August 6, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike react to ESPN acquiring NFL Network/Red Zone. And they tell you how Shedeur Sanders is going to play in the Browns preseason opener!
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about that. No baseball games tonight. But I thought you
(00:58):
were okay, I thought you were better cancer. You tried
to sell it on Twitter at how about a Fresco.
You tried to sell it to me.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's like you were workshop against Like the speech Clooney
gives when he's trying to convince Brad Pitt to undergo
the heist.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
No, games are all canceled, all cancer. Hey, this one.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Time you have the opportunity and you could take the house,
and did I rush it? Yeah, that was the whole thing.
It's like, oh, you know, we had hope. But then
with all of this, you know, I really should be
thankful of where they are.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Like that's loser talk. No, no, no baseball tonight. Just
so you know, no baseball tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I heard it.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Steve's update, very emphatic. No no, no, no, especially no baseball,
no baseball on the East Coast. No baseball tonight.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
But even Aaron Judge came back. No, no, no, come on.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Last last night though, we gave everybody that the grand
idea of how the Yankees can fix, at least from
a public relations standpoint, all.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Of their problems. Tell me, man, how close how far
away are you from dumping Boon for Jeta? Huh? It's funny,
Gita back, We'll bring back forget it at least, don't
let him run the team and make the trades. But
then to manage a team he knows, he knows the game.
Bring geta back, how close can we possibly beat? A Jeter?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
But we were chucking because earlier today, right, it's that
time of the year, congratulations, fantasy football chatter coming and
rankings and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But we were.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Getting the the invite from noted friend of the show
and Yankees fan, uh, Mike Fabiano, about hey, you guys
gonna play in this, And then it became this whole
thing about he would be Yankee managers, and we left
no stone unturned with random Yankees. Thely guys we didn't
get in. We're like Rudy May and a few others.
But otherwise, I mean, it was a veritable who's who
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of who might manage telling led by Jeter. He proffered
the maddingly things like now we've been down that.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Road, it's time we said it last night. Look, Aaron
Boone's not going to survive another couple of weeks and
they're zip zip with the Rangers in the seventh right now. Uh,
he's not. And I'll tell you Jeter's been very public
and criticizing the Yankees, criticizing Aaron Boone. Things that are
that that look, the Yankees a horrible fundamental team, and
I don't I feel like that's a team that's not
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practiced in maybe like three or four years. Uh, and
Jeter's not shy about criticizing Aaron Boone. I tell you what, man.
Another another couple of weeks, all of a sudden, the
Yankees are two three games out of the playoffs. Hey, Jeta,
GDA you want Hey, let's do five weeks and then, uh,
then we'll figure it out if you want to come
back full time next year. You know what.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
The Yankee broadcasters making fun of Jack Peterson. They've unleashed
a beast. It's that laser home run last night. He's
two for two tonight. Look out, Jeta.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Meanwhile, look a big story that has so many people
need you know, you know, it's a story like this
where I realize, boy, we we sometimes the entire nation,
we just all need to heal. Uh, take some time.
ESPN is acquiring NFL Network and other NFL league media
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as sets, including the rights to the Red Zone Channel. Okay,
so we knew this was coming. We knew that this
this deal was out there. Uh, and it closes that
today that ESPN is going to get the NFL Network,
NFL media assets. They're getting Red Zone Channel, Scott Hanson
will They already said Scott Hansen is in deal. He's
in for He's in for this year for Red Zone.
(04:20):
Don't worry, they're also gonna acquire the NFL's fantasy product.
And now it's gonna be the NF ESPN is gonna
be the official fantasy home of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
What do they do with ESPN bets uh goodt still
have it. That's the part of the equation that's kind
of funny. Roger Goodell tap dance on that one. Now
give on the old razzle. He's got the glitter suit
like Richard Gear.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The people who are upset about this and all of
a sudden think that all of these, all of these
uh arms and all of the NFL product that ESPN
is getting is suddenly going to go down the tubes
and it's gonna be it's gonna be Oh, they're gonna
put commercials on Red Zone all the time. Forget it, man,
It's not gonna be Scott hen It's gonna be somebody I
don't even know. He's gonna have to interview somebody from
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an ABC sitcom uh during during the Red Zone on Sunday.
All people are so worried that ESPN getting these products
from the NFL, right taking over NFL Network and taking
over Red Zone channel, like all of a sudden, there's
gonna be all these ridiculously stupid decisions like it's a
movie and and you know it's it's it's sitcom characters
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that are that are running ESPN going, oh yeah, why
not we have big viewership on Sunday during our Red Zone.
Why don't we, uh, why don't we get Lena Olan
on because she's gonna be in that new show that
we have coming on in the fall ten o'clock on
Thursday night, So let's have her on, and y know,
she's a football fan, so let her talk like people
think this is what's gonna happen to the product, which
really tells you, okay, which which tells you a couple
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of things. Number One, people really just won't want to
be mad about stuff all the time, which is why
we need to heal. But secondly, this shows you what
the overall impression and and optic of ESPN and is
right now that that here's ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports,
you know, self proclaimed worldwide leader in sports that acquires
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the NFL Network and acquires NFL Red Zone, the worldwide leader.
What's gonna happen And the vast majority of people think, oh,
they're gonna ruin the product. You're just gonna ruin everything.
You're gonna it's gonna be woke, it's gonna be it's
gonna be doing things outside of football. Taylor Swift is
gonna be everywhere. Like people think all of these things
are going to happen, and it's gonna ruin the product.
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And suddenly NFL Red Zone Channel is gonna be different,
and Scott Hansen's gonna have to sit there and talk
with Berman uh doing updates. People think that's what's going
to happen to this product, and and it's I'm just
just stop for a second. Okay, understand that that that
that organizations that do sports for a living, especially as
long as ESPN, they're not gonna ruin a product they
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didn't that gonna spend all this money to go out
and say, yep, now we can do what we went out.
We can disnefy it, we can disneyfy it.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It's see what we can do and nig everything. When
we're gonna do to the NFL, there you already love
the NFL. That's not gonna happen now. I will say, eventually,
could we get to something like commercials on red Zone, Like,
while you're watching the red Zone on the side, could
you see something visually or something that is a voiceover
but you still get to watch the action? Yeah, I
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can completely see that, because that's a missed opportunity. You
could have done that before and had some sort of
advertising where we're not taking away you're not not seeing
something on screen. You're either seeing some kind of bug
or you're getting some kind of voiceover, but you're not
missing any of the act. Could I see that?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Absolutely? Can I see it on the bottom on a
bottom line, yeah, one hundred percent. I can see that.
But that's not gonna take away from the game. That's
more of a and that's more of an evolving of
the product to the point where, Okay, we got to
make some money on this, right, You thought Twitter was
gonna be free forever. No elon must at, Oh boy,
I paid way too much for it. Now I gotta
find a way to get some money in here. So
now you gotta pay for blue check marks, and it's
(07:58):
not quite the same thing. Oh Yeah, there's gonna be
a little bit of changes on there, but overall, the
product is gonna be fine. Red Zone's gonna be fine,
NFL network is gonna be fine. I don't I'm not
worried about any of that stuff. Yeah, folks can.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Get all up in arms, and immediately it becomes the
how how soon before I'm indoctrinated with this this particular
character of the ESPN drama or deciding where there's oversaturation,
they'll they'll know where that tipping point is and they'll
they'll they'll broach that line.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
That's the way it works.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
By the way, out of all of those things you mentioned,
the Taylor Swift thing is probably going to happen if
they can make it happen, because that brings more eyeballs.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So just let's let's all beware.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
We go back to one of the classic songs released
all the way back in two thousand and two, talking
about well the radio and record business by Tom Petty.
All the boys upstairs want to see how much you'll
pay for what you used to get for free? And
how many times did you have stuff on the web?
(09:04):
And it's like, all right, it's gonna try it. Behind
the paywall as you know, pay for clicks and whatever
else kind of went out the window in some of
those earlier models. Trying to put the genie back in
the bottle for many companies did not work. They had
to find different ways, partnerships, revenue streams, consolidation, et cetera.
In this case, yeah, there's going to be changes. Of course.
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You now own the property. You can do with it
what you will, whether it's picture and pictures you say
a bug a lower third. When a game goes to commercial,
it's not the commercial running from CBS or or Fox
or whatever, or it's and it's overlaid as part of
a deal that gets broken. Yeah, all of those things
are possible. Commercial breaks for a minute or two, maybe
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a bathroom break for Hanson. Who knows all of those
things could be in the offing. But guess what, if
you don't have an alternative, you're not going.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Anywhere, So suck it up.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
But it I mean, be mad if you want you
don't want to see McAfee, don't watch you don't want
to watch Steven A. Smith, I'm sorry, don't watch anything
havy to do with the network.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Don't watch their soap.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Operas on ABC. I mean, he's going to show up.
