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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Thursday, Jason Smith's Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. Well dressed to live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios. Hur we jump right into Thursday
Night football. Maybe the Commanders are gonna make a play
at some point, although ooh boy, that last play looked
really painful for Jayden Daniels. A fourteen to three lead
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for Green Bay right now early in the third quarter,
looks like it's gonna be a field goal attempt for
the Commanders to try to cut this to fourteen to six.
It was a big sack by Micah Parsons. And look,
when we picked this game last night, I said Packers
are gonna win this game. These are the games you
get Micah Parsons for when you have a quarterback that
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is absolutely this good in Jade and Daniels, and someone
who stresses your defense, not just throwing the football, but
getting outside the pocket. Accounting for Micah Parsons in a
game like this is paramount. And as you've seen in
the course of the first half, there's plays where he
is triple teamed and he's still affecting the play. And
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again the big sack right here. He had two pressures
in his first fifteen snaps alone. This is why this
is a now a fourteen to three game because doink sorry, buddy,
I know, doinke, I know it's.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
A well, it only counts if it's a double.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But you are seeing, yes, the Packers' offense is playing well,
Jordan Love is playing well, and Josh Jacobs is running
the football well enough to running the ball okay, but
you can see this is not a Commander's offense that
is in sync. And when you throw the prospect of hey,
here comes Micah Parsons, all of a sudden, this Packers defense,
as good as it is, it may be league best
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among the league best. Here you see why it's fourteen
to three and all of a sudden, hey, wait a minute,
maybe the Packers are a real Super Bowl team. Hang
on a second. They beat the crap out of the Lions.
The Lions couldn't score. They're beating the crap out of
the Commanders. The Commanders can't score. Hang on a second,
Maybe Jerry Jones just handed the Lombardi Trophy to the
Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, we watched the mural that they keep showing out
there that says thank you, Jerry, with the painting of
him all teary eyed and Micah Parsons smiling. On this
last play, you have the ability to just run past
the right tackle who really couldn't even get out of
his snap, tried to tackle Michaeh Parsons and failed. I
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was surprised we didn't see a whistle at the end,
because clearly that play had been blown dead long before
Jayden Daniels got thrown to the turf. But we lived
to see another day. On both sides, the Packers have
just dominated this game. You've had a couple of field
goal attempts for Washington. You just called the doink there.
Going back to the last nineteen seconds of the first half,
you had a fifty eight yard miss that just was
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short and then the Packers got straight into position for
a long field goal attempt, but it goes off the upright.
So those that were over betters thought they were gonna
get some extra juice. But we've watched the defense terrorizem
and I think Washington right now wishes they'd tried to
solve things with Brian Robinson before sending him away because
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they have no running game. Bill Bill Crosskey Merritt and
Austin Eckler have been invisible. Daniels has been underseas. You
mentioned the Parsons stats right off the jump, and he's
been uncomfortable all night long trying to slide in the pocket.
You had a big miss to Noah Brown. That was
the one big play that they might have had for
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the offense that went asunder. Conversely, Jordan Love averaging sixteen
yards per completion. That's bolstered by that big Tucker Craft
catch and run. But overall they've been able to space
the ball and push down field. Offensive line, even missing
two starters for Green Bay, has held up quite nicely
for Love to be able to deliver the ball downfield. Now,
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Golden had a couple of would have, should have, could
have that are just incompletions. They don't help your box score,
your fantasy team. And then you have the big Jayden
Reid play taken back off a holding penalty. But Packer's
doing whatever they want right now.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Look and look, and the Golden play was just a
complete you know, in the first half when they go
for it on fourth down and Lafleur is just incensed
that they run up to the line of scrimmage to
try to go for it on fourth and three and
the officials make them wait to snap that football, and
he is screaming.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
What do we doing? Why are we waiting? Why are
we waiting?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And at that point you're like, okay, maybe they're going
to make another decision. But Love drops back in the
shotgun and he's got Matthew Golden wide up and it's
a touchdown and he's three steps by he underthrows the football,
right He just I mean that that should have been
another touchdown and it should have been even a bigger
lead for Green Bay than it is right now. But
all of a sudden, like I think the happiest team
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in the NFL now outside of the Packers are the Lions,
because they're like, wait, wait a minute, maybe we are
still really really good. And wow, now we just got
to get used to this defense with Micah Parsons because
maybe maybe it was a little bit not as self
inflicted and things we have to clean up. Just at Hey,
there's now a new beast of a defense because they
got the best defensive player in the NFL. And it's
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something we got to navigate because look, these are these
are two high, very prolific offenses for different reasons. The
depth of the talent of the Detroit Lions and the
absolute talent of Jayden Daniels to make everybody around him better.
And you've seen two different styles of offense in the
last two weeks that the Packers have faced, and they're
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dominating the first team and they're dominating the second team
right now, like this is all This is like one
of those sea change games where if this holds, you
walk away from tonight going oh, man, I know we
talked about teams like the Rams and the Eagles who
just won, and the Chiefs and the Ravens and the
Bills up, but maybe this is the Packers who are
going to run away in the first half of the
season as the Super Bowl overwhelming super Bowl favorite I
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mean sometimes it is as simple as when you take
the best defensive player in the NFL in his prime
and you PLoP him on a team where he is
basically a plug and play guy. Right There's certain positions
where if you're a safety, if you're a middle linebacker,
you're a defensive tackle, okay, affecting the games. But when
you're a linebacker and you're and you're a rusher and
you're getting the quarterback, like, hey, we'll put you right
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in and you go right. This is why these guys
certain positions come into the league right away, and you
can tell if a player is good because it's about
taking advantage of your athletic ability and being able to
jump into a spot and not have to have so
much responsibility. Right running backs right away, we find out
when they come into the league, Hey you're good or
you're not.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Right away.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You have vision, you can hit the holes, you know
how to cut like you see. You guys are at
running back are good right away. Sometimes other positions takes
a little bit. Right wide receiver, tight end takes a
year or two to get involved in the offense. But
running back, edge rushers, these are the big plug and
play positions where it's okay, you come in here, you
are get the quarterback X, Y and Z, and it's
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a lot less to have to worry about fitting into
a scheme. Micah Parson's been able to come in and
just say, yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Let's go. Let's ride, like doing the whole hustle. Let's ride,
Let's ride Backers Country, Let's ride. But that's stick. You
get the big gift for Hathley the defensive corner. They
were already the sixth best defense last year in terms
of points allowed per game, Chargers at the top of
the list, but the Packers were sixed right there with
Minnesota in terms of disruption. Now you get rid of
you know, a guy that once upawn a time was
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a big run defender and in the trade with Dallas.
But you watched as these first two games. You watched
it with Detroit and their line trying to come back together,
guys injured, whatever, new coordinators. There's a lot going on
in Detroit. But here with Washington, you know you got
Laramie tunsell answering and trying to figure out where Parsons
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is coming from, trying to neutralize that rush and get
that anticipation. Everything's thrown just that beat or two off.
In terms of trying to get your coordination, Cliff Kingsbury
has the task cut out for him because last week
wasn't terribly clean either. Right, they beat the Giants, but
that was more I think we walk away saying that's
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because the Giants aren't very good. Right, Washington succeed and proceed,
and then you get this game week two, on the
short week, and you've been dominated from pillar to post. Right,
Jaydon Daniels been off the spot. He completed a pass
to Terry mcglaurin finally, where I think everybody exhaled because
and even that he had to juggle before he pulled it.
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In defensive backs getting to play a little more freely
because you're getting that consummate pressure up front trying to
account for parsons, which means your running backs have to
be engaged in a way that they're normally not right,
because that's the other part, Right, we don't certainly don't
want to dismiss running backs and the edge rushers and
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what that transition to the league is, right, they still
have to be special on that next level. For running backs,
you actually have to go in the past protection, how
many guys fail at that, And that's what we're watching tonight.
You've got to keep the extra guy back there, or
keep your tight end in to try to get to
you an extra blocker to give Daniels time to operate.
(09:26):
So yeah, I think if you're in the NFC North
and the NFC as all you got, the eyebrow rais going, Yeah,
they were already good. Now they're that much better.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Look and the flip side of it, Jason Smith Mike
Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. It's not
as if, well, hey, Micah Parsons joined the team. Their
defense is really good and it's going to bail out
the offense. This is a Packers offense that was looking
for a springboard from last year. We thought last year
was going to be a really big improvement for them,
but nobody really stepped up to say, Okay, I'm the
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true number one. Maybe it was going to be Jaden Reid,
but the Packers have shown that Hey, we love Jordan
love he's our guy, and we're gonna continue to throw
depth that you at wide receiver and good luck stopping
our guys, right, No, Jake Jaden Reid got hurt early
in the game tonight, but it doesn't matter. Tuckerkraft is
over one hundred yards, right, A couple of the Dantavian
Wicks has more targets than any wide receiver so far.
