December 6, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon welcome you into the TNF party. Jason wants Bill Belichick to get the UNC head coaching job for one big reason. And UCLA has fired Eric Bienemy as offensive coordinator!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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pull back the curtain here a little bit. Today was
our big holiday party, Holiday Holiday Party Holiday here at
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Fox Sports Radio. Oh and already I got my first
holiday gift because waiting for me when I.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Came in here is a nineteen ninety one rich co
type football card.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
There you go, buddy, Thanks buddy, it cost me. I
told your worst head coach in the history. Well, you know,
sometimes you need to be reminded of where you came
Bridge Koeteite, the guy who screwed the Jets out of
Jerry Rice Rich cotype. No, I was fun seeing everybody there.
I had a lot of folks that work behind the
scenes that we don't normally get face time with, some
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bosses that we don't normally get FaceTime with. And then
it ended up being you, me, Rich and Steve talking
about New York sports. Yeah, wait, my crap ass teams
talking about the Mets, and a lot about rock music.
So I mean it worked out really well.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
No, but but I always like getting presents, like I
always of course my wife said, I said, I love
giving president, but I like getting presents too.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And I got the worst at this.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Every time I look at Rige coat and it's a
reminder of how bad the Jets are. So I appreciate that,
and so I just I remember how bad they are.
The funny thing is really off, kind of a couple
of blips on the radar, and forty years nothing's changed.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, like you.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
You you would look at like a graph and see
like a spike here and there, and it looks like
that happened is like an earthquake, because you know what
happened when you add that piece of cheesecake, that's where
your body sugar spiked, and then all the way along
here and right here. Yeah, so here we are in
two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine. There's your spike,
and now you're all the way back down to zero,
having had to do those meters for a while all
the way. It's always fun when they you got to
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go explain to a doctor what happened here, It's like, oh,
that was the second jacket Kirke. My my dad has
a meter for his gluecoast all the time. Right, So
just to pull the curtain back even farther, I could
tell the story because my dad's not listening. I have
not been as mad at him as I was two
weeks ago. You know, Zoe was in the play. It's
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her school play. Yeah, and they always say, okay, you know,
shut off your phones. Okay, great, So I always to
tell him, Dad, make sure your phone is shut off
because he's got individual rings for people so you can
get like welcome to the jungle or loving an elevator,
like that's my dad's thing, like Dad, make sure your
phone is off, okay? And then in there and then
it's getting hot in hear shit. And then in the
middle of the first act, the middle of the first act,
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you hear.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Bet it boop, bet it boop, bet boo.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm like, whose phone is that?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
What the hell? And I look and I go, oh
my god, it's right next to me, Dad, Dad, your phone, Dad, Dad?
And I'm hit him, Dad, your phone. He's like what
he can't hear it? And then you hear again, bet
it boop, bet it boop? Is it at a rate
that only dogs are supposed to hear it? And I'm like, Dad,
give me your phone, Give me your phone. He goes,
what's time? I go, give me your phone. I go,
how do you shut it off? And I'm sitting here,
I'm going, this is awful. How do you shut this?
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All right?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Shut it off? And then then we hit intermission and
he goes, give my phone back.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What the hell?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I go, Dad, your phone was going off in the middle.
Everybody is looking around. He goes, I didn't hear it.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I go, what was it? He goes, Oh, it was
my glucose meter. It just remind me I had to
take a pill. I go okay, all right, so you
know that the entire first act, the entire front.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Bet boop, better boop, take a part.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Of the soundtrack.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
That's my remix. Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So, here we are on a Thursday night, and the
game that we told you last night was gonna be
an incredible matchup. The electricity and Ford Field is through
the roof and we are getting a great one right now.
Seventeen fourteen Lions have the lead over the Packers early
in the third quarter. Uh it looked like the lines
were hitting halftime and they were just gonna start rolling.
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They get a fourth and one touchdown pass to Jamiir
Gibbs to give him a ten point lead, and then
Jordan Love takes the Packers right down the field.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
He had a bad first half.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
He only threw for thirty one yards, big long pass
to Christian Watson setting up a touchdown pass to Tyler Kraft.
This makes it a seventeen to fourteen game. Early in
the third quarter, with the over runner for this fifty
one and was fit up to fifty three. I'm feeling
pretty good right now. But still here are the eleven
and one lines, nine to three Packers. This will wind
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up being the most watched through the night game of
the year. It is that exciting. Now you're gonna really
see something. You had enough points in the first half,
and now we're kicking off great in the secon fifty
nine yard pass play to Watson the key on the
scoring drive. Five plays, seventy yards a quick one. So yeah,
open the game up. Josh Jacobs scored for all you
fantasy owners, both Montgomery and Gibbs found their way to
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the end zone. But to your point, Jordan Love just
thirty one passing yards in that first half, and they
came out and hit the bomb right right away. So
curious see how much they stretch and how much the
early runs success that Jacob's had maybe saw from the
you know, the the underbelly of that defensive line, which
we know is missing several component parts there for Detroit.
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You know. Look, and that's the big thing about the
Lions because it's not sexy to talk about because their
offense is just so good and it's so much fun
to talk about. You get to the Yeah, but they
did that. Who cares about the Lion's defense? Gay, Look
at this though, it's the best off means we've seen
twenty five years of the NFL that goes blowing teams out.
I understand that. But the Lions defensively, they have lost
a lot of dudes. They've lost a lot of dudes
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over the last few weeks, and that gets real. I mean,
it's gonna be really difficult because as you get closer
to the postseason, you just don't Teams don't put up
forty points anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It doesn't happen that way.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Look, you want to go back to the greatest show
on turf from the Rams got to Super Bowls where
they scoring points. They won their NFC Championship game over
Tampa Bay ten to nine. So you want to talk
about dark sides for the Lions. We talked about campbelling
because Dan Campbell's gonna do crazy things and make really
ridiculous decisions that are gonna come back to hurt the Lions.
But really, the injuries defensively for them are really hurting
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because it's like every week they lose somebody and they
lose a starter in there. You can only put so
much duct tape and and all kinds of gum and
whatever else you're using to try to put this together,
because that's The big thing for the Lions is that
we're get in the middle of December now and suddenly
teams are starting to put some points up on them now.
And it's not just well, we can race out to
a twenty point lead. Now, it's oh no, no, we're
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gonna stay with you enough because your defense, because you're
missing so many plays. But that's it. You lose reader,
you lose some of these other component parts, and obviously
hoping you get many of them back for the stretch run.
But what is Philadelphia able to do to you? There's
your number one opponent. What are they gonna do with
those road graders on the offensive line and Saquan Barkley
running behind him? Oh that hurts. Guy can take off
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and run on his as well. So that's a matchup
that suddenly looks that much worse. And as we're speaking
about the prolific Detroit offense, Jared Goff with a bad interception,
and now the Packers are in business again. I'll tell
you seventeen fourteen, the Lions had the ball. This just
happened a few seconds ago. Nixon jumps the route. He's
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gonna throw a slant inside. It looked like the coverage
was sliding towards Jamier. Gibbs is gonna catch a pass
out of the backfield, but he tries to go for
the slant. Nixon jumps the route, picks it off, gets
a decent return. So now the green Bay Packers are
gonna have a first and goal from the six yard line.
And this seventeen to seven lead, where the Lions felt
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pretty good going in a halftime, they're about to be,
at worst back to an even game plus three actually,
and yet at plus three and a half, plus three
and a half, okay, yeah, all right, let's so plus
three and a half and uh fifty three is the total.
And then an absolute bull rush into the end zone
Josh Jacobs in the end zone for a touchdown. The
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Jared Goff interception the Packers make them paid right away,
so that lead is gone. Two touchdowns in the first
four minutes of the second half. Extra point pending for
green Bay now going to wind up being it's twenty
to seventeen, likely twenty one seventeen, and it's looked easy
for green Bay.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
That's the thing about this.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
This beginning of the second half of the Packers like
they struggled a lot in the first half, right, I
know that we talk a big first drive, right, no,
up seven nothing, Yeah, and that's it, right. You know,
you talk about halftime adjustments in the NFL are not
that great. It's not that suddenly, hey, we're figuring things out.
But yeah, there are tweaks that are made, there are
strategies that that are that are now implemented. But the
Packers have come out of the gate here and they
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have not been slowed down at all. They had the
long pass to Watson to getting the end zone easy,
this was an interception and two plays later it's simple
into the end zone. All of a sudden, the Packers
have done whatever they wanted to in the first five
minutes of the second half. Yeah, fewer than four minutes.
And well we always talk about quarters in games, but
you know, last four, first four, and you thought Detroit
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had taken care of business by getting their points in
the final four of the first half. But just blitzed
out of the gate here, and you know, Love opening
up with that big play to Watson, single coverage down
the field, just over the top, dropped in perfectly, and
now we've got ourselves a much different ballgame. And Jared
goff coming back onto the field after that interception, right, which,
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all the year long, it's all been about taking care
of the football. We talked about it last night, the
turnover differential for both of these teams sitting at plus
eight and plus nine Lions and Packers respectively. And you
know the tail of the tape. You know, Josh Jacobson
the run game, but who going to take care of
the football? And what we've seen from Jordan Love, even
with that robust plus minus number, he's certainly giving it
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away a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Get after you, sure, sure all.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
The turnovers that you waited on for years because they
were always the that that defense looks great. They're a
great fantasy sleeper defense, and they never showed up with
the turnover rate. This year, they're giving you that in spades.
