March 5, 2026 • 40 mins
Two things Lou Holtz doesn't get enough credit for:
1) Notre Dame is where it is today - in 2026 - b/c Holtz brought it back when he took over.
2) ESPN's College Football coverage owes its popularity & long-standing reputation b/c of him and Lee Corso.
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Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Wednesday, The Jason Smith Show with
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remember an absolute legend. However, don't tell me coaches can't
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win games in the NBA. Now, Mike Harmon Martin explain
mar Key. Game of the night. Look like I always say,
in a full night of NBA games, if you get
one game that comes down to the end, consider yourself
lucky and luckily. Tonight, Thunder and the Knicks biggest game
of the night, two title contenders, comes down to the
final possession. The Knicks miss a couple of threes in
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the final couple of seconds, Thunder escape with a three
point win. But I'll tell you what for all of this.
You look at plays down the stretch in this game.
Don't don't sit here and tell me coaches can't win games.
The two biggest plays of the fourth quarter of this game,
in the final three minutes, the Thunder win two challenges,
two big challenges. They challenge on an og Anunobi layup
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that was going to be a three point play, and
it was really it looked like the contact it was
really could have gone either way, but they went and
they reversed it. So instead of a layup and ogn
Nooby trying to shoot for the three point play, it's
an offensive foul Nananobi and the Thunder keep the ball.
A minute later and out of bounds play on offense
for the Knicks, it's ruled to go to the Thunder.
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No that play challenge. I'm like, okay, that looked like
it that went off the Thunder. What are we doing?
What are we doing? Like? I can't believe they won
the first one and the second one not only did
it get reversed, but it got reversed because of a
foul on Karl Anthony Towns. They went back to look
at the out of bounds play and chet Holgern's going
out of bounds, out of bounds, out of bunds. I'm like, okay,
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and then they come back and say balls out of bounds. Yeah,
foul on Karl Anthony Towns. That was his fifth. A
minute later, he fouled out on Sja, which is a
which is a bad play by him, and he's been
he's fouled out the most in the NBA this season,
but now they didn't have him for the final two
and a half minutes of the game. Those were the
two biggest plays. When you sit here and talk about, oh,
challenges agaend, knowing when to save them, knowing when to
use them, it's a five point swing winning the Anonobe
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challenge and then whatever points swing you want to put
to instead of the knicks. With the ball out of bounds,
it's a foul on Karl Anthony Towns. You're shooting free
throws and he was out of the game forty five
seconds later. Don't tell me coaches can't win. Yeah, the
one with the ogianinobi restricted area or or not moving
in or not set all that. You know, that's that's
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just call. Unfortunately, there's too much contact and not call
something right. I just hope, like Rick carrl. I always
hope that the NBA is not out to help out
these smaller market teams who they want to give an
advantage to, because you know, people watch the small market
teams on television more than the big market team. Funny,
they're trying to create parody in a league. You know,
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as we get down the stretch, I mean, you are
the defending champions. That is true that you are the
defending the last champions. So you get a little seesaw
back and forth and you get that call. Now, the
the cat call is a tough one, right one, because
he came flying over his Oh yeah, yeah, right. It's
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a bad decision by Cat to do because he made
too bad decisions that right. That fall and then the
fall on SGA wasn't a play on anything. It was
just a reach and grabs his wrist. Right, It's it's
just a let him come into your body or get
your arm up, like he reached down to try to
get at the ball and only got was a handful
of wrist. Yeah, I mean, well, and that's what SGA does.
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I'll get to the free throw though, don't worry. I
will find my way. But that's it. We always talk
about on the show for all these years that you
can't fault a good strategy. You may not like it
as a fan, you may throw something at your television.
Hopefully it's sales wide right, like field goal kickers in Buffalo.
But you're you're hoping too soon. Man, come on, man,
Scott Norwidz probably driving around Buffalo going to get some wings.
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Anybody here? Why do I get sides? It's a basketball
conversation about the Knicks and the thunder and I get
sideswiped on it. Wow, and larger New York area and
a team than actually another team that plays in New York.
But just the idea that you have SGA and this
is the book on him, right, So you know, even
at home, even in a hotly contested game, he's getting
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that foul call every time you watched it over the
course of the game. How many times did he did
he get a foul calls?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Like?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Really, is that enough contact really to warn a fol now?
And he does? And so that that's just the rules
of engagement. Now when ABS comes to the NBA, oh
yeah yeah, and everybody's officiated the same. You get ready, right,
like strike zone in baseball is going to be the
same same thing. Here, you are just player number three
hundred and eighty four in the Union. It doesn't matter.
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The Nen's going for their seventy third win of the
season here in game number seventy four, their only loss
when they got snowed in earlier this year. But here
it is the NBA on NBC playing against the brand
new Queens Mets who have moved from Brooklyn. So we
got more NBA on the way again. Get one big
close game tonight. That's awesome. Hey, we won, But today
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we lost an absolute legend in former college football head coach,
former Notre Dame legend, former South July legend, former Jets legend,
former ESPN college football analyst legend Lou Holtz, passing away
at the age of eighty nine. And look you've scene
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and when when he died today? And Frostburg sent me
a text going, hey, what do you guys do to
Lou Holtz? And I was like, you know, he coached
us for a year. You know he he coached the
Jets for a year in seventy six and quit at
the end of the year. And I think his quote was,
God didn't put Lou Holtz on the earth to coach
professionals like I gotta go back to college, like that's
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my thing, like he gets And the Jets were three
and ten the one year under Lou Holtz and they
never recover and can't see out the rest of the season.
I'm done. I'm done, guys, not gonna go to the
ends like that. That's the thing, right, like Patrino and
I'm walking away. I'm just walking away. But remember a
couple of things, is that you hear a lot about
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him in his legendary time at Notre Dame. There's two
things that he doesn't get enough credit for. And the
first one is something probably that you will get you
is that he brought No tre Dame back. No tre
Dame is what it is today today in twenty twenty
six because Lou Holtz brought it back. For the decade
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he was there in the late eighties into the mid nineties,
Nore Dame. Hey, Notre Dame was still a really big school,
but it was not the overall wild It is the
it is the end all be all, the alpha and
omega of college football. They had bad years, right, You've
you've heard the name Jerry Faust, and what it was
like in Notre Dame struggling after Ara Parseigin, like Notre
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Dame had lost its way, like they were not part
of the national conversation at all. Lou Holtz shows up
and in a decade, in three years, he went won
a national championship, went to another one, which will break down,
you know, not winning that one. But this is a
guy who went ten years turned Notre Dame into the
biggest rock stars in college football. As status they have
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they have owned since that time. Notre Dame still has
been Notre Dame. Since that moment, whoever the coach is
Notre Dame has had that much, has had that aura,
and lou Holtz brought it back. They were nowhere, they
were just floundering. This is Notre Dame once proud Notre Dame.
Yeah no, no, he brought them back. It was Lou
Holtz that has Notre Dame where they are today.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I mean, as a kid in Chicago, that's all you
heard about. That was the adopted team of everybody that
had ever stepped foot inside a church or knew someone
that did. And certainly you had the Bears making their
run and perennial playoff contenders. Ultimately that eighty five Bears
squad that they still write all those books about and
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cash in on year to year. But for Notre Dame football,
I mean you got to go back. Divine had what
an eleven win season in seventy seven, and then you
had nine win season in nineteen eighty, you had the
Jerry Faust era, and then you go from there into
Lou Holtz. And obviously the advent and changing of how
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the game was telecast and the power of brand really
took over on a whole other level. Right, we go
back to Catholics versus Convicts in those games and all
of that that resonate all these years. I think we
did a special teams podcast on that many years ago.
You can find that wherever you find your podcast histories.
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But all of that to say for Lou Holtz, he
was that figure right, the way he spoke, the way
I mean, look at all the tributes from his players today.
Now he's a complicated guy. There's a lot going on
with Holts, Oh sure, okay, But for the purpose of
this conversation, there's a lot too. I mean, we could
do and I know the odd couple did some and
and and I'm sure we could do four hours on
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every angle of the Lou Holtz experiences of this. It
is talking about the changing face of college football, the
billion dollar TV contracts, the recruiting juggernaut that it became,
all those household names and players and plays for all
these years, and why you see them thrust upon you
on NBC in primetime and late afternoon windows all these
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years later. It was the dominant exhibited there by Lou
Holtz and those squads and his persona right as a coach,
he was a speaker. He was a guy that wasn't
afraid of the microphone. I mean, how many coaches did
you really hear from back then? Him Bowden, a little
bit of Joe Paterno screaming at people. Yeah, but you know,
and even then, because of the way college football was covered,
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you didn't get a lot of it. You got some
highlights and you got a scoreboard, and then you got
whatever quotes were in the evening news. Yeah. And look,
and that's the other thing that he doesn't get enough
credit for us. Right, Okay, so he brings back Notre
Dame from the brink of boy it was so great,
and now they're in disrepair and all of a sudden,
now the Golden Domers and their musty TV, and they
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have their you know, they have their own network every Saturday.