He's gonna pop up. That's the way it works. And
they're not spending that much money to not include their
prime time players. They'll they'll be part of the action.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I cannot believe the Jets are in the red zone
so early in this game against the Patriots. What is awful?
This is ridiculous. How are you in the red zone?
This ruk. This game is not even two minutes old,
and Dustin Fields is terrible.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
We didn't even get settled in. He's already screaming at
he was already laughing up. I kind of want stephen A.
Smith to be the red zone host. I'm telling you
it's it's inevitable, but it is the fan O snap.
We got other news in sports today that was inevitable.
Is this thing's been just dating a while?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
This Cowboys touchdown was horrible. It was ridiculous. It was abominable.
It was embarrassing. It should have never happened. I don't
understand why it's it's seven to seven in the first quarter.
It's utterly, utterly ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
You missed six other scores because you were yelling about
Jerry Jones and the bad negotiations. But all of it
is is all the handwringing and misery and everything else. Right,
it's the when the NFL package right Sunday ticket goes
to YouTube TV. You gotta pay the eighty three bucks
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a month for YouTube for for the tv base subscription
plus your NFL package. But they're gonna do your favorite.
They'll stretch it out over twelve months for you. Now,
guess what they're still gonna do. Bond zone numbers.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Off the charts because people can't get enough and they
know it, which is how this deal got consummated.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
But everything's gonna be fine. Yes, are they gonna put
some of their people on NFL networks, Yes, but it's
it's gonna it's going to be fun. It's like this
is not like, Hey, some kid just showed up with
money and bought the Pride. Well, now I gotta figure
things out. Like ESPN's done a second, ESPN's done sports
for a long time. I'm pretty sure they'll put out
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a pretty good product when it comes to NFL Network
and when it comes to the red Zone, I'm pretty
sure things are gonna be fun. Yeah, and again, if
you're if the Mark Channel bought it, I would understand that,
Oh my goodness, I'm gonna get Lacey Schaber is gonna
be on red z if.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
I love Hugh telling me that, come on, that'd be great.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
And then there's gonna be a movie about how Hey,
here's tears. Two women who took over, uh, the Red
Zone channel. But they were unpopular. But now here's a
producer and a director that they fall in love with,
and they they work with each other and they try to,
you know, make the show even better, and then the
ratings increase. But then there's some sort of uh, new
person involved that's gonna come in and they have to
plan a fall festival and there, you know, they're they're there,
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Their attention is their attention is getting split I mean
or or I mean that's not I mean I understand, great,
get that start there, you know, get get a document up,
get get that flowing. But yeah, look all.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Of the excitement, all the anger to it again, go
do something else.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Go to a fall festival, right, go to to any town,
USA and do that on a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Then you come back and you.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Can listen to Fox Sports Radio and we'll catch you up.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Exit out by the Fresca Exit Swollen Dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Welcome
back after a week off, because now I think you
spent the last few days buying Super Bowl gear for
the Chargers. Chargers go out win over the Lions. Justin Frostburg,
justin Welcome back and congratulations on Trey Lance. I spoke
to Roger to good Dell.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I want to assure you you're only going to be
missing one thing with red zone.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, what's that Chet's touchdown?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Something seems to have been left out of this year's package.
I can't quite tell what it is.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Hey, real serious, I got a serious question. A week off? Huh?
That is that what it was?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well, week away, you were working.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, then I need some vacation days put back in
my account.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Okay, well here's what I need. I need you serious? Now, okay,
how about justin fields for Tree Lance? I mean, come on,
how about that. Let's let's do it. Trey Lance is
way better, all right, justin fields in a couple of drafts.
Just like that.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
He slapped his hands on his shoulder pads and he said.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
You are healed, but you are healed. But just think
about that the optics that the worldwide leader in sports
is acquiring one of the biggest football products you can
and the general reaction is they're going to ruin it.
Like that's that's a look in the mirror where ESPN's
gotta go, oh okay, we really need some sort of
change here, because this is this is not confidence in
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the product. This is this is how do you feel
about buying a car that you just but oh I
love the car? Like this is this is a real
problem when it should be a celebration. Oh hey, ESPN's
finally they're taking care of No, no, no, everybody's worried
the general they're gonna ruin it. Like that's really something, man.
You got to say, how did we go? How did
our public impact? How did our public optic go? From
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we are the we we are the worldwide leader in sports,
and yes we can be the evil Empire from time
to time. Oh but when we were doing sports are
gonna be great? Well, you're requiring something in sports and
people think we're just gonna ruin it.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Well, we can talk about living on the edge and
chaos theory and whatever else. Those guys aren't getting you know,
nine figure deals because nobody's paying attention.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Exit about a Fresca exit swalling dome. Jason Smith Mike
Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up
next week, got more from the NFL. We got guys
getting paid and quarterbacks who are being We're being told
be patient. No, no, not happening. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox.
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Speaker 1 (16:18):
Well.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Welcome back, Max Munsey Yeah, they're busting out the whooping
sticks over at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
On Hello Kitty Cross Body Bag Night Fox.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
The fact that you knew that off the top body bag,
The fact that you knew that, the fact that you
say that makes me think that you kind of either
had a decision make tonight to either come do the
show or go there to get the what is it,
the crossbody cross cross body bobblehead, Hello.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Cross body body Bag. Okay, then you got me thinking
about bobbleheads okay, the cross body body bag Okay. Makes
me think that you were either going to come do
the show or go there to get it and sell
it on eBay before the night is no. I mean, look,
they had a great success with the one piece promotion.
I heard the guys Uh, Petros and Matt and Tim
Kate's talking about it a little bit earlier on our
(17:07):
flagship here in La As. I went to the grocery
store and five seventy l a Sports Uh, and they
were talking about, Hey, you gotta go early because you
need to get there and get your bag procured. Because
the one piece cards that they gave out, they didn't
get one to everybody but a couple of weeks ago,
they're selling raw for five hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Wow that maybe maybe maybe you should have gone to
do that.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Gen Ten's well, I could have just.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Pretended that you were still here. We could have just
played some some of your drugs. Yeah, let's go. A
few people wouldn't know. It's like a right, why does
harmon doesn't matter?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
He just keep saying yeah, just keeps injecting that in
every conversation.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Uh. Max Munsey with a two run homer, Dodgers lead
it to nothing. Still batting tasker Hernandez with a double uh
in the first inning. So a little bit of different
start for the Dodgers tonight. I'll probably smoke some me
against the Cardinals, and look, Munsey is back, and suddenly
the Dodgers are hitting a little bit more, that little
bit more. So if you want to go get that
that cross body bobblehead block of cheese brow hello, go
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grab we can be gone.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Good.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
But by this point I'm sure they've given them away.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Otani doubled.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
There was a ground out Freeman with the sack fly
and then Mounsey homers. So yeah we got chaos.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Uh uh So this is where we sit right now
again a big again, this is the only baseball game going.
All the other baseball tonight was canceled.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
No, don't forget, we're still waiting for Derek Jeeter to
walk out to make a pitching chance.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Oh well that is true. Yankees and the Rangers zip
zip in the eighth inning. But the Rangers have the
bases loaded in one out. We could be get closing
in on the Geta era. It could manage the Yankees.
Get Gea in here, get Geta in But big stuff
out of the NFL today. We got quarterback decisions. We
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have quarterback indecisions.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
But one of the Justin Field's face just went, yeah,
well what can I say about Justin fields indecision?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But let's start with the first bit of big news.
Chador Sanders will start the Browns opening game this week.
He will start the first game of the preseason, likely
because well, okay, Tyler Huntley just got signed, doesn't know
the playbook, Okay, Dylan Gabriel is hurt and out, Kenny
Pickett hurt and out. Joe Flacco is forty eight years old.
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They don't need to play him. So hey, you know,
you could kind of sit here and say, hey, the
Browns are showing great confidence in chaudor Sanders, but really
else you couldna put out there.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
There's a great meme that started making the rounds last
night out there man in the aftermath, I don't know
if you've seen it before, where it's a bunch of
kids and like they're splashing around. So if you want
to go and let your brain go the worst place,
it's like they're flailing to try to stay afloat, right,
they're struggling, and then you've got somebody inserted off on
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the side who's kind of looking in at them. And
then there's the second part art as you move your
eyes down, someone's chained to a chair and it's a skeleton,
and they were putting all the names of the Browns quarterbacks.