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Romeo Dubbs has a touchdown, right, Matthew Golden should have
had a touchdown, Like, it doesn't matter, like for fantasy,
everybody hates it, right, I don't know who, Yeah, sorry
about that.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
That's the way it goes.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
But the way Jordan Love is And this might be
a year where where Jordan Love sort of reminds everybody. Yeah,
I'm that I'm in part of that next generation too
of great NFL quarterbacks. It's not guys like Jayden Daniels,
because I will take the guys that I'm playing with
and I will make them better because none of these
receivers are incredible. Like you look at Wicks and Dubs
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and say, okay, how good are the Are they great?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Are they not?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And again, you're missing guys too, right, Watson, You're missing
and and and now you know who knows with Reed,
But it's like none of these guys are unbelievable, Like
you take them, put them under the team, it's like,
oh yeah, okay, they'd be good number two receiver. But
when you have that kind of depth, and when you
have five number receivers, it's early to play a Phillies
highlight tight shirt. We don't need it right now. We
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don't need that until play of the day.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Okay, light tip, thank you, I bet uh so.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But when you have four or five number two ish receivers, yeah,
you're gonna find the mismatch and it's gonna be a
different guy every week. And you know, look, I don't
think anybody had Tuckerkraft on the night tonight with a
he's got one hundred yards receiving midway through the third quarter.
But it doesn't matter every week and could be something
different and offensively for the Packers to take that next step,
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and for Jordan Love especially to be that quarterback that
we now view him a little bit differently as Okay,
maybe he didn't really need that. No, they just keep
getting him help. Right, every year, it's in the drag.
We keep adding receivers, adding receivers. Wet Well, we had
a couple of guys Watson and Reid. Now we had
Matthew Golden and just keep giving him help cycle through guys,
and that can work to an extent, right, The Chiefs
have tried to do that the last few years. It's
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just they have not been great at analyzing the talent.
Now finally, hey, Hollywood, Brown, Rashid, Rice, Xavier Worthy, if
they can ever get the three of them on the
field together at the same time, things might work out great.
But you're kind of seeing it in Green Bay a
little bit here now where Hey, it doesn't really matter
who the number one is if they have a number one,
if it's difficult figure out which guy to play every week,
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like this is now working for the green Bay package.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Oh you go back to last year too. There's two
things that playoff. Remember Jordan Love got hurt in that
Brazil game, so there were the questions of, you know,
his health and maybe how you may have changed a
little bit and trot to play going. You also had
Josh Jacobs come in and score fifteen touchdowns. Right, he
scores fifteen touchdowns, So some of those red zone opportunities
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that might have gone to Craft or other options in
the passing game are suddenly sucked away. So the stat
line and it's twenty five and eleven for Jordan Love
last year doesn't look nearly as daunting. Right, only passed
for thirty two hundred yards. Well, if I've got a
guy rushing for fifteen hundred yards and fifteen touchdowns and
I get to pull the strings, if I'm Matt Lafloor,
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I'm feeling pretty good about it. Because you're watching as
this game goes on tonight, You're expending a lot of
energy in that front seven trying to make sure that
Jacobs doesn't get off and hit that second level. Well,
what's that doing? That's giving you man coverage down field?
And Jordan Love's just picking them apart.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
If if I can look for a perfect night right
after picking the game tonight, packers here, Micah Parsons, this
is why you get them. The only thing I'm really
I'm like, Okay, Josh Jacobs, if they're winning here in
the second half, Okay, over eighty yards?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Right? That was my big thing last night?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Right and DraftKings was hey over under eighty point five
and he's I would guess you would say kind of
on pace, just because you know they'll be more run
heavy as the game goes on. To get a little
bit more responsibility because they're playing with a lead here
in the second half. But I'll sitting here going come on, man,
get to that eighty and a half, go ahead, get
there for me. Man, get tighted it out.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Well. I mean that efficiency again. Sixteen completions for Jordan
Love for two hundred and sixty five yards. You're pushing
the ball down the field and having a field day,
no question about it. Saving on Williams just one carry.
Matthew Golden had a wide receiver running issue, and then
you had a play, I should say. And then Jordan
Love with one carry for fourteen yards. Jacob's averaging four
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yards of carry, nice and steady as they go.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's fifteen carries for sixty yards. Midway through the third quarter,
a field goal for the Packers. They get stopped on
third and goal. It is seventeen to three. Again, as
you said, Jordan Love two to sixty five in a touchdown.
Jacob's at sixty in a touchdown. Micah Parsons forcing the
Commanders into all kinds of difficulty just by being on
the field.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Time and possession over twenty three minutes thus far for
the Packers in this game. That pretends, dude, we're gonna
hit the eighty in short order.
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three packers with the lead, though the commander's defense gonna
force them into a punt on fourth and long from
their own end zone. Tonight it's gonna be a jail break.
So if you're gonna get something from the Commanders. This
kind of has to be the time again. Late in
the third quarter they've been able to muster basically zero
offense and the and the the the mental flatness that
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hits you after Hey, you finally get a little something
going on. You drive down the field and you joint
the field goal off the upright. Yeah, that's gonna be
something that's gonna stick with you a bit. So this
might be it, Like this might be the last chance
we really get to see them do something. One more
score by the Packers and this game's done.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Punting out of his zone end zone, Love pushed off
the spot. You know, you have to account for Parsons
on one side. Somehow the Packers offensive line forgot to
account for Bobby Wagger, who comes in to terrorize Jordan
Love to get the ball out fast. Tucker Kraft was
wide open towards the right sideline, but there's no chance
for Love to set his feet and make a throw.
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So we'll keep you updated on this game.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
We got more from the NFL coming up in a second,
because we got a big injury to break down. But
just just this for it, because I feel like this
is a story that is getting too much attention because
not enough people care about it. But so it's good
to do and say, hey, I don't think this story
is that big a deal.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So we have this whole drama with Kawhi Leonard and
did the Clippers circumvent NBA rules with this ridiculous endorsement
deal that gave him an extra game the game extra
money twenty five million dollars to for a.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
No show jobs like college for or like any mob
movie from the eighties and ninety where he's supposed to
do public relations and appearances for a company that he's
not going to do any of them for. And you know,
every couple of days there's an update on this story.
And there's a report today that links Kawhi Leonard's pay
(20:05):
to one of the Clippers investors, and all this Pablo
Tory finds out stuff. This is where he's going on.
He's finding out everything. Now he's a new investigative reporter.
He's the twenty twenty five ams in Geraldo Rivera. I'm
out aj Benzo.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
We're gonna open this to him fame, Okay, I miss
AJ Benza.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I just like saying his name. Aj Ben. Shall we
try to get him on the show. I think we
could call him right now and he would come on, Well,
let's make it happen.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So you have this story out here that the Kawhi
Leonard got money and he probably shouldn't have gotten it,
helping the Clippers circumvent the salary cap, and Steve Balmer
goes on sports and right after saying I've been duped.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I'm one of the biggest businessmen in the history of
the world. I've been duped. I got we got duped
on this.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I can't believe this. Yeah, okay, So this story is
going on, and I feel like this is a story
that is it's called It's fun for five minutes. Like
when you're in a when you're in a mall and
you're walking down and there's the kiosks in the middle,
and there's the one guy that's the hovercraft or the
helicopter that he's flying over with the remote. You watch
and go wow, and the kids all look and go ooh,
(21:06):
can I get that? That looks so cool? And you're
watching somebody do it. You're like, oh, yeah, that's kind
of cool, and you watch for a couple minutes and
then all right, now okay, and.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Then you move on, you go down.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I've done with it. Sure, it's something that's fun for
five minutes. You bring it back home and you realize
after playing with it for three minutes, it's not working
that well. You don't know what's going on. Oh the
rotor is bent, or I don't know what's happening. Maybe
we didn't get get charge of batteries a long time,
and you forget about it.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I blew it into a curio, and now mom's mad.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I mean, whatever the case may be, it's fun for
five minutes, right, It's fun for five minutes.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
And I feel like that was this story when it
came out. It was whoa, this is kind of interesting,
no show job clippers getting it? Oh now, potentially the
next investigation is the Nicks and Jalen Brunson because he
took a lot less money. But I feel like nobody
really cares about this story, right, Like, this is something
that I think maybe the top one or two percent
of fans care about and and people who are are
(22:00):
very active on social media as reporters and insiders care
about it. But I don't think the general fan gives
a crap about this, because really, number one, what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
They're not gonna take Kawhi Leonard away from the Clippers.
What are they gonna do. They're gonna find you money. Okay, Bobby,
find fifty million dollars. I'll pay fifty million dollars. We
got Kawhi Leonard. What's it gonna be. We're gonna find
you draft picks. Okay, we lose a first round draft pick.
Who knows if these picks are any good?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Anyway? Like, what are you gonna do? Like? What what's
the outcome that's gonna be? Whoa? This is terrible? Same thing.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Let's say they go to the Knicks. What are they
gonna do? Jalen Brunson can't play for the Knicks. They're
gonna find the next money take them off the nets.
