February 27, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike react to Paul George saying he’s taking a break from podcasting to focus on a championship LOL. NFL report cards, new rule proposals and combine greatness with Insider Jason Cole. Plus, Jason shares a wild football story from high school.
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we have a big day in the NFL to get
to We got big changes coming to the game. Jason
Cole's coming by early with us in about twenty minutes.
But how about what we have seen in the NBA
in the last few minutes.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And here's where you think.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Uh, are you gonna tell me the Knicks winning a
generic game against the Sixers because Paul George decided not
to stop podcasting till it was too late. No, no, no,
This is where Isaac when you think I'm gonna zag
one of the greatest lines of the day, by the way,
which is, yes, well, guess John, everybody is podcasting too much.
(01:31):
Jalen Brunston and Josh Harder podcast everybody's podcasting too much. Yeah, no, no, no,
the Knicks did. Wait. I wanted people that the Knicks
did win to and they did get a win without
Karl Anthony Towns. They did win tonight. But and if
the Knicks do go out in the playoffs, it will
be very quickly that I will say I am leaping
to driving the bandwagon of the Detroit Pistons. Look at
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my Pistons. I was only two or three, depending how
far are you go back on SOULCI Media, two or
three years early in picking the Pistons resurgence. So I'm
gonna take this as a win. Like it.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's not like you know, for ten years.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
In a row. I picked him like John Paul Morosi
when he comes on the show and every year he
picks the Mariners for the playoffs, or like Chris Berman,
he would pick the Niners and the Bills Super Bowl
every single year is two favorite teams. Now I was
three years early and here are the Pistons. They win
again tonight, again the best story in the NBA, and
they beat the Celtics. They don't just beat the Celtics,
(02:27):
they run away from them in the fourth quarter one
seventeen ninety seven. Of course, no Jalen Brown, but it
doesn't matter. The Pistons have now won forty five games
in a row. Rick Mhorn has a big night with
fifteen rebounds and two fights. I mean, this has been
an unbelievable year. And I'm telling you we talked about JB.
Bickerstaff a couple of weeks ago. There's no other choice
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for coach of the Year in the NBA. I mean
what he's done with the team last year at this
point won eight games, right like, they're plus twenty five
in the in the win loss record over what they
were last year. And it's not like they brought in
a bunch of new talent. He was able to harness
what they have. Kate Cunningham has turned into a star.
You get stuff like twenty eight from Malik Beasley off
the bench tonight and they boat race the Celtics, who
(03:11):
are just off boat racing the Knicks. And I'm telling
you no better story in the NBA than the Pistons.
Sometimes it's just about positivity and fun and where you
get to go wow and just enjoy what's going on.
But man, I'll tell you the Pistons now seven games
over five hundred. I mean they have no chance of
winning the Central obviously, but I mean this is a
team that they can find themselves in the top four
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of the playoffs. I'm talking home court advantage, Mike Harmen,
home court advantage for the Pistons, next level stuff. Beasley
being that one big piece that showed up this offseason,
right and twenty six tonight, averaging over sixteen for the year.
He's a new lou Williams Oh one of my favorite
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players of all time. That's it. Yeah, I'm gonna walk
around now with a shirt that either says Malik or Beasley,
maybe both. It's a fantastic testament to you know, Detroit
and a resurgence here all across the board. They were
inspired by biting kneecaps or something like that, and Cad
Cunningham really coming into his own nine to twenty one
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twenty one and eleven to night eleven assists. That is,
you got a couple of other big contributors, and Tobias
Harris continues to put up numbers. So yeah, all in
some good balance, a great second half, tied at halftime,
and then absolutely boat raised the Celtics like they put
a lid on the basket in the fourth quarter or
really at halftime. I don't know who the halftime entertainment was,
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but congratulate them for the inspiration that they gave. But
for the Piston's been a hell of a run. We've
been watching it. You again called it on air about
three years ago, which means it had to go to
the absolute bottom. You know, it goes back to helter skelter.
When I get to the bottom, I go back to
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the top. And then sure are now Sureston's rolling sixteen
and thirteen at home, thirty three, twenty six. Overall not
world beating, but in the mix of what will be
a cluttered, battle worn Eastern Conference. I mean, your Nicks,
they got five guys. They can go play those five guys. Sure,
Sure that's it. Yeah, there it is, that's the that's
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where we're at. The Celtics get hammered today is why
the piling in Boston, my Pistons, by my falling in
Boston today because of a big loss like this.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
No, and that's why this is not a big video of.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Isaiah Thomas smirking at Larry Bird or something. No. No,
this is why this story is so great is because,
like you know, Boston doesn't everybody wins. Celtics fans don't
care they won the title last year. They're terrific. They're
just waiting for the playoffs. It doesn't matter they lost
the night to the Pistons. Look at the Pistons, man,
Like everybody's gonna go back and start looking at video
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from two thousand and four, Sorry, Frostburg, the early nineties
and the bad boys, like this is fun, the Pistons
being good as fun here in Troit basketball Like it's
fun and it's and no city deserves some kind of
sports renaissance more than Detroit, right, Like, not just because
it's my adopted but I've been going back there for
you know, for thirty years now. It's like, wow, the
(06:13):
sports scene there has been really rough. Here. They are
now saying you've got sweat equity and you think you
could go become mayor or something. Oh yeah, I could.
I could run for the mayor of Detroit right now.
And what are you kidding? Oh yeah, yeah, you slogan.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You wan't watch my slogan, Frostburg, what do you got?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Nobody's brought more sadness to the city than me. What
do you how do we bring sad I mean what
you did to Montgomery? No no, no, no, no no no.
See Lions, and you got everybody's hopes up, only to
dash them. Of course, Ben Johnson doing all his uh
hubrists and and let's throw the football with the lineman
and all that other crap and wide receiver came back
(06:46):
to bite him in the ass. So I mean, that's
partially on him, but I think you would still get
the lion's share of the blame. But I mean, David
Montgomery was a guest of the show and immediately gets
hurt thereafter. There's only one commonality there. He was back
by the time they lost in the playoffs. Not my fault.
I got then after that, I got him to the
NFC title game a year ago. I told you I
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believed in them before anybody else believe. I told you
this team took them no, I got them as far
as Frostburg. Eventually, you got to go out and make plays. Man,
I can only get yourself far you. You got to
go out and make plays. And you didn't make enough plays.
That's not on me, that's on you. I I go
to bed, just so sorry, not going to cut it.
I say. Yeah. They also didn't execute the plays that
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were called. I mean, Dan Campbell with living in you know,
forever off those fourth down calls. If those guys had actually,
you know, caught the ball, not his fault, probably just
got to finish the execution. Look at the the resurgence
of the Lions, the resurgence of the Pistons. Michigan and
Michigan State basketball is still the same time, right. The
(07:55):
Tigers are coming off a playoff appearance last year with
a with a with a payroll of like eight million
dollars overall and like seven million up. It was hoave baiez, right.
I mean this isn't this is I mean, this is
a renaissance. This is like the great This is like
they will write in history books when you read about
this was the time for Mesopotamia when they enjoyed a
great belief and prosperity for a good one hundred, one
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hundred and fifty years. It was the era of good
feeling here. Then, of course there was the Woolye mammosol
died and they couldn't get food. But then what happened
is now this is did they gonna look back and go?
Man that early, that twenty twenties. Man, that twenty twenties
running Detroit. This is awesome. I mean, the Pistons are
the number one trending topic on Twitter. When does I mean?
Come on, man, the Pistons are there. There's been no
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thirty for thirty on the Pistons. Kevin Durant didn't get
traded to the Pistons, although see I told you that
would have been great at the deadline, right, keating the Pistons.
I mean, look, I didn't want to move though. It's
the this is the best story in the NBA. Sometimes
stories are like that. It's just wow, it's fun that
you know, the the young talent is coming, and to
do it all without Jade and Ivy who was still hurt.
Uh you know, I mean, really, this is a this
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is a Pistons team that can really not just hey,
they're a nice story, but at some point you're gonna
go I don't really want to play the Pistons in
the playoffs, man, I don't. I don't know about this.
I don't know if I want to go play them.
I don't think the Cavaliers want any part of the pistol.