The people are struggling, there's Hungley coming in because he hasn't.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Been there yet.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
And then well in that chair is Deshaun Wattson. So
all of that to say, is a chair.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Like underwater, like he's delivering Colonel Sanders down to Davy
Jones Locker.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Right, exactly what you start believing in stories, you're in one,
that's kind of where we're at. So yeah, Schador gets
the A day after you start talking about, well how
short is the the rain for him in Cleveland, It's like, well,
here you go, you get first reps.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Fantastic for we'll be back to the fantastic. Now you've
got Franklin is in Tyler Huntley. They got Franklin. They
got five quarterbacks. Now. No, but to be serious about
this for a second, right, Really, you could look at
it and say, hey, the Browns are giving you this shot, right,
that's awesome, And you can say, boy, but who is
it really gonna be? But I want to say because
this would show and the Browns could prove that, hey,
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we're actually a big league organization, right, We're not just
some kind of crazy ass team that just does the
draft like we're walking into a fantasy draft with no prep,
right trying to figure out our quarterback situation. We'll take
Dylan Gabriel. Boy, I tell you he's really good, but boy,
he is not big. And we'll take Shador Sanders after
we pass on him four times and then make him
believe that he's our future when we got him in
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the fifth round. But you can show that you are
a big boy franchise and you really do do business well,
and not just the way we think you've been doing
it for the past few years. If he plays well,
he keeps the gig, right, If he plays well when
the lights go on, now give him a little bit
of extended play. You have to, right, you only have
a couple of guys on the roster, so it's not
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like you know, schaudroor Sanders is going to have a
cameo appearance. Like Shador Sanders should probably play the entire
first quarter into the second quarter most likely, right because
if you're because flack Flacko's not going to play with
the backup, so you have guys that are really gonna
need to see some time. So this should be some
extended time for Shador Sanders. Now, is he playing with
backups a lot of it? Sure? Is he playing against
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other teams backups, Yes, But if he plays well, let
him keep the gig until he shows you he can't
do it. You know why, because you got to see
him at some point, right and you gotta see you
got you have to see Shador Sanders at some point
this season. Right now. We went through this whole great
story a week ago where I think all four guys
are gonna start now, maybe all five fantastic, Fine, all
four guys are gonna start at some point this year
(22:30):
for the Browns. But you're gonna need to see Shador
stand No matter what, the guy you need to see
this year play quarterback is Shador Sanders. Right, you cannot
see if it came to it. Do you really need
to see Dylan Gabriel?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Do you need to see Kenny picking his baby hands?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Do you need to see Joe Flacca again?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Do you need to see Tyler hunt leet know? But
you need to see Shador Sanders. He's the guy that
the team needs to see, that, the franchise needs to see, that,
the fans need to see. You need to see him.
So if he's playing, well, okay, let him run with
a little bit. I'm not saying give the job. I'm
not crazy. I mean I'm a little crazy. But if
he as long as he shows that I'm not overwhelmed,
I can make the throws. Because that's all. That's the
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big thing I always look at for quarterbacks beginning of
the year, when they get into game, do they look
like they just need some time, but they're not overwhelmed?
By the moment, overwhelmed by the situation. And if he
is not, and he plays well, guess what, shau Drew
Sanders gets your first team reps in practice, and because
you've got to give somebody first team reps, then you
gotta let him because you need to see him at
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some point. And the faster you see him, the faster
you know if either you somehow got your quarterback of
the future and present, or hey, we got to move
on from him, and it's Arch Manning next year, and
it's Kenny Pickett in week three, and Dylan Gabriel in
week five and Brian Sipe in week eight, and then
it's Joe Flacco. But you need to see him at
some point, So why not if he plays well enough,
let him run with the gig for a while, because
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you have to. So Trey Lance, no, I no, the
Jets are gonna get Trey Lance. We need Trey Lance
because Justin Fields is terrible.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But we'll get Dan.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Let's let's full into or say.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Let that marinate a second. I think some of the
discussion with this is it's just the obvious, right, you
got a couple of injuries that preclude them. I don't
know why you had decideswipe picket like that, But I
mean that's that's just showing your.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Your hatred towards well, towards.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Kenny Pickett and what he could or could not be
now that he's no longer shackled by the offensive constraints
in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Oh wait, he's gone to Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
It really is the big question of how quickly they're
giving up on the season, right, because if you're gonna
try to install Shdor Sanders, you're basically for Jimmy has
limits the fun of watching the sort of damnicles hanging
over Andrew.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Berry over there. This is his guy, this is the
guy you wanted.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
And with every bad tempt, bad interception of futile possession
that it becomes clear and clear that you have a
change in your front off imminent. But for Shador Sanders,
you might as well showcase and see what you've got.
We've talked about the fact that you do have four five.
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We'll see how many more guys come walking through that
door before it's all over that maybe there's someone that says, well,
we'll fix him and we'll take him off your hands
and you can get back a late round pick again
talking completely there, or you're just you're validated by the
pick and you just say let's roll the dice because
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are over unders four and a half. Anyway, we never
die with this situation.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
This is not a season, this is not everybody knows.
This is where we're starting over, whether it's arch Manning
a year from now or Shador Sanders here. Hey, we
had a run, and you know now we're dismantling the
team and clearly we're in a tank mode for this
year because look at what we're doing at quarterback. But again,
you need to see him. So if he shows that
he's ready, okay, and I'm not saying he's got I
don't know he's gonna be great, But as long as
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it's not too big for you, you can playing until
he came.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But anymore, there's been nothing coming out of the camps
that that I've seen in any edited uh data and
video that's you know, been like, oh, he's electrifying. I
know we had a couple of those throws early on.
With quarterbacks, you gotta see him play, and that's whole thing.
You gotta see him when the lights go on, non
go through practice all the time and they can be good, bad,
and different. But you gotta see him when the lights
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go on and the lights are on, and you know
you're gonna get the great effort from him because he's
not a veteran where hey, it's the preseason.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I'm gonna play. If you know, he's gonna play just
like he played in college. He'sna played with the same
sort of fire and and and attention to detail that
he played with in college. You were gonna get his best.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
You know what, Travis Hunter is not walking through that door.
You're not playing a bunch of second great secondaries as
we saw uh with great regularity on those Colorado schedules. Oh,
by the way, he didn't win those games either. Just
you know, a nice little reminder, Uh in all of.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
His color didn't win a lot in college. And he
all right, bad example, sorry, go ahead, sorry and Bilds.
I mean, are they gonna say why a side swipe
and smoking Jacob?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I just you took Vanderbilt in a little little different circumstances.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Someone's got to lift a program. But Kyle McCord lifted
Syracuse up to a big Bowl game last year in
ten wins. Kyle McCord did it in Syracuse.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Do you take money?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, I'm sure lot stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
That's the other part of the college stuff that I
love is you know it's like it's all above board.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Now I's like, no, it's not.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Who ain't kidding yourself in transparency?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
My ass?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
But it comes back to the question here. Remember Joe Flacco,
even when he won Comeback Player of the Year, Joe
Flacco was not terribly efficient. They won games in spite
of him.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, yeah, they did yet all right because.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
His touchdown the interception ratio wasn't exactly otherworldly. Uh, they
scored just enough and the defense did their job kind
of like you've been hoping they We'll talk about the
Jets and they're sixteen to ten wins.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Perhaps that was Joe flaccam. I mean him for the
books part.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Maybe a little higher scoring, but it all came down
to what Miles Garrett and that defense were able to
give him.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
So here we are, Yeah, say he's running, let him
run with it, man, let him do it just so
why not? Right? Like Kevin cost at the end of
For Love of the Game, when they bring up the
kid that that day he played with the kid's dad
and he meets him before the game, and they go
now batting, you know, of course, because actually do you
send a rookie up to reckon no hitter in the
middle of the.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Pendanties now now available on streaming it. But he looks
at the kid coming up, he goes, ah, why not? Right, like,
here's the last out?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Why not? Like if you're the brown, why not? If
he's good, why not let him keep the gig? What
else are you doing? What are you really doing here?
Ruining him forever?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Talking now to find out what one franchise that passed
out him repeatedly wrong, firing Andrew Berry.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
We got what's trending right now in the wide world
of sports. But guy who's been called the Joe Flacco
of Fox Sports Radio again, most of the time he
sits on his couch, but then he shows up and
does great stuff. It's Steve Disaga slightly for him. I
am starting to get people on social media give sample
introductions for me that they want me to say to
you when I introduce you.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
It seems never ending.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, well I'll do one next hour.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Speaking as the person in this chair, it seems never ending.
Rookie quarterback shoud Or Sanders will start the Browns preseason
opener on Friday, and Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson will start
Thursday's exhibition against the Ravens. Then quarterback Daniel Jones will
start next week for the Colts. Bengals QB Joe Burrow
and other starters will play several series on Thursday's Thursday's
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game against the Eagles, however, the Seahawks will sit most
of their starters on Thursday. Saints running back Alvin Kamara
will not play Sunday at the Chargers. The Chargers signed
free agent wide receiver Keenan Allen one year, eight point
five million dollars. Wide receiver Mike Williams had retired. The
La Rams gave running back Kyron Williams a three year extension.
We're twenty three million dollars guaranteed. He's going into the
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final year of his rookie contract. Tampa Bay signed veteran
quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, although Kyle Trask is still the backup there.
