November 8, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if USC has a chance to keep its College Football Playoff hopes alive. We celebrated the Evansville 6/7 celebration, which was so good. 49ers NFLs most frustrating team? And Jason thinks Indian Football has officially become America’s team in 2025!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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you hear a lot of Mike Harmon growling and being
upset and maybe dropping some words that are not FCC complyiant,
please understand he is very much wrapped up in Northwestern
and USC right now. On Big Fox fourteen fourteen, midway
(01:12):
through the second quarter, Hey, we're up fourteen and a half.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Okay, you know what, naturally your defense being played by
either squad at this junction, it was great.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You still have bowl, get bold birth things. You can
they win tonight They're going to the bull No, no, no, no, wait, no,
wait a minute. Now, you can't sit here and say, hey,
I'm going winning by the points bread and then say,
after we win tonight, pick one. Either hey, we're gonna lose,
but we're gonna cover, or we're gonna win. Pick one.
You gotta pick one. We're waiting out right.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
But you know, it's always nice to have the plus
fourteen and a half in the back pocket.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, unfortunately, I do not think bulls actually take a
look at that and go, you know, I don't think
you they were five and seven, but against the spread
they were seven and five. We can send them to
a bowl.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well, five or seven gets you to a bowl. These days,
you get.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Okay, they were four and eight, but now they're really
eight and four. We could send to the Bad Boy
Mower's Bowl. They can go to the Pin Strike Bowl
and play in New York City outdoors in late December.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Why not, depending on who's voting. Remember, though, some of
those arguments we had early in the season, I mean,
that can get you into a playoff Berth. I mean,
come on, I can be five and seven and roll
through there.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Come on, eh. Now, look now this is the best
part of the year in college football. Why well, we're
into November. Obviously we're getting three four weeks out from
big rivalry games. But these are now elimination games coming
up in the college football playoff. Now, Northwestern is not
going to the playoff oblously, they're five and three, but
USC ranked nineteenth at six and two. This is an
(02:45):
elimination game for them. They lose this game, they're cooked.
They're not going to the College Football Playoff. And we
have so many of them coming. I mean, really, BYU
and Texas Tech might be an elimination game because how
many Big twelve teams are getting in. Right, you see
these teams with two losses that are playing tomorrow. If
Missouri loses to Texas A and M one of the
big games tomorrow, Missouri is out. Iowa is ranked twentie.
(03:07):
If they lose to Oregon, that's three losses, they're out.
If somehow Syracuse beats Miami, not happening, Miami is out.
Vanderbilt at sixteen, great story, Vanderbilt, awesome. They lose to Auburn,
They're out of the playoff. Right Washington and Wisconsin. Wisconsin's
terrible this year. I won five of the Big ten,
but Washington loses. That's three losses. They're out. It is eliminating.
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These now start to be elimination games for a lot
of teams in college football. And before you get a
little crazy, Navy Notre Dame. Hey, not telling you how
I'm gonna pick that game, but I'll tell you how
I'm gonna pick that game. Navy's pretty good. It's gonna
be all Notre Dame can do to win this game.
But it's also an elimination game for them. As much
as people like Notre Dame in their tenth right now
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really overrated. So this is the best Barry. Now we're
into November and those two loss teams, there is so
much pressure and for everybody who says ah with the
twelve ten not as No. There's pressure because instead of
it's just for more teams. Because instead of well there's
two or three teams that can't afford that second loss,
now there's like eight or ten teams that can't afford
(04:10):
that third loss. So you actually increase the number of
teams with the anxiety filled elimination games that you did
have in the playoff before. But this weekend begins, it's
elimination weekend. You get to that third loss, you are
likely out because maybe, if things go absolutely nuts, one
team with three losses is gonna make it into the playoff.
(04:30):
But that's you're hoping against hope for something like that.
You're really hoping that things go absolutely off the rails.
But really, you get to that third loss, you are out.
It is an elimination game for USC and a host
of teams this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, as we look at the playoff rankings currently sitting there,
I mean, you got Notre Dame at their two losses,
and then we shuffle up and deal as we go.
There's twenty seven and a half point favorites. I want
to know what your guy A Jelly would have been
worth because you're twenty eight and a half point dogs
against Miami.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Oh we would well, well let's see, if we had Angelly,
we'd be undefeated, so we'd probably be favorable.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that alternate universe. I
opened the door and you came kicking it in, going
gotta I never.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Feel good about my team when the points spread is
more points than we're going to score in the game,
like that never fills me with hope that we're gonna win,
Like we're not scoring twenty eight bar offenses off Really
I could make I could make an argument for Steve
Angeli being the Heisman Trophy winner in college. No team's
fortunes changed more after he got hurt than Steve Aangels.
We're three and one, we'd be clemsing I'm doing I'm
(05:33):
doing backflips and he tears his achilles and now we
just can't win.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
We can't feel like there should be a three to
four minute political style rant of you in a suit
making your case and behind it a bunch of Angelly highlights.
You can't have the injury, but the highlights and you
roll from there.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So I like all of that, But I'm not wearing
a suit. Why would I wear a suit? Like I know,
a Syracuse hoodie something like, I'm not wearing a suit.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
No, But I mean, every once in a while, they
we still make guys that are doing fantasy advice dress
up in suits on which is that's true? It was
always dumb, and it's even dumber in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Okay, wait, now I actually have a great story about
that before we get to before we get to a
surprise I have for you and Frostburg and everybody's a
good surprise for you. Well, I will say this, it's
a It can be a good surprise. It might be
an awful surprise. There is that.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh great.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But when you say about you know, people dressing up fantasy,
you know people dressing up doing fantasy shows. When when
I was doing Fantasy Live at an NFL network and
we were talking about what we wanted to wear, what
wanted to look like, and a lot of the guys
got The guys said, well, you know, we should wear
suit and ties. Everything I said, Eh, I said, I
don't know, we need to wear ties now me, I
don't want to wear ties. But I'm like, look, I
(06:49):
think a couple of things. One, I think it's fantasy.
It gives the show a different look from where were,
you know, from the other shows. And at the very
least it'll say that's a show nobody wears ties, right, No,
we wear ties on that show.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
It'll give us a different look. It's more comfortable, it
gives a visual of being more relaxed. Plus I didn't
want to wear a tie, but I felt the other
way too. And the guys are like, no, no, no, no,
I think we should. I think we should. Some people listen,
they said, no, all right, we'll wear ties. I'm like, okay,
we wear ties. We go to the super Bowl to
do our show, and we're all on the set and
it's blazing hot, and it's absolutely blazing hot. And one
(07:26):
of the guys on the set after all season just
is absolutely done and he goes, whose idea was it
to wear ties this year? And I wanted to get
up and walk off the set. I want to just
walk off and go. I delivered it to you. I
delivered it to all of us. No ties, but you
guys wanted to wear ties. Great, well, so we wore
ties all season long. Guess what next year we didn't
(07:46):
wear ties.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Okay, long road begins with that first step, and there
needs to be that crushing blow and big moment that
well begets changed. And evidently that all you needed was
a super high super Bowl said.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yes, that's all it was. Now the surprise on a
Friday night. Now, I'm gonna give you a hint here
because I'm going to say this is gonna be really fun.
But there are a lot of adults that are not
going to like this, right, adults not gonna like this.
I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
We're gonna find out.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Well for this, Yes you do. You qualify for this
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Speaker 2 (08:55):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh, college football. We got a big play, a big
no NHL. Someone's scored there five hundredth goals, six hundred No.
It comes to us from a college basketball game involving
Indiana's favorite sons, the University of Evansville. And all you
need to know is they were taking a three pointer
and here is your play of the day.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Angst building in the crowd, Huddley three yes and the phone.
And these kids are going nuts over something I know
nothing about, and that's okay.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
They want the six to seven score on the board.
It's there because.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Of that three Chris Quinnett encouraging them with the motion.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
The kids are going crazy. And if you see, if
you see those.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Fans, oh, six seven seven, that will be a meme.
I guarantee ESPN will be playing that those times.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
And there was there is your play of the Daymsville TV, ESPN,
the six to seven three pointer to give Evansville sixty
seven points.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And you see the kids in the stands are going nuts.
And this is why I say some people are gonna
love this. Some adults are gonna go, oh, come on, man,
another six seven, come on, six seven. I got a
feeling this is gonna be it all year, or at
least for the through the rest of this calendar year.
When someone gets to sixty seven points in college basketball,
it's gonna be a big thing. There's gonna be six
seven celebrates. Everybody's gonna do the six seven with their hands.