That's not gonna happen. It will it will watch if
any team finds a way to lose a player, though,
it will be the next He's going to the bulls. Oh,
we didn't know, we didn't, We didn't know. He got
put on the bulls. But what's the outcome? What's the what?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Where?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Where does this story end? Where it's a Wow, right,
it's gonna be a fine. It's gonna be a team
is gonna lose a draft pick. And what are the
Knicks gonna say, Yeah, we'll trade a first or any
team in fie, I should say, in theory because my
team doesn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Uh, what are they gonna say?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, we were able to figure this out, keep our
star player end bring in other players to help us compete. Okay,
we'll pay a fine. You take a draft pick from us.
It's okay, first round read unless we're picking first and
we're getting Wemby. You can take the first round pick
for me. It's not that big a deal. I don't
see the end game for this, and I think the
average fan is like, yeah, it's interesting, but okay, like
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an everyday thing and being something that, oh, this is
gonna gonna push the needle on this story. I don't
see it. Even the NBA, like Adam Silver said, hey,
it's on us to prove it.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Whoa, whoa, wait, well, what do you mean.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It's done you to prove like this is the story
that's out here and there's proof. This is Adam Silver saying, hey,
it says enough to prove it. If we want to.
You really think they're gonna.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Go crazy try to prove this, dude, it's getting putting
a crate with the ark of the.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Covenant, and this puts in the warehouse.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
This makes this is an embarrassing headline for the NBA.
Adam Silver wants nothing to do with embarrassing headlines. He
actually wants nothing to do with running the NBA. He
just likes being called the commission, so he's not gonna
do anything. He's not gonna go crazy for this investigation,
saying it's on us to prove it. What hey, you
know what may be too difficult for us to prove,
just so you know, we may not be anything from this.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Right. This is basically what he's telling everybody. I don't
think this story is really that big.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Again, it was fun and shocking for five minutes, but
now the every dad like real, I don't think people care.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
This is the same guy that, after he fleeced all
these networks and streamers to pay them a lot of
money for TV right, said we're just a highlight league anyway,
So what the hell's the difference? Right? That was part
of his big presser yesterday, all that fun and excitement
like this reminds me a lot of when we get
into performance enhancers in any sport. There's the outrage from
(24:40):
the oh we were duped. No, you were in the
locker rooms, you made millions of dollars, You watched these
guys come back like they were part of the Marvel
cinematic universe, and you kept your mouth shut until all
of a sudden there was irrefute. Well, now I'm outraged.
I was fleeced. Like, no, you were. You were on
part of it, like all of you. And so anybody
that starts doing that hand ranking you laugh at. But
(25:02):
as viewers of said sport baseball, football, right, we always
joke about football, it's like, well what they shoot him
up with this time? Is it vitamin T?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Like? What do we get him on in the field with?
As long as we get our players on the field,
fans generally don't care in this particular case, guys moving
from team to team. Now, Balmer has been duped before.
Look at some of the guys he signed a big contracts,
including Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
So he's that's as you say, Hey, I got duped
on signing him, you know what, Like I got duped
on Paul George. I got duped on all these guys.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
But we watch guys sign in different cities as free agents,
and there's always the secondary concert.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Right.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
We talked about it a lot with Kevin Durant taking
advantage of when he went to Silicon Valley. Yeah, he
goes to a great team, but he's also now connected,
not that he couldn't have been before, but he's immersed
in a whole other world and other business opportunities. Whatever.
Tell me that doesn't have a probate value even if
there's no direct exchange of money right there, Right, there's
the there's different ways that this comes into fruition. And
(26:03):
to think that it hasn't been happening. You mentioned college
for decades, go back to John Wooden and the bag Man.
I don't know plausible deniability, I don't. I don't know
anything about those kind of things, right, So, for for
Steve Balmer, and I think Cuban had had a great
response to it, going would you have let the company fail?
If he was really that complicit? Or maybe he was
(26:24):
just that in Bolden knowing that Adam Silver and the
NBA aren't gonna do anything about it. Yeah, I mean look,
if you take draft picks, who cares? We laughed at
like when some when guys go in the second round,
they're not guaranteed anything now and those those guys never played.
And then are you gonna look into every guy who
takes less money to go to a team?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I mean, clearly we know I have a buddy here.
An is never gonna have to worry about this. We'll
never have to worry about this with Lebron. I'm taking
you every single dollar I can, even if it keeps
my team from being able to go back.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
To the original deal down in Miami. Right, what's he
gonna say, Well, I took less money because uh well
I didn't have to pay income to because I was
in Florida. Like like even go back to that, like
you can. You want to go into the books, you
want to go start fighting all that stuff. There's plenty
of it.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
It is a It is a is an imperfect situation, obviously,
But this is gonna be where here's one loan lone
wolf reporter in Pablo Torri, who is out, Hey, I
do this, this is my thing now?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
And is the NBA really gonna stuff? Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
You you you by yourself have unearthed a huge scam
that's been going on in the NBA for so long,
yet they're not gonna admit to that. It's not gonna
It's like, look, the NFL knows how to bury stories, right,
they know how to do it. The NBA is gonna
be the same thing. Oh, we can't prove a connection.
We can't do this, and it's gonna got really and
really for the fans though nobody cares. This is not
(27:43):
gonna If this resulted in some kind of personnel situation
where Kawhi Lendard is now a free declared a free agent,
or he's got to redo a contract, then it's a bit.
But that's not happening that that's just not gonna be here.
So it's like, oh, okay, that's great.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Well, but at the NFL, every time there's something that
looks like it's gonna be good and big and and
huge and earth shattering in the league, what happens the
threat of discovery. There's enough for a settlement, right. Colin
Kaepernick supposedly had all sorts of the he had the goods.
Have we heard anything no? How many years is that
now other than he's still working out trying to get
(28:16):
a Lookxie, that's gone, right. They John Gruden was made
the fall guy, right, he hears some stuff from him.
You're telling me that's the only stuff in the thousands
and thousands of documents they went through. No, uh, that's gone.
But for all of this, does this tip the competitive balance?
I mean really in the grand scale? Does it?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
This guy got an extra tenement? Do you care? No,
Like it's it's all funny money as it is, and
Adam Silver is certainly not going to get in the
way of the beast. Like I said, you just got
how many billions of dollars from all of these streamers
while telling them they don't matter? You think this is
gonna phase you? Come on, now, what you got a
(28:57):
punishment for this post?
Speaker 5 (28:59):
I really want to bring the hammer down.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
If you're gonna say they have to watch the Mets,
I'm way ahead of you.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
No, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
They didn't do He's not wishing that. Yeah, anybody, you're kidding,
it's not bad bad? Okay?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Did they lose again? The Mets lost again?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
In No, they didn't play. They didn't play.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
I think they did.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
No, they haven't played for the last week and half
they've been off. You really want to punish the Clippers.
Make him watch the Jets.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Dude again, very low hanging.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Okay, I'm just saying.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I'm just I'm not I'm not doing the whole low hanging.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Oh okay, you're doing high hanging all right, a right,
So what's your high hanging opinion? You make them no substitutes.
Run with Clipper Darrel at point guard at all times
for one season.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
And Clipper Darrel's gotta wear the suit. You gotta wear
his suit. Yeah, you gotta wear the red white. He's
the point guard. Yeah, no, I like it.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Any other four guys on the court, Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
And make James Harden play all forty eight minutes. I
want to see that that happen. Yeah, yeah, doing you
gotta make them out there. You can't play four point
eight minutes. I would say, just once, make him play
all forty minutes, just one time, just to see him
have to play all forty eight year.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Would fall off.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
The Clippers playing with four on defense, James Harden deciding
to stay at the other end of the floor. So
if they get a fast break opportunity, this should be
an easy bucket for the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Meanwhile, there's James Harden and he's got a megaphone in
his hand. I want to be traded. This is not
my fault.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Uh time
now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports. So someone who's been called the Steve Balmer
of Fox Sports Radio because she once thought the iPhone
was gonna fail as well. It's Monty Blagna.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Damn.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
I wish I was a fraction of where Steve Balmer
is because then I'd have a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
You would You would know he still didn't think the
Remember he had the iPhone. He goes, Dude, you really
think people are gonna line up and pay money to
have all that stuff just on your phone and putty
do it left? And now rip the BlackBerry? Yeah, oh yeah,
the black I love the black too. And I made
a two way little text thing that they gave me
(31:04):
a Yahoo all those years. I think we're just too stupid.
That's why they gave us the iPhone.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I guess people now though, with the simplicity having to
pressed the button and wait for the internet to load.
I'm like, okay, I think I think the charm of
the BlackBerry is going is going away.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
But I used to it was like you seem so
important with it. Yeah, yeah, Oh I'm a handling business. Yeah,
that's what I'm doing with my BlackBerry.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
The packers are handling business against the commanders in the
business standing on business. Green Bay packers are up seventeen
to three. They just got going in the fourth quarter.
Last I TechEd. I checked total yards for Washington one
hundred and twelve, total yards for Green Bay three hundred
and forty five.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I think Tucker Craft may have more yards himself than
the Washington. He's got more receiving yards than Jayden Daniels has,
passing that he.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Has more yards in the entire commander's office. It's real close.