I Diin'd rather play the Knicks in the playoffs. I
think the Calves want the Pistons at all. Look at
you now now, just poking the bear. Take nonsense and
(09:26):
trying to get these Midwestern cities beat each other up,
poking the bear, poking the bear, poking the bear, poking
the bear. You just show up to the arena giving
out muskrats. Come Jason Smith Show with Mike Carbon Live
from the tirac dot Com Studios. Now, the other point
that we brought up very briefly a few minutes ago
before we talked about the love of the Pistons. Uh. Yeah,
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the Nicks beat the Sixers tonight, make it nine losses
in a row. The process is over right that no process.
Now process cheese, that's what it is. It's probably the
process is done and nothing stands for the end of
the process. If two nights ago was the death of
the process, you know, losing by fifty to the Bulls.
Tonight might be the wake where they lose their ninth
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in a row. And Paul George announces on his podcast
ironically that he's going to stop doing his podcast because
he wants to dedicate himself to getting on the court
more and and and being better on the court and
being in shape more so we can hopefully lead the
Sixers to some kind of title that at twenty and
thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I don't know how you're doing that.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I don't know that their search podcast, I can't say
I've ever listened to it. Does he do a lot
of deep dives into Mesopotamian stuff like you were you
were diving up to not constantinop many times? Did you
think of the Roman Empire to I mean the two
thousand and four Pistons. By the time he was nineteen
years old, Alexander the Great had conquered the vast majority
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of Europe. But there was a problem the Tigris Euphrate's river.
There was a big blockade he was unable to get through,
so they sent to Trojan horse in and then air
support came in, and uh, that just blew everything up
out of the water. Remember that scene from the Eternals.
That's kind of what happened, because the Eternals were around
way back then. Nice, I really thought you were gonna
dial up and say air supply, just to see if
(11:11):
you can cross it up a little bit. But yeah, no, really,
I as the terror dacos were flying over, they were
playing I'm all out of love, I'm all lost. You
want to go back and listen to an episode of
the podcast or two though, Jason. I want to see
what kind of deep dives he's doing with two clicks,
kind of like the Governor coming out with a new
(11:32):
podcast because the other one got no traction. Hey, I'm
announcing it out. You just need one a month ago.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
To have him say, I want to get my body ready.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Dude, there's there's twenty five games left in the season.
You ready for summer time? How are you not in shape? Now? Like?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
What?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
What are you? What are you gonna do now? Now
I gotta walk away from my podcast. Now I gotta
do it because now things are happening. I gotta walk
back like nothing stands for the end of the sixth
and really the end of Paul George's career, Like when
you think about, Hey, Paul George is getting paid all
kinds of money, but boy, his team's never win.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Why, well, it's stuff like this.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Hey, after doing this podcast for so long, I really
I need I need to focus on the basketball season now,
game sixty three, we've lost eight in a row. I
really need to focus on the game. I can't. I
mean on the positive side though, Jason, he's doing all
of this himself. He doesn't need to have a bunch
of rats like they do in Dallas with a bunch
of hit jobs after the guy's gone. He's just doing
(12:30):
it to himself. Hey, I should devote more time instead
of learning how to use my sure microphone? Hey, can
you can you sum up the twenty twenty four twenty
five season for the Sixers and one sentence? Yeah, and
beads hurt and Paul George did a podcast until it
was too late. There you go. That's a Sixer season
right there. And there's MAXI walking alone on the side
(12:52):
wondering where it all went wrong. I gotta stop now
now you got it? Now you gotta get yourself in
really now you gotta get it shape? Is that now
you do to his defense, though against the Knicks, he
did have one of the best games, his best game
of the year. Well because he stopped doing his podcast.
Now you had, he had all kinds of energy. He's
done with his podcast now and I like that he's announcing.
He announces on the podcast, this is my last podcast.
(13:14):
I gotta I gotta set back from the podcast.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Oh but how do you know that's what he said?
If nobody's listening to it, Well, no, they did.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Actually he put out a press release or leaked it
to somebody somewhere. Yeh. By the way, you're got to
bitch out scored the Sixers seventeen thirteen today. Yeah, it's
a spot that. I mean, come on, man, it's a Sixers.
It's this what what what? I can't really say. Hey,
it's baby step to the Knicks. It's the Sixers. Come on,
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Speaker 1 (16:23):
Well, speaking of best of versions, today was report card
Day in the NFL, fast becoming one of my favorite
days of the year, where the results are known of
surveys that are sent anonymously to teams who grade their
own franchises for things like how good the weight room is,
how good the owner is, how good the food is,
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and you get some eye opening stuff on what organizations
seem to do things the right way and what organizations
seem not to. For instance, the only owner to get
an f from his own players was Jets owner Woody Johnson. Yeah,
when that story up today, I knew there was one
person to talk to. He joined us now in the
Hotline thirty thirteen NFL Hall of Fame, Pro Football Hall
(17:08):
of fame voter. He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two,
longtime NFL insider. Well, what he's round up Tonight's going
to be a peach for you, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Jay Candy had talk yet he's just laughing, Jod Jod.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah, it was that kind of day for us.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But all I gotta say, I'm not surprised he was
voted the worst owner in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Because he is the worst owner in the NFL. It's
not a surprise to me.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
No, it's not shocker. I mean, you've owned the team
for twenty something years. I made this point to somebody
recently on a Jets podcast. So they asked me about
the coaching surch and everything that they were doing. And
again I worked for the thirty thirteam, and so Tannonbaum
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and Rick Snillmer and guys are knowledgeable in other league.
That was a good service to hire. The problem I
have is you've been an owner for twenty five years,
why do you need to hire outside people to figure
out who your next coaches? I mean, you get what
I'm saying, like, you should know how this works by now.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, on the contrary, isn't it good that they finally
admit that they don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
There is a certain amount of honesty to this whole thing,
but they're in lies. Also a problem, like you've been
at this for twenty five years, would he? And by
the way, in day one or year one of your stewardship,
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somebody scrawled on paper and crayon. From that going on,
you didn't seem to understand maybe you have some issues.
Maybe you have some issues. So when people are sprawling
in crayon, they don't want to work for you, and
they end up being maybe the greatest coach in the NFL.
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PAS trick.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, the thing is, and this is what I say,
Jets always gonna Jet right, Like you think a lot
of this is about treatment of the players, all, okay, no,
But the biggest thing that the Jets players were upset about,
supposedly was a year ago. They said the food situation
was terrible. They liked the nutritionists and everything, but they
said the food situation was bad. What did they do
this year? They got rid of the nutritionists. The food
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got worse, and the nutritionists went to another team where
they got it even greater great Like they got like
an A plus because they love the nutritionists so much.
So the Jets players say, hey, nutrition's bad. Okay, we're
gonna get rid of that person. We're gonna make the
food even worse. And now we're gonna see what we
do next year. And if dal it's it's even lower
than it was a year ago. The Jets are proving
there is no such thing as rock bottom.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
They're striving for new levels. That's definitely true. They're they're
they're looking to set new standards, So give them. Give
them a lot of credit for that.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I do appreciate the sound bites and press conferences of
Aaron Glenn. Question is who's he yelling at on the
sideline taking snaps for him this year?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I mean, I mean, is it Jordan.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Travis or Ian Rappaport. Either one could be a quarterback Derby.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
It's already a Derby under center. There'd be some people
who really enjoy that. So, man, I don't know. I
just don't know what they're going to do. I have
you know, do they just do they go and get
a guy like Russell Wilson and let him play for
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a year or two, just to play out the string,
so they have somebody of somewhat relevant competency or they
suck it up and you know what's the you know,
there's there's gotta be something better than suck for Manning,
you know, like there's a better, there's a better.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
The March for Arts, We've already patted it.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
We've got to first time.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yeah, starts for Arch or something like that. Yeah, the
March for Arch thing. Yeah, that's the only thing that's
going to keep it all alive for a while. And
then there's going to be the huge disappointment. It's going
to be sort of like who's the ring back you
guys took years ago that got the who is the
guy out of Pennas State where everybody just you know
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they took that kid.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, blad, we're going back to nineteen ninety.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, it's gonna be the same when they find out
that Arch Manning refuses to play for them after losing
what thirty three games in two years, Like, it's gonna
be that's gonna be a tough one. It's gonna be
the reaction like Blair Thomas. It's gonna be just like that.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
It's every twenty some odd years a Manning says, I'd
rather go back to college than play for the Jets.