But the other thing that he doesn't get enough credit for.
And look, when people do stuff right, you gotta give
him credit. ESPN has done college football and college basketball
unbelievably well now for going on four decades, right, like, really,
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the way that Fox has caught up in both sports
is fantastic. But leg of credit, college football, college basketball,
ESPN does tremendously well. They have always done it tremendously well.
They find a way to service the viewer with the games,
the coverage, They do it great. But their lasting popularity
is due to two people, Lee Corso into Lou Holtz.
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Because what these guys were responsible for on the air,
Lee Corso coming on and being tremendous lightning Rod, not
just you know, putting on the head gear of the
team's picking the games, but Lee Corso, the chemistry he
had with Kirk krb Street and Chris Fowler. But you know,
Corso was that guy, the beloved guy you tuned in
every week to see him. What was he gonna say?
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Who was he gonna pick in the big game. And
lou Holtz was the same way the College Football Final
on Saturdays, which with him and Mark May and Rhys Davison.
I mean, this was It's almost like that was the
inside the NBA of college football because that was your
wall to wall coverage all day. You watch lou Holtz
for what he had to say in Mark May, and
they did crazy bits throughout the night. They came back
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and forth at each other, like yeah, session with Reese Davis. Yeah,
Reece Davis is dressed as a judge, and lou Holtz
and Mark May are like making arguments for whoever the
Heisman Trophy winners should be at that point wherever it
should be the number two pick in the draft. Like
this is the kind of show it was for college
football on Saturday, like the College Football Final. It was
all day with them and it and that's what right
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remind what I watched is this is kind of like
watching inside the NBA, where you have your pre show.
We have the early game, we have the halftime, we
had the between games, we have the halftime of the
late game when things get really crazy, and then after
the late game when everybody's just loopy because you know,
it's like ten o'clock, one o'clock in the morning at
football and Shaq and Charles are like, yeah, but that's
what that show was. And for people who have been
college football fans of all ages, you get into college
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football in the nineties and you're watching ESPN that had
all the different games on in ESPN two jumps in
and then you're seeing smaller colleges on everywhere and Lee
Corso Game Day, Hey, was just starting to hit its prime.
And then once it got in there, here comes College
Football Final and it's Lou Holtz and Mark may And
and Rhys Davis and whoever else would fill in. And
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that was almost a two decade run as well. So
it was, Hey, we had the pre show to get
you everything all the way before, Like it was a
full service day and the two guys that you watched
all the time were Lee Corso and Lou Holtz. Like,
I mean, Lou Holtz doesn't get enough credit for for
what ESPN had college football. How they continue to grow
that over the course of the past twenty someone i
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mean stopped a couple of years ago, but the twenty
years he was there from like two thousand until let's
say after twenty twenty, it's like like that, this is
before we're getting games all the time, you know, we
we're watching him streaming now, so we don't need the
between games updates because I can see whatever I want to,
you know, we get everything is more convenient now. So
this was that show at that time that Hey, when
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I want to know something, when I want to see it,
they're going to talk about it, and lou Holtz is
gonna say something really strong and he's gonna not back
away from it. And it was it was just a great,
great show. Well, but that was the big thing, right
we talked about inside the NBA And when we guys
get critical now, it's like, wow, you're gonna lash it
out against you. No, no, no, that that's what Corso and
lou Holtz did forever. Yeah, it's like, look, they had
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the love fest for the coaches, for the players, for
the game, but they didn't sugarcoate it for you. If
a guy made a bad decision on a play call,
they called it out. If a kid made a bad
decision in game, they called it out. And so that
honesty brought you in for the following Saturday and Saturday
after that for all those years exit, how about a
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Fresca exit swollen dome. Lou Holt's passing away today at
the age of eighty nine. Will continue to remember lou
Holtz throughout the show tonight. Well, there's some great Lou
Holtz stories from his days coaching, and we'll get to
that that disputed national championship that he almost won the
second time around. Oh, I thought we were gonna go
game by game with the Jets. Don't let him play
three and ten, three in ten and he quit? Okay
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in Tenny quit doesn't matter, he broke, it doesn't matter. Yeah,
the fact that he'sti went on too a great career
tells you can survive the Jets. You can survive that.
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going on stage, biting blood packets, out of your mouth,
the prop store auction between that and the bird Hippo
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I mean the boots. No, the boots. I don't care
about the ketchup okay, no.
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Jonas and I used to do disco fantasy at like
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All the drunks coming back from the bars down the
street and they'd stand in the window and we'd mock
them while giving fantasy advice. It was great. They had
to stop giving out uh ketchup packets at school in
fourth grade, third grade when Kiss was the biggest group
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on the planet in the late seventies, right when Double
Platinum came out. Nothing was bigger than Kiss. I had
their own movie, they had their own everything. They had.
All four guys did did solo albums. And Gene Simmons,
you know, we found out that you know, he would
just you know, his blood would come out of his
mouth when he's playing songs, and we'd always just biting
blood packets. So we take a card. I'm sure everybody
(18:57):
else did this too. Across the country. But we would
have like like ketchup packets and we would bite them
down and see if we could make ourselves look like
Geene Simmons and pop out. And we did it and
everything was fine. And you know, we we did it
every day. We would go up to the to the
lunch the lunch people, and hey, can we get some
more ketchup? Yeah? Sure, here you go. Here you go, mean, well,
half the time we're going home and just ketchup all
over you what happened to be spilled ketchup on me?
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But these two guys once, these two kids once stage
to fake fight and they're like, I'm gonna do it
in front of missus. Franz read the uh who was
Who's a lunch room? She she she supervised a lunch room.
Is I'm gonna I'm gonna, uh stage a fight. You
pretend to hit me and I'll bite the blood packet
and see what happens. And and of course you know
she's half paying attention. She's somebody throw a punch and
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the kid bites, the bites the blood packets so hard
like that it gets everywhere, but it gets on him
and it gets on her and She's like, oh what,
And then when she figured out what it was like,
that was it. There was no more ketchup in the
lunch room for like the rest of the week. If
you know how to behave, we'll bring ketchup back next week.
So we had a we had a weak ban on
ketchup because of that. Yeah, it's funny because I would say,
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I'll speak for a lot of school administrators and teachers.
They'd love for that to be the biggest issue. Yoh
yeah right now in nineteen in nineteen seventy eight, that
was pants got ruined because I gotta catch up on
him right now. That's a win. I gotta catch him
on pants, like I get that out. That's not a problem. See,
that's much better. I had a guy that decided he
was he learned that there was blading in professional wrestling.
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I can't no, no, no, no no, that was what
was that in the wrestler? Then maybe I cut you
whoa whoa no no no no no, no do I
do that? So emerging out of the darkness today was
Aaron Rodgers. Remember he's been on the Darkness retreat for
the last gramplating his future. Supposedly, he was said there
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was no no soap and no plumbing. I think was
what it was, No soap and no plumbing. Uh, but
no plumbing. Okay, not my favorite thing to go to
the bathroom in nature. But I've camped enough and I've
hat Okay, that's fine. No soap is tough, no selp, Like, boy,
I gotta all right, So I gotta go and just
kinda break some bark off of a tree and like
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rub it under my arms and then just like lay
in the in the longest rebel in your musk. Yeah,
I mean I think I think a darkness tree is
more like I'm staying in a cabin in the woods.
That's that's kind of what it is. Well, I mean
when you say cabin in the woods, it invokes, uh,
the movie of that same title, and and really that's
a whole other world, and you roll with the change. Uh,
it would have just been cooler with a merman. So
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he comes out of the darkness and he goes on
Pat McAfee show Today. Now what's gonna happen Is Aaron
Rodgers gonna play football this year coming off a pretty
good last year with the Steelers, And he gives this
cryptic answer. But don't worry. I can tell you exactly
why he appeared on Pat McAfee and what he wants
to get out there and if he's coming back. But
here he is talking about how well, if I'm gonna
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come back, I kind of got to hear from Pittsburgh
at some point.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
I've talked to Mike, I've talked to Omar. There's been
no dead that's been you know, that's been put in
front of me. There's no contract, you know, offer or anything.