It's so close.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Tucker Kraft four catches one hundred and eight yards, so you.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Are right there, so close, so close.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Jordan Love sixteen of twenty five two hundred and sixty
five yards, one touchdown pass that went to Romeo Dobbs.
Josh Jacobs seventeen carries sixty two yards and a touchdown.
Jade and Daniels fourteen of twenty four for eighty eight yards.
The struggle has been real for Washington again seventeen to three.
They just got going in the in the fourth quarter.
(32:21):
Other NFL news, forty nine Ers quarterback Brock perty conm
missed two to five weeks with a turf toe injury.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
The Chief say wide receiver Xavier Worthy.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
Was limited in practice today because of his shoulder injury
that he suffered against the Chargers in Week one. Raiders
tied on brock Bauers misspractice today because of a knee injury,
and congratulations to Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy because he miss
practiced today because his wife was giving birth to their
baby boys.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
So congratulations to JJ McCarthy. Why don't we go to
a little base ball? Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
The Phillies were down four runs and then they came
back to defeat the Mets six to four.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
New York has lost six in a row.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Phillies completed the four game sweep.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Aaron Jentleman asked me how many hits the met Scott
in the last eight innings of the game tonight?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Zero zero zero, Yeah, very good, very good.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
They scored all of that in the first Mets math,
they got mistaking zero, they got backdoor, no hit.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
You know, no hits the final eight inningss Math, go
as well as you can. No boeno, No boeno.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Aaron Judge homer twice today, forty five and forty six
on the season, Yankees outscore the Tigers ninety three. He
also drove in his one hundredth run and tied Joe
DiMaggio on the career home run list for the Yankees,
win number three hundred and sixty one. Other games that
finished up Guardian's Edge of the Royals three to two,
and right now the Padres are on the scoreboard.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
First against the Rockies.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
It's one zero bottom of the fourth, Mariners all over
the Angels, four zero, top of the third.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Back to you guys, thanks a bunch of Monsei.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Well looks like we may have a game in the
fourth quarter after all. The Commanders convert on a big
fourth down, they convert on a big third down, and
now zach Ertz is in the end zone. Touchdown pass
from Jayden Daniels from twenty yards out. Extra point is
up and good. So it is a seventeen to ten
Packers lead. Right now, still thirteen and a half to
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go in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Grade eleven play drive there under five minutes, nice composure
from Daniels and then Erg's getting out and making a
big play. Austin Eckler won't show up in your fantasy
box score, but he helps seal things down towards the
goal line.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
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Well coming up next, we got the play of the
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anywhere from two to five weeks. What does it mean
and why does this become a fascinating story? That's next
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Speaker 2 (34:55):
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Speaker 1 (35:04):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios. Seventeen to ten Packers with the
lead over the Commanders twelve and a half to go
in the fourth quarter. Packers are driving. It was a
touchdown passed to zach Ertz a few moments ago that
the Commanders absolutely had to have. May not making a
(35:24):
one score game, but Packers on the move right now,
they are in field goal range again. A lot of
time left here, just under twelve minutes left to go,
but it is a seventeen to ten lead for the Packers.
And as I wait for Josh Jacobs to hit that
over for eighty point five rush yards, he's sitting right
now at sixty eight with about eleven and a half
to go in the fourth quarter. So uh, slowly but surely,
(35:48):
maybe we're getting their harm.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Maybe we're getting there. I think you'll get there. I mean,
now you try to bleed clock and get it done
for me. On the other side, I was waiting to
see a little gadgetry with Deebo s Amuel, which is
not yet materialized, and well at this point it probably won't.
Now I have to ask you, though, I mean a
lot was made about these packers' uniforms the winter white,
and on the radio broadcast they were talking about how
(36:11):
well they didn't want to do it later on in
the season because once it's winter in Green Bay people
don't have white jackets. I'm like, people are sheep. If
you put a packer's logo on a white jacket, you're
not selling enough units to make it worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
I don't know that you can see it in the snow.
People want to be seen. If I'm wearing stuff, I
want you to see that I'm wearing my pride.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
I'm not saying you're wearing it out of hunting. You can't.
But you'd buy one just for your cloths in the
middle of the snow. No, you have Okay, we got
what white is much more of a yeah, but you'd
be more menacing it though if you I guess you're
not supposed to wear white after we are after labory.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Yeah, so again. But I think the white looks good.
I think it's always I was just going on a
green field, like they're talking green on a green here,
this is white. It looks pretty good, not too shabby.
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Speaker 3 (37:14):
Man?
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Well, when the Phillies sweep the Mets, you get the
ride the U Johan Duran Express, I guess is what
they're calling it.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Sure, three pictures back to back case he missed it
by yr he went around the Phillis come back from
pull to enough heat they can prete the full games,
sweet and pull of the Mets.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Joe Davis on Big Fox with the call, yes we are.
I mean, the question is no longer the Mets in
the playoffs. They hold a one and a half game
lead for the final spot.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
They're giving that. I told you.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
By the time there's ten games left in the season,
the Mets will be three games out of the wildcard.
There's seasons done. Honestly, at this point, I think the
question is are they even gonna finish at five hundred?
I don't know that they finish over five hundred, there's
seventy six and seventy one. I don't know that they finished.
They got the Rangers coming into town. Now de gram
is pitching tomorrow night. Like Rangers are the hottest team
in Major League Baseball, and the Mets just they play
(38:14):
every night like okay, we're just waiting for disaster to strike,
like they play waiting for something bad to happen instead
of making big things happen, which is what good teams do.
Now that we're sitting in September and hey, we want
the playoffs, we can smell it. I really, I don't
know if they finish over five hundred this point. That's
how bad it is.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Curiosity of how you felt. If you're a bit demoralized,
you score four in the first guy ends up going
eight innings, yeah right, exactly, five hits, ten strikeouts, thirteen
strikeouts overall for the Mets in this game. You talk
about closing things out nine strikes on eleven pitches with
three strikeouts to close it. But we've just watched the
futility at the top of the order. I mean, Lindor's
(38:53):
having just an awful September. Everybody else following in lockstep
with him, but at points it's painful. I wish I
was like betting, you know, because you've been so dour
on your squad, that I would have made a lot
of money just fading, fading the Mets time and again, fade,
just fade them. In the last three months. Wow, when
(39:14):
we talk about it, right, bottom five squad in terms
of records since June thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
So we have more on the Thursday night game coming
up in a few minutes. But this big NFL story
from today Brock Party, who he knew was likely going
to be out with an injury this week, now it
looks like he could be out anywhere from two to
five weeks due to a turf toe ish type injury.
Basically that's how it was explained, where well, it's sort
of a it's sort of a version of turf toe,
(39:42):
which is what's keeping Brock Purty out. This has become
a fascinating story because the forty nine ers are in
a lose lose situation, right That's why, because a if
they win, all right, Kyle Shanahan quiets the doubters who say,
maybe we've gone as far as we can with Kyle
Shanahan and you know who knows. So yeah, you quiet
(40:03):
the doubters if Matt Jones is good and they win.
But then all of a sudden, it's wait, why do
we give Brock Purdy two hundred and sixty million dollars
if we can win like this with mac Jones? All
of a sudden, why do we pay Purdy? He's overpaid?
And really the you know, anybody can be the star
of this offense. Now, if Jones stinks, hey, they win,
right they Well that's awesome, but it's a loss for Shanahan,
(40:25):
and the impatience with him continues because this means if
he stinks, they're gonna lose games. And again, they're close
to a rebuild for next season, so it is it
is kind of a lose lose situation for the forty nine.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
They're really in a tough spot, right because you already
lose Kittle, who's so instrumental in the run game. Trent
Williams missing multiple practices this week, so a little bit
of concern where he's at as to whether it's gone
off the cliff. Remember how much of an issue his
contract and Jennings contract and everybody was a year ago
but yeah, the brock Purty thing where you still have
(40:56):
so many people that have done as much fench riding
as you'll ever see in our business about whether a
guy is a player or really just a uh he
fits the suit, the old Brady Bunch, Johnny Bravo, look
it up people, it's a fun episode. But literally, it's
all right. Making me a San Francisco quarterback with Shanahan,
(41:16):
He'll succeed to some level. Now, could it be Alabama
Mack is really good and was just screwed all this
time about that?
Speaker 1 (41:24):
But again, if Alabama Mack is good, it's wow, why
do we pay brock Purty all of this money? Why
do we why do we succumb to the brocolypse? Why
do we do that?
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Right?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
I mean really like, it's lose lose right, Hey, it's
great if we win, that's awesome, But man, no, any.
Speaker 5 (41:38):
Mac Jones will turn into a pumpkin.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Then it's bad for Kyle Shannon.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Again, lose lose, soal it goes exit out about a
Fresco exit Swallen Dome. Maybe the Packers have taken control
of this game. We have more on Thursday Night Football
coming up next as well. As another big quarterback story
coming out of the league Today, Chasing and Mike Fox
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Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Thursday, Jason Smith's Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. Well dressed to live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios. Hur we jump right into Thursday
Night football. Maybe the Commanders are gonna make a play
at some point, although ooh boy, that last play looked
really painful for Jayden Daniels. A fourteen to three lead
(00:54):
for Green Bay right now early in the third quarter,
looks like it's gonna be a field goal attempt for
the Commanders to try to cut this to fourteen to six.
