December 12, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike throw out the best landing sports for Joe Burrow if he demands a trade out of Cincinnati. And the great Jay Glazer joins the party to recap TNF. Plus, the latest on Philip Rivers!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
Make it a.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Twenty eight to twenty lead for the Tampa Bay Bucks,
but Jon Robinson scampers in from a few yards out
for a score. The Falcons then inexplicably go for two.
Don't get it. So now it's in eight point game,
still a lot of time left over, nine and a
half minutes left to go, but Falcons kickoff goes out
of bounds, so the Ted Bay Buccaneers take over there
on forty yard line. They have the football still up
(00:58):
by eight. Now we'll get to Joe in a second.
But I gotta I gotta say this, Mike Carmon, I
got to ask you something here. So the Falcons the
Bucks go for two, right, twenty six, twenty six to
fourteen lead, Yes, go for two. You're in the fourth
quartery go up by two touchdowns? Again, I understand. So
you have a twenty eight to fourteen game, Falcons score
(01:21):
twenty eight twenty. Normally you kick the extra point. But no, no, no,
they go for two. And I hear the same tired
thing over and over again, because and I think nobody
really knows. They've just heard it so many times they weregurgitated. Well,
it's what analytics say, because that's what teams all they say.
Well what analytics say?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
No, you know what? No, No, tell me what what
does analytics say? How does that analytics say that going
for two when you don't have to is the right?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Tell me how?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Don't give me? Just give me a stupid lazy ass answers.
It's what analytics say. No, explain it to me. Explain
it to me like I'm five, because you can't. It's
it's some ridiculous algorithm. That's somehow people buy into because
they want to buy into analytics. When you play the
game on the field, and going for two when you
don't have to is a killer, and you can't just say.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Well, you know what you need. You know what you
need in general.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You just need to touch out an extra point, right,
and then you can tie go or you want to
go for two and it's twenty eight twenty seven, go
for it there and then maybe you can win the game.
That I understand if you're four to nine like the
Falcons are. But explain it to me like I'm five.
Don't just say analytics. No, no, give me a reason,
give me something behind. Don't give me a politician's answer
of that. I'm gonna give you something that's just five
seconds and explain to when you don't explain anything, no, no,
(02:31):
tell me, explain it to me. Give me that David Fizdale.
Explain it to me dropped that we ran for all
these years. Explain to me how the analytics works. You
to go for two when you don't have to. Well,
it's the it's too complicated for you to Oh, it's
just too complicated exting now I'm fully in the government.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I mean you just wouldn't understand. I mean the ramifications.
I mean you simplify it to a base thing. No, no, no,
there's all sorts of other worlds. Is a butterfly effect
that you can't possibly but comprehensive. Now, in this particular case,
it was pretty obvious because you're not, you know, down
more than eight, right, you're down with the pat you're
(03:14):
down seven, simple math, and you know you're down thirteen
whenever we can start playing that all right, now, I
need a touchdown, a two point or in a field goal,
I need all of that. This was pretty elemental now,
the fact that you're at what seventeen penalties against nineteen
first downs on the course of the game, and you
make that decision Rahe Morris may may have been fired
(03:37):
on the spot, but I think Baker Mayfield just.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Bailed him out. Yeah, Mayfield just throws a pick. The
Falcons get the football back. Things are looking great for Tampa.
They had had the short field after the kickoff, and
now first turnover of the game, Alfred comes down with
a circus type interception, gets up really high, pulls it down.
So now the Falcons have the football half left to
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go on their own thirty three yard line. However, down
eight because you know, you went for two when you didn't.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Have to, well, and now it's still out there for them,
and since the Buccaneers decided long ago. They're not going
to do anything to stop Jean Robinson or Kyle Pitts
Senior along the way, Baker May, I'm sorry. Kirk Cousins
throwing for two hundred and seventy four yards, you've got
all but fifty seven.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Of it accounted for.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, by your your two leaders in the clubhouse. One
hundred and thirty five and eighty five respectively for Pitt's
Senior and Bijon now add up near to one hundred
yards rushing for Robinson's Like it's a two man game. Yeah,
you gotta stap two guys. YEA box and one in
the NBA is tough, but you know there's only five
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on the court. You're stopping two guys. But this is
there's eleven. It's it's kind of good. Sills can't catch. No,
Mooney's not existent. What are we doing here?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
No, No, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Hey, look, hey, Captain Kirk, you're really surprised that Kirk
Cousins is successful When he throws the ball five five
yard from the line of scrimmage to his tight end
and his running back. Man, that's what makes kirk Cousin successful.
I think his average depth for Pitts is actually a
little bit higher. But yeah, to your point, not a
lot of guys are going to be able to stop
Jean Robinson in that one on one in the flats,
(05:17):
as you like to say, a lot of yack going on,
a lot of yak, a lot of yak yack. So
midfield Falcons have the football seven minutes left to go.
A couple of plays by Robinson gets about twenty yards,
so Falcons on the move with the football here again,
still plenty of time to go. In the fourth quarter.
We'll have Jay Glazer stopping by the show, as he
(05:37):
normally does afterwards, the only show he does on Fox
Sports Radio. It's always a must listen. I've still I
told that Barry Sanders story to my entire family last week,
that the Barry Sanders Michael Strahan story he told us
last speaking. I'm sorry, mister Sanders, I'm sorry. But did
you drag it out for five or six minutes like
that's like the clown jokes?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yea Yeahause you
got their wrap attention because it's a hero.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, I mean yeah, But you know, we talked about
this last hour Joe Burrow and his very honest press
conference earlier today in which he talked about just how
unhappy he is.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
He needs to find happiness in playing. He's not happy. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Look if he was talking about retiring, if this is retiring,
he's not talking about it, right, He's not saying this
at a Thursday press conference. If he's thinking about retiring
when the season is over, he wants out, he wants
a new team, and he will be in a new
team in twenty twenty six. He is sounding the alarm
now to let everybody know right this and teams i'm
sure have been calling, all right, let's let's talk Joe
(06:37):
Burrow in the offseason like you call me. We're ready,
We're ready, We're ready. He wants to go someplace else.
So okay, smart guy, Jason, all right, you tell me,
you tell me where the best fit is for him.
I got two fits for you right now, for Joe Burrow.
And it's not just where you can give him to
a team where they need a quarterback, right because Burrow's
(06:58):
not gonna want to go right. In the end, players
get to get dealt into a somewhat of a preferred destination,
maybe not your number one destination. But one that's okay,
it's kind of how it works.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You know, Hey, if I really want to go for
whatever reason, I really want to go to the Cowboys
or or the Steelers, Okay, yeah, maybe we can't make
that preferred destination happen. But another one, if you give
us three or four teams, will make one of those work.
So who does it have to be. It's got to
be a team that is maybe a quarterback away from
the super Bowl, that's got to be in a better
(07:30):
position to succeed, that's got to be in maybe a
little bit of a warmer climate, you know, because Joe
Burrow wants to be on his feet. He's a very
public figure, probably looking for a little bit bigger market.
But I think he can realize that, Okay, I can,
I can still be a big deal in a lot
of different places.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
He's been playing in Cincinnati. I think he's well acclimated
to that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I will give you two teams for Joe Burrow, and
the first one I'm going to give you because they
can give a quarterback back. That will make make things
a little bit easier for the Bengals to make this trade,
because it can't just be Hey, we got draft picks,
we have players, We have X, Y and Z. Both
(08:11):
these teams can give quarterbacks back. That would be at
least somewhat maybe a little appealing to the Bengals, where
we have a guy for a year or two, maybe
he turns into something. One team is a little bit
more a better deal than the other. The first one
for Joe Burrow the Miami Dolphins, Okay, plays in South Beach,
(08:33):
great weather. Mike McDaniel is staying as their head coach.
Obviously what they've been able to do the comeback. You
know they want to move on from Tua. They've turned
him into a game manager. Joe Burrow in Miami would
be a phenomenal fit. You know how they like to
go fast and really accentuate the quarterback. He has that
South Beach lifestyle. The guy has made for a bigger market. Yeah,
(08:54):
the Miami Dolphins could be that team and whatever they
would give up, Hey, we could send twoa back there
and you can at least have a guy.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Maybe we look two is a four thousand yard passer.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It's not working that great from what we've seen over
the course of the past couple of years, not as
well as we thought it was. But two is still young, talented,
you know what you're paying for him, and with good weapons.
He has shown that he was good in the past.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You put him on a team now with Jamar Chase
and T Higgins and suddenly, hey, maybe he can still
throw the football a bit. Now It's okay, you're throwing
a Jalen Waddle who was a nice receiver. Right, he's
a good ish receiver, but he's no better really than T.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Higgins.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Maybe Higgins even a little more dynamic than he is.