Exit out about a Fresca exit swallowed down the Jason
smithsher with Mike Carbents. We'll keep you updated on this
game throughout the rest of the night again twenty one seventeen.
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If you have the over, like mons, I'm sure Monsei
has the over on this. Trying to make her money
back from that Clippers game. She lost a lot of
cash on last night. Yeah, she's mouthing to me, I
have the over. I have the over. Okay, they spin
the ball meanwhile, and something we're gonna get into in
a bigger coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
But I know I had to.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Take a couple of different looks at the computer today
when I saw Wait, Bill Belichick interviewed for the North
Carolina head coaching job. The North Carolina head coaching job,
Bill Belichick interviewed, Yeah, Now.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
At first I was upset. You. I was upset.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Why are we upset? Because all the Bill Belichick how
he's gonna communicate with younger people, all the best jokes
were gone, like all the like all the pictures of
him and his twenty two year old girlfriend, like, all.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
The jokes were gone already. I'm like, oh, no, I
sent you a good one. You said, yeah, you did.
I can't say it on the air, but you did something. No,
I don't know about that. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well you sure, you kid?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Why you just want something to happen to me. You
can say, hey, it's a Mike harmon, But man, sometimes
you gotta go to the edge. The time Hartman's reading,
he's got his hand over the dump button as we
sit wait for it. No wammy, no wammy, no wammy.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
No the one, the one.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Thing I will say that we can say. All right now,
I'm just kidding. No the uh, Frostburg said.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And now I want this more than anything. Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I want him to get the job just so he
can have a bad game like against North Carolina State
or I don't know, wake for answer or something and
then have to answer questions postgame and just absolutely say
we're on to Syracuse. We're on to Syracuse. We're on
to Syracuse. No, it's it's already been addressed. We're onto Syracuse.
I mean proof of concept that he relates to young kids.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Bill, Yeah, yeah, any showers.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, well yeah he might do that. Dude, Dude, don't
don't coach man, don't how much coach how much older
or younger is he than mac Brahm, don't, well, the
whole that whole thing. But but yeah, onto Syracuse. And
you know it's crazy, you know, it's crazy. Even crazier
about this because I thought about this today too. I'm like, wow,
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if Belichick gets this gig at North Carolina, right, and
I started thinking, I said, oh, man, think about that,
and it just hit me. I said, oh, man, because
you know Manny d as the head coach at at Duke.
He and I were production assistants together at ESPN in
the early nineties. I'm like, so this guy, we were
productions together. You know, each go different directions. I go
the broadcast route. He goes the coaching route. That's it
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here he is. He's gonna be coaching against Bill Belichick
next year. Very strange world. It is a very odd
world that we live in. That's so strange. Belichick in college,
in this college as well, he's got the he's got
the hoodie and that's very popular, and call you know,
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the sweatshirts a very popular look. He's gonna he's gonna
fit in right on campus. He'll fit in really well
right there. Man, are you kidding? Sly?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
The sleeveless North I guarantee you there's North Carolina parties
going on right now. And it's I'm gonna take my
brand new Carolina spec shirt, the champion one I got
down of the store. Where's bye you going for Christmas?
I will cut the sleeves in it tonight. You want
someone to wear it outside in the snow and the Rain.
I want to be out there two am tonight just
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in my huddy.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
My sleeve is honey man, I'm feeling really good.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That's gonna happen tonight North Carolina campus.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That's funny, though, is that you've already had him on
The Simpsons, you know, putting the hood up in the
nine yards, so now you just take it to a
college campus. But yeah, him in this nil goes back
to what we were talking about last night, the job
you could never do right, go ahead, your cruder and
watching someone flip at the last minute. How the hell
do you think that would go over with Belichick. We're
onto Syracuse. We're on a serious We're on a serious
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We're onto our next We're on Syracuse. Bill you lost
a guy for twenty five hundred dollars at a best bite.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
We're onto Syracuse. We're on a serous We're on.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
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Speaker 3 (14:31):
Uh, we'll love more.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
We will ask the big question about Belichick coming up next,
as well as a big story from today that tells
me that the end times are near, like we are
entering ice hockey in hell starting tomorrow. There's a story
today where Hell might be freezing over. It's coming up
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Speaker 3 (15:15):
If you have the over, you're feeling happy. Packers twenty one.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
To seventeen lead over the Lions Detroit, sitting on a
third and goal from the three. Jamir Gibbs run got
them down to the three yard line. I assume they
will go for it because they went for it on
fourth down now all of a sudden, Dan Cambell's and
we're gonna go for it on fourth down all the time,
no matter what, just gonna go all the time. So
I am I assume it's two down territory, third and
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goal from the four, that if they don't get in
on this play, they will wind up going for it
on fourth down and Jamiir Gibbs does not get in.
He gets down to the Montgomery, he gets down to
the stop, he gets down to the team. So fourth
and goal, I am sure they're gonna have a play
to go for it. First half they ran a play
action passed the Jamiir Gibbs for a touchdown, And certainly
and surely enough that's exactly what the Lion's doing right
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now going forward on fourth. No, but it's like we
were talking with Rick Buker last night. Keep shooting three pointers.
They're better than two's. Yeah, and eventually you know math,
but you actually have to hat coats. I always tell
whatever I beat, like one of my friends and they
have kids who are playing basketball growing up and everything else,
and uh and I always say the same thing I said.
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They go, basway, I go, hey, listen, threes and layups.
That's all. What do you mean, that's all you need
to shoot? Threes and layups. No mid range jump or
you don't need anything else. Threes and layups. Don't let
the ball leave your hand anywhere else. That's all you need.
Threes and layups. Okay, coach, all right, great way to
break it down. I mean, keep it simple. Sometimes because
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we did get some feedback about your you know, cozing
up to the city of Detroit. People are not happy
I mean cozing up. It's like my I adopted home.
I'm like Detroit's owned Jason Smith. Ya like they hate you?
What do you mean they hate me? I got the
under the NFCO. How about of Frasca quit rooting for
the Lions. Those of us side of the playoffs want
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Dan Campbell and the Lions for Super Bowl Week and
the game you're a mush and the Lions.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Are in the end zone on fourth and goal.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Tim Patrick, who it seems to catch at least once
a week, he catches a really big pass for the
life now one game when they're blowing teams out, but
he seems to catch a really big pass at least
once a week. And he catches this one on fourth
and goal from the two. It's now a twenty four
to twenty one Lions lead over the Packers. And you
know when you talk about all the weapons they have
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on this team, and you know, Saint Brown gets all
the attention.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Obviously in La.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Porta was an all world tight end last year, still
really good this year. Gibbs is probably the most talented
running back in the NFL. Jared Goff has found a
way to turn into a top five quarterback. But you
know you need those glue plays once where you need
those glue guys, and Patrick is one of those players
that comes along with talent and a locker room like
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a kind of calming presence. Because everybody that's ever played
with us, oh we loved him.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Tim's great. Tim's a great dude. He does this. He
helps his X, Y and Z and he's one of those.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Guys where a veteran that will be able to calm
everybody down and make a big play once in a while,
kind of like Ricky Proll what he used to do.
He's like, boy, look at Ricky Prowl making that big play.
And fourth and two, they go to Tim Patrick, not
Saint Brown, not Laporta. Don't try to get it to
Jamiir Gibbs. They go to Tim Patrick on fourth and two.
Here in week fourteen. No, it's good because the last
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time they tried to throw to him, Jared Goff through
that interception. So here he gets his revenge with the score.
But like this is a great story, Like he was
becoming a very reliable option for bad quarterbacking in Denver,
and then he misses two whole season, right on the
rehab train and getting himself back into shape and then
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gets hurt again. So hadn't played since twenty twenty one.
Now he's got coming into tonight, he already had twenty
one catches and is a good to sit down in
a zone and finding the soft under belly of a
defensive setup. So touchdown Golf.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Twenty four to twenty one. More on this game coming up.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
We'll get to these sports apocalypse that is now upon
us in a couple of minutes. But a little bit
more on Bill Belichick. We got this story today that
he interviewed with the North Carolina tar Heels for their
head coaching job. This tells me, well, there's one big takeaway,
and there's there's a message that it might say North
Carolina is not serious about Bellichick. Come on, man, well look,
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if you're North Carolina, what else you gonna do? Who
are you gonna hire? No, it gives you some cash.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Okay, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I'd love to see how he rounds out that staff.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
You kid, who are you gonna hide?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It's gonna Charlie White so we're gonna be coaches now.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Josh McDaniels will come it. Yeah, no, I'll get everybody.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But the first thing that tells me is that this
might be Belichick just saying, hey, I'm ready the official,
I'm ready to get back in. Im serious about it,
and the NFL. You can call me too, because there's
no way he wants to go to college over the NFL. No, No,
this is exactly the Hey, I'm a trojan yesterday, I'm
open for business. I can take a plane ride and
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go talk to somebody. Because as many NFL teams are,
you know, wary about kicking the tires, I'm just want
to know how serious are you to be in this
for the long haul and certainly if you want to
go coach college, Okay, this is something you want to do.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Uh. So this is that?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Either that or all the all the prognostication on all
the media predictions of who could wind up with him
in the NFL next year, Maybe no one's talking to him.
