April 18, 2025 • 39 mins
In the first hour of tonight's edition of The Jason Smith Show with Monse Bolaños (filling in for Mike Harmon) Jason & Monse react to Aaron Rodgers appearing on The Pat McAfee Show & why Jason thinks he’s definitely heading towards retirement & Deion’s comments about Shedeur Sanders jersey retirement.
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Speaker 3 (00:46):
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Speaker 1 (00:46):
Last night, we're back again for an all or you're
back again. Yeah, I mean when you first dropped it,
you were an ass man too. I mean, okay, all right, yeah,
you know I I.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Guess said I wanted to fulfill as much of Harmon
as possible. You know what I'm saying this, That's what
it is the best friend ass man, not the well
dressed hobo. I am an ass man. I am an
ask man.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Not not the well dressed hobo.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Not the well dressed hobo.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Not you know, you know, listen, we're we're bringing back
the word hobo. You know, nobody hobo. Nobody really uses
that that much. We've kind of brought hobo back.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I love hobo. When I think of hobo, I do
think of like, in order for you to be a hobo,
you have to be missing, or you have to have
a hole in your sock, and your too has to
be like sticking out. Oh that's hobo.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I think. I think of the guy like the but
has a face like a clown with the bowler hat,
and and he jumps a train. Sure, you know, one
of those one of those trains that go like hey,
it starts a new in New Jersey and it ends
all the way down in Clearwater, Florida. All Right, I'm on, like,
that's their thing.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I think of hobo, and I bet you he has
a hole in his sock.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, the toasting of the brown shoes
and very good. All right, we're bringing it. We brought
hobo back. We did, Tyson, you feel about bringing hobo back?
We brought hobo back.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I mean we brought something else back. Well, well we
can bring other stuff back now too, but just we
have Hobo right.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Now, Hobo. Yeah, okay, all right, that's good. Okay, good.
So we're going with Hobo. Except why that happened though.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Right because he was missing a tooth.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No, no one's missing any No one's missing any teeth.
No one's missing. Harmon does still miss a tooth? Yeah
he did, He's just a placement. He did have. Okay,
he did have a tooth come out. No, no, no,
he had to come out in the middle of a segment.
We were talking and all of a sudden, I said,
did you just lose a tooth? Like? Do I bring
it up? I'm like, I have to go yeah, yeah,
yeah I did not.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
This is very modern family.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah oh yeah, yeah. It was in the middle of
him talking, all of a sudden, the tooth just came out.
Like you didn't take a bite of anything, you didn't
I had a piece of pizza or I had wings? Right, No, no, no,
just just talking, the tooth just came out, came out.
I didn't know that, yeah, you know. Then Tyser comes
up with the Hobo drop and then right.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, and then we like this, this whole like facade
of Harmon, just going through like trains and like all
the packages that were on the ground.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, he's Hubby, you know, he's taking all
the pack in out like he's Tom Hanks and in
a castaway and he's although he's just going through everything.
Oh no, no, the wings on. I'm gonna leave that one.
Gonna leave the wings on there. Uh Now. So we
have a lot of stuff happening tonight. It's a big
day in the NFL. And I'm not lying when I'm
(03:20):
not over selling this. This was the most valuable, biggest
day where we've heard from Aaron Rodgers in a while
right now. I mean, clearly he's on the other side
of the mountain coming down when it comes to the
attention that we spend on him. And he went on
Pat McAfee today and he the way he talked, I'm
telling you, at the very beginning of this offseason, I
(03:43):
said he's gonna retire. Right. It's it's it's just not
gonna work for him. There's not like he this year
kind of ended as good as it could, right because
the last seven eight weeks he wasn't bad. Right, He's
still wound up in the top ten for yards and touchdowns. Right, so,
but the beginning of the year was just so awful
and the Jets couldn't But this is how Rogers's gonna
and you can tell that he was close to the end. Now,
(04:05):
maybe would I give him a little bit of needed
more time than expected to get past the achilles injury
because he didn't really look like himself until midway through
the season. He was very skittish. He was throwing off
his back foot all the time, not just half the time,
which is what he likes to do. So I'm like, okay,
I'll open that a little bit. But this looked like
this was as good as it was gonna get. And
is the cliff gonna really hit him hard? So when
the offseason came and the Jets weren't gonna bring him back,
(04:27):
I said, well, that's it, because he's not He doesn't
want to go another team and learn another offense and
all these other things. He's gonna retire. But he kept
things going, kept things alive. Maybe the Vikings were interested,
maybe they weren't. Maybe the Steelers really want him, maybe
they're not. But I said, he just seems like a
guy that's going to retire. But he wants to own
the decision. He doesn't want to be have it be
(04:48):
foisted upon him that nobody wants you, so now you retire. Right.
He clearly has the narrative that he wants, which is
a couple of teams were interested, the Steelers out there
he went and he threw with DK metcalf all to
make it look like, hey, I still have choice. I'm
going to I'm gonna make this decision whether or not
I'm going to retire. And we was We've been left
(05:08):
in in in in the lurch. What's going on? What's
happening now? Listen to Aaron Rodgers. This is from Pat
McAfee show on ESPN earlier today. And you tell me
if he sounds like a guy that's gonna play in
the NFL again.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
To make a commitment to the team is a big thing,
whether you're a first year player or a twenty year vet.
And I had a lot of great conversations with a
lot of teams. Uh not one of those was the Jets,
because that wasn't a great conversation we heard.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So that was an accurate report. Okay, got it?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Okay, that was that that was not an accurate report.
We can get into that in a second. But okay,
but I had some good I had some good conversations.
But I've been upfront with all of them.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So here he is saying, listen, I will get to
the Jets part of it. But that's a different part
of the conversation. This trust me, trust me, We're gonna
get to It's look at I be like, uh huh,
I know. Do you think we're not going to get
to the Jets part of it? But you hear him
say he's got a lot of stuff going on personally.
You know, he's not crazy about the offseason programs, which
he wasn't last year because he went to Egypt. He's
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gonna retire, but he's gonna do it on his own terms.
He's gonna do it in his own time, and he's
going to say this is it for me, I'm done.
Because you think about the options for him, is that Okay,
the Jets didn't want him, which potentially I could see
him coming back because hey, you know, new thing going on,
new players, knew everything. I know the system and I
can stay there. I know the personnel. This can work out.
(06:34):
But him and Mike Tummlin would be a disaster, all right,
It would be an absolute death. You have one guy
that wants to do it his way, the other guy
wants to do it his way. Right, it will be
be a disaster. Is he really gonna go and potentially
ruin his legacy of Boy, look at Aaron Rodgers that
last year in Pittsburgh here or wherever it was. Maybe
he thought, you know, Minnesota, probably because hey, I want
(06:58):
to go play Green Bay two more times. I really
want to stick it to them, and I can just
throw it up to Justin Jefferson like Sam Darnold didn't.
I think everything going to be fine. So maybe that
would be the one where okay, you could convince me
to come back and play. But if he wanted to
be a Steeler, he would be a Steeler. He'd be
on the team now. Be if he wanted to be
a Steeler, he would be. He's ninety five percent retired
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five percent. Well, if something shakes loose, the draft is different.
There's a couple of trade somewhere. Yeah, but he trust me.
Hearing him today, he's done and he knows if I
walk away after last year, that was still a pretty
good ending. I don't know that I can do that
if I play again this year.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
This was the most chatty we've seen in a while
from Aaron Rodgers. He really did say a lot. I
gotta tell you, I did not think he was retiring
because of how the second half of the season ended.
I think he thought I still have it in me
and I can even end on a better note than
just the last half of the season. So I really
(07:59):
did not think he was retiring. I think he wants
to play. I think this retirement is now kind of
being pushed because, like you said, he and the Steelers,
I don't see that being a fit. Just I'm like,
you both want to run the show and Tomlin has
been running the show for years. I don't see how
you come in and kind of run the show. So
(08:19):
I never saw that fit. And I agree with you
he doesn't want to play for the Steelers, or he
would be signed with the Steelers. But I think this
retirement is happening like in real time for him, like
he's realizing that because there isn't other options. I bet
you if there was another option, he would like to
play one more season. He would like to end on
an even better note than the last couple of sea
(08:42):
the last couple of weeks with the Jets. It's Aaron Rodgers.
You know what I mean. I don't see him going
out this way unless he has to go out this way.
And I agree with you now that he wants to
control the way he goes out. But I think he's
been kind of given retirement because of his option. It
was like that was his like, you know, fifth option
(09:03):
in the off season, and now he's reached it. Like
it's like, oh no, this is a real possibility. I
may actually have to retire. And the whole thing with
the money, yes, and the whole thing with the money.
He made a comment that like money is not an option, yeah,
because they're not giving it to you. And I feel
like accepting a low quote unquote low paying job is
him accepting that he is no longer an elite quarterback.