(10:28):
Six seven, sixty seven. Uh, this is now gonna be
a thing for at least the next couple of months. Okay,
it's already a thing for a minute. You're one of
those adults, Well, my kids are already.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You know it's done.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It's it's not, dude, it's not done. It's it's it
just hit the mainstream like three weeks ago. Nothing out
there since like December, though, it's been out there for
It's like the Floss the dance where it was been
out there for a while but then it suddenly got
really popular like that. That's kind of that's kind of
what it was, like, Oh, it's been hasn't a stands
been out for a few weeks? Yeah, but now it's popular.
(11:03):
Oh okay, seven.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
It makes its way to the adults. I'm told they
move on to other things. Evansville Purple Aces with ninety
two fifty win over Taliumet College.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You knew they were getting a sixty seven and now,
I mean, I wonder if how much of that because
it's a deep three that he takes to get to sell, Like,
I gotta make sure I can't hit a two I got.
We can't get to sixty six and then go to
sixty eight, right, we can't. No, no, no, we got
to get to sixty seven so we can do six seven.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I mean you gotta give what you gotta give the
kids what they want. Yeah, no, I'm not hating on it.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I'm just here. You were. You were one of those. No,
you took a big, deep breath and wet six seven.
I really thought it was gonna be something more exciting.
I mean, you built it up. I gotta be pretty
on a Friday night. Okay, man, that's positivity on a Friday.
Six seven. Come on. I couldn't bring back Blake Snell
asking yamamoda what games that we went in Toronto and
him going six seven. We had to have something new
(12:02):
tonight with this. And now I guarantee you it's gonna
happen in college basketball. It might happen in college football,
like Miami may do that when they get to sixty
seven against Syracuse, but like it may happen, but in
college basketball absolutely for.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Football purposes, I think you take the fifteen yard penalty
as and do it as a group at midfield. If
you score sixty seven on somebody, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I don't think you have a choice at that moment.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think the referees are just gotta look at you
and be like, yeah, that's you know what you were
in that one.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
You look over to the other coach on the team
and you kind of shrug your shoulders and he gives
you the way he goes, yeah, I get it, Tori,
I get it. I get it, and he just he
starts doing the six seven six seven six seven six seven, okay,
six seven six seven. See that's the thing about this, right,
because this is why now it's hit a new level
of popularity because for a while, yes, the six to
seven thing was popular in the schools and you read
(12:47):
all over the internet what does six seven mean? And
in the beginning it was a gesture that didn't really
mean anything. It meant how do you feel about something? Eh,
six seven meaning I could take or leave it. It's
not that great. It's not a six seven. But since
when it's gotten even more popular, it's just the mention
of the words now, make it something. Now. It doesn't
even mean to need to be anything. It's just anytime
(13:09):
you hear six seven, or you get to six and
then someone says seven, it becomes a thing where people
go crazy. It's like chicken jockey for Minecraft, here's a
chicken jockey and everybody goes crazy in the theater. Why,
I don't know, they just are. So it's kind of
that's why this has hit that next level of popularity
where now you don't need to say it in a
situation like a punchline. Now, anytimes it comes up, it's
(13:33):
just a reason to celebrate it. Like you say the
word six, someone says seven, everybody's just yelling. Wow, I
mean yelling is always uh, I mean that's what we
do on the radio. I mean, so it's only appropriate. No,
I mean you start looking up famous athletes tour six
feet seven inches.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I mean we could start doing lists of those.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, oh yea yeah, sure, yeah. I mean it's too
bad that. You know, the guy was seven to nine
for Florida that made his debut, right, Like he wasn't
like seven six. You could say, ah, seven six six sevens.
I've said, it's too bad it took a little bit shorter.
Maybe we get we get wenby to seven six, we
can say hey seven six six seven. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
But see, once you get to that hike, can't you
just claim whatever the hell you want?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
What isn't that what the NBA did for years. Anyway,
that guy's not seven b tall. Eh, he claims to
be the greatest showman. Ah, I know you're five hundred pounds, but.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm pretty sure you can. I'm pretty sure. It's easy
to say. Yeah, know, Wemby's over seven ft. What I'm
saying seven eight?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, but once we're past seven ft, I mean everybody's
tall to me.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
So I mean you could be six two or six seven.
I mean it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Six seven six EEPs. So you're six seven six.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Seven sised to be afraid of seven.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
When you're sick. You know, you know, you know why?
You know? Because six eight seven because seven eight nine.
That's one of my favorite jokes.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Wait to set that one up, being good word.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But you know what I have my I have, I
have Okay, I have my better uh six to seven joke? Right, Okay,
you're ready for this one? Okay? Hang on? Why does
Yoda hate? Hang on? Why I go? I want to
get it right. I want to get right. I want
to get right. Why does Yoda hate seven? Okay, six
(15:19):
hate seven? Because seven eight nine?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Why does Yoda hate seven?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Why does Yoda hate seven?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
He stay tuned to find out.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But now I'm gonna say it. Now, I tell you why. No,
we got we got football with hey numbskulls. We got
NFL games to pick coming up. I'm gonna give you
the punch line, Yoda hate seven because six seven eight, boy,
think about it, think about it. It hates a good one.
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Happy Friday, everybody. Some weirdly painted courts in the National
Basketball Association.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
To get tivity Friday, Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from
the Fox Sports Radio Studios usc is in the end zone,
Jade Maiva goes in on a scramble. He is now
thirteen out of seventeen for one hundred and thirty six yards,
a passing touchdown, and a rushing touchdown. Usc with the
lead over Northwestern, so we'll have more college football on
(16:16):
the way. Got a big night in the NBA as well,
but coming up next, it is time to start picking
our big games Week ten of the National Football League.
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Playoff elimination game for the USC Trojans. They are on
top of Northwestern extra point pending right now twenty to fourteen.
Mike Harmon and his purple shorts, purple underwear, purple socks.
He dyed his tongue purple today by eating a purple
grape pop. He is very nervous right now for his wildcats.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I wouldn't call it nervous, Bob. Look the expectations I
temper them, ride the lightning as it were, the fact
that you had what looked to be a touchdown by
a big defensive lineman that gets the ball, gets knocked
out and goes through the end zone when you get
hit by the quarterback chasing down the plane. Yeah, the
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indignity of such a thing. Northwestern should have been up
seven or at least down at the one instead. Hey,
it's a touchback. USC then rips off a huge run
and now they're into the end zone once again.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Jade Maiva with a Heisman Trophy season saving play for US.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
See, boy, look at that. That's how you sell, sell
sell right there, I do dig the cut of your
jim trying to save it as it were.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
So another big football Friday. Look, every week is a
football Friday. And now that there's no World Series, Hey, okay,
football Friday doesn't have to share with anyone. We can
have all of the headlines. Now we have all of
we have all the head What about the cups? Like
what the okay, okay, I'll give you the okay, the
NBA Cup. Also going on, check some highlights out there
(18:59):
you go. Oh, it's a highlight league, Mi Carmen highlight league.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Especially when the Bulls get drummed in the fourth quarter
by the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, I mean listen, apparently as good as the Bulls
have started, you are not an NBA Cup caliber team. No,
you are not a Cup team. You are you have
a lot of work to do.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Let's go back vanquished by the king like Ken Jong
was there ready to take him out island.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I know exactly who this team is. You went from
five to one, and now you have all kinds of problems.
You're not a cup team. When there's no pressure, you
were great. But now you put the NBA Cup out.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Look what happens to All of a sudden you changed
the color of the court and they forgot out of
play basketball.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I don't know, man, I don't know. I don't know.
Uh So, Big Football Friday will take a look at
a couple of the big college football games coming up
in about fifteen minutes. But let's start with the NFL
this week and the news today that we are going
to get another week of Alabama Mac Mike Harmon very
very excited. You can wear his Alabama Mac Jones. Shirsey
(19:58):
Mac Jones will start for the forty nine ers this
week one of the games of the week against the Rams.