Maybe all this ol Jerry Jones want him here, this
is one I'm here, he can coach the Giants, he
can go Uh. Maybe that's just nothing but wishful thinking
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or stuff that doesn't have a lot of basis and merit,
because if you know you're going to get one of
these jobs that you would want next year, and certainly
the Cowboys, the Giants, the jobs he's been mentioned with,
that's fantastic Jacksonville. But the fact that here I am
going to interview here, I mean, he doesn't have to
put pressure on anybody because anybody can come get him
if they want to. So either Belichick is is you know,
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sending a message saying I'm ready to come back, or
the NFL has told him, dude, you're not and nobody
we're not going to hire you. And guess what you
have to go, but go someplace else if you want
to coach, Like it's one of those two things. Because
this is certainly a lot to unfold with Belichick, and
I just I have a hard time believing that he
wants to go to college where suddenly it's gonna be Hey, Bill,
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can you get on the phone with Jerry who? Jerry's
the manager at best Buy? You know he's a regional manager.
He's got twenty five grand in nil money for that
well wide receiver we want out of Stockton, California.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, that four star kid. Yeah, can you talk to him?
You know better?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Can you go down and meet him at his office
so we can get that extra fifty grand from He
just wants to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Hey, Hey, Bill, Hey, I.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Know it's midnight, but you know that kid we wanted
out of Louisiana, that five star quarterback. Yeah, he might
be flipping. He needs to talk to you right now.
And he says if not, he's gonna go to Arkansas.
So can he just give you a call? Right?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Are you up? But you're doing anything?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I mean, i'd figure you're up late anyway because you
know your girlfriend's twenty two. Maybe you're up, you know,
binge watching TV or something. So can he call you
right now?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Bill? Can you do that?
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Like?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I can't believe he's he's okay with getting involved in that. Like, like,
but that's that's the thing, Bill Belichick. You could see
old college rules, right, He's in charge. Here's the program,
keep PEP keeping people away in terms of boosters, hangers
on or whatever. I watched it for years when Indiana
would come to uh Chicago to go see up in
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Evanston against the Wildcats, or down to Champagne to watch
the you know when they go play Illinois, and it
was anything he could do to get in and out
of a building and talk to nobody but his team
and whoever he had to deal with on the sideline,
he'd come out of the other locker room, he'd sneak
down the back hall way. You know us. He used
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me once as a human shield to get to the bus.
Like all of that to say, like Bill Belichick strikes me.
It's kind of the same thing that that's the kind
of regime you would want to run and you can't
do that, but in twenty twenty four. But it tells
me that if he's serious about this, right, because there's
a lot of ifs going on with well we're presenting
all these scenarios, is this tells me that I bet
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you he thinks he if this is what he really wants,
If this isle if this is not just a way
to get the NFL going to get the juices flowing
on him, get some heat on him, If this is
really what he wants to do, I would guarantee you
he wants to do is least the least amount of
coaching possible, the least amount of stuff he wants it
possible that he's gonna come in and he's going to
have people to do everything right, because he's seventy two now,
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and it's a different thing. It's a much more twenty
four to seven job than the NFL is. Even more,
it's a twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
To seven job.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
You need four more hours in the day. We talked
about that last night. But it tells me that he's
going to come in and say, I'm gonna be the
CEO of this program, and I'm gonna hire a lot
of guy eyes who are gonna do all.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Of this for me. And yeah, if you need me
to make a phone call once in a while.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Sure, if you need me to meet with a kid's
uncle who is really acting as his agent, who says, hey,
you know, uh, you know, you know Jimmy from Tallahassee,
Yeah you had five star running back. Yeah yeah, listen,
his uncle Dave, who's kind of his agent, says he
needs to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Right now, you know, like once in a while.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Will that happen. Yeah, we can clear that. But I
guarantee you he's gonna be He's gonna be the coach.
He says, I'm gonna have so many coaches doing stuff
for me and I'm kind of gonna be this ser
kind of like how Bobby Bowden was the later years
at Florida State, Like I'm gonna be the I'm gonna
be in charge of the program and yeah, game days.
I'm still up for him to be a great game
day coach. Because as you get older and you're a coach,
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I see where the practices are something that you want
to do it a little less, but you figure out
your procedures and there it's wrote at that point if
you have a long standing relationship with your assistance and
not a lot of turnover, which is the key to it. Yeah,
look again, your guys.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Look because I'll be honest.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
As I got older, you know, as coaching, you know,
even being a youth coach is like, yeah, I didn't
I don't miss the practices as much as I missed
the games. Like the games are still great, but the
practice is like, Okay, done that for a long time.
Here it's because look, if you're Belichick, you've done it
for a long time, and hey, I'm looking for something
a little bit different. But I guarantee that's how he
sees the North Carolina program. If if they said to him,
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how do you see this going? He would say, I'm
gonna be in charge of everything, and I'm gonna bring
in a lot of people, and we're gonna pay him,
and we're gonna make sure that we're recruiting, we're doing X,
Y and Z, and game day is gonna be me
and during the week it's gonna be prep and the
individual coaching that does almost kind of like what Dion
does a little bit now with with Colorado, except maybe
Dan's a little bit more hands on because of that
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that's the way he coaches. Belichick's not really that hands
on an individual coach guy. I don't see him driving
the card around yelling at guys on the field like
Dion does. So I would guarantee you that's the vision
he has for North Carolina. I'm gonna have a lot
of people that do all these college new college football things,
and that way I can do the stuff that I
want to do, which is coach on the game day,
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come up with the game plans, and if I have
to make a phone call once in a while, make
a phone call once a Yeah. I mean that part
of it really does fit with the history of Belichick.
I mean empowered Crenell and and and Charlie Weiss and
all those guys through the years, go down to some
of the other assistants obviously Matt Patricia, et cetera. So yeah,
it makes sense Josh McDaniels in the later years as well.
(26:30):
So you do have that where a delegation has been
part of the mix. So that works. It's just handling
all the unwieldy stuff as you talk about with the
the uncles, the hangers on, the friend you know that
needs to be convinced. Hey, you know what, my guys
they don't want to go play here. Uh so you
know they're gonna I'm gonna have to leave the neighborhood.
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Well how do you how do you remedy all those
kind of things? Will he will we get one of
those great videos like we always talk about with Saban though,
where he's doing that dance, because we can we get
one of those, because that was really cool.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
You know, I even think, you know, look hanging show up.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
For Sunday dinner. Now he's doing the dance and listen
to you made me hang out with Pat McAfee for
an entire season.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I'm done with that now. I don't do that anymore.
I don't do that anymore. I don't do it. I
don't do it. I don't do it.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Shows up on the Manning cast. I've been doing a
lot of hard work.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Now I had to do all that crap and smile
my way through it.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
He's run the goldbell, He's done the car wash at
least three days a week, every game day.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
We're onto Syracuse. I'm done. I'm done. I'm absolutely done
not doing that.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I'm fascinated by it. Not right, I mean, it's it's
all about infrastructure. Anyway. I talked about it last night
as I made fun of the Northwestern braggadocious move of wait,
didn't spend a set down nil. That's not a good
thing in twenty twenty four and why your two best
players left. But you need staff, and you need someone
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that's going to be exacting. And what do we know
about Bill Belichick? That's it, that dog eared little NFL
rule book, which should be in the Hall of Fame
at this point. By the way, once he officially retires,
perhaps it will be. But same thing. How do you
go through the letter and spirit of the law. I
think you can have fun with the NCAA rules for
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a while. Maybe that's the new challenge exit out about
a Fresco exit swollen dome. The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon. Time to find out right
now what's trending in the wide world of sports. From
a woman who is very happy counting down the points
to get to the over on Thursday Night Football, it's
Monzi Belagna.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I mean a Jason.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I'm not that happy because, in case you're wondering, Jaden
Reid has zero.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Targets for zero yards. Yeah, so I'm not a happy camper.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Oh did you individually?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
No, for my fantasy fantasy, for my fantasy zero for
zero with the big zero next to it, you target.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Do you get any points for targets?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (28:55):
No, it's not PPR is zero. I I'm not a
happy camp Are.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
You in a league where you get points when they
show him on camera on the field? You wish?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Okay, I wish?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Have you seen him on the field?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yeah I haven't. I don't wear in the Riddler outfit
with a question work.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Grill for just Cardio is all he's doing.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I see Wicks, I see Chris.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yes, uh, I think I said.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Green prop bets did though his prop bets went from
forty eight and a half yards to sixty two and
a half just to head a kickoff.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I see Jim Taylor is out there.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Yeah, no, everyone except hitting Lynn Dickey is out there.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, yeah, thank you all.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
At halftime it was the Lions who were up seventeen
to seven, and then in the second half, Green Bay
came out swinging. First, it was a Jordan Love touchdown
pass to Tucker Craft. Then Green Bay had an interception
against Jared Goffway also having my fantasy. Let's i'll talk
about it, and then Josh Jacobs had a second rushing
touchdown of the game. So they did take the lead
(29:57):
for a hot second, but the Lions retook the lead
with the j Golf passed to Tim Patrick and now
the Lions are up twenty four to twenty one after
three quarters. GoF has thrown for one hundred and seventy
eight yards those two touchdowns and an interception. Jordan Love
has thrown for one hundred and thirty seven yards and
a touchdown. In the NBA, it's been a close game
the entire time between the Kings and the Grizzlies.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Jah Morant was.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Ejected halfway through the fourth quarter. It was his second technical.