But you put him on that team with a couple
of guys to catch the football. There's your first team
that could work. Joe Burrow And and you know, I'm
believe this because the last thing I want is Joe
Burrow in the bleep in AFC East. Another team with
a better quarterback than not to look up to. But
Joe Burrow to the Dolphins, that's my first one.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You also have.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
The option there in that Joe Burrow can maybe uncoor
Jalen Wattle on a different level. Right, because Chewison does
at the arm strength to drive the ball. Right, it's
moon balls, just a less accentuated and celebrated version of
the Russell Wilson style. Right, he's got to work in
(10:10):
timing and crossing routes and what have you. You know,
short intermediate generally occasionally a deep shot, but that's not
the bread and butter. Joe Burrow can drive it through.
We've seen that time and time again. But teaming him
with Mike McDaniel and trying to to really accentuate what
(10:31):
you have. I mean, they've got a lot of change
because you did fire a GM, which meant that you
didn't exactly have a full cupboard, so you got to
do a full reload there as well. But I could
see a meeting of the minds in a philosophical match
with McDaniel, because it seems like it's inevitable that he
stays around.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So there's your one team, and now that would be
that'd be a tougher one. That'd be a tougher one
because it's in the AFC. Now where else could he go?
This might be a little bit more intriguing because the
quarterback this team can give back isn't very good. But
you don't know that he's absolutely terrible yet because he
hasn't played enough Minnesota. Joe Burrow goes to Minnesota, plays
(11:09):
half his games indoors at home. You know the weapons
he has there already. Justin Jefferson, I'm sure is saying,
whatever you could do to get this guy, whatever you
can do to get him. I need Joe Burrow. They
have the weapons. Offensively, they have a great offensive coach
who can continue to unlock him. You know that that offensively,
they're gonna do the right things. This is where things
(11:32):
can work out great for him. Not as big a
market as Miami, but still a bit of an upgrade.
And JJ McCarthy going back to the Bengals. Okay, maybe
that works. Maybe they can unlock JJ McCarthy. They have
somebody who could wind up being a franchise quarterback or
he's a guy for a couple of years. So those
two teams are the ones are probably the best solutions
(11:54):
for Burrow if you're gonna trade him, because they both
can win. Even though the Vikings are in last place
in the NFC North now, they're still a good team.
They just don't have any quarterback play, right, we see
them don't have any quarterback play they can right there.
Wrong of letting Sam Donald and Daniel Jones go by
making a big, bold move for Joe Burrow, and again
the quarterback going back is a big thing instead of
the Bengals having to say, all right, maybe we have
(12:16):
to go find somebody else. So Miami and the AFC
vikings in.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
The NFC curiosity for what the Bengals do going forward.
Are we assured that they have some stability with Zach Taylor?
Is he sticking around or are we shuffling up and
dealing at the end of the year, Particularly if Joe
Burrow is intent on blowing this up, which is the
premise of all of this based on that press conference
(12:41):
midweek and his dissatisfaction. Can the Bengals do enough to
retain him in the interim like we have the wheels
of speculation from Minnesota. You got Jefferson, you got Addison,
you got Hockinson, you got Mason and Jones in your backfield.
Need to tweak the offensive line, which is good, a
lot of injury issues there, and for O'Connell a chance
(13:04):
to show once again that he's a genius, because I
think a little of that luster came off at the
end as much as Sam Darnold warn it war and
I think I think the lack of development with what
you got with JJ McCarthy. You got to look at
the coach a little bit, right, He's still raw and
obviously just a few games under his belt, but certainly
enough weapons that would make him happy and to go
(13:26):
into a battle tested NFC North. I got a third
one for you. Goes back to the AFC. Tom Brady
goes and makes a play. Tom Brady could do that.
They go and they clear out the coaching staff. Okay,
go find a guy and they give up whatever they
need you to go get a franchise guy.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
If somehow the rate, well that's that's what they did
to Carson Palmer. If somehow you can convince Joe Burrow
the Raiders or this club like tom Brady's got no,
we're this close thing. All we need is you and
we can win. Yeah, I could see it. We're just
looking for juice at this point. Now, Man, I don't
but Burrow's got to be okay with going there. He's like,
I've just been getting my ass kicked in Cincinnati, not
gonna go to the Raiders and have that ass kicking continue.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
But it's just the idea. It's different, it's a brand.
It's a market and if you go, you're a hero.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
What do you got, Frostberg?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
I think the big takeaway from all of this is,
what did to A do to you?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Why do you hate to No? I don't hate too.
You absolutely do.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
You're taking him from a horrible off offensive line to
literally the worst offensive line in football.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
That is true. Well, I'm not saying going to Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I'm not saying it's gonna be fun now, I'm just saying,
what your lord.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
He's sending him out there to never come back.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Exit up out of Fresco exit Swollen Dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harman live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Again,
what just happened on Thursday Night Football? A Kyle Pitch
touchdown was upheld upon video review. Watching this, really, it's
hard to understand what a catches in the NFL anymore.
They do not get the two point version. Kirk Cousins's
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rush throws incomplete. So again now the Falcons going for
two twice not getting it. Yeah, great decision Analytics. Twenty
eight to twenty six, lead by the Bucks with about
three and a half left to play. Again, we'll have
Jay Glazer following conclusion of this game. But coming up
next we'll have more on this and another big story
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Speaker 1 (16:04):
Time out on the field. The Atlanta Falcons have used
their final one the Buccaneers, where the first down can
clinch this game. However, it is a third and fourteen
for Tampa to twenty left to go, so if the
Falcons can play a little bit of defense here, they'll
(16:26):
get the football back with a chance to kick a
field goal and potentially win this game, not win it
and send it to Overty because you know, they went
for or twice. They went for two points twice and failed,
So that's why they're facing this deviis instead of the
game being tied at twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, well, you know, hindsight's twenty twenty. Now you gotta
go make a play.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Ah and the Falcons will be getting the football back
as Baker Mayfield is sacked on third and long, so
it will be a punt coming up on the other
side of the two minute warning. Kirk Cousins will get
the football back and I'm just guessing. I'm just guessing
he'll throw the ball to Kyle Pitts and Bejon Robinson.
(17:05):
I'm just guessing. I bet it's a big wild guess
after tonight, but I'm thinking the final drive, these are
the two guys he's gonna throw the ball.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Twenty six completions on the night, eighteen of them depends
in four to Sills, two to Mooney, and two.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
To Werner, and you know, just for a second to
have it to have a positivity moment or appreciation.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Moment, right for a player.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
This is the first time we have talked this glowingly
about Kyle Pitts since I think Philip Rivers was still
in the league the last time we talked about this
about Kyle Pitts. He's got ten catches for one hundred
and fifty two yards and three touchdowns tonight. You know,
for years it's been, oh, don't just wait till Kyle
Pitts breaks out. He just gotta go through like seven
(17:49):
eight quarterbacks. Guys been in the league. Now it's his
fifty year. He's never caught more than sixty eight passes
in a season. He will most likely break that this
time around. He's got sixty two coming into night, so
he's so he's gonna wine as he's passing it already.
And I don't know if the yards are gonna be
there for him, because man, he's got seventy catches and
seven hundred yards. But you know, clearly now maybe it
(18:13):
just took him, you know, five years to become a
guy that's gonna catch ninety passes.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Who knew it would take ken of Kirk Cousins to
really unlock him. You go back to the season opener,
seven catches fifty nine yards against these Buccaneers and we've
watched this secondary struggle. So it was an opportunity perhaps
for a quote breakout, but what what did you think
that would constitute maybe six and eighty or a matching
(18:39):
his ninety yards of a year of last week? Sure,
but instead he's wide open and being thrown open by
Cousins all night long to massive results. He had one
touchdown all year coming into this guy. Yeah, I mean
he and he's been the guy. He's been absolutely been
the guy. It's insane, and you know he's coming off.
(19:00):
He did have a good game against the Jets, he
had eight for eighty two. But you really wonder, now
this is a funny thing fantasy playoffs, how many people said, yeah,
I can't start him on a Thursday night. I gotta
start another time, told you, And he can't start him
down to four people, and while it was a plus matchup,
he was still on the way fire.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Can't start him on a Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And here he is now having a let's say, eighteen
twenty eight, he's having like almost a forty point night tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Kyle pits his tight end. What do you got, Frostburg.
Everybody has a good game against the Jets.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Well, it is true. Lot lots of people do. But
that's why I say it was that enough to let
you play him on Thursday? Lots yeah, But I mean
it's not You're not giving him enough credit.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Good game against the Jets, seven for eighty two, goes
for six for ninety against the Seahawks in that blowout loss. Right,
so hang a star on the all right. They're just
winging it around, but then comes out tonight like a
house of fire against the Creamsicles again, playing like they're
in the mid seven once again.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Big play on the field. Kirk Cousins is sacked. They
have the ball about their own forty five yard line.
He may have fumbled. The Bucks are signaling that they
have the football. They come out of the bottom of
the pile with it. Whoever knows, noah call yet made
by the officials. Buck's saying they got the ball. They're
trying to figure it out. A minute thirty left to go,
(20:24):
and we have a bit of a question on the field.
I don't think there's a call a call, mate. I
think they're just giving the ball back to the Falcons.