Bucks starting QB Baker Mayfield returned to practice today after
a bruised hand. On Thursday, they'll have a joint practice
with the Titans in the WNBA wins for Chicago and
New York, although Angel Reese is still out for Chicago
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and Breonna Stewart is still out for New York. In
Major League Baseball, the Reds are leading in the bottom
of the ninth at Wrigley five to one over the Cubs,
who might be down four games in the standings back
of the first place Brewers in the NL Central because
Milwaukee has already won. They won five in a row,
seven to the final in Atlanta. Winning pitcher Freddie peraltis
thirteen and five and the Brewers record the last sixty
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games is forty four and sixteen. Boston pitcher Garrett Crochet
is thirteen and four. After the victory at Fenway tonight
six to two over Kansas City, the Red Sox have
won seven in a row. The Yankees are getting shut
out in the ninth. That is just going final apparently
two nothing Texas with some late scoring. This was scoreless
(30:58):
for quite some time now. Back in the lineup is
Aaron Judge of the Yankees, off the injured list today
after the elbow problem.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Can't throw. He's the DH.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
He's zero for three with two strikeouts, and it is
final Texas to nothing with two runs in the eighth.
The first place Blue Jays are up here.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
It comes Gita to manager Yankees. Here we comes.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
Actually, they could just use him to hit at this point.
They went two for twenty eight at the plate in
this game. I bet at age fifty you could get
it hit.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
It probably a better shortstop still at this point than Volty.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Oh yeah, if you've seen Volpi this year, Yeah, you're
not kidding a first place Blue Jays up seven to
four and the seventh at Colorado. If the Rockies lose,
their record will be thirty and eighty three this season.
The Rays are already up seven to nothing on the
Angels in the top of the fifth, Mariner's three to
one over the White Sox. Bottom of the fourth, Dodgers
tied two to two with the Cardinals in the second.
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Max Munsey with a first inning homer for La Padres,
tied two to two at Arizona.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
In the fourth.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Road wins for Houston, San Francisco and Minnesota What's left
of him Gotta win at Detroit six to three. The
a Sheha Langeliers hit three solo homers sixteen to seven.
Athletics wanted Washington. The Nats have lost six in a row,
and yes, there were ball games in the NL East tonight.
The first place Phillies lead by two and a half
over the Mets. Phills five nothing beating Baltimore, while the
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Mets lost at home three to two to Cleveland. The
Mets offense went four for twenty nine, so actually better
than the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it doesn't matter. I just I'm
a sneaking suspicion. The Mets have sniffed first place for
the last time this year. Yeah, a good run.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
We're not even through the first week of August.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Steve, We've been terrible for two and a half months.
Steve's been awful.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
You should have seen my guy out in the hallway
try to rationalize all this been awful. He was gazing
and walking in a circle like he was trying to
create a safe space for aliens.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I've gone. I've gone from thinking I can't believe the
Mets are on the slide for two months and now
thinking it's amazing we're still ten games over five hundred.
The fact the Mets can't hit and a starting pitcher
can't get out of the fifth inning, how are we
ten games over five hundred right now?
Speaker 7 (33:01):
It's Mets and Padres, the last two wild card teams
in the Yeah, it doesn't look like anybody's gonna catch
those two, right.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
The other fun fact though, Steve, go back to the
Yankees a second. Since June first, the White Sox have
as many wins as the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Ow Gina. Gina's coming in to save it all. Thank you, Steve,
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Speaker 1 (33:49):
Can't go five innings? Our starting pitchers think we're gonna
be the bed und of the play of the night.
You got five out of him? What five on them?
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Speaker 1 (34:07):
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Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, there it is Guardians Radio Network on the call
telling you, man, the Mets have sniffed first place for
the last time this year. It has just been a steady,
slow stream. This suck. That's what it's been.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Man.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
That ball had eyes, That was a slow ruler. That
was the painful thing. If you're a fan, like all right,
we're gonna get I mean, we're not the.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yankees who absolutely we are absolutely in way worse shape
unless Gina comes in. But i mean still, it's it's
it's rough, it's really rough. Well, it's it's hard times.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
It's not the hard times Dusty Rhodes talked about all
those years ago for the oil workers, the steel mill
workers and all those folks. But for Mets fans who
had great hope on promise of great things, it's all
been torn asunder. And now Kyle Schwarzer cannot be stuck. Oh,
he's gonna have seventy home runs and seventy five RBI
this year.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
It's gonna be So we talked a few minutes ago
about your quarterback decision is starting to get made for
Week one NFL preseason, Srdor Sanders will start for the
Browns and in Indianapolis, Anthony Richardson will start for the Colts. Oh,
Anthony richards win. No, Daniel Jones is gonna wind up
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winning this job. Okay, And I'll tell you exactly why
they still have a lot invested in Anthony Richardson. It's
still a neck and neck competition. They have both looked
so far. In camp. Hey, sometimes they have bright moments,
but generally it's kind of been a flat competition between
the two. But Daniel Jones is gonna win simply because
after you read about what Shane Stike and head coach
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says he wants from the quarterback, tell me who this
sounds like. He said he wants the offense to be clean.
They want to protect the ball, play situational football, be consistent,
move the offense up and down the field. That is
not Anthony Richardson. Okay, that's not Anthony Richardson. Has not
played enough football. He's been hurt, he's been ineffective. He's
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not suddenly going to be this guy. And you're gonna
see a big push in the NFL now to go
away from quarterbacks that haven't played enough in college. Right
the old Bill Parcells, I wouldn't draft quarterback unless he
had fifty starts in college foot or forty starts in
college football over the coursers. That was a big thing.
You're gonna start seeing teams go back then and get
away from I'm just wowed by the guy's talent because
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Richardson has not been able to be consistent enough. He's
not been able to pick up the position. He's not
been able to stay healthy. Daniel Jones, what's the one.
The guy's been consistent, He's been in the lineup, he
has started for a long time. He's started a lot
of games. You have a lot of weapons in Indianapolis.
But when you hear the coach say, I want to
clean offense, protect the football, which is not what Anthony
Richardson does. Right, situational football, consistency, all of these things,
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this is what Daniel Jones does. Does he do them great? No?
But can he do them well enough? Because the Colts
offense is that loaded with talent. Absolutely. You have four
terrific wide receivers, you have a really fantastic running back,
you drafted what could be a great tight end. Like
this offense can explode and you don't need some kind
of crazy talent to do it. You just need a
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guy that can execute. You need a Sam Darnold to
come in and have the kind of season like he
had with the Vikings last year. Hey, I'm in trouble,
It's gonna throw it to Justin Jefferson. What, okay, gohe
That'll be fine. So Daniel Jones is gonna be this guy.
You know, Anthony Richmond will get a chance to show you,
but I've not seen it. And now you're talking about
three plus years into his NFL career. He just hasn't
played enough, man, and that's a really difficult thing. So yeah,
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when it comes down to it, Daniel Jones ex giant
Daniel Jones. He's gonna be the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
But what comes down for him? Can he stay healthy?
And I just had to look up his hand size,
since you decided to swipe Kenny Pickett before nine born
seven five inches falls within the range. So the fact
that he fumbles the ball a lot stump much more problematic.
We can't just equate that to hand size. But when
Jones has been on the field, we go back a
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couple of years ago before he got paid, and everybody
gets mad, it's not your money, shut up?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
The The thing with Jones was we're gonna build around
and we saw enough proof of concept with Dable that
he was gonna take that next step forward. Right, maybe
the numbers would fall in line, but you played good,
operationally efficient football and your td'd interception ratio was okay.
When Saquon Barkley was healthy and all of those things. Well,
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now you got Jonathan Taylor. As you mentioned, you look
at all these wide receivers. You also have a very
interesting part for Shane Steichen is you don't know what
his length of time there is. I mean, Jim Orsay
tragically passed away. Right, He's a guy that had for
years wanted to do it his way, right, And you
saw that with Ballard, and they would bring in band
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aid guys, veteran quarterbacks to try to move things along
after the abrupt retirement of Andrew Luck. Right, we saw
Matt Ryan, we saw Philip Erves, we saw these guys.
Well then they go the other way and you bring
in a guy and Anthony Richardson. To this point, the
most damning thing from all the turnovers, health issues, protect yourself,
all of that stuff, is when he tapped out of
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a game because he was tired. You're still trying to
win people back, including your coach, because you make him
look like an ass in that process.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
What I would like to go out there, but I
just want to sit down and play a couple of games. Yeah,
I'm gonna playing some Solitaire and then spider Solitaire, I
mean on next level and they'll be ready to go
back out. Spider tired right now.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
So yeah, Richardson will start the first game, they said.
In the second game, that'll flop Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
He will be your quarterback. You cheat. Doctor Jones exit
al Valda Fresca, exit Swollen Dome. Speaking of quarterback, one
team said, hey, you gotta be patient with our guy. WTF,
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were okay, I thought you were better cancer. You tried
to sell it on Twitter at how about a Fresco.