It was a big sack by Micah Parsons. And look,
when we picked this game last night, I said Packers
are gonna win this game. These are the games you
get Micah Parsons for when you have a quarterback that
(01:16):
is absolutely this good in Jade and Daniels, and someone
who stresses your defense, not just throwing the football, but
getting outside the pocket. Accounting for Micah Parsons in a
game like this is paramount. And as you've seen in
the course of the first half, there's plays where he
is triple teamed and he's still affecting the play. And
(01:37):
again the big sack right here. He had two pressures
in his first fifteen snaps alone. This is why this
is a now a fourteen to three game because doink sorry, buddy,
I know, doinke, I know it's.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
A well, it only counts if it's a double.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But you are seeing, yes, the Packers' offense is playing well,
Jordan Love is playing well, and Josh Jacobs is running
the football well enough to running the ball okay, but
you can see this is not a Commander's offense that
is in sync. And when you throw the prospect of hey,
here comes Micah Parsons, all of a sudden, this Packers defense,
as good as it is, it may be league best
(02:12):
among the league best. Here you see why it's fourteen
to three and all of a sudden, hey, wait a minute,
maybe the Packers are a real Super Bowl team. Hang
on a second. They beat the crap out of the Lions.
The Lions couldn't score. They're beating the crap out of
the Commanders. The Commanders can't score. Hang on a second,
Maybe Jerry Jones just handed the Lombardi Trophy to the
Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, we watched the mural that they keep showing out
there that says thank you, Jerry, with the painting of
him all teary eyed and Micah Parsons smiling. On this
last play, you have the ability to just run past
the right tackle who really couldn't even get out of
his snap, tried to tackle Michaeh Parsons and failed. I
(02:52):
was surprised we didn't see a whistle at the end,
because clearly that play had been blown dead long before
Jayden Daniels got thrown to the turf. But we lived
to see another day. On both sides, the Packers have
just dominated this game. You've had a couple of field
goal attempts for Washington. You just called the doink there.
Going back to the last nineteen seconds of the first half,
you had a fifty eight yard miss that just was
(03:15):
short and then the Packers got straight into position for
a long field goal attempt, but it goes off the upright.
So those that were over betters thought they were gonna
get some extra juice. But we've watched the defense terrorizem
and I think Washington right now wishes they'd tried to
solve things with Brian Robinson before sending him away because
(03:36):
they have no running game. Bill Bill Crosskey Merritt and
Austin Eckler have been invisible. Daniels has been underseas. You
mentioned the Parsons stats right off the jump, and he's
been uncomfortable all night long trying to slide in the pocket.
You had a big miss to Noah Brown. That was
the one big play that they might have had for
(03:58):
the offense that went asunder. Conversely, Jordan Love averaging sixteen
yards per completion. That's bolstered by that big Tucker Craft
catch and run. But overall they've been able to space
the ball and push down field. Offensive line, even missing
two starters for Green Bay, has held up quite nicely
for Love to be able to deliver the ball downfield. Now,
(04:18):
Golden had a couple of would have, should have, could
have that are just incompletions. They don't help your box score,
your fantasy team. And then you have the big Jayden
Reid play taken back off a holding penalty. But Packer's
doing whatever they want right now.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Look and look, and the Golden play was just a
complete you know, in the first half when they go
for it on fourth down and Lafleur is just incensed
that they run up to the line of scrimmage to
try to go for it on fourth and three and
the officials make them wait to snap that football, and
he is screaming.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
What do we doing? Why are we waiting? Why are
we waiting?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And at that point you're like, okay, maybe they're going
to make another decision. But Love drops back in the
shotgun and he's got Matthew Golden wide up and it's
a touchdown and he's three steps by he underthrows the football,
right He just I mean that that should have been
another touchdown and it should have been even a bigger
lead for Green Bay than it is right now. But
all of a sudden, like I think the happiest team
(05:11):
in the NFL now outside of the Packers are the Lions,
because they're like, wait, wait a minute, maybe we are
still really really good. And wow, now we just got
to get used to this defense with Micah Parsons because
maybe maybe it was a little bit not as self
inflicted and things we have to clean up. Just at Hey,
there's now a new beast of a defense because they
got the best defensive player in the NFL. And it's
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something we got to navigate because look, these are these
are two high, very prolific offenses for different reasons. The
depth of the talent of the Detroit Lions and the
absolute talent of Jayden Daniels to make everybody around him better.
And you've seen two different styles of offense in the
last two weeks that the Packers have faced, and they're
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dominating the first team and they're dominating the second team
right now, like this is all This is like one
of those sea change games where if this holds, you
walk away from tonight going oh, man, I know we
talked about teams like the Rams and the Eagles who
just won, and the Chiefs and the Ravens and the
Bills up, but maybe this is the Packers who are
going to run away in the first half of the
season as the Super Bowl overwhelming super Bowl favorite I
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mean sometimes it is as simple as when you take
the best defensive player in the NFL in his prime
and you PLoP him on a team where he is
basically a plug and play guy. Right There's certain positions
where if you're a safety, if you're a middle linebacker,
you're a defensive tackle, okay, affecting the games. But when
you're a linebacker and you're and you're a rusher and
you're getting the quarterback, like, hey, we'll put you right
(06:35):
in and you go right. This is why these guys
certain positions come into the league right away, and you
can tell if a player is good because it's about
taking advantage of your athletic ability and being able to
jump into a spot and not have to have so
much responsibility. Right running backs right away, we find out
when they come into the league, Hey you're good or
you're not.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Right away.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You have vision, you can hit the holes, you know
how to cut like you see. You guys are at
running back are good right away. Sometimes other positions takes
a little bit. Right wide receiver, tight end takes a
year or two to get involved in the offense. But
running back, edge rushers, these are the big plug and
play positions where it's okay, you come in here, you
are get the quarterback X, Y and Z, and it's
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a lot less to have to worry about fitting into
a scheme. Micah Parson's been able to come in and
just say, yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Let's go. Let's ride, like doing the whole hustle. Let's ride,
Let's ride Backers Country, Let's ride. But that's stick. You
get the big gift for Hathley the defensive corner. They
were already the sixth best defense last year in terms
of points allowed per game, Chargers at the top of
the list, but the Packers were sixed right there with
Minnesota in terms of disruption. Now you get rid of
you know, a guy that once upawn a time was
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a big run defender and in the trade with Dallas.
But you watched as these first two games. You watched
it with Detroit and their line trying to come back together,
guys injured, whatever, new coordinators. There's a lot going on
in Detroit. But here with Washington, you know you got
Laramie tunsell answering and trying to figure out where Parsons
(08:02):
is coming from, trying to neutralize that rush and get
that anticipation. Everything's thrown just that beat or two off.
In terms of trying to get your coordination, Cliff Kingsbury
has the task cut out for him because last week
wasn't terribly clean either. Right, they beat the Giants, but
that was more I think we walk away saying that's
(08:23):
because the Giants aren't very good. Right, Washington succeed and proceed,
and then you get this game week two, on the
short week, and you've been dominated from pillar to post. Right,
Jaydon Daniels been off the spot. He completed a pass
to Terry mcglaurin finally, where I think everybody exhaled because
and even that he had to juggle before he pulled it.
(08:43):
In defensive backs getting to play a little more freely
because you're getting that consummate pressure up front trying to
account for parsons, which means your running backs have to
be engaged in a way that they're normally not right,
because that's the other part, Right, we don't certainly don't
want to dismiss running backs and the edge rushers and
(09:05):
what that transition to the league is, right, they still
have to be special on that next level. For running backs,
you actually have to go in the past protection, how
many guys fail at that, And that's what we're watching tonight.
You've got to keep the extra guy back there, or
keep your tight end in to try to get to
you an extra blocker to give Daniels time to operate.
(09:26):
So yeah, I think if you're in the NFC North
and the NFC as all you got, the eyebrow rais going, Yeah,
they were already good. Now they're that much better.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Look and the flip side of it, Jason Smith Mike
Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. It's not
as if, well, hey, Micah Parsons joined the team. Their
defense is really good and it's going to bail out
the offense. This is a Packers offense that was looking
for a springboard from last year. We thought last year
was going to be a really big improvement for them,
but nobody really stepped up to say, Okay, I'm the
(09:56):
true number one. Maybe it was going to be Jaden Reid,
but the Packers have shown that Hey, we love Jordan
love he's our guy, and we're gonna continue to throw
depth that you at wide receiver and good luck stopping
our guys, right, No, Jake Jaden Reid got hurt early
in the game tonight, but it doesn't matter. Tuckerkraft is
over one hundred yards, right, A couple of the Dantavian
Wicks has more targets than any wide receiver so far.