They they're calling it simultaneous and it's gonna stay with
the Falcons.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
That look the decisive we've seen in a while. The
Bucks defense is not coming off the field now. Clearly
the ball is out. The ball was out early. Kirk
Cousins gets hit. You can see him grimace after getting hit.
But it looks like Cousins fell on the football same
time as a Bucks defender and they're giving the football
back to Atlanta. In fact, yeah, we're already getting ready
(20:59):
for the second down play from the Falcons here as
they try to get done, goes to the runner. I
guess yeah, that's as it goes, Captain Kirk falling on it.
Second of eighteen. We got another flag, one of the
hallmarks of this game as well. Minute remaining, so we'll
love more.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
In this game coming up in a couple minutes with
Steve Disager with what's trending, and I'm sure there'll be
a couple more penalties on the Falcons before then. But
something that never had a chance. We got to pour
one out for the Positivity Rabbit. The Philadelphia Eagles new
mascot is now gone. Four days ago, they put a
big inflatable rabbit in the locker room, supposed to be
(21:42):
a the Positivity Rabbit, Right, Positivity rabbit, like the Philadelphia
Eagles need some positivity. Had the positivity rabbit. You've seen
pictures of it everywhere. Okay, the rabbit is gone. Rabbit
is now gone. It is out of the locker room.
It was never really met with a ton of let's
just say, hey, with the gusta of Grimace with the Mets,
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or or you know, somebody else, but the rabbit. They
lose to the to the Chargers. Hurtz throws four picks.
The positivity rabbit is gone. It never had a chance
in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
It's not like it was a remote control rabbit running
around or one of those things that you have that
the dogs are chasing at the track.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I mean, you got nothing. It's just an inflatable rabbit. Now,
Frostburg's got rabbit blood on his hands. I know he
did it after the Chargers game last week. He's got
rabbit blood all over him, man, like he's Leo in
the in the Revenant movie.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Jason, I swear it's paint.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
That's inflatable rabbit blood. I mean, that's that's so anti Philadelphia.
They're bringing in positivity. Now, if you brought in a
negativity rabbit and said, okay, we gotta bring this. Oh okay,
that's Philadelphia bringing the negativity figure out. Okay, that's we
gotta do now. But positivity rab that never had a chance.
It's not even a bot bag, right.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
It used to blow up as a kid, and like
I get your aggression out, wrastled the thing and tackle
it and punch it whatever you need to do. You
have full size at a lot of these uh aerobic studios,
you know, and teaching you your cardio and doing some punching.
But I mean this thing just sat there like it
(23:15):
did nothing.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, it was a It was a rabbit that was
just sitting there, not doing anybody any harm. Just kind
of no funny voice, animatronics see the rabbit, kind of
nooseitting there, going this is the Eagles locker room. Someone's
just gonna stab me with a knife, and I'm gonna
be done and I'm gonna be going to inflatable rabbit graveyard.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I have a couple of one liner jokes, but I
don't want anybody trying to stalk me and take me out.
Do you think they're ealing about the greater Philadelphia area
and some known former NFL players who or may not
be associated with criminal activity. Do you think there are
Eagles fans who were waiting to see what dumpster got
thrown out as they could take it and go, yeah,
I got your positivity rabbit. Oh, I think that'll end
(23:58):
up in the memorabilia market somewhere.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
I think Philly Karen is in the process of poking
holes in it as we speak.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh, I went out and found this positivity rabbit. I'm
just gonna have it now in my room. It's gonna
be something that I wind up grabbing and holding during
a game if I'm stressed times or something out.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Positivity Rabbit.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
How do you authenticate that it was the official positivity rabbit?
You were just some half assed I think you had
a just twelve dollars inflatable you fought at a party.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Store video of yourself taking the dead inflatable rabbit or
the puncture inflating.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
The dead rabbits. Now we're going out of some kind
of York I don't know. I mean, you got video.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Hey here, I am right outside the stadium or the
Eagles practice facility right there.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah, we gotta be. I mean, that's just that's just insane.
The positivity rabbit.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Four days and you can't even tell me the positivity
rabbit had a good run, that's your normal.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Oh, we had a good run. No, he didn't have
a good run. Did not have a good run.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Well, the fact that we know about it four days,
that he had a run four days, How good or
bad it was, things are just a matter of perception
for me. The fact that they went down this road
in an active desperation for an inflatable rabbit.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
They are not a.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Fuzzy, cuddly let's let's, you know, go go pet the rabbit,
Go feed the rabbit, feel good about you know, the
positivity of a living being.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
No, no, no, it's an inflatable, bleeping rabbit in the corner.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I mean, just when you think maybe the eagles are
trying to find a way to uh, you know, figure
out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Of of of.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Of how to get back on the winning or something.
You you just see how they are spiraling downward into
oblivion after the last couple of weeks. So what do
you do for an encore is really the question.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Don't You don't have a rabbit on a postivity rabbit,
that's for sure. You bring Santa Clau's almost Santa Claus.
Time for Santa.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Claus in Philadelphia. It's almost time. It's almost time for that.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Dangerous so things could be ending for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Things could also be ending for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Zane Gonzalez is making sure his hair is good, right,
you know the he goes through before his final kick.
The Falcons convert a fourth and fourteen sales, making up
for his drop earlier in the game of what could
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have been a touchdown with a big fourth and fourteen grab.
Mike Evans is running up and down the sideline right now,
stomping his feet. I think he was saying, Nis, what
the hell are we doing? Zane Gonzalez coming out for
a field goal that would give the Falcons a twenty
nine to twenty eight win. There's four seconds left on
the clock. The Bucks have just used their second time out,
(26:30):
so it's a makeable one. It's a thirty seven yard
field goal, and this thirty seven in a row. This
would take the Bucks chances of winning the NFC South
and getting the playoffs from near eighty percent down to
fifty percent. That's how big a game this is. On
a Thursday night in absolutely craptastic division. Yeah, this has
(26:50):
been an insane game. I mean, you go through nearly
five hundred yards of offense for the Falcons. When it's
all said done for the Buccaneers. After this, you've got
the Sandes of the Panthers with the Miami Dolphins. The resurgent,
resplendent Miami Dolphins nixed therein what if a young way
cou's it right here?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
He could?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
He could?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I mean, this would be the Bucks blowing a fourth quarter,
two touchdown lead against a four and nine team at home? Right,
how far? How the mighty have fallen for the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers If they blow this and the clock has
struck zero, Zane Gonzalez is good. It is a twenty nine,
twenty eight victory for the Falcons on a Thursday night.
(27:34):
Maybe they'll trade for Joe Burrow now, maybe maybe the
Bucks try to send Baker Mayfield for Joe Burrow next season,
because wow, what a disaster this season's turning into for Tampa.
For more in the story, now, let's find out from
Steve de Sager. He's got what's trending right now in
the wide world of sports.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
How exactly did that just happen. The Atlanta Falcons won
at Tampa Bay twenty nine, twenty eight. Even though the
Falcons trailed twenty eight to ten with ten minutes to go,
Bjean Robinson with a six yard touchdown run, they missed
the two point pass Kirk Cousins with a touchdown pass,
Then they missed the two point pass, Saying Gonzalez with
(28:09):
a forty three yard game winning field goal on the
final play, and the Falcons, who were four to nine,
get the road victory. Can I just mention that there
were a couple of penalties on the winning side here
nineteen penalties for one hundred and twenty five yards. That
is the most, not only this season, the most in
any NFL game since the Raiders set an NFL record
(28:32):
almost a decade ago with twenty three and that was
with believe it or not, a victory posted against the
Tampa Bay Bucks. That particular day, Kyle Pitts had the
game of games. He finished targeted twelve times with eleven
receptions one hundred and sixty six yards three touchdowns. It's
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been very rare that a tight end has had those
kind of numbers. In fact, hasn't happened since Shannon Sharp
almost thirty years ago, three tds and over one hundred
and fifty yards v Jon Robinson ninety three yards rushing
in a touchdown. He did have a fumble, but Robinson
with eight catches and eighty two yards. The Falcons went
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at Tampa Bay and the Bucks fall to seven and
seven on the season. They had entered tonight tied for
first with Carolina in the NFC South. Tampa Bay plays
two of its final three games against the Panthers. Mike
Evans was back on the field. Tampa Bay's star wide
receiver out since October with a broken collar, Bomb was
(29:37):
targeted twelve times, had six catches for one hundred and
thirty two yards, but the Bucks blow a fourth quarter
lead and lose by one at home. Dallas wide receiver
CD Lamb practiced fully after a concussion a week ago.
Bengals wide receiver T Higgins was limited in practice again
today after a concussion. Steelers pass rusher TJ. Watt hospitalized
(30:01):
for a lung injury, so his status for Monday night
is in question. Packer's running back Josh Jacobs misspractice with
a knee injury. He says he's day to day Raiders
quarterback Gino Smith miss practice again with shoulder and back injuries,
so Kenny Pickett could start for him this weekend. Jets
quarterbacks to Rod Taylor and Justin Fields each miss practice again,
(30:21):
but quarterback Brady Cook did practice. Baltimore gave defensive tackle
Travis Jones a three year contract extension. AP's College Player
of the Year is quarterback Fernando Montoza of number one Indiana.