That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Yes, Art isn't playing for this because this is the
other thing, Like players understand, like you've got bad management,
you've got bad ownership. You here's the other side of
it is who's inheriting that team when when he goes,
who's taken over next Steve Cohen?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Steve Cohen's gonna buy You's gonna have the Mets and
the Jets job.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
That's the only thing, that's the only hope you have
that Cohen will take a million. No, I mean, it's
gonna be the kids. And the kids now have the
blendmish of the of the manning stuff, you know, the
I'm not the manning stuff, I'm Madden stuff. So it's
just going to be. I mean, I don't know how
this gets a lot better unless Woody has some kind
(23:15):
of man kulpa and says, I'm I'm completely figuring out
what I'm doing wrong here. The problem you have with
Woody is that he's extremely egotistical. He's really hard headed
and thinks that he's.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Always right, and you know, he he plays out his
management fantasies through the Jets and now I'm starting to
get kind of serious, and this is getting into psychobabble.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
But the truth is that Woody, who's never really been
put in charge of anything with Johnson and Johnson, plays
out his little role of I want to be in charge.
I want to be respected, I want to you know,
I want to have a say so by running the
(24:07):
Jets because they say, yeah, go play with your team.
Go do that and stay away from the company. That's
how this works.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That is
at Jason Cole sixty two thirty third team Mike Tannebounds
right hand man as always, thank you j Cole for
stopping by with us. Awesome, awesome stuff. There goes, there
goes what he's round up. There goes a song. I'm
telling you God, Now he got really serious at the end.
He didn't even invoke that sweet Brick would be the
guy se alesso to take over. I mean, really, Brick
(24:37):
Johnson owning the Jets is only what we deserve. I mean,
I really, I mean, it doesn't get any better than that.
Brick Johnson is going to be twenty five years old.
He's going to own a football team. That's gonna be
the best loud noises. I can only aspire to be
in a family with great riches that afford me entry
into just such a sought after industry.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
That is good.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You got you just got a quarterback in a wide
receiver cut and you got you gotta lay low for
a while there. Oh my goodness. We got more NFL
coming up. In ninety seconds, get to the big changes
could be coming to the NFL this season. But first,
someone who's been called the Woody Johnson of Fox Sports
Radio around for about twenty years, and only now are
(25:22):
people paying attention to really what she's doing.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It's Monte Bologna.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I don't want to feel.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
About that one, Jason, you know usually okay man with
these comparisons, I don't know about that one.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
As soon as you invoke the Jets, you've lost, Monsie,
Yeah you did. Yes, Harmon is correct on that.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
How about this?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
How about this someone who someone who's been called the
New York Jets of Fox Sports Radio. She's entertaining and
makes you laugh. It's Monty Bologna.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
I don't care a lot about her, but it's still
the Jets. And after the last season, you know about
tasting around.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's a final.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Those are fighting words. Those are fighting words, I know.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
And you notice how he says that, because because I
can't do something about it right now, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Now, let's go to someone who has been called the brick,
Johnson of Fox Sports Radio, someone whose future is unbelievably bright.
It's man, Okay, okay, all right, that's better. Yes Johnson
is he's gonna a football team. Okay, that's what he's kid.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
That that gets people fired and cut.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Really the way that said that the the rating on
the Madden Score wasn't good enough.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's my game.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
So we go from witty to brick.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah wow, that's kind of the same thing for three
little pigs. Right, it was a house made of sticks,
then it was a house made of brick, right now,
going that is all right? Look at this, what a
good update. Let's check in on we haven't heard a
score yet. That's how great. This is a lord winning there, Monty.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Thank you so much, guys.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I goetna do it without you.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Two games still going on in the NBA. It's the
Kings and the Jazz with Sacramento on top sixty nine
to sixty five minutes to go in the third. With
five minutes to go in the first half, the Rockets
continue to extend their lead over the Spurs fifty two
to thirty four. Give it up for the Pistons. They've
won eight in a row and they beat the Celtics
win seventeen to ninety seven. Jason Tatum twenty seven points
(27:23):
not good enough. Malik Beasley off the bench twenty six
points for Detroit.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
The Pacers outscored the Raptors.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Won eleven to ninety one.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Tyrese Haliburn thirty three points on eleven assists. Jalen Bronson
thirty four points and seven assists as the Knicks held
on to beat the seventy six Ers one ten to
one oh five. Philadelphia has lost nine in a row
and also seventy six ers four were Paul George said
that he wasn't going to be doing his podcast for
the near future because he wants to focus on the
rest of the season trying to make the playoffs. Obviously,
he didn't win for this game, he probably means for
the next game. The Trailblazers beat the Wizards won twenty
(27:52):
nine to one, twenty one the thunder came back to
defeat the Nets one twenty nine to one twenty one.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
That heat crushed. The Hawks won thirty.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
One to one oh nine. And thank goodness the Clippers
one because I'm gonna shoot my foot guys, But they
beat the Bulls, went twenty to one seventeen. James Harden
thirty points and six assists. Yes, it was necessary. They've
been losing some games. They should not have been losing.
In men's college, who's here?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I should have said that now to someone who reminds
the New York Jets. They both find a way to
want to shoot themselves in the foot. Yes, it's months.
Oh my gosh, that would have been perfect. That would
have been it. Yes.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
In men's college hoops, number seven Saint John's is on
top of Butler fifty one to forty nine halfway through
the second half and one upset so far. Vanderbilt took
down number twelve Texas A and m eighty six to
eighty four.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Back to you guys, thanks a bunch, Jayes. Now, two
big stories out of the NFL. This a combine is
getting in full sway. And I don't mean the alleged
confrontation between NFL insider Jordan schultzon and NFL insider Ian Rappaport,
Which that is brewing in the background, right, we've got
security video.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah, we're waiting to see you. We're hoping there's video,
hoping to.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Say you have video in all locations, don't they?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I would, well, but maybe not where that is see
whatever it wants.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
We would become a law and Order episode right now. Yeah,
but there's got questions. But if it's a movie or
a TV show, there's never Oh yeah, the camera wasn't
working or it doesn't cut cover that corner of the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Ah, man, I thought there was a camera, Like lazy writing.
How do we get out of this when there should
be cameras?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I will just say the camera wasn't working or the
camera didn't cover that corner of the restaurant. Yeah, that's
lazy writing. Yeah, and in this case, using the camera
wasn't working really problematic for one of the sides in this.
So outside of the changes of really which should be
keeping Jordan Schultz and Ian Rappaport a park, two big
changes coming, one definitively to the NFL, although this a
(29:39):
little bit too late for the Buffalo Bills. But at least, hey,
they can say they sparked a rule change. First downs
next season will now be measured electronically. No more guessing,
no more official from the chief sideline overruling an official
on the bill side. Down is I didn't say anything
that wasn't factually correct. I didn't just to an example
(30:01):
that you just wanted to make yourself feel better. Well,
because that's why we have this rule change is because
of that play. We have the rule change because of
that play. That's why we have this. And now to
think the chain gang is still going to be there
as backups in case something goes wrong and the electronics
don't work. The chain gang is still going to be
in the sideline. It's still gonna be something for for
players to look at when they see for the down
(30:23):
and distance markers. So it's still gonna be something that's used.
It's just now electronically, we're going to see where a
ball passes, if a ball passes the first down line
or not. So, hey, this is a great idea. It's
an It's an awesome idea because I always default to, yeah, oh,
you're taking you know, the job of the guys on
the on the on the chain gang or this. I go, yeah,
(30:45):
but I get that, but they're still working. They're still
working the sideline. And anytime we have the technology that
definitively can make something better, you kind of have to
do that. Now you have the technology that maybe make
something better that we're not sure. But if you technology
that can make something better, you kind of have to
do that. And and that's why this is that this
(31:05):
is a great idea. I love this idea by the NFL.
Hawkey comes to these guys get since they're now just
backups and more like I don't know, life size stand
ee's for lack of a better term, to give you
a visual identification of where the first downs are. Do
they get paid less? Oh I don't think you can
(31:26):
do that. I mean how much you make is they're
not really doing the job anymore. They're just kind of
standing there. They still have to be right in case
something happened. No, but still not a think about it.
You're not measuring off that really anymore. No no, no,
no no, but you're not measuring off of it. But
all the other downs. This is something that everybody's okay,
(31:46):
it's third, oh half the yard third and half the yard. Okay,
we got They look over to the sideline and see
this is where the ball is. Where's the yard? Markets
They can't take them away because then you would go,
where's first down?