(10:18):
Romeo Dubbs has a touchdown, right, Matthew Golden should have
had a touchdown, Like, it doesn't matter, like for fantasy,
everybody hates it, right, I don't know who, Yeah, sorry
about that.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
That's the way it goes.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
But the way Jordan Love is And this might be
a year where where Jordan Love sort of reminds everybody. Yeah,
I'm that I'm in part of that next generation too
of great NFL quarterbacks. It's not guys like Jayden Daniels,
because I will take the guys that I'm playing with
and I will make them better because none of these
receivers are incredible. Like you look at Wicks and Dubs
(10:50):
and say, okay, how good are the Are they great?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Are they not?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And again, you're missing guys too, right, Watson, You're missing
and and and now you know who knows with Reed,
But it's like none of these guys are unbelievable, Like
you take them, put them under the team, it's like,
oh yeah, okay, they'd be good number two receiver. But
when you have that kind of depth, and when you
have five number receivers, it's early to play a Phillies
highlight tight shirt. We don't need it right now. We
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don't need that until play of the day.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Okay, light tip, thank you, I bet uh so.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But when you have four or five number two ish receivers, yeah,
you're gonna find the mismatch and it's gonna be a
different guy every week. And you know, look, I don't
think anybody had Tuckerkraft on the night tonight with a
he's got one hundred yards receiving midway through the third quarter.
But it doesn't matter every week and could be something
different and offensively for the Packers to take that next step,
(11:44):
and for Jordan Love especially to be that quarterback that
we now view him a little bit differently as Okay,
maybe he didn't really need that. No, they just keep
getting him help. Right, every year, it's in the drag.
We keep adding receivers, adding receivers. Wet Well, we had
a couple of guys Watson and Reid. Now we had
Matthew Golden and just keep giving him help cycle through guys,
and that can work to an extent, right, The Chiefs
have tried to do that the last few years. It's
(12:05):
just they have not been great at analyzing the talent.
Now finally, hey, Hollywood, Brown, Rashid, Rice, Xavier Worthy, if
they can ever get the three of them on the
field together at the same time, things might work out great.
But you're kind of seeing it in Green Bay a
little bit here now where Hey, it doesn't really matter
who the number one is if they have a number one,
if it's difficult figure out which guy to play every week,
(12:27):
like this is now working for the green Bay package.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Oh you go back to last year too. There's two
things that playoff. Remember Jordan Love got hurt in that
Brazil game, so there were the questions of, you know,
his health and maybe how you may have changed a
little bit and trot to play going. You also had
Josh Jacobs come in and score fifteen touchdowns. Right, he
scores fifteen touchdowns, So some of those red zone opportunities
(12:50):
that might have gone to Craft or other options in
the passing game are suddenly sucked away. So the stat
line and it's twenty five and eleven for Jordan Love
last year doesn't look nearly as daunting. Right, only passed
for thirty two hundred yards. Well, if I've got a
guy rushing for fifteen hundred yards and fifteen touchdowns and
I get to pull the strings, if I'm Matt Lafloor,
(13:12):
I'm feeling pretty good about it. Because you're watching as
this game goes on tonight, You're expending a lot of
energy in that front seven trying to make sure that
Jacobs doesn't get off and hit that second level. Well,
what's that doing? That's giving you man coverage down field?
And Jordan Love's just picking them apart.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
If if I can look for a perfect night right
after picking the game tonight, packers here, Micah Parsons, this
is why you get them. The only thing I'm really
I'm like, Okay, Josh Jacobs, if they're winning here in
the second half, Okay, over eighty yards?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Right? That was my big thing last night?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Right and DraftKings was hey over under eighty point five
and he's I would guess you would say kind of
on pace, just because you know they'll be more run
heavy as the game goes on. To get a little
bit more responsibility because they're playing with a lead here
in the second half. But I'll sitting here going come on, man,
get to that eighty and a half, go ahead, get
there for me. Man, get tighted it out.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Well. I mean that efficiency again. Sixteen completions for Jordan
Love for two hundred and sixty five yards. You're pushing
the ball down the field and having a field day,
no question about it. Saving on Williams just one carry.
Matthew Golden had a wide receiver running issue, and then
you had a play, I should say. And then Jordan
Love with one carry for fourteen yards. Jacob's averaging four
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yards of carry, nice and steady as they go.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's fifteen carries for sixty yards. Midway through the third quarter,
a field goal for the Packers. They get stopped on
third and goal. It is seventeen to three. Again, as
you said, Jordan Love two to sixty five in a touchdown.
Jacob's at sixty in a touchdown. Micah Parsons forcing the
Commanders into all kinds of difficulty just by being on
the field.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Time and possession over twenty three minutes thus far for
the Packers in this game. That pretends, dude, we're gonna
hit the eighty in short order.
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three packers with the lead, though the commander's defense gonna
force them into a punt on fourth and long from
their own end zone. Tonight it's gonna be a jail break.
So if you're gonna get something from the Commanders. This
kind of has to be the time again. Late in
the third quarter they've been able to muster basically zero
offense and the and the the the mental flatness that
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hits you after Hey, you finally get a little something
going on. You drive down the field and you joint
the field goal off the upright. Yeah, that's gonna be
something that's gonna stick with you a bit. So this
might be it, Like this might be the last chance
we really get to see them do something. One more
score by the Packers and this game's done.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Punting out of his zone end zone, Love pushed off
the spot. You know, you have to account for Parsons
on one side. Somehow the Packers offensive line forgot to
account for Bobby Wagger, who comes in to terrorize Jordan
Love to get the ball out fast. Tucker Kraft was
wide open towards the right sideline, but there's no chance
for Love to set his feet and make a throw.
(19:12):
So we'll keep you updated on this game.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
We got more from the NFL coming up in a second,
because we got a big injury to break down. But
just just this for it, because I feel like this
is a story that is getting too much attention because
not enough people care about it. But so it's good
to do and say, hey, I don't think this story
is that big a deal.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So we have this whole drama with Kawhi Leonard and
did the Clippers circumvent NBA rules with this ridiculous endorsement
deal that gave him an extra game the game extra
money twenty five million dollars to for a.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
No show jobs like college for or like any mob
movie from the eighties and ninety where he's supposed to
do public relations and appearances for a company that he's
not going to do any of them for. And you know,
every couple of days there's an update on this story.
And there's a report today that links Kawhi Leonard's pay
(20:05):
to one of the Clippers investors, and all this Pablo
Tory finds out stuff. This is where he's going on.
He's finding out everything. Now he's a new investigative reporter.
He's the twenty twenty five ams in Geraldo Rivera. I'm
out aj Benzo.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
We're gonna open this to him fame, Okay, I miss
AJ Benza.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I just like saying his name. Aj Ben. Shall we
try to get him on the show. I think we
could call him right now and he would come on, Well,
let's make it happen.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So you have this story out here that the Kawhi
Leonard got money and he probably shouldn't have gotten it,
helping the Clippers circumvent the salary cap, and Steve Balmer
goes on sports and right after saying I've been duped.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I'm one of the biggest businessmen in the history of
the world. I've been duped. I got we got duped
on this.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I can't believe this. Yeah, okay, So this story is
going on, and I feel like this is a story
that is it's called It's fun for five minutes. Like
when you're in a when you're in a mall and
you're walking down and there's the kiosks in the middle,
and there's the one guy that's the hovercraft or the
helicopter that he's flying over with the remote. You watch
and go wow, and the kids all look and go ooh,
(21:06):
can I get that? That looks so cool? And you're
watching somebody do it. You're like, oh, yeah, that's kind
of cool, and you watch for a couple minutes and
then all right, now okay, and.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Then you move on, you go down.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I've done with it. Sure, it's something that's fun for
five minutes. You bring it back home and you realize
after playing with it for three minutes, it's not working
that well. You don't know what's going on. Oh the
rotor is bent, or I don't know what's happening. Maybe
we didn't get get charge of batteries a long time,
and you forget about it.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I blew it into a curio, and now mom's mad.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I mean, whatever the case may be, it's fun for
five minutes, right, It's fun for five minutes.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
And I feel like that was this story when it
came out. It was whoa, this is kind of interesting,
no show job clippers getting it? Oh now, potentially the
next investigation is the Nicks and Jalen Brunson because he
took a lot less money. But I feel like nobody
really cares about this story, right, Like, this is something
that I think maybe the top one or two percent
of fans care about and and people who are are
(22:00):
very active on social media as reporters and insiders care
about it. But I don't think the general fan gives
a crap about this, because really, number one, what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
They're not gonna take Kawhi Leonard away from the Clippers.
What are they gonna do. They're gonna find you money. Okay, Bobby,
find fifty million dollars. I'll pay fifty million dollars. We
got Kawhi Leonard. What's it gonna be. We're gonna find
you draft picks. Okay, we lose a first round draft pick.
Who knows if these picks are any good?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Anyway? Like, what are you gonna do? Like? What what's
the outcome that's gonna be? Whoa? This is terrible? Same thing.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Let's say they go to the Knicks. What are they
gonna do? Jalen Brunson can't play for the Knicks. They're
gonna find the next money take them off the nets.
