April 22, 2025 • 37 mins
Jason Fitz and Buck Reising, in for Jason and Mike, preview the NFL Draft, and Jason has a conspiracy theory about why he expects Aaron Rodgers to once again take away the news cycle from the NFL Draft on Thursday. The guys dive into the potential landing spots for Shedeur Sanders. Plus, the Detroit Pistons have a real shot to pull off the first round upset!
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
If you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You got playoffs everywhere you look. You got the.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Basketball going on right now, You've got the NHL in
full swing. But for football fans, Jason fitz it's draft season.
It's the season of transaction. It's the season of hope.
It's the thing that warms your heart. Get your feeling
real good after a three and fourteen finish, of four
and thirteen finish. Whatever happened to your football team in
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twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It doesn't matter because it's Draft week. Baby.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
But the problem, as we sit here on the Jason
Smith Show, he's Jason Fitz fits not Smith, even though
he's confused himself several times to night, I'm buck Rising.
We're with you here for the next few hours. If
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weeks should be a moment of hope, of joy, of
no losers, no losers. You want to talk about moral victories.
You tried to give me a Knicks fan moral victory
earlier when we were talking about the Pistons winning their
first playoff game since two thousand and eight. Draft season
is the season of moral victories, but one person is
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holding it entirely hostage. Fitsie Aaron Rodgers will not get
the hell out of our lives fast enough. And the
fact that he has not given the Pittsburgh Steelers a
decision on the week of the NFL Draft, when it
was reported several times from several credible insight that they
would have a decision on their quarterback not named Mason.
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Dan Rudolph respectfully love you, Mason. It is insane to
me that we are going to have another NFL news
cycle hijacked by a quarterback who had a worse record
as a starter for the Jets last year than Zach
Wilson did in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
This is where it just becomes a beautiful thing for
the lovers of chaos, right, the agents of chaos. This
becomes a beautiful thing because the draft takes place Thursday night.
Right the draft takes place in Green Bay. Right when
I think Green Bay, and I think, how do you.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Steal the story?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Like the easiest way for Aaron Rodgers, who says he
doesn't seek the attention, but always seems to do things
that are attention seeking, Like most of the time, if
I don't want anyone to pay attention to we probably
don't go on the Pat McAfee show. But you know,
he says he doesn't want the attention, but he does
most of the time. I look around and say, Okay,
we're just gonna get a decision. For most guys, Nah,
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this is.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
In Green Bay.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
You can't tell me that there isn't it to me,
this is simple. Aaron Rodgers is gonna announce his decision.
It's gonna get leaked right before the draft tips off,
right before the first pickers on the clock. The entire
story in Green Bay for the first night of the
NFL Draft is gonna be about one Aaron Rodgers. Because
I think he's gonna announce that he's signing with the
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Pittsburgh Steelers just as the draft begins. Now, maybe he
announces he's retiring. Either way, whatever he announces, if he
announces it on Draft Night, the entire conversation for five
hours is gonna have little nothing to do with Shadur anymore.
It's all gonna be about what are the Steelers gonna
do now that they know that Aaron Rodgers. And then
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it's gonna be the next day when you turn on,
when you tune in to your favorite Friday morning show,
if you tune in to Good Morning Football on the
NFL network, the morning after the first night of the draft,
if Aaron Rodgers is announced that he's retiring, let me
ask you, what do they lead with the shock of
where Shadur was finally drafted or the retirement of future
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Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
We all know the answer to this.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Aaron Rodgers is going to be the biggest story because
he's going to announce his decision apt as the first
round of the draft commences.
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Speaker 2 (05:31):
It would be the.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Most Aaron Rodgers thing in the world because I'm sure
you know you've talked at great length on your various
Yahoo platforms, per potentially even here on Fox Sports Radio
about Aaron rodgers appearance on McAfee and how he said
he's what was the line that he's not decided on
anything and he's not attached to anything. It was something
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a little bit more transcendent sounding than that, but you
get my point.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I'm paraphrasing.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
He talked a lot without actually saying anything, but there
is going to come a time where Aaron Rodgers actually
has to make a decision. I'm convinced, Finci that, and
I love your tinfoil hat conspiracy theory here. It delights
me to no end because that would just give me
another reason to tee off on a quarterback who I
think has been washed for quite some time, and we
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continue to talk about is talk about him as if
he's still super Bowl caliber, super Bowl champion Aaron Rodgers,
and we are many were many years removed from him
even being Green Bay and de of ea Aaron Rodgers
at this point in time, It's been a long time
since I've seen Aaron Rodgers actually be the player that
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he used to be. I'm just I'm convinced he's going
to play football somewhere in twenty twenty five. There's too
many teams who will literally hold their draft hostage while
he makes a decision throughout the course of an offseason
and get edged by the fact that Aaron Rodgers could
play for us. Aaron Rodgers could make us a competitor.
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Aaron Rodgers could keep us relevant in the AFC North
as we try and scrounge and claw and scrap our
way past Kenny Pickett and Mason Rudolph and Justin Fields
and Russell Wilson and all these different things. Hell, Minnesota,
I know they passed on him this first time around,
but are you telling me if J. J. McCarthy doesn't
look exactly the way that Kevin O'Connell wants him too,
that they wouldn't at least consider giving that X in
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Aaron Rodgers a call. I guess it's not technically an X,
but you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I think Minnesota would be the one place he would
want to go. What gets tricky about this is what
do you do if you're Pittsburgh. Like to me, it's
pretty shocking to see one of the most stable and
respected organizations in all of sports left in this game
of musical chairs with no answer at the position, Like
everybody else at least figured out some So I may
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not like the Giant's answer, but I at least understand
what they're like. I understand, Hey, it's the best of
a bad situation, Like the hell else are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Right?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Like I understand what their approach is, I don't understand
how Pittsburgh got to this point. You know, And if
you talk to people that I've talked to Charles Robinson
at Yahoo a lot on our show Inside Coverage there,
you know, he's made it very clear that Arthur Smith
just simply didn't want Russell back, and they thought that
there would be the opportunity to maybe work something out
with Justin Fields, and Justin Fields didn't want to be there.
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So now what do you do? Well, you gotta have
some sort of like Mason Rudolph could not have been.
You're not even your plan D coming in. There's just
no way in my mind that the Steelers, a competent,
well run organization like this is what happens to bad teams.
The Steelers may still win nine games because they're the
Pittsburgh Steelers. But they're stuck and this becomes just like
the Kenny Pickett draft I was working. I was covering
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the draft the year that Kenny Pickett was drafted, and
my immediate reaction on air when the pick happened was,
I don't like this pick because Kenny Pickett isn't a
first round quarterback. This just feels like a desperate team
needed a quarterback and he was the best guy there
at the position they needed.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
That's what it feels like. The Steelers are gonna.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Get stuck doing like when they get when the Steelers
are on the clock with I think twenty first pick
off the top of my head, when they are on
the clock with the twenty first pick, my god, Like
I think by then they may be stuck with the
fourth best quarterback in this draft. So like it gets
really tricky depending on what happens with Shador, depending on
like if Shador is free fallen, are they taking him there?
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But also I mean, Chefty was the one that tweeted
out yesterday he talked to a GM that doesn't have
a first round grade on a single quarterback in this
year's draft. Like, even if they take Shador is that
really the law, that's the answer. Like Chador's best situation
is not having.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
To play this year.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
So I man, I don't know. I feel like the
Steelers are screwed. And because the Steelers are screwed, they're
sitting at the altar of Aaron Rodgers. But that's not
a place I ever want to be because I don't
think Aaron Rodgers at his core, gives a damn about
anybody else's altar. He's only gonna do what he wants
to do, when he wants to do how he wants
to do it, and that's that's the way he's always operated.