He was called for a foul and kind of lost
his mind. They gave him a second tech. He was ejected.
The Grizzlies, though, are on top one fifteen to one
ten with three seconds to go in the game. The
Rockets and the Warriors are playing, but no Draymond, no
Steph Curry. Rockets are on top twenty two to twenty
early in the second quarter. The Cavs beat the Nuggets
earlier today behind a triple double from Nikola Jokic.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
It didn't matter.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Cleveland came on top one twenty six to one fourteen.
The MAVs took down the Wizards one thirty seven to
one oh one. Luka Doncic with his own triple double.
The Knicks Go Nicks. They beat the Hornets one twenty
five to one oh one. There's a great video of
o gion Unobi being interviewed and he grabs the microphone
and then the big.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Bodega yells at him from the.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Back, stop grabbing the microphone.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Stop grabbing the microphone, like he's just yelling at him.
Because Oj just grabs the mic from the guy interviewing him.
It's really great.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
The thunderbeat the Raptors one twenty nine to ninety two,
and the Suns lost to the Pelicans, also a close one,
one twenty six to one twenty four. Bulls took down
the Spurs one thirty nine to one twenty four. And
in baseball, in case you missed it, the A sign
pitcher Luis Severino to a three year deal worth sixty
seven million, the most guaranteed amount given to a player
in fran Chai's history.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Sixty seven million.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
That's because you went to see a game this year.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
That's what it was, yo.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
You're right to you, guys.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Congratulations, you got paid. That's why I got him.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Look, there is no bigger evidence that the apocalypse is
on us. Then Louis Severino gets the biggest contract in
Oakland A's history, and not as now Sacramento. He's decided,
I will spend the next three years of my life
in Sacramento. Like that is sports apocalypse, like sever Reno,
Like the Mets wanted him, but they weren't gonna get
(32:06):
into a bidding war. Look, he turned around his career
last year with the Mets and they did that to.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
A couple of guys. Uh, but here he is the
a's this is who the as say.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
We are planting our flag in a non college football
violent way. We are planting our flag on Luis Severino.
He's the guy we gotta we want to give the
most money to. And again, sever Reno had a nice year.
Like he wasn't great. He had a nice year. He
was nice bounce back. He's thirty years old, right, but
he's I mean, nobody else wanted him and it turned
out to be Sacramento. That's good because I gotta call
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him Sacramento. I mean, it's it's good Sacramento that's giving
in this one the next three years of my life.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I'm gonna play in a minor league ballpark, but I'm
getting paid. How do they have sixty seven million dollars?
There's so many questions about this, it's fuzzy math. But
three for sixty seven, give me three for sixty seven.
I'll go play wherever you want. How did that? But
how do you do you have that? When I don't
know that they're gonna make as much money in in
tickets the next three years to pay off Luis's small
(33:07):
the ballpark, you can't even pay him. I think it's
one hundred and fifty people can fit in that ball
all right, how do they have again? This is sports apocalypse.
This is like, hey, the End of the World is
coming out. It shows you how much money comes from
those TV contracts regardless of who shows up to your stadium.
I mean, they do show up on bobblehead days. We
have established that long ago, so I don't know how
many they're gonna have in the new facility, and they
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don't have to make as many. So they saved money
there too. The A's gave Louis Severino sixty seven million
dollars for three years. That would be the I think
third highest contract ever for the White Sox. So I
can't really say anything. This is like, I mean, like
when I saw this, I said, oh, by god, the
world is ending. The world is going to be ending.
Tomorrow might be the last day. And Severn at least
(33:50):
got paid good for him, the largest guarantee in the
history of the franchise. Yeah, when we're moving now, when
they're going into Vegas and they have all kinds of
money to spend. No, no, we're gonna spend this money
when we go to Sacramento, said meet us there. We're
gonna don't have to pay any movie. He might be
the richest guy in Sacramento already gave up there.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah no, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Yah.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You don't make as much money in the government as
you think you do.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Go look at the business. You think it's from the
it's not from the initial jump. He hasn't t restaurants
and wineries and everything. We're still open during coach, I
gotta look at contracts. I gotta look at contracts again.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Not making the man not making as much as Louis Savarrino.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
It's no way remember, and a lot of it's on
other people's dives. Food, beverage, transportation, et cetera. Exit, out
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Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Josh Jacobs in
the end zone again, his third touchdown of the game.
The Packers now the twenty eight to twenty four lead
(34:56):
over the lines. We'll have more on this game coming
up next as well as how about this You want
to talk about what could potentially be at the root
of the Chief's offensive issues. How about a story from
today that's next Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
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Speaker 1 (35:24):
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Twenty eight to twenty four lead Packers have it over
the lines right now, early in the fourth quarter, just
under twelve minutes left to go. We'll have more on
this game coming up in a few minutes, but just
to this may be the first positive thing we have
(35:45):
heard about this guy that I'm gonna say in a
long time. You probably saw the story earlier today. Eric Bienemy,
who was supposed to be everybody's next favorite head coach
in the NFL but never got his chance, was fired
as offensive coordinator of the u c l A Bruins
earlier today after one year. Bruins missed a ball. Uh,
(36:06):
kind of underachieved and Eric, the enemy is let go.
Now this the spin on it is that he wasn't
really let go. Yeah, I'm stupid. His agent said, well, no,
the plan all along with him to do go back
to the NFL after this year. Really's because there's an
over a million dollar buy out for Eric P. Enemy
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and with n I L and kids flipping and recruiting,
the plan was always for him to leave. Really, come on, man,
just stopped. The guy got fired, right, the guy got fired.
Now that being said, oh, he was always going old.
Anybody in the NFL could have had him last year.
But he had to go to go to college, right,
so anybody could have So just stop with that. But
(36:48):
the But I want to say this because this is
something that I'm telling you. He never got a chance
to be an NFL head coach and it's probably not
gonna happen now.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
He is, you know, his his his star has fallen.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Too much because you either get it when you're hot
or it's just not gonna happen for you. I just
want to say this as much of a reason why
Eric the Enemy never got a head coaching job in
the NFL. You heard, well, he's running Andy Reid's system,
he doesn't interview. Well, all these different reasons that you
heard for the Enemy, right, all these enemy? When did
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the chiefs offense turn mortal? When Eric the Enemy left
a year ago? Yeah? Why Matt Nagy. When Eric Benemy
left a year ago, the Chiefs offense turned mortal, right,
Patrick Mahomes turned into a game manager from the beginning
of last year on, and that's where the Chiefs are now.
Mahomes is kind of a game manager. They play like
(37:44):
the Patriots of the of the aughts before Brady got
all the weapons in the second half of his career,
where hey, we have a really good defense, we have
enough weapons offensively, we have a great quarterback that's gonna
win games for us at the end.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
But before that.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
They were still finding even without Tyreek Hill, they found
a way to get the ball up and down the field.
Mahomes was still thirty five forty touchdowns a year. He
was still fantastic. But Eric b Enemy left And when
did they turn mortal The beginning of last year, right
when he left. So you can say all you want
about Enemy, he's done this, he's done that. But there's
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only one change that I can sit back and say,
what was the big change before twenty twenty three with
the Chiefs, And that's the enemy life now if it's it,
and get him back in the room. He's available now.
Go in. Even though people were just starting to stump,
which made no sense for Matt Naggy as it would
be head coaching candidate and a retread. I get it,
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he's working for Andy Reid. To your point, that offense
that's selling you that you want him coming in and
running it. No, fifteen doesn't come as part of a
package deal. And even then it's been clunky and erratic.
But the opportunity is there to bring him back in. Yeah,
to your point, whatever it was in those meeting rooms,
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whatever it was in terms of the structure that they
had in place to bring the best out of Patrick
Mahomes with secondary tertiary off the scrap heap wide receivers,
it's not there. It's enough to win games right now.
But we've also talked about the quality of the NFL
as a whole. As much as we still love it
and we celebrate all two seventy two, there's a vast
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difference between the three or four top teams and everybody
else and the Chiefs, even with all the wins. You're
telling me it's it's esthetically pleasing. No, no, it is.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Not telling me.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Man.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
You can say a lot of things, but where did
that offense suddenly It right, wouldn't be the enemy left
and that's what happened. Just have to bring it back
for a second. Just think about that, hey, speaking of
something else to think about. Congratulations, Monte Blagos has opened
up a crate of champagne. The over has hit boom
because Jared Goff has found his new favorite receiver for
(39:54):
a second touchdown of the night, Tim Patrick in the
n zone for a score. He now has five for
thirty two and two touchdowns make it thirty one twenty eight.
Lions lead the Pas. Good Jared Goff too off their
first connection. That was Patrick's first touchdown since December of
twenty one, so he made sure they got the ball.