The late NBA game has Denver leading ninety seven to
seventy three at Sacramento late in the third quarter thirty
one points for Nikola Jokic. Milwaukee beat the Celtics. New
(30:45):
Orleans ended a seven game losing streak, ripping Portland. Houston
edge the Clippers one fifteen to one thirteen. Golden State
Steph Curry is due to return Friday. He missed five
games with a quad injury. Anthony Edwards in Minnesota is
questionable with a sore foot. In college hoops, on FS one,
number four Iowa State came back for a victory at
home against Iowa sixty six sixty two. By the way,
(31:07):
Syracuse did win at home against Saint Joe's. NHL victories
from Minnesota and Boston. The Braves signed former Padres closer
Robert Suarez to a three year deal.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Back to you, Thank you, Stevo. A disastrous season for
the Bucks. Jay Glazer stops by next more on this
game and could Joe Burrow really get traded? Jay Glazer
Next Jason.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon,
Kirk Cousins Jon Robinson mugging with each other Right now
postgame TNF Interview. The Bucks blow a fourteen point fourth
quarter lead to the four and nine Falcons, and now
things are getting really interesting in the NFC South. All
(31:58):
four teams have a negative deficit in the points four
points against column Who boy, was this a surprise? Joining
us now to break down everything from tonight's game. Plus,
we got stuff on Joe Burrow, Philip Rivers NFL on
Fox Inside are extraordinary, Jay Glazer, Jay, what's happening?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Man?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Happy Thursday?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Let's go on, Man? How about that man exciting him crazy?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I mean, Jay, I mean, this is where the season
was for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and where it is
right now. I mean, this is stunning, Yeah, it really is,
you know.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
And look, I think by Buccaneers given if you look
earlier in the year, I think we almost got loaded
a false hope because of Baker Mayfield, because he overcame
so much. If you think about those early games, he
was doing it all himself, right, he had the great
comes back comebacks, but he taking away those comebacks. Then
I really were not playing up to Levey. You were
really hoping for it for a Buccaneers team. So I
(32:50):
think he kind of almost got us into a little
false spope. But man, the personnel they have over there,
they should the records should be much better than this.
I know they've had a lot of injuries. I think
the personnel is way better than this. And hey, on
the other end, I gotta say, man like for the
Falcons have nothing to play for it and Raheem Morris
(33:11):
to get them to play like this and to not
give up. There's a lot of teams that start checking
out their Cabo trips, their Bahamas trips at the time
of the year. It happens every year, and the Falcons didn't.
It says a lot about Raheem Mors. Raheem Morris a
very inspirational cat to be around, like he is so
glass half full, unreal more than there's nothing. Guy's been
around this league in my life. But you know, you
(33:32):
see like where that can rub off. I know they
had nothing to play for, but it showed me a lot.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Well that and the having to battle through nineteen penalties
and losing your mind on every one of them. But
Kyle Pitts year five breakout here JAYI in huge game
and he had captain Captain Girk have something going.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah, you know, and Kyle's always been a guy. When
he came out, I thought for sure he was going
to be a mismatch for everybody. I thought. I think
I called him that. You're like, I can't miss prospect
and I missed right Still time, James, Still time, because
you know there he really is a hot speed matchup
for But he hoped that. I think you need to
mature and a player when you can see what he
(34:14):
can do if he does become that consument professional life. Man,
his tools are just ridiculous. So you can see the
weapons that you deal him. Be John Robinson and I
tell you what that defense over there, like that defense
for Atlanta is going to be tough for a long time.
They got some they got some dogs over there on
that side of the ball, all right, Jay.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Now outside of the game tonight.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Joe Burrow making a ton of headlines today is press
conference today in Cincinnati, a day after his twenty ninth birthday,
talked about needing to find the happiness and playing football
and going forward. What did you take away from what
Burrow said today?
Speaker 5 (34:49):
I don't want to interpret. I don't It's his thoughts.
It says, you know, I texted him having her back.
I don't want to ever interpret, but I know, like, look,
you work so hard to come back, right, and for
him to come back two and a half months before
or two months early, then you're supposed to. I'm sure
we're such an emotional let town. Like this game's tough, man,
(35:11):
this game of the Savage, it'll break your heart, you know.
And I think emotionally probably going through stuff, and yeah,
it's not fun when you're going through all that rehaben
and man, you're you're in it for one week and
then all of a sudden's gone, you know, So it's tough.
I will never try and interpret what the guy's trying
to say. That's his thoughts. Man, This game is it
(35:33):
cuts to deep.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Well that we talked about for love of the game,
Philip Rivers coming back after a long sojourn high school
football is relationship with Shane steichen Man. I think we
all have our pom poms out, But what do you
expecting here?
Speaker 6 (35:48):
Jay?
Speaker 5 (35:49):
I don't know why I'm expecting it?
Speaker 2 (35:52):
You know what?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Good for the cult, Like, hey, let's think out of
the box, like we know who's out there, We're still
in it. We're not giving up. Let's throw at marys
se if it works, like things have happened. But I
kind of liked it they did it because at least, look,
he's a Hall of Fame type quarterback, right, hall of Famer. Uh,
he knows the offense, He's familiar with them. Joe Flacco
(36:13):
came out of nowhere many years out, obviously a couple
of years ago with the Browns and led them, you know,
to the playoffs. But I'd rather they kind of do
something out of the box like this. But somebody who's
approven gangster and some you know, practice squad guy either
signed the hole. Let's just we already know that's not
gonna work. But I kind of like the aggressive this year.
But why not?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
But Jay, it's he's forty four. He hasn't been in
the NFL in five years. Sound like he's been training
every day for the NFL.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
As he said, I hear it. I'm heavier than I was,
but I wasn't running away from anybody years ago.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
I hear it. But there's still guys like, hey man,
these guys like it just doesn't the arm of them
leave the ball to Like I hear you, I don't
know if I'm I'm probably fantasizing as much as they
are worked out, but you already know what you're getting
with these practice for guys, it ain't working.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
No, it's just that curiosity. Also get Seattle on the
other side and what they've got, by the way, that's
a bad defense, not the one you want to come
back off the couch for Jay, Like.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Seattle is a bunch of savages and they come back
pills fib gonna be like you know what, I probably
need another week to get the rust off.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
And no, man, do you use the long snapper instead
of your normal center?
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Yes, yes, let's do a twenty yard drop.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be the he's gonna get the ball. Well,
you could either punt or throw it. It doesn't matter
how we gonna work out there.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
Man, Seattle's defense got oh my god, that is a
that is a vicious, violent defense. They are man. I
know this is offense driven leave but like between Seattle
and Houston, it's just the two teams. Nobody wants to
face right now. Nobody wants to take them down the struck.
Nobody wants to lose their quarterbacks. Nobody wants horrible stats.
You're going to have that stats and your quarterback going
(37:59):
to be underwroun. He's gonna be running for his life.
I guess those three teams there in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yeah bottom what I guess what Philip Rivers has to
play both of them. That would be his reward if
he if when they get to week eighteen, Yeah jayeah, yeah,
maybe he sits that week. Hey, I'm gonna sit for
the playoffs that week. That's okay, what moves are made up?
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Let's sake.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
He's on Twitter at Jay Glazer, that is at Jay Glazer.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
Jay.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
As always, buddy, appreciate your time and your thoughts. We'll
talk to you next week. I have a good one, Jay. Thanks,
There it goes, Jay, I.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Mean really, I mean this is that's why I say
with Rivers coming back, That's why. Look, I don't want
you to think I'm against this storyline ending great.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
I hope it does. I'm just realistic that it's the
Seahawks on Sunday, and then you got a couple of.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Games and then it's the Texans and you're forty four,
you haven't played, and you're heavy, and you realize and
you admit, yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
I haven't really been training. How is this gonna go?
How does good? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
If you saw what the mock up is for his
inclusion in the EU is not flattering.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Oh I can imagine.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
They look like he's wearing like six sets of rib
protectors and they puffed him out a little bit, like
he's got a gortex jacket on for the extra couple
of pounds he carrying. But as Jay said, I mean
he echoed a lot of in kindred spirit with what
I am like, I don't know we know what the
rest of those practice squad guys are, which is why
(39:25):
they haven't been called up.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
To be one of the other fifty five starters.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Cam Newton's crying, Oh, there, can't we remember he wasn't
very good at the end of his run now either.
So for Philip Rivers, familiarity stiking, maybe ozim a solid.
I don't know, but tell me you're not getting some
popcorn and you're watching that one.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Oh, I'm gonna walk again.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
I'm gonna watch with one eye and with my hand
over my eye, like I'm watching a horror movie.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Do I want to see what's happening?
Speaker 4 (39:52):
I want to tell you what du the second screen
with whatever the sequel is for that David Harbor as
Santa Claus thing, and let's go with that.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
I would do the second stream just to hear like
the Mannings go oh oh wow, oh we got hit
so hard?