So they're relying on somebody that I just don't think
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you can rely on.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I don't understand why he still gets extended latitude. Like
I know that we are so desperate for even reasonably
effective and efficient quarterback play in the NFL. The fact
that we cannot find thirty two people to play it
at a starting caliber level anywhere in the world thirty
two people to play this position well, and it speaks
to the degree of difficulty that playing NFL quarterback requires,
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even college quarterback, depending on which programs you're looking at.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
If you want to get into the weeds there.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
But I I know I've known Arthur Smith for a
long time, long before he was the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator,
long before he was the Atlanta Falcons head coach. He's
just a cute little assistant tight ends coach running around here,
quality control guy here in Tennessee before he went on
to become the OC and then have a successful run
that ended up getting him a head coaching job. I
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cannot it is. I have tried to wrap my head
around this ten thousand times fitsy because I know Arthur Smith.
I don't know Mike Tomlin personally, but I know enough
people in the league who have been around Mike Tomlin
and the things that Mike Tomlin has not only in
but thrived in to the point where he's never had
a losing season in the NFL. And the fact that
both of those men, along with many other respected football
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people who work for the Pittsburgh Steelers organization, and the
respect that that organization deserves they have earned it. The
fact that they are in this spot is as mind
boggling to me as it is to you. And to
your point, because I know we'll get to Shador Sanders
at some point tonight. It is draft week, after all,
there's some gas lighting around the Giants at three.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I was reading as recently as this.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Morning from Adam Schefter talking about the opportunity or the
potential for to see New York overdraft a quarterback, that
quarterback specifically, just because we know cam Ward is going
number one off the board to Tennessee. I can't think
of a worse possible situation to put Shador in. He's
gonna have to play if they draft him. If Aaron
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Rodgers is not a viable option for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
And the only reason they're in this position, FITZI, is
because as recently I was at owners meetings in pomp Beach, Okay,
they had and I can't remember which Rooney currently is
the controlling owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, but.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The ownership was on record talking about the fact that
they expected an Aaron Rodgers deal soon. That was a
month ago.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Almost at this point in time, they got got an
organization that almost never gets got got got by Aaron Rodgers,
who at this point in his career is grifting off
his own relevancy that he had, I mean four or
five years ago, and it's I don't it really.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
It sounds like a.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Lot of personal criticism that I have of that man,
but it is all professional at this point in time,
because I think the way that he conducts himself is
frankly not professional.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
If you allow yourself to get got by this version
of Aaron Rodgers, you have nobody but yourself to blame.
If we're being real, you just mentioned chedor let's get
into it. Let's figure out where she door is gonna go.
The latest and pretty shocking revelations I've heard from a
couple of people around the league about one spot that
everyone thinks is a landing spot for Shador that I
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just don't think is in the carts.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Tell you about that next.
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Speaker 2 (13:16):
The rumors are swirling.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
It's just a matter of actually getting to the NFL Draft.
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The rumors are swirling around the sun of Dion Sanders,
Shadoor Sanders, the Colorado quarterback, and the question becomes, now, FITZI,
what is going to happen with Shadoor on Thursday night?
Does anything happen with Shadoor Sanders on Thursday night? It
would be a significant upset to see only one quarterback
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drafted in the first round. In fact, I'm very much
convinced at this point in time, which is a conversation
for another day, that the Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe may
end up being a first round pick. And I'm sure
you've heard some things to a similar effect. But Shador
Sanders is going to dominate the headlines, provided that your boy,
Aaron Rodgers doesn't steal them away from him. On the
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first night of the Green Bay Draft, so many teams
with quarterback needs, so many teams that you could make
it make sense in your head to see Shador Sanders
go to except for the New York Giants at three,
because that's to me where the NFL draft, this year's
NFL draft actually starts.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's kmore to the Tennessee Titans. That's a lock.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Everything that you hear from the Cleveland Browns is that
not publicly, but privately, it seems that they are headed
on a collision course to draft Travis Hunter, arguably the
only quote unquote generationtional talent in this draft, which leaves
arguably the best player, the best prospect in this draft,
Abdul Carter, the pass rusher out of Penn State, available
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for the Giants, who have an embattled coach, a more
embattled general manager, and an ownership who has already expressed
a level of impatience with both of those individuals. That
may force you to make a decision or may push
you to make a decision that may not be in
the best long term interest of the franchise that you're
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making decisions for, But if you think it'll give you
a little extra job security, maybe a thing about overdrafting
should ur Sainders at three.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
I mean only if you want to ruin the kid.
I can't say this is oden of Giants fans. If
your team drafts Shaudor he will be at bust and
it's not his fault. This, this to me is so simple. Shadour,
if he goes somewhere and has some time to develop
with a coach that has a long term plan form
where they keep him off the field for a minute
while everything sort of they work on some of the
things that obviously that are playing and apparent in his tape,
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then it becomes a much different conversation. And Dan Orlovsky
has said repeatedly that he thinks, you know that that
Shador is the most difficult prospect he's ever had to
try to evaluate where he's gonna go on the draft.
I have talked to everybody this this is what I
try and do, is somebody that's hosted to me my
eighth year hosting draft content for Yahoo. Uh not for
Yahoo the entire time, but my eighth year hosting draft content.
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I try and talk to a bunch of people leading
up that I think are smart. So when, as you
and I've talked about before, like when the Will Levis
things started to blow up, I talked to enough people
that I had I was confident that Will Levis thing
was not you know what some people thought it was
gonna be. When bon Nicks last year started to blow up.
I talked to enough people that I was confident that
bo Nicks is gonna blow up this year. I get
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different answers every week when I start talking to people.
I genuinely think most of the world doesn't know where
Shoudo is gonna go. I'm just becoming more and more
certain that he's not gonna end up in New Orleans.
And I've seen a bunch of mocks that want to
put him with the Saints. I've seen a bunch of
mocks that want to put him with the Giants. These
places don't necessarily make any sense for a couple of reasons.
Like number one, you gotta play him like you don't
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have another quarterback. If you're playing him, you're gonna ruin him.
And that's very reminiscent to Trevor Lawrence. I said, you know,
the Jags would ruin Trevor Lawrence. Before Trevor Lawrence ruined
the Jags, they did, right, Like I think the Giants
are gonna ruin a quarterback if they take them. Like,
if you're the Giants, do the simple think here, take
your strength, which is your defensive line, make it even stronger.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
With the best prospect.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I think the clearest prospect to see in this year's
draft the one easy, all right, ab Dual Carter. We're
gonna take him, and immediately he's gonna make a difference
and you make a team better. Like this is really simple.
If they takes your door, I think that's asenine. And
where it gets complicated is I think it's asdine. If
the Raiders takes your door, I think it's asdine. If
the Jets takes your door, I think it's asenine. If,
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as I mentioned.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
The Saints takes your door.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
I talk to three different people this week that all
told me the same thing. The Saints look like they're
looking at defensive players right now, which is sort of
shocking to what everybody's logic is. I've heard some Jackson
Dart love from the Saints, Like I just think we're
gonna be sitting in the middle of the first round,
and the real conversation is gonna be who's gonna trade
up for Shador?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
And even that is complicated. Are you willing to.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Give up extra assets to go get a quarterback that
some teams have a third or fourth round great on.