Got a big prediction coming up next right here, Fox
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holiday gift because waiting for me when I.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Came in here is a nineteen ninety one rich co
type football card.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
There you go, buddy, Thanks buddy, it cost me. I
told your worst head coach in the history. Well, you know,
sometimes you need to be reminded of where you came
Bridge Koeteite, the guy who screwed the Jets out of
Jerry Rice Rich cotype. No, I was fun seeing everybody there.
I had a lot of folks that work behind the
scenes that we don't normally get face time with, some
(01:33):
bosses that we don't normally get FaceTime with. And then
it ended up being you, me, Rich and Steve talking
about New York sports. Yeah, wait, my crap ass teams
talking about the Mets, and a lot about rock music.
So I mean it worked out really well.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
No, but but I always like getting presents, like I
always of course my wife said, I said, I love
giving president, but I like getting presents too.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And I got the worst at this.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Every time I look at Rige coat and it's a
reminder of how bad the Jets are. So I appreciate that,
and so I just I remember how bad they are.
The funny thing is really off, kind of a couple
of blips on the radar, and forty years nothing's changed.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, like you.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
You you would look at like a graph and see
like a spike here and there, and it looks like
that happened is like an earthquake, because you know what
happened when you add that piece of cheesecake, that's where
your body sugar spiked, and then all the way along
here and right here. Yeah, so here we are in
two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine. There's your spike,
and now you're all the way back down to zero,
having had to do those meters for a while all
the way. It's always fun when they you got to
(02:33):
go explain to a doctor what happened here, It's like, oh,
that was the second jacket Kirke. My my dad has
a meter for his gluecoast all the time. Right, So
just to pull the curtain back even farther, I could
tell the story because my dad's not listening. I have
not been as mad at him as I was two
weeks ago. You know, Zoe was in the play. It's
(02:54):
her school play. Yeah, and they always say, okay, you know,
shut off your phones. Okay, great, So I always to
tell him, Dad, make sure your phone is shut off
because he's got individual rings for people so you can
get like welcome to the jungle or loving an elevator,
like that's my dad's thing, like Dad, make sure your
phone is off, okay? And then in there and then
it's getting hot in hear shit. And then in the
middle of the first act, the middle of the first act,
(03:16):
you hear.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Bet it boop, bet it boop, bet boo.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm like, whose phone is that?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
What the hell? And I look and I go, oh
my god, it's right next to me, Dad, Dad, your phone, Dad, Dad?
And I'm hit him, Dad, your phone. He's like what
he can't hear it? And then you hear again, bet
it boop, bet it boop? Is it at a rate
that only dogs are supposed to hear it? And I'm like, Dad,
give me your phone, Give me your phone. He goes,
what's time? I go, give me your phone. I go,
how do you shut it off? And I'm sitting here,
I'm going, this is awful. How do you shut this?
(03:43):
All right?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Shut it off? And then then we hit intermission and
he goes, give my phone back.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What the hell?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I go, Dad, your phone was going off in the middle.
Everybody is looking around. He goes, I didn't hear it.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I go, what was it? He goes, Oh, it was
my glucose meter. It just remind me I had to
take a pill. I go okay, all right, so you
know that the entire first act, the entire front.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Bet boop, better boop, take a part.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Of the soundtrack.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
That's my remix. Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So, here we are on a Thursday night, and the
game that we told you last night was gonna be
an incredible matchup. The electricity and Ford Field is through
the roof and we are getting a great one right now.
Seventeen fourteen Lions have the lead over the Packers early
in the third quarter. Uh it looked like the lines
were hitting halftime and they were just gonna start rolling.
(04:31):
They get a fourth and one touchdown pass to Jamiir
Gibbs to give him a ten point lead, and then
Jordan Love takes the Packers right down the field.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
He had a bad first half.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
He only threw for thirty one yards, big long pass
to Christian Watson setting up a touchdown pass to Tyler Kraft.
This makes it a seventeen to fourteen game. Early in
the third quarter, with the over runner for this fifty
one and was fit up to fifty three. I'm feeling
pretty good right now. But still here are the eleven
and one lines, nine to three Packers. This will wind
(05:00):
up being the most watched through the night game of
the year. It is that exciting. Now you're gonna really
see something. You had enough points in the first half,
and now we're kicking off great in the secon fifty
nine yard pass play to Watson the key on the
scoring drive. Five plays, seventy yards a quick one. So yeah,
open the game up. Josh Jacobs scored for all you
fantasy owners, both Montgomery and Gibbs found their way to
(05:22):
the end zone. But to your point, Jordan Love just
thirty one passing yards in that first half, and they
came out and hit the bomb right right away. So
curious see how much they stretch and how much the
early runs success that Jacob's had maybe saw from the
you know, the the underbelly of that defensive line, which
we know is missing several component parts there for Detroit.
(05:43):
You know. Look, and that's the big thing about the
Lions because it's not sexy to talk about because their
offense is just so good and it's so much fun
to talk about. You get to the Yeah, but they
did that. Who cares about the Lion's defense? Gay, Look
at this though, it's the best off means we've seen
twenty five years of the NFL that goes blowing teams out.
I understand that. But the Lions defensively, they have lost
a lot of dudes. They've lost a lot of dudes
(06:04):
over the last few weeks, and that gets real. I mean,
it's gonna be really difficult because as you get closer
to the postseason, you just don't Teams don't put up
forty points anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It doesn't happen that way.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Look, you want to go back to the greatest show
on turf from the Rams got to Super Bowls where
they scoring points. They won their NFC Championship game over
Tampa Bay ten to nine. So you want to talk
about dark sides for the Lions. We talked about campbelling
because Dan Campbell's gonna do crazy things and make really
ridiculous decisions that are gonna come back to hurt the Lions.
But really, the injuries defensively for them are really hurting
(06:34):
because it's like every week they lose somebody and they
lose a starter in there. You can only put so
much duct tape and and all kinds of gum and
whatever else you're using to try to put this together,
because that's The big thing for the Lions is that
we're get in the middle of December now and suddenly
teams are starting to put some points up on them now.
And it's not just well, we can race out to
a twenty point lead. Now, it's oh no, no, we're
(06:56):
gonna stay with you enough because your defense, because you're
missing so many plays. But that's it. You lose reader,
you lose some of these other component parts, and obviously
hoping you get many of them back for the stretch run.
But what is Philadelphia able to do to you? There's
your number one opponent. What are they gonna do with
those road graders on the offensive line and Saquan Barkley
running behind him? Oh that hurts. Guy can take off
(07:18):
and run on his as well. So that's a matchup
that suddenly looks that much worse. And as we're speaking
about the prolific Detroit offense, Jared Goff with a bad interception,
and now the Packers are in business again. I'll tell
you seventeen fourteen, the Lions had the ball. This just
happened a few seconds ago. Nixon jumps the route. He's
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gonna throw a slant inside. It looked like the coverage
was sliding towards Jamier. Gibbs is gonna catch a pass
out of the backfield, but he tries to go for
the slant. Nixon jumps the route, picks it off, gets
a decent return. So now the green Bay Packers are
gonna have a first and goal from the six yard line.
And this seventeen to seven lead, where the Lions felt
(07:59):
pretty good going in a halftime, they're about to be,
at worst back to an even game plus three actually,
and yet at plus three and a half, plus three
and a half, okay, yeah, all right, let's so plus
three and a half and uh fifty three is the total.
And then an absolute bull rush into the end zone
Josh Jacobs in the end zone for a touchdown. The
(08:19):
Jared Goff interception the Packers make them paid right away,
so that lead is gone. Two touchdowns in the first
four minutes of the second half. Extra point pending for
green Bay now going to wind up being it's twenty
to seventeen, likely twenty one seventeen, and it's looked easy
for green Bay.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
That's the thing about this.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
This beginning of the second half of the Packers like
they struggled a lot in the first half, right, I
know that we talk a big first drive, right, no,
up seven nothing, Yeah, and that's it, right. You know,
you talk about halftime adjustments in the NFL are not
that great. It's not that suddenly, hey, we're figuring things out.
But yeah, there are tweaks that are made, there are
strategies that that are that are now implemented. But the
Packers have come out of the gate here and they
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have not been slowed down at all. They had the
long pass to Watson to getting the end zone easy,
this was an interception and two plays later it's simple
into the end zone. All of a sudden, the Packers
have done whatever they wanted to in the first five
minutes of the second half. Yeah, fewer than four minutes.
And well we always talk about quarters in games, but
you know, last four, first four, and you thought Detroit
(09:21):
had taken care of business by getting their points in
the final four of the first half. But just blitzed
out of the gate here, and you know, Love opening
up with that big play to Watson, single coverage down
the field, just over the top, dropped in perfectly, and
now we've got ourselves a much different ballgame. And Jared
goff coming back onto the field after that interception, right, which,
(09:44):
all the year long, it's all been about taking care
of the football. We talked about it last night, the
turnover differential for both of these teams sitting at plus
eight and plus nine Lions and Packers respectively. And you
know the tail of the tape. You know, Josh Jacobson
the run game, but who going to take care of
the football? And what we've seen from Jordan Love, even
with that robust plus minus number, he's certainly giving it
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away a lot.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Get after you, sure, sure all.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
The turnovers that you waited on for years because they
were always the that that defense looks great. They're a
great fantasy sleeper defense, and they never showed up with
the turnover rate. This year, they're giving you that in spades.