(09:25):
He's saying, I'll just take ten million. I know you
don't need the money. It's more of like what it
signifies you taking that means you're accepting that you are
no longer an elite quarterback. So his options are retirement.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, Look, he's not elite, but is he still pretty
good or could he be good enough with a really
good team.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
But you know, for him, like for him to accept
that he is no longer the Aaron Rodgers, Oh no, no.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I agree, Yeah, yeah, And I think I think he's
one of those guys where in a in a right moment,
which he hey, he seemed really lose talking with him. Absolutely,
we were just hanging out talking today.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
He cursed like seven or eight times in the interview.
He was like, Hey, I'm cool, man, We're good today.
You and me, Pat Man, we just have vie. But
you know, I think you he would say, hey, I'm
I know I'm not the guy I was, but I'm
close enough that I think I can still do it.
And and you know, with this whole waiting the you know,
(10:24):
I keep going back to Phil Simms, who you know,
played football for a long time, you went through a
lot of injuries, won the Super Bowl with the Giants,
and and and you know, great play by play guy
for a long time, a great analyst for a long time.
He always says, whenever someone asked me about retiring, I
always say, man, after football is long, right, so you
need you need to make sure you're done. So I
think there is part of the Rogers thinking where I
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really want to make sure I'm done, like I don't
want to say okay, I feel gone the piece with it.
And then suddenly something happens and the Vikings call and go, hey, dude,
we just found out JJ McCarthy's not healthy, so would
you come back that He doesn't want that to happen.
So there is part of where I just want to
be at peace with it, and I'm still leaving the
door open a tiny bit, but he sounds like he
is like ninety five percent. I'm good, because you do
(11:08):
have to be nervous that man, if I go out
there that one more year, it could be bad. It
could really be bad. And I don't want that to
be the last thing people think of me is me
in a Steeler's jersey and Tomlin yelling at me at
the sideline, and you know, and George Pickens is just,
you know, throwing his helmet on the ground and he's
laying on the ground yell doing snow angels, saying throw
(11:30):
me the football, like I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You're not wrong. It could end a lot worse than
how it ended with the Jets. It was a disappointment.
Obviously the two years with the Jets that no one expected.
I mean, I took them going to the playoffs. I
was also bamboozled by the two years that he was there.
But I again, I think it's just he doesn't want
to admit except say out loud what you just said
(11:53):
of him saying like I'm not as good as I
used to be. He doesn't want to say that. That's
like a tough thing to accept when you have been
maybe the greatst to some people, the greatest quarterback. Some
people think Aaron Rodgers was the greatest quarterback right of
all time, even though he doesn't have the rings. So
that's got to be hard to swallow the pill that
you are no longer that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
When you don't have your fastball, it's tough.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, that's got to be hard, right.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Like the Pages had to tell Bill Belichick, Dude, you
don't have your fastball anymore. It's gone. Yeah, you're throwing
eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And he's his hands are tied.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So you know, hey, Clayton Kershaw, don't have that fastball anymore. Man,
fastball is coming in eighty six eighty seven. Yeah, I
don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I don't know. I know he's having a good rehab.
He's having a good rehab.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Can I tell you how weird it is to see
him throwing in an Oklahoma City Dodgers You are, how
odd is that? That's so odd?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
The only cool thing about those moments are the people
that get to go watch those games.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's like, at least you get to watch Kershaw here,
Like those are the cool moments.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But your thiggest baseball throw your life live, my whole
life in Oklahoma City. Got to see Clayton Kershaw pitch
middle of April twenty twenty five. That's right, got it?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Does? I mean, come on, that's got to be a
cool moment. But yeah, it's it's happening. But I don't
think it's because he wants it.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It's Oh no, of course he would love to be
able to keep you because he realized very late in
his career, Oh wow, I'm the straw that stirs the drink.
What I say matters. And he didn't really, that didn't
hit him until he was thirty six years old, Like wow, Oh,
I can control narratives and all by saying I don't
know if Green Bay is the place for me. Oh
wh whoa, whoa woa. The last four years he's had
the fast lane. Absolutely, it's been all about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Really happen.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I'm like, what's late? My wait, man, I want to
go back. I want to go back ten years and
do it again like that. Everybody has their regrets. I
bet you Tom Brady, if you asked him and said, hey,
what's your biggest regret, he would say, I wish I
would have left the Patriots ten years before I did that.
I would have left after the first ten years and
gone and played someplace else because the funny had in
Tampa winning the Super Bowl, being able to talk and
give his opinions and not worry about dealing with Belichick
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every day, Like, hey, I won and it was great,
But I wish I would have done that. I mean, look, Rogers,
I'm sure has come to that point where I know
I'm not this guy. I know I understand that, but boy,
I think I can still. It's a lot to happen,
and it's good that he's thinking about it, but boy,
like ninety five percent he is done and hanging it up.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
He did sound like that, especially as like I'm in
a committed relationship or a big relationship. I've got other things,
other commitments that I you know, don't want to flake on. Essentially,
I'm giving you a paraphrase, but he mentioned that.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Going back to Egypt again.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Literally what I thought it when I read.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That quote the pyramids.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, okay, so you seem busy, you seem like you're
you're ready to step away, but forced, not forced, but
you get it. It's just like it's it's happening in
a live time.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I want to just real quick because I think this
is a great idea. Just hit me right now, big
money making idea. Okay, do you think you could make
more money? Like I know because some of our friends
actually just went to Egypt. Now, what one of my
daughter's teachers, who we've been very close with, is in
Egypt with her family, and I'm wondering, could you have
a re Could you do an escape room in one
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of the pyramids, like in King Tut's pyramid. Could you
do an escape room and you have to get it's
and it's instead of the one room where you have
to fail, it's just no, you're you're in. You're in
the pyramid and you have to escape.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah, you're gonna escape on a different part of Dubai,
Like you're gonna end up somewhere else. Those things are giant.
There is no end right out here. There's no end
in sight. I don't think the story on those pyramids
sounds incredible, Like it just seems like it's they don't
know how deep they actually go.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah no, no, not yet. Crazy escape room pyramids.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You're never getting out. No, this is it. If you
go into the pyramid, you're not You're not going out.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That's a lot of money. Man, that's a lot of money.
That is it's or it's or it's a movie like
that could be a movie where hey I did this
and then it turns out like, hey, you know that the.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Mummies step into a pyramid.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah yeah, you don't know, and you you you know,
you do something and you activate like the mummies and
they come to life and they're getting after you. Except
the mummies are fast. They don't just go no, they
run after Yeah. Yeah the world wars e mummies. Yeah yeah,
very good. All right, we got to I think we
need to write a shit get in touch with sci fi. No, yes,
I'm not gonna he'll buy this right away.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I think so too.
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on Thursday, the commercial on Saturday during the basketball games
this weekend. So you knew it was just a matter
of time for Coach Prime to weigh in because he's
been hearing people say the last few days. Oh wait,
you're criticizing the retiring of the jury j of Travis
Hunter and Shador Sanders. Oh okay, okay, So Today was
(18:04):
a day where Dian apparently had time for this, because
you know, sometimes I doesn't have time. Sometimes I got
time for this today. Let's talk about this today where
he addressed what he called the elephant in the room.
And there's been a lot of critics and now former
players at Colorado are weighing. Chad Brown, who won the
national title in nineteen ninety, said, hey, there's a lot
of guys from ninety waiting for their jersey to be
(18:24):
retired a team that won the national championship. Why is
this happening? Why is it happening right now? Now we
can get to that part of it. But I think
it was the former players that forced Dion to say,
I have to say something now. The first game wanted
everybody to know is that, Okay, there's only one reason
why we're talking about this as a topic, and it
has to do with the fact of what one of
the players last names is.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Let's get the elephant at the rule. I don't want
to talk about this too long. I'm gonna just talk
briefly and let it go. We talk about Shador. We
ain't talking about nobody else but his last name one Sanders.
We wouldn't have discovered this discussion. The only reason we
would have this discussion is his last name of Sanders.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Uh. Yes, that is exactly why we're having this conversation.
I take exactly why because and the thing is, I'm
telling you he's only doing it, and I get him
wanting to retire Travis Hunters jersey. We'll get to that
coming up in a couple minutes, because I agree with that.
He's an all time great. He wins the Heisman Trophy, right, yep, Yes,
(19:24):
retire his jersey. But it's completely embarrassing for Dion if
you're retiring Travis Hunters jersey and you're not retiring your
son's jersey. All of a sudden, he's thinking, oh look
at that man. Yeah, his his kid. He had to
retire a different jersey before his kid's jersey. And he said, oh,
come in here. I remember the first interview he gave.
Here's your quarterback. He's coming in. It's embarrassing for him
(19:47):
and it's embarrassing for sud Sanders if they don't retire
his jersey first. So here's what we're doing. We're going
to retire Shador and the jersey of Travis Hunter oh oh, oh, okay.
If it was just Travis Hunter, nobody would say anything.
It would be a very small thing of well, hey
he won the Heisman Trophy. Yeah, you're gonna retires her.