So there's nothing that I'm you know, having to debate
between I'm, you know, free agent and you know again,
I'm I'm enjoying my time with my wife and enjoying
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this part of the off season and and you know,
I think there's conversations to be had down the line,
but right now, I'm not not. There hasn't been any
progressive conversations.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I like how he's doing the whole I'm choosing more
time with my family over football time for this and
more time. Nobody chooses more time with their families. They've
been away from their family for thirty years. I'm not
going to suddenly go back now. But he is actually
choosing time with his wife time with my family in
the off season. He's the anti Clayton Khaw in your world.
What he's doing Clayton Carroll, by the way, got taken
deep today in w By. It's just a warm up.
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So what does this mean? What what I can tell
you everything that's gonna happen with Aaron Rodgers just from
that SoundBite. Okay, First of all, well, Rogers is going
to play this year. There is no way he's not.
He is not going to risk not controlling the narrative
to the end of his career. Right, Guys that are
big stars. When you get to the level of Aaron Rodgers,
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you want to go out on your terms. You want
to retire, You want to be the one to call
the shots. It was dicey for him coming off his
injuries with the Jets. Was he going to get another
chance and things were different? But he has a pretty
decent ish season with the Steelers last year. If he
was going to retire, he would just retire because he's
not going to give up the power. He would come
out and say, you know what, I was in a
darkness retreat. It was by myself and I was in
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the woods and I talked to a Fox and the
Fox and how you knowing mister Rodgers and that said,
oh that's nice, And all of a sudden, here comes
a deer, and then all of a sudden it's snow
White and I'm talking a bunch of people. Hio, Hio. Well,
I mean mcvie's part of the ESPN, you know, ABC,
Disney Family. They could have really presented that whole thing. Yeah,
but I still think snow White's on a moratorium. You
can't you can't get it where ye at Every twenty
(23:56):
years that Disney does that, they get rid of movies,
and he can't get him for a while. I think so.
So they gets all on the street. He definitely wants
to play. He's definitely going to play, because he's not
gonna suddenly now go oh now I'm not gonna play.
He's going to play. He can back up to it
with the Jets. Everybody's got to back up Derek Carr.
Everybody goes back to all three of them back with
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the Jets. But for Aaron Rodgers, what's he trying to
accomplish here? He is telling the Steelers, you ain't getting
me for free this year. Okay, Now, I didn't have
any influence or cachet going into last season. So he
really played it from a great perspective of Hey, I
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just want to play. I don't need tons of money
and go to the I go to the Steelers, and
I'm gonna try to finish my career on my terms. Right,
That's what he wanted to do. He didn't really have
any any power, he didn't have cachet. He signed a
one year deal for about fourteen to fifteen million, right, Okay,
but now he has a pretty good year and Steelers
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are saying, Okay, we're going to go get Mike McCarthy. Okay, great,
we've got Mike McCarthy. I want Aaron Okay, I had
a pretty good year last year. You need something, You
need me, cause you're not gonna get a quarterback anywhere
in the draft this year. You're not gonna go out
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and get Kyler Murray or Kirk Cousins and bring one
of those guys in. You want me, and I am
telling you I am not coming cheap this year. It's
not gonna be one year. I'll play for love of
the game. Stuff. The fact that he says there's no
contract offer, like he didn't say, hey, we're talking. We're
gonna talk later. Everything is fine. I've talked to Omar,
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I talked to Mike. He is letting everybody know it's
not just gonna be I roll over and take whatever
you give me. No, no, no, this is gonna be.
I'm gonna get more money. Maybe it's something with two
years in it, because I could play this year or
next year. I've felt my love of the game again.
I'm playing pretty well. I think I know the offense
well enough. Yeah, I'm ready to keep going here. I
kind of like it here in Pittsburgh. I got Mike
McCarthy all of a sudden, this is a whole new
(26:03):
world for me. But I ain't coming cheap. So this
is the first salvo and him saying, you're not gonna
come at me with Hey, how about one year and
twelve million. No, this is gonna be if justin bleeping
Fields can get two years and forty million with the Jets,
guess what I want two years and forty million. I
want it all guaranteed, all right, I want thirty million guaranteed.
He is telling the Steelers, Okay, I'm coming back. I'm playing,
(26:24):
but it ain't just gonna be meat, taking whatever you
put in front of me. This is gonna be a thing.
Talked a lot about Latrobe and the love of being
in front of the fans. One of my favorite places
to go for those that just love being around football.
You like the random trips in the summertime, go out
to Latrobe, go watch some training camp. It it'll be
hotter than hell, but you get access to the players
(26:45):
and a lot of love there. It's a great environment,
great view, all of that stuff. But it's the idea
for Rogers. Look, he had a six six point one
or thereabouts intended air yards per attempt. Only three quarterbacks
were worse than that last year. You want to guess
who they were. Both of them played, two of them
(27:05):
played for the Jets. Only one of them in this
Oh really okay, okay, so justin fields? Sure? Oh Brady Cook? Yeah, okay,
all right, I thought both of them, I really I
thought both of them. Isn't much higher. But here's a three. Okay,
all right, very good? Okay, And then you got Dylan
Gabriel and uh free agent to be Kyler Murray. Yeah,
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but then, sorry, I'm a short guy. Can That's that's
not right. That's not cool man your side. You've been
sideswiping people since we started the show tonight. Would you
rather go back to the betting odds. I'm just saying,
I'm just trying to change up my game and keep
you guessing it. Instead of five nine, you could have
said he was six seven six seven six. One of
my kids will come flying through the door and punch me.
We're done with six seven six seven still a fact,
(27:48):
It really isn't. It's still god is. It's not as
big as it was, but it's still exactly game you
play with Ralph or No, No, No. Six seven six seven
is still big. It's not quite big in the high
schools like it was, but now it's trickled down to
where in the middle school, in the middle schools, in
the kindergarten, it's still there. Yeah. See, I thought it
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became an old man thing at this point that the
adults have it, let's let's let it go. Uh And
it passes on. But for for Rogers, Look, they've got
sixty million dollars of salary cap space. They got rid
of John H. Smith. That's another seven and changed. Today
they've told everybody Pat Fryarmouth isn't going anywhere. So now
you begin the rebuild process.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Last year, Daniel Jones signed for about the same money
that Rogers did. Now he's gonna get thirty eight point
seven and he may not be healthy for week one. Yeah,
I think if I'm Aaron Rodgers, I'm looking run gun.
You see what they just did for him, and and
you got Mike because you can't tell me he didn't
have some influence in bringing McCarthy in there, right right,
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So it's everybody, uh, you know, washing each other's hands
and getting getting into the mix here. I mean really,
I mean, he he's gonna he's get more money. He
knows is the end of his is earning power coming
off this. They need him more than they needed him
last year. Last year is hey, let's see if we
can work out, help each other out. You work out
better than the other quarterbacks. Yet it did. Okay, hey,
(29:14):
all right now now okay, but now you're gonna give
me a little bit more. Yeah, I was half expecting
him to hold up the list of all the free
agent quarterbacks or me. Come on time out to find
out what's trending in the wide world of sports. Someone
who's been called the Aaron Rodgers of Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
she goes on a darkness retreat every time the Clippers play.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, thank you, right there with Chris Brossard right in sync. Yeah,
I could use a darkness retreat every now and then, anybody,
three nights a week when it didn't hurt anybody, you know,
a little I was staka doesn't hurt anybody.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
It's all good.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It's all good.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
H in the NBA, guys, We've got one game going on.
It's at the half right now. Clippers will be starting
soon at into a Dome against the Pacers. Yes, Benedict
Mather in his first game as a Clipper as the
Pacers come back. Also, Lou Lou a Zoo comes back
to La for the Clips, but that's about to tip
off right now. At halftime, the Bucks lead the Hawks
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seventy one to sixty six.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
The games have wrapped up that have wrapped up the Hornets.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
They've won six in a row. They defeated the Celtics
in Boston one eighteen to eighty nine. The seventy six
ers beat the Jazz one six to one. Two Trailblazers
over the Grizzlies won twenty two to one fourteen. And
there's one game I'm missing. Oh that's right, the Knicks.
They lost at Madison Square Garden to the Thunder one
oh three to one hundred, and they had two chances
to tie the game. Jason, Well, clearly, what would you
(30:37):
say after the game in the locker room because they
had two chances?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I would say, clearly the Thunder cheated at the end
and you guys should have won. Okay, so you put
a little a little star next to the l. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, But.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
For everybody else, for everyone else that does not think
there's a star next to the l everyone.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Else, I would say, hey, we'll see him again in
the NBA final, Sae Manzi, that's your stat category you
get to create. We quote it could games right, and
what their record? Every time Frostburg says something about the
mets Io, I'll see you in the NLC, I'll see
you in the NBA finals. If you get past the Spurs,
I'll see you in the finals.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
In men's college hoops, Northwestern also had an opportunity to
pull off the upset against Number fifteen per Due, but
some last minute turnovers did not work out for them.