You tried to sell it to me.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's like you were workshop against Like the speech Clooney
gives when he's trying to convince Brad Pitt to undergo
the heist.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
No, games are all canceled, all cancer. Hey, this one.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Time you have the opportunity and you could take the house,
and did I rush it? Yeah, that was the whole thing.
It's like, oh, you know, we had hope. But then
with all of this, you know, I really should be
thankful of where they are.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Like that's loser talk. No, no, no baseball tonight. Just
so you know, no baseball tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I heard it.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Steve's update, very emphatic. No no, no, no, especially no baseball,
no baseball on the East Coast. No baseball tonight.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
But even Aaron Judge came back. No, no, no, come on.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Last last night though, we gave everybody that the grand
idea of how the Yankees can fix, at least from
a public relations standpoint, all.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Of their problems. Tell me, man, how close how far
away are you from dumping Boon for Jeta? Huh? It's funny,
Gita back, We'll bring back forget it at least, don't
let him run the team and make the trades. But
then to manage a team he knows, he knows the game.
Bring geta back, how close can we possibly beat? A Jeter?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
But we were chucking because earlier today, right, it's that
time of the year, congratulations, fantasy football chatter coming and
rankings and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But we were.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Getting the the invite from noted friend of the show
and Yankees fan, uh, Mike Fabiano, about hey, you guys
gonna play in this, And then it became this whole
thing about he would be Yankee managers, and we left
no stone unturned with random Yankees. Thely guys we didn't
get in. We're like Rudy May and a few others.
But otherwise, I mean, it was a veritable who's who
(02:40):
of who might manage telling led by Jeter. He proffered
the maddingly things like now we've been down that.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Road, it's time we said it last night. Look, Aaron
Boone's not going to survive another couple of weeks and
they're zip zip with the Rangers in the seventh right now. Uh,
he's not. And I'll tell you Jeter's been very public
and criticizing the Yankees, criticizing Aaron Boone. Things that are
that that look, the Yankees a horrible fundamental team, and
I don't I feel like that's a team that's not
(03:07):
practiced in maybe like three or four years. Uh, and
Jeter's not shy about criticizing Aaron Boone. I tell you what, man.
Another another couple of weeks, all of a sudden, the
Yankees are two three games out of the playoffs. Hey, Jeta,
GDA you want Hey, let's do five weeks and then, uh,
then we'll figure it out if you want to come
back full time next year. You know what.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
The Yankee broadcasters making fun of Jack Peterson. They've unleashed
a beast. It's that laser home run last night. He's
two for two tonight. Look out, Jeta.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Meanwhile, look a big story that has so many people
need you know, you know, it's a story like this
where I realize, boy, we we sometimes the entire nation,
we just all need to heal. Uh, take some time.
ESPN is acquiring NFL Network and other NFL league media
(03:59):
as sets, including the rights to the Red Zone Channel. Okay,
so we knew this was coming. We knew that this
this deal was out there. Uh, and it closes that
today that ESPN is going to get the NFL Network,
NFL media assets. They're getting Red Zone Channel, Scott Hanson
will They already said Scott Hansen is in deal. He's
in for He's in for this year for Red Zone.
(04:20):
Don't worry, they're also gonna acquire the NFL's fantasy product.
And now it's gonna be the NF ESPN is gonna
be the official fantasy home of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
What do they do with ESPN bets uh goodt still
have it. That's the part of the equation that's kind
of funny. Roger Goodell tap dance on that one. Now
give on the old razzle. He's got the glitter suit
like Richard Gear.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The people who are upset about this and all of
a sudden think that all of these, all of these
uh arms and all of the NFL product that ESPN
is getting is suddenly going to go down the tubes
and it's gonna be it's gonna be Oh, they're gonna
put commercials on Red Zone all the time. Forget it, man,
It's not gonna be Scott hen It's gonna be somebody I
don't even know. He's gonna have to interview somebody from
(05:04):
an ABC sitcom uh during during the Red Zone on Sunday.
All people are so worried that ESPN getting these products
from the NFL, right taking over NFL Network and taking
over Red Zone channel, like all of a sudden, there's
gonna be all these ridiculously stupid decisions like it's a
movie and and you know it's it's it's sitcom characters
(05:25):
that are that are running ESPN going, oh yeah, why
not we have big viewership on Sunday during our Red Zone.
Why don't we, uh, why don't we get Lena Olan
on because she's gonna be in that new show that
we have coming on in the fall ten o'clock on
Thursday night, So let's have her on, and y know,
she's a football fan, so let her talk like people
think this is what's gonna happen to the product, which
really tells you, okay, which which tells you a couple
(05:47):
of things. Number One, people really just won't want to
be mad about stuff all the time, which is why
we need to heal. But secondly, this shows you what
the overall impression and and optic of ESPN and is
right now that that here's ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports,
you know, self proclaimed worldwide leader in sports that acquires
(06:09):
the NFL Network and acquires NFL Red Zone, the worldwide leader.
What's gonna happen And the vast majority of people think, oh,
they're gonna ruin the product. You're just gonna ruin everything.
You're gonna it's gonna be woke, it's gonna be it's
gonna be doing things outside of football. Taylor Swift is
gonna be everywhere. Like people think all of these things
are going to happen, and it's gonna ruin the product.
(06:31):
And suddenly NFL Red Zone Channel is gonna be different,
and Scott Hansen's gonna have to sit there and talk
with Berman uh doing updates. People think that's what's going
to happen to this product, and and it's I'm just
just stop for a second. Okay, understand that that that
that organizations that do sports for a living, especially as
long as ESPN, they're not gonna ruin a product they
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didn't that gonna spend all this money to go out
and say, yep, now we can do what we went out.
We can disnefy it, we can disneyfy it.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It's see what we can do and nig everything. When
we're gonna do to the NFL, there you already love
the NFL. That's not gonna happen now. I will say, eventually,
could we get to something like commercials on red Zone, Like,
while you're watching the red Zone on the side, could
you see something visually or something that is a voiceover
but you still get to watch the action? Yeah, I
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can completely see that, because that's a missed opportunity. You
could have done that before and had some sort of
advertising where we're not taking away you're not not seeing
something on screen. You're either seeing some kind of bug
or you're getting some kind of voiceover, but you're not
missing any of the act. Could I see that?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Absolutely? Can I see it on the bottom on a
bottom line, yeah, one hundred percent. I can see that.
But that's not gonna take away from the game. That's
more of a and that's more of an evolving of
the product to the point where, Okay, we got to
make some money on this, right, You thought Twitter was
gonna be free forever. No elon must at, Oh boy,
I paid way too much for it. Now I gotta
find a way to get some money in here. So
now you gotta pay for blue check marks, and it's
(07:58):
not quite the same thing. Oh Yeah, there's gonna be
a little bit of changes on there, but overall, the
product is gonna be fine. Red Zone's gonna be fine,
NFL network is gonna be fine. I don't I'm not
worried about any of that stuff. Yeah, folks can.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Get all up in arms, and immediately it becomes the
how how soon before I'm indoctrinated with this this particular
character of the ESPN drama or deciding where there's oversaturation,
they'll they'll know where that tipping point is and they'll
they'll they'll broach that line.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
That's the way it works.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
By the way, out of all of those things you mentioned,
the Taylor Swift thing is probably going to happen if
they can make it happen, because that brings more eyeballs.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So just let's let's all beware.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
We go back to one of the classic songs released
all the way back in two thousand and two, talking
about well the radio and record business by Tom Petty.
All the boys upstairs want to see how much you'll
pay for what you used to get for free? And
how many times did you have stuff on the web?
(09:04):
And it's like, all right, it's gonna try it. Behind
the paywall as you know, pay for clicks and whatever
else kind of went out the window in some of
those earlier models. Trying to put the genie back in
the bottle for many companies did not work. They had
to find different ways, partnerships, revenue streams, consolidation, et cetera.
In this case, yeah, there's going to be changes. Of course.
(09:26):
You now own the property. You can do with it
what you will, whether it's picture and pictures you say
a bug a lower third. When a game goes to commercial,
it's not the commercial running from CBS or or Fox
or whatever, or it's and it's overlaid as part of
a deal that gets broken. Yeah, all of those things
are possible. Commercial breaks for a minute or two, maybe
(09:49):
a bathroom break for Hanson. Who knows all of those
things could be in the offing. But guess what, if
you don't have an alternative, you're not going.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Anywhere, So suck it up.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
But it I mean, be mad if you want you
don't want to see McAfee, don't watch you don't want
to watch Steven A. Smith, I'm sorry, don't watch anything
havy to do with the network.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Don't watch their soap.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Operas on ABC. I mean, he's going to show up.
He's gonna pop up. That's the way it works. And
they're not spending that much money to not include their
prime time players. They'll they'll be part of the action.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I cannot believe the Jets are in the red zone
so early in this game against the Patriots. What is awful?
This is ridiculous. How are you in the red zone?
This ruk. This game is not even two minutes old,
and Dustin Fields is terrible.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
We didn't even get settled in. He's already screaming at
he was already laughing up. I kind of want stephen A.
