January 15, 2026 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if Oregon QB Donte Moore is staying in school to avoid getting drafted by the Jets. Jets QB next season will be Mac Jones? What is Ja Morant’s trade value? Plius, a Pittsburgh Steelers HOT Take!
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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to get to crad Let me just get out run
of this.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You welcome back, Alex Tysher. I don't care that the
Jets aren't getting Dante More. I don't care't care that
they're not getting.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Are you doing a parenthetic call this year?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I you know what you're gonna suck again, and you're
gonna be waiting for him in twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
No, no waiting for Archer Manning in twenty seven. Well
you got you gotta move up that last spot. Yeah,
that's all right, that's all right. Hey, listen, I said
from the beginning, Okay, I said for the beginning, I'm
not that high in this quarterback class. Dante Moore is
a risk. He could be great, he might not be.
But in the end, whatever the Jets do is gonna
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be wrong your quarterback. So if they're not picking a quarterback, okay,
I am, I am. I absolutely am fine with him
not getting in the draft and Jets potentially ruining their future. Look,
maybe he's great, but he's a risk. And obviously he
says I gotta go back to college. All right. Maybe
self confidence isn't there that he's ready for the NFL.
But run, I'll tell you right, I do not care
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that he went back to Oregon and the Jets aren't
going to get him. I'm actually relieved that they can
go and do something else with the pick. They can,
you know, trade out at number two to somebody who
wants to move up. You know, they can do any
of those things, I am okay with them not getting
him all. My disagreement with Dante Moore's decision has to
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do with him and his future and listening to the
to the wrong people who are just costing him, you know,
somewhere upwards of forty million dollars. But as far as
the Jets, not that, I am okay because I already
know who the Jets quarterback is gonna be next year.
I don't know he's gonna be playing this weekend. Actually,
actually this weekend, or is he in the booth? Actually,
if he plays this weekend, his team is might be
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in a little bit of trouble. But then the quarterback
next year is it's gonna be Matt Jones. It's good
to be mac. He still has a year left on
his deal. But I really thought you were gonna tell
me it was Kirk Cousins agent or come on, man,
you can't do that now. You can go back to
that in New York. You don't go back to that
guy now. A couple of couple of things rant here.
(03:08):
You know you started when you said the word wrong.
It was like you were watching all in the family
all day.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
He's wrong.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I mean, I was just showing you.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It's a celebration of Sandford's son and their initial foray
into the television universe today. But wrong, Yeah, more, there's
there's a lot we'll get into it in terms of
how many starts or whatever else. But for the Jets, yeah,
I mean, you get the opportunity to push that can
and kick that can down the road.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
If you do go to trade for Mac Jones, be
careful because you'll give up all discernible assets to get him,
you know, Jets. All right, now, let me just say
this my favorite all outside of Archie the you know,
coming up with the different ways to kill himself while
Edith is telling a story, like my favorite all in
the family joke was when Archie and and and Mike
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rest in peace rob Ryder when they were arguing over
Harvey Haddocks. Remember with the big MLB games growing up,
we heard about this, and he had a perfect game
into the twelfth inning and he wound up losing it,
and and he lost the game. He got a home run,
He had a perfect game into the twelfth inning of
the game. He lost it, right, So they were arguing
that Haddocks had and Archie Bunker says he had a
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perfect game. He had a perfect Mike says, no, he
didn't know he did to give a home run in
the twelfth and they were arguing over this, and and
Mike finds the newspaper and sees his here, I found
a copy of the newspaper from you know, however many
years ago it was. He goes here, Harvey Haddocks loses
perfect game and twelfth inning, and he goes, I just
won the bet, meat head, Because if he didn't have
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a perfect game, how did he lose? It? Was arguing
without logic to somebody, how how did he have it?
How could he lose it if he didn't have it
to begin with? Right, Like that's our that's some great writing.
But no, look but but mac Jone's worrying it to
Dante more is that? Look? Yes, in theory, the forty
nine ers keeping Matt Jones for one more yet you know,
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like seven million dollars would be the smart thing. But
number one, generally, teams don't keep a guy from getting
a starting job as long as they can get good
value for him in a trade. And they will get
great value from mac Jones because the quarterback crop. Now
this offseason is not gonna be great. The Jets don't
want to go spend all kinds of money to go
to acquire Kyler Murray or to a tongue of Iloa
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for for a season until they get their next guy.
But Mac Jones would be great a bidding war. He'll
get at least a fourth round pick, which if you're
the forty nine Ers, great maybe because more Pete teams rich,
maybe you can get a third for mac Jones as
well as he's played now this year. But really, the
forty nine Ers are in a it's a sticky spot
because yeah, I'm old enough to remember when brock Purty
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was out and mac Jones was playing just as well
as brock Purty was. The Niners don't want to be
any part of a controversy, even though Mac, even though
brock Purty has shown that he will get dinged up.
They don't want needy part of a quarterback controversy. And
brock Purty's distinguish himself the last few weeks since he'd
come back, had a great game last week, So yeah,
I think the Niners might be a little bit more
motivated to move on for mac Jones. And clearly Kyle
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Shanhannis Shon, whoever he brings in, Hey, I can fix
and they can be a quarterback. So yeah, if they
can get a fourth or third round pick and they
move on from any potential mess they would have with
Brock Perdy if he gets hurt, Mac Jones, I think
they would do it. Yeah, I think we want to
stay to the Patriots. You know he wants to stick
into the Patriots. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I think there's a bigger divide between Purdy and Jones
than you do. But the idea that going into next year,
given the fact that Perdy has missed time due to
injury several years in a row, you do have a
lot of needs. Even though you're still playing this weekend
and you're actually getting potentially some of these guys back. Yeah,
I don't know if Fred Warner is at sixty percent
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or eighty percent or what his power bar is in
the old video game system, but his presence would be
a mits rinky peersaw all these guys back at practice.
That's great, But just the idea that you are aging out,
you do have a lot of issues. You're not gonna
have George Kittle uh for the foreseeable future, if he
comes back in this next year at all. Uh And
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we've seen with Shanahan the ability to say I can
get another guy into my system and we can keep
the line moving. Right as long as twenty three's out there,
you got a puncher's chance.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But you go into the marketplace and there's such a
divide in terms of who's got a quarterback and the
uh what twenty five teams that don't that you're gonna
have a market for Mac Jones and Dante Moore opting
to go back to school certainly creates a bigger void.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Now, Dante Moore, Oregon quarterback who decided to go back
to school, A nice job, Dylan Royola getting that do
may maybe you want hit the portal again? Get paid?
But he goes back to college and this is why
he made the wrong decis. I don't know who he
was listening to. I don't know what what what pushed
it one way or the other. Maybe it was well
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that might have helped him. A couple of those players
from that game against Indiana that really look terrible the
Jets the second Dante Moore would have gone second. Now
I say you two the way, are we sure that
Dante Moore was gonna get the Jets were gonna pick them.
Are we sure that they were gonna pick second or
somebody else was gonna say, Hey, there's a lot of
time between now and the draft. Certainly the Jets, if
(08:19):
I know, they were sold on Mendoza because they went
to see Mendoza one hundred times this year. It's like
a traveler. It's like a dead show, you know, traveling
to go see Feranana Mendoza every week. But maybe and
really long time ago, Hey, guess what so and so
wants to trade up to two and the Jets needing
all sorts of of of stuff to fill their roster.
Ound get hey, we'll take draft picks. Oh wait a minute,
So I could be going someplace else at number two.
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But the bottom line is that is two things. Number One,
every decision you take, whether you stay in college go
to the NFL, carries risk. Am I going to the
right team? Am I not going to the right team?
It's a risk just because it's not the Jets. Do
you think the Cardinals are better? You think that, You
think all these other teams that are picking at the
top of the draft. You think the Browns are to
be better. I think that's a better fit for you.
(09:01):
I mean next year, because here's who's going you think
those are better fits. Every decision carries risk, right, and
I'll tell it to you this way. I'll give it
to you this way, and then you show how this
is a decision that doesn't make sense, whether you do
football for living or anything else. Let's say you, Mike Harmon,
are the manager of a grocery store. All right, okay,
I'm gonna make you manager a Pathmark where I work.
(09:23):
I no, no non foods, deli, department, bakery, produce, front
end security, everything, perishables. You are you manage the whole store.
Keep away from the watermelon. No, that's it. He's away
from all the melons and fruits. So you are the
manager of this store right now. You do really well
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at this store. The store does fantastically well. It makes
so much money. Wow. Okay, hey, guess what. We want
you to come back next year as arm and you
don't have a contract, so hey, you know you're you're
a pretty salt after store manager and this and Pathmark says, hey,
you know what, we want to give you a one
year deal versus somewhere between seven and ten million dollars.