Perdue survives seventy to sixty six. Right now halfway through
the second half, so about eleven minutes to go. Baylor
is up on number seven Houston fifty two forty six.
(31:32):
When it comes to the NHL late in the first period,
Hurricanes over Canucks one zero, Islanders and Ducks tied at
one apiece. Blues and Kraken also tied at one. The
Golden Knights already defeated the Red Wings four to three
in overtime, and the Devils took down the Maple Leaves
for to three in a shootout. The Maple Leafs have
lost six in a row. And also the World Baseball
Classic pool play has started.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Out of pool.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
See Chinese, Taipei and Australia right now playing. This is
the only game on this Wednesday night. They are scoreless.
It is the top of the third inning where Australia
is the home team. In the NFL AFC champion New
England Patriots are releasing four time Pro Bowl wide receiver
Stefon Diggs. The Steelers are releasing tight end John hus Smith,
saving seven million in.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Salary cap space.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
The Chiefs are trading all Pro cornerback Trent McDuffie to
the Rams for four draft picks, including a first rounder,
while the Chargers have released offensive lineman Mackai Becton and
tight End will disleep back to you guys, thanks.
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buying should be. Well, Marquee Game of the night, I
don't really care because I'll see you in the NBA Finals.
SGA the Big Three to give the thunder enough cushion
to hold off the Knicks. That gets to be the
play of the day. Shut the door here on the
(33:56):
Knicks on the day, the Three Man got the threat.
That's okay. I don't think they actually played the music
during the broadcast. Heah, come on, let's hear that again.
The NBA we talked about the organists from MSG. Okay,
that's trying to shut the door here on the nick
(34:20):
Jay watch the Three Man got the threat. That's folks,
it's the Viking Battle Remax. Wow, organist is playing against
the Necks. Yeah sure, yeah, no, I'm telling you. It's
Deeta Rule. He's in there. He was learning how to
play Narco and they were teaching him at Madison Square. Guards.
(34:41):
We knew how to play it. When the season that's
one of my favorite highlights ever. That's good, that's great.
The music uh so umembered twenty fourth straight twenty point game. Yeah,
I mean look MSG MSG on the call, MSG on
the call. There, great game, look great game. Uh talked
about it earlier. It's fine again, We'll see you in
the finals. Maybe I just like Doji after the turnaround
three pointer and it bounced off the grin out saying like, ah,
(35:05):
I had it, I had my shot because he actually
probably could have set and taken a better So after
in a few minutes, I'm gonna beat Mike Carmen around
the head and then. But a big story out of
football today, and this is you know, when I saw this,
I just said, boy incoming from you, jerks, you and
Frosburg in three two. According to a couple of media reports,
(35:29):
microfo one of them, the New York Jets are doing
their homework onto a tongue of ila. Well, I won't
have to pay him the ninety nine A right. I mean,
he's going to get released at some point in the
next few days. Now. The big debate is whether or
not they're going to eat all the money or you know,
break it up over two years. But he's getting released
(35:50):
and the Jets are doing the homework onto a tongue
of ila. Okay, this is really pushing my I can
get excited about any quarterback philosophy to the limit, because
the only homework you need to do is say you've
seen toa throw the football. You've seen the wins at
MetLife Stadium. It's gonna look like me throwing a whiffle ball,
Lefty him throwing the ball at Netlife. You want Tua
(36:13):
throwing the football at MetLife Stadium. Understand, that's the only
homework you need to do. Is that right there? Again?
Put it's pushing me, Mike, it's pushing me. I want
to be positive out all the quarter because if Sam
Darnold can win, anybody can win. I want to be positive, man,
I want to want. I want to be excited when
when you send me that picture of two as a
jet with the sea on his jersey, like he's already
(36:34):
the captain. I want to be put But this is
pushing it, man, this is putt. Let's take the guy
with the weakest arm in the NFL and put him
in the most difficult place to throw the football. What
could possibly go wrong? You're just gonna have to be
pinpoint precision in terms of the timing routs, which is
what to a tongue of I looa is altogether. Go
back and listen to any of the Sunday mornings I
got to do with Greg Gosel This season just town again.
(36:56):
It's like if it's off off schedule or he's just
gotta wing it the problem into the wind. We watched it.
It's a problem. It is next level of potential chaos here?
Now is he backing up? Derek Carr? That's sorry. I
had decide to wipe there your reaction when I sent
you that picture. I can't even say it on the radio.
That is non FCZ compliant. We will lose our license
(37:19):
and Tysher will lose his job. You don't want to
do that, the little Alex Tyser the Jets offense. We're
gonna go deep on this play? What does that mean?
Seven yard out yards?
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Timing better be right? He's throwing it right there. How
do I get season tickets and want to watch this?
I want to be puck because I told you there's
places for two ago. I told you we talked about
stop you put it out.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
There and it's happened to you and I'm getting but
you're only gonna have to pay him like two or
three million dollars doesn't because the Dolphins are gonna pick
up the rest, which gives you a lot of money
for other guys. So I try to help him be better.
So the best to way he can be you don't
have to pay a guy who stinks, which I guess
is better than paying a guy who's Yeah, but it
doesn't matter because it still means a guy's stakes. Yeah,
(38:04):
but you're gonna be able to say we got him
on the cheet But when the and then next year
when you're drafting at the top of the draft, because
you will be look at you, Dante More don't be
waiting for you. Well look now, look there is a
silver lining to this story. But first I want to
say is that we talked about the best fit for Tua,
and we've talked about the two biggest things were getting
off the radar screen for a little while and getting
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to a place that is weather friendly for him to
throw the football. That's why Minnesota works because he's off
the radar for a little bit and playing half his
games in a dome. That's what he needs. This is
the exact and total op. This is Hey, let's go
to a bigger pressure cooker. And let's put you in
a place where, yeah, you're just gonna throw flutterballs. Yeah,
(38:46):
but the Minnesota's cork. You see how angry people get
about anything related to JJ McCarthy. Flutterball he goes into
that head. You know what, that send him to Arizona.
Nobody cares about Arizona. The only silver lining is this,
and I'm being here, it's the only silver lining is
this is you're really trying to get it, get you get?
Is getting this part of why getting excited about now?
(39:07):
Normally I get said, I could get excited about any
quarterback because again, if Sam Darnold can win the Super Bowl,
lots of guys, guy, guy, Yeah, but that's not why
I'm excited. That's why I'm excited. Why are you My
excitement is that if the Jets signed to a that
is going to maybe be their best chance at drafting
number one overall next year and getting Arch Manning or
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Dante more or both of them, because they could be
that bad. Hey, we're gonna give you the first two
picks because you really need to do something here. We
can't have a New York team beat this bad for
this long. So the one thing getting to a Hey,
I have no doubt. Well, Number one, he'll throw every
ball to Garrett Wilson if you haven't been fantasy. Secondly,
this is their best chance to tank is getting to us.
So there is that well, and they also have a
(39:51):
long storied history of left handed quarterbacks. Let's go through
the boomer asiasin Mark Brunell, Michael Vick and say his name. Nope,
say it, Nope, Nope, nope, nope, your guy t Bow Nope.
I remember being at training camp watching that battle. I
(40:13):
love it. Once they pulled those cones away and let
him just run phrenetically side to side, creat chaos. He
completed some passes inside the cones, not so much. Maybe
Tua can better that effort here at I mean that,
that's all the homework you need on to it. Really
stretching my flub, really stretching my positivity to the limit.
Here positivity Wednesday, Baby, come on now, the Knicks almost won.
(40:38):
Exit up bout a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Coming
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Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Wednesday, The Jason Smith Show with
my bass friend Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports
Are Radio Studios, where Uh, in a minute, we're gonna
remember an absolute legend. However, don't tell me coaches can't
(00:52):
win games in the NBA. Now, Mike Harmon Martin explain
mar Key. Game of the night. Look like I always say,
in a full night of NBA games, if you get
one game that comes down to the end, consider yourself
lucky and luckily. Tonight, Thunder and the Knicks biggest game
of the night, two title contenders, comes down to the
final possession. The Knicks miss a couple of threes in
(01:14):
the final couple of seconds, Thunder escape with a three
point win. But I'll tell you what for all of this.
You look at plays down the stretch in this game.
Don't don't sit here and tell me coaches can't win games.