Speaker 5 (40:06):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Would that be a special edition? Hey, we decided to
have an alternate broadcast this week.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Hey, speaking of old quarterbacks, who might have had the
biggest night tonight that puts twenty twenty six in play
for him as a starting quarterback. That's next right here,
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
Make it a.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Twenty eight to twenty lead for the Tampa Bay Bucks,
but Jon Robinson scampers in from a few yards out
for a score. The Falcons then inexplicably go for two.
Don't get it. So now it's in eight point game,
still a lot of time left over, nine and a
half minutes left to go, but Falcons kickoff goes out
of bounds, so the Ted Bay Buccaneers take over there
on forty yard line. They have the football still up
(00:58):
by eight. Now we'll get to Joe in a second.
But I gotta I gotta say this, Mike Carmon, I
got to ask you something here. So the Falcons the
Bucks go for two, right, twenty six, twenty six to
fourteen lead, Yes, go for two. You're in the fourth
quartery go up by two touchdowns? Again, I understand. So
you have a twenty eight to fourteen game, Falcons score
(01:21):
twenty eight twenty. Normally you kick the extra point. But no, no, no,
they go for two. And I hear the same tired
thing over and over again, because and I think nobody
really knows. They've just heard it so many times they weregurgitated. Well,
it's what analytics say, because that's what teams all they say.
Well what analytics say?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
No, you know what? No, No, tell me what what
does analytics say? How does that analytics say that going
for two when you don't have to is the right?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Tell me how?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Don't give me? Just give me a stupid lazy ass answers.
It's what analytics say. No, explain it to me. Explain
it to me like I'm five, because you can't. It's
it's some ridiculous algorithm. That's somehow people buy into because
they want to buy into analytics. When you play the
game on the field, and going for two when you
don't have to is a killer, and you can't just say.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Well, you know what you need. You know what you
need in general.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You just need to touch out an extra point, right,
and then you can tie go or you want to
go for two and it's twenty eight twenty seven, go
for it there and then maybe you can win the game.
That I understand if you're four to nine like the
Falcons are. But explain it to me like I'm five.
Don't just say analytics. No, no, give me a reason,
give me something behind. Don't give me a politician's answer
of that. I'm gonna give you something that's just five
seconds and explain to when you don't explain anything, no, no,
(02:31):
tell me, explain it to me. Give me that David Fizdale.
Explain it to me dropped that we ran for all
these years. Explain to me how the analytics works. You
to go for two when you don't have to. Well,
it's the it's too complicated for you to Oh, it's
just too complicated exting now I'm fully in the government.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I mean you just wouldn't understand. I mean the ramifications.
I mean you simplify it to a base thing. No, no, no,
there's all sorts of other worlds. Is a butterfly effect
that you can't possibly but comprehensive. Now, in this particular case,
it was pretty obvious because you're not, you know, down
more than eight, right, you're down with the pat you're
(03:14):
down seven, simple math, and you know you're down thirteen
whenever we can start playing that all right, now, I
need a touchdown, a two point or in a field goal,
I need all of that. This was pretty elemental now,
the fact that you're at what seventeen penalties against nineteen
first downs on the course of the game, and you
make that decision Rahe Morris may may have been fired
(03:37):
on the spot, but I think Baker Mayfield just.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Bailed him out. Yeah, Mayfield just throws a pick. The
Falcons get the football back. Things are looking great for Tampa.
They had had the short field after the kickoff, and
now first turnover of the game, Alfred comes down with
a circus type interception, gets up really high, pulls it down.
So now the Falcons have the football half left to
(04:00):
go on their own thirty three yard line. However, down
eight because you know, you went for two when you didn't.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Have to, well, and now it's still out there for them,
and since the Buccaneers decided long ago. They're not going
to do anything to stop Jean Robinson or Kyle Pitts
Senior along the way, Baker May, I'm sorry. Kirk Cousins
throwing for two hundred and seventy four yards, you've got
all but fifty seven.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Of it accounted for.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, by your your two leaders in the clubhouse. One
hundred and thirty five and eighty five respectively for Pitt's
Senior and Bijon now add up near to one hundred
yards rushing for Robinson's Like it's a two man game. Yeah,
you gotta stap two guys. YEA box and one in
the NBA is tough, but you know there's only five
(04:46):
on the court. You're stopping two guys. But this is
there's eleven. It's it's kind of good. Sills can't catch. No,
Mooney's not existent. What are we doing here?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
No, No, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Hey, look, hey, Captain Kirk, you're really surprised that Kirk
Cousins is successful When he throws the ball five five
yard from the line of scrimmage to his tight end
and his running back. Man, that's what makes kirk Cousin successful.
I think his average depth for Pitts is actually a
little bit higher. But yeah, to your point, not a
lot of guys are going to be able to stop
Jean Robinson in that one on one in the flats,
(05:17):
as you like to say, a lot of yack going on,
a lot of yak, a lot of yak yack. So
midfield Falcons have the football seven minutes left to go.
A couple of plays by Robinson gets about twenty yards,
so Falcons on the move with the football here again,
still plenty of time to go. In the fourth quarter.
We'll have Jay Glazer stopping by the show, as he
(05:37):
normally does afterwards, the only show he does on Fox
Sports Radio. It's always a must listen. I've still I
told that Barry Sanders story to my entire family last week,
that the Barry Sanders Michael Strahan story he told us
last speaking. I'm sorry, mister Sanders, I'm sorry. But did
you drag it out for five or six minutes like
that's like the clown jokes?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yea Yeahause you
got their wrap attention because it's a hero.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, I mean yeah, But you know, we talked about
this last hour Joe Burrow and his very honest press
conference earlier today in which he talked about just how
unhappy he is.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
He needs to find happiness in playing. He's not happy. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Look if he was talking about retiring, if this is retiring,
he's not talking about it, right, He's not saying this
at a Thursday press conference. If he's thinking about retiring
when the season is over, he wants out, he wants
a new team, and he will be in a new
team in twenty twenty six. He is sounding the alarm
now to let everybody know right this and teams i'm
sure have been calling, all right, let's let's talk Joe
(06:37):
Burrow in the offseason like you call me. We're ready,
We're ready, We're ready. He wants to go someplace else.
So okay, smart guy, Jason, all right, you tell me,
you tell me where the best fit is for him.
I got two fits for you right now, for Joe Burrow.
And it's not just where you can give him to
a team where they need a quarterback, right because Burrow's
(06:58):
not gonna want to go right. In the end, players
get to get dealt into a somewhat of a preferred destination,
maybe not your number one destination. But one that's okay,
it's kind of how it works.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You know, Hey, if I really want to go for
whatever reason, I really want to go to the Cowboys
or or the Steelers, Okay, yeah, maybe we can't make
that preferred destination happen. But another one, if you give
us three or four teams, will make one of those work.
So who does it have to be. It's got to
be a team that is maybe a quarterback away from
the super Bowl, that's got to be in a better
(07:30):
position to succeed, that's got to be in maybe a
little bit of a warmer climate, you know, because Joe
Burrow wants to be on his feet. He's a very
public figure, probably looking for a little bit bigger market.
But I think he can realize that, Okay, I can,
I can still be a big deal in a lot
of different places.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
He's been playing in Cincinnati. I think he's well acclimated
to that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I will give you two teams for Joe Burrow, and
the first one I'm going to give you because they
can give a quarterback back. That will make make things
a little bit easier for the Bengals to make this trade,
because it can't just be Hey, we got draft picks,
we have players, We have X, Y and Z. Both
(08:11):
these teams can give quarterbacks back. That would be at
least somewhat maybe a little appealing to the Bengals, where
we have a guy for a year or two, maybe
he turns into something. One team is a little bit
more a better deal than the other. The first one
for Joe Burrow the Miami Dolphins, Okay, plays in South Beach,
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great weather. Mike McDaniel is staying as their head coach.
Obviously what they've been able to do the comeback. You
know they want to move on from Tua. They've turned
him into a game manager. Joe Burrow in Miami would
be a phenomenal fit. You know how they like to
go fast and really accentuate the quarterback. He has that
South Beach lifestyle. The guy has made for a bigger market. Yeah,
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the Miami Dolphins could be that team and whatever they
would give up, Hey, we could send twoa back there
and you can at least have a guy.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Maybe we look two is a four thousand yard passer.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It's not working that great from what we've seen over
the course of the past couple of years, not as
well as we thought it was. But two is still young, talented,
you know what you're paying for him, and with good weapons.
He has shown that he was good in the past.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You put him on a team now with Jamar Chase
and T Higgins and suddenly, hey, maybe he can still
throw the football a bit. Now It's okay, you're throwing
a Jalen Waddle who was a nice receiver. Right, he's
a good ish receiver, but he's no better really than T.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Higgins.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Maybe Higgins even a little more dynamic than he is.