That's pretty good, right, Okay, all right, that's not bad now,
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knowing full well that you're only going to be here
for one year because the next year the store is
getting sold and they're getting rid of everybody, so you
can only go for one year. Now, there's this other
bigger grocery store chain, let's call it Wegmans where I
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worked in college. That hey, wait a minute. Everybody who
works in a grocery store, whether it's Pathmark or Stop
and Shop, or or Pavilions or Vaughn's.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Normally your make up names.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
These are all real places places, right, you want to go.
Everybody wants to get to Wegmans. Right, that's the thing.
We're at, whatever grocery store, they all want to get
to Wegmans, Right, Wegmans is the destination. And Wegmans calls
you and says, hey, we saw what you did here
at Pathmark. We really like what you did. We want
you to come in here and be our manager and
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manage this big store for us. And we're gonna give
you four years and fifty million dollars and it's all guaranteed.
And you say, wait, is there any way I'm not
gonna see the end of this. No, no, no, you're guarant
no matter what happens, you are guaranteed this money. You
are getting four years and fifty million dollars guaranteed. Okay,
all right, Well what do we have to do? Well
(11:22):
prove yourself. Obviously we want the store has to run
as well as Now. If the store doesn't run as well,
you have four you bs some time. You have a
lot of time because we really like you. But I'm
still getting the money. You're getting the money no matter what.
But because we because we're coming after you so early,
you're gonna get a lot of time to get this
store going, right, right, this is our underperforming store. But
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it's a big deal, this store. You know, we got
stores in New York, we got stores in Arizona, we
got stores in Tennessee, we got stores in Las Vegas.
But this, this store, this New York store is a
really big deal for us. Right, we want you to
come in and do it, Okay, And you say, well,
you know, here's the thing. I really like this other
and I know it's it's you know, it's getting sold
in a year and I'm not gonna have a job
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but I really like to go back there for a year,
and then I want to I definitely want to come
to Wegmans. I definitely want to come there, but I
really want to go back here for one year and
eight million, and then I want to come here. Is
this all for gonna be here for next year? And
they go, well, Wegman says, we'll take you. I mean absolutely,
one hundred percent your town, We'll take you, But I
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can't guarantee you that money. Well, what can you guarantee me?
I can't guarantee you anything. I mean, i'd like to
think that because of the manager that you are, you'll
come back in and hey, we'll want you and give
you a four year, fifty million dollar contract because it's
not getting any better than that when you come next year.
This is the top dollar. Like, you're not gonna come
back next year and it's gonna be more money. This
(12:43):
is what we give you. Okay, Well, but you can't
g No, I can't guarantee it because if there's other
store managers that we like, I guess what, We're gonna
have them come in and do different things and there
will be a place for you. But I can't guarantee
you the money.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You might get pushed down the depth charte to where
you gotta go do one of those Arizonas.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
We may send you to our store and Chandler, we
may send you to our store in Las Vegas. We
may send you so, just so you know, that's not guaranteed.
But right now, you come here for four years and
fifty million, we'll give it to you. Who says I'm
staying at that first store? Nobody does. I don't know
how you get you give Dante Moore that kind of ice,
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or he thinks I'm turning down this four years and
fifty million guaranteed for one year an eight million when
there's a risk everywhere, But I can guarantee generational wealth
or one year of incredible wealth. But one year, but
four years of generational wealth, and all I have to
do I have to prove myself, right. No matter where
you go, they want you to prove yourself. So yeah, uh,
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this is kind of the risk here. So I want
to know how anybody thinks that's the smart decision to go, Hey,
one year, eight million dollars nil money versus number two
overall pick and fifty million.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I don't know Yeah, I've been trying to wrap my
head around this because we talked about it last week
when it started to become this big, raging topic. Than
today we get the decision and he does it on
TV and everything else. As like trying to put my
arms around it. When you talk about getting more experience
sure long term potential success, We've done all the talking
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points of a guy with you know, just thirteen fifteen
eighteen starts different data points that we have against more
tenured guys, you know, the brock Parties of the world
who go to mister irrelevancy before making their big money
and becoming stars like he did in San Francisco. But
for Dante Moore, you've showed very well except for that
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game against Indiana. Yeah, you got another guy that they
signed in the case that you didn't show up. So
who's to say, Dan Lanning and the coaching staff don't
look around and maybe you get beat out in camp.
Maybe it's that bad. I don't anticipate that it is,
but maybe it is. Maybe you get hurt all of
those things. Yeah, I want the fifty two million dollars
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in the bank, but you knew that was going to
be my answer from day one, even without your shopping experience.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Good luck, Dante Moore, good luck everything's arisen.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
No, good luck.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I hope it works out for him again. I'm okay
not getting him. That's why I can say I'm okay. Now,
you're just kind of kicking it down the road because
you know you're still gonna be drafting where you're gonna
draft him in the top five.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Detch.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
It's not like Peyton Manning decided I'm going back to
school because Bill Parcells wouldn't guarantee that he's taking me
number one overall. I mean, come on, it's not that.
Good luck Dante More, good luck with that horrendous decision.
Good luck exit out about a Fresca exit swalling home
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Got a great, big hot take from a big NFL
story coming up in a minute. But first, uh, I
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gotta say this because boy, a season just becomes more
and more of a disaster with every passing day. And uh,
by that, I mean that's your dog. No no, no, no, well, okay,
that that's.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
The Knicks just started. They'll get blown out by Sacramentos.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And they're getting your ask to go in the first quarter.
It's fine, it's these are a new little Kings squad.
He'll get after you. Is it's a new look King squad.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, Weber will be great. Mike Bibbie, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
No, no, hey years old, he could get after that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But uh, with every passing days we get set for
the National Championship Game on Monday between the Hurricanes and
the Indiana Hoosiers, which again, yeah, I mean someone got
dropped down from another planet. Just heard that for the
first time. It said what what Miami and Indiana? Uh,
the Ohio State season just gets more and more disastrous
(17:45):
with every passing day, because today linebacker Sonny Styles declared
for the NFL Draft, which we thought was gonna happen.
Oh yeah, so now you have Sunny Styles, Rvel Reese,
who may wind up going number two overall. Now, right,
he might be the he's the favorite to go number
two because hey, if he's getting Micah Parsons comparisons. Okay,
I'm okay with the Jets picking a defensive guy because
(18:07):
they do okay with those the quarterbacks, they're always wrong,
But I'm okay with that. But you have him, You
have Caleb Downs, who I told you I would take
as the number one non quarterback pick. This guy's like
drafting Rod Woodson. You have Carnel Tate, right, and you
got Caden McDonald. All five of these Ohio State stars
are projected to go in the top twenty. Right, They're
(18:28):
all in mel kiper Junior's top fifteen overall draft selections. Right,
you have five guys that you are gonna see drafted
in the top fifteen to twenty. Let's just be in
top twenty. And you still lost your couldn't win the
Big Ten and lost your first playoff game this season
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for Ohio State. So you're calling for fired, is well,
it's not because that's really where I'm the dots. You know,
he won the national title a year ago, and that's okay.
I'll give you a year Mulligan for winning. But when
you come back, like I thought last year for Michigan
was a disaster coming off the national title when they
had what four guys taken the top twenty five and
(19:14):
they just didn't get a quarterback and so they gave
away that year. This is even worse. Right, this is
you were by far and away the best team in
the country, and look at this NFL talent again. You're
gonna have five names selected in the top twenty, which
is gonna be great for recruiting. Ryan Day's gonna be
calling guys and hey, look at this. Five of your
starters selected a first round of the draft, and you
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couldn't even win the Big Ten. That is, that is
an absolute disase. No one had a more disastrous season
in college football than Ohio State.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, I know those others that I mean, Marcus Freeman
had to have a press conference to say, I'm not leaving.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Well, don't lose. You don't lose your first two games,
and you'll you know, you'll got like that.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
That was the savor of Oh, at least he's not
leaving more disastrous that.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
There's other seventeen guys. Are they going to be first? Right?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And we go to the twenty two A disaster? Disaster
now the good news for this, the good news for this.
When this happened, all day, I've been thinking, well, how
would Berman announce that? Boy, how would Berman announce Sunny
Styles to the end?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
No, No, I've been working on three good ones all day. Okay,
I think I know what one of them is. We'll
decide three good ones, three good ones, We'll decide. Okay, No, clearly, TJ.
He's not every day Tom Dick or Harry Styles is
headed to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Draft Harry Styles coming to a town near you.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
For Styles, there is one direction in his career, and
that's to the NFL Draft. We're staying with this theme, okay, uh.
Going into the draft, he was unsure of his talent level,
if he should be someone that should go back to
school for a year or head to the NFL. The
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scouting report on him says he was insecure, but you
don't know what's for. He was turning heads when he
walked through the door, or everyone else in the draft
room could see it, everyone else but him. He lights
up running backs like nobody else. The way he flips
quarterbacks gets me overwhelmed. You don't know you're a top
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pick in the NFL draft.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
PJ.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
That was the fastest three minutes.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Chris Burner.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I was waiting for a Furious Style. I got Julius
Styles in Oh I could have I could have got
Julius Style. Well, we also are in the first half
hour of the show. Boy, you don't think I didn't
have Julius Styles ready, I didn't have burn after reading
making fans in Columbus, Furious Styles is headed to the NFL.