The two biggest plays of the fourth quarter of this game,
in the final three minutes, the Thunder win two challenges,
two big challenges. They challenge on an og Anunobi layup
(01:36):
that was going to be a three point play, and
it was really it looked like the contact it was
really could have gone either way, but they went and
they reversed it. So instead of a layup and ogn
Nooby trying to shoot for the three point play, it's
an offensive foul Nananobi and the Thunder keep the ball.
A minute later and out of bounds play on offense
for the Knicks, it's ruled to go to the Thunder.
(01:58):
No that play challenge. I'm like, okay, that looked like
it that went off the Thunder. What are we doing?
What are we doing? Like? I can't believe they won
the first one and the second one not only did
it get reversed, but it got reversed because of a
foul on Karl Anthony Towns. They went back to look
at the out of bounds play and chet Holgern's going
out of bounds, out of bounds, out of bunds. I'm like, okay,
(02:19):
and then they come back and say balls out of bounds. Yeah,
foul on Karl Anthony Towns. That was his fifth. A
minute later, he fouled out on Sja, which is a
which is a bad play by him, and he's been
he's fouled out the most in the NBA this season,
but now they didn't have him for the final two
and a half minutes of the game. Those were the
two biggest plays. When you sit here and talk about, oh,
challenges agaend, knowing when to save them, knowing when to
use them, it's a five point swing winning the Anonobe
(02:42):
challenge and then whatever points swing you want to put
to instead of the knicks. With the ball out of bounds,
it's a foul on Karl Anthony Towns. You're shooting free
throws and he was out of the game forty five
seconds later. Don't tell me coaches can't win. Yeah, the
one with the ogianinobi restricted area or or not moving
in or not set all that. You know, that's that's
(03:05):
just call. Unfortunately, there's too much contact and not call
something right. I just hope, like Rick carrl. I always
hope that the NBA is not out to help out
these smaller market teams who they want to give an
advantage to, because you know, people watch the small market
teams on television more than the big market team. Funny,
they're trying to create parody in a league. You know,
(03:25):
as we get down the stretch, I mean, you are
the defending champions. That is true that you are the
defending the last champions. So you get a little seesaw
back and forth and you get that call. Now, the
the cat call is a tough one, right one, because
he came flying over his Oh yeah, yeah, right. It's
(03:46):
a bad decision by Cat to do because he made
too bad decisions that right. That fall and then the
fall on SGA wasn't a play on anything. It was
just a reach and grabs his wrist. Right, It's it's
just a let him come into your body or get
your arm up, like he reached down to try to
get at the ball and only got was a handful
of wrist. Yeah, I mean, well, and that's what SGA does.
(04:07):
I'll get to the free throw though, don't worry. I
will find my way. But that's it. We always talk
about on the show for all these years that you
can't fault a good strategy. You may not like it
as a fan, you may throw something at your television.
Hopefully it's sales wide right, like field goal kickers in Buffalo.
But you're you're hoping too soon. Man, come on, man,
Scott Norwidz probably driving around Buffalo going to get some wings.
(04:28):
Anybody here? Why do I get sides? It's a basketball
conversation about the Knicks and the thunder and I get
sideswiped on it. Wow, and larger New York area and
a team than actually another team that plays in New York.
But just the idea that you have SGA and this
is the book on him, right, So you know, even
at home, even in a hotly contested game, he's getting
(04:49):
that foul call every time you watched it over the
course of the game. How many times did he did
he get a foul calls?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Like?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Really, is that enough contact really to warn a fol now?
And he does? And so that that's just the rules
of engagement. Now when ABS comes to the NBA, oh
yeah yeah, and everybody's officiated the same. You get ready, right,
like strike zone in baseball is going to be the
same same thing. Here, you are just player number three
hundred and eighty four in the Union. It doesn't matter.
(05:17):
The Nen's going for their seventy third win of the
season here in game number seventy four, their only loss
when they got snowed in earlier this year. But here
it is the NBA on NBC playing against the brand
new Queens Mets who have moved from Brooklyn. So we
got more NBA on the way again. Get one big
close game tonight. That's awesome. Hey, we won, But today
(05:40):
we lost an absolute legend in former college football head coach,
former Notre Dame legend, former South July legend, former Jets legend,
former ESPN college football analyst legend Lou Holtz, passing away
at the age of eighty nine. And look you've scene
(06:00):
and when when he died today? And Frostburg sent me
a text going, hey, what do you guys do to
Lou Holtz? And I was like, you know, he coached
us for a year. You know he he coached the
Jets for a year in seventy six and quit at
the end of the year. And I think his quote was,
God didn't put Lou Holtz on the earth to coach
professionals like I gotta go back to college, like that's
(06:21):
my thing, like he gets And the Jets were three
and ten the one year under Lou Holtz and they
never recover and can't see out the rest of the season.
I'm done. I'm done, guys, not gonna go to the
ends like that. That's the thing, right, like Patrino and
I'm walking away. I'm just walking away. But remember a
couple of things, is that you hear a lot about
(06:42):
him in his legendary time at Notre Dame. There's two
things that he doesn't get enough credit for. And the
first one is something probably that you will get you
is that he brought No tre Dame back. No tre
Dame is what it is today today in twenty twenty
six because Lou Holtz brought it back. For the decade
(07:02):
he was there in the late eighties into the mid nineties,
Nore Dame. Hey, Notre Dame was still a really big school,
but it was not the overall wild It is the
it is the end all be all, the alpha and
omega of college football. They had bad years, right, You've
you've heard the name Jerry Faust, and what it was
like in Notre Dame struggling after Ara Parseigin, like Notre
(07:23):
Dame had lost its way, like they were not part
of the national conversation at all. Lou Holtz shows up
and in a decade, in three years, he went won
a national championship, went to another one, which will break down,
you know, not winning that one. But this is a
guy who went ten years turned Notre Dame into the
biggest rock stars in college football. As status they have
(07:44):
they have owned since that time. Notre Dame still has
been Notre Dame. Since that moment, whoever the coach is
Notre Dame has had that much, has had that aura,
and lou Holtz brought it back. They were nowhere, they
were just floundering. This is Notre Dame once proud Notre Dame.
Yeah no, no, he brought them back. It was Lou
Holtz that has Notre Dame where they are today.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I mean, as a kid in Chicago, that's all you
heard about. That was the adopted team of everybody that
had ever stepped foot inside a church or knew someone
that did. And certainly you had the Bears making their
run and perennial playoff contenders. Ultimately that eighty five Bears
squad that they still write all those books about and
(08:25):
cash in on year to year. But for Notre Dame football,
I mean you got to go back. Divine had what
an eleven win season in seventy seven, and then you
had nine win season in nineteen eighty, you had the
Jerry Faust era, and then you go from there into
Lou Holtz. And obviously the advent and changing of how
(08:48):
the game was telecast and the power of brand really
took over on a whole other level. Right, we go
back to Catholics versus Convicts in those games and all
of that that resonate all these years. I think we
did a special teams podcast on that many years ago.
You can find that wherever you find your podcast histories.
(09:10):
But all of that to say for Lou Holtz, he
was that figure right, the way he spoke, the way
I mean, look at all the tributes from his players today.
Now he's a complicated guy. There's a lot going on
with Holts, Oh sure, okay, But for the purpose of
this conversation, there's a lot too. I mean, we could
do and I know the odd couple did some and
and and I'm sure we could do four hours on
(09:33):
every angle of the Lou Holtz experiences of this. It
is talking about the changing face of college football, the
billion dollar TV contracts, the recruiting juggernaut that it became,
all those household names and players and plays for all
these years, and why you see them thrust upon you
on NBC in primetime and late afternoon windows all these
(09:57):
years later. It was the dominant exhibited there by Lou
Holtz and those squads and his persona right as a coach,
he was a speaker. He was a guy that wasn't
afraid of the microphone. I mean, how many coaches did
you really hear from back then? Him Bowden, a little
bit of Joe Paterno screaming at people. Yeah, but you know,
and even then, because of the way college football was covered,
(10:19):
you didn't get a lot of it. You got some
highlights and you got a scoreboard, and then you got
whatever quotes were in the evening news. Yeah. And look,
and that's the other thing that he doesn't get enough
credit for us. Right, Okay, so he brings back Notre
Dame from the brink of boy it was so great,
and now they're in disrepair and all of a sudden,
now the Golden Domers and their musty TV, and they
(10:39):
have their you know, they have their own network every Saturday.
But the other thing that he doesn't get enough credit for.
And look, when people do stuff right, you gotta give
him credit. ESPN has done college football and college basketball
unbelievably well now for going on four decades, right, like, really,
(11:00):
the way that Fox has caught up in both sports
is fantastic. But leg of credit, college football, college basketball,
ESPN does tremendously well. They have always done it tremendously well.