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I can't get electronics stuff on there, but the electronic Hey,
we know the ball traveled ten yards. Yeah, I know
where to spot it where it goes. You know how
teams are gonna know how you're gonna move stuff back
where the original line of scrimmage is. Now they're they
can't take money. They're still doing the job. It's just
(32:16):
not we don't get the drama of here comes the
chain we're gonna measure. I mean, nowadays we kind of
know when it's a first down or when it's not. Anyway,
I can see when the official come running in the
field though, right, Yeah, but you can see where the
yellow first down line is and the official runs on
the field, and you see where all that's gonna be
a left foot spot and we're not getting the first
down that short. Like, it's kind of the drama of
(32:37):
that is kind of gone. Where it used to be
a really great moment. These guys running out. Let's see
when they stretch the chain, but like, like that's kind
of gone and I'd rather they get it right rather
that happen. Oh, of course, it's all for accuracy. The
gamblers demand it. Uh, you know what, I actually you're
not gonna believe. You're gonna think I'm lying to you.
But you know, next hour I will tell you I
(32:57):
have a great chain gang story from high school. Really. Yes,
I got in a game I wasn't even playing in.
I got yelled at by the officials. They were measuring
a first down. I supposed to tease that I wasn't
even played. So we'll do that coming up. I brought.
We got that, Plus we got the big rule overtime
could be changed in the NFL. Yeah, Jets owner Woody
Johnson got in that from his players. Hooray.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah, keep it here.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
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(33:58):
the NFL. We got more report card drama coming up
in a few minutes. Like we're parents of high school children,
we have report card drama coming up. But look, two
big things changes the NFL is considering. We talked about
the first one a few minutes ago. The chain gang
is no more first downs are going to be measured
electronically next year. So first downs like the one that
Josh Allen looked like he got against the Chiefs in
(34:19):
the AFC title game might get to judicated a little
bit better. The other one's about overtime. But before we
get to overtime, I promised I would tell you this
story about the time I got yelled at by the
officials in a high school game. I wasn't even playing it, okay,
ready for this. So when I was playing JV football, right,
I was a freshman JV JV team and most of
(34:43):
all the players on JV we played on Sunday and
the varsity played Saturday. So our thing was we were
supposed to be there Saturday to help with anything the
team needed before the game, whether it was to help
work on the field, to help deal with warm up,
help warm everybody up, to you know, be the water boys,
to do all the all the different things you need
(35:04):
on the sideline. All jvs were there to do that.
So everybody kind of had a rotation out of thing,
and this one day was where I was the I
was the water boy, right. I was supposed to bring
out water to the to the players like okay, great,
So I took my turn. Nobody wanted to do that,
but I'm like, okay, what I mean, I'll do it.
Everybody else has to do. It's we're all the team.
So they're measuring for a big first down in the
(35:24):
middle of the fourth quarter and and we're on defense
and it looks like it's short, like it's going to
be fourth and one, but they're measuring. So I bring
the water out to the team in the huddle. I'm
giving it to the guys. The guys are talking to me,
and I say to the captain, I go, they're not
measuring that right, because what you talk about? I go, look,
and the thing is they had the the the way
they measured it.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
They had the.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
The first five yards were straight right, And I don't
know me because our field was a dust bowl, so
I think they were just looking for a for a
spot where where the where the chalk was from where
the ball was they put the thing so they had
it go straight for the first five yards. Then they
had an official who was holding the link there and
then they measured and the ball was to the side
about like five yards, so they dragged the chain at
(36:08):
an angle. And I go and I said, you can't
measure that way. That's gonna that that's that's not even
measuring an extra five yards.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
And the captain is like, dude, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (36:18):
What do you And I get you know, it's the
middle of the game, and it's you know, they're you know,
it's a or it's the fourth quarter of a game
and they're all sweating their asses off. We didn't win
a lot of games. The game was closed, like what
do you talk? I go, do you see this? Do
you see it? Look you see how the angle if
they had it straight out, it would be further away
from the ball. And they're measuring and the nose of
the football is like right at the chain. I go,
(36:38):
if they're measuring it straight, they get you know, they
don't get the first down. And one of the officials
heard me and says, can you pipe down over there?
Can you pipe down over there? And you know me,
even when I was fourteen, I said, you're not measuring
it right. You got to keep that thing that's got
to go out straight. Oh my god, I'm gonna get
a personal fout. Pedro gonna matter anymore. And one of
(37:02):
the players, I forget who it was, he grabbed me
and said, dude, good thing with the math, but shut up.
I said, okay, and I go back off and I
tell the coach they're not measuring it right. But then
it looked out and it looked like they did move
it to measure and they were short on on third down.
I go, I just got us four a third down
stop there by myself. I got us a third I
(37:23):
almost got us a fifteen yard penalty. You know, because
when does that ever happen? The guy with the water
gets it you know. It starts mouthing off to the officials.
Fifteen yards were liked, good mathall good man, get off
the field on the water boy. And you want a
great PostScript to this after the game. After the game,
one of the one of the ore, one of our
(37:45):
best players, defensive line. He went he he played both ways.
He played offensive line, defensive line. He goes up to
me says, I heard you, Uh you helped us at
the with that first down. I said, yeah, because we
stopped him on fourth down, like fourth and one, they
didn't get to an incomplete pass.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
We took over and he was like, I heard.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
You help this.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
He goes. You know, I didn't know that at the time.
I said, oh no. I said, well, hey, no problem.
He goes, but he goes, thanks, and I said great,
and he looks at me. I god, he goes. All
I know is I didn't get any water because when
I turned around, you weren't on the field anymore. And
I said, hey, dude, sorry, man, I'm so sorry. What
are you almost close to hydration situation?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
He said, but we got it.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
We you know, we got the fourth out, So okay,
like all right, Greg, carry you off the field. Or anything. Yeah,
here's the kid with dude wearing gray sweats and a
Curtis High School T shirt. Here he is hero of
the day. I can't imagine if I came off, you'd
had to tell a coach, why do we get a penalty?
I said they were measuring wrong, and and and then
(38:43):
the referees told me to be quiet, So you were quiet? No,
I actually said something after that. I yelled at him again, Sorry, coach,
I'm gonna I'll go clean out my locker down on it, coach,
Like we would, they would have this right, they would
have the ball like inside our twenty yard line. And
now the troubles and Trials of little Jason Smith. There's
(39:07):
me man animated Jason Smith right here. That's a great episode.
But you're measuring it wrong. You gotta make the longest yards,
Starry Jason Smith. I kind of look like kyu.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Oh no, no, wasn't.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
No.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
I didn't have that kind of you had the white hair.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
At that point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't have
that voice too. Oh you're not measuring right.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
No, no, no, no, no no, no. Jason. Was Pete Davidson
on your team.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
No, I was a couple Pete davids a couple of
years younger than me. I think I think pet Pete
Davidson is like in his early forties, right, So yes,
that would have been. Yeah, he would have been like
in he would have been like an elementary school at
the time. I think, yeah, I'm just thinking of people
from Staten Island. Yeah, well there's not many of us.
Well there's Wu Tang Klan and Bobby Tomes family. Uh No,
(39:54):
but they went to Curtis. I think it was. I
think Riza went to Curtis actually, because that's part of
one of his low God God took me from where
dropped me off at Curtis, and that's one of the
lines of their songs. I like, wow, Rizza went to
Curtis about I mean, I don't know that he graduated.
I think he transferred schools again, but you know he
was there Curtis for a while. How about that some
next level stuff you never No, No, she was she
(40:16):
was a different No, she didn't, she didn't go to Curtis.
Jennifer'sposito also Staten Island went. She went to Susan Wagner
though she didn't go to Curtis. I'm the second most
famous alum from my school. No, you ready for this.
Bobby Thompson shot her around the world. Curtis High School,
Colin jos is more famous. He didn't go to my
(40:37):
high school. He didn't go to my he didn't go
to Curtis. I went to Curtis. It's Bobby Thompson and
then me. That's the way the Curtis right there. Dude.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
We're a football dynasty.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Man. I just told you. I got a first down
by Melvin off to the officials. Man, I don't even
rate top one hundred of mine. I suck. We got
more NFL on the way, big NFL report card news
and andfl over time. No more chain gang, I promise.
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we have a big day in the NFL to get
to We got big changes coming to the game. Jason
Cole's coming by early with us in about twenty minutes.