That's not gonna happen. It will it will watch if
any team finds a way to lose a player, though,
it will be the next He's going to the bulls. Oh,
we didn't know, we didn't, We didn't know. He got
put on the bulls. But what's the outcome? What's the what?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Where?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Where does this story end? Where it's a Wow, right,
it's gonna be a fine. It's gonna be a team
is gonna lose a draft pick. And what are the
Knicks gonna say, Yeah, we'll trade a first or any
team in fie, I should say, in theory because my
team doesn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Uh, what are they gonna say?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, we were able to figure this out, keep our
star player end bring in other players to help us compete. Okay,
we'll pay a fine. You take a draft pick from us.
It's okay, first round read unless we're picking first and
we're getting Wemby. You can take the first round pick
for me. It's not that big a deal. I don't
see the end game for this, and I think the
average fan is like, yeah, it's interesting, but okay, like
(23:24):
an everyday thing and being something that, oh, this is
gonna gonna push the needle on this story. I don't
see it. Even the NBA, like Adam Silver said, hey,
it's on us to prove it.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Whoa, whoa, wait, well, what do you mean.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It's done you to prove like this is the story
that's out here and there's proof. This is Adam Silver saying, hey,
it says enough to prove it. If we want to.
You really think they're gonna.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Go crazy try to prove this, dude, it's getting putting
a crate with the ark of the.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Covenant, and this puts in the warehouse.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
This makes this is an embarrassing headline for the NBA.
Adam Silver wants nothing to do with embarrassing headlines. He
actually wants nothing to do with running the NBA. He
just likes being called the commission, so he's not gonna
do anything. He's not gonna go crazy for this investigation,
saying it's on us to prove it. What hey, you
know what may be too difficult for us to prove,
just so you know, we may not be anything from this.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Right. This is basically what he's telling everybody. I don't
think this story is really that big.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Again, it was fun and shocking for five minutes, but
now the every dad like real, I don't think people care.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
This is the same guy that, after he fleeced all
these networks and streamers to pay them a lot of
money for TV right, said we're just a highlight league anyway,
So what the hell's the difference? Right? That was part
of his big presser yesterday, all that fun and excitement
like this reminds me a lot of when we get
into performance enhancers in any sport. There's the outrage from
(24:40):
the oh we were duped. No, you were in the
locker rooms, you made millions of dollars, You watched these
guys come back like they were part of the Marvel
cinematic universe, and you kept your mouth shut until all
of a sudden there was irrefute. Well, now I'm outraged.
I was fleeced. Like, no, you were. You were on
part of it, like all of you. And so anybody
that starts doing that hand ranking you laugh at. But
(25:02):
as viewers of said sport baseball, football, right, we always
joke about football, it's like, well what they shoot him
up with this time? Is it vitamin T?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Like? What do we get him on in the field with?
As long as we get our players on the field,
fans generally don't care in this particular case, guys moving
from team to team. Now, Balmer has been duped before.
Look at some of the guys he signed a big contracts,
including Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
So he's that's as you say, Hey, I got duped
on signing him, you know what, Like I got duped
on Paul George. I got duped on all these guys.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
But we watch guys sign in different cities as free agents,
and there's always the secondary concert.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Right.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
We talked about it a lot with Kevin Durant taking
advantage of when he went to Silicon Valley. Yeah, he
goes to a great team, but he's also now connected,
not that he couldn't have been before, but he's immersed
in a whole other world and other business opportunities. Whatever.
Tell me that doesn't have a probate value even if
there's no direct exchange of money right there, Right, there's
the there's different ways that this comes into fruition. And
(26:03):
to think that it hasn't been happening. You mentioned college
for decades, go back to John Wooden and the bag Man.
I don't know plausible deniability, I don't. I don't know
anything about those kind of things, right, So, for for
Steve Balmer, and I think Cuban had had a great
response to it, going would you have let the company fail?
If he was really that complicit? Or maybe he was
(26:24):
just that in Bolden knowing that Adam Silver and the
NBA aren't gonna do anything about it. Yeah, I mean look,
if you take draft picks, who cares? We laughed at
like when some when guys go in the second round,
they're not guaranteed anything now and those those guys never played.
And then are you gonna look into every guy who
takes less money to go to a team?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I mean, clearly we know I have a buddy here.
An is never gonna have to worry about this. We'll
never have to worry about this with Lebron. I'm taking
you every single dollar I can, even if it keeps
my team from being able to go back.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
To the original deal down in Miami. Right, what's he
gonna say, Well, I took less money because uh well
I didn't have to pay income to because I was
in Florida. Like like even go back to that, like
you can. You want to go into the books, you
want to go start fighting all that stuff. There's plenty
of it.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
It is a It is a is an imperfect situation, obviously,
But this is gonna be where here's one loan lone
wolf reporter in Pablo Torri, who is out, Hey, I
do this, this is my thing now?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
And is the NBA really gonna stuff? Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
You you you by yourself have unearthed a huge scam
that's been going on in the NBA for so long,
yet they're not gonna admit to that. It's not gonna
It's like, look, the NFL knows how to bury stories, right,
they know how to do it. The NBA is gonna
be the same thing. Oh, we can't prove a connection.
We can't do this, and it's gonna got really and
really for the fans though nobody cares. This is not
(27:43):
gonna If this resulted in some kind of personnel situation
where Kawhi Lendard is now a free declared a free agent,
or he's got to redo a contract, then it's a bit.
But that's not happening that that's just not gonna be here.
So it's like, oh, okay, that's great.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Well, but at the NFL, every time there's something that
looks like it's gonna be good and big and and
huge and earth shattering in the league, what happens the
threat of discovery. There's enough for a settlement, right. Colin
Kaepernick supposedly had all sorts of the he had the goods.
Have we heard anything no? How many years is that
now other than he's still working out trying to get
(28:16):
a Lookxie, that's gone, right. They John Gruden was made
the fall guy, right, he hears some stuff from him.
You're telling me that's the only stuff in the thousands
and thousands of documents they went through. No, uh, that's gone.
But for all of this, does this tip the competitive balance?
I mean really in the grand scale? Does it?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
This guy got an extra tenement? Do you care? No,
Like it's it's all funny money as it is, and
Adam Silver is certainly not going to get in the
way of the beast. Like I said, you just got
how many billions of dollars from all of these streamers
while telling them they don't matter? You think this is
gonna phase you? Come on, now, what you got a
(28:57):
punishment for this post?
Speaker 5 (28:59):
I really want to bring the hammer down.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
If you're gonna say they have to watch the Mets,
I'm way ahead of you.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
No, they didn't.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
They didn't do He's not wishing that. Yeah, anybody, you're kidding,
it's not bad bad? Okay?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Did they lose again? The Mets lost again?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
In No, they didn't play. They didn't play.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
I think they did.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
No, they haven't played for the last week and half
they've been off. You really want to punish the Clippers.
Make him watch the Jets.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Dude again, very low hanging.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Okay, I'm just saying.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I'm just I'm not I'm not doing the whole low hanging.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Oh okay, you're doing high hanging all right, a right,
So what's your high hanging opinion? You make them no substitutes.
Run with Clipper Darrel at point guard at all times
for one season.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
And Clipper Darrel's gotta wear the suit. You gotta wear
his suit. Yeah, you gotta wear the red white. He's
the point guard. Yeah, no, I like it.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Any other four guys on the court, Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
And make James Harden play all forty eight minutes. I
want to see that that happen. Yeah, yeah, doing you
gotta make them out there. You can't play four point
eight minutes. I would say, just once, make him play
all forty minutes, just one time, just to see him
have to play all forty eight year.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Would fall off.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
The Clippers playing with four on defense, James Harden deciding
to stay at the other end of the floor. So
if they get a fast break opportunity, this should be
an easy bucket for the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Meanwhile, there's James Harden and he's got a megaphone in
his hand. I want to be traded. This is not
my fault.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Uh time
now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports. So someone who's been called the Steve Balmer
of Fox Sports Radio because she once thought the iPhone
was gonna fail as well. It's Monty Blagna.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Damn.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
I wish I was a fraction of where Steve Balmer
is because then I'd have a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
You would You would know he still didn't think the
Remember he had the iPhone. He goes, Dude, you really
think people are gonna line up and pay money to
have all that stuff just on your phone and putty
do it left? And now rip the BlackBerry? Yeah, oh yeah,
the black I love the black too. And I made
a two way little text thing that they gave me
(31:04):
a Yahoo all those years. I think we're just too stupid.
That's why they gave us the iPhone.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I guess people now though, with the simplicity having to
pressed the button and wait for the internet to load.
I'm like, okay, I think I think the charm of
the BlackBerry is going is going away.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
But I used to it was like you seem so
important with it. Yeah, yeah, Oh I'm a handling business. Yeah,
that's what I'm doing with my BlackBerry.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
The packers are handling business against the commanders in the
business standing on business. Green Bay packers are up seventeen
to three. They just got going in the fourth quarter.
Last I TechEd. I checked total yards for Washington one
hundred and twelve, total yards for Green Bay three hundred
and forty five.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I think Tucker Craft may have more yards himself than
the Washington. He's got more receiving yards than Jayden Daniels has,
passing that he.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Has more yards in the entire commander's office. It's real close.