I don't think that makes any sense. I agree, and
I'm gonna say this loudly. I think there are gonna
be four quarterbacks taken in the first round. I believe
that Jackson, Dart, Shador Sanders, and Jalen Milroe.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Are all gonna go in the first round.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
I just think that three of the four Jackson, Shador,
and Jalen are likely to go at the bottom of
the first round to a team that trades up back
into the first round to try and get an extra
year maybe. And and all of this is because the
league is gonna acknowledge what you and I've heard enough times.
You've heard this at the owners meetings, Like we've heard
this enough times. These are developmental quarterbacks. That that's just real.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
That's fact.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
That doesn't mean he's not good, that doesn't mean he's
gonna suck. It just means that he's developmental. Like that's okay,
that's an okay label to put on a quarterback coming in.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
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Speaker 2 (19:31):
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A week ago, the New Orleans Saints were moving ahead
with Derek carrs their starting quarterback.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
This potential shoulder injury.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
It's not a potential shoulder injury, it's a shoulder issue
that's going on. Apparently wasn't publicly known about until days
before the team's voluntary offseason workout programs program started, which
is insane that they would clear him on the medicals
and not realize that he has a shoulder situation that
may cost him his upcoming season and have to result
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in surgery. The fact that they are looking at defensive
players runs so counter to everything that you think that
they should do about the draft situation, except for the
fact that we just talked about Aaron Rodgers and nobody's
talked about Aaron Rodgers in New Orleans before.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Oh man, give me that. Inject that in my veins.
But what do you do?
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Like what gets weird for cars that the salary cap
stuff is difficult, Like they're not gonna be able to
trade him. Nobody's trading for Derek Carr's contract, so then
they'd have to cut him. And this is where you know,
we all know people that sit there and tell you
the salary caps not real, but it is.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
For New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
They've been in salary cap hell for so long, and
even if they designate him as a post tune first cut,
they're taking on a pretty substantial hit for the next
several years. But also they kind of got to do
that because my god, going into twenty twenty six, he
would be thirty five years old with the salary cap
number of sixty nine million dollars. I don't want to
bag anybody down with details, but there's no there's literally
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no chance at hell they're taking that right. So they've
got this weird spot to get out of this contract
on a non tradable contract for a quarterback that's just
gonna be good enough to prevent you from being an
upper pick.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
But being an upper pick is one thing that frustrates.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I'm frustrated, Buck, I'm angry at a conversation that keeps happening.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
And you've heard it in Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
There's this conversation, if you know what, we're just gonna
skip this year's quarterbacks and we're going to take a
flyer on next year's quarterback.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
That to me, is the dumbest thing ever. Will tell
you why.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
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App Miami, in front of another small crowd under eight thousand,
beat Cincinnati six to three. Cleveland over the Yankees six
to four, Jose Ramirez a homer and four RBIs Boston
on the Patriots Day holiday game defeated the White Sox
four to two. The window Walker Bueler seven innings, just
one run, allowed nine strikeouts, and Trevor Storia the Red
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Sox three more hits. He's betting three thirty seven.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Back to you, Steve just sideswiping the Marlins size the
Marlins fan crowd there in the middle of the update.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No love lost.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Huh respect that. I respect that. You know, when you
have like seven people in the stands, you get to
call him out for it.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
NFL team that I cover on a regular basis, there
was like there was like thirty five hundred people there
for the Houston Oilers Houston Texans revenge games, so the
Titans could lose in the Houston Oilers love your Blues uniform.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Tough scene.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Yeah, let's be honest too, that scene's gonna be even
tougher when there's a new multi billion dollar you know,
publicly funded stadium sitting there in downtown Nashville. I that's
always an interesting moment, you know. I guess that's why
my you know, every time somebody sits there and trashes
my beloved Raiders for having so many away fans in
the Allegiance Stadium for every game, which is true, it's real,
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I always laugh. I'm like, if you've been to a
Titans game, like this is what happens when you're in
a destination city and your favorite team, like your local
team sucks. If you're in the city people want to
go to like cool. Cleveland's never gonna have that problem
because ain't nobody going to Cleveland for any at me
Cleveland fans, Like nobody's sitting there saying.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Hey, honey, you want to go watch the Browns this year?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Like not a single person has ever echoed the cinema
let's take the family on vacation to go to a
Cleveland Browns game Like that ain't happening, But that happens
when you're when you are Browns fan and you're like,
get me to Nashville, get me to Vegas, get me
to a city that you know doesn't suck.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Well, and the one way to try and galvanize a
fan base is a potential franchise quarterback or at least
acting like the quarterback that you drafted is going to
be your franchise guy, which is kind of the hope
is certainly the hope here in Tennessee where they have
the number one overall pick in the NFL Draft. Obviously
NBA NHL postseason going on as well, but for we
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but for our business, we know that football is certainly king,
and we'll get back to the basketball here in just
a second.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Look. Look, look the NFL Draft.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
For anyone that wants to get this twisted, the NFL
Draft is going to get higher ratings than all of
these playoff games we're talking about combined. So like, just
remember that with absolutely no outcome coming out of this weekend,
there will literally be no way to prove who's right
or wrong, what picks were good and what picks were bad,
And every single article written about grading the draft will
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get higher clicks on the internet.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Then articles about actual playoff games.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
The draft broadcast will get better ratings than actual playoff games.
And the best that the NBA can put together, the
NBA could give you the they could somehow.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Try and manifaction.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You got the Clippers and the Nuggets tonight. It's a
great game.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Again, it's probably I don't know if it's going to
go to overtime like Game one did. But it's an
absolute slog and it still is going to pale in
comparison to the avalanche of transactions that are coming our
way here in just what less than three days from now.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
The NBA is giving us three games on Thursday night
and three games on Friday night. Congratulations, you have now
given us six playoff games that nobody's gonna watch because
they'll be watching the NFL Draft.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
I'm just being honest.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm right.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Well, let's see if you told me that there was
a there was an ok Se Memphis series going on
right now in the middle of the regular season, how
quickly would they relegate that the NBA TV or something
to that effect.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Another fifty one point slacking that nobody wants to watch.
But you know, you mentioned the quarterbacks, and this is
the thing that really bothers me because I've heard some
people say the Saints are just going to skip the
quarterback market and go towards next year. Well, there's two
things that have happened recently that we can learn from
as a general population covering the NFL. Number one, last
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year was a killer year for quarterbacks. That everybody knew it.
We knew for a year coming into it that last
year was going to be the year. Which is why
I gave the very unpopular opinion on all of my
shows long before the draft that you were never going
to be able to make a trade for one of
these quarterbacks.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
And what do you know?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I mean, according to some reports, the Washington commanders were
offered as much as three first rounders and two second
rounders to move up, and they said no. They knew
that they wanted Jayden Daniels, like you knew that there
was no trade. We've heard the reports repeatedly this year
that it would take a historic trade for the Titans
to look at anybody other than Camboard.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Guess what last year?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
A historic trade would not have gotten the Bears off
of Caleb, It would not have gotten Washington all for Jaden.
It would not have gotten to England off of Drake May.
Those three were done, they were done. So if your
answer is I'm just going to collect more draft capital
and trade up for a quarterback, you don't know that
you're even gonna be able to pull off that trade.