They find a way to service the viewer with the games,
the coverage, They do it great. But their lasting popularity
is due to two people, Lee Corso into Lou Holtz.
(11:23):
Because what these guys were responsible for on the air,
Lee Corso coming on and being tremendous lightning Rod, not
just you know, putting on the head gear of the
team's picking the games, but Lee Corso, the chemistry he
had with Kirk krb Street and Chris Fowler. But you know,
Corso was that guy, the beloved guy you tuned in
every week to see him. What was he gonna say?
(11:43):
Who was he gonna pick in the big game. And
lou Holtz was the same way the College Football Final
on Saturdays, which with him and Mark May and Rhys Davison.
I mean, this was It's almost like that was the
inside the NBA of college football because that was your
wall to wall coverage all day. You watch lou Holtz
for what he had to say in Mark May, and
they did crazy bits throughout the night. They came back
(12:06):
and forth at each other, like yeah, session with Reese Davis. Yeah,
Reece Davis is dressed as a judge, and lou Holtz
and Mark May are like making arguments for whoever the
Heisman Trophy winners should be at that point wherever it
should be the number two pick in the draft. Like
this is the kind of show it was for college
football on Saturday, like the College Football Final. It was
all day with them and it and that's what right
(12:28):
remind what I watched is this is kind of like
watching inside the NBA, where you have your pre show.
We have the early game, we have the halftime, we
had the between games, we have the halftime of the
late game when things get really crazy, and then after
the late game when everybody's just loopy because you know,
it's like ten o'clock, one o'clock in the morning at
football and Shaq and Charles are like, yeah, but that's
what that show was. And for people who have been
college football fans of all ages, you get into college
(12:51):
football in the nineties and you're watching ESPN that had
all the different games on in ESPN two jumps in
and then you're seeing smaller colleges on everywhere and Lee
Corso Game Day, Hey, was just starting to hit its prime.
And then once it got in there, here comes College
Football Final and it's Lou Holtz and Mark may And
and Rhys Davis and whoever else would fill in. And
(13:14):
that was almost a two decade run as well. So
it was, Hey, we had the pre show to get
you everything all the way before, Like it was a
full service day and the two guys that you watched
all the time were Lee Corso and Lou Holtz. Like,
I mean, Lou Holtz doesn't get enough credit for for
what ESPN had college football. How they continue to grow
that over the course of the past twenty someone i
(13:36):
mean stopped a couple of years ago, but the twenty
years he was there from like two thousand until let's
say after twenty twenty, it's like like that, this is
before we're getting games all the time, you know, we
we're watching him streaming now, so we don't need the
between games updates because I can see whatever I want to,
you know, we get everything is more convenient now. So
this was that show at that time that Hey, when
(13:57):
I want to know something, when I want to see it,
they're going to talk about it, and lou Holtz is
gonna say something really strong and he's gonna not back
away from it. And it was it was just a great,
great show. Well, but that was the big thing, right
we talked about inside the NBA And when we guys
get critical now, it's like, wow, you're gonna lash it
out against you. No, no, no, that that's what Corso and
lou Holtz did forever. Yeah, it's like, look, they had
(14:19):
the love fest for the coaches, for the players, for
the game, but they didn't sugarcoate it for you. If
a guy made a bad decision on a play call,
they called it out. If a kid made a bad
decision in game, they called it out. And so that
honesty brought you in for the following Saturday and Saturday
after that for all those years exit, how about a
(14:39):
Fresca exit swollen dome. Lou Holt's passing away today at
the age of eighty nine. Will continue to remember lou
Holtz throughout the show tonight. Well, there's some great Lou
Holtz stories from his days coaching, and we'll get to
that that disputed national championship that he almost won the
second time around. Oh, I thought we were gonna go
game by game with the Jets. Don't let him play
three and ten, three in ten and he quit? Okay
(15:00):
in Tenny quit doesn't matter, he broke, it doesn't matter. Yeah,
the fact that he'sti went on too a great career
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could just speak in time with this song and give
you all the big hot takes of the day. I mean,
I think there's I think there's room for that somewhere.
I think we could do you do it to you
do it in time, but you would need the uh,
just the instrumental version, so you're not competing with the
words of the song because then you want to sing along. Yeah,
(17:16):
and you start drifting back into lyrically. Yeah. Yeah. Five
years from now, the day of trade, they should have
gotten carl Anth and the Towns right. Yeah. Becomes a
full on karaoke experience us here in the studio. I'll
get I'll bring my glitter ball from home and we'll go, okay, good,
very you have you have a glitter ball? Yeah? Really,
yeah ball. I also have one that we could plug
(17:36):
right in there and it'll light up the room. Do
you have a glitter ball, like it's up in your
house or you have it somewhere. I have it, Yeah,
but you're kind of smiling like like like it's not
like it can be it can it can be activated quick,
like like when you come home at night and you
have your door set up there, when you put your
key and open up and you hear coming in. Now,
Mike Harmon generation, when I buy the wear like the
(17:59):
date you wear, like the big Jeene Simmons boots, you know,
going on stage, biting blood packets, out of your mouth,
the prop store auction between that and the bird Hippo
that they're just ketchup packets that were blood. No, no, no,
I mean the boots. No, the boots. I don't care
about the ketchup okay, no.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Jonas and I used to do disco fantasy at like
two thirty in the morning back in the day. He's great.
All the drunks coming back from the bars down the
street and they'd stand in the window and we'd mock
them while giving fantasy advice. It was great. They had
to stop giving out uh ketchup packets at school in
fourth grade, third grade when Kiss was the biggest group
(18:36):
on the planet. Right, Kiss was the biggest rock river
on the planet in the late seventies, right when Double
Platinum came out. Nothing was bigger than Kiss. I had
their own movie, they had their own everything. They had.
All four guys did did solo albums. And Gene Simmons,
you know, we found out that you know, he would
just you know, his blood would come out of his
mouth when he's playing songs, and we'd always just biting
blood packets. So we take a card. I'm sure everybody
(18:57):
else did this too. Across the country. But we would
have like like ketchup packets and we would bite them
down and see if we could make ourselves look like
Geene Simmons and pop out. And we did it and
everything was fine. And you know, we we did it
every day. We would go up to the to the
lunch the lunch people, and hey, can we get some
more ketchup? Yeah? Sure, here you go. Here you go, mean, well,
half the time we're going home and just ketchup all
over you what happened to be spilled ketchup on me?
(19:18):
But these two guys once, these two kids once stage
to fake fight and they're like, I'm gonna do it
in front of missus. Franz read the uh who was
Who's a lunch room? She she she supervised a lunch room.
Is I'm gonna I'm gonna, uh stage a fight. You
pretend to hit me and I'll bite the blood packet
and see what happens. And and of course you know
she's half paying attention. She's somebody throw a punch and
(19:40):
the kid bites, the bites the blood packets so hard
like that it gets everywhere, but it gets on him
and it gets on her and She's like, oh what,
And then when she figured out what it was like,
that was it. There was no more ketchup in the
lunch room for like the rest of the week. If
you know how to behave, we'll bring ketchup back next week.
So we had a we had a weak ban on
ketchup because of that. Yeah, it's funny because I would say,
(20:02):
I'll speak for a lot of school administrators and teachers.
They'd love for that to be the biggest issue. Yoh
yeah right now in nineteen in nineteen seventy eight, that
was pants got ruined because I gotta catch up on
him right now. That's a win. I gotta catch him
on pants, like I get that out. That's not a problem. See,
that's much better. I had a guy that decided he
was he learned that there was blading in professional wrestling.
(20:26):
I can't no, no, no, no no, that was what
was that in the wrestler? Then maybe I cut you
whoa whoa no no no no no, no do I
do that? So emerging out of the darkness today was
Aaron Rodgers. Remember he's been on the Darkness retreat for
the last gramplating his future. Supposedly, he was said there
(20:47):
was no no soap and no plumbing. I think was
what it was, No soap and no plumbing. Uh, but
no plumbing. Okay, not my favorite thing to go to
the bathroom in nature. But I've camped enough and I've
hat Okay, that's fine. No soap is tough, no selp, Like, boy,
I gotta all right, So I gotta go and just
kinda break some bark off of a tree and like
(21:08):
rub it under my arms and then just like lay
in the in the longest rebel in your musk. Yeah,
I mean I think I think a darkness tree is
more like I'm staying in a cabin in the woods.