(21:55):
So you're gonna do some lines of ten things I
Hate about you some Larry Miller like lines. But you, Sonny,
you're my son, You're my problem, and you want to
head to the NFL. There you go, Ryan Day holding
the ball bearings like Lauren.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Now you're talking Curious Styles one of the greatest names
and movies.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Oh, I like that. I really had to get all
the Harry Styles out. No, that's good, yeah, because we
got to get let you know, because listen, the gen
Z Millennials all get Harry Styles. Get a little bit
deeper for boys, I mean Boys in the Hood that
came out, you know, thirty five years. It's a long time.
I mean, there's a bunch of people still watch it,
but if they haven't seen it, it's their loss. And
I got to get ten ten things I hate about
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you and Julius Styles. That's a watch. But that allows
you to go down the road of any kind of
joker quote you want to get in or anything else
that Heath led did so uh yeah, so so so sunny.
So again, this season just gets worse and worse for
all house Well or.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Does it get better that you say for those that
were able to vanquish them, that they beat the best
and for the Ohio State coaching staff and administrators. You
can go back and say, you know what, we need
bigger checks. We're gonna need bigger checks because we need Clearly,
even these five we're not enough.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, got we got one hundred thousand we got we
got a uh what they got one hundred million dollars
roster at Ohio State and we didn't even win the
Big ten and we got guys going. We got five
guys got every fourth pick in the ends, spent three
hundred million dollars. They got nothing. Come on, man, that's
what a disaster for Ohio State. Now you want a great,
(23:36):
big hot take off of one of the big stories
this week in the NFL Today, UH, Steelers owner Art
Rooney the second talked about his conversation with Mike Tomlin
in why he walked away from the Steelers job. He resigned. Uh,
he's gonna potentially do TV free or something else, not
expected to coach in twenty twenty six and then re
enter the market in twenty twenty seven. Now you want
(23:58):
a great, big hot take, let's see your Steelers owner
Art Rooney the second UH talking about his conversation with
Tomlin how it went and where the future sits for
the Steelers. Take a listen, because boy, do we got
something for you.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
You know, Mike indicated that he did not anticipate coaching
at least, you know, in the near future. I think
he wants to spend time with his family and do
some of the kinds of things he hasn't been able
to do for the last you know, many many years.
And so you know, if if something like that comes up,
we'll deal with it when it comes up. But right now,
that doesn't seem to be on his radar.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Doesn't he sound a bit like Aaron Rodgers, doesn't not?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Rooney said, play the beginning of that again, tysher a
little bit, a little bit of Aaron Rodgers. Good.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
You know, Mike indicated that he did not anticipate coaching
at least you know, in the near future.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I think he wants So maybe a little AI happened,
maybe like it was Art Rudy, but it was Aaron
Rodgers providing the voice. It's pretty emotional. Honestly, it's been
a great year. So but you want a big hot take, Okay,
what it now? And Rooney went on to talk about
how it surprised him. We talked about running it back.
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This is Mike's decision, and he doesn't seem to me
like he wants to coach in the foreseeable future. Obviously,
you know things will change in a year. However, let
me throw this out there. What if he's done? What
if he's done coaching? Right, Because in theory, Bill Kauer
was gonna do the same thing coach of the Steelers.
I'm walking away, gonna do TV for a little bit,
(25:27):
then get back on an NFL sideline. He was young enough, Okay,
I know the big thing's gonna open up for me him.
Do what's Bill Cowerd doing? Still on television? All right?
And millennials don't even know who he is other than
he's a guy on TV, right, Mike Tomlin coming off
of nineteen years as an NFL head coach. And we've
seen it before where guys who have disdain for the
(25:48):
media suddenly love the media. I love the media. He's
gonna show up, go on TV, make tons of money,
very sought after, right. Maybe it's Fox at next to
Jay Glazer. Maybe it's something else. And do you really
think he's not gonna sit back and go boy, this
is a pretty good paycheck and I can have time
for myself, my family, whatever I want to do, still
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be a big guy in the league, not have to
worry about dealing with egos and quarterbacks and everything else.
And hey, I kind of like this for a little
bit here. Remember John Gruden was the same way, right,
He's only gonna be there for a year, John Gruden
year after year head coach, head coach. Because Mike Tomlin,
I'm sure has an idea of what he wants his
next job to be, but you're not guaranteed that job
(26:33):
is gonna open up. Maybe he wants the next job
to be forty nine Ers head coach. Well, guess what,
that's it opened up anytime soon. Maybe he wants to
go be the head coach of the Patriots, Well that's
it opened up. I'm just throwing this out there that
every year are you are beholden to the jobs that
are open. And Tomlin may have an idea. I don't
think he's walking away from saying I'm done coaching. But
as time goes on and your life gets a little
(26:54):
cushier in the studio, guys who retire young, hey, I
kind of like this. The job I really want never
opened up for me. So, yeah, I am more than
happy doing this. We've seen it so many times with guys. Right,
we said, anybody go into the booth becoming a big person. Hey,
guess what, I kind of like this, and I'm staying
I'm sure right now, Tomlin has the idea of I'm
gonna take some time away. I'm not gonna rush back
(27:16):
into it. I want my want to pick my own situation.
I'll do TV. But he's gonna do TV. He's gonna
love it. He's gonna see that. You know, like as
Jay Glazer, you're involved in every facet of the league
and you're talking to coaches and players and everything else,
and boy, this is fun. I have to worry about
a weekly test that could wind up seeing me get hired, fired,
whatever it's going to be. Because he knows wherever he goes,
(27:37):
he's not gonna have the same cachet that he had
with the Steelers for nineteen years. They keep coaches, right,
We talked about this, So what if Mike Tomlin has
done What if we've seen him for the last time
and he starts to really enjoy that other life, and
maybe he's like Bill Kauer and we just don't see
him on the sidewine.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So I've wondered all along, right nineteen years here a
lot of speculation whether he was tiring of hearing the
fire Mike Tomlin. Chance you got three or four years
of that, the silliness that that we have in pervasiveness
fan bases and media and the clamoring for it. When
it comes down to the way that job went, they
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never bottomed out whether that was his choice, whether that
was an organizational thing.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
You never got a full reset.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And you and I were talking about it and talking
with Ben a little last night, Like you go through
all these years of those rosters, weren't very good years,
and yet they were still scrauted. How many times did
you come into the year going, this is the year
that it's gonna end, right, the street's gonna end, and
then lo and behold, there they were at the end,
either fighting for a playoff spot or at least doing
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the plus five hundred. There's very few organizations that you
look at to where you have stability, not just the hey,
you can have a couple of down years not get fired,
but just in general that it's not always you know,
ratcheted up to this defcon level of chaos in the
local media, in the newspapers, fan bases where everything is angsty, right,
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it's constant, you know, the Kansas City's one place that
might have stability. San Francisco eventually maybe right, every once
in a while there's some whispers with Shanahan. But now
that they've won, in spite of all the walking wounded,
that probably gets kicked down the curve for a while.
But there's just very few organizations where you point to stability.
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He had one of those. So if legitimately it's one
hundred percent he walked away of his own accord, he
might be walking the earth like Cana and Kung Fu
show up with Jay Glazer, Remember Jimmy Johnson did that yep, right,
And then all of a sudden he had his yacht.
He'd loved going fishing, yep. And then he'd come back
and he'd fly in and he'd be down at the
Avenue of the Americas. You'd run into him at the
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hotel there, and he talked about how great it was
because he'd come in, he'd go to work with the guys,
with his family, as Jay's told us all these years,
and then he flies out after and guess what, he's
back on that.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Damn boat on Monday morning, ready for the next charter.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I mean, that's that's a life that becomes very difficult
to say. You know what, I want to go back.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
To coaching ninety hours a week. Yeah, I mean, I'll
tell you what if it Just think about that, What
if he's done, because that's something that whoaa wait, he's
too young too. We've seen it so many times.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
At fifty three, is still a good I mean, still
a run man?
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Oh no, see, he's got time. But I'm saying, hey,
I can still wait, I can do it in five yea,
seven years, eight years, all right, Pete Carroll and who
was seventy four? I mean, come on exactly.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
The raider's job is always gonna be there for you.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I can have that job whatever I want.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Raiders, jets, crowds, I mean a lot of these jobs.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
All he's got to do is pick up the phone.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
He just wave at somebody and they'll they'll move heaven
and earth to bring him in time now to find out.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
What's trending in the wide world of sports, and someone
who's been called the Mike Tomlin of Fox Sports radio. Yeah,
she can have a pick of anything she wants to do,
and she picks to be here with us. It's Monty belongers.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
And you know what, I would love to have a
drink with Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
You know a number of people. Well, so you don't
want to have a drink with Lane Kiff? Do you
want to have a drink with Mike.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Tom I do?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Okay, I do.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I would love to challenge and your boyfriend is okay
with you continuing to say people you want.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
To have drinks instead of me telling you that I
want to have a cup of coffee with them, That's
not what I want to do. I want to have
a drink and chat and pick their brain.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
That's what it's about. I don't have cups of coffee.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Let's have a drink, all right, because the drink lets
people beat more honest.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Okay, yeah, So what's in what you drink every night here?