And the other thing that I think we need to
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remember is that this year, this last season, we just survived.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Twelve teams in the NFL lost double digit games.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
So if your method is we're gonna suck, you can't
guarantee you're gonna suck more than somebody else.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
So like even if you beg.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
And bleed and try to if you're the Saints and say,
you know what, we're just gonna get arts next year, Hey,
you don't know if Archie's coming out. B You don't
know if another team's gonna suck more than you do.
And see, you don't know that you're gonna have the
draft capital to move up.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
You just can't bank. This isn't the NBA, Like this
isn't any other sport.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
You cannot bank on next year's draft when you are
looking at this year's roster construction in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Well, that's because in the NFL, no one player saves you.
In basketball, one player can save you. Patrick Holmes, the
greatest quarterback or the best quarterback, the most talented quarterback
that I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Tom Brady is, of course the greatest winner.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
We understand that, and I don't want to relitigate for
the purposes of sports talk radio arguments who's actually the
greatest quarterback in the history of the sport whatever. But
Pat's as good a player at that position as I've
ever seen in my lifetime. God knows, and he was
not nearly enough for the again avalanche of Philadelphia Eagles
defensive linemen that completely overwhelmed him and the rest of
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their offensive unit en route to an ass kicking in
the Super Bowl, the most important game, the game where
the one player, the superstar player fan bases are praying, wishing, hoping,
assigning all of their all of their wants and their
dreams to that one player, that franchise quarterback that's going
to be able to get you there and not just
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get you there, but win that game. It doesn't work
like that in the NFL, FITZI I watched the race
to the Bottom this year. The Titans fans, it's the
only thing that they had to get excited about because
their season was over in mid October, praying to the
football gods that Joe Milton VFL would go out there
and beat the Buffalo bills to keep the New England
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Patriots from having the number one overall pick, so Tennessee
could mercifully be the worst team in football just to
get them the hope of what a franchise quarterback of
the number one overall.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Pick might provide them to.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
It's intoxicating, and fans fall for it each and every year.
It's a thing that it's a drum that we're going
to have to beat for as long as they let
us have microphones in front of our faces.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Yeah, it's when.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
The amazing part about all that is. I remember I
do a weekly interview every week with the Raiders flagship station,
and I was sitting on the week the Raiders won
a game and it took them out of the first
overall pick, and people were losing their minds because they
were convinced that now, by losing the first overall pick,
the Raiders weren't going to be able.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
To draft Shador.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
And now we sit here a couple of months later
and the Raiders, I think, you're going to have every
opportunity to draft Shador at six, and they're not going
to like It's It's just it just shows you how
stupid this entire process is and we're already sitting here
obsessing over Arch, but my god, we haven't even seen
Arch really play any football.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Like, I mean, that's all that matters.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
What if he comes.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Out and he's just met what if he's just like,
what if he's just average?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
We were talking about the Saints earlier. Spencer.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
There was a time when Spencer Rattler was the consensus
number one overall draft pick and then it got benched
to Oklahoma and transferred.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
I mean, there are so many just and this is
the concept reminder, like Jayden Daniels a year before he
was drafted wasn't on anybody's radar like we It's just
it's such an inexact science.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
The other side of it is, of all the quarterbacks
that are drafted in the first round, I think the
percentage is about thirty percent workout.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
That's not even good odds.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Why do you want to suffer through the worst season
you've ever seen to get the first overall pick?
Speaker 6 (30:55):
When I will remind.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
You that the gauntlet of quarterbacks you have to go
through in the AFC. Patrick Mahomes not a first overall pick,
Josh Allen not the first overall pick. Like you can
go up and down to Justin Herbert, not the first
overall pick, Joe Burrows, the only one of these guys
we're talking about that everybody's scared of. There was actually
a first overall pick. Jalen Hurts just won a Super Bowl.
Not the first overall, not even a first round pick.
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My god, Like everybody closes in on this. Well, we
got a we gotta suck so we can get a quarterback.
But there's so little proof that that actually works. We'll
keep breaking breaking down the quarterback situation and one of
the most undertold stories about the draft bus an update
on the NBA action going on right now.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
We have playoff action. We'll get you caught up on
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Speaker 5 (33:27):
NBA playoff action going on as we speak. Big night
in the Association.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
I don't know. I never feel good about me saying
the association.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
You shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
It's like it's like the larryob you know.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
And I hosted Sports Center on Snapchat for a while,
Like I tried to use all the kid terms for
the NBA.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Didn't work for me. Yeah, I tried. Didn't work for me.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Well, I mean physically you look like somebody who might
say things like that.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
But yeah, you're not fooling anybody, Bud.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
I look, I look the part I've got, the Lariob wired,
the Larry Ob. The Clippers up on the Nuggets right now,
seventy five.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
To sixty nine.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Nice, And the Pistons get the six point win over
the Knicks, which is really the staggering result of the
evening because it changes home court advantage, right. And I'm
gonna be honest, I don't really understand why home court
advantage is such a weird thing in the NBA. Like
I have never been able to wrap my head around
shooting percentages being so vastly different just because there's different
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people in the arena. Like I understand in baseball, you
know where everything's different, you know, I understand to a
certain extent, but most sports, like if the field's a fit,
like I even understand in the NFL, where communication becomes
really different difficult, and you have you know, off sides,
and you have false starts and things that the crowd
can actually generate. But like in a basketball game, I
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do not understand why home court is such a massive
thing when all NBA courts are essentially built with the
same sitelines, the same like, there's very little difference in
all of them. But it is a huge part of
playoff basketball, and the Pistons get to win, which means
Madison Square Garden is no longer the differentiator in this
in this, this series.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Oh just this, this one game is up ended at
all and Knicks fans are in shambles.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
I'm sure things are being handled diplomatically in New York
tonight and again for Pistons fans.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
I keep trying to bring it back to.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Pistons fans because I'm just I'm just so happy for him,
you know, It's just like you just want to pat
him on the top of the head, be like, oh,
great job, little guy.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
You know you got there. Two thousand and eight, you
got there. You finally got one.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
A postseason win for the first time since Lebron was
like fiftieth on the all time scoring list.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Wait wait, wait wait.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Chris working on the show is a big Pistons fan,
is buck aloud to be condescending in his praise of
the Pistons on a win night, like, let's I mean, Chris,
I think that.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
Was genuine, genuine pride. Chris, No, I I get what
you're saying. I would say Detroit sports fans have rabbit.
Here is a little bit when it comes to that stuff.
But hey, you know there's me.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
There really peter out there on me, Chris, it's been
a while.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
It's okay, I understand, uh, Fincy. I have never done
anything in my life sports analysis, personal analysis, uh self reflection.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
It's just it's just my tone. I have a tone issue.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
I I mean, I mean, well, I'm just generally condescending
in the way that I soundly.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Okay, So look, you're not wrong like I I uh,
I have I have friends that I've on I've often
called unintentional butt heads to use the nice the nice firm.
And I did have somebody tell me one of my
friends so many years ago that I have resting, disinterested face.
And he's like, you know, as a friend, whenever somebody
a friend goes into a long story, your face just
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goes totally blank.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Like I don't and I don't. I do care. I care.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
I care greatly about my friends. I don't believe it
and intently is a person. But I definitely do have
resting disinterested face. And that's that's the thing you have.
Uh you know, I don't know you did say the
phrase pat him on the head and say good job.