He's an all time college football great and all time
(20:10):
Colorado great. Yeah, you're retiring as Jersey. But hey, I'm
putting my kid in here. And and the optic is
terrible because he looks like the youth coach that I'm
only coaching so I can coach my kid, and my
kid gets preferential treatment, like that's that's everybody's complaint with
youth sports. And look, and I coach my kid for
a long time and in soccer and softball, and I
(20:30):
was always very cognitiz stuff. Okay, it's never gonna be
that way. It's not gonna be preferential treatment. And I
think anybody I coach will tell you the same, like, go, yeah,
everything was, everything was good. I never, you know, use
my kid in his example for anything and said oh
you need to be doing this and this this. But
I treated her like, hey, this is.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
This is great.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
This is right now. In between innings or after a goal,
what I say something grab her head and whisper and
say I love you. That was awesome. You know, that's
how it's always did. But like you know, you see
the youth coaches that just hey, you know, obviously you're
only here to coach your kid, and that's the only
one you coach, right, And obviously that's not the case
with Dion. But the optic is there is I'm taking
care of my kid, who, yes, he set a lot
(21:10):
of passing records, but they didn't win anything. He hasn't
even gotten drafted yet, he's not. But the whole thing
is it's embarrassing. And I guarantee if you hooke him
up to a lie detector, that's what he would say is, yeah,
I can't have somebody else's jersey retired before my kid's
jersey's retired.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
It's funny that you say that, because what you're doing
now is embarrassing. So it's all embarrassing. So you're not
saving yourself from embarrassment here, because it does completely look
like what you just described preferential treatment because he is
your son, and the thing is like, he shouldn't be
embarrassed because of what Travis Hunter did. It's not like
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Travis Hunter was like, oh, slightly better than Shador Sanders
obviously different positions. But what Travis Hunter did nobody else
has really done. We haven't seen this. He is a
unicorn in the make like to compare both is a
little bit unfortunate for Travis Hunter. And in reality, it's like,
(22:06):
you should not be embarrassed that your son isn't exactly
at the same level as what Travis Hunter did. Like
you said, he broke records, and he put Colorado with
his dion, his son, and Travis Hunter put Colorado on
the map. They did their job. They we are talking
about them all the time, but they didn't win. Did
they win their bowl game? No?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Nor Hey they were still over five I remember thirteen
twelve in the last two peas.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
No, absolutely, no, absolutely, But I'm just like, I totally agree.
And the timing is just so bad. The timing is bad.
It makes no sense, and it just looks like it's
about you. You, you and your son. So, yeah, you're
trying to not be embarrassed. You're still this is embarrassing
that you thought you needed to do this.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, it look the thing is is that And here's
where here's what I agree with him, right, And here's
all I think the former Colorado players need to take
a step back. Right. If he had just stopped with
Travis Hunter, right, there would have been a little bit
of disagreement. But he's so in back because it's embarrassing. Right.
It's as a dad, as a coach, because he's always
I'm a dad, I'm a dad on this right. He's
not someone that that blurs them, that wants to say, hey,
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I'm a coach. Look, his name is Sanders. That's why
it's me. It's me, me, me, me me, right, Okay.
But the thing is that this is what I agree
with him on because while he's embarrassing, the only reason
it's being done, I get why he's doing it right
now here here's Deon Sanders. A little bit later on
in the interview where Dion talked about just hey, people
say it's too early. Here's why I'm retiring the jerseys
of both these guys.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
It's been so many things accomplished at this university, expeditiously.
It's been unbelievable, and I think we should be appreciative,
we should be thankful. We have a room full of
wonderful people that covers us, and I don't I don't
know if you all were in his room two three
years ago. Some I mean very few, okay, but I
mean it's a new day. We're doing things a little different.
(24:01):
I think the training table, I think the food is better.
Nobody's saying them, but then it's a whole lot of
things that are brighter, and they're better because someone stands
on business and makes it that way, and he's resigent
when it comes to it being that way, because everything
we do is to improve everything for us. I think
it was hot in here one time. I say, let's
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turn it there an air condition of a night on
on that night game right the next time we came in,
what happened. I think about those details.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, that's why we got it. We gotta retire jerseys
because we got the air conditioner working. The training table
is better. Hey, everybody, when you look up and see
those jerseys up there, I watch you, remember the food
was good and we turned the air conditioning on. Ear
for everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I mean, I mean, listen, I get what he is
saying because I think going to the Clippers, for example,
I think the greatest Clipper of all time is Blake
Griffin because of what he did for the Organization's not
Tom Tolbert. Okay, it's not Elton Brand.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
You know, it's not Brent Barry.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
It's not Brent Barry. It's not olden polonies.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Okay, sure it is.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's because of what he did for the franchise, right,
Like I think he's the greatest Clipper of all time.
Not the best basketball player to put on a Clipper
jersey probably Kawhi Leonard, but he's the greatest Clipper of
all time because of what he did. So there is
a little bit of truth to what he is saying.
Like what the three of them managed to do in
such a short amount of time is pretty impressive. Still
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don't agree with retiring both of their jerseys, but I
get what he's not wrong. What they did is impressive.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Any what he wants to do is and this is
what the other players have to realize. This is because
and this goes into the world as whole, is that
we're in a time now where everything moves at warp speed,
whether it's politics or sports, and norms that we've seen
for thirty forty years get changed and go out the
window in a week. We see that now. Yes, for
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all these players in the nineteen ninety National championship team,
the team that won. They all want to get their
jersey he retired, right, Eric Bienemy, Darian Hagen, Tim James
who got clipped on the big rocket Ishmael punt return
that got called back like all they got. But that's
just the way. You have to wait. You have to wait,
you have to wait. But now, no, everything changes, and
so now hey I'm here. I want to do something new.
I wanted something spotlight in Colorado, so I want to
(26:17):
do it. Yeah, okay, retiring Travis Hunter's jersey. I get it.
Doing it the spring game, I get it. Right before
the draft, I get I get all of that. I
get why he's doing it. And the former Colorado players
who are upset have to understand this is just the
way the world goes right now. Yes, you played in
a different era. Things were different. Things are always better,
moving faster. Now, I'm sorry you didn't get your jersey retired.
(26:38):
Maybe this will put a spotlight on it, because clearly
it wasn't happening up until now. Maybe now this will
help grease the skids for you so that Dion can
say you're welcome. But you know what, That's the one
thing that I agree with him on is that he's
looking for a place to spotlight something really good. And
when's he gonna have another Heisman Trophy winner? Right, No,
let's do it right now so people remember this. And
I can't fault him for that because that is him
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trying to find an opening, trying to find relevancy, trying
to find attention and optics. I completely get that part,
and that's what the critics have to get is that
retiring Travis Hunter's jersey, Yeah, you should do that.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
And also, like you hit it right on the head,
he has to do it now, Like he can't do
it in a couple of years, because what if she
Door Sanders doesn't have a great career in the NFL,
Like what if, right, what if Travis Hunter does not
have the career that people are expecting, and then in
a couple of years he wants to retire them, people
are gonna be like, why they're not even relevant anymore.
(27:34):
He has to do it now. Absolutely, There's no way
he can do it later because he doesn't know the
future unless obviously, in five years they're both kicking ass
in the NFL, and then you retire their jerseys and
everyone's like, yeah, but you just don't know what the
future holds, so he has to do it now.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
It's still well, Travis Hunter, you could wait on could
because no matter what, right, But no, because no matter what,
Hunter is a less Absolutely I could do it a
year from now. You're doing years from now, like Hunter,
I mean, this guy is unbelievable. And I look, I'm
pretty positive. I feel good that choodor Sandah's gonna have
a really good NFL career. The guy's a really good quarterback.
But at the same time, yeah, if if he falls
(28:11):
on his face and suddenly after in two years, hey
we're gonna retire your Joey. That's okay, boy, that's awkward, awkward.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Awkward time.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Let's get it in now. Yes, let's get it now
while we can. So, I look, I under I understand
why he's doing it, but wow, I mean, it's really
it's just retiring. You know, when you retire your son's jersey, there,
you know, you're blurring the line with what your son
accomplished and what somebody else will come because you can't
(28:39):
sit here a dummy that okay, what Shador Sander's accomplished
of Colorado is even close to Travis Hunter, even close exactly.
Guy played every freaking play of every game, like eighty
six percent of all the snaps. The guy's an absolute superstar,
and he's been a superstar for a couple of years,
and he's gonna be the biggest superstar out of this
draft class. People are gonna buy his jersey as soon
(28:59):
as he gets drafted. People gonna have their their phones
with their finger on it going good again, It good
again right now. I mean, that's how great Travis Hunter is.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
So which one is worse him retiring his son's jersey
or Lebron James bringing Bronni to the Lakers. What is
a worse example of nepotism? Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Wow, Wow, that's tough.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You know what I will.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Say, I am an ask Man's something.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I can I feel a little bit better about. Is
I feel better about Lebron and Bronni because Browny never
really asked for any of this.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Sure you like that.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
He understands that I'm getting opportunities because of who I am.