It's a late game on Fox six and two. Rams
six and three forty nine ers. And let me just
say this, before we picked this game, let me go
back to what we said a few weeks ago because
it plays into what we've seen this week with Kyler
Murray and Jacoby Brissett. Right, okay, this is the end
(20:21):
of Kyler Murray in Arizona. We told John Monday he's
likely played his last game as an Arizona Cardinal. Congratulations
to all the ESPN, to all the people who took
that take today and said Kyler Murray's playing his last
down for the Arizona Cardinals. Yeah, four days ago. Wait,
wait to go, I guess maybe if you want to
take a take that we had an average take that
we had four days ago and wait four days thinking,
(20:43):
no one's gonna know. Yeah, okay, that's fine, But congratulations
for taking that take. The reason is, obviously they've seen
the best of Kyler Murray. And when Jacoby Brissett is
giving you the same sort of production, well, are you
real and not that you're going in on Jacoby Brissette
being your your end all be all, But okay, if
our backup is giving us the same production, the offense
(21:04):
is producing a little bit better, why are we going
forward with Kyler Murray, right, so they'll look to move
him in the offseason. Again. As I said Monday, he's
played his last down for the Cardinals. Now. A little
bit different of a sticky wicket is you look at
the forty nine ers who have again are now going
back to mac Jones for another week as Brock Purty
continues to reheb from injury. The same thing you can
(21:27):
say for mac Jones and Brock Purdy, we've said for
Jacoby Brissett and Kyler Murray, you are getting about the
same kind of production from mac Jones in this offense
that you have gotten from Brock Purdy. Right. Purty's not
been the same quarterback since bursting on the scene. The
thirty touchdown yere okay, great, he gets paid. The Broc
(21:48):
lipses upon us what happened once he got hurt? Hey,
you know what, mac Jones has come in and he's
played pretty good. I mean, not that mac Jones is
suddenly you know, twenty five touchdowns lead the league, but
he's ten touchdowns and five picks. He's on pace for
a twenty two and ten kind of season, you know,
maybe close to four thousand yards a little bit more
than four thousand yards passing, which really is kind of
(22:10):
what you've been getting from brock Purty. And so look
at the forty nine ers and you can say, man,
and this is part of the great head coach. Kyle
Shannon is right, he's a great offensive coach right there
with with Sean McVeigh is that man you paid brock
party and maybe you didn't have to. You know, there's
a few guys now that can come into this system
and succeed because every week, it's not like matc. Jones
(22:31):
is having, you know, a couple of four touchdown weeks.
Holding up his stats every week is pretty consistent. Couple
of touchdowns, couple of touchdowns, maybe touch a couple of
touchdowns and a pick throwing for you know, between two
and three hundred yards. Like that's kind of what you're
getting from It's what you got from brock Purty. And oh,
by the way, mac Jones doing this with basically all
(22:51):
of his weapons sideline right, Ricky Piersoll, Brandon Aiyuk, George
Kittle was out a long time. It's basically, hey, Christian,
don't get hurt man, because to anybody's names in the
huddle like, I'm looking at this year and I'm saying, man,
the forty nine ers are paying brock Party all that
money when they are paying mac Jones nothing to give
them the exact same production. This is why brock Party. Hey,
(23:14):
great story, good quarterback. We said you didn't need to
pay him, and now here's the proof that you really
didn't need to pay.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
No, but he always gets to the roll of the dice.
You think you can replicate in your system and guys
can come along, but you don't know how well that's
going to be replicated. So when a quarterback comes up,
what do you do? You get nervous. I gotta pay
this guy, because without one, life is pretty difficult. Jets
(23:40):
I mean right, I mean all those ex jets now
good and just keep going on down the line. All
of look until Caleb Williams. We've had, you know, fits
and starts for parts of My bears watching life, little
Jay Cutler celebration every once in a while, a couple
of big years from Eric Kramer thirty. I mean, you
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go all the way through, all right. There have been
some moments, but overall it's all right. There's not a
lot of trust of the guys that are running out
under center for the forty nine ers. Yeah, you've now
got proof of concept that Mac Jones found the system
that was going to take it forward. I always thought
he had one until Bill Belichick just started throwing stuff
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up at a wall decided Matt Patricia should be an
offensive coordinator. I don't know if he ever lost a bet.
I don't think we ever got that uncovered. But all
of a sudden, Alabama Mack was, well, they screwed him,
and if.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I shave my beard, you make me offensive coordinator?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Sure, whatever y'all do it.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Was there a drinking contest at a Halloween party that
I don't know, but you know he's a guy that's
now found a home. So yes, you are now in
the I guess enviable position to where you have a
backup who's good. Does it cause controversy, sure, but in
the short term that means if Rock Perdy can wait
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another week to play and you're good with it, than
all the better because not many teams had that luxury,
right if they're quite I mean, look at what we
watched yesterday. Okay, that game sucked, I dare even mention it.
But Gino Smith was a guy dragging his dead leg
back onto the field because they did not want the
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backup in they did not want on the sideline, but
exactly beat it. It's my team to throw this pick. No,
it's it was unconscionable. And we watched it with Carson
Wentz a couple of weeks ago. Why is this guy
still hanging out in the game because the other guy
is that much worse. That's where we're at. So for
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the forty nine ers, the luxury of we're playing well enough,
we feel good in this spot divisional game that you
can wait another week to get activated. That's that's not
a bad place to be. Probably makes you look at
your book a little differently to your point, But you know,
it's it's not always gonna work out that way.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Now for this game. Okay, But Jason, you love the Rams.
You keep saying you're not believing in the forty nine ers. Yeah,
all this stuff. Brock Purty, brock Purty, you're picking the Rams.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Well, you made fun of them just by calling them
Alabama Mac. That was not a of endearment. You did
not say that with any of you.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Wait a minute, you call them Alabama mack All the time,
but it Yeah, I could say, Alabama, Mack, can it
be the same thing. Yeah, you're dripping that. I am
not dripping with sarcasm.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Come all, go clean your bucket.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You think that I'd be okay, well the red I
am going to go the opposite way. Everything is telling
me the Rams should win this game, right. They're the
better team, They're not as injured. I told you last night.
Over the course of the next month, they're gonna build
themselves up to be the best team in the NFC.
I love them, I love everything about them. But these
are games where San Francisco sort of finds a way.
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I've seen it. I've seen it against the Rams in
the last couple of years, so earlier this year in LA.
I can see the Niners forcing enough turnovers, Christian McCaffrey
doing absolutely everything like he's done all year long. Oh,
by the way, you want to talk about a guy
MVP that's not getting enough love. And I can see
them winning a low scoring ball control game by a
field goal, and all of a sudden, the Rams are going,
(27:24):
how the hell do we lose two games with the
forty nine ers And I'm sitting here on Monday night going.
I still don't believe in the Niners, even though they
beat the Rams twice, and I think the Rams are great.
But I can see it happening this week. I have
that gut feel that this is one of those games
where San Francisco says, Okay, we're having a good year,
it's a big game for us, or we're falling a
game and a half back of first place and we
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don't want to get We're falling two games back in
the lost column, back of first place. We don't want
to do that. I can see the pressure of the
forty nine ers. I can see them coming through even
though they're injured. I love the under in this game
more than anything, but I can see Sam Francisco buy
a field goal and it being a frustrating loss for
the Rams.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Forty nine ers five and a half point home Dogs
forty nine and a half. Is your total? Here's your
Christian McCaffrey over under for total yards one fifteen and
a half.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Oh, I take the over on that. Are you kidding?
Who else is getting the football?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Brent Jones receiving yards fifty one and a half. See
Robinson knicks there in kittles at fifty two and a half,
Juwan Jennings forty seven and a half, a little bit
of DeMarcus Robinson mixing with prop bets as well. Look,
it's one of those I think you can run it
with McCaffrey third most targeted player in the National Football
(28:42):
League early and often Niku is back. The offensive compliments
are there, but running the football, you know, again, it's
been sporadic. We've had some big games from Kyron Williams
and Blake Korum and then some middling efforts, even with
San Francisco's defense banged up. Feels like a home opportunity
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for them here, so I'll take them to win outright.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Now, let's throw this out there because here's your big
hot take before we get to what's trending Atlanta and
Indianapolis in Berlin this weekend. Right, it's the early game,
burn up early. Everybody's make sure every you don't want
to lose a game like I did this year because
Jalen Warren was questionable and going to play and then
suddenly was inactive.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You could have gotten up and then hit and gone
back to bed.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
It's Sauce Gardner's debut for the Colts and it's exciting.
We're gonna see here. They are seven and two, Atlanta
at three and six. Now you want a hot take.
We have seen head coaches not come back from Europe
and be employed in the NFL. In the last couple
of years. We've seen that happen. Robert Sala the Falcons
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at three and five. They are too talented offensively to
be this bad. It doesn't make he says. You have
a first round quarterback, you have one of the top
two running backs in the game. You have a couple
of really good wide receivers, you have one of the
top four guys as far as target share in the game.