I'm just curious. Don't tell the listeners that I'm drinking here,
all right? Okay, don't tell Scott Shapiro I'm drinking Oh okay, okay,
you know what it's water? He listens, water, listen, I've
had water. That's waters. Wouldn't be the first show. Listen, listen, good.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Yeah, guys.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Obviously, a lot of teams are still looking for their
next head coach. The Ravens did interview Brown's defensive coronator
Jim Schwartz and Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse mintor Crossberg. Can
we stop letting Jesse Mint interview anywhere? Can we just
stop that? That is what I'm requesting. A former Ravens
head coach, Yeah. John Harbaugh met with the Giants today,
while the Athletic reports that he's gonna be with.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
The Titans Thursday.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
The Dolphins interview Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley for their
head coaching job, and the Falcons are gonna interview former
Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce for their head coaching job,
while two time Pro Bowl wide receiver Adam Fiela announced
his retirement today after thirteen seasons. When it comes to
college football, Oregon quarterback Dante Moore, who is only twenty
years old only has twenty starts, announced that he's going
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to return to the Ducks next season. Right now, in
the NBA, Mavericks are losing at home to the Nuggets
sixty three to forty six.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
It's halftime.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Also a small scare. Cooper Flag limped off the floor
in the second quarter.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
He went to the locker room. He already came back
and he's back. He was back on the court.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
But something to keep in mind because he injured his
left ankle on Monday in their win against the Nets,
and it seemed to have been the same ankle limp
to the back came out, So just something to keep
an eye on. The Knicks are losing right now to
the Kings thirty two to seventeen. After the first quarter.
The Cavaliers took down the seventy six ers one thirty
three to one oh seven, Donovan Mitchell thirty five points,
and the Bulls beat the Jazz one twenty eight to
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one twenty six starting suing Wizards and the Clippers. No
Avitza Zubots, no John Collins for LA. In men's college hoops,
Number ten Vanderbilt, who is undefeated, is losing right now
to Texas on the road, sixty four to fifty five
with about nine minutes to go halfway through the second half.
Number fourteen North Carolina is up on Stanford sixty seven
(33:28):
to sixty and Ole miss defeated number twenty one Georgia
with they put back in the final seconds of.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Overtime, ninety seven to ninety five.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
In the NHL, only one game going on right now,
the Golden Knights and the Kings. They are scoreless halfway
through the first half, while the Senators doubled up on
the Rangers eight to four. And in Casey Miston and baseball,
the Red Sox are signing left handed pitcher Ranger Swatis
to a five year, one hundred and thirty million dollar deal.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Back to you guys, thank you very much, Watson. Good
luck with that deal.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
Good luck with that deal.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Good luck coming up next. We got more NFL on
the way. We got a big hot take coming up
next hour for the Eagles. Can't wait for that one.
But when an NBA superstar is potentially about to be
traded and I don't think anybody wants them, that's next
right here. And it's not Joel EMBIID Okay, it's not
Joel EMBIID. It's not Joel Embi. That's next.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Anthony Davis's not I.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Said Star, I said Star. Oh, that's next. Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio. Oh, it's definitely Jaylen Browns.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
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Speaker 1 (34:37):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. I'm standing up in the studio and TJ.
Much like the nineteen seventies Mets young Blood at the
top of the batting order for rock and roll, TJ.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Having himself a run, no question about huh hanging out
with Aerosmith.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
I mean, come on, I can't get from Joel to
its hard Joe. No, he's not far from the last
of us. Joel young Blood at the top of the
charts this year in rock and roll. My people about
the last of us? That's been a minute. What I
got Well, I just come on, man, people, I just
said Joel young Blood. People have no idea who that,
although he does know he does have a record. He
(35:19):
has a record only guy with two hits on one
day for the same team. No, it's good the Mets
trade into the Expos. He played in the day game,
got a hit, got to the ballpark enough time to
get into the game with the Expos, and got to
hit that night. He's the only player to have a
hit in two except for two teams in one day.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Second time, we can get the Expos into a larger
discussion in the last week because you saw they trolled
the about their trademarks and everything.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
That I gotta explain to millenniums with the Montreal Expos. Boy,
now it's really just it's it's just a cycle. Uh.
So we got Rick Buker coming up a little over
an hour from now, and uh, I'm sure one of
the big conversation pieces with him is going to circle.
Will will circumvent the situation and the trade situation's going
on right now with John Morant, who has been put
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on the trade block by the Grizzlies. They are looking
for fielding offers for him. And as he said today
when he was asked about the trade rumors, John Moran said,
I just got to live with it.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
They're hoping he's gonna play in the big international trip
coming up. It's unsure. Uh, but John Morant potentially is
on the trade block. And when I saw today in
the reports, Hey, numerous teams have reached out about John Morant.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Have they really like, are you doing work?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Are you helping out the Grizzlies or agent to have
teams really reached out for Jo Moran because Rick Bucker
joined us last week and said, there are crickets for
John Moran. There's no you talk about because we talked
Trey Young. Trade was last week. There was limited interests
in Trey Young. There are crickets for John Moran.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Yeah, he dropped that in the middle of talking about
Trey Young, right, all of.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
A sudden, that's it, crickets him. And yeah, because you
know what, I can't trade for John Morant. I mean
he's got he's under contracts the next couple of years. Okay,
that's fine, But this is a guy that has proven
over the course of his career that he just doesn't
get it right. Like he's he's a live wire who
continues to make bad decisions. And now it's a tough
(37:18):
time staying healthy. Right, how many chances warnings was he given? Dude,
don't you know you got all stuff going on with
guns and fights and suspensions and multiple suspensions. Show everybody
that you get it and he never has. Don't make
the machine gun motion after a hoop because the NBA
doesn't like that. What did he do the next day?
I made the machine gun like he doesn't get it,
(37:40):
and so I'm not gonna give up. I don't care
how talented he is. I'm not gonna give up anything
for him because I don't know how long he's gonna
be in the league. If I said to you right now,
is he gonna be in the league when he's thirty
years old? I don't know that I would take that bet.
If you said, over under thirty years old, is John
Moran still in the NBA, I would say yeah. I
don't know, because the guy has proven time and again
to show that he doesn't get it. And now when
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you compound that with hisj with his injury situation, Now,
are you gonna go You're gonna be the one that
goes and gets the best John Morant? I don't think so.
I don't know any team that is calling saying, yeah,
we'd love to go crazy for John Moran. I don't
know any team that's saying.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
That, Yeah, you look at a guy who's still owed
well in excess of one hundred million dollars over the
next several years. His scoring average has gone down four
straight seasons. This year, he is shooting forty percent, down
six percent from his career average six percent. And it's
not like he's a chucker. This is a guy that
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usually works around the rim, So the fact that he's
shooting forty percent is a whole other problem. He's played
in eighteen games of their thirty nine. Just keep checking boxes.
There's video of him beefing with teammates time and time
again in practices, on the sidelines, in the Hoddel you
name it. All of those things. Add the history that
(38:59):
he's got with the league and how many strikes, what's
the next issue that that will emerge. Uh, Look, you
hope he gets it right, and you hope he has
himself right on the larger scale, but certainly on the
micro side, being a good teammate, being available. This slight
body frame has always been something even when he was
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entering the league, whether he'd fill out, add more more weight,
or when he was doing his high flying you know,
one hit here or there and suddenly he's out for
an extended period of time. We've seen that repeatedly. Right,
he goes down to the court. And I mentioned Anthony
Davis when you were teasing, uh, you know about guys,
because we talked about him. I mean there's images of him.
(39:42):
People have photo photoshopped him into bubble wrap as he's
on the court. But I like the one where Anthony
Davis has debuted his new shoe and it's and it's
a walking boot. Yeah right, get his head on there
and his signature in the whole nine yards. But we
always talk about assets and money can always be work.
(40:04):
What do you want to do? How much could this
help push you forward?