But how about what we have seen in the NBA
in the last few minutes.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And here's where you think.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Uh, are you gonna tell me the Knicks winning a
generic game against the Sixers because Paul George decided not
to stop podcasting till it was too late. No, no, no,
This is where Isaac when you think I'm gonna zag
one of the greatest lines of the day, by the way,
which is, yes, well, guess John, everybody is podcasting too much.
(01:31):
Jalen Brunston and Josh Harder podcast everybody's podcasting too much. Yeah, no, no, no,
the Knicks did. Wait. I wanted people that the Knicks
did win to and they did get a win without
Karl Anthony Towns. They did win tonight. But and if
the Knicks do go out in the playoffs, it will
be very quickly that I will say I am leaping
to driving the bandwagon of the Detroit Pistons. Look at
(01:53):
my Pistons. I was only two or three, depending how
far are you go back on SOULCI Media, two or
three years early in picking the Pistons resurgence. So I'm
gonna take this as a win. Like it.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's not like you know, for ten years.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
In a row. I picked him like John Paul Morosi
when he comes on the show and every year he
picks the Mariners for the playoffs, or like Chris Berman,
he would pick the Niners and the Bills Super Bowl
every single year is two favorite teams. Now I was
three years early and here are the Pistons. They win
again tonight, again the best story in the NBA, and
they beat the Celtics. They don't just beat the Celtics,
(02:27):
they run away from them in the fourth quarter one
seventeen ninety seven. Of course, no Jalen Brown, but it
doesn't matter. The Pistons have now won forty five games
in a row. Rick Mhorn has a big night with
fifteen rebounds and two fights. I mean, this has been
an unbelievable year. And I'm telling you we talked about JB.
Bickerstaff a couple of weeks ago. There's no other choice
(02:49):
for coach of the Year in the NBA. I mean
what he's done with the team last year at this
point won eight games, right like, they're plus twenty five
in the in the win loss record over what they
were last year. And it's not like they brought in
a bunch of new talent. He was able to harness
what they have. Kate Cunningham has turned into a star.
You get stuff like twenty eight from Malik Beasley off
the bench tonight and they boat race the Celtics, who
(03:11):
are just off boat racing the Knicks. And I'm telling
you no better story in the NBA than the Pistons.
Sometimes it's just about positivity and fun and where you
get to go wow and just enjoy what's going on.
But man, I'll tell you the Pistons now seven games
over five hundred. I mean they have no chance of
winning the Central obviously, but I mean this is a
team that they can find themselves in the top four
(03:32):
of the playoffs. I'm talking home court advantage, Mike Harmen,
home court advantage for the Pistons, next level stuff. Beasley
being that one big piece that showed up this offseason,
right and twenty six tonight, averaging over sixteen for the year.
He's a new lou Williams Oh one of my favorite
(03:52):
players of all time. That's it. Yeah, I'm gonna walk
around now with a shirt that either says Malik or Beasley,
maybe both. It's a fantastic testament to you know, Detroit
and a resurgence here all across the board. They were
inspired by biting kneecaps or something like that, and Cad
Cunningham really coming into his own nine to twenty one
(04:14):
twenty one and eleven to night eleven assists. That is,
you got a couple of other big contributors, and Tobias
Harris continues to put up numbers. So yeah, all in
some good balance, a great second half, tied at halftime,
and then absolutely boat raised the Celtics like they put
a lid on the basket in the fourth quarter or
really at halftime. I don't know who the halftime entertainment was,
(04:37):
but congratulate them for the inspiration that they gave. But
for the Piston's been a hell of a run. We've
been watching it. You again called it on air about
three years ago, which means it had to go to
the absolute bottom. You know, it goes back to helter skelter.
When I get to the bottom, I go back to
(04:58):
the top. And then sure are now Sureston's rolling sixteen
and thirteen at home, thirty three, twenty six. Overall not
world beating, but in the mix of what will be
a cluttered, battle worn Eastern Conference. I mean, your Nicks,
they got five guys. They can go play those five guys. Sure,
Sure that's it. Yeah, there it is, that's the that's
(05:20):
where we're at. The Celtics get hammered today is why
the piling in Boston, my Pistons, by my falling in
Boston today because of a big loss like this.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
No, and that's why this is not a big video of.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Isaiah Thomas smirking at Larry Bird or something. No. No,
this is why this story is so great is because,
like you know, Boston doesn't everybody wins. Celtics fans don't
care they won the title last year. They're terrific. They're
just waiting for the playoffs. It doesn't matter they lost
the night to the Pistons. Look at the Pistons, man,
Like everybody's gonna go back and start looking at video
(05:53):
from two thousand and four, Sorry, Frostburg, the early nineties
and the bad boys, like this is fun, the Pistons
being good as fun here in Troit basketball Like it's
fun and it's and no city deserves some kind of
sports renaissance more than Detroit, right, Like, not just because
it's my adopted but I've been going back there for
you know, for thirty years now. It's like, wow, the
(06:13):
sports scene there has been really rough. Here. They are
now saying you've got sweat equity and you think you
could go become mayor or something. Oh yeah, I could.
I could run for the mayor of Detroit right now.
And what are you kidding? Oh yeah, yeah, you slogan.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
You wan't watch my slogan, Frostburg, what do you got?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Nobody's brought more sadness to the city than me. What
do you how do we bring sad I mean what
you did to Montgomery? No no, no, no, no no no.
See Lions, and you got everybody's hopes up, only to
dash them. Of course, Ben Johnson doing all his uh
hubrists and and let's throw the football with the lineman
and all that other crap and wide receiver came back
(06:46):
to bite him in the ass. So I mean, that's
partially on him, but I think you would still get
the lion's share of the blame. But I mean, David
Montgomery was a guest of the show and immediately gets
hurt thereafter. There's only one commonality there. He was back
by the time they lost in the playoffs. Not my fault.
I got then after that, I got him to the
NFC title game a year ago. I told you I
(07:08):
believed in them before anybody else believe. I told you
this team took them no, I got them as far
as Frostburg. Eventually, you got to go out and make plays. Man,
I can only get yourself far you. You got to
go out and make plays. And you didn't make enough plays.
That's not on me, that's on you. I I go
to bed, just so sorry, not going to cut it.
I say. Yeah. They also didn't execute the plays that
(07:33):
were called. I mean, Dan Campbell with living in you know,
forever off those fourth down calls. If those guys had actually,
you know, caught the ball, not his fault, probably just
got to finish the execution. Look at the the resurgence
of the Lions, the resurgence of the Pistons. Michigan and
Michigan State basketball is still the same time, right. The
(07:55):
Tigers are coming off a playoff appearance last year with
a with a with a payroll of like eight million
dollars overall and like seven million up. It was hoave baiez, right.
I mean this isn't this is I mean, this is
a renaissance. This is like the great This is like
they will write in history books when you read about
this was the time for Mesopotamia when they enjoyed a
great belief and prosperity for a good one hundred, one
(08:20):
hundred and fifty years. It was the era of good
feeling here. Then, of course there was the Woolye mammosol
died and they couldn't get food. But then what happened
is now this is did they gonna look back and go?
Man that early, that twenty twenties. Man, that twenty twenties
running Detroit. This is awesome. I mean, the Pistons are
the number one trending topic on Twitter. When does I mean?
Come on, man, the Pistons are there. There's been no
(08:41):
thirty for thirty on the Pistons. Kevin Durant didn't get
traded to the Pistons, although see I told you that
would have been great at the deadline, right, keating the Pistons.
I mean, look, I didn't want to move though. It's
the this is the best story in the NBA. Sometimes
stories are like that. It's just wow, it's fun that
you know, the the young talent is coming, and to
do it all without Jade and Ivy who was still hurt.
Uh you know, I mean, really, this is a this
(09:02):
is a Pistons team that can really not just hey,
they're a nice story, but at some point you're gonna
go I don't really want to play the Pistons in
the playoffs, man, I don't. I don't know about this.
I don't know if I want to go play them.
I don't think the Cavaliers want any part of the pistol.