That's that's kind of what it is. Well, I mean
when you say cabin in the woods, it invokes, uh,
the movie of that same title, and and really that's
a whole other world, and you roll with the change. Uh,
it would have just been cooler with a merman. So
(21:30):
he comes out of the darkness and he goes on
Pat McAfee show Today. Now what's gonna happen Is Aaron
Rodgers gonna play football this year coming off a pretty
good last year with the Steelers, And he gives this
cryptic answer. But don't worry. I can tell you exactly
why he appeared on Pat McAfee and what he wants
to get out there and if he's coming back. But
here he is talking about how well, if I'm gonna
(21:53):
come back, I kind of got to hear from Pittsburgh
at some point.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
I've talked to Mike, I've talked to Omar. There's been
no dead that's been you know, that's been put in
front of me. There's no contract, you know, offer or anything.
So there's nothing that I'm you know, having to debate
between I'm, you know, free agent and you know again,
I'm I'm enjoying my time with my wife and enjoying
(22:19):
this part of the off season and and you know,
I think there's conversations to be had down the line,
but right now, I'm not not. There hasn't been any
progressive conversations.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I like how he's doing the whole I'm choosing more
time with my family over football time for this and
more time. Nobody chooses more time with their families. They've
been away from their family for thirty years. I'm not
going to suddenly go back now. But he is actually
choosing time with his wife time with my family in
the off season. He's the anti Clayton Khaw in your world.
What he's doing Clayton Carroll, by the way, got taken
deep today in w By. It's just a warm up.
(22:52):
So what does this mean? What what I can tell
you everything that's gonna happen with Aaron Rodgers just from
that SoundBite. Okay, First of all, well, Rogers is going
to play this year. There is no way he's not.
He is not going to risk not controlling the narrative
to the end of his career. Right, Guys that are
big stars. When you get to the level of Aaron Rodgers,
(23:12):
you want to go out on your terms. You want
to retire, You want to be the one to call
the shots. It was dicey for him coming off his
injuries with the Jets. Was he going to get another
chance and things were different? But he has a pretty
decent ish season with the Steelers last year. If he
was going to retire, he would just retire because he's
not going to give up the power. He would come
out and say, you know what, I was in a
darkness retreat. It was by myself and I was in
(23:34):
the woods and I talked to a Fox and the
Fox and how you knowing mister Rodgers and that said,
oh that's nice, And all of a sudden, here comes
a deer, and then all of a sudden it's snow
White and I'm talking a bunch of people. Hio, Hio. Well,
I mean mcvie's part of the ESPN, you know, ABC,
Disney Family. They could have really presented that whole thing. Yeah,
but I still think snow White's on a moratorium. You
can't you can't get it where ye at Every twenty
(23:56):
years that Disney does that, they get rid of movies,
and he can't get him for a while. I think so.
So they gets all on the street. He definitely wants
to play. He's definitely going to play, because he's not
gonna suddenly now go oh now I'm not gonna play.
He's going to play. He can back up to it
with the Jets. Everybody's got to back up Derek Carr.
Everybody goes back to all three of them back with
(24:16):
the Jets. But for Aaron Rodgers, what's he trying to
accomplish here? He is telling the Steelers, you ain't getting
me for free this year. Okay, Now, I didn't have
any influence or cachet going into last season. So he
really played it from a great perspective of Hey, I
(24:37):
just want to play. I don't need tons of money
and go to the I go to the Steelers, and
I'm gonna try to finish my career on my terms. Right,
That's what he wanted to do. He didn't really have
any any power, he didn't have cachet. He signed a
one year deal for about fourteen to fifteen million, right, Okay,
but now he has a pretty good year and Steelers
(25:01):
are saying, Okay, we're going to go get Mike McCarthy. Okay, great,
we've got Mike McCarthy. I want Aaron Okay, I had
a pretty good year last year. You need something, You
need me, cause you're not gonna get a quarterback anywhere
in the draft this year. You're not gonna go out
(25:21):
and get Kyler Murray or Kirk Cousins and bring one
of those guys in. You want me, and I am
telling you I am not coming cheap this year. It's
not gonna be one year. I'll play for love of
the game. Stuff. The fact that he says there's no
contract offer, like he didn't say, hey, we're talking. We're
gonna talk later. Everything is fine. I've talked to Omar,
(25:41):
I talked to Mike. He is letting everybody know it's
not just gonna be I roll over and take whatever
you give me. No, no, no, this is gonna be.
I'm gonna get more money. Maybe it's something with two
years in it, because I could play this year or
next year. I've felt my love of the game again.
I'm playing pretty well. I think I know the offense
well enough. Yeah, I'm ready to keep going here. I
kind of like it here in Pittsburgh. I got Mike
McCarthy all of a sudden, this is a whole new
(26:03):
world for me. But I ain't coming cheap. So this
is the first salvo and him saying, you're not gonna
come at me with Hey, how about one year and
twelve million. No, this is gonna be if justin bleeping
Fields can get two years and forty million with the Jets,
guess what I want two years and forty million. I
want it all guaranteed, all right, I want thirty million guaranteed.
He is telling the Steelers, Okay, I'm coming back. I'm playing,
(26:24):
but it ain't just gonna be meat, taking whatever you
put in front of me. This is gonna be a thing.
Talked a lot about Latrobe and the love of being
in front of the fans. One of my favorite places
to go for those that just love being around football.
You like the random trips in the summertime, go out
to Latrobe, go watch some training camp. It it'll be
hotter than hell, but you get access to the players
(26:45):
and a lot of love there. It's a great environment,
great view, all of that stuff. But it's the idea
for Rogers. Look, he had a six six point one
or thereabouts intended air yards per attempt. Only three quarterbacks
were worse than that last year. You want to guess
who they were. Both of them played, two of them
(27:05):
played for the Jets. Only one of them in this
Oh really okay, okay, so justin fields? Sure? Oh Brady Cook? Yeah, okay,
all right, I thought both of them, I really I
thought both of them. Isn't much higher. But here's a three. Okay,
all right, very good? Okay, And then you got Dylan
Gabriel and uh free agent to be Kyler Murray. Yeah,
(27:26):
but then, sorry, I'm a short guy. Can That's that's
not right. That's not cool man your side. You've been
sideswiping people since we started the show tonight. Would you
rather go back to the betting odds. I'm just saying,
I'm just trying to change up my game and keep
you guessing it. Instead of five nine, you could have
said he was six seven six seven six. One of
my kids will come flying through the door and punch me.
We're done with six seven six seven still a fact,
(27:48):
It really isn't. It's still god is. It's not as
big as it was, but it's still exactly game you
play with Ralph or No, No, No. Six seven six seven
is still big. It's not quite big in the high
schools like it was, but now it's trickled down to
where in the middle school, in the middle schools, in
the kindergarten, it's still there. Yeah. See, I thought it
(28:09):
became an old man thing at this point that the
adults have it, let's let's let it go. Uh And
it passes on. But for for Rogers, Look, they've got
sixty million dollars of salary cap space. They got rid
of John H. Smith. That's another seven and changed. Today
they've told everybody Pat Fryarmouth isn't going anywhere. So now
you begin the rebuild process.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Last year, Daniel Jones signed for about the same money
that Rogers did. Now he's gonna get thirty eight point
seven and he may not be healthy for week one. Yeah,
I think if I'm Aaron Rodgers, I'm looking run gun.
You see what they just did for him, and and
you got Mike because you can't tell me he didn't
have some influence in bringing McCarthy in there, right right,
(28:51):
So it's everybody, uh, you know, washing each other's hands
and getting getting into the mix here. I mean really,
I mean, he he's gonna he's get more money. He
knows is the end of his is earning power coming
off this. They need him more than they needed him
last year. Last year is hey, let's see if we
can work out, help each other out. You work out
better than the other quarterbacks. Yet it did. Okay, hey,
(29:14):
all right now now okay, but now you're gonna give
me a little bit more. Yeah, I was half expecting
him to hold up the list of all the free
agent quarterbacks or me. Come on time out to find
out what's trending in the wide world of sports. Someone
who's been called the Aaron Rodgers of Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
she goes on a darkness retreat every time the Clippers play.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, thank you, right there with Chris Brossard right in sync. Yeah,
I could use a darkness retreat every now and then, anybody,
three nights a week when it didn't hurt anybody, you know,
a little I was staka doesn't hurt anybody.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
It's all good.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It's all good.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
H in the NBA, guys, We've got one game going on.
It's at the half right now. Clippers will be starting
soon at into a Dome against the Pacers. Yes, Benedict
Mather in his first game as a Clipper as the
Pacers come back. Also, Lou Lou a Zoo comes back
to La for the Clips, but that's about to tip
off right now. At halftime, the Bucks lead the Hawks
(30:12):
seventy one to sixty six.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
The games have wrapped up that have wrapped up the Hornets.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
They've won six in a row. They defeated the Celtics
in Boston one eighteen to eighty nine. The seventy six
ers beat the Jazz one six to one. Two Trailblazers
over the Grizzlies won twenty two to one fourteen. And
there's one game I'm missing. Oh that's right, the Knicks.