Speaker 1 (40:08):
It can't.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
They're not winning with.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
It there and I had zero interest and it would
you take the entire package of him again. I'll believe
he's there's interest when he's actually traded. I'll believe there's
interest when the great talent on the grand scheme. But
no coming up next? If you thought John Morant was
a big deal, how about what's been going on with
Lebron James, the Lakers, Rich Paul and Austin Reeves. Oh
(40:33):
is that a doozy? That's next
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get out in front of this first, before anybody starts
to get to crad Let me just get out run
of this.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You welcome back, Alex Tysher. I don't care that the
Jets aren't getting Dante More. I don't care't care that
they're not getting.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Are you doing a parenthetic call this year?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I you know what you're gonna suck again, and you're
gonna be waiting for him in twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
No, no waiting for Archer Manning in twenty seven. Well
you got you gotta move up that last spot. Yeah,
that's all right, that's all right. Hey, listen, I said
from the beginning, Okay, I said for the beginning, I'm
not that high in this quarterback class. Dante Moore is
a risk. He could be great, he might not be.
But in the end, whatever the Jets do is gonna
(01:42):
be wrong your quarterback. So if they're not picking a quarterback, okay,
I am, I am. I absolutely am fine with him
not getting in the draft and Jets potentially ruining their future. Look,
maybe he's great, but he's a risk. And obviously he
says I gotta go back to college. All right. Maybe
self confidence isn't there that he's ready for the NFL.
But run, I'll tell you right, I do not care
(02:03):
that he went back to Oregon and the Jets aren't
going to get him. I'm actually relieved that they can
go and do something else with the pick. They can,
you know, trade out at number two to somebody who
wants to move up. You know, they can do any
of those things, I am okay with them not getting
him all. My disagreement with Dante Moore's decision has to
(02:24):
do with him and his future and listening to the
to the wrong people who are just costing him, you know,
somewhere upwards of forty million dollars. But as far as
the Jets, not that, I am okay because I already
know who the Jets quarterback is gonna be next year.
I don't know he's gonna be playing this weekend. Actually,
actually this weekend, or is he in the booth? Actually,
if he plays this weekend, his team is might be
(02:46):
in a little bit of trouble. But then the quarterback
next year is it's gonna be Matt Jones. It's good
to be mac. He still has a year left on
his deal. But I really thought you were gonna tell
me it was Kirk Cousins agent or come on, man,
you can't do that now. You can go back to
that in New York. You don't go back to that
guy now. A couple of couple of things rant here.
(03:08):
You know you started when you said the word wrong.
It was like you were watching all in the family
all day.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
He's wrong.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I mean, I was just showing you.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It's a celebration of Sandford's son and their initial foray
into the television universe today. But wrong, Yeah, more, there's
there's a lot we'll get into it in terms of
how many starts or whatever else. But for the Jets, yeah,
I mean, you get the opportunity to push that can
and kick that can down the road.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
If you do go to trade for Mac Jones, be
careful because you'll give up all discernible assets to get him,
you know, Jets. All right, now, let me just say
this my favorite all outside of Archie the you know,
coming up with the different ways to kill himself while
Edith is telling a story, like my favorite all in
the family joke was when Archie and and and Mike
(03:58):
rest in peace rob Ryder when they were arguing over
Harvey Haddocks. Remember with the big MLB games growing up,
we heard about this, and he had a perfect game
into the twelfth inning and he wound up losing it,
and and he lost the game. He got a home run,
He had a perfect game into the twelfth inning of
the game. He lost it, right, So they were arguing
that Haddocks had and Archie Bunker says he had a
(04:18):
perfect game. He had a perfect Mike says, no, he
didn't know he did to give a home run in
the twelfth and they were arguing over this, and and
Mike finds the newspaper and sees his here, I found
a copy of the newspaper from you know, however many
years ago it was. He goes here, Harvey Haddocks loses
perfect game and twelfth inning, and he goes, I just
won the bet, meat head, Because if he didn't have
(04:38):
a perfect game, how did he lose? It? Was arguing
without logic to somebody, how how did he have it?
How could he lose it if he didn't have it
to begin with? Right, Like that's our that's some great writing.
But no, look but but mac Jone's worrying it to
Dante more is that? Look? Yes, in theory, the forty
nine ers keeping Matt Jones for one more yet you know,
(05:00):
like seven million dollars would be the smart thing. But
number one, generally, teams don't keep a guy from getting
a starting job as long as they can get good
value for him in a trade. And they will get
great value from mac Jones because the quarterback crop. Now
this offseason is not gonna be great. The Jets don't
want to go spend all kinds of money to go
to acquire Kyler Murray or to a tongue of Iloa
(05:22):
for for a season until they get their next guy.
But Mac Jones would be great a bidding war. He'll
get at least a fourth round pick, which if you're
the forty nine Ers, great maybe because more Pete teams rich,
maybe you can get a third for mac Jones as
well as he's played now this year. But really, the
forty nine Ers are in a it's a sticky spot
because yeah, I'm old enough to remember when brock Purty
(05:43):
was out and mac Jones was playing just as well
as brock Purty was. The Niners don't want to be
any part of a controversy, even though Mac, even though
brock Purty has shown that he will get dinged up.
They don't want needy part of a quarterback controversy. And
brock Purty's distinguish himself the last few weeks since he'd
come back, had a great game last week, So yeah,
I think the Niners might be a little bit more
motivated to move on for mac Jones. And clearly Kyle
(06:05):
Shanhannis Shon, whoever he brings in, Hey, I can fix
and they can be a quarterback. So yeah, if they
can get a fourth or third round pick and they
move on from any potential mess they would have with
Brock Perdy if he gets hurt, Mac Jones, I think
they would do it. Yeah, I think we want to
stay to the Patriots. You know he wants to stick
into the Patriots. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I think there's a bigger divide between Purdy and Jones
than you do. But the idea that going into next year,
given the fact that Perdy has missed time due to
injury several years in a row, you do have a
lot of needs. Even though you're still playing this weekend
and you're actually getting potentially some of these guys back. Yeah,
I don't know if Fred Warner is at sixty percent
(06:44):
or eighty percent or what his power bar is in
the old video game system, but his presence would be
a mits rinky peersaw all these guys back at practice.
That's great, But just the idea that you are aging out,
you do have a lot of issues. You're not gonna
have George Kittle uh for the foreseeable future, if he
comes back in this next year at all. Uh And
(07:06):
we've seen with Shanahan the ability to say I can
get another guy into my system and we can keep
the line moving. Right as long as twenty three's out there,
you got a puncher's chance.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But you go into the marketplace and there's such a
divide in terms of who's got a quarterback and the
uh what twenty five teams that don't that you're gonna
have a market for Mac Jones and Dante Moore opting
to go back to school certainly creates a bigger void.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Now, Dante Moore, Oregon quarterback who decided to go back
to school, A nice job, Dylan Royola getting that do
may maybe you want hit the portal again? Get paid?
But he goes back to college and this is why
he made the wrong decis. I don't know who he
was listening to. I don't know what what what pushed
it one way or the other. Maybe it was well
(07:57):
that might have helped him. A couple of those players
from that game against Indiana that really look terrible the
Jets the second Dante Moore would have gone second. Now
I say you two the way, are we sure that
Dante Moore was gonna get the Jets were gonna pick them.
Are we sure that they were gonna pick second or
somebody else was gonna say, Hey, there's a lot of
time between now and the draft. Certainly the Jets, if
(08:19):
I know, they were sold on Mendoza because they went
to see Mendoza one hundred times this year. It's like
a traveler. It's like a dead show, you know, traveling
to go see Feranana Mendoza every week. But maybe and
really long time ago, Hey, guess what so and so
wants to trade up to two and the Jets needing
all sorts of of of stuff to fill their roster.
Ound get hey, we'll take draft picks. Oh wait a minute,
So I could be going someplace else at number two.
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But the bottom line is that is two things. Number One,
every decision you take, whether you stay in college go
to the NFL, carries risk. Am I going to the
right team? Am I not going to the right team?
It's a risk just because it's not the Jets. Do
you think the Cardinals are better? You think that, You
think all these other teams that are picking at the
top of the draft. You think the Browns are to
be better. I think that's a better fit for you.
(09:01):
I mean next year, because here's who's going you think
those are better fits. Every decision carries risk, right, and
I'll tell it to you this way. I'll give it
to you this way, and then you show how this
is a decision that doesn't make sense, whether you do
football for living or anything else. Let's say you, Mike Harmon,
are the manager of a grocery store. All right, okay,
I'm gonna make you manager a Pathmark where I work.
(09:23):
I no, no non foods, deli, department, bakery, produce, front
end security, everything, perishables. You are you manage the whole store.
Keep away from the watermelon. No, that's it. He's away
from all the melons and fruits. So you are the
manager of this store right now. You do really well
(09:45):
at this store. The store does fantastically well. It makes
so much money. Wow. Okay, hey, guess what. We want
you to come back next year as arm and you
don't have a contract, so hey, you know you're you're
a pretty salt after store manager and this and Pathmark says, hey,
you know what, we want to give you a one
year deal versus somewhere between seven and ten million dollars.