Smith to be the red zone host. I'm telling you
it's it's inevitable, but it is the fan O snap.
We got other news in sports today that was inevitable.
Is this thing's been just dating a while?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
This Cowboys touchdown was horrible. It was ridiculous. It was abominable.
It was embarrassing. It should have never happened. I don't
understand why it's it's seven to seven in the first quarter.
It's utterly, utterly ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
You missed six other scores because you were yelling about
Jerry Jones and the bad negotiations. But all of it
is is all the handwringing and misery and everything else. Right,
it's the when the NFL package right Sunday ticket goes
to YouTube TV. You gotta pay the eighty three bucks
(11:24):
a month for YouTube for for the tv base subscription
plus your NFL package. But they're gonna do your favorite.
They'll stretch it out over twelve months for you. Now,
guess what they're still gonna do. Bond zone numbers.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Off the charts because people can't get enough and they
know it, which is how this deal got consummated.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
But everything's gonna be fine. Yes, are they gonna put
some of their people on NFL networks, Yes, but it's
it's gonna it's going to be fun. It's like this
is not like, Hey, some kid just showed up with
money and bought the Pride. Well, now I gotta figure
things out. Like ESPN's done a second, ESPN's done sports
for a long time. I'm pretty sure they'll put out
(12:03):
a pretty good product when it comes to NFL Network
and when it comes to the red Zone, I'm pretty
sure things are gonna be fun. Yeah, and again, if
you're if the Mark Channel bought it, I would understand that,
Oh my goodness, I'm gonna get Lacey Schaber is gonna
be on red z if.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
I love Hugh telling me that, come on, that'd be great.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
And then there's gonna be a movie about how Hey,
here's tears. Two women who took over, uh, the Red
Zone channel. But they were unpopular. But now here's a
producer and a director that they fall in love with,
and they they work with each other and they try to,
you know, make the show even better, and then the
ratings increase. But then there's some sort of uh, new
person involved that's gonna come in and they have to
plan a fall festival and there, you know, they're they're there,
(12:43):
Their attention is their attention is getting split I mean
or or I mean that's not I mean I understand, great,
get that start there, you know, get get a document up,
get get that flowing. But yeah, look all.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Of the excitement, all the anger to it again, go
do something else.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Go to a fall festival, right, go to to any town,
USA and do that on a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Then you come back and you.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Can listen to Fox Sports Radio and we'll catch you up.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Exit out by the Fresca Exit Swollen Dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Welcome
back after a week off, because now I think you
spent the last few days buying Super Bowl gear for
the Chargers. Chargers go out win over the Lions. Justin Frostburg,
justin Welcome back and congratulations on Trey Lance. I spoke
to Roger to good Dell.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I want to assure you you're only going to be
missing one thing with red zone.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, what's that Chet's touchdown?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Something seems to have been left out of this year's package.
I can't quite tell what it is.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Hey, real serious, I got a serious question. A week off? Huh?
That is that what it was?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well, week away, you were working.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, then I need some vacation days put back in
my account.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Okay, well here's what I need. I need you serious? Now, okay,
how about justin fields for Tree Lance? I mean, come on,
how about that. Let's let's do it. Trey Lance is
way better, all right, justin fields in a couple of drafts.
Just like that.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
He slapped his hands on his shoulder pads and he said.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
You are healed, but you are healed. But just think
about that the optics that the worldwide leader in sports
is acquiring one of the biggest football products you can
and the general reaction is they're going to ruin it.
Like that's that's a look in the mirror where ESPN's
gotta go, oh okay, we really need some sort of
change here, because this is this is not confidence in
(14:30):
the product. This is this is how do you feel
about buying a car that you just but oh I
love the car? Like this is this is a real
problem when it should be a celebration. Oh hey, ESPN's
finally they're taking care of No, no, no, everybody's worried
the general they're gonna ruin it. Like that's really something, man.
You got to say, how did we go? How did
our public impact? How did our public optic go? From
(14:52):
we are the we we are the worldwide leader in sports,
and yes we can be the evil Empire from time
to time. Oh but when we were doing sports are
gonna be great? Well, you're requiring something in sports and
people think we're just gonna ruin it.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Well, we can talk about living on the edge and
chaos theory and whatever else. Those guys aren't getting you know,
nine figure deals because nobody's paying attention.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Exit about a Fresca exit swalling dome. Jason Smith Mike
Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up
next week, got more from the NFL. We got guys
getting paid and quarterbacks who are being We're being told
be patient. No, no, not happening. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
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Speaker 1 (16:18):
Well.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Welcome back, Max Munsey Yeah, they're busting out the whooping
sticks over at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
On Hello Kitty Cross Body Bag Night Fox.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
The fact that you knew that off the top body bag,
The fact that you knew that, the fact that you
say that makes me think that you kind of either
had a decision make tonight to either come do the
show or go there to get the what is it,
the crossbody cross cross body bobblehead, Hello.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Cross body body Bag. Okay, then you got me thinking
about bobbleheads okay, the cross body body bag Okay. Makes
me think that you were either going to come do
the show or go there to get it and sell
it on eBay before the night is no. I mean, look,
they had a great success with the one piece promotion.
I heard the guys Uh, Petros and Matt and Tim
Kate's talking about it a little bit earlier on our
(17:07):
flagship here in La As. I went to the grocery
store and five seventy l a Sports Uh, and they
were talking about, Hey, you gotta go early because you
need to get there and get your bag procured. Because
the one piece cards that they gave out, they didn't
get one to everybody but a couple of weeks ago,
they're selling raw for five hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Wow that maybe maybe maybe you should have gone to
do that.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Gen Ten's well, I could have just.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Pretended that you were still here. We could have just
played some some of your drugs. Yeah, let's go. A
few people wouldn't know. It's like a right, why does
harmon doesn't matter?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
He just keep saying yeah, just keeps injecting that in
every conversation.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Uh. Max Munsey with a two run homer, Dodgers lead
it to nothing. Still batting tasker Hernandez with a double uh
in the first inning. So a little bit of different
start for the Dodgers tonight. I'll probably smoke some me
against the Cardinals, and look, Munsey is back, and suddenly
the Dodgers are hitting a little bit more, that little
bit more. So if you want to go get that
that cross body bobblehead block of cheese brow hello, go
(18:09):
grab we can be gone.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Good.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
But by this point I'm sure they've given them away.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Otani doubled.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
There was a ground out Freeman with the sack fly
and then Mounsey homers. So yeah we got chaos.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Uh uh So this is where we sit right now
again a big again, this is the only baseball game going.
All the other baseball tonight was canceled.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
No, don't forget, we're still waiting for Derek Jeeter to
walk out to make a pitching chance.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Oh well that is true. Yankees and the Rangers zip
zip in the eighth inning. But the Rangers have the
bases loaded in one out. We could be get closing
in on the Geta era. It could manage the Yankees.
Get Gea in here, get Geta in But big stuff
out of the NFL today. We got quarterback decisions. We
(18:52):
have quarterback indecisions.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
But one of the Justin Field's face just went, yeah,
well what can I say about Justin fields indecision?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But let's start with the first bit of big news.
Chador Sanders will start the Browns opening game this week.
He will start the first game of the preseason, likely
because well, okay, Tyler Huntley just got signed, doesn't know
the playbook, Okay, Dylan Gabriel is hurt and out, Kenny
Pickett hurt and out. Joe Flacco is forty eight years old.
(19:24):
They don't need to play him. So hey, you know,
you could kind of sit here and say, hey, the
Browns are showing great confidence in chaudor Sanders, but really
else you couldna put out there.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
There's a great meme that started making the rounds last
night out there man in the aftermath, I don't know
if you've seen it before, where it's a bunch of
kids and like they're splashing around. So if you want
to go and let your brain go the worst place,
it's like they're flailing to try to stay afloat, right,
they're struggling, and then you've got somebody inserted off on
(19:56):
the side who's kind of looking in at them. And
then there's the second part art as you move your
eyes down, someone's chained to a chair and it's a skeleton,
and they were putting all the names of the Browns quarterbacks.