But I'm not jumping around here and and and and
and being combative about you know, she door is a
little bit more. But there's also more talented. Again, he's
gonna have a really good career in the NFL. I
have no doubt he should go in the top three
of the draft, right, I said, But wow, I mean
you look at the content rounds. I mean, that's the
optic that screams to me, is that? Yeah? How that
(30:00):
look if you don't have your jersey retired and Travis
Hunter does? I got, what's what's dinner going to be
like in the Sanders House and you know Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Did Travis? You know we couldn't retire your jersey. I'm
just saying, couldn't do it. We had to retire in
I had to retire to do it. I had to
do it. Like That's kind of what it is.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
He just didn't want to deal with it at the
dinner table exit.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Out about a Fresca X at Moncey Milanos, Jason Smith,
Moncey and for Mike Harbin tonight. So yeah, just think
that's the optic. That's the reason. Speaking of reasons and optics,
Monty's got them all now. With how the results in
sports have come down tonight, with what's trending, I.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Know it's weird that there's no baseball going on tonight.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
No NBA because the Mets already won. That's all you wan?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Yeah, but how did want Soto do?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
The Mets won won, they did.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
He got mooed tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
They They definitely beat the Cardinals without Juan Soto's help.
For to one was the final score. The Rangers and
the Angels was the last game of the day and
Texas held on five to three. The Yankees and the
were tied for many innings until the Yankees took the
lead in the sixth inning. Six' three was the final
score against The. Rays Jazz Chisholm junior was ejected in
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the seventh inning after a strike three call that was
not a strike more of a makeup, call and he
didn't like. It he was. Ejected yankees win. Anyway The
tigers had a six to one win over The, royals
and The orioles defeated The guardian six to. Two ryan O'Hearn
had a three run. Shot Gunner henderson had a solo
shot in the. WIN a week from today is THE
(31:29):
Nfl Draft, jason and for the first time in, history
a team is gonna take their draft operations to a
fire station when THE La rams draft from THE La
Fire department's air. Operations, nice that's what they're gonna.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Say are they gonna sound the alarm and stuff when
they're ready to draft like? That that would be.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
COOL i don't.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Know is someone gonna slide down the?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
POLES i better See Sean day go down that. Pick
he's making the. Decision.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Absolutely are they gonna Show Billy baldwin And Jennifer Jason
lee hooking up like in back? Draft are they gonna show?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
THAT i don't think they're gonna show. THAT i don't.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Know there's even that was on top of the big.
RINGS i didn't know.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
That but that'll be exciting a week from.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Today, Yes, oh the draft will be.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
Excited draft will be exciting a week from, today and
we'll see how they actually incorporate that whole area in THE.
Nba grizzlies Guard Jahn, Morant he's gonna be a game
time decision For friday's game to play in against The
mavericks because of that injured.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Ankle he didn't even practice today because of. It so
game time, Decision.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Jaw moran against My, Mavericks My. Mavericks here we go.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Oh, no back to. Us jason coming up.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Next, yes we get to a lesson that a big
time SUPERSTAR i hope has learned in the last couple
of days with the way he's been treated by. Fans that's,
next right, Here Jason. Smith Monte bolagno's in For. Harmon
this Is Fox Sports.
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so you, KNOW i always Say moncy that IF i
wasn't doing sports talk RADIF i was in the media
for for a. Living we're doing WHAT i. DID i
would be a big time public relations. Consultant i'd be
able to tell athletes and coaches and, say, hey don't say,
this that's.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Stupid you, know people need.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
That here's what you need to say. Instead, yeah and you,
KNOW i thought about that tonight As i'm driving In
i'm listening to The mets, game And Wan soto comes up,
first two times, up strike, out ground, out and he gets. Booed,
Okay Juan soto is boo nineteen games into a seven
hundred and sixty five million dollar. Contract he is getting
(34:10):
booed By mets, fans thirty eight thousand, fans and that
he was getting. Booed and he's not just getting booed
because it's a slow, start, right that's one. Thing but
he's got to understand that when he says something, now
it's different than any other time in his. Career he's
been a big star in baseball for a, while, right
whether There's nationals or The padres last year at The
(34:31):
yankees in The World. Series but now you sign for that,
money things are. Different everything you, say everything you, do
has a microscope on, it and when he did an
interview the other, day feeling he needed to defend his slow, start, like,
dude come, on, man you what are you. Doing i'm
not seeing the PITCHES i saw last year BECAUSE i
had the best hitter in baseball hitting behind me And Aaron.
(34:51):
Judge how do you think that's gonna? Play because now
it's backpage and now it's become a national, headline and
saying that is. Stupid AND i hope that THIS i
would say to him, THIS i would, SAY i hope
it's a very inexpensive lesson for. You you start getting,
hot you know everybody's gonna forget about. That but that's
just stupid to, say especially since it's. Inaccurate because, yes
(35:14):
Is Aaron judge having a great, Year, absolutely but you
know he's having the next best Year Peede, alonzo who's
leading the league IN rbi in his third in. Ops,
okay Pen alonzo's having a phenomenal. Year don't sit here
and tell Me i'm being pitched. Differently it's not Like
Peede alonzo is initting one thirty and he's got eighteen
strikeouts in the last twenty five at. Bats he has been,
Fantastic so to sit. Here it's a little weird that
(35:37):
he's got to sit here and try to defend his
his stats. Early AND i get that all baseball players
love their, stats but, wow, man you really feel the
need after fifteen games to, say, hey, Hey i'm seeing different.
Pitches did not when the guy behind you is absolutely.
Raking don't sit here and tell me, That oh it's about.
That and even if you think that, way you keep
(35:57):
that to, yourself because all you did was stir up
the fans because he doesn't like when the fans. Pull
he's even said that in. INTERVIEWS i don't like WHEN
I i don't like anybody fans. Booming, well, yeah you
shouldn't have come To New.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
York then he played sports talking about but this is
where he's got to get.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
That you, know what you say makes, news and it
seems like what you said was kind of. Innocuous you
were trying to say something nice About Aaron, judge but
all you look at is, that, oh you took a
shot at The mets lineup And Pete, alonzo who is
a very well, respected incredibly respected met in the last
five or six. Years what the hell are you? Doing
don't be, stupid don't say stuff like, that and not just.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
A well Respected, met but like one of the best
hitters The mets have. Had has come in clutch moments
for The, mets like do you.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Want to play that home run against The brewers and
last year run.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Like recent, times it's, like was were you trying to
say something positive About Aaron judge but you definitely took
a dig at your own. Teammate it made no. Sense
it's like less is, More, juan less is. More all
you had to say was, like, Hey i'm going through a.
Slump hopefully they can get out of there real. SOON i,
mean in his last twenty one at, bats two, hits,
(37:06):
yeah home.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Runs but here's the, Thing you're in first, place right
everything The mets aren't two and. Thirteen you're in first.
Place the thing that WHERE i get to this it
bothers me a little, bit is BECAUSE i DO i
think once he starts h, look he's too good a, player,
Absolutely but it bothers. Me it bothers me that AND
i think the red flag is that he's this concerned
about his batting average after fifteen, games feeling the need
(37:28):
to defend himself after this quick in the season about
his slow, start not just it's, fine it's. Fifteen Because Francisco,
lindora he starts, out he starts. Out he sucks every
year at. Eight he always, SAYS i WISH i could
just start In, may, Right april is terrible for. Him
now he's hitting a little bit better this, year but he's, like, ya,
HEY i WISH i was. Better, okay, great but and
it would be one thing if he was just not.
(37:49):
It but the fact that he felt the need to
do that to that tells me, like, mentally are you
ready for? This like are you? Ready because you need
really big shoulders to handle. This AND i know you
think it was great last, year but you were protected
in The yankees by a lot of other. Players you
protected being on The West coast with The, padres The.
Nationals this is all New. Man you signed for that.
Money you have the most money in the history Of
(38:09):
Major League. Baseball so, okay you got to show you
have big. Shoulders AND i don't know that he has the.
Shoulders you.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Know it wasn't even just defending. Himself it was an,
excuse an excuse as to why he's not. Performing like
that's what's. Sad and you're, right It's. April why are you?
Tripping that's that that would bring me a little bit
of uncomfortable feeling IF i was A mets, fan because it's,
like you're stressed, already you find the need to do
this In APRIL a SIMPLE i Know i'm. SLUMPING i
(38:37):
GOTTA i gotta pick it.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Up but, guy but the guys that picked me, up
we're in first. Place you're dangerous because WHEN i start,
hitting it's gonna be even. Best that's what you.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Say so many things that you could have, said but
then you say, That and also like If i'm If
i'm A mets, Fan i'm also, like, wait are you
regretting your? Decision why are you talking about The? Yankees
you are no longer on that, team so why why
are you even bringing them? Up what the hell is
that you have to do with?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
That?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Absolutely, no, no.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Oh, no, Yeah i'm telling you that that's the red
flag For why do you feel the need to have
to defend not hitting that? Early you got to be, ready,
Man you're the man for fifteen. Years you're the man
for all those millions of. Dollars coming up, next we
get back into the BIGGEST nfl story of The, Day Jason,
Smith Monzi bologno is in For Mike. Carmon you are
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listening To Fox Sports. Radio but The mets did win.