They lost at Madison Square Garden to the Thunder one
oh three to one hundred, and they had two chances
to tie the game. Jason, Well, clearly, what would you
(30:37):
say after the game in the locker room because they
had two chances?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I would say, clearly the Thunder cheated at the end
and you guys should have won. Okay, so you put
a little a little star next to the l. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, But.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
For everybody else, for everyone else that does not think
there's a star next to the l everyone.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Else, I would say, hey, we'll see him again in
the NBA final, Sae Manzi, that's your stat category you
get to create. We quote it could games right, and
what their record? Every time Frostburg says something about the
mets Io, I'll see you in the NLC, I'll see
you in the NBA finals. If you get past the Spurs,
I'll see you in the finals.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
In men's college hoops, Northwestern also had an opportunity to
pull off the upset against Number fifteen per Due, but
some last minute turnovers did not work out for them.
Perdue survives seventy to sixty six. Right now halfway through
the second half, so about eleven minutes to go. Baylor
is up on number seven Houston fifty two forty six.
(31:32):
When it comes to the NHL late in the first period,
Hurricanes over Canucks one zero, Islanders and Ducks tied at
one apiece. Blues and Kraken also tied at one. The
Golden Knights already defeated the Red Wings four to three
in overtime, and the Devils took down the Maple Leaves
for to three in a shootout. The Maple Leafs have
lost six in a row. And also the World Baseball
Classic pool play has started.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Out of pool.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
See Chinese, Taipei and Australia right now playing. This is
the only game on this Wednesday night. They are scoreless.
It is the top of the third inning where Australia
is the home team. In the NFL AFC champion New
England Patriots are releasing four time Pro Bowl wide receiver
Stefon Diggs. The Steelers are releasing tight end John hus Smith,
saving seven million in.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Salary cap space.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
The Chiefs are trading all Pro cornerback Trent McDuffie to
the Rams for four draft picks, including a first rounder,
while the Chargers have released offensive lineman Mackai Becton and
tight End will disleep back to you guys, thanks.
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don't really care because I'll see you in the NBA Finals.
SGA the Big Three to give the thunder enough cushion
to hold off the Knicks. That gets to be the
play of the day. Shut the door here on the
(33:56):
Knicks on the day, the Three Man got the threat.
That's okay. I don't think they actually played the music
during the broadcast. Heah, come on, let's hear that again.
The NBA we talked about the organists from MSG. Okay,
that's trying to shut the door here on the nick
(34:20):
Jay watch the Three Man got the threat. That's folks,
it's the Viking Battle Remax. Wow, organist is playing against
the Necks. Yeah sure, yeah, no, I'm telling you. It's
Deeta Rule. He's in there. He was learning how to
play Narco and they were teaching him at Madison Square. Guards.
(34:41):
We knew how to play it. When the season that's
one of my favorite highlights ever. That's good, that's great.
The music uh so umembered twenty fourth straight twenty point game. Yeah,
I mean look MSG MSG on the call, MSG on
the call. There, great game, look great game. Uh talked
about it earlier. It's fine again, We'll see you in
the finals. Maybe I just like Doji after the turnaround
three pointer and it bounced off the grin out saying like, ah,
(35:05):
I had it, I had my shot because he actually
probably could have set and taken a better So after
in a few minutes, I'm gonna beat Mike Carmen around
the head and then. But a big story out of
football today, and this is you know, when I saw this,
I just said, boy incoming from you, jerks, you and
Frosburg in three two. According to a couple of media reports,
(35:29):
microfo one of them, the New York Jets are doing
their homework onto a tongue of ila. Well, I won't
have to pay him the ninety nine A right. I mean,
he's going to get released at some point in the
next few days. Now. The big debate is whether or
not they're going to eat all the money or you know,
break it up over two years. But he's getting released
(35:50):
and the Jets are doing the homework onto a tongue
of ila. Okay, this is really pushing my I can
get excited about any quarterback philosophy to the limit, because
the only homework you need to do is say you've
seen toa throw the football. You've seen the wins at
MetLife Stadium. It's gonna look like me throwing a whiffle ball,
Lefty him throwing the ball at Netlife. You want Tua
(36:13):
throwing the football at MetLife Stadium. Understand, that's the only
homework you need to do. Is that right there? Again?
Put it's pushing me, Mike, it's pushing me. I want
to be positive out all the quarter because if Sam
Darnold can win, anybody can win. I want to be positive, man,
I want to want. I want to be excited when
when you send me that picture of two as a
jet with the sea on his jersey, like he's already
(36:34):
the captain. I want to be put But this is
pushing it, man, this is putt. Let's take the guy
with the weakest arm in the NFL and put him
in the most difficult place to throw the football. What
could possibly go wrong? You're just gonna have to be
pinpoint precision in terms of the timing routs, which is
what to a tongue of I looa is altogether. Go
back and listen to any of the Sunday mornings I
got to do with Greg Gosel This season just town again.
(36:56):
It's like if it's off off schedule or he's just
gotta wing it the problem into the wind. We watched it.
It's a problem. It is next level of potential chaos here?
Now is he backing up? Derek Carr? That's sorry. I
had decide to wipe there your reaction when I sent
you that picture. I can't even say it on the radio.
That is non FCZ compliant. We will lose our license
(37:19):
and Tysher will lose his job. You don't want to
do that, the little Alex Tyser the Jets offense. We're
gonna go deep on this play? What does that mean?
Seven yard out yards?
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Timing better be right? He's throwing it right there. How
do I get season tickets and want to watch this?
I want to be puck because I told you there's
places for two ago. I told you we talked about
stop you put it out.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
There and it's happened to you and I'm getting but
you're only gonna have to pay him like two or
three million dollars doesn't because the Dolphins are gonna pick
up the rest, which gives you a lot of money
for other guys. So I try to help him be better.
So the best to way he can be you don't
have to pay a guy who stinks, which I guess
is better than paying a guy who's Yeah, but it
doesn't matter because it still means a guy's stakes. Yeah,
(38:04):
but you're gonna be able to say we got him
on the cheet But when the and then next year
when you're drafting at the top of the draft, because
you will be look at you, Dante More don't be
waiting for you. Well look now, look there is a
silver lining to this story. But first I want to
say is that we talked about the best fit for Tua,
and we've talked about the two biggest things were getting
off the radar screen for a little while and getting
(38:25):
to a place that is weather friendly for him to
throw the football. That's why Minnesota works because he's off
the radar for a little bit and playing half his
games in a dome. That's what he needs. This is
the exact and total op. This is Hey, let's go
to a bigger pressure cooker. And let's put you in
a place where, yeah, you're just gonna throw flutterballs. Yeah,
(38:46):
but the Minnesota's cork. You see how angry people get
about anything related to JJ McCarthy. Flutterball he goes into
that head. You know what, that send him to Arizona.
Nobody cares about Arizona. The only silver lining is this,
and I'm being here, it's the only silver lining is
this is you're really trying to get it, get you get?
Is getting this part of why getting excited about now?
(39:07):
Normally I get said, I could get excited about any
quarterback because again, if Sam Darnold can win the Super Bowl,
lots of guys, guy, guy, Yeah, but that's not why
I'm excited. That's why I'm excited. Why are you My
excitement is that if the Jets signed to a that
is going to maybe be their best chance at drafting
number one overall next year and getting Arch Manning or
(39:29):
Dante more or both of them, because they could be
that bad. Hey, we're gonna give you the first two
picks because you really need to do something here. We
can't have a New York team beat this bad for
this long. So the one thing getting to a Hey,
I have no doubt. Well, Number one, he'll throw every
ball to Garrett Wilson if you haven't been fantasy. Secondly,
this is their best chance to tank is getting to us.
So there is that well, and they also have a
(39:51):
long storied history of left handed quarterbacks. Let's go through
the boomer asiasin Mark Brunell, Michael Vick and say his name. Nope,
say it, Nope, Nope, nope, nope, your guy t Bow Nope.
I remember being at training camp watching that battle. I
(40:13):
love it. Once they pulled those cones away and let
him just run phrenetically side to side, creat chaos. He
completed some passes inside the cones, not so much. Maybe
Tua can better that effort here at I mean that,
that's all the homework you need on to it. Really
stretching my flub, really stretching my positivity to the limit.
Here positivity Wednesday, Baby, come on now, the Knicks almost won.
(40:38):
Exit up bout a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith
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