The people are struggling, there's Hungley coming in because he hasn't.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Been there yet.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
And then well in that chair is Deshaun Wattson. So
all of that to say, is a chair.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Like underwater, like he's delivering Colonel Sanders down to Davy
Jones Locker.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Right, exactly what you start believing in stories, you're in one,
that's kind of where we're at. So yeah, Schador gets
the A day after you start talking about, well how
short is the the rain for him in Cleveland, It's like, well,
here you go, you get first reps.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Fantastic for we'll be back to the fantastic. Now you've
got Franklin is in Tyler Huntley. They got Franklin. They
got five quarterbacks. Now. No, but to be serious about
this for a second, right, Really, you could look at
it and say, hey, the Browns are giving you this shot, right,
that's awesome, And you can say, boy, but who is
it really gonna be? But I want to say because
this would show and the Browns could prove that, hey,
(21:05):
we're actually a big league organization, right, We're not just
some kind of crazy ass team that just does the
draft like we're walking into a fantasy draft with no prep,
right trying to figure out our quarterback situation. We'll take
Dylan Gabriel. Boy, I tell you he's really good, but boy,
he is not big. And we'll take Shador Sanders after
we pass on him four times and then make him
believe that he's our future when we got him in
(21:27):
the fifth round. But you can show that you are
a big boy franchise and you really do do business well,
and not just the way we think you've been doing
it for the past few years. If he plays well,
he keeps the gig, right, If he plays well when
the lights go on, now give him a little bit
of extended play. You have to, right, you only have
a couple of guys on the roster, so it's not
(21:48):
like you know, schaudroor Sanders is going to have a
cameo appearance. Like Shador Sanders should probably play the entire
first quarter into the second quarter most likely, right because
if you're because flack Flacko's not going to play with
the backup, so you have guys that are really gonna
need to see some time. So this should be some
extended time for Shador Sanders. Now, is he playing with
backups a lot of it? Sure? Is he playing against
(22:09):
other teams backups, Yes, But if he plays well, let
him keep the gig until he shows you he can't
do it. You know why, because you got to see
him at some point, right and you gotta see you
got you have to see Shador Sanders at some point
this season. Right now. We went through this whole great
story a week ago where I think all four guys
are gonna start now, maybe all five fantastic, Fine, all
four guys are gonna start at some point this year
(22:30):
for the Browns. But you're gonna need to see Shador
stand No matter what, the guy you need to see
this year play quarterback is Shador Sanders. Right, you cannot
see if it came to it. Do you really need
to see Dylan Gabriel?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Do you need to see Kenny picking his baby hands?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Do you need to see Joe Flacca again?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Do you need to see Tyler hunt leet know? But
you need to see Shador Sanders. He's the guy that
the team needs to see, that, the franchise needs to see, that,
the fans need to see. You need to see him.
So if he's playing, well, okay, let him run with
a little bit. I'm not saying give the job. I'm
not crazy. I mean I'm a little crazy. But if
he as long as he shows that I'm not overwhelmed,
I can make the throws. Because that's all. That's the
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big thing I always look at for quarterbacks beginning of
the year, when they get into game, do they look
like they just need some time, but they're not overwhelmed?
By the moment, overwhelmed by the situation. And if he
is not, and he plays well, guess what, shau Drew
Sanders gets your first team reps in practice, and because
you've got to give somebody first team reps, then you
gotta let him because you need to see him at
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some point. And the faster you see him, the faster
you know if either you somehow got your quarterback of
the future and present, or hey, we got to move
on from him, and it's Arch Manning next year, and
it's Kenny Pickett in week three, and Dylan Gabriel in
week five and Brian Sipe in week eight, and then
it's Joe Flacco. But you need to see him at
some point, So why not if he plays well enough,
let him run with the gig for a while, because
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you have to. So Trey Lance, no, I no, the
Jets are gonna get Trey Lance. We need Trey Lance
because Justin Fields is terrible.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But we'll get Dan.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Let's let's full into or say.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Let that marinate a second. I think some of the
discussion with this is it's just the obvious, right, you
got a couple of injuries that preclude them. I don't
know why you had decideswipe picket like that, But I
mean that's that's just showing your.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Your hatred towards well, towards.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Kenny Pickett and what he could or could not be
now that he's no longer shackled by the offensive constraints
in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Oh wait, he's gone to Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
It really is the big question of how quickly they're
giving up on the season, right, because if you're gonna
try to install Shdor Sanders, you're basically for Jimmy has
limits the fun of watching the sort of damnicles hanging
over Andrew.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Berry over there. This is his guy, this is the
guy you wanted.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
And with every bad tempt, bad interception of futile possession
that it becomes clear and clear that you have a
change in your front off imminent. But for Shador Sanders,
you might as well showcase and see what you've got.
We've talked about the fact that you do have four five.
(25:12):
We'll see how many more guys come walking through that
door before it's all over that maybe there's someone that says, well,
we'll fix him and we'll take him off your hands
and you can get back a late round pick again
talking completely there, or you're just you're validated by the
pick and you just say let's roll the dice because
(25:32):
are over unders four and a half. Anyway, we never
die with this situation.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
This is not a season, this is not everybody knows.
This is where we're starting over, whether it's arch Manning
a year from now or Shador Sanders here. Hey, we
had a run, and you know now we're dismantling the
team and clearly we're in a tank mode for this
year because look at what we're doing at quarterback. But again,
you need to see him. So if he shows that
he's ready, okay, and I'm not saying he's got I
don't know he's gonna be great, But as long as
(25:58):
it's not too big for you, you can playing until
he came.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But anymore, there's been nothing coming out of the camps
that that I've seen in any edited uh data and
video that's you know, been like, oh, he's electrifying. I
know we had a couple of those throws early on.
With quarterbacks, you gotta see him play, and that's whole thing.
You gotta see him when the lights go on, non
go through practice all the time and they can be good, bad,
and different. But you gotta see him when the lights
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go on and the lights are on, and you know
you're gonna get the great effort from him because he's
not a veteran where hey, it's the preseason.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I'm gonna play. If you know, he's gonna play just
like he played in college. He'sna played with the same
sort of fire and and and attention to detail that
he played with in college. You were gonna get his best.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
You know what, Travis Hunter is not walking through that door.
You're not playing a bunch of second great secondaries as
we saw uh with great regularity on those Colorado schedules. Oh,
by the way, he didn't win those games either. Just
you know, a nice little reminder, Uh in all of.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
His color didn't win a lot in college. And he
all right, bad example, sorry, go ahead, sorry and Bilds.
I mean, are they gonna say why a side swipe
and smoking Jacob?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I just you took Vanderbilt in a little little different circumstances.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Someone's got to lift a program. But Kyle McCord lifted
Syracuse up to a big Bowl game last year in
ten wins. Kyle McCord did it in Syracuse.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Do you take money?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, I'm sure lot stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
That's the other part of the college stuff that I
love is you know it's like it's all above board.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Now I's like, no, it's not.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Who ain't kidding yourself in transparency?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
My ass?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
But it comes back to the question here. Remember Joe Flacco,
even when he won Comeback Player of the Year, Joe
Flacco was not terribly efficient. They won games in spite
of him.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, yeah, they did yet all right because.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
His touchdown the interception ratio wasn't exactly otherworldly. Uh, they
scored just enough and the defense did their job kind
of like you've been hoping they We'll talk about the
Jets and they're sixteen to ten wins.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Perhaps that was Joe flaccam. I mean him for the
books part.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Maybe a little higher scoring, but it all came down
to what Miles Garrett and that defense were able to
give him.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
So here we are, Yeah, say he's running, let him
run with it, man, let him do it just so
why not? Right? Like Kevin cost at the end of
For Love of the Game, when they bring up the
kid that that day he played with the kid's dad
and he meets him before the game, and they go
now batting, you know, of course, because actually do you
send a rookie up to reckon no hitter in the
middle of the.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Pendanties now now available on streaming it. But he looks
at the kid coming up, he goes, ah, why not? Right, like,
here's the last out?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Why not? Like if you're the brown, why not? If
he's good, why not let him keep the gig? What
else are you doing? What are you really doing here?
Ruining him forever?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Talking now to find out what one franchise that passed
out him repeatedly wrong, firing Andrew Berry.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
We got what's trending right now in the wide world
of sports. But guy who's been called the Joe Flacco
of Fox Sports Radio again, most of the time he
sits on his couch, but then he shows up and
does great stuff. It's Steve Disaga slightly for him. I
am starting to get people on social media give sample
introductions for me that they want me to say to
you when I introduce you.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
It seems never ending.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, well I'll do one next hour.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Speaking as the person in this chair, it seems never ending.
Rookie quarterback shoud Or Sanders will start the Browns preseason
opener on Friday, and Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson will start
Thursday's exhibition against the Ravens. Then quarterback Daniel Jones will
start next week for the Colts. Bengals QB Joe Burrow
and other starters will play several series on Thursday's Thursday's
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game against the Eagles, however, the Seahawks will sit most
of their starters on Thursday. Saints running back Alvin Kamara
will not play Sunday at the Chargers. The Chargers signed
free agent wide receiver Keenan Allen one year, eight point
five million dollars. Wide receiver Mike Williams had retired. The
La Rams gave running back Kyron Williams a three year extension.
We're twenty three million dollars guaranteed. He's going into the
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final year of his rookie contract. Tampa Bay signed veteran
quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, although Kyle Trask is still the backup there.