That's pretty good, right, Okay, all right, that's not bad now,
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knowing full well that you're only going to be here
for one year because the next year the store is
getting sold and they're getting rid of everybody, so you
can only go for one year. Now, there's this other
bigger grocery store chain, let's call it Wegmans where I
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worked in college. That hey, wait a minute. Everybody who
works in a grocery store, whether it's Pathmark or Stop
and Shop, or or Pavilions or Vaughn's.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Normally your make up names.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
These are all real places places, right, you want to go.
Everybody wants to get to Wegmans. Right, that's the thing.
We're at, whatever grocery store, they all want to get
to Wegmans, Right, Wegmans is the destination. And Wegmans calls
you and says, hey, we saw what you did here
at Pathmark. We really like what you did. We want
you to come in here and be our manager and
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manage this big store for us. And we're gonna give
you four years and fifty million dollars and it's all guaranteed.
And you say, wait, is there any way I'm not
gonna see the end of this. No, no, no, you're guarant
no matter what happens, you are guaranteed this money. You
are getting four years and fifty million dollars guaranteed. Okay,
all right, Well what do we have to do? Well
(11:22):
prove yourself. Obviously we want the store has to run
as well as Now. If the store doesn't run as well,
you have four you bs some time. You have a
lot of time because we really like you. But I'm
still getting the money. You're getting the money no matter what.
But because we because we're coming after you so early,
you're gonna get a lot of time to get this
store going, right, right, this is our underperforming store. But
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it's a big deal, this store. You know, we got
stores in New York, we got stores in Arizona, we
got stores in Tennessee, we got stores in Las Vegas.
But this, this store, this New York store is a
really big deal for us. Right, we want you to
come in and do it, Okay, And you say, well,
you know, here's the thing. I really like this other
and I know it's it's you know, it's getting sold
in a year and I'm not gonna have a job
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but I really like to go back there for a year,
and then I want to I definitely want to come
to Wegmans. I definitely want to come there, but I
really want to go back here for one year and
eight million, and then I want to come here. Is
this all for gonna be here for next year? And
they go, well, Wegman says, we'll take you. I mean absolutely,
one hundred percent your town, We'll take you, But I
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can't guarantee you that money. Well, what can you guarantee me?
I can't guarantee you anything. I mean, i'd like to
think that because of the manager that you are, you'll
come back in and hey, we'll want you and give
you a four year, fifty million dollar contract because it's
not getting any better than that when you come next year.
This is the top dollar. Like, you're not gonna come
back next year and it's gonna be more money. This
(12:43):
is what we give you. Okay, Well, but you can't
g No, I can't guarantee it because if there's other
store managers that we like, I guess what, We're gonna
have them come in and do different things and there
will be a place for you. But I can't guarantee
you the money.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You might get pushed down the depth charte to where
you gotta go do one of those Arizonas.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
We may send you to our store and Chandler, we
may send you to our store in Las Vegas. We
may send you so, just so you know, that's not guaranteed.
But right now, you come here for four years and
fifty million, we'll give it to you. Who says I'm
staying at that first store? Nobody does. I don't know
how you get you give Dante Moore that kind of ice,
(13:21):
or he thinks I'm turning down this four years and
fifty million guaranteed for one year an eight million when
there's a risk everywhere, But I can guarantee generational wealth
or one year of incredible wealth. But one year, but
four years of generational wealth, and all I have to
do I have to prove myself, right. No matter where
you go, they want you to prove yourself. So yeah, uh,
(13:41):
this is kind of the risk here. So I want
to know how anybody thinks that's the smart decision to go, Hey,
one year, eight million dollars nil money versus number two
overall pick and fifty million.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I don't know Yeah, I've been trying to wrap my
head around this because we talked about it last week
when it started to become this big, raging topic. Than
today we get the decision and he does it on
TV and everything else. As like trying to put my
arms around it. When you talk about getting more experience
sure long term potential success, We've done all the talking
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points of a guy with you know, just thirteen fifteen
eighteen starts different data points that we have against more
tenured guys, you know, the brock Parties of the world
who go to mister irrelevancy before making their big money
and becoming stars like he did in San Francisco. But
for Dante Moore, you've showed very well except for that
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game against Indiana. Yeah, you got another guy that they
signed in the case that you didn't show up. So
who's to say, Dan Lanning and the coaching staff don't
look around and maybe you get beat out in camp.
Maybe it's that bad. I don't anticipate that it is,
but maybe it is. Maybe you get hurt all of
those things. Yeah, I want the fifty two million dollars
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in the bank, but you knew that was going to
be my answer from day one, even without your shopping experience.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Good luck, Dante Moore, good luck everything's arisen.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
No, good luck.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I hope it works out for him again. I'm okay
not getting him. That's why I can say I'm okay. Now,
you're just kind of kicking it down the road because
you know you're still gonna be drafting where you're gonna
draft him in the top five.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Detch.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
It's not like Peyton Manning decided I'm going back to
school because Bill Parcells wouldn't guarantee that he's taking me
number one overall. I mean, come on, it's not that.
Good luck Dante More, good luck with that horrendous decision.
Good luck exit out about a Fresca exit swalling home
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Got a great, big hot take from a big NFL
story coming up in a minute. But first, uh, I
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gotta say this because boy, a season just becomes more
and more of a disaster with every passing day. And uh,
by that, I mean that's your dog. No no, no, no, well, okay,
that that's.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
The Knicks just started. They'll get blown out by Sacramentos.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And they're getting your ask to go in the first quarter.
It's fine, it's these are a new little Kings squad.
He'll get after you. Is it's a new look King squad.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, Weber will be great. Mike Bibbie, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
No, no, hey years old, he could get after that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But uh, with every passing days we get set for
the National Championship Game on Monday between the Hurricanes and
the Indiana Hoosiers, which again, yeah, I mean someone got
dropped down from another planet. Just heard that for the
first time. It said what what Miami and Indiana? Uh,
the Ohio State season just gets more and more disastrous
(17:45):
with every passing day, because today linebacker Sonny Styles declared
for the NFL Draft, which we thought was gonna happen.
Oh yeah, so now you have Sunny Styles, Rvel Reese,
who may wind up going number two overall. Now, right,
he might be the he's the favorite to go number
two because hey, if he's getting Micah Parsons comparisons. Okay,
I'm okay with the Jets picking a defensive guy because
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they do okay with those the quarterbacks, they're always wrong,
But I'm okay with that. But you have him, You
have Caleb Downs, who I told you I would take
as the number one non quarterback pick. This guy's like
drafting Rod Woodson. You have Carnel Tate, right, and you
got Caden McDonald. All five of these Ohio State stars
are projected to go in the top twenty. Right, They're
(18:28):
all in mel kiper Junior's top fifteen overall draft selections. Right,
you have five guys that you are gonna see drafted
in the top fifteen to twenty. Let's just be in
top twenty. And you still lost your couldn't win the
Big Ten and lost your first playoff game this season
(18:52):
for Ohio State. So you're calling for fired, is well,
it's not because that's really where I'm the dots. You know,
he won the national title a year ago, and that's okay.
I'll give you a year Mulligan for winning. But when
you come back, like I thought last year for Michigan
was a disaster coming off the national title when they
had what four guys taken the top twenty five and
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they just didn't get a quarterback and so they gave
away that year. This is even worse. Right, this is
you were by far and away the best team in
the country, and look at this NFL talent again. You're
gonna have five names selected in the top twenty, which
is gonna be great for recruiting. Ryan Day's gonna be
calling guys and hey, look at this. Five of your
starters selected a first round of the draft, and you
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couldn't even win the Big Ten. That is, that is
an absolute disase. No one had a more disastrous season
in college football than Ohio State.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, I know those others that I mean, Marcus Freeman
had to have a press conference to say, I'm not leaving.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Well, don't lose. You don't lose your first two games,
and you'll you know, you'll got like that.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
That was the savor of Oh, at least he's not
leaving more disastrous that.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
There's other seventeen guys. Are they going to be first? Right?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And we go to the twenty two A disaster? Disaster
now the good news for this, the good news for this.
When this happened, all day, I've been thinking, well, how
would Berman announce that? Boy, how would Berman announce Sunny
Styles to the end?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
No, No, I've been working on three good ones all day. Okay,
I think I know what one of them is. We'll
decide three good ones, three good ones, We'll decide. Okay, No, clearly, TJ.
He's not every day Tom Dick or Harry Styles is
headed to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Draft Harry Styles coming to a town near you.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
For Styles, there is one direction in his career, and
that's to the NFL Draft. We're staying with this theme, okay, uh.
Going into the draft, he was unsure of his talent level,
if he should be someone that should go back to
school for a year or head to the NFL. The
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scouting report on him says he was insecure, but you
don't know what's for. He was turning heads when he
walked through the door, or everyone else in the draft
room could see it, everyone else but him. He lights
up running backs like nobody else. The way he flips
quarterbacks gets me overwhelmed. You don't know you're a top
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pick in the NFL draft.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
PJ.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
That was the fastest three minutes.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Chris Burner.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I was waiting for a Furious Style. I got Julius
Styles in Oh I could have I could have got
Julius Style. Well, we also are in the first half
hour of the show. Boy, you don't think I didn't
have Julius Styles ready, I didn't have burn after reading
making fans in Columbus, Furious Styles is headed to the NFL.