I Diin'd rather play the Knicks in the playoffs. I
think the Calves want the Pistons at all. Look at
you now now, just poking the bear. Take nonsense and
(09:26):
trying to get these Midwestern cities beat each other up,
poking the bear, poking the bear, poking the bear, poking
the bear. You just show up to the arena giving
out muskrats. Come Jason Smith Show with Mike Carbon Live
from the tirac dot Com Studios. Now, the other point
that we brought up very briefly a few minutes ago
before we talked about the love of the Pistons. Uh. Yeah,
(09:47):
the Nicks beat the Sixers tonight, make it nine losses
in a row. The process is over right that no process.
Now process cheese, that's what it is. It's probably the
process is done and nothing stands for the end of
the process. If two nights ago was the death of
the process, you know, losing by fifty to the Bulls.
Tonight might be the wake where they lose their ninth
(10:09):
in a row. And Paul George announces on his podcast
ironically that he's going to stop doing his podcast because
he wants to dedicate himself to getting on the court
more and and and being better on the court and
being in shape more so we can hopefully lead the
Sixers to some kind of title that at twenty and
thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I don't know how you're doing that.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I don't know that their search podcast, I can't say
I've ever listened to it. Does he do a lot
of deep dives into Mesopotamian stuff like you were you
were diving up to not constantinop many times? Did you
think of the Roman Empire to I mean the two
thousand and four Pistons. By the time he was nineteen
years old, Alexander the Great had conquered the vast majority
(10:51):
of Europe. But there was a problem the Tigris Euphrate's river.
There was a big blockade he was unable to get through,
so they sent to Trojan horse in and then air
support came in, and uh, that just blew everything up
out of the water. Remember that scene from the Eternals.
That's kind of what happened, because the Eternals were around
way back then. Nice, I really thought you were gonna
dial up and say air supply, just to see if
(11:11):
you can cross it up a little bit. But yeah, no, really,
I as the terror dacos were flying over, they were
playing I'm all out of love, I'm all lost. You
want to go back and listen to an episode of
the podcast or two though, Jason. I want to see
what kind of deep dives he's doing with two clicks,
kind of like the Governor coming out with a new
(11:32):
podcast because the other one got no traction. Hey, I'm
announcing it out. You just need one a month ago.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
To have him say, I want to get my body ready.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Dude, there's there's twenty five games left in the season.
You ready for summer time? How are you not in shape? Now? Like?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
What?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
What are you? What are you gonna do now? Now
I gotta walk away from my podcast. Now I gotta
do it because now things are happening. I gotta walk
back like nothing stands for the end of the sixth
and really the end of Paul George's career, Like when
you think about, Hey, Paul George is getting paid all
kinds of money, but boy, his team's never win.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Why, well, it's stuff like this.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Hey, after doing this podcast for so long, I really
I need I need to focus on the basketball season now,
game sixty three, we've lost eight in a row. I
really need to focus on the game. I can't. I
mean on the positive side though, Jason, he's doing all
of this himself. He doesn't need to have a bunch
of rats like they do in Dallas with a bunch
of hit jobs after the guy's gone. He's just doing
(12:30):
it to himself. Hey, I should devote more time instead
of learning how to use my sure microphone? Hey, can
you can you sum up the twenty twenty four twenty
five season for the Sixers and one sentence? Yeah, and
beads hurt and Paul George did a podcast until it
was too late. There you go. That's a Sixer season
right there. And there's MAXI walking alone on the side
(12:52):
wondering where it all went wrong. I gotta stop now
now you got it? Now you gotta get yourself in
really now you gotta get it shape? Is that now
you do to his defense, though against the Knicks, he
did have one of the best games, his best game
of the year. Well because he stopped doing his podcast.
Now you had, he had all kinds of energy. He's
done with his podcast now and I like that he's announcing.
He announces on the podcast, this is my last podcast.
(13:14):
I gotta I gotta set back from the podcast.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Oh but how do you know that's what he said?
If nobody's listening to it, Well, no, they did.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Actually he put out a press release or leaked it
to somebody somewhere. Yeh. By the way, you're got to
bitch out scored the Sixers seventeen thirteen today. Yeah, it's
a spot that. I mean, come on, man, it's a Sixers.
It's this what what what? I can't really say. Hey,
it's baby step to the Knicks. It's the Sixers. Come on,
Manute take the w move on Exit out about a
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coming next year. Could be overtime, could be first downs,
could be a little bit too late for the bills.
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Speaker 1 (16:23):
Well, speaking of best of versions, today was report card
Day in the NFL, fast becoming one of my favorite
days of the year, where the results are known of
surveys that are sent anonymously to teams who grade their
own franchises for things like how good the weight room is,
how good the owner is, how good the food is,
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and you get some eye opening stuff on what organizations
seem to do things the right way and what organizations
seem not to. For instance, the only owner to get
an f from his own players was Jets owner Woody Johnson. Yeah,
when that story up today, I knew there was one
person to talk to. He joined us now in the
Hotline thirty thirteen NFL Hall of Fame, Pro Football Hall
(17:08):
of fame voter. He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two,
longtime NFL insider. Well, what he's round up Tonight's going
to be a peach for you, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Jay Candy had talk yet he's just laughing, Jod Jod.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah, it was that kind of day for us.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But all I gotta say, I'm not surprised he was
voted the worst owner in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Because he is the worst owner in the NFL. It's
not a surprise to me.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
No, it's not shocker. I mean, you've owned the team
for twenty something years. I made this point to somebody
recently on a Jets podcast. So they asked me about
the coaching surch and everything that they were doing. And
again I worked for the thirty thirteam, and so Tannonbaum
(18:04):
and Rick Snillmer and guys are knowledgeable in other league.
That was a good service to hire. The problem I
have is you've been an owner for twenty five years,
why do you need to hire outside people to figure
out who your next coaches? I mean, you get what
I'm saying, like, you should know how this works by now.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, on the contrary, isn't it good that they finally
admit that they don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
There is a certain amount of honesty to this whole thing,
but they're in lies. Also a problem, like you've been
at this for twenty five years, would he? And by
the way, in day one or year one of your stewardship,
(18:58):
somebody scrawled on paper and crayon. From that going on,
you didn't seem to understand maybe you have some issues.
Maybe you have some issues. So when people are sprawling
in crayon, they don't want to work for you, and
they end up being maybe the greatest coach in the NFL.
(19:21):
PAS trick.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, the thing is, and this is what I say,
Jets always gonna Jet right, Like you think a lot
of this is about treatment of the players, all, okay, no,
But the biggest thing that the Jets players were upset about,
supposedly was a year ago. They said the food situation
was terrible. They liked the nutritionists and everything, but they
said the food situation was bad. What did they do
this year? They got rid of the nutritionists. The food
(19:45):
got worse, and the nutritionists went to another team where
they got it even greater great Like they got like
an A plus because they love the nutritionists so much.
So the Jets players say, hey, nutrition's bad. Okay, we're
gonna get rid of that person. We're gonna make the
food even worse. And now we're gonna see what we
do next year. And if dal it's it's even lower
than it was a year ago. The Jets are proving
there is no such thing as rock bottom.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
They're striving for new levels. That's definitely true. They're they're
they're looking to set new standards, So give them. Give
them a lot of credit for that.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I do appreciate the sound bites and press conferences of
Aaron Glenn. Question is who's he yelling at on the
sideline taking snaps for him this year?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I mean, I mean, is it Jordan.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Travis or Ian Rappaport. Either one could be a quarterback Derby.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
It's already a Derby under center. There'd be some people
who really enjoy that. So, man, I don't know. I
just don't know what they're going to do. I have
you know, do they just do they go and get
a guy like Russell Wilson and let him play for
(21:09):
a year or two, just to play out the string,
so they have somebody of somewhat relevant competency or they
suck it up and you know what's the you know,
there's there's gotta be something better than suck for Manning,
you know, like there's a better, there's a better.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
The March for Arts, We've already patted it.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
We've got to first time.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yeah, starts for Arch or something like that. Yeah, the
March for Arch thing. Yeah, that's the only thing that's
going to keep it all alive for a while. And
then there's going to be the huge disappointment. It's going
to be sort of like who's the ring back you
guys took years ago that got the who is the
guy out of Pennas State where everybody just you know
(21:51):
they took that kid.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, blad, we're going back to nineteen ninety.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, it's gonna be the same when they find out
that Arch Manning refuses to play for them after losing
what thirty three games in two years, Like, it's gonna
be that's gonna be a tough one. It's gonna be
the reaction like Blair Thomas. It's gonna be just like that.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
It's every twenty some odd years a Manning says, I'd
rather go back to college than play for the Jets.