Bucks starting QB Baker Mayfield returned to practice today after
a bruised hand. On Thursday, they'll have a joint practice
with the Titans in the WNBA wins for Chicago and
New York, although Angel Reese is still out for Chicago
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and Breonna Stewart is still out for New York. In
Major League Baseball, the Reds are leading in the bottom
of the ninth at Wrigley five to one over the Cubs,
who might be down four games in the standings back
of the first place Brewers in the NL Central because
Milwaukee has already won. They won five in a row,
seven to the final in Atlanta. Winning pitcher Freddie peraltis
thirteen and five and the Brewers record the last sixty
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games is forty four and sixteen. Boston pitcher Garrett Crochet
is thirteen and four. After the victory at Fenway tonight
six to two over Kansas City, the Red Sox have
won seven in a row. The Yankees are getting shut
out in the ninth. That is just going final apparently
two nothing Texas with some late scoring. This was scoreless
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for quite some time now. Back in the lineup is
Aaron Judge of the Yankees, off the injured list today
after the elbow problem.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Can't throw. He's the DH.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
He's zero for three with two strikeouts, and it is
final Texas to nothing with two runs in the eighth.
The first place Blue Jays are up here.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
It comes Gita to manager Yankees. Here we comes.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
Actually, they could just use him to hit at this point.
They went two for twenty eight at the plate in
this game. I bet at age fifty you could get
it hit.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
It probably a better shortstop still at this point than Volty.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Oh yeah, if you've seen Volpi this year, Yeah, you're
not kidding a first place Blue Jays up seven to
four and the seventh at Colorado. If the Rockies lose,
their record will be thirty and eighty three this season.
The Rays are already up seven to nothing on the
Angels in the top of the fifth, Mariner's three to
one over the White Sox. Bottom of the fourth, Dodgers
tied two to two with the Cardinals in the second.
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Max Munsey with a first inning homer for La Padres,
tied two to two at Arizona.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
In the fourth.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Road wins for Houston, San Francisco and Minnesota What's left
of him Gotta win at Detroit six to three. The
a Sheha Langeliers hit three solo homers sixteen to seven.
Athletics wanted Washington. The Nats have lost six in a row,
and yes, there were ball games in the NL East tonight.
The first place Phillies lead by two and a half
over the Mets. Phills five nothing beating Baltimore, while the
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Mets lost at home three to two to Cleveland. The
Mets offense went four for twenty nine, so actually better
than the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it doesn't matter. I just I'm
a sneaking suspicion. The Mets have sniffed first place for
the last time this year. Yeah, a good run.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
We're not even through the first week of August.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Steve, We've been terrible for two and a half months.
Steve's been awful.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
You should have seen my guy out in the hallway
try to rationalize all this been awful. He was gazing
and walking in a circle like he was trying to
create a safe space for aliens.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I've gone. I've gone from thinking I can't believe the
Mets are on the slide for two months and now
thinking it's amazing we're still ten games over five hundred.
The fact the Mets can't hit and a starting pitcher
can't get out of the fifth inning, how are we
ten games over five hundred right now?
Speaker 7 (33:01):
It's Mets and Padres, the last two wild card teams
in the Yeah, it doesn't look like anybody's gonna catch
those two, right.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
The other fun fact though, Steve, go back to the
Yankees a second. Since June first, the White Sox have
as many wins as the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Ow Gina. Gina's coming in to save it all. Thank you, Steve,
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Speaker 2 (33:42):
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Speaker 1 (33:49):
Can't go five innings? Our starting pitchers think we're gonna
be the bed und of the play of the night.
You got five out of him? What five on them?
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Speaker 2 (34:04):
Mike three four five.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
We got a big quarterback Derby to tell you about
coming up in a couple of minutes. But first we
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the day.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Hits it back up the middle base hit into center field,
caps coming around third will score. The throw to third,
the slide the tag safe advancing the second on the
throw is kwond Cleveland take SETH three to two lead.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, there it is Guardians Radio Network on the call
telling you, man, the Mets have sniffed first place for
the last time this year. It has just been a steady,
slow stream. This suck. That's what it's been.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Man.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
That ball had eyes, That was a slow ruler. That
was the painful thing. If you're a fan, like all right,
we're gonna get I mean, we're not the.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yankees who absolutely we are absolutely in way worse shape
unless Gina comes in. But i mean still, it's it's
it's rough, it's really rough. Well, it's it's hard times.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
It's not the hard times Dusty Rhodes talked about all
those years ago for the oil workers, the steel mill
workers and all those folks. But for Mets fans who
had great hope on promise of great things, it's all
been torn asunder. And now Kyle Schwarzer cannot be stuck. Oh,
he's gonna have seventy home runs and seventy five RBI
this year.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
It's gonna be So we talked a few minutes ago
about your quarterback decision is starting to get made for
Week one NFL preseason, Srdor Sanders will start for the
Browns and in Indianapolis, Anthony Richardson will start for the Colts. Oh,
Anthony richards win. No, Daniel Jones is gonna wind up
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winning this job. Okay, And I'll tell you exactly why
they still have a lot invested in Anthony Richardson. It's
still a neck and neck competition. They have both looked
so far. In camp. Hey, sometimes they have bright moments,
but generally it's kind of been a flat competition between
the two. But Daniel Jones is gonna win simply because
after you read about what Shane Stike and head coach
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says he wants from the quarterback, tell me who this
sounds like. He said he wants the offense to be clean.
They want to protect the ball, play situational football, be consistent,
move the offense up and down the field. That is
not Anthony Richardson. Okay, that's not Anthony Richardson. Has not
played enough football. He's been hurt, he's been ineffective. He's
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not suddenly going to be this guy. And you're gonna
see a big push in the NFL now to go
away from quarterbacks that haven't played enough in college. Right
the old Bill Parcells, I wouldn't draft quarterback unless he
had fifty starts in college foot or forty starts in
college football over the coursers. That was a big thing.
You're gonna start seeing teams go back then and get
away from I'm just wowed by the guy's talent because
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Richardson has not been able to be consistent enough. He's
not been able to pick up the position. He's not
been able to stay healthy. Daniel Jones, what's the one.
The guy's been consistent, He's been in the lineup, he
has started for a long time. He's started a lot
of games. You have a lot of weapons in Indianapolis.
But when you hear the coach say, I want to
clean offense, protect the football, which is not what Anthony
Richardson does. Right, situational football, consistency, all of these things,
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this is what Daniel Jones does. Does he do them great? No?
But can he do them well enough? Because the Colts
offense is that loaded with talent. Absolutely. You have four
terrific wide receivers, you have a really fantastic running back,
you drafted what could be a great tight end. Like
this offense can explode and you don't need some kind
of crazy talent to do it. You just need a
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guy that can execute. You need a Sam Darnold to
come in and have the kind of season like he
had with the Vikings last year. Hey, I'm in trouble,
It's gonna throw it to Justin Jefferson. What, okay, gohe
That'll be fine. So Daniel Jones is gonna be this guy.
You know, Anthony Richmond will get a chance to show you,
but I've not seen it. And now you're talking about
three plus years into his NFL career. He just hasn't
played enough, man, and that's a really difficult thing. So yeah,
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when it comes down to it, Daniel Jones ex giant
Daniel Jones. He's gonna be the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
But what comes down for him? Can he stay healthy?
And I just had to look up his hand size,
since you decided to swipe Kenny Pickett before nine born
seven five inches falls within the range. So the fact
that he fumbles the ball a lot stump much more problematic.
We can't just equate that to hand size. But when
Jones has been on the field, we go back a
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couple of years ago before he got paid, and everybody
gets mad, it's not your money, shut up?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
The The thing with Jones was we're gonna build around
and we saw enough proof of concept with Dable that
he was gonna take that next step forward. Right, maybe
the numbers would fall in line, but you played good,
operationally efficient football and your td'd interception ratio was okay.
When Saquon Barkley was healthy and all of those things. Well,
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now you got Jonathan Taylor. As you mentioned, you look
at all these wide receivers. You also have a very
interesting part for Shane Steichen is you don't know what
his length of time there is. I mean, Jim Orsay
tragically passed away. Right, He's a guy that had for
years wanted to do it his way, right, And you
saw that with Ballard, and they would bring in band
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aid guys, veteran quarterbacks to try to move things along
after the abrupt retirement of Andrew Luck. Right, we saw
Matt Ryan, we saw Philip Erves, we saw these guys.
Well then they go the other way and you bring
in a guy and Anthony Richardson. To this point, the
most damning thing from all the turnovers, health issues, protect yourself,
all of that stuff, is when he tapped out of
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a game because he was tired. You're still trying to
win people back, including your coach, because you make him
look like an ass in that process.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
What I would like to go out there, but I
just want to sit down and play a couple of games. Yeah,
I'm gonna playing some Solitaire and then spider Solitaire, I
mean on next level and they'll be ready to go
back out. Spider tired right now.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
So yeah, Richardson will start the first game, they said.
In the second game, that'll flop Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
He will be your quarterback. You cheat. Doctor Jones exit
al Valda Fresca, exit Swollen Dome. Speaking of quarterback, one
team said, hey, you gotta be patient with our guy. WTF,
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