Jerry Jones, and I got a win now kind
of thing. They're in Atlanta and they kind of got
the same mentality, which is why they went heavy in
for Kirk Cousins and then Michael Pennick Junior fell into
their lap. So now we see how quickly they pull
that band aid off.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Time now
to find out about a guy who just yanks band
aids off him, whether he's got a cut or not.
It's Isaac Lohenkron. He's got what's trended.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Actually, it's surprisingly lucrative because pharmaceutical companies actually pay you
to tell out their new band aids. Unfortunately, you do
have to sign a waiver. So that has had several
undesirable side effects. A desirable what do you mean by that? Now,
I'm just kidding, A desirable side effect. The Los Angeles
(34:16):
Dodgers getting Yoshinobu Yamamoto back on the mound for the
first time since June fifteenth. He'd been out with a
right triceps injury. Right now, Yamamoto and the Dodgers are
tied with the Cubs at one at the top of
the third inning. Yamamoto has allowed a run in three hits,
but he has recorded five of the six outs he's
recorded so far on strikeouts. Also going on right now,
(34:40):
the Oakland A's and Houston Astros tied to two. They're
in the bottom of the ninth enny, and Christian Walker
of the Diamondbacks has two home runs. Arizona leading with
Texas Rangers for nothing in the top.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Of the fourth.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Kysh Schwarber the Philly Said a major league record Tuesday
nine with his fourteenth home run leading off a game
this season, the record previously held by Alfonso Soriano. Trey
Turner later added two home runs as the Phillies beat
Tampa Bay nine to four, from their major league leading
eighty seventh victory of the season. Detroit's Kaider Montero a
complete game, three hit shutout on the tigers eleven nothing
(35:12):
win over the Colorado Rockies. Michael Harris of the Braves
had two home runs and a twelve nothing win at Washington.
Yankees had just three hits at a three nothing loss
at home to the Kansas City Royals, Baltimore Cedric mullins
two home runs in a five to three victory over
the Red Sox at Fenway. You know, Jason and Mike,
(35:32):
I actually have a live sponsor read to do right now.
It's it's for it's actually a new it's kind of
a it's a farm information thing, but it's sponsored. So
why don't you guys relax and maybe take off your
headphones for like just ten seconds while I do this
farm information read?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
So thank you.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Also tonight, the New York Mets lost north of the
border to the Toronto Blue Jays six to two. Chicago
White Sox lost at home to Cleveland. That Secretary of
Agriculture could not be reached for comments.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
OK, my guys, I did the farms.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
That's Wes Netsman right, the farm report right from WKRP
would always have that.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
You just went until Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Oh the pork bellies. That God is my witness. I
thought turkeys could fly. Thank you. I appreciate it, My friend.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live the tirect
Dotcom studio. So there's two quarterbacks again who are closer,
way closer than you think to getting replaced. How about
coming up next, Mike and I break down the biggest
rule change in the NFL for Week one to tell
(36:34):
you what it's going to look like going forward. Yeah,
we're telling you exactly how the kickoffs are going to
be going forward in the NFL. And it's not going
to go how you think that's next? Right here, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (36:58):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith's with My best friend
Mike Harmon Live Fromthetirack dot Com studios. And Uh, after
Week one of the NFL, now we sit back on Tuesday,
we can take a breath, digest what we saw after
one week and after seeing it across the league, I
(37:19):
can tell you where the new NFL kickoff rule is
going to end up.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Okay, and it's pretty easy.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Uh. In the beginning, what did we say it was
going to be? Teams are going to be okay, giving
other teams the ballt the thirty yard line, right, we
don't want to mess around with it. The thirty yard
line is not that big a deal. We'll give you
the ball the thirty yard line, okay, it's it's if
you're there, it's okay. And that's by and large what
we saw. We did see one return for a score,
and that's going to make teams think more about, hey,
(37:50):
let's just kick it deep and and they'll start with
the ball at the thirty. However, you're going to start
seeing some teams and board special teams coordinators are going
to try to tinker and see what they think can work.
And I have so much belief that this is what's
gonna wind up happening. Teams are gonna find out that
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if the kicker knuckleballs it over everybody's head, where the
ball lands somewhere after the thirty yard line, in between
the in the zone where the returner goes to get
the ball, right, they're gonna know that if we can
knuckleball the ball that way, we can either maybe get
a turnover where the ball is kicked or at the
(38:37):
very worst, it skips into the end zone. But if
we kick it to where it bounces and the returner
feels he has to make a play on it, there's
not as much set up for hey kick left, it's
a left side return, kick, right, it's a right side
return kick, middle, middle return. All the different ways the
teams have of setting up their blocking on kickoff returns,
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you are putting the receiving team on the defensive and
if the worst case scenario is it skips into the
end zone and if you take over the thirty, but
there's gonna be the ball bouncing where it bounces right
to a returner, or it bounces off his hands, or
it bounces to a return to where he feels he
can make a play. And teams are gonna realize if
they do that, we can tackle this guy way before
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the thirty yard line. We can get him maybe before
he gets the twenty. And when you look at it
from that perspective of we feel really good that we
can tackle him because he's not able to do it.
He's got to just pick up the ball and look,
and it's a lot of chaos. If we know we
can do that, that's how we're gonna kick it, because
we would much rather them start at the eighteen yard
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line than at the thirty yard line. Right. Once teams
feel confident they can do that, that's how all the
kicks are gonna go. They're gonna be knuckleball kicks. They're
gonna be difficult to field, and that will soon be
the norm for how teams go through it because they
know they can continue to hold the upper hand if
that's how they do it, the whole kicking it high
and trying to time it do No, that's a recipe
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for disaster, because a guy can can burst through a
couple of blocks and all of a sudden the thirty
yard line, he's home free. It's gonna be the knuckleball
is what it's gonna be, and you're gonna see a
lot of teams do it. You're gonna see a lot
of kickers try to do work on that during the
during practice. Hey, I'm working on kicking it this way
to get it bounced, to get it to stay in
bounce and kind of maybe go dead around the ten
or five yard line. That's what kickers are going to
(40:26):
do now, to try to do this as a season
goes on, that's where gonna see the kickoff go. I
guarantee it.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
I appreciate your your optimism that it becomes that nuanced.
I think most teams line up with what we saw
Week one, the prediction would be the twenty eight or
twenty nine yard line would be the average starting spot.
Guess what twenty eight point four, let's go fifty seven returns.
You had one touchdown and then of course you had
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the Bears have a good old Velis Jones have it
bounce off his knee and chaos ensues. So yeah, perhaps
perhaps you get cute. And I think when you're down
in a game and try and come back mode, you know,
since you can't do an on side kick, So like
say the Jets, you're giving up that six straight possessions,
seventh straight possessions, and then you finally get on the board. Yeah,
(41:13):
you're probably gonna start getting creative and trying to make
something happen there. But I think the vast majority, yeah,
we're still gonna see the boring yep, trot it out
to the thirty. It's not penalty because they still got
to move the ball. Even with super tow out there,
they still gotta move at forty yards to get a
good field goal attempt.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
No, it's gonna take a little while, but that's how
you're gonna segue it through because Tina's no, we don't
want to take a chance. Don't want to take a chance.
Oh wait this really works. Hey wait a minute. We
can do this now, trust me.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Just don you remember the one bounce that gets true
into the guy's hand. One guy, he gone, Coming up next.
Two more quarterbacks, two more big stories. Keep it right here,
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