Exit out about a Fresca exit swallowed down the Jason
smithsher with Mike Carbents. We'll keep you updated on this
game throughout the rest of the night again twenty one seventeen.
(10:31):
If you have the over, like mons, I'm sure Monsei
has the over on this. Trying to make her money
back from that Clippers game. She lost a lot of
cash on last night. Yeah, she's mouthing to me, I
have the over. I have the over. Okay, they spin
the ball meanwhile, and something we're gonna get into in
a bigger coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
But I know I had to.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Take a couple of different looks at the computer today
when I saw Wait, Bill Belichick interviewed for the North
Carolina head coaching job. The North Carolina head coaching job,
Bill Belichick interviewed, Yeah, Now.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
At first I was upset. You. I was upset.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Why are we upset? Because all the Bill Belichick how
he's gonna communicate with younger people, all the best jokes
were gone, like all the like all the pictures of
him and his twenty two year old girlfriend, like, all.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
The jokes were gone already. I'm like, oh, no, I
sent you a good one. You said, yeah, you did.
I can't say it on the air, but you did something. No,
I don't know about that. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well you sure, you kid?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Why you just want something to happen to me. You
can say, hey, it's a Mike harmon, But man, sometimes
you gotta go to the edge. The time Hartman's reading,
he's got his hand over the dump button as we
sit wait for it. No wammy, no wammy, no wammy.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
No the one, the one.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Thing I will say that we can say. All right now,
I'm just kidding. No the uh, Frostburg said.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And now I want this more than anything. Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I want him to get the job just so he
can have a bad game like against North Carolina State
or I don't know, wake for answer or something and
then have to answer questions postgame and just absolutely say
we're on to Syracuse. We're on to Syracuse. We're on
to Syracuse. No, it's it's already been addressed. We're onto Syracuse.
I mean proof of concept that he relates to young kids.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Bill, Yeah, yeah, any showers.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, well yeah he might do that. Dude, Dude, don't
don't coach man, don't how much coach how much older
or younger is he than mac Brahm, don't, well, the
whole that whole thing. But but yeah, onto Syracuse. And
you know it's crazy, you know, it's crazy. Even crazier
about this because I thought about this today too. I'm like, wow,
(12:39):
if Belichick gets this gig at North Carolina, right, and
I started thinking, I said, oh, man, think about that,
and it just hit me. I said, oh, man, because
you know Manny d as the head coach at at Duke.
He and I were production assistants together at ESPN in
the early nineties. I'm like, so this guy, we were
productions together. You know, each go different directions. I go
the broadcast route. He goes the coaching route. That's it
(13:00):
here he is. He's gonna be coaching against Bill Belichick
next year. Very strange world. It is a very odd
world that we live in. That's so strange. Belichick in college,
in this college as well, he's got the he's got
the hoodie and that's very popular, and call you know,
(13:20):
the sweatshirts a very popular look. He's gonna he's gonna
fit in right on campus. He'll fit in really well
right there. Man, are you kidding? Sly?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
The sleeveless North I guarantee you there's North Carolina parties
going on right now. And it's I'm gonna take my
brand new Carolina spec shirt, the champion one I got
down of the store. Where's bye you going for Christmas?
I will cut the sleeves in it tonight. You want
someone to wear it outside in the snow and the Rain.
I want to be out there two am tonight just
(13:49):
in my huddy.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
My sleeve is honey man, I'm feeling really good.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
That's gonna happen tonight North Carolina campus.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That's funny, though, is that you've already had him on
The Simpsons, you know, putting the hood up in the
nine yards, so now you just take it to a
college campus. But yeah, him in this nil goes back
to what we were talking about last night, the job
you could never do right, go ahead, your cruder and
watching someone flip at the last minute. How the hell
do you think that would go over with Belichick. We're
onto Syracuse. We're on a serious We're on a serious
(14:17):
We're onto our next We're on Syracuse. Bill you lost
a guy for twenty five hundred dollars at a best bite.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
We're onto Syracuse. We're on a serous We're on.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
A serious exit out about a Fresco exit swallowing down
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Speaker 3 (14:31):
Uh, we'll love more.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
We will ask the big question about Belichick coming up next,
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me that the end times are near, like we are
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Speaker 3 (15:15):
If you have the over, you're feeling happy. Packers twenty one.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
To seventeen lead over the Lions Detroit, sitting on a
third and goal from the three. Jamir Gibbs run got
them down to the three yard line. I assume they
will go for it because they went for it on
fourth down now all of a sudden, Dan Cambell's and
we're gonna go for it on fourth down all the time,
no matter what, just gonna go all the time. So
I am I assume it's two down territory, third and
(15:41):
goal from the four, that if they don't get in
on this play, they will wind up going for it
on fourth down and Jamiir Gibbs does not get in.
He gets down to the Montgomery, he gets down to
the stop, he gets down to the team. So fourth
and goal, I am sure they're gonna have a play
to go for it. First half they ran a play
action passed the Jamiir Gibbs for a touchdown, And certainly
and surely enough that's exactly what the Lion's doing right
(16:03):
now going forward on fourth. No, but it's like we
were talking with Rick Buker last night. Keep shooting three pointers.
They're better than two's. Yeah, and eventually you know math,
but you actually have to hat coats. I always tell
whatever I beat, like one of my friends and they
have kids who are playing basketball growing up and everything else,
and uh and I always say the same thing I said.
(16:23):
They go, basway, I go, hey, listen, threes and layups.
That's all. What do you mean, that's all you need
to shoot? Threes and layups. No mid range jump or
you don't need anything else. Threes and layups. Don't let
the ball leave your hand anywhere else. That's all you need.
Threes and layups. Okay, coach, all right, great way to
break it down. I mean, keep it simple. Sometimes because
(16:44):
we did get some feedback about your you know, cozing
up to the city of Detroit. People are not happy
I mean cozing up. It's like my I adopted home.
I'm like Detroit's owned Jason Smith. Ya like they hate you?
What do you mean they hate me? I got the
under the NFCO. How about of Frasca quit rooting for
the Lions. Those of us side of the playoffs want
(17:07):
Dan Campbell and the Lions for Super Bowl Week and
the game you're a mush and the Lions.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Are in the end zone on fourth and goal.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Tim Patrick, who it seems to catch at least once
a week, he catches a really big pass for the
life now one game when they're blowing teams out, but
he seems to catch a really big pass at least
once a week. And he catches this one on fourth
and goal from the two. It's now a twenty four
to twenty one Lions lead over the Packers. And you
know when you talk about all the weapons they have
(17:41):
on this team, and you know, Saint Brown gets all
the attention.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Obviously in La.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Porta was an all world tight end last year, still
really good this year. Gibbs is probably the most talented
running back in the NFL. Jared Goff has found a
way to turn into a top five quarterback. But you
know you need those glue plays once where you need
those glue guys, and Patrick is one of those players
that comes along with talent and a locker room like
(18:04):
a kind of calming presence. Because everybody that's ever played
with us, oh we loved him.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Tim's great. Tim's a great dude. He does this. He
helps his X, Y and Z and he's one of those.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Guys where a veteran that will be able to calm
everybody down and make a big play once in a while,
kind of like Ricky Proll what he used to do.
He's like, boy, look at Ricky Prowl making that big play.
And fourth and two, they go to Tim Patrick, not
Saint Brown, not Laporta. Don't try to get it to
Jamiir Gibbs. They go to Tim Patrick on fourth and two.
Here in week fourteen. No, it's good because the last
(18:33):
time they tried to throw to him, Jared Goff through
that interception. So here he gets his revenge with the score.
But like this is a great story, Like he was
becoming a very reliable option for bad quarterbacking in Denver,
and then he misses two whole season, right on the
rehab train and getting himself back into shape and then
(18:54):
gets hurt again. So hadn't played since twenty twenty one.
Now he's got coming into tonight, he already had twenty
one catches and is a good to sit down in
a zone and finding the soft under belly of a
defensive setup. So touchdown Golf.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Twenty four to twenty one. More on this game coming up.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
We'll get to these sports apocalypse that is now upon
us in a couple of minutes. But a little bit
more on Bill Belichick. We got this story today that
he interviewed with the North Carolina tar Heels for their
head coaching job. This tells me, well, there's one big takeaway,
and there's there's a message that it might say North
Carolina is not serious about Bellichick. Come on, man, well look,
(19:34):
if you're North Carolina, what else you gonna do? Who
are you gonna hire? No, it gives you some cash.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Okay, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I'd love to see how he rounds out that staff.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
You kid, who are you gonna hide?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It's gonna Charlie White so we're gonna be coaches now.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Josh McDaniels will come it. Yeah, no, I'll get everybody.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But the first thing that tells me is that this
might be Belichick just saying, hey, I'm ready the official,
I'm ready to get back in. Im serious about it,
and the NFL. You can call me too, because there's
no way he wants to go to college over the NFL. No, No,
this is exactly the Hey, I'm a trojan yesterday, I'm
open for business. I can take a plane ride and
(20:14):
go talk to somebody. Because as many NFL teams are,
you know, wary about kicking the tires, I'm just want
to know how serious are you to be in this
for the long haul and certainly if you want to
go coach college, Okay, this is something you want to do.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Uh. So this is that?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Either that or all the all the prognostication on all
the media predictions of who could wind up with him
in the NFL next year, Maybe no one's talking to him.