(21:55):
So you're gonna do some lines of ten things I
Hate about you some Larry Miller like lines. But you, Sonny,
you're my son, You're my problem, and you want to
head to the NFL. There you go, Ryan Day holding
the ball bearings like Lauren.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Now you're talking Curious Styles one of the greatest names
and movies.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Oh, I like that. I really had to get all
the Harry Styles out. No, that's good, yeah, because we
got to get let you know, because listen, the gen
Z Millennials all get Harry Styles. Get a little bit
deeper for boys, I mean Boys in the Hood that
came out, you know, thirty five years. It's a long time.
I mean, there's a bunch of people still watch it,
but if they haven't seen it, it's their loss. And
I got to get ten ten things I hate about
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you and Julius Styles. That's a watch. But that allows
you to go down the road of any kind of
joker quote you want to get in or anything else
that Heath led did so uh yeah, so so so sunny.
So again, this season just gets worse and worse for
all house Well or.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Does it get better that you say for those that
were able to vanquish them, that they beat the best
and for the Ohio State coaching staff and administrators. You
can go back and say, you know what, we need
bigger checks. We're gonna need bigger checks because we need Clearly,
even these five we're not enough.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, got we got one hundred thousand we got we
got a uh what they got one hundred million dollars
roster at Ohio State and we didn't even win the
Big ten and we got guys going. We got five
guys got every fourth pick in the ends, spent three
hundred million dollars. They got nothing. Come on, man, that's
what a disaster for Ohio State. Now you want a great,
(23:36):
big hot take off of one of the big stories
this week in the NFL Today, UH, Steelers owner Art
Rooney the second talked about his conversation with Mike Tomlin
in why he walked away from the Steelers job. He resigned. Uh,
he's gonna potentially do TV free or something else, not
expected to coach in twenty twenty six and then re
enter the market in twenty twenty seven. Now you want
(23:58):
a great, big hot take, let's see your Steelers owner
Art Rooney the second UH talking about his conversation with
Tomlin how it went and where the future sits for
the Steelers. Take a listen, because boy, do we got
something for you.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
You know, Mike indicated that he did not anticipate coaching
at least, you know, in the near future. I think
he wants to spend time with his family and do
some of the kinds of things he hasn't been able
to do for the last you know, many many years.
And so you know, if if something like that comes up,
we'll deal with it when it comes up. But right now,
that doesn't seem to be on his radar.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Doesn't he sound a bit like Aaron Rodgers, doesn't not?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Rooney said, play the beginning of that again, tysher a
little bit, a little bit of Aaron Rodgers. Good.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
You know, Mike indicated that he did not anticipate coaching
at least you know, in the near future.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I think he wants So maybe a little AI happened,
maybe like it was Art Rudy, but it was Aaron
Rodgers providing the voice. It's pretty emotional. Honestly, it's been
a great year. So but you want a big hot take, Okay,
what it now? And Rooney went on to talk about
how it surprised him. We talked about running it back.
(25:05):
This is Mike's decision, and he doesn't seem to me
like he wants to coach in the foreseeable future. Obviously,
you know things will change in a year. However, let
me throw this out there. What if he's done? What
if he's done coaching? Right, Because in theory, Bill Kauer
was gonna do the same thing coach of the Steelers.
I'm walking away, gonna do TV for a little bit,
(25:27):
then get back on an NFL sideline. He was young enough, Okay,
I know the big thing's gonna open up for me him.
Do what's Bill Cowerd doing? Still on television? All right?
And millennials don't even know who he is other than
he's a guy on TV, right, Mike Tomlin coming off
of nineteen years as an NFL head coach. And we've
seen it before where guys who have disdain for the
(25:48):
media suddenly love the media. I love the media. He's
gonna show up, go on TV, make tons of money,
very sought after, right. Maybe it's Fox at next to
Jay Glazer. Maybe it's something else. And do you really
think he's not gonna sit back and go boy, this
is a pretty good paycheck and I can have time
for myself, my family, whatever I want to do, still
(26:10):
be a big guy in the league, not have to
worry about dealing with egos and quarterbacks and everything else.
And hey, I kind of like this for a little
bit here. Remember John Gruden was the same way, right,
He's only gonna be there for a year, John Gruden
year after year head coach, head coach. Because Mike Tomlin,
I'm sure has an idea of what he wants his
next job to be, but you're not guaranteed that job
(26:33):
is gonna open up. Maybe he wants the next job
to be forty nine Ers head coach. Well, guess what,
that's it opened up anytime soon. Maybe he wants to
go be the head coach of the Patriots, Well that's
it opened up. I'm just throwing this out there that
every year are you are beholden to the jobs that
are open. And Tomlin may have an idea. I don't
think he's walking away from saying I'm done coaching. But
as time goes on and your life gets a little
(26:54):
cushier in the studio, guys who retire young, hey, I
kind of like this. The job I really want never
opened up for me. So, yeah, I am more than
happy doing this. We've seen it so many times with guys. Right,
we said, anybody go into the booth becoming a big person. Hey,
guess what, I kind of like this, and I'm staying
I'm sure right now, Tomlin has the idea of I'm
gonna take some time away. I'm not gonna rush back
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into it. I want my want to pick my own situation.
I'll do TV. But he's gonna do TV. He's gonna
love it. He's gonna see that. You know, like as
Jay Glazer, you're involved in every facet of the league
and you're talking to coaches and players and everything else,
and boy, this is fun. I have to worry about
a weekly test that could wind up seeing me get hired, fired,
whatever it's going to be. Because he knows wherever he goes,
(27:37):
he's not gonna have the same cachet that he had
with the Steelers for nineteen years. They keep coaches, right,
We talked about this, So what if Mike Tomlin has
done What if we've seen him for the last time
and he starts to really enjoy that other life, and
maybe he's like Bill Kauer and we just don't see
him on the sidewine.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So I've wondered all along, right nineteen years here a
lot of speculation whether he was tiring of hearing the
fire Mike Tomlin. Chance you got three or four years
of that, the silliness that that we have in pervasiveness
fan bases and media and the clamoring for it. When
it comes down to the way that job went, they
(28:15):
never bottomed out whether that was his choice, whether that
was an organizational thing.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
You never got a full reset.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And you and I were talking about it and talking
with Ben a little last night, Like you go through
all these years of those rosters, weren't very good years,
and yet they were still scrauted. How many times did
you come into the year going, this is the year
that it's gonna end, right, the street's gonna end, and
then lo and behold, there they were at the end,
either fighting for a playoff spot or at least doing
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the plus five hundred. There's very few organizations that you
look at to where you have stability, not just the hey,
you can have a couple of down years not get fired,
but just in general that it's not always you know,
ratcheted up to this defcon level of chaos in the
local media, in the newspapers, fan bases where everything is angsty, right,
(29:07):
it's constant, you know, the Kansas City's one place that
might have stability. San Francisco eventually maybe right, every once
in a while there's some whispers with Shanahan. But now
that they've won, in spite of all the walking wounded,
that probably gets kicked down the curve for a while.
But there's just very few organizations where you point to stability.
(29:28):
He had one of those. So if legitimately it's one
hundred percent he walked away of his own accord, he
might be walking the earth like Cana and Kung Fu
show up with Jay Glazer, Remember Jimmy Johnson did that yep, right,
And then all of a sudden he had his yacht.
He'd loved going fishing, yep. And then he'd come back
and he'd fly in and he'd be down at the
Avenue of the Americas. You'd run into him at the
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hotel there, and he talked about how great it was
because he'd come in, he'd go to work with the guys,
with his family, as Jay's told us all these years,
and then he flies out after and guess what, he's
back on that.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Damn boat on Monday morning, ready for the next charter.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I mean, that's that's a life that becomes very difficult
to say. You know what, I want to go back.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
To coaching ninety hours a week. Yeah, I mean, I'll
tell you what if it Just think about that, What
if he's done, because that's something that whoaa wait, he's
too young too. We've seen it so many times.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
At fifty three, is still a good I mean, still
a run man?
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Oh no, see, he's got time. But I'm saying, hey,
I can still wait, I can do it in five yea,
seven years, eight years, all right, Pete Carroll and who
was seventy four? I mean, come on exactly.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
The raider's job is always gonna be there for you.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I can have that job whatever I want.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Raiders, jets, crowds, I mean a lot of these jobs.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
All he's got to do is pick up the phone.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
He just wave at somebody and they'll they'll move heaven
and earth to bring him in time now to find out.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
What's trending in the wide world of sports, and someone
who's been called the Mike Tomlin of Fox Sports radio. Yeah,
she can have a pick of anything she wants to do,
and she picks to be here with us. It's Monty belongers.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
And you know what, I would love to have a
drink with Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
You know a number of people. Well, so you don't
want to have a drink with Lane Kiff? Do you
want to have a drink with Mike.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Tom I do?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Okay, I do.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I would love to challenge and your boyfriend is okay
with you continuing to say people you want.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
To have drinks instead of me telling you that I
want to have a cup of coffee with them, That's
not what I want to do. I want to have
a drink and chat and pick their brain.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
That's what it's about. I don't have cups of coffee.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Let's have a drink, all right, because the drink lets
people beat more honest.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Okay, yeah, So what's in what you drink every night here?