Not about winning and losing, but for the offense to
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be this bad, I mean, you've scored five more points
than the Saints this year, and the Saints are terrible,
and they're and Tyler Shuck playing quarterback. Shuck and Spencer
Rattler have accumulated one hundred and thirty eight points and
the Falcons have five more. If the Falcons lose this
game to the Colts and they come back at three
and six, I have a sneaking suspicion it might be
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the last game for Raheem Morris's head coach. Just because
this team is two has too much talent on offense
to be this bad. Something big is gonna happen. He's
had chances, he's a time to get it together. It's
not going There's got to be some kind of change.
You lose to the Colts in Berlin, which could happen
because the Colts offense, you know, is gonna score. I
can see this being his last game as head coach
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in Atlanta. He might be the next head coach out.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Six points spread Indianapolis favorite forty eight and a half
your total in this one. Look when you look at
the Atlanta Falcons, they've basically been a two man offense
this year. It's Bijon Robinson, It's Drake London, Kyle Pitch
shows up every once in a while. Ray Ray McCloud
got released. Darnell Mooney is gonna be healthy. Is over
under is at thirty three receiving yards. They need him
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to become a more complete with Michael Pennix has not
advanced in any way, shape or form. Defensively, they play
well on the edges, but you can run on them.
That's exactly what's gonna happen here. I think they get
bludgeoned with a lot of Jonathan Taylor and then Daniel
Jones finishes the job. I think they get blown out,
thus activating your potential. Hey, go do some sight seeing
(31:43):
and get a nice commemorative Stein for your effort.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Couple of
the big games on the NFL slate this weekend with
Bold Predictions. Time now to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. From Special Delivery Steve Desager
what he got for with my friend.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
Well Sola may have been fired, as you said, but
he's still keeping those receipts when he actus office.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah, he took those receipts absolutely.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
The forty nine Ers will start quarterback Mac Jones again Sunday,
hosting the Rams. Quarterback brock Party is questionable with the
tow injury. He's still been limited in practice. The Rams
will start kicker Harrison Meavis, but said kicker Joshua Carty
is not going anywhere. Texans quarterback c J. Stroud is
out this weekend with a concussion, and Houston kicker Kayimi
(32:29):
Fairbairn is out with a quad injury. Giants kicker Graham
Cano out with a neck injury, so Young Way who
will start. Washington quarterback Jaden Daniels will not need surgery
on his dislocated elbow. There is no ligament damage and
he will not immediately go on. Ir Commander's wide receiver
Terry McLaurin is out with a quad entry. Jacksonville wide
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receiver Brian Thomas is out with an ankle injury. He
misspractice all week. Tampa Bay running back Bucky Irving is
out with foot and shoulder injuries. For the Patriots, running
back Rimandre Stevenson out again with a toe injury. The
Raiders fired special teams coach Tom McMahon. Denver kicked the
go ahead field goal last night after a block pun
and Las Vegas missed a late field goal to College
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football is now halftime at the LA Coliseum on Fox
TV number nineteen. USC is leading Northwestern twenty one fourteen
early third quarter on FS one from Orlando u CEF
ahead of Houston twenty four to seventeen. The Houston Cougar
seven and two this year, Memphis eight and one is
losing it home to Tulane late in the first half.
(33:33):
Tou Lane twenty eight seventeen. As for the NBA Finals,
Cleveland won at Washington won forty eight to one fourteen.
The Wizard's now one and eight San Antonio into Houston's
five game winning streak one twenty one to one ten.
Spurs Guardiaron Fox will reportedly debut Saturday after hamstring surgery
wins for Orlando and Toronto. Detroit won it's fifth game
(33:55):
in a row. Memphis said Dallas to another loss one eighteen,
one oh four as Anthony Davis was out again with
a strain calf. Dallas is two and seven at Minnesota
Anthony Edwards thirty seven points in an easy win over
at Utah Minnesota one thirty seven ninety seven. The final
at Milwaukee forty one points for Jana Santennecompo and at
Bucks win against Chicago won twenty six one ten. Bulls
(34:19):
had been six and one. Miami beat Charlotte won twenty
six to one oh eight. There are two late games
in the NBA. Steph Curry is out tonight for the
Warriors due to illness. Nuggets at home leading Golden State
early second quarter thirty two to twenty six, and Oklahoma
City at eight and one is tied early second quarter
at Sacramento thirty two all for the Kings dementas Sabonis
(34:41):
out again with a rib injury. Austin Reeves of the
Lakers with a stray groin, will miss another game on Saturday.
Cam Thomas and the Nets could miss three to four
weeks with a strain hamstring. And college basketball North Carolina
beat Kansas eighty seven seventy four.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
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Speaker 2 (35:27):
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Speaker 1 (35:36):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah,
there we go Happy Friday, Positivity Friday. We get some
good workout of Harmon right now because USC and Northwestern
is at halftime, so he's focused in laser ready to
go here for the next few minutes, at least until
the third quarter.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Hit sure, because I've been so horribly distracted and out
of sorts.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
You just you just said Fitzgerald like seventeen different times
for no reason. You just blurted that out there.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Well, I mean we were having that conversation off air
about the conversations he's been having, the interviews he's been doing,
and whether he finds his way back on a college
sideline in the upcoming cycle with so many coaches being fired,
and let's face it, by the end of tomorrow, I mean,
what's the over under on coaches that lose their jobs tomorrow?
Two and a half.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
You called me Sam Simmons a few minutes ago. Nice, Yeah,
you like that. That's nice?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah that how about a little while Brian.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Musso, Sure, oh yeah, sure.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Yeah, No, that's good.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Now, big big ten game right now again, elimination game
for USA. They lose this, they're out of the playoff hunt.
They lead Northwestern by seven at halftime, A couple of
games to look at for tomorrow. The big nude kickoff
is Indiana and Penn State. Now we looked at this
game like a year ago, you would say, oh man,
Penn States favored by five touchdowns. Not only is Indiana
(37:03):
gonna crush Penn State, no one's gonna be surprised when
that happens. Indiana has is sort of becoming America's team
of twenty twenty five. Right, Hey, here's a college football
program that has zero history, has never really been any good,
even with Antoine Randall l or Anthony Thompson. But now
this is the greatest Indiana football has ever been, second
(37:26):
ranked in the country. Their quarterback is probably gonna be
the number one overall pick in the NFL draft. Like,
Indiana has become America's team, and they're gonna show up
tomorrow and get all kinds of national love. They're gonna
crush Penn State. For Nana, Mendozo is gonna get a
big boost in the Heisman race and potentially being the
number one overall pick, and either him or Dante morril
Goo number one most likely. But man, don't forget that
(37:49):
third gay pick you made fun of Alabama Mac that
other Alabama guys, the number one guy on the board. Right, listen,
I got stuff on Simpson coming up. Simpson, Ay, I
remember that name. But tomorrow is just it's gonna be
a big party day for Indiana and it's fun. God. Really,
I feel like they kind of are the America's team
(38:10):
here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Well, I mean, you got a coach who doesn't care. Right,
he's in his mid sixties. Nobody knew who he was.
He's telling folks google him, I win. I think, how
great is that? Why why don't I see people walking
around the streets with those T shirts? Google me? I win.
And they've been inventive and the offense has been explosive
(38:32):
and they blow people out without apologies.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
He's a throwback to college coaches back in the day.
It's like, until the unless you just walk off the field,
we're gonna put as many points on you as we
physically can. And I dig that about him, Signetti because
let's face it, when it comes to the popular opinion
for at least a year and a half, right right now, folks,
(38:56):
I think are finally on board with Hey, this is
pretty good. I mean, go back to last year. Everybody
just kept waiting for them to fall off. It's gonna happen,
it's inevitable. They're gonna get crushed, and then it's gonna
be a cavalcade of losses. Didn't happen. So what do
you do. You have proof of concept, you go back
and do it a second year, and now they have
to listen.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Elsewhere. We have Navy and No tre Dame, No trie
big game tomorrow, No tre Dame, two losses, trying to
win their way all the way to college football playoff.
I will take Navy and the twenty seven points that
I could still get in this game because No. Tre
Dame is overrated. Their schedule has been easy after their
(39:37):
losses early on, they're enjoying reputation benefits. Navy is still Navy,
but they're the best version of Navy, meaning it's gonna
be a little bit of a slog. No tra Dame
out of trouble with Boston College, who had one win.