Speaker 8 (37:04):
I don't know how we're fred job, probably gonna bless
your heart and it would have been a little less gone.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Well that's the that's the Southern version of oh you sweet,
sweet summer child, and I just.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
You don't really belong here, but it's cute that you
think you do.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
That is one thing I enjoy like having lived in
Nashville for over twenty years and now in Connecticut. One
thing I really enjoy about Connecticut is they'll they'll at
least say f you to your face instead of doing
it with all the politeness of a you know, a
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Speaker 6 (37:51):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Get this, puny.
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If you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You got playoffs everywhere you look. You got the.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Basketball going on right now, You've got the NHL in
full swing. But for football fans, Jason fitz it's draft season.
It's the season of transaction. It's the season of hope.
It's the thing that warms your heart. Get your feeling
real good after a three and fourteen finish, of four
and thirteen finish. Whatever happened to your football team in
(00:54):
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It doesn't matter because it's Draft week. Baby.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
But the problem, as we sit here on the Jason
Smith Show, he's Jason Fitz fits not Smith, even though
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weeks should be a moment of hope, of joy, of
no losers, no losers. You want to talk about moral victories.
You tried to give me a Knicks fan moral victory
earlier when we were talking about the Pistons winning their
first playoff game since two thousand and eight. Draft season
is the season of moral victories, but one person is
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holding it entirely hostage. Fitsie Aaron Rodgers will not get
the hell out of our lives fast enough. And the
fact that he has not given the Pittsburgh Steelers a
decision on the week of the NFL Draft, when it
was reported several times from several credible insight that they
would have a decision on their quarterback not named Mason.
(02:04):
Dan Rudolph respectfully love you, Mason. It is insane to
me that we are going to have another NFL news
cycle hijacked by a quarterback who had a worse record
as a starter for the Jets last year than Zach
Wilson did in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
This is where it just becomes a beautiful thing for
the lovers of chaos, right, the agents of chaos. This
becomes a beautiful thing because the draft takes place Thursday night.
Right the draft takes place in Green Bay. Right when
I think Green Bay, and I think, how do you.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Steal the story?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Like the easiest way for Aaron Rodgers, who says he
doesn't seek the attention, but always seems to do things
that are attention seeking, Like most of the time, if
I don't want anyone to pay attention to we probably
don't go on the Pat McAfee show. But you know,
he says he doesn't want the attention, but he does
most of the time. I look around and say, Okay,
we're just gonna get a decision. For most guys, Nah,
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this is.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
In Green Bay.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
You can't tell me that there isn't it to me,
this is simple. Aaron Rodgers is gonna announce his decision.
It's gonna get leaked right before the draft tips off,
right before the first pickers on the clock. The entire
story in Green Bay for the first night of the
NFL Draft is gonna be about one Aaron Rodgers. Because
I think he's gonna announce that he's signing with the
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Pittsburgh Steelers just as the draft begins. Now, maybe he
announces he's retiring. Either way, whatever he announces, if he
announces it on Draft Night, the entire conversation for five
hours is gonna have little nothing to do with Shadur anymore.
It's all gonna be about what are the Steelers gonna
do now that they know that Aaron Rodgers. And then
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it's gonna be the next day when you turn on,
when you tune in to your favorite Friday morning show,
if you tune in to Good Morning Football on the
NFL network, the morning after the first night of the draft,
if Aaron Rodgers is announced that he's retiring, let me
ask you, what do they lead with the shock of
where Shadur was finally drafted or the retirement of future
(04:10):
Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
We all know the answer to this.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Aaron Rodgers is going to be the biggest story because
he's going to announce his decision apt as the first
round of the draft commences.
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Speaker 2 (05:31):
It would be the.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Most Aaron Rodgers thing in the world because I'm sure
you know you've talked at great length on your various
Yahoo platforms, per potentially even here on Fox Sports Radio
about Aaron rodgers appearance on McAfee and how he said
he's what was the line that he's not decided on
anything and he's not attached to anything. It was something
(05:53):
a little bit more transcendent sounding than that, but you
get my point.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I'm paraphrasing.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
He talked a lot without actually saying anything, but there
is going to come a time where Aaron Rodgers actually
has to make a decision. I'm convinced, Finci that, and
I love your tinfoil hat conspiracy theory here. It delights
me to no end because that would just give me
another reason to tee off on a quarterback who I
think has been washed for quite some time, and we
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continue to talk about is talk about him as if
he's still super Bowl caliber, super Bowl champion Aaron Rodgers,
and we are many were many years removed from him
even being Green Bay and de of ea Aaron Rodgers
at this point in time, It's been a long time
since I've seen Aaron Rodgers actually be the player that
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he used to be. I'm just I'm convinced he's going
to play football somewhere in twenty twenty five. There's too
many teams who will literally hold their draft hostage while
he makes a decision throughout the course of an offseason
and get edged by the fact that Aaron Rodgers could
play for us. Aaron Rodgers could make us a competitor.
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Aaron Rodgers could keep us relevant in the AFC North
as we try and scrounge and claw and scrap our
way past Kenny Pickett and Mason Rudolph and Justin Fields
and Russell Wilson and all these different things. Hell, Minnesota,
I know they passed on him this first time around,
but are you telling me if J. J. McCarthy doesn't
look exactly the way that Kevin O'Connell wants him too,
that they wouldn't at least consider giving that X in
(07:24):
Aaron Rodgers a call. I guess it's not technically an X,
but you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I think Minnesota would be the one place he would
want to go. What gets tricky about this is what
do you do if you're Pittsburgh. Like to me, it's
pretty shocking to see one of the most stable and
respected organizations in all of sports left in this game
of musical chairs with no answer at the position, Like
everybody else at least figured out some So I may
(07:49):
not like the Giant's answer, but I at least understand
what they're like. I understand, Hey, it's the best of
a bad situation, Like the hell else are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Right?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Like I understand what their approach is, I don't understand
how Pittsburgh got to this point. You know, And if
you talk to people that I've talked to Charles Robinson
at Yahoo a lot on our show Inside Coverage there,
you know, he's made it very clear that Arthur Smith
just simply didn't want Russell back, and they thought that
there would be the opportunity to maybe work something out
with Justin Fields, and Justin Fields didn't want to be there.
(08:19):
So now what do you do? Well, you gotta have
some sort of like Mason Rudolph could not have been.
You're not even your plan D coming in. There's just
no way in my mind that the Steelers, a competent,
well run organization like this is what happens to bad teams.
The Steelers may still win nine games because they're the
Pittsburgh Steelers. But they're stuck and this becomes just like
the Kenny Pickett draft I was working. I was covering
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the draft the year that Kenny Pickett was drafted, and
my immediate reaction on air when the pick happened was,
I don't like this pick because Kenny Pickett isn't a
first round quarterback. This just feels like a desperate team
needed a quarterback and he was the best guy there
at the position they needed.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
That's what it feels like. The Steelers are gonna.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Get stuck doing like when they get when the Steelers
are on the clock with I think twenty first pick
off the top of my head, when they are on
the clock with the twenty first pick, my god, Like
I think by then they may be stuck with the
fourth best quarterback in this draft. So like it gets
really tricky depending on what happens with Shador, depending on
like if Shador is free fallen, are they taking him there?
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But also I mean, Chefty was the one that tweeted
out yesterday he talked to a GM that doesn't have
a first round grade on a single quarterback in this
year's draft. Like, even if they take Shador is that
really the law, that's the answer. Like Chador's best situation
is not having.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
To play this year.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
So I man, I don't know. I feel like the
Steelers are screwed. And because the Steelers are screwed, they're
sitting at the altar of Aaron Rodgers. But that's not
a place I ever want to be because I don't
think Aaron Rodgers at his core, gives a damn about
anybody else's altar. He's only gonna do what he wants
to do, when he wants to do how he wants
to do it, and that's that's the way he's always operated.