But you put him on that team with a couple
of guys to catch the football. There's your first team
that could work. Joe Burrow And and you know, I'm
believe this because the last thing I want is Joe
Burrow in the bleep in AFC East. Another team with
a better quarterback than not to look up to. But
Joe Burrow to the Dolphins, that's my first one.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
You also have.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
The option there in that Joe Burrow can maybe uncoor
Jalen Wattle on a different level. Right, because Chewison does
at the arm strength to drive the ball. Right, it's
moon balls, just a less accentuated and celebrated version of
the Russell Wilson style. Right, he's got to work in
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timing and crossing routes and what have you. You know,
short intermediate generally occasionally a deep shot, but that's not
the bread and butter. Joe Burrow can drive it through.
We've seen that time and time again. But teaming him
with Mike McDaniel and trying to to really accentuate what
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you have. I mean, they've got a lot of change
because you did fire a GM, which meant that you
didn't exactly have a full cupboard, so you got to
do a full reload there as well. But I could
see a meeting of the minds in a philosophical match
with McDaniel, because it seems like it's inevitable that he
stays around.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So there's your one team, and now that would be
that'd be a tougher one. That'd be a tougher one
because it's in the AFC. Now where else could he go?
This might be a little bit more intriguing because the
quarterback this team can give back isn't very good. But
you don't know that he's absolutely terrible yet because he
hasn't played enough Minnesota. Joe Burrow goes to Minnesota, plays
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half his games indoors at home. You know the weapons
he has there already. Justin Jefferson, I'm sure is saying,
whatever you could do to get this guy, whatever you
can do to get him. I need Joe Burrow. They
have the weapons. Offensively, they have a great offensive coach
who can continue to unlock him. You know that that offensively,
they're gonna do the right things. This is where things
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can work out great for him. Not as big a
market as Miami, but still a bit of an upgrade.
And JJ McCarthy going back to the Bengals. Okay, maybe
that works. Maybe they can unlock JJ McCarthy. They have
somebody who could wind up being a franchise quarterback or
he's a guy for a couple of years. So those
two teams are the ones are probably the best solutions
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for Burrow if you're gonna trade him, because they both
can win. Even though the Vikings are in last place
in the NFC North now, they're still a good team.
They just don't have any quarterback play, right, we see
them don't have any quarterback play they can right there.
Wrong of letting Sam Donald and Daniel Jones go by
making a big, bold move for Joe Burrow, and again
the quarterback going back is a big thing instead of
the Bengals having to say, all right, maybe we have
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to go find somebody else. So Miami and the AFC
vikings in.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
The NFC curiosity for what the Bengals do going forward.
Are we assured that they have some stability with Zach Taylor?
Is he sticking around or are we shuffling up and
dealing at the end of the year, Particularly if Joe
Burrow is intent on blowing this up, which is the
premise of all of this based on that press conference
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midweek and his dissatisfaction. Can the Bengals do enough to
retain him in the interim like we have the wheels
of speculation from Minnesota. You got Jefferson, you got Addison,
you got Hockinson, you got Mason and Jones in your backfield.
Need to tweak the offensive line, which is good, a
lot of injury issues there, and for O'Connell a chance
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to show once again that he's a genius, because I
think a little of that luster came off at the
end as much as Sam Darnold warn it war and
I think I think the lack of development with what
you got with JJ McCarthy. You got to look at
the coach a little bit, right, He's still raw and
obviously just a few games under his belt, but certainly
enough weapons that would make him happy and to go
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into a battle tested NFC North. I got a third
one for you. Goes back to the AFC. Tom Brady
goes and makes a play. Tom Brady could do that.
They go and they clear out the coaching staff. Okay,
go find a guy and they give up whatever they
need you to go get a franchise guy.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
If somehow the rate, well that's that's what they did
to Carson Palmer. If somehow you can convince Joe Burrow
the Raiders or this club like tom Brady's got no,
we're this close thing. All we need is you and
we can win. Yeah, I could see it. We're just
looking for juice at this point. Now, Man, I don't
but Burrow's got to be okay with going there. He's like,
I've just been getting my ass kicked in Cincinnati, not
gonna go to the Raiders and have that ass kicking continue.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
But it's just the idea. It's different, it's a brand.
It's a market and if you go, you're a hero.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
What do you got, Frostberg?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
I think the big takeaway from all of this is,
what did to A do to you?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Why do you hate to No? I don't hate too.
You absolutely do.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
You're taking him from a horrible off offensive line to
literally the worst offensive line in football.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
That is true. Well, I'm not saying going to Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I'm not saying it's gonna be fun now, I'm just saying,
what your lord.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
He's sending him out there to never come back.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Exit up out of Fresco exit Swollen Dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harman live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Again,
what just happened on Thursday Night Football? A Kyle Pitch
touchdown was upheld upon video review. Watching this, really, it's
hard to understand what a catches in the NFL anymore.
They do not get the two point version. Kirk Cousins's
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rush throws incomplete. So again now the Falcons going for
two twice not getting it. Yeah, great decision Analytics. Twenty
eight to twenty six, lead by the Bucks with about
three and a half left to play. Again, we'll have
Jay Glazer following conclusion of this game. But coming up
next we'll have more on this and another big story
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Speaker 1 (16:04):
Time out on the field. The Atlanta Falcons have used
their final one the Buccaneers, where the first down can
clinch this game. However, it is a third and fourteen
for Tampa to twenty left to go, so if the
Falcons can play a little bit of defense here, they'll
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get the football back with a chance to kick a
field goal and potentially win this game, not win it
and send it to Overty because you know, they went
for or twice. They went for two points twice and failed,
So that's why they're facing this deviis instead of the
game being tied at twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, well, you know, hindsight's twenty twenty. Now you gotta
go make a play.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Ah and the Falcons will be getting the football back
as Baker Mayfield is sacked on third and long, so
it will be a punt coming up on the other
side of the two minute warning. Kirk Cousins will get
the football back and I'm just guessing. I'm just guessing
he'll throw the ball to Kyle Pitts and Bejon Robinson.
(17:05):
I'm just guessing. I bet it's a big wild guess
after tonight, but I'm thinking the final drive, these are
the two guys he's gonna throw the ball.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Twenty six completions on the night, eighteen of them depends
in four to Sills, two to Mooney, and two.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
To Werner, and you know, just for a second to
have it to have a positivity moment or appreciation.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Moment, right for a player.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
This is the first time we have talked this glowingly
about Kyle Pitts since I think Philip Rivers was still
in the league the last time we talked about this
about Kyle Pitts. He's got ten catches for one hundred
and fifty two yards and three touchdowns tonight. You know,
for years it's been, oh, don't just wait till Kyle
Pitts breaks out. He just gotta go through like seven
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eight quarterbacks. Guys been in the league. Now it's his
fifty year. He's never caught more than sixty eight passes
in a season. He will most likely break that this
time around. He's got sixty two coming into night, so
he's so he's gonna wine as he's passing it already.
And I don't know if the yards are gonna be
there for him, because man, he's got seventy catches and
seven hundred yards. But you know, clearly now maybe it
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just took him, you know, five years to become a
guy that's gonna catch ninety passes.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Who knew it would take ken of Kirk Cousins to
really unlock him. You go back to the season opener,
seven catches fifty nine yards against these Buccaneers and we've
watched this secondary struggle. So it was an opportunity perhaps
for a quote breakout, but what what did you think
that would constitute maybe six and eighty or a matching
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his ninety yards of a year of last week? Sure,
but instead he's wide open and being thrown open by
Cousins all night long to massive results. He had one
touchdown all year coming into this guy. Yeah, I mean
he and he's been the guy. He's been absolutely been
the guy. It's insane, and you know he's coming off.
(19:00):
He did have a good game against the Jets, he
had eight for eighty two. But you really wonder, now
this is a funny thing fantasy playoffs, how many people said, yeah,
I can't start him on a Thursday night. I gotta
start another time, told you, And he can't start him
down to four people, and while it was a plus matchup,
he was still on the way fire.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Can't start him on a Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And here he is now having a let's say, eighteen
twenty eight, he's having like almost a forty point night tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Kyle pits his tight end. What do you got, Frostburg.
Everybody has a good game against the Jets.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Well, it is true. Lot lots of people do. But
that's why I say it was that enough to let
you play him on Thursday? Lots yeah, But I mean
it's not You're not giving him enough credit.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Good game against the Jets, seven for eighty two, goes
for six for ninety against the Seahawks in that blowout loss. Right,
so hang a star on the all right. They're just
winging it around, but then comes out tonight like a
house of fire against the Creamsicles again, playing like they're
in the mid seven once again.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Big play on the field. Kirk Cousins is sacked. They
have the ball about their own forty five yard line.
He may have fumbled. The Bucks are signaling that they
have the football. They come out of the bottom of
the pile with it. Whoever knows, noah call yet made
by the officials. Buck's saying they got the ball. They're
trying to figure it out. A minute thirty left to go,
(20:24):
and we have a bit of a question on the field.
I don't think there's a call a call, mate. I
think they're just giving the ball back to the Falcons.
They they're calling it simultaneous and it's gonna stay with
the Falcons.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
That look the decisive we've seen in a while. The
Bucks defense is not coming off the field now. Clearly
the ball is out. The ball was out early. Kirk
Cousins gets hit. You can see him grimace after getting hit.