Today they did, win great start first. Place they did
win one want to make sure people know. That Juan
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you know I I.
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Guess said I wanted to fulfill as much of Harmon
as possible. You know what I'm saying this, That's what
it is the best friend ass man, not the well
dressed hobo. I am an ass man. I am an
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Speaker 1 (01:06):
Not not the well dressed hobo.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Not the well dressed hobo.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Not you know, you know, listen, we're we're bringing back
the word hobo. You know, nobody hobo. Nobody really uses
that that much. We've kind of brought hobo back.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I love hobo. When I think of hobo, I do
think of like, in order for you to be a hobo,
you have to be missing, or you have to have
a hole in your sock, and your too has to
be like sticking out. Oh that's hobo.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I think. I think of the guy like the but
has a face like a clown with the bowler hat,
and and he jumps a train. Sure, you know, one
of those one of those trains that go like hey,
it starts a new in New Jersey and it ends
all the way down in Clearwater, Florida. All Right, I'm on, like,
that's their thing.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I think of hobo, and I bet you he has
a hole in his sock.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, the toasting of the brown shoes
and very good. All right, we're bringing it. We brought
hobo back. We did, Tyson, you feel about bringing hobo back?
We brought hobo back.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I mean we brought something else back. Well, well we
can bring other stuff back now too, but just we
have Hobo right.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Now, Hobo. Yeah, okay, all right, that's good. Okay, good.
So we're going with Hobo. Except why that happened though.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Right because he was missing a tooth.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No, no one's missing any No one's missing any teeth.
No one's missing. Harmon does still miss a tooth? Yeah
he did, He's just a placement. He did have. Okay,
he did have a tooth come out. No, no, no,
he had to come out in the middle of a segment.
We were talking and all of a sudden, I said,
did you just lose a tooth? Like? Do I bring
it up? I'm like, I have to go yeah, yeah,
yeah I did not.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
This is very modern family.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah oh yeah, yeah. It was in the middle of
him talking, all of a sudden, the tooth just came out.
Like you didn't take a bite of anything, you didn't
I had a piece of pizza or I had wings? Right, No, no, no,
just just talking, the tooth just came out, came out.
I didn't know that, yeah, you know. Then Tyser comes
up with the Hobo drop and then right.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Yeah, and then we like this, this whole like facade
of Harmon, just going through like trains and like all
the packages that were on the ground.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, he's Hubby, you know, he's taking all
the pack in out like he's Tom Hanks and in
a castaway and he's although he's just going through everything.
Oh no, no, the wings on. I'm gonna leave that one.
Gonna leave the wings on there. Uh Now. So we
have a lot of stuff happening tonight. It's a big
day in the NFL. And I'm not lying when I'm
(03:20):
not over selling this. This was the most valuable, biggest
day where we've heard from Aaron Rodgers in a while
right now. I mean, clearly he's on the other side
of the mountain coming down when it comes to the
attention that we spend on him. And he went on
Pat McAfee today and he the way he talked, I'm
telling you, at the very beginning of this offseason, I
(03:43):
said he's gonna retire. Right. It's it's it's just not
gonna work for him. There's not like he this year
kind of ended as good as it could, right because
the last seven eight weeks he wasn't bad. Right, He's
still wound up in the top ten for yards and touchdowns. Right, so,
but the beginning of the year was just so awful
and the Jets couldn't But this is how Rogers's gonna
and you can tell that he was close to the end. Now,
(04:05):
maybe would I give him a little bit of needed
more time than expected to get past the achilles injury
because he didn't really look like himself until midway through
the season. He was very skittish. He was throwing off
his back foot all the time, not just half the time,
which is what he likes to do. So I'm like, okay,
I'll open that a little bit. But this looked like
this was as good as it was gonna get. And
is the cliff gonna really hit him hard? So when
the offseason came and the Jets weren't gonna bring him back,
(04:27):
I said, well, that's it, because he's not He doesn't
want to go another team and learn another offense and
all these other things. He's gonna retire. But he kept
things going, kept things alive. Maybe the Vikings were interested,
maybe they weren't. Maybe the Steelers really want him, maybe
they're not. But I said, he just seems like a
guy that's going to retire. But he wants to own
the decision. He doesn't want to be have it be
(04:48):
foisted upon him that nobody wants you, so now you retire. Right.
He clearly has the narrative that he wants, which is
a couple of teams were interested, the Steelers out there
he went and he threw with DK metcalf all to
make it look like, hey, I still have choice. I'm
going to I'm gonna make this decision whether or not
I'm going to retire. And we was We've been left
(05:08):
in in in in the lurch. What's going on? What's
happening now? Listen to Aaron Rodgers. This is from Pat
McAfee show on ESPN earlier today. And you tell me
if he sounds like a guy that's gonna play in
the NFL again.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
To make a commitment to the team is a big thing,
whether you're a first year player or a twenty year vet.
And I had a lot of great conversations with a
lot of teams. Uh not one of those was the Jets,
because that wasn't a great conversation we heard.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So that was an accurate report. Okay, got it?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Okay, that was that that was not an accurate report.
We can get into that in a second. But okay,
but I had some good I had some good conversations.
But I've been upfront with all of them.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So here he is saying, listen, I will get to
the Jets part of it. But that's a different part
of the conversation. This trust me, trust me, We're gonna
get to It's look at I be like, uh huh,
I know. Do you think we're not going to get
to the Jets part of it? But you hear him
say he's got a lot of stuff going on personally.
You know, he's not crazy about the offseason programs, which
he wasn't last year because he went to Egypt. He's
(06:12):
gonna retire, but he's gonna do it on his own terms.
He's gonna do it in his own time, and he's
going to say this is it for me, I'm done.
Because you think about the options for him, is that Okay,
the Jets didn't want him, which potentially I could see
him coming back because hey, you know, new thing going on,
new players, knew everything. I know the system and I
can stay there. I know the personnel. This can work out.
(06:34):
But him and Mike Tummlin would be a disaster, all right,
It would be an absolute death. You have one guy
that wants to do it his way, the other guy
wants to do it his way. Right, it will be
be a disaster. Is he really gonna go and potentially
ruin his legacy of Boy, look at Aaron Rodgers that
last year in Pittsburgh here or wherever it was. Maybe
he thought, you know, Minnesota, probably because hey, I want
(06:58):
to go play Green Bay two more times. I really
want to stick it to them, and I can just
throw it up to Justin Jefferson like Sam Darnold didn't.
I think everything going to be fine. So maybe that
would be the one where okay, you could convince me
to come back and play. But if he wanted to
be a Steeler, he would be a Steeler. He'd be
on the team now. Be if he wanted to be
a Steeler, he would be. He's ninety five percent retired
(07:19):
five percent. Well, if something shakes loose, the draft is different.
There's a couple of trade somewhere. Yeah, but he trust me.
Hearing him today, he's done and he knows if I
walk away after last year, that was still a pretty
good ending. I don't know that I can do that
if I play again this year.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
This was the most chatty we've seen in a while
from Aaron Rodgers. He really did say a lot. I
gotta tell you, I did not think he was retiring
because of how the second half of the season ended.
I think he thought I still have it in me
and I can even end on a better note than
just the last half of the season. So I really
(07:59):
did not think he was retiring. I think he wants
to play. I think this retirement is now kind of
being pushed because, like you said, he and the Steelers,
I don't see that being a fit. Just I'm like,
you both want to run the show and Tomlin has
been running the show for years. I don't see how
you come in and kind of run the show. So
(08:19):
I never saw that fit. And I agree with you
he doesn't want to play for the Steelers, or he
would be signed with the Steelers. But I think this
retirement is happening like in real time for him, like
he's realizing that because there isn't other options. I bet
you if there was another option, he would like to
play one more season. He would like to end on
an even better note than the last couple of sea
(08:42):
the last couple of weeks with the Jets. It's Aaron Rodgers.
You know what I mean. I don't see him going
out this way unless he has to go out this way.
And I agree with you now that he wants to
control the way he goes out. But I think he's
been kind of given retirement because of his option. It
was like that was his like, you know, fifth option
(09:03):
in the off season, and now he's reached it. Like
it's like, oh no, this is a real possibility. I
may actually have to retire. And the whole thing with
the money, yes, and the whole thing with the money.
He made a comment that like money is not an option, yeah,
because they're not giving it to you. And I feel
like accepting a low quote unquote low paying job is
him accepting that he is no longer an elite quarterback.
(09:25):
He's saying, I'll just take ten million. I know you
don't need the money. It's more of like what it
signifies you taking that means you're accepting that you are
no longer an elite quarterback. So his options are retirement.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, Look, he's not elite, but is he still pretty
good or could he be good enough with a really
good team.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
But you know, for him, like for him to accept
that he is no longer the Aaron Rodgers, Oh no, no.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I agree, Yeah, yeah, And I think I think he's
one of those guys where in a in a right moment,
which he hey, he seemed really lose talking with him. Absolutely,
we were just hanging out talking today.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
He cursed like seven or eight times in the interview.