They're gonna finish last in the ACC. I don't think
Navy's gonna win, but I will easily take Navy in
the anywhere from the twenty six to twenty eight points
you can get it many sports.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Horvath has twice as many rushing touchdowns as he does
passing just about thirteen to seven. There you have your
leading receiver with thirty one receptions yardage, leading second leading
yardage receivers, the tight end. He's got four catches.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Let's go. I didn't say it was gonna be pretty
like I said. Navy's Navy Bust twenty seven and a
half good version of Navy coming up next to your
more college football on the way. Who's gonna wind it
winning the Heisman? And what surprise coach might be in
a lot of trouble Fox
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please understand he is very much wrapped up in Northwestern
and USC right now. On Big Fox fourteen fourteen, midway
(01:12):
through the second quarter, Hey, we're up fourteen and a half.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Okay, you know what, naturally your defense being played by
either squad at this junction, it was great.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
You still have bowl, get bold birth things. You can
they win tonight They're going to the bull No, no, no, no, wait, no,
wait a minute. Now, you can't sit here and say, hey,
I'm going winning by the points bread and then say,
after we win tonight, pick one. Either hey, we're gonna lose,
but we're gonna cover, or we're gonna win. Pick one.
You gotta pick one. We're waiting out right.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
But you know, it's always nice to have the plus
fourteen and a half in the back pocket.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, unfortunately, I do not think bulls actually take a
look at that and go, you know, I don't think
you they were five and seven, but against the spread
they were seven and five. We can send them to
a bowl.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Well, five or seven gets you to a bowl. These days,
you get.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Okay, they were four and eight, but now they're really
eight and four. We could send to the Bad Boy
Mower's Bowl. They can go to the Pin Strike Bowl
and play in New York City outdoors in late December.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Why not, depending on who's voting. Remember, though, some of
those arguments we had early in the season, I mean,
that can get you into a playoff Berth. I mean,
come on, I can be five and seven and roll
through there.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Come on, eh. Now, look now this is the best
part of the year in college football. Why well, we're
into November. Obviously we're getting three four weeks out from
big rivalry games. But these are now elimination games coming
up in the college football playoff. Now, Northwestern is not
going to the playoff oblously, they're five and three, but
USC ranked nineteenth at six and two. This is an
(02:45):
elimination game for them. They lose this game, they're cooked.
They're not going to the College Football Playoff. And we
have so many of them coming. I mean, really, BYU
and Texas Tech might be an elimination game because how
many Big twelve teams are getting in. Right, you see
these teams with two losses that are playing tomorrow. If
Missouri loses to Texas A and M one of the
big games tomorrow, Missouri is out. Iowa is ranked twentie.
(03:07):
If they lose to Oregon, that's three losses, they're out.
If somehow Syracuse beats Miami, not happening, Miami is out.
Vanderbilt at sixteen, great story, Vanderbilt, awesome. They lose to Auburn,
They're out of the playoff. Right Washington and Wisconsin. Wisconsin's
terrible this year. I won five of the Big ten,
but Washington loses. That's three losses. They're out. It is eliminating.
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These now start to be elimination games for a lot
of teams in college football. And before you get a
little crazy, Navy Notre Dame. Hey, not telling you how
I'm gonna pick that game, but I'll tell you how
I'm gonna pick that game. Navy's pretty good. It's gonna
be all Notre Dame can do to win this game.
But it's also an elimination game for them. As much
as people like Notre Dame in their tenth right now
(03:50):
really overrated. So this is the best Barry. Now we're
into November and those two loss teams, there is so
much pressure and for everybody who says ah with the
twelve ten not as No. There's pressure because instead of
it's just for more teams. Because instead of well there's
two or three teams that can't afford that second loss,
now there's like eight or ten teams that can't afford
(04:10):
that third loss. So you actually increase the number of
teams with the anxiety filled elimination games that you did
have in the playoff before. But this weekend begins, it's
elimination weekend. You get to that third loss, you are
likely out because maybe, if things go absolutely nuts, one
team with three losses is gonna make it into the playoff.
(04:30):
But that's you're hoping against hope for something like that.
You're really hoping that things go absolutely off the rails.
But really, you get to that third loss, you are out.
It is an elimination game for USC and a host
of teams this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, as we look at the playoff rankings currently sitting there,
I mean, you got Notre Dame at their two losses,
and then we shuffle up and deal as we go.
There's twenty seven and a half point favorites. I want
to know what your guy A Jelly would have been
worth because you're twenty eight and a half point dogs
against Miami.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Oh we would well, well let's see, if we had Angelly,
we'd be undefeated, so we'd probably be favorable.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that alternate universe. I
opened the door and you came kicking it in, going
gotta I never.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Feel good about my team when the points spread is
more points than we're going to score in the game,
like that never fills me with hope that we're gonna win,
Like we're not scoring twenty eight bar offenses off Really
I could make I could make an argument for Steve
Angeli being the Heisman Trophy winner in college. No team's
fortunes changed more after he got hurt than Steve Aangels.
We're three and one, we'd be clemsing I'm doing I'm
(05:33):
doing backflips and he tears his achilles and now we
just can't win.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
We can't feel like there should be a three to
four minute political style rant of you in a suit
making your case and behind it a bunch of Angelly highlights.
You can't have the injury, but the highlights and you
roll from there.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So I like all of that, But I'm not wearing
a suit. Why would I wear a suit? Like I know,
a Syracuse hoodie something like, I'm not wearing a suit.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
No, But I mean, every once in a while, they
we still make guys that are doing fantasy advice dress
up in suits on which is that's true? It was
always dumb, and it's even dumber in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Okay, wait, now I actually have a great story about
that before we get to before we get to a
surprise I have for you and Frostburg and everybody's a
good surprise for you. Well, I will say this, it's
a It can be a good surprise. It might be
an awful surprise. There is that.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh great.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But when you say about you know, people dressing up fantasy,
you know people dressing up doing fantasy shows. When when
I was doing Fantasy Live at an NFL network and
we were talking about what we wanted to wear, what
wanted to look like, and a lot of the guys
got The guys said, well, you know, we should wear
suit and ties. Everything I said, Eh, I said, I
don't know, we need to wear ties now me, I
don't want to wear ties. But I'm like, look, I
(06:49):
think a couple of things. One, I think it's fantasy.
It gives the show a different look from where were,
you know, from the other shows. And at the very
least it'll say that's a show nobody wears ties, right, No,
we wear ties on that show.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
It'll give us a different look. It's more comfortable, it
gives a visual of being more relaxed. Plus I didn't
want to wear a tie, but I felt the other
way too. And the guys are like, no, no, no, no,
I think we should. I think we should. Some people listen,
they said, no, all right, we'll wear ties. I'm like, okay,
we wear ties. We go to the super Bowl to
do our show, and we're all on the set and
it's blazing hot, and it's absolutely blazing hot. And one
(07:26):
of the guys on the set after all season just
is absolutely done and he goes, whose idea was it
to wear ties this year? And I wanted to get
up and walk off the set. I want to just
walk off and go. I delivered it to you. I
delivered it to all of us. No ties, but you
guys wanted to wear ties. Great, well, so we wore
ties all season long. Guess what next year we didn't
(07:46):
wear ties.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Okay, long road begins with that first step, and there
needs to be that crushing blow and big moment that
well begets changed. And evidently that all you needed was
a super high super Bowl said.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yes, that's all it was. Now the surprise on a
Friday night. Now, I'm gonna give you a hint here
because I'm going to say this is gonna be really fun.
But there are a lot of adults that are not
going to like this, right, adults not gonna like this.
I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
We're gonna find out.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Well for this, Yes you do. You qualify for this
as other things. You're not an adult. This you do, okay,
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Oh, college football. We got a big play, a big
no NHL. Someone's scored there five hundredth goals, six hundred No.
It comes to us from a college basketball game involving
Indiana's favorite sons, the University of Evansville. And all you
need to know is they were taking a three pointer
and here is your play of the day.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Angst building in the crowd, Huddley three yes and the phone.
And these kids are going nuts over something I know
nothing about, and that's okay.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
They want the six to seven score on the board.
It's there because.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Of that three Chris Quinnett encouraging them with the motion.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
The kids are going crazy. And if you see, if
you see those.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Fans, oh, six seven seven, that will be a meme.
I guarantee ESPN will be playing that those times.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
And there was there is your play of the Daymsville TV, ESPN,
the six to seven three pointer to give Evansville sixty
seven points.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And you see the kids in the stands are going nuts.
And this is why I say some people are gonna
love this. Some adults are gonna go, oh, come on, man,
another six seven, come on, six seven. I got a
feeling this is gonna be it all year, or at
least for the through the rest of this calendar year.
When someone gets to sixty seven points in college basketball,
it's gonna be a big thing. There's gonna be six
seven celebrates. Everybody's gonna do the six seven with their hands.