So they're relying on somebody that I just don't think
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you can rely on.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I don't understand why he still gets extended latitude. Like
I know that we are so desperate for even reasonably
effective and efficient quarterback play in the NFL. The fact
that we cannot find thirty two people to play it
at a starting caliber level anywhere in the world thirty
two people to play this position well, and it speaks
to the degree of difficulty that playing NFL quarterback requires,
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even college quarterback, depending on which programs you're looking at.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
If you want to get into the weeds there.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
But I I know I've known Arthur Smith for a
long time, long before he was the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator,
long before he was the Atlanta Falcons head coach. He's
just a cute little assistant tight ends coach running around here,
quality control guy here in Tennessee before he went on
to become the OC and then have a successful run
that ended up getting him a head coaching job. I
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cannot it is. I have tried to wrap my head
around this ten thousand times fitsy because I know Arthur Smith.
I don't know Mike Tomlin personally, but I know enough
people in the league who have been around Mike Tomlin
and the things that Mike Tomlin has not only in
but thrived in to the point where he's never had
a losing season in the NFL. And the fact that
both of those men, along with many other respected football
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people who work for the Pittsburgh Steelers organization, and the
respect that that organization deserves they have earned it. The
fact that they are in this spot is as mind
boggling to me as it is to you. And to
your point, because I know we'll get to Shador Sanders
at some point tonight. It is draft week, after all,
there's some gas lighting around the Giants at three.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I was reading as recently as this.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Morning from Adam Schefter talking about the opportunity or the
potential for to see New York overdraft a quarterback, that
quarterback specifically, just because we know cam Ward is going
number one off the board to Tennessee. I can't think
of a worse possible situation to put Shador in. He's
gonna have to play if they draft him. If Aaron
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Rodgers is not a viable option for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
And the only reason they're in this position, FITZI, is
because as recently I was at owners meetings in pomp Beach, Okay,
they had and I can't remember which Rooney currently is
the controlling owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, but.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The ownership was on record talking about the fact that
they expected an Aaron Rodgers deal soon. That was a
month ago.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Almost at this point in time, they got got an
organization that almost never gets got got got by Aaron Rodgers,
who at this point in his career is grifting off
his own relevancy that he had, I mean four or
five years ago, and it's I don't it really.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
It sounds like a.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Lot of personal criticism that I have of that man,
but it is all professional at this point in time,
because I think the way that he conducts himself is
frankly not professional.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
If you allow yourself to get got by this version
of Aaron Rodgers, you have nobody but yourself to blame.
If we're being real, you just mentioned chedor let's get
into it. Let's figure out where she door is gonna go.
The latest and pretty shocking revelations I've heard from a
couple of people around the league about one spot that
everyone thinks is a landing spot for Shador that I
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just don't think is in the carts.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Tell you about that next.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
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Speaker 2 (13:16):
The rumors are swirling.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
It's just a matter of actually getting to the NFL Draft.
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The rumors are swirling around the sun of Dion Sanders,
Shadoor Sanders, the Colorado quarterback, and the question becomes, now, FITZI,
what is going to happen with Shadoor on Thursday night?
Does anything happen with Shadoor Sanders on Thursday night? It
would be a significant upset to see only one quarterback
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drafted in the first round. In fact, I'm very much
convinced at this point in time, which is a conversation
for another day, that the Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe may
end up being a first round pick. And I'm sure
you've heard some things to a similar effect. But Shador
Sanders is going to dominate the headlines, provided that your boy,
Aaron Rodgers doesn't steal them away from him. On the
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first night of the Green Bay Draft, so many teams
with quarterback needs, so many teams that you could make
it make sense in your head to see Shador Sanders
go to except for the New York Giants at three,
because that's to me where the NFL draft, this year's
NFL draft actually starts.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It's kmore to the Tennessee Titans. That's a lock.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Everything that you hear from the Cleveland Browns is that
not publicly, but privately, it seems that they are headed
on a collision course to draft Travis Hunter, arguably the
only quote unquote generationtional talent in this draft, which leaves
arguably the best player, the best prospect in this draft,
Abdul Carter, the pass rusher out of Penn State, available
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for the Giants, who have an embattled coach, a more
embattled general manager, and an ownership who has already expressed
a level of impatience with both of those individuals. That
may force you to make a decision or may push
you to make a decision that may not be in
the best long term interest of the franchise that you're
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making decisions for, But if you think it'll give you
a little extra job security, maybe a thing about overdrafting
should ur Sainders at three.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
I mean only if you want to ruin the kid.
I can't say this is oden of Giants fans. If
your team drafts Shaudor he will be at bust and
it's not his fault. This, this to me is so simple. Shadour,
if he goes somewhere and has some time to develop
with a coach that has a long term plan form
where they keep him off the field for a minute
while everything sort of they work on some of the
things that obviously that are playing and apparent in his tape,
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then it becomes a much different conversation. And Dan Orlovsky
has said repeatedly that he thinks, you know that that
Shador is the most difficult prospect he's ever had to
try to evaluate where he's gonna go on the draft.
I have talked to everybody this this is what I
try and do, is somebody that's hosted to me my
eighth year hosting draft content for Yahoo. Uh not for
Yahoo the entire time, but my eighth year hosting draft content.
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I try and talk to a bunch of people leading
up that I think are smart. So when, as you
and I've talked about before, like when the Will Levis
things started to blow up, I talked to enough people
that I had I was confident that Will Levis thing
was not you know what some people thought it was
gonna be. When bon Nicks last year started to blow up.
I talked to enough people that I was confident that
bo Nicks is gonna blow up this year. I get
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different answers every week when I start talking to people.
I genuinely think most of the world doesn't know where
Shoudo is gonna go. I'm just becoming more and more
certain that he's not gonna end up in New Orleans.
And I've seen a bunch of mocks that want to
put him with the Saints. I've seen a bunch of
mocks that want to put him with the Giants. These
places don't necessarily make any sense for a couple of reasons.
Like number one, you gotta play him like you don't
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have another quarterback. If you're playing him, you're gonna ruin him.
And that's very reminiscent to Trevor Lawrence. I said, you know,
the Jags would ruin Trevor Lawrence. Before Trevor Lawrence ruined
the Jags, they did, right, Like I think the Giants
are gonna ruin a quarterback if they take them. Like,
if you're the Giants, do the simple think here, take
your strength, which is your defensive line, make it even stronger.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
With the best prospect.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I think the clearest prospect to see in this year's
draft the one easy, all right, ab Dual Carter. We're
gonna take him, and immediately he's gonna make a difference
and you make a team better. Like this is really simple.
If they takes your door, I think that's asenine. And
where it gets complicated is I think it's asdine. If
the Raiders takes your door, I think it's asdine. If
the Jets takes your door, I think it's asenine. If,
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as I mentioned.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
The Saints takes your door.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
I talk to three different people this week that all
told me the same thing. The Saints look like they're
looking at defensive players right now, which is sort of
shocking to what everybody's logic is. I've heard some Jackson
Dart love from the Saints, Like I just think we're
gonna be sitting in the middle of the first round,
and the real conversation is gonna be who's gonna trade
up for Shador?
Speaker 6 (18:07):
And even that is complicated. Are you willing to.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Give up extra assets to go get a quarterback that
some teams have a third or fourth round great on.