He was like, Hey, I'm cool, man, We're good today.
You and me, Pat Man, we just have vie. But
you know, I think you he would say, hey, I'm
I know I'm not the guy I was, but I'm
close enough that I think I can still do it.
And and you know, with this whole waiting the you know,
(10:24):
I keep going back to Phil Simms, who you know,
played football for a long time, you went through a
lot of injuries, won the Super Bowl with the Giants,
and and and you know, great play by play guy
for a long time, a great analyst for a long time.
He always says, whenever someone asked me about retiring, I
always say, man, after football is long, right, so you
need you need to make sure you're done. So I
think there is part of the Rogers thinking where I
(10:45):
really want to make sure I'm done, like I don't
want to say okay, I feel gone the piece with it.
And then suddenly something happens and the Vikings call and go, hey, dude,
we just found out JJ McCarthy's not healthy, so would
you come back that He doesn't want that to happen.
So there is part of where I just want to
be at peace with it, and I'm still leaving the
door open a tiny bit, but he sounds like he
is like ninety five percent. I'm good, because you do
(11:08):
have to be nervous that man, if I go out
there that one more year, it could be bad. It
could really be bad. And I don't want that to
be the last thing people think of me is me
in a Steeler's jersey and Tomlin yelling at me at
the sideline, and you know, and George Pickens is just,
you know, throwing his helmet on the ground and he's
laying on the ground yell doing snow angels, saying throw
(11:30):
me the football, like I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You're not wrong. It could end a lot worse than
how it ended with the Jets. It was a disappointment.
Obviously the two years with the Jets that no one expected.
I mean, I took them going to the playoffs. I
was also bamboozled by the two years that he was there.
But I again, I think it's just he doesn't want
to admit except say out loud what you just said
(11:53):
of him saying like I'm not as good as I
used to be. He doesn't want to say that. That's
like a tough thing to accept when you have been
maybe the greatst to some people, the greatest quarterback. Some
people think Aaron Rodgers was the greatest quarterback right of
all time, even though he doesn't have the rings. So
that's got to be hard to swallow the pill that
you are no longer that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
When you don't have your fastball, it's tough.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, that's got to be hard, right.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Like the Pages had to tell Bill Belichick, Dude, you
don't have your fastball anymore. It's gone. Yeah, you're throwing
eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And he's his hands are tied.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So you know, hey, Clayton Kershaw, don't have that fastball anymore. Man,
fastball is coming in eighty six eighty seven. Yeah, I
don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I don't know. I know he's having a good rehab.
He's having a good rehab.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Can I tell you how weird it is to see
him throwing in an Oklahoma City Dodgers You are, how
odd is that? That's so odd?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
The only cool thing about those moments are the people
that get to go watch those games.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's like, at least you get to watch Kershaw here,
Like those are the cool moments.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But your thiggest baseball throw your life live, my whole
life in Oklahoma City. Got to see Clayton Kershaw pitch
middle of April twenty twenty five. That's right, got it?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Does? I mean, come on, that's got to be a
cool moment. But yeah, it's it's happening. But I don't
think it's because he wants it.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It's Oh no, of course he would love to be
able to keep you because he realized very late in
his career, Oh wow, I'm the straw that stirs the drink.
What I say matters. And he didn't really, that didn't
hit him until he was thirty six years old, Like wow, Oh,
I can control narratives and all by saying I don't
know if Green Bay is the place for me. Oh
wh whoa, whoa woa. The last four years he's had
the fast lane. Absolutely, it's been all about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Really happen.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I'm like, what's late? My wait, man, I want to
go back. I want to go back ten years and
do it again like that. Everybody has their regrets. I
bet you Tom Brady, if you asked him and said, hey,
what's your biggest regret, he would say, I wish I
would have left the Patriots ten years before I did that.
I would have left after the first ten years and
gone and played someplace else because the funny had in
Tampa winning the Super Bowl, being able to talk and
give his opinions and not worry about dealing with Belichick
(13:46):
every day, Like, hey, I won and it was great,
But I wish I would have done that. I mean, look, Rogers,
I'm sure has come to that point where I know
I'm not this guy. I know I understand that, but boy,
I think I can still. It's a lot to happen,
and it's good that he's thinking about it, but boy,
like ninety five percent he is done and hanging it up.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
He did sound like that, especially as like I'm in
a committed relationship or a big relationship. I've got other things,
other commitments that I you know, don't want to flake on. Essentially,
I'm giving you a paraphrase, but he mentioned that.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Going back to Egypt again.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Literally what I thought it when I read.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That quote the pyramids.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, okay, so you seem busy, you seem like you're
you're ready to step away, but forced, not forced, but
you get it. It's just like it's it's happening in
a live time.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I want to just real quick because I think this
is a great idea. Just hit me right now, big
money making idea. Okay, do you think you could make
more money? Like I know because some of our friends
actually just went to Egypt. Now, what one of my
daughter's teachers, who we've been very close with, is in
Egypt with her family, and I'm wondering, could you have
a re Could you do an escape room in one
(14:53):
of the pyramids, like in King Tut's pyramid. Could you
do an escape room and you have to get it's
and it's instead of the one room where you have
to fail, it's just no, you're you're in. You're in
the pyramid and you have to escape.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah, you're gonna escape on a different part of Dubai,
Like you're gonna end up somewhere else. Those things are giant.
There is no end right out here. There's no end
in sight. I don't think the story on those pyramids
sounds incredible, Like it just seems like it's they don't
know how deep they actually go.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah no, no, not yet. Crazy escape room pyramids.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You're never getting out. No, this is it. If you
go into the pyramid, you're not You're not going out.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That's a lot of money. Man, that's a lot of money.
That is it's or it's or it's a movie like
that could be a movie where hey I did this
and then it turns out like, hey, you know that the.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Mummies step into a pyramid.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah yeah, you don't know, and you you you know,
you do something and you activate like the mummies and
they come to life and they're getting after you. Except
the mummies are fast. They don't just go no, they
run after Yeah. Yeah the world wars e mummies. Yeah yeah,
very good. All right, we got to I think we
need to write a shit get in touch with sci fi. No, yes,
I'm not gonna he'll buy this right away.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I think so too.
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on Thursday, the commercial on Saturday during the basketball games
this weekend. So you knew it was just a matter
of time for Coach Prime to weigh in because he's
been hearing people say the last few days. Oh wait,
you're criticizing the retiring of the jury j of Travis
Hunter and Shador Sanders. Oh okay, okay, So Today was
(18:04):
a day where Dian apparently had time for this, because
you know, sometimes I doesn't have time. Sometimes I got
time for this today. Let's talk about this today where
he addressed what he called the elephant in the room.
And there's been a lot of critics and now former
players at Colorado are weighing. Chad Brown, who won the
national title in nineteen ninety, said, hey, there's a lot
of guys from ninety waiting for their jersey to be
(18:24):
retired a team that won the national championship. Why is
this happening? Why is it happening right now? Now we
can get to that part of it. But I think
it was the former players that forced Dion to say,
I have to say something now. The first game wanted
everybody to know is that, Okay, there's only one reason
why we're talking about this as a topic, and it
has to do with the fact of what one of
the players last names is.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Let's get the elephant at the rule. I don't want
to talk about this too long. I'm gonna just talk
briefly and let it go. We talk about Shador. We
ain't talking about nobody else but his last name one Sanders.
We wouldn't have discovered this discussion. The only reason we
would have this discussion is his last name of Sanders.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Uh. Yes, that is exactly why we're having this conversation.
I take exactly why because and the thing is, I'm
telling you he's only doing it, and I get him
wanting to retire Travis Hunters jersey. We'll get to that
coming up in a couple minutes, because I agree with that.
He's an all time great. He wins the Heisman Trophy, right, yep, Yes,
(19:24):
retire his jersey. But it's completely embarrassing for Dion if
you're retiring Travis Hunters jersey and you're not retiring your
son's jersey. All of a sudden, he's thinking, oh look
at that man. Yeah, his his kid. He had to
retire a different jersey before his kid's jersey. And he said, oh,
come in here. I remember the first interview he gave.
Here's your quarterback. He's coming in. It's embarrassing for him
(19:47):
and it's embarrassing for sud Sanders if they don't retire
his jersey first. So here's what we're doing. We're going
to retire Shador and the jersey of Travis Hunter oh oh, oh, okay.
If it was just Travis Hunter, nobody would say anything.
It would be a very small thing of well, hey
he won the Heisman Trophy. Yeah, you're gonna retires her.