(10:28):
Six seven, sixty seven. Uh, this is now gonna be
a thing for at least the next couple of months. Okay,
it's already a thing for a minute. You're one of
those adults, Well, my kids are already.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You know it's done.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It's it's not, dude, it's not done. It's it's it
just hit the mainstream like three weeks ago. Nothing out
there since like December, though, it's been out there for
It's like the Floss the dance where it was been
out there for a while but then it suddenly got
really popular like that. That's kind of that's kind of
what it was, like, Oh, it's been hasn't a stands
been out for a few weeks? Yeah, but now it's popular.
(11:03):
Oh okay, seven.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
It makes its way to the adults. I'm told they
move on to other things. Evansville Purple Aces with ninety
two fifty win over Taliumet College.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You knew they were getting a sixty seven and now,
I mean, I wonder if how much of that because
it's a deep three that he takes to get to sell, Like,
I gotta make sure I can't hit a two I got.
We can't get to sixty six and then go to
sixty eight, right, we can't. No, no, no, we got
to get to sixty seven so we can do six seven.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I mean you gotta give what you gotta give the
kids what they want. Yeah, no, I'm not hating on it.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I'm just here. You were. You were one of those. No,
you took a big, deep breath and wet six seven.
I really thought it was gonna be something more exciting.
I mean, you built it up. I gotta be pretty
on a Friday night. Okay, man, that's positivity on a Friday.
Six seven. Come on. I couldn't bring back Blake Snell
asking yamamoda what games that we went in Toronto and
him going six seven. We had to have something new
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tonight with this. And now I guarantee you it's gonna
happen in college basketball. It might happen in college football,
like Miami may do that when they get to sixty
seven against Syracuse, but like it may happen, but in
college basketball absolutely for.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Football purposes, I think you take the fifteen yard penalty
as and do it as a group at midfield. If
you score sixty seven on somebody, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I don't think you have a choice at that moment.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think the referees are just gotta look at you
and be like, yeah, that's you know what you were
in that one.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
You look over to the other coach on the team
and you kind of shrug your shoulders and he gives
you the way he goes, yeah, I get it, Tori,
I get it. I get it, and he just he
starts doing the six seven six seven six seven six seven, okay,
six seven six seven. See that's the thing about this, right,
because this is why now it's hit a new level
of popularity because for a while, yes, the six to
seven thing was popular in the schools and you read
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all over the internet what does six seven mean? And
in the beginning it was a gesture that didn't really
mean anything. It meant how do you feel about something? Eh,
six seven meaning I could take or leave it. It's
not that great. It's not a six seven. But since
when it's gotten even more popular, it's just the mention
of the words now, make it something. Now. It doesn't
even mean to need to be anything. It's just anytime
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you hear six seven, or you get to six and
then someone says seven, it becomes a thing where people
go crazy. It's like chicken jockey for Minecraft, here's a
chicken jockey and everybody goes crazy in the theater. Why,
I don't know, they just are. So it's kind of
that's why this has hit that next level of popularity
where now you don't need to say it in a
situation like a punchline. Now, anytimes it comes up, it's
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just a reason to celebrate it. Like you say the
word six, someone says seven, everybody's just yelling. Wow, I
mean yelling is always uh, I mean that's what we
do on the radio. I mean, so it's only appropriate. No,
I mean you start looking up famous athletes tour six
feet seven inches.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I mean we could start doing lists of those.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, oh yea yeah, sure, yeah. I mean it's too
bad that. You know, the guy was seven to nine
for Florida that made his debut, right, Like he wasn't
like seven six. You could say, ah, seven six six sevens.
I've said, it's too bad it took a little bit shorter.
Maybe we get we get wenby to seven six, we
can say hey seven six six seven. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
But see, once you get to that hike, can't you
just claim whatever the hell you want?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
What isn't that what the NBA did for years. Anyway,
that guy's not seven b tall. Eh, he claims to
be the greatest showman. Ah, I know you're five hundred pounds, but.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm pretty sure you can. I'm pretty sure. It's easy
to say. Yeah, know, Wemby's over seven ft. What I'm
saying seven eight?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, but once we're past seven ft, I mean everybody's
tall to me.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
So I mean you could be six two or six seven.
I mean it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Six seven six EEPs. So you're six seven six.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Seven sised to be afraid of seven.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
When you're sick. You know, you know, you know why?
You know? Because six eight seven because seven eight nine.
That's one of my favorite jokes.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Wait to set that one up, being good word.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But you know what I have my I have, I
have Okay, I have my better uh six to seven joke? Right, Okay,
you're ready for this one? Okay? Hang on? Why does
Yoda hate? Hang on? Why I go? I want to
get it right. I want to get right. I want
to get right. Why does Yoda hate seven? Okay, six
(15:19):
hate seven? Because seven eight nine?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Why does Yoda hate seven?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Why does Yoda hate seven?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
He stay tuned to find out.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But now I'm gonna say it. Now, I tell you why. No,
we got we got football with hey numbskulls. We got
NFL games to pick coming up. I'm gonna give you
the punch line, Yoda hate seven because six seven eight, boy,
think about it, think about it. It hates a good one.
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Happy Friday, everybody. Some weirdly painted courts in the National
Basketball Association.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
To get tivity Friday, Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from
the Fox Sports Radio Studios usc is in the end zone,
Jade Maiva goes in on a scramble. He is now
thirteen out of seventeen for one hundred and thirty six yards,
a passing touchdown, and a rushing touchdown. Usc with the
lead over Northwestern, so we'll have more college football on
(16:16):
the way. Got a big night in the NBA as well,
but coming up next, it is time to start picking
our big games Week ten of the National Football League.
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Playoff elimination game for the USC Trojans. They are on
top of Northwestern extra point pending right now twenty to fourteen.
Mike Harmon and his purple shorts, purple underwear, purple socks.
He dyed his tongue purple today by eating a purple
grape pop. He is very nervous right now for his wildcats.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I wouldn't call it nervous, Bob. Look the expectations I
temper them, ride the lightning as it were, the fact
that you had what looked to be a touchdown by
a big defensive lineman that gets the ball, gets knocked
out and goes through the end zone when you get
hit by the quarterback chasing down the plane. Yeah, the
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indignity of such a thing. Northwestern should have been up
seven or at least down at the one instead. Hey,
it's a touchback. USC then rips off a huge run
and now they're into the end zone once again.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Jade Maiva with a Heisman Trophy season saving play for US.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
See, boy, look at that. That's how you sell, sell
sell right there, I do dig the cut of your
jim trying to save it as it were.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
So another big football Friday. Look, every week is a
football Friday. And now that there's no World Series, Hey, okay,
football Friday doesn't have to share with anyone. We can
have all of the headlines. Now we have all of
we have all the head What about the cups? Like
what the okay, okay, I'll give you the okay, the
NBA Cup. Also going on, check some highlights out there
(18:59):
you go. Oh, it's a highlight league, Mi Carmen highlight league.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Especially when the Bulls get drummed in the fourth quarter
by the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, I mean listen, apparently as good as the Bulls
have started, you are not an NBA Cup caliber team. No,
you are not a Cup team. You are you have
a lot of work to do.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Let's go back vanquished by the king like Ken Jong
was there ready to take him out island.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I know exactly who this team is. You went from
five to one, and now you have all kinds of problems.
You're not a cup team. When there's no pressure, you
were great. But now you put the NBA Cup out.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Look what happens to All of a sudden you changed
the color of the court and they forgot out of
play basketball.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I don't know, man, I don't know. I don't know.
Uh So, Big Football Friday will take a look at
a couple of the big college football games coming up
in about fifteen minutes. But let's start with the NFL
this week and the news today that we are going
to get another week of Alabama Mac Mike Harmon very
very excited. You can wear his Alabama Mac Jones. Shirsey
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Mac Jones will start for the forty nine ers this
week one of the games of the week against the Rams.