That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Yes, Art isn't playing for this because this is the
other thing, Like players understand, like you've got bad management,
you've got bad ownership. You here's the other side of
it is who's inheriting that team when when he goes,
who's taken over next Steve Cohen?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Steve Cohen's gonna buy You's gonna have the Mets and
the Jets job.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
That's the only thing, that's the only hope you have
that Cohen will take a million. No, I mean, it's
gonna be the kids. And the kids now have the
blendmish of the of the manning stuff, you know, the
I'm not the manning stuff, I'm Madden stuff. So it's
just going to be. I mean, I don't know how
this gets a lot better unless Woody has some kind
(23:15):
of man kulpa and says, I'm I'm completely figuring out
what I'm doing wrong here. The problem you have with
Woody is that he's extremely egotistical. He's really hard headed
and thinks that he's.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Always right, and you know, he he plays out his
management fantasies through the Jets and now I'm starting to
get kind of serious, and this is getting into psychobabble.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
But the truth is that Woody, who's never really been
put in charge of anything with Johnson and Johnson, plays
out his little role of I want to be in charge.
I want to be respected, I want to you know,
I want to have a say so by running the
(24:07):
Jets because they say, yeah, go play with your team.
Go do that and stay away from the company. That's
how this works.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That is
at Jason Cole sixty two thirty third team Mike Tannebounds
right hand man as always, thank you j Cole for
stopping by with us. Awesome, awesome stuff. There goes, there
goes what he's round up. There goes a song. I'm
telling you God, Now he got really serious at the end.
He didn't even invoke that sweet Brick would be the
guy se alesso to take over. I mean, really, Brick
(24:37):
Johnson owning the Jets is only what we deserve. I mean,
I really, I mean, it doesn't get any better than that.
Brick Johnson is going to be twenty five years old.
He's going to own a football team. That's gonna be
the best loud noises. I can only aspire to be
in a family with great riches that afford me entry
into just such a sought after industry.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
That is good.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You got you just got a quarterback in a wide
receiver cut and you got you gotta lay low for
a while there. Oh my goodness. We got more NFL
coming up. In ninety seconds, get to the big changes
could be coming to the NFL this season. But first,
someone who's been called the Woody Johnson of Fox Sports
Radio around for about twenty years, and only now are
(25:22):
people paying attention to really what she's doing.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It's Monte Bologna.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I don't want to feel.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
About that one, Jason, you know usually okay man with
these comparisons, I don't know about that one.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
As soon as you invoke the Jets, you've lost, Monsie,
Yeah you did. Yes, Harmon is correct on that.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
How about this?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
How about this someone who someone who's been called the
New York Jets of Fox Sports Radio. She's entertaining and
makes you laugh. It's Monty Bologna.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
I don't care a lot about her, but it's still
the Jets. And after the last season, you know about
tasting around.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's a final.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Those are fighting words. Those are fighting words, I know.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
And you notice how he says that, because because I
can't do something about it right now, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Now, let's go to someone who has been called the brick,
Johnson of Fox Sports Radio, someone whose future is unbelievably bright.
It's man, Okay, okay, all right, that's better. Yes Johnson
is he's gonna a football team. Okay, that's what he's kid.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
That that gets people fired and cut.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Really the way that said that the the rating on
the Madden Score wasn't good enough.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's my game.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
So we go from witty to brick.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah wow, that's kind of the same thing for three
little pigs. Right, it was a house made of sticks,
then it was a house made of brick, right now,
going that is all right? Look at this, what a
good update. Let's check in on we haven't heard a
score yet. That's how great. This is a lord winning there, Monty.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Thank you so much, guys.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I goetna do it without you.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Two games still going on in the NBA. It's the
Kings and the Jazz with Sacramento on top sixty nine
to sixty five minutes to go in the third. With
five minutes to go in the first half, the Rockets
continue to extend their lead over the Spurs fifty two
to thirty four. Give it up for the Pistons. They've
won eight in a row and they beat the Celtics
win seventeen to ninety seven. Jason Tatum twenty seven points
(27:23):
not good enough. Malik Beasley off the bench twenty six
points for Detroit.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
The Pacers outscored the Raptors.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Won eleven to ninety one.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Tyrese Haliburn thirty three points on eleven assists. Jalen Bronson
thirty four points and seven assists as the Knicks held
on to beat the seventy six Ers one ten to
one oh five. Philadelphia has lost nine in a row
and also seventy six ers four were Paul George said
that he wasn't going to be doing his podcast for
the near future because he wants to focus on the
rest of the season trying to make the playoffs. Obviously,
he didn't win for this game, he probably means for
the next game. The Trailblazers beat the Wizards won twenty
(27:52):
nine to one, twenty one the thunder came back to
defeat the Nets one twenty nine to one twenty one.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
That heat crushed. The Hawks won thirty.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
One to one oh nine. And thank goodness the Clippers
one because I'm gonna shoot my foot guys, But they
beat the Bulls, went twenty to one seventeen. James Harden
thirty points and six assists. Yes, it was necessary. They've
been losing some games. They should not have been losing.
In men's college, who's here?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I should have said that now to someone who reminds
the New York Jets. They both find a way to
want to shoot themselves in the foot. Yes, it's months.
Oh my gosh, that would have been perfect. That would
have been it. Yes.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
In men's college hoops, number seven Saint John's is on
top of Butler fifty one to forty nine halfway through
the second half and one upset so far. Vanderbilt took
down number twelve Texas A and m eighty six to
eighty four.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Back to you guys, thanks a bunch, Jayes. Now, two
big stories out of the NFL. This a combine is
getting in full sway. And I don't mean the alleged
confrontation between NFL insider Jordan schultzon and NFL insider Ian Rappaport,
Which that is brewing in the background, right, we've got
security video.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah, we're waiting to see you. We're hoping there's video,
hoping to.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Say you have video in all locations, don't they?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I would, well, but maybe not where that is see
whatever it wants.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
We would become a law and Order episode right now. Yeah,
but there's got questions. But if it's a movie or
a TV show, there's never Oh yeah, the camera wasn't
working or it doesn't cut cover that corner of the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Ah, man, I thought there was a camera, Like lazy writing.
How do we get out of this when there should
be cameras?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I will just say the camera wasn't working or the
camera didn't cover that corner of the restaurant. Yeah, that's
lazy writing. Yeah, and in this case, using the camera
wasn't working really problematic for one of the sides in this.
So outside of the changes of really which should be
keeping Jordan Schultz and Ian Rappaport a park, two big
changes coming, one definitively to the NFL, although this a
(29:39):
little bit too late for the Buffalo Bills. But at least, hey,
they can say they sparked a rule change. First downs
next season will now be measured electronically. No more guessing,
no more official from the chief sideline overruling an official
on the bill side. Down is I didn't say anything
that wasn't factually correct. I didn't just to an example
(30:01):
that you just wanted to make yourself feel better. Well,
because that's why we have this rule change is because
of that play. We have the rule change because of
that play. That's why we have this. And now to
think the chain gang is still going to be there
as backups in case something goes wrong and the electronics
don't work. The chain gang is still going to be
in the sideline. It's still gonna be something for for
players to look at when they see for the down
(30:23):
and distance markers. So it's still gonna be something that's used.
It's just now electronically, we're going to see where a
ball passes, if a ball passes the first down line
or not. So, hey, this is a great idea. It's
an It's an awesome idea because I always default to, yeah, oh,
you're taking you know, the job of the guys on
the on the on the chain gang or this. I go, yeah,
(30:45):
but I get that, but they're still working. They're still
working the sideline. And anytime we have the technology that
definitively can make something better, you kind of have to
do that. Now you have the technology that maybe make
something better that we're not sure. But if you technology
that can make something better, you kind of have to
do that. And and that's why this is that this
(31:05):
is a great idea. I love this idea by the NFL.
Hawkey comes to these guys get since they're now just
backups and more like I don't know, life size stand
ee's for lack of a better term, to give you
a visual identification of where the first downs are. Do
they get paid less? Oh I don't think you can
(31:26):
do that. I mean how much you make is they're
not really doing the job anymore. They're just kind of
standing there. They still have to be right in case
something happened. No, but still not a think about it.
You're not measuring off that really anymore. No no, no,
no no, but you're not measuring off of it. But
all the other downs. This is something that everybody's okay,
(31:46):
it's third, oh half the yard third and half the yard. Okay,
we got They look over to the sideline and see
this is where the ball is. Where's the yard? Markets
They can't take them away because then you would go,
where's first down?