He's an all time college football great and all time
(20:10):
Colorado great. Yeah, you're retiring as Jersey. But hey, I'm
putting my kid in here. And and the optic is
terrible because he looks like the youth coach that I'm
only coaching so I can coach my kid, and my
kid gets preferential treatment, like that's that's everybody's complaint with
youth sports. And look, and I coach my kid for
a long time and in soccer and softball, and I
(20:30):
was always very cognitiz stuff. Okay, it's never gonna be
that way. It's not gonna be preferential treatment. And I
think anybody I coach will tell you the same, like, go, yeah,
everything was, everything was good. I never, you know, use
my kid in his example for anything and said oh
you need to be doing this and this this. But
I treated her like, hey, this is.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
This is great.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
This is right now. In between innings or after a goal,
what I say something grab her head and whisper and
say I love you. That was awesome. You know, that's
how it's always did. But like you know, you see
the youth coaches that just hey, you know, obviously you're
only here to coach your kid, and that's the only
one you coach, right, And obviously that's not the case
with Dion. But the optic is there is I'm taking
care of my kid, who, yes, he set a lot
(21:10):
of passing records, but they didn't win anything. He hasn't
even gotten drafted yet, he's not. But the whole thing
is it's embarrassing. And I guarantee if you hooke him
up to a lie detector, that's what he would say is, yeah,
I can't have somebody else's jersey retired before my kid's
jersey's retired.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
It's funny that you say that, because what you're doing
now is embarrassing. So it's all embarrassing. So you're not
saving yourself from embarrassment here, because it does completely look
like what you just described preferential treatment because he is
your son, and the thing is like, he shouldn't be
embarrassed because of what Travis Hunter did. It's not like
(21:46):
Travis Hunter was like, oh, slightly better than Shador Sanders
obviously different positions. But what Travis Hunter did nobody else
has really done. We haven't seen this. He is a
unicorn in the make like to compare both is a
little bit unfortunate for Travis Hunter. And in reality, it's like,
(22:06):
you should not be embarrassed that your son isn't exactly
at the same level as what Travis Hunter did. Like
you said, he broke records, and he put Colorado with
his dion, his son, and Travis Hunter put Colorado on
the map. They did their job. They we are talking
about them all the time, but they didn't win. Did
they win their bowl game? No?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Nor Hey they were still over five I remember thirteen
twelve in the last two peas.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
No, absolutely, no, absolutely, But I'm just like, I totally agree.
And the timing is just so bad. The timing is bad.
It makes no sense, and it just looks like it's
about you. You, you and your son. So, yeah, you're
trying to not be embarrassed. You're still this is embarrassing
that you thought you needed to do this.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, it look the thing is is that And here's
where here's what I agree with him, right, And here's
all I think the former Colorado players need to take
a step back. Right. If he had just stopped with
Travis Hunter, right, there would have been a little bit
of disagreement. But he's so in back because it's embarrassing. Right.
It's as a dad, as a coach, because he's always
I'm a dad, I'm a dad on this right. He's
not someone that that blurs them, that wants to say, hey,
(23:18):
I'm a coach. Look, his name is Sanders. That's why
it's me. It's me, me, me, me me, right, Okay.
But the thing is that this is what I agree
with him on because while he's embarrassing, the only reason
it's being done, I get why he's doing it right
now here here's Deon Sanders. A little bit later on
in the interview where Dion talked about just hey, people
say it's too early. Here's why I'm retiring the jerseys
of both these guys.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
It's been so many things accomplished at this university, expeditiously.
It's been unbelievable, and I think we should be appreciative,
we should be thankful. We have a room full of
wonderful people that covers us, and I don't I don't
know if you all were in his room two three
years ago. Some I mean very few, okay, but I
mean it's a new day. We're doing things a little different.
(24:01):
I think the training table, I think the food is better.
Nobody's saying them, but then it's a whole lot of
things that are brighter, and they're better because someone stands
on business and makes it that way, and he's resigent
when it comes to it being that way, because everything
we do is to improve everything for us. I think
it was hot in here one time. I say, let's
(24:22):
turn it there an air condition of a night on
on that night game right the next time we came in,
what happened. I think about those details.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, that's why we got it. We gotta retire jerseys
because we got the air conditioner working. The training table
is better. Hey, everybody, when you look up and see
those jerseys up there, I watch you, remember the food
was good and we turned the air conditioning on. Ear
for everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I mean, I mean, listen, I get what he is
saying because I think going to the Clippers, for example,
I think the greatest Clipper of all time is Blake
Griffin because of what he did for the Organization's not
Tom Tolbert. Okay, it's not Elton Brand.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
You know, it's not Brent Barry.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
It's not Brent Barry. It's not olden polonies.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Okay, sure it is.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's because of what he did for the franchise, right,
Like I think he's the greatest Clipper of all time.
Not the best basketball player to put on a Clipper
jersey probably Kawhi Leonard, but he's the greatest Clipper of
all time because of what he did. So there is
a little bit of truth to what he is saying.
Like what the three of them managed to do in
such a short amount of time is pretty impressive. Still
(25:27):
don't agree with retiring both of their jerseys, but I
get what he's not wrong. What they did is impressive.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Any what he wants to do is and this is
what the other players have to realize. This is because
and this goes into the world as whole, is that
we're in a time now where everything moves at warp speed,
whether it's politics or sports, and norms that we've seen
for thirty forty years get changed and go out the
window in a week. We see that now. Yes, for
(25:55):
all these players in the nineteen ninety National championship team,
the team that won. They all want to get their
jersey he retired, right, Eric Bienemy, Darian Hagen, Tim James
who got clipped on the big rocket Ishmael punt return
that got called back like all they got. But that's
just the way. You have to wait. You have to wait,
you have to wait. But now, no, everything changes, and
so now hey I'm here. I want to do something new.
I wanted something spotlight in Colorado, so I want to
(26:17):
do it. Yeah, okay, retiring Travis Hunter's jersey. I get it.
Doing it the spring game, I get it. Right before
the draft, I get I get all of that. I
get why he's doing it. And the former Colorado players
who are upset have to understand this is just the
way the world goes right now. Yes, you played in
a different era. Things were different. Things are always better,
moving faster. Now, I'm sorry you didn't get your jersey retired.
(26:38):
Maybe this will put a spotlight on it, because clearly
it wasn't happening up until now. Maybe now this will
help grease the skids for you so that Dion can
say you're welcome. But you know what, That's the one
thing that I agree with him on is that he's
looking for a place to spotlight something really good. And
when's he gonna have another Heisman Trophy winner? Right, No,
let's do it right now so people remember this. And
I can't fault him for that because that is him
(27:00):
trying to find an opening, trying to find relevancy, trying
to find attention and optics. I completely get that part,
and that's what the critics have to get is that
retiring Travis Hunter's jersey, Yeah, you should do that.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
And also, like you hit it right on the head,
he has to do it now, Like he can't do
it in a couple of years, because what if she
Door Sanders doesn't have a great career in the NFL,
Like what if, right, what if Travis Hunter does not
have the career that people are expecting, and then in
a couple of years he wants to retire them, people
are gonna be like, why they're not even relevant anymore.
(27:34):
He has to do it now. Absolutely, There's no way
he can do it later because he doesn't know the
future unless obviously, in five years they're both kicking ass
in the NFL, and then you retire their jerseys and
everyone's like, yeah, but you just don't know what the
future holds, so he has to do it now.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
It's still well, Travis Hunter, you could wait on could
because no matter what, right, But no, because no matter what,
Hunter is a less Absolutely I could do it a
year from now. You're doing years from now, like Hunter,
I mean, this guy is unbelievable. And I look, I'm
pretty positive. I feel good that choodor Sandah's gonna have
a really good NFL career. The guy's a really good quarterback.
But at the same time, yeah, if if he falls
(28:11):
on his face and suddenly after in two years, hey
we're gonna retire your Joey. That's okay, boy, that's awkward, awkward.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Awkward time.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Let's get it in now. Yes, let's get it now
while we can. So, I look, I under I understand
why he's doing it, but wow, I mean, it's really
it's just retiring. You know, when you retire your son's jersey, there,
you know, you're blurring the line with what your son
accomplished and what somebody else will come because you can't
(28:39):
sit here a dummy that okay, what Shador Sander's accomplished
of Colorado is even close to Travis Hunter, even close exactly.
Guy played every freaking play of every game, like eighty
six percent of all the snaps. The guy's an absolute superstar,
and he's been a superstar for a couple of years,
and he's gonna be the biggest superstar out of this
draft class. People are gonna buy his jersey as soon
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as he gets drafted. People gonna have their their phones
with their finger on it going good again, It good
again right now. I mean, that's how great Travis Hunter is.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
So which one is worse him retiring his son's jersey
or Lebron James bringing Bronni to the Lakers. What is
a worse example of nepotism? Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Wow, Wow, that's tough.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You know what I will.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Say, I am an ask Man's something.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I can I feel a little bit better about. Is
I feel better about Lebron and Bronni because Browny never
really asked for any of this.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Sure you like that.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
He understands that I'm getting opportunities because of who I am.