It's a late game on Fox six and two. Rams
six and three forty nine ers. And let me just
say this, before we picked this game, let me go
back to what we said a few weeks ago because
it plays into what we've seen this week with Kyler
Murray and Jacoby Brissett. Right, okay, this is the end
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of Kyler Murray in Arizona. We told John Monday he's
likely played his last game as an Arizona Cardinal. Congratulations
to all the ESPN, to all the people who took
that take today and said Kyler Murray's playing his last
down for the Arizona Cardinals. Yeah, four days ago. Wait,
wait to go, I guess maybe if you want to
take a take that we had an average take that
we had four days ago and wait four days thinking,
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no one's gonna know. Yeah, okay, that's fine, But congratulations
for taking that take. The reason is, obviously they've seen
the best of Kyler Murray. And when Jacoby Brissett is
giving you the same sort of production, well, are you
real and not that you're going in on Jacoby Brissette
being your your end all be all, But okay, if
our backup is giving us the same production, the offense
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is producing a little bit better, why are we going
forward with Kyler Murray, right, so they'll look to move
him in the offseason. Again. As I said Monday, he's
played his last down for the Cardinals. Now. A little
bit different of a sticky wicket is you look at
the forty nine ers who have again are now going
back to mac Jones for another week as Brock Purty
continues to reheb from injury. The same thing you can
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say for mac Jones and Brock Purdy, we've said for
Jacoby Brissett and Kyler Murray, you are getting about the
same kind of production from mac Jones in this offense
that you have gotten from Brock Purdy. Right. Purty's not
been the same quarterback since bursting on the scene. The
thirty touchdown yere okay, great, he gets paid. The Broc
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lipses upon us what happened once he got hurt? Hey,
you know what, mac Jones has come in and he's
played pretty good. I mean, not that mac Jones is
suddenly you know, twenty five touchdowns lead the league, but
he's ten touchdowns and five picks. He's on pace for
a twenty two and ten kind of season, you know,
maybe close to four thousand yards a little bit more
than four thousand yards passing, which really is kind of
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what you've been getting from brock Purty. And so look
at the forty nine ers and you can say, man,
and this is part of the great head coach. Kyle
Shannon is right, he's a great offensive coach right there
with with Sean McVeigh is that man you paid brock
party and maybe you didn't have to. You know, there's
a few guys now that can come into this system
and succeed because every week, it's not like matc. Jones
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is having, you know, a couple of four touchdown weeks.
Holding up his stats every week is pretty consistent. Couple
of touchdowns, couple of touchdowns, maybe touch a couple of
touchdowns and a pick throwing for you know, between two
and three hundred yards. Like that's kind of what you're
getting from It's what you got from brock Purty. And oh,
by the way, mac Jones doing this with basically all
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of his weapons sideline right, Ricky Piersoll, Brandon Aiyuk, George
Kittle was out a long time. It's basically, hey, Christian,
don't get hurt man, because to anybody's names in the
huddle like, I'm looking at this year and I'm saying, man,
the forty nine ers are paying brock Party all that
money when they are paying mac Jones nothing to give
them the exact same production. This is why brock Party. Hey,
(23:14):
great story, good quarterback. We said you didn't need to
pay him, and now here's the proof that you really
didn't need to pay.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
No, but he always gets to the roll of the dice.
You think you can replicate in your system and guys
can come along, but you don't know how well that's
going to be replicated. So when a quarterback comes up,
what do you do? You get nervous. I gotta pay
this guy, because without one, life is pretty difficult. Jets
(23:40):
I mean right, I mean all those ex jets now
good and just keep going on down the line. All
of look until Caleb Williams. We've had, you know, fits
and starts for parts of My bears watching life, little
Jay Cutler celebration every once in a while, a couple
of big years from Eric Kramer thirty. I mean, you
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go all the way through, all right. There have been
some moments, but overall it's all right. There's not a
lot of trust of the guys that are running out
under center for the forty nine ers. Yeah, you've now
got proof of concept that Mac Jones found the system
that was going to take it forward. I always thought
he had one until Bill Belichick just started throwing stuff
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up at a wall decided Matt Patricia should be an
offensive coordinator. I don't know if he ever lost a bet.
I don't think we ever got that uncovered. But all
of a sudden, Alabama Mack was, well, they screwed him,
and if.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I shave my beard, you make me offensive coordinator?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Sure, whatever y'all do it.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Was there a drinking contest at a Halloween party that
I don't know, but you know he's a guy that's
now found a home. So yes, you are now in
the I guess enviable position to where you have a
backup who's good. Does it cause controversy, sure, but in
the short term that means if Rock Perdy can wait
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another week to play and you're good with it, than
all the better because not many teams had that luxury,
right if they're quite I mean, look at what we
watched yesterday. Okay, that game sucked, I dare even mention it.
But Gino Smith was a guy dragging his dead leg
back onto the field because they did not want the
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backup in they did not want on the sideline, but
exactly beat it. It's my team to throw this pick. No,
it's it was unconscionable. And we watched it with Carson
Wentz a couple of weeks ago. Why is this guy
still hanging out in the game because the other guy
is that much worse. That's where we're at. So for
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the forty nine ers, the luxury of we're playing well enough,
we feel good in this spot divisional game that you
can wait another week to get activated. That's that's not
a bad place to be. Probably makes you look at
your book a little differently to your point, But you know,
it's it's not always gonna work out that way.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Now for this game. Okay, But Jason, you love the Rams.
You keep saying you're not believing in the forty nine ers. Yeah,
all this stuff. Brock Purty, brock Purty, you're picking the Rams.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Well, you made fun of them just by calling them
Alabama Mac. That was not a of endearment. You did
not say that with any of you.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Wait a minute, you call them Alabama mack All the time,
but it Yeah, I could say, Alabama, Mack, can it
be the same thing. Yeah, you're dripping that. I am
not dripping with sarcasm.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Come all, go clean your bucket.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You think that I'd be okay, well the red I
am going to go the opposite way. Everything is telling
me the Rams should win this game, right. They're the
better team, They're not as injured. I told you last night.
Over the course of the next month, they're gonna build
themselves up to be the best team in the NFC.
I love them, I love everything about them. But these
are games where San Francisco sort of finds a way.
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I've seen it. I've seen it against the Rams in
the last couple of years, so earlier this year in LA.
I can see the Niners forcing enough turnovers, Christian McCaffrey
doing absolutely everything like he's done all year long. Oh,
by the way, you want to talk about a guy
MVP that's not getting enough love. And I can see
them winning a low scoring ball control game by a
field goal, and all of a sudden, the Rams are going,
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how the hell do we lose two games with the
forty nine ers And I'm sitting here on Monday night going.
I still don't believe in the Niners, even though they
beat the Rams twice, and I think the Rams are great.
But I can see it happening this week. I have
that gut feel that this is one of those games
where San Francisco says, Okay, we're having a good year,
it's a big game for us, or we're falling a
game and a half back of first place and we
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don't want to get We're falling two games back in
the lost column, back of first place. We don't want
to do that. I can see the pressure of the
forty nine ers. I can see them coming through even
though they're injured. I love the under in this game
more than anything, but I can see Sam Francisco buy
a field goal and it being a frustrating loss for
the Rams.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Forty nine ers five and a half point home Dogs
forty nine and a half. Is your total? Here's your
Christian McCaffrey over under for total yards one fifteen and
a half.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Oh, I take the over on that. Are you kidding?
Who else is getting the football?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Brent Jones receiving yards fifty one and a half. See
Robinson knicks there in kittles at fifty two and a half,
Juwan Jennings forty seven and a half, a little bit
of DeMarcus Robinson mixing with prop bets as well. Look,
it's one of those I think you can run it
with McCaffrey third most targeted player in the National Football
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League early and often Niku is back. The offensive compliments
are there, but running the football, you know, again, it's
been sporadic. We've had some big games from Kyron Williams
and Blake Korum and then some middling efforts, even with
San Francisco's defense banged up. Feels like a home opportunity
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for them here, so I'll take them to win outright.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Now, let's throw this out there because here's your big
hot take before we get to what's trending Atlanta and
Indianapolis in Berlin this weekend. Right, it's the early game,
burn up early. Everybody's make sure every you don't want
to lose a game like I did this year because
Jalen Warren was questionable and going to play and then
suddenly was inactive.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You could have gotten up and then hit and gone
back to bed.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
It's Sauce Gardner's debut for the Colts and it's exciting.
We're gonna see here. They are seven and two, Atlanta
at three and six. Now you want a hot take.
We have seen head coaches not come back from Europe
and be employed in the NFL. In the last couple
of years. We've seen that happen. Robert Sala the Falcons
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at three and five. They are too talented offensively to
be this bad. It doesn't make he says. You have
a first round quarterback, you have one of the top
two running backs in the game. You have a couple
of really good wide receivers, you have one of the
top four guys as far as target share in the game.
Not about winning and losing, but for the offense to
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be this bad, I mean, you've scored five more points
than the Saints this year, and the Saints are terrible,
and they're and Tyler Shuck playing quarterback. Shuck and Spencer
Rattler have accumulated one hundred and thirty eight points and
the Falcons have five more. If the Falcons lose this
game to the Colts and they come back at three
and six, I have a sneaking suspicion it might be
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the last game for Raheem Morris's head coach. Just because
this team is two has too much talent on offense
to be this bad. Something big is gonna happen. He's
had chances, he's a time to get it together. It's
not going There's got to be some kind of change.