I'm just curious. Don't tell the listeners that I'm drinking here,
all right? Okay, don't tell Scott Shapiro I'm drinking Oh okay, okay,
you know what it's water? He listens, water, listen, I've
had water. That's waters. Wouldn't be the first show. Listen, listen, good.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Yeah, guys.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Obviously, a lot of teams are still looking for their
next head coach. The Ravens did interview Brown's defensive coronator
Jim Schwartz and Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse mintor Crossberg. Can
we stop letting Jesse Mint interview anywhere? Can we just
stop that? That is what I'm requesting. A former Ravens
head coach, Yeah. John Harbaugh met with the Giants today,
while the Athletic reports that he's gonna be with.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
The Titans Thursday.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
The Dolphins interview Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley for their
head coaching job, and the Falcons are gonna interview former
Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce for their head coaching job,
while two time Pro Bowl wide receiver Adam Fiela announced
his retirement today after thirteen seasons. When it comes to
college football, Oregon quarterback Dante Moore, who is only twenty
years old only has twenty starts, announced that he's going
(32:31):
to return to the Ducks next season. Right now, in
the NBA, Mavericks are losing at home to the Nuggets
sixty three to forty six.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
It's halftime.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Also a small scare. Cooper Flag limped off the floor
in the second quarter.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
He went to the locker room. He already came back
and he's back. He was back on the court.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
But something to keep in mind because he injured his
left ankle on Monday in their win against the Nets,
and it seemed to have been the same ankle limp
to the back came out, So just something to keep
an eye on. The Knicks are losing right now to
the Kings thirty two to seventeen. After the first quarter.
The Cavaliers took down the seventy six ers one thirty
three to one oh seven, Donovan Mitchell thirty five points,
and the Bulls beat the Jazz one twenty eight to
(33:07):
one twenty six starting suing Wizards and the Clippers. No
Avitza Zubots, no John Collins for LA. In men's college hoops,
Number ten Vanderbilt, who is undefeated, is losing right now
to Texas on the road, sixty four to fifty five
with about nine minutes to go halfway through the second half.
Number fourteen North Carolina is up on Stanford sixty seven
(33:28):
to sixty and Ole miss defeated number twenty one Georgia
with they put back in the final seconds of.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Overtime, ninety seven to ninety five.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
In the NHL, only one game going on right now,
the Golden Knights and the Kings. They are scoreless halfway
through the first half, while the Senators doubled up on
the Rangers eight to four. And in Casey Miston and baseball,
the Red Sox are signing left handed pitcher Ranger Swatis
to a five year, one hundred and thirty million dollar deal.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Back to you guys, thank you very much, Watson. Good
luck with that deal.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
Good luck with that deal.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Good luck coming up next. We got more NFL on
the way. We got a big hot take coming up
next hour for the Eagles. Can't wait for that one.
But when an NBA superstar is potentially about to be
traded and I don't think anybody wants them, that's next
right here. And it's not Joel EMBIID Okay, it's not
Joel EMBIID. It's not Joel Embi. That's next.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Anthony Davis's not I.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Said Star, I said Star. Oh, that's next. Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio. Oh, it's definitely Jaylen Browns.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (34:37):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. I'm standing up in the studio and TJ.
Much like the nineteen seventies Mets young Blood at the
top of the batting order for rock and roll, TJ.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Having himself a run, no question about huh hanging out
with Aerosmith.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
I mean, come on, I can't get from Joel to
its hard Joe. No, he's not far from the last
of us. Joel young Blood at the top of the
charts this year in rock and roll. My people about
the last of us? That's been a minute. What I
got Well, I just come on, man, people, I just
said Joel young Blood. People have no idea who that,
although he does know he does have a record. He
(35:19):
has a record only guy with two hits on one
day for the same team. No, it's good the Mets
trade into the Expos. He played in the day game,
got a hit, got to the ballpark enough time to
get into the game with the Expos, and got to
hit that night. He's the only player to have a
hit in two except for two teams in one day.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Second time, we can get the Expos into a larger
discussion in the last week because you saw they trolled
the about their trademarks and everything.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
That I gotta explain to millenniums with the Montreal Expos. Boy,
now it's really just it's it's just a cycle. Uh.
So we got Rick Buker coming up a little over
an hour from now, and uh, I'm sure one of
the big conversation pieces with him is going to circle.
Will will circumvent the situation and the trade situation's going
on right now with John Morant, who has been put
(36:08):
on the trade block by the Grizzlies. They are looking
for fielding offers for him. And as he said today
when he was asked about the trade rumors, John Moran said,
I just got to live with it.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
They're hoping he's gonna play in the big international trip
coming up. It's unsure. Uh, but John Morant potentially is
on the trade block. And when I saw today in
the reports, Hey, numerous teams have reached out about John Morant.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Have they really like, are you doing work?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Are you helping out the Grizzlies or agent to have
teams really reached out for Jo Moran because Rick Bucker
joined us last week and said, there are crickets for
John Moran. There's no you talk about because we talked
Trey Young. Trade was last week. There was limited interests
in Trey Young. There are crickets for John Moran.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Yeah, he dropped that in the middle of talking about
Trey Young, right, all of.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
A sudden, that's it, crickets him. And yeah, because you
know what, I can't trade for John Morant. I mean
he's got he's under contracts the next couple of years. Okay,
that's fine, But this is a guy that has proven
over the course of his career that he just doesn't
get it right. Like he's he's a live wire who
continues to make bad decisions. And now it's a tough
(37:18):
time staying healthy. Right, how many chances warnings was he given? Dude,
don't you know you got all stuff going on with
guns and fights and suspensions and multiple suspensions. Show everybody
that you get it and he never has. Don't make
the machine gun motion after a hoop because the NBA
doesn't like that. What did he do the next day?
I made the machine gun like he doesn't get it,
(37:40):
and so I'm not gonna give up. I don't care
how talented he is. I'm not gonna give up anything
for him because I don't know how long he's gonna
be in the league. If I said to you right now,
is he gonna be in the league when he's thirty
years old? I don't know that I would take that bet.
If you said, over under thirty years old, is John
Moran still in the NBA, I would say yeah. I
don't know, because the guy has proven time and again
to show that he doesn't get it. And now when
(38:02):
you compound that with hisj with his injury situation, Now,
are you gonna go You're gonna be the one that
goes and gets the best John Morant? I don't think so.
I don't know any team that is calling saying, yeah,
we'd love to go crazy for John Moran. I don't
know any team that's saying.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
That, Yeah, you look at a guy who's still owed
well in excess of one hundred million dollars over the
next several years. His scoring average has gone down four
straight seasons. This year, he is shooting forty percent, down
six percent from his career average six percent. And it's
not like he's a chucker. This is a guy that
(38:37):
usually works around the rim, So the fact that he's
shooting forty percent is a whole other problem. He's played
in eighteen games of their thirty nine. Just keep checking boxes.
There's video of him beefing with teammates time and time
again in practices, on the sidelines, in the Hoddel you
name it. All of those things. Add the history that
(38:59):
he's got with the league and how many strikes, what's
the next issue that that will emerge. Uh, Look, you
hope he gets it right, and you hope he has
himself right on the larger scale, but certainly on the
micro side, being a good teammate, being available. This slight
body frame has always been something even when he was
(39:21):
entering the league, whether he'd fill out, add more more weight,
or when he was doing his high flying you know,
one hit here or there and suddenly he's out for
an extended period of time. We've seen that repeatedly. Right,
he goes down to the court. And I mentioned Anthony
Davis when you were teasing, uh, you know about guys,
because we talked about him. I mean there's images of him.
(39:42):
People have photo photoshopped him into bubble wrap as he's
on the court. But I like the one where Anthony
Davis has debuted his new shoe and it's and it's
a walking boot. Yeah right, get his head on there
and his signature in the whole nine yards. But we
always talk about assets and money can always be work.
(40:04):
What do you want to do? How much could this
help push you forward?
Speaker 1 (40:08):
It can't.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
They're not winning with.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
It there and I had zero interest and it would
you take the entire package of him again. I'll believe
he's there's interest when he's actually traded. I'll believe there's
interest when the great talent on the grand scheme. But
no coming up next? If you thought John Morant was
a big deal, how about what's been going on with
Lebron James, the Lakers, Rich Paul and Austin Reeves. Oh
(40:33):
is that a doozy? That's next
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