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I can't get electronics stuff on there, but the electronic Hey,
we know the ball traveled ten yards. Yeah, I know
where to spot it where it goes. You know how
teams are gonna know how you're gonna move stuff back
where the original line of scrimmage is. Now they're they
can't take money. They're still doing the job. It's just
(32:16):
not we don't get the drama of here comes the
chain we're gonna measure. I mean, nowadays we kind of
know when it's a first down or when it's not. Anyway,
I can see when the official come running in the
field though, right, Yeah, but you can see where the
yellow first down line is and the official runs on
the field, and you see where all that's gonna be
a left foot spot and we're not getting the first
down that short. Like, it's kind of the drama of
(32:37):
that is kind of gone. Where it used to be
a really great moment. These guys running out. Let's see
when they stretch the chain, but like, like that's kind
of gone and I'd rather they get it right rather
that happen. Oh, of course, it's all for accuracy. The
gamblers demand it. Uh, you know what, I actually you're
not gonna believe. You're gonna think I'm lying to you.
But you know, next hour I will tell you I
(32:57):
have a great chain gang story from high school. Really. Yes,
I got in a game I wasn't even playing in.
I got yelled at by the officials. They were measuring
a first down. I supposed to tease that I wasn't
even played. So we'll do that coming up. I brought.
We got that, Plus we got the big rule overtime
could be changed in the NFL. Yeah, Jets owner Woody
Johnson got in that from his players. Hooray.
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the NFL. We got more report card drama coming up
in a few minutes. Like we're parents of high school children,
we have report card drama coming up. But look, two
big things changes the NFL is considering. We talked about
the first one a few minutes ago. The chain gang
is no more first downs are going to be measured
electronically next year. So first downs like the one that
Josh Allen looked like he got against the Chiefs in
(34:19):
the AFC title game might get to judicated a little
bit better. The other one's about overtime. But before we
get to overtime, I promised I would tell you this
story about the time I got yelled at by the
officials in a high school game. I wasn't even playing it, okay,
ready for this. So when I was playing JV football, right,
I was a freshman JV JV team and most of
(34:43):
all the players on JV we played on Sunday and
the varsity played Saturday. So our thing was we were
supposed to be there Saturday to help with anything the
team needed before the game, whether it was to help
work on the field, to help deal with warm up,
help warm everybody up, to you know, be the water boys,
to do all the all the different things you need
(35:04):
on the sideline. All jvs were there to do that.
So everybody kind of had a rotation out of thing,
and this one day was where I was the I
was the water boy, right. I was supposed to bring
out water to the to the players like okay, great,
So I took my turn. Nobody wanted to do that,
but I'm like, okay, what I mean, I'll do it.
Everybody else has to do. It's we're all the team.
So they're measuring for a big first down in the
(35:24):
middle of the fourth quarter and and we're on defense
and it looks like it's short, like it's going to
be fourth and one, but they're measuring. So I bring
the water out to the team in the huddle. I'm
giving it to the guys. The guys are talking to me,
and I say to the captain, I go, they're not
measuring that right, because what you talk about? I go, look,
and the thing is they had the the the way
they measured it.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
They had the.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
The first five yards were straight right, And I don't
know me because our field was a dust bowl, so
I think they were just looking for a for a
spot where where the where the chalk was from where
the ball was they put the thing so they had
it go straight for the first five yards. Then they
had an official who was holding the link there and
then they measured and the ball was to the side
about like five yards, so they dragged the chain at
(36:08):
an angle. And I go and I said, you can't
measure that way. That's gonna that that's that's not even
measuring an extra five yards.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
And the captain is like, dude, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (36:18):
What do you And I get you know, it's the
middle of the game, and it's you know, they're you know,
it's a or it's the fourth quarter of a game
and they're all sweating their asses off. We didn't win
a lot of games. The game was closed, like what
do you talk? I go, do you see this? Do
you see it? Look you see how the angle if
they had it straight out, it would be further away
from the ball. And they're measuring and the nose of
the football is like right at the chain. I go,
(36:38):
if they're measuring it straight, they get you know, they
don't get the first down. And one of the officials
heard me and says, can you pipe down over there?
Can you pipe down over there? And you know me,
even when I was fourteen, I said, you're not measuring
it right. You got to keep that thing that's got
to go out straight. Oh my god, I'm gonna get
a personal fout. Pedro gonna matter anymore. And one of
(37:02):
the players, I forget who it was, he grabbed me
and said, dude, good thing with the math, but shut up.
I said, okay, and I go back off and I
tell the coach they're not measuring it right. But then
it looked out and it looked like they did move
it to measure and they were short on on third down.
I go, I just got us four a third down
stop there by myself. I got us a third I
(37:23):
almost got us a fifteen yard penalty. You know, because
when does that ever happen? The guy with the water
gets it you know. It starts mouthing off to the officials.
Fifteen yards were liked, good mathall good man, get off
the field on the water boy. And you want a
great PostScript to this after the game. After the game,
one of the one of the ore, one of our
(37:45):
best players, defensive line. He went he he played both ways.
He played offensive line, defensive line. He goes up to
me says, I heard you, Uh you helped us at
the with that first down. I said, yeah, because we
stopped him on fourth down, like fourth and one, they
didn't get to an incomplete pass.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
We took over and he was like, I heard.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
You help this.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
He goes. You know, I didn't know that at the time.
I said, oh no. I said, well, hey, no problem.
He goes, but he goes, thanks, and I said great,
and he looks at me. I god, he goes. All
I know is I didn't get any water because when
I turned around, you weren't on the field anymore. And
I said, hey, dude, sorry, man, I'm so sorry. What
are you almost close to hydration situation?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
He said, but we got it.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
We you know, we got the fourth out, So okay,
like all right, Greg, carry you off the field. Or anything. Yeah,
here's the kid with dude wearing gray sweats and a
Curtis High School T shirt. Here he is hero of
the day. I can't imagine if I came off, you'd
had to tell a coach, why do we get a penalty?
I said they were measuring wrong, and and and then
(38:43):
the referees told me to be quiet, So you were quiet? No,
I actually said something after that. I yelled at him again, Sorry, coach,
I'm gonna I'll go clean out my locker down on it, coach,
Like we would, they would have this right, they would
have the ball like inside our twenty yard line. And
now the troubles and Trials of little Jason Smith. There's
(39:07):
me man animated Jason Smith right here. That's a great episode.
But you're measuring it wrong. You gotta make the longest yards,
Starry Jason Smith. I kind of look like kyu.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Oh no, no, wasn't.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
No.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
I didn't have that kind of you had the white hair.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
At that point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't have
that voice too. Oh you're not measuring right.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
No, no, no, no, no no, no. Jason. Was Pete Davidson
on your team.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
No, I was a couple Pete davids a couple of
years younger than me. I think I think pet Pete
Davidson is like in his early forties, right, So yes,
that would have been. Yeah, he would have been like
in he would have been like an elementary school at
the time. I think, yeah, I'm just thinking of people
from Staten Island. Yeah, well there's not many of us.
Well there's Wu Tang Klan and Bobby Tomes family. Uh No,
(39:54):
but they went to Curtis. I think it was. I
think Riza went to Curtis actually, because that's part of
one of his low God God took me from where
dropped me off at Curtis, and that's one of the
lines of their songs. I like, wow, Rizza went to
Curtis about I mean, I don't know that he graduated.
I think he transferred schools again, but you know he
was there Curtis for a while. How about that some
next level stuff you never No, No, she was she
(40:16):
was a different No, she didn't, she didn't go to Curtis.
Jennifer'sposito also Staten Island went. She went to Susan Wagner
though she didn't go to Curtis. I'm the second most
famous alum from my school. No, you ready for this.
Bobby Thompson shot her around the world. Curtis High School,
Colin jos is more famous. He didn't go to my
(40:37):
high school. He didn't go to my he didn't go
to Curtis. I went to Curtis. It's Bobby Thompson and
then me. That's the way the Curtis right there. Dude.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
We're a football dynasty.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Man. I just told you. I got a first down
by Melvin off to the officials. Man, I don't even
rate top one hundred of mine. I suck. We got
more NFL on the way, big NFL report card news
and andfl over time. No more chain gang, I promise.
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