But I'm not jumping around here and and and and
and being combative about you know, she door is a
little bit more. But there's also more talented. Again, he's
gonna have a really good career in the NFL. I
have no doubt he should go in the top three
of the draft, right, I said, But wow, I mean
you look at the content rounds. I mean, that's the
optic that screams to me, is that? Yeah? How that
(30:00):
look if you don't have your jersey retired and Travis
Hunter does? I got, what's what's dinner going to be
like in the Sanders House and you know Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Did Travis? You know we couldn't retire your jersey. I'm
just saying, couldn't do it. We had to retire in
I had to retire to do it. I had to
do it. Like That's kind of what it is.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
He just didn't want to deal with it at the
dinner table exit.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Out about a Fresca X at Moncey Milanos, Jason Smith,
Moncey and for Mike Harbin tonight. So yeah, just think
that's the optic. That's the reason. Speaking of reasons and optics,
Monty's got them all now. With how the results in
sports have come down tonight, with what's trending, I.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Know it's weird that there's no baseball going on tonight.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
No NBA because the Mets already won. That's all you wan?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Yeah, but how did want Soto do?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
The Mets won won, they did.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
He got mooed tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
They They definitely beat the Cardinals without Juan Soto's help.
For to one was the final score. The Rangers and
the Angels was the last game of the day and
Texas held on five to three. The Yankees and the
were tied for many innings until the Yankees took the
lead in the sixth inning. Six' three was the final
score against The. Rays Jazz Chisholm junior was ejected in
(31:09):
the seventh inning after a strike three call that was
not a strike more of a makeup, call and he
didn't like. It he was. Ejected yankees win. Anyway The
tigers had a six to one win over The, royals
and The orioles defeated The guardian six to. Two ryan O'Hearn
had a three run. Shot Gunner henderson had a solo
shot in the. WIN a week from today is THE
(31:29):
Nfl Draft, jason and for the first time in, history
a team is gonna take their draft operations to a
fire station when THE La rams draft from THE La
Fire department's air. Operations, nice that's what they're gonna.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Say are they gonna sound the alarm and stuff when
they're ready to draft like? That that would be.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
COOL i don't.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Know is someone gonna slide down the?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
POLES i better See Sean day go down that. Pick
he's making the. Decision.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Absolutely are they gonna Show Billy baldwin And Jennifer Jason
lee hooking up like in back? Draft are they gonna show?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
THAT i don't think they're gonna show. THAT i don't.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Know there's even that was on top of the big.
RINGS i didn't know.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
That but that'll be exciting a week from.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Today, Yes, oh the draft will be.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
Excited draft will be exciting a week from, today and
we'll see how they actually incorporate that whole area in THE.
Nba grizzlies Guard Jahn, Morant he's gonna be a game
time decision For friday's game to play in against The
mavericks because of that injured.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Ankle he didn't even practice today because of. It so
game time, Decision.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Jaw moran against My, Mavericks My. Mavericks here we go.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Oh, no back to. Us jason coming up.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Next, yes we get to a lesson that a big
time SUPERSTAR i hope has learned in the last couple
of days with the way he's been treated by. Fans that's,
next right, Here Jason. Smith Monte bolagno's in For. Harmon
this Is Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
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so you, KNOW i always Say moncy that IF i
wasn't doing sports talk RADIF i was in the media
for for a. Living we're doing WHAT i. DID i
would be a big time public relations. Consultant i'd be
able to tell athletes and coaches and, say, hey don't say,
this that's.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Stupid you, know people need.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
That here's what you need to say. Instead, yeah and you,
KNOW i thought about that tonight As i'm driving In
i'm listening to The mets, game And Wan soto comes up,
first two times, up strike, out ground, out and he gets. Booed,
Okay Juan soto is boo nineteen games into a seven
hundred and sixty five million dollar. Contract he is getting
(34:10):
booed By mets, fans thirty eight thousand, fans and that
he was getting. Booed and he's not just getting booed
because it's a slow, start, right that's one. Thing but
he's got to understand that when he says something, now
it's different than any other time in his. Career he's
been a big star in baseball for a, while, right
whether There's nationals or The padres last year at The
(34:31):
yankees in The World. Series but now you sign for that,
money things are. Different everything you, say everything you, do
has a microscope on, it and when he did an
interview the other, day feeling he needed to defend his slow, start, like,
dude come, on, man you what are you. Doing i'm
not seeing the PITCHES i saw last year BECAUSE i
had the best hitter in baseball hitting behind me And Aaron.
(34:51):
Judge how do you think that's gonna? Play because now
it's backpage and now it's become a national, headline and
saying that is. Stupid AND i hope that THIS i
would say to him, THIS i would, SAY i hope
it's a very inexpensive lesson for. You you start getting,
hot you know everybody's gonna forget about. That but that's
just stupid to, say especially since it's. Inaccurate because, yes
(35:14):
Is Aaron judge having a great, Year, absolutely but you
know he's having the next best Year Peede, alonzo who's
leading the league IN rbi in his third in. Ops,
okay Pen alonzo's having a phenomenal. Year don't sit here
and tell Me i'm being pitched. Differently it's not Like
Peede alonzo is initting one thirty and he's got eighteen
strikeouts in the last twenty five at. Bats he has been,
Fantastic so to sit. Here it's a little weird that
(35:37):
he's got to sit here and try to defend his
his stats. Early AND i get that all baseball players
love their, stats but, wow, man you really feel the
need after fifteen games to, say, hey, Hey i'm seeing different.
Pitches did not when the guy behind you is absolutely.
Raking don't sit here and tell me, That oh it's about.
That and even if you think that, way you keep
(35:57):
that to, yourself because all you did was stir up
the fans because he doesn't like when the fans. Pull
he's even said that in. INTERVIEWS i don't like WHEN
I i don't like anybody fans. Booming, well, yeah you
shouldn't have come To New.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
York then he played sports talking about but this is
where he's got to get.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
That you, know what you say makes, news and it
seems like what you said was kind of. Innocuous you
were trying to say something nice About Aaron, judge but
all you look at is, that, oh you took a
shot at The mets lineup And Pete, alonzo who is
a very well, respected incredibly respected met in the last
five or six. Years what the hell are you? Doing
don't be, stupid don't say stuff like, that and not just.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
A well Respected, met but like one of the best
hitters The mets have. Had has come in clutch moments
for The, mets like do you.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Want to play that home run against The brewers and
last year run.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Like recent, times it's, like was were you trying to
say something positive About Aaron judge but you definitely took
a dig at your own. Teammate it made no. Sense
it's like less is, More, juan less is. More all
you had to say was, like, Hey i'm going through a.
Slump hopefully they can get out of there real. SOON i,
mean in his last twenty one at, bats two, hits,
(37:06):
yeah home.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Runs but here's the, Thing you're in first, place right
everything The mets aren't two and. Thirteen you're in first.
Place the thing that WHERE i get to this it
bothers me a little, bit is BECAUSE i DO i
think once he starts h, look he's too good a, player,
Absolutely but it bothers. Me it bothers me that AND
i think the red flag is that he's this concerned
about his batting average after fifteen, games feeling the need
(37:28):
to defend himself after this quick in the season about
his slow, start not just it's, fine it's. Fifteen Because Francisco,
lindora he starts, out he starts. Out he sucks every
year at. Eight he always, SAYS i WISH i could
just start In, may, Right april is terrible for. Him
now he's hitting a little bit better this, year but he's, like, ya,
HEY i WISH i was. Better, okay, great but and
it would be one thing if he was just not.
(37:49):
It but the fact that he felt the need to
do that to that tells me, like, mentally are you
ready for? This like are you? Ready because you need
really big shoulders to handle. This AND i know you
think it was great last, year but you were protected
in The yankees by a lot of other. Players you
protected being on The West coast with The, padres The.
Nationals this is all New. Man you signed for that.
Money you have the most money in the history Of
(38:09):
Major League. Baseball so, okay you got to show you
have big. Shoulders AND i don't know that he has the.
Shoulders you.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Know it wasn't even just defending. Himself it was an,
excuse an excuse as to why he's not. Performing like
that's what's. Sad and you're, right It's. April why are you?
Tripping that's that that would bring me a little bit
of uncomfortable feeling IF i was A mets, fan because it's,
like you're stressed, already you find the need to do
this In APRIL a SIMPLE i Know i'm. SLUMPING i
(38:37):
GOTTA i gotta pick it.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Up but, guy but the guys that picked me, up
we're in first. Place you're dangerous because WHEN i start,
hitting it's gonna be even. Best that's what you.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Say so many things that you could have, said but
then you say, That and also like If i'm If
i'm A mets, Fan i'm also, like, wait are you
regretting your? Decision why are you talking about The? Yankees
you are no longer on that, team so why why
are you even bringing them? Up what the hell is
that you have to do with?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
That?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Absolutely, no, no.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Oh, no, Yeah i'm telling you that that's the red
flag For why do you feel the need to have
to defend not hitting that? Early you got to be, ready,
Man you're the man for fifteen. Years you're the man
for all those millions of. Dollars coming up, next we
get back into the BIGGEST nfl story of The, Day Jason,
Smith Monzi bologno is in For Mike. Carmon you are
(39:24):
listening To Fox Sports. Radio but The mets did win.
Today they did, win great start first. Place they did
win one want to make sure people know. That Juan
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