But it looks like Cousins fell on the football same
time as a Bucks defender and they're giving the football
back to Atlanta. In fact, yeah, we're already getting ready
(20:59):
for the second down play from the Falcons here as
they try to get done, goes to the runner. I
guess yeah, that's as it goes, Captain Kirk falling on it.
Second of eighteen. We got another flag, one of the
hallmarks of this game as well. Minute remaining, so we'll
love more.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
In this game coming up in a couple minutes with
Steve Disager with what's trending, and I'm sure there'll be
a couple more penalties on the Falcons before then. But
something that never had a chance. We got to pour
one out for the Positivity Rabbit. The Philadelphia Eagles new
mascot is now gone. Four days ago, they put a
big inflatable rabbit in the locker room, supposed to be
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a the Positivity Rabbit, Right, Positivity rabbit, like the Philadelphia
Eagles need some positivity. Had the positivity rabbit. You've seen
pictures of it everywhere. Okay, the rabbit is gone. Rabbit
is now gone. It is out of the locker room.
It was never really met with a ton of let's
just say, hey, with the gusta of Grimace with the Mets,
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or or you know, somebody else, but the rabbit. They
lose to the to the Chargers. Hurtz throws four picks.
The positivity rabbit is gone. It never had a chance
in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
It's not like it was a remote control rabbit running
around or one of those things that you have that
the dogs are chasing at the track.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I mean, you got nothing. It's just an inflatable rabbit. Now,
Frostburg's got rabbit blood on his hands. I know he
did it after the Chargers game last week. He's got
rabbit blood all over him, man, like he's Leo in
the in the Revenant movie.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Jason, I swear it's paint.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
That's inflatable rabbit blood. I mean, that's that's so anti Philadelphia.
They're bringing in positivity. Now, if you brought in a
negativity rabbit and said, okay, we gotta bring this. Oh okay,
that's Philadelphia bringing the negativity figure out. Okay, that's we
gotta do now. But positivity rab that never had a chance.
It's not even a bot bag, right.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
It used to blow up as a kid, and like
I get your aggression out, wrastled the thing and tackle
it and punch it whatever you need to do. You
have full size at a lot of these uh aerobic studios,
you know, and teaching you your cardio and doing some punching.
But I mean this thing just sat there like it
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did nothing.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, it was a It was a rabbit that was
just sitting there, not doing anybody any harm. Just kind
of no funny voice, animatronics see the rabbit, kind of
nooseitting there, going this is the Eagles locker room. Someone's
just gonna stab me with a knife, and I'm gonna
be done and I'm gonna be going to inflatable rabbit graveyard.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I have a couple of one liner jokes, but I
don't want anybody trying to stalk me and take me out.
Do you think they're ealing about the greater Philadelphia area
and some known former NFL players who or may not
be associated with criminal activity. Do you think there are
Eagles fans who were waiting to see what dumpster got
thrown out as they could take it and go, yeah,
I got your positivity rabbit. Oh, I think that'll end
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up in the memorabilia market somewhere.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
I think Philly Karen is in the process of poking
holes in it as we speak.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh, I went out and found this positivity rabbit. I'm
just gonna have it now in my room. It's gonna
be something that I wind up grabbing and holding during
a game if I'm stressed times or something out.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Positivity Rabbit.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
How do you authenticate that it was the official positivity rabbit?
You were just some half assed I think you had
a just twelve dollars inflatable you fought at a party.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Store video of yourself taking the dead inflatable rabbit or
the puncture inflating.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
The dead rabbits. Now we're going out of some kind
of York I don't know. I mean, you got video.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Hey here, I am right outside the stadium or the
Eagles practice facility right there.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah, we gotta be. I mean, that's just that's just insane.
The positivity rabbit.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Four days and you can't even tell me the positivity
rabbit had a good run, that's your normal.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Oh, we had a good run. No, he didn't have
a good run. Did not have a good run.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Well, the fact that we know about it four days,
that he had a run four days, How good or
bad it was, things are just a matter of perception
for me. The fact that they went down this road
in an active desperation for an inflatable rabbit.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
They are not a.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Fuzzy, cuddly let's let's, you know, go go pet the rabbit,
Go feed the rabbit, feel good about you know, the
positivity of a living being.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
No, no, no, it's an inflatable, bleeping rabbit in the corner.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I mean, just when you think maybe the eagles are
trying to find a way to uh, you know, figure
out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Of of of.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Of how to get back on the winning or something.
You you just see how they are spiraling downward into
oblivion after the last couple of weeks. So what do
you do for an encore is really the question.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Don't You don't have a rabbit on a postivity rabbit,
that's for sure. You bring Santa Clau's almost Santa Claus.
Time for Santa.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Claus in Philadelphia. It's almost time. It's almost time for that.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Dangerous so things could be ending for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Things could also be ending for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Zane Gonzalez is making sure his hair is good, right,
you know the he goes through before his final kick.
The Falcons convert a fourth and fourteen sales, making up
for his drop earlier in the game of what could
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have been a touchdown with a big fourth and fourteen grab.
Mike Evans is running up and down the sideline right now,
stomping his feet. I think he was saying, Nis, what
the hell are we doing? Zane Gonzalez coming out for
a field goal that would give the Falcons a twenty
nine to twenty eight win. There's four seconds left on
the clock. The Bucks have just used their second time out,
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so it's a makeable one. It's a thirty seven yard
field goal, and this thirty seven in a row. This
would take the Bucks chances of winning the NFC South
and getting the playoffs from near eighty percent down to
fifty percent. That's how big a game this is. On
a Thursday night in absolutely craptastic division. Yeah, this has
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been an insane game. I mean, you go through nearly
five hundred yards of offense for the Falcons. When it's
all said done for the Buccaneers. After this, you've got
the Sandes of the Panthers with the Miami Dolphins. The resurgent,
resplendent Miami Dolphins nixed therein what if a young way
cou's it right here?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
He could?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
He could?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I mean, this would be the Bucks blowing a fourth quarter,
two touchdown lead against a four and nine team at home? Right,
how far? How the mighty have fallen for the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers If they blow this and the clock has
struck zero, Zane Gonzalez is good. It is a twenty nine,
twenty eight victory for the Falcons on a Thursday night.
(27:34):
Maybe they'll trade for Joe Burrow now, maybe maybe the
Bucks try to send Baker Mayfield for Joe Burrow next season,
because wow, what a disaster this season's turning into for Tampa.
For more in the story, now, let's find out from
Steve de Sager. He's got what's trending right now in
the wide world of sports.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
How exactly did that just happen. The Atlanta Falcons won
at Tampa Bay twenty nine, twenty eight. Even though the
Falcons trailed twenty eight to ten with ten minutes to go,
Bjean Robinson with a six yard touchdown run, they missed
the two point pass Kirk Cousins with a touchdown pass,
Then they missed the two point pass, Saying Gonzalez with
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a forty three yard game winning field goal on the
final play, and the Falcons, who were four to nine,
get the road victory. Can I just mention that there
were a couple of penalties on the winning side here
nineteen penalties for one hundred and twenty five yards. That
is the most, not only this season, the most in
any NFL game since the Raiders set an NFL record
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almost a decade ago with twenty three and that was
with believe it or not, a victory posted against the
Tampa Bay Bucks. That particular day, Kyle Pitts had the
game of games. He finished targeted twelve times with eleven
receptions one hundred and sixty six yards three touchdowns. It's
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been very rare that a tight end has had those
kind of numbers. In fact, hasn't happened since Shannon Sharp
almost thirty years ago, three tds and over one hundred
and fifty yards v Jon Robinson ninety three yards rushing
in a touchdown. He did have a fumble, but Robinson
with eight catches and eighty two yards. The Falcons went
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at Tampa Bay and the Bucks fall to seven and
seven on the season. They had entered tonight tied for
first with Carolina in the NFC South. Tampa Bay plays
two of its final three games against the Panthers. Mike
Evans was back on the field. Tampa Bay's star wide
receiver out since October with a broken collar, Bomb was
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targeted twelve times, had six catches for one hundred and
thirty two yards, but the Bucks blow a fourth quarter
lead and lose by one at home. Dallas wide receiver
CD Lamb practiced fully after a concussion a week ago.
Bengals wide receiver T Higgins was limited in practice again
today after a concussion. Steelers pass rusher TJ. Watt hospitalized
(30:01):
for a lung injury, so his status for Monday night
is in question. Packer's running back Josh Jacobs misspractice with
a knee injury. He says he's day to day Raiders
quarterback Gino Smith miss practice again with shoulder and back injuries,
so Kenny Pickett could start for him this weekend. Jets
quarterbacks to Rod Taylor and Justin Fields each miss practice again,
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but quarterback Brady Cook did practice. Baltimore gave defensive tackle
Travis Jones a three year contract extension. AP's College Player
of the Year is quarterback Fernando Montoza of number one Indiana.