You lose to the Colts in Berlin, which could happen
because the Colts offense, you know, is gonna score. I
can see this being his last game as head coach
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in Atlanta. He might be the next head coach out.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Six points spread Indianapolis favorite forty eight and a half
your total in this one. Look when you look at
the Atlanta Falcons, they've basically been a two man offense
this year. It's Bijon Robinson, It's Drake London, Kyle Pitch
shows up every once in a while. Ray Ray McCloud
got released. Darnell Mooney is gonna be healthy. Is over
under is at thirty three receiving yards. They need him
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to become a more complete with Michael Pennix has not
advanced in any way, shape or form. Defensively, they play
well on the edges, but you can run on them.
That's exactly what's gonna happen here. I think they get
bludgeoned with a lot of Jonathan Taylor and then Daniel
Jones finishes the job. I think they get blown out,
thus activating your potential. Hey, go do some sight seeing
(31:43):
and get a nice commemorative Stein for your effort.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Couple of
the big games on the NFL slate this weekend with
Bold Predictions. Time now to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. From Special Delivery Steve Desager
what he got for with my friend.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
Well Sola may have been fired, as you said, but
he's still keeping those receipts when he actus office.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah, he took those receipts absolutely.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
The forty nine Ers will start quarterback Mac Jones again Sunday,
hosting the Rams. Quarterback brock Party is questionable with the
tow injury. He's still been limited in practice. The Rams
will start kicker Harrison Meavis, but said kicker Joshua Carty
is not going anywhere. Texans quarterback c J. Stroud is
out this weekend with a concussion, and Houston kicker Kayimi
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Fairbairn is out with a quad injury. Giants kicker Graham
Cano out with a neck injury, so Young Way who
will start. Washington quarterback Jaden Daniels will not need surgery
on his dislocated elbow. There is no ligament damage and
he will not immediately go on. Ir Commander's wide receiver
Terry McLaurin is out with a quad entry. Jacksonville wide
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receiver Brian Thomas is out with an ankle injury. He
misspractice all week. Tampa Bay running back Bucky Irving is
out with foot and shoulder injuries. For the Patriots, running
back Rimandre Stevenson out again with a toe injury. The
Raiders fired special teams coach Tom McMahon. Denver kicked the
go ahead field goal last night after a block pun
and Las Vegas missed a late field goal to College
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football is now halftime at the LA Coliseum on Fox
TV number nineteen. USC is leading Northwestern twenty one fourteen
early third quarter on FS one from Orlando u CEF
ahead of Houston twenty four to seventeen. The Houston Cougar
seven and two this year, Memphis eight and one is
losing it home to Tulane late in the first half.
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Tou Lane twenty eight seventeen. As for the NBA Finals,
Cleveland won at Washington won forty eight to one fourteen.
The Wizard's now one and eight San Antonio into Houston's
five game winning streak one twenty one to one ten.
Spurs Guardiaron Fox will reportedly debut Saturday after hamstring surgery
wins for Orlando and Toronto. Detroit won it's fifth game
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in a row. Memphis said Dallas to another loss one eighteen,
one oh four as Anthony Davis was out again with
a strain calf. Dallas is two and seven at Minnesota
Anthony Edwards thirty seven points in an easy win over
at Utah Minnesota one thirty seven ninety seven. The final
at Milwaukee forty one points for Jana Santennecompo and at
Bucks win against Chicago won twenty six one ten. Bulls
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had been six and one. Miami beat Charlotte won twenty
six to one oh eight. There are two late games
in the NBA. Steph Curry is out tonight for the
Warriors due to illness. Nuggets at home leading Golden State
early second quarter thirty two to twenty six, and Oklahoma
City at eight and one is tied early second quarter
at Sacramento thirty two all for the Kings dementas Sabonis
(34:41):
out again with a rib injury. Austin Reeves of the
Lakers with a stray groin, will miss another game on Saturday.
Cam Thomas and the Nets could miss three to four
weeks with a strain hamstring. And college basketball North Carolina
beat Kansas eighty seven seventy four.
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Coming up next, we get the big weekend in college
football kicked off picking a couple of the big games
(35:18):
going on tomorrow? Is there a big upset on the
way That's next Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
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Speaker 1 (35:36):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah,
there we go Happy Friday, Positivity Friday. We get some
good workout of Harmon right now because USC and Northwestern
is at halftime, so he's focused in laser ready to
go here for the next few minutes, at least until
the third quarter.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Hit sure, because I've been so horribly distracted and out
of sorts.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
You just you just said Fitzgerald like seventeen different times
for no reason. You just blurted that out there.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Well, I mean we were having that conversation off air
about the conversations he's been having, the interviews he's been doing,
and whether he finds his way back on a college
sideline in the upcoming cycle with so many coaches being fired,
and let's face it, by the end of tomorrow, I mean,
what's the over under on coaches that lose their jobs tomorrow?
Two and a half.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
You called me Sam Simmons a few minutes ago. Nice, Yeah,
you like that. That's nice?
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah that how about a little while Brian.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Musso, Sure, oh yeah, sure.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Yeah, No, that's good.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Now, big big ten game right now again, elimination game
for USA. They lose this, they're out of the playoff hunt.
They lead Northwestern by seven at halftime, A couple of
games to look at for tomorrow. The big nude kickoff
is Indiana and Penn State. Now we looked at this
game like a year ago, you would say, oh man,
Penn States favored by five touchdowns. Not only is Indiana
(37:03):
gonna crush Penn State, no one's gonna be surprised when
that happens. Indiana has is sort of becoming America's team
of twenty twenty five. Right, Hey, here's a college football
program that has zero history, has never really been any good,
even with Antoine Randall l or Anthony Thompson. But now
this is the greatest Indiana football has ever been, second
(37:26):
ranked in the country. Their quarterback is probably gonna be
the number one overall pick in the NFL draft. Like,
Indiana has become America's team, and they're gonna show up
tomorrow and get all kinds of national love. They're gonna
crush Penn State. For Nana, Mendozo is gonna get a
big boost in the Heisman race and potentially being the
number one overall pick, and either him or Dante morril
Goo number one most likely. But man, don't forget that
(37:49):
third gay pick you made fun of Alabama Mac that
other Alabama guys, the number one guy on the board. Right, listen,
I got stuff on Simpson coming up. Simpson, Ay, I
remember that name. But tomorrow is just it's gonna be
a big party day for Indiana and it's fun. God. Really,
I feel like they kind of are the America's team
(38:10):
here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Well, I mean, you got a coach who doesn't care. Right,
he's in his mid sixties. Nobody knew who he was.
He's telling folks google him, I win. I think, how
great is that? Why why don't I see people walking
around the streets with those T shirts? Google me? I win.
And they've been inventive and the offense has been explosive
(38:32):
and they blow people out without apologies.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
He's a throwback to college coaches back in the day.
It's like, until the unless you just walk off the field,
we're gonna put as many points on you as we
physically can. And I dig that about him, Signetti because
let's face it, when it comes to the popular opinion
for at least a year and a half, right right now, folks,
(38:56):
I think are finally on board with Hey, this is
pretty good. I mean, go back to last year. Everybody
just kept waiting for them to fall off. It's gonna happen,
it's inevitable. They're gonna get crushed, and then it's gonna
be a cavalcade of losses. Didn't happen. So what do
you do. You have proof of concept, you go back
and do it a second year, and now they have
to listen.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Elsewhere. We have Navy and No tre Dame, No trie
big game tomorrow, No tre Dame, two losses, trying to
win their way all the way to college football playoff.
I will take Navy and the twenty seven points that
I could still get in this game because No. Tre
Dame is overrated. Their schedule has been easy after their
(39:37):
losses early on, they're enjoying reputation benefits. Navy is still Navy,
but they're the best version of Navy, meaning it's gonna
be a little bit of a slog. No tra Dame
out of trouble with Boston College, who had one win.
They're gonna finish last in the ACC. I don't think
Navy's gonna win, but I will easily take Navy in
the anywhere from the twenty six to twenty eight points
you can get it many sports.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Horvath has twice as many rushing touchdowns as he does
passing just about thirteen to seven. There you have your
leading receiver with thirty one receptions yardage, leading second leading
yardage receivers, the tight end. He's got four catches.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Let's go. I didn't say it was gonna be pretty
like I said. Navy's Navy Bust twenty seven and a
half good version of Navy coming up next to your
more college football on the way. Who's gonna wind it
winning the Heisman? And what surprise coach might be in
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