I don't think that makes any sense. I agree, and
I'm gonna say this loudly. I think there are gonna
be four quarterbacks taken in the first round. I believe
that Jackson, Dart, Shador Sanders, and Jalen Milroe.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Are all gonna go in the first round.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
I just think that three of the four Jackson, Shador,
and Jalen are likely to go at the bottom of
the first round to a team that trades up back
into the first round to try and get an extra
year maybe. And and all of this is because the
league is gonna acknowledge what you and I've heard enough times.
You've heard this at the owners meetings, Like we've heard
this enough times. These are developmental quarterbacks. That that's just real.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
That's fact.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
That doesn't mean he's not good, that doesn't mean he's
gonna suck. It just means that he's developmental. Like that's okay,
that's an okay label to put on a quarterback coming in.
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A week ago, the New Orleans Saints were moving ahead
with Derek carrs their starting quarterback.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
This potential shoulder injury.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
It's not a potential shoulder injury, it's a shoulder issue
that's going on. Apparently wasn't publicly known about until days
before the team's voluntary offseason workout programs program started, which
is insane that they would clear him on the medicals
and not realize that he has a shoulder situation that
may cost him his upcoming season and have to result
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in surgery. The fact that they are looking at defensive
players runs so counter to everything that you think that
they should do about the draft situation, except for the
fact that we just talked about Aaron Rodgers and nobody's
talked about Aaron Rodgers in New Orleans before.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Oh man, give me that. Inject that in my veins.
But what do you do?
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Like what gets weird for cars that the salary cap
stuff is difficult, Like they're not gonna be able to
trade him. Nobody's trading for Derek Carr's contract, so then
they'd have to cut him. And this is where you know,
we all know people that sit there and tell you
the salary caps not real, but it is.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
For New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
They've been in salary cap hell for so long, and
even if they designate him as a post tune first cut,
they're taking on a pretty substantial hit for the next
several years. But also they kind of got to do
that because my god, going into twenty twenty six, he
would be thirty five years old with the salary cap
number of sixty nine million dollars. I don't want to
bag anybody down with details, but there's no there's literally
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no chance at hell they're taking that right. So they've
got this weird spot to get out of this contract
on a non tradable contract for a quarterback that's just
gonna be good enough to prevent you from being an
upper pick.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
But being an upper pick is one thing that frustrates.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I'm frustrated, Buck, I'm angry at a conversation that keeps happening.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
And you've heard it in Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
There's this conversation, if you know what, we're just gonna
skip this year's quarterbacks and we're going to take a
flyer on next year's quarterback.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
That to me, is the dumbest thing ever. Will tell
you why.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
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Speaker 7 (22:16):
App Miami, in front of another small crowd under eight thousand,
beat Cincinnati six to three. Cleveland over the Yankees six
to four, Jose Ramirez a homer and four RBIs Boston
on the Patriots Day holiday game defeated the White Sox
four to two. The window Walker Bueler seven innings, just
one run, allowed nine strikeouts, and Trevor Storia the Red
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Sox three more hits. He's betting three thirty seven.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Back to you, Steve just sideswiping the Marlins size the
Marlins fan crowd there in the middle of the update.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No love lost.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Huh respect that. I respect that. You know, when you
have like seven people in the stands, you get to
call him out for it.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
NFL team that I cover on a regular basis, there
was like there was like thirty five hundred people there
for the Houston Oilers Houston Texans revenge games, so the
Titans could lose in the Houston Oilers love your Blues uniform.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Tough scene.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Yeah, let's be honest too, that scene's gonna be even
tougher when there's a new multi billion dollar you know,
publicly funded stadium sitting there in downtown Nashville. I that's
always an interesting moment, you know. I guess that's why
my you know, every time somebody sits there and trashes
my beloved Raiders for having so many away fans in
the Allegiance Stadium for every game, which is true, it's real,
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I always laugh. I'm like, if you've been to a
Titans game, like this is what happens when you're in
a destination city and your favorite team, like your local
team sucks. If you're in the city people want to
go to like cool. Cleveland's never gonna have that problem
because ain't nobody going to Cleveland for any at me
Cleveland fans, Like nobody's sitting there saying.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Hey, honey, you want to go watch the Browns this year?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Like not a single person has ever echoed the cinema
let's take the family on vacation to go to a
Cleveland Browns game Like that ain't happening, But that happens
when you're when you are Browns fan and you're like,
get me to Nashville, get me to Vegas, get me
to a city that you know doesn't suck.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Well, and the one way to try and galvanize a
fan base is a potential franchise quarterback or at least
acting like the quarterback that you drafted is going to
be your franchise guy, which is kind of the hope
is certainly the hope here in Tennessee where they have
the number one overall pick in the NFL Draft. Obviously
NBA NHL postseason going on as well, but for we
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but for our business, we know that football is certainly king,
and we'll get back to the basketball here in just
a second.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Look. Look, look the NFL Draft.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
For anyone that wants to get this twisted, the NFL
Draft is going to get higher ratings than all of
these playoff games we're talking about combined. So like, just
remember that with absolutely no outcome coming out of this weekend,
there will literally be no way to prove who's right
or wrong, what picks were good and what picks were bad,
And every single article written about grading the draft will
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get higher clicks on the internet.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Then articles about actual playoff games.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
The draft broadcast will get better ratings than actual playoff games.
And the best that the NBA can put together, the
NBA could give you the they could somehow.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Try and manifaction.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You got the Clippers and the Nuggets tonight. It's a
great game.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Again, it's probably I don't know if it's going to
go to overtime like Game one did. But it's an
absolute slog and it still is going to pale in
comparison to the avalanche of transactions that are coming our
way here in just what less than three days from now.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
The NBA is giving us three games on Thursday night
and three games on Friday night. Congratulations, you have now
given us six playoff games that nobody's gonna watch because
they'll be watching the NFL Draft.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
I'm just being honest.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm right.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Well, let's see if you told me that there was
a there was an ok Se Memphis series going on
right now in the middle of the regular season, how
quickly would they relegate that the NBA TV or something
to that effect.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Another fifty one point slacking that nobody wants to watch.
But you know, you mentioned the quarterbacks, and this is
the thing that really bothers me because I've heard some
people say the Saints are just going to skip the
quarterback market and go towards next year. Well, there's two
things that have happened recently that we can learn from
as a general population covering the NFL. Number one, last
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year was a killer year for quarterbacks. That everybody knew it.
We knew for a year coming into it that last
year was going to be the year. Which is why
I gave the very unpopular opinion on all of my
shows long before the draft that you were never going
to be able to make a trade for one of
these quarterbacks.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
And what do you know?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I mean, according to some reports, the Washington commanders were
offered as much as three first rounders and two second
rounders to move up, and they said no. They knew
that they wanted Jayden Daniels, like you knew that there
was no trade. We've heard the reports repeatedly this year
that it would take a historic trade for the Titans
to look at anybody other than Camboard.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Guess what last year?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
A historic trade would not have gotten the Bears off
of Caleb, It would not have gotten Washington all for Jaden.
It would not have gotten to England off of Drake May.
Those three were done, they were done. So if your
answer is I'm just going to collect more draft capital
and trade up for a quarterback, you don't know that
you're even gonna be able to pull off that trade.
And the other thing that I think we need to
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remember is that this year, this last season, we just survived.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Twelve teams in the NFL lost double digit games.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
So if your method is we're gonna suck, you can't
guarantee you're gonna suck more than somebody else.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
So like even if you beg.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
And bleed and try to if you're the Saints and say,
you know what, we're just gonna get arts next year, Hey,
you don't know if Archie's coming out. B You don't
know if another team's gonna suck more than you do.