Maybe all this ol Jerry Jones want him here, this
is one I'm here, he can coach the Giants, he
can go Uh. Maybe that's just nothing but wishful thinking
(20:53):
or stuff that doesn't have a lot of basis and merit,
because if you know you're going to get one of
these jobs that you would want next year, and certainly
the Cowboys, the Giants, the jobs he's been mentioned with,
that's fantastic Jacksonville. But the fact that here I am
going to interview here, I mean, he doesn't have to
put pressure on anybody because anybody can come get him
if they want to. So either Belichick is is you know,
(21:13):
sending a message saying I'm ready to come back, or
the NFL has told him, dude, you're not and nobody
we're not going to hire you. And guess what you
have to go, but go someplace else if you want
to coach, Like it's one of those two things. Because
this is certainly a lot to unfold with Belichick, and
I just I have a hard time believing that he
wants to go to college where suddenly it's gonna be Hey, Bill,
(21:35):
can you get on the phone with Jerry who? Jerry's
the manager at best Buy? You know he's a regional manager.
He's got twenty five grand in nil money for that
well wide receiver we want out of Stockton, California.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, that four star kid. Yeah, can you talk to him?
You know better?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Can you go down and meet him at his office
so we can get that extra fifty grand from He
just wants to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Hey, Hey, Bill, Hey, I.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Know it's midnight, but you know that kid we wanted
out of Louisiana, that five star quarterback. Yeah, he might
be flipping. He needs to talk to you right now.
And he says if not, he's gonna go to Arkansas.
So can he just give you a call? Right?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Are you up? But you're doing anything?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I mean, i'd figure you're up late anyway because you
know your girlfriend's twenty two. Maybe you're up, you know,
binge watching TV or something. So can he call you
right now?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Bill? Can you do that?
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Like?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I can't believe he's he's okay with getting involved in that. Like, like,
but that's that's the thing, Bill Belichick. You could see
old college rules, right, He's in charge. Here's the program,
keep PEP keeping people away in terms of boosters, hangers
on or whatever. I watched it for years when Indiana
would come to uh Chicago to go see up in
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Evanston against the Wildcats, or down to Champagne to watch
the you know when they go play Illinois, and it
was anything he could do to get in and out
of a building and talk to nobody but his team
and whoever he had to deal with on the sideline,
he'd come out of the other locker room, he'd sneak
down the back hall way. You know us. He used
(23:01):
me once as a human shield to get to the bus.
Like all of that to say, like Bill Belichick strikes me.
It's kind of the same thing that that's the kind
of regime you would want to run and you can't
do that, but in twenty twenty four. But it tells
me that if he's serious about this, right, because there's
a lot of ifs going on with well we're presenting
all these scenarios, is this tells me that I bet
(23:22):
you he thinks he if this is what he really wants,
If this isle if this is not just a way
to get the NFL going to get the juices flowing
on him, get some heat on him, If this is
really what he wants to do, I would guarantee you
he wants to do is least the least amount of
coaching possible, the least amount of stuff he wants it
possible that he's gonna come in and he's going to
have people to do everything right, because he's seventy two now,
(23:45):
and it's a different thing. It's a much more twenty
four to seven job than the NFL is. Even more,
it's a twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
To seven job.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
You need four more hours in the day. We talked
about that last night. But it tells me that he's
going to come in and say, I'm gonna be the
CEO of this program, and I'm gonna hire a lot
of guy eyes who are gonna do all.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Of this for me. And yeah, if you need me
to make a phone call once in a while.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Sure, if you need me to meet with a kid's
uncle who is really acting as his agent, who says, hey,
you know, uh, you know, you know Jimmy from Tallahassee,
Yeah you had five star running back. Yeah yeah, listen,
his uncle Dave, who's kind of his agent, says he
needs to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Right now, you know, like once in a while.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Will that happen. Yeah, we can clear that. But I
guarantee you he's gonna be He's gonna be the coach.
He says, I'm gonna have so many coaches doing stuff
for me and I'm kind of gonna be this ser
kind of like how Bobby Bowden was the later years
at Florida State, Like I'm gonna be the I'm gonna
be in charge of the program and yeah, game days.
I'm still up for him to be a great game
day coach. Because as you get older and you're a coach,
(24:46):
I see where the practices are something that you want
to do it a little less, but you figure out
your procedures and there it's wrote at that point if
you have a long standing relationship with your assistance and
not a lot of turnover, which is the key to it. Yeah,
look again, your guys.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Look because I'll be honest.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
As I got older, you know, as coaching, you know,
even being a youth coach is like, yeah, I didn't
I don't miss the practices as much as I missed
the games. Like the games are still great, but the
practice is like, Okay, done that for a long time.
Here it's because look, if you're Belichick, you've done it
for a long time, and hey, I'm looking for something
a little bit different. But I guarantee that's how he
sees the North Carolina program. If if they said to him,
(25:24):
how do you see this going? He would say, I'm
gonna be in charge of everything, and I'm gonna bring
in a lot of people, and we're gonna pay him,
and we're gonna make sure that we're recruiting, we're doing X,
Y and Z, and game day is gonna be me
and during the week it's gonna be prep and the
individual coaching that does almost kind of like what Dion
does a little bit now with with Colorado, except maybe
Dan's a little bit more hands on because of that
(25:46):
that's the way he coaches. Belichick's not really that hands
on an individual coach guy. I don't see him driving
the card around yelling at guys on the field like
Dion does. So I would guarantee you that's the vision
he has for North Carolina. I'm gonna have a lot
of people that do all these college new college football things,
and that way I can do the stuff that I
want to do, which is coach on the game day,
(26:07):
come up with the game plans, and if I have
to make a phone call once in a while, make
a phone call once a Yeah. I mean that part
of it really does fit with the history of Belichick.
I mean empowered Crenell and and and Charlie Weiss and
all those guys through the years, go down to some
of the other assistants obviously Matt Patricia, et cetera. So yeah,
it makes sense Josh McDaniels in the later years as well.
(26:30):
So you do have that where a delegation has been
part of the mix. So that works. It's just handling
all the unwieldy stuff as you talk about with the
the uncles, the hangers on, the friend you know that
needs to be convinced. Hey, you know what, my guys
they don't want to go play here. Uh so you
know they're gonna I'm gonna have to leave the neighborhood.
(26:51):
Well how do you how do you remedy all those
kind of things? Will he will we get one of
those great videos like we always talk about with Saban though,
where he's doing that dance, because we can we get
one of those, because that was really cool.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
You know, I even think, you know, look hanging show up.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
For Sunday dinner. Now he's doing the dance and listen
to you made me hang out with Pat McAfee for
an entire season.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I'm done with that now. I don't do that anymore.
I don't do that anymore. I don't do it. I
don't do it. I don't do it.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Shows up on the Manning cast. I've been doing a
lot of hard work.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Now I had to do all that crap and smile
my way through it.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
He's run the goldbell, He's done the car wash at
least three days a week, every game day.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
We're onto Syracuse. I'm done. I'm done. I'm absolutely done
not doing that.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I'm fascinated by it. Not right, I mean, it's it's
all about infrastructure. Anyway. I talked about it last night
as I made fun of the Northwestern braggadocious move of wait,
didn't spend a set down nil. That's not a good
thing in twenty twenty four and why your two best
players left. But you need staff, and you need someone
(27:55):
that's going to be exacting. And what do we know
about Bill Belichick? That's it, that dog eared little NFL
rule book, which should be in the Hall of Fame
at this point. By the way, once he officially retires,
perhaps it will be. But same thing. How do you
go through the letter and spirit of the law. I
think you can have fun with the NCAA rules for
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a while. Maybe that's the new challenge exit out about
a Fresco exit swollen dome. The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon. Time to find out right
now what's trending in the wide world of sports. From
a woman who is very happy counting down the points
to get to the over on Thursday Night Football, it's
Monzi Belagna.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
I mean a Jason.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I'm not that happy because, in case you're wondering, Jaden
Reid has zero.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Targets for zero yards. Yeah, so I'm not a happy camper.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Oh did you individually?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
No, for my fantasy fantasy, for my fantasy zero for
zero with the big zero next to it, you target.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Do you get any points for targets?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (28:55):
No, it's not PPR is zero. I I'm not a
happy camp Are.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
You in a league where you get points when they
show him on camera on the field? You wish?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Okay, I wish?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Have you seen him on the field?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yeah I haven't. I don't wear in the Riddler outfit
with a question work.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Grill for just Cardio is all he's doing.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I see Wicks, I see Chris.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yes, uh, I think I said.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Green prop bets did though his prop bets went from
forty eight and a half yards to sixty two and
a half just to head a kickoff.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I see Jim Taylor is out there.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Yeah, no, everyone except hitting Lynn Dickey is out there.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, yeah, thank you all.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
At halftime it was the Lions who were up seventeen
to seven, and then in the second half, Green Bay
came out swinging. First, it was a Jordan Love touchdown
pass to Tucker Craft. Then Green Bay had an interception
against Jared Goffway also having my fantasy. Let's i'll talk
about it, and then Josh Jacobs had a second rushing
touchdown of the game. So they did take the lead
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for a hot second, but the Lions retook the lead
with the j Golf passed to Tim Patrick and now
the Lions are up twenty four to twenty one after
three quarters. GoF has thrown for one hundred and seventy
eight yards those two touchdowns and an interception. Jordan Love
has thrown for one hundred and thirty seven yards and
a touchdown. In the NBA, it's been a close game
the entire time between the Kings and the Grizzlies.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Jah Morant was.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Ejected halfway through the fourth quarter. It was his second technical.