The late NBA game has Denver leading ninety seven to
seventy three at Sacramento late in the third quarter thirty
one points for Nikola Jokic. Milwaukee beat the Celtics. New
(30:45):
Orleans ended a seven game losing streak, ripping Portland. Houston
edge the Clippers one fifteen to one thirteen. Golden State
Steph Curry is due to return Friday. He missed five
games with a quad injury. Anthony Edwards in Minnesota is
questionable with a sore foot. In college hoops, on FS one,
number four Iowa State came back for a victory at
home against Iowa sixty six sixty two. By the way,
(31:07):
Syracuse did win at home against Saint Joe's. NHL victories
from Minnesota and Boston. The Braves signed former Padres closer
Robert Suarez to a three year deal.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Back to you, Thank you, Stevo. A disastrous season for
the Bucks. Jay Glazer stops by next more on this
game and could Joe Burrow really get traded? Jay Glazer
Next Jason.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (31:37):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon,
Kirk Cousins Jon Robinson mugging with each other Right now
postgame TNF Interview. The Bucks blow a fourteen point fourth
quarter lead to the four and nine Falcons, and now
things are getting really interesting in the NFC South. All
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four teams have a negative deficit in the points four
points against column Who boy, was this a surprise? Joining
us now to break down everything from tonight's game. Plus,
we got stuff on Joe Burrow, Philip Rivers NFL on
Fox Inside are extraordinary, Jay Glazer, Jay, what's happening?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Man?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Happy Thursday?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Let's go on, Man? How about that man exciting him crazy?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I mean, Jay, I mean, this is where the season
was for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and where it is
right now. I mean, this is stunning, Yeah, it really is,
you know.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
And look, I think by Buccaneers given if you look
earlier in the year, I think we almost got loaded
a false hope because of Baker Mayfield, because he overcame
so much. If you think about those early games, he
was doing it all himself, right, he had the great
comes back comebacks, but he taking away those comebacks. Then
I really were not playing up to Levey. You were
really hoping for it for a Buccaneers team. So I
(32:50):
think he kind of almost got us into a little
false spope. But man, the personnel they have over there,
they should the records should be much better than this.
I know they've had a lot of injuries. I think
the personnel is way better than this. And hey, on
the other end, I gotta say, man like for the
Falcons have nothing to play for it and Raheem Morris
(33:11):
to get them to play like this and to not
give up. There's a lot of teams that start checking
out their Cabo trips, their Bahamas trips at the time
of the year. It happens every year, and the Falcons didn't.
It says a lot about Raheem Mors. Raheem Morris a
very inspirational cat to be around, like he is so
glass half full, unreal more than there's nothing. Guy's been
around this league in my life. But you know, you
(33:32):
see like where that can rub off. I know they
had nothing to play for, but it showed me a lot.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Well that and the having to battle through nineteen penalties
and losing your mind on every one of them. But
Kyle Pitts year five breakout here JAYI in huge game
and he had captain Captain Girk have something going.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah, you know, and Kyle's always been a guy. When
he came out, I thought for sure he was going
to be a mismatch for everybody. I thought. I think
I called him that. You're like, I can't miss prospect
and I missed right Still time, James, Still time, because
you know there he really is a hot speed matchup
for But he hoped that. I think you need to
mature and a player when you can see what he
(34:14):
can do if he does become that consument professional life. Man,
his tools are just ridiculous. So you can see the
weapons that you deal him. Be John Robinson and I
tell you what that defense over there, like that defense
for Atlanta is going to be tough for a long time.
They got some they got some dogs over there on
that side of the ball, all right, Jay.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Now outside of the game tonight.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Joe Burrow making a ton of headlines today is press
conference today in Cincinnati, a day after his twenty ninth birthday,
talked about needing to find the happiness and playing football
and going forward. What did you take away from what
Burrow said today?
Speaker 5 (34:49):
I don't want to interpret. I don't It's his thoughts.
It says, you know, I texted him having her back.
I don't want to ever interpret, but I know, like, look,
you work so hard to come back, right, and for
him to come back two and a half months before
or two months early, then you're supposed to. I'm sure
we're such an emotional let town. Like this game's tough, man,
(35:11):
this game of the Savage, it'll break your heart, you know.
And I think emotionally probably going through stuff, and yeah,
it's not fun when you're going through all that rehaben
and man, you're you're in it for one week and
then all of a sudden's gone, you know, So it's tough.
I will never try and interpret what the guy's trying
to say. That's his thoughts. Man, This game is it
(35:33):
cuts to deep.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Well that we talked about for love of the game,
Philip Rivers coming back after a long sojourn high school
football is relationship with Shane steichen Man. I think we
all have our pom poms out, But what do you
expecting here?
Speaker 6 (35:48):
Jay?
Speaker 5 (35:49):
I don't know why I'm expecting it?
Speaker 2 (35:52):
You know what?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Good for the cult, Like, hey, let's think out of
the box, like we know who's out there, We're still
in it. We're not giving up. Let's throw at marys
se if it works, like things have happened. But I
kind of liked it they did it because at least, look,
he's a Hall of Fame type quarterback, right, hall of Famer. Uh,
he knows the offense, He's familiar with them. Joe Flacco
(36:13):
came out of nowhere many years out, obviously a couple
of years ago with the Browns and led them, you know,
to the playoffs. But I'd rather they kind of do
something out of the box like this. But somebody who's
approven gangster and some you know, practice squad guy either
signed the hole. Let's just we already know that's not
gonna work. But I kind of like the aggressive this year.
But why not?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
But Jay, it's he's forty four. He hasn't been in
the NFL in five years. Sound like he's been training
every day for the NFL.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
As he said, I hear it. I'm heavier than I was,
but I wasn't running away from anybody years ago.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
I hear it. But there's still guys like, hey man,
these guys like it just doesn't the arm of them
leave the ball to Like I hear you, I don't
know if I'm I'm probably fantasizing as much as they
are worked out, but you already know what you're getting
with these practice for guys, it ain't working.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
No, it's just that curiosity. Also get Seattle on the
other side and what they've got, by the way, that's
a bad defense, not the one you want to come
back off the couch for Jay, Like.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Seattle is a bunch of savages and they come back
pills fib gonna be like you know what, I probably
need another week to get the rust off.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
And no, man, do you use the long snapper instead
of your normal center?
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Yes, yes, let's do a twenty yard drop.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be the he's gonna get the ball. Well,
you could either punt or throw it. It doesn't matter
how we gonna work out there.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
Man, Seattle's defense got oh my god, that is a
that is a vicious, violent defense. They are man. I
know this is offense driven leave but like between Seattle
and Houston, it's just the two teams. Nobody wants to
face right now. Nobody wants to take them down the struck.
Nobody wants to lose their quarterbacks. Nobody wants horrible stats.
You're going to have that stats and your quarterback going
(37:59):
to be underwroun. He's gonna be running for his life.
I guess those three teams there in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yeah bottom what I guess what Philip Rivers has to
play both of them. That would be his reward if
he if when they get to week eighteen, Yeah jayeah, yeah,
maybe he sits that week. Hey, I'm gonna sit for
the playoffs that week. That's okay, what moves are made up?
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Let's sake.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
He's on Twitter at Jay Glazer, that is at Jay Glazer.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
Jay.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
As always, buddy, appreciate your time and your thoughts. We'll
talk to you next week. I have a good one, Jay. Thanks,
There it goes, Jay, I.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Mean really, I mean this is that's why I say
with Rivers coming back, That's why. Look, I don't want
you to think I'm against this storyline ending great.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
I hope it does. I'm just realistic that it's the
Seahawks on Sunday, and then you got a couple of.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Games and then it's the Texans and you're forty four,
you haven't played, and you're heavy, and you realize and
you admit, yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
I haven't really been training. How is this gonna go?
How does good? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
If you saw what the mock up is for his
inclusion in the EU is not flattering.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Oh I can imagine.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
They look like he's wearing like six sets of rib
protectors and they puffed him out a little bit, like
he's got a gortex jacket on for the extra couple
of pounds he carrying. But as Jay said, I mean
he echoed a lot of in kindred spirit with what
I am like, I don't know we know what the
rest of those practice squad guys are, which is why
(39:25):
they haven't been called up.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
To be one of the other fifty five starters.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Cam Newton's crying, Oh, there, can't we remember he wasn't
very good at the end of his run now either.
So for Philip Rivers, familiarity stiking, maybe ozim a solid.
I don't know, but tell me you're not getting some
popcorn and you're watching that one.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Oh, I'm gonna walk again.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
I'm gonna watch with one eye and with my hand
over my eye, like I'm watching a horror movie.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Do I want to see what's happening?
Speaker 4 (39:52):
I want to tell you what du the second screen
with whatever the sequel is for that David Harbor as
Santa Claus thing, and let's go with that.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
I would do the second stream just to hear like
the Mannings go oh oh wow, oh we got hit
so hard?
Speaker 5 (40:06):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Would that be a special edition? Hey, we decided to
have an alternate broadcast this week.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Hey, speaking of old quarterbacks, who might have had the
biggest night tonight that puts twenty twenty six in play
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