And see, you don't know that you're gonna have the
draft capital to move up.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
You just can't bank. This isn't the NBA, Like this
isn't any other sport.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
You cannot bank on next year's draft when you are
looking at this year's roster construction in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Well, that's because in the NFL, no one player saves you.
In basketball, one player can save you. Patrick Holmes, the
greatest quarterback or the best quarterback, the most talented quarterback
that I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Tom Brady is, of course the greatest winner.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
We understand that, and I don't want to relitigate for
the purposes of sports talk radio arguments who's actually the
greatest quarterback in the history of the sport whatever. But
Pat's as good a player at that position as I've
ever seen in my lifetime. God knows, and he was
not nearly enough for the again avalanche of Philadelphia Eagles
defensive linemen that completely overwhelmed him and the rest of
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their offensive unit en route to an ass kicking in
the Super Bowl, the most important game, the game where
the one player, the superstar player fan bases are praying, wishing, hoping,
assigning all of their all of their wants and their
dreams to that one player, that franchise quarterback that's going
to be able to get you there and not just
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get you there, but win that game. It doesn't work
like that in the NFL, FITZI I watched the race
to the Bottom this year. The Titans fans, it's the
only thing that they had to get excited about because
their season was over in mid October, praying to the
football gods that Joe Milton VFL would go out there
and beat the Buffalo bills to keep the New England
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Patriots from having the number one overall pick, so Tennessee
could mercifully be the worst team in football just to
get them the hope of what a franchise quarterback of
the number one overall.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Pick might provide them to.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
It's intoxicating, and fans fall for it each and every year.
It's a thing that it's a drum that we're going
to have to beat for as long as they let
us have microphones in front of our faces.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Yeah, it's when.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
The amazing part about all that is. I remember I
do a weekly interview every week with the Raiders flagship station,
and I was sitting on the week the Raiders won
a game and it took them out of the first
overall pick, and people were losing their minds because they
were convinced that now, by losing the first overall pick,
the Raiders weren't going to be able.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
To draft Shador.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
And now we sit here a couple of months later
and the Raiders, I think, you're going to have every
opportunity to draft Shador at six, and they're not going
to like It's It's just it just shows you how
stupid this entire process is and we're already sitting here
obsessing over Arch, but my god, we haven't even seen
Arch really play any football.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Like, I mean, that's all that matters.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
What if he comes.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Out and he's just met what if he's just like,
what if he's just average?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
We were talking about the Saints earlier. Spencer.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
There was a time when Spencer Rattler was the consensus
number one overall draft pick and then it got benched
to Oklahoma and transferred.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
I mean, there are so many just and this is
the concept reminder, like Jayden Daniels a year before he
was drafted wasn't on anybody's radar like we It's just
it's such an inexact science.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
The other side of it is, of all the quarterbacks
that are drafted in the first round, I think the
percentage is about thirty percent workout.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
That's not even good odds.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Why do you want to suffer through the worst season
you've ever seen to get the first overall pick?
Speaker 6 (30:55):
When I will remind.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
You that the gauntlet of quarterbacks you have to go
through in the AFC. Patrick Mahomes not a first overall pick,
Josh Allen not the first overall pick. Like you can
go up and down to Justin Herbert, not the first
overall pick, Joe Burrows, the only one of these guys
we're talking about that everybody's scared of. There was actually
a first overall pick. Jalen Hurts just won a Super Bowl.
Not the first overall, not even a first round pick.
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My god, Like everybody closes in on this. Well, we
got a we gotta suck so we can get a quarterback.
But there's so little proof that that actually works. We'll
keep breaking breaking down the quarterback situation and one of
the most undertold stories about the draft bus an update
on the NBA action going on right now.
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the NBA.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Didn't work for me. Yeah, I tried. Didn't work for me.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Well, I mean physically you look like somebody who might
say things like that.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
But yeah, you're not fooling anybody, Bud.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
I look, I look the part I've got, the Lariob wired,
the Larry Ob. The Clippers up on the Nuggets right now,
seventy five.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
To sixty nine.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Nice, And the Pistons get the six point win over
the Knicks, which is really the staggering result of the
evening because it changes home court advantage, right. And I'm
gonna be honest, I don't really understand why home court
advantage is such a weird thing in the NBA. Like
I have never been able to wrap my head around
shooting percentages being so vastly different just because there's different
(34:29):
people in the arena. Like I understand in baseball, you
know where everything's different, you know, I understand to a
certain extent, but most sports, like if the field's a fit,
like I even understand in the NFL, where communication becomes
really different difficult, and you have you know, off sides,
and you have false starts and things that the crowd
can actually generate. But like in a basketball game, I
(34:49):
do not understand why home court is such a massive
thing when all NBA courts are essentially built with the
same sitelines, the same like, there's very little difference in
all of them. But it is a huge part of
playoff basketball, and the Pistons get to win, which means
Madison Square Garden is no longer the differentiator in this
in this, this series.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Oh just this, this one game is up ended at
all and Knicks fans are in shambles.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
I'm sure things are being handled diplomatically in New York
tonight and again for Pistons fans.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
I keep trying to bring it back to.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Pistons fans because I'm just I'm just so happy for him,
you know, It's just like you just want to pat
him on the top of the head, be like, oh,
great job, little guy.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
You know you got there. Two thousand and eight, you
got there. You finally got one.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
A postseason win for the first time since Lebron was
like fiftieth on the all time scoring list.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Wait wait, wait wait.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Chris working on the show is a big Pistons fan,
is buck aloud to be condescending in his praise of
the Pistons on a win night, like, let's I mean, Chris,
I think that.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
Was genuine, genuine pride. Chris, No, I I get what
you're saying. I would say Detroit sports fans have rabbit.
Here is a little bit when it comes to that stuff.
But hey, you know there's me.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
There really peter out there on me, Chris, it's been
a while.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
It's okay, I understand, uh, Fincy. I have never done
anything in my life sports analysis, personal analysis, uh self reflection.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
It's just it's just my tone. I have a tone issue.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
I I mean, I mean, well, I'm just generally condescending
in the way that I soundly.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Okay, So look, you're not wrong like I I uh,
I have I have friends that I've on I've often
called unintentional butt heads to use the nice the nice firm.
And I did have somebody tell me one of my
friends so many years ago that I have resting, disinterested face.
And he's like, you know, as a friend, whenever somebody
a friend goes into a long story, your face just
(36:48):
goes totally blank.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Like I don't and I don't. I do care. I care.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
I care greatly about my friends. I don't believe it
and intently is a person. But I definitely do have
resting disinterested face. And that's that's the thing you have.
Uh you know, I don't know you did say the
phrase pat him on the head and say good job.
Speaker 8 (37:04):
I don't know how we're fred job, probably gonna bless
your heart and it would have been a little less gone.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Well that's the that's the Southern version of oh you sweet,
sweet summer child, and I just.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
You don't really belong here, but it's cute that you
think you do.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
That is one thing I enjoy like having lived in
Nashville for over twenty years and now in Connecticut. One
thing I really enjoy about Connecticut is they'll they'll at
least say f you to your face instead of doing
it with all the politeness of a you know, a
smile of a bless your heart smile. Calm the chaos
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Speaker 6 (37:51):
A lot to get into. Don't go anywhere. He's Buck Rising.
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