He was called for a foul and kind of lost
his mind. They gave him a second tech. He was ejected.
The Grizzlies, though, are on top one fifteen to one
ten with three seconds to go in the game. The
Rockets and the Warriors are playing, but no Draymond, no
Steph Curry. Rockets are on top twenty two to twenty
early in the second quarter. The Cavs beat the Nuggets
earlier today behind a triple double from Nikola Jokic.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
It didn't matter.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Cleveland came on top one twenty six to one fourteen.
The MAVs took down the Wizards one thirty seven to
one oh one. Luka Doncic with his own triple double.
The Knicks Go Nicks. They beat the Hornets one twenty
five to one oh one. There's a great video of
o gion Unobi being interviewed and he grabs the microphone
and then the big.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Bodega yells at him from the.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Back, stop grabbing the microphone.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Stop grabbing the microphone, like he's just yelling at him.
Because Oj just grabs the mic from the guy interviewing him.
It's really great.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
The thunderbeat the Raptors one twenty nine to ninety two,
and the Suns lost to the Pelicans, also a close one,
one twenty six to one twenty four. Bulls took down
the Spurs one thirty nine to one twenty four. And
in baseball, in case you missed it, the A sign
pitcher Luis Severino to a three year deal worth sixty
seven million, the most guaranteed amount given to a player
in fran Chai's history.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Sixty seven million.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
That's because you went to see a game this year.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
That's what it was, yo.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
You're right to you, guys.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Congratulations, you got paid. That's why I got him.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Look, there is no bigger evidence that the apocalypse is
on us. Then Louis Severino gets the biggest contract in
Oakland A's history, and not as now Sacramento. He's decided,
I will spend the next three years of my life
in Sacramento. Like that is sports apocalypse, like sever Reno,
Like the Mets wanted him, but they weren't gonna get
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into a bidding war. Look, he turned around his career
last year with the Mets and they did that to.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
A couple of guys. Uh, but here he is the
a's this is who the as say.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
We are planting our flag in a non college football
violent way. We are planting our flag on Luis Severino.
He's the guy we gotta we want to give the
most money to. And again, sever Reno had a nice year.
Like he wasn't great. He had a nice year. He
was nice bounce back. He's thirty years old, right, but
he's I mean, nobody else wanted him and it turned
out to be Sacramento. That's good because I gotta call
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him Sacramento. I mean, it's it's good Sacramento that's giving
in this one the next three years of my life.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I'm gonna play in a minor league ballpark, but I'm
getting paid. How do they have sixty seven million dollars?
There's so many questions about this, it's fuzzy math. But
three for sixty seven, give me three for sixty seven.
I'll go play wherever you want. How did that? But
how do you do you have that? When I don't
know that they're gonna make as much money in in
tickets the next three years to pay off Luis's small
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the ballpark, you can't even pay him. I think it's
one hundred and fifty people can fit in that ball
all right, how do they have again? This is sports apocalypse.
This is like, hey, the End of the World is
coming out. It shows you how much money comes from
those TV contracts regardless of who shows up to your stadium.
I mean, they do show up on bobblehead days. We
have established that long ago, so I don't know how
many they're gonna have in the new facility, and they
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don't have to make as many. So they saved money
there too. The A's gave Louis Severino sixty seven million
dollars for three years. That would be the I think
third highest contract ever for the White Sox. So I
can't really say anything. This is like, I mean, like
when I saw this, I said, oh, by god, the
world is ending. The world is going to be ending.
Tomorrow might be the last day. And Severn at least
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got paid good for him, the largest guarantee in the
history of the franchise. Yeah, when we're moving now, when
they're going into Vegas and they have all kinds of
money to spend. No, no, we're gonna spend this money
when we go to Sacramento, said meet us there. We're
gonna don't have to pay any movie. He might be
the richest guy in Sacramento already gave up there.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah no, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Yah.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You don't make as much money in the government as
you think you do.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Go look at the business. You think it's from the
it's not from the initial jump. He hasn't t restaurants
and wineries and everything. We're still open during coach, I
gotta look at contracts. I gotta look at contracts again.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Not making the man not making as much as Louis Savarrino.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
It's no way remember, and a lot of it's on
other people's dives. Food, beverage, transportation, et cetera. Exit, out
out of Fresca, exit swollen down the Johnny four Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Josh Jacobs in
the end zone again, his third touchdown of the game.
The Packers now the twenty eight to twenty four lead
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over the lines. We'll have more on this game coming
up next as well as how about this You want
to talk about what could potentially be at the root
of the Chief's offensive issues. How about a story from
today that's next Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
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Speaker 1 (35:24):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, Live from the Tireck dot Com Studios.
Twenty eight to twenty four lead Packers have it over
the lines right now, early in the fourth quarter, just
under twelve minutes left to go. We'll have more on
this game coming up in a few minutes, but just
to this may be the first positive thing we have
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heard about this guy that I'm gonna say in a
long time. You probably saw the story earlier today. Eric Bienemy,
who was supposed to be everybody's next favorite head coach
in the NFL but never got his chance, was fired
as offensive coordinator of the u c l A Bruins
earlier today after one year. Bruins missed a ball. Uh,
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kind of underachieved and Eric, the enemy is let go.
Now this the spin on it is that he wasn't
really let go. Yeah, I'm stupid. His agent said, well, no,
the plan all along with him to do go back
to the NFL after this year. Really's because there's an
over a million dollar buy out for Eric P. Enemy
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and with n I L and kids flipping and recruiting,
the plan was always for him to leave. Really, come on, man,
just stopped. The guy got fired, right, the guy got fired.
Now that being said, oh, he was always going old.
Anybody in the NFL could have had him last year.
But he had to go to go to college, right,
so anybody could have So just stop with that. But
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the But I want to say this because this is
something that I'm telling you. He never got a chance
to be an NFL head coach and it's probably not
gonna happen now.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
He is, you know, his his his star has fallen.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Too much because you either get it when you're hot
or it's just not gonna happen for you. I just
want to say this as much of a reason why
Eric the Enemy never got a head coaching job in
the NFL. You heard, well, he's running Andy Reid's system,
he doesn't interview. Well, all these different reasons that you
heard for the Enemy, right, all these enemy? When did
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the chiefs offense turn mortal? When Eric the Enemy left
a year ago? Yeah? Why Matt Nagy. When Eric Benemy
left a year ago, the Chiefs offense turned mortal, right,
Patrick Mahomes turned into a game manager from the beginning
of last year on, and that's where the Chiefs are now.
Mahomes is kind of a game manager. They play like
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the Patriots of the of the aughts before Brady got
all the weapons in the second half of his career,
where hey, we have a really good defense, we have
enough weapons offensively, we have a great quarterback that's gonna
win games for us at the end.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
But before that.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
They were still finding even without Tyreek Hill, they found
a way to get the ball up and down the field.
Mahomes was still thirty five forty touchdowns a year. He
was still fantastic. But Eric b Enemy left And when
did they turn mortal The beginning of last year, right
when he left. So you can say all you want
about Enemy, he's done this, he's done that. But there's
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only one change that I can sit back and say,
what was the big change before twenty twenty three with
the Chiefs, And that's the enemy life now if it's it,
and get him back in the room. He's available now.
Go in. Even though people were just starting to stump,
which made no sense for Matt Naggy as it would
be head coaching candidate and a retread. I get it,
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he's working for Andy Reid. To your point, that offense
that's selling you that you want him coming in and
running it. No, fifteen doesn't come as part of a
package deal. And even then it's been clunky and erratic.
But the opportunity is there to bring him back in. Yeah,
to your point, whatever it was in those meeting rooms,
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whatever it was in terms of the structure that they
had in place to bring the best out of Patrick
Mahomes with secondary tertiary off the scrap heap wide receivers,
it's not there. It's enough to win games right now.
But we've also talked about the quality of the NFL
as a whole. As much as we still love it
and we celebrate all two seventy two, there's a vast
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difference between the three or four top teams and everybody
else and the Chiefs, even with all the wins. You're
telling me it's it's esthetically pleasing. No, no, it is.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Not telling me.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Man.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
You can say a lot of things, but where did
that offense suddenly It right, wouldn't be the enemy left
and that's what happened. Just have to bring it back
for a second. Just think about that, hey, speaking of
something else to think about. Congratulations, Monte Blagos has opened
up a crate of champagne. The over has hit boom
because Jared Goff has found his new favorite receiver for
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a second touchdown of the night, Tim Patrick in the
n zone for a score. He now has five for
thirty two and two touchdowns make it thirty one twenty eight.
Lions lead the Pas. Good Jared Goff too off their
first connection. That was Patrick's first touchdown since December of
twenty one, so he made sure they got the ball.
Got a big prediction coming up next right here, Fox
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