It's so close.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Tucker Kraft four catches one hundred and eight yards, so you.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Are right there, so close, so close.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Jordan Love sixteen of twenty five two hundred and sixty
five yards, one touchdown pass that went to Romeo Dobbs.
Josh Jacobs seventeen carries sixty two yards and a touchdown.
Jade and Daniels fourteen of twenty four for eighty eight yards.
The struggle has been real for Washington again seventeen to three.
They just got going in the in the fourth quarter.
(32:21):
Other NFL news, forty nine Ers quarterback Brock perty conm
missed two to five weeks with a turf toe injury.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
The Chief say wide receiver Xavier Worthy.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
Was limited in practice today because of his shoulder injury
that he suffered against the Chargers in Week one. Raiders
tied on brock Bauers misspractice today because of a knee injury,
and congratulations to Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy because he miss
practiced today because his wife was giving birth to their
baby boys.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
So congratulations to JJ McCarthy. Why don't we go to
a little base ball? Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
The Phillies were down four runs and then they came
back to defeat the Mets six to four.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
New York has lost six in a row.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Phillies completed the four game sweep.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Aaron Jentleman asked me how many hits the met Scott
in the last eight innings of the game tonight?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Zero zero zero, Yeah, very good, very good.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
They scored all of that in the first Mets math,
they got mistaking zero, they got backdoor, no hit.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
You know, no hits the final eight inningss Math, go
as well as you can. No boeno, No boeno.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Aaron Judge homer twice today, forty five and forty six
on the season, Yankees outscore the Tigers ninety three. He
also drove in his one hundredth run and tied Joe
DiMaggio on the career home run list for the Yankees,
win number three hundred and sixty one. Other games that
finished up Guardian's Edge of the Royals three to two,
and right now the Padres are on the scoreboard.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
First against the Rockies.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
It's one zero bottom of the fourth, Mariners all over
the Angels, four zero, top of the third.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Back to you guys, thanks a bunch of Monsei.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Well looks like we may have a game in the
fourth quarter after all. The Commanders convert on a big
fourth down, they convert on a big third down, and
now zach Ertz is in the end zone. Touchdown pass
from Jayden Daniels from twenty yards out. Extra point is
up and good. So it is a seventeen to ten
Packers lead. Right now, still thirteen and a half to
(34:05):
go in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Grade eleven play drive there under five minutes, nice composure
from Daniels and then Erg's getting out and making a
big play. Austin Eckler won't show up in your fantasy
box score, but he helps seal things down towards the
goal line.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
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Speaker 3 (34:32):
Again.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Just search Jason Smith and Mike Harmon wherever you get
your podcasts. You'll find today's full show and a best
of version posted right after we get off the air.
Well coming up next, we got the play of the
night and yes, as Monsei said, brock Party now out
anywhere from two to five weeks. What does it mean
and why does this become a fascinating story? That's next
right here? Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten p Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios. Seventeen to ten Packers with the
lead over the Commanders twelve and a half to go
in the fourth quarter. Packers are driving. It was a
touchdown passed to zach Ertz a few moments ago that
the Commanders absolutely had to have. May not making a
(35:24):
one score game, but Packers on the move right now,
they are in field goal range again. A lot of
time left here, just under twelve minutes left to go,
but it is a seventeen to ten lead for the Packers.
And as I wait for Josh Jacobs to hit that
over for eighty point five rush yards, he's sitting right
now at sixty eight with about eleven and a half
to go in the fourth quarter. So uh, slowly but surely,
(35:48):
maybe we're getting their harm.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Maybe we're getting there. I think you'll get there. I mean,
now you try to bleed clock and get it done
for me. On the other side, I was waiting to
see a little gadgetry with Deebo s Amuel, which is
not yet materialized, and well at this point it probably won't.
Now I have to ask you, though, I mean a
lot was made about these packers' uniforms the winter white,
and on the radio broadcast they were talking about how
(36:11):
well they didn't want to do it later on in
the season because once it's winter in Green Bay people
don't have white jackets. I'm like, people are sheep. If
you put a packer's logo on a white jacket, you're
not selling enough units to make it worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
I don't know that you can see it in the snow.
People want to be seen. If I'm wearing stuff, I
want you to see that I'm wearing my pride.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
I'm not saying you're wearing it out of hunting. You can't.
But you'd buy one just for your cloths in the
middle of the snow. No, you have Okay, we got
what white is much more of a yeah, but you'd
be more menacing it though if you I guess you're
not supposed to wear white after we are after labory.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Yeah, so again. But I think the white looks good.
I think it's always I was just going on a
green field, like they're talking green on a green here,
this is white. It looks pretty good, not too shabby.
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Speaker 3 (37:14):
Man?
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Well, when the Phillies sweep the Mets, you get the
ride the U Johan Duran Express, I guess is what
they're calling it.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Sure, three pictures back to back case he missed it
by yr he went around the Phillis come back from
pull to enough heat they can prete the full games,
sweet and pull of the Mets.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Joe Davis on Big Fox with the call, yes we are.
I mean, the question is no longer the Mets in
the playoffs. They hold a one and a half game
lead for the final spot.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
They're giving that. I told you.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
By the time there's ten games left in the season,
the Mets will be three games out of the wildcard.
There's seasons done. Honestly, at this point, I think the
question is are they even gonna finish at five hundred?
I don't know that they finish over five hundred, there's
seventy six and seventy one. I don't know that they finished.
They got the Rangers coming into town. Now de gram
is pitching tomorrow night. Like Rangers are the hottest team
in Major League Baseball, and the Mets just they play
(38:14):
every night like okay, we're just waiting for disaster to strike,
like they play waiting for something bad to happen instead
of making big things happen, which is what good teams do.
Now that we're sitting in September and hey, we want
the playoffs, we can smell it. I really, I don't
know if they finish over five hundred this point. That's
how bad it is.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Curiosity of how you felt. If you're a bit demoralized,
you score four in the first guy ends up going
eight innings, yeah right, exactly, five hits, ten strikeouts, thirteen
strikeouts overall for the Mets in this game. You talk
about closing things out nine strikes on eleven pitches with
three strikeouts to close it. But we've just watched the
futility at the top of the order. I mean, Lindor's
(38:53):
having just an awful September. Everybody else following in lockstep
with him, but at points it's painful. I wish I
was like betting, you know, because you've been so dour
on your squad, that I would have made a lot
of money just fading, fading the Mets time and again, fade,
just fade them. In the last three months. Wow, when
(39:14):
we talk about it, right, bottom five squad in terms
of records since June thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
So we have more on the Thursday night game coming
up in a few minutes. But this big NFL story
from today Brock Party, who he knew was likely going
to be out with an injury this week, now it
looks like he could be out anywhere from two to
five weeks due to a turf toe ish type injury.
Basically that's how it was explained, where well, it's sort
of a it's sort of a version of turf toe,
(39:42):
which is what's keeping Brock Purty out. This has become
a fascinating story because the forty nine ers are in
a lose lose situation, right That's why, because a if
they win, all right, Kyle Shanahan quiets the doubters who say,
maybe we've gone as far as we can with Kyle
Shanahan and you know who knows. So yeah, you quiet
(40:03):
the doubters if Matt Jones is good and they win.
But then all of a sudden, it's wait, why do
we give Brock Purdy two hundred and sixty million dollars
if we can win like this with mac Jones? All
of a sudden, why do we pay Purdy? He's overpaid?
And really the you know, anybody can be the star
of this offense. Now, if Jones stinks, hey, they win,
right they Well that's awesome, but it's a loss for Shanahan,
(40:25):
and the impatience with him continues because this means if
he stinks, they're gonna lose games. And again, they're close
to a rebuild for next season, so it is it
is kind of a lose lose situation for the forty nine.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
They're really in a tough spot, right because you already
lose Kittle, who's so instrumental in the run game. Trent
Williams missing multiple practices this week, so a little bit
of concern where he's at as to whether it's gone
off the cliff. Remember how much of an issue his
contract and Jennings contract and everybody was a year ago
but yeah, the brock Purty thing where you still have
(40:56):
so many people that have done as much fench riding
as you'll ever see in our business about whether a
guy is a player or really just a uh he
fits the suit, the old Brady Bunch, Johnny Bravo, look
it up people, it's a fun episode. But literally, it's
all right. Making me a San Francisco quarterback with Shanahan,
(41:16):
He'll succeed to some level. Now, could it be Alabama
Mack is really good and was just screwed all this
time about that?
Speaker 1 (41:24):
But again, if Alabama Mack is good, it's wow, why
do we pay brock Purty all of this money? Why
do we why do we succumb to the brocolypse? Why
do we do that?
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Right?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
I mean really like, it's lose lose right, Hey, it's
great if we win, that's awesome, But man, no, any.
Speaker 5 (41:38):
Mac Jones will turn into a pumpkin.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Then it's bad for Kyle Shannon.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Again, lose lose, soal it goes exit out about a
Fresco exit Swallen Dome. Maybe the Packers have taken control
of this game. We have more on Thursday Night Football
coming up next as well. As another big quarterback story
coming out of the league Today, Chasing